Amezarak

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by Amezarak 2y ago
And yet somehow, impersonation is no more a problem on X than it was on Twitter. The fact is nobody paid attention to the blue check except the people who had one. The outcry was because a set of people felt elite because of their blue chec
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Yes, bluechecks were who they said they were. But just because you were who you said you were did not mean you could get a bluecheck. Bluecheck -> authentic. Authentic !> bluecheck. There was no path for most people almost all of the
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> Health insurance that covers nothing I have a HDHP. I think most people would describe that as "health insurance that covers nothing." Most people, however, do not have HDHPs. Medicare and Medicaid have incredible coverage. M
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> Most importantly, it was entirely separate to the use of blue ticks to denote verified and authentic accounts Blue ticks had nothing to do with being "verified" or "authentic." They were handed out randomly to some
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Well, that's some handy information. I had no idea any employer would care one whit about my LinkedIn, or that a personal hobby section was considered anything but totally superfluous and irrelevant. I suppose I am supposed to actually
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by Amezarak 2y ago
This is a very disingenuous article, but a good lesson in how propaganda works: find the craziest, most extreme partisans, paint them as the opposition, and ignore the stronger arguments. Obviously, nobody wants to be associated with "
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by Amezarak 2y ago
I always find it bizarre how different people's experiences are. > I've never seen a Windows install over a year old that didn't have ad popups, corrupted drivers, 100 apps starting and running in the background at startu
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> The only reasons Americans need to be "rich" is because health insurance is a scam, a car accident can bankrupt you, 92% of Americans have health insurance. About a third have insurance through the government. Rather than be
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> You say it perhaps a bit weird, but imho you are stating that there do not exist universal moral values, which is a very non-universal stance. It’s an observation, and a very old one. Darius of Persia famously made a very similar obser
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by Amezarak 2y ago
All that is fine and good, but it comes down to your personal and non-universal moral intuition that suffering, abuse , etc. are bad. You make that an axiom and then judge moral systems based on that, using that axiom to build beautiful tow
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> I am disgusted that this is still proferred as a valid moral philosophical principle. Can you explain what makes it invalid besides the fact that you and me don't like it? There are no "valid" or "invalid" mora
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Things like that happen all the time. https://www.faa.gov/uas/resources/public_records/uas_sightin... Keep in mind most of this stuff never gets reported.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> The pentagon, for example, just declared that they do not know what they are[1]. This sounds impressive, but people don't seem to realize that there is no USGOV tracking of drone-sized objects in US airspace. Of course they can&#x
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They aren't, debit cards are the default. Credit cards are just readily available and people like having credit. Credit access in the US is ludicrous, you can be a terrible borrower (late or even tons of charge offs) and still get cred
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by Amezarak 2y ago
In the US, the past 2 of 3 Presidential elections were won by the candidate + PACs who spent less money.
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The Reign of Terror was executing practically any politically active person they could get their hands on (and their families), not just aristocrats. It didn't end until Robespierre was foolish enough to order the execution of one of F
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Cities subjected by some empire or another were sometimes forced to tear down their walls and there were perhaps periods of relative isolation and peacefulness during the founding of some cities where one wasn't immediately necessary,
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by Amezarak 2y ago
I get what you're saying, but I also think it's hard to overstate how different ancient cultures and experiences made people.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
The Department of Education did not exist in the US until 1980. It was created by Carter and signed into law in late 1979. Reagan took office in 1981. It of course had a predecessor going far back. At any rate, in 1980, the Department of Ed
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> Would the physician in your example really do the reading of the ultrasound? Every time I've had imaging done, a radiologist has done the initial read of the scan - the ordering physician has only worked on the treatment plan. My
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by Amezarak 2y ago
I support M4A for other reasons, but as of today the US governments(s) spend more on health care per citizen than many/most European countries with universal health care. A little more than a third of Americans are on Medicaid and&#x2F
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by Amezarak 2y ago
My hospital system, like many others in the US, is owned by the local government. My experience is the same as yours.
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> - Britain would never have ruled over Palestine What problem would this solve? The Zionist movement began under the Ottoman Empire and was well underway by the time of the British Mandate, and the British were overall not entirely plea
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Birth control is available over the counter in the US. If you have specific need, it’s very cheap and your doctor will almost always just call in refills without charging you. The meds themselves are not expensive. Annual visits are also no
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by Amezarak 2y ago
"Most people" are not dependent on health insurance for their average needs, except in the long-term or unexpectedly. Then of course, being unemployed, you have the option of COBRA (you probably don't want that though), and i
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by Amezarak 2y ago
I didn't say saturated fats, I said fats - obviously, oil is pretty much 100% fat by definition. Of course, it's also controversial in some circles whether saturated fats are bad, but that's a separate discussion. There is mo
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Without a literature review, they'd certainly be a number one suspect. Consider this statement elsewhere in the thread: > before 1985 T2D was called adult onset diabetes considered an adult disease and 1983 was the first case of pe
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> Plus the results page is hard to navigate, Are there different Bings? I double checked to make sure and without looking at the URL or logo at the top I wouldn't be able to differentiate Google results page vs Bing results page.
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I've found pre-heating the pan solves basically 100% of "stick" issues, even with eggs. I wish somebody had told me 20 years ago.
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Back in the day, we had a Firefox extension for stealing other people's cookies over WiFi. https://github.com/codebutler/firesheep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep

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