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by breppp 5mo ago
Similar to the British in India, it was first controlled by some kind of company that benefitted the host country by extracting resources, and later on the host country took control. Belgium took control of Congo in 1908
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by breppp 5mo ago
The worse example I know is the time the Belgians forced the Congolese to harvest more rubber by cutting their hands if they haven't reached the correct quota, ensuing a cross-tribe hands trading economy
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by breppp 5mo ago
and so is ARPANET
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by breppp 5mo ago
That slide was about the NSA sitting inside Google data centers without Google's knowledge. That doesn't mean collusion
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by breppp 5mo ago
If this was framed as things you'd eliminate from society tomorrow, maybe pharma would fair better
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by breppp 5mo ago
I agree with the notion in the post, though I do not agree that users will feel the format is not being pushed top-down by the man I just had an issue with the way that number was completely overlooked
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by breppp 5mo ago
"What percentage of the other side supports political violence" Both Democrats and Republicans estimated 30% but actually.. only 10% of both sides supported political violence That number is crazy in so many ways and the post is
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by breppp 5mo ago
That's presumably great for legal exposure because it increases deniability
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by breppp 5mo ago
In the context of war profiteering this is a long used racist trope, intentionally misquoted
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by breppp 5mo ago
and not only one https://www.cyera.com/press-releases/cyera-raises-400m-to-me...
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Iran Attacks UAE(reuters.com)
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by breppp 5mo ago
There's a company doing this, and I don't think they were super successful https://www.getnexar.com
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by breppp 5mo ago
or less aesthetic versions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street#/media/File:A...
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by breppp 5mo ago
from doc.new to blog.google, they are on top of that
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by breppp 6mo ago
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-fighters-trained... https://israel-alma.org/special-report-for-years-iran-planne... There was extensive planning for a multi front attack including Iran
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by breppp 6mo ago
Probably Saudi Arabia is more important in OPEC, so that might be actually a middle finger to SA. Saudi Arabia and UAE had a recent dispute in Yemen that went pretty hot. An alternative is the US trying to dismantle OPEC together with its n
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by breppp 6mo ago
Jewish communities in Europe trace their roots to Israel/Judea and the Roman expulsion and subsequent colonization. Israel nowadays is mostly non-Ashkenazi in any case, and is mostly composed of Jews ethnically cleansed from Arab count
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by breppp 6mo ago
So a thousand civilians weren't shot by death squads in civilian towns? babies weren't kidnapped? women weren't raped? houses weren't burned with people inside? bodies weren't found dismembered? I think you should r
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by breppp 6mo ago
The same binary has encrypted strings so I assume there was a pass, but if you look at the source control strings they seem to decrease the appearance of maliciousness, even today they are out of place for malware
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by breppp 6mo ago
Headspace leaves health data, that's where my first guess would be
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by breppp 6mo ago
I'd like to see the numbers please, how that gets close to 50 million dead by the CCP, and I can't fathom how do you attribute the Khmer Rouge genocide committed by a communist party to the USA or others on the list
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by breppp 6mo ago
To be fair, I don't know where starting a union under Mao would get you
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by breppp 6mo ago
Nazis? Soviets? CCP? Spanish Empire? How are you doing the math?
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by breppp 6mo ago
> Didn't Donald Trump state that immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country? Didn't Adolf Hitler say Jews are poisoning the blood of the country? Aren't both simulates? That is actually something that is pretty popu
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by breppp 6mo ago
Soldiers can't catch a flight back home when war starts (or about to), and by the time the Iranians were able to attack back after the initial shock, all US soldiers knew there's a war going on That's why I am having great d
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by breppp 6mo ago
Some, and probably very few. When the people feel everyone is corrupt without any evidence then the next step is getting actual corrupt leaders like Trump's government and soldiers like this that feel corruption is standard behavior
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by breppp 6mo ago
If you are in Kuwait you will find yourself under rockets whether you knew in advance or not I think the worse aspect is if the news of an attack being leaked to the defender and you are being blown to bits as their ballistic missiles are n
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by breppp 6mo ago
The entire corruption-as-service aspect of this is interesting. I wonder when someone figures out vote-buying-as-service
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by breppp 6mo ago
It's been almost 6 years of Trump, when do you think it's going to start?
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by breppp 6mo ago
Only someone who had so much luck in finding a product that clicks, would know the worth of buying such a product

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