slavboj

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by slavboj 5y ago
>And can you point towards a European country that isn't in the grip of a totalitarian state where this currently happens? Austria and Germany currently follow such a policy, strictly for the duration of the emergency of course.
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by slavboj 5y ago
"Aluminum" is sold and used as an alloy, not as pure elemental Al. 6061 grade aluminum for instance has ~1% magnesium.
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by slavboj 5y ago
"Just be there for show?" Yes. In the same way that many law enforcement organizations (not so much the FBI, but definitely US Marshals Service) will carry around badges and take extreme umbrage at anyone actually attempting to
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by slavboj 5y ago
Even better, why not link to the far more expansive set of proven allegations, instead of "the CIA investigated itself and decided there was nothing wrong"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_dru
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With no actual people or companies named, arrested, or indicted. It's all just fluff on an asset forfeiture case.
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by slavboj 5y ago
Glad the NYT / federal reserve board have caught up with points from 1920s tier von Mises & Hayek.
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I mean Google/Alphabet has an entire division whose job is essentially to be an adjunct of the US State Department. Searching for job postings requiring security clearances at any BigCo always yields some interesting data. https:&#x
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Every large US social media site has employees who are Chinese intelligence assets.
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Did you read the headline? "No one ever claimed this" except for literally thousands of journalists and government spokesmodels.
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by slavboj 5y ago
"They never promised to prevent infection" Are we really going to bother digging up the copious video evidence this is a lie? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xcur3kwCyg
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The entire point of having communications with your regulator is that you get to hear their reasoning. "I checked wikipedia and it seems like it might fit" is not how highly regulated industries work.
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One intention is for the Australian police to be able to fabricate evidence that can then be used to generate American warrants and prosecutions, very similar to the way the FBI and DNC fabricated the British Steele dossier in order to gene
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Overworked and underpaid shark attacks
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As long as there is demand for a "safe" explanation for The Gap, an immense amount of spurious research will be funded and lauded.
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It's not that hard for someone with physical ground presence, satellite surveillance etc to figure out who CIA FTE's are, but the CIA employs numerous contractors who have no requirement to be trained or located in a particular
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That literally happened with the VW turbodiesels.
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by slavboj 5y ago
Please refrain from "existential threat" rhetoric unless you are in fact advocating for an eliminationist total war.
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You're also describing pizza delivery and convenience store cashier, but they don't have the legal ability to beat the shit out of their customers because someone wasn't fast enough / was too fast getting their wallets o
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Which is great until you lose access to your email.
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They're also discontinuing their riflescope line, although there's still a lot of stock working its way through distributors.
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It would be interesting to know how many Unit 8200 or other Israeli security service alumni work at these companies. https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/20/from-the-8200-to-silicon-v...