Bendingo

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by Bendingo 7y ago
> for weeks Every weekend for more than 1 year, actually.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> It still adequately captures the state of our modern leadership. It also still describes the apathy of the population.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
It was fun to read also :) молодец. й миин, вал данн
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> about a content moderation mishap The video was offline for 50 minutes: hardly a big deal, or even a moderate deal. I think there's a lot of people (in the West) who are happy to criticise anything Chinese, for the slightest possi
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> you have committed an illegal entry at the moment you entered Crimea without going through a legitimate border checkpoint - so they'll just arrest you for that This is true. A few years ago I flew from Moscow to Simferopol (Crimea
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> why didn't we just take over the World after WWII Both the UK [1] and US [2] developed plans to do just that. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable ? [2] https://www.businessinside
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by Bendingo 7y ago
"To nature we apply for truth in vain, God should His will to human kind explain." -- Voltaire
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> Suppose the US claimed that the entire Gulf of Mexico was US territory Since China is a long way from the Gulf of Mexico, and has no need to sail there, I'm confident that China couldn't care less about this. On the other han
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> there had been forewarning of "Gods" from the east who would conquer the Aztecs I'm reading a history of Christianity right now, that says this. Apparently the Aztecs had wiped out an earlier civilisation (Toltecs), and
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> equating Russian oligarchs to American businessmen Do you understand that many Russian oligarchs actually were American Businessmen? Eg; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder
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by Bendingo 7y ago
It's OK if USA/Israel does it, otherwise it's an act of war. More hypocrisy from the "good guys".
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Best summary I've read so far, of the whole fiasco.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> "I will not sell you that cake because you're gay" is the issue, not the type of cake. This contradicts everything I've read about the case. The baker disagreed with gay marriage, not being gay. To suggest that the
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> It was a coordinated, state-sponsored attack If this were so, why has no evidence been found after 2 years of desperate searching? Please stop repeating this entirely unsubstantiated claim.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> We don't need to worry about the longer term beyond about 50-100 years This is terribly irresponsible. Creating a massive problem for other people, and believing that the future will solve it, is the very definition of magical thi
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Orcas have also been know to cooperate with humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whales_of_Eden,_New_Sou...
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> then I'm afraid you are rather entitled, and deserve a serenading by the world's tiniest open source violin. This comment is unnecessarily belligerent; parent was stating facts. not complaining. Your attempt to guilt or shame
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by Bendingo 7y ago
I develop accessible android apps. Between complicated designs, broken android libraries, different talkback behaviours, and vendor bugs, accessibility can be very difficult. The effort we expend on accessibility (including dedicated tester
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> so they can beat the crap out of those inside Except this is speculation based on anti-China propoganda
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by Bendingo 7y ago
This 'journalist' is clearly biased for the protestors.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> Another problem is that if you yaw slightly, the yawed backward wing gets more straight on airflow, and the forward wing gets less, causing a stronger yaw force According to geometry, this problem must also occur with conventional back
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> Capitalism is the one system which has lifted more people out of poverty than any other I often hear this, but is it really true? The millions lifted from poverty in USSR and China, was not due to capitalism.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Upvoted for insight, accuracy and conciseness.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Would upvote this a million times if I could.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Except he didn't say anything like this.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Good question. But unfortunately evidence, facts, proof, logic etc are all irrelevant. At this stage, the anti-Russia narrative will never die.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> "We are a poor country. We have 70 [per cent] people living in rural area. We are very busy, very, very busy working to develop our own country. So these kind of stories is really very absurd." Which part of that is a blatant
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> Donald Trump famously applauded it in 2002 Excuse me, but noting something, is not the same as applauding it.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
And yet another international agreement unilaterally exited by the US. These agreements (eg INF ABM) are extremely difficult to create, but easily trashed by a single recalcitrant. It seems like the whole international order is breaking dow
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> Would you rather have a friend or an enemy spying on you? A better decision rationale would be; which of the two is more likely to use their spy-data against you? And the answer to that is without doubt; your own local spy agency, not

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