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by dleary 2y ago
It’s interesting that you don’t even attempt to counter any of the points GP raised. Instead, you Respond to Tone [0] Once upon a time, Republicans had principles. As recently as 2015, they still often pretended to. When Republicans had pr
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by dleary 2y ago
As an outsider to Go, it feels to me like this basic pattern comes up over and over again in Go: Q. Why can’t I have feature X? A. We thought of that already, and your opinion is wrong. Q. But basically every other language in existence
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by dleary 2y ago
The obesity epidemic is only 50 years old. GLP-1 seems to be a “thing that fixes your satiety balance”, that is applying to more than just food, but maybe also help you regulate yourself when you have way too much access to alcohol, drugs,
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by dleary 2y ago
We need to talk about your flair. Now, it’s up to you whether or not you just want to do the minimum. But look at Brian over there! He has 4, sometimes 5 emojis in his commit messages! And a terrific smile…
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by dleary 2y ago
I know a number of poor US families (on food stamps/WIC) who have a tablet per child. I think it is the norm, in the US. A cheap android tablet only costs a couple hundred bucks. That's just not that much, even for a poor family
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by dleary 2y ago
Calling the UK “England” is a different class of error, though. England is a part of the UK. Analogous would be calling the USA “Texas”. Calling the UK “Britain” is a much more direct comparison. United States of America -> America Unit
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by dleary 2y ago
> I can imagine that King has a very deep connection to The Shining as Jack is probably the closest that King has got to an autobiographical character. Kimg has a few autobiographical characters, but surely the closest has to be when he
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by dleary 2y ago
It sounds like you have basically given a formulation of Maxwell’s Demon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon “All you have to do is harvest the hottest/fastest molecules” pretty much describes exactly
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by dleary 2y ago
My experience with Chase chargebacks has been stellar. I have the sapphire preferred card, and the Amazon card. I use the sapphire preferred card for almost everything, it is my “daily driver”. I never touch my Amazon card, but I have it t
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by dleary 2y ago
In the past, a lot fewer people lived until they were “old”. So, the deleterious effects of trauma emotions “mattered less”. If you can never sleep through the night without waking up screaming, that is a bad effect. But if you only have
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by dleary 3y ago
This is not a valid argument. The same argument has been used to oppress people since time immemorial, whether they were brown skinned, homosexuals, neurodivergent, Jews, or various other arguments for being “not as we were evolved to be”.
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by dleary 3y ago
What does Discord offer that is more than ‘ephemeral chat’? Do you disagree with the ‘real’ statement that GP was trying to say, that whatever “functionality on offer” that Discord provides is a poor substitute for forums?
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by dleary 3y ago
“Triggered” implies an emotional or irrational overreaction to some stimulus. Describing your opponents as a “cult” also implies that they are non rational. The GP described opposition to his argument, before it was presented, as coming fro