I still wouldn’t say they’re very high. My grandpa built one out of scrap and rubber tubing back in the days of communism in my country. $300 was a fortune noone could even dream of at the time, while alcohol was “sort of currency”.

Moonshining back then was extremely common even if it was illegal.

I don’t consider watching bunch of YT tutorials or equipment that can literally be home made to be an any sort of meaningful entry barrier.

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Meh you just need to find a man with a vision, and WW3 would be guaranteed

Elections 2028:

90y old republican with dementia, salivating to the microphone

Vs

88y old democrat on wheelchair, suffering terminal cancer, taking painkillers directly to the bloodstream.

Unfortunately during the debate, republican saliva shorted out cables in the microphone, while Democrat fell into coma.

Elections are won by the republican, democrats are weeping on bluesky, wondering why people voted for a shitty president again.

The End.

Simple: You wouldn’t.

There’s no plan. Most states have strategic reserves of oil and gas, but that’s about it.

Thankfully world shifts to renewables organically year by year.

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So… Many factors but definitely not “just letting anyone in”.

It definitely looks like policy was loosened.

AFAIK UE has draconian requirements on work immigration from outside. Yet the amount of migration to UK not only replaced those who left after Brexit but resulted in big net increase of immigrants.

Yeah. The main reasons why it doesn’t blow up, is that it stinks so hard you can’t possibly ignore it and you have to ensure good ventilation.

The main reason why you won’t go blind is because the antidote for methanol is ethanol.

When you hear about methanol poisoning causing blindness it’s usually some morons drinking purified methanol.

The cost/barriers to entry for home distilling are also very high.

What? No. Equipment is so trivial it can be home made and still work.

AFAIK UK had largest increase of immigration after Brexit since decades. How come?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/283287/net-migration-figures-of-the-united-kingdom-y-on-y/

Just sign the message with Satoshi PGP key or with first block mining address and I’m sold. Otherwise GTFO

Newsweek also claimed once that they found him. They were full of shit and made clickbait piece about some poor old guy who happened to have surname “Nakamoto”. No proof were ever given

You’re now breathing manually

No, it’s rather non Norwegian speakers who plan to migrate into Norway. It’s not that many

Same as always

That’s misconception. Touching is literally reaching close enough for the repelling barrier to work. And dirt sticks to hands because it’s wet (or your hands are wet/oily, same thing) . Water acts like a glue on small scale

How big is potential audience?

IMO go for UK. Same language and pretty loose immigration requirements.

Good question. What pisses me off is that all these websites want $9.99 monthly subscription while I want to read a single article. There’s no viable micropayment system where I could pay 10 cents for one article access