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by nostromo 4y ago
> Patreon has done a good job in this space. Not really, they shut people down too, unfairly and without recourse. They shut down Sargon of Akkad for using bad words while arguing against racism, for example. And don’t forget - Visa a
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by nostromo 4y ago
Don’t be so foolish to think logging out is making your query data anonymous or safe from a court order.
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by nostromo 4y ago
That’s no longer true - Republicans are split down the middle on legal pot. https://news.gallup.com/poll/356939/support-legal-marijuana-...
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by nostromo 4y ago
This sounds like the confusing US laws. Cannabis is illegal ( very illegal) nationally. But several states decided to stop prosecuting these crimes, and the states do most of the policing in the US - so it’s all but legal in many states.
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by nostromo 4y ago
I've noticed a lot of folks think they can't afford children when they absolutely can. But they have unrealistic expectations about housing, daycare, and education. Housing: children used to be expected to share rooms. Now it&
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by nostromo 4y ago
Thought experiment: do you wish you were born 40 years earlier? I suspect most of us do not wish this, and I think the primary reason is because our lives are much better now than 40 years ago. Healthcare and housing is more expensive, yes.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Wikipedia has a good graph that illustrates your point - most justices become more liberal over time and very rarely become more conservative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_leanings_of_United...
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by nostromo 4y ago
Naked power grabs? Most of the decisions reduce the power of the executive and the court itself and give power to the congress and states. I might agree with you if they made abortion illegal nationally. But they didn’t - they said it’s up
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by nostromo 4y ago
You’re simply wrong about this friend. Congress could make the Roe standard the law of the entire US tomorrow. This is why you see Biden and others asking them to do just that.
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by nostromo 4y ago
You may claim an old constitution is a problem - I see it as a reason for optimism. The US is the world’s oldest democracy in no small part because of that document.
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by nostromo 4y ago
You're catastrophizing. So far this court seems to be largely giving more power to voters and their representatives to create law, limiting their own power (Dobbs), and giving power to the states.
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by nostromo 4y ago
"The EPA may regulate emissions that contribute to global climate change" would also do the trick. These laws are all quite old, many pre-date the EPA even and are from the 1950s and 1960s. They were clearly written for toxic pol
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by nostromo 4y ago
If the authorization of the EPA was to "regulate the environment" then there is nothing they couldn't do. The EPA was largely create to regulate pollutants based on laws written in the 1950s and 60s. It's not at all cle
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by nostromo 4y ago
Congress can ban or legalize abortion federally now. Or they can leave it up to the states -- which is the current default without Roe. In fact, congress could have codified access to abortion at anytime in the past 40-odd years.
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by nostromo 4y ago
> We know Congress is too deadlocked to be effective. This just isn't true. Congress continues to pass thousands of laws a year, in line with their historical trends. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills&#x2F
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by nostromo 4y ago
No, Dobbs returns the power to legislate abortion to the congress. You are correct however on Bruen limiting the power of congress and the states.
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by nostromo 4y ago
> this court will reduce the Federal government to a non-entity very soon This is an absurd take. All Congress needs to do is clarify that they’d like the EPA to regulate carbon emissions. That’s it. The laws regarding pollution contr
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by nostromo 4y ago
“The EPA may regulate carbon emissions” would do the trick.
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by nostromo 4y ago
The theme this session has been the court pushing lots of decisions back to congress, away from the executive, and away from the court itself. For all the consternation, these decisions are very mutable. Congress just needs to pass laws.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Huh... Bing and DDG both seem to avoid autocomplete for "Armenian Genocide" - requiring one to type it out almost completely. Google suggests it early on, as one would expect.
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by nostromo 4y ago
It wouldn’t surprise me if in a few years the same AGs sue Walmart and Western Union for allowing employees to suspect fraud for the wrong reasons and denying transactions.
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by nostromo 4y ago
I tend to trust round numbers more than other numbers for this very reason... When people make up stats, they use numbers like 63% or 87%, not 75%.
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by nostromo 4y ago
These articles always tend to focus on small and/or homogenous countries. Comparing the US to many of these countries (Japan, Iceland, Israel, Finland) is comparing apples and oranges. A better example is Brazil, which is very diverse
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by nostromo 4y ago
Apple Notes is where I put urls along with just about everything else. The one and only thing I miss about Delicious is that it was great to see what other people were saving under a specific tag or topic.
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by nostromo 4y ago
It comes from risk aversion. Firing people is painful and expensive. And it's hard to know how good someone actually is just from interviewing. So if I've worked with someone previously and know they're not lazy or incompet
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by nostromo 4y ago
You could shape the NFT in the form of a metal rod with notches on it. When placed inside a slot and turned, the car could validate that the right pattern of notches exist on the NFT and turn on. If you want to sell the car, simply hand of
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by nostromo 4y ago
A key driver to inflation is that wages for lower-income workers was finally starting to rise. Tanking the economy will hurt these people the most. But yes, inflation would flatten.
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It seems the Fed is stuck in a state of overreaction. First they overshoot on money printing, then they disregard early signs of inflation, and now they're in a panic in the opposite direction. Seeing the news this week that Bernanke
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by nostromo 4y ago
It's unexpected that they're coming at this from an abortion angle... but I'm all for it. Just last month it was reported that the CDC was buying troves of this data (from the same vendor Warren is calling out) to monitor mil
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by nostromo 4y ago
> it was part of a tradition

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