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by giorgosts 1y ago
Why would the filmmakers make the re-enactment though? For social media? For clicks over the interwebs? For context, by the late '20 programs were running for the elimination of Gypsies and disabled children inside concentration camps.
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by giorgosts 1y ago
So it is a re-enactment but nevertheless, it is depicting real world practices prevalent at the time.
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by giorgosts 2y ago
What about the use of lead in car batteries? Even if there are requirements for recycling, it is still a burden for the environment and the people that have to deal with the material is its various stages.
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by giorgosts 2y ago
The one making the current reforms the article is talking about, is also a convicted sex offender and a bro on the same island. History though, as a very distinguished philosopher once said, is the actions of men (and women) in pursuit of t
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by giorgosts 2y ago
Hydrogen as done by Toyota was a sales an lobbying tactic. By setting an undoable target (or a target too far in the future), they could push for more gasoline cars and less strict emission regulations in the meantime. Now this tactic has r
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by giorgosts 2y ago
False dichotomy. Of course language is for communication like in all other animals, but where would man be without the invention of the language of mathematics? Probably not in the space and nuclear age. So the linguistic tools can push the
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by giorgosts 3y ago
does fat32 support larger files than 4GB, common for video files shared with USB or SD cards?
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by giorgosts 3y ago
In capitalism the capital has a life and a mind of its own, independently from the people who own it or serve it as professionals. It wants to grow and accumulate. Only a mixture of capitalism with socialist policies can be beneficial to ma
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by giorgosts 3y ago
"But our acceptance of those property rights is subject to the important qualification that the interests of men and of society come first and that warns us both the misunderstanding and the hostility of conservatives." That'
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by giorgosts 4y ago
Bullshit story the consultant made up to bolster his point (93% efficiency claim from a foreman wtf). Of course finding some help moving parts around for the welders would be the first thing the foreman would think of, because thats what fo
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by giorgosts 4y ago
"Do not do to others what you don't want be done to you" is a good starting point on which free speech should be allowed and which should not. You should not have freedom to curtail the freedoms of others.
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by giorgosts 4y ago
US-centric approach. How about if China decides to fill the power vacuum that the isolationist US leaves. How about if eg. COSCO buys out the port operators around the globe. How about if they decide to protect their shipping routes with th
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by giorgosts 4y ago
If most students end up being paid their loans by the government its the same, minus the bureaucracy and the optics (we are not socialists, we discourage socialist behavior). You can apply this rationale to the army, police, fire brigades,
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by giorgosts 4y ago
Why are tuition fees and student loans necessary? Instead of the government backing up or paying up the student loans, can't it just pay the university directly and then the student would study for free? (after perhaps some common sens
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by giorgosts 4y ago
www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1617660/Boris-Johnson-Nato-expansion-Turkey-crisis-North-Cyprus-Sweden-update Apparently, the Turks included the recognition of the occupied (by them) North Cyprus as one of the terms for
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by giorgosts 4y ago
When they mutually recognize each others occupied lands as "sovereign states" the context would be pretty obvious. (Turkey to recognize the Russian backed separatists in Ukraine and Russia to recognize the Turkish backed separatis
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by giorgosts 4y ago
Enough of the lying propaganda. North Cyprus is by the accession treaties EU territory that the Republic of Cyprus cannot effectively control due to the illegally occupying Turkish troops. Much like the Russian controlled parts of Ukraine.
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by giorgosts 4y ago
They also occupy with 40000 soldiers one third of Cyprus, an EU country, thus essentially European territory.
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by giorgosts 5y ago
Or better older days that oscar nominated films came straight out of state propaganda offices, eg. Days of Glory, starring Gregory Peck https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036748/ that whitewashes Stalinism because we
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by giorgosts 6y ago
They can arrest whomever they want for reasons of their own and then they find a way for the arrests to appear legal or justified.
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by giorgosts 6y ago
Where in these protests do they mention the use of hybrids or intensive farming? As far as I can see these are about the deregulation of the market.
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by giorgosts 6y ago
The situation in Europe at least, is that if you choose the old ways you'll be loosing money, so nobody does it except for those that do it as a hobby and not for making a living.
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by giorgosts 6y ago
As a farmer, you can always choose not to use these methods, stay with your traditional way. As you can do in the west also, even in the EU with all its rules and regulations. And the impact of these grants is overrated. A billion in the wh
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by giorgosts 6y ago
Or just press Reader View on Firefox
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by giorgosts 8y ago
You can't throw folders with subfolders at it to make a playlist out of them. The music files have to be in the same folder. Where's the unobtrusive in that if I have to create my playlist first?
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by giorgosts 9y ago
The greek language is not dead, it is still spoken by about 15 mil. people worldwide. "Porfyro" is the deep red color that can be frequently experienced in esp. greek orthodox churches (even in apparell dating many hundreds of yea
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by giorgosts 9y ago
Kemalist Turkey was authoritarian from its infancy, with the military establishment in a central political role. Throughout its history, any attempt for liberalization / democratization, respect for human / minority rights etc. wa
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by giorgosts 10y ago
Fake (i.e. promotional) video
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by giorgosts 10y ago
CRI measures how natural the objects' colors appear under an artificial light source against the objects colors under a natural light source (standardized daylight). The color temperature and luminosity of natural light sources varies
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by giorgosts 11y ago
Here in Cyprus we have guaranteed minimum income benefit of 480 euros since 2014 http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1105&langId=en&int...

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