robonerd

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by robonerd 4y ago
In 1850, would a 13th Amendment seem likely? We live in interesting times, much could change very quickly.
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by robonerd 4y ago
At the bottom of the intersection between moral philosophy and politics is a firm foundation: "Most of us believe X and it doesn't matter if you disagree because we're willing to use force if you don't comply." No
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by robonerd 4y ago
If Congress could get an amendment passed to the effect of "Abortion is a right" , then the issue of how SCOTUS interprets the privacy argument becomes moot.
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by robonerd 4y ago
The author has nobody but himself to blame, since he sabotaged the reception of his own article with an inflammatory headline that assumes a false (or at least contentious) premise.
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by robonerd 4y ago
As far as your future job prospects go, a dishonorable discharge might as well be a felony conviction.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> The federal government derives much of it's power over the states using a controversial interpretation of the commerce clause Given that expansive interpretations of the commerce clause seems to be the status quo, doesn't t
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by robonerd 4y ago
There are nasty people on all sides of every issue. Unevenly distributed perhaps, but never absent completely.
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by robonerd 4y ago
I'm addressing the suggestion that an abortion isn't private when other people observe that a woman is no longer pregnant. > Nor is abortion necessarily private [...] or one could be visibly pregnant and then get an abortion.
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by robonerd 4y ago
An amendment seems ideal, but wouldn't a regular federal law also get the job done? They could even strengthen it like the Federal Reserve Act: "The right to amend, alter, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved."
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by robonerd 4y ago
Clever idea, but a bad idea. What you propose would create an incentive for pro-choice activists to create red-tape in the adoption system, to ensure an adequate number of orphans remain unadopted. Furthermore, it would incentivize pro-l
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by robonerd 4y ago
Controlling content through lies and censorship are crude methods of population control. By selectively amplifying some truths and suppressing others, you can create context.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> one could be visibly pregnant and then get an abortion. People don't talk about it a lot, but the miscarraige rate is something like 10-20%. You probably know at least a handful of women who've experienced one. It's
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by robonerd 4y ago
Titles like this drive me nuts. Trying to start a conversation with a question that assumes a false premise reminds me of the way threads on 4chan are started. I get that headlines are supposed to be attention grabby, but using annoyance
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by robonerd 4y ago
Even besides the performance issues, the UI is unusable (at least for people without accounts.) Many times I have found reddit links that seem relevant in my search results; I click through to the link to read the reddit discussion, read
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by robonerd 4y ago
> interactive graphics on the web, and getImageData() is essentially your way of accessing a pixel buffer I'm sure it's a great feature when you need it, but most websites have no legitimate need for it. Having this sort
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by robonerd 4y ago
Why does the teenager have that job, and would the teenager be happier without a job? Besides teenagers, grocery stores often hire mentally impaired people for bagging and cart wrangling. They seem to enjoy the work more than the teenagers
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by robonerd 4y ago
Five minutes was for the round trip, but if you want a 10 minute round trip you still fall well short of two hours a week. I think you're overestimating walk times though, a casual stroll for 5 minutes gets you a quarter of a mile.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Sanctions against Cuba likely continue because those sanctions are popular with an influential demographic in a swing state, namely Cuban Americans in Florida. In 2020, 58% of Cuban Americans affiliated with the GOP, while only 32% of non-
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by robonerd 4y ago
The walk doesn't count because it's two blocks away and I walk anyway around regardless of whether I'm grocery shopping, but sure, throw in 3x5 minutes walking for 3 grocery store trips a week (I average 1 or 2 a week, but wh
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by robonerd 4y ago
> I for one can not eat lettuce that has been on the fridge for more than 3 days. Maybe you refuse to, but you could . An organic head of lettuce easily lasts a week or more in the fridge. Anyway, the extent to which produce has be
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by robonerd 4y ago
Four of those five illustrations is a redrawing of the public domain photographs wikipedia has for each (Roger L. Farnham doesn't have a wikipedia page, but I bet his portrait was redrawn from a public domain photograph too.)
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by robonerd 4y ago
All three of the grocery stores I shop at are in the city. All three of them have honor system cart returns, and I've never seen a stray cart in my neighborhood. Even the homeless seem to leave the carts alone, or at least stash them
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by robonerd 4y ago
> In September 2003, Amiot Métayer was found dead, his eyes shot out and his heart cut out, most likely the result of machete-inflicted wounds. He was, prior to his death, the leader of the Gonaives gang known as "The Cannibal Army
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by robonerd 4y ago
If you shop several times a week, each shopping trip is short. It'll all add up to maybe an hour a week, not several hours.
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by robonerd 4y ago
A head of lettuce easily lasts 2 weeks in a fridge; loose or chopped lettuce lasts maybe half as long. Fruit last in the fruit basket on my counter, not even the fridge, for two weeks at least. Grapes I put in the fridge, and they last f
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by robonerd 4y ago
A basket worth of food lasts me about five days. If I were shopping once a day, I think a basket of food could feed five for a day.
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by robonerd 4y ago
My response to self-checkout is that it only works properly 50% of the time, and the other half I have to stand around looking befuddled before an employee waddles over to clear the error. Cashiers are evidently better at checkout than I
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Are you saying that sometimes people say "x is a code smell" without saying what the issue is? Oh yeah... CRs with lines marked simply "code smell", not even an "x is a".
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Relying on the honor system may be less effective, but I prefer it anyway because it feels a whole lot less demeaning. No quarter is essentially the store saying 'We trust you to do the right thing' whereas the quarter says &#
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by robonerd 4y ago
When somebody tells you about code smell, ask them to describe the smell. If they can describe it, then you can weigh the merit of their arguments. If 'describe the smell' stumps them, brush their remark aside until they can c

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