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by phs318u 2y ago
> He's not a dictator. Not quite yet. An admirer of dictators. He's a wannabe dictator. Stacking the decks with loyalists and purging those that don't roll over. Never failing to take an opportunity to divide, to tear down
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Steve Bannon: The 21st century's Joseph Goebbels.
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> I’ll consider buying physical books and when necessary “finding” the digital versions of it That's exactly what I've started doing.
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by phs318u 2y ago
Wow. I just checked out a few random other markets including Japan, and it's crazy to me that Mazda isn't doing better. They've got some really nice cars. It's bizarre. I wonder if this is by design or they just can&#x27
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by phs318u 2y ago
> Mazda sells an order of magnitude less cars than even newer companies like BYD. In Australia, Mazda has been the 2nd highest selling brand (across all models) for a number of years. Not sure about last 18 months.
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Was.
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Not in Australia you don't. Outside of Chinese EVs, you won't find an EV here for under AUD$55K (last time I looked, which was about 6 months ago).
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by phs318u 2y ago
What an excellent loophole for the apparatus of state meant to enforce the law.
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This will be epically bad if the Australian “robodebt” saga is any indicator. Robodebt was a government software solution that would automate previously manual assessments for overpayment and issuance of debt notices to welfare recipients.
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by phs318u 2y ago
Wow. Doubling down eh? At this point I have to assume you’re trolling because I struggle to believe anyone could be this obviously racist and/or stupid.
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I’d love to know what security clearance checks were performed on the teenage tech-bro disciples working at DOGE. It’s clear to me as an outsider that whatever secrets the US still had kept from its adversaries are already in the hands of t
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by phs318u 2y ago
Seriously? Dude, you’re parading your ignorance. Singapore has a mix of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian people (with plenty of ethnic Europeans thrown in for good measure). They’re a mix of Buddhist, Christian, Islamic and Hindu religions.
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by phs318u 2y ago
This. There is a fundamental cultural difference which is also reflected in the priorities of municipal governments. Yes, this is a generalisation and yes, it is slowly changing over time. Nevertheless, it’s probably the single biggest driv
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Then why have laws at all, if all that matters is the popularity contest?
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I think you meant to say "infallible" (or remove the "not").
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And Australian.
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by phs318u 2y ago
> Sometimes we still get it and i drink it watered down bc its just so dang tasty. For me that's the actual danger of absinthe. It is indeed ridiculously easy to drink and does not impart any of the 'fire' typically associ
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by phs318u 2y ago
Apparently the ability to wake up at a certain time is "trainable". Does this imply an innate "clock" that is being tapped here? https://youtu.be/P-a5sW7W36E?si=aGbuu3N3Km2d8NKT
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Any reasonable defence lawyer would simply submit "evidence" showing that the judge or prosecutor actually committed the crime. The point being to make it obvious that photos and footage can no longer be trusted.
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This encapsulates a misunderstanding of how vaccines work. They do not float around in our bodies for years. They work by (hopefully) training an immune response from our own bodies. The vaccines themselves rapidly breakdown. They do not la
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by phs318u 2y ago
> “there would be a significant risk that preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes.” Hahahahaha. Yes, in the enshittified capitalist utopia, GAMES aren't for having FUN! They're for addicting large swathes
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Members include... Chrome. Literally the first thing anyone with knowledge above grandma* does is install Chrome (or for a few of us Firefox). * sorry grandma!
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Based on https://bsky.social/about/support/tos#user-content , I would answer yes. While it's not expressly called out (permitted or forbidden), my reading of the above would indicate that it's not forbid
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And yet not all pieces of paper are believed to be equal. Some pieces of paper will buy you a loaf of bread and others will buy you a tank full of gas. The difference lies in the magic squiggles printed on the pieces of paper. In other word
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Lots of things that have a real effect in the world are a convenient fiction. The fact that most people on the planet believe that the small paper rectangles printed by the US government have some value, is a consensual belief simultaneousl
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by phs318u 2y ago
I've been in GA since 1998. How they differ is fundamentally this: you can't drink your entire week's wages worth of alcohol in a week. You can gamble your entire week's wages in a few minutes. An alcoholic or drug addic
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by phs318u 2y ago
Who’s being uncritical here? I’m not an alcoholic and neither is my sister. That doesn’t mean alcoholism doesn’t exist nor that there aren’t very real harms to a small subset of the population. Great enough harm (that also impacts on non-al
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> There's nothing keeping you here on a social media website There’s nothing keeping you here in a casino, gambling your wages away. There’s nothing keeping you here in a bar drinking yourself to oblivion. There’s nothing keeping yo
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I was referring to Goebbels’ own words regarding the application of propaganda and its efficacy when you understand the psychology of the masses as a collective entity (quite distinct from the psychology of the individual). He was a prolif
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The US economy is not thriving for a very large swathe of the population. The extreme disparities in wealth, the non-reporting of under-employment (as opposed to unemployment) all skew statistics. https://www.cnet.com/person

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