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by adriand 2y ago
It’s true, I would. But everyone is different. I have a probably uneducated belief that I am charming enough and resilient enough to get through a month in jail without too much harm coming to me.
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A lot depends on the individual and the likelihood of something terrible happening to you in jail. Assault and sexual assault are common, and some people are more vulnerable to that than others. You may not be willing to endure PTSD for any
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> People waste inordinate amounts of time writing docs for things that could be discussed in 10 minutes I’m very much a writing kind of person when it comes to organizing my thoughts and I worked at a place where we did a ton of written
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> Cats die weirdly. In my experience, they get sick and pretend nothing is wrong for as long as they can. This is a survival instinct. They are predators but they are also prey. “Acting” sick or weak is a good way to get picked off by pr
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Some good suggestions here. I have also had success asking things like, “is this a standard/accepted approach for solving this problem?”, “is there a cleaner, simpler way to do this?”, “can you suggest a simpler approach that does not
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> I think the contemporary focus on economics is itself a facet of modernism that will eventually disappear. Anything remotely involving the domain rarely shows up in Baxter's work. It's really hard to give a shit about it give
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> the series explores how people might find meaning in life when ultimately everything can be done better by machines. Your comment reminds me of Nick Land's accelerationism theory, summarized here as follows: > "The most es
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That urban black dust that accumulates on lawn furniture etc., how much of that is tires? The colour seems right.
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No, three.
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I’ve got two apps running on two servers (ie both on both) using Kamal and Traefik and it works great. I didn’t set it up but I deploy with it almost every day.
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> What, exactly, would you have the rest of us do, other than panic? Advocate for a reduction in plastic manufacturing, consumption and waste. It's pretty straightforward. We did it with lead. I acknowledge that there are certain th
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Terrifying study: “total plastics mass concentration in brains increased over 50% in the past 8 years”. Their 2024 brain matter samples are on average 0.48% plastic by weight, if I am reading this correctly: “The brain samples, all derived
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Wild animals are so amazing, and this is a wild animal that seems to me to be extra-amazing. Think about the skills required to survive in this environment. No tools! No GPS coordinates for the nearest water source. No grocery store: anythi
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Some good advice in here but one note of caution: you mention that you work through different platforms, and that you completed this project "outside of these platforms". It is fairly common for these platforms to require you to a
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A foodstuff is a staple or “raw material”, like an input. Flour is a foodstuff. It is also food. However a hamburger is not a foodstuff.
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Out of sheer boredom, I started watching this, and got as far as an argument about whether or not some set of symptoms was lupus. Then I closed my laptop, tired of wasting my time. I sat quietly on the couch in my living room for a moment.
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I assume you are referring to the killing of alleged al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki in a drone strike. The major difference between that situation and the situation going forward is that Obama had a legal justification. Assistant Attorn
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This ruling seems to open the door to a president being immune from, say, commanding SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival. “In its ruling, the Supreme Court decided there was no question that Mr. Trump enjoyed immunity from being pr
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> If you have much experience with cows and chickens, I think the difference in capacity for suffering is pretty clear. I’m not saying there is no difference - they are different species so we wouldn’t expect them to have an identical ex
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Why wouldn’t the life of a cow be equivalent to the life of a chicken though? I’m not asking rhetorically. As soon as you get into gradations of value based on things like size or perceived intelligence, things get muddy pretty quickly. For
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> The actual ruling was NOT an "textualist" interpretation at all. That’s precisely my point. They are textualists when it’s convenient. When the textualist outcome would be unsatisfactory from an ideological perspective, then
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But that’s the point! The liberal justices could rule by taking into account any number of contingent factors established by decades of precedent. But the strict constitutionalists - the conservatives - should have ruled according to the te
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I'm currently reading a book about Cleopatra [1] (it's superb) and I've been absolutely boggled by the productive capacity of the nation states of her era. Whether it was building ships, growing and transporting grain or rais
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Exactly, only when convenient. A glaring example of this is when they decided that section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment did not disqualify Trump from the ballot. The plain language is not complicated: ---------- No person shall be a Senato
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> How is it "taking the enforcement out of the hands of the experts?" Judges are supposed to be experts on law. Because the laws are about particular things in the real world that have nothing to do with the legal system. They
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It’s true. My best example of this recently was describing what I needed to finish a cabling project and discovering that it’s called a “grommet”. I had already spent a bunch of time on the Home Depot website searching for the wrong things
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I wrote something thoughtful and got something delightfully unthoughtful and prosaic and I loved it.
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I had no idea this was possible, wow, very cool! I turned this on and I’m going to try it out. I kind of love the idea of a grayscale screen and I had no clue I owned one already!
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Because meat is popular and lab-grown meat is not. I’m not saying banning anything is impossible. I’m saying banning meat is impossible. Banning lab-grown meat is easy. It doesn’t take much political will to ban an unpopular, unknown or ear
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Banning is impossible in democracies because doing so would be wildly unpopular and sure to leave the door wide open to opposition parties promising to repeal the ban. You are correct that we need a more preferable alternative. Our best sho

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