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by defrost 4mo ago
> do you see this as a valid critique? It's a valid point to raise, and a point critical of "boutique" medicine practices specialising in insecurities of the rich. In a nutshell our flesh is rarely homogenous, more often t
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by defrost 4mo ago
Hardly. No one is preventing under 16's from talking, nor denying them their mandate to vote once they reach the age of 18. There are actual arguments, better ones, against the Australian Governments course of action here, but neither
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by defrost 4mo ago
Isn't the nature of capitalism such that many companies are demonstrably competitive (aka 'hostile' ?) with one another? Chinese companies have also demonstrably pandered to the American consumer for many decades now. To furt
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by defrost 4mo ago
> your childhood home became more touristy and you're trying to blame somebody for that. Do you know this person or are you just making up a narrative and writing a stranger into it?
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Rich and famous families teach their kids Mandarin as China's influence grows(abc.net.au)
6 points by defrost 4mo ago|2 comments
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by defrost 4mo ago
Data first. What was that injury rate in Australia, how many of the > 20 million vaccine recipients died or were injured by vaccines. Where are these deaths and injuries greater in magnitude than COVID deaths and injuries? I cannot answe
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by defrost 4mo ago
> a much greater injury and death rate attributable to vaccines than COVID. Explain Australia then, specifically the absence of nation wide injury and death following the short period in which 98% of a population ~ 24 million or so, got
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by defrost 4mo ago
Using a nuclear strike first on the whim of an individual POTUS? First use should be heavily debated and almost always avoided. In response to {immediate pressing life threatening conditions at scale} .. they can be discussed and game pla
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by defrost 4mo ago
> You say that as if all the other presidents' wars ... That would be entirely your take on things I did not mention. > The death toll is only around 10000. What's the population of the suburb you live in? About that? >
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by defrost 4mo ago
The guidelines ask that curious conversation be pursued, drilling into straw guesses about fellow commenters motivations be eschewed. Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. ~ h
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by defrost 4mo ago
A data centre isn't a lamp post.
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Battery-Powered Air Conditioners Take a Load Off the Grid(spectrum.ieee.org)
5 points by defrost 4mo ago|1 comments
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by defrost 4mo ago
Trump avoided briefings like they were his uglier children, famously first term rumours claimed the intelligence crowd had to dumb down two hour compact briefings to 5 minute cartoon animated toilet reading fodder. Harris has a background a
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by defrost 4mo ago
There are other counties further to the southwest than Wiltshire .. although a well earned high five for referencing Stonehenge.
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by defrost 4mo ago
The first example cites "the worst performance ever". Taking that as a given how bad was it? This season's vaccines were around 25% to 30% effective in preventing adults from getting sick enough from the flu that they had
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by defrost 4mo ago
Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Moon ( with bonus book ban credentials: From the time of its publication in 1947 until 1972, the book was "banned" by th
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by defrost 4mo ago
... and yet, they exist, are cheap, and widely available. Burner phones are available at all major retail outlets, including Best Buy, Target and Walmart. They're also often available at convenience stores like 7-Eleven, local supe
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by defrost 4mo ago
It's certainly legitimate to question the role of solar variability in climate change, and it's absolutely something that has been looked at seriously. The consensus, with increasing solidarity, from the 1990s through until now is
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by defrost 4mo ago
Hmmm, in context he was(?) tracking a public ministers car. I'm Australian and I'm all for peeling back and making transparent all the comings and goings of public officials (within reason) - they deserve a good return, a hefty
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by defrost 4mo ago
On the flip side, there's a lot to be said for a low centre of gravity and it's still the case that US "trucks" get smushed by actual trucks (road trains and heavy haul outmass a tahoe). https://www.youtube.co
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by defrost 4mo ago
Netenyahu has been pushing the "Iran is building a nuke; they're literally a week away" line for decades. Trump and the day drinker were the first senior US officials to take that seriously - Trump kicked that off by neuterin
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by defrost 4mo ago
Australia was once awash with "real British" people who constantly attempted to lord it over all - it really doesn't pay to let self denoted elites get away with that shit. Modern Australia is seeing new waves of various beha
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by defrost 4mo ago
> The categories are quite arbitrary, can vary, and can change. Yes, race is a social construct. Obviously. > Compare with say how easy it is for someone with different political views to just hold their tongue when bureaucrats and tr
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by defrost 4mo ago
She's been doing that for decades with no traction. What's changed is recently she and her like-wits such as Joyce have abandoned traditional media and gone fully social media and focusing on building an ever growing echo chamber
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by defrost 4mo ago
Which categories are these though? William Z. Ripley's 1899 The Races of Europe or more, say, Steven Coons Carleton's 1939 treatise?
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by defrost 4mo ago
> fine, let's call it "ethnicity" then. Ethnicity is mostly stable for most individuals, sure, but it too is hardly immutable - people do and have changed their countries, social cultures, and daily language usage- even to
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by defrost 4mo ago
Let's just talk about the recent (past 500 years) change in the insulation properties of the planet's atmosphere. It's been in a constant burbling flux that has many factors, fires, volcanoes, etc all contribute to the steady
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by defrost 4mo ago
The point is that people in the US absolutely do get called racist all the time for all manner of things. The question was asked if some US person might be called racist for having an opinion about gentrification that seemingly has little t
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by defrost 4mo ago
> that race is an intrinsic immutable attribute Not to those familiar with the history of the US Census racial classifications, given the number of times the categories shifted and changed it seems more than a little opinionated.
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by defrost 4mo ago
Sure, but if anybody can truck refuse and clean sewers but only one person will actually do it, that's not really a monopoly by Kenny the toilet cleaner*, that's more like a caste system with "the unclean" over there. I&

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