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by xdennis 10mo ago
That would be the UN. The last time the UN invaded a nation was in 1950. That happened because the Soviet Union boycotted the UN, so it wasn't able to veto it. For the UN to ever fix a international issue it would require that country
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by xdennis 10mo ago
Law is defined as "a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior". International law is defined as "the set of rules, norms, legal customs and standards that s
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by xdennis 10mo ago
The 34 crimes are these: - falsifying business records - 1st degree - falsifying business records - 1st degree - falsifying business records - 1st degree ... - falsifying business records - 1st degree https://www.scribd.com/
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by xdennis 10mo ago
I prefer HN for higher quality discussions. When I say posts which are pure political flame wars I (and many others) flag the post. Reddit is full of low information discussions. There's no need to also duplicate those posts here. Ever
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by xdennis 10mo ago
I just connect it to a computer and watch YouTube without ads and movies without anti-piracy warnings (from a store I go to-rrent them).
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by xdennis 10mo ago
From the article: > The department under Blinken in early January 2023 had switched to Calibri
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by xdennis 11mo ago
If you'd poll people on whether or not they like what social media is doing to society many would say no. There was a huge poll last year in the US and most people sided with Trump and his electoral program of enforcing immigration law
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by xdennis 11mo ago
> and when one of them legalized weed There is no US state in which weed is legal. Some states don't enforce it, but you are breaking federal law when you smoke it.
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by xdennis 11mo ago
Millions of illegal aliens have entered the US under Biden. They're not all hanging at the border. Of course CBP needs to go everywhere in the US to remove all of them.
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by xdennis 11mo ago
The far left always portrays the democrats as being too far left, even though both parties have moved to the left. In 2000, no country in the world accepted gay marriage, up until 2013 gay marriage was banned in California because the Calif
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by xdennis 11mo ago
I'm always surprised by how arrogant and unaware Python developers are. JavaScript/C++/etc developers are quite honest about the flaws in their language. Python developers will stare a horrible flaw in their language and say
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by xdennis 11mo ago
I don't know why people are being to negative towards GP. (Maybe because he didn't argue his point?) It's well known that GDP is not a good measurement for common people. You can have a rich elite and a high GDP, but that doe
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by xdennis 11mo ago
> The Senate is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 350 million people The Senate does not represent the people. The House of Representatives represents the people. The Senate represents the states. That's why there are t
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by xdennis 11mo ago
You might be confusing 4x6 inch prints with 4x5 inch film. 35mm typically uses 2:3 ratio images, often printed as 4x6 inch pictures.
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by xdennis 11mo ago
Example Newton's rings: https://shootitwithfilm.com/what-are-newtons-rings-and-how-t...
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by xdennis 11mo ago
Should have said 4D, because it exists in the space-time continuum.
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by xdennis 11mo ago
No, there are many reasons people want deportations, but mainly people don't think others should get the benefits of being part of a country while flaunting its rules. In short: "if you want to join our group, you should like ou
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by xdennis 11mo ago
I agree with GP, but from the opposite perspective. ICE doing a good job of removing illegal aliens ("acting like SS" in GP's parlance) will trigger the next democratic president to relax border enforcement. This is what happ
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by xdennis 11mo ago
> He sent the Illinois State Police to help protect ICE from protestors as Broadview, freeing up their resources You're literally saying the quiet part out loud. So many people here are complaining that ICE is arresting US citizens,
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by xdennis 11mo ago
> The US is currently attacking foreign citizens outside the United States without due process. When has military action every used due process? If you don't agree that the military should be used against suspected narco-terorrists,
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by xdennis 11mo ago
It's not mandatory, but a headshot is indeed expected in the Europass CV format: https://www.google.com/search?q=europass+cv&tbs=imgo:1&udm=2 . I don't think many people use it, though.
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by xdennis 1y ago
Non sequitur and false. The US constitution only guarantees that the government won't ban your speech. Non-government entities are allowed to ban speech.
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by xdennis 1y ago
Here's an example: the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 allocated grants to help restaurant owners. It did so on a racist basis: if the restaurant is owned primarily by women, veterans, or the "socially and economically disadvanta
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by xdennis 1y ago
If that's the case, I do think favoring non-whites and non-males is perfectly okay. But how do you think people arrive at the conclusion that whites/males have been favored in the past? Do they: 1) inspect their hiring practices a
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by xdennis 1y ago
>> (2011: 1%), (2012: 7%), (2013: 15%), (2014/15: 33%), (2016: 40%). #pycon2016 > Increased diversity in communities usually comes from active outreach work. PyCon's talk selection process starts blinded. There is no worl
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by xdennis 1y ago
> What the hell is an "immigration radical"? There are people who think that every person on the planet should be able to immigrate to the US (or other first world countries). This is a radical position as it couldn't poss
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by xdennis 1y ago
Hamas broke the ceasefire on Oct 7 and killed 1000+ Israelis. Israel is justified in breaking every ceasefire with Hamas until the end of time. You should not negotiate in good faith with terrorists. There should be peace with the Palestini
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by xdennis 1y ago
I'm surprised people are so negative here. Compared with generative AI (which steals work, and replaces the part people like about their jobs: creativity), the promise of humanoid robots is that they'll do the my chores, while I f
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by xdennis 1y ago
> Boston Dynamics has been releasing actual product demos of such robots Boston Dynamics hasn't released any actual products. They seem to be focused on flashy demos of robots dancing instead of end user products. As a counterpoint,

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