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Comment There is no free lunch / Indentured servants (Score 1) 597

Indentured servitude was a form of debt bondage, established in the early years of the American colonies and elsewhere. It was sometimes used as a way for poor youth in Britain and the German states to get passage to the American colonies. They would work for a fixed number of years, then be free to work on their own.

Comment Solution (Score 1) 293

Root your phone. Install an app that does per app permissions like LBE security. The facebook app also checks your GPS every single time you open the app. I think everyone would be surprised how many apps do what once they do per app permisions. SoundHound checks gps almost every sing hour. It's insane.

Comment Why this is even a thing now. (Score 1) 770

I remember the beginning. it was almost 10 years ago and The catholic church was shutting down churches and loosing members. They identified the problem as "science is killing god". internal documents stated that a war between religion and science was hitting a tipping point. The church hired a think tank. A memo from the think tank was leaked. It read that to cause doubt about religion in science was the same tactic needed to fight science. A wedge needed to be driven into the foundation of science to cause doubt. They had Identified an "exploit" . It was Evolution. The tactic would be to cause doubt by offering a religious based explanation and it was called creationism.

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