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by rnk 4y ago
It's clear that this resistance to being reasonably tested is because the handlers are obviously influencing the dogs. It's freaking irritating. A lot of that is drug war bs. I thought only us law enforcement would be resistant to
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by rnk 4y ago
Most of the fires were on national forest land, therefore not managed by California. The US govt's forestry management has been mismanaged of course. Blame the right people. US govt federal management is the issue.
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by rnk 4y ago
No making a copy of it and putting it up for free on wikipedia, eh?
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by rnk 4y ago
The pointless nuanced arguments about Taiwan claiming to still be the real China and mainland China also claiming the same and the US saying officially we see there will be one China seem pointless to me - I'm sure some people care. Th
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by rnk 4y ago
Sure, there's always a chance, and China's chance is better than Russia's. There's a chance the other great power authoritarian country with a lack of freedom, Russia, could beat Ukraine, even without using nukes. When p
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by rnk 4y ago
Wyze cameras are cheap and work pretty reliably for me. They don't support onvif. I'm sure it's because they want you to subscribe to their paid services that analyze the video feed. I want the quality and cheapness and relia
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by rnk 4y ago
Good point, it would not be the world. In short, the free countries of the world will come together to protect a democracy from tyranny. Yes, this is imperfect, lots of small countries were not protected, we protect the "good ones&quot
728.
by rnk 4y ago
Yeah, all the conspiratorial anti-vax BS is just sad. There weren't millions of people killed by getting vaccinated, so all that pre-shot BS about the danger of a new vaccine didn't pan out - because they'd been testing it fo
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by rnk 4y ago
"Coordinated efforts against labor and the working class" doesn't convince anyone of anything. Almost every company ever tried to pay their workers the least they could get away with. There are also "coordinated efforts
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by rnk 4y ago
Japan at least have recently changed a few laws to increase their military forces. Japan is a free country and they could change treaties if they wanted. We are just better off working together. I wonder what would have happened if say Chin
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by rnk 4y ago
And also the US. China would have to immediately use the "do what we say or we'll nuke you" to keep the world out of helping Taiwan.
732.
by rnk 4y ago
I don't think you are right. Only if the pro-authoritarian Republicans seize power in the US. Trump, or others. The same factors that lead to Republicans wanting to help Russia could ultimately come to sway in Chinese policy in the US.
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by rnk 4y ago
I'm sure China would manage to sink some carriers if there was an all out assault with all their capabilities, that is one of their key goal. Nothing will be invulnerable. They'll have some other weapons no one knew about. But wha
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by rnk 4y ago
It's not easily winnable. It will take more than a decade to move so much manufacturing to other places. Many things will just stay there in China as long as they can.
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by rnk 4y ago
That was an interesting idea about TSMC's influence. But the fact that there should be two separate Chinas has only become more clear each year to me, with Taiwan's increasingly democratic and successful democracy (and China'
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by rnk 4y ago
Please be specific about which of the comments were wrong. The covid shutdowns have clearly significantly impacted China's economy. There's no doubt. They failed to aggressively inoculate their country, which is under their contro
737.
by rnk 4y ago
Yemen and the treatment of Khashoggi and many others by the Saudi govt could eventually yield a case for helping their neighbors resist them. Yemen is pretty horrible. We are stuck with oil dependence for now.
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by rnk 4y ago
All this arguing about what the KMT did and the relationship going back to the ROC doesn't matter. Today Taiwan is a democracy, is no threat to anyone, and deserves every right of self-determination. Democracies should work together to
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by rnk 4y ago
And the people of Taiwan don't want to communist Chinese mainland govt to come and kill all their leaders, imprison people and take away their freedom, like the folks in officially happy Hong Kong. Adding on to your comment, it's
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by rnk 4y ago
If you are in the US, half the us thinks masks and taking care not to communicate deadly diseases to them in some evil attempt to control them. In my world, all my friends know it's real and masks help protect you, but they are just so
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by rnk 4y ago
Yeah, I think jab has become accepted US shorthand for a shot and it's not pejorative. But your comment is shocking, you made a graceful acceptance that the word's definition had changed? Thank you.
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by rnk 4y ago
Which raises an interesting question. In China they could make elderly get vaccinated. They close entire large apartment buildings with one person'a exposure to covid, bring them food occasionally and organize security and testing for
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by rnk 4y ago
I get the potential existential crisis issue - but bitcoin is subject to that, because can't governments blacklist a wallet? Then that person can't effectively take their btc away, just like in regular banking, based on some on go
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by rnk 4y ago
You never had vaccination requirements in your life? If you were in the US, there were endless vaccination requirements. If you were wanting to do sports, you had to have a physical. You had to take a driver's license test to drive. Si
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by rnk 4y ago
This plan to spread organisms is criminal. It's insane, dangerous, should be blocked. We haven't even decided if we should do this in our own solar system, it's extremely controversial just going to Mars or other planets with
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by rnk 4y ago
If he uses a nuke, even a small tactical nuke, nato and the US will respond with overwhelming conventional forces, destroying some significant Russian military assets. The world will be on a precipice of doom. I don't see how it will s
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by rnk 4y ago
When there are daily ponzi schemes full of fraudsters who take people's money and run in an industry segment, it's worthy of distrust - (latest was today's story that the celsius leaders cached out $40 mil worth from celsius
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by rnk 4y ago
I had an iwatch. The battery life was so short (at most 24 hours, less if using it to track a hike or ski day) that I finally got tired of using it. It has a slightly weird strap system. Mine kept coming off and eventually it fell off and c
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by rnk 4y ago
Google, can you please put a special header or something to filter on so we can automatically delete this email, mark it as spam or trash it? Then you can satisfy the terrible demand on you but also not hurt your users.
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by rnk 4y ago
A company could see you are working at multiple places, but the tax authorities could say you can't work multiple full time jobs maybe? In the us I bet you could just do it. You'd have opt out of those horrible places where compan

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