Amezarak

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by Amezarak 7mo ago
And? What does that have to do with the absence of witnesses of a sex trafficking ring involving anyone else? This isn’t even news, it was a big deal back in the day and is covered extensively in the report about the DoJ’s conduct. Read the
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
You misunderstand my point. I’m saying that if there are any credible accusations in “the files” beyond those well-documented ones against Epstein and Maxwell, then the accusers would be known publicly anyway when they’re disclosed. The who
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
If you’re talking about Trump, you may remember that E Jean Carroll won a lawsuit against him. She’s walking the earth and continuing to live a public life. And again, millions of dollars are available from settlement funds if Epstein was i
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
> the hints from those that have seen but are sworn to not tell about that which they have seen but cannot recoun The people who were victimized by anyone other than Epstein and Maxwell could come forward at any time, just as dozens of E
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
No doubt you are aware that the claims about Clinton originated with the founder of the Epstein Mythos, Virginia Giuffre, who we know for a fact was a serial confabulator. While she was inarguably one of Epstein's victims, she also mad
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
> Remarkable that Epstein confined his pedophile activities to a single location Correct, the vast majority of his criminal activity appeared to be in his Palm Beach home and in New York, where he recruited high dozens to hundreds of hig
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
There is no credible evidence that either of the Presidents you alluded to visited "the island". It's amazing to see conspiracy theories promulgated on HN.
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
You would be highly advised to learn how to do basic plumbing, electrical, and renovation tasks yourself in the US as well. The cost savings is enormous. Finding a quality contractor, in addition to being expensive, can also be very hard -
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
> And for almost all of that 10%, beef was a luxury good This is simply not true. As soon as we were able, we ate almost all megafauna to extinction. Once we mastered pastoralism, peoples who engaged in it continued eating high-meat diet
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
> Looking at chimpanzee diets, I don't think our common ancestor was regularly eating burgers. More likely insects and leaves...which do not contain Neu5Gc. Chimpanzees eat plenty of meat. They particularly enjoy hunting and eating
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
Let's put it more concretely: Norway has about the same amount of people as Alabama.
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
The coalitions do a pretty good job of representing people’s pre-existing positions. People aren’t not voting for copyright reform because their party said so, but because they agree with their party. Party discipline in the US is not nearl
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
All countries have these problems which vary by the local political environment and history. Multiple European countries are facing particularly absurd varieties of these dilemmas because of their refusal to form coalitions with the second
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
Coalitions are pretty static in most parliamentary democracies except sometimes when forming governments post-election. The 51% is for the coalition , not the party. That’s what you’re missing. CoC Republicans for example have temporarily
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
US "parties" are giant coalitions compared to the "parties" in parliamentary democracies. You're solving a problem that doesn't exist. Change the American voting system tomorrow and legislators will belong to d
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
Where can I see a list of all other government employees?
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
I’m not sure there was ever a time when they didn’t have taps, but this is definitely not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A Even in the days of telegrams, FDR was opening and reading millions of American’s
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by Amezarak 7mo ago
You can install pex with just a crimping tool that runs around that price.
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by Amezarak 8mo ago
Medicare also negotiates on a state based level and represents more people than most European countries. Right now the US governments collectively spend more than most European countries per capita on health care. The states and Feds. Total
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by Amezarak 8mo ago
Yes, it's definitely true the USSR engaged in forced population transfers and genocides, but I'm talking about the Allied (not just USSR) policy for Germans outside of the then-newly-defined German borders, since the USSR on its o
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by Amezarak 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Germans_from_Czec... Can we not politicize historical events? This is not historically controversial. The Czechoslovak President literally called it the "final solution&q
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by Amezarak 8mo ago
There are modern European states refounded after the Allies pursued a deliberate and calculated policy of ethnic cleansing to ensure Germans would never be a problem again - in some cases going from 25% of the population prewar to 1% afterw
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by Amezarak 8mo ago
Typical armies usually had, if not maps, reliable intelligence and guides. "we've heard this chokepoint is heavily defended" would indeed be a common reason for routing around. It would be even fancier if there was some logic
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by Amezarak 8mo ago
Are you sure you haven't been victimized by manuscripts with modernized spellings? When I look up ealry manuscript scans of the Comedy, I get: *Nel mezo delcamin dinra uita / mi trouai puna(?) felua (long s letter) ofcura / c
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by Amezarak 8mo ago
Yes, there is no credible evidence of your claim. The big disease waves stuck most natives before they ever saw a European, after contacted peoples caught disease in the normal fashion. The very few later documented attempts we have are alm
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by Amezarak 8mo ago
High end estimates of people killed due to the deliberate spread of disease are dozens to hundreds. The pre-real-contact wave was obviously many orders of magnitude more deadly. Even your own link mentions one reason it was ineffective was
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by Amezarak 8mo ago
It’s important to note that fiction does not map to reality. It’s fiction. You cannot learn how the world works through fiction. It’s just the author’s ideas about the world in a narrative framework that may or may not be true. I find it ve
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by Amezarak 8mo ago
This is a roundabout way of saying Americans are willing to spend more money on bigger car because they like them better. Aside from urban cores with limited parking and lots of narrow streets, it’s obvious that “bigger” means more utility
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by Amezarak 8mo ago
I think you probably know this because you used the US name for the car (internationally known as the Jazz), but for those who don’t, Honda discontinued the Fit in the US market due to poor sales. For every internet comment bemoaning the la
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
It's difficult to me to see what people thought was so great about the beatniks. All of Kerouac basically consists of "look how much fun you can have in a trusting society by tearing it down."

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