ericmay

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by ericmay 5d ago
Sounds like the coal miners in West Virginia whose livelihoods depend on coal production.
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by ericmay 5d ago
Sure, folks can do what they want. I'm not disputing that, but this idea of "privilege" in this context, to me, is quite ridiculous.
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by ericmay 5d ago
It wasn't in the article. Ok we can move past that now. You can ban something by requiring excessive compliance with a regulation that is unobtainable or very unprofitable. The Guardian failed to even mention the regulation or what may
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by ericmay 5d ago
> There is a particular amount of economic privilege in this statement. Good, I am pro-privilege and support being privileged. I'm not sure how and why we came to the point in our society where if someone says "hey these produc
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by ericmay 5d ago
Just because The Guardian intentionally didn't mention the regulations or role they might play and you want to be pedantic about their existence doesn't mean there aren't any. Businesses are allowed to and routinely comply wi
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by ericmay 5d ago
Just commenting here because you're discussing hardware: I thought the test results from the SSD published in this article [1] were pretty interesting. Maybe that's old news though. [1] https://www.macworld.com/art
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by ericmay 5d ago
Ban/regulation, whatever. It's in the article and comments. Whatever you want to call that.
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by ericmay 5d ago
Yes it does. You're using the product and seeing the ad. You and others are mad that the product is complying with the regulation in a way you don't prefer. Stop using the product, and no ad is there to be seen and none of this ma
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by ericmay 5d ago
Well you can also just stop using these products. I don't have or use Facebook, Instagram, Whats App, Reddit (since they removed old.reddit.com unless you have an account), TikTok, Snap, or anything else. Folks want Facebook or whateve
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by ericmay 5d ago
You're on the right track but instead of losing themselves to fascism what you should more accurately be pointing out, in my opinion, is that in general societies are becoming a lot more open to authoritarian ideologies, whether that&#
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by ericmay 5d ago
But we did get more than we had. Now it's a formal, indefinite agreement and not even Greenlandic sovereignty would legally change that. I think it's unlikely but you can imagine a world in which this agreement doesn't occur
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by ericmay 5d ago
> In every survey conducted, over 60 percent of the respondents have favored traditional architecture, with many revealing over 85 percent support. This preference is surprisingly unaffected by age, gender, politics, socioeconomic c
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by ericmay 6d ago
Well it's still good to have it formalized in case someone tries to say well we never had an agreement
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by ericmay 7d ago
> In exactly the same way that the books in my local public library are freely accessibly to the public, yes. I'm sure that you're aware there are so many things you can't legally do with books in your local public library
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by ericmay 7d ago
Being right tends to lead to a more convenient life, in my experience.
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by ericmay 7d ago
That's what you earlier comment sounded like to me. If you believe mine sounded as you described, your comment also sounds like you describe.
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by ericmay 7d ago
Got it yea so in the US our sentiment is a bit different. Denmark and the EU are kind of like that great friend who is always bumming a ride off of you and you've been saying hey look you're my best friend but I just can't ke
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by ericmay 7d ago
Maybe it's not 4d chess and instead it's just regular chess and doing things like taking on Iran is just unfortunately something we have to do. > Just when Russia (a petro state) desperately needed and economic shot in the arm.
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by ericmay 7d ago
So it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me that Denmark should be celebrating the deal as a big win then does it? The US has gained, however much you belittle those gains, and Denmark gained what?
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by ericmay 7d ago
You’re making your own assumptions while accusing me of being beholden to mine. One can simply think about it and understand the military and strategic importance of Greenland and that the US may over time change its defensive posture in th
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by ericmay 7d ago
> Whether Trump is or isn't allied with Russia is immaterial if much of what he does is exactly the same as what he would do if he were. If it’s immaterial there’s no reason to bring it up. But while Trump hasn’t been as hawkish on
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by ericmay 7d ago
> Denmark never denied an approval, so it has no meaningful difference. But Denmark could deny access. Formal agreements are important. You generally don’t leave this stuff up to chance or ambiguity if you don’t have to. > The US has
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by ericmay 7d ago
What did the US give up in the deal from its side?
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by ericmay 7d ago
We don’t need to be squeaky clean. You’re just inventing an impossibly high standard there. I’d argue we actually are squeaky clean when it comes to warfare, tactics, policies, procedures, and beliefs.
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by ericmay 7d ago
It was a factual statement. If you want to clutch your pearls I think you should stand next to the parents of the dead murdered at the hands of Iran and do it there. Here you can read about a couple more children (20 year olds are children
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by ericmay 7d ago
I can’t condemn child murderers since nobody in the US murdered children, but I can get behind general criticism of our failure to be perfect. I would say we need to get better at holding our noses and doing what must be done, or we need to
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by ericmay 7d ago
This doesn’t sound like vendor lock in to me, but user preferences.
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by ericmay 7d ago
> The casual dismissal of Hegseth's clear actions to deprioritize civilian protection hints, I think, at how genuine that is. Why does it matter if a poorly made point is casually dismissed? Some drummed up organization isn’t in the
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by ericmay 7d ago
Don’t care for the moral grandstanding. Save that for the dead at the hands of Iran’s murderous regime.
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by ericmay 7d ago
> You started the snark. Shallow dismissals do not merit detailed replies. No I didn’t. Shallow comments shouldn’t be posted to begin with. > Here's an idea: Why don't you read the agreement and if it is actually a significa

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