DaltonCoffee

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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
The simple fact that the term oligarch has come to be assumed to be preceded by the term Russian, as in the title, speaks volumes. Honest question: Are Russian oligarchs more tied to the Russian gov't than in the USA, like how the RBN
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Both are unnecessary and confusing to see when set against the massive success of their creators.
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You might have liked it even better in the "older old days" when only the enlightened aristocracy had free speech, and speaking out against them was a crime.
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
How did you find this out? Also could I use my genome data from ancestry.com etc to do the same
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
I was honestly shocked by the lack of agent provacateurs.
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
The one question about race I've always had is this: Why is the child of both black and white parents considered black? This seems racist to me, fundamentally.
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Curious what you feel the biological consequences of in-school covid transmission will be decades from now.
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Wow, in what world is there a debate over who's fault it is that a woman gets raped? You didn't respond to my points about skin exposure being a social norm. We choose to show/hide genitals, breasts, ankles, feet, etc based o
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Idk, I think he's got you with the "sub out for dick" thing. We live in an (I hope) egalitarian democracy and what's acceptable to display is dictated by our polis. Can this same be said regarding women wearing burkas in
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
I stated that the (likely beneficial) censoring of Hitler would have also resulted in the censoring of other people (possibly not beneficial).
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Censoring/deplatforming/deleting Alex Jones was their first step towards banning vaccine documentaries, Fox news, the folk devil du jour, etc. Censoring Hitler looks like a great idea in hindsight but what babys would have gone ou
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Indeed, the horror of their long history of participation in our primate wars puts their modern militarization in perspective. Is the modern military's exploitation of animals actually significant compared to any other time in human hi
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Welfare and EI combined = jury rigged UBI
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
>They have 1/3 the guns and 1/3 the gun crime per capita compared to the US, and ownership is more highly regulated. My quick stat check shows double the households with guns[1] but 6X the rate of gun deaths[2]. https:/&#
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Because cowboys and rap music and manifest destiny. But seriously, you don't have to look that far. Canada's gun ownership and gun crime rates are also puzzling to compare with America's.
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
The marriage tradition doesn't seem well suited to many modern relationships and people. People now change jobs and relationships more than predecessor generations. It's unfair to hold people to old standards designed for differ
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
The poor man pays twice.
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Heheh, love that seam line.
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
The welfare and employment insurance system in parts of Canada (ie: those parts with little or seasonal employment) are effectively UBI.
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Agreed, amazing content and presentation! The article covers much of what you'd learn in an advanced positioning course.
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
>We've done that experiment. The results are self-evident I think the real experiment is perpetual consumerism and unchecked global free market capitalism. Some places that could be considered a UBI welfare state would be Scandinavi
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Just letting you know Ace of Spades is a great motorhead song. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_Spades_(song)
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Some of our current financial systems are deeply embedded and difficult to replace. We're in a situation where we need bankers to finance lawyers to work on issues that would negate some of the need for bankers and lawyers.
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Some college campuses could also be better choices for lockdows because they're hotbeds of international students.
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
This negates the idea that bitcoin or it's ilk could replace USD. Crypto technologies are interesting to me because of their great potential for good (defi) and bad (dystopian black mirror gold farms, dyson sphere fueling crpto mine, e
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Some of the examples didn't load for me or contained errors (such as the css animations and todo). I'm on Android chrome.
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Satellite radar without any AI is one of the main sources of elevation models.
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by DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Google Earth Studio is Chrome only