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5y ago
Nope, I meant informer.
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Lol, not "whistleblowers", informers . Disgusting.
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> ancestors immigrated as adults, then very likely they didn't learn the national language well, if at all. This might be true in most cases but it is certainly possible to become "native speaker" fluent in a foreign langu
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Climate change is not the end of the world
(youtube.com)
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"But in 2018, the year Zhang retired from the government, Peng claims he got back in touch with her and the two began a tumultuous but consensual romantic relationship which ended when he cut off all contact." smh typical storm in
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5y ago
I was ready to click until I got to "condors"
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5y ago
I've decided that death by covid is probably better than continuing to live in a world run by hysterical cowards and vicious elitists who choose to ignore the global damage that this ridiculous hysteria has caused (mostly to poor peopl
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Yes, and remember that the IFR varies widely with age group demographics, from insignificant for kids to damn scary for above 80. Also, there are other factors than age involved, like obesity and other comorbidities, for those who want to r
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5y ago
You shouldn't take any form of medication unless it's necessary to save your life. Period. Doctors are still mostly quacks, except in some exceptional circumstances
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5y ago
I've used Debian since (I think) from late 00s and Linux from 98. Didn't even know what Which does. Maybe I forgot ;)
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The best defense of the people of Taiwan would be diplomacy and negotiation of a peaceful transfer to Chinese rule. This has a reasonable chance of succeeding and will not involve death and destruction. The worst defence would be a mili
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Very interesting article. Jumping spiders are fascinating. I had to laugh at one thing in a linked paper though ... "Spiders were fed crickets (Acheta domesticus) once weekly and provided with water ad libitum. [...] Animals were not h
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No human being should be tortured. That being said, is it not even worse that this guy was just a taxi driver and they knew they had the wrong guy. If you're CIA and complicit in mayhem around the world in general and the ME in particu
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5y ago
You have to click through a YouTube "innapropriate" content warning to watch it. How's your freedom of speech going, America XD
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Obviously, increasing hospital capacity is not a short term solution to Covid. It will, however, mitigate the next pandemic and help in bad flu seasons. If the reason for lockdowns was "flattening the curve" to not swamp hospitals
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5y ago
Better start today, then.
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Option 3. Improve the hospital system to have greater capacity.
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It is interesting that the mice which fasted had improved metabolism and blood sugar regulation while the mice which ate the same amount of calories throughout the day did not. Obviously, it is not possible to extrapolate to humans from thi
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Hats off to whoever made this smart, creative decision. PR genius XD
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I remember watching him lie to the world at the UN in the build-up to the US war of aggression against Iraq. It was a disgrace. America disgraced itself. Not just by lying, but by doing it so stupidly and openly. I decided then that I would
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I just thought it was so effficient, it left out the effs ;)
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5y ago
Very cool. Did you film it with a helmet-mounted GoPro? ;)
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TlDr: Trust engenders trust
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5y ago
Bullshit. Storm in a teacup. One day you'll grow up.
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I mean imports from the US to Europe. It's a good idea to have multiple suppliers. IMO, Trump's sanctioning of Nordstream 2 was mostly economic warfare against an ally (Europe), disguised as geoplitical concerns about Russia.
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No, Germany did not fund Nordstream 2. "Anglo-Dutch group Royal Dutch Shell, Austria’s OMV, France’s Engie and Germany’s Uniper and Wintershall will each provide loans covering 10 per cent of the €9.5bn cost of the pipeline, with Gazpr
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What an absolutely shit site.
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"essential"? So they're dead now, since they couldn't acquire these things. Bollocks
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Hypochondriacs increasingly convinced they are sick
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Hypochondria spreads
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