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The Dead Sea scrolls need a serious re-examination by modern scholars not biased towards mainstream Christianity, similar to the work on Jesus mythicism that has been done over the…

If you want to get involved in helping stop this in the United States, the Drug Policy Alliance is a good organization: https://www.drugpolicy.org/

> Nobody really cared as the blacksmith, farm hand, or the secretary lost jobs. I am not sure where you got that impression. The loss of blacksmith (and nailmaker, etc.) and farm h…

> Right now people view automation technology as being very expensive but if you look at trends in automation technology the price of that technology is actually declining so even …

> The elites used to pay people to stand around and practically wipe their arses, that quickly diffused as more markets developed, and there were other, better things to do. That t…

> For most of history economies were fighting against scarcity, working to produce as much as possible to keep people alive. It is only in the past 100 years that we have had a pro…

The "rich will just live on their land without workers" seems like a hypothetical scenario, but it actually happened a few times during the colonization of the Western United State…

> How about employment stability? Used to be more common that you'd work at the same job your whole career, be rewarded for your dedication and seniority. Employment stability like…

> Then what are people taking about here? It is instructive to read Marx to answer this question. How much time do working people need to work every day to earn enough to reproduce…

> You can't prove it's impossible to do what he did today. Others are actively doing it. There is a whole genre of get-rich-quick scammers claiming that exact thing: https://www.cn…

These algorithms are called "fuzzy hashing." Examples include "ssdeep," "smapsum," and "nilsimsa."

Your comment makes no sense. No one is passing around IP addresses by hand. It sounds like you have not heard of dynamic DNS, and don't understand how P2P software works. https://e…

> I have Google Alerts set up so I get emailed when people link to my site. A few months ago I started to receive an absurd amount of notifications, but I ignored them. I chalked i…