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by mcphage 4mo ago
> They also need to invalidate, with jail time for legislators and governors, all the flagrantly unconstitutional gun control laws in blue states. If you’re looking to send people to jail for violating the constitution, how about start w
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> The number of false positives would be overwhelming and lead to a lot of unnecessary procedures to calm the resulting anxieties. If the scans are cheap and fast enough, the solution is to not do anything until you’ve observed the mass
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It’s not impossible to read, just… pointless.
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“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho qualifies.
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> the current political direction points squarely to Republicans getting absolutely pummelled in the midterms Even if so, are the Democrats really going to do the house cleaning required to fix this? Their recent history implies that th
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Oh, yep, them too.
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> instrumental readings- there's no information in the text that supports this interpretation. From the story: “A curious feature of the station is its powerful gravitational field, far stronger than would be suggested by its small
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When you fuck up this badly, people are allowed to make fun of you.
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Well, except for the tens of billions we spent, and the $324 billion we’re giving Iran, and also our ability to exert any force on the world.
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> No, the main character isn't confused at all in his last message, he's very confident in saying that the station "is coeval with the cosmos, and constitutes the cosmos." The main character is in the midst of a relig
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I guess it could be. Wikipedia says the term "computer mouse" first showed up in print in 1965, but this wasn't printed until 1982.
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> but simply the internal contradiction in what the main character says Yes, the entire story has the main character confused about the reality he is presented with.
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> Are they not warning their bosses? Where do you think the pushing is coming from?
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> Unrestricted immigration destroys democratic high trust societies. I’m currently living through a democratic high trust society that’s destroying itself with immigrants being 0% to blame. I’d swap the Christian nationalists for immigr
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> back then, it sucked so hard that web designers with a decade of experience would crank out articles about trying to achieve "the Holy Grail of web design," which was three columns, a header, and a footer, with stuff in the
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> I reminded me of the tweet about how people online invent someone doing a hypothetical situation and then get mad at them You really think that bit was hypothetical?!
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> and one of the key features highlighted by Steve Jobs was voicemail Visual voicemail was, and is still a fantastic feature, and phones without it existed for an embarrassingly long time afterwards. I don't remember the last year
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> given the opportunity to cease this behavior What behavior exactly were they being given an opportunity to cease?
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> Where does the heat always go? Into other surrounding materials. Of which there are none, in a vacuum.
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This sounds like the chip on your shoulder rather than anything about the article.
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Those are interesting, but not liminal.
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> Elons datacenters in space are looking smarter and smarter by the day. Where would the heat go?
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> I was also a little disappointed with the philosophy's goals in general, which seem to be mostly the personal preferences of a lone-wolf style open source developer, not a universal approach to software design. How would a univers
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> This means that in 2023, AI data centers used as much water as the lifestyles of 25,000 Americans, 0.007% of the population. By 2030, they might use as much as the lifestyles of 250,000 Americans, 0.07% of the population. A 10x increas
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> It's one thing if you don't speak English well and could use some help making yourself understood If someone reading does this, please, do not. Imperfect English is a lot more pleasant to read than AI slop. It will not sound
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> There was no status quo, there's just people looking (now, after the fact) for an obvious party to blame for the bucket flowing over. Status quo is just a war that's on pause rather than resolved. Status quo is a shipping lan
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> Only if you take the 5 year old's definition of peaceful (ie. "not attacking") I'm not sure what definition of "peaceful" you're going with here, if it includes any of the US, Iran, or Israel, prior t
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> Iran wasn't exactly peaceful before February and attacked shipping regularly before then too. Oh and they attacked their own people, foreign nationals, Iranians abroad, and committed terror attacks abroad. None of the nations invo
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> One side is responsible for the "pax Americana" (but everyone here was born into the time period and so doesn't realize how exceptionally peaceful it is) The Pax Americana is great, but given America was one of the count
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> Pretty sure the right generally believes the left has been doing the same. That’s all the more reason to do it. The right believes lots of things that aren’t so, so learning what abuse actually is might stop them from crying wolf in th

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