hooplah

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by hooplah 5y ago
Have you spoken to any person who escaped Cuba? I bet you haven't, because they'll all tell you they escaped because the oppressive regime, not because of poverty. The sanctions are there for the same reasons we have sanctions aga
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by hooplah 5y ago
That is a lie. We're "mad" about Castro seizing power and nationalizing everything under his oppressive regime. Human rights violations: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/cu
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by hooplah 5y ago
HN frontpage 15 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27653868 The propaganda hit MSN, Nature, NYTimes, and many other media outlets and those hit social media (FB, HN, Reddit, etc.) https://www.msn.com&
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by hooplah 5y ago
It is for merchants. Chargebacks are abused and can kill your profitability in certain industries. Stripe and PayPal label these has high risks and will shut your account down if you receive too many chargebacks. As someone who uses crypto
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by hooplah 5y ago
Wouldn't that most likely be derivative of a peak mode (either up or down). Park at top, open doors, wait for traffic down, return up. Korea Lunch 1 would park at top for people leaving for lunch, 2 would park at bottom for people retu
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by hooplah 5y ago
No, I personally think the US should manufacture more at home so we can control the process and reduce as many emissions as we can. I believe we are doing an okay job, and the numbers show, but we could be doing even more if politicians tri
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by hooplah 5y ago
> If and when they decide to deal with the problem I expect they’ll make a lot more progress than we have. Sure. I will update my stance if or when the CCP decides to do something, especially if they shoot past everyone in reduced emissi
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by hooplah 5y ago
> What makes you think the US gives a shit either? Because we cut our emissions by a lot while increasing energy output & manufacturing, and it's many people's #1 issue. I don't remember hearing about climate change in
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by hooplah 5y ago
One article at the time said they had an informant that convinced top level criminals to use it and it spread from there. Will try to find it, but it was awhile back. edit: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/
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by hooplah 5y ago
Again, I support moving more manufacturing to the US for sure. And we can demand our politicians to do that so we can control emissions, as well as try to hold countries accountable through sanctions. (don't buy any slave-made products
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by hooplah 5y ago
> So without global warming, a location that was 104F would have been 102F. Still a severe heat wave, just slightly less intense. So he claims global warming is contributing to the heatwave (by increasing it by 2 degrees, not causing i
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by hooplah 5y ago
If you truly believe it's this dire, does it matter? It's up to that country to cut emissions even if they accept that job on behalf of other countries. But first, lets start on just not dumping plastic into oceans, building more
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by hooplah 5y ago
Fracking did manage to drop our emissions phasing out coal. But politics gets in the way of natural gas all the time. Politics got in the way of nuclear as well. Also, if you truly want to cut emissions, stop caring about "per capita&q
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by hooplah 5y ago
And everyone stopped trying to link events through any sort of rationale. Hurricane? Climate change. Wild fire? Not forest management. Climate change. 100 year freeze? It's only happened once in our lifetime, and once in the early 1900
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by hooplah 5y ago
I know, I was speaking to the fact that they are right leaning. The point to that sentence was to say there are reasons to not be left leaning (leftist or liberal) that don't involve conspiracies.
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by hooplah 5y ago
I disagree that there's a "surge of religiously motivated" as an insider within the party I see the religious social aspect is less prominent than the economic, foreign policy, and security issues.
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by hooplah 5y ago
You have to know that the right is a far spectrum. As a libertarian conservative I support abortion, but not late-term abortion or post birth. That and religion in general is mainly an evangelical right thing and is less popular within the
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by hooplah 5y ago
I believe that Chinese-Americans have a reason to support the right's tough stance on China. Let's ask Eric Swalwell & Fang Fang. I also believe most are just normal Americans that happen to also be conservative. It's a t
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by hooplah 5y ago
Terrible bias in this article. Chinese-Americans can't be on the right side of the spectrum without being conspiracy theorists? Maybe they don't like cozying up to the CCP like Democrats have been seemingly doing. Many reasons to
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by hooplah 5y ago
Forums are still alive and well for most niches. Discord groups serve a specific purpose as well. Aggregators are nice too, from all sides of the political spectrum to avoid echo chambers/censorship. News aggregators: - lobste.rs - not
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by hooplah 5y ago
What's your definition of peaceful? No dissent of your political beliefs? Because it doesn't seem to be about murder spikes, riots, or organized thefts. Silencing your opposition doesn't make them go away or make your views r
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by hooplah 5y ago
He is, there's plenty of small towns in Texas inspired by what you see in Germany, the author just hasn't visited them. Texas has a massive Irish, Czech and German populations and culture. Dublin, TX is one of many examples (pop.