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by markdown 3y ago
In the right spot, yes.
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by markdown 3y ago
Why are Americans like this? I don't think there's another first world country with citizens who have as dim a view of government.
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by markdown 3y ago
> John Stewart advocating for 9/11 first responders or you calling your Senator to tell them to support or oppose a bill would then be called what? That's lobbying. Jon Stewart supporting politician X with $1M for his re-electi
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by markdown 3y ago
Based on what I've been reading, it's probably so they can sell the extension to a malware or adware company, or receive proceeds of crimes from them in exchange for providing data of extension users.
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by markdown 3y ago
That's the illusion you've been sold. Semantics. You give someone with political power money in order to buy their support and/or influence the way they spend government money/efforts. That's what bribery is. That&#
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by markdown 3y ago
> A five year old would believe that global warming was a scam invented by Martians if their parents told them so. Millions of middle-aged and elderly Americans believe global warming is a scam because that's what conspiracy theoris
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by markdown 3y ago
Called a right in the US, but when it happens somewhere else, particularly in developing nations, it's called bribery and the govt and politicians called corrupt.
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by markdown 3y ago
True. My bad.
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by markdown 3y ago
The burden of proof is on the person asserting that this magic happened. On the contrary, it's counterproductive to be such a horrible human being that you disregard the efforts of the people who saved the life of your father. My calli
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by markdown 3y ago
Unpredictable factors? If they didn't provide care to the patient, the patient would die. He lived because they came into work and tended to him.
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by markdown 3y ago
Thanks for listing more. I think it'd be better to summarise it all by thanking science. I'm glad the cardiologist has developed a way to manage the suffering we all go through in this hard life, but his delusions about some deity
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by markdown 3y ago
Saved by lifeguards, doctors and nurses, inventors of medical apparatus, heart surgeons, but a deity gets the thanks. SMH.
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by markdown 3y ago
Those pollinators do well enough on random wild vanilla plants. They aren't honey bees that need to spend every daylight hour visiting hundreds of flowers. They simply can't do what's needed in a commercial vanilla patch.
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by markdown 3y ago
> stop using a broken protocol and enforcing the use of phone numbers as an identification for critical information or banking, there are better There are no better ways for the average human (who doesn't have a clue what 2FA means
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by markdown 3y ago
They prefer rice squash
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by markdown 3y ago
Huh? The incentive hasn't been removed. You only lose it if you aren't producing the patented product for commercial sale.
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by markdown 3y ago
> I always try to explain this to people, that the Republicans actually unwittingly legalized weed in 2017, but no one ever gets it. It's because you're using the word wrong. Weed is illegal federally. The problem is that you t
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by markdown 3y ago
Yup. $1M/yr (the example I provided above) is a massive reward, so taxation in this way (leaving the risk taker huge rewards) is a great way to encourage entrepreneurship while ensuring a better society by using the extra money (taxed)
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by markdown 3y ago
> Is it reasonable for society, through taxes, to take more than half of what you earn? So long as you have more than enough to live on, absolutely. If you make a billion dollars, then the govt taking 501 million is the absolute minimum
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by markdown 3y ago
Taro leaves (rourou in Fijian) are cooked for a long time (for a vegetable) in order to break down the oxalic acid.
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by markdown 3y ago
Is this only for US Facebook users?
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by markdown 3y ago
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by markdown 3y ago
Yes, this was a massive miss-step IMO, and will be their unthreading. I and half the people I know on Twitter are not owners of Instagram accounts. It's absurd to require Insta to login to Threads.
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by markdown 3y ago
They did, but generally didn't have to. Coconuts floated to all the islands and grew by themselves. Of course they took coconuts for them on their voyages for food, and when they arrived, planted them if they were unique varieties. The
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by markdown 3y ago
Free police, free firefighters, free roads, etc. It's all free as far as your average layman is concerned.
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by markdown 3y ago
No, but hopefully they do soon, or tax me somehow. Having a grid is important.
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by markdown 3y ago
Sounds like they should be using a sedan, station wagon, or compact SUV
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by markdown 3y ago
For what the average person uses their $50k pickup for, you most certainly can. Do you really imagine most pickup trucks in the US are hauling bricks on a dirt road up the side of mountains?
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by markdown 3y ago
They'd be destroyed by the elephant showerhead.
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by markdown 3y ago
> There is a video on youtube about someone whose oral cancer was gone after taking it. I know a guy who says that drinking noni juice cures all sorts of cancers. With your Youtube wisdom and my friends noni expertise, I'm sure the

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