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by tdeck 8mo ago
> There's no real art scene and even mentioning anything that slightly goes against the grain of Singapore's tight, tidy, and strict regimens doesn't just not appeal to the people, it'll actively infuriate them. Somew
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by tdeck 8mo ago
Reminds me of the Wells Fargo scandal from a few years back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_cross-selling_scan...
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by tdeck 8mo ago
I really don't understand why this is being flagged. There's a long history of people conducting medical trials without informed consent to save money and it's something we need to keep an eye out for when trials are conducte
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by tdeck 8mo ago
Any links to help us get started?
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by tdeck 8mo ago
I've been enjoying her recent videos about this for sure e.g. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoO9FZXUgv4
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by tdeck 8mo ago
Specifically you had to do those things and not be in the US military, or in a military geopolitically aligned with the US.
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by tdeck 8mo ago
The difference is that Flock is stalking me, not incidentally watching me.
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by tdeck 8mo ago
Cancelling RealID would have those same benefits.
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by tdeck 8mo ago
RealID has nothing to do with voting. Residency and citizenship is already verified when you register to vote. RealID is not a requirement to vote.
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by tdeck 8mo ago
What are the practical benefits we're supposed to get from the RealID system? All I've ever heard is "national security" which is the excuse for every harmful thing.
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by tdeck 8mo ago
I think it depends on what degree of parking we're talking about here, but there are downtowns where the city core is full of large parking lots. That situation makes walking basically impractical because even two adjacent businesses w
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by tdeck 8mo ago
The fact that Real ID was introduced when I was in college and has been pushed back every year since shows that we don't actually need it.
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by tdeck 8mo ago
My brother did this once and if you print your boarding pass before arriving you don't have to check in (obviously this is for a domestic flight with no checked bags). The TSA will question you and swab everything in your suitcase thou
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by tdeck 8mo ago
They've been pushing it back every year because states haven't implemented it uniformly. Washington gave me a non real-ID card in 2022. IIRC the only real-ID option at the time was an Enhanced ID which can be used to cross the bor
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by tdeck 8mo ago
My theory is that this will benefit Flock.
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by tdeck 8mo ago
War crimes are "for Africa and thugs like Putin".
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by tdeck 8mo ago
I've never heard of needing a minor. Was that a requirement at your school?
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by tdeck 8mo ago
> Low power applications. How does latent power draw compare between a 555 and a typical low power microcontroller? The 555 is very power hungry compared to a typical cheap low-power microcontroller. IIRC there are lower power variants b
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Many "libertarians" seem to be far more concerned about the age of consent than the size of the military or police force for some reason.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Those material interests are very persuasive though. Without them, who knows what they might believe.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Some level of eonomic prosperity is necessary to keep the government's key supporters (e.g. the ruling class and the army) satisfied.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
> Please define what you think Zionist means. I have no idea WTF it means since Israel exists as a Jewish state for 76 years. If you don't know what words mean, why is that my problem?
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by tdeck 9mo ago
So when you read "water bankruptcy", you assumed it meant a legal process where the world can apply to a court to have its water debt annulled and start again?
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by tdeck 9mo ago
The "drought vs no drought" conversation hides the fact that a significant percentage of the water in the central valley aquifer has been pumped out for agriculture and other uses. Even if we stopped that tomorrow it would not rec
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by tdeck 9mo ago
I'm confused, isn't this the exact usage that TFA is refuting? > Yet for more than two centuries “hwæt” has been misrepresented as an attention-grabbing latter-day “yo!” designed to capture the interest of its intended Anglo-Sa
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Does this not make you want to search those keywords and click the link?
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Palantir had a shit reputation 12 years ago when I graduated from college. I'm not sure folks who couldn't figure that out until now are very principled.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
And which administration made it policy to deregulate cryptocurrencies?
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Sorry, your country potentially being annexed just doesn't spark curious discussion. We've seen this with the other 5 countries that were annexed: just a lot of tiresome complaints and people flagging each other in the comments. W
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by tdeck 9mo ago
So your local diner used to have napkin dispensers on every table full of napkins. Then some people started coming in and just taking all the napkins out when they left the restaurant. Now the diner is going broke paying for napkins so they

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