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by vimacs2 5y ago
I don't see how that's a straw man argument when your prior comment was clearly implying that she should not just assume that a hired technician won't sift through her personal data. You're also assuming that she did not
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Not only is it a myth but also incredibly arrogant, as if the ten thousand years of advancements and innovation by humanity since the dawn of civilisation prior to the development of capitalism in Italian city states never happened.
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Can you give us your definition of communism?
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They literally promote "Freshers week" in every Uni I've ever been to so good luck on ever seeing that change. There's too much money in swindling young people so I doubt it's going away.
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Or it could because there is increased awareness of the originally racist and authoritarian motives for modern drug laws? I'm not of the mind that weed cannot and does not frequently become a bad habit but weed abuse is far less proble
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Well, first of all I do not consider colonising a place a synonymous with living there. Space offers revolutionary technology that can tangibly affect what happens on Earth. Planets that are substantially smaller than Earth (which is pretty
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Translation: the democratisation of media has made it more difficult for Israeli lobbyists and their conservative and neoliberal cronies to control how Israel's actions in Palestine are viewed. Good
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Can you elaborate on the "detection intensity"? Genuinely curious as I haven't heard a modern critique of QM before and would like to learn the other side of the argument.
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Yes, they showed a great "degree of care" in levelling a building that happened to contain the offices of media that were critical of the actions of the IDF on the basis of “Hamas military intelligence” with no evidence given. Btw
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The only reason you have for assuming that the IDF are trying not to kill civilians is their own word which is worthless to me and anybody outside of their alliance with the US. They have lied repeatedly before about how their attacks did n
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"If drug cartels in Mexico started firing rockets into Texas" Imagine if the US were taking more and more territory from Mexico while illegally evicting and assaulting Mexicans to make room for US settlers. Let's say that the
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Feel free to not respond as the thought is mutual but it's not my "view point". It is a matter of fact that Saudi Arabia and Israel have violated nearly every human rights charter in the UN and I'm sorry that my recognit
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Is the rather obvious (or I would think) observation that empires tend to make decisions for pragmatic reasons of self-interest as opposed to ideology a "very extreme, no nuances opinion". You cannot just dismiss all criticism by
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"The US does have some moral authority in that it sometimes stands up for what's right rather than what's in their best interests. For example, bans on buying conflict minerals." Yes, it makes sense for them to ban buyin
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by vimacs2 5y ago
"That's nonsense, but I welcome you to make a case for it with facts." Ok then, how about the fact that the US has been funding Al-Qaeda affiliated organisations to promote act as opposition to both Iran and Saudi Arabia&#x27
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by vimacs2 5y ago
So you don't see Saudi Arabia's actions against the Yemenese or Israel's actions against the Palestinians as crimes against humanity? I guess then you have no standards at all then since the ones I'm operating under are
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Really? You don't think the US selling billions in arms to both Saudi Arabia and Israel makes them complicit in those ally's crimes against humanity? What about the fact that the US has been sponsoring military and paramilitary or
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Pretty sure the US and friends are easily the worst when it comes to sponsoring international terrorism, especially if you don't just arbitrarily decide that state mandated actions are exempt from consideration as terrorism. Iran and o
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by vimacs2 5y ago
While I didn't get as triggered by the inclusion as the OP, I do have to say that out of the example labels you gave, the only one I would consider a good comparison is "Japanese-American" as she did not choose her gender, et
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Yeah, I'm going to be with Iran on this one. Bitcoin mining is an enormous waste of energy even if we're not living in a country largely cut off from international aid or trade.
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Lobbying and putting political pressure on local representatives is definitely a few steps above merely "getting angry". The angle that is going to make the average consumer care about R2R inevitably involves fostering righteous o
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That's not how quantum entanglement works but assuming that you could have microscopic wormhole ends that can be moved independently of each other, that would essentially let you do what I imagine you want. If it turns out that wormhol
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You're using an awful lot of adjectives but so far, no concrete examples. What specific statements has Rossmann made that could be genuinely construed as "vile, contemptful vigilante justice"? I also completely disagree that
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I have to disagree. It is useful to be able to quantify the exact state of ignorance that we currently have and as our observational reach expands, the values of the variables in the equation should become less and less fuzzy. The problem i
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Sure but I'm not sure how their freedom from worrying about human rights abuse has anything at all to do with their rocket research. They never had any human test pilots or manned rocket vehicle tests (that are public record anyway). P
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That's a strange definition of "sophisticated" you got there.
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I can only assume that you completely misunderstood my analogy. Since your bias seems to have affected your ability to think clearly, let me break it down to you: You don't immediately bomb a school taken hostage by a terrorist group b
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The deep irony of this is that Israel have an apartheid system that discriminates against many ethnic Semites (such as Palestinians). That and they supply military arms and training for far right groups in South and Central America - includ
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Sorry but I don't think you do respect "the engineers and scientists who made the marvel achievement" if the only thing that you are able to get out of this is as a publicity stunt to please the CCP. It is not an understateme
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Yeah, this is complete nonsense. The science behind rockets were already being worked on long before WW2 or even the first expansion of territory of the Third Reich beyond the borders set at the closing of WW1. It's like when people ga

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