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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Part of the problem is we changed the senate selections to votes. Originally state legislature picked their senators. That's an amendment that I think is a mistake and should be reverted. The different chambers are supposed to represen
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
> That wouldn't be a radical change over the current Olympics, where the line is "give your athletes PEDs, but just make sure they pass the testing". This is one of the reasons I have mixed feelings on the idea for PED Oly
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
A surprising amount of people are single issue voters and will vote for and support someone that supports that single issue. They might not care at all about the entire rest of the issues at all as long as their single issue is fine, and a
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Being physically strong is a good thing, and regular resistance training is a huge gap for overall health for quite a lot of people today - men and women. Being able to provide for someone is an admirable quality, man or woman Same for bein
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
I think Cavill has a fair point - I generally support MeToo, think it was very important, but I can understand how being a fairly big name in Hollywood can result in hesitation around pursuing women. Especially now that he's got a lot
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
None of that changes the fact that the statement that half the country is MAGA because half the country voted for Trump is untrue. Significantly less than half the country voted for Trump. This is objective fact. Significantly less than 100
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
What part about Chuck was a great role model for real men? The homophobia? The racism? The infidelity? The conspiracy theories? Or just because he was a martial artist and actor that had a bunch of low effort memes?
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
It's an objective fact. He said it. The thing about Norris is that this isn't just generic policy stuff. I think pretty much all politics has impact on People and therefor matters, but you can abstract a whole lot away on a lot of
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
The problem is that living life is inherently political. Being able to ignore politics, not having to feel the need to discuss them, is a sign that you are inherently better off than a good chunk of this country. A lot of people spend most
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
I stopped being a Chuck Norris fan when I learned he was a frequent contributor to WorldNetDaily, that he actively campaigned against gay marriage, and that he advocated for the theory that Obama was not born in America and saying shit like
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Half the country didn't vote for Trump. Not quite 2/3rds of the voting eligible people in the country voted to begin with, and not even half of those people voted for Trump. Less than 1/3rd of eligible voters voted for Trump.
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Being maga is diametrically opposed to supporting your country, as we've seen in particular this time around, but was also clearly visible in 2016-2020. Rampant abuse of the legal system to target individuals, despite claiming (without
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
He was vocally against gay marriage He was a vocal proponent of the birther conspiracy theory about Obama
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
The Chuck Norris fact page that really kicked this all off started as a Vin Diesel fact page. Most of the original funny Chuck Norris facts were from the original Vin Diesel ones.
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Congress has had one of the lowest approval ratings of anything in government for a long time now because it doesn't get things done. Most Americans are quite unhappy with Congressional deadlock being the norm. It's also directly
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Having a working nuclear weapon is not the same thing as having a viable vehicle to deliver the nuclear weapon somewhere useful, unless we're talking like, suitcase nukes or whatever. It's hard for me to estimate what the timeline
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
For a huge chunk of non-profits, the non-profit work is the labor of their members. Their goal is not and has never been to pass revenue through to the community - what would that even look like for a hospital? There's a million differ
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
They did. Hamilton even argued that presidents should be subject to “forfeiture of life and estate” if crimes deemed it so. Federalist 77. Article I, Section 3, Clause 7 of the constitution makes it clear that while impeachment is limited t
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
> Predidency is an Institution which needs to be protected at all costs. That sounds a lot like a king. Last I checked, our founders were pretty against the whole king thing. I would be shocked if a single one of them said that a Preside
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
If anything, it's less, because you're giving up more RAM to the GPU. Which, I mean, I love unified memory, as one of those weirdos that does do local LLM stuff and am contemplating if it's time to upgrade my m2 max. But if y
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
> Trump at very least cares about the optics of Gaza which is the only reason he's put in the slightest amount of effort The guy that put out the 'Trump Gaza' AI video cares about the optics of Gaza?
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Something that contagious that kills ~13% of people infected is something I would argue is quite deadly. Especially when half of adults in america are hypertensive.
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
> Also, I would like to point out that almost all women have had more then 0 sexual partners before wedding By the 1700s the pregnant before marriage rate was roughly 30%. So about a third of all women in the 1700s had premarital sex tha
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by cthalupa 8mo ago
You're arguing that because of the English language name of it is the South China Sea that China owns it and their actions can't be imperialist? Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam will all b
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by cthalupa 8mo ago
We're talking about the modern world, though. China's imperialism over the past half century is not significantly different from any other major world power. The choices we have aren't 1500s Spain or 1700s Britain vs. 2000s C
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by cthalupa 8mo ago
Tibet Hong Kong / Macau Taiwan Everything constantly in the South China Sea Belt and Roads is effectively the Marshall Plan but even bigger - Africa being the major example, but also Eastern Europe, parts of the middle east, etc. Over
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by cthalupa 8mo ago
I'm a Texan so I'm following this pretty closely. I slightly prefer Crockett to Talarico, but I voted for him in the primary because I think he's got a significantly better shot to win. Texas is going to need moderate and cen
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by cthalupa 8mo ago
If Democrats actually knew how to message on what they accomplished instead of letting the other side control the narrative and refocus everything on to fringe issues that only the fringe of the party cares about, as well as matching every
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by cthalupa 8mo ago
> The thing is CAD models look perfect. No they don't. I am explicitly saying they often have the exact topology issues that are showcased here. They don't have some of the other issues - but a huge chunk of this article is abo
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by cthalupa 8mo ago
> where they have control over a wide swathe of land mass through imperialism and have actively resisted relinquishing it? Was referring to Tibet. The Uyghurs are also a major problem from a social perspective but not directly related to

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