jessaustin

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by jessaustin 3y ago
"Bring race into it", e.g. acknowledging there is a concept called "race" and that it affects many people's opportunities and potential wealth is not "race-baiting". You would know this, if you had taken y
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by jessaustin 3y ago
It would take someone more skilled than I, or with better tools, to check current in a fuse box without removing fuses. Maybe I should watch that guy and get better...
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by jessaustin 3y ago
Pulling fuses is a pretty reliable way to find the relevant fuse in the first place. If the battery doesn't run down while a particular group of fuses is pulled, the one you want to pull is in that group. Start with half the fuses, t
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by jessaustin 4y ago
If you find such an article post it; I'd like to read something about that. Maybe it could also address the idea that economies based on exploitation are inherently unstable...
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Full text 1A: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petit
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by jessaustin 4y ago
If he had just said the widely-known-outside-USA truth, that there is no "genocide" of Uighurs, lots of people would have gotten upset. He doesn't care one way or the other about our latest fundamentalist-Christian-inspired i
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by jessaustin 4y ago
A long time ago I worked in an office like that. I usually biked to commute, so when we had one more person going than cars going to lunch, I just biked to the restaurant as well. Otherwise, I rode in someone's car. Still, none of the
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Don't expect rational history on HN. We regularly see e.g. comparisons of Putin to Hitler.
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by jessaustin 4y ago
All day long, every day, the news media attempts to gin up more wars. They foster ignorance, fear, and hatred. Foreign leaders who haven't been in the news for years are made the primary focus overnight, just because that's where
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by jessaustin 4y ago
...I wouldn't choose that car to drive 4 adults daily. Is this a typical thing that cars do? I'm not sure if I've seen 4 adults in a car in the last month.
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by jessaustin 4y ago
No one who has read your link would then question whether the chief executive is a principal: of course not. In polities who aspire to representative government, agents are anyone in public employ. Principals are the rest of us. Our interes
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Yes, that exists, obviously. However, it's perfectly valid for someone to prefer a particular site to override an OS or browser setting.
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Cookies are used for things as simple as nighttime color theme preference. Someone more knowledgeable than either of us will probably point out that GDPR doesn't care about cookies like that...
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by jessaustin 4y ago
This crap does not benefit any defensible purpose of government. Probably it does benefit certain government employees. The principal-agent problem appears again.
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by jessaustin 4y ago
You want USA to look worse ? If so, by all means, emphasize our racial disparities.
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by jessaustin 4y ago
...for South China Sea dominance... Try as I might, I can't escape the conclusion that it is totally valid for China to "dominate" a body of water called the South China Sea. In similar fashion, Thailand dominates the adj
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by jessaustin 4y ago
As is commonly the case, Caitlin Johnstone has the most insightful analysis: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/03/27/the-new-york-times-i...
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by jessaustin 4y ago
None of this may be enough to match China. Its own surging arsenal now includes “monster” coast guard cutters...
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Suggestions about how Canada could improve really ought to be directed to the Canadians. They might be amenable to different policies in sparsely populated regions like Hudson Bay. Continental USA has no analogous areas. Non-Americans who w
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Los Angeles is not "outside of the US". Besides, less than 20% of that trip is in USA airspace. Slow down when you hit North Dakota... https://www.greatcirclemapper.net/en/great-circle-mapper.htm...
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Parents have some measure of authority in their homes, although sometimes the law acts in the interests of e.g. abused children. Public employees on public property don't take direction from parents, nor should they. Public school empl
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Both of the Republicans quoted in TFA "represent" suburban districts on the Kansas border. Not rural, and only technically Missourian.
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Somehow one doubts that a new "Kindergarten is Mostly Hardcore Porn Appreciation" charter elementary would escape legislative attention in our increasingly authoritarian climate... A "Kindergarten is Mostly Singing Songs abou
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by jessaustin 4y ago
TFA contains no examples of children being shown "sexually explicit material" by educators in public employ. I've never heard of it happening in Missouri, and I have lived here for decades. Thread parent has shown no indicati
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by jessaustin 4y ago
I live in one of the most rural counties in Missouri, where libraries could actually close as a result, and I doubt I could find one parent in ten among my neighbors who wants the legislature to waste time on this cynical grandstanding. The
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by jessaustin 4y ago
The line should be drawn wherever parents, teachers, and librarians choose to draw it. Politicians should not be involved. Top-down meddling has destroyed public education in USA, and this is just more of that. At some point we should stop
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by jessaustin 4y ago
In this case "not just" would have been more legible than "just not".
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Magical Monetary Thinking at the Fed Killed SVB(stephaniekelton.substack.com)
6 points by jessaustin 4y ago|1 comments
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Tallow, from cattle and sheep, would be fine I think. Pigs are considered unclean for some reason. Benzene is just a sunscreen ingredient. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/benzene-in-sunscreen/
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by jessaustin 4y ago
If operating with the best model you have is intuitive and not logical, then everything in science it intuitive and not logical, so we might have to redefine your use of "logical" to be more useful. When you're defending a

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