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by cronix 4y ago
> Does this position make me a hypocrite? Only if all drugs are the same. They are not. We've decriminalized meth, heroin and other hard drugs in Oregon. It's not going well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0im
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by cronix 4y ago
> their stock is still falling Which one's aren't falling? That's a shorter list.
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> The state took in more than they could spend in 2021. This year, when I filed taxes That's not quite accurate. They (government) can always find ways to spend the extra money. Oregon passed a ballot measure that constitutionally
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My earliest ones still read. My later ones mostly don't. I'm guessing the difference is the earlier ones were recorded at 2x speed (fastest that existed) while the later ones were recorded much faster (probably 8x or 12x), which m
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No federal law is changing. This is a one time get out of jail free card. People arrested for the same crimes after he pardons current people in prison don't get the benefit.
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We also had a lot of lockdowns/work from home/etc in 2020, which prevented a lot of people from driving, probably lowering that driving stat. It would be interesting to get statistics for a non-covid year.
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> The reason fiat money works It also worked before the US went to a fiat currency in 1971 when Nixon took us off the gold standard. It also allowed for massive deficits because before they couldn't spend what they didn't physi
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by cronix 4y ago
They do much better at taxing than collecting.
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by cronix 4y ago
Voyager is still going after about 46 years and about 14.7 billion miles from earth (and counting). https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
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by cronix 4y ago
If you elect representatives to vote on your behalf, it's not a "true democracy."
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Yes, it's basically like an indoor swimming pool. It takes a lot of water to initially fill it, but they clean and reuse most of it.
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If "nobody uses them," then it has not been "replaced."
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Oh, I think any changes he makes will definitely be in the news cycle, forever.
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> with a lighter and tinfoil or small pipe. >> Which is not how you smoke marijuana. People don't use a pipe to smoke marijuana? Here's a NIH paper on less people injecting fentanyl and other opiods in favor of smoking fe
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by cronix 4y ago
You can smoke fentanyl the same way you freebase cocaine, with a lighter and tinfoil or small pipe.
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by cronix 4y ago
Ask people in the EU what is currently happening to their forests with the energy crisis looming. Everyone now wants wood, or potentially freeze to death. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/europe
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It was our first modem for the Commodore 64 in the early 80's.
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No, I'm talking about what would have happened if we didn't standardize things like the gas nozzle/pump early on with ICE cars, which made them more universal. There is no need for multiple styles of charging plug design (the
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I would think gaming would go up during a recession. Gaming can be very cheap entertainment once the hardware is purchased. Like for the price of 4 movies in the theater at $15 a pop that might be 6 or 7 hours long in total, I can play a ga
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Yeah it would have been great if car companies each had their own proprietary version of the gas nozzle and their own gas stations that would only work for their own brand cars.
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> I'm afraid the software might even have some kind of countdown where the system will stop working when it hasn't been connected to the internet after a certain amount of time. Or, just an automatic firmware "update.&quot
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And if you're a console player you also get to pay monthly for the privilege of playing online. I miss when game companies didn't host their own games and you could just download the server portion and host it yourself (or rent a
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by cronix 4y ago
> Your memory of Final Space will be the only proof it ever existed. And to those who know about bit torrent. https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?search=final+space&category%5B...
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ungrammarly.com /s
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by cronix 4y ago
Biden did say that if Russia invades Ukraine, "there will be no longer a Nordstream 2" seven months ago. When a reporter asked "how he would do that, since it's under German control," he stated "we will, I prom
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by cronix 4y ago
We much preferred rosin based flux in our shop. It flowed much better, made more perfect joints (no holes) and was much easier to clean after repairs.
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Because there are Tesla's that have gone over a million miles.
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We have lots of automated machinery/robots/underwater drones that could do it remotely.
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I believe that's mainly for video. Does HN slow down if you turn it off?
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I suppose it depends on the jurisdiction. For instance, some courts, like the 9th District Court of Appeals have ruled that cities can't remove homeless camping on public property. Public forests are public, and there's lots of tr

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