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by nyokodo 4y ago
> intentionally cutting themselves out of a massive common market probably isn't helping much. My understanding is that they never intended to leave the common market but to gain a trade deal that would leave market access substanti
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> How do you feel about former contractors? Contractors with repeat business at the same client is a positive signal. Otherwise evaluating a former contractor for a role is about whether they’re interested enough to stick around long eno
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> It is debated by people like Richard Carrier Yes, but there’s little debate amongst scholars that aren’t atheist activists. For instance, it’s extremely difficult to explain the historical facts of the early Christian movement without
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> They managed interstellar travel, we did not. That inherently puts them at an advantage to us. It means some species that is/ was out there has an advantage. The species that actually visits us could be less intelligent than us bu
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It’s no longer the lament of the snuffing out of the fire of journalism but the desperate search for any still warm embers. Journalism now is just ideologically driven clickbait that on one extreme inflames wounds so they never heal and pus
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> People can’t buy insurance for getting locked out of their Google account Maybe they should be able to? I’d purchase that kind of insurance!
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> I really wonder what the fixation is on beef patties, when there are other types of much more easily replaceable meat. The negative environmental impact of beef is much greater than other meats so the potential positive impact is much
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> my go-to assumption when the source originates from Tiktok is to assume it's fake or staged. Wise, although wiser to make that assumption for most sources. Until this starts being reported independently by more reliable sources th
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> who watchers the watchers though, this is infinitive regress. Infinite regress is only contemplated when you aim for perfect oversight which is impossible. The best we can hope for is 'as good as possible'. We the People, as
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> We should celebrate this full spectrum narrative control, not 'investigate' it. Ignoring any moral qualms or suspicions, any powerful weapon that isn’t actively overseen will inevitably be abused.
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> if they have no outlet at all it’s like it begins to grow and starts to dominate them. We’re a social species so a big component of our thinking is in community with others. When that community is healthy our rougher edges are smoothed
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> “insane" in the sense of serious mental illness. Fatigue, stress, trauma, injury, alcohol, aging, other illness, ideology, anger, envy etc all can also induce irrational thought patterns and behavior for long enough to leave a voi
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> it turned up some surprising results > I've wanted to write a post ...but haven't gotten around to it Now you have to write that post ASAP because you can't leave us hanging like this.
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> it's been very good to me on three separate occasions. Were those occasions during the mass retirement of the boomer generation leading to accelerating liquidation of stock market positions while the replacement generations are in
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> full of historical inequity. Granted the academic profession has historical inequality but what about the math itself displays that?
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> it's almost impossible to go back But, if they’re all working on business irrelevant things it’s unusually low risk to fire them all for cause and hire new employees.
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> 20th Century Fox, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Pixar and many others. They’re a big player for sure and I’m not dismissing the risk from their bulbous size just that no matter how big they get there’s going to be an alternative so there
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> they have monopoly They have a monopoly over Disney content but they don’t have a monopoly over content. Most people, even kids, aren’t constantly watching Disney and if they debase the product by ruining the experience and continually
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> NO, its not my money. Its the banks money. It’s not even the bank’s money but the bank’s debt to you. When you give a bank money you are accepting an IOU with pages of conditions because they lend out most of it and do not keep enough
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> Sometimes you don’t want ambiguities and meandering characters. Or antiheroes, or love triangles, or…
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Nothing is absolutely safe and therefore everything including doing nothing is a risk factor for death to some degree. Moderate alcohol consumption as a risk factor is far out-weighed by other enjoyable and laudable pursuits that are genera
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> I wonder how Nutt can still suggest, in good conscience, that we should still drink (within limits). Because moderate alcohol consumption is safe and enjoyable! That is the only reason necessary. Inevitably alcohol abuse leads to prohi
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> our overpopulation issue I’d recommend resisting the debunked Malthusian inclination. The problems we have now are too few people, specifically young people.
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Whatever we do as a society we shouldn’t double down on the things that got us here. We’re overdue for a big collective rethink that shouldn’t ignore the wisdom of past generations that did a much better job.
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> fter release. Very memorable. It was quite bizarre to hear someone freely discuss his day job of murdering people in such a casual context. Sadly this is pretty common https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_J
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> So as an Indian I feel like this shouldn't be generalized as the 'image' in people's minds of what an Indian movie is. We’ll do that as long as you do us a similar favor for Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich.
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> The government is subsidizing marriages, children, and saving for retirement Only if we don't pay any taxes in the first place and the tax benefit is a credit, or if all our income belongs to the government and they just let us ke
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> political peril for the new monarch Losing almost any former colony is not going to make the top ten list of problems for the new King and might solve a few problems.
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> I think rent control is a good idea. It's always the implementation that falls apart (because politicians) If the implementation of a good idea always falls apart for any reason then it's a bad idea.
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It may be a wise time to discuss consolidating households with family/neighbors so you need to heat fewer structures, you can spread the cost, and you can pool resources. If it’s not necessary, great, but if it’s bad enough you have a

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