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3,140karma·1,202submissions·December 12, 2023
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> Their About, Contact, and Press pages don't even work. The whole website seems to have issues, probably because of AWS issues in the middle-east. But archived pages are available: - About: …
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Iran has threatened to attack Saudi oil infrastructure if the Saudis join the Israel-American war on Iran. The Iran War Is Destroying Something More Valuable Than Oil - https://houseofsau…
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UAE paid Iran billions of dollars to halt strikes: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-paid-iran-billions-do... .…
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Not OP, but I don't understand how you claim that Bush and Biden have nothing to do with the mess in the middle-east? Didn't Bush start the Iraq war, which removed political stability and in…
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This actually happened to me - a decade ago or so, Google suddenly did not allow me to access my Google Mail unless I provided them with my phone number for "additional verification and security&…
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That's Google in a nutshell - "the more personal data you give us, the more access you can have to Google services".
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Think of it as the front cam you need to make video calls ... I think the bezels is so that the corners of the phone doesn't poke you when you keep it in your pocket (it's a small device - s…
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One man's "freedom fighter" is indeed another man's "terrorist". My point was that by accepting Israel's position that the Palestinian freedom fighters are "ter…
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And in some ways AI "search" works like SO - you ask a question, you get an answer. If you don't understand the answer or something in the answer you ask for clarification and it provid…
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I don't fully agree with this as I've found that The Guardian highlights the plights of the Palestinian more than any other English newspapers. But yeah, in general, most English newspapers …
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Criticising Israel because the actions of its (right-wing religious fundamentalist) government is not anti-semitism. Nor is empathising with the horrific plights of the Palestinians at the hands of …
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Looks like scare-mongering tactics by the Democrats to goad their supporters to vote ... Kamala Harris' loss must still be haunting them (she famously lost because a lot of Democrat voters just d…
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Reminds me of CoconutBattery ( https://www.macworld.com/article/542901/coconutbattery-revie... ) - this seems to be more advanced though.…
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Yeah, it is confusing because it is poorly designed. I gather that it is basically an email hosting service that also provides for email marketing, all AI "enabled".
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Ideally, yes, if all else were equal we would only be making a purely technical comparison. But that's not how it works. People also factor in the business model and values of the company befor…
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That has become common now in all industry - for example, in India, Bosch refrigerators uses compressors manufactured by Godrej (an indian company). So their indian fridges aren't exactly "G…
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Look at any popular religion and you will find a heavy emphasis on sacrifice, selflessness and delayed gratifications (that helps strengthen our control over our base desires). This is because early c…
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I am not sure - in my experience, I've observed that the more money you have the less people care about relations (their social circle becomes smaller) and healthy co-dependency reduces. This i…
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Do you know what kind of talk therapy was offered to you?
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> I want to be able to finish a task fully without missing or skipping a step. One way to do this is to make a plan for everything you do, and only do that thing. Nothing else. True. Also don…
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Apparently advertisement and premium membership.
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The appeal of Telegram over Signal or WhatsApp is that it is not an American or BigTech service. (And, ofcourse, it's really good). Signal is funded by 2 rich American entrepreneurs who made thei…
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