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by casefields 5y ago
>John soon found that Philip Morris were financing "anti-smoking" initiatives all over the world. They are literally obligated to fund them according to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by casefields 5y ago
Lots of great replies but missing the most important from a scholarly journal: Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America: https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZ3bwqXZT2m8MI2egSRA... Side note: If y
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by casefields 5y ago
Wow that was awesome and so easy to do.
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by casefields 5y ago
Why are you spending so much time advertising your Ghost Archive when you've disabled it? >Archiving webpages are temporarily disabled.
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by casefields 5y ago
It's toe the government line or else... As if 2003 and WMDs is ancient history. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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by casefields 5y ago
People who have read Orwell's 1984.
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by casefields 5y ago
Voting is not a constitutional right. Voting Rights Act is statutory like most of our laws.
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by casefields 5y ago
He essentially became the Unabomber without the violence. Crazy uncle Ted nailed some stuff too: https://unabombermanifesto.com/Industrial-Society-and-Its-Fu...
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by casefields 5y ago
There's a reason they always promote the most extreme cases to restrict liberty: "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppre
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by casefields 5y ago
You ever notice when cops bust a prostitution ring they never call it that? It's been renamed human trafficking. Law enforcement is all in on the marketing game. Using scarier words will get the public to trade liberty for security e
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by casefields 5y ago
To get this quashed would be easy. Use a Pegasus-like software and throw some known CP images onto their phone. After Cook and co have this happened, they'll rethink this program real quick.
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by casefields 5y ago
Libertarians have been begging for this. Let the free market set flood insurance prices. The only reason people live in these high risk areas is because the taxpayer backstops all those insane losses. Let everyone who currently has a plan k
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by casefields 5y ago
I am. I would prefer we even expand abortion: [The Groningen Protocol — Euthanasia in Severely Ill Newborns]( https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZAuf1XZ8FnuCq5M0nmQ... ) [After-birth abortion: why should the baby
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Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?(blogs.bmj.com)
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It's true. If an existential threat is elected/takes office the guillotine can free us all from the tyranny of tomorrow. >Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitt
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by casefields 5y ago
The one problem with this theory is why not launder $1.5 million through a boring painting by a C-list painter, rather than a headline grabbing newsworthy object? It seems like unnecessary risk that'll attract IRS attention.
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by casefields 5y ago
Give me 1 day to cram about any disease that's remotely obscure, and I bet you I can out-test any general practitioner.
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by casefields 5y ago
As long as it's opt-in with implied consent, what does it matter? This is exactly how Nielsen measures tv ratings.
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by casefields 5y ago
It's called paltering: The devious art of lying by telling the truth: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171114-the-disturbing-a... Outrage clickbait especially in politics is rife with it.
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by casefields 5y ago
Just like Trump—or even Thiel himself—you've gotta not be scared to sometimes amass hefty legal bills, and you can get away with a lot.
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by casefields 5y ago
Maybe: https://taxfoundation.org/irs-guidance-thieves-drug-dealers-...
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Taxing Digital Advertising(adtax.paulromer.net)
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by casefields 5y ago
The issue here preference falsification: >Preference falsification is the act of communicating a preference that differs from one's true preference. The public frequently conveys, especially to researchers or pollsters, preferences
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by casefields 5y ago
Same stunt being pulled in American courts except getting slapped down. Speaking of future generations, imagine duty of care being applied to abortion policy...
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by casefields 5y ago
I knew that all maps are distorted but holy cow.
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by casefields 5y ago
Start here to find all the studies: Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...
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by casefields 5y ago
It's what some would call Coulter's Corollary: >Named after a 2015 tweet from provocative conservative political commentator, Ann Coulter, Coulter's Law states that the longer it takes the news media to identify a mass s
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by casefields 5y ago
Here's Christopher Hitchens in his 2001 book, Letters to a Young Contrarian: >Beware of Identity politics. I'll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics. I remember very well the first time I heard the saying &q
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by casefields 5y ago
Much better article here: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/05/more-oregon-coun...
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by casefields 5y ago
Even the biggest of floods is a localized problem. A fleet of drones can give you live feeds of the entire thing. The caveat is of course the military has the best ones, and there's an uneasy balance of allowing military use on home so

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