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by lurk2 10mo ago
> Venezuelans for the past 5+ years have been the most or almost the most numerous asylum seekers in the US. That by itself does not demonstrate that the majority have been exiled, even if we want to expand the definition of "exile&
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by lurk2 10mo ago
My understanding is that courts ruled that some (though not all) of the 2007 expropriations were made without proper compensation.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> Expecting your country to go to war for your private interests is ridiculous. At the risk of coming across as flippant: Why? I don’t think the math has worked out on most peer conflicts during the past hundred years. The cost of the op
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> Only during 2025 russian forces launched over 54,000 long-range drones and over 1,900 missiles This would be a lot more compelling of an argument if the Ukrainians were not trying to use social media to PsyOp the world into believing t
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by lurk2 10mo ago
I admittedly don’t know much about the industry, but didn’t most other countries not elect to expropriate the infrastructure? My understanding was that a lot of the problems the Venezuelans are having now arose from alienating themselves fr
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> Asking questions in good faith is not appropriate? You aren't asking questions in good faith, you're trying to score points. > It seems some people prefer to paw around in the dark out of deference. You're doing it he
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> minus of course the "compensation" for the years in which US companies were kept out of the country I don’t want to sound like I’m running coverage for the Americans, but wasn’t a lot of that infrastructure built by foreign m
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by lurk2 10mo ago
Ukraine hasn’t had an election in 6 years.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
This style of commentary is obnoxious and not appropriate for this forum.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
The word “exiled” implies these people were forced out by the Maduro regime, which is not the case; virtually all of them left the country due to deteriorating economic conditions.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> Maduro was smuggling drugs in USA. Huge operations. What evidence is there of that?
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> You won't find many historical examples of fascists being booted out by the people. Every fascist regime that has ever existed has been ousted by war, revolution, or the vote. There are no fascist regimes left, unless you expand t
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by lurk2 10mo ago
He’s asking you to provide sources.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
You aren’t quoting the same statute the grandparent comment is referencing. Grandparent is quoting Part III 18 Use of words or behaviour or display of written material. You are quoting Part I 4 Fear or provocation of violence.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
How have they scaled?
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by lurk2 10mo ago
Have you replaced the executive function in any one of your enterprises with ChatGPT?
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> There, I just saved you $20 million. If it were this easy, you could have done it by now. Have you?
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by lurk2 10mo ago
Inane Reddit crosspost.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
This happened to me ten years ago. A while later they did the same thing with my Minecraft login that I had purchased before the EULA was in place; I’ve avoided their services like the plague since then.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
Haiti’s inability to enforce zoning laws is not something the developed world ought to strive to emulate. Haiti is an undesirable place to live precisely because it has no capacity to enforce rules and norms. The flow of migrants from Haiti
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by lurk2 10mo ago
Do you have any literature to support this?
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> In places without governments like Haiti you can raise a family in a relatively simple structure. The third world is not a model to emulate. Haiti is a failed state.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> it's well-known that "regular people" are over-represented in homicide, and "autistic people" or even "schizophrenic people" are under-represented and are mostly harmless It is?
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by lurk2 10mo ago
That a majority of businesses fail over a given duration of time. It’s probably true on a long-enough timescale, but the idea that the majority of businesses fail within one year or ten just seems completely dubious. How is a business defin
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by lurk2 10mo ago
It’s €6,500,000 just this year, so €500,000 per employee.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
Revenue isn’t the correct metric for what the grandparent wants to measure to begin with.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> Most businesses of all sizes, shapes, and forms fail within 10 years. I hear this all the time with variations to the number of years, which makes me suspect it isn’t true.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> I would guess the majority of people on earth don't even have good enough internet to pirate HD video Why is that the qualification you’re using? There are plenty of people in the developing world who have benefitted from access t
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> You can cover almost everything with a handful of monthly subscriptions these days. The majority of people on earth cannot afford more than two or three of these subscriptions. > But then who would be making the knock-offs and what
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> that to evade such insanity is wrong in some way. There’s a commons problem at play here. Most habitual pirates couldn’t pay for what they are pirating even if they wanted to, so restricting their access just makes the world worse-off;

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