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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…