A2017U1

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by A2017U1 7y ago
> imagine a wholly for-profit police force. https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...
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by A2017U1 7y ago
Am i missing something here? You're saying someone selfharming justifies criminal punishment? I'd love to have this conversation in a suburban mall food where the average bmi is >30
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by A2017U1 7y ago
> news isn't religion Anecdotally it feels that way in modern society. Ask a random person if they believe Fox news.
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by A2017U1 7y ago
> verbal announcements At this point the foreigner is more Japanese than the local friend.
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by A2017U1 7y ago
> Taxi Driver formed part of the delusional fantasy of John Hinckley Jr.[26] that triggered his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, an act for which he was found not guilty by reason of insanity Its great to be an
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by A2017U1 7y ago
Can anyone elaborate on [3] or at least copypaste it? Twitter links seem to rarely work without having the app on mobile, it's disgustingly blatant dark pattern stuff.
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by A2017U1 7y ago
While I agree with the sentiment feel the urge to note that where I live but you will face punishment for having blackberries growing on your property similar to what you would for selling marijuana. Blackberries are a national pest, and ye
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by A2017U1 7y ago
> Glasgow council is selling land like its going out of fashion to developers Guessing the sentiment here is that this is bad? Why exactly? Is Glasgow not growing and ever more people needing roofs over heads? I've never once heard
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by A2017U1 7y ago
https://dark.fail/ for market and forum links. Dread and Avengers are the forums. Browse around or ask questions on the forums. Reputation is everything on darknet markets, a reputable seller from your own country is highly
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by A2017U1 7y ago
What news does reach "the majority of people in China"? The children of senior officials routinely study overseas, it's painfully mundane. As for China "ramping up anti-western rhetoric", I'm truly struggling t
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by A2017U1 7y ago
Just to clarify because it's a tad vague, you support Blizzard's right to both remove a winners players prizemoney and future ability to compete because of one sentence on a livestream? Or perhaps less inflammatory and antagonisti
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by A2017U1 7y ago
While keeping the population well-fed, secure and with wages growing at 5% a year? Not possible. The masses will beg for more oppression if you can keep that up.
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by A2017U1 7y ago
The greying of this only comment here despite not a single reply ironically only proves my point further. I guess the "anti-censorship activists" aren't here to save me today. Oh well, trivial problem for me, tad bigger issue
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by A2017U1 7y ago
> News travels faster than ever before. Everyone has a camera on them. I too am watching the ever-loyal Kurds get slaughtered by a NATO member with the overt approval of the US military. I wrote a comment on the internet in response. Pro
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by A2017U1 7y ago
Actually spent quite a while going through the list of banned subs to eliminate contentious ones, gotta make commenters work for it :) They are a US based website subject to those laws, even if those words posted on their site didn't v
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by A2017U1 7y ago
> the Blizzard controversy indicates just how badly the company has screwed up here, and the level of pressure that the community and anti-censorship activists are going to apply against it. Got a good chuckle at "anti-censorship&qu
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by A2017U1 7y ago
> I’d be hard-pressed to name one that I felt contributed to free speech. As in US Constitution free speech? I can think of dozens. r/SanctionedSuicide r/DarknetMarkets r/shoplifting r/gore r/watchpeopledie
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by A2017U1 7y ago
This strikes to the heart of what my comment mentioned though: the vast majority of people don't care, Western consumer people especially. Not supporting it, simply saying it. Make them care and things might change, truly. Don't b
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by A2017U1 7y ago
How much money did private enterprise make from the Arab Spring? Hundred billion or so? To pretend like it was a moral issue is insane. Most people don't care in the slightest in democratic countries. Virtually every country involved i
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by A2017U1 7y ago
it's just plug and play hey?
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by A2017U1 7y ago
So why does Boeing end up paying compensation in court? Airplane parts are intertwined believe it or not, their engineers spend years working together. May as well start 26 shell companies named BoeingA to BoeingZ and pretend it was all som
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by A2017U1 7y ago
Eh, such generalizations, I've lived and worked in very racist homogenous societies for years and still never struggled to find local friends. There's always cool folks to befriend, unless the insinuation here is no foreigner shou
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by A2017U1 7y ago
This is pro-China propaganda at it's best, they'll milk it for years. It's hilarious how naive the West is about these matters.
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by A2017U1 7y ago
> Well unless you use a one time pad but nobody does Was under the impression intel agencies and militaries use OTP's regularly and the keys are carried in diplomatic pouches around the world.
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by A2017U1 7y ago
There's thousands of dollars on offer for each large one and a somewhat related millennium prize. Guess scaling is down the track for this "business"
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by A2017U1 7y ago
Japan is actually getting quite friendly lately, as a full-time remote worker have been investigating moving there for a while.
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by A2017U1 7y ago
First sentence, yeah undeniable. Second sentence entirely ignores the reality of regional Australia and it's overwhelming influence on politics to make terrible decisions that is a burden on the nation as a whole. A single marginal ele
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by A2017U1 7y ago
You would be saying the same thing about China 30 years ago. It's completely wrong in my opinion. Massive failure of cultural projecting by westerners to actually believe this. Many people just want to be well fed and have safety for t
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by A2017U1 7y ago
Pay brokers for zero day exploits. Have a small team of highly paid well off young people with little incentive to take a "moral" stance. Profit. Also consider that perhaps they aren't living in the "dark ages" whil
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by A2017U1 7y ago
youtube-dl -x <url> uses ffmpeg out of the box to extract mp3 audio from a video.

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