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famouslastwords

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    >one side has a leader calling out his people to be vigilant and prepared What's wrong with being vigilant? I remember more than four years of accusations that Russia somehow hacke…

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    >2. No one would have made this sequence in the laboratory because it would not have been the one to make. That's circular logic. Unless directly involved in Chinese Bio Weapons re…

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    Comment #24490120

    >When both sides are engaging civically yes. If one side is acting partisanly or in bad faith, using demagoguery & deceit, civics is to call out the dis-ingenuousness & descent fro…

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    Comment #24490112

    >to answer correctly that the coronavirus originated in nature rather than a laboratory >answer correctly No bias at all here. /s So parroting a MSNBC talking point means being cor…

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    > What do you recommend using for fertiliser in its place? > Horse manure :) I surely don't want to be around when 2,750 tons of horse manure detonate :D

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    >I’ve always thought that quote itself was curiously absolute. ‘Only’, Yoda? “Do. Or do not. There is no try.” I always took it as Yoda unwittingly revealing himself as a Sith Lord…

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    Comment #23896792

    I don't have much to add but I'm upvoting in order to lend your question more visibility. I'm not sure if it can be measured directly somehow, that is why I'm often skeptical of pu…

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    >Or was this just people copying and pasting the same message (if so why that rather than retweet)? There were so many every few seconds I assumed it was a script just running thro…

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    Comment #23881402

    Maybe they discovered Satoshi Nakamoto's Twitter account :D

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    Comment #23867453

    >Agreed. This was most likely a "shot across the bow" by a state actor. The hack would have been a powerful weapon if used in a more strategic way. A "shot across the bow" as a tac…

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    Comment #23867323

    >This. It almost seems like a proof of concept for someone selling services to a bigger player, using the Bitcoin angle as a smokescreen. This is rather unlikely. There is nothing …

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    Comment #23857823

    >I'm curious 1) in what way you think the quote isn't representative of the president's tweet? 2) how you would distill the tweet into one sentence if you were asked to summarize i…

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    Comment #23857446

    >Real estate developer by day, elite hacker at night? Is there anything this man CAN'T do? Perhaps one day he'll even become president and then "drain the swamp" or something...

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    Comment #23856804

    Or a hostile takeover of the company with Saleh being murdered when he wouldn't want to sell or split profits with some connected Nigerian figure.

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    Comment #23744778

    In case you're not a troll and your vision was just clouded by mindless Trump and GOP hate: Have you ever heard the name Michael 'Mike' Bloomberg[1] before? He was a registered Dem…

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    Comment #23721934

    >His pen name and his real name are already strongly linked in search engine space. It's not. I've been following the development of the drama for a while. And even though I know a…

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    Comment #23721923

    >what was likely to be an enthusiastic article has been absolutely pathological The NY Times was willing to use pseudonyms for the subjects of articles in the past. I didn't see Ba…

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    Comment #23721749

    >For threaded political discussion from a progressive side I very much recommend https://unstuckpolitics.com/ Just went to the first entry in section "poltics&news" and immediately…