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SlickNixon
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>There's a slow burning genocide afoot Sounds like you're inciting a call to violent action.
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You got me there.
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Is this a boilerplate response to someone bringing up the Thousand Talents program? Because "steal[ing] talents" doesn't make much sense in an English language context outside of Space Jam.
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Have you tried scaling the output of the system by 77%, rotating it counter clockwise by 90 degrees, and aligning it to the bottom of the page?
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> no question if Ukraine is at war with them Of course there is a question. The whole point is that "at war" isn't a binary state, hence "who is doing the shooting" being a gross oversimplification.
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>Russian soldiers are shooting at Ukrainian soldiers, and Ukrainian soldiers are shooting at Russian soldiers. That's it. This is a gross oversimplification given that most soldiers don't do any shooting at all.
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A fun fact in addition to the above fun fact is that most of the soldiers in Afghanistan were also not active combatants.
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> not controlled by violence You've obviously never fired an automatic weapon in a data center.
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>For example, the original CRISPR article was desk rejected by most journals and the fact that the author's affiliation was a no-name research centre in Alicante (Spain) surely played a role. This delayed CRISPR getting widely known
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> When the feds inevitably try to serve a warrant, in both cases they respond in a hostile manner and kill a LEO. From the Ruby Ridge wiki: "On August 21, 1992, six Marshals were sent to scout the area to determine suitable places a
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> misses the point The point is for these materials to be widely available. Is there a "banned" book that isn't available on the internet for free? No.
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Yes I understood the reference, it was neither subtle nor obscure. The premise of the argument is weak, not the conclusion.
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No. The verbiage "banned" is disingenous and you know it. Like "defund Planned Parenthood" vs. "defund the police"* it's just word games. *picking a side here will be left as an exercise to the reader
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> first they came... If they "came for" all the books in a particular library, you (as a parent) could check the book you wanted out from another library, or buy it from a bookstore, or download it from a sketchy drive link you
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Don't think grammatical ambiguity in the names of labor tactics is a significant bottleneck here.
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Turbines are ICEs.
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"Over a quarter of the Combined Bomber Offensive's tonnage of bombs were used against V-weapon sites in July and August" "Carl Spaatz, commander of U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe (USSTAF), responded on June 28[31] t
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>You can store oil. In significant quantity. >Did you consider how strategical targets became such networks? All your numbers and calculations are background noise when you can't keep your fundamental concerns coherent. Edit: Let
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As opposed to fossil fuels, famously free of geopolitical nightmares.
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>more modules More modules that can be replaced individually or used to diagnose a problem is a good thing. If an ICE car had all the fuses in a locked box (which required replacing the whole thing when one burned out) you would corre
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Sounds more expensive? And doesn't tell you where the issue is, unlike a single burned out fuse?
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>no fuses to replace Doesn't this just mean that whatever over current protection system is in place isn't user serviceable?
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>You can call that strange if you want To ask the most relevant question--do you call it strange?
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A basis in reality: "In the days leading up to Russia's February invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin gave a televised address that rejected the idea of Ukraine as an independent country. It never had the 'stable traditions of
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Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin, Foundations of Geopolitics (1997). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
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They will post a source for the millions dead figure soon, I'm sure of it.
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> I mean, we have deliberately initiated containment failures for military purposes, so we know what they can look like. This is an empirical argument. Is the upper bound of damage higher for nuclear reactors or fossil fuels?
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Do they look like Fukushima or Chernobyl?
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Breaking news, man on subway car capable of locomotion.
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You can see where the mines are, it's the guy in the back of the car muttering to himself about Dr. Phil ejaculating in the water supply. Don't step on him.
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