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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Those are alt-right facts is just a defense mechanism for people to avoid confronting the contradictions in their own belief system. None of this is driven by reason, at least not the logic of the truth of the matters allegedly being exam
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Well it's true that certain world views are incompatible with knowledge of certain facts.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
That's just absolutely not true. They are promoting incompetent people because of demands for diversity, and everyone in the military knows it. There are ways of achieving that while still being able to claim you are "blind"
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
If the promotion figures don’t include enough minorities, certain members of Congress get very mad and threaten all sorts of things. This is also why academic and honor standards at the military academies have collapsed.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Trump was basically unable to do anything about any part of the federal bureaucracy, including the military, which is entrenched through a combination of civil service laws and Supreme Court decisions that make it impossible for the Preside
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
At least all the Abrahamic religions, which I'm most familiar with, emphasize the good of sexual pleasure between spouses. That sex is only for procreation and not pleasure is a common misconception of the Christian view.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
In the modern hookup-based dating culture, you need a smaller number of chads to service a larger number of women.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Agreed. This is also ancient wisdom. The major religions all maintain that spouses have a duty to sexually please each other.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
It's fine. You elect your local DA, mayor, and police chief. You also vote for your governor, state legislators, state judges (in most states), and state attorney general (in some). They get to make important decisions, like how strong
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
1) You make it seem like the county is arbitrary. But you are almost always tried in the place where the crime took place. 2) If you commit a crime in country A, you will be subject to different punishments than if you commit a crime in cou
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
No, it depends on the local politics of the death penalty. Some states have abolished it, some have not. District Attorneys often run on pro or anti death penalty platforms. You are doing the opposite of anthropomorphizing. You are attribut
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
No, obvious in foresight too. If you asked me which places are likely to give the most death penalties this year, I'd just give you the list from last year. I know that something being dressed up as SCIENCE makes us want to think it&#x
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
The story that you're telling leaves out the number one reason why the death penalty is pursued more in some places than others: political will. Simply put, those places that have the resources and political desire to pursue the death
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
I fully expect the defense to argue on appeal that venue was improper. People have had criminal convictions overturned for improper venue before. Minneapolis suffered an extreme level of political turmoil due to the George Floyd death, and
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
What is so horrible or kafkaesque about that? Prosecuting death penalty cases is hard and politically contentious. It also not a necessity, as you can secure life imprisonment sentences with much less effort. It makes sense that only those
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
> This model shows that the cumulative number of death sentences previously imposed in the same county is a strong predictor of the number imposed in a given year. Sorry to be dismissive, but this is obvious. People who ate a lot of ste
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
A police officer was not killed. He died of natural causes as the coroner recently reported. Maybe stop listening to CNN.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Yes, one of the fair use factors is whether the infringing use is a market substitute. No one is buying a Warhol painting of Campbell soup instead of real Campbell soup.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
No I mean literally the same people telling you to believe one tell you to believe the other. And that particular tribe is very obedient of their media leaders.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Half of Americans, and the vast majority of powerful institutions, are just fine with this because the targets are right-wingers.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
You need to realize it to pay back the loan. No free lunch.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
It's not a gain if you don't realize it.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
No, corporate tax is of corporate profits, which is just capital gains that haven't been dispersed and may be dispersed in the future (or may be reinvested). Salaries and wages are not profits, so they are not subject to the corporate
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Big businesses can afford to swallow upfront costs like that. Individual people using their savings to start a small business can't.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Are quantum computers compatible with all not-disproven interpretations of quantum mechanics? Including unpopular ones like, e.g., local/global hidden variable theories. What I mean is, do we actually know for sure that quantum compu
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
There is no fraud here. The guy addresses all of these things. It's a PR stunt with a piece of paper he owns, carried out openly for all to see. That's not fraud. Certainly, the recipient could turn around and try to do something
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
No. On Linux, the only stable ABI is the kernel. On Windows, the stable ABI and API includes many platform components outside of the kernel (in fact, the syscall interface itself is undocumented and NOT backward compatible on Windows). The
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
He's selling a piece of paper that belongs to him. There's no fraud here.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Crazy thought, but maybe communicate with them and try to work out a solution?
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Is there any evidence that respiratory viruses spread less readily in those countries in a regular year?

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