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by monkeyfun 2y ago
And what if someone voted for Stein as a signal of support for voting reforms like ranked choice voting or proportionate representation necessary to actually fix these root problems? How about if they voted in a state in which every elector
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Well, cheaper for whom? Many of the "detention centers" are run by private companies for-profit. And many of the border agents aren't concerned with cost, but "doing their job" or political agendas.
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Are you interested in hearing from the perspective of a trans person who mostly doesn't agree with the person you've been replying to, but does feel there's gaps in your perspective here? I ask this way especially because I d
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Beautifully written. I especially adore: > Honest statistical reports may even be written highlighting the frequency of lost-key-findings under streetlights. The fact you note them as honest is so rhetorically powerful that I'm de
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Ahhhh, bi-elliptic transfers! It's funny, I remember first learning to use such arcane maneuvers in a game called Children of a Dead Earth, in order to get into a terribly low orbit of Neptune to strike a methane refinery... My poor br
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
And the US has over 3000 counties, many of which are comparable in size and population to those states; compare apples to apples
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Technically he did say something of substance, though not in the way he meant it -- propaganda rots the brain.
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Disclaimer: this entire subject is so meaningless, I half hate that I'm writing about it because we should really be focusing on the neofeudalists / tech-feudalists who are further corrupting an already dysfunctional government wi
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
What's the point of your comment? I've never met a single man who took a car apart just to see how it worked, not even my father who worked as a generator mechanic and later a car mechanic. Nor one younger than said father (mid-
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Yo just since you mention that -- got any recs for a 20tb drive? Currently the biggest thing i rock is just a seagate 8TB nas HDD, which i nabbed pretty cheap, but these days the archiving i do kinda makes me wanna step up even bigger.
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Absolutely have to disagree on both counts. However, since you do at least sound reasonable, I'll prefer to just focus on the first claim, as we'd otherwise easily spend hours just debating basic philosophy in circles, and arguing
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
The lying is the most incomprehensible to me. I actually had a conversation with a family member about RFK's lies (including lies about Bernie Sanders! Which everyone around seemingly tried to suppress him from defending himself on!).
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
>The socdems are too concerned with protecting the optics of the system itself and maintaining decorum to directly attack a party that is fundamentally opposed to the principles underlying that system. What an incredibly sharp phrasing t
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
What are some of the broken promises? I'm not well informed on the subject and now you've got me really curious.
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
>Unless you never let your child near any slightly older child with a phone, you as a parent cannot individually control this. ...are you implying kids are having group jerkoff / porn sessions? Seems like a pretty absurd claim. Also
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
It's fairly niche here, but I would like to note that lofting can be more efficient than either a purely direct or ballistic trajectory -- one only needs consider the case of going higher in the atmosphere so as to have less air drag a
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Interesting, especially as I'd have to say that events have proven both of you right from my perspective: - soldiers gladly obeyed orders to essentially end all democracy - soldiers mostly seemed to stop obeying their dictator's o
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
And now as a random reader 7 hours later -- surely you must share that post/prediction with others! I'm too curious and your comment history is fairly dense.
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
I agree with most of this, but have to take note that >thousands of people working on this all personally committed to complete secrecy Basically describes a LOT of government spying programs or horrific abuses that have happened, for in
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
And meanwhile, if the government sells guns to cartels... no big deal. Rarely throw a fall guy under the bus. Or often not even that. Trying to remember the quote I last heard, something to the tune of "we don't want to punish,
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
He's so incredibly personally offended and passive-aggressive, it's wild. Especially when he can only accept SOME of what he's read after apparently pretending half of it was his idea! Just reading the actual content of his (
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
I mean personally I see continuity as mostly being about the hardware with the process running on it only being secondary at best and disjointed, though not completely irrelevant. So funnily, I'm "perpendicular" to the issue
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Really late to responding (oof, I don't use HN much), but really nicely phrased point, haha. And I do agree on congress not being a courtroom -- my assumption would always be that their motivations are just corporate lobbying or distra
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Reminds me of a classic old IGN interview with Warren Spector. It goes: "There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person," says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex.
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Normally I'd be cautious about a witch hunt, but I think the point here is that there isn't much ability to ask for evidence, which is exactly why it's been able to progress through court so quickly.
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Which is sadly how it goes -- you have to be willing to take a stand against people without capital-V Vision sometimes. They'll only ever perceive what's right in front of their eyes, and only ever believe that what's possibl
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Dreaming absolutely does not only occur during REM. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7377375/ https://www.jneurosci.org/content/38/43/9175
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Is there anywhere good I could read about that "gender war"? I've heard about it before, but usually only narrativized as one-sided (e.g. discussing feminist policies)
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
I just seriously wanna praise, first without commentary, that you just said >other opinions and fears are not invalid And then for commentary: I'm the sort of person "intense" enough that I'd want to pounce even on y
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by monkeyfun 2y ago
Now imagine you're calling that kid gay constantly and you can look at all the worst stuff whenever you feel like to go mock it extra as a bully. And they only have to know it's you if you feel like it. (Anxiety's a big thing

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