neartheplain

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by neartheplain 5y ago
YouTube, FB, TikTok, Twitter etc. do make it easier to share and unite around feelings or emotional reactions. However, these platforms don't facilitate the sort of careful, thought-out organization and planning that historically has
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I'd guess the original title was too long for the submission field.
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>But it still wouldn't merit a strategic nuclear counterstrike. I'd hestitate to describe the US as a nation who could politically accept a one-sided nuclear strike.
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"Only" is doing some pretty heavy lifting there.
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>I also think we should host a sovereign election and ask the Taiwanese people what they think we should do. Taiwan already has a democractically-elected President. Instead of holding a "sovereign election," you could just list
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>each ad pops up as a track that you can scrobble to the end of The first time this happened to me (while loading up a Joe Rogan podcast), I legitimately thought Spotify was glitching out. There's no visual indication in the app tha
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Not exactly. He no longer posts full episodes to YouTube, just occasional clips: https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerfulJRE
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Disclaimer, I am not a lawyer: California labor law prevents employers from firing you for engaging in "protected activity" [0][1], which includes labor organizing and forms of political speech. They can still fire you for a long
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I wonder how many Apple employees with real greivances about long hours, illegal labor practices, harassment, etc. will keep quiet given this website's thorough use of culture war vocabulary. I've experienced bad working condition
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>the confidentiality of a professional therapist is huge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_the_Confessional_and_t...
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Maybe GP meant forced in the sense of giving right-of-way, which is arguably the biggest impediment to long distance rail construction. As of this January, California's High Speed Rail project still did not have all necessary right-of-
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He was years ahead of the curve [0] on mobile-first VR. By that I don't mean "stick a phone in Google Carboad," but truly self-contained and portable VR built on mobile chipsets. The success of the Quest and Quest 2 is proof
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A government which the Soviets then immediately and violently overthrew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War#Red_... >On 27 December 1979, 700 Soviet troops dressed in Afghan uniforms, including
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>The planned economic system of USSR means that wartime production is a net economic loss serving no financial purpose. It's a net loss under capitalist systems, too. Both systems can and do commit huge amounts of resources to point
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My comment was sarcastic. Your points about the imperialist "Afghanistan stalemate" fit the Soviets equally well with only minor modifications.
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If only Brezhnev had listened. Or were you talking about the American invasion?
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Not to mention the Chevy Volt, GM's popular and successful plug-in hybrid line which they abruptly terminated in 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Volt
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Is your account with the DNS registrar who controls your MX record 2FA-secured? >[...] via encrypted SMTP In addition to establishing a secure socket, does the mule validate the mail server's TLS certificate name?
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>This is why I commented on an article here some weeks ago that if they ever offered any paid user experience they'd be in trouble because they'd actually have to help their users with their issues. Facebook has offered a paid
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Sounds like a market opportunity for new, non-prudish payment provider.
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Yes, washing clothes was a crappy job, just like coal mining was/is in certain parts of Appalchia. That said, it was an important and necessary job in its day, and it generated valuable income for workers with no other useful skills. R
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Ah, missed that part- thanks for pointing it out! Given the absence of a heater element, I'd guess the idea is to spin-dry the clothes before hanging them on a drying line.
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On the other hand, manual laundry was one of only a few common means of self-support for 18th century working-class women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK9OyW4Jx_g
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The most labor-intensive step of handwashing clothes is not the washing itself, but the wringing: http://www.handlaundry.com/clothes-wringer/ It's possible to line-dry clothes without wringing water out first, but
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>Also, anyone think that a US civilian militia has more than a snowball's chance in hell against any committed government-deployed force? Ask the Taliban.
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I think it's interesting and worth mentioning when an author inserts an opinion disguised as a fact. I almost read right past it myself. If I hadn't posted my comment, others might've read the same article and internalized th
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That's also a common Star Trek plot point. Many episodes involve the Enterprise catching up to a ship launched from Earth in the pre-warp era, typically an early colony or exploration vessel. The most of famous of these might be Khan N
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Fantastic sci-fi novel with continuing modern relevance. Often interpreted as metaphor for the author's experience in the Vietnam War, and his return to American society after what felt like a period of otherworldy time-dilation. The g
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>Some men may have liked that electric cars’ limited range meant that the independence granted to their drivers was tightly constrained. This kind of gratuitous editorial speculation, based on precisely zero evidence in an otherwise fact
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>This isn't exactly a compelling argument for our continued support of Afghanistan's government... I haven't made such an argument. Just outlining the problems.

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