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by epakai 6y ago
Nobody was mourning Soleimani. This is a ridiculous straw man. Soleimani's assassination was problematic on a number of fronts, and people were right to criticize it.
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> The long term cultural effects spanning all cultures show that when both sexes have close to equal rights, birth rates drop. I haven't thought of it this way. I still think lack of poverty is a bigger predictor, but it's inte
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Why are offspring the only worthwhile outcome of having lived a life? To me it's not particularly important whose genes get propagated. I just want to see humanity improve and produce great outcomes. Sure it is an OK method to try to h
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Blu-ray elevates it quite poorly. I recently bought a Terminator set where it forced a 3 minute spiel on the blu-ray format on several discs (I couldn't know about it's AMAZING quality after having bought a whole set of them &#x2F
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by epakai 6y ago
I use Pocket with my Kobo. Works great for public web pages, but not really suitable if you want to throw bank statements or doctor's reports or whatever onto a reader.
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There were issues with sticking keys on the microPC. On mine the mouse buttons can get wedged under the fascia at the bottom. Overall pretty happy with the keyboard though.
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UUIDs in URLs reminds me of dakboard's use of UUIDs for accessing their user customizable displays. There isn't any auth, just guess the right $uuid in dakboard.com/screen/uuid/$uuid and you've got access to wh
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by epakai 6y ago
With 11-31K followers these aren't "top" antifa accounts. Ngo is just taking advantage of the demonization of anti-fascism to continue to create the image of an other that can be despised. https://thebasebk.org&#x2
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by epakai 6y ago
My comments were specific to attendees of the Jan. 6th event. I would assign (varying) culpability to a large majority of that group for the events that followed. 70M have varied reasons for choosing one of two candidates, but people who at
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I find them harder to separate in the capitol incident. The event they were attending was named "Stop the Steal". At some level people there were invested in a tenuous narrative about how functional our elections are. It's ob
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I agree, but I'm curious about Twitter. How do you really break them up? Is there much more to it than the social media and ad components?
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I wrote handbrake runner. It takes a plaintext (glib) keyfile and runs HandBrakeCLI repeatedly to encode video. I use it for my dvd/bd collection. It has a support script (hbscan.py) to build keyfile templates from handbrake's sca
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One was given access then 300 people were arrested for their civil disobedience (loud chanting, refusal to leave). Fox reported it as "[there to] protest Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court and put pressure on the handful
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> "The president was not exonerated!", which is weasel-speak for "The president was not proven innocent!" Mueller made it pretty clear he could not exonerate the President, and if he could he would have. Not only were
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I saw it as a real issue. The problem was Trump kept bringing up already discredited theories. Then when disputes came to court they weren't even about those theories. After the third or fourth time this happened I quit following along
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The audits were done. Polls were watched. Close elections recounted. Discrepancies explained. None of it matters to Trump. He stuck to the same narrative. We heard it in the Georgia phone call. Even now he won't back away from it, and
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Maybe we should consider addressing real issues before they become violent protests. The BLM protests called out real injustices with some being more clear-cut than others. The violence at protests was often used to discredit the movement.
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Sounds like a design issue. Why does the front page have an upvote button if we expect people to read the post/article first?
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> For a solid 4 years one party accused the other of rigging an election and it was considered news and reported on nearly non-stop. Now the tables are turned and the formerly accused party is claiming the other one rigged the election.
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Godwin's law, but Hitler succeeded for a very long time in the decade before WW2. This isn't a useful metric for determining whether ideas are right or wrong.
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Bandwidth is comparable with other high-end laptop chipsets (I've seen 60-68 GB/s quoted, and recent Ryzens are 68 GB/s). Is the on-chip latency a big factor in the single core performance?
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AOC suggested making record of sycophants in Trump's wake so they can't distance themselves from him[0]. These aren't opposition supporters. They are the senators, representatives, and other politicians who refuse to be the c
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No. [1] The article makes the case for prescribing shorter courses of antibiotics for some infections, and they're probably right. You would need to show there is more harm from obeying doctor's orders before you write an absurd h
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Huh? The Mueller Report, Deutsche Bank, Trump Tower meetings, Russian influence in the NRA, Paul Manafort's lobbying, Trump Jr's claim of Russian funding, Trump's push for G7 membership. I don't doubt some things have be
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Possibly to hide damaged cuticles, dirty fingernails, or something else unsightly. Comments will harp on just about any flaw. Ben Heck addressed comments about his fingers' condition, but he just offers some sarcasm about them instead
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EPUB is mostly a zip of HTML files and they're often split by chapter. I know Foliate does continuous scrolling, but it's only on *nix platforms.
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If you like fine points Uniball's Signo RT1 write very well with 0.28mm tips. Ink capacity is not their strong point though. Pretty sure I was going through several a semester.
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I believe protests were working, but progress has since been reversed. Police militarization is controversial. The previous administration made efforts like 'Smart on Crime' and federal laissez-faire approach to marijuana enforcem
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The problem is antifa has become the new boogy man for the GOP, and they've been pushing this narrative extremely hard. It's apparent they've identified their enemy, but this approach has me worried that "First they came
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He's continuing a push from Republicans to reframe section 230 immunity as only applying to "neutral" platforms [1]. The problem is this then gives the government a big stick to control them on relatively subjective grounds.

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