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by Simulacra 6mo ago
Fair point. My understanding is that the Senate "assumes" a quorum unless someone suggests there is not. Since it was AFAIK around 2am... my guess is not and they all just wanted to get the heck out of there. Since no recorded vot
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by Simulacra 6mo ago
I made no claim as to party, it's just how it was done. If anything it was the Republicans who are the majority. I wanted to clarify that it was by unanimous consent, not a recorded vote.
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by Simulacra 6mo ago
Negative. It was passed with unanimous consent, there was only maybe five people there. I think that's a big difference between "passed" which gives the connotation that people actually voted on it, "unanimous consent&qu
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by Simulacra 6mo ago
This reminds me of when Steve Job's had his ninja throwing stars confiscated by (airport security) getting on his private jet. Edited to clarify NOT TSA
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
Release the strategic wind and solar reserves!
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
I may be in the minority but I liked the cheese grater, it was a machine I could upgrade and use as a powerful workstation. The trashcan really turned me off of the Mac Pro series. I think Apple really missed an opportunity here, but hope S
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
There is a line of reasoning out there that giving every system a different birthdate, and trying to fill it with as much false information as possible, is one way of balancing the scales. I'm not sure how useful it is, kind of like wh
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
I read an outstanding quote in a Brad Thor novel that I think speaks volumes about how to make friends: "Faith comes from trust, which comes from time, and experience" With the Internet, and social media, it can feel like we have
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
My colleague refuses to update his iPhone so long as liquid glass exists. I've tried to encourage him to do so for the security updates, but he says that he's fully aware of the danger, but refuses to update because every time he
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
I've been doing this for a long time, it's amazing what ChatGPT can suss out with enough data. I like to feed it comments from message boards to try to uncover interesting business opportunities, or threads to follow for my own re
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
My read is that it's all about the dollars. The court cannot force Congress to appropriate money, and so if there is no money appropriated to run VoA then the administration has no money from Congress to run it, and cannot be forced to
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
One should never call something "unhackable" ...
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
I think this is only the first step towards a license for the Internet. The best example I know of is South Korea, where you have a state issued login. I think it's only a matter of time until the U.S. government knows exactly who you
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
None. Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution gives the President the power to grant “Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.”
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
It would seem the company, and the market disagrees with you
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
I don't think it was ever the moment, even though there has always been a market for plant-based foods, the company assumed that market was far larger than it ever was or will be.
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
Maybe a solution is to spend more time with grandparents, so that they have something more than just technology to keep them company.
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
You speak in jest but compared to other taxes that have been proposed.. I can't say that you'd be wrong
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
I'm confused, could someone help me clarify: is this just one stick of RAM, and one stick of absolutely nothing, purely for aesthetics? I can't even see inside my CPU, why would I care if there's an empty slot? Why would I pa
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
I remember when Google fiber was all the rage back around 2013, and I so desperately wanted it to come to my neighborhood, anything to offset the Comcast regime. Deeply disappointed that there were so many barriers preventing its expansion.
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
For me it's cost. I used to be able to get those JVC gummy earbuds wired, for nine dollars. Now I have to spend upwards of $20 for Bluetooth. And of course, when the battery can't be recharged anymore, I'm supposed to throw t
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
I'm actually interested in the more mundane things, like how would this play out with self check out? Calculators? Vending machines…
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
I think it makes sense to distribute the federal government across the country, rather than centralizing it all in Washington DC. Especially for something like agriculture. What's the downside?
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
Could I hire an AI bot to interview for me with an AI bot?
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
And the timing is very interesting of the CEO of Starbucks moving out of Washington.
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
I think this is blatant sexual discrimination. I appreciate the sentiment behind it, but it's discriminatory. Maybe if someone can request a male driver instead of female it MIGHT eventually balance out, but I don't see this survi
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
It's a start, but it's woefully inadequate. Just take the ARRL, which is supposed to be a nonprofit organization for ham radio. They waste money on lobbyists working on absolutely pointless endeavors, and achieve nothing. But don&
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
For five years, I ran a healthcare nonprofit, and the problem is much worse than you think. For C3 nonprofits, for which donations are tax deductible, you have a lot of rich people who just flush cash through them to take is a tax deduction
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
But I'm on the clock so..of course I take longer.
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by Simulacra 7mo ago
Third generation Extra here!

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