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Born and raised in Charlotte, wound up with no accent. Californians didn't know I was Southern until I said "Y'all". Also the pen/pin thing sounding the same is definitely a thing.
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I am learning High German (in Switzerland) and the writing style and general approach in this article to the words' literal translations and the aggressive cultural characterizations bothered me, for a reason I can't quite put int
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This lets those with the most money set up non profits and use taxpayer dollars to fulfill political agendas on public access channels and permit firing employees that object to the new propaganda making machine so long as at least one view
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It's a whole new avenue for predatory lending practices such as payday loans, too.
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The first: no nuclear power plants to build, and an abundance of skilled and experienced blue collar labor available (but dwindling as time progressed).
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Low energy prices. Of the ones that are being built have caused an epic cascade of business failures from construction companies to Westinghouse (who was the leading reactor core design company in the US, not even a construction company). A
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Its effect on people goes beyond those two amendments. In Roper vs. Simmons the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty for crimes committed while a minor (under 18 years of age) is cruel and unusual punishment. One consequence is for th
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> We (outsiders and history in general) have very little idea what happened, and a single photo which escaped the censorship. ...what? We have more than a single photo of the Tiananmen Square incident! While in the article, have some arc
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Why does it have to be a trade-off? Something like WriteFreely gives you both your own blog and (via the Fediverse) an audience. Don't want to run your own? Then pay for a Write.as account to have Matt run it for you.
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I have a very selfish, impolite, and presumptuous request: Your perspective on life in general is very different than mine, and it is clear from this post you are a capable communicator. I would love to listen/read as much more as you&
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Some alternative clients: Fedilab, Mast, Tusky. I use Tusky myself.
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"What double you gee"
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I remember being a uni student at a career fair nearly a decade ago and the folks at the CIA booth were wanting to hire to "predict the next Arab Spring" (which at that time was fully underway). When I asked a little bit, they did
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According to [0]: In the United States, decisions about whether deaths are listed as suicides on death certificates are usually made by a coroner or medical examiner. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/320
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The latest Last Week Tonight where they highlight sometimes there is a coziness of coroners/medical examiners with police really makes this look even worse.
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You know what I meant and are choosing to be uncharitable here. I don't think keeping cats in their indoor "native habitat" will undo millennia of Old World having outdoor cats. Feel free to look up Switzerland's protect
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American living in Switzerland: Can confirm there's a cat ladder from the ground up to a balcony down the street. I find the country also really values animal welfare as a whole.
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ActivityPub is not easy to implement due to two paradigms. One: most applications are not linked data aware, which depending on the tools could require a different way of retrofitting an existing application. Two: the tooling around the loo
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Hey! I totally understand the pessimism. I am untainted by XMPP for better or worse. I started typing out a reply on my phone but I think I need to sit with a keyboard and just make a blog post on it -- I hope you don't mind a wait. I
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ActivityPub is more about living in a small part of a very big linked data graph and letting very different kinds of apps federate amongst themselves disjointly, encouraging more diverse apps that actually can interoperate with these two di
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It's actually quite simple: do you take something I said and try to extend it to an absurd use case, to show how such a viewpoint cannot be true? This is that universality formulation in action. Quick example: I said not vaccinating is
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The low quality of Reddit-think slips into the workplace all the time. If it isn't a debate about semantics (the lowest form of argument, "well this word also means..." Etc) it's a debate about the second lowest form (th
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Nit: Mastodon isn't a protocol. ActivityPub[0] is the protocol. [0] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
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In Switzerland you can buy a box and a starter wild bee population, let them multiply for the year, and then return them. Farmers then in turn purchase these wild bees from the company. Repeat. https://wildbieneundpartner.ch&#x2F
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> weird Term limits already exist for other positions. It is not a strange concept. > roundabout My problem is not with "money in politics", it is with career politicians. > more difficult to implement Forgive my laughter
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> Yeah, those people are called "voters". That's how it's supposed to work. We want congresspeople to feel beholden to them. No it's not. It's to the people with money which let's them get to the voters
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Career congresspersons are beholden to those that secure their reelection. That's the current steady state system we have now. Term limits forces that dynamic to no longer apply to the final term, which frees congresspeople from this d
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You're bringing very fair critiques on costs and construction time to... a discussion about safety. There's many ways you could be implicitly connecting the dots to this discussion somehow. I welcome you making those clear. I am n
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The problem is a lot of the tech advancements in the last 30 years of the field have not had a chance to play out and instead retrofits are all that's been rolled out to the existing fleet. Criticizing an entire field based on the cutt
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Congratulations!

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