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by evan_ 6y ago
that's a bad metric. If our ancient ancestors sat on a rock staring at a flickering rectangle for 8 hours a day they'd be eaten by tigers, but we're doing OK.
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by evan_ 6y ago
This article doesn’t even go into the timeline issue. The world learned Trump had it late Thursday night. 36 hours later, Conley said he’d been diagnosed 72 hours earlier, which would’ve been the morning after the debate. Another doctor sai
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by evan_ 6y ago
Maybe a joint statement from, say, Pence and Pelosi, (#1 and #2 in the line of succession) but I don’t know how you get them on the same page and I do NOT want them in the same room right now...
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by evan_ 6y ago
her father is Black and her mother was Indian.
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by evan_ 6y ago
it's jquery[0], so this is only the "old days" if 2006 was the "old days" for you (which obviously for many it was). Before 2006 you'd probably use XMLHttpRequest directly- but of course that was only widely av
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by evan_ 6y ago
also he seems to think that people put up multiple layers of drywall like it's wallpaper?
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by evan_ 6y ago
Wouldn’t the switches just be placed in the boxes for the old switches? Burying a switch as you describe is against code in the US and I assume other countries.
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by evan_ 6y ago
It would not have helped them now because it would be gone
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by evan_ 6y ago
> Catholics being forced to perform elective abortions, nuns being forced to pay for contraception, people being forced to participate in same-sex weddings as bakers so the solution is to ban abortions, contraceptives, and same-sex marri
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by evan_ 6y ago
Why? Trump is never going to appoint a justice who will legitimately advance any cause of liberty. He’s going to appoint someone who will protect his power and the power of the Republican Party. Trump making more appointments is exactly the
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by evan_ 6y ago
You don’t see any difference between Apple doing something and the federal government doing something?
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by evan_ 6y ago
there are zero people who fit this description
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by evan_ 6y ago
You can’t possibly argue in good faith that the republicans would not have changed it anyway.
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by evan_ 6y ago
because neither of those things are meaningful to him? He doesn’t think he will lose, obviously, so saying he does is meaningless- and because he doesn’t plan to lose, a “sweetheart deal” is similarly meaningless.
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by evan_ 6y ago
2013 then
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by evan_ 6y ago
Oh well if he hasn’t done that surely the republicans would’ve sat on their hands this whole time
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by evan_ 6y ago
Let's ask Google. "democratic senators" > About 969,000 results (0.52 seconds) "democrat senators" > About 92,800 results (0.42 seconds) Bonus: "democratic senators" site:breitbart.
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by evan_ 6y ago
> If the voting public was outraged by McConnell's actions, one might expect they'd vote accordingly. This is nonsense. Trump got three million fewer votes than Clinton.
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by evan_ 6y ago
Why would he give up virtually guaranteed victory in exchange for something that only matters if he loses?
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by evan_ 6y ago
With Supreme Court supremacy Republicans don’t have to get re-elected by voters anymore, they just have to dispute the results, lose, and appeal up to the nearest friendly court.
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by evan_ 6y ago
Do you think the republicans would not have ended it for Kavanaugh?
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by evan_ 6y ago
Can you understand how one might believe that the franchise with the slogan "Gotta Catch 'Em All" might be about collecting a fixed number of items?
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by evan_ 6y ago
What, over the last 4 years, has given you even the inkling of a thought that the Republican-led Senate is willing to, or even capable of standing up to Trump? Trump refusing to leave is what they want, they will do everything they can to
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by evan_ 6y ago
No, it's a different thing. Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Color Filters
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by evan_ 6y ago
no idea if this is the reason but they are being pretty forward about banning malicious users (cheaters, creeps) and you can't do that effectively if you just ban the throwaway user.
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by evan_ 6y ago
Dark Sky has been promising a very good chance of light rain on Friday, it’s all that’s keeping me going... I’m trying to forget that it says 0.01”.
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by evan_ 6y ago
It would be pretty easy for the algorithm to be nudged a little so that you start seeing more and more mental health tiktokkers who suggest that your mental wellness would be improved if you started reading about qanon, or long boarders who
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by evan_ 6y ago
“Move fast and break things,” in other words.
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by evan_ 6y ago
yes but not just spy, they're eager to use the algorithm for propaganda purposes. Having it run by a trump loyalist is the outcome they wanted, they're going to turn it into Fox News for gen z.
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by evan_ 6y ago
It will be approved, the goal was to put it in a place where the US government (read: trump goons) could control and monitor it, and Oracle is such a place. Larry Ellison is a huge trump donor so there’s zero chance it gets held up.

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