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by rkk3 5y ago
>Heart disease and cancer aren't contagious, so your actions on that front will only improve your own life No, they inflict massive negative externalities on society through healthcare. > while being a bit more careful with covid
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by rkk3 5y ago
What service/s specifically impressed you?
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by rkk3 5y ago
They have always explicitly said they modeled themselves after the agency CAA, which was more than just a rep because leveraged their network/roster of talent synergistically. Not sure it needed another analogy. Also the capital + serv
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by rkk3 5y ago
> just giving directly to mental health resources rings hollow. A tougher holistic approach needs to examine why American society just plain sucks for so many people I don't think they are mutually exclusive, mental health can incor
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by rkk3 5y ago
What else do you call the performance of wearing your mask talking to the busboy and then taking it off after you are seated-inside a full restaurant. Other performative examples would include permanent enclosed "outside" building
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by rkk3 5y ago
> They could at least make a note that the author’s claims are unverified. You are assuming they didn't verify it. They are publishing this under their brand and name and will suffer the consequences. What else should they have to e
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by rkk3 5y ago
> I want to focus on the other aspect: intolerance. Intolerance of anyone who doesn't fit in. Even in the article the Superintendant left in part due to receiving assassination threats...
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by rkk3 5y ago
The thread https://twitter.com/realabril/status/1341135819487100928?lan... And it was specifically about hiring from HBU's vs other elite institutions, not about hiring black applicants in general which is ho
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by rkk3 5y ago
> some mention of dropping out because it’s not for us as well That is cultural transition & stereotype threat first-generation college attendees face, regardless of race. > When you see people with equivalent resumes already coa
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by rkk3 5y ago
> After a few hundred years of race/gender based policies working in favor of whites/males, I don't know what else we would expect from a deliberate effort to reverse it White hasn't even meant the same thing for over
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by rkk3 5y ago
> Taiwan didn’t start as a US backed dictatorship. Sure because they weren't US backed but they still were a dictatorship... Truman publicly signaled the US had no intention of defending Taiwan or SK, but public sentiment changed in
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by rkk3 5y ago
Legitimate government? A warlord the US liked was over thrown by a warlord the US didn't like. Taiwan was under martial law for almost 40 years! It only recently became a democracy, what is the claim?
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by rkk3 5y ago
Not sure why the timing is suspicious since the book publishing and press tour is literally the catalyst for everything. Also these aren't especially novel allegations. Interesting to have such a cynical take on the individual but not
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by rkk3 5y ago
The home Rental market is significantly smaller than home streaming. Icarus has over 700 Million Views [1] where as this one was the third most rented title for a week on Itunes, so yes relatively speaking no one is watching it. The platfor
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by rkk3 5y ago
The entire piece is based on it! What else should they have to explicitly mention, that they verified he even has a missing wife or that he is from China ?
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by rkk3 5y ago
Presumably the journalists at NPR did before they published this story... It's not like this was self-published on a blog
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by rkk3 5y ago
No one would see it. No platform/distributor would touch it, similar to what happened with Bryan Fogel's work the Dissident [1], about the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi. Also 1989 is certainly a horror story reminiscent of Cher
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by rkk3 5y ago
World class mental gymnastics to insert gender identity politics into a conservation about pet ownership. > Unless there's some stereotype about men who like cats I'm not aware of? Yes, there are plenty of stereotypes about &qu
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by rkk3 5y ago
nicely done!
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> Maybe chose the location of your next home more reasonably next time? The part of the city I'm in is really nice So most of the city is not a reasonable location? But you are so right, everyone should just live on top of a hill an
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by rkk3 5y ago
> The police can't stop homeless people from living there. All they can do is force them to constantly move around the city and take their stuff away. Only because they decided to decriminalize homelessness. That was a willful choic
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by rkk3 5y ago
Want the police to arrest someone for your home invasion? Your Office robbery? Your car theft? Yes I do. And the most ridiculous thin is that they will not always arrest the perpetrator because the courts don't find these crimes a pri
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by rkk3 5y ago
> I have never seen more broken, ineffective policing than here When I moved from NYC to San Francisco I was genuinely surprised how much I missed & appreciated the NYPD.
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by rkk3 5y ago
Redistributions have some benefits but they don't have as large of an impact as is portrayed in American Politics or Media [1]. The best thing is to focus on growth, so that the pie that is split is larger. 1. https://ifstud
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by rkk3 5y ago
> It wasn't about saving the most lives How can you think it was about anything but saving lives? The cognitive dissonance and mental gymnastics in this thread is incredible. The vaccine offers personal immunity thats why we gave it
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by rkk3 5y ago
> The main purpose of getting the vaccine isn't just to protect yourself -- it's to reduce the chances of you transmitting it to others. It's about herd immunity, not personal immunity. Not about personal immunity? Why did
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by rkk3 5y ago
Acknowledging that vaccines have some risk & at a certain risk reward trade-off you would not take the vaccine is not anti-vax.
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by rkk3 5y ago
What do you charge them with? They were effectively lied to about the underlying assets that went into the securities.
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The corruption may be rampant but those aren't "Wall Street" jobs. Countrywide was based out of Calabasas, California.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> The US is suffering another 9/11 every few days. Except no, it is not 9/11. People with a year or two of life expectancy dying is not the same as what happened with 9/11 & not the same as Vietnam. Millions of people

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