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by drak0n1c 4y ago
No autonomy except when it comes to devices and the internet. Far too many parents are either ignorant of or too lazy to set up parental controls on new phones, tablets, and computers before handing them to kids. The TikTok ban debate would
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Hopefully this isn’t as devastating to vehicle availability as Cash For Clunkers was. Interestingly, green policy of late has been promoting the opposite of the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle ethos. Perhaps the broken window theory of economics was
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If a "wealth tax" for individuals passes, I would hope so.
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When President Trump raised tariffs on China in 2017 - economic soundness aside - the media commentary initially lambasted it as unprovoked xenophobic aggression. But the outrage soon died down as people looked at the numbers and saw it was
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The only recent major Rolling Stone scoop that has held up after further scrutiny was Matt Taibbi's coverage of financial institutions. That was ages ago.
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I follow the Community Impact paper for my city. It's a Texas firm that has specialized papers for each area of each major city. It's filled with very informative mostly positive community developments -- oriented around new estab
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Running Foundry on a $20-40/yr KVM VPS from LowEndBox seems to be the best balance between cost and convenience. Performance seems fine.
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Foundry can be a very effective map decorator - as in placing of props, furniture, etc after you import a plain spartan background image. Especially if you use the Moulinette module with its access to massive catalogues and drag-and-drop.
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Interesting, does that mean modern Russia, China, and North Korea can be simply considered the results of Late Stage Socialism?
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Was the USSR exactly communism?
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Unfortunately, too many parents are either too unaware or apathetic to spend 30 minutes enabling parental controls on new phones, tablets, and computers before handing them off to their kids. Parental controls are very robust now, and easy
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There's a form of broken window fallacy going on in green policy circles. Particularly the Cash for Clunkers program, and California's recent banning of trucks made before 2010. It is an attempt to drive demand and raw resource ex
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The co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, has written on this topic repeatedly. https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/ https://larrysanger.org/2022/03/why-neutra
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And the fuel behind administrative bloat is the inflationary effect of federally guaranteed student loans compounded over decades. Why not increase tuition by a thousand dollars if the loan will cover it regardless?
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NSF Grant: Language Technologies Against the Language of Social Discrimination(nsf.gov)
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That same logic can be applied to the current iteration of progressive leftism currently popular in online content and social media circles in a few developed western countries. Ideological internet content of many stripes are in their own
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The FBI did send tweets and accounts to specific Twitter employees and repeatedly emailed them about those tweets and accounts asking for a follow-up on their status. The FBI said it was only notifying Twitter of censorship candidates, and
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It's the collector mindset. When someone is very interested in a particular niche, he or she may have a nagging feeling of an incomplete experience if a particular version of literature is missing from their shelf, or a rendition of ar
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The Firewatch game developers used DMCA against PewDiePie when he played their game, and it was accepted and honored by YouTube. There was a brief social media backlash/discussion but that's mostly forgotten by now.
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Star channels and people with occasional activity that are important for your day-to-day work (not necessarily all the "team" ones). Create a section at the very top above Starred with the places and people that you need to talk t
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Can't wait until a company makes a 7-8 seat minivan with the Lightning's two-way battery function. The ultimate consumer utility for moving people, cargo, and electrons.
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Most homeowners' personal home address is publicly published on county government websites. Everyone on both sides of aisle agrees that the unwanted reposting of such on social media is doxxing and a bannable offense.
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That argument was most commonly used in the past to dismiss criticisms of corporate social media policy, even when there was no mention of legality or government intervention.
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It’s unnecessary greenwashing hyperbole. Of course there will still be carbon emissions from the production of the reactor parts and the sourcing of fuel ingredients. The potential benefits of working fusion are far greater than carbon worr
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Here’s more info directly from Apple on their hardware key plans: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-advances-user-s...
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Matt Taibbi was Rolling Stone's (your citation) most influential and rigorous journalist, he documented Wall Street and financial crimes, Goldman Sachs in particular. When holes appeared in Rolling Stone's other stories over the y
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Maybe the broader issue is the sheer amount of government licensure in the UK and the cover that provides for civil servant and enforcer abuse, rather than defining cases as a right/left problem.
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JoergSprave demos new 3D printed rapid fire crossbow(youtube.com)
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As recently as a few hundred years ago many Europeans had dark tans because they spent their few decades alive working long days in the sun. But that was tanning and long term skin damage, not genetic. There was an anthropological time peri
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CZ has shut down the China branch, and was essentially banned since their crypto crackdown. He has been publicly critical of the CCP government too. The gov may not have much leverage over him.

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