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by mousethatroared 1y ago
"The issue where I am is that all adoption agencies facilitating adoptions from other countries have shutdown. All of them because of massive scandals where the adopted children was more or less sold or the parents where lied to."
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
Most Americans are OK with many things, that doesn't make them right or wrong. I'm OK with being alone, that doesn't make me right or wrong. It does mean I have courage of conviction though.
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
A lot of things are "hard wired" and yet we expect people to control themselves. Men's sexual drive, for example, is tuned to fairly rapey if not for a "patriarchal" society that crushes this drive through the threa
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
Shows you how little I care about knowing my genome.
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
Kinda ironic that it took a civil war the last time it happened.
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
They belong to the state. But these things can be negotiated in the divorce
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
First step the state has to want to split, though. And I guarantee you that the red capitols (most of them) are game. That leaves a small hurdle of getting a couple of purple states. Perhaps a great compromise is reached - NY ex-NYC merges
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
I think NY state concurs wrt to NYC. So why don't y'all split the state up? NYC in one corner, the rest of NY on the other. Then upstate folk will get real political representation in Albany, and NYC will send two interesting sena
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
Obviously i don't have Ring. But everyone else does, so what's the point? My privacy is always compromised because tech junkies (as opposed to techies) insist on indulging in stupid things like 21 and me, Gmail, or Ring and I get
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
Sick kids need parents too. And there's plenty of foster kids, like Dave Thomas who was adopted as a foster kid. So was my friend D. D's adopted parents asked the state of NJ for the kid that needed parents the most. And boy did t
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
No one deserves kids. Kids are not goods to buy off a shelf. Rather kids deserve parents. It's literally an inversion.
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
People who want a particular type of child.
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
Strictly speaking no, dogma has a very specific definition and refers to things of a theological nature like the dogma of the Immaculate Conception which 90% of American Catholics wouldn't get right (most would answer that it refers to
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
By vector graphics I meant primitive graphics. Outside of youtube and... twitter? I really don't need fancy stuff. HN is literally the web ideal for me, and Id think most users if given an option.
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
Why do I care about fonts? Honestly, if my browser had an option not to load fonts and use my default to save load time I ld choose that 19 out 20 times.
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
A question as a non user: What are you doing with the extra 500kB for me, the user? > 90% of the time in interested in text. Most of the reminder vector graphics would suffice. 14 kB is a lot of text and graphics for a page. What is the
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
Half agree. The other half, as a very conservative Catholic, conservative Catholics are neglecting our great teachers like Dorothy Day.
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
Because the "fire" excuse is a favorite of those who like the 1A when it protects them.
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
Did you condemn Obama when he droned an American child and laughed that the kid had chosen bad parents? Did you call for his impeachment then or now? How about when he sicced the IRS on conservatives? Did you call for Biden's impeachme
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
I think learning to mispronounced English words is an under appreciated spelling technique.
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
Ya but manufacturers believe, rightly, that folks will always prefer battery life to pocket confort. I say this as someone who clung onto his 1st gen SE until I got my current 13 mini
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
Larger phones have better battery life time. Screen power draw and battery capacity scale as the square of the linear dimension. They largely cancel out. However, all the other hardware are a fixed size so proportionally large phones have l
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
I learned to read in foreigner and soon after moved to an English country at age 6. I was an atrocious speller until I moved back to foreign-land and had to take English class with my schoolmates. Learning how people mispronounce English ph
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
"The issue here is that no one can agree on which portion of government spending is wasteful." Human nature, I guess "It’s almost taken as a tautology that the government is wasteful. After 50 years of cost cutting and wage f
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
THE OP IS AGAINST BBB TOO The one who lacks nuance is not the one who thinks NASA could stand to shave a couple billions but the one who's making everything a partisan fight.
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
I didn't think so.
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
Massive PIA. Since flash didnt work I didnt use Linix Since I didnt use Linux I wasnt very good at it Since I kept at noob level, I couldnt install Flash, which was pretty hard
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
For me, Linux became a viable desktop OS when Steve Jobs killed flash and browsers could render any page independently of the OS. Then Office 365 came around and I could do quick work w/out a windows machine.
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
I disagree. Instead of looking at where the tax revenues can come from, which I don't necessarily disagree consider what proportion of the nations economic activity is government spending. I consider govt spending/GDP a much bet
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by mousethatroared 1y ago
The conversation was about NASA, an agency that poured billions to Boeing and the United Alliance and was forced to accept SpaceX (way back during the Obama admin, I believe) whilst kicking and screaming.

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