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by hh3k0 6y ago
Seth Meyers is one of the few who addressed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjj7VJpqy1w . And that's just a minuscule fraction, the reporting was downright shameful across the board. You'd watch 10 channels and
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by hh3k0 6y ago
I take it that you didn't follow the Democratic Primaries? The mass hysteria that ensued on all channels when Bernie Sanders was leading the race, to be specific.
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“The beauty of the system, however, is that such dissent and inconvenient information are kept within bounds and at the margins, so that while their presence shows that the system is not monolithic, they are not large enough to interfere un
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Not everyone is willing to leave family, friends, and country behind.
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Not just mental health but health in general. That said, would it really be desirable? There's no work-life balance as long as we work 5 days a week and rest 2, imo. > The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanit
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Yet Australia's GDP is like what? 4 times the the GDP of the Philippines? Population size alone is a meaningless metric.
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Maybe people would start caring about mother nature and the environment if they'd live forever. Perhaps that's what it'd take for the widespread mentality of «après moi, le déluge» to finally come to an end.
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by hh3k0 6y ago
> You know what else isn't public spirited or democratic? The internet. And we've seen in 2016 how great it really is when it leaks into the physical world. > I think for the most part the internet works much better than the
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by hh3k0 6y ago
"Rape blossom" is perhaps my favorite English word because of how starkly the feelings invoked by the individual words contrast each other.
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I'd argue that cow feet are best for cows.
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> Buy some $GME swag from me right now to lose money instantly. Paper hands, smh.
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We had a TV show like that in Germany, it ran from 1995 to 2013: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_sch%C3%B6nsten_Bahnstrecke... .
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by hh3k0 6y ago
> One of them involves them deciding they'd rather be prosecuted by the SEC for lying than use the bailout for what they said they used it for Where does the fine for that cap, though?
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CNBC is running ads that claim Melvin Capital closed its short position ($GME)(twitter.com)
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> I'd gotten the impression that Loeb isn't trying to convince the public and scientific community that it was an alien probe so much as is he trying to show it could have been. That was also my impression. A lot of scientists
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"We have a finite environment—the planet. Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist." David Attenborough
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> Ah, because countries with Islamic finance are renowned for the strength of their economies. As opposed to the Western world and its traditional decennial world-threatening financial crisis? And the ever-widening gap between rich and p
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It's almost like this isn't an either/or type of situation where a nation either has lobbying banned or suffers from corruption. (And absolutely no one other than you has made this oversimplification in this comment chain.)
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If we'd ban lobbying we wouldn't have to wait for one business to show up from somewhere else than the depths of depravity. If we'd ban lobbying we could have laws against companies that show nothing but utter disdain for lif
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I mean, it's not like sacrificing nature and the climate wasn't an informed choice by the First World.
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There's already a more practical way of accomplishing what you're suggesting: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/harvard-group... The problem is that it a) is tackling a symptom rat
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by hh3k0 6y ago
> … every time I would feel a bit foggy in the head, I would take a 3-15 minute meditation session. Hey, that's what I do too! I've never read anything meditation-related and consequently do not know any of those approaches but
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by hh3k0 6y ago
I was curious and looked the ESP32 up, seems as if there are some grave vulnerabilities: https://limitedresults.com/2019/11/pwn-the-esp32-forever-fla... .
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Sorry, but you make no sense.
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The anti-aging industry in its entirety, for starters. The vast majority of alternative medicine. The fashion industry is manipulative, the list goes on. Advertising is almost always manipulative -- tailored ads all the more. The ways in wh
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by hh3k0 6y ago
You are aware that the vast majority of countries are democracies, right?
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by hh3k0 6y ago
Oh, I didn't insult you. And you'll see that your questions were quite off the mark if you actually read my original comment. But I'll gladly make my point once more: manipulative marketing is a thing.
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Much like nearly half of adult Canadians, you seem to struggle with literacy. And are you really going to pretend that manipulative marketing isn't a thing? Wow.
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Meanwhile in reality it also entails people being manipulated into wanting something and people making and selling what no one needs.
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by hh3k0 6y ago
Why wouldn't it? If the Capitol rioters have taught us anything _last_ week, it's that they're incompetent clowns -- much like Cheeto Mussolini.

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