belatw

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by belatw 5y ago
> Well deserved. Apple Daily is not pro democrazy but pro-chaos. It routinely manufatures fake news and rumors that only matched by the mainstream fake news. Whereas the chinese dictatorship is a bastion of transparency, honesty and demo
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by belatw 5y ago
Monarchies are the greatest scam ever perpetrated on modern republics. Spend a few hundred years invading, colonialising, conquering, raping, pillaging, committing genocide, destroying countless civilizations and enslaving many millions. In
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by belatw 5y ago
English tax dollars pay for an unfathomably large amount of money preserving antiquity, much of which was flat out stolen from other nations or came on the backs of slaves. The whole “give one inbred family billions of dollars per year to m
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by belatw 5y ago
If it makes you feel better more and more of this gets outsourced to spy and mercenary companies like Palantir, Facebook, Google and Blackwater.
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by belatw 5y ago
The world now belongs to 2 entire generations who never read 1984.
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by belatw 5y ago
This is only partially true. There is no “policy” aim any city do do this. What does happen is that charity groups like catholic churches or st vincent de paul will buy homeless and runaways one-way tickets, but only if they have a verifiab
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by belatw 5y ago
Just the mere idea of visiting the USA gives me more stress than I care to experience. After 7 years away I don’t even have a desire to visit. It takes a solid 5 years to get over what my friends call “that American Fight or Fight instinct”
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by belatw 5y ago
They’re begging to sell 5-7.5% of the compny for €8m? Sounds like it is time for Qwant to give up.
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by belatw 5y ago
Slavery?
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Oaklamd wants to end single family zoning(oaklandside.org)
2 points by belatw 5y ago|0 comments
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by belatw 5y ago
Consider a significant number of Googlers are upper middle class kids, possibly on the spectrum, who go straight from the ivy league to google’s cafeteria. These made up numbers seem reasonable and accurate to them because they never had to
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by belatw 5y ago
What’s this here about a social contract, hmm? I never signed any contract.
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by belatw 5y ago
Nixon, Reagan including Nancy Bush Sr. the original instigators of the federal on drugs are all dead.
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by belatw 5y ago
> Then again Turkey could go full Islamist crazy and be more Saudi Arabia and Erdoğan could declare himself president for life. It would never happen. Turks are Turks first and Muslim second. Erdogan is a neo-ottomanist, not a salafist.
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by belatw 5y ago
> What about the Iranian approach to the U.S.? What if Iran stopped development of nuclear weapons and attacking U.S. forces in Iraq and elsewhere, or sponsoring organizations that are destabilizing the Middle East? It's not like th
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by belatw 5y ago
11 hours ago this was not the case. Sweet. No rfc db is complete without CPIP!
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by belatw 5y ago
RFC 1149 is missing, weak. Great design, I only had to click Back about 3000 times.
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by belatw 5y ago
“ Believe me, Chevron is not an evil company," he added. "I have no compunction — in the least — about owning Chevron. And if we owned the entire business, I would not feel uncomfortable about being in that [industry]." Belie
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by belatw 5y ago
It takes me 15 minutes to file my taxes both for my full-time employment, but I’m not some objectivist trying to scam my way out of paying my share of taxes. Just an engineer making a San Francisco wage working for bay area startups remotel
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by belatw 5y ago
The Edwardian Ball in San Francisco is a fantastic Gorey themed ball started by the denizens of the larper/renaissance faire/gamer/goth/hacker scene of the early ‘00s. It’s one of those special costumed events which make
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by belatw 5y ago
Sure, whatever. The fact is that all abrahamists follow some version of a silly book in which some sky daddy told a man in a desert that they are the choosen people and that by following that specific man, they have the right to dominion ov
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by belatw 5y ago
My assumption is Theme parks are exempt because it is perfectly valid for Disneyland to prevent pedophile politicians from being too close to that many children?
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by belatw 5y ago
Isn’t that why more than 50% of the globe blindly worship an abrahamic god?
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by belatw 5y ago
He dared to report the truth about a maniacal dictator.
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Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom (2005)(damninteresting.com)
135 points by belatw 5y ago|24 comments
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by belatw 5y ago
> A touch screen is cheaper, because they can re-use the same hardware between different vehicles rather than having to design/build/assemble a slightly different set of physical buttons for different models with different feat
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by belatw 5y ago
This reads to me as: ‘I need X million in USD in engineering spend this year so I can add “I managed a large SRE/DevOps team” on my resume.’
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by belatw 5y ago
Ireland is also involved in this. All three entities are members of the eu, Greece and Lithuania are in NATO and Ireland is a “partner” of NATO.
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by belatw 5y ago
They will send Thoughts and Prayers.
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by belatw 5y ago
Lukashenko is destined to meet the same fate as Nicolae Ceaușescu. This was an attack on Lithuania, Greece and Ireland. How many more times will western governments bend over as Putin and other tin pot soviet dicktators shoot down or hijac

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