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by cm42 4y ago
> TikTok said it would take prompt action against "exploitative begging". > The company said this type of content was not allowed on its platform, and it said its commission from digital gifts was significantly less than 70%
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by cm42 4y ago
The operative word here is onshore , for a variety of reasons, like the absence of road/tunnel/bridge permits, neighborhood Karen councils and local politicians, having to manage multiple lease arrangements, etc, etc. I read an i
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by cm42 4y ago
Regulate me harder, daddy!
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by cm42 4y ago
Far from hostile, he seems like their biggest fan and number one contributor.
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by cm42 4y ago
What kind of chump would waste an entire week and a couple hundred bucks to make $20k?? I do that in an hour. At least 38% of them are off the streets now, which is all that really matters. Based on the overwhelming and scientifically-prove
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by cm42 4y ago
Help! Police! FBI! Ministry of Truth! Somebody! A non-physician is over here commenting on medications they've never prescribed!
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by cm42 4y ago
People clamoring for satire warnings and such should be placed on a watchlist of some kind, or perhaps enrolled in some kind of re-educational program, lest they mistake a book of jokes for an instruction manual and get somebody hurt or som
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by cm42 4y ago
The author discovered bot armies on dating/social sites in much the same way Columbus discovered America. Anyway, congrats, I guess. https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by cm42 4y ago
"Acktchually, sir, unless you own the NFT of the domain , you don't actually own the domain! Also, that's not how resource naming works; RTFRFC, n00b."
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by cm42 4y ago
No doubt one of the many knock-on effects from a lack of affordable, community-based access to cocaine. Thanks, Reagan!
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by cm42 4y ago
> Pegasus was acquired illegally by the Polish government, spending at least €5 million from the Justice Support Fund dedicated to victim support.
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by cm42 4y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the JPM/NYAG report essentially say USDT isn't [sufficiently?] backed, but doing something about it might collapse the financial system because of, among other reasons, This One Weird
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by cm42 4y ago
(Also, emacs > vim)
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by cm42 4y ago
> That is, in actual fact, not the case. From an article at the beginning of the pandemic published by Oxford uni's Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEMB): > Evidence from 14 trials on the use of masks vs. no masks was disappo
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by cm42 4y ago
That's page 4 of the PPE powerpoint, and we're still struggling with page 2 :)
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by cm42 4y ago
"Everything Is Political" aside, the politicization is in the meaninglessness of the phrase, and how you've automatically tied it to consent - presumably regarding sexual consent specifically. Moreover, it seems "politic
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by cm42 4y ago
"rightly so" What possible benefit could there be to anyone in "golly gee, who could possibly know?" vs. "It's because you're selling cannabis to Iran, stupid"? My guess is that it's because mo
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by cm42 4y ago
There's also the evidence-based Medicine vs. the ratings-based Security (HSE?) Theater thing. Medicine vs. Quackery didn't really differentiate in the mind of the public until sometime between antibiotics and advances in trauma ca
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by cm42 4y ago
An N95 mask has always been for the protection of the wearer, which was acknowledged since the beginning. In the earliest days, the message was essentially "don't buy all the masks because we need them for hospitals, and besides,
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by cm42 4y ago
I frequently seek out the original press releases and they're usually pretty clear, but are then dumbed down to something thought to be digestible by the general public. "Masks work!" say Experts. "No they don't!&qu
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by cm42 4y ago
Ahh, but The Mythos is synchronous and eternal - there's no linear chronology. It's perfectly reasonable, therefore, that Hera (and/or Zeus) should have birthed Hephaestus on her own as revenge for (now-trans?) Zeus birthing
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by cm42 4y ago
See also: every* courthouse
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by cm42 4y ago
Instead of a corporate letterhead, they require the wax seal of the eldest son of the Family von Baron MCMLXIV, Viscount of Parcelforce, Duke Du Jour, and Most Charitable and Venerated Grand Master of Her Majesty's Royal Letter-Stamper
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by cm42 4y ago
Hashtag dragonflies aren't real https://spectrum.ieee.org/meet-the-cias-insectothopter
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by cm42 4y ago
Excuse me, sir, do you have any Grey Poupon? The answer to this timeless question, experts say, is increasingly "no". It all started in Dijon, the capital of Burgundy, in the spring of 1634, when, as luck (or Providence) would hav
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by cm42 4y ago
Ever since we tossed out Divine Right, our overlords have had to resort to increasingly-inscrutable systems to do the needful, and inscrutable systems are effectively the same as "no system" in this regard. I tire of hearing excus
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by cm42 4y ago
In case anyone from Facebook thinks people are leaving their platform for TikTok, I'd just like to offer that everybody I know who's quit over the past 6 months or so has quit because of 30-day bans for posting obvious satire. I s
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by cm42 4y ago
We'll have to wait until someone breaks it down into a rhyming Harry Potter reference or something.
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by cm42 4y ago
"Cyclone and RTI swear this robot is strictly a vegetarian. The only problem with that is how many times I’ve watched a vegan/vegetarian order a meat-dipped meat pizza slice with extra cheese after six hours of drinking."
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by cm42 4y ago
I somehow feel like the royals and other people in power - whose names haven't been released - are the ones both responsible for, and being covered for, by the establishment/media. Blaming it on <immigrants> is really quite

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