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5,951karma·4,108submissions·November 9, 2014
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Iraq and Afghanistan were mistakes. But this is next level. When it started I thought Iran would be crushed. Ignorant, silly me. There is every chance the USA will have to stop its attacks before achi…
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They should not have sunk the ship in the first place.
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> The popular appetite just isn't there. Cory Doctorow, if he is to believed, states 50% of web users use ad blockers. So maybe?
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> You are transfering moral agency from yourself, to the government That is the deal in a state based society. There are alternatives, but are you ready for Council Communism and it's ilk? &…
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> There's no viable "grassroots" solution to the problem, it needs to come from regulation. Managers need to serve time in prison, No, yes Yes, giving these people short (or long, mē…
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1880s? Not even then...
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Why is that? Office is still a core product, is it not?
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I have an educated guess. Flying drones are lethal, but fairly random. Attacking a point target, which will have anti-drone support, is not what they are for. And too cheap for a missile which is the…
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> At this point might as well just play strategy video game and call it a day? No. Young men being slaughtered in their hundreds of thousands. Not a game
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> I don't really agree with the author's assertion that things that appeal to women are treated as inherently lesser in general compared to things that appeal to men Really? Do we live in…
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> my many years of interacting with nerdy (or maybe not so nerdy) women who played computer games You have a particular experience. I am not a girl, I do not play games. The women I know who play g…
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Tattooed on their forehead?
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Sigh. A carefully edited video of an "amazing" robot. Been seeing these for twenty years An independently produced video, of such a robot, that would be amazing. Truly
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In New Zealand it has been like that for ever, but no one knew, and employers used them and employees abide. Partly it was naked power.
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Naturally media are on the side of money.
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Why Windows?
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> Stallman is always right. Not really. Almost always right....
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It is possible that two things are true 1. this was an intelligence failure and a tragic mistake. 2. Trump and Hegseth are (like) cartoon character villains.
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https://youtu.be/01-2pNCZiNk?si=b9GSPaNpnTGAI1wA
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Turkey is a NATO member....
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> The IRGC and Basij effectively do not have a chain of command There is no reason to believe that They have been training for decades for exactly this sort of war, and have experienced veterans a…
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I am repeating myself, but prison would be a good deterant
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Short prison sentences would be a good deterant for white collar crime, rather than fines.
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Testing? Who needs it when you have Copilot!
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> ... there's plenty of mainstream, accepted science that's plain, flat out, provably wrong : : > I'd name some examples, but you wouldn't believe me. I probably would not. Y…
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* Child labour - Return the right to work to everyone * Slavery - End the unjust and anti-competitive prison system monopoly * Restore the rights of oppresed White Nationalists - The right to hire who…
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