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Comment #49204445
Glitterbombs would be a fun solution except the guys doing would probably get pissed and do bodily harm...
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Comment #49203423
And then we would get to hear about American imperialism forever....
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Comment #49190292
Listen, we need you to verify your identity in order for us to not serve these ads to your kids. It's very important that you do this.
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Comment #49171660
There are a plethora of examples of slavery as well.... >The ways in which captives were treated differed widely among Native American groups. Captives could be enslaved for life, …
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Comment #49170969
If you are on Windows, you navigate to the folder that the game is installed to and double click the .exe to launch it. https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/5540051992994…
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Comment #49162956
Not sure exactly what the point of quoting Marx at me was supposed to be... People need jobs and a functioning economy to live. This thread started with the GGGP talking about the …
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Comment #49161093
What is your solution to: >German economy is rocketing to the bottom, their industry is dying with thousands of layoffs, closing factories, and complains on energy prices and they …
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Comment #49161039
Or you know, you could demand that the goods being imported are made to the same quality, environmental, health & safety standards as your home country. But that would turn off the…
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Comment #49160956
I don't think you have set foot in a factory recently. Factory work isn't generally physically demanding, more tedious & repetitive than anything. It's air conditioned, generally p…
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Comment #49144570
There is a lack of project justification documents, need a CAPEX proposal and what is the expected ROI? /s In a serious note, looks good and don't let the paperwork keep you down!
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Comment #49144417
So what are they doing about the online data they ingested?
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Comment #49144391
But it's transformed now! Edit(seriously): >Transformativeness is a characteristic of such derivative works that makes them transcend, or place in a new light, the underlying works…
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Comment #49144372
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127284
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Comment #49144173
See, what you are missing is the games that would be played if they did a secret election. "Can you prove that only employees voted in this?" "Can you prove there was no ballot stu…
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Comment #49134974
There are some who took this view when LEDs were first mandated. Light bulbs were dirt cheap, yes they use more electricity but their waste stream is glass with a bit of metal. Now…
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Comment #49126722
I have not seen anyone arguing only nuclear to get rid of fossil fuels, what I see is people arguing that we need nuclear to supplement renewables to remove fossil fuel and the oth…
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Comment #49125225
True but sometimes someone hits a button on the inside by mistake. Or someone was going to get off then decides not to.
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Comment #49123997
Vacuum for "convenience" of being able to turn it on with a phone. I could actually see hooking up a projector to wifi to allow it to stream videos.
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Comment #49123963
Um...If I make an app that reroutes people's payments so that I can skim a percent off the top and release it for Android and IPhone as a shopping app, how would it be Google and A…
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Comment #49123829
I think a law that makes a marketplace responsible for items being sold if the qty of items is above a threshold would be a great idea. You don't want to penalize someone selling t…
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Comment #49083345
That's part of what I was thinking about, we have people with little/ low skills that we pay to do things that make no sense. https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/gen-x-entrepreneur-line…
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Comment #49079820
We say wages are high in the west, yet we are literally paying people to stand around in line for us. https://www.investigatetv.com/2026/01/16/professional-line-s...
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Comment #49067981
Or maybe just from the cities to the seaside.... https://blog.myheritage.com/2018/08/good-old-summertime-our-...
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Comment #49053919
As a company there may be liability to collecting the data, not sure. But as a private person as long as you are recording in public and not in a restricted space, you have a right…
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Comment #49053824
Yes it is because the argument is that you can't trust the government because they lied. >Comments on YouTube videos during the COVID-19 pandemic clustered similarly around "concer…