GloomyBoots

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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Call in the eggman
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I can't say about German bibles, but the Norton Critical Edition KJV is great for literary study of the bible in English. It's hard to beat the KJV in terms of poetic quality (not to mention its massive influence on the developmen
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> The racism is definitely a problem, but you have to remember that quite a lot of the younger generation of nonwhite people are French; i.e. born in France holders of French nationality, considered to be "French" by the French
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It’s impossible to solve with immigration. Even with an immigrant population that was completely willing and able to assimilate (unlike those in question), that process takes generations and requires a lack of ethnic ghettos and a high prop
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It’s not an either/or within Tailwind itself. It explicitly allows you to add classes like that using the built in styles using @apply (IIRC buttons are the example used in the docs).
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
The separation of HTML, CSS, and JS doesn't make sense when you're building applications instead of very basic documents. Style, content, and behavior are all intertwined: say you have a collapsible navbar; does the toggle button
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And fortunately I'm allowed to disagree with and criticize that determination. Or is your position that courts never make mistakes?
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If I make my money producing autovivisection content, why can’t I show it to all people at all times? It’s just work, why discriminate? It’s almost as though people have, enforce, and codify mores and taboos. This kind of pathological indiv
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
That’s fine. We would both interpret it differently. A lot of reasonable people would. That’s my point. It’s not that a thumbs up can’t mean approval, but that it just as well can mean acknowledgment.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
It’s more like “I’ve attached a list of movies for you to go over. Do you want to go see any of them this weekend?” “[thumbs up]” If you message requires any kind of action to be taken rather than an immediate answer it becomes very ambiguo
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Based on the article, it sounds like he didn’t use a thumbs up emoji to accept contracts in the previous instances. A thumbs up is definitely a dangerous reply in the same way that OK is, but people use it that way anyway. And while it was
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I don’t think it’s hard to argue that. We have multiple people in this thread, including myself, who understand that a thumbs up often denotes acknowledgment rather than acceptance, an “OK” rather than a “yes”. If I discuss an agreement wit
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I agree. Kind of a tangential brain-dump: Fora on the old web tended to be nominally devoted to a topic, but each had a massively thriving "Off-Topic", "General Discussion", or "Random" board where the overarch
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They aren’t a party in those conversations.
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Edit: I misread “legal” as “illegal” in the last sentence. Aren’t most states single-party consent? I know mine is, for which I’m grateful. I regularly record “private conversations” with state officials after having had incidents with them
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> I'm not sure we can get there when our representative has to simultaneously reflect the views of everyone in a localized region. They are meant to represent the general sentiment of their communities, not every person’s individual
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Hey, that’s my quadrant. This article is good but I’d go further than just trying to add nuance to arbitrarily binary stances. The distinction between “pro-choice” and “pro-life” among normal people that I interact with is certainly going t
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
The Texas comparison is also strange because Texas was for Mexico a sparsely populated frontier territory under frequent attack from plains Indians. Mexico invited colonists willing to live in such a hostile environment specifically to esta
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
The US has a native population. A people who founds a nation is by definition native. Anyone descended from the American colonists is native. The fact that we today don’t understand what these words actually mean doesn’t change that. Americ
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
They were legitimately a group of mentally ill losers sharing edgy memes. The FBI got involved (see Josh Sutter) and began producing those well-crafted propaganda materials, including videos featuring actors wearing identical clothes to act
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
A decade ago the FBI heavily shifted its focus to CVE, countering violent extremism. At that time, the focus was on Muslims and groups that could be perceived as proxies for their interests (Anti-War protesters, pro-Palestinian groups). CVE
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
The Proud Boys were heavily infiltrated up to and including Enrique Tarrio. Atomwaffen was entirely astroturfed. The libertarians entrapped in the Gretchen Whitmer case. The "right" has a long history of FBI infiltration--klan mee
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I don't know how well opiate use correlates to the legality of alcohol. In theory, then, you could depress opiate use by introducing alcohol, but that doesn't mesh with what's going on in America right now, where opiate use i
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Parts of the Islamic world today prohibit alcohol without much fuss. I’m sure there are minor bootlegging operations here and there, but nothing comparable to America during prohibition (my adoptive family’s patriarch was a bootlegger whose
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The government comes after people left and right all the time who don’t do any of those things. I’m conflicted here. I’m familiar enough with online “leftist” (especially of the supposed anti-colonial stripe) spaces to know how many bad, of
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
All of these things have been prohibited to varying degrees of success throughout history. Just because there are times and places where it doesn’t work doesn’t mean prohibition is a universally ineffectual measure. That’s a fairy tale.
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Slang for a woman
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Very different audience TBF. I’d imagine country radio listeners skew far older and more male than Spotify country listeners.
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I’m not active on social media for the most part, and have to remind people not to send me links to sites that require a login (Pinterest for example). I don’t have a Twitter account, but there were accounts I liked to browse occasionally.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I once got very confused by some guy telling me all about his bird. Dude seemed obsessed. Which is cool, but at times it seemed like a very strange relationship with a pet. It took me around twenty minutes to put it together.

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