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by spaced-out 5y ago
>Then if either side attacks the other, all the other members are obligated to defend against the aggressor. The reason Ukraine hasn't been allowed to join NATO already is because the rest of the alliance isn't willing to make
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by spaced-out 5y ago
That's an irrelevant formality. The people who will have to do the fighting, and even Xi himself, were not even alive during the Civil War. If he orders people to start shooting after >70 years of peace, he's starting a war
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by spaced-out 5y ago
The Chinese Civil War is over, it ended 70 years ago. If something starts now it would be a new war.
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by spaced-out 5y ago
I've seen a lot of posts lately about people being low balled by Google, Meta, etc lately.
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by spaced-out 5y ago
I am concerned about an authoritarianism in America, even more so if the president started saying stuff like: "Canada and the US are essentially the same people and should be one country. The Canadian government has always been proppe
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by spaced-out 5y ago
We've seen what happens when authoritarian governments which start locking minorities up in concentration camps progress to inventing historical grievances to start seizing territory. Appeasement doesn't work.
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by spaced-out 5y ago
>The right wing is being forced in to a position where it needs to build its own internet infrastructure The "right" does not have to build it's own infrastructure, plenty of right wing media personalities and publications
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by spaced-out 5y ago
>Working with a deadbeat teammate is an awful experience. If you need to get anything done, the only way forward is to plead with them to get some work done, or just do it yourself. More often than not, the team ends up doing it themselv
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by spaced-out 5y ago
The average person is focused on problems in their own life and doesn't have time to keep track of every dollar they spend and what it supports. When a hole was developing in the ozone layer advocates spent years trying to get people t
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by spaced-out 5y ago
>Somewhat also applies to buying your stuff mostly on Amazon, hurting your local business. What if you can't afford to buy real estate in your local community, and don't own any stake in any local businesses? How does spending
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by spaced-out 5y ago
That's the risk you take buying things from randos on EBay. Buy from authorized resellers if you don't want this to happen.
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by spaced-out 5y ago
>It could be changed through legislation that companies need to put the needs of all stake holders first. The problem is that it's the shareholders who sign off on the CEO, upper management, and their salaries and bonuses. I don&#
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by spaced-out 5y ago
Disagree, people should be allowed to open up social media accounts without showing ID. Anonymous speech is important too.
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by spaced-out 5y ago
Back in 2018 it was nearly half, people don't realize how much market share they've lost in the last few years
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by spaced-out 5y ago
> Google and Facebook are the only companies that have access to data on basically every sale on the internet Amazon? eBay? WeChat?
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by spaced-out 5y ago
>A physical store presence has way more positive effect for a society as a whole than online shopping has. Yeah, but not for the planet. It's incredibly inefficient for people to drive their car to a store and pick up items that tak
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by spaced-out 5y ago
>You are talking about a company that helped foster the "revolutions" in the middle east and europe that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands/millions of people. Google caused revolutions in the Middle East? How exa
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by spaced-out 5y ago
So when will regulations stop companies like Fox News and OAN from spreading vaccine misinformation?
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by spaced-out 5y ago
>"Sparta, the city, was not 80% slaves. That stat only true about the state. This distinction only matters because the author is critizing sparta society on the basis that Sparta's seat of power was slave-cornucopia. But this i
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by spaced-out 5y ago
>The idea that "Sparta" was close to "80% enslaved people" is confused and I hold the author of the linked article responsible for not clarifying the confusion. ... >The people inhabiting the greater area of the La
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by spaced-out 5y ago
>It’s really easy to say that but I have heard of no viable proposals to actually replace the police with “something better”. Nor do such proposals ever elaborate on how the new system would operate without vagaries and wonderful nice-to
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by spaced-out 5y ago
Technically, they only need probable cause if they don't have the dogs with them. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/can-police-use-dogs-... He still should not have cooperated, of course. Any extra effort y
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by spaced-out 5y ago
> You can never convince someone by calling them stupid, selfish, irresponsible or in general blaming them. All you will do is create hatred toward yourself as well as your viewpoint and further the disagreement. Who's calling them
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by spaced-out 5y ago
Nonetheless, thanks for posting that 7 year old article. I've followed Afghanistan news on and off and I was not aware of how widespread that practice is. It's almost certainly a factor in the Taliban's resurgence.
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by spaced-out 5y ago
If the Taliban is so opposed to pedophilia, why are there so many reported stories of girls as young as 12 being forced to "marry" men more than twice their age?
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by spaced-out 5y ago
>yeah if you’re on the non-pedophile side You're assuming there's a non-pedophile side?
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by spaced-out 5y ago
That sounds awesome. I've been ignoring VR, maybe it's time to look into getting a headset.
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by spaced-out 5y ago
True, but it make it easier to regulate things like price hikes.
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by spaced-out 5y ago
It's weird that there's so much talk about Google and Facebook being public utilities and no talk about ISPs, which obviously are public utilities and treat their customers like crap. I think Big Tech needs to shake up their lobby
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by spaced-out 5y ago
>Teachers can work with over extended students to help them while they are in school They can, but will they? Plus, it seems like GPA would be even easier for the wealthy to game, many fancy prep schools sell themselves on their ability

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