Youtube comments of Philip B (@philipb2134).

  1. Clearly MTG is no longer just an embarrassment, she's a security risk.
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  2. With Donald Trump, chaos is not a theory - it's a practice.
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  3. Yamamoto knew the US and was well aware of the immense industrial capacity of the country.
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  4. When your opponent is digging himself into a hole: don't remove the shovel.
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  5. Donald Trump publicly stated that you have to show ID at checkout in a supermarket. How can one vote for someone so badly out of touch with reality?
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  6. Vive nos cousins Cajuns!
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  7. This is unusual: the majority of Finns now support NATO membership. That is not what Putin might have preferred
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  8. Roughly one fifth of Canadians speak French as their main language; Trump struggles to speak English as his main language.
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  9. 06:58 The Netherlands is listed as PRC's 8th largest export customer; but this is misleading. Much of that turnover is landed in Rotterdam, for final delivery to eastern Europe, to Germany's Ruhr industrial heartland, to Switzerland, to much of France, and beyond.
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  10. I was in an accident in California. The ambulance trip to the hospital - under 2.5 miles/4 km - invoiced cost was the same as discount airfare r/t to Australia. The system is totally insane.
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  11. Trump is beyond any moral bounds. The electorate seems to be comfortable with that.
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  12. Librarians are the front-line defenders of the First Amendment. Bless them.
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  13. Our Service members swear an oath of allegiance to the Constitution, not to any one person.
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  14. I was in the titanium trade in the early 80'. The Soviet Union had been supplying good percentage of titanium sponge (the raw mterian before processing into intermediates of final products), but reduced exports to a trickle, causing price spikes and much disruption. The excuse they gave at the time was that they were making titanium busts and statues of Lenin for all the towns and cities in Russia, but it was widely known that the missing Ti was going into submarines.
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  15. When you kick your own poodle, you're not an animal lover.
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  16. They built a gallows. This was not some spontaneous expression of anger: the pieces fit nicely, and there was no nearby lumber yard where the mob might have found the wood they wanted. This was premeditated.
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  17. The enemy from within is an immigrant from Australia.
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  18. No comfort there for students whose lives have been DeVostated.
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  19. Humiliating Matt Gaetz is no longer a sheer pleasure. I has become a national mark of patriotism.
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  20. Churchill - whose mother was American - opined that Americans will always do the right thing... once they had exhausted all other possibilities.
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  21. Weatherspoon have a clear incentive to attract depressed patrons into their pubs to drink away their sorrows following Brexit. Misery is good for the company's bottom line.
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  22. Why has Alina Habba not been disbarred yet?
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  23. The decision to resist was not necessarily always taken out of the highest ideals. My family had been occupied by the Germans 3 times in as many generations. My grandfather was a forger for the Resistance, perhaps out of patriotism - but IMO at least as likely because his cousin died of pneumonia after the Boches had kidnapped the local doctor to serve their troops.
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  24. That's why they were so eager to grab the Dronebass.
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  25. Most of us since childhood, except for recent advocates for Trump.
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  26. Accept this as you might, but est. over a quarter of Russia's initial forces engaged in its attack on Ukraine are no longer (killed, wounded , missing, captured, PTSD) available for operational service. The assault on Ukraine was the most incompetent genuine military operation since WWII. Finland's armed forces are well staffed, highly motivated to defend their homes, and are equipped with the best equipment available, which commanders in Ukraine hold in their dreams. Don't mess with the Finns, especially because now it has security from Britain. Then again, Putin is obviously deranged, so we might see possibly even worse aggression initiatives against common decency,
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  27.  @cheryleverson3494  he shows no sign of advanced intelligence; but he is dangerously cunning.
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  28. 1973: there is a cancer on the Presidency. 2020: the Presidency is a cancer.
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  29. Myths persist because generally they contain grains of wisdom.
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  30. Russia's aggression against Ukraine was meant to neutralize and cower Ukraine, and split the Western Alliance - that's not what happened. Ukraine fought back; Sweden and Finland broke with their long standing neutrality, and applied to join NATO; Germany essentially vowed to double its military capability. None of these adverse developments seem to have been expected by the Kremlin.
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  31. MTG is sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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  32. An alternative to Downfall or using the A bombs could have been a siege of Japan via naval blockade. I expect the Japanese casualties - through starvation and disease - would have been far higher; meanwhile LeMay's bomber fleet would have continued to pummel any target of value. Both a naval blockade and Downfall would have taken far longer and have inflicted more civilian casualties than both bombs. In one single bombing raid over Tokyo, USAAF had inflicted more death than were immediate casualties at either Hiroshima or Nagasaki. A naval blockade or Downfall would not only have caused much death in Japan, but also elsewhere in the Pacific Theater - especially in China. The Japanese were horribly brutal as they invaded... imagine how savage they might have been as they beat in retreat? 05:38 BTW, Nagasaki was not selected as the second target: that was Kokura. Since this primary target was hidden by cloud cover, the mission went on to drop Fat Man on the secondary target.
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  33. ​ @54032Zepol Actually, NSDAP won the most seats and Hindenburg asked him to form a government. A lot of secret maneuvers by Von Papen made this possible, but the details are too complex for this forum.
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  34. Expelling Hungary from EU could be even more appropriate, with severe customs procedures along. Danube shipping excepted, Hungary is landlocked.
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  35.  @hewitc Mercury content in tuna will vary according to species and according to the fish's age. Solid white will typically have a higher mercury content than chunk light. If you fear mercury content: stay away from swordfish.
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  36. I'm pretty sure Ted Cruz go it wrong: normally passengers are exempt from the TSA requirement to show ID before boarding a private jet.
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  37. A buddy hit back hard for my confusing this stack of excrement with the musician, Steve Miller. There is a fundamental difference: the World is a better place for giving us the famed musician.
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  38. Alexandra Fillipenko asserted that Ukrainian identity started at the Maidan. I disagree, and so would many historians: there was a pre-existing national identity, but it solidified after the Soviet Union imposed starvation under Stalin in the 1930s. In many Ukrainian villages, the German troops invading during Operation Barbarossa were at first welcomed with the traditional greeting of bread and salt.
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  39. C'est bien bizarre que les adversaires de Poutine ont une facheuse maniere de mourir dans des circonstances insolites.
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  40. At a party in Paris, a few of us discussed philosophy in mixed romance languages. Each spoke in Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian... and we all understood one another. We did not use French because it diverges more from these three, especially when spoken. On rare occasions, one of us had to paraphrase or choose a synonym, but otherwise the conversation flowed freely.
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  41.  @sjh1898  LGBT is a fundamental state of being. There is no point on 'teaching' it: because it is innate, or fails to be. This is not a matter of choice.
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  42.  @ssgusa  whoa, wait a moment... Trump threatens to use our military against our fellow citizens - is that not treason?
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  43. His wife has matters before the Supreme Court; all else aside,Thomas's refusal to recuse himself is corruption of the highest order.
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  44. 02:00 The West might allow itself a period of depletion of its armory - particularly of heavy weapons - because the only significant potential threat of a major land war is from Russia. As those transferred weapons are being used to resist Russia, they serve the purpose for which they were built. They also are likely to be restocked faster, as the Russians are under sanctions, and over 200 of their weapons systems had relied on components from Ukraine. [edit: the only significant potential threat of a major land war IN EUROPE is from Russia]
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  45.  @cityplanner3063  Cattle car does not need to be brutal. I had the fortunate chance to view a case study from an American carrier which debated how many olives might be eliminated from the salad for a 1st class passenger. They struck out 2, by the way. Treating your customers with a shred of decency... might be a winning formula. Give it a try!
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  46. The only thing Donald Trump ever truly loved... was Donald Trump.
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  47. If someone said. "people have always died, they've died of many causes, and they continue to die: therefore there's no need to worry about the raving maniac pointing a loaded Glock at your forehead"... would you find that reassuring? Yet it is the same line of argumentation we find in this video.
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  48.  @PK-mr2fm  Joining NATO can be a long and sometimes frustrating process. There are requirements for equipment interoperability as well as for compatibility of command structures. Ukraine had not even applied, and often is estimated to need perhaps 5 years to achieve compliance. There was no, absolutely NO , reason for Putin's aggression.
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  49. Universion has an opportunity to remove a nasty cloud from its shoulder.
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  50. Not going to happen. Any time someone might suggest a way to improve the common weal, some GOP axehole will start shouting "Communism!"
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  51. Homosexuality is not contagious - so what's the problem?
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  52. There was a deliberate federal policy to wipe out the bison, for the express purpose of eliminating the resource on which many Plains nations depended.
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  53. Dr. Ikeda's discovery founded a company, Ajinomoto, still alive and kicking. I hadn't studied Japanese for nearly 30 years, but I understand it as meaning "the origin/basis of flavour".
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  54. UK had the weaker hand, and was set to lose, or to lose big. Britain did not gain portability in financial services Less travel to London as a result of Britain's reassertion of sovereignty, inevitably will will dent the informal flows of information which greatly sustain the City's financial preeminence. Brexirt is the worst own-goal in living memory.
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  55. ​ dennisemanuelsson7136 If you leave a club, you lose club privileges. It's that simple. Britain imposed sanctions on itself.
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  56. To paraphrase Lenny Bruce, sainted comic / social critic:: It is the suppression of truth that hurts.
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  57. 05:25 the Chindits were regular British and Gurkha (i.e., Nepalese) soldiers. Why had you called them "Indian"? The kukri is a fearsome knife skillfully used by Gurkhas, but unfamiliar to Indian troops - which the Chindits weren't. You allege racism in high command sending in the second Chindit expedition, because of high casualty rates in the first raid - but there were significant numbers of Brits in that action, and suffered harsh levels of casualties.
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  58. @user-gk-y8t  Trump has no axis of morality other than his personal gain. Why he would hand the keys to government contracts to someone deeply embedded in government contracts? Do the math.
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  59. You reminded me of a popular saying in the USSR: "the future is certain, but the past is unpredictable".
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  60. +Thue Morse "The people" of North Korea had no say in any of this. All of this started with the power controlling the North: the Communist Party,, launching an invasion of the South. The fear they have in the North is a result of incessant and all-pervasive propaganda perpetrated by their dynastic masters. The devastation which occurred during the war which the North had initiated, had not continued after the armistice was signed at Panmunjom (more than six decades ago:- the bombing stopped LONG ago). Clearly, the North does not suffer devastation of war when there is no warfare. The fears you mention are irrational and artificially cultivated by the state apparatus; still, that doesn't mean they don't exist.
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  61. Biden is rather articulate. He has some skips, though not markedly more frequent than the polymath Macron, a generation younger. Has Biden spoken more disguidedly than Trump? Tick your box. Biden, as our head of State, must speak on many topics; Trump, as head of nothing of consequence, can blast his mouth.
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  62. ​ @elwhiteboy6865 in many agencies it is forbidden to unionize!; in some, it is permitted, but strikes are forbidden. I briefly worked for DoC, and any unionization activity would result in immediate dismissal. Unions can't control government agencies where they are banned, or crippled.
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  63. You won't become a billionaire if your ego isn't oversized.
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  64. +Georgia Englot Hannibal was a superb commander, and his victory at Cannae is taught in military academies around the world. You assertion that "his forces killed millions of Romans" is quite unlikely, given the small populations living at the time; certainly he had not led to "the downfall" of Rome, which instead brought the 2nd Punic War to Carthaginian soil under Scipio the African, then to defeat Hannibal at the Battle of Zama. Carthage was destroyed, and Rome went on to become a superpower. You got it massively wrong. Sorry.
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  65.  @emmajones8590  RFK / junior has some good insights into our food supply; however, his anti-vax advocacy shall have resulted in many deaths... the toll is indeterminate.
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  66.  @mm6461  The cabin crew still deserve respect. Their #1 responsibility is to keep us safe. They work in an environment almost designed to explode, but yet manage. Hats off to them.
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  67. I was drafted, and assigned to an administrative job. Day 1 was processing; day 2 had me shoot an assessment clip of 5 rounds. Before my 2 months basic training was up, I must have shot at least 200 rounds. I was meant to be far from any battlefield, yet I was better trained than these poor souls sent to the meat grinder. God protect them and keep them from taking other lives.
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  68. ​ @middle_of_the_road Tariffs are not at all like a sales tax. There are many differences, but a significant one is that many imports are of raw materials and intermediate goods which are used in the manufacture of products exported from the US, thus putting American companies at a disadvantage in international markets, and costing American jobs.
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  69. ​ @middle_of_the_road It will not work and can not work. Try speaking with an economics professor somewhere. Among other reasons this is a bad idea, is that it is extremely risky for public finances to depend on revenue sources which, by their nature, dissuade consumption and reduce the tax base.
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  70. Miss Piggy obviously did not listen to Biden's SOTU speech.
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  71. @Anne O'Nymous It's unlikely that he have such a rare and sophisticated understanding of the term BT W a talib is a student of anything.
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  72. ​ @mariehammond5097 A person sent to prison for life is unlikely to kill a member of the general public ever again.
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  73.  @cdanger3122  Life in a prison in the US can not be described as "in some comfort". Apart from a few lenient facilities mockingly called "Club Fed", American prisons are broadly considered inhumane.
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  74. Pop question: has anyone ever destroyed value faster than Elon's takeover of Twitter?
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  75.  @DaveSchultzXXL  the oath of office pledges fealty to the Office, not to the person.
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  76. Musk rats are well expected to flood these discussions.
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  77. 13:50 - Why would the Royal Navy have smashed "the combined Spanish-British fleet"???
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  78. There are none so blind as those who will Nazi.
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  79. Jen Psaki is photogenic, poised, eloquent, and sharp as a needle. She's doing a good job.
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  80. ​ @davidsummer8631 UK's agriculture has suffered considerably from the lack of immigrant labour; so has the NHS. A Bulgarian nurse has been replaced by no nurse... Where's the benefit?
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  81. Do not be quick to ascribe to malice, what can more easily have come from common human stupidity.
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  82. If you had graduated with a medical diploma: why the hell would you be serving as a police officer?
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  83.  @manmonkee  Many still think that France once left NATO. Not so. France left the integrated military command, while yet remaining an ally. Even in the 1980s France kept several hundred thousand soldiers in Germany to prevent a Soviet breakthrough past the Fulda Gap.
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  84.  @apollyon1  at least he didn't wear a khaki uniform. That might be in Trump's dictatorial wardrobe dreams.
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  85.  @kelperdude  Keep hoping. That might let you navigate beyond the goofiness of some mythic extinction of our country.
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  86. Trump won't just throw you under the bus - he'll charter the bus.
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  87.  @hewitc  It's not so much how big the fish is, but rather how high up the food chain, as methyl mercury bioaccumulates. Bigger fish tend to have a higher Hg content, but it is not a rule of thumb.
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  88. ​ @themurph930 Norway is expensive; Norway defines "expensive". Norwegians drive to Sweden to do their shopping. That's how severe your wallet would get hurt. Money matters aside, I can't think of more beautiful a People than the Norwegians. They made me feel at home, everywhere.
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  89. 0:20 Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -Pablo Picasso
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  90. Approx 09:28 "China buys one fourth of the wold's oil by value." I challenge this assertion. It is quite credible that PR China buys a quarter of internationally shipped petroleum and derivatives, but the US is a major consumer of these, as well as a huge producer of crude.
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  91. Sanna Marin did what had to be done. Finland is now more secure, and might need more closely to concentrate on purely domestic matters.
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  92.  @safersephiroth943  "Deeply rooted"... that reminds me of something Voltaire had written: "is there nothing more respectable than a time-honored abuse?"
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  93. There was a joke in the USSR: "the future is certain, but the past is unpredictable."
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  94. A nice bit of Soviet propaganda one year was an article in Pravda which blasted France for food shortages - and this, at New Year's. It was accompanied by a photo of people patiently waiting in line, under the falling snow, to get into a food shop. You could see the sign above the door, which read: " Fauchon". That's the Parisian equivalent of Fortnum & Mason's. Those Parisians were waiting patiently to buy their caviar, foie gras, and smoked salmon for the evening's festivities.
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  95. In California, we tend to label as "storms', what in other societies would be deemed "weather fronts". But these next coming can be nasty. Hang on to your neighbor.
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  96. A typical smartphone has thousands of times more computing capacity than NASA had to land men on the Moon. Do we genuinely need so much horsepower in our pocket?
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  97.  @AD-zo5vp  "Brexit" sounds like a bad cereal start to your morning.
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  98. One might expect that adults in Congress might have outgrown the child's game of 'kick the can'.
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  99.  @ToriZealot  I had simply pointed out that the stats for NL imports were misleading.
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  100. Reporting from a combat environment must be stressful. Be safe. ❤
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  101. The Supreme Court is the best judiciary money can buy.
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  102. This tirade suggests that the fairest outcome of this trial were to find Trump 'not guilty' for reason of insanity.
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  103. Goal No.1: to remain in power. Goal No.2: to remain in power, and then blame any failures on others.
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  104. @@melodykannel8936 The view of... what?
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  105. LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!
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  106.  @GojiGuru  Before domestication, dogs (/wolves) were obligate carnivores. Humans are omnivores; dogs are not..
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  107. We run into that conversion rate of wild fish feed vs marketable salmon. Wild salmon are voracious predators, and more than likely ate far more than 1.5 times their body weight at time of capture. The wild salmon predate on a variety of other marine organisms, some of which might face their own existential threats; by feeding fishmeal to farmed salmon, that might take some pressure off other species in the wild. Fishmeal typically is produced from small fish low down the food chain, often filter-feeders, such as anchoveta caught off Peru. Our question should be: salmon or no salmon, rather than farmed vs caught. A few years ago, salmon was cheaper than beef. That is out of kilter.
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  108. College students are not necessarily stupid; but, by definition, they are still learning.
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  109. You can not become the world Chess champion without a sharp, agile, mind. It is a common fallacy to attribute perfection and qualities to a person on the basis of what little you know. I tend to trust Gary more than most I had never met. AFAIK he would find an idolatry of him.. totally disgusting.
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  110. Baier beware
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  111.  @merk2806  Your choice. Trump consistently denied the virulence and lethality of covid-19. As a result, nearly 1 in 600 Americans died from the disease. Trump was the worst President in history.
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  112. I had to stop mid-way. While I can marvel at the brain/muscle coordination, this performance IMO does not respect the ability of the audience fully to absorb the artistic intent of the composer. It reminds me of a satirical piece written about the 15-minute Louvre tour. For me, the mark of interpretive genius is better displayed by a sense of artistic brief pause. Ashkenazi playing Chopin comes to mind.
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  113. @Godless Conservative Libertarian "Also keep in mind the repeated breaking of treaties by the Natives"" The usual circumstance was: getting preliterate persons to "sign" a document which they COULD NOT READ. You might seek clarification from what legal minds are available to you - my contention is that no contract nor treaty viably can exist without a genuine consensus ad idem.
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  114. It was the breast of times.
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  115.  @icuryy5826  He handled a tightly handled drive-thru well. Maybe it's about time to bump up the Federal minimum wage, frozen for a decade and a half.
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  116. Stonehenge has its own remote mystique; Carnac is more welcoming, more intimate,
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  117.  @orilion1820  That is unlikely for most species of tuna. It does not hold true for albacore /the only species recognized by FDA as "white meat". Neither does it hold true for yellowfin, nor for tongol, nor for skipjack, nor for euthynus . There are other species which legally can be designated as "tuna" in the US, but they are commercially insignificant. Why do I know this? Because it used to be my job. Come back if you have something to add. I will wait for you in the tall grass.
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  118. His former AG Barred him.
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  119.  @junksails814  Face it: Russia's military had been badly mauled by an opponent which, at least on paper, was far an inferior force. Ukraine's request for MBTs is in anticipation of Russia's further aggression this coming Spring. Russia has conscripted hundreds of thousands of its young men, and it would be reasonable to expect that they likely will not be fighting with sticks and stones. However... given the shortcomings of Russia's armory in this war: that is not entirely excluded.
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  120. ​ @cpirtle Folk you
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  121. ​ @leatelierr  because.. they are "white" ?
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  122. +Sandy What happens to gay people if they stay awake for 24 hours straight? That's got to be confusing.
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  123. She's not insane. She is evil.
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  124.  @carlosmbaziira4137  75 trillion... what? US dollars? SDRs? Rubles? Bubbles? For many natural resources, the value is highly sensitive to demand and market availability. Emperor Napoleon III had a dining set to impress visitors, made of... aluminium. At the time, it was a precious metal; we now often throw it away as trash.
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  125. If your argument basis depends on your opponent's location, you lost.
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  126. She is so sweet; the War is so cruel. Slava Ukraini!
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  127. North Korean trade representatives tried to get our company (in France) interested buying metals and minerals from them. They invited us to dinner at a high-end restaurant.... and made us pick up the tab. Needless to say, that didn't work in their favor.
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  128. Against an amphibious assault, Taiwan would better be served by land-based anti-ship missiles, saving their outnumbered air force for air-to-air combat.
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  129. Trump thought he might cruise past Biden; then Kamala cleaned his clock. We have 6 weeks, or so, to experience Donald Trump lacing together a coherent sentence. Time passes by so fast.
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  130. Trump will pardon himself. That's controversial, but legally defensible. He can not, however, pardon himself from non-federal actions in justice.
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  131. ​ @DirkGently1972 I served with France's General Staff. Your impressions are misguided.
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  132. 'Dog bites man' is not a story; 'man bites dog' is a story.
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  133.  @Grautwok  Your understanding is misguided. France's power grid never depended on Russian hydrocarbons.
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  134.  @jd3081  Trump has massively violated the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, and made out like the bandit he is. A presidential salary is more than I've ever made, but nothing as compared to what such a corrupt President can run away with.
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  135. Defense budgets tend to be based on multi-year planning, where costs are fairly predictable, while GDP is not. The reason why Greece managed to meet the 2% criterion is that their economy was struggling, not because of a strong commitment to defense. The 2% standard is a blunt tool which penalizes countries that find otherwise laudable savings. US defense budgets, OTOH is in part bloated by the infamous military-industrial complex; furthermore, much of the 3.4%spending goes deployment outside the North Atlantic area.
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  136. Fun coincidence: the day Thunderfoot posted this video, CBS aired a new episode of their cop series NCIS... The plot revolved around saving a defecting Chinese scientist who was weaponizing a virus.
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  137. It would not be possible without the original content from Judy Ruliani. I support the strike, but let's be real.
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  138. Musk is so fond of worst case scenarios that he regularly creates them at Twitter.
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  139.  @HunkMine  One bombing night over Tokyo killed far more civilians than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki. We don't talk about it much because the munitions were not nuclear.
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  140. +Boss Player The Zen is powerful in this one
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  141. Ramaswamy is not fit for purpose.
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  142. I once had respect for Cenk. I had watched Putin's screed on German TV, which broadcast his verbal vomit in its entirety. It was fitting and proper for CNN to cut him off. Russia has been building a tapestry of lies to provoke a casus belli, even going so far as to evacuate civilians from separatist Donbass, an echo of the staged setup that the 3rd Reich used as a pretext to invade Poland in 1939. There is a difference between a State promoting its POV, and propaganda built on a web of lies in order to sew confusion and discord among your adversaries.
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  143. My mother was a Republican, left long-ago. She would have vomited at the thought that Trump ...well, that he present a phalange of destruction of one single man. Scary.
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  144. ​ @AmazonEnforcer That's a strange comment. Some of the savviest travellers I met were Ozzies. If your life was centred on the Back o' Beyond, the World might not be a source of fascination; however, Oz is one of the most urbanized societies on the planet, and their young IMO are eager to explore, often have the financial means to do so.
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  145. ​ @juniorlegendary3559 Congress already has term limits, AKA elections.
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  146. ​ @ajc-ff5cm that very much depends on how badly gerrymandered the electoral districts are in a safe seat by design, the dominant Party has no incentive to select a moderate candidate. A British MP had remarked that in the UK, the voters choose their representatives; in America, the representatives choose their voters. END gerrymandering NOW!
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  147.  @sjh1898  You are free to go join those cultures. Leave.
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  148.  @zelenskyy-the-blackmailerh5920  9 years ago was an interesting year. Zelenskyy was not on the electoral scene; but the Kremlin is paying you by the piece, so why stop now?
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  149.  @chrism6880  He said he wanted their opinion, then suppressed them when they tried to do so. He obviously did NOT want their opinions. Forcing a witness to answer a trap question by yes/no is an old prosecutor's trick.
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  150.  @cidDraGonFly  HE... ALSO... WRITES ... IN... ALL... CAPS
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  151. The Allies also made sure that they carried out twice as many bomber and reconnaissance sorties over the Pas de Calais as over Normandy.
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  152. Deported back to his native South Africa? That might seem cruel and unusual.
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  153.  @LukeO870  from Trump's point of view, 'decorum' is sprucing up a property before offering it for sale
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  154. ​ @sheldonsmith3680 "normal people" would have been jailed for Trump's contempt of court.
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  155. DeSantis calls it "wokeness"; others recognize it as human decency.
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  156. Notre Etat se porte plutot bien, avec un PIB par habitant qui en impressionne pas mal, je vous en remercie.Les republicains degueux ont le plus grand mal a tolerer nos investissements en infrastructure. Allez vous fair foutre..
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  157. Facts do not matter when Replicants get their teeth into savaging the rights of women and girls.
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  158. I love Hill's Northumbrian accent. I find it soothing
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  159. Such as understand it, this illegal fishing is also driving the vaquita - a small species of dolphin - toward extinction. STOP IT,
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  160. ​ @TheCloZer11 these have been good years, except for the pandemic. Trump wanted to wish it away with genuinely stupid "recovery'" help. We do not need a President inhaling his own gas.
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  161. ​ @archiebald4717 alternatively, because the governance is better aware than the electorate of the immense damage an exit from EU would cause Jingoistic politicians invited British fishing communities to approve Brexit, which they have done under a notion of regaining sovereignty over their marine resources. Alas for them, the catch in British waters largely consists of species the British public won't eat. If these British fishers want to export fresh seafood to the Continent, they can no longer do so under expedited customs clearance. Seafood delivered four days later is no longer as fresh as overnight shipments. Classic own-goal by the voting fisher communities.
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  162. ...avez?
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  163. From where do you think those "Afghanistan funds" came?
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  164.  @madaz56  That is unlikely to be correct. Costs of some forms of energy (hydro, wind, solar, nuclear...) are not dependent on international market fluctuations. Oil and oil products certainly have not increased by 46% - but don't take my word for it, check the Brent reference crude prices [approx 18:40 in this video, also widely available online.]
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  165. Tuber finally decided not to destroy the lives of serving members of its armed forces. He must have remembered when he... Oh wait - he NEVER served. Coaching football players was far more important than putting on a uniform to defend our country.
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  166. Trump has been living in a propaganda echo chamber under the control of the likes of Alex Jones. Trump long remained separated from reality, and is finding the re-entry process a major challenge. The hesitation to invoke "an emergency" might come from recent nagging doubts: several GOP Senators are publicly opposed, more are reportedly opposed but had not gone public.Trump might be staying his hand because some of his necessary allies are urging him not to commit such an immense error. And Trump is not used to tolerating dissent or opposition.
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  167.  @leab6109  I feel compassion for the people of Lebanon. I had Lebanese friends and long ago we were even planning a trip including a ski excursion in the Jeb, then the security situation went to hell. I notice factual inconsistencies and comment accordingly. I mean you no harm, and wish you well.
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  168.  @theafricaneye9547  OK, you win this week's award for the most bizarre nonsequitur.; and your medical expertease is quite shaky. Had you recently seen a medical practitioner who might clinically assess your state of mind?
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  169. More a parody than a joke; in either case, not funny.
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  170. A stable genius will always find work housing horses.
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  171. God save the King!
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  172. Some committed perjury. They would not have been confirmed unless they affirmed that Roe was stare decisis; meanwhile, you can not have attained tenure on the sharply Catholic faculty of Law at Notre Dame unless you vehemently opposed Roe.
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  173. For ctying out loud, the fighter jet is 'Rafale', not 'Raphael'.
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  174. What the Hell does he give a flying damn about living Americans?
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  175. 100M chickens had to be culled because of the H5N1 avian flu. Fewer chickens = fewer eggs, hence higher prices. The egg price problem was international: during an annual grand Press conference, Putin had to field an irate elder woman's question on this.
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  176. Katie Porter is a national treasure.
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  177. @Roob_the_Noob  "when I give food to the poor, they call me a saint; when I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist" - Dom Helder Camara
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  178. My understanding is that it would be a good idea to carry around a bottle of rubbing alcohol: the ambient moisture level might not let your sweat carry heat off you body, but that saturation level would not apply to alcohol.
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  179. The commentator mentioned the " Mirage 2005". In fact, it was the Mirage 2000, variant 5.
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  180. An analyst from TV channel France24 pointed out that the footage was in the middle of the night (after 3 AM), shot from a shopping centre. You might wonder why anyone would be filming the senate building in the Kremlin at that time and just happened to be lucky enough to capture a drone attack. You might wonder why Kyiv would have launched such an attack when the building would be virtually empty, with no chance of killing Putin or any other senior official.
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  181. It had been reported thatt S-400 batteries scheduled for overrseas delivery... have been delayed, sine die.
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  182. ​ @jamesaugust7498 given enough time, an OT scripture will be found to condone such behaviour.
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  183.  @VenusFlytrap7 Musk you bring him into this discussion?
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  184. Hmm... wasn't Trump found guilty of discriminating against Black tenants?
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  185. "The Biden clan" ??? Can't you even pretend to have some measure of objectivity?
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  186. @bogdan475 There is no shortage of British politicians who are as articulate, although not necessarily in a foreign language. She is a technocrat, not a politician: that gives her the ability to be frank, clear, and thorough. This is a luxury not afforded to elected politicians, be they from Westminster or from elsewhere..
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  187. Walker is no longer a joke, he's becoming a punchline.
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  188.  @donsutton738  Is there any testimony that family members abhor his ultta-right murder convenience? Inquiring minds want to know.
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  189. Approx 6:06 Russia is estimated to spend 40% of its central power budget on its military - that is a far cry from spending 40% of its GDP on its armed forces.
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  190. Cotton is comfortable. It is even more comfortable if it feeds a family in Bangladesh.
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  191. "This lawyer is a joke," Give it some time, and she will become a punchline.
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  192.  @Allinone47888  Yawn. There have been hundreds of declarations of Armageddon, all of them false - like this one.
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  193.  @sergeyp1069  You are unclear in which airtime you propose. He has recently spoken on NPR and on PBS over US airwaves, has repeatedly been the featured guest of the BBC. If you are cut off from his perspective: you might re-evaluate your info feed.
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  194. I want my MTG... in prison.
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  195. ​ @denislejeune9218 Asserting economic independence in an increasingly interdependent world, is anachronistic (at best.)
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  196. If the lithium producers were to install a reverse-osmosis system to treat the raw brine, perhaps it could be worth t in letting them provide pure water to the local communities, and send the super-concentrated brine to evaporation pans where production cycles would be shortened.
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  197. Why not then allow Harris County in TX to secede? Houston has a larger population than many States.
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  198. I don't hate "conservatives".; I do resent when they pretend to be "conservative"yet want to change things to where they never had been.
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  199.  @John_Demarco  It sounded like 2, maybe 4, persons were clapping. To be fair, these might not all have been his staffers.
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  200. ​ @ChefChevyTv did Trump free enslaved persons? Just asking re your / goat.
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  201. You have a bizarre sense of humour.
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  202. +Will Winters There were no significant developed oil fields in China worth Japan provoking war with the western powers. Weren't you instead thinking of the oil fields in British-held Burma, and in the Dutch East Indies?
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  203. Teach your children well. If you don't want your kid to read a certain book: make it forbidden to him or her. Libraries are not the morality police for your particular set of ethics.
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  204. Yeah, that action was moot / smoot / hawley /?
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  205. @Nigglebaun  you might take a few moments to assess your POV. Not at any moment in my (almost) seven decades has the US Government been so hated worldwide and this span included gnarly years of military engagement in VN and Irak. How the hell can you wake up with a smile when Trump is single-handedly creating a recession out of his weird misconceptions of Economics?
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  206. Have you noticed that everyone supposedly addresses Trump as "sir'? It's never "Mr. Trump", nor "Mr.President", nor ""Donald", nor even "Hey!". How credible is that?
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  207. @user_unknown1488  the person who, according to his Wikipedia page, ran afoul of English Law from his Holocaust denial?
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  208. Are these persons so addled that the Bible is rife with sexual content?
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  209. Ellle n'est plus tres jeune - pour le moins. Il est temps de rajouter du sang nouveau.
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  210. The US had delivered over 16,000 trucks from Studebaker alone; We delivered more tanks to the USSR than to all fields of combat. Your propaganda might be well designed, but can not hold to a candle.
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  211.  @robbyrob9698  Time featured persons (and later, concepts) having significantly moved the world. That is not a recognition of delight, , but instead a confirmation of effect.
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  212. Calm, and showing no sign of fear of murder. That is well.
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  213.  @dsamh  That is inaccurate. In 2021, the European NATO allies which met the benchmark defense spending 2% of GDP were: UK, France, Greece, Poland, Romania, Croatia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. The 2 most powerful military forces in western Europe met the benchmark. Germany is putting in roughly 1.5%, a substantial increase: it used to spend 1% with the full blessing of fellow NATO members, as doubling the Bundeswehr would freak out the Russians; but they have been upping their commitment.
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  214.  @karandeardorff  Fox is not journalism.
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  215. @Tim /Dotexe55. If your argument is that expertise is useless, go see a stone mason next time you have a toothache.
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  216. At least he hasn't lost his soul. He never had one.
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  217. More embarassing - by far - is how many endorse, aid, and abbet him.
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  218.  Jack Hui  PR China desperately seeks to conquer Taiwan, that is not a new variable. PRC's methods have changed, as have those of Taiwan/ROC. Keep abreast of new developments, preferably not from biased sources.
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  219. We don't know the legal basis for the class action suit. He can't win on grounds of constitutionality, since those are private companies and the 1st Amendment only applies to government.
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  220. Le choc de la migration. Sans ces braves gens qui font des boulots que presque aucun/e BBR ne ferait. La "conjoncture" se doit d'une conjonction.
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  221. Fitting 'Prager' and 'moral' in the same sentence, itself is a contortion.
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  222. What's a 'garbage shoot'? Do you need to shout "pull!" before you dispose of your refuse? That would be very upper class.
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  223.  @hugoboss917 With the fall of the USSR, Ukraine suddenly possessed far more nuclear bombs that all countries (except Russia and USA,) combined. US, UK, and Russia signed a treaty guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity if Ukraine transferred its nuclear weapons to Russia. Ukraine did so. Russia violated the treaty in 2014, and more aggressively did so as of Feb 24 this year,
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  224. @Ihavezerocharisma  Those among us who were BORN IN THE USA can stand and work to correct the BS you are shifting on us.
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  225. Cannon Law has taken on a new meaning: do nothing unless it take forever.
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  226.  @orilion1820  Tuna is first cooked, following which the flesh is separated from the bones before being packed in cans along with a liquid medium as required.. Unlike what had been suggested, tuna bones DO NOT soften in the can in an autoclave to the point that they become edible. I had POA for LACF procedures for several tuna canneries in Thailand and one in Indonesia, so there is some chance that there were at least a remote possibility that I know what I'm talking about. Alas, there was a cannery in Indonesia which used a pair of Bariquand Steriflow retorts which had no FDA approval, so their products could not enter the US. The quality of their pack was high enough for DFO approval, so it could be imported into Canada. Weird, huh?
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  227.  @JoJo-dh4xg  Sweden and Finland have excellent military capabilities. Beyond that, they are members of EU, which has mutual assistance provisions - although falling short of NATO's Article 5. Politically it would be unthinkable if the government of Germany or France might survive the next election if sufficient help had not been given Sweden or Finland.
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  228. Steve Munchkin either dropped the ball, or never even tried to catch it.
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  229. ​ @Gr1mPenguin An absolute lack of any trace of residual bias, is exquisitely rare. Take that as a given. Winston had lived for many years in the Politburo's Republic of China - my term, not his. He might not be a neutral witness, but he is a witness. Officially approved public info outreach from PRC is that everything is perfect under the guidance of the Party. Human nature does not sit well with guided perfection.
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  230. If he does get sent to prison, the inaugural ceremony would have to be held in the Big House; if it's on NY State charges, he would have to serve out his term behind bars. Either way, he would still be under Secret Service protection in the slammer - what a lousy detail that would be for the agents.
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  231. No one is talking about it? What planet are you living on???
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  232. Trump shouldn't talk without a teleproctor.
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  233. Trump faces jail time once his presidential immunity expires. That's why he's so desperate.
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  234. It's not just junk fees... there are also "junk taxes". I had rented a car in New Mexico and had budgeted carefully, then was shocked to find that NM charged car rental taxes above the normal sales tax... and never knew about it until I returned the car. I had a 4-day business trip in New Orleans, and dot slammed with hotel taxes above the general tax rate, amounting to about 15% of the hotel bill - and again, only learned of this at checkout. It should be mandatory to inform the consumer of these junk taxes when they make a booking.
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  235.  @13bustah  "evil", in the end, is a judgment call. If you don't consider it anti-Christian to oppress those who, in our modern time, were just looking for a manager: vote Trump. I have never known of a presidential candidate who was so alien to the message of Christ: of compassion, of loving "your enemies'. Even in two Corinthians, there is no room for revenge combined with the Message of Jesus. Do not vote for Trump, the opponent of Christ.
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  236. There is a sharp contrast between the Commons in Britain, and the House in DC. The Speaker in the Commons shall guide propriety; the Speaker in Washington, of late, guides policy.
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  237. Spain (as a power) had pretty good run for nearly 4 centuries, for minimal investment input. The flood of purchasing power from the New World i.a. gold, silver, sugar, etc. ...exceeded the capacity Spain's economy's ability to absorb it. Rapidly expanding increases in money supply - gold and silver flowing into Spain from the New World - were imported to purchase a supply of goods which had not changed a lot. The result was inflation on a frightful and economically harmful scale.. This was an earlier example of the classic chatter discussed within Economics curricula:, the "Dutch Disease.." Don't take my weird for it.
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  238. ​ @TheCloZer11 that were a hellish burden of proof. A decent participant might indicate his/her point of error. Not what happened here.
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  239. The [West] German economy was built back, to some large extent, on the Marshall Plan. Bombed-out industrial facilities were replaced with the newest, spiffiest, equipment available. Industrial areas in other parts of Europe which were lucky/unlucky enough not to have been destroyed, found themselves at a stark economic disadvantage after the War.
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  240. That makes sense. The US Institute of Medicine recommends a daily intake of 150 micrograms of Iodine for adults, but 290 microggrams for breastfeeding women.
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  241. 10:36 "We go to pace. Our astronauts don't wear fur, do they?" That is the most stupid comment I have come across on YR in a long time. Of course they don't: fur is not airtight. No fur clothing will ever cost as much as a space suit - which, in effect, is a space vehicle in the shape of a human being.
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  242. Trump can not admit error nor loss. He might trip over a stone, fall flat in his now-bleeding face, and then propose that he needs to understand gravel.
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  243. Would you care to rephrase that in proper English?
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  244. I had been living in London at the time, and had followed the conflict at the time, met some Rhodesians after the conflict. I had some problems with your video. For starters, the pronunciation. ZAPU was pronounced 'zoppu'; ZANU was pronounced 'zonnu'; what now is Harare was Salisbury - then pronounced, as is the original in England, as 'Solsburry'. The Selous Scouts were 'Selloo'. Frelimo was pronounced 'frayleemo', but definitely not 'fremmillo' 04:49. Apart from being supported by different Communist powers, the liberation movements were heavily based on tribal ethnicity: ZAPU was mainly Ndebele, and ZANU was mainly Shona. That had led to occasional clashes between them during the Bush War, and severe domestic problems after full independence. You might have mentioned that. 04:43 Unlike your spoken commentary, Mozambique did not gain independence in 1945. You had also expressed that, in desperation, the UDI government later started to allow African natives to serve ini the armed forces, however the Rhodesian African Rifles had served since day 1 of the UDI regime, later being expanded from one battalion to three. It would also have been proper for you to use representations of the South African flag of the time, when it was under the apartheid regime instead of the modern one adopted after that regime ended. I was also disappointed that you had not mentioned the liberation forces actions at their main target: Beitbridge, their primary supply line from South Africa.
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  245. +AnymousScreams The vomit wasn't the major comedic element - that was [at least, meant to be] the obsequiousness of the Maitre D'. A precursor of Fawlty Towers. I also disliked the scene. It was nowhere near as funny as so many other takes,... just in the Life of Brian - such as the Latin lesson, or "what have the Romans ever given us?" Come to think of it, perhaps every scene in 'Brian was funnier.
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  246. The Repugs suffer from DAHD: deficit attention hypocrisy disoerder
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  247.  @Kevin-bl6lg  I find it unfortunate that a person/or entity would be so out-of-touch. For a novel Amendment to pass, first it needs to get a supermajority in each of both Chambers of Congress; then any such proposed Amendment must be ratified by 3 of 4 State legislatures. Does this sound easy? No, but there is a work-around. That is why our children should pledge allegiance to the Constitution, not to some representative expanse of cloth.
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  248.  @Kevin-bl6lg  While you are so devout, why not be honest about Trump's ambition to destroy our Republic?
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  249. ​ @MsIndigoNY2 emojis are fun and convenient. They save you from saying.
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  250.  @jimitb7960  You might ask yourself a few questions: why would that hypothetical police officer be in a room where a woman was giving birth? But beyond that, he would need very advanced medical training to recognize if there were an exigent medical emergency which required aborting a child being born - which would be far more complex than simply having the woman deliver vaginally or via C-section. That police officer would not remain long on the force after having made two false arrests at the same time. Cops are meant to uphold the Law, not indulge in their personal prejudices.
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  251.  @natalipy  There was an expression in the Soviet Union, that: 'the future is certain, but the past is unpredictable.' Some of the funniest jokes of all time came out of the USSR. That was often their only way to +/- safely express discontent.
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  252. In America, most of us are vocal with our criticism not because we want to take ourselves down, but because we want to make the country better. As a boy, I lived close to Carl Schurz Park. Never heard of him. Later in life, I came across his words: My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right and if wrong, to be set right. THAT is patriotism.
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  253. He's not the most literate among Presidents. He suspects that the other party in this lawsuit infringed his rights over his trademark 'Dumb Minions" staffing policy in the White House.
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  254.  @user-ok2mq6ig5y  if you are using the English language athwart: your better move might be to correct a recent mistake.
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  255. encore un petit suisse tombé de la voie lactée
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  256.  @user_unknown1488  there is an opportunity for you to provide some context to back up your comment.
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  257. A fair question. He's a voting member of Congress who apparently sought to interrupt a Congressional proceeding. House members do that as a matter of routine, and arguably it is their job selectively to do so. In this case, the maneuver was unacceptable.
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  258. The economy is humming, employment is strong, productivity is strong, profits are booming, average wages are growing faster than inflation. We have the healthiest economy simce the Clinton years Trump wants to deport millions of immigrants at a time when employers already face a labor shortage, he wants to push up inflation by imposing punishing duties on imported production components and on retail items we choose to buy . In the field of economics, he is a total dunce.
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  259. Germany lived under an understandable cringe for a lifetime after WWII. But Germany is Europe's biggest economy, and was shy to adopt a stance of principled force. Putin changed that permanently, and he might come to regret what he provoked.
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  260. Ukraine is not a nation of servitude, not a nation of robots. Slava Ukraini!
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  261. Vielle blague sovietique: l'avenir est certain, mais l'histoire est indecise.
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  262.  @borisremond4415  How much do you know about the food choices of either main candidate? Biden is a few years elder than Trump - but not by much. Biden seems to have taken better care of his body.
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  263. "woke" is a term of choice. I prefer 'awakened'. I find it troubling that Donald Trump somehow finds avenues of agreement conflating "sleepy Joe" with perpetual zing.
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  264.  @kimberlyaustin6677  In our elder lexicon: you are a darling . (brushed a kiss on your extended hand)
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  265.  @JB-bb4su  "in the clip, the witnesses did not say they supported restrictions." How could they?Kennedy kept insisting that they restrict their testimony to yes or no.
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  266. ​​ @michaelmartinez3674 your question is poorly formulated. Let's get you some help. The volume of classified documents unlawfully held was very substantially greater in the case of Trump. When the Feds sought to recover such documents, there were different responses: Biden complied with legal efforts to recover these national documents, while Trump (allegedly) did what he could to thwart recovery. Useful reminder: Trump is not placed in legal peril for having held documents unwarranted, but instead for his conduct to obstruct legal recovery of these documents. That is his legal peril.
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  267. @kakahass8845  fair comment. Economies planned for expansion can be considered, in some way, as "planned economies".
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  268. Stand-up comedian grabs the 'mike. "2 Corinthians walk into a bar; George Santos" ...and the crowd laughs uncontrollably.
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  269. She is a national treasure.
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  270. Roughly half-way across the northern edges of Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park in London: we have Queen's Gate. I have been there many times, but never saw anything resembling a gate.
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  271. Trump had publicly stated that we (i.e. USA) had never beaten Japan. Look it up.
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  272. He always sounds like he's on the toilet: that's where he does his best "thinking."
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  273.  @anthonysilvestri4946  I find it insulting to them that you compare The Don to intelligent and decent orangs.
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  274.  @soldierjohn6171  The 1st army in Europe? That is rather improbable.Both Britain and France have populations half again as large as Poland's, giving them a larger recruitment pool. It's a positive development that Poland will increase its defense spending to 3% of GDP; which might put it on a par with the UK or France who spend around 2% (but also plan to boost spending)... IF GDP per capita were comparable. However, both France and Britain are significantly richer than Poland. Then you have a matter of existing capacity. The Brits and the French have lots of kit built up over many years; a few years of enthusiastic spending by Poland will not make up the difference.
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  275.  @CheapSushi  Wild-caught salmon derive the orange-pink colour of their flesh from the crustaceans on which they feed. As these pigments get transferred, so also might flavour components, no?
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  276. It must have been a scarring experience to grow up with the name, "Tucker". What could kids possibly do with that name?
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  277. Laugh uncontrollably.
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  278. @lordfubar1  Carter never "sold" the Panama Canal. Review non-fascist history accounts, if you dare.
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  279. ​ @Jace-x4n  might you think of one person prominent on the political scene, who talks openly about taking revenge on his opponents? This should not take you long.
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  280.  @jeansherwood2428  and yet we shall have to live among them.
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  281. The latest youth unemployment figures are likely to be understated: many students have chosen to pursue further education not to become better qualified, but to delay entering a job market gone bust
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  282. The whole world is watching . In other electoral democracies there is a doctrine of fairness which rules; the Repubs in America seem to have trashed the concept.
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  283.  @nicobruin8618  It's nice to get an occasional point of view based on nothing more than vapour.
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  284.  @RendaJane  one third less of a toy, after the Trump import taxes.
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  285. Did Miss Piggy spout that diatribe from behind her $40K lectern?
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  286. 01:57 there are more than 5 nuclear powers: on top of the 5 permanent members of the Security Council, there also are India, Pakistan, and North Korea as declared nuclear powers, plus Israel as undeclared.
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  287. @ardalan The EU will not go to war with Russia, for a number of reasons, not least because the EU is not a military alliance, nor a geopolitical entity which operates militarily. As things stand currently, the UK is already committed to participating in common defense against Russia because of NATO. That covers all EU members which share a land border with Russia, with the exception of Finland.
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  288. He had also previously vowed to respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
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  289.  @cooper-lunayen1944  Kansas City has some 30,000 federal employees. If, as the stated plan goes down, 3,000 jobs will be eliminated. That is like shutting down a major car factory. The local economy will take a huge hit. That can make housing much cheaper, but this won't be a comfort to mortgage holders.
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  290.  @JohnWarner-lu8rq  a civil jury sworn before the court found that it did happen.
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  291.  @sheilaboston7051 BiBi guns are no longer the non-lethal gadgets of my childhood. Keep "Iron Dome" operational, question the rest.
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  292.  @sergeyp1069  it might have been more obvious than if you had not been so coy. Then again, you obliquely alleged that Some Dark Force is keeping him off NBC channels where, nevertheless, I had seen interviews with him. Please might you become honest for a while?
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  293. ​ I have looked back. The economy is rather stable; others might call it "robust'". Your ken diverges from mainstream analyses. Might you please offer an enquiry not based upon bought point of view?
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  294.  @bobafett5757  These are sovereign nations. It might surprise you, but they are not Russian vassals.
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  295.  @khuret1773  You seem to place some value and credibility on the notion of an opposed Soviet amphibious invasion of Japan in the waning moments of WWII. If you had studied what it took for the western Allies to undertake landings under fire at Dieppe, Anzio, Salerno. Normandy... you might not have been so fast to proclaim that the Soviets, operating primarily out of Nakhodka and especially Vladivostok - could have been up to the task. The Soviet forces in the Pacific Far East were at the far end of a very long logistics chain almost exclusively served by the Trans-Siberian railway, and with a very small industrial base locally. There was no way the Soviets in Summer 1945 might have gathered enough force along with the complex matrix of logistical solutions to carry out a successful invasion of one of the major Japanese home islands if these were adequately defended: the would . It invasion force was not fiy for task; it would have been pointless for them to do so if the islands were not adequately defended. From what I have understood, they could not have staged an attack on the home islands, except for limited ambitions in northern Hokkaido - and then could not have done so except at the cost of casualties not acceptable to any other army. Since Stalin didn't give a damn about Soviet casualties, maybe that might have happened anyway. As it turned out SU invaded and took ovee the southern half of the shared island of Sakhalin, several islands in the Kuril chain, along with with closer inshore Kunashiri, Shikotan, Etorofu, and the Habomai group - which Japan still considers part of its integral sovereign territory. Fun fact: technically, WWII is still happening: an armistice had been signed between SU and Japan, but no peace treaty - because Russia (as successor to SU) will not restore Japan's occupied Northern Territories.
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  296. Had you noticed? Trump declined to put his hand on a Bible as he took the Oath of Office.
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  297. ​ @scifirealism5943 Corporations are more likely to favor immigration because the available labor pool is shallow: we have the longest streak of unemployment under 4% in a half century.
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  298. Felt that in PRChina. Sometimes it was official.
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  299.  @throughput6674  Afghanistan has incurred a massive balance of payments deficit for about 2 decades. You might not be able to tally banking stats, but do not expect that your deficiency were universal.
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  300. Any revocation of licenses to operate would have to come from the FCC, which (at least, nominally) is non-partisan. The threat can ring hollow if telecoms comply with the info request: does anyone really believe that any government would wipe out the phone service of tens of millions of subscribers?
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  301. Lara Trump rose to prominence through the Republican Party's maritocracy.
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  302. ​ @AzadHind572 the King is officially the head of the Church of England. In practice, CofE has little sway over daily life in the UK. I lived there for nearly 9 years, and my only noticeable brush with the Anglican Church was my mother's funeral. Religion is not as pervasive in British society as it is in the US. If someone were to recommend that Britons adopt the slogan, 'in God we trust"... the reaction would be: are you bonkers?
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  303. Typically they were held to refrain from consuming alcohol, and to keep some distance from them they supervised.
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  304. Judy Ruliani has nobody else to blame...yet.
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  305. I wish that Republicans acknowledge that the right to bear arms is contingent on serving in a well-regulated militia.
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  306. +john smith You blur like sotong. Caning in S'pore does not discriminate between nationals and foreigners, does it lah?.
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  307.  @janwag6856  Trying to have idiots learn how not to be idiots, is a thankless task.
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  308. Raw numbers are meaningless when the books are cooked.
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  309. ​ @t.nguyen5806 if you can't speak your mind: shut up, or post emojis. Fear not.
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  310. Ces accusations Russes sont du pipot. L'''Amérique dispose de resources suffisantes pour faire tout ce qu'elle veuille en matière de développement et de production d'armes chimiques et bactériologiques sur leur propre térritoire sans riquer une frappe de l'aviation Russe. C'est incensé. C'est bien chouette que vous avez choisi d'écrire... "Prendre en conte" CQFD.
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  311. I knew an exquisite young woman named Carol. She worked endless hours to feed the hungry. Please direct your anger elsewhere.
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  312. Finland and Sweden are full and solid democracies, their armed forces have fully compatible equipment and command structures. That does not describe Ukraine.
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  313. Much of the housing availability had been removed from the normal market. That creates a shortage. Meanwhile, employment at hotels has fallen.
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  314. "When the facts change, I change my mind." - Winston Churchill "When the opportunity changes, I change my mind." - Don Bolduc
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  315. +Anthony There is more to Europe than held within your base prejudices.
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  316.  @marknewman8368  He has been found liable in civil court.
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  317.  @vikingrc6959  He was found civilly liable. Criminal guilt is established beyond a reasonable doubt; civil liability is determined on the preponderance of evidence.
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  318. This oversight committee exerts a vital function. Alas, Jordan directs otherwise.
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  319. @manmonkee  There are American travelers who sport a Maple Leaf flag, because this makes them feel safer. It can make them safer, but is not an absolute guarantee
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  320. That 'upside-down flag' moron suggests that the Secretary of Defense would text all military personnel to be vaccinated by 10 AM, or they would face a court martial. That is massively improbable, as any such order would come from active-duty command, not from the civilian authority in the Cabinet; and vaccinating everyone who had not got their jab by 10 AM tomorrow is logistically not feasible. Beyond that, the branches of the military have other tasks with higher priority which need officers who aren't tied up in courts martial. He displays a broad ignorance in stating that Taiwan must now be fearful. The alleged absence of a dozen F-22' s (supposing there were no substitute pilots) would not alter the balance of deterrence in the Western Pacific.
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  321. Seaweed was part of the traditional diet of many coastal communities in Europe prior to contact with North America. For some, eating seaweed likely would not have been unfamiliar. It was often also traditionally used as fertilizer spread over fields in places such as coastal western Scotland.
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  322.  @joesod  So far, Russian forces in Ukraine have fared badly against their local enemies - who are highly motivated, but not as well trained and equipped as, say, the Brits or the French. Any use of nuclear force by Russia will erase the Western restraint from deploying troops to Ukraine. Don't do it, Vlad.
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  323. This footage brings to mind the brilliant poetry of Wilfried Owen, a decorated officer who fell on the field of Honour, just before the WWI armistice silenced the guns.
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  324. "there is something good about the further destabilization of essential institutions." - Sinister Marco Rubio. But then, blocking even any hearing on Garland have nothing to do with destabilizing an essentila institution,... right? If there is any justice i n this universe, Rubio will rot in Hell.
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  325. @estonianman  in a civil war, you are required to be polite before engaging in violence. Having absorbed that, how best might one defend a Holocaust denier? Even a smashed clock will give the correct time twice daily.
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  326. I shall dispute that. Non-Arabic Israelis come from a wide variety of ethnic contexts. Famously a large number of Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel and to full citizenship. Race eraced.
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  327. Dearest Lady, Fewer, but more compact, videos .... might better transmit your message. Slava Ukraini
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  328. Winston Churchill remarked that the Balkans produce more history than they can consume. That was a fine insight. My impression is that Ukraine's acceptance as a candidate nation is largely symbolic. Ukraine had been given over 30 dossiers for reform in order to comply with EU norms - and most of them can not reasonably even begin to be tackled until after this war ends. After the war, Ukraine will need to rebuild much of its society. It might be easier for them to rebuild, than for Balkan candidates to reform. The latter should get on with the job, instead of groaning.
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  329. About 1:32, there is no House counterpart to the Senate Republicans. The House Republican conclave is subject to the Speaker's desperate need of a spine implant.
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  330. "I swear to preserve and protect the Constitution... unless that's inconvenient for me."
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  331. Likely he won't . There is an immense structure to pull OP back into patterns of belief and behavior which can be so much more comfortable.
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  332. There can be a case made for legislators being involved in stock markets of listed companies - which btw I heavily disapprove; self-dealing in Treasuries is a defacement of your oath of office.
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  333.  @gregh7457  That contradicts what I had known. Please provide reference to the attendant regulatory measure which might exempt PRC from otherwise mandatory declarations of origin. I worked for a food importer and had to approve labels for regulatory compliance, so do let me know - I'm curious.
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  334. A lot of RNC funds eluded Trump's personal control. That made the fuehrer angry.
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  335. Redwoods can also sometimes regenerate from the roots even after it had been felled.
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  336. Beyond the Presidential primaries: let's assess the state of play. Primaries essentially are beauty contests held by political parties, generally paid for by citizens who don't give a damn in that contest.
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  337. You made an important distinction: embargoed products. Cargo not under sanctions is passing unmolested.
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  338. Hostages are held captive in the expectation of exchange for some consideration (monetary or other) in return . What do the promoters of the Big Lie propose these convicted criminals would be held in exchange for?
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  339. That's votable.
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  340. It comes as a surprise to most that France's longest land border is with... Brazil!
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  341. Didn't Astra, not a vaccine development client of the US government, come out first with an effective vaccine? No responsible US government - Republican or Democratic - would have failed to do everything possible to alleviate the pandemic. Warp Speed sort of worked, minus Trump and his allies downplaying the severity of this health disaster. You can't deserve kudos for what anyone would do - then undermining what had been done.
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  342. @geofflepper3207  Unless real estate were involved, Trump has the attention scope of a gnat.
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  343. ​ @inazuma3gou  in God we trust, but verify.
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  344. Those were UKRAINIAN.... AMX-10s: built in France, but manned by Ukrainian heroes. Slava Ukraini! Vive l'Ukraine!
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  345. Non-resident nationals living in the EU were unable to vote in the Brexit referendum. That's indecent.
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  346. Lake lost. Deal with it
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  347. ​ @garbonomics Congress shall often encounter matters which require technical nous. Unless each member of Congress be given a dedicated staffer to each area of technical expertise, Congress likely will make some very stupid decisions. An immediate alternative were that our Congressional Representatives rely on "guided expertise" from well-funded lobbyists.
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  348.  @ChadWilson  fish can have a keen appetite for insects; an excellent source of protein for them need not compete.
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  349. Saddam had the same problem as Putin: nobody will dare give him information he does't want to hear.
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  350. God bless these angels of mercy.
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  351. Twelve citizens resident in New York County found Donald Trump... Guilty as charged. It's hard to find 12 New Yorkers agreeing on pizza toppings.
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  352. 03:30 Ceaucescu was executed by firing squad. Under most military traditions, at least one gun will be loaded with a blank, so that a soldier in the squad could tell himself that his was not the gun which caused the death; but in this case, soldiers nudged one another to make sure they had a lethal weapon. Can we expect that Putin also rise to that level of hatred? I doubt it.
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  353. Bon, t'as fait ton devoir. Quel temps fait-il dans ton quartier a Moscou?
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  354. Warfare at this level does not occur spontaneously.
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  355.  @kfsm820  If you have a child against your will: that is punishment.
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  356. It's scary that such an idiot has the right to vote
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  357. Aside from the rest, the Russians failed to deploy infantry to protect their armour.
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  358.  @RealYRM  violated her right to a normal life. She documented death threats consequent to Trump's trash talk.
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  359. McConnell plays Russian. This time, it's roulette.
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  360. Well... That's the end of Trump's mirage of having Canada join the United States.
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  361. There is still a trickle of monetary support. If she follow her mentor, those funds will evaporate.
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  362.  @Lanirderosa-d7m  Putin and Orban are listening, and are smiling ear-to-ear.
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  363. She became something for which the electorate had not voted.
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  364. Recent nominees to the Court had affirmed that Roe was stare decisis, then overturned it. They committed perjury.
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  365. 02:14 The pot calling the kettle black! Kudlow accused Trudeau of a pulling a political stunt for domestic political reasons, while this entire trade spat was triggered by Trump imposing tariffs on aluminum and steel on totally bogus grounds (and in violation of WTO rules) in pursuit of his own domestic political objectives.
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  366. This is hypocrisy. Biden has been in office for 3 months tomorrow; Trump had 4 years to plug the gaps, and for some time his party comfortably controlled both the House and the Senate.
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  367. There is no matter of violating the First Amendment. This forbids government entities from censoring free speech (with some exceptions). The First does not apply to non-governmental entities.
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  368. Wasn't Elon born elsewhere?
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  369. No, they refuse to do so.
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  370.  @donnaterrell938  much of the whole world has no choice, and can not watch. Censorship can be hard on your civil liberties, including
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  371.  @loganm2766  Even AG Barr - Trump's lapdog - declared that there was no evidence of significant ballot fraud in the 2020 election. What the flux are you going on about? A massively unpopular President... lost. Get over it.
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  372.  Andy Woohoo He's nuts.
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  373. ​ @sim1manson1 Twitter is more a twit.
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  374. A common BRICS currency is unlikely to work if it were a new currency - as opposed to simply substituting RMB for the US dollar. A successful common currency will need reasonably concurrent fiscal and monetary policies in order to work - and there is none of that between Brazil, Russia, India, PR China, and South Africa. These countries might as well just use SDRs.
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  375. Slava Ukraini! - also from CA
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  376.  @happiness5432  Had you ever lived there? Or even been there?
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  377.  @gellopudding  Word choices matter. In professional non-partisan polls in the US, approval of "capital punishment" tends to outpace "the death penalty" by some 10 points, even though they are the same thing.
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  378. The second respondent is clear-eyed. This war /"Special Military Operation"/ has claimed so many lives and destroyed the hopes and dreams on both sides. It will take long to forgive and forget. Let's have compassion for the poor dupes forced to fight for Putin's vainglory. The era of Czars is over.
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  379. Once the bills for their fees make it to the waste basket.
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  380. The Soviet Union collapsed under its own weight / its own waste. Putin is seeking revenge for an outside harm which is largely an output of mythology. * Yet In the years running up to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the case load of Gosarbitrazh was growing exponentially..A centrally-planned economy could, if optimally run, perhaps yield rather predictable goods - which could perhaps satisfy rather predictable persons. When you get to a level of greater complexity, the demand on central planning becomes intractable. The Soviet Union would most likely have collapsed under its own contradictions, but the Reagan-era confrontation precipitated the inevitable... without a plan for how to deal with the transformation. * The Russians always were soon going to retain mastery over their overall fate; this need not have degenerated into the present confrontational entity. A literate, technologically sophisticated, wounded polity found itself rudderless - and a spymaster from the ancien regime took control. What could possibly go wrong?
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  381.  @federicofaustoisaia  Grazie.
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  382. Treason is the only crime defined within the Constitution. This offence doesn't qualify.
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  383. Nancy, like any other member of Congress, has the full right to travel wherever she or he pleases. The Administrative branch of government has virtually no say in the matter.
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  384. +gubi Nigel Far[right]rage could argue that: if they're stupid enough to pay me, I deserve this pay cheque.
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  385. WTF? In some sports, the athlete will give a variant of the Olympic salute (pointing higher) prior to performing the exercise. This tradition is perhaps most notable in gymnastics.
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  386. +Johnny Muskrat Is it your opinion that the Maya "got it right"?
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  387. Beautiful tries. Thanks for that!
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  388. D Day far outclassed Stalingrad in the planning, the preparations, the complex logistics. It remains the most complex military operation to this day. I'd like to give a nod to the WWII British-led North Africa campaign, which yielded a victory on a scale comparable to Stalingrad.
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  389. Somewhat like daughter, strongly dislike father. She's just a poll miner's daughter.
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  390.  @dillonconstantine2411  because there have been legal and social restraints which the incoming prefers to ignore.
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  391. Yeah, he is not the sharpest tool in the shed. Comparing military expenditure outlays is a tricky thing: many NATO members still deploy conscripts, whose pay is hideously low. Typically among NATO members, care for veterans is off military -budget. If you take these huge on-budget expenditures and remove them toward better clarified butter, that cooking juice
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  392. ​ @samuelking2518 /factotem. Donald J. consistently challenges and dismisses verifiable facts; that is a totem of his brand of campaigning.
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  393. @Kraddakk  Hungary joined the European Union. If you reject the ethics of a group which you had eagerly joined, then leave.
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  394.  @СерегаЛавр-л7с  My family was occupied 3 times in as many generations. I'm in my late 60s, but I will still fight, if asked. Russia's attack on Ukraine was pure evil. Pure, undiluted, evil.
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  395. Boebert's stance essentially is: don't take the Bible for Gospel.
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  396. @kennysdead500  tariffs structurally are a self-defeating tax. If they were to act in mitigating the volume of imports, levied sums also thereby would decrease.
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  397.  @lenniBn  There are persons hurt, who have died. This, to an immediate grief, demands answers; the Justice system works along a dispassionate pace. There are scant words which I might recommend that you seek solace...it won't happen. See something beautiful to observe.
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  398. Even a stopped clock will give the right time twice a day.
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  399. How can it be that Trump - as he modestly admits that he was the Greatest Manager of All Time... so often discards senior appointments as worthless /incompetent / stupid... or worse? One of the core competencies of a top-notch manager is the ability to recruit excellent talent. By Trump's track performance: he is anything but top-notch.
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  400.  @yan-vw3lp  En fait. non. Les premiers essais nucléaires de la France ont été fait dans ce qui est maintenant l'Algérie.
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  401.  @ddoumeche  Les girouettes servent à comprendre la direction du vent. Ce n'est pas inutile.
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  402. (please do bear in mind that some among your viewers might have studied fiscal and monetary policy.) Trump is a disaster zone. Immediate stupid duties increases will not re-shorsher factoties which almost never happen rapidly. Trump can be the (ghost writer) of a deal - but when THE HELL had he ever had to figure out the complexity of a manufacturing plant and its best performance/unfortunate loss of processing efficiency? He never got down to a production line, except for a photo op.
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  403.  @greghunter5627  You might mean... the Kruger-Dunning Effect. The "Kroger-Dunning Effect" is when you get persuaded to make a charitable contribution at a supermarket. 🤣
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  404.  @AkusMeant-uj5cz  l am rather confident that Norway does so. Deterring future agression by a megalomaniac in the Kremlin is a wise investment, tovarich.
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  405. PragerU is not University - not even close.
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  406. ​ @alexvaraderey all this is both correct and horrible, but the damage goes beyond that. With very few exceptions, funding has been terminated sine die for humanitarian relief operations, and for so much more. If your project had been receiving funding from the Federal Government: that has stopped, pending review. Previous incoming Administrations had also conducted reviews, but continued to fund initiatives, pending the result of the review. These reviews also had been few and specific, rather than across-the-board; they had generally been conducted under the watchful eyes of Inspectors General who had not been illegally mass terminated in a Friday Night Massacre.
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  407. Better still: confine him to a compound in the desert, where at random times a stack of loudspeakers would blurt out Shelley's poem, 'Ozymandias'. Trump still might not get it after may years, though.
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  408.  @NovaRuner  Churchill had suggested that Americans will always do the right thing, once all other options have been exhausted. His mom, ,BTW, was American.
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  409. Good question Elections supposedly reflect the mood / or the mind / of the electorate. Trump was duly elected in 2016 through the process in vigour, however he lost the popular vote by a crushing absence of mandate: most voted against him.
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  410.  @marshaparrish6340  What a hideous comment on the People in his district!
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  411. Do you think that the Orange Peril would exempt his immigrant wife?
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  412. Were that English shift eventually more consequential with ramifications elsewhere which might not have been given due consideration?
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  413. ​ @michaelgreen5206 as I heard, the day the Nazi occupiers made Jews wear the Star of David, HM the King wore one and went about the streets of Copenhagen.
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  414. +Erlich You lack historical perspective. The greatest presidents were (in chronological order): Washington; Lincoln, an FDR.
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  415. Is that a "freedom loving" couple? A "loving" dash "freedom" couple? Two hormone-jacked teenagers? Inquisitive readers want to know.
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  416.  @videowa4er  If a million girls chip in, that might help. During WWII, citizens banded together to help buy a Spitfire / or at least a component. Compared to what HM's Treasury was disbursing to buy many more of these remarkable aircraft, the citizens number was trivial; but it gave the People a sense that they personally were fighting back. That was helpful in maintaining morale. Slava Ukraini!
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  417.  @goenzoy Modern war needs modern weapons. Modern weapons require money.
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  418. If you die in any nuclear holocaust and come back, I'll leave $ 500 for you at a safe distance if you maintain at least double Covid spacing, forever.
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  419.  @cliffperkin63 It's so cute how you expect that Law prevail in the face of Putin's whims.
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  420. Off topic; also, the next presidential term does not start until late January 2025 - hence, the fascist project's name.
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  421. They don't have to be there. WTF is your point? Children eventually will become adults. Their mom or dad might die. You can't hide them away from the worst of the world... and a drag show is not the worst, by far.
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  422. German tanks also had their own stark vulnerabilities. A major factor in the west-European theatre, is that American tanks were relatively easy to repair; and there were a lot of them.
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  423. It took him nine years to learn what "concept" means.
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  424. More than 70 million believe that the election "was stolen"? Do please provide data which sustain your claim.
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  425. Once they set foot on NATO territory, there no longer will be any reason preventing NATO armed forces from engaging directly in Ukraine. If Russia is struggling so hard against Ukrainian forces: how well might they fare against NATO elements such as the 82nd Airborne or the Foreign Legion, after inevitably Russia quickly lost command of the skies against NATO air forces?
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  426. ​ @vincentpelletier57 that can be lots of control. "Taking the Mickey" is now even more fun.
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  427. Trump attended a military school. He was remarkable. When it came tome to assess viable candidates for the draft, Trump got a reprieve from sny military service because of an alleged bone spur. Now, I am not some military master planner; but I do know that a bone spur in your lreg would not stop you from sitting at a desk in the greater service of our Nation.
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  428. @ghosstwolf Votre traduction de la propagande Russe... manque de qualité. Disons le.
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  429.  @ryanrex297  A major difference is that the US does have dominion over PR; another difference is that the people of Puerto Rico had a referendum, offering choices: independence, statehood, or status quo. It ended up being a 3-way tie, i.e. independence was beaten 2 to 1. Another major difference is that PR never had the internationally recognized government of the US, later dislodged from the mainland but still retaining a functional government on Puerto Rico. PR is also quite culturally distinct quite from mainland USA, something that CCP will never accept about Taiwan.
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  430. You exclude allies and the use of nukes in your scenario - but the whole point is that France has a potent nuclear arsenal. Brazil could not be sure France would not use it - or that the United States wouldn't help out its treaty NATO ally.
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  431. 'Dunning' is soliciting (ahem) a payment; Kruger is a success in branding gold coins. Dunning-Krugerrands are what the Ig Nobel awards would grant, if they had the budget.
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  432. Isn't that massively illegal? How could anyone even think that Trump might ever act beyond the Law?
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  433.  @elizabethbarroso7917  Trump believes in God; the God he believes in, is himself.
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  434. Soldiers also suffer.
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  435.  @sctexan5392  Yes, I do; I've known since the late 1970's. Have you ever wondered where the term 'gerrymander' came from? It's a combination of 'salamander' and 'Gerry' - governor of MA in the early 19th century, who approved a district drawn so egregiously partisan that critics complained that it looked like a salamander. Gerrymandering is more than 2 centuries old. Look it up.
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  436.  @dmydesigns72  Trump's new electoral directive: One person, one vote... one time.
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  437. 99% of all lawyers give the rest a bad name.
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  438. @elmohead That might feel like fun. Prices fall, profits fall, employment falls. If you have wealth to spend, it's going to feel great, for a while; if you need to work, these are dark days.
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  439. Good luck, and remember to think outside the 'Boks.
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  440. There is a lot of talk of extracting Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Helium 3: but is anyone looking into getting Nitrogen from the Moon? Plants we grow will need it, and adding it to the indoor atmosphere should make things more comfortable for lunar colonists.
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  441. Bullspit
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  442. You might think of right-wing idiots boycotting covid vaccines as a darwinian process weeding out the stupid from the gene pool.
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  443. Your comment is inconsistent with reality. Tuna was never canned inI its own oil. Apart from the belly area, tuna is a lean fish. Not even sardines, much oilier fish, are packed without a liquid medium. There just isn't enough fat in tuna to can it without an added liquid medium. As part of my job, I had visited about a dozen tuna canneries in SE Asia; I had power of attorney for 4 Thai and 2 Indonesian canneries for FDA/LACF procedures. If you want to become less uneducated, you might read the Standard of Identity for canned tuna. You'll get bonus points if you read an authoritative tome such as Marine Products In Japan by Eiichi Tanikawa, Tokyo 1971, Koseisha-Koseikaku Company. You will find everything technical about tuna canning from pages 147 to 157.
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  444.  @Raptorman0909  it also has zero to do with facts. it would not be worth their while for tuna canneries to disrupt their production flow just to "siphon off" what meager amounts of oil might be derived from the fish. That allegation is pure BS. In the US, canned tuna is regulated by the FDA through the Standard of Identity, incorporated into the Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics Act. The SoI governed the permissible can sizes, the permissible species, the packing style, the color designations, the permissible ingredients, and more. For example, only albacore can be labeled "white meat. To be labeled as "chunk", 50% must be retained on a half-inch seive. And so on. Wouldn't you find it more rewarding to write about something about which you weren't clueless?
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  445.  @Raptorman0909  Do I have an explanation for why the tuna you buy is not as good as you remember from yore? Yes: greed, and the race to the bottom. When I was in the business, a standard can of chunk light was 6.5 oz net weight, but now it's 5 oz; more telling to your palate, is that better-established brands used to pack yellowfin as their default retail canned tuna. Nowadays they might offer skipjack, if you are lucky. In their wisdom, FDA since approved all species of the Thunnini tribe to be canned tuna. A Taiwanese trader offered "chunk light" packed from auxis rochei - newly legal as canned tuna, but not acceptable to my clients. What the brands you buy will put in your mouth is unlikely to be the same fish you had as a kid. Heck, when I was in the business, pretty much nobody ever listed yellowfin on their label. Yellowfin has since become relatively expensive versus other tunas. Anything else you want to know about canned tuna? If you are generally interested in various tunas, you might check out the excellent FAO Species Catalogue:"Scombrids Of The World." It is also available online.
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  446. The entity which governs Taiwan formally styles itself as the Republic of China.
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  447. Treason has a very specific and limitative definition written in the Constitution. While the behavior of those hideous individuals is genuinely treasonous, prosecutors will struggle to make a case under that judicial nomenclature.
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  448. "just plain stupid" does not fully depict mother Tucker. Stupidity on his level requires active participation.
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  449. Never forget the other person's humanity.
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  450.  @grimaffiliations3671  Indeed; Japan's debt-to-GDP is over 2x - but Japan has met no resistance when BoJ sold paper. Something I find infuriating, is when ...persons... look at the US debt, and declare America is bankrupt! Other things apart, the United States holds immense assets.They seem to have forgotten about that other half of solvency -even as it applies to non-sovereign actors.
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  451. The "Washington made his troops get vaccinated against smallpox" story is total bunk. The first ever smallpox vaccination was administered by Edward Jenner in 1796, well after the end of the Revolutionary War. I hold anti-vaxxers in contempt, but I also have no respect for disinformation from elements on the side of Reason..
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  452. There's a solid reason why solitary confinement is among the most severe punishments in the penal system.
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  453. There are de who advocate the position that a candidate for the Presidential office (who, paradoxically, might not be a federal officer) is immune from prosecution. That would allow an axe murder suspect to file a few papers, and receive immediate invulnerability from prosecution. To me, that does not sound just.
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  454.  @dirtydan2721  Yup, public health programs which sent natal fatalities plummeting and bettered longevity soaring. What had public health given us but for more and better life?
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  455. If they ever stopped lying, they'd fall silent.
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  456.  @_PatrickO  You are evading my question. Do please specifically quote alleged lies or misrepresentation. Given that I hold Dr Mason in high regard and at the same time despise Donald Trump., your assertion is untenable. Check your headgear.
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  457. Slava Ukraini
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  458.  @dmitrimikrioukov5935  Ukraine had its own seat in the United Nations prior to 1991.
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  459. Unfortunately my good friend Ben Dover couldn't make it.
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  460.  @Freyja123  the Soviet Union lost more than a dozen admirals in one single plane crash. Nasty events happen.
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  461. The debate was on how to deal with Russia's threatening forward-deployed military assets. Russia had already said that this was insignificant. Their position is clear and not a matter of debate. The matter of debate is: how might democracies respond to this looming threat.
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  462. @robynsutton4690  Carter had an enduring love for Humanity; Trump... not so much.
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  463. @darindunn  If this might not be too difficult - please might you share a summary of what you perceive as his "job description" ?
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  464.  @user-gk-y8t  You are talking about Trump - not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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  465.  @justathought4675  Communicable diseases can kill you. Over much of northern and western Europe, the Plague killed between a third and a half of the population. If that is what now you wanted: you inhabit a space devoid of common humanity.
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  466. Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is a "special territory". Does that not count? I would also suggest that you include the the Channel Islands among British overseas territories.
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  467. Experts from other NATO military forces had suggested that so many Russian generals have been killed because of the rigidity of the Russian command structure. In western forces, the backbone of implementation on the field is the non-commissioned officer corps. They have the ability to improvise according to changing combat circumstances, and they are trained to do so; Russia's NCO corps is reputed to be far thinner on the ground and quite less well trained nor respected by the grunts they supposedly command. That forces senior officers to come into harm's way, just to get things done.
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  468.  @dangerousmind1121  Are you capable of expressing thoughts coherently? It would seem: not.
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  469. ​ @ehouse430 would you care to elucidate your statement? Shorn of partisan rage, of course
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  470. Hey Mike - when you weaponize yourself against the Government... it might not just roll over.
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  471. Another possibility is that Russia no longer is capable of shipping such volumes.
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  472. “Il Duce ha sempre ragione”
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  473.  @CynLeeAm  UK has boundaries; but its national dish is said to be chicken tikka masala.
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  474.  @pdatnc  They are well cognisant that they are elite. Your screed reads well, but falls flat.
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  475. C'est pas la premiere fois. En 2000 nous avions des pluies torrentielles, et c'etait bonbon.
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  476. +Aziz I had met a Swedish gentleman who was in charge of significant purchases for his company from Cubaniquel. What the hell are you talking about?
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  477. A "hostage" is someone held captive as a bargaining chip. What exchange value do these "hostages" have?
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  478. They style themselves as DPRK: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Well... They got 1 out of 4 right. A DPRK delegation sought to enlist the company in Paris where I worked. I was asked to join the delegation for a working dinner; but I declined. A friend went in my stead. It's standard procedure for the seller to pick up the tab, but those guys saddled my buddy with the full cost. He was so embarrased that he did not ask the company to reimburse him. AFAIK nobody else agreed to do business with them.
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  479. I'd like to give a shout out to "Move Over" / Janis Joplin and "Fire and Ice" / Pat Benatar.
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  480. The English and the Welsh voted to leave; Northern Ireland and especially the Scots voted to remain. Now there is a huge to-do about the suddenly relevant border in Ireland, with one of the possibilities (although a distant contender) being to have NI as a territory which continue to remain within the single market and customs union. But why draw the border in Ireland? Every single area of Scotland resoundingly decided to remain in EU. The decent thing to do would be to have the border roughly where Hadrian's Wall stands.
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  481. A vote for Trump deserves some stretch of reflection.
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  482. @AlixanderiaShayWellness  your hole world bolsters that. We love in times where the imaginary kingdoms are real /at least in Trumpworld head.
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  483.  @nobrainsnoheadache2434  there is a significant chance that OP had been explicit and deliberate in expression.... and not to make too fine a point: on topic. You might not be a troll mercenary in service to the Russian state apparatus; but that is how your post made you appear.
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  484.  @bobafett5757  I want my MTV. You might care to to provide some more context. Two country names do not suggest anything greater than an ability to cut and paste. I'd probably rather live in Moldova, if that were your question - which remains obscure..
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  485. Your aluminum foil hat is on too tight.
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  486. Hi H Pn The economy had been growing consistently for the entire decade. Wash out the wax between your ears before you make more foolish comments.
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  487. Out of respect for his father, I held back from calling him 'a bastard'. The more I hear Junior speak, the more it were respectful to call Junior a bastard.
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  488. ​ @TheChopf26 European rule might not be so bad: at least everyone would get health care coverage.
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  489.  @LtZetarn  I'm quite confident that my spaghetti contains no MSG detectable by your average commercial analytical lab.
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  490. He can have lost about $20 billion. / for you British elders: that were twenty thousand million dollars.
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  491. Stupidity sometimes is self-inflicted.
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  492.  @hansdampf640  "and the calling for a boycott of the company from the left isn´t a crime right?" Correct. It isn't. It's protected speech under the 1st Amendment.
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  493. ​​ @linguistengineer588 We might guess, but we can not reliably plumb the breadth and depths of Putin's insanity. The fear he inspires has brought Sweden - staunchly neutral since Napoleon was exiled to Elba - to join NATO with strong popular support.
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  494.  @SideQuestStories  An interesting posit. Care to back that up with data? Feelings don't count.
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  495. Fair comment. Russia had effectively expelled many of its brightest and young. Might we ponder: will Russia's meat grinder tactics in Ukraine encourage more volunteers to become meat?
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  496. The Musk rats are in it for the long haul.
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  497. tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes achetables
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  498. I want my MTG... further incapacitated.
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  499.  @jeanneganrude8549  there is never a bad moment to remember the Beatles.
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  500. @sandgrownun66  You are ill-informed.
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  501. @sandgrownun66  if you want to scourge the 14th Amendment, there is a process for that to happen; it's not easy. I was born within walking distance from Fraunce's Tavern; my mother was born in these United States, as was her father. Please replenish your wisdom.
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  502. ​ @AzadHind572 Might you please provide a web link where this allegedly is clearly stated? I studied Law for one year in London, and was assured that the British 'Comstitution' is a patchwork of agreements, settings, and procedures - but there is no formal document. Do please light my lantern.
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  503. ​ @dwayenway On many measures, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, are more democratic than the United States; yet these countries are monarchies.
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  504. Ukraine has been a Russian tank graveyard. Latest reports say that, due to captures, Ukraine has more tanks now than at the start of the war - or "special military action", if you prefer.
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  505.  @Hazetruck  Biden stuttered. He largely overcame that, but this is a problem which can later still on occasion trip people up as they speak.. In contrast, Trump never had to overcome that difficulty, while his comical inability to pronounce some words remain the object of ridicule. And Biden never was stupid enough to suggest that we might cure a disease by injecting bleach into a human body or to try to buy Greenland.
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  506. @Greenlegsandham  In what part of existence are you able to let this stand?
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  507.  @a.j.8737  "Black farmers" clearly is a plural; "how's" is a contraction of "how is", clearly singular. How best would you seek to reconcile this difference?
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  508. That could be unconstitutional as cruel and unusual punishment: not being surrounded by sycophants telling him how wonderful he is,could be a death sentence.
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  509. I don't find anything interesting re: which jet shot when it was appropriate. The US and other NATO allies have common and mutually- loadable, operable, hard points. A Norwegian jet fighter can load and fire an assault panoply from UK, France, US, or a smattering of other allies. Sweden's air force is potent, and already is fully compatible within NATO. Be well this week.
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  510. Chuck Todd competed on Celebrity Jeopardy. His performance was less than brilliant.
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  511.  @Alkes777  Nor capable of absorbing History.
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  512.  @jimohara  I can't recall the exact quote - but Hitler had expressed that most people will more easily fall for a big lie, than for a small one.
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  513.  @JD365-ls5cw  Did that get sensational report coverage from the Murdoch Post?
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  514. While the USSR had an incentive to mess around with its economic data, a better understanding is that they didn't really know what the figures should be. In general, GDP was based on gross output figures (number of units, tonnage, etc.) which were expected to meet production targets specified by the Gosplan (or else!) Factory managers who struggled to meet their targets could often get out from under their sword of Damocles by fudging the figures, by letting production standards slip, or both.
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  515.  @josephtarr3940  Academia provided the intellectual structure which prevented the Cold War from becoming an ice war after what remained after WWII
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  516. 4:05 encore! Césium http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sium Parlez nous plutôt d'isotopes....
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  517. British exporters will need to comply with EU regulations, but Britain will no longer have any say in establishing these regulations. Welcome to the machine.
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  518. When the knives really come out, conspirators reveal that the Big Man has no mistress. Political death knell.
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  519. She also failed to mention Fukushima. Your preference might favor those who disdain coherence in what they say and write, but  I prefer paying attention to someone who makes his/her point clearly, eloquently, and without straying into [at best] germane controversies.
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  520. +JG R You seem to have little comprehension of what is coming. A50 is the mechanism by which a member can opt to remove itself from the EU - but this can be an pains-taking process down to very arcane levels of minutia. This requires negotiation, internal consensus, agreement from the other party, across a broad range of issues, technical and otherwise.  It's the "otherwise" elements you most might find a matter of concern. UK can propose her unitary stance in exit negotiations; but each and any of the EU member states might veto any deal - including those whose nationals were made to feel like vermin by Brexit xenophobes. AFAIK any sufficiently outraged EU member might also veto UK's novel admission to WTO as an individual member, having expelled herself from a constituent member. I would hope not. _ It's not clear how much of a "nationalist" le pen is Her party had received an euro 9M "loan" from the FIRST CZECH-RUSSIAN BANK. The words "Czech" and "Russian" do not have a strong Gallic ring to them.
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  521. +Scott Humphreys Where are these "massive protests" you suggest? Not happening. Where are these "central banks in the EU teetering on a total irrecoverable failure"? Put the bottle down.
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  522. Candy bars are shrinking because the prices are ""sticky". While other items can have price increases passed on, candy bar prices are firmly anchored in the consumer mind, and there is stiff resistance to increases. That also applies to canned tuna; worse, canned tuna is often used by supermarkets as a loss-leader, which puts additional pressure on prices. The most effective way manufacturers could increase real prices,weres by cutting the packing size. In the tuna business, this is informally known as "the candy bar trick". 'But,' you might protest, 'a can of tuna is a can of tuna, right?' Well, no. Today your familiar can of chunk light tuna in the US is 5 oz. In the late 1980's , it was 6.5 oz, as mandated by law (the corresponding Standard of Identity.) If someone tried to sell you a 5 oz retail can of tuna, there would have been legal hell to pay. The nominal price hasn't budged, but you're now getting nearly a quarter less in your "can of tuna." Adjust recipes accordingly.
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  523. The Soviet economy was based on central planning: the Gosplan. Performance doesn't always go to plan in a dynamic environent, hence the administrative arbiter: Gosarbitrazh. Its case load was rising exponentially in the face of a sternly re-arming adversary The Soviet system had become untenable, and President Gorbachev.tried to salvage what he could. Ronald Reagan is given immense credit for destroying a fatal enemy; In my opinion, he had merely pumped up the pressure when doing so was most perilous; and there was no coherent set of strategy options for when the Soviet Union fell,
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  524. +Cooper How much do you know of the Soviet economy? It would be grotesque on my part to assume that you are not familiar with the Gosplan; however, the inadequacies of a centrally-planned economy within a highly dynamic international competition are not immediately apparent. The many variants of capitalism - all with some ruthlessness in the allocation of resources - functioned without the need of a vigilant, preferably non-corrupt. overseer Corruption was endemic in the USSR - communist ideology had not eliminated greed nor other human foibles; the concentration and monopoly of power had given these more scope to do harm. In a centrally-planned economy, the output of one unit of production will be the input of another, and neither of them had much autonomy - they're part of The Plan. .If the output of Factory A makes the downstream output of Factory B, that messes up the Plan. Not to worry, the Soviets had their own mechanism for resolving such issues: Gosarbitrazh. When Gorbachev took over, the caseload of Gosarbitrazh was increasing exponentially. Among the many problems, the hated West was evolving far faster than any master Plan might handle. Up to the early 80s, approximately, government investment in the West had discretely subsidized technologies applied by the private sector; then the reality flipped, and the public sector became a net importer of tech. The Soviet Union did not have a vibrant private sector which could support the State's requirements. When the collapse came, it was not because of Gorby. He did the best he could with a poisoned hand.
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  525. The State had systematically eliminated its opponents, real or imagined. There was no entrepreneurial reserve in SU, because. plain and simple, it was killed.
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  526. JTeulz Some religions don't have much - if anything - to say about death. The origin of the word is Latin, meaning 'to bind together (again)'.  It might not be wise to pigeonhole religion into one functional category, given that - across human societies - it is involved in all sorts of human circumstances, events, rites of passage.
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  527. You might not appreciate the comments, but they are what allows TYT to claim exemption from the holder's copyright under fair use per 17 U.S.C. § 107
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  528. It's pretty weird that so many who foam at the mouth against voting for Hillary, because her husband previously was a President... plus one kid... somehow would be a family threat to the Republic; meanwhile, nepotism is the operating foundation of the Trump Empire.
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  529. Some Republicans are not vile.
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  530.  @KiJoHe  Your mother might disagree. If she knew what she had fallen to give birth, likely you would be a trouble for the rest of her years.
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  531. If the Government doesn't refund Trump for playing golf at his own resorts, how can we trust that he won't seek other dubious sources to find his retirement?
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  532. 01:10 " Joe Biden's nominees"... this is his first SC nomination. A sample of 1 out of 1 is not statistically significant. As I write, it's zero out of 1, since Biden had not yet proposed a nominee. Tucker-with--T Carlson is out of his mind. Our society would be better if he were out of ours.
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  533. The real First World War was the Seven Years War, fought in Europe, North America, South America, India, West Africa, and across the high seas. Not just my opinion: so thought Churchill. The Russo-Japanese War was a World War in the same way a Fiat 500 is a Lamborghini Countach.
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  534. Correction: that wasn't the USA - that was the north-east. It was a cherry-picked example for effect at the high end of the scale; you will find lower figures for other regions, and nationwide.
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  535. ​ @rosesweetcharlotte /or... 'affect' - could go either way.
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  536. A small note.I am not overwhelmed by what happens in Ukraine; nor am I underwhelmed. Thank you for whelming me at an appropriate level.
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  537. ​ @stevebeegreat On what grounds? Apart from the docents case, where the corrupt judge is clearly in Trump's pocket.
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  538.  @polygondwanaland8390  You might have a point; however, sanctions instead are more likely to target the oligarchs within Putin's circle.
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  539. @Qotroz That would be totally irresponsible.
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  540. @Qotroz It would bring into direct armed, shooting, conflict four nuclear-armed powers. That is not a scenario to be contemplated without fear. The conflict zone would extend throughout the northern hemisphere. The likelihood of a catastrophic miscalculation can not be discounted.
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  541.  @СерегаЛавр-л7с  today's Germany is not the Germany of the 1930s. Post WWII, Germany has grown to become a decent, democratic, country - unlike yours.
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  542. Do not underestimate them. Many are cunning, devoid of Christian morals, and viciously ruthless .
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  543. If Michelle's alleged gender reassignment surgery included successfully transplanting ovaries, that would have earned a Nobel in medicine.
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  544. There was a cross Channel landing in 1942 - at Dieppe - and indeed it had been a disaster.
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  545.  @reddwood4971  you obviously never studied Latin. GFYS.
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  546. Santos will do just fine. Anyone who can discover quantum physics, should be attractive in this job market.
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  547. Not any time soon. Even before the war/"special military operation", Ukraine was deficient in governance capacity to meet even minimal criteria for joining EU.
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  548. Democrats are neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed; there is no clear playbook for a voter group which is merely whelmed.
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  549. The existence of Israel is an instruction of the United Nations. I accept that this same Body shall also proscribe the limits of this State it had created. I recognize Israel no greater than had been defined under UN resolution 242.
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  550. I can't start a comment. Or can I...
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  551. Let us be clear. France never left NATO. France withdrew from NATO's unified command. Even then, France continued to cooperate and participate in NATO military exercises.
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  552. I worked for an importer of motor vehicles from Japan into Europe. The boss worked out an exclusive deal where spare parts would be shipped to Vladivostok, transported via the Trans-Siberian rail, eventually to be loaded into ships heading westward. That worked out well. But that was straight; you allege frisky sanction-busting logistics endeavors. I hope these fail catastrophically.
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  553. I've seen his campaign ad on YT in which one of his "selling points" was that he reintroduced saying Merry Christmas" during the holidays - not that the phrase had been banned. Is that any reason to give him money, let alone the nuclear codes?
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  554. Out of deterrence to Bobby, I had refrained from calling RF K Jr. as this anti-vax murderous piece of garbage.... I long refrained from calling him"a bastard." How can an apple fall so far from the tree?
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  555.  @johnweerasinghe4139  BS
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  556. My grandfather was wounded at Verdun. We remember.
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  557. Have you heard him speak in French? Many bilinguals have native accents in both languages.
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  558. He's an angry old man. If elected, might die in office... to be succeeded by an angry young man. America is better than that.
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  559. /re: districting.
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  560.  @TheDMan2003  far gone from what? This is a highlights educated person who has assiduously studied things you can't even begin to comprehend; but, in your political mind, she is "wrong". Prove it
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  561.  @kody3377  Very unlikely - if Russia had suffered a 95% casualty rate, IMO the armed forces would have deposed Putin.
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  562. It's a weird defense: "don't trust us, we are liars".
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  563. All persons accused of corrupt activity have a right to due process. Supreme Court Justice Thomas is exempt from due process in matters of corrupt activity. Which of these statements is not accurate?
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  564.  @firestream93  "Their" ???
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  565.  @rastislavzima  Convicts, but citizens. Go away.
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  566. I had seen an interview with a Soviet cosmonaut who had visited Texas Instruments, and was astonished at their latest calculator. What especially floored him was: when he expressed his admiration, his host gave him one. Top priority industries and ministries would wait at least two years before getting comparable computing power... and here he was getting a TI calculator for free as a good will gesture!
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  567.  @Lumi_Lumi13  no. Reagan harmed many Americans, but I suspect that it was out of ideology, not out of corruption
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  568.  @jonathanwilliams1065  It wasn't Zimbabwe's "socialist policies" it was cronyism from a kleptocratic government. The only thing remotely 'socialist' under Mugabe was land redistribution - but then Taiwan pulled it off successfully, and it is hardly a socialist state.
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  569. At least everybody got to be a billionaire.
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  570. The slur was that we would have "death boards" deciding medical procedures. We already have that: they're called "insurance companies".
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  571. Many will attach blame for the civilian disaster in Gaza...on the US. Americans will suffer harm from Israeli decisions; we don't know where, when, or how bad.
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  572.  @user_unknown1488  in other words: I won't or can't tell you
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  573.  @user_unknown1488  gainsaying you: I cherish his opinions. Hint: otherwise I might not have quoted him. This a QED moment.
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  574. I used to be agnostic, but now I'm not. so sure...
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  575.  @efandmk3382  Not so. "Gnostic" means, 'knows'. One can not know, but... sense. There you might find spiritualist.
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  576. 20 years and out, might shield us from kids on the Bench crafting Law.
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  577. Those fighters were designed only to fly on the sort of day you would take the family out for a picnic. Or maybe they lost many in this war.
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  578. For abuse, PR China should be expelled from the Universal Postal Union.
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  579. Maybe Hungary's neighbors should shut down all border crossings with Hungary, and forbid overflight rights . The time for Hungary acting as Russia's Fifth Column must end.
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  580. Just so. One does not report allegations, let alone regarding one who is a private citizen, son of a private citizen.
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  581. It could hurt Russia severely, but why would Putin and his oligarch coterie give a damn?
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  582. I have had my say on global cold chains; I had to ship prime grade frozen fish from the US to my Asian sister company. After an initial problem with an otherwise respectable shipping line, we systematically inserted our own cold logs in our products. We didn't have AI in those days, but I examined the cold charts for over 1,000 containers.The product's freeze record looked like the reverse in a Nazi SS symbol.: a steep drop toward freezing, then a less steep angle as the product crossed the freezing barrier, followed by a similar steep drop in temperature afterward. I'll call that middle interval M. A smaller M gave a better product. That M interval is where water transitions from one state of matter to the next, and requires a lot more energy to achieve the transformation from one state of matter to the next. How fast you you manage that transition in frozen water content, shall determine your crystal size in the product's flesh. Getting down to M was less of a quality negative than getting past M as fast as possible could be. I sought to get my suppliers to boost the refrigerant of my shipments at entry into that critical M moment; they begged off for various reasons, and that's all in the past. A practical company might actively boost refrigerant at the point of H2O phase change to minimize frozen molecular accretions and improve texture within the product''s edible structures. If you liked my comment; if you can find benefit from it: Please donate to the World Food Program
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  583.  @Misael8924  Please remember to tale your meds.
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  584.  @Misael8924  Seek help.
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  585.  @Cecilia-ky3uw  Saddam Hussein had perpetrated genocide against the Kurds in the north, and the marsh Arabs in the south. Invasion to topple Saddam was fully justified under international Law.. I regret that the US had not implemented any credible plan to secure peace and calm after the regime was toppled.
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  586. You might n' even notice. If nukes come down, I want to be on ground zero: my central nervous system would vaporize far faster than it might register pain.
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  587. Germany will need perhaps a year and a half to build adequate infrastructure for receiving LNG, and even longer for Senegal both to exploit and to liquify the gas, then to export it. The problem at hand has not been solved.
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  588.  @760HorsePower  it's apparent that you express yourself on an emotional basis, rather than relying on analytical capability. Keep prattling on. In the near-term, Russia is unlikely to resolve its command structure embarrassments until the political structures which allow these to endure, change; no substantive change can occur within Putin's current governance structure.
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  589.  @GARDENER42  Yes, but remember: the Soviets won WWII all by themselves - wink.
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  590. Suprématie militaire? Ou maskirovka?
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  591.  @rachelsombo9045  C'est bien sympa de votre part de suggerer que j'apprenne ma langue..
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  592. +John Rossi were you born stupid, or did you work at it?
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  593.  @northstar6920  PRChina can be very fastidious in implementing regulations, where it - or its empowered persons - deem. Against all other advice, a business friend included a clause within his letter of credit. Small detail / significant outcome. PRC about remains a hostile terrain where screwing the Gweilo still.feels patriotic.
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  594.  @geminifiend5775  welcome the reply from China / PRC
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  595. Ben's Bible must have been watered down.
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  596.  @estonianman  what the F?
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  597. @JH-pt6ih  had you taken a moment to find out what "civil" means?
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  598.  @dsamh  What are you talking about? My last comment is still posted.
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  599. Trump's bedroom door has a sign: DO NOT DISTURB (I'm disturbed enough already.)
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  600. Singapore, as a city, is largely conterminous with Singapore as a nation-state. That same does not hold for Bangkok vis a vis Thailand.
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  601. Pence wise, pounded foolish.
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  602.  @leme5639  Finland and Sweden are net contributors to EU's budget; EU's budget allocates substantial sums to Hungary - which is massively a net recipient of EU funds. So: while technically you are correct, that is a matter of sophistry. Swedes and Finns by proxy are subsidizing Hungary's government.
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  603.  @Korpiainen  Proportional systems tend to give unsustainable results. Italy is a prime example.
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  604. On a long, very long, transatlantic flight, my pretty neighbor passenger fell asleep. She rested her head on my chest, her arm cuddled me. I also snoozed. Turbulence woke us both. She was embarrassed, but I felt honored that she would trust me with her sleep. If, instead, she had been a middle-aged sales guy: most likely I should have felt otherwise.
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  605. +Mrbrain bob History does not provide us many records of period Spanish having contact with Koreans ...prior to much later decades, past economic and diplomatic turmoil ending in the last decades of the 20th Century. What were your concerns about Spanish interference in Korea (N/S) , previously neglected?
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  606. On a good day.
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  607. What if any American citizens of Italian descent advocated for the US to back Italian national policy? DEPORT THEM! What if American citizens of Jewish ethnicity advocated that US policy align with Israel's?
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  608. +blurglide You are using an assumption that humans are by nature lazy and will only be productive if there is sufficient external motivation to overcome that laziness. That is not the case. Certainly laziness is a character trait found among humans, else we would not have it in our vocabulary. One does observe the phenomenon, however, of people giving of their own free time to provide volunteer labor; it is quite common for heirs to vast fortunes who could easily lead lives of indolent hedonism, instead devote their lives to, say, scientific research.Work in and of itself can provide dignity and meaning to life beyond ensuring one's standard of living. The Soviet economy was deeply flawed as a system capable of building and sustaining an advanced industrial society, but one of those flaws was not motivating workers under "the crack of the whip" after destalinification. The Soviets had developed an interesting and somewhat effective system of incentives which relied on rewards rather than on fear - the brilliant economist, Mancur Olson, had analyzed this lucidly. I regret that I had studied this well over a decade ago and so can not give you exact references. "Relying on natural consequences..." You might not mean this, might have expressed yourself poorly - but you seem to deny ANY possibility of kinder forms of society between your "crack of the whip", and devil-take-the-hindmost capitalism red in tooth and claw. Would that be misreading what you had expressed?
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  609. Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice. From what the world has tasted of desire: I hold with those Who favor fire. But if it had to perish 2x, I think I know enough.
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  610. Regarding fuel consumption: there is a difference in attitude. MPG states that you have one gallon of fuel (woohoo!) - so how far can you go? The metric equivalent states that you have 100 km to go, so how much fuel will that cost? The MPG standard is more optimistic, and encourages waste.
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  611.  @kimberlyaustin6677  it was sarchasm.
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  612. Import duties / tariffs are paid by the US-based importer of record. These are built into the cost structure of the final product. When the cost structure rises, price rises. That's inflation.
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  613. Were you born stupid, or did you have to work at it?
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  614.  @gregh7457  Why the hell should I google that? A biz acquaintance in the Gilroy CA area got squeezed out of growing garlic due to low-cost Chinese imports. What you seem to ignore, is that origin declarations attach to transformed products under FDA jurisdiction. A handful of raw garlic cloves (under USDA jurisdiction) is exempt from origin declaration; the same amount of garlic processed into a paste and pasteurized, falls under the regulatory authority of FDA - which requires origin labeling. Why are you so troublesome when clearly you are unaware of the matter?
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  615. I find it infuriating when someone says that the government is going bankrupt, citing the level of debt. What they fail to do, is to understand that one is bankrupt when the total liabilities exceed the assets plus the ability to repay. The Federal government has a huge trove of assets (land, vehicles, buildings, intellectual property, and much morewhich, if liquidated at reasonable prices, might even exceed ) the current level of debt.
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  616. It's not about saving money - it's about removing obstacles
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  617. Can you imagine how traumatizing it must have been to grow up with the name, "Tucker"?
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  618.  @chucklesthered2338  You have no idea what you are talking about. I have known Marxists who were very polite, courteous, and respectful.
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  619. Sweden and Finland are not treaty allies in NATO, but it would be unthinkable if they were invaded by Russia and we did nothing. There is an expectation that fellow EU members would help in case of outside aggression. Britain and France have excellent armed forces, and Germany is rapidly beefing up. It would be a major stupid move if Russia were to attack these two Baltic nations.
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  620.  @Christine-ry1qq  Putin might not be stupid enough to attack Finland during its accession talks. Once you are a potential member, you gain a measure of protection. Russia's military is already extended in Ukraine beyond any comfortable capability. Taking on the fit armies of Finland and of Sweden - let alone any outside help - might be a bridge too far.
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  621. In the US, canned tuna is mostly eaten in tunafish sandwiches, and people have been cutting back on mayo for health reasons. The figures of market share for the main 3 brands is likely overstated: there are significant volumes of 66.5 oz institutional size marketed by independent importers and distributors. BTW retail labels have been doing what a former client called "the candy bar trick': instead of boosting prices, they old a smaller product. In the 1980s, a standard retail can of chunk light was 6.5 oz; today, it's down to 5oz.
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  622. ​ @kelperdude inflation has been high by recent measures in other advanced economies. It is now lower in the US than in Britain, in France, in Germany, in Russia, even in Japan - which had tediously grappled with DISINFLATION for two decades plus. Inflation can be unpleasant - but it is not felt only by America, nor is it a Biden phenomenon.
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  623. That would be a war crime. Shut that thought down.
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  624. Loved that Saturday Night Live spoof piece: we got a message from aliens, SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY
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  625.  @davefuller84  I had visited there on more than one occasion. I enjoyed their welcome. I prefer not to engage politically more than that: government has no legitimacy without the consent of the governed.
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  626.  @fronabulax63  They are MEANT to be reservists. Peskov has issued an apology that "mistakes were made". There is a fundamental weakness in Russian administration, which has nothing to do with ideology, and this has led to mass conscription of civilians, regardless of prior military service, or none.
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  627. Russia has falling standards of living, falling longevity, a falling birth rate, a brain drain, falling population. You have a very weird notion of greatness.
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  628. Bless your family and friends. Love from San Francisco.
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  629.  @donutdan1508  troll
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  630. FOIA in the hole!
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  631.  @Cherish1056  Most of his wealth derives from his holdings in Tesla, the electric car company. Its stock market valuation is decoupled from traditional assessments. If the Tesla valuations shed their exuberance, his wealth will take a hit.
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  632. It is, by design, a multi-year effort. Not many years since have passed.
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  633. You might try to avoid giving anyone a reason or pretext to launch? No, that would be too simple and human.
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  634. Thte is sn old Spanish saying: 'Dios me libre de hombre de un libro' - God save me from a man of one book.
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  635. 0:30 A routine kick through the posts. What's unforgettable about it?
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  636. ​ @peterlongprong7521 since when did Trump give a damn about laws?
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  637.  @Purdue_Pharma  you won't build Peace on bushes -it grows on olive trees.
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  638. I have long been suffering from a vernacular disease. Time to up my wordrobe.
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  639.  @gtfj6cheb  Voting is not to be taken lightly, where votes do count.
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  640. If, say, a Hindu child were subject not only to a Christian variety thereof: in compulsory school: how can that not be in defiance of the guarantee of freedom of conscience stated in the First Amendment?
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  641. PRC has a large forex cushion built up over many years of sustained trade surpluses; OTOH the domestic state has immense unfunded liabilities resident on the books of SOEs gasping on life-support.. How this flawed national accountancy works itself out, in the face of foreign harm, shall be interesting.
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  642. No, that would be criminal.
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  643. You might think that he might have taken the interim to figure out what went wrong; instead, he seems to have worked on how he might better harness wrong in his favour.
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  644.  @Taketimeout3  Originally the Taliban, as a military force, were young men recruited from the madrasas (Islamic schools) to fight against Soviet forces which had invaded Afghanistan.. As Islamic scholars fighting against Godless Communists, they more easily recruited other anti-Soviet fighters who had never seen the inside of a madrasa. The label stuck.
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  645.  @0IIIIII  Saved from what???
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  646.  @0IIIIII  Do please make a cogent argument for why their chosen way of life should be bulldozed over their fierce objection.
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  647. There seems to be widedpread discontent among frontline Russian troops, in that convicts can serve 6 months in the lines, and then go home with a pardon; conscripted soldiers are there for the duration, get no leave, do not get rotated out.
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  648. I loved the way Lilly Tomlin put it ~ if we just stopped to listen, maybe History wouldn't repeat itself.
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  649.  @dirtydan2721  lol
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  650. Treason is a rare felony specified within the Constitution. I can agree with much vitriol sent in her direction; but I will remain glad for the Rule of Law.
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  651.  @jerrydgj  it would be better if Ukraine had no need to use French weapons. Former vos bataillons!
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  652. I had an unusual privilege to see her for two minutes, alone. Her eyes follow you.
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  653. The Catholic Church opposes capital punishment; and so do I.
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  654. Why would this lead to a nuclear confrontation unless Putin first were to do the unthinkable? Russia proper is under no threat, and certainly not from a nuclear attack from Ukraine... which had given up its nukes to Russia in exchange for territorial integrity guaranteed by Russia. Look it up (1994 Budapest Memorandum.).
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  655.  @ayatipathak  ...and correlation is not causation.
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  656. You might be picking winners and losers according to your preferred or paid exaggerations. US industrial production has been rather robust in 2022.
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  657.  @_PatrickO  You are a fool. I viscerally despise Trump. So much for your assumptions. Now, would you care to point out a few alleged lies of which I should be aware?
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  658.  @anthonysilvestri4946  He talks and acts like Mafia; but at least the Mafia has some code of honor. My apologies for failure to make the needed contrasts.
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  659.  @anthonysilvestri4946  he talks and acts like a Mafia boss, only more dumb and scary
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  660.  @redneckshaman3099  If that's the standard for a 'stable genius': then my neighbor's toddler must rival Einstein.
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  661. @@Walks30 He's an icon -or at the least, a con.
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  662. 05:-06 We are in an unusual situation of having high latent demand which can not be satisfied due to supply constraints - and that includes labor. This downturn might evaporate if supply chains become untied. This is most what makes the current economic context so... interesting.
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  663.  @grmpEqweer  It's part of a dedicated shift of administrative functions to political hacks. I hope your treatment has a favorable result. Be well.
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  664. ​ @jimmckee2940 most persons had not taken an oath of official office, let alone tape it.
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  665. The single bloodiest date in RAF history, was fighting for the bridges at Sedan. All honour to those pilots and crews.
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  666. Reichfuerhrer Trump is uncomfortable with the Constitution. He finds it inconvenient.
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  667. I don't get why I'm finding Trump and other fascist ads in my YT feed. What the hell?
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  668. It is apocryphal that Einstein would have iterated that widely-spread "truism". He was far too smart to have said such a thing: doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results, was the principle behind the battering ram.
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  669. You should work for me.
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  670. It's surprising that a channel billing itself as "Business Insider" would be so unfamiliar with generally accepted accounting principles. Those missions to Mars did not have the sole purpose of returning soil samples to Earth. There were other tasks of scientific importance assigned to those missions. It would not be honest to zero these out and assign the mission costs only to soil sample recovery.
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  671. Russia frequently patrols the seas outside, but close to, US territorial waters - and vice versa. What's your point?
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  672.  @sallyrutledge4726  Telling the truth is not part of the oath taken at the Inauguration.
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  673.  @CheesecakeXIII  The tabloids had been worried.
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  674.  @TMCremixes  an attorney is ethicly bound to give the client best legal counsel, and to recuse him/herself as an officer of the Court when knowingly shall permit the perpetration of false witness. In the mean time, she is building a better case against her client than the other side.
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  675.  @michaelr3282  facile question marks ?
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  676.  @jjk2one  What about abortion bans?
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  677.  @ajithq7  This was not a debate over whether the Russian position were proper/OK/debatable. It was a debate over what Western society might do in the face of Russia's newest aggressive moves. If a spokesperson for Russia's aggressive moves might care to take a microphone: that can be arranged.
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  678.  @galupas  You obviously don't know where I am. Here's a hint: the closest French land is approx 3,600 km way. Idiot.
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  679. With much respect and very warm feelings, Winston I suspect that you severely under-count the number of fishing vessels in the US.
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  680. Markets aren't the self-healing systems some of the more extreme proponents would have us believe. Stock markets have predicted nine of the last five recessions. Galbraith had compared stock markets to cartoon characters who ran off the edge of a cliff - and would not fall until they looked down.
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  681. They're hiding behind transparency /s
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  682.  @Raz.v.god.i.kalash.strelyaet  You certainly have demonstrated the impressive extent of your sharp clarity of analysis in matters of diplomacy and of geopolitics.
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  683.  @pandaspls6379  Americans in particular are often sorely uninformed about what socialism is. I had lived under socialist governments in Britain, Francs, and Australia - and they dit not resemble the "communism lite' that you allege.
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  684. @lordfubar1  you are full of spit
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  685. Catchy; but if you were a poll worker in Georgia: you had hell of a lot to fear if ever you gave witness before Congress under oath.
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  686.  @SarahHerrle  For the first time in two decades, a "Republican" candidate won the popular vote.
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  687. What happened in 1881 which compelled him to go fight? AFAIK it was a rather quiet year, except perhaps for colonial "disturbances".
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  688. When you stop accepting environmental disaster as a marginal cost of the cotton trade: good things can happen.
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  689. If he really considers this a war against NATO: let's just do it. If Russia now has trouble defeating Ukraine: how might they fare against highly-trained, superbly equipped, soldiers from Britain, US, France...
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  690.  @jebes909090  Trump declared that his NYC apartment was 30,000 sq. ft., though in the real world it is 11,000 sq.. ft. THAT is fraud.
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  691.  @mahaffer71  Trump got a loan on the basis of fraudulent valuations HE supplied. Without the fraud, he likely would have had to pay a higher interest rate, or perhaps might not have received the loan. Stewart's property had been evaluated by civil servants. Unless you can prove otherwise, he took no part in evaluating his property. Now tell us this: did Trump pay property taxes on 30,000 sq.ft. of his NYC penthouse, or on the assessed almost 11,000 sq.ft?
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  692.  @moe47988  oh, do tell. Non-brainwashed participants might wait for you in the tall grass. Wouldn't you instead feel more comfortable with a defensible argument?
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  693.  @JohnFreedman0  Filing fraudulent statements for material gain is a crime. Period.
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  694. J'ai négocié avec une crapule qui m'insultait. Nous sommes arrivés à un compromis Alors, zut.
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  695.  @secretsauce4530  You are mistaken. As with almost all fish, tunas are bony; sharks and rays rely on cartilage.
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  696. @darindunn  as much a "genius" as Trump; but probably more honest.
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  697. You breathe air. So also did genocidal Pol Pot. You can not be a good person.
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  698.  @mikatimonen5449  There was a long line waiting in front of a Soviet butcher's. After 3 hours, an employee announced: "Party members, come back at 5 PM." 2 more hours pass, and the employee comes back to announce::"our scheduled delivery is only pork. You Jews can go home." After another 2 hours, the employee comes back to announce: "there have been supply restrictions. Only Party members can be served, go home." A woman waiting in line turns to another and says, "typical - the Jews get taken care of first."
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  699. And in what way is that different from PRC or Russia?
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  700. Maybe the Brits should resume paying the danegeld.
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  701.  @lunabranwen  2 Corinthians walk into a bar. Donald Trump.
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  702. Inaccurate.
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  703. Je l'ai toujours connu comme "Djerba la Douce."
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  704.  @mahatmarandy5977  Condoms are not expensive.
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  705. But it likely did not stop using you.
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  706. If you're not the client: you're the product.
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  707. That might depend on the amount of the award. What will it take for Trump to shut up? We might expect a third libel case if he can't shut his trap. And then a fourth
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  708. Thanks for this latest update on the GOP/Grift Opportunity Party.
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  709. Passenger transit via rail remains unaffected. As for freight, Lithuania has both the authority and the duty to bar the transfer of contraband to the Kaliningrad exclave.
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  710. Le proprio avaint le choix de respecter la loi, dans lequel cas il serait toujours proprio.. Il a fait un autre choix.
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  711. I won't contradict you; but what might have fostered such sadism?
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  712. Maybe my audio crapped out. Where was the other party able to speak freely?
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  713.  @christopherjavens3438  Are you going to initiate a reintroduction of the Abbott and Costello "Hu's on first" routine?
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  714. Russia's logistics are not only deficient on the Ukraine front, they are also extremely vulnerable in binding the country. Their Far East can be cut off by a minor retaliatory strike on their thin connection to Vladivostok, to supplies from PR China. They know it at an institutional level, but Putin is no longer a rational person.
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  715. Russians were already on Ukrainian territory throughout Trump's Administration. Trump just wanted to ignore it.
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  716.  @TheLexa000 unfortunately, more people will detect malice where common goofiness were a more plausible explanation.
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  717. Nous demeurons faillibles. Nous ferons des fautes, certaines parfois graves - mais pas par haine barbare..
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  718. Farmers produce food. People eat food. People who struggle to pay for food... are nasty. Farmers who supply the food eaten by those nasties, are heroes who deserve government support. Can you find a disconnect?
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  719. Le tremblement de terre, bien sur. La corruption a laquelle vous faites allusion - sans aucune preuve soumise - eut quelque effet deletoir, mais pas necessaireent-accablant. Quel temps fait-il dans votre quartier a Moscou?
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  720.  @arteliadraper7287  a given populace sent her to the legislature. Their voice had a right to be heard, however disgusting
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  721. Give him a break! Santos was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery on D-Day 1944.
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  722. ​ @grey5751 no, you are on the right track. Treason is the only crime defined within the Constitution; I can't see how their alleged behavior would match the Constitutional definition.
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  723.  @kurtsakslsvideosaks9185  For those who aren't fluent in Lazy: what might your comment have read, if emojis were not available at the swipe of a finger? How to present your arguments capably... is a skill which might boost your income. Give it a try.
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  724. We had treatment therapies which began to work on suppression at a population-level of contagion. TB should have become a trivial risk today. As I have been drawn to understand, sloppy - on a global level - application of effective treatments, was the major point of failure. Say it ain't so?
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  725. The troops will out.
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  726.  @davidwelsh8026  future precedent
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  727. @CynLeeAm  you might have some difficulty in distinguishing fact from fiction. Latest available stays reveal that border crossings from Mexico are at their lowest level in years.
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  728. ​​ @MasterBlaster-pe5os Grammar was not your strong suit in school.
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  729. Malins, Maliens... voyons donc.
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  730. If you can accept that his hair color is natural: that would make him a guilt-edged negotiable blonde.
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  731. Y compris les tropiques?
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  732. Note that Russia had not engaged any T-14 'Arbat' tanks. Both sides essentially have the same armory, but a small few Challenger-2 tanks from Britain might make a difference on the day, in the field. Slava Ukraini
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  733.  @rosemaryspiota9836  Russia's economy is "benefitting" from expanded military expenditure by the government. Roughly one million Russians left the country since Putin's "special military exercise'" began. Among them were the young and talented that any ambitious society would want to keep. You have chased them away.
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  734. That bastard has no honor and no shame. Trump is a stain on the nation.
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  735. Since Twitter - now "X", is no longer a public company, reckoning its value is less of a precision art. Most independent valuations put the company -whatever you call it - at half less than acquisition. A pundit suggested that this might have been the fastest destruction of wealth in recorded history. Chinese real estate developers might still retain the crown.
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  736. Let's cross it out.
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  737. If you don't like rap / hip hop / etc., that half time was torture. At least give us a break with something more conventional which much of the audience probably doesn't hate.
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  738. Con sequences can evaporate on Jan 6; expect a re-run
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  739. Progress is being made. We are fortunate that the President we have is not, in seeking a deal, to maximize screwing the other side. Trump is by instinct and by training, a grifter. That seldom is successful in modern diplomacy.
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  740. Best communicator likely was JFK. He was charming, eloquent, and that we had passed the Torch.
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  741. Musk is an immigrant, highly dependent on Federal financial support from Trump's government. Now, Musk asks Trump to put M-dog in charge of his own oversight except for solid mades of approprionate eval? H-6
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  742.  robonekokun  your statement is not incorrect.
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  743.  @LisaArmstrong-s9f  that is descriptive. Given a variety of choices, I would rather not go to sleep with such intestinal memories. I will still eat a grilled andouillete if offered.
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  744. The Repugs are killing their own people. That doesn't sound like a reasonable electoral strategy.
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  745. La Chine absorbe Ce n.est Pas l action d,une superpuissance
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  746. Don't poke Jon. It will not end well for you.
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  747. @AlixanderiaShayWellness  that does not align with snap polls in countries fast enough to provide preliminary data. Wishful thinking is not a data point.
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  748. Putin clearly is a war criminal; but how might we handle a war criminal who has the ability to incinerate all of humanity?
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  749. L'unité ne peut se maintenir que lorsque les participants soient unis. Les divers éléments de NUPES avaient confronté LREM tacquetiquement aux urnes... mais un vrai consensus serait un autre propos.
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  750. ​You read a verdict of guilt, and conclude that the guilty party smells sweeter than roses?
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  751.  @rockyrockwell50  Good people have died to secure our right to vote. Let's not let the Republicans make them have died in vain.
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  752.  @kwanchan6745  Russia would be well warned not to use nukes with any sense of impunity. By the way, Sweden participated in ISAF, with her troops in harm's way in Afghanistan. That might have escaped your notice.
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  753.  @kwanchan6745  Take your pick. The US, Britain, and France, all have nuclear options. I would expect that France would be more likely to provide a muscular response..
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  754.  @Akamoke2021  Our system is based on who voted. You appear to disagree. Where are you from?
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  755. The good news is: you can save money by moving to Texas. The bad news is: you'd be living in Texas.
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  756. How well did the Soviet Union do in the Winter War against Finland? What happened to the Russians at Austerlitz? What happened to the Japanese Imperial Fleet at Midway? So many fascinating but irrelevant historical war matters which might be fun to explore. Shall we start with Midway?
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  757. A lengthy all caps comment might indicate a stuck keyboard... or often, a stuck mind.
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  758. ​ @MyDruidess You might benefit from improving your patterns of speech. You very much could become more credible outside your incestuous thought-silo if you spent some time learning about Communism as a trend in ideology, then contrast it with the diverse applications in real political and economic governance. That might be too much to expect from someone who can't express himself coherently, even in spoon-fed soundbites... but hope springs eternal.
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  759. ​ @chairmandan1794 if you're applying for a job pouring concrete, sure.
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  760. ​ @MGSfan some might be capable of writing a sentence in clear, correct, English.
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  761. Est-ce que cette fonte des glaces aurait pris en compte l'expansion thermale, une fois la glace fondue?
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  762.  @thehistory5401  Fun fact: for decades, Ukraine had its own internationally recognized seat - including by USSR - in the United Nations. Provinces had no right to a seat in the UN.
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  763. @mugwump242  As Voltaire put it in Candide: is there nothing so respectable as a time-honored abuse?
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  764. Détrumpez-vous
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  765. Hamas declines any such solution.What's your next proposal
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  766. ​ @Eric-hw3tc Your reply lacks in coherence. There is a discussed D / R dichotomy. You want to assign the 'D' to Trump; however, there is no 'R' in Joe/Joseph Biden. Your thought is unbalanced.
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  767. If you express five contradictory stances in the same day, at least one of them might carry a bit of truth.
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  768.  @bob_the_bomb4508  When you wear the uniform, you serve. Your alternative might be to invoke conscientious objection, but countries tend to make this a harrowing experience. However ineffectual one possibly might portray the air campaign from Britain, at the very least it had diverted significant resources away from the Russian Front. The Luftwaffe was signally under-strength compared with the operational requirements to the East.
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  769. For 20 billion dollars down the drain, I could have managed the company better; a well-spoken local homeless guy, Dave, could have done better . Why is Musk so freaking clueless?
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  770. ​ @johnmartinsen963 his net wealth can carry him over on the average American standard of living for 4 times all recorded history. He doesn't need to speak.
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  771.  @---cf9bj  It mutates.
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  772.  Pommie  Russia has severely repressed non-official accounts of the war. There's a reason why Putin called this a "special military operation". Not everybody will have been aware of Moscow's cynical propaganda. "...its dreadful but if they made a stand before 24th February." Actually, it would not have mattered. In an authoritarian regime such as Russia, public opinion seldom matters.
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  773.  @ch1il986  What are you talking about - :"letting city's [sic] burn"? Where? ,
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  774.  @liquidminds  You forgot "quantum"
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  775. Musk rats rely on vision, but can not see very far.
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  776. ​ dennisemanuelsson7136 if you remember your history (a dubious notion at best), very few EU members joined the Union on the basis of a public vote. You can't trick people into voting for something that never had been on the ballot.
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  777. ​ @georgelazenby3607 PRChina urinated on the international treaty (lodged with the UN) under which it undertook to respect Hong Kong's rights and freedoms. The Politburo's Republic of China suffered few harms from so harshly violating the handover treaty.
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  778.  @gothicgolem2947  Sovereignty is fun; it also can come with costs. If you grasp the object of your desire, remember that this hand can grasp nothing else. Brexit voters forgot about the /else.
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  779. Trump's seizure of the GOP apparatus is chillingly reminiscent of Hitler's grab on power.
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  780. EXACTLY. VOTE BiDEN!!!
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  781. ", Trump Derangement Syndrome' denotes those who suffer from Trump's derangement.
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  782. Were these "standby electors" aware of the totalitarian nature of their chosen one?
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  783. They might sue Cancun Ted, but they have no case against the government for the goofy rantings of one legislator.
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  784. The 2nd Amendment is the only one in the Bill of Rights prefaced by a deciding reason: the need for a well regulated militia.
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  785. Another respondent shared the now-famous words of Pastor Niemoller. ...then they came for me...
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  786.  @HighAttitude72 0.99, recurring Will you recur to me?
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  787. *ucker Carlson's origin story is one of privilege. He rails against "the elites" - of which he is an untouted member. He was born to serious money.
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  788. I have found it bizarre that many object to sea-based pens in the Pacific on the grounds that escaped farmed salmon might interbreed with the local population. That might not be a credible concern: Pacific salmon not only are not the same species - they are not the same genus. Past that, salmo salar escapees will lack the "homing instinct" which guides native species to spawn at a given time in a definite (and suicidal) place. The possibility of interbreeding is not a full zero, but neither should it be a source of panic.
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  789. Bellingcat is a public treasure.
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  790.  @andyrobinson2653  [re: Nietzsche] "Sometimes, sometimes bad is bad." - Huey Lewis
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  791. Stingers are heat-seeking missiles. There's no reason why one might not lock onto a cruise missile - which is propelled by a heat-emitting engine.
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  792. He was an officer who refused to participate in an immoral war. Calling him "dude" is an insult.
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  793.  @dontbanmebrodontbanme5403  That is part of Russia's military weakness. There is virtually no empowered NCO class. A well-trained NCO corps will enforce discipline which includes respect for the rules of war. Twelve Russian generals have been killed because they could not trust a sergeant to get on with the job.
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  794.  @drunkgamerdad1423  Thank you for corresponding. Family members living near Narvik have different experiences.
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  795. The Blitz had not broken the will of the British public. It was immense hubris to think that the Germans could not also withstand similar airborne harm.
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  796.  @amercanmade2685  Another thing - what in Hell makes you think that Putin's rule among extractive oligarchs is in any way "socialist'?
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  797. We had a pissful transition of power.
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  798. What is truly scary is that there are persons sufficiently compromised that they will execute his will with no thought engaged.
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  799. Canada fought Hitler for more than 2 yeas before the US finally joined the scrap. Maybe Canada can exist without American permission?
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  800.  @federicofaustoisaia  L'Italie ne meurt pas de faim, ni du froid. Vas te faire voir.
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  801. A "contract" without a consensus ad idem is not valid.
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  802. The current low core unemployment rates are due in part to the quirky nature of that stat. Unlike some other countries, The US tabulates the number of persons actively looking for a job, but don't have one. It does not well take into account the discouraged, nor those who can not work, but are not registered as disabled.
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  803. We keep hearing comments and analyses of what might have been the consequences for Americans and Japanese if the war had not been cut short, preventing the need for an invasion or blockade of Japan. We might also remember what might have happened in china. The Japanese were brutal on the way in, and there's no reason to expect that they would not have been at least as brutal on the way out. Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed many Japanese, but arguably saved as many Chinese lives.
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  804. "the USA eventually realize this position is foolish so Nixon went to China to strike a deal" ... No, The US and PRC decided that they would do better to confront their common adversary: the Soviet Union. It was pure realpolitik, and had nothing to do with a perception of foolishness.
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  805. God is love Love is blind Stevie Wonder is God
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  806. @egg5687  you had not specified where in Europe. In much of Europe, failure to accept diversity and inclusion is against the Law, or even the Constitution. Hegspeth might need some further education.
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  807.  @iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79  A math whiz confided to me: 2 plus 2 equals 5 for extreme values of 4. I'm not yet comfortable with that.
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  808. 0:13 We already had 'two Corinthians walk into a bar". Can't we get serious?
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  809. 1:50 le césium n'est pas un élément normalement radioctif
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  810. +superdubman999 The choice was not between innocent civilians being killed or not - but which ones, and how many. It is a decision similar in nature to a doctor either amputating a limb, or letting the patient die. Under normal circumstances, a doctor would never amputate a limb, sometimes it is necessary.
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  811. +Hunter Kirby What are you smoking?
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  812. Textbook-worthy cognitive dissonance.
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  813. commnter10 What is the source authority which underpins that statement you propagate/ propagandose - allegedly, "Fukushima has been censored from 99% of the news". ? Give us numbers we can verify. As you introduce/introdupe stats, you must be held accountable. Go.
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  814. foobargorch Potholer54's excellent YT video, How to Argue with Assholes
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  815. commnter10 I'm not surprised about a lack of news reports about the Pacific Ocean dying as a result of the Fukushima catastrophe, because there's no evidence of it happening Last Saturday I was at the pier in Pacifica, enjoying a beautiful sunny day and watching the ocean not dying: A pod of whales came close to shore to gorge on krill which was not very much not dead. It was quite a sight.
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  816. commnter10 I would gladly eat locally caught Pacific seafood at least once a day, but that would increase my cost of food significantly. If you don't mind paying for it, I'm willing to put my mouth where your money is. At present, I do eat Pacific Ocean fish several times a week, and easily could eat more. Yum! I live under 2 hours from the best leafy greens-growing area in the world, so I can't see why I would eat salads from wherever the hell the Semi Valley is. Search engines keep yielding Simi Valley. - a far suburb of greater LA.
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  817. New Yorkers elected her to be their senator. Twice.
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  818. If the Koolaid tastes so good, I won't stop you. You wrote: "Hillary is a wannabe Arkansas snob that real New Yorkers will kiss off." Face it, that was a stupid statement.
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  819. You wrote: "Hillary is a wannabe Arkansas snob that real New Yorkers will kiss off." Face it, that was a stupid statement.
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  820. +Johannes S "Competition in the money systems" is allowed. If you would rather your personal wealth shift into yen, or Australian dollars, or Swedish kronor: you can do that. If you want to go all-in and shift your liquid assets into bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency: you can do that too. One of the reasons you are able to communicate with so many people far beyond the limitations of how far a person can walk, or perhaps ride a horse, is that there has been an immense increase in economic activity, of social and technological development, which only can have happened if there were trust in common criteria of norms, and that includes monetary confidence..
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  821. Isn't she lovely?
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  822. Trump is a businessman. He has little/no experience of wielding executive power where the people who get your orders... don't have to jump immediately to obey your commands. They might have power on their own, they're not dependencies on You as an employer. A seasoned politician might bend toward his will, a recalcitrant senator; but the Don is a babe in arms when it comes to these matters. Any President who holds diversity in such contempt, IMO likely will find it difficult to forge coalitions sufficient to govern capably.
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  823. Dump twitter
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  824. It's time to stop freaking out in the end about the UK Scotland remained loyal, and by the strongest margin of any home nation.. Her voters have a right to have their voices matter.
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  825. +Koota Imagine how mind-boggled you would be if your consciousness were hijacked and harassed on a daily basis by morons who can't come to grips with the fact that it had been totally impossible, even under perfect conditions, to deliver sufficient force in time to ~maybe~ save your loved ones.
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  826. +Trollitytrolltroll What part of "Pre-Islamic" are you unable to comprehend?
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  827. +bob head Are you willfully stupid, or is this display just an accident of nature?
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  828. +Steve Cramlington You are entitled to your opinion, however bizarre.
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  829. +Nick Nickl Science is not an entity with agency: so it obviously can't be omnipotent. * To an immense extent, Science is a process of correcting errors. That is a key feature of the scientific method. To protest that there are errors to be found in a continuous process of detecting and correcting errors... is no more insightful than remarking that football players play with footballs.
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  830. +James Robert Clark W "Hurricanes are not a result of global warming. We have had far fewer, not more." What is your trend time framework?
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  831. +stephen williams You're an idiot.
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  832. +StonyJoe Might be even funnier if it were true.
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  833. +M Rey Giving "the government" more power is not always a bad thing. For starters, mandatory quarantines have saved indeed many lives. Given your attitude, I would suspect that you're American, and on the right wing. I would invite you to take a closer look at other electoral advanced "western" democracies, and not that many of them defer much more power to their respective governments, yet retain similar levels of freedom as do Americans. True, in some of them you won't have the right to keep firearms at home - but OTOH they give their citizens freedom from want, and freedom from fear in ways that Americans can barely comprehend. Your opposition seems to be based on political grounds alone. Could you please explain why there might not be any opportunity to devolve power to address man-made climate disruption factors... down to the community level? But, let's get back to the topic at hand. Do you accept or deny that * certain gases, among them CO2, trap heat in the atmosphere? * that a sharp increase in atmospheric CO2 will trap more heat, and so result in temperatures higher than would be the case if there were not this increase in CO2?
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  834. +James Clark I have no experience of politicians - heavy handed or otherwise - saving me. What are you alleging?
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  835. +James Clark Do you dispute that greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere? Or do you deny that GHGs are building up in the atmosphere at a rapid rate? Or is it perhaps your contention that the atmospheric concentration of GHGs had reached a threshold past which there is no further heat-trapping effect?
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  836. Eric. you are a nasty liar.
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  837. But can he pull off those instigated riots? His legitimate ground game is weak, and a criminal provocation wing most likely shall be even weaker.
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  838. +KyroSkee A lot cooler if you spell it, "crache"
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  839. Feynman was fun. Much of STEM was, and still is, dreary. He changed that to a large extent.
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  840. Commentators will, at times, seek to wrap themselves in a cloak of righteousness before they rap. As far as Christianity goes: there are more than 1,000 denominations in existence today. Not all of them will necessarily agree on any given point of theology. For example, some denominations (heavily represented in the US,) claim that Earth and all... is no more than some 6 to 7 thousand years old; meanwhile, a priest from Catholic University of Louvain consensually is credited as the earliest known proponent of the 'Big Bang' theory. Islam has many traditions, some of which can quickly become repugnant; however, though having grown up in a Christian tradition, I am vastly more comfortable among Muslims of the Sufi tradition than. say, among the ilk of Ken Ham.
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  841. +Alliance SeTuR[A] Thank you for the correction, you are right. I feel so Puny.
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  842. In advanced "Western" economies, there was a seminal shift in the early 80's where the defense-related public sector became a net importer of technology; prior to that, National Defense provided non-commercial funding for a project rationale for investigating breakthrough technologies - such as the internet we are both using.Spinoffs were bonuses, then adjunct and spinoff technologies became crucial to Defense in a post-DOD line-item budget. But these were not planned for, as they could not have been conceived. ~ When it had been a government vs government showdown on raw numbers: the Soviets could keep up, at the expense of the standard of living of the citizenry; Beyond the predictable input/output matrix, they began to fall behind.fast. Indeed, SU had significant influence over raw materials prices. * A planned economy could not keep pace with a fluid base sustaining that vibrant economy; it got worse as technological progress increased the fluidity..
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  843. 02:55 Panama does not have such an unusually high number of ships in her registry because, ahem, the costs of "taxes and labor" are low. There are quite very few Panamanians serving aboard the vessels she flags. The Panamanian labor pool - at whatever wage level - is not a significant factor in the costs administered by shipping lines. Panama is popular among ship owners because the laws are complaisant - some might argue, complicit.
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  844. Gootman Boats You might wonder why? There are individuals who are capable of funding it alone - Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Carlos Slim, among others. None has come forward to do so. This is tricky technology, and I hope it works. We should get a much quicker solution if we invest in Thorium fission, which would fail safe. OTOH it would not provide a useful source of weapons-grade fissile raw materials - a bummer, for some.
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  845. I am using a Von Neumann machine to write this response - i.e., a (now commonplace) computer
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  846. ***** I like the way an ex- put it: "race is a pigment of your imagination." Bless her. She's got a point. * I prefer this more revealing spelling of the term: "racyst"
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  847.  @deborahgregoire3310  "Some say the world will end in fire" (/some say in ice.) It is brief... but Robert Frost's poem, "Fire And Ice", might provide some guidance. A sharp vocal by Pat Benatar was the theme as I spent a week learning to fly glider planes. Now you know much more about me than you ever cared. Now... What should you probably be guided against sharing, but wanted to get off your chest?
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  848.  @sko1beer  There never before had been any likelihood of American bases in Ukraine. Joining EU typically is a long and arduous process, which might not even succeed. Ukraine might have needed 10 years to become a member, and Putin's poodle (Orban) could scuttle it at any moment.
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  849. That is a fun way to look at it. Churchill had no academic higher degree, nor had FDR - but they won World War 2.
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  850. ​ @pleappleappleap  I had heard that he has an MBA from Wharton. He is fundamentally not a man driven to higher discovery of the human condition.
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  851.  @ryanfraser167  isn't it funny that 'entertainment' shares a common root with what we now would call "maintenance" ?
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  852. They're not "pro-life" - they're pro-birth, and often the most rabid supporters of moves to demy programs to help children, such as Head Start. They want proliferation without assuming responsibility for their position.
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  853. Do not blame others for your high appetite on a restricted diet. If you want more attention paid to Whelan: bang on a drum. Just because your news feed does not meet your personal needs, that does not mean much - does it? Or maybe it does. There is resurgent marburg and ebola in sub-Saharan Africa, threat of widespread famine in the Horn of Africa, in Yemen, in the Levant - but this one person gets to your gut. What's up with you?
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  854.  @dpt6849  You've never lived in western Europe, have you? Policies currently being pursued in western Europe can hardly be considered as "far left" - except by someone who is entirely naive in these matters, or a total randroid. "Far left" could be practices such as forced nationalization of industries. Even farther to the left would be policies which centralized economic policy under a central plan - as there had been in the USSR. Even farther than far left of the far left would be policies such as the Great Leap Forward. And there is even farther to the left available for your enjoyment. You are a ignorant moron.
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  855. There is a category of ship dubbed 'panamax', the largest which can navigate the Canal. Needless to say, these ships are not the largest built.
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  856. There was a typo: 'LEAST legitimate Presidemt'.
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  857. News feeds state that Slovakia just transferred 4 MiG-29's to Ukraine. Not many, but every bit helps. Thank you, Slovakia.
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  858. Drug supply is not always victimless. We saw that when Prohibition gave rise to murderous gangs.
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  859. NATO is defensive alliance. Russia should not be worried unless it harbour offensive ambitions. NATO has a small border with Russia in northern Norway, a small Polish frontier (and a few km of Lithuania) with Russia's conquered exclave of Kaliningrad, a few kilometers with Estonia near Narva - that is, not much territory. You might ask instead why Putin is so fascinated with expanding Russia toward NATO? His aggression against Ukraine for no valid reason at all, pushed Finland... and even Sweden - neutral since the fall of Napoleon - to join NATO. Why does Putin want Russia to move NATO so close to itself?
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  860.  @theonly6359  Cuba: we've already seen that scenario play out 60 years ago. Mexico:? there is friction in both directions. Mexico is not a country favourable to the brand of civil coercion Russia's style of dictatorship maintains. Mexicans like freedom. They like to say what they want to say without getting bundled off to a gulag.
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  861.  @antondovydaitis2261  Cannon Law shall not bind a parochial school, not shall it prevent the teaching of vicious ethics at odds with its ecumenical hug.
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  862.  @CuddleBuddee  Clarence was the apprentice / fall into success. It's a wonderfear life under Thomas.
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  863.  @janniegilleylen9883  hush my baby, don't you cry, Momma's gonna buy you a self defense 9 mm slug. Parabellum rounds were designed to stop.
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  864. How shall PR China resorb its massive real estate losses? The personal finances of millions have been wiped out - in a country which officially styles itself as socialist, but has no equivalent of America's Social Security, let alone more compassionate regimens in many western European societies. China's economy is stalling just as the Power in Beijing wants to transition to a consumer-based mode of growth. Consumer behaviour understandably shall be shy as indicatorsrs all point down. This is a self-reinforcing phenomenon, not one beneficial to the global economy.
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  865.  @yon8378  self-doubt. The Judeo-Christian tradition can not endure without the ~Judeo component.
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  866.  @jimdale9143  Putin's aggression must be stopped. The farther East, the better.
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  867. Yes; which one is your favorite?
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  868.  @Kraddakk Orban is following Orban's interests. He constantly affronts European norms, seeking how far he can go without incurring disastrous consequences. Unfortunately, the Treaty of Lisbon failed to provide a procedure for expelling an EU member.
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  869. @Qotroz They said very much the same thing about Ukraine's resistance. That has obviously not happened in 8 weeks. You might feel better about this matter than I do: Putin might not be fully rational - if he were, this war / "special military operation" - would not be happening. He just might be crazy enough to use TNWs. It might be a good time to remind you that NATO is an alliance, and a defensive alliance at that. It does not have any sort of integrated offense command - but you knew that, right?
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  870. Heads I win, tails you lose. Typical trumpism.
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  871. Computers yuccidentally evolved to infect humans
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  872.  @kylewalter3111  Less a shield, more a false-flag.
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  873. 3:34 campuses can't possibly violate any student's 1st Amendment rights: only a government entity can do so.
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  874. Julian Assangel caused immense harm to American diplomacy, and - allthouhh not a US citizen- significantly helped swing the 2016 election to Donald Trump. Some will argue that he has suffered enough; that is subject to debate.
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  875.  @hansonjarvis2222  So... PRC therefore should return Xinjiang and Tibet, right?
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  876.  @ChrisJones-wg1iy  hoobris ?
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  877. @Byzantina1204  from you
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  878. Certainly should be talking about climate change.
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  879.  @jahualhaq9853  "the definition of insanity..." There is no.proof that Einstein ever said that, and he was too smart to have done so, You have to do the same thing over and over when using a battering ram
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  880. Said had a clear and brilliant mind. Thanks for the refresher. However, I disagree: there have been empires which had focused on conquest and on pillage, and made no bones about it.
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  881. Trump's national popularity never broke the 50% mark while in office. He lost the popular vote twice. Something like 85% of a shrinking Republican base approve of him; independents are not won over - especially after the Capitol insurrection, and Democrats understandably hate him. Even a small minority of honorable Republicans can sink him in 2024.
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  882. Talk about 'uneducated'! The United States is only "the richest country" by dint of having both a high GDP per capita, and a very large population - no other affluent country has even half of America's population. Equalize population numbers, and other countries are richer.
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  883. I would rather not have a President whose motto remains, "laws are only there to be tested".
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  884.  @rogirek3362  you have a bizarre notion of causality.
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  885. Z'avez vu s'ki s'passe en Asie Mineure? Otan en emporte Levant. Du reste, vous êtes un imposteur/lacqué, "James Randi"
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  886. First 3 jabs worked perfectly for me. Re determination of recommending a 4th jab was made by CDC, not by the media
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  887.  @Nigglebaun  might you do the kindness of reposting? I have diligently read each word in this thread, and nowhere appears your verified posit.
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  888. The peaceful transfer of power is not exclusively American, nor had the US exercised it for longer than any other country.
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  889.  @alta7503  Il est de bonne fome d'identifer la personne à laquelle vous vous adressez.
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  890.  @revilohtinamssor2842  It's a rather small country, but it does prefer to have its name spelled correctly..
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  891. 00:25 This is the wrong map: it shows Finland in her borders prior to ceding land to USSR following the Winter War.
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  892. No you don't: you have failed to denounce Putin.
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  893. That doesn't match with the testimony of volunteer medical personnel from MSF/Doctors Without Borders
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  894. +Shadowfax Friendly reminder: Trump is not God. Anyone - ANYONE - has the right to fact-check Trump's statements, and the Press has the duty to do so.
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  895. That was an agreement between some NATO members - apparently without NATO's traditional unanimity in decision-making - and the USSR. The USSR evaporated into the mists of Time. The agreement therefore no longer was binding... if indeed it ever were.
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  896.  @panchonelson3573  A C-section would net a higher payout.
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  897. @Laurel Adams There are times when there is a medical need for a late term abortion, e.g. to protect the health or save the life of the mother. Late term abortions would be performed on women who often really wanted a baby - after all, she had carried the fetus so far. You'd be surprised at how much pointless legislation gets brought to the floor, and even enacted. If you search for "stupid laws", for example, you will find some truly hilarious examples.
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  898.  @kallebengtzon5240  Joining EU is a process, not one always easy even in times of peace. Speaking as a citizen of an EU member, I would welcome my sisters and brothers from Ukraine; but there are strict joining criteria.
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  899. Do you not find it curious that the current president is Jewish, whose grandparents resisted the Nazis, and a recent prime minister also was Jewish.. bur, in your mind, they tolerate Nazis? Are you that unable to connect with reality?
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  900. A shutdown would be immensely painful; maybe the People need to see who is willing to inflict that pain.
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  901. ​ @som980  for what?
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  902. ​ @eciliaenelson6293  You were not asking a question. You floated some fluff you pondered, and for which there is most likely no possible answer. You can still float your fluff, but a musing should never be mistaken for a genuine question - unless you work for Faux News.
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  903. @roberthenry9319  might that perhaps derive from a lack of definition of the term?
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  904. + advent Autodidacture. Don't let it go too far. You have a positive 'thumbs up' count, which - by your assertion - renders your post illegitimate
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  905.  @extremelydeplorablebodean839  Had you not understood that screaming without pause ... will not better present your (otherwise perhaps reasonable) argument? ALL CAPS are considered as shouting/screaming - and this has been a convention for well over 20 years. Occasional caps are accepted and [maybe] effective. Put down the megaphone.
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  906. I have found it funny that Americans from Dixie would berate the French for capitulating in WWII... as though Appomattox never happened.
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  907. Putin went vicious / nuts when Ukraine sank his Black Sea Fleet capital ship, the Moskva. How viciously will he punish non-combatant civilians (supposedly Russian brothers and sisters) in the lands that the Russian Federation had conquered?
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  908.  @JosephFerguson-bi1ul  Mango, banana, and tangerine... That was a great Bond movie.
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  909.  @bille77  thy recognized that it's more fun to be in power, than to be decent.
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  910. @minniewright4325  Trump's needs should not be part of the greater political discource.
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  911. This video takes little notice of EU, members of which are major players on the global stage. What a pity.
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  912.  @keirfarnum6811  By now, you are.
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  913.  @keirfarnum6811  You might have liked her
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  914. Soviet difficulties in the Winter War might be less than a catastrophe, absolute or less. Their logistics were horrid, the morale of the troops was weak, even before the Party messed with their minds. The Winter War debacle forced reforms which bolstered the fighting ability of the Red Army. Ting were bad at the front opposing Barbarossa, but would have been worse with a political commisar second-guessing and even applyig a veto to an experienced field commander's direction. The Soviet military's poor performance in the Winter War likely had precipitated Hitler's decision to launch Operation Barbarossa.
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  915. 7:30 the judge had not ruled on Trump being able to attend Barron's graduation. Once again, the Don lies to get his followers steamed up.
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  916. Putin is the greatest threat. Trump is a pustule; Putin is a loaded weapon.
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  917.  @Lyndsay953  Thank you for your service. My grandfather was wounded at Verdun. I do not want to fight, but sometimes you must.
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  918.  @marcustulliusc  The State of Florida had entered into a BINDING compact with Disney - it is not as though the State had entered into the arrangement blind, deaf, and deprived of any mental ability except for signing on the dotted line. Orlando has an international airport... that would have been inconceivable without the Mouse. Disney is the main economic engine of central Florida. What DeSantis does to Disney, he does to Florida.
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  919. On another subject STOP proposing 100% binary choices . Generally these were applicable to +/- , pass or not. at the discretion. Even one. War is horror. Boyfriends should compete to develop healthy Best wishes for our beloved Slava Ukraini a;
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  920.  @matthew67biley  I have been provoked. Now may I ask you to define: what the Hell is "woke" ? Other sections of American society might consider it as common decency; might you please redirect common decency to you heart's content?
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  921. Yet apparently he was not voted off the island.
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  922. You do not enhance your argument by indiscriminately posting IN CAPS.
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  923. The United States has largely followed trade policies in accord within the parameters derived from the Bretton Woods framework. Where the US had imposed import restrictions, generally these had been within the rules of GATT or WTO - Trump administration excepted. The United States had not engaged in trade retaliation because it felt its national pride insulted. If you disagree with this: give some examples.
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  924. Although he appears to undermine it with unusual zeal, we still have procedure and rule of Law.
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  925. Nice to hear from you, again. "Potential applications" are / mind boggling. Are there other traits in human experience which might boggle... yet exclude the mind?
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  926. The revered Adam Smith had much to say about morality; that is widely ignored. I like what Warren Buffett reportedly said: he will leave his family enough that they can do anything, but not enough that they can do nothing.
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  927. Put me in, Coach!
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  928. I differed with most of what I heard William Buckley say; but I accept that he thought before speaking. Your comment might better have been more deeply contemplated aforehand.
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  929. No. People who were always the most vulnerable tended to get more fully vaccinated. The population at large still gets covid, Some among them who had been vaccinated and/or previously infected: because the virus mutates rapidly. People who were highly vulnerable, remain highly vulnerable.
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  930. There will be a 90-day pause before Triump becomes the first President to imduce a recession.
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  931. Treason is the only crime specifically defined within the Constitution , viz >Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
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  932. Glad to hear his honest tip of the slung.
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  933. I have no personal enmity toward Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine. Many among you don't want to be there. Many among you are not Russian. You are meat for the machine. Go home.
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  934. 4:25 What's the difference between a diamond and an email? An email is forever.
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  935. Les adversaires de Poutine ont une sale habitude de tomber de leur balcon.
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  936. Oui, c'est légal d'agir ainsi.
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  937. The 1814 burning of the capital by British forces was inconvenient; the Civil War was not pleasant. Do please revise or clarify your remarks.
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  938.  @Missunderstood103  Leo, the lie on.
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  939. I have known Britain's NHS. It's a hell of a lot better than the graft and chaos we endure n the US.
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  940. The only inexhaustible natural resource is humam stupidity.
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  941. May fortune favor the just. Bless Ukraine!
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  942. "Bulletproof' was just an advertising puff, right? For all you Law school students: look up Carlill
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  943.  @beverlybalius9303  Please fully document and share these occurrences. Medical science is data-driven, and benefits from verifiable input. Your contentions are verifiable, aren't they?
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  944. Two Corinthians walk into a bar...
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  945. Many of the same precincts which had voted Trump in 2016, have changed demographics Hurt rube he can have been so out of touch as to claim that you must show ID to buy bread.
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  946. "agnostic" does ajttach a kitten's smile to bdh idk ughot knowing
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  947. @DogCbone  This "stable genius" insists that foreign interests pay US customs duties and excise. They don't. How do I know this? I signed checks to reimburse my US-based customs broker for duties imposed on imported goods into the US. On the other side of the equation, I shipped product to East Asia... and in no part of the process did the recipient country request or demand duties paid. Cusoms levied are paid by the importer of record. Americans with a cost structure they have to pass on, or go bankrupt. In the end, you will pay.
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  948. @DogCbone  most casual observers might have noticed that Biden is not on the ballot.
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  949. Ordure in the Court!
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  950. Were your facilities so blunted that your perception of inflation had been frozen in the Siberian tundra?
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  951.  @happyjohn1656  haven't you been aware that the inflation rate has come down sharply? It's down by more than half since the 9% peak?
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  952.  @karl-erlendmikalsen5159  The effect of UK's leaving the EU was not drastic in similar a time period as since Russia launched its 2022 invasion of the rest of Ukraine. Something you might care to remember, is that the topic of this video is the unreliability of Russian statistics; British stats are widely held to be credible and reliable. Comparing apples to oranges is usually not considered reasonable.
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  953. No. You can get that written on the wall of your padded cell where they keep you from hurting yourself. * Where the hell did you get that idea? Germany's forces shall be available to the Alliance under Article 5. That might be needed to be invoked for operations in Turkiye, or in Norway, or at any point along the European central plain. You might, however, agree that Putin's aggression against Ukraine had galvanized Germany into increasing its military spending from its a few points above 1% to the mutually agreed norm of 2% of GDP, plus a 100 bn euro fund to catch up with its prior requirements. A near-doubling of the Bundeswehr, plus the move to NATO membership of Sweden and Finland, most likely were not the results Putin expected when coldly he attacked Ukraine, It might have been the worst voluntary geopolitical blunder since the Berlin Wall fell.
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  954. The new House majority has managed to send shivers of fear throughout financial markets by threatening to make the US default on servicing the national debt.
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  955.  @AAX1975  What is so befuddling?
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  956.  @piethermanus8777  What?
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  957.  @piethermanus8777  How about you?
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  958.  @piethermanus8777  The BBC likely would have violated its charter by treating your baseless accusations with any measure of seriousness.
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  959.  @AAX1975  I had not erased any comment for a very long time, nor had I written anything which violated YT's TOS. Spit happens.
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  960. The general consensus seems to be that Trump is on the hook for fraud: He is said to have inflated the value of his assets when he needed to secure a loan, but deflated the value of the same assets for tax-reporting purposes. That sort of behavior does not sit well with the IRS.
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  961.  @adamf7089  That were a good general principle. You might explain to what extent Disney might not be paying its "fair share". As this video had pointed out, that part of FL was only marginally developed, so in exchange for Disney bringing in a huge amount of local development for which the Mouse had to shell out huge amounts in infrastructure investment, Disney was granted a certain amount of fiscal autonomy within the territory it had upgraded, to protect its investment. That was the deal. Any economist worth his salt will tell you that a pioneering enterprise which sets up in an undeveloped backwater, might make it thrive beyond the government just adding a few roads, bridge, and dams - do you really expect that Orlando would have an international airport if it were not for Disney? Yet, you ask a fair question. In what way do you have a sense that Disney were not "paying its fair share"? Do bear in mind that Disney, as an international corporation, is under scrutiny elsewhere for ESG: Environmental, Social, and Governance - and that is not only by governments and NGOs, but also by investment funds which have noticed that "woke" i,e non-nasty corporations tend to yield higher returns. Paying your fair share of taxes is a must.
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  962. Psychic Cringe Fails 2 - The Best of James Randi https://youtu.be/uq5MtA33OHk
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  963. Interesting comment. The United States has long been careful not to thwart Saudi diplomatic initiatives. Why your // here, now?
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  964. When your foe is digging himself in a hole: don't remove the shovel.
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  965. Apple, the computer pioneer, nearly augured in and ceased to exist. It had insisted on selling its own hardware with its own software, leaving the consumer the Henry Ford choice (referring to the Model T): any color you want , as long as it's black. Meanwhile the PC format ran away with it. The fan base seems fervent enough to keep the company going; if you don't like the company's preferences, prefer another company. Under typical business conditions, that is a recipe for disaster. How long can Apple count on, or create, non-typical circumstances to its advantage?
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  966. Has anyone offered a reasonable suggestion how the 9 M inhabitants might earn a living? And btw, the sheer logistics during construction likely will cause the Suez Canal system to fail.
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  967. Donetsk, don't tell.
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  968. Unfortunately, insider trading by members of Congress is not illegal - and it happens on both sides of the aisle. One might wonder what is the purpose of investigating Nancy? She's already given up the gavel, and is widely expected to retire after this coming Congress.
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  969. Each government entity might become subject to near-infinite blocking lawsuits, which generally favor the already-rich and powerful. They have the power of the purse, dark money shelled out for effect. Please let's stop this corruption.
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  970. Further, international norms provide for prosecution of war crimes, but not of "special military operations" crimes.
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  971.  @alexm566  Regulations which apply to desertion, apply to conscripts.
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  972.  @mikakettunen7939  Russia s setting 2022 standards, and these are far from humane.. The People of Ukraine would be better off if Russia chose to abide by the Geneva Conventions, and by the UN Charter.
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  973. Continental fishermen had made major landings from former catches within British EEZ waters - now almost fully closed to them. British fishermen, , most of whose catch had been exported to the Continent, now can almost no longer sell there. Brexit for the win!
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  974. 3:25 and following. Thie correct calculation of GDP also includes negative components.... not denoted in this lazy / or stilted/ journalism.
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  975.  @jackied962  what is your personal understanding of what "socialist" means? There are some who hold that anything else than unfettered capitalism red In tooth and claw, is "socialism". Much of the world manages to include some redistributary compensatory social cohesion. Many of these have long been strong components of NATO', when the opponent made no secret of it's USSR Marxist intentions. Had you spent any time pondering the complexities of common social cohesion.... or did you just want to fart?
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  976. Lincoln was a master linguistics engineer. In the Gettysburg Address, he had not mentioned our "forefathers"; but he entrained us to think so. Wording matters. Polls consistently reveal that "capital punishment" is more approved by some 10% than "the death penalty"... even as these are the same.
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  977. ​ @760HorsePower It most likely can, but never tried.
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  978. ​ @760HorsePower the last time a strong leader used warfare as a measure of national virility, Hitler's aggression left over 20M Soviet citizens dead. Don't emulate Hitler.
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  979.  @Cotac_Rastic  the mujahedeen wouldn't have become a military force if the USSR had not invaded Afghanistan. The initial stupidity was a Soviet Union decision. Many subsequent errors came therefrom, but blame for theft of apples first goes to the one who overturned the apple cart.
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  980.  @Cotac_Rastic  its resistance was a reaction to the Soviet invasion, that was its genesis. If the Soviet Union had not invaded Afghanistan, the rest of the unfortunate sorrows most probably shall not have happened. They would not have launched Stingers on Soviet aviation targets... if the Soviets had not engaged these legitimate aviation targets in resistance against a component of SU's invasion of Afghanistan.
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  981.  @760HorsePower  You are among those who supports Russian aggression in defiance of its treaty obligations: under protcols agreed to between newly independent Ukraine and newly independent Russia: Ukraine had agreed to give up it's nuclear
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  982. What is there to imagine? In 1943, the US produced more fighter aircraft than the entire current world-wide fleet.
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  983. He might win the Republican Party's nomination for the 2024 Presidential contest; he has already alienated the voters he needs to win that election.
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  984. They are "pro-life", but only up until birth. After that, kids can go to Hell as far as they care.
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  985.  @karenbachar5253  A true message is not less true if it came from a source of which you disapprove.
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  986. @vickihalbeisen9513  Time featured persons of global impact. Is it your assertion that Hitler lacked in global impact?
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  987. I will quote it if forcibly required, but I will not take "The Pledge" as it is written. A flag can not receive nor exercise a pledge of allegiance. All nations are under God, if you believe in a single deity; being compelled to recite "under God" is a prime violation of the 1st Amendment.
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  988.  @icjulia2  America first (others will wonder when the hell US policy had not put America first???) is a valid proposition; stop the wars is a valid proposition; cramming the two into a coherent foreign policy is not an easy fit.
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  989. Yes. He was. rote about "our hisland race". It was less controversial then. History might best be judged - if at all - within its time.
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  990.  @graze1177  Russia has a problem here: if they honestly showed what battle successes they have , their fiction of this being a "special military operation" instead of a full, vicious war, would confound their propaganda.
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  991. The world has seemed doomed since before you were born.
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  992. Cancer can be an unpredictable enemy. The Princess is but a few years younger than when my mother was taken. I don't know what the NHS physicians told my father, but he told us nothing. School released my younger brother and me to go play in Hyde Park; at lunchtime, they lowered the boom. Don't do that to kids.
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  993. It comes with a measure of regret to give someone like you some assistance. You undermine your case when you use emojis (/lazy markers often used to shut down discussion) instead of displaying your bright insights. BTW... do you have any insights,... bright, or otherwise?
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  994. Zootopia is a convention of zoot suit fans.
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  995. Before the Nov 5 election, Trump promised to pardon or to grant clemency on a case-to-case basis. This mass single flush contradicts that notion.
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  996. Nightmare is how Republicans want to enslave women to their biology
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  997. MAJOR factual error at 02:40: that Russia supported Ethiopia because they were both "Orthodox" christian nations. While it is true that the Ethiopian church is calls itself "orthodox" (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church), it is a church of the Coptic rite; in the case of the Russians, their church is called "orthodox" to distinguish it after the Great Schism when the Byzantines split from Rome. The Ethiopian and Russian churches did not share a common history, let alone rite or affiliation. If Russia supported Ethiopia, there must have been some other reason.
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  998. Trump has buy-polar disorder.
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  999. Medea Benjamin has a sweet heart; but you don't turn up to a knife fight with cookies and milk.
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  1000. Immense flows of supplies were sent to the USSR during WWII. The convoys to Murmansk and Arkangelsk not only had to get past the submarine wolf packs, but also survive attacks from air and naval military assets Germany had in northern Norway..
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  1001. JD Vance served honorably as a paper-pusher AFAIK.
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  1002.  @cck4863  no car is "completely safe" - not in China, not anywhere. And please, never assume me again.
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  1003. The right to near arms... The otiginal intent can not have been that flintlocks were the firearms, progress to infinite massacre was what the Framers had intended. Thank you for making that obvious, "Justice" Thomas.
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  1004.  @lovinlife9648  Isn't it somewhat strange that no major recording artist had released a track about Melania: "That's Why The Lady Is A Trump" ?
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  1005.  @sprytnychomik  2030 - a futuristic vision of optimism?
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  1006. @conceptrat  name that movie, please. "Oligarchy Dystopia film" isn't a helpful search term.
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  1007.  @sbkarajan  Where did you get that "information"?
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  1008. Kennedy était reconnu comme orateur. Il se servait subtilement des allitérations et des assonances: mais il ne faut pas en abuser.
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  1009. Voter suppression is the ultimate in cancel culture.
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  1010. Ethnic Arab citizens of Israel largely boycotted the last election. Had instead they participated, Bibi likely would not be PM.
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  1011. Texas gets a lot of bad rep. Partly because it engineers its own bad rep (i.e.. its latest anti-abortion legal abomination), but some is likely to be unjustified. Not all Texans are evil.
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  1012. You will have your own personalized interpretation of imperialism. For the record, the US has no colony in Europe, such as 'colony' consensually is understood. NATO is a mutual defense pact focused on military matters. If, as you contend, it also had an economic agenda: then it failed dismally in such an effort for more than a generation. There was broad support for the establishment of ECSC, which later evolved into EEC. There was no coercion to have other members join - indeed, France had vetoed UK's accession on several occasions. To this day, old-time NATO members such as Norway and Turkyie are not EU members, and UK had even seceded. Meanwhile, Ireland and Austria are EU members, but not in NATO; for some time, Sweden and Finland have been EU members, but not in NATO - although recently they had changed their minds, backed by popular support. UK, Denmark, and Portugal were founding members of NATO, but only joined the European economic project much later. You've been caught with your pants down.
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  1013.  @annakingry9157  proforma at Fox.
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  1014. Trump gave aid and comfort by promising amnesty to insurgents, should he become elected to the Presidency. That therefore must not be allowed to happen.
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  1015. It were, perhaps, a suicide pact to alert humans to the destructive patterns of consumption which depletes their environment; an alternative might suggest that this highly gregarious species shall collectively resent boats, one of which caused grievous harm or death to one of their dear members. Other explanations can be available.
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  1016.  @robertjohnson1681  the contention was: if anything came to trial, an effective defense for Joe could have been for defense counsel to portray him as a doddering, senile, old man. That is not the same as the determination (by a functionary with zero medical competence) to insert a medical presumption from the peanut gallery.
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  1017. Here's something you can do: pay the baggage fee on the outbound flight, then send your bags home by UPS ground service - after all, you have the rest of your wardrobe waiting at home. A buddy saved about 50 bucks doing this.
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  1018.  @hammadhussain3082  there is no great skill needed to muster a cluster of internet replies.
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  1019. Back to your question. A person found guilty of crimes, typically will not enjoy that State's franchise. You might be barred from voting for dog catcher, but still select your representation in Congress.
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  1020. ​ @RVered  I've heard worse. Really. I thought Debbie Harry's accent when she sang in French (/Sunday Girl) was very sexy.
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  1021. and not selling them at a huge markup
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  1022. Nous avons été conwokés
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  1023. What do you have against the Bureau of Land Management?
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  1024. Il n'est pas le seul à pouvoir brandir des armes nucléaires.
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  1025. Much money is available under grabs from this besotted statement - if senselessly followed.
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  1026.  @Osirus1156  No, it isn't; but it would be entertaining to hear why you thought so.
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  1027.  @francoise4308  Tell us more about California.
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  1028. Nor even Communists agree. The governing coalition [sic] in Italy voted to approve deployment of Reagan's forward available nuclear force elements in Europe.
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  1029. At what point could eLawn recognize that the Right of free speech... also includes the right to remain silent? He should exercise that right.
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  1030. DeSantis is an object of hate outside of Florida. He might not have an option to recuse vilification.
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  1031. That is a good question. WWII in Europe officially ended on May 8, when Admiral Karl Dönitz signed the official surrender of the 3rd Reich. So why do the Russians celebrate it one day later?
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  1032. What would a flag of the Deep States of America look like?
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  1033. It gets even worse. Precious metals are measured in troy ounces = 31.1 grams instead of an ounce avoirdupoids at 28.35
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  1034. The number of births per woman is not the only significant measure DPRK has to worry about: high childhood mortality rates cut into the next reproductive generation.
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  1035. The Orange Peril asserts that the United States pays in 70 or 90 percent of NATO's budget. That is an outright lie, but it is especially toxic as it is mendacious on several levels.. The United States has, rightly and until recently, maintained a double ocean defense posture. If you remove the Asia/Pacific component, and other parts of the world, from national defense expenditure: the US then falls below that 2% threshold the commandufus has fixated as his latest gleaming toy.
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  1036. ​ @Keen-dt7lf  Not all men hate women.
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  1037. "Trump Derangement Syndrome" in fact refers to the mental condition typified by Donald Trump's derangement
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  1038.  @MrAce2000  Why wouldn't we? The institutions of our Republic have held up, despite Trump's feverish efforts to tear them down.
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  1039. Would I apy a little more for the products I buy, if this save biodiversity? Oh yes.
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  1040. You don't know what Lindsay might be accumulating on his pillow, do you? Comparisons suffer in a dearth of verifiable data. For the record, I'd rather share a mic with Lindsay's shadow of his shadow / the shadow of his hand,
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  1041. He's not "the former disgraced former Republican congressman" but the disgraced former Republican congressman. He is still disgraced.
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  1042.  @timonsolus  I graduated in Economics. I can concede that it is somewhat feasible in the mid-term horizon, that does not easily bargain with popular support clamour for less strenuous living conditions.
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  1043.  @timonsolus  funding always shall be an allocation hard point to resolve. My mother had passed, despite the good graces and help from NHS surgical staff. Let's take a moment to give thanks.
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  1044.  @sjh1898  LGBT is not a'"value". You are ill-informed.
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  1045. What happened a year ago? Please give us a reminder.
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  1046. MAGA: let's do the time warp again! This time, for real.
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  1047. Stand back and stand still. Not Trump's message to the politically violent.
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  1048. Sick, barbaric, cruel, describing the Republican Party... is redundant.
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  1049. The Republicans will have their private night of the long knives.
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  1050. Is Putin stoned? #Vlad the inhaler
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  1051. The V2 was very expensive and very inaccurate. If Hitler had committed the same resources into full development and deployment of the Me-262, allied air forces would have been in immense trouble. Even the V1 was a better weapon for it's purpose: Brits in the ground woul hear buzz-bombs, and not worry... until the buzzing stopped, and you had to scramble for cover; the V2 impacted at supersonic speeds (i.e., before you could hear and react). That's a failure as a weapon of terror: soon enough, the Public would treat it like the weather. It's unpredictable, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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  1052. ​ @NightRNRoblox They had neither the investment, nor the time. If Alexander had equipped his army with sub-machine guns, he would have conquered India.
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  1053.  Matias D.C  For a long time they were taking selfies in front of a mock-up of a fiery bridge which violates their territorial sovereignty. Soviet citizens would gladly have taken selfies of mock-ups of Hitler's Nuremberg rallies in flames, if the technology had been available at the time. Same desire.
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  1054. Even annexed part of it.
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  1055. I had been lucky enough to see La Gioconda with very few other museum gleaners. Her eyes track you.
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  1056. Slogans matter.
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  1057. It's winter. The nights are long and dark. Enjoy the golden boris aurealis.
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  1058. ​ @ferncoutu2099 there has been no conscription in the US since the mid-1970s. Protests against something which no longer exists, are quaint - but can contain historic significance.
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  1059.  @ferncoutu2099  if one has a point to make: make the point. Ambiguity is tantamount to cowardice, or something like that.
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  1060. Stop the suffering of innocent civilians, now.
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  1061. The klatsch of titans!
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  1062. Fun fract: not all YSL lawyers work for Yves Saint-Laurent.
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  1063. Barnacles are delicious, but expensive - there's a lot of labor involved in harvesting, for not a high yield... to say the least. Endless barnacles would have bankrupted the restaurant chain on Day 1.
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  1064. I don't recall his name... but I remember a British MP commenting that: in our country, the voters choose their representatives; in your country, the representatives choose their voters.
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  1065. A normal country would worry about suffering such a brain drain. Putin's Russia is not a normal country.
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  1066. She represents the grate state of Alabama . Alabama's Supreme legislature forbade assisted parenthood; oops. Its "Chief Justice", in defiance of the 1st Amendment,, ruled that Congress can establish religion. He proposed that laws are founded by "God"; meanwhile, our founding document: the Declaration of Independence, proclaims that Laws are instituted by Men, and can be changed as we see fit . The head of Alabama's Supreme Court is an unreconstructed traitor.
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  1067.  @sabay7336  Quels ballets? Le Lac des Cygnes ou Giselle, entre autres?
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  1068.  @rontyler1234  Agreed; what's your point? Farmers in Thailand, let alone Haiti, were never going out to BM. If yours is a stance of fighting for economic equallty /"Justice", you are wasting your time. There are better and vastly more actionable targets. BTW you eat a hamburger in an American fast food joint: you already gave up any right to lecture others worldwide about privilege.
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  1069. .[18:10] .."til January 2016 when he took office". I'm very confident that Trump did not take office before the election later that same year, in November, 2016.
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  1070.  @JB-bb4su  No, that is not what he was asking. Listen again.
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  1071. The Marines say: "semper fi"; let's shout: "semper virens".
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  1072. Donald Trump would go down in history as one of the worst persons in Office in American History, except that he wants to abolish it goingi forward as much as he is ignorant of its Past
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  1073.  @stevenwilgus5422  They are members of the European Union, which theoretically binds the other members to provide assistance in cases of armed aggression. It's all in the details.
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  1074. "No Labels" itself is a label. Just sayin'.
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  1075. @madreese69 attempted murder is severely punishable. OP has a distorted view of the matter.
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  1076. Trump sustains the illusion that everyone loves him. Twelve jurors obviously do not..
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  1077. Of the last 11 off-year gubernatorial races in VA, 10 were won by the party out of the White House. The one exception was... Terry McAuliffe in 2013.
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  1078.  @egghead55425  A problem is: consumer-can size tuna has a sticky price. If consumers were less resistant to letting genuine cost increases be passed along in their price of a retail can: your typical checkout would be higher. Given that price resistance, packers and distributors have had to pass along their cost increases somehow. A first effort was using "vegetable broth" as the medium in the can. It was accepted in FDA's Standard of Identity , but it messed up with the established specs because the right vegetable broth formulation would make the canned tuna flesh retain more moisture. That meant that contents of the can were artificially inflated, and the designation of "chunk light" depended on half of the net tuna mass be retained on a half-inch sieve. If you make your smaller particles bigger, you are more likely to have fewer of them fail the sieve test. Result: consumers become more likely to get light meat slurry instead of "chunk light", as labeled.
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  1079. An old trick to deflect from a domestic disaster is to start a foreign war. Be afraid.
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  1080. ​ @JBBost when I was a young boy, my neighbors were saved from Nazi death camps - their concentration camp tattoos were there. It is sick of you to compare your current discomfort with those who had known the industrialized murder perfected by the Nazis.
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  1081. English isn't your mother tongue, is it?
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  1082. The rest is silence. That's the last thing we need.
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  1083. Hegspeths primary qualification for mastery over DOD, was being a spout favorable to Trump. He had ZERO experience in managing a budget greater than taking his group next his icecream kids after their Big Game.
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  1084.  @Raptorman0909  fish oil capsules typically are generated eventually derived from low-merchant value dead fish. Are you guys deliberately propagating these unsustainable accusations for some eventual action on a better cause?
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  1085.  @panpan581  You are a rare specimen among English speakers who refers to Asia as "the Chinese continent". Your imperialist ambitions won't be welcome everywhere.
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  1086. It could be fun to hear the /best of them. Trump, that cameras showed, had his face to the Crowd in a position least likely to harm him from that left-grazed bullet from that alleged direction. Establish directions. Public source shows that Trump turned his face against line of fire on the minor strike on his turned head. Talk about it?
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  1087.  @khiem1939  Their military status as a group is not clear. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many had fled Russia because - although not reservists - they expect a general call-up, and for borders filter and to forbid men of military age to leave,
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  1088. @Neelinmact  there have been various iterations of Communism other than what came out of the Kremlin. Yugoslavia under Tito was not the same creature. Before Franco crushed the Spanish Republic, the Communists there rearranged boss/employee relations to eliminate stark abuses. What gets the bee under the bonnet of hard-right politicos, is that communism is fishing in the same waters as Christianity.
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  1089. Not Always The Onomatopoeia
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  1090. Let's hope that they are recovered safe and healthy.
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  1091. Approx 1:01 ... Four years ago, were you better off under Trump deadly Covid?
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  1092. We can live without commentators about politicians but we cannot survive without farmers who stress ecological systems beyond coping limits.
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  1093. Des Césars contre le tsar. Bien vu.
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  1094.  @rockycomet4587  Right... there are precedents: Mussolini, Hitler...
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  1095. A friend had been depressed and dangerously close to suicide. A mutual acquaintance gave him a minor dose of LSD and stayed with him as a guide through the experience. His thoughts of suicide went away. It is fully possible that the counselling alone was what made the difference; but someone is alive, a husband, and a father, because somebody cared enough to break a stupid law.
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  1096.  @mitsurugi5928  Il n'y a aucune excuse pour le carnage déclanché par Poutine. Si c'est la décision que vous pronez, vivez avec.
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  1097. EU aggression? What the hell are you smoking?
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  1098. It's not how many people dream, but how many turn up to vote.
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  1099. One debate is not the Election. There still are people who might change their mind, even as they google cat recipes. God bliss America!
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  1100. IPO should not stand for Investor Predation Oppourtnity.
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  1101.  @johndavidwolf4239  If you call her "Miss Piggy", that will clear things up.
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  1102. The 31 Abrams will not be consequential as of themselves - they will be late to make it to the field of battle. The big contribution is that they give Germany cover to transfer Leopard tanks and to allow other countries to transfer Leopard MBTs to Ukraine.
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  1103. RFK junior ate a lot of fish. It is correct to point out that swordfish bioaccumulate mercury in eldet fish. Try not to gorge.
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  1104. zemmour est une tache sur la republique
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  1105.  @isqueirus  The NANPA 911 emergency line can handle a variety of emergencies. For police, dial 102 in Moscow.
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  1106. A multi-millionaire who lives in his own bubble manages not to get infected while others are doing their best to make conditions safe for him... yeah, we should all do that.
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  1107. There is a Spanish expression: Dios me libre de hombre de un libro (God save me from a man of one book).
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  1108. You might have meant... 'decent'?
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  1109. It's a bit frightening that China doesn't understand that Nancy Pelosi, or indeed any other member of Congress, can travel at will with or without the approval of the White House.
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  1110. PRChina's property market reminds me of an American children's animated cartoon, where the character runs off a cliff... and does not fall until he looks down. If I recall, that imagery illustrating financial markets gone amok... first was attributed to J. K. Galbraith.
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  1111. Wise
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  1112. Tariffs are paid by the importer of record. That importer - almost always an American business - can not claw back those higher tariffs from the exporter. They will have to bite the bullet... or pass on their own higher costs increased by Trump's policy.
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  1113. Steven Munchkin and his ilk getting their hands on Ticking (sp deliberate) is not a step in the direction of greater dafety
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  1114. E a luz da manha
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  1115. Do not put spital words in the mouth of your adversary: that will make it harder to arrive at an agreement.
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  1116.  @etsahidu  Powerful and sophisticated militaries are vulnerable to succumbing to hubris. Clearly IDF dropped the ball.
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  1117. We saw what happened to Hong Kong under this discredited rubric. HK was meant by treaty lodged with the United Nations, to retain its distinct identity for 50years, but PRChina raped HK after little more than two decades. Only an idiot would trust Beijing to respect a "two systems" formula.
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  1118. There is fierce debate over where one starts the clock ticking as a person. For guidance under a legal context, I revert to the other end of the spectrum: when does a person's life end? Legally you are dead when your EEG flatlines. It used to be that you were considered dead if you no longer could breathe, or no longer had a heart beat. Now, if you no longer have any brain activity: you're gone. The mirror image for the beginning of legally recognizable life, is that there must be some measure of sentience - at the very minimum a developed central nervous system. Various moral and religious traditions might advocate otherwise; but this is how I see the legal framework.
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  1119. ​ @rexfrazier947 Your comment was sorely lacking in redemptive merit.
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  1120. Why is the US supporting Israel? It always had done so in public. Behind the scenes, the relationship had not always been so jovial.
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  1121. A cult of personality is not a governing platform.
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  1122.  @hardleecure  Italy had fought fiercely in WWI, and was disappointed - to say the least - at the conference table which negotiated the post-war peace. Italian forces had performed poorly during WWII, keep the jokes as you feel best suit you. They were poorly trained, poorly equipped, poorly supplied, poorly led during the N. Africa campaign. There is no dishonor in surrendering when your country surrendered you.
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  1123. Trump's dissent into madness: he has stark difficulty coming to grips with reality.
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  1124.  @Bob-of-Zoid  Adapt a calque from the gymnastics events at the Olympics. Not easily transferred - but it's a start
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  1125. This goofball harps on about inflation, but neglects to mention that inflation has fallen sharply, that tackling inflation is the job of the Federal Reserve, and that this painful inflation is a world-wide phenomenon. Biden does not set interest rates -FOMC does.
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  1126. The monetized share of created value had significantly shifted toward the holders of capital and the creators of applied intellect. That has happened time and again over history since the deployment of the steam engine, and forensically well before.
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  1127. Are you paid per emoji?
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  1128. What is wrong with this picture? You.
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  1129.  @Matthew_85k  which "Christian way of life" did you have in mind? Your anger or resentment seems fully at odds with the prime Commandment given to us by Jesus: love thy neighbor as yourself.
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  1130.  @virtualawakening2299  Alas, many on the right-wing spectrum had not been educated advanced enough to know much about generics
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  1131. That is corruption.
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  1132.  @asdfgha  When putsch comes to shove
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  1133.  @bomafett  You used the word, "traitor". A traitor is one who engages in treason. Do you dispute this?
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  1134. Up to and including the first half of the 19th Century, "Germany" and "Italy" were only conceptual future states. The German Empire later emerged under the heavy guiding hand of dominant militarized Prussia; Italy "made herself" without such a dominant progenitor The internal politics of Italy, in retrospect, thus might have been predictably more fractious - and subject to change without notice, as it were..
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  1135. What was the case before the Supreme Court in which Harlan Crow had a financial interest? Please identify it..
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  1136. Cash cow-towing
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  1137. Not as long as he remains head of the Russian state.
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  1138. No - mess with Russia. As the Rubaiyat advised: 'make game of that which makes the as much of thee.' In this case: if you don't, they will roll all over you.
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  1139. Higher arky
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  1140.  @lizzyhudson4963  7 of the top 10 States in GDP per capita are blue States. 16 of the 21 States with a GDP per capita above the national average voted for Biden. Blue States tend to invest more in social capita; than do red States. Redirecting funds from law enforcement to community care is an investment in social capital. Cops are seldom well trained to deal effectively with cases where there were a mental health aspect which need to be addressed. They certainly are not sociologists or social psychologists.
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  1141.  @7piecebucket  Shoot. It coud be hella fun.
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  1142. Elon Musk has been given authority to determine that his business competition is somehow not in compliance. No scope for corruption here, right?
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  1143.  @EileenClarke-f9z  Does that matter anymore? If a legislator perform at the behest of a concerned party, and get paid in advance: that's corruption; if the payment occur later, it's a tip.
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  1144. If you reflect on / refer to an omnipotent and omniscient deity: don't you sound a bit silly? Your approval is immaterial.
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  1145.  @_PatrickO  "Fake videos"??? Those actually are videos. Do you doubt your senses / or your internet connection? I have no doubt that they are genuine videos Disagree with the content as you will.. Beyond our sparring: at which critical point(s) do you disagree with TF's engineering analysis? Don't be shy, and be brutally blunt.
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  1146. Stuart H: who are "we"?
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  1147.  @ragingmonk6080  There are other 4th generation fighters which the Ukrainians would love to acquire. Some experts argue that the best fit for them would be the Gripen; other types would work well. The primary advantage of the F-16 is that there are lots of them: over 4,500 had been built. Now that Sweden is no longer a neutral nation, it might spare some of its J-39s; but the sheer volume of F-16s means that many contributors jointly can spare a few for Ukraine, without putting their own defense capabilities at risk.
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  1148. The Beeb had substantially covered the GJ protests. I saw a lot of their coverage, and I don't even live in Britain any longer. WTF are you talking about?
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  1149. First love; victory follows. Slava!
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  1150. Got to love these goofy posts. Thanks. Florida existed before Disney. For many years, much of it was a malarial wasteland. It was a secessionist State of the Confederacy, in defense of slavery. Disney did not solve those problems. If you have even the kernel of a point here, do let us know.
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  1151. 16:50 Caramba! Columbus is portrayed as a Spaniard, and given a mild Spanish accent; however... he was from Genoa - ITALY! Why, oh why, would an Italian 19:40 say "estupido" instead of the more natural and culturally accurate, "stupido"?
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  1152. Les ogives.
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  1153. If Trump were still the President (into his 2nd term): wouldn't his running for President in the Nov 2024 election be an attempt at violating the 22nd Amendment?
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  1154. He is intelligent and has a lot of free time to get up to speed with whatever he chooses. It's not as though he need to clock in at the office every morning to make sure his rent is paid.. He can probably afford to have a gaggle of very savvy experts share their knowledge with him.
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  1155. Marjorie Howler Greene carried on as usual.
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  1156. There is no driving Trump crazy - he IS crazy.
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  1157.  @anthonysilvestri4946  or, some might be from his father, some from the vicious counsel who served HUAC and McCarthy's vicious inquisition so well on the 1960s.
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  1158. Je vous remercierais de ne pardre une mort d'un commendant Hez comme "un assassinat." Tout militaire parti d'un commandement, est une cible legitime durant un conflit. Elimination d'un soldat, n'est pas un "assassinat". SVP revisez votre vocabularaire.
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  1159.  @Grautwok  No prob. It's better to stand corrected than to remain in the wrong.
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  1160.  @rafamanko4142  A fair statement; conversely, no amount of political will shall succeed without the required resources.
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  1161.  @chepinchan  You confuse military power with the number of troops - these concepts are not equivalent. A platoon from a first-rate modern army could handily defeat a Roman cohort. India might put more uniforms on more of its citizens, but the budgetary burden of making them an effective fighting force fast could cripple the government. Japan punches below its weight because of limitations written into their pacifist constitution at the insistence of the United States. Several Japanese governments have tried to increase their country's military power, and the current one appears to be succeeding in refashioning its military doctrine to allow more muscular responses to threats or aggression. Germany got by with its comparatively weak armed forces because it would have freaked out countries which remember what happened last time there was a major land war on European soil, and because Germany's own citizenry had become 'gun-shy'. For Germany to reach the NATO 2% GDP target for military spending would just about double the Bundeswehr, which would have been unacceptable to USSR / later Russia. What Russia thinks is no longer as relevant, now that it has launched a full-on war against Ukraine. In the wake of that, the German government announced a sharp increase in military spending, but of course this will take time for it to work out in field realities. And BTW, the Fulda Gap no longer being a problem: US, French, and British armies in Germany had significantly scaled back their presence in Germany. You mention Canada as a country that punches below its weight... yet Canada has repeatedly deployed her forces at the service of UN peacekeeping missions. That is not the behaviour of a country with a paucity of military resources; Australia arguably is better protected by geographic isolation than by "US protection."
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  1162. Belarus armed forces are anemic and not highly reliable to support the regime. Involving them in Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine might spell the end of Lukashenko's own hold on power.
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  1163.  @rcpmac  Armchair or not... if you tamper enough with the fuel/air mixture of an internal combustion engine: it will stall.
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  1164. Italy put up a good fight, but did not work in their favour. On to the next match.
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  1165. A weird thing is that Putin had been shouting from the rooftops that his "special military operation" (i.e., war) was to protect Russian-speakers in Ukraine. Meanwhile Kharkiv - whose population is 70% Russian-speaking, has been pounded relentlessly by Russian artillery since the start of Putin's aggression on Feb 24.
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  1166. Polling can go wildly wrong. There is an iconic 1948 photo of Truman holding a newspaper blasting a banner headline proclaiming that Dewey beats Truman. Oops. It turns out that the polling organization did their poll over the phones... and lots of people could not afford one back then. Past the sampling problem, the framing of a question can matter a lot: Americans consistently favor "capital punishment" by 5-10% more than "the death penalty". Then there are x factors. The timing of a poll can skew the results, and so on.
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  1167. Sweden had hoped, but not that wes.included. They were a delight.
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  1168. Muzzle velocity is the speed at which Trump applies censorship.
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  1169. Kari Lake sounds like a good place to go water skiing. Otherwise she reflects a monstrous future.
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  1170. 05:34 "Nobody likes government..." That is BS. In places where there is no government, the People desperately want it.
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  1171. We are living through precedented times; some of these were more gruesome. Let the Sun shine in
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  1172. If Rottenhouse were to do so, he would do so in civil court. Evidentiary rules are quite different there, and a litigant does not benefit from legal protections afforded to a defendant in a criminal trial. Civil courts have traditionally been protective of the Press. If Kyle wants to go down in flames, he can always try.
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  1173. There's an element missing: Finland had neutrality forced upon it as a result of losing 2 wars with the Soviet Union, in exchange they were not absorbed by the USSR or had a puppet communist government imposed.
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  1174. God bless the Few!
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  1175. Ukraine had the 3rd largest nuclear arsenal after the fall of the Soviet Union. Under a binding international treaty, Ukraine was guaranteed its territorial integrity in exchange for giving up its nukes, which were transferred to Russia. This treaty was effected under the guarantee of 3 powers: US, UK... and Russia.
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  1176.  @mikem668  Under the United Nations, territorial waters extend to 12 nautical miles beyond a recognized sovereign coast; 200 miles marked the limit of EEZ - Exclusive Economic Zone. I do not remember the particular circumstances, but it could have constituted a genuine casus belli if a state sought to extend its sovereign waters out to the 200 mi. limit.
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  1177. Unless Trump bows out, is there any major political space for other MAGA low maniacs?
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  1178.  user-vk7ez5ow9f  would that be making his orange hue suddenly lighter?
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  1179. He's a cheat, a conman, a grifter.
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  1180.  @dmitrimikrioukov5935  The USSR was dissolved and its constituent Soviet Socialist Republics went their own ways. You will notice that NONE of these decided to form a union with what had been RSFSR.
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  1181. 19:38 the letter J is pronounced like a Y. Jena is pronounced "Yenna". There was a battle during the napoleonic era, resulting in a French victory, hence commemorative place names referring to 'Iena' (e.g. Pont d'Iéna in Paris)
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  1182.  @TMCremixes  She had no legal fix to tell find; she also has no immunity inherent to someone she lets tell fibs. As a member of the Bar, she is an officer of the Court and ethicly bound to prevent false testimony I can't crawl into her mens rea, but her advocacy strongly indicates false adhesion to the rule of Law.
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  1183.  @TMCremixes  oh. There has long been a prohibition against fostering false witness. Your redirection is somewhat endearing. Dogs are known to slouch over the buried corpses of their masters.
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  1184.  @TMCremixes  the Bar is an adjunct to the Judiciary, no more. Had you forgotten that?
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  1185.  @TMCremixes  what an amazing coincidence! Donald Trump asked to be excused from trial, purportedly to attend his mother-in-law's funeral. Oops, scheduling conflict: he also had an electoral engagement in New Hampshire.
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  1186. Twitter is in a death spiral. It can execute evasive maneuvers, but these are not in the new owner's playbook - which appears to be floating injury toward its major needed advertising underwriters.
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  1187. The plebiscite was an exercise in democratic expression which would force a traumatic outcome, if successful.Voters were given a choice of "yes or no" - the "no" option was entirely opaque: its proponents could not agree among themselves. The 'Remain'' side campaigned to remain; the 'Leave' side campaigned to work out later the major and crucial details, well after the voters had a chance to cast their ballots
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  1188.  @danrook5757  What the flux?
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  1189.  @Freyja123  idiocy can happen. The US has a designated survivor. Once each year, the President, the VP, and almost all of the Cabinet officers, gather for the State of the Union address; also are assembled the highest representatives of both elected legislatures, the Supreme Court... Pretty much, everyone who counts in keeping the Government running, in case the worst might happen. The Designated Survlivor rarely is the sharpest tool in the shed.
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  1190. An old saying was that the purpose of NATO was to keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down. Since the 1950s, Germany has developed a much kinder and gentler society, which no loner is feared by its immediate neighbors.
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  1191.  @Unusual-GoogleMap-objects  Ukraine reportedly has at least 9 brigades available for a counteroffensive. They do not have munitions at the level they say they need, but they are not out of them. Russians claim to have taken all of Bakhmut, but Ukraine refutes this. As I write, I have found no independent verification of Russia's claim.
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  1192. He is a public adulteration.
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  1193.  @galupas  And go forth with you own blessing UK can't sort out their issues with EU - not that you might grasp the difference, well read as you are. France has the 3rd most powerful nuclear strike force. Try not to attract that wind.
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  1194.  @galupas  Not a hero, but glad to have expanded your vocabulary to include 'blah'. Maybe next week we might work on you leaning a close new word, such as 'blue'. I do wonder what kind of whacko thinks that someone might aspire to being a hero merely for posting online from a land of free expression. Maybe you come from a very different land?
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  1195.  @galupas  I've lived in Oz. Your sampling is off. Ozzies have some very creative forms of insult, none of which are worth wasting on you. Goodbye.
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  1196.  @krzysztofdanel4475  You have a very sick sense of humour if you think that all of the suffering which has occurred in Afghanistan is a joke. Do you also enjoy pulling wings off flies in your spare time?
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  1197. Be still my heart? Rand Paul - Doctor Rand Paul - acted in a way not consistent with compassionate care? The world is crumbling.
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  1198. It wasn't his ring they were kissing.
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  1199. You use rather sophisticated vocabulary in English, yet fail to adhere to rudimentary norms of grammar. Interesting.
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  1200. 3:41 I don't get how you speak of the jet stream as your video illustration shows it going from east to west, instead of from west to east - consistent with earth's rotation and as it actually occurs. ~ I like how the phenomenon is called "ENSO". 'Enso' is the name of a circle painted by ink brush in Zen practice.
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  1201. Russia has exhausted most of its precision weapons. This has forced its pilots to fly ground-support missions at lower altitudes for better accuracy, at the cost of greater vulnerability, and that translate into more downed planes struck by MANPADS. Situation's become so dire that it has been using its S-300 anti-aircraft vectors on land targets, Russia has fallen so short of ammunition requirements that it is buying from DPRK.; meanwhile, as Russian troops flee from the battlefield, they have become a major supplier of arms and munitions to Ukraine. Russian military doctrine does not seem to have evolved since WWII, and reportedly some of the weapons given to their cannon-fodder new "recruits" had not much either.
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  1202. He took a scholarship from Soros? What a chunk of garbage!
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  1203. +nanka replies are not threaded, so it's possible - even likely - that the "you" whom you sought to address, will not get the message. BTW Stalin was not Russian - he was Georgian.
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  1204. ​ @grannyqute indeed, there are only 24 hours in a day, some of which must be used for sleep.
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  1205.  @j.ag.3537 mona lisa is in overdrive.
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  1206. Do you need a list?
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  1207. @michelleabsolum2411  Thank you for your kind thoughts. The next two years are bound to be harsh. As an answer to your opening question: Trump might be severely deficient in broad intelligence; but he is cunning, and should not be underestimated.
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  1208. Les forces Kurdes n'ont aucun traite' avec la France. Ce transfert n'a aucune balise juridique.
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  1209. No... that's the Gazpacho police
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  1210. Not familiar with F-24 or its debates, are you?
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  1211.  @dbavatar  Said by a Musk rat.
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  1212.  @rosemedallion2848  the New Testament has 'doubting Thomas.' The Supreme Court has Purchased Thomas.
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  1213.  @TheCassbob  Il aurait au moins pu êcrire ""lo que ha perdido". Quelle nouaille!
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  1214. Women, more than men,tend to gravitate towards jobs and roles within public service. Female judges across the coincident trials would be probabilistically interesting, but not weird.
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  1215. A legitimate question of Trump might have been: could your recommend someone to replace Preet, one who fits closer to our judicial philosophy? The specificity of that proposed and desired administrative scalp should have been highly suspicious. There are laws against bills of attainder; discretion in firing specific inconvenient civil servants should also be subject to a similar legal perspective. As I recall, several convicted Watergate co-conspirators had stumbled at this gate. AFAIK the ratio decidendi has yet to find some codification in this Supreme Court.
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  1216. Ce n'est pas "une Guerre". C'est une confrontation avec des dynamiques qui risquent d'evoluer vers des dynamiques plus fractales. Evitons.
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  1217.  @johnnysgaminglab2126  "Exactly" is not an appropriate field of discovery in the face of an overwhelming pattern of behaviour. PR China had ruthlessly ripped up its international treaty obligations under the handover of HK agreements.
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  1218.  @ws8080  That reminds me of an old Japanese saying: the gods only laugh when we ask them for money.
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  1219. C'est la Russie qui avait attaqué , mataqué, l'Ukraine, sans provocation que ce soit.
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  1220. Fleming was somewhat lax in maintaining cleanliness in his lab. That saved millions of lives. Why won't my gf let me save lives? /s
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  1221. How came you about to 'know' the Mind of the Lord? Does that not strike you as immense arrogance?
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  1222. ​​​ @RepublicansJugglingLs  If a fiscal authority says that you owe X, but a better interpretation of tax laws should demand a deeper fiscal bite: there is no foul. It is not for taxpayers to presume that their fiscal burden were proferred as unjustifiably light by the hand of the governing entity.
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  1223.  @mahaffer71  in most cases, interest on loans paid, are tax-deductible. This means that fiscal authority can have a legitimate right of inquiry.
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  1224.  @sagelikea6130  In his loan application,Trump declared his NYC penthouse at an absurdly high valuation per square foot. That is, as New Yorkers say, "not kosher" - but it is not illegal. What IS illegal and fraudulent, is declaring that 11,000 sq. ft. apartment to measure 30,000 sq. ft.
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  1225. The Beegees had a hit song, " How Deep Is Your Love?". Our electorate might worry about Trump: how deep is your hatred?
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  1226. Had you also read any of the Gospels politically censored by the Council of Nicea? A favorite is the Gospel of Thomas: no commentary, no sermonizing - just the sayings of JC. And do remember that none of "the Gospels" in the canonical Bible had been written concurrently.
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  1227. The haka gives the Blacks an unfair advantage, but it is so entertaining.
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  1228.  @darindunn  So was Al Capone.
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  1229.  @user-gk-y8t  you seem to presume that Trump is a rational actor..
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  1230.  @maryannthorpe286  AFAIK he came legally, but failed to abide by the terms of his visa. Now he advises the deporter in chief. Can you detect some irony here?
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  1231. @darindunn  one interpretation; an alternative might focus on sucking up massive Federal subsidies. And now he gets to deny funding to his competitors. How convenient.
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  1232. Without modifying any infrastructure, we can cut down of road deaths simply by changing the way we turn left. In the US, we turn left in front of an oncoming vehicle also turning left. The result is that the other vehicle obstructs your view of other oncoming traffic, setting you up for more likely collision. In Europe, you turn left behind an oncoming car also turning left: your view of oncoming traffic is not obstructed, and you are less likely to proceed with other vehicles hurtling toward you.
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  1233.  @justathought4675  you might better be convincing if your written speech were not so disastrous. Try again. You might become amazed at how many shall adopt your positions if your first angle is not one of hard and indiscriminent attack.
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  1234. Pillow Guy claimed over a year ago that he has "incontrovertible proof" of voter fraud. Where is it?
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  1235. ​ @Subremedy Vivek is not getting a lot of support, period.
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  1236. ​ @DisaffectedLiberal with exceptions binding from the Civil Rights Act, it is for the States to govern their elections. Federal interference contrary to that principle, would be controversial indeed.
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  1237. A person who represents himself at trial, has a fool for an attorney.
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  1238.  @mikatimonen5449  A good friend had been there on business, and was quietly offered an icon (western value c. $5-10k+) in exchange for a jeans jacket (cost: maybe $20). He declined, as he did not want to strip the country of its heritage artifacts.
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  1239. Zelenskyy is Jewish. Most of his family had been murdered by Nazis. What feverishly twisted mind might think that he would allow Nazis in his government?
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  1240. The long, extended, machine narration... becomes tedious.
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  1241. There was a chuckling quote that Yassir Arafat never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. That holds here, now, with Bibi. Netanyahu can face domestic civil procedures without the cover of holding the Government. It would act against his personal interest to end this warfare soon, or ever.
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  1242.  @daledavis3651 Given how Trump runs his empire as would a Mafia don, it's easy to accept how he could be a made man. And he is all into self.
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  1243. Trump failed to build the wall. That's better than Steve Bannon, who ripped off Trump supporters
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  1244. "your party can decide who can vote"... Thanks for the clarification, komrade. What other Trump ideology do you want to infect?
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  1245. We are a multi-racial society. How then might immigrants "pollute our Nation's blood" as Trump, riffing off Hitler, alleges?
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  1246. "If I win, it's legit; if I lose, it's corrupt." That's how democracy is worked in Trumpworld.
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  1247. ​ @jonathanheyse5314 Slava Ukraini!
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  1248. George Washington was not born in the United States, nor were his parents. Most of our early Presidents were not born in the United States, nor were their parents.
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  1249. It's a matter of decency. THEY don't have it; part of their objective might be to extract decency from you. Stay decent.
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  1250.  @LukeO870  on this remembrance of VE day, may I recall words Wilfred Owen had yielded in his poetry, just days before he fell on the Field of Honour In WWi 'Dulce et decorum est Pro Patria Mori.
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  1251. What are "silicone modules"? This should be fun to hear.
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  1252. I sense that, although she is dumber that sheet rock: she is not as evil as Trump.
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  1253. It's the only form of entertainment that isn't taxed
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  1254. The original intent of the Framers, in drafting the 2nd Amendment, had not envisaged firearms based on detonation of an explosive charge percussed by a firing pin; yet these are legal. The Framers were fearful that a powerful and professional military might overthrow their new Republic, just as Pompey and Caesar overthrew the Roman republic. They saw how kings and despots used their professional armies as playthings. They therefore enshrined a right to bear arms in furtherance of maintaining a well-regulated militia. Think it over. The 2nd Amendment is the ONLY one in the Bill of Rights, the text of which begins with an explanatory preamble.
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  1255. An interesting moral quandary. Wars might best not be permitted to be considered in terms of cost/benefit casualty ratios. Would the captured territories have been worth it if you cut the casualties by a factor of 10? What if the only casualty were your twin brother? Many will argue at length over this: but a significant diminution in the US ability to achieve an acceptable outcome in Vietnam, came from tracking the metric of a 'body count'. Wars bring out the far reaches of human irrational excess. Let's hope they teach us to be calmer and play better with others. That's wishful thinking. I would give fullest credit and praise to a person [whose name I had lost] reporting on Yugo-90s lit my lantern ~ RMember/paraphrase:... "War is the ritual exchange of violence between societies."
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  1256. I generally steer clear from personal invective. Donald Trump is a clear and present threat to democracy.
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  1257.  @mahatmarandy5977  FULL RUBBER JACKET!
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  1258. Voter suppression is the ultimate in cancel culture.
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  1259.  @FINNSTIGAT0R  Common humanity.
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  1260. What makes you say that the Iraq War was "in NATO's interest"? Arguably the second most powerful military force in the Alliance, France opposed it, as did others however less vocally.
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  1261. According to some estimates, Putin might be the richest person alive.. He most likely would find a very convenient money laundry if he were to step down. We should make that as safe as possible.
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  1262. ​ @sheldonsmith3680 does it matter? Federal cases won't be heard before the election - thanks to judge Cannon's inexperience, maybe.
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  1263.  @user-em6ie2be7x  He will collect his salary, and move on. If your morals as a journalist have been sufficiently compromised, this is a walk in the park.
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  1264. There was a misprint - should read: 100,000 bitcoin.
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  1265.  @StinkPickle4000  That was an approximation based on current valuations. Future financial frenzies may vary.
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  1266. Much better than a former President who called American soldiers buried in France... "suckers."
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  1267.  @xlv1000-dlw  Our military take a solemn oath to uphold, protect the Constitution. They are sworn to defend it, and to reject an order contrary to their sworn oath of loyalty to the Constitution.
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  1268.  @ConnieWojahn  Outrageous fortune can inflict unfortunate circumstances. Trump is in Biden's same age category, but most prob less healthy.
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  1269. Hmm... Didn't the Germans surrender in both world wars? Roughly a quarter of France was devastated in WWI. Once the Wehrmacht reached Rouen, defeat is was inevitable. The only result from fighting on would have been to see more of the country destroyed for no reason, and more soldiers die in vain. Before WWII, the losing side in a war would cede a province or two, pay a few millions in gold, and hope to do better next time. Surrendering after the Battle of France made sense... until Hitler broke with traditional negotiation.
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  1270. ❤
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  1271. You, as a superb legal scholar, must already have the reply. It's a moron who asks a leading legal question without having a convincing reply. For most of the existence of this Republic, all Supreme Court justices were white men. No discrimination there.
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  1272. When Trump turned the White House into a Tesla showroom, he became a different kind of POS: a point of sale.
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  1273.  @dominickjvlogs  Wrong. Was that too long winded?
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  1274. The People of the UK (barely) voted in favour of a set of lies. Shall the members of Parliament remain enslaved under the winning lies?
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  1275. I am not a national, however I had come of age in England, so rather well integrated into society. IMO. Your use of a derogatory "snowflake'... might not serve your purpose well. Do not attack glibly as you are not capable of defending,
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  1276. Being subjected to this person's hideous ideology is like being trampled in a vat of cow dung.
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  1277. Any sufficiently advanced technology is hyped on YouTube..
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  1278. Just call this nasty piece of flesh: Buttkiss.
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  1279. The First Lady is an immigrant.
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  1280. RDC - Republique... eh, non; democratique.... vraiment pas: de Chine... bon, d'accord, 1 sur 3.
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  1281.  @jenkuletesmorts6732 Qu'est ce qui aurait denicher ton hosilite?
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  1282.  @Gr1mPenguin  He seems genuine, yet any person malset by a oppressive bureaucracy might fall afoul of niggling weird or contradictory regulations, even In an open society. (1980s) it was almost impossible to start up a SARL company in France, because the applicant entity had to file in its own name, at its own address. Problem was: you could not get a lease if you weren't a registered company, and you could not become a registered company without a verifiable place of business.
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  1283. "Political prisoner of war"? Make up your mind - which one is it???
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  1284. Judy Ruliani appeared in drag in public, but that didn't seem to hurt his prospects.
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  1285. Justice denied is justice appointmented .
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  1286. Donald Tramp wants us to believe. OK, maybe... but let's amend our unconstitutional freedom to let anything The Supreme Trump says.
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  1287. There are 3 stages in life: you believe in Santa; you don't believe in Santa; you are Santa.
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  1288. Sinema is a fraud. She had been a Green activist, and campaigned as such, then became a corporate shill once elected. If the good People of AZ need a feckless CorpShill in the Senate: at least may they clearly elect a Republican.
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  1289. Nous avons a concevoir cette action. Selon les regles de la guerre, il incombe au pouvoir potentiellent devastatreur de se restraindre en actions envers ou contre un Public. La Russie est en faute grave.
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  1290. Nous organiserons une reunion autour de Maurice. Chuuut!
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  1291. 5:00 the guillotine is the legal equivalent of the guillotine: it was the instrument of execution following a trial resulting in a guilty verdict punishable by death.
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  1292.  @davidteichroeb2706  You apparently don't like the Affordable Care Act, perhaps even for rational reasons. The ACA was passed by a duly elected legislature well within its session; the passage of that Act holds no parallel with an outgoing legislature subverting the decisive mandate freshly awarded by the electorate to an elected chief executive. The electorate voted for a person to do a defined job; the Repugs are now re-writing that job description. This is foul play of the most egregious nature. it is in effect a coup d'etat aimed at annulling the recent election. That does not compare in any way with passage of ACA.
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  1293. @Longxgun There is a major divergence in effect: Maryland's electoral map does not best reflect the will of the State's voters; the map in Wisconsin THWARTS the will of the voters. Maryland is a heavily Democratic state, and votes that way. Not even under proportional representation would the GOP win a majority of seats. In contrast, because of gerrymandering a registered Republican's vote in Wisconsin is worth almost half as much more than that of a Democratic voter, giving victory to those who actually lost the election... if it weren't for the convenient boundaries. .
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  1294. / half of the country clearly is clueless; the other half doesn't know what "clueless" means
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  1295.  @MajICReiki  shiftshaper
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  1296. Qui ne peut respecter la femme, ne sait pas respecter l'humanité.
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  1297. Macroeconomics is not "black magic". Monitoring economic fluctuations already is a difficult task, responding to such fluctuations is not easy. If I remember right, it was J. K. Galbraith who compared monetary policy to driving a car at full speed, guided by what the driver sees in the rear-view mirror.
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  1298. Trump's Cabinet appointees were almost exclusively a clown car. Sec. State was one of the few positions where Trump could not get away with someone grossly unqualified.
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  1299.  @LeJimster  German-built cars will become more expensive in Britain due to new tariffs; but also, British-built cars will become more expensive in EU. Germans will pick up some sales the Brits will lose on the Continent. You lot tend to forget that. By crashing out without a deal, UK exports will face a competitive disadvantage in outside markets with which EU has preferential agreements (which UK will lose at the end of March)  That means that there will be some firms in the EU which stand to benefit significantly from a no-deal Brexit. It's not all bad news for everybody.
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  1300.  @MyDruidess  had you ever read, say, the Communist Manifesto? Do you know what the furtive you are talking about???
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  1301.  @MyDruidess  most participants in this discussion likely can not easily image/ imagine the Trump you seek to project.
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  1302.  @jlocey87  Would you feel more comfortable among the better uneducated?
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  1303. Had you been. sleeping? The "great recession" you propose, had not happened. There were unfortunate times for many; but,in aggregate, the economy moved very well for most. Let me share a moment of compassion if your individual experience is different from the reality known by most Americans.
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  1304. Would I endorse a man who endorsed my being murdered? Not even Pence is that lapdog loyal.
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  1305. What can be even more frightening: is that some of these are not lies. A lie is to sow a falsehood, knowing that it is false. That is different from broadcasting an untruth in the belief that it is trrue. Trump should never get close to launch codes.
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  1306.  @GabrielNavarro-bo7st  Know what? The French don't call it "Bastille Day". The national holiday celebrates the promulgation of the first Constitution, which came into force on July 14.
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  1307.  @GabrielNavarro-bo7st  nous l'appelons la fete nationale. VTFF. Canadians can do what best suits them, but they are not a concerned party: the Revolution occurred decades after the Plains of Abraham, and an ocean away.
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  1308. Marjorix might think of herself as a warrior under-siege and in need of a magic potion. That easily can become a more productive time at taxpayer expense.
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  1309.  @jimduffield7822  Broke the Great Depression and broke Nazi Germany... yeah, he was OK.
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  1310.  @hannahdyson7129  Some came from the Roumanian fields near Ploesti, but most of the fuel powering Germany's aviation effort in the Battle of Britain cane from the Soviet Union.
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  1311.  @Zero_Zero_Zero_Zero  Hitler's Germany was the last major combatant to switch to a total-war economy. British women were building Spitfires, America had the iconic "Rosie the Riveter"; Germany's response to a severe labour shortage was to pull in slaves.
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  1312. ​ @keathp2744 "treasonous"? OK, sure... not a tag I would use. I do not dispute that these are persons whose instincts are patriotic. Trump distracted them with shiny objects. "Treason" is specified within the Constitution. This doesn't fit. Read up.
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  1313. Wouldn't it better serve your case if those who came to give you moral support... actually had any morals?
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  1314.  @stephansmuts3202 would the personal papers of a private citizen become the universal property of inquiring minds? That should be a significant Constitutional hurdle to overcome, if you want to know what is on that alleged laptop. More interesting, wouldn't be a copyright perspective. The private musings, or even hard data... likely shall benefit from strong protection under existing copyright Law. If you want to chase your tail: that dog won't hunt; but it can raise funds.
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  1315.  @PschyoSupposeiam  OK, but his choice of artificial hair color is unimaginative.
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  1316.  @Bunnymom22  He won in 2016, legitimately. As I grew up, I was often told that anyone can become President. That was supposed to be motivating. Since 2016 that rings as a warning.
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  1317.  @epb8070  you're it!
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  1318. Happy B! We still have a hard road toe to make sure that your next cake day is not under candles of the fascists.
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  1319. What were the valuations Trump used to secure a bond? If these were the same as the ones which led to the judgment, of course that would not work. Using more realistic ones could be taken as an admission of culpability, and damage prospects for a successful appeal
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  1320. I agree that the quality standards of Spanish seafood is higher, and remember enjoying it there. One of my last meals with my dad, included goose barnacles in a small village a few km east of Bilbao.
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  1321. 6:46 international finance markets have relied on the US to be a stable harbour where it is safe to park your assets. Trump's quixotic crusade against imported trade goods and often goofy interpretation of trade flows, will not reassure financial markets if ever he get his final imprimatur on whatever the Fed might do.
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  1322.  @wearealldomed3565  you misread. But then, that can happen. Jesus had graced us with pithy parables asking us to observe seeds, learn from that.
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  1323.  @CatDog.x0  boundaries can be isolating. Are yours fluid, flexible? Stark, hard boundaries might well hold up for quite some time, but then only breach catastrophically. Up to you.
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  1324. No need to panick. Finland and the Baltics spend well more than 2% of GDP on defense, Poland spends 4%. France spends 1.9%, but has an independent nuclear capability able to destroy everything of value in Russia west of the Urals. The prime European laggard is Germany. Because of a hideous past, German rearmament can still send shivers; but it is now necessary.
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  1325. That likely would be better than having no donated tanks. Ukrainian service personnel have repeatedly amazed foreign observers by how well they have adapted to handling unfamiliar equipment. Slava Ukraini!
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  1326. There is a legal problem. Under CA law, drivers can be punished for breaking the law, but companies can't - they can get off scott-free
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  1327.  simonfjb  Most patients never have their blood Hg levels assessed. What circumstances brought you into a higher catagory of scrutiny?
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  1328. @ardalan hamidi = in reply to your comment of 3 days ago... EU is a supra-national entity with no organic capability nor military structure for going to war with anyone - EU has no more ability to go to war than does the Universal Postal Union. This is a no-case scenario. Most member states are NATO members, which - if attacked - will trigger Article 5 and automatically bring the UK into the fight anyway; OTOH if the Russians attack, say, Austria: the UK will not automatically be compelled by NATO treaty obligations to join in common defense. Meanwhile, the totality of the armed forces of EU members (even including the UK) do not have anything close to the capability of conducting an aggressive war against Russia - so that is a no-case scenario. _ I have no idea what you refer to when you allege that "EU sells staff to countries outside of EU". Slavery is illegal throughout EU, as is human trafficking. _ "...planes from none EU countries fly to EU every day (even from hostile countries like Russia ". Indeed they do - planes from countries with which there are existing agreements. By leaving EU, there will no longer be an instrument governing flights between EU member states and the UK. That's not to say that one can not be devised and ratified - but all commercial air traffic between UK and EU will be in legal limbo. That's not scaremongering - it's just the way it is. _ Without a formal agreement to the contrary, post-Brexit UK import tariffs, by the way, are not set by EU, nor are they set by UK - they are set by WTO. There is a standard schedule into which any WTO member can request to incorporate modifications... but agreement is subject to unanimous agreement by all WTO members (27 of which will be EU members, each with a veto.) If you think negotiating a favorable deal with EU was hard, that will be nothing compared with trying to clear tariff schedules by unanimous consent within WTO.
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  1329.  @robertgriffiths6484  I can not deny that this were the correct decision. However, please bear in mind that you might be punishing Trump's opponents. Communities otherwise you might visit on holiday, might support Trump. Please don't harm those who don't.
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  1330. Those tend to be residential requirements. He would just move to some limitlessness pasture, and curse whatever burden of his own desire this the greatest place ever became.
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  1331. I would like to hear more details about WTF this fascist has in mind. On some mere incident - such as the Reichstag Fire, - Trump might suspend civil liberties for as long as it takes to consolidate his extra-judicial power. One 4-star General, two 3-star Generals, who served closely with and under Trump's Administration, found him essentially a fascist and unfit for office. These were West Point graduates who had been given our torch to shine a light against fascism. They saw its shadow in Trump.
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  1332. Let's also not forget that the use of these weapons also likely saved several hundred thousand Chinese lives. We know how brutal the Japanese had been when invading China, and experience has shown that an army which inflicts such brutality as it invades, acts even worse in retreat.
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  1333.  @micheleconner5083  your preference is no longer in doubt. Still... we night help neighbors guided away from generic fascist boxes of belief.
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  1334.  @markanderson3509  that... statement had not agreed with his fulminating against a defective teleprompter. I have no prompt for you, other than PLEASE respect the WIll of the People.
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  1335.  @samsungtap4183  skip fast. Soviet accountancy was genuinely weird. Western threat assessment studies seldom placed Soviet military as GDP much above 15 -20 percent
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  1336. @Afiso  ego te absolvo.
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  1337. Apprends avant d'ecrire.
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  1338. Thank you for posting that to social media.
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  1339. Musk rats shall not intimidate advertisers. These rats are free to spew their hatred, and apparently Musk intends to continue to subsidize their freedom of vomit.
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  1340. +Aziz are you a liar, or merely stupid? Best Cuban Cigar in Stockholm, Sweden https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Cuban+Cigar&find_loc=Stockholm
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  1341.  @adrienneb5445  Major brands need to worry about commercial harm caused by the downwash from statements of a maverick such as Musk.
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  1342.  @adrienneb5445  Corporations generally are in the business of being in business. Alienating your customers online might not be an optimal option.
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  1343. @LogicPhalanx Yeah, Jim Crow was a misunderstood character.
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  1344. Sanctions can, and often do, directly hurt "bad actors". That said, indirect pressure is not absence of severe pressure.
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  1345. Never get used to it. Putin is detached from reality, and acts under impulse.
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  1346.  @slavaromanenko7523  Ukraine borders Russia. There is no country in between.
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  1347. All Comer needs to go crazy, is to move.
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  1348.  @yuenkwai  5 days into his predations
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  1349. "If I become a dictator, I'll help anyone who helped me become a dictator".
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  1350. +1 The Hard The states at the bottom have a tendency toward meager investment in human capital. South Korea has no natural resources nor tourism to speak of, yet it is thriving. ROK had invested heavily in its people; Alabama and Mississippi had not. NM has a significant tourism industry and natural resources, but it also had long under-invested in human capital. Massachusetts has few natural resources and some tourism, but its economy is based on its human capital. Neglecting investment in your people is a recipe for economic stagnation. Lack of tourism or natural resources is no excuse.
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  1351. +Chad Clemen, evil troll What allows you to declare that Obama "wasn't" (he's still alive, BTW) black? Until rather recently, in many states south of the Mason-Dixon line, he would have been legally considered so - however he identify himself. His presidency was far from disastrous. The current expansion - our 2nd longest so far - began in June 2009 and continued through the end of his presidency, even to this day - an uninterrupted 80 months of economic expansion, i.e. longer than the previous expansion rebounding from the dotcom crash. Unemployment fell from 10% to 4%. Tens of millions obtained health care. He restored confidence among America's allies after this had been frittered away by his predecessor's unjustified invasion of Iraq. Iran's nuclear program was constrained. The US signed the Paris Climate Agreement. That is far from being a failure, let alone disastrous. Historians will likely give him a grade of B..And FYI, he is not, nor had ever been, a communist - no matter how often nazis like you insist otherwise. .
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  1352. @robertadorian4234  belief is not the same as fact. Import tariffs are a matter of public record.. That was part of my daily work-life. Please verify.
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  1353.  @travisprudhomme1710  Elon is not receiving immediate compensation; he had been promised oversight of his competition if Trump wins.
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  1354.  @travisprudhomme1710 Might you please elaborate on your determination that Elon's electoral cash incentive were not illegal?
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  1355.  @charlie-qh2ll  LegalEagle is an attorney accredited to the Bar. You can disagree at length with his positions and elucidations over matters at Law - but try not to appear foolish in doing so.
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  1356. I doubt that this pizza over excuse was believed. Production of Ti sponge is expensive, nd the conversion from sponge to intermediates was also tricky and expensive.
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  1357. You're not allowed to produce such large wake.
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  1358.  @289cobra9  are you able to read?
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  1359. ​ @paulacastello5436 excuse nosotros
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  1360. ​ @TracyLindop Had they shared punctuation as you warmed a seat?
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  1361. UK nationals are no longer singularly focused members of a pan-Europeans travel ban. Stay home. Isolate where appropriate.
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  1362. Or maybe not. Anally-derived "statistics" can vary at will.
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  1363. The Farce be with you, May.
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  1364. Isn't Deuteronomy the science of studying deuterium?
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  1365. The title of this video is highly misleading. Norway is not Pakistan. Might expatriate communities become inbred? Yes; is it likely that a nation of dozens of million persons become inbred? No.
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  1366. There is no moral sense of victory from the death and dismemberment of Russian soldiers. They have parents, sweethearts, children, who worry like hell. Why had Putin launched a war to "denazify" a country headed by a Jew whose family had almost been fully obliterated by Nazis?
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  1367. Last time I went there, temperatures registered over 110 deg F near midnight. When I was a kid, we drove into Vegas, and it was cool high desert;.not anymore.
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  1368. WTF??
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  1369. You might remind yourself that, in Jefferson's time, most specie was in the form of metal units of money; you might also note that: in the 2+ centuries following Jefferson's Presidency... at no time anything close to a significant proportion of the children of citizens came to wake into homelessness (corrected for the weighted impact of epidemic disruptions and ~ the Dust Bowl). Much as I admire Jefferson otherwise, he was no luminary as an economist.
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  1370. "Whatever China is doing, is working"... that is a notion that often skips over that this authoritarian state is not encumbered by the same respect for residents or for the environment as is typical in western democracies.
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  1371. "there on?" ???
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  1372. The (alleged) amorous ties would date back many years; they both seem to have moved on well since. Let it be clear: there is no running room for allegations of conflict of interest. Had there been favoritism? Perhaps; then again, it were.lilely that such a driven litigator would risk her defining moment for the sake of propping up an old flame. Here's the kicker: this is matter of internal administration potentially having gone wrong. It has no bearing on the validity of the case before Law - just a matter of administrative housekeeping.
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  1373. ​​ @timothykozlowski2945 Standing up for the rights and human dignity of Palestinians is not "anti-Semitism". BTW... Arabs are Semites. ...And, IMO, Biden is not, as you put it, quote: "the Prettiest of the United States". My vote for that title would go to Emily Wickersham; but there is a lot of competition.
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  1374. The initial transfer of weapons was reasonably fast. At first, Ukraine received significant quantities of Warsaw Pact-era weapons systems (Mig 29 fighter jets, T72 tanks, etc.) , which the Ukrainians know how to use. In some cases, modern western systems could not be rapidly supplied to Ukraine because those ex-Soviet systems were only transferred on the understanding that these would swiftly be replaced by Western equivalents - which meant fewer available for Ukraine. Apart from the US, most NATO .members have deployed weapons according to their needs, with some reasonable spares and reserves - so little left to spare. There were impressive early deliveries of easy to use infantry-deployed systems such as Javelin MANPADS and NLAW anti-tank missiles, These helped defeat Russia's attempt to take Kyiv. These were shoulder-mounted munitions which are easy to use, and cheap. The war in the Donbas is very different: its key element is artillery duels. Artillery systems are for more complex, vastly more expensive, and with a much longer replacement led time than those infantry-manned systems. I would prefer that Ukraine got the weapons it needs much faster, but there are complications.
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  1375. You don't lose your citizenship for accepting an honorary [sic] knighthood. Americans who have received honorary knighthoods include Reagan, Eisenhower, Bob Hope, George H W Bush, Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, André Previn, J Edgar Hoover. Not much of a lawyer are you, eh Rudy?
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  1376. Averages can be less significant than we think. A 30 thousand stadium packed with spectators each of whom have zero assets, and on average they are all broke. Then Bill Gates takes a seat... and all of a sudden, on average, everyone in the stadium has become a millionaire.
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  1377. Il y a une tradition de farouche résistance contre les envahisseurs. Poutine n'a pas l'air de savoir ce qui l'attend.
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  1378. Who give a damn about fundraisers to help children? We have to "protect" children!
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  1379. I remind my Dem friends that not all Republicans are evil... case in point.
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  1380.  @MsWarriordiva  case were. These were legal until not. Academic physics has severe definition wonder; your search for a pretense at failed a coup can find fund. Entertain us, or at least the suckers you milked conveniently.
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  1381.  @susanholm6019  but not in the same way
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  1382. Lindsey Graham is not a resident of Georgia. He has no standing.
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  1383. You do understand. don't you, that your paycheck from the Kremlin might not be reliable after the expected SWIFT lock down?
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  1384.  @johnlerner5346  Please take your meds.
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  1385.  @v3rd4mmt  The oligarchy manifest in London, is Russian.They buy sumptuous properties in Belgravia and Mayfair, take over football clubs - and that's only what is easily seen.
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  1386.  @v3rd4mmt In our modern context, nobility is a matter of conduct.
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  1387. +Disso They want nothing to do with Brexit just as they also want nothing to do with the loss of Gravity. What's your point?.
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  1388. The FBI is constrained by the obligation to uphold the 4th Amendment provisions against unreasonable searches and seizures.
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  1389.  @AlexLee360  4th Amendment. Have you lost the ability to read?
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  1390.  @AlexLee360  The hardware shall have reverted to the store/TM owner; that had not given copyright over anything and everything to a happy windfall. Apart from the 4th Amendment... what might you see the further implications IF YOU WIN?
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  1391.  @nottheonlydreamer9512  Small time readjustment:it's African American Mail. heh Shall we talk about blackmail? Trump threatened to hold up voted military to support unless UA might somehow deliver 'dirt' favorable for his next presidential run.
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  1392.  @AlexLee360  The Store shall have had the compensation of recovering the hardware. That recovery had not given the Store any license to acquire nor abuse the intellectual property of the original owner. Your turn.
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  1393. "Fear is the mind killer." - Frank Herbert
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  1394. @@content_enjoyer4458 Blessed are the cheesemakers.
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  1395. What, for the non-initiates, is AMC77K?
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  1396. It comes to this. All colleges should disregard all Florida AP awards.
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  1397. What caliber gun would Jesus pack?
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  1398. It's a question of mind over matter: if Trump doesn't mind, it doesn't matter
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  1399.  @goodgame3374  Finland has a modern, well equipped, military - although not numerous. An out-manned; out-gunned, Finnish army stopped the Soviets in the Winter War. A difference now is that they can be reinforced by friendly troops, which was problematic back then. There is no way that EU members might let democratic Finland fall to Russian brutality.
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  1400. Executive privilege protects the Presidency, not any given President.
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  1401. Sentence has not been adjudicated
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  1402.  @rockyrockwell50  I recognize that not all Republicans are abominable, some are even friends of mine; but I can not give them a hall pass. Trump is a threat to democracy and an affront to decency, and if the honorable Republicans don't confront him: they become complicit. It's not as though they now would be risking their lives under a totalitarian regime.
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  1403. The Jury was fully apprised of the matter at Law.
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  1404.  @LooKingG00d  let's think this through. Some might express disgust / from the Latin, as in their expressed of gustatere; dis_gust falls foul of eating pleasure. ,-, Discussion is very different.
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  1405. Still trying to get over my aphrodiction
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  1406. More like $ 4 million a dozen.
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  1407.  @GorillaCrewWarGaming  you really should seek help for the hallucinations generated by your obsession.
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  1408.  @douglasyoung554  I would like to express disappunctument with the participant who had thrown hot water on another member of this forum, castigating another member of our community for not holding an English degree. Then this thrower of darts displayed his or her linguistic prowess... with an emoji.
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  1409.  @bugginwithdru6570  We might not be dealing with persons of even nominal international experience.
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  1410. Oil and gas are good for now. These are not climate-friendly, and will be phased out. Recently it hadbeen reported that Norway has massive geological reserves of phosphates, a key and diminishing input for high-yield industrialized agriculture. Norway will continue to do well, as long as it avoids catching the "Dutch Disease".
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  1411.  @vlada  yes,it is far-fetched. Is it absolutely impossible? No / probably not. But it would take a series of highly improbable events for it to be a credible threat. Think about it: the Superbowl would present a much higher risk of mass contagion, given that the logistics for getting out to BRC are far more challenging than just driving to a stadium.Don't you remember from your last Burn?
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  1412.  @patbyrneme007  Interesting perspective... "authorisation of their own peoples" was NEVER a feature of the USSR.
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  1413. Taken out of proportion? I have not heard of land registries becoming notably reassessed. These Dutch farms produce little, or no, wheat. What do you put in your bread basket?
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  1414. Strokes differ in severity. Some are immediately fatal; others are far more benign. We have recently learned more of the merciful plasticity of the human brain. I regret your having to struggle more than others.
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  1415.  @killthereds2.043  Britain seems to slip from one hypocrisis to another.
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  1416. In some parts of the world, there are strict regulations which prevent overfishing and keep the resource sustainable.. Some fisheries have strict quotas - such as squid or sardines from California; the US imposes strict guidelines on the size of allowble lobsters, females must be thrown back, while Canada limits the catch by restricting the season.
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  1417. The Russian air force has been largely AWOL so far.
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  1418.  @freedomfighter22222  Murmansk and Arkangelsk are ports situated on the open ocean, no need for a vessel to go anywhere near Denmark; from Vladivostok or Nakhodka, a merchant ship might pass through the La Perouse Strait, or -- if there were a threat - north of Sakhalin. Not very good at geography, are you?
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  1419.  @haroldrhodes2610  I would have hoped that people would stop writing "would of hoped".
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  1420. A genuine diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell and make you look forward to the trip This ambassador is not up to his job.
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  1421. "Pro-Life" is a deceptive label. More honest would be: "Pro-Birth". Once a child is born, most conservatives who want to enslave women's reproductive options... don't give a damn about the living kid.
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  1422. Twitter than thou.
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  1423. ​ @johnmartinsen963 censorship can be harmful to your
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  1424. ​ @danielmackay8099 are they similar to ex-wives?
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  1425. ​ @agolftwittler1223 is that a "Karen" or a Koran? I fell in love with a darling Karen; life moves on.
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  1426.  @agolftwittler1223  Cue Anon.
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  1427. Hushy my baby, don't you cry, billionaire is gonna give you a day in Court. Not the story song I would have read to my nieces.
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  1428. Niais!
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  1429.  @elizabethdillon4945  Trump touts that the economy was the best ever under his Administration.Objectively speaking, it was better under JFK. More disputably, it was better under Carter - despite the severe external shocks. The economy was no better under Trump than it had been under Obama. One can accept the notion that the economy had been better for Trump's coterie than it had been before he took the levers of power.
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  1430.  @rogerhearn5243  Fear is a good reason to join an alliance, and fear is an emotion
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  1431. May I suggest that Napoleon's continental blockade was an earlier example of self-inflicted sanctions?
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  1432. ​ @gothicgolem2947 How did that work out?
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  1433. ​ @hiya2793 Your opening statement is wildly inaccurate. I won't call it a lie, because likely you don't know better.
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  1434. You might refrain from calling someone "dumb" when you can't differentiate between "your" (the possessive form of ''you'), and "you're" (a contraction of 'you are').
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  1435. Judy Ruliani had its day in public court.
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  1436. Trump had declared that his 10,996 sq ft triplex was 33,000 sq ft, at a valuation never yet seen. That is fraud.
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  1437. ​ @Br.Kevin1 He saved us all. The problem is how far we have become separated from that reality.
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  1438. ​ @truthwarrior2727 Why brother with a paycheck when the Saudis give your daughter and son-in-law two billion dollars for no scratchable reason?
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  1439.  @jjc1347  It was Russia's choice to invade Ukraine without provocation. What did they think was going to happen? We soon shall witness the collapse of the Russian air travel system. They are under embargo for planes, parts, training, maintenance, The fastest way to get from Moscow to Vladivostok will take a week.
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  1440. 'the amazing Randi' had exposed this fraud with wit, with wisdom, and with more kindness than the charlatans deserve.
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  1441. Many well are enthralled by the passage in Hamlet, "to be, or not to be.'". I found Hamlet's musing on the state of humanity more profound, "what a piece of work is man...".
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  1442.  @alexlazar4738  How well Taiwan can be defended is subject to 2 main factors: whether they receive military assistance, and how much pain CCP is ready to absorb and to inflict.
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  1443.  @PSGaming-jk3iz  What is the name of the Chinese "military general " (sic) were you thinking of?
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  1444.  @marcusonesimus3400  "There are military generals, typically one per nation"...you really don't know what you're talking about, do you? In the US Air Force, there are seven 4-star generals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_duty_United_States_four-star_officers and there are many more generals of lower rank, I n Western countries: among field commands, a 1-star general typically commands a brigade, hence the title "brigadier general" (there are plenty of them); a 2-star typically will be in command of a division, and so on. You deride commentators on this thread as "armchair generals", but there actually are civilians who are very well informed about military matters. Some people learn a lot about sport; others learn a lot about warfare. I applaud Tiago Gomes. I had studied Operation Overlord, and am well aware of the risks involved in an amphibious invasion - and the Allies had better odds at succeeding in 1944 than PLA would have now. IMO the PRC would have a better chance if they went the same route as Operation Mercury: the Germans started with an airborne invasion of Crete, and once the paratroopers took the airport a Meleme, they were able rapidly to fly in reinforcements and conquer the island.
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  1445. Nixon accepted a presidential pardon. Accepting a pardon is an admission of remorse, and of guilt.
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  1446. That is a fortunate find.
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  1447. You plaved a musical background by Erik Satie, also rather controversial in his time. Nice touch.
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  1448.  @roberttaylor6461  The constitutional right to bear arms is subordinate to the need to maintain an effective militia under legal control. I'm not an anti-gun zealot, and I do find a calming release from firing a clip. I'm pretty good, BTW. In the earliest days of our Republic, there was intense distrust of maintaining a large standing army, then viewed as the plaything of kings. The alternative was to promote the ability to muster patriots. I'm not "anti-gun" (except where I live,) but it would be best if we fully understood the depth and background of the 2nd Amendment.
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  1449. 5:28 the majority of Americans did NOT vote for Trump in 2024. He beat Harris by some 1.3 % or so of the popular vote - hardly a landslide - but he failed to win 50 % of ballots cast, let alone a majority of registered voters. BBC Verify should smack you on the fingers, hard.Your guest had been gentler than was appropriate.
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  1450. The Presidency is a federal office of the United States; the holder of that office is an officer.
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  1451. An acquaintance had many experienced in treating traumatic injuries, strongly suggested that this might notmally be a /big deal./
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  1452. The best time to deport a mass of eager workers is when there is a serious labor shortage. -Donald Trump (not a direct quote)
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  1453. Why? All persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States - 14th Amendment. With very few exceptions, each can become elected President. Where might you ground your legal challenge?
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  1454.  @allisondeller6330  That excellent film, " M ", challenged us to delve into the mind of one wrought awry, and found him 'not guilty' by reason of insanity." Nazi propaganda then inserted: 'and now we must fear for all our children.' Effective.
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  1455. I was badly hurt by a hit-and-run son of a son, who got away. I was taken to the nearest hospital, less than 2 km away. The ambulance service invoiced me for more than R/T airfare to Tahiti.
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  1456. @Alien_Bones  if you are someone who will make jokes about mass murder: stop calling me "buddy".
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  1457. What was the Murdoch stance?
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  1458.  @Electricjello  weirdness happens. Norway has an official religion
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  1459. Of you use the same criteria ranked equally, regardless of the severity of impact on qualify of life: NO. That's goofy. A lousy traffic score should be weighted less heavily than a high murder rate. Spending time in a traffic jam is a drag; getting killed is more total of a negative experience. Your methodology Is terminally flawed.
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  1460.  @lanoel4585  As I had been informed, by law Russia can not call it "war" unless its territory had been invaded; and it can not declare a general mobilization unless there were a declared state of war. They might have a serious manpower problem.
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  1461. P.R. China destroyed the option to "regain" Taiwan peacefully. Why would anyone willingly want to join such a such a repressive regime? P.R.C. had promised Britain to maintain HK's way of life for 50 years from 1997; that did not last.
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  1462. Elon first! Elon first!
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  1463. According to Thomas, it's only corruption if other people (apart from friends) do it. ORDURE IN THE COURT!
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  1464. Trump: Famille, Magouille, Patrie,. Presque rien d'autre comparable parmi les outils disponibles a un President, n' exerce un si direct lien entre les propos d'Etat, et les cours de la Bourse. que l'annonce sanguinaire d'une guerre de poche defoncee.. Un si innatendu coup de matraque au systeme financier, aurait pu bien profiter a ceux.parmi les plus futes / ou plus BIEN informes, auraient profite nettement par la maneuvre la plus previsible de plomber les cours en bourse, . Les privilegies et plus avetris avant que le Dissimulateur en chef/le President / l''eusse fit.
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  1465. It were perhaps more likely that Denmark cede her F-16s to Poland or Slovakia, to backfill their transfer of MiGs to Ukraine. Ukraine can use those MiGs immediately, but might need as much as a year properly to use F-16s. The Gripen would be a better fit - but there just are not many enough to spare.
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  1466.  @BW022  First compound word is 'bull"; second compound word shall be censored.
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  1467. ORDURE IN THE COURT!
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  1468.  @ksemi  Tu ne sais pas de quoi tu parles. La Russie n'a qu'une capacité bien limitée pour exporter du gaz vers la Chine... qui en a besoin pour ses propres utilisations. De surcroit, la Chine n'a aucune possibilité de liquefier ce gaz pour la réexportation.
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  1469.  @Grison13  Et si c'était le fruit d'un esprit dérangé nommé Mick Jagger? Ni elle, ni lui, n'ont la capacité institutionelle de faire aboutir une seule frappe de ce genre, passe ancore 4. Et, du reste, "un esprit dérangé " ne décrit en rien VdL.
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  1470.  @nopenoway9875  Putin would vote for Trump, if he had. a vote.
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  1471. Your POV. Mine is equally worthy in the eyes of the Law It is clearly written in the Constitution that Government WILL NOT impose any religion on our free People
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  1472. Are blue ticks a newly-discovered species of parasite insects?
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  1473.  @tooolip7408  "Countries and companies have to adapt for the money and business opportunities." From my perspective, doing business with IG Farben in 1940 was not dignified. New Zealand's GDP is almost on a par with Manhattan. Ouch. Meanwhile.NZ's security is largely based on the ANZUS pact. New Zealand can curl over and let PR China have its way.
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  1474. Gaetz is a human subject to himan shielding
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  1475.  @amercanmade2685  The USSR had the word "socialist" in its official name, but - except for the US - it was recognized in the rest of the free world as communist, not socialist. Before the Velvet Revolution, Czecoslovakia was the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (again, communist instead of socialist.) In Yugoslavia there were constituent republics: Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Socialist Republic of Macedonia, Socialist Republic of Montenegro, Socialist Republic of Serbia, Socialist Republic of Slovenia. Unlike the various countries of the Warsaw Pact, Yugoslavia is often considered as having been socialist instead of communist, as it maintained higher levels of personal freedom and did not operate under a centrally-planned state-run and owned economy. Mitterand was President of France from May 1981 to May 1995; the second Socialist President was François Hollande (May 2012 - may 2017). The yellow jacket movement happened under Macron - from the center-right, currently in office. Some areas of Spain were under a socialist government during the Republic, before that was wiped out by Franco and his fascist allies from Germany and Italy. Many would consider the mixed economies of countries such as Sweden, Denmark, and so on as 'socialist', although, like the SPD in Germany, they officially style themselves as "social democrats". Unlike you, I pay a lot of attention to such matters. I lived in and either worked or went to school in 6 countries on 3 continents.
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  1476. 03:55 Ukraine does not export 47% of the word's sunflower seed oil; instead, its share of sunflower seed oil exports might be 47%. There is a major difference, as some countries have significant domestic production, much of which might never make it to export markets. Argentina and Romania each produce more than a fifth as much as Ukraine, for example. Yours was sloppy reporting.
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  1477. et pourtant...
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  1478. These extra import duties are just plain stupid. Many homes have been destroyed, and will need lumber for rebuilding. That now carries a 25 percent extra import levy from Canada. When you exacerbate costs borne by legal business, less-than-fully legal business acquires a marginal advantage. Welcome to Trump's developer world.
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  1479. "Chaos" +" Republicans" has become redundant.
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  1480. When it's time for leaving, I hope he'll understand... he was born a rambling man.
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  1481. Those "Little Green Men" supposedly were territorial forces, but performed as elite troops. That's quite an upgrade.
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  1482. @billlyons4678  in their POV, "waterboarding' was a sport.
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  1483.  @malcolmhenaughan6786  You don't have to be a rocket scientist, but it helps not to be thick as a brick. 100 new pence each represented 1/100th of a pound; under the old system, 240 pence represented 1/240th of a pound. What matters is the fractional value of each coin, not the total count of coins.
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  1484.  Jimnez. 84  No thanks. I won't check out lindybeige's videos for ANY reason.
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  1485. /sidebar/ I like how the Brits pronounce 'lieutenant"' as "left tennant". The original French indicates 'lieu tenant' as the one who holds the place.
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  1486.  @markcoffee2945  Please do add to the conversation by providing some substance. Close to 2000 private interests also have very favorable - at least,to them - agreements with the State. Are they all /are they none / somewhere in between...less well treated than The Mouse? Disney came to Florida by dint of Floridian lobbying, combined with an attractive fiscal and financial welcome packsge.. DeSantis will go down in flames over his assault on the 1st Amendment. Florida beyond him might ask itself if ruining its full credit worthiness span his turgid political stance.
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  1487.  @Alkes777  Actually, thee are. Essentially any boomers still alive are old enough to remember - and they constituted very large demographic classes.
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  1488. The French Army doesn't provide daily croissants to its combat troops.
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  1489. That's unfair. Who else would mow their lawns and clean their swimming pools for so little?
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  1490. Ross Perot got a lot of attention. That's the kindest thing that were said of him. I spent a lot of time supervising production in Mexican factories. The complaints from the managers were very different from what you would hear north of the border. Their working lives were not uninterrupted sweetness and light.
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  1491.  @Audiogeek-kf2ez  who?
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  1492. The Soviet Union was close to collapse. There was not much 'wiggle room" in the centralized economy. There was was a formation, 'Gosarbitrazh", meant to smooth out divergence of performance and needs between various "productive" entities within the Gosplan. The workload of Gosarbitrazh expanded exponentially in the last few trading years.They were on a flight path toward an inevitable crash.
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  1493. ​ @Re_Kitty El pueblo unido jamais sera conocido
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  1494.  @porter4216  You can't "simply target EU products like car's" [sic].- that. It is forbidden under WTO.
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  1495.  @porter4216  You can say whatever you like; your contentions are not rooted in reality. Even if - IF - the US and East Asians want to join in some agreement with the UK, typically this will take many years to negotiate, followed by a transition period. As far as "charge the EU whatever we like" - again, NO,. that is forbidden under WTO. .
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  1496.  @jimohara  Believe the propaganda which best strokes your beliefs. An exceptional philosopher drank hemlock after having been condemned under false charges. Dura lex, sed lex?
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  1497. Trump might be very wealthy - and apparently that depends on whether he is applying for a loan or filing his taxes - , but reportedly he is not liquid. There are minimum reserve liquidity requirements for any bank in the US, and it seems as though the Donald is unlikely to meet those requirements.
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  1498. Trump clearly lacks self-control. How can we trust him with our nukes?
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  1499.  @Liberal_Triggerer  No. Next.
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  1500. When you're at a stop, put it in neutral until you proceed. Some European countries even insist officially that you engage the hand brake. I've known several who failed their test and were denied their license because of this. Textbook. Textbook conditions are necessarily artificial for purposes of instruction; people just don't drive like that. Roughly one in five written questions at the DMV were variants of BAC limits; but there was not a single question which asked about sleepy driving, rather equivalent a source of road death. Driving while distracted had let an un-apprehended murder-folker get away with disfiguring me for life, FOR GODS'S SAKE Put down the phone; If you cause an accident while you are texting-diffracted: you should go to hard prison. If you're lucky..
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  1501. "Up to" includes the number zero. "May contain" are weasel-words. Value of this "warning": zero..
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  1502. Tangerine Farmer I had read a text, many years ago, which ascribed to Meister Eckhart the concept that Hell is the estrangement from God: you die, and unprepared you encounter your Maker... big shock!
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  1503. Tangerine Farmer How would we experience time when we had shuffled off this mortal coil? Eternity might go by quicker than reading this sentence.
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  1504. GoatSkinner666 What happens when the tenants fall behind on their rent?
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  1505. That can be done, but why? And which variable would you eliminate?
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  1506. +Saveun Man IF countries have ~5% inflation, that were higher than the trend line for OECD economies over the last 3 decades. Justify your contentions, if you please.
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  1507. +RealityCheck There can be many reasons why someone downvote this video. i did so because, for some idiotic reason, at about 0:37 some idiot was offended that a white character (Prince of Persia) was played by a white actor.at 1:07 the video is indignant that white actors played Egyptians... who are so obviously non-white that Omar Sharif was cast in such roles as Che Guevara and Dr Zhivago.
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  1508. +TrueReality All - repeat, all - theories are "made up": they first are formulated by the human mind. Classical electromagnetism, for example, was not revealed in stone tablets engraved by bolts of lightning. By definition, theories are the product of human thought. In this video, the presenter states that the climate has always been changing. Is your quarrel with him? Do you contend that the planet is not experiencing a rising trend i mean global temperatures? If so: what is your peer-reviewed source? Do you dispute that CO2 and some other gases trap heat within the atmosphere? If not: is it your contention that the effect has essentially maxed out, and that additional CO2 can not trap more heat than already is occurring? As to your question: why aren't we afraid of the ozone layer anymore? We never were afraid of it - instead, we were afraid of its rapid disappearance as was observed in polar regions: since it's what protects us from intense deadly UV radiation. Our fears have much abated because we acted: we recognized the danger, and implemented the treaty instrument known as the Montreal Protocol to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals such as CFCs.There are still alerts in Australia and especially in the bottom tip of South America, where the threat persists and yet triggers public emergencies warning citizens to take shelter from the heightened solar danger. If you live in Ushuaia, worrying about the hole in the ozone layer is truly not a thing of the past. For my part, I am more worried about the shorter-term threat from ocean acidification caused by humans burning fossil fuels.
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  1509. And now, for something completely indifferent: WatchMojo.com's "Top 10 Monty Python Movie Moments"
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  1510. There's not much that is straight about imperialism, but if you had to have imperial overlords, you would prefer having the Brits over the Germans. You sincerely would not have chosen the Belgians.
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  1511. EU Beast power was not scheduled before 2020. There is some wiggle room.
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  1512. Who might "they" be? Not that it matters: it is inconceivable that Sweden or Finland, among others, hand over their armed forces to anybody. Whatever you're smoking, go ahead and enjoy it - but do not drive nor operate machinery..
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  1513. Citing yellow journalism does not help your case.
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  1514. Wouldn't sales critters at car dealerships love to have you fill out a psych questionnaire before pitching the latest top-of-the-line V8 bonus generator?
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  1515. +BMC626 There are four hundred and twenty upvotes. I'll let that tally stand.
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  1516. +TrumpFoundation New York went Democratic in the last 7 presidential elections. In 2012, Romney won Putnam, but not one single county south of there. Of the counties Romney won, his highest total was barely larger than Obama's margin of victory in Albany County alone. Apart from Albany, the other counties carried by Obama with at least 60% north of NYC were Tompkins, Clinton, Franklin, and heavily-populated Westchester, Meanwhile, Obama carried 4 of New York City's 5 counties by 4 to 1 or better (9 to 1 in Bronx), except for Richmond - which Romney lost by less than 1%. Obama even carried Nassau by more than 6%.
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  1517. As I had pointed out to the editors of the Economist: a problem with the Big Mac Index as a proxy of purchasing power parity, is that this global standardization is... well, not necessarily global. The Big Mac excludes tomatoes in Japan because this ingredient is too expensive. The omission of this item - particularly on cost grounds - will distort the implied value of the yen.
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  1518. Round 1: the euroskeptic lost in Austria.
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  1519. That's a nasty insult.
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  1520. foobargorch Do you have any idea why the IMF would possibly be involved in allegedly censoring news about Fukushima? It would be as incongruous as the American Dental Association interfering with the Nevada Gaming Control Board. BTW, do check out the link in my earlier post in this thread - it might come in handy some day.
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  1521. +commnter10 Coincidence is not causation. Since the first test at Trinity site, cancer cases have risen [choose your adjective of woe.]. Part of that will be due to better diagnosis, and that people are not dying from a lot of previously fatal diseases: even the most prosperous used to drop like flies from TB. Now it's become an anomaly even among the poor among advanced economies. Since Trinity, lots of things have changed, many of which reasonably then contribute to higher rates of cancer. Among them are the rapid rise of non-nuclear atmospheric pollutants, - not just from industry, but also from a massive increase in car ownership, combined with more lead-belching miles per vehicle. We have also subjected our populations to an uncontrolled epidemiological experiment in exposing them - us, me, you - to a barrage of novel pharmaceuticals, including some which tweak hormonal levels; -new chemicals incorporated into our larger environment, our homes, our personal care items, even our foods. In large, non-localized populations, it is tauntingly difficult to tease out any one among a bewildering variety of factors which increase or decrease rates of cancer incidence. A test ban treaty, CTBT, had essentially eliminated (with scant alleged exceptions,) atmospheric testing ~ about four decades ago. But the overall rise in cancer cases yet has not flatlined, neither has the trend gone toward remission.. I will not suggest that atmospheric testing had caused NO unlikely cancers { that would be severe denial); but OTOH your fear/ maluscious projections might not be sustainable, once given at least some review, some scrutiny. Gaudete
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  1522. +BlackenGames Picasso is not around to "defend his own thesis." Let me speculate as to what IMO likely he meant. Giving us correct answers is the easy part. Asking the right questions is what truly is difficult - and computers were nowhere near to that in his day [\understatement].
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  1523. 00:25 = your hypothetical conundrum regarding the nationality of a baby born on a cruise ship. We can begin to breathe a sigh of relief that this baby had not been born stateless, if s/he had been the bundle of joy of at least one parent holding nationality from a country which accepts parenthood as a sufficient qualification. As I have been guided to understand, both Italy and Ireland recognize nationality unto the 3rd generation; in the case of Israel, the 3 generations limitation does not apply. Place of birth is not always relevant. In the US, the XIVth Amendment guarantees citizenship on the basis of place of birth; this however is not any universal legal construct.
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  1524.  @robertpetrea23  Chewbacco might be better than smoking Gauloises
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  1525. This is a marketing classic. Coke had heavily tested consumer preferences, and concluded that the majority preferred the new formulation; what they had not fully assessed, is: by how much? Those who liked the new Coke, liked it somewhat more; those who disliked the new Coke, hated it. Essentially, Coke's market research gave them the right answer to the wrong question.
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  1526. Rule #1: If you try to think inside The Box: you will fail; if you try to think outside The Box, you likely also will pretty much fail. Forget about The Box, and try something new. The Box will still be there.
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  1527. mik1984 Quote you: "The idea that inelastic demand causes prices to rise is economically illiterate." -> Inelastic demand met by elastic and  falling supply, notwithstanding local anomalies,  predictably results in rising prices.
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  1528. +Adam In much of the developed world it would cost far more to put in place a plumbing system which would deliver potable water to taps for drinking, and non-potable water to toilets. If we forced people to pay extra for parallel clean water and grey water plumbing, would that quiet down your peeve?
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  1529. It looks like every single video you have posted to YT is centered around cars. Do you have any non-automotive engineering videos?
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  1530. What a coincidence - I am convinced that Kris Desiato is guilty of these same charges.
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  1531. +Adam “H” Madi You might enjoy reading up on the findings of the Human Genome Diversity Project. Essentially, boys usually marry the girl next-door (/ maybe the next village or next island) Examined over distance and through time, that means that we are unlikely to spot many clean breaks as we might rely on science to determine distinct racial cleavages. (These massively are social constructs.) ~ What you posted is the sort of dissociation which gives support or cover for ethnic cleansing and murder. Please stop it.
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  1532. 03:36  This is footage of a French-built Dassault Rafale which clearly bears the roundel of the Armee de l'Air at midships. What's it doing in a story about US arms sales???  
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  1533. "only one brexit"? While Thatcher screamed her doctrine of TINA / "There Is No Alternative", try instead: TATTOO: / "There Are Two Thousand Other Options." As a member of the EEC, then EU, Britain had become party to over 750 international agreements at treaty level. In disengaging from a common diplomatic and regulatory EU-based framework, there will more than likely be many/750+ choice alternatives available to the United Kingdom. There is a wide matrix of outcomes available to the United Kingdom's future, this variability much contingent on the outcome of negotiating a common structured agreement. Is there just ONE Brexit? No. It's closer to a 'many worlds' interpretation,
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  1534. Had you also recently been subject to inappropriate selection challenge by YT?
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  1535. +Minyaw I doubt that you mean your statement to be taken literally: viz, we have the technology to generate electricity from the desperate steps of orphans cast on an infernal treadmill, craving to keep starvation at bay. Yes/no on this technically plausible component, Minyaw? Some options need to be closed!
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  1536. Carl Tiedtek y'On the safe side., Nazis had tatooed  theirraw material My earliest home memories were of our family's next-door neighbors, they were family,
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  1537. The "socialist" component was liquidated in the Night of the Long Knives. For propaganda purposes, the Nazis retained the name, but moved in an entirely different direction - e.g. they abolished trade unions.
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  1538. +Whoami691 Do you have a voice of your own?
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  1539.  @rubyspiritof  un jeu de maux
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  1540. The Scots voted against Brexit. Every single region of Scotland voted against, and by a solid margin - that's a demonstration of consensus. The "United" Kingdom is manifestly NOT united.
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  1541. "unless the Eu get vindictive and want to fuck up GB" that coach had already departed.. GB is vindictive and wanting to *mess with Brits." These Kingdoms are not united.
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  1542. +Khalil Royal In this forum, you're the 'foreigner.' BTW there is no letter KH in the English language
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  1543. I had learned in a Marketing course that the 'three on a match' superstition was invented after WW1 by the Swedish Match Co. in order to boost sales.
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  1544. darkheart1721 Might you please share the title and ISBN? Thanks.
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  1545. Inorganic Vegan A large part of US energy usage is in transportation, virtually all of it powered by fossil fuels. That then means that, of the remaining energy portfolio, nuclear's share were sharply higher than 20%. You might have made an error at some stage.
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  1546. +Eduard Arnautu Quite a few have been affected indeed; however, there are no peer-reviewed epidemiological studies which conclude that we have all been so affected - at least, AFAIK. You would not have written anything so counter-intuitive unless you had evidence, right? Please produce it.
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  1547. He was clear and candid. Good interview.
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  1548. The prevalence of the term, "denier"... instead were a gentle and respectful offered alternative to the more invective ^3 term, "idiot". Take a hug of compassion where you can get one. Go ahead, you really want this - because you represent the soft cide of humanity.
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  1549. You spouted, "her father was possibly part of the coup". For the readers out there who are not familiar with well defined propaganda tactics, please take this insinuation with healthy skepticism. The way this propaganda tactic works, is: an insinuation is inserted into public discourse, and includes sufficient caveats for the person launching the sleaze attack to be shielded from  negative legal and social consequences. The target of  such nebulous insinuations would need to make extraordinary efforts to prove the veiled accusations to be false. Anyone with a decent education level shall be familiar with the difficulty of proving a negative. Meanwhile, second and third instars will reproduce the allegations without the caveats, perhaps citing the original text as authoritative. The allegation becomes transmogrified into a factoid, then to be reproduced ad nauseam. ksaifullah11, you have been busted. Your venom may yet spread, but it is not unopposed. 
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  1550. EBOLA WILL SAVE LIVES Maybe, maybe, we might begin to see public health as a public benefit. Sorry if you feel dizzy? It does not make sense to cloister highly contagious diseases in a cloak of privatized  care which the sick can not afford. We are lucky enough that ebola will express itself early, and [so far as is known]  is not contagious before expression of symptoms. If our society stingily keeps privatized the misery of infectious illness among those who can not afford even basic medical care: we may be engineering later contagious outbreaks among the less unfortunate..  
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  1551. @Unironic fascist Keep waiting. Give or take, noting you. World-wide, there are roughly 100 times more "muslims' than "jews" If the number of persons from each committing fatal crimes were close to equal, that would distinguish Jews as approx.100% more murderous than Muslims. You might not have meant what you conveyed.
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  1552. The Orange Peril would sell his mother to make a buck. Why wouldn't he sell out the People?
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  1553. "...Judging from your reply, you are a european leftist who has never visited USA.." DEAD WRONG. i was born In the USA, and I live here now. I used to have to commute through Harlem, and admit that I often felt fear - but it that was not unjustified, nor was I alone in this. South Bronx was worse, as was Bed-Stuy. There are parts of cities such as Miami or LA where outsiders do not go - out of fear. I doubt you would easily be persuaded to take a 3-hour casual stroll alone through South Central between 10 PM and 5 AM.. Another figment of your diseased mind is your hallucinating that I had made any "argument of Americans living 'fear of guns'. " I had done no such thing, and in fact I quite enjoy handling guns with care, and using them responsibly. I have friends and family who live in remote areas, and fully support that they arm themselves for protection. What i had done in my comment, however, was to point out that the the right to keep firearms at home is uncommon in Europe. A lot of hard working Americans live just one paycheck from disaster; one bad injury, and you rapidly go bankrupt. If you think this does not cause fear and anxiety, you're just plain stupid.  Speaking of which - you wrote. "deaths by guns is a tiny percentage compared to deaths of americans by cars". Well..., that's a weird way of interpreting the official figures: in 2013 there were 32,719 motor vehicle fatalities (per NHTSA) vs 33,169 deaths related to firearms (per CDC&P). According to WHO - in 2012, an estimated 372 000 people died from drowning worldwide - with low- and middle-income countries accounting for 91% of unintentional drowning deaths: so even if the US accounted for every single death by unintentional drowning, that would be 33480 - slightly more than US gun deaths. Actually, according to CDC&P, the 2005 - 2009 average annualf atal US drownings came to 3,880. You: "...for starters america does not even ranked in top 100 nations where most murders occur." That might be true, but it's also irrelevant. Much of the world is in conflict, or has weak institutions. Let's instead compare what is more credibly comparable. Based on UNODC figures: the US, with a rate of 3.8 per 100,000, comes in 4th among 28 members of NATO, 3rd among 34 OECD members. You are just so full of crap.
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  1554. +MALayhee700 Not a fan of due process, are you? Oh, and by the way, lots of people took lots of shit in those days. If you worked in a factory or a mine, and the boss passed by: you would stop what you were doIng, stand up, take off your cap, and bow - no matter where you were, except in church. If WWII vets had had the internet in 1900, they would mostly later have been too old to serve in the armed forces roughly FOUR DECADES AFTER 1900. Most of the service members were younger than 39 or so at the outbreak of WWII. Basic arithmetic is not your strong point either, is it?
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  1555. +MALayhee700 "And the genocide of 2 million Germans after Berlin's fall( internment camp deaths) was that sub human Eisenhower's idea." No. And your proposed figure of 2M Germans who died under some regimen of genocide post May 8, 1945, deserves to be examined for veracity. The brutal and murderous retaliation against ethnic Germans after the fall of the Third Reich occurred mostly in central and eastern Europe, well beyond the remit and control of the Western allies. Ethnic German communities, such as the Sudeten Germans, suffered heavily. There were hardly any "ethnic German" communities West of pre-war Germany - a few scattered communities in the Netherlands, Eupen and Malmedy in Belgium, and the citizens of Alsace and Lorraine who had overwhelmingly voted to be part of France when given a free and fair plebiscite. Ethnic Germans west of the Rhine were not purged or expelled after the armistice.
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  1556. +InfernosReaper Nanking was the only well-known incident where Germans turned up in trench coats, flashing Nazi party badges... and they we the good guys. {nod2TFT} That's how nasty the brutalization of Nanking was: that it could make even Nazis cringe at the brutality, and try to get it toned down . Nazi Germany had asked Japan to back down from its vicious cruelty in Nanking. That did not succeed.  Some among them might have come from, studied in, had a sweetheart from... Dresden. Apart from the above: the suffering of the populations of both Nanking and of Dresden, served absolutely no plausible military purpose whatsoever.
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  1557. What if one were to combine Leyland numbers with the Fibbonacci sequence... is there a name for that?
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  1558. +taha srori World rankings are invalid because the various countries operate under entirely different parameters. For example: in some countries, if a person is raped multiple times by the same perpetrator, that will only be recorded once; in other countries, each incident will be reported separately. In some countries, it is legally impossible for a spouse to rape the partner. Some police forces treat a victim with compassion, while others shame the victim, or worse - and that surely has an effect on how likely a victim were to report a crime. One can compare apples and oranges, but ranking them is not to be taken seriously.
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  1559. 05:25 Actually, the German Fleet still had one more major engagement on open water: 6 months later at the Battle of Jutland.
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  1560. +dude What do you know of the effectiveness and speed the Soviet forces might have shown in an amphibious assault on Japan? SU did not have the landing capability to initiate and to sustain such a campaign. The topography of Japan is nothing like the rolling plans of north-central Europe, ideal for tanks. instead, taking on the Japanese would have involved warfare similar to the Italy campaign. Dream on.
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  1561. +dude At that point Manchuria was a peripheral objective, the armies in place stranded and essentially incapable of influencing the outcome of the war. Beating them was not an easy task, but it was also redundant. What was needed was rapidly obtaining the surrender, and that required subjugating the home islands. The Soviets simply did not have the capability to conquer Honshu from the North at any rapid pace - if at all; OTOH in the South the terrain was far more favorable, and the Western Allies had far better resources and were better equipped to do so, they were vastly more experienced in this type of warfare.
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  1562. +The Great Communicator Who knows what he meant? There might not be many Turks in the 'Stans - but that would hardly matter when spreading hatred and xenophobia is the intention.
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  1563. Teen Japanese babysitter comics!
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  1564. The NT Gospels report Jesus enjoining his followers to "love thy neighbor as thyself." Kind of like that Buddhist non-duality thing, a friend had proposed. Hating and misogyny are not highly compatible with collapsing the distinction between you and the next random human
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  1565. +Innate Learn from your opponents, listen to them. Paying attention to what they say might give you the wherewithal to defeat them in open forum; paying attention to them might sometimes, sometimes, reveal that they might be right.
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  1566. Don Whitmore You might look into the meaning of "prejudice"
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  1567.  Well, essentially pre = prior, beforehand, etc. judice =  judge prejudice = to judge beforehand.- which is what you went for.
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  1568. +Don Whitmore Have I sufficiently stroked your ego ?
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  1569. +Cygwin Parallel developments do not always denote correlation, and correlation itself most certainly does not prove causation. The stock of gold is finite;. Since the end of WWII, world GDP has increased significantly faster than world supply of gold. If we were to revert to a gold standard, the necessary adjustment to match money supply to gold holdings would produce a recession of such severity that, in comparison, the 1930s would look like a rave party If moving to a gold standard were the motive, the Swiss or the Brits would have tried first; but almost every government would have had reason to act. And, BTW - note of historical accuracy: Qaddafi was killed by other Libyans.
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  1570. Britain, Germany, and Poland were all part of the same Western culture which had been bound together by the Roman Catholic Church, and whose societies went through the Renaissance, the emergence of Protestantism and the Reformation, and the Enlightenment; not so for Russia. Apart from language and the post WWII Soviet domination, the Poles are essentially closer to (say) the Dutch or the Swiss, than to the Russians.
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  1571. +Bert Simpkins Just a flap.
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  1572. Some metals and many stones aren't very hard at all. On the Mohs scale, where diamond is 10, talc is 1, graphite (pencil "lead") is 0.5-1. Sodium metal at 0.4 is so soft that you can cut it with a spoon; there are plenty of woods you can't do that to.
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  1573. +Thad Stevens Can burning aluminum melt steel beams?
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  1574. It's a symbol which occurred in many cultures before being kidnapped and perverted by the Nazis... well after WWI ended. The Navajo had used it prior to WWII, other indigenous nations might have as well. Once I had been puzzled by the inclusion of the symbol in a very old Navajo rug, then the owner clarified its inclusion.
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  1575. +Jimmy Reynolds The Berbers were vandalised earlier, the Vandals having established their Kingdom in North Africa late 5th century CE
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  1576. One Belgian region had recently blocked the proposed CETA trade agreement; ECJ had recently ruled that foreign trade treaties must be approved by all member States, and by their apt constituent regional legislatures, where applicable. Wallonia can veto an EU treaty. That is the Law applicable within the EU, today - of which the UK fully remains a member. Might we count on the Tories to guarantee that the Scot component of this United Kingdom shall never lose this right now recognized in Law?
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  1577. Changing your mind might be sum, how, rewarding;changing the engineering is heroic.
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  1578. African elephants (Loxodonta africana) are listening to us. The pachyderms can tell certain human languages apart and even determine our gender, relative age, and whether we’re a threat http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/03/elephants-have-learned-understand-human
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  1579. +Scott Dann Very few voted for Cameron to sit in Parliament, let alone become PM. How democratic is that?
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  1580. This is a nanoaggression.
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  1581. Happy birthday / bonne anniversaire CANADA with love / gros bisous
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  1582. +Andrea Roll In your opinion, was it not justified for the US to have intervened militarily in Korea?
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  1583. +Fart Bart You do understand that those trillions of dollars in debt are not loaned by Martians or Klingons, but by other humans. Taking on debt is not always a bad thing. How many people do you know who have bought a home and paid in cash? Have you ever worked for a company which bought goods and services and paid net 30? Think about it: an economy which did not allow credit and debt would never have grown so large. The absolute size of a sovereign entity's debt is not as consequential as other matters, such as its ability to service the debt - unlike humans who eventually all die, typically countries rarely do, and there seldom is a higher power which comes to liquidate in order to collect. And then, the debt which has been incurred did not all go up in smoke 100%. Some went into investment in infrastructure and human capital, such as education - which typically has a very high rate of return. Some actually went into assets which have a merchantable value: buildings, vehicles, and so on. If the debts were such a problem, the financial markets surely would have factored that into their calculations, demanding higher premiums - particularly on longer maturities. As I write, the yield on 30-year US Federal debt as reported by Bloomberg (USGG30YR:IND), is 3.0343%. Not high. .
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  1584. Had it not occurred to the governance of Russia that: if you can't establish easily defended borders... another option might be to eliminate the desire to invade Russia? Maintain a sufficient military deterrence, and strive not to be hated. It might work.
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  1585. Hahn Deathspark Free... but at what cost?
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  1586. Xaphan6669 Please XQse my rant. 'alot" indicates an allocation 'a lot' indicates relative quantity.
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  1587. Skooteh But.. how far will that matter? No Senator from West Virginia will yield the floor, once he slotted his groove and physical fortitude into a filibuster.
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  1588. +Skooteh What of the term, 'clout'' ? Essentially it is soft power available to hard power.
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  1589.  @lend9754  " your defense is completely covered by the USA"... bullshit. France has the 3rd most powerful nuclear deterrent - and it's homegrown. France's conventional forces provide a sufficient deterrent against any credible threat. You wrote your silly comment without knowing what the hell you're talking about. Next time, educate yourself before making a fool of yourself.
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  1590. Poll miner's daughter
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  1591. Well explained. Imagine how much talent we might unlock if all school kids learning math early on were made aware what the hell it's good for - other than not getting in trouble with your teachers or parents This explanation was clear and easy to understand. Why can't we do that everywhere for the kids? Cold-introduced a=b=x will always be good stuff for those whose minds are prehensile to the matter; for the other kids, that can unlock a landscape of torture. We need not go in cold.
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  1592. +Andrew b You allege that Canada "will be bankrupt soon";' yet the prime rate is only 2.7%. How would you explain this lack of compensating risk premium?
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  1593. Schoellhammer is an ideologue. How he might be accepted as an assistant professor, is bewildering.
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  1594. What valuations had Trump's team used to secure a bond against his court liabilities?
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  1595. Why the flux does your YT "customer service" ask for my zip code? Why?
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  1596. Alien civilization which we detect from afar, shall have come to us from signals thousands of years old. They might be dead. The space travellers postulated in our skies, might have spent a tedium of boredom before getting here. Let's allow them some R&R.
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  1597. Course of Law: I decide that my concept, shall be fully enforced into perpetuity except FOR previous Art Ravel's works are now free flow. Let's dance with desire.
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  1598. Me duele España
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  1599.  @sko1beer  Then still would remain the question: why might an exclusively defensive collective become a threat, other than to the geopolitical aspirations of an expansionist power? In this case, Russia.
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  1600.  @sko1beer  That might be a cause for concern: there is no bound known procedure for replacing him.
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  1601. Had you now noticed the mess age?
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  1602. @MSD Group It's likely being discussed in an appropriate forum, unlike this one. You might have noticed that nobody here is discussing, say, the best time to plant roses, nor requesting recipes for ropa vieja.
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  1603. First part of your intro: the SFBay area sustained severe damage during Loma Prieta. Regulations held down that death toll. Imagine if Trump instead
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  1604. ​ @craigb8228  had you sought to convey... "dumbing" ?
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  1605. The Speaker... speaks; then can be judged accordingly. Mikey has kept his head down, what with the lack of a visible head fully inserted into a rectum; but he'll eat anything.
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  1606. RFK Jr. knows he not only will not -he can not win. IMO his candidacy is a vehicle to spread his murderous anti-vax propaganda.
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  1607. No other national figure could bind France's resistance. You play with the cards you are dealt.
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  1608. ​ @scockery France is the most visited tourist destination. Maybe some French people like some folk from elsewhere.
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  1609. ​ @augustuswayne9676 Higher average life expectancy. LOL.
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  1610. ​ @nicholaskelly1958 Churchill was a great wit; at times, he could also be a great twit.
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  1611. ​ @waynesworldofsci-tech  de Gaulle might not even l have liked de Gaulle.
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  1612. ​ @lrg3834 I am not familiar with Chicago; I have lived in SF for 3 decades. It's a beautiful city, though we do have gritty areas. These are reported targeted by right-wing persons of scant integrity over given channels. Rents are punishingly high.That is not typical of somewhere nobody wants to live.
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  1613. Deniers are pushing vaccinazinihilipilification
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  1614. 12:14 "extraordinary chuttspa... " he should not try using Yiddish vocabulary without a clue as to how it's pronounced. That was horrid.
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  1615. When Elon Stink / Musk gets frisky, stuff might happen. By the way, had you stopped to figure out how Doges in the Republic of Venice were empowered, and by which best electoral process?
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  1616. Crassus sided in defense of the Republic. That is not an obvious direction easily ascribed to alien-born immigrant, Elon Musk ​ @zaphodbeeblebrox6795 
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  1617. This is a grade-A Trump moron. Importers of record pay import duties. I know, because I was an importer who had to pay the import duties / tariffs, otherwise described as what are taxes imposed on American citizens and businesses.
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  1618. Fox populi, vox dei.
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  1619. Prices are rising fast everywhere. Some say that a quarter of international grain trade has been lost because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine; most of the world's sunflower oil has become unavailable. I had enjoyed the hospitality of Australia almost 3 decades ago, and I still have the warm and fuzzies for Ozies; but please retain a sense of humanity and hold Putin to account.
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  1620. These revelatory legal cases should warn us against believing the trump l'oeil.
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  1621. 'Nice DOJ you've got here; shame if something happen to it...'
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  1622. Make America Gasp Again.
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  1623. Why would the People of Taiwan accept to be subjugated by the heavily repressive CCP regime?
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  1624.  @kingfishlou  There is a problem in your premice: Beijing's rule is disgusting. The People of Taiwan are free, and that's how they like it. CCP, by the way, is imbued with Leninist authoritarian modes of conduct, fully imported from eastern Europe. Review your statement, if you dare for a glimmer of credibility.
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  1625. On many points, Bernie fits the frame of the Roosevelt impetus toward Union rights, and victories. As with other ecologies, seemingly ttivial changes in human behaviour can have significant referrent measurable data.
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  1626. D'ici le printemps, nous verrons des vaincoeurs et des vaincus. Je pisse sur les 20 culs.
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  1627. SCOTUS won't solve this "once and for all". Trump's rabid supporters will accept nothing less than his deification.
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  1628. The only inexhaustible natural resource is human stupidity. I do not accept that dull stupidity had caused more human suffering than had malice.
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  1629. DestiNations.. Fun.
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  1630. Quod erat non disputandum / Unless you put enough flash money on the table?
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  1631. I used to be agnostic, but now I'm not so sure...
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  1632. We are only civilised to the extent that we might understand cats.
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  1633. Were this another example of military hubris? There were disturbing indications of enemy preparations, but the Tet offensive caught MACV on the back foot.
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  1634.  @mercedesgaytan8905  Trump is a domestic problem; Elon is an invasive species.
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  1635. @ValRe-g5x  operational constraints
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  1636. Quasi tout logiciel peut se voir remixte.
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  1637. 11:34 Fresno is bIsected by a major highway similar to I-5, but doesn't have an ""interstate" designation. What's your point? Much of US101 between LA and SF is built to Interstate standards, but doesn't carry the label. Lile many maps itillustrated a POV, but hides other truths.
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  1638. A far worse outcome would be for that felon, Donald Trump, to assume his stated goal of revenge with the full power pf the Presidency Have you no honor?
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  1639. Orange you glad at dumping Trump?
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  1640. What is Musk's Congressionally-mandated watchdog function? ZERO. This South African would have Americans turn against one another, if that improve his wealth . Seems to be working.
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  1641. ​ @ItsGulfofMexicoDump  Elon and his Musk rats likely will have sway over competitors, as a reward for over $100bn in campaign finance. Wikipedia will need to reforge it's definition of political corruption.
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  1642. Try a web search: "doge™+ "Venice" .
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  1643. 0.17 that erred on Fox "News".
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  1644. 03:32 ...'can be either verbal or written'... That's a common error: written contracts are verbal (i.e., using words); surely you meant to say "oral"??
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  1645. There would have been far less trouble with the Gilets Jaunes if the government had devised some mechanism by which the extra tax at the pump had been rebated. That should have been simple for those paying at the pump by credit card, and surely something might have been found for those who paid in cash. Instead, the extra tax went to the State - bad move.
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  1646.  @dillonconstantine2411  the previous agreeable quota was c. 100,000 refugees per year. For the sake of arithmetic teachers: that is one tenth of a million, one hundredth of ten million, one thousandth of one hundred million. For ten gold stars: how many aliens will Trump deport: A) enough to satisfy his base B) close to provoking global meltdown. C ) I'll be dead before my shift hits the fan.
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  1647. @dillonconstantine2411  There is suhhrdtion flash path thats not a full dictatorship if He can still remember the names of some flowers, or of his adolt children.
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  1648. @dillonconstantine2411  Ttump lost in 2020; where the Hell were you standing for an uninterrupted transfer of authority?
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  1649. @dillonconstantine2411  Trump waited less than one day before violating the 14th amendment of the Constitution which allegedly he swore to uphold.
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  1650. @stratman1192 Posse Comitatus.
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  1651. @dillonconstantine2411  he Barely won the popular vote. This was not a national landslide; despite egregious gerrymandering in several conventions in the House
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  1652. Given that they are under acute financial pressure, they might not be able to afford going away on vacation.
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  1653. It is baffling why youtubers downvote aid to a stricken community. What the hell???
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  1654. It's no longer the Grand Old Party: today's Repugs have assassinated Lincoln a second time. They struggle to define their Party as something other than idolatry prostrating before the Orange Peril.
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  1655. Trump does not have the nous to act as a prosecutor. He has the anger to extract revenge, but that is not the same premise.
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  1656. approx 07:00 there is a significant difference between an organism which never had been alive, and one which is [later] dead. Enjoy the paradox.
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  1657. PRChina has a massive financial hole from excess speculation in property development. I would be less concerned if. as in other mid-to-high economies: the Government stepped in to reassure retail private investors. Normal citizens have staked their life savings on unbuilt housing, and have been massacred.
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  1658. No, actually, the US still has lots of factories. America no longer manufactures lots of cheap, low margin products cheaply shipped, but it does make high value products, such as commercial aircraft. Globalization worked according to Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage; it also provided other countries the means to buy America's high-value manufactures. The higher production runs of these have, in some cases, led to economies of scale which then reduced the costs to domestic buyers. I can't recall any serious economics analysts regretting that their country's economy was moving up the value chain.
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  1659.  @ohdearearthlings1879  I don't know how official it is - that is what orthodox economic theory indicates, I got my hands dirty on the shop floor over many years - I am no stranger to manufacturing. That does not mean that I have become numb to a goofy idea in abstract finance when I see it.
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  1660.  @ohdearearthlings1879  Had you paid attention to China's demographics? For decades the fertility rate has been well below the 2.1 replacement threshold. The total population now is contracting, and those who are alive are getting older on average.
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  1661. Trump has fumed against European nations which had not "paid their bills". I would rather have seen more robust defense commitments. Then again, most European members of NATO have all of their defense budgets committed solely to defense in Europe. Then again, the United States has long maintained a defense share of GDP over the 2% guideline... but much of that has been committed to positions far from Europe. The US military budget might not be in compliance with the 2 percent rule for European defense. Hah.
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  1662.  @theonly6359  It's not my duty to help navigate the clueless.
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  1663. Get better, Jesse!
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  1664. When bullets are flying, cops won't know who are the good guys. You might have had a better behaved school experience; but my school had epic pranks perpetrated by students on the teacher. Introducing guns into the mix mght not be wise.
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  1665. During the Cultural Revolution, you could be denounced by anybody + even your kids + for standing out in any way. Society learned not to poke it's nose.
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  1666. The Court refuses even to acknowledge dubious Thomas scamming our highest legal body. In any other holder of federal office, Thomas would have been defrocked at the very least; more likely, Thomas would be doing hard time in prison and wishing he were outside, spending massively corrupt / sometimes not in favor of his activist wife. Pillow talk is heard hitting.
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  1667.  @antondovydaitis2261  that make sense if "Calvin Bali"/WTF serve as a case at Law before the Supreme Court. What?
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  1668.  @Neonmirrorblack  the New Testament gave us /doubting Thomas; this Supreme Court gave us /dubious Thomas. To paraphrase: it's not "corruption" if a Supreme Court "Justice" does it.
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  1669.  @davidking4838  there is no governing statute elsewhere applicable, which apply to the Supreme Court. Our highest arbiter of Law, itself is lawless.
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  1670. Clarence Thomas took money
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  1671.  @rbw7456  who is asking? Your "our' might not be the same as mine. Give up.
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  1672.  @marcustulliusc  Nice YT handle, BTW. The State of Florida had freely entered into a compact with corporate Disney. The State of Florida had also entered into compacts with corporate interests... with over 1,000 entities, including the delightful people who give us thrills from Daytona. If the State of Florida were to annul all of the special districts: then it might be seen as a legal matter; put DeSantis made it personal and therefore political.
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  1673. 'Why did Desantis sign the new district into law if he was going to have a huge problem with it?" The cameras, or their human monitor, weren't looking.
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  1674. Approx 1:03 "case in point: Brussels struck a trade deal with Beijing just last month, elevating China to Europe's largest trading partner..." This is quite mistaken. The recent deal between EU and PRC is on investment, not on trade. On top of this, a deal concluded a month ago is too young to have had such an alleged impact. [cf China’s investment deal with the EU has raised 3 big concerns in Europe Published Wed, Jan 6 20219:10 AM EST by CNBC]
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  1675. There is no dark side of the moon - it's the far side (actually bathed in light when we have a new moon.)
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  1676.  @nathanm4444  You're the first person I come across who is unfamiliar with the phases of the Moon.
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  1677. Are you sure of that ?
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  1678. During his hiatus, Bill found that Europeans have public intellectuals; "we have "doctor Phil".
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  1679. Likeable quote, I have lived through British elections. The experience on the ground was salutary; post partum was less than glad. Keep what you have It is not perfect, but neither are we.
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  1680. Trump is an enemy of the Republic.
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  1681.  @neotropos  people who struggled through thousands of kms past hirsty steppes, frozen passes, hideous dog fangs, and worse... might be deterred by a short venture over a short journey peril in Channel passage .does not make sense
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  1682. ...and they got it wrong. He should have said "ich bin Berliner"; a berliner is like a jelly donut: so "ich bin ein Berliner " would be "I'm a jelly donut". The public did not seem to mind.
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  1683.  @james-p  when were you born?
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  1684.  @james-p  Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. I relayed what a German friend born in the Western Sector who has an office on Unter den Linden and a house in Potsdam, told me. Have a pleasant moment.
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  1685. Lawyer jokes are mostly funny because of the underlying power disparity. I have friends in the legal profession whom I had known for decades, and we can share a few laughs at their expense. Meanwhile, a lack of Law could fast make our lives sharply diminished.
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  1686. If that happened, you likely might not been alive to post your opinion.
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  1687.  @garryferrington811  Some movies are factual documentaries. Check your headspace
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  1688.  @fractalign "wipe out 80 percent of Hitlers forces,"...yeah... what are you injecting?
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  1689. Many of us grew up encouraged to speak truth to power; Trump instead speaks power to truth.
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  1690. The Orcs will destroy everything in their path. Being liberated means coming under indiscriminate Russian artillery fire. Puck Futin.
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  1691. 8:29 Warren Buffett revealed that: when the Market is greedy, he is cautious; when the Market is cautious, he is greedy. Seems to have worked.
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  1692. @MandMandMandM  That was not in favour of the trumpen proletariat.
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  1693. At the outbreak of WWII, Albert Camus had commented: the reign of beasts has begun. The aggressors and their allies are the beasts.
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  1694. 01:56 the map indicates that Luxembourg is not a member of NATO. This is false.
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  1695. These threats and actions were similar to what led to Mussolini's fascist rise to power. We're not gonna take it.
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  1696. ​ @iSAYsmartSTUFF Evidence has no side. It is credible, or it is not. Ultimately, a jury of Trump's peers will determine what evidence is credible. Beware of stepping into jury-tampering territory.
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  1697. Mon cher, on élimine le "de" quand on ne cite pas le prénom. 'Dominique de Villepin 'devient 'Villepin'' .Question de forme.
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  1698. Les Saoudits, y compris la famille royale, ont des milliards ivvesti dans les pays du compact occidental. Ces investisseurs ont probablement peu de raison de se châtrer..
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  1699.  @Brandespada  N'est-ce pas? Vous avez su mon pseudo de suite. Je suis en ligne sur l'internet depuis 1printemps 995. Je refuse de me cacher... pas comme d'autres.
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  1700. The Chinese Restaurant Syndrome might not be entirely a matter of racial prejudice: peope who ate at Chinese restaurants did so voluntarily. When I ws a kid, I looked forward to eating at Chinese restaurants as special treat, and my mom was glad to indulge me, since it was one of the few ways I would gladly eat vegetables. We did sometimes later feel an unpleasant sensation of tightening at the temples. That might have been due to the use of canned ingredients such as water chestnuts or bamboo shoots, not MSG - but it was real.
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  1701.  @SoraJack  Let it sink in... if there were racial prejudice afoot: would persons complaining of such syndrome have eaten Chinese food in the first place?
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  1702. ?
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  1703.  @DavidBecker-ki5bj  Even if we assume this laptop were a true possession of Hunter Biden - the Fourth Amendment protects citizens from intrusive search and seizure.
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  1704.  @DavidBecker-ki5bj  what's on your hard?
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  1705.  @veliciahill621  that murder-folker ginned up and unleashed a mob to destroy Constitutional order in his favor.
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  1706. I was disappointed that there was no mention ot thorium-based fission.
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  1707. Trump is running again, or maybe not. He is very much illustrating the thought experiment of Schroedinger's cat: he simultaneously is, and isn't, running for Prez in 2024; a major difference is that no advanced intelligence ever even glanced Trump's brain.
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  1708. Many attractive cities have difficult housing markets, but have easily attractive home stays online. Coincidence?
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  1709. Statecraft involves many efforts and constructed smarts. Putin was a KGB high operative, so he saw how a changing RSFSR might become an independent Russia. Now what? Putin grabbed power where the /West had its guard down, and even was willing to help Russia: there were other (seemed) severe adversaries. Even if Putin were to fall from power, Russia's perennial insecurity over its fragile borders easily invaded... shall itself be considered as a cause to fight.
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  1710. You have a sharply different understanding of what "NATO compatibility" entails. My understanding is that it does not much interfere within the cockpit, but that all hardpoints will be capable of using appropriate NATO-standardized munitions.
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  1711.  @goobfilmcast4239  Even then... the UK has abandoned the imperial system for most uses. Petrol/gasoline is sold by the litre (/"liter"), and consumer packaging speaks of grams and kgs. There are some rare holdouts, but the UK has largely gone metric.
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  1712.  @williampatrickfagan7590  A spelling error, or difference, measures a person's ability not to feel mortified when confronted with his foolish pronouncements.
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  1713.  @marcofranco6974  Yeah, but they work. Some efficient technologies will not get discarded, no matter how old they are.
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  1714. Reagan held the opinion that the Federal state was doing too much; but also he recognized that it also was providing vital services to the American People. I had personally used NOAA data to convince my client to increase purchases of fish from California. That meant more jobs in California. I affirm that this is true. Idiots who are clueless, are now in charge. The reign of the beasts had begun.
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  1715. 03:38 this plug from the Trumpist denial of reality is trying to pin high inflation on Biden' s term. Prices spiked in theUS atthe same time they spiked in the UK; in Denmark; in Germany; in Spain; in Poland; in Japan; in France,; in Ireland... and worse still in countries such as Egypt, which is heavily dependent on grain imports from the Black Sea. The typical American consumer can't easily become friendly with prices rising faster than wages. There are documented cases where retail prices were charged to consumers at twice the cost-push level if compensating for underlying inflation. WE HAVE BEEN SCALPED.
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  1716. The final vote was 216 to 214. Without Al Green, it would have been 215 to 214: still a defeat.
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  1717. GOP is good governance...
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  1718. When you can no longer accomplish what optimistically had been within your grasp: it's time to let go. He never was my favorite politician, but this time: he did the right thing.
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  1719. Undiagnosed errors can recur.
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  1720. He:s not broke, he's just broken.
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  1721. Dura lax, sed ... broad/brain barrier. Both due a separate can back.
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  1722. Putin's clear objective is: conquest.
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  1723.  @TodaTruth Might you please re-phrase that in some understandable context?Thanks.
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  1724. 06:43 [approx] your map includes Mayotte - the Comoros island which chose by plebiscite to remain French. I call foul.
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  1725.  @robertpolnicky7702  You are not an econ graduate, are you?
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  1726.  @robertpolnicky7702  Fox "News" is a plaything of its owner. Other channels are not subject to procedures and evaluations vulnerable to the whims or prejudices of a controlling owner.
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  1727. Agnus DEI
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  1728.  Better Dayz  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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  1729. Cancel the major proponents of fighting "cancel culture", just because they ferociously engage in cancel culture? That might become too confusing, even to them.
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  1730. In Swedish, the term for a boss literally is 'work giver'.
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  1731. After lecturing the OMB director on inflation, Boebert then goes on to assert that the Biden Administration's proposed budget includes "the largest tax increase in American history"... without taking inflation into account. It would not be the largest tax increase either in inflation-adjusted dollars or in share of GDP. The highest federal revenue increase was the Revenue Act of 1942, which had a federal revenue increase of 5.04% of GDP in the first fiscal year. She's such a loony bird. She berated the Biden Administration over inflation, after referring to Milton Friedman saying that inflation results from excess money supply... ignoring (or being ignorant) of the fact that the money supply is under the control of the Federal Reserve, a body separate from, and independent of, the Administration. Milton Friedman should have been aware that inflation can also result from external factors, such as the price of imported oil rising several-fold in the 1970's.
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  1732. Grab a gun and go fight.
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  1733. Russia's conventional ,military must be obliterated. Slava Ukraini!
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  1734. It's: survival of the best adapted.
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  1735. Ted Cruz has given permission to address him as "Kiss My Ass". Let's hope interviewers take advantage of his.
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  1736. Sara Menker might be right in her overall analysis, but I' am certain that the map she presented of the situation 40 years ago 07:10 is flawed. The calorie-deficit countries all appear in the same shade of red, regardless of the circumstances of each country. For example, Japan had a population roughly twice that of France, living on less than 400K sq km vs 550K sq km in France; and had only about 15% arable land vs a third in France. Were Japanese farmers so much more productive that they could feed twice as many on their approx 60,000 sq km of arable land as the French could on approx 180,000 sq km of arable land? I doubt it.
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  1737. The legal context of the Ten/ or convenient/ Commandments ...might be afjuxed.
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  1738.  @jenniferr9624  As I perceive, mostly they are not 'right' or 'left'. They had become the owners / or the stewards /of immense reservoirs of economic power. I had just barely got into the top 1% of salaried taxpayers.. I was well paid, not screaming for a raise, and still reckoned that Bill Gates could liquidate his holdings, pay every last cent of possible tax, and still retire o my favored middle class standard of living for four times all recorded History. Is Bill Gates a better person?
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  1739. WARNING! CENSORSHIP CAN BE HARMFUL TO YOUR
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  1740. Julian Assangel has finally freed himself from self-emprisonment.
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  1741. Those idiots forgot to repurpose language toward their purpose
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  1742. Ok
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  1743. Reply
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  1744. 0:33 "whether it could led to WIII." Go fish. In every category, Russian military strength is but a shadow of core-member NATO's capabilities. - except in the fields of weapons of applied mass destruction. It remains an option at his disposal to threaten worldwide incineration unless he whines loud enough and then gets his toys. If he is allowed to get away with this, he will do it again, and again, until he make (conventional) WWIII inevitable. Putin had repeatedly expressed his expansionist and imperialist desires. Stop such a travesty from happening.
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  1745. Reductio ad absurdem.
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  1746.  @emintey  "Hong Kong was leased to Great Britain for the period of 100 years"... That is inaccurate. HK island itself was ceded outright; it's the New Territories (the part of the HK colony on the mainland, including Kowloon) ) which were leased for 100 years. Technically, Britain could have held on to the island - but most of the essential infrastructure was located in the NT.
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  1747. The stress is not on the 2nd syllable when pronouncing 'defenestration'' [DEfenestrAtion]. It is most commonly used when referring to the historical Defenestration of Prague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague
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  1748. @kennysdead500  also had slavery over much of that period. Sinclair had ripped a fatal tear in the jungle/meat butchering industry. Do you personally want to go back to that? If so: take the first bite.
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  1749. @kennysdead500  I rarely tag a supreme idiot, nor shall I do this now.
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  1750. @l-leviathan  Let me guess... You never dealt with differential productivity?
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  1751. @kennysdead500  we also had no world wars before then. Make your point instead of throwing bricks.
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  1752. @kennysdead500  would you please share which econometric model might justify your optimism?
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  1753. @l-leviathan  when is it so convenient for you to pay less than a dollar for a head of cabbage?
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  1754. Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.
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  1755. How far will the Party allow this? Given its structure: indefinitely. Party cohesion counts for more than taking care of the People.
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  1756. En bref - notre frontiere la plus longue.... est avec le Bresil!
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  1757.  @jahualhaq9853  It's more likely that we are so because it IS about us. I don't want a President whose immediate instincts avowedly are fascist. DUMP TRUMP.
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  1758. The use of psychedelics can be a fearful experience without a guide to help you along the venture.
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  1759. Donald might, at some point, remember that Vice-president is a black job.
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  1760.  @kenperk9854  Cogito ergo sum.
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  1761.  @kenperk9854  Unlike you (most likely), I lived under a socialist government. My job was in international trade. The sky didn't fall; mothers didn't eat their babies. There were some unwelcome restrictions, but we still managed to keep factories supplied with essential inputs. Where you and I diverge, in the main, is that I do my homework. I had studied economics for 5 years, spread over 2 different curricula - the same studies over one single platform would easily have yielded a Bachelors' in economics. I had successfully advocated for the application of Pigouvian principles in the development of public policy. What have you done?
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  1762.  @advisorynotice  There is a particularly weird aspect to this: PRC regards ROC/Taiwan as a "renegade province"; yet Taiwan's government is the Republic of China successor to the legal governments which had been overthrown on the Mainland in a revolution by CCP. By any rational legal analysis, it is PRC which is the renegade.
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  1763. SLAVA!
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  1764. Which is more corrupt: the one who is bought, or the one who buys?
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  1765.  @tetoffense7659  Thank you for your irrelevant comment. Are there any other non-sequiturs you'd like to add?
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  1766.  @nss1222  Challenge - there was an endearing movie a few years ago, "The King's Speech". Brayers might check it out, and gain some humanity.
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  1767. There is a plaque on the outskirts of the Alhambra, "Dale limosna, mujer: que no hay mas pena en el Mundo que de ser ciego en Granada". / 'Woman, give him an alm: for there is no greater pain in this World than to be blind in Grenada.' It's a grand way of saying that this is is a beautiful city.
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  1768. 6:30 Your 1: 27.3 PPP conversion is fanciful. I am trying to remain polite. 6:50 your 27.3 PPP conversion would place Russia's genuine military budget at 1.7745 trillion dollars, or more than twice the US budget - the US having more than twice as many people, with a significantly higher GDP per capita. Not a math guru, are you?
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  1769. Your wHole is your feed for better inaqracies Gaudete.
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  1770. We have the best Supreme Court money can buy.
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  1771. They were ordered to surrender, and followed orders.
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  1772. The US has impressive, but not sufficient, hydro resources. The thought that we might go 100% nuclear is not sustainable. <g>
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  1773. You forgot to share your Secret Decoder Ring. Care to explain?
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  1774. PR China has a severe demographic problem in low, and falling, fertility rates. Some years back,the Economist - not a publication notorious for wild speculation - ran its headline story: 6.7 Brides For 7 Brothers. Because there had been rampant selective culling of female fetus pregnancies during the harshest years of the one-child policy, est.70 million Chinese men can never find a wife. That is simple demographics. If, on top of that, they turn away from these young darlings: that can aggravate an already dire situation. History tells us that young, desperate, men, can be led into great mischief.
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  1775. Trump was a draft dodger, but has since become very militaristic. None of his children had served a single day in the military.
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  1776.  Matthias-sl6jr  Fascism is contrary to Socialism. Mussolini smashed all independent workers movements; once he came to power, Hitler granted a long-standing demand of the labour movement: May 1 as a public holiday, Labour Day. On May 2, he abolished the unions and forced workers into toothless Nazi organizations which served the interests. of Germany's industrialists.
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  1777.  @MK-nv3uj  If you haven't already, you might read Wilfred Owen's beautiful poem, 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'. He was a decorated hero who came to oppose WWI, but fell shortly before the Armistice.
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  1778. 13:00 the South and West "received the greatest impact". Not so. In many communities, the Interstate plowed through and destroyed communities, with consequent severe dislocation and social pathologies.
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  1779.  @bucket6386  did you?
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  1780.  @bucket6386  you have indicated your assessment. You are free to hold your opinions, as I am to regret the social pathologies created by the destruction of neighborhoods. I also am not an immense fan of the overemphasis of relying on private motor vehicles, which has been exacerbated by the interstate system. The attendant ecological harm is terrible. You have your values, but these are not necessarily universal.
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  1781.  @bucket6386  my home community defeated the heartless ambition of Robert Moses. Go fish.
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  1782. The Fog of Whore seems to be working.
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  1783. You might have spent some time over this topic. Lili Marlene, as sung by our heroine Marlene Dietrich, she started with "Bei der kaserne"; Lale stared with "Vor der kaserne,"
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  1784. There is too much drama around Sinema.
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  1785. I am not a licensed pilot; but I do understand that fixed-wing aircraft have a narrow glidepath to a safe landing. I had taken a 1-week in-cockpit, flying, glider training course. AFAIK it were not highly likely that the routine passenger flight had markedly deviated from its assigned trajectory. Even a preliminary report is not expected before 30 days; but that did not stop Trump. Trump engaged in his divisiveness as soon as he might. Before even knowing the circumstances of the incidence, he blamed alleged DEI practices. One might think that a huge shortfall in air traffic controllers might serve as a welcome to a larger pool of applicants. Maybe they're not White enough for Donald J.
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  1786. Must we be governed by the Inheritage Foundation?
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  1787.  @angelopugliese6034  What the hell do you mean???
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  1788. The definition of a sleazeball is someone who would marry Taylor Swift for her money.
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  1789. Trump's curio squad needs to F (block) (block) K off.
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  1790. Elon Musk needs nothing except adulation. Remind you of someone?
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  1791.  @CharlotteBrian  You should not post your openness to scammers, unless your purpose were to nail them.
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  1792. What is "gender equality?" Women know, with no controversy, that their children are THEIR children: for men, that is not immediately evident. I recently had a conversation along these lines with a friend who does not shy from controversy. He pointed out that the prime biological imperative is to pass on your genes. We argued, finished a bottle, and have not spoken since. What is your take on this?
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  1793.  @ripred42  Priorities must be set somehow. Cost/benefit ratios can't be calculated if a key component is a question mark.
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  1794.  @1MinuteMovies42  were it outside similar adjudicated decisions in other courts of Law?
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  1795. Sadly, lives are lost in construction work. When you move heavy loads, when you work with strong and sharp tools... men die. Happens. Having accepted that such loss needs to be compensated... how then do you work out an appropriate settlement? A grieving widow might deserve every penny ever coined; or you might call "next!" and move on. We generally understand that an appropriate solution shall be found between the above two extremes. What say you?
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  1796.  @MarkThomasPorter  no society ever had limitless resources.
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  1797. This is electoral landmass about to be covered over. Does our /next/ President fail to pause even with the death of his own sister?
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  1798. The definition of stupidity is saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Cumulative effects do not revert to zero. Castles have been stormed with the use of battering rams.
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  1799. When the funds run out: there can be found the bounds.
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  1800. There is nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed by what is right with America.
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  1801. @RondaHenderson  you can find free content all over the Net. What the hell are you insinuating?
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  1802. @deadhead4206  one ring is the executive branch.
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  1803. ​ @tnbrfller God Akbar!
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  1804. Let him macerate. Let him stew in his own juices.
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  1805. Did Nixon insist that anything he wanted to do, ab oficio was legal? How did that work out?
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  1806. Sales of TESLA cars have been tanking. Jan '24 to Jan '25 has seen a fall of about a half in Europe. Might part of this be due to Elon Musk praising far-right political parties in countries where he has no.riight to vote? Enquiring minds might like to know.
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  1807. Texas originally had its border with Mexico on the Brazos River, much to the north. How determined are these originalists?
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  1808. The Tories might have benefited by the watchword: Truss, but verify.
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  1809. How so?
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  1810. In increasing magnitude, it's: operational, tactical, strategic - not tactical, operational, strategic.
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  1811. "Berserk" is 'bear-shirt'. A fighter would go totally nuts with blood-lust. without any protective armour, clad only in a bear-fur timic. "Serk" matches with '"sark", as in Cutty Sark. A cutty sark was a low-cut blouse; women who wore these often were prostitutes and labeled accordingly. A ship was named 'Cutty Sark', and a whiskey named after that ship. So one might meet a cutty sark, wearing a cutty sark, aboard the Cutty Sark, drinking Cutty Sark. I miss London.
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  1812. This brought me back to the TV series, "the West Wing", where Bartlett appeared to stumble in a practice adversarial slap-up. Trump needs to become coherent.
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  1813. Beware of liars, cheats, charlatans! Only my design for nano-quantum Space Water-based diffraction reactors can provide unlimited free power.
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  1814. Posse comitatus, as I recall, was a rule of exception: the Federal government can not deploy for action, where civil Authority still prevails under established and prevailing legal remit.
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  1815. This might be a deft marketing ploy. The boycott will cost sales, perhaps temporarily, among his existing customers; but quite a few non-Hispanic Trump followers who never would have before, will buy his family's products... just to counter the boycott.
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  1816. Ordure in the court!
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  1817.  @detyves5344  Accordez moi la décence de me parler correct.
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  1818.  @YSB-ij1jb  Foutaises.
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  1819. He can't. Between interest on the Debt, the military, and Social Security (a.k.a. the "third rail" of politics)... there's barely more than $ 2 trn left, let alone to be cut.
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  1820. Interviewers should have a kill switch for the microphone. That douche bag James Rappaport kept talking over the host, evading the question instead to spew of-topic standard Repug talking points.
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  1821. Israel is exhausting its goodwill outside of the White House.
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  1822. As I was told, there was a cafe in Paris: "le Soleil d'Austerlitz" which the Germans had not shut down during the Occupation. Have any of you better insight?
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  1823. Lithuania is acting in compliance with EU sanctions, following an instituted 3-month delay. The 3 months expired, and Lithuania was compelled to enforce EU law.
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  1824. It's all fake news unless it praises Saint Don.
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  1825.  @NotFoxUK  You are not fighting this war. Ask me again when you are.
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  1826.  @bryanbelshaw7725  Your exclusively short-term capacity to prepare for the future is not universally shared.
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  1827.  @NotFoxUK  The UK has not sent troops into Ukraine. The only Britons fighting in Ukraine are volunteers serving in the Ukrainian armed forces.
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  1828.  @AugustusOmega  Past time means, essentially, you should have done something before now. I suspect you meant to write 'pastime'.
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  1829.  @NotFoxUK  Did you mean 'propaganda'?
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  1830.  @NotFoxUK  I had been a translator - I update and improve my writing as I see fit.
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  1831.  @NotFoxUK  Because I do not consider it a credible risk. Putin does not appear to be suicidal.
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  1832. radio frequency Kennedict won't even try to make sense: why be rational when conspiracies yield Power?
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  1833. 17 U.S. Code § 107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
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  1834. That's different. Thomas is both in charge, and beyond, the Law. Ordure in the Court!
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  1835.  @paulmorrison3113  " I am a Supremacy *Justice. Deal with it."
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  1836.  @paulmorrison3113  Ordure in the Court!
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  1837. The NT Bible suggested our "doubting Thomas". The Supreme Court mandates a vicious "Dubious Thomas."
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  1838.  @paulmorrison3113  She appears to be severely compromised. The wife of Caesar must be beyond reproach.
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  1839.  @jo3158  So should you.
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  1840.  @jasonwiley798  A vaginal birth is usually straightforward - women have been doing it ever since there have been women; a c-section has been since Julius Caesar. Aborting a child as it is being born would require a much more involved procedure.
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  1841. Even with enlistment of Trump's exclusion of undesirable ethnicities, enlistment goals are not being met.
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  1842. The Supreme Court effectively can not prevent itself from accountability from fraudulence. This is where the laugh track typically breaks in
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  1843. immigRANT.
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  1844.  @vijjreddy  NATO is an organization governed by consensus. Apart from Article 5, one Member objection derails any proposed action. Admitting a State at war would automatically engage all Members in a declaration of war. In several cases, this normally were a lengthy deliberative procedure.
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  1845.  @thenorseman2804  Putin troll.
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  1846.  @anthonyferris8912  Russia might be spending a comparable amount on Ukraine, though not with similarly kind intentions.
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  1847. That might not be correct, Tom said listlessly.
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  1848. "It is overwhelming... he evidence that criminal criminal elements in the Federal government provocateured [sic] and staged January 6th". Yes: Trump's inciting the crowd that day is a matter of record.
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  1849. Deux Gaules. Expliquez?
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  1850. Vance was tapped as a next-gen clone when Trump presumed that Biden's debate performance seemed to lock up Trump's victory. Usually, a VP nominee might be chosen to balance out the Ticket; Vance acquires no constituency to bolster Trump's candidacy. Trump's hubris might defeat his third round at he White House. It still will be a tight race.
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  1851. X-toast would cost far more; scorched bread a result of Xionist infiltration
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  1852. The tax code allows for allocations strange behavior at the community level event . Coal production still fuvked us.
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  1853. "winning" here is an abstract concept. Ukraine still existing as an independent nation. Russia has become whatever is in Putin's twisted mind. He launched the largest-scale military offensive since WWII to "denazify" a government... headed by a Jew, most of whose family was murdered by Nazis. Putin is a war criminal, plain and simple.
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  1854. I advocate for delivery of weapons to counter Putin's imperial ambition. I was conscripted by my NATO member State as of my 18th birthday, but did not serve until I was 22 - what with student deferments. I was 23 y.,o. demobilized and fit for service in a time of peace, however in a time of terrible attention. I question why young Ukrainians are not subject to conscription at my earlier age, when there was no shooting war-?
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  1855.  @NizamHernandez  You do accept that we much can say whatever we like over youtube, right? I had served in NATO allied forces in the late 1970's. I am no longer welcome as a candidate for service, too old. What's your excuse?
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  1856. Il y a des conventions internationales qui codifient le genocide. La conduite des Israeliens dans cette guerre est une honte monstre, mais ce n'est pas un genocide.
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  1857. She's also pretty. That's an understatement.
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  1858. approx 16:51 Elon Musk is creating a more bombastic future? Apparently the bots are not yet foolproof. I disagree that machine narration is indistinguishable from what you would hear from a genuine human being. The stresses, the cadence... are totally off.
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  1859. Inflation is harmful, in a general sense. Economists know how to tackle it, however the 'cure' can be. very painful. Deflation -prices going down - might sound like fun, but might have triggered WWII. Economists have a sense of how to defeat harmful deflation, but not without excising massive pain. We are living in an obdutate reality.
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  1860. D'ou tenez vpus ce detail?
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  1861. If you take out debt servicing, defense, and prohrs Trump promised not to touch (e.g., Social Security), the remnant federal expenditure is $1.7 trillion: so even if Musk managed to get rid of air traffic controllers, safety officials, NASA, park services, customs agents., courts of Law, highway maintenance... all other government activity: Musk can not meet his target.
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  1862. He tried steaks, he tried a bogus university, he tried labeled booze, sneakers... He's not exhausting the gullible profiteriate, he's simply running out of deniable scams.
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  1863. 漢仔 Are you referring to the British publication (the owner of this YT channel), the Financial Times?
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  1864.  grimm reaper  It's debatable whether a company's national identity were determined by where its HQ is registered as a business, or by the nationality of its owners. Either way, FT is not American.
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  1865. ​ @james8339 that's not quite right. He has temporarily crippled all Federally-funded medical research, destroyed some which could not suffer a break in continuity, and molded the surviving rest to his prejudicial desire.
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  1866. ​ @JeffDavies-i8q  / or, God help you.
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  1867. ​ @robertgrey6101 under MAGA newspeak, half of all cancer diagnoses will be redetermined as capricorn diagnoses.
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  1868. @KarenSeverud  It's an exaggeration that cancer research got dumped. Many research projects most likely will have become severely compromised, but cancer research funding won't replace getting Musk's rockets to Mars.
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  1869. She already has husband. There is little I might do to become less desirable than Donald Trump.
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  1870. On what charge (s) ? / other than what is in abeyance?
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  1871. High recent inflation rates are not exclusively a Biden thing. Inflation rates also spiked in Canada, in Sweden, in the UK (savagely), in France... and even in Japan. For decades BoJ had been desperately fighting against deflation before the covid pandemic hit. Once the covid threat became safe enough for global commerce, Japan's inflation rate rocketed to positive 6% from a previous negative. This surge in inflation was felt across the globe, and was not the result of policies taken, or not taken, by the Biden Administration.
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  1872. We can find many expressions that Donald Trumps is "unhinged " / but was he ever... hinged?
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  1873. I found it remarkable when a single-hand sailor was in the Indian Ocean, looked up, saw ISS - and realized that the crew on board were the humans closest to her.
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  1874. Dumped / don't forget.
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  1875.  @jmhorange  Bring your criticisms to full view.
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  1876. Rand Paul once again engaging in faucinoxinihilipilification.
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  1877. "Stable genius" is so 2018.
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  1878. Yeah, well... Trump is a toxic narcissist /cyst. He has shown himself incapable of admitting error. Understanding and admitting to errors, improves the decisional abilities in a leader. I would prefer a leader whose decisional abilities had not been crippled by his failure to accept that he was not born perfect.
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  1879. The United States net sucks in several hundred billion dollars of financial inflows. The balance of payments is just that: it is a balance. A significant influx of monetary mass OTBE should result in higher inflation, with imports as an "escape valve" reducing the upward pressure. Tinkering with that 'escspe valve' is fraught with danger to the economy, and should not be done on a political whim.
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  1880. Not a fan of the agressive music track.
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  1881. When you write, "rare earth": do you mean lanthanide elements? I've ground my teeth reading ill-informed commentaries about newly found "rare earth" supplies, which instead turned out to be elements of different metal groups - such as cobalt, or tantalum.
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  1882.  @toot4you19  On what basis do you distinguish and separate Yttrium from other RE elements?
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  1883. One country, two repressions.
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  1884. ​ @Gameboy1996omen Chinese bot
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  1885. ​ @loganshuler3655 be fruitful and divide.
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  1886. ​ @philipwong5858 Communism is the oppression of man by his fellow man; capitalism is the exact opposite.
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  1887. @Bugelaa  "prejudice" is pte + judice. Pre- stands for "before"; "-judice" stands for Justice.. Is that what you suspect?
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  1888. @micholitzia5726  It's a long way to temp o'rary It's a long way to go
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  1889. Elon Musk bought the company for $44bn without needing regulatory approval - as would be needed with utilities. Musk owns 100% of the company which - under Law - makes it a private company.
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  1890. We should not hold ourselves to a stupid standard.
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  1891. Adding 10% to the retail cost is a false analysys. The proposed (stupid) 10% tariff would be applicable to the customs value of imports, but not to distribution and other costs past the point of entry.
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  1892. What are the paying demographics?
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  1893. According to IAEA, Iran had reached a U-235 enrichment level of 60 %. Is there any non-military use for such an uranium 235 vs 238 enrichment?
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  1894. Repugs have a problem with immigrants. Melania is an immigrant.
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  1895. WARNING Censorship can be harmful to your
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  1896. We might look forward to decrypting "swinge states".
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  1897.  @believewhatyousee2852  Would you care to see a documentary proving the benefit of buying extended warranties?
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  1898.  @foenix8094  Do not tempt fate: CCP will shuttle you off into their gulag if you try to do so.
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  1899. In 2016, H. Clinton won the popular vote> Trump 62,984,828 vs Clinton 65,853,514 Percentage 46.1% vs 48.2%. If you are writing from the UK:: pray pay attention to the beam in your own eye.
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  1900. You are not an economics grad, are you?
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  1901. ​ @dankielab even before the Special Brutality Operation, there must have been some minds within top military Staff which suspected an error. Dictatorship is not friendly toward uncomfortable analysis.
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  1902.  @sudeeptaghosh  Est. a third of Russia"s civil aviation fleet is grounded because they can't get parts and spares. Russia has had to buy large quantities of consumer goods such as microwave ovens through third parties just to get the embedded microchips. The sanctions are not painless.
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  1903.  @sudeeptaghosh  David Ricardo.
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  1904. The 25% import tax on avocado's was put on hold just in time for guac lovers to enjoy the Suprb Owl
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  1905. "Are you guys a part of the problem." In your mind, yes.
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  1906. A jury of his peers found him guilty as charged. He will do his utmost to shower poison on the jurors, because that is his modus.
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  1907. How maps really makes money. How plutals don't matter.
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  1908. The Heritage Foundation is undiluted evil.
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  1909. I perceive a better case for secession for those States which joined the Union voluntarily. States which had been established from a common ownership of the United States have less a solid claim than others which had self-government and then opted in. Just my 2 cents.
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  1910.  @johnsarlon9n  I don't. The nature of Epstein's crimes is so abhorrent that his life in prison would have been made an even worse than institutional living hell by other inmates. He could have seen suicide as a preferable option.
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  1911.  @Republicanismisadisease  Fantasies can yield great literature. White guise fantasies have then fueled other ways of conceiving the World. Please flesh out your comment.
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  1912.  @johnsarlon9n  You, at least, seem honest.
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  1913. Copyright Law is derivative of copyright Law. But also fun if you are not involved.
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  1914.  @cookiescott9329  Are you under some impression that aliens aren't already funding the Orange one?
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  1915. State by state. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"
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  1916. Rudy might be confused between 'contemporary' and 'contempt'. He had been the top prosecuting jurist in New York, so perhaps we might assume that he had some nous to discern between shreds of evidence. His defence essentially argues that he didn't.
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  1917. @PhilDean-w9l  Churchill was not overall in charge of the Government at the outbreak of WWII, but was in charge of the Admiralty.
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  1918.  @NovaRuner  Remembrance is meant to be somber, and for good reason.
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  1919. Trump and Vance just destroyed seven decades of US diplomacy. Perhaps it had met it's time; but why break something successful if you don't have a replacement ready?
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  1920. This is an error repeated over centuries: the enemy is so weak that we don't need to worry. That had not always been a successful stance.
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  1921. That might be so; Youtube appears to be under attack.
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  1922. Wray is a human being, with human concerns. He has a family. The next invective aimed at him from the incumbent Administration, would have crippled his ability to let his family have a serene life. God help us Trump won't
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  1923. ​ @RiaVersteeg please delineate
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  1924.  @tylerhackner9731  the ballot is private. Citizens might express a POV in public before a mic, shorn from genuine voting behaviour. Apply discretion.
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  1925. @laurenraine  or their gas tanks. The US produces more crude oil than any country, EVER. Let that sink in. Alas, the refinery capacity is geared toward heavy, sour, crude; most of the new production is light,sweet. America's petroleum output is mismatched against American refining capacity. We export light, sweet, but import what our refineries are able best to handle. Yet another example of this Trump Administration's emphasis on "ready, fire ,aim."
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  1926. @laurenraine  America pumps out more oil than any country, ever. Most of that is "light, sweet" (lower density, lower sulfur), whereas American refinery capacity is better geared toward "heavy, sour" petroleum significantly supplied by Canada. In other words: we can't easily deal without Canadian crude. We can't easily deal with our own stuff. Prices at the pump OTBE wiill go up due to Trump policy.
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  1927.  @hunglikeahorse---fly  when was the most recent time that silver-fed diaper Donald crashed a grocery store?
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  1928.  @tylerhackner9731  it was about time. In every electoral system, the party in power lost and was replaced; a significant exception was in India, was where the ruling BJP took a hard drubbing, yet managed to retain power. So goes it.
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  1929.  @RiaVersteeg  reason won't always sound True. Return to your place of concern, and do better.
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  1930. @laurenraine  Trump will not countenance any agenda beyond his control.
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  1931. @laurenraine . if they live that long
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  1932. "coûteux" ?? La quinine ne coûte pas cher. Ainsi: "toucher les Russes" serait sans grande pénalité..
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  1933. Gruesome Newsom smacked me and my friends with a vicious attack under false pretenses. I do not like him, to say the least; it's personal. I am, however, confident that he would wipe the floor with DeSantis, whose responsive flexibility in debates is geological.
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  1934. Depression can be much be expressed as more a something.\ or of last. We had best instead to foster a middle class.
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  1935.  @EmilyBoltz  The topic is Boeburt - you'll need to be more specific.
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  1936.  @jonwwillis  had you bribed the teacher in charge of overseeing your Grammar?
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  1937. It was originally conceived as "Folk's News". Then the Ozzie propaganda monster awakened/woke up. Fox Dei -> Vox Populi.
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  1938. An advantage bullpups have is in urban warfare. Because they don't have long protruding barrels, they come in handy in tight spaces.
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  1939. Posse Comitatus
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  1940.  @thevidsard  your question is nebulous
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  1941.  @MrKenpachiRamasama  Is it OK to beg for money? please? I nearly bust a gut laughing when a Japanese friend shared that gods only smile in delight when we ask them for money.
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  1942. Was he not extremely subservient to Putin? Bad mistake
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  1943. It would be sensible only to make what you can't - on the open market - buy cheaper, or which need to comply with unusual stringent performance tolerances. Any component you make should command an internal ROI - which can be higher than an outside supplier's profit margin if you bought acceptable components off the shelf. Does any viewer sincerely believe that Elon Musk's production prowess supplies the paper used in his offices, and the trees grown to pulp for that paper, and the chainsaws needed to fell the trees, and the steel needed to make those chainsaws, and the excavators needed to mine the iron ore to make that steel? And so on.
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  1944. La force de frappe de la France à elle seule peut éliminer tout ce qui est de valeur en Russie . Vladimir: TA GUEULE!
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  1945. You can also lose your specimens... 13 minutes of life.
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  1946. Best as I recall, "God's work" must truly be our own.
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  1947.  @AtactHD  We are in a strong El Nino phase . Ocean and atmospheric
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  1948. France has recently indicated a willingness to deploy airborne nuclear vectors to bases in Germany.
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  1949. For Trump: chaos is not a principle - it is a tactic. Over time, it appears to be his guiding means to reward enabled supporters. Trump's playbook eerrily coincides with the NSDAP takeover of the civil service and Bundesrat in the final days of Berlin as a free society in the dying days of the Weimar Republic. Don't give Hitler's successors the keys a second time
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  1950. The right-wing talks about "cancel culture". It's good to see them put it into practice.
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  1951.  @user-ok2mq6ig5y  that you implicate the use of / your / does not speak well of you.
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  1952.  @laerton4202  or else?
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  1953.  @billgraham9659  Would you care to specify which lies you allege?
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  1954.  @esad-ij5ie  If you are given an unlawful order, however given lawfully, your oath holds you to disregard it.
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  1955.  @steph462weightbygold  a deficiency in these YT comment sections, is that no reply immediately tracks back to a comment to which it immediately refers.
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  1956.  @Lyndsay953 A county can be weak, as you perceive, also can be the most powerful force ever deployed toward any area of combat. That's not a position of weakness. How one exert power... is not a mere tally of who started with, and who / does note.
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  1957.  @Lyndsay953  An aircraft carrier group just enough ashore, might modify behavior onshore.
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  1958.  @marcustulliusc  Nazis sent LGBT members of the societies they controlled... TO EXTERMINATION CAMPS. DeSantis is not as vicious... yet.
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  1959. Throughout much of the world, many heads of governments have no direct military experience.
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  1960. Trump is incapable of accepting loss. Most of us had grown up in an environment where we had to play fair, sometimes lose and get a bit hurt, and Mommy might kiss it better. He has no clue, nor any humanity.
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  1961. @vishg5148  insofar as I am not notorious for commenting frequently on this channel, it would be unusual that I be well known where I rarely am known.
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  1962.  @TheDMan2003  you are flying too close to the Sun
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  1963. Bewsre.
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  1964.  @Dianasaurthemelonlord7777  Word to the wise
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  1965.  @vixilva  her reputation has a trace; vicious putrid stains throws her at her, fall away without trace.
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  1966. @matthew67biley  I am open to explaining as best I might. Do please build a valid question.
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  1967. @applepie6513 thanks for the genuine support to the common use of your common interface with your street cleaner as you wake past your doorstep. There are other person's here aground .
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  1968.  @vishg5148  have you no person on staph
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  1969.  @TheDMan2003  do please explain it. Having lived on 4 continents in English speaking countries, and having been a certified military translator: clearly. I fail. Light my lantern, of you please.
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  1970. @marcelodossantos2493  thay can perhaps be a cause of concern
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  1971. @piemaster310 You might identify with a Nazi substitute
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  1972. @ilonachan  your comment is firmly ensconced in the forthcoming lit com gathering. Meanwhile, Might you join in condemning Russia's brutal assault against Ukraine?
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  1973. @ilonachan  get a life outside a kremlain subdiy
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  1974.  @TheDMan2003  might you be more specific for common Citizens to exert Constitutional Rights?
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  1975.  @TheDMan2003  an interesting concept How might one sever 'culture' from humanity?
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  1976. @ZalamaTheDragonGod  I never studied German. What I have picked up over the years is utilitarian, and insufficient for writing poetry.
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  1977.  @TheDMan2003  culture is a hallmark of humanity. What the hell are you insinuating?
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  1978. @TheDMan2003  why were my thoughts so vital to your self-reference?
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  1979. @TheDMan2003  why? You had written, quote: 'Sadly politics and culture always seem to have the worst things in mind for humanity.' Do you deny having written this?
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  1980. @TheDMan2003  I shall cherish this moment when you showed such esteem that you care what I think. That is a significant change.
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  1981. @Dianasaurthemelonlord7777  indulge me. What can be a 'metaphor' ?
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  1982. So no puedes discutir aqui en Ingles: callate!
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  1983. Trump is the greatest President since Obama!
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  1984. Is Trump a hugeh piece of scat, or am I being too pplite?
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  1985. What the Network Censors (TM) don't want you to hear, is a bunch of interference geeks telling POTUS not to order "rocky road." The optics could have been bad, the acoustics even worse.
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  1986. On the bright side: that was not indicative of ,/Justice Alito/ slurping off the available trough very sweet to follow Justus Thomas. ORDURE IN THE COURT!
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  1987. Justice Alito: if you can't stand the heat, GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN! You are a top public servant - at least, nominally - and it is not only the right... it is the duty of a free Press to hold you accountable (since, it seems, nobody else can.)
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  1988. Avez vous quelque opinion a partager?
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  1989. New York City has never been a shining example of metropolitan administration. Tamany Hall was less than acceptable as preferable means of governance. A difference now is that alleged local corruption has been given a Federal seal of approval. These are times that try human souls.
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  1990. While I do appreciate getting this information, I do fear that: if enough people watch it, it can spark a wave of violence in the US even worse than the anti-Asian spate of physical, even murderous assaults following the covid-19 anger at PRC. I urge calm and restraint on those who might harbor justifiable fury. The person you would harm might very well be as disgusted by Putin's war crimes as are you.
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  1991. So much drama. An opera inspired by Trump will be named, "Wriggletto".
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  1992. Néfastes.
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  1993. Trump l'oeil will appear as one thing, then disappear. He will not resurface in his might until he crushed his detractors, then later focus on they who had not genuflected sincerely enough. Nixon resigned because he saw a cancer on the Presidency; under a next Trump Administration: the Presidency itself will be a cancer.
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  1994. Yes.
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  1995.  @Seattle41791  That is here,sy. I do not hold with any doctrine of religious heresy. The un-evolved concept is a curse on the human mind. The well-regulated forces must deploy.
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  1996. Georgia has striven hard to make Democracy work. Ray Charles might give us lay back. I did not insert, nor approve, any emoji.
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  1997. After the debate, They will shift from "what's wrong with Kamala Harris", to... what's 'Rung' with her? As opposed to dingalings like Trump.
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  1998. You don't get to be the chief litigator of the most populous State if you are inarticulate.
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  1999. Forcing Canada to become a State would guarantee an additional 2 Senate seats for the Democrats.
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  2000. A little asterisk here: you showed classic RU tries, and they were delightful; but with the Sevens format, that leaves more opportunity for speed breakouts. I've seen a few which were sheer magic.
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  2001.  @charlesarmstrong821  Who is "Dr Fouce"? Never heard of him/her.
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  2002. Had you perhaps wanted to write "preventing diseases"" (maladies) instead of "preventing deceases" (deaths)?
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  2003. Copyright - how juicy is that? There have been strident clamors for the release of his personal documents. His personal documents are... personal, and constitutionally protected as such.
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  2004. Fair is foul and foul is fair. Bad things happen when weird internal voices conflict with a normal succession of power.
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  2005. Buckle up. This piece of garbage wants to annex Greenland from as firm an ally as America might desire. He might annex Canada - which much is to the left of Vermont. Is Trump misinformed, or just a freaking idiot? These two prospects are not mutually exclusive.
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  2006.  @oolong2  What essentially was a province of the Ottoman Empire, was granted into the hands of the British Empire - as itself was beginning to wane. The administrative corps might not likely been up to this major challenge.
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  2007.  @oolong2  "that is true, but it also is irrelevant". Vo Nguyen Giap
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  2008. Find me a few extra votes. Who cares what they wanted?
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  2009. Don't we want our next President to be a man with firm convictions?
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  2010. Trump is trampling on immigrants, regardless; he is married to one.
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  2011. Donald Tramp avoided being drafted ostensibly because of "bone spurs ". I had served in a combat-capable military unit, although much of it had been fun. Trump might have been so militarily useless, that his chain of command gave him a very favorable /favorited pass
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  2012. Revois un peu tes chiffres. Notre atmosphère contient 1,184,090 gigatonnes d'oxygène.
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  2013. Bioremeditation might be interesting.
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  2014. Trump reminds me that: however sh1tty i look, there will be women with disastrously low esteem.
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  2015. When, and where, these first F-16s are operationally deployed, might matter greatly. As credible reports suggest, , Russia has been expanding its sorties while its airforce remained rather uncontested. This dynamic soon will change. Slava Ukraini!
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  2016. This video shares the PM's inspirational intro, but provides no info on the mechanics of the alleged compromise. Do tell.
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  2017. Dubious Thomas had not declared these "gifts" as a matter of required public disclosure. That would constitute an ethics violation. Had he declared these ~junkets to the IRS? If not, that's a felony.
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  2018. "Special military operations" are politics by other means.
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  2019. The viliphant in the room could not keep from going off-topic.
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  2020. Spending more time with his family is not a boon to his family.
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  2021. Egad! There might even be some trans- immigrants!
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  2022. There is a weird but profound connection when you get to stare into the eye of a whale. Both understand that they are in the presence of an intelligent creature; but I don't know how well the whales deal with our needing two eyes so close together.
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  2023. tarriffs are a tax on consumption, meaning that the burden will disproportionately fall on Americans of lower income. Good way to give the wealthy a tax break.
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  2024. If Judy Ruliani can hold a press briefing outside a dildo shop: you might ask where have the guardrails fallen?
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  2025. Desalination is not some weird sector of our water supply. Millions drink where otherwise they go thirsty. But it is expensive, so far. Sea water/brackish water, must be pumped through a membrane - at some large energy cost. Direct transfer of motion might find designs where shoving salt water past a membrane might rely on basic kinetics without recourse to external spent energy.
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  2026. Is Trump capable of pursuing coherent thought beyond his rehearsed attack memes? It seens, NOT.
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  2027. In vitro veritas
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  2028. ​ @frcluc they do spend money, mostly on lodging. They will frequent restaurants and taverns, maybe visit a museum. Tourists are not evil; how we cater to them, can be.
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  2029. ​ @friedrichmatthies6065  one might dispute your figures; yet, within an oversaturated market space, a removal of 2% can provoke dramatic consequences.
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  2030.  @xihuantiyu  How do you do a political movement? You have assumed the professorial mantle , please teach. The protesters might be considering the alternatives between later living in a city with some damaged built environment in a few places, or later living in a city where it is fundamentally no longer worth living..
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  2031.  @xihuantiyu  Your insulting diatribe was probably more elegant in your native language. You began to blur like sotong in the second half.Lah. You either have no idea what my past political activity might have been, or you are a tool with access to massively intrusive surveillance only available to the security apparatus of a governmental entity. In either case, your credibility crumbles.
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  2032. Forgive this interruption - but don't cognitive capacity tests avoid mathematical proficiency questions?
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  2033. 2026 is coming.
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  2034. T'en fais pas, L' UE protège les Suisses.
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  2035.  @wocky7940  Who the hell are Malone and Reardon?
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  2036. No. Those who need more vaccinations get more vaccinations, however some still get infected. It takes a somewhat sophisticated understanding of statistics to wrap your mind around this pandemic. Don't blow a fuse, and go about your daily life,
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  2037. Is this not concurrent where Trump pledges or maybe not
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  2038. Unlike Poland or Slovakia, [founding NATO member] Denmark does not have a stock of MiGs leftover from the Cold War. You can not directly give what you do not have.
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  2039. Cops are meant to PROTECT us.
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  2040. What TV are you watching? No credible commentator has forecast an imminent Ukrainian victory. Ukraine has been outperforming its numerical disadvantage, sure, but that's a far cry from achieving victory. And BTW, there is no peace process. Putin's deranged mind controls Russia's aggression, and he is a sphinx. The war was started without provocation, and so there is no known remedy to redress whatever perceived ill infects Putin's brain.
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  2041. You are so lucky to have lived a life where being naive can have been an optimal path. Many of the most critical decisions we might make, are representative of the pinnacle of humanity: where there might be a fracture between conflicting narratives. You are just so cool!
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  2042. If your family member gets full and restrictive decisions over how the GOP spends contributors: welcome to the Night of the Long Knives with a gentler face.
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  2043. Haven't you heard of Cannon Law?
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  2044. ​ @pooroflevi Project 2025. Fear for the Republic.
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  2045. You alleged corruption. As "Justice" Thomas well knows, you can only get away with flagrant corruption if you sit on the Supreme Court.
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  2046. ​ @blairhaffly1777 maybe... Anyone not part of our Jan 6 first attempt to carry out a putsch.
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  2047.  @MarquiseKendrid  do you find emoji as some acceptable substitution for reasoned discourse? As a form of expression, it conveys meaning to some /to enough. How had you determined how many emojis you would inflict?
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  2048.  @MarquiseKendrid  simple things in life also include an inability to focus., then at the far end of the spectrum: an inability to disengage from tight focus. You might yet undergo one next of many "recalibrations" of the living human brain. Be well with that.
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  2049.  @MarquiseKendrid  and indeed you are a simple thing in life.
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  2050.  @itbetrueyo  cut the emojis, and say. Tell.
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  2051. Old Soviet-era joke: Capitalism is the exploitation by man by his fellow man; Communism is the exact opposite. MTG is an exemplar of how persons in broader politics can become polluted by their narrow necessity, or their attached narrow minds.
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  2052. In an early candid interview with Putin, he had told of cornering a rat in the home of his youth. He understood how that rat can be fearless, and destroyed. He lived in Argentina. Because of the distance, no money directly was exchanged.b
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  2053. On HMS Service. This should be held secret
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  2054. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, or you can just fire up your base.
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  2055. Many persons are too heavily engaged in normal life to notice the dangerously abnormal.
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  2056. Does Russia consider North Korea, PRC., Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Belarus... as hostile powers?
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  2057. Daguerreotypes were not yet invented for a few decades.
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  2058. If we win,I am the victor! If we lose I am not at fault.
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  2059. 'Scotland The Brave' should become its shadow National Anthem.
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  2060. I wished you might get to the point sooner
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  2061. Notre Vladimir est un criminel - un point, un trait.
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  2062. ALL REPUBLICANS MUST DIE / none of us is immortal
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  2063. Another quip from Voltaire: is there nothing so respectable as a time-honoured abuse?
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  2064. Putin has no mustache: Xi has no mustache; DPRK's Kim has no mustache. A fun, fct-free , proposition ...is just that: fact-free. Enjoy your day.
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  2065. @AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw  that might refer to something other than facial hair. I don't want to speculate.
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  2066. @Tatteddaddydc  explain
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  2067. @Tatteddaddydc  your question might require farther explanation.
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  2068.  @Tatteddaddydc  Not.
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  2069.  @AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw  not all, this were a personal choice.
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  2070. @AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw  Lukashenko sports a mustache. Is he not a dictator?
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  2071. @Tatteddaddydc  Am I?
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  2072. @AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw  I got hurt, bad.I was essentially confined to bed with severe injury for five months. I prefer now to help them who are in need of assistance. My forebears had endured German occupation three times in as many invasions. My grandmother guided me to over-buy when food stuffs were affordable. I survived this eating crisis.
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  2073. @AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw  Yours is a personal choice. We might wish that the People of Belarus also have some choice over their own future.
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  2074. @AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw  Most dictators, at some point, ate potatoes. Eating potatoes does not make you more likely to become a dictator.
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  2075. Trump clearly exploits outrage; but another tactic of his reach, is to foster 'inrage'.
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  2076. Nixon had the decency to resign. Trump does not comprehend the notion of "decency."
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  2077. ​ @marknewman8368  a large comment. What had you decided to break against all available evidence?
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  2078.  @user-fb4sb1zi8g  Not so. It was speculated that, should he choose to do so, Biden might present an insurmountable defense based on age-related incapacity.That is signally different from your projection.
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  2079.  @Trailwalker55  In the politics of democracies, high-level participants often have to compromise. That's the same for Biden... or anyone elected to some position more potentially controversial than dog catcher. You complain about Biden's alleged mismatches with the truth; fine, that's your right. Meanwhile Trump declared that his NYC apartment was nearly 3x larger than it actually was. This is not the sort of "honest mistake" of one whose primary business over decades... has been in real estate measured by footage.
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  2080.  @thee_onderwyser  Riddle me this: how can one have already voted in an election which is still some 8 months in the future?
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  2081.  @marknewman8368  how aware are you of Trump manouvers to delay his day in Court? Typically an innocent man might clear his name ASAP. Why the engineered delays?
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  2082. Actually, the Census makes every reasonable effort to count every person in the US. Enumerating some populations will be challenging: transients, undocumented foreigners, fugitives, the homeless... but the Census tried hard to count them.
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  2083. Kamala is too far to "the right'' to find her a home in Britain's Labour Party. Not a /"commie".
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  2084. People will more likely accept a big lie than a small one.
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  2085. Lovely handoff. That was where the try was won.
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  2086. Isn't Canada foreign soil? Keep your BS for the home crew.
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  2087. LiS Wright Trump is feuding with Jeff Bezos, the controlling shareholder of Amazon. Stopping Amazon from doing business with anybody would be welcomed by Trump.
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  2088.  @dota2playersenjehang703  That is inaccurate.
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  2089. 17:20 Might our species have evolved physically, and otherwise... by virtue of evolving language driving such things as divergent patterns of behavior?
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  2090. Older voters tend to die soonte, Be patient
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  2091. Dementia might improve his mental competence.
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  2092. Hail To The (tax) Cheat
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  2093. Sweden is not a treaty ally which can invoke NATO's Article 5; but it would be unthinkable for the Atlantic Alliance to do nothing if Sweden were attacked - and the Russians know this.
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  2094. No.
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  2095. He trumpeted a triumphal score scoped on short-term memory. Remembering where you last left your keys... might not be the highest qualification for access to launch codes. BTW please don't share these with your Russians.
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  2096. _olism suggests a metabolic process. Never heard of it.
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  2097. F2P
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  2098. If a play were written about Pirro's outrageous and mendacious tirades, it would be titled: "The Shaming of the True."
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  2099. ...and if you don' t genuflect before the Orange one: woe betide.
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  2100. Hsbemus WTF??
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  2101. When you serve, most likely you have no say in where you are posted. Under Tumorville's diktat: if you are assigned to duty in a repressive State, you're out of luck. This can not improve recruitment, which is running well below establishment.
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  2102. The only mirrors that count are the ones facing the Don.
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  2103. @MikeNeligan  George Washington is dead; Trump outlasted. This is facts.
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  2104. Rappelons nous: cet avoir a été figé sous la jurisprudence courante. Le vaisseau était dans les eaux térritoriales de la France. La loi spécifie que la commission d'un acte criminel rend le bien passable de confiscation. Si ces couillons n'avaient pas cherché à se débiner, ce yacht serait encore sous la possession légale du proprietaire de naguere.
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  2105.  @jardiecolo  Une distraction.
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  2106. If I might inject a matter to be considered... Many EU members allow their citizens resident overseas to vote, so long as they are duly registered in good standing with the nearest consular authorities, This is not the case of the UK. Expats living within the EU were often barred from voting on their own fate. Their loss of votes and then of leveraged voice, cast a black mark on the legitimacy of the Referendum. Those who best might assess the effects on the ground within the rump-EU, were denied a vote. Electoral castration.. .
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  2107. Tubby has his faults; so have you.
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  2108. Aivez vous dormi les qq dernieres nuits?
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  2109. That looked like a lot of fun. At least you used titanium metal; I'm sick and tired of morons who tout the properties of "titanium"... when the product they are pushing, instead revolves around the properties of the ceramic: titanium carbide.
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  2110. Everything we first perceive, happened moments ago at best.
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  2111. Different. Music expression has been found in practice, though not in notes, in prehistoric digs. It would be preposterous to assume that music of today become eternal.
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  2112.  @BlueTeamRedTeam  Neither of these even compare. These external threats did not blatantly challenge the republican (small 'r') order. Now we are confronted with perhaps living under the sway of a pathological narcissist impervious to contrary points of view. That is not an optimized framework for making critical decisions. That same bunker mentality led to the ultimate razing of the Third Reich.
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  2113.  @ldfreitas9437  It's arly days. Elon Musk's anti-labor bent might result in anti-worker medical collapse followed by death. Wanting a paycheck is not signing up for kamikaze duty.
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  2114.  @Alltime2050  in 1812, pretty much everyone was less numerous. If you have a point: gently tell us now if such addressed matters please, or fail, to challenge you.
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  2115. PRC will not escalate to that aggressive level. PLAAN is not fit to take on the US Navy and allies.
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  2116. It's pronounced: "letters of mark"; also, the "spratly", not "spartly" islands.
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  2117.  @ayodejiolowokere1076  They weren't countries until the Europeans came in and established administrative divisions on the map for their own convenience, cutting across previous ethnic and political boundaries.
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  2118. Inflation is when the money you hold, loses its value; hyperinflation is when the money you hold, loses its meaning.
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  2119. "Trump goes off the deep end", is not a headline; "boy bites dog", can be a headline.
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  2120. Le Pen is mightier than le sort.
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  2121. This may be a way of getting parents to do what they're supposed to do: parenting.
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  2122. Russia is toxic. That is well known. What has heads scratching, is: what happens after Putin? He is no longer young, and inhis seventh decade, can become at high risk of fatal consequences. Who's next?
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  2123. Russia's political system favors oligarchs; Rupert Murdoch is an oligarch. Where might these two realities find common ground?
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  2124. Russia is again an expansive empire; it prefers not to be thought so.
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  2125. Rest in Piss the orcs who killed them. Slava Ukraini!
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  2126. Felon Musk might live the rest of his life trying not to destroy the invested wealth of Tesla shareholders. Yeah, that will happen!
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  2127. ​ @KRAMMEDYRET1 Make Denmark Great Again would send shivers down the spines of Yorkshiremen.
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  2128.  @BillyMeierInFrenchBM  C 'est absolument faux. La France n'a jamais quité l''OTAN, mais s'est retirée du commandement militaire intégré.
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  2129. Trump was ordered to exercise restraint in the context of a legal trial, or else. He chose... Else. Let the games begin without delay.
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  2130. Got it in under 15 seconds. Please let us not see the reign of the revengeticals.
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  2131. Chaos is the practice of Donald Trump. He can get away with more malice when he distracts citizens of good willl who hold the kindest reflection of human nature.
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  2132. You might have missed the playbook initiated under Mussolini, pefected by an aviation hero. Gloebbels: no matter how outrageous the next proposal, that might not be so bad / an d then the ratchet cranks up by a crank. MAY HE ROT in everssly I might imagine.
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  2133. Donald Trump took the oath of office to defend the Constitution. Millions witnessed it in real time. If he ahem never took the oath of office: had he EVER been President, let alone now?
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  2134. PR China is adept at managing news. A problem with non-stop BS, is that you might not be believed when you have genuine information to share.
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  2135. No republic can long survive such an outrage against the Law; then again, Trump does not favor the survival of the Republic.
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  2136. The disembodied eyes and mouth reminded me of a Dr. Who episode from a few years back.Was that the inspiration for this video?
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  2137. The cyber truck has been banned in Britain, as its angular attack against the wind, was also too attack against pedestrians.
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  2138. PrsgerU is NOT a university. It's a blast for right-wing propaganda.
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  2139. There are none so blind as they who will nazi.
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  2140.  @commissarlorax3406  Einstein was a refugee. Should he have been deported?
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  2141. @petermcgill1315  check the breath of those who are hell-bentent on an arrest.
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  2142.  @petermcgill1315  you are welcome. And thanks for your help in my winning a bet.
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  2143. Just showing up before a woman he could not grab freely her by the "***" , would confuse him. Maybe not the best reference for making command decisions.
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  2144. The Rio Grande is a navigable river. That being: it falls under Federal jurisdiction. If Texas wants to deploy deterrence measures on its own territory: that then can be debated as a separate issue.
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  2145. 3:40 loans awarded to be found in cause in peril are not acounted to be recovered - Even then, allowing Trump' lie: They are a gift outright, unless our side' prevails.
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  2146. This all smacks of voodoo engineering.
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  2147. Moot Gaetz
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  2148. Why not discuss it in some discussion that is not so far out-of-area? Well, consider this: 'divide yourself and be conquered'. Gaza had chosen to be governed by Hamas. Decisions have consequences.
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  2149. Thirteen seconds into stupidity. Thanks.
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  2150. There is no way fully to understand Putin's pestilent mind, without falling in. Yet, clearly Crimea is an appendage of his manhood. Let's go no farther.
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  2151. Elon is an immigrant currently breaking the Law. Where is the push among Republicans to see him detained, let alone deported back to his native South Africa?
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  2152. 0:07 WTF??? The soundtrack ideally might have given us a reference sample of wave noise - well, you know... what your narrative was telling us; instead, there's a classic toxic thump-thump-thump bullshit soundtrack dubbed in, supposed to make you sound cool. Major fail.
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  2153. Trump is not a deep thinker.
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  2154. Don't worry about Trump losing his mind: it's so sick, it can't get very far.
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  2155. RFK Jr. opposes vaccines. He advocates for the death of fellow citizens, out of stupidity and lack of understanding the very basics of how immuniity works. Even if his intentions were not vicious or politically tactical, he should be excluded as an abject failure in matters of being "pro-life". You can't be "pro-lIfe" when you sabotage what keeps people alive.
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  2156.  @Sajuuk  Is this a total coincidence? The United States, the United Kingdom, and France, are the only providers of weapons to Ukraine allowing deep strikes into Russia. They each have a nuclear arsenal.
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  2157. @manmonkee  Canada would be welcome with open arms in theory. In practice, accession most likely pull many unmet troubles to the fore.
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  2158. The tank's name is "Leopard", not (1:32 and 3:35) "Leonard".
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  2159. Elon Musk is an immigrant, he is fully AFAIK granted as such. I am 3rd-born American. Welcome, but stop insinuating that Trump's recently acquired wife were less we shared a singular vote - unless Trump engineered it.
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  2160. MAGA: Must Again Grab Assets
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  2161. 1984 is so last century.
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  2162. Trump himself is undermining the supremacy of the Dollar.
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  2163. I am an adult. No children look to me for guidance.Why am I getting hit HARD ?
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  2164. Then... so long as you are running for office: you can commit any crime with impunity???
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  2165. TL. Get tooth the point / of any
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  2166. 06:14 the Senator from Cancun might care to explain exactly which statutes perhaps might have been violated. You can't just Cruzify someone on your own whim.
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  2167. The bloodthirsty Roman emperor Tiberias was notoriously vengeful. Will Donald Trump commit to being less vengeful than Tiberias?
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  2168.  @candipontenberg3683  that might be too severe. Might we instead limit restrictions to financial instruments where a legislator or administrative official be barred from selling at a profit, any property over which the official can have ANY conflict of interest?
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  2169. @rodpaget9796  now you evoke a potential recession.
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  2170. @rodpaget9796  look in your future
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  2171.  @candipontenberg3683  any office holder must be barred from trading in assets where he/she has decisional authority.
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  2172. Was that a McCarthy trial balloon?
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  2173. Movies might move you; sometimes they might get it drastically wrong.
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  2174. If Finland or Sweden were to apply for NATO membership, and be attacked by Russia for doing so: that would have to provoke a NATO military response; and it is unclear if Russia, heavily committed in Ukraine, would rapidly be able to mount a credible war of aggression against the excellent Finnish and Swedish military establishments.
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  2175. That was attributed to Einstein, but he was far too intelligent to say such a thing.
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  2176.  @cdfdesantis699  Except that he never said it. He must have known that there are a number of human activities which require doing the same thing over again and expecting different results - in fact it is necessary in some cases, particularly in education or in training for a sport. If at first you don't succeed: try, try again. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." — not Albert Einstein Different versions of this quote appear everywhere (doing the same thing twice, expecting the same result, etc.), and we owe none of them to Einstein. After Michael Becker, an editor at the Bozeman Daily Chronicle (a local paper in Montana), let the wrong version slide into an editorial, he did some research on his personal blog. Becker traced the original back to Rita Mae Brown, the mystery novelist. In her 1983 book "Sudden Death," she attributes the quote to a fictional "Jane Fulton," writing, "Unfortunately, Susan didn’t remember what Jane Fulton once said. 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.'"
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  2177.  @cdfdesantis699  Are you aware that it is almost universally impossible to prove a negative? I also can't prove that Einstein never said "my cousin Cleopatra"... it it, too, is massively unlikely. There are no known contemporaneous citations (many have researched this.) Also, it is goofy: acquiring a variety of skills require doing the same thing over again, expecting different results. Einstein would also likely have been aware that sometimes an action might not be successful, but repetition eventually change conditions so as to achieve the desired result. Think: battering ram.
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  2178.  @killerbanana6978  that would be goofy, but the right to idiocy is unchallenged.
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  2179. Childcott Musk. Don't put all the burden on boys.
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  2180. How severely do you consider PRChina's construction dysfunction,?
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  2181. An interesting thing is that the steering got stiffer, the faster you drove. That's a safety feature nor often appreciated.
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  2182. Ah, the Soviet Union. The future was certain, but the past was unpredictable.
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  2183. +erlich No, he isn't "making America greatagain" - his tax cuts have built in immense structural deficits. Since America's savings rates are low, that means that the US will need to rely even more heavily on foreign creditors. The counterpart effect of that is increasing current account deficits You can shift it around between countries, but until the US ceases to accumulate foreign debt, the trade balances will continue and even get worse.
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  2184. +erlich Unfortunately, I have Trump too, until January 2021 - unless he resigns, is impeached, dies, or the 25th Amendment is invoked.
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  2185. Liberty is restricted behind bars. Light fingers are not an expression of freedom of speech.
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  2186. Better still: they revealed under oath that Fox was lying to its viewers.
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  2187. Communism easily coincides with autocracy of a brutal character; but such brutality is not a requirement.
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  2188. In the USSR you might be arrested for sneezing the wrong way. What planet are you living on?
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  2189. 04:-01 The cans are not put in a sterilizing machine (known in the trade as a 'retort') to kill off any bacteria on the outside: instead it would be faster and cheaper to bathe the cans in a sterilizing fluid - a chlorine solution should work well for this. Actually, the cans go into the retort which is sealed tight. The retort , with water at the bottom, is then heated to produce steam. After a while (the 'come-up time'), the steam reaches a certain pressure, after which the heat and pressure are maintained according to a schedule in order to ensure the commercial sterility of the contents of the can - that's how canning works. Different can sizes and different foodstuffs have different retort schedules - typical for sardines in oil would be 60-80 minutes at 240 deg. F under 8.5 lbs pressure. .The cans are sterilized under pressure to keep the steam generated within the cans from exploding them.
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  2190. 03:36 I just don't understand these morons who think that kneeling while the National Anthem is played... somehow were a mark of disrespect. Millions of Catholic kids were brought up with the stark instruction to genuflect in front of the altar. If that's good enough to honor Jesus Christ, it should be good enough to honor the National Anthem.
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  2191. We have proven that the 'Blacks are not invincible already once in this Cup, and we can do it again.
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  2192. Musk bought Twitter - one of the best brands of all time - and redesignated it as '"X ". That was the dumbest marketing move since New Coke.
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  2193. SCOTUS is too corrupt to forbid Trump from holding office. He continues to give comfort to insurrectionists by promising them a pardon.
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  2194. YouTube is preventing me from editing my previous comment.
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  2195. Many among them profess to be a Savior Solution. JFK's inaugural address concluded with , may God's work truly be our own. In that time, "God's work" wasn't understood to mean Let's set up a religion-bound dictatorship.
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  2196. Cannon had done everything to delay procedures even beyond reasonable acceptance. It is possible to construct some case which somehow give her a pass over her blatant favoritism benefitting Trump.
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  2197. China's energy intensity was due to fall because of sharp falls in demand for concrete and steel, as it's frantic deployment of infrastructure has abated and real estate construction has collapsed.
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  2198.  @fmayer1507  What are Hungary's misgivings about Sweden joining NATO"
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  2199. ...Unless, as GWB's admonistration detected in Iraq, the weapons were based on fissile Erronium isotropes.
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  2200. American ice-breakers wouldn't provide deterrence; A few F-16s would.
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  2201. The left one (Papantonio) suggested that Facebook/or whatever it's called, is spending millions of dollars on taking out Tiktok. That does not sound like a determined effort from a company which has a net income in the billions. People might also want to refresh a sense of reality. Those who propose that 170 million Americans are on Tiktok, are telling you that more than 1 in 2 American residents, of all ages, of all economic status... Of All kinds... were on this platform. After all, there were approx 330 million residents as of the last Census a couple of years ago, and we lost over 1M to Covid. Once you remove the babies, toddlers, kids whose parents can't can't afford the connection or even the equipment to get connected... Parents who are working 2or 3 jobs while trying to raise their kids snd don't have time for online fun... and remove the elder folk (i.e. most of those who are over 40).... It is ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE for 170 million Americans to be on Tiktok. There might be 170 million accounts on the company's books; but that likely will include inactives and duplicate accounts. It's a shame, and kind of scary, that we have people seeking to influence legislative power and likely paid to do so, who have such a feeble grasp on rudimentary statistics, but get away with it.
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  2202. Russia has a population roughly 5x Ukraine's. Why would they find a need to recruit foreign mercenaries?
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  2203. Not your best propaganda effort.
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  2204. The Trpple Crown is an emblem of state of Sweden. You might have the wrong country?
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  2205.  @jackson857  We have been through worse.
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  2206. Oh, do tell what might be the "correct" side of history?
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  2207. 07:02 Take it with a pinch of salt that 13% of food was lost due to inadequate cold chains. Let's start with: most of the food calories eaten by humans were not subject to a cold chain. We eat foods from dry products - beans, wheat, rice, millet, other grains - which need no refrigeration. For millennia our species has relied greatly on foods preserved otherwise: drying, smoking, pickling, fermenting, salting... and salt was a key survival technology. Roman soldiers were paid in salt - their 'salarium', where we get our noun 'salary', and the expression "worth his/her salt." Some will eat what they grow, and need no cold chain; some grow crops, such as potatoes, which have been preserved without artificial refrigeration for centuries. In many parts of the world, the deficient cold chain is because none practically exist; in many cases, it's because establishing one is not economically viable. Dispersed smallholders who grow a wide variety of fruits and vegetables can pose a defying range of challenges to middlemen/wholesalers in countries where expensive foreign parts must be used, and energy for refrigeration can't justify the cost. The BBC had aired a podcast under its series: "People Fixing The World", where an initiative in India sent out small mobile facilities which could take un-merchantable produce - those otherwise would go to rot, then pelletize in a dry, stable, nutritious food which otherwise would have gone to waste. Cold is good; but not the exclusive way to secure how to feed Humanity.
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  2208. I am Oz and mendacious - look on my works, and despair!
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  2209. I disagree with the editorial choice to blur unpleasant images. War is all Hell, and you can not refine it. If we saw how ghastly it is, perhaps we might not go there so often.
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  2210. Putin is doing whatever else I gave a vicious dictator to do.
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  2211. Je me suis vu exclu de participer dans des polemiques afferrantes aux issues diplomati
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  2212. Russian interference
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  2213. This podcast was sponsored by Sowell's trickle-down bullshit. Are you comfortable with that?
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  2214. Su-35s are, on specs, some of the finest combat aircraft anywhere. Losing one is not an awesome event... except perhaps when Russia's air capability also took other severe losses on that same day.
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  2215. Une carte n'a pas de foncttion intellectuelle de "soi" même . Aucune carte ne peut être étonnée : car ce ne sont pas des êtres vivants, et encore moins des êtres pensants.
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  2216. Jackson's effigy should not be on our money.
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  2217. If many Republicans want to die, why should we interfere?
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  2218. I pledge alleviation To the slag Of the humongous waste In America; And to the Public Our richest scam: Our Nation's underdogs -near invisible With Freedom And Justice for most
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  2219.  @jeffmisch1485  Hard to tell. Oz filed his recent papers with a PA residence he could not even spell. Can you spell... carpetbagger?
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  2220.  @jeffmisch1485  You are so cute. Not intelligent by any stretch (~geography, English expression...) one might notice, but cute.
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  2221. I want a President whose governance strategy isn't havok.
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  2222. The Hunter gatherers finally snared their quarry, but don't know what to do next.
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  2223. They're tired of losing - so, stop trying to win. Prostituting the electoral process is more readily achievable.
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  2224.  @LLH7202  are you under some concern that the leadership of Iran had been off to the movies?
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  2225. Slava Ukraini!
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  2226. Hey Indy, I often cringe at the way you pronounce some foreign words ... but then remember that you are dealing with many languages foreign to you. Can't you at least pronounce words in English correctly? 10:09 the Pope had not "beetified" , he had beatified - "be-at-if-eyed". From the same Latin root as beatitudes, or Beatrix (=she who brings joy.)
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  2227. Bullshift.
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  2228. The poet Robinson Jeffers proposed that Man has no more changed, in fact, in 10,000 years ... than the beaks of eagles. It's a beautiful poem.
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  2229. You had it at 'e pluribus unum' . Please be a better dictator than Calligula. Please.
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  2230. ALLES ERZENREIICH IST OERSTEREICH UNTERAN // A E I O U Hapsburg fun (test)
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  2231. "twit" is an English expression for... 'idiot'. If Musk insists on being twitter than thou, then I surrender.
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  2232.  @FaithwalkerTodd  What part of "experimental" do you find so hard to grasp?
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  2233. That alleged "definition of insanity" is imperfect. Battering a ram repeatedly to breach a wall or a door can be tedious, but can be successful, Doing the same thing over and over might lead to military victory. Einstein was wrong.
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  2234.  @Cecilia-ky3uw  It was badly managed. At the fall of Germany in WWII there were approx 1 allied soldier for 8 German civilians. In the US toppling Iraq, there were fewer than 1 for 100. There were fewer occupying troops than pre-war civilian police, all of whom were dismissed, and quite fewer than is the norm for a calm society.. It was a major failure, but it need not have been.
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  2235.  @Cecilia-ky3uw  I just upvoted your comment. Paul Simon had given us a song, "Cecilia". In the French version, "your wine is too sweet - and yet I love it on your lips." Be well.
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  2236.  @Cecilia-ky3uw  The toppling of Mussolini and of Hitler seems to have worked remarkably well.
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  2237. There is inherent stupidity in proposing that "the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result." If you want to break down a door: you hammer at it, hammer at it, and hammer at it again... until it breaks.
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  2238.  @Cecilia-ky3uw  Your comments do not fit the situation in Lebanon, nor in Turkey - despite Erdogan's wishes and efforts. Israel + Palestine is quite complex, but again there your comments are at best tenuous. You are also misguided if you seek to impose that view on Jordan.
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  2239.  @Cecilia-ky3uw  Both Italy and Germany are "western".If you care to refresh your knowledge of history, Rome was a republic for ages before Jesus was born.
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  2240.  @Cecilia-ky3uw  His birth is rather acceptably determined, given the far context in time. I might have mentioned Julius Caesar's birth date, but that is quite less well less reckoned by the general population.I frankly do not care a jot about your religious feelings or lack thereof - I situated a point in time. Only that.
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  2241.  @Cecilia-ky3uw  You and i both write in a common idiom built with a time stamp, framed on probable the birth date of Jesus, I don't care what your religious purposes might be, nor even if you have any. We are living in 2022, and this was accepted by societies such as Thailand, Japan, China, India, which never had a dominant Christian culture. .2022 erstwhile would have been denominated as AD: Anno Domini, the year of the Lord; now it is CE: Common Era. Get the hell off your high horse.
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  2242.  @Cecilia-ky3uw  You seem to be deliberately obdurate.
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  2243. ​ @Cecilia-ky3uw  Why are you obsessing over this minor matter?
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  2244.  @Cecilia-ky3uw  Very significantly. JC's birth is the touchstone of our civilization''s ability to track time. Why is that so difficult for you to accept?
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  2245.  @Never-mind1960  China might catch up, but Russia might not. Russia's industrial capacity has been hollowed out under Putin. Even the military has been depleted: what might have been expected to be a 3 or 4 day invasion of Ukraine has gone into its 3rd week. There are reports of tanks which have become inoperable because their tires are not up to task because their performance had been degraded by corruption.
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  2246.  @andresmu9375  You might think that someone who had work for the patent office might be aware of the need for honest verification.
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  2247. SU had fallen in part because of its fundamental mismanagement. At the fall, the Soviet economy was still centralized under the Gosplan. Central bureaucrats would meticulously put together a Plan where one producer's predicted output would then become another producer's input, and so on. Btu hings do not always go to plan. The Soviet Union was then notorious for the unfortunate raw materials delivered into one factory gate, milled or machined into /whatever.... and the total shipped value out of the factory was less than the value of the goods received FOB dock... and: every new Lada landed in he UK had to be repaired before it found its home on the roads. That was decades ago.
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  2248. Just like what they did to the Titanic. Sunk by an Iceburg. Murderers.
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  2249. Where is the compassion for her constituents who are not making even a quarter of what they pay her to be paid?
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  2250.  @goodstufffromdavidpaul2246  If that's his real name...much of his resume promoted while campaigning was false.
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  2251.  @robertagabor9128  Corruption has been endemic in DC for decades. Trump at least had not been as subtle about it than others.
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  2252.  @robertagabor9128  Trump is corrupt as hell. He got his start in business by being the beneficiary of a shell company which benefited from his father siphoning profits through false invoices in order to minimize taxes. He set up "Trump University"[sic] on a bed of lies and false promises... and that went down in legal infamy. His hotel in DC (over which his family had direct control) had its swankiest and most expensive suites booked solid by diplomatic delegations which had an interest in his decisions' he also made the Secret Service stay at his hotels/resorts at full price, even when more affordable alternatives were available (i.e., 'self-dealing'at taxpayer's expense). Other Presidents had put their assets in blind trusts when they assumed the Presidency - he did not; every presidential candidate since Nixon made their tax returns public - that bastard did not. What is he hiding, apart from declaring that his 11,000 sq ft apartment in Trump Tower was actually 33,000 sq ft when had needed a higher valuation to get a more favorable loan? The list is longer, and will catch up with him.
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  2253. Senior interviewers should have a kill switch on the interviewee's mic.
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  2254. According to frogs: time's fun when you're having flies.
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  2255.  @chrissavage5966  We agree; but Vladimir the Great does not.
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  2256.  @MsLinfe  L' anglais est devenu la langue franche du momde. Il faut s'y adapter.
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  2257.  @Bobby-uu5gp  Ton mandat.
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  2258.  @Bobby-uu5gp  Vas te fair
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  2259. ,rr
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  2260.  @Bobby-uu5gp  Mon bigophone ne coutait pas cher. Il y a des defaillances.
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  2261. Boy ohboy oh Boise. Most regular folks might not pick Idaho to be Fascism Central.
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  2262. Never say anything in Manhattan that you would not say in Trollhattan.
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  2263. +ger du BÄST not boast about it - at least, not before football fans.
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  2264. +Steven Oviedo Please don't be so shy. What do you genuinely think?
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  2265. Musk off
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  2266. Not exactly. The roll-off costs of both domestic and imported cars (ex-works vs. ex-dock) will likely bear similar later costs for bringing the items to the consumer. That shall somewhat mitigate the sticker disparity.
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  2267. I have the freedom to stop your video. WARNING censorship can be harmful to your
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  2268. Turkey is deploying a Russian air defense system (S-400) which is said to pose a major risk of compromising sensitive F-35 systems. Turkey absolutely can't get any F-35s.
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  2269.  @goylanddefree80  No. You deter nothing by disabling your own military assets.
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  2270. You missed a major element in Russia's population decline:: the fertility rate, at 1.57, is (and long has been) significantly lower than the replacement rate of 2.1 children per woman.
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  2271. Donald Trump acts as a thug. A thug succeeds through intimidation, through bluster, sometimes through combat. Trump's enrichment does not necessarily pass through the lives of our combat brothers and sisters. Just honor their service.
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  2272. Sadly for which person(s)? He might be comfortable with his nationality.
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  2273. Butt Bacharach at his finest
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  2274. Somehow you see that as a problem. How so?
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  2275. ​ @Skipmetwice My understanding is that the nature of a felony then shall determine whether or not an official might have access to classified info. If,say, your felony conviction were based on spousal abuse, that might not be determinative of your propensity to share nuclear launch codes with an adversary.
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  2276. Taiwan's defenses are formidable. With enough effort and enough bloodshed, PRC can pull of the conquest; but would it be worth it?
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  2277. I'm really not sure about ambiguity.
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  2278. By remaining, the Ukrainian forces have pinned down perhaps 10,000 Russian troops. It would be helpful if they hold out as long as possible.
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  2279. That is tactically practicable; diplomatically... not so much.
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  2280. This feature should be renamed: "Moron This". Trump's 'Gaza Riviera' proposition was far the dumbest thing to come out of a politician's mouth during my lifetime, even though the competition for that ...ummm... 'distinction' has been severe.
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  2281.  @Thinekindred  actually, YT added 4 digits to many existing, bonafide, accounts.
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  2282.  @Scoots1994  a second Biden administration will likely much resemble the current one - that's what typically happens with a 2nd term.
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  2283.  @buisyman  Having a security clearance is not some immunity from investigation and potential prosecution.
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  2284. We do not have the same enforcemenent tabula rasa as in the 1945 fall of Germany.
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  2285. If I profane with my unworthiest hand...
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  2286. For an actor, an easiest enter into a scene would be as a drunk. If Donald truly were so impaired flat sober: what the next might be do?
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  2287.  @graceliu8839  one might accept a political scientist's POV; to the extent that this were 'a science', quite might we accept that there were some indicative made false-positives. I am getting ads on YT for Nevada stuff, including political tracts; I have not trod any footprint in Nevada for over two decades.
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  2288. Fiat vox.
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  2289.  @annedouglas1456  not sure of that. A comedian from the 1940:s/50's : Jack Benny made a carreer from his stage persona as a miser.
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  2290.  @thamsanqasofika3432  Jimmy Carter appointed Volker to steer the Federal Reserve to crush inflation; Reagan reaped the applause.
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  2291.  @thamsanqasofika3432  Trump really wants to be President: because that might keep him out of deserved prison.
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  2292. 2:48 I see no prohibition against electing a Commander in Chief who is too physically feeble to heft a firearm. Your argument is, at best, inane. At the time of drafting our Founding Documents, supreme military leaders slmost never sported s firearm!; they might display a ceremonial sword, utterly useless in combat; more typically, they would not adorn themselves with weapons: 'I have people to do that for me'.
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  2293. Approx 06:23 Telluranium? What mythical periodic table lists this element?
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  2294. II am not someone you can fob off with a cheap denial. I had sold high-purity tellurium to a research institute in France; cvd cadmium telluride was part of my sales arsenal.... I can accurately pronounce 'tellurium' -- can you? Apparently not. Review your material and get back to me if you had not severely mangled your pronunciation of ''tellurium'
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  2295.  @bobpourri9647  Newt launched an amphibian attack on democracy. It's still ongoing.
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  2296. 4:37 your map is signally inaccurate. It's rather obvious when it misses the "tongue" containing Iskenderun - where the east-west axis of Turkey's coast turned 90 degrees south to become part of the levantine seaboard. Please try to do better.
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  2297. Deplete Putin's ability to wage aggressive war, now.
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  2298. Slava Ukraini
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  2299. Interesting. On what charge?
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  2300. Had Trump ever voted by mail?
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  2301. Love the concept of a "waste line"
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  2302. Business can be powerful, and immensely fractive. Keep shining.
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  2303. Our previous century had shown us how hideous, how inhumane it can rapidly become. No more!!!
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  2304. A). Trump got covid, and as President, was treated with the best care anywhere available. He survived.
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  2305. ​ @Shadowman-1960  non US born, can not become President. Try again?
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  2306.  @petitben5240  have you forgotten how the Soviet troops fared during their conquest and occupation of Afghanistan? The country was somewhat chaotic, but reasonably peaceful... until it was invaded by the Soviet Union. Please talk about that.
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  2307.  @petitben5240  in South Vietnam, the situation was more complex than you proposed. US troops often fought together with ARVN units, against VC plus NVA regulars. Military historians will agree that the terms of combat essentially were codified in that war by the exploratory tactics by both sides during the Battle of Ia Drang. Most opposing forces there were NVA regulars.
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  2308.  @petitben5240  it's almost sweet of you to show such patriotic fervour despite a lack of knowledge. Goong hey.
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  2309.  @Cotac_Rastic  Interesting that you continue to use emojis in discussions which otherwise might engage in the intellect of your readers. What is your motivation from cowardice against letting them freely to form their own opinions?
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  2310.  @exisfohdr3904  Do you have any other straw men you want to share?
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  2311. You might have missed this. "Computers are useless: they can only give us answers." Discuss.
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  2312. I have scant preference for drag queens; I am vehement in defending our 1st Amendment.
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  2313. A competent artillery gunner can fire up to 8 rounds a minute.
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  2314. We were under sail near Santa Cruz (CA) and bumped a large mola near the surface. It barely reacted, and that was weird.
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  2315. I doubt that we shall get as eloquent a balladeer as Woody Guthrie.
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  2316. Time nominates the most impactful person, not the kindest. In previous choices, Adolph Hitler made the cut.
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  2317.  @icebergrose8955  done, in the late 1930s.
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  2318.  @sallyvandyke8936  you shall best be advised by your own advice. No other options can be available.
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  2319. @gloriascott6491  rag_e on!
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  2320. @lunchboxjoeb  what do you mean??
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  2321. You can easily get the right answer if you ask the wrong question.
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  2322.  @ingoditrust7784  The US military involvement in VN very arguably as ill-advised, however it was in response to a request from a legitimate government with a seat at the UN; this Russian offensive is pure aggression.
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  2323.  @ingoditrust7784  Saddam was not amenable to compromise. Certainly I can imagine him as a kinder and more flexible dictator; I can also imagine lead weighing less than helium.
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  2324. Thomas has to eat Crow; and that's not saying he must show humility.
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  2325. The event is held at a different location on the Playa every year. The Playa,BTW,is huge.
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  2326. We also pull a lot of salt out of the oceans. Bear in mind that the volume of water in the oceans is staggering. The entire annual world production of salt would easily fit within the Puget Sound - and there's a huge amount of water beyond that.
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  2327. NATO has never accepted members engaged in armed conflict. There are a number of criteria for accession - military, social, economic, political... and Ukraine has not necessarily met all accession conditions.
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  2328. That you used the term, "alot" [= to allocate[] instead of "a lot" [= much] ... does not speak well of you.
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  2329. God blessed Ttump when He/i.e., Trump, had a revelation when two Corinthians walked into a bar.
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  2330. Musk rats are scurrying for cover.
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  2331.  @craigcman6738  it draws them out.
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  2332. You call this a "sham trial", as is your right to do so. Trump led the most incompetent Administration in over a hundred years... but, thank God, because his political instincts bend toward fascism. His Administration was his first trial government sham. Let's not give him another chance.
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  2333. There have been extreme;ly few domestic political choices which have been bad across business. Even getting citizens killed will be boom time for undertakers,
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  2334. Size matters. Or so several girlfriends have assured me was not an issue.
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  2335. Over a conversation, a buddy suggested that radicalized leftists need to find some supportive group; but radicalized right wingers are more likely to strike out alone. Thoughts?
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  2336. Intensely relying on a hyperloop to overcome the natural tendency for cities to be compact, introduces a major point of existential failure. Hyperloop down = city down.
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  2337.  @Lowctrygrl  Your mother seems a remarkable woman. I hope her example guided others also to forge ahead. Bless, Phil
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  2338. What a shock! He will not endorse a man who was very comfortable with him being killed by a rabid mob.
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  2339. That is moronic, but a lot more fun than other anti-vax stupidity spread all over the Web.
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  2340. The GNP / Grotesque National Product, is doing just fine; we aren't.
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  2341. You began by expressing common human values. You then went elsewhere. What the HELL happened to you?
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  2342. She is prime arm candy.
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  2343. That's why the Lady is a Trump
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  2344. Months past re-election: how's it going?
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  2345. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results... suggests that you are using a battering ram.
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  2346. The Repugs won't take into account America's huge exports of non-oil energy - LNG in particular has boomed,, although that owed more to Putin than anything we did. If your exports of energy exceed your imports: you are functionaly energy-independent , although not autarchic.
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  2347. ​ @My_name-is_Skylar_White_yo it takes 42'ed to understand that answer.
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  2348. 07:25 to 08:34 is pure gold.
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  2349. 2:05 what the hell are "feshal" bacteria? Are they similar to fecal coliforms?
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  2350.  @James_Doyle83  had that not been happening for decades?
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  2351.  @robertbest4398  laundry list
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  2352. The Court is supreme. Its power is enshrined, yet that is incumbent on the Will of the People. The Court might enable repressive decisions at the expense of civil disorder they shsll have engineered. Caveat legis.
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  2353. +Half Blood That's inaccurate/fluffy; on this issue you will find me largely on your side. But I am opposed to policy derived from distortion.
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  2354. "twit", as you might know (and had been popularized by Monty Python)...means 'idiot' in British slang. X marks the spot where you are invited to become twitter than thou.
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  2355. Sandra is an angel. Volunteering from far away to provide front-line medical relief is a great act of mercy.
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  2356. Diantre!!!
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  2357. /stock INDICES
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  2358.  @TrxmpBrownNosersBgone  In order to protect the crews from radiation, the designers would have had to incorporate materials such as polyethylene, boron nitride, or even more exotic substances. These would have severely compromised the effectiveness of armor protection against kinetic impacts.
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  2359. Santos was understandably outraged out of solidarity with his fictitious Jewish heritage.
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  2360. How do you make a hormone? Find the tracker in his pocket.
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  2361. Success can not be established without experimentation. Experimentation typically demands some deviation from norms. Establishing such norms do not seem to concur with prevalent sentiment I oppose capital punishment, as do the followers of the Roman Church
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  2362. I do not so easily find an easy way out: Russia is an avid aggressor. Nowhere else I'd there blame.
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  2363. America's scores are IMO overstated because of widespread gerrymandering. In other democracies, the voters choose their representatives; in many States, the representatives choose their voters.
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  2364. Who knows what ? next Republicans might lichen out?
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  2365. Russian command and control systems seem to be critically deficient.
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  2366. ❤ wonderful
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  2367. Rome's farthest outpost.
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  2368. A special form of hybrid warfare: glitchkrieg.
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  2369. Pelosi n'a aucune fonction officielle au sein de l'administration executive de l' état. Dites-le vous à plusieures reprises. Cependant, la foutasse du PC Chinois ne sait distinguer entre le Pouvoir Executif et celui de la législiature: car, dans ce gouffre léniniste:... il n'y a aucun.
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  2370. Why would partners share sensitive info if means and methods would glibly be exposed by a supposed ally?
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  2371. Yeah... points come to famous. The Hindenburg largely flamed out on its hydrogen lift. Helium, in contrast, is inert to flame under expected variations in temperature. The Hindenburg had lifting derived from (combustible) Hydrogen. If alternate lift nacelles had contained He instead, that likely shall have greatly contained the disaster. Helium is an effective fire suppressant.
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  2372.  @quentin.s1609  Faux. Il n'existe aucune application commerciale de masse pour la supraconductivité.
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  2373. There are public news services in Europe which are mandated by Law to be accurate. Commercial broadcasts in the US are exempt from such a requirement. Trust Fox at our peril.
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  2374. Anything which might contradict a Trump supporter's view of the world, will be labeled as "fake'- regardless of how accurate or genuine that new information.
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  2375. +Ruzz "Vastly"? Neighboring states can have significant differences regarding how to contend with non-neighboring maritime intruders, slash, participants. I won''t share the horrid frame of mind adopted by POTUS45, that human endeavor generally is a zero-sum game..
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  2376. "Executive privilege" ...have we seen this before?
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  2377. Dictatorship is on the rise in the United States - just look at how Trump is using tactics from Orban and from Hitler, to intimidate Harvard into his compliance. Stand with Harvard!
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  2378. There is precedent: Nixon accepted a full padon from Ford; accepting a pardon is acceptance of culpability for criminal liability.
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  2379. ​ @northstar6920 much for your protection Food products contaminated with lysteria get pulled off the shelves fast enough; is it your right to be an idiot? Discuss
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  2380. ​ @northstar6920  OtherWise, what keeps us from musculature barbarity.
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  2381.  @northstar6920  extra random income ex-oficio
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  2382.  @geminifiend5775  you might care to repair your post
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  2383.  @northstar6920 / that then were "sarchasm" - not an original concept of mine.
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  2384.  @Racko.  Regulations are not bent toward making products safer, more equitable... they're instruments of Party policy.
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  2385.  @Safely1  Nobody instead talks about "tofu concrete" used in, say, New Zealand public works. Why?
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  2386.  @Safely1  I visited PRChina in the 2nd half of the 1990s. Prices were discriminatory by design - and that was the Welcome Mat. The Middle Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on.
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  2387.  @Safely1  at least you had been given fair warning and proposed schedules? X: not
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  2388. France had a severe "baby bust"before WWII. After the war, the government made significant efforts to boost the birth rate. Families get major tax benefits, child care is widespread. Society says "we want mothers" and is willing to back it up. Other countries... not so much.
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  2389. "Vous préparer"... pouquoi le verbe à l'infinitif? Et puis... "les médiats": faut-il lire "les médias" / ou "les immédiats"? Racontez-nous
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  2390. Russia does not have a fully functional corps of NCOs and junior officers. That forces senior officers to go into the field to take charge and be vulnerable to enemy fire.
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  2391. The Death Penalty is a long-burning fuse, touching on similar ethical topics. We have just had a refer/end'em in Ireland over abortion. Where the State prevents any recourse to an unwanted pregnancy: clearly that becomes incumbent unto the State to meet that the State acquit and supply the resources which that child shall have expected from a voluntary birth State coercion can be waived juducially past various social norms, but can not escape monetary responsibility.
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  2392. L'homme corrompu
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  2393. I'm sick and tired of hearing about Trump's monosodium glutamate MSG rally.
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  2394. 2 Corinthians walk into a bar...
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  2395. Twitter than thou.
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  2396. Driverless cars are a problem. If they brick on a traffic violation: that's bad; even worse is that drivers can be held to account under CA law; driverless mayhem is undiscovered.
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  2397. The Soviets were known to spy on the Concorde project. Their spies were fed a recipe for landing tyres which guaranteed would gum up the works.
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  2398.  @michaelvanstiphout5507  you might think of Musk as a total piece of garbage. That is your right.
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  2399.  @amzarnacht6710  don't be luddicrous
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  2400.  @samuelfawell9159  Frankly,, he doesn't care whose money. There is a old Roman saying that money has no smell.
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  2401.  @kristamccracken4119  maybe if he had gone back to his native South Africa, he might have pulled together that county's divisions in a genuine national healing... But Elon is the richest man in modern times. If some salaried person in the top one percent tried to spend every last penny of Musk's fortune, it would take him about forty times all recorded history.
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  2402.  @kristamccracken4119  put him in chains and pack him off to South.Africa . The Constitution says that if you were born here: you belong here. Musk wasn't born here. He is an intrusive immigrant; I was born here, my mother was born here, her father was born here; but this indigenized South African has messed with our sense of home to his best benefit. He has a thumb on the D of DEI in hatred of Diversity. Musk might not be the worst piece of garbage ever to emerge from a womb;; but arguably he can be in contention.
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  2403. The Trump denyhilism is not the best assertion of democracy, but it is unfortunately popular.
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  2404.  @simonreynoso7461  Trump might even not be able to run, let alone win. His clear, verified, attempt to subvert Georgia's certification might exclude him. You can't win if you can't run.
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  2405. Locking arms is a cost- effective way to keep people away. That's why constabularies across the United Kingdom tend instead to disperse their effectives in times of civil turmoil. */
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  2406. The early 40's in the US were a time of necessary deprivation: there was a war on. Beyond that, there was also a Jim Crow era of murdering Blacks. I would rather live during the rationing '40s in the US than where half of my family had to survive under the occupation Nazis.
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  2407.  @RobLaMacchia  the doc you meant
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  2408.  @htmn_2  vigilantism is not costless. It generally shall come about when all codified avenues of regress had been strangled. Passing over such terrific barriers won't be for trivial crimes of fun.
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  2409. @LawrenceMacMacster  do you relieve in magic?
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  2410. @estonianman  because you are a poor example of humanity
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  2411. @LawrenceMacMacster  I used to be agnostic, but now I'm not so sure.
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  2412. @JH-pt6ih  To be fair, I was riffing off a Seinfeld episode. Yet, there are underpinning forces which result in real-life processes. Gaudete.
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  2413.  @alankenworthy9722  I wouldn't mind sipping a kir in a cafe in Paris, but - however you characterize those police - Macron is not the one who calls them out to confront protesters: That would be the role of the Municipality of Paris, ultimately its mayor.
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  2414. @James Berry Brecit has not happened yet... or hadn't you noticed?
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  2415. @James Berry You might be confusing the American republic for the French one. In the US, the President is the head of State AND the head of government - the buck stops on the President's desk, as Truman noted. In France, however, the President is head of state, but not the head of government - that falls on the shoulders of the Prime Minister... and there have been times when there was a President of one political trend, and a PM of the opposition ("cohabitation"). Prime Ministers are sometimes cannon fodder who take the flak for the President. Where 'the buck stops' can be a negotiable commodity..
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  2416. @James Berry Our Prime Minister is Édouard Philippe. Of course Boris will meet Macron, who is head of State and in charge of foreign policy; our president is not in charge of most domestic policy.
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  2417. PR China bans Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Wikipedia, and more. Methinks the lady doth protest to much.
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  2418.  @squeezerdsqueezerd2427  Russia is heavily dependent on the export of natural or minimally-processed resources. Given its level of human potential, it should be far more prosperous. What's holding it back? The political structure.
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  2419.  @satyendrasah3315  NATO is not a financial organization. Russia's foreign exchange reserves were frozen because Russia had brutally attacked Ukraine without provocation. As I had come to be informed: even Switzerland - not NATO, by a long shot - had frozen Russian financial assets. Evil must be confonted.
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  2420.  @squeezerdsqueezerd2427  You might have missed this: Russia's civil aviation administration will crumble in less than 2 years. Buy your tickets now.
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  2421.  @squeezerdsqueezerd2427  There is a time limit.
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  2422. Putin does not seem to give a flying thing dams about the long term. Rumor suggests that he is subject to a fatal cancerous affliction. We have much evidence that when you are in power, and face a genuine non-kinetic threat of death: your thought processes might become massively diverted.
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  2423. Their?
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  2424. PRChina is facing a demographic conundrum. The Economist had splashed on its front page: 6.7 brides for 7 brothers. PRChina has exhausted its demographic bonus. The next paragraph is their cause for fright.
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  2425. Vote. Run for office. Don't expect things to happen without your involvement.
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  2426. New Testament: doubting Thomas. SCOTUS: dubious Thomas.
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  2427. Graßly would not be presiding over the Senate.
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  2428. Thanks for standing firm against the brown shirts incited by the Trump brown noses.
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  2429. 03:30 such a beautiful young woman might dream of her perfect wedding instead of worrying about soldiers sent into combat. To Hell with this war, to Hell with Russia.
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  2430. Beware of geeks baring grift.
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  2431. The first Gallic Roman province was not today's Provence - it was Cisalpine Gaul.. This was centered on tho Po Valley, running from the Alps to the Rubicon, which marked the border with the Republc. Under Roman law, it was forbidden for a general on external campaign to enter with his troops, except by invitation from the Senate. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in force, the die was cast: he was now guilty of treason, and would either prevail... or die. When Caesar crossed into Italy, Rome was not yet on the brink of civil war, but it became increasingly obvious that the governing structure of the Republic was no longer adequate for their sprawling empire. Julius became dictator. It was after his assassination that 3 prominent Romans - Pompey, Marc Anthony, snd Octavian - ruled in the Triumvirate. It eas only after this collapsed that civil war broke out. Octavian was victorious, and became the Emperor Augustus.
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  2432. Gas prices generally reflect the WTI and Brent benchmarks.
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  2433. Republicans apparently don't believe in a republic.
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  2434. No. It's not okay to disagree. /s
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  2435. North Korea / DPRK has substantial forward-deployed troops. Kim and his government have whipped up hatred and war fever for years. Dissuading Kim from launching an assault on South Korea is worth stationing less than 4 divisions there. Germany has finally decided to beef up its defense commitments. The US has significant infrastructure commitments already invested in Germany, which give the US tactical advantages for power projection throughout Europe and the Middle East. You might challenge why we might want that, and I expect you might score some points. I tend to follow the arc of history, and prefer not to give up long-term security in exchange for short-term budget benefits.
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  2436.  @WinWin-oo4uk  your perception is held with equal validity.
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  2437. Yes. AFAIK Melania and Barron are in the clear. There can be others.
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  2438. C'est Gazprom qui a le plus a gagner. Ils ont réduit leurs livraisons de gaz vers l'Allemagne sous des prétextes loufoques, pour en arriver à zéro. La firme était passable de peines en valeur de milliards de dollars pour non-performance de leur contrat; mais avec ce qui apparaît un sabotage par X... ils s'en échappent.
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  2439. Swirls might be ephemora of found expressions. Same time, we have spent billions on Earth to also detect anomalies. Do tell.
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  2440. IMO Japanese law enforcement officers assume that they will face little pushback. 1986, Fukuroi. It's not on the tourist trail, but I took a slow local train to get there - I was inquiry into zen, and there was a local centre which might light my lantern. With time on my hands, I rented a bicycle, and wandered for the fun and needed exercise. In the middle of rice fields, a local cop car intercepted me. I had done nothing wrong, had observed all road regulations.... but yet, was stopped for no reason. One of the officers spoke English to a creditable level, and seemed to accept that nit were absurd that i might steal a low-value bike after having travelled over 10,000 to get there. It started to rain, hard; I was getting soaked, the cops were better equipped. I pointed out that there eas a bus shelter abt. 120m ahead, and can't we continue this out of the rain? They agreed, and sped off. They left me with a very bitter sense of Japan's enforcement of Justice.
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  2441.  @groslait7814  You are a scab on humanity's skin.
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  2442.  @HDcreature  The western coasts of the North and South America, down to past the Straits of Magellan, is is the Eastern Pacific; the Western Pacific extends roughly from the Bering Sea to south of New Zealand where it meets the Southern Ocean. Learn.
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  2443. The commentator must have heard. Why can't he have swum with the native pronunciation? Aux Armes des Bruxelles? 0:27 I think not.
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  2444.  @ClaytonGilbert-s2t  thank you for keeping your dialect speech patrons from going extinct.
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  2445. Judy Ruliani will need much more help.
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  2446. No. He caters to the fear and loathing of a majority of his constituents.
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  2447. 13:15 The exporters of motor vehicles to ANZ should be able to recoup the duties paid on imported components. This might require some rather involved legal arrangements (e.g. creating "free trade zones" where the exporting factories are located), but this is not an insurmountable problem.
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  2448. 02:46 approx -yes, you're crazy. QED.
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  2449. Trump's strategy seems to align with a saturation tactic. The more outlandish claims, the more need be to refuted - and a saturation attack also easily run cover for other directed aggression in pursuit of political violence. Future historians always shall wish that they were there.
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  2450. Women can fall in love. Many among us would not be here otherwise.
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  2451. A sense of fairness and a commitment to respect the will of the People, or even basic human decency, are clearly not core values of the Republicans.
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  2452. Judy Ruliani (remember his drag pix?) is still standing / or prostrate, depending on where the Donald is. So long as he's in the public eye, he will remain an initiative of full employment for comedians, for some time to come.
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  2453. Injustice DeLayed is archival
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  2454. Five-year-old children might be unexpectably stable.
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  2455. How so? 'Kind of confused ' is increasingly Trump's modus vivendi these days.
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  2456.  @robertjohnson1681  Trump was unclear about when Obama was President. It's a train wreck, and on tape. We might go on in petty sniping. On matters of issues, Trump has proposed a 100% tarif on all imports. Is he stupid, or vicious?
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  2457. Devons nous craindre l'homme le plus Alpha?
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  2458. Much of these were bound for administrative obsolescence. Munitions - as chemical mixtures - have a "sell-by" date, anyway need to be replaced. That holds equally for all militaries, regardless of colour. OTOH, the Kremlin is deploying T-55 tanks to the line. Please acquire a sense of perspective.
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  2459. Yarete koi! / In your Tokyo vocal sound. Get the hell out now, when told of a water disaster, of your life.
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  2460. It's a special brand of hideous human being to visit a military gravesite, flashing a board smile and giving a 'thumbs up'
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  2461.  @flamboyant91  ...With Putin's pretexts for launching his unprovoked aggression against Ukraine: crazy how crazy doesn't change.
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  2462.  @wayne9688  Bibi had no integrity. Talk of Alexander, as suits you.
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  2463.  @oisin928  Jews had lived among
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  2464.  @bobbyshermanski611  you also clip understandi
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  2465.  @wayne9688  a love that could have lasted years. /Beatles
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  2466.  @West_Coast  They might be taking a stand that: expulsion of a people is A WAR CRIME.
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  2467.  @ceceliadenny3542  It can become immensely difficult to voice brain-dead concepts fostered by the protofascist right wing goofies.
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  2468. Most jurors have a life of their own. They have a job / a schedule / kids... You will be compensated, if at all, in line with freed victims of abuse committed outside our jurisdiction. We lack a common purposeful sense of shame.
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  2469. The Resistance will be televised.
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  2470. Q: what's black and brown, and looks good on a lawyer? A: a rottweiler.
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  2471. China's political process seems to lack an acceptable diversity of thought which better might serve their political purpose.
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  2472. Anti-tank weapons such as Javelins from the US or NLAWs from he UK seem to have taken a heavy toll on the Russian forces. Do you disagree?
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  2473. ​ @Loirn-onajourney  what do your cryptic initials mean?
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  2474. 4:45 Iceland is not in the EU. There is also a big cultural difference in that, in much of Europe, parents 'innoculate' their children. They are early on given small and/or dilute drink on special occasions - say, the equivalent of two shots of champagne at a wedding when the kid is 12. Quantity, frequency, and strength increase with the passing years. When it's legal to drink in public:no big deal. In contrast, Americans will often get roaring drunk on their 21st birthday.
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  2475. Trump also said that he would lower inflation; but he slapped hideous import taxes on all goods from all origins. This WILL hurt.
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  2476. ​ @Bwbag1899 Trump eas never at fault, not even in the many bankruptcies which beset this Stable Genius (TM).
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  2477.  @aleccap5946  Untrue.
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  2478.  @aleccap5946  You wrote: "just announced the uk will be going to war against Russia". If this were true, it would be the most momentous news of the eat. No such announcement has been carried by the BBC, or DW, or France 24, or NPR, or NHK. It was not in NYT and I could not find it mentioned by any reputable news source.when I did a Google search
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  2479.  @aleccap5946  Ukraine War: Boris Johnson says West 'working hard' to avoid war with Russia https://youtu.be/gRGT5urKrnM
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  2480. PANDEMIC is an anagram of DEM PANIC
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  2481. In much of the United States, you can check into motel for less than Trump's sale of public domain content (widely downloadable for free) can be had by grabbing a Gideon's Bible. No theft here, it's donated by a charitable entity. ....and you might also get a night's relief from noisy neighbors.
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  2482.  @TheSandman.  Can you blame him? He was stood up by two Corinthians.
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  2483. Love cats
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  2484. The loss of Santos as a reserve punching target, places an unusual strain on the comedy-media complex. The economic impact can not be underestimated / but emerging talent might give it a try.
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  2485. More citixens live within eyesight of a quarter-mile high point nearby, than in all of Wyoming. That State's residents have about 80x more electoral power than me. This stinks.
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  2486. Je déteste la censure imposée par les pouvoirs publics, ceci peut se voir débattre; c'est d'autant plus déstesable quand cela se passe dans la nuit et dans le bouillard. Poutine est plus Nazi que ceux qu'il accuse .
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  2487. Trump understood that the vast majority of people will more easily fall for a big lie, than for a small one.
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  2488. No joke. RFK Jr has blood on his hands in Samoa. Keep that chunk out of Federal decisions on healthcare.
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  2489. There has to be clarity and consistency in vaccinations. During my basic training under military service, I fell down with rubella. My dad's job moved us from NYC to Geneva. In the shuffle, it seems that some health routines became scrambled. I survived and returned to full health, but doctors in charge made it known that I was lucky.
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  2490. Menteur.
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  2491.  @PandemoniumMeltDown  we live / persist in odd times.
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  2492.  @PandemoniumMeltDown  oddsong sounds off-ish
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  2493. ​ @wionporky9937 WTF is "Molly"?
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  2494. Given the 'human wave" tactics typically employed by Russia, 5000 KIA/mo is likely to be a severe underestimate.. Sustainability is a a context with slippage. Even before the Feb/2022 aggression, Russia was suffering from a demographic collapse: the fertility rate had fallen to well-under replacement rate. Then perhaps one in 14 left the country under fear of conscription, or of repression; these exiles more typically in the higher-fertility demographic classes...many lost to Russia forever. Putin is accumulating severe population strains on his nation - but why should he care? These won't become intractable problems until well after his natural lifespan.
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  2495. The numbers in this video are unrealistic: total world GDP is roughly $110 trillion.
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  2496. There were times when being a pugnacious Republican could still allow you space within our Repulic. Trump refutes our Republic. If elected, he will hold his hand on his choice of Bible. Problem: The Lord's Prayer, given to us by Jesus, tells us to forgive our adversaries. Trump wants to use the power of the federal government to extract Trump revenge.
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  2497. Jesus smacked the money changers in the precinct of the Temple. What's bad for Jesus...is good enough for your hideous purpose? (Maybe you meant to write 'traitor', instead of 'trader'. Sound the same.)
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  2498. The higher the DEFCON never, the lower the perceived level of threat.
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  2499. Wendell Brown made the basic mistake of not being white. A white gweilo will be left alone where a darker skinned westerner will be singled out for "special attention". I have heard this expressed, repeated, and reinforced: that among the Chinese themselves, you will be better treated if your skin is lighter.
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  2500. Worldwide there are many exploitable deposits of rare earth oxides The problem is not with the availability of raw materials, but in the cost of processing. In Western countries, companies would be held to accountable for toxic side effects of processing; that is far less of a concern in China.
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  2501. Who cares? Trump, at his advanced age, might keel over before the nomination. His dementia started even before his inaugural in Jan 2017 / biggliest of all time. If his lateral / Project 2025 / hasn't struck you: take a closer look. My family lived under Nazi occupation, and damed if I let it happen again.
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  2502. Requiescat in pacem
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  2503. Who is "they"?
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  2504. Nice sentiment. That bears no comparison with any honest examination of the historic record. The Gauls fell to the Romans even before the Common Era. Waves of Mongols wiped out their victims whose civilizations disappeared almost without a trace. More, and yet more, examples can disprove your vacuous homily. Let's hope you were not disproven again.
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  2505.  @ronaldgreene5733  Nihongo de kotaemasu ka ?
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  2506. I admit that I am not a rocket industrialist - but it strikes me that such touted savings were not to come from the r-use of booster rockets, but more from the infrastructure prior to and allowing launch. A failed commercial launch is a commercial risk - maybe covered by various insurance Names from Lloyd's: you're covered. A failed government launch would be politically toxic, and THAT then perhaps make the Feds more strenuously test and and document accordingly, more often and at higher cost.. That might not be Musk's business model; it might make sense to other launch entrepreneurs.
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  2507.  @fredbloggs5902  I haven't had the joy of putting on my cost accountant cap to determine the TRUE cost.I was good at it, Do you have detailed numbers for the full cost of a launch - not excluding any beneficial above-ground or more discrete/covert subsidies - perhaps in such as less than appropriate invoiced basing privileges? Tax payers have a right to know.
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  2508. Trump doesn't know jack shift about WWII German generals. Some showed clear signs of brilliance - Guderian and Rommel come to mind. Paulus had been expected to surrender at Stalingrad, and was flashed to be the next Honored Commander to fall on his sword; instead, he surrendered his lost command to save the lives of his doomed troops. A field baton was not worth the lives of his men.
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  2509. My account has been wiped out. I had done nothing evil, I had over 6K karma points, over 20K comment points and had been in good standing for about 7 years... and tonight, Reddit decided that I was unworthy. I can't log in. I am prevented even from finding some blank page where I might enter my correct data. What a way to run an airline.
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  2510. Doctor Fill will expand until he senses resistance.
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  2511. How can any educated person mistake the Geheime Staatspolizei for a chilled soup?
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  2512. Serbia is a landlocked country: it will need to avoid provoking the sealing of its borders.
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  2513. Funny.
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  2514. Trump signalled a dog-whistle threat against civil society. He acts more like a mob boss than a statesman.
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  2515. Why might you call this person a "lady"? She has none of the decorum which merit that label.
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  2516. Describe.
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  2517. 😊 0:45
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  2518. Trump might yet be given the benefit of the dolt.
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  2519. A pro-PRC idiot commented in outrage on a YT channel controlled by CCP, that China's air force had not fired warning shots at the plane carrying Pelosi. Yes, there are people that stupid.
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  2520.  @mwtrolle  NATO purportedly only limits automatic triggering of Article 5 to the lands adjacent to areas of the North Atlantic and its accessory waters. The Falklands clearly were nowhere near the North Atlantic. Gyuane is on the northern shore of South America, bathing the Caribbean Sea, which conventionally is considered as part of the North Atlantic.
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  2521.  @mwtrolle  Article 5 was not easily applicable to territories so far from the North Atlantic - the "NA" part of 'NATO''.
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  2522. ~about the time Lloyds Names began to wear plimsoles. Of course, if you were still pumping past the line, your coffin-ship would definitely be too late.
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  2523. We have a new and lucrative bio-industry, at the tschimeron frontiers of no ledge.
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  2524. About 1:50 Why visually did you reference an OSCE document when speaking of a NATO designation?
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  2525. A) Fais gaffe d'avoir accompli tous tes devoirs militaires reglementaires. C'est primo.. B) Refuses toute aide de la part des services publics (en France) ou consulaires (devines) B) acquiers une autre nationalit a/e/i/o/u - c'est ton protocol. .
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  2526. Well... football is kinda like combat, don't ya think?
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  2527. As Vo Nguyen Giap said: that might be true... but it is also irrelevant.
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  2528. Does Russia really want to commit suicide? Any use of nuclear weapons will be met by nuclear weapons - and NATO has 3 nuclear-armed members, each of which can decide independently on their use of force.
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  2529. Hearing Trump speak males me gag.
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  2530.  @user-th3xx1em1u  Don't look behind the curtain!
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  2531. Governors can do virtually nothing about inflation, and neither can the President: they just don't have the tools at their disposal. Inflation is lower in the US or in the EU, BTW..
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  2532. 16:10. I grew up asa native French speaker in a fully bilingual family. I would suggest which level you might contemplate which among Dante's levels of hel you migjt find yourself. You will find out.
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  2533. +SomeGuy A huge difference between the 2 wars is that in WW1, the French had a very strong motivation to fight: revenge for having lost Alsace-Lorraine, and hatred for having a quarter of the country turned into a sweep of trenches. It was "on to Berlin!" in WW1, and "let's get it over with" in WW2.
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  2534. 03:27 the stock market had predicted nine of the last five recessions.
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  2535. Investigations are a drag. They take up time and can need the expensive help of legal counsel.That might not be a burden on the Don, who gained notoriety for not paying his bills.
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  2536.  @fairamir1  Abuse of power might be the best start.
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  2537.  @fairamir1  The Donald had reportedly declared real estate properties at a sharply lower value for tax purposes than he proposed for financial estimations. That typically would trigger an audit.
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  2538.  @fairamir1  Yet... Trump refused to allow the public to see ANY of his tax returns because they allegedly were being audited. The IRS does not generally audit tax returns unless potentially there were some problem. Might you clarify your statement?
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  2539.  @txT0723  How had you come to acquire that "knowledge" which even Congress can not obtain?
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  2540. May I propose a new term for Trump's unhinged verbiage? 'anecdotage'
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  2541. 00:15 Has that restaurant found a way to prove a negative?
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  2542. ​ @wolf17238 overall, Trump had lost by some 7 milion votes nationwide. Check the official tallies.
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  2543. ​ @usesumlogicmanlogicman4334  successful? If his goal was to funnel money into the pockets of the very wealthy: that was a success; much else can be scored a mixed result. I had despised Trump most of all for how he encouraged gullible citizens to seek snake-oil treatments to survive Covid,-19, how he went to war with wearing a mask on the middle of an airborne contagion of a viral vector. His stupidity probably killed more Americans than lost their lives in the Vietnam Conflict.
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  2544. He was flushed with success. Thank Grace that we had no more important matters to which our Fed Gov needed to attend. /s
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  2545. Before the Beeb came through, I was presented with an advertisement for, quote, "the jack of all listening" . In such matters, I don't know jack.
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  2546.  @honkler5974  Karen entered the English language from Danish, where it has been a short form of "Katherine" since medieval times. It became popular in the English-speaking world in the 1940s. The name Karen was one of the top 10 names for girls born in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, peaking as the third most popular girl's name in 1965.
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  2547.  @garywarren6285  Have you run out of your meds?
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  2548.  @dannykiser6612  You assert that "Biden is a traitor to America". Granted, he might not satisfy your personal yearnings; but do please detail how he were betraying America, apart from displeasing you?
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  2549.  @shuyostarwind6157  Now that you got that off your chest, do you feel better? Biden came into office in the wake of an administration bent on crippling anything which did not conform with the dictates of a President elected despite a strong popular defeat in 2016. Politics is not jut a 3-dimensional framework - it' s 4G, when you include time.
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  2550.  @MikeLive1285  Politics is the art of the possible. Your impossibilities reside among the Republican chamber.
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  2551.  @MikeLive1285  Biden also failed to revive dead puppies. We had undergone the worst presidency in living memory. Yet there is scant legislative acceptability to pass measures you want.. I respect your fervor, but suggest that your scorn is misguided. Try more at a local level, and build up.
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  2552.  @shuyostarwind6157  You might fundamentally misunderstand the nature of governance. Politicians of all stripes (in a fair and free election) will campaign and "promise" x and y. Then when they assume the levers of power, they find out that they can't: for budgetary, present legislative, procedural, or legal barriers... do what they intended to do.
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  2553.  @MikeLive1285  Boss Tweed is still the poster child of electoral corruption. The genuine culprit is Scalia.
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  2554.  @MikeLive1285  The level of corruption IMO is likely to have gone down in countries which became democracies with empowered independent judiciaries. Do you have stats to the contrary?
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  2555.  @MikeLive1285  Ideally, politics represent the People; persons represent the People. Shutting them out is where we got off track.
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  2556. OK... so they'll obey and just sell stricter guns. Yeah, right.
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  2557. Ils sont moins sous siege
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  2558. @Tachte  ras le cyste
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  2559. Actually, it was the Soviet Red Army which squeezed Berlin when Hitler took his own life.
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  2560. The chairman of Goldman Sachs is going to earn a lot in tips this year.
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  2561. What is your native language?
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  2562. Why might the FBI find it necessary to use lethal force in execution of a judicially bmandated search? Why would Trump feel threatened when he was more than 2,000 milrs away to the North?
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  2563. CCCP/Candide enforcement
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  2564. Not every Stable Genius (TM) will be good at making personnel decisions.
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  2565. 0:10 and 0:34 the animation shows Khrushchev by a Russian flag. That is an anachronism: he would have been flanked by the flag of the Soviet Union.
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  2566. There are so many eddies along which this compounding incident might detail. CCP crackdown? That can happen if the wrong Party member sneeze "at the wrong time."
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  2567. ?Had any one noticed that .Brexit ' might sound much like 'Brussels/Bruxelles" to the untrained ere?
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  2568. God keep you, Ros. You kept hearts warm when times seemed bleak.
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  2569. On the front lines, the trenches and artillery duels more resemble WWI.
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  2570. That was hlepful
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  2571. I served with a NATO member; I served with their General Staff'. It was not with the United States. That does not fit your narrow narrative.This might be a fine time to stop being an asshole.
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  2572.  @LaGrandeBayou  Are you aware that "bayou" is masculine: so "LaGrandeBayou" is rather goofy?" LeGrandBayou" could make sense.
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  2573. WARNING Censorship can be harmful to your
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  2574. For moron this...
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  2575.  @TheRealUnholy  You probably also mock people who are confined to wheelchairs because they can't walk. Biden deals his problem of stuttering. Will you please address your problem of stupidity?
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  2576.  @edwardmcmanus  Trump ensured full-time employment for comedy writers.
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  2577. The Government can create hideous hurricanes by letting theses accumulate massive disriptive energy.... Just go home and board up your houses. If your next flood dirge didn't hit you: those pointu head scientist ddudes couldn't forecast when I just#uck got my home insurance canceled. No prob. This will work out. The Federal Government will find a way to subsidize where it was supid to rebuild a home.
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  2578. In what way were America not still preeminent among nations?
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  2579.  @portiawilcox3120  in your dreams
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  2580.  @portiawilcox3120  No, this was a partisan caucus, and only some 110K out of a State with a population of ca. 3M participated. Iowa is whiter, more evangelical, and farther to the right than the GOP electorate as a whole, let alone the electorate at large.
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  2581.  @firestream93  Actually, the polls worked out well. They propose a likely winner WITHIN A MARGIN OF ERROR. Trump won not one single battleground State beyond the margin of error in 2016. Just because you don't know how to read polls, doesn't mean they got it wrong.
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  2582. There is talk about of a "world war." The wars which many project to be (perhaps) likely to happen... unlikely would be fought on anything like a global scale.
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  2583. Alas, if Ukraine had hosted the 2022, Putin would not have invaded on Feb 24.
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  2584. Fascist barbie would still be alive if she hadn't engaged in treason on Jan 6. Rest In Piss.
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  2585. MTG and her ilk want to vacate the speakership because McCarthy isn't vicious enough. The Dems will hold their noses and save his position.
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  2586. He's trying to tear up the Constitution. I'd rather have someone ship jobs off to Bangledesh than ship our government to 1940 Germany.
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  2587.  @mordosamsonite5833  fun/interesting. Please avail to the world... these "available" founts of uncontaminated evidence. Do it now.
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  2588. You might be under-counting France's deterrence. The submarine fleet alone has 200 vectors, each of which is capable of delivering several capable devices. The Air Force has its own capability, but this has been de-emphasized over the last decades, and the land-based Plateau d''Albion had been decommissioned
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  2589. 9:41 We have almost two and a half centuries before Ttump, a mafia-mind, sat behind the Resolute Desk. Why is it that these concerns never before came before the Supremes?
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  2590. Isn't a black man, by definition... 'beyond the pale'...?
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  2591. Separate matter... toroidal propellers are likely to wound marine life less severely than conventional propellers - which essentially are fast spinning blades which can rip to shreds the skin of a manatee or a whale. Could toroidal blades also be useful for wind turbines? More than one proposed wind farm had been canceled because the locals opposed the noise the conventional turbines would generate.
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  2592. You are being un.necesdarily cruel toward Giuliani. Your duty as a reporter is: how far shall you violate the ethics standards of your profession ?
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  2593. Do people still call him "Mayor Pete?"
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  2594. Trump declares that he is the greatest President of all time, so it must be true?
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  2595. 0:55 'The dude is a wreck loose" ...yeah, like this is something of a change...
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  2596. +ExtantFrodo2 ..."Because hoarding would become impossible?" I can't tell if you wrote tongue-in-cheek, or gave us a puzzling non-sequitur.
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  2597.  @fuleinist  Nancy Pelosi has no say over any potential combat operations between PRC and ROC. Are you sure you're posting to the right group? You seem to be lost.
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  2598.  @DevonHensley211  As in many endeavours, you need to use scarce resources most effectively. All weapons systems have their own advantages and drawbacks (although some are heavy on drawbacks). It is best to prioritize according to capabilities and according to needs.
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  2599. We should have had widespread deployment of Thorium-based fission reactors by now while waiting for fusion.
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  2600. Blinken is a non-military government minister in a cabinet itself subject to popular will through fair and free verifiable elections. Putin has made himself immune from these concerns.
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  2601. When disapproval of the government can result in death , there were perhaps fewer voices of dissent.
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  2602. How hard will the GOP fight against the concept of equal Justice before the Law?
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  2603. There is a double standard at play: Trump is not behind bars.
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  2604. This WSJ video is a hit piece. Both Biden and Trump were illegally in possession of restricted documentd; Biden complied with the investigation, Trump did everything might to thwart it. Yet WSJ gives Trump even another platform to spout false martyrdom.
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  2605. Dutch agriculture is primarily based on high input / high value products. If all Dutch farms were wiped off the face of the earth: there would be fewer hothouse tomatoes for European tables, but nobody would starve for lack of food.
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  2606.  @katadam2186  Let's be clear: CRT is only taught as part of some courses in some law schools - that's it. ESG has been implemented in a number of corporations for many years, driven by expectations of investors. If you are against capitalism, just say so. The current high levels of inflation are felt all over the world. It is higher than in the EU, in Britain, and is currently falling. The main drivers of inflation are food commodities such as wheat, as a result of Russia's blockade of Ukrainian exports; fuel costs, driven by sharp increases in Brent and WTI; and supply chain constraints causing a shortfall compared with demand. Anyway, Neither Biden nor any other Presidernttcan do much about inflation - it's the job of the Federal Reserve to manage it. The last time a President tried to tackle inflation was when Nixon imposed wage and price controls, it was a disaster.
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  2607.  @katadam2186  Do you prefer spouting slogans or are you capable of formulating a coherent argument?
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  2608.  @katadam2186  Your English diction is improving.
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  2609.  @oscarvanwalstijn6902  In January. inflation was 2.9% in France, 4.9% in Germany, 5.5% in the UK, 0.5% in Japan. Since the war started, inflation has at least doubled in all of these, except Japan - where it's 13 times higher.
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  2610.  @oscarvanwalstijn6902  I was waiting for when men in white gowns with butterfly nets might cart out that goofball for spewing this insane rant.
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  2611.  @oscarvanwalstijn6902  I have just posted a reply to that YT video. Had you ever seen the movie, "It's A Beautiful Life?" It's a Xmas classic, often played on TV at this time of year... and a good introduction to fractional lending.
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  2612.  @oscarvanwalstijn6902  Dutch farmers do not produce significant amounts of high-calorie crops. The Dutch ideal model for agriculture business is to offer specialty produce, although, of course, some farms are not there. I find it interesting that nobody in this thread had bothered to mention that these 3000 farms are under threat... of being acquired with compensation, not just "close down and go to hell".
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  2613. hat a relief that someone is at least partially in agreement with me. In the space of 2 days, the Fed pumped 50 trillion dollars into the financial system, by dumping cash into major banks in exchange for their obligatory issuance of commensurate financial paper... paid, as I had read, at an interest rate of 6%. The banks did not protest loudly.
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  2614.  @oscarvanwalstijn6902  I'm not Dutch like you - but if I were living in the Netherlands, I would have noticed that inflation there had accelerated rapidly in the wake of Putin's aggressive war. Just because one is not Dutch, it does not mean that you might necessarily know more about a topic than some other person who has access to data. Better keyed in to Dutch folk music? I'm not there; Into the rap scene in A'dam? I'm not there. Able to parse statistics? Give me a spin.
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  2615. Historically it has done both. Deal with it.
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  2616. ​ @Instant_Nerf so what?
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  2617. ​ @conniegilchrist6925 we have a mire to tread. An immediate question is: had Trump engaged in insurrection? That's not an appropriate question AFAIK at this stage. States have their several Constitutions. Let's see what SCOTUS has to say, with or without corrupt Thomas.
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  2618. ​​ @conniegilchrist6925 the Edict of the Coach Horses had promulgated that investigative efforts fall under Royal authority.
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  2619. At a basic level, i does not matter if the documents were classified or not: these were subject to to the Presidential Records Act, and Trump should have been in possession of none of them. Assuming these documents had been declassified: there is a procedure for that - part of which is to inform the National Archives that these had been declassified. Declassified government documents are subject to disclosure under FOIA. It is unlikely that recent HUMINT compartmented information would have been given over to public scrutiny at the mortal peril of our human intelligence assets.
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  2620. ​​​​ @rouz0 how so? Bankruptcy does not occur when the subject's assets far exceed its liabilities, and subject can obtain covering loans. What might you have omitted in your assessment?
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  2621. You derived this 4% from... where? Please reference your sources. Some doubt might linger over the feasibility of rapidly increasing by almost double the military-devoted economy, absent a shooting war. Your reply is gladly expected.
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  2622.  @timonsolus  The US noteline defense stance includes defence aptitudes beyond NATO' s area of expression. Might we see more clarity on that American veterans (bless them) have their health care incorporated into Veterans Administration, then into Defense administration numbers. When a soldier from European NATIO rosters off for illness or disability, that cost generally shall revert to the Country's civil cost medical system.
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  2623.  @timonsolus  I sought not to interfere with your political mind.
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  2624.  @jackb2491  had you assessed the total assets on the other side of the ledger? I doubt it .
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  2625.  @timonsolus  the geopolitical crises were at more of a knife-edge in 1962, in which Britain was, at most, a bit player. You advance false equivalents, and supposedly hope to promote whatever false rhetoric then ought prosecute your brutal, vicious, ideology.
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  2626.  @timonsolus  My dad was an expatriate executive. We moved to London, up OKR and still saw wounds and destruction. That was 1969. I reveled in my first rock concert, I had my first snog... I came of age in London. I am not British, but UK politics do not escape them for whom I still care.
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  2627. What is the GGP? This is not something familiar to them among us who had studied Economics and went on to graduate. Still, it's an evolving discipline, and should be open to new concepts. Might you please expand on your novel proposition?
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  2628.  @daveberry2177  Stay calm, the effects will pass. Remain hydrated.
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  2629. This is an anti-profit business. Musk made it so that elements in opposition to a democratic society shall there find a home to funnel lies, hatred, and blood-of-soil propaganda. , "Jews will not replace us"... about time you dufus marching idiots figured out that two percent of the population is unlikely to displace the other 98%.
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  2630. I wonder why nobody wrote a song about Melania, "That's Why The Lady is A Trump."
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  2631. Old Soviet saying: the future is certain, but the past is unpredictable.
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  2632.  @donna8243  most voters -along the political spectrum - are not the Mr. Spock of Star Trek. Over a long period of time, opinion polls in the US have found that Americans are some 20 % more likely to approve of 'capital punishment', than 'the death penalty'... even though they are the same thing. The sanitized version triggers less opposition, the result of human emotions. It was Hitler's manipulation of human emotions which fueled his rise to power.
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  2633. Trump is more authentic than Nikki - and, BTW, a shout out to whoever devised "pick Nikli". That was an excellent propaganda '!, but was not sufficient as of this writing.
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  2634. If the left only knows how to destroy, how come the creatives are mostly on the left?
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  2635. OTAN en emporte Levant
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  2636. The wife of Caesar should be above reproach.
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  2637. 27M people without healthcare insurance is especially worrying with the threat of a corona virus pandemic. Visits to the doctor can be prohibitively expensive when you're already struggling with either paying the rent or putting food on the table. Many uninsured people won't go to the doctor unless their situation deteriorates to a critical level. Before that threshold is reached, they can be highly infectious and put everyone else in jeopardy. However we get it - we need at least basic universal health care.
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  2638. Now that you managed to post idle slogans (/some more 'idol' than 'idle')... might you evolve from your fantasy into a framework of reality?
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  2639.  @TheHugeDwarf  RFK ... Junior. I stashed my mom's (then) Sony mini TV and watched the California returns coverage on CBS, way past my bedtime.. I was as soon aware of Bobby's assassination as anyone on broadcast. We lost a man of integrity. He had gone out to areas of poverty and deprivation; Junior still seems to inflict medically unacceptable disease and death, in defiance of his father's reach toward mercy.
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  2640.  @TheHugeDwarf  the Republic should easily deal with an RFK zombie President; Trump has vowed to dissolve the common consensus established from since Walter Cronkite was a cub reporter.. Trump gladly will become known as a zombie, as long as he can make his newly-transformed mental slaves believe that he is Top Dog zombie.
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  2641.  @TheHugeDwarf  hey you!
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  2642.  @MrWannabeartist  You were bitten by a zombie.
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  2643. Now we can read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", instead of "Special Military Operations and Peace".
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  2644. Are we now... might we ever celebrate... Bleak History Month? Bleak lives matter.
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  2645. Anything else you want to hang on this christmas tree?
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  2646.  @PlayNooB_OFC  You are having fun, aren't you? And, as you stay perky - "Russia" does not exist as a country.
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  2647. Your timing is off. My first Burn was in '95, and tickets were$35.
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  2648. Elon is supposed to be this blazing brilliant technical guy maybe he is. He is also put forward as a savvy business leader. However, presiding over the Cabinet last week, he projected that the budget he loves, one which will drill America's finances another $3trillion into the hole, is unsustainable - therefore, cuts down to the bone must be made to programs everyday Americans rely on, every day. Billionaires might talk about the price of eggs, then laugh because they never bought a dozen eggs since college - or EVER. Give us a break. Even if you won't share your enormous wealth...at least shut up and let us get along with our lives.
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  2649. Switzerland had not "embraced pacifism". It was heavily militarized on a personal combat need. Friends we had come to know, had military weaponry at home This sort of deterrencce might have some dissuasive effect on Putin? Not that he cares about human suffering
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  2650. ​ @helenamcginty4920  J. M. Keynes had rebutted s detractor eho criticized him for changing his mind: when I receive new information, I change my position - what do you do, sir? (not sn exact quotation)
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  2651. ​ @godsblackpanther the supernatural is a disturbtion in your mind which can feel comfortable to manifest.
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  2652. Musk rats won't abandon ship.
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  2653.  @brandondavidson4085  Please consult legal authorities. Legal non-citizen (green card) residents AFAIK face less discrimination than you suspect. Many of them had paid into the system through general and payroll taxes for years, even decades, You don't preach unfairness, do you?
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  2654. Trump came into office with zero experience in public administration. His business experience is not trivial, granted; but he had not been subject to the rigors of having to manage best under shareholder discipline. His business acumen derives from real estate transactions where it is a zero-sum game... but both winners and losers dust themselves off to fight the next battle. Diplomacy, and international trade writ large, are diametrically different fields of action. Trump is friendlier toward autocrats than allies because that is his mental natural habitat.
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  2655. Were you referring to predators?
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  2656. Expliquez vous.
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  2657. The electorate seldom prevails on voting for the likely best option. Some vote with their heads; others vote with their hearts; the fundamental legitimacy is held by those who vote with their stomachs.
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  2658. How might a new government orifice trim government spending by more than targeted government spending?
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  2659. Bacon is NOT 4x more expensive than pre-pamdemic. Donny, get a grip.
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  2660. Quelles sont ces responsabilités? A ton avis?
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  2661. Trump doesn't give a damn about the American People, unless he can make them cost less.
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  2662. If you don't want to watch porn: don't watch it. Is that too intricate?
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  2663. Swift endorsed Biden in 2020
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  2664. The Republicans lost the national popular vote in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections, but gained the presidency 3 times. Something is rotten, and it's not in Denmark..-
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  2665. IMO that will not significantly help. This bout of strong inflation is mostly driven by a supply-constraint cost-push, rather than by a demand-pull, environment. Increasing prices through higher finance costs might not become the panacea we desire.
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  2666. Pourquoi
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  2667. Inflation in many prime asset classes has far outpaced CPI. There is severe inflation at the spending edge; but what do they
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  2668. "These countries are not sending us their finest// . Apart from the stupid notion Trump harbors that it's the countries sending people (they are not conscripts...) in many cases, YES!! they are losing their finest to emigration to the US. Africa is suffering from a severe 'brain-drain' where some of their best and brightest emigrate to the US. That Nigerian doctor who treated you in the ER did not come here on a whim, and ready to leave at the drop of a hat. I had worked with Mexican factories in northern Baja, and I kept hearing the same complaint from Management: 'it's hard to keep a good workforce, because the best workers have gone there' (as the manager pointed in the direction of San Diego.) The Mexicans who had the 'get up and go' had got up and left to the North. It defies understanding why Donald Trump would perpetuate his lies about immigrants, unless he had a specific deceptive electoral purpose.
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  2669.  @martin4819  The brain drain is underway. Sophisticated and well-educated Russians have sought exile in droves.
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  2670. Comment? Les Allemands n'en voudront plus du gaz russe, après avoir subi le chantage du Kremlin. En plus, comme Poutine annexera quatre oblasts ukrainiens demain à la suite de référendums fantoches, il est devenu politiquement impossible de reprendre des livraisons par Nordstream. Ces gazoducs sont désormais caduques.
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  2671. Musk bought Twitter - one of the most iconic brands ever - and then rebranded it as " X " for... reasons. That might not have been the savviest of all marketing initiatives.
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  2672. Can't we wait for further details before jumping to conclusions?
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  2673. Trump,at times, seems to have difficulty with object permanence.
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  2674. Don't shave. If America's new sweetheart, Taylor Swift, asked face-to-face to ditch my beard, that would be ok. If she insisted that I swallow a cup of broken glass, the answer might be, 'may I have some water to wash it down?'
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  2675. A good number of CinC's were unable to pass the physical exam for induction into active military service. What's your point???
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  2676. Constitution.
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  2677.  @SandraHale-ji7ig  Trump was a draft dodger. He got a convenient medical deferment out of military service which / arguably can have kept him out of a combat zone. A bone spur should not have kept him from being a desk jockey.
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  2678.  @SandraHale-ji7ig  because We the People chose our leaders. Trump's objective is: one citizen, one vote, one time, last time.
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  2679.  @pauljefferies9087  The Office of Commander in Chief is civilian. It supercedes and regulates the subordinate Commands of the military, including recruitment - with an asterisk to the civil Judiciary.
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  2680.  @Rifton.  Et Moscou sera frappé par 2 ogives nucléires de notre flotte sous marine.
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  2681. J.D.Vance sought to lecture Europeans on democracy, as while his Administration is doing its utmost to destroy the consensus of power between the executive, the legislative, anf the judiciary poles of power. Looking away from neo-nazis imvlided om government is NOT an infringement on civiic discourse.
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  2682. WARNING Censorship can be harmful to your
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  2683. Liberated from... what? You obviously are a Russian propaganda operative.
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  2684. Evil must be confronted. Maybe not everywhere, nor at all encounters; but that one time you might have been diverted elsewhere, another Hitler might gain ground.
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  2685.  @ruzziasht349  None of this should have happened. There is one person responsible - of the crime of aggression for certain: Vladimir Putin.
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  2686. Had this piece of garbage an awakening after Santos was expelled from the House?
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  2687. Sooner or later the Musk rats will nibble away your ankles, Quit while you're > a head. /s
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  2688. Solvay Regina.
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  2689. low-rent bobo will win that deep-red seat, providing us a lot of fun for the 2 years to come - your tax dollars hard at work
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  2690. You're not clear on the concept of treason, are you?
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  2691.  @richardtruthconquersall9226  Might you please rephrase that in coherent English?
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  2692. Many tanks have essentially been parked on the way to the Ukrainian capital... for lack of fuel. If your heat-seeking tank buster is designed to home in on warm engines: how do you disable those at rest?
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  2693.  @kiwibob223  I used to work in this area, you are teaching me nothing new. I sold a lot of ZnS and ZnSe FLIR materials - but thanks for playing.
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  2694.  @kimberlyaustin6677  I had not grasped that. Tx. I have become fearful of Trumpet desire to impose cost taxes on American kitchen talk to balance their budgets. I have aged out from signing checks to cover my import broker. Absolutely all import duties were passed on to the next chain of distribution. That is intrinsic inflation. Trump does not understand macro Economics; he only works out his deals
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  2695.  @hugoo1549  Weak, what, woke? If it bleeds, it leads. That IS an incentive to cast nasty news. How your Desk. pushes it out, depends on Santa Rupert. Grow a pair.
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  2696.  @MattieBRobinson  going back is retrograde. I shared some moments with an Asian-American total doll, passing through San Francisco. The Valley will probably heat like Hell's short order, that tends to suck in cool breeze. Welcome to San Fran .
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  2697. Might perhaps our digestive systems respond to produce rejecta manipulated to contain significant exploitable beneficial bioactive compounds? Our guts are superb and available bioreactors.
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  2698.  @KetanjibrownsFavemolester-n4p  the US currently produces more petroleum than any country, anywhere, at any time. What we import generally comes from friendly countries. Petroleum supply is not a raging issue.
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  2699.  @KetanjibrownsFavemolester-n4p  Do please think petroleum. Biden sold off large amounts of the strategic petroleum reserve as the price was in the high $70s and climbing; he bought back in the high $50s. If he were CEO of an oil company, the shareholders would have approved a huge bonus.
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  2700. Putin's going to Deaf Con 2
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  2701. Ce ne serait pas un drame - du moins, dans l'immédiat.
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  2702. If you are convicted of a weird crime, a weird sentence might remove that funny bone.
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  2703. Trump calls the Jan 6 insurrectionists... "hostages". Hostages are persons kept under control or in confinement in the expectation that they be exchanged for some reciprocated consideration of value. What value do Repugs expect DoJ to require in exchange for the "hostages?"
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  2704. Mike Lindell might think of organizing a celebrity pillow fight. I don't want to save his bacon, but worry about' the plight of his employees put in jeopardy by Mike's irrational behavior.
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  2705.  @gregh7457  For the most part, raw agricultural products fall under the administration of USDA. You went off on a twist against FDA, without understanding what the hell you were talking about; I worked through that dichotomy for over a decade.
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  2706.  @gregh7457  You have never worked in the agricultural import trade. You don't know what you're talking about. Get stuffed.
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  2707. Ooh... Are we heading towards Gaetsgate?
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  2708. If you're going to be in-country for some time, drink the water from a safe tap, Your gur biota are adapted to a very different mix of species; give them time to become acquainted
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  2709. ​ @notastone4832 troll
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  2710.  @Ford_prefect_42  If you recall, "alternative facts" is MAGA's stock in trade.
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  2711. Hogwash. Other popular web platforms are not under the thumb of a totalitarian adversary state. It's hard to imagine any similar measure garnering the required 2/3 support in Congress . Get real.
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  2712. Sovereign state actors will do what they will do. Generally there is no effective judicial restraint.
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  2713. @ h0ser 05:07 Why the MOTHERFUCK did you have your symbol for a Greek vessel hoist the French flag when the Somali pirates came aboard?
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  2714. Florida has its own procedures for selecting its House of legerdemain.
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  2715. In surveys, Americans consistently approve "capital punishment" by a much larger margin than "the death penalty".
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  2716. We have been visited by sexually transmitted diseases to the extent that you might be relieved that it were merely syphilis. Stay safe.
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  2717. The Stupreme Court has made overt corruption more legally permissible - "Justice" Thomas was a pathfinder in vrime.
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  2718. Edith Kennedy was a patriot, but never needed to pretend be Rambo.
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  2719. NATO is a defensive alliance. A defensive alliance is only threatening if it might thwart your own offensive ambitions.
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  2720. BRAKING: not a lot of new knews.
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  2721. Musk you ask?
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  2722. Was MTG too racist to bring a vuvungzela to her shelf?
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  2723. You make Donald Rump sound smarter then his actions suggest. Take a deep breath.
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  2724.  @Despotez  Keep playing your despotic music.
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  2725.  @AKAHEIZER  Rome might be the most successful military in history.
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  2726. @Turkeysammich3000  you have had free reign ito present your case. Thank you for your advocacy.
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  2727. @Turkeysammich3000  in what configuration might this be exemplary?
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  2728. The primaries are theoretically private machinations within a political party; yet they engage the efforts and the costs afforded by (state) governmental entities. Discuss.
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  2729. Only one of the Ten Amendments in the Bill of Rights contains an explanatory preamble clause, whereby the need for the right to bear arms clearly is contingent on the need for a well-regulated militia. This, when there was severe disapproval of a strong Federal armed force, in memory of armies which were used as the playthings of monarchs - which we had ditched. Scalia and his confederates decided that a bare minimalist interpretation must condemn us to mass shootings, because of his minimalist intellect. Let's see if our Supremes uphold that the word is the word, as we have so often been given The Bird.
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  2730. The ActSys of influence.
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  2731. CCP is a power structure which maintains its power lately through a lack of between its People, and through those who rule it. Mao had decreed that all sparrows must be slaughtered as "enemies of the People" eating grain; sparrows killed more infestig bugs than the grain harvest could feed its People. Trump is no closer from massively idiotic policies. Import duties are not, NEVER ARE, paid by the exporter. These are levied upon the importer of record who then will try to reduce the balance-sheet by restoring sales cost margins. That is, the need to balance our Fiscal needs then shall be subject to a campaign to reduce fiscal inputs. Fighting the tobacco consumption can well be seen as a Social Good. It can also be recognized as a social quagmire. Trump's best terrain is to stay put, to stay quiet! That is not his moder
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  2732. Try this: what buttons can I push which will guarantee to get me hated? Pete Excess might have overstepped. Follow the rest of the video.
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  2733. What is the point of condemning the horrors of the past?
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  2734. A week at BM is cheaper than a week in Hawaii,which is welll within the budget of many in the middle class. I've costed it out. Give me a break about "the privileged".
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  2735. Another liberal accused of being a raisist.
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  2736. @Reuben grant-whatman It might help if you were more specific, or at least expressed yourself in common English.
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  2737. Latest results show that Trump's picks were massacred at the ballot box.
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  2738. Yeah, can you believe that Kennedy piece of crap? It took him longer to go back and forth rather tham pay attention to what the experts were trying to say.
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  2739.  @disf5178  If Kennedy were "trying to get to the heart of the abortion law issue", Kennedy would not have insisted on a yes/no answer, and instead would have listened to the experts testifying before him. Instead, Kennedy was merely trying to score political points. That yes/no demand is an old prosecutor's trick.
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  2740.  @lovestodesign  I have no idea what you're getting at. Some Marxists I had known were wonderful human beings; others were total pieces of crap.
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  2741.  @timothycorbitt5149  Sorry to have heard of that. Might you share details ?
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  2742.  @chucklesthered2338  in what manner might that depart from Murdoch's modus operandi?
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  2743.  @timothycorbitt5149  You seem to bear a grudge. Do tell.
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  2744. Braking News: Trump was found guilty on all charges. And now for something differently complete.
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  2745.  @robm838  Have you had the opportunity of studying the meaning of false equivalency?
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  2746.  @keith6371  Source? 8M sounds high - as in, much higher than the population of Lebanon, larger than the casualties inflicted by the US on both Germany and Japan during WWII. Some outrageous "statistics" are outrageous because they are false.
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  2747.  @keith6371  I never heard of "ajzerra" and google couldn't find it. Even if I had, I would expect closer defined references to let, me, and others, assess what you allege. If you had done due diligence and found a credible alternative source, you might be a bit believable. Extraordinary accusations require extraordinary proof. You fall far short... to say the least..
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  2748.  @robm838  Quite. You inserted a false equivalency into this discussion most likely in order to cause chaos.
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  2749.  @keith6371  ElBaradei is not a politician in any normal sense. He is a technocrat, former Director General of IAEA. As a Nobel laureate of high visibility, that lets him engage in politics opposed to Al Sisi, with far less fear of official mistreatment. At some point he can have said something about 1 M lives lost in Iraq - but what exactly had he said? What you still fail to grasp is that your credibility is contingent on your statements being verifiable. If you run a web search on ElBaradei, you will come up with over 3 weeks of continuous material to verify. And that’s assuming that you are not blowing smoke up an intimate orifice. Past that… US and allied forces were longest and deepest deployed in Iraq - also the most heavily populated Arabic land in that part of the world, east of the Jordan. If there were 1 M deaths there at the hands of Americans, it were extremely unlikely that another 7 M had perished among smaller population groups in the region. Before you vomit numbers to the world, do your homework. Others can, and embarrass you.
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  2750.  @robm838  If.
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  2751.  @robm838  There is a process under which errors are recognized, and can be corrected. In contrast, Chairman Mao not only is not taken to task for the tens of millions of brutal deaths under his "Great Leap Forward", you put that bastard's face on your currency.
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  2752.  @robm838  You are not the world. There are persisting circumstances and troubles. Move on at your caution.
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  2753.  @robm838  The Republic of China /Taiwan is free and prosperous. The quality of life is vastly higher than on the mainland. Mao's "mistakes" killed roughly 30 million at least. That shithead ordered that sparrows should be exterminated, because they ate grain. Idiot.
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  2754.  @robm838  "Harvard's study". Once again you fail to provide documentary evidence which can be accessed and verified. Meanwhile, Yale's study shows that 87% of Chinese residents are cannibals. I provided as much verification as you had, and is as credible,.
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  2755.  @robm838  These matters are entirely unrelated. There are many topics which are controversial, but also are not relevant. You might notice that I had not dragged UFO sightings into the mix (until now, haha). Mao has more blood on his hands than Hitler, but he is revered. His face is on the currency, for crying out loud.
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  2756.  @robm838  Mao is central to this thread. His little red book brainwashed hundreds of millions of minds, perhaps also yours.
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  2757. u later rise ​ @robm838 ​ Your own native, or familial, or cultural biases.... might sharply contrast with the intent of persons from a culture other than your own. You will not find comfort in this; If latrilitie rise to some position with international responsib
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  2758. ​ @robm838  Dou yatte sonna koto to ieta ka? / WTF? It more sounds like you sought to intimidate someone who likely had studied Japan since before you were born, but you sought to spin your personal views.
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  2759.  @robm838  If you suspect that nothing about Japan has do with age or humility: have some tea.
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  2760. Should there be a musk toxic warning label on perfumes and derivatives introduced into interstate commerce?
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  2761. Kids not talking to their douchebag dad? That's unheard of! /s
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  2762. What is the "Uteran wall"? Had you invented that as a matter of convenient distraction?
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  2763. G'day, mate. The charge in Law of Treason is very specifically and limitatively defied within the US Constitution itself. Those bastards can and will be charged under various statutes, but their [alleged] crimes do not meet the strict standards of Treason.
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  2764. Jokes can carry the day. Let's be more fun.
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  2765. Russian - then Soviet - then Russian again - was not an effective naval force. So some might say.
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  2766. ​ @JJS_11 As General Giap once commented: that might be true, but it is also irrelevant.
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  2767. @avet4521  I heard it from his lips, recorded. He had not indicated that he was referring another person. In my own life: I, too, cite others without attribution.
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  2768. I get tired of people who say that "America is bankrupt', and cite debt numbers. Proper bankruptcy must also balance assets against liabilities. The Federal Government possesses a huge fleet of vehicles, and lots of prime office space - not to mention the Grand Canyon.
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  2769. Where you burn men, eventually you will burn books.
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  2770.  @Suid-Afrika67  Keep wondering. You are unreasonable, and there is no easy remedy for that.
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  2771.  @mysticone1798  NATO is a defensive compact. Article 5 only comes into force when a member is attacked from the outside. Your perception is fundamentally invalid.
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  2772.  @jurijeckel4938  There is a large possibility that Russia will increasingly become unable to provide export products up to spec.
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  2773.  @jurijeckel4938  There has not been a large reaction to smile on Putin's war of aggression.
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  2774.  @jurijeckel4938  Show less.
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  2775. Shall we also consider hidden costs? Coal typically contains minute quantities of toxic or radioactive elements; but if you burn hundreds of thousands of tons of coal, you will release more radioactivity into the environment than Three Mile Island ever had. Coal-fired electric generation is coal-fired lung disease; but that is what economists call an 'externality' and hospital bills will not be costed in.
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  2776. Why not just not hold it?
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  2777. IMPEACH MUSK! Oh...wait...
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  2778. I watched patiently for some interesting and updated insight as to why Germany had achieved this success. There was no significant addition to the episode, "France Falls", ep.3 from the excellent series first aired on Thames Television (/London) about a half-century ago: "The World At War".
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  2779. ​ @T-Will-4554  BS
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  2780. Cry Sis, and let loose the dogs of war... That's what Putin did.
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  2781. As I recall, a head of the Federal Reserve was prohibited from saying "recession" - so, instead, he paraphased "banana".
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  2782. Cancer is better a fate than this war criminal deserves,
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  2783. Had Louisiana also settled the French content? The Ten Commandments can be expressed with different nuances / new wants. Trump clearly has ambitions of deification, and the crowd roars.
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  2784. Not a lot of known Taliban in the LA-TX coastal region with whom to reason. Beyond which, no Taliban cell control weather patterns.
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  2785.  @vinnyholiday9739  You are well placed to provide a valid opinion among the undeturd. How does it feel?
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  2786. Trump has publicly offered pardons to Jan 6 convicted insurrectionists. He thus gives comfort to insurrectionists. This is another element in amendment 14/3 which disqualify Donald Trump from holding any office of trust.
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  2787. Back in the days of the Vietnam War, young men subject to the draft got together in an open conspiracy to kill a bald eagle. They had no intention of killing a bird, but it was the lowest-level felony that would disqualify them from military service.
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  2788. @madreese69 Not so. Attempted murder is vigorously prosecuted.
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  2789.  @squirepepe8657  All reporting districts of Scotland solidly voted to remain in EU. How deep is your commitment to sovereignty?
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  2790.  @SonoftheAllfather  You know piddly little about the Soviet Union, or the European Union, or both.
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  2791. That's been a topic of late. There are experts who hold that the Abrams is a better tank than the Leopard 2, but yet concede that the M1 is very demanding in terms of maintenance, and is very thirsty. Leo2 is more fuel-efficient, and needs fewer technicians to keep it going.
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  2792. ​ @Democracy982 Deerb LOL.
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  2793. It's Kaliningrad, not Kalingrad
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  2794. For non-British readers: a 'chemist' would be a ';pharmacist' in the US.
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  2795.  @tgypoi  Are you the same 'Lord Monkton' who deceitfully presents himself at talks before a portcullis motif redolent of that in common usage by HM's civil service? Just asking.
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  2796. Swalwell has a 7 y..o.. who could out-debate Kristi Gnome in a fair exchange.
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  2797. Our English language can yield many strange episodes. A Vulcan might be stopped in his tracks if he overheard in a conversation: "he's his father." Language differences can provoke a lot of fun. What are your favourites? A common expression in French to say that you are befuddled... can be intimately sexual if translated word-for-word. I discourage this. A fine German chap was invited to a business dinner in Japan. .Friends coached him, but that did not work as needed. He wanted to describe the daughter of the company's Managing Director as 'kirei' - 'pretty' . He wrote it down IN GERMAN, and read it out in German... 'kirai' means: 'I don't like'. That dinner did not end well.
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  2798. Trump coasted to victory on the turnout of.ciizens harmed by rising prices. He is not up to the task, at least likely not within this Administration. Political legacy can be a bitch. Carter was President during an inherited severe economic crisis of painful inflation. He nominated Paul Volker, who stomped the problem.. becoming a solution under Reagan, who benefited without his hand in action.
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  2799. @RiaVersteeg  I have been around the World seven times, worked in six countries...but that might not satisfy you. Gaudete.
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  2800. @RiaVersteeg  Why would you suspect that I have "a deal"?
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  2801.  @RiaVersteeg  that essentially was my question for you
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  2802.  @RiaVersteeg  right back at you!
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  2803. @RiaVersteeg  I have lived on four continents. The rest of the world might be alien to me.
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  2804. Where one might tolerate stolen valor, another might grift his way out of bone spurs.
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  2805. For crying out loud. Trump recommends slapping a 10% tariff on all imports. He suspects that exporters pay that cost. That is massively false. As an importer,I had to sign the check which cleared the import duties imposed on goods entering these United States; however, I bore no burden on paying import duties into Korea when the buyer wanted California squid. Seems that Repug political commentators don't know jack about international trade.
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  2806. Back to the Future...
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  2807.  @egghead55425  say what you like, but I doubt that you had ever set foot even once in a tuna cannery.
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  2808. Pendant les annees 70 a Londres, la laiterie locale livrait tous les matins a domicile, ses laits aux abonnes - y compris ceux de Jersey, riches en creme / gold top... Miam! Notre "milkman" etait connu et respecte'.
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  2809.  @safersephiroth943  No babies were ever killed under Roe v. Wade, though fetuses had been terminated.s. It is indeed unfortunate that this rogue court, the latest 3 had committed perjury during their confirmation hearings, can ride roughshod over stare decisis.
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  2810.  @safersephiroth943  If they are not born: they are not babies, by definition. .RBG did not disagree with the outcome, she considered the ratio decidendi weaker than an alternative: she suggested a ruling protecting abortion rights would have been more durable if it had been based on the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution — in other words, if it had focused on gender equality rather than the right to privacy that the justices highlighted.
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  2811. InSantis thought he might win the hearts and minds of enough Americans by attacking The Mouse and evicting most contingent construction workers during a FL housing crisis. Maybe that might have worked if he had better retail charisma than a public toilet seat.
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  2812. It is remotely possible that Trump appoint a competent cabinet member.
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  2813. The Donald bragged about NYSE and other market indices... which are now roughly 50 percent higher than at any time during his administration. Oops!
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  2814. ​ @PierreCollette-b5c D'apres ce que j'ai lu, ce ne serait qu'une suggestion - et, entre parentheses -indigne.
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  2815. Tump has as much chance of winning California as Hitler has of entering the Gates of Heaven.
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  2816. Don't alt, don't tell.
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  2817. It's not communism, which (in most forms) involves the full or majority ownership of the means of production by the Stare.
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  2818. Thank you for this history It is immensely distressing; now we' might only fail to repea
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  2819. China's collapse likely shall feature a co-lapse. PRC's economy has become so deeply embedded with the rest of the world: that what hurts PRC, soon will hurt the rest of the World. And now we have an idiot about to impose massive tarriff harm on Americans who.buy from China.
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  2820. Entre,nous
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  2821.  @H.J.U.49  Russians have contributed significantly to humanity's knowledge. There is a stark difference between the Russians as a people, and the government.
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  2822. ​ @pgknippel for most employees, they will notice their paid taxes once a week / once a month / every fourth month if you're on salary.
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  2823. ​ @CalvinPiispanen  It does, indeed. Had you not noticed that the 2nd Amendment in the Bill of Rights, is the ONLY ONE bearing an explanatory preface. This justifies the right to bear arms in the context of a well-regulated militia; otherwise, the Constitution is silent.
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  2824. ​ @FirestoneX  murder, at some point, had become illegal. Best you might imagine: shall thad yielded.. Statistically, in the short-term,: - a boost in murders stats won't help
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  2825. A Trump Administration would be bad for Tesla: Project 2025 specifically promotes ICE vehicles. Musk's giving immense recurring contributions can also be bad for Tesla. Its customer base is overwhelmingly urban, which tend to vote blue - and the greener they are, the bluer they are. Funding the candidate despised by most of your potential customers... is not an astute maneuver.
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  2826. 07:39 BAE Systems is a British company, headquarters are in Farnborough, England (where they have the airshows)
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  2827. This might make good Press; I can not be stricken other than to worry as I credibly might read of disturbance within the marital couple of a major power commanding nuclear targets.
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  2828. Isn't Xi lovely?
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  2829. The New Testament is a political document. There were many other Testaments about, before the censorship of Nicea. These counted among them, the Gospel of Thomas. Unlike other Gospels, the Thomas was not "preachy" -none of the /thou must bla bla. Unincorporated/gnostic Testaments. might serve us better in our grasp to understand.
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  2830. Presidents are given credit, or downgraded, by the performance of the economy. The plain reality is that their capacity is functionally quite limited.
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  2831.  @Ran-33  Diamonds on the soles could have made a good tie-up. Boart is cheap. Paul Simon likely would not have participated.
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  2832. Your use of the term "crash" is inappropriate. When the Turkish lira plunged,that was a plunge, A crash is not some forex where the trade-weighted exchange rate does not fall by less than half in the space of, say, a month. The dollar is down, but far less than what economists would consider "a crash".
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  2833. The Republican Party held the White House and both chambers of Congress, plus a rigged Supreme Court. Yet they failed to fix'the border problem'. Do you want these bozos at the steering wheel?
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  2834. Republicans held the Presidency, the Senate, the House, the Stupreme Court... and failed to pass their legislative Constitution-buster. Why?
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  2835. There is severe competition for severest mistakes. One of them would be Hitler's declaration of war on the US in the wake of the Dec 7 attack on Pearl Harbor. The US was roused with fury and righteous anger, and might have channeled that exclusively at Japan; indeed, the fresh war stance might instead have diverted supplies to Britain under the false neutrality which prevailed up to that point.
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  2836. Oh, there is so much to unpack when you play the Family Freud.
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  2837. Warning! Trump won't just throw you under the bus - he'll charter the bus.
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  2838. ​ @mardellarowland5339 Would you hire someone presenting a diploma from "Trump University"? Before you answer, ponder the ramifications of angering the most powerful child ever known.
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  2839. Poland suffered horribly in the 1940s. It is inspiring that they stepped up in the 20202s. I can not hug the current Polish government, but I have great love for the people of Poland.
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  2840. That's like it just happened yesterday!
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  2841. "Dog bites man'' is not headline.
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  2842. ​ @mickaelndibu2922 calommie!
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  2843. Funnel + baby + anchor + Arizona... mix & match
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  2844. It can be very difficult for Generals to know that a toxic political war led incompetently is lost; it can be even more difficult for them to know that the other side has not yet won.
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  2845. c'est leur_e font de commerce
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  2846. This is not reflective of reality.
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  2847.  @Raptorman0909  you have a tuna Standard of Identity lodged within the.Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics Act. Why you continue to ignore it, is baffling.
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  2848.  @Raptorman0909  An ad hominem attack is not the proverbial last refuge of a scoundrel, but it is in the same vicinity. Given an absence of ability to refute your opponent in an argument: take down your opponent instead. That works in politics, but I am not running for office. You might find life more serene if you took the effort of becoming informed before spouting out.
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  2849.  @Raptorman0909  as to what the fellows in your silo think: frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
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  2850. +Bruce Wang Do you have any clear sense of the term, "fake""? The title is real. You might dispute its veracity or appropriateness, you might object to it on other grounds. As for its existence as a title, however - it is real.
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  2851.  @panpan581  Et mon cul, c'est du poulet.
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  2852.  @panpan581  Des le biguiningue
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  2853.  @boslancer-sergeant9500  Prussia was a powerful country in its own right. Many sovereign German states or statelets were not affiliated with, let alone part, of Prussia. Bavaria, for example, was its own sovereign kingdom. 'Kekistani patriot', you are vastly out of line - and that is a charitable way of describing your bizarre misinterpretation of history.
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  2854. It would have made sense for hunter-gatherer bands to have its members wake up during the night to stand watch and ensure safety for the group.
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  2855. Where, when, in what context? In the traditional Roman edict that your know your adversary, I had studied the Economics of the Soviet Union likely before you were born. You probably don't even now about Gosarbitrazh.
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  2856. @Neelinmact  the essence of Communism is: "from each according to his means, to each according to his needs". That shares roots with early Christianity. Communism then evolved into iterations which fundamentally split from the initial inspired message. I have always opposed those divergences. As an Econ graduate, I recognize that some accumulation of capital is needed to get the economy going. As a citizen, I find it difficult to accept that wealth is what shall determine how much your voice were more valid than mine.
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  2857.  @OptimusPrinceps_Augustus  They are human beings with family and friends. Yes, they can be seen as geopolitical opponents. On second thought... What, if any, is Your second thought? As Gandhi admonished us: an eye for an eye will leave the world blind.
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  2858.  @OptimusPrinceps_Augustus  Cartago delenda est.
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  2859. Marjorie is such a compassionate human utxh.
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  2860. Presumption... that sounds a tad early. Why not wait for sumption, and then see what happens?
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  2861. Trump was MAGAnanymous in victory.
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  2862. No: the playbook had been in wide circulation more than seven decades ago.
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  2863. Sputin should go away with his tail between his legs.
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  2864.  @danielgoring1328  The biggest problem is persons like you, who mindlessly goof around with accusations of caviar, etc. at taxpayer expense. While caviar is expensive, a hundred times the entire world production would not amount to one dollar in 10 of the fiscal deficits incurred by the US, and much less than that.. Run the numbers, if you like. Get back to me if you have further concerns about the teeny entertainment budgets of our diplomatic corps. I never saw any caviar when I worked for the Department of Commerce.
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  2865. They declared marital law. Continue your disclosure.
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  2866. Why were it eerily flush that the Trump familiar most vehemently guided away from an honest debate? They are terrified by honesty.
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  2867. It is a rare delight to see Princess Catherine /Kate with her children. She is a ray of sunshine.
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  2868.  @Elee-yq2bf  Lived there for nearly a decade. There is nowhere sweeter than a lovely sunny day in a Sussex garden; the other 361 days are not to be recommended.
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  2869.  @peabase  Only, ever.
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  2870. Menthol health issues. Big Tobacco's transition to private choice
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  2871. The Press has not pushed back hard enough against Trump's BS that foreigners pay tarrif duties on impprted goods. How do I know this? Because I was an importer of record, and paid.
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  2872. Treason is one of the few crimes specifically defined within the Constitution. Much as I find Tucker-with-a-T Carlson a hideous waste of nutrients, his antics do not meet the Constitutional litmus test.
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  2873.  @makeit-takeit6707  HUAC did not survive legal nor moral scrutiny.
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  2874.  @makeit-takeit6707  Very glad. Be well, keep punching. Fascism must forever die.
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  2875.  @slowraceultra  Once again, treason is defined within the Constitution If you are unable to read, please have someone you trust to voice aloud such definitions so that maybe you finally understand - but no level of sound can overcome stupidity..
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  2876.  @bigtimer6074  My sense of being is not anchored on your propaganda.
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  2877.  @Thephilpw99  Case Law specifics?
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  2878. ​ @BiteTheCurbNow  Very funny. Not quote as accurate as asserting that all Republicans are pedophiles.
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  2879.  @BiteTheCurbNow  Matt Gaetz
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  2880.  @BiteTheCurbNow  I do not recall ever having typed the words" "Matt Gaetz" regarding your bizarre introduction of "border invasion" [sic], nor regarding the topic of this thread, sexual divergence by men in power: but you seem to be stuck on this, and no doubt will be able to regurgitate my words formerly expressed in some youtube forum. Provide your evidence, and be specific: do allow independent verification. Put up or shut up.
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  2881.  @neutronbomb1000  Kissinger speaking in hyperbole? How else did he communicate, apart from ordering off a menu?
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  2882. It was 'polls'
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  2883. The definition of a sleazeball is someone who would marry Taylor Swift for her money
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  2884.  @manbearpig9911  Have you forgotten to take your meds? Reality is still there, in case you woant to rejoin it.
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  2885. A side bar.. Alabama's Supreme Court has opinef that frozen embryoes somehow were "children". Believe it or not
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  2886. Musk seems bewildered that some people might hate him, and burn down some cybertrucks. If you were brilliant in your field, taking on massive student debt to get to the point where finally you might serve you nation... then get summarily eliminated by some snot-nosed muskrat barely beyond puberty and who has no idea what you do... That might push someone past the bend.
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  2887. Kennedy said he wanted to get the witness' opinion, and admitted that he believes it was a yes/no question. The 4 witnesses obviously did not agree that it was a yes/no question. When they tried to give Kennedy their opinions, he cut them off. Trapping someone into a yes/no question is an old prosecutor's trick, you should know. If the witnesses held that this were not a yes/no question: they would have been committing perjury, as they are sworn to tell the whole truth.
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  2888. Famous last were'ds: "what could possibly go wrong" ?
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  2889. Puck Futin.
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  2890.  @galacticwarlock2271  You might, in your own mind, consider your reply as something coherent. The rest of the world is not your mind.
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  2891. There is a similarity, in that Serbia had dominated what had been Yugoslavia - until it disintegrated; Russia had dominated what had been the Soviet Union - until it disintegrated. Both share a revanchist loss of status which can be hard to stomach.
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  2892. A soused Sec Def is not a appealing prospect, to say the least. That might come under control. My major worry is in his administrative abilities, IF ANY. He (reportedly) had severely mishandled two Veteran charities. Do we really want this man in charge of /maybe / the biggest focused budget our planet had ever known?
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  2893. Once the Special Master had weeded out birthday cards and privileged communications, whatever is left were likely to be quite harmful to Trump. Be careful what you wish for.
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  2894. Russian Command will make use of its forces as best it might. Cannon fodder has little military use, and becomes a draw on resources unless swiftly fed to the enemy cannons.
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  2895. It can have been a better conduit of learning if the documentary had been offered in bite-sizes.
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  2896. The 1/6 mob stormed the Capitol with the express purpose of interfering with the count of the Electoral College votes from the several States - which is the epitome of an official Federal proceeding. Maybe some were curious bystanders swept up in the moment... but that would be determined at trial.
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  2897. Carter was a nuclear engineer . Trump can barely tie his own shoelaces
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  2898. Les Russes on attaqué l'Ukraine. Un point, à la ligne.
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  2899. George Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize! Why pick on him?
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  2900. Tucker (with a "T") Carlson might be resentful against the Trans- community, because his family's Swanson frozen foods group had already banned trans-fat, and not gotten any brownie points? That might sound unlikely, might not be true... but where else would you send goofy conspiracy theories than to the Grand Master?
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  2901. Why let a. perfectly reasonable lie disturb this day's pomp and circumstance?
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  2902. This can be a personal thing. Musk is too pungent.
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  2903. America is a diverse society. My origins are northern and western European; among my friends are citizens of Middle-eastern, of African, of East-Asian descent. We are more mixed than fascist Trump pretends can be "contaminated" by the influx of migrants.
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  2904. NOT GUILCUP!
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  2905.  @madamefluffy4788  A lie repeated often enough and sincerely enough will become accepted as the truth. The Orange Bastard knows this.
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  2906.  @donutdan1508  You're just pointing out something irrelevant. Anyway, Nordstream was obsolete, since it would never be used again. Germany, Denmark, and Sweden each conducted formal investigations, but arrived at no conclusion. One possibility is that the sabotage was done by Ukrainians. Only a few small sections of pipeline had been destroyed, and could be repaired - but won't be: Germany will not buy Russian gas again.
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  2907. To beat back inflation, you must suppress flow of money. You can do this by suppressing the monetary mass, or the speed at which it circulates, or both. A major problem with monetary velocity is that: as that, as high inflation gets anchored in the spending psyche, people will increasingly seek to spend their money ASAP, before it loses value to inflation. This behavior worsens inflation. The monetary mass can be tightened by fiscal measures, i.e. taxes. A bonus is that it can help redress a fiscal deficit.. A rational society would endeavor to make sure that those who least can afford it, get the lest hurt by enhanced taxes.
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  2908.  @MyDruidess  "communist blue"? You truly are deluded and/or uneducated.
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  2909. Rebounding somewhat from a covid-induced recession, there have been severe production dislocations across industries and throughout the world. This has nothing to do with "extreme environmentalism".
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  2910. Was Trump ever hinged?
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  2911. Why call our new Speaker an "election deniar"? He knows that there had been an election.
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  2912.  @user-oi8cj9gc4o  No, you don't. It is perfectly possible to live your life without an ID. Trump had said that you need an ID to shop for groceries - false. Granted you might be unable to maintain YOUR lifestyle without an ID - but other people have other lives. The fact that there ate people who don't have an ID and never had one, disproves your assertion. Recently a show on PBS had featured an innocent man who was jailed for decades and finally released - without ID, and he can't get one because of bureaucratic inertia. Should he also be denied the right to vote?
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  2913.  @ericking9547  "you need an ID for literally EVERYTHING " False.
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  2914. @Brobold Because you're a citizen.
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  2915.  @samdherring  It can be an issue. "The fee is small" - but if you're poor, even a small fee can be significant. If you can't even afford food, a "small fee: can be prohibitive. Bear in mind also that not all citizens have the mobility and savvy you have which will let them navigate the processes to obtain an ID.
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  2916.  @user-oi8cj9gc4o  For some people, it is. Some people have limited mobility, for example. The fact that you don't care about ensuring someone's right to vote is a stain on your supposed patriotism.
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  2917.  @user-oi8cj9gc4o  You seem to fall under the spell of a myth of voter impersonation. This is immensely rare. The Brennan Center for Justice had analyzed the matter and their conclusion is: "The report reviewed elections that had been meticulously studied for voter fraud, and found incident rates between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent." ...which stands to reason. The penalties for voter impersonation are severe, whereas the potential gains from doing so successfully are trivial.
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  2918.  @user-oi8cj9gc4o  You fail to exercise the cognitive capacity given to you at birth. The penalties for voter impersonation are severe, the potential gains from doing so successfully are trivial. Hence, the incidence of such fraud is beyond negligible. A retail conspiracy to carry out such voter fraud sufficient to sway an election is utterly improbable.
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  2919.  @ericking9547  What sources are acceptable to your proto-nazi sensibilities?
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  2920.  @user-oi8cj9gc4o  You express a false analogy. Murder occurs - but most often as a consequence of powerful issues which drive the human psyche. Murders often happen in the heat of the moment - but very few will vote in the heat of the moment. If you get caught impersonating a voter, you will do hard time. Because our system is set up that you vote in your precinct, the odds that someone from your neighborhood will identify you as fraudulent are not insignificant.
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  2921.  @ericking9547  You had triggered a visceral reaction rejecting your BS belittlement of of the Brennan Center. As D, P, Moynihan said: you have the right to your own opinion, but not to your own facts If the barb stings: consider that it might have been deserved. I recognize the pattern.
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  2922.  @user-oi8cj9gc4o  People register to vote. At that time, there is a strong opportunity to deny a registration.
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  2923.  @ericking9547  Monetary cost is only part of the mix; there also is inconvenience. DMVs are typically closed on the weekends - which means that someone who already is struggling to survive on minimum wage, would have to sacrifice vital wage hours just to wait around to get an ID. There are citizens among the Navajo who live an hour's drive from the nearest post office - let alone from the nearest DMV.. Applying for an ID might be inconvenient for you and me - but immensely costly for others among our People.
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  2924. @Brobold We are citizens. We have the right. We have the right to be wrong, or stupid, or even to support Trump - but IT IS A RIGHT. Government of the people, for the people, by the people.
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  2925.  @PvMFrosties  14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.
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  2926. @Brobold To your point: we've had 4 years of Trump administration. QED score for you..
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  2927. @Brobold Continuing a strong economic trend is not a mark of remarkable competence.
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  2928.  @user-oi8cj9gc4o  You want to fix a problem which does not exist. I won't waste my time doing so.
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  2929.  @user-oi8cj9gc4o  There is scant wisdom in trying to fix a problem which does not exist.
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  2930. Hmmm.. some infrared transmissible optical materials, such as zinc selenide, are particularly efficient in the 8-12 micron range. Eventually we might use them to beam excess generated heat directly out into space?.
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  2931. I would be delighted if the UK would trade freely under the common mark. EU regulations can seem arbitrary; and UK regulations prior to accession were pure as driven snow.
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  2932. The predecessor of the EEC was the ECSC. That was a market in common, but one highly limited in scope. Your interpretation of Thatcher's motives is entertaining.
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  2933. EEC GAD!!
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  2934.  @JF-xq6fr  Industry secret: vegetable broth helps the fish to retain weight.
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  2935. ORDURE IN THE COURT!
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  2936. Something else which troubles me, is that none of the principals saw Goldberg's name, and asked ,"who is that?" The different ways the Administration spins this affair will be known as 'the Goldberg variations'!
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  2937. You are not best in your wheelhouse when it comes to history, are you,? Russians like to pretend that they beat the Nazis all alone in WWII, meanwhile, the Western Allies were shipping immense amounts of supplies past Norway to Murmansk and Arkangelsk. In just one item of American support, we delivered ,16,000 supply trucks from Studebaker. The weaponry and food delivered by the northern convoys was immense, at t'he cost of many merchant mariner lives.
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  2938.  @FPSG  Capitalism is the exploitation of Man by his fellow man; Communism is the exact opposite
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  2939.  @michaelrmurphy2734  is he no longer South African?
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  2940.  @Cherish1056  such a sad man.
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  2941.  @Cherish1056  you must be close to him if that were the case. Thee is a raft of celebrities who were less than happy. Rosebud.
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  2942.  @Cherish1056  Not mutually exclusive; why is his diction so intermixed with harsh rhetoric on his owned internet magnificence? BTW if you have hard-core jokes or views detrimental to minorities: shut up.
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  2943.  @Cherish1056  does a billionaire have greater a right to free speech?
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  2944. @@user-xi9bo6pi4b unReal (TM) persons also can hear, and reject, her vicious bullshit.
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  2945. They came from Asia, but that was some 13-14,000 years ago. Also, they were not necessarily coastal Asians who would have had access to seaweeds as a food source.
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  2946. JD has a hideous footprint. A major problem is that JD has felt comfortable with eliminating whatever lives displeases him... aren't covered under the Declaration of Independence. He has yet to go sofar as to propose a national plan for national births. Lebensborrn
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  2947. PragerU is not a university. If it were, perhaps the producer might have been told that Columbus was from Genoa, and not have given him a Spanish accent. A son of Italy would have been able to pronounce a word beginning in 'st-', unlike many speakers of Spanish who often need to say 'est-'. Stupido is as estupido does.
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  2948. Think outside the ' Boks
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  2949. ​ @Mumwel You lack integrity.
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  2950. ​ @jimmyc974  the People of Ukraine preferred to be free within European space, instead of being enslaved by Moscow.. How much more do you need?
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  2951. Point of order: there was no ' violation of Article 3 of the Constitution".(approx 0:42). Argued is: if Trump violated Article 3 of the 14th Amendment.
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  2952. When all other forms of communication shut down during an emergency, radio is still available. Stay active
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  2953.  @timblackwood1531  Your willingness to look the other way has made you complicit in war crimes.
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  2954.  @user-gk9lg5sp4y  Her daddy is not Elmer Gantry. Well, not quite.
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  2955.  @9liker  Teens old enough to serve booze, but not to drink it. What could possibly go wrong?
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  2956. An "emergency" implies the existence of sudden clear and present danger. A situation which allegedly were a problem, but which were chronic in nature, can hardly be termed "an emergency".
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  2957.  @Kenionatus  Combat usually would qualify as an emergency.
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  2958.  @JABelms  Maybe the T-72 should be marked 'not fit for combat', no matter how well maintained. The armor of the roof of the turret is rather thin, and is vulnerable to attack by NLAWs and Javelins, which had been designed to attack from above. A design error had placed the munitions auto-loader in such a way that a hard blast (does not even need to penetrate) can set off the munitions, resulting in the "jack in the box" phenomenon. A grenade dropped from a drone has even been documented to wipe out a T-72.
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  2959.  @TrangleC  According to Wikipedia, the Bundeswehr has 183,638 active personnel (28 February 2022). Other modern militaries also have fewer divisions in their order of battle relative to total personnel, because there have been reorganizations to establish smaller and more nimbly deployable units below divisional level.
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  2960. Russia is already exerting as much malice on Ukraine as it can afford. Hollow threats need to be ignored.
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  2961. Brit hume once was an honourable journalist. What happened?
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  2962. Done.
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  2963. At RNC, we might wonder what shall be seen off an order of Donor kebab.
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  2964.  @Whitedragun7  The more interesting possibility is that the Donald, or other insiders, testify during the discovery phase.
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  2965. This aggression was an immense mistake, and Putin is incapable of admitting a mistake.
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  2966.  @adlucem9845  There were no American ground forces capable of threatening Russia from eastern Europe before Russia attacked Ukraine with absolutely no justification. Whatever junk is being fed into your head, you might like to check out the other side, or at least a few neutral sources Think it over: if he US had significant forces in Ukraine, would you not expect that Russia's offensive shall have.turned out even worse?
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  2967. Russia's economy is heavily dependent on the export of raw materials. Their transformation manufacturing sector is anemic. Given the high level of education granted to Russian children, their economy ought to be far more prosperous. This mismatch hints at major dysfunction among Russia''s economic capabilities.
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  2968.  @adlucem9845  I ponder why had you taken so much effort to write so much disjointed garbage? Yet, as a single man, I would enjoy meeting Euromaidens. Do please follow up on this point, in due time.
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  2969.  @PSA78  The choice of deployment often is influenced by politics, but generally the choice of combat aircraft will be limited to the options which can fulfill the required roles.
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  2970. Gillcup!
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  2971. /it might be the end of the beginning. (Churchill)
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  2972. 4:38 the NFL has a bigger turnover than the GDP of most countries seated at the United Nations. Owners of its teams often notoriously hate one another, nor are they all card-carrying Democrats. There are stupid conspiracy theories, and REALLY stupid conspiracy theories. This one goes a step farther. As of mid-May, Taylor Swift has not yet endorsed a presidential candidate.
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  2973. The 'not heavy enough' matter is significant. The ban on landmines only covers anti-personnel mines; anti-tank mines are allowed. You can jump on them safely.
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  2974. Easy: they disregard His children, and pocket the difference.
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  2975. It's unlikely that Canada could join the United States. They had rejected that more than two centuries ago. Canada is not just America... only more polite. They have their own way of living in this complex world. They have their own history. Roughly one in five Canadians use French as their main language. Donald, how do you propose to integrate them into an enlarged American community? Canadians have a higher tolerance for government-endowed compassion. Donald, how would you propose to make Canadians more indifferent?
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  2976. A small store in my neighborhood had a small sign in the corner of its front window: Let's take a moment to remember the school children who gave their lives to protect our right to bear arms
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  2977. Nous avons des sentiments bien calins pour nos cousins du Canada!
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  2978. Trump l'oeil: THAT's his brand.
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  2979. Deporting some from the labour force during a labour shortage, might not be a best solution. Food won't be picked.
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  2980.  天月🌚  Hey, Heaven Moon, The Azov Battalion had been proto-fascist at its inception. Since then, it had been integrated into Ukraine's army, nasty elements had been kicked out, and regular recruits have been added in numbers more than sufficient to dilute the remaining right-wing cornholes, and command had been transferred to a regular army officer. Would you like to be known today for your toilet habits as a toddler? Same comparison.
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  2981. NATO's front-line allies abutting against Russia, are spending well north of the consensual 2% threshold. Poland and Lithuania both have budgeted at least 4% of GDP to defense (higher than US levels).
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  2982.  @grimaffiliations3671  Moreover, the immense majority of that yen-denominated debt has come from domestic savings.
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  2983. Fox off!
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  2984.  @1ambrose100  WWI was fought on. or engaged, countries and territories on all inhabited continents; The same is true of WWII. The putative WWIII you suggest will not be so global.
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  2985. My personal Remembrace has, by my own tradition, to declaim in public: Wilfred Owen's master poem, "Dulce Et Decorum Est". This November has begun too depressing for even that.
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  2986. Approx 01:30 "Here in the United States we use 5 or 6 times more energy per person than anywhere else in the world". That is a load of crap. Energy usage per-capita is fairly comparable in Canada, and is rather high also in Australia and western Europe. Do the Germans or the Belgians use 5x less energy than Americans? They're more frugal and more efficient, but nowhere near by that much. Approx 02:55 "If Thomas Edison walked into a modern substation, he'd feel very much at home." Maybe not. Our power grid runs on AC, while instead Edison promoted DC til his dying breath.
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  2987.  @nikkbouchez7394  The more accurate term is "variolation'.Vaccination involved introducing cowpox pathogens into the patient, while variolation did so with a smallpox. I had not seen any supporting evidence that Washington had issued such command . A) variolation typically disabled a person for days, at the least, and there was a risk of death B) for most of his tenure in command, one of Washington's major troubles was desertion among the ranks..Forcing often uneducated troops to undergo the procedure would risk seeing them head for home. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I'm not saying that it didn't happen, but it does seem very unlikely.
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  2988.  @billcasey9672  A Nikk Bouchez correctly noted, there was an inoculation technique for smallpox before vaccination came around. It temporarily debilitated the patient, and as I recall from years back, it carried a mortality rate of about 2%. It's not a lie as such - I find it unlikely on balance, unless there were a major epidemic happening.
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  2989.  @nikkbouchez7394  "he wanted to begin inoccuations" is not the same as mandating, as you hear at approx 03:25
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  2990. You most def never came close to attending a course in astrophysics.
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  2991. Est'ce que nous sommes plus dépendants des Russes, que l'inverse? Ils ont besoin du fric occidental.
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  2992. Lindsey most likely will throw a tantrump over these alliegations.
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  2993. A duly sworn In Vice President can't be removed by the President - only Congress can do so.
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  2994.  @teemuvesala9575  Are you aware that the US armed forces are all-volunteer, and have been so since the 1970s?
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  2995. ​ @phillcasedy2228  Why do you find it so hard that people who are well trained know what they're doing ... are better than those who don't? BTW, shooting a gun is not the only thing soldier does. For starter, knowing how to reduce your chances of getting shot can be helpful. Many modern weapons systems are technically complex, which is a reason why many armies won't accept school dropouts.
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  2996.  @phillcasedy2228  "Well first off, Im not talking about people with no experience against trained soldiers, Im talking about conscripts". Under most contexts, it is very rare for conscripts to be fielded against intensely trained soldiers. They don't often fare well when this occurs. The Brits - a professional army force - made short order of the Argentinian forces in the Falklands. The Argies were brave men, but mismatched. What you might not have considered, is that coordination and unit cohesion are very important factors in ground combat. These are harder to achieve in units where soldiers come and go according to the variables of conscription bureaucracy.
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  2997. GFU.
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  2998.  @StillSaber  I would avoid a stupid question.
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  2999.  @juliemont.566  such a successful right-wing propaganda outlet hardly needs my supportive effort.
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  3000.  @user-od9iz9cv1w  Canada is a brother to us, and has a set of own difficulties and choices. You might have your own d'angle.
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  3001.  @policerthought5649  July 7 is the 188th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 177 days remain until the end of the year.
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  3002.  @rickypen  That "entertainment" led to many deaths. No reasonable person participated in the Jan 6 coup attempt.
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  3003. When they go low, we accept to be screwed if we go hgh. Ideally that should not happen ln a considerate Republic - but do wee have one?
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  3004. Whales also take out your electric supply on a rainy day.
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  3005. How might one define or construct "peace talks" with an aggressor state which had initiated hostilities and yet offers no credible manner to end the conflict, other than its full victory? To hell with Russia. To HELL with Russia.
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  3006. Nous sommes fige's dans une hier-archie.
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  3007. Misinformation has no right to the Public Aware. Teach your children well.
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  3008. ​ @kelperdude put up or shut ip
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  3009. Let's start with the basics: Fox is a right-wing propaganda vehicle. Sometimes they misfire.
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  3010. Why had you chosen such an inflammatory headline for your video? Vas te faire mettre.
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  3011.  @isqueirus  If my neighbour pointed a machine gun at my door, I would stay away from my door as I dial 911.
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  3012. Oops. Official data posted an annual 4.9 percent growth rate. If that rate of economic expansion were "a recession"... what fury might a genuine "depression" look like?
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  3013. 7.62 put a round where I aimed it. I was assigned a 9 mm parabellum sub-machine gun because the rest of my squad could not handle it; then I was transferred to a desk job. Yeah.
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  3014. "La France" refers to the country. There was a beautiful ocean liner named 'France', and she was "le France" because a ship is masculine.
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  3015. Alabama:: you've got the rest of the Union to help you along
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  3016. You misunderstand the extent to which a nation/state can extract and divert resources for prosecuting war..
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  3017. You had previously been a glad source of information. PAST TENSE. unsubscribe
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  3018. @Sylenced1  the server fingers on his fries must have improved his bio immunity
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  3019. Grossomodo 9:30+, notre animatrice nous enseignat dans une diverge connaissance.
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  3020. All Presidents need some manner of shield where appropriate: urgent decisions might cause immense harm to the Nation if delayed out of worry / fear of litigation. I propose that such immunity decisions be limited to exigent circumstances.
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  3021. This is message in terror.
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  3022. IMPEACH MUSK!
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  3023. Making Canada another US State... probably will have had to incorporate French as an official language. As Trump declared English as the national language, there might be some area of poor plausibility.
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  3024. Donald Trump; speaking power to Truth.
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  3025. In days gone by, patriotism was spoken about in terms reverent of motherhood and apple pie. Now that Tucker -with-a-T Carlson has declared himself an enemy of motherhood... what has that piece of dreck have to say against apple pie? Stand by...
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  3026.  @zsuira  Early symptoms associated with the common cold often can instead be the precursors to worse from a severe disease. What's your point, if any?
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  3027.  @2risquejunior538  Is he a multi-millionaire? Unless he blew his generous prize money from many big-money tournaments and endorsements: Yes. Does he live in his own bubble? Yes Are others doing their best to make conditions safe for him? Yes. What the flux is your problem, 2risque Junior ?
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  3028. The UK might well expand establishment of Gurkha battalions.
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  3029. Please remember: not all Russians are evil.
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  3030. El Salvador has contracted with the United States -the Party of the first part, to deny parity in its contractual obligations under a contract worth some $6 million to shed imported "undesirables". Maybe some according flaw required that "all vermin" be expelled, before we might even give them due process under the Bill Rights. Which,NEXT YOU CAN PRESERVEVE it, Our planet can revive but maybe without us.
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  3031. Lawler is a pile of trash.
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  3032. 3:20 Fox shows favoritism toward Trump close to all the time. Wouldn't that, by the same token, make them similarly corrupt? Btw, Donald, you should be the LAST to cast stones regarding corruption.
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  3033. Nietzsche warned that: if you stare long enough into the abyss, soon enough you then fall in.
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  3034. I prefer not to comment on NDAs
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  3035. It took less that 48 hours for Vladimir Puta to declare what was the origin of the blast. Forensic science doesn't work that fast, especially in such a complex incident.
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  3036. I hate how that fascist calls all liberals "communist" Miler couldn't tell communism from astrology.
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  3037. You are very kind.
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  3038. Do not bend, fold, spindle, or mutilate. Not the operating principles of concentration camps.
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  3039. Tx for the cat scan. Cats can; but are not often best motivated.
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  3040. How can we better protect ourselves? Surviving after we melt is for later.
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  3041. On what basis?
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  3042.  @stultusvenator3233  Name these alleged crimes; you'll get bonus points for indicating the moments when allegedly Kevin condemned himself, however he and the TV network have formidable legal counsel. Go on, please be more specific.
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  3043. It's a surprise that (apparently) nobody wrote a song about Melania, 'That's Why The Lady Is A Trump'.
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  3044.  @abab-ml1ym  Why bless your employee?
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  3045. Scent and dissent are not level on some same plane.
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  3046. Is Putin still milking the Donald hotel PP tape?
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  3047.  @jobic4207  Russian airline maintenance staff are not by nature murderous. They will maintain the schedules and cannibalize parts where they can, or refuse to certify the maintenance.. Losing a plane outright because of an equipment failure is more expensive than not letting the craft fly - not to mention that the airline would become a pariah if things should return to the recent normal.
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  3048. This is the House Transportation Committee. It is no more reasonable to expect these persons testifying before the Committee to know the prevalence of CO2 in the atmosphere than for the average driver to know what is the percentage of carbon black in their tires.
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  3049. A President can't just walk into a convenience store and shoplift while the Secret Service looks on.
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  3050.  @pecquet-dubalaix8288  I always wait for tomorrow; come that day, I shall wait for the next.
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  3051.  @doylethelovely2555  FT is a British publisher.
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  3052. Sevens is exciting, but I still prefer classic Union.
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  3053. Many among you might harbor negative opinions about Burning Man. It is permissive,
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  3054. This might be more complex than your broadcast allows. Gunnar Myrdahl and others, had noted an immigrant vigor essentially: those who had the "got up and go", got up and left. The remainders must take less appropriate job choices .
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  3055. 7:03 no, I can't believe that Harris wears that outfit: because it is a deep fake. In his heart, Elon Musk might be smarter and more humane than his public sociavatar portrays.
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  3056. The bacterium seldom succeßfully infected unweakened humans; my train of thought was interrupted by the bizarre transposition of a 'double S' in English, into the host's transcription into a German single character resembling a letter B in most Western scripts. This perhaps were some inadvertant error. I can not so dismiss it, given a current of revisionist political tendencies There might be something 'under the hood' which might be kept from severe misdirection of a participant's genuine speech. It can be an inadvertant bug; it perhaps were symptomatic of worse a problem. Pre-1945 revisionist thought is on the rise, and worries some of democratic Germany's neighbors
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  3057. It has.
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  3058.  @wocky7940  You'd kick yourself for not having studied the immunology of rabies.
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  3059.  @davemarshall561  It has. We don't teach ,most of the population how to analyze statistics, alas.
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  3060. Blur videos. My Johnson ought not be shown - an 'ex - and I do mean "ex" - recommended that each male appendage resembled any other. Maybe - if you were a guy paying that much attention, you would have had your face punched into infinty. God bless lovely women who sometimes allow us to fall into their laps/lapse.
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  3061. BRICS was always an insecure concept. Why democratic India or Brazil might cast their lot in with authoritarian Russia or China, reflects that they are not being heard.
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  3062. Musk is pungent.
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  3063. One worry is that allies fail to trust Gabbard and hold back sensitive Intel for fear that it become compromised.
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  3064.  @j.f.fisher5318  Many governments have fallen from miscalculating what is possible.
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  3065. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. It has a future.
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  3066. If a President went to a QuikieMart and shoplifted his best beloved snacks: was that an official act if he were on a call with the Prime Minister of Pakistan?
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  3067. Marukatta de wa
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  3068. FDR turned out alright.
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  3069. Many investors will have to take a haircut; some will become clean-shaven. What they might otherwise have done with those evaporated funds, cani have a specific impact on your personal economy.
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  3070. Some had suggested that Trump was a joke; now he's becoming a punchline.
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  3071. I worked through the covid pandemic for the local Census office. We worked hard. There were many nights when I got home after 1 AM, having navigated some scary neighborhoods, night after night. We got the job done.
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  3072. ​ @marshalldreamer PR China recognized East and West Germany, continues to recognize North and South Korea; but two different China's? No, no, no.
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  3073.  @michaelguyea8970  Yes, we do. However, we do not u'se apos'trop'he's ou'tla'ndis'hl'y.
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  3074.  @marshalldreamer  There were two Germanies recognized and seated at the UN. There still are 2 Koreas at the UN. Why must China be different?
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  3075.  @gtfj6cheb  You most def can't rewrite the future..
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  3076.  @ronnelacido1711  you obviously have no sense of how severely the business climate had deteriorated since the handover.
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  3077. ​ @JoeBManco Project 2025 is a blueprint for fascism. It mirrors the way that the German civil service under the Weimar Republic had been gutted once Hitler assumed the Chancellorship, in favor of Nazi Party loyalists - regardless of competence or expertise. Project 2025 is replicating a 1930's Nazi playbook, but while hiding its "white" racial imperative.
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  3078. VOX POPULI VOX DEI
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  3079. And there remain a fear if there were introduced a men's irae
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  3080. Shall Monica adhere / metaphorically / to Asimov's Laws of robotics?
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  3081. The important message that has been overlooked, is that Trump concedes the possibility that he might lose.
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  3082. Maroons were escaped slaves who settled the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. He doesn't look the part.
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  3083. They only poll their own supporters. You might notice that he mentioned support from the Deep South and other areas where the Repugs are popular, but not regions where certainly they are not finding approval ...such as the Northeast, and the Pacific Coast.
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  3084. @skontheroad Israel's conduct in Gaza is the most powerful recruitment poster for Hamas and its hideous ilk. What the HELL do you think boys who have lost their parents due to your barely-discriminate bombing might grow up to be kindly-disposed toward Israel? Stop using our US tax base to fund your expansionist conquest.
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  3085. The Musk rats have scteen capture-only access to your intimate data.
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  3086. Hey, Donald :: he was just a few in years ahead of you. At least he wasn't stupid enough to launch a trade war on the standard of living of the American electorate through insane tax increases on imported goods. Oh, by the way I will pummel your ass if this platform allow a Commander in Shift to give you a full dress_down of you immense economics brutal stupidity.. That won't make the change you need, but it can re-inforce the base you need.. You somehow graduated from Wharton, but don't understand jack about global supply chains.
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  3087. The US populations which could face electricity surcharges or higher costs are States which had opposed Donald Trump. Do not punish your allies.
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  3088. @livtellez  You can do it. For the sake of practice, spend one day without electricity. Go on.
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  3089. Good gracious, where would we be without K2SO4?
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  3090.  @LaGrandeBayou  It's also a county.
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  3091. Vote. Even if you prefer the one I don't, vote. That's how democracy works.
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  3092. Point of order: you can't "go postal" without the promiscuous availability of guns.
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  3093.  @mariamejia936  Even if she were: wouldn't that mean that we, as a society, perhaps should behave in a kinder and more generous way than currently is the case?
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  3094.  @ThemFuzzyMonsters  A motorcycle club might legitimately take over a bank, though I would not recommend it; DOGE is a total scam.
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  3095.  @kylerittenhouse7814  we all lost
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  3096.  @JohnDoe69986  LA burned because of unusually dry conditions; Florida got pounded by ever more frequent and severe hurricanes. Coastal Alaska is disappearing, as is coastal Louisiana... but climate change allegedly "is a hoax". You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
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  3097.  @mrscruff66  keyboard got stuck?
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  3098.  @ThemFuzzyMonsters  Doge was the ruler of Venice - supposedly a Republic, but in fact a government in thrall to a rich oligarchy. Does that remind you of some modern circstamce?
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  3099. Russia can threaten. Its land force has been found inadequate; its marine assets were dealt an immense blow. Russia does have immense military power in its nuclear capability - but France's nuclear fleet alone can devastate everything of value west of the Urals - where 80% of Russia's population lives. Nobody with a decent conscience wishes for nuclear combat, but it clearly is not a fight under which Russia shall emerge in any reasonable sense victorious.
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  3100. Get to the choice / choose to your topic.
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  3101. Sergeant Shultz also knows Nothing, NOTHING!
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  3102. Benjamin a un accent canadien. Bof.
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  3103. Many employers do not respect the private lives of their employees. They will text or email at any time, even over the weekend or on legal holidays. If companies choose to blend their interests into the personal lives of their employees, the reverse phenomenon should be expected.
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  3104. Trump had "served" in a private military academy, which deemed him not to be fit. He had an injury which should have healed well before his eligibility for military service expired. It's not what what you know - it's what WHO you know.
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  3105. Commentator without a clue, as in the 1920s and 1930s: here we go again
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  3106.  @death_parade  No. It was Burma.
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  3107.  @ertobert3459  The Northern League and its allies had lost ground in the recent elections in Italy; AfD had previously seen surge, but were given a bloody nose in the latest election to the Bundestag. Would you like to try truth for a change?
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  3108.  @Floofrer  VTFF
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  3109.  @zoltanpaulik6616  That's not "as well" - it's in contrast. Hungary is progressing on the hideous road to authoritarianism, but not yet to a fully fascist mode.
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  3110.  @Ampaomike  Why are you proposing that there were only one partner in crimes? Auschwitz was one, on the German side; Katyn was one on the Soviet side; Nanking was one on the Japanese side. Your further analysis might be interesting.
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  3111. Louisiana is far removed from any land border. If you need to spread poison, please do it elsewhere.
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  3112. Firing a warning sot at Pelosi's plane would likely have immensely stupid. How would you like this: in exchange for that, USN vessels would systematically fire warning shots at PLAAN vessels in waters around disputed Spratley islands - and sometimes warning shots do not miss. Xi Jinping does not need this level of looming chaos in advance of the upcoming Party congress.
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  3113.  @patricofritz4094  That foes not make sense. Shooting at the pane of the top legislator of a foreign power which can wipe you out, is not a good move; besides which, PRC's resort to a violent response can me matched, and more.
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  3114.  @patricofritz4094  Am I a bot, or "people like me"? You're not clear on the concept, are you?
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  3115. Pretty much all instant coffee so far is derived from robusta beans; meanwhile, consumers have taken to the more complex flavours of arabica. Instant coffee's decline was baked in.
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  3116. Dans quelques années nous parlerons d'une hostalgie.
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  3117. Watergate, surrogate... We should remain sceptic
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  3118. En moins de 3 mois, les Russes auraient vu plus de 50% des pertes humaines subies par les USA durant la totalité de leur guerre au Vietnam.
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  3119.  @rockjockchick  Why would he have sent his alleged findings to the White House? Any medical professional should have known that the appropriate recipients should have been NIH/CDC/Johns Hopkins/NEJM/The Lancet/WHO/any respected medical establishment. Why the hell had that alleged doctor not done the
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  3120.  @juspete5527  A person in the 20-29 demographic cohort is reckoned about 17x more likely to be hospitalized if unvaccinated; among the over 65, your chance of prematurely dying from Covid is some 50 times higher if you had not been fully jabbed. If you insist on having people die to defend a political ideology, that's your personal burden. At some point you might develop a conscience.
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  3121.  @patsavage1245  That's not how med labs work on urgent tasks. One person might be sole in charge of delivering results, yet in charge of a team of dedicated and highly educated professionals.
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  3122.  @rockjockchick  I find it difficult to accept how a doctor, sworn to the Hippocratic Oath, would have sent a report of dire medical urgency to the White House instead of to, perhaps, the CDC, or NIH, or Johns Hopkins, WHO, the Mayo Clinic, NEJM, The Lancet... any respectable source of medical learning? The answer might reside in your contention that there allegedly had been a 100% recovery rate. That almost never happens in real life, as there often are co-morbidity factors which inevitably will drag survival rates down.
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  3123. You falsely portray children in DR Congo pitifully scratching the ground to get some minerals to produce Cobalt. Instead, , the ores are mined on an industrial scale: DRC output of Co metal is over 60,000 metric tons/year. Also, the figures you use for the energy needed (and the associated pollution) involved in Aluminum production is for primary Al from bauxite; the energy requirement for recycling Al is much lower.
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  3124. Poland's government is at odds with the principle of judicial independence. Until Putin invaded on Feb 24 last year, Poland was essentially a pariah in the EU.
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  3125. +LiuYe PR China reportedly has a real estate bubble of nightmare proportions.Let's hope they finesse this with great skill.
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  3126. No. While I do hold fast to the value of public education, I also recognize that there are competing calls on public funds, some of which might require a higher level of priority.
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  3127. ...and yet there are some who still hate Mieses' to pieces.
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  3128. You do understand, do you not, that the modern state of Israel is a creation of the United Nations?
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  3129.  @iainwmacintosh  You have a very bizarre notion of causation.
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  3130. VERDUN, fin de siecle . . I walked astride the remnants of trenches Ancient now That the flame eternal Flickers with less passion come the passing of the grandfathers Decades escaped from this grave. . . A sprightly progeny's foot alights On shards of bone, On rifle breach, On buried rations past Their futile manufacture - And what was saved? . . * . They lie alike In the same violent rest: The brightest, and the best, And the wastrels, and the dull, And the young who never lived their full, . Crashed and fallen in the pounded crest Of yet another of another assault wave; . And none can know them by the skull. . . * . Safe, and placid, and pacified, . We can ignore a latent cringe And never mourn and grieve For comrades we had never known... . . But - lest we forget, And be forced to repeat the sins: . Let no more generations discover How masses can be made to believe "Survival of Civilization" . hinge . On brother slaughtering brother.
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  3131. I am not really into and adapted to surfing your discrete propaganda. Surfing was fun the one time I tried it, and my classmates agreed that I did best to stand and ride. It was fun, but exhausting, because I no longer, at my age, had the upper-body strength to pursue something I might have done very well, 20 years earlier. Passing years instead have helped me to identify those such as you to be agents of Russian disinformation. You are busted.
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  3132.  @viktorbryce951  Joe Manchin is a Dem in what has become an ultra-Red constituency; AZ is different. Arizona's population has become more diverse and less R- over time - it is now competitive at most levels, notwithstanding gerrymandering. Some of AZ's population might wonder if the global climate chaos afflicting them with oppressive heat - might, in fact, have something to do with climate change... which their R-badge politicians have long decried as a hoax. Another year of this heat, and the voters might seek to become better aware, and vote accordingly.
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  3133. What can be done about Alabama's refusal to abide by the redistricting decision? SCOTUS could invalidate AL's electoral college delegation.
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  3134. MAGA: Make Administrations Grift Again
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  3135. Government is, and must be, held to a higher standard. A company is driven by other motives, and is allowed to fall if it gets things wrong. Collectively we shall rebel against a rogue government which might fail, then fade into the night. At least, so we might persuade ourselves.
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  3136. We might ask: why were the dynasties so immune from an infusion of novel royal blood? Inbreeding clearly weakened the Habsburg lineage, and the Romanovs.
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  3137. Have you run the numbers? A million tons of water sounds like a lot, but in fact it is only approx 100 meters cubed, depending on temperature.. Compare that with the vast volume of the ocean, and you might be surprised at how diluted the radioactivity can become. As NPR reported, the planned release is for "more than a million tons", which suggests that it is less than 2 million tons. NPR went further to state, "the water will be further treated and diluted, and the release will begin in two years, and take decades to complete.."
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  3138. Georgia's airspace is not blocked. Strangely enough. It's not a matter of Russia and Georgia having a sweet reconciliation: essentially all travel from Russia west of Helsinki is blocked. If you want or need to travel internationally from Russia, your closest connecting destinations are in Turkey - and fights are packed.
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  3139.  @TheFishermanMC  Urof the Chaldees.
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  3140. If
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  3141. "How The US Military Spends $800B Per Year On War Machines "... well, it doesn't. Major defense expenditures go to pay for personnel (including pay, food, housing, medical, etc.) upkeep, transportation, etc. At $ 445.3 bn for FY 2023, Military Personnel plus Operation and Maintenance alone account for well over half of the discretionary component of the defense budget.
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  3142.  @ShellyKemnow  please don't insult trailer trash.
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  3143. His argument is that, tactically, his bankruptcies put him in a better position to pursue his ambitions. That might sound preposterous... but then, having a convicted felon elected President should also sound preposterous.
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  3144. ​ @teresewoltz8627 He had 3 casinos go bankrupt next to the biggest metropolitan area. How can you do that without massive incompetence?
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  3145. How many tones are there? 4? 5? 6? or ?? It's normal to struggle with "Chinese pronunciation". There is no such thing as modern spoken "Chinese." Consensus among neutral linguists holds that (say) spoken Mandarin and spoken Cantonese are more divergent than, well, Spanish and Portuguese. The latter two are recognized as separate languages in their own right; we are coercively guided to believe that Mandarin and Cantonese - although more divergent - instead are merely "dialects" of a (politically mythical) common language.
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  3146. You write as a scholar. Please remember: not all Republicans are evil.
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  3147.  @gordonlloyd9335  diapers have gone to 'disposable'. Our earlier children were a sanitary burden; we have since become adept at exporting this intimate nappy change to a global landfill. This deserves an XPrise, or an an Earthshot
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  3148.  @Shadowman-1960  Spouting is tiresome. Look in the mirror.
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  3149. @user-gj9cn7tn5r  Stonehenge was open to all, our family visited the site in the early 1970s. It was unrestricted, my brothers and I had lots of fun, but soon got bored and cold.. Please protect the site.
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  3150. How far will SCOTUS go to undermine its political legitimacy in service to the man who appointed a third of the Court?
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  3151. The invasion of Afghanistan was its own Vietnam.
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  3152. It won't happen. We're heading toward a WTO customs regimen. It will hurt both UK and EU; but will hurt UK far harder, which less has ability to absorb the consequences of the impending economic distortions and disruptions. Rule Brritanal delusions.
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  3153. To a pessimist, the glass is half empty;' to an optimist, it is half full; to an engineer, it is over-designed for the required capacity.
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  3154. Republicans have long suffered from DADD: Deficit Attention Deficit Disorder. First deficit is fiscal:if you refuse to tax those who can afford to pay, you can expect to be reelected.
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  3155. A preacher's advantage when he's good at "speaking in tongues", is that... he can not be a reliable witness.
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  3156. 01:27 how is this not witness tampering?
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  3157.  @0IIIIII  A necessary question which need be asked: what, if any, responsibility have the Sentinelese for advancing Humanity, as opposed to just being left alone? One might point out that the Sentinelese never developed technologies which can abolish all human life.
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  3158.  @Matthew_85k  In what way are 'Christians' ..."under attack"? I am not omniscient, so I will defer to your wealth of evidence, should you be kind enough to share. What had long since come to my attention, is that Black churches are more likely to be burned or bombed or shot-up, than White churches. That violence was, at times, as a result of white racists who spouted pseudo-Christian doggerel. In much of the US, Jews have reason to fear going to synagogue, Muslims can fear going to their mosque, and even Sikhs had cause to fear after one had been assassinated by a 'Christian' who took divine inspiration to kill someone who did nothing more threatening than to wear a turban. Just because our society is more diverse than your bigoted family upbringing would like it, that doesn't demonstrate that "Christianity" is under attack, though your own insecurities with a changing society might give you that impression. Do please search to wrap your head around the concept that there are many churches in Christianity, not all of which might be as bigoted as yours. Ponder that. If you are not afraid toddler into matters of intellectual interest, consider this. Constantine, Emperor of Rome, had a problem. On ascending to the throne, he had hitched a ride on Christianity, and won. After that,he found that - unlike Roman religion, Christianity of his time was a noisy mess - there were more Gospels than you could shake a stick at. Well, that could not be helpful for the administration of an empire which rested it's legitimacy on overthrowing the old Pagan order. Constantine gathered the /best and the brightest/ in Niceae, who came up with the Four Gospels you know today, conveniently the ones which best suited Constantine's retention of power. If you think that Christianity is under attack now, imagine what it might have felt like if your Christian faith did not bend to Imperial power. Reminder: there were NO approved Gospels written down in the life of Jesus, not even in the lives of His apostles. You might care to look into the non-canonical Gospels, available online. My favourite is the Gospel of Thomas: unlike recounts of JC's life and movements and miracles, this is a compendium of what witnesses heard He say. There are more ways of being a Christian than to brood in imagined attack. Christianity has been there before, and survived without your Brandon false outrage.
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  3159.  @serpentines6356  "Talib" means, 'student'; "taliban" is the plural.
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  3160.  @0IIIIII  You might be more credible if it were true that the Eastern Seaboard had been "heavily settled" by European colonists so early in the 1600s. Your assertion does not easily correlate with any conventional understanding of either ... "heavily settled", or "early 1600s". I will await your comments while you extinguish your pants on fire.
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  3161.  @petefrys545  you might have some credible alternative interpretation. Try me. Go.
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  3162.  @magatism  Your stallion stands. I have seen too much film evidence of Nazi extermination camps to give you a pass on justifying unspeakable inhumanity.
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  3163.  @Matthew_85k  I have no problem with non-toxic expressions of Christianity. I identify as a Christian, but don't want to send anyone to burn at the stake. It is a matter of total horror that any government entity plunge into the Constitutionally illegitimate promotion of ANY religious creed. I don't care if you are Buddhist, Sikh, Animist, Protestant, Muslim, Catholic, Jewish, Mormon... get the HELL out of government compulsion. Got it? In God we trust... but verify.
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  3164.  @0IIIIII  They do not deserve to have their stable society disrupted by a wild-eyed wacko.
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  3165. How do they dare call themselves "One America"... when clearly their mission is to be divisive?
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  3166. How much might that matter? Russia is a pariah, and will remain so for a long time. The foreign minister Lavrov repeated the bogus charge that Ukraine was infested with Nazis, even that Hitler was part Jewish - and the Israeli government called this bullshit. For historical reasons, Israel is extremely attentive over matters of Nazism.
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  3167.  Alena Barrett  Endless intro fluff garbage. I was expecting some content.
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  3168. Britain can scrap EU-derived regulations; it can also scrap its closest export markets. It's the same process.
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  3169. The Netherlands is a prosperous country. Whatever diminution in farming output occur, the Dutch could easily afford to import.
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  3170. Amarillo has a Federal case docket which might even trry to enact Justice. OTOH, this IS putrid Amarillo.
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  3171. Personne ne le prétend.
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  3172. vtfc we can all use culturally exclusive abbreviations
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  3173.  @jensjensen382  Are you from Denmark" We have similar cultures. I had run a Google search, and was bombarded with 14 pages of advertisement and dross. You might also run into some difficulty if you came across a terse mention of psbr in a post of under 20 characters..You'd have 4 rotations instead of my 3, improving your chances - but still you might not find it so simple. Here's a hint: instead of being a snotty brat.. why not help someone? You might have chosen to be a decent person, but you chose otherwise. Pity.
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  3174.  @dirtydan2721  You are free to die; I object to you taking others with you.
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  3175. I couldn't stand Seasons In The Sun. It's sappy and a betrayal of the dark original in French by Brel: Le Moribond.
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  3176. The Lord's Prayer preaches forgiveness; Trump preaches revenge.
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  3177. There is a weird sense that Americans are not welcome, nor respected, in France. There is no foreign place on Earth where Americans are better loved than in Normandy.
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  3178. "Cannon Law' has taken an entirely new meaning. This is not an upgrade.
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  3179. Chaos typically favors those who are more unscrupulous. Remind you of someone?
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  3180. ​ @KolyaUrtz There are other differences. With a few exceptions, war in VN did not resemble WWI as much as fighting in Donestk Oblast. Something which has hurt the Orks is that their command structure was sclerotic. Colonels and generals fell like flies because the NCO- level was deficient. Senior officers died because no junior officers could take command.
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  3181. Vox populi, vox dei
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  3182. His one of them microphones???
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  3183. Might you describe the mechanism by which "a recession is pretty much bound to happen"?
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  3184. @malcolmgibson5088  these are not "Mirage 2005" planes, as reported. Agreed?
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  3185. @geofflepper3207  Trump's influence over the quality of American weapons might be overstated. He seems to have some difficulty with object permanence.
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  3186. Beau talks is a necessary expense.
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  3187. Except for their product - yuck!
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  3188. I found it amusing that, in Italian, an equivalent cop were called a 'gialo' / yellow.AFAIK. jailor, in these circumstances. Vox legis.
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  3189. Seuls les malfrats ont besoin de s'en soucier.
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  3190. How might an AI absorb into s legsl structure best to reconcile. matters at humanis versus a 'black-box' verdict? 6:48 ,, added number . Above, I had typed s instead of a, and a full half hour prevented me from correcting that Let's do better.
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  3191. Polls are irrelevant outside partisan interpretation The population mostly favors "capital punishment"; but when you call it 'the Death Penalty' - essentially the same thing... the numbers change, against.
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  3192. If Vladimir Puta annexes these "republics" after sham referenda, the US should immediately lift the restrictions on effective range of munitions supplied to Ukraine.
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  3193. Trump might yet win this election. His travails through a fair and non-captured judicial procedure, have context! and that might lead to personal, perhaps spiritual, growth. Yeah, right.
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  3194.  @3AwesomeDawgz  " An eye for an eye will leave us blind. " - Mohandas Gandhi.
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  3195.  @3AwesomeDawgz  Leviticus also prohibits one of the best agricultural practices. In Mesoamerica, it is a common farming practice to plant beans, squash, and maize side by side. This is very productive, but is proscribed by Leviticus. Why? God knows.
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  3196.  @3AwesomeDawgz  DIOS me libre de hombre de un libro.
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  3197.  @3AwesomeDawgz  BTW, an eye for an eye is a statute of limitations, from a time when it was common to eliminate the entire bloodline of someone who had slighted you.
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  3198. Trump might have become confused once he stepped up to the Hannibal Lecturn.
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  3199. JD Market was a cousin of Jonathan Eatherone Market. Back off.
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  3200.  @edwardelric717  You are free to cull supporting data where you see fit; but it would be intellectually dishonest if it turned out that there were similar rises in on shootings which occurred in communities which had not "defunded" police forces. Had you controlled for this before you posted?
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  3201. To every thing, Chern, Chern, Chern, There is a reason...
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  3202. Does MTG have a real job (funded by the citizens she wants to scalp?) ???
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  3203. The "People's Republic" of China lost an election In free Taiwan where Chinese voters massively voted against CCP slavery.
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  3204. There is a well-worn saying that: as 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' ... Congress is the opposite of progress.
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  3205. The constitutional right to free speech only covers suppression by government. Private colleges certainly are not bound by the 1st Amendment. Public universities generally are not considered government entities.
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  3206.  @WallyBraun  Nice try. They do not exert governmental functions, except if you were radically to expand the notion of 'government'.
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  3207.  @WallyBraun  Martians. Please try to keep up. You might then recognize a plural in your words, and adapt accordingly.
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  3208.  @flor9389  the greatest of all time versus the lamb? For 10 points, contestants: what does L A M B signify?
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  3209.  @davidmccarthy6061  what am I, who am I, where am I going, why was I born? These are questions which can plague a free-thinking person. A religion can allow one to contract-out existential anxieties, and get along with life. The very term, "religion", derives from Latin for 'bind together'.
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  3210. In my time zone, Jimmy Fallon is comedic mush. A few deliberative laws. The overwhelming reality is that no elected office has an encumberant power the right, under the Constitution -!- In my private life: I had paid attention, and found respect for, legal procedure. I might have sought to make some kabs / Jibes at your trivial discomfort. AI seems to be lavendering us faster than it shall engineer how we perceive lavender.
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  3211. Government provided or supported expenditure which had done marvels to promote the creation of wealth - perhaps your own - that later bit the hand that fed it. W. Kurt Dobson, would you care to examine this in greater detail?
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  3212. I can not think of better sleep companion than a hummingbird.,
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  3213. Even a stopped clock will give the correct time twice a day.
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  3214.  @abdellahkhaba3990  une minorite' gouverne en Allemagne, jusq
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  3215. Not a fan of engineering rigor, are you? Or are you just a shill for a con?
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  3216. Two hundred million dollars? That is pocket change for Elon... who is eager to wreck his adoptive country so that he can become even wealthier. It's a sickness.
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  3217. Il suffit pour que le Mal triomphe... que les bons gens ne fassent rien.
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  3218. Cadmium telluride had been on the horizon for various photoelectric applications since at least the mid-1980's. I know that because part of my paycheck depended on an exotic bestiary of research substances and materials. Those were fun times. Back then, solar arrays used discarded single Si crystal discards which failed specs for wafer printing. It was my privilege to have a seat at the table when many of these technologies were in development. Gallium arsenide for Josephson junctions never expanded as some proponents wished. That's how it goes.
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  3219. Biden: 'please send me a Bill to help fix the problem.' Trump: 'under no circumstance pass a Bill, I need to run against Biden on this. If you solve the problem, you torpedo me'.
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  3220. Approx 1:45 - yes, we have become wiser; we also have acted more foolish. Riddle me this! (BTW were that more a question probing toward sagacity ?) Or just jumping your clefts? Riddle me this without making you the primary topic.
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  3221. I am a billionaire; I can't afford to pay my debts. Which of these statements might contain some element of truth?
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  3222. Judy Ruliani might bear in mind that maybe half of the citizens working in he polling stations are likely to be Republicans, or leaning-Republican. That should limit the opportunity to pull off untoward shenanigans..
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  3223. Perhaps there has been an aggravation of housing crises from the emergence of private dwellings shifted from occupied homes... to holiday rentals. Have the likes of Air B and B removed enough properties from housing markets to cause local housing crises?
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  3224. si vis pacem para bellum
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  3225. Repugs hate government until they get their hands on it.
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  3226. The Supreme Court is morally corrupt; in the matter of Thomas, monetarily corrupt.
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  3227. My family followed my Dad's job, and moved to London in 1969. There were still WWII pockmarked walls less than half a mile from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Societies might recover; but they shouldn't have to. Peace to all.
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  3228. ​ @utha2665 every person who cares about rule of Law needs to keep the scammer Trump from getting his putrid hands on the levers of power.
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  3229.  @chuk1496  many things are happening in France. They are, however, not these days of a nature which widely disturb republican civil order.
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  3230. For the most part, he can't. There are severe legal restrictions on his ability to sue for defamation, and it would also be a stupid political move: his re-election campaign asks America to give him a second mandate to finish the job - and it wouldn't look good if he were spending time and effort suing people for personal reasons.
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  3231. I once had a girl - or, should I say... she once had me. Phosphates are an indicator resource. Run out, and your society faces severe trouble.
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  3232. Let's see how a DIvertarian who regularly defecates on civil liberties.. might attract libertarian voters.
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  3233. Yeah, shooting a gun in the air does not make the bullet vaporize in-flight. My brother was on vacation in Egypt, and felt a sting on his thigh. Before he realized what happened, a kid rushed over and picked up a bullet, saying (as bro recalled...) '"mekhtub." He was hit by a returning bullet, the shot unheard by anyone where he was.
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  3234. The judicial process is toward making the plaintiffs whole. The plaintiffs have a settlement. Who has any right to gainsay their grief?
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  3235. David Bowie warned us that we have five days of crying. I hope he was more of a huckster than of a sooth-sayer.
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  3236. Happy birthday Vlad!
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  3237. C'est Gazprom qui a le plus à gagner. Ils ont réduit leurs livraisons de gaz vers l'Allemagne sous des prétextes loufoques, pour en arriver à zéro par Nordstream 1. La firme était passable de peines en valeur de milliards de dollars pour non-performance de leur contrat; mais avec ce qui apparaît un sabotage par X... ils s'en échappent.
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  3238. Drifty...
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  3239. "dog bites man" is not a headline, Trump threatens all forms of Life, is not a headline.
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  3240. 08:00 If foreigners were implicated, wouldn't the Emoluments Clause vitiate a quid pro quo pardon if, in exchange of the pardon, the counterpart benefit ultimately have economic value?
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  3241. Don't worry about Donald Trump losing his mind: it's so sick, it can't get very far.
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  3242. The bottom lying of Trump's legal defense... won't hold up in Court.
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  3243. Comment 2: would NYPD have responded as vigorously if Elon's friends hadn't secured the compliance of Mayor Adams in return for a revocable reprieve from Federal prosecution?
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  3244. A more folksy way of saying that: when your enemy is digging himself into a hole, don't remove the shovel.
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  3245. You have expressd yourself. I dispute your contention that Putin received a lot of support from "the West." Merkel was transactional; Orban is not a dictator yet, despite his fascist tendencies, only because of EU constraints. Trump applauds Orban, but his path to full autocracy might hinge on Orban be seen to be Les of a fascist. The next two months will be engaging.
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  3246. Pillow talk was not meant to be this funny.
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  3247. Don't worry about Trump losing his mind: it's so sick, it can't get very far.
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  3248.  @ANYA.RIZALI  purr
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  3249.  @denelson83  何ですか
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  3250.  @denelson83  何ですか
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  3251. That was fun. Tweaking binomial taxonomy for political clarity might lead to lessened access to truth.
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  3252. This message is anti- anti-. . Please do visit Paris in July/August. If you hate French people, you won't find many there.
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  3253. Why is Brett Favre pronounced 'Brett Farv'...? This is discrimination against Cajuns.
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  3254. In many job spots, such lies would be handcuffed.
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  3255.  @mooseheadjack1  We have a real-life case study in the lower-house of the US Congress. George Santos lied his way to getting a seat in the House of Representatives, having lied about almost everything of his life. I make a distinction between a politician "lying" about what he/she might do, once elected (and might become thwarted by realities on the ground)... and a politician who traipsed over dozens of red lines in order to be sworn in.
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  3256.  @MABSDK1993  Russia is not weak, but it is poor. Its GDP is comparable to that of Spain, but with a population roughly 4x lager... and Spain is not among the most prosperous members of EU. Russia's oligarchs are not poor, though.
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  3257.  @Quicksilver1936  That is your position; it remains that Poland is massively subsidized by what you term, Eurocucks.
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  3258.  @alesollas76  An honest assessment of your vile propaganda misrepresentation might lead to becoming banned. I move away for now.
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  3259.  @chepinchan  You: "Another important fact is that Poland has been one of Europe’s fastest growing economies, with gdp per capita and average monthly income of its citizens approaching some Western European countries." Reply: Poland has been a massive recipient of funding from richer EU members over many years. It is satisfying that this funding seems not to have gone to waste.
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  3260.  @chepinchan  You: "I don’t think that I’m the one that’s confusing the military power with the number of troops. I was simply referring to you comparing the population of France and UK vs the population of Poland, therefore giving them the advantage in the military power." Rely: Both UK and France have significant nuclear forces. France's SLBM fleet alone can devastate everything of substance in Russia west of the Urals. That sounds like a rather good advantage.
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  3261.  @chepinchan  My access to Macron is rather limited; so is yours. You have scant idea of what they say to one another. Were you to assess the matter with dispassion, you might come to realize that having over 6,000 high-level nuclear weapons is no more fearsome than having 1000: destroying life several times over is no more horrible than destroying it just once, France has an effective nuclear deterrent. You don't like to consider that, because apparently you just tally raw numbers,
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  3262. Once a President has reverted to the status of private citizen and is no longer encumbered by the duties of office, there remains no logical nor legal rationale for exceptional immunity not dependent on State security..
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  3263. Manet's men, in this tableau, were indifferent to her nudity; she looked out at an intruder almostt as though in invitation. An idealised woman very likely would not have been maked and painted with tummy-folds. Manet was a feminist.
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  3264. TL;DR /s
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  3265. Russian troops swiftly occupied the exclusiom zone. As forces on an expeditionary mission, they shall have been trained to use available cover. That cover near Chernobyl was highly radioactive.
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  3266. Hunter Biden had not assigned a waiver to his IVth Amendment rights by contracting to get a lapcrap fixed. Your private information is just that: PRIVATE. ... not that Trump ever gave a damn about Constitutional niceties,
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  3267. Or a VP might assassinate a Prez in full view of TV cameras... them pardon himself? Then get rid of most of the following line of succession. All in the pursuit of success, of course.
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  3268. Absolute immunity is abhorrent to the Justice system. If Nixon stopped his motorcade to let him rob a convenience store... total immunity would let him get away with that;if Nixon wanted to crash the Playboy Mansion at his desire, under Secret Service protection on the taxpayer's dime: are you still OK with total immunity?
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  3269. It's a pretentious mishmash of various bits that Queen strung together without any coherence nor continuity.
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  3270.  @Lilah1754  Of course it is. Appreciation of any interpretive work necessarily will be subjective. We recently learned that a Mondrian work was exhibited upside-down for 77 years.
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  3271.  @milasand5906  That's a load of garbage, but to be expected.
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  3272. There is a darwinian dynamic at work. Idiots who follow the counsel of them who promote these whacked-out "treatments", likely will die, and be less likely to pass on their genes or culture.
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  3273. That can infringe on necessary legal technicalities. Are you sure?
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  3274.  @37Raffaella  Where does he live? NJ taxes can be quite inconvenient and even painful. Beyond that: if indeed he lives close to a workplace in NYC, that would make his PA residence claim most improbable. Residents of nearby NJ communities can be subject yt NYC income taxes. So: where does he live?
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  3275. Page retained
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  3276. Hungry American citizens can just go hungry. I don't consider this as "just", but South African immigrant Musk has no unauthorized problem with it. Te deum laudanum.
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  3277. Wind power is intermittent, and that poses challenges to electric grids; these challenges are irrelevant to desalination. Instead, wind turbines could even skip the intermediary step of converting wind power into usable electric generation, but use the captured kinetic energy directly to drive salt- or brackish- water through an RO membrane. When and whenever the wind blows. Distributed small-scale kinetic wind desalination might greatly benefit some remote communities. In a similar vein... at the coast, the kinetic power of a hydraulic ram might directly press saline water through an RO membrane. What are the downsides to doing so?
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  3278. Ce n'est pas une diffraction binome. Les deux peuvent co-exister
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  3279. MTG doesn't seem to understand that she won't have the numbers to oust Johnson if sll the Dems support him in bloc. Next week, the majority in the House will be down to 1. If only one GOP members joins with the Dems to support Johnson, he keeps his job. Of course, that one Repub to vote with the Dems could be... Johnson.
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  3280. ? seule ?
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  3281. "Day One " starts after the inauguration. Not a lot of time to get a lot of ugly stuff done.
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  3282. Death happens. I wish him no harm, but the new Prez is in a highly vulnerable demographic.
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  3283. A citizen living in South Dakota has a vote roughly 50x more potent than mine. That is morally wrong.
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  3284. Tilting at windmills
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  3285.  @jcb4826  More people live in my city than in SD. That should narrow it down for you.
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  3286. Trump has his right to his day in Court. My dad came to the US in time to witness the McCarthy hearings on TV. That was a major contrast between rough and tumble, versus execution squads. A kid who accused his classmate of roughness or of cheating, might have dealt a death sentence.
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  3287. Russia does not have an easy escape from its mass destruction of innocent Ukraine.
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  3288. A friend of mine won't fly into DC/Reagan. Let him land at an airport which won't make him vomit.
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  3289. The invasion terrain was not favourable, and should never have been attempted.
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  3290. The good news is: the House finally has Speaker; the bad news is: who the Speaker is.
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  3291. These new text statements were no holy source of inspiration, except to those who would forget the legacy of Jesus. /The love of money is the source of all evil ?How many candidates for the Presidency had so clearly lusted after money?
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  3292.  @buravan1512  You might do well to do the same.
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  3293. There are high-performing superconductor materials identified. They tend to be intrinsically expensive, difficult to produce at scale, and brittle. / Not ideal engineering materials .
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  3294. Isn't she such a wonderful human bing?
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  3295. Racism is a pigment of your imagination
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  3296. Might you recommend a book?
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  3297. Nader's candidacy was not the only factor. The infamous "butterfly ballot" in Broward County might have syphoned off enough votes from Gore to cost him the election.
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  3298. @Darth Mucus Why would the plane have flown over Syria instead of flying over Israel? It makes no sense, neither politically nor geographically..
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  3299.  @Biden_is_demented  The route is an issue, but we can disagree. A larger issue is that you suggest that the weapons were for delivery to Daesh - through Jordan, of all places. The weapons are, of course, under export controls. The Jordanians would have been informed of the cargo and the King of Jordan has a mortal hatred of ISIS (which is also a threat to the Kingdom). More likely is: if the flight's destination were Amman, the final recipients of shipment were the Syrian Democratic Forces, possibly the YPG.
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  3300. Russia is not directly involved in the Gaza/Israel conflict, Ukraine can not afford to be one so. Less credible actors might appear on the field, but should be properly assessed.
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  3301. You might need to back that up with some evidence. Then again, Putletr insists that his agression against Ukraine is to "denazify" a government led by a Jew whose family was nearly exterminated by Nazis - real ones. Doesn't that fully make sense?
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  3302. Stupid MTG (yeah, that's redundant) seems to be unaware that the 1st Amendment only applies to government entities.
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  3303.  @kennypowers3654  Kenny, will you swear that there were absolutely NO other mission objectives which should share costs?
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  3304.  @kennypowers3654  So it would seem. Had you done even minor research on the mission objectives of these 3 flights to Mars? Are there none, zero, none other research yummy which might take up just a few hundred grams of payload? Or if no payload in excess of nominal specification is available: are the craft's instruments fully enabled to supply data which Earth-bound scientists crave? Your resistance is perplexing. Planetary scientists are aware that these are fraught missions. They tend to prefer spreading risk, Having Mission A do THIS 100% only, then Mission B do THIS for 100% only, then Mission C do THIS 100% only, is both unacceptable hubris and a waste of opportunity. Mars is notoriously accident-prone.
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  3305.  @kennypowers3654  Why import infrastructure to make rocket fuel? That's not likely to yield a beneficial cost/output balance for such a low launch requirement.
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  3306.  @Slumbert  maybe unmarked minefields along the riverbed could be a deterrent?
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  3307. I tried over Thanksgiving. There are none do blind...
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  3308. ​ @switzerblitzer2701 nine percent is still nasty.The overall weighted rate is in the vicinity of 2.5%.
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  3309. ​ @bipl8989 Japan shifted away from exporting cheap junk. There used to be a term, 'Yokohama-e," that is, send to export (i.e., crap). No more It took the a while, but now "made in Japan" tends to stand as a mark of excellence, much as "made in Switzerland" commonly is perceived.
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  3310. Milton Keynes was a New Town developed by the Government in the 1960s (in this case, 1967) to relieve congestion in London. Applying ancient origins to the city's name is cute, but unsatisfactory.
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  3311. 1984
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  3312. Civilizations can survive under less stres
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  3313. Try this one on / French: > il y eut fallu que j'eusse
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  3314. Please stop screaming. All caps posts are not helpful.
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  3315. Have fun with your fun. Let's see justice fairly administered.
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  3316.  @mikem668  Under international Law, 12 nm from a sovereign coast is sovereign waters; an attempt to extend that out to 200 nm is essentially a land grab, which can set a vicious precedent. There are many maritime areas where n-enforcement of the agreed maritime protocols can rapidly degenerate into initial military clashes which the degenerate into full-scale war. You seem to allow a far more benign interpretation of Libya' s [then] expansionist maritime policy. Do please share your views?
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  3317. I regret that so few know of the descent into fascism had been a deliberate campaign by factions to shine an expanded Japanese empire. Trump and his surrogates advocate deliberate intimidation and brutality against their opponents. How might such behavior help ensure a fair and free election?
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  3318. sic transit
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  3319. Americans don't share a similar sense of community. We can move from coast to coast; moving to the next large city a hundred kilometers away, easily can cause a deep social rift in Europe.
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  3320.  @dmitrimikrioukov5935  That is not the opinion of the Ukrainians.
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  3321.  @dmitrimikrioukov5935  Many people migrate for work. Low as wages are in Russia, they are much lower in places like Uzbekistan. Many of the immigrants to Russia from Central Asia earn low wages are there to earn money and send it back home, where the ruble goes a lot farther. My own dad lived and worked overseas for 24 years and could have acquired citizenship, but went home instead. Just because you live in another country, it does not mean you want to become a permanent part of that society. It's also sneaky of you to cite the number of immigrants, since among the countries which allow significant immigration, Russia's population ranks second. Many people of Turkish origin live in Germany - but that does not mean that Turkiye wants to join the Federal Republic.
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  3322.  @dmitrimikrioukov5935  I hear myself, and I hear you. I hear how you attempt to force a deviant interpretation of what I had expressed. Gentle reminder: I might be held to account for what I wrote, not for what you read. Since you seem to insist on going off-topic into your personal fantasy, do provide enough background so that maybe we both might play. I prefer to remain within reality.
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  3323.  @dmitrimikrioukov5935  Which one?
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  3324.  @dmitrimikrioukov5935  I just wanted to check if you were referring to the December 1991 Ukrainian Independence Referendum, which was approved by 92.3%.
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  3325.  @dmitrimikrioukov5935  No, but that apparently fits well within your framework of thought. You might - you should - wonder what might have happened between those two referenda. Within the space of a few months, majority opinion in both Sweden and Finland had turned away from neutrality, in favor of joining NATO. In both cultures, (armed) neutrality was deeply ingrained in the the social psyche. In the case of Sweden: it lasted over 2 centuries. You will, I expect, be fast to lay this at the feet of some "Western propaganda"; but it is more likely that the Swedes and the Finns realized that Putin's excuses for going to war against Ukraine were entirely bogus, and so they might be next. At least, that's what my friends and family in Sweden say.
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  3326. Nitty gritty pity. If elected, Trump shall eviscerate the Justice system entire.
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  3327. Are you free not to buy what you don't want?
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  3328. T'es fasciste.
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  3329. A novel form of Cruz control.
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  3330. Gloria Jesus: [Allegedly] "they only care about their own." Isn't that what "America First! America First! America First!' is all about?
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  3331. Myths also rack up votes. My dad nearly died because the lovely township where he was stung by a bee had no remedy available. My godfather broke every speed limit, and saved him.
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  3332. Why can't we vote beyond the stategicly determined best from climate change harm?
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  3333.  @anngrubbs2436  Pure evil might require some refinement. That can need significantr esources and advanced planning. Spontaneous evil can blow white hot, but seldom shall endure and last long enough for stable transmission. God forfend!
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  3334. Yeah, looking it up on Wikipedia is so difficult. Corpus is Latin for ''the body '. That part is easy. The 'habeas' part is trickier. Banking off the modern Spanish, I would have guessed perhaps 'you should have'. Too bad that the internet lacks in tools to do research, right?
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  3335. Q: who stakes out a forest cleatance in the Amazon, has massive breasts, and long blond hair? The next then next example can drive. Shall we go / another next?
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  3336. 21:33 France has a very capable and well-armed land force, however few in number. OTOH it also has a potent independent nuclear component to its defense posture.
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  3337. ​ There is an old African-American Spiritual song sez..." Ain't gonna study war no more". I continue to study war. If you don't know what it is or how it works: your chances of stopping it are crippled My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. -Wilfried Owen
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  3338.  @acki5738  avions nous perdu Avions nous perdu la cpacite de rester humains?
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  3339. You God damned liar!
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  3340. WAIT - hold on a minute... President Trump has appeared to force US citizens to "invest"in his best overture real estate ventures.
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  3341. appox 2:18 as the clip ran.
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  3342.  @karenwang313  That's a goofy comment. You might not have noticed, but Germans have their own language with its own rules.
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  3343. Back in college, I was led to believe that Cannon Law would hew toward at least a minimal degree credibility.
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  3344. Believe it or not, "Deuteronomy" is NOT the scientific study of deuterium.
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  3345. The rapid collapse of the Afghan government took many by surprise. Trump had made a commitment to exit that country in March - and if you think that might have proceeded better, with far less time to prepare: there's a bridge you might be interested in buying.
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  3346. Not all Republicans are evil; those who aren't seem to be cowed. Trump clearly is a fascist, and that can be a source of worry; what is worse a worry, is how many enablers he has.
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  3347.  @TMCremixes  to quote Vo Nguyen Giap: that might be true, but it is also irrelevant.
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  3348.  @TMCremixes  dura lex sed lex.
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  3349.  @TMCremixes  do tell
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  3350.  @TMCremixes  flair enough
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  3351.  @TMCremixes  we, as a society, might benefit from more laughter. A wise friend recommended: You need a good laugh every day. If you can't find another target: laugh at yourself. RIP Denny.
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  3352.  @TMCremixes  you have improved your your language skills. Maybe Trump wasn't the total disastery widely predicted.
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  3353.  @TMCremixes  no in with out some extent of editorial control
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  3354.  @TMCremixes  I had better not puncture with sharp comments. That need not otherwise.
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  3355.  @TMCremixes  I would accept some measure of onslaught against my personal safety, if such acceptance were to serve some purpose to prevent dictatorship. How do you sleep with your warped conscience? Trump is the base proof that you can attend an elite school with a sunken mind.
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  3356.  @TMCremixes  staying vague is Trump's best punch. He tries to hit Biden over something the Orange Peril can't even follow a lying teleprompter?
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  3357.  @TMCremixes  ah, the "anyone who breaks rules of conduct before "the Bench" , yours gets out of indemnity Carrd.
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  3358.  @TMCremixes  Habba has shown a lack of knowledge over how to proceed in a trial. Whether or not I like her, or her client, is immaterial. Courts of Law have procedural rules, which Officers of the Court are mandated to uphold. She is an Officer of the Court, but fails in her duty to uphold the dignity of the Court. More learned minds than mine have come to this conclusion. Shall you accept that explanation, or must you require humiliating references?
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  3359.  @thekipkinkelcase3855  Lying to the Court is beyond unethical.
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  3360.  @TMCremixes  Lying to the general public is unsavory, at best; lying to the Court can be criminal behavior.
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  3361.  @TMCremixes  you clearly have scant understanding of rules of procedure in Courts of Law.
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  3362.  @nopenope9118  incompetence is a problematic in terms of: who do you want to hire to represent you? Lack of judicial prowess is not generally, per se, cause for disbarment of an attorney otherwise in good standing before the Court.
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  3363.  @thekipkinkelcase3855  Lying to the Court, as an officer of the Court, is illegal.
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  3364.  @TMCremixes  you might reflect on your comments. I had wondered how Habba had not lost her Bar. At that point, I made no statement nor expressed commentary pro or con. Check your headgear.
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  3365.  @TMCremixes  falsities can be proven - that happens daily, though perhaps not in the mind you best prefer to inhabit.
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  3366.  @TMCremixes  she is an officer of the Court. As such, she was bound to the best of her ability to determine the veracity of her presented materials at Law. BTW you're a master troll, but lousy in re
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  3367. You lost me there. Gavin Newsome, as mayor, took a particular emphasis on destroying our social group surrounding our volleyball friendship happening weekly over more than two decades at the northern edge of Justin Herman Plaza. - which the elders of my group had saved as publiic space. I will vote for Gruesome Newsom if the only offer on the ballot wete between him, and a proto-fascist.
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  3368.  @rohithbs5065  That's a fun and facile statement with no validity.
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  3369.  @rohithbs5065  India depends heavily on Russia for weapons systems, including parts and maintenance.
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  3370. Trump demon strates
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  3371. I don't want to dump on Melania. The sins of the husband are not all the sins of the wife.
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  3372. Donald Trump lied? Who might have seen that coming?
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  3373. Thought clearly through
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  3374.  @muchachopicaron  Ivanka is smart, she's pretty. If II awakened with her in bed next to me, I would snuggle. Same as her dad.
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  3375. c. 09:40 This is a dead parrot.
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  3376. JD you can drive my car! After you gave 100 pushups, you piece.
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  3377. @charlespeakjr2168  Good point. I forgot about amnesia.
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  3378. 0:40 they might owe Trump a debt of graftitude, but let us accept that they can be honest jurists.
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  3379. Treason is strictly defined within the Constitution.
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  3380. 09:15 the gold is already cut: 18 carat is a common defined allloy. Pure gold is 24 carat; beyond that, investment-grade gold must be 99.99% pure or better.
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  3381. ​ @Gog3453 No. Air power can carry the day; naval blockades can win a conflict. You don't have a clue.
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  3382. If your research has an ongoing mouse model, you can't just put it on pause for a few months and fire it up agai n from where you were forced to shut down operations.
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  3383. To paraphrase the rock group, Dire Straits: I want my MTG - look at them yoyos.
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  3384.  @jpbaje  will I be blocked from making an anodyne comment?
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  3385. No Beatles, no Stones, no Pink Floyd... I find flawed in your criterion for continuing cultural endurance. Spotify might not be the bellwether you take it to be.
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  3386. @MHolla-f1j  you should flesh out what your "TDS" designates. It seems not to match with any diagnostically recognized pathology.
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  3387. @Speshulsawce  how shall you define... "vast"? Presumably, you had laid down your proposition with some stats to back it up. Please revert.
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  3388. @mikelayton3810  vade retro.
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  3389. La paix commence avec l'absence de guerre. Que faites vous que cela se passe?
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  3390. "whose" ???
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  3391. "Poisoning the Blood of the Country" makes even less sense in a nation built on a very diverse bloodstream. A nation with a more restricted ancestry - say, perhaps, Finland? - can better rally around a "blood and soil" appeal than a gaggle folk from all parts of the World who gathered to dispossess the native peoples. Trump's rhetoric worked in 1930's Germany; please God it fail in 2020's America.
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  3392. An upsidedown federal US flag traditionally symbolizes immediate danger, or serves as a warning to them who approach an adversary defended position at violent arms. That sort of thing. Such an inversion of this National symbol might strike one as not reflective of the "Justice" Thomas tenure in this highest Court. ORDURE in the Court!
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  3393.  @xKhaozZer0x  Considering that you don't know what the hell you're talking about, it is regrettable. There are no NATO forces in Ukraine; NATO and other allies have not delivered any western-made fighter jets. There have been only small deliveries of advanced tanks, including zero from the US. You are full of crap.
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  3394.  @watchinit6063  Things tend to be more complicated than you suggest. Larger countries might also have larger borders they need to defend... and in the bad old days, over-committing forces to a field of conflict might leave you open to attack from another quarter. Re: Vietnam... the US was defeated politically at home, not on the field of battle. IMO if RVN had not been so deeply riddled with corruption, the North and Charlie would likely have lost. At the very least, when the final assault on Saigon had rolled out from Ban Me Thuot, these mechanized columns pushing forward out in the open could have been blasted by US airstrikes if Gerald Ford had ordered them to do so - but Ford stood down USAF. Put this into your combined assessment: the local belligerents who were more corrupt, lost.
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  3395. The figure of 7M deaths per year includes a large proportion who die due to indoor smoke, typically from cooking fires in the developing world.
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  3396. Hydrogen is not a fuel - it is a medium.
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  3397. Maybe they could get more people vaccinated if they offered jabs in the evening?
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  3398. There is an outside chance that De Santis were a normal human being / "*
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  3399. A Trump l'oeil might distract the attention. A barrage of his stupidity might move unsuspecting worlds.
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  3400. We need to overthrow the Thumb. Its rule has suppressed us for too long.
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  3401. I think you need to change yours. These are not mutually contradictive.
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  3402. If your point is to pull out a widely-heard reference to make one blush, you nailed it. You will not be as familiar with directives from the other side to commit acts of hideous brutality committed by the other side. The (south) Republic of Viet Nam might have co-existed peacefully; but HCM's marxist fervor could not let thatco-exist. At partition, millions had fled the North - Buddhists, Christians, the educated elite, and others, fled to the South inn search of freedom. Uncle Ho could not accept that. His vision was one of slavery.
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  3403.  @ajithq7  Please do expound.
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  3404.  @galupas  Who are "they"?
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  3405.  @reposter6434  Very much as you are too busy breathing to type out a post.
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  3406. What we don't know, won't hurt them ~ in the short term.
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  3407.  @MutheiM_Marz  SSBNs are stand-off weapons systems - and Taiwan possesses none.
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  3408.  @Lobsterwithinternet  That distinction had not been shared in the video. I used to be in the fish business (as a buyer), spent a lot of time on the docks, and I was aware of more than 40 fishing vessels in the port of Los Angeles alone. As I think back, there were maybe 2 DWFs;; but Winston had not made that distinction.
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  3409.  @Lobsterwithinternet  I am sorry to hear of your grandfather's misfortune. Having come to know fisher folk, I have an abiding respect for them. When I was a kid - and this wasn't recently - eating shrimp was a special occasion. Today, with a Safeway coupon, it's 30% cheaper than ground beef. Something is out of kilter.
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  3410.  @Lobsterwithinternet  I do not seek to minimize your family's pain; but I will tell you that you are off on a wrong track. The cheap shrimp doesn't come from Canada, nor from Mexico. NAFTA had nothing to do with this.
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  3411.  @Lobsterwithinternet  PRChina joined WTO, and supposedly would abide by the common conventions. That was the hope. Hopes have been dashed.There are limits to which a government or a collective might sanction a country with the largest population, and the 3rd or 4th most potent nuclear arsenal, and has a veto in the UN Security Council.
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  3412.  @vivianerichini1402  Notre pays est une douceur.
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  3413.  @RoseetMoi  la liberte' d'expression avait aussi grave' une communaute' comme des "Judenraus" .Les ondes de radio du Rouanda diffusaient une haine raciale inconnue depuis le 3eme Reich, menant a un genocide. Ne soyons pas trop sanglotants - mais le Bien public exige certaines limitations severes sur l'expression de ce genre pudique.
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  3414.  @vivianerichini1402  Nous devenons. Notre France peut. Votez MoDem
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  3415.  @vivianerichini1402  hatons l'avis? Sommes a mesure de nous mesure
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  3416.  @taracunningham3269  If you have a headache: "nothing acts faster than Anacin." So: next time you get a pounder, you're better off taking nothing.
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  3417.  @marktwain2053  New York was the homeland of Donald Trump. Was he a dire-hard commie?
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  3418.  @zachmasters7397  Trump was not a local figure. Instead, he sought to insert himself into the News wherever he might. Moving the trial would not change things. Trump's defense attorneys had every chance to dismiss jurors for cause, or even on a whim.
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  3419.  @aintmanyofusleft  Trump might not have bribed them enough?
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  3420.  @zachmasters7397  what is the basis of your assertions? In most places, roughly one in five voters are unaffiliated. Please provide verifiable context.
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  3421.  @alfredomafioso  I do know that you are a moron. You might have taken just a few moments to review your post to see where you went wrong - but you failed to do so.
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  3422. It surprises me that nobody's commenting on Trump's math. 11,780 votes needed - which is one more than we already have???
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  3423. The number one most watched slope opera in Europe!
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  3424. Thanks to the BBC for unvarnished reporting. This is a year of distress, but somebody must tell it straight.
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  3425. I have never had a fatal illness!
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  3426. The power architecture in Russia is impervious to international distaste. The fate of a typical household is held as irrelevant.
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  3427. WWII arguably started when the late 1930's/early 1940's conflicts became interlocking, and spread across the globe.
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  3428. The moment Sweden or Finland formally seek to join NATO,, Article 5 applies.
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  3429. I just had to share this joke from the Soviet Union: "capitalism is the exploitation of man by his fellow man; communism is the exact opposite."
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  3430. Rand Paul is an MD. Too bad that he forgot his oath: 'first, do no harm.' Bastard.
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  3431. Ordure in the Court!
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  3432. I am not alone in this, I have swopped observations with others. I find it a more useful tool expressed in Fahrenheit at warm/hot😂 orlt temperatured
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  3433. ​ @awesomehpt8938 on Venus as it is in Heaven,?
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  3434. A Democrat voter might rejoice in the elevation to the rogues gallery of Donald Trump, this full-on bastard. However, he can and will create nasty fallout throughout large swathes of our country.
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  3435. Approx 2:13 "seven years later, Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in the United States, and then we had a war." .. WRONG! Under the Emancipation Proclamation, slavery was abolished by presidential fiat well into the Civil War, and only applied to areas still in rebellion. Slavery was still fully legal in all areas under Union control. Full abolition only came later.
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  3436. Please pray for the poor Russian soldiers sent ill-led, ill-fed, and ill-equipped into a meat grinder for Putin's imperial ambitions.
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  3437. @LazyCatAnims leaving can become comfortable: resisting is honorable.
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  3438. This was less an inaugural address than a rah-rah speech at your typical post-election campaign HQ. At about 10:42 or so, Trump invoked a few messages of goodwill in JFK's inaugural, (I saw the vid right before this one) - and Trump fudged it.. 12:13 "but always pursue solidarity".... well, that's a load of BS from the most divisive President in living memory... although... 12:00 "the Bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God's own people live together in unity." Why specify.. "God's own people"? Isn't that just a dog-whistle call for divisive bigotry along divine lines of excrement? He could have just said: "God's children", or something less exclusionary. Trump's speech refrained many pattern elements of Kennedy's inaugural, but fell flat. Trump is no JFK.
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  3439. Indict in deed.
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  3440. That was a decent,. respectful.tourist visit of the Capitol when it was closed to visitors. /s
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  3441. If you were to read "Mein Kampf""
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  3442.  @cirese22 The US military is the most potent force ever fielded. No sane state power on this Earth would go alone to war with the US - which also would immediately involve NATO allies. Go back to playing with your toy soldiers and dreams of glory -dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
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  3443. Moderation in everything... including... moderation.
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  3444. That is a fluffy nice sentiment. Alas, even at a retail level, politics needs some built or building skeletal on which to grow.
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  3445. It comes as a surprise to many that France's longest land border... is with Brazil.
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  3446. Phil, I am quite turned off by your visceral attacks on religion. While it is true that invoked religion (often masquerading for more secular concerns) had caused significant suffering, also the reverse is quite true.that it can come as an essential comfort to those who suffer.
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  3447. Rebranded as Glasnostferatu.
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  3448. 09:50 Iridium is NOT a rare earth metal. Only lanthanides are rare earth metals.
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  3449. Call him out. Meet somewhere nice, and maybe share a bottle of wine. If you have specific divergence which might help fashion the opinion of third parties; these might be expressed here / or wherever else you are welcome with less scrutiny.
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  3450.  @tikimillie  If you already know the answers, consider modifying the question.
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  3451. Don't poke Trump during his trial. Letting dogs sleep.
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  3452. Where? There?
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  3453. @Andrew-gx3bz  Word for word? Is that what you said?
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  3454. @easymoney-c4n  Nixon's second inaugural had flags at half-staff for memorizing the death of Truman. Trump pretends that flags at half-staff supposedly were some dishonor upon him personally. What can it say that Nixon had more moral fortitude than our next incumbent?
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  3455. Voters seldom read transcripts. Sometimes they read them, who comment andvread these. Guess whose interpretation makes it into voting behaviour.
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  3456. 2:00 how much will they be pulling their paunches?
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  3457. I am vented studied Economics of the am made upe '60s and 70s. We are not heading for a crash; been there as and. Trickle down was the wanted accepted. Time for some,
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  3458. "fragmentation" includes 'ment'... yet I am far from persuaded that much cognition had infused Tory ideology.
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  3459. Les anciens pays du pacte de Varsovie avaient des stocks d'armements tels les chars T72 dont ils etaient contents de s'en debarasser, en retour de se les failre remplacer gratuit ou a prix d'ami par des chars modernes americains, francais, allemands, britanniques...
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  3460. ​ @merk9569 an infinite group of monkeys given keyboards, eventually can write Macbeth.
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  3461.  @ardentynekent2099  on our money: In God We Trust But Verify
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  3462.  @ardentynekent2099  under the Clinton Administration: tryst, but verify
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  3463.  @ardentynekent2099  "In God We Trust But Verify." That should be on all our forms of money
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  3464. Only five music stars made it to the billionaire stratosphere. Taylor is one; but the only one to get there without a side hustle. Maybe they like her.
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  3465. Trump - even before becoming the Presumptive .... let the Country know that he might solve the Russian invasion in one day.. The Logan Act severely limits apptitide of private citizens or interets toward suborning official US exercise of Foreign Policy. (EDIT - Trump temains a private citizen until the afternoon of Jan 20, 2025.) As a moment in the movie, 'Full Metal Jacket"., , commanded: it's a big shit sandwich, and we all have to take a bite.
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  3466. There is a folk warning when you insert a Qtip in your ear: when you feel pain, stop. Trump does not get the concept.
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  3467. Inflation is where money loses its value; hyperinflation is where money loses its meaning.
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  3468.  @danceswithcomicbooks7733  The weekend approaches. I haven't found a trace in the playbook exit sideways. Take air.
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  3469. Why did you have to spoil everyone's fun by telling her what "Deer Wang" means?
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  3470. 05:42 this is a long and well-argued polemic. If Grouchy had advanced and deflected Bluchert's forces, Napoleon likely would have prevailed at Waterloo.
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  3471. How should we deal with indigenous pyramids in the Yucatan? Maya culpa.
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  3472. ​ @bookgirlny8511 iwf
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  3473. ​ @kathleenaustin327 is that a genuine attack on males... who might vote along with females? Have fun with your prejudices, but be careful that these won't bite your butt. Unless that were your predilection.
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  3474. ​ @SNOOPYSNOOP1A  Put the bottle down. Get some sleep.
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  3475.  @weegiewarbler  low unemployment, rising real purchasing power, are not worth celebrating - according to Chinese trolls like you.
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  3476.  @wilburunion6532  jurors are sworn best to arrive at a just verdict. That can be a rightmare.
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  3477. It's not flattering; but when you a can have anybody murderered with a mild gesture, you my be successful.
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  3478. En termes d'epargne, il n'y eut rien de valable en dehors du secteur immobilier... qui s'effondre. Tout terrain appartient a l'Etat; des interets peuvent acheter un bail allant jusqu'a 99 ans. L'horloge continue a faire son tic-toc.
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  3479. We forget that only the mightiest and most wealthy erst could enjoy the genius of a Mozart, a Brahms, a Satie.
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  3480. That is a fascist.proposal.
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  3481. Grifting Tuesday is past; but the grifting goes on - no need for a gimmick.
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  3482. Where had the Supreme Court gone wrong? The Amendment which guaranteed that a well-regulated militia will not have its members of the right to bear arms restricted. In modern combat against an external enemy, a volunteer force would need to use mortars, bazookas (and their more modern equivalents), MANPADS. The ordure in the Supreme Court does not recognize that my right to keep and bear ant-tank weaponry has been infringed.
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  3483. The electoral collage will always favor the Republicans in our lifetime.
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  3484. Elon might think of this bizarre episode as tantric.
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  3485. Robert Reich is an under-valued national resource.
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  3486.  @johnnysgaminglab2126  bullshit!
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  3487.  @NagaYo-hr9dw  Pointing fingers at others when you're caught dead to rights. Typical CCP behaviour.
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  3488. I wish I had recorded this. Gaetz had used his position in questioning a senior official of DoD to enter into the official Congressional record... pure propaganda from an organ under direct control of PR China. Gaetz went on to grill the DoD official, challenging him to disclose sensitive material in open court. Gaetz of Hell are not so pearly.
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  3489. I cannot feel comfortable with his allego tivslp eged improprieties
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  3490. @ haidafella The US fleet of passenger vehicles alone is well over 100 million. Would it in any way be credible that so few [16] container ships idling - i.e., emitting greenhouse gasses at their lowest possible level of operation - emit more than all revving cars combined? {Note: I had not included Canada's vehicle emissions for this comparison thingy.) You might have acquired dubious data, or perhaps have unfortunately transposed out of context, an element which might otherwise be credible? International shipping generally uses the lowest grade of useful petroleum products: bunker oil. It’s somewhat more of a CO2 villain than other forms of liquid fossil fuels - but no way as bad as you suggest… or else, we would have to rewrite all academic texts on organic chemistry. The only exception I might suggest, is that those idling ships might produce an uncomfortably high output of (breathable) particles below 2.5 microns/PM2,5 as is widely mentioned. Even then, I doubt it. If something sounds unbelievable: don’t believe it. Do your homework.
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  3491. There is a lot of talk about the 14th Amendment, section 3. How close is MTG to that third rail,?
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  3492.  @dentonfender6492  He's a narco-narcicyst.
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  3493.  @elibnem4126  According to Trump, KimJong Un is the master of 1.4 billion persons; how you fit them in a country (DPRK/North Korea) smaller than Illinois, is an enigma. unexplained marvel.
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  3494. What mother flux were a 'perfect' phone call?
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  3495.  @bustermasten9576  Are you not following the events? It's the House Republicans who are holding the nation hostage. The Dems are ready right now to approve paying the bills already approved by Congress.
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  3496. There IS a ledge in privilege, no?
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  3497. DEI gratia.
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  3498. / Had you "'managed" to solve this problem?" Management skills might not be critical in this instance. Try again: ~" were you able..." ? ... to
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  3499. A ladybug landed on my hand. My friend suggested that it were a blessing. She tickled my pinkie finger, and left off. Some insects are just too small to receive a warm kiss of congratulations.
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  3500.  @heatherfortini  When the Republican House held the debt ceiling hostage recently: one quarter of the Federal debt was incurred under Trump. Household debt had not decreased under Trump. Any fair economist would tell you that Trump's economic policies were not a total failure, but some were just plain stupid: he slapped heavy duties on foreign suppliers of steel and aluminum, even if they were not in contravention of WTO anti-dumping rules What then happened? Steel mills got some extra business, but the buyers of steel products who made intermediate products got savaged by new relatively cheaper foreign suppliers of steel-based intermediates. There was a net loss of American jobs. Trump did not stop carnage: he WAS carnage.
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  3501. In some areas, algal blooms suck enough oxygen to make the water uninhabitable for other species;. There are "dead areas", such as down from the mouth of the Mississippi , where aquatic life is severely compromised.
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  3502. Mayhem, may not hem. But there are some who think the Government capable of gathering a half million people in person / not to watch the launching of Apollo 11's mission's Saturn V, rocket um, not.. which landed 2 men on the Moon, and the Soviets had every incentive to dispute or deny it - but, not. Are these conspiratards idiots, or goofy? I prefer goofy because they can be a lot more fun or maybe a lush source of income for those who meet them but do not fall into the abyss against which Nietzche warned.
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  3503. Cancer happens; funding happens.
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  3504. It's different when The Big Guy Upstairs indulges in genocide, or when He permits it by mortals during the Israelite conquest of Canaan.
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  3505. "rath" ??? Correct your vocabulary before critiquing that of others.
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  3506. She had been on Trump's staff. Her zone of comfort might not include being with Democrats.
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  3507. New decisions in Law tend not to be retroactive.
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  3508. Huge logistics trouble. ISS is not really that far up there. On a clear night, on the right time: you can see it streak by. Refuel and supply services are not the equivalent of an Apollo moonshot, as they might be if the Station were that far away.
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  3509. "Trump without the baggage" won't resonate with people who don't mind the baggage.
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  3510. Near where I live, I can walk up a hill and look out at 3x the population of Wyoming. A voter in WY has roughly 80 times more power than me. That's not right.
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  3511. 🎉 measles is raging in parts of Texas. RFK junior's reliance on heard immunity isn't working..
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  3512. Increasingly, the worst case is expected.
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  3513. Cannon Law once was the exclusive premise of the Vatican. Now she ' knows better" than precedent adjudicated before the Supreme Court.
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  3514. When te facts are against you, talk about the Law; when the Law is against you: talk about the facts. When all are about you : stall !
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  3515. "We have to separate the war from the warriors." Our soldiers will do, they valiantly will do, what is demanded of them. Let's just make damn sure that we are careful in what these demands were.
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  3516.  @christopheleclair5367  Qu'en savez vous? En tout cas, mon quartier est prospere: le loyer typique d'un apart de 40m2 est'environ $3,200
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  3517. ​ @toxicslix you mean... like in the United States, where Trump was repeatedly summoned to return presidential records belonging to the People before subpoena authority needed to be exercised?
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  3518. ​ @OldSaltyBear You're not an accountant, an economist...or an ethicist, for that matter, are you?
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  3519.  @JohnFreedman0  BS
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  3520.  @moe47988  BS
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  3521.  @mahaffer71  Your post is rather incoherent. Take a deep breath, gather your thoughts, and try again. For some unfathomable reason, you seem to think that I defend Trump. I despise that traitorous piece of digestive waste.
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  3522.  @aaronleverton4221 Many schools no longer even offer Civics at any level.
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  3523.  @genericamerican7574  i.e., FRAUD
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  3524.  @jimnasium452  whatever; they might, however, be affected.
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  3525.  @RepublicansJugglingLs  Russia's economy is at the back of the class. For the economists on this thread: has Russia caught one of the worst cases ever of "the Dutch Disease" ?
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  3526.  @OldSaltyBear  What was the sale price? Lascivious readers want to know.
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  3527.  @moe47988  Trump declared his (almost)11,000 square foot NY penthouse as 30,000 sq. ft. for the purpose of obtaining financial benefits. That is a matter of record. That also is criminal.
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  3528.  @moe47988  Go fish. No matter how strident the New York Post channels it's invective at the behest of its fascist owner, I can not acknowledge it as a legitimate source of news. The Independent AFAIK does not suffer from the Murdoch taint. I have other things to do with my time, than to ransack for finding this Paper, then to rummage for what you declined to highlight. Your post was somewhat less moronic than "just look it up". Thank you for that grace.
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  3529.  @moe47988  Adults don't rise to such juvenile provocations. Now go scuttle off to get a nice piece of cake.
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  3530.  @moe47988  Stewart is sharp. In no way is he my hero, but your warped sense might ascribe him so. Get help.
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  3531.  @genericamerican7574  do you have (untampered) proof that Trump palled around with Madoff? Grifters tend to avoid another's turf
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  3532.  @MrZobiwan  L' Ukraine, en tant que pouvoir souverain, a le droit de conclure ce qu'il lui plaise.
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  3533.  @deanpreuss5953  where might a citizen find a reliable list ?
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  3534. Rued Awakening
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  3535. The literal transition of the Latin 'religio(n)' is:to bind together. Religion often had been manipulated for dark purposes; but it can also provide the only solace to a grieving widdow..
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  3536. Tenemos que discutir de esas cosas libremente y en todas idiomas. El fascismo no debe regresar!
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  3537. Tuna is covered by a Standard of Identity - specifications supposedly enforced by the Feds. It's been years since I bought a can of "chunk light" which met the legally mandated standard.
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  3538.  @slewone4905  your complaint is not very credible. Albacore can not be substituted with another species - it's just too obvious. Trying to pass off any light meat tuna for white meat not only would have been a breach of contract, but also would have exposed the exporter to sanctions by Customs and/or FDA. I can't imagine any packer running the risk of simultaneously risking official sanctions, a breach of contract lawsuit, a potential bank boycott, and severe destruction of commercial reputation: fraud is not encouraged in international commerce. As far as quality goes: all of the factories I worked with strictly adhered to HACCP; I can not vouch for others.
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  3539.  @orilion1820  why would any industrial idiot retort canned tuna to that far point in the future at huge costs in energy when bones dissolve, instead of first processing the fish, the canning it? These are businesses running on tight margins and can not afford to throw money out the window on freakishly high energy costs. Sidebar: tunas have a lateral line on each side - the bloodline - which is dark in color and , if included in a can, would disqualify the product from being labelled as 'light meat". Back in my day, that would have incurred a 30-40% sales penalty, as there is no noticeable US market under FDA standards for dark meat tuna. In commercial canneries as they actually operate, it is far cheaper first to cook the fish and scrape off the bloodline (which goes to canned cat food), rather than have a more highly skilled worker remove it raw before further processing. It amazes me... how so many of you never set foot in a tuna cannery, yet seem to "know" how it works.
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  3540. Crooked questions don't require simplistic answers.
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  3541. Over many years, increasing share of Russian GDP was accounted by extraction industries. That concentrates economic power among few hands. Not the best outcome for what Soviets used to portray as "the struggling masses".
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  3542. @mzmindbodysoulinrepair1573  Musk is pungent.
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  3543. @michto47  why do you think that matters?
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  3544. ????
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  3545.  @UFO721  "your wait' ??? Were you aiming to convey a surrealist message, or are you merely incapable of spelling 'weight'?
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  3546. @darindunn  Trump thinks that "ethnic cleansing" is how to describe Chinese laundries.
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  3547. @tuckingfwit  is there any citizenship he doesn't have?
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  3548.  @pilot8479  that would be severe, and I cannot agree.
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  3549.  @PeacefulAlli28  close cognates
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  3550. This would apply to max 5 woodchucks. Beyond that limit, woodchucks would compete aggressively against one another, and ignore available wood. Lady woodchucks are watching.
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  3551.  @SailsCity  that's a fun notion. Unlike Trump, however, Canadians typically are thoughtful and caring. Cutting off power exports would overwhelmingly affect Americans who had voted against Trump.
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  3552.  @jamesmartin7026  what leads you to think that he would need an excuse?
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  3553. English doesn't seem to clear things up. In Bahasa: "dimana apa apa?"
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  3554. 05:47 / "en Ukraine, c'est le fascisme"... dit-elle. Eh bien... selon Mussolini, le fascisme,: c'est l'engrenage symbiotique entre l'État et les Affaires ~ quoique ces derniers sous tutelle. Comme en Russie de nos jours.
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  3555. 02:38 the correct spelling is :"chassis".
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  3556.  @justathought4675  what is your best understanding of Covid-19 transmissibility?
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  3557.  @deankostas7214  plausible; but he mostly does his own commenting.
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  3558. The Soviet Union and its claimed successor, Russia, claimed elements of invulnerability. Russia has a large stock of nuclear warheads; France can wipe out any centre of Russian civilization west of the Urals, without even calling in their Air Force. Putin can waive the nuclear card, but it i s not alone to have such a card.
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  3559. Adjusting for inflation, Trump's inheritance might make him a billionheir.
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  3560.  @bubeni_  That would have been OK: the US has no intention of invading Mexico. Why Mexico would want training from a country which is manifestly incompetent at training its own, would be weird. If anything, it should be the Mexicans training the Russians.
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  3561.  @ЕвгенийКоролев-ш9р  troll
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  3562. You might further wonder. During the period you reference, there have been pro-freedom and pro-Kremlin governments in Kiev. One might wonder why an eastward-looking Ukrainian government might continue to accept training by Western advisors. At the outbreak of Russia's Special Military Humiliation, there were ZERO American combat troops in Ukraine. As for "arming Ukraine": at the outset of Russia's full-scale aggression, NATO had supplied to Ukraine a full sum ZERO of: armoured vehicles, fighter jets, short/long-range missiles, MANPADs, anti-tank infantry systems, HIMARS, mobile artillery, Patriot batteries... etc. None of the above weaponry had been provided to Ukraine for its defense until after Feb 24, 2022. Why must you lie?
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  3563.  @ЕвгенийКоролев-ш9р  As General Vo Nguyen Giap remarked: that might be accurate, but it is also irrelevant.
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  3564. The handover from Britain to PR China had expressly stated that this shall occur over a period of fifty years; this agreed peaceful transfer was lodged within the United Nations. The leninist Chinese government tore up that agreement. Were it not for its status as a permanent member of the Security Council, P R China would be considered a rogue state.
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  3565. Probably as many as died on the other side from Russian shelling.
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  3566. PG&E - Profits, Greed, and Extortion
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  3567. In other words
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  3568. Slava Ukraini
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  3569.  @thomasward00  We have seen that the "just in time" model of supply is brittle..I worked in international trade, and was dismayed that the cost of shipping a container from East Asia increased by some 8 fold. Even past this cost increase, containers have been delayed by many weeks, and costs mount. As your FCL gets unloaded, it might face a shortage of drivers to push your cargo closer to warehouses which can then bring them to the consuming public - and I have left out a few steps which can be too technical,. With this war on Ukraine, microchip factories lose vital sources of neon, essential for production. If you were thinking about buying electronics, you might to prefer to do that right now.
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  3570.  @AnnetteY-v9o  these were distractions The way that a car built in northern America, would have incurred hideous duties each time a lug nut passed the border, would have sharply collapsed the price differential between an F-150 pickup and a Bentley saloon. The Bentley from England would still have been pricier, but by much less than these stupid import duties can have engineered.
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  3571.  @JamminJ-xe2bd  Orange you glad you are not yet locked up because anything the Prez pretends to be official business, is license to commit crime? Thank you,Roberts.
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  3572. Most transitions from a fierce contrast against a popular Will... have a choice (popular ) de lFreedom painted by Delacroix, and not become the heresy of different expression of minds.
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  3573. Christie is not a recognized expert in urban combat.
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  3574. This was cruel. Trump clearly is not the sharpest tool in the shed, as we learned that injecting bleach were enough to fend off Covid. Trump's is not a world class kind mind. Alexander Pope saw it necessary to love oneself; but there are limits.
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  3575. 14:15 "...when Saint Augustine was Black..." What??? Augustine of Hippo wasn't Black - he was White, a Berber from what now is Algeria. .Perhaps the speaker was referring to some other, less-well known Saint Augustine: one whose ancestry was from sub-Saharan Africa?
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  3576. ​ @urbanlibertarian2520 14/3 also bars from office those who provide aid and comfort to insurrectionists. Trump had publicly vowed to use his presidential privilege to pardon all 1/6 criminals. That is giving aid and comfort to insurgent enemies of the Constitution. Trump clearly can not hold any Federal office, under sec 3 of the 14th Amendment.
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  3577. ​ @ragingshibe ... eventually. Trump might/might not/ qualify for the November ballot.
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  3578.  @DisaffectedLiberal  SCOTUS has traditionally deferred on such matters. It's roster traditionally shield away from decisions which would later bind subsequent Courts in derision. Let's perhaps start with Amy Come. I shall not challenge that she otherwise has an excellent legal mind; but in her confirmation hearings, She affirmed that Roe was starre decisis; however, her tenure at Notre Dame under the Catholic Church , required that she oppose abortion. During her confirmation proceedings, she portrayed an open mind which she has NOT.
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  3579.  @DisaffectedLiberal  fasten your seatbelt.
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  3580. When in doubt, grant that the word came from Old Norse. We can still return to set things right.
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  3581. Slava Ukraini!
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  3582. Exhaled. You are exhaled.
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  3583. ​ @johnevison6063 Fox universe and owners had just this last week settled unfavourably in defamation regard to the Royal family, detriment of Murdoch and co.
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  3584. ​ @J.B.1.3 there are standards. Some of them repose on reputation: e.g the Financial Times caters to the investment elite, who need the genuine article.
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  3585. This POS - and let's allow you an interpreting that as 'point of sale' - is guiding us toward redux the Great Depression.
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  3586. ​ @J.B.1.3 there are sources of news which, BY LAW, must comply with strict defined levels of accuracy. Yours is not a channel under Law destined to prevent the spread of falsehood - is it?
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  3587. It only feels that way. In the darkest days of the Blitz, Churchill rallied the warmth of the Nation.
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  3588.  @AlH1257  buckle up. There is an opportunity to stop the trumpian rot in the 2026 mid-terms. Keep the faith!
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  3589.  @J.B.1.3  that garbage-in-chief just raised the cost of lumber for reconstruction by 25%. This is not a deep thinker.
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  3590.  @J.B.1.3  You have a voice on YouTube (how else had I encountered your message?) Shall you also include yourself among Dark Forces on YT? And if not: why not?
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  3591. @Riverdawg24  Make America Sane Again.
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  3592. He's not stupid, he's greedy. You might expect that being an heir to the Swanson frozen foods fortune might be enough. Apparently not.
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  3593.  @xdpigscanflyyt4463  Other opinions are not automatically respectable. The Khmers Rouges had different opinions. ISIS has different opinions. Some things are just plain wrong, such as sending paramilitaries to attack peaceful protesters exercising their 1st Amendment rights.
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  3594. +rabbit You're not familiar with the concept of bankruptcy, are you?
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  3595. In some quiet moments, I wonder why no songster had given us the satyrical about Melania (/immigrant)... " That's Why The Lady Is A Trump". Is she - like other immigrants - poisoning our Nation's blood... ...wording lifted from Mein Kampf....?
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  3596. We are confronted with a a manipulative autocrat who sought to eliminate our system of government, in his autocratic favor. It is a surprise that people yet support him, however ruthless Trump is to throw them under the bus. He had been boisterous of his business acumen, and promised to select only the best for Cabinet-level appointees. How many are still there? His initial nominee turns out to be fully incompetent... and then, what makes a manager incompetent worse than choosing the best among the brilliant then discarding them?
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  3597. Because the wind is high... Love is all, love is you.
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  3598.  @alanbeaumont4848  We seldom see ourselves as others see us.
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  3599. Very sad what you have deteriorated to. All humans alive on this Earth have an intrinsic right to dignity unless, by their actions they revoke it by themselves.
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  3600.  @Watcher4111  It's not just American weapons. The British/Swedish NLAW anti-tank systems are very effective; the French CAESAR mobile artillery system is widely considered as best in class.
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  3601. To the extent that Disney had damaged the Everglades, I would be glad to see a restitution action; feeding a wannabe fascist's political ambitions is not restitution. You are in a political fray, and you might like to look around and see where your true adversaries are. Sugar cane plantations are doing far worse damage to the Glades than the Mouse ever did. Are you also going after the huge agriculture interest that have so wrecked our Everglades? If not: buzz off.
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  3602. Turkey is in Europe.
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  3603. Eigo de wa nan' to iun desu ka?
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  3604.  @peaceh3848  I served with the General Staff of a major NATO member. I was an analyst. Leading men into battle would be the most irresponsible thing I can conceive.
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  3605.  @peaceh3848  I support Ukraine, and so do my elected representatives. Slava!
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  3606. It's so weird to hear a wingnut speak favorably of San Francisco!
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  3607. Even in his early life, JD / Vance/ Packard inspired Hidden Persuaders. He tried to make basket-case authority somehow sociably acceptable. Many have studied how fascists rapidly gained full control of Italy, and of Germany. Their most immediate targets were the judiciary and the upper echelons of the civil service. Project 2025 follows a blueprint of fascist tskeover. Don't let it happen here.
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  3608.  @Rainymorningsandcoffee  it's illegal for an organization to meddle into politics while claiming tax-exemption as a religious entity. This can be a severe legal case. Please establish contact with ACLU/American Civil Liberties Union, the protector of our rights.
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  3609.  @Rainymorningsandcoffee  God exists, or maybe not. Government exists. Let's fix only what is fixable.
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  3610.  @hellhound47bravo3  Janis Joplin sang that: Freedom's just another word for 'nothing left to lose'. Try your favourite cut and replace app. We have more freedom than we know.
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  3611.  @kconway2263  sadly
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  3612. @Bubbazilla do those values include monogamy and honoring your wife?
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  3613. @Bubbazilla Pastors, imams, priests, rabbis, muezins, deacons... the personnel of religious faiths can claim tax exemption on the specific condition that they do not in any way engage in electoral politics. As citizens, they shall do as rightfully they please, bit lose their fiscal subsidy.
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  3614. Approx 19:56 there is a singular judge in the TX Panhandle area who adjudicates for the rest of the country. Can one detect anomalies here?
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  3615. Rabin was assassinated for seeking Peace. Powerful factions in Israeli politics depend on bloodshed.
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  3616.  @willdon.1279  Bibi is still in power.
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  3617.  @willdon.1279  "now" continues. It won't end. What can change, is our ability to accept what can is acceptable.
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  3618. 07;37 He's the all American bullet-headed Saxon mother's son
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  3619. It is easier to beg for political donations than to require a Presidential pardon. ~ but sometimes in far promised times these merge. Trump pardoned close to them who might lead him earlier to conviction. Pardoning those whose testimony can send you to prison is not a definitive jail bypass, a well-paid "get out of free" card.
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  3620. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. The 14th Amendment had not specified that individual States might disenfranchise citizens over matters of bureaucratic procedures.... these which clearly can be manipulated and used to favor one electoral demographic over some other.
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  3621. Trump ordered Betsy DeVos to ban the teaching of The Oranges of Species in all public schools which receive federal funding.
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  3622. Three nominations elevations into the Supreme Court had attested in sworn testimony, that Roe was stare decivis. Doesn't matter how disgusting you acquire power.. so long as you got it.
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  3623. A fellow Democrat might ask you: how far do you mean, "an economy of opportunity." JD Vance was lifted by billionaire Thiele, at cost.
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  3624. In most legal systems, you do not have a grievance against your victim as you are committing violent tape.
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  3625.  @L4Leezus  ™you™ are a freak show.
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  3626. Man bites dog... isn't a headline. Cruz saying something massively stupid... isn't a headline.
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  3627. No, they are figments of your imagination. All Ukrainian forces in Mariupol had surrendered.
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  3628.  @lenniBn  the USA did not yet exist when Washington was born.
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  3629. Why did Medvedev designate himself as a legitimate target?
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  3630.  @apollojoseph7410  Russia does not have sufficient naval forces to do so. Furthermore, using submarines for escort purposes would defy the submarine's primary asset, which is: stealth.
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  3631. 03:48 the Winter War between Finland and he Soviet Union was not part of WWII. At the time, SU and Germany were cooperating under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It was a separate war.
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  3632. Citizens are entitled to a fair trial... until Trump's totalitarian "paradise" shreds all democratic norms. I will ask this attorney if he would be comfortable with the bleak future for Constitutional rights in the United States (under a second Trump administration), the defense of which for a major part were consistent with his duties on being received at the Bar. Have you no honor? Have you no shame?
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  3633. Britain is an island anchored off Europe... and always ready to weigh anchor.
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  3634. The new deliveries to Ukraine are not meant for tank-on-tank combat. Western tanks cost well over $ 10M each; very effective anti-tank infantry systems such as NLAWs or Javelins cost less than $20K each.
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  3635. A kinder interpretation were... tthat she is not competent, and needs to acquire backing before any measure.
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  3636.  @skozzi2845  They haven't mentioned that yet because it is false.
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  3637. At times I chuckle, other times I despair... when I encounter a translation of 'vade retro satana' as 'get thee behind me, Satan' [WTF?] instead of 'back off, Satan!'
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  3638. Any McD franchise which was placed somwhere 25,000 people could be just abstractly milling about , was probably not a good territory. Distribution is not a Hard Science, but it has its mandate to avoid costly mistakes. Trump always passed the cost of his mistakes onto others
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  3639. 12:59 the UK, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein DO NOT fall under the purview of the ECB.
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  3640. No, it isn't. By law in both the US and EU, ingredients must be listed on the label by order of quantity in the product. With garum, fish would have been ingredient #1; I just grabbed a bottle of Worcestershire Sauce, and anchovies are only listed as ingredient #9: meaning that they are a minor flavouring - although I understand that it is somewhat more present in the original brand, Lea & Perrins; In either case, the production method has nothing to do with those of traditional fish sauces, incluging garum.
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  3641. I don't give a damn about ignorance.
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  3642. VT FF
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  3643. The armed services are struggling to meet recruitment goals. If a posting to a State with severe restrictions on reproductive rights can be unbearable, that might mean one fewer recruit; officers might resign their commission, and leave the service. Forcing citizens to give up their civil rights just to serve in uniform, is unacceptable.
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  3644. It might be better for the Nation if this trial were not so tawdry.
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  3645. The massage is the medium, in FoxWorld.
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  3646. Is Musk is one of the Eloi?
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  3647. Russia was not an enemy in 2016.
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  3648. Magneto-genetic? Brilliant!
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  3649. Elmer Gantry rides again!
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  3650.  @victorstone3329  Similar increases, or worse, happened at the same time in Germany, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Australia, NZ, Finland, Poland, Norway, Canada... and the list goes on. In what way were this world-wide phenomenon "Biden's inflation" ???
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  3651.  @XZITT  a Gutenberg Bible in reasonable shape would sell at auction for more than most of us will ever earn in several lifetimes. Who is to say that in some 5-600 years, a Trump Bible were not so prized?
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  3652.  @larryfried7742  only if it is denatured.
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  3653.  @Sleeping_Insomiac  Not Fit for Trust?
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  3654.  @Bob-kz6vs  not so. Inflation never reached 100% in living memory, nor recorded by the National Archives. Try again, only this time strive to be honest.
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  3655.  @kayleonard505  He's just reminding us that he wants to know Ivanka in the biblical sense.
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  3656.  @felipe-vibor  Because it didn't happen.
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  3657. I had previously thought that "Agent Orange" was a chemical compound.
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  3658. How might Charles III's potential cryogenic preserved genetic material have some effect on this legal fanfare?
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  3659.  @materialgrl2000  because other punishments do not have the irrevocable nature of an execution.
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  3660. De nos jours, ce n'est plus le KGB, mais le FSB.
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  3661. The IRS is not the controlling authority. Under statute, Congress can access the tax returns of ANY person in the US.
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  3662.  @frankbyrd6726  Obviously there are limits to confidentiality: if you cheat on your taxes and get prosecuted, your tax returns will feature at trial and become a matter of public record. In the case of Trump. the Supreme Court declined to block having his tax returns transferred from the IRS to Congress, as provided by Law. his tax So... who lied? Trump, who promised to release his tax returns to the public once the audits had been completed.
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  3663.  @frankbyrd6726  No. Where the hell would you get that idea unless you had not read what I wrote?
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  3664. 05:45 "Jackie has come to the Tenderloin to try to find him..." except, that's not the Tenderloin. It's the Market Street area of the Civic Center, near the Main Library, not far from City Hall - but definitely downhill from the Tenderloin.
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  3665. 7:17 "Organized crime" might appear to be less prevalent than in the 1990s; an alternative read would suggest that it has become institutionalized within the apparatus of State. Putin is widely reckoned to be one of the richest persons alive, something fully impossible on his official salary.
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  3666. Putin clearly is insane. That makes his threats of nuclear war more credible than we might expect from a rational player.
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  3667. Money is the domain of Caesar.
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  3668. He has been losing severely in Ukraine.
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  3669. 07:45 Dolphins are born just as most species: ready to go.;humans, OTOH, are born underdeveloped in order to pass through a woman's narrow birth canal. In effect, the first few months of a baby's life are post-partum gestation.
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  3670. We are a nation in pain, led by a President who is incapable of compassion (and who has his finger on the nuclear button). We urgently must relieve the pain, or relieve the President.
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  3671. Was Trump ever hinged?
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  3672. Shady Vance really nailed it.
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  3673. You posted this video on March 22, 2024. France boycotts Russian oil, so that 17% you quote is dead wrong, as it was a year ago. Of the 4 SLBM subs, only one is being refitted at a time - the other 3 remain capable launching. Russia is far away and would probably stop at the Rhine if it becomes a continental war. Revamping the navy makes sense . The phrase " vaincre sans peril, on triomphe sans gloire" predates WWI. Speaking of which, the French Army was celebrated for it's defense of Verdun, nobody told jokes. They sometimes tell them about WWII, and it's especially funny when told by a descendant of someone who served in the Confederate army - the original surrender monkeys.
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  3674. Stevie Ray Vaughan's cover of Hendrix's 'Little Win' is phenomenal.
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  3675.  @helloneighbor11  do please enlighten. the rest of us
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  3676. We bend toward freedom when the arc of humanity recognizes one other as another fellow spark.
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  3677. Fox "News" is cabal TV.
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  3678. Had Posse Comitatus been abolished???
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  3679. How much money had you given him? If you can honestly document this, I am confident he will refund you.
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  3680.  @faresBtoush1990  What does it mean TO YOU?
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  3681. ​ @GetZappéd1974 Trump and truth are not compatible.
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  3682. @irissavyman6009  You are not very descriptive in your expression of anger. Would you care to be less restrictive?
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  3683. Make sure your enemies hate each other more than they hate you.
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  3684. The best Court money can buy! If you shower your SCOTUS benefactor with gifts beyond the dreams of Croesus: NEWS FLASH: that's only "a tip" if the payment in exchange for services rendered had taken place after a dirty deed had been done / SCOTUS IMPERVIOUS. In our normal civilian world, tips are given FOR SERVICE. Meanwhile parents who work for tips might get pennies over two dollars for tipped work. Don't make them beg for what they deserve. By the way, this is not an invitation for the immensely rich to abuse the vulnerable through their monetary power. We might, as a society, might better be served if Supreme Court members might have the minimum decency to stand aside, to recuse from the bench, where there were even a whiff of corruption. "Justice" Thomas, I call you out for severe and evident corruption. Chief Justice Roberts: how can you countenance such a stain on the Court over which you now preside, and which shall be recorded in Law journals until these no longer exist? Have you no honor? Have you no shame???
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  3685.  @dananorris6242  Even a stopped clock will give you the right time twice a day.
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  3686.  @HKim0072  NOT that I take their CEO's side - but, legally, Goya is an American brand.
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  3687. There are problematic elements to Donald Trump's invective against the serving Military.
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  3688. Thatcher ramrodded "TINA" - There Is No Alternative. She was wrong: instead it was "TATTOO" - There Are Truly Thousands Of Options.
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  3689. some among them men might not be childless
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  3690. Le Canada n'est pas une 'sainte n'y touche ' mais la Chine RPC est barbare.
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  3691.  @rosstisbury1626  far better than the Soviets.
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  3692. We might not easily take the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal as a subservient proxy of "woke" journalism. Carry on.
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  3693. Re place
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  3694. @Khepri PR China needs to buy iron ore from Australia. There are no other credible sources of supply.. Taking your analogy: what would you order if you walked into a McD and there was no other source of food for 200 km?
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  3695.  @burggerbig102  Is it?
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  3696.  @burggerbig102  Japan is not an adversarial power, nor was it in the 70s and 80s. Under Chinese (PRC) law, Huawei must share all information in its possession, on demand.
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  3697. @Khepri Indigenous peoples had no sense of property similar to that held by the incoming Europeans. There were treaties ceding land rights, these treaties not fully understood. Is that a source of regret? Yes. Have I found an equitable vector to correct this? No.
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  3698. @Khepri You.
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  3699. @Khepri China was a mess, regardless of what other powers engaged. Might I ask by which means you had somehow inferred my nationality?
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  3700. @Khepri I'm rather confident that my grandparents were far too busy to get involved in such distant activities. I am perplexed by the attitude that: you were shitty, now it's our turn.
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  3701. @Khepri China had long been the dominant power in its region, then was not. This failure was a direct result of its proven misplaced sense of superiority.
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  3702. @Khepri Not to distract too much - but how many nations had Han China sought to destroy before the "round eyes ' came? They were "pacified" and allegedly preferred to cultivate crops on nasty steep slopes.
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  3703. KIA was the initials for "killed in action". My dad and his close friend sought to bring these affordable cars to the UK. Did not happen.
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  3704. The Clovis points suggest the early People in the Western Hemisphere we're not stupid.
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  3705. ID ten T
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  3706.  @CrowMercury  Friendships can be complex.
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  3707. Trump will contest his lush money verdict. Let the games BEGIN!
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  3708. A sidenote: America wants "sttaregic metals", and neutral news included Titanium, and "rare earths". There is no dearth of Titanium for oir strategic industries. Titanium ores are so abundant that they are in your daily lives, even including in your paint and toothpaste. The restricting bottleneck is transforming Ti ores through the Kroll process - and if we want more Tii metal: there's the choke point. On a similar basis:"rare earth" metsls aren't necessarily are 'rare'as you think. They ate typically combined hodgy-podgy, but are difficult to extract from one another without incuring major transformation costs, not counting overlooked environmental degredion. Getting the ores will.provide the RE metals we need, if we allow ourselves to produce them in a way that doesn't kill our factory workers... or we might let China dominate the market because keeping our workers safe is not cost-effective
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  3709. Kamala is there with her clothing allowances: no more than one mink fur per Cartel entrepreneur couple. Daily.
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  3710. Poutine répond aux questions qu'il se pose
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  3711. Russia had charged a much as it might for gas and oil. For oil, there are benchmarks such as WTI (West Texas Intermediate) or North Sea Brent. You might see the latest on your news feed. Different grades of crude oil will be more or less preferable. A high content of sulfur, for example, will drive down the price. Some crudes will be less easily refined in one facility than another. An origin might be "contaminated" by an element for which that refinery is not well equipped, or not at scale.. Things often might be more complex than headlines suggest.
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  3712.  @realnapster1522  We are moving into summer. What may happen thereafter... might be more variable than you now conceive.
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  3713. Russia's response would need to be proportionate if this were not to harm the country's international standing. Putin does not deal well with this concept.
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  3714. Expulsion must be for cause. Stealing credit card numbers should be Cause; disagreeing with you should be NOT.
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  3715.  @sammygomes7381  Had you genuinely accused members of Congress of being terrorist? Have you no honor? Have you no shame?
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  3716.  @sammygomes7381  If it's the "Taliban" reigning over Afghanistan: they have little capacity to absorb and deploy effectively the advanced weapons systems fallen into their laps. Additional weaponry - be it come from Northern or Western powers - would be a waste of their treasury. I AM curious about where you might have adopted that $84 billion figure? We should make it bigger, but that has not yet been authorized.
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  3717. He might become a senator???
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  3718. ​ @Ceclickswindows  T'as rien compris au scénario.
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  3719.  @Ceclickswindows  France did not participate in that war; in fact, France's foreign minister publicly denounced GW Bush's' rush to war at the UN. You have no idea what you're talking about.
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  3720. SCROTUS doesn't care. The 'justices" have tenure until they die, and are immune from ...well, everything.
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  3721. Winners don't always start out in poll position.
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  3722. Bright meat must be fresh and delicious! Why are you spoiling our spoiled party?
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  3723. How much biomixing happens when, as most of the time, the anchovies are not spawning?
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  3724. Santos - if indeed that were his name - will receive health care for life and a pension beyond the sweetest dreams of most Americans. Let us please remove that incentive to rob us.
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  3725. The first round gives a citizen the opportunity to express desires and fears. That strikes me as rather healthy.
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  3726. He was tired..
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  3727. "undocumented" immigrants also will not be documented in electoral rolls. They CAN NOT VOTE.
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  3728. ​ @sheldonsmith3680 the State several Courts work along their own time requirements. Federal courts generally give way.
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  3729. ​ @klm4446 max 2
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  3730.  @dh5380  Hitler committed suicide before he can have been captured. What freaky historic log are you reading reading?
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  3731.  @conservativeprodigy2604  you might find disgrace where you look. Failure to find disgrace in such a flawed human creature, itself were a disgrace.
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  3732. When a Repug is in the White House, they suffer from Deficit Attention Deficit Disorder.
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  3733. When Donald Trump turned the White House into a Tesla showroom, he became a different kind of POS: a point of sale.
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  3734. Executive Privilege must not be allowed to shield malfeasance.
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  3735. Vying for and winning the Presidency takes hubris, but it doesn't require vainglory.
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  3736. My body will be cremated: because the last thing I want to do is make an ash of myself. 😷
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  3737.  @nicobruin8618  The Russian occupation forces only need , if they so desire, to staff manpower to conquered land; the legitimate government has an obligation to provide education to all.
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  3738.  @sarahpettyYTSUX  Free speech is not limitless. Per Schenck vs. United States, you can not shout 'fire!' in a crowed theater. Speech which results in the death of many is not constitutionally protected
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  3739.  @sarahpettyYTSUX  "My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." - Carl Schurz.
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  3740.  @sarahpettyYTSUX  Meanwhile, you still have not cited which law you allege the Dem TX legislators shall have broken. Put up or shut up.
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  3741. @Regulatory Affairs Judicial Watch is an American conservative activist group that files Freedom of Information Act lawsuits to investigate claimed misconduct by government officials. Founded in 1994, JW has primarily targeted Democrats, in particular the Presidency of Bill Clinton, the Presidency of Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.
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  3742.  @cchavez248  Not so. In business sectors outside the universe of social media, you buy or sell - or you don't. It's unlikely that Ford would monetize the info they got from a supplier they turned down. In many cases, monetizing the info of a supplier or prime contractor is illegal and vigorously punished.
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  3743.  @cchavez248  You missed the point, but probably scored with people who never had to negotiate a letter of credit payable at sight.
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  3744.  @cchavez248  I mess with retailers who try to track me. I use loyalty cards selectively, and pay in cash wherever I can. I skew (SKU) their data points. "Make game of that which makes as much of thee" (/Rubaiyat)
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  3745.  @cchavez248  BTW, the IRS does not know... "every transaction you've ever done. " There's a high probability that when you bought a taco from a truck and paid in cash, that was not carved in stone.
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  3746. Elon Musk left his native South Africa just before he would've have been conscripted into compulsory military service. Trump and Musk: two draft dodgers reshaping the world
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  3747. ​ @Happyinmontana That's an interesting conundrum. Trump contends that: if elected President, he can commit murder at will. If we had hooked up generators to the spinning of the Founding Fathers, we would never face an energy crisis.
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  3748. 100:1
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  3749. ​ @xlv1000-dlw it more likely would fall under the jurisdiction of Federal marshals. The judge shall direct. IRS mostly concerns itself about revenue. Static assets, unless there were some realized increase in value, generally would not be part of IRS mandate.
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  3750.  @ComradeOgilvy1984  no. Current circumstances will exceedingly rarely obviate time-stamped felonious behaviour.
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  3751.  @thephantomeagle2  there remains a problem that this toxic narcicist has kenned his way into people who did not grow up with a multi-million dollar inheritance... that "he's just like me!"
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  3752.  @genenorman8414  my understanding is that your legal counsel shall seek to guide you toward some restraint: when you're in the hole, stop digging.
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  3753.  @genenorman8414  "defame" as in de + fame
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  3754. TLDR
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  3755. Source?
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  3756. Flesh decomposing will degrade from ATP through ADP, Adenosine monophosphate (AMP)... Inosine...down to Putrescine, eventually to Cadaverine. Past IMP, our species begins to findd available high-ptotein foods a bit of a risk proposition.
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  3757. For all we dispute slavery on historical bases - can we not agree that it was wrong? Why can't you allow freedom to a woman's personal exemption from your fascist birth progr a
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  3758. Judy Ruliani's role is to cause instant nasty inflammation, which will recede - and so, immunize his boss.
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  3759. You should stop talking those stupid pills.
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  3760. It takes more than cash to turn a prophet.
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  3761. That idiot continues to propose that foreigners pay US import levies. I'm retired, but had been an importer of record. I signed the checks to acquit Customs charges.
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  3762.  @josephrifflart7163  Les tribunaux trancheront.
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  3763. To be fair, coffee has gone up sharply essentially everywhere, due to a combination of rising demand and poor harvests.
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  3764. Wrecked cognition, AKA Trump's daily life.
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  3765.  @Philbert-s2c  And youth: if he had been 15 years older, they would have found someone else.
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  3766. ​​​ @catberts6499 the structure which were supporting the Supreme Court includes some of the finest legal minds, but also some of the more deviant. The gun which shot ex-President Trump had no relationship with a well-regulated militia as proscribed in the 2nd Amendment.
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  3767. Trump, and other authoritarian politicos, want to turn the People as the enemy of the Press. How convenient.
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  3768. Twitter had tremendous brand recognition. Musk, in his infinite business wisdom, rebranded it as X. That must somehow have been visionary.
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  3769. Dr. Oz will maybe return to his sacred oath as a doctor, away from his avarice in TV scams,
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  3770. This Supreme Court is fundamentally tainted. How long might other national jurisdictions intervene to object against extradition procedures in a smile and a wink?
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  3771.  @bezdownunder5481  PRC likely will be reluctant to defy western sanctions on Russia. For most items, the Russian market is tiny when compared to those of countries applying sanctions. I am using a laptop assembled in PRC, but you can believe that the company will not be shipping to Russia at the risk of losing their supply of microprocessors.
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  3772.  @bezdownunder5481  CCP has an unstated bargain with the people it rules: don't be inconvenient or challenge our rule, and we will help you be more prosperous. That compact will break down if the Party fails to deliver, putting its rule at risk. Already recent economic data indicate that economic growth has slowed significantly, and the transition from an export-led growth model to an internal consumption-based model has not progressed rapidly - to say the least. They must consider the consequences of crashing their economy in the wake of punishment for helping Putin as a frightful prospect. Since the death of Mao, the Party has been mostly pragmatic. They might prefer not to risk a short-term political collapse in the hope that they retain some medium-term geopolitical benefit. Survival comes first, seeking later advantage comes second.
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  3773. The "gallo's" might have been sipped on the lawn, as part of a festive picnic. The gallows were premeditated. There is no nearby lumber yard which can so rapidly have cut and supplied the distant wood for Pence's gallows .
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  3774. It's only unthinkable until he does it.
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  3775.  @mikefowler301  You have full measure to lighten the intellectual burden on readers of this thread. Go.
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  3776.  @mikefowler301  I spent hours at Otay, waiting to get home after a business field trip to Ensenada. This is NOT abstract.
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  3777.  @mikefowler301  there were evenings when I wanted to leave Mexico at Otay, and persue the rest of my life. Whether Otay was smoother than San Isidro, was a crapshoot.
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  3778.  @pastorflaps6819  I have no vote in the matter, but that is not the same as having no say. As Fortinbras proclaimed, I have some rights of memory in this kingdom. I came of age there, my mother is buried there; I have professional ties, personal friends, and family members (nationals), in Britain. Like it or not, I am part of the conversation. Might I point out that Britons show little hesitation in getting involved in the political discussions of sister democracies.
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  3779. Two peanuts stormed the Capitol Steps defended by one faithful duly sworn to protect the Constitution... and one was a Salted.
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  3780. Most women are hetero. Given that there is roughly a 1:1 ratio, your chances of success should mathematically be favorable. You might not see it that way. because they treat you as a loser. Consider this: they might not treat you as a loser once you stop treating them like crap. They are human beings with complex emotions. If you strike out with a gal: your next encounter might go better if first you figure out where you went wrong last time - instead of blaming her, and all female world, for your own errors and miscues sparking your own bitterness. Better luck next time.
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  3781. Ukraine does not exist, and over 300,000 casualties west of the Volga were military errors: war games must be realistic. (/Special Operation Games.)
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  3782. Two Corinthians are fully behind Trump. How dare you challenge his messianic fundraiser?
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  3783.  @Oman666444555  Maybe that taking a breath after 7 seconds might save your life; of course, not taking a breath after 7 seconds might have the reverse effect.
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  3784.  @Altair885  There is massive corruption in Russia, so it is possible - as another commentator implied - that the explosion could have been deliberate to destroy the evidence of siphoned-off and stolen fuel.
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  3785. The 22nd Amendment specifies that no person shall be elected President more than twice. Since tRump is running for the 3rd time and was inaugurated once: wouldn't that be a tacit admission that he lost in 2020? Or, if not: wouldn't he be running for 2024 under false pretenses?
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  3786.  @shabbired  Actually, yes. The matter of Quebec independence as put to a referendum - but lost. Should the separatists have won the referendum, there is no doubt that Ottawa would have accepted the result of the vote. Are you truly so ignorant?
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  3787.  @shabbired  You are not familiar with the outside world, are you?
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  3788.  @mentuhotepii2641  Which capitalism? It exists under several variants. Meanwhile, your comment seems to be a projection or wishful thinking, rather than based on objective measurable data.
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  3789.  @YankeeDoodle2  please do us all a favor by describing the depiction/the definition of "a clan". Go
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  3790. Had you concerned yourself about a Trump clan? Generally speaking, members of a clan share common parentage to a lesser and more distant degree than do members of a direct family (as in this case). The choice of vocabulary was malicious.
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  3791. Bsld-faced manipulation and hax can be ridiculously easy to
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  3792. On a separate note, an advertisement told us that half of prospective home buyers could not afford to buy. That often can be because existing home owners don't want to sell.
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  3793. @balaclavabob001  BnB and platforms of the like, have removed rental property toward a clickable market. Residents might not explode in joy.
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  3794. @balaclavabob001  there is some investment here. Homr prices have increased heavily to date.
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  3795. Don't take the Bible for gospel.
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  3796. You aim to retaliate against your best allies across the border. Michigan, Minnesota, and New York are not the States which are pushing Trump to impose his absurd tariff terrorism
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  3797. There was an escape from the Roswell Internment Facility.
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  3798. The UK should leave EU next February 30, deal or no deal.
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  3799. Blanche scowled as would a trained monkey. Does he have a critical path toward prosperity, other than kissing Trump's behind?
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  3800. Pattiotism is a land- or ethic- allegiance to something popular in common. As a 3rd gen born in America, I pledge allegiance to the United States of America, and to the Republic. No flag - not even ours - can accept, nor execute, any pledge of allegiance.
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  3801. What to call them? How about 'dire dolphins'? (...as with 'dire wolves') As far as their hunting Great Whites: they have a significant advantage in having a horizontal hind fluke, which gives them greater up/down mobility. They can run rings around sharks.
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  3802. It's not clear what point you're getting to, but 'than' more likely would have served your purpose better than... "then Japan" / whatever. Gaudete.
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  3803. Polls are not acts of nature. They are subject to creep and bias; perhaps worse. Ctafting an honest poll can be confounding. I lived and worked honorably in this sphere, before doing so then became far more difficult. / There are sharp disputes over who might be polled... and I will leave it to statisticians to clamor their way. Much can be skewed according to how the question become phrased. Over time and over many surveys, "capital punishment' is roughly ten percent more popular than "the death penalty"... however these essentially are the same.
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  3804. One might argue that Russia is far too politically stable.
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  3805. "That's the definition of treason". No, it isn't - in fact, treason is the only crime defined within the Constitution, and this moron got it wrong.
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  3806. Musk does not need to be anywhere close successful across the board to maintain his status as a visionary icon. That's a problem.
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  3807. ​ @fcarstens6161 none.
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  3808. Russia has several hundred million dollars in frozen assets overseas. These can be offered as an offset to foreign assets confiscated in Russia. When and how might Putin's gangster mentality be brought to a halt?
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  3809. Avec des différences immenses, rendant la comparason caduque.
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  3810. I can't wait until Faux News becomes revelant.
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  3811.  @WaterisjustWet  You obviously never had to doubt the capabilities of defense systems which best were proposed.
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  3812.  @chirpywiggins5796  This war won't end soon: it is an existential peril for Ukraine, and more directly one for Putin. He has nowhere else to go.
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  3813.  @WaterisjustWet  bullcraft
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  3814.  @mariogmajner6549  Are you able to formulate coherent thoughts? Give it a try.
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  3815. "Taxes are the price we pay for civilized society." - Oliver Wendell Holmes [se non è vero, è ben trovato ]
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  3816.  @yeetyeet7070  You are using grammar to convey your intended meaning. The grammar you use had evolved even before the birth of 'boomers'. Can you detect how your prejudice might be problematic?
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  3817. Can you remember when Elon was cool? He had a fawning Thanksgiving cameo in 'The Big Bang Theory'' in which he washed dishes for the homeless. Now his anti-labor political efforts seek to make even more working people homeless.
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  3818.  Noobmaster69  You are demonstrating voter suppression in action. Your fellow fascists will likely find that laudable.
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  3819.  @DFHarr  I stand corrected, well put. Not something you might ever hear from The Orange Peril.
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  3820.  @patriciannpalka917  Maybe he will take his own advice, and directly inject antiseptics. An opposite view might suggest that this person privy to the best scientific evidence... would deliberately get infected in a political gamble Or fake it. WH doctors were cagey beyond our right as citizens to know what is medically happening to our President.
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  3821. Trump couldn't find his shit if he deposited it in a chamber post.
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  3822. Trump declared his 11,000 sq ft apartment as 30,000 sq ft. Not ever RE developer does this.
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  3823. @ammosophobia  Why Touquet? Be careful how you cross the Channel from England.
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  3824. @robinrennick2948  Bad days happens. I don't remember much of anything before my 4th birthday. There is a transitional loss. How joyous were the later moments of your breakfast on June 3, 2018?
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  3825.  @ronaldcole7415  dochira demo ii desu ne
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  3826. It would make sense for initial training of Ukrainian pilots first to train in France on these Mirages, while the logistics were set up in Ukraine. Will not be alone in noting that the best combat airframe to help the Ukrainian defense needs, is the Swedish Gripen.
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  3827. Sot. C'est en Afrique oriental que la crise frappe.
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  3828. Britain is unlikely to let what it considers iits former sovereign territory to be invaded, and Guyana might seek succour from the former colonial Power; alternatively, the United States might intercede to disturb Venezuela, long a thorn in the side.
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  3829.  @raisethebar9188  That begs further explanation
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  3830. Shut Russia off SWIFT!
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  3831.  @lorriemiller6750  That sharply is at variance with other legal reckoning available to the general public. Might you find a kind moment briefly to advise us on your stance? Tks.
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  3832. The map depicts the Pacific. To the far left is Guam. I have known Marines from Guam who insist that it is America.
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  3833. We might be on the verge of hearing the loudest hush-money scum in living memory.
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  3834. +google sucks On what basis do you value a threat as being :"eminent"? Does it require an advanced degree, or recognition by its peers... all the while an imminent threat might grab all the attention?
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  3835. +Lasse There had not since been such a sustained campaign of military provocation by the Russians or the predecessor Soviets. You'd have to go back to the time of the "Whiskey on the Rocks" incident to experience similar active hostility against Sweden.
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  3836. You might consider, in your wildest flights of fancy, that perhaps there were few reports about Sweden "being on the brink of collapse" ... because Sweden is NOT "on the brink of collapse." The Swedish diaspora is willing to help in dire circumstances, but that does not seem necessary.
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  3837. "infinite density" prior to the Bang, makes no sense. Density, as commonly we understand it, is the ratio of mass to volume. Incalculable mass to incalculable volume is not infinite - it is undeterminable.
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  3838.  @alexanderpoplawski577  then the term, "infinite density' might better be replaced by "indeterminate density"? That's the Heisenberg in me speaking.
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  3839. "Bases" might include overseas offices with a scant few military personnel.
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  3840.  @ibrahimhassan711  we enter into definitial turf wars. The common perception of what were "a base", should be capable of deploying aggressive manpower from its geographical site; three US personnel esconced in some cave in the Baltics, would not fit with our common understanding of what constitutes "a military base.". Please might you clarify?
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  3841.  @ibrahimhassan711  you lost the thread, perhaps deliberately.
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  3842.  @ibrahimhassan711  any existing of these shall have been included in a formal tally of bases. Dark matter resists being counted.
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  3843. Maggot Republicans are self-confident. Jordan said he knew that Americans were hungry for change. Maybe... but why are the Dems consistently beating you in our elections?
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  3844. My concept of "a godly man" does not include someone bragging about grabbing women by their genitals.
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  3845. The referendum was not a valid exercise in democracy. Some will protest that, yes: we had one person. one vote, honestly counted. I do not dispute that. The major failure was that there had not been an honest choice offered to the voters, and I am not alluding to alleged hyperbole or worse. One one hand, there was the remain camp: a vote for the status quo, quite clear. On the other hand, the Leave campaign advocated exiting from the EU, but had not fleshed out what they agreed that would mean... because they had no agreement. As the French Revolution taught us, cutting off the king's head while fundamental differences festered over what were to come next, can lead to horrible outcomes.:
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  3846. Trump "be like" - WTF?
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  3847.  @heyoou  He suggested injecting people with chlorine bleach in order to tame the coronavirus pandemic. Most 12-year-olds are not that stupid.
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  3848. 0:30 Fetterman reminds me of an exchange Churchill is said to have had (apocryphal?): ~Winston, you are drunk / That may be so my dear, but you are ugly. Tomorrow I shall be sober, but you will still be ugly.
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  3849. I am scared. He and Biden come from the same demographic cohort. The elderly sre not necessarily incapable, but the wisdom of best decision shall likely derive from best diverse input; Trump is his owndiversity. /(sidebar.. My bad spelling yielded "doversity" I like it. 8)
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  3850. No.
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  3851. WV has much stunning natural beauty, and might otherwise be attractive to a tech remote worker. On balance, they tend to be socially liberal, but the WV community won't be. A buddy who tried, felt like he was not welcome. He earned about 8x more than the county's median income, pumped money into a dying local economy... but the locals made him feel unwelcome. He, and his income, and his tax base, left.
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  3852. A billboard might have effect, if; on one side, we showed the resl Christian motivation toward forgiveness.... as clearly given in the Lord's Prayer versus Trump's vindictive public desire for revenge. Trump, a revenge machine, is no Christian.
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  3853. There are no guards at the borders. Musk had vehemently spoken of how he infected his right-wing views, yet remaining non-political/ Except that this person then tweeted subscribers to vote R. Most might not have seen his interference as graft.
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  3854.  @cesarcueto1995  France24 has a regular feature which explores this topic. How had you[at best] turned a blind eye the widespread rapine and murder in Ukraine been part
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  3855.  @cesarcueto1995  information is correct, accurate... or is not. Unlike other squishy matters which haunt human minds, data is not our worst nightmare, yet. I recently signed up IN ENGLISH for a medical plan, and got a confirmation notice in Spanish. Yo kyerro Tocco Belle.
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  3856.  @cesarcueto1995  "Ukraine is crawling with nazis." Most of the family of Ukraine's President had been murdered by genuine nazis . What is your major malfunction?
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  3857. The evictions will be problem.There can be a correction, but the housing market is unlikely to crash, as there physically is a shortage. The stock market can crash under any President, due to unforeseen shocks - but consumer demand is strong, and so are corporate profits.
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  3858. Not a valid tone of discourse.
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  3859. Far rage often expresses itself in terms of horror invented for theatrical effect.
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  3860. A ta guise, marquise.Ce n'est pas pour tout le monde.
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  3861. Russia is already very heavily committed in Ukraine. It probably has fewer available conventional assets in Europe than Britain, France, the Bundeswehr, let alone all 3 combined. I do not delight in the death of Russian soldiers who had not committed war crimes, but those deaths have become necessary.
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  3862. @RichardThomas-q4i  Having a second nationality will give you all the rights, but also impose all the responsibilities, of a native citizen. Once you're in the Schengen area, you can move freely in almost 30 countries. Enjoy!
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  3863. Does the wife mean that German threat of retaliation in the Totenkopf mode?
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  3864. cave@emptor
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  3865. Trump built an overall 'brand' based on him being only partially visible, maybe credible.. That clashes with being POTUS magasimus.
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  3866. I had been writing a reply to you. I touched nothing but my keyboard. One slight tap , and it was all lost. The PRC/People's Repression of China, has expanded its remit.
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  3867. War crime.
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  3868. If a tree falls in the woods, and a married man is there without his wife... is he still wrong? /The Tappet Brothers, public radio.
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  3869.  @farmcat3198  Probably not. But you would know that if you had ever been.
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  3870. I had friends whose mom moved them there, 11/13 y.o. a few months. She was super cool, but
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  3871.  @farmcat3198  No, whenever you get tens of thousands of people gathering for a good time, odds are that some will take scheduled drugs. OTOH the perception that it's a mecca for zonkers is false -as attested by Katyal, who is an officer of the Court.
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  3872. I genuflect before the memory of your dad. The Few are heroes of civilization..
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  3873. Not a fan of PRC, but the few similarities are obvious
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  3874. The Don compared his loud crowd at the Ellipse, with the amazing gathering elsewhere who heard MLK's "I have a dream" address before the Lincoln Memorial. Trump's bizarre fixation with crowd size... led him to believe that he was at least as popular or relevant as Dr. King. What a putz.
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  3875.  @Libanoni974  dans le cadre de notre metropole, IL y eut des fuites.
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  3876. Our Repulic had understood that our military power must never be allowed to harrass, to intimidate,, to threaten, We the People
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  3877. Trump's attacks on potential adversaries mirror how the Nazis destroyed the Weimar Republic. I am not calling Trump a Nazi; but the correlations or coincidences are disturbing.
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  3878. About 1:47 Cal not being connected to an interstate pipeline system is largely irrelevant: the State itself is a significant producer of oil,oil production bein the top money spinner in Kern County. You won,' see themin many cases, but LA is dotted with oil wells. The La Brea tar pits should give you an inkling that the State is not necessarily devoid of hydrocarbon resources. It is also a prime recipient of crude from Alaska's Pruhhoe Bay.. By the way, attractive places such as Paris or Amsterdam experience climbing homelessness rates because apps like airbnb remove homes from the housing market.
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  3879. There is no whiff from the nether lands TV
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  3880. A non-negotiable factor shall be: how severe might be any future lockdown? PRC had applied stress on international logistics to the breaking point. Don't do It again.
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  3881. BS. You gotta love these goofy supplications for Divine Wrath: I had been there 9 times, but BRC had not been scourged I like these words from the aftermath of the 1906 fire in San Francisco: If,as they say,God spanked the town For being over-frisky: Why did He burn the churches down And save Hotaling's whiskey?
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  3882. I respect and admire Dr. Reich; but I would offer that concentration of wealth in these recent decades had much to do with the inception of adopted new technologies in very rapid order. Flash lightbulb, your new invention happened seldom, and the underlying economic infrastructure was less adept at profitably adapting to disruptions than it is now. We can handle unbearable disparities of wealth within our own modernic societies.'The immense number of hungry beyond our walls should be debated as a matter of strategic concern
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  3883. The fascists are a core demographic in Trump's support base.
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  3884. Why is a supposed "news" network from Australia making derogatory comments on the Vice President of the US? Oh, right, you're owned by the Murdochs.
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  3885. MLK gave his "I have a dream" address from the Lincoln memorial; Trump adressed his 1/6 crowd from the Ellipse. Different territory.
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  3886. 'Donald Trump' + 'arrogantly'' ...is redundant.
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  3887. Given how the nominee has a track record of stiffing his creditors: that's just self-protection.
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  3888. Tulips. You won't graduate econ unless you had understood what had crashed the Dutch economy. Virulent expectations in an "investment" asset built on vapour, might crash at some later point. The object then will to be not the last sucker.
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  3889.  @_Romans10.9_  dismemory... This evening I saw horror in witness online at a person calling DeSantis opponents as "Nazis". However, genuine WWII Nazis had rounded up homosexuals, made them wear a pink triangle, and systematically murdered them. >Side matter: in haste / in error... I typed "withness". I like it.
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  3890.  @_Romans10.9_  Your needs are irrelevant.
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  3891.  @skp8748  You are entitled to your opinion; you are not entitled to force your hateful and ignorant opinion onto others. For the record: nobody I have heard of, or from, in such matters "can choose their children by force"... whatever that might mean.
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  3892.  @_Romans10.9_  There are many cases of unfortunate human beings who think they perceive reality better than do others. Now go and be a good little kid, and sit before that nice doctor who really wants to hear all about your problems.
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  3893.  @_Romans10.9_  Do your illusions of grandeur impede you IRL?
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  3894.  @skp8748  I have not heard of anyone teaching that children can be chosen by force. Do you have any verifiable instances of this?
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  3895.  @_Romans10.9_  Entire philosophies have been built upon examining your level of deceit. Be
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  3896.  @skp8748  Like most kids, I had to follow various curricula along my years in school. Do YOU know what you are talking about?
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  3897.  @skp8748  Why are you interfering in US politics? As you wrote "behaviour", you signaled that you are not an immediate part of our national conversation. Might you care to clarify?
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  3898.  @_Romans10.9_  I exist. I have substinence. . Is it one of your traits that you seek to deny the existence of your opponents, perhaps eliminate them if they become too inconvenient?
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  3899. These are facile fuels.
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  3900. We be Gaetz? Would have made more sense under the German bureaucratic acceptance of State. Gaetz is not fundamentally stupid, but he is too present. Long term threats clearly are not in his bowl of soup.
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  3901. Let the Sun shine in.
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  3902. Musk rats will fall for the inspired pitch every time.
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  3903. 'the media' is a dense thicket. There are "mainstream" outlets which are borne to report factually; then there is Faux News, and even less honest derivatived.
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  3904. ​@CookieMonster--most people will be unfamiliar with your proprietary humor. Care to share?
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  3905. ​@CookieMonster--do tell; please be specific in your response.
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  3906. ​ @robbiejones5634 Willis has a time line documenting her work.
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  3907. Aristotle himself stood on the shoulders of giants.
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  3908. For some reason, 'capital punishment' is much more popular than 'the death penalty',.
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  3909.  @lazykbys  That might work. Prayatory coercion always was on Amy's agenda. She testified under oath that Roe was stare decisis. First time she could reverse Roe, she did so - almost guaranteed to be her Senate confirmation to have been perjury. SCOTUS ethics lapses go far beyond Thomas's lavish paid lifestyle of the rich and famous.
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  3910. ​ @sonofwar6206 la junte est sous sanctions economiques par les USA, par le Royaume Uni, le Canada, et l'UE, entre autres.
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  3911. We have a malignant narcissistic contender for the Presidency, it is a cancer growing to metastasis. Trump is a tumor on our Republic al.
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  3912. Happy birthday , Donny draft-dodger.
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  3913. If you can't win on the strength of your arguments: you might revise your arguments; or instead you might destroy the system.
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  3914. 'Marjorie Taylor' + 'unhinged' is redundant.
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  3915. Hey, wait... "swearing in" isn't a ceremony where you launch insults at the newly-elected???
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  3916. Security footage can be helpful; yours was not compelling. When WWII broke out, Camus exppressed that: the world of the beasts has started. My rejoinder: the World of Wonder has been buriied some much indeterminate longer.
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  3917. Life goes on. Trump will rebound. He's been preparing for this over years.
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  3918. Undo burden?
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  3919. Fun interpretation. PRC's National stats have long relief on data from bureaucratic entities with vested interest to fudge the statistics. Of course all is for the best: that is what was ordered.
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  3920.  @MyDruidess  So are irrelevant comments. Your sheep are hungry for your touch.
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  3921.  @magaareinbredhillbillies  Trump's budgets were kind to the wealthiest.
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  3922.  @IMeMineWho  Have you any credible sources? Can you defend your demographic loopiness?
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  3923.  @michaelthompson9548  MTG thinks that the recent solar eclipse - predicted decades ago - was a precalculated warning by God against our tiny hill of beans .
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  3924.  @MyDruidess  Would you care to define a "commie"? Anyone who has read the Communist Manifesto would acknowledge that he is not a fellow Communist. Would you please share your personal interpretation of Communism? Thanks.
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  3925.  @JudyStroyer-bk6fb  Never closer to nuclear war? Do you remember / have you read, or heard about / the Cuban Missile Crisis? Funny or not, what you presented were opinions, not "facts". In the case of nuclear war, you are fully misguided. As for your economic nous: you fly in the face of observable data.
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  3926.  @JudyStroyer-bk6fb  give me a bucking freak. In the early '60s, both the US and USSR each had nuclear arsenals theoretically capable of obliterating all complex terrestrial life forms at least nine times over. Individual yield of any given device since achieved, does not factor into the already existential risk of global harm.
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  3927.  @haroldbrooks4235  so: they likely care more???
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  3928. Bravo; now deliver. Best I understand, the Novavax jab is available through the transport chain at the temperature of your fridge. That can make vaccine delivery faster and longer-lasting than was the case in many areas where a severe cold chain were spotty. Yay!
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  3929. ​ @Treddian  That might make the difference between a winner, and a victim even in winning. You might have some severe commercial in-fighting which concerns me not. Go away.
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  3930. Reality is for people who can't take drugs.
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  3931. I wonder. why - it seems - nobody wrote a song about Donald's second immigrant wife: "That's Why The Lady Is A Trump."
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  3932. An honorable mention for Eric Clapton: "Let It Grow"> It's not the flashiest, not the most complex - but it achieves its purpose perfectly to serve the song.
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  3933. Copy that: Taiwan is marvelous.
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  3934. Il y a discorde avec votre expression bien recente. SVP clarifiez?
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  3935. It gets even better than that. Human memory is not a cam witness video you might rewind. As we recall memories, we tend to reinterpret them, and these tweaks become embedded for next use.
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  3936. 0:50 based on... what? Otherwise healthy persons died of the bubonic plague. They dropped like flies.
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  3937. Donald Trump: the origin of speciousness.
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  3938. Trump should not have appeared on stage at the Buena Vista Socialist Club (/just kidding.) What I find more troubling, is that Youngkin, representing a Blue State with purple overtones, should cast his sacred honor with those who publicly state that their purpose is to dismantle our Constitution.
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  3939. Let's hope that our next crunch were so mild.
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  3940. He's sprightly. You might look at some video footage from neutral sources rather than rely on whatever propaganda feed got you to make that bizarre comment.
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  3941. Approx 1:18 SHAME on The Hill!!! You put on a video featuring a gomer who claims that the head of the independent, non-partisan OMB is"Biden's Budget Director". How can you post such GARBAGE?
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  3942.  @chrisbrent7487  According to USGS, Japan now is the second largest producer of Ti sponge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_titanium_production
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  3943. He got more than 70 M voters (or where they?) to "elect" him. There must be some slush left after that recent next-attempt donor fishing-deductible reel estate?
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  3944. @letthesunshinethru2355  censorship is an abuse of your xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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  3945. Trump wants to save his own bacon. This is not a great thinker. What might apply to lower rungs of civil service personnel, is of no matter to Trump.
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  3946.  @GabrielNavarro-bo7st  which Trudeau? Prime Ministers causing a ruckus... is par for the course, almost a requirement. Would you care to be somewhat less secretive?
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  3947.  @RhiannonMayou  / "You're" ?
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  3948.  @jeffrunyan2691  that was an initiative under the prime guidance of the EU. What other false premises will you infect?
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  3949.  @whoaskedforthisbs  had you consulted with a native English speaker before posting? Maybe not guilcup.
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  3950.  @jeffrunyan2691  Santos got in trouble; but then, term limits are not applicable in his case.
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  3951.  @jeffrunyan2691  at the behest of the European Union...? Quite rightly.
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  3952.  @SubUrbanNinja-EDC  Prove it.
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  3953.  @sakatababa  Might you please clarify the garbage soup you posted?
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  3954.  @kevinerbs2778  / you're ...?
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  3955.  @sakatababa  Why do you write 'usa'? I live in the United States, after having lived in Canada, Australia, Thailand, France, Britain, and Switzerland. I have never lived in "usa'.
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  3956.  @sakatababa "us'" is 'we'. Had you not expressed "usa" as an identity? Nor had you identified the land where my grandparents died... as citizens of the United States. How much sordid fun does your perversion require?
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  3957.  @sakatababa  no
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  3958. "The German Military will become Europe's most powerful -" NOT. France has a fleet of 4 SLBM-equipped submarines, plus an airborne delivery system of nukes via the Rafale N. Germany is not a nuclear power.
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  3959. The price tag is high. Australia already had a signed agreement with France to acquire diesel-electric subs, at substantially lower cost. Under current technology, diesel-electrics need to surface periodically to recharge the batteries, while a nuclear-propelled sub can go submerged beyond the endurance of her crew. Canberra overpaid for the capability upgrade, but has bought solidarity from the US.
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  3960. How will CCP deal with divided government? That's an alien concept.
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  3961. Pakman could be a lot more interesting if he eliminate excess commentary - my 2 cents, why I tend to ignore him.
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  3962.  @johnnysmith9155  Biblical Goliath was drunk. Give him a break.
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  3963.  @jimduffield7822  The lesson from WWII is: don't let a criminally insane person run your country.
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  3964.  @beanseason6515  There are strategic considerations still relevant today which were already ancient when Julius Caesar trod the Earth.
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  3965.  @RyanESmith-wf4cu  And you are full of shift. How far do you expect that Ukraine's Jewish President - most of whose family was murdered in the Holocaust - might be friendly toward the people who killed his family? Discuss.
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  3966. Most of the fuel used by the Luftwaffe over Britain during the Blitz.... came from the Soviet Union.
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  3967. Trump was just super-cool, he abbreviated 'hang ten' to just... 'hang'!
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  3968.  John Russell  Painful as it was, i do not dispute Britain's right to make a dog's breakfast of this matter.
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  3969. No sentient government might suggest that its financial responsibilities were questionable or in jeopardy. Your comment might have suggested an area of error to let the worst fears in finance to proliferate without obstruction. Not classicaly the best move.
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  3970.  @2Timothy42-tl6lh  Dios me libre de hombre de un libro. /Old Spanish wisdom: God save me from a man of a single book.
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  3971.  @kurtsakslsvideosaks9185  is it out of laziness that you call lawyers, "abogados" / a cognate with 'advocacy' ? Unless these were non-US citizens of legal residence participating in the disposition of legal cases in immigration status: you might look like a racist bigot. That was not your intention, was it?
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  3972. The "moustache man" was Pillow Man - not to be confused with Piltdown Man, who was vastly more credible
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  3973.  @patrickallmon7375  Had he said so? You might be aware of a biblical prohibition against bearing false witness.
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  3974.  @marshalljames8359  Canada had already gone over to the metric system when I lived there in 1986. Pints are not part of the metric system, at least not in Montreal.
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  3975.  @shanealan2168  well, maybe you should stop watching CNN.
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  3976. If protectionism forces me to buy from Producer A instead of Producer B: that is wallet slavery.
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  3977. When it takes 541 days to form a government, it is the Deep State which keeps things from collapsing. BTW, Brussels is officially bilingual, but in fact is overwhelmingly French-speaking.
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  3978. He wants to get sent to jail for a short spell, money magnet. MAGA morons will starve their children if this billionaire asks them for money.
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  3979. Before the inauguration, it can have been expected that Trump treat us to some mutter-folker words of incur rage meant.
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  3980. Donald Trump has asserted that he intends to disregard some provisions of the Constitution. Has his oath of office expired fully, now that he's out of office? If not, couldn't his refusal to uphold, protect, and defend the Constitution exclude him from holding office again under sec 3 of the 14th Amendment?
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  3981. 01:45 Five hundred plus prosecutions does not mean five hundred plus findings of guilt. In our system, one is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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  3982.  @jpriest2491  You must have a bee under your bonnet. There is an old wise saying that those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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  3983. Not so, but that belief might bring you comfort. Human beings and their societies are far more complex than that.
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  3984. Thank you for your more recent cover. Niobium had virtually disappeared from commercial availability on the strength of rumors which I shall not repeat. A critical nuclear test was put in doubt.
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  3985. +Unelected perspective Biden was simultaneously the greatest mastermind of the alleged Deep State, yet failed to protect his own son. Oops.
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  3986. Paid Russia agent?
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  3987. In the years after 1905 and before 1945, Japan and the Soviet Union met in battle many times. The Japanese did not fare well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_border_conflicts
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  3988. It's not funny, neither is it divine. <c> Want to stop conversation at a dinner party? Ask what Dante's fist name was ( also works with Rembrandt).
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  3989. Trump projects that his opponents would be as vicious as he is. Keep him away from car keys, let alone levers of government
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  3990. ​ @paulmcgrath2175  "whom have'" ? ???
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  3991. ​ @johndoe6032 Asked and answered.
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  3992.  @NRNF1776  Do you consider it normative that one issue threats of murder to persons of divergent opinions?
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  3993. It is a matter of protocol. Once you shall have achieved a high rank, you retain the title as an honorific... even though you no longer are a senator, ambassador, mayor, governor... or president.
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  3994.  @TannerMason  who are "they'? May I suggest that: just because some express themselves in a crass way, that should not be taken as permission to join a race to the bottom.
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  3995.  @marlene6024  "sir" with the capital 'S' indicates a knighthood, or equivalent/higher rank. In common parlance -at least in the US - it is shorn of hierarchy connotations. A dear young woman I know, addresses every homeless man she strives to assist, as "sir". That's courtesy, not a knighthood.
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  3996.  @argielita  regarding your comment: the first part is on the mark; the second element invites readers to speculate over what you are smoking.
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  3997.  @epb8070  that were unusual.
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  3998.  @argielita  Nasty habit. Where else do you get your hallucinations?
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  3999.  @terencehayward3154  I'll have to vote that comment down. You can't berate someone for dishonesty and then approve dishonesty against his behest.
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  4000. France has the world's third most powerful nuclear arsenal.If Russia sought to wipe out France, France would wipe out 90% of Russia's population. I don't expect the Russians to become suicidal over such minor provocation.
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  4001.  @rosanna5515  we're in the aging of the Dawn of Aquarius.. I am also of this time born, but I don't believe in astrology. Acquarians don't believe in astrology.
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  4002. How much 'kompromat' does Putin hold over Trump?
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  4003. De... qui?
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  4004.  @flober6454  Autrement, dis?
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  4005.  @flober6454  Un couplet requiert deux participants - ni moins, ni plus. Stop et arretes tes conneries.
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  4006. No se porque los algoritmos me mandaron este video platicando en mi tercer idioma?
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  4007. Don't take the Bible for gospel.
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  4008. ​​ @asheronthedruid had you read the First Amendment?
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  4009.  @kelbatt7729  the collapse as we know it might regroup as a system.
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  4010.  @LouieMcGood-ef6ud  As you express it, the D's would then have much to say.
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  4011.  @Stratmanable  do you?
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  4012.  @Stratmanable  Not quite. Some forms of speech are restricted by Law. For example, they will not let you get away with publishing nuclear launch codes.
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  4013. There's a car crash. The two drivers are unharmed but badly shaken. One driver pulls out a flask of brandy, and offers it to the other. "Good idea," he said, "this can help steady your nerves. Trust me, I'm a doctor". He takes a few big swigs, and offers the flask back. "None for me , thanks - I'm a lawyer".
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  4014.  Yuri  The funny thing is that you are too dumb to realize that you can't defeat anyone who is not fighting. There are no NATO forces in Ukraine.
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  4015. Eternal vigilance is the necessary burden.
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  4016.  @MM-sf3rl  fascism was not demolished after WWII - it just put on better makeup.
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  4017. Roman rule: your coin tossed into the Trevi fountain does not count unless your new heartthob helps you accept \or rid\ your
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  4018. It has become confounding to predict the present.
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  4019.  @answerman9933  Sounds like... to you.
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  4020.  @answerman9933  Whatever. There have been many peer-reviewed discoveries where Europe has contributed to humanity reaching toward a brighter Future. Find some elegance together townard them who strive to get us there.
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  4021.    ...and not well expressed. Those Orcs instead might find someone who speaks English well.
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  4022.    Your next best move might be to stop being an associate of massive murder.
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  4023. There was sufficient capacity for Gazprom to export to western Europe through existing arrangements, Last year, the year before, the year before that... there was no NS2, but there also had been no significant economic dislocation from lack of natural gas. Reconcile your statement with reality.
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  4024. @VidarLund-k5q AFAIK she is, iin biblical terms, 'gentile'. OTOH Her harsh manner would preclude a common understanding of the term, 'gentle'.
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  4025. Answer: the People's Republic of China.
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  4026. There is no such thing, according to FDA, as "North Atlantic tuna". Period. 'White meat", BY LAW, can only come from species t.germo. Other species might include t.albacares (yellowfin) and,my favorite (in trade), katsuwonus japonicus / skipjack. I smile when Japanese try to pass off this species as 'bonito'.
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  4027. Trump's speech followed that of his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani - who called for combat. Rudy arguably spoke in loco clientis, and Trump failed to countermand the statements on his behalf by his attorney. Shall Giuliani's more specific incitement not attach to Trump?
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  4028.  @CynLeeAm  persons with advanced social skills might easily transcend elevated boundaries Would you now be so bold as to preclude some or many from a decent life, for the misfortune of the circumstances of their birth? ???
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  4029. The tribes of Israel were not restrained as they gained bloody access to the civilized and already-settled Holy Land where Moses almost brought them. It was bloody murder, it was genocide. Don't kill the children as they enter your indentured service; massacre just about everyone else.; but at your discretion keep virgin women for your own purposes - that is genocide. You can't both be a Christian, and accept this fundamental degradation of humanity.
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  4030.  @windowclean100  I think you should know more about Law before posting such nonsense.
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  4031. They are called 'sports cars' because there is sport in driving them. As the driver reacts to the changing road and its conditions, the challenge s/he overcomes is getting it right in the immediate moment. Dumbing down the driving experience by removing a major skill requirement: getting rid of a manual transmission... well, that does not provide the sports driver the same dopamine hit.
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  4032. I do not condone the trauma she had endured. Yet many might have to endure she can have
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  4033. Malaysia seems rather prosperous.
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  4034. Trump makes me gag. That's an ordure.
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  4035.  @SopinannBandith  So what? Using its nuclear arsenal would invite immediate nuclear retaliation. Putin may be insane, but be does not appear to be suicidal.
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  4036.  @FlashoftheBlades  Norway is a founding member; Sweden just joined after over 2 centuries of neutrality. Finland joined last year.
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  4037. 'Vae Victis' should not be the motto of the DOJ.
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  4038. ​ @RikkiPakoputki douyate sonna koto to ieta kamo shirenai
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  4039. ​ @joeyex2684  is your day over? Trump might still be on sociyuck
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  4040. @suzanneflowers2230  Texas has lived massively off the federal teat. Texans should first talk to the rest of us who have long have subsidized them. Check the numbers. Blue States send a lot more money to the Federal Treasury than do Red States. It's not even close. South Carolina receives about four times more in Federal funding, than it sends back.
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  4041.  @md357.  would that be that troops which, by law (under Committee Comitatus) are prevented from enforcing politically disputed Law on American soil?
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  4042. Imagine if StripeMcr had a brain.
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  4043.  @francesstone.counsellor  if Canada became a State: the Republican Party would be in permanent exile, or have to refashion. Canadians are not as vicious.
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  4044. /the wife of Caesar must be above all reproach.
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  4045.  @HereticDuo  Lilly Tomlin had opined that: History would not repeat itself if we just paused to listen.
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  4046.  @legateotteriusozer8477  Its cantspell
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  4047.  @ИванОкеан-б6щ  Russia attacked Ukraine with ZERO provocation. As a party to war crimes, you are a member of a rare breed of humans who have no right to live.
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  4048. The police need to enforce laws, but also to ensure that laws are respected. Deeply unpopular laws can be enforced, but then the credibility of the police can become critically damaged, severely hampering their ability later to enforce the law .It's a difficult call.
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  4049.  @jjman533  the rules recommend that we do not scathe them we note are less than honest or honorable. I shall endeavor to abide.
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  4050.  @jjman533  light meat analysis.
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  4051.  @Sureyoudo  I am ready to accept what elements you can sustain. Go. Oh, let it be said... Yes, I have witnessed the processing of tuna for canning. Visits were not always the finest moments of my life. I stopped at every process station to ask the workers on the floor what provements best fitted their areas of work Get down and be sloshed with fish guts in a full day, then we might engage in a valid conversation.
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  4052.  @Sureyoudo  when had this process started? Let's assume that your report is accurate. The alleged machinery would likely cost more than the manual labor it were meant to replace. And that were to assume that components, spare parts, and expertise to make use of them, were deployed effectively. Would you shy from sharing the identity of this unusual tuna cannery? How had it also dealt with removing the dark meat along the bloodline, generally repurposed as cat food? You have some explaining to do.
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  4053. Under the Standards of Identity (i.e., enforceable regulations) fifty percent must be retained on a half-inch screen to get the legal designation as "chunk" canned tuna. I have seen little compliance with this over the few years
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  4054.  @thethoughtfulpeanut6662  That last comment of yours was goofy. Sardines are wild-caught; almost all tuna eaten by humans was wild-caught. Small amounts of bluefin tuna are ranched to be sold as sashimi-grade.
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  4055.  @bv3bv334  Heavy metals tend to bioaccumulate. Different species eat at different points in the food chain. Fishes which primarily predate on filter-feeders such as sardines and anchovies, will have lower levels of mercury and other nasties. I tend to favor tongol tuna, when I can find it.
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  4056. 2 Corinthians walk into a bar...
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  4057.  @ardalanhamidi5292 /your post of today I have a rather fair grasp of what NATO is, having served with a unit of the General Staff of a NATO member We worked with SHAPE on a routine basis. I do concede that I am indeed unfamiliar with what YOU perceive to be NATO's nature / role / character, etc. You appear to have a rather sinister understanding of where EU is headed, and you have a right to that. I'll leave you to stew in it.
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  4058.  @catherinemacaskill1421  you persist in a fantasy that Vance is capable of learning
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  4059.  @ЩанкинАлексей-и9д vas the faire
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  4060.  @silverblank1139  such as you say. As it were, much of an aircraft using titanium from a British supplier, might get it from RR... which avoids the Kroll process.
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  4061.  @irinalitvinova7823  , rutile is a raw material from which titanium metal is produced via the Kroll process, which is energy intensive. Remember, Ti also is used a lot in chemical engineering and marine applications due to its resistance to corrosion.
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  4062.  @bonnieblodgett  ...and it wasn't.
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  4063.  @bonnieblodgett  If indeed Ukraine were some mythical base against Russia: why had Kyiv been saved by the incompetence of Russia's deficient order of battle more than fully non-existent NATO troops anywhere near the battlefield of Russia's naked aggression?
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  4064. J'habite centre ville a San Fancisco, mais je n'ai rien vu de ce genre.
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  4065. There was an old saw that: Arafat never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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  4066.  @punchthem4582  As Sagan admonished: extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Where are yours?
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  4067.  @oolong2  you might be angry if over what happened to them, happened to you. Get some context.
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  4068.  @punchthem4582  continue laughing all the way to the blood bank. Your vicious policies will keep them busy.
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  4069.  @punchthem4582  net&yahoo is under indictment by Israeli tribunal for corruption. Is this your favourite perch?
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  4070. Trump has been impeached twice, but has zero sense of shame; nor do his Republican enablers in the Senate. Nixon resigned before facing the dishonor of impeachment; for Tramp, it's just another day at the office.
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  4071. @ItsMeMario-nm7rk  cryptic communications do not best serve a society wanting to live in a preferential form of electoral government. What is your preference for your needed deception?
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  4072. @PhillipJackson-n7m  are you truly so far removed from reality that you fail to remember that Trump was impeached TWICE in his first four years? OMG the horrible state of public education.
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  4073.  @Rob-metoo527  In the depths WWII, Britain was shipping supplies to the Soviet Union. Merchant mariners were glad to learn that they were on the Archangel convoy, because their chances of survival were higher.
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  4074. ​ @MarkSmithhhh the majority of Americans aren't paying attention. SCOTUS essentially green-llighted corruption on condition the quid pro quo be paid after the dirty deed had been done.
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  4075. ​ @MsTyrie No way.
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  4076. That is far out of line with current jurisprudence.
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  4077. Rebounding from an anemic Budget defense allocation, is no sign of express preparedness.
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  4078. 2:03 / Properly, a koan should be indecipherable when using normative tools of available logic. A koan should trigger an undue smile, and vice-versa.
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  4079. Jost enough.
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  4080. Ape Act. Other organizations specifically favoring the objectives of a foreign Power, become subject to minute scrutiny; for whatthefuck reason, Israel is exempt. Not even Canada - our friendliest and closest ally - gets such a pass. What gives???
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  4081. Disney stood up for human dignity under attack by DeSantis. My dis with The Mouse are comparatively trivial.
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  4082. There are none so blind as they who will nazi.
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  4083.  @robertgriffiths6484  slightly more than one percent at the ballot box had voted for the Orange One. Cancelling the trip might be a firm gesture, yet misplaced. You will feel comfortable in the West Coast, and we voted against thr deliberate chaos. Have mercy on your kindred souls. We are not all merciless idiots stupid enough to remove serious (vouched) personnel from overseeing nuclear gradients in stockpile
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  4084. @normacolon9618  Trump kept insisting that he was not as nasty as he turned out to be. Those 150 can have been deluded, but so were millions of American voters.
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  4085. Russia claims that their casus belli is to rid Ukraine of Nazis; meanwhile, Ukraine is led by a Jew whose family survived Shoah. How badly contaminated is Putin's brain?
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  4086.  @marialoshkova6857  Dochira demo ii desu ga.
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  4087.  @marialoshkova6857  Les Juifs ont souffert le plus sous les excretions de l'Union Sovietique. Vous etes parmi les pires des fournisseurs a imposer la famine pour des raisons politiques..
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  4088.  @marialoshkova6857  This discussion thread is "Russia has claimed that more then 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered in the besieged port city of Mariupol". If you don't want to read opinions about Russia, get the hell out of here. Oh, and I am familiar with the NSDAP.
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  4089.  @marialoshkova6857  Who are you talking to about Nazis? Well before kindergarten, my neighbors were Jews from Romania who had survived the Holocaust. They were like family to us. I saw the numbered tattoos on their arms - this is not abstract. I have known about, and hated, Nazis from a very early age. Roughly half of my childhood friends were Jewish. Oh, and by the way... my godmother was Russian. Go list yourself. `
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  4090.  @marialoshkova6857  That is massively inaccurate, but likely is consistent with whatever propaganda you were fed. Nazism was not based on nationality, but on ethnicity. Nazis considered Norwegians - who are not and never were Germans - as admirable Aryans, and possibly even superior to the Germans themselves, while they murdered Jewish citizens of Germany in appalling numbers. Beyond ethnic and racial prejudice, Nazism also includes a fundamental disdain for participatory democracy. If you have any doubt on this point: read Mein Kampf.
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  4091.  @marialoshkova6857  I had "studied the material" decades ago, and could not have graduated without doing so.
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  4092.  @marialoshkova6857 You are remarkably nasty in your persistence that you had enlightened me to the horror of Nazism. My family lived under Nazi occupation, my father and grandfather were in the Resistance - and families tell their stories to the next generations. A friend of mine's uncle was interned and murdered because he was homosexual. You are teaching me nothing, except that you are devoid of integrity.
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  4093. That's unfair. There is no indication that there's staunch support for Elon on the GOP side of the aisle. "Trump is always right"... That's what they said about Mussolini. You can still find it embedded in the mosaics of the Olympic stadium in Rome.
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  4094.  @bobsmith284  Trump's legal team tried to argue his case after it had already been adjudicated. The team sought to introduce elements which, in proper order, must have been produced at the voir dire phase. Trump's correct course of action is to file an appeal.. AFAIK no such appeal has been filed.
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  4095. It looks like your wallet allows very little room for cash notes?
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  4096.  @abcdedfg8340  'Sufficient for purpose ' can be fully acceptable; but it might not be, when the purpose changes.
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  4097. Nikki gave DJT her "strongest endorsement period'". It isn't the best topic for decent disscourse... but can't we agree to keep women's private menstrual cycles out of public oppobrium and even force of Law? If you think that Republicans can't possibly be that viciious: discover their Project 2025.
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  4098.  @hninzilwin3288  / debait
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  4099. It:s our man-infest destiny.
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  4100. Trump was born broken.
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  4101. " One big up or down vote" is a source of vulnerability. The Repubs have a razor-thin margin in the House. Three refusals kills a bill. Any Big Bill is likely to contain elements which individual members of the House might find objectionable. Fasten your seatbelts.
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  4102. In the short-term, most motor badges in the US will weather these new import taxes: until inventory runs out. We have a real recent experiment in what happens when demand falls short of supply. Idiot new Federal policies ahead of careful thought - clogs idiot supply chains. We are heading into a recession. Made by the current Administration.
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  4103. What's this thing about 'mind boggling'? Have you ever heard of anything else being boggled?
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  4104. 2014 - Dinesh D’Souza Sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court to Five Years of Probation for Campaign Finance Fraud. He clearly is not a hyper-partisan.
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  4105. Graham is what the KGB used to describe as a "useful idiot".
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  4106. @ Giovanni Yeah.... um, no. Aaron remains the worst Burr in American history.
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  4107.  @breadnewbie6326  That is highly unlikely. Senior military officers make the decisions.
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  4108. "man bites dog" is not a headline; "Trump bites Truths not a headline.
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  4109. Is it sheer coincidence that we now have US immigration waivers for White South Africans , in the same time that we furiously are deporting from our shores persons who don't look like Elom Musk? Privilege has its membership.
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  4110. You won't change them The US clearly stood to benefit if the US were some block. Among Americans, shifts in international trade might help some, disadvantage others. It can be that a highy-slilled American worker earn more for a complex task than a lower-skilled northward migrant. The factory manager once admitted that he could not get the skilled people he needed: because (aiming to his arm northward...) they had all gone there.
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  4111.  @donsutton738  "Steve Miller" is a beloved rock/pop star; the scum political hit man, "Stephen Miller", is less well known. It most likely otherwise would be somewhat fun to see a horrid Republican House flail in the wind; but the People's House must remove its finger from its rectum, and get at least SOME non-contoversial projects approved.
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  4112. Japanese troops generally did not respect their adversaries. On many occasions, the German military in command had declared their city under occupation to be open - we now have Rome and Paris very much as the jewels they were before the War. Not all Wehrmacht commanders were evil.
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  4113.  @hanoitripper1809  What does that mean in English?
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  4114. Let's look forward to the day when the port hosting Russia's Black Sea Fleet is renamed: 'Devastopol'.
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  4115. Gaza will feel great retaliatory pain. God have mercy on the innocent.
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  4116. Thank you, darling. It took guts to be faithful to the Constitution, and not to the man
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  4117. 11:45 Trump Force One? What the flux? Well, OK, it's Fox networks struggle to balance being a Trump sick-o'phant, and a shameless Trump shill.
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  4118. There was a misunderstanding, maybe a mic was faulty. Trump's intention was to train the swamp. He is scenile..
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  4119. Rheinmetall does not have a rapid production capability for Leo2's. These tanks come out of inventory from the Budeswehr, and from the armies which had bought their own.
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  4120.  @narmortein537  What are your sources?
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  4121.  @markusmuller6173  "the border" is the Taipei airport. Pelosi flew in. Remember, Taiwan is an island.
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  4122.  @narmortein537  Why investigate Fort Detrick, even if you could? What would need to be verified is not the development, but the alleged use of chemical and biological weapons.
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  4123.  @markusmuller6173  I have no idea what you mean. For my part, I have lived in 6 countries, had my own passport for over 50 years, and presented it 3 times on arrival in Taipei.
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  4124.  @DccAnh  The Japanese Sixth Area Army covered central and southern China, and several independent armies reporting directly to the central command in Nanjing were used for garrison, strategic reserve and for specific operations. By the war's end it consisted of 1,050,000 men in one armored and 25 infantry divisions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Expeditionary_Army
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  4125.  @DccAnh  The Japanese army in China remained a potent military force up until the end. It is the Chinese army which had major supply and logistics difficulties. There was no port available for the Allies to provide supplies - these had to come over the Burma Road (or the Ledo Road, at other times), with some most urgent shipments airlifted over the Himalayas. In contrast, Japan's essential major logistics point of vulnerability would have been the narrow transfer of supplies from the home islands to Korea - for decades administered as an integral part of the Japanese Empire; and Korea was a significant component of Japan's military-industrial complex. You might have been led astray by a recent trend in "just in time delivery". The Japanese commanders, like commanders elsewhere and at other times, would have pressed hard to get what they needed for the prosecution of their military objectives - with a large margin of error. "The US provided significant support to China, but you will be resistant to this notion (and I don't ant to waste too much time correcting your bovine excreta. "They never once send troop nor help to China"... there was an unofficial combat air corps, commonly known as the'Flying Tigers, sent to help China even before the US was at war.. Read and learn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers Your response was not highly informed. Unlike your assertion, US financial and material aid to China in WWII was massive under the Lend Lease program, including 125 P-43 Lancer fighter planes in 1942... etc. You can red more of US air engagements over China at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_engagements_of_the_Second_Sino-Japanese_War
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  4126. I have lost the lust to celebrate any combat death among my enemies.
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  4127. The national interest had been well served; your mileage might vary,
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  4128. There are strong allegations from US, and British intelligence that PR Chines actors and Russia's GRU are manipulating social media to sow doubts over the safety and efficacy of vaccines available in the West. Beyond that, there are domestic nutcases who are having a field day.
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  4129. Trump has a Jewish daughter. How can he get away with antisemitism?
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  4130. You do understand that national priorities might not match with those of concern at a local level, right?
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  4131. You are alive. Why you would prefer to collapse our outer protective layers is just too bizarre. You might care to explain. Passing a law that "all federal employees can be fired at will for refusing oversight by congress" is a recipe for gridlock both in Congress, and within the rest of the government upon whose functions and services we rely. Had you found some previously unexplored area which allow us not to collapse, but still tickle your destructionist fantasy?
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  4132. We have not been brought into a hideous global war since we became serious about providing foreign aid. Although we are the #1 providers of foreign aid in gross tonnage, that is also because America's economy AND its population is huge. In relative terms, we have nothing to boast about. The last time I had a similar argument, was before the pandemic. At that time, the US officially gave a bitpver 0.3% - yes, zero point three percent - of GDP to foreign aid. Norway gave more than 3x as much as a proportion of their GDP per person. [/BTW, Norway is darn rich.] Other countries which gave more official foreign aid on a percentage basis of their GDP, include: Japan, Australia, NZ, Denmark, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Canada, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain. Portugal. Italy, Switzerland, Austria...are you getting the picture yet?
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  4133.  @xfiles4792  First, we provided foreign aid to Pakistan - the country, not to local army officers who apparently had turned a blind eye to OBL hiding up in Abbottabad, Second, the sums involved were relatively trivial to the point where they would have made no difference in SS or Medicare. Third, we absolutely needed Pakistan's cooperation for providing the logistics to sustain our armed forces in Afghanistan. In that light, yes, it was money well spent.
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  4134.  @xfiles4792  Your POV is noted. Including military aid to Ukraine, it amounts to less than 0.3% of the federal budget, so scrapping it all will have little impact.
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  4135. There are free grammar help resources. Get help.
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  4136.  @needinput9805  Actually, they are doing well in their fight against those Russian Nazis.
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  4137.  @fredm4197  Nor so: that number includes civilians.
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  4138.  @Commandelicious  Not so. T At least iitially, they were integrated into the command of OKH, but were kept out of OKW, They were never integrated into the Wehrmacht.
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  4139.  @tanyawales5445  At the start of the invasion, Russia's population was 145M; The consensus of estimates is that 1.5M Russians fled the country either for political reasons, or mostly to evade conscription,
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  4140. For lying out crowd!
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  4141. I am not a forensics expert; but I see clearly that the outblast comes from the rail bridge, to the right in the video frame.
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  4142. Strangely, Sinema projects nothing.
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  4143. Casualties don't presage victory. For some warfare: victory does not result from how many or how few you lose... but from how many you have left.
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  4144. ​ @saviola5194  ...as with Pickett's charge at Gettysburg? Napoleon said that an army marches on its stomach. That is a brief statement that a commander - unless exceptions - should avoid outpacing the supporting logistics.
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  4145. ​ @Joe-xi9pn  Patton is relieved of command. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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  4146.  @carlitolegaspi5271  Trump has shown signal markers of dementia. After some age, this stalks us all. I will not gloat, for I am also becoming vulnerable. Worse than getting old... is not getting old. You might sit below a tree and aspire to wisdom from your meditations; but kids will want to climb a tree.
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  4147.  @jrcastillo2824  clarify pls
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  4148.  @markanderson3509  'telepromptor ' is an instrument. Caveat
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  4149. Trump's first wedding was officiated by Norrman Vincent Peale. In contrast with Saint Paul: some might find Peale appealing, and Paul appalling. 2 Corinthians walk into a bar...
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  4150.  @jrcastillo2824  the internet has some/but few, exclusive portals where you are. You have access to centuries of wisdom, and the latest scores. First access must have been ecstatic for those closest to benefit.; second access went from 'do you have an email address'... to ' What is your email?' That was a significant shift.
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  4151.  @vitolast5199  there are measures where a criterion might exceed parameters, under which function remains undiminished. This has been a perspective subject to a measure of misfortune.
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  4152.  @melissamorton1282  if you know what you want to say: a teleprompter can be a distraction, a divergence. In our college computer link room - old days, low bandwidth, and such: we featured a portrait of Tito: Trash In, Trash Out.
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  4153.  @Tomscomment  the First Amendment extends to a vibe, if it extend toward fascism or in the pocket of a Justice of the Court.
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  4154.  @feedingravens  Trump was born with more money than most of his voters will earn in their entire lives. He's almost as much a "self-made man" as King Charles.
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  4155.  @jrcastillo2824  if you don't know what else, clarify butter. Ghee whizz!
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  4156.  @celticman1909  replace the name, retain the propaganda.
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  4157.  @mytruecrimelibrary  because of the pants risk, Trump is not allowed to campaign in fire high-risk zones.
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  4158.  @jrcastillo2824  I y y, whatever. You win the garglement.
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  4159.  @anitaqueen-brown1569  millions of voters never saw a political figure speak without a teleprompter. Biden might lose track without a teleprompter; Trump might lose English diction: he's that far gone along the spectrum.
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  4160.  @1432b  of course he does; he might not be relying on it so much... but it has become an essential tool of statecraft.
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  4161.  @Lee-kv1yh  how might it have become that Trump might unusually have been bedevilled by inadequate positioning? A well-heeled paid floor staff shall have dealt with this; we have dealt better as unpaid volunteers who knew nobody else nearby.
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  4162.  @jrcastillo2824  that might be best. Injury to democratic principles are easily inflicted, but difficult to repair.
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  4163.  @mikelt31  Fox "News" reports at odds with other outlets, including BBC, F-24, DW, CBC, NHK... which are all chartered BY LAW to report accurately and without favor. Fox has become a format where the ownership's propaganda has become fatally entertwined with its "news" feed. Don't just think outside the box... Kick it away.
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  4164.  @bobdavis1895  Trump is allergic to paying his contractors.
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  4165.  @marcus6251  you obviously have never been in business. If you don't need outside finance, one of the few incentives to have an investor is if he brings something more than money: skills, contacts, name recognition, etc. If not, the investor will dilute your equity, charge you high interest, or both... not to mention possibly meddling unhelpfully.
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  4166.  @jrcastillo2824  you made a statement addressed to me, which was perplexing.
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  4167. Trance gender- get over it
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  4168. That can sound good and fine, but Putin clearly is insane. What might he do next? Finland now is less at risk from that crackpot.
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  4169. Hungarians are not universally fascist-leaning. Orban, like other authoritarian hard vomits, first tries
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  4170. Maybe Trump thought that "burner phones" were only communication devices used at Burning Man.
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  4171. French is a Latin language. Why is Quebec not considered part of "Latin America"???
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  4172. Zen And The Art Of Prison Survival: "The Gaetzless Gate."
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  4173. There is no "dark side of the moon." As a matter of fact, it is all dark.
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  4174. The loss of a language is the removal of some of Humanity's heritage, and of our common brain.
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  4175. The nomination of Kash Patel is just one more exertion of Donald Trump speaking power to Truth.
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  4176. It must have been Junior's GAAP year at Wharton.
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  4177. Moggy has stopped purring.
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  4178. Thanks for your service.
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  4179. Unless you're using a battering ram!
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  4180. I once had trusted you.
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  4181. A Russian missile striking near Warsaw would be an Article 5 violation. Russia's putrid military could not stand before the full force of the UK, of France, perhaps not of Italy? Apart from its nuclear component, Russia has been shown to be a paper tiger, in in
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  4182. Another option could be to appoint a well-respected Special; Master, who then review the documents in question to determine if these indeed should be protected from public scrutiny for reasons of national importance. If not, these should be released if they show that Trump was conspiring to overthrow the 2020 election.
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  4183.  @charliewise5195  when your finance worth is large enough, your perspective changes.
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  4184. AFAIK nobody recorded a track: "That's Why The Lady Is A Trump"... such an obvious target...
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  4185. Il suffit d'etre d'accord aux moments precaires.
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  4186. DeSantis is killing his constituents through his politically driven Covid-promoting policies. Does that make him a stone-cold murderer?
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  4187. +Aziz I had merely pointed out that you are immensely ignorant vis a vis Sweden's adherence / OR NOT/ to U.S boycotts. You are a genuine idiot in these matters. Your propaganda tactics are chillingly close to earlier uses pioneered by Joseph Goebbels. Please stop.
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  4188. "Scenes a faire" is a French term - which generally would, in English Law, indicate some level of antiquity. What say you?
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  4189.  @Tunda2  Trump called for the murder of Milley. It's a matter of record. Trump called for using the military to suppress peaceful protest it's a matter of record.
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  4190. Bad press did not increase sales of the Ford Pinto.
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  4191.  @YouTube_is_full_of_trolls  Noise can be louder than the product itself. I had been in the Mojave desert when USAF had been performing their drills. The planes themselves were barely heard; the sonic booms were hard to ignore.
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  4192. Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice is also great, and would suffice. (from memory - Robert Frost, "Fire And Ice")
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  4193. Ars Gratia Artis
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  4194. Impeachment is a Constitutional remedy to address frolic or misconduct in furtherance case of otherwise lack of estoppel.
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  4195. Trump is a fascist. What surprises you about his behavior?
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  4196. Vox populi, vox dei.
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  4197.  @mytruecrimelibrary  Remember that citizens don't elect the president - the States do. If you are a citizen but not resident in a State or DC: you have no vote.
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  4198.  @skeeterbodeen8326  It suggested that you knew how to spell "you".
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  4199.  @singingtruth9367  the dominant party is apathy. Trump blatantly said that he wants our lives to be ruled under a dictatorship. Note to the Military: you are sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. You must not engage in discharging a lawful order unlawfully demanded. The Fourth Reich ends with you.
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  4200. Pro tip: only have credentialed reporters who are not allowed to report.
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  4201.  @zoer7338  Know doubt is what Vlad the Inhaler should have thought about before his vicious full-scale "liberation" of Ukrainians who did not welcome his "liberation".
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  4202.  @oceanbreeze1162  They do seem to be highly vulnerable to American Javelins and British NLAWs.
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  4203. The civil infrastructure as they did hit, are instances of war crimes.
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  4204. Mark Mohr: would you then accept that Evangelicals mustn't boycott Goya if its CEO says we should all worship Satan?
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  4205. Please use all caps only for emphasis, or in citation.
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  4206. Marcus Benengerricus was eliminated when Caligula became Emperor. They were thorough in those days.
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  4207. The landed catch generally is not what Brits want to eat; while continentals go "yum!." There had to be some compromise.
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  4208. Iran has increased enrichment far beyond any level needed for civilian applications. They are said to have achieved 60% U235 enrichment, while typical PWR reactors work at lower than 7% U235. What's their game?
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  4209.  @Tony-x8z1n  .. and Santa brings nice presents to all good children. Wouldn't you feel better if instead you told the truth?
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  4210. Russian oligarchs have found their offshore bank accounts frozen, their super yachts impounded, their Belgravia flats seized. More than likely this was not pleasant to them.
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  4211. For some undisclosed reason, you considered that important or relevant.
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  4212. Fifty quid is quite generous on the face of it... but you might whisper sweat nothings in her ear which justify the cost. And, yes, I am aware of the spelling matter.
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  4213. Even let's allow for a spike in abduction of family pets... Would preening your pooch be less endusiasticly branded to caterers of dog food. pet got your tongue?
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  4214. That sounds like the NSDAP had a plan - somewhat like Project 2025.. They moved swiftly to infiltrate, then demolish, the "administrative state". This "administrative state" kept things running during the dysfunctional 4th Republic in France, during most of Italy's post-WWII chaotic existence. A government led by cronies in hock to a con man, is no way to lead our Republic through this century.
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  4215. ​ @crushycrawfishy1765 Don't be surprised. Due to immigration, the "average Japanese-American" can not have any familial memory of the unconscionable internment of Americans of Japanese origin during WWII.
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  4216.  @joeyhoy1995  That's an interesting concept. By the mid-1920s, even after the worst of the Depression, America essentially had manufacturing supremacy. There were setbacks, there were glitches, but the job got done. Here is a shout 'hurray' to those who worked for our war production, for the many who kept them fed, and them who kept their families nourished.
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  4217.  @joeyhoy1995 At the outbreak of WWII, the Kriegsmarine had offensively become a dangerous submarine fleet, but there was effectively little else operating from northern Norway. The Allied Murmansk and Arkangelsk convoys mostly got through, over time. The Soviets ,later today's Russia,still refuse to acknowledge the harsh sacrifice of the Merchant Marines, nor the help provided to the Soviet Union. Manifestos of ships safely arrived at dock, show that Western allies provided 42,000 trucks. Plus huge supplies of fluids ,fuels, food, ammo , needed to fight. Please take a moment to pay respect to the brave who kept the Soviet Union supplied in the.common Demand against inhumanity.
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  4218.  @joeyhoy1995  your opinion is yours. It can be welcome. ---- What can not easily be glossed over, is pure BS. Under no unstoned assessment does the US have such capability. Your welcome to challenge includes a demand for CREDIBLE factual evidence. Thanks for your patience.
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  4219.  @joeyhoy1995  Not to put too much a point on it - your point is crap. SIPRI recognizes that a full initial nuclear exchange of vectors will then become redundant: there will not be left enough worth destroying.
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  4220.  @n484l3iehugtil  German citizens who were targeted during Krystalnacht more than likely felt a disturbance
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  4221. In the final of the World Cup when they played AT HOME, the Blacks only managed to beat the French squad by 9-8. That is hardly dominant.
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  4222. Boris had stated his preference to be dead in a ditch rather than ask for an extension. Might that drastic outcome perhaps be guided by approval from more than the 0.13% of the electorate that chose him as PM?
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  4223. What origin story do white South Africans tell themselves?
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  4224. I would ask Chomsky: who are you to tell me to question authority?
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  4225. 80 combat-ready Leos can be a potent force; better than not having them.
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  4226. Some are born to change; Some achieve change; Most have change thrust upon them.
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  4227. Enmity is a mobile concept.
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  4228.  @guillaume3448  (Pas comme en Russie)
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  4229. Hitting a target is not always a heavy lift; not getting hit as a target can be more of a problem.
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  4230. Il n'existe aucune coalition qui ouvre une voie au pouvoir pour Zemour.
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  4231. Let's see if Cannon Law now changes.
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  4232. How much longer must we wait before Trump nominates a horse to a cabinet position?
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  4233. Aren't Covid shots the leading cause of starvation? That is a stupid question, but were admissible.
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  4234. Fascists must never achieve power by force - not in the US, not in Brazil, NOWHERE.
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  4235.  @remmujone  Violent attempts at overthrowing legal governance tend to be fascistic in nature, such as the Munich putsch which had Hitler condemned to prison (where he wrote Mein Kampf - should you need to be reminded ) Your love of fascism is a choice protected by the 1st Amendment, but it is not pretty.
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  4236. Trump had shown himself as a narcist elevated to extraordinary power. She will be a puppy in his hands.
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  4237. There indeed will bee instances in which dead persons voted. I voted this last Sunday, perfectly legally; if, tomorrow, I get splatted by a speeding truck: my vote shall have been one cast by a dead man. For those among you who are still reading: please assess the risk/benefit ratio. If you are not eligible to vote, and you do (or try), the penalties can be massive - while the benefits are negligible. Immigrants without legal sanction will typically seek to remain in the shadows - a bust turn signal light can lead to deportation.
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  4238.  @Enbionic_Titan  Some forms of song or of music are particularly repulsive to many, but I will concede that there is immense variability of preference among humans. A major difference is where someone hears a tune they don't like, and the reaction might be: YAWN. A person who had grown up bathed in the music from earlier generations will tolerate it more easily then someone so had become confronted with the audible options which deliberately were disruptive. Which reminds me: there was a German city (Munich, if I recall) which tried to use loud atonal music to clear out areas where junkies and drug dealers gathered. The experiment was inconclusive, but again - junkies can be very tolerant of what they have to endure to get their fix.
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  4239. You chose to compare the F-35 with the Rafale-C - which was mot as impressive on your 3rd criterion:: stealth. It might have been more appropriate to compare with the stealth version: Rafale-D (discret).
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  4240. +Dra O The most productive States tend to be blue states. Most of the top net contributors to the Federal budget are blue states. Most of the net recipients of Federal dollars are red states. Of the top 10 states in household in median household income: 1 is red (Alaska - because it has lots of oil and few people), 2 are purple (NH and VA), and the rest are blue.Of the bottom 10: nine are red, the exception being NM.
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  4241. +togowack Silicon Valley is a Democratic stronghold - the Repugs are functionally extinct. That does not fit in with your narrative, does it?
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  4242. +Joe Meatballs Would you care to check how well Kudlow did, as an analyst, in forecasting the 2008 financial crisis (or even in recognizing it as it began to unfold)? You might be surprised.
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  4243. +pfflam Thanks for the heads-up. South Korea is just one example of a resource-poor economy which had grown prosperous on the basis of heavy public investment in human capital. Denmark also has few natural resources, but invests heavily in its people. The United States certainly had not poured anywhere near as much money into Denmark as into AL(where the largest employer is the Redstone Arsenal) and MS - to say the least. As to AL having no tourism... the state's wiki page says they get 20M visitors/year (4x the population), contributing 162,000 jobs, Doesn't sound like nothing to me.
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  4244. Billy Long, Public Enema #1
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  4245. Le Koji a in avantage substicants
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  4246.  @remoraexocet  Koji fan tutte. Fais ta recherche. C'est un mycelium avec des pouvoirs quasi mythiques. In biftek de genre modeste peut devenir presque moelleux avec une impregnation de 2 jours. Quoique, je n'ai aucun truc ni interet financier en cette matiere, fais ta propre recherche. Bons calins d'un expat en Californie.
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  4247. Humpty Trumpty sat on a wall, Trumpty had no sense of how far he has fallen.
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  4248. Tariffs are inflictions of mutual domestic harm. If we might survive Trump's bewitched folly... we might avoid the meltdown of Thy Great Depression which led up the rise of the 3rd Reich.
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  4249.  @crisnmaryfam7344  Thunderrfoot on YouTube has paid more attention to Egad Musk ventures in finance and industry; I worry about his + right wing politics. He was an illegalyy resident
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  4250. / carbon credits which the Lord and Master of the White House cannot stomach? There's get to. be A Desk and
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  4251.  @erosgritti5171  unless you might be a grifter, you don't make money unless you generate profits. How do you bankrupt several casinos in the largest and richest motherlode assay of gamblers north of the equator?
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  4252.  @itsme-tw8nq  that would be illegal, except for treaty restrictions.
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  4253. @TheMsLourdes  it has/might not be a large divergence? There is tenuous circumstance when one might pay for delivery (and the role of 'San a ). Quel qui sersit ... On a faim!
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  4254. @robertadorian4234  most advanced customs territories have searchable database availability. Give it a try. Such swinging import duties on Tesla vehicles would violate the USMCA pact. Do please seek credible verification.
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  4255.  @itsme-tw8nq  that won't wash. Banning the sale of items in commerce carries a risk of backlash. Kids begin to smoke well before legally thy can. Let's allow an asterisk here.
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  4256.  @ShantaRaghavan-c3l  bad assessment. Trumsla will attract more brand attrition than might have been blinkered forecast. If the Tsar will only hear agreeable news, he might not be told that the next building is burning.
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  4257.  @LegalEagle  contracts in defiance of legal norms are unenforceable. Do what you do.
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  4258.  @freezedeve3119  Had you ever served as a juror?
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  4259.  @LuisSierra42  Musk for what? He can not become President unless there were an enabling constitutional amendment. That won't happen.
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  4260.  @goldenvulture6818  I had been selected; the accused accepted a plea deal.
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  4261.  @harlempixie338  the Russian language does not have common prepositions.
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  4262.  @osmosisjones4912  what is your native language?
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  4263.  @SonsOfLorgar  ...and they can't write like a normal person
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  4264.  @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095  how much were you paid to write this?
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  4265.  @XzTS-Roostro  Agreements in defiance of Law are unenforceable. Vote where your conscience leads.
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  4266. How does the koolaid taste?
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  4267. D P R K launched an attack on civil discourse. Theirs might be a point of view worth considering; sabotaging all discussion does not let their perspective be heard.
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  4268. I want my MTG... in jail.
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  4269.  NBA  I have a question for you: are you capable of formulating a question in proper English?
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  4270.  NBA  Su respuesta es desequilibrada.
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  4271.  @Sandusky2002  There's a major difference between Palestinians in Gaza, and those in the West Bank. In WB they live under harsh conditions; in Gaza, they live under intolerable conditions, at the behest of the Hamas-dominated government popularly elected. That is as it would seem. This new Hamas offensive might be timed to thwart s rapprochement between Israel and the Saudis.
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  4272.  @SilentSam-yi3yt  My personal go away, idiot.
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  4273. A buddy surprised me with a lousy stat: that there was a Red Lobster in each State... except for Maine. Maybe because, under local legislation, only a North Atlantic lobster can be called "a lobster"? Enquiring minds want to move on.
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  4274.  @289cobra9  Trump still asserts that he is President. Don't derive a parallel "truth". Trump los in 2020. SAY IT lourd and clear.
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  4275.  @289cobra9  I have not sought consultative independent counsel; then, light knowing,: I am not a litigant nor a defendant in these matters. As a reminder to you: these are topics which might best have been spoken about and about.. sub rosa.
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  4276.  @289cobra9  Based on your dodge past and far above your recommended dosage: how do you manage to cope?
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  4277.  @YoutubeSupportServices  I regret to come across persons, or info substitutes, which harbor stupid concepts of "communism" . You put a scarecrow in men's field of honor, and soon it will become just another pile of straw.
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  4278.  @philh2932  Trump's track record on negotiating deals which do not involve him or his family, is underwhelming. Maybe we should let his corrupt instincts pervade all levels of government just to make neo-fascists swoon? Remember that von Papen also thought that he would contain Hitler.
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  4279.  @mjgholdings2510  enjoy the ride
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  4280. How far might postpartum Presidential immunity carry? Can Trump walk into a pawn shop, lift a gun, leave with all the cash, and be held harmless? I hope not.
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  4281. ​ @DaveSchultzXXL the only cure for you cannot be available under terms of service.
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  4282. ​ @luvyadublin Trump hates anything he can't control - and that is pretty much everything you listed.
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  4283. The opposite of 'prophane', is 'sacred'. Pave paradise, put up a parking lot.
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  4284. The 2nd Amendment is predicated on a well regulated militia. The Founding Fathers were suspicious of a large standing army which can become the plaything of a head of state. They instead preferred that our common defense should rely on mustering the militia among us. That's why we have the 2nd - the ONLY component of the Bill of Rights which begins with an explanatory preface. BTW, I'm not against gun ownership. I have found that shooting a clip or two at a firing range helps to reduce stress. The Army thought I was good enough to give me a medal for shooting well. I have friends who live in the boonies, and if some Bad Guys come around, it might take a half hour before the cops can respond to 911. I'm glad that they are packing, in self-defense. I just don't want many unregulated guns in my very densely-populated neighborhood.
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  4285. What might you suggest were his doctoral thesis?
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  4286. Trump shows the signs of decline where the family had to take away his car keys.
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  4287. Putin's not scared of the Russiann People; but he has reason enough to fear his extended praetorian guard.
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  4288. Don't encourage her (or any other member of Congress) to go to Kabul. The troops would have to spare one or several officers to babysit her, and divert a security detail for her protection. They have better things to do.
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  4289. Eskamani? That's not a WASP name. How dare she run for office, just because she's a citizen???
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  4290. Russia launched a war against Ukraine. That's hardly peaceful.
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  4291. Trump is as "Christian" as King Charles Is Hindu.
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  4292. "The System" has been collapsing since (at least) the mid-1970s / or so.we have been repeatedly scolded. To be fair, the Roman Empire took centuries to collapse. What ARE your projections?
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  4293. ​ @AdamsLachlan  is that 'stalking'?
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  4294. ​ @psychette8846 that would imply some very weird aggregate. A person does need to sleep, and there are only 24 hrs in a day.
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  4295. At Burning Man, we learn water discipline. When you have to truck or trundle every gulp: that will focus you.
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  4296.  @Mikesorrento3344  The current high rate of inflation is primarily due to supply chain disruptions. If you can actually get your products loaded into your FCL (if you can find one, that is), shipping a container from the western Pacific costs 8 times more than prior to the pandemic.Once it gets to the US West Coast, your cost continue to go up because of the delays to get the ship into port, then to get a truck with a skid and a driver. As you might have noticed, inflation has gone up sharply in Britain, EU, Japan... well, pretty much everywhere. Because of covid, we spend less on services or experiences (travel, concerts, dining out, haircuts, and so on) and instead spend more on physical stuff. That drives up prices.
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  4297. What's the difference between an opponent and a beautiful occasion? Timing.
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  4298.  @trappedunderground  OK on your first point; if you are unable to fund the defeat of the 3rd Reich, start learning German.
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  4299. El Pueblo unido... Hamas sera vencido.
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  4300. SPQR
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  4301.  @Mary-gp9qk  That might make sense in a parallel universe?
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  4302. It takes a team.
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  4303. Donald pontificated from his Hannibal lectern. Most of us don't want a President who favors cannibalism.
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  4304. Trump might get better lawyers if he paid them. You don't need to be Katyal to see that Trump's legal team is not excellent.
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  4305.  @jJust_NO_  Yes. Ergot infection of crops have explained incidences of mass hysteria, when the local grain crop had been "touched". The effects have not always been a round of 'kumbaya'
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  4306. Is there no coincidence that Liz the truss was the shortest-serving PM ever?
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  4307. Trick question: how many literary contributors then went on to getting major prizes /Nobels, etc,?
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  4308. Thank you, J.D. for your capacity to discern best solutions among many troubling factors in our evolving society. 'Don't let society evolve' ...is what Parliament refused to recognize - then our Declaration of Independence.
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  4309. Less than one half of one percent of our gas atmosphere is CO2 *or other greenhouse gasses. Carbon is very comfy staying quite idle with its chemical bonds. Let's find it a better, loving home.
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  4310.  @jean-francoisroussy  C'est du poulet.
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  4311.  @patatepoilue666  J'ais un grand cris Dr Coeur pour eux.
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  4312. Musk rats also can't wait.. Elon clearly hates labor. Give him a free hand, and he WILL squeeze.
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  4313. "DOG BITES MAN" is not a headline.
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  4314. Absolutely not. We have the Geneva Conventions to minimize the brutality of war. Gas attacks, for example, are forbidden; there are severe prohibitions against brutalizing the civilian population.
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  4315. I used to refrain from calling RFK Jr. as a bastard, in deference; if Bobby of beloved memory saw what this energumen shared his name, the real RFK would disown this pustule.
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  4316. This moron rages about "illegal aliens", and a few breaths later complains that there is a worker shortage. As a kid I was told that 'anyone can become a member of Congress'. Now I believe it.
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  4317. Trump is merchandising his bullspit. God, please don't revive our crashing town, and not too Black. Gaudete
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  4318. Psycho pillow: qu'est que c'est? Fa fa fa FAA fa....
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  4319. How much had some Trump's poster lawyer (Blanche) been paid to scowl for the cameras?
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  4320. DeSantis is a scumbag, but he is not an idiot.
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  4321. Are there any hinged racists? Stunned minds need to know.
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  4322. As Juvenal asked: but who will guard the guards themselves? /Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes
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  4323.  @TheBlue65packer  so he violates the Constitution at every available opportunity, and attracted a freak show of Cabinet appointees into Federal Government . How bad vanity get? It's not as though Trump appointed an anti-vax moron to lead our public health system, right?
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  4324.  @TheBlue65packer  That's an exaggeration; he's an exaggeration. It will come out in the wash with the 2026 mid terms. Keep the faith!
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  4325.  @sweiland75  Let's remain within the bounds of the Constitution, even as he fails to do so.
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  4326. @roddaniels3499  most persons with a yawl might already be best enough advised
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  4327. @roddaniels3499  global warning. Act locally / warm globally
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  4328.  @TheBlue65packer  yaint scene nothing y/bet yet
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  4329.  @sweiland75  all that Evil needs to triumph, is for persons of good will to do nothing. - Pastor Niemoller, Christian victim of Hitler's death camps.
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  4330. Blaming Powell has become a parlor sport, and it is a fun sport.
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  4331. 19:49 For many years, PR China has been locked in a time battle between becoming rich, and becoming old.
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  4332. The last time the PLA went to war, they got their butts kicked by Vietnamese territorial units, i.e. not their tier-1 military.
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  4333. Great Presidents are made by perilous challenges. Historians generally recognize Washington, Lincoln, and FDR as the greatest. JFK might have become one of the Greats, but was cut short; still, keeping the world from incineration in a nuclear holocaust, is not a trivial achievement.. As of presidency to date, historians will rate Biden highly
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  4334. Les journalistes servent le public. Je suis anti--coco, mais je n'ai jamais ctitiqué ceux et celles qui trvaillent pour l"Huma."
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  4335. Executive privilege protects the Presidency, not the private interests of any given President.
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  4336.  @joshuaf.3723  human stupidity is the only inexhaustible natural resource.
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  4337.  @roberthenry9319  it were best for our Republic to give these voters their dignity, however their votes.
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  4338. We need to make this hyperdupe technology available to all!
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  4339. That's coming. Russia announced 8 arrests today, so soon after the explosion. They will face a kangaroo court.
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  4340. There is the risk that if you "press the nuclear button", you press all of them.
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  4341. Ce requin vit plus long que nous; mais estce-que cela vaudrait leur jouissance gace a nos idiocies?
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  4342. A political U-turn seldom succeeds without a political you turn.
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  4343. @irabraus9478  that night present some major difficulties.
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  4344. @AlixanderiaShayWellness  You might not easily have the pulse on most of the planet. Trusted polling (Outside the US) returns suggest that Trump has severely mishandled this incident. He lied through his teeth that the Uniited.States had provided $350 bn to Ukrainian defense; verified figured assess $129 bn.
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  4345.  @Kjv1975  hatred is a destructive frame of mind. Hating Vance is an understandable reaction, but it fizzles without following action NOT TO STRESS this highly enough: perpetrators of a coup got fully pardoned,.even for deleterious actions against huh your community prior to Jan 6 . You can't be evil everywhere at the same time.
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  4346. @mrh2594  Vermont is likely the least fascist State. Vermont hates Nazis.
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  4347. @DT-ht8jn  I tend to discard emojis as destructive lack of following clarity.
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  4348. @linasuarez8101  how might you express that sentiment in words you might need to write, rather than push a buttonic frame / good enough?
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  4349. @AlixanderiaShayWellness  ignorant
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  4350. @AlixanderiaShayWellness  there was a scene in The Life of Brian, where listeners far from the Sermon on the Mount heard: 'blessed are the cheesemakers'. Take that under advisement
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  4351. @AlixanderiaShayWellness  well... You derive a chunk of your standard of living from an exemption which freed you from a legal burden of cause. That doesn't necessarily imply that maybe your products might/or won't /.:kill people - rather, it shall be more difficult to prosecute.
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  4352. @AlixanderiaShayWellness  we can be rather confident that humans dying in Sudan after all USAID had arbitrarily been cut, are not fans of your harm.
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  4353. Trump passed graduating in a military academy - with uniforms, drills, and the rest of it. Coming out of a military academy with high grades, potential-lieutenant Trump might have served well in Vietnam; but it was scary The same leg bone structure which let him excel in private military school, absolutely disqualified him from the Army. Go figure.
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  4354. Lunar new year is coming up - the Year of the Rabbit. Make of that what you want.
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  4355. Corporate stock buybacks boost the value of share bonus packages held by retiring executives.
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  4356. I can imagine her telling stories at bedtime. Sweet dreams, children.
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  4357. No, tacit approval of a coup and then requesting the electoral approval of the citizenry is NOT "business as usual".
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  4358. A theif was caught stealing the King:s horse. Move to chase: "or the horse might learn to sing.".
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  4359.  @MsWarriordiva  ...and?
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  4360. Were that anything close to your memory of how procedure works in a court of Law? Do tell.
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  4361. 42
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  4362. I voted for the other candidate, but would only have seen it as a disappointment if I lost; losing to Trump would be a disaster
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  4363.  @earthling_parth  Would there be enoughours available
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  4364. All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. /Candide
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  4365. Do please elaborate.
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  4366. ​ @danialhillmann5374  There are divergent views regarding the 2nd Amendment. You might notice that it is the only one in the Bill of Rights which begins with an explanatory clause. On the basis of that, some argue that the Constitutional right to bear arms is limited to service with a well-regulated militia. Several of the SCOTUS "justices" insist on a doctrine of original intent - that the alleged, reconstructed, or disinterred minds of their predecessors shall conveniently guide their preferred decisions. Ahem. There is a major and glaring exception. Roe v. Wade was toppled by SCOTUS appointees who had sworn, under penalty of perjury, that it was stare decisis. We are governed by a Supreme Court with a fundamental disregard for the Law.
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  4367. ​ @danialhillmann5374 In what alleged ways?
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  4368. ​ @DuaneHallinSD A Constitution with variable geometry at the unfettered will of the executive Power, can appear always to be constitutional.
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  4369. Cet interview n'a rien d'exceptionnel pour lui
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  4370.  @TLIOTG  he ran as the younger candidate than Biden, but only a few months younger. Trump is a corpse.
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  4371. @DrRatweasel  Bolton is not in power, and is not a world-threat.
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  4372. Peru's constitution allows for the president to dissolve the legislature. We should not go there.
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  4373. Try some different vocabulary. Trump has acted to subborn the administative toward his wishes. Them who had not fully forgotten genuine History, might remember how one authority, Hitler's control over German paperwork... led to Auschwitz. NEVER FORGET NEVER REPEAT
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  4374. Is memory impairment a genetic trait in the Trump lineage?
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  4375. Automation has been the backbone of American prosperity for over the last century; a laggard industry, has been the funerals business. Why shouldn't they share in the general prosperity?
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  4376. MTG involved in congressional proceedings gone AWOL? Be still, my heart.
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  4377. Our country belongs to its citizens. A business runs its own care. A country, such as the US, only can function with some blend of approval of the People and whatever firm wealth. You may be are still coming to terms with Vance Packard's "Naked Persuaders", well after its publication date. /Just a puff of blossom in y direction.
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  4378. force the may be with you
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  4379. Big talk... where? European NATO forces, plus the US deployed component, are the most potent military assets on this planet. Russia can't even deal with Ukraine!
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  4380. +Dis [That you do not know me,] your scope for determining what were mine, or not, then remain a matter of speculation: I also do not know you. Your failure to distinguish between the possessive "its"... and of the abbreviated form of "it is"... fail to favor you.
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  4381. +Dis excuse for what? I'm rather confident that I had not yet posted so severe an error, and I do not post in Japanese because inevitably i will get it wrong. Why the hell do you permit autocorrect in a language which is not your own?
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  4382. +Dis sore kara arigatai'n
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  4383. Yeah, we can expect to be bombarded with more polls; if Trump wins, we can expect to be bombarded with more Mariupols.
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  4384.  @firesb7791  You are too cynical.
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  4385. Most of R them had shed their vulnerability to decency.
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  4386. How can Trump's team submit classified documents without having committed a felony?
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  4387.  @Texas2Step79  She's better than Trump. So is an average janitor..
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  4388.  @TheTheburger  You remind me of something Samuelson said: the stock market predicted nine of the last five recessions.
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  4389. Will this SLAPP stick?
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  4390. ORDURE IN THE COURT!
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  4391. This strikes me as far-fetched. Alcohol dehydrates the body through a requirement for metabolizing this toxin. This alleged patient would have had to drink nearly 5 liters of water a day just to compensate for the booze. For American readers, that's about 2 gallons/day between the booze and the compensating water. And that's before any water intake for the biological processes which keep us vital. I'm calling BULLSHIT on this one.
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  4392. Twit Musk paid $44 bn to become twitter than thou.
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  4393. A tan gent? Trump looks more like he was spray-painted
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  4394.  @LondonTowers  How?
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  4395. @@content_enjoyer4458 North Europe is too busy in Ukraine in this time, don't you agree?
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  4396. @@content_enjoyer4458 France's SLBM deployed capability can obliterate Israel 40x over without compromising its deterrence function. You might rethink your stance - if indeed you had engaged in a thought process.
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  4397.  @scoogyskoogz1869  Bot tox
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  4398.  @wholedamnteam04  Objectively there can not be a "best" when and wherever lethal harm might strike at random - except if you live in an immune bunker. But is it living?
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  4399.  @Sketch-Motion  Do tell,please,as a public service. It might be a function of communal protection. You propose crypto threats to people who don't engage in crypto. Can you detect a mismatch?
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  4400. @@content_enjoyer4458 France is France. Your attemps to impose whacko definitions on a society quite alien to you, does not reflect well upon you.
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  4401. @@content_enjoyer4458 Notre doctrine nucleaire n'a rien a voir avec tes hallucinations prophetiques. Vas te faire soumis a une evaluation.
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  4402.  @Sketch-Motion  Ah, Reddit. It must infallible be absolute truth
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  4403. @@content_enjoyer4458 Israel's northern neighbors are Syria and Lebanon -both officially at war with Israel. Have you worked out an alternative geography to suit your purpose? Do tell.
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  4404. Had these Repug detractors ever bothered to read the Constitution?
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  4405. That laptop by Law reverted to the owner of the repair shop; none of the intellectual property contained amid the hardware was reverted to the store owner.
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  4406. During the siege of Paris following the collapse of Napoleon III 's rule, starving people ate the animals from the zoo. Elephant meat was found to be particularly disgusting,. There have been an unfortunate number of rhino assassinations, but in no case has there been evidence of a poacher carving out some meat for the dinner table.
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  4407. There have passed some two millennia since that rude volcanic awakening. A "once-in-a-century" event should have occurred twenty times or so, however not under probing camera feed.
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  4408. Un insecte formicable!
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  4409. Why would educated people choose to go to PRC with its lower pay-structure, when Germany also is eager to attract skilled workers without making them live in an Orwellian hell?
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  4410. One possibility could be that there were a weakness in command and control among Russian forces. A previously-issued order for the attack on Odessa might hve been issued, but not effectively countermanded. This might not be the case, of course; but Russia's armed forced are notorious for having command problems, notably a poorly trained NCO corps.
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  4411.  @dasilva1230  I merely expressed it as a possibility.. Many reputed military analysts had pointed out that the severe death toll on Russian generals is that they command structure was so weak that they needed to go to the front lines to sort things out by themselves. Would you care to speculate why they would have deliberately done this? This is, after all, a public relations disaster. BTW I hate Putin for unleashing this war, and hope he gets thoroughly beaten.
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  4412. 01:10 the depths of sedition are not confined to surface layers.
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  4413. Once you bring in MTG, any proceeding becomes a clown show.
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  4414. On v@gagner
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  4415. This is a sad day for comedians.
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  4416.  @loganm2766  Deceitful accusations of "electoral fraud" would be immensely harmful to the electoral process. Do you disagree?
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  4417.  @duaneschirmer2892  The bizarre "audit" of Maricopa County's electoral returns... looked for bamboo in the paper fabric. Are they that stupid? We, in the West, export massive tonnage of recyclable pulp. That's much cheaper for the Chinese than felling forest, or processing bamboo. Why had those numbtards even thought that bamboo were a major component of paper? Quod E__t demonstrandum
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  4418.  @loganm2766  Lying about fraud is much worse a wound to our society. Trump had never held public office before squeaking into the presidency; his term was a disaster. That bastard encouraged Americans to become infected with covid-19. That presidential piece of trash killed some 300 thousand Americans from downplaying the pandemic, and clusterfluxxed public awareness. His deliberate command killed more Americans than died in WWI, Korea, Vietnam... combined. Bastard.
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  4419.  @loganm2766  Cheating in elections is very rare. That is what even Bill Barr, Trump's lapdog Attorney General, had concluded.
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  4420. In our world of carbon emission betraitors: driving less is a first best solution.
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  4421. Aucun.
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  4422. First few words of yours... the Repugs are not short of ideas - they are short of defensible ones. ...and now back to our dceduled disaster.
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  4423. 04:02 "He [Trump] out-thinks them." Dobbs refers to the moron who speculated that we might defeat the covid-19 pandemic by injecting bleach into people - or maybe get some form of light into them to kill the virus. Most 12-year-olds aren't that stupid. Stable genius indeed.
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  4424. I am surprised that (AFAIK) nobody had effectively established an equivalancy between pogroms in Europe, and displacing 'settlers' in the West Bank.
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  4425. Musk is not "smarting" from the purchase of Twitter. Musk does not smart.
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  4426. Fair use / 17 USC 107 doesn't exust
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  4427. There is much we don't talk about. The US is not only the biggest producer of oil - it is the biggest producer in history. When thinking about US oil production, minds think of Texas, of Alaska. Though: #2 producer is New Mexico.
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  4428. With startup capital requirement of $20-50K and low running costs , that seems unlikely.
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  4429. Eigo de hanaseru ka?
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  4430.  @LegalEagle  are you in any way, fashion, or form, affiliated with the YouTube channel, Legal Eagle?
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  4431. There are none so blind as they who will Nazi.
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  4432. /Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodiens' tributed to Juvenal.. Although not in name, Rome's Empire has remained broadly..
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  4433. It is proper and necessary for France and Germany to increase their military capabilities.
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  4434. 0:55 It is disappointing that the Hippocratic Oath's part of 'first, do no harm' applies to direct medical practice, but not to guile in political malpractice .
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  4435. Wouldn't the the"injured party" just have his actions dismissed under de minimis?
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  4436. Hey, why not start a communalspiracy sort of fun thing going on. Taylor Swift is a Yeti, and their humanoidostic kind wants to take over the world. She was raised to be so attractive, that h.. sapiens males no longer would procreate with their mates.
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  4437. @PEter Harrald Sweden and Finland are potential candidates. Both have equipment and organizational structures fully compatible. Assuming their domestic legal requirements had been met, they likely shall join just as the ink on the signatures dry.
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  4438. @TheFastAndThe Dead "Taiwan" is the remnant of the internationally recognized Republic of China, and continues to style itself as such, A fully bizarre development has been that mainland China's victorious rebel armed seizure of the mainland casts the remaining elements of the overthrown legitimate government as somehow "rebel". Weird.
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  4439. @TheFastAndThe Dead Neither had I; there are also many equally irrelevant contentions I might bring up. Why had you found it exigent to introduce Taiwan into this realm of discussion?
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  4440. This idiot Trump still pushes the lie that exporters pay import duties. I had worked in import/export for two decades. NEVER were the exporters liable for import duties. Been there, DONE that. Trump is either a stupid con man, or an informed con man. Your choice.
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  4441. Copyright applies immediately to the content even as it escapes the head of its creator. Discuss.
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  4442. Better than if the Politburo's Republic of China assumed power.
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  4443. There was genuine fear of Soviet tank capability in the years prior to the end of the Berlin Wall. By some estimates, Paris likely was 4 combat days from falling.
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  4444. No.
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  4445. If you oppose Putin - and survive - you're a criminal.
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  4446. A hung Parliament, because of the instability, is likely to result in yet another premature general election. Then the fear might be getting a hanged Parliament.
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  4447. that product cries out for a negative rating
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  4448. Nothing predicts success as well as what happened about 210 years ago.
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  4449. As Camus said at the outbreak of WWIi: 'the reign of beasts has begun'.
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  4450. Loss of copyright can be harmful to your
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  4451. We might stop and properly agonize over accounts becoming hacked. As this stands, a dearling is in the grass.
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  4452. Imagine a million deaths because the President discarded the best available medical advice, but instead promoted deadly quack "remedies".
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  4453. We as a People are not well served by a lurid vicious narcissist hungry for power and his own profit.
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  4454. @gekekonijnenburg3888 she needs a diversity jacket!
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  4455. If it sounds too good to be true: it likely is.
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  4456. T'y a jamais eu l'occase?
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  4457. ​ @jannguerrero that cam become nàsty. A former President merits every possible freedom from aggression in incarcerated service. Give him breathing room.
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  4458.  @TheCloZer11  ur of the chaldees?
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  4459. I was disappointed that there was no mention of the pipeline rapidly buil under the Channel by the Allies. This was important for fuelling armor and mechanized units.
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  4460. Biden isn't where he had been; but Trump was intellectually senile in his early 40's. He still thinks that foreign countries pay import taxes. Knucklehead. We might still see prices not shoot up as a result of Trump's trade war against American consumers. And pigs can fly.
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  4461. Americans might express the date as month/day/year as they might say 'May the third, 2019'.
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  4462. The French foreign policy master, Talleyrand, on hearing of the death of a Russian diplomat, asked aloud: 'I wonder what hos motive was?'
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  4463. ORDURE IN THE COURT!
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  4464. Mickelthwaite had been Editor-in-chief at The Economist for nearly a decade. Hint: editors at The Economist might know something about Economics.
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  4465.  @onlythewise1  Many Ukrainian cities have been devastated by indiscriminate Russian artillery. Those billions you allege will fail to rebuild the massive destruction your soldiers unleashed. What I can't understand is why your troops had savaged Kharkhiv - a city which has a 70% Russia-speaking population... when the alleged reason for Russia;s aggression was to protect Russian speakers in Ukraine. What the hell are you bastards doing?
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  4466.  @malowatubolo8947  Really? Which ones?
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  4467.  @malowatubolo8947  Which ones?
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  4468. What do you men by "giving sucker"? Are you talking about pacifiers given to babies, or other forms of oral pacification? I'm also trying to figure out what the heck you mean by "they need to reign their head in". I respect the right of an individual to have sovereignty over his/her mind... but you are referring to a collective. There is an obvious conflict of values here.
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  4469. DOGE (BTW try a web search - "doge" + "venice") is malformed. Efficiency is a mental construct which compares input and output, but shifts away from the question: what do we need to do?
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  4470.  @electracc  apart from that, how is your day going?
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  4471. "Hostages" are held captive in exchange negotiated for their release. This is Trump piracy.
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  4472.  @Akamoke2021  You might have a valid point, or more. Your arguments might have impact if they were patterned better to seek influence beyond your immediate closed circle. You might better overcome opposition, if better you understood that opposition.
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  4473.  @K-Locke  the epicenter of NYC, is the island of Manhattan; in Sweden, there is a long-established city of Trollhattan. We moved to control these bridges.
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  4474.  @jewdy8915  discuss/disgust Shouldn't let that error level.past 7th grade.
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  4475. Any normal Supreme Court might worry about its perceived legitimacy; this Supreme one doesn't care. We are in the dawn of the realm of beasts who would best use it to destroy individual dignity. Resist, and remain free.
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  4476. If you are a citizen of the United States: treason, as a crime, is defined within the Constitution. It's a widely available document.
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  4477. When your car's in flames, who you gonna call - CCP trust Busters?
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  4478. ​ @brianfreeman8290 Tacit; maybe they will turn.
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  4479. @trekteam  California scores more Nobel laureates than most countries.
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  4480. That difference seems to be receding. If your payoff is delayed: that' now has become "a tip". Clarence Thomas must be the tipsiest person ever to sit on the Supreme Bench..
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  4481. Technically, WWII is still ongoing. Japan and USSR had agreed to an armistice, but had never signed a peace treaty. Russia still holds what Japan calls their "Northern Territories": Kunashiri, Shikotan, Etorofu, and the Habomai group. Until this issue become resolved, WWII isn't over.
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  4482. He tries to spell "reckoning".
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  4483. ​ @scottgollahon3681 might your comment be missing some required punctuation?
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  4484.  @lightwillprevail  or a sign of insomnia, or of other stressors. Insinuations should have some sinews.
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  4485.  @crafty-lady6853  MAGA discretely means: More Asset Gains Accumulation.
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  4486.  @crafty-lady6853  What part of your education forgave you from using commas?
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  4487.  @rodleyeriffe9149  sour grapes!
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  4488.  @brendakeith9704  Trump might secretly be a christian, but he acts almost exactly opposite to the ways of Christ. No sincere follower of Jesus would be so vindictive and lusting for revenge.
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  4489. Whatever his alleged destructive faults, he is a known and proven liar.
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  4490. We have the best Supreme Court money can buy.
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  4491. Trump Social shares were never an investment vehicle - they always were and are an influence vehicle with limited direct monetary return. Returns on investment were subject to etcetertatta.
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  4492. Sometimes it takes a war to reveal the deficiencies in your military capabilities.
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  4493. I am left perplexed as to why you had not touched on the lack of an effective non-commissioned officer corps in the Russian army.
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  4494. I was in import-export. Tariffs are always paid by the importer of record. I used to sign the checks to cover import duties, but never paid a cent on exports overseas. I explained that to a MAGA nut, and he called me a liar.
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  4495. The Beeb is reliable. Thank you
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  4496. Bruce channels Woody. This Land Is Your Land. https://youtu.be/1yuc4BI5NWU
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  4497. Accusing anyone of having an affair with a gang member, is a serious matter. Defaming someone is not a criminal matter, and litigation shall be decided on the preponderance of evidence - unlike a criminal trial, which requires the unanimity of a jury. Trump IMO is slandering his feared adversary in Fulton County, GA, in full knowledge that if she were to defend her reputation in Court:, that would run out the clock - and if she failed to do so : he would take that as a tacit confession. Trump truly is a puke in billionaire's clothing. Then, Trump might like to walk a little of this back, for political reasons. Bo Biden had served in our armed forces honorably. None of Trump's kids had served. Come to think of it, Trump got a dubious deferment on "medical grounds". He had some sort of bone sut, which somehow had not been detected in his years at a military academy, although a private one. Vets don't like it when a draft dodger dumps on a departed veteran.
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  4498. Probably as puzzled as this post is stupid.
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  4499. Your spending preferences are heavily manipulated by very expert professionals..
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  4500. My heritage might not be the same as yours. Don't dump your BS onto federal hard oppression.
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  4501. ​ @streakgaming6106  full knowledge is lodged with number 42.
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  4502. ​ @phionella7  I used to be agnostic; now I'm not so sure.
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  4503. ​ @monkiw2 you had not addressed that personal remark to a specific person. Rest assured that: among our community, there are many who recognize fascism, and will confront it. Join us.
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  4504. @ScarlettCatte  I watched it, and regret that it has fostered hatred for those bastards.
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  4505.  @trevinbeattie4888  where might we find a woman-date for leadership?
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  4506.  @kellerweskier7214  be like? Please parse that in commonly accepted grammatical accepted terminology.
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  4507.  @420RittzBish  in the final words of Kennedy's inaugural address : ' let the Lord's work truly be our own.' Gaudete
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  4508.  @streakgaming6106  wtf is # 18 ?
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  4509.  @leviadragon99  kindly, if you bear any kindness, explain why not? YouTube is the modern marketplace of ideas. Is your admiration of tyranny such that you can not endure scrutiny?
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  4510.  @streakgaming6106  and yet
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  4511. @leviadragon99  it had been mustered within days from now. An impenetrable quandary shall not fade so lightly. Gaudeamus igitur.
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  4512. @leviadragon99  why are you posting if you have no clue?
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  4513. You describe some of the red mests as fatty, but for some - such as pork chops - most of the fat van easily be sliced off, leaving little intramuscular fat to worry about.
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  4514. Avec des cedilles
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  4515. The German offensive also needed to move fast to take advantage of bad weather before it might lift: the Allies had air supremacy, and clear skies would leave Wehrmacht armor fully vulnerable.
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  4516. Trump is a soar loser. New category.
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  4517.  @OrangeDaddy47  Not what Cruz said at the time.
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  4518.  @danceswithbears2521  there is a difference: the TX Dems left out of conviction - one even had to bail out of their own wedding. Ted fled because he wanted to get away from nasty local conditions plaguing his own constituents.
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  4519.  @danceswithbears2521  Which law was that? That is, what alleged law which does not contravene Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which the US is a sponsor and a signatory?
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  4520.  @danceswithbears2521  Your disdain for human rights is noted. Meanwhile, you have failed to identify which law you allege had been broken by the Dem reps from TX.
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  4521. Let's start by restricting his right to vote.
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  4522. Copyright Law sought to protect producers of new content. A +/- reasonable context expiry instead was extended. The bones of copyright Law are the protection of intellectual property, in order to encourage it - Jefferson spoke eloquently on this topic. How would extending
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  4523. We can look forward to many episodes of Gaetzgate - not at all the same as the Gateless Gate (Mu Mon Kan) of Zen .
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  4524. Tip does NOT mean 'to insure promptness..". That's a myth. It is is an English word which had been in use for centuries when the vast majority of the population was illiterate and unlikely to have developed such an acronym; besides, in non-American English, making certain that something occur is 'to ensure'; while 'to insure' involves a financial package to hedge against risk. According to Merriam-Webster, 'tip' as a verb:. "GIVE, PRESENT this crew has tipped you the black spot —R. L. Stevenson" BTW giving the black spot is when the crew of a ship votes on handing down the death penalty - nothing to do with "insuring" promptness.the death penalty.
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  4525. Wonderful. Let talking.
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  4526.  @mogznwaz  Get help. Paranoia is a serious condition.
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  4527. Churchill is so quotable. Post WWII, he lost his seat in Parliament. His wife suggested that it might be a blessing in disguise. He responded, as one hears: "it's a rather convincing disguise."
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  4528.  @OlanKenny  Churchill essentially hated anyone... other than Churchill, hey? He had hubris which would put Trump's to shame.
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  4529.  @feedyourmind6713  That shall remain unsolved; but thank God that he became PM instead of Halifax.
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  4530.  @feedyourmind6713  Your POV has become known. . . might you provide verifiable evidence, rather than MAGA banter? Thanks.
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  4531.  @TheBottlenose33  which dude you had not identified?
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  4532. Crocodiles were rather common in many domains of the British Empire; alligators.... vastly. less so.
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  4533.  @TheRealBigfeet  That is not credible. The switch to a war economy under Chamberlain is massively unimpressive.
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  4534. Trump thinks that Kavanaugh is being treated unfairly over these allegations: after all, Trump himself boasted about committing sexual assaults on women, and that didn't stop him from getting elected.
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  4535. Black Capsule. It worked in the movie, 'Mash'
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  4536. Under Chinese law, on demand Huawei must share any and all information it possesses with the government - period. And PRC does not have an independent judiciary to which it might appeal. Obviously this presents too great a security risk for Australia and its citizens
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  4537. What is the income performance of this listed stock?
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  4538. @@Xecutioner. Explained? Slogans are not a determinant of argumentative success, though somewhat helpful. Now... MAKE YOUR CASE.
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  4539.  @Baluap-tc6hm  dinkinunk n'a plox!
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  4540.  @Baluap-tc6hm mahud ma yang mahud.
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  4541. @@Xecutioner. we are all wrung on this one.
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  4542.  @Hakushodemon  ...then say no more.
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  4543. NO MORE SLOGANS! NO MORE SLOGANS!
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  4544. @@Xecutioner. in your view: what is "this one"?
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  4545.  @Baluap-tc6hm  Amsnadotokkt sama saya?
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  4546. Maybe it was some other fur animal?
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  4547.  @paul.van.santvoord1232  Janis Joplin sang, "Freedom's just another word for "Nothing left to lose". There are easy available search-and replace tools. Might be fun to apply that to our national documents and iconic expressions. .“Nothing left to lose is not worth having if it does not include the nothing left to lose to make mistakes.” >Mohandas Gandhi. Etc.
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  4548. His 'Christian' fascist friends are not eager to observe their articles of faith.
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  4549. One of which serves well, that: God is all-powerful; God is All Kindness; Bad things happen to those who keep His Commandments
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  4550.  @sullivanbiddle9979  They would get even farther behind if they become pregnant.
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  4551. That right-wing piece of nonsense might win from a trump-l'oeil.
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  4552. Lincoln, having fended off supplicants who backed him, complained that there were too many for the teats. Now Trumpseems OK with minimal oversight.
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  4553.  @johnl6176  millions of Europeans live in the US in full compliance, or not quite; untold many also have dual+ nationality. Europeans are all around you. Don't blink
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  4554. This is where, to secure humanity, we begin... to boggle something further
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  4555. You do not need gold when you are walking away.
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  4556.  @freedomfighter22222  European Russia would still have Murmansk and Arkangelsk as major free water ports, and on the Pacific: Nakhodka and Vladivostok.
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  4557.  @freedomfighter22222  The problem at hand is your lack of understanding that merchant ships are not military targets.
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  4558. I oppose the use of depleted uranium munitions. These can be immensely effective on the field of battle, but also present an extended health hazard for many generations.
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  4559.  @WilhelmKarsten  Depleted Uranium is essentially a waste product; ammonium paratungstate is expensive.
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  4560. Might you please clarify? The Northern Marianas are nominally independent, but in a free association with the United States. Their population can live in the United States, buy a home, get a job.... but can not vote - whatever their residency status.
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  4561. Prices here might drop. If farmers can't export, they will have to sell locally, flooding the market.
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  4562. Your propacy might smack of religious tones?
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  4563. There can be difficulties with matters of legal demarcation.
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  4564. Boeing once was a. company guided by engineers. Guidance by accountants does not seem to have resulted in high quality output.
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  4565. Musk aims to eliminate $ 2 bn from the $ 1.7 bn in total Federal discretionary spending. Good luck with that.
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  4566. Don't do / the tyrant...if you're not going to do The Tme.
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  4567. Some men (well... mostly men) have combative streak, and are willing to go fight - even if they're not fully onboard. Russian troops were thrown into combat while they thought they were on a training exercise. Even to this day, Putin and his cabal still call this war a "special military exercise". Russian field casualties well exceed 50,000 since Putin launched hostilities. That's one hell of an exercise.
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  4568. It is fascinating to see how eager Trump is to have his day in Court to clear his name.
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  4569. he has trumpled on the vintage where grapes of wrath are stored
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  4570. Newsflash -Trump delivers an intelecherous speech.
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  4571.  @danielmackay8099  Musk is a foreigner; Trump is a traitor. He swore under oath to uphold and protect the Constitution; now he wants to destroy it.
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  4572.  @theweasel8175  Thanks for the Weasel words.
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  4573.  @terriseaton3049 Where had he done his postgrad medical internship? Publicly available records are not supportive.
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  4574. "Dog bites man" is not a headline; "Man bites dog".. is MTG routine.
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  4575. P R China faces a dreadful demographic prospect, and it fully is the result of government policy.
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  4576. But... are his musk rats up to the task?
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  4577. lext
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  4578. Nice change of pace. For most of the last few decades, he was in Punic mode (/ delenda est/).
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  4579. On day won... As soon as you win something / anything...
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  4580. What are Catholic schools teaching the kids these days?
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  4581. Just say know.
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  4582. Carlson is not a journalist, he's a polemicist.
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  4583. Russia has valuable and fairly fungible primary products available for export: oil, coal, nickel, gold, diamonds, and more. Their manufacturing sector was anemic even before the war. A bright spot was infotech, but now Kaspersky has been blacklisted - I trust them, but they have been deemed a security risk. The Russian economy won't deliver for ordinary Russians any time soon; the oligarchs might do OK - and that's the point.
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  4584. The Republican National Convention might only start at Mar a Lago when the commandeer in chief scores a bogey. Here's repressing you, kid.
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  4585. 'religio' /Latin, means "bind again together." That doesn't mirror what happens in our communities.
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  4586. Coal-fired power plants release more radioactive toxins into the environment than nuclear power plants ever had.
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  4587. Trump has expressed that he wants our military to act unlawfully. I pray that, should this were to come to pass, our armed forces refuse to obey illegal orders.
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  4588. A Pfizer vaccine dose is 0.45 ml (0.00045 liters.) The human body has about 10 pints of blood - so a Pfizer dose is about one 4,700th of the volume of your blood, after injection. Of course, not all of the vaccine would be the alleged metal - you can see clearly that it is a liquid, and there has to be some room for the active vaccine agent. No substance known to humanity is capable of magnetizing anything at such a level of dilution. If anything that powerful were found, they'd be jumping for joy at CERN and ITER.
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  4589.  @snonutz5332  And beside which, anything that powerfully magnetized could not be injected - it would get stuck in the steel needle.
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  4590. The Judiciary should defrock this loose Cannon.
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  4591. Wouldn't such an attempt by OAN / or by mandated proxies / or by anyone... have been severely illegal?
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  4592. Trump seems to be immune from such considerations.
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  4593. Trump asserted that he would bring peace to the war in Ukraine, even before his inauguration. How would that not violate the Logan Act?
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  4594. The 2CV was such a joy. My first car was a VW beetle, but nowhere near the magic of a "deuche'.
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  4595. The Politburo's Republic of China recognized two Germanies, two Koreas, and maintained diplomatic relations with both; but somehow two Chinas is unthinkable. Why this intellectual inconsistency?
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  4596. 01:45 "not only did Democrats not lose any Senate seats, they actually picked one up". Cliff notes: you can't gerrymander state boundaries.
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  4597.  @StephenGangi  slavery has been abolished almost everywhere. Where it persists, corporations generally disengage for fear of a backlash. The concept of unemployment in a context of slavery is absurd: if you own a person as an asset, you put him to work
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  4598.  @XxAnothChaxX  Tu n'as rien compris. Le sang va en couler.
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  4599.  @JimJones-kk8pb  Most of them are non-profit.
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  4600. Just today on my local PBS, Rick Steves proposed a distinction between "tourists" and "travellers"" Tourists remain in their place of cultural comfort; travellers want to learn something.
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  4601. Bravo les jeunes!
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  4602. Finland is sovereign. If she were to join NATO, that is no issue legally to be reviewed by Russia's legislature.
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  4603. Making such a list for seafood will always present challenges. To begin with, the seafood industry is notorious for mislabeling the species more than a dozen species are labeled as snapper, some of them not from genus Lutjanus. Then, you can be sure of the species: your swordfish will be Xiphias Gladius - there is not enough incentive to cheat - but how much Mercury it contains will depend on how old the animal was. "Sardines" covers several different species and their heavy metal content can vary also with the types of industry or mining onshore from their range. And so on.
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  4604. Would that be... members of Congress exercising their constitoional role of oversight IN THE DISTRICT which the citizens hired her to exert oversite on behalf of... We the People?
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  4605.  @moumouni4752  Article max: on ne massacre pas ses propres civils.
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  4606. Harris might choose not to speak from the Hannibal Lectern
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  4607.  @johnthomas9992  I have seen videos of reporters from France24, BBC, and DW, at the front.
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  4608.  @johnthomas9992  I don't know if videos are available online. I live in the SF Bay Area, where Norcal Public Media broadcasts Deutsche Welle, France 24, and NHK (Japan) 24/7 over the air; we get an hour of BBC news broadcasts every weekday from the main pubic broadcasting channel, KQED. DW, BBC, and F-24 all have YT channels in English, you might find what you need there.
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  4609.  @johnthomas9992  Yes, those who say that Ukraine doesn't allow journalists at the front are full of it - although Kyiv does not let them cover the Bakhmut front, perhaps because it's a close-quarter offensive by the Russians and especially dangerous. I've seen broadcast reports from the northeast and Kherson fronts, -but then, the 2 sides were generally separated by several hundred meters of no-man's land.
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  4610. 15:00 "the most extreme form of sanctions would require a total trade blockade, which is itself an act of war" That is your individual opinion, and does not conform with international Law.
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  4611. If Trump return to presidential office, he will have the State Department recognize Gibberish as a valid language.
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  4612. The year she graduated from HS, AOC came in second in the microbiology category of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a research project on the effect of antioxidants on the lifespan of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Obviously she must be totally stupid. /s
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  4613. Tried "never trump". Messed up my card games.
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  4614. You have a right to be foolish; you have a right to remain silent. Choose wisely.
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  4615. Dr. Mason, thank you for your forthright views shared with us. You dropped the ball.
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  4616. Alabama's Supreme Court, in its notorious recent 'frozen embryo' ruling, declared that government is instituted by God; the Declaration of Independence states that governments are created by men, who have the right to change them if need be. Which of these two conflicting interpretations is correct?
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  4617. The truth behind Russian casualties in this war: Donetsk, don't tell.
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  4618.  @keepdancingmaria  changing targeted species won't necessarily be possible, let alone practical. First, the resource might not be there; even if so, it can involve expensive changes in equipment to yield lower-value catches. Fishermen don't set out for the romance of it, they need make a living. I don't have the motivation to spend the time to educate you on the fishing industry, nor to share my experience of British culinary habits.
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  4619. There was no "stagflation' recently.
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  4620. MTG lets her foul mouth run because her constituents are not the sharpest tools in the shed.
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  4621. I had an unfortunate evolution in my education in mathematics. I followed our school (1960's) curriculum and was competitive with the best; then my dad's job moved us to Switzerland, where the curriculum switched into New Math. After that year, I returned to the common curriculum where all of my classmates had one year's advance over me, a head start in algebra. I could not recover from that loss of a year. Nobody helped. Early in the transition, I asked: what is this 'x' - and was told: that's we are looking for / i.e. go away. Please for the love of Humanity, explain to young minds more carefully that you will be substituting something recently real in their lives (10-13 years) gently for them, but it is going to feel weird - but follow patience and with curiosity and this will make sense. I yet managed to deliver potent results in business because I could do basic math. It helped that probability was not a subset of algebra; and I aced that; in our our class, we all were new to calculus, where I ranked second. Maybe I wasn't crap in math, as some suggested. I would request that you, with colleagues, find a way to keep students from crashing in Algebra. We can not waste more minds for procedural reasons.
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  4622. OOPS!
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  4623.  @scottwaters998  explain
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  4624.  @scottwaters998  You gave a derogatory names to a speech,which might identify it for people on the far right. MLK's "I have a dream" speech is easily recognized, as is Churchill's Iron Curtain address, or Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. "Biden's little red speech" might be a classic among neo-fascists... but I am not one of them.
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  4625. Tumorville should go back to coaching sports.
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  4626. If Beings from Beyond have such amazing capabilities: be gentle. If their ppwer were such that they reach us from so far: that little take to exterminate is should be a trivial portion of their expedition.
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  4627. 16:30 There is no "dark side of the Moon" really. Matter of fact. it's all dark.
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  4628. Bannon is scheduled to serve 4 momths for contempt of Congress... and now wants Congress, in effect, to declare that it is contemptuous?
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  4629. The referendum was a flawed plebiscite. The electorate had received insufficient / improper / inaccurate information... but that is routine when resorting to the formal polls .The major flaw is that the People were called to make a strictly binary decision to select among what effectively were, and are, more than two options.
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  4630. Trump went into his freakhouse. There is nothing that might sustain his obsession. Twelve citizens of New York found him guilty of the charges he confronted. Let's see what might happen on appeal.
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  4631. 0:23 why did you designate Greenland as part of Britain's imperial success? Greenland never, ever, was under British dominion. Nor, for that matter, was the Amazon basin, Siberia, or Baja California. Stupid graphic.
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  4632. It had already become useless. It would never be used again.
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  4633. At the time, it was the USSR -which included many Ukrainians who gave their lives to break Nazi oppression - but that does not fit with your propaganda, does it?
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  4634.  @Tuureckij  You seem to think that were significant.I have been to cities where they named streets in various questionable ways. A favourite is when they moved the German public broadcasting network and its address temporarily was on Dachaustrasse.. They then sorted things out rather fast when the problem had been noted.
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  4635.  @javierRC82857  Postulating that ALL Chileans will be affected by [x] policy... is something of a stretch. Even a policy which proclaimed that every male child must be put to death, the Bible tells, failed.
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  4636. The surprise is that Putin said they would attack any Ukrainian-flagged F-16s, regardless of where they are, even if on the ground on foreign foreign soil. Apart from Belarus, the only foreign territory where a Ukrainian F-16 might land, is in NATO territory. If it then were attacked, that would trigger Article 5.
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  4637.  @Умничка51  no
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  4638.  @sleepyjoe7843  A strike on the territory of a NATO ally would trigger Article 5 . It would be declaration of war on NATO. That might not immediately lead to direct combat between Russian and NATO forces, although it might. At the very least, the prohibition against using western-supplied weapons against Russia proper would be lifted, and Germany would no longer have any reason not to supply Taurus systems. Attacking NATO would be a severe mistake.
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  4639.  @spipo1903  Ignorant comment.
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  4640.  @beacreates4370  Because you can't even get right the possessive, " my university's ". Count yourself lucky that you even got admitted.
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  4641. Conscripts are enslaved to whatever ideology grips the national government of the time. I do not hate young Russian men who are called to arms.
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  4642. 3:05 Focus? Trump led the most chaotic Administration in living memory. 3:40 Donald Trump is a loyalist? Just about the only exercise he gets is throwing his associates under the bus.
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  4643. A) Reason # 1: the US & treaty won't go to some "special military" over this B) Reason # 2: the US and NATO fear the lack of logic behind Russia's convulsive "military action" C) Reason # 3: NATO: into go to war over this, By and large, our countries are not led by delusional dictators.
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  4644. Surely a product derived from international waters will not infringe on the traditional knowledge of local peoples?
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  4645. "as long as he is alive". Repugs harp on about Biden's age... but is only 3years older than Trump. Trump unleashes ignorant claim after moronic statement, and the Press gives him a hall pass.
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  4646. No. Our closest relatives are chimps and bonobos.
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  4647. D'o you kn'ow how t'o use apos'trop'he's?
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  4648. REMEMBER: not all Russians are evil.
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  4649. ​ @truthwarrior2727 his business sucked up large amounts at his convenient hotel. of course,spending a grand a night in a hotel where the profits directly went into pocket of a President... could not possibly be confused with grift?
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  4650. ​ @damocles8417 at least (reportedly) he doesn't stink.
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  4651. IMAGINE HOW THINGS MIGHT BE if some morons did not write in caps.
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  4652. The original French term generally transfers as part of "the way business happens". C'est le tarif.
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  4653. Gerrandering aside, generally they serve their constituents. Had the Members failed in their duty?
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  4654. "Countless" doesn't count. You need verified names, and tallies, or unless a senior diplomat might choose to move on. Question Mark.
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  4655.  @davidcohen7106  Would you share the details for the Office of Racist Recognition?
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  4656.  @LDC4th  Whiplash!
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  4657.  @robbiedemoss3224  Neither shall it preclude a citizen from expressing himself freely. Please express your points of disagreement succinctly, that our divergence feature clearly.
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  4658. J-P m'a toujours su le vrai.
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  4659. Under rule of Law, your unfettered freedom ceases as it put mine in peril.
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  4660.  @r.pmcmurphy6693  Nobody has; nobody is requiring such. I don't propose to cure your ignorance in a YT commentary. Reminder: as of today, children under 12 can't be vaccinated.
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  4661. Auriez-vous la gentillesse de partager avec les lecteurs moins avertis/indoctrinés, vortre sens de cette "autre envergure"?
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  4662. ​ @ThomasJohnson-qg2vz I'd rather even have the night janitor in charge: he would probably be less vicious and clueless than Trump.
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  4663. That is discrimination against the morally handicapped.
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  4664. Why am I getting local news stories from LV? I haven't been there since the mid-1990s.
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  4665. I am no fan of Trump; but the 14th Amendment specifies that an insurrectionist can not hold office... it doesn't prevent a political party from nominating a person inelligible for office.
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  4666. prorata parmi nous
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  4667. Many years past, there was a news report of a huge find of iridium (a platinum-group metal); what had not been reported, was that mining it would cost several times more than the extracted value.
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  4668.  @RobertEmery  A private company is one which is not publicly traded and is listed on no stock market. AB InBev is listed on NYSE under the symbol BUD. It is NOT a private company, but it is a company in the private sector.
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  4669.  @jessicahilario6597  One can expect that this likely means something in whatever might be your native language.
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  4670.  @PK-mr2fm  How so?
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  4671.  @lovefair6921  His political opponents have a nasty habit of ending up dead, or behind bars if they're lucky..
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  4672.  @lovefair6921  He's KGB.
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  4673. There actually is an Electric Boat Company. They build nuclear submarines.
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  4674. In most times, we might look away from cause.
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  4675. IMO that had been a lost opportunity to print the book with the title: "Cult Fiction".
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  4676. It might seem an insult to the prowess of Chinese information engineers that their products might not always be best-in-class; but, by government diktat... their source material and IRL corroboration might not easily align with the ChiCom AI's output.
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  4677. I do not applaud the loss of innocent life in Russia any more than I accept it in Ukraine. As Mohandas Gandhi put it: an eye for an eye will only make the world blind.
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  4678. Liberals are weaponizing the Constitution by seeking its enforcement.
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  4679. A prime item to remove, is budgeting for a Mars flight program to fatten Elon's pockets.
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  4680. We had the orange idiot for a few years; Mao launched the Great Leap Forward [sic]..
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  4681.  @bestintentions6089  Why?
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  4682.  @jamesfranko1568  Interesting comment, somewhat goofy.
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  4683. I will remain in poll position.
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  4684. The way you slovenly phrase your commentary ... Is prejudicial. TheSC District 0:17 has "only now" handed over these documents, implying that these willfully had been detained. Are you a journalist, or a paid Trump shill?
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  4685. Mapping out the options was essentially the birth of probability theory. Thanks for lighting many lanterns.
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  4686.  @max5250  Others might have preceded him, but Pascal was a pioneer, documented. We might all agree that he lived and died long before anyone alive in our day was born. Satisfied ? (~spelling intentional)
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  4687.  @Hank254  There is no statute of limitations on gratitude. It was your bizarre interpretation which projected that the one I was thanking... were Pascal.
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  4688. Against
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  4689. Slava Ukraini!
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  4690. Disaster followed fast snd followed faster.. Trump NEVERMORE
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  4691. Trump wants to oppose renubile energy... at least, until he can get those pesky anti-incest laws up to the Supreme Court poodles he put there.
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  4692. A "world war" presupposes that it be fought, well... world-wide. So far, the battlefield is contained within eastern Europe.
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  4693. You can sue a ham sandwich if that's where you want to funnel your money.
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  4694. Prognosticatons of Russia's imminent collapse / that of it's economy, or armed forces... remind me of a quip by Paul Samuelson: 'the stock markets have predicted nine of the last five recessions.'
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  4695.  @charleshoang7687  That would be a war crime. I sense that the general staff is more honorable than that.
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  4696.  @tams805  Taiwan is mountainous to the western side of the island - which is significant, because that would seriously complicate an amphibious invasion. Have you ever been to Taiwan? When I was there last time, there were many areas on the eastern side of the island that were quite flat, well suited for agriculture, and very viable for parachute landings (and, yes, I have parachuted).
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  4697.  @marcusonesimus3400  "There is a difference between theoretical knowledge of a subject and practical knowledge"... etcetera. At the level of planning an invasion, or defending against one, it's almost all theoretical. Having direct experience of combat might be helpful... or instead have the commander fight the last war over again (France 1940). Many countries have no recent experience of combat: so then how might the Brass be better tasked at devising strategy for major operations than a civilian master of deployments and logistics? There were war games very popular with the civilian population in the 1970s, such as Avalon Hill's "Bitzkrieg", which were used as training tools for upper-echelon command among several NATO allies. I contend that a brilliant civilian can be better at strategic decision-making than a career military mediocrity The German occupation of Crete ended with the fall of the 3rd Reich. We can hold that this was a Good Thing.
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  4698. Boebert is a massive liar, but she doesn't add any creativity to her lies. So long as you are intent on destroying America, Lauren: at least make it entertaining.
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  4699. C'est irresponsable de la part de la Chine de punir la Terre entiere sous son boud v.a.v. la visite de Pelosi - qui ne fait même pas parti du gouvernment administratif des Etats Unis.
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  4700. Many Chinese products easily promoted online, are not suitable for purpose. Magnification. In Japan's early industrialization, much product was poor in quality. "Yokohama-e" i.e., sent for export from Yokohama... was thought as garbage. There are still some few folks who rustle old estates, and might find a Hiroshige print masterpiece, protected by just another layer of careful pull back from Time.
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  4701. Don, ask your Jewish daughter if her rich husband might bail you out. That might be a stretch, given how much support you have given to anti-judaic neo Nazis.
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  4702. Fun fact: France's longest border is with... Brazil.
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  4703. Had there ever been such a frustrated contender for the Presidency? His toxic narcissistic loss of empathy will not allow him to accept that :fewer voters want him, than don't. He will destroy and crack everything in his path, if he can not subborn a previously-free society on his vicious terms.
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  4704. My understanding is that the oath of office is limited to the term of office.
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  4705. add Vance... and you might not advance. DonaldTrump ran in 2016 as the best man to manage the Federal Government; he went on to fire nearly all of his administrative appointees. How fantastic an administrator are you, when you somehow found it necessary to eliminate those you had put in place of substantial authority?
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  4706. She is an idiot.
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  4707. Inability to change ... is not a job reference.
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  4708. Just a note of fun... Macbeth, as prophesies told, could never fall harm into him by one who was "naturally born" His nemesis had been born by C-section. So... Macbeth was only dethroned because via caesarian section McDuffie had not been vaginally delivered
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  4709. Honto ni arigatai
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  4710.  @ramadankadriu5336  you've never spent much time in a factory handling advanced metallurgical and annex processes, have you?
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  4711.  @PerterHansen  India has depended heavily on USSR, then on successor Russia, for critical military equipment. Russia might restrict spare parts, so crippling Indian capability in some deployment options. That restricts India's ability to act in any way not blessed by the Kremlin.
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  4712. Trump's son in law, Jared, is Jewish; his daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism. Did Trump stand up for common decency, or even his own family, and denounce his own antisemite supporters? Of course not.
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  4713.  @bttr2brnout792  It isn't.
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  4714.  @Justthe_facts  Did you know that treason is the only crime specified by the Constitution? It's good reading - you might try it some day.
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  4715.  @jasoncrum-dn1dn  Any of the attorneys general in the fifty States can indict Obama if they have a case at Law. If it hasn't happened yet: maybe there's no case.
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  4716.  @davidthelen1457  The GDP of the United States is over 25 trillion dollars per annum. In the last 2 months, almost 3 trillion will have gone to consumption. Do you need finer detail?
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  4717.  @methylbenzodiazepine  Know your enemy.
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  4718. Ce sont des procédures judiciaires dans lesquelles le chef d'état n'a pas son dire.
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  4719. Take him seriously. But just take him.
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  4720. Wrest In Peace.
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  4721. Taylor is a delight. (kiss)
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  4722. 02:18 Wipe-people are so angry
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  4723.  @michaelamaynard  Your gobbledygook aside', the specific wording of the 2nd Amendment invokes the need to protect the Republic.as a justification for maintaining arms within a well regulated militia.
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  4724. Not strictly relevant to this presentation - but Canada belongs to Canadians.
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  4725. The market for EV trucks might expand sooner than expected. Diesel trucks emit significant particulate pollution. This might force the conversion to electrics for short-haul loads in congested ports and urban areas.
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  4726. ...used to be after the 9th, until they wrested dominant Federal power.
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  4727. Was the wrath of the Almighty upon the unjust at Auschwitz?
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  4728. Insane engineering often follows insane expectations.
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  4729. Facts are a mistake of life. -The Orange One
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  4730. Small truth: 'doge' should be pronounced... Doggy
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  4731. Much better than reading about it in Wasabi Shinbun. /` Most of the "wasabi" / most consumers taste, is coloured horseradich, at best. The real thing from Japan was immediately tiny bit sweet, then "pungent ouch" backing into the nose, tongue still burning, but after flavours got the drop on you: wasabi is food's. The hero of this sort of polemic might not be the one who were proven right - but instead, the one who says, "lets eat" We are not military; we can not give an order for 'no quarter." Well, he had backed himself into a corner, no need to spot his name. >>>No let or hind rants. Deal MY out
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  4732. Yes.
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  4733. 1:43 Are you calling for a boycott of Este Lauder products?
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  4734. ORDURE IN THE COURT!
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  4735. I will let you listen. Might you do the same?
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  4736.  @BEVERLYRANDOLPH-lx4qu  He is past master at dealing with con sequences.
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  4737. Just another day in the absurgency of the Repug party.
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  4738. Might you please translate that into some comprehensible English?
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  4739.  @Lex-LutherS  "dupping" was what you wrote. By the way, "duping" devolved in a current sense from 'duplication', i.e. copying.
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  4740. Debt before dishonor
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  4741. What were wrong with women being treated fairly?
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  4742. The damage inflicted on Russia by G7+ sanctions will be generational; that will not matter much to an isolated old man with delusions of grandeur.
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  4743. The situation in Gaza is worse than tragic; it also is -IMO - a long-term disaster for Israel, which can no longer escape pariah status.
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  4744. Intelligence personnel are there to inform the decisional discourse with best available input and analysis. Input deliberately other than best available, can be expected to yield sub-par results.
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  4745. If there had been a case against Adams which reasonably might have yielded a conviction, that is gone. The case has been dismissed with prejudice, so Da Mayor can no longer be tried on these grounds. The threat to Democracy was so severe that whatever Adams might have done, paled in comparison.
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  4746. Russia is not "at home" in Ukraine, any more than China is "at home" in Vietnam.
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  4747.  @hagianhagion5942  That might make sense if it... made sense. Would you care to re-phrase that so that someone not also locked in your thoughts might understand what you were on about?
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  4748.  @hagianhagion5942  No. In most conversations between human beings, context very often is critically important. Must I ask you once again what you might be talking about? I lost my Secret Decoder Ring a few decades ago.
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  4749. Le Monde "superficiel" nous incarne.
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  4750. "Knot gill cup!" ...according to Monty Python.
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  4751.  @michellefarris3961  that might make something close to making sense. You built your 'talking points' blindly in what might likely have been a sense of.rage. You were incoherent.
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  4752.  @annevey6543  That was fun. Do you have something less trivial to share?
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  4753. Such a severe erudictment of our time.
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  4754. Earlier I heard a friend sing a classic lullaby to soothe her crying daughter: "hush my baby, don't you cry..." then momma's got to get a diamond ring, a mockingbird, other goodies. This lullaby might be adapted for Trump's hush. Haven't heard one yet.
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  4755. On a larger plane, Ukrainian society must hunker down. Idiot censorship can be at least as damaging as genuatly needed.
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  4756. What caused ... The beginning... Of the beginning.... Of the beginning.... {. Of the Big Bang?
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  4757. 'Musk Goes Off Deep End' is not a story; 'Deep End Goes Off Musk'... IS a story
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  4758. Why are "blue laws" mostly in "red States"?
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  4759. Unlikely, IMO. Russia is bogged down in Ukraine. The forces available to NATO and other allies are now holstered, but can sharply overwhelm the conventional Russian forces left available after the heavy deployment in Ukraine. Putin might be insane, but he is not stupid.
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  4760. You can spend 4 hours in the Louvre and feel wronged by this time limit. It is a vibrant snd fascinating city, but also one where people live and work. There are more Americans living in Paris than in some State capitals. They have to deal with the impressions you leave behind. Try not to be a jerk. Keep your voice down.
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  4761. If Steve Bannon found the time enough in prison to reflect honestly over his political behavior: that indeed would be torture.
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  4762. Arrogant.
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  4763. Unlike the Trumps, the Bidens are not a family enterprise. Unlike Trump, Biden has not inserted his family members into government roles.
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  4764. Russia is at least as vulnerable to nuclear weapons as it is able to use them. Even in a limited exchange, taking out Ekaterinburg or Omsk would effectively sever Russia's Far East from its Euro-Ural heartland
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  4765. Nazi Germany needed to be destroyed without delay.
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  4766. Kiwis had always treated me with kindness. Are you still letting people in?
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  4767.  @marcusc8588  Trump has filed a baseless lawsuit against private companies which have no obligation to let him violate their ToS.
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  4768. Many military contracts are run on a cost-plus basis. Would it be a surprise that when costs go up, profits go up? It might be purely coincidental that there is a significant defense contractor in just about every Congressional district.
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  4769. Elon Musk is the best South African billionaire involved in US politics!
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  4770. The Russian word for political friendship... is 'katyn'.
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  4771. @Alien_Bones  you can be forgiven for a genuine case of dyslexia. The forest of Katyn was where the Soviet Union, after the Molotov - Ribbentrop Pact, had removed Poland's intellectuals, military command, high civil office holders... and murdered them in masse. Later the Soviets sought to blame the massacre on the Nazis.
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  4772. China faces a housing crisis, and at the same time has a huge stock of housing in 'ghost cities'. Zounds!
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  4773.  @danwright1794  It is rather more likely that few Ukrainian officers are rebelling. For starters, Russian officers are thrown into a war with flimsy reasons at best. Ukraine's President, its Defense Minister, and the Chief of Staff, are all Jewish - how the hell can Putin sustain his bogus accusation that this were some Nazi-purge just war (sorry - "Special Military Operation" nonsense.) as Ukraine's staunchest friend within NATO is Poland - perhaps the nation which worst was hurt by Nazi occupation. I would not doubt that there be Ukrainian officers who seek to step out. Most advanced military structures have units specially prepared to assuage such problems. That happens in the widespread fog of war, and people also leave civilian jobs . Then again, if you invade my country and flatten my schools and hospitals: I don't give a damn who you are, I will fight you. That motivation is powerful, while Russian troops were fed into combat without even having been told they were sent into combat... let alone why. It's always interesting to see the latest creativity of pro-Kremlin trolls.
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  4774.  Hans Otto Kroeger Kaethler  He's not about to taking my phone calls, and neither would he spend much time on your bullshit.
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  4775. Test
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  4776. The economy had been cruising along in Q4/24, on a rather predicable glide path; then Trump's obsession with tariff fantasy intervened. It was long ago I heard - but, at the outbreak of WWIi, as I recall: Camus had noted, 'now the reign of beasts has begun'
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  4777. You "invited us into your home" to deliver a political message. That is not out of bounds; but perhaps you were.
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  4778. circa 0:57 - manufactured
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  4779. Closest we've been to WWIII? Had Trump been asleep during the entire Cuban Missile Crisis?
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  4780. So - Donny is taking credit for a multi-billion dollar emergency vaccination development program launched at the same time Trump was insisting that Covid was no worse than the flu, and was going to disappear over summer?
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  4781. He's a predator who panders to the basest fears of a white bigot substrate, and a demographically threatened white working class which feels more and more threatened by the changing demographics. Whitin the next 30 years or so, the US population will be less than half "white". That is fertile ground fot an authoritarian leader.
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  4782. Mark Twain (supposedly) had offered that: quitting smoking easy, he's done it hundreds of times. There is something about smoking: you might replace a bad circumstance with a few puffs of inhaled burn. Bad circumstances are less with a respectable dose of nicotine. I walked away from nicotine, Spring 2007. My nerve system revolted. When withdrawal needed to take the edge off, I took tincture of kava-kava. It smoothed out hard lapses. I did not go full-turkey on quitting tobacco only own. There is another life past that stink smoky veil; worth discovering it. Namaste.
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  4783.  @Electricjello  No, you don't . I believe in God, but it doesn't seem to be mutual.
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  4784.  @Electricjello  faith can abide.
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  4785.  @Electricjello  BTW "seem" and "seam" sound alike - but they are separate concepts.
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  4786. Her fan base is remarkably resistant to rand dumb/random spot checks on her crap. Ayn was a vicious terrier who fulminated against government largesse... yet died a welfare recipient.
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  4787. ​ @راديو76 You had to be there.
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  4788. ​ @AzadHind572 I have never burnt a Koran, I have no intention of doing so; but I will if some idiot makes it illegal.
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  4789.  @bristoled93  in a general sense, citizens have a right to free speech. I am a Christian, and will wish "Merry Christmas" with abandon on the eve, and on the day. HOWEVER there are wonderful people who observe this season differently. It is baffling how the "Christian" right wing had transformed a season of harmony... into a battleground.
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  4790.  @bristoled93  It's appropriate to wish someone a merry Christmas if that person is Christian. In a class of 30 kids, odds are that at least one would be Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist, and so on. Wishing them merry Christmas can be understood to bear a coercive element.
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  4791.  @Purumal1337  Because of Nigel's far rage, I no longer have the right to visit my mother's grave. I am not a fan.
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  4792.  @AzadHind572  C of E is the official religion, headed by HM King Charles. My best reckoning proposed that every single seat in the Commons was contested electorally. Kindly might you shed light on your counterintuitive posit?
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  4793.  @bristoled93  So did I / Hammersmith and West London College. What's your point, if any?
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  4794.  @bristoled93  I say Merry Christmas if I know that person is Christian.
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  4795. I sat zazen and meditated in Kyoto. In one session, I arrived at a point of worry: but things were OK, then I was projected forward at light speed. I broke off.
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  4796. Answer: a second term for Trump.
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  4797. Judy Ruliani is a forlorn hope. If that's your reculspice of travesty: pray... but not bound by vengeful priests who seek revenge... While the Lord's Prayer exerts that Prime command of Jesus:/ do into others as you might have them do unto yourselves. These
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  4798.  @dirty4808  Penses-y comme un grand camping entre amis.
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  4799.  @dirty4808  On se demerde.
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  4800. This Administration is run under the aegis of Donald Trump. What else could you expect?
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  4801. Je divergerai en adressant en anglais ce fils de p: Dude, get a life! When you visit a foreign country, be respectful!
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  4802. Tucker-with-a-T should maybe have sought out Epstein for some desperate relief. That level of frustration among persons with influence can become a genuine public danger.
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  4803. El Pueblo unido: Hamas sera vencido! (The people together: Hamas will be defeated)
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  4804. The 'X' alphabet symbol has become a convenient note to indicate a "sh" sound; as with Xi Jinping.. isn't Xi lovely?
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  4805. YT won't let me give you a thumbs up or down. Something underhand is likely afoot.
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  4806. Problem/fix appears to have been fixed immediately after I pointed it out.
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  4807. Kipling warned that: once you pay the danegeld, you will never be rid of the Dane.
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  4808. Iran faces a large pitfall in the guise of US sanctions. I have friends who burden that grind. Persia has vastly improved our Society. Can we not envision a truce?
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  4809. There is no guarantee of free speech on social media. All must abide by ToS to which they agreed when they signed up, including clauses which place restrictions on causing offense.
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  4810. ​ @danielmackay8099  not according to recent non-partisan surveys. Check reality - you might change your perspective.
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  4811. It's almost tragic that you can live in the 21st Century with access to the internet, and have so little understanding of robots. Anyway, there are several different techniques for recovering from feeling dizzy. Since in your instance the cause is not as a result from disorientation at sea - precursor to seasickness: I won't offer any suggestion. You might need to see a doctor, though.
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  4812. Core blimey!
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  4813. Human stupidity is the only inexhaustible resource.
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  4814. Some members of the GOP might deserve your vote. They are, however, an endangered species.
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  4815. +Tom Dobyns There are over eight and a half million residents of NYC, and it were immensely unlikely that... "that is how they talk". Besides which, Trump has a persistent Bridge-and-Tunnel cringe, and never got over being an intruder rube in rarefied City society - no matter how much cash he splashed. This POTUS has unresolved issues.
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  4816. Dr. Reich, I have listened to you over many years, and have been rewarded from receiving your wisdom, and from challenging it. Ideally, so should flow education. In this instance, I shall throw a grain of sand in your analysis: Trump is a self-assisting narcissist, without any clear grand vision beyond his own stature and means. We can join together in a contest of how much we hate Hitler; but in clear context of larger discussion, Hitler had a view beyond himself. By all accounts I have read, he was quite ascetic, while Trump is all about indulging in luxury. Hitler fully was about a "Master Race" and its destiny myth; Trump is about Trump, and will use whatever tools are at hand.
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  4817. Had there ever been a President who felt a need to proclaim that he was stable?
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  4818. Give him a break. His two elder sons must be a handful. His wife believes in sanctity of womanhood. No economist believes his dribble about exporters paying import tariffs. This can't be an easy season for Donald.
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  4819. I love how you hate the 1st Amendment.
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  4820. +Suspension That is intriguing.
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  4821. BS
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  4822.  @BW022  Do you not feel lonely when you tell such lies?
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  4823.  @alexandrezolty337  Les ventes de gaz russe à 'Allemagne, c'est fini: ils ne sont pas fiables comme fournisseurs, et en plus ils sont devenus des intouchables suite à leur guerre d'aggression contre l'Ukraine. Ces deux gazoducs ne gagneront plus jamais un rouble.
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  4824. Tucker (with a "t") Carlson is entertaining. He's not the brightest bulb in the box, but he can gather some smiles. Try not to burn up on re-entry into reality.
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  4825. Everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds!
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  4826. Since the snitches can not be held liable for court costs - win or lose - maybe those Repug bastards in the TX legislature might be made to defend themselves, and pay - win or lose.
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  4827. Your "free speech" can be very costly to others.
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  4828.  @korana6308  yes. Famously, you can't shout "fire" in a crowded theatre, when there is no danger from fire. So had ruled the Supreme Court of the United States. Your predilections might guide you in other directions. Dura lex, sed lex.
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  4829. @korana6308  there is no legal compulsion to study case Law, even as you might try to argue case Law. Have a nice day.
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  4830. If some major health difficulty strike you, that shall be exquisite justice.
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  4831. Expect Russian interest into casting confusion amid our electoral process.
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  4832.  @nopenoway9875  "average citizens' will not easily be identified as a category. Your neighborhood might well reflect your political preferences, and that might be by design.
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  4833.  @nopenoway9875  an unusual voting privilege would favour his descent from decency. Putin would murder any opposition which foment increasing occurrence contesting HIM.
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  4834. The Supreme among Supremes violated stare decisis in overturning a 9-0 SCOTUS decision.... and now expects us to take his word that standing decisions won't be reversed? How much contempt for Americans outside his bubble is Roberts willing to show us the middle finger?
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  4835.  @jackjames9271  Who the hell is "we"? Russia had brutally invaded Ukraine with no conceivable valid casus belli. The ultimate defeat of Russia is the best possible outcome.
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  4836.  @rossdavies8250  Many people have an almost romantic idea of tank-on-tank warfare. The last time this was a major factor was in the fight between Israel vs its Arab neighbors in 1974. Earlier versions of infantry systems, such as the Roland anti-tank missile, changed the situation. Surely a cannon without munitions is pretty useless - but we however are not noticing a breakthrough of Russian armored forces. What gives?
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  4837. The timing is somewhat suspicious. A few days ago, there were rumours that ultra-orthodox members of Netanhahus coalition would cease to support the governing coalition, and so precipitate the fall of this government. Netanyahu benefits from a stay from prosecution so long as he is a member of the Cabinet. Actions to keep Bibi out of jail, might not necessarily be in the best interest of Israel. Israeli strikes against Iranian enrichment programs can besr some weight of calculation. According to IAEA, Iran had enriched isotope Uranium-235 to 60% That still is far short of the min. 90% needed for a useable nuclear weapon. But sgain... why enrich to 60%? It would help the International Community to hear of non-militarry applications at such high levels of enrichment.
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  4838. Was it not the failure to dismiss a Special Counsel which led to the collapse of the Nixon presidency, more than 4 decades ago? Dean would not fire him; next in line, would not fite him; third in line, was Bork... who was comfortable with Nixon's POV. That bettayal of the Constitution alone was reason enough to keep him off the Supreme Court.
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  4839. Senators are elected to serve them generally amongst, elected.
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  4840. Brave New World - but digital, instead of chemical.
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  4841. Vote.
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  4842.  @VegetaUltraEgoo  Superior flight capabilities, superior weaponry, superior avionics. The French pilots are likely to be trained at a higher level of proficiency, and benefit from better intel.
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  4843. Thatcher had her generative, TINA: "There Is No Alternative." One might present a less calamitous otherwise.
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  4844. He followed his Party playbook. Nothing else should be expected from his coccus - rephrase, caucasus.
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  4845. C'est le Congo avec des ogives nucléaires.
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  4846. Let's await the next move by this sociopath.
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  4847. ​ @Aaronwhatnow  Those are unstable. They say.
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  4848. ​ @EUistheFourthReich  that was very eloquent.
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  4849. ​ @eddiehockley4144  asking stupid questions?
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  4850. @DoNotFollowM3  ID 10 T
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  4851. @GeeGee19  source? Trump is a hazard. He is not highly intelligent, but he is cunning. Beware.
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  4852. @Reactivate100  Awake! For morning in the bowl of night has put the sone that sets the stars to flight; and lo! The hunter in the East has put the Sultan's turret in a noose of light /That is how I remember the first rubbai from Omar Khaiyam, fashioned in English by Fitzgerald. I wrote this free-hand, from memory. I do not consider persons from outside my ethnic identity as inferior. If instead you choose a path of hatred: then I shall opt to see you as inferior. Are we clear?
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  4853. Mike sought to destroy the Constitutional order; he persists in this effort. If he goes broke in the effort: good!
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  4854. They no longer even bother to hide their corruption.
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  4855. Si ton premier choix n'a aucune chance de gagner: faut faire avec.
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  4856.  @traquecenseurs5423  Je n'y vois aucune chance, sauf s'il serait opposé à Le Pen ou Zemmour au second tour. Il faut les arrêter. Mes meilleurs voeux.
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  4857.  @traquecenseurs5423  Merci d'avoir exprimé vos opinions .
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  4858. Hindsight is always 20/20. After the bloodshed of WWI - the "war to end all wars" - there was no appetite in Britain for combat, nor in France.
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  4859. USMCA was negotiated and concluded under Trump's first Administration.
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  4860. would be stellar if you passed.
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  4861. @RichardTaterDay1  Leon is an immigrant, as were two of three Donny wives. What's wrung from this picture?
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  4862. Many home care workers are immigrants. Deport Consuela, and your Aunt Julie won't have anyone to take charge when she falls down the stairs.
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  4863. Since when had a Party which staunchly defended /States Rights... become an advocate for Federal action?
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  4864. Newt Gingrich failed to take Congress by amphibian assault. He has become quite silent since. Meanwhile, the Republican brand has ever increasingly been fashioned by Trump tagging his opponents. Riddle me this.
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  4865. ​ @msgemsgems Had they been promised fourty acres and a mule?
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  4866.  @TonyaBrooks-Roc192  / weren't
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  4867. @MexAmerican-x5d  why might Black Farmers come from a Mexican?
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  4868. @cynk956  they who refuse to stoop, inevitably shall be stooped upon That sounds rather like Churchill. Have a lovely evening.
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  4869.  @angelarodriguez5444  ask Elon/DOGE. He has the keys to
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  4870. WHAT THE FUCK???
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  4871.  @power-corrupts  or thrives - depends / deep ends / where you fall.
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  4872. But... is it Swiss?
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  4873. Notef
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  4874. Ta conference au sujet de? De? de??? De quoi? Rien a cirer de tes deboires - de quoi veux tu nous parler? (En 5 secondes)
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  4875.  @DIDI-fl5lq  On m'y a mute' sans quelqu'egide
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  4876. @DIDI-fl5lq  zut. Chaine inaccessible
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  4877. Ou sur mon plateforme m
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  4878. It's a parlor game to win shodden fraud. Right?
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  4879.  @tooolip7408  I remember that time. I am a dual national F/US, and NZ had a bone to pick with both of my countries. US had that nuclear problem with NZ, and France sank the Rainbow Warrior. The people in other countries might have treated me as a pariah, or worse; but the Kiwis were just golden. I would recommend NZ as a destination to any traveler.
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  4880.  @HBToastedAlmond  LVMH stock price recently hit a record high. Luxury has its price, and its ROI.
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  4881. or maybe they will tight
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  4882. The first 3 minutes of this report show Russian tanks which have been knocked out by the 'jack-in-the-box' effect. The tank design had specified 3 crew members: a commander, a gunner, and a driver; western tanks also included a loader. Instead, the Soviet/Russian design relied on an auto-loader, with shells on a feed track pointing up, where the pressure-sensitive fuse was set to detonate. It turns out that even a survivable shock wave transmitted through the turret's armour - and it could be as little as a hand-grenade - could set off the entire munitions magazine in a blink of an eye, The turret separates traumatically.
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  4883. 'dragged out' legal battles are DeSanctimoni_us in Florida. Why can't Floridians benefit from absense of State-sponsored repression, as guaranteed by the Constitution?
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  4884.  @armandoruiz8758  Had you thought to pause that almost all of Russia's population lives west of the Urals? Probably not. You might not have noticed, but it is a fact that the US, Britain, and France, have nuclear weapons of a same level of destructive power. If you were trying to seem intelligent: that failed.
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  4885.  @armandoruiz8758  The United State had not bombed [parts of] Korea since the armistice which put an end to the North's aggressive war to conquer the entire peninsula. Given the vile and murderous regime in Pyonyang since, and its unspeakable economic mismanagement resulting in repeated forced famines: bombing the armed forces of those bastards was the morally justifiable option.
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  4886. Sachs might have clearly pointed out that America runs a chronic Federal deficit which can only be funded by importing foreign capital:because Americans do not save enough to fund the government deficit. A necessary import of capital will be balanced by a current account deficit.
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  4887. The Lord works in mysterious ways; some of His alleged followers are much, much weirder.
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  4888. The Press not captured by MAGA Force, surely must have brought this out before. But it is kind of fun again to see Sen. Mike Greene sabotaged by HIS OWN advocacy.
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  4889.  @amercanmade2685  I lived in a country in Europe where both the presidency and the majority of the legislature were voted into power as the Socialist Party. Did the country slide into dictatorship? No. Were essential citizen freedoms (speech, Press, religion, movement, and so on) degraded? No. They were later voted out of office, and the center-right took over; then the center-left were voted in again; then the pendulum swung back again. Had the country remained prosperous throughout this? Yes. Were corporations still able to do business and rack up healthy levels of profit? Yes. A problem with you is that you have no freaking idea what socialism means in a western democracy, as opposed to the cartoon caricature which poisons your thought processes.
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  4890.  @amercanmade2685  France had a Socialist president, twice - Mitterand, and later, Hollande. Both of them had a majority in the legislature for at least part of their tenure. UK also had several stints under the Labour Party. For much of the German Federal Republic's existence, the SPD was in power. Sweden had a governing socialist party in power for most of the years after WWII, as had Denmark. After Franco died, the Spanish government went over to the socialists; Portugal was governed by their Socialist Party after the fall of the dictatorship in 1975. I'll stop here, but the list is far from exhausted. Are you truly that goofy or ignorant?
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  4891.  @amercanmade2685  It's amazing that you can have had developed such an advanced level of expertise, despite you plainly having admitted that you don't pay attention to such matters. Kudos, of a sort. Unlike you, I lived under a government led by a socialist president, backed by a socialist legislative majority. That government had made a few blunders - as all newly-elected incoming parties typically do when they had been out of power for decades. It is bewildering how you can have so much confidence / arrogance in proposing a knee-jerk stance when you don't, by your own admission, know WHAT THE FUCK you're talking about.
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  4892.  @amercanmade2685  Socialism preceded Marxism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
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  4893.  @bob6267  Russians have contributed immensely to the betterment of humanity. I don't find that characterization outrageous.
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  4894. That's not how things work in our Republic. You might well have your ass wind up in jail, but typically that's the end of a long trial in which a jury of your peers determined if you were guilty / or not. All it takes is for one- repeat, ONE, juror to be unconvinced, and the accused walks free. This peek behind the veil of the the legal system, might have given you some sense of procedure in a republic; but it would follow that you likely would vote for Trump to destroy our country, and accept his lies as a cost not that we should care. Project 2025 would replicate how the Nazis infiltrated and then suborned Germany's professional civil service. That's what worked to destroy the People's say in what We conduct our affairs. Fascism is not the way. Vote blue.
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  4895. Name them. Go ahead. Remember, "I don't like what's going on" does not carry the same legal weight... as "put him in handcuffs". At some point, you will need to become a responsible citizen.
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  4896. 1 - never 2 - never 3 - I see myself in the mirror each morning. I rather like the look of my hazel eyes, but I miss the cobalt-blue eyes of a girlfriend who died in a car crash. What would you like to share about yourself?
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  4897. Conservatives try to conserve. There is nothing "conservative" about the Project 2025 power grab... unless you think of Nazis as "conservative" I shall await your rhetoric in the tall grass.
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  4898. It is unclear that Russia might prevail in a war of attrition. Many of their best weapons systems are reduced to stock on hand, as they relied on key components either now under embargo, or previously supplied by Ukraine.
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  4899. That would be major grief if Harris shall certify Trump as the elected winner of the 2024 Presidential election. Still would have to do it.
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  4900. ,
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  4901.  @MyKharli  Probably not. EDF had no reason to worry about a rocketing cost structure when petrocarbon prices spiked in 73/74 and later oil crises. Decommissioning is a controllable process which might proceed at a faster or a slower pace. There is no emergency.
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  4902.  @luiscabral4852  Fessenheim has been taken offline. The cost of fully decommissioning it clearly will not be zero. Meanwhile no new nuclear generating power stations had been commissioned over the last few years, AFAIK, but please light my lantern if I am mistaken.
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  4903. The dog murderer now has a seat at the table. Enjoy your dinner.
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  4904. Diplomacy might force you best to handle the cards you were dealt.
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  4905. Donald could only get it right in the 5rh grade.
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  4906. Trump had already tested the waters. He exerted protection forces violently to clear out peaceful protesters, so that he could walk up to a church.... and hold the Bible up, although upsidedown. He was willing to defile his Oath of Office for the sake of a photoop. And he flubbed his schtick. 2 Corinthians walk into a bar...
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  4907. 13:39 Javelins are anti-tank weapons, but Stingers are MANPADS. You might have mentioned NLAWs instead.
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  4908. Judy Ruliani should have known better. Interpretation one: he expected that his case might be made for him confounded by elements of DOJ. /Not yet happened.
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  4909. How shall we spell "Noem" with no M?
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  4910. First we might insist that political exercise in defiance of Posse Comitatus somehow wouldn't be in breach of whatever were acceptable / or not / within decisional frameworks within this standing Supreme Court / as shameful as the recent acquired Bench... That Roe were started. "Justice" Amy B had law tenure at Notre Dame, a Catholic institution where tenure was not even considered if one were severe not anti-abortion.
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  4911. Act locally, warm globally.
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  4912. If Trump wants to be a dictator only on Day One: he hasn't adjusted to what dictatorship mrans.
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  4913. Who would have thought that pillow talk could be so corrosive to democracy?
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  4914. Why are they deemed "cave lions"? The area where these specimens were found... is not notably cavernous.
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  4915.  @bobsmith6544  They are extinct, so maybe your comment was appropriate.
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  4916. Shortages of fresh veg in shops were not only attributable HM''s customs controls - British farmers often of late had struggled to recruit agricultural workers from EU. Brits fully had the sovereign right lo leave the European community, but it is becoming increasingly clear that this was far less than a painless decision. I expect the pain to get worse. Pundits speculate that it might even lead to the dissolution of the Union, as the Scots had voted Remain by a far wider margin than the dominant English had chosen to force them to leave. The next few years well might be interesting.
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  4917. He likely got canned because he got kicked by a girl on SNL.
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  4918.  @ThebigJJ621  Nancy Pelosi is not, and never had been, head of state. Learn.
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  4919.  @ThebigJJ621  The Speaker is not a member of the Administration. In fact, the Speaker is often a member of the opposition party. Pelosi's constituency includes San Francisco's Chinatown. You might presume that she is aware of the ramifications of a visit to Taiwan,
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  4920.  @kebaodejiahuo  Strange question. If you care to remember, this thread addresses Nancy Pelosi's projected trip to Taiwan, where she is enthusiastically welcome. Are you sure you're posting to the right group?
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  4921.  @ThebigJJ621  You are immensely ignorant. There is one head of state in the US: the President. That's it. You can try to push your chicom propaganda, and some fools might even take it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_state
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  4922.  @ThebigJJ621  Normally a unified country will have only one head of state. The only exception I know, is Andorra: it has 2 co-princes: the head of state of France, and the bishop or Urgel.
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  4923.  @kebaodejiahuo  Taiwan has done spectacularly well from its contact with the West. And PR China certainly can't pretend that it is disengaged from the affairs of other countries.
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  4924.  @kebaodejiahuo  The US got dragged into WWI, WWII, and the Korean War. American deployments to Afghanistan were a direct consequence of the Taliban harboring the organization which brought down the Twin Towers in NYC. America;s engagement in Vietnam was the result of NV and PR Chinese violations of formal peace accords. Speaking of Vietnam. PR China invaded VN to take the pressure off their allies in Cambodia, the Khmers Rouges - who were so brutal they would have made the SS cringe. Under the KR, roughly 1 in 3 Cambodians died of brutality or engineered starvation. So don't give me any crap about how saintly Communist China has behaved
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  4925.  @kebaodejiahuo  So: now you admit to being PR Chinese.
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  4926.  @cbr1thou  This channel has guardrails against being too explicit in recommending that you engage in self-insemination. I will not defy these.
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  4927.  @ThebigJJ621  It's a country. It might be interesting to reflect on what you might consider an "ordinary country". I had dated a lovely young woman from Morocco, who thought that hers was an "ordinary country" (/pays quelconque). I disagree, IMO its culture is splendid. What are your inclusion criteria?
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  4928.  @ThebigJJ621  Let's say that your "example" is pure trash: because that's what it is.
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  4929.  @kills26  I do not find fault with the broad lines of your assessment. In this case, stalling might not best serve his purpose: If indeed there were "an emergency", delays do not work in his favor. Granted, he has an unshakeable support - but he needs to earn the support of non-partisans. He seems to be losing that particular struggle.
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  4930. WARNING Censorship can be harmful to your
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  4931.  @Mike_Honcho_8653  wrong
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  4932. The GOP nomination is between Trump's insanity and he projected yours, as he goes to bed. Lincoln would not have liked. He's a con man.
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  4933. You can take it, and best you can shove it.
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  4934. That was fun. Costly, dangerous, but not in the best interests of apartheid Elom Musk?
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  4935. WSJ, you're late. Other info channels had documented this many months ago
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  4936. Memory is a narrative, not a record.
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  4937. ​ @joanfrellburg4901 Trump was legitimately elected in November 2015.
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  4938. ​ @davidatkinson8515 I shall disagree with you. Once you shall have garnered an honorific, it's yours to keep.
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  4939.  @davidatkinson8515  Trump had been duly elected President. This might be a source of pain for many, but it is a fact.
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  4940.  @ChefChevyTv  I D 10 T
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  4941.  @DeeLee-p8c  Sweet Sir Gallahad.
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  4942.  @DeeLee-p8c  what? Where, when? Why? Inquisitive minds want to know.
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  4943.  @DeeLee-p8c  Find your way.
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  4944. Remember Hitler? He needed to be stopped. Putin also needs to be stopped. Russia is by far the largest country on earth, and still he wants more.
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  4945.  @waridithevlog  Yeah, but that's not working for Putin so far.
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  4946. It might serve to undermine Putin of possiblies: some specifics under which oligarchs might still retain vast wealth, should Putin fail. This week marks the fall of state-enforced ethnic hatred; Putin hates any assertion of an Ukrainian People. Ukrainians have the sovereign right to be a People.
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  4947. The 2% benchmark had always had been aspirational, rather than a firm target. Several NATO members might protest that they maintain military conscription. are we not looking into glasses of alternative futures?
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  4948.  @user-i-dot  Was this your best competition entry for: angry, and don't give a
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  4949. JD Vance also is a child of God. Let's not wish him physical harm.
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  4950. @billlyons4678  /waterboarding is a fun activity at Mar a Lagos, so long as diplomats respect that it won't happen under their eyes.
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  4951. @billlyons4678  it's not torture if "we" do it.
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  4952. @billlyons4678  President Trump assumed control over the water board.
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  4953. "This is your captain speaking. There's no need to panic."
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  4954. I saw no evidence of that. Please correct me if I'm wrong - but AFAIK these were phone conversations Pillow Mike can have had with someone who was on speakerphone at the other end.
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  4955. ​ @charruz Christ would not have ascended to Heaven in accomplishment of His mission, if He had not been betrayed. In our time, that role falls to the greedy womanizer who doesn't care about anyone but himself. "Love thy neighbor as thyself" is the exact opposite of how Trump is seen to live.
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  4956. When pressed to give any perspective, Trump's default is : 'within 2 weeks'. Even stuff he ranted about over decades, of perpetually has been kicking the can down yet another two weeks. What made him suddenly change?
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  4957. You want HER to stay pregnant. This isn't a collective in a tight spot.
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  4958. There arre several levels of stupidity for non-targeted tariffs or excise at our borders; I might address some of these later. What Donald J. doesn't seem to understand: is that it is the importer of record who pays tariffs on arrival, not the exporter.. How do I know this? I was an importer, and had to okay these payments, then Incorporated these into my client's costs; passed on to consumers.
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  4959. Louisiana maintains its historic legacy of electoral dignity. Quadroonsi might be allowed in the NFL, so long as they didn't try to move into your neighborhood.
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  4960. 4:00 Brent crude is, in fact, the benchmark for European oil. The benchmark for American crude is West Texas Intermediate.
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  4961. May your afterlife be extremely stressful..
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  4962. It is inappropriate for protesters to vandalize Tesla dealerships or charging stations which are not owned by Tesla itself.
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  4963. ~We must make Disney safe for bigots.
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  4964. It must have been a difficult childhood to grow up with the name, "Tucker".
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  4965. Did that appshole ever board a bus?
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  4966. Conspira/sees.
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  4967. He clearly is deranged; the Russian soldiers expected to be greeted as heroes - and when the exact opposite happened, they turned into monsters.
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  4968. Make sure that you lock your mind before you go to bed.
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  4969.  @Nyeupe-Nguvu  Those are kind words.
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  4970. Vinyl might also be popular because its playback requires more personal engagement. With digital, you just hit 'play'; with vinyl, you make sure the record is clean, correct that if not, and one will need to carefully lower the stylus onto the record.. There might be a similarity with the introduction of instant cake mixes. The first of these products only needed the addition of water before baking - and sales were very low; when the mixes were reformulated to require adding an egg, housewives then felt that they put some effort into producing the cake, and sales took off. This case study is taught in any decent Marketing course.
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  4971. Last time the GOP had "control" of the House, they controlled nothing. Let's see what happens.
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  4972. /I did it my way
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  4973. I am your retribution (against my personal criminality). -Donald J. Trump
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  4974.  @typeviic1  employment conditions in the car industry in Mexico have improved significantly since Ross Perot was around. At the time, there were also significant non-monetary disadvantages to setting up factories south of the border. That's why many plants opened up in the American South instead
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  4975. +Diabolo I take exception to your expression here. Please respect that, among these political opponents, are persons quite capable of insight and of reason, able to reach an intelligent and an honourable decision on the basis of the information and experience they.had acquired. I take this stance even though Brexit is an amputation: I came of age in Britain; my mother is buried there; now I lose my right to visit her grave, and my earlier home.
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  4976. +Borderlands I have had conversations with some of these zealots, and they were less than complaisant about their Island Race becoming tainted. Beyond that, please try to consider my POV. Until late March 2019, as an EU national I have the right to enter the UK unless i were subject to interference by those who enforce criminal law among the civilian populace.. They would have no cause to impede my entry into the UK than if they were cops stopping me in the Grosser Tiergarten. There is an immense difference between removing a right, and the practicalities on the ground which cushion the blow.. I have some rights of memory in this kingdom.
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  4977. A mandate derives from why citizens voted for you. If hubris drive you toward an interpretation failure, your Presidency likely shall be a failure.
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  4978. Before the Big Bang Was ?hat was
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  4979. Putin is up to his armpits in his Ukraine invasion. He no longer has a safe corner into which he can back down. We should guarantee one, including his kleptocratic wealth, if he were to concede to peace.
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  4980. WWII patriotic Wehrmacht soldiers died unaware of what the Fatherland had done in their name. Please bear no ill to Russian soldiers who did their duty and respected the Geneva Conventions.
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  4981. ​ @Dylpickle793 you are in Australia. Most of the world does not revolve around you.
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  4982. ​ @t1n4444  I had not gone farther than Devon, however Cornwall was promised to be a wonder.
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  4983. ​ @tblcville why mention that which is not to mention?
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  4984.  @porter4216  The UK can't simply use "targeted tariffs", as this - with a few exceptions - is sharply against WTO rules.
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  4985.  @porter4216  You say " then we charge the EU whatever we like." But no, not if whatever country you are from is a member of WTO. You - whoever you are - can't do that. A WTO member can negotiate preferential agreements with other trading parties, but it can not discriminate against specific other trading parties (apart from specific exceptions, such as WTO-permissible countervailing duties.). Outside of special trading arrangements, WTO members are compelled to charge their citizens the same duties regardless of WTO-member country of origin; the tariff schedules themselves can not be set at will, as they are subject to unanimous agreement by all (yes, all) members of WTO. Reminder: exporters don't pay duties - importers do.
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  4986. Hard truths always should be subject to severe verification; that takes time. Wildfire while spent, can make a trave to set a trap for fools. Let's keep best trained folks out of it until most needed
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  4987.  @kp63  Your phrasing is not best said.
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  4988. Memo to traditional Republicans: Trump might seem like some God, but he is NOT a king.
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  4989. Now that Trump is moving to smash the Federal Government: where will Red States find their funding? South Carolina notoriously receives about $4 for every dollar collected by the IRS; California's net fiscal contribution is greater than the GDP of many countries seated at the United Nations. When can we expect to hear less bullcrust about Blue States being "the problem", when they are paying the bills?
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  4990. Are there any workers undocumented who labor at Mar a Lago ?
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  4991. Canada formally is a Realm of King Charles. Annexing this northern democracy would need the approval of her People, but also His Majesty's agreement. Canada is not for sale.
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  4992. Truth Social (sic) l is a penny stock. It is not investment- grade, unless you are investing in political influence.
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  4993.  @charlesasmith7836  j jjjj j jj j
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  4994.  @JD365-ls5cw  Character assassination is not worthy ... but then, we are focused on a notorious alleged fascist.
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  4995. Harris was fed topics the American people wanted to hear. She honed and explained her responses. Trump didn't give a damn, went golfing like any working class would.
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  4996. ​ @ChristopherCross-on9sq that was long ago. As I remember, Donald Trump - on camera - waved to Stevie Wonder during a gala event. Stevie Wonder is, eastern, and lon before had been, blind. Maybe Trump waving at him was some expression of worship other than of money
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  4997.  @kenc7120  you might have to translate that for humans able to have more than 3 synapses firing at the same time.
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  4998.  @girmaysiyum5900  reminder: these matters before the Court are of alleged corporate malfeasance. If Story Daniels had abused her official corporate duties as an officer of a company subject to this litigation, then certainly she must be subject to commensurate culpability.
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  4999.  @kenc7120  that's not how it works in Law, however it were convenient in your head. A jury had awarded her compensation in an amount they had determined, and which she had not received. You do not owe restitution of funds you never saw. Besides, the lawsuit is successful, unless the award were reversed on appeal. It is quite unheard of for an appeal at this stage to reverse matters of legal fact determined by a lower Court. You should have known this if your jurisprudence chops were in any least creditable. Check your headgear.
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  5000. Capitalism is the exploitation of man by his fellow man; communism is the exact opposite. - old Soviet joke
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  5001. The lovely gentle lady seems unaware that treason is defined within the Constitution; and this elected official got it wrong.
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  5002. Why push to find the 'ledge' in... legislation?
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  5003.  @Bosef88  and the political mentor of D J Trump. Roy Cohn was principal legal buddy to the disgraced Send.McCarthy. Cohn became DJ Trump's mentor.
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  5004.  @Bosef88  it was also the verve behind Roy Cohn, lawyer behind McCarthy, red baiter in chief. Cohn survived the McCarthy scandal, to become DJ Trump's mentor
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  5005.  @Bosef88 my. Dad, after having married my (US born) mother (daughter of US-born father), was almost the sort of person Trump might have been allowed / bought into citizenship. I was born in safety within a few miles from Fraunce's Tavern, where Washington chose not to be a king.
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  5006. Russia had taken over Japanese islands of Shikotan. Etorofu, Kunashiri. and the Habomai group.. This is not only a European war.
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  5007. El sueño de la razon produce Brexit.
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  5008. / transcrypt Happy Halloween
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  5009.  @conreo Over decades, many have predicted a wreck of the United States. They were right every time me, as we can observe.
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  5010. Donald Trump: douched by an anger.
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  5011. This is Rugby WOMEN's competition. I don't want to disparage the ladies nor downplay their excellence, but the pool of talent among the men is far larger - and this is reflected in the play at a national level. I saw a game where Wales had JPR Williams as a substitute, so strong was their team.
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  5012. Impeach Elon Musk!
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  5013. Ordure in the Court!
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  5014. devoutly to be wished; it might be swapped out for 'transitional'
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  5015. This is a dead parrot.
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  5016. Why bother?
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  5017. I love watching Fiji play.. They might not win, but you will have seen some amazing rugby.
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  5018. Don't all, don't tell.
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  5019. I had illustrated this way A stadium holds 50,000 men, each one flat broke. Their average wealth is zero, their median wealth is zero. Then Elon Musk takes a seat. Their average wealth has gone up sharply, but their median wealth still is zero.
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  5020. Trump understood that a sufficient electorate will rather believe a big lie than a small truth..
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  5021. Now you're on his Enemies List. It's a badge of honor. When a citizen is made to fear speak out: that's where fascism germinates. The 3- and 4-star generals all were graduates of West Point. Part of the curriculum was understanding why fascism arose, part of understanding how the 3rd Reich had been defeated Those generals knew fascism when they saw it. Now Trump threatens to use our troops to go after his enemies. In these matters, might you parse differences between Trump and Hitler?
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  5022. ​ @drakemia4079 Wishful thinking at least includes a measure of thinking. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
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  5023. Tucker/Swanson Frozen/ is independently wealthy. He is not perverse out of monetary need.
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  5024. It's not banned until midnight, Eastern.
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  5025. I pledge allegiance to the United States of America , and to the Republic - one Nation with liberty for all .
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  5026. It doesn't matter if lvoters fear you. It matters that they remember you.
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