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by Sideloader 11y ago
I love this and show it to everyone I know. They've updated the graphics since I last saw it so I get to show everyone all over again. Almost everybody is surprised when they learn how close to earth the ISS' orbit actually is. Th
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by Sideloader 11y ago
It's interesting to me how many reddit free speech defenders say stuff like "Free speech is meant to protect the most disgusting, heinous, pointless, hateful, ignorant, foolish speech." While I agree that pointless, hateful e
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by Sideloader 11y ago
The documentary film Citizenfour is a good place to start. Or, you know, half the Internet (YouTube especially) ;)
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by Sideloader 11y ago
“What people used to call liberty and freedom we now call privacy. And we say, in the same breath, that privacy is dead.” — Jacob Appelbaum
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by Sideloader 11y ago
That's what you, and many others, imagine but what does the research say? For links and references to a variety of studies that have attempted to get some data on this issue check out the Basic Income and MINCOME entries in Wikipedia.
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Downvoting is so much easier than thinking or offering a counter argument if you don't agree with or understand a point of view. The up/down voting system on here is toxic as it disappears posts for no good reason whatsoever.
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by Sideloader 11y ago
I agree. Pedophilia is a sexual preference for pre-pubescent children, not an act. The vast majority of pedophiles are likely sad and lonely people condemned by a freak of nature to live with the burden of a sexual preference that in Wester
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Downvoting a post because you don't agree with the argument is silly. I wonder how many downvoters think they are pro-free speech even as they demonstrate their hypocrisy.
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Yes, the West is still dominant but geopolitical and economic power is shifting South and East and Western influence and power is waning. China and the U.S. both know that at the moment each nation is dependent on the other and the collapse
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Are all those rifle owners regular active hunters? How many of the hunters possess military caliber marksmanship? Stalking a deer through a forest and sniping members of an invading enemy both involve shooting rifles at moving targets. Bein
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Eric Holder: The Justice Department Could Strike Deal with Edward Snowden(yahoo.com)
41 points by Sideloader 11y ago|30 comments
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by Sideloader 11y ago
I had a fairly extensive collection of M2000 issues inherited from my older brother. Also had a copy of the 'Mondo 2000 User's Guide' book. All were stolen during a house party in 2010 that went limbic :-(
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This referendum is a fight between the Greeks and Europe’s cruel capitalism(theguardian.com)
4 points by Sideloader 11y ago|1 comments
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by Sideloader 11y ago
What does this have to do with the linked article?
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Wikipedia is a very useful tool but checking the validity of sources and reading the Talk page is always recommended before taking a Wiki entry as The Truth.
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by Sideloader 11y ago
"The paradox of work is that many people hate their jobs, but they are considerably more miserable doing nothing." This is true in *today's culture of work. Unemployment, even if a person was laid off due to their employer go
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Of course companies will offload training costs on taxpayers or individuals whenever possible. It's the in the "nature" of capitalism to maximize profits and mimimize costs. It used to the government and the state that provid
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by Sideloader 11y ago
>They are the ones paying agents to maximize their wealth while those agents pursue their own agendas instead. I am a secret agent not just any agent...and I pursue my own agenda instead. lol Dude, life is not an economics textbook. Have
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Pfffft...come on, what's this socialist obsession with facts and logic? Just fire some people already. And do something about that bleeding heart!
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by Sideloader 11y ago
When a person says "Not to be x, but", being x is exactly what they are doing. It's wilful self-delusion. Either fully own and accept your decision or, if that's problematic, consider that maybe it's not a good deci
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by Sideloader 11y ago
That's an interesting question. Greater Tokyo is home to about 37 million people. California's population is about 39 million people and Canada's population is about 35 million people. This suggests that the Earth could easil
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Private prisons are profit making enterprises. Keeping that in mind, how convenient that America's penal system is for many offenders a revolving door that keeps them locked away for decades if not life. Oh! And the prison industry has
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by Sideloader 11y ago
You are assuming Snowden is responsible...because the government says so? That massive security breach, of course, couldn't possibly have anything to do with this, and it absolutely isn't a case of using Snowden as the scapegoat f
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Most likely? Any evidence to back up that claim?
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by Sideloader 11y ago
In other words the BBC is in the propaganda business.
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by Sideloader 11y ago
It is disconcerting how blatantly parroting the official government line without question has become SOP at "respectable" western media organizations. They are increasingly becoming propaganda outlets for the state. See also any a
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by Sideloader 11y ago
What do you mean by "better" or "worse"? Music is certainly alive and well and I am absolutely spoiled for choice. My musician/dj/producer friends are all busy, happy people. The recording industry's &quot
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by Sideloader 11y ago
You talk about our ancestors and their descendents fighting to create democracies out of feudalism and I broadly agree with that notion (assuming you mean during the historical period beginning with the American and French revolutions and e
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Funny...Google Analytics is tracking the site.
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Excellent points.

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