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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I agree. In terms of objectives achieved the only one was the release and return of Israeli civilian hostages and even that is still mostly hypothetical, otherwise Israel failed to eliminate Hamas and will be withdrawing from Gaza which Net
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
...But that's exactly what I'm saying? Seriously. You just more or less repeated what I've been saying, minus the potentially spiteful sentiment. From my original comment: >The reason the US defence budget is so sky-fuckin
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>in 1969 when the very first 747 entered service there was exactly 1 of them in service. Yeah, and also in 1969 air travel was already mundane. >that suggests an overall trend of political ascendancy of the west through at least the f
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Using the left-hand list here as a reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest... It takes all nine of the top 10 countries besides America (#1) to finally match and exceed the American de
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The reason the US defence budget is so sky-fucking-high is because we effectively pay for everyone's military, though. I doubt the other budget line items would see an increase with defence cuts, but we certainly don't need the en
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>So basically you think taxes should have been set higher a long time ago so they would have a yearly surplus that could have been saved up to pay for a new roof? Yes. Simply put: If you can't or won't budget+save for a known f
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I'm quite aware what the several million buckeroos are actually "needed" for, and I'm all the more vindicated in telling the school and county to get fucking bent. Unfortunate that kids have to indirectly get caught in
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Something like a new roof is an expense known literally years in advance. You know when something will be due for repair or replacement due to reaching the end of design and/or useful life. The proper way to handle that kind of expense
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Air travel has really only become commonplace fairly recently. Air travel has been mundane for at least the better part of a century now. Just to remind us all how old we are: The Boeing 747 first flew in 1969 and went into initial serv
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Most of the Windows 8 and later bullshit feel very Alpha and Beta, unlike the Omega that was Windows 7 and prior. The most obvious is the nouveau context menu in Windows 11. That literal dumpster shit in 23H2 still doesn't work as we
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>In states where property taxes fund schools, ... b) live in a school zone with high real estate values Here's some tangential anecdata. I'm in Oregon, the county I live in pays for the local schools through property taxes. Mor
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>The west is the strongest it’s ever been in its entire history. I would argue the West was at its peak in the mid to late 20th century when we were so awesome we conquered the god damn Moon, made transcontinental, transoceanic and even
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Japan and South Korea are going to rapidly develop nuclear weapons programs. Japan would need to amend their constitution for that, and that is simply not happening. They have failed to amend their constitution for much more mundane o
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>nationalism that led us into WWI and WWII. WW1 kicked off due to a royal getting murdered in broad daylight which triggered a cascade of alliances. Nationality had nothing to do with it. WW2 kicked off due to the victors of WW1 raping G
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
You're clearly not interested in conversing in good faith, but I'll indulge you: Yeah, the letter is called a ballot and I've voted straight Red/Right/Republican/Conservative/Liberal every time.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
By using three drives. RAID1 is just making literal copies, so each additional drive in a RAID1 is a self-sufficient copy. You want two drives of fault tolerance? Use three drives, so if you lose two copies you still have one left. This is
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
People want stonks to go up up up. Company settled lawsuit, which means it probably won't go down down down meaning its stocks went up up up. Stonks are about how people feel. The only question is whether "people" mean indivi
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
They already did in the process of going off the deep end. The most prominent incident was a friend (female, Chinese-American born to Chinese immigrants for context) who ran a guild I was in, we were like 50 members and played various games
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
They caulked the wagon[1] turning it into an impromptu boat, which consisted of removing the wheels and axles and then filling in the seams and cracks between the wooden boards of the wagon with soft materials and an oil like tar. [1]: htt
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Indeed! Estate taxes are subtly different from inheritance taxes. My dad and I got a crash course introduction when my mom passed; he inherited everything being the survivor so it was all very simple with next to no paperwork, but all the d
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>But start with the wealthiest please. (Very) wealthy families already face stiff inheritance and/or estate taxes at both Federal and State levels. Important note, most middle class and all lower class families and individuals will
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The keyword there is could . America is the land of opportunity, the Declaration of Independence calls the pursuit of happiness an unalienable right. Nowhere is happiness or success promised or guaranteed. You have an opportunity, the sa
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The lessons we learn best are those which we are emotionally invested in and sometimes that emotion can be negative, but a lesson will be learned regardless.
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>It's certainly easier until you have to deal with different views of the same content. I do not trust myself to keep things consistent, and neither should you. I would argue that's not a "static" website, but even so
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>Have you tried maintaining a blog with plain hand-written HTML? Yes. It's all a lot simpler than dealing with some abstraction framework toolkit, at least for me. Maybe it's because I learned to write websites in the early 200
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>switch to a static site generator like Hugo or Zola At that point just write your own HTML and never be beholden to some abstraction framework toolkit corporation cooperative ever again.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
People know, Facebook and Google getting crap for all their tracking is evidence enough. The reason people don't care is because digital freedom/privacy is largely irrelevant to most people's lives. You can't convince so
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I certainly rescind my insufficient CPU horsepower accusation in that case. I'm not entirely familiar with Qubes's innards, but the overhead it imposes must be substantial.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Don't forget Windows finally made Year of the Linux Desktop(tm) a reality, Windows is the best desktop Linux distro (Android gets the mobile Linux distro crown).
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>otherwise what you have are silly bookmarks. My literal several hundreds of tabs are silly bookmarks in practice.

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