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by _iyig 7y ago
You’ve offered a very general critique. In contrast, the video I linked mentions many specific events and incidents which informed the speaker’s impression of China. Give that you’re making vague assertions on a throwaway account, and given
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This strikes me as an unfair characterization of those YouTubers. I’ve followed them for a while and have quite a different impression. Today’s video from Laowhy86 is a good short summation of his time in China, and how his perspective has
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>For example, why do prominent faces of the movement such as Joshua Wong frequently use the phrase "God Bless Hong Kong" for Western media interviews (and in a congressional hearing yesterday)? Joshua Wong is Christian, having
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I looked into LastPass and similar options a couple years ago, and ultimately decided on the Chrome password manager (with option for the never-transmitted encryption passphrase). Among other reasons, the Google Security Team seemed bigger
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Can you be more specific, or provide a citation?
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My first thought was, "why not a pulsejet? Didn't that crazy guy in NZ use one to build a DIY cruise missile some years back?" Well, it turns out pulsejets are horrendously inefficient [0]. If the missiles were fired from nor
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"Two decades after its fall, the border between East and West Germany would become Europe's biggest nature reserve: an 858-mile "ecological treasure trove", no longer the Iron Curtain but the Green Belt, and home to more
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>Or you simply piss off the wrong person. This can be hard to avoid. For example, let’s say you get caught in a “tea room” scam. That’s where you meet a couple of attractive locals who invite you to a tea room, only when the bill comes i
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Maybe university administrators will miss China’s money. Hopefully they’ll stop looking the other way on plagiarism for the sake of keeping all-cash, full-price tuition money flowing. EDIT: downvotes, really? I saw this firsthand in colleg
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>Wrong. I’m not bothered by privately owned assault rifles because of the homicide rate. Sure, and neither am I bothered by your statistics. My standard is feeling safe when I walk late at night. I don’t feel safe when gang members dig s
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It’s just a fancy SWAT team training facility. Probably has “Warfare” in the name because it’s getting built on Ft. Benning, an Army base. Wouldn’t be surprised if the facility gets shared with Army units who also do indoor and urban combat
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In response, I'll ask you this: how do you feel about the private ownership of assault-style rifles? Risk is relative. What’s your standard for being secure? The rifle homicide rate in the US is 0.18/100k people [0], which include
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>Our borders are secure, immigration is not a threat to your life Police keep finding bodies [0] of MS-13 victims [1] buried in parks [2] in my area, so pardon me if I disagree. [0] https://beta.washingtonpost.com/local&#
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Your article leaves out a lot, and you present a false consensus. Here are some counterpoints: "Illegal immigration to the United States in recent decades has tended to depress both wages and employment rates for low-skilled American c
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You mean besides the mass sexual violence in Cologne, the Berlin Christmas market attack, or the fact that migrants in Germany are disproportionately more likely to commit violent crimes [0][1][2]? What really gets me is headlines like “Ger
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And wouldn’t it be great if some company - say, Anduril - built the tech to catch those drug smugglers and gang members?
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>This is just another example of the gross hypocrisy of the GOP I’m not a member of the GOP. Extremely far from it. >We won't fix anything without accountability, and there are two sides to supply and demand. Yes, of course. Puni
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Your low-effort comment on a throwaway account is detracting from this discussion. I absolutely support harsh punishments for those who employ undocumented laborers illegally (why would I not?). That issue has zero bearing on whether Anduri
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>Most farmers will tell you that Americans won't work for the low wages that they feel they have to pay farm hands, so they have to hire those undocumented workers. If cheap labor was unavailable, would American farms shut down? I d
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>It reminds me of the "rootless cosmopolitan" slur You have no idea how offensive and ridiculous that statement is to me. It’s the reality that if you earn more than a certain amount of money, and posses an advanced degree plus
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>So - while I would prefer a "monitored solution" to border control over physical imposing measures, my real preference would be for us to all work toward eliminating these national-level borders completely. You sound like some
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Ah, you’re right - I was getting high-speed nuclear bombers confused with nuclear missiles.
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I highly recommend “The Israel Lobby” by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000UZQIF6/ “They describe the remarkable level of material and d
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This article is about anti-ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads. At peak, the U.S. was covered by ~265 Nike ABM installations. Some have been preserved and can be visited today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of
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>against those who preached separatism Or who just promoted Uyghur language and culture, or didn’t cheer the Party on loudly enough: https://thediplomat.com/2018/10/turn-in-the-two-faced-the-pl... EDIT: Do you
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It can happen here. Neighbors in the former Yugoslavia socialized together and got along well until the day they didn’t. I suggest the graphic novel “Safe Area Gorazde” for an account of this. Also, it happened here once before.
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What’s the best way to learn more about it? I’ve been poking around the hydroponics subreddit(s), but I don’t yet feel confident enough to invest in/start making any equipment.
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It’s certainly a notable allegation that “Epstein was paying the 100k salary of Ben Goertzel, the Vice Chairman of Humanity Plus.” This would be in line with Epstein’s reported interest in Transhumanism [0]. [0] https://www.busin
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>Just because it's a right doesn't mean it needs an organization to advocate it 5.5 million members of the NRA would seem to disagree with you, as is their right.
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Semiautomatic rifles are, generally speaking, legal to own in California. They're also responsible for only a tiny fraction of all gun crime committed in the state. Only semiautomatic rifles with particular combinations of ergonomic fe

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