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2020-11-01 at 12:30 AM UTC in More nurses have now died from COVID-19 than nurses that died during WWIDid you learn your history from playing Battlefield 5?
Nurses were not combat medics. They were not at significant risk of being killed in action during WWI. So why are you comparing their corona virus death toll to their killed in action death toll? -
2020-11-01 at 12:29 AM UTC in Americans complain about taxes...Distributing the wealth doesn't solve the core issue - people aren't being rewarded for their labour.
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2020-11-01 at 12:04 AM UTC in More nurses have now died from COVID-19 than nurses that died during WWILiterally title of thread... but ok.
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2020-11-01 at 12 AM UTC in More nurses have now died from COVID-19 than nurses that died during WWI
Originally posted by Technologist So you’re saying that everyone brought to a hospital is brought by medics? Really?
In response to the title of this thread, yes. Women were not sent to retrieve wounded soldiers during WWI. They were rarely in the line of fire. It they were, it was because the city had been overrun or something. Hence the statistic saying more nurses died from corona than during wwi... it attempts to make it seem huge, while it isn't. -
2020-10-31 at 11:55 PM UTC in Americans complain about taxes...
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2020-10-31 at 11:55 PM UTC in More nurses have now died from COVID-19 than nurses that died during WWII'm an alt for who again?
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2020-10-31 at 11:52 PM UTC in More nurses have now died from COVID-19 than nurses that died during WWIThose nurses weren't frontline. If they ended up on the frontlines, that was by accident. Medics are on the frontlines, not nurses.
What is the comparison here? -
2020-10-31 at 11:50 PM UTC in Americans complain about taxes...Thank you, infinity. It's not a fault in capitalism. It's a fault with crony capitalism. Capitalism by itself is good...you own what you produce and are free to trade it. When paperwork starts getting complex.... that's when you should be smelling fraud.
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2020-10-31 at 7:47 PM UTC in Americans complain about taxes...Doesn't matter about the lease. Not even the same China they leased it from. The China they leased it from, ceased to exist during the civil war. As did their debts.
On December 19, 1984, after years of negotiations, British and Chinese leaders signed a formal pact approving the 1997 turnover of the colony in exchange for the formulation of a “one country, two systems” policy by China’s communist government. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called the agreement “a landmark in the life of the territory, in the course of Anglo-Chinese relations, and in the history of international diplomacy.” Hu Yaobang, the Chinese Communist Party’s secretary-general, called the signing “a red-letter day, an occasion of great joy” for China’s one billion people.
They've breached the conditions of the turnover, by disallowing the Hong Kong system. HK is British again. Chinese troops ought to get the fuck off NATO soil before article 5 gets invoked. -
2020-10-31 at 7:41 PM UTC in What is the best language for thought?
Originally posted by Kev the thousands of symbols in the chinese betabet always struck me as inefficient when we can have almost the same combinations of sounds with just 26 latin symbols, yet linguists say chinese is the most economic language.
You can't communicate with just the 26 latin symbols, though. If somebody's only read English and never heard it, they'd have no clue how to pronounce half the stuff. That's why we have
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2020-10-31 at 6 PM UTC in What is the best language for thought?According to the "survival of the fittest" theory, if applied to langauge, English is obviously the superior language, as proven by it's 2 billion speakers. Germanic languages mostly share the same thought pattern. Notice how well off all Germanic countries are? Could this be in part due to their languages? People in France, Greece or Mexico act a certain way, vs Sweden, Canada and Germany, etc. Could language be intertwined into culture?
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2020-10-31 at 5:52 PM UTC in Americans complain about taxes...
Originally posted by Kev citation needed. they arent on here: https://www.un.org/en/member-states/index.html
the international community recognizes hong kong as part of china. turn off your fucking TV, dumbshit. you know, that device that told everyone that chechnya was an independent country too
International community can turn that switch off quite easily. China's is violating the terms of the UK transfer. Technically, UK can void the contract on the basis that China has breached it, making Hong Kong a part of the British empire again. That means Chinese troops are currently on NATO soil. -
2020-10-31 at 5:49 PM UTC in Pyrodex, black powder FFFGYes. Would mixing the powders potentially help with that?
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2020-10-31 at 5:34 PM UTC in Google, Facebook, and Twitter testify before the senate today.
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace Its a misdemeanor.
You wanna get separated from your kids for jaywalking too?
It's a misdeamener on first offence. Mostly due to Canadians unintentionally crossing the border. The Mexicans who are forced to cross the border do so because they've got a criminal record. Else they're eligible to get a tourist visa. The non-criminal Mexicans jump their visa. The criminal Mexicans jump the border. Hence it's irrelevant if the act in itself is criminal on first offence. -
2020-10-31 at 5:56 AM UTC in Which race is worseThe amazing race. God I hate that show.
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2020-10-30 at 6:41 AM UTC in 80 beers, minus your age, plus 40 dollars, gives you the year you were born.This is one of those memes that goes in waves. Just saw it on facebook. Remember seeing it a few years back.
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2020-10-29 at 2:05 AM UTC in What living in a country that gives a fuck about you is like
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace The price of meat is low because we literally ship it in from China. That was signed off on by Donald Trump.
None of what you say really matters. That 3k average disposable income does. That's why they are one of the happiest countries in the world, and we are ranked with 3rd world nations. All you care about is how rich the rich can get, and not how happy and healthy people are.
The happiness poll is a bullshit statistic like most statistics are. Skewed. Countries have a different definition of happiness linguistically. In Norway, they're mostly content. Which is good. But that's all there is to life.
The real problem is that Norway "enables" all this behavior by economically supporting it. No motivation. -
2020-10-29 at 2:03 AM UTC in Was it a mistake to let women vote?We need good old city states again. Why the fuck is someone several thousand miles away making decisions regarding my life?
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2020-10-29 at 1:54 AM UTC in Google, Facebook, and Twitter testify before the senate today.
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Too funny that the dems keep going on about kids being separated from their parents…meanwhile 2 million incarcerated US Citizens are also separated from their kids and nothing is said about that.
Break the law, get separated from your kids. Well said.
Biden's supported fucking mandatory minimums. He's part of the system that has for ions been locking away people for non-violent, non-victim crimes. And now "BLM" supports his presidency.
You can't make this shit up. -
2020-10-29 at 1:43 AM UTC in What living in a country that gives a fuck about you is like
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace So all of this sounds great. Equal pay for equal work. The problem with America in the first place is that the rich are making too much at the cost of everyone else's health. Our food standards are low as hell. You can get a 5lb pack of chicken for like 2 dollars. That shit isn't right. That is symptomatic of a world in which only corporations can afford to compete, while the majority is pushed into being workers for them. It's modern day slavery.
The price of meat is triple to quadruple in Norway, compared to the USA.
Norwegians who live close to the Swedish border (where meat is 1/2 to 1/3 the price), enjoy a much lower cost of living. Plus meat isn't the only thing expensive.
Never thought I'd hear anyone ever complain that the price of meat is too low.....
Those that live in Bergen or in the west, meanwhile, will easily have double the grocery bill compared to someone living close to the Swedish border. Equality my ass.
Work ethic is non-existent in Norway. Nobody takes pride in their work. What a way to build a nation. Using imported labour so no Norwegian will ever again have to carry a hammer. As soon as I got to Canada, I got a job in the trades. I have no friends in the trades in Norway. They're mostly clerks or unemployed/retired (yes, retired with pension in their 20's/30's). Some have phony jobs where they pretend to be important all day. Protected by unions so they don't actually have to work. They just go to the office to hangout and socialize. Bang the hammer around. Sweep the floors that are already clean. If Norway didn't have that oil, they'd have to make up for it with work ethic like the Swedes do. It's also a prime example of how under communism or socialism you have no motivation to actually produce. No aspirations beyond being a clerk. Path of least resistance through life, is what most Norwegians opt for.
