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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Some version of this comes up at every thread touching on archaeology, and frankly it’s tired. Even more tiring are people trying to silence discussion. > it’s okay to just… not post. Why not take your own advice? Why are you here
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
Since the epic of gilgamesh, bible, homer, etc, historians have been dramatic. There is a reason why history is called 'his story'. The best and most dramatic story, usually favored by the elites, get tolds. More often than not, h
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Even EU can't compete with the US on funding and high tech skilled wages(except London and Switzerland which aren't in the EU) 1. Because EU isn't a centralized nation. Maybe one day. 2. It is a vassal of the US. https:
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The mothers also eat their mates. Evolution seems to have pushed octopus breeding to one extreme. It's a one shot deal for both sexes.
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Edit: my "old man" plans are to buy some property well outside of light pollution. I've always wonder how feasible it was to do astronomy by boat? That way you can chase clear skies. And I'd suspect there is almost
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It's a sad state of affairs when even the corruption indexes have fallen prey to corruption. But then again, what financial center around the world isn't corrupt? Where money congregates, corruption is the rule.
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> Are they interfering with the country in this case, Yes obviously. > or are they pointing out that a U.S. based company should be more concerned about their investments or financial interests? What? You think newsweek is looking out
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Here is what happened at a similar Caribbean cultural festival in London last month: 8 people stabbed, an officer sexually assaulted, and 73 other assaults on police officers. That's silly london. Our cops are armed to teeth. Also
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Unless you mean the Chinese invasion that came after end of the war that the Americans were involved in? That's the dumbest shit I've read here. Why would the chinese try to bring democracy to vietnam. I'm talking about
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Alaska became a state after ww2. Just like hawaii. And japan was trying to liberate the native alaskans being illegally genocided. Not as clever as you think you are.
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Gotta love the media. Attacks social media's financial interests to limit speech on social media the past decade and then mocks social media for limiting speech to protect their financial interests. Also, let the saudis, russians, afri
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> They were talking about things that you don't have to (and indeed can't) intuitively understand. He was talking about objective things that people fail to to intuitively understand. > In all sorts of places, not least coun
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> What part of invading a country is protecting its democracy?. It worked for iraq, afghanistan, vietnam, etc so it must work for ukraine. > By my count Japan invaded at least 16 countries during WW2 None of those 16 nuked japan thoug
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
In the past, you could type 'west African woman learn english from scratch' in youtube or google and you'd get it. Now I bet a third of the results is nonsense and the two thirds are probably news related results on west afri
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> There are objective facts about the nature of reality Such as? > "but how do you actually know" argument of a college freshman Epistemology has been studied by some of the greatest thinkers since the ancient greeks ( proba
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> No, I don’t think China was right to crush democracy. History has shown it to be right. All you have to do is look at the soviet union/russia. > It doesn’t flow that their economic success was tied exclusively to authoritariani
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Well they keep threatening to nuke Ukraine Well that's not nice. > and like a dozen more countries, generally over things that happen in Ukraine. Good? Like a dozen more countries overthrew a democratically elected government i
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> Who the hell is signing a large contract with IBM and expecting them to deliver working tech? Considering they have tens of billions in revenue every year, a lot of people. But what's IBM's niche? I remember they promoted wa
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
Yep. It's how 'you'tube became 'corp'tube. Remember when the selling point of youtube was 'you'? > Then the advertisers, professionals, and hucksters will swoop in, do their thing, and slowly overshadow
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
The past 10 years. Media: We demand online censorship. Media: State governments can't resist the siren song of censorship. Unbelievable. Also, it's amazing how the article left out the most egregious example of state censorship -
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Then Russia is free to use nuclear weapons on Ukraine Why ukraine? Russia's enemy isn't ukraine. Surely they'll use it on their enemies. > and they are free to suffer the consequences too. What were the consequences o
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> "God made Man in His image" If you read the bible, in particular the old testament, you'll realize that "Man made God in His image". A flawed God that is insecure, jealous, spiteful, greedy, genocidal, vicious,
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> This was the thinking in the 1980s when the US invited China into their global trade network. The US didn't invite china to anything. The US begged, threatened and cajoled china to open their immense and cheap labor force. China h
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> but fixing search You can't fix search no more than you can fix social meda because search and social media has grown so big that they are politically important and hence state property. Once search and social media reached critic
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> I bet Putin would love if North Korea were the ones to break the Nuclear taboo so he could use nukes in Ukraine hoping for less of a reaction. What nuclear taboo? I think hiroshima and nagasaki ended any hope for a nuclear taboo. >
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> Now the whole Southeast Asia is competing with rich countries in industrial goods and protectionism is not protectionism anymore, is "decoupling". Just like bribery in 3rd world is corruption but here, it's called lobbyi
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> We evolve from animals that manipulate the world with their mouths and use their forelegs for locomotion Technically we didn't. One of our ancestor species did.
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It's pure laziness. One should have raised prices first and then a week or month later, the other should have followed. At least pretend you are competing with each other. Look at coke and pepsi. One has a sale this week. And then next
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> This reflects the disparity in the east vs west and the focus on society vs the individual. More of this 'east vs west' nonsense. The court system exists not for the individual but for the society. This is true in the US, in
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> This article from Verge in 2020 was a great dive into the problems Foxconn had, and what TSMC will now also face "Imagine being in a job where you don’t really know if it’s real or not." If you have to wonder, it probably isn

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