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>pledges

A pledge has the same value as good intentions.

>They are apocalyptic/UFO/meditation cult

I didn't see anything like you describe[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong#Central_teachings

> HN isn't the place for politics.

It seems that if the politics meet a certain criteria, they are allowed ad nauseam. You also see where certain names are allowed to say things where others are chastised for the rebuttal of said things.

> There are already enough near-total-free speech zones on the Internet

You must be referring to Facebook and Twitter.

I'm surprised this thread is on HN, and it actually gives me hope.

But making huge profit in the tech sector is rejoiced, as seen in the likes of Apple, Amazon, Google.... and the list goes on. But farmers are seen as leeches for wanting to be paid for their labor.

Yeah, it's okay when we do it because it affects us.

>To go out in public and cry crocodile tears about my livelihood would be disingenuous

Should we feel the same way about people in IT, programming and other computer related industries then they are laid off for economic reasons? I find it odd that there are many industries that produce far more damaging pollution, including the tech industries, which don't even produce the necessities for life like farming does, but nobody blinks any eye.

>Based on measurements gathered by the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission between April and September 2018, the image shows high levels of nitrogen dioxide in London, Paris, Brussels, western Germany, Milan and Moscow. Nitrogen dioxide pollutes the air mainly as a result of traffic and the combustion of fossil fuel in industrial processes. It has a significant impact on human health, contributing particularly to respiratory problems.

It seems that farming isn't even mentioned in the issue of nitrogen compounds produced. Maybe they should work harder on the elimination of oil as an energy source.

I'm sure your views on this subject would be completely different if you were a farmer.

It seems that sanctions are hurting people everywhere, except in Russia (aside from a few exceptions).

Fruit juices are not the health panacea that people believe, but instead just a concentration of sugar with flavor. When you eat a fruit, you obtain the benefit of the fiber which helps to release the sugars slowly. also, It takes numerous pieces of fruit to produce one serving of fruit juice, and in general, you would not eat that many pieces of fruit.

Does that mean they are dumping raw sewage directly into the river? Treatment plants usually remove all solids before releasing effluent into bodies of water.

This is a problem with almost all modern UPS's. I had some of the old APC's that had the aluminum case with the high quality circuit boards with adjustment pots. These units were purchased in the mid to late 90's and were rock solid, I finally retired the last one about two years ago because it ran out of adjustment on the pots.

I've have numerous later model UPS's made by APC that have gone up in smoke when they were needed most or just up and die for no good reason. The units I have now are supposed to let me know when the batteries need to be changed, but that feature is a total failure.

In summary, all modern UPS's are junk.

I find it funny that vegans would even want to associate with food names of products that they abhor. Many vegans say that have never eaten meat, so why would they want 'steak' or 'sausage' fake meat?

>What keeps us living paycheck to paycheck is that we spend more than we make on stuff we don’t need.

This is still true, though. When I turned 40 in 1994, I decided I had lived with debt long enough. So I sold my plane. my boat and my 2nd house. In the next four years, I paid off the remaining mortgage on my 1st house and installments on my cars and credit cards. Was it hard? Yes, it was damn hard. It's like kicking a habit like a drug addiction, but the drug is easy credit.

I never went into debt again.

It seems that the retail traders are doing better than the institutional types, so the "fix" is to hamstring the retail folks to maintain the status-quo, and make it look like they're doing a favor for retail by acting deeply concerned.

I can honestly say that I won't be buying another Dell. A BIOS upgrade on my PowerEdge T40 changed something in the ACPI area which caused one CPU to spin constantly at about 50% load. I found others that had the problem and a fix that requires you to disable an interrupt. After numerous attempts to get information out of Dell as to what they changed, I gave up, because all I received was corporate doublespeak and non-awswers.

>officially denies climate change

Actually, that is false. They deny the reason for climate change being solely caused by humans. Hopefully one day an honest discussion can be had on this subject.

The hxextract needs a '-' at the end to read from stdin, otherwise curl ends with error 23 indicating pipe closed prematurely. You also need a space after the '-A' or it sees the '-s' as the user agent name. The double quotes adjacent to the '-A' does nothing in that context.

A legacy can be a work in progress.

My uncle worked at Hanford his entire life but his last few years of life were not good. He he retired with numerous health issues and was essentially a mental vegetable the last few years of his life. He was at Hanford from it's inception up to around the seventies when he retired.

The corruption is deep and wide within our government (deep state?) and it doesn't matter which political faction is in power. The attack on the dissemination of information and transparency seems to be accelerating every day. It's almost as if there is something to hide... as if the only way to maintain a position of power is to obfuscate, lie and and deflect at every point a question is asked.

The US Dollar is tightly coupled with assets, and tangible goods and services that provide a substantial portion of its stability. Bitcoin, however, is based on burning through terawatts of electrical power in order to "prove work" and actually produce nothing but waste heat.

>tracked by someone who at least tries to have your best interests at heart

I don't know if that was sarcasm or you being really naive.

>Revolution of Dignity

More like Revolution of Installing Puppet Government by western nations.

>it encourages its appropriation by racial supremacists.

When I got to this point, I quit reading and will disregard the article.

Anything that involves cryptography has to remain suspect.

On our farm we would use an attachment called a ripper. It was a series of blades that would reach down 18 to 20 inches to break up the soil. Behind each blade was a 3.5 inch diameter bullet shaped slug (called a mole) that would create an underground tunnel, not unlike what an actual mole creates. We grew carrots, so it was imperative that soil compaction was limited or it would stunt the length of the carrots.

Spending upwards of $100k or more on personal enrichment seems a bit extravagant. Unfortunately, the majority of people are coerced to go into debt when the return on the "investment" is very limited.