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by SllX 2y ago
Perhaps. But: "You're overwhelmed, Freeze was underwhelmed. Why isn't anyone ever just whelmed?" https://youtu.be/UdBcnRFN4Vg Also: https://youtu.be/4u63ciF_r0g
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by SllX 2y ago
Whelmed.
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by SllX 2y ago
Sure. Here’s the UK’s fact sheet on their relationship with the Crown Dependencies including some of the differences with overseas territories. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... High
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by SllX 2y ago
Yes. Parliament can. The people living there may not be particularly happy about it though, e.g. the entire population of the Falkland Islands save like the three people who voted in favor of linking up with Argentina that one time.
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by SllX 2y ago
The UK has a permanent seat on the UNSC including the ultimate single-member veto and on the sliding scale of fiction to non-fiction, international law is a lot closer to the fictional end. The UK choosing to transfer sovereignty to another
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by SllX 2y ago
Jersey is a Crown Dependency, not an Overseas Territory. They share a King and the UK is responsible for their defense, but domestically Crown Dependencies are more independent of Parliament than your average British overseas territory.
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by SllX 2y ago
Yeah I came back to this thread to see if anyone tracked down the source PDFs so I could virtually thumb through some of these on my way home. Can’t get one to load and not refresh itself constantly on my phone.
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by SllX 2y ago
Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich has been dead and replaced several times over for years.
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by SllX 2y ago
This, and to reinforce this: two things tend to happen with dictatorships: they either face a succession crisis at some point which brings it to its knees, or the existing guy becomes less rational in his old age after a few decades of bein
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by SllX 2y ago
Actually, apparently not yet: > According to an unnamed source cited by Variety, this could be a negotiating tactic by YouTube because, they say, “the previous deal actually does not expire until next week.” EDIT: Also if this is just a
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by SllX 2y ago
Coming from the Best Coast I’d call it the Mideast if that wasn’t already taken. I begrudgingly accept calling it the Midwest for only that reason.
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by SllX 2y ago
If Nationalism weren’t a factor, there is essentially zero reason for the PRC to ever invade Taiwan. Nationalism is a factor and the PRC is a totalitarian dictatorship. They’re going to go after what they consider their “rogue province” soo
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by SllX 2y ago
One lunch. Let’s not exaggerate.
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by SllX 2y ago
True!
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by SllX 2y ago
> The problem is that this has been an issue for a long time. My first interactions with the internet in the 90s came along with the warning "don't automatically trust what you read on the internet". I received the same wa
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by SllX 2y ago
That’s why I got good at getting through videos quickly and figuring out when or if they’re a waste of time. There’s plenty of “research” videos that are just spewing crap that can be found on a wiki or a database somewhere else on the web;
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by SllX 2y ago
I mean you could restrict yourself to only a single medium, independent of what the rest of the world is doing; or you can learn to process information efficiently regardless of medium and respect each medium for its own strengths and weakn
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by SllX 2y ago
You my friend may benefit from developing the arts of the 2x speed, the skipping, the scrubbing and the stopping. Not every video is worth watching to completion (some are, you get a feel for it), there may be background details you want
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by SllX 2y ago
If you want to go back on YouTube Shorts you just pause the short and swipe at the bottom (on mobile) and on desktop you don’t even have to pause first, you can just hover the scrubber and drag it around. This did used to suck, but it’s b
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by SllX 2y ago
Additionally, iPhones were never assembled in America. Enough manufacturing had been offshored to the PRC it just wasn’t even a consideration of any sort until late last decade, and the response from Apple has been to reshore some assembl
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by SllX 2y ago
Simon has since updated his website—a couple of different times I think?—but I only feel right reading the pre-El Reg archives the way I read them in 2007, which happily is still on the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org&#
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by SllX 2y ago
Everything used to be closer together too. The world felt smaller. You could swim to Japan from where Vegas meets the Sea. Life was just better, except for the fact that Hawaii hadn’t been invented yet.
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by SllX 2y ago
It seems to be limited to actual proposals made under the last two Presidential administrations. Even under that criteria I couldn’t tell you if it grabbed everything, but I feel you. There’s no granularity like privatizing Social Security,
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by SllX 2y ago
This is a fun game. Thank you for linking it. I just did one run-through to see what it’s like but now that I know what some of the later choices are I might adjust some of my earlier answers. I fixed the budget by saving $13,350B dollars r
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by SllX 2y ago
It gives people a baseline for where to start in any discussions regarding the Federal budget, whether that’s immediately actionable, it is useful to have the vocabulary to discuss the budget if you’re going to talk about it at all. I’m occ
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by SllX 2y ago
You underestimate how broadly the interstate commerce clause is applied.
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by SllX 2y ago
It’s better to be accurate than fast. Fast would be nice too, but Federal, State and local elections occur simultaneously with all their various offices and ballot initiatives. Elections occur a full two months before the soonest anyone new
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by SllX 2y ago
If the law and existing jurisprudence were “if A then also B”, you would be correct. However, that is not the case and guns are much more controlled than anything the First Amendment protects under the jurisprudence of 2024. First Amendment
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by SllX 2y ago
I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that this isn’t checked, but States have about a month to certify results under the laws set by Congress, well technically for Presidential elections they have to have them certified six days befor
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by SllX 2y ago
So how do other States handle this? I get a text message when my ballot is marked as received and counted, and the ballot comes with tear-off receipts that I retain until the ballot is counted. Never had an issue with my ballot not being co

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