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by qqn 6y ago
New slogan: "We are the 98%"
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by qqn 6y ago
I've paid tuition twice abroad. Once it took days, multiple forex/bank accounts, and had several annoying surprise fees. The second was in BTC and was settled in five minutes, directly. It's been said before but the experienc
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by qqn 6y ago
Of course it's a chemical, but still, no. 2 has only 1% of that, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English . Yes this has been shared before but I've never seen an actual reference to this word its
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The longest English word has 189,819 letters(en.wiktionary.org)
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by qqn 6y ago
The thought crossed my mind too, but if so then why?
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by qqn 6y ago
I thought about this too. It appears he may have left December 9th, https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Turbulent-Thailand/Germany-... , though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajiralongkorn#Reignin
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by qqn 6y ago
Nvm, on Telegram X under Privacy and Security you can "Delete Synced Contacts".
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by qqn 6y ago
Dangerously for privacy, a friend's account keeps getting notifications of when my contacts join because the app must have automatically scraped my contacts from my account to theirs when I was setting up their Telegram a few years ago
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Ask HN: Where does Telegram store contacts?
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by qqn 6y ago
Not as bad as Steemit though
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by qqn 6y ago
> (zeitgeists) don't really end up meaning much personally. Similar story with friends and family who struggled against communism behind the Iron Curtain. Some wish they'd just gotten good careers set up instead.
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"Yes, a foreign legionnaire may apply for French citizenship from three years of service. "It is usually granted, subject to have a good way to serve and have proven its willingness to integrate the French Nation. "The legion
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by qqn 6y ago
This reminds me of a point my physiology instructor worked hard to hammer home in the senior year of my bio degree: do not assign agency to unconscious processes. I forget the rationale for this but find myself reflecting on it often.
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by qqn 6y ago
Took the train from NY to Settle. Learned to not do it in coach ever again for anything more than a day's worth of traveling. The seats are comfortable (much better than VIA Rail, which I took from Vancouver-Toronto earlier), but the r
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by qqn 6y ago
I was wondering why no one mentioned this. I've bookmarked it to play with more but it seems to address lots of the issues here, at least at first blush.
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by qqn 6y ago
Thank you for this. I've been meaning to check this out since Burke was interviewed on Hardcore History way back when.
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by qqn 6y ago
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. "Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty
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by qqn 6y ago
I have found it helps assuming kindness and sincerity from the other end. When this works, it works well. I was reminded of this thought: "No matter how considerate you are, or how much effort you put into avoiding my triggers, the tot
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by qqn 6y ago
It's a feedback loop though, whatever comes next will draw the crowds, which will draw loud voices, which will draw capitalists to form a structure (and career) out of it. There was a great essay on this topic that shows up here from t
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by qqn 6y ago
You're right. In the case of a narcissist or someone looking to argue (or someone very emotionally invested and stirred up), the "broken pop machine" method is better. They try to press your buttons but you don't react,
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by qqn 6y ago
I should add that the tendency of adopting the hero role ("let bygones be bygones, but we need to get this done") isn't ideal since it leaves a power imbalance in its wake. A more effective response lies in Nonviolent Communi
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by qqn 6y ago
Yes to the "defect" thought. Learning about Karpman's triangle[0] helped me understand this. In conflict, people flit between three identities: the villain who tries to force their way, the hero who tries to save the situatio
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by qqn 6y ago
You're very welcome. They really helped me. Ayishat Akanbi had a follow-up talk at Sydney's annual "All About Women" conference shortly after,[0] where she added that "intersectionality is seeing the importance of o
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by qqn 6y ago
Also available on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-WimRb2jXs , ironically censored.
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by qqn 6y ago
There is a good video that underlines your second point[0], specifically mentioning that compassion is increasingly being replaced by moral superiority, that dialogue is often reactionary instead of responsive, and that the system we live i
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The Problem with Wokeness (2019)(filmsforaction.org)
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by qqn 6y ago
The first thing I think of is that case of acacias killing antelope: https://jstor.org/stable/24997007
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by qqn 6y ago
HN does...
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by qqn 6y ago
Yes, also so common that it has a name: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_washing "The global elite, as well as criminals and foreigners avoiding economic sanctions, can set up shell companies to 'make suspect
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by qqn 6y ago
"Just because they're the problem doesn't mean we aren't." https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-problem

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