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by masonic 4y ago
A slight decrease... in just 10% of the largest metro areas!
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by masonic 4y ago
Actual title: "SFO international terminal reopens after bomb threat prompts evacuations"
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by masonic 4y ago
This is such a crock. Here's the bill: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2021/54057/0/... All they have to do is charge per unit time and electricity used, not give away electricity f
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by masonic 4y ago
>On the good side, I can now look at the control screen on my right or down at my phone for more than ~15 seconds without being nagged. Wow, I'm glad I live multiple states away from this guy.
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by masonic 4y ago
“I suggested that the Queen’s head could be done without" -- David Gentleman I think Henry VIII said the same thing a couple of times
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by masonic 4y ago
>the existing coal plants... are being used more So, they are reverting back to coal, then.
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by masonic 4y ago
"Github is evil!"... sponsored by (among others) Google .
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by masonic 4y ago
Their TOS do ban gun sales.
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by masonic 4y ago
>"a person who follows the latest trends and fashions." In other words, a person who doesn't think for him/herself. We have plenty of those. They are welcome to stay where they are.
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by masonic 4y ago
The original, left-justified version is not only more readable overall but makes it much easier to parse the content directory.
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by masonic 4y ago
"On average, you take approximately 0.05 seconds to form your opinion of a website" This is a misquote of a paper (and I don't see peer-review details) from 2006 . I don't see how anybody was getting .05 second respons
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by masonic 4y ago
>Any spending bills require require 66.7% yes votes in both houses of Congress This is absolutely false and, in fact, has never been the case. >a cloture vote. It can currently be rejected by a single _staffer_ of any Congressperson
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by masonic 4y ago
>they do not have the votes to do much of anything This is a flat lie that you repeat. The Democrat caucus collectively "has the votes" to do essentially anything . They could even end the Senate filibuster rule! (It's
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by masonic 4y ago
Again, you fail to give a single specific example . ALL of their articles have permalinks and are unpaywalled... so point out a few examples that exhibit factual errors.
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by masonic 4y ago
> adding points for just being in the Northern America To the contrary, I find it odd that there isn't a single upper-tier livable city in the western 2/3rds of the US but every city in the eastern 95% of Australia is top t
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by masonic 4y ago
(January 1990)
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by masonic 4y ago
Their Careers page has no positions and no contact links.
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by masonic 4y ago
There's only one open position on your web page.
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by masonic 4y ago
>Not an ad hominem attack: "The Epoch Times has lied many times in the past, and it's good to keep that in mind. If you can't name "many" such lies (let's start with, say, three?), then you are indeed doin
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by masonic 4y ago
(December 2019)
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by masonic 4y ago
It says you can't sue cops in civil actions for damages . Such confessions are still inadmissible in criminal court.
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by masonic 4y ago
Still?
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by masonic 4y ago
"The simple answer is the same reason we have an ongoing climate crisis and a student loan crisis that Republicans refuse to let Congress address..." That tells you all you need to know about Commondreams' partisanship: all c
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by masonic 4y ago
Non paywall version: https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/engineer-who-fled-charge...
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by masonic 4y ago
"The NRA spent $250M on the 2020 presidential election." These people are flat liars. NRA doesn't have that kind of budget. Per opensecrets.org, NRA spent $786,052 in campaign donations for the 2020 cycle total (Congress a
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by masonic 4y ago
>How much more than the ACA They could have done universal healthcare instead of ACA and with much simpler legislation and less regulatory authoring burden.
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We're at the Lowest frequency of tropical cyclones in over 40 years(twitter.com)
2 points by masonic 4y ago|0 comments
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by masonic 4y ago
>Obama enacted net neutrality by fiat Not quite. He entered office with net neutrality in effect but then changed the regulatory umbrella it fell under into one without net neutrality in 2009, which Comcast and Verizon took advantage
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by masonic 4y ago
>important local government offices, particularly Sheriffs–which are also nominally nonpartisan–are dominated by Republicans Name any three blue counties with Republican county sheriffs.
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by masonic 4y ago
I started in the mainframe COBOL world, and I've added COBOL search terms to job listing searches. Compensation is ridiculously low (I mean ~50K in SV itself).

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