projectazorian

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by projectazorian 1y ago
Approval ratings don’t mean much for a lame duck president. Look at the 2026 Senate polls in places like Iowa. Given Trump’s margin of victory in 2024 the Republicans should be crushing it, but they are struggling.
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by projectazorian 1y ago
The Econ 101 view would say yes, note most countries haven't imposed 1:1 retaliatory tariffs. But economic considerations are not the only ones. Opposition to the American Revolution is a fundamental theme in Canadian history. People s
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by projectazorian 1y ago
These are the same rural areas rapidly turning against the administration due to its trade policy destroying global demand for their products, its foreign policy funding their international competitors, and its environmental policies loweri
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by projectazorian 1y ago
Most of the people the admin wants to remove are not eligible for ESTA in the first place.
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by projectazorian 1y ago
> No, you attended public school and someone had you memorize "due process" in 3rd grade and you never were taught what it meant. It seems like at your school they didn't mention habeas corpus or Magna Carta? Maybe it soun
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by projectazorian 1y ago
This is risible. "Sending them home" requires arrest and detention. Article I, Section 9, Clause 2 of the US Constitution grants people the right to contest their detention in court. So far, the administration hasn't formally
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by projectazorian 1y ago
> Since nobody is protesting now Not the case, there are quite large protests, one is this weekend I believe. As for disappearances, ICE is already doing that. Although in Chicago their attempts to disappear people are going increasingly
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by projectazorian 1y ago
> Remember Steven Crowder complaining that 50 million dollars was too little - but where is he now? He's irrelevant. To be clear, his career imploded when he got caught on camera abusing his wife. It's not like he ended up on t
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by projectazorian 1y ago
> What I want to know is: why would anyone else bother staying given these new rules? Being a toady often has career benefits - and at least on the right it's often lucrative to boot. I mean, look at how Hegseth got his job.
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by projectazorian 1y ago
The status quo is that they have access credentials, which presumably come with some sort of vetting. So a "foreign agent" showing up and impersonating a reporter is unlikely. I've visited the White House a couple of times an
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by projectazorian 1y ago
> had a serious alcohol problem and is now somewhat relapsed I assume you meant lapsed - Freudian slip, maybe? ;)
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by projectazorian 1y ago
> I find LLM generated code ends up pushing review/maintenance burden onto others. It "looks" right at first glance, and passes superficial tests, so it's easy to get merged. But then as you build on top of it, you re
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by projectazorian 1y ago
The US combat fitness standard is a 155lb 3-rep max deadlift. That's trivial for every woman I know who lifts.
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by projectazorian 1y ago
Unless you are an elite athlete I assure you that there are many women out there who can lift more, with better endurance, than you or I. If I had to choose to be in a foxhole with a fit 20 year old woman or a flabby 35 year old man, I&#x27
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by projectazorian 1y ago
I tend to agree, but worth considering that Britain would probably not have banned slavery when it did if it still controlled the southern US.
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by projectazorian 1y ago
Ironically the US uses fentanyl for palliative care instead due to prohibition.
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by projectazorian 1y ago
> Even if it was legal, cocaine would be impossible to get that cheap, unless some DNA editing is done to make yeast shit it out maybe. Not as cheap as sugar, but probably as cheap as coffee. Coca and coffee grow in the same climates, an
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by projectazorian 1y ago
> most doctors are just quacks, who throw hypothesis on the wall, to see what sticks. This is the argument that actual quacks leverage to handwave away all of modern science and medicine in favor of whatever vibes-based nonsense they&#x2
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by projectazorian 1y ago
> It kind of proves it is a scam. You tried it, it did not work. But for some reason you lived experience is invalid, and you should keep trying again and again! This is like saying dating is pointless because you dated a half dozen peop
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by projectazorian 1y ago
Correct. And even if you've identified whatever changes need to be made, that doesn't mean you're ready to quit therapy. Often the required changes are difficult and emotionally challenging! BTW, I think a lot of the HN cynic
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by projectazorian 1y ago
> My friends in the midwest say that there's actually exemptions on tariffs when it comes to buying the manufacturing equipment itself, to avoid the issues you're talking about. This is a massive hand-wave and only applies to c
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by projectazorian 1y ago
Yeah, I never go to Starbucks at home, but frequently do on the road. Much of this country is still a wasteland when it comes to good coffee and Starbucks reliably has adequate quality coffee and clean bathrooms.
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by projectazorian 1y ago
Yes
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by projectazorian 1y ago
Fascists tend to downplay that part of their ideology until they're in power. Even the Nazis did this to some extent.
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by projectazorian 1y ago
The EDL is basically a union of street thugs, fascist politicians who split off from the BNP, and political opportunists like "Tommy Robinson". Fascist is an accurate enough term for their politics, the stated political positions
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by projectazorian 1y ago
> if such a culture takes in too many immigrants of religions with complete counter ethical and moral views (I won't name names, use your imagination) What parts of Islam are "complete counter ethical and moral views" to C
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by projectazorian 1y ago
“stop hitting yourself”
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by projectazorian 1y ago
He endorsed British far-right agitator “Tommy Robinson” (not his real name) - in the US context this would be like endorsing eg. Nick Fuentes.
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by projectazorian 1y ago
It feels like funding for conference participation at US companies has plummeted since COVID. Pre-COVID, most engineers I worked with would attend at least one conference a year on the company’s dime. That’s now become uncommon for anyone b
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by projectazorian 1y ago
> I haven't actually looked into it but I've heard that Japan basically doesn't allow for long-term immigration, except probably in exceptional cases like PhDs. Hasn’t been correct for at least the past decade, if you post

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