CyanBird

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by CyanBird 6y ago
> willing to spend what it takes to win and this is the reason why they will win. Excuse me "Win" what exactly? Why even use such adversarial polarizing language when we are talking of overall human development? Huge segments o
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That's interesting, I had never heard the term being used in English, but in Chile it is a very commonly used term "darle color" is synonym to exaggerate something I do wonder if they arose in the same way, from color comment
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The Chinese Central Bank has smartly labeled Bitcoin and other Crypto as "Digital Gambling Assets".... So that should give you an idea...
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Because that's how websites die
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Absolutely, when TotalBiscuits (John Bain) was still fighting cancer he couple times unabashedly said while doing his live starcraft 2 esports casting to everyone listening to be mindful of colon cancer, to not play dumb with it if you cons
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Even before the pandemic there were lines worth of people entering on these low quality jobs, this is not a consequence of the pandemic itself, it has just further highlighted the issue of service based economies and poorer wages/stand
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> It's downright astonishing that he recovered as well as he did. Given the poor track record of what intelligence agencies have tagged as "deadliest poison ever" I am not particularly surprised, neither is MoonOfAlabama i
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> I have to wonder why we would listen to any recommendations from the NSA? Because the NSA is a defensive as well as offensive institution, they defend the home front as well as they attack adversaries
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This is just a foul, foul recommendation Don't play with your endocrine system people, let alone with testosterone which will make you dependent on it for the rest of your life
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Sad to see moderators not delete these kind of useless uninformed messages as they used to do just couple years ago
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> The US government has unlimited time and will around these things > ... > Let’s say he steps one foot out of the UK to another country that has an extradition treaty Very much agree with this take, after all the US already forced
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What's interesting is that, at least in the case of the Iraq War, there was no ought right public Iraqi diaspora calling for the downing of the Saddam regime, but in the case of China and Iran, it is very interesting to me how far righ
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by CyanBird 6y ago
> This is what cognitive dissonance looks like Incorrect, that's what someone on mobile in public transport looks like, but thank you for the benefit of the doubt (?) I would be still interested in non-Zanz related sourcing to the o
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> Probably why we haven't had a major war for so long. It is funny reading this after not even been two weeks since the last attack on the US embassy compound in Iraq after the US denied Iraqi calls to remove US troops of the countr
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> they clearly lied about it I fail to see the value of this, China is not Sweden, I am not sure why you hold them to the same standards, that seems strange to me But anyhow, I just wanted to add that the CIA and the US state department
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> wet markets and traditional Chinese medicine (in which raw animal parts are mixed together etc.) are huge pandemic vectors? Ofc, that's why they were reformed, current meat and grocery markets commonly found are nothing like the
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> We will probably never know the real number. So then why use such numbers, when there's no expectation of accuracy? My high school teachers would have been rather upset at me had I been so liberal with facts
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> Oh wait You do realize that Iran is a republic right? They hold legislative and executive branch elections every few years with different political parties and all....
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> It says all about HN. You mean well educated? "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"; Wikipedia and lots of writeups tracing back to the singular source of Adrian Zenz are not it sadly
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> then those in power are going to start doing this I don't know where you have been these last 70 years, but western powers have been "doing this" for a long, long, long time What we really need is to listen to some Angel
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> It seems criticising the US, UK etc. for the slightest thing is fine but criticising totalitarian genocidal sabre-rattling pandemic-unleashing states is beyond the pale Yeah, because you are not calling for "criticism" but st
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by CyanBird 6y ago
> has CCP become the most efficient and durable totalitarian regime in history? Not really, here are just forces at play which would benefit if you thought so We are in due time for the US and Western public to have a new evil boogyman p
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by CyanBird 6y ago
I personally prefer the bullet to chemical death sentence, at least I am not coerced to pay for the bullet The sword as they use in Saudi Arabia also seems rather brutish but certainly less painful
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by CyanBird 6y ago
Calling for shock-porn rather than rationality and discourse is exactly the kind of things that receive downvotes on HN, not sure why you act so surprised
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> I'm guessing the worlds biggest human rights org would love to know Matt from substack's source? I would guess ramblings from some dark Falun Gong blog, as clearly he has no issues quoting them elsewhere on the piece, which o
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by CyanBird 6y ago
You would benefit a fair amount of reading Manufacturing Consent and Propaganda 1927 if you haven't, they will provide you with tools to verbalize your ideas and learn to better differentiate the media landscape
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Stand Alone Complexes, yeah
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> but I don't know if that can really happen at an international level It already happens, look at all the countries with peacekeeper forces such as Uruguay
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No, different reason, booster shots, are needed to "remind" your immune system that the virus is still out there, and keep it on fighting shape, and as far as I am aware, the early discussions for booster shots, were about 6, to 9
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by CyanBird 6y ago
> who has arguably the best track record of any journalist If this is a supposed "good article" then I really don't want to see the bad ones... This piece is written for a complete tech illiterate audience, if anything it

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