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by petsfed 8mo ago
I don't know if its still true, but I recall reading once that CEQA had never been used to actually prevent or even slow the building of a dam or a mine or something. It had only ever been used to hobble otherwise neutral development.
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by petsfed 9mo ago
My number 1 complaint with Ubi games is that they all feel the same. Sure, in this one you stab, and in that one you shoot, and in that one over there you stab AND shoot, but it's all fundamentally the same. You've got a drone or
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by petsfed 9mo ago
> Locks do not provide real physical security, they just keep honest and lazy people out. Really?! I had no idea! I had such a miniscule understanding of what portion of the threat space locks address that the second sentence in the ve
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by petsfed 9mo ago
Eh, its more that any one security tactic will almost certainly not cover the entire threat space. Locks are very good at discouraging honest people and lazy, opportunistic people. They are not very good at discouraging generally skilled
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by petsfed 9mo ago
I mean to say that the only time I've ever needed to diagram a sentence to figure out what was being said was while taking Philosophy 1010, because the cheapest translations available of e.g. The Republic was a bit too opaque for me.
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by petsfed 9mo ago
The real barrier to students reading Plato has historically (and correctly) been the dismal quality of translations available. I always hated reading plato because the translations available to me were significantly more concerned with ca
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by petsfed 10mo ago
My point was not "oh, social media bullying is some kind of special case compared to other ways kids today bully their peers". My point was "modern bullying is different from historic bullying, and dismissing modern bullying
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by petsfed 10mo ago
I remember when a bully would have to go up to you themselves to mete out whatever harassment, and you could avoid a lot of it by just being aware and avoiding that particular person. Juxtapose that with today, where any one bully can creat
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by petsfed 10mo ago
Nowadays, when I hear "German Engineering", I internally translate it to "German love of complexity and bespoke/manual manufacturing". The extreme depreciation of BMWs and Germany's loss to the Allies in WWII a
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by petsfed 11mo ago
The leadership of the Whites were not the moderate monarchists who just wanted Nicholas to abdicate to literally any functioning adult. They were the “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality or death!” types. Their explicit goal was a resto
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by petsfed 11mo ago
Or worse still, Russia in the early-mid 1920s. The Reds very nearly lost the civil war to the Whites, not because of any battlefield victory, or even a concerted propaganda effort. Instead, it was because for a lot of people, they'd ta
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by petsfed 11mo ago
I think its not just recency bias at work, but also the broader experience that nothing changed after the first straw. If the complainant can't assemble the various issues into a coherent narrative that signals that they should leave,
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by petsfed 11mo ago
Granted, but the problem with direct democracy is that you either let issues be decided only by the most engaged voters or you require participation from all, and issues are decided based on who can present the most sexy case on otherwise
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by petsfed 11mo ago
A lot of reasons, but the two big ones are: 1) the American cult of self-reliance. The idea that people will not value something they did not themselves work for, even if its given to them by a close friend or family member, is basically sy
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by petsfed 11mo ago
All of the velcro katanas I've ever owned ultimately ended up pretty stank. I think its the textile lining. Meanwhile, my Muira VCS have stayed pretty clean. My Muira Lace, not so much.
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by petsfed 1y ago
A nit: There's a subtle distinction between an individual human and the power of human organization and civilization that is implied by the article, but never outright stated. One-for-one, there are many creatures that are individually
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by petsfed 1y ago
This is true up until it really REALLY isn't. The main strength of microcontroller-based hobby boards (I hesitate to say "bare-metal", but something like that) is that tuning them for long operation on a small pouch cell is p
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by petsfed 1y ago
I used to be all boots all the time, but I realized somewhat recently that unless I'm carrying a heavy load, boots are significantly less comfortable than good e.g. trail running shoes. If I'm carrying the load that the OP is, hik
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by petsfed 1y ago
Especially in the context of recent (that is, last 10 years) removal of data from Center of Disease Control sources due to changing political winds.
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by petsfed 1y ago
I mean, even the firmware binaries would be a game changer. But really, it'd be the appropriate tool chain to re-sign a replacement chip so that the overall device doesn't reject it. Provided there isn't some kind of mutual k
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by petsfed 1y ago
Yeah, because fuck people who require additional accessibility options, right? On top of the real concerns around otherwise selectable text in a writing system not supported by the user's keyboard, there's also the issue of whethe
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by petsfed 1y ago
I mean modern day. What I'm trying to express is that "nobody today would be racist against $whateverGroup$!" has precisely zero bearing on what absolute batshit lunacy people were racist about even 50 years ago. Its also the
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by petsfed 1y ago
Sure, but part of the point of in-effect racist zoning policies is that the affected population is predominately the targeted minority. It would be more effective and more equitable to address the actual issues created by flophouses. Single
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by petsfed 1y ago
One thing you can never depend on racists for is consistency . There are political cartoons drawn by fascists from the 1920s that attempt to stave off accusations of racism by pointing out that they include Italians (then show Mussolini as
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by petsfed 1y ago
The problem with this line of thinking is that home invasion is a different kind of crime from breaking and entering. With breaking and entering, the goal is to get what they can with a minimum of fuss. Locked doors, barking dogs, automatic
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by petsfed 1y ago
I misunderstood you then. I wholeheartedly agree with you. Even so, most folks who carry prefer concealed carry for tactical reasons, one of which being that unless you have your rifle in a ready position, its not very useful in a self-defe
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by petsfed 1y ago
Reports are that the single shot came from ~200 yards/meters away, which is basically the worst case scenario for good-guy-with-a-gun. In an active shooter situation, an armed bystander could in principle stop an attacker from continu
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by petsfed 1y ago
When my cat was stolen, I was living in California, where only state-certified exhausts will pass emissions testing. And to date, the state has only certified OEM exhausts for Priuses. So in my case, it was especially egregious (seriously,
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by petsfed 1y ago
Near my home in the pacific northwest region of the US, I saw at a construction site a big spool (~1m diameter, 1+ meter tall) of cable with "Fiber, NOT copper" spray painted on its side. I cannot imagine how frustrating it would
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by petsfed 1y ago
Cost to repair correctly is almost always a lot higher than the fence value of the material, but more importantly, repair cost is always higher than the labor/tool cost to steal the material. Dunno how long it takes to cut off a 12 f

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