thisislife2

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by thisislife2 2mo ago
Why do you think it is depression? My first thought was that they spoiled it by giving into its tantrums (I experienced the same with a pet in the past).
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Don't forget the politics too behind it: - Facebook and Genocide: How Facebook contributed to genocide in Myanmar and why it will not be held accountable - https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocid
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Top adviser to Iran's Revolutionary Guard leader sits down for rare interview(pbs.org)
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Netanyahu is a shrewd politician who is really good at manipulating American politicians. That said, the US (especially under Trump) doesn't go on to support Netanyahu's adventurism until it also serves their own self-interest.
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
Unless the US has turned from a superpower to a SuperIdiot, why wouldn't it? And note that all these repeated distant deliberately engineered conflicts are specifically meant to try out new weapons, tactics and strategies in the battle
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Review of Studies on the Level of Cannabis Use and Risk of Psychosis(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
As a foreigner to the US and its politics, it is both refreshing and depressing to see Trump as a President. It is refreshing because Trump is straight-forward and transparent that America has always been a country for the rich, run by the
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
Love your commitment to this. You are doing excellent work to keep Wirth's computing spirit alive. Oberon's philosophy ( https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.Report.pdf ) is beautiful for the
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It's not for you or me - it's for the AI companies so that they can have "human" content (good luck with that).
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True. Australia is part of the Five Eyes alliance. Fastmail is an Australian company. Australia also has the Assistance and Access Act - https://havenmessenger.com/blog/posts/australia-assistance-a... - which ju
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Greenland issues 'strong warning' as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill(theguardian.com)
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208461
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What rubbish - only fools will believe that Russia has an interest in starting a nuclear WW3. Historically, Russia has never militarily attacked any NATO country. (And most of the NATO countries are already militarily weaker than Russia - w
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Meta apologises to India for restricting PM Modi's post(reuters.com)
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The Trump factor in India's proposed new UPI transaction levy(indianexpress.com)
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If it is local, they probably can. But VoIP being international is the problem. See Why in the year of our lord 2022 am I still getting robocalls??? - https://www.vox.com/recode/22882647/robocalls-robotexts-scam.
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
Many scammers use internet telephony to call someone and some even spoof the caller id. In India, the mobile companies request subscribers to report any international call which shows local spoofed caller ids to them, so they can investigat
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Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism UK appeal tribunal confirms in landmark ruling(middleeastmonitor.com)
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Apologise or Lose Safe Harbour: Parliament Panel's 3-Day Ultimatum to Zuckerberg(news18.com)
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Kerala wants some of its forest spots taken off Google Maps(indianexpress.com)
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
When there is smoke, there is often a fire. Columbia's Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio has also accused Israel and US of political interference and electoral manipulations - https://www.rt.com/news/6437
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
That's one part of it. The current Government of Spain also believes it's a ploy to cause their electoral defeat in the future and help the Spanish right- come to power, and that this has been orchestrated by the US and Israel via
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
You are right, I was mistaken. Apparently permanent residency is a must now. The only way to bypass the employment based green card quota is to marry an American citizen.
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
Browsers have to kowtow too ...
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
> most Indians who immigrated to the US after 2010 will never become citizens in their lifetime because of the green card backlog. While a green card makes it easier to get a US citizenship, it is not a requirement for it.
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Yeah, learnt the hard way to have backups in multiple medias and that you have to refresh / re-copy your backups every 4-5 years. Wish we had consumer tape drives so that it could be once every 10 years or so.
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
Depends on the political perspective. Has the US bet all on AI tech to retain its power? Yes. AI tech currently is very energy intensive. So energy infrastructure too needs money to expand. The "colonisation" of Venezuela has alre
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
I am guessing, but many of us still use CDs / DVDs (/BluRays?) to make backups. It's cheap. Lasts long.
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
Now all it needs to do is fix its freshwater problems ...
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The New York Times story on Mossad recruiting Ahmadinejad doesn't add up(middleeasteye.net)
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