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I appreciate the links you provided. I thought I'd share my impressions after looking them over. > https://www.dailywire.com/news/fact-check-snopes-biased-read... This article said that snopes concluded [0] tha
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> They sold their credibility for a mess of money and political activism Can you provide any additional details, references, and/or specific examples? I haven't used snopes in a long while, but was impressed at the time, partic
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I agree with much of what you say. As far as what I assumed about the "worshippers" comment, I didn't think it was meant to be taken literally. If nothing else that comment can be taken as an indication of how some people per
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I'm not a fan of oversight and strictures myself, so I see where you are coming from. Cities can be challenging in that regard, but homeowner associations can be bad, also. You mentioned density representing a cultural pathology in ser
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What about a dense village or town, with nature nearby that you could walk to in 10 minutes? I wonder if single family home communities might be nicer if the homes were clustered more closely together and surrounded by natural areas. But ha
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> Have you seen Star Wars: The Phantom Menace? I have not seen that movie. Heard it wasn't that good. I'm happy to hear about the relevant parts, if you want to describe them. > Are you going to have Congress hold sessions i
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On the other hand, it might be better to have many smaller states, perhaps the size of counties, which could better represent urban and rural areas separately. Switzerland does this, having "cantons" about the size of U.S. countie
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You don't have to go back to pre-history, passports for individuals didn't exist in the 19th century [0]. People were free to go to other countries whenever they wanted, and they did. There were travelers and migrations all over t
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People used to be free to go anywhere in the world, up until states commanded enough force to exclude foreigners. Funny though how money is still allowed to go anywhere in the world, while people are trapped in their own countries (for bett
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Their demo counter [0] didn't work in my browser, maybe because I normally have javascript disabled. In the demo it seems they have XMLHttpRequest code calling ping.withcabin.com/cache for this trick of theirs. Can this method of
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Your point would make more sense if team building time (and drinks or whatever) was paid for by the company. Otherwise people are spending their time for the company's benefit, without being reimbursed. Companies could reimburse people
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Long flu is a thing [0] [1]. People were talking about that for years after the 1918 flu. There's some evidence that a prior flu outbreak, the Russian Flu around 1890, may have been an earlier coronavirus pandemic [2], but nobody could
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And hacker news content is searchable and accessible by anyone on the internet, not hidden like on so many other services. This is a big deal for so many things, where solutions and advice can be retrieved instead of having to reinvent the
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Declining birth rates are happening everywhere in the world, not just in the christian liberal west for the reasons you gave. The primary causes seem to be urbanization and women's access to education and birth control. It makes sense
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> lack of Bluetooth You can use usb hardware bluetooth dongles [0] with OpenBSD, they are detected like any other audio device. I assume that there are a variety of these available. [0] I'm using https://www.amazon.com&#x
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I'm not following your point about student loan debt relief impacting the economy. It seems that money has not yet been released yet. From your link [0]: > "If you made voluntary payments during the payment pause (from March 13
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The U.S. has legalized what is considered corruption in most other western democracies. Campaign finance reform is needed. People should not be able to give money to politicians they are not eligible to vote for, i.e. rich people buying pol
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> They limit the amount of mixed use, medium density housing because it would crash the market for new car dependent suburbs which provide the funding for road maintenance and construction. It is my understanding that many car dependent
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Ah, here's the part of the article you are referring to: > Now, I want to leave aside, for the purpose of this essay, the use of lethal chemical agents in genocide, the use of non-lethal chemical agents entirely, as well as the use
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Funny, he never mentioned the chemical weapons that are used all the time, domestically, on protesters. Here's a couple articles I found: https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/tear-gas-is-a-chemical-weapon... https
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> Escalation today seems necessary to prevent nuclear war tomorrow. I'm sure that doing nothing would have led to Russia attempting to exert control over Moldova and Poland next, at some point. I think everyone agrees on that. It&#x
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> Democracy I don't think avoiding democracy is the reason that Russia invaded Ukraine. How are the two related? I assume they attempted to seize Ukraine in an attempt to better their strategic military and economic position. > T
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I think that we agree. The US is not helping Ukraine because they are weak, they are helping Ukraine because Russia is a large threat to our allies, trade partners, energy markets, etc. I brought up the other conflict as a way of showing th
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You're talking too high-falutin for me! Major enemy, justify, revanchism - people don't want to die for those words, words I consider to be propaganda words. What are the people running Russia really afraid of? I assume they'
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> And to leave the weak at the will of an expansionist nation doesn't seem like much of world to be part of. Is there any limit to how much you would escalate a war with Russia to defend the weak? It's interesting that we are h
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> just give in a little bit more and hope he stops I think the idea is to relinquish as little as possible while making Russia suffer as much as possible. > The best strategy is to close the door Are you suggesting that we escalate an
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> Do you know why mortgages in Canada are so different from the US? The U.S. has been heavily subsiding mortgages since the great Depression, through programs such as FHA. Banks would not be willing to loan people money at such low rates
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This is an interesting precedent! The big social network companies could make the legal argument that they are advertising networks, not free speech networks, and should be able to censor people in order to better fulfil their primary purpo
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What about land? Is it ok for someone to own a communal resource? Are property taxes a way of paying the community back for the exclusive use of a piece of land?
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> The only real utility is to avoid any kind of taxation #1) cash works without power, #2) cash has different security and privacy pros and cons, compared to cryptocurrencies

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