CyanBird

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by CyanBird 4y ago
If you don't then you might have a better source for reviewing the day to day of the banking/finance landscape?
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by CyanBird 4y ago
Losing while playing Monopoly Other than that, nothing really comes to mind, and honestly nothing could replace the constant stress of not being able to pay rent, food and utilities at the end of the month, knowing you can't and still
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by CyanBird 4y ago
> 1. I hope I'm reading this wrong. I can guarantee Sailors arn't committing suicide, or arson, because of a fugly rusty ship. Sad to see that HN discussions stow so low so as to not discuss the things the piece actually mentio
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by CyanBird 4y ago
> He's no longer relevant. Because the goal is not to per se bury the story, but to intimidate others whom might want to leak You don't murder these whom are on the spotlight, you murder them after they have left the spotligh
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by CyanBird 4y ago
You might enjoy this piece https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/03/shell-climate-ch... It is about the steps that shell is taking, or at least reviewing in order to fight climate change, what is inte
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by CyanBird 4y ago
Get noscript Yes, you will need to white list many websites, yes, you will also become appealed at the sheer amount of cookie requests you receive and thank God that you have installed noscript every day
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by CyanBird 4y ago
The error is that, simply because, even if true, that an experiment can't be done for the next 10000 years, this doesn't mean that someone else could think of a different experiment that could fulfill the initial prerequisites and
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by CyanBird 4y ago
It is just that Anglo media has been itching for a new enemy, so there has been more speculative articles and reporting on that topic these last couple years and Angloworld public opinion has shifted alongside it Sad state of affairs, but n
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by CyanBird 4y ago
Yeah.... I don't find this disagreeable Ever read on the idea that most megafauna was hunted down by men? Yeah... that seems pretty erhm, "unnatural", therefore the entire rest of the world is "unnatural" Supposed
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Listen, I would if I could, that invite list must be huuuge by now, that or go mighty slow
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Simply because a model is abductive and not deductive or inductive does not strip utility of said model As we all know "all models are wrong but some are useful"
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Oh yeah, the China Tribunal, I dont know if many people ever read the document that was published[1], but it has got several key points, which at the time I didnt quite understand why they were worded the way they were, such as repeating th
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Several western countries are already using opt out for organ donation rather than opt in, as many countries have overly long wait times and people die waiting for a liver or lungs etc What unlike the US or China, many countries just don&#x
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Yeah, the Falun Gong own several media outlets, so they have become well known as a group and have strong social media influences, they themselves support or create minor spinoff groups such as "China Tribunal" in order to get pla
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Correct, what you stumbled upon is merely the modern version of exorbitant privilege and US dollar international seigniorage and then you have the cantillon effect at the international level, but that's just less of an issue than the d
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Note that most of the coups which have happened in quick succession or a nontrivial amount, the coup plotters are related to the flintlock exercises https://www.africom.mil/pressrelease/34268/flintlock-2022-be...
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by CyanBird 5y ago
It is quite interesting seeing these comments, I wonder what the age of the commenter is, these older fellows in the thread and elsewhere might have longer memories and remember things such as > "Protecting the free flow of Africa&#
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Correct, not an accident Witter/editors/editorial line just don't want the reader to associate them with the coups The Intercept piece covering this is slightly better https://theintercept.com/2022/01&#x2
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Sure, * but not on a single day without any warning what's ever*
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by CyanBird 5y ago
> They did great up until they hit Poland and the Balkans, where they faced harsher terrain I keep seeing these historic revisionist takes and it just leaves me... Empty inside, do these people believe that modern Tajikistan is flat? Tha
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Kicking away the ladder by Ha-Joon Chang Industrial development and political economy, it really is a must read for anyone even mildly interested on the field, then you could go to Joan Robinson's criticism of Ricardian economics, but
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by CyanBird 5y ago
> Fisher really clarified for me what I’ve always sensed in the back of my mind. That time has in a sense stopped. I was always into futuristic things as a kid, and I still am. But today I’m left with a feeling that “the future”, or how
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Sure, but this guy wasn't caught planning anything, he was just a rando family member and as the article mentions the cia itself already assessed that was the case, that he wasn't a danger Yet they decided to use him as a training
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by CyanBird 5y ago
"Outcomes"? I am sorry, what "outcomes"? Only outcome I see here is the hegemony of the planet abusing brown people simply because it suspected that they could have been dangerous at some point in the past so it tortures
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by CyanBird 5y ago
I mean, of course You don't ever see anything about the invasions of Grenada or Panama, let alone all the murk that the US does with Haiti, heck Puerto Rico is not even a state but a US Caribbean colony, the US used to torture the sepa
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Yeah, the cases of normal US citizens lighting themselves on fire to protest against the war in Vietnam was jarring, they would also do it right in front of the White House or other centers of US power https://en.m.wikipedia.org&
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by CyanBird 5y ago
It will be funny to see what happens with Alaska, they might have just forgotten about the state Same thing happened in Chile a while back, the entire country was left on "summer time" which then meant that the southern tip of Chi
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by CyanBird 5y ago
> dirty free societies have everyone immunized by infections They don't, they really don't, they just stopped caring about people dying
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by CyanBird 5y ago
Wouldn't it be funny if YouTube were to also ban UAE and Saudi Arabia media because of their apologia of the genocide in Yemen? But of course, we all know that won't ever happen
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by CyanBird 5y ago
> RT exists purely to spread Kremlin propaganda, all else is secondary and serves the primary aim Yes, just like RadioFreeAsia, VoiceOfAmerica, RadioFarda, etcetcetc But you don't care to mention these because they fit the "goo

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