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by user982 3y ago
And yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Anti-BDS_laws_in...
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by user982 3y ago
"It would take Ra's al Ghul to resolve the problems of this city" dereferences directly to "It would take [mass gassing the residents of Baltimore to death] to resolve the problems of this city" , as Batman Begin
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by user982 3y ago
More right-wing.
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by user982 3y ago
For all of those 44 years, the US has been continuously sanctioning, attacking, isolating, and threatening Iran.
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by user982 3y ago
He's also forced blue checkmarks on people (including vocal critics) who didn't sign up for it, to muddy the waters.
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by user982 3y ago
"in such manner as may be provided by law" "in such amounts as may be provided by law" Isn't this the law providing the manner and amounts?
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by user982 3y ago
> So abortion is heavily restricted in places that are objectively left wing, such as Palestine. On what basis are you calling Palestine (as opposed to the movements for justice for Palestine) "objectively left wing"?
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by user982 4y ago
E.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35224167
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by user982 4y ago
Fascism being popular doesn't make it not fascism.
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by user982 4y ago
Not how I expected that headline to end.
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by user982 4y ago
And now it's flagged.
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by user982 4y ago
The last paragraph is of interest: In December 2001, a Whitehall report was revealed that had been produced in February 1989, two months after Currie's resignation, and covered up by the government. The report found that there had bee
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by user982 4y ago
For a long time I was confused about bronze Chinese mirrors of that time frame. When seen in a museum or on the internet, almost always all that's shown is the ornate back[1], which as a child I took for the reflecting surface and woul
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by user982 4y ago
The elderly died earlier.
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by user982 4y ago
You have to define imperialism very narrowly to claim that. Perry's (overt) threat resulted in unequal treaties being forced on Japan. Japan's current Constitution was similarly written by Americans and forced on it during the pos
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by user982 4y ago
22 years later, Japan copied this gunboat tactic closely to force the opening of Korea, taking the first steps toward annexation and empire ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Korea_Treaty_of_... ).
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by user982 4y ago
I'm just an old-fashioned programmer, I don't think I should have to register with an authority and submit all of my code to them just to be able to run something I've written for myself on my own computer.
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by user982 4y ago
Key word from the grandparent post: "permanently" Key word from the parent post: "temporary"
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by user982 4y ago
You were agitating for a hot war not 20 minutes earlier ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34249941 ), so the more dead Chinese the better, right?
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by user982 4y ago
The past tense of "lead" will be dictionary-accepted as "lead" within your lifetime.
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by user982 4y ago
This is an absurd strawman. Not a bear in sight: https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-int...
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by user982 4y ago
In the spirit of 8. Public health scientists and practitioners should avoid conflicts-of-interest, and any unavoidable conflicts-of-interest must be clearly stated. "Hillsdale [College] is a conservative Christian institution with ti
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by user982 4y ago
How much did you tip them?
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by user982 4y ago
"I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy and believe that those who purchased flood insurance should have their claims paid. At the same time, allowing the program to increase its debt by another $9.7 billion with no plan to
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by user982 4y ago
Well, anti-Federation society. Ferengi-owned holosuites.
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by user982 4y ago
This is a bizarre thing to see on the front page of HN. Anyway, here's their review of The Star Wars Holiday Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CtUd0yuYN4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW4m0oYK
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by user982 4y ago
Korean consonants have slightly different sounds at the beginning and end of a syllable. ㄹ is pronounced as L at the end of a block, but R at the beginning of one, hence the additional syllable.
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by user982 4y ago
Obama will get around to that promise any day now.
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by user982 4y ago
When the ACLU rewrote a Ruth Bader Ginsburg quote ( "The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a [person's] life, to [their] well-being and dignity..." [1]), all I could think of was The Onion ( "I'v
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by user982 5y ago
Then the second half of my response gave you the answer.

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