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    President-elect Biden plans COVID response—while White House faces new outbreak

    I have been an ars member for over a decade and have seen that this site has become far left leaning over the years. There is no longer any real objectivity here. The forums has become an echo chamber and its saddening that alot of smart people no longer consider or tolerate opposing arguments...
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    Tesla nearly triples Model 3 production from the previous quarter

    so courtesy of Business Insider, we not only have confirmation but also evidence that Musk's quality control transgressions were especially acute: according to the report, which was based on internal Tesla documents provided to BI by what appears to be a whistleblower, "Musk appears to have...
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    Tesla nearly triples Model 3 production from the previous quarter

    the devil is in the details and a careful look at the number show that there is a lot going on that might not be sustainable. They had to erect a tent and go back to full manual labor at overtime shifts to pump out the extra cars. Also the technical term they used for that 5k cars is "factory...
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    Charter accuses its employees of cutting cables 125 times during strike

    Well, you can thank the federal reserve and QE for that
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    Anne Frank foundation moves to keep famous diary copyrighted for 35 more years

    wow, I had no idea that the charity wrote the diary. what other famous non-fiction piece of work did they write /s
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    IRS tells Senate: We only use our stingrays with court orders

    well considering what they did to Irwin Schiff, I am not about to trust what they say or do
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    As Greece falls in arrears, one man wants to crowdfund €1.6 billion payment

    Agreed, all this talk and blame about austerity when there never was any real austerity.
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    As Greece falls in arrears, one man wants to crowdfund €1.6 billion payment

    its kind of funny how Germany finally managed to take over Europe, and by doing so completely overextended themselves yet again. Note the German banks' ridiculous leveraged derivatives, the size of which exceeds the entire German economy ten times. Letting Greece out of the Euro is like blowing...
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    As Greece falls in arrears, one man wants to crowdfund €1.6 billion payment

    yea, like 1.6 billion will actually help. There is a sucker born ever minute
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    20th Anniversary grey PS4s reselling for upwards of $20,000 on eBay

    it was on sale at $330 during black friday at ebay
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    Lost languages leave traces on the brain

    actually its 5 tonals, the last one is written in pinyin with the umlat on top of the vowels. Its also one which rarely gets used, but its there.
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    Lost languages leave traces on the brain

    I am exactly like that. Even though I speak English fluently with no accent, my speech pattern is very much foreign. Chinese has a very different sentence structure with how objects subjects verbs are placed among other oddities. I am fully aware of the differences, but its still very hard to...
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    Why China’s economic growth hasn’t been getting cleaner

    Yep, there are no private property rights, so the attitude of "screw everyone, I am gonna get rich and move overseas" is pretty common there. After all that's what most of the communist party leaders are doing. By some reports they have laundered around 4 trillions dollars into the caymans and...
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    Making a homemade metal semi-automatic rifle just got crazy easy

    anyone who dabbles in hobby machining would laugh at that statement. You would get a functioning part, just not one that would stand up to test of time.
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    Snowden: The NSA , not Assad, took Syria off the Internet in 2012

    considering our history, we are pretty competent when it comes to false flags
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    Chinese military “hacked” Israel’s Iron Dome

    agree 100%. Having visited some of these large facilities on business trips. I can say that China has some of the best industrial and process engineering on the planet. this is not the kind of flashy innovation you see in Silicon Valley but is still highly important to modern manufacturing. This...
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    Death of man in viral NYPD arrest video ruled a homicide

    Latest news: The guy who filmed the whole thing is now arrested by cops on weapons charges
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    Facebook’s emotional experiments on users aren’t all bad

    we have revelation now that the government might have funded this study. So basically they want to see what effect propaganda has on people and how to make it more effective. I hope Facebook will eventually crash and burn on top of zukerberg
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    Flying RoboCop is a “riot control” octocopter with guns and lasers

    Q: how does a nation change from democracy to autocracy? A: slowly at first, then all of a sudden.
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    Want to buy the largest video game collection in the world?

    you're off a little. Its 123k assuming no compounding. edit: your you're