jfengel

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by jfengel 6mo ago
The FBI's crime statistics back up his anecdotal evidence. Violent crime has been falling for decades. https://bjs.ojp.gov/topics/crime/violent-crime It may well still be a problem in some places, and there a
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by jfengel 6mo ago
As an American, I'm ashamed that we're not ashamed. His behavior has been crudely self-promotional all along, and even more so now. Presidents simply don't name things after themselves, because it seems insecure. It's th
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by jfengel 6mo ago
I'm not sure why they picked lesser songs from lesser films, but this is nonetheless very cool. I highly recommend watching this. (I'm afraid the answer might be "they needed the newest films to be able to re-animate it, and
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Possibly both, but the madness is more relevant than the senile. Senility would be purposeless, but the madness has a passionate and malignant intensity. Senility would be progressive. He has been acting the same way since coming into the p
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by jfengel 6mo ago
A couple of those are interesting, but most of them are just "a bowl looks like a bowl no matter what culture it's in". The one that struck me most was the pair of green vases, but even then, it's mostly that a vase is a
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by jfengel 6mo ago
TFA is two weeks old, which is a long time when it comes to an ongoing war. Not that anything has changed, aside from the fact that the ceasefire has been extended while zero American goals have been achieved.
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Not in a long, long time.
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I think you've summed it up well. The Democrats have tried being a centrist party so hard, to avoid the accusation of being associated with their far-left wing. Which has, of course, not stopped that in the slightest. Still, it seems l
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Ah, yes, I've had that problem. With some debuggers I can place a breakpoint after the return, but it won't tell me the value on the stack to return. I can look up the stack and hope at some point I'll be able to get a handle
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According to one guy on YouTube. And that's not how the US nuclear system works. You don't "use the codes". You give an order; the "codes" authenticate that the order came from the President. A general would ha
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They kinda were. Both relativity and quantum mechanics were dubbed "Jewish science", which made it a lot harder for them to progress in those fields.
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He did have to leave his independent status and join the Democratic party in order to participate in the primaries. But that was just a formality; he filled out a form. Some people did vote for him. Just nowhere near a majority. A lot of pe
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Outsiders can and do win in the primaries. Trump is the most prominent example. He was not a familiar regular, and nobody in the party leadership wanted him. He won the primary, and went on to win the Presidency. The party leadership came a
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by jfengel 6mo ago
I assumed the headline was some kind of metaphor for flagging careers. But no, it's actual sepsis. Unfortunately, the headline is misleading in that it implies that there are more. It's only two.
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Can you elaborate on that? I'm not following. What makes return variables special? I'd expect that much of the time, the return variable is closely linked to the name of the function. So closely linked that it risks being redundan
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A general war against China is impossible. But a "limited" war fought over Taiwan isn't beyond the realm of possibility. Which does take it into a kind of Schroedinger's realm. The US takes it seriously, so it develops t
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by jfengel 6mo ago
That's not the plan, but it's actually something economists have considered. They call it Modern Monetary Theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory Basically, printing money is just an IOU,
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by jfengel 6mo ago
But they are part of your net worth. If somebody who becomes richer every year, passively, has "no income", then the definition of income does not match people's intuition about what constitutes fair targets for taxation. The
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by jfengel 6mo ago
That's the thing. Trump is wildly entertaining. He flirts with the joyless theocracy we have here, but he's not part of it. It's interesting that he's finally gone to a place where the joyless theocrats aren't follo
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Is it a crime?
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It does encourage you to focus on something that you might be able to fix, instead of being constantly dragged from one outage to the next.
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We created a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to try to head off that kind of crisis before it happened again. We got rid of it last year.
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I can't compose at a typewriter the way I do with a word processor. I would have to write it out by hand first. If the typing is just transcription, I could just as well be copying from an AI doc. If you're doing it in class anywa
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by jfengel 6mo ago
An old joke: If you owe the bank a thousand dollars, it's your problem. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, it's the bank's problem. Apparently we now know what it takes to become the world's problem.
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Oh, I am well aware how deeply screwed we are. I hope everyone else is learning from our negative example.
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It's pretty clear that he says Jews and means Jews. Including me. I don't approve of the current government of Israel, and the many Israelis who support it. But that does not change the fact that the target on my back predates 194
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I hate to say it, but Jewish organizations get threats all the time. Just yesterday I was at a temple that removed its "reserved for Rabbi" parking space, because he had been threatened and didn't want to make identification
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We Americans are easily terrified. It just takes a little eyebrow-waggling to suggest that the criminals are easily identified by the color of their skin, so that you're safe from any tactics used to suppress them. We used to think of
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Where is that? Are they banned, or just haven't reached you yet? As dumb as it is that we've invited a corporation to spy with government approval, I suspect that less formal but still ubiquitous surveillance is coming for you, to
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But she was arrested, and there is going to be no penalty for the officers. This case affirms that police can pick you up and put you in jail on any pretext they can dream up. She beat the rap, but she did not beat the ride, and every singl

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