NoRelToEmber

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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
Interesting website. I was rather shocked by the Woman King entry - I knew that historical films like to take liberties, but did not think they had the audacity to completely reverse the roles of heroes and villains, or in that case, the pr
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
This is Bloomberg, not NYTimes/Atlantic/The Guardian/VOX/NBC/Washington Post/CBC/..
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> I think these diversity efforts are doing the exact opposite of what they intend to do. They intend to neuter any opposition by ensuring every organization is riddled with politically-approved agents. Prove you don't discriminate
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> makes it VERY clear the Federal government is in charge. And when the federal government ignores the likewise federal laws binding it and directing its actions? In any other situation, if the executive branch ignores the legislative or
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> States have no standing in enforcing immigration laws Think that over - states have no standing in enforcing the terms of their joining the union? On the other hand states are allowed, and even forced (by threatening to cut federal f
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> 70 hours without sleep while wiring detonators to hundreds of feet of explosives Is that how you got your username?
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
The federal government "eroded local control" and forbade states from enforcing immigration laws, despite itself being derelict in enforcing those laws: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/us/pol
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> If the capacity to be bitter has survived millions of years of natural selection, perhaps it serves a function Deterrence being one obvious function.
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
You have nothing to apologize for, at least not to me. I just wanted to highlight what usually gets forgotten in these self-flagellating discussions - people like me who learn English as a second language to participate in the anglosphere
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> a world that is set up for people like me The anglosphere, not the world. I assure you there are many parts of the world not set up for people like you. I live in one of them. We don't feel guilty about building our corner of the
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> humans don't vary that much. Compare with some other species (dogs are often used) where there is a wide range of size, intelligence, and any kind of thing humans might have bred dogs to do. How does human genetic variation compar
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
Would it be a good idea to make society more inclusive for the less fortunate, intelligence wise? How would we go on about this? By eliminating advanced school courses, perhaps? https://www.blackenterprise.com/parents-outrag
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> Weird how the places (and demographic groups) with any actual immigration voted remain. This sounds like interesting analysis - do you have a link? > And how we are still unable to control our immigration. You mean unwilling , and
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
The Commission argued that the American lobbyist was the "best candidate" for the job. That a group of 27 countries with one of the world's most sophisticated antitrust arsenals is unable to provide talent to rival the skill
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
But any time surveillance legislation comes up, the police say they have a "going dark" problem. Surely they're not lying?
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> The draft legislation defines misinformation as material that is unintentionally “false, misleading or deceptive” and is “reasonably likely to cause serious harm” The usual trick of "false and harmful" lets whoever decides
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
That's because official translations follow the rule of “Readers in English should be able to enjoy the story without thinking about it being a translation,” - an impossible standard. Think about what it requires - to cut out or replac
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
In Yugoslavia, a family with a single modest income (relative to Yugoslavian incomes) could afford a house with a garden, a cheap car, and to support two children, including college. That was about 60 years ago.
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> Personally, I find the prospect of doing 1 day of work, and potentially having an impact on hundreds of various artistic works thrilling. At issue is compensation. The studios don't want to share the income they gain from your &qu
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
If it were simply "over", there would be no need to buy them.
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
Always the same trick - bad actions earn you guilt and responsibility, that can spread to anyone associated with you, to the whole society. But good actions earn you zero benefit, and only a very small group of individuals that are the most
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
This sounds like they sold something they never owned - i.e. "the right to sell without paying you royalty". Reminds me of the recent case where Disney tried to argue that in an acquisition, they bought only the rights, but not th
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> A couple of years ago some of the leading media companies in our country (Norway) started consolidating "power" by acquiring small local newspapers all over the country. This sounds like it should be a pretty big story. &quot
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> You need to have journalism as a regular, paid activity, in a press company, from which most of your income comes So a part-time, amateur citizen investigator/journalist gets spied on, but a corporate employed one is protected.
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
Are the media always this harsh on "based on a true story" movies that take a few liberties? For example, the A Time to Kill novel and award-winning films were inspired by a real rape and near-murder of 12 and 16-year old sisters,
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> vertical (not horizontal) acquisition [..] any acquisition or merger would be a monopolist’s act Past a certain size, it absolutely is. E.g. a food producer will have a much harder time entering (or staying in) a vertically-integrated
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> It’s already monopolized by Sony. You say that as if it means that this acquisition then isn't monopolization. The solution is to sanction Sony, not to make things even worse .
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> How does this make anyone feel any better? What happens after 10 years? Microsoft has been around for 4x that long. "The slow blade penetrates the shield."
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
The post title doesn't match the website, which uses only the vaguer "if history turned out different" description. Especially clear when it shows Spain as ruled by African kingdoms, South-Eastern Europe under Ottoman rule, a
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Erdogan links Sweden's NATO membership to Turkey's EU accession(reuters.com)
2 points by NoRelToEmber 3y ago|3 comments

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