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by freeflight 4y ago
I guess the WHO must be "owned" by a lot of countries [0] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/o...
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by freeflight 4y ago
> when people were starting to get concerned about this strange new disease in China, the WHO announced there was "no evidence of human-to-human transmission" That is an US conservative disinformation meme, this [0] was the ac
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by freeflight 4y ago
> Is there a claim that the vaccines don’t prevent infection? Careful there with conflating the virus , SARS-CoV-2, with the disease , COVID-19, these two are not synonymous. At no point does the CDC article even mention SARS-CoV-2,
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by freeflight 4y ago
> Who claimed this? Plenty of governments were pushing vaccination campaigns with tales of "herd immunity".
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by freeflight 4y ago
> Agreed. I don't quite understand the focus on the WHO. Some conspiracy folks consider the WHO, just like the UN, the manifestation of the NWO global government that secretly controls everything. Didn't help that Trump had s
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by freeflight 4y ago
As a German it's super surreal to me. Ibuprofen are only sold in dedicated pharmacies here, behind the counter, the higher dosages ones even require a prescription from a doctor. I don't even understand why/how somebody can t
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by freeflight 4y ago
The major part of hangovers is dehydration, try hydrating up, with electrolytes, before going to bed, maybe pop an aspirin if you already feeling the headache come on.
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by freeflight 4y ago
Have you ever tried dipyrone? Never had issues with kidneys with Ibuprofen, mostly noticed it with the stomach, but dipyrone was very noticeably affecting my kidneys.
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by freeflight 4y ago
Regular use of Ibuprofen is not good for the gastric mucosa, overuse can lead to gastritis and stomach ulcers.
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by freeflight 4y ago
The US has an opiate epidemic in no small parts due to a overprescription and "just medicate the problem away, can't take a day off" mentality. A while ago there was a very relevant article about this on HN, an American wom
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by freeflight 4y ago
No response, just downvote, as usual. What has lately been up with the voting system on HN? Apparently people I reply to, with much newer accounts, can just instantly downvote my comments. Yet most of the time I don't even get a downvo
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by freeflight 4y ago
> Alleged Nuland tape, it hasn't been in anyway shape or form authenticated Except the USG officially apologized for the "undiplomatic language" on the tape [0] Do you think the USG is in the habit of apologizing for Rus
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by freeflight 4y ago
> The whole central point of this euro scaremongering is that Google will turn over your data to intelligence agencies when U.S. court orders it to do so. Euro scaremongering? [0] [1] Particularly that court mention is weird, consideri
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by freeflight 4y ago
That assumes schools have dedicated IT positions, when its very common for the school IT to be managed part-time by teachers themselves, as often there ain't enough money for a dedicated IT position.
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by freeflight 4y ago
> Ukraine also got couped. Except that's not how Russia tells it, that's what actually happened. On February 21 then acting Ukrainian president Yanukovych signed a transition deal with the Ukrainian opposition, brokered by th
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by freeflight 4y ago
> The app is distributed under the guise of performing Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against a set of Russian websites. > Based on our analysis, we believe that the StopWar app was developed by pro-Ukrainian developers and was th
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by freeflight 4y ago
But there is quite a difference between TL;DR and accusing people of wall of text/gish gallop. TL;DR is is an admittance that somebody couldn't be bothered to read something long, that's fair enough because they admit it&#x27
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by freeflight 4y ago
> The Cold War got hot cause of Russia, no one else. Because decades of NATO expansion have nothing to do with this [0], having literal NATO exercises at the border of Russia [1], just completely normal and not at all an escalation. No
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by freeflight 4y ago
The platforms are not dead, but the etiquette that mostly defined them is very much dead, very similar to the Eternal September, thanks to social media style engagement creeping its way into everything. Reddit is a good example for this; It
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by freeflight 4y ago
> I’m not sure they’re even able to without mass protests because the lng pipeline from the us will immediately dry up. The cold war has already gone hot thanks to "Fuck the EU" US interference in Ukraine [0] by now having es
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by freeflight 4y ago
> Also, we have not forgotten who caused the 2008 financial crisis and who keeps dodging tax and labor laws while the taxpayers are left to deal with the followup costs. But we have apparently forgotten about this [0], nearly a decade
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by freeflight 4y ago
> idk, when I see the US spending 8-10 trillion dollar in 20 years in Afghanistan I think money really isn't the problem here That's American fiscal policy, but we are talking about Germany here, which has way less debt per G
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by freeflight 4y ago
> This is not relevant, again, unless it would be impractical to install more transmission lines. It is very relevant, why should all the burden to fix all the worlds problems fall exclusively on Germany when Germany already has done
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by freeflight 4y ago
Heat pump hardware, and installation talent, is massively supply constrained and can't keep up with the demand. [0] [0] https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/eur...
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by freeflight 4y ago
> Fukushima incident had a big impact on German public opinion. Merkel already went against public opinion when she put in place running time extensions in late 2010 to delay the phase-out, that was massively controversial decision.
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by freeflight 4y ago
Anybody only "wondering" about that didn't try to look into the history of Germany and nuclear. It's home to one of the first long term nuclear storage sites in history, supposed to store the stuff for centuries, yet aft
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by freeflight 4y ago
This is still a venture capital/investment forum, just handwaving away these economic dynamics, without even trying to explain how to replace them, does not really add much to the debate. It's the equivalent of somebody pointing
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by freeflight 4y ago
Because Germany is also where the one of the worlds first deep geological repository sites for nuclear waste was experimentally started in the 70s, in the former salt mine Asse II. That thing was supposed to last for many centuries, yet aft
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by freeflight 4y ago
> Germany could simply sell nuclear electricity to other EU members so they will burn less gas. Germany is already the largest electricity exporter on the planet [0]. Germany is also the only economy of its size class that has an actua
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by freeflight 4y ago
If every German apartment dweller bought and ran an extra 1500W electric heater, then that would have a very noticeable effect on the German electricity grid and overall electricity consumption. This is already an issue in the UK with e

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