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> the entire point of these co2 laws is to have more control over people’s lives rather than to solve problems. Interesting take, so the absolutely massive subsidies on meat that completely change the overall affordability of meat vs veg
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> In a democratic society, laws should exist to protect state secrets. Should USA really pass a law to protect Russian state secret? No? Why should Australia or England pass laws to protect US state secrets?
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> At the same time, some state secrets are best kept secret Yes, war crimes committed by USA and its allies are best kept secret and those committed by others are best exposed, right? He’s not American and America are not “the good guys”
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> States have secrets its just the nature of the world. So let’s just check your bias. Assuming an American journalist living in England exposes video of Russia gunning down civilians and shows they are covering it up. Would you say the
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Don’t know what’s hard to understand there? Microsoft didn’t have a chat product (worth anything, Skype was a mountain of crap). Slack comes along and builds a great product, Microsoft goes “oh, the office suite now includes teams!” So ever
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“But Your honor! yes my client murdered his wife, but every country has murderers, so why should we punish him for that? Isn’t the true criminals his kids who went to the cops and thus caused permanent damage to his and therefore their chan
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2y ago
Is people knowing more truthful facts to you considered “rigging an election”?
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Clinton is not democracy. Anti-Clinton is not anti democracy. Being anti the US government is not anti democratic. And no, letting USA or any other nation for that matter commit war crimes quietly does not support democracy.
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> because they don’t make it anymore They do, you can buy it at Walmart cheaply.
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> but at the end of the day, they are the sort of person who would work at an intelligence agency or tobacco company in the first place. Yes? Snowdens position was never that the government shouldn’t be allowed to spy on citizens, it was
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2y ago
Yes, and Nazis can buy coffee at Starbucks and burgers at McDonalds, not very freedom afforded to Nazis is inherently bad just because it’s equally afforded to those with and without Nazi views.
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> But isn't this a product aimed at hackers and tinkerers? It was, but The appeal spread outside of that, which is why they are now going public and abandoning the precious niche mission and are instead aiming at mass market appeal.
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Yes, that seems to be the point. To clearify that people were reading too much into the news around a partnership with OCI.
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What a strange perspective, the oil reserves aren’t located anywhere near the “barren remote” parts of Norway, consider the famous ekofisk oil field, it’s in the ocean roughly in the middle between Denmark England and Norway. And the southe
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2y ago
Independent of what people believe of him or his defense of Faurisson's freedom of speech one thing is clear, they have both been the target of extremely aggressive smearing campaigns by Israel. I would defend the right to freedom of s
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2y ago
I wonder how this compares to taking cold showers, which I believe studies have shown can be effective, but I don’t know the rate at which it can be effective.
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> Boeing is under justifiably intense scrutiny for many of its manufacturing and engineering practices Well that yes, but not just the engineering and manufacturing practices or apparent lack of safety, also the extremely suspicious cond
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> Do you have any doubt that Russia has been interfering in US politics for well over a decade? You mean through completely accepted and legal campaign donations to pretty much every major politician? Oh no wait that’s AIPAC and Israel a
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Contrary to popular belief, if you try to rob a bank but end up not having a net profit due to a low score and high costs, like if your getaway car breaks down, it’s still illegal. Also if you rob a bank but it ends up having less than aver
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I fully agree, the problem is that people approach git the same way they approach all other software tools, which is the wrong approach obviously and people are wrong for doing it. It’s the people who are wrong and not the tool. It’s like p
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There is never not an obvious reason to use encryption, the obvious reason is wanting private conversations to be private. The only “obvious” reason most don’t bother with encryption is because they naively think that this is already the ca
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People buy in places like this because “the neighborhood looks nice” and then immediately complain about not being able to break all the rules that led to them having that opinion in the first place.
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Neither of those are typosquatters of the other, and NYT didn’t name their game “Scralbble” for good reason.
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> maybe the subject's life is shit? > Once your life stops being shit, you stop feeling depressed. You really should be more careful trying to shoehorn everyone with a medical condition into your shoes. You come off as terribly r
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Some truths are ill heard. Thank you for being a voice of reason and screw the downvotes.
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If we remove the “well technically” bs, they did copy her voice and they did so deliberately, the only detail they hide behind is that they did so in a less direct way than they could have done it.
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It didn’t end Putins career to have arrest warrants issued for him. So I doubt it would effect Netanyahu
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I quite like magic the gathering online for this purpose. You can’t trade cards, so the gambling and trading aspect go away. And you get wild cards in packs so it’s easier to craft the specific decks you want. Also the rapid cycle of releas
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There aren’t any people left in business in the US who don’t approve of “getting in bed with china” - this message was made in china, like your shirt, your shorts, your socks, and so on snd so on.
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The vast majority of philosophers believed that men were superior to woman and that those of lighter skin were superior to those of darker skin and in general that philosophers were superior to anyone who was not a philosopher. They either
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