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by _9xrb 4y ago
This is why I get a bit anxious whenever I see Mullvad on the front page. Hopefully three-letter agencies take Saturdays off.
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by _9xrb 4y ago
archive.ph, an alternate domain of archive.today, is a webpage archive site like the Wayback Machine that is commonly used to get around article paywalls.
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by _9xrb 4y ago
The Global Times is "China's Fox News," owned and operated by the Chinese Communist Party, so take anything they publish with appropriate helpings of salt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Times
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by _9xrb 4y ago
I think you’ve mistaken my point for something it’s not. The “revenge” demanded by the French was financial indemnity, hardly equivalent to genocide. As it happens, I also don’t think the Haitians should ever have agreed to pay it (not wort
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by _9xrb 4y ago
Do the Tutsis "deserve revenge" against Hutus for the Rwandan Genocide, including women and children and Hutus who had nothing to do with the killing? According to your logic, yes. Fortunately for all involved, a counter-genocide
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by _9xrb 4y ago
Key West, Florida is what peak unliveability looks like: https://www.keywestislandnews.com/2022/02/can-real-people-li... Comment from "SixGenFam:" >As a conch family, with generations buried in the lo
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by _9xrb 4y ago
For classics, Standard eBooks is pretty good (and free): https://standardebooks.org/
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by _9xrb 4y ago
I used to have Google Alerts to scan for security/reliability news of my home's IoT products. Ultimately the firehose of blogspam and other false positives became too much. I then deleted the Google Alerts and got rid of most of m
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by _9xrb 4y ago
Downplaying the conflict's moral depth without evidence is what you did, and why I posted my comment. I happen to know Vietnamese who fled to America as refugees after the war. They don't feel that Americans and South Vietnam were
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by _9xrb 4y ago
The people of North Vietnam beat the people of South Vietnam, with heavy American (and Chinese and Russian) intervention. There were "baddies" on every side: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_Hu%E1%BA%
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by _9xrb 4y ago
>One inherent appeal to a platform like that is that you have one identity across all instances which is appealing for practical reasons (nobody wants to manage a dozen accounts any more) I see this as a downside. Redditors often stalk o
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Composer Bear McCreary has an interesting video about the hurdy-gurdy and its use in the soundtrack of TV show Black Sails: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DXQ0z9NCl8 The sound isn't for everyone, but I like how it&#x