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giorgosts

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    Comment #43944087

    Why would the filmmakers make the re-enactment though? For social media? For clicks over the interwebs? For context, by the late '20 programs were running for the elimination of Gy…

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    Comment #43943900

    So it is a re-enactment but nevertheless, it is depicting real world practices prevalent at the time.

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    Comment #43099939

    What about the use of lead in car batteries? Even if there are requirements for recycling, it is still a burden for the environment and the people that have to deal with the materi…

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    Comment #43014027

    The one making the current reforms the article is talking about, is also a convicted sex offender and a bro on the same island. History though, as a very distinguished philosopher …

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    Comment #42653114

    Hydrogen as done by Toyota was a sales an lobbying tactic. By setting an undoable target (or a target too far in the future), they could push for more gasoline cars and less strict…

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    Comment #40756341

    False dichotomy. Of course language is for communication like in all other animals, but where would man be without the invention of the language of mathematics? Probably not in the…

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    Comment #39813041

    does fat32 support larger files than 4GB, common for video files shared with USB or SD cards?

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    Comment #37535348

    In capitalism the capital has a life and a mind of its own, independently from the people who own it or serve it as professionals. It wants to grow and accumulate. Only a mixture o…

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    Comment #37534510

    "But our acceptance of those property rights is subject to the important qualification that the interests of men and of society come first and that warns us both the misunderstandi…

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    Comment #34155654

    Bullshit story the consultant made up to bolster his point (93% efficiency claim from a foreman wtf). Of course finding some help moving parts around for the welders would be the f…

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    Comment #33731890

    "Do not do to others what you don't want be done to you" is a good starting point on which free speech should be allowed and which should not. You should not have freedom to curtai…

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    Comment #31838151

    US-centric approach. How about if China decides to fill the power vacuum that the isolationist US leaves. How about if eg. COSCO buys out the port operators around the globe. How a…

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    Comment #31571086

    If most students end up being paid their loans by the government its the same, minus the bureaucracy and the optics (we are not socialists, we discourage socialist behavior). You c…

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    Comment #31570222

    Why are tuition fees and student loans necessary? Instead of the government backing up or paying up the student loans, can't it just pay the university directly and then the studen…

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    Comment #31561485

    www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1617660/Boris-Johnson-Nato-expansion-Turkey-crisis-North-Cyprus-Sweden-update Apparently, the Turks included the recognition of the occupied (by the…

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    Comment #31399948

    When they mutually recognize each others occupied lands as "sovereign states" the context would be pretty obvious. (Turkey to recognize the Russian backed separatists in Ukraine an…

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    Comment #31398199

    Enough of the lying propaganda. North Cyprus is by the accession treaties EU territory that the Republic of Cyprus cannot effectively control due to the illegally occupying Turkish…

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    Comment #31397770

    They also occupy with 40000 soldiers one third of Cyprus, an EU country, thus essentially European territory.

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    Comment #26940963

    Or better older days that oscar nominated films came straight out of state propaganda offices, eg. Days of Glory, starring Gregory Peck https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036748/ that w…

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    Comment #26703708

    They can arrest whomever they want for reasons of their own and then they find a way for the arrests to appear legal or justified.

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    Comment #25557610

    Where in these protests do they mention the use of hybrids or intensive farming? As far as I can see these are about the deregulation of the market.

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    Comment #25557577

    The situation in Europe at least, is that if you choose the old ways you'll be loosing money, so nobody does it except for those that do it as a hobby and not for making a living.

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    Comment #25557544

    As a farmer, you can always choose not to use these methods, stay with your traditional way. As you can do in the west also, even in the EU with all its rules and regulations. And …