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balsoft

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  • Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

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  • I get your point, but if you actually go out and speak with women who trust you, chances are they will all have multiple stories of harassment and/or SA that will make your skin crawl. It's not just fearmongering, there are a lot of awful men out there (in absolute terms)

    I'm surprised how many (well-meaning) men are clueless about this horrible aspect of life which is so universal for women.

  • spoopy figs

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  • By that logic it should be "peanut butter substitute" as well

  • Fuck Israel

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  • Literally anything is better than coal, oil and gas. Renewables are the cheap option to produce energy when possible, and nuclear is insurance for base load in case we never quite figure out grid storage at scale.

  • "Bar car" on the NYC subway, 1962

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  • It didn't start out from a good place either. US in the 70s was still homophobic, racist, and bombed the shit out of middle east. Reminds you of anything?

  • Trump administration starts to panic over rapidly rising oil costs

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  • Google's data quality is shit. Even openstreetmap figured out how to (mostly) normalize names of chain establishments.

  • Prewar US intel assessment found intervention in Iran wasn't likely to change leadership

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  • No idea :) I'm not familiar enough with the Iranian/Persian culture to even make a guess.

  • Iran offers Hormuz passage to countries expelling US, Israeli ambassadors

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  • On this particular front Europe is doing OK as well, but it definitely needs to build more, faster, and now. And to do that it needs to build more ties with China. Honestly looking at the (lack of) EU response over the latest US war crimes I'm not holding my breath here.

  • Prewar US intel assessment found intervention in Iran wasn't likely to change leadership

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  • I don't know the language at all but I can "read" the script, and they are quite different. The first one is like "Khomenee", the second is like "Khaamenae'i"

  • Iran offers Hormuz passage to countries expelling US, Israeli ambassadors

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  • Felipe VI of Spain can (constitutionally) do the funniest thing right now.

    That said, everyone on this planet needs to be building renewables, grid storage, bike lanes and railways ASAP to shake off oil dependency.

  • Reading to understand would help these idiots

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  • Reinventing the labor theory of value from first principles

  • Fuck Israel

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  • I think it may be part of the reason for Trump, but Iran's oil reserves and military control over the straight of Hormuz is probably an even bigger reason. US clearly wants to control as much of oil supply as it can to keep the dominance it has over the rest of the world.

    Everyone should be building renewables and nuclear like crazy right now, because the alternative is slavery to the empire.

  • Western Imperialism

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  • Most "western" countries have been acting like this in the past century and are still to this moment reaping the benefits from colonial and imperialist plunder of the global south. It's not just the USA, even though it is the most damaging.

  • Hegseth declares, 'I only speak American' to room full of foreign leaders

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  • Not only vocabulary, but grammar too.

  • Apolitical

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  • Scratch that, get people to demand and vote for public transit and cycling infrastructure. It's much cheaper per person than building&recycling batteries for all the EVs, and beefing up the power grid to support the exploding demand. Much better for the environment and society in general too.

  • China’s foreign minister says Iran war ‘should never have happened’

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  • That's what Xi keeps repeating, that reunification is only possible by continuously strengthening economic, cultural and even political ties. Western media keeps trying to claim he wants to "take Taiwan by force" but there's never a source, it's always "read between the lines" of his speeches.

  • Qatar warns that oil could double to $150 a barrel and 'bring down the economies of the world'

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  • I think the correct term is not "insisted on provoking" but "started". Dropping bombs on primary schools and city centers is not a provocation, it is an act of aggressive criminal war

  • I was told it would be a cultural experience

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  • Yes, but not because they have fun gimmicks on gas stations

  • simpler times

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  • I think there were some (plenty?) of NFTs that were backed by IPFS.

    The fundamental problem with them is that the concept of "owning information" is ultimately absurd.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • I think it was pleasing enough to right-wing billionaires (sorry for the tautology) - both the campaign itself and the ultimate failure.