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by trefoiled 5y ago
I don't mean to sound callous here, but I am completely unmoved by the idea that small children are somehow being put at risk. Children under 12 have a 99.995% chance of surviving covid, and the severity of symptoms they experience is
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by trefoiled 5y ago
Possible answer to question 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
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>Well... did it affect anything with the pipeline? Yes. The US has been threatening sanctions on Russian businesses to stop the pipeline since 2019. The US finally issued the sanctions on ships involved in the construction, using the poi
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by trefoiled 5y ago
I agree with this, and do believe the Russian government is responsible for the poisoning. However, I think the tendency to swallow what the US media/intelligence apparatus offers up as truth unquestioningly is an equally harmful and m
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by trefoiled 5y ago
This is more or less my assessment. It's important to keep in mind that global geopolitics is a subtle game, especially when intelligence operations are concerned; sometimes things are exactly how they appear, but often they're ve
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by trefoiled 5y ago
Do you think the leaked documents themselves are suspect, despite the UK Foreign Office itself confirming the hack[1]? [1] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-uk-government-p...
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by trefoiled 5y ago
Why would it be necessary to send a message that it was you who poisoned your most public critic? It seems unlikely that anyone would point the finger anywhere other than the FSB. While I personally do believe the Russian government is resp
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by trefoiled 6y ago
Or maybe they're scrolling by default because they're used to not knowing whether or not content is scrollable?
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by trefoiled 6y ago
I'm pretty sure most people would agree the structure of your face is much more than an "extra," and belongs in the same category as physical fitness, grooming, etc.
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by trefoiled 6y ago
This lines up with my experience - my Russian immigrant girlfriend has very little tolerance for cold, which surprised me considering how low temperatures get in Moscow. She explained that bundling up during the winter is taken so seriously
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by trefoiled 6y ago
And it's even worse than that, because they offer the ISAs to investors to purchase. Meaning they're bait and switching both the student and investors.
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by trefoiled 6y ago
This feels like the 2009 financial crisis, but instead of trading subprime mortgages they're trading code school student debt. Bizarre.
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by trefoiled 6y ago
This is probably a result of the headphones being connected in headset mode, meaning the microphone is enabled. On Windows when you pair headphones which have a built in microphone you'll usually see two devices connected in the audio
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by trefoiled 6y ago
This thread is very specifically about how Amazon workers have agreed to do the job for a certain price, and how Amazon is trying to stop that process from proceeding. Even by your own perception of the situation, Amazon is in the wrong.
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by trefoiled 6y ago
This is true but complex. It depends on the type of service you receive. As a general rule, you'll need to pay a yearly deductible before receiving insurance benefits for non preventative care. This can be anywhere from $500 to $8000.
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by trefoiled 6y ago
Less precarity. If you aren't terrified of losing your job, because you know you won't be instantly devastated without it (losing health insurance, being evicted), you have less to lose in labor negotiations.
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by trefoiled 6y ago
A few years back, I had a particularly loud neighbor who had a subwoofer directly against my bedroom wall, the same wall my bed was against. The layout of the room precluded moving the bed against any other wall. I own the predecessor to th
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by trefoiled 8y ago
This reminds me of Blade Runner 2049: "We had everything on drives, everything."