brandonmenc

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by brandonmenc 1y ago
Go read the book Days of Rage. This is nothing.
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
We can't build ships.
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
I live in one of these cities and the local B&N is frozen in time - in a good way - and it is always packed with people. It has just as much space devoted to books as it did when it first opened over 30 years ago. Lego took over a few a
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
Someone mentioned the 2nd Amendment in this thread. If a president stretched the limits of executive power to go after guns, half of the country would cheer for it. The Constitution is a living document, and the line is constantly pushed ba
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
> Let's take Birthright citizenship, which has been established in 1868. Is that American life enough for you? Birthright citizenship was to ensure freed slaves could not be denied citizenship. It's served its purpose and we ca
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
I was always under the impression Monotone - which was released two years before Mercurial - was the inspiration for git, and that this was pretty well known.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
We already did. It's called the mouse.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
This article starts by citing a blog article - displays a screenshot of the article - but doesn't link to it.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
Because calories are cheaper now, thanks in large part to low cost, energy dense vegetable oils. When people can get more calories per dollar they will eat more calories.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
Calorie intake is up. Don't overcomplicate it. From 2016: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/12/13/whats-on-... > Broadly speaking, we eat a lot more than we used to: The average Americ
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
Hong Kong still exists.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
It is absolutely insane that anyone thinks giving nukes to Taiwan is a good idea.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
Defending Taiwan is - unfortunately - a suicide mission. I'd rather not engage a hot war with China over it. We're going to have enough on our plate keeping China out of the Caribbean and our half of the Pacific. Buckle up.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
Or progressives (aka bifocals.)
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
Oh give me a break. There's not going to be a coup against a President who is keeping us OUT of a foreign war. Touch grass.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
Obesity. It is infuriating how many times this needs to be said. Too many people pretend this is not a problem.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
> with a convoluted UI from the 90s/2000s Some of us love this UI.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
#7 is the easiest. Even easier if you can reveal that you're an AI.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
True, and I’m sorry for the snarky reply even though I knew what you meant. But regardless of if this was the fault of Reagan or the largely Democratic-controlled Congress, Republicans in government since then have soured on any idea giving
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
ICE wasn't created until 2003, so no one.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
The idea back then was a one-time amnesty in exchange for a secure border, which didn't happen. That's why Republicans are unwilling to budge a second time.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
The voters on election day don't, which is obviously what the comment was referring to.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
> Nobody elected Elon or any of the DOGE people Nobody ever votes for the President's cabinet or anyone else they bring in.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
> DEI does not mean hiring quotas where you refuse to fill open spots, it means proactively reaching out to find talent in non-traditional areas I've worked at companies that do exactly this with quotas of a minimum number of underr
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
Sure, but what I'm saying is analogous to something like, "this person has fist-shaped bruises, they must have been attacked by a human or something pretending to be a human" and you're saying "but I was under the i
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
Why do you not think that? The vaccine produces the spike protein. The spike protein causes heart damage. The vaccine spike proteins may not circulate as freely or in as large of numbers as from the virus in most cases.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
Nice straw man. What I'm saying is: There were no signs of viral heart damage before the booster, and then there were signs of viral heart damage immediately after getting the booster. People in this thread don't seem to know what
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
The book was published in 1994 with examples in C++ and Smalltalk. Java was released in 1995.
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
Side effects can be uncommon while also passing our prior extremely low thresholds for acceptable vaccine safety. That might change the recommendation about who should get it or how often. Cardiovascular deaths have increased since Covid. M
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by brandonmenc 2y ago
Sure. Anything is possible. But this is a case of a person with no positive Covid tests or symptoms suddenly developing heart failure mere days after getting the booster. There is this absurd idea that unlike every other vaccine, the Covid

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