travmatt

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by travmatt 9y ago
That was a great article, I knew states competed in attracting businesses, I didn’t realize retail competition would be so large as well.
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Legality aside, it would seem pointless to drive to another state to purchase a similar product for marginally less money than available to you locally.
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In many ways basketball is more skill and tactic based than something like football, and I suspect that has an influence. I also think bjj is disproportionately popular among programmers for the same reason
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Government procurement requirements have been hugely important in regulating and advancing the state of many industries.
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>Best thing the government could do for small businesses is provide healthcare and decent pensions for workers. The lack of these things is a competitive advantage for larger companies with the resources to negotiate these benefits in be
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Because most of the research is funded by tax dollars?
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Yes, I’m well aware - im asking the basis for the belief that these constitute “constant relentless breaking changes”
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Which breaking changes are you referring too? I remember updating some configs in the jump from 1 -> 2, but none since then
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You’re talking about Russia? Isn’t Navalny in prison for running for president? Doesn’t Putin regularly win over 100% of the vote? Im confused
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I don't understand how you'd make a declarative style any more elegant? <Conditional bool={true}> <IfTrue/> <IfFalse/> </Conditional> Doesn't seem any better
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Wikileaks is famously silent when it comes to Russia: Assange famously bragged about ‘kompromat’ they held and planned to dump on Putin, kompromat which never materialized - then subsequently censored Syrian leaks to hide evidence of Russia
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He’s even hosted an episode
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Conservative politics is much like French Revolution - built on successive purges of insufficiently ideologically committed members. The NeoCon / Old Bull wing of the Party was largely broken by the Tea Party’s rise and the deposition
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That’s a feature, not a bug.
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If that fails the next step is to launch lawsuits against the voting rights act, and if even that fails then you claim fraud and refuse to recognize the validity of the election, as the Republican Party in Georgia did.
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Then take it from the multiple journalists who have quit and then apologized for enabling Putin’s propaganda. When the people who work their can’t stomach their employer that should tell you something.
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Again, you’re trying to move the frame of the discussion in ways that are hiding the actual costs. Again, the purpose of propaganda isn’t to convince people to switch their votes, it was to portray CPI ton as a criminal in ways that would e
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Just look up any regarding Putin's slaughter of the passengers of MH17, they've been quite active in trying to spread disinformation there.
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I think the way you're framing the question is quite leading and misrepresents the actual situation. The aim of modern propaganda isn't to change anyone mind from one candidate to another - the purpose of russian disinformation is
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Pizzagate was only the most humorous piece of propaganda, I used it as an example that hopefully few people would argue as valid. The actual scope of propaganda was far larger and subtler.
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Or RIS broke into state election boards to get hyper accurate data on voter and voting patterns unavailable within legal means, broke into campaigns to find information they could construe as satanic (like child sex slave rings run out of p
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Distract/Deflect/Deny
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And yet they don’t have journalists resigning and calling them propaganda, or resigning because they were assigned to leave the US and work in Crimea. There’s a clear difference when the journalists themselves can’t stomach what they are do
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Other people have done longitudinal analyses and have talked about how there was also a shift in ~2011 as he launched the birther movement.
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On one hand he says that he isn’t a part of the order, on the other hand he wore their insignia to the inaugural ball. Maybe he was using neo nazi symbolism ironically?
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>Who is a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi in the white house? Seb Gorka
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/r/incel as well, who literally glorify a mass murderer expressly for his homicidal misogyny.
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To intimidate Ken White? I have to imagine there are easier targets to intimidate than a former USDA. Then again, I'm confused why they sent these to begin with.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana
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You may also be interested in Dr. Bruce Ame’s “Triage Theory of Nutrtion” - basically, chronic deficiencies of nutrients makes your body prioritize short term survival over long term, and these trade offs bear consequences in the long run:

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