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by Markoff 4mo ago
there are literally people in this discussion talking about these vaccines preventing COVID spread, parroting this complete nonsense politicians and "experts" made when they pushed these "vaccines"
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by Markoff 4mo ago
would they die if they didn't take the vaxx? plenty people who got vaxx died anyway, plenty people who got COVID died as well, some of them from COVID, most of them were just infected while dying and COVID had really nothing to do with
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by Markoff 4mo ago
Except COVID "vaccines" did not prevent infecting yourself or someone else, are there still people believing this nonsense? This "vaccine" at best protects you if you are old at risk and it's not good even at doing
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by Markoff 4mo ago
> However if we’re going to talk about moral responsibility for vaccine mandates, we also have to consider moral responsibility for non-vaccination leading to spread of a dangerous virus during a pandemic. that's all nice and dandy
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by Markoff 4mo ago
network effect, but enjoy your hermit life
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by Markoff 4mo ago
don't wanna sound like shill but for all people claiming you need some permit when installing one they should look into something like Midea PortaSplit - it's portable, but at same time it's like your regular multisplit unit,
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by Markoff 4mo ago
It's not tied to your app version, today morning I didn't have this option, today evening I have it with same version without update. Seems you can switch usernames as many times you want, tried at least 5 checking something inter
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It's Time to Reserve Your WhatsApp Username(about.fb.com)
3 points by Markoff 4mo ago|4 comments
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by Markoff 4mo ago
you don't need that on balcony, most of the apartments have balcony, stupid excuse, same applies for historical buildings with balcony If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If there is a bal
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by Markoff 4mo ago
funny take Bulgaria is one of the poorest EU countries and I have seen there way more ACs than in much richer Czechia or elsewhere, this is not about price at all heck, even in Czechia I find much more ACs in some poor cities compared to th
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by Markoff 4mo ago
TBH even ICE BMWs from recent years all look like fugly tanks
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by Markoff 4mo ago
I mean compared to the other BMW tanks this looks actually slightly less like tank I guess people would buy it just for the brand with whatever design, personally I find current BMW tank design the worst in last 30-40 years I am watching ca
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by Markoff 4mo ago
I would need some source that Chinese cars are sold at a loss outside China, because I seriously doubt it. It's like those people thinking Aliexpress/Temu products are subsidized by Chinese gov, not realizing that Ali/Temu is
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by Markoff 4mo ago
because they have other article about the event itself, if you bothered to check, this article is about news about this scrubbed from Chinese internet
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by Markoff 4mo ago
> If you go to the US, you will see Chinese brands nowhere. is their presence tiny or are they nowhere? you can't have both, something something moving the goalpost...
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by Markoff 4mo ago
Chinese cars are exactly same story as Japanese and Korean cars, first they ignored them, then they laughed at them, then they won
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by Markoff 4mo ago
open platform? what Chinese phones have as easily unlockable bootloader as pixels? thanks for info btw after one pixel with swollen battery I'm never buying one again, but I have to admit they have great cameras, reasonable dimensions
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by Markoff 4mo ago
their phones are second rate to what - pixels with exploding batteries and faulty displays or Samsungs unable to fix their slow quality cameras for the last decade? sorry, if I want the best overall Android phone the choice nowadays is clea
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by Markoff 4mo ago
there is reason why they call trump in China Chuan Jianguo" (川建国) aka "Trump the Nation Builder", though not sure Americans would like to know which nation he is building and which one he destroys
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by Markoff 4mo ago
Really, you will see TCL (and Hisense) nowhere in US? I recommend visiting any store selling TVs. Same goes for Thinkpad/Motorola, but I guess there at could argue these are not original Chinese brands.
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by Markoff 4mo ago
cheap 1USD VPN (via open source Hiddify on Android/Win) was all I needed last summer, I bought as backup more expensive 4-5$, both worked same the problem is what to do when they implement this at OS level or most countries with VPN IP
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A plane crashed into tallest skyscraper in Beijing.Hours later,all news scrubbed(cnn.com)
8 points by Markoff 4mo ago|6 comments
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by Markoff 4mo ago
Title is editorialized to meet HN length limit, full title: A small plane slammed into the tallest skyscraper in China’s capital. Hours later, it was like nothing had happened.
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Australia plans to strengthen under-16s social media ban(irishexaminer.com)
7 points by Markoff 4mo ago|7 comments
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Fortune 500 bosses demanding staff RTO share 1 trait: Narcissism, research finds(fortune.com)
4 points by Markoff 4mo ago|2 comments
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by Markoff 4mo ago
Direct link to the study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074959782... Abstract Leaders have displayed diverging reactions to remote work, with some supporting it and others resisting it. Su
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by Markoff 4mo ago
portable AC is extremely inefficient and noisy + you need hole in the window, otherwise you will be letting tons of heat back through the gap if you keep window ajar even with insulation
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by Markoff 4mo ago
that's not very efficient since attic will be then hot balcony is more practical place where to hide it if it's historical building, worth that <0.5m2 if you don't hang it on wall and must hide it from neighbors/burea
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by Markoff 4mo ago
many of those old buildings have balconies where you can hide AC nobody from street can see, personally I have my multisplit unit on the roof (I'm on top/5th floor), same with neighbor floor below just with longer pipes it certain
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by Markoff 4mo ago
same here, I remember it vividly reading while backpacking in my 3USD Bangkok guesthouse 20 years ago if if would be mandatory school reading I would probably enjoy it much less from classics I can recommend also 1984, Animal Farm and Catch

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