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by krapp 2y ago
The Constitution is a legal document and the foundation of all American law. It turns out a specific definition of "arms" would actually be very useful to the modern legal doctrines of the post-industrial society in which we actua
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by krapp 2y ago
We don't discuss that openly.
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by krapp 2y ago
Trump seems to harbor this weird notion that America's global military hegemony and superpower status is somehow a shakedown scam the rest of the world is playing on the US, rather than the other way around.
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by krapp 2y ago
To be pedantic, the US Constitution simply grants Congress the exclusive power to establish post offices and post roads. Nowhere does it make any requirements about how Congress uses that power.
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by krapp 2y ago
>Instead of ignoring it signaling that their criticism was acceptable, you can push back on it and remind them it's irrelevant and unwanted and they should probably just keep it to themselves. Unfortunately, that won't stop man
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by krapp 2y ago
At the moment, my "perfect Hacker News" is Mastodon. A curated feed of people sharing interesting things, and that's it. No viputerative snark, no performative cynicism, no wallowing in conspiracy theory, no flame wars, no ra
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by krapp 2y ago
This isn't a discussion about content. Content on the web is more rich and diverse than it's ever been. This is, as ever, a discussion about production - about the web having matured around a limited set of standards and framework
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by krapp 2y ago
He can. Literally no one is stopping anyone from building a website however they like. No one is putting a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to use a framework or a SPA. All of that is intended for enterprise and business anyway. U
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by krapp 2y ago
Are you one of those people who believes Elon Musk built everything by hand in a cave with scraps or something? Musk invested in technologies other people were working on and companies other people started, and hired other people who made i
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by krapp 2y ago
>That mythology is no longer part of mainstream culture. Tell that to Percy Jackson, Disney's Hercules, Hades, God of War, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Smite, Lore Olympus, Disney Descendants, Immortals, Blood of Zeus, Kaos, numer
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by krapp 2y ago
Musk does "whatever he damn well feels like" capitalism. He made a barely driveable eyesore and deathtrap that would have put any other company out of business, just because he wanted to make a future car. He burned $44 billion ju
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by krapp 2y ago
>Is Christo-fascism simply enacting any legislation that comes from a Christian moral lens? No. > It overwhelmingly seems like a buzzword used to fearmonger that has only recently been added via OTA updates to certain groups. Neither
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by krapp 2y ago
>To quote Colbert, reality has a known liberal bias. That quote has a specific context (parodying the George W. Bush administrations' spin on negative press coverage) that doesn't necessarily apply as a general axiom, or to the
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by krapp 2y ago
>I asked ChatGPT about this. It thought Lemme stop you right there. No, it didn't.
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by krapp 2y ago
Rule by minority seems implicitly less just than rule by the majority - as rule bmy minority converges towards authoritarianism.
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by krapp 2y ago
>Seriously, anyone who would go to a campaign event and cheer like you're at a football game has some serious mental issues. What a pathetic life they must have. There's a lot to criticize the post-Trump Republican party for bu
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by krapp 2y ago
Someone has probably wanted, planned or tried to kill most American Presidents since at least Lincoln. Most such attempts don't make the news, much less happen on camera.
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by krapp 2y ago
Thomas Jefferson was nothing if not a massive hypocrite. He waxed eloquent about the nobility of violence done by other men to other men, but when the British showed up at Monticello he fled like a coward. Unsurprising for a man who styled
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by krapp 2y ago
People have wanted Trump to drop dead even before 2016, there's nothing sudden about it.
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by krapp 2y ago
The paperwork and common rules were updated after the dissolution of the Continental Congress in 1789. But it seems a few people still haven't gotten the memo.
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by krapp 2y ago
>Our recorded history shows how hostile we are to each other often over very minor differences. And yet people with very minor differences still exist, and many people are not hostile to the point of murder towards them. >And also we
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by krapp 2y ago
I don't bother trying to keep up with everything. I'll follow /newcomments and I have a browser plugin that shows when a thread has new comments but beyond a certain point it isn't worth it. 90% of comments aren't w
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by krapp 2y ago
Maybe. I lost my vouching privileges long ago because the mods didn't like the comments I vouched for.
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by krapp 2y ago
>The rules are "I can think you are crass, wrong, bigoted, geriatric, etc., but if a majority of my countrymen think otherwise, we accept we are not successful in the battle of ideas, and fight another battle of ideas in 4 years&quo
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by krapp 2y ago
Why choose to believe this in spite of actual evidence to the contrary? People have Neanderthal DNA inside of them. We're in a thread about an article demonstrating that. We didn't kill them because they were different, the trut
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by krapp 2y ago
You've answered your own question. The incentives of capitalism "unencumbered by regulation" and the necessities of investing in and maintaining infrastructure are often at odds.
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by krapp 2y ago
Even TNG didn't always follow through with utopian ideals, because that doesn't make for compelling drama. Tasha Yar came from a failed Federation colony where society had collapsed, and spent her childhood avoiding roving rape ga
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by krapp 2y ago
>After all, the Federation from Star Trek is pretty much the only well-known case of an utopia that actually works in fiction writing, and the show itself is one of few examples of aspirational and inspirational writing in modern sci-fi.
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by krapp 2y ago
>they should not do that because Meta is not a platform for constitutionally-allowed free speech, instead, they are a platform for selective filtering. "Selective filtering" by private platforms like Facebook (I will die on the
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by krapp 2y ago
Also the Minotaur just might not be strong enough, depending on what the labyrinth is made of, given that its purpose in the myth is to keep the Minotaur trapped. He's half man, half bull, which makes him a lot stronger than a human bu

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