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Comment · 5 years ago
You've had the vaccine for longer then almost anyone, what's happening?
Comment · 5 years ago
You think people are buying up Chips designed to go in to Toyota cars?

Surely they're beyond worthless to anyone but the manufacturer and Toyota themselves?

Comment · 5 years ago
Could have not started the illegal war in the first place...

Could have invaded the actually bloody country responsible for 9/11 instead of a central Asian backwater.

Could have reigned in your massive military industrial complex which essentially demands wars for profits....

What am i kidding... 'MERICA!

Comment · 5 years ago
Not sure how Reddit is worth that much... Are the 50 power mods in charge of 90% of the top subs selling access to state propaganda departments? Actually don't answer that, its painfully obvious.

$ per user revenue is pathetic compared to most social media platforms.

Comment · 5 years ago
Someone should really look in to that....
Comment · 5 years ago
From the FBI's own definition:

International terrorism : Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups who are inspired by, or associated with, designated foreign terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored).

Struggling to see how the CIA isn't a terrorist organisation at this point.

Comment · 5 years ago
If that were true then the entire education industry globally is a scam which i simply can't believe.

Have you never had a great lecturer who can deliver information in a way which makes more sense to you then just reading it off a website?

Comment · 5 years ago
Religion plays very little role in English politics.

I doubt many people in North East Somerset considered this mans faith before voting for him.

Comment · 5 years ago
If you live in a modern western country? Nothing.

The asparagus season might be a few weeks shorter, you may pay 3-5% more but ultimately no one is going to starve.

The best thing to do is prepare for slightly higher outgoings.

If you are in Sub-Saharan Africa continue doing what you're already doing, get on a dinghy and point it at Europe.

Comment · 5 years ago
You don't, you hold the dumb, over priced stock as a reminder for future, better informed investing.
Comment · 5 years ago
I love seeing these issues reverberate around the internet.

This time i think /r/sysadmin pegged the issue first, great sub.

Comment · 5 years ago
I think Reddit might be fundamentally flawed because of its voting system and its need for high moderation to make it workable. Mods influence so much power over what people are and aren't allowed to talk about. You use the example of CasualUK which is indeed a very good if slightly "police state" sub but it only exists because the other UK subs became unviable.

The old defence has always been "if you don't like it go away and make your own sub", unfortunately with so many obvious subs being squatted its difficult to get exposure to newer communities.

From memory we have:

/r/unitedkingdom - Mostly teenage lefties, often resembles a 6th form common room, mostly dislike the UK.

/r/ukpolitics - Similar to above, slightly quicker on the banhammer.

/r/england - cybersquatted and shutdown for years by a power mod, just opened back up but the power mod won't give top rank over to active mods.

/r/scotland - A borderline anti-English hate sub, harsh group think in most threads.

/r/baduk - The less said the better.

I don't know what the solution is because as i said, reddit is flawed at a base level. The only positive change i can think of is to cap active participants in a sub to a specific small number.

Comment · 5 years ago
You could start by not funding an expansionist apartheid state?
Comment · 5 years ago
One unnamed company is still struggling to secure a print spooler after most of a month. I don't have the optimism you do.
Comment · 5 years ago
I recall a conservation with a pilot in a bar. He claimed they could pick their routes to an extent and had more flex the longer they had been there.

He was particularly keen on the London - Australia double header, apparently he made bank on that route.

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