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dennis_jeeves1
5y ago
Get in touch with similar minded people. 'Investing' in relationships is underrated and undervalued. Ofcourse all other advice in this thread holds like DIY repairs etc.
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.I am strongly against lockdowns and mandates and so on. The cure is much worse than the disease from my perspective. I have no concern over covid, all of my concern is over what the government will do next. Thanks for stating that. Even if
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A long time back I had see the video. Not the best points in the video, a little like how to make a million bucks. The concept is sound but the execution is hard. Most independent thinkers cannot even conceive of a parallel society. For the
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>How about we just stop electing people who are going to use power against their own citizens? If you think that's impossible, then how about we change the system such that it is. Neither of it is possible the average Joe/Jill
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5y ago
Not so fast, join the long queue...
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Will be down voted for this. But here are my unsubstantiated comment: If lab meat becomes equivalent in quality to animal meat the sum total energy will exceed the energy required to obtain animal meat. It's difficult to beat nature wh
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>You left undefined what you mean by "some sort of basic coding test". Yes, they never define it, because it's really hard work to clearly define what the bar is in terms of a know coding problem (like fizz-biz).
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That was a reasonably good summary. In general suspect anything that is foreign in nature( eg. plastics) to be harmful. The bar to deem them safe must be really high. Of course everything natural need not be safe either ( example green pota
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I think the only safe way is to completely power off the device, or even better not to place it in a location where you want it to be detected at. For example do not carry it. Removing sim or turning on the airplane mode may not help becaus
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Wrong on nearly everything you said, based on what I know. Can largely attest to everything dukeofdoom said. You are most likely relying on mainstream news only.
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Thanks, that's a great analysis how politics works in almost every group. The take is that if one wants a clean system once cannot give any powers to the govt, including the ability to tax, it's a slippery slope.
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>whether you live in a pretend democracy like Russia or the USA Thanks, I've always maintained that there are no real democracies. Democracy is typically a sophisticated form of dictatorship. They are sophisticated enough that most
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It's a relatively objective assessment of the topic, and human nature in general.
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Paradox of tolerance is what degenerates many functioning groups (including organizations, companies, nations). It should have never come to this stage...
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>This really seems like a situation with no good options. I think several fundamentals are wrong to start with, for example a simple definition of democracy appears to be that 51% gets to dictate the other 49%. With so many fundamental f
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Comments: Direction of society: If you are a small player like me, you have no control on it. The best that can do is what you can do for yourself along with similar minded people. For those that are disillusioned with people in general fol
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>Establish what "trust" is. The play-by rule-book. Interesting you mention this, I have used the word integrity in my own ramblings (can be found via a link on my profile), to essentially imply the same aspect, and probably muc