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by disown 6y ago
> A million dollars is a million dollars. Not if you are a company worth $1.6 trillion dollars. But that $1 million dollars probably bought them a lot more in free press. To put it into perspective, it would be like someone worth $1.6 mi
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by disown 6y ago
That's my guess as well. A PR firm was hired and they came up with this idea. It's pretty much an ad for the police and lamborghini. The question is who paid for it. It's like the jump from the space a few years ago sponsored
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by disown 6y ago
> It gets a bad reputation because there is of necessity a significant amount of memorization. Ah, the joys of having to memorize all the counties and then all 50 states and their capitals. Never again. > And I really hate to be one
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by disown 6y ago
Australia has never been and will never be a sovereign nation. It used to be part of the british empire and is now part of the american led anglo-protectorate. They are part of the anglo world and I can't ever see us letting them leave
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by disown 6y ago
> Deng shepherded economic reforms critical to China's success after it was left in dire straits by Mao. A single person isn't responsible for anything in a major country. Especially a country the size of china. Whenever you ar
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by disown 6y ago
> It's kind of interesting how India decided that free trade with 30% of the world is less valuable than protecting its manufacturing from china India isn't protecting it's manufacturing from china, but rather ASEAN. China
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by disown 6y ago
> American individualism so often deflects the responsibility of dealing with such trauma on those who are subjected to this kind of harassment because it's not impacting the vast majority of the population ("not my problem&quo
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by disown 6y ago
> America is changing. It used to be a place where excellence was welcomed because people knew that if your neighbors succeed, so do you. What? It's so funny how "news" is able to spin a fairy tale that the masses so readi
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by disown 6y ago
> ??? Exactly. This is the problem with the country. Half the crazies believe one set of conspiracies is the truth and the other half believe in another set of conspiracies. > .org is not a government domain. Right, I said they were s
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by disown 6y ago
> People who don't know much about suicide prevention think these are important points, but anyone who works in suicide prevention can tell you that observations don't work; You are being intentionally misleading here. I'm
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by disown 6y ago
> One thing I found is how bad ddg is at removing conspiracy theories and other misinformation. Can't be any worse than google since they give preferential treatment to conspiracy theorists like CNN, MBNBC, Foxnews, etc. > For in
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by disown 6y ago
That doesn't really explain everything else does it? The guards, the cameras, etc. And if he was the type to kill himself, wouldn't he have done so the first time he got caught? > It's much more of a stretch the imagine a
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by disown 6y ago
> For all its many failings, I think this is one of the benefits that religion (an particularly the form of religion popular in Europe during the the last 2000 years) can provide. Europe was home to the most horrific religious violence i
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by disown 6y ago
The free market economy doesn't exist. It's a fairy tale told by the news industry to the uneducated masses. Whenever you hear the news say the US has always been a champion of free trade, just know they are lying. https:/&#
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by disown 6y ago
Nice to know, but lets not test this theory out. Maybe the odds of human extinction from nuclear war isn't 100%, but the odds of human suffering from nuclear war is 100%.
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by disown 6y ago
Not just your current location, but where you've been and where you will be going. If you are traveling, moving, changing jobs, etc, you probably had some interaction via emails. If you had access to a significant portion of a country&
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by disown 6y ago
Which brings up an interesting point. What makes a language european? English, French, etc are official languages in many african and asian colonies due to conquest. Does it make french and english asian or african language? Is russian an a
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by disown 6y ago
> The whole world shut down It didn't. The essential people/work still had to show up for work. Butchers, farmers, supermarket workers, truckers, cops, medical workers, etc. The less essential workers either had to close shop (
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by disown 6y ago
> Ethnically (genetically) we're more closer... My point wasn't about which slavic groups poland is more closer to. The point is that poland is a slavic nation and hence far more closer to other slavic nations than to italy&#x2
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by disown 6y ago
Fake easily debunked propaganda doesn't work. Because people can easily find out it is fake. You can't claim china is exterminating muslims when the muslim population has skyrocketed in china. The ugyhur nonsense is exactly the sa
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by disown 6y ago
> That is simply inaccurate and Kosher killing has always had humanity in animal killing front and centre This is absolute nonsense. > even far before the concept of treating animals humanely became widespread in human societies. Ther
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by disown 6y ago
> Ergo Poland has always been more connected politically and culturally to the West Politically and religiously more connected to Rome, not the West as Rome stopped being the head of the West for centuries now. But Poland is also ethnica
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by disown 6y ago
I just don't get it. There are legitimate issues you can bring up about china. Crazy silly propaganda pieces aren't going to cut it. What happened to the ughyur propaganda nonsense? Did that get aged out of the propaganda cycle? D
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by disown 6y ago
From the article: "But I felt compelled to provide an English version of Jack Ma’s speech on October 24 at the Bund Finance Summit in Shanghai, because mainstream media coverage of the speech and the subsequent cancellation of Ant Grou
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by disown 6y ago
I wonder what Facebook or Google's "poll" numbers would have been if they decided to run one? Given their access to search, texts, social media posts, emails, tracking, etc along with their profile of a large segment of the p
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by disown 6y ago
I think you have it backwards. We found taiwan to be geopolitically valuable so we helped them "lead chip fab". We have to keep taiwan, korea, japan, etc happy to keep them from aligning with china. Like we have to keep germany&#x
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by disown 6y ago
I remember watching Contact and then reading the book and thinking I would like to visit the arecibo telescope on day. Didn't know they gave mini tours.
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by disown 6y ago
> The US was founded on the idea that "all men are created equal." No it wasn't. The US was founded on the idea that a king across the ocean can't tell us we can't expand beyond the appalachian mountains. https
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by disown 6y ago
> Historically, the West opened up to China as China economically liberalized We "opened up" china by war. Opium wars? Boxer rebellion? I'm not chinese and I seem to know your history more than you. Why is that? And china
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by disown 6y ago
> The Chinese government is putting ethnic minorities in camps. No. They are putting separatists/terrorists funded by the west in "camps". They aren't putting minorities in camps. > The American government did that

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