jwond

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Some might say that the Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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> and why not the US also? The Biden administration has already publicly said that they are flagging content to Facebook. https://www.newsweek.com/biden-administrations-admission-the...
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I see this pattern used sometimes, and I agree it often makes the code more readable, but I wonder if there is any performance impact from creating and destructuring objects just to pass arguments.
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> The group will be led by Tara McGowan, a former Democratic strategist who previously ran a progressive non-profit called ACRONYM. > [...] > Although backed and launched by progressives, McGowan says the group could make investmen
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> In the 1980's everything was kind of expensive. From 1990-2010 with the rise of real globalisation it was just unbelievable what could be had for a a few dollars. I don’t see this as necessarily a good thing. People buying a bunch
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Humor is subjective
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These past few years I’ve been thinking more and more that he might’ve had the right idea. Not referring to the bombs of course.
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Having a shortage of women (or excess of men) that leaves many men no hope of finding a woman to marry seems like it will not be good for the stability of society.
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Magnesium L-Threonate, also known as “Magtein”
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I have found that using a dedicated e-reader with a front-lit e-ink display does not cause me any trouble with falling asleep.
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> They don't have any power, other than to annoy the institution. The only power here is the power that MIT has over the people they book to speak, and since MIT doesn't want to be annoyed, they canceled the speaker. The abilit
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You are correct, so I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. Facebook explicitly suppressed the story. > While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Fa
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The difference from what I see is that Republicans are attacking Facebook for censoring too much, while Democrats are attacking Facebook for censoring too little.
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Glenn Greenwald wrote an article arguing that yes, it is a power grab. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/democrats-and-media-do-not-...
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With the way that the realm of what is socially acceptable to say has been shifting so constantly in recent years, the only way someone who is not terminally online could be sure to avoid offending someone would be to become a mind reader,
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So we need to apply heavy-handed censorship to silence dissent so that we don’t turn into an authoritarian country like China or Russia where they use heavy-handed censorship to silence dissent.
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> “No way I’m burned out. Look at all the women that are actually suffering. Who am I but a privileged white chic taking up space.” It’s sad that so many white people have been conditioned to think this way.
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> When there is still a channel where white men posting personal details of women and attack them — no action. I’m not familiar with the situation you are referring to, but I’m curious why you specifically mentioned the race of these men
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To be fair, I think a lot of modern internet porn is probably way more depraved than porn that existed pre-internet, and there is a virtually infinite supply of it available for free. One consequence of this is that there are a lot of peopl
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There was an OKCupid study that found that women on OKCupid rated 80% of men as below average. https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/18/okcupid-inbox-attractive/
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People treating houses as investment vehicles are a big reason why the housing market is so awful for people looking to buy their first home.
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It was the chief health officer of New South Wales, Dr. Kerry Chant. Dr. Chant said: “We will be looking at what contact tracing looks like in the New World Order…yes it will be pubs and clubs and other things if we have a positive case the
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Take a look at Tree Style Tabs [1] or Sidebery [2]. After using tree style tabs it’s very frustrating for me to go back to using other tab styles in other browsers. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addo
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/merriam-webster-redefines-racis...
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Would you like to provide some criticism with actual substance, or are you content with vague ad hominems?
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> should misinformation like this be protected by free speech laws as well? Or can we carve out a narrow exception for just blatantly lying and writing fake news, like we already do in libel laws and in cases of phishing and fraud? Who d
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> But there is some, there are formal ethical codices (i.e. see NPR's https://www.npr.org/ethics ), there is proper journalism training (see e.g. the Annenberg schools). Publishing a code of ethics means absolutely n
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Reddit was also silently removing comments containing joebiden.info Not sure if they still are
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Seems like the right move to me. We’ve already seen that things labeled “misinformation” can turn into a plausible theory overnight, e.g. the lab leak theory. It’s disappointing to see so many people demanding that corporations act as the a
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I would suggest getting checked for vitamin/nutritional deficiencies If you haven’t already done so. Exercise regularly if you don’t already. Poor sleep can also be caused by stress/anxiety/depression, or just poor sleep hygi

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