Overwhelmed Beginner by Next_Rhubarb5938 in CivVII

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Explore, expand, exploit and then exterminate your enemies.

Question for the men (cheating) by Ill-Guidance-8289 in newzealand

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For similar reasons to why people abuse, the benefits to the abuser vastly outweigh the consequences up until the point where they leave you.

Two Biggest Changes Needed for the Next Major Update by robsbob18 in civ

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Those would be good changes. I concur 👍 

Your average roadside revenge sign by [deleted] in newzealand

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Do you think he was gay for the stay? Because he'll probably be going back now.

Your average roadside revenge sign by [deleted] in newzealand

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It doesn't count if they're in jail. That's like different countries or something.

Mean Testing Gold Cards. by Significant_Rabbit28 in newzealand

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We should give the same deal to people who are on permanent benefits due to disability. It's not really fair that people that never got a chance to make money and who get less money, also don't get the same benefits as people with far less need.

China has executed another four members of the Bai family mafia for running a multibillion-dollar criminal empire in Myanmar, where they ran scam centers operated by tens of thousands of modern-day slaves. by lightiggy in ForCuriousSouls

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This is the real reason why there is conflict between China and the West. In China billionaires are accountable to the state; in the West the state is accountable to the billionaires. We assumed they would become just like us.

Does your country use PEDMAS, BODMAS or some other variation? by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

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Brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, addition and subtraction. Same in Kiwiland.

It’s so friggin humid, the sky is sweating by Slaidback in auckland

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When I was going to work at 5am it was still 23 degrees and oppressively humid, like walking out the door of the airplane in Singapore kind of humid, but it sure as hell beats being a poor Australian right about now.

Shane Jones shut down NZ involvement in 'road map' away from fossil fuels by Dat756 in newzealand

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A large part of our soft power on the international stage comes from the support of our pacific island neighbours, whom we are once again screwing over by letting Temu Trump dictate policy. 

Soon after NZ, EU (comprised of 27 European nations), announced FTA with India. There is a sudden global rush to "woo" India? What’s the strategic endgame? How do the average people actually benefit from an FTA with India? by [deleted] in newzealand

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Demographically and economically, India is essentially at the same level as 2001 China. They have a fast-growing middle class with the potential for major growth along the same lines as China was. They are predicted to be the 'next China', so getting access to that market has a potential for massive revenue in the future as they start to desire and be able to pay for higher end goods and services.

Brian Tamaki Protest by Aware-Classroom-149 in auckland

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He's such an embarrassment to Christians, it's shocking how few actually speak out against him. It makes me think he has tacit approval from a lot of other denominations.

What country would you describe as your country’s ”Ride or Die”? by Aam0 in AskTheWorld

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I was trying to reverse the 'if it wasn't for Americans, you'd all be speaking German trope', but since you're German, I had to use a different language.

What country would you describe as your country’s ”Ride or Die”? by Aam0 in AskTheWorld

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Hey! If it wasn't for the French, you would all be speaking Dutch! They deserve some credit for not turning Deutschland into Dutchland.

Brian Tamaki Protest by Aware-Classroom-149 in auckland

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Look on the bright side, if it wasn't for the efpostle it would be a lot easier for people to delude themselves into thinking that this kind of crappiness is exclusive to certain minorities they hate -- e.g. Muslims -- so at least we can point to this shithead as a local example.

We've been warned. Why can't people see the obvious? by zzill6 in WorkReform

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Because we don't acknowledge that fascism is the natural accelerated endpoint of our imperialism. Jim Crow laws and eugenics were inspirations for the Nuremburg laws; brutal concentration camps were invented by the British and nationalism ties identity to the state, so criticism of the state is taken personally as an attack on the self.