Dalewyn

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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I'm speaking of the reality of man. The path of least resistance will be the path that is taken, and so far it (apparently) makes more sense to cry "Climate Change!" than actually do something about preventing these fires.
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Deserts are generally uninhabitable by their very nature, but these persistent fires are primarily due to lack of proper underbrush care and other preventative measures. California fires are a classic case of "We tried nothing and we&
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Reading your comment, could we use another word here, beliefs? Doesn't really matter, ultimately certain people want to enforce the notion that there is One True Truth/Belief/Opinion/Narrative/"Fact" a
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>No one said "ravers" either, it was always "party kids" instead, at least among the younger end of the crowd. Over in Japan the term was party people which slurred into pary people and finally paripi which is t
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>cause belli At the risk of being that guy , the term you're looking for is casus belli : https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/casus%20belli You've misspelled it at least twice so far, otherwise I
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I think a significant problem is that people are confusing facts with truths . There is only ever one fact, which is immutable as far as the world is concerned. Our ability to perceive facts can change as our ability to do so changes&#x2
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Maybe it's time said governments start just banning or outlawing these platforms They should and it's long overdue. America, China, Russia and to a far lesser extent Japan and South Korea all have outsized political interferen
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Fact Checker is merely a politically correct name for a Ministry of Truth, and there are as many truths as there are people with opinions. I wholeheartedly agree and support any and all movements and actions removing them; people should cri
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>social pressure to have children is such a ubiquitous experience One aspect of growing older that I eagerly can't wait for (unlike most others) is getting old enough that people will stop fucking pestering me about marriage and kid
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>I'm curious what the driver for reproduction will be in the future Leaving behind and continuing your legacy and heritage. Personally I have no interest in pushing my blood, interests, and achievements and their endurement upon m
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>I like to think that I don't live in a country ruled by a King Canada is ruled by the British king/queen, even if only symbolically. >A permit isn't about seeking permission A permit is permission in granted form.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The Intelligence Community, whose entire job description is to counter and prevent this kind of espionage attack (and at this wide a scale), completely failed to do so. So what are they to do but deflect and project? Actually demonstrate co
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>I do not think speculations on HN are impacting the investigation They are and will negatively impact the final impression of the investigation results, namely an unwarranted focus on The Wall(tm) (people here are calling it the "M
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Depending on if you work or not, I feel there's a bigly dissonance in the perceived prevalence of email, phone calls, and other such traditional(?) channels of communique. Most of them have clearly died in private life, but in the pr
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Social media robs you of your democracy and your voice That has been the case with any form of information consumption, including journalism (newspapers). As Mark Twain (probably) once said: "If you don't read the newspaper
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None of that holds a candle to proper British insults. Consider, for example, being called a third rate bank clerk. That kind of burn is never going to heal.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
In Windows, the text cursor no longer blinks (more accurately it stops blinking after a few seconds, becoming static) in the interests of battery saving. At least I think it was battery saving, been months since I read it and my memory is
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>It's not ads per se that bother. It's the tracking part. I couldn't care less about tracking. No, the reason I block malvertisements is because they are malicious. Malvertisements are viruses and you cannot convince me
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>its just not efficient The problem is we don't need efficiency , we need effectivity . >The question then is why would you want to do this? Because He Who Makes Leads The World . You can't and won't lead if you don&
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>War is good for business. War is only good for business if your enemy can't do anything to you . WW2 was fucking devastation for everyone involved except the US, which came out saying it's good for business because it had two
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Importing lots of young labor Everything old is new again, in this case slavery. What century is this, the 17th? I thought we graduated from hauling tons of slaves across oceans.
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>I know that people claim that open source is more secure because anyone can audit it, but I wonder how closely its security actually interrogated. The answer is that, no, nobody akshuarry audits anything. This has been proven time and
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I agree nobody else needs Trump, they need their own "Trump": Someone who will carry forth their <Their Country> First agenda.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>How long is this going to be happening back and forth. It will keep happening until the legislature either writes it into law or refuses. The executive should not be legislating in the first place outside of emergencies requiring immedi
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Why even bother with "news" pieces? They're all just sensationalist trash. Just link to the source directly, most of us here know how to read and (probably) have the mental acuity to form our own conclusions.
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>It sucks that companies have so successfully trained an entire generation (or more) of people who treat their phone (and computer too) like an appliance. Just like how most of us treat cars and stovetops as appliances? Look, becoming om
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
For how much we all bitch about beancounters, I'm kind of surprised that beancounters haven't managed to convince management to buy bottom-of-the-barrel Celeron laptops for software developers. Make those fucking assholes use the
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Trump won both the electoral and popular votes and won all the swing states. The Republicans took both Houses of Congress and held all governorships up for election. Yes, he won by a landslide and the biggest factor was the bad economy.
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The bad economy is the biggest (arguably only) reason Trump won against Harris, and by a landslide at that. You may think that expensive gasoline and cartons of eggs are a meme, but the reality is that the economy has become pretty damn Shi
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Whoever are downvoting this really don't understand that expanding a congested highway merely widens the congestion instead of alleviating it. Software today require several dozen gigabytes of RAM and two dozen CPU cores just to rend

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