Convolutional

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by Convolutional 4y ago
> maybe stop tweeting images of guillotines when our employees are anxious about their next paycheck? I've been watching Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, Peter Thiel, Jason Calacanis and on and on rant for the past weeks&#x2
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by Convolutional 4y ago
First, I shook my head at the same sentence. The railway union whose potential strike was recently broken by the government and railroads levels the playing field (and works to evert things like the Ohio toxic train derailment). Silicon V
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The fraction of land the Crown Estate owns, plus the land it gains when an estate is intestate. Plus the reversionary rights of the Crown Estate. You are correct in what you said, but as I said, it works in China like it does in the UK (wi
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by Convolutional 4y ago
The US has spent $100 billion in the Ukraine over the past year, with more on the way, it is sending billions a year to Israel and Egypt, is involved in Iran, China, Venezuela etc. It just stopped spending a ton in Afghanistan. All the mo
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by Convolutional 4y ago
> technically people can’t own land in China, they’re just leasing it from the government So it works like land in the UK, which is all owned by the King of England, but which is "leased" from him?
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by Convolutional 4y ago
I have been watching videos of the dead fish, chickens and animals, killed due to the toxic fumes from the East Palestine, Ohio train crash last month. I wonder how that will affect thing there in the coming decades.
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by Convolutional 4y ago
> China is in a state of terminal decline People have been saying this 1949.
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by Convolutional 4y ago
It did in 1953 when Prime Minister Mossadegh wanted to nationalize Iran's oil. The US and UK launched a coup to stop that and installed a dictator (who was initially reluctant to go along with this and had to be convinced). Then SAVA
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by Convolutional 4y ago
The US nuclear industry used to run magazine ads in US magazines in the 1970s celebrating that Iran was building nuclear power plants - https://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/200... . Some A
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by Convolutional 4y ago
That link mentions something not mentioned here - that the Iranians were sent their own money.
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by Convolutional 4y ago
The reader might question why the poster neglected to mention to them, that the $400 million transferred was Iranian money.
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by Convolutional 4y ago
> the function of a union seems like it wants to force the company to associate with it whether the company wants to or not. The company might not want to associate with the union, but it seems that the workers working at the company do.
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by Convolutional 4y ago
In 1976, in Washington DC, the Chilean secret service assassinated the wife of an American economist, as well as a former minister of the previous Chilean government (which had been overthrown in a Nixon backed military coup). https:/
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by Convolutional 4y ago
Maybe she will wake up to the fact that she's been tossed out of the arena by the guy she was being sycophantic to.
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by Convolutional 4y ago
> people thought a union meant they'd get what they wanted. But unions can only get you what they have the power to force employers to give up. And when you only unionise one store that is basically nothing... You should write news
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by Convolutional 4y ago
Not really, they're being killed off by mining companies.
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by Convolutional 4y ago
Marshall Sahlins studied hunter gatherer bands, and many work less than forty hours a week. Programmers I know can't figure out how to get down to a forty hour a week workweek to survive, but these hunter gather bands in sub-Saharan A
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by Convolutional 4y ago
What do you think the Dust Bowl in the US was?
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by Convolutional 4y ago
What was happening in the American south at the time, where senators were holding up lynching bill?
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by Convolutional 4y ago
> The economy runs on heroism. If you don't believe me, see how central planning went in the last century Ok...when the US and Europe were mired in depression in the 1930s, the Soviet Union was going through breakneck growth, to whe
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by Convolutional 4y ago
Glad he's doing important work.
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by Convolutional 4y ago
> democratic mandate Democratic? Two million Palestinians live in the West Bank and have had no vote in the Israeli parliament since the occupation started, an occupation condemned by multiple UN resolutions.
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by Convolutional 4y ago
Thorvald was defense minister. His son had interactions with the student peace movement as a teenager. If the son passed information to the father, and this was passed to the CIA - then the CIA would have known of him from his teenage yea
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by Convolutional 4y ago
As bin Laden was holed up 800 yards from the Pakistan Military Academy, it seems more likely that he was captured by ISI and/or the Pakistani army, as opposed to trying to hide from them there. ISI dealt with bin Laden in the 1980s, an