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by qball 4y ago
>the word of unelected random adults is law, the rules are completely arbitrary, students have no right to privacy, no freedom of movement, sometimes not even control over how they dress or who they speak to. Or in other words, no differ
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by qball 4y ago
>because the country is so large that the build out cost is expensive Nah, that's just their excuse; most of the country's population lives in urban areas and they don't even bother running fiber or setting up cell towers
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>You have to remember to close it after firing You actually don't ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAneTFiz5WU&t=110s ). The trick is that the bolt carrier itself seals the action so mud doesn't get into it;
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by qball 4y ago
>It seems to be enforced by the credit card companies and processors Who are an unofficial arm of the US government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
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by qball 4y ago
Most voters recognize that carbon taxes are universally a bad deal. For the low-income people, they mean prices for energy and transportation go up for no directly realizable benefit. Sure, we can say "you'll get a rebate at the
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by qball 4y ago
>I'm of course writing this in jest - hopefully they wouldn't have to be that draconian - but why hasn't anyone tried this? Is there not an electoral majority? Because the electoral majority is a part of, or gets kickbacks
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by qball 4y ago
>Canada has a (written) Constitution. It is functionally useless in a way that the US one isn't. >Canada has a Senate that can reject and initiate legislation. The operative word being "can"; but in practice the overwhe
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>Their "conservatives" are about as worthless as California Republicans. It's worth remembering that this problem is structural. Canada is what the US would look like if it had no Constitution, all votes were party line,
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The last time I went to Dave & Busters, they didn't seem to have an entrance policy. People don't seem to have a problem with this even though a minority of their games are ultimately slot machines (the simplest of which is th
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>There is 0 value to things that can be generated with in games like the 'loot' from lootboxes. But that's false, on its face in fact- there was development and artist time involved in every step of the process, and that t
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by qball 4y ago
>classify loot boxes with a random drop element as gambling Most people who talk about this tend to have no idea what laws already cover gambling. I think that, in this case, loot boxes should be treated like slot machines as far as mini
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by qball 4y ago
It was Linux to the point where you could run a full X11 server (and LXDE desktop) as an app: it was what Windows 8 could have been, if it was done right.
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by qball 4y ago
>ever since they switched from Costa Rican beans around 2010 the coffee has been bad The unfortunate problem for Tim Horton's in Canada is that going to McDonalds (of all places) is better in every single way- their basic coffee is
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by qball 4y ago
>Full auto is the default behavior. It's the trigger disconnector that makes a handgun semi-auto. This isn't true for any modern rifle or pistol design- the absence of the disconnector just means the gun stop working (hammer fo
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by qball 4y ago
>Yeah, but (pardon my French) who the fuck cares? Well, the people suffering from it who haven't figured out that it doesn't matter. And the school certainly won't tell you that because of moral hazard; suffering ensues.
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>I'm a Canadian and can name all members of the US supreme Court from memory and zero members of the Canadian one. To be fair, the Canadian Supreme Court rarely does anything of everyday relevance to Canadians, much like all aspects
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by qball 4y ago
>Australia isn’t really a success at solving the underlying social issues. Definitely- the most recent mass shooting committed by an Australian national didn't even occur on Australian soil, but in Christchurch, NZ. >our cultural
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by qball 4y ago
>In fact, gun owners (like the general population) are heavily in favor of increasing gun control, especially things like closing loopholes in background check laws[1]. The reason that gun owners are in practice against this, of course,
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by qball 4y ago
Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGPlZ9Ctptg&t=900s Provided you have someone pointing you in the right direction and making sure that downrange is clear, there's nothing wrong with this.
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by qball 4y ago
>normal desktop Xorg Interestingly, webOS actually did let you do this; chrooting into a lightweight desktop environment (the default one offered was LXDE) was as simple as launching the application. Sure, dual-boot configurations were e
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by qball 5y ago
>Canada hasn't fallen into the same sort of divisiveness the US has Canada is, politically, even more harshly-divided than the US is. We even have specific political parties for it: the Quebec Party, the Western Party, and the Large
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by qball 5y ago
No, and this ( https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/9d427dba-c... ) is the reason why. The area in the red is one continuous granite slab called the Canadian Shield. The US has no comparable geography.
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by qball 5y ago
Maybe, but the people that drive the hate for Intel online all fall into the former category. And "have to replace the motherboard along with the CPU" is the exact thing we're talking about here: there was no technical reason
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Well, they thought of that; it's just as expensive out there too. If you want a house and a job in this country, you have to go to Alberta, Saskatchewan, or Manitoba. BC has no land and is either mountain or agricultural land reserve
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>I'd also like to see a ban on corporations purchasing private homes and significant tax increases on non principle residences. This would actually solve the problem (the calls are coming from inside the house- foreign investment is
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>which remains harmful/deadly for thousands of years. Which it has in common with things like acid mine drainage and waste from a bunch of other industrial processes. Of course, solving the former "just" requires employing
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by qball 5y ago
This probably has a lot to do with the anti-consumer segmentation and processor locking that Intel implemented at the dawn of the decade- arbitrary socket changes every 2 years so you couldn't upgrade without buying a new motherboard,
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by qball 5y ago
Intel CPUs are not the same way, and haven't been for nearly 20 years. The pins are on the motherboard, and the CPU has lands; hence the name 'Land Grid Array' (starting with the LGA775). Most of AMD's CPUs are still of
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by qball 5y ago
>Timing of light and absence of light is critical - early morning light exposure greatly benefits people with SAD. Of course, you aren't getting that in either system; even in Standard time the sun doesn't actually rise in the
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Also, it'll give that privilege to everyone else who doesn't work standard 9-5- it helps those who work 8-4, and 7-3. It doesn't help 10-6ers, but those are almost universally office jobs (who generally tend to have the luxu

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