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by Ourgon 5y ago
Guest, not "kook". Why use the term "kook" when all that happened - and hopefully will continue to happen - is that Rogan allowed criticism of the regime by credible sources to be aired. The sources are credible because
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Except when they are not similar, that is. This is more common than you seem to think, e.g. TBE - tick-borne encephalitis - is a nasty piece of work of a disease which can leave the victim with permanent disabilities (around 25%), dead (aro
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Hm, I'd have expected a better response under the 'xkcd' moniker, something more... logical. Something like... Say, I think I'll O o --- take my chances /|\/|\ with this cough &#x2F
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by Ourgon 5y ago
You write short sentences. Ergo, you are using childish language. You are a child. QED?
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by Ourgon 5y ago
No, this is an oft repeated statement which is simply not true. Had "Miljöpartiet" not pushed for the closure of those reactors they would still be running. If you'd rather take this from the horse's mouth here's L
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by Ourgon 5y ago
It may have been somewhat curt but the essence stands: if "social" networking is to have a future the controls should be in the hands of the individual contributors, not in those of a few site owners. Even if your ideas align with
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Childish rants sounds, well, dismissive. Can you enlighten us on what exactly makes his utterings "childish"? Do you agree with the onslaught of "diversity, inclusion and equity" policies which have flooded institutions
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Never directly follow a Youtube link, instead use something like Invidious to proxy traffic to get rid of these problems. That it happens to filter out commercials and keeps Google/Alphabet from profiling your interests is just an adde
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Jordan Peterson: Why I am no longer a tenured professor at [the UoT](youtube.com)
11 points by Ourgon 5y ago|7 comments
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by Ourgon 5y ago
I did not mention nuclear safety anywhere, why do you bring this up? If you insist on discussing it I can bring up that US nuclear power ends up all the way at the bottom of the list over the mortality rate (direct deaths and epidemiologica
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Electricity prices in Sweden have gone up due to two factors: - the "green" party "Miljöpartiet" ("Party for the environment") has forced the premature closure of half of the nuclear power plants, going so far
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by Ourgon 5y ago
The perceived value of gold lies in its scarcity, there is only so much of it to go around [1]. No matter how much people may have tried, it is not realistically possible to create more gold. This is not true for cryptocurrencies, the term
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Show me the diamond-dust cooling paste for $10000 per CPU and you'll be right - for a little while. Soon you'll find that paste in larger $50.000 thimble-sized containers to be rubbed under all equipment "to open up the sound
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by Ourgon 5y ago
White supremacy as an ideology is as poisonous as black supremacy or any other "ethnic" supremacy. White supremacy as the label being used by "progressives" has nothing to do with the ideology other than in sharing a nam
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> As white culture has become more and more generic due to mass media and little regional variation, many people are going to try to find something unique or “exotic” about themselves to make them stand out. It’s peacocking, both inwardl
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Hm, that's taking it a bit far given that I've yet to see any gamer who believes that e.g. taping plastic bags with gravel to their network cables [1] will lower their ping times (if it is not for weighing down a cruddy connector
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by Ourgon 5y ago
I did this with a "Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo Windows Home Server" some 14 years ago and managed to get the licence fee ($60) back from Microsoft after sending them a bunch of stickers, manuals and assorted included Windows-related gu
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by Ourgon 5y ago
The main storage ("media" partition of ~450GB hosted on a DL380G7 with a DS4243 array (mdadm/lvm) "under the stairs") is kept in sync (using rsnapshot) with a secondary storage (SS4200 with an external eSATA enclosu
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by Ourgon 5y ago
If I'm not mistaken the Green Hills "Integrity" OS is used in HP's iLO which has some [1] interesting [2] flaws [3]. Maybe these are all HP's fault, maybe they are partly due to the way "Integrity" works b
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Note how I did not state the people doing the stealing are poor. If you think they are, please explain the many images of people driving up in fairly new and rather shiny cars to fill them with looted goods. This looting is not done by &quo
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Copper theft went up with the price of copper, this is a global phenomenon. I live in Sweden where this is a regular news item.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Isn't it odd that crime is skyrocketing in places which are governed by people who think in these terms? It is almost as if policies which are based on those ideas lead people into a life of crime where they would otherwise have been g