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by goodbyesf 3y ago
It's the same reason comments criticizing journalists or mega media corporation is flagged now. Most social media are propaganda platforms.
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
Plants slogan: 'The only good vegan is a dead vegan'.
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> This article uses Meta’s own definition, next question The definition meta was forced to adopt by the likes of the author. A nonsense definition. And it's not just meta, it's pretty much every american and european company wa
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Maybe Greek society was not a homogeneous mass, and some parts of it nurtured free thinking while others reacted against it? So then your assertion was incorrect: 'they started a culture of free thinking that grew into philosophy,
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> One person smoking makes a 30 foot diameter smell like skunk. Even better, a couple of idiots in a car smoking with their windows rolled down. I'm all for banning smoking cigarettes or weed in public spaces. If you want to ruin yo
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> they started a culture of free thinking that grew into philosophy, logic, and scientific inquiry. Culture of free thinking? Socrates, the most iconic free thinker of all time was forced to commit suicide by the greeks. So much for a cu
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
My experience with climate change fearmongering. 'Most ever' turns out to be 'the last few decades'. Lets see shall we? Headline: "September Was the Most Anomalously Hot Month Ever" In the article: "Septem
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
If there is any foreign interference, it would be from britain, canada, israel, etc. What russian or chinese interference is there when there is 24/7 anti-russian and anti-chinese propaganda?
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
Seems like Forbes 30 under 30 is cursed. Every year it seems like one is going to jail for fraud or ends up being murdered. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/06/forbes-30-u...
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Math is a model of the universe in the same sense that a world map is a model of the earth. That describes pre-1900s math we inherited from the greeks. With advent of non-euclidean geometry and abstract math, math is no longer bound to
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
Musk was never a free speech absolutist. He claimed he supported 'legal speech'. Which turned out to be a big fat old lie. The guy is a state actor. People like that are never for free speech and lie all the time. Also, to be fair
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
You left the continent to escape americans but still use our social media? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Molecules touch your nose and you smell things. Air vibrates your inner ear hairs and you hear things. Photons hit your eyes and you see things (not sure if this counts but it seems like it could). You can see things in the dark with
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> If I use a credit card, I pay up to 20% on the outstanding amount. Key is never having outstanding debt. Pay your credit card balance in full. Most people with credit cards do this. I have never met anyone who paid any interest on thei
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> So they probably care more about the impact of match fixing on the "fairness" of sports betting Not the 'fairness' of sports betting, but the impact on the sports betting industry. If people think sporting matches a
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
'Millions of dollars per day' is about $1 billion a year? Considering Apple's annual revenue is about $400 billion and its net income is about $100 billion, it's more than reasonable for apple to spend millions per day b
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
What's with the pathetic apple fanboyism? They are one of the biggest vaccuums of data. They will use that data for money just like everyone else. Apple's just late to the ad game. Years ago it was google fanboyism with 'don&
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Guy, I don't know who you're upset with or why, but it's not me. I'm not mad at ya. Just your stupidity. > You know that just means the perils of being a minority in a democracy, right? Hence why the US is a repu
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
The nerve of china. It's the US military's job to exploit US troops and veterans god dang it.
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
No shit. What's next? PR firms pay reddit power users to push ads and propaganda on the subs they control? If PR firms can pay the nytimes to sell war, surely they are capable of buying a few positive reviews for movies. Yelp is the la
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> except no one actually wants to be on such a forum. Wrong. Most people do. There's a reason why forums had to be censored. If no one wanted it, we wouldn't need censorship because such forums wouldn't exist in the first
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Reading this makes me want switch jobs. I want to again work somewhere where in the morning I wake up and feel excited to work Good god. Imagine if your life's ambition is to find a job that makes you excited to work. A slave who
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> The way you describe being forced to pay sounds like you think you're living in an autocracy. No. He's describing tyranny of the mob. Which is worse than an autocracy. At least in an autocracy you know you are being fed a pil
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Germany being divided in South and North Germany (or eventually forming a somewhat loose federation) wouldn’t exactly have been a tragedy for the German nation. Germany's late development was indeed a tragedy for the german nation
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
The quote is pure nonsense as is most historical narratives. > Believing that unification had come about as a result of military competence It did. > they mapped the future of the German Empire in terms of military power. All empires
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> This website looks hilariously mangled on mobile. Not much better on the browser though they seemed to have cleaned it up a bit since my last visit. Many years ago when I visited the website to download smlnj for class, I had to doubl
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
We would be up in arms because the propaganda would tells us to be up in arms. It's remarkable how our feelings towards each other and to foreign countries are entirely shaped by propaganda. Anyone here old enough to remember freedom f
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Reducing human suffering is a noble goal and infertile couples could benefit from this research. The research isn't about reducing human suffering. No research is. All research is about attaining new knowledge. > I would rather
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Maybe the estate is so sensitive because the unpublished stuff isn't as good as the published stuff? Or it could be the author's wish since the unpublished material may contain sensitive information. TS Eliot most famously ha
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
And here I thought it was the UK, EU and the US funding the 'revolution' in myanmar.

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