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the USA also formally recognized Guaido as President under Trump https://nypost.com/2019/01/23/trump-recognizes-juan-guaido-a...

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Under the new Administration Twitter will assuredly ban anyone who doesn't appropriately mouth the narrative. The bans are already picking up steam, and have been since the electio…

I've always owned an Android and I've heard about the, what is it, blue bubble prejudice, or something? I'd just like to say that if anyone has ever avoided putting me in a group c…

Matrix states that they are an exception but the standard and the implementation-reference clients are all under the control of New Vector LLC, almost everyone uses the centralized…

I had a bad time with this a little over a year ago and stopped using Signal over it. If my phone was off and I used Signal Desktop in the meantime, when I turned my phone back on …

It's really not that uncommon of a belief, those who hold it just get shamed a lot by the crowd that parrots the media narrative all the time and keep it amongst ourselves, instead…

>One of Xi Jinping's most highly publicized policies (inside China) is his anti-corruption campaign. This is practically his signature policy. You can argue the policy isn't in eff…

It's OK, once Google gets a union then you'll lose your 600k TC job and get moved back down to the 250k job because you haven't been at the company long enough and promotions and p…

I'm too young to have used it, but I bet Borland C++ was nice, too. And I bet it was more work to configure Emacs to write C++ in the 90s than it was to just use Borland. But which…

It's like it's 1937 and you're complaining about bias against Volkswagen

This whole website and its entire commentariat are constantly participating in a neverending exercise of pretension one-upmanship and I implicate and debase myself by even pointing…

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For first release, sure. But forever? Why? If I want to remix Steamboat Willie in 2020 why should Disney still have an exclusive right to that today?

There's a crosswalk and signal at literally every block in NY, which has been the focus of this discussion. SUVs exist and are so large because emissions standards don't allow for …

Congress needs to pass a law so this stops being a political football under control of the Executive. You'll know if all the fuss about Net Neutrality was empty rhetoric if the Dem…

Especially later on you really get the idea that Michael isn't as ridiculous as it seems at first and does a lot of "silly" stuff for leadership reasons. There's an episode where J…

This is a common meme but it isn't really true, there are safety nets, though fewer than other countries. A lot of chronic homeless in the US have mental illnesses and don't trust …

The mayor of Seattle where they tolerated an occupation for several weeks by an insurgent force, waiting until two children were murdered within the zone to break it up, and now fa…

Abortion is not optional to the baby. I was a late-life child. High risk for Down's. My mother didn't get the test, which could've introduced more problems. She believed I was alre…

Could you please provide a citation for this claim? It's fascinating if true, but I wonder which societies did this and what documentation there is for this practice. My understand…

The Midwest has that too. But it also has unions. :)