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by qiskit 4y ago
Use it as inspiration to upvote me of course.
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> Ah, yes. A single one. That's all it takes to debunk your assertion - "... yet we don't have mass shootings." I proved you wrong. But since you want more... Here's one from this year... https://www.
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For any country, ask yourself whose interest the government/military/media/etc exists to serve. I'll give you a hint. It's never 'the people'. In capitalist countries, it's to serve the interest of ca
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> Most of Europe it's more secular than ever and yet we don't have mass shootings. One of the largest mass shooting was in europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks Try not to fall off your
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> If Foxconn does not pay their contractual coupons and the bond, they will be declared in default. It's not their bond. It's the state's bond. > We are talking about $36 MM spread over 20 years, or $1.8 MM per year. It
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by qiskit 4y ago
But all you wrote were ad hominem attacks? I literally just responded to your comment full of ad-hominems. "Instagram: False impression of people's lives through beautiful photographs Twitter: Short, thoughtless vitriol directed t
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> It's absurd we in the US allow Tiktok as a Chinese company to operate their service while they chase Uber and Airbnb and others out of their country. "The official website www.tiktok.com of the overseas version of TikTok is c
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WSJ is rupert murdoch propaganda mouthpiece. Who know whats worse than your brain on tiktok? Your brain on news.
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What's interesting is that most native american language and most siberian-descended/adjacent languages are agglutinative. From finnish to turkish to korean/japanese, it's agglutinative. Of course there are agglutinative
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by qiskit 4y ago
Maybe a PR team? So much of social media is gamed both internally and externally now.
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No. I'm excited about it. The 2008 recession was the best opportunity for people to buy homes, stocks, etc. Even in the great depression almost everyone had a job and were doing fine. During the 2008 recession, almost everyone had a jo
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> Until DuckDuckGo separates itself from Microsoft and becomes truly independent, especially in its business model, you have to question why DDG even exists. DDG exists to make money for itself. It doesn't exist to protect your priv
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> Downranking Russian state propaganda from the search results for people searching general news about the war in Ukraine is useful and makes the results better Considering most propaganda we see are US/EU propaganda, wouldn't
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For independent study, get workbooks with exercises and solutions. Best way of learning is by doing. Solving problems is an invaluable way of proving to yourself that you understood the material.
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> Looking through some of those detainee pictures, it is almost all men, and some older women Makes a mockery of the "genocide" claim. If there was an actual genocide, it would be men, women and children. Like you see during th
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> I'm always surprised how little interest there seems to be from the international muslim community in the Xinjiang situation What international muslim community? And if one existed, why would the international muslim community car
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Interesting. I thought "clean energy" generally didn't include nuclear. Also, is hydro really "clean energy"? In the US at least, biomass is the largest source of "clean energy". I'm betting it's
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> yet to make the electric grid work they have to burn natural gas when renewables aren't available. Also, keep in mind most renewables are biomass ( aka burning trees for energy ).
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Easier to train a smart dog than a dumb one.
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> but I like to read a summary in something like The Economist. What makes you think anyone at the economist knows anything or would know anything about chinese economic policy. Even if they did, what makes you think they wouldn't s
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Everything on tv is 'scripted'. 'Reality' tv shows. Even interviews, like 60 minutes, have writers.
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If pipelines between russia and germany ( who had ties stretching centuries and pipelines for decades ) are such an issue for the US, any pipeline between russia and korea or russia and japan are non-starters. After fukushima, we allowed ja
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> but now almost a decade later and it's hard to see how FB got a return on that 20 billion investment for that particular acquisition. WhatsApp is the 3rd largest social media platform in the world with 2 billion users. FB today i
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Maybe I was too young to know any better, but I loved the 90s movies - from T2 all the way to matrix including 5th element. > but I believe that after Terminator 2 and Jurassic park there was garbage for a few years But lion king, toy st
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> A million dead in the US was always going to wreck havoc, not even counting the people in hospital. Nearly 3 million people die every year with or without covid. If your claims were true, we would've been facing supply chains issu
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> How do you explain the South's century of aggressive open racism after the civil war in your "it was just economic" theory? "Is your assertion that racist white northerners fought a war against racist white souther
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You and dragonwriter keep repeating the false statement. > The South seceded due to slavery. No. They left after the north raised the tariff. They justified the secession on states' rights ( one of the notable being slavery ). The s
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> There’s really not a lot of of discussion of foreign trade in the documents the states ratified to enact secession. Because tariffs are a congressional matter, not a state matter. They were trying to justify secession via the states&#x
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Teach your kids poker is zero-sum gambling and explain what that means. So much promotion of vice everywhere.
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> The civil war was not reframed after the fact to be about slavery, quite the opposite in fact. Should I believe you or lincoln? '...My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy

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