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It might have been cheaper to pay them on time....

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Oh, I'm stealing that!

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Toynbee said that the only solution to the race problem was intermarriage, but it will take at least a thousand years of interbreeding to mix the races...

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I could flag this post, and it would not result in you being banned, because you've done nothing the administration deems bannable.

If in...

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It's in the nature of bannings and thread deletions that we won't know what caused them. If the management removes posts or persons promptly and for good...

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Several problems with that. One is that while Arab slave traders were certainly a thing, the West African slaves purchased by Europeans and their descendants...

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But if you create a market for salves, more slaves will be created, usually by violent means. Buying lots of slave led to lots of slave raids....

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Looks like the Russian Black Sea fleet is bailing on Sevastopol: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/21908

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Not sure what 'direct labor' is. I'm pretty sure UAW workers aren't building batteries, they just install them, and a lot of other stuff is made by suppliers....

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That would work!...

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Nah. A Trump movie would be animated, probably by the folks that did Ren and Stimpy....

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Korshak!


https://medium.com/@Stefan.Korshak/s...s-1130f48c29e6...

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I used to skipper public sail at the Center for Wooden Boats in a 35' sharpie. People usually sat against the sides, or if they were on the lee side in...

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They couldn't find it on the nightly news until airtime. Duh!...

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Actually, a lot of that money goes into stock buybacks, which increase the value of executive stock options. That is not an investment in the company,...

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That stealth stuff really works!

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Khrushchev found out that being to enthusiastic about using nukes made him many enemies in the Kremlin. I suspect that's one thing that hasn't changed...

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The south is where Russia claimed most of the new territory it took in the recent conflict, and if they can take Crimea Putin is probably out of office....

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What a pair of snowflakes those students must be....

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Am I solipsistic, or is it just me?