CyanBird

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by CyanBird 5y ago
Propaganda 1928 is just my favorite book ever, it is written in such a tone as to both be a perfect introductory and a hard authoritative first hand source and compilation of Bernays experiences Excerpt > “Universal literacy was supposed
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by CyanBird 5y ago
> Personally I think closing the nuclear reactors is a terrible idea, considering nuclear is the only clean base load generation we have I am very against nuclear power, on both the economic aspect, and the health and hazards side of thi
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Please don't pollute HN with mindless, needless speculation
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It was a would be funny, but volcanes induce acid rain besides many other issues
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by CyanBird 5y ago
There are actually two of these, one besides the traffic lights and other one on the traffic lights post where the people where crossing the street Id say that yeah, it seems that the car detected these signs and read them as "you can
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by CyanBird 5y ago
> selection starts at 4yo" which implies that 4yo kids are selected and followed all their life. I mean, they were followed all their life when they arrive at the final selection process, it is a track record after all
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by CyanBird 5y ago
He didn't say it was NSO, but the Israeli military and specifically 8200
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Just ensure that it is dry (actually dry) and that the combustion is complete In South of Chile where wood is a very common and available fuel for cooking or heating this has been a permanent issue every winter, too many people with asthma
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by CyanBird 5y ago
What is the issue with black ink? Is it part of the chemistry of it having things potentially harmful or else?
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I mean, there are, but what's even more important than going vegan bc that's not feasible for everybody right now, is to reduce total meat consumption as much as possible, rather than these token "1 day a week without meat&
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Well, exaggerations aside such as blocking the sun, cows and pigs represent 60% of all mammal biomass on earth right now ... > Humans account for about 36 percent of the biomass of all mammals. Domesticated livestock, mostly cows and pi
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by CyanBird 5y ago
"OK" Said South Africa...
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by CyanBird 5y ago
> Considering that American-owned slaves were treated much crueler on average than Ancient slave populations I'd recommend you to actually read on the absolute horror the Helots had to go through Only French Haití or Congo Free Stat
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by CyanBird 5y ago
My first thought was "oh the heck will you take out all the porn and potential faaar more ilegal types of porn from that" And "I don't want to need down load a ledger which might contain even encrypted versions of that&q
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by CyanBird 5y ago
It is funny to say, but "Indy" is right, science more than anything else is the doctrine through which we find verifiable "facts", or maybe falsifyable? Hard to say, the philosophy of science is and endless pit for all t
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by CyanBird 5y ago
> Inflation punishes responsible savers. You know that this is false, why say so? Putting your money under a mattress is not responsible, putting it on an investment which will accrue interest is, and imagine what. That interest will c
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by CyanBird 5y ago
> default subs are frequently flooded with pro-CCP disinformation Ermmmm we might be seeing different trends here, or at least different things from what you believe to be "favorable to ccp"....
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Weren't they in favor of the Iraq war? This is a legitimate question, I don't know about their reporting from back then And from an external perspective, why would they be a more reliable source than let's say Voice Of Americ
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Go check ctemplar, it is not without faults, but it seems to be that, or set up your own lavabit/tutanota server
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Set up your own encrypted email server If anyone has specific recommendations for which open source encrypted platforms to set up, I am all ears
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by CyanBird 5y ago
You should set up your own email server, they can't be trusted If they are announcing this, think of the ones they are under gag orders to not announce /disclose
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by CyanBird 5y ago
This is like asking if the vitamins that you give to a chicken as a chick will poison you when you eat it as adult, I am not talking of hormones or growth agents, just literal common vitamins You don't eat "the vitamins" you
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by CyanBird 5y ago
I mean, supposedly that's exactly what happens with tor, nsa and friends run many, many exit nodes and scrap info from there, to such a level that people are worried that it is possible (or plausible) that they can/could identify
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by CyanBird 5y ago
> Also, store them in the fridge After you open them, yeah In Chile at least, when we buy not quite ready avocado's we wrap them on newspaper, it helps them mature and become softer faster, people have done this for at least since I
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by CyanBird 5y ago
> Well, the police can also temper with any other evidence all the time anyway Yeah, they do, but that's illegal and NOT encoded in law So Aus has just made police tampering legal
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by CyanBird 5y ago
You can install noscript in Firefox mobile without problems, that's what I did
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by CyanBird 5y ago
I have worked remote as freelance many years, and I just use the camera as a reciprocity tool, if you have your camera on, then I'll turn mine on, if yours is off, then I won't bother with it and I have no issue/lots of exper
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Very, very sad, my growing up my grand grand father's house had many swords made in Toledo and wooden decorative shields with the family insignia on them, they were just decorative, he got them from a trip to Spain, the swords had very
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by CyanBird 5y ago
> My point being, it's not always malice Correct, yet the malice lies on said situations being allowed to continue time and time again, and fester
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> but in the name of not sounding racist, won't Just say that it comes from an ethnographic perspective and do it

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