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by pell 6y ago
They voted for the ban today. France showed that it had little positive effect for women. The University of Lucerne ran a study and came to the conclusion that there are around 20-30 women in all of Switzerland who wear a niqap or a burqa.
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by pell 6y ago
How are these examples not political? Yes, the entities in question might not do them for political reasons (as in for or because some kind of affiliation) but the issues are absolutely political.
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by pell 6y ago
How's your health been since the infection if you don't mind the question?
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by pell 6y ago
Your questions are all over the place, I'm not sure what you're getting at? I'm also not sure given what occurred in this instance that you can make some of the assumptions you included within these questions. Also - Tim Pool
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by pell 6y ago
In Germany if you have a contract which binds you for a certain amount of time, blocking the payment will just result in letters, extra fees and eventually collection agencies and a state bailiff. This will not just put a stain on your cred
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by pell 6y ago
You probably have seen it but for anyone who hasn't, this SNL skit on Papyrus is brilliant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
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by pell 6y ago
The anti-masker movement would have happened anyway. There's no logical consistency there which is very apparent when you listen to their "arguments".
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by pell 6y ago
When I saw the title, I assumed I would just like it for the heck of taking a look into the past. But in reality the nostalgia hit very effectively, I really started remembering very good and interesting times on that website I had when i w
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by pell 6y ago
There is no identity politics - which in itself isn't bad or "goofiness" by the way - when the author is read as part of the writing. Most critical comments mentioned Graham's biography for specific reasons that correspo
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by pell 6y ago
I think you're overlooking a lot of people who don't fit this description at all, yet also became "programmers".
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by pell 6y ago
I have a special distaste for their advertising scheme. Daily I will see ads claiming "Blinkist is the new hype in Berlin", "The app that all CEOs use", "The company that's harder to get into than Harvard"
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by pell 6y ago
I don't think this really is limited to liberal arts and big city urban life. I know this group might be highly represented but you have many other types of people who struggle with the exact same problems.
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by pell 6y ago
From your own Wikipedia link: >Frank Dikötter, Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and the author of Mao's Great Famine, estimated that at least 45 million people died from starvation, overwork and state vio
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by pell 6y ago
You commented this twice already as some sort of universal truth. But in fact the region known as modern-day China had one major conflict after another like they occurred in any other region in the globe. Also what does it mean to "mai
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by pell 6y ago
Not the worst outcome.
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by pell 6y ago
Libyan prisons and camps have been called "concentration-camp-like" by Germany's foreign office. There are mountains of evidence of prisoners and refugees being subjected to systemic rape, murders, enslavement and forced part
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by pell 6y ago
I wouldn't call DHH contrarian for sticking with a mature framework.
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by pell 6y ago
I'm not a fan of Assange and I think the allegations in Sweden were credible. But what is currently happening to him is beyond unjust.
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by pell 6y ago
I love this.
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by pell 6y ago
Gandhi was also not a pacifist. He strongly believed in the right of self-defense.
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by pell 6y ago
I get the sentiment, but this was the first project of this kind for the author. I think "just ship it" sometimes means "get it done despite all the doubts".
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by pell 6y ago
I won't argue whether the (American) left is necessarily protecting free speech at all costs. That's a complicated question. But I think it's a stretch to call the situation "reversed". You can see the right often u
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by pell 6y ago
The German articles you're describing sound more like long-form journalism. I think their style differs heavily from short news reports.
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by pell 6y ago
SEO also has encouraged this.
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by pell 6y ago
It's a very reliable app despite some of its flaws. It mainly sold that high due to high market share in some countries.
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by pell 7y ago
Oh wow.
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by pell 7y ago
There's no excuse there. It's simply a polite way to decline an invitation.
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by pell 7y ago
Paz is a nice song.
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by pell 7y ago
Torture. It should be abolished.
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by pell 7y ago
Very nice project, I hope you can drive up engagement some more. It will be great to see more discussions and projects on there.

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