jfengel

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by jfengel 3mo ago
That article was written in January 2017. I think that even the article writer would be shocked by how bad the reality of it actually is.
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by jfengel 3mo ago
They do show it folding shirts, which I'd think are harder than blankets. Is your doubt caused by blankets being bigger than shirts? (I didn't see it folding a button-up shirt, only tee-shirts. That's an extra degree of diffi
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by jfengel 3mo ago
Why? Corporations already owe the government part of their earnings, via taxation. What does the government need, or want, with actual ownership of the company? They can't sell it; the government isn't any good at managing stock p
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by jfengel 4mo ago
It's a common enough expression. It has an entry in Wiktionary (sense 2): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/do_a_lot_of_work A random example from 1991: https://www.google.com/books/edition/
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by jfengel 4mo ago
I don't really believe that egg prices could have made that big a difference. It was an easy thing for media reports to grab onto, but overall inflation was just not that high. I don't see people getting that bent out of shape ove
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by jfengel 4mo ago
I think you're making a mistake in assuming that they're stupid. Maybe they like that other people are suffering because they wouldn't make the least conceivable effort to help them. Maybe their goal is to make the world so m
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by jfengel 4mo ago
A whole story about how they screwed up. Kudos, for real.
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by jfengel 4mo ago
In what sense do they not understand it? What could we teach them that they don't already know?
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Constitutional amendments that can actually be passed:
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Well, here's Gizmodo's source, the local newspaper that did the original reporting: https://www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06/another-ice-threat-vis...
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by jfengel 4mo ago
We don't really amend the Constitution every ten years. We got 10 all at once, immediately after the Constitution was written. They were amendments only because there was debate about whether including them would deprive people of even
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by jfengel 4mo ago
It's not really a question of what's a good idea. It is in the text of the Constitution, about as plain as it can possibly be. If you want to change it, you have to change the Constitition. Ironically, the same Court members who m
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by jfengel 4mo ago
It's literally named after geraniums.
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by jfengel 4mo ago
If you waited until today to get terrified... Then I guess you're one of today's unlucky 10,000. Congratulations, or something.
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by jfengel 4mo ago
They have whatever power the Supreme Court decides they have. The Supreme Court decided that was their job, and thus far everyone has accepted it. The Court interprets the Constitution, which is vague enough to mean whatever a bare majority
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by jfengel 4mo ago
From the beginning. Ownership is intangible. It exists only because of the collective consent to laws. The difference between ownership of a physical object and ownership of an intellectual one is a matter of conventional. It's easier
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by jfengel 4mo ago
That sounds really unlikely. It's really fiddly work, done mostly by feel. You're talking about really kinky hair, so you have to move very carefully through it, a millimeter at a time. It does not handle like a flat string. To do
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by jfengel 4mo ago
If you could automate transcription, it would be an enormous boon to researchers. Reading the handwriting would be really hard, and it would be a massive effort to move all that paper. Just handling it is hard; it's not like flipping t
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Most satellites aren't intended to produce thousands of watts of heat.
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Why would this change anything? If you're opposed to this, you should already be terrified. If you like this agenda, you're thrilled.
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by jfengel 4mo ago
Note that the lawsuit is on the grounds of fraud. Vote-buying is not in question. It's apparently allowed.
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by jfengel 4mo ago
The religious extremists are only about a quarter of the country. They do not have a majority able to enforce their will. The fault lies not with "the good kind" of religious people, but with the non-religious people who ally with
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by jfengel 4mo ago
But it doesn't do that. It allows a majority to do whatever it wants, including redefine the rules to guarantee its permanent majority. Or the rules are written to avoid that, in which case the power rests with the minority who is happ
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by jfengel 4mo ago
We don't poll all of the people. We exclude everybody below 18, for example. We exclude a lot of people with criminal records. We use a multi-stage representative democracy, such that large numbers of voters basically don't count
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by jfengel 4mo ago
I don't especially love Lewis. His fiction is fine, but I find his theology badly overrated. At best it's pop theology, not scholarly, and even even as pop theology I find it shallow. Ironically, I find his friend Tolkien's C
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by jfengel 4mo ago
More than you can possibly imagine. There are warehouses full of unread papers. Any one of which could contain a reference to somebody or something important. There was a recently discovered letter, possibly to Shakespeare's wife, whic
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by jfengel 4mo ago
I just don't get it. It's really cool that SpaceX has the ability to put stuff in orbit without it being a billion-dollar event. But I don't see any advantage to having unmaintainable tech in orbit, where all you can do is th
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by jfengel 4mo ago
At least nobody thinks smoking is good for you. From the 50s to the mid 90s, people saw the news as a dull obligation. You watched the news because it was important, to be a good citizen. Then came the Iraq War, and CNN made that duty a 24
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by jfengel 4mo ago
They already held the court martial. He got six months in prison. Way less than he'd have gotten under UK law.
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by jfengel 4mo ago
The value of a social media network is that your friends are on it. There's not a whole lot of call for niche social networks.

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