Dalewyn

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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Let me put it this way: I would sooner see that $50 million spent on cancelling American student debt (and I find that idea also reprehensible) than on condoms for foreign countries. At least then it's American tax dollars spent for
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Middlemen like town criers and nowadays "journalists" were useful when distributing information en masse quickly was a tremendous if not next to impossible logistical challenge. Today when anyone can get information straight from
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Practically all laws, rules, and regulations in aviation were written with the blood of those who, well, sadly had to embrace the Earth so to speak. On the face of it they may look discriminatory, especially the age restrictions, but the FA
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I'm going to head this off right now: This was between the pilots of the American Airlines flight and the Blackhawk, and the ATC at Reagan. Short of the controllers being literally understaffed, which I assume is not the case, the focu
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>Most people don't give a shit. I think it's more accurate to say most people can't (and don't) care about big monetary figures. As far as Joe Average is concerned, ChatGPT cost $OoomphaDuuumpha and Deepseek cost $Ruu
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You're only strengthening my argument. An ambitious man isn't going to care what some "studies" say about how bad and sad and evil the world is. He's just going to do what needs doing and enjoy the fruits of his lab
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>WD mixed both CMR and SMR I was a fan of WD HDDs before and I was in the market for some drives for my new NAS a few years ago. When I checked what drives were on the market, I saw WD doing that while Seagate still clearly marked whic
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This oft repeated notion that any vote outside of The One True Approved School of Thought(tm) is "not democracy" is dangerous. Regardless of the process, a voter's vote is a vote and the sum of the votes (including voters w
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Public schools being extensions of the government can't teach religion without violating the guarantee to not favor certain religions over others. That being said though, the US is in practice a Christian country first and foremost a
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That depends entirely on your own perspective, namely if you're ambitious or wallowing in despair. America is a free country, the country and indeed the world is what you make of it. Nobody ever said living free was easy.
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Non-native speakers can sometimes speak better English than native speakers, but on average that is generally not the case. It's also worth pointing out that "reading" here seemingly does involve English specifically and not
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Because there are two unstoppable laws of the universe: Physics. Laziness. Forget authentication, I know some people who leave their car key in their car and their front door unlocked because they can't be arsed .
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Not only is it a bad headline, it's false . The name of the linked bill is H.R.25 - FairTax Act of 2023. As evidenced by the name, the bill was introduced to the House on January 9, 2023 . Who was President in 2023? Joe Biden. I am f
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>I built a house without codes or inspection for $30k You will, of course, not be able to get insurance nor sell the house later on, among many other hurdles related to liability. Not dissing the idea of DIY, to be clear. Just noting for
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As I understand the medical science, it all comes down to stimulating the brain and there is no harder stimulation than physical feedback. Lack of mobility means lack of the biggest source of brain stimulation, which leads to accelerated
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In the immortal words of every generation entering their middle age years (~30 years old and up): "New music is shit. Kids these days have no taste."
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The rhetoric should be "You wanna play? Then declare peace with your enemies." , not "You wanna play? Let's see what bullshit we can craft so you can play without making peace." leading to nonsense like Americans
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>in the spirit of celebrating peaceful achievement. Maybe a much smaller take on it would go back to those roots. It is blasphemous that countries actively waging war or passively engaging in proxy wars or other conflicts (eg: trade wars
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>It feels like we've been tip-toeing in the direction of multi-host Olympics. I wish they would just pick one place to hold their shenanigans and stay there. Yes, I hated the bullshit that occured behind the scenes in 2020 Tokyo and
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>Is it not still better to just avoid using all this energy though? No, especially if there are ulterior motives of mUh eViL IA!111!1!one! as alluded to by parent commenter. If people have problems with "AI" they should bring
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>Because I'm not trying to criticize Elon Musk here, But you (and others like-minded) are. You're latching on to a Nazi salute you've projected onto him and trying to use it as the point of criticism. You yourself just adm
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>the far right party in germany on january 9th, talked about immigration, Yeah, being against rampant immigration(?) is a very Nazi stance. Sure. Naw. There's nothing Nazi about wanting to control or restrict who comes into your cou
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"Pr0n" is classic internet slang that predates onerous censorship let alone "apps".
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Being generous, it could be there's NSFW imagery in there? I can't be arsed to dig into a mountain of scientifically named links, but you can find troves of pr0n among other things in Wikimedia if you know where to look.
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As far as my Chromium is concerned, it identifies as a...: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 The only thing it doesn't identify as is Int

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