a_large_rat00

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by a_large_rat00 5y ago
Does your ideology radically change over your life? Why would theirs? They judge with their own biases, and are often out of touch with public sentiment. They're just people, and in case of at least one, a rapist with powerful friends.
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by a_large_rat00 5y ago
Wish we had some scientists and engineers in there! Mostly we just have assholes.
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by a_large_rat00 5y ago
Can you explain/rephrase? Are you just talking about surveillance in particular? If so, I apologize for not being clearer... I meant heavy-handed as in forced disappearances, labor camps, censorship, behavioral modification, etc. (or i
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by a_large_rat00 5y ago
The Supreme Court itself is a partisan institution, now more than ever, and every reading of the Constitution has been subject to partisan biases since forever. That's not to say we have no checks and balances, just that they are not i
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by a_large_rat00 5y ago
Apple is pretty dark-patterny about the subscriptions too. On Android the refund/uninstall button is right next to the open button in the Play store. You buy an app, don't like it, click a button and return it. I just bought an iP
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by a_large_rat00 5y ago
One can be against heavy-handed authoritarianism both at home and abroad, while still seeing the (quite distinct) shades of gray between the US security apparatus and the CCP, or between the CCP and North Korea, or between the US and the EU
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by a_large_rat00 5y ago
Where is this judicial fantasyland you live in with apolitical judges and independent laws? They're written, passed, judged, and enforced by heavily partisan actors, now more than ever. You're kidding yourself, and no one else, if
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by a_large_rat00 5y ago
Why would you want to do this rather than using the built-in hillshader and 3D map view? https://opengislab.com/blog/2018/3/20/3d-dem-visualization-i...
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by a_large_rat00 5y ago
Hey, this is really cool. I've always wondered how this stuff works beneath the abstraction of high-level languages. Thanks for sharing!