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by clipsy 2y ago
Sounds like a good opportunity to save yourself some money.
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> I acknowledge this policy may harm some people, but so does $100M of fraud, which is only getting worse every year. In other words: who cares if hundreds or thousands of people lose the entitlement they spent their entire lives paying
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"Free speech" to the American right wing has never meant (and will never mean) anything beyond "I'm free to say whatever I want, and you're also free to say whatever I want." They pretend to oppose censorship w
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by clipsy 2y ago
What regulations specifically?
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by clipsy 2y ago
I think you're being very generous in your beliefs about why people flag these sort of stories.
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"[N]ational security" and "child safety" both work quite well on both parties in reality; that's why they're so popular.
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by clipsy 2y ago
Sounds great!
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> Trump is willing to sell out the entire continent and Ukraine for whatever Putin is offering. Let's be clear: Putin is offering nothing.
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Privatized gains, socialized losses.
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Oh look, the people who've spent the past decade ranting and raving about "cancel culture" are perfectly happy to engage in it as long as their side is the one doing the canceling. Gosh, who could have predicted.
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More importantly, it's a date that Elon Musk would think is funny
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If they really believe they're going to develop "AGI," and they really believe that more engineering time would get them there faster, it seems like there's one obvious question: Why aren't they spending their enorm
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> Why is that a difficult question to answer? Nearly all adults have Star ID driver licenses that are basically as good as passports for that very purpose. I have such a driver's license; it did not require me to "prove citizen
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by clipsy 2y ago
> It has nothing to do with US Citizens How do you decide who is a US Citizen?
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Given that this administration has made it crystal clear that they want to invalidate birthright citizenship, every US citizen reading this should seriously ask themselves: How would you prove that you're a citizen?
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I'm not asking you to justify something that was unjustified in the first place -- I'm asking you to justify what you're asking people to do now . Why is it worth everyone's time and effort to migrate back to using &quo
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If you can't formulate an argument as to why "master" is meaningfully better than "main", you are no better than the culture warriors who insisted on changing it in the first place.
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> very high approval rating > 52% lol
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Remind me: what was the national debt on 1/20/2017 and 1/20/2021? How's that old saying go about trying the same thing multiple times and expecting different outcomes?
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> the side that doesn’t want a reduction in wasteful spending This is an utterly delusional view. No one is cheering government waste. Turn off your computer, go outside, and talk to real human beings.
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Just one?
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I’m guessing he primarily regrets the “getting caught on tape” element.
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If only there was some way to learn about things without experiencing them first hand. Alas!
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Bingo. Trump and the MAGA movement more broadly have made extensive use of this strategy: do something ridiculous to test the waters, and then claim you were just joking if the response is too harsh.
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If silicon valley is truly being treated as the EU's "personal piggy bank," why don't they simply shut down business operations in the EU? No one is forcing them to operate there. The truth is, despite the endless whinin
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by clipsy 2y ago
Then perhaps they should have this SWE Agent make some non-trivial contributions to the Linux kernel or other large, impactful open source projects? It would be a great way to demonstrate that they're not full of shit and would help pr
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Don't worry, I'm sure they've got a final solution in mind.
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by clipsy 2y ago
How about you share information about these "vast amounts of waste"? That would certainly help us discuss them!
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Laws do not exist if they are not enforced.
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My guess is the side effects of the vaccine, the low effectiveness of the vaccine, and the relative rarity of the flu combine to make it a genuinely questionable choice for most healthy adults -- I get the flu vaccine annually now in an abu

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