friedturkey

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by friedturkey 5y ago
> Compare the intelligence of a cow or pig or similar mammal to an octopus and the mammal will DESTROY the octopus. Octopuses are incredible because we've found the opposite. Octopuses are solving pretty complicated puzzles oftentim
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by friedturkey 5y ago
What's with your backhanded comments lol People have been getting informed through documentaries for decades. People have been getting informed through books for millennia. People have been sharing experiences through discussion before
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by friedturkey 5y ago
GDP PPP is a more accurate measure. It factors in what things cost locally. The scales start to balance out more when looked from that angle. Even then, some places like Afghanistan don't change much--and they're still completely
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Ukraine has excellent farmland. Russia has their own local economy and can produce most of the things they need just with their direct neighbors. French cheeses, American-branded phones, and Italian cars may be too expensive for the Russian
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by friedturkey 5y ago
History has shown that trying to let people like Putin take chunks of land as they please doesn't end well. They don't one day decide, "Yep, that's enough! Sorry for the trouble, lads!" They see how easy it is and d
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Ironically, Russia was pretty comfortably selling oil and gas until Putin decided he wanted to destroy his country's industry. I don't think anyone hates the Russian people as much as he does.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
I think, generally, making CO2 is pretty easy. There are billions of things that make it as a byproduct and that's why we have a problem with runaway CO2. Things that consume CO2 are less common. But that is a good thing to think about
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Justice in these countries isn't quite the same as what you're used to. In, say, America or Western Europe, you'll call the cops and they'll say "uh huh okay" and you'll just have to hope they'll laun
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by friedturkey 5y ago
It has all the power of something like Python, but is much faster and with far less cruft and basically no confusing elements. You’re given a small set of tools and it’s incredibly easy to build off them.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Unfortunately, past experience at Google is still seen as a good sign in job applications. I think we're at a point where gap years should be a better sign than a stint at that company.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Lua is the only language I can truly say I love. If more people used it (and used it responsibly, not letting it become a mess of odd libraries), the world would be a better place.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
When I was applying for a Chinese visa, one of the (allegedly) most reliable sites for this country was some weird site that looked straight out of 1998. Funky colored text randomly placed. Improperly scaled images everywhere. Only one page
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by friedturkey 5y ago
It’s basically the inverse of the US system. In the US, unless they have a solid case and offer a plea bargain, you’re better off not talking to cops and staying silent until they give up. In Japan, once you know they have somewhat of a cas
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Man people really see some blog post about Japanese law by a person who doesn’t speak the language and think it’s some 1984 style country. In all honesty you can basically apologize out of a lot of crimes and police generally don’t bother w
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by friedturkey 5y ago
I think we've reached a point where prices don't really drop on anything within established industries even when it's expected that they should, unless they're at serious risk of being replaced by a newer, better product
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by friedturkey 5y ago
And they're clearly not interested in making money since they've abandoned the project and are going bankrupt, so none of what you said has any validity here. Should houses collapse when the builder goes out of business? Should pe
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Nobody is advocating for revenge lol Just that once someone buys a product, they get to keep it and continue using it. But oh no that’s communism the world is ending! lol
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by friedturkey 5y ago
A creditor's right to cash overrides a person's right to see?
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Just tried this and you're completely right. Shameless how they think anyone would be gaslit.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Yeah, looking up technical stuff now for anything outside of very major tech is an absolute nightmare. It's nothing but auto-generated pages made of random parts of random forums posts smashed together under some weird url like tech-he
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Or just countries that don't subsidize fuel or cheaply produce it on their own. Taxes are just one factor in the price.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
The potential for taxation is just a more presentable way of selling such a plan. Saying “we want to track your every movement” isn’t yet palatable. In another 10 years and some overhyped criminal incident later, it might be, though.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Any examples of a good wiki article? For culinary history it's definitely useful, but I haven't found much generally practical info.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
I mean, you said the government not stepping in is the problem, and the source of that problem is money... That's just what capitalism is. There is no ideal world where people max out their earnings and say "haha i'll be a fr
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Bit of a stretch. It has a lot of bot content in some places, but for Q&A stuff you'll get more relevant results than most stuff google suggest these days. Searching for some certain cooking methods gives me endless blog spam that&
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Nice baseless FUD that's completely wrong. :) As an American, my longest waits and worst care were all in the US. I pay just a couple bucks in Japan and get far better, far faster care. Pissing blood from a major kidney infection and h
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by friedturkey 5y ago
If you really think dropping regulations and making it a free for all for multi-billion dollar corporations to fiddle with our health would improve anything, you're simply lying lol Countries with more regulation and more control by th
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Capitalism is what got America into its health care mess. Other countries aren't paying thousands for simple pills or insulin.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
What? You somehow implied that people hate renewable energy when the only thing is people are saying that in addition to that, recycling is good. FUD isn't even an applicable term.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Yeah, just like fresh water and trees are everywhere, so why bother conserving them. Environmental destruction is a huge problem and usable sand is a limited resource and often in delicate environments. It’s not the 19th century anymore—peo

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