elshankar
elshankar t1_je1kerr wrote
Reply to comment by Inflamed_Hemorrhoid in Rupee races to replace dollar: Egypt latest entrant to club of countries wanting to trade in INR by CoolestGuyOnSaturn
> I don't think these countries really care about whether it will always cheaper or not.
So you think India is buying Russian oil for some reason other than it being cheaper?
elshankar t1_je1gw5l wrote
Reply to comment by Inflamed_Hemorrhoid in Rupee races to replace dollar: Egypt latest entrant to club of countries wanting to trade in INR by CoolestGuyOnSaturn
I get that the cost of living in India is cheaper, that's not what we're discussing. We're discussing that the value of Indian Rupees are more volatile than USD and you have a better chance of your Indian Rupees losing value than the USD.
If the value of the rupee:USD suddenly went from 82:1 to 2000:1, do you think the cost of the jeans in rupees would remain the same?
elshankar t1_je1e19b wrote
Reply to comment by Inflamed_Hemorrhoid in Rupee races to replace dollar: Egypt latest entrant to club of countries wanting to trade in INR by CoolestGuyOnSaturn
I guess I do need some explanation of how shopping works, please tell me how something worth 1 USD would also cost 1 Indian Rupee.
You do realize that the price of things in Indian Rupees in India are affected by the value of the US dollar, right?
elshankar t1_je1brc6 wrote
Reply to comment by Inflamed_Hemorrhoid in Rupee races to replace dollar: Egypt latest entrant to club of countries wanting to trade in INR by CoolestGuyOnSaturn
Not if it takes 82 rupees to buy something that costs 1 US dollar
elshankar t1_j9cz4s9 wrote
Reply to World to face wars over food and water without climate action, EU green deal chief says by YoanB
We past the threshold for taking action on climate change several years, if not decades, ago. Meaning that even if we had zero emissions starting tomorrow we are already doomed to face wars over food and water. We can do everything within our power, but melting ice caps, thawing tundra, and wild fires will displace so much CO2 that nothing we can presently do will help.
We'd be better off focusing on new technologies for producing food and drinking water rather than focusing on climate actions. Carbon capture might be a potential solution, but not until we get rid of the idea of carbon offsets, as those are just a worthless ploy to allow polluters to continue to pollute.
elshankar t1_j6ow3d2 wrote
>The drugs on the exemption list, which also includes fentanyl and other opioids, remain illegal and the exemption from arrest is only for possession of up to 2.5 grams for personal use.
2.5 grams of fentanyl is considered for personal use? That's enough to kill 1250 people...
elshankar t1_j6l9i3z wrote
Reply to comment by pinetreesgreen in Canadian universities have been conducting joint research with Chinese military scientists for years by No-Drawing-6975
It really depends on who you ask, people who would get in trouble for funding gain of function research say no, but many independent virologists say that we did indeed fund gain of function research in China.
The link you provided is talking about funding the pandemic virus, which isn't what the OP stated. Here's another article from factcheck.org that states we very likely did fund gain of function research:
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/05/the-wuhan-lab-and-the-gain-of-function-disagreement/
Go to the last 2 sections on gain of function and the ecohealth grant.
elshankar t1_j6gu6zt wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Erdogan says Turkey may block Sweden's Nato membership bid by nosotros_road_sodium
Is Cyprus in NATO?
elshankar t1_j5vnbyr wrote
Reply to comment by Sweaty_Maybe1076 in US Seeks Reengagement with China to Stop Illicit Fentanyl as Blinken Heads to Beijing by Sweaty_Maybe1076
Do you really need a source for that? There were 2 wars fought over the issue.
elshankar t1_j2abll3 wrote
Reply to comment by Yardsale420 in Man accused of stealing AR-15 from Cincinnati police vehicle by slytherinprolly
Yeah, he's done a few of these types of locks and they all open with similar ease.
elshankar t1_j2a3m9t wrote
Not too surprising, LockPickingLawyer has shown how easy it is to open several different police locks, often with just a magnet. Police spend too much on tanks and machine guns to afford a lock that is actually secure.
elshankar t1_j2a24cb wrote
Reply to Brazil's outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has not acknowledged his electoral defeat, bid followers a tearful farewell Friday without stating whether he would attend Sunday's inauguration of victor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva by DoremusJessup
Guy is definitely garbage, but pretty sure he did admit defeat like 2 months ago
elshankar t1_j25jdt3 wrote
This is really gonna be hell for all the domestic sex doll manufacturers.
elshankar t1_irgcbbd wrote
He was probably just showing her how the hose works.
elshankar t1_je1q1la wrote
Reply to comment by Inflamed_Hemorrhoid in Rupee races to replace dollar: Egypt latest entrant to club of countries wanting to trade in INR by CoolestGuyOnSaturn
Haha, you must have missed the quote from your previous post where you said things being cheaper don't really matter because the hatred for the US outweighs cheaper prices. But now, just a few minutes later, cheaper prices are all that matter in the world. For having such a big brain, you're having a hard time keeping your argument straight.
>If the US disappeared tomorrow and everyone there were vaporized in a nuclear war, the rest of the world would move on.
Agreed the rest of the world would move on; however, at that point there would be very few people alive in the world and dollars or rupees would have very little importance, if any.
Good luck in the apocalypse my friend.