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nilskidoo

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About nilskidoo

My only online thing: https://nilskidoo.blackblogs.org/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #19821878

    We help the most when we elect to do so ourselves, not when we leave the options to be considered by those with more resources to spare. If they entertained any inclination of help…

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    Comment #19810791

    And how does one accumulate a nest egg when every employer I have ever dealt with cannot afford (or outright refuses) to do better than paying late and/or less than agreed, if at a…

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    Comment #19810744

    As a former bell-ringer for the SalArmy across two time zones, the people who give the most are always the ones who look like they need it the most. No different from how the bigge…

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    Comment #19807823

    I think it proves most Americans are either ignorant or villainous. Or both. Which sounds smarmy but then, what other explanation might there possibly be?

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    Comment #19805505

    [flagged]

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    Comment #19805486

    And may those faithful to the brands also find due cause for self-termination.

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    Comment #19805454

    People of the US are scared to address how the vast majority of taxes paid are not going to the general population of the US, not infrastructure or anything else outside of the pri…

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    Comment #19765876

    As cool as suicide nets. Apple customers are enablers.

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    Comment #19754623

    Quarantined for limiting the business of pharmaceutical manufacturers.

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    Comment #19730373

    We've been confronted by the effects of the SCL Group and subsidiaries for well over a decade now actually.

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    Comment #19726062

    That is incredibly naive. Wealth is the only thing that guarantees anonymity.

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    Comment #19725784

    For anyone without a private jet maybe. Does anyone seriously think the FAANG corporate boards will ever in their lives have to undergo this? If the feds wish to be paparazzi, then…

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    Comment #19709309

    But the inability to infringe on the rights of others is not itself an infringement of any actual right. That is an impossible lesson to be learned by us here in the west.

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    Comment #19709254

    As does Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley. https://surveillancevalley.com/ And I realize anti-establishment innuendo is taboo here, but if yc is focused on bringing forth more pro…

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    Comment #19706847

    And we should all pretend that the internet resolves conflicts at any level? I think the widescale lack of communicating without empathizing pheromones is quite obviously making a …

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    Comment #19706824

    I was thinking along the lines of this: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/133936-using-wifi-to-see... It was always about surveillance.

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    Comment #19706799

    How quickly everyone forgets this, and how desperate is the urge to deny how all-encompassing a thing it is: https://theintercept.com/2015/08/26/way-gchq-obliterated-gua...

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    Comment #19679022

    Or another purpose altogether.

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    Comment #19675423

    I'm sure a lot of folks have heard of the Amish practice of young adults living among the normals for weeks or months, sampling modern life before making the decision to settle dow…

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    Comment #19675373

    Lecturer and teacher Scott McCloud once said this to the effect of hiring practices, how there are three anchors from which an employer of any variety must seek out among potential…

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    Comment #19675264

    As if mainstreaming weaponized radiation poisoning weren't enough, let's unemploy weather-girls in the same swing. It's like Rod Serling took the brown acid.

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    Comment #19675218

    I could see this as a prompter to get folks to police themselves, like to rat each other out over the articles 11/13 crap, similar to how the Americans were offering terrorist boun…

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    Comment #19640499

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    Comment #19640477

    Downvoted so hard.