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by realce 5y ago
My wording is imprecise. You're right, what I suppose I meant to say was a standing centralized military. Those powers are to originally allow the funding of armies that are later disbanded, this attitude is also reflected in the 2
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by realce 5y ago
Those figures are required expenditures, not budgets. They represent agreements between tax-paying citizens/employees and the government. The military's funding is variable and not required - the Constitution doesn't even s
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by realce 5y ago
My most-paranoid self thinks that crypto is basically a giant cracking algo being tested out.
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by realce 5y ago
“We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thoug
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by realce 5y ago
Maybe something that could be dissolved with saliva? But then the crooks would just cover themselves in spit... We can't win!
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by realce 5y ago
I'm seriously interested in the use of netguns or bolo-guns or even some kind of goo-gun that can just trap people. Tazers and pepper spray are way too violent and ineffective. This one kinda works https://www.youtube.com
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by realce 5y ago
It's not "NFT" as a tech, it's the ability for the OpenSea ecosystem to maintain real value throughout time. That's very dubious, it's a house of cards balancing an elephant on top imho. Natural entropy and ne
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by realce 5y ago
> We really need to stop placing the burden on the individual. That's the person who incentivized the polluters to pollute in the first place. The individual had no standards except an expanding "quality of life" and they
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by realce 5y ago
This sounds trite or oversimplified, but the best thing you can do is stop using every single industrial supply chain you possibly can. The urge to produce/consume away the consequence of industrialization is a capitalist pidgin-hole
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by realce 5y ago
We need a FSF type organization for cannabis strains. It could very quickly turn into an anti-consumer design space. If different strains do indeed have unique medical benefits and are alternatives to retail medication, a space for general
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On the Media – Take This Job and Shove It(wnycstudios.org)
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by realce 5y ago
> Amid the so-called Great Resignation, nearly 39 million Americans have left their jobs. On this week’s On The Media, hear why this trend is a logical response to the cult of work. Plus, when technology makes our jobs harder, maybe bein
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by realce 5y ago
> but on the other hand the U.S. upholds much stricter rules of engagement than any of its enemies (hell, even stricter than our cops). Should credit not be given for that? In all honesty and at the very minimum, being criticized openly
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by realce 5y ago
> Do reporters usually help people break the law? Truthfully that question is hard to answer, you must be specific - do you mean reporters helping people jaywalk? Source the law that this Australian citizen ran afoul of. Greenwald provi
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by realce 5y ago
Fabricate a narrative that allows your country to murder tens of thousands of people == fine and not illegal. Tell soldier how cryptographic maths work == double castration and the CIA tries to assassinate you. Don't forget that the Co
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by realce 5y ago
> Are foreigners allowed to hack military networks in your country? Yes, it happens all day every day. Assange didn't even "hack" anything, he allegedly helped educate Manning, no different than a text file or a 2600 arti
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by realce 5y ago
Reality Winner and Manning are American citizens. Assange is not. What "games" would YOU play to get out of being extradited to a foreign country for crimes of publishing factual information? Your consolation is that it's
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Rules for thee, not for me.
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by realce 5y ago
I'm not trying to go to bat for The Company but all sources of information "influence the media" and it's the job of a good journalist to get info from every source available to them, including intelligence agencies. The
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by realce 5y ago
Oh interesting, thanks for the insight! Not to be conspiratorial, but through a political lens they both serve to serve a similar message. Maybe they're part of a low-profile campaign, who knows.
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by realce 5y ago
https://twitter.com/realMattBuck/status/1468535971125895175 @NancyTracker, the account that tweets Pelosi's stock trades, was suspended today.
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by realce 5y ago
This is an all-or-nothing defense. You're saying it's outside of righteousness to impact a single perceived injustice because you cannot correct every evil on Earth. That's nihilism that prevents anyone from being "righ
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by realce 5y ago
So you're asserting that I dislike Israel based on nothing - thanks again. If you've made up your mind about the openness of my own, then I suppose we're at the end of our conversation.
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by realce 5y ago
>That's a strange extreme. I agree, that's why I mocked your assertion that any dislike of Israel is due to ignorance, arrogance, or racial hatred. Thank you for immediately engaging in a whataboutist slander to defend your po
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by realce 5y ago
You personally have that right. The state of Texas must provide contracts with no bias and only considering the quality of work the contractor would provide. The state is not allowed to discriminate based on arbitrary attributes of that co
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by realce 5y ago
And only Israel needs the protection? That's a mightily discriminated-against nation. What if this law wasn't about boycotting but said "No contracts with Texas unless you pledge allegiance to Allah" You don't have
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by realce 5y ago
Because of actual sanctions, not because the state of Texas doesn't like it.
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A flawless state that imputes no man, what a miracle!
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by realce 5y ago
A stock represents ownership in a company that makes things. The value of the stock is relative to the performance of the company, not the amount of fools available to sell to. Crypto represents nothing and is backed by nothing other than
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by realce 5y ago
So when Jason Voorhees is hunting me down, the last camp councilor left, and I find the keys to the van... You think I shouldn't reduce that risk because of the public good?

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