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by SllX 3y ago
> IMO if we think something should be legal We don’t know that until we actually pass a law. In fact, if the law states that something is unlawful, illegal or criminal, that is the prior agreement we are already under per the law. >
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by SllX 3y ago
And there is an additional check: the Senate itself can expel individual members. We elected her, and they didn’t expel her. RIP Senator Feinstein.
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by SllX 3y ago
“What is dead can never die.”
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by SllX 3y ago
It probably won’t be useful and I don’t really think it’ll matter if it is; but it probably will be fun for a bit. I just checked and it still hasn’t propagated to me, but knowing the types of videos I’m watching I can imagine somewhat how
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by SllX 3y ago
I actually really want to try this out but it’s not showing up for me yet. I just checked that the client was up to date too, so I guess I’ll have to check back in later or tomorrow when it propagates out to me. What a neat little idea thou
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by SllX 3y ago
It was the same split they took selling music, movies, TV shows and ringtones in iTunes.
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by SllX 3y ago
Lightning was a better, smaller, simpler and reversible electrical connector, but for almost all devices that ever used it (the very first iPad Pro is the exception), it unfortunately offered no improvement in USB transfer rates over 30-pin
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by SllX 3y ago
9 years of 30-pin and 11 years of Lightning. Not too shabby.
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by SllX 3y ago
Yeah. People’s moral values and breed of sacred cows do have an effect on their management and leadership style. Non-religious people are outnumbered here (here being the planet, not necessarily this specific website but maybe even that too
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by SllX 3y ago
That hasn’t been determined, and while they’re sometimes controversial, I’m not sure they are unconstitutional as long as there’s a path to appeal to Article III courts. Just as a point of reference, military tribunals and immigration court
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by SllX 3y ago
I’m not one to put stock in new Google products, but YouTube Shorts probably isn’t going anywhere anytime soon as long as the partner program that launched in January does well for itself.
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by SllX 3y ago
> But shoplifting is different from organized smash-and-grab gangs Correct and irrelevant: they are both forms of theft. > different causes, different solutions. Different motivations is more accurate. There also isn’t a “solution” pe
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by SllX 3y ago
We shouldn’t tolerate shoplifters either. Theft is theft.
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by SllX 3y ago
The most disappointing thing here is that the number of winners wasn’t 432 or 423.
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by SllX 3y ago
Ah, this part: > but hey, one [o]f the nicer things about the world we live in is if you find a place you like more, it’s often possible to just go live there, provided you subject yourself to the requirements of the locals and there’s n
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by SllX 3y ago
If you want to argue against homelessness, I’m not the one you need to convince, but as stated above you cannot effectively conjecture a positive right into existence merely by claiming that it is a right. Positive rights are lawfully agree
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by SllX 3y ago
> A human right is a right humans enjoy for no other reason than being a human. Despite my first paragraph, certain things like surviving or not getting harmed/punished simply because you exist are near-universally accepted as human
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by SllX 3y ago
Yes, we (which is to say those of us of European descent) conquered much of our land, and also purchased lands that others conquered, and yes made some odd trades for land with cultures that didn’t understand our (as in historically Christe
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by SllX 3y ago
Sure, but Denmark does have a different culture. Even most European countries are different from Denmark. We value property differently. We value entrepreneurship differently. We are a military superpower and provide most of the muscle in
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by SllX 3y ago
Two things missing: 1. Non-discretionary spending. 2. 50 additional links to breakdowns of the public budgets for the 50 States.
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by SllX 3y ago
Positive rights advocates have had some success in achieving the lawful creation of positive rights across the States, the most prominent examples being Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and public school systems. But those are also the m
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by SllX 3y ago
Yes. There’s no universally agreed upon set of rights that all persons are entitled to and you cannot create values merely by conjecture without first obtaining agreement. Tall order in a world of 8 billion people of many more cultures than
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by SllX 3y ago
Prior to the most recent National Congress of the CCP, the General Secretary of the CCP and Paramount Leader of the PRC would only serve two terms of 5 years. Xi Jinping is now in his third term. He also made a show of having his immediate
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by SllX 3y ago
So how does pulling out of the news aggregator market and refusing to serve that function violate the law they cited in the article?
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by SllX 3y ago
> I am not sure we disagree, as I proposed no solution. That’s embarrassing. I actually did overstate the disagreement upon re-reading your prior comment. My apologies. > There is a significant scale difference when I, as an individua
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by SllX 3y ago
Not designed: emerged. Our notions of free speech emerged in a world where publishing was under British law a licensed industry, and the operation of an illegal printing press was a crime which could be punished, where there were parts of t
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by SllX 3y ago
What is it you think this would even accomplish? There’s no shortage of contrasting and opposing viewpoints, but people watch and read what they want to, and most often on non-broadcast mediums.
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by SllX 3y ago
Or, from the second paragraph: > Fail to pay up, and the series will obstruct sightlines to the circuit, by way of barricades, stands, or other means. Sources told the New York Post that F1 staffers working for Renee Wilm, the Las Vegas
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by SllX 3y ago
I’m sure Google displays those prompts in every browser. What I responded to was this though: > because the companies controlling the browsers want to use them to harass us too. The way I read that is the companies controlling the browse
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by SllX 3y ago
> because the companies controlling the browsers want to use them to harass us too. We can be more specific than that: Google wants to harass their users too. Between Safari, Firefox, Brave, and Arc, I’m not seeing that anywhere else.

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