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by barbacoa 6y ago
Under the Obama administration the CIA was funneling billions of dollars worth of military equipment -- ranging from small arms and ammo, to vehicles and even anti-tank missiles -- into the hands of Syrian militant groups[1][2]. These group
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by barbacoa 6y ago
Rural town is an oxymoron. There is a big distinction between rural and towns. Even towns of 1-5k people are surprisingly dense since most were built out before urban sprawl became a trend.
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by barbacoa 6y ago
>What percent of workers do work that can be done remotely? Not a huge number, but that's all you need to support a small town economy. It's like the plight of the rust belt -- you had small communities that relied on manufactu
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by barbacoa 6y ago
>>"the MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, for example, have tried to establish a new anti-sexist and anti-racist vocabulary. An AI model trained on vast swaths of the internet won’t be attuned to the nuances of this vocabula
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by barbacoa 6y ago
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/181867-amds-project-sk... Years and years ago they originally tried to release a ARM chip alongside ryzen that was supposed to be pin compatible to their x86 chips. They abandoned
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by barbacoa 6y ago
AMD was originally going to release a desktop ARM CPU along with the x86 ryzen. The crazy part was they were meant to be pin compatible. AMD abandoned the idea due to complications and to focus on ryzen instead. We were so close to ARM desk
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>>Just curious, as I’m looking to upgrade the processor that I bought - are AMD processors widely known as being better than Intel? Basically AMD did a full redesign of their processors when they introduced their Ryzen CPU line. That
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https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/ An interesting write up on the subject.
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You're inferring something I didn't say. We are seeing a dramatic rise in the suicide rate in the USA in the last few decades as the middle and working classes lose the economic advancements that their parents generation worked to
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>standard outcomes of a recession That is a recent trend due to our governments selective action. Back in the 1929 crash it was the rich wall street types who lost everything and were jumping from tall buildings to their deaths.
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Scary part is that it does seem to be a part of the left's platform. Decades ago the left used to be the champions of free speech and the right wanted limits. Now that is reversed. Even the ACLU has questioned their commitment to free
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by barbacoa 6y ago
They weren't lying about the the puppetry degree. https://drama.uconn.edu/programs/puppet-arts/mamfa-puppetry/...
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"Despite family therapy, friction continued once he identified as a lesbian." That poor guy is stuck in quite the quagmire.
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Jamal was not a journalist. He was an opinion piece writer for the wapo. He was also working for the Qatar government to undermine saudi interests. It's alleged that Qatar was sending him outlines of what articles to publish and paying
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by barbacoa 6y ago
That is what is being alleged in multiple swing state lawsuits by the GOP. https://youtu.be/DAh_stm5Bdc
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I imagine some day soon they will start stacking core dies like they do for memory.
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California voters reject changing constitution to allow race discrimination(ballotpedia.org)
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It's not like this evidence is being hidden from the rest of the media. Tony Bobulinski held a public press conference where he brought 3 cell phones with text messages for anyone to examine. The whole NYTimes, Washington Post, CNN cro
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by barbacoa 6y ago
Sounds like he founded The Intercept so he could write journalism free from having to adhere to political narrative that are pushed by the major news outlets of today in order to be used to promote the interests of powerful people and corpo
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It's rather sad how pervasive think kind of wink-wink-nod bribery is in our political system. Be it politicians retiring and getting $100,000s per speaking arrangement from special interests they benefited during their governance, sett
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A good example what you say is: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-smash-phon... Did hillary smash 2 of her cell phones with a hammer? Snopes: Technically her subordinates smashed them not her.
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by barbacoa 6y ago
That is such a terribly written article. From what I could piece together the court didn't rule "Men can be fired for taking paternity leave" it ruled that men are not protected under Title VII pregnancy discrimination laws.
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Without making a judgement on the veracity of the claims. There is at least circumstantial evidence in this case. I have noticed that the tactic used to defend biden has become to place insurmountable burden of proof on anyone who claims wr
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by barbacoa 6y ago
Honest question not trying to attack you. Do you really think think you are any different than OP?
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In a world that is increasing polarized it is important to remember: Just because evidence that contradicts your world view doesn't exist within you filter bubble of preferred information sources doesn't necessarily mean that evid
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by barbacoa 6y ago
>millions living in homes built from pieces of wood and metal hand-gathered CA has 130000 people living in the streets so sadly not too far off on that front.
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by barbacoa 6y ago
The median home value in houston and dallas the two largest cities in TX is ~$200k, at 2.5% comes out to $5k in property taxes. The high property tax offsets the lack of state income tax. The high property tax also incentives local governme
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by barbacoa 6y ago
As bay area folks move to Austin Texas they have started bringing bay area social problems with them.They enacted a new 'compassionate' homeless ordinances that legalized homeless camping in public. Which has resulted in the homel
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If it has been published in a major newspaper is it still non-public?
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Why would you smoke crack when you know the navy would drug test you? Why would you knock up a stripper while cheating on your dead brothers widow who you were also dating? How the contents of that laptop made their way to the news is a biz

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