dctoedt

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by dctoedt 7mo ago
> Because "cheap" government housing has never been "high quality" in the history of the world. Those two properties are antithetical. I've lived in military on-base housing. It can be just fine ... or sometime
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by dctoedt 7mo ago
The Beatles famously stopped touring, and stuck exclusively to studio recording (apart from the Abbey Road rooftop concert), in no small part because they got tired of not being able to hear themselves sing or play due to all the girls&#x27
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by dctoedt 7mo ago
> no ban on a married Catholic man (possibly a layman, a Latin Rite deacon, one of the already exceptional Latin Rite priests, or an Eastern Rite priest) being ordained Bishop of Rome after being elected by the College of Cardinals Tha
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by dctoedt 7mo ago
> Let me guess, you've never worked in a real production environment? The comment to which you're responding includes a note at the end that the commenter is being sarcastic. Perhaps that wasn't in the comment when you r
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by dctoedt 7mo ago
> The Department of War is an “alternate title”. Like "alternative facts"?
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by dctoedt 7mo ago
> Not if you want to copyright the output That gets tricky: To the extent that an AI is just a tool — along the lines of a trained pair of hands executing a human prompter's specific, detailed instructions — the human prompter mig
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
> You can’t take people’s use of symbols out of the context in which they use them. So: What a symbol means to the writer (or speaker) is supposedly more important than what the symbol means to readers — who (according to the writer) m
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
> Your argument shifts between two frames--from talking about "successive generations" to events in a specific individual's life--without explaining why we should treat those frames as equivalent. It's an analogy: I
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
> For people who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s in the south, it was a generic symbol of rebellion or regional rivalry. Remember, Dukes of Hazzard, which aired in the 1980s .... For people who grew up in the south in the 1960s (me, mos
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
> Instead, they resist the idea that those things are relevant to contemporary political disputes involving the descendants of the people who directly caused the harm and who were directly harmed. There's such a thing as generatio
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
> Mega is big enough to buy entire islands, and be its own country. A corporate country. One with a very specific constitution, enshrining rights, but also? It's a charming thought. But it can't possibly survive the brute rea
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
The name "Julia" indicates a woman — she, not he.
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
> He should have asked mastodon about the worst man pages too. The blog title says "Julia Evans."
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
It's (smartly) taking advantage of loss aversion (Kahneman and Tversy). [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
I'm very curious how you happened to have, seemingly at the ready, a cite to a 5.5-year-old Fox News piece.
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
You’re seeing what you want to see.
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
> The only way he could move like that was by getting hit by the car. He had a hand braced on the left-front fender and was leaning against it, with his feet maybe a yard away — apparently on icy pavement. The vehicle could well have
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
That's not how it looks to me. Her vehicle seems to come close and might even touch the agent's leg — maybe (the narration says no). But "hitting him" doesn't seem to be a reasonable way to describe it, even grant
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
> Vehicular assault protest is dangerous and illegal protest. You need to watch the video compilation linked to above. It wasn't anything resembling "vehicular assault protest" — it was a woman trying to verrrry slowwww
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
I know. But being nasty to (him?) would just make it that much less likely that he’d ever see things in a different light someday.
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
See my edited comment, with a link to the NY Times's frame-by-frame, time-synced compilation of various video angles. She didn't run over him or even hit him.
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
> nobody has been killed that wasn’t carrying a gun with extra ammo or striking cops with their vehicle. The video evidence shows beyond peradventure that Renee Good didn't strike the ICE agent — who isn't a cop — with her ve
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
GOP dēlenda est.
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
Here in (South-adjacent) Texas, if someone asks if I'm Christian, I'm likely to respond, "Well, I'm Episcopalian, if that counts" — because to some folks in this neck of the woods, Episcopalians aren't really
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
> Some kids really do just run into the road seemingly randomly. ... sometimes (perhaps very rarely, but it only takes once and bad luck) forget to look both ways. Just this week I was telling my law school contract-drafting class that p
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
All are very-sound ideas. Regrettably, they'd be tough to explain to the voters — and the vested interests would oppose fiercely. A good start might be to just triple the size of the House to approximately match the Repr.-to-population
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by dctoedt 8mo ago
> the solution is to fix the electoral system Any suggestions? Term limits might well be the least-bad of the feasible alternatives.
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by dctoedt 9mo ago
> I'm constantly surprised at how many cultural conventions are mysteries to modern generations. Some of my law students are only dimly aware of Jerry Seinfeld. And when I play a bit of the organ solo from Procul Harum's 1967
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by dctoedt 9mo ago
> What a terrible reply to an interesting and genuine comment. The "interesting and genuine [GP] comment" was hardly that: While it might not have been the GP commenter's intent, to me the comment came across as evidenci
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by dctoedt 9mo ago
> The United States is exactly meant to be that: states that are united, but independent. The federal government was never intended to lord over everyone's lives. That changed in the wake of the South's surrender at Appomatto

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