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by asabjorn 4y ago
One-third of Sri Lanka’s farm lands were dormant in 2021 due to the fertilizer ban. Over 90% of Sri Lanka’s farmers had used chemical fertilizers before they were banned. After they were banned, an astonishing 85% experienced crop losses. T
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by asabjorn 4y ago
There also doesn't seem to be wide awareness that the degrowth people are currently intentionally sabotaging farming output. Sri Lankas food crisis is due to a forced stop in artificial fertilizer use and growth of only organic crops,
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by asabjorn 4y ago
That’s what I would have done as well if my skip level hadn’t made me whole. Good for you! I have contacts I was planning to reach out to if comp didn’t line up.
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by asabjorn 4y ago
My tip for staying and getting a large increase: If you have leverage by being hard to replace with clear high $ impact and you ask your skip-level manager to make you whole, then you can negotiate a rise. For instance, I received a 45% i
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by asabjorn 4y ago
In effect this is indentured servitude. Most people are not aware how common paying to be allowed to start a business is in Europe. For instance, I was told by a restaurant owner in Rome that you have to pay 500,000 euros to the landowning
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by asabjorn 4y ago
Don’t be afraid of changing direction if you have systematic skills and feel unhappy. Other jobs that pay well with these skills are electrical engineering, plumbing etc
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by asabjorn 4y ago
We are in agreement that politics is kayfabe, it’s like wrestling the moves of a fight playing out a scripted story to manufacture consent around what they already wanted to do, and it’s a uniparty. The laptop is real as verified by the FBI
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by asabjorn 4y ago
The key difference here is that he went to film school while you did computer science. The author says that for STEM college often seems of value, but for students without the skill or aptitude to pursue high-skill degrees that exit into a
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by asabjorn 4y ago
> The GOP could use that information to decide they need to change policies to attract different demographics, and widen their audience I agree the GOP fails at providing a policy alternative. That is undoubtedly true, but it’s not clear
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by asabjorn 4y ago
By it being common to do some activism as part of work activities, such as activism for the woke DEI doctrine. Also, by people in the valley commonly cutting off friends and acquaintances if they speak critically of woke activist measures (
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by asabjorn 4y ago
Starting out with smearing as qanon, far right etc demonstrate that you are an adherent of repressive tolerance. This is a labeling of viewpoint opponents as beyond the pale using appeals to emotion (pathos) without evidence, instead of or
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by asabjorn 4y ago
Just his foundational study, where he discuss methodology, is cited by 470 others. Double check for “The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) and its possible impact on the outcomes of elections” here https://scholar.google.c
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by asabjorn 4y ago
Yes, and people tend to downplay the human influence on algorithms. Its fashionable to pretend that algorithms don’t carry the bias of their maintainers, while “the emperor is clearly naked”. Humans write and train algorithms, and the quali
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by asabjorn 4y ago
The article summarize his research. He had published many articles on the topic, and most have linked pdfs you can download for free in his bibliography here: https://drrobertepstein.com/pdf/vita.pdf
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by asabjorn 4y ago
How is epoch times as a news source relevant to the credibility of Professor Robert Epstein in his research area?
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by asabjorn 4y ago
The goal of popper was to create asymmetry, where Marxists are allowed to call speech of opponents violence with no reasoned argument and with that justify real violence by Marxists. Stopping volk-Marxism, nazism, is not where this ends. As
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by asabjorn 4y ago
Popper that formulated the paradox of tolerance was a marxist and invented the paradox of tolerance as an argument based upon victimology (pathos) for why Marxists need to pre-censor people that disagree with them. It’s a dangerous path, es
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by asabjorn 5y ago
I suggest just watching the podcast I shared. This was a disappointing insight to me as well, but I've heard this from so many now and seen it personally that I must just accept it as truth. You can find many other resources on the top
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by asabjorn 5y ago
What is actually happening is that Russia has moved onto the Chinese alternative to SWIFT, India&China&Iran&Syria etc are forming an alternative block, and Russia is put into a close relationship with China. This is not a good i
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by asabjorn 5y ago
We men are meant to be useful and carry others that surround us, which for many men going through divorce is unfortunately limited to family, so it’s natural that you feel an incredible loss of connection when you go from seeing your core f
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by asabjorn 5y ago
I assume your lack of empathy comes from not having seen a man with children go through the family court system. This is not an appropriate topic to bring a cartoonish ideology that selectively amplify and dampen the pain it sees based upon
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by asabjorn 5y ago
Yes, and the wife is usually naive to the predatory nature of the institutional players. The ex-wife in the attached podcast got a nudge from a social worker that she may get full custody if there was abuse involved, so she spend 1.5 millio
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by asabjorn 5y ago
It may then be better to say you are untrusting of the family court industrial complex, that is set up to contain the social contagion of the former family unit and to extract as many resources as possible from the carcass as it splits into
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by asabjorn 5y ago
Exactly. Georgia election system in particular is proven to be corrupt. Maybe Abrams is right? From 2020 a whistleblower say he was paid to ballot traffick ballots illegally to drop boxes https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202
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by asabjorn 5y ago
Stacey Abrams still claims she was cheated out of her governorship in Georgia. There are many such examples.
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by asabjorn 5y ago
Yes. That’s exactly why you want a system where the means are not there to institute tyranny, and there is a separation of power where multiple powerful hierarchies check each other. My point isn’t that some of this can’t be done now, but t
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by asabjorn 5y ago
A FOIA request to the fed about their stimulus spending from 2008-2010 was just released, and in this period the fed spend nearly 30 trillion to bail out banks so there being a separation between it and the banks is questionable https:&#x2
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by asabjorn 5y ago
To see how tyranny can be instituted by combining a non anonymous transaction system with vaccine passport look at the promo video for Bill Gates funded wallet Thales https://youtu.be/PxvNzzgoJX8 All across the world a Chin
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by asabjorn 5y ago
Just look at the promo video of the digital wallet of Bill Gates funded Thales for how this would combine with vaccine passport and ESG scores to usher in China style tyranny https://youtu.be/PxvNzzgoJX8 Of cause, because o
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by asabjorn 5y ago
Blackrock&blackstone are using pension and federal stimulus money to push censorship of people opposing their agenda. Not their own money. They are also pushing a new non-free-market system change, ESG, using other peoples or fed money.

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