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by qball 8mo ago
And that law is incredibly and hideously stupid, as it's a heckler's veto on having cool stuff. The Internet is basically the final frontier where this harmful law doesn't reach, though the Karens are really trying to expand
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by qball 8mo ago
Everybody hates teenagers, so yes. It's not really about protecting them; people that claim this is the case are generally doing so to launder that hatred.
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by qball 8mo ago
The big stuff, sure, but the French state's small-arms capacity (while once impressive) has atrophied to the point of non-existence. They rely on the Germans (and to a point, Czechs) to supply their military these days.
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by qball 9mo ago
>Apple has never had better hardware (on mobile). This is just straight up false. Qualcomm's current top of the line processors are about 3 years behind what you can get in Apple's cheapest product (that being the 16e), and
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by qball 9mo ago
No. The reason Light Mode has been getting lighter is simple: because the default computer in 2025 is now a laptop or phone, whereas in 2009 it was a desktop. Laptops and phones have easy and relatively coarse brightness adjustment settings
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by qball 10mo ago
And media lies by omission.
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by qball 10mo ago
Additionally, all ICE cars can charge from 0-100% in under 5 minutes. Even if their towing range was somehow less than an EV, it would matter less because you don't have to spend an hour at a charging station.
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by qball 10mo ago
No, it's an aversion to having (and enforcing) basic standards.
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by qball 10mo ago
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
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by qball 10mo ago
The old, the prime beneficiaries, can fight for themselves. Elbows up!
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by qball 10mo ago
The regulatory environment in Alberta is such that it permits housing to be built, and it does. The same cannot be said of Toronto (or everywhere else in the nation that isn't the Prairies for similar reasons), for landed interests and
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by qball 10mo ago
No, you just happened to build appropriately because a certain subfaction of the population weren't able to pass the typical laws that would stop building. The housing shortage was created by regulation and it's foolish or selfish
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by qball 11mo ago
>Automatics have been more efficient than manuals for decades. No, they haven't. At least, not ones the average consumer could actually buy. While it's true that modern 8 or 10 speed automatic transmissions do now compete favo
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by qball 11mo ago
You will still care that you're wasting a bunch of your engine's potential, even with a V8. Autos (not DCTs) don't generally let you rev the engine as high as manuals do, they don't really let you take advantage of engin
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by qball 11mo ago
It'll throw a code, just like it does if you forget to put DEF in. It's not a malfunction, they just want you to think it is.
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by qball 11mo ago
"Car won't start because the radio failed to update" and "insurance company tracking and other telemetry" are not just zero value, but net-negative.
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by qball 11mo ago
So nothing of value is lost.
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by qball 11mo ago
The attitude that the computers should always be subordinate to the driver also extends to the transmission.
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by qball 11mo ago
Yes, this is exactly what this does.
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by qball 11mo ago
The converse is also true, however. If, for example, society sees fit to deprive me of my right to security (for instance, perhaps it deigns to throw me in jail if I defend myself against a home invasion), then society doesn't get to
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by qball 11mo ago
Yet, that compromise means NYC and LA can still field an all-volunteer army of people who tend not to be from NYC and LA. Toronto/Ottawa/Montreal, demonstrably, cannot do that. Which of the two strategies do you think give the cit
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by qball 11mo ago
The bureaucrats are being militarized out of desperation. The political faction all bureaucrats in the nation belong to can't find enough soldiers. This is because they treat those soldiers with contempt- no young man wants to die for
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by qball 11mo ago
>For a nation with basically zero chance of invasion of its home soil and an extremely low risk of internal conflict Clearly the Canadian government doesn't feel the same way. If they tried to conscript they'd quickly find the
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by qball 11mo ago
The same is true of Canada, but to a far greater extent since Toronto/Ottawa/Montreal have a permanent veto on whatever the rest of the country wants. The US political system, for all its other faults, has successfully avoided th
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by qball 11mo ago
Plenty of US citizens openly celebrated the murder of an American for what was protected by the 1A in the US. So no, I don't think that the people who celebrated that would care, and said people would actively support an administrati
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by qball 11mo ago
US doesn't care about mens rea for certain crimes involving speech anyway. Anti-blasphemy laws, which is what these laws are, don't care about that either.
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by qball 11mo ago
Google "Operation Chokepoint".
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by qball 11mo ago
Why would it? Plenty of US citizens would actively cheer the notion of having a foreign government arrest their political opponents as an end-run around the fact they're not allowed to do it at home. After all, 1A/"freeze pea
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by qball 11mo ago
Extraordinary rendition is still a thing, though; the US has done this several times. Now, granted, the US is a freer country than the UK is so that doesn't usually matter all that much, but all the US would need to do to nullify its 1
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by qball 11mo ago
If a country wants its preferred speech control, it can build its own Internet.

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