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by devoply 7y ago
When your main mode of political reasoning is reasoning about myths that you compartmentalize... It's obvious that in terms of politics there is no reason, it's simply what you or your society want to believe to justify what you w
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by devoply 7y ago
Nope. Not at all. You have references in your mind for what a certain number correlates to and that's all that changes...
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by devoply 7y ago
I have lived under both regimes, and it's easy to adjust to either one... It's just a matter of a few years.
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by devoply 7y ago
I can't say I like everything he says, but he's got a lot of good stuff to say.
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by devoply 7y ago
Yeah Netflix isn't going anywhere, Disney is just going to justify its chunk of your entertainment spending. I am okay with $50 spend for a large catalog of stuff to watch with no commercials, that enough of the improvement. Cable was
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by devoply 7y ago
Chai or its variant Cha is an incredibly common word for tea throughout all of Asia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_tea
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by devoply 7y ago
> The lowest exposure level used in the studies was equal to the maximum local tissue exposure currently allowed for cell phone users. This power level rarely occurs with typical cell phone use. The highest exposure level in the studies
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by devoply 7y ago
Not boy who cried wolf, people just love their mobile internet and corporations and governments love their profit to care about the science: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/high-exposure-...
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by devoply 7y ago
Though I can't say what you are saying is not true, in the case of electromagnetic issues I think it's the government which is not really doing it job because profit is more important. The NIH already showed that cancer can be cau
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by devoply 7y ago
Human beings have always been mythological beings. It's just that the myths that they now believe are amplifications of their own beliefs, or what they want to believe, rather than the collective beliefs of their societies, elites, tho
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by devoply 7y ago
American cockeyed courts usually side with the DOJ when it comes to foreigners. It might not nothing. If they can get him to the US he's screwed despite the shoddy case against him.
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by devoply 7y ago
Broadband in car all over US and Canada. Yes please!
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by devoply 7y ago
It does not make sense to take control away from people who are running companies and have all their assets tied up in them like Zuckerberg, Bezos, et. al. This is a disasterous recipe for sure. But once they are not longer doing that or es
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by devoply 7y ago
Obviously it's marginal, and so is this whole argument, tax massive amounts of wealth (at that time it was anything over 200k (2 million in today's dollars at 90%), not your average Joe. Keep grasping at straws. And yeah make as m
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by devoply 7y ago
I said it before if the US gets their hands on him, he's going away for life. Each charge is about 10 years x 18 charges.
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by devoply 7y ago
Why not try to do both and become an expert in the system your employer is migrating to as well while you are at it.
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by devoply 7y ago
Are you daft? You make 20k, you pay no taxes. You make 200k, you pay 90k in taxes. At one point in the past if you made millions you paid 90% of your income in taxes. So yes how much you can make - 90%... make as much as you want. Soviet pr
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by devoply 7y ago
OTOH, all reasons are cons... an expert in an esoteric system with none of those will be paid her weight in gold by the fewer employers in need of a very finite resource... while js programmers are a dime a dozen.
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by devoply 7y ago
We already decide how much you can keep. It's called taxes. Everyone pays them. Taxing extreme opulence never seen on the planet is quite a bit away from sending people to the gulag don't see what one has to do with the other. How
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by devoply 7y ago
> Right to property and ownership is enshrined in the constitution for this exact kind of demagoguery. Yea that 200 and some year old document written by God himself... or was it rich white slave owners that wanted to keep all of the wea
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by devoply 7y ago
Don't share pictures online. If you have to, send them via e-mail. Host your e-mail using a private provider. Make your family do the same.
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by devoply 7y ago
I was thinking today why not just create an overlay network on top of the internet that throws-back to a place without corporations or governments?... Back to the 90s internet. With its own DNS servers, etc. Which does not resolve anything
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by devoply 7y ago
Nonviolent or violent civil resistance can easily be co-opted by other actors like the CIA or KGB for their own nefarious agendas. Be wary of being pawns for assholes. Transforming your country into a liberal, democratic country requires th
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by devoply 7y ago
Survivor-ship bias. Helluva way to make money.
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by devoply 7y ago
To keep in line with the aims of the US Constitution you would need much more powerful weaponry than what is allowed, which currently can't actually be used to take on anyone with any real firepower... but is often used against civilia
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by devoply 7y ago
Many people are not diagnosed and many illnesses are transient. This is really not enough.
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by devoply 7y ago
Most important thing in modern America is to protect yourself and your reputation from assault as a simple accusation can destroy your life and plenty of people lie. Some rhetoric is not going to change that fact.
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by devoply 7y ago
Going forward China is going for broke... so though your comment is true, it's also true that China will try to best the West in everything as a final grasp at power as the West attempts to contain it. The result of these actions will
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by devoply 7y ago
What should be talked about is what's actually the point of jobs. It's not as a means to get work done so corporations can generate profit. Jobs are a tool to organize society. Profit is a side-effect of that but an irrelevant par
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by devoply 7y ago
The question for a real investor in a stock market is, is it going up or down over a 10 year period or if it's a company the same thing applies in a period of 10 years is it going up or down. Outside of that in any stock market you are

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