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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> Isn't there something in the constitution about that? Yes, "The Congress shall have Power...To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions". One
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>> I’ve been around since the 70’s and it’s improved dramatically I've been around since the 70's and it's the same as it ever was. The local library has a thing where you can access historical versions of the local new
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Roger, Roger.
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>> The "old web" was McDonalds in the early 90's. This looks more like McDonalds today McDonald's then vs. now: https://x.com/JamesLucasIT/status/1903891272496029709 Millenial gray.
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There's a Nate Silver article "What explains the liberal-conservative happiness gap?" at https://www.natesilver.net/p/what-explains-the-liberal-conse... , although it seems to equate happiness with mental
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Long social distancing. It's a thing.
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>> Mexico might be the new California More like the new Oregon...the new place where people are justifiably pissed off about all the Californians moving there.
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>> So long as a person is well informed and of sound mind, I don't see the problem Someone high on heroin or going through withdrawal from heroin is not of sound mind.
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Coffee-badging and other quiet revolts: How workers defy in-office mandates(thehill.com)
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>> people still overwhelmingly live in urban areas If you restrict the classification to urban vs. rural, then yes, people overwhelmingly live in urban areas, something like 80% to 20% according to the census. If you add in suburban,
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The 4th Amendment prevents police from conducting searches without a warrant. There are criminals who are going to escape detection because of that, and there are known criminals who go free because of that, and every year some of those cri
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>> We've managed to go 80-odd years with a reasonable global norm against redrawing borders What are the current borders of Yugoslavia? Did anybody in the west argue that redrawing the borders of Yugoslavia was against global nor
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>> I had hundreds of feeds in Google Reader, which quickly became overwhelming I never used Google Reader, did it not have any ability to put feeds in directories or any other way of prioritizing? I have hundreds of feeds in my RSS re
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
Hey! Parent! Leave them kids alone. All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
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The late 80's and early 90's was peak mayhem but kids still hung out unsupervised at the mall.
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The next largest category of natural disaster fatalities after tropical storms in the US is heat waves. The insurance companies aren't stopping writing polices in places that have heat waves, that's most of the country. Next after
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Tens of thousands? Over what time period? You may be way overestimating the number of people that die from natural disasters. Hurricanes killed around 2,000 people in the last quarter century, not tens of thousands, https://www.s
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
I work full remote. If they ask me to RTO, I quit and retire. Game over, man. But, given that, "5 days a week RTO is just beyond the pale"? No. That's just normal for pretty much everyone on the planet. Top talent? If they&#x
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"A rule that is almost always valid: never refute or answer a critic, no matter how preposterous the criticism may be. Do not let the critic teach you the cloth, as they say in bullfighting circles. Never charge the cloth, even if the
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> a President of the United States resigned because someone broke into an office We don't know exactly why Nixon resigned, but we know that it was not "because someone broke into an office".
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>> Even rewrites that have a decade old code base to be inspired from, often fail due to the sheer amount of things to consider A rewrite of a decade old code base is not the simplest thing that could possibly work.
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What use was it to anyone when Gerolamo Cardano devised the rules of probability in order to win at gambling?
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
You're one of today's unlucky 10,000.
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>> Why is Indonesia in chaos? I was wondering that too, looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Indonesian_protests .
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I forced every engineer to take sales calls and now our platform is command line only.
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"Toilet to Tap" would be a great name for a California brewpub.
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I have the same memory but no idea if that is a real memory or a false one. Being Gen X, most of my meaning for the word jerk came from Devo and the Circle Jerks.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and ( checks notes ) Single Sign On.
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Your mission for the week, should you choose to accept it, is to get one (or more) of the "words" tradwife, delulu, or broligarchy used in the acceptance criteria of one of your JIRA stories in progress without it being noticed or
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>> If you're good, you get hired In the long term. But in the long term we're all dead. I only have one social media account, LinkedIn, and I have that account because I wanted to help people that got laid off from the compa

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