pooooka

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   by pooooka 4mo ago

   Reduced funding has nothing to do with degraded service. MTA is one of the worlds most expensive public transit systems and 15-20% of it's 21 billion dollar budget is being consumed by debt. The term enshittification, in my view, is ju
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   by pooooka 5mo ago

   Ashokan carvings are not historical documents attributed to the historical person of Buddha. Which is what I'm referring too. And my textual criticism on Muhammad stands. We do not know which historical or religious texts attributed to
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   by pooooka 5mo ago

   Paul's letters reference new testament scripture and those can be dated roughly 60 AD (so within the life time of the witnesses). The new testament correctly described pontius pilate as governor of judeau (something Tacitus failed to d
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   by pooooka 6mo ago

   LOL. Well said...Seems as if we're on some dystopian track that's eventually going to transform a RealID card into something like a Common Access Card (or worse).
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   by pooooka 6mo ago

   What I get from this is that the professional academic community -- as a whole -- has hit critical mass, which has produced a cottage industry of paper mills and fraudulent services to support said surplus. Socialism wouldn't be the a
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   by pooooka 7mo ago

   The US did this dance with the devil in the pale moonlight before anyone, way back in the 19th century. Tens of thousands (millions) of wounded soldiers came back from the civil war in chronic pain and addicted to morphine. They put them on