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by hartpuff 11y ago
Is there any reason why it should be common knowledge where Marie Curie was born? Is it common knowledge in Poland where, for example, Alexander Graham Bell was born? Objectively it's hardly the most interesting or significant fact abo
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> every single person I asked what nationality she was said "uhm..........French? Well French isn't a bad guess, is it, considering she moved to France, married a Frenchman, became a French citizen, took his French name and pro
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> It's not complete nonsense. I'm not saying everyone would know, but an unsubstantiated sweeping generalization that almost nobody in the West knows where she was from is patently complete nonsense.
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> yet it's almost unknown that she was Polish in the West Sorry, this is complete nonsense. I can only speak as someone from the UK, but I'm willing to bet almost every schoolkid has heard of Marie Curie, and everyone who has h
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by hartpuff 11y ago
How is writing about a "non-event" for his thousands of Twitter fans and media friends to share and talk about and report on not making it a big deal?
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> It's everyone else who is making a big deal out of him leaving Twitter When I clicked this link I (genuinely) had to check the date, because Fry has been flouncing from Twitter for years. And yes, flouncing is the word. Fry could
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by hartpuff 11y ago
I thought the problem is that, 25 years after its only serious opponent in the world disappeared, the US spends as much on the military as the next 7 countries - five of which are US allies - combined.
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> Uh, "ever"? How about when a man murders his girlfriend and her two children and then flees the UK? If he's British then Ghana would not be extraditing one of its own citizens. If he is Ghanaian, then a court in Ghana co
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by hartpuff 11y ago
When the real reason he should not be extradited is because no self-respecting country should ever extradite its own citizens to another country.
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> Or are you arguing that just because it's the evil CIA, it's fine to hack them and leak tons of personal info (which potentially puts lifes in danger) If he isn't arguing that's a valid reason, allow me. Or are you
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by hartpuff 11y ago
Can anyone tell me if the embedding works for them with Internet Archive stuff like this? It loads okay at the IA site, but when I use their embed code for this, and the previous times I've tried with their DOS and Arcade games, the ga
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> What else would "local police" do? Admit defeat? What else would they do if the claims are not true? Either way, that instance was related to drug dealing, not Sharia law.
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-go_area#Contemporary_no-go_... From your link: Local police forces denied the claims [of no- go areas] Katie Hopkins could not name areas of Britain that wer
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by hartpuff 11y ago
So they're recognized in the same way as, say, a Jewish court would be, or in fact essentially any body would be?
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by hartpuff 11y ago
Can anyone who downvoted this explain why? It seems like a reasonable suggestion to me that people visit trained professionals rather than quacks, or people who will give advice or 'help' skewed by their own personal, perhaps fund
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by hartpuff 11y ago
By "posts I've made (which AFAICS is not possible)" I meant the messages further up the thread, where the edit link had long since expired, but I wasn't 100% sure if there was another way to do it.
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by hartpuff 11y ago
Thanks. I don't know if you mean edit posts I've made (which AFAICS is not possible) or future posts, before posting, but I agree, polite, respectful posts mean better signal to noise, and I'll try not to slip into bad habits
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> I just apologized to the German kid. It's a pity your apology makes it seem like you simply referred to the Nazis without knowing he was German, when you actually specifically blamed him and every other (white) German ("you g
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> I understood that, what I'm trying to state with my rhetorical question was that all his statement served to say was "Germany created the Nazis, you should feel guilt for that". I think he simply couldn't back up hi
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by hartpuff 11y ago
The poster I replied to was whining about being downvoted in order to score upvotes ("Please resist commenting about being downvoted."), when in fact their argument was just a bad one. In another post he made a stupid and offensiv
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> If you're for women's rights, then it shouldn't matter what race, religion or political party someone is, in order to support them - they're women, and should be supported regardless. WTH are you talking about? If y
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> I have no idea why so many people here, including my downvoters, think it's this despicable bastion of frothy far leftism when that's only a small part of it. I have no idea how you know what your downvoters think about Tumbl
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by hartpuff 11y ago
He's talking about the Nazis, the go to reference for people clueless about Germany who lack any ability to have a serious discussion. He's a clown.
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by hartpuff 11y ago
And what if he does have an arrest record? Got any other stats instead to conclusively demonstrate his undeniable white magic? Where does a black person with no arrest record fit on your magic powers scale? Oh, never mind, I forgot for a se
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by hartpuff 11y ago
Thanks. Yeah, I think I was overestimating usage of online file transfer systems at that time, and underestimating offline/business usage of PCs.
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by hartpuff 11y ago
A bricked computer isn't as likely to empty your bank account though.
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> mostly via floppy disk sharing as the world wide web didn't exist yet Great post, but wouldn't the internet, email, BBS and other networks have been the main cause of its worldwide spread?
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> are they represented in the UN or any other kind of international bodies constituted of member states? FIFA, UEFA, World Rugby. Regardless of the comparison with Alaska being flawed, I wouldn't see anything peculiar in an Alaskan
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by hartpuff 11y ago
>You can't seriously be suggesting that Cryptsy is one of the big bitcoin exchanges? Not since they 'lost' a mere 10,000 Bitcoins, no. Google "big bitcoin exchanges" though and you'll see they feature quite
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by hartpuff 11y ago
One of the biggest Forex platforms is a Government-regulated FTSE 250 PLC with a known founder, Chairman, CEO and board of directors. One of the biggest Bitcoin exchanges is run by "Big Vern". Bitcoin in a nutshell.

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