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by nyolfen 4y ago
i don't think what is sad about 'losing' this is the straightforward utility of creating stone tools, but rather no longer possessing this article of culture which was previously shared by all humans for all time, something t
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by nyolfen 4y ago
i agree those are tragic, but those are not the people i am talking about
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by nyolfen 4y ago
there are reasons to believe that some groups with legal claims have no legitimate grounds and only point to fragmentary records of prior occupants that they can provide no evidence of connection with. perhaps if you can manage to think pas
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by nyolfen 4y ago
some of them may not want their legal privileges backed by historical narratives compromised by scientific findings; this is very common with native american tribes, for instance the lipan apaches in texas. additional science can only hurt
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by nyolfen 4y ago
the total number of unarmed shootings by police each year in the US is in the double digits in a country of 400m. how many kids got raped in rotherham?
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by nyolfen 4y ago
there will never be a system with "universal well-being" and this kind of thinking is religiously delusional. the world is made up of many zero-sum systems and resources. someone always has to win, and comparative advantage will a
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by nyolfen 4y ago
totally absurd. the constitution is a legal framework, not religious precepts. those outside the US have no duties to the US government when not in its jurisdiction and vice versa. of course the federal govt has been pushing against this it
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by nyolfen 4y ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11736433/Nin... imagine the world's most popular AI refusing to say anything critical of putin but not obama, or refusing to acknowledge transgenderism or somet
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by nyolfen 4y ago
important note about the author https://twitter.com/dystopiabreaker/status/14701269278180679...
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by nyolfen 4y ago
> Also not sure how you build multi-arch containers. not sure whether this is the preferred method or what, but i use `docker buildx` -- eg: docker buildx build --tag myimage:mytag --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64 . this buil
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by nyolfen 4y ago
yes, if there's one thing richard nixon was known for it was radically disproportionate military response, such as the time he nuked china
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by nyolfen 4y ago
lol, nixon? the guy who withdrew from vietnam? did you mean johnson?
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by nyolfen 4y ago
number of times in the last century weird stuff has been revealed to be aliens: 0 number of times in the last century weird stuff has been revealed to be classified projects: dozens, hundreds?
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by nyolfen 4y ago
easy to blame this, but all productivity gains in the US for 40 years have gone to the top; the reason is that our labor market has been undercut by immigration (legitimate and illegitimate) and globalized supply chains. workers do not have
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by nyolfen 4y ago
totally ludicrous and hard to believe you actually think this. please take a glance at all of human history.
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by nyolfen 4y ago
it's not criminal law, yandex can hire a lawyer in the US
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by nyolfen 4y ago
the US and russia are both parties to the berne convention, the law still applies even if a bunch of misc russian people and orgs had their assets seized
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by nyolfen 4y ago
yes, that is why i was writing that comment, to point out corrections to both of our previous comments, hence "what i've read today"
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by nyolfen 4y ago
i agree that it's a bit up its own ass but chapman is definitely worth reading on his own, and his writing is in dialogue with contemporary rationalism; his audience is also mostly rat-adjacent (typically labeled or self-identified &#x
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by nyolfen 4y ago
fentanyl is a relatively exotic pharmaceutical and is not widely prescribed except in very serious or unusual circumstances. i have read a good deal about production shifting from china to mexico in the last few years with china shifting mo
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by nyolfen 4y ago
i suspect illicit fentanyl greatly outweighs legitimate at this point
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by nyolfen 4y ago
> You are extremely unlikely to ever come across a fentanyl user, even if you work for law enforcement, even if you're a LEO in a major metro. is this a joke?
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by nyolfen 4y ago
most fentanyl is manufactured in clandestine labs in mexico and distributed by drug gangs
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by nyolfen 4y ago
proton
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by nyolfen 4y ago
they are not mechanical parts, a speaker also vibrates but is solid state
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by nyolfen 4y ago
title ix is not a protection for "women and minorities", but i know that some racism and sexism is the good kind :)
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by nyolfen 4y ago
great, what happens when the eye of sauron turns on something you don't feel is justified? what recourse do you have?
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by nyolfen 4y ago
i will settle for "not being an explicit partisan in the culture war", there is a meaningful distinction between ideas embedded in categories and "respond with a pre-programmed response for any of these topics"
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by nyolfen 4y ago
https://kirill888.github.io/notes/wireguard-via-websocket/
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by nyolfen 4y ago
brave doesnt force me to install pocket

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