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shripadk
6y ago
That is precisely what I am talking about: peer pressure/influence. You are just confirming my point. We already have enough influence on children from different angles: Religion, Race, Sex etc. I am saying that children should not be
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6y ago
Yes but if you are an adult I can't coerce you into voting for a party of my choice. Children can be coerced. Children can be used as pawns. Schools can turn into political arenas. There are so many things that can go wrong by introduc
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6y ago
> At this point, I believe we should stop discriminating based on age. If the age of voting is lowered to 6 (as some have asked for: [1]) or even removed altogether what stops me from producing 5-10 kids and then having them vote for a p
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6y ago
> I remember visiting India as a kid with my family, and one of my cousins telling me about an America TV series that was banned. I didn't think much of it at the time, but as I've grown older, I've really come to apprecia
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6y ago
Looks like the author loves Quake 3. This looks so similar to pro-q3dm6 (The Camping Grounds)! Love it!
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6y ago
> Snowden blew the whistle By revealing incriminating evidence. Until then yes it was a conspiracy theory. Snowden did not just "say" that there was mega-surveillance. He actually revealed intricate details of how surveillance
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6y ago
These are still conspiracies. Unless you can prove beyond doubt that the office of the President of the United States was misused to benefit Oracle because of the friendship between Trump and Ellison then yes your theory can be proved. That
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> legalized bribing in the USA Then that is how it is in the rest of the World. I don't see why USA should be held with a different set of standards when literally all elections fought in every part of the world works through donati
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> Far from a conspiracy theory, Larry Ellison has been very vocal in his support of Trump (and a major donor!), and Safra Catz actually served on the Trump transition team. I don't understand. Is being a donor automatically amount t
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> TikTok was already going all in "All in": What is the guarantee that their entire infrastructure will be on Google Cloud? You are assuming a lot about how their backend infrastructure is structured. > was ready to go all i
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6y ago
What kind of music are you talking about here? Do you want for Western music? Or are you willing to explore Eastern music too?
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6y ago
> In 2018, the definition of length was changed to count each lane separately.[1] Did you actually read the article? It was changed to meet International Standards on how lanes are measured. What is wrong with it? The old numbers were re
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6y ago
So what facts did you glean from that comment? > Comments like these give proper context to foreigner like me who don't know how inclined the Indian government is to follow through on their promises You do realize that India is a De
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6y ago
I am not disputing that there might be some bad ecological impact of road construction projects. I bet such issues exist in every part of the World where development is taking place. Here is a list of all the Highway revolts that took place
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> Not a single one has been developed in 5 years. How do you build 100 Smart Cities in 5 years? That is practically impossible to do. The mission itself spans over 2 decades. The 5 years is for finalization of the selection of cities and
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> Large scale irrigation projects have a lot of environmental hurdles to overcome here unlike China Which is a good thing in my opinion. These projects have to be scrutinized thread bare to ensure that they don't degrade the environ
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> As an Indian, I've heard countless plans like these every few years I agree the previous Governments never did act on their plans. I find a lot of difference between them and the current Government when it comes to desire, commitm
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6y ago
> basic rights of people and businesses Expand on these basic rights that are violated if TikTok is banned. And since when do foreign businesses have basic rights in US or any other democracy?
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> TFA stands for The Fucking Article. Your account is 10 years old. There's no way you actually don't know what that stands for. What has the length of my account got to do with me knowing every slang in the Universe? Do you kn
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6y ago
> Did you forget what TFA is about? It's about the president blanket banning two apps with no warning and no real justification. The TFA is an agreement for movement of goods between member Nations. What has this got to do with apps
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> The law was designed to allow platforms to remove content without being legally liable for all of the content. If you disagree with that then you disagree with all of S230, and you need to campaign to have it removed and replaced. Ther
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Are you sure about that? Microsoft is in big trouble in China too. This is the problem with a totalitarian state. Laws can be modified at will. You don't take the people into confidence. What is acceptable today may not be tomorrow. Yo
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> The whole point of Section 230 is to allow platforms to moderate their content without becoming liable for it. I am not against Section 230. I am against platforms misusing Section 230. They are a platform until they behave like one. W
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6y ago
> They are not regulated They are. It is called "The Communications Act of 1934" in the United States. They are completely regulated by the FCC in US. They are regulated differently in different countries. In US, as an example,
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> Those companies are free to operate in China if the comply with Chinese law. Which will never happen. The Chinese know that Western companies would never want to comply with the Chinese law because the law was purposefully designed in
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> There's a big difference between a private company determining what is hosted on their servers vs. the U.S. government forcing a private company to censor speech. So are media networks like CNN, MSNBC, Fox etc. They are private to
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6y ago
My question is why censor the US President? Let people know what Trump says and make their own judgement. I hate this sort of political censorship by social media giants. At the same time, you can literally find porn and gore on these sites
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> The belief that you just need to use "standard toolkits" and accessibility "just works" is wrong. Toolkits provide you the tools to do accessibility right. Toolkits don't do your accessibility for you. That is
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Try your sarcasm with someone else. Won't work on me. When you have some facts to back your allegations that has been established in some Court of Law then you can come back to me. Until then keep trying.
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> So Salman Khan also didn't kill any poor in 2002? Some ghosts were driving his car that night? What has this got to do with Modi? This is the biggest problem with you liberals. You can't debate on facts. The moment you are pr
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