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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Told that by whom?
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
People on Twitter are saying...
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
A lot of people are missing that it's per child and it's not just the ¥1m / $7500: "The payment – which comes on top of up to ¥3m already available in financial support – will be offered to families living in the 23 “cor
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
"A huge trove of secret government documents reveals for the first time how the giants of Western banking move trillions of dollars in suspicious transactions, enriching themselves and their shareholders while facilitating the work of
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Musicians wage war against evil robots (2012)(smithsonianmag.com)
120 points by scifibestfi 4y ago|167 comments
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
“People who voted to defund the police are now paying for private security.” This is what happens when luxury beliefs are realized.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Gatekeeping. Modern elites do this a lot where they publically promote the opposite of what made them successful.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
They're really going out of the way to ignore the obese elephant in the room.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
> Being a landlord has become a more attractive investment This is changing as we speak due to the interest rate. These investments are less attractive if you can get a safe 4% or higher return without having to deal with tenants and mai
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
The government's #1 excuse for anything they want to do without having to actually justify it: "Safety"
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
They must not be aware that this was a common thing before GoDaddy joined. It happens to most domains that get traffic? These domain buyers all suck.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Elon: "Tesla stock price is too high imo"
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
It's magic as long as you don't look behind the curtain!
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Doesn't Medicare cover most of that?
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Only if you're correct about them being a Mongol horde and not a rational actor, but their actions were predictable and were in fact predicted by professors years ago who understand the geopolitcal landscape and history of NATO.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Add it to the list of authortarian demands. Many have already been waiting more than six months for the US to drop the outdated Covid vaccine requirement.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
It means that you're working to find a peaceful solution. It's no different from people who opposed the Afghanistan and Vietnam wars and pushed for peace. People who oppose war were discredited by the regime then and they are bein
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
For a time it was considered propaganda to push for peace. It was truly bizarro. Then a few weeks later regime approved voices said we should consider peace and it was no longer considered propaganda.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
When he realized it was too easy for people to not get the joke and were using it to hurt Tesla.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Similarly, here's a medical health expert talking about how he's a junkfoodaholic: https://twitter.com/PierreKory/status/1607144563558187009
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
It sucks how everything is a political football instead of just doing the right thing. They had full control and could have legalized it. But no, they keep holding onto just to drag voters along every election.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Why are they contacting Twitter as the FBI in a backchannel to report potentially ToS offending tweets as opposed to the way we all report tweets to Twitter? Or indeed at all when they're not illegal tweets. Imagine Trump is in charge
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Is fascism closer to free speech or is it closer to censorship?
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
How much of that is him vs the media being impossible to defend at this point?
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Were you more informed as a teen than you are now as an adult? Or, more likely, when you look back at yourself as a teen do you cringe at what you believed?
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
I'm amused by the idea that developing brains in particular are being informed, rather than misinformed, by social media. Where did that come from in the age of misinformation and filter bubbles? Adult brains are misinformed by these b
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
The only problem here is collecting photo ID. Someone just needs to educate legislators on zero-knowledge proofs. Or Apple or Twitter could proactively show how it's done. The app is already 17+ in the App Store.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
She explained in the thread: What many people call “shadow banning,” Twitter executives and employees call “Visibility Filtering” or “VF.” Multiple high-level sources confirmed its meaning. “Think about visibility filtering as being a way f
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Do they have anything about how they were blacklisting accounts, unbeknownst to the original poster?
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
The 4 stages. It's not happening. It's happening, but it's equally applied. It's not equally applied and that's a good thing. We already knew about it. Why is this news?

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