slt2021

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by slt2021 2y ago
Kindle for kids is the best purchase you can make. I either buy kindle unlimited subscription or find pirated epub
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by slt2021 2y ago
Screen time is basically Tobacco of the 21st century
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by slt2021 2y ago
this is because of Youtube and kids screen time. Tablets/Phones/screen time disables cognitive abilities of kids and reduces them to dumb clicking machines. Schools were doing pretty lousy job before proliferation of screens, and
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by slt2021 2y ago
People sometimes ask why there are fewer independent artists or writers, or small artisans like in Europe. The reason is if you want to live, you need to get healthcare, and for that you need to be employed by BigCorp (because marketplace i
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by slt2021 2y ago
not true, Insurance Pharmacies Doctors and Hospitals all work together. The high list prices you see are only exist there to scare uninsured/underinsured Americans and to force them to buy/pay more expensive insurance. As soon as
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by slt2021 2y ago
other countries seem like getting a much better deal than Americans. in fact the same drugs are sold 10-100x cheaper outside US
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by slt2021 2y ago
the marketing expense is a legalized lobbying. What you see in marketing, is just payback scheme to Media/TV (to shut down any criticism of pharma), and doctors (for promoting/prescribing drugs)
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by slt2021 2y ago
>>pro-murder caucus if there is a single issue that unites all Americans, this is it. Insurance is by design an incredibly evil extractive racket that only steals from people's pockets
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by slt2021 2y ago
agree, a lot of honey growers feed sugar syrup to the bees to maximize honey production. it is sort of cheating
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by slt2021 2y ago
wrong take, companies started consolidated right after ACA passed. It was less concentrated industry before the ACA. the fundamental reason is as usual: too much government regulation that was erected with good intentions, but ended up beco
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by slt2021 2y ago
Since Palestine is considered occupied territory and is a member of UN, then in this situation Protocol I of Geneva Convention applies, that justifies military means to resist occupation and self-defense Palestinians are resisting occupatio
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by slt2021 2y ago
If we are to be intellectually honest, then my position is: 1. Zionism is a colonial settler project created by British Empire, lord Balfour created it to create a buffer zone between Suez Canal and Ottoman Empire to protect British trade r
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by slt2021 2y ago
There is nothing wrong with "eating the rich", because if something were to happen to the rich, they brought it upon themselves, since they control the governance via lobbying, special interest groups, media, corporations, NGOs, e
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by slt2021 2y ago
anti-oligarchy could be. America has much worse inequality than during the French Revolution, just for reference
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by slt2021 2y ago
US is already captured by oligarchy and special interest groups. What needs to happen is return of power to the common folk, away from filthy rich billionaires and their special interest groups and NGOs
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by slt2021 2y ago
list prices are high to scare Americans into buying [more expensive] insurance plan. they want Americans be scared of going bankrupt from medical bills. on the backend, between insurance and hospital, these giant list prices are automatical
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by slt2021 2y ago
just look up increase in headcount of administrative staff at hospitals, providers, insurance companies, pharmacy benefit managers, etc. all their salaries and profits are coming from patient's pocket
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by slt2021 2y ago
laws are lobbied by corporations and special interest groups, everyday Americans have very little say in legislation
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by slt2021 2y ago
>The doer's of the deed are all outside of the U.S. capabilities to do anything I am sorry, but the actual doer of this lives in the town right next to me in the small college town of Chapel Hill, NC. Only Baric Lab has the techno
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by slt2021 2y ago
It is puzzling why there is no discussion? Why US DoD funded gain of function research for decades (since 2001) and funneled money via NIAH led by fauci? who is going to be held accountable for the world of designer-viruses and artificially
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by slt2021 2y ago
The Overton window shifts gradually. They are already boasting about cost savings to the government from MAID https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.3947481
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by slt2021 2y ago
They tell explicitly that https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.3947481
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by slt2021 2y ago
in single-payer government funded healthcare systems (Canada UK), medically assisted suicide is ENORMOUS cost savings. imagine paying taxes all your life and hoping to get a good care in later stage of your life, and government just MAIDs y
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by slt2021 2y ago
Why Assisted Dying is only being pushed and promoted in White Christian countries? It is not allowed in Muslim countries and is explicitly banned in Israel. Orthodox Christian is not allowing MAID as well
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by slt2021 2y ago
not all cereals have added sugar, I dont buy 40% added sugar, but rather 0% and 14% added sugar cereals
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by slt2021 2y ago
TLDR: root cause is working with dynamic and weakly typed languages and poorly documented and maintained spaghetti code
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by slt2021 2y ago
LIDARs can be blinded by consumer grade laser pointers, I wonder if there are systems that protect LIDARs against adversarial attacks or DOS attacks
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by slt2021 2y ago
thats a whole bunch of handwaving without any fact nor supported argument
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by slt2021 2y ago
I think 8 grade is too old to make silly toys, and time to do some serious stuff: 1. Carpentry project 2. CNC machining project 3. Microelectronics: assembly from ready parts 4. Drone or aviation related project if he is into computer stuff
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by slt2021 2y ago
thats basically AWS

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