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by falcolas 2y ago
> "Here ya go. Here's some sperm. It's all on you now." This is definitely a problem. There's remarkably little accountability for a man's role in the shit a woman has to go through while pregnant and giving
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by falcolas 2y ago
I'm not disagreeing with what you're saying here, but "many people really really want to criminalize using drugs while pregnant" is a much broader statement than a pregnant woman taking prescribed medications. That is wh
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by falcolas 2y ago
This is indeed what I was referring to. And while it's not super common, there's a number of women who self report getting them on social media. Of course, social media is social media, but as noted in the wiki article, it's
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by falcolas 2y ago
I agree with this. Moreso, the cost of firing/CPSing a false positive is likely negligible in the grand scale.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Being fair, I've seen the effect mere alcohol has on a child first hand. It's not subtle, and it is debilitating for the child in the long run. Can you imagine your child being addicted to meth coming out of the womb, and how it a
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by falcolas 2y ago
It's a touch off topic, but you should ask a woman how often they are given a pregnancy test. With or without their consent, and even if they're physically incapable of having children as documented in their chart.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Yeah. That was really eye opening. They had to go to a proper lab to have the false positive properly assessed. And they had that false positive for close to 24 hours, as I recall.
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by falcolas 2y ago
It's the classical problem of how do you provide protection for someone with no power in a relationship against the person with all the power in a relationship. Do you believe the rape victim, or the rapist? The child or the parent? Th
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by falcolas 2y ago
Yes, but (unfortunately) not from this. From fewer and fewer states having candidates come to train in those states to become an OB/GYN due to the restrictive abortion laws. Not to mention the experienced OB/GYN are leaving for th
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by falcolas 2y ago
Yes, a photo of an unnaturally tightened vagina, giving the wife discomfort or outright pain during sex going forward in an effort to "make the vagina tighter for the husband", sounds fucking hilarious. Especially since they very
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by falcolas 2y ago
It was brought up in their software yearly event - WWDC. It was actually a pretty big part of that keynote, even as it was light on details.
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by falcolas 2y ago
> Why is it a software bug? If you look into the happenings of the game, you'll find that there was a special ceremony held at 13 minutes for the retiring player. It's like summarizing the discovery of radiation and not mention
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by falcolas 2y ago
Why do we feel the need to defend software bugs? Would we give the same defense of banking software that forgot to carry over the fractions of a penny? It's a software bug, and there's plenty of resources available to the AI'
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by falcolas 2y ago
FWIW, templates imply generation, which implies a build system (even if it's as simple as make or even a bash script). At least that's how I interpret the lack.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Windows: Alt+0133 - numbers typed with the number pad. The character map app on Windows can help find all of these codes for different glyphs.
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by falcolas 2y ago
> There’s a ton of them but you don’t see younger people joining them as much today. That's because they're primarily filled with old people, with "old" interests. Short of a coordinated visit, you'll always be i
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by falcolas 2y ago
Well, the most fuel efficient cars will often be hybrids, whose extra components (battery, 1-2 motors) will offset any savings that you'd see in a pure ICE powered vehicle.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Another ~~waste of ink~~ article that espouses getting as much as possible done - be as productive as possible - because someday you'll die and lose your chance to make progress. Reading for fun is OK. Re-reading is OK. Watching TV is
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by falcolas 2y ago
Sure. But how many failed cases does it take for OpenAI or Diffusion close their doors? A failed copyright defense can result in a halt on distribution (shut it down while damages are worked out) in addition to fines and lawyer fees.
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by falcolas 2y ago
You say that as if corporations don't have a greater ability to screw up the free market so completely. Why doesn't Disney have meaningful competition? Because they bought them. (Also applies to health care. PE firms buying up eve
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by falcolas 2y ago
Move fast and break things has always been a popular slogan in the startup industry, and "things" is quite often a replacement word for "laws I disagree with". Plus, many technologists believe that copyright should be ou
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by falcolas 2y ago
We don't even know in the US whether fair use applies. There are court cases out there which are trying to test those bounds. Personally, I don't think it is. Significant portions of copyrighted works can be re-created, and these
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by falcolas 2y ago
Neither does the US for that matter. It’s not yet known if the Fair Use positive defense will apply.
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by falcolas 2y ago
> I always though those things where solid state and wouldn't age over time! FWIW, thanks to a number of issues, even solid state devices will fail over time. https://c3.ndc.nasa.gov/dashlink/static/media&#
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by falcolas 2y ago
A portable bandsaw, and discovered by the Brits (they're covertly fighting back against some pretty invasive automated monitoring), also makes short work of metal poles.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Apple holds the exclusive rights to sell applications and microtransactions to you via their app store. Frankly, they own a bunch of other rights over your use of "your" iPhone when you gave them up when clicking through their use
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by falcolas 2y ago
Well, Microsoft expects Apple to give most or all of their cut to Microsoft... They're both assholes in the size of their cut; don't pick Microsoft's side just because they spoke out first.
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by falcolas 2y ago
"I mean... it's Apple's userbase. Both 30% takes are outrageous." Agreed on both points.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Or reduce your own cut, like they expect Apple to do? As always, the consumers lose when corporations fight. Even as they use us as their jurors in the court of public opinion.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Soooo.... Microsoft is being a bit disingenuous here; their own cut from purchases in the xbox store is also 30%. I can't find a number right now, but their cut from xbox live is rumored to be even higher.

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