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I'm against spending billions more on "defense" and instead using that money to solve actual problems that Americans face on a daily basis.
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Musk bought his way into an unelected position with a great amount of power over government spending, and Thiel chose JD Vance as vice president. They are now using that influence to direct taxpayer money into the companies which they have
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the US somehow tanks its own economy say based on the whims of a president who wants to allow the ultra-rich who enabled his ascendancy to buy everything for pennies on the dollar, leading to the collapse of the US dollar. a major terrorist
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> 'Supporting' in this context means committing crimes including acts of violence. this is incorrect. Rubio has stated quite plainly that it's based on monitoring speech on social media, and made no mention of "crimes
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hi, American here. i didn't reject this worldview - a portion of eligible voters rejected it. maybe their principles are more important to them than "current climate" and a profit motive? if you don't care for it, don&#x
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government agencies sometimes operate at a loss. that's fine - as citizens of a functioning society, we pay taxes to maintain services which improve shared, public life.
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underfunded by the metric of the service needing more resources for the following: > The federal agency does more than ensure that Americans have a place to hunt, hike, fish, or paddle. In the South, forest workers played a key role in h
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where are you getting that? it says the agency is chronically underfunded and therefore understaffed and lacking necessary resources, not mismanaged. that would indicate that it should receive more resources/budget, not less.
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none of this has anything to do with air traffic control. and it's about NASA's agreement with contractors like SpaceX, not SpaceX's relationship with the FAA.
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where have they indicated that they will open this up for bidding?
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there were: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/29/politics/washington-pipe-bomb... https://www.reuters.com/world/us/oath-keeper-brought-explosi...
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here's a wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert this is a long-studied area with real and verifiable research. the "grocery stores" you're thinking of are liquor/corner st
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this is easily falsifiable, since many diseases are internal: heart disease, low/high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer. also, most mental health issues do not present external indicators. bruce lee was at peak physical performance when
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most likely because the police that let them in were complicit? do you not remember someone getting killed when they tried to breach the inner chambers? what's the point that you're circling here? that these people were there to t
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i appreciate the recommendations - i'm well aware of both Gibran and Rumi (my middle name comes from one of his poems). however, i'm not the one who needs to hear this. the people that need to hear these recommendations are the sa
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this article breathlessly and uncritically praises 4chan for the home-schooling curricula/seminars posted on /lit/ while somehow denigrating "the left" as the cause of academic decline. here's the evidence for
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he doesn't really seem to be enjoying life. he seems angry, bitter, and lashes out anything he perceives as a threat to his ego.
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nah, he's an asshole: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/online-conduct-leaves... . i'd quote his statements directly but frankly they're disgusting and i'd rather not type them out; ch
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is your bathroom too small because you don't make enough money for a larger bathroom? is it because of government regulations regarding habitations? why are you living in that location? what circumstances led you to make that decision?
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the difference is the scale of harm - a single person does not have the reach of OpenAI. regulations may be coming sometime in the future, but have all edge cases been accounted for? do we even know all the edge cases where an LLM could giv
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yeah but a healthcare professional won't happily give me a cocktail recipe for my diabetes insulin. and if they do, i can sue the shit out of them for malpractice and they won't be able to continue giving life-ending advice to pat
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again, you're only looking far back enough in history to solidify your own point. look back further - where did these "proud jihadists" and "evildoers" come from? the implication here is that there is no precipitati
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for a neutral observer, these are some pretty demeaning statements which don't seem to question the Israeli narrative whatsoever. the underlying assumption to your comments also seems to be that Palestinians have brought this upon them
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https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-south-africa-... Israel would disagree with you.
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> 4. I’ve seen absolutely no evidence for this you can do a basic google search to answer your questions. i searched for "israel palestine water access" and these were the first page: "Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of
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"we" care - the businesses that have inserted themselves as middlemen to extract profit have found that it's cheaper to deceive consumers, drag the quality of art down, and eliminate artists from art completely (or at least w
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it's a bit disingenuous to call Peter Thiel, the man who helped bankroll Trump's first presidential run and groomed and chose the vice president for the second, "some libertarian tech founder". this is arguably _the_ tec
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> You should be considering the maps canvas as an interactive element in an HTML-CSS page. this breaks down if my 2D/3D scene _is_ the page and has its own interactive elements and rendering tree which need to be managed with their
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well my insurance company just doubled the rate on my 2009 clunker because i had the audacity to move to a low-income neighborhood, so i find these terms acceptable.
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disagree. it's a very (environmentally) inefficient way to mass produce meaningless, generic pictures which are poor stand-ins for authentic expressions the human condition.

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