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weswpg

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    Comment #29406597

    by repairing it

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    Comment #29330770

    His wife is extremely young and I can't look at them together without thinking something is really wrong there. He might be older than his father-in-law.

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    Comment #29308742

    as a Linux user, i use my iPhone for that. or you could try this: https://morgen.so/morgen-for-linux

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    Comment #29252151

    Many banks will automatically transfer recurring subscriptions to your new card as a "helpful" measure. > Updater services allow merchants to know when your credit card information…

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    Comment #29031088

    > Thanks, I didn’t dig deep enough to find the boy buried at the bottom. That definitely clears things up. ...there's a boy buried at the bottom? i hope that's a typo!

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    Comment #29030962

    > I don’t understand the title? How do you get ‘rejected’ by Code Academy? It’s not a ‘boot amp’ with an application process. You either do the free lessons offered, or pay up for …

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    Comment #28988189

    > Zuckerberg wants to be the villain from that Ready Player One book but without any of the hassle of taking it over He probably sees himself as the misunderstood, genius creator o…

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    Comment #28743818

    conservation of energy can be broken if Temporal symmetry can be broken.

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    Comment #28728385

    > He was assassinated for his role in leading the Iranian nuclear weapons program, not for his scientific achievements. Recall that America withdrew from the anti-nuclear weapons a…

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    Comment #28692980

    Content that is inauthentic and/or misrepresenting the origin / source is definitely troll material

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    Comment #28683699

    The article literally talks about retired generals tweeting. that sounds incredibly mundane

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    Comment #28650969

    Why is the area referred to as "the west Indies" unless he thought it was India

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    Comment #28650962

    Again, Columbus was not a very clever man.

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    Comment #28606341

    Are you suggesting that we should take moral cues from our enemies? Or that normalizing peacetime assassinations won't have an obvious destabilizing effect?

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    Comment #28606317

    Assassinating scientists makes you happy?

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    Comment #28497225

    > I can tell you beyond a doubt people are mostly (99%) reasonable And yet, actual fascist governments have come to power even in nominally democratic countries . People might only…

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    Comment #28457459

    > Aviation authorities swiftly implemented new regulations that required two authorized personnel in the cockpit at all times, but by 2017, Germanwings and other German airlines ha…

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    Comment #28457382

    How many people do you encounter? In which parts of the country? How much do you know about their political views? How do you know whether someone is a Nazi if they don't announce …

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    Comment #28414681

    Unions have been on the decline for decades going back to the deregulatory and anti-labor policies of Neo liberal governments and that probably has a lot more to do with the proble…

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    Comment #28374346

    in your quote, it says that private businesses and political parties are making these decisions. that's likely done as part of their regular screening processes.

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    Comment #28089203

    I think the point was they had no way of knowing, and that free will is real so it is wrong to punish someone deemed to be fated to crime.

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    Comment #27951771

    > > about half of the homeless people are too mentally troubled/addicted to be able to handle an apartment. > citation needed To fully qualify the statement made by the person you'…

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    Comment #27777126

    The article directly contradicts your assessment, though of course it is still unverified.

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    Comment #27632490

    and then the BSG-style cycle of humanity's renewed rise followed by another inevitable fall at the hands of artificial intelligence