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by raarts 6y ago
I have two accounts, one for work and one private. One of them is for following political right-leaning stuff, the other for left-leaning. In my experience both accounts do not try to push me to extremes. They DO try to keep me in a bubbl
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I don't think I was, but every journey starts with the first step ;-). I think the Australian confidence of 'having eradicated covid' is misplaced. You can only eradicate a virus if you do that worldwide, and given viruses&#x
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I don't think that's even possible. I read somewhere that just about 40% of the population has the type of job that can be done from home. A lot of the rest is sitting at home due to restaurants, stores closing, but a fair amount
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by raarts 6y ago
But numbers seem to be up again, this article is speaking of another lockdown: https://t.co/2S9b4HfUhg
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China is suppressing its population to great extend. More than other countries save North Korea. All school books are filled with propaganda and children need to recite xi's virtues every day. It's a brainwash machine and totalit
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Does anybody think our grand kid's kids will get vaccinated with hundreds of vaccines when they're born? The industry will make a lot of money out of that sure, but I have my doubts where this is going.
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As long as he sources everything correctly I don't mind. He's still a great investigative journalist.
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I grew up without it and I think my brain is wired to recognize visual structure instead of colors. Switching it off is the first I do.
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by raarts 6y ago
I am pro-vaccines in general, but I'll refuse the Covid-19 vaccines.
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My only proof from personal experience was when my wife got it, and lost her smell. Never having heard of that symptom for flu before, that was my personal proof. Until a colleague told me he lost his smell 2 years ago after a serious flu.
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by raarts 6y ago
About the Mein Kampf thing. Were you referring to the grievance studies affair [1]? There is a documentary on it on YouTube [2]. Definitely recommend the watch. Funny too. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_s
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Side note: CNN article on the term 'latinx'. This is a controversial term and very unpopular in the Latino community according to Pew [1] [1] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/12/us/latinx-term-us
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Related and more detailed article: https://quillette.com/2020/02/27/the-two-middle-classes/
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Sure, but we now can say with certainty that 2020 isn't the hottest year on record for that particular region.
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Battery life?
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I disagree. Also you can check his sources yourself.
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Tim Pool discussed this a lot on YouTube. Also presented lots of evidence.
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They don't censor conservatives because of their opinions.
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Side note: case numbers are dropping fast right now in the Netherlands. [1] [1] https://stichting-nice.nl
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That used to be the case, but it has changed. The last 10 years the extreme left in the US has shifted left, passing even the European left, at least according to Pew[1]. I don't think this particular report mentions the European part,
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Just like 'experts say' or 'research suggests'.
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Scanning through the threads here it strikes me that nobody mentions the (IMHO) biggest advantage of GraphQL: subscriptions. Something which cannot be done with REST at all, but hugely improves the user experience by keeping your screen up-
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It's also disingenuous to suggest the extreme left isn't dominating the messaging from the left. The extremes tend to dominate the messaging on both sides. And frankly, the internet being dominated by younger people, there is a g
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by raarts 6y ago
I meant (and should have written) 'political public'
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Hear, hear.
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This is a great point. Not to mention it is THE platform where ALL politicians, journalists and public reside. In that respect it has de facto become the public square for discussing politics.
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When I was 11 (that was 1971) I did a school project on climate change. At the time the coming Ice age was all the rage. All pop science magazines I read wrote about it and it was also mentioned regularly in newspapers and in documentaries.
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In which case investors will lose a lot of money: https://www.theinvestor.jll/news/maldives/hotels/the-maldive...
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No, but they frequently censor.
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Oh I'm sorry, it basically means: "They are big and we are small and that's not fair" It originates from an italian cartoon tv-series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calimero

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