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by bluthru 9y ago
So in other words, corporations should be able to prevent any monetary transaction if they assume you're spending money on something they don't approve of? The only option is cash through the mail?
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by bluthru 9y ago
So you can't inhibit human trafficking? Was she charged with anything?
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by bluthru 9y ago
I want to help others. I also don't think it's a prerequisite to turn every majority white country minority white to help others.
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by bluthru 9y ago
First, she was just reporting on it. Second, she states that she hasn't given any Patreon money to Defend Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtImwK5TI4g
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by bluthru 9y ago
Yep. I'm just waiting for it to become thinner. The thing still looks like a wrist computer instead of a watch in my opinion.
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by bluthru 9y ago
When platforms become as ubiquitous as YouTube or Facebook it doesn't feel much different than a government regulating speech.
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by bluthru 9y ago
Yep. Installing solar arrays at ground level is even safer than building a fission plant.
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by bluthru 9y ago
>Twitter is so disappointingly annoying to use. I think so much of it comes down to trying to put too much content in a small space. Twitter was a lot less annoying when it was only 140 characters and no embedded media since the informat
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by bluthru 9y ago
"The overall economy" isn't as important as wages and purchasing power for individuals. Immigration can lead to less competition and therefore innovation. Instead of people from other countries creating services that compete,
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by bluthru 9y ago
>We're talking about welcoming immigrants into the country to work. Are you aware that there are negatives to this, or just that they're not important to you?
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by bluthru 9y ago
That's what I was implying. Corporations can exploit a social issue to drive down labor costs.
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by bluthru 9y ago
Wouldn't you rather have these highly educated immigrants help develop the countries they flee instead of contributing to lower domestic wages and greater world wealth stratification?
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by bluthru 9y ago
>It just means you think that people from other countries are less deserving of job opportunities than people from your country. What's the point of even having a country if citizens aren't prioritized over non-citizens? What&#
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by bluthru 9y ago
Why shouldn't a nation protect its citizens' wages?
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by bluthru 9y ago
>Would you rather have these companies be based out of Asia entirely? Well I want to see the entire world become prosperous instead of wealth continuing to concentrate and stratify at a global scale, so yes.
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by bluthru 9y ago
Especially when countries like Germany have such a good history of training their own workforce through apprenticeships. I believe this is handled by the unions though, where the incentives are more in line with the workers than the corpora
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by bluthru 9y ago
It's a war backed by pharmaceutical companies. They influence how doctors treat pain. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/31/530929307/... Here's something... curious. Popp
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by bluthru 9y ago
>Housing doesn't have to be expensive. It is, mostly, due to political reasons. And it's made even more expensive because of interest on mortgages--which isn't real money to begin with. That's right, the banks charge
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by bluthru 9y ago
A grey background was dingy when Material Design was introduced and it's still dingy today. The previous News design was much cleaner. With some tweaking it would be much preferred to all of the superfluous cards.
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by bluthru 9y ago
The iPad Pro is already neck and neck with the MacBook Pro: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCV4rQtW0AAe3R2.jpg
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by bluthru 9y ago
Why not just have the same "swipe up to close" as iOS 10? It'd be instant. I guess regular people must "close" apps all of the time and Apple wants to hide that.
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by bluthru 9y ago
>I'd hate to suffer through a life of egg whites and margarine I know this wasn't your point but: I don't think people recommend eating margarine instead of real butter anymore. I won't claim to know if avoiding egg y
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by bluthru 9y ago
People have only heard one side of the argument from mainstream "news" sources their entire lives, even though the social science is clear that diversity is bad for social trust, empathy, peace, etc.
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by bluthru 9y ago
>Up to three quarters of Germany’s refugees will still be unemployed in five years’ time, according to a government minister, in a stark admission of the challenges the country faces in integrating its huge migrant population. >Aydan
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by bluthru 9y ago
Nations are more than identity-less economic zones.
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by bluthru 9y ago
>We have at least a couple hundred years before we would really have to worry about overpopulation. We are using energy and releasing carbon at an unsustainable rate. This means that we are overpopulated.
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by bluthru 9y ago
>Lower population also means lower chance of inventing new technology Really? Who do you think would have more technological advancements? 100 million Americans, or the projected four billion Africans?
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by bluthru 9y ago
>but it would also mean we'd have fewer scientists and engineers working to develop the sustainable technology needed to solve our problems No it wouldn't. Quality over quantity. Having to support less productive and low-IQ peo
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by bluthru 9y ago
An economy depending on population growth is incompatible with physics. If we care about climate change we should want every country to have a population decline until we can live within our carbon means.
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by bluthru 9y ago
>Or even avoid a pothole. Humans can avoid potholes with one eye. I don't know why you assume LiDAR is a requirement for this.

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