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Meritocracy isn't real
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Exactly
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Meritocracy isn't real
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Exactly
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Simply Bananas
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They just strapped a parachute to a real kiwi, chucked it out of a plane and took a photo
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Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians
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Too many damn times...
I was promised an immortal repository of knowledge in my youth. Now most of my bookmarks are dead links and finding answers is just like your example half the time.
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Operation Orange Chicken
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And a lot of people who "voted for facism" are just average citizens who don't look to deeply into politics (either don't care, understand, or have time/energy) and just bought the right wing lie of "fix economy, gib jobs, lower fuel price, tough on crime" etc. And went with that.
Yeah, some of the voters are straight up facist, but people here are being too hard on people who's time and energy is squashed by the hyper capitalist machine and are surrounded by propaganda
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Shhhh! it's sleeping.
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Assuming that doesn't y do fucky things with structural integrity... That's pretty clever
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Never ask
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Without looking at the sources, I'm going to assume it's because, genetically speaking, Palestinians and Israelis are almost identical.
Edit - yep... That's the kicker.
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Australia rejects visa application by rightwing US pundit Candace Owens
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I live in NZ. At lockdown protests people had Trump flags and were saying we were violating their first amendment... So much stupidity
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Plus The Infinite Other Things
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Yeah, shaming her for nude photos is pretty fucking weak and, imo, just detracts from any point you're trying to make
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While his take here is shitty, I think doing drugs and having sex with women for money is not something that warrants out right condemnation imo.
His involvement in murder and assault, and the sexual assault and battery accusations are much more damming and legit reasons to shit on him though.
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Massive loop hole
These to a fucking tea. And cause it's a flat touch screen you can't even feel your way around to the correct settings while looking at the road.
I'll happily have no screen and old analog controls, and yes, I realise I sound like an old man yelling at clouds.
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👁️🐽👁️
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Well that's just terrifying
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New Zealand passes record suspension of lawmakers over haka
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It feels so weird, and a little scary, to see people praising brave journalism when they're basically just staying historical facts... It's that not normal journalism? 😅
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Student protesters dancing at Tiananmen Square before the massacre, Beijing, China, 1989
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I don't know if you know this but there's a link in the post to a Wikipedia article about it, with sources at the bottom
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I don't understand how there are undecided voters this election... I understand trump voters. Ride or die republicans, bigots, wealthy people that want more money for themselves. They are fucked up, but they make sense.
But how are you undecided? What are you weighing up. If you're not in the aforementioned groups, what single positive thing does trump offer?
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Beware games like this
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Usually games as a service, they'll release a large patch or expansion that makes significant, unpopular, changes. So lots of long time fans will review bomb it, in a good way, to show their displeasure.
It's sometimes works too.
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These bots just say anything don't they?
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"They fulfilled their basic biological purpose... Please clap"
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[Evidence Inconclusive] Germ Blaster
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Fucking dystopian late stage capitalism... Every fact is not actually a fact cause it's sponsored by corporate interests
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It was almost mint condition
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If you ever needed proof that people/companies worth lots of money didn't earn it, you can look at twitter as a great example. He pretty much did everything wrong. Massively overpaid for it, lowered the companies valuation significantly, lost a lot of users, advertisers etc.
Somehow it still exists and is relavent and hadn't hurt musks wealth.
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Insomnia
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I did a sleep study that was done at home. They just sent a device I clipped on my index finger, strapped around my chest and put a small tube around my nose.
It's definitely still a little artificial, but it's at home with no one live monitoring you. As long as you get some sleep they can use stats and all the various data to get an idea of what's going on.
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well
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I'm now up to speed. I don't know if the shooter was listening but their timing was impeccable. He was asked a question about mass shootings/gun violence and his response was to try and get racist about it by saying something about "gang voilence". Then he got popped.
One of those rare moments where someone who spreads hate gets it shoved back in their face, almost literally.