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xthrown1

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    Comment #35160147

    Culture is what you do when you stop thinking. When everyone in a group does the same thing when they stop thinking you have a nation. Give it another 60 years and Macedonians will…

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    Comment #35160068

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    Comment #35160049

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    Comment #35151740

    There is a difference between larping and culture. If you can't understand that you're probably larping thinking its culture.

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    Comment #35150964

    Or maybe I'm a communist and want to follow the example of the USSR when dealing with mental illness.

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    Comment #35150817

    Yes, but this didn't happen centuries ago, this happened in the 1960s to 1990s.

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    Comment #35150800

    Fresh food preparation is a full time job. I outsource mine to someone who does it for a living, it costs more than the majority of people can afford. The idea that you can work a …

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    Comment #35150734

    Given that their 'diet' resulted in them being chronically malnourished with such lovely diseases as rickets and pellagra I'd take what we have today thanks. People today seriously…

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    Comment #35150524

    >from what our ancestors usually ate Whatever they could find so not to starve. The idea that people in the past had a diet they could keep to is completely laughable the second yo…

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    Comment #35150492

    Ones right to liberty ends when they start throwing feces at me.

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    Comment #35150468

    I want to watch this mini-series.

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    Comment #35150430

    Macedonia is particularly egregious because its genesis as an ethnic group is still within living memory and would make as much sense as Pennsylvanians declaring themselves the las…

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    Comment #35150339

    The only people who call it a balancing act are the ones who have never seen disruptive mental illness first hand. It's not cute, quirky or a choice. It's one step away from murder…

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    Comment #35145530

    My house has been broken into fewer times than the number of bankruns in the last week.

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    Comment #35132939

    The majority of people don't need daily bank accounts. The only reason why we are using them is because to dollar notes have not kept up with inflation. A $500 bill from 1900 would…

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    Comment #35132876

    >Who will loan the government tens or hundreds of billions of dollars besides the banks? The [Fed/Treasury/FDIC] has no incentive to prevent banks from loaning customer deposits, b…

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    Comment #35117623

    >but the fact that predicting the next words based on past models does such a good job of masquerading as human thinking indicates that much of human thinking isn't much more than …

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    Comment #35117616

    The difference is that I can ask it to explain it's decision as a racist and a anti-racist and it will happily hallucinate an answer for both.

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    Comment #35103062

    > Sorry, were you in Australia? We haven't had load shedding from a LOR (Lack Of Reserve) event almost ever, and we don't commonly get browouts. That's just lies and FUD. That arti…

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    Comment #35103038

    Yes, and it had enough backup to run the grid for 5 minutes, at the low low price of $200m. Now you'd only need another $50,000,000 to have enough storage to run it overnight.

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    Comment #35089938

    > Consequently minimal groundwork was done by preparing the grid with suitable transmission and storage. You mean like putting in the worlds largest battery? https://en.wikipedia.o…

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    Comment #35089930

    >"brown outs on hot days" is straight up propaganda. https://www.9news.com.au/national/energy-shortage-explainer-... You're right. They just had to nationalize the market last year…

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    Comment #35088819

    Copying the Australian power market with it's >$20k mWh price swings, negative energy prices and brown outs on hot days is not something anyone sane should do. Australia and Califo…

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    Comment #35088765

    I've read enough history to have heard that same argument as to why moving rivers away from the Aral sea would be fine.

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    Comment #35065347

    Then I don't see why you're worrying for government subsidies to be removed from your neighborhoods. I'm sure that paying for the water, road and electricity infrastructure is acco…