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721.
by evgen 6y ago
Don't want to trash talk Doctorow, but I just think he missed his calling at the New Yorker or somewhere similar writing near-future short stories that were subtle critique of current issues. If we criticize Neal Stephenson for build
722.
by evgen 6y ago
Doctorow is a pundit and pseudo-futurist who thinks he can write (or at least has convinced some small subset of this particular delusion.) In small doses like short stories or selected snippets from his novels there is a bit of fun, but t
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by evgen 6y ago
There was significant precedent on the 2A, I did read Heller, and happened to do my university thesis on US Constitutional and Legal History. Mine was a crim pro focus but still trod similar ground back in the early 90s when Miller and Lewi
724.
by evgen 6y ago
Bold claim Cotton, let's see if it works out... Joking aside, that is based upon the mostly discredited 'herd immunity' theory. It is not the case that someone who is in a vulnerable population is somehow doomed to die from
725.
by evgen 6y ago
(and aside from any comparisons to its neighboring countries too?) Yes, it has been a catestrophic fuck-up. As predicted.
726.
by evgen 6y ago
Scalia's opinion is a lesson in judicial activism and a rather poorly constructed one that serves as an object lesson in how to cherry-pick facts that can be constructed to lead to your previously determined decision. It had nothing t
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by evgen 6y ago
The sense of entitlement in statements like 'there first', 'previously normal behavior', 'co-opt locals', and 'bury their heads in the sand because the newcomers are spending' is palpable. Sorry that
728.
by evgen 6y ago
This. Scalia was widely advertised as a strict textualist, until of course it wasn't convenient (c.f. Heller) and then he was quite willing to both ignore precedent and slice and dice the constitution to fit his desired outcome.
729.
by evgen 6y ago
If only there was evidence that these people are actually trying to vote illegally. Yet, after spending millions of dollars trying, and trying, and really REALLY trying people like you are still unable to demonstrate that this is a problem
730.
by evgen 6y ago
The mechanism by which modern racists work is to find categories that are not strictly racial but which have a very strong racial correlation and then apply restrictions and barriers on this correlated category while claiming to not be acti
731.
by evgen 6y ago
Dig to bedrock or drive in pilings to shore up your foundation if you can, it all depends on the local geography. Given the lateral forces on a bridge it seems unlikely that modern builders would float the footings of the arches in the riv
732.
by evgen 6y ago
If only certain (Republican) politicians would learn to keep their ignorant opinions out of science then maybe that would happen. When one party goes to war against facts and science then every scientist has a moral duty to push back.
733.
by evgen 6y ago
'Fairness' has no relevance when it comes to a site's participants deciding among themselves what is and is not worth discussing. Perhaps those posts and commands that were flagged or downvoted were considered less legitimat
734.
by evgen 6y ago
Have you even read the story? Really? It is so laughably false that the fact that Facebook does not instantly nuke references to the story as an obvious falsehood are themselves a thumb on the scale in favour of the current criminal admin
735.
by evgen 6y ago
There is a reason they engaged fact checking companies to do what they do when it comes to some stories on the site. If you are surprised that they are actually using them I have no idea what to say.
736.
by evgen 6y ago
They are constantly deciding what gets promoted and demoted. By taking themselves out of the equation I mean they are trying to not become the vector for additional disinformation campaigns when they have the opportunity to do so. Delayin
737.
by evgen 6y ago
Given the intense disinformation efforts coming from both the Trump campaign as well as third-party state actors is it any surprise that FB would aim to try to take itself out of the equation as much as possible? What is the upside for the
738.
by evgen 6y ago
You provided two small pieces of data that are each not even strong indicators of your claim let alone conclusive evidence and expect us to pat you on the head and pretend that you delivered some sort of courtroom fait accompli? I guess pe
739.
by evgen 6y ago
You provided one very weak piece of supporting evidence and expect us to consider that a validation of your otherwise completely unfounded claim regarding China having a high death rate and hiding it? You are projecting when it comes to cl
740.
by evgen 6y ago
3.4 million kg, traveling at 600 m/sec, and you think you would end up with a big ball of floating nickle? Okay.... Not a physicist, but my thinking would lead me to say that when this ball hits the water (after having already been he
741.
by evgen 6y ago
You can't 'glide down' from orbit. You need to dump your delta-V somewhere. Stop thinking of orbit as though this chunk of metal is suspended from some big balloon out there. _Everything_ in space is moving, 0.0% if it is
742.
by evgen 6y ago
The virus originated in China, but China did not 'originate the virus.' Please do not make unfounded speculation regarding the causality in this event. China has not been completely forthright about the early stages of the covid&
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by evgen 6y ago
I did follow the link, and so far there seems to be a small cluster of stories all reprinting each other and the exact same pictures with reference to a single shipment to a single crematorium in late March. One. Single. Event. Where are th
744.
by evgen 6y ago
You need to search for better games. There are some great ports of very good board games out there right now and almost all of the good board games are apps of the 'pay us $5-10 now and we will continue to update this already quite go
745.
by evgen 6y ago
Metal anything dropped from orbit at the speeds we are talking about would either burn up in the atmosphere or else hit the ocean surface and become lots of small chunks of something that is now sinking to the ocean floor. You need to shed
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by evgen 6y ago
A single claim about a delivery of urns but nothing reported after about those urns being used. They could easily have been ordered in anticipation of things going pear-shaped and then re-sold when the death rate remained stable. As for th
747.
by evgen 6y ago
We are saying that China's numbers are less than the US because if they were fucking up at a level even close to what the US is going through the evidence would be clearly visible. You cannot hide millions of dead. You can hide the b
748.
by evgen 6y ago
Citation needed. This is the first I have heard of this and given how desperately the current administration wants to pin anything COVID-related on to China I think that this would have been widely publicized if it were actually true.
749.
by evgen 6y ago
While I share the skepticism in the numbers from China and India, I believe that if they were anywhere near a similar per capita rate as the US there would be visible evidence. China attacked the problem hard and by all accounts seems to h
750.
by evgen 6y ago
No, it is content from clickbait farms forwarded by friends of friends and casual acquaintances of that crazy uncle who you always try to avoid at family gatherings. The ratio of content and updates from this core circle of people you migh

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