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by javagram 4y ago
High school teens don’t have a student loan debt crisis. The economy has been going gangbusters from 2008 to 2022. “Authoritarianism” predominately affecting teens, the most politically disconnected group aside from young children? None of
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Utilities normally wouldn’t be included in the 33% of take home rule - the 33% rule applies to renting an apartment too, where most of the items you listed except trash are also separate costs not included in the 33%. (Also the 1/3 rul
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by javagram 4y ago
> This is Daughters of the Confederacy "states rights" levels of historical revisionism. Absolutely wrong. Explain how this text, an obvious legal precursor to the 1st and 2nd amendments, has anything to do with slavery? https
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The founders idealized the Roman Republic and sought to create a system where the central government would never have the power to seize control as Julius Caesar did. But I don’t think turning out to the streets with AR-15s is an appropriat
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True, but those who say the 2A is a “collective” right for the militia would not usually say that any male aged 17 to 45 should be able to purchase an AR-15 via their membership in the unorganized militia and Selective Service card. The col
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Debate on the floor of the House and Senate is largely faked for TV cameras already in the current era. CSPAN camera angles are limited on purpose to hide this, but most speeches are given to an empty or nearly empty chamber. Actual floor d
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Correction: until 2008 in Heller, the Supreme Court had never clearly and definitively ruled the 2A is an individual right. It had previously referred to the 2A as an individual right in dicta (non binding opinions) that date back to the 19
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I use TextKiller on iPhone to do that, but it might be sending all my unknown sender texts to them for analysis. The iPhone framework won’t allow a text filtering app access to all your texts, just Unknown Senders. https://develo
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by javagram 5y ago
2FA and network security are orthogonal concerns. 2FA protects your users from silent account compromises via phishing. Network security does nothing to stop phishing attacks on consumer users outside your company’s firewall and email filte
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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because of US sanctions on oil in 1941 - Japan attacked the U.S. just 5 months later as they needed the oil to fuel their war machine in China.
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I clicked on the link but it doesn’t seem to claim that he is representing anyone whose account was frozen for a donation. He states some of his clients are truck drivers/owners involved in the protest. Moreover, a reply to his tweet i
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The headline seems inflammatory - "most Americans" (65%) live in a home that is owned by someone in their household.[0] The text of the article seems similarly questionable: "That confluence of trends has taken the dream of h
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NZ has wide vaccine deployment but very low infection from the virus. So if they don’t have an increase in heart problems, it would strongly suggest the virus is the primary/significant culprit, not the vaccine.
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https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...
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Deploying an omicron-specific vaccine without any safety trials or testing seems likely to be safer than variolation using live omicron virus to intentionally infect millions (moreover, expecting those millions to actually self isolate is u
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I’d suggest you’re talking about “a definition” not “the definition”. Merriam-Webster is just a dictionary, not the final authority on the meaning of words. “The definition” would refer to how people actually use the word, and examples of p
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> The definition has now been updated (some would say the previous widespread misconception was corrected) to mean that a vaccine can also "prevent severe infection" while not actually stopping transmission or reducing infectio
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“you don't know that infection is measured with symptomatic numbers and you don't know that a subsymptomatic viral load isn't transmissible” That is mentioned in the article, but right now there isn’t really any evidence sugg
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The CDC actually recommends every adult and child get flu shots, but a lot of people have always ignored that recommendation (I knew someone who claimed the flu vaccine would make you get the flu, people have strange ideas about vaccines ev
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The article notes "Booster doses cut the risk of infection in vaccinated people by about half across all age groups." You can't transmit if you aren't infected.
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Mass boosting _everyone_ made a lot more sense in the August-November timeframe it was originally proposed and implemented. The booster brought vaccine efficacy against infection back up to 90-95% against the Delta variant. If everyone who
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> Imagine if we had a secure system alongside the paper ballots that involved Merkle Trees and multi-factor verification for voting, so everyone could verify theirvote and participation would be higher And rely on the same people who acc
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Platforms wouldn’t be using algorithmic feeds (that include content a user did not opt into following) if users didn’t prefer it by their behavior.
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Australia’s biggest success was controlling the virus at the border, also. They spent large parts of the pandemic without ever locking down, and when there were lock downs after early 2020, it was localized to a specific city or state where
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> Why is discussion or criticism of a current practice (giving young kids a third mRNA dose) considered a "talking point of the right"? The right wing in America generally supports Trump, who initially called covid a minor cold
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Studying latin in the way it's currently taught in schools does help with the SAT, supposedly (I got a good score!) That said, most schools have dropped Latin in favor of Spanish, French, or Italian for precisely the reason you state,
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FYI, clicking on another page from your link states obesity is a ”serious chronic disease”. https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/about-obesity/index.html
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FYI, departments of health have already been tracking vaccinations in a database for years before COVID. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/iis/resources-refs/faq...
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This drug works for treating COVID-19 and Ivermectin does not. Ivermectin works to remove parasitic worms and kill malaria though and Paxlovid has no evidence indicating it does so.
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Gmail still has advertising, it just is targeted by the standard google way of "hoovering up" your data from across the web and the rest of your google profile. Not by scanning your emails. Google's blog post says https:&#x2

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