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by flukus 6y ago
A year ago I would have agreed, but a laissez faire approach has been the dominant one for quite a while now and is what has led us to this point. It clearly hasn't reduced these extremists and something else must be tried.
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by flukus 6y ago
45% of republicans according to one poll ( https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-electio... ), 18% according to another ( https://thehill.com/homenews/news/533452-poll-18
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by flukus 6y ago
All of those are true. They were there to "stop the steal" and were chanting "hang Mike Pence" and they had zip ties, pipe bombs, mace and more than likely plenty of guns. Only the elected representatives had time to eva
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by flukus 6y ago
The president, the defense secretary, we'll find out once an investigation is conducted. > I doubt trump's people could have considered this a legit coup opportunity. They were minutes away from killing elected representatives.
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by flukus 6y ago
The security at the capitol was deliberately limited, probably to allow exactly this to happen and probably by the orders of Trump himself. The investigation over this will seal the deal on which higher ups get charged.
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by flukus 6y ago
The vast majority were cheering on the "rioters" because the defended choke points could only fit so many people.
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by flukus 6y ago
> I think you should go to one of these forums - parler or gab, currently /r/conspiracy, or one of the similar. Try to have a reasoned conversation with them You'll be banned pretty quickly, they really don't care abo
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by flukus 6y ago
We condemn it for people launching violent insurrections, that's where the line is. It's illegal in a real town hall and should be illegal in the virtual one.
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by flukus 6y ago
How were they silenced? They've got mouthpieces like fox news and the president of the united states on their side for years, they can't get much louder.
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by flukus 6y ago
That is the strategy that led to this point, needless to say it hasn't been effective and something else needs to be done. There's also plenty of historical precedent showing it to be ineffective.
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by flukus 6y ago
You skipped over it, just to be clear, do you think ISIS recruitment videos should be allowed to stay up?
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by flukus 6y ago
You don't think it has anything to do with his attempted insurrection?
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by flukus 6y ago
Those people were heard at the election, this is the temper tantrum because other people got to be heard as well. > The internet is nearly entirely private and controls the vast majority of communication. Yes it's private, that does
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by flukus 6y ago
> We left a lot of people behind, then we blamed them for not keeping up. Haven't they been demanding to be left behind every step of the way? For decades they've opposed minimum wage, socialized healthcare, welfare, unions and
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by flukus 6y ago
You could have taken a very similar video in parts of Melbourne during our (successful) lockdown with people sitting at the beach or walking around the parks, it made no difference to the elimination effort. The only major changes I see are
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by flukus 6y ago
Comparisons to previous years don't really make sense. ICU capacity should have somewhat increased and in previous years they weren't anticipating such a massive influx of new patients.
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by flukus 6y ago
If they're wearing masks I'd wager it's not the protestors.
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by flukus 6y ago
> So, er, what if the growth trends are suppressed by the tighter lockdown, as seems likely? Will things then be better than the "best" case scenario? There's two lag factors to consider. The first is the lag between restr
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by flukus 6y ago
An ounce of competence and he would have been re-elected due to the rally effect of an ongoing disaster.
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by flukus 6y ago
This was somewhat forgivable when Windows 10 came out, you can't do everything at once. But they seem to have completely stopped working on it 5 years ago.
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by flukus 6y ago
> How often do you get a result so incredibly close to one of the few sites in the world that intentionally collects these things? Very often for organizations like that who have labs and offices over much of the country. Take a look at
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by flukus 6y ago
Natural sand dunes with native vegetation are the best way, large erosion events will always happen and these limit the extent and provide a buffer for sand to be restored. I don't think you can have building on the oceanfront and keep
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by flukus 6y ago
This is nothing compared to something like the Win32 API. More importantly, this sort of code is incredibly simple and linear with virtually no logic or state, this is the worst sort of code to try and code golf into something more "el
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by flukus 6y ago
You don't even have to wipeout humanity, look at the financial destruction the current virus has done and consider how non-lethal it is compared to many others. For that matter, every tinpot dictator and would be terrorist in the world
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by flukus 6y ago
That sounds crazy, but multiple times I've been party to multi million dollar software contracts being clinched with a few lines of css to fit the clients corporate theme.
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by flukus 6y ago
That's assuming there aren't other ways to stop the young partier, like restricting their partying options and police enforcement for anyone breaking the rules. Healthcare workers come into contact with many people, many of those
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by flukus 6y ago
I was the same working remotely for 6 months pre covid, seeing faces just isn't that important. Had to get one for job interviews though.
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by flukus 6y ago
> Japan took over most of the Pacific I'm the time it took for the FDA to schedule the meeting to approve the vaccine The operation was completed in that time but many of the plans were created years earlier and much of the preparat
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by flukus 6y ago
People could always find like minded people and communicate, it might have been less efficient but conspiracy groups have always magazines in news stands, published books in stores and libraries, international newsletters, less formal lette
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by flukus 6y ago
Not sure about that one but there's similar stuff in the world of archeology ( https://www.nature.com/news/how-china-is-rewriting-the-book-... ) , a political motivation to say that humans evolved in China and not A

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