ericmay

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by ericmay 1mo ago
Probably not anything more than you could find via publicly accessible information and then the movements you do care about (deploying to go fight in a war) you'd get via your satellites and so forth. It's unfortunate that predato
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I hate to be the one to tell you this, but it has been that way for a long time. The only difference is Trump is doing it out in the open.
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The best strategy for dealing with old clothes is to not acquire old clothes in the first place. That means, spending more for clothing that will last longer in terms of style and quality, and being more comfortable with not changing what y
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> To determine whether Strauss and Howe discovered a genuine law of human history or simply constructed an elaborate retrospective horoscope, our research team audited every single Anglo-American generation across seven saecula from the
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Maybe you're not helping to solve this problem and you're just making it worse by overstating the problem and causing others to argue over whether there is even a problem? > People who want to just ram through voter ID laws w
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It’s so unimportant folks are commenting on my comment about how unimportant it is!
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I would just say that we should be mindful that the legal definition is how things are implemented in practice as well - states exercise their sovereign rights on a daily basis because the exercise of those rights is the exercise of an in
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> When did Putin or Xi had people killed over soccer? When did Donald Trump kill people over soccer? What are you talking about? > Yes Russia run doping program. It is not the only country with regular doping scandals. And yet, they d
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I just can't help but just sit here and laugh at these things. > Putin killed more people in Ukraine. He is worst in that regard. But we are talking about who is more corrupt or who would be insecure enough to call to change red c
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Sorry my point wasn't clear. Let me state if plainly: the OP's comments and points about corruption and Vladimir Putin and Xi Kingpin somehow wouldn't stoop to this level of corruption are fucking stupid.
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A better way to think about it is imagine that FIFA is a massive, roaring inferno of corruption and Europeans are ignoring it and then Donald Trump walks by and tosses a Mcdonalds wrapper on the inferno and it grows every so slightly and n
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No it's not. It's alive and well and just bought a new house. Stop fear-mongering. One person doing something wrong one time does not constitute any sort of noticeable or wide-scale practice and the fact that if such an event oc
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Folks have provided great information. It's up to you to decide to accept the facts or continue to double down on your private worldview, but it won't serve you well to be ignorant of the facts here.
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Right, its just we all lose respect and we're real mad when Donald Trump makes a phone call about something that, well you know frankly the American public agreed with, and we don't lose respect or whatever and we're not outr
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We don't live in the Jim Crow South anymore - you're making an extreme stretch here to try and paint a picture that isn't accurate. My point stands.
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> Blatant corruption for zero gain that even the Putin's and Xi Jin Pings never attempted.... was when Trump phoned Infantino to drop a red card during the world cup. FIFA, a largely European organization created by Europeans for a
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American states are sovereign entities. This is very well understood in Constitutional law, albeit a little confusing for the laymen as the common understanding of sovereignty would be something like, well France is sovereign because it h
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Strange, but a little more decentralized and a little more "free", isn't it? Why go through some centralized, hackable database, wait in line, and maybe get told to go away by some nameless official making minimum wage to upd
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> and in some cases they have refused to issue certificates of birth based on race, or other personal grudges held by officials. Just to be clear for our international friends, this is basically as unheard of. "In some cases" y
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Is that still the case? I recall "back in the day" that part of the reason for smashing these NFC chips was because of security failures like this, but I figured over time they'd be addressed. I'd love to read more about
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> The whole idea of "voter's fraud" is actually something unheard of in Europe because you will get government issued id (Citizen ID) when you reach 15 y/o and it is renewed every 10 years. You are then using it for v
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Interesting that some of these, including some from the Nordic countries are actually run by financial institutions and not the government.
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I think American passports have those as well because I remember all the hax0rs making videos showing where to smash the NFC chip with a hammer or to buy wallets with special NFC blocking properties to keep folks from “stealing their identi
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Which “normal, modern countries” have done variations of this?
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Ideally it’s not even stored…
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> For example, you give a drug researcher a patent on their discovery, that discourages innovation on making that new drug cheap and readily available. The pharmaceutical industry is also very highly regulated and so without some protect
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I'm not suggesting we should even consider invading Iran - mostly because we don't need to, but these numbers you are throwing around seem a bit off the mark without either a time horizon or some other qualifier. Also... a million
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No that's incorrect - what would be quasi religious and similar to this obsession with Vietnam would be for me or someone else to use North Korea's economic isolation as an example in the same strong fashion. I'd encourage
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Pretty well I think? Are you up to date with the Russian economic situation? Or are you suggesting the EU and US stop sanctions since they aren't effective?
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No, it doesn't sound like that. We haven't ever tried this level of economic isolation with Iran. The closest would be North Korea. If you wanted to attempt to make it sound as though I was parroting a quasi-religious point of vie

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