MrMakabar
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- Comment on Dolph is prime human 1 day ago:
Dolph is vegan and seems to not care about religion, but mostly stays out of politics.
- Comment on RIP America 3 days ago:
Probably more important is the next paragraph:
There are a few alternative timelines. Some scholars extend the end date of the golden age to around 1350, including the Timurid Renaissance within it,[6][7] while others place the end of the Islamic Golden Age as late as the end of 15th to 16th centuries, including the rise of the Islamic gunpowder empires.
The Ottomans managed to siege Vienna centuries after the end of the Golden Age. They were not that behind in technology. Really the big change happened with the industrial revolution, which the islamic world mostly failed to implement. However at least the Ottomans managed to do a good enough job, to stand the ground against the Brits. Of the none Western world only Japan and depending on how you look at it Russia was better at adopting Western science and technology.
Iran and Moghul India did much worse though.
- Comment on Dear Leader 2 weeks ago:
For your average Trump support they are the same thing.
- Comment on Dear Leader 2 weeks ago:
Stop it! The Chinese parade did not have ads!!!
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 month ago:
Rent, eat out every day, spend money on toys, drive an expensive car and so forth. It is surprisingly common.
- Comment on Ben Shapiro's sister 2 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
To be fair the one living in Spain does speak Spanish.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
One of the biggest German Nazi YouTubers lives on Mallorca. Another one lives in Panama and it is too funny to have the disconnect between him complaining about migration, while making praising Panama in the same sentence.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 2 months ago:
Selection bias combined with it becoming easier to basically not talk with people.
- Comment on Three original movies are being released in theaters today 3 months ago:
“Death of the Unicorn - One mens struggle with erectal disfunction”
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 5 months ago:
Marginalia and Million Short have their own index as far as I know. Fireball is another one being independent from both Google and Bing.
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 6 months ago:
Customer and member are not the same thing. A member owns a share of the business and has a vote, with cooperatives having one vote per member. That makes it different to company stock. For consumer cooperative like credit unions, most customers will own a share in the company, but it is not a requirement. For example when you withdraw money from a credit unions ATM, you are a customer of the credit union, but are not necessarily a member. There also are workers cooperatives, where the workers of the company are the members.
Also cooperatives are meant to benefit their members, which makes them different from charities.
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 6 months ago:
Credit unions are a type of cooperative bank. The key is that anybody who opens a bank account becomes a member automatically. That is not the case for other types of cooperative banks.
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 6 months ago:
American banks offering credit card have the highest profit margin of ANY US industry. In most other countries cash is still king. Hence credit unions in those countries need to charge fees and offer worse services.
- Comment on Women in STEM 9 months ago:
At first the committee had intended to honour only Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, but a committee member and advocate for women scientists, Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler, alerted Pierre to the situation, and after his complaint, Marie’s name was added to the nomination. Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
- Comment on Meatspin 9 months ago:
Exactly you can use the railing to hang on the outside. Greater speed and much more fun.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 9 months ago:
No
- Comment on My new company let me join the union on my first day, within their onboarding app 10 months ago:
Seriously in Europe many investment funds activly go to the unions and ask which problems the company have. They are often better informed and honest then the normal management. They also have an obvious intresst in keeping the company around.
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