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dntbnmpls
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Comment #23484216
Apparently only when china does it. Imagine the hypocritical hysteria if this was about the chinese government. Not just from the social media propagandists but also our elected le…
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Comment #23483935
> PLEASE treat reddit as a web-first platform. Agreed. But I think they've made up their minds already. In the meantime, you can use "old.reddit.com" until they decide to take that…
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Comment #23483816
> The area they ruled (from England to Syria and Egypt) had never been under a unified rule before the Romans. To be fair, you can say that about almost every empire - mongol, gree…
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Comment #23483526
> and letting private companies suppress speech, which is what happens in America. Considering that private companies are now becoming more powerful than many governments/countries…
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Comment #23476653
> Global installed PV capacity has more than doubled since 2016, and now accounts for 3% of total electricity consumption. 3% is nothing. You are proving my point but you are too b…
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Comment #23476570
> That's not in the article at all. "English started out as German. Old English, also called Anglo-Saxon, really is a foreign language, and requires serious study. I don't think an…
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Comment #23474808
> And, really, a reference from 2016? And what reference did you provide? Other than your supposed ability to predict the future? > Four years is FOREVER in the energy business now…
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Comment #23474795
Um, yes. "Full context: "English started out as German. Old English, also called Anglo-Saxon, really is a foreign language, and requires serious study. I don't think an anglophone …
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Comment #23472341
> "English started out as German." Full context: "English started out as German. Old English, also called Anglo-Saxon, really is a foreign language, and requires serious study. I d…
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Comment #23472116
> Solar panels are much cheaper than when the film was made. It's this reduction in cost that's driving the energy disruption, not increase in efficiency (although that helps). Sol…
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Comment #23471936
That's my point. Virtue signalers are deep down, evil.
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Comment #23471884
Those numbers don't indicate anything. For all we know 1% of the "community" voted. Not to mention FreeBSD was never a democracy. > These rulesets exist because people can't do tha…
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Comment #23462508
> and in other ways the manifestations of lobotomy and morphine are similar enough to lead some researchers to describe the action of morphine (and some barbiturates) as ‘reversibl…
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Comment #23462252
> In this case it was simply a copy paste error which they pointed out. Right and life went on before you decided to play "hero". > They apologized because they were being civil an…
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Comment #23462099
No. I'm not confusing anything. "...this is probably not politically correct to say, but I did develop some sympathy for that bishop." Sympathy implies justification. Also, I clear…
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Comment #23455486
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Comment #23455323
No. We are in a world where people don't bother reading comments rationally and jump to conclusions and get upset over nothing. > Are we in an alternate reality where 67 year olds …
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Comment #23455304
> What fulfillment in life would one have if many productive and/or desierable tasks were reserved for the young? What productive activity is she going to do with her PhD at the ag…
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Comment #23455267
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Comment #23455114
Agreed. There are a fixed number of PhD spots. What sense is there to give that spot to a 66 year old senior rather than someone younger who will actually do something productive w…
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Comment #23452223
Is she a journalist or a social/political activist? Shouldn't she pretend to have a bit of objectivity and not become part of the news itself? Twitter has been the greatest tool to…
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Comment #23451963
> Global warming skepticism is exactly the kind of thing that often occurs when people trust their own judgement more than that of subject matter experts. Except that the "subject …
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Comment #23451832
It wasn't mean spirited and it was justified. If people are using link shorteners to hide the fact that their link is a referral, then it invites everyone to sneak referral links i…
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Comment #23451762
Yes. It's even disputed whether Hilbert discovered it first. But regardless of einstein or hilbert, technological advancements would have necessitated the discovery of general rela…