oohaargh

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by oohaargh 2y ago
There's a difference between being a British colony and allowing Britain to have a military base on your land, so nothing in disagreement with the original post there
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by oohaargh 5y ago
This one's very personal, it's only a good thing to do if you genuinely really enjoy it. I used to be a maths teacher and I love maths, and would do it for fun outside of my job. That in turn often helped with the job itself, and
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by oohaargh 5y ago
Mate, the whole article is 11 sentences, including the bit that explains what a gif is, and 2 of those 11 sentences answer your question
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by oohaargh 5y ago
Not an expert in the law or in this case, but blocking large companies from acquiring other companies which operate in the same space in order to cement monopolies is a pretty fundamental part of what a competition regulator is there for, i
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by oohaargh 5y ago
Absolutely terrifying. The worst bit isn't even that it crashed - these things are complicated and they can can go wrong, and the setup of the aviation industry is supposed to (and historically did) result in a full blameless post mort
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by oohaargh 5y ago
You really think of human rights as an exclusively American idea? I'm not surprised you can't see what my comment is getting at
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by oohaargh 5y ago
The English have done alright for philosophers, but I'm not sure human rights have ever been a particularly strong suit in the UK. Sadly it's not looking like improving any time soon
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by oohaargh 5y ago
It really isn't exactly how it works though - correct me where I'm going wrong here, because I've just read all these responses and feel I must be going insane. The ideology is that human beings ought to have some intrinsic r
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by oohaargh 5y ago
This is such a hilariously weird take on how rights work. I don't want to tar all Americans with the same brush, but I think only someone from the US could possibly have come up with this
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by oohaargh 5y ago
If you think that's in the Russian government's interest you haven't been looking at what they're up to too closely. Russia isn't really that big a player globally (GDP quite a bit less than Italy's for example