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Comment · 3 years ago
Usually these kinds of things are just about selling a service. Most pitches on this is are like that just rehashed versions of the same sales pitches
Comment · 3 years ago
Honestly based on the title I though the writer was going to talk about systemic racism and wealth and how wealthy black people end up poor a bit disappointed it wasn't though to say why we always emphasize this is weird to me rather than why such inequality exists in the first place the conversation is instead about helping a very small subset of people as if they're in some way better than the rest instead of what it usually is, luck.
Comment · 3 years ago
That's not how that works.
Comment · 3 years ago
Ehh I'm not sure the Japanese would have a way of knowing that. Given the time period this was in. Not sure if that source can be trusted.
Comment · 3 years ago
Eh. Not sure about that. Yasuke is a real person or we think he is. But this feels more like speculative fiction with an advertisment rather than anything else.
Comment · 3 years ago
Ah, I clicked on this article hoping for information but it felt more like an ad for the Netflix series and at times goes in detail to describe fan fiction from historians only to go on record to state there is no evidence behind said claims. At that point why even bother to include it in the article as many reader might not even notice this. This article feels more low effort than most articles from the Smithsonian and I hope it's not a sign of lower quality works to come.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yep that's how a monopoly works.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's a red herring from the Saudis to point at the fact that many Wikipedia entries are already heavily modified and controlled by interest groups like their own. Why they would announce it this way is another question.
Comment · 3 years ago
Not that suprising given their population, still a better investment into public rail and buses would greatly improve the lives of the people there but Im not sure if that will happen when they can't even get toilets and basic sanitation for most of their population and for the people buying these vehicles it's a luxury and most are not very receptive of public transportation due to the already existing problems.
Comment · 3 years ago
Does that make sense for them to continued to have existed for thousands of years during the ice age where nothing grew? Or if the dating is even accurate at all?
Comment · 3 years ago
Not just that many sports have their own backings and beliefs which tend to skew towards whats popular at the time but also some questionable stuff at times. Fun fact the lighting of the bonfire at the Olympics was first done by Nazi Germany
Comment · 3 years ago
Ah yes the nobody wants to do it to me excuse. Until you piss off the wrong person and you suddenly crash into the railing and die in an 'accident'.

In a more Orwellian world. It can be used to assassinate dissidents or individuals who speak out against authoritarian regimes. It's just a tool in a box, but it's one that's simple, easy to use, and leaves no evidence.

Comment · 3 years ago
Ehhh that's a lot more complicated than that. But sure. How many would die naturally in the same given period due to things such as disease and natural outcomes, I prefer facts to biased and somewhat radical sources. We already know the constant population during certain periods so why not extrapolate how many died to famine rather than claim it as a glob that it is not? It worsens the claims that these people are trying to portray and actually makes the Indian government look much worse. As if demanding the money and reparations rather than a conversation. It's not hard to see why nobody is taking it seriously.
Comment · 3 years ago
Run on sentence makes you wonder.

7/10 meme

Comment · 3 years ago
Except for the fact that it does so on an unprecide dented scale allowing small groups of people to do things without necessarily being caught allowing for far more effective ways of control. Even without it, it's hard to argue for the existence of online forums when hackernews is a classic example of why it doesn't work when the majority of the 'intellectuals' have an inflated belief and understanding on topics they have no basic understand on. It's so bad that none of the actual subject matter experts talk here besides ones with financial interests in the products themselves and the experts fearful of retribution. The irony is almost comedic.

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