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by bigger_inside 3y ago
I mean, I agree about the fearmongering, but the comparison is off. 1947 was significantly safer than 2024 precisely because the USSR had tested successfully. If the US was the only country with nuclear weapons, it would have nuked the USSR
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
like trillion dollar bank bailouts, subsidies awarded through ruinous competition among jurisdictions, trillions and trillions of dollars of defense spending for which the government will invent endless wars.. like that?
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
what? no. Government money is a direct pipe to transnational corporations and the billionaires that run it. Welfare payments are peanuts compared to it.
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
who flagged this? why? unflag it
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
Also, while they save all the expenses on staff, meaning, gradually destroying hotel staff jobs, too. Airbnb: all the price of a regular hotel without the staff or attention.
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
I thought the same. The step to "renting to attend a protest" is miniscule. And they'll sell it, of course, as a "safety enhancing measure".
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
also strangely missing from this discussion about the supposed outrages of pricing when you round, and losing 0.1 or 0.2% in cash payments, is that credit card companies will charge that gas station is a bit over 2%. So no matter what coin
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
but then, why do they not take no for an answer and keep nagging about it, and interpret "never" as "not in the next two weeks, but ask again, please!" if they don't have an interest in having these messages there?
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
I thought the opposite, at least as a first thought: Roughly two or three years ago, facebook announced their intent to integrate their messengers - so that you could send a message from your fb inbox to whatsapp, from whatsapp to instagram
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
This (she) is why we can't have nice (non-corporate) things
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
then the US would declare it part of the "rules-based order" that nobody may use guns and bullets, and then the US will use guns, bullets, missiles, and chemical weapons while expressing grave concerns about any non-allied state u
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
and then you're still the product, They're just charging everyone they can get their grubby hands on.
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
and this, exactly, is why I scoffed when I read the headline touting wikipedia as the "last good place" on the internet. It's become a defender of hegemonic status quo narratives. I read wikipedia articles about phenomena my
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
"negative waifu" is genius.
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
also, you can propagandize quite well with something that contains no lies. The current discourse conflates "propaganda" with "lie", but of course that's .. well, part of propaganda. The best ways to rile up a mass
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
That explains SO much.
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
I have no idea, I can never remember, it makes no logical sense - no, 12 noon is NOT post-meridian, it IS meridian. I usually go 11:59 or 12:01, and then I'm still not sure if it doesn't put the entire hour in some interdimensiona
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
I've encountered software that just assumes everyone MUST have a middle name. I'm German, I have no middle name. Some software (well, online forms) make this a "hard" assumption, so you have to put an "X" or so
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
I have a feeling there's a but of point-missing going on. The authors are not really getting paid for their work; modern copyright is a get-rich-cheme for rights-holding corporations. (I write 13 books and netted a few hundred for it.
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
The lemonade stand put all the other stands out of business ... who all got lemonade delivered for free by a million lemonade aficionados who wanted to share their lemonade with the world, for which YouTube showed the lemonade drinkers ads
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
it also has little incentive to do so, as it's positioning itself as a possible mediator, one that also does a lot of business with Israel. And remember, the thing that led to the short animosity between China and the Soviet Union (wel
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
that's a tired old talking point that the US always throws in. The fact is that, as part of their agreements to operate in the Chinese market, Western companies cooperated with Chinese local companies, which included sharing of knowled
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
I'm German, but in Bogota. Famously, Germany has a strong affinity to cash, credit cards have seen a slow adoption, and the cultural aversion to debt makes them still a bit "off", though they are accepted in the majority of p
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
You actually understood "safe" to mean "safe for you" as in, making it actually safer for the user and systemically protecting structures that safeguard the data, privacy, and well-being of users as they understand their
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
unrealted to this thread, I know, but yes, thank you. I despise when the top results and the casual links to support something turn out to be videos. I don't want to stop everything I'm doing to dedicate 100% of my attention to so
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
I get the impression that it's strategy to exclude competition that otherwise can't be beat. You can't beat Huawei cell towers. You increasingly can't beat Huawei phones, which have become much better and cheaper than iP
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
which doesn't matter, because the op is done.
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
15 years ago, the line was "you shouldnt trust wikipedia, because ANYONE could edit it! Those are not official sources!" now, we've learned that you shouldn't trust wikipedia exactly because those same "official sou
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
The UK has it as well, and it has at least 6 viable political parties that regularly win votes in districts. But yes, it makes it harder to "grow" as 5, 10% doesn't get you a foot in the door of power the way proportional rep
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
the "sane vs lunatic" was always a media construction. In US politics, for half a century, it was always "warhungry imperialist vs warhungry imperialist", only with a different color (and sometimes one of the warmongers

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