smhost

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by smhost 5y ago
That's just conjecture. In order to have a unified world (e.g. the Chinese world), you need a minimum of common ground (facts, historical narrative, etc) that you can base your genuine differences on. Without this minimum of common gro
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by smhost 5y ago
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by smhost 5y ago
They share a border with Russia as well.
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by smhost 5y ago
militarize the IRS
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by smhost 5y ago
as long as it isn't downward
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by smhost 5y ago
> They are: the advertisers pays for the service users are consuming and the users pay for the service the advertisers are consuming.
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by smhost 5y ago
vanilla linux doesn't have any good ereader apps
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by smhost 5y ago
Why is it so inefficient?
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by smhost 5y ago
HN crowd doesn't think twice about people who try to run DOOM on a stack of pennies, but are ready to give up before trying to get algebra to run on someone with less working memory. It's weird how different the attitude is.
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by smhost 5y ago
Pretty disappointing story. I would've thought popular culture had developed beyond this kind of saccharine overdose of incestual tension.
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by smhost 5y ago
Now that the American empire is going to shit, how are you going to get your dick hard without being able to murder people just because you feel like it?
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by smhost 5y ago
Hippies were never a thing. They might even have been a psy op along the lines of MKUltra. And conservatives are losing their ability to control and discipline their younger generations even more so than the liberal side, and many of them h
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by smhost 5y ago
Yeah, let's drone strike Edward Snowden because you have a small dick. Fucking moron.
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by smhost 5y ago
Even if the reviews were good, it still wouldn't be "sort by quality". It would just be how much they liked the thing for the price they paid.
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by smhost 5y ago
Maybe. There's a non-zero chance that when younger millenials come to power, they will hunt down oil company insiders and force them to flee to Argentina.
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by smhost 5y ago
I don't have the numbers on Muslims, but here you go: https://en.mundohispanico.com/the-uterus-collector-sterilize... You've probably already thought of multiple excuses, because you've been conditioned not t
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by smhost 5y ago
I think the idea of "There's nothing you can do for me given the current social-political reality" too often gets conflated with "This is all I want my life to be". And even if the person has truly given up on socie
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by smhost 5y ago
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/unworthy-victims-weste... Just say you don't care. The most unbearing thing for us is that you claim to care while brutalizing and fetishizing others to justify your own crusa
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by smhost 5y ago
America killed a million Muslims just in the time that I've been alive. China has done nothing so psychopathic and cruel.
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by smhost 5y ago
America has the largest slave population in the world, both per capita and in absolute numbers. I know you think that's funny, but most people don't.
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by smhost 5y ago
Extra-judicial executions for unauthorized information access is not the right way to conduct yourself as a nation.
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by smhost 5y ago
In fact, the US is doing all of those things.
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by smhost 5y ago
> Democracy is when the competing groups are "the US, the state, the courts, corporations, elites" Americanist ideology is really something else.
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by smhost 5y ago
demand shift and panic buying are not mutually exclusive. and it also keeps happening (from this week: https://www.businessinsider.com/costco-shoppers-stockpiling-... )
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by smhost 5y ago
"Language is not reality" is the problem at stake, because language is really how people and organizations think. Language structures the field of possible self-justifications, and it's the ruler against which behaviors are
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by smhost 5y ago
You justified natural monopolies in your first comment. What do you think Biden meant when he said "capitalism without competition isn't capitalism"?
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by smhost 5y ago
That's the policy that the Biden team is trying to change. Following from what you said, do you expect Google to change its behavior once the natural monopoly policy loophole gets fixed?
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by smhost 5y ago
That's an indictment of every other company as well then. The point is about anti-competitive ideology. If "anything that can be used against the company" also includes anti-competitive thinking, then that's the conflict
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by smhost 5y ago
That doesn't follow. You can read it in the exact opposite direction, that every other company culture is already behaving as if it is a monopoly.
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by smhost 5y ago
What exactly is the logic here, that because IBM used to do the same thing Google is doing, and because IBM was not a monopoly, that we should be okay with Google behaving this way?

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