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by alabastervlog 1y ago
It's a (I agree somewhat silly) rejection of labelling people "illegals". I assure you that very few of the people with those signs want open borders. That's a position held by almost nobody. Back to the point: when did
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
This is pretzel-logic to justify the original absurd claim. No, it’s not reasonable at all.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Income tax. So the actually-rich would continue to pay rates on par with all but the very poorest wage earners (but actually even lower than that—no FICA)
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
> "No human is illegal" can be reasonably interpreted to imply "denying the basic right for country to have an immigration policy." Reasonably ? No.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Where’d you get the idea they shifted to any of that whatsoever? Right wing talking heads claim those things, but democrats don’t govern as if it’s true and those aren’t positions espoused by the vast majority of the party, including all th
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Or certain pagers.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
> Recently I also got "rate limited" after opening about three web pages. People who haven’t used it logged out recently may be surprised to find that they have, for some time, made the site effectively unusable without an acco
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
The stuff that really matters is mostly on microcontrollers. The few industries that push computing out of need would suffer. Certain kinds of research, 3D modeling. But most of what we use computers for in offices and our day-to-day sho
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
The important chips aren’t the ones on our desks and in our hands. I think all that shit’s of dubious value to begin with. It’s the ones in factories, power systems, and transportation equipment, among other things.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
First one I remember it in was X-Wing (1993), five years before Rogue Squadron. Looks like Monkey Island 2 (1991) was the first to use the system. Dark Forces used it, too.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
> If you're talking about major city-to-city high speed rail an LA-to-NYC rail system would be like putting in rail from Paris to northern Kazakhstan. San Diego to Chicago would be like London to Kazan (845km east of Moscow). Iowa i
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I would be shocked it they’re not taking money to let US TLAs back-door them.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I both agree that $300k household income is roughly the bottom edge to support a Fussellian upper-middle lifestyle these days (and that edge is retreating upwards fast…), but also notice that it’s about 94th percentile for US household in
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
What’s the DNS equivalent of using Yandex for search?
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Martin Gardner wrote introductions for editions of several of Chesterton’s books, which is a nice bonus if you’re the kind of dork who likes a good introduction (guilty). They’re on some of the Dover thrift editions, I think, and probably s
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Maybe my single least favorite thing about modern cinema is that movies across the cost spectrum have stopped giving a shit about original soundtracks. That’s how we can have 30+ damn Marvel movies and nobody remembers anything about the or
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
And the phone’s what I’d be using to exfiltrate anyway. I’d only screenshot on the work device for work purposes .
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Or: stable and finished.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
If they're dominating or one of only two or three important options in multiple other areas and the index is the only reason... I mean, that's a strong argument both that they're monopolists and that they're terrible
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
When by far the most generous reading of a post is that it’s a low-effort troll, I’d recommend ignoring the poster entirely.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
> By having search monopolies, they've gamified paying for placement above your competitor's trademarks. Rather than spend on engineering or lowering costs, you have to pay to defend your brand. I would love to know how much
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
More than 50 years behind. We shifted policy to barely enforcing anti-trust in the ‘70s, under growing Chicago school ( spits ) influence among elected officials, “think tanks” (lobbying groups), and courts. That’s why everything’s so in
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
> All that to say I'm not sure it really matters what exactly was written in the Bible because clearly a lot of the supposed followers of Christ never read it. It’d be wild if they had. It’s a harder read than lots of books that the
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
The entire broad genre of self-help + business has a reputation for being scam-adjacent for a reason. It’s pretty much all junk. Even the ones people say are “good” (people keep writing them because they can sell, which means some become
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Quite a few pop-non-fic books, especially business, self-help (tons of overlap in form and technique there), and both business and non-business (these latter usually get adopted by the business-side anyway) “big idea” books, not only cite s
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
We were probably doomed to see a major public debt crisis eventually when we cut taxes going into two extremely-expensive long wars under W Bush, the “probably” was upgraded to an “almost certainly” when we cut taxes again under Trump, then
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Fewer than 50% of people who voted, voted for him. He won a plurality, not a majority. (Of course fewer than 50% of eligible voters voted for him, but I’m assuming that’s not what you intended)
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
2030: “Well a loaf of bread is $50 but a loaf of mostly-sawdust is $10 so we’ll sub that in the basket of goods as equivalent; the median house is $2m but girlfriend chatbots are too cheap to meter. Looks like yet another year of low consum
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Red wings and Rancourt & Company, here, plus Mexican and Spanish manufacturers (most search engines are terrible at surfacing these, you need to specify the country to find them) when I can’t find what I want in my price bracket in the
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
If anyone's wondering whether this list of news companies is larger than the list of owners of those outlets: yes.

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