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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 6y ago
It is my understanding that the protests originally started over HK residents frustrated that they would never ever be able to afford decent housing inside of HK, and they blamed a couple of central figures in HK (who are not Chinese reside
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 6y ago
stop polluting HN with comments like this
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 6y ago
"our economy has weathered this better than anywhere in the world, and we will likely come out of this crisis even stronger, with even more global power, than we went in" - I can't read your entire paywalled off article, but
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 6y ago
Perhaps the current FBI is pure and 100 percent professional now, but the FBI of the 50s/60s/70s would totally do this, and much worse.
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 6y ago
it would be funny if Cuba finds a successful treatment protocol first.
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 6y ago
"We're not interfering with other countries' covid response" - the US continues to freeze Iran out of the SWIFT system, which means Iran can't buy just about everything. Iranians will die because of this policy.
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 6y ago
I've researched the Uighar thing heavily. It always bugs me though that the United States has more prisoners than China, despite having a vastly smaller population.
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 6y ago
COVID-19 affects the entire world. Shouldn't all COVID-19 basically be done on a globally viewable wiki? It's going to take the cooperation of all countries to get through it. I don't understand why the US should hoard any C
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
Any paper put out by an extremely ideological think tank is going to present statistics in the most biased way possible, to try to prove their point.
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
National Affairs dot com is published by the extreme right wing think tank The Claremont Institute, started by the man who came up with Barry Goldwater's line "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
Divestment pushed South Africa to abolish apartheid.
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
I don't know any activists who feel or behave in the way the activists in your comment do.
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
Probably not. I find Sanders' support of the military industrial entertainment complex troubling.
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
From my own experience, this is not true!
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
When most people talk about "Mass transit" I think they mean trains... subways... buses... I hope!
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
He'll just nominate Elliot Abrams to replace him.
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
It should be Opt-In. Not Opt-Out.
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
Jonathan Franzen is not an expert in the possible effects of climate change. He's an expert at writing novels in which everyone sounds like they have a Creative Writing MFA from Swarthmore. This is silly.
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
no.
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
because its not true anymore?
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
look in this story for "expense report" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/did-uber-steal...
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
"I imagine she had worked for a number of years and saved up a decent amount of money" This is incorrect.
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
Currently the US scans and saves an image of the front and back of every single piece of postal mail.
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
I listen to several podcasts. I learned from this article that Spotify bought Gimlet Media for 200 million. That's about it.
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Chase to use marketing copy written by AI(adage.com)
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
Good character letters sometimes backfire. The judge in the Ross Ulbricht case said that she sentenced him so harshly partly because she got many letters attesting to his good character, so she decided she needed to set a very public examp
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
Neuralink has a CEO, board, other employees. It functions with or without him.
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
Ross Perot advocated for and greatly influenced the eventual passing of draconian drug laws in Texas. http://www.issues2000.org/Celeb/Ross_Perot_Drugs.htm
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
I hope they leave my favorite YouTube channel alone The Lockpicking Lawyer https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ
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by OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago
I think the old Jack Welch quote is more revelevant https://www.economist.com/leaders/2013/01/19/welcome-home “IDEALLY”, said Jack Welch in 1998, when he was chief executive of General Electric, “you’d h

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