reverendsteveii

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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
The fun part of the mentally-ill categorization is that being mentally ill also has a tendency to lead to poverty and homelessness which in turn will increase the likelihood that someone will opt for MAID but could be solved by other social
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
bad angle shot here: >Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths >While the number of assisted deaths in Canada is growing, the country still falls behind the Netherlands, where euthanasia accounted for around 5% of total
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
When you stack bricks for a living you're either stacking bricks or you're not, and the total number of bricks stacked in a given amount of time is a pretty good measurement for who is most efficient at stacking bricks. Coding is
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
Slight disagreement here: I don't think it's an issue of in-person socialization, I think it's an issue of non-person socialization. Keeping track of real people that you know in real life, or even meeting real people in smal
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
You'll notice they were able to identify both the flyer and the purpose of the flight in both these cases.
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
Question: how do you think the US government post-9/11 would respond if they actually didn't know who belonged to these drones and they were less than an hour from Washington DC (given a flight speed of 200mph https://e
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
What you do is you deny it over and over and give a confused old woman the run-around until she's so exhausted she decides it's literally easier to die than to continue fighting. Ask me how I know.
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
13% + 1 They didn't cover my grandmother's mammogram They didn't cover her chemo They didn't cover the pain and anxiety meds for her palliative care She died of cancer over the course of two years. Insurance made sure th
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
Nah they thought they were just gonna do whatever they wanted to forever no matter who got hurt. The rich and powerful always believe that, and they're usually 100% correct right up until the moment where they're 100% incorrect.
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
You can normalize data in order to isolate the effects of a given variable. Essentially, you just change the question from 'Are android users more likely to default on a loan?' to 'Given that all other factors are roughly equ
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
>But with kids, that mostly goes out the window. That's what I mean when I say they should try making life better. Make it so that with kids I can have a house and family vacations and all the other things that my parents had access
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
>Burn all my savings and assets For about 25% of Americans this would take less than a month ( https://bankingjournal.aba.com/2024/08/survey-one-in-four-am... )
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
not that much happier, no, but it's non-zero. esp with commute time, arranging lunch outside the home, parking or public transportation costs, childcare costs and all sorts of other little expenses that just vanish when you can stay ho
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
I feel like it's been a long time fretting over falling birth rates and this is the first time I've seen anyone float the idea that making life better for people might make them a bit more inclined to make more people.
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
you're right, it's a measure of access to life's necessities. the point of the comment is that access to life's necessities isn't tied to the economy.
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
Not from CA but had this experience growing up. I was bored in school so I hummed, read books from home, took naps and so on during lessons. Evidently that led to a discussion between my first grade teacher and my parents where they wanted
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
My team spends half an hour per week on standups and about 2 hours every 3 weeks pointing stories. Any interaction beyond that is on an as-needed basis and mostly I'm just trusted to figure out what needs doing and do it. Agile is like
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
Government to temporarily stop robbing people after watchdog determines that the way they rob people may be a violation of their civil rights as the law says that the police must rob people without regard to their membership in protected cl
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
I'm not expressing an opinion on raw milk, I'm replying to a comment that was expressing an opinion on milk in general. I like milk. With that being said, I'm not a raw milk guy but I would hear an argument for someone's
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
hear me out: I want it. It tastes nice, I'm aware of the risks and I'm an adult with the wherewithal to make that decision. I will guarantee you there's some component of your diet that fails the "not strictly necessary
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
At my old job I was able to use a timing attack for remote username enumeration. Our login process was 1) get username and password from user 2) check if username exists and if not, return error 3) if username exists, look up hashed passwor
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
If you ever have a problem, just call the police and then you'll have two problems.
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by reverendsteveii 2y ago
because since 9/11 the US has ridden a wave of fear into a police state where the police steal more than thieves ( https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/cops-still-take-more-stuff... , https://www.nemannlawof