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by 99_00 4y ago
How is it possible that the England had nothing China wanted to buy when England was so technologically superior that they were able to defeat China's military, fighting in China, on the other side of the planet, outnumbered 10 to 1?
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Cutting foam dulls knifes and razors very quickly. For one drawer no problem. For more it can get expensive if you keep buying box cutters. Crafters and cosplay ppl I've seen buy boxes of straight razor blades, sharpen their box cutter
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>In some cases, engagement has fallen below pre-pandemic levels In other words, in many cases it is back to normal levels.
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How do you know that you didn't just leave the door unlocked?
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Congratulations to the team. I wish theives would use sophisticated methods like this. Instead I have to pay the decutable for broken car windows or replace it out of pocket. If a thief is caught stealing (unlikely) the consequences are min
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Historians use historians from the past as secondary sources. They have never assumed that those sources were bias free. They don't assume the history they write is bias free. History is constantly being rewritten with different perspe
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Because the news is not credible. It's biased, misleading and deceptive. It favours the Democratic party. Of course many Democrats see bias in their favour as being simply reporting the truth. This stat says it all: Just 5% of Republic
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Then why, as the article states, do "Independents' views are generally closer to Republicans'."
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What do you mean it is "politically driven". And what does enabling media monopolies have to do with republican distrust of media? Also, from the article "Independents' views are generally closer to Republicans'&quo
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Canadians like to complain about the lack of competition. For wireless Freedom Mobile was independent from 2008 to 2016. Mobilicity was independent from 2010 to 2015. They were always cheaper than the incumbents. However, they struggled to
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by 99_00 4y ago
By default, China considers all ethnic Chinese to be Chinese nationals. >In regards to the de facto practices of the Chinese government, Kris Cheng wrote in Foreign Affairs that "Beijing presents nationality as an elaborate legal qu
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It's good to hear about this. I still remember hearing about it a decade ago https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34810209 Our view of history is based on what has survived, metal, stone, clay, some papers that have bee
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It's happening https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27009221
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How do you know that the parents didn't pull the kids out of school because lack of social skills and unusual but unctronable behavior resulted in peer bullying.
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And you can refer to Dobbs to understand the Supreme Court's view on why it isn't the case.
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>Because that is what the ruling in the case of Roe vs. Wade was, so it's been precedent in the United States for almost 50 years that the right to an abortion explicitly results from the right to bodily privacy. Your argument appea
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Everyone agrees that the right to privacy is in the constitution. Disagreement is if right to abortion comes from right to privacy. I don't see how it does. Because the constitution doesn't explicitly mention abortion it falls on
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by 99_00 4y ago
1. Secure a bunch low skill remote jobs. 2. Have low pay foreign workers work the jobs 3. Keep 50% of the salary give worker 50% and run Heath insurance scams.
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When I said green I meant solar and wind. Hydro electricity has been used for 140 years. It has a proven track record.
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For asset managers high risk pays. Make amazing bonuses for many years. Have extended vacation or retire. Just don't use your own product and you will do well.
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In your life have you ever been in an office without a woman who felt cold regardless of season?
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Japan shuts down last working nuclear reactor (2012) Berlin blackout raises questions over Germany's power grid (2019) Germany shuts down half of its 6 remaining nuclear plants (2022)
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It's odd then that states and countries most invested in green energy have brownouts when it's hottest.
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>So if taxes go up, there will be more demand for a currency No. Because an increase or decrease in taxes doesn't cause anyone to stop or start using currency, or convert from one currency to another.
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>Controlling something like that is nearing impossible. Why is preventing or reducing the probability nearing impossible?
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If you can't use it to keep armed men authorized to use deadly force from putting you in a cage for the rest of your life it will at best be peripheral. That's why people use the currency of their nation. They must pay taxes and f
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Dutch join Germany, Austria, in reverting to coal(france24.com)
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>Maybe there's some easy, incremental improvement I could make. But the current symbols do not help me do that. I'd be curious what the users of the labels think. If they exist.
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Are the benefits of an improvement worth the cost? Do you know how to do your laundry despite not knowing how to read the symbols?
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What is the cost/impact of laundry symbols making no sense to people like the author and me? I don't seem to have problems doing laundry despite not understanding the care label.

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