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by illuminerdy 4y ago
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. Don't think I need to explain what it's about at this point. As to what drew me to read it multiple times, that's due to it still being the greatest high fantasy story ever created.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Of course it's not true. It's not like we have them on video literally saying that. Who am I going to believe, you or my lying eyes?
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I think if what the lawsuit's pleadings allege is true, then it is as serious a violation of the Constitution as if the government had sent police to a street corner to shut down a speaker directly. The marketplace for speech may be c
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
So they've already embraced "you will own nothing, and you will be happy." Although the "happy" part is looking more and more unlikely.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
False information such as "we don't know if the vaccine will actually prevent infection" when all the beaurocrats and "scientists" (the only ones who were allowed to speak) were falsely stating that if you took the
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Plot twist: we accidentally destroy the moon by mining it and the oceans get rekt anyway.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
This is an update to a story that appeared last year. I searched and didn't find this update. I'm on the bus, but I will type up my thoungts in a bit.
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Minnesota Engineering Board Fines Engineer-Activist for Calling Himself Engineer(reason.com)
6 points by illuminerdy 4y ago|3 comments
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
My AC is on 24/7 during the summer months. Come at me, bro...
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Well, I actually agree with you to some extent. I've been saying for a long time that everyone is prejudiced in some way. But that is never going to change. Human beings are, by nature, tribal. Even if we do it only on a subconscious l
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> "I do solemnly affirm that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the position of..." So I assume those "duties" they're referring to don't include investigating when they are assigned a call. Perhaps y
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I have no idea why you think what you posted has anything to do with what I said or the interaction that is being discussed. The Due Process clause is not the only source of the state's power to enact laws and regulate the conduct of c
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I agree that what happened to him should not have happened. But we're the ones who let this stuff happen. We're the ones who vote in the people (or neglect to vote them out) who put these policies in place.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
It really has nothing to do with race and everything to do with upbringing. How come black people (specifically African-Americans) are the only people who seem to have these "racism" issues with police? What about other minorities
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> They're aren't mind readers but they made a decision that he was commiting a crime or about to commit one. They escalated it, not him. No, actually that's not what they decided. They decided that, before they just walk a
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I have major problems with using stories like these to promote the idea that the police did something wrong. The police don't know who that man was, or why he was on property that didn't belong to him. They're not mind reader
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> It taught me a serious lesson about the law: They exist only for power and profit. I understand your frustration, but the law does not exist ONLY (or at all, if I'm being honest) for power and profit. The law exists to provide eac
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
There's also crowd-sourcing, which can be a viable option for a self-publisher. It seems like, if you have an interesting story to tell, people are willing to give you money to see it come to fruition.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I think the "in the wrong hands" part of your statement actually backs up what he was saying. The information by itself is useless unless someone ACTS upon it.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
This is just more of the same of what we have seen over the last few years. People claiming that science should somehow be filtered to not offend or to promote the "approved" agenda and goals. And it's all nonsense. If the sc
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I bought an old HP server for $150. It came with remote management built-in. Coupled with a cheap FQD and you can access it from anywhere.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
That won't be enough to fool anyone. Anyone who has dealt with foreign csr and local (American) csr knows the difference is night and day. Foreign csr basically just read a script and never deviate. If you ask a question that isn'
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> "And it's not like we can just elect a president who actually supports reducing the power of the state" There's one guy who's pissed off enough at the beaurocracy that he might just do exactly that. Can't
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I started using DDG because I thought they were about privacy, openness and being the antithesis to the likes of Google. Slowly but surely, they proved that that wasn't the case. I'm not using DDG for anything.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Meh, I predict there will be a rise in 3rd party OEMs, resellers and restorers of "classic" gas cars. More annoying than the push for electric is the trend towards computers in cars. Cars used to be fairly easy to diagnose and mai
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Interesting read. As someone who had just turned 20 around the time of 9/11 and was in college in upper Manhattan at the time, I went along with all of the "Patriot Act" nonsense because I was angry and because I didn't
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
As a former Oculus device owner, I refused to upgrade as long as anything Facebook was required. I don't have a Facebook account and I never plan to get one. Same goes for Meta.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> A $2.7T business dictating terms to labor isn’t entitlement? Um...you mean the terms under which the labor originally agreed to work for? How would that be "dictating" when it was literally what they agreed to? Also, I don&#x
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
When you agreed to be employed at the company, it was under specific terms. Those terms were that you would come to work (physically) X days a week to do your job. You don't just get to change that whenever you feel like it. They'
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I understand what you're trying to say, but the people who the corporate media trot out as "scientists" aren't really scientists. They're beaurocrats wearing lab coats. They are the ones twisting actual science to p

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