BrazzVuvuzela

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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Fact checkers fear being fact checked, is anybody surprised?
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
There is a serious flaw in the way schools teach people about propaganda, that leaves people believing that propaganda is synonymous with lying, and if a claim is factual then it isn't propaganda. Propaganda is any communication that
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Let's not forget that Derek's PhD thesis was about the practice of making videos that dunk on unsuspecting members of the general public.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Anything that hamper's Google's continued effort to turn youtube into the new cable TV is good in my book. I hope they lose all the other channels too, and then I hope those channels die anyway, along with the old-media companies
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
The wording of the message is one hell of a detail to leave out when detailing your research methods.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
> Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S. Their figure, published May 3 in The BMJ, su
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
> That's an overstatement. Sometimes I wear my headphones in bed (not this brand/model, but another wireless over-the-ear sort.) I'm reconsidering that now...
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
A coerced agent is still an agent. But my point is that those who don't participate in such activities, despite the demands of the CCP, are not agents of the CCP.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
The way Texans talk of being independent is actually kind of endearing I think. I think being offended or threatened by such talk would require an incredible feeling of insecurity.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
In years past, Japanese import was considered synonymous with cheap crap. That reputation changed over time, eventually becoming associated with high quality. Chinese imports now having that reputation doesn't really have much to do
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Every bit helps, right? Even if you're using retrorockets by the time you're that low, atmospheric drag should still be helping.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
I believe it would make it easier to land supplies there though, since there is more atmosphere to aerobrake with.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
I think this is a failure of science education more than anything else. The polar ice caps of Mars were first observed in the 17th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mars_observation#Ea...
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Is water on Mars even exciting? We're already quite certain there is a ton of water on Mars... in the form of ice. The exciting discoveries are evidence of liquid water. > The bulk of the northern ice cap consists of water ice
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Only those who follow through with it.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Mate, they got him for numerous counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and more. These are all crimes, not mere violations of corporate policy. If you can't square your understanding of the law with what happened, it's your def
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
> But to throw someone in jail for breaking essentially a corporate policy seems really off. It "seems off" because that obviously isn't what happened. > Jury Earlier Returned 28 Guilty Verdicts Convicting Michael Ka
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
They're old enough to be in the army, so they're old enough to be kicked out of the country for spying.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
That doesn't mean we should tolerate it happening in America.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
> If they have a right to do that, is that harassment? Yes. Having the right to say or do something doesn't mean it isn't harassment. But more importantly, the 'students' making these reports/threats are act
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
--script-opts=ytdl_path=/path/to/yt-dlp Symlinking either into ~/.config/mpv/ (or wherever your mpv config is) should also work.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
mpv packages in linux distros seem to be pulling in yt-dlp now too; at least on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, the mpv package recommends yt-dlp and not youtube-dl. On one hand I'm sad to see youtube-dl's demise. But its prompt replacemen
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
> I find these two positions very hard to re-conciliate. Why do you need to reconcile them? "HN" is not a person and does not need to have consistent beliefs. "HN" is a loose association of independent people who
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Voting in a union like the teamsters might as well be pissing into the wind. The ability of any individual worker to change the way things work is academic at best, particularly in the big unions. Practically speaking, the most choice a wo
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Lasko fans are the way to go. I have one of their utility fans that is good for continuous duty, it's lasted 10 years and shows no signs of quitting. I got mine on amazon but I've seen them in hardware stores too.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
The problem union advocates in America have is whenever things don't go their way, they immediately resort to calling the workers idiots. The workers aren't idiots. When they perceive that unions aren't listening to them, i
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Well you've got to do what you've got to do. But practically speaking, nobody else is obliged to help you.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Realpolitik: it doesn't matter who started it. If Ukraine wants western assistance in this fight, they should stop incorporating neo-nazi militias into their national guard.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
> attempting to paint his enemies as fascists. Ukraine makes this easy for him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion

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