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Actually they are not targeting big tech companies, EU made legislation to protect its citizens from being exploited in various ways, the big tech companies are targeting themselve…

Unfortunately XPU will not be available in non-commercial version.

First of all, problem with fentanyl is that it's ~100x more potent than morphine, or ~20x times more potent than heroin. While many people read this as "it's got 100x times stronge…

On one hand you have "penned an opinion piece in The Washington Post" and on the other you have pouring of tens / hundreds of millions of dollars into climate change denial (and se…

Well obviously it's not title per se, but title in relation to the authors of the book.

Essential reading.

"Mr. Koch has written (with Brian Hooks) a new book, “Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World,”" Can it get any more cynical than this?

Bosnia basicaly doesn't have ports (besides Neum, which is not realy practical), so either Albania / Montenegro / Croatia. Most likely Albania - Kosovo - Serbia route, since it's a…

Regarding 4): Those croatian guys are just mules basicaly, 3 guys from seaside town proficient in boat sailing. Two younger guys in mid 20's and main guy who fell into some financi…

In USA it already is legalized. It's called lobbying.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but regarding money laundering, it's not like drug trafficking and heists are only illegal streams of money which needs to be cleaned. Trafficking, pr…

Obligatory Wire reference: https://youtu.be/otwucZMciUM

If eradication of 80-90% of population is "life improvement" for locals, then sure, their lives improved, only most of them died in the process of improvement.

Using "western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic" is more than "pointing out differences". It implies non western = poor, uneducated etc. aka of lesser value.

By year 1500 world population was 500 million, so my point is that your claim how "before industrialization world population was in the lower hundreds of thousands" is completely i…

World population by early 19th century was already 1 billion, what are you talking about?

There were many "past people" who did absolutely nothing when faced with atrocities brought upon Jews in Nazi Germany, just as there are "now people" who risk their very lives by e…

Kids these days!