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NRA gives Ajit Pai “courage award” and gun for “saving the Internet”(arstechnica.com)
14 points by user982 9y ago|6 comments
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America’s Secret Ice Base Won’t Stay Frozen Forever(atlasobscura.com)
3 points by user982 9y ago|0 comments
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by user982 9y ago
Samsung is South Korean, a US ally and SIGINT partner. Modify the argument to, "the government is saying not to use any phones that are not from the US or its puppet states."
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by user982 9y ago
Claims without evidence, let alone proof, absolutely should not be trusted.
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The #MeToo-Fueled Character Assassination of Nolan Bushnell(medium.com)
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by user982 9y ago
The original paper, rife with statistics and quotes, is here: http://journals.academicstudiespress.com/index.php/ESIC/arti...
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Scholars who believe nurture trumps nature tend to doubt the scientific method(digest.bps.org.uk)
15 points by user982 9y ago|5 comments
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Best Served Cold: Responding to the Iranian Protests(lawfareblog.com)
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Facebook Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the US and Israeli Governments(theintercept.com)
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Three nations that have suffered immeasurably more at the hands of the West than of China?
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"I had reached the age of six hundred and fifty miles." The opening sentence of the novel Inverted World , the relationship of which to this story is better off read than googled.
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I can't wait for the twist in tomorrow's episode.
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> And aren’t you just exercising a black or white binary fallacy when we are really comparing a light shade of grey to a much darker one? And which are you saying is which?
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by user982 9y ago
He's using his self-initiated shitstorm to advertise his site and event.
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by user982 9y ago
What is the meaningful difference, in the context of tedunangst's post, between an entitlement that allows surreptitious recording of video and a backdoor that allows surreptitious recording of audio?
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by user982 9y ago
There was a backdoor that let the Uber iPhone app record the screen invisibly from the background that went unnoticed for years.
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by user982 9y ago
> Please don't. You can make your point quite effectively without violating the guidelines. (I'll delete this comment if you lowercase your comment.) You are not a mod, you have no authority save what you feign, and this comm
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"Hitler's concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history. He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the In
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by user982 9y ago
> I would love you to find me a source for millions of non enemy combatant deaths directly caused by the US. The US killed roughly 20% of the population of North Korea with direct targeted bombings of civilian centers and infrastructur
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by user982 9y ago
The "extraordinary rendition" international kidnapping program that literally disappeared people and was facilitated by Diego Garcia began in 2001. The "Chagos Marine Protected Area" which was internally praised as &quot
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by user982 9y ago
> They're doing this because of the oil in the area and to exert dominance. USA on the other way just want everybody to be okay cause you know USA is all about money and business...I think in general I rather have USA ideology over
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by user982 9y ago
It's no Lokasenna [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokasenna ].
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'Dr. Doom' commentator Marc Faber faces backlash over race comments(reuters.com)
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The system works.
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by user982 9y ago
There is no question about that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_CIA_interrogation_tapes_d...
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by user982 9y ago
Churchill was merely following proud English tradition: when the Great Famine decimated Ireland as a result of British policies (and during which Irish food exports to England continued unabated), Queen Victoria prevented the Ottoman Sultan
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Anti-Fascists Used Twitter to Find a Neo-Nazi and Beat Him Up(buzzfeed.com)
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Malaysia Blocks Steam Store Following God Fighting Game Controversy(lowyat.net)
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I don't know; this is observational rather than prescriptive. "Don't be institutionally hypocritical as a society" is inviting, but has problems whichever of the views is chosen. The sociopaths seem necessary so long as
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I have an inchoate theory that early moral indoctrination through children's books is basically a way of hardwiring the just-world fallacy into the broader populace such that a minority of individuals who resist this worldview grow up

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