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by xtian 4y ago
But Russia is accomplishing their objectives, so there would be no reversal. Ukraine is holding on by pouring tens of billions of dollars worth of Western armaments into the conflict (which are coming slower and slower), not to mention the
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No one is entitled to a particular form of revenue. We live in an attention-based economy. Talented and savvy authors can find any number of ways to derive revenue from the attention their work attracts apart from charging IP tolls. If not,
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What’s your logic?
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I think it was closer to 10 billion actually
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The argument made by the West, including the US Secretary of Defense, was that Russian missile production would be significantly curtailed due to trade restrictions on advanced technology like microchips. If they are using missiles produced
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The US likes GDP because it lets us report growth based on all sorts of unproductive financial instruments like interest payments on medical debt.
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The Russian missile in question, the KH-101, has been in service for ten years, is air-launched rather than ground-launched, and has at least twice the range of the North Korean missile described in that article. Why would Russia need tech
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> They're running out of things like missles and bombs though IIRC? No they aren’t. New York Times on 12/5: “Russian Cruise Missiles Were Made Just Months Ago Despite Sanctions”
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“We came, we saw, he died.” - Hillary Clinton
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We could cut down on oxygen use by not breathing too. Ultimately you have to ground these abstract vectors of comparison in some fundamental purpose. For me, the only possible ground is humanity. If humanity is the ground of your analysis,
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To what end?
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If they weren’t corrupt then Glass-Steagall would have been no problem.
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For the common use-cases, SVGs do render consistently across browsers, but there are differences in feature support and rendering behavior outside of those. refX/refY is one example of this. These attributes were added to the SVG spec
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You have accused myself and MichaelZuo of "taking the word of the Chinese government" and "carrying water for the CCP" respectively (based on nothing), and yet you continue to hold up the word of the US government and mi
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Just anything more conclusive than social media posts. An actual investigation into these reports and purported debris fragments. According to Wikipedia, Cotes d'Ivoire is one of the largest economies in West Africa, representing 40% o
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I’ve looked at the news reports and as far as I’ve seen they only reference social media posts which seem to be inconclusive.
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I tried Googling for an official report or investigation but I couldn’t find one. Do you know if any of these multiple governments issued one?
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Do you have a link to an official investigation/report on this?
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> They already dropped one on a village. That sounds pretty serious. Was there any official investigation or just ambiguous pictures posted on social media?
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I support it ending too, it will just mean the beginning of much harder times for Americans. Our 'massive consumer market' is propped up by these shenanigans since our manufacturing base has been eroded.
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Such shenanigans will continue to make the dollar less appealing as a reserve currency.
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Yeah it would be horrible if one day we had a press like that. In this case I expect they simply didn’t have enough moveable type to include “Rumor:” at the start of the headline
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Hi, Dave. I just wanted to say thanks for building Whiskey Media and carrying forward some of that old Internet spirit. I was a big Giant Bomb and Tested fan when I was younger, and the platform you guys built was part of what inspired me t
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It’s the US’ MO, historically
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Why’s that?
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> The next question is, who did it? A Polish member of the European Parliament has thanked the US: https://twitter.com/radeksikorski/status/1574800653724966915
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That’s an idiotic saying which justifies criminalizing hundreds of thousands if not millions of people for something they have no control over. In none of the cases that I mentioned are these ideologies anything but an extremely fringe an
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Not necessarily CloudFlare itself, but narrative censorship moving up from the platform level to the infrastructure provider level. The difficult part is how to agree that these sites are not “kin to 8chan, the daily Stormer, and kiwi farms
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I’ve never visited these sites, and I’m sure I’d find them generally repulsive. But: I’d also be willing to bet that this level of censorship will be used to suppress political dissent against the most crucial imperial PR narratives within
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Yes, we can and should continue to increase food production. It’s a prerequisite to eradicating poverty worldwide. These narratives are supported by people who are threatened by the prospect that there are no limits to human growth and pote

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