stonesthrowaway

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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> The fact the wolf alpha male theory was wrong doesn't imply we don't have alpha dominance for men. It isn't wrong. The headline is intentionally misleading and the article is just woke nonsense. Read it for yourself. Wha
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> Whenever people talk about tariffs on Canadian goods I just remind them of the last time that happened. You forget to mention that canada initially refused to renegotiate NAFTA as Trump demanded. But Canada ultimately did renegotiate N
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> Wonder how Meta's stock will do on Monday My guess is the price won't budge on Monday.
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> but stating facts of the individual events can’t actually be copyrighted, regardless of what the nfl and olympics say in their disclaimer. That's interesting. Does that mean someone could go to an NFL game and broadcast the play b
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> I doesn't have anything to do with "appeasing" the US No. It had everything to do with it. How can you say that when tiktok is getting banned? Even after bytedance bent over backwards to appease the US? > the Chinese
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> in Fisher's era racial separatism was considered a solution to racism Not just a solution to racism, but also a defense against genocide. Forced interracial "marriages", rape, etc were used as a genocidal tool against th
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> There was no "split", let alone one "forced by the US". There was no split? You wrote: "ByteDance initially released Douyin in China in September 2016. ByteDance introduced TikTok for users outside of China in
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> honestly, one thing I like about this conflict is that euphamistic comments like this don't get you banned anymore. What? It's more likely to get you banned. Not only that, it gets minority and female college presidents fired
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> TikTok is perhaps the most impressively addictive social media app ever created. What nonsense. > The algorithm used in the US was apparently banned in China for being too addictive. "Apparently"? Tiktok was forced to sepa
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> I have never seen so many downvoted comments Must be those pesky chinese or russian bots. Or could it be something else entirely? A chosen group of bots perhaps? > that aren’t dead in a thread before. Give it some time. They start w
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
Wouldn't be shocked. Isn't it a historical fact that the eastern and western roman empires used "barbarians" in their armies? If the vikings fought for these empires, then why not the anglo saxons and other germanic peop
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> Would you have been more satisfied if the US government forced a backdoor to TikTok? That's why Google pulled out of China. What a dope. Imagine being dumb enough to believe google pulled out to protect chinese people's priva
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
Typical pathetic response from a silly political activist. There are tons of american companies operating in china. I listed few of the biggest. Google used to operate in china. But when china tighten their laws, google chose not to follow
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> Does anyone have thoughts on why TikTok would choose to stop for existing users? What business would choose to keep operating if it can't gain new customers? Think about it. The law makes it impossible for tiktok to grow or be pro
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
Also, the rise of zionism in america. And the opening of ties with china ( 1971 was when china joined the security council ). The early seventies seems to have been a major inflection point in history. 50 years later, maybe it's time f
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> Why doesn’t China simply open up for domestic competition? China does allow competition. It's just that google, facebook, etc chose not to follow chinese laws. > they have so much to lose by growing anti-sino sentiments abroad
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> The 1990s-2010s Internet was a golden age It was the golden age because from the 1990 to 2010, the internet was majority american. For the entire 90s, the internet population was something ridiculous like 95% american. Fun times. >
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> You could imagine a Seattle guy moving to Anchorage You could imagine someone from the biggest city in washington moving to the biggest city in alaska? Amazing. > I can't imagine a New York guy moving to Greenland. Sure. But so
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
One of the few things I agree with Trump. Join North and South Dakota into a single state ( The Great State of Dakota? ) and make Greenland the 50th state. We wouldn't even need to replace any flags. It's always been a dream of mi
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> The Internet is so much better now that everyone is on it No it's not. > You shouldn't assume English speakers on the Internet are Americans, Until fairly recently, almost everyone ( not just english speakers ) were ameri
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> That is like claiming there should be no global Internet or no global trade. There is no such thing as a global internet. The internet is just a bunch of separate networks. Of course this being "hacker news" you wouldn't
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> seems a bit like splitting hairs. It isn't splitting hairs. It's outright propaganda invented to justify stealing native land. The idea being if natives had no sense of property, we didn't really steal anything from them
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> I think the Chinese government would love for this to be true and maybe the US government too. Why? > Chinese people seem to be like to be everyone else and like that they can communicate with people from everywhere. Do you think th
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> I live in the US and for us the concept of two Christian factions being in conflict is just so foreign. Foreign? Christian factionalism is deeply ingrained in american culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ca
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> A drive by moderator If there is a disease of modern social media, it's that. > This is incredibly toxic and stupid, contributes nothing It's almost like the toxic people who whined about toxic social media became mods eve
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> One thing I would say though is that stating a certain pronunciation is "correct" never sits well with me. Who cares how it sits with you? There is a "correct" way in every aspect of language - accent, spelling, etc
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
It's hard to take an article seriously when they write "was one of the 5% or so that are slow growing and most likely to be cured." There is no cure for pancreatic cancer. There are people who survive it, but nobody knows why
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> last thing he destroyed was himself, by going the bonkers “alternative healing” route on cancer. People who tend to go the "alternative healing" route usually do so because the traditional healing route hasn't worked. &g
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> 56% of Americans cannot cover a $1000 emergency expense. Insurance absolutely is a lifeline that most people need to avoid financial ruin. If you can't muster $1000, then you are in financial ruin. Insurance is pointless for these

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