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by xienze 1y ago
> Other commentators are pointing out and linking to sources that explain how the tolerance bio-mechanisms are very different between alcohol and marijuana. It's an apples-to-oranges comparison. Yes I've seen that but I have a
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by xienze 1y ago
No, I was referring to the argument about tolerance. "Your honor, my client is a raging alcoholic. Yes he blew 0.2, and while that may make the average person highly intoxicated, my client can function perfectly well at that level.&quo
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by xienze 1y ago
> A dose that might give a regular user a gentle buzz could render a first-time user completely stoned. > It's possible that these people were all incredibly stoned while driving but it's also possible that many drivers in O
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by xienze 1y ago
> "The holocaust never happened" are not opinions But would you dare state out loud in Germany that, in your opinion, the official number of Holocaust victims is actually much less than what's been widely reported? Even if
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by xienze 1y ago
> Opinions cannot be right or wrong. I’d say if you can be jailed for a particular opinion, someone has certainly made a judgement call that your opinion is wrong!
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by xienze 1y ago
No, many games absolutely retailed for upwards of $60 in 1995 and earlier. Source: lived through it. https://www.reddit.com/r/Switch/comments/1jr81yf/video_game_...
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by xienze 1y ago
It’s very simple, you see. No one who doesn’t want to work will have to. There will be infinite UBI for everyone paid for by <waves hands> all those people who feel obligated to work for some reason.
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I think the bigger driver is that cities and states are pressuring companies to RTO because of the massive negative impact to local businesses and governments who no longer have thousands of people coming into a particular area on a daily b
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> If you think that everyone overseas is simply less intelligent, you'll have a rough awakening. Counterpoint, developer offshoring has been happening since at least the late nineties with eh, limited success. It's hard to get
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I'm definitely skeptical of this. When my state legalized sports betting there was around 6 or 7 books that came online and they ALL had pretty juicy sign up bonuses, like "bet $5 and get $250 in free bets." Damn right I sign
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by xienze 1y ago
I'm gonna play devil's advocate here. I've definitely seen my fair share of people on Reddit who seem to regularly have the misfortune of opening video card boxes only to find rocks inside. Multiple times -- just a coincidenc
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by xienze 1y ago
Perhaps after just two events that might seem a little harsh, but I definitely understand the store's reasoning here. You've got a guy that is pretty much guaranteed to lose you money in the form of his regular auditioning of big
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by xienze 1y ago
One thing I like about Tidal though: you can download everything, DRM-free, using tidal-ng.
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> The pattern I see across countries is that over time the tax rates keep increasing and the thresholds at which apply keep coming down. And that is because governments are badly mismanaged most of the time Sort of, but it goes back to t
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by xienze 1y ago
> For example, the 9500 millionaires widely reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06 million millionaires. I think this study is a bit misleading. If the UK truly has 3M millionaires I strongly suspect a la
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by xienze 1y ago
> What makes you think they’re racist versus just hiring the best available talent? Yeah that’s never considered an acceptable argument whenever the ratio of white people in a company gets “too high”, don’t see why it should be any diffe
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by xienze 1y ago
In the US, the price I’m metered at.
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by xienze 1y ago
> Because this limitless clean energy source is too expensive I’m laughing in $0.11/kWh nuclear energy while Germany’s “cheaper” green energy is uh... quite a bit more expensive.
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How many years does it typically take for crippling sanctions to bring a country crawling to the bargaining table?
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> The point of sanctions is just to slightly reduce Russian government revenue. In combination with other measures this provides some leverage in negotiations over a peace settlement. How's that working out? Apparently someone misca
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> Democrat politicians respect citizen referendums, even when they are stupid and against democrat policies, like in California where Uber is not an employer because that's how the people voted. LOL what, apparently you forgot about
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by xienze 1y ago
> The right loves to say that violent rhetoric is the left's fault Well you know, they are the ones constantly comparing Republicans to Hitler, the Nazis, calling them fascists, making direct claims that electing Trump would lead to
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by xienze 1y ago
Russia is the third largest oil producing country, this plan was never going to work because oil is a fungible resource. Sure you can stop buying from Russia and buy from someone else, but that just kicks off a game of musical chairs where
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by xienze 1y ago
> The size difference between the smallest and largest districts—RI district 2 and Montana’s at large district—is 1:2 in population. Come again? MT and RI have the same approximate population (1.1M) and the same number of representatives
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by xienze 1y ago
> Human rights are famously almost impossible to clearly define Actually, not really. Just apply the "desert island" thought experiment to any given "human right." If you're not afforded that "human right&qu
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by xienze 1y ago
That's why it's balanced with the house of representatives, which is proportional.
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by xienze 1y ago
You’re exaggerating greatly, of course. Among those deported are rapists and murderers, naturally, and no one has stated that everyone being deported or even targeted is one (the recent Hyundai bust comes to mind). I challenge you to find t
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by xienze 1y ago
Can you provide a source where a Republican says we need to target all immigrants? Or are you simply imagining things because the media always conflates illegal immigrants with legal ones?
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by xienze 1y ago
Unions work in physical domains that need labor “here and now”, think plumbers, electricians, and the like. You can’t send that labor overseas, and the union can control attempts at subversion via labor force importation. But even that has
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by xienze 1y ago
According to that link, you're running the frontend locally but all the work is happening on fal.ai. So the interesting part is not open source.

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