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Destruction of Palisades fires in satellite images(npr.org)
3 points by popcalc 2y ago|0 comments
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by popcalc 2y ago
Yes, we must shoot down the flying bears.
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by popcalc 2y ago
The US Government is required to do this.
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by popcalc 2y ago
Was surprised to relearn the GTX 980 premiered at $549 a decade ago.
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Fascist Imagery in Congress(uschs.wordpress.com)
4 points by popcalc 2y ago|1 comments
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by popcalc 2y ago
>In the US with its liability lawsuit culture yes. Elsewhere operating as a sole proprietor is not always such a terrible idea. It's a terrible idea because as a non-American you can easily hire a firm like Appleby to evade nearly a
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by popcalc 2y ago
Every single dating app employs sex discrimination on the backend.
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by popcalc 2y ago
>There isn't anything other than US bills you can use to get the raw materials for US currency. You are very confident when you have no idea what you're talking about. https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/
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Tom Scott's emoj.li: the first emoji-only network(emoj.li)
2 points by popcalc 2y ago|1 comments
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by popcalc 2y ago
I have friends who work at gentrified restaurants in Budapest and they tell me the owners pocket all the tips. Only American tourists tip haha.
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by popcalc 2y ago
Because .COM is administered by a major US player in the military industrial complex, it's the de-facto US TLD. By choosing a dotcom you're signalling your commitment to play ball with US policy. This is why Rubmaps switched to .C
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by popcalc 2y ago
.CH and .LI should be the first pick if you're buying in long term. .COM etc. are Verisign Corp (essentially US Gov) names and you're screwed if there's a global conflict down the line and want to be treated neutrally. I&#x27
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by popcalc 2y ago
Statistically most accounts are people signing up, trying it for a couple days half-heartedly, and giving up. You can be morbidly obese, deformed, and geriatric and rake in multiple six figures /year within months if you're going
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by popcalc 2y ago
More sound than half the comments in this thread.
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Air Alarm Ukraine on the App Store(apps.apple.com)
2 points by popcalc 2y ago|0 comments
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Suicide Most Common on Two Days of the Week(science.org)
2 points by popcalc 2y ago|0 comments
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The Neo-Victorian Neo-Nazi Lesbian BDSM Cult That Made Video Games(youtube.com)
5 points by popcalc 2y ago|1 comments
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FlipFlip: A glorified slideshow, with lots of bells and whistles(ififfy.github.io)
1 points by popcalc 2y ago|0 comments
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by popcalc 2y ago
Most of the debt was/is taken on to pay off political patrons, mostly characterized in the form of marked-up procurement. The IMF then turns off the tap as soon as a new regime takes power and decides to default. They don't stop m
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First genomic study of schizophrenia in African people turns up broken genes(nature.com)
2 points by popcalc 2y ago|0 comments
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by popcalc 2y ago
>conquer territory It's about keeping western capital interests in line, stopping developing nations from nationalizing key resources etc. Bolivia is a good example of a country that has persisted against it.
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by popcalc 2y ago
>To this day, the reason it's accepted is because we consider it going to the common good and pooling our money to save ourselves money. Have you ever lived in the developing world?
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by popcalc 2y ago
You cannot as a private person legally move more than about 100K USD out of mainland CN per year. You have to resort to criminal elements. Only they have the network. It's one of those things everyone does but lives in fear of being us
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by popcalc 2y ago
You can't discount precedent as a major force in human nature. Domestic abuse is one good example. Another is taxation, a system originally built off of ritualized extortion from pillaging hordes of nomads and empires in conquest.
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by popcalc 2y ago
Yeah, they pay in cash up front. I've seen sometimes physical bundles of bills.
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by popcalc 2y ago
In the past 40 years how many countries has the US invaded and how many has China?
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Radim Jančura(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by popcalc 2y ago|0 comments
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by popcalc 2y ago
Because the legal/administrative costs of a lawsuit will bankrupt the poor. It's not worth the risk unless the a group like the EFF expressly backs them. This is systematic.
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by popcalc 2y ago
“When first introduced, the ban caused much controversy and some open defiance. Some people took the trouble of travelling to neighbouring Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to purchase chewing gum. Offenders were publicly "named and shamed"
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Chewing gum in Singapore has been illegal since 1992(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by popcalc 2y ago|2 comments

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