alistoriv

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by alistoriv 3y ago
So... they support anabolic processes. Shall we avoid eating and drinking too?
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by alistoriv 6y ago
You're right. Reading this text without having heard it, it reads like a speech. The only thing that gives it the poetry sheen is the same tired slam poetry delivery that you can't escape now.
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by alistoriv 6y ago
That is irrelevant. Pointing out that unions have effected negative changes or engaged in discrimination internally in the past is not an argument against the idea that they're necessary to force positive change.
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by alistoriv 8y ago
>"such as those in most of England and Wales" Aren't Welsh dialects generally rhotic?
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by alistoriv 8y ago
"The term 'glen,' a Gaelic word that means 'narrow valley,' is not specifically included in that protection." Well, the Scottish Gaelic word is actually gleann, and glen in Manx (a Gaelic language) actually mea
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by alistoriv 8y ago
The Idiot is one of my favorite books of all time. Reading it in high school was definitely a formative experience. It was my first introduction to many existential concepts; particularly the parts about the painting by Hans Holbein the You
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by alistoriv 8y ago
Happy to see a Welsh translation, but I'm interested where the word for hovercraft came from. The hofren part comes from hofran (which is just a borrowing of hover), but what about fad?
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by alistoriv 8y ago
It's a bit silly to say that people only started moving on to new chords /after/ Wagner.
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by alistoriv 8y ago
Not to downplay the influence that the classical music tradition has had on popular music, I think it's incorrect to say that rock and pop are direct descendants of classical music. Rock music, for example, is very clearly directly des
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by alistoriv 8y ago
That's a shame, I thought Pyongyang Time was kinda neat. It's a callback to historical Korean timezones
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by alistoriv 8y ago
Yeah, almost two decades after the famine. And were the Gang of Four not imprisoned political opposition? Your comment reminds me of the famous Mao quote "No investigation, no right to speak."
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by alistoriv 8y ago
In addition, the best healthcare system in the world, according the WHO, is in Cuba, where it certainly isn't run on a for-profit basis. Moving medicine away from the private sector allows for a stronger focus on preventative care, whi
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by alistoriv 8y ago
I'm not sure I see how that means they're selfish.
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by alistoriv 9y ago
Real news takes a back seat more often than not. In the past 8 months(?) MSNBC didn't mention the war in Yemen once. The silence on the issue was only broken when Bernie Sanders brought it up in an interview that was intended to just b
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by alistoriv 9y ago
Given the fact that Google apparently stores the pictures you've taken with your phone (at least on Android?) and Snapchat saves all of the pictures you've sent with it for an unknown amount of time, wouldn't that reasonably
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by alistoriv 9y ago
This article is kind of silly. It has a short description of an attack that has been attributed to North Korea, but there are serious doubts about whether they actually had any part in it and then includes a very vague description of a poss
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by alistoriv 9y ago
And if a hypothetical commune became dominant and an existential threat to the existence of a hypothetical libertarian society? The Communist Party of the Philippines operates as a parallel government in many respects, do you think that sho
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by alistoriv 9y ago
hwat
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by alistoriv 9y ago
I don't think I quite get your point, are you implying that destroying an unjust society is equivalent to the injustice of the society?
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by alistoriv 9y ago
I'm not convinced you actually understood my comment. I'm not saying that processing and distribution in the context of capitalism and imperialism are qualitatively different from processing and distribution in pre-capitalist soci
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by alistoriv 9y ago
What, do capitalism and imperialism not exist? I think that the issue here is one of poor wording; spices weren't the first foods to be subjected to the processes of production and distribution, they were they first to be subjected to
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by alistoriv 9y ago
What a useless article; the author makes it clear that they were never intending to properly entertain the ideas that are put forward by the referenced authors and just go for quick "look how silly these people are" jabs. I was su
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by alistoriv 9y ago
This is the first I'm seeing it and I really dig the design, I just wish the paragraphs were a little more narrow.
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by alistoriv 9y ago
It's worth noting that Chile under Allende was working on implementing a computer-based planning system[1], but unfortunately we don't know how it might have worked out cause of the US-backed military coup shortly after :^( [1] h
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by alistoriv 9y ago
The issue is that unilateral US military intervention hasn't solved similar situations in the past.
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by alistoriv 9y ago
My grandmother always used to make applesauce with Winesaps. There's a little orchard around here that always kept a couple trees for her and they're still there. Every season we go and get some to make applesauce out of em. Alway
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by alistoriv 9y ago
The right to food and shelter. It really is ridiculous that we don't guarantee access to basic human needs.
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by alistoriv 9y ago
On a similar note, if you're interested in the sort of things the Renaissance Humanists were preserving the Ritman Library[0] has quite a collection that it's in the process of making available online. [0] http://www.ri
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by alistoriv 10y ago
This article, as many others have pointed out, is pretty misleading. If you want to read about a company that functions mostly as a traditional business with no CEO, look into the Mondragon Corporation. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by alistoriv 10y ago
Paper or Sustainability is a false dichotomy https://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2010/04/14/going-paperless-not...

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