paul_funyun

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by paul_funyun 4y ago
When they passed laws that put tribal myths on the same level as western science. Found a 10,000 year old skeleton? Sorry, the Lakota-Sioux say he's an ancestor and you're racist if you want to test DNA to confirm (not that DNA co
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
CLE requirements are and always have been nothing more than a handout to providers. The jurisdictions that don't have them are doing fine. The best thing you can do if you're sitting at a CLE is complete another CLE on your laptop
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
Sounds like an AA meeting with powerpoints. Avoiding research of which natives disapprove, collecting data, or digging up bones and artifacts is an easy way to make a living, but not something to subsidize with grants or taxpayer funds. Qui
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
If you dislike social media switching to an inferior product could help you cut down on usage.
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
People moving to Mastodon fall into two groups, by and large - people who like it for normative reasons, and people moving there to see what the buzz is about. The first group sees practical concerns as an obstacle to be defeated; they wou
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
Would you see it if they did? Finding people isn't as easy on Mastodon as it is in other places.
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
That doesn't follow from the fact that admin decisions don't reflect the will of the userbase. I'm not a fan of my state' laws about fishing licenses, but that doesn't mean I'll move to another state. Same for
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
No, it indicates only that the administrators of 90% of the network don't want others to hear what you have to say. If the admins don't want to hear you they'd use the block function.
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
The profit is to be derived from the efforts of others. People staking at this point are entirely dependent on the Foundation to add the ability to withdraw your staked ETH. Do stakers expect to make a profit if the Foundation doesn't
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
Ethereum post-merge looks a hell of a lot like a security. We'll see what regulators do, but it's concerning that the Ethereum Foundation has been so quiet about regulatory hazard. Also alarming is the question marks as to when yo
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
"is neither cheap nor all that clean." In terms of greenhouse gas emmissions, it's very clean. That's the whole point of bothering with green energy. "If you are in a location with plenty of sunlight and wind, I don
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
If it could take prompts ala Dall-E I'd like to read "a sequel to C.S. Lewis's "The Last Battle" co-authored by Friedrich Nietzsche and JK Rowling." You could make a lot of mischief with new religious texts as