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by blackshaw 4y ago
Heaven only knows how humanity survived for 100,000 years while breathing air unmasked.
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by blackshaw 4y ago
I'd honestly rather not wear pants for the rest of my life than go back to wearing a mask every day.
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Do you plan on wearing a mask for the rest of your life?
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by blackshaw 4y ago
British companies often charge extra to ship to the "Highlands and Islands", meaning northern Scotland (one of the most sparsely populated areas in Europe.)
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Schwab was at B20, a concurrent event that's "part of the G20 summit", where he was photographed with several of the G20 leaders. https://www.newsweek.com/were-bill-gates-world-economic-foru...
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The “Great Reset” is too stupid to be a conspiracy(blackshaw.substack.com)
29 points by blackshaw 4y ago|34 comments
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Yep, that's what Joe Exotic is in jail for.
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by blackshaw 4y ago
According to Wikipedia, Ulbricht allegedly tried to hire a hitman to murder at least five people, but this wasn't actually something he was formally charged with at trial. > Federal prosecutors alleged that Ulbricht had paid $730,00
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by blackshaw 4y ago
What about the things Zeihan said five years ago that don't stand out as noteworthy today? His book The Accidental Superpower has an entire chapter arguing that the province of Alberta is likely to secede from Canada and join the US,
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Zeihan makes some extremely basic factual errors in his recent book The End of the World is Just the Beginning - the kind that make me distrust everything he says on the topics I lack the knowledge to fact-check. I wrote a longer review o
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Can you recommend some informative journalistic sources that don't reduce their headlines to clickbait?
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Wow, you're not joking: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/u
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by blackshaw 4y ago
What do you mean by "not having a real phone number"?
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Twitter is losing $4 million dollars a day, according to Musk himself.
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by blackshaw 4y ago
WWII wasn't the bloodiest conflict when you adjust for world population at the time. E.g. the Mongol Conquests or An Lushan Rebellion probably killed more.
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33470079
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The Dangers of LSD: A Personal Story(blackshaw.substack.com)
1 points by blackshaw 4y ago|0 comments
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Google used to have this feature. Why did they remove it?
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Because she's about to spend 20 years in jail?
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Tangential, but you might benefit from reading the book "How to Prepare for Climate Change" by David Pogue - it has (among much else) a lot of information about how different areas of the US are likely to be affected by climate ch
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by blackshaw 4y ago
> There are already some predictions that water scarcity problem will get worse That's putting it mildly. I recommend the book "When the Rivers Run Dry" if you feel like you don't have enough reasons to despair.
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Statements like this are common on the websites of British companies. There are regulatory and reporting requirements related to the Modern Slavery Act 2015 [0] although I'm not sure of the precise details; something to do with auditin
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by blackshaw 4y ago
> replace every “and then” transition with a “and that’s why” or “and despite that” transition The creators of South Park give the same advice for writing fiction: every two beats in your story should be linked not by an "and&quot
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by blackshaw 4y ago
The coolest website I've seen lately is http://howacarworks.com . It's a video course in which an experienced mechanic breaks down a car into all its constituent parts then puts everything back together piece by piece,
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by blackshaw 4y ago
I stand corrected! Have changed the post to say "discouraged" instead of "illegal".
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Iceland is amazing, I highly recommend a visit. If you can forgive the self-promotion, I wrote a "things I wish I'd known" post about visiting Iceland which might be of interest to anyone planning a trip there: https:/&
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by blackshaw 4y ago
People wanted a generic word that collectively refers to all people who aren't white. They didn't want to use "non-white" because they wanted a positive word that emphasises what people are rather than what they'r
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by blackshaw 4y ago
Yes, because I know how to spell.
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by blackshaw 5y ago
It's not the speculation and scams that are an environmental cost, it's the fact that the Bitcoin network uses more energy than a medium-sized country.
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by blackshaw 5y ago
"The Great Reset" is the name of a book by Klaus Schwab, who is chairman of the WEF. It was also the name that the WEF gave to their 50th annual meeting, which took place in 2020. Conspiracy theories aside, I've read Schwab&#

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