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by tenpies 3y ago
I could feel my social credit score rising with each nod in agreement, as the UN SDG AAA+ rated company, with WEF endorsement, told me how my consumerist lifestyle will not affect the global boiling.
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by tenpies 3y ago
The one you also have to keep in mind are edits and drafts. So even if you don't post any wrongthink, the very act of typing it out, even without hitting "post" or "save", means its stored in some database ready for
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by tenpies 3y ago
It's a land mine ridden topic, but Elon has the finesse of a monster truck. The ADL, like many non-profits these days, seems to be rotting from the inside. If I were ADL leadership, renewal and a return to the original mission would be
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by tenpies 3y ago
Broadly speaking, violence has been up in Europe post-lockdowns. Something about having a lot of people with few ties to a community, having no economic prospects and strained welfare systems. Then add the EU's self-destructive path
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I think proponents of this should move to some of the beautiful utopias where the energy companies are already nationalized and through the magic of socialism, emissions will no doubt cease any day now: Venezuela, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Br
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by tenpies 3y ago
Musk-aside, I really want someone looking into what happened with the regulators. Yes, plural. From the FTC for allowing the marketing claims, to the NHTSA for allowing it on roads, plus whoever I may be missing. There has to have been
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by tenpies 3y ago
> It's already audited at several levels so it was voted down because it was a case of the Republicans wanting to add another layer. Can you provide a source, because everything I've seen says otherwise. Even Democrat-friendly
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by tenpies 3y ago
FWIW the level of transparency between those "shady deals" is probably identical to presumably "not shady deals" of NATO. I mean the US Democrats voted down even the mere notion that maybe the most surface-level audit of
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by tenpies 3y ago
Doesn't the US either? Or at least they were frequently called that and compared with Nazi concentration camps when Trump was president: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/18/politics/alexandria-ocasio-co.
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by tenpies 3y ago
In Canada's case, you also had the CCP essentially kidnap two random Canadians who happened to be in China as retaliation for Canada's cooperation in exercising a US warrant against a Chinese national[1]. Good luck getting any Can
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Keep a diary or log. I have, since COVID gave the tyrants an excuse. It's a fantastic way to see what gets memory-holed and where the gas-lighting efforts are spent. Maybe one of us ends up as required reading for whatever civilizatio
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by tenpies 3y ago
> global warming The fun realization for me has been that we're in a no-win scenario now. Even if climate change (which has been re-defined) is overly-stated, the policies that are being and will continue to be enacted as a respons
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by tenpies 3y ago
Tin-foil hat time, but with the current Biden Administration, you also have to consider the possibility that it's a shot across the bow to ensure Twitter censors "misinformation" going into the US elections. If this does not
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And if anything I would place a premium on boredom. I am paying, in part, to have my attention back. The complete opposite for me would be something like Tesla's "self-driving" where I'm effectively an unpaid driving in
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To say it "comes down" to Reagan seems highly revisionist in nature. After all, a quick trip across the border to Canada reveals they are having the same exactly issues - possibly worst given that the Trudeau government seems det
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by tenpies 3y ago
Since we're on this topic, there also seems to be enough evidence to suggest you should wear sun screen when flying. > Pilots and cabin crew have approximately twice the incidence of melanoma compared with the general population. Fu
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by tenpies 3y ago
Also unlike for Ukrainians, where you leave to might be incredibly important. How many Western countries are CCP-infiltrated to the point where a VIP Taiwanese could be at risk even there? Canada for example seems to be completely behold
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by tenpies 3y ago
> I reckoned he'd escape some how being let off on some technicality of some prosecutor not following due diligence. Call me cynical and conspiratorial, but I expect that the camera glitches are being set up as we speak. The sleepy
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by tenpies 3y ago
I'm honestly surprised there is not an entire class of insurance programs for people who happen to live in a jurisdiction that has basically said "we would rather you die on a wait list than allow private healthcare" (e.g. Br
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What annoys me is that in 10 years they will "discover" that the chemicals used to make paper water resistant enough to be a shitty straw, cause all sorts of cancers and disease. A lifetime of avoided plastic straws will then be i
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by tenpies 3y ago
> You can demand the right to free speech. You can't demand everyone has to listen. I don't mean you in the specific, but I am deeply alarmed by what seems like a coordinated regime effort to re-define free speech into what you
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by tenpies 3y ago
Canada's utopian conditions for most types of crime are something of an open secret. Most of these crimes then rely on Canada's national industry - money laundering - to clean the money or move it out of the country. Anyone inter
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by tenpies 3y ago
Also Western billionaire versus Russian oligarch - even if the source of wealth is virtually identical and their political power probably higher in the West.
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by tenpies 3y ago
> I haven't visited a CNET page in years and didn't know they were even still relevant :p I had the same feeling about the Verge. It feels like going to Britannica online to read about what Encarta encyclopaedia was and why it
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by tenpies 3y ago
Details will be coming, but it sounds like Paypal's stable coin will have no yield. Holding money for people, while paying them no yield in the current interest environment, would be hugely lucrative.
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I quite enjoyed it as long as you understood what it really meant: Energy Stops Growing.
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I like to think of it as scrappy terraforming because we aren't even sure we could handle any of the naturally occurring variation. Scrappy because, well the planet doesn't quite become uninhabitable and we're starting from t
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by tenpies 3y ago
Probably the same reason every Senate Democrats voted against having an Inspector General on Ukraine aide. [1] --- [1] https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/senate-dems-oppose-oversight-o... .
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Only sometimes. Recall that DGG censored Russian sites quite hastily and seemingly without so much as an e-mail from any government: > At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russia
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by tenpies 3y ago
> If I could take Elon's ratio of "I said it would work vs. it's real and it does", I would, and so would any sane person. I want to be optimistic too, but you're missing Falcon 9s worth of broken Elon promises.

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