pangolinja

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by pangolinja 4y ago
*Africa. It's Africa that produces the vast majority of these materials, and it's the plight of the people here that is most ignored. It's easy to accept an exploitative supplu chain if you can't see those affected most.
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by pangolinja 4y ago
it's amazing how insular American social values are. outside of America transgenderism and gender dysphoria is seen as a mental illness. From Thailand to India, from Africa to South and Central America, there are a wide variety of herm
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by pangolinja 4y ago
if we can't retire in the future, they can't retire now. it's only fair; send them back to work till they fall over.
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by pangolinja 4y ago
... by firing thousands of its most capable workers, and making the rest feel super disposable. this is a tried and tested technique to getting the most out of skilled engineers and scientists...
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because growth is a company wide mindset, and growth marketers are the product market fit experts, not a PPE specialist. Facebook did growth the best because they used the org to bring product and market together, with data powering the ins
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by pangolinja 4y ago
American whataboutism at it's finest. Russia and the whole world minus the US voted against Nazism at the UN. Russia beat the Nazis the first time, despite American propaganda claiming a role. In reality America not only funded the Naz
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by pangolinja 4y ago
This against the backdrop of the growing pool of evidence about operation Celeste, the "vaccination" program in the eighties in Africa distributing HIV as a population control measure. The witnesses from the documentary "Cold
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by pangolinja 4y ago
poor people with cars in the US massively skew the homeless numbers because those living in their cars aren't classified as homeless. fun fact!
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by pangolinja 4y ago
for a few thousand years we had religious ideologies. for a few hundred years, political ideologies. Now we have a technical ideology, where the fundamental functionality of the technology is a mind worm that opens the world up to be a plac
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humans can smell petrichor in air more effectively than great white sharks can smell blood in water. We are genetically predisposed to sniff out fertile soil.
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Opera beats both. Always has.
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they are right to. wait until the Indonesian Muslims and Cape Coloured community of South Africa get to tell their stories...
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reparations should never end, in the same way that Western debt burdens on American aid have enslaved African economies independence from colonialism. mineral laundering, or the expropriation of African minerals and metals to other countrie
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https://cryptome.org John Young and Deborah Natsios have been tracking the building of Supertalls across Manhattan, and the huge civic issues they create. Their resources are well worth reading to understand some of the conseque