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by dpc59 5y ago
American culture did not think killing Osama Bin Laden was objectionable.
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by dpc59 5y ago
My friends that tattoo aren't getting automatized anytime soon.
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by dpc59 5y ago
A lot of people have a really shitty negotiating position. They're barely literate, living paycheck to paycheck and raising children. Are you really choosing your job when your options are super limited and you don't have the mean
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by dpc59 5y ago
A lot of people would be willing. The people with power and contradicting interests don't.
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by dpc59 7y ago
It's easy to not give a fuck when you benefit from the inequality.
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by dpc59 7y ago
I live in revelstoke, if we do that Canada cant ship goods from coast to coast from december to april (the subsidy I have in mind is the Rogers pass avalanche control program) Those subsidies exist because they benefit people.
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by dpc59 7y ago
Look at the appalachian and pacific crest trails. Its really hard in occidental countries to be more than 50km from a city, so you always have places to buy food.
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by dpc59 8y ago
Lactobacillus is omnipresent in our bodies, from our stomach to our boogers, and is the main lactic acid bacteria used in sourdough bread and quickly brewed sour beers. Most bacteria in boogers and sweat is pretty harmless stuff, and a lot
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by dpc59 8y ago
>A lot of people think that mass transit is for the poor That's because it is. I had to take the metro in Montréal to get to work this week, hadn't taken it in months because I usually bike, it's such a shitty experience.
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by dpc59 8y ago
There's not really other ways to do politics other than to project soft power (cold war) or hard power (armed conflict)
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by dpc59 8y ago
>You either have to take full central control (lets not go there) In Montreal we have heavily government funded universities, tuition is less than 4k a year. It works great, we're building leadership in AI right now.
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by dpc59 8y ago
sports and art
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by dpc59 8y ago
Women bring different perspective on a vast variety of issues. It has obvious bearing on the technical work.
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by dpc59 8y ago
denmark pays their students the equivalent of 700usd per month while they're in school
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Saudi fund in talks to invest in Tesla buyout deal(bloomberg.com)
1 points by dpc59 8y ago|0 comments
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by dpc59 8y ago
Soundsystem/free tekno culture is certainly keeping the mentality alive. My friends that build speakers and play heavy drum and bass and tekno all used to play in punk, hardcore and ska bands in their teens.
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by dpc59 8y ago
Vans warped tour hasn't had much to do with punk culture for like 15 years, unless you consider using it as a marketing tool as what punk really is. I saw anti-flag and face to face at a free show in Montreal this summer and punk rock
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by dpc59 8y ago
Russia made gigantic leaps from 1917 to 1956. They went from absolute backwards shithole to contending world power in 39 years (even less considering ww2 was over 10 years before that).
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by dpc59 8y ago
it's also much easier to stay dry, and thus warm, at -30 than at -2
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Crypto coin company ‘disappears with millions’, leaving one-word message:‘’(metro.co.uk)
1 points by dpc59 9y ago|0 comments
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by dpc59 9y ago
You would miss out on guys like warren buffet with that kind of reasoning.
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by dpc59 9y ago
> I have no idea how it is of any strategic importance to our country It is of strategic importance because Assad was about to start selling oil in another currency than the USD. The moment the USD stops being the main oil trade currency
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by dpc59 9y ago
You could say I'd have a rational interest in becoming a doctor because I'd stand to make on average 300k a year. I won't do it for other reasons which aren't pondered. It's easy to make something look rational when
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by dpc59 9y ago
It is, the term was inherited from angry 2nd and 3rd wavers. Trans inclusionnary feminism tries to frame the discuss1ion more around the concept of gender normativity for this exact reason.
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by dpc59 9y ago
You're confusing communism with transition socialism.
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by dpc59 9y ago
Not having a political agenda is having a political agenda in favor of the status quo.
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by dpc59 9y ago
We have an economic system where we reward maximizing short term financial gain. As long as that doesn't change companies will try to sell the crappiest shit they can sell you for the most money.
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by dpc59 9y ago
So how do we bring back money to production of media then, ensuring that the people who spend time producing it can afford a decent standard of living?
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by dpc59 9y ago
They microwave them though, eggs are good when they're cooked a in a bunch of fat with herbs and spices.
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Uber backtracks on threat to leave Quebec and says it will stay for now(theguardian.com)
2 points by dpc59 9y ago|0 comments

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