flanked-evergl

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by flanked-evergl 4mo ago
> Actual full democracy is predicated on a fairly large number of fundamental rights, as well as duties. This is an entirely modern idea and really has nothing to do with the concept. It's the typical leftist tendency to appropriate
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by flanked-evergl 4mo ago
That index confuses voting or even liberal democracy with democracy. A multitude of different peoples voting to rule over the others is not democratic and will never be democratic. Just because the voting process is secure does not make it
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by flanked-evergl 4mo ago
US is in almost no way democratic. There is not enough unity for that. The idea and reasoning behind Democracy was that a people (i.e. a demos) rules itself. But in US there is no longer one people, and it's fracturing even faster and
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by flanked-evergl 4mo ago
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by flanked-evergl 5mo ago
Openrouter offers per API-key spending limits.
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by flanked-evergl 5mo ago
I don't think that is how screws work. I really have a hard time seeing how the drill makes a difference with that. The bit you use, sure. How you use the drill, sure. Maybe if the drill has a completely messed up clutch maybe, but the
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by flanked-evergl 5mo ago
I recently decided I will go for the cheap Chinese store brand power tools for most things. It's about 1/5 to 1/3 the price of Ryobi, gets really good reviews, have been sold for more than 10 years now with the same batteries
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by flanked-evergl 5mo ago
Smart. Europe is a circius.
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by flanked-evergl 5mo ago
Never before in history has a vassal that is this dependent on its patron hated its patron so much. God help us when the US finally decides that the vast amounts of money it pours down the drain to keep us as its vassal is not worth the squ
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by flanked-evergl 5mo ago
Elon musk is not a scam artist.
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by flanked-evergl 5mo ago
Then you don't have to use it.
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by flanked-evergl 5mo ago
Personally I draw the line where Chrome becomes worse than alternatives, and then I switch. Lately Firefox has been getting better, but I still prefer Chrome for almost all my needs, so I stick to it. This barely even makes a difference to
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by flanked-evergl 5mo ago
This is a bit disingenuous. If you install Chrome, you install Chrome and all it's parts. They don't ask your consent for individual parts because that would be absurd. If you don't want Chrome and all its parts, don't u
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by flanked-evergl 6mo ago
Stop paying for clothes, make your own instead!
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by flanked-evergl 6mo ago
"Everyone who disagrees with me is an idiot!" Haha, so funny. Best joke ever.
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by flanked-evergl 6mo ago
Prices being negative for one day does not make energy prices low. The "green shift" in Germany has increased the use of fossil fuels and the price of energy. From JP Morgan's 16th Annual Energy Paper, March 2026 https:&#x2F
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by flanked-evergl 6mo ago
No. From JP Morgan's 16th Annual Energy Paper, March 2026 https://cdn.jpmorganfunds.com/content/dam/jpm-am-aem/global/... > In 2024 we estimated that had Germany not decommissioned nuclear power
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by flanked-evergl 6mo ago
German excellence, shitting the bed both ways. From JP Morgan's 16th Annual Energy Paper, March 2026 https://cdn.jpmorganfunds.com/content/dam/jpm-am-aem/global/... > In 2024 we estimated that ha
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by flanked-evergl 7mo ago
Managed decline policies of western governments are much more threatening to white-collar workers and everyone else than AI will ever be. AI will enable significantly faster economic growth, which is something the EU has been making impossi
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by flanked-evergl 7mo ago
Those evil people who don't want the human race to go extinct, how could they.
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by flanked-evergl 7mo ago
Spiritually Amish
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by flanked-evergl 8mo ago
I have also alienated all my friends by viewing friendship as purely transactional.
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by flanked-evergl 8mo ago
AI generated comment.
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by flanked-evergl 8mo ago
This is just not true. Sure if you want trash you can get it on Aliexpress and Amazon, but lots of good quality stuff is not available on Aliexpress at all. Even some Chinese manufacturers have a broader range on Amazon than Aliexpress.
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by flanked-evergl 8mo ago
I feel like at least 90% of people heavily contributing to semantic diffusion are total Martin Fowler zealots. Does not really necessarily speak so much about Martin Fowler himself, he seems like a pretty decent and smart guy, but it's
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by flanked-evergl 8mo ago
Links to a page which classifies mothers taking their children home with them instead of abandoning them in a foreign country as deportations.
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by flanked-evergl 8mo ago
The people keeping housing prices high are the leftist that push regulations that make it impossible to build while importing immigrants who disproportionately use welfare and get starter loans which they then use to push up housing prices
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by flanked-evergl 8mo ago
If Buzzword bingo evolved into an abandonware operating system.
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by flanked-evergl 8mo ago
Hydropower in Norway is dead, it's too effective, so we have to switch to worse options so that Europe can become less competitive and be more vulnerable to the predations of Russia and China.
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by flanked-evergl 8mo ago
Our economy is modern in that it has been reorganized to divert tax revenue to unemployed migrants who then use that to buy up property and other goods and services, thus driving up the living cost for taxpayers. There have also been variou

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