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pbak

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    Comment #48705300

    Still... interesting how in talking about the crash 80% of CNN's article is to mention the censorship, as was your own focus, and not the event itself and what is known about it. N…

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    Comment #43192555

    Interesting. You use Fisher-Yates extensively. How do you feed it ?

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    Comment #40557522

    Well, considering the author is Nancy Pelosi's biographer, and nobody involved disavowed the story in 3 years despite its very widespread circulation, and how much the American MAG…

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    Comment #40509506

    Or : They are a pay for play publication, which some PR agency associated with Foggy Bottom "contacted" to tout the horn of some group of western capitalists. Said capitalists got …

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    Comment #40473940

    This is IMHO a trigger warning too far and is also sooo culturaly tonedeaf it's not even funny...

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    Comment #40142946

    UK, a country with a long naval tradition, destroyed over 25 Russian warships using Ukrainians in Ukraine. FTFY, I know it's easy to mix up the two when trying to generate engageme…

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    Comment #40049716

    Life hack wrt Ireland: if you can't calculate profit, you can't calculate tax...

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    Comment #38743019

    Except that Russian officials up and down the flagpole - including the head honcho just this week - have very clearly and publicly said they'd rather that Poland, Romania and Hunga…

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    Comment #38742994

    No, women might actually be conscripted too, as some presidential office members directly mentioned in interviews, and a couple of TV's had incidentally done impromptu "video polli…

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    Comment #37713688

    If only Canada had let the judicial process do its thing and at least imprisoned the man as properly requested by India, that killer of 28 people and Canadian citizen would be payi…

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    Comment #37553344

    "Yuri, you lost another submarine ... ?"

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    Comment #37425113

    Considering: - US DoD is paying for it as client, and not Ukraine (it's been provided for free as far as they are concerned) - US DoD can't, in peacetime (wrt the US), technically …

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    Comment #36890593

    And then you have the French, Dutch and Belgian case of the pedocriminal network which was unearthed after the Dutroux affair, which, inspired themselves of these late 70s-early 80…

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    Comment #36569958

    Can't really de-escalate without communicating. Moreover - and this has yet to be publicly confirmed by some official - the kid, which police couldn't know was a kid - was fleeing …

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    Comment #36023996

    Still, I'd rather not have to move my ski season to the sides of Mount Golgotha near Jerusalem - that glowing snow might still be radioactive after all.

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    Comment #36023963

    Mutual inspections under the START treaties which took place until approx 10-15 years ago.

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    Comment #35702758

    And what, you want them to do zoom calls and fly economy, or horror (gags profusely) , take the train like some common peasant ? The audacity !

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    Comment #35179684

    Doctor Emmet Brown. He has a fundamental physics project he needs the Uranium for. But I'm not sure he has the money to pay. I wonder how the Lybians will react. Hopefully his appr…

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    Comment #34811710

    Give it a couple more years.

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    Comment #34098186

    Wait, I'm not sure, is this a Breaking Bad reference or something else ?

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    Comment #33967371

    Nope. They are 5-6 years behind Russia, and it seems a couple behind the Chinese. Apparently there was some advances needed in materials science nobody bothered to invest in on the…

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    Comment #33937640

    Yes, doctrines like this are meaningless. Let's scrap all anti-proliferation treaties, the IAEA. The whole lot. All the major armies around the world have been paranoid about them …

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    Comment #33558508

    :unethical move Would you rather he put up a set of safe spaces in the offices to shield their emotional health from the realities of working at a major company in a capitalist eco…

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    Comment #33504543

    Well, Twitter obviously did :-)