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by rhino369 5y ago
I'm skeptical that the Taliban leadership in 2001 would have actually followed any agreement in the long term. I'm envisioning them getting amnesty and then fleeing to Pakistan to start up the same insurgency they did anyway--jus
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by rhino369 5y ago
oops!
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by rhino369 5y ago
I don't know, but it should pay dividends for generations given it'll probably slow down colds and flus too. Even things like a box fan in a window are probably significantly more effective than scooby doo masks.
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by rhino369 5y ago
The evidence for cotton and surgical mask--as used in actual practice--being effective at reducing the spread is pretty weak in general. Most I've seen cited by mask proponents either don't use control groups (and thus can't
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by rhino369 5y ago
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by rhino369 5y ago
Maybe I’m out of the loop, but at least Tumblr had recognized non-porn uses. If someone linked me their OnlyFans, I would assume it’s porn. How do they seriously expect people to use it when the brand is porn?
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by rhino369 5y ago
Recycling education is awful in America. I made it about 33 years without hearing that take out containers, etc. can’t be recycled.
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by rhino369 5y ago
There is no world government to levy a global carbon tax.
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by rhino369 5y ago
The Taliban are not the people of Afghanistan. Less than 20% of the population supports them. The rest of the population just isn't strong enough and coordinated enough to beat a highly motivated and organized minority. While I didn&#x
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by rhino369 5y ago
Because they haven't been just barely managing to survive for two decades. They got their asses kicked in 2001-02, retreated to relatively safe territory in Pakistan. And then have been fighting for the past 20 years. They've occ
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by rhino369 5y ago
That would be copyright infringement, but as long as its 100% clear that you are quoting or paraphrasing the NYTimes its not plagiarism. It's also not journalism or really even writing. I would even call it stealing content. But plagi
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by rhino369 5y ago
One mechanism could be that masks cause a false sense of security that increases risk overall—even if each interaction is slightly less risky. A lot of people think masks are very effective.
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by rhino369 5y ago
I happen to be reading Dune today, and AI is referred to as counterfeiting the human mind
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by rhino369 5y ago
I hope he's wrong since my brother is quadriplegic, but I wouldn't bet on it. Either way, this guy is an inspiration.
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by rhino369 5y ago
People don’t lock their doors in many parts of America either like safe suburbs. My house growing up couldn’t really even be properly locked up. You could lock the door but the first floor windows and sliding door on the deck didn’t lock at
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by rhino369 5y ago
ORD and DCA have free wifi and they collect emails presumably for that marketing purpose.
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by rhino369 5y ago
This line of thinking allows consumers to pass off their responsibility for their own choices. Who is really to blame for the emissions for my flight to Turkey to sit on a beach even though I live 4 blocks from another (worse) beach. Under
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by rhino369 5y ago
While too little funding is an issue, once you hit a baseline the issue is no longer funding. The rich neighborhoods (and working class neighborhoods that value education) have better schools because their kids are on average better student
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by rhino369 5y ago
Amsterdam is my point. If it were founded in 1906 instead of 1306 it would look more Los Angles. It's very hard take an area developed around a car (everywhere in America since 1920s) and make it bike preferable. You basically need fo
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by rhino369 5y ago
Has any western nation achieved dense middle class inner city neighborhoods post WWII? The anglosphere cities that rose after the ubiquity of the automobile are all sprawling. The outer run suburbs of all western major cities are sprawling
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by rhino369 5y ago
The "scapegoat" argument makes sense here too. Mrs. Sacoolas was seen as a personification of Trump's foreign policy. People were calling for her head, for an crime that generally doesn't even receive jail time (in the
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by rhino369 5y ago
Both the State Department and the UK High Court agreed she did. The US and UK even changed the rule to remove diplomatic immunity from spouses of people at that base after the incident (but not retroactively), which proves she did have it a
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by rhino369 5y ago
She had diplomatic immunity. There is a lot of bad reporting in that case. The US always puts it diplomats back on a plane ASAP after that sort of incident. My buddy in the foreign service ran someone over while on a tour and they did exac
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by rhino369 5y ago
And at least for Comcast and Fios, the marginal cost to add a basic cable package is more like 30-40 bucks. I.e., if you went from just internet to internet and TV it only adds 30-40 bucks. That's a better reflect of what you are reall
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by rhino369 5y ago
That's not really a good example since a cart with two wheels and a two handles anticipates under 35 U.S.C Sec. 102 a cart with a number of wheels and at least one handle. But yea generally you want to describe things with a billion ex
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by rhino369 5y ago
You can probably add another 15%-20% from recovered immunity.
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by rhino369 5y ago
We were vaccinated enough for heard immunity from the original variants. That’s why infections were cratering even in places with no social distancing rules. Delta variant is probably going to change that. Some parts of the country will hav
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by rhino369 5y ago
Bavarian beer is so great. It’s a shame the bottles don’t seem to hold up well when they are imported into the USA. A local restaurant gets kegs and it’s almost like being there.
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by rhino369 5y ago
I’m sure it’s reduced supply, but prices are much higher. I’ve never used pool/line and I’ve still got sticker shock. I think the bigger issues are that most drivers found new jobs given demand was so low for so long. And unemployment
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by rhino369 5y ago
>independent invention was a defense (as it is supposed to be, but in practice basically never is) It's actually not a defense at all and isn't supposed to be. Its sort of like a prize for inventing it first. It's only a

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