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by baubino 9mo ago
A labor strike is an economic protest, and it is by far the most effective economic protest if it can be fully pulled off. It targets the root of economic activity, which is the production of goods and services. A boycott, while helpful,
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by baubino 9mo ago
> this has evolved into a soft civil conflict being waged for political reasons. The more quickly Americans come to terms with this reality, the better. I’m not in Minneapolis, but from what I’ve been reading and hearing, people there al
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by baubino 9mo ago
Doesn’t matter if he was or wasn’t resisting arrest. Totally irrelevant. This is supposed to be a country of laws. There is no law that allows for execution for resisting arrest.
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by baubino 9mo ago
Also, that this kind of state violence and collapse of democracy is underway in the country that also happens to be the center of the global tech industry is something that all HNers should care about.
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by baubino 9mo ago
> It's been very long established that nobody has a "right" to operate a motor vehicle. You do have a right to ownership though if it’s paid in full and you have the title. If I fully own my vehicle but someone else can co
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by baubino 9mo ago
The old internet is still there. It hasn‘t gone away; it‘s just undiscoverable with ad-based search. The more slop there is, the more necessary it is to have good search engines.
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by baubino 9mo ago
See my first paragraph where I state that I don’t think that undocumented immigration is considered a norm in the US.
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by baubino 9mo ago
This exactly. But the country never figured out how to deal with one state’s laws conflicting with another state’s laws (see the Fugitive Slave Act for example). The lack of resolution around conflict between the states (which remained unre
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by baubino 9mo ago
Media outlets frequently cite Twitter posts which perhaps adds to the perception that its use is more widespread than other social media.
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by baubino 9mo ago
> I don't think you hear it much these days because the punishments are extremely harsh Civil rights activists, including King, lost their lives for daring to challenge injustice. The penalties are no more severe today than they wer
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by baubino 9mo ago
> news outlets and journalists have always had incentive to present extreme takes to get people angry, cause that sells. As someone who’s read a newspaper daily for 30+ years, that is definitely not true. The news has always tried to cap
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> It is almost impossible to escape the constant barrage of takes and news headlines these days without being a total luddite. It’s quite easy actually. Like the OP, I have no social media accounts other than HN (which he rightfully asse
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by baubino 9mo ago
It doesn’t have to be equivalent to still be bad.
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Sonic Youth had already been playing for 15 years when Nevermind came out. I saw them a bunch of times in the early 90s and yeah the crowds had no idea who they were because they were opening for Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins despite having
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by baubino 9mo ago
> It's hard to understand why in the US many people see it as norm. Immigration is the norm in the U.S. because the country’s entire history is built on immigration, unlike the EU. I don’t know that undocumented immigration is the
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by baubino 9mo ago
OP should change it to be what most of us thought it would be. In case not, I’m adding this to favorites so I can continue checking out all the sites later.
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by baubino 9mo ago
People are (and have been) taking to the streets. Americans tend to think that a protest must involve everyone otherwise it’s pointless. They don’t realize that protests typically involve a tiny fraction of the population. The more, the bet
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by baubino 9mo ago
> There would be no additional classes, instead each school and department within the university would build AI guidelines into the current curriculum. I had assumed the new requirement would be some kind of tech course or expanding the
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by baubino 9mo ago
At the risk of sounding old (which, arguably, I am), things have actually gotten worse culturally speaking over the last decade or so. The ongoing relentless monetization of culture continues to accelerate and is one of the prime examples
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by baubino 9mo ago
The linked study doesn’t measure sexual stimulation, only touch, pain, and heat. The study also found that the foreskin was more sensitive than any other area, which supports the prior commenter’s point.
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by baubino 9mo ago
I worked on a location-based app a few years ago and this was the exact validation method we used (after having learned about it from using NextDoor). It’s incredibly slow and tedious though. We abandoned the app for other reasons but I alw
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by baubino 9mo ago
> People say “invite” for “invitation”, then instead of using “invite” as a verb they say they “sent an invite”. That happened with the onset of digital invitations, like evite, in the late 90s/early 2000s. I remember it vividly bec
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by baubino 10mo ago
> The strongest advantage of the US has always been the ability to absorb global talent. Among the many inexplicable things the current US administration is doing, abandoning soft power in favor of returning to militaristic brute force m
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by baubino 10mo ago
Steamed veggies are excellent; veggies boiled into oblivion are not!
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by baubino 10mo ago
I’m not saying that he’s sending the guard after ICE (he doesn’t say that and I’m not suggesting he is saying that). But he is calling the National Guard to “protect” in a condition in which there is another law enforcement agency. The pl
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by baubino 10mo ago
Yeah, I get the riot threat and I’m not suggesting that the National Guard is being called to stop ICE. But instead questioning what it means to have the guard come in to “protect” areas that are likely going to be where people are protes
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by baubino 10mo ago
I’m not seeing this discussed very much but Minnesota governor Tim Walz has issued an order to prepare the state’s National Guard: > “To Minnesotans, on the National Guard, they’re there to protect you and protect your constitutional rig
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Even if she had been illegally blockading traffic for hours, that infraction is not legally punishable by execution.
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I had to do a search to find this thread. It’s crazy that this isn’t higher up.
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> weight is largely a function of calories in versus calories out Yes, but calories are much easier to rack up in some foods compared to others. There’s this great exhibit I took my kid to see in a science museum that showed that the num

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