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by fiblye 9y ago
Nigeria's got a population 50% larger than Japan and they're the largest economy in Africa. I don't see why little countries should be expected to give up their cash to bigger countries just because it's "polite&quo
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by fiblye 9y ago
It makes Nigeria look bad. Why lend money to a country that's just going to wait around for some megabillionaire from another country to make a goodwill effort to take care of its problems?
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by fiblye 9y ago
Reading the text around it makes it pretty clear: it's code that shouldn't ever be called.
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by fiblye 9y ago
Their daily ridership is also many times higher than the average of pretty much any city.
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by fiblye 9y ago
If there's one thing America has mastered, it's the art of starting conflicts with "good intentions" like this and causing more harm than their enemy. See: Libya, Vietnam, Iraq. Every few years Americans say "never
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by fiblye 9y ago
>What's the implication here? That North Korea is justified in building up their arsenal to protect themselves from a country that has actively sought to topple other governments it simply just doesn't like. That vast majority
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by fiblye 9y ago
I've got to say, I'm incredibly impressed by how a country with zero computer education or infrastructure manages to launch a successful cyber attack against the most militaristically aggressive nation on earth right as that count
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by fiblye 9y ago
I don't know where people keep getting this idea that China is monocultural, but it's helpful when they do because really demonstrates their ignorance of the country. China is also by and far safer than America. Odd crimes/ac
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by fiblye 9y ago
Because if someone says they want your facebook/line/whatever to talk to you, you become a bit of an outcast when you say that you only use secure messaging apps like Signal. People here might be willing to put up with those discu
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by fiblye 9y ago
>No one is going to use these forums if it means they or their family members can be put in jail for a joke. Nah, they will. The convenience factor far outweighs the risk for most people. Everyone thinks "well, they must've don
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by fiblye 9y ago
Of course soldiers are considered outsiders. I doubt people stationed in Korea or Germany will be going on about how they felt like true locals either. The biggest hurdle is the language barrier. People treat you like kids when they think y
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by fiblye 9y ago
>I don't doubt some level of that drive exists. That's one hell of an understatement. It's only the primary driving force of all successful complex lifeforms. Living things that give preference to offspring other than thei
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by fiblye 9y ago
Many, many learners wish Japanese had more available phonemes. One of the biggest problems with Japanese is it imported batches of tens of thousands of Chinese words and forced them into a language with only a fraction of the sound comple
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by fiblye 9y ago
>Japanese script is less effort to learn, as it uses "only" 2000 Kanji. Students are taught around 2136 kanji in school, and there are a couple hundred more that aren't taught in school yet pretty much every adult knows an
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by fiblye 9y ago
I'm pretty sure most of these "My recently released game failed. Here's why" posts are just self-denigrating ads. I remember a couple years back posts like these blew up pretty much weekly and completely average, boring
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by fiblye 9y ago
Kind of looks like it's from a game with bad physics. Except it's not.
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by fiblye 9y ago
Sales tax also puts a larger unavoidable burden on the poor, which I suppose is preferable to some. Then consumer spending among groups who have no room to save leads to them buying cheaper products, increasing numbers of which are cheap or
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by fiblye 9y ago
Getting a job as an American here is easy. Just be proficient in the language and have solid skills in your field and it's not difficult to get a good programming job that pays about $2000 a month with 25-40 hours of expected overtime.
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by fiblye 9y ago
Yeah, what a disaster that was. Time to take a step back and reconsider this whole "democracy" sham for what it is. All it does is let the clowns run the circus. And once commoners are voting, who knows what else they'll be d
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by fiblye 9y ago
A few hundred whales, particularly the non-endangered minke whales targeted by Japan, won't disrupt anything. The west's obsession with beef is a much larger environmental issue than eating whale ever will be. On that note, much o
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by fiblye 9y ago
Living somewhere that's increasingly being overrun with disrespectful tourists, I've been making a point of keeping my travels a secret as well. I've found loads of beautiful spots and I take plenty of pictures, but those pic
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by fiblye 9y ago
Other celebrity presidents would merely be dumb. Society has managed to survive bumbling politicians, mocking them all along the way. Zuckerberg strikes me as hell-bent on global domination, but doing it with the most plastic smile possible
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by fiblye 9y ago
Non-profit doesn't mean non-comfortable. I'm not even a tall person, but economy is tight enough that my whole body hurts 1 hour into a ride. It's impossible for me to find a sleep position and watching last year's medio
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by fiblye 9y ago
The ironic thing about Muji is everything I come across there costs 50-100% more than branded products I see elsewhere. Single serving packets of curry for 800 yen? Basic shirts for 3000 yen? No thanks.
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by fiblye 9y ago
Agreed with the crackdown, but not with the "brave" methods. Someone is getting paid to not only look but distribute this all day, everyday. We need to take measures to demolish government institutions that post and distribute thi
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by fiblye 9y ago
Coming from a rural area where all the farm jobs went away and half the people are unemployed: they very well can, and do. There are three main hobbies in my hometown: drinking, heroin, and TV. things haven't changed a bit there in 20
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by fiblye 9y ago
Even assuming we end up with some society where robots do most of the labor and universal basic income becomes a thing, what do you think 90% of people will do? People need to be occupied, and the typical person isn't an inventor or ar
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by fiblye 9y ago
Humans can decide a lot of things. We're all still dumb animals driven primarily by instinct, although we like to think the levels of abstraction we put on top of those instinctual actions makes us somehow enlightened. It's a matt
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by fiblye 9y ago
100 million isn't anywhere close to what I've seen reports of before, and I can't imagine it being true. Do you have any non-religiously motivated sources for that claim?
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by fiblye 9y ago
It's easy to construct a Venn diagram of fairness for all and democracy. O O Very few independence movements are "fair". There are regions of every country in the world that generate a disproportionate amount of wealth relati

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