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by tenpies 3y ago
I do find that there is no better indicator about the quality of a sub-reddit, than that class of requirements. The more karma/age/posts they require, the more likely the place is a cesspool of some sort.
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by tenpies 3y ago
As the great warrior-poet Ice Cube once said, "if the week does not require an AK, it is good".
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It's not. There is already at least one arrest where a single eco-terrorist started multiple fires[1]. More will certainly be arrested, although I suspect the Forest Crime Unit is now overwhelmed. And to be fair, I have no doubt that
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by tenpies 3y ago
I'll put it to you this way: The Liberal Minister of Housing, who is responsible for making housing affordable (and has failed at virtually every portfolio he's ever been given), has been buying more rentals.[1] One in three Liber
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I agree with you, especially on un-regulated white-collar work (e.g. no one with magic letters after their name is in danger just yet). But give it a few years and I'm really curious how regulatory and licensing bodies react because th
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by tenpies 3y ago
> “vanned” (or “v&”) Also note that the noun associated with being "vanned" would be a "party van", not just a "van". To be vanned/V& is to have the glowies inside the party van take the vanned
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by tenpies 3y ago
I think there's three reasons: 1. Anyone old enough, remembers that Florida and New York are suppose to be under water now. Going outside should be hazardous, requiring that I cover every inch of my body or be instantly burned by the
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by tenpies 3y ago
The next step is where the real money will be made: completely generated actors. And I see two scenarios too: 1. You can pay the studio (?) some semi-trivial amount for the use of a completely generated AI actor that perfectly fits the Dir
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by tenpies 3y ago
> The US is the most punitive major country in the world For this statement to hold, it requires the most absurd definition of "punitive" imaginable. There are countries where talking negatively about the wrong people is ground
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by tenpies 3y ago
> The top replies to this tweet are batshit crazy and a great representation of why I nuked my Twitter account. Ironically, if you had not nuked your account you would probably see better replies. Twitter does after all, tailor which re
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by tenpies 3y ago
> pest control I believe the Chinese Communists tried a similar thing[1]. I know you're just being poetic, but let's hope history doesn't repeat. --- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campa
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by tenpies 3y ago
Even outside technology, Google went from that cool "don't be evil" company, to suppressing search results so that people would vote the way Google wanted. Add a few cases of Glassholes[1], killing products people loved, and
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by tenpies 3y ago
Strong Soylent Green vibes too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green https://youtu.be/N_jGOKYHxaQ?t=10 New York City. In the year 2022. Nothing runs any more. Nothing works. Another part th
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by tenpies 3y ago
Probably related to the constitutional referendum over the weekend, which the Left lost spectacularly[1]. I do find it funny that AP calls President Boric "centre left". --- [1] https://apnews.com/article/chi
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by tenpies 3y ago
I was thinking because it translates poorly to text. Delivery is too important, and every politician knows that a hostile media can turn the best of jokes into a brand new hoax / manufactured scandal.
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by tenpies 3y ago
This is a CBC article so keep in mind its bias in favour of the Liberals who pushed this bill through. For anyone interested in a more balanced view, Michael Geist is law professor, research chair, and overall internet policy nerd. I highl
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by tenpies 3y ago
It does seem like we need a term for a civilisation that decides that serving internet is more important than its ability to observe the universe. Then, in that pursuit, they completely miss an otherwise easily detectable near earth object
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by tenpies 3y ago
> if they increase spending, you get more inflation, and then they have to eventually pay higher rates on their own debt You can spend in a dis-inflationary manner: increasing production capacity, facilitating resource extraction, and ge
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by tenpies 3y ago
If they really want to be "green" then the don't just have to beat NG, they have to lap it several times. The issue is steel, which is a cornerstone of "green" energy. That steel must be made with metallurgical coa
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by tenpies 3y ago
On that note, for those who were put off by Picard, season 3 was actually quite good. Definitely worth a watch. And if you haven't seen any of it, I would almost say reading the episode summaries for the first two seasons is enough.
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by tenpies 3y ago
I am dubious of that explanation, because President Biden, the most prominent Democrat, self-identifies as Catholic. His office is un-affected by gerrymandering in the way that Congress would be. Pelosi, now retired but an incredibly promi
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by tenpies 3y ago
> Then it will come out it's being sold for marketing purposes You forgot the last part: then we'll learn Apple has been granting near-automatic access to any three-letter agency that wants to read your journal.
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by tenpies 3y ago
Perhaps the fact that Washington Post has also lied about stories in the past and had to settle lawsuits for huge amounts as a result? https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/media/washington-post-sandman...
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> they won a Pulitzer in 2021 for International Reporting The team that won it is also very interesting: - Megha Rajagopalan, probably the only one that is a journalist by profession. She left for the NYT [1] - Alison Killing, an archit
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by tenpies 4y ago
> What I'm concerned about is in the graph - why the hell are 46% of consumers using BNPL for "Clothing, Shoes, and Accessories" My question is what % are they paying for financing. I've financed several things with B
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by tenpies 4y ago
And to several networks: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/media/cnn-settles-lawsuit-vir... "CNN settles lawsuit with Nick Sandmann stemming from viral video controversy" https://www.ny
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by tenpies 4y ago
I've always wondered just how awful the run off from rain landing on solar panels is as far as those nasty sort of chemicals that we then find out are terribly carcinogenic or disruptive to human health. Same would apply to water cond
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by tenpies 4y ago
> My son has never seen a typewriter in person or a printer that wasn’t inkjet or laser, I think he is missing out. Next time you fly, stay close to the boarding gate when they print the manifest and there's a good chance you'l
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by tenpies 4y ago
It is also random bullshit. There is an entire group of people convinced that if you are shot with a 9 MM round, it "blows the lung out of the body".[1] They also think that 9 MM is a high caliber round, and that the AR in AR-15
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by tenpies 4y ago
Personally, I buy much more into the theory that the fissures in society, are a result of infiltration by Marxists into academia, as was detailed by the Soviet defector and KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov. It's impossible to watch this interv

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