Patrick

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No price, no purchase!
by Patrick on 12 Nov 2018  21 comments, latest a few seconds ago
Getting tired of cafes and bars that simply do not list prices.It's a subtle social engineering trick. They are relying on most people's reluctance to ask what prices are. To...
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House Prices Are Now Plummeting In These 8 Major Cities (zerohedge.com)
by Patrick on 11 Nov 2018  12 comments, latest a day ago
https://www.zerohedge.com/news 1. Arlington, Va. March 2017 median list price: $679,000 March 2018 median list price: $645,000 Year-over-year change in median listing price: -$34,0002. Santa Rosa, Calif. March 2017 median list...
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Elitist attacks on free speech (illegal memes!) are motivating resistance (steemit.com)
by Patrick on 11 Nov 2018  5 comments, latest a day ago
https://steemit.com/news/@lady That being said, free speech is even more than a right: it is an essential tool for freedom. The bold attack on free speech portrays that there are ripples...
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What would happen if coffee and caffeine were banned? (ismokemag.co.uk)
by Patrick on 10 Nov 2018  13 comments, latest a day ago
https://www.ismokemag.co.uk/co So if you know somebody who thinks cannabis should remain illegal but loves to drink a cup of joe in the morning, well, now you more ammo for your...
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Clones of patrick.net
by Patrick on 2 Nov 2018  18 comments, latest 2 days ago
With the overt censorship of gab.ai, I've been thinking more about how to make patrick.net uncensorable. Here's one possible path:First, replace logins with an RSA keypair. So to post a...
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Great Insults from the Past
by Patrick on 8 Nov 2018  19 comments, latest 3 days ago
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.”"That depends, Sir, " said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or...
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Election Results
by Patrick on 6 Nov 2018  118 comments, latest 4 days ago
As of 5:55pm in California:Looks like both House and Senate will remain Republican at this point.
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In California, House Sales Are Plunging Like It Is 2008 All Over Again (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
by Patrick on 2 Nov 2018  90 comments, latest 4 days ago
http://theeconomiccollapseblog According to CNBC, the number of new and existing homes sold in southern California was down 18 percent in September compared to a year ago…The number of new and...
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Shiller on U.S. housing market: 'It reminds me of 2006' (finance.yahoo.com)
by Patrick on 6 Nov 2018  5 comments, latest 6 days ago
https://finance.yahoo.com/news “The housing market has a momentum problem,” said Shiller. “We’re seeing a clipping of momentum at this time. It’s hard to identify turning points even in the housing market....
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Saudi Arabia can kill anyone at any time, and the US will do nothing (zerohedge.com)
by Patrick on 4 Nov 2018  Posted 8 days ago
https://www.zerohedge.com/news After the dollar was withdrawn from the gold standard, Washington made an arrangement with Riyadh to price oil solely in dollars. In return, the Saudis received protection and were...
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An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus (wraabe.wordpress.com)
by Patrick on 4 Nov 2018  1 comment, latest 8 days ago
https://wraabe.wordpress.com/2 Because the letters “rm” resemble “nu,” the OCR algorithm frequently mistakes them. ...On a quoted search of Google Books (6 March 2009), about five percent of the time, some...
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Midterm Endgame (kunstler.com)
by Patrick on 2 Nov 2018  33 comments, latest 9 days ago
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuc The Dems built their fortress on that high ground and fifty years later they find themselves prisoners in it. The factory jobs all vamoosed overseas. The middle class has...
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Bannon Crushes Frum In Debate On "The Rise Of Populism" (zerohedge.com)
by Patrick on 3 Nov 2018  4 comments, latest 9 days ago
https://www.zerohedge.com/news I skipped around because there is a lot of filler, especially at first, but it was definitely interesting to hear from Bannon directly. Frum, not so interesting.
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San Francisco's largest estate has its $12.5million asking price slashed by more than half (dailymail.co.uk)
by Patrick on 3 Nov 2018  3 comments, latest 9 days ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne San Francisco's largest estate has its $12.5million asking price slashed by more than half to $5.5million after failing to attract a buyer for over a year San Francisco's 9,966-square-foot...
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Order to kill Jamal Khashoggi came from the 'highest levels' in Saudi Arabia, says President Erdogan (dailymail.co.uk)
by Patrick on 3 Nov 2018  Posted 9 days ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed that the order to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi's came from the highest levels of the Saudi government.In an op-ed in The Washington...
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Swedish ISP Protests Forced Site Blocking by Blocking Publisher's Website Too (torrentfreak.com)
by Patrick on 3 Nov 2018  1 comment, latest 9 days ago
https://torrentfreak.com/swedi Bahnhof has suffered a major defeat against publisher Elsevier after a court ordered the Swedish ISP to block a series of domain names, including Sci-Hub. The decision goes against...
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Discuss Anything
by Patrick on 9 Feb 2015  484 comments, latest 11 days ago
Patrick.net is an uncensored anonymous forum.I hope to make it pleasant to use while still maintaining everyone's right to speak and to draw a following for their ideas. I especially...
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Boise and Reno Capitalize on the California Real Estate Exodus (bloomberg.com)
by Patrick on 28 Oct 2018  5 comments, latest 13 days ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news For some Californians, the state’s punishing housing costs, high taxes, and constant threat of natural disaster have all become too much. They’re making their escape to areas such as...
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Why the Left loves Muslims: Shared Resentment
by Patrick on 28 Oct 2018  27 comments, latest 14 days ago
The Left and Islam are both all about resentment.The current Left has abandoned its role as the voice of the working classes, and is now nothing but a collection of...
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San Francisco spends $6,326 per voter to get illegals to vote in school board elections (sfgate.com)
by Patrick on 29 Oct 2018  Posted 14 days ago
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea The program is the first-of-its-kind in California and followed passage of a 2016 San Francisco ballot measure opening school elections to noncitizens who are over the age of 18,...
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The Housing Trap
You're being set up to spend your life paying off a debt you don't need to take on, for a house that costs far more than it should. The conspirators are all around you, smiling to lure you in, carefully choosing their words and watching your reactions as they push your buttons, anxiously waiting for the moment when you sign the papers that will trap you and guarantee their payoff. Don't be just another victim of the housing market. Use this book to defend your freedom and defeat their schemes. You can win the game, but first you have to learn how to play it.
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