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by ardy42 6y ago
The headline sounds a little misleading: > The Asahi newspaper reported that any such release is expected to take at around two years to prepare, as the site’s irradiated water first needs to pass through a filtration process before it c
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The Bay Area has amazing weather, unbelievable scenery, world-class recreation, and tons of music and culture. If the jobs of today leave, the jobs of tomorrow will replace them simply because the area itself is one of the best in the
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> I really wish, that when COs like Amazon decided to productize a thing they either offered the core developer(s) enough $ to work on it full time (if they wanted) or a job to do that with a guarantee that as long as it was a produc
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by ardy42 6y ago
> ‘Green’ billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary > https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/07/green-billionaires-planet... Just an FYI, but
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by ardy42 6y ago
> How can one believe any discourse on the internet when the other person on the other end could easily be an unsupervised 9-year-old. I think you'd be able to spot a 9-year-old attempting to engage in "discourse on the interne
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by ardy42 6y ago
At 36:50 there's a quite interesting segment that's basically I, Pencil [1] with the moral inverted: https://youtu.be/_Q2m_mCIrQY?t=2210 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil . I read th
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Indeed. There's a Chomsky quote that fits here: >> The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage t
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> Censorship and other forms of regulating free speech is simply never a good solution. Perpetrators of lies will even hide behind this, and create a false image of rebellious heroism, instead of facing public discourse and the consequen
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Your kid will be corrupted by society anyway. What's this whole thing about protecting children from the reality of the real world anyway? > A bit off topic but a serious question. What's your logical reasoning for blockin
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by ardy42 6y ago
> And it's not just about anti-trust; you also never want to talk in any kind of discoverable medium how an engineering short-cut in the development of your product (say, like a 737) is going to cause people to get killed. It's
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Republicans control the senate despite only having 40% of the popular vote nationally in the Senate races. That's because the Senate is there to represent the states themselves in the federal government as individual political ent
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by ardy42 6y ago
> What a shame to "pack the courts" (as you say) with people who believe in the Constitution as their guiding light. That's a rather tendentious take. I'm pretty sure everyone who gets appointed to the Supreme Court
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Senator Mike Lee wasn't just being honest, his statement that the US is not a democracy is factual. This isn't actually new, and there's a reason that the white house and senate have been packing the courts with justices
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I live in Japan, prefab homes here are extremely common [1] Could that have anything to do with how the Japanese dislike "old" homes, and tend to demolish an existing home when buying a lot in order to build a new one for the
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The robbers were head-to-toe in kevlar and had armor piercing bullets, the police didn't. No, that's not true. They didn't have head to toe armor, but they were armored where the police where trained to shoot : https
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by ardy42 6y ago
Also, who's getting infected? I don't recall exactly where I read it (some NY Times article, probably), but a lot of the summer cases have been in younger, less vulnerable populations that don't tend to die from it. However
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Police were heavily outgunned. I believe the problem wasn't so much that they were "outgunned," but that they lacked longer range weapons of any kind. So that problem could be entirely solved by issuing some fraction of
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Otherwise any other manufacturer of defective products can argue that someone else (potentially unintentionally) is damaging their brand by triggering a flaw in the product instead of fixing their product. Imagine a car manufacturer wh
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by ardy42 6y ago
> One person's investigative reporter is another persons 'conspiracy theorist' depending on your beliefs and views. You are promoting your beliefs and views on this thread, and attempting to argue about the credibility of
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by ardy42 6y ago
I have some GPS data loggers that can do that. The fix isn't great or very accurate indoors, but it's probably good enough for this purpose.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> @ardy42 voices like Whitney need to be heard whether you agree or not, there are vast swathes of 'unreported' things going on right now, my original point. The mainstream media is anodyne in comparison... The mainstream media
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It's not at all new. Ever heard the conspiracy theory that Menthol cigarettes cause infertility to target certain demographics? I remember this wild theory being widely propagated long before social media even existed, among other
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The objection you and others are making to TFA is that you can't choose to be apolitical, because everything is political. Your contribution is to propose that people might claim things are apolitical to prevent people from realiz
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by ardy42 6y ago
> There are plenty of wonderful investigative reporters (Whitney Webb is a stellar example right now for example) but the editorial employees of oligarch owned media have marching orders and objectives to meet, so voices like Whitney&#x2
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The theory is that it was a contribution to the brutal treatment of Germans immediately before and after the end of the war (beyond the retribution for the German atrocities in the East). IIRC, the Germans also treated Soviet POWs far
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by ardy42 6y ago
That doesn't contradict the actual article, whose full title is: > If Worker Pay Had Kept Pace With Productivity Gains Since 1968, Today's Minimum Wage Would Be $24 an Hour It looks like when it was shortened one of its most
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I'd also argue that what's left of the corporate media is rapidly losing credibility, highly partisan and rarely objective. How so, exactly? This is kind of an odd moment, where the US president is deeply incompetent and a s
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The opposite strategy is to talk about politics constantly, so that it's painfully obvious who's in the minority. > Which is better for a gay man in Saudi Arabia? A company where people only talk about work, or a company w
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by ardy42 6y ago
> This does seem to be the standard Libertarian worldview, but no matter how much you intend to ignore the world around you, it exists and you're a part of it, and you answer to your neighbors. One clever way to deeply entrench a po
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I'm curious what your definition of political is, because my gut feeling is that (Almost) nothing is political. Politics is more than just the rituals of government officials or what gets written about in the politics section of t

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