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by 0xy 5y ago
NZ doesn't look like it has "ruled out lockdowns", considering your current "restrictions" (politically rebranded lockdowns, because lockdowns are extremely unpopular) are far more strict than most US states have ev
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by 0xy 5y ago
They both work under the banner of the ICRC, which was involved in both the Haiti disaster (I'm talking about the Red Cross' incompetence, not the earthquake) as well as Ukraine operations. It's hard to see how a corrupt inco
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by 0xy 5y ago
No, they aren't. They raised $500m for Haiti and either embezzled it or incompetently wasted it. [1] Their website contains claims that can only be described as fraud (claiming to help more people in an area than actually reside there,
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by 0xy 5y ago
Eskom is in disarray because of affirmative action policies that prevent the hiring of qualified engineers, and ensure the creation of corrupt suppliers that do things like charge USD$18,000 for a broom. [1] [2] It has little to do with act
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by 0xy 5y ago
>Fox News talking points Their homepage is plastered with material advocating the US intervene. [1] [2] [3] [4] What are you talking about? How can they simultaneously be pro-Putin and pro-Ukraine? This sounds like conspiracy theory. [1]
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by 0xy 5y ago
>How is Russia invading Ukraine in attempt to take it over This is opinion. Russia doesn't claim this, nor do their actions suggest this is their goal. Invasion is hardly ever about territory expansion. Afghanisatan, Iraq, Libya. Ta
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by 0xy 5y ago
There is no contradiction there. The US being incompetent and pushing buttons can be the motivation for actions that are unjustified in scope. I think the disconnect here is that you believe me being able to describe Putin's motivation
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by 0xy 5y ago
The original question was about motivations, if you read my comment you'll see I never said the response was justified. >He also said he was going there to de-Nazify Ukraine Sounds like US bringing "democracy" to Syria by
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by 0xy 5y ago
DuckDuckGo has thrown in the towel on neutrality, and has decided the US media organizations which lied about WMDs in Iraq among a cavalcade of other errors occasioning real world consequences are now the arbiters of truth. It's baffli
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by 0xy 5y ago
I guess your solution is to not advertise at all and instead have more children in state facilities, where abuse and neglect is orders of magnitude more likely. Kids raised in state facilities get chewed up and spat out, according to statis
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by 0xy 5y ago
Because Europe is and always has been a terrible place to be for SWEs. If you want to earn 75% less than your American counterparts and pay 25%+ more in taxes, stay in Europe. If not, get a visa and get out. You are giving up literally mill
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by 0xy 5y ago
So it's like buying a lottery ticket every day for decades expecting to win millions. They don't show value and there's no indication they ever will, and it costs a significant amount of money. Often, the unions themselves ar
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by 0xy 5y ago
The last thing I want is job security for incompetent coworkers. You see this playing out in teachers unions where they go to bat for sexual predator teachers.
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by 0xy 5y ago
>Most states will want state income tax, so establish residence in a state with no income tax before going nomading. Is this true? I thought that was only the case if they could prove you are an active resident. Of course, if you maintai
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by 0xy 5y ago
Why should citizens be punished for the actions of their government? If you're an American, how would you feel about being punished for the repeated war crimes of the US war machine (bringing slaves back to Libya, Iraq invasion and mor
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by 0xy 5y ago
I have a visceral negative reaction to this security chip because of Microsoft's name behind it. Microsoft has shown they have contempt for users' privacy and security through Windows telemetry, Edge telemetry, BitLocker backdoor
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by 0xy 5y ago
The science (of political polling) has changed.
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by 0xy 5y ago
Hardly related to the OP, and Telegram secret chats have been audited multiple times. On the other hand, Signal's "E2E" encrypted chats regularly have critical bugs such as those that send private image content to random peop
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by 0xy 5y ago
Any source or is this just a conspiracy theory? No reputable person has claimed that.
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by 0xy 5y ago
Signal is subject to the same warrants. And yes, because the OP is specifically talking about privileged attacks. Why would it matter if the database was plaintext? It's only a problem if your adversary has privileged access to your de
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by 0xy 5y ago
Why does this matter if Signal's database encryption has been pwned by Cellebrite and others? [1] [2] It might as well be plaintext. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/02/08/ca
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by 0xy 5y ago
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A148/production/... The World Bank also has similar figures.
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by 0xy 5y ago
Poverty has declined by more than 50% in the last 20 years in Russia. How does this jive with a "constant state of poverty"? When people use anecdotes like this despite the data, it often just looks to me like bashing of developin
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by 0xy 5y ago
Fascists and dictators alike have used banks as weapons against classes of people they disagree with. [1] [2] [3] It seems you are okay with these methods as long as they're used on your political opponents. [1] https://en.w
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by 0xy 5y ago
Firefox's decline won't be stopped while the current CEO is in power and milking as much cash through pay rises despite atrocious performance as she can before everything collapses. She has literally no interest in saving Firefox,
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by 0xy 5y ago
I did look at the data. $4,311,287 listed their country as Canada, and $4,110,520 were from other countries. [1] You're just wrong. Number of individual donors is irrelevant, the majority of cash is from Canada. [1] https://
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by 0xy 5y ago
Let's see where your data comes from. Ah, COVID-19 Monitor, which gets it from Vox Pop Labs. [1] >The data presented herein are derived from survey data produced using Vox Pop Labs' online public affairs panel So, it's use
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by 0xy 5y ago
NYC residents repeatedly vote for no bail policies for violent offenders. Isn't the city getting exactly what they voted for?
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by 0xy 5y ago
Do you have any proof, or is it isolated incidents of conveniently fully masked agitators waving Nazi flags?
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The majority of the donors were Canadian, so presumably you're in favor of the multiple millions of dollars flowing to the group from Canadians?

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