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by t-3 5mo ago
AI-fueled agitprop campaigns.
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by t-3 5mo ago
> (I am fairly certain that an invention of e.g. a tin can opener did not have any noticeably political effects). The tin can certainly did though! "Can openers" are particularly distinct refinement of the cutting tool for a sp
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by t-3 5mo ago
No. Some $x do $y does not imply that all/most/many/true $x do $y. It implies that some $x do $y.
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by t-3 5mo ago
The fact that profit motives exist and motivate people isn't an "appeal to capitalism", it's just a statement of reality. The best way to stop slop is to put it out of business. People don't make slop for social pre
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by t-3 5mo ago
"The troops" don't read that stuff any more than you or I do, at least none of those I've asked had. Maybe it's more popular among officers.
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by t-3 5mo ago
> Same with fiber. Really? The only issues arising from fiber that I've heard of is constipation, and that's only if diet suddenly changes and large amounts of fiber are introduced to a digestive system unused to it. AFAIK most
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by t-3 5mo ago
Sorting, selling, cleaning, the variety may not be palatable or presentable fresh, transport and packing damage, warehousing and storage (grocery stores don't have huge piles of fruit or even dry goods in the back, this stuff is all JI
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by t-3 5mo ago
Have you ever looked at the prices they pay? Government is the last place I'd look for competent management, anyone good/noncorrupt would be making 10x in the private sector.
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by t-3 6mo ago
Is that something new (divergence since the political split), or an older regional dialect thing that is now more obvious due to the political situation?
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by t-3 6mo ago
It happens all the time in English too, not always super broadly though now that English is the lingua franca (and that is a foreign phrase that's aged poorly but has no proper translation!). It's very common to prefer romanized
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by t-3 6mo ago
Resistance to illegal occupation and colonization isn't ethnic cleansing, it's a legal right as ruled by every international body since Israel was formed. Totally false equivalence.
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by t-3 6mo ago
The government of Lebanon is cooperating with Israel - it's only the southerners/Hezbollah in conflict, at least for now. The people of Gaza are cut off for the most part. The strict censorship inside Israel is what you should c
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by t-3 6mo ago
It's mainly a problem of consequences and accountability. The people who suffer unjustly from unlawful surveillance and overreach are usually unable to do anything about it, and they are assumed to be criminals anyways so nobody cares.
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by t-3 6mo ago
Somehow I never realized that GCC has a very regular release schedule until looking it up just now: https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html
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by t-3 6mo ago
There's a store in my neighborhood that only does app purchases and a little robot brings it out to your car. It's nice getting cilantro that hasn't been picked over by a hundred people, but I don't like shopping for gro
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by t-3 6mo ago
In my state there are laws requiring the price charged at the register to mark what's displayed on the shelf, with the store paying a penalty (price * some multiplier) to a customer who has been charged more than the displayed price. I
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by t-3 6mo ago
Where did you get the impression I don't condemn it? Acknowledging that it exists and getting worse isn't admitting defeat, unless you're unable to hold ideals with less-than-optimistic prospects. The inevitability of trends
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Pigtikal (puzzles in geometry that I know and love)(arxiv.org)
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by t-3 6mo ago
It's the truth. Would you prefer I lie and tell you everything will be okay after Trump?
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by t-3 6mo ago
> Oh, wait that's been the entirety of this treasonous administration. That's been the case for at least 25 years. Still bad, but not new or unique to Trump. I'm too young to have a good idea of what the pre-Patriot Act A
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by t-3 6mo ago
There's always an option to stop. We can choose civility over barbarity, stop trying to kill people over 1000+ year old dick waving contests, and stop threatening each other with doomsday weapons because your grandpa shot my grandpa. J
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by t-3 6mo ago
In a logical or mathematical sense, sure, but when it's the US government and a huge surveillance-tech company it's pretty necessarily immoral (at least in an American context where harming liberty is immoral - other cultures disa
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by t-3 6mo ago
> there isn't any slack in the workforce, and qualified worker shortages are being reported in every trade across the board Labor force participation is ~62%, far lower than historical peaks. I don't buy it.
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by t-3 6mo ago
I think the bean counters get a bad rap for this a bit unfairly. The past century has seen more progress in knowledge and technology than the rest of human history combined. The world and business environment are changing too rapidly to mak
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by t-3 6mo ago
It's similar to dominos then - every region and cultural/ethnic group has their own variant, and every family has their own house rules. Or craps! I was so confused my first time playing in a casino after learning to play in the
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by t-3 6mo ago
Science is no longer a hobby for the idle rich, it's an occupation. Peer review cannot function in a hostile environment governed by self interest (results == resume). Science practice needs to adapt to modern conditions rather than to
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by t-3 6mo ago
> "being an island" doesnot, in fact, make it easier to inhibit smuggling. One reason, the sheer number of small, unstaffed seaports and the volume of small fishing vessel traffic does in fact make it easier for unobserved ingr
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by t-3 6mo ago
LSD may not fry the brain, but the article makes a compelling case that Leary and the CIA certainly intended to fry some brains, or at least persuade them to stop protesting the war.
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by t-3 6mo ago
"Regularly" is doing a lot of work here. Plenty of rich and successful people dabble in drugs. People with any level of wealth who can function normally in society while habitually and regularly using any substance are pretty obvi
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by t-3 6mo ago
> [1] But this youngest generation also gets the privilege of never having easy access to cigarettes. Being an island, it's probably slightly easier to control smuggling, but if there's money to be made, people will be smugglin

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