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by barbacoa 6y ago
She mostly writes for her substack now. https://bariweiss.substack.com/
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by barbacoa 6y ago
I miss the days when some 15 year old could just start a website for mischievous/conversational interests and it could go on to become popular. If you tried to start anything like that today you would be de-listed from google search en
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by barbacoa 6y ago
This article was written by bari weiss who in no way a conservative or a propagandist. She is a pretty well respected and moderately well known journalist.
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Racist becoming to the woke crowd what counter-revolutionary was to the cultural revolution in Mao's china.
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by barbacoa 6y ago
I don't understand why people ignore the role children play in the life ambitions of women.
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by barbacoa 6y ago
I often like to imagine that if I were in that situation I announce that I sexually identify as military attack helicopters and insist my pronouns are apache/apachim, but I know the irony would be lost on them and really would just res
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by barbacoa 6y ago
2 total failures, 135 flights, so 1 in 67 flights resulted in everyone dying. By contrast you have a fatal airplane crash in the order of 10,000,000s flights.
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by barbacoa 6y ago
"Republicans failed to ensure that the Texas power grid could withstand a cold snap, so the party’s broadcast arm recycled lies about wind energy to deflect blame on to Democrats." That is such an intellectually dishonest way to f
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by barbacoa 6y ago
The government has the ability to issue national security letters using its expansive surveillance power granted under section 215 of the patriot act. These also have very restrictive gag orders against disclosure. Rank and file employees w
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by barbacoa 6y ago
>not forget about all the violence in BLM riots over the last year, much of which was organized and popularized on social media platforms like Twitter or Facebook, who all get a pass. Elaborating on that: There was a mass shooting in New
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by barbacoa 6y ago
Under prism google gave direct access in real time to all their data to the nsa including search history.
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Bots hyped up GameStop on major social media platforms, analysis finds(reuters.com)
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by barbacoa 6y ago
This is one of those rare times I agree with facebook. Why is this Facebook's problem? Sounds like Brazil should be enforcing their laws better. Facebook hosts for-sale postings, how reasonable is it for them to vet every post against
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State public pensions used to pressure asset managers over polical donations(washingtonpost.com)
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by barbacoa 6y ago
If you tried to feedback to the grid you would need a generator that can phase match the grid power. Don't imagine any residential grade generators that are rated to do that. Plugging a regular generator into your house grid with the p
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by barbacoa 6y ago
I think this article has a shallow take on the effects of governmental debt. It's not we run a significant risk of the whole system falling like a house of cards, it's that this perpetual QE is leading to a massive redistribution
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by barbacoa 6y ago
He also would rant about jeffrey epstein years before the media caught on.
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by barbacoa 6y ago
People do have free speech rights at private owned malls. Not sure if that would apply to stores but courts have ruled it does apply to people at malls (and other public areas that are privately owned). https://en.m.wikipedia.org
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by barbacoa 6y ago
Apologies. I came across this found it interesting and decided to share. If I post something but later find a more appropriate place to make that comment would it be better to delete the old comment?
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by barbacoa 6y ago
There are browser plugins that you can use to bypass paywall sites. https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
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by barbacoa 6y ago
" Some leftists may seem to oppose technology, but they will oppose it only so long as they are outsiders and the technological system is controlled by non-leftists. If leftism ever becomes dominant in society, so that the technologica
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by barbacoa 6y ago
All these recent events involving censorship and left aligned tech companies eerily reminds me a passage the Unabomber wrote in his manifesto back in the 1990s. " Some leftists may seem to oppose technology, but they will oppose it onl
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by barbacoa 6y ago
>Wiener did not include peyote as one of the substances because of a shortage of the drug among indigenous practitioners, he said. Peyote is a sacred plant for many indigenous tribes, and at the behest of the native community, the bill w
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by barbacoa 6y ago
That's good to hear. I always hate when they take a classic movie and remake it with an all female cast. Glad this won't just be a remake of apollo staring amy schumer.
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by barbacoa 6y ago
There have been some pretty outlandish example of this law over the years. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/jilted-john-acquitted... Crazy how big of a difference in laws there are across the states.
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by barbacoa 6y ago
By contrast, in Texas the law allows you to use lethal force to protect your property. You can literally shoot someone in the back as they run away with your amazon package if you have no other reasonable way to prevent your property from t
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by barbacoa 6y ago
Bad regulation is not the same as deregulation.
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by barbacoa 6y ago
This IS both sides. Both sides try to undermine when the other side is in power even when those actions hurt America overall. It's like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Thinking that your "team" is the good guys and
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by barbacoa 6y ago
Free speech is a principle and a constitutional right.
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Last time Austin got down to these temperatures was 1989. https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/TX/Austin/...

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