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All the things that you said should be a reason to star wearing a red cap instead of making your peace with them.
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Yep. The best retirement plan is to price-out and gentrify the locals in poor countries.
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That is the goal. The price increases, cost of living increases and the gentrification that is brought by tourism in certain places in Europe are so high that "tourist go home" became a common graffiti and the locals are livid. h
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> A US company would never be allowed to own any kind of social media company in China Every company that complies with the local laws can open any kind of company in China and they do. The US has to do the same per WTO law as long as Ti
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> Would you think it would've been a good idea to have foreign investors from Nazi Germany run newspapers and radios in the states in the 1930s and leading up there? They didn't need to - William Hearst - the Murdoch of the era
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> Trump openly asked for Russia to hack the DNC. And they did so. Says the Democratic side. They are a party in the political fight in the US and they cannot be taken as an objective source. This includes all the 'inquiry committees
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> I'd like to strip that sentence of the LGBT context, and point out that the general line of thinking (that there are legitimate reasons for wanting to kill a group of people's children) is actually popular enough to drive maj
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When it was forcing every country to privatize everything they had in the last 40 years...
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Political? Children are being murdered in live video in front of the eyes of the entire world. This is not an exaggeration. Those who propagate it are posting videos on the Israeli internet and these are being propagated to the 80% of the w
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> with very little nuance applied What 'nuance'? Are they expected to say "Oh, is Hamas anti-LGBT? I guess its ok for Israel to murder Palestinian children then..."?
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> I might be old but I distinctly remember a humanitarian outcry in the 00's because Palestinians were murdering not only Jews and Christians but also homosexuals[0]. Just because there are anti-lgbt elements in Palestinian society
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> Correct. AI (or other technology) are tools. They can be used for good, they can be used for evil, it is should not be within the purview of a company to make such moral judgements. So basically when IBM was selling business machines t
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Those people did everything according to Google's guidelines then Google changed everything and screwed them over. That's what has been happening all the way since 2010 when they issued their first update and penalized all the sma
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> It costs whatever you can negotiate it to cost That's a really surreal proposition. People who are sick cannot 'negotiate' anything. People who are recently treated and are recovering from an illness are the same. Someth
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> The anecdotes The anecdotes show that this is not an 'occasional' or 'edge case' thing but a systemic thing. The statistics show that at least 40,000 people die a year for not having enough money for healthcare and
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No external force created the John Birch society that transformed into modern Trumpers. Its purely an American thing. And, the investigations into election meddling ended with finding out that external forces spent some $100,000 on bad Face
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> But if you have them it is essentially not possible to die here from lack of healthcare, and it's possible but surprisingly difficult to go bankrupt That's a false myth. https://www.quora.com/Were-there-any-Am
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> We have more power in this society than anyone in any other. So why do we claim we're powerless? Because it makes us feel better that we're so lazy No, because you are actually powerless: https://www.theguardian.co
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Here's what happens in 'better democracy implementations': https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/germany_palestine#:~:...
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Here's the democracy that you are living in: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-co... The capitalist West was not 'totalitarian' only because up until recently, it w
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> That's false https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/germany_palestine#:~:... Like in all capitalist countries: Youre free in Europe as long as you don't pose a risk to the ruling class or oppos
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https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/germany_palestine#:~:... .
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Ditto. I consider Sc2 the best game ever.
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> The density is a function of the economic productivity Density WAS a function of economic productivity before remote work was proven to work at a large scale. Now a lot of production ranging from software to even manufacturing can be d
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A lot of those 'truth' sources that the author complains about being paywalled propagated the Iraqi WMD lie for years. Some still try to push the narrative that there are WMDs in Iraq.
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> Life isn't fair. The earlier you accept that, the better off you'll be. Life isn't fair because we make it so. The longer we keep accepting that, the longer we will delay in changing it for the better.
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> I worked with Laravel and trust me, it's a pain in the ass when you have a medium/big project Every language is...
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The problem is that this is speedily turning into a moat-building process pushed by incumbent large software companies here in Europe. The laws they push are hampering both smaller software outfits and even open source.
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You people are delusional: https://www.eiu.com/n/russia-can-count-on-support-from-many-... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/politics/russia-war-an... Its not Russia who is
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> You will have noted that not having domestic chip production has fucked Russia, and the restrictions on china are to inhibit pass through and limit what they too can do. You must have caught up on the Ukraine conflict from the places t

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