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by cal5k 6y ago
Nobody, least of all Scalia, has ever argued that there is no judicial discretion whatsoever. Otherwise what purpose would the supreme court serve that a simple rulebook could not? What he argued was that, insofar as the original meaning
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I have a weird perspective on this, mainly because I'm a libertarian-leaning Canadian without any skin in this game, other than hoping that America can hold out and remain the bastion of individual freedom that the rest of the world ha
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The president and house were won by the Democrats. Why does a functioning democracy require them to also control the Senate, when the American system of government was expressly designed with this sort of legislative tension in mind?
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> their views are pretty bad So you really believe that the 74MM Americans who voted for a Republican president, not to mention all of the people who voted Republican down ballot and in state legislatures, are all just anti-mask, minorit
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by cal5k 6y ago
Delete Twitter, stop reading opinion pieces, and go actually talk to some Republicans. You'll find that they're, by and large, decent people with the same basic motivations as you. They resent being told what to do by what they pe
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by cal5k 6y ago
On that topic, Twilio is also down: https://status.twilio.com/ The internet appears to be imploding this morning.
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That "fire" problem is not actually a problem. It's amazing how something that's straight-up wrong has persisted in popular culture for so long: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012
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by cal5k 6y ago
You're joking, right? 2020 is a year where SpaceX flew humans to space for the first time ever on a commercial vehicle, we created and started to distribute a vaccine for a never-before-seen virus in under a year, and we began to hook
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by cal5k 6y ago
> We want to align some kind of a productive output and reasonable incentives for a person to justify amassing so much wealth. Or maybe it's just fun to play, and people can make their own choices? Frankly, I think governments shoul
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I suppose you missed the 3-year period where Trump was supposedly a Russian agent who stole the election? That's just the tenor of American politics right now in general.
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First, they're not farmers. They're ranchers. Second, it hardly "destroys the environment for their convenience". Where I live the cattle graze down the grasses and prevent fires from spreading. In return, they leave man
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by cal5k 6y ago
While the irony of claiming that "only a vote for <person> will save democracy" was apparently lost on their CEO, as a Canadian I have zero interest in receiving political emails like this from vendors. Doubly so when the co
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Expensify's CEO emailed users to encourage them to 'vote for Biden'(protocol.com)
13 points by cal5k 6y ago|4 comments
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Neither is a good excuse to curtail civil liberties. And, frankly, I doubt terrorism would have the same psychological impact if it mostly targeted people in long-term care facilities with serious pre-existing health issues.
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The CBC is not considered to be particularly reputable even within Canada, which is extremely irritating given that our tax dollars are paying for it.
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by cal5k 6y ago
Yelp has always been extortionate (it would be a shame if you were to get a bad review...), but now it has spilled over into adherence to a certain ideology. This is pretty disturbing, especially in light of the massive damage lockdowns hav
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Yelp adds alerts for businesses accused of racism(cnn.com)
2 points by cal5k 6y ago|1 comments
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Ah yes, the idea of the noble savage. Back when Zimbabwe was still Rhodesia, in addition to fighting the Mugabe-lead rebels the Rhodesian military had to routinely step in to stop rival tribes from slaughtering each other. The default state
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by cal5k 6y ago
Companies should be accountable to their customers, not activists.
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This is a silly article. I'm a sport shooter and hunter in Canada, and I can personally expend 500-1000 rounds in one trip to the range. 60,000 rounds would only be newsworthy in a country with some very puritanical notions about guns.
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That ad was a neat PR trick, seeing as it seemed to make people forget that Apple is one of the most profitable companies in human existence. It's not a "revolutionary" company, it just makes really good products.
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by cal5k 6y ago
> You may not be aware but this is a common alt-right strawman argument opposed to Black Lives Matter. Just argue the point. This kind of insidious smear-by-association is what I despise so much about the current state of public discours
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by cal5k 6y ago
Well-said. That's why I believe it will lead to a backlash if left unchecked. History suggests that forcing people to suddenly view themselves in stark racial terms is a recipe for disaster.
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It's not a choice at all. You don't choose to feel angry, but you can choose how you respond to it (often with great difficulty). Similarly, I have never seen evidence to suggest that the strong desire to associate with people lik
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by cal5k 6y ago
This is a bit of an aside, but... What I think is getting obscured in all of the overheated rhetoric about race is the fact that all humans want a tribe. We want to feel like we belong to something greater than ourselves. I'm Canadian,
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Nope. I'm saying that if I had children, I'd tell them the above. I'd argue it's ultimately a much more effective way to combat racism/bigotry/whatever, unless you accept the Critical Race Theory definition of
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by cal5k 6y ago
Well said. I'm not black, but I always frame it this way when I think about the problem: if I had children, what message would I want to convey to them to maximize their chances of success in life? Life is difficult, there are lots of
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by cal5k 6y ago
Good point. You could maintain a more reasonable pressure inside a submarine.
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At the depths we're talking about that would not be possible: "Decompression from these depths takes approximately one day per 100 feet of seawater plus a day. A dive to 650 feet would take approximately eight days of decompressio
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by cal5k 6y ago
Those shootings almost never involve CCW-holders. It's often people with prior felony convictions who own firearms illegally. In Canada there are lots of gang members who carry illegal handguns. We just don't have the same degre

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