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by jeromegv 1y ago
If the talibans are the left and progressive, I don’t know what to tell you. You’re too far gone
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by jeromegv 1y ago
His views on women: In November, Argentina was the only country to vote against a UN general assembly resolution to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls. Two months later, Milei’s administration went further, pledging to s
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by jeromegv 1y ago
> Starlink doesn't have a government connection. US DOD is contracting Starlink in Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russian-Ukrain...
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by jeromegv 1y ago
Was the US revolution against the British empire terrorism?
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by jeromegv 1y ago
Convenience for? Security? Isn’t increased security measures based on fear?
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by jeromegv 1y ago
> National post is a respectable publication more akin to the Wall Street Journal. Absolutely not, their American owner has cut so much into that newspaper that whatever reputation they had a decade ago is entirely gone. They used to be
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by jeromegv 1y ago
Sure. Now tell us how much time it took to get to your office in Manhattan and how much it cost to park there. The suburb is built around the fact that people live there but travel to the main city every day. Now if you have decent train se
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by jeromegv 1y ago
The same or almost better than the privately funded one.
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by jeromegv 1y ago
They are against free or very cheap parking in an urban environment. If you talk of taxes, then yes, you can argue against tax payers subsiding free parking for people living outside that city
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by jeromegv 1y ago
You say it keeps outsider out. Let’s not forget people living there already, if you build a car dependant city around them they often get pushed out or have to live through car hell. Not a lot of car dependant city have a thriving and livab
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by jeromegv 1y ago
So you found 1 person 30 years ago to justify colonialism?
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by jeromegv 1y ago
This viewpoint is still way too popular and was also used to genocide millions of indigenous people, we definitely need to keep speaking up against that.
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by jeromegv 1y ago
Every countries in the world got cellphones. Many saw a drop in fatalies on the road, others it went up (US). Cellphones surely don’t help and are awful but once you hit someone the size of the car (and speed!) matters on the outcome and ca
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by jeromegv 1y ago
And do you have a better rate of fatality on the roads?
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by jeromegv 1y ago
You are arguing as if buildling more make things worse, when in fact, this is not the case. The opposite of buildling more is building less. Building less will increase existing price a lot more on an existing neighborhood than building a n
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by jeromegv 1y ago
Supply and demand is not an ideology, it’s the most fundamental way that pricing works in a capitalist society. Has been studied for centuries. To think that supply and demand would not apply to housing and instead be trickle down economics
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by jeromegv 1y ago
Someone gets it. If you keep cutting budget of people trying to make sure the rules are followed, what do you think is going to happen?
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by jeromegv 1y ago
Syria regime changed was made by troops on the ground. Again, no bombing campaigns led to a change of regime. This theory is proven again and again
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by jeromegv 1y ago
The same Kurds the US government fucked over in Syria?
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by jeromegv 1y ago
You’re deflecting. You can’t claim to be objective and negate the fact this man alone by his totally insane actions has been causing tremendous harms by preventing people from getting life saving drugs just .. for no reason than showing he
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by jeromegv 1y ago
There are various activist movements, groups, interests, communities. You have to find your people. It can take a while. Change takes time, big social movements were decades into the making in the fringe before they reached the mainstream c
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by jeromegv 1y ago
Pinterest sold it in 2018. The founder is Marco Arment, he's not the one who bought it back. But yes, instapaper is still alive. https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/instapaper-is-leaving-pint...
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by jeromegv 1y ago
We are talking millions of cars driving at a speed that can kill people both inside or outside the car. Anything you can do to reduce those distractions is a net positive for society. Less death. As for criminalizing texting, I’ve heard eno
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by jeromegv 1y ago
Same for me. No algo, no ads. I follow who i want. No surprises in my feed. Just like RSS, I get exactly what I want.
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by jeromegv 2y ago
No it’s different because threats to get concessions, and actually enacting them to self sabotage your economy, it’s entirely different.
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by jeromegv 2y ago
Looks like you’re in denial. It’s not about what is socially acceptable, it’s about the health impact.
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by jeromegv 2y ago
> Low demand in the US, means less sales to US, so they may try to make up for the loss of profit on the US market by increasing prices on other markets... So global price increase. This is not how supply and demand works in a competitiv
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by jeromegv 2y ago
Well the issue is that stories from “friends of friends” tend to get super unreliable very fast. Unless someone is coming on the record as having been employed themselves, stories from friends are almost always a lot of BS.
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by jeromegv 2y ago
> I am not convinced that many people outside of tech circles In Canada, I have had countless conversations with people outside of tech circles (mostly in their 30s) where THEY naturally bring up ChatGPT. It's wild how popular it go
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by jeromegv 2y ago
This feature has definitely been abused by fans of the current US administration. Anything close to being critical gets flagged and needs manual intervention to be brought back.

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