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by BryantD 1y ago
There was lots of debate in the Senate during the passage of the 14th Amendment; much of it revolved around birthright citizenship. Both those who wanted the Amendment to exclude people who were born to those temporarily in the US and those
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CASA Inc. in Maryland is in fact refiling its broader lawsuit as a class action case, and has asked for a wider injunction on that basis. So we'll see.
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It's incredibly easy to demonize the outgroup. More so if the outgroup is easily identifiable visually. The Russian Empire pushed the myth of Jewish control with the forged Protocols of the Elder of Zion around the turn of the century,
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To be fair, Minnesota is getting it right and Washington is reluctantly stumbling in the right direction. However, I’m forced to agree on the general sentiment. California is a bit embarrassing. We’ll see how the Builder’s Remedy and laws l
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Yeah, the really interesting thing there for me wasn't what you did, it's the clarity with which you presented your options as you saw them at the time. I am firmly pro-rehabilitation and that means I've got to be aware of th
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by BryantD 1y ago
Oh, I have no interest in going around and around about it -- that's not a good use of anyone's time. I think it's a somewhat understudied field, and was legitimately interested in your cites. Your material is way better than
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by BryantD 1y ago
Sincere thanks! Some notes: in Connecticut, restraining orders can be granted for a variety of reasons, not restricted to domestic violence alone. Fairly close correlation but it does include, for example, stalking. It seems unwise to assum
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Cites, please? A quick skim of the literature doesn't support this and I'm dubious, but I'm willing to be proven wrong.
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Without judging this guy's current state, he makes it clear in his first blog post that he was a dealer. "So instead of coming back home broke and apologetic, I ended up pretty deep into this and soon was making tens of thousands
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by BryantD 1y ago
"It kinda seems like the democratic party is more aligned with slavery these days, intentionally bringing in an underclass of workers who can't protect their rights to work for cheap for their megacorp donors." Come on now.
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You didn't say it was popular, you said it seemed to you like Democrats were trying to reconstruct a form of slavery. That's incorrect. I have thought about what Trump got a lot of legal immigrant votes. I believe it's becaus
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by BryantD 1y ago
Huh. The most recent Democratic Presidential nominee was clear that she supported comprehensive immigration reform, seeking pathways to citizenship for immigrants in the U.S. without legal status, with a faster track for people living in th
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by BryantD 1y ago
I think there are cases of people using keystroke expanders to automate the -- to em-dash conversation outside word processors. Not so common among technical folks, though, for postfix operator reasons. The comment we're talking about
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"Communication" has a fairly big surface area, and "at the same time" is not sufficient if there's any ability for the LLM to persist data. E.g.: if it can write to a file, it could check for outside communication a
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by BryantD 1y ago
Ha! yeah, you can't make people happy all the time. And I mean, I found the link, so I can't complain too much.
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Yeah, absolutely. FWIW, the repo notes: "Direct File interprets the United States' Internal Revenue Code (26 USC) as plain language questions, the answers to which should be known to taxpayers without need of external instructions
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by BryantD 1y ago
For those who want a better explanation of Sky's capabilities, I recommend Federico Viticci's article (linked from the Tao of Mac article but the links are not distinctive): https://www.macstories.net/stories/
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by BryantD 1y ago
Yeah; you’re missing that USAID work included developmental work as well as pure relief. There’s a process for closing missions in countries that no longer need assistance, even.
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by BryantD 1y ago
One factual note here: mRNA vaccines were not brand-new with the COVID ones. The first human clinical trials using an mRNA vaccine were conducted in 2013.
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IHOP is good too! If I were Waffle House, I would be thinking "hm. This is a one person project; what are the odds that it will break/go down eventually, and people will assume it was ours and get angry at us? Could write a clause
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This law does not compel anyone to spy. It does say that priests, like teachers and psychologists, have a duty to report if they have "reasonable cause to believe that a child has suffered abuse or neglect." I see arguments on bot
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by BryantD 1y ago
Speaking as someone who grew up in the United States Waldorf community, I would say that the type of community you and I have experience with isn't tightly aligned with the right/left political spectrum. The political environment
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by BryantD 1y ago
The article documents delivery, and a little searching told me that Washtenaw Fiber Properties is still in business at https://washftth.com/ and serving customers.
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I am also going to acknowledge that the new executive order filed on 4/4 is clearly a violation of the law. Or, I suppose, completely meaningless, depending on how you look it.
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The law provided for a a 90-day extension on the deadline at the President's discretion. However, the extension required certain things to be true (significant progress made on the divestiture, legally binding contracts in place, and s
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by BryantD 2y ago
That's more probable, but that's also the reaction that should compel us to consider the possibility that we're looking at an insurance scam. If I owned a Tesla dealership in a country that was seeing sales drop the way they
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Also not all models support it. I think only gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini support it, although I haven't triple checked that.
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Oh, I dunno. A lot of people were aware of Ruby Ridge and Waco and most of them did not radicalize to the extent of blowing up federal buildings.
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I think that's an eternal mystery, if there was in fact an unidentified co-conspirator. Elohim City is a convenient place for conspiracies to coalesce, but there's a lack of hard evidence as opposed to "well, it would make se
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I feel like it's worth noting that this is not a universal dynamic. Tim McVeigh didn't need a fed to turn into the kind of person who kills 168 people. I'm sure we're all aware of the way this occasional dynamic gets tur

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