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by yucky 4y ago
The sad reality is the people who hate Assange most now are the ones who loved him for Collateral Murder, because it was damaging to their enemies. Once he released information that was just as accurate, but damaging to their political alli
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by yucky 4y ago
Do you remember what happened right before he annexed Crimea?
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Africa has no public transport and had the lowest rates of transmission.
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You mean Wikileaks released info that was incorrect, or just that they released info that makes people you support look bad?
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> He literally started the war. When do you think the war started?
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Are you referring to the US invasion of Iraq or the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It's impossible to tell the difference anymore.
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How could they be partisan when "both sides" have accused them repeatedly of being against them? Case in point, Collateral Murder was celebrated by Democrats and then when they leaked the Hillary emails now all of a sudden Democra
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by yucky 4y ago
Yes bikes are great for riding in the wind and the rain and the snow, and public transport proved to be quite useful in spreading COVID.
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> this is nothing new or unprecedented This is both new and unprecedented.
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by yucky 4y ago
Also of note, archive.org has begun to take censorious stances on "objectionable" content, whereas archive.is/.ph/.today has remained neutral. See KiwiFarms for instance, when they (unsuccessfully) tried to scrub them fr
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by yucky 4y ago
> Lack of universal healthcare in the US isn't that big a deal to the upper-class/upper-middle class people It's not an issue for poor people either, since they have Medicaid. Or old people, who have Medicare. Or
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by yucky 4y ago
I feel like the Laravel community has helped PHP get its shit together. Maybe it's all timing and coincidence though, I dunno.
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I love PHP, and think updates over the last several years have been relatively painless. But it doesn't feel like it's always been that way over the last 15 years.
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> You meant "expand massively" i think. Nope, I meant what I said. > There wont be any unprecedented mass layoffs Baghdad Bob strikes again.
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> I am a woman when writing this sentence but a man after I'm done. This actually proves my point even better than I already had. If you can just make it up and say you are whatever gender whenever you want, then the idea of
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by yucky 4y ago
Except cars serve a function. A better analogy would be, imagine your neighbor owned pet skunks and they sprayed a few times a day. Even on their own property, the scent carries and lingers. Keep your pet skunks in the house, that's al
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> I really am in awe of how much work people seem willing to do to justify this as revolutionary and programmers as infantile, and also why they do that. It’s fascinating. Equally fascinating is all of the "this is fine&quot
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by yucky 4y ago
> World hunger is a trivial problem to solve given the resources we have today and yet we apparently can’t be bothered to fix that extremely low hanging fruit Except world hunger isn't a resource problem at all, which sort o
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by yucky 4y ago
"We came, we saw, he died" ~Hillary Clinton , speaking about our role using the CIA to oust Ghaddafi leading to his death by anal knifing and the resulting power vacuum that they still deal with today. Now in 2023 Libya has open
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by yucky 4y ago
> arguably it is fair to include interventions in which Wagner is a major player So then we need to include Blackwater and the like too? Well shit, we're well into the double digits now for US foreign "interventions&quo
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I don't know enough about Altman to say one way or the other, but there is nothing Libertarian about the other 3. In fact, even Thiel is a stretch to call libertarian considering he donated to Trump who is the opposite of a libertarian
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by yucky 4y ago
It's quite clear you have no idea how long the smell of weed lingers. Also, that means you probably have no idea that when you walk around you reek of weed. Ask some non-smokers.
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by yucky 4y ago
The issue becomes apparent when you ask somebody how many genders there are, and what constitutes a gender. In order to define transitioning between various genders, there needs to be a constituted boundary around what a gender is. Otherwis
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by yucky 4y ago
I agree that people shouldn't be thrown in jail for weed, but fining seems appropriate for a public nuisance. Not sure how you measure it, but we do it for noise as well. This may surprise weed smokers, but non-smokers don't want
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by yucky 4y ago
People should be able to smoke in their house, but there is no good reason that every park and beach and other public space has to reek of weed smoke.
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Does the entire neighborhood smell like alcohol when people use it?
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The US doesn't abide by those laws though so our government would be hard-pressed to use them as justification for anything. See the Hague Invasion Act for instance, we will literally invade the Netherlands if they try to hold any US c
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by yucky 4y ago
I said he was an exception. The general culture of Silicon Valley is liberal to progressive. Thiel is a libertarian, which is uncommon in the industry.
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> It is important to clarify that trans women are women. > Some dimensions where trans women and cisgender women might differ include: So they're the same, but here is how they're different. Got it. I guess we&#x2
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Women don't have prostates. If a man dresses like a woman and thinks he's a woman, that is a mental condition that deserves treatment and that person deserves to be treated humanely like the rest of us, but it doesn't turn th

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