youareostriches

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by youareostriches 6y ago
So in other words, all workers at the company still benefitted from having a union.
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by youareostriches 6y ago
Can anyone figure out corresponding rsID/SNPs to these genes?
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by youareostriches 6y ago
You can read the report, released by the Republican-controlled senate intelligence committee, for yourself: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...
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by youareostriches 6y ago
The governor of that swing state happened to be the brother of the Republican presidential candidate. That governor's secretary of state also purged the registrations of 90,000 black voters months before the election.
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by youareostriches 6y ago
Al Gore never claimed that he was the only legitimate winner months before the election began and that any result in which he lost would be fraudulent.
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by youareostriches 6y ago
In most countries around the world, Sanders' policies are mainstream.
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by youareostriches 6y ago
This is both-sidesism, which is an intellectually lazy excuse to avoid taking action while appearing morally above the fray. Trump literally uses cult-like techniques to control his followers, traffics in conspiracy theories, attacks as &qu
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by youareostriches 6y ago
Ethics applies here just as well. You are trying to equivocate the actions of those who actually attempt to kill those who disagree politically (aka “terrorism”) with attempts at eliminating platforms for wide dissemination of speech.
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by youareostriches 6y ago
Fascism is a political strategy involving fear of change and scapegoating. If you’re trying to imply that use of force automatically translates to fascism, then you need to consider situations of community defense against fascists, which ul
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by youareostriches 6y ago
No, sorry. Ostracizing others is absolutely not equivalent to attempted murder.
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by youareostriches 6y ago
For those who wish to improve the OpenOversight project, the project is accepting contributions: https://github.com/lucyparsons/openoversight https://openoversight.lucyparsonslabs.com/about
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by youareostriches 6y ago
> Meanwhile a friend of mine flat refused to even consider buying any such device, from any vendor, because he's concerned about being spied on. I solved this problem for my HomePod by denying it outgoing internet access on my rout
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by youareostriches 6y ago
Did you read the article? It laments a lack of investment in: * Affordable housing * Public transit * Green energy Can you show me any of these items in the current Republican party platform, or even point to any local Republican-run govern
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by youareostriches 6y ago
Especially given that people will store their credit cards inside the stick-on leather sleeve held directly against the magnet.
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by youareostriches 6y ago
Awesome. So instead of diabetes you can just get a massive continuous herpes outbreak.
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by youareostriches 6y ago
>Like "what power source can we make fly that can do this output?" How about actively reacting fissile material? I suppose there wouldn’t be much difference if the thing were already carrying a warhead. Or maybe create the tip
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by youareostriches 6y ago
The app needs to additionally make these features available as system services[1]. It shouldn't take more than a few extra lines of code to do so, and the advantage is that you can select text in any app to use as input. 1. https:&#x2
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by youareostriches 6y ago
> It can be written without using any of its more advanced features... So can Perl.
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by youareostriches 6y ago
>I asked if you thought they should be allowed. ...which is a question of governance.
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by youareostriches 6y ago
Do the protesters control two branches of the federal government? Or indeed, any government at all? Do the protesters control the economic system by monopolizing most property and wealth? Do the protesters have access to a vast war-making a
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by youareostriches 6y ago
Oh sure, the Daily Caller certainly has a right to complain. They just shouldn’t expect anyone to take them seriously about their intentions to report without bias.
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by youareostriches 6y ago
> This one, in particular, that “antifa is a violent mob that is super hypocritical”, and also aliasing “antifa” and “blm” as coterminous. The truth is very different, but I fear that many in their libertarian audience have shifted a lot
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by youareostriches 6y ago
> The worst thing is many people do not realize this and treat police as "privileged sources", especially as many media outlets directly copy police press statements as facts instead of sending their own people to monitor and c
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by youareostriches 6y ago
The Daily Caller has been managed by Tucker Carlson, who attacks protesters on the air virtually every day. The Daily Caller is known for right-wing troll articles. There’s no chance in hell that this publication would ever portray proteste
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by youareostriches 6y ago
> Q seems like a harmless movement. Q-anon is dangerous and baseless libel that undermines democratic institutions. One person has already been murdered: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/22/744244166/shoot
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by youareostriches 6y ago
Many types of stem cells indeed undergo competitive selection within a tissue, and the victors differentiate into somatic cells. Reduced competition within this process is responsible for things like skin aging.
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by youareostriches 6y ago
The “Tragedy of the Commons” is a straw man fallacy. The commons have historically always been collectively managed by the villagers grazing their animals on it. What you should be complaining about is the tragedy of an unmanaged (or in
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by youareostriches 6y ago
It's about time. Facebook has been violating this law for years.
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by youareostriches 6y ago
> Voting is not a good way to get what you want. Your vote will have essentially no impact on the outcome of the election. Voting is the most minimal way to participate democratically. Much more meaningful are advocating for your needs
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by youareostriches 6y ago
> The problem though is that there is no business model that supports federated social networks. Communication is a public utility. They shouldn’t need to be operated for profit.

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