throwway390

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by throwway390 9y ago
> the tribes I was immersed with You should have started off with that. There's no point in arguing with you if this is the case. You're too invested in them. This is fine. You're probably more correct that I am anyway, si
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by throwway390 9y ago
My point is that Africa is at the lower end of that scale (tribes) where the West is at the upper end (Unions). Or was, until Trump and Brexit. My point is that progress in Africa is hampered by unnecessary divisions between people. It&#x27
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by throwway390 9y ago
"The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated the total resident Indigenous population to be 458,520 in June 2001 (2.4% of Australia's total)"[0] You're missing my point. There are no tribes in Australia, for practical
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by throwway390 9y ago
Where there's division, there's conflict. Ordered by number of conflicts, in decreasing amount: Tribes > Nation-states > Unions. There will be more wars when the European Union breaks up. Or when the US does. Conversely, Afr
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by throwway390 9y ago
> Europeans have Africa beat. War seems to have stopped in (Western) Europe though. That is until the Russians take advantage of the current power vacuum to start one, or a spark ignites between ethnic groups that haven't been arou
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by throwway390 9y ago
They could also knock it off with the tribalism - there's what, 100000000 different tribes?[0] They'd go back to killing each other anyway. EDIT: read that link and then explain how that is not a problem instead of downvoting: &qu
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by throwway390 9y ago
GP's post reminds me that I fail to understand how people can come out and say they want their kids to be in tech like them. Just go through a few article titles: death, loneliness, diseases, therapy, antidepressants, OCD... Do you rea
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by throwway390 9y ago
The vast majority of the problems with self-checkout machines are caused by the item weight check. Try shopping in the better part of town. In the UK, self-checkouts in Tesco and Sainsbury's (where the poor do their shopping) will have