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by jevoten 5y ago
> Zemmour, a media pundit who promotes the far-right “great replacement” theory that Muslim immigrants are supplanting the populations of European countries It's puzzling how this theory persists, when it's so easy to disprove
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> it shouldn't be profitable for foreigners who have never been to Canada to displace Canadians But that would go against the current zeitgeist where countries are reduced to economic platforms, that owe their citizens nothing excep
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by jevoten 5y ago
Why does a college administrator have anything to do with whether the legal system would prosecute someone in a criminal matter where you were the victim?
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But taking money out of the equation for only some, and not others, takes us even further from democratization of speech.
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> not requiring a local partner for business Are you sure this is a good thing? It opens the country to foreign economic exploitation. There's a reason China required it for so long.
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NYT fails to disclose columnist’s side gig at pro-Israel advocacy group(responsiblestatecraft.org)
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Georgetown Law fires professor for ‘abhorrent’ remarks about Black students(nytimes.com)
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> Of course, that was a war over power, territory, and dynastic legitimacy. There is no antitrust regulators in war. I don’t see a “winner take all” ending happening among the three ISAs, whether it’s 35 years or 350 years. Romance of th
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Pelosi says she backs lowering voting age to 16 (2019)(thehill.com)
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> "We are updating the word list over time to remove obscure words to keep the puzzle accessible to more people, as well as insensitive or offensive words," How does fewer valid guess words (not solution words) make the puzzle
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And what if, after reading the ToS, they object to some clause? Their only recourse is not using the service. Object to more than a handful, and soon your only option is living in a cave. That, or push for legislation that limits what may b
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> Still, it advances the important goals of exposing students to a somewhat broader range of colleagues and helping to lift more underrepresented minorities into positions in the power elite, which remains heavily white. I don't kno
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If we're bringing up history, does "never again" apply to Ukraine and the Holodomor too?
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I wonder if there are any meaningful differences between an individual's comment section (even if on a public-facing service such as Twitter), where that individual chooses what to censor, versus a corporate behemoth like Facebook choo
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Finally - eternal, retroactive copyright. At last Disney will compensate the communities whose folk tales they built their empire on, and their Marvel division will have to repay the Norse whose deities they appropriated.
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How are jail fees not illegal extra-judicial punishment?
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Canada's population surges from 2016-2021 on immigration-official data(reuters.com)
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> What about those murderous caravans from South America Fox News keeps telling us about Rhetoric. Look at mostly-absent-from-media immigration numbers, and see if you notice any dramatic drops during Republican administrations. > Dem
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by jevoten 5y ago
> They’re actually both right-wing by global standards Depends entirely on the issue. On foreign wars, tax policy, or gutting the social safety net, they're both right-wing. On immigration, they're left or extreme left - the Re
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I'm sure they had practical reasons, but the point is that privacy wasn't even considered .
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I am unable to view the linked overview [1] of this privacy preserving technology - Google demands I sign in to view the document. Not a good start. [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KpdSKD8-Rn0bWPTu4UtK54ks.
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'Ram' implies some degree of speed. That truck very slowly and carefully pushed the cyclist, who was blocking traffic, aside, without injuring them.
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China does plenty of overseas influence operations - they absolutely can leverage such data.
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European Commission’s chat control mass surveillance plans(patrick-breyer.de)
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Part of the difference could be due to infrasound - the noise from wind turbines has a low-frequency component that has been reported to affect health. The other part (and I'm speculating here) could be because the noise from wind turb
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Improved market segmentation is never to the consumer's benefit.
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Can someone versed in legal matters explain - why was a bill even necessary? Isn't sexual assault a criminal matter, which, to my understanding, makes it immune to contract law?
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I'm referring to the many books that never make it near a school, sparing their opponents from having to reckon with their own censorious, book-burning natures.
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Avoid censorship with this one weird trick: Print the information in a book, and put it in a library, or even on a school curriculum, if you can. If anyone tries to remove the book, then we are back to the dark ages of book banning or even
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by jevoten 5y ago
I upvoted you because you highlight an important confusion of two distinct questions: 1) Is removing citizenship a just punishment for some crimes (such as joining a faction at war with the UK)? 2) Should the removal happen at the whims of

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