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by bsd44 5y ago
Seems about right. People have already devalued the meaning of terms such as "racism", "feminism" and "depression" by severely abusing them, causing enormous damage to those who are victims of what those terms
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by bsd44 5y ago
What's the point of eating a meal or washing clothes?
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by bsd44 5y ago
I strongly recommend a documentary on Youtube called "The Spider's Web - Britain's Second Empire" that talks about this very problem of dirty capital being funnelled through City of London and its offshore islands.
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by bsd44 5y ago
"Honestly I think the UK has a lot going for it - very low levels of corruption, good law and court systems, good education, low levels of crime outside of London stabbings, the NHS, excellent Civil Service, The National Trust, English
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by bsd44 5y ago
Politics and economy don't always agree. The government promised higher wages for domestic work force, but the companies aren't willing to pay for that promise. That's why we have these "shortages" of things. It&#x2
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by bsd44 5y ago
Media Lens wrote about this in July and it was also posted here on HN: https://www.medialens.org/2021/a-remarkable-silence-media-bl...
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by bsd44 5y ago
Why is this worthy of media attention? As much as I despise social networking websites, I don't see anything wrong here.
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by bsd44 5y ago
Somewhat related to this story and more so to the wider context, I strongly recommend a documentary on Youtube called "Spider's Web - Britain's Second Empire" that talks about this very problem of dirty capital. It descr
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by bsd44 5y ago
You are correct, thanks for replying.
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by bsd44 5y ago
Yes you are right, I confused shares with other financial instruments.
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by bsd44 5y ago
Good. Spending $1tn every year on fighting invisible enemies should absolutely have repercussion.
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by bsd44 5y ago
"One of the biggest misconceptions is that the stock market is a zero sum game. Its absolutely not." So when you make money in the stock market, where does the money come from?
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by bsd44 5y ago
If you were in the UK at the time you would've seen much worse than pasta shortage, eg. people were getting stabbed in London over toilet paper. There are times when it's completely acceptable to panic. This is not one of those ti
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by bsd44 5y ago
I'm getting the exact same spam messages in my Inbox. Gmail has been working wonderfully for years, but lately something changed. I've also noticed marking messages from the same sender (confirmed by checking headers) as Spam does
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by bsd44 5y ago
UK here. We rehabilitate criminals. What ends up happening is reading the following in the media; "Raped again...", "Stabbed again...", "Previously had a suspended sentence for child abuse...". It's not th
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by bsd44 5y ago
Yes it does, in every other country. This is exactly what happened last year with the toilet paper "shortage" where people emptied the stock by panic buying and then the food "shortage" when Curry's went out of free
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by bsd44 5y ago
You are assuming that he answers questions every day. He could easily be spending weekends on SO and some evenings. It doesn't mean he's using work time to do this.
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by bsd44 5y ago
Kindle ruined reading for me. When I hold a paper book in my hands, I hold one book. When I hold a Kindle, I hold hundreds of them. Having that in mind, it's hard to concentrate on one book and finish reading it as I keep thinking abou
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by bsd44 5y ago
Sure nuclear is all good until something goes wrong and you need 30k years to inhabit the area again, but that can't ever happen...oh wait. You need to weigh cons as much as pros.
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by bsd44 5y ago
That happened to me. I wanted to reset my account password so they agreed to send a "password reminder" via post. I thought that was weird. I expected a temporary password which I will be forced to change upon login. To my surpris
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by bsd44 5y ago
I am looking at their document* explaining methodology behind the ranking criteria and I am still to understand which of those indicate quality of programme. All five sections revolve around research and the data is collected mostly from El
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by bsd44 5y ago
Is this a joke? And what exactly is Australia (and UK and USA) going to do should China invade Taiwan? Please tell me, I am dying to know. They couldn't beat barefoot Taliban in 20 year's time, do you really think Five Eyes have a
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by bsd44 5y ago
I've been with HSBC for over 10 years and never experienced any problems even though I'm fairly allergic to dumb UX. I use the iOS app which has 2FA (touch id) to do everything. Last time I logged in via a web browser was years ag
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by bsd44 5y ago
Trying to resurrect extinct species while we actively try to make the existing ones extinct is absurd.
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by bsd44 5y ago
I understood from the article that only some high-end hotels are doing this. I mean as long as it's optional why pay it? Even if I could afford to spend £500/night for a hotel, why pay some additional optional charge? If they can
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by bsd44 5y ago
One thing that completely changed my thought process and increased intellectual faculties tremendously was working in IT, precisely in Operations. The amount of problems I had to solve helped me think in a certain way. Some problems were ea
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by bsd44 5y ago
I would avoid DO and similar McDonald's-type cloud providers for anything production. Commercial or private. AWS might make it difficult to figure out the cost (most common complaint) but the services are professional grade and their s
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by bsd44 5y ago
Haven't these Russian agents heard of VPN before? I mean all this time they keep hacking us either from their homes or from the KGB offices, they're so easily traced it's pathetic...
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by bsd44 5y ago
You missed the point entirely. I'm talking about globalisation which is in fact an export of Anglo-American culture hiding under the label of economic integration. The quote is from a song by the famous German band Rammstein.
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by bsd44 5y ago
We are living in America Amerika ist wunderbar We are living in America Amerika, Amerika

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