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by user982 1y ago
Also in Scandinavia, Iceland banned stripping.
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by user982 1y ago
Someone once tried to make the argument to me that African Americans should feel eternal gratitude toward whites for fighting a war to free them. The fact of the matter is that America is one of the very few countries in history to fight a
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by user982 1y ago
They're repairing damage. What word did you have in mind?
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by user982 1y ago
> Together we'll make X great again! Oh? > It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies. Oh. > And I know *a lot* of people who will never take part in this generic human experiment
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by user982 1y ago
The last decade has hammered in that you ignore the cranks at your own peril, because closing your eyes doesn't make them disappear.
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by user982 1y ago
My copy came with the color illustrations stuck to their facing pages.
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by user982 1y ago
I had to stop feeding the local crows. I thought I'd been training them to come when I called, but realized that they had started training me to come out by pecking my roof.
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by user982 1y ago
> They're a minority. Like the people who want to relocate Palestinians from Gaza are, to my knowledge, a minority. "Approx. 80% of Israelis support Trump's plan to relocate Gazans - survey "Less than 15% of Israeli
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by user982 1y ago
Sure, here's his characterization of the protesting students as of two weeks ago ( https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8754 ): "Leftist Students and Faculty: We’d sooner burn universities to the ground than allow them to
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by user982 1y ago
Don't look up.
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by user982 2y ago
Superficially, there is a sequence in the film where Peter O'Toole's very blue eyes appear to glow: https://youtu.be/nBiZu5C6lCo?t=12219
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by user982 2y ago
> First get the US to eliminate all fossil fuel subsidiaries. And then maybe add a huge tax on the use of fossil fuels. Instructions unclear, eliminating $7500 EV tax credit and adding $1000 tax on EV purchases: https://elec
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by user982 2y ago
> they went from being opposed to it to being in favor of it in a short time. "Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down TikTok..." ( https://x.com/wideofthepost/status/1
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by user982 2y ago
It's programmers all the way down.
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by user982 2y ago
The sudden resurgence of the years-dormant campaign to ban TikTok, and its rapid legislative success this time around, were directly because of Israel and Gaza. From the mouths of senators: "Some wonder why there was such overwhelming
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by user982 2y ago
TIL that albumen and albumin are different things, with the former containing the latter.
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by user982 2y ago
You can find out, you can learn about, but you can't learn out about.
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by user982 2y ago
Omer Bartov is an Israeli-American Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He is considered one of the world's leading authorities on genocide. Here is a 15-minute clip of him explaining that what Israel is perpetrating in Gaza is
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by user982 2y ago
What effort?
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by user982 2y ago
Rats (and other rodents) physically cannot vomit. If they're not careful about what they eat, they don't get a second chance.
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by user982 2y ago
Children of Ruin .
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by user982 2y ago
"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal." - Richard Nixon
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by user982 2y ago
I was reading a Wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Metal_Colossi ) and was struck by the difference in length of the Chinese quotes and translations. E.g.: 收天下兵, 聚之咸陽, 銷以為鍾鐻金人十二, 重各千石, 置廷宮中. 一法度衡石丈
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by user982 2y ago
The congresspeople who voted to shut down TikTok have been very open about the reason: https://twitter.com/wideofthepost/status/1787104142982283587
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by user982 2y ago
I don't know how to interpret the front page saying "More than 100 journalists killed in six months in Gaza" directly above a "real time" abuse barometer saying that 12 journalists have been killed worldwide in 2024
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by user982 2y ago
Nancy Fraser is a woman.
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by user982 2y ago
What's the best, most seamless option for this kind of LAN-hosted browser? X11 forwarding, Apache Guacamole, something else?
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by user982 3y ago
This was Jerusalem in 1896: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vaIK8wlAl0
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by user982 3y ago
This is the source article: https://prospect.org/world/2024-03-14-aipac-talking-points-r... It goes more in-depth into the talking points direct from AIPAC: > The lobbying files promote the familiar though contested
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by user982 3y ago
This touches on something I've wondered: Which written languages best lend themselves to small pixel fonts? I only ever see tiny fonts for English Latin script.

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