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If you have a windows 10 laptop, pinching on the touchpad seems to give you the same zoom functionality now. vastly superior than the one built into the browser

It was nearly a golden age in indochina. People in countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, (South) Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, etc experienced incredible and permanent improvement in livi…

>US-supported regimes killed something like a million people between 1950-1990. They killed far more than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19... 1965…

Despite what western media outlets say, this is not necessarily a bad thing. Military juntas are often a good/restorative part of government in countries like Thailand and Myanmar,…

It is being allowed with proper oversight. These people are just experimenting underground. The problem with this tech isn't just the Übermensch (or should I say, ÜberTiāncháo) tha…

The real question is why are people incapable of regulating their own behaviour. It's convenient to say that talking about hanging politicians encourages this behaviour, and contri…

It won't, but the media will blame it on the alt-right. "White privileged mcdonalds workers oppress poor minority new york billionaires with their greedy market manipulation! "

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6omry/an_o... I'm not so sure

the word retard is common parlance in many parts of the world. But lets not be retarded about this, the point is more that they are using a puritan argument about the word retard i…

Do you think this could effectively render vaccines completely useless, if they have novel spike proteins that aren't targeted by the vaccines? Please forgive me if this is a stupi…

Good point, I will edit it to say recommended in the american journal of medicine.

>The AJM hasn't recommended anything. AJM has published a paper titled "Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection". >…

Hi HN, I thought this was quite interesting; after considerable negative coverage in the news-media, now an article in the American Journal of Medicine has recommended treatment of…

Battery tech wasn't that good back then. I think the consumer electronics battery boom (i.e. putting batteries in cellphones, laptops, etc) has advanced the tech considerably. Not …

Toyota is in a much better position than E.U. or U.S. manufacturers, except for Tesla. In the early 00's, the EU introduced emmissions regulations focused on Carbon, which didn't t…

It's less helpful in already highly agricultural nations like the US, but in countries with scarce arable land or fragile ecosystems, or just very small countries like Singapore/Ca…

Yeah they did, we have had similar problems in Australia The thing is, it's still a lot better than the mid-century horror stories of institutions; electrotherapy, lobotomy, people…

After a lot of discussion on whether or not certain things constitute terrorism in the last few weeks - do we know and agree on what terrorism is? Where does a protest become terro…

people running multi billion dollar enterprises usually just hire people to be their personal productivity app. I mean, personal assistants and secreterial staff. Even in fairly de…

parler is owned by partisan media personalities such as dan bongino now. gab is political, but more so in terms of ideas and values. parler is explicitly, aggressively, partisan po…

If they get large quantities of Gen-X and baby boomers to move from FB to Gab, I think that will kill FB. When they open up digital marketing on a platform thats less saturated, th…

Gab is #537 highest traffic website in the US, up from #647 yesterday. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gab.com#section_traffic I agree with you about the political agitation but I w…

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gab.com#section_traffic a day later it's at #537 in the US