Ansil849

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by Ansil849 5y ago
I, in turn, unfortunately had to listen to fellow players complain about the name change throughout a whole game the other week.
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The John Pilger documentary Burp! Pepsi vs. Coke: The Ice Cold War [1] was really eye opening for me. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3PjKrWdZ-E
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> because lead lobbyists continued to disrupt regulation efforts. I have genuine, actual trouble maintaining faith in humanity when I hear about people like this existing. It just makes me incredibly depressed and bummed out about life.
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Isn't the aim of sanctions to hurt Russians? Stopping the sale of poisonous American foods and drink would seemingly only benefit them. If the idea was to actually to adversely impact Russians, Coca-Cola would give out free sodas, McdD
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Does this mean the world can eventually look forward to a new soft drink? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta#Origins > During the Second World War, the US established a trade embargo against Nazi Germany, making th
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> If I play boardgames with Sue, that's enough. We meet, enjoy a beer and play some Catan and go our separate ways. That's a fine relationship. > If I follow Sue on social media, now I know her politics, religion, sex life,
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Life and Death in the Warehouse – the terrible true cost of online shopping(theguardian.com)
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Reminds me of https://duckduckgo.com/tty/
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NATO experiments with secure network withstanding attack by quantum computers(ncia.nato.int)
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> He explains in a follow up that it was the only one offered by his home builder That doesn't explain why he doesn't sell this (likely very expensive) oven at cost, and then use the proceeds to buy a (likely much cheaper) regu
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It's Friday. Did the group follow through on their threat?
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> It's irrelevant what previously occurred by other governments. All of the bombardments I mentioned happened on the same exact days as the bombardments in Ukraine. And how you can dismiss the killing of people in other countries as
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> We have people on the ground in Ukraine being bombarded now non stop. I cannot with good conscience continue to support the Russian regime in any way, shape or form. What about the American regime currently bombing Somalia? Or the Sau
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> And virtual private networks (VPNs), which are often used to circumvent bans in countries such as the United Kingdom, can skew the results by making it appear that users are in a different country. How does this caveat not make the an
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This article is a perfect example of how word tenses can be used to manipulate and misrepresent information. The title says that the city "is spending" an amount, which suggests that this is a routine cost, leaving the reader of t
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Not sure why you think Google is a potential hostile agent, but not Cloudflare?
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> I trust cloudflare more than Gmail actually. One isn't known for having algorithms delete accounts without human appeal. No, instead it's known for leaking private customer data (think authentication tokens and the like) onto
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> The cattle have to eat, after all, and cutting down the grazing land by 30% could cause some cattle to starve to death. You lost me here at this point in the comparison. How is this analogous to the situation with altimeters?
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> led to threats from the social media giant to pull its websites from Europe. Please do. And also from the rest of the world, while you're at it.
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Slack is up for me...unfortunately.
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> I guess the scam is on the folks that took on the jobs and lost money over it. Some of the folks in the story upended their lives over this scam. But that's what I don't understand, what was the scam? People upended their job
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> There’s a childrens show called “Horrible Histories” that tried to make history “fun” for kids. They continually indicate that people in the past were very stupid and brutal. Horrible history show. But people were (and continue to be
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I don't really understand what the scam was here. I expected this to be the standard kind of fake job scam, where you're asked to front money for the purchasing of equipment or legal bills, or where you're asked to send copie
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I'd genuinely be interested in seeing the math behind that reasoning. Not because I think it's true or not true, but because I just genuinely have no idea so would like to see how this sort of comparison is calculated.
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I'm not a fan of neigbhorhood nuisance, obviously, but I also feel like it's trendy to pick on new phenomena like 'dark stores' as opposed to established phenomena. For example, my biggest noise concerns in residential a
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I wonder what the carbon footprint of these industrial printing presses is and how it compares to crypto mining or NFTs or whatever it is that's fashionable to complain about nowadays?
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How about that government services must be built by the government?
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> It's a list of extreme techniques for protecting ones' identity online. The items I quoted do nothing to protect ones' identity online. Snark is only effective if relevant.
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> Don't use macOS or Windows -- only Linux > Move to Brazil and live in the rainforest Juvenile, snarky, irreverent and irrelevant advice I'd expect to read on a 12 year old's Reddit post.
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Has Google publicly explained why they previously flagged files that has just the number '1' in them for copyright infringement [1]? I know they certainly didn't apologize for doing this, but did they at least explain it? At

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