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by tivert 2y ago
> Obviously Meta is shooting itself in the face. The entire national security propaganda farce has been transparently seen through, and most American internet users know that its really about corporate lobbying and Meta trying to maintai
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by tivert 2y ago
> The amount of vitriolic comments here from entitled "service" members is astounding and makea me wish to safeguard it personally. As someone who's never been in the military and isn't even acquainted with that many
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by tivert 2y ago
> Why exactly should arguably one of the MOST important parts of a state get exceptions to the law and transparency based on feelings? In exactly what way do you think people's personal medical records are "arguably one of the
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by tivert 2y ago
> This site feels icky and I’m not quite sure how to articulate why. What is the purpose of this service? Sounds like genealogy, and a small fraction of the documents in a veteran's would probably be very helpful in fleshing out som
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by tivert 2y ago
> The actual meaning of "wokeness" is an "awareness of the existence of social injustice". The actual meaning of "wokeness" is that it has several different meanings . For instancee, the first could be what
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by tivert 2y ago
> Linus doesn't actually realize what 'hard r' means I don't either. What does it mean?
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by tivert 2y ago
> The EU spending has brought a lot of benefits though. > Massive investment in domestic defence production Is that actually happening? My understanding is there was a lot of rhetoric, but the actual efforts have stalled: https:&#x2F
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by tivert 2y ago
> He's the father of half-asian children, who are classified as "negative diversity" by DEI initiatives. WTF!? Do you have more information about this "negative diversity" concept?
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by tivert 2y ago
>> 3) I appreciate the warning on the terms and conditions about seeing things you might not want to see. A good reminder for those that might not want to tarnish a memory of someone... Reminds me of the DNA tests for Christmas, or le
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by tivert 2y ago
Somewhat related: there was a fire in 1973 that destroyed the military records of a large fraction of former military personnel at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Personnel_Records_Cen... .
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by tivert 2y ago
https://archive.is/sYzZK
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China's Trade Surplus Reaches a Record of Nearly $1T (largest in past century)(nytimes.com)
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by tivert 2y ago
Yeah, personally I think they should keep the "temporary" aspect, that it's conditional on employment, and the lottery, but remove the employer lock-in. So an employer has to initially sponsor an H1-B, but they damn well b
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by tivert 2y ago
> Why wouldn't it be? Tech companies, perhaps until very recently, have been extremely left-leaning. No. They have their own thing going on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology . > During t
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by tivert 2y ago
> Thank you for your comment, I thought that there's nobody left here who understands this. Dude, plenty of people understand that. However, it's no good playing the circular pass-the-buck game, where the insurance apologists b
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by tivert 2y ago
> Running a shitty business, even an exploitative one, isn’t violence. You know, it just hit me: the issue here might just be a semantic one, where people feel the need to lump very unacceptable and wrong actions into the category of &qu
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by tivert 2y ago
> The brain truly is a system with terrible service availability. On average, after running for just 16 hours, it must be offlined for 8 hours to run maintenance tasks such as "scrub", "garbage collect", "trim&qu
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by tivert 2y ago
> I am ignoring that? Yes. > It is me who's asking people to think carefully about this! You should take your own advice, and actually think carefully about this. > Did you miss the "gas chambers" part in the comme
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by tivert 2y ago
> Ah, so by saying that denying insurance claims is not violence, because all insurance systems must deny some claims > Consider, for example, a public health insurance system like Germany. Do you think that Gesetzliche Krankenversich
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by tivert 2y ago
In your contrarian urge to defend some of the worst of the status quo, you forget the insurance company's whole role is to pay for medical care. I suggest you read up on this. IIRC, it was UHG's practice to deny claims indiscrim
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by tivert 2y ago
Since this is HN, I can't tell if that's satire or not. Bravo!
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by tivert 2y ago
> Any healthcare system must deny healthcare. No healthcare system existing anywhere on this planet provides infinite healthcare to everyone. Denying healthcare is not violence. It is when the care is necessary; when the denial is part o
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by tivert 2y ago
> This case is such an interesting crossroads. He has such insane support ... But what he did was objectively what we consider to be bad… in our society, vigilante justice (especially against nonviolent offenders) is considered to be wro
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by tivert 2y ago
> law-abiding citizens It's worth noting that being law-abiding is doing the bare minimum . You can be a horrendous person doing evil things and still be law-abiding.
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by tivert 2y ago
> And they were right. Television created nothing of value. Exactly. Bad things can and do become normalized and then unremarked upon. Some people confuse that phenomenon with those things actually being good. People often have clearer e
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by tivert 2y ago
> Just because the younger generation are doing things differently it doesn’t make them wrong... Yes, but that also doesn't mean change can't be bad or in the wrong direction. What you describe isn't neutral, and it's
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by tivert 2y ago
> I’m wondering if it’s because the majority of people seem to be living more than 50% of their lives online. Facts seem less important in the virtual world. Or when you're online, it's much easier to assemble a hyper conformis
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by tivert 2y ago
I'm pretty sure my idea was literally a mash-up of Phantom 2040 "resource wars" with Demolition man "franchise wars." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_2040 > It is the year 2040, all
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by tivert 2y ago
> No. In the movie, President Camacho recognized the smart guy was smart and wanted him to help because he was smart. We don't have leaders with that kind of wisdom and good intentions. Also, Joe seemed genuinely interested in helpi
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by tivert 2y ago
> Taco Bell won the franchise war and is the only restaurant remaining. When I saw that movie when I was small, I thought that was literally Taco Bell, McDonald's, and Burger King, et al fighting with tanks, etc. Taco Bell emerged

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