Amezarak

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by Amezarak 3y ago
I wouldn't bet on it. Historiographical claims contradicting ancient history usually turn out to be incorrect and are generally only produced because the absence of other evidence is the only room you have to generate academic papers.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Energy drinks are addictive and the inputs are cheap. I suspect that to some degree individual drinks will be boom -> bust, as newer brands cannibalize the market by having (or advertising) superior energy, more caffeine, better comedown
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Sure, there are a lot of factors like that. - Bloated school administrations and the employment of all kinds of semi-professionals that were not needed or did not even exist in the past, and which are not common outside of the US. - Excessi
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by Amezarak 3y ago
America does have big problems with public education, but funding is not it. Even grossly underperforming schools are often funded at per-student rates well above the OECD average and even the US average. It's a frequent talking point
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Overdraft "protection" was opt-out for several years, and is now opt-in. https://www.consumerfinance.gov/rules-policy/regulations/100... I have a lot of experience with low-income people and people not g
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by Amezarak 3y ago
There are plenty of free bank accounts that come with free debit cards in the US. People who have paid bank accounts didn't shop around at all. I have no idea how or why these banks continue to do business when there's free altern
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> The core of the issue is somewhere else - it's the jury system. It's crazy to me that so much of the American "justice" relies on juries where they are free to ignore any scientific evidence and just vote the way th
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Humans are animals. We are not rational beings divorced from the instincts of all life. When people don't want to reproduce, it is the same as it is with other animals: there is something deeply wrong with the social or natural environ
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Sure, and the article here is about a standout case that deviates from the norm and was made into a national spotlight, which was then investigated and people have been punished. Do you regard this as a success story too? Maybe you regard i
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Australian police also raid media outlets. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51526607 Decreasing democratic accountability by centralizing control and installing appointees does not improve things, except someti
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> No - common usage is clearly more than 2. This whole thread is baffling to me because in my entire life, I have only ever heard people use "couple" to mean "two".
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I'm in the US and I've see plenty of them built recently, which have exactly all the problems you mention, which is why I'd rather them not.
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> Cities long ago stopped approving small motels to be built, I wish they had, but that's not true anywhere I've lived.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Airbnb has 8.4 billion in revenue and 16 billion in assets. They are not a "small business." Hilton's revenue is 8.7 billion and they have 15 billion in assets. Hilton also doesn't cause rental and home prices to rise. P
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Protectionism seems to have worked really well for China, and it helped America get to where it was 60 years ago. Meanwhile, relatively recent free trade treaties hollowed the American economy out and contributed to its financialization. I&
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I see comments like this on HN frequently and I wonder what is going on with BigTech. I guess I wouldn't make it. Support is fun . You're solving mysteries and (hopefully) fixing them within the constraints of the design.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Glennwald reporting a similar letter was sent to Rumble: https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1704576316983349484 Many comments on the YouTube story suggested it was just YouTube deciding they didn’t want to be associa
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UK Parliament Pressures TikTok to Demonetize Russel Brand(twitter.com)
15 points by Amezarak 3y ago|8 comments
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Google has sharply deranked this type of webpage. I used to run a similar kind of thing and I went from #2-3 to #100 something. (Which means that most of the time it won't come up at all anymore.) The results are absolutely packed with
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Yes, this article is so bad it's hard to believe it's not deliberately disingenuous. It completely elides some of the many egregious examples of abuse such as those you mention, and pretends the sole issue at hand is "hate sp
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by Amezarak 3y ago
The sibling comment is great, but I'd also like to add that it's important to keep in mind that English spelling was not particularly standardized until relatively recently. People spelled words and even their own names however it
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Particularly depressing: > For those reasons, the documents say the books cannot be donated, as "they are not suitable for any learners." > "When you talk to the librarian in the library, the books are being weeded by t
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Students, parents question school board's library weeding process(cbc.ca)
4 points by Amezarak 3y ago|1 comments
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It was absolutely normal for most times for most people. I cited a source for you. I’ve spent a tremendous amount of time in my life studying social conditions and the daily experience historically. I get the feeling we’re not going to be a
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Industrialized agriculture doesn't scale either. We are rapidly destroying the fertility of the American midwest via intensive farming of corn/canola/soybean. Even ending a animal agriculture will only slow this down. What&#x
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> Meat is a luxury, always has been for 'ordinary' people. One day per week if you were lucky until sixty to seventy years ago or so. The exception: farm owners and the wealthy. I guess we have different perspectives. For me, f
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by Amezarak 3y ago
It's easy for me to see how my comment could be read that way, but I would consider that only a very small contributing factor to to what's going wrong with society. Instead, read my reference to "we can barely maintain the p
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> That can't be true, unless your ancestors have always been exceedingly wealthy. I am honestly not sure where this meme came from. That was sometimes true, for very poor people in places where the population was too high for the
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by Amezarak 3y ago
If the price is saving the planet is turning it into the dystopia we seem to be zooming towards full speed, I will be happy to not pay it and suffer the consequences of our civilization collapsing. I’m not changing my behavior and I will fi
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I was in full agreement with your comment until... > We should not be eating nearly as much meat as people do in rich countries. My peasant ancestors were eating meat every day 500 years ago. You can find different groups of people all o

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