mercy_dude

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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Pakistan is a classic case of what moral bankruptcy looks like when you harbour terror just so you can hurt your neighbours. For decades, they allowed terror camps and bases because it would hurt India and in the process military was under
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
What do you mean “mild temperatures climate”? I was planing a visit there last winter and thought it’s not advisable. How low does the temperature get on par with the rest of Europe and is there wind gust something I found make it really ha
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
I have always felt analysis like these are missing some details useful for the context? For example, how does it scale to a population size of UK and is it comparing the entire UK pollution (including industrial)?
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
What’s your point though? That the publicizing of these charges are happening at a politically convenient time?
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
It’s funny how they are bringing these charges when the trust in FBI is an all time low and now FBI (if it wasn’t after the whole Peter Strozk incident) is seen as a political operative for ruling elites in Washington.
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Humans amaze me. We do things that creates enough problem that then cause other problems. But instead of solving the root problems we solve further up the stack and in that process waste further resources. And as a byproduct create more pro
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Not if the Fed keeps raising rates because that will make cost of borrowing high and given at this point how debt reliant the US economy is it will not be a comfortable path. But yeah that has been my thesis as well that after a point there
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
I have the same fear. And more I read about the macro outlook it looks more grim. Consider this situation - inflation is now what at 8%. That means the prices were up by 8% than last year. If it stays this high, federal reserve will raise r
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Yeah and in the name of “inflation reduction” act, we have now decided to double the number of agents and make IRS the most bureaucratic heavy federal agency. Not to say they are heavily weaponized by one known party over their opposition,
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
> authorities who often frown on the special love between a person and their crows. What are the authorities afraid of here? Which states have such silly rules where you can’t have crows as pets? Is this not a violation of personal freed
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
That makes me wonder - does human sperm or eggs show signs of lead poison as well? Has there been any studies on that?
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
> Maybe Trump shouldn't crime so much Where are the charges? I keep hearing he committed crimes without any charges laid against him. I thought we live in a country where the Justice system is based on innocent till proven guilty. &
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
How much of this is due to the release of oil reserve?
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Well of course it is soaring. While everyone is happy boasting about how good the job numbers are, average Joe is having a hard time to afford gas and groceries with his still same wage gig job
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Male with brown skin. How do I know if I have a sunburn? I guess redness, but for me it is hard to recognize in the mirror because of my skin color. Does periodic exposure count? Let’s say if I am on the sun for a 10 min and then seek shade
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
America is an oligarchy. Sure, we have elections but election means little when the representatives we elect basically are run and controlled by the oligarchs and sometimes themselves are part of the oligarch ring. There is a reason most of
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Question: how does sunscreen affect these outcome ? I have been in a UV-high indexed area for over 2hrs a day under sun and wondered if applying sunscreen everyday as I have to exposed parts such as arms and legs have negative consequences
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Oh I know that. Italians are brilliant people and much of what we have today including art, literature (not just technology) we owe it to them. But you must acknowledge economic grievances have consequences on the health of a nation and its
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Interesting choice but Italy doesn’t seem to be a great choice to me. In fact most of Southern Europe has endemic economic problems that can degenerate them completely to bankruptcy and other larger societal problems. If you have not follow
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Fair point- but how much of that is due to media do you think? Media has spent last 5 years creating false narratives just because they don’t like the orange guy is that it has built up pretty much disdain in half of the country. I still re
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Not a bad start. A similar sense of humility would be appreciated here in the west too from politicians and public health officials. For misleading the public about masks, school closures, random lockdown rules for thee but not me, mode of
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
“As a service” has a subscription or on demand expiry concept embedded to it - it was meant in that sense.
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Divorce as a service. We already have marriage as a service in the form of “open relationships” one can argue. How about child bearing as a service? Perhaps in the form of surrogate or finding willing donors/carriers? And then child ca
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Underneath of it all, American is facing a huge class divide. If a civil war erupts, it will be not because it’s right vs left or North vs south as it were before but most likely because there is a good chunk of the country who think there
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Love the British library and all its exhibitions. It’s always a joy whenever I am in London to walk into their exhibitions or just walk around. Both the library and British museums are wealth of information that feel local people don’t appr
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
> Except there's plenty of old-money (hereditary class) in the US that looks, talks and acts exactly like the "class" structures you're claiming are very different from those in Europe. 100%. You also have to keep in
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
> slap on sunscreen, then use statins to counter blood pressure. I have always thought most of the sunscreen products we have today have shady ingredients by just looking at the list of endless number of chemicals. I mean why do we need
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
That’s not true. You can reduce household demands by raising the rates which is what they are trying to do now. But the challenge is now the inflation has outpaced them and Fed has missed the mark by quite a bit. Heck they are now taking ab
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
I am not disagreeing the supply side squeeze but this has been happening since 2020. If you look at container flow stat it is clear as early as 2021 we had severe clogging issues. The problem was the narrative back then from Fed was that th
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by mercy_dude 4y ago
Yes, where did the mention the culprits- Bernanke/Yellen/Powell. I still can’t fathom why they kept buying bonds even as far out as they did. They could have easily raise the rates in 2011, they didn’t. For example, why did the Fe

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