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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
Really more of a PR spectacle than a worthwhile experiment. Including humans seems to have caused most of the problems there. If you actually wanted to experiment with closed biological systems in a useful way then I'd recommend doing
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
How about the Spratly Sea?
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
Taiwan was originally not a country, but it became one when it held elections. Having been elected by the people of the island of Formosa, and with no other legitimate government laying claim to that territory, they became a legitimate gove
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
Legal, orderly immigration of highly intelligent individuals is a fantastic thing.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
The rest of the world... but since "South China Sea" is an English name I think a consensus among the English-speaking countries would suffice.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
There's only a few dozen remaining completely unelected "governments" in the world, and yes, we should definitely get rid of all of them. Certainly Taiwan never had a legitimate government either until recently but now they d
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
I spent way too long thinking about this and getting annoyed before remembering that Predictors aren't real.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
Yes, but legitimate governments such as the be Philippines and Malaysia are also the subject of the CCP's imperial claims.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
A better point would be that the current CCP regime in Beijing has no legitimate claim to be any kind of government with any legal claim over any territory whatsoever. An unelected government is not a government, it's just a group of t
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
I fully agree that website owners shouldn't lose the right to determine what goes up on their own website, but with the caveat that this right also comes with legal liability for anything that's on there.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
A new frontier for cancel culture.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
I trust "officials familiar with the meeting" about as much as I trust "some guy" at this point.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
I see some circumstantial evidence but no proof.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
It seems to me that social media companies should only be allowed the legal protection of being "platforms" if they are truly neutral. No censorship, no algorithms. Facebook should only be allowed to show you a feed of all your
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
I think this is one of those cases where everyone actually is arguing in good faith. Nobody is actually in favour of people dying, and nobody is actually in favour of imposing lockdowns just for shits and giggles.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
You can't go round dismissing the central core of the opposing side's strongest arguments like that.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
Milk isn't sweet, though? I'm curious, are you from a country where milk is conventionally UHT treated? UHT milk has a sweet (and plasticky) taste to me.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
It's the second largest economy. And I agree that it's practically impossible to avoid it completely, I only suggest avoiding it where possible. My personal rule is to not buy anything made in China for more than $100. I can'
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
The steelman version of antivaxxism isn't "vaccines shouldn't exist", it's "on an individual basis, the risk-reward ratio of certain vaccines is not worth it. I should personally not vaccinate myself or anyone
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
I might like if but I have major ethical issues with doing business with any Chinese (or Saudi or North Korean or Vietnamese etc) company if it can be avoided. Why prop up a dictatorship?
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
Better still, get mentally ill homeless people off the street and into institutions where they belong. Building a camp out in the desert somewhere where people like this can get three square meals and a bed would both be an improvement on t
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
The "new ownership model" seems to be "timeshare".
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
Interesting, those are all somewhere in the range between elite and thoroughly respectable. There's no random crap schools you've never heard of pumping out oodles of PhDs every year, which is good news at least.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
Mesoblast. I won't bother to share the full story of all this company's ups and downs over the last decade but let's just say that the amount of time I spent tracking the news on it was far out of whack with its importance to
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
Most people disagreeing on most subjects have probably barely applied any sort of reasoning to get there. Most pro-vaxxers have simply picked up the dominant opinion from the surrounding society -- not a bad heuristic in practice. Most anti
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
It would seem such communities would be the ones with most to gain from a better funded police force and justice system, one that could permanently remove the criminals from their midst.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
If you want your coffee to taste like oatmeal, yes.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
As an Australian I've had a terrible time finding a decent cup of coffee in Europe (Italy excepted, but even then the standards aren't great). I admit I haven't been to Budapest or Bratislava but I've been to some of the
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
Why is it that the same people who think that the solution to bad public schools is more funding also think that the solution to bad police departments is less funding? If the police are substandard it means we need to pay them more to get
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
Why is everyone busy inventing complicated penalties? If wearing a body camera is a requirement of the job then the penalty for not doing so should be the same as the penalty for not doing any other aspect of your job, you get fired.

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