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by drekk 5y ago
If you don't know the details why are you speaking on it? Jimmy Carter increased US military aid to Indonesia as we knew they were committing genocide and selling donated Red Cross supplies. 90% of the weapons Suharto used in the invas
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by drekk 5y ago
Crypto doesn’t offer anything new over the blue dollar market besides digitizing it at a huge energy markup. If you're converting your crypto back to fiat you're still needing a reliable state sponsored intermediary at some point
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by drekk 5y ago
You get what you pay for, regardless of what someone's job is
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by drekk 5y ago
I agree on the animal products side of things, but cutting out meat has only improved my health and doesn't seem like a sacrifice. Maybe that's unusual but I think people just really enjoy the taste and are afraid of change. In my
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by drekk 5y ago
I don't know why this has to be framed as an either/or. The US doesn't invest in infrastructure but leads in medical patents, so the low hanging fruit is being ignored. It is cheaper to build ramps than fund good longitudinal
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by drekk 5y ago
She was permanently disfigured by those burns. The coffee was 82-88C or 180-190F. If you went to a diner you'd get coffee 20C colder. And it would still be hot. McDonalds shouldn't have to print a warning, I agree. They should not
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by drekk 5y ago
It would be better to have a system of checks and balances instead of the government sweeping stuff under the rug for a decade or so to "let things simmer"
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by drekk 5y ago
This is pretty gross holocaust revisionism. Equating the Nazis to the people that were responsible for 7/10 Nazi casualties. But hey, capitalist Russia today is a much nicer country than the USSR right? With lower infant mortality rate
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by drekk 5y ago
Or we could just not have a for-profit healthcare system and choose a less ridiculous way of allocating public health funds. Seems easier than an inquisition from the crowd that thinks COVID isn't real/is being overblown for nefar
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by drekk 5y ago
Mexico has more obese people per capita than the US and Japan had an older population. Want to compare the US numbers to either of those countries? Then compare per capita healthcare spending. The US doesn't have a public healthcare sy
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by drekk 5y ago
"Quality of the people" has some fun eugenics undertones to it for sure. I caught COVID from my boyfriend who worked in healthcare at the time, before vaccines were available. All three shots put me out for a day or two and I was
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by drekk 5y ago
I'll stick with the "strictly inferior" solution that doesn't swing in value or require wasting electricity and silicon. There is no such thing as a 100% private, 100% anonymous, 100% uncensorable system, either.
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by drekk 5y ago
I think we can avoid genociding millions of unarmed people for lebensraum personally. To that point I think indigenous societies were doing just fine. It wasn't a fact of life to lose a language or entire culture within a generation be
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by drekk 5y ago
Well, we don't live in the imperial hegemony of the Spanish empire, let alone the Aztec. We live in the imperial hegemony of the United States. The imperial power that is still violating treaties, sterilizing natives, and maintaining &
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by drekk 5y ago
Well I'm glad the staff at the Post is focusing on what really matters after a million Americans have died (and counting!): CONSUME
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by drekk 5y ago
It also required violence to free slaves in the United States. To say violence is always impermissible sides with whatever violence already takes place. In our times, one example would be that 1 in 5 children that are food insecure on the
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by drekk 5y ago
Well when I'm looking for a store of value to use in exchange for goods and services, it generally is helpful for me if my $100 is not $80 the next week, $110 the one after that, then $70, etc. What you mean to say is that BTC is a pre
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by drekk 5y ago
... unless you impact 51% of the hash rate and effectively become "the network" for the purposes of reaching consensus
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by drekk 5y ago
High fructose corn syrup is not the same thing as fructose, all other things being equal. Fiber also helps modulate the insulin response. Sugar isn't the enemy, if you're eating fruit you're getting a lot more than fructose f
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by drekk 5y ago
You can use a foot pedal operated dryer. They're cheap, portable, and only end up using caloric energy
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by drekk 5y ago
If you think wearing a mask in social gatherings is abuse or mass punishment I don't know what to tell you. We may as well have not come up with germ theory! Children are not the fragile little snowflakes you're making them out to
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by drekk 5y ago
The addiction is one of the most difficult to quit. With repeated use the nice feelings stop as well. There's no benefit to it, you're hijacking some neural circuitry until it hijacks your life
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by drekk 5y ago
You don't need to reach 3, or 4, or 8 to render swathes of the world functionally uninhabitable. At present trajectories Dubai and Miami will reach lethal wet bulb temperatures within my lifetime. Science refines models, you seem to be
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by drekk 5y ago
You can reverse it, it's called a 51% attack. It's also too volatile to transact with. If I have $100 today I know it's not going to be $90 next week, then $65 the following, then $250 after that. This also makes it a shitty
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by drekk 5y ago
You're right, profit is the only ethical concern and government should step back and let the invisible hand of the free market sort itself. If it's economical to use child slaves for chocolate cultivation the government has no bus
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by drekk 5y ago
I know the US is wrongly convicting its ethnic minorities. I don't have such proof with China. I live in the country that lied about WMDs and incubator babies in Kuwait. The one that considered bombing civilians in Miami to blame on Ca
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by drekk 5y ago
Then it wouldn't be F@H, you'd be part of Norton's botnet. It's not just the AV companies, uTorrent had a controversy around the same thing. All about making a quick buck and crypto is enabling it by getting people to bu
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by drekk 5y ago
F@H is using the energy for something useful. I don't view the creation of a digital speculative asset as useful in the same way I view scientific research (something terribly underfunded as-is) Crypto is a cancer even when users volun
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by drekk 5y ago
Unless you're willing to test blindly on humans that's not going to change. Our understanding of animal physiology is not purely selfish either, veterinary medicine doesn't exist without animal testing. Besides that, the IRB
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by drekk 5y ago
my favorite part about your response here is how you didn't answer any of the questions and gave a hand-wavey response about how they're wrong.

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