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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
The only way I could enjoy that farce is after multiple, life-alteringly serious concussions.
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
It's fascinating how we're expected to believe senior White House officials are such perfect strawman doofuses that they have never seen a globe or the Mollweide projection, or were ever reprimanded by a geography teacher for sayi
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> Orders of magnitude larger, but roughly same land area. You should compare the populated area, not the entire landmass. That there exist vast unpopulated frozen tundras nominally within Canadian borders does not hinder public transport
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
There's no shortage of people conflating "legal" with "ethical", so invoking the law to claim something is "acceptable" can easily be understood as claiming it is morally acceptable because it is legal.
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> In current law, though, it's entirely acceptable You mean legal .
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
A distinction without a difference.
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> "everyone does this [and no I cannot provide any comparable examples]." George Soros-funded DAs represent 20% of Americans after $40M was funneled into races - https://www.foxnews.com/media/george-soros
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
Should have channeled the gifts through non-profits: George Soros-funded DAs represent 20% of Americans after $40M was funneled into races - https://www.foxnews.com/media/george-soros-funded-das-repres...
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> People wrote the same things about Darwin when he claimed we evolved from primates. Bunch of conservative, anti-progress, fearmongering idiots pushing an agenda Don't you have the roles backwards? It is the left that is denying bi
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
An insightful comment from the last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36391803 Basically, if it's possible to consider that fruit company is infringing on Apple, then it is equally possible tha
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
While true, that doesn't make China any less of a threat. When someone invades your territory, and they accuse "But you invaded others in the past!", you should not dismantle your defense and let their tanks roll through your
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What Are: SB, WBE, MBE, DBE, SDB, VOSB, Sdvosb, WOSB, Hub, 8(a)(supplierdiversityqmr.com)
1 points by NoRelToEmber 3y ago|0 comments
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> This saddens me because my reasons for starting the site are the exact opposite of piracy! I was sick of artists getting paid virtually nothing for streaming service plays, so I decided to buy full albums directly from the artist as mu
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> This is an area where the moderation algorithm can improve in order to avoid disrupting user experiences. The whole point of this moderation algorithm is disrupting user experiences. "Improvement" only means the disruption wo
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> When did equality stop being the goal? When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles. -
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Auckland surgeons must now consider ethnicity in prioritising patients(nzherald.co.nz)
11 points by NoRelToEmber 3y ago|5 comments
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
Why not charge for support? And waive those charges for clients above some (public) spending threshold (to reduce the perverse incentive of making the product difficult to use so you can profit on support)?
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
I would urge everyone to read the manifesto directly, and not The Guardian's selective summary, that gives no hints the manifesto has chapters such as "The Psychology of Modern Leftism". https://archive.nytimes.com
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> If penis cancer can only be detected by smashing the penis between two metal x ray plates just like they do with mammograms, then we would have cured cancer by now. Digital rectal examination [..] was a common and "dreaded"
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
But it is a datum.
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
Wouldn't "betrayal" require some kind of deception? This seems perfectly in line with general, openly professed Muslim attitudes to LGBT. Perhaps this specific group boasted about being pro-LGBT before, and changed tune when
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> If you view the world as a zero sum game and that cultures meeting act like wolves fighting over territory, then you can hold a nationalist view without supremacy. I don't think you need to see it as a zero sum game. Only that con
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> If you didn't believe in supremacy (even just feeling culturally superior) why would you have a problem with people coming in? Because you value your kin and culture, and wish to preserve them. Or because you believe other people
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> Nothing short of genocide can realistically create this here. What about white flight and gentrification? As far as I'm aware, there are extensive legal and governmental measures in place in the US (such as placing low-income hous
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
Key passage: The activist playbook here was simple: get the Diaz and Bailey paper retracted over a technicality, then spin the retraction as an invalidation of the study’s main findings. To elaborate on the full absurdity of that technica
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Anatomy of a Scientific Scandal(city-journal.org)
2 points by NoRelToEmber 3y ago|1 comments
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> I saw on more than one occasion grown men brought to tears because they dropped a box of cards scattering them across the floor and they would have to spend many hours sorting them. I realize I may be a bit late with this suggestion, b
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> to ensure [..] ecological sustainability, Canada needs to triple its population. This is beyond farcical.
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
This seems unsustainable. I thought the consensus was that environmental footprint should be reduced [1,2], not deliberately increased? [1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-...
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> The walled garden also relies enormously on Apple - a publicly traded for profit enterprise - being a benign benefactor, which to date has been (relatively) true. Only outside China. In China, you'll find protest apps banned [1],

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