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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
> However I'm curious what you refer as "horrors" of communism. Mass starvation and murders to start.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
And why can’t they import wheat from their numerous trading partners, including China and Europe? It’s astonishing the amount of excuses people give for the extremely corrupt, dysfunctional, and undemocratic Cuban government.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Yeah, that’s very easy to do. I don’t live in a deranged place filled with terrorists supported by a significant part of the population.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Terrorism directed at terrorists…I’m in full support.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Killing is not the point. It’s to feed raw terror to terrorists, giving them a nice taste of their own medicine.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Wow, you’re actually admitting to being a terrorist sympathizer? You could have just made that clear earlier so we’d know who we were conversing with.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Literally everyone understands that they'll cease to exist one day, whether religious or non-religious. That some people hope there's something after this life doesn't mean they can't fathom a case where that isn't
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Harvard's endowment is $50 billion, and its expenses in 2023 were $6.25 billion [1]. To fund that, the endowment will need 12.5% annual interest, which is impossible. Tuition revenue is not remotely suitable enough for Harvard's o
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Online Dating Caused a Rise in US Income Inequality, Research Paper Shows(bloomberg.com)
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
They employ hundreds of contractors to run the operations.
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OnlyFans Owner Leo Radvinsky Pockets $472M Dividend(businessinsider.com)
36 points by blackhawkC17 2y ago|19 comments
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Porn streamer OnlyFans paid owner $630M in dividends(ft.com)
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Egypt elected the Muslim Brotherhood into power. There's nothing about the Muslim Brotherhood pertaining to "modern governments built around such ideals as individual rights, rule of law, checks and balances, multiple political pa
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
I'm from a dysfunctional third-world country, too (Nigeria), and I agree with the GP. Our population lacks the ability to cooperate for the greater good. Politics here is insanely tribal and corrupt. We're heading for the tatters,
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
The issue is not Starlink. It's that the Brazilian government is too inept and corrupt to tackle illegal mining in its backyard. Many countries have huge landmasses (US, Canada, China, etc.), yet no one gets away with something as bras
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
This is such a bad faith character assassination. The “child-beating” is an accusation from his partner after he stopped paying 150,000 euros a month in child support [1]. Of course, some weird accusations suddenly come out in such situatio
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
> Posting this as a reply to someone who just shared their own experience getting doxxed in a country where victims have legitimate grounds to fear for their lives... feels a little out of place. They should pick a bone with their countr
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
I imagine a dystopian feature where ransomware hackers encrypt people’s brains and ask for ransom to unlock the contents. Anyway, this seems cool tho.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
I wonder why tech employees (labour) earning high salaries should represent a problem. That's a very good thing.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
> Once again, yes, RealPage might be able to push things a few percentage points up and that's bad, but it is simply not capable of turning Houston prices into Los Angeles prices. You didn’t address the point though. If the issue is
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Source? That seems like the laughable lie that originated from a certain TikToker.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
People don't like taking responsibility, so they'll blame an external source instead of tackling the underlying issue—the lack of new housing supply. The same story applies to most booming cities, both in the first world and third
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
South Korea is an outlier even among wealthy countries. They have an extreme work culture (beginning from school in the early stages) that takes a toll on people . On one hand, we can say this work ethic/culture enabled them to go from
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
Let’s hope a democratic ruler takes over in the long run, and definitely not an Islamist. Otherwise, going from autocracy to military rule is like hating the frying pan and jumping into the fire.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
> For all intents and purposes, the US is as "authoritarian" as the chinese in this aspect. This is even demonstrated, albeit rightly so, by the russian financial sanctions, and currency freezes/seizures. No it isn’t. The
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
> At some point, china would also be able to convince the global south to start trading in the chinese yuan. It’s a pipe dream to convince people to trade in a currency controlled by an authoritarian and corrupt government. The global so
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
South Korea and Taiwan reformed from authoritarianism into prosperous democracies without violence.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
The money to repurchase shares must be coming from an external source? I assumed Character.AI wasn’t profitable, like most AI startups.
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote Technical, Business, and Finance Content Writer. I'm open to writing gigs, either technical writing or business/finance-related stuff. I have 5+ years of experience in professional writing. I run a tech/
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by blackhawkC17 2y ago
> Many AI and Crypto projects have gotten similar amounts. As a society we decide were to invest our money. Biotech companies (including those tackling Alzheimer’s) have gotten much larger amounts from VCs. The U.S. government also direc

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