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by rdancer 11y ago
Wait, the US effected a government change? I don't believe that has ever happened! /s
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by rdancer 11y ago
I suggest: " The Litvinenko Inquiry publishes Report into the death of Alexander Litvinenko († 2006)" "Implicated" is misleading; the article said that he "likely approved" the assassination, which without s
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by rdancer 11y ago
I always thought these were some really weird fetish camgirls. Only watched a bit of one video[1], and I'm going to avoid watching any more. Can confirm that the sensation is surprisingly haptic, and it is viscerally uncomfortable for
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by rdancer 11y ago
If you want to send a message, you don't make it a plausible accident. And if you really want to send a message loud and clear, you let it be understood that this was no rogue element; the whole government backs this up: another branch
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by rdancer 11y ago
Why does the FSB threaten a Russian in (bad) English, is this a James Bond movie?
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by rdancer 11y ago
You can buy or hack elections same as anybody else, and you can campain on issues. If anything, foreign Hacker News readers have more say than the average U.S. citizen.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Misleading title.
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by rdancer 11y ago
It should be a republic, but it isn't really. Republic implies rule of law, which the U.S. doesn't really have anymore. The government, and to a certain extent the upper classes, are not ruled by law at all, they have impunity, an
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by rdancer 11y ago
... trade them to toddlers for a sip from their milk bottle!
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by rdancer 11y ago
You must be kidding. It is uncomfortable to stick anything in one's ears; do you feel pleasure when putting something deep into the nasal cavity as well? For me, that's similarly uncomfortable.
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by rdancer 11y ago
I've seen one of those things recently, and have been wondering about the mechanism of function. How it sucks the earwax (which really has the consistency of viscous oil to hardened wax) out of the ear canal. I feel dismayed if you&#x2
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by rdancer 11y ago
You don't need to floss or wipe your butt either, but not everybody is a Tarzan.
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by rdancer 11y ago
... or you can just use a Q-Tip.
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by rdancer 11y ago
"[T]o twist Q-tips in our ears [...] feels great. [...] Tickling their insides triggers all sorts of visceral pleasure." Is this article coming from some alternate reality where people clean their ears for some dangerous guilty pl
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by rdancer 11y ago
> giant multinational corporations can pay effectively zero taxes That's not even remotely true. They may have zero or negative rate for some taxes, most often corporate income tax, but that's to be expected, when you have a
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by rdancer 11y ago
> established 'format' or 'platform' where such information is more widely shared or discussed That's the very definition of union meetings that happen in preparation to collective bargaining. Commonplace where t
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by rdancer 11y ago
As an employer, I understand that a labour union rises my costs and makes my business less flexible. As a humanist, I understand that a labour union is just about the only way workers can have their voice heard, and progress from wage slave
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by rdancer 11y ago
You're replying to a comment that links to an article on the domestic PsyOps program run by the DoD, officially, since shortly after 9/11. The issue is not that people are patriotic. It is not even that political dissent is not to
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by rdancer 11y ago
Perhaps there is a happy middle which doesn't cost an arm and a leg to produce a report, and still isn't straight-up propaganda. It's called reporting publicly-available information from multiple credible sources, and not rep
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by rdancer 11y ago
> considered to be trustworthy By who, please, people who don't watch the BBC? The BBC has been in opposition to the UK government once in living memory, back in 2003, and it's still being talked about.
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by rdancer 11y ago
For a minute, I contemplated how the stubby carrots, with the small bulges, could have been CNC'd from the large carrot? The most difficult part surely would be the skin texture, and the core diameter being too large? Then I realized t
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by rdancer 11y ago
> The FBI reportedly ordered up a 12-shot clip board that undercover cops could use to take out hostage takers. The only mention of a "clip" in the fine article as of now is: "The FBI reportedly ordered up a 12-shot clip b
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by rdancer 11y ago
That's still the same issue, people confounding estate and family members, and it gets written that way because it elicits emotional response, not necessarily because it were true. It looks like in principle it is the same as the Engli
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by rdancer 11y ago
The creditors have to sue the estate, not the relatives, and if the estate is empty, they are not going to get anything. If they sued the relatives, the suit would be thrown out rather quickly. Heirs are not liable for the deceased's d
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by rdancer 11y ago
It goes to the estate, but that is logical, and doesn't elicit as much emotional response, so the only people you hear talking about it are those who don't understand that distinction.
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by rdancer 11y ago
It sounds like they operate like a cooperative. So why would they not incorporate as one ( kooperativ in Swedish law)?
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by rdancer 11y ago
Because of diminishing returns. The tax burden follows the Pareto Principle as much as income does. When you read that rousing NYT headline, what you have to keep in mind is, these taxpayers may have well "saved" a substantial fra
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by rdancer 11y ago
Tony Padilla sure can sell that sleight of hand :-)
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by rdancer 11y ago
No. It was on the trajectory towards communism, but didn't achieve it. For starters, the economy used money. If you want to see sub-state communism, look at kibbutzim. You will have plenty material for criticism there.
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by rdancer 11y ago
The article confounds snitching and counter-espionage. It was a time of war, and should that war turn hot, most of East Germany would be reduced to radioactive rubble, with most people dead or dying. If somebody went over to West Berlin nev

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