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Rofl47 OP t1_j86n7dd wrote

GG Allin was punk rock music being played by a fucking lunatic. I see him as an extreme version of Sid Vicious: it’s not the music you’re attracted to, it’s the controversy. Whether or not he did what he did solely for attention is anybodies guess, but he sure did get a lot of it.

Now having said that, I don’t think anybody has the right to say what is and isn’t punk. Not trying to start an argument or anything, just trying to add my perspective.

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MyLinkedOut t1_j86kfe5 wrote

That reminds me of the dipshits who will sit for hours in a line during a gas promotion to save 25 cents a gallon. At most they were saving like $10-15 dollars in total.

My time is worth a lot more than that. Can't fix stupid..

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Team_Rckt_Grunt t1_j86kf5q wrote

That's lucky. I know someone else who hasn't had joycon issues, but I also have an OG switch and I haven't replaced the joycons yet... but only because I'm too broke to buy a second pair and the logistics of shipping them back are confusing to me. The drift is so bad it is literally unplayable on handheld mode, I currently play all games on the tv with a separate controller. If I use the joycons it makes it impossible to even select things from a menu because it cycles through the options at high speed when I'm not even touching the stick.

I love the switch in general but the joycon durability is... Not ideal. Hit or miss, shall we say.

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Minus-Celsius t1_j86hc71 wrote

The author wrote it that way deliberately for American audiences.

Nauru's economy collapsed because it relied solely on mining phosphate, and then it ran out of phosphate.

The reactionary policies were a result of the economic crisis. Arguably they exacerbated it, but the author is describing events taking place in 2015 as though they caused the crisis. Phosphate mining had ceased by 2005 and Nauru has no other exports or industries and an uneducated workforce that isn't competitive internationally.

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Sir_Squidstains t1_j86719x wrote

Yeah the rich phosphate guano has been mainly mined off the island now, the guano has a much higher density of phosphate than coral naturally. Wouldn't be worth mining coral for phosphate if it didn't have the amount of guano Nauru had. Coral itself has barely any phosphate compared to guano

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Your_Ebb_And_Flow t1_j866afg wrote

If by "left wing" you mean corporate left, eager to depress wages with a large mostly uneducated workforce, then yes, we can both agree that the right wing method is better. Globalist scum

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Your_Ebb_And_Flow t1_j865uv8 wrote

You go to the first safe country. You don't welfare shop by skipping thru safe countries that don't give you a large enough handout. Most refugees are in fact not refuges, merely migrants attempting to game the system

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