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by swed420 3mo ago
And as my parent comment says, voting for complicit Dems is a future vote for him. Treating a corrupt system as legitimate is what perpetuates it. Only one of the three options marks it as illegitimate. Collectively admitting the problem is
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by swed420 3mo ago
> You might as well say neither side are perfect (which no one disagrees with). Maybe if you want to manufacture consent for the broken system which continues to make lives worse with each passing year instead of confront it. If you&#x27
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by swed420 3mo ago
> We're going to take the "both sides bad" intellectual dishonesty The intellectual dishonesty is pretending that not calling out both sides will lead to any kind of long term solution. > But hey! Kamala would've d
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by swed420 3mo ago
> They don't need any more incentive or backing from monied interests Because they are the monied interests. What they don't want is for the conversation to turn from people blindly rejecting data centers (for any reason) to pe
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by swed420 3mo ago
> Power though? Still a problem. I've long suspected that monied interests are seeding social media with weak arguments about water as a distraction, and people mindlessly re-share that as part of their identity. Then the other half
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by swed420 3mo ago
False dichotomy. There's no reason it couldn't impact software as well as other things. Also, it's obviously not the only acting force.
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by swed420 3mo ago
How does impaired human memory and increased risk taking relate to software stability?
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by swed420 3mo ago
Another elephant in the room is the widespread impact of neverending COVID re-infections of people who don't wear N95s in public (most people). Vaccines don't prevent transmission, which leaves everyone open to acquiring long COVI
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by swed420 3mo ago
I love Zettlr for this!
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by swed420 3mo ago
I still do mine at home, though I mostly only build one-offs with older style thru-hole components where tolerances are not as sensitive. Usually I can get away with using a simple Sharpie marker mask, though I've also had good luck in
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by swed420 3mo ago
In a limited fashion, yes. But ebooks mean you can search highlights, categorize them, see summaries of them, etc if using calibre, zotero, or similar.
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by swed420 3mo ago
Personally I like to highlight certain passages (non-fiction) for future reference, and this only works on ebooks.
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by swed420 3mo ago
Those are facts, not insults. HN isn't known for sugar-coating facts. If they offend you, consider asking yourself why.
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by swed420 3mo ago
The levels that capital interests stooped to, and it worked. Nobody was given an alternative, nor the facts that would motivate searching for one.
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by swed420 3mo ago
> Ya, everything is a conspiracy. No conspiracy required. It's just corporations acting like one would expect. In fact, it'd be very strange if they didn't. It's fundamentally a design problem (or for elites, a soluti
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by swed420 3mo ago
> Why didn’t these folks file this petition sometime during the 12 years since then where it likely would’ve gotten a more favorable reception? Because then The Uniparty would look bad. Instead, we can prop up the illusion of democracy a
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by swed420 4mo ago
> A - masks don't protect you, they protect others This is flat wrong, but also a demonstration of how far the Back To Normal propaganda propagated, because it's a common misconception. They protect both; especially at an N95 l
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by swed420 4mo ago
If you look into the effects, they're two separate categories of damage. Also, considering COVID keeps mutating, it's much harder to control. Anybody curious might consider scanning the sticky posts on /r/zerocovidcommun
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by swed420 4mo ago
> how many people come out of the wood work to make disparaging comments about people who use cannabis It's actually not even just HN. I've noticed this with many people in real life (US). It's especially strong with the s
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by swed420 4mo ago
If people are this concerned about heart health, they'd be wise to continue a zero-covid lifestyle into 2026 and beyond, since each re-infection (which vaccines don't prevent) increases the risk of severe health outcomes, includin
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by swed420 4mo ago
> lazy pothead But not all potheads are lazy, and many non-potheads are. Media tropes sure are great at propagating myths and generating false stigma, which creates a chilling effect for ever correcting the former. https://the
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by swed420 4mo ago
It's not even limited to tech workers. Propaganda runs deep.
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by swed420 4mo ago
Can we get rid of the chlormequat while we're at it? https://www.earth.com/news/banned-chemical-chlormequat-found...
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by swed420 4mo ago
> This should be the absolutely only thing that Democrats talk about. Democrats are half of the uniparty of capital interests. They only exist to prop up the illusion of a functioning democracy. "Look guys, the election was so close
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by swed420 4mo ago
They make breakout boards that mate with the main ATX motherboard connector on the PSU. Bonus that some of them even include fuses. And at that point, why not just chop up an old ATX case to house everything, assuming there's clearance
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by swed420 4mo ago
> Because an individual can only positively influence one thing at a time when it's so far outside of their sphere. Not true, but let's pretend it is: then pick the parent item that's affecting all of the child items: afor
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by swed420 4mo ago
also https://hckrnews.com for a slightly different take on the concept
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by swed420 4mo ago
> Yes, housing, medical, and college are outpacing incomes. Which item would you want to work on if you only got to pick ONE thing? Why would we intentionally narrow the discussion like this? That's something that pretend political
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by swed420 4mo ago
Care to elaborate?
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by swed420 4mo ago
> But that's not a consumer initiative. Seems irrelevant to the original point.

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