water-data-dude

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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
Massively screwing up the economy would be unpopular enough that he would lose support, even from other republicans, and we might be able to stop the slide into authoritarianism.
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
Ok, but fascinatingly I got hit with a popup for a Fox News browser add-on that makes it so you can "trust your search results"
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
Regrettably, I have to use a windows machine for work. The other day I got one where the "fact" was an offer to help me pic out the right laptop or tablet to get the most out of copilot. To stoke my rage into an incandescent fury,
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
Oh yeah, absolutely! I should have said that instead, but I'm so pessimistic about the courts charging LEOs with crimes that I kinda just skipped that option by default
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
One thing that I, and many others, have issue with is the fact that the agents are masked, which makes it hard to hold specific actors accountable. With the way they've been deploying facial recognition against citizens, I feel like us
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
I think most of them suffer from deeply rooted insecurity. Like, consider: you're BAD at stuff. You know, in your heart of hearts, that you're the bottom of the barrel. You can accept that, or you can get swept up into an ideology
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by water-data-dude 10mo ago
If you were able to JUST "move the kids out of this area", that would be one thing, but we can't do it without treading on the rights of adults - especially their right to privacy and anonymity. There are technically some imp
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by water-data-dude 10mo ago
I don't assume that another country would LOVE to have me, I'd assume that I'd have to be an exemplary citizen to make it clear that I'm not another "ugly American". The reason why I personally have been rollin
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by water-data-dude 11mo ago
Is/was copy/pasting from Stackoverflow considered harmful? You have a problem, you do a web search and you find someone who asked the same question on SO, and there's often a solution. You might be specifically talking about
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by water-data-dude 11mo ago
Did you buy them off Amazon, or from a reputable reseller? I ask because Amazon mixes third party inventory together with first party inventory, so it's impossible to tell if you're getting a genuine product or a counterfeit.
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by water-data-dude 11mo ago
The real tragedy would be the loss in shareholder value for DuPont if we allowed concerns about PFASs accumulating in the environment to impact their bottom line
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by water-data-dude 11mo ago
The transformer architecture was introduced in 2017, so they send in a bunch of 8 year olds to "fix" the technology ;)
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by water-data-dude 11mo ago
The power dynamic is very asymmetrical. Disney is ABSOLUTELY free to negotiate with him to continue distributing the movie, running the ride, etc. It has been 35 YEARS and Disney's failed to do anything else with the IP. The original c
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by water-data-dude 11mo ago
But there would be other consequences too, just consider the philanthropic organizations that Larry Ellison supports! Like the Ellison Medical Foundation, a non profit whose sole purpose is to keep Larry Ellison alive as long as possible!
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by water-data-dude 11mo ago
Texas state laws make regulating groundwater use very difficult. The Trinity aquifer is probably going to go dry in ten years.
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by water-data-dude 11mo ago
Absolutely. It's probably worse than you think though. I work with some groundwater conservation districts in Texas. Texas has some aquifers that they rely heavily on, and they're being depleted at an unsustainable rate. Efforts t
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by water-data-dude 11mo ago
Whataboutism isn't a good argument.
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by water-data-dude 11mo ago
"Decreased crime" under an authoritarian regime is probably only true if you don't consider anything the state does a crime.
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by water-data-dude 11mo ago
No, it's a very specific thing and not at all applicable here. Blood libel was something along the lines of "the Jewish people are murdering children to use their blood for secret ceremonies"[0]. The "libel" part sh
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by water-data-dude 11mo ago
For the shareholders of a few companies (in the short term).
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by water-data-dude 1y ago
I was skeptical for the first little bit, but that's both relevant and a fuckin' bop
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by water-data-dude 1y ago
I appreciate the author's choice to use Vimeo instead of YouTube for the video. It's not much, but I like the little piece of resistance to the Video Hegemon
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by water-data-dude 1y ago
Don't forget the third camp who just really like OLD jeeps! Somewhere in the ballpark of a week ago there was a car show near where I walk my dog (some charity event). Overall not that interesting - there were a lot of flashy low rider
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by water-data-dude 1y ago
It's a choice. I make a lot less money than I could because I refuse to work in ad tech, etc. If I'm spending a third of my time putting energy into a business, it's not acceptable for me if that business is evil. I want that
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by water-data-dude 1y ago
But will the average windows user be able to figure that out? Most people are a lot less tech savvy than this crowd
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by water-data-dude 1y ago
The current administration is trying to emphasize certain parts of our history and diminish others. If I had to take a wild guess, I'd say it's something along the lines of "this was something the public sector did with taxpa
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by water-data-dude 1y ago
Interesting that they list wind as one of the places where vertical panels have the advantage - my intuition would have been the other way around, with angled panels doing better in windy conditions. Wind uplift isn't something I'
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by water-data-dude 1y ago
The thing that would get me to actually go to Cracker Barrel would be if they brought back rosin potatoes. It's a weird method of cooking potatoes where you throw them in a CAULDRON OF BOILING ROSIN, and apparently it's quite good
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by water-data-dude 1y ago
Rabies is something it's hard for me to be highly rational about. It's 100% fatal after symptoms appear‡, and it's just an absolute horror show of a disease. Most states require you to vaccinate your pets, which is HOW the US
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by water-data-dude 1y ago
If 10% of people aren't vaccinating their dogs for rabies that's WAY too many, and it's a big problem. Going to good ol' Wikipedia[0], "in countries where dogs commonly have the disease, more than 99% of rabies case

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