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by tdeck 1y ago
In the past there was a sense that certain kinds of war crimes needed to at least be done secretly and sparingly by the US military. Although this statement might be seen as a new era of honesty, I'm not looking forward to the next sta
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by tdeck 1y ago
> You can also add to the fact that they don't want their children slammed into the pavement for minor infractions such as having an open container beverage or doing 35 in a 25 mph zone. Rich people can count on being treated diffe
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by tdeck 1y ago
You make it sound like these policies are overwhelmingly popular, but they are not https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/trump-poll-immig...
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by tdeck 1y ago
This was after Trump's secretary of war said the following on the same stage: “We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy,” Hegseth said. “We also don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our
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by tdeck 1y ago
Cats do this, and they're less intelligent than orcas.
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by tdeck 1y ago
It reminds me of the rather strange story of the Mormon "Deseret Alphabet" which was designed to not have descenders, in order to reduce uneven wear on the pieces of type. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret
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by tdeck 1y ago
To confirm, I tried this in ChatGPT and it produced a flood of wrong answers and self corrections just like that, scrolling so quickly that I couldn't read it until it eventually stopped itself.
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by tdeck 1y ago
Cinnamon in stews is at least a real thing though (for example, tagine sometimes contains cinnamon).
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Tom Swifty(en.wikipedia.org)
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by tdeck 1y ago
Perhaps RFK and Mr. Oz will be telling us all to sleep hanging upside down by next year.
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by tdeck 1y ago
> There's precious little reason to distribute as an app, except for exploiting the user. This is a very Hacker News centric perspective; most of us probably use the browser on our phone for hours every day. But a lot of normal peop
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by tdeck 1y ago
The right wing's long-cultivated victimhood narrative is reaching its natural climax. Nowadays you can literally be the boot stomping on a human face forever and also be a victim because you stubbed your toe.
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by tdeck 1y ago
Despite how shitty Google and Apple are being, this is probably the best way to accomplish the project's goal in a reasonable timeframe.
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by tdeck 1y ago
The more it's fascism, the less you're allowed to call it that.
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by tdeck 1y ago
> “removed apps that share the location of what it describes as a vulnerable group after a recent violent act against them connected to this sort of app" Apparently armed, masked thugs covered in body armor dragging people off the s
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by tdeck 1y ago
I know that this is true (I used to work in card payment infrastructure), but I've also talked to people who run cash businesses and deliberately under report their income. So I think it's not so uncommon.
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by tdeck 1y ago
Roll paper isn't really an acceptable compromise these days though. In addition to being curled, if you need to print more than a couple of pages you're left with a disorganized mess.
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by tdeck 1y ago
It looks like if you want to print on sheets of paper you need to feed them one at a time, which is pretty inconvenient. Having a proper paper tray is pretty much a requirement for being a practical printer these days.
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by tdeck 1y ago
I think the same thing in the US about small businesses that only take cash, but it's still pretty normal to use cash in the US.
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by tdeck 1y ago
It's more accurate to say "as many Palestinians as they thought the US would let them get away with". This is why each new kind of atrocity was first messaged and checked with the US before proceeding. Without cover in the UN
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by tdeck 1y ago
In practice this seems much more difficult to do than going after the app in the app store, particularly if you choose your registrar and hosting provider carefully.
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by tdeck 1y ago
This is a typical line used by those committing a genocide, it's not unique to this one. Turkey claims the same thing about the Armenian genocide.
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by tdeck 1y ago
Perhaps you could spell out what you're talking about?
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by tdeck 1y ago
If the situation is as you describe, why is anyone pushing for a 13 hour work day?
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by tdeck 1y ago
More evidence of this in a poll from earlier this year. https://archive.is/nNzq4 (It's an archive link because the original is paywalled). > Nearly half (47 percent) of respondents agreed that "when conquering
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by tdeck 1y ago
World leaders know this, they're pretending not to see it. For example, the Biden administration set specific aid targets for Israel to meet and even acknowledged that they weren't being met by the "deadline" but neglect
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by tdeck 1y ago
This is nonsense, Israel's center right "opposition" won't even acknowledge the genocide, how can they be against it?
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by tdeck 1y ago
For those who don't read the articles: > He explains that after paying about $160 for the fob, the dealership told him it would cost an additional $260 just to program it. So not only is the fob ridiculously overpriced, the $260 was
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by tdeck 1y ago
I wonder what they are being threatened with behind closed doors. Google has the money to fight this lawsuit.
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by tdeck 1y ago
Way more Nazis came to the US than to Argentina. Look up Operation Paperclip.

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