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I-M-S
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About I-M-S
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Comment #49166740
I put much more credence into lived experiences than into academic journals. There's plethora of examples in which children/teens of the settlers taken by First Nations would refus…
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Comment #49166324
The Iroquois did not have slaves. You might be thinking of individuals that were sometimes taken as compensation for people killed in battle. However, these people were then fully …
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Comment #49111577
I would caution against enthusiasm. Anyone opposing those who end up controlling these robots won't be alive for long.
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Comment #49016367
A handful of vocal voices can delay a project, raise its cost, and make it untenable.
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Comment #49011771
All these things have been vehemently opposed by NIMBYs: 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapleRidge/comments/1ewgim0/maple_r... 2. https://nationalpost.com/life/the-important-questions…
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Comment #49011624
It could be argued that the article tendentiously paints this as a "not in my backyard" issue in order to normalize NIMBY outlook, conflating building AI data centres with building…
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Comment #48987208
So, basically human psychology?
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Comment #48662169
This will be weaponized by NIMBYs to further limit construction of housing and infrastructure.
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Comment #48662160
This will be weaponized by NIMBYs to further limit construction of housing and infrastructure, leading to a situation in which trees have more human rights than people.
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Comment #48492389
Those rights were won at the time when stomachs were more often empty than full and before video games got really good.
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Comment #48189113
Our Blessed Homeland :: Their Barbarous Wastes Our Glorious Leader :: Their Wicked Despot Our Great Religion :: Their Primitive Superstition Our Noble Populace :: Their Backward Sa…
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Comment #47930539
Probably because of NIMBYs
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Comment #47925775
> You aren't "rich" if you have $1M and you owe $4M. You're a con-man living a lie that will crush you eventually. I'm not sure the simile lands. If that $1M is financing a lavish …
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Comment #47773592
How does an admin password to the whole site end up on Fiverr?
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Comment #47706264
Biden was Catholic, yet not even him sponsoring a genocide was enough to warrant an excommunication.
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Comment #47542918
Not to mention the ante mechanic, abandoned in 1995.
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Comment #47425341
From my experience, you can't count on businesses to update their website to correctly reflect their working hours at all times either (especially if it's a one-off change, for exa…
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Comment #47425220
IMO the four designs that I saw as examples are not attractive enough. Especially coming from the editor's builder, they should make a stronger showcase.
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Comment #47405104
The government has demonstrated it is perfectly willing to forcibly remove non-violent protesters and unbank anyone protest-adjacent when they don't conveniently go away. Local cou…
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Comment #47381679
Murder and rape are actions imposed onto other people. As longer as it is voluntary, prostitution cannot be compared.
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Comment #47381508
I believe OP was referring to Baltics flipping from USSR to the West (the EU). Some US analogues might include Canada flipping (already happening), no more coups in South American …
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Comment #47267062
It's making sure AI condemns violence perpetuated by people without power and sanctifies violence of those who have it.
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Comment #47264766
"The West, so afraid of strong government, now has no government, only financial power."
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Comment #47264700
Trickle down economists were right, they just got the direction wrong