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by chki 6y ago
>The greatest lie we were told back in March Characterizing something as a lie when the facts were not at all clear at the time is not a good idea. Especially regarding the situation in China, Vietnam etc. where the results of the lockdo
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by chki 6y ago
Yes, that's true. But it's important to note that Republicans deviated from this process 4 years ago and will now just resume business as usual while being a lot closer to the actual election than in 2016.
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by chki 6y ago
>while having pushed for expedition in 2016. That's a weird way of saying "nominated a candidate via the regular process".
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by chki 6y ago
This is a very good point. From a legal standpoint this article is highly questionable. I understand that there are political issues with this project (on which I'm also not an expert) but this should be clearly distinguished from the
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The very important difference being that these countries did not explicitly say: "We will break international law". You might think that's a technicality but in international law that's really an important distinction.
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by chki 6y ago
Volt comes to mind but they are relatively new and only have one parliamentarian in the EP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volt_Europa?wprov=sfla1
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by chki 6y ago
I didn't intend to confront you and I didn't really "get worked up" over this. Sorry if I was a bit blunt. (and sorry for potential language confusion, I'm not a native speaker) My issue with your comment was that y
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by chki 6y ago
> I bet you don't know why you need even half of documents in your last encounter with it. I guess you loose that bet.
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by chki 6y ago
First Google result: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/10/14/the-european-u... >The people pushing for more integration are politicians and bureaucrats, not normal people. That's simply not
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by chki 6y ago
>Especially not now, when citizens don't want it. Citation needed. While there is some anti-European sentiment in all member states those are almost always in the minority. There are a lot of people who want more integration.
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by chki 6y ago
What do you mean by that? Do you seriously think that somebody (who exactly?) is suppressing news about this court? Isn't it _a lot_ more probable that this is simply a highly technical issue that doesn't get a lot of attention? A
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by chki 6y ago
Taxation is basically a limit of property ownership. The inheritance tax comes to mind (also an estate tax although those are not well established everywhere in the world) but also income-taxation limits what you can earn as a person and th
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by chki 6y ago
I'm very sceptical about the claim that the incentive to earn staggering amounts of money goes away if your great-great-grandchildren cannot profit from it. Caring about your own children and grandchildren makes sense because you actua
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by chki 6y ago
I think if you are a publicly traded company you are even required by law (at least in Europe) to publish information about the failure of such an important acquisition as soon as you learn about it. Edit: see for example Art. 17 of the EU
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by chki 6y ago
I'm not a speedrunning expert but I think that there are usually subcategories for "glitchless" runs, where you can only use the intended game mechanics. So your suggestion has already been approved by the speedrunning commun
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by chki 6y ago
Sure, that's a good point and I absolutely agree that Wikipedia will neither be unbiased nor always very accurate. My idea was simply to refute the statement that somebody actively controls the world's knowledge in intentionally m
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by chki 6y ago
Yes but interestingly it's also somewhat calming because the "winners" tend to see winning as the goal. Maliciously changing facts is almost never their goal because Wikipedia itself is their main (maybe obsessive) focus. It
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by chki 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in... What you are saying is true for many countries, still most of them do not have an embassy in North Korea. The reason being probably also that it is quite
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by chki 6y ago
> As one more example there are many passing situations, such as pretty much any two lane highway, where it's perfectly acceptable to break the speed limit for a brief period. That's not true legally speaking and I'm prett
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by chki 6y ago
I would guess that yes, they are actually worried about certain religious groups no longer doing business with them because they "support" "immoral" practices.
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by chki 6y ago
I found this 6 minute YouTube video titled "I could do that" to be an excellent response to this "standard" critique of some modern art: https://youtu.be/67EKAIY43kg Basically there are good reasons that
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by chki 6y ago
I'm also very interested in the details. According to their website they are paying Google to provide them with the results. But the revenue streams to startpage are not provided on their homepage (or at least I haven't found them
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by chki 6y ago
I think you misread something. The "few million" do not refer to the 900M but instead to the interest on the loan which is actually "a few" (less than 10) million.
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by chki 6y ago
>So it’s over, the planet will likely be rendered uninhabitable probably within the next century. I'm not sure how you come to that conclusion but the planet won't be uninhabitable. Certain areas will be uninhabitable and there
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by chki 6y ago
I get 30% discounts on delivered pizza by googling the name of the competing brand in my area. It's an extremely effective strategy, at least in my case.
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by chki 6y ago
> it's the same thing It is not. Masks are meant to protect everybody, they are not meant to protect yourself. I'm not in favor of preventing consenting mentally stable adults from doing basically anything to themselves and – t
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by chki 6y ago
>Those are preliminary flash estimates, we'll see how they hold up in a month. > Swedish GDP is up this quarter, as about the only nation in Europe so... is it possible to talk about the estimated gdp right now or not? Because th
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by chki 6y ago
There are a lot of claims in the article that the current scientific consensus does not support. The T-cells claim is one of them. Of course there are no absolute truths and I agree that my choice of words was maybe unfortunate.
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by chki 6y ago
That's simply incorrect. Even just looking at the government website it literally states that people should distance themselves. https://www.krisinformation.se/en/hazards-and-risks/disaster...
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by chki 6y ago
>If I told you to list 3 things you're grateful for each day, and hounded and sanctioned you for not doing it, if I talked about all these Nazis I know who incidentally also are not doing it, and meaningfully nodded your way every t

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