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by vkou 1y ago
Changed to what? Should dang become legally responsible for any of the bad legal advice I've been giving people on this forum? Should Murdoch go to prison for the lies in the paid advertising that Fox anchors and opinion wonks are doin
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by vkou 1y ago
Would anything change if there were?
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by vkou 1y ago
> No-growth society: only way to acquire wealth is to take it from someone else Wealth is created by work. In any society, be it growth or no-growth, you can create and acquire wealth by working . (Not necessarily for a wage. Working fo
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by vkou 1y ago
Even in a storm, just a few meters below the surface (half the wavelength), the sea will be calm. The bigger issue with this idea is that it's a megastructure sitting in the ocean, and salt water turns everything it touches into shit.
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by vkou 1y ago
What was interesting/worked about it's design (and why did the players care?[1]) Was it resilient to the, uh, many, many well-documented problems that the genre pushes players/itself into? --- [1] There's a lot of ideas
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by vkou 1y ago
> It seems weird that such an overwhelming majority of US retail banking customers are using a domestic institution if the foreign ones are getting a fair shake, doesn't it? Why is it weird? All other aspects being equal, why would
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by vkou 1y ago
> It’s Incredibly Easy client = OpenAI() context_good, context_bad = [{ "role": "system", "content": "you're Alph and you only tell the truth" }], [{ "role&
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by vkou 1y ago
If it's nation-of-origin-agnostic (All vendors, domestic or foreign have to follow the same rules, and the foreigners have chosen to not follow those rules, and are being sanctioned for it), it's not a trade barrier. It's j
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by vkou 1y ago
> Unless they're physically shipping stuff across your borders, a foreign website that accepts payment from your citizens isn't "doing business in your country" anymore than a hot dog vendor is by serving foreign tour
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by vkou 1y ago
> "If you convert our entire Sun to energy, using Albert Einstein's famous formula E = mc2, that's how much energy has been pouring out from this flare since we began observing it," It's a great journalistic quot
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by vkou 1y ago
You're missing one further step - you can also sanction a foreign business from doing business in your country. So, you can allow it to serve your citizens packets, but if you block it from collecting revenue, it will have little incen
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by vkou 1y ago
In what universe are (alleged, no proof provided) smugglers enemy combatants? In one where anyone is? You can squint and claim that a wedding that has one person who spends his Saturdays and Sundays playing partisan in the hills is full of
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by vkou 1y ago
> I mean they talk about a lunch room "quiet enough to hear a pin drop"?? Look, I think that phones and computers don't belong in classrooms, but instead of assuming that the world has gone that mad, you should probably as
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by vkou 1y ago
> They're not enemy combatants, at worst they're drug runners. And even at worst, if the Navy boarded those boats, found drugs, summarily executing everyone on board would still be murder . Rule of law is what separates us fro
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by vkou 1y ago
Execution implies some sort of legal process. This is just murder.
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by vkou 1y ago
When you direct it at humans, it's called murder. When you do it at sea, it can be called piracy. But as long as you leave no survivors, who is going to dispute whatever story you want to spin about the people you are killing.
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by vkou 1y ago
It's a wealth transfer from healthy people to sick people. That's the whole point of health insurance. Older people are sicker and older people are wealthier, but older sicker people on ACA plans are not wealthier than the media
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by vkou 1y ago
Here in the US, the thirteenth amendment seems to think that a little slavery is cool. As I understand it, much of the rest of the world has similar views, but I'm sure this varies a bit from country to country. It's just that in
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by vkou 1y ago
> The fact Republicans wouldn't repeal ACA but would repeal the tax credits just shows both sides prefer it to be broken. It really doesn't. All it shows is that team R is following it's usual playbook of "The governm
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by vkou 1y ago
The original plan was for single-payer, but the Blue Dog democrats fucked it up, because they didn't want to lose their seats, so they pushed for a compromise solution. They then all lost their seats to tea-party and proto-maga types w
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by vkou 1y ago
Jon Oliver tried his best to bribe Clarence Thomas, but unfortunately, the prick turns out to only be for sale to one side. You might run into similar problems.
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by vkou 1y ago
It is as accurate as any of the incendiary Pravda propaganda pieces[1] about how the capitalist swine lived. Other posters have helpfully pointed out the specifics of why your particular spin on it is not entirely honest. --- [1] Often mo
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by vkou 1y ago
It would be great if we didn't all have to pay for the bad decisions of the people who hold to those opinions.
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by vkou 1y ago
> or whether they anticipate real elections putting Democrats back in power and they want to be able to put the brakes on the autocratic executive then, or what. That's the more likely hedge. Their skin won't be in the fire in
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by vkou 1y ago
> re (2) then state governors need to start with auditing the chains of command, to make sure they are still loyal to the United States Constitution and won't be following anti-American orders from the anti-Constitutional fascists.
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by vkou 1y ago
1. It's not entirely unlawful. This is a power that he has. This has been done in the past - multiple times without the consent of the governors in question. [1] 2. Because it's not clearly and entirely and immediately unlawful,
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by vkou 1y ago
Wrong. He will federalize them.
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by vkou 1y ago
The federal government will happily take command of those deployments. Unlike a lot of the other illegal shit that they are doing, that is a power that they legally have.
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by vkou 1y ago
If you can't tell the difference between a fine that you can go to court over and having masked thugs point guns at you, throw a bag over your head, and disappear you without due process, I don't think we are going to find a lot o
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by vkou 1y ago
It is, but the sub thread is for whinging about the Patriot act and why a representative democracy never gets the chance to repeal it. (Wherein I argue that it has plenty of chances, it just isn't an important political issue compared

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