paulryanrogers

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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
Good for them I guess. I prefer a country where I don't have to move as the political winds change, just to maintain rights and benefits my ancestors fought for.
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
The federal government does an amazing number of things despite some inefficiencies. FEMA, FDA, EPA, SEC, FTC, FCC, national defense, interstate highways, border security (for better and worse), social security, Medicaid, Medicare, maintain
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
Executive orders were meant for national emergencies. Apparently we're under threat from everyone from whom we have a trade imbalance, even islands with no humans on them! (And it's not like partisans are locking up Congress to sp
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
> They pay no taxes on anything related to this office building. Was a Deacon at a church that bought a strip mall (fire sale price). They had to pay regular taxes on income from the other businesses. Even the church's own thrift an
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
Is it fair to lump all of NPR in with TAL? They have quite a few different shows run by different people.
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
In some religious circles they literally teach confirmation bias as a virtue, by another name of course. To paraphrase, if your prayer was answered or you were unexpectedly spared/saved/rewarded then it was god; and if not then he
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
IME end-to-end tests in a browser really help with services that have a lot of parts to integrate, but damn they are hard to make reliable. One challenge is animation and timing races, supposedly Playwright can address many of those. Anothe
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
The left is loud about the hypocrisy and faults of its own. Whether that's drone striking US citizens, trading on insider info, or taking literal bribes. The left has prosecuted its own far more often than the right. My whole point is
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
This is only true to a point. When facts impact their lives people suddenly care more about them than stories.
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
So because a vocal minority 'cancelled' speech in private spheres for a few years, it's the fault of (all?) progressives that the right wildly overreacted and installed facism and government enforced censorship? By this logic
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
So basically, integrating and supporting different cultures within one country is doomed? Better to be a closed ethnostate?
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
All good ideas. Let's do them too. Instead of dismissing the differences between the choices we have today as inconsequential.
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
> (Or, I suppose, a bunch of manufacturing could spring up in the US, superior to the rest of the world, giving us whole new export markets and pushing the Dow into six figures. Let's find out!) Didn't we find out like a centur
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
Phew! Good thing we're also rolling back EPA and other regulatory controls that encourage/enforce sustainable practices. Otherwise it might have been (only an ill conceived) part of a coherent strategy.
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
What I describe is what I've seen in many evangelical churches over decades and in three different countries, first hand. Evangelicals like to think their flavor is immune from all that ailes other branches of Christianity. Yet they
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
> if any party can do something you are afraid of, focus on the enabling factors that allows them to do that Perhaps you can enlighten me what these enabling factors are? Because I thought vigorous debate, a free press, and a balance of
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
In the Midwest US I also see evangelical Christianity pushing faith healing so hard that to be some kinds of sick are moral failures. Combined with the puritan view of poverty as a symptom of moral failure, and there is a lot of turning up
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
I'm making no demands. Only pointing out an absurd false equivalence. Change to the polarizing system would be great. I doubt that will happen by softening protests to obscene injustice. Rather it's likely to reenforce the shiftin
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
Sad that we rely on the scraps these captured regulators let fall through the cracks. At least until their patrons awake and close those loopholes.
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
Ah yes, it is the left's fault the right is spiraling the country into despotism. Feeling a lot of "Why do you make them hit you?" energy in this thread.
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
> it is valid to be more annoyed by the ways they are the same Is it? One side has a vocal minority who took defense of minorities to the point of harassment and was ultimately rebuffed. The other side controls the government and is enth
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
Harassment is bad. Extraordinary rendition is bad. One of them is significantly worse than the other. And the side complaining about A whilst celebrating B is significantly more hypocritical.
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
IMO everyone should automatically have rights over their own likeness, especially when it comes to commercial ventures.
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
> you can't materialize good leadership by ignoring every issue and praying to a higher power. Indeed. We must be vigilant to acquire and maintain our freedoms and good governance. People suffered and some died to build the parts wo
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
There are also trademark protections. I heard Ford actually trademarked his likeness to ensure he got a piece of the merchandise action.
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
In practice it's often longer. Drug companies queue up minor tweaks to their formulas and can threaten to sue anyone even close to the new way, even carbon copies of the now expired patent. Few can afford to win a lawsuit. We need more
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
Shocking if that's all accurate. Or perhaps not considering the regression to who-you-know and money as filters in Ivy admissions. A young family member of my partner just got accepted to Yale without having money or connections, so ID
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
Shame so many creators took the Honey paycheck, even while Honey was taking money out of their pocket by stealing affiliate links. I guess few really vet their sponsors. Not even LTT or MrBeast!
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
Could bankrolling cryptocoin and AI businesses ever cause people to lose their freedom? Asking for a friend
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by paulryanrogers 2y ago
Does Playwright work with multiple browsers? I get the impression it can work with multiple engines, but they're just custom wrappers and not the full/original browsers.

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