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by whatthesmack 5y ago
It's harder since they've all gone back and stealth-edited their articles. Here's one example from PaulG: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1396769717805780994
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
Great way to shutdown an argument without contributing anything. Shame someone for not thinking like you do. I feel like I am the victim if I'm the person considered to be "in the wrong" because I won't use this new lang
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That Salesforce outage: DNS and an engineer, but no blameless postmortem(theregister.com)
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
Not sure what your point is. The source for SARS and MERS were found within months. We're over a year into this with no clue. Based on the current circumstances' inconsistencies with historical circumstances, this appears to be so
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
> However a 2-3 hours bus trip to get to the University (4-5 h/day), when normally it'd been 20? minutes by train (on a railroad that hasn't yet been built), doesn't make Israel and the checkpoints popular. How else d
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
No, they just reinterpreted their policies to achieve the desired outcome (ie, permaban of said politician). It's amazing how flexible their policies are depending on who the subject is.
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
Maybe they were referring to the other politicians that have actually made calls to violence, like Maxine Waters, and have not experienced any consequences for their actions.
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
Exactly. "Ghost gun" is a political term used for political purposes. Making guns at home is legal in the US. It just has to be detectable in a metal detector according to federal law.
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
No. They appropriate the employment taxes that they themselves are paying. Most folks aren't aware that employees in the US only pay half of the income tax for their employment. The company pays the other half. And those taxes usually
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
Former Seattleite... those are (were?) legit KOMO news anchors. I believe the person on the left's name is Keith Eldridge. I don't remember the name of the person on the right, but I do recognize them.
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
That doesn't negate the truth conveyed by the quote... government is often horribly inefficient and many people don't want the so-called "help" the government forces upon those people. I certainly know I could manage my
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
Not necessarily. But at least don't actively perpetuate problems.
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
It also doesn't necessarily make it a bad response. But when you factor in more than simply one detail (COVID vs COVID+economy+mental health), it starts to look like a good response.
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
> ..with lockdowns in effect enough to keep hospitalization rates below capacity. My understanding is that lockdowns didn't really change things significantly, so the "with lockdowns in effect" is not really relevant. See
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
Can you be more specific? He's describing what a lot of us are seeing in the media these days. I closely identify with and agree with what he has written here. It seems like he is one of the few in the industry that actually has some l
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
"Borders all over the world" don't typically have Hezbollah shooting rockets over the border into civilian areas on a regular basis. This is a very unique scenario, and the best response to arbitrary rocket fire, if possible,
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
Regardless of your personal opinions and/or biases, it is still a political banner containing the name of a political advocacy group on a software development tool project page with what I'm sure is a very diverse set of users. So
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
How many times have we survived a "the world is going to end in 12 years" trope spouted by climate apocalypse preachers? It really is a religion. The whole meme mocking voting and paying more taxes to change nature is such an accu
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
Backup internet. I live in a remote, medium-sized city and need an internet link that constantly works. Comcast usually fills that need, but there are occasional outages. T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T's fixed internet offerings are n
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
I think you can bring your own public IP assignments to AWS. Wouldn't that do the trick? I mean, there's always tracerouting, I suppose.
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
> But is anyone else shocked at how well the transition to ARM has gone for Apple? I totally get why some folks would want to wait for the next-gen of these initial machines, but I'm not surprised at how well it's gone. I chose
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
This is so true. I don't think most folks understand how complex it all is, otherwise there would be more pushback to legislators that "allow" (through inaction) the tax code to be so complicated. It certainly has discouraged
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
Seriously. That is stuff that nearly everybody's against and is a constant boogeyman brought up by many on the left, but they can't ever seem to demonstrate that it is a pervasive problem. Nobody admits to being a white supremacis
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
I don't doubt that it could be used as a hint among other points, but doesn't that approach scream "tyranny of the mob"? How often in the past has a minority view been objectively right and a majority view been wrong? Fo
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
> It isn’t “censorship” to toss your ass off Twitter for violating their TOS This is a misnomer. It's certainly censorship to "toss your ass off Twitter", even if somebody's arbitrary interpretation of a TOS concludes
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
> no evidence that the election was crooked - the courts think so too Haven't all of the cases been thrown out for lack of standing thus far? Doesn't that mean the evidence hasn't even been heard? How can the "courts
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
I don't believe any of the electoral fraud claims were actually judged... it's all been rejected for a lack of standing. People saying courts rejected the fraud claims are generally mistaken, because the evidence never got present
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
It's strategic, smart, and absolutely legal.
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
> with less than 100k infections and 5k deaths Acceptance of this statement requires trusting the output of the CCP, which is inherently dishonest with these sort of metrics for political purposes.
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by whatthesmack 6y ago
Here's a couple that some folks consider to be leftist extremism on Twitter: - Blue checkmarks claiming lockdowns are a net benefit to the world - Twitter adding their corporate opinion on the recent US election to some tweets The afor

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