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by walkhour 4y ago
What you mention regarding the king trying to regulate the situation is not in contradiction with France simply being more concerned with human rights than other countries. Do we know how slaves were treated in other areas ( Africa, the Mid
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by walkhour 4y ago
When the war was over the remaining white population was systematically massacred. Originally they were going to spare women and children, but they reasoned they could bring white men into the world, and killed them as well [0]. Quoting fro
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by walkhour 4y ago
Dan Carlin talks about this in his latest podcast: https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-68-blitz-...
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by walkhour 4y ago
I agree with you. It may be a mental bug on my side, but me being aware that the noise is caused intentionally, it's easily avoidable, it costs very little effort for the person producing the noise to stop the noise, the person knows t
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by walkhour 4y ago
In this particular case she had lived there her whole life and I don't think she ever entertained the idea. But many people have one year leases they don't want to break, or don't want to roll the dice just to move to an equa
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by walkhour 4y ago
Prospect Lefferts Garden and Bedstuy. Given we are sharing anecdotes, I've seen my single mom neighbor shout at a group of ten men because her daughter hadn't properly slept for weeks because they thought it was fun to play with f
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by walkhour 4y ago
The NYPD is fine approaching a single person in a car and telling them they are too loud. It's safe and it's easy money. They don't want to approach 50 guys in motorbikes to fine them.
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by walkhour 4y ago
If you lived in Brooklyn, you'll know the main source of noise is not these cars, it's groups of people blasting music on the street and barbecuing. They last for hours. When July comes, the main source of noise is people having f
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by walkhour 4y ago
> People in this world often convince themselves they're religious, but under cover they operate in some of the most spineless and inconsiderate ways... It's one of the big contradictions in life. You can generalize this to the
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by walkhour 4y ago
This is a nice story but this: > Bankruptcies in the US ensued Never happened. What happened is that the US voluntarily shutdown their oil production out of concerns for the environment. So however this idea of the Russians and Saudis wo
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by walkhour 4y ago
It's somewhat surprising how quickly Netflix has given up on their "progressive"values, which probably they thought were the right path to making more money, as soon as they found out they can actually be detrimental to them.
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by walkhour 4y ago
What is the game in this context, democracy?
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by walkhour 4y ago
I see you're very upset at republicans, when was the last time you talked to one? > But actually it's not that the left wants them to die, it's simply that the left wants them to stop killing innocent people, because we st
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by walkhour 4y ago
I agree you're technically right, however I think the article does everything possible to obscure this fact, see some quotes: > The research suggests that genes aren’t what’s driving the decline in IQ scores, according to the study,
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by walkhour 4y ago
> Now that Republicans are voluntarily culling themselves in vastly higher numbers (at 2.73 times and higher death rates in "red" versus "blue" counties) by believing and repeating and acting on Trump's anti-vax
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by walkhour 4y ago
The article insists several times this is not due to genetics, because people with lower IQ don't have more children. This is not true[0]. What the article may want to say is that it's not due exclusively to genetics. Given fertil
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by walkhour 4y ago
Every new generation of left leaning people thinks the subsequent generation of left leaning people is going too far.
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by walkhour 4y ago
> I don't know, the Romans were pretty democratic so I've been told and they collapsed due to internal reasons. Lots of empires that weren't so democratic lasted much longer. Is that your point? Do you think Obamacare was
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by walkhour 4y ago
> So which societies have adopted them and it lead to negatives? I'll leave this as homework, find societies than have ended worse than they were without any external cause, you can group by democratic, aristocratic and dictatorial
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by walkhour 4y ago
> I know I'm right because if these were the cure to society, religion would be growing, not shrinking, regulation would be decreasing, not increasing Your argument is hard to understand, but what I read here is, "economic regu
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by walkhour 4y ago
> Economics, racism, religion Are you aware that a whole swath of society blames the current problems on over regulation of the economy, obsession over race and lack of religion. Both sides are not able to convince the other, which means
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by walkhour 4y ago
Every policy in the last fifty years of the US government would be perfectly rational if its purpose was to destroy the nuclear and extended family. It may just be coincidence, but there's no doubt these are the consequences. These pol
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by walkhour 4y ago
What do Chinese expats think? I can't provide strong statistics but anecdotally I've found the support of this policy is at least in the single digits among expats.
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by walkhour 4y ago
> Of my five closest friends in high school, none went to college. Two went to prison. Agreed, couldn't be further away from your typical Yale graduate.
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by walkhour 4y ago
> the husband beating his wife behind closed doors without repercussions Families were much bigger back then. The extended family was always around. Communities were much tighter and actually existed. I think you don't have a good u
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by walkhour 4y ago
Opiod-related ODs have increased as the market has become more regulated and since the war against poverty started. I don't see evidence of these being caused by capitalism, if anything I see a correlation with socialism.
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by walkhour 4y ago
> Just don't search how many people die due to lack of healthcare or how many people freeze to death(mostly homeless ... Do you have proof that there would be less of these without capitalism. If anything the homeless population has
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by walkhour 4y ago
> He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to lift himself out of bed. In 1944, he became entangled in the device and died of strangulation Causing death fueled by good motives seems to have been a constant in his life.
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by walkhour 4y ago
Not if you compare current time periods. China is genociding Uighurs. There's no USA equivalent in this day and age. And this is not a propaganda piece. You are far away from reality if you think China and USA are morally equivalent in
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by walkhour 4y ago
Because we wouldn't have any media whatsoever to consume.

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