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> who in my opinion looks like a Chinese double-agent, or someone bribed by China to be their mouth-piece. Are you an authority on the subject or are you making an unfalsifiable cl…

> but supposedly this is done "the good of all humans" what is just another communist party slogan. Keep in mind research done there was an international effort. Some things being …

I think part of that is due to nuclear power primarily being in decently wealthy areas with very strict regulations and high amounts of security measures being taken. Coal plants a…

I’m one of those fools who took a few years off before college, after college, and decided to up and move to a faraway country while I was young. It’s very likely I’d have more mon…

Just looking around my town, new houses in Japan are also dramatically larger and higher quality than older ones. Older homes were one floor with single pane windows and basically …

This is precisely what outsourcing is. The idea that a company can get more for less. It’s pretty often criticized.

That sounds like a great policy, honestly. Instead of devaluing workers in other countries, they treat them as equal to local people. It also means they’re looking for talent on a …

A license key alone is about as useful as a key in real life. If someone decides to change the locks, you're out. Decentralizing that doesn't change anything. Crypto is once again …

At the same time, there are people who lost their wallet and RIP to all that potential wealth. And then there are people who had their computer stolen/broken and then just download…

What's the tangible difference between this and email confirmations that you made a purchase? If you lose track of the NFT that proves you bought it, that's no different than losin…

It's like saying you don't need to wash your hands because the food is cooked and hot.

That's fine, but in some places, that's basically saying you're the type of person to walk through dirty streets barefoot. No matter how #freethefoot and for personal choice you ma…

Japan under-tested a lot pre-Olympics in a desperate attempt to salvage the event. After that point they had no more reason to hide the data. Tests that have been carried out since…

Well, discord is async. You come and go and respond whenever you want to. It's the same as old IM/chat room applications. The big difference being that it allows voice chat if you …

I really don’t get why big companies buying ads are apparently morally trapped in 1950. Nobody who was actually going to buy your product is going to care if it appears alongside s…

If other countries start banning everything, isn’t that just as bad as what China is doing here?

People have been paying money for food and beverages forever. The cost of labor is a big factor in it. It's the foundation of the economy.

> then why should we use their frameworks and tools? Because job postings demand X years experience in Y framework instead of looking for actual skills, and many investors look for…

Every product in the world sells itself as being as cheap as a cup of coffee or a cup of tea "so just pay it, cheapo". If that excuse actually worked, nobody would be drinking tea …

I've had people from virtually every country randomly start racist discussions with me. I've been in Paris waiting for a train, and had some white Canadians come up and say "Hey, a…

I mean, I've also got friends there and speak the language to some extent now. It's not like I walked in on some sanitized tour for a day and left. The country has problems. But it…

A few hours in some towns were more than enough to make it very clear that I'd never want to go there ever again. It's weird how people come out and complain about this with only o…

After two years and seeing just how crazy society can be, you really think drafting random people and telling them to put IVs in someone's arm with minimal training is a good idea?…

I mean, I have. I've been to a few provinces and seen small towns and big cities. It's way better than I was led on to believe after reading daily reports about it being hell on ea…

It's really wild that people are so crazed that they think everyone is a paid shill. There's medical terminology to describe people who think everything is a grand conspiracy and m…