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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> Amazon Has rankings, plus a reasonably good discovery engine. More sales on the platform will influence the former and could influence the latter, leading to even more sales. Buying direct puts more money into the author's poc
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> that is a culmination of over 500 years of struggle. Against whom? The Afghans? The Mughals? The Sikh Empire? The British? Republic of India? > people have just one demand. secession. This is never going to happen: 'The Partiti
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> a blackout in March, affecting 27 million people, was enforced in Punjab state during efforts to catch fugitives. Has an AAP government. > In February, the internet was blocked in 11 cities in Rajasthan state to prevent cheating dur
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Why Krishna didn't fight in the Mahabharata war? [video](youtube.com)
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> In other cases, everyone seems to agree that the renamings are acts of tribal identity politics. Depends on the place. The British changed the names of many places because they could not pronounce them. A lot of those places will event
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Kautilya and the Supremacy of Hegemony [video](youtube.com)
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> new definition ... facts Definitions are contextual. Your definition of influence is local, mine is global. That does not make your definition factual and mine non-factual/"new." All the biased reporting about India com
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> Fox ... Axel Springer ... Daily Mail Let me clarify. When I speak of influence, I am not speaking about the influence tabloids have on people and their voting patterns. Instead, I am referring to "newspaper of record" type in
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> You don't have a damn clue what you're talking about when it comes to Polish politics. Only what I read in the Western press. But given what I know about their reporting about India, it is hard to give them the benefit of the
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> Many countries (such as, say, France) have similar laws. The Indian version is called the Model Code of Conduct and it is enforced by the Election Commission of India.[1] The ECI even takes control of the bureaucratic and law and order
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
Whether Lenin said it or not, "the Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them" applies to the situation. Capitalists do not recognize the boundaries of nation-states and the process of extracting the last pound
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
There are many stories surrounding the festival. One of them is the tale of the demon Mahishasura and how Goddess Durga decapitated him.[1][2] The Mahishasura Mardini Stotram is a hymn written in her praise.[3] Happy Navaratri to all. [1] D
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Navaratri(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> this is appalling. Is there some new perspective to the conflict that people are unaware of? > bombings of civilians Is going on daily in multiple African wars. Where are all the threads about those? And accompanying Nazi references
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
Veritasium did an episode on IQ a couple of month back where they cover the IQ-income correlation.[1] One of the people he talked with said something that I find interesting: "a lot of people who have very high intelligence scores don&
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> By the west here, you mean Israel? And the US, which did very similar things when it funded Osama Bin Laden and the Mujahideen during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> You mean the hamas created and promoted by the Israeli government? Yes. Every power employs divide-and-rule as a policy to control their opponents. When their opponents fight each other, a lot of their resources would be too tied up to
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> "terrorist-sympathizers"? Is that how Zionists identify Palestinians now? This is not a Palestinian issue. If it were, Israel would be bombing the West Bank as well. Gazans voluntarily elected Hamas.[1] Hamas then refused to
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
I have read and heard about "intelligence" from quite a few bureaucrats and military people in podcasts and interviews. One view that is put forward is that a lot of "intelligence" is of the CYA variety. E.g.: there is a
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> quote of the islamic holy prophet What Mohammed did or said is not relevant here. That Hamas chose to use those specific words in their charter to convey their genocidal intent is. They could have quoted Hitler, or Stalin, or Mao for a
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> idea of hamas=bad This is from the Hamas Charter: “The Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realization of Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: ‘The
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
The story of India's fastest train and how it was built in India. * An interview that covers similar territory: The man behind Vande Bharat Express ( https://www.rediff.com/money/interview/the-man-behind-vande
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Story of Train18: By Sudhanshu Mani, Former GM Integral Coach Factory [video](youtube.com)
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> so it's not as though we're hiding the truth in any way - far from it It is just like the BBC to assume that most of its readers are idiots who will swallow anything they say hook, line and sinker. You can shape public opinio
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
Edit: Some one deleted their reply to you listing densities of paper and water. Here are some figures from Wikipedia - The density of paper ranges from 250 kg/m3 (16 lb/cu ft) for tissue paper to 1500 kg/m3 (94 lb/cu ft)
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
Book shelves (like aquariums) are heavy. My concern would be traffic and weight. Public buildings are designed with thicker/wider and more numerous structural elements compared to residential buildings. I believe the residential standa
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
Till a few years back (I am not sure if they still do), banks and finance companies would use heavy-handed methods in order to collect debt. If you go back further in time when there was very little organized lending, farmers would be at th
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
A sound bite from "Hindus for Human Rights" in an article about a Hindu temple? Really? Would NBC go around looking for sound bites on Jewish issues from an organization called "Jews for Human Rights" run by virulent ant
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> every year dozens broken resolution by Israel. It does not matter. Even if they gave up on the occupied territories, the problem cannot be solved because the solution, according to the involved theologies, is a genocide of one of the p
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
They failed because theological problems cannot be solved by political negotiations. For Jews, Israel is the promised land. For Muslims, the entire universe belongs to those who follow Allah. Therefore it is a zero sum game. The problem wit

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