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why not both?
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> If a country like the USA can have its elections manipulated, how vulnerable might smaller democracies be? The CIA could most certainly help you answer that quite quantitatively.
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I agree, but this is a tad off topic, no?
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> Given we have seen this particular game played hundreds of times in the past by similarly economically-illiterate ideologues what particularly are you referencing here? The U.S. can impose tariffs because no one is capable of a state f
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The choice of what facts to include and which to omit can result in bias. This simple ad by The Guardian on perspective shows how news can easily show biases [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3h-T3KQNxU&list=LL8y
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they have product placement out the wazoo, don't think otherwise.
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I believe it was sarcasm. However, she most certainly is deserving of jail time; may Shkreli's precedent of $~19 million fraud and 7 years pave the way for Holmes. All ratios equal, the sentence should be ~270 years, naturally. Unfortu
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Did you attend a rally? Did you sit in at a general assembly? Have you discussed the movements goals with one of its members? The media, quite falsely, reported (cherry-picking interviewees, a similar tactic used for all movements nowadays)
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What philosophers? What books?
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Now the public can rest easy knowing that the only person in pharmaceuticals whose business model for increased profits was spending less on R&D and raising the prices of drugs. Growth all around! /s The public (including many pe
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At this point I think I am unaware what a punch card is. I was assuming a card that gets punched each time you visit a place, and after N punches you get an item for free. Is that right or totally off?
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By having a punch card and forcing customers to use cash? While cash is making a come back in many places, there are still plenty of potential customers who would not buy if cash was required.
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App loyalty cards, while still having some information on you, are largely about large merchants (ie starbucks) avoiding credit card interchange fees by giving rewards for people who load money to the app and purchase from there. So, all in
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Interestingly enough, China answered by publishing a list of human rights violations committed by the U.S. [1] (I could not find the original transcript). [1] http://english.gov.cn/archive/publications/2017/03
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This is just how the state operates. It will never be transparent about just how threatening the Chinese are and vise versa. Ignorance is bliss within the world of global power dynamics. If you ever meet someone who works/has worked fo
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The missiles involve more economic productivity.
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No, no, that was off-shore child labor that did that.
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The book The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road captures a lot of stories with feelings like the ones you described; romanticism that stems from on identifying heavily through their work. Here is one of those stories from
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Typically gifts, most often endowment gifts, are given to benefit a specific purpose (ie spreading fine arts). I could understand how there could potentially be obligations put forth to meet the original purpose of the endowment. This is a
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Your perspective has really resonated with me. Thank you for sharing. I know it might have felt vulnerable at times, but you have added to the way I see and think about the world, and I hope the change in perspective amounts to me being mor
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While you are absolutely correct that people will think you are weird - what does it matter? Having small talk with someone in line at the grocery store is not to create a lifelong friend (although that really is a potential), it is to spre
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts, although I didn't intend, specifically, for them to seem political. I think your statements lie at the core of American society. My asking was more a sociological inquiry than a political one, large
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Given that perspective it is quite a somber phrase. Assuming you are living in America, do you feel like the standard 'things you should care about' package offered to us by government, cultural-shaping institutions, and the econo
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It most certainly is a game, and while I enjoy making others laugh when given the chance, when on the lookout for real interaction I just pay attention to the share of conversation in an interaction. Someone who asks no questions, talks too
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Do you recommend this book? Is this a core theme of the novel? I've never heard of it, but I'd love to read about thoughts on social isolation caused from modernism that are 101 years old!
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It is. Get off of it. Ask cashiers how they are doing before they talk to you. Smile at strangers. Make small talk when standing around. Eventually you will find someone who is not indoctrinated into these isolation chambers tossed at us by
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There are a slew of research papers on the benefits of exercise for the clinically depressed, anxious, etc [1]. Most of the research boils down to the fact that, with enough rigor in the exercise regime (typically linked to one's heart
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by marnett 9y ago
> fed up with dogmatism and theism I was raised religious. I too became entranced with seeking the truth; however, secularism does not have the same 'social-networks as a side-effect' institutions as religion does. Many want to
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Much of what you said, discussions on post-industrial, post-modern societies with capitalistic incentives driving more-and-more societal aspects, echoes the sentiment from Daniel Bell's The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism .
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In what ways? I'm interested to hear what it made you think of.

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