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961.
by yardie 5y ago
The withdrawal doesn't need more support. The public has been calling for withdrawal for years now. It's already popular. The only ones who still support staying are politicians, military suppliers, and the media.
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by yardie 5y ago
10 years is actually quite good for major appliances. If you're warrantied for 3 and manage to get 10 years out if it you've exceeded the design parameters. Environmentally, replacing a broken fridge is usually the only time someo
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by yardie 5y ago
Apple has the market cap of entire countries. If they really wanted this fix they can throw almost infinite amounts of money at it.
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by yardie 5y ago
If we've learned anything from Afghanistan and Iraq, the will of the people will eventually win out. So western liberal values should always support democracy because they still haven't been able to show a unicorn self-sustaining,
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by yardie 5y ago
I haven't renewed my Apple Developer subscription in a few years but I'm still developing and testing apps at home on the free tier. It hasn't been necessary to the subscription for a few years. Only if you plan to release to
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by yardie 5y ago
Bike shops in the US have been struggling since the beginning of the pandemic. Some got a slight bump with increased sales. And riders that couldn't buy new brought in old bikes for repair. Eventually, supply chain issues surfaced and
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by yardie 5y ago
There are parts of the country where you can buy unincorporated land. But most people don't want to live there. You are responsible for building and maintaining your own roads, pumping your own water and treat sewage. Police, fire, and
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by yardie 5y ago
Property rights in the US are particularly funny. You don’t own as much as you think you do. The land deed you have is a 2D plot of land. There are also mineral rights, air rights, and raparian rights. That last one is the rights to collect
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by yardie 5y ago
It is widely practiced in the Western Hemisphere. Which is why you can be Mexican or Panamanian and run for president of the US.
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by yardie 5y ago
> Not all western countries define their societies along racial Yes, those other western countries are 90-99% white so whiteness is overtly implied since any other race is an anomaly. You probably haven't been asked the notorious 6-
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by yardie 5y ago
"90% of Americans approve of the United States taking such military action, while just 5% are opposed, and another 5% are unsure." [0] [0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/4966/public-overwhelmingly-back...
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by yardie 5y ago
The last time the US installed bases in a nation bordering Russia, Russia parked a nuclear missile battery 90 miles off the Florida coast. China is exerting soft power now by buying up properties and ports in the Caribbean and Latam. Make n
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by yardie 5y ago
The Afghanistan war was very popular. OBL had coordinated the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Almost every American citizen was out for blood. The Taliban was hosting him and weren't going to give him up easily. So we w
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by yardie 5y ago
McDonald’s has had the $1 menu for how many years? Even the brokest of the broke can manage to splurge on a $1 cheeseburger, $1 small fry, $1 Coke. Compared to $2.50 for a USDA subsidized school lunch which has none of the chemicals that ma
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by yardie 5y ago
It was a very fine needle Twitter needed to thread and apparently they could not do it. In my mind the best way would be to ban politicians from posting political opinions. This would not only ban DJT, but AOC, Pelosi, MJT as well. It took
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by yardie 5y ago
Twitter has to do no such thing. You agreed to a TOS when you signed up. You violated it. Goodbye. Assholes shouldn't sign up for Twitter knowing they'll be kicked off.
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by yardie 5y ago
What part of harrassment and racism is meant to be conversational? You are still free to be an asshole. Twitter just wishes you'd do it elsewhere.
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by yardie 5y ago
If it was an isolated incident, mistake, or abuse surely the powers that be would want it corrected immediately when brought to light? Well, look here [0], it isn't a priority. The people in charge of the system have no interest in fix
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by yardie 5y ago
Wage theft is the #1 fraud[0] in the US. So while the voluntary contract can be a win-win for a quite a few Americans it is still exploitative. [0] https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-fro...
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by yardie 5y ago
> 90% of investment firms These must be very small meat and potatoes investment firms then. They might not have a compliance department and might not be able to justify the salary of having someone tackle FATCA requirements. I, as an Am
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by yardie 5y ago
Someone should send a copy of this to the Microsoft Teams group. If you want to signup with your personal account to Teams you need a unique phone number. Not a unique email, a unique phone number. Someone else registered to Teams with your
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by yardie 5y ago
Oil and gas industries are data crunching monsters. While I thought it was impressive I got to work with < terabyte datasets I’ve met so many data scientists crunching petabyte seismic datasets that could give backblaze a run for their m
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by yardie 5y ago
A Streamdeck is infinitely better and far more useful. And you never have to worry about function keys disappearing.
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by yardie 5y ago
I feel that there is different types of advertisement. Brand advertising isn't so much about acquiring new customers but about reassuring existing ones. Like I honestly feel car makers don't need to advertise on the web or TV, yet
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by yardie 5y ago
Are there any plans to release a macOS edition, Catalyst or otherwise? iPad is in heavy rotation in my household. And sitting down with it for 1-2 hours isn't really practical. Even the cats get to play with it.
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by yardie 5y ago
'digitize'? we called it ripping. Not even Boomers used the term digitize.
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by yardie 5y ago
First let's agree on word terms. There is nothing to 'digitize' MiniDV is already digital. It's literally the first word in the technology. So now we are talking about transferring data from tape to local HD storage, in
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by yardie 5y ago
If you have Netflix the documentary[0] came out at the beginning of the COVID quarantine. It was pretty interesting to watch. They weren't sympathetic to Heemeyer but the town was definitely being sketchy with how it handles permits. [
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by yardie 5y ago
Suburbaniztion in the 70s hollowed out the middle class leaving just the extremely wealthy and extremely poor. Crack epidemic and the War on Drugs and the resultant crime accelerated the exodus. With the loss of tax base the city was going
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by yardie 5y ago
I don’t think not telling them was even close to lying. If you can imagine going a little hard at the gym and feeling it the next day. Then telling your colleagues how hard you worked out. And then your colleagues takeaway is exercise must

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