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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
> who in my opinion looks like a Chinese double-agent, or someone bribed by China to be their mouth-piece. Are you an authority on the subject or are you making an unfalsifiable claim?
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
> but supposedly this is done "the good of all humans" what is just another communist party slogan. Keep in mind research done there was an international effort. Some things being strongly funded and supported mostly be other c
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I think part of that is due to nuclear power primarily being in decently wealthy areas with very strict regulations and high amounts of security measures being taken. Coal plants are in even the poorest, most run down areas and run by just
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I’m one of those fools who took a few years off before college, after college, and decided to up and move to a faraway country while I was young. It’s very likely I’d have more money if I went straight to work while I was younger instead of
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Just looking around my town, new houses in Japan are also dramatically larger and higher quality than older ones. Older homes were one floor with single pane windows and basically single plane plywood walls. New ones have double paned windo
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
This is precisely what outsourcing is. The idea that a company can get more for less. It’s pretty often criticized.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
That sounds like a great policy, honestly. Instead of devaluing workers in other countries, they treat them as equal to local people. It also means they’re looking for talent on a level playing field and not trying to skimp out by hiring “c
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
A license key alone is about as useful as a key in real life. If someone decides to change the locks, you're out. Decentralizing that doesn't change anything. Crypto is once again just trying to solve something through burning coa
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
At the same time, there are people who lost their wallet and RIP to all that potential wealth. And then there are people who had their computer stolen/broken and then just downloaded Steam on a new device and had their games and saves
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
What's the tangible difference between this and email confirmations that you made a purchase? If you lose track of the NFT that proves you bought it, that's no different than losing the email evidence. You're boned.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
It's like saying you don't need to wash your hands because the food is cooked and hot.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
That's fine, but in some places, that's basically saying you're the type of person to walk through dirty streets barefoot. No matter how #freethefoot and for personal choice you may be, people won't want you bringing you
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Japan under-tested a lot pre-Olympics in a desperate attempt to salvage the event. After that point they had no more reason to hide the data. Tests that have been carried out since show very low positive rates, so there likely aren't t
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Well, discord is async. You come and go and respond whenever you want to. It's the same as old IM/chat room applications. The big difference being that it allows voice chat if you want it and some embedded file sharing.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I really don’t get why big companies buying ads are apparently morally trapped in 1950. Nobody who was actually going to buy your product is going to care if it appears alongside someone saying “oh shit! Cool!” But we consistently get polic
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
If other countries start banning everything, isn’t that just as bad as what China is doing here?
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
People have been paying money for food and beverages forever. The cost of labor is a big factor in it. It's the foundation of the economy.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
> then why should we use their frameworks and tools? Because job postings demand X years experience in Y framework instead of looking for actual skills, and many investors look for hot things that are jumping on Z hip new tech buzzword a
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Every product in the world sells itself as being as cheap as a cup of coffee or a cup of tea "so just pay it, cheapo". If that excuse actually worked, nobody would be drinking tea or coffee because we'd have spent our money o
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I've had people from virtually every country randomly start racist discussions with me. I've been in Paris waiting for a train, and had some white Canadians come up and say "Hey, are you American?" (presumably my bad fas
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I mean, I've also got friends there and speak the language to some extent now. It's not like I walked in on some sanitized tour for a day and left. The country has problems. But it's not a prison camp of 1.4 billion like the
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
A few hours in some towns were more than enough to make it very clear that I'd never want to go there ever again. It's weird how people come out and complain about this with only one specific country. Nobody gets angry when they s
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
After two years and seeing just how crazy society can be, you really think drafting random people and telling them to put IVs in someone's arm with minimal training is a good idea? Drafting people for war works fine because, for the mo
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I mean, I have. I've been to a few provinces and seen small towns and big cities. It's way better than I was led on to believe after reading daily reports about it being hell on earth--the low expectations made it way better. I&#x
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
It's really wild that people are so crazed that they think everyone is a paid shill. There's medical terminology to describe people who think everything is a grand conspiracy and make unfalsifiable claims about anyone who opposes
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I used to think China was some North Korean-style hellscape and hated the country. Then I had a flight transfer through China and decided to take a couple days there just to see how bad it was. Ended up realizing most internet comments and
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Corporations and political organizations freely spam our inboxes with emails and real mail garbage to milk us for money. I can't possibly get angry at citizens spamming them once in a while. Seems like just a 21st century form of prote
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Financial incentives to "get everyone in" are very much not a good thing. It wasn't too long ago that ADD/ADHD panic was absolutely massive. Half the boys at my school were on ADHD meds. Any time a boy acted out, teacher
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Lemon pound cakes were the best. Loved eating those as a kid, as well as the spicy cheese paste. Another fun thing as a kid was lighting the gas on fire that was emitted by the chemical heaters.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
In East Asia, Japan in particular, most "old" buildings are reconstructed fairly often. They might reuse a lot of the old supplies, but many are very much a Ship of Theseus. Roman structures are, for the most part, preserved as th

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