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> I'm unsure why it's idiotic to down a mouthpiece for the Kremlin propaganda when Russia has started a war? Does the same principle also apply to neoconservative mouthpieces in the West?
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> I suspect they're being DDOSed. Very likely. I am in India and it goes offline intermittently.
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> though the majority in both regions oppose secession. They held a referendum.[1] > Over the weekend, citizens in two east Ukrainian regions overwhelmingly voted to become independent in a referendum that only the Kremlin seems to be
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> pointing to them causing and exacerbating cardiovascular disease Unless the studies include tens of thousands of people from South India (particularly Kerala) and Sri Lanka where the coconut and its oil have been used in large quantiti
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That is horrific. Watching an animal die a violent death would make me ill. I don't watch nature programs for the same reason.
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We have a female stray dog on our street that had three pups[1] in one of its litters. One of the pups died one morning and we saw the mom and two siblings sitting near the dead body. While the body was disposed of that day, the family cont
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> I wonder if it's these ghee alternatives and refined sugar are the main causes of increased diabetes and obesity. This is the most likely cause. People in India are consuming way more sugar, refined flours and seed oils than the
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> Indians in India have skyrocketing diabetes and obesity numbers in recent decades. 20+ years ago you would struggle to see a single non thin person. I have noticed that. I have also noticed that youngsters started adopting Western habi
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> unhealthy There is no concrete evidence that ghee is unhealthy. Even the linked study is only talking about a "possible cause," that too in Indians who are not even in India. Indians adopt western habits when they immigrate.
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> Indian ghee We have been using ghee in India for thousands of years. If immigrant Indians are having problems, they should look into what changed in their diet and lifestyle after they immigrated.
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> Soybean oil I saw this video about seed oils a few months back.[1] Some of the information there tracked stuff I have been reading for a while. Decided to switch over completely to coconut oil and ghee (clarified butter). A comment o
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MasterCard's India Wipeout, Visa Is Next as Rival RuPay Prepares to Go Global(seekingalpha.com)
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> is it safe to assume that JetBrain products are not use for Russian espionage? A citizen of country X should never assume that intelligence agencies of country Y are not spying on them or their communications through any and all availa
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Occupying countries where a sizable number of people hate you is generally not a good idea if you are not willing to be ruthless because it will tie up large parts of your military in anti-insurgency activities. So I don't think that i
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> Eve’s eyes opened wide. > “Do you mean to say you gave me somebody else’s umbrella?” > “I had unfortunately omitted to bring my own out with me this morning.” > “I never heard of such a thing!” > “Merely practical Socialism
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Leave It to Psmith(standardebooks.org)
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> For many terms, Bing and DuckDuckGo surfaced more untrustworthy websites than Google did, "untrustworthy" according to whom? > when results were compared with website ratings from the Global Disinformation Index, NewsGuard
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> I find it rather astonishing works like the Bible and Quran are allowed to exist in places with such stringent hate speech laws. You jest, perhaps, but there was an interesting case in India about this very thing four decades back.[1]
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> I'm really happy to see that many people from many places on the political landscape see "debanking" as a line that should not be crossed. It depends on the politics of the people involved. The Obama DOJ executed Operat
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> India waiting in the wings, ready to be to China Indian democracy makes this a non-starter. We cannot get simple things done because every single issue gets tied up in protests and courts for decades on end.[1][2] [1] Indian Neutrino O
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> why not call it "sanctioned racism"? You should. The media won't, because it now becomes a loaded term. You can make fun of "reverse" racism, but not "sanctioned" racism. Sometimes I wonder whose side
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> It isn't "Reverse Racism", it is all Racism It is not that simple. I think of it as plain racism vs acceptable/approved/sanctioned racism. In the first case, you will have the politicians and media all talk
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> am I missing something by not having a physical dictionary to flip through? For general use, not really. I have 7-8 different dictionaries bought over the decades, some of them bilingual. But they are rarely used because digital is far
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> is there any connection between these events, or am i just taking the simulation hypothesis too seriously. While I don't know about the rest, Russia has been a neocon project for a long time. If Trump hadn't given them the sh
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> Can someone explain why Putin would actually go ahead with it? If Russia fomented a "people's revolution" in Mexico and had their puppet installed as President and was then trying to bring Mexico into a Russia-led intern
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> history book I found a quote a long time back that is attributed to Santayana: "History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there." Journalists, like politicians and lawyers, are prof
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> how does one explain the amazing luck of being a human and not an insect? According to Hindu beliefs, the soul is forever and it is karma that dictates what physical form it will take in the next life.[1] [1] https://en.wiki
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> Aspirin Good example. It would be a pleasant surprise to find out that these studies were funded by pharma companies.
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Does any study ever suggest that a $0.10 drug with expired patents is better than the new and patented $30 alternative? If so which benevolent pharmaceutical company funds such studies? Between doctors prescribing specific medicine "br
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> Mr. Leissner said he wasn’t surprised by the need for bribes, saying he believed they were somewhat common in Asia. He was also aware the bribes were illegal, he said, but the deals brought him praise. Bribes are not just common but

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