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rabite

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About rabite

I'm a Merle Haggard fan.

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    I don't understand how banks in a country that is completely cut off from the international financial system would be profitable.

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    > If I own a platform I’m not under any obligation to allow you to say whatever you like on that platform. Before the Internet this was not the case. In Marsh v. Alabama, it was ru…

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    > After Dorsey sold Twitter to Elon Musk, Extreme eyeroll on this post. Twitter's shareholders voted overwhelmingly to sell to Musk. 98.6% of them voted an affirmative yes, in whic…

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    Comment #41084179

    Shifting away from using capital as the basis for resources allocation has been tried repeatedly and failed catastrophically every time. There's no mechanism than the market better…

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    Comment #41065739

    A fracking rig costs 900k and many of them sit idle for years at a time: https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2022/0415/Demand-for-o... You are essentially saying that the roughne…

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    Comment #41023799

    > Panics are safe though (they're a controlled crash). Here's Linus's commentary on that: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1099 > I think that if some Rust allocation can cause a pa…

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    Okay. Let's pretend the Soviets killed nobody in Ukraine other than the Holodomor. That's 5 million people. The credible threat of millions more being butchered by the Soviets was …

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    > Far short of the 10M figure you are introducing for whatever imaginitive and creative purposes. I didn't introduce the 10M figure, I linked an example article where it was used (…

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    Wikipedia cites the Holodomor as 5 million. That was mostly in East Ukraine. That's most of the half. The other 2.5 million were from gulags. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomo…

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    Yes. It was prudent to do anything to save Ukraine. Absolutely. If you love your country you'd deal with the devil himself to save it from what Russia was doing. 10 million people …

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    Yes, absolutely, the Soviet Union and its Secret Police were an active threat to Ukrainians every day. Adolf Hitler was not. Though Bandera did work with the Nazis, he later worked…

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    This quote doesn't really describe ether at all. I'm not even particularly inclined to stand up while I'm doing ether, much less engage in depravity. I recommend for a more accurat…

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    No, it is like being subsumed into the aura of angels. Like a gate to heaven has opened and is oppressing you with joyous radiation.

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    The phrase "Slava Ukraini" predates the OUN by actual decades. There are plenty of people in Ukraine, particularly East Ukraine, that have personal objections to the mythos of Band…

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    > Bandera and his nazis Bandera was fighting against the Nazis by the end of the war. At any given time, he was doing what was prudent for his country and getting resources to figh…

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    I've done Xenon a fair number of times, it is definitely the Rolls Royce of inhalants. I'd recommend it to anyone as long as you can divert a little and aren't paying for it yourse…