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> We spoke to more than 25 writers, directors, and producers— all of whom identify as liberal A small deviation from the "36% conservative, 35% moderate and 25% liberal" [1] US population, but I'm sure it's just a
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Of course. When it comes to debunking claims of a white Europe, medieval people didn't think of race as we do today, and their cities were centers of trade and multiculturalism. But when it's time to explain the documented homogen
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> He hasn't made Wordle a business, so he has no business to lose. Harm is not limited to business and finance. It's just as harmful when good, charitable works are subverted by companies looking for profit. If nothing else, co
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> gun violence What if instead of describing violence according to the tool used, we described it according to the perpetrator?
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The myth they seem to be debunking is that Europe was >99% white. But what if the claim is that it was only as white as, lets say, before WWII? It would be mighty strange if Europe was at its historically unique least diverse right at th
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Did you miss "which happened at lower rates at factories than the general public"? Or do you just want to imply that people who point this out think that suicide doesn't matter?
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You imagine incorrectly - most Americans believe outsourcing hurts the economy: On the one hand, the polls largely confirm that most Americans are mercantilists at heart. The Ipsos poll shows that 69% of Americans believe that outsourcing
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The investor class being those that have significant political influence. I sure don't recall any large boomer political movements demanding more offshoring. In fact, a politician promising the exact opposite was quite popular. But bec
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I don't recall anyone but the investor class being happy to embrace offshoring. But it took the economist and investor class the longest to realize the drawbacks that others knew instinctively. And now you use "we" to describ
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So what are the parallels, besides trivial color matching?
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> questioning explicit intent is a bit silly. I'm not questioning their intent , I'm questioning whether they successfully expressed that intent in the movie.
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They'd have to see it for themself?
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I've heard that the Wachowskis claimed that, but in what way is the Matrix's red pill similar to estrogen pills, or transexuality in general?
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Yes, north-African, i.e. Arab. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus : > He had Italian Roman ancestry on his mother's side, and was descended from Punic forebears on his father's side [..] Th
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So it "dropped precipitously" to 5x their share of the US population?
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> The percentage of Jewish students probably peaked about the time I came to Harvard and dropped precipitously with the boost of affirmative action into virtual quotas. Does anyone know what this percentage is, or was?
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On the other hand there are countless examples of similar strong-arming tactics that never see daylight. For example, negotiations with supermarket chains to get a spot on the shelf (and which spot), what the chain's cut will be, or
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> Your cellular plan doesn't support iCloud Private Relay. If I understand correctly, there's no special "support" required from an ISP for Private Relay - they just have to be a dumb pipe. So wouldn't it be more
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This sounds very much like "there are many ways to lock out users, why are you complaining about this specific method, when other platforms used a different one?"
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> In the end, x86 systems didn't become any more locked down. And non-x86 systems? Wasn't there a line of MS Surface devices where secure boot could not be disabled, and users were stuck with Windows? It feels careless to only
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A quick search reveals Europe and the US are coded as different HP printer regions, despite having overlapping humidity profiles, and the humidity difference between Louisiana and Alaska is far greater than between New York and London. It i
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Can someone explain for those of us less familiar with Apple - can a Macbook not be used without a valid Apple ID, that Apple can revoke at any time?
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> When does Zuckerberg have more wealth? When Facebook has a 900 billion dollar market cap and he pays a 70% tax rate, or when Facebook has a ten billion dollar market cap and he pays a 30% tax rate? This is a bad example. All else being
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How Hollywood and America learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (2020)(davidswanson.org)
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Wikipedia also has a list of sanctuary states and cities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_city#United_States As for being anti-immigration, do you also dismiss all pro -immigration organizations (such as the S
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The claims of BLM and allied activists are not so measured and reasonable as the shorthand you propose: > At BLM protests, and from BLM proponents, we have since heard that “it’s open season” for police to kill black people, and that pol
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> it has become important to signal your support for the popular movements of the day for basic job security. Since (we are told) America and all her institutions, private and public, are systemically racist and white supremacist, that m
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What is there to explain? It's common knowledge that states with large immigrant populations demand of their representatives to hinder federal immigration law. Those representatives listened, and have passed laws to that effect: https
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> services could keep exclusivity for a year, for example, before being forced to offer their self-produced content to competitors There was already a law to that effect, but much stricter, in the movie theater business. Movie studios we
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Immigrants can vote in their home countries, so they do have input. A nation is not obligated to give you democratic power over itself, just because they let* you visit. You may as well complain you don't have democratic input if you

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