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All scientific arguments for and against AGW became irrelevant the day the debate became religious and political. The only thing that matters (at least to me) is the weaponization of this consensus by believers in the developed world agains
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> it would be the US Weapon Industry that were causing the wars. Is that out of the realm of possibility? The neocons might be the ones dragging the US into needless conflicts in the name of spreading the religion of "democracy,&quo
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When I come across a service that helps indie-anyone (authors, musicians, artists), my first question, always, is: what about taxes? This is something even big services often punt on because of the complexity involved.[1] Not only do you ha
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> which can be unlearned Sure it can. But you are only ever going to see it among a tiny minority in any given population (animal or human).
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I think everyone knows by now that all discourse surrounding the pandemic has been completely politicized since day one. And it has significantly worsened since the introduction of the vaccines. The moment we knew that all the vaccines are
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It does:[1] > One question his team could not answer, however, was why crows that are reproductively compatible were sorting themselves according to color. Some people had asked Wolf if the crows were “racist.” He didn’t want to apply su
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> Does anyone know why? Jio.[1][2] [1] Leveraging IPv6 for Explosive growth – 306Mn+ Subs and counting ( https://www.innog.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/01-Leveragi... ) [2] https://en.wikip
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> everyone has just stopped recurring Every one had two years to implement the e-mandate system.[1] What does it say about Amazon, your phone provider and your card issuer that they haven't been able to do it in time and decided, in
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This is not a ban, and has been in the works for a long time with at least one six-month extension granted that I know of.[1] What the RBI has done is introduce AFA (additional factor authentication) for recurring transactions.[2] But this
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Some stats from India: State | Pop [1] | Act Cases[2] (%) | Part Vacc (%) | Fully Vacc (%) | Total Doses[3] (%) Maharashtra | 112,374,333 | 43,544 (0.0387) | 54,361,465 (48.38) | 21,803,462 (19.40) | 76,164,927 (
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I used to be a libertarian capitalist in the previous decade. The amoral charlatans running various media houses converted me into a national populist. One particularly nasty example from my "you evil fucks" folder.[1] Headline de
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> You've completely misconstrued the nature of tolerance. I look at tolerance in practical terms. What the religious texts say, or how scholars interpret those texts is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is real world actions.
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> Most religions have a live-and-let-live attitude when it comes to other people's religious beliefs. This does not apply to monotheistic faiths. The first problem is that they claim that their god is the only god. The second pro
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1436771192892018693.html
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> This has been worked out quite successfully in other democracies. No it hasn't. "Who watches the watchmen" is a question as old as time. > position of appointing judges who are more willing to dance to his tune. I sup
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> why not point at North Korea Because the DPRK SoS was not the one openly talking about regime change in China.[1] [1] Mike Pompeo Just Declared America’s New China Policy: Regime Change ( https://nationalinterest.org/fea
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> its quite a stretch to claim that their actions enjoys wide support The same rules that got previous governments into power got this one in as well. If this government cannot legitimately claim to be the voice of the Indian people, no
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> current government is more of a “show business” than a government You can criticize individual governments all you want. But the principle still stands. The Indian government is formed by people who have been directly chosen by the peo
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I have no love lost for China[1], or Russia, or the US, all of whom have been duping successive Indian governments for the last 75 years for their own gains.[2] However, if we were to assume that the origins are neither natural (wet marke
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> Indian government threatened to jail domestic Twitter and Facebook employees. Only if they continued to violate the law. Anyway, the matter is now in the courts along with tens of millions of other cases and I am sure it will be resolv
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> Whether the probe is facts based or politically motivated matters. It is for the voters, and no one else, to decide whether they care about so-called political motivation. The Indian government represents the will of the Indian people.
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> frustrated conservative regime On 27th March 2014 (the date of the press release you linked to), the Congress-led UPA was in power. I know Hinduphobia is very fashionable within the "smart" set, but they should spend some tim
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> Is the Competition Commission of India (CCI) politically independent? How is it relevant? Android is close to 100% of the mobile phone market. Even if every single member of the commission was named Modi, that still makes Google a mono
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> why are we not also punishing the other CEO's of Silicon Valley companies for that kind of fraud? My response to her would be: be my guest. It is my understanding that the DOJ has a 90% success rate in obtaining convictions when t
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> not other clear examples of fraud My point is that I wouldn't blame Holmes if all she did was dupe rich investors. I read an article recently where the author believes that the jury might feel the same way. It is hard to sympathiz
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> What's the Borg???? It is what I call the section of the left-progressive movement that went insane during the last decade. It is a Star Trek reference.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg
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> They're both fraud though. I don't care if she hoodwinked the clowns that sat on the Theranos board, or investors who put in money without doing due diligence. I care very much that Theranos lied to and threatened doctors and
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> This is an opinion piece, not news or journalism. It matters that the Times finds it acceptable to provide this stupid woman with a platform to defend a woman whose actions put patient health at risk.
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> overestimate their own intellect It is quite possible that some users whose private details were exposed during this criminal act[1] might end up suffering personal consequences for being on the list. But there will always be a subset
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I remember Australia and West Indies forfeiting their games during the 1996 Cricket World Cup when they refused to play in Sri Lanka during the civil war even though there was no real threat to the cricketers. But Sri Lanka, even at its wor

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