jfengel

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The benefit for France is further weakening American hegemony. Right now the US dominates European alliances throughout Europe. America's recent turn away from Europe destabilizes the entire continent, including France. The American nu
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Ah, yes. That great anti-woke series Star Trek.
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Interesting. I never have any problem with spam. My account is ancient; every spammer in the world knows it. But practically no spam gets through. And there are very few false positives. Going though my spam folder, I see a few legitimate c
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Thank you. One fewer click for the Daily Fail.
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I don't think that cinephiles are a huge target market, though. Major studios produce movies that most people want to see. The cinephiles don't like those films, but conveniently, they do like films that don't cost a quarter
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Given that it includes health care, education, and a ton of vacation, yeah, they will find that they lead a much better life. The goal isn't to maximize the number. The goal is to lead a good life. The number can help with that, but no
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If you would even consider punishing a bird, you should have your birds taken away. Punishment is not an effective way to train a bird. It will not work and it is cruel to the animal.
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I am afraid I don't believe that. I think that practically all religious people who oppose trans rights do wish ill on trans people. I believe it's a problem that we're still focused on "building bridges". I think
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Since when is Maher a liberal?
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"Worth" here means market cap. Which is almost completely divorced from its potential earnings.
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It may or may not be worth trillions. But the valuation right now based on the IPO sale price is .75 trillion. Which makes it vastly bigger than Twitter regardless. It could nonetheless be worth trillions by the end of the day.
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But if it is a single prompt, just send me that.
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San Francisco is the global tech hub, and SFO is its airport. Banning international arrivals there would severely compromise the entire tech industry.
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Well, yeah. The reason that it's good is that the people who were arrested were protecting illegal aliens, or had committed some kind of crime. Whatever it was, they are safe, and the government is only arresting bad people.
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It's absolutely not fine. But I would note that we are already settling for "good enough" by letting those responsible adults cause 6 million accidents and 40,000 deaths. Tesla's Autopilot is worse. But people aren'
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Exercise can't fix scar tissue, bob Of course not. You need yoga for that.
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The moral argument is less absurd from the people who actually run the web site and are just looking for a way to be compensated for their effort. It still doesn't quite hold, and the fact that it's being handed to them by the com
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I know about reader mode but rarely use it. Perhaps I feel like any web site that needs it doesn't have anything worth reading.
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Oh God I hated that. I'm not entirely sure why I hate it so much more than over-Javascripted sites. It feels even more alien.
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also how easy they were to parse programatically or with a text-based browser. Or even a regular expression.
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I do think they believed and believe it, though the reasoning is less economic than that. Manufacturing "belongs" in the US due to our inherent superiority, and has gone elsewhere only because of ill-conceived notions of niceness.
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It sure was.
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They've always had the final say on issuing grants, but it was handled by career scientists rather than political appointees. Canceling grants in process is extremely rare. Since many of those grants concern science and tech it does se
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The headline is slightly misleading: it was the restaurant in the hotel, rather than the hotel itself. That's a bit of a shift. The restaurant is in the business of selling food and drink. The hotel has water fountains and would have d
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The framers also proceeded to separate the legislative branch into two pieces, substantially hamstringing its ability to serve as a check on the other two branches. They may not have been able to foresee the sheer levels of corruption we ha
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Saudi Arabia's donation to the Clinton Foundation is $10 million, not $1 billion. A fair chunk of change, to be sure, but two orders of magnitude different. It was treated as a massive scandal when they received $32 million donation fr
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It was earmarked for retirement. It just wasn't earmarked for your retirement. It was earmarked for the retirement of the Baby Boomers. They're taking it now. It will run out around the time that the majority of baby boomers are
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My recommendation has been to ignore any news source that comes out more than once a week. Emergencies requiring you to be up to date are extremely rare. Wait a week and most news will simply vanish as irrelevant or false. (Ironic saying th
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Officers of the company can be at risk under certain very poorly defined circumstances. Basically, you have to prove that they personally were at fault and were just using the company as a legal cover for their misdeeds. https://
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Huh. I did really, really well on dating apps. I suspect that blaming women for lack of success at dating is the actual reason for the lack of success at dating.

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