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by u32480932048 3y ago
Even that won't protect you from civil asset forfeiture in the US, as absolutely no evidence whatsoever is required. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/dea-seized-a-womans-bag-of-cash-...
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by u32480932048 3y ago
How many rolling brownouts did you experience?
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by u32480932048 3y ago
It doesn't require a catastrophic siege-like environment; it just requires that electronic payment systems be unusable (e.g., a cyberattack). Having cash means you'll be one of the people buying food that weekend, and not stuck in
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by u32480932048 3y ago
"Hey, that's OUR job!" - The CIA and DEA, probably
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by u32480932048 3y ago
We accept that the moon affects bodies of water We accept that our bodies are mostly water But the idea that the position of the moon or planets affects us is insane (There have been several small-N studies looking at various folk beliefs a
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Despite having his book, I anticipated this story being about how some aspect of a jewelry store's marketing is hogwash, and there was in fact no discernible difference between their specially-sourced diamonds and any old diamonds dug
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Weekend project: Docker pull blog posts over DNS
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by u32480932048 3y ago
> making the best possible, smallest decision will rarely get you into trouble It's like gradient descent for humans
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by u32480932048 3y ago
> In his written statement, Siddons argues that by citing Wingenroth on Dec. 6, the agency was enforcing its laws inconsistently and “further confounding the situation.” He says that during the trial, neither game warden could recall eve
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by u32480932048 3y ago
It's definitely not a majority-white event, but I've never been condescended to by a Black, Asian, or Hispanic gay man or lesbian woman - or even a trans person, for that matter. One or two acute mental health episodes aside, they
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Yeah, that's what I was riffing off of, being too unoriginal to come up with my own ;)
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by u32480932048 3y ago
It has absolutely become fashionable in the past few years, as evidenced by things the author (or maybe Hunter Thompson) wrote about, like having their own section in Target and ostensibly having support from Lockheed Martin (and every othe
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by u32480932048 3y ago
At first, I thought Ahab's Leg Dilemma might ask something like if a person replaces parts of their body with whalebone, at what point, if any, does that person stop being the original person?
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by u32480932048 3y ago
I've heard this stated in a simpler form: that every institution eventually evolves to serve and protect its own interests first and foremost. My dad always used the term "petty fiefdoms". I like to think it was the awful &qu
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by u32480932048 3y ago
The "Ruler vs. Leader" is like Slide #3 on any leadership talk, behind the title and the rhetorical "[Subject Here]: Art or Science?". Those who've never sat through such a thing have likely seen it on LinkedIn twic
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Can't wait for the definitive "List of Things That 'Aren't A Thing'"
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by u32480932048 3y ago
The plural of anecdote is not data. This question has been put to numerous native Spanish speakers in just about every Spanish-speaking country, and support for it is always in the single digits - usually under 5%.[1] That's half as
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Yeah, I've given up experimenting, but it is exactly that set of Maher/Rogan/Peterson, three names I've actively avoided for quite a while. I probably wouldn't have remembered it if it weren't a continual anti-
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by u32480932048 3y ago
This is perhaps the single best example of it. I guess paternalistic colonialism is only a problem when other people do it.
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by u32480932048 3y ago
(Downvoting with no rebuttal is another of their hallmarks)
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Hispanic racism is an advanced-level topic that most of the blue-haired know-nothings aren't prepared to discuss because they can't easily construct the requisite Oppression Pyramid. It's easier to lump them in with "Bla
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by u32480932048 3y ago
I've noticed this too, which I'd previously chalked up to "I guess left-wing commentators/vloggers/whatever have left for other platforms" For a week or two, I was presented with tons of Jordan Peterson talks,
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Source?
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by u32480932048 3y ago
inb4 "Asian invisibility isn't a thing"
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by u32480932048 3y ago
I agree with the Twitter OP: they're embarrassed about what they've created.
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Sure, but I see three 200 responses and a 400 - not 1/4 white people as statistically expected.
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by u32480932048 3y ago
I understood it perfectly.
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Straight to Guantanamo.
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Most legal systems operate at the nation-state scale and aren't made of hidden mystery laws. There are lots of reasons for that. We've already had this argument with cryptocurrency, where we've basically decided that the exis
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Perhaps it's the narcotic effects of nitrogen at 1 atm that make me not give a shit. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1130736/

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