Belopolye

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by Belopolye 1y ago
That's a social credit score for businesses, not individuals.
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by Belopolye 1y ago
It's weird being a 90s/2000s anti-war, anti-globalization, and pro-labor Democrat in a 2025 world.
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by Belopolye 1y ago
It's a simple question in my eyes. Do people indigenous to a land have the right to defend their lives and property from a foreign, occupying force with violence, if necessary? It's a shame that one's answer to this question
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by Belopolye 1y ago
I've followed The Cradle for a couple of years. For what it's worth I've been able to corroborate much of what is published against other sources, and I believe it's entirely funded by donations. Rather biased against NA
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by Belopolye 1y ago
>Human breast milk is very bitter Aggressively incorrect.
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by Belopolye 1y ago
I believe it was Germany's constitutional court, which given the experience of East Germany is understandable.
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by Belopolye 1y ago
The boomers ate the seed corn.
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by Belopolye 1y ago
You mean to tell me the dirt ISN'T magic?
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by Belopolye 1y ago
My grandfather was tenured, published voraciously up until he retired at 73, and was sorely disappointed when I chose not to follow in his footsteps and go into academia. Why? Primarily because I had to hear him gripe about how poorly the s
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by Belopolye 1y ago
No fellow citizen- as long as it's in the name of Liberal Democracy and the Open Society™, the means in question are rather ephemeral.
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by Belopolye 1y ago
My wife enjoys telling the story from her time living in the Hague of watching drunk girls in mini skirts all attempting to ride side-by-side to keep each other upright, and...somehow managing to do it.
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by Belopolye 1y ago
"Protectionism for me, but not for thee."
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by Belopolye 1y ago
I don't think there can be a resolution on a fundamental level, unless you count some therapeutic attempt at "we're going to pretend like we can grasp truth for the sake of convenience, or because the alternative is too uncom
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by Belopolye 1y ago
All you've accomplished here is to repackage the tired "there are no absolute truths" meme
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by Belopolye 1y ago
>"I think the majority of these people joined to uphold law and order or to protect all people in-general" What delectable naivete.
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by Belopolye 1y ago
To my knowledge emulation is illegal in Japan, as is modding consoles. Edit: I looked into it a bit more. As it is against the law to dump ROMs from games you have legally purchased, as well as acquiring them through other channels, there i
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by Belopolye 1y ago
People sure love to embody the "leave the multi-billion dollar corporation alone" meme.
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by Belopolye 1y ago
Having sailed the high seas since middle school I suppose it was only natural that I continue to build upon my multi-terabyte horde of movies, archived websites, books, music, and video games to include content from hobbyist HAM radio opera
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by Belopolye 1y ago
Discovery is always going to be an issue, but for those who want to get away from doomscrolling their life away for the algorithm-god, it’s a rather comfy way to enjoy content.
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by Belopolye 1y ago
It was around that time that I stopped watching cable television altogether. If you want to back down memory lane, search on YouTube for old recordings of network TV ad breaks from the late 90s and early 2000s- they’re just obnoxious.
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by Belopolye 1y ago
I gave up and wrote a script to scrape the channels I like with yt-dlp into my Plex server.
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by Belopolye 1y ago
> TV ads never did these sorts of utterly shitty, tedious things. Until the CALM Act was passed in 2010, networks actually did increase the volume on advertisements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertise
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by Belopolye 1y ago
Searching for “Israel” and “downvotes” and “flagged” in the HN search shows a steady stream of people complaining for years about an apparent coordinated campaign to silence criticism on this website. It’s frankly a ridiculous stain on a we
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by Belopolye 1y ago
Big Toilet Paper needs to try harder than this.
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by Belopolye 1y ago
The sentiment in my circles seems to be that senior-level positions are still going strong.
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by Belopolye 3y ago
If you believe that’s the case why aren’t you founding a disruptor to the construction industry with high-skilled, highly-paid labor? Should be easy to eliminate those “opaque costs” and undercut all of your competition, right? Easy money.
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by Belopolye 3y ago
> Steam removed games that people legitimately purchased from their personal libraries? The sad reality is that you purchased a license under terms that allow them to do whatever they want- it’s not really your personal library. Unless a
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by Belopolye 3y ago
> It really feels like we can't have nice things anymore. Economists talk about the middle-income trap, but I feel there’s another trap in developed economies. The economics of low-cost, high-skill labor that made the public and pri
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by Belopolye 3y ago
This. When I turned eighteen my grandparents took me on an autumn driving tour of New England to visit the haunts of my favorite writers, get a real lobster roll, etc. It was so nice to see the coziness and warmth- charm was the right word
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by Belopolye 3y ago
Advocating funding for a project budget and trying to involve stakeholders as well.

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