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by jyounker 9mo ago
The summation aligns with everything I've ever read from anyone about Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm. Behind the Bastards has a pretty good couple of episodes on this little corner of history: https://podcasts.apple.com/ke
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by jyounker 9mo ago
I believe the recent line from a US ally at a recent security summit was, "We will never fucking trust you again." https://www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-we-will-never-fucki...
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by jyounker 9mo ago
Why do you have so much hate for immigrants?
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Depends completely on the EV and usage patterns. Here's one of the more interesting points in the design space: https://silence-mobility.nissan.de/
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by jyounker 9mo ago
This is a pretty astute interpretation. Here's a write-up of Trump's grift so far: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/20/opinion/edito...
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by jyounker 9mo ago
There are still, to this day, massive wealth disparities between US states.
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by jyounker 9mo ago
The rot is much deeper. Donald Trump was impeached twice, and both times the Republicans voted to acquit him.
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If you have the right tools then it's easier than ever. To put a different spin, a friend's father was a very successful auto mechanic. What he loved about it was the mental challenge of diagnostics. The stranger the problem, the
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by jyounker 9mo ago
ICE has been turned into a secret police force. If you'd like a history of the border patrol in the US, then here is an excellent introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdStIvC8WeE
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by jyounker 9mo ago
Sadly politics in the US has reached the point where it is impossible to separate, particularly if you're involved in any kind of business.
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by jyounker 9mo ago
Remember that Texas cities are having to actively fight with their own state and national level representatives, not to mention economic interests. It's not a "bureaucratic inefficiency" as much as it is active sabotage. That
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by jyounker 9mo ago
There are significant difference between driving a car on the 101 and taking Caltrain. Given the option of a) being stuck driving in traffic for an hour long commute and b) reading on a train for an hour, I'll always take the reading.
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by jyounker 9mo ago
It's interesting that their schedule increase seems to demonstrate that (at least below a certain cap), increasing frequency directly increases ridership.
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by jyounker 10mo ago
Because you failed to see how the historical context made it funny, and even responded in kind of a vicious way.
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by jyounker 10mo ago
You appear to lack the historical knowledge to appreciate the joke: The war on drugs was specifically designed to allow the government to go after the left and black people. Nixon's domestic policy chief said this in 1994: * https:&#x
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by jyounker 10mo ago
The constraint is a life-forms' existing form. A given genetic sequence can only move (in general) a small distance from the existing sequence. Since you're already starting with a successful sequence, the odds are that a small va
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by jyounker 10mo ago
It's even weirder than that. It turns out that at very low concentrations caffeine seems to have similar effects on insect neurology as it does on ours. There are some plant species whose flowers produce caffeinated nectar. Bees seem t
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by jyounker 10mo ago
> I kinda wonder sometimes why medicine doesn't try to fix some of these species level genetic problems more broadly or more quickly Because the technology to do so doesn't exist yet. We're at the point where we're tr
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by jyounker 11mo ago
He is famous for his writing, and not for being a chef. His 2000 book, "Kitchen Confidential," was a New York Times best seller, and it's what put him on the map. It's still one of my favorite books, and I cannot recomme
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by jyounker 11mo ago
It was only a staple in your mind. Those views you remember were very much reactions against what already existed, and where things were headed. Things never changed direction, and here we are.
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by jyounker 11mo ago
It's nobody on here is talking about Rheinhardt's #2 point: The US is not spending enough on regulation. He specifically points out that regulators are underfunded and understaffed. In the US, this is often an active strategy by
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by jyounker 11mo ago
Peter Reinhardt is specifically talking about pumping massive amounts of a synthetic liquid into the ground. The history of the 20th century is full of people insisting that some industrial product is perfectly safe to dump into the environ
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by jyounker 11mo ago
Given Hegseth's record of financial mismanagement I have deep misgivings about what's being done. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/02/pete-hegseth...
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by jyounker 1y ago
> They need to be actually hit by the load to care. (BTW I can confirm, > although quite violent, pigeons seemingly don't readily learn from > this experience... They are really fucking stupid.) That doesn't sound stupid
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by jyounker 1y ago
I came here to day that. I am slowing building a crow air-force on my balcony in Berlin. No pigeons.
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by jyounker 1y ago
The advantage of dependent typing systems is that you can say that the arguments to a matrix multiplication function must have dimensions (m, i) and (i, n) and that result will have dimensions (m, n).
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Are you sure about that?
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Another point of view is that the IT department isn't meeting the users' needs, and that they're bypassing IT because they just want to get their work done.
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When one government bet on solar power failed (Solyndra) the message from the right in the US was, "look what a waste it is for the government to invest in solar technology," instead of taking the appropriate lesson. That lesson w
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by jyounker 1y ago
No. Absolutely not. I can't think of anyone using a pre-emptive pardon until Trump's first Presidency. Sadly I think Biden's choice was completely rational given how Trump is weaponizing the US justice system.

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