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by danaliv 6y ago
You just performed the exact rhetorical trick the OP described. You tried to reduce this to “disagreement.” These actions aren’t about disagreement. They’re about violence and sedition.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Wait, what? You’d like to abolish free speech? Or is this an autocorrect for “absolutist?”
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by danaliv 6y ago
I’m noticing that a lot of people in the discussions on this and related topics are spilling ink on themes of free speech and civil rights, while utterly failing to even mention, let alone address, the fact that seditious attacks on our go
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by danaliv 6y ago
If finding out you’re wrong feels mean to you, you’re not going to get far in this world.
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by danaliv 6y ago
No, you’re absolutely right. As someone who uses UTC professionally in aerospace ops, trust me when I say your clock is still definitely tied to solar time even if it’s “off” by whatever. Try using UTC exclusively—I don’t just mean on your
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by danaliv 6y ago
> danaliv isn't (I don't think...) the President of the United States Now there’s a terrifying thought.
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by danaliv 6y ago
> Mail dumping, interception and modification of ballots, just plain errors in ballots or failure to mail them Did any of this actually happen? > ...they do not materially change election results... So... what’s the problem again?
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by danaliv 6y ago
I suspect no matter what we do you’re going to continue arguing in bad faith while pretending nothing happened Wednesday and Trump isn’t sui generis.
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by danaliv 6y ago
No, they care what Trump’s followers think he said, because they’ve already committed one heinous act of violence. Read this carefully. They are looking at the actual response to these tweets. Not their own personal feelings. The actual
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by danaliv 6y ago
They didn’t just look at the tweets; they looked at how they’re actually being received. I think that’s a crucial distinction.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Please, can we put this canard to rest? It is an extremely simplistic take that is bordering on cliche at this point. It adds nothing, it illuminates nothing, and it fails to address any of the very real and complex issues by turning everyt
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by danaliv 6y ago
You need both. I've worked at places that were all subject-matter and no business expertise. Companies like that fail.
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by danaliv 6y ago
This is no longer just the “President’s voice” being shut down. This is the shutdown of a man who incited a mob to attack the US Capitol.
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by danaliv 6y ago
In my defense, I've been using Unix since the early '90s (was taught Scheme and C on a DEC ULTRIX, and then got my hands on a Turbo NeXTstation). This is a rare gap in my knowledge. ;-)
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by danaliv 6y ago
Oh thank goodness, I can stop using Google for this. (Aside: Is anyone else annoyed that Google doesn't understand what a hectopascal is? It interprets hPa as Pa, which is obnoxious. Every time I convert to or from hPa I have to do it
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by danaliv 6y ago
Medical expenses are only deductible once you've exceeded a certain percentage of your income. I've never been able to deduct anything substantial, and I've had some pretty outrageous medical bills. (Cancer survivor.) And tha
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by danaliv 6y ago
Headlines like these always read like "Man stops kicking puppy" to me.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Light hammers are good for riveting. You need something that won’t overpower whatever you’re using to buck the rivet. (In my case, a three-pound sledgehammer head.)
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by danaliv 6y ago
It ferments.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Iceland, where it's called hákarl (/'howkartl/, sort of). I don't know how it's prepared now, but the traditional method is to dig a shallow pit, put the shark in there, and then cover it with rocks. The rocks
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by danaliv 6y ago
> their flesh, unless processed through a lengthy and complicated ritual, is highly toxic ...and even once processed, is disgusting. For a few seconds it's just bland seafood. Then the ammonia punches you in the face from inside y
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by danaliv 6y ago
I’m not surprised. My head is exquisitely sensitive to (lack of) caffeine.
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by danaliv 6y ago
At some point, “this is a free country” became “I don’t have to apply impulse control under any circumstances.”
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by danaliv 6y ago
I just moved to LA from New York State in December, and it seems to me that the number one problem here is noncompliance. So many people are just out and about like nothing unusual is going on. People aren’t wearing masks, or they are but n
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by danaliv 6y ago
My longest official title was 56 characters, and my second-longest was 52. Absurd!
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by danaliv 6y ago
This is awesome! I’d recommend adding a section for certifications. I have a bunch of FAA certs that are career-relevant but they don’t fit naturally into any of the existing profile sections. I’d also suggest making some of the fields wide
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by danaliv 6y ago
You keep trying to make this "keep your money invested for a month" argument but without actual numbers I don't believe it. How much are you spending in a month that you actually get any kind of investment return on it? And w
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by danaliv 6y ago
I’ve been confused about why this app even exists, for this very reason. I use the built-in facilities to keep my Mac awake.
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by danaliv 6y ago
It’s a 1:1 ratio with those units. Hard to imagine anything less mind-bending/error-prone. Set your body scale to pounds and your food scale to grams. Done.
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by danaliv 6y ago
I read The Age of Spiritual Machines in ‘98 with high hopes but quickly found Kurzweil difficult to take seriously. The singularity fandom has always baffled me.

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