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by jolux 5y ago
No. Not in the least. The argument is that normal people (not Adichie, not celebrities) see the bigotry of celebrities in the media, and see it as justifying their own bigotry. Some of those non-celebrities might be violent.
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by jolux 5y ago
I really don’t like how discussions on issues like this always seem to devolve into an argument over the underlying “culture war” issues, and I’d like to try and disambiguate this issue and others like it as I see them. I’m a trans woman. T
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by jolux 5y ago
This isn’t just rhetoric. They literally can’t get bills passed except through budget reconciliation, and Republicans will not confirm any Democratic judicial appointments while they hold the senate. Legislative gridlock has fully set in.
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by jolux 5y ago
It’s possible it could be a good idea, I suppose I’m just cynical that it could be implemented in a way that doesn’t end up further alienating those who don’t vote — mostly poor people. I’m also somewhat worried in this political climate th
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by jolux 5y ago
It’s pretty clear this isn’t the case. It was more true 20 years ago, but polarization has been increasing rapidly. How are they playing for the same team if they can’t agree on anything anymore?
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by jolux 5y ago
Right, exactly. People were predicting a blowout and it ended up 50/50 in the senate. The electoral college was comparatively rather close too.
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by jolux 5y ago
I used to think this was true, but I think the last election has proved this theory wrong. The Democrats won, but there was record turnout for both candidates, and it was a lot closer than many were expecting. Republicans are in the process
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by jolux 5y ago
> It provides impetus to the government to make it as frictionless as possible. Ahahahaha. Have you tried dealing with American bureaucracy? None of it is frictionless, it’s all horribly inefficient and fragmented, and one party is stead
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by jolux 5y ago
Voting is also compulsory in Australia.
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by jolux 5y ago
> Change to things that actually matter is supposed to be slow and difficult in Government This is mostly only true of presidential systems, and a particular affliction of ours. Parliamentary systems are not like this, nor is there const
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by jolux 5y ago
> The internal disorder was a matter of dealing with a bad situation more than antyhing else. This is questionable, but it’s clear at least that China’s eventual response was more successful than the US’s, so there is that. Whether we’ll
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by jolux 5y ago
> every single new CIA recruit is fully indoctrinated into their old enemies' ideology before they even fill out an application What? Every CIA recruit is an acolyte of the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism?
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by jolux 5y ago
Bay of Pigs was before the Church committee, do you know the history of intelligence reform in the 1970s? As for authoritarian governments, and their intelligence agencies, it’s not so much about “efficiency” in a technocratic sense so much
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by jolux 5y ago
> The CIA has literally invaded another country by lying and deceiving the entire executive branch. When? > Dictatorships might not be elected, they still have structure and procedure. If the Chinese MSS obeys the Politburo and doesn&
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by jolux 5y ago
What makes you think the CIA isn’t subordinate to the rest of the government? And moreover, what does being subordinate to the government mean when that government is a dictatorship?
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by jolux 5y ago
Russian hacking and Russian interference is not an invention, they’re widely acknowledged throughout the West right now.
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by jolux 5y ago
Firefox is important too (I use Firefox on desktop and Safari on iPhones), but Safari has a much higher percentage of mobile traffic (20% iirc). Edge is re-skinned Chrome these days. As for why Apple gets to be an “asshole,” there’s no spec
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by jolux 5y ago
I think it would be bad if Chrome became the only browser worth supporting, as disappointing as it is that Safari has these problems.
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by jolux 5y ago
It has been, but from what I've heard Sinovac is significantly less effective than the others: https://apnews.com/article/china-gao-fu-vaccines-offer-low-p...
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by jolux 5y ago
What vaccine was Chile using?
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by jolux 5y ago
As far as I know it’s a subject of some debate whether full immune escape from the mRNA vaccines is probable even given new variants. The spike protein can only be reconfigured in so many ways, it’s not like the flu.
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by jolux 5y ago
Thanks!
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by jolux 5y ago
It means giving up, more or less. The default handling that a supervisor provides is probably not sufficient for a looping failure, was the point.
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by jolux 5y ago
Medical claims have a regulatory regime around them though, and alternative therapies are generally not allowed to make medical claims. This is not enforced as carefully as it should be in my opinion, but it definitely exists.
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by jolux 5y ago
Why shouldn’t it be viewed as a binary? They couldn’t find any evidence it was effective! You can’t get much more of a zero than that. Out of eleven, ten members of the advisory board were against approval and one was uncertain. I’ve got no
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by jolux 5y ago
This is a potentially dangerous direction to be taking the approval process in, though. It’s not meant to be for experimental treatments with at best inconclusive efficacy. Being an approved treatment is supposed to mean that an agent is ef
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by jolux 5y ago
You should definitely handle the crash at a high level, but that’s not the same as punting on it!
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by jolux 5y ago
Huh, TIL. Will have to look into that. Do you have any blog posts handy that explain this?
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by jolux 5y ago
No, you asserted it doesn't matter because it still works and returns the first value. I was saying it might. The point stands. Different data structures, different modules, different semantics. Can and should is an important distincti
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by jolux 5y ago
> That's not true across many of the languages I use, dict.pop returns a key error in python for instance. Yeah, sorry. I should have been more clear. This behavior is common in Lisps, which is what I’m used to. It’s less common in

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