turk183

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by turk183 9y ago
Let's be honest about the plastic in the oceans: It is not first world countries causing most of the problem. Ships do drop their trash in the ocean, that needs to stop, and we're all guilty to some degree, but if you want to st
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by turk183 9y ago
Thomson Reuters did this using Belarus. Any systems in "maintenance mode" get sent to code monkeys in former Eastern Bloc nations. The quality is fair, but a lot better than what happened with India (sorry, India, I still love s
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by turk183 9y ago
Space is so disappointing because everything humans do there is super complicated and fragile.
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by turk183 9y ago
What country are you talking about? Are you familiar with WIC? In the US there's no woman from sea to shining sea who should be going without formula unless she sold it to buy drugs! And if WIC won't provide enough, there'
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by turk183 9y ago
My wife went through undue torture and stress due to all the breastfeeding virtue signaling. She was simply unable to produce enough despite her best efforts. My kids are 12 and 7 now and both have proven to be quite intelligent.
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by turk183 9y ago
Being someone's mother is probably humanity's most important "gender role" and not something people should be trying to escape from.
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by turk183 9y ago
Dell in North Carolina--opened up shop to collect the tax break then rolled up the sidewalks when the break expired.
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by turk183 9y ago
Plus the US has an unending supply of social engineers whose mission isn't so much to educate but to tinker or indoctrinate or whatever they think they're doing.
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by turk183 9y ago
I read things all the time that espouse the benefits of large families and how important it is to keep society fit by having more children. It's like they want to keep the Ponzi going by adding more and more people. It's quite cle
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by turk183 9y ago
Yes, my segue into all of this was 1991 if that helps. SMTP, FTP, Gopher, Usenet--protocols, not platforms controlled by psychotic billionaires.
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by turk183 9y ago
Protonmail. I can afford the $50/yr. for better email and it's something I should have done a long time ago. I was a GMail user since GMail was a thing, though. It breaks my heart to see Google do this stuff, but I just can&#x2
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by turk183 9y ago
And yet, inflation is said to be low. I'm not sure it is.
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by turk183 9y ago
I think PE has failed as a marker because there's too much capital chasing too few investments so of course PEs will be astronomical. High PEs don't mean what people think they mean or once meant.
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by turk183 9y ago
If it's any consolation, 2008/9 proved that everything is pretty much correlated--stocks went down, bonds went down, everything went down. There were no safe havens except for massive government bailouts. To this day, the illega
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by turk183 9y ago
Please read the above advice! In 2008, I saw the crash coming. I got tipped off, kind of: My bank was NetBank and it was the first one to fail. I pulled all my money out of stocks and sat out the crash. Brilliant, right? Yeah, except i
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by turk183 9y ago
I just spent the better part of a week getting myself off of GMail. I'm still using Chrome at work for development, but have Brave browser for personal use now. I'm using DuckDuckGo for searches. I have an iPhone, but honestly,