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by intermerda 1y ago
Did you get a chance to read the two paragraphs leading to what you quoted? > This time the seismic event is President Trump’s efforts to remake the world order with an aggressive tariff push and a more isolationist foreign policy. >
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https://archive.ph/pYnUS
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Mostly for understanding existing code base and making changes to it. There are tons of unnecessary abstractions and indirections in it so it takes a long time for me to follow that chain. Writing Splunk queries is another use. People use i
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What an insanely cruel thought lacking any semblance of basic decency and humanity. Is there really no cure for MAGA mind virus?
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> Yes I don’t believe in unbiased sources. I believe in multiple perspectives revealing aspects of the truth. Do you believe in priors? Or do you evaluate each perspective at its face value? > Correct. And I don’t buy the dichotomy yo
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> Why are you assuming that Iran wants to destroy Israel? I'm guessing from the words and actions of Iranian leaders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Israel_in_Irani...
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The answer is yes to all your questions. What are you conflicted about?
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I bet you have none, opportunity or not.
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> If a fraction of the lurid tales of corruption prove valid, then this is not a bad thing. If my grandmother had wheels she would be a bicycle. > The SSA was never anything other than a Tenth Amendment violation to begin with, as sho
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What does the awkwardness of question has to do with whether Trump won the popular vote or not? Hitler was popular in Germany and there were plenty of awkward questions later.
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Early in my career I had this naive starry eyed vision of tech industry being “one of the good people.” Google’s “don’t be evil” motto, companies building stuff to actually help people, solving interesting problems, good work/life bala
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> Hillsdale College is a member of the advisory board of Project 2025, a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from The Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive po
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> One of those is the International Society for Research on Aggression (ISRA), which announced last month that it would relocate its 2026 meeting from New Jersey to St. Catharines, Canada, after a survey of its members suggested that man
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Why are you substituting words with random alphabet characters? Are you able to read the original post? Are you unable to grasp how it adds context and data point to the discussion?
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> Without fail, every one of them has a _visceral_ negative reaction to a hypothetical Trump 2028 term. It’s stunning. This is not a “I wouldn’t vote for a felon/rapist/whatever” type of red line that falls apart when you quest
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Can you elaborate? What do you mean?
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He is the quintessential tech bro. His selective caring about “free speech” only when it serves to feed into right wing outrage was when he showed his true colors years ago. The recent essay on “Wokeness” just confirmed it.
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But you're not allowed to call them low-informed, uneducated, or any slightly negative/offensive qualifier. Otherwise you get the "this is why Trump won" lecture.
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I used to think that the Republican officials just put on a mask and perform kabuki for their Dear Leader. But the signalgate texts proved otherwise. This kind of thinking has penetrated deep into the party. It's not going away. Not wi
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"States's rights" has always been coded language. Lee Atwater's post Nixon interview gave away the playbook. The hypocrisy is easy to see in that lens. First it started with racial slurs, then welfare queens, racial slur
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> No syncretistic faith can withstand analytical criticism. The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.
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The same politicians who push trades on America and bash colleges won't send their kids to trade schools but send them to Ivy League Universities instead. I wonder why that is.
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High School is just 4 more years of school after you've already done 8 in K-8. It has no special properties. Those who want education on subjects taught in high school (whatever their value is) will get it themselves. Those who don&#x2
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> Trump said yesterday he wants to raise taxes on people earning over $2.5MM[1] He also said he would end the Ukraine war on day 1. > He is clearly not working for billionaires when he tanked the stock market and spiked bond rates pla
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I have applied for jobs online in the last 10 years. I was never asked who/what I was having sex with, what do I think I am (??), or where my parents went to college. I was asked about my race, presumably to comply with anti-discrimina
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Who exactly made you in charge of speaking for all the taxpayers?
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But you see AI has a liberal bias. Even Musk's own AI is too woke because it isn't producing the "right" kind of humor - https://youtu.be/7qZl_5xHoBw?t=6159 .
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If you assume nothing has changed since 2010 then, sure. In reality, the Energy Star program changed their certification process that went into effect the following year - https://www.energystar.go.jp/news/news2010&#x2F
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> This has never been the case; Independence of the Justice Department has been the norm since and because of Watergate.
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Not true at all. The use of Signal started during Obama's first or second term. While the app's first release was during his second term, it existed under various names and forms way back. Wikipedia has a great article on its hist

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