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GameOfFrowns
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>One side wants to build cool shit and the other side wants to shit post on Twitter. Do we know in which department the sacked employees worked? For all we know, they could have been employed in marketing or HR, not exactly the area that
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>No doubt there are people in the world who do that stuff, but why spend your time with them? Because the majority of women is like that and unicorns by definition are hard to find?
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4y ago
>Physically fit people don't buy their magic pills and weight loss programs. You would be amazed by the amount of supplement pills and powders with which many "fit and healthy" people fill up their cabinets, while paying 1
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4y ago
>find people where there is some mutual interest in spending time together. Until the woman has to defend your eligibility against her female friends, comparing you to previous partners, current alternative suitors and male celebrities.
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>met a couple of them at the bouldering gym where I boulder. That's why I stopped going to the local boulder gyms. Too many cookie-cutter "non-conformist dudes" who see the gym as their personal hunting grounds, creeping o
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4y ago
Then why not call it a "pandemic"? Shortsighteness has become a global phenomenon with more than one local maximum, hasn't it?
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Is US State Department official enough for you? https://www.state.gov/concerns-with-un-high-commissioner-for...
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4y ago
I'd guess the implication is that some of the data was created or edited on a Taiwanese system.
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4y ago
What would you even consider credible criticism? [0]Zenz is a born-again christian zealot who imagines himself to be on a mission against Satan (or in this case China) and who build his whole career on "uncovering" Chinese atrocit
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4y ago
>Piano Guys ft. Taylor Swift & Coldplay, Love Story Meets Viva La Vida @ 3:43 I got an unskippable YT double ad at exactly 3:42. I hate YT so freaking much.
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>It appears like they're just going through a "rebranding" IIRC the new company name, Vilic(i)us, describes the position of a "slave overseer" of Roman times. Unfortunately, I cannot find the wikipedia entry for
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I always felt like (lifelong socialist and therefore not exactly unbiased) Umberto Eco had to tack on 2 or 3 extra bullet points to his definition of "ur-fascism", so it wouldn't just fit to totalitarian communism just as eas
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Might just be a pen. If the object would have the width of a smartphone, the soldier wouldn't be able to wrap her ringfinger around like in the picture.
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I rather see history repeating itself with the rise of Hitler as consequence of the excessively punitive treaty of Versailles after World War 1. At the risk of invoking Godwin's law, I wouldn't be surprised seeing Putin going full
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5y ago
Cool company name, by the way!
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Following the news I'd guess that the situation in Russia is deteriorating rapidly, especially with the currency becoming worthless and accounts being frozen. Who knows what kind of draconian laws the authorities will come up with to c
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Youtube? Sounds like much bigger news to me than a Twitter ban inside Russia. I'm not too familiar with the Russian netscape, is there a local YT alternative?
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>only speech that is within the accepted norms of society is permitted By "society", do you mean a loud minority of blue checkmarks on Twitter?
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I wonder at which point this current hunt for (civilian) Russians only drives them into the arms of Putin. To me it feels petty and ultimately counterproductive trying to exclude every Russian from the world community. If you seriously want
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>I think he's bluffing with the nukes. I read this a lot but I also read some historical analysis about the Cuban Missile Crisis that a lot of the escalation stemmed from a fundamental misunderstanding about their opponent's st
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>Still requires a chain of consent. No world leader is operating the missle silos themselves. You can't be sure how strong the climate of fear inside the Russian chain of command is. Consider the common bystander effect: almost ever
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I'd think in this (and perhaps most) war(s) it comes down to the restraint, personal integrity or frustration of the individual soldier. Having just recently watched videos of (alleged) Russian saboteurs and infiltrators disguised in U
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>there is independent media/press in germany, the article was not produced by any government entity. Perhaps, but the public broadcasting channels (Öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk) aren't part of this. You can predict their rep
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Actually apps like Grindr (and ofc Tinder for heterosexuals) allowed for more short-term sexual contacts than ever before, thereby massively helped the spread of STIs.
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>In reality, there are 2 kinds of orientations: bisexual, and closet bisexual. Woke reality-bending. The "everyone is a little bit gay" is perhaps hip and PC but it's mainly wishful thinking by gays who want to coerce stra
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> so it never causes serious damage to the cardiovascular system. That is quite the assertive statement in the light of all these public cases of vaccinated athletes keeling over. Is this flamebait?
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Telegram was lauded by our (Germany's) public broadcasting channels as an important tool for protesters to organize against the current regime in Belarus. They apparently do not like when it happens at home too.
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>Do you know who else hated the Bauhaus movement? People inside the buildings adjacent to Bauhaus architecture?
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Manson's book is among the top recommendations on Amazon inside the self-help/self-development section. This 1-star rating represents best my feeling about the book and the author (I had been a reader of Manson from his PUA days b
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I assume with more 'normal' people being liberated from the yoke of work there might be more volunteers and volunteer initiatives to help those in need out. The question is how much of the self-destructive behaviour if a product o
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