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I don't think that's right, context matters. It spreads when it is shared uncritically and people come across it in a context where they don't have their guard up. I believe it is preventative, to some extent, the other way around, when it is shared in a context ripping it to shreds.

People will come across antisemitism in the wild, and it is important that they learn to recognise it. This quote is pretty extreme, but it is important that people know that antisemites use words like e.g. "dialectical" as a dog whistle. The next time they hear someone say something about it when one of their facebook friends share something they might notice that they talk about "Hollywood elites" or whatever in the same way.

Without a good understanding of how antisemitism works we are all susceptible.

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In UK/Australia/NZ we pronounce it as written, with the l.

Correction: they have spent some fraction of 73M on propaganda, and likely embezzled the rest.

Germany is a terrible comparison here. Home ownership in Germany is about 50%, true, much lower than the US' 65%. However, the majority of those rentals are apartments rather than houses, since even small towns are highly densified, very unlike the USA. There are many state landlords which provide rentals at a very attractive price; it's rare for people to spend more than 30% of their post-tax income on rent. Furthermore, there are extremely strong protections for renters, restrictions on rent increases, and they can renovate their apartments as they please. That's very different from what American real estate corporations want.

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Geez, I hope they're paying you to suck their dick this hard

We will, one way or another. At some point simply enough people will have died that we will stop making things meaningfully worse 🤷‍♂️

Yes lol

Wtf, I like bard now?

Most countries that use 24h time (Western Europe, ime) use both interchangeably - saying "at 18" or "at six in the evening" are both totally normal.

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Food is generally acidic, basic food would taste bitter and awful.

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Yes, I understand how monero works. Yeah you'll get away with buying some groceries or whatever with it, but people who go through bankruptcy (especially who aren't rich, and are felons) have a close eye from the government on their finances. If you try to buy a house or a car or anything actually life changing with that, you're pretty likely to get caught and charged with fraud etc., unless you legitimise it, that is, launder it.

And yet productivity is very similar between the US and Europe...

Then your understanding of these terms is wrong. Polyamory refers to people having multiple relationships (consensually), that's it.

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It would be $1,200 though

IMO it's good and fine for a 5+ year old to make their own lunch, but at that age it's absolutely important and necessary for parents to double check that it's fine and they've got it with them.

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Something can't become categorically imperative, a quiddidity such as an essentially categorical property is invariant with respect to time. It either is or it isn't. Per contra, aesculapian aid might become dispositionally required.

It does if you want to spend it in any meaningful way

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Only the client. Though that's probably enough to make sure messages leave your device suitably encrypted. Depending on the algos it could be quite vulnerable to hndl attacks, though, or (less likely) any undiscovered backdoors in the implementations. Of course, even for Signal one has to trust they're using the public server code anyway, but at least we know they're folding in a quantum-resistant algo.

Coke belongs in your second list.

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No yeah that's exactly the problem. Because it's musk, we can be confident it is just bullshit and won't result in any meaningful innovation. It's just torturing monkeys for shits and gigs.

We also say chips and chips. If you need to clarify, crisps are "potato chips" and chips are "hot chips". A chippie is a shop that sells (fish and) chips, not the chips themselves.

It's a settlement. The amount of money is not that small, but it ends the investigation into whether drivers should be classified as employees rather than contractors. As the article states, their stock prices soared after this, that tells you everything you need to know.

Funny, I can easily do that and assumed everyone could

What's the problem with soaking beans the night before?

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There is, but they all come under the umbrella of polyamory. There's lots of sub categories like "parallel" (where someone's partners don't have much or any contact with each other), "kitchen table" where they're not in a relationship but do talk a lot about scheduling etc, might be friends, and then where everyone is in the same relationship or has independent relationships between everyone in a group. But lots of people use lots of different terms for those things.

Yeah but heroin doesn't make you cray the way meth does

Sure but you can also buy chanterelles/porcini/oysters/morels etc in shops, it's not only portobello type

2 is higher than 3 or 4.

Presumably OP is about as skilled as, or a little more than, account farmers (who are bound to be pretty good to make any money...) and less skilled than professional YouTubers.

I don't even think there should be a punishment. Children aren't tiny adults with the same kinds of obligations we have. If they don't make their lunch their parents should make them a nice lunch, it should just be part of the kids routine of learning life skills to make lunch.

You've misunderstood. With the client code you can be sure that your messages are properly encrypted before leaving the device. If that's done correctly, you don't need to trust the server, because it can't read your messages just like some attacker couldn't. Signal is pretty similar, they didn't update the public server source for a few years, and even with the source, we can't know that that is what they're actually running. But with a verified build of the client code we can know that our messages are encrypted such that, even if they held on to them until quantum computers became mainstream, they'd still be properly protected.

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It's unreasonable to ask a doctor's note for one day, and the cultural standard is not to, but it is legal in Germany to ask for one even for one day.

At least you write really well, so you've got that going for you. I do get that things which involve that much prep don't work for everyone's lifestyle, I guess it's the upside of being pretty boring and living in a country where I don't have any friends that I can make it work for me.

You don't understand why people might more frequently discuss the actions of someone with enormous power and influence, than they would those of Darryl from high school?

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A bay-em-vay drei even

Everyone's different I guess, but I don't think of one day before as "way in advance". Plain boiled beans freeze really well so I just do that if I've already made them but my plans change.

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It's all relative but housing in Germany is pretty cheap as a percentage of income compared to most western countries

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You seem to be a bit confused about how asymmetric encryption works. There is no need for private keys to be transmitted for a messaging service to work. I encourage you to read about the difference between public and private keys in asymmetric encryption. They are generated in pairs, such that when something is encrypted using a public key, it can only be decrypted using the corresponding private key. So it's not correct to say that the message can't be decrypted by the intended recipient - they are in fact the only party who can, but even the sender can not.

The flaw is that the checksum is so bad.

What do you mean? A house in the city is almost always more expensive than a house in a rural area, in every country

The very scenario that quote came from was one of... Extensive, and disastrous, negotiation with terrorists. So, not much has changed.