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by 99_00 5y ago
"everyone is just repeating talking points they read online" The collective narrative has existed in other media for as long as I've been alive. It's now invaded the internet. People have always listened to the radio, wa
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by 99_00 5y ago
Mainstream media no longer sees CCP as an ally against their domestic political opponents.
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by 99_00 5y ago
China forbade sharing covid-19's genome. When a Chinese scientist published it his lab was shut down the next day. >The Chinese government had prohibited labs from publishing information about the new coronavirus, though Zhang later
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by 99_00 5y ago
Check the facts and think for yourself. In this case the accusation is that the accused used completely anonymous means to harass the accuser. How the accuser knows that the accused is responsible is not stated. The problems here seem obvio
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by 99_00 5y ago
Charles Ponzi became famous literally 100 years ago.
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by 99_00 5y ago
Greed is not new. You assume people are greedier now because you are alive now.
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by 99_00 5y ago
It depends. People who have skin in the game are going to be the most responsible. People who's compensation is based on bonuses... not so much.
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by 99_00 5y ago
Everyone is encouraging risk taking. If you don't follow suit you will won't make money. It's basic strategy. Eventually the risk taking will result in you no longer making money when things go bad. But at that point when you
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by 99_00 5y ago
>I really do think we need to rethink our idea of civilization Why? Civilization is a description, not a value judgment. If a society we value doesn't fit the description the answer isn't to change the description. The answer i
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by 99_00 5y ago
They are easing you into the revelation of the virus being a lab leak and the CCP being maliciously irresponsible costing millions of lives from the initial leak and holding back information after the fact. Revealing it all at once would ca
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by 99_00 5y ago
I'm convinced that it's a lab leak. I'm also convinced the slow reveal is a psyop and I don't disagree with it's objectives. The sudden revelation that China screwed up and lied to the world is too shocking for the
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by 99_00 5y ago
If the essential worker was concerned wouldn't they have gotten vaccinated? In which case, what difference does it make if the other person was vaccinated or not?
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by 99_00 5y ago
But it's a great save your ass tactic that's used all the time. If it's a big news story people are focused on it. And humans mistakenly attribute events to what the are focused on. Trump was a great scapegoat for local, city
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by 99_00 5y ago
Has there been another earthquake where a populated area sat on geography similar to the Tualatin Basin?
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by 99_00 5y ago
What impact do you think complete liquefaction will have on people and buildings?
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by 99_00 5y ago
>Its a colloquialism for destroyed That's debatable. It can mean anything from doomed to in trouble. IDIOMS FOR TOAST be toast, Slang. to be doomed, ruined, or in trouble: >Would you object if he said "utterly destroyed&quot
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by 99_00 5y ago
It is quoted on wikipedia. An online encyclopedia.
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by 99_00 5y ago
>It is entirely within the realm of science to make predictions that certain geographic regions will have significant structural and human damage in the event of some hypothetical natural disaster. I agree. But that's not the same a
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by 99_00 5y ago
You aren't actually making a point. Are you saying that ""Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast" has scientific value? Are you saying that because of someone's tittle they ar
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by 99_00 5y ago
This shouldn't be in the article. It's unscientific, non-technically, and pretty much meaningless.
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by 99_00 5y ago
What is the literal connection between that headline and the how cryptocurrencies started?
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by 99_00 5y ago
>I wouldn't count on it collapsing any time soon. Not with everyone from Visa to Time magazine jumping on the bandwagon "Jump on the bandwagon" Meaning: to support a cause only because it is popular to do so. Sounds like a
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by 99_00 5y ago
I don't know how to make a shopping list and put the parts together.
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by 99_00 5y ago
>Cryptocurrency is a logical response to central banks around the world trying to print their way out of their bad decisions instead of putting the ultra wealthy in their place. I don't understand what you're trying to say. To
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by 99_00 5y ago
>serious business bought their shares, hedge and pension funds Your assuming that proves a point, but it doesn't.
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by 99_00 5y ago
I've never built a PC. I expect the crytpocurency bubble to collapse because my tech ignorant accountant friend asked what I know about building a crypto mining rig. What should I read to prepare myself to take advantage of the cheap
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by 99_00 5y ago
Who is the oppressor and who is the victim?
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by 99_00 5y ago
At least some of the time it seems they just shake the tree and catch the apples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeqf3ZY-V-I
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by 99_00 5y ago
When your side is silenced it's 'censorship', when the other side is silenced it is 'moderation' or 'removing misinformation'.
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by 99_00 6y ago
>A lot of support for racial equality is lost because it is too reductive and invalidates the experience of potential allies in the majority power who experience biases or don't inherit some of the privileges that they are assumed b

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