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by yostrovs 5y ago
Bucha bazi is illegal by the Taliban because it consists of music, dancing, and sodomy, which are three things that are in themselves unacceptable.
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by yostrovs 5y ago
In my experience, the Germans believe they have done a terrible thing, but were the ones to learn the most from it. They have since studied their doings and reflected on them heavily. So much so that they are moral leaders of the world and
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by yostrovs 5y ago
You meant: "...being required to be vaxxed to go to the office seems reasonable to provide a safe work place for the unvaccinated."
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by yostrovs 5y ago
I know of a number of people that received PhDs in physics, who would have become proper scientists, that instead went to work for investment firms because they can do the math and know how to code. After a decade of student poverty, gettin
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by yostrovs 5y ago
Wouldn't you have to perform gain of function research in order to create vaccines for not yet existing viruses? Isn't this what the Wuhan lab was up to?
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by yostrovs 5y ago
How is this different from raised beds?
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by yostrovs 5y ago
They do now. There was a time when you could go to the DMV and switch places with your friend right before the photo for the ID was taken. If you were under 21 and your friend was older, you had a real fake ID made for you by the state. At
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by yostrovs 5y ago
Stop by a toy store and watch the children beg to be purchashed the new button pop up fidget toys.
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by yostrovs 5y ago
So they outsource responsibility to a third party so that when the project fails it won't be the people that created it that will be blamed. It's simply amusing to read this stuff while they're trying to figure out what to do
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by yostrovs 5y ago
There is no freeze proof piping, sadly. Up here in the northern states all the piping has to be protected and the stuff that's outside the walls needs heat tape.
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by yostrovs 5y ago
I visited Bogota on a visit hosted by the city's official business promotion council. The main lady running these tours was Venezuelan.
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by yostrovs 5y ago
This comment avoids the facts noted in the linked article, which seem to point to perpetual immunity of anyone who was infected by SARS-CoV-2 in the past.
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by yostrovs 5y ago
It is indeed amusing to see people accused of being the very opposite of what they are. The Kochs, if anything, are against limitations on free trade.
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by yostrovs 5y ago
Smears, guilt by association, accusations of racism: this is what You chose to focus on and reject the lab leak theory. You didn't listen to the facts, the issues that seemed strange. The stunning thing is that you continue to cling to
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by yostrovs 5y ago
The answer is in the other comments. The reason the lab leak theory is rejected is because some people that believe in other theories that are not popular also believe in this one. It's guilt by association. It has nothing to do with
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by yostrovs 5y ago
To be fair, you are exactly the type that the parent comment was referring to... People that effortlessly dismiss reasonable ideas. You add smears of racism on top of it to make sure the side that you disagree with is hated. Please reflect
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by yostrovs 5y ago
Are you saying that homeless and vagrants are too busy and it's much less time consuming to simply steal? Is that really a moral argument? You're that concerned about the productive time of homeless people?
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by yostrovs 5y ago
The building was destroyed after providing notice to the occupants, allowing the AP staff to take their computers and leave. So it was not an attempt to silence reporting in the region, as the article claims.
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by yostrovs 5y ago
The Chinese and Russian vaccine use well established technologies, nothing particularly new. There's no mRNA vaccines developed in China or Russia or Japan or Taiwan. There's also quite a bit of questioning the effectiveness of Ru
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by yostrovs 5y ago
American individuality works well for inventing vaccines though. Any covid vaccines that have come out of Japan or Taiwan? Japan has a substantial pharmaceutical industry.
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Please do recall that the USSR was effectively on the same side as Germany for the first two years of the war.
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by yostrovs 5y ago
In the sense that communism stopped spreading to new countries, perhaps it was a win of sorts.
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We'll, I have to listen to Gates and his opinions on a regular basis if I'm to follow the news.
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by yostrovs 5y ago
Bill Gates worries about global warming. His house is 66,000 sq ft. I find the hypocrisy astounding and it helps global warming deniers to claim that 'if the people worrying about it are not acting as though they're actually conce
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by yostrovs 6y ago
Most of art seems to have gone this way. Contemporary art museums are full of random nonsense few people find any pleasure in, anything to be curious about, or anything to become excited by. So much architecture is just ugly, like some kind
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by yostrovs 6y ago
They started this rumor, the rumor went around all the television stations on repeat for weeks, and then when it turned out this was based on nothing, that it was some kind of fabrication, the NYT doesn't do a front page retraction wit
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by yostrovs 6y ago
What about organizations like CNN, that spend months and sometimes years on conspiracy theories, only to move on to the next one when the previous turns out to be false? Here's for reference an example: https://greenwald.sub
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by yostrovs 6y ago
There doesn't seem to be any evidence that China actually ever intended to meet climate targets. They've been building coal electric plants at a rapid rate continuously for decades now. In the meantime they've attended climat
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The KGB changed its name. The staff and methods did not change.
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Interesting: "The Czech police on Saturday evening released images of two men wanted for serious offences. The two are Anatoly Chepig and Alexander Mishkin, the same Russian GRU agents believed to have carried out a failed assassinatio

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