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by cronix 5y ago
Getting off the gold standard and going to a fiat currency, and going into exponential debt ever since. It stagnated the middle class due to inflation and wages not keeping up (which would have caused more inflation). We needed cheap labor
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by cronix 5y ago
Don't feel too bad, neither can the POTUS with whatever level of access they have.
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by cronix 5y ago
more compelling != most compelling
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by cronix 5y ago
The more compelling case for me was William Binney's point (former Technical Director of NSA) that the timestamps in the Gucifer leak showed that the data was transferred at about the same rate as a usb stick, which was quite a bit fas
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by cronix 5y ago
Research Edward Bernays. The nephew of of Sigmund Freud, and often referred to as the "pioneer/father of public relations/propaganda." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays He basically weapo
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by cronix 5y ago
And labeling people as conspiracy theorists if they dare question it, even if they are in a position to do so. A lot of people will just start self-censoring and not bring up the questions. It takes someone with impeccable credentials, inte
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by cronix 5y ago
The military just follows the orders of the authoritarian government that funds and controls them. They are just an extension.
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by cronix 5y ago
If they used the real inflation numbers, this problem would be even more astronomical than it is: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10522 because > Mandatory expenditures, such as Social Sec
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by cronix 5y ago
One is an attention seeker and always happens to be where cameras and events are, and the other is not.
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by cronix 5y ago
I'm sure most of us forgot, but thankfully there's always one in the crowd to point it out and remind us.
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by cronix 5y ago
Can we next do Falsehoods web developers believe about there being any benefit to hijacking the native scroll functionality, and use this website as an example?
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by cronix 5y ago
Personally I use the FastLED library a lot using various microcontrollers. There are plenty of "sound reactive" or "audio reactive" or "beat detection" projects if you search the user forum on reddit. You can b
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by cronix 5y ago
All cable systems in the US are mandated to supply users with those "CableCards" if they request them to decrypt cable tv channels, so you can use your own tuners and not be forced to rent one forever from the cable company. So, i
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by cronix 5y ago
Here's a pretty good interview Larry did on Tim Pools show about 7 months ago, outlining just how bad it is. It's a topical show and not 100% focused on Larry though. Tim also outlines how hard it is to correct factually inaccurat
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by cronix 5y ago
Was that the only "treatment" he did at the time? No. He also took Monoclonal Antibodies and prednisone. Why didn't you bring that up? > In addition to mentioning ivermectin, the podcaster, who has previously stated that t
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by cronix 5y ago
For one thing, the tax burden wouldn't be equal to a months rent, and then multiplied by however many months the moratorium lasts. If you were renting out a house for $1,500 a month, and not able to collect rent for over a year, that&#
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by cronix 5y ago
Yeah, no one ever looks down at people, or companies, that put their own personal interests (money) above that of society.
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by cronix 5y ago
Oregon's heading down the same path. > HB 2021 sets a timetable by which Oregon’s two major power companies, Portland General Electric and Pacific Power, must eliminate emissions associated with the electricity they provide. Five “e
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by cronix 5y ago
You don't want to know where our scientific knowledge of frostbite came from. Other horrors as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#Frostbite_testing
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by cronix 5y ago
...tomorrow night, Halloween?
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by cronix 5y ago
In the state of Washington alone, they have lost many state employees due to choosing to not get the mandated vaccine. Around 1,900. > The new data released by Reykdal's office show that schools statewide lost 470 employees due to t
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by cronix 5y ago
> It’s just the reality of working in corporate America. I think it's just the reality of working for someone else, and the longer you do it the higher the chance of > I feel like a cog in a machine becomes. There's a lot th
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by cronix 5y ago
My dad's modem was 75 baud, on the TRS80. You didn't plug a phone line directly into it. This was still in the era of rotary phones before push button blue tone ones. You put the handset of the phone (which had the microphone and
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by cronix 5y ago
This guy accidentally threw a hard drive away with 7,500 BTC on it. He's offering $70M to allow him to excavate the landfill. BTC price has even doubled since this happened. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/15&#x2F
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by cronix 5y ago
You seem knowledgeable on the subject. Have there been any studies that have been peer reviewed, and replicated, that have come to roughly the same conclusions? Or is this preprint the first time the subject has been studied?
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by cronix 5y ago
Aaaand congratulations to the end beneficiaries of all of this action - big pharma, who made a boatload selling highly addictive, legal drugs and leaving a trail of decline, death and despair in its trail. Clamp down on the illegal stuff wh
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by cronix 5y ago
> but I fail to see how the fact that Apple is good at designing chips has any relevance whatsoever to the idea that Apple may or may not be good at manufacturing those same chips. > If every ROI-seeking multibilliondollar hedge fund
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by cronix 5y ago
I think it's odd that acronyms or any multi-word "word" (if you can logically call it that) gets an entry into the dictionary, which I thought was to define individual words.
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by cronix 5y ago
My bet is on their own fab(s) at some near-future point. They are one of the few who can afford the infrastructure (buildings/equipment) and talent, and they totally rely on a supply chain that is currently dubious, and has the real po
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by cronix 5y ago
I think the only way to sanely and safely use a modern "smart" tv is to use it as a "dumb" monitor. How ironic. Never use the software, except once to select HDMI 1 as the input, or whatever. That's the last time yo

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