criley2

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by criley2 5y ago
I disagree that we are dependent on the whims of single companies more than anytime in history. In fact, once you go 100 years or more back, I think most of history is dominated by major monopolies, trusts, and nation-sized companies in way
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by criley2 5y ago
Just because you put a warning label on a bad practice doesn't mean it's a good practice. Pumping your passwords through some random code on Github that has a "be smart" label doesn't make it a good idea. Would be s
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by criley2 5y ago
Yo, just because a new student getting loans right now can get 4% doesn't mean that 7% wasn't absolutely the norm for many people over the past decades. Anyone in their 30s has 6 or 7% or more on their loans, before ZIRP took over
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by criley2 5y ago
The US does not have an extradition treaty with Iran, so no, they will not extradite folks there. I do hope the US files charges against Israeli hackers who have targeted American organizations though. No country should get a free pass.
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by criley2 5y ago
Julian Assange getting away with his sexual assault of a woman due to his politics is very reminiscent of how Donald Trump avoids blame for his sexual crimes through the lens of politics. Very smart tool to ensure you can never be guilty of
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by criley2 5y ago
>"What "games" would YOU play to get out of being extradited to a foreign country for crimes of publishing factual information?" The crime he is charged with has nothing to do with publication of anything, it's a
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by criley2 5y ago
The histrionics, conspiracy theories and outright lies in this thread are outrageous. The US justice system is not the same as despotic countries like Russia or China. Reality Winner will be released from prison soon. Chelsea Manning, who
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by criley2 5y ago
I don't believe reddits obfuscation efforts did anything but significantly hamper spammers who relied on accurate counting to be able to determine when their spam accounts were shadowbanned and the reach they had. Reddit has always had
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by criley2 5y ago
Over 3 years of Fallen Order sales, they've made at max $600 million in revenue. EA is on track to make something like $1.75 billion this year from FIFA Ultimate Team microtransactions alone. It is what it is, but EA and their investor
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by criley2 5y ago
You don't use real money for characters, you use real money to gamble on the chance of characters. And you need several copies of the same character to upgrade them. So you can play the slot machine many times and not get anything that
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by criley2 5y ago
Tell that to the legislators and prosecutors who create laws and enforce laws against you.
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by criley2 5y ago
The EPA was utterly gutted over the past 4 years. The sad part is that it takes much longer to rebuild than it does to tear down. The EPA being unable or unwilling to enforce environmental protections is by design.
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by criley2 5y ago
Once again, calling it "teams" is false equivalence and is low-IQ nonsense Public servants MUST BE HELD TO A HIGHER STANDARD than private citizens, even relatives of politicians. I'm sorry you refuse to accept such an uncontr
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by criley2 5y ago
Once again, this is rank false equivalence which elevates non-corrupt outsider acitivity with actual corruption by public officials elevated to high office corruptly. I refuse to fall into the low-IQ cynicism of both-side-isms. It's wo
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by criley2 5y ago
The idea that the war could have been ended any other way is Military Industrial Complex propaganda. It's a complete and total fabrication that relies on the ignorance of people to believe that just a little more war and death would ma
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by criley2 5y ago
The idea that loser Hunter can sell "influence" into a White House that he has no role in, no influence in, and is actively kept from, is rank propaganda. Hunter serves this government in no capacity, official or otherwise, and ha
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by criley2 5y ago
>Sure, because that's the extent of his corruption. Definition: Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted with a position of authority, in order to
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by criley2 5y ago
>Do you prefer Ivanka or Hunter flavours of corruption? Such a dishonest comparison. One was nepotistically involved in day to day operations of the American government, put into diplomatic situations in an official capacity, even attemp
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by criley2 5y ago
When it comes to consistent power generation, Germans can't just wait until next year. Wind power has it's ups and downs, which is why you need a lot more of it than coal or nuclear to meet the same demand.
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by criley2 5y ago
A well insulated modern construction can hold a temperature for a long time. Heating and cooling during energy availability and using your insulated building as a thermal battery of sorts is a real thing, and should be I think considered pa
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by criley2 5y ago
"But what led to wind power's sudden fall? Statistics officials said the weather was partly to blame. A lack of wind from January to March this year sharply reduced the amount of electricity produced by Germany's wind turbine
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by criley2 5y ago
Something about wind and solar isn't working to meet the increasing demands in Germany https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coal-tops-wind-as-primary-elec... From 2020 to 2021, Coal is up 8%, Wind is down 7%, Solar is do
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by criley2 5y ago
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. I'll reply to people doing that by using their own arguments. Based on the replies to me, the gold standard is the panacea for every ill in society. We'll all be rich, the wea
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by criley2 5y ago
The wealthy under the gold standard during the Gilded Era was DRAMATICALLY more wealthy and powerful than today. The Carnegies and Rockefellers, who owned American society during the gold standard in the 1800s, would be about 5X-10X more we
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by criley2 5y ago
This isn't a fair or useful way to see things. Just because "American minimum wage is a fortune in India" or something doesn't mean someone making minimum wage in America isn't dirt poor. We all have our costs of li
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by criley2 5y ago
ZeroHedge is a pretty nasty propaganda outlet to find it's way to this website. You should read the comments, it's mostly Q-ANON and radical far-right trolls, and their batting average on their economic predictions nears 0%. It&#x
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by criley2 5y ago
The boom bust cycle was much worse on the gold standard because when it busted, there was no way to stop it, and it could be manipulated by anyone with enough gold. We had the gold standard during the Roaring 20s, and we had the gold standa
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by criley2 5y ago
> Look at how much we injected in banks in 2008. If you're talking about the US, those were loans which, simply put, returned a profit to the US within a short number of years. https://projects.propublica.org/bailout
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by criley2 5y ago
While I see the logic in what you're saying, the Netflix business moat is already much deeper due to A) billion dollar content deals with major providers and B) billion dollar investments into first party content. Content is king and c
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by criley2 5y ago
These policies are enacted across the country. I must admit to confusion about your hypothetical. Rent control and eviction moratoriums exist in major cities across the USA, so an argument that they can't be enacted because no one will

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