anonymouskimmer

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by anonymouskimmer 11mo ago
I'm vouching just to comment that substack seems to be stripping out the hyphens in your URL name. When I click on your link I get this: https://yoursubstackname.substack.com/p/who-are-you-allowed-... "Not Fo
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by anonymouskimmer 11mo ago
Some office programs, and maybe even some blogging platforms, automatically turn two sequential hyphens into an em dash.
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by anonymouskimmer 11mo ago
> If you can't bring enough material into the building within books and teacher's brains to teach, you're terrible and pointless. The numbers are smaller and smaller, but there will still be kids whose only access to the
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by anonymouskimmer 11mo ago
I plugged it into a couple of free readability analyzers and got 10th - 12th grade reading levels. https://charactercalculator.com/readability-checker/ - Reading Level: 10th to 12th grade - Reading Score: 59.00 - Readi
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by anonymouskimmer 11mo ago
> If they could show a harm, like financial loss, then it could be. IANAL, but I think directly writing a Hatch act violation on behalf of a person would fall under defamation per se, not defamation per quod, and thus harm would not have
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by anonymouskimmer 11mo ago
Their polities weren't then part of the US polity, so they'd have a separate we. Now they are part of the US polity, so they could include themselves in that we. But to honestly answer your sarcastic question: There were a bunch o
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by anonymouskimmer 11mo ago
When people are hired into a job it is with the generally explicit expectation of certain job duties listed in the job description. This forms a very basic contract as to what they're hired to do. While they can be fired for not doing
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by anonymouskimmer 11mo ago
The same way that Eisenhower served under the Democrats FDR and Truman then was elected to the presidency as a Republican? It's a job. With particular job duties. You do those duties regardless of who's in charge. It's just t
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by anonymouskimmer 11mo ago
I think the idea of the comment you replied to is that the people whose out-of-office messages these appear to be are being defamed through the appearance of being partisan, or more strongly through the appearance of violating the Hatch act
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by anonymouskimmer 11mo ago
> I'm not sure where the line is. The line is always where a criminal violation seems likely to occur, including criminal negligence. Otherwise the government has no business butting in, unless subpoenaed as a witness by a court in
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by anonymouskimmer 11mo ago
Whenever someone uses "we" to refer to a body politic, and doesn't otherwise specify, it's meant to refer to the collective polity throughout its history. So, the democratic-republican "we". As compared to the
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by anonymouskimmer 11mo ago
All I'd really want is a button for such a tour up in the corner by the "Ask Gemini" button. Out of the way, but still there when I've got the time.
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by anonymouskimmer 11mo ago
> Related: I feel like onboarding is a lost art, more software should bring back software wizards and UI tours. Yes, please! We use Google's online office programs at work and every time it has so far popped up a notification about
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by anonymouskimmer 1y ago
Who's cheaper: The mom-and-pop, or Walmart? According to Wikipedia, Morgan & Morgan has 108 offices and over 3000 employees.
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
How is this thoughtful? (I can see how it's reflective.) The last time the Dems controlled the Presidency and both houses of congress was the first two years of Obama's first term (Jan 2009 - Jan 2011). And prior to that the first
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
Based on what I've been reading, current speculations trends toward thinking the mystery Congo ailment is malaria plus malnutrition plus possible some regular seasonal respiratory viruses. The 1917/18 H1N1 pandemic started out pre
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
A regular seasonal flu vaccine is likely better than nothing, likely thanks to similarity in the neuramidase protein (the N1 of both H1N1 in the seasonal vaccine and in the H5N1 bird flu). These aren't the same N1, from what I gather,
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
If the city isn't built up around the existence of cars it's a lot more difficult to shoehorn them in.
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
I think the greatest chance of this turning into a "nonproblem" is for these developing countries to skip ahead of the developed countries (particularly the US). Most countries are a lot smaller than the US and can do even better
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
> Is PCR patented, or was it at some point? Loud YES! And it only recently came off patent. This was really important for thermalcycler companies such as Bio-rad, which probably wouldn't be the name it is without those patents.
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
> We have hundreds of years of Presidential elections to show that individual votes are insignificant. Enthusiasm, like apathy, spreads. One person enthused about voting can inspire quite a few more people to vote, and a few of them to b
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
Not what I'm reading on Substack/Ghost. I have a liberal bubble, though. https://substack.perfectunion.us/p/restaurant-chains-won-big... https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/things-can-al
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
That was the news release strategy, the actual behind the scenes strategies were a bit more enthusiastic based on what I've been reading on Substack. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-14-2024
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
Ethics are only morality if you spend your entire time in human social contexts. Otherwise morality is a bit larger, and ethics are a special case of group recognized good and bad behaviors.
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
Not for me. Huh. I'm guessing Firefox can parse the extraneous period at the end of .com correctly.
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
Yes, but if you and I have equally sized farms covering an equally sized portion of a common aquifer, you and I should have equal rights to the water in that reservoir. You shouldn't have a senior claim just because your great-grandfat
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
Yes, of course. I'm particularly fond of the Scandinavian right to roam and the Californian right to access a beach.
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
> But for property, I can generally subdivide the property at will From what I recently read, subinfeudation of a manorial property (lesser baron) was pretty much banned in 1290 with the Quia Emptores statute. After passage of the law th
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
It seems kind of regressive for a common tax to pay for the aquifer that primarily benefits the farmers. If its paid for by taxing the farmers directly, or at least proportionately, then sure, it probably wouldn't be regressive.
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by anonymouskimmer 2y ago
To the downvoters: I just assume that a person who identifies enough with the high water use avocado to have it in their user name would have done some research into agricultural water use.

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