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I really need to make a HN bingo board one of these days, though it'll have to be like 12x12 or it'll be way too easy.

Real Life was one of the few sources of interesting technological critiques and commentary besides Logic, sucks to lose it. Anybody have favorite essays to share? I quite like all …

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Gitlab has a number of government contracts including, for example, with the NSA.

Or if you're American and Black, gay, Indigenous, etc

I'm sure you watched the news from Buffalo with glee, scum.

> There are effectively no Nazis in Germany Gee, I wonder why people are downvoting an obvious fascist stooge. [1] > Twenty-nine police officers in the western German state of Nort…

> where war is less common. This particular refrain is one that's worth examining from the lens you're dismissing. Under what frame is "war less common" in Europe (or even "East Eu…

[1] > It is not uncommon for Ukrainians to refer to African-Americans as “[N-Word]”. Volunteers of color may be called 'a monkey' or may see children’s games with Blackface. Being …

> whereas US prisons actually seem decent to me based on what? Places like Angola or San Quentin are as brutal as any gulag.

> Capitalism means tolerating the emergence of independent centers of economic power I'm sure the CIA would be surprised to hear that.

People in the US have far more ability to change the US than they do countries on the other side of the globe. Which is why the US's crimes have to be minimized - so people can fre…

> In exchange the US got cheap goods (and low inflation), and continued supremacy of the dollar in world trade and as a reserve asset. And perhaps most importantly defused the work…

Almost like Microsoft deliberately helped marginalize the position because it's profitable!

Which individuals faced any material consequences from the Church Committee? Or subsequent exposés?

> If you assume that a bad bear market is a 40% drawdown, and since 2009 the S&P 500 has gained 20% on a good year, you only need just 2 good years or a mixture of some good and me…

[1] > In 1970, the United States had orchestrated a coup to oust Prince Sihanouk, and installed Lon Nol, a general who was supposed to be Cambodia’s Suharto. His forces trained in …

The US killed millions of people in North Korea, and was also largely responsible for the Khmer Rouge taking power in Cambodia in the first place.

> by posting supporting "evidence" for an article written by a guy with a fascist agenda. I compare sources with opposing biases because I believe it helps to parse out what's true…

Sure. Do you agree that there are fascist elements in Ukraine's government that should dealt with (by the Ukrainians, to be clear)? If you don't, which aspects of my examples do yo…

> Is that correct? Nope! I think Putin only cares about having a buffer zone from NATO, much like Afghanistan is (or was intended to be) for the US against China. I'm simply provid…

here's an article [1] from Bellingcat (who are certainly quite different from RT and Gray Zone in terms of bias): > In the most high-profile, but far from isolated, incident showin…

> As to what might work I would consider medicine or genetic augmentation maybe? you're a fucking nazi freak, foh with this Mengele shit