Ma8ee

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by Ma8ee 4y ago
But that only says anything about the units that were sold decades ago. It's very common that quality brands with very good reputation are bought by some investors, and then they start selling the same crap as everyone else, but to the
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No, they are police, prosecutors and judges. And that is one of the problems with the US system of justice. Justice is supposed to be blind. As it works now, the white upper class kid gets a slap on the wrist after raping an unconscious wo
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
I very much hope most of us here think that lynchings for having the wrong colour of one’s skin is wrong, while history has showed that there are communities that don’t consider them crimes. There are good reasons why we try to minimise ho
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
The point, in this particular subthread, is that wind is so inexpensive so there's no problem if we have to "dump" a lot of unused power windy day. And we can have enough wind so even when it delivers say less than 50% of max
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In particular wind is very inexpensive.
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I’m sure you know the motivation of every TikToker. And in the old days, no one tried to promote their website or find viewers? I guess the reason for web rings and why every little page had a view counter had nothing to do with wanting to
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Aren’t places like TikTok full of enthusiasts actively expressing themselves?
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The danger is all the cargo-culting that is rampant among software “engineers”. They know all the patterns and repeat all the acronyms and phrases, while they have very little idea about the whys.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
> it didn’t cost you anything Except the time to sort through 300 photos after just an afternoon with your kids at the beach…
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It's static text. What is hard about it?
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Uh? Try reading my comment again. That the federal reserve in principle could print unlimited money is irrelevant here.
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You do know that you can exchange money for “actual real stuff”, including natural resources and land? So that why we cite costs in “money”.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
> it makes it sound as if this difference of opinion is hate based Yes. If you think black people or gay people are inferior, and that their rights should be suppressed because of that, that is hate. > “they believe it to be wrong inf
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
I can directly influence what I buy in the supermarket. I have very little influence on what methods a farmer on the other side of earth uses, whether he lets his cows graze on land that used to be rain forest, or just uses many times more
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
If someone spreads dangerous falsehoods (say, an anti-vaxxer) and refuses all rational arguments, public ridicule might actually be our most efficient weapon, and certainly morally defensible.
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You can certainly say that you don’t think Russian culture is valuable, or that you just don’t plain like it, and that is certainly understandable given the current circumstances. But that is something very different from saying that it has
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To survive? I don’t think cultures have points. They survive or die, and it’s a bit strange to use a specific cultural value as a measure of success of all other cultures.
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The point is that you can write a very similar article about a country that doesn’t invade its neighbours, which means that it just doesn’t prove anything.
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I’m quite certain a very similar article could be written about, say, UK and Ireland with quotes from famous authors. It’s not that the English lack an imperialist past and feelings of superiority.
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And is illegal in many countries, including Sweden. If you want to send for example a Christmas present to one of the customers, it can’t cost more than something like $30, and there are similarly limitations on what is considered a reasona
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
OP never said that advertising is not marketing. Read OP’s next sentence. The point is that marketing is not only advertising.
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Not to mention the about 30000 killed in traffic every year in the US.
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I agree. Jobs that isn’t possible to pay a living salary for don’t need to be done.
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Some jobs would just disappear. No one is going to pay a greeter at Walmart $50 an hour.
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Exactly! The US is great for the top few percent, but for the rest of the population they’d have a much better life in any Western European country.
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Prefabs in Europe is something completely different than what they are talking about in the US.
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We mean something quite different when we talk about prefab homes in the Nordic countries that they mean in the US.
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But you wouldn’t have been able to build it in two weeks if you hadn’t built a lot of similar stuff previously?
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And you would say that is typical for American employees?
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Many Europeans don’t know how much taxes Americans actually pay. It’s not that little, but often paid differently with high property taxes and sales taxes instead of VAT. And most of us (Europeans) don’t have to pay €1000 or so in health in

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