tmnvix

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> Neither of those systems feel inherently "wrong" or "right" to me, they feel like different opinions. One of those options is clearly much, much worse for the planet. That's not just my opinion.
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I would be ashamed if my tax dollars were funding what is happening to Gaza.
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And as I understand it, part of the solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis involved the US quietly agreeing to abandon the placement of nukes in Turkey. There is some analogy here for the Ukraine NATO situation.
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It looks more like they are just winning their war by the most effective means they have at their disposal. To say that Russia is just being a nuisance.... They have just won a war. That is clear as day now. Trump's election is the nai
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Ask yourself, when was the last time a nation officially declared war? It doesn't happen anymore for legal reasons. NATO will 100% not be the first to declare war despite even very serious provocations. Maybe they'll take a leaf o
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At one time I believed Russia was responsible for sabotaging Nordstream. That was presented as the 'probable' and even 'obvious' conclusion. I no longer believe that.
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I've sometimes heard this state of mind described as 'silent awareness'. I agree that modern life often doesn't seem amenable to it. However, something I've noticed about this state of mind is that it's not dis
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> I don't know what it means to think this through ego. I think most people are familiar with the feeling of being in a 'flow state'. Contrasting this with times when we indulge in a stream of 'self referential though
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It's astounding how often the left/right dichotomy gets discussed without any acknowledgement that there are many axes. For the purposes of this discussion I assumed the collectivist/individualist axis (in my opinion usually
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For the past 4-5 years this is what has worked exceptionally well for me: - pyenv for installing multiple versions of python on my machine - direnv for managing environments (env variables, python version, and virtual environment) - pip for
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> That's just not possible to solve in practice. It is never a necessity to drive so close to people that 10km/h is too fast to notice someone who may veer into the path of your vehicle without you having the ability to stop.
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> Just noting that the bicyclist is fully at fault I disagree. Legislation does not abrogate drivers of all moral responsibility. Quite frankly, if a child jumps out from behind a parked car and you hit them despite following the law t
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There's a common theme here. People in general are feeling less secure. The rise of the 'precariat' class is a good example of this. This gives rise to legitimate concerns about immigration. But the left and centrist parties
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IR supplies personal details of 268,000 taxpayers to Meta in data breach(stuff.co.nz)
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Avoidance of a proprietary MS stack is why I went with Django 15 years ago. I imagine this played a large part in the appeal of Rails at the time too.
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Which is also part of the appeal of the Heroku approach. 12 factor makes migrating relatively easy.
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...and take the opportunity to ditch the teflon pans while you're at it. They're toxic. https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/teflon-polytetrafluor...
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Because it's not 'asking' if it's a law. If you're legislating that people can't just walk across a deserted street where it's most convenient then you have a broken law. Legislate against disrupting traff
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If you separate vehicle traffic too thoroughly then you essentially just turn roads into walls for everyone that isn't in a vehicle. I think the idea of optimising vehicle flow in urban areas is folly. It comes at the cost of too many
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They have also been blowing up buildings in Lebanon because they claim that there is Hezbollah money and gold in them. Human life be damned. To all appearances, it looks as if the US is allowing Israel to rewrite the rules of war. This is i
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There are two points here. The first is due to AIPAC. I would say the second is debatable.
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I haven't seen any actual data on who died as a result of this attack, but is it confirmed that it was essentially only members of Hezbollah's militant wing? I've heard reports that that wasn't the case. Are other member
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I did something like this for a couple of weeks recently. I call it 'no idle screen time'. Any activity that involved using a screen (phone, computer, or television) had to have a purpose. The purpose could be simple such as messa
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There is probably an opportunity here for someone to provide a service offering advertisers a simple customisable form that includes some basic questions that needs to be completed prior to submission. It would have to be simple (e.g. no pr
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Apologies. A bit of a blanket statement on my part. There are definitely examples of roundabouts built properly (where cyclists and pedestrians are considered first-class users). Sadly not that common in my experience. Here is an example of
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Roundabouts get a lot of praise whenever they're mentioned, and from a traffic flow perspective that's understandable - if by traffic you mean motorised traffic. For pedestrians and cyclists they are worse than the alternative (li
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It's worth considering that the convenience will mean this will be done more often, so a straight comparison won't be correct. Just consider how many emails we send compared to letters sent at the peak of their use.
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I'd love to see a comparison of countries that looked at how much of the average diet was made up of simple carbohydrates and average weights. I might be wrong, but I suspect that US diets include a greater percentage of simple carbohy
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Oh come now. The formula is dead simple!
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> That's a ridiculous statement and complete misinformation. You appear to be making the argument that my claim that this has not been conclusively confirmed is wrong because of what is likely/unlikely. That is fallacious and f

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