Question: Why do Jehovahs Witnesses oppose sexual foreplay?
Answer: It might lead to women handling microphones.
shepherdless
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Did The Witnesses Mess Up Your Sex Life?
by minimus inmost of the witnesses i knew never really talked about sex.
whatever couples did was pretty much kept quiet.
every once in a while a wife might complain to the elders or a friend that the husband is too demanding or even immoral because of the sex practices the husband wanted.
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Google threatening to pull search engine from Australia
by joey jojo ingovernment is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.
google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.
raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.
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shepherdless
To give an idea about how much Aust Govt is now at odds with Facebook and how there will be no backdown:
- The current Aust fed Govt is Centre-Right.
- What do their arch enemies in the Centre-Left and far left think? The following gives a hint. This is an image I have just received (ironically via Facebook) from Adam Bandt of the Greens:
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Google threatening to pull search engine from Australia
by joey jojo ingovernment is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.
google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.
raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.
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shepherdless
I disagree, SBF. I think that online platforms need to be appropriately regulated, and not allowed to buy up potential rivals and create monopolies. (Eg Facebook should never have been allowed to buy Instagram or WhatsApp.)
Oh, and pay for the content they steal from others.
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Google threatening to pull search engine from Australia
by joey jojo ingovernment is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.
google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.
raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.
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shepherdless
Put lives at risk. That seems to be utter nonsense. There are dozens of other search engines. Use one of those.
Yes, that is a bit of political hyperbole. (Btw, we are talking about Facebook, not Google or any other search engine.)
Perhaps I had better explain for the international audience. In Aust, most state and federal govt departments have webpages to provide info, but also make the same info available on dedicated Facebook pages. We often have bushfires, floods, cyclones etc, and (particularly in relation to bushfires), information needs to be communicated broadly, and very quickly, including where needs to be evacuated, to where, etc. Last summer, while loss of life was pretty low, given the massive nature of bushfires, some deaths were attributed to people getting inconsistent and out of date info. (Info even an hour out of date can be dangerous.) Facebook today blocked the reference to some of the key sites, including the Bureau of Meteorology. Facebook today also blocked all the major Aust news sites. This was all without warning. There is some logic to Facebook blocking Aust news sites, because there will soon be legislation requiring Facebook to pay for Aust news it distributes. There was no logic to blocking various state and federal govt information sites; there was no obligation to pay anything for these.
Of course, Facebook is not essential for the communication of any of this info. It is available directly from the relevant websites.
It will be interesting to see how it all plays out. I can’t see Facebook backing down, and there is absolutely zero chance of Aust Govt backing down, now.
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Google threatening to pull search engine from Australia
by joey jojo ingovernment is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.
google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.
raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.
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shepherdless
For those who haven’t been following the news, Google backed down, and reached an agreement.
However Facebook without warning, today commenced blocking the forwarding of news stories from Australian media sites. But Facebook has made a complete and utter hash of it all, blocking the Facebook pages of a whole heap of government information pages, including health information, emergency weather warnings etc, as well other sites. Aust politicians and other commentators are ripping into Facebook, saying Facebook has put lives at risk, etc.
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What is your most favorite politically incorrect film
by mickbobcat insince all the leftist idiots are trying to cancel films they don't like i am buying some dvds of my fav.
pi films.
my favorite top pick is animal house.
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GameStop - Great Seeing Short-Selling Hedge Funds Get Beaten Up
by Simon inin case you haven't seen what's happened with gamestop and redditors.. these are the people who drive companies like blockbuster out of business and put people out of work.. but maybe the people have more power after all .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toogruq7me.
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shepherdless
What the Redditors did to the hedge funds, is what the billionaires have been doing for years to the average citizens who invest and are hoping to save enough money for retirement
Absolutely.
Also, this is one of these unusual occasions where I fully agree with Tucker Carlson.
B.t.w., I noticed that Fox News has not enabled comments on any of its GameStop stories. I wonder whether it is because this issue is one where the views of its audience are diametrically opposed to the powerful business interests it normally aligns with, and Fox is trying to avoid upsetting either side.
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GameStop - Great Seeing Short-Selling Hedge Funds Get Beaten Up
by Simon inin case you haven't seen what's happened with gamestop and redditors.. these are the people who drive companies like blockbuster out of business and put people out of work.. but maybe the people have more power after all .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toogruq7me.
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shepherdless
Brilliant!
I doubt it is legal, but probably no less legal than what the major players (ie Wall Street elites) are doing.
Many years ago, I did an elective subject at uni called Securities and Investment Law. It was an eye-opener. I never realised that there were so many different ways and schemes by which small investors were ripped off, how markets were manipulated, how there are numerous laws to try to prevent that, how those laws were not enforced very well, how hard it was to get evidence of a crime, and various case studies where the crooks are rarely taken to court and were almost never convicted.
The sort of market manipulation described in the video (both by the elites and the redditors) has been going on in one form or other since stock markets were created. It is illegal in most jurisdictions, but is hard to prove, unless the perpetrators are unsophisticated, and make silly admissions about their intentions.
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Covid lung damage worse than from heavy smoking
by FatFreek 2005 inwe've probably all heard it, "i wish i could get the covid and that way it would be behind me", as if it were some annoying rite of passage.
"sure, i'll lose my senses of smell and taste for awhile, i'll lose my strength for awhile", etc.. what else could be the reasoning for ignoring the social distancing to attend maskless parties and similar large group gatherings?.
however, looking at the following xray images of certain lungs may help impress some folks into thinking that there are more serious happenings in the attack progression of this virus.
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shepherdless
Going back a page in this thread (been out and about):
me:
My understanding is that, as a result, neither Pfizer nor BioNTech received any “Warp Speed” funding. About the only thing the Trump administration can take credit for, is getting both vaccines approved quickly.
S:
They received a $2bn purchase order in advance of the vaccine being developed. Stop pretending there was no involvement.
According to Wikipedia, Operation Warp Speed delivered $10 billion to 6 companies or JVs, from 15 April to 11 August 2020, to develop a vaccine. Neither BioNTech nor Pfizer on the list. Details are here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed
Note the quote:
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said that the company decided against taking Warp Speed funding for the development of the vaccine out of a desire "to liberate our scientists [from] any bureaucracy that comes with having to give reports and agree how we are going to spend the money in parallel or together
The government did however buy 100 million doses from Pfizer, at $19.95 each. 100 million x 19.95 = $1.95 billion. I presume this is the origin of the $2 billion figure. Here is a link to a news article on the purchase:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/us/politics/pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine.html
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Covid lung damage worse than from heavy smoking
by FatFreek 2005 inwe've probably all heard it, "i wish i could get the covid and that way it would be behind me", as if it were some annoying rite of passage.
"sure, i'll lose my senses of smell and taste for awhile, i'll lose my strength for awhile", etc.. what else could be the reasoning for ignoring the social distancing to attend maskless parties and similar large group gatherings?.
however, looking at the following xray images of certain lungs may help impress some folks into thinking that there are more serious happenings in the attack progression of this virus.
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shepherdless
According to the CDC only 2 vaccines are approved and authorised for use in the U.S., Moderna (U.K.) and Pfizer(German).
Just to clarify; Pfizer is an American multinational, However, Pfizer did not develop the “Pfizer vaccine”. It was developed by BioNTech, a German company, and Pfizer has distribution and marketing rights.
My understanding is that, as a result, neither Pfizer nor BioNTech received any “Warp Speed” funding. About the only thing the Trump administration can take credit for, is getting both vaccines approved quickly.