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by Nursie 8mo ago
I’m in one now. The problem here is meth. But then I’m not in the US and things are different in different places. It was a thought experiment about addiction if the other negatives could be removed, I doubt we’re actually anywhere close to
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by Nursie 8mo ago
Those, from what I understand, don’t hit the same and someone needs to be ready to quit to go on them, they help with withdrawal etc, definitely, but are not always successful as they don’t scratch the full itch. A bit like nicotine replace
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by Nursie 8mo ago
Reinstate strong powers to understand and adapt devices you own, rather than pandering to US industry interests.
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by Nursie 8mo ago
And somehow they are allowed to continue operating, and we accept them saying "we couldn't possibly actually police all this content! There's just too much of it. We're too large for such concerns!" I really wish th
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by Nursie 8mo ago
Interesting, we could add in an 'arm' from the pancake local group, heading out from American pancakes, via traditional English pancakes (approx 1 cup of whole milk, 2 eggs, 3/4 cup of flour) to Crepes. I guess the only diffi
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by Nursie 8mo ago
Ha, you won’t find me arguing addiction to meta products is harmless ;)
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by Nursie 8mo ago
On the one hand, I'm sure that the post you're responding to is referencing many previous failed attempts at making non-addictive opioid painkillers. But on the other, non-sarcastic side... if addiction is the only remaining pro
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by Nursie 8mo ago
As a brit also watching from afar... It does seem scarily likely, but he still has a few years to really screw things up before we get there. Fingers crossed. Without a large-scale cock-up, I don't see Starmer as inspiring enough to st
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by Nursie 8mo ago
It was a system built on sleight of hand, with a cover story just complex enough that it worked for a while. How do you create a stablecoin? There are two ways in general. One is to have it backed 1:1 with a bank account somewhere that cont
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by Nursie 8mo ago
> no matter what you do I made them go down markedly by setting my age to be over 100. Doesn’t stop some of the thirst trap ‘reels’, but all the “Asian women would like to get to know middle aged guys like you!” bullshit went away.
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by Nursie 8mo ago
This reads as very naive now. As soon as a critical mass of people got online, and they wanted their governments to apply laws and regulations there, it was going to happen. This declaration was written from the days when those who were int
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by Nursie 8mo ago
I think that it's more a case of "Before Trump started threatening everyone, there were problems with using US tech but we chose to ignore them because it was too hard to do anything about it" To my reading the US, despite th
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by Nursie 8mo ago
That is fascinating! But I feel he was an amateur compared to Joseph Williamson :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson_Tunnels
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by Nursie 8mo ago
Whatever. It’s still taken so you can’t use it for the Fascist States of America.
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by Nursie 8mo ago
Sorry, name's taken. I know you're making a point by linking it to 1984, but Oceania is a real name for a continent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania
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by Nursie 8mo ago
True, but they do involve judgements, and magistrates courts do involve convictions. And you’ll get decisions from public prosecutors in the US or UK whether to take something to trial in the first place, which can involve a determination o
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by Nursie 8mo ago
In systems I'm familiar with, magistrates handle a lot of the minor criminal cases without juries, and civil cases don't usually have a jury either, which covers probably a majority of all court cases.
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by Nursie 9mo ago
I would argue it also belongs in decisions of whether to convict and what to convict someone of. The law cannot encode the entirety of human experience, and can’t foresee every possible mitigating circumstance. Given the fact of a convictio
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by Nursie 9mo ago
> I never said anything of the sort, but you've interpreted my comments in bad faith Oh the irony.
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by Nursie 9mo ago
Those unhappy people were not, for the most part, mindless reactionaries who declared everything was shit and every human a demonic mire of corrupt motives. I’m not “Happy with the status quo”, that’s a gross misrepresentation of my posts.
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by Nursie 9mo ago
> Going through life in blissful ignorance of the incompetence and malice driving the systems of violence and control around you is even worse. I’m not ignorant of that, I disagree that it matches reality. And see that’s what I’m talking
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by Nursie 9mo ago
> Why should anyone assume good faith about or trust any part of the government? Because we’re not all paranoid libertarians? I dunno man, going through life with that attitude seems like a recipe for unhappiness and frustration. It’s no
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by Nursie 9mo ago
Well for a start, it assumes good faith on the part of the participants, rather than the default assumption of bad faith and corruption you'd like to project. There are also built-in controls in the form of reviews and appeals. And mor
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by Nursie 9mo ago
'The law' is open to judicial and legal interpretation. There isn't always a single 'the law' to interpret in complex cases. While there are many, many rules, they are not as simple as code and they rely on deep lay
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by Nursie 9mo ago
Leeway for human interpretation of laws is not a bug, it's a feature. It doesn't make things bad laws. This was the whole problem with the ludicrous "code is law!" movement a handful of years ago. No, it's not, law
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by Nursie 9mo ago
Fair enough, it’s so hard to tell these days. I do wish me dad would stop watching that channel though, it can’t be any good for his heart.
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by Nursie 9mo ago
Ugh, GBNews, outrage fodder for idiots and the elderly with no ability to navigate the modern information landscape. You can tell it's watched almost exclusively by old people because all the ads on the channel are for those funeral pr
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by Nursie 9mo ago
> because aristocrats and monarchs don't seek power in most systems; This… well, I’d urge you to read some English history. I’m choosing English because it’s the one I know best. It is a litany of power struggles, of brother and sis
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by Nursie 9mo ago
> Imagine if Siri could genuinely file your taxes, respond to emails, or manage your calendar > And this is probably coming, a few years from now. Given how often I say "Hey Siri, fast forward", expecting her to skip the aud
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by Nursie 9mo ago
I never did in 25 years of driving in the UK. "Need petrol buy petrol, try to avoid doing that on the motorway". Maybe it's me that's weird. No, surely that can't be right... :)

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