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That's it in a nutshell, helping me hasn't been anywhere in their agenda. Obama claimed that he was going to do things that might help me if elected, and then did his absolute best to deliver as little as possible and blame the GOP for his failures. But, he had a period where he had a veto-proof majority in the Senate and control of the house. He could have nuked the filibuster rule for SCOTUS nominations and elbowed RBG out before the 2016 election to preserve a SCOTUS that had at least some hope of not getting drunk on it's own power. He chose not to, and now he just pops up to screw over the voters when possible or chastise black men for not doing whatever foolish thing he wants.
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Kyle, have you forgotten about John Hinkley Jr.,? It had nothing to do with politics, Reagan just happened to be famous enough that he thought that he'd impress a specific actress.
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Amber's "joke" about how all Black people vote is exactly why we need to reinstate the voting rights act. It's so messed up that we continue to tolerate a system where the poor and people of color can be deprived of their rights to vote simply because one party doesn't want them voting and the other party doesn't care.
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This would be funny if it wasn't going to kill so many people.
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It probably will. I'm not sure if the insurance company has to pay on a claim with this degree of carelessness.
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He still has an internal monologue, some people have even less availability to their own thoughts. It's literally zen.
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@TetrisChampMan Says you. John Dean, one of the guys involved in the cover up that wound up doing time over it, says otherwise.
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@QuagmireYellowParty I'm not generally a fan of travel bans, but in cases like North Korea it can be warranted. The big issue with North Korea in particular, is that it's not like there's any sort of real cultural exchange anyways. All you're doing is puffing up their supreme leader's ego, handing them some money and giving them the opportunity to get a hostage.
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I like how the black anchor is like "Well it is convenient" as if inconvenience was the issue with slavery.
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@FutureMartian97 And yet, that wasn't the argument they made, it was that the estate had to use arbitration due to a clause in a contract that shouldn't have applied to the interaction in the first place.
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Have Biden and Harris no shame? They were both major players in the current police state mentality that's led to this kind of situation.
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Yes, although keep in mind that the policy could always return, they'll just wait until they think the coast is clear.
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That's not terribly surprising, alligators are mostly just dangerous because of their size, for the most part they aren't interested in people and even in the cases where they do attack, it's a case of mistaken identity, or they get a hold of somebody's hand because they think there's food and drag the poor person to their death underwater before realizing that there's been a mistake and leaving the body uneaten. Crocodiles though, are definitely up for eating people.
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@deborahwhit118 I think they either had locked doors or the murderer(s) had a specific beef with the four that were killed. Although, I suppose something may have interrupted the killer before getting to those last rooms. Most likely, they simply kept their doors locked.
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And to think I thought Seth was a Black Lesbian. Learn something new everyday.
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From what I understand, this is why Amazon has this and not Netflix. Netflix wasn't wiling to let him have complete control over the show and Amazon would. Had Netflix been the one to win the contract, there would have been at least a few adults in the room to ensure that things like medication, feminine hygiene products and larger contestants knocking smaller ones out of the contest would be addressed properly ahead of time.
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It's almost as if nobody learned anything from that Ghostbusters movie that nobody talks about anymore.
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I was born after Nixon was out of office, and I remember for most of my life him being held up as basically everything that could go wrong with the office. But, the stuff that's going on now really makes Nixon look like a choir boy in comparison. It's just so cartoonishly evil that I'm honestly surprised they don't have anybody with a mustache to twirl doing so while detailing their plans.
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What's crazy is how many of these videos could be legitimate news stories elsewhere.
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That's because Boomers and Millennials sucked the air out of the room. Nobody really notices or talks about Gen X or Z. I can't blame Gen Z for giving up, it was tough enough for Gen X, things are borderline impossible now and getting worse.
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That was my biggest complaint about Rise of the Resistance. The degree to which the other riders were messing around, completely killed the effect of the stage after the shuttle and before the break out. I didn't have as much trouble with Universal's Harry Potter area, but the immersive part of that is either out in the area itself, or you're locked down with your stuff in a locker, it made for a much better, and probably more consistent, experience.
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@youtubesucks1499 In the short term, it might be 12.5%, but with people actually getting health care early on, before things get serious, you'd see the cost go down to something more in line with what other developed countries pay. None of the countries with universal health care spend the amount of money that we do on health care. But they all get better results for the money.
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One of the major issues with student loans is the interest rates. For grad students it's a 7.05%, one way of solving the problem would be to just peg the interest rate to inflation or to just decide that it's now going to be 3%, the difference in how long it takes to pay off a loan at 3% versus 7% is significant. Much of it is federal loan money, so it only has to be paid back because we don't want the inflation that would result from it not being paid back.
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Cases like this should result in the defendant automatically getting their money back. This isn't a case where there was, at least some evidence, there was literally no evidence tying him to the crime, nor was there any effort made to verify that the card wasn't his. As long as the prosecutors can bill the taxpayers for their time and stick the defendant with the cost of a defense, you'll see this sort of thing happening. I'm sure they were hoping he'd just plead guilty so they wouldn't need to bother with the court proceedings.
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As long as we manage to get to the point where the population is starting to drop before climate change is so bad as to be irrepairable, that should improve. The efficiency programs in terms of things like fuel efficiency and power consumption will still exist even as the population starts to drop. And with there being fewer people, that will likely compound to put things back the way they should be in a few generations afterwards. It's really the damage between now and then that's the real problem.
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@officialdcshepard Please tell me the one asking for the social security number and promising not to misuse it wasn't real.
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The good news of sorts is that since the police departments are allowed to refuse to hire cops that are too smart, the likelihood of them managing it on their own is rather weak. I think this was probably going to wind up being used as justification to continue targeting people in poorer neighborhoods that lack access to properly funded legal defense funds.
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@acmelka It's just Peter Thiel because they thought Elon Musk would be too on the nose, given that one of his proposals was to use slave labor to get govenrment work done. I'm not sure how expecting people to work 80 hours a week without getting paid can be done without slave labor.
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I'm glad they used that period 80 years ago in German in the segment. It really goes to show that they aren't actually thinking about what they're airing.
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Simply putting a much higher property tax on houses that aren't being used would probably discourage that.
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@herbivorethecarnivore8447 The stuff I've been seeing lately might not be quite as funny as it was at it's peak, but it's a bit soon to be judging too harshly. It took them quite a while to build up to where they had been, at least they seem to be on the right track.
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@issen2291 Yes, although considering the comments I've been seeing, I would have been surprised if he hadn't noticed people coming in here and claiming that this is now a politics channel. It's not that the focus has changed so much, it's still about the law, but due to just how much crazy stuff is going on with the government, that's the law that people are curious about.
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@vgamesx1 That's how people get food poisoning from pasta. Hard cheeses and the like you can usualy cut off the moldy part and you'll probably be fine. But, for soft cheeses and the like, you're definitely best just throwing it out as the spores can easily spread throughout..
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Mauris Nope, that's not how that works. They initiated it, he was defending himself. The real question is whether they have any legal grounds for a jury to acquit them. But it is factually incorrect to suggest that the victim initiated the violence.
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@jupitereye4322 For one thing, it looks really bad when employees are beating up on a woman's reputation. This is far more the case than when it's a man and quite honestly, nobody really cares what happens to men at work.
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I think a lot of people get it wrong. Things being automated isn't a real issue just because it tends to be the sorts of things that are horrible for people to do. The real issue is that the savings in labor is going to the ultra wealthy, there's no tax on it to help cover the needs of the people losing their jobs to automation, there's no guarantee that this time there will be new jobs created by this in enough numbers to not create an underclass of completely unemployable people with no access to the essentials and whatever environmental problems that result from all of this.
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The sad thing is that this kind of proves a point I've been making for decades. The sort of weapons that are covered under the 2nd amendment, even the greatly expanded interpretation that's become more popular, wouldn't do much of anything in terms of overthrowing the government. A government that has tanks, drones and all sorts of surveillance state stuff. Which, BTW, was largely the doing of the same politicians that the 2nd amendment supporters were in favor of.
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@Wordsalad69420 Yes, but not as much as labeling some jobs as essential, and them proceeding to hand out more than our salaries in unemployment benefits and make a big chunk of it tax free and prioritize tax refunds of that portion over that over us getting our refunds.
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And we the people who drive have a right to know if other vehicles on the road are safe to operate in that mode. Especially given that the rules about whom to sue when there is a crash aren't really clear.
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Finally an outlet that dares to say true things.
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Which is what makes this so stupid. Tesla has been just barely squeaking by for a while now due to Elon's incompetence, do they even have the funds to remain in business if these boycotts aren't offset by other people deciding that they want to buy one?
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IMHO it's too expensive. YouTube isn't producing any of the content, and they have a well-earned reputation for shafting smaller channels. Right now there's that invalid traffic thing going on and they can't be bothered to actually address it in any meaningful way. I’m not sure why I'd pay that much money for the service when I could spend the money on other things.
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Good luck canceling your newspaper subscription. I had one for a while and even though I was able to sign up online, I had to call them in order to cancel. I have no idea how that isn't an ADA violation.
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To be fair, the facility is also falling apart and understaffed. A new facility addresses the maintenance issues and presumably includes features to make it easier to administer. But yes, a new building doesn't inherently solve the rest of that stuff.
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He has a legit child-like innocence to him.
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That's a bit different, they were at least trying to prosecute him for actual crimes whereas with Alec Baldwin they couldn't even be bothered to know what laws they thought he had broken before they charged him. Also, I don't know that they ever bothered to figure out where the ammo came from that wound up in the weapon and they had already prosecuted somebody else successfully for being responsible for the accident that led to the death. I'm not sure how the folks responsible for handling the weapons can be responsible, and also the actor that's doing what he was told. But, the biggest issue is simply that they destroyed and hid the evidence that would permit them to establish whether the usual rules surrounding firearms were even relevant.
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@truthseeking3818 Coffee is fine, the difference is that he's putting the content he's releasing more prominently into the videos than his own personality.
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They were never in the LGBTQ community, despite what pedos and right-wingers would have people believe. It was always just a justification for homophobia.
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The main issue that I had is that often times the food would be spoiled by the time it got to my house during the summer. I'd love to have a meal kit that just handles the most annoying parts of the meal, things like the spices. I can easily pick up the fresh ingredients at the local grocery store or have them delivered over a shorter distance in vehicles that are intended to transport food rather than ranomd other stuff.
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Just remember that there's a reason why they switched from calling it Personnel to Human Resources.
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@thewildcardperson That's the larger tragedy of WWII. People think of the Holocaust, rightly so, but imagine if the work that went into devising those death camps had been put to something more practical. Most of the work that went into getting man to the moon was done on the backs of former Nazi scientists that had been allowed to illegally migrate to the US.
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They could always put the tax rates back where they used to be. Much of this wouldn't happen if the rich were actually thrown in real prison for tax evasion and bribing politicians. If after your 10th million dollars of income you have to pay back $9.5m it would greatly reduce the incentive to earn so much.
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TBH, after that commercial, I was contemplating leaving my wife to go buy a car from them, even though I live like 4 states away.
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@UniverseUndone7 Normally, it's hard to get contempt charges overturned as the contempt is considered to be witnessed by the judge. However, if it was refusal to turn over the name of the person that informed the attorney that rules were being broken, the appellate judges might well overturn it.
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At this point, who even refers to that as a Roman Salute other than people that aren't quite willing to admit what they're doing.
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I kind of miss the days when it was a given that pretty much everybody else in forums and chatrooms was a child molester. I never would have expected child molesters to be the lesser evil.
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@Otis151 It doesn't matter what the reasoning is, the defense attorney had a right to be at the meeting. It is a big no no for the judge and the prosecution to have secret meetings about the case. Any time there is court business involving the case, the parties have the right to be there. This wasn't a simple handing in of some documents for the judge to review, but even there, a copy would go to the defense.
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That's probably the main reason, but there have also been instances of voter intimidation by strangers.
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There is and they aren't mutually exclusive. But, with ADHD it'll be a problem in private and in public. It will affect most areas except areas of specific interest. When interested, the partner will be able to focus for many hours, even though the partner may not be able to focus very long otherwise. Toxic partners tend to be able to keep it together when other people are around and they don't exhibit significant differences in focus or attention based on whether or not they're interested.
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@norsehawk I have no knowledge at all of how the Korean justice system works, but many countries do not have a right to a speedy trial the way that the US does. It wouldn't surprise me if they're allowed to take their time there to get their papers in order prior to the trial.
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@raapyna8544 One of the dumbest things that psychiatrists did was conflate the inability to enjoy things with the inability to seek things out that are enjoyable. Those are two different circuits and two different solutions. In the latter case, if you've got somebody that can drag you out of bed, you can still enjoy whatever it is that you used to enjoy, but with dysthymia, you won't enjoy it even if you do, do it.
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@ You don't think having an insurrectionist and convicted felon as their standard bearer and now President is sane?
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As somebody who was working in security around that time with IED identification training, that whole thing was gross incompetence and there's no legitimate claim that it wasn't. Devices that size cannot take down a bridge or destroy a subway. The absolute worst case would be something along the lines of a claymore, which is completely useless against a bridge. And simply keeping people out of the general area while they figured it out would have been both appropriate and sufficient until they figured the first one out. The equipment they used to destroy that first one were more of a threat to the infrastructure than the device they were worried about itself. Sometimes, you just have to leave the past in the past and just resolve to use a bit of common sense in the future. IEDs are nasty bits of work, but a device of that size is simply not much of a threat when it comes to a bridge stantion.
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99%? Really, where precisely did you get that figure, because I'm pretty sure that none of the politicians running the city got 99% of the eligible voters to vote for them.
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Yes, and it doesn't even require everybody to turn on them, just for the ones that aren't sadistic monsters to not feel like stepping in to help them out. The best case scenario for the billionaires is to hope that things convert into some sort of commune and do their fair share of the work, or more.
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@Kriliska Exactly, I used to view sales as a dirty practice, but after a few years at a grocery store, I came to realize that it's not inherently, it can be done in a way that isn't, it's just that most businesses want the money now and really don't care about later or whether the customer was happy with their purchase or not.
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The main issue I have with him is that he glosses over how he got to get those deals that wound up bankrupting him in the first place and how he climbed out of debt. You don't get banks to write those sorts of loans without money and connections. Also, his advice doesn't really work if you're already that far behind. You need to have more than enough money to cover the bare necessities, and set aside some in order to have any hope of making use of it. Personally, it's working for me, but probably only because I didn't have a massive amount of debt and am fortunate enough to be renting my place from a relative at a steep discount. That being said, I'm going to be a millionaire eventually, just because I'm not going out and buying cars and I'm saving a ton to invest in a combination of stocks, bonds and a real estate trust. If you're not already being crushed with debt and non-reduceable expenses, it can be done with a relatively small amount of money out of each paycheck.
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I don't remember that episode, but if they were that close to having a "rock" that would fall down and chase somebody, they should have just completed it and just used it as a way of introducing the episode.
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No, we need to leave the house alone. It's the most democratic part of the federal government right now. There's already so many congressmen that hardly anybody ever gets to talk during sessions as it stands Adding more seats would just mean that problem would get to be even larger. Expanding the size of the house would somewhat reduce the influence of tiny states, but the impact would be pretty small compared with fixing the Senate, Presidency or SCOTUS.
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I was on a very long trial like that once. It wasn't as long, but even with all the work that the judge and attorneys were putting into cutting the unnecessary witnesses out of the process, it was still a month. One of the things I remember was how much weight one side wanted us to put on the fact that one of the witnesses was held in contempt for simply not showing up for a deposition without informing the attorneys and trying to find an alternate date that would work. I'm not sure about the other jurors, but I didn't personally see how that was relevant to the testimony. By the end of it, I hated both sides so much that I would have taken the more than million dollars that was at issue and given it to pretty much anybody else or even just made them watch me light it on fire. But, sometimes that's what being impartial looks like. You don't have to like or respect both parties, just as long as your feelings aren't impacting your judgement to favor one party or the other.
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I've got a masters in education studies and people often times don't realize just how hard it is to design work that benefits from a computer for use in classrooms. I'm not really surprised that these didn't work so well in parts of the developing world as one of those computers is a massive amount of money. In some areas a single laptops is nearly the country's per capita GDP. So, for just a couple of those notebooks you could pay for another teacher or somebody to help design curriculum for the school that could more effectively make use of the resources available in the community. Or, you could buy more supplies for the school to use in testing and evaluation. Or any number of other things that could reduce barriers to education. Computers are great, but they don't contribute that much to education if you aren't already at a level of development where you have a reasonably stable internet connection and already have your bases covered in other areas. Much of the benefits that come from computers come from being able to connect to the internet and do research and actually see what various areas look like.
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Because they've managed to convince outsiders to pay. Do you think they'd be at this with their own money?
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There's degrees of unsafe. I certainly wouldn't recommend that people come here, but it's not like you'd be deported back to someplace that's dangerous.
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Clearly, you should learn to code.
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To be fair, if he had been born in America, it would have been that he's a man, and men just do that sort of thing to women.
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He was a legacy admission, so he probably didn't even learn how to mistreat girls in high school because he was too busy elsewhere. This sort of thing has to start quite early if you're going to be able to keep up at work.
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It's not super surprising, I'm sure that whatever insights they are gaining that weren't already known are going to be used in prisons. I mean, the panopticon and rotating jails were a thing previously.
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It is, and the judges can choose between fines and potentially having people dragged off to jail until they comply.
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Did he actually pay for any of it though? You can't be refunded for expenses you didn't pay.
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@Silver-jv1us It's not lawfare. He did what he was convicted of and what he was convicted of was deeply problematic in terms of the impact it had on the election. You can make all the excuses you like, but he is a guilty felon that should never have been allowed to run due to his insurrection alone.
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HOAs being evil is old news at this point. I'm just surprised that he didn't find a way of working in some rat erotica when the founder was talking about the weird stuff that folks do in the costumes.
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Arguably the biggest issues are that the parties are allowed to decide which nominees are put up for President and then the electoral college means that people in many states don't even get a say unless enough of the people in that state credibly threaten to throw the election. The state I live in hasn't voted GOP since Reagan and nobody bothers to try to earn our votes when running for President, even though they throw all sorts of money at the swing states trying to win.
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@SolarisLunaran They were progressive until it actually involved them getting off their backsides and doing something for other people. They just chose not to pass the benefits down to the next generation. Any of us with parents that are helping us out should feel very fortunate that we're not being completely screwed over.
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That was my thought. Removing them to settle the plane while figuring out where to put them does make at least some logical sense. It probably is faster than trying to shuffle people around on the plane with limited space. But, removing people is something you do if you're over capacity, and that even seems kind of odd here. You probably don't even need to weight them, just having folks arrange themselves in line based on their physical size would probably do it.
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Yes, although if he wasn't a famous artist with that kind of money, the gallery wouldn't have bothered, so there's that.
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Of course they didn't. Why does anybody think otherwise?
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This is one of my favorite parts of the show, but it really should be called lesbians and black women are liars. Also Karen did a great job.
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@erincarr9411 It's more complicated. For one thing, there is a restricted list of pesticides that are allowed on organic farms, and it's a longer list than people generally expect. And there's basically no reason to think that properly applied chemical fertilizer is something that negatively impacts the quality of the food people are eating. The consequences of that is mostly on the folks that are working the farms.
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I think she should probably do the same if she feels that way. Learning more about famous figures rarely results in a higher opinion of them.
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That's a detail that a lot of people forget. This is also a significant drag on the economy as people that want to start small businesses have to consider their access to health care during the early stages of the start up process. My suspicion is that the main reason that corporations hate medicare for all is that it would make it easier for people to start businesses and to change jobs.
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That was a major factor in the removal of the viaduct as we saw the same design collapse and crush cars during that earthquake. The main question was whether you go with a tunnel, elevated roadway or surface streets. The tunnel turned out to be cost effective due to the reduced disruption during construction resulting in less lost tax revenue.
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People like that don't understand consequences.
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Yes, this is why there's been so much speculation that the sub may have imploded or become tangled on something. The moment that the pilot of the craft realized that the communications system had failed, that should have triggered the pressing of the emergency ballast release to take them to the surface where the mission would have been simply locating the sub and probably opening it immediately. As it stands it's highly likely that they're on the bottom where it may well be impossible to reach them in the next few weeks.
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You're just jealous because it didn't occur to you to choose to be born to parents' that own an emerald mine. That's not on him, that's on you.
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TBH, If I didn't know who he is and what he stands for, this was a very relatable video.
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Probably, but by that point, they know where the person is in the house and potentially can secure most of the the building before going in after them.
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@nadegaming3136 One would hope so, but then again, look at how vulnerable planes and spacecraft are to relatively minor defects and consider just how much of an impact there would be from just a little extra mass per unit of length most of the way. I'd be very concerned about what happens when you need to repair the tether. Even the relatively small cables used on an elevator would cut through anybody in the vicinity if they snapped without that concrete box surrounding the shaft, and this would be much, much higher and without a protective case.
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Typically, the only restrictions on recording are based on consent and whether or not the parties being recorded know about it. She doesn't get to tell him to shut off the recorder in the middle of a clearly illegal search and seizure action. If she doesn't like the recording, she has the option of just leaving.
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Sometimes, you just have bad luck.
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Yes, although people get really defensive of random bad actors. I've had a bunch of people accuse me of making stuff up when I point out that WGU nearly kicked me out for merely asking for support services that they promise every student prior to enrolling and refused to tell me what I could do to avoid getting in trouble again for the "unprofessional conduct" that was so bad that they had to edit out all the disrespectful things their employees had said to make ti seem like I was being unreasonable.
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TBH, I'm a man and even I know that that is risking some pretty nastic stuff like life threatening infections. There's a reason why there have been ways of dealing with those issues since way before antiquity.
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I don't advocate for it. But, it would be rather appropriate for him to Seal Team 6 the conservative justices that voted for this crap and appoint some new members that have some respect for the constitution.
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This has got to be the result of the pressure to perform on TV. Or at least that's what I'm going with, as the alternative is just too depressing.
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Mine detects the 3rd party cartridge and complains about, but prints anyways. I only have it because I got it for free from somebody that was replacing it. I'll be replacing it with a color laser printer from a reputable brand like Brother when I've got the money though. I do so little printing that by the time I need to print, the ink tends to be low or the nozzle clogged anyways.
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Medicare for all was rather popular when Bernie was running on it.
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@veramae4098 Yes, although most of what he's "accomplished" has been the result of riding on the backs of other people. Tesla itself would be in a far better position without Musk's interference.
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In all fairness, had this continued to deliberation he probably would have been acquitted anyways. The prosecutors really wanted to nail him to the wall over this and going so far as to file charges under a statute that was passed in response to this shooting. They destroyed the gun resulting in the defense not being able to have a crack at disproving the assertion that Alec had pulled the trigger and they buried this evidence and as such prevented the defense from examining the rounds to see if they matched for themselves. I'm not surprised, this was a high profile case and they were more concerned with convicting somebody than whether that made any sense or not.
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Only vote the other bits if you can be bothered to have some sort of informed opinion. You don't have to vote on things you're not comfortable voting on, and voting without having an opinion isn't doing anybody any favors.
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I'm not surprised, it's a ton of work and these days hard work in general isn't rewarded. So, anybody depending on hard work to get ahead is probably going to be worse off.
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@THEHamBot1 You'd be surprised, it can be rather easy to miss a street sign and wind up having to keep driving a couple miles until you hit the next opportunity to turn around. GPS, especially with voice commands, makes it easier, but it's still a much bigger pain in the neck due to the difficulty in figuring out how far you are from your intended turn.
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@razveck Usually, you would use only a small amount of vinegar in the solution.
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Yes, there's a reason why it took over 70 years to find it. They even knew roughly where to find it due to the navigation logs from the ships that rescued the passengers. AFAIK, there's still the mystery about the other ship that allegedly didn't stop to help.
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This should guarantee a mistrial at least, if not guarantee that the entire case gets tossed out on appeal if he is convicted.
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TBH, this is going to be a hard 4 years for them. Just look at all the stuff that happened last time Trump was in office, I don't know how they're going to top any of that.
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This is why it's best to have the car doors locked while driving and not unlocking them while there's some mentally unstable person in the area.
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You'd think that, and I expect that's what will happen, but some judges are really into fancy legal arguments.
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I won't vote for Biden. He's a horrible candidate and the democrats don't deserve to be rewarded for cheating the voters out of our say.
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Yes, and you can also sign in relief about not working for that racist woman. I can only imagine how abusive she would be if she thinks this kind of thing is OK.
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Yep, it's really, really hard to find too much fault when the system has failed so miserably to address the needs of the people.
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@OTOss8 Yes, since it's being paid to the library that's probably a nonprofit, I don't think it's possible to redirect that to pay off the other suits. And, the $1m goes to the attorneys. The whole result here is that a news channel is now disincentivized to accurately cover any future criminal activity. Most people, do not really understand he precise line between sexual assault and rape and in some jurisdictions, it's not an important legal distinction. If we were talking about something that didn't involve penetration, I think there'd be a more reasonable basis for giving Trump the win, but I don't see how it being rape rather than sexual assault is any better for his reputation.
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I kind of feel like he would have known that going on. Violent J has been giving interviews and performing for decades.
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Perhaps sentence her to community service cleaning up Puerto Rico since apparently the GOP thinks it's a floating island of garbage.
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Yes, although the censure isn't really that big of a deal. Its pretty toothless. Voting to move forward with this spending bill will probably lead to people literally dying.
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Yes, when he dies, Obama is going to burn in hell.He has done so many horrible things in service of his own financial wellbeing. And yet, we hear nothing of that, it's only an issue when Trump is benefiting from his office. But, Obama and the Clintons can make huge sums of money and that's OK.
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lol, Spanish isn't a common language? I live in a part of the US that's nowhere near Mexico and I'll sometimes hear people speaking in Spanish. I'm genuinely confused as to where one could go in the US where that's not going to be the case.
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The Onion has been on a tear recently. The new owners seem to really get the assignment.
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@veleriphon Don't buy into an HOA unless you know the rules, are OK with the rules and are OK with the potential for new and more intrusive rules in the future. I live in a building with an HOA and they've been pretty good over all. But, a change of board members to petty tyrants could change that.
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@freemason4979 As much as his name has become associated with all things evil in the world, the reality was somewhat more complicated as he was a vegetarian and he chose not to preemptively use chemical weapons on the battlefield. He also permitted a unit comprised more or less entirely of the worst possible convicts to run amok and terrorize the local population and the conditions in the concentration camps are difficult to comprehend. As easy as it is to ignore that, it's not as useful in terms of identifying these sorts of people ahead of time before they're able to consolidate the necessary power to control countries.
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@biggumstevens1784 That's not true, it's hard to get a job without recent references, a fixed address and ability to wash up right before the interview. Losing housing makes it significantly harder to bounce back and this who are homeless have very little to work with. Obviously, people do make it, but you're overstating the ease with which it can be done and glossing over the fact that it's not adorable for peple to be homeless in a country with so much money.
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@baphomutt The not leaving is bad enough, but it sounds like they also weren't ensuring that people had their medication, food, water or basic sanitary supplies.
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Because 80 years ago Nazis did some horrific crimes against humanity. Now, for all time the Israelis are allowed to do whatever they want, apparently.
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That's fairly common for cars that were being sold to subprime borrowers. They'd sell the car, wait for the payments to stop and then repo the car and repeat it until the car wouldn't be sold again. It's extremely profitable and probably ought to be illegal.
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@sergeantchick2820 It was pretty clear that he was forced to confess as the acting in that court video was absolutely terrible. It's unclear whether he was lying about doing it or lying about being sorry. But, either way it didn't look at all convincing.
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That sounds about right, plus I don't know how they explain somebody being allegedly permanently trespassed being allowed to gamble openly for years when they magically discover the ban right after winning a 6 figure jackpot. Just the failure of the casino to enforce their rights for so many years over a single incident where there isn't even anybody complaining right after she wins that kind of money is probably not something that jurors are going to be OK with.
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It's likely that the state supreme court will ultimately throw out the contempt charges, so the judge will get his more recent precedence to use next time he illegally finds somebody in contempt of court. It's also likely to be a bit of a moot point as this should be grounds for his removal from the bench and disbarrment.
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Sort of, but it's a skill that can be developed, and I doubt that most of those folks weren't practicing it in some other context before trying to learn. Before I tried to learn a foreign language, I had to go to speech therapy for my native English and then later I got interested in trying to replicate the weird sounds I heard in rap music. Then, by the time I did start to try learning languages, my ears were in fairly good condition. The only real tricks are to stop trying to make sound out of foreign words at first, and minimal pairs that underlie the differences between similar sounds. It's also worth noting that most language prep programs teach pronunciation for a few sessions at the beginning and then ignore it from then on. There's also a shortage of qualified teachers teaching pronunciation, as properly doing it requires a lot of training. Speech therapy itself requires an advanced degree. Accent coaching doesn't require quite as much, but it's not typically taught to people just looking to teach language. It's also worth noting that if you are better at hearing accents and mimicking, it tends to push you forwards as the native speakers won't let you off the hook for not knowing the language as easily as if your accent sucks.
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@aderan5011 It's even worse because while that was happening, the government cut back on how much money was being provided for subsidies and most federal student loans can't be discharged in bankruptcy court. Meaning, that not only is a post secondary education effectively mandatory for many jobs that shouldn're require one, it also costs more to get one and the pay you get at the end doesn't necessarily offset the cost of education that you didn't really need in the first place.
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It would be helpful to know what the basis was for them wanting the property. These things can get stupid, my dad lost the only build-able portion of a lot he purchased because the city needed that section to widen a bridge. They condemned the land and only paid for the portion they wanted, which happened to be the only portion of the land with any value. People don't like paying taxes, but taxes is what would allow for this stuff to be handled in a more fair way. I'm not suggesting that we allow landowners to hold the local government hostage, but with appropriate tax dollars, they could be handed out something resembling the value of whatever was taken as intended by the framers of the constitutions. I personally think that if the police or whoever is legitimately doing their job, that should absolve them personally of being on the hook for the consequences, not the governmental agency that ordered it. Sure, ti does kind of suck to have to pay taxes to clean up these messes, but as this case points out, you don't necessarily have the ability to foresee all the possible eventualities. I doubt she would have hired the man if she thought any of this would have happened.
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@Phoenix19265 Innocent people can potentially be in jail waiting for trial for longer than that.
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Israel, you mean those bunch of war criminals that seem to feel that they're entitled to do whatever they want without consequence? I've got no particular issue with Jews except for their support for that corrupt state. Perhaps if they'd stop murdering innocent civilians and tearing down their homes there wouldn't be so much terrorism targeting them.
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@ I thought GITMO under GWB was an affront to American Democracy, I can only imagine how much worse it's going to be with a President that's now completely untethered by the normal restrictions to prevent this sort of abusive behavior.
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No, we're just talking about oxygen. They ran out of water days ago and may have been in freezing temperatures since Sunday. This being a rescue effort is them being extremely optimistic in case they were underestimated.
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Sticking together is fine, sticking together no matter what is a massive problem. Sticking together means a private comment if things fall short. Not giving glowing reviews when things fall significantly short of what sort of service you should expect.
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TBH, it is a valid thing to bring up because this is not what the box is for. If an infant does die of natural causes despite whatever best efforts, there's a process for dealing with that.
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I think they usually read the lines as many times as it takes for them to stop thinking there's anything weird with the lines.
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The airline passes that to the TSA as part of the process. The actual flight attendants may or may not have that information, the systems they use are rather antiquated at this point.
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I seriously question Bernie's judgment when it comes to the moral character of the people around him. Biden is objectively an amoral crackpot. The sacrifices that I'm making as a grocery worker would go down a lot easier if they were fighting for medicare for all or finally removing money from politics or even just agreeing to allow the voters to decide elections would be a step in the right direction. Don't get me wrong, right now I'm more than happy to help people feed themselves, but increasingly, I'm questioning whether it would be better for all the grocery workers to just stop working and let the rioters reclaim our democracy. We hold an astonishing amount of power and they can't even get us hazard pay or cover the cost of protective gear. That would be corporate welfare that would at least make some sense.
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Somehow I don't think JFK would endorse this methodology.
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The Napster lawsuits were one of the dumbest things that an industry has ever done. The year that Napster went down was the biggest year they ever had for selling music, and it pretty much just cratered by comparison afterwards. I've got somewhere around 150 albums, but hardly any of them from periods of time when I wasn't using file sharing software.
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To be fair, there's a ton of other things that they should hang their heads in shame on. If they had any shame left, they would be doing something about this.
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@davidweisschadel It doesn't matter, even with a sound mind to start, an interrogation that long using those tactics will break most people.
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8 years of letting her gamble probably represent some sort of forfeiture of their right to claim she's there without their permission. They seemed to figure it out pretty quickly when she won, they didn't ever run her license or check up on who she was for that many years? A good chunk of the population would have forgotten about that incident entirely over that many years.
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Yep, somehow the diversity of the people doing the oppression makes it better.
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Not surprising, he finds the suffering of the underclasses to be hilarious. He can't help but laugh when our concerns come up. If anything, he's going to be a bigger disaster than Trump. At least Trump postures like he cares about the lower classes. Biden isn't even that compassionate.
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For those that's fine, but never clean packaged produce that's been triple washed, you're just going to contaminate it for the stuff that isn't prepackaged, or hasn't been fully rinsed, absolutely wash it with dilute vinegar or an appropriate produce wash.
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I'd expect that pretty soon we're going to start seeing criminal contempt of court and the US marshals or bailiffs could be used to drag people to jail until such a time as they choose to comply. I'm somewhat surprised that none of these jokers has been taken into physical custody.
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They're not really intended to be a fix to anything. They're intended to be enough of a boost that other, more effective, treatments can be used. This is especially true for psychotic disorders where it can be hard just to communicate with a patient. In terms of drepression, the only time where antidepressants could be considered effectively mandatory, is in a patient that's so depressed that they don't try anything at all ti improve the situation. Suicidality is kind of a different thing, it's complicated and there is an uptick in the short term when patients go on antidepressants as they may have been too depressed to even try, but now they've got a bit more energy.
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@radiantmarshmallow2527 Taking the names off the ballots and making people vote by policy would probably help a lot, although it could confuse people as to whether or not their candidate won.
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We're getting there, but people often don't understand just how much effort it's taken to get to the point where things can be tested without living test subjects. On the upside, things like heart cells on a chip can potentially be used for longer term studies to verify that something isn't toxic to the heart over a period of many years, rather than just the shorter periods that medical ethics would allow human/animal test subjects to be tested for.
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Yes, if the people who are withholding their vote would get behind a 3rd party candidate, any of them, then there'd likely be enough votes to make them the President. The two major parties are OK losing as long as it's to the other corrupt party, but if they were looking at losing to the Green Party or one of the other 3rd parties, they would shit their pants and start begging for votes with any promise they can think of to get people to vote for them.
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It's worth noting that famous YouTubers like MrBeast, are known by more people than many of the B and C list Hollywood types. Some of them are even known by similar numbers of people to the Hollywood A list.
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Not to mention that they're already supposed to be disclosing those things.
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But, orange man bad. I'm Joe Biden and I forgot this message.
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Honestly, it's probably nothing of the sort, but it certainly does look bad. When I was on jury duty, nobody in the pool was willing to talk about the process we used to get the resulting judgment. I don't know about the other jurors, but having spent nearly a month of my life dealing with the case, I wasn't about to say anything that could be used to overturn things. Both parties were pretty much hated by the whole jury by the end of the trial and I have great confidence that the resulting judgments were fair by way of both parties being hated equally by us. If I had been able to do it legally, I would have taken all the money from both of them and given it to somebody else entirely. I suspect that kind of thinking happens more than one might expect due to the time that the attorneys spend trying to tar each other within the boundaries set up in the appropirate civil procedures and courtroom rules.
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TBH, I'm not sure how that's a defense when being on any sort of substance that impairs your driving could potentially be DUI.
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Yep, that's one of the reasons I quit my previous job. I cared far more than the top level manager at the store, and I quit pretty quickly when she threatened to make my life miserable when I was doing most of the work for the entire department and it was her incompetence that led to the poor performance.
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Better to feel the fool being outside in the rain and cold for a false alarm than the smart guy that dies of smoke inhalation if there is an actual fire.
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Also, bear in mind that the weight limit is 200#, I doubt very much that the people witnessing her being weighed were under the impression that she was a healthy weight. I'm currently 205#, but I'm also a rather large man with broad shoulders. When I was her age, I weighed roughly 80#. She literally weighs more than double when I did and closing in on triple.
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It's unclear to me what imaginary leg Bill has to stand on here.
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As a YouTube video I watched pointed out, when you make a change like that, you had better prefer the problems of the change to the problems you have, or it's probably not going to work. I'm going to be starting a business soon due to burnout, but I have good reason to think it's the right move for me. For one thing, I'm going to have a 2-year accounting degree to help me guide the planning process, which for a small startup with just one person and probably no inventory is plenty of education on that. And, the burnout is from all the interactions with people at work and the general chaos, I'm autistic, and a lot of us wind up starting businesses because we're burned out from the pointless BS that shouldn't even be a part of the job. But, that being said, it is often times self-defeating as small business owners tend to work longer hours than they would have if they worked for somebody else, and the business has to grow before you can afford to offload much onto employees or independent contractors.
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I'm not sure how to really address that. But, if the landlords can't evict people who aren't paying, they won't have the money to pay their loans and nobody seems to care about addressing that issue. The best solution would have been to just give people money directly until the economy is able to open again. The money would have been used to pay for food and shelter and avoiding most of these issues. Meanwhile, those of us that are fortunate enough to have jobs still aren't necessarily getting anything out of it. I've been making significantly less than the people on unemployment through the end of July and in exchange for making less, I also get to deal with additional risk from exposure to the virus.
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How about we don't deliberately pick fights and then use a concealed carry weapon to end. Pushing somebody in this context is ill-advised because you know that the individual is at bare minimum emotionally unstable and at worst is also armed, as the person was in this situation.
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It's fake news, pretty much every DVD comes with Spanish Subtitles.
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That depends where you're going in the US. The East Coast tends to care far more about that than other areas of the country. Out west, I can't recall the last person that asked me that other than dates and potential employers. We just don't have that level of class division out here. We do have class division, but it's got far fewer levels and it's still possible to manage your way from the bottom to near the top in a generation. Admittedly, that's getting far harder and does depend upon being able to gain access to the knowledge of how to operate with higher class individuals.
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I'm just confused by why the Onion is starting to run factual videos this close to the election. It could confuse people.
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The police should be sued over this for filing a fraudulent search warrant. They should have been able to look up when the last time that the car was registered to the new owner and seen that the statute of limitations had expired.
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@matt2027 Yes, it's also worth noting that immigrants came here and were willing to accept a lower standard of living in the present while they used their money and connections to start those businesses. A lot of immigrant communities when they get to the US will have a network in place where they help each other out and do each other favors in a way that would be extremely expensive for people outside the community.
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@LindaYariger Which is to some extent on purpose. It wasn't really intended to be people's entire retirement income. It was intended to be used in conjunction with some other pension. But, clearly if you're posting here, you can immediately spot the flaw. Income hasn't been keeping up with inflation, housing has gone through the roof and fewer and fewer people have a pension.
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@AwakeAgainAtLast These are housecats that have already been interacting with people, I wonder if that would still apply if these cats hadn't been living with people and used to meowing.
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TBH, if he warranted this much attention, I would think that it would warrant being careful enough to have something that would stick. It's not even just the amount of harassment of this guy, but it's even worse when you realize all the other crime going on that isn't being taken seriously so they can harass him.
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@redthunder6183 I'm well aware, but nobody bothers to talk about us or even care what we have to think. I'm one of the youngest of Gen X and there has never been a point where our views carried any meaningful significance.
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It's unclear why the ticket was even written on the basis of an unreliable witness without the officer actually witnessing the alleged infraction.
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Mostly, I would argue though that this does pretty conclusively shut the door on the notion that if you give people UBI that they'll stop working. $1k a month is a lot of money and for them to still work nearly as much suggests that you can give a lot of UBI before it has any impact on people's willingness to work. The pandemic stimulus checks are probably a better set of reports to base future policy on as those went out to nearly everybody and on the whole were spent reasonably.
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Largely understates it a lot, Bernie nearly had it wrapped up before Obama got on the phone and got pretty much everybody else out of the pool.
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@256k_ That's the issue. Obviously, trying for perfect is probably going to result in the program not being completed ever, but assuming that you'll come back to it is a big assumption. Especially if you're being paid to develop the code, chances are that once you've got something good enough, that you won't be paid to go back unless there's a problem that arises later on that's bad enough to require a fix.
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That's mostly because "safe" means promising basically nothing that might help out the American people in general and running GOP light. It's difficult to get excited about GOP-light when you know that you're at best going to get a few social issues.
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If there isn't any sort of record of the owner requesting that change, there's probably some hope of suing the insurance company.
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Just wait until he streams his next video from North Korea.
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@thepudgyninja People forget, or don't know, that being a producer can mean a lot of things. It can mean being somebody that does get to make those sorts of decisions, it can also mean that they did some sort of significant favor and were paid with a credit and a bunch of stuff in the middle. I've heard folks make a lot out of him being a producer, but I'm guessing that if the judge disallowed that from the trial that he didn't exercise any control over that aspect of production.
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Possibly, but the loss of communications was a catastrophic failure on its own. Waiting so long to ask for help just sealed the deal. That is assuming that they didn't implode.
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Khamanei isn't a particularly good guy, but he's far less of a psychopath than Netanyahu is. Iran doesn't usually randomly murder civilians in other countries the way that the IDF is infamous for. Iran is a regional power that's mostly concerned with not having a repeat of the Iran-Iraq war. That definitely doesn't mean that I'm a fan of the internal politics of Iran, and that there aren't serious human rights issues, but they do tend to be more focused on defense than offense. Netanyahu is an outright psychopath and the IDF and Mossad regularly murder people without cause. The IDF literally murdered 3 Israeli hostages that were waving a white piece of cloth after they had escaped.
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Somebody should have gone to prison over the forgery.
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@epitaphzz $10k is like nothing, it's not even a rounding error on his net worlh. The penalty should have been some percentage of his net worth, they do that in some other parts of the world when it comes to speeding tickets, that's how you get those $100k+ tickets.
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Yep, as somebody with an advanced degree, I can confirm that degrees are more about funding and commitment to completion than anything else.
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@johnny2003 It's bad advice. You should go for the 30 year mortgage in most cases. If you want to pay it off in 15 years, that's great, but with the longer term, you have smaller payments, which means that if you lose your job, you're in a much better position to keep the house than you would with a 15 year loan. There's nothing to stop you from taking the difference in payments and setting it aside to pay off early, or making additional payments (Depending on the terms of the loan)
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He's the only passenger I feel any sort of sorrow over. They mostly got their money engaged in morally questionable conduct and then used it to buy cut rate tickets to the bottom of the ocean.
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I used to live over there and it was kind of mindblowing to see buildings that have been standing for centuries, and the newer ones that are required to be pulled down in a fraction of that time. As in, even before the building is built, it's assigned a standard maximum period of time before being torn down.
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What gets me is that the parties get to decide whom to nominate and the states have the power to decide what the rules are for appearing on the ballot. So, the states already had the right to make decisions that impacted the rest of the country in terms of what candidates would appear on the ballots. It's one of the reasons why it's so hard for 3rd party candidates to earn recognition from the federal government. Without being on the ballot, it can be tough to have the necessary support for federal election benefits.
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I hope they are rescue so that the governments involved can go after their assets to cover this foolishness. There are people that die on the streets every year from exposure because there wasn't any shelter for them, but we're spending I'm not even sure how many tens of millions of dollars on this rescue attempt because they were too arrogant to take the risks seriously.
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Keep in mind that that was just the top marginal tax rate. It put what was effectively a cap on how much money you could earn before you had to hand it all over. People act like the rich were being taxed that way for all of their income. They weren't, it just served to disincentivize the hoarding of wealth and we should do something similar for capital gains and just wealth in general At some point, you get to keep less and less of the overage so that it doesn't just collect in the hands of people that were best positioned to suck it all up.
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Yes, although the issue there is that pretty much everything she's done can be undone just as easily and thanks to the incompetence and corruption of the Democrats the voters can't just vote for them if they want the problems addressed in a meaningful way.
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You're not really supposed to be taking medications for depression for that long. Especially not if you're that young when you start. Antidepressants are meant to be used temporarily while you work through the issues using therapy. I'm sure there are a few people for whom therapy doesn't work, but that's not the norm.
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Words are funny, it can't literally be true, because the cell part of the word is from celibate. It just highlights the notion that women have a completely different experience of dating than men do.
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TBH, I don't understand why these tables weren't set to readonly for a period right before deletion. There may have been a few users that weren't writing to their data, but it would have resulted in error messages that would have forced people to investigate while the data was still there to migrate.
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And what of us that had to actually work through it? We've gotten nothing, I make a fraction of what I'd be collecting on unemployment and those asses aren't doing anything about it. They should have given the $600 a week to everybody in the country and then taxed it back from high income earners on next year's tax return. It would have been a massive undertaking, but it would only have been $10tn for the year, which is likely to be less than what they're going to wind up spending. That first stimulus bill alone would have funded payments to every man, woman, and child in the country for over half a year. Long enough to get the pandemic situation in the US under control. Then some sort of a modest bonus for those that were working during the pandemic at some sort of essential business. Perhaps just make it a tax credit or something of the like on next year's taxes.
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@sandyreinhart3772 Hard to say, but this is a level of sloppiness that a typical highschool marching band probably couldn't get away with. I don't know if it's intentional or the result of people expecting that it would get called off the way that it did during his last term, or just not appropriate time to drill to get it right.
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Organization for folks with ADHD needs to come with lowered expectations. What organization looks like for us isn't going to match other people. In general, it's better to get rid as many of the things that you can before you start. A big thing though is that when you're organizing things, it's important to make it as easy as possible to put things back where they belong. If you've got a bunch of DVDs on a shelf, good enough is if The matrix is in the section that has the M movies. Eventually, if you find that you're not having trouble putting them back, you can consider worrying about the order, or you can number them, but that can cause trouble if you add or subtract any from the list. It's also a great idea to have a bin or something of that nature where you can just put things that you didn't get around to putting away, eventually it will fill and as long as you put the items away before the bin overflows, you're golden. Papers may have to be something that just get dividing into, retain indefinitely, retain until X and stored with everything else that needs to be retained until then. Indefinite retention ones are more of a problem, but they tend to be unusual enough that they aren't themselves an issue for most people. You shouldn't have a ton of wills lying around and there's only so many insurance policies that you need. But, really, the more of this stuff you just get rid of, or don't acquire in the first place, the easier the whole thing is.
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Investor, but that's a really nonstandard definition of investor. If you're not making a majority of money from investing, that has nothing to do with whether or not you're an investor.
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I love it when women have those lists on their profiles, it makes it so easy for me to know not to bother messaging them. I don't care if I meet every one of those items on the list, there's no way that I'm going to go out with a woman that full of herself.
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@PunakiviAddikti Isn't the Bimetallic Strip Club where the engines go during the ad breaks?
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Even if those allegations are true, they are neither illegal nor immoral. College lecturers are generally allowed to date students, it's just frowned upon if they're in their own class or they have the ability to impact the student's grades. These are generally adults and I haven't heard anything to suggest that these were anything other than consensual pairings.
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Yep, that's why I generally refuse promotions. It's not that I can't do the managing, it's that the idiots above me make it incredibly miserable to do so.
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How is Forrest Gumping not a thing?
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@user-ut8yp6lx5b There's no dual loyalties here. He's only loyal to the donors.
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That's more or less what I think is going to happen, this is going to accelerate the number of cancellations. They do have some good stuff, but they don't have that much good stuff, you could probably cancel the service 10 months out of the year and watch the stuff you like before canceling again. So rather than getting 1 account for 12 months they'd get 2 accounts for 4 months or so total. We'll just have to see how this turns out, but I don't think it's going to do anything other than push those folks that are sort of interestedish out.
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@andyny29 Possibly, it also could mean that the labels weren't clear. But, having made that mistake at that station once, I'd expect him to be extremely careful about that particular station in the future.
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Please thank your politicians for doing us a solid.
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The correct situation is to remove the limit and expand it to more types of income. If they did that the program would be solvent for another 75+ years. Part of why social security is in this mess, is that a larger and larger share of money made is not subject to any taxation for social security at all.
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Error Message how much did the gp even get? I only got $1200 personally, even though I've made very little over the summer and barely have the funds to pay my bills. I can't quit because I'm any essential worker and I'm making less than the $600 a week that the unemployed were getting. But neither party is going to take care of us as we risk our lives and pick up the slack.
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IMHO, the biggest issue with the theater releases is how quickly they go from theater to streaming service. Sometimes it's even the same day. It used to be that you'd watch it in the theater if you wanted to, and then there was a prolonged wait for it to be available on home media. Then there'd be a wait until it was being shown on TV. At every step along the way, the studio could make money to help pay for the production costs and turn a profit. And it helped a lot with movies that didn't do so well in the theater as it gave the word of mouth time to build and for a cult following to emerge. That's rather unlikely these days.
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Yes, not to mention the pressure of having to put up on camera for a youtube channel.
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There's that, there's also the fact that she may not have understood that she was being permanently deplaned rather than being removed so that the calculations about which passengers to move to fix the situation would be easier. Having her on there while rebalancing the plane just makes the situation more complicated to resolve. These planes can be adjusted in terms of the flight computer to accommodate different weight distributions, which makes this odd as she probably could have been moved to the other side and one of the fatter people on the other side moved to her side.
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TBH, his policies seem better than most options we're allowed.
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There wasn't time for it in the video, but Google's purchase of Doubleclick was a blatant violation of Clayton, but antitrust regulations haven't been enforced in years. They'll force a promise for something shiny that has basically no enforcement mechanism and call it good.
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The usual issue is that you have to have the cash on hand to take advantage of it as when there is such a correction, often times there aren't people willing to lend money.
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Why should people be forced to vote? It's supposed to be the responsibility of the politicians and political parties to earn the votes. If nobody earns the vote, then the voter shouldn't have to vote at all. The reason why so few people vote in the US, isn't because it's hard, or inconvenient, you see low voter turnout even in states like mine where the ballot literally shows up in the mailbox along with relevant guides to help understand the various items on the ballot. And, you can then either just slip it in the mail with no stamp required or drop it off at one of the many locations. And we still have low turnouts because the parties and the candidates aren't promising the things that the voters want, and when they do, they aren't following through on it. Forcing the people who aren't voting to vote, just makes the system even less reliable.
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And even after they've bought the pig, they still don't want to hear that he's completely insufficient. They're going to use reconcilation to get $1400 rather than the $2k that they promised. So, they'll get attacked for using budget reconiliation anyways and they won't at least make it $2k or a recurring $2k and I don't believe there's anything for essential workers in there either. But, the unemployed will again be making more than those working essential jobs in many cases.
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He shouldn't argue that, Jimmy Dore was right, Bernie or bust. And since they've rigged the election, again, it's vote 3rd party or don't vote at all. If Biden wins, that means that the DNC will continue to rig primaries in the favor of terrible candidates.
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Remember how long Obama took to endorse Biden.
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It's betting a bit better. When I got diagnosed roughly 15 years ago, the only offered treatment was stimulants because at the time that's really all the medical establishment knew to try. Things have advanced somewhat since then in the sense that there's a much wider variety of medications and there's a lot more understanding that there are lifestyle adjustments that can be made to somewhat mitigate the impact.
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This is oddly satisfying to watch.
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@chiquita683 Um, what? The Democrats are the only party that's actually concerned with that right now. The GOP mostly wants to bring back slavery and indentured servitude by making it harder for employees to negotiate a living wage. Not that either party really cares, but one party definitely cares less than the other does.
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And, as usual, it's going to be the younger people that suffer from their egocentrism. For them, going back to Obama may be acceptable, but they weren't being crushed by a system that was designed to screw them over.
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It's worth noting that being uncomfortable is one thing. When I visited Dachau when I was in high school, it was incredibly uncomfortable and mind-blowing. But, it's worth noting that it's not at all the same thing as what's being done in the US educational system where they'll pile onto that a bunch of racist lies in an effort to persecute white minority groups that may not have had anything to do with the particular issue that's being covered. My family arrived in the US after the civil war and settled into an area that was far away from any slavery, but somehow I'm supposed to be responsible and to contribute towards reparations even though for nearly that entire period, my family was dirt poor and barely any better off than the emancipated slaves. History is heavily sanitized to remove any mention of the ethnic cleansing of various white minority groups moving into the US up until the post-war period. There isn't even any meaningful acknowledgement when WWII covers up that internment camps were not Japanese only, in addition to the Chinese and other Asian groups that were close enough, there were Germans and Italians purposefully moved there, the reason why it was mostly Japanese had mainly do to with the fact that the Japanese were heavily centralized in the exclusion region and weren't as easily relocated to parts of the country not subject to the restrictions. I remember literally being told that black people now have high blood pressure because several centuries ago slaves pissed on each other on the ships they were brought to the US on. It was deeply uncomfortable to have to be the one to point out that it's bullshit. And it goes on fairly often where the schools are telling outright lies in order to inform the students that are just as racist as the racism that they're claiming to oppose. It's really disappointing that we accept this kind of bullshit. There's got to be a way that we can be opposed to neo-Nazis and the Klan without buying into the racist narrative that everything has been peachy-keen for various white groups that are all basically the same monsters that perpetuated race wars for centuries and delight in torturing and murdering people of color. I mean, they literally had to invent the idea of Hispanics in order to justify excluding various white ethnic groups from consideration. Even though Hispanic isn't even a real thing, it's a massive number of ethnicities that have basically nothing in common other than a common language.
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Threats aren't protected, but there is definitely reasonable question as to whether this is a threat in that respect or not. Especially if she didn't have the means or opportunity to do anything.
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It's not particularly surprising. The President is one of the worst negotiators ever.
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My personal belief is that eventually we'll be able to automate just about all the absolute essential things for human life. At which point, we'll probably have to pay people to engage in hobbies or engage in research and intellectual debate. The reason being is that "idle hands are the devil's playthings" doesn't necessarily only apply if you believe in the devil, but people who have too much time on their hands oftentimes find creative ways of spending that time that aren't always compatible with a peaceful society.
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@forarainydave He could probably have solved the problem by having new windows installed that aren't blocked. Or perhaps installing a periscope on his side of the fence sort of like those solar tubes.
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@DoloresJNurss If there's one thing that I learned from Gilligan's Island is that it's just the wooden bits that hold people back, the mats do nothing to stop people from coming or going through them.
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@loosemoose9799 They're not stupid, they were probably more concerned with what happens down the road in terms of their ability to seize property. Depending upon the use, the upside of winning could well have been worth it. We know what the result was, but if the result was something that would have paid out $10m had they won, it's suddenly a much more difficult decision to make.
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The mental gymnastics that it took to defend her was truly stunning. She could have accepted the nearly $2tn deal and added to it when Biden won. But, either way it would have been more.
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That's one of the reasons why landfill mining is a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_mining
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That would be a good start, but not enough.
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Yeah, I was stuck being that a-hole in high school because other students wouldn't. My heath teacher tried to teach us that black people have high blood pressure because slaves hundreds of years ago peed on each other on slave ships. That's not how that works.
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@shindean A lot of what Gorsuch said in the clip is either an outright lie or so misleading as to effectively be one. He's a thoroughly disgusting troll and we got him because the Democrats have a hard on for bipartisanship.
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Gov. Inslee is hardly perfect, but he's an actual progressive on many issues and he was very effective in dealing with the outbreak here in WA. And yet, we barely hear him in the press lately as all this is going on, even though the measures that he put into place have been largely effective. We've had deaths, but the number of deaths is likely to be far lower than in other parts of the country, even though he was flying blind due to lack of testing and support from the feds.
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@latenightcake1147 It's more or less the safest thing they have for communicating online. It's something that the US spies use for communicating with informants. But, really, nothing is truly safe if you're doing something that's interesting enough to the wrong people.
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Even if they don't, that fees up funds for credit card companies to lend to other people.
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You should be careful. Many megabanks have fees that apply if you don't have a high balance or a direct deposit set up. Not to mention the fact that they love fees in general and so it becomes another thing that you absolutely have to check regularly.
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Yep, I worked for a Kroger subsidiary and the amount of time and energy I wasted on stupid BS that neither benefited the bottom line nor helped the customers out was unreal. They had all these fancy tools they kept rolling out that weren't ever better than having a properly trained employee doing the work, it was being done so they didn't need to have properly trained employees. For he 4 months before I quit, I was managing a bakery department and I kept getting yelled at for "over-ordering" because the computer told them that too much was being ordered, but I was looking in the back room and I couldn't order any less than I was without risking running out completely, which would also lead to being yelled at. The whole company is one big joke and if they had any real competition, they'd probably be out of business within a few years.
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There's a significant limit to what the pilot can see, which is why there's more people on board the aircraft. From a CNN interview with a former Blackhawk pilot, there should really have been another crew member on board so they could see all the directions to scan for that. There's also a possibility that they stopped looking for a jet when the saw the one taking off and didn't know to look for one behind them.
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Yes, but he's only been in office for a month, and a bunch of people haven't been directly impacted to any of this nonsense.
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This is precisely the sort of thing that trademarks and service marks are intended to prevent. Unfortunately, it does require an attorney and a letter really at minimum and possibly a lawsuit if they don't want to. (Yes, the lawyer is not technically required, but a scary letter about a real problem with real willingness to start filing court papers works a lot better than random businesses doing it)
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As long as everything is going appropriately, speed isn't an issue. If you're doing 100mph down a city street it really only becomes dangerous if something unexpected happens or there's a mechanical failure. The point of driving more slowly is that if something unexpected does happen, you've got more time to react and less momentum/ energy to dissipate. As noted in the video, people tend to base their speed on a given stretch of road based on their sense of safety. Having landmarks closer to the road increases the sense of speed and will tend to lead to drivers driving more slowly. And most states have a rule that the listed speed limit is the maximum limit on the road, so if conditions change, you may get a ticket even if you're going the limit.
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I don't think that they expected people to unsubscribe. People could watch both Rising and Breaking Points, it's not a huge time commitment. The problem is that they deleted the farewell post and haven't been putting up quality content.
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@nerobernardino88 And courts need to stop recognizing that term as in many cases you don't have an option to avoid the ToS that includes that nonsense. I remember cancelling my AT&T plan because they installed an update to a device that I personally bought which hosed the root job that I had done on the device to remove a bunch of bloatware. The response I got was that I had agreed to that. Which is laughable when you have to agree to that term on any network and it normally just applies to leased hardware.
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@Shadepariah Yep, and with their decision to host copyright materials, it's hard to say how long that will be. They've already been losing cases related to their book lending program.
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Pretty much. We all know that he's guilty, his people already admitted in on TV and they've failed to provide any exculpatory evidence when requested to do so. The real question is whether or not there's enough GOP Senators with ethics to have him removed for it.
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Absolutely. Things are so bad that the Democrats are pushing a $25k hero bonus for those who do have to work. It comes out to roughly $13 an hour of bonus pay, going back to the start of the pandemic. Seriously, the Democrats that failed to put any meaningful oversight or restrictions on the funds for corporations and failed to push for medicare for all, and Biden will veto medicare for all if elected.
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Really, let's call them what they are, a tax on the fat.
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Because his donors won't let him.
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It wasn't as much of a problem when people could get by on a single income and the cost of medical care wasn't so high. It was still a problem, but a lot of this is the result of starting in a bad place and failing to keep up with the increase in needs.
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@erinm9445 People misunderstand that. A company's primary responsibility is seeking a profit within the regulations and laws that are in place. That does not mean that other considerations are required to be ignored in pursuit of profit. Treating customers like garbage is malpractice and isn't excused by seeking to maximize profits. There is no requirement that a publicly traded company "maximize shareholder equity," revenue, profit or any such nonsense. That is what they say to try and excuse their psychopathic behavior.
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Yes, quick thinking and that he was probably wearing flame retardant clothing. It really does cast that scene from Taladega Nights in a completely different light with him running around like a maniac with the imaginary fire while everybody is like WTF.
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I think if they figured out some sort of battery standard so that people could more easily get them swapped would help. But, there's also the issue that many people live in places where they don't yet have a charging station at their home or office. I couldn't even have one installed one if I wanted to and an increasing number of housing units around here aren't even required to have a parking space, let alone actual charging capacity.
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IKR, I've been trying to get my wife to file for weeks and she refuses to do so. We're fortunate in that I have a job working at a grocery store, but the $600 a week bonus that you get for being on unemployment is roughly 7/8 of what I'm making by risking my health going out in public and ensuring that people have access to food. It's utter BS that the Dems are doing far less to help us than our own employers are. My employer gave us a $2 an hour raise that they just extended a while back and my employer is requiring that we wear company provided surgical masks. And my employer is temperature checking every employee before start of shift and paying for the rest of our day if our temperature is too high. The Democrats and Republicans have done dicky mcgeezacks to help us out. But, there's tons of money for the unemployed and large businesses, just none for smaller businesses and the people actually working the front lines trying to keep people from starving to death. I do feel fortunate, but it's incredibly f-ed up that nobody is talking about doing anything substantive to help us out and provide us with compensation for shouldering the additional risk and responsibility associated with keeping the country from starving.
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The BBC is consistently terrible when it comes to covering Israel and women's issues. They are pretty good on the whole, but they're one of the worst sources of news for those topics.
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I remember during the Tea Party era a sign that pretty much says it all "Keep the government's hands off medicare."
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He's in the backyard because of the tragic avalanche of pillows in the bedroom. There were no survivors.
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When I was a kid decades ago, the only stores that I remember offering a cash discount were selling computers. I thought there was a period of time when the credit card processors had that practice banned, sort of like how they had restrictions on minimums being required to use a card..
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Yes, it's been known for decades that there are factors that can be addressed that would lead to a reduction in crime. Much of it involves making it harder for criminals to lurk and increase the likelihood of neighbors to be willing to narc on criminals they see. Compton ultimately cleaned up a bunch when the community stopped tolerating the criminal behavior. Cutting back bushes, improving lighting, removing blighted houses that can't be sold and keeping the height of buildings below a threshold would all reduce crime more than what this proposal would do and without needing to deploy police to potentially harass locals that may not have anything to do with crime in the first place.
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That's why Windows 3.0 shipped with solitaire. It was a way of helping new computer users learn to use a mouse effectively as many people already knew how to play solitaire, so the added element was the mouse. You had to click things, double click things click and drag, basically all the basic mouse moves in one app.
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You can't, At Random isn't running this time. Try back in 2028.
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@arakwar Yep, I've become a real fan of the frozen food aisle. If you learn how to work with frozen fruits and vegetables, you can create some pretty healthy meals that are also easy and still tasty.
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I'm glad he at least let us see a couple times through, I'm sure somebody will throw together the entire segment if it doesn't air.
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To be fair, this accurately reflects the understanding of economics by typical economists.
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That's a detail that a lot of folks are missing, even if she did understand that she wouldn't be getting back on the plane when she left, which it sounds like wasn't clear, she may not have felt comfortable telling a FA that and then dealing with the awkwardness of the reactions from other passengers.
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They're betting the the court is politicized enough that posting videos like that won't come back to bite them. Sadly, I'm not confident that there will be any real consequences after all these years of them doing this sort of stuff.
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Honestly, it appears to me that he honestly believed that fact that he was in his own home and they broke in entitled him to do anything he liked rather than something closer to the minimum amount of force necessary to protect himself. He really should have consulted with an attorney at some point in the process. It may or may not have saved the teens, but it would likely have kept him out of prison.
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I found that footage of Walz playing Crazy Taxi and talking about how his wife wouldn't let him have his games at home to be pretty relatable. It's just a shame that I have absolutely no faith in the Democrats to do anything for me with policies. But, the guy is somebody that I could at least relate to, which is usually too much of an ask of either party lately.
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That's the thing, it's not just Americans that suffer because of it.
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I regret having volunteered for his campaign. We deserved far better. He should have left the party add run 3rd party. He definitely should have refused to campaign for Biden,
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@LuisFernando-wm4rw TBH, I fail to see how they didn't see that coming. They should have been allowed to change at the stadium and they should have had appropriate bags with some method of labeling them available. There's no such thing as common sense, but this is an outcome they should have expected if they did any research at all.
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The issue is that there are so many people doing it that even with restraining orders you'd still have issues.
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The criminal bit is recent, but people have known he's a horrible person for decades. He only gives his money away because his dad guilted him into it.
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@lorenzoblum868 Yes, we learned that pretty definitively with the OJ Simpson trial.
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He said, electric, he gets how people need electric. Perhaps if somebody explained that this was to provide electricity, he might have a less ignorant position.
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We could have had Bernie or really anybody else, but this is the moron that the DNC chose to rig things for. Not somebody that would actually bring people into the party.
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They can't do that, the feds are the ones that decide what is and isn't a legal sign and the ones that contribute significant amounts of money to pay for the roads directly. Those billboards are owned by private citizens that do have 1st amendment rights. That being said, I completely approve of having those signs removed as they only serve to distract drivers from driving. It's not like there's a way of building them to only be attractive to passengers.
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@fmccloud Yep, it's more properly known as fraud as they're claiming to be selling the items, but really they're just licensing them.
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@tjmarx TBH, the main thing that makes me not want to cook is the hassle of deciding what to make and deciding if I have the right ingredients. I think things like eatthismuch are probably a better solution to the problem. Also, a service that just handled the annoyance of spices and some the nonperishable ingredients would probably do a lot better. Get those ingredients now and then you can get the fresh ingredients closer to when you want to use them from a local grocery store. Most of them have pickup or delivery these days anyways.
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IKR, I don't understand why he continues to say that it's Keith Lee, even though he claims to know that it's a con artist.
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TBH, after like the 3rd time, the judge should have had his but detained as punishment as the money doesn't seem to have been doing any good.
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Yep, I'd want more information, but it's entirely possible that the OP wasn't doing anything that could reasonably lead to improvement and the partner got sick of dealing with it. Depression itself can result in a lot of nastiness, but it can also completely derail somebody's aspirations if nothing is done about it and it can be extremely hard to watch a loved one do nothing to address their mental health issues and choose to drag you down with them. Or, he was a legit jerk. That's probably also possible.
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I thought it was interesting how it happened to be one of the dealerships from the previous episode. They'd already gotten some free advertising from the show.
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Yes, although when you've got a judge giving you legal advice about your case, that should be an incredibly strong sign that you're wasting everybody's time and should just do as suggested. I think at that point, they might have gotten off without any further expenses or possible just some legal costs to the defendant rather than millions of dollars.
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@huma474 Doesn't matter, as explained in the video, one side does not get to meet with the judge in private except under some pretty specific circumstances and the other party has the right to know what happened and object if need be.
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@jaredoldhouser3301 It typically is illegal to change a waterway like that. The previous arrangement of stones was probably not legal either, but was probably put that way before the laws related to the more modern sense of what's permissible in the waterways were enacted. I'm not sure what the law is there, but even in much of the US you can't go around dumping large amounts of rock into a stream without an environmental review, commenting period and permit.
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That's part of why buying the fake reviews is also criminal rather than just being on the supply side. If a company has an abnormally large number of fake reviews, that would presumably be a basis for looking into their books for payments for such services and other payments that don't have a clear purpose or to businesses that engage in this sort of practice.
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Keep in mind that even if they are dissolved, the 2nd Amendment Foundation will be engaged in the same extremist rhetoric and lobbying that the NRA was. Those two are pretty much always the two sources for quotes about how we can't have any limits placed on the sale or purchase of firearms because freedom to slaughter entire office buildings of people is more important than the right to not be slaughtered in a mass shooting.
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That's what I don't really get, how can this be a "security first" OS if that's built in. There have been issues with malware that involves screen and keyboard logging for quite a while now, so now we're going to mandate that Recall be built in and installed, even if you don't opt in, but somehow it's not going to be susceptible to malware activating and redirecting to other locations. It's even worse as there isn't anything to stop recall from seeing what you're doing on VMs and the only way that it has to know that you've typed something secure like your social security number is to capture it, run it through the software to identify the format and then exclude it. Personally, I switched to Linux and I'll probably completely uninstall Windows 10 before too long.
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The judge has limits on what sentences can be handed out and failing to following the guidelines can result in the sentence being changed by higher courts.
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There's that, but I'm curious why the charge was allowed to go through in the first place without checking with her. A $7k charge at subway can't be typical.
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I think what should blow people's mind is that with a super-majority in congress, our allegedly left-wing President was only able to get us a health care reform that was to the right of what Nixon wanted to give us back in the '70s. There's only a handful of left-wing politicians left these days and none of them have any power.
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Sadly, that may not be enough. Considering how aggressively the msm is ignoring this, he'll probably have to crap his pants on stage for them to get the idea.
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Probably because most of them start by taking a little and keep going while rationalizing it as if everybody else is doing even mroe of it.
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At a minimum. Unfortunately, so many traitors have been allowed to remain in Congress, Senate and SCOTUS that sending a few idiots like this to jail isn't going to make much of a difference.
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You're almost certainly correct. I used to live and work in mainland China and the only places I saw fat Chinese were larger cities. Some of that is probably due to them having money to overeat, but it's also where virtually all the fast-food restaurants are due to the money being concentrated tere. The fast-food restaurants aren't exactly cheap by Chinese standards, I could easily eat for a day or two on what most of them charged. I personally lost a ton of weight pretty much immediately after moving there both times due to the smaller serving sizes, increased walking and how hard I'd have to work to get fed with minimal language skill.
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That's because the definition of white is an evolving concept in the US. Up until relatively recently, Jews, Italians and Spaniards weren't considered White.
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The funny thing is that the Newt Gingrich thing is real, they just slipped it in there so that there's some doubt about what is and isn't real in the publication.
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A lot of people have been brainwashed into thinking this is helping out doctors and lawyers, or people who studied things that are completely useless. They don't realize how many employees are required to have various degrees for jobs that barely pay anything. This is especially the case for things like people working as social workers or in the unemployment office that are often barely any better off than the people they're helping, but had to have some sort of degree in order to get the job. Really, we need to stop this trickle down BS and recognize that wealth always rises to the top. Money should be given to those at the bottom, knowing full well that it will work its way up to the top if nothing stops it from doing so.
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@ I feel like if you have more than a certain amount of money, that it should just default to being jail time.
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That's certainly possible, it's also possible that he's genuinely innocent, that too much of the evidence will have to be excluded due to misconduct and sloppy handling or the jury will decide to be super strict about how much they expect for a particular charge to be proven. I think it's pretty much a given that he's not going to get a death sentence here. That's massive overreach considering what he is accused of doing and what the normal sentences for killing one person is. I think that with all the mass shooters and serial killers in various prisons for life without death sentences that it's going to be hard to get a jury on board with that, no matter how much evidence there might be.
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Down the road is fine if you're getting politician dollars and politician health care.
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@dellastreet9294 It's generally best for companies to not put such signs up unless they're prepared to make some enemies. The first buying decisions that potential customers make have to do with whether they like and trust the salesperson and the business. Political signs of any sort can turn off customers, so they're really only appropriate if the business owner is prepared to live with the consequences of people not shopping there.
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@wolfmantroy6601 It doesn't really matter. They have minors that are flying, not deplaning them unless everybody is being deplaned or there's a behavioral/medical reason for doing so isn't much of an imposition. I wasn't much older than that when I flew by myself for the first time. And, they're extremely lucky that this wasn't after a layover.
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The usual reason is that they hadn't done a thorough enough review of what was involved to see if it violated any copyrights or patents that they couldn't or wouldn't give permission for.
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That happens because companies are effectively held hostage. Anybody with the skills to be a CEO, even a bad one, is probably not going to accept the job for less than millions of dollars. On top of that, the board of corporations rarely, if ever, are willing to admit that the CEO they've got is worse than average, so they pretty much all get above average compensation.
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@Riel1327 It's almost like they had to deal with 4+ years of his BS last time and the best field agents won't have anything to do with him.
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I think he wanted to buy that device for a while, but he finally has an excuse.
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The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull wasn't that bad. As long as you stop watching the movie when they hit the temple, it's actually pretty good. Most of the whining comes from people that haven't watched the previous movies. If they did, they didn't think about how ridiculous it was that Indy could survive a multi-thousand mile journey on the outside of a submarine without dying from dehydration or exposure. Or, the fact that he forgets about supernatural powers after The Temple of Doom so that when he starts Raider's of the Lost Ark he suddenly no longer believes in the magic that he previously saw in India. The main issue with the Crystal Skull was that they didn't bother to set up the finale properly. There were no hints in the lead up that they would be dealing with an interdimensional traveler rather than an alien. An outright alien would have been a tad bit of a stretch as Indy usually deals with supernatural powers, but not unreasonable.
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That was my thought. A little Freudian slip.
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There's no need for a disclaimer, he is, as a matter of law, a convicted felon. So, he is a criminal, there's no legal requirement for a disclaimer as he's already been convicted.
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@mediaisthevirus Sure there is, how many of them were still members of the party afterwards, and how many of them were aware of the extent of it? Dehumanizing people regardless of their personal level of culpability is not helpful.
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That would absolutely destroy the economy. The debt isn't a problem, the issue is that the tax policies favor the rich at the expense of the poor with inadequate social safety nets.
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I won't vote for Jayapal due to her support of Pelosi.
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People are impatient and sometimes what they see isn't what you see. And sometimes they're crazy jerks.
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Not just that, but they have health care and no difficulty paying for it. We have billions and billions of dollars for the defense spending and yet this is something we can't afford.
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@impractically728 There already is. If more people are streaming at once than are permitted under your specific account settings, then the additional people get blocked until it gets cleared up. I fail to see how this change is really necessary as there's a bunch of nontraditional families where one family member or another is living somewhere else.
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Hello fellow kids, do you like good things? I like good things.
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Yes, I don't wish ill on them, but by the same token, those are also areas where they voted disproportionately for what's happening. With any luck, they might survive and remember this for the midterm elections. However, even if there is, there needs to be somebody running as an alternative, otherwise, nothing changes.
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It's worth noting that if every NRA member that disapproved of the NRA's positions would have simply moved their contribution to a different organization, it would have folded years ago. The NRA's positions are not popular, even amongst members, its' just that so many people equate them with gun rights that other, more responsible, organizations don't get that money. For those that support reasonable gun restrictions, want hunting rights preserved, for gun safety classes to be free or affordable, there are plenty of organizations that do that, just without the extremist ideology.
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At this point, it's so naked. They aren't even pretending like they want our votes.
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I'm really glad that I'm not in the military. I can only imagine being in the military and realizing that I might get killed over something that's even stupider than most of the stuff of the last 20 years.
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Never, ever co-sign on a loan. If the bank or lending institution wouldn't issue the loan, why should you? If for some reason you do want to help out, or think they will pay, you're better off just lending them the money yourself. As a co-signer on the loan your credit score also takes a hit when the loan isn't paid on time and after a period they can go after you for whatever wasn't paid.
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youcometome9 Not really, one of the biggest mistakes the news media has made is behaving as if both sides have valid positions. In many cases, especially most hot button issues, that's simply not true.
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@samtinkle9076 I'd argue that the fact that it's "just" socks makes it even more egregious. I once had a pair of socks where a loose thread started to cut the circulation to one of my toes. Thankfully, I'm not diabetic and could feel the circulation being cut and addressed it before I needed medical treatment, but somebody with poor circulation or neuropathy might have lost a toe.
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Yes, and for tasks that you know you'll do regularly, it's worth having an additional separate copy of the related tools. For example, having all the mail supplies together, laundry stuff and beach supplies in their own containers makes that a lot closer to the 5 to 10 minutes that is optimal, rather than the half hour, or more that it can take to track everything down.
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That's the longest slippery slope argument I've ever heard. And at no point does she actually justify any of the steps.
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Theoretically, that's what the national guard is really for. It's a paramilitary group of US citizens that the 2nd amendment was created to ensure would exist if it got to this point. It's why the language of the 2nd amendment is in the plural rather than singular. The US National guard is to protect the country in case of a coup or in case where a coup is required because the elected government has completely run amok and we're looking at a dictator in control. It's why they get a bunch of gear that the military gets and civilians do not.
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@danilooliveira6580 I used to reforest areas as part of a job, and it's kind of complicated, when they go about planting those trees, it needs to be a variety of trees being planted and ideally, there also needs to be ground cover and bushes as well. Whenever donating to organizations that plant trees to reduce carbon dioxide, it's important to know if they're just planting the same type of tree everywhere, or if they're doing it more responsibly. Unfortunately, more responsibly sinks a bit less carbon for the buck in the present, but it doesn't cause issues in the future the way that cheap tree planting programs do.
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@Fents_Post_Productions Were you not paying attention to the video? The courts legalized that sort of thing.
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That's not terribly surprising. Despite the tactics, it's worth recognizing that most of the people involved in these military operations view themselves as freedom fighters and I can't imagine them maintaining any sort of morale if it came down to keeping children captive and tormenting them. There is a hstory of hospitality throughout the Middle East and it wouldn't surprise me if it was being extended to children that were caught up in all of this. It's also a really smart move for cynical reasons. That girl will grow up and someday get to vote and influence those around her.
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I used to wonder about why they didn't do it and then I moved to China and started studying Mandarin. Trying to write any form of Chinese without the characters wouldn't work well. There's too many homophones in the language as a result of the small number of uniquely identifiable syllables for that to work. Perhaps Cantonese or some form with more tones might get away with that, but I doubt it.
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When the city is approving permits for buildings, they can make it a requirement that there be an easement to cover that. I know of at least one building where there's a walkway that goes through the ground floor that is open to the public all the time. It's just that they have outside style doors along the corridor to lock when the building is closed. The bigger issue is that in order for it to be useful, you need to have a decent number of people that want to go between the buildings. Which is part of why most skybridges only exist between properties owned by the same developer when the buildings were being built. There's also tunnels that can be built as well for the same purpose.
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Adjudicators are licensed? I take it there's no ethics exam involved, because around here they're some of the worst scum and villainy that the state can find. And I've been a state employee, I'm generally not one to badmouth state employees, the only government employees that I can think of that are worse are tax assessors and prosecutors.
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That's certainly the impression that those of us that live nowhere near there have on the basis of how she handled that $4k gift that came with specifications as to what it was covering. If it had just been money to the business to do whatever they like with, or even had been money to the business that hadn't included money for other people, that would be different. But, the money was clearly intended to be shared.
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Why would he care, he got massively wealthy as a result of his political career, to hell with the peasants.
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It's kind of their own fault for selling their souls early on to elbow everybody else out of the market. In the traditional online advertising market you get a certain amount of money just for having your image viewed and another if you click through to the advertised site. They could have offered the equivalent of some small amount just for the placement and more money being paid if the viewer made it through the 30 seconds and the entire amount being paid if the viewer clicked the ad. It's a minor change, but one which would discourage some of the more obvious scams. I'm not sure why they're taking their own incompetence out on the people creating the products that the site is selling. The videos and the audience that comes for the videos.
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@testy462 In all fairness, he did say that he refuses to accept that the road is dangerous and then gave a brutal eye-roll at the motorist that left the roadway.
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I do think that the first step here is just making sure that the standards adequately reflect to size of airline passengers. People in general, even those that aren't obese, are larger than they were in the past. I'm only a little bit overweight, but my shoulders don't really fit in the seat that's provided and there isn't really a decent alternative, assuming there is at all.
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They really didn't. People forget just how much garbage was on TV during the '90s and '00s. There have been great TV shows on network TV since then, but much of it was already on networks like HBO where you had what was hardly any different from streaming. You could watch what you wanted when you wanted via DVR and it was behind a paywall. If anything, Netflix just accelerated what was already happening.
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@turalmirzaliev1232 They have money, where do you think that Kim Jong Un gets his toys from? But, that's a bit of a moot point as there isn't anyway of compelling them to pay whatever they've got towards a verdict due to them being a sovereign state. (A large chunk of the money comes from cybercrime)
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That's what people should recognize. None of these things individually got us into this mess, fixing any one of them isn't going to get us out of this mess. Cutting back on meat if you're eating a lot is probably a wise move from both a health and environmental standpoint. If you've got the money, you can go the extra mile of buying from sources that are more responsible in how they raise and butcher the meat. We can definitely solve climate change and still eat meat, we just need to eat a bit less and ensure that it's being raised in ways that keep the emissions and resources used to reasonable levels. It's mostly other things that caused the problems anyways.
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Honestly, that seems far more legitimate to me. Houses and hotel rooms are more or less the best examples of places where you would expect that kind of behavior to happen.
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@huma474 This is no different from being in the military and being order to commit a war crime. In both cases you're allowed to say no. Although there can be consequences in both cases.
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Yes, my shoulders are wider than the space that I'm allowed, I can get the seat belt clipped with plenty to spare, but my shoulders protrude over the arm rests no matter what I do. Shy of breaking my clavicles, I'm not sure what I'd be able to do to fit.
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@TheCozyCottageKeeper It's a routine training session, that doesn't mean they were learning to fly, just that it was training. That can mean learning to navigate the area, or it can be practice for things they already knew, but need a refresher on. We'll have to see if that factored in at all.
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Office buildings make terrible apartments. They're designed for different purpose. I used to work security in a couple highrises and they are pretty much completely unsuitable for conversion to apartments. They typically lack permanent walls, They have layouts that are for businesses, there's commonly a lack of suitable amenities in the neighborhood and just generally, it's not a great situation to rent something like that to live in.
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@str4tegyy506 No, it doesn't, that would be an incredibly hard thing to accomplish with a helicopter. It looks like a helicopter that's just going about its business a couple hundred feet too high and running into a jet.
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I'm wondering how they can require it on that kind of short basis. What about individuals who are unable to be attend due to work or other obligations?
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From what I understand, that's the day she found out about the violations. She was absolutely right to quit at that point even though she probably already knew that the case was going to be dismissed outright whether or not she quit. Waiting to see what the reaction was would have just served to increase the likelihood of sanctions for her while doing nothing useful for the rule of law.
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Yep. Jimmy Fallon is terrible, but John Oliver is what John Stewart used to be.
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And it's still nowhere near the record.
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My response was "oh snap"
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It's mostly the small state bonus that causes most of the trouble. Back when the electoral college was originally created, it worked pretty well and dealt with the fact that the news might not make it to some of the more rural areas regularly enough to allow the voters there to have an informed say in what they wanted from the government. So, they'd vote for electors to go and finalize the decision making in the capitol. But, between how easy it is to receive news in all but the most remote locations and that the GOP hasn't won the popular vote a single time this century while winning the Presidency 3 times, it's clearly time to at bare minimum axe the small state bonus, and more generally just move to a popular vote system. The only benefit to not completely obliterating the electoral college is that it makes it harder for the Republicans to rig the election by making it impossible for certain folks to vote in states where they control the election process.
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@abyesilyurt Yep, I probably wouldn't be looking to get a reduction in my hours at work to start a business if there wasn't so much BS. I had my job down to the point where I could get the ridiculous amount of stuff that they wanted done done, and with decent quality. But, now I've got a ton of time to fill because I don't have the materials to make my stuff, and I'm trying to stay out of the crossfire of the office politics. I get most of the stuff that was part of my job done an hour or two earlier, but I get little done after that just because of the BS that's been added over the last few months.
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Xeriscaping when done well can be gorgeous the way that you're talking about. In general, the more use people make of plants that are native to the area, the less supplemental water they're going to need once the plants have established themselves. Often the plants themselves look amazing when chosen properly.
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@rottingravensblood9106 Yes, I don't understand a billionaire being willing to go down in a sub like that. The effective difference between $250k for this and whatever it costs to go down on a real sub designed and rated for the depth is probably not that much.
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I suspect in the long run, it will probably be a combination of the two. Here in Seattle, the major streets tend to be roughly 5-10 blocks apart, which would give ample opportunity for cul-de-sac or neighborhoods without through streets without destroying the ability of random citizens to walk or bike about. Having grown up one block off one of the arterials, there was a large amount of traffic that went fast down the narrow street in order to avoid the stop light on the arterial one block over. They'd drive it as if it was an arterial, even though there was barely room for one car between the parked cards
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Or purchase through a reseller as when I bought my socks a few weeks ago they didn't come with ToS or any of that BS. I simply paid my money and got my socks. And whatever happens if you buy socks and then donate them to a homeless shelter? Are you on the hook for their unauthorized uses?
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Yes, although the folks that were injured were likely wearing their seat belts. Being flipped upside like this can cause serious injuries, especially if you've got preexisting injuries to the spine. This is also a good reason as to why babies should not be permitted to ride on the lap of passengers and instead be in proper booster seats.
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He said that, but as I understand it, now that the ruling has come in it is supposed to trigger a clause that requires other signatories to stop it from continuing. So, with an ICJ ruling the other signatories are supposed to stop sending military aid or doing business with Israel until it stops.
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@joeycarter8846 The helicopter was notified that it was on a collision course by the ATC. The helicopter also was supposed to be visually separating from other craft in the area and 150ft lower. I'm not really sure what the ATC was supposed to do when the helicopter stopped responding. I'm sure the investigation will fill in some of the gaps, but right now it looks like it was the helicopter crew that was at fault here, and not the ATC or the jet. And I wouldn't expect that to change.
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@LibertyPrimeOnline Yes, that's pretty much always trespassing. Walking on the tracks can and does result in people being hit by trains as trains can move far more quickly than they look and have an extremely low ability to quickly brake.
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To be fair, they're too busy ignoring all the other substantive issues and going on vacation. In a couple decades they'll get right on it though.
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It's also worth recognizing that a lot of these things probably were fundraising for further development. The diving suit in particular wouldn't be useful as a weapon as such, but it could potentially have had some use for salvage operations if a ship did go down in shallower water. Or potentially for helping to install underwater fortifications against ships, sort of like a minefield with debris rather than literal mines. And some wouldn't have worked at the time for the simple reason that the necessary materials hadn't yet been developed. If there had been a need to fall from higher heights, I'm sure they could have worked out a way of making the frame for the parachute lighter as it just needs to maintain enough of the shape to capture the wind and take some of the pressure off of the stitching. He did hit it out of the ballpark a few times, but people tend to forget about just how many bad, or impractical, ideas it can take to generate a few world changing gems.
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I'm not really sure how this is any different from when the Nazis required that people be identifiable in public based on their religion. They also viewed the Jews as being unclean and that did not end well. I'm not suggesting an upcoming holocaust, but there are so many ways in which it could go bad and so few ways in which it could go well. Everybody should be very worried about these passports.
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Unfortunately, this likely means that double jeopardy would still apply if they want to prosecute him again even though he was found guilty initially.
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@HunterAnsorge-ok9jk Um, she definitely is. That's one of the responsibilities of the armorer. Anytime there's a gap in filming the armorer is supposed to take possession of the firearm and either unload it and store it or put it in their holster until it's needed again. I don't know that it's been established how the round got into the firearm, if that has been established I haven't heard about it.
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@angrydachshund Land is unique, her reason for not wanting the swap may seem like BS, but she was completely within her rights not to want a building she didn't ask to be built to be on her property. It doesn't matter why she didn't want that, she is completely within her rights to have the building removed and the property restored.
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I've got a masters in education studies and it's pretty clear that a large part of the problem with modern interfaces is that they fail to take into account how people learn and how they use the software. I started using computers in the mid-80s with an Apple ][. I watched as they got easier to use until about 25 years ago when progress didn't just stop progressing, it actually went backwards. A lot of that can be traced back to people copying what Steve Jobs was doing without understanding why it was working. You had interfaces being simplified in ways that didn't make sense and prioritizing the "User Experience" over the actual functionality. You get these very nice looking interfaces that required education to use, and two programs would do things in very different ways without any real justification. Before that there was a much higher priority placed on sticking to a paradigm that was largely simile from product to product. A menu item might move between pieces of software, but you know there would be a menu item for preferences or settings somewhere and it would usually be under either file or edit. And the things would generally be categorize with hot keys for any of the most important things. That's definitely not to say that it was perfect or that there wasn't room for progress, just that we got into a cycle where removing things and hiding them became more acceptable even though things like MS' ribbon interface just made things more confusing and hard to find. I guess that they could defend it based on telemetry, but when the people who really know how to use the software turn off the telemetry, it makes it hard to get any useful information out of it. To make matters worse, because there's no reason for the way things are being arranged, it makes it much harder to learn the software and you're spending more time concentrating on the interface compared with the time on task actually doing the work.
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And the Democrats are any better? Biden could have done a bunch to put us in a better position, or even stood back and let a stronger candidate be the nominee rather than trying to win an election for a term which he is unlikely to have been able to compelte.
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Of course, get with the times, it's votes for Biden no matter who* *who you actually voted for on the rigged machines.
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Clinton needs to live, it's the only reason half the people start watching this channel.
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These puzzles are always riddle with problems that makes solving them impossible without knowing what they're wrong about.
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@Baddaby You're both sort of right, but I think you're more right. There is so many politicians that are there year after year and so much incentive to inflate their own salaries that it's a moot point. It's sort of like how executive pay at corporations has gotten out of hand because nobody wants to admit that they've got a subpar CxO so they continually pay more than what was the mean previously.
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I'm deeply disappointed with my representative Jayapal. I'm not voting for her ever again and will not just be voting for the other candidate regardless of whom it is, but I'll be donating to her opponent. This is completely unacceptable. I voted for her because I didn't want this bullshit and now I find out that she's giving up even before there's a fight. Very disappointing.
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What makes you think there's anything democratic about the Democratic primaries? If they cared about democracy, we'd likely have President Sanders dealing with the national response rather than President Trump. And, we're going to get another 4 years of President Trump, if the voters in the remaining states don't wake up and realize just how dangerously unqualified Biden is to lead the country. But, that probably won't happen because the media is still pretending like Bernie isn't the best choice in either party for addressing the issue.
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@AGILISFPV He gets whatever is in the articles covering it. He's mostly talking about the legal issues involved with what's in the articles. Since he isn't there directly covering any of this, that's to be expected.
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I hope they are rescued, and then that the various governments that are spending all this money go after them for every penny. A huge amount of resources is going to rescue some extremely wealthy and extremely reckless people that could have gone to worthy causes like helping the homeless or addressing climate change.
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Why do we need to be a world class city? Seems the more "world class" we get, the more miserable the city gets. Seattle was a lot better 30 years ago, the traffic was bad, but not compared with today. Many trees have been destroyed in order to allow developers to build ugly buildings. There was actually parking in most areas of the city and you could park for long enough to actually get your stuff done. At least Gillespie seems to be focused on large buildings where they mostly already are. And at least he seems to care about making them nice to look at and functional. As opposed to the hacks that have been building things lately.
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That's assuming that we even know that we're disabled and not just having extremely bad luck with employment. Which is a fairly common thing for hidden disabilities. Especially ADHD and autism where there hasn't been a very good track record of identifying people for a proper diagnosis or diagnosing the patients that are identified as being possibly so.
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@tygrkhat4087 Yeah, I like the fact that he knows how to do it, but wont' show us.
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@NamesZKP A good example of good advice in pop culture. Nada Surf did a pretty good job of explaining how to break up with people. Kindly, firmly and clearly, anything else is just asking for trouble and if you aren't clear about it, then you can't really blame somebody for not getting the hint right away.
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TBH, if somebody opened my door like that, I'd assume that the intention was battery and react accordingly. Who opens the driver's door like that who isn't trying to car jack the driver?
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Considering where Hurd is in development, I'm not really sure that it had any hope of ever beating out GNU/Linux.
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A bag of soggy newspapers is more politically astute than them.
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Yep, if he and Markey filibuster, that's probably going to tie up those candidates in GA and possibly sink their campaigns.
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Ideally, you'd start riding as soon as you can, but I've got to let mine sit for a short bit typically as it isn't fuel injected and keeping it from stalling is a bit of an issue if it doesn't have a short bit to warm up like that. But, in general, it's best to warm up the bike by gently riding it before doing anything too strenuous.
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@jbmcb Yes, you hear about the horrible ones more often. And, any HOA is just a couple bad elections away from being awful, but it really depends on how active the owners are in terms of ensuring that it's not a bunch of jerks on the board behaving badly. Keep in mind when these stories of abuse are covered, those people on the board were elected, which means that the people in the covered homes were either supportive of it or ignorant of what the people on the board were going to do.
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Yep, most of these aren't even that bad.
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IIRC, Disneyland has a hoop at the top of the Materhorn.
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@heelshaveeyes So? That didn't save Bernie from being screwed over last time.
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Yep, saying it's a mistake implies that it wasn't completely intentional. She did it on purpose knowing full well what it would do to the people.
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I love mine, but I haven't needed a second one. This sort of thing is why trying to be a single product company doesn't work. Most of the time, they get sold off to larger companies that have other product lines in addition to the specific one being purchased.
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Sort of, it doesn't necessarily get worse that quickly. My eyesight now is just as good as when I was 20, and that was over 20 years ago. Eventually, I'm sure that my eyesight will go a bit, but between your late 20s and sometime in your 50s or 60s, it doesn't really change that much.
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The shame is that the rest of us have to suffer, or leave the country. Voting for Joe isn't a difference of opinions, it's negligent. He has no policies and he's clearly senile. There's no way that he gets elected and even if, by some miracle, he is elected, there's no way he finishes out the term.
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More likely Option 2 would entail a larger geographic region than just the city, but yeah, doing a global recall wouldn't make any sense unless you suspect that it was either a factory worker or somebody who had access to burgers being distributed globally.
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@sod1237 What else could the judge have done? This continues the case and could potentially lead to him being prosecuted anyways. The fact that the judge didn't just immediately accept the charges being dropped is a loss for Trump and Adams.
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A jack ass that uses that maneuver on somebody with their turn signal on in a place with no safe place to pullover isn't going to have the self control to keep his mouth shut. This isn't even a grey area stop, he amidst killed her and the fetus.
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Also, keep in mind that a 13-year-old that's probably 400% overweight or more, is not exactly a secret to those witnessing the weighing. They all knew that she's morbidly obese, having a specific number probably didn't shade their opinion of her weight.
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It may seem that way, but this is lightning speed for the court system.
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@buykuibra2518 Roman voting was rather brutal. Since it was the oldest people that became senators, you could knock somebody out of the running entirely by tripping them at the right time.
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@amberica86 Yep, my grandmother was on oxygen due to the consequences of having smoked for many years. Those tubes looked significantly less comfortable, but from what I gather, they didn't go very far into the nose, basically just far enough to deliver the oxygen into the nose. But, it did still seem somewhat uncomfortable.
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Family courts often go after husbands viciously in search of money to hand over to the wife. SImply not being the father isn't always an excuse to not pay child support either.
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That's consistent with how we generally spend money. Back when Obamacare was being formulated it was going to cost roughly $100bn to provide a public option, which was too much, but we had a similar amount to hand to the DoD. Part of why we don't properly fund education is because if people could get free, or even affordable, college without military service, practically nobody would enlist, and the draft was horribly unpopular. The draft is also part of why there was so much opposition to our participation in the Vietnam conflict. Even though 2/3 of the service personnel were enlistees, that still leaves the remaining 1/3 as conscripts that have their buts on the line despite some level of opposition to participating in the first place.
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The vast majority would. Why would you assume that just because the right has no ethics, morals or any identifiable form of integrity that the left must also be so bereft of it? Yes, there's a few holdouts on the right that do have ethics and integrity, but at this point they're mostly corporatist Democrats.
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@ttystikkrocks1042 You're better off voting for one of the 3rd party candidates. If enough people vote for one of those parties, they get some benefits during future elections. I wrote Bernie Sanders in last time, this time I'll be voting 3rd party if he's not the nominee. The establishment chose to back a seemingly senile man, I'm not voting for that.
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The easiest fix would be to just raise the top income tax rate capital gains rates so that there was less incentive to hoard all that wealth. It's not going to happen because SCOTUS legalized bribery though.
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IKR, I'm fortunate enough to live 3 blocks from where I work and being able to commute in only 10 minutes each way means that I'm only spending roughly an hour and a half a week commuting rather than the more typical 10 hours that people spend.
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Exactly. I don't recall my parents ever watching the show, but when I've seen bits of it, it's boring, really, really boring. And ultimately, it's celebrities giving celebrities awards and the best option often times isn't the one that winds up winning.
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$5tn would have given everybody in the country $600 a week for over a half year. We wouldn't be having these issues if that had happened. People would have been more willing to continue the quarantine, but the Democrats didn't even ask for it.
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The US is so great that we can just choose not to help people like that kid so that the rich can get richer.
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By somehow, they mean massively overspending in several states while more or less completely ignoring the rest of the country.
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@RK-cj4oc There are limits, they are supposed to do that within the construct of the constitution, laws and precedence. They're not supposed to ignore those things completely and rule something else. That bit about the President being completely immune to prosecution for official acts, and sometimes immune to unofficial acts is definitely not something you see in the constitution and they failed to indicate how we'd know whether or not something is prosecutable.
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Unions are only as good as the membership. If a person's union sucks, that's when you start participating in the process.
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You can thank St. Ronnie for that, back in the '80s he was in large part responsible for allowing the media to consolidate. Even though I live in a major city, there's only one major paper and increasingly the media is owned by a small number of people with no vested interest in questioning the powerful. So, you get this comical situation where it's basically just bloggers and youtubers calling the corruption out.
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It's pretty much the entire chain that gets screwed. The only hazard pay I got a the grocery store was insufficient to match even the bonus payments that the unemployed were getting to stay home. Still, even on the worst days at a grocery store, the working conditions light years ahead of what it's like lower down in the supply chain like the farms and meat processing facilities. It's really telling how pretty much everybody except those in the food supply chain got nice large checks to help out, but we only got the money that they couldn't figure out how to target more specifically. Even though we were literally risking contracting covid-19 and the very real long term consequences of it. But, non-essential workers could stay home and collect their checks. Not that I really blame them, I blame the chicken shits in congress for not actually giving us Hero Pay. To make matters worse, a lot of businesses were also cutting the food supply workers from discounts when that was a thing and we didn't get our vaccinations until after the teachers did even though the teachers were able to work from home and nobody was going to die as a result of not having in person schooling the way that they'd die not having in person food.
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Yep, part of what went wrong here is that she was allowed to skip the primaries completely, which means that most of the states didn't even get that much attention. It's bad enough that a handful of battleground states get all the attention in the general election, without candidates being allowed to skip visiting the states to try and earn the nomination. At least when the states get a say in the nominee, there's a larger pool of states that get to influence the ultimate result. And mind you that in the run up to the election you have the biggest opportunity for actual voters to have our voices heard.
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Yep, but that still has the usual problem with inkjet printers, if you don't use them regularly, the nozzle can dry up. If you're using it regularly, I'm sure it's great.
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It's because it was so shallow. That being said, even with it being that shallow, it's barely newsworthy. That being said, sometimes smaller quakes like this turn out to be foreshocks rather than the main earthquake and I can't help but notice that the 17th is coming up. Both the North Ridge and Loma Prieta earth quakes happened on the 17th of a month.
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To be fair, the democrats are hell bent on nominating the only available candidate that can lose to this guy. Vote anybody but Biden in the primary.
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IIRC, PayPal's official position on that is that they own the money in the middle, so they don't have to pass it on or refund it. They screwed Notch of Minecraft fame for over a hundred grand back in the day. These days he's rich enough that it's chump change, but not back then.
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@--enyo-- The GOP seems fine with it, and the Democrats are fine with it as it gives them something to run on without the danger of actually being expected to do anything about it. Barring some significant change, I don't see that changing anytime soon.
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Signs can and do change from time to time. Usually there's a sign proclaiming that there's been a revision, but those are usually temporary signs and if the road crew forgets to put one up, it wouldn't change the status of the change. I'm guessing that has something to do why admitting that you probably should have known is insufficient to have the ticket stand.
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@24CiViC Without more information, I'd wager that there was a loss of pressure, leading to everybody passing out before either the pilot could get an air supply on. Because, this was everybody, not just the pilot. I suppose there are other possibilities, but that's the most likely one, and since there was a crash, there will be a full investigation of the wreckage to determine as much as possible.
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That's a completely separate issue. Those tones don't belong to the word, they belong to your interpretation of the word and wouldn't show up in the dictionary. Not to mention that many people wouldn't even notice the change at all.
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I'd personally rather give my donuts to a raccoon than have to toss them because somebody took it out of the case and left it on a random shelf.
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@Brian-db7ej That would settle the question of whether or not he got power from the other meter. Then there'd just be the matter of how much of the bill is still collectable.
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It became pretty much inevitable when the relevant taxes dropped so low. Better tax policy would either discourage such short term thinking, or at least not advantage it over longer term thinking. It's part of the problem when the taxes on short term investments are too low compared with capital gains taxes for things held longer. Even just requiring that stocks be held for a full year in order to get an advantaged rate can help, but with corporate tax rates going so low, it eats away at the benefit of holding for at least that year. Well-run businesses are typically going to have plans out a few years, even if they do have shorter term goals as well.
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LOL, I see somebody is deleting comments that are critical of Israel. YouTube ought to be ashamed of itself for deleting these comments.
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I get the feeling that it depends a bit on where the store is located. The only ones that I've been to are in areas with competition and they haven't looked much different from other retailers. I've been working next door to one for the last nearly 4 years and they've still got some of the same employees as when I was hired and even though we've got a ton of positions open, I haven't seen any of them coming to join us. Then again, that Dollartree looks nothing like the ones in this video and I always see multiple employees there.
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There should also be measures in place to limit the number of units that the same company can own in one city to help encourage competitive pricing as well as a tax on luxury units to help subsidize affordable housing units and a limit on how many regular units can be turned into luxury units. A little bit of all that probably wouldn't destroy the market, but what's going on where it's a free for all for developers to create a glut of expensive properties is definitely destroying the market.
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Precisely. I think it's amazing that he thinks that before she stepped on the scale that the people there thought she was a reasonable weight. She weighs roughly 2.5x when I weighed at that age. This isn't a case where she's a bit overweight and being shamed, this is where she weighs more than double what she should and being told no to avoid potentially suffering significant injuries or death.
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The damage has already been done. Had they done their jobs properly, we likely would be seeing Bernie as the nominee and not Biden. It's insane that they haven't covered his record or cognitive decline.
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@ThomasMullaly-do9lz Fair point, I'm having a hard time keeping up with the news here. I hope folks in Canada call their representatives to encourage it.
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It will be disastrous for him not to bow out of the race.
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@RedRoseWhite I put most of my tuition on credit cards because the interest rates were lower and they could be discharged in bankruptcy court if something happened that preventing me from working for a prolonged period of time. That's beyond messed up.
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Clearly nobody ran this past legal when they were deciding to push the limits so far. There are libraries available throughout the developed world that have ebooks available these days. And if you're not in the developed world, then copyright laws are much less likely to be enforced the way they are in the US. The whole thing was just asking for trouble. And yes, I think it's rather ridiculous that so much is currently under copyright protection, but it is what it is and this type of action just leads to bad outcomes. Even under the best case scenario, all we would get out of it is a favorable precedence, but given the way the courts have been going in the US, that was never going to happen.
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thazfff Between the lack of water, the temperature down there, the oxygen levels in the sub, the likelihood of them being alive at this point is pretty much zero. Even if they are still alive, it looks like they're on the bottom where it's going to take far longer than they have to even attempt to retrieve the sub and for whatever reason, whatever beacon they have isn't working if they're on the surface. Everybody wants them to be alive, but the fact of the matter is that the likelihood at this point is more or less zero. There's a very real chance that even if they do hang on that they'll die knowing that their bodies will be recovered and nothing more.
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He's so bad that I don't even bother continuing to watch the videos when I see him show up. He's not the only one they get that's completely full of it, but he's by far the worst.
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@heythere2174 Yep, you have to be making more than the cost of the bare essentials in order to have any hope of making use of his advice. He's got some good ideas like not borrowing money to spend on cars until you're a millionaire, but most of the rest of it isn't workable unless you've got a substantial income.
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@brent2182 It really isn't a scary time, quit exaggerating. We don't all in the community take that view, some of us have figured out how to live our lives without going around offending people and antagonizing them. It's a relatively small portion of the population that is offended by such things to the point where our mere existence is enough to throw them into a murderous rage. I've almost been murdered on multiple occasions and not one of those times had anything to do with my sexual orientation. People need to just chill out and maybe do some introspection as to why the message has been falling flat with the people on the other side. Perhaps actually talk to some of them and figure out what the common ground is, because most of us are being oppressed by the same system.
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That's probably not the case if they're a white nonhispanic ethnic group. Imagine how shitty it is to be lied about the ethnic cleansing and cultural vandalism of your culture, while being told that your family was responsible for doing it for other groups. See the problem? Germans had our language banned, and were subject to the same executive order 9066 restrictions as the Japanese, but that basically does not come up at all during the units on internment. And internment isn't even the word, the word is concentration. Those were concentration camps, not internment camps. It was deeply uncomfortable growing up in desegregating schools to have to balance the same ethnic identity that the students of color were. I had one culture at home, another at school and got to be completely confused because the schools were making it into a issue of race rather than ethnicity and focused purely based on reversing it.
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@Metonymy1979 He's only standing with the majority of delegates due to voter suppression, elections fraud and the mainstream media doing everything within it's power to gaslight voters into thinking that he's an acceptable choice. He didn't earn those votes, in most of those states he had no presence and even before the pandemic struck, he was rarely in public. When he was in public, he couldn't speak, so they hid him as much as possible.
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If the cops were exhibiting any sense of urgency here, I'd give the cop getting hand sanitizer the benefit of the doubt that he expected to be dealing with wounded people and not necessarily have a chance to put on gloves. Which is honestly, a very, very large stretch, but it would be plausible. But, since they waited more than an hour, there's no particular defense there.
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Oh yeah, if they don't do something and quick, we're likely to start seeing rioting, especially if more food production facilities have to shut down due to an outbreak. I definitely believe that there is truth to the notion that any society is 4 missed meals away from revolution. And in this case where the government is directly responsible for failing to act, it may even be fewer.
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That's a large part of why he won, he at least had popular support in his party. Neither Biden nor Clinton can say the same thing.
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@Kevin-bl6lg I don't buy that, if there is no gas connection, an attorney should have been able to just send a letter to the gas company demanding some proof. Usually that puts a stop to things like this. Plus, there's supposed to be notification of any sort of court proceedings like this to respond to when placing a lien and then again when the property is foreclosed on. If that really happened, then they screwed up royally.
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Good call, hurt feelings are more important than people self-murdering because they've been bankrupted by medical bills.
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The timing is suspicious, some of these videos seem less satirical than normal.
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That's really not a problem, the rate of population growth has slowed, unless something changes, the population will start to drop a bit. With the population dropping, the total amount of housing will also start to drop. The interest in having larger yards alone will probably discourage everybody from clumping into a handful of megacities. I also doubt that the payments would cover more than 3 or 4 children and relatively few parents even want to have more than that many children anyways. Most of the families that are larger than that are that size because that's the number they needed to both ensure that any of the children survived and that they would be capable of providing care in old age.
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@JoseLopez-tk4tq Essentially yes, that's in order to have an excuse not to accept an internal applicant.
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The prescription isn't that much of an issue, it's when they're prescribed without therapy that it's a particular problem. Antidepressants do not address the underlying issues.
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Around here the women don't seem to understand that. The women around here are still super-picky into their mid-30s. Chances are good that they won't be able to have a child at all if they haven't had any children by the time they're 40.
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What the video suggests worked for me. But, you have to be prepared to accept the possibility that your fears come true. OCD has a lot in common with addiction. Every time you engage in one of the behaviors, it just gets worse and if you allow yourself to indulge in them, you'll find yourself starting over again. Medication and dietary changes may also make the process easier.
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It's one of those things where movies like that from time to time aren't much of a problem, but at this point, it overrides other concerns about the narrative in ways that make movies worse. It's also bad because often times those strong female leads don't have obstacles that are large enough to be a real challenge, which kind of makes it this weird things where they're still kind of knocking women, even though the female characters are still "strong."
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That's also a large part of why we don't have it. It weakens the ability of corporate America to take advantage of workers and leads to the working classes having more ability to participate in society independently of being wage slaves.
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@Radar88269 You don't understand how this works. Whenever there is an increase on payments, they life the cap to cover it. The first $168600 earned income for the 2024 was subject to social security tax, and nothing beyond that. Unearned income was also not subject to the tax. So, there's no sending a check in this case, as there wouldn't be any money to pay, unless the poster is actually making more than that amount of money.
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@joeyallard In spite of that, the company likely will be put on trial and probably go out of business. I can't imagine anybody agreeing to ride in one of their subs in the future for any price.
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@scott_johnson_ That would be a violation of the affirmations that jurors are required to make when they're summoned for jury duty. And you're even asked another time about anything else that the attorneys didn't think to ask that you think might impact your ability to be impartial. So, no I don't know that there's a literal law that says you can't be racist, but there are all sorts of rules that require that jurors not be partial to one party or the other to the extent it's possible.
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That's a little more understandable. Although presumably they should have a separate spot for parking cars for customers and ones with somewhat more space for ones that are for sale.
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Indeed, they're not supposed to pick anybody that's actually going to question the handling of the crisis now that it's a (D) in the Whitehouse.
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Rand isn't even good on paper. Anybody that's actually bothered to read Marx would know that he actually marveled over the accomplishments of capitalism pretty explicitly. Where he had significant issues was the tendency of the owner class to treat the workers like equipment or work animals. A system where the owners owned the factories and businesses, but everything else was done in a capitalist market based way would be consistent with hiss beliefs, but still be nearly entirely what we've got from a practical perspective.
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This is true, my wife absolutely refuses to respect any of my boundaries. A lot of it is cultural, where her relatives just don't respect anybody's boundaries and constantly overstep no matter what you do. And will then get upset by any sort of consequences that come of it.
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I take issue with them moving teachers up when they still aren't vaccinating grocery workers or other essential workers that can't work remotely.
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I don't personally see how a project like that could succeed without massive amounts of contributions from both paid and hobbiest programmers. Just look at the Internet we've got, it was the result of open source software as well as a bunch of proprietary stuff. Admittedly, the proprietary is less essential than the open, but I don't see what we got as happening if only one or two organizations had to do everything on their own.
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This is probably my favorite segment that they do. Those women are hilarious.
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Yes, it means that basically all roads are all way stops as you need to figure out who gets to go first. Also, horses aren't likely to be too keen on t-boning the other vehicle.
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He falls for it literally every time.
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BS, we care because they're female, we don't care about the fact that boys and young men are falling further and further behind because feminism. Seriously, there hasn't been a single year since 1981 where more men have graduated college than women and at this point there are roughly twice as many women attending and graduating college as men. But, we don't do anything to help men, we do do things to help women in sports. If we don't want girls attacked, then perhaps we might consider making sure that the rights of boys and young men are actually being respected rather than going back to feminist talking points about how unempowered women are when that was never a reality. Women get all sorts of rights and privileges without having to have any of the responsibilities that men have to have in order to get them. We can't get any federal financial aid without signing up for the draft as an example.
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The only difference is that rather than winning the popular vote and losing the electoral college, it's likely to be a blow out in Trump's favor where he wins both. When will these elites climb down from their ivory towers and actually let the people have a say in who the nominee is going to be, without covering for their preferred candidate?
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Thanks to normy democrats Pelosi will be the speaker for another 2 years. Biden couldn't even promise Medicare for all during the pandemic. McConnell is a lost cause, but the democrats couldn't get behind the one candidate promising to help the people.
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@notsure3535 Indeed, this is the result of both parties selling the people out and letting the ultrawealthy shift their tax burden to ordinary citizens.
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Arguably, they shouldn't even be doing that. This is the 21st century, we have the ability to physically build the gear to test it on dry land in a pressure vessel where the craft can be completely recovered if it implodes, and run complicated computer simulations before even running a full scale pressure test and potentially design monitoring gear into the craft itself to help give early warning if things look like they're going to exceed the engineering specs. This isn't like in the past where the only way to know was to do it, those days are long gone. The actual trip is something you do after you've already validated all the designs and at that point, there really shouldn't be anything unexpected. This catastrophic failure will likely set the whole thing back many years over something that shouldn't have required new regulations and laws to deal with.
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It's true of pretty much all the major names in financial education because the reality is a lot harder and can't always guarantee success. Nobody will ever get ahead if they don't have at least some disposable income that they can apply towards savings and investment activities. If you're working a minimum wage job where all of your money is already going to things that can't be cut, then you're never going to get anywhere, and thanks to changes in the economy, that is a thing that does happen. When most people have issues related to savings and the like, you do have to question to what extent you can really blame those folks for the situation they're in. And most of the advice that I see being handed out is just inappropriate to people who have real problems with finances. Most of it is like typical organizing books that are geared to people that fundamentally don't have a problem, they just don't know what to do. Definitely not people with real problems that need real solutions.
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@FukaiKokoro Because they aren't up for sale. There's no legal requirement that private citizens sell their things. Apparently, he and his relatives/friends are some of the few people that are putting their money where their mouths are in terms of respecting his wishes long past his death.
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This is why legalized bribery is a problem. Sadly, it may wind up requiring assassinations in order to get control of the political process.
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@JeePsSsS It is inexplicable as this is supposed to be a comedy show. But yes, he does tend to be on the right side of a lot of things where the corporate media is paid to be on the wrong side.
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@jamesgrover2005 Yes, although, gas cars have a lot less need to worry about filing up. I'm aware that there are some areas of the world where there are no filling station, but even in that case, there's the ability to bring fuel to the car in a way that isn't for EVs.
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Iran has to retaliate over this, considering that this is in retaliation for acts that Israel committed. I'm not sure why Iran wouldn't retaliate when they've tried that and Israel interpreted that as weakness.
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You should apologize; most cats would have a much easier go if it than a typical Libertarian would. The whole philosophy requires an astonishing level of ignorance about the world.
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While you're right about sugar being sugar, it is worth remembering that it's much harder to eat excessive amount of sugar when it's coming from fruit. Most fruits have so much water and fiber that it's difficult to eat that much sugar without becoming full. The other reason to target the added sugar is that it tends to be more prevalent in foods without ingredients that we ought to be avoiding, especially highly processed junk foods.
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Because most people don't understand how education works. Having 95% of the students passing a standardized exam is something that politicians can point to as success even if the test itself is meaningless. People also have a mistaken view of education in other countries. Sometimes it is as good as people think, but in the US, the students aren't generally as far behind as is generally imagined. The Chinese remain well behind the US even though we assume they're ahead. They have twice as many students per class as in typical American schools and they just serve to prepare students for the gaokao which is extremely narrow. Students will quite literally not do any studying for classes that don't prepare for that exam as that exam is what determines if they can get into a good university. There's another route, but the schools aren't as good and it takes years longer. Also, that would involve the families taking some responsibility and many of them aren't in any condition to do so.
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Screwing up the evidence collection and initial contact is going to make it a lot harder for them to successfully prosecute and I don't think that they did themselves any favors in terms of so quickly deciding that this needed to be a capital case. Having a gun is one thing, it being the same gun is another and yet another is being able to prove that he had the gun on purpose rather than it being planted by law enforcement after the fact. Part of why OJ beat the murder charges in '94 was that some of the evidence was very clearly planted by police. The infamous bloody socks that were somehow soaked through from one side to the other were pretty clearly not worn while committing the murders.
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Yes, or convert it to a pickup only location. But, yeah, nobody is going to go through with an escort for every item they want, it's a ridiculous waste of time.
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Or, the Supreme Court could stop signing off on blatantly unconstitutional malarkey and there wouldn't be so much need. There's only so much you can do with security when a growing portion of the fringes at either side of the spectrum realize that the court is fundamentally broken and that there's no political way of fixing it.
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@cathyyonce8492 Yes, but OTOH, if he starts doing things like this to states that voted for him, it might result in some actual action being taken to address the situation. It just sucks that there are probably going to be more innocent people that die as a result of his antics.
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Libertarianism has been broken for decades at this point and most of the time the "Libertarians" are actually fascists as somehow, it's just government power that they take issue with, corporate or church power is fine. Which completely misses the point. We shouldn't have that kind of concentration of power anywhere other than in the citizenry.
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That's the thing, basically every issue that people raise with respect to transgender people are the consequences of lumping people together based on gender. If we stopped doing so, or loosened up a bunch, then there's really no problem. The problems we get as a result are entirely the result of trying to sort people based on something that's not well-defined. We're not doing genital checks or checking people's chromosomes at the door, so how would we even know if that's a man or a women, regardless of whether their trans or not? Seems like the whole thing is just about fundraising.
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Because one of the major things keeping people at their jobs is the fear of losing their health insurance. Not to mention that one of the big issues with trying to start your own business is the unafforability of health insurance. In general the right isn't a big fan of freedom unless it profits the rich and powerful at our expense. Notice how the part of "freedom" is so opposed to abortion rights.
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@krackerjack1233 Sad? As long as we can keep these things from being armed and only used along with either probable cause or a warrant, it's a significant step in the first direction in terms of not having people killed during these searches. The rest of the stuff can potentially be resolved in court, but courts can't yet rule people back to life.
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Around here, we have the largely agricultural half of the state routinely voting to screw over the largely urban half of the state while everything they do is subsidized by the folks on the urban side of the state. What they don't realize, is that the folks on the urban side of the state don't need them. We can import food from other states or from other countries. But, they do need us, as we have the closest ports and we are the ones that have been subsidizing their roads. We're the closest markets for them that are willing to pay the most as their stuff is freshest for us and often worth a bit more because of that. But, they keep voting to screw us over and then whining about how they don't have as much of a say in what happens in government and completely missing the fact that they don't have as many people, so their policies aren't going to be popular enough to pass if they're continually just voting to screw over the folks in the other parts of the state.
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I think we'll probably get to a point in the next century where robots can do pretty much all of the absolute essential tasks without much intervention from humans. But, even if it's not 100%, if it even gets as high as 40% of the jobs, it's going to pretty much completely upend the entire economy and could very well lead to a massive revolt if the ownership of those robots isn't broadly owned by a majority of the people. Just look at countries where they have unemployment in the 20-40% range, it gets ugly, extremely quickly, and it gets extremely cheap to recruit terrorists.
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The difference is that North Korea has the money, it's just that due to sanctions there's absolutely no way of getting it even if they decide they want to pay up.
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Around here they require you to get new license plates from time to time just based on age of the plate. From what I understand, the retroreflective coating can go bad making it harder to be seen at night. The fact that they can make you pay for it and it's a convenient chance to remove older license plate numbers when they change the format is probably not a bug.
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Nope, maybe Israel should stop bulldozing civilian houses to steal land for their settlers and Hamas wouldn't need to attack Israel. Interesting how all the pro-Israel comments remain up, but my pro-peace comments keep being deleted.
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Yep, I saw it, but it took a moment to figure out what it said due to the size and font. All I can say is, well done.
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That's what happens when neither party is interested in the votes of the majority of eligible voters that don't even bother to vote. There's enough non-voters out there that if they were a party, that party would crush just about every election.
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@kevinfloyd808 That's my assumption because there's an awful lot of ways that you can stand up for white people that aren't problematic. And in some cases failing to do so could be equally problematic to doing so for racist reasons. I've met enough black people to know that it could easily have been either way. Like any other group. You've got ones that are looking for vengeance, and you've got ones that are more fair-minded and thick-skinned that aren't allowing their personal experiences to unfairly bias their opinions. And without knowing where that particular person is on that spectrum, it's hard to say.
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They do, the issue is that unconscionable is pretty extreme and a lot harder to get done that people typically think.
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@snowrocket The bottom 90% control only 36% of wealth and that 5% at the top of that range control a massive share of that much. People like to trot out that figure as if that implies that they're paying their share, when really, they aren't. That's just the taxes paid and fails to account for the amount they would pay without the tax evasion.
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Yes, until the primary is over, it's important that anybody who can safely vote, safely vote for Bernie. Despite the conspiracy theories, both accurate and not, the DNC is never going to get away with nominating somebody like Cuomo who wasn't even a candidate. And the closer it is, the more leverage there is to make it somebody better.
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There isn't technically, but due to the fact that the President can nominate whomever he likes and the Senate doesn't even have to have confirmation hearings, it leads to a situation where the party that gets justices on the court can select ones that they expect to rule the way that they like on at least the important issues.
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Precisely, and keep in mind that by offshoring all this stuff, we also offshore the ability to keep our nation safe from potentially defective products coming in from overseas. It's a lot easier to visit all the factories in the US, than to worry about the factories overseas where the local government might not care at all about the harm that's done here. And good luck suing a foreign factory with no ties to the US here, or possibly anywhere else.
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@UncleKennysPlace The line of reasoning would be more sound if we were talking about something that's mass produced. A blue car of a given make and model from a certain year is mostly the same as any of the other ones. If there's some difference in condition, that can be adjusted for with money. The memories can potentially be an issue if that was the car you were in when fathering a child, but those considerations are less likely with a car as the car will eventually be replaced by most people. Land though, is fundamentally different, there isn't any other parcel exactly like that one and while I think that her basis for the preference is questionable, she is completely within her rights to demand that things be put back the way that they were to the extent possible.
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That's happened. I remember hearing about a guy that was taking a bath when a demolitions team started. Fortunately, he was unharmed, but that must have been scary.
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He probably doesn't know. From what I understand, he doesn't go online ever, due to the difficulty in finding pockets of the internet where people are bashing the crap out of what he did to the Star Wars films after their theatrical release. Not to mention how hated the prequel trilogy was.
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TBH, buying a series of funds to cover stocks and bonds for both foreign and domestic markets will get you most of the way there in terms of that aspect of your financial life. The problem is that a lot of the advice doesn't work very well for people who are living on the brink of disaster. For individuals that are truly living paycheck to paycheck that coffee is roughly 1/150 of the way to a decent starter emergency fund. I'm definitely not saying that people can't have their coffees, I just think that they should be aware of the fact that the money could be saved and provide a level of comfort that greatly exceeds the cups of coffee. Or, just spend some money on an aeropress for about $20 and a frother for between $20 and $80 and buy the milk and coffee yourself. It's nearly the same experience in terms of the coffee, but it comes with a financial hug as you get closer to a more sustainable financial life.
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@Courier_333 Not really, the establishment rigged voting machines in key states in his favor. The exit polls were way off from what the machines gave as the result, but nobody really investigated it.
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@rogerszmodis Possibly. But, by the same token if there really has been cheating going on, playing him just validates him as a real player, and if he manages to win, then it gets even more complicated as cheating in chess at this level is a lot more subtle than one might expect. It doesn't take a lot to tip a game in your favor if you get it at the right time.
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There never should have been this level of ability of people to waive other people's rights allowed. It's one thing if you're on public, or publicly accessible, property and camera footage is released to police in response to a specific issue. It's quite another for phone records and various things on your computer and in your email to be provided to the police without our consent. That should never have been constitutional without a warrant outside of very narrowly tailored exceptions.
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Yes and this is on top of the tax loopholes they get written into the tax code for legal tax evasion.
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About a third of people with ADHD also have OCD for reasons that aren't entirely clear. It's common for the dual-diagnosis to be missed because the conditions are more or less polar opposites of each other.
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Yes, even the commercials on YouTube show him not speaking well. There's definite lack of fluency and it's a taped ad.
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He also presumably has social security and whatever retirement accounts aren't touchable by these proceedings. So, he's probably going to be fine. It's also why he kind of needs to be prosecuted as there's got to be something criminal in all of this.
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This is why I no longer vote for Jayapal, it's disgusting that she keeps voting for Pelosi even as Pelosi's incompetence is literally getting people killed.
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This is why billionaires should be prevented from owning these sorts of companies or boarding those space craft. They caused the problem and are now trying to flee. It's rather appropriate that the rats want to leave the sinking ship.
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Yes, it angers me that people who have been making more than I have been don't have the money for rent. They may now have less income than I did due to the $600 a week they were getting from the federal government. I get to work, take on the extra risk of being in public while the unemployed got nearly $10k that I didn't and because I'm an essential worker, I don't qualify for any help.
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$15 an hour isn't enough to pay for medical care.
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If you think that's scary, the Grand Coulee Dam is one of the largest dams in the world and depends on freezers to keep the underlying bed frozen. If the bed thaws, there's going to be massive issues.
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I'm disappointed that you avoided mentioning the fundamental truth. Student loans are for chumps. (Yes, I realize that the person asking the question already screwed up by taking the loans, but that's no excuse for reinforcing the belief that student loans are unavoidable) You're much, much better off working part time while in college and only taking as many classes as you can afford with grant money and your earnings. That way, not only are you not saddled with debt, but you also have built up some work history and potentially gotten your foot in the door in the industry you're looking for. Which makes it so much easier to transition from college life to work life.
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@bethwaller1789 Does his first name rhyme with felon?
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Not to mention that unless this house is in the middle of where they want the parking lot, I see no reason why they couldn't just as easily just build a fence around the lot and buy it later if the kids are willing to sell it. If it is in the middle of the parking lot, then, they should have been working something out years ago.
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I think the sculptures that have those eyes that follow the guests is much more impressive. And not something most people figure out on their own.
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No, there are several ways that authoritarians control the elections. One is to control the people who are allowed to run, this is the case in Iran and to a large extent in the US where you need the support of a party to run. You can control who does the counting, so that even if people do vote for people the people in power don't like, those votes don't count at all, or are changed to somebody supportive. Or, you can just dispense with voting completely. I think most people in the US don't realize just how much of our Democracy is gone at the federal level and how sick it is at the state level. It's not a matter of getting more people to vote, we need to have more options of people to vote for that aren't being suppressed by powerful party elites.
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These are small town cops, it wouldn't surprise me if they're only there because they couldn't get a job at a real police department, or were fired from one.
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They got lucky to deal with incompetent judges with axes to grind. If they had gotten caught, that likely would have resulted in close scrutiny of everything they wanted to enter into evidence.
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I think they had determined that she wouldn't settle for less than the property being returned to the way it was, or at least as close as possible.
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The establishment just can't handle winning if it means actually doing things that benefit the voters. I personally will not be voting for any more Democrats if Bernie doesn't receive the nomination. Biden is quite literally the only candidate that was in the primary that would likely lose to Trump. He appears to be senile and has a reputation for lying that's only second to Trump.
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Anybody watching real estate prices should have seen a correction coming. The scale of it was somewhat harder to predict without it being your full time job and wanting to see the truth.
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@darstar217 Yes, and it's probably going to take a lot of research as well as it being a rapidly evolving story.
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Being low quality is a bit of a moot point when affordable apartments are being converted into luxury units and the landlords are demanding luxury rates. It doesn't much matter whether it's luxury or not when people can't afford to rent it. IIRC, recently the state of WA is in the process of passing rent control legislation. But, the cap is super high, it's like the lesser of 10% or 7% plus inflation. It's a high enough cap that only the worst offenders are going to be limited by it. 7% is far higher than what people's income is increasing by, meaning that this just delays the inevitable.
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That's interesting. Also, keep in mind that if you call 911, they can often get help there much quicker, and depending upon what gets hit when you're shot, there's more options for controlling the bleeding than you'd have in the car. And, anybody coming into the hospital on a proper ambulance has a faster time into the ICU as the ambulance crew is talking with the doctors at the hospital to get things set up before they arrive. I have no idea if that would have made any difference at all, but it would have given the young woman the best shot of making it.
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+Beliserius1 , that's because it makes no sense to do so. Chinese has a ridiculous number of words that share the same syllable. Ditching the characters would require people to write more words in order to hope that the meaning is conveyed. There's a reason why the oral way of communicating things is almost always longer than the written way. You need the extra syllables in order to determine the meaning amongst identically pronounced words.
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Gates is a bad example. His parents had a lot of money and he had a massive opportunity to leverage a loan from his parents into something significant. If he hadn't had that, he would have finished up at Harvard. You don't score 1590 on the SATs if you don't know how to study or lack drive.
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It probably shouldn't. With the exception of pieces that are historically important because they were innovative in some fashion or tied to a historical event, the artist is pretty much the only thing differentiating a lot of these works. I remember when learning to paint that our teacher pointed out that anybody in the room could be a professional painter. It would just require working multiple jobs and pouring most of our free time into it and hoping to attract enough attention that people would pay for it. But, most of the value of a piece is either from the artist that created it or from the rich people bidding it up in the hopes of having an expensive piece of art to keep locked away in a vault for when they need to transfer a large sum of money without records.
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Absolutely, it can't ever be challenged as any challenge itself gets turned away before it even gets started. The only way for it to ever be changed is if judges get sick of it and start ignoring the precedence, and that likely won't happen as the appellate courts and SCOTUS would likely just overturn the ruling.
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Even if you take their statement at face value, they're admitting that they didn't do their job in terms of verifying that they had a witness to testify to the evidence they were trying to get admitted into evidence. I do appreciate that they exist as we need attorneys to cover these things, even if they're on the wrong side of history. When I was in middle-school we had a black defense attorney come in and explain his job and a bit about a, at that time, recent case where he defended a white supremacist that was caught on camera smashing a journalist's camera. It basically came down to somebody needs to defend unpopular defendants and positions in order for the system to actually work and it was more a question of whether he could uphold the expectations of a lawyer to put up a proper defense than his personal feelings about the defendant. I don't know what the ultimate outcome of that case was as they had him dead to rights on tape that was widely broadcast.
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This is what happens when you're more concerned with "winning" than you're agenda.
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@goldservo yep, that's my understanding of this. This should be 2nd degree murder with 3rd degree or manslaughter as options. I just haven't seen any justification.
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@josepheridu3322 He also did more for the American people than anybody else post FDR.
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Yes, assuming it is even located. If the sub imploded and we don't find the remnants quickly, the sea life and detritus may well cover it up before we have a chance to find it. We only found the Titanic because it was very larger, it had gotten covered by all that stuff decades earlier.
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That's why some highways in the US have random jogs every few miles to try and keep drivers awake while driving through particularly boring parts of the country. White line fever is a real thing and can get people killed if nothing is done to address the issue.
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@austinbutler1291 Suspected non-citizens and at this point with the election 6 days away, any citizens that are caught up in this may not even have time to correct the record to get to vote. The state had plenty of time to deal with the problem, they just chose to wait until the last minute knowing that there was a period before the election that they wouldn't be allowed to remove anybody on a large scale. They could still remove individuals if they had specific knowledge that they weren't eligible, but that doesn't remove enough Democrats from the pool.
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Yep, although it's a shame that decades of mismanagement of the forests when there was more water and less dry conditions allowed a build up of materials that should have been allowed to burn before the droughts got really bad. Now, pretty much no matter what folks do, this sort of ugliness is likely to continue for quite some time as not only is there all that debris available to burn the forests thoroughly with a crown fire, but there's also a lot more general dryness to make it just that much more challenging. I do hope that these fires are going to be the final straw that leads to us just putting up a satellite to keep watch for fires when they're in areas that are close enough to people to warrant putting them out completely, so they can get to it with water and fire retardant while the fire is tiny.
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Apparently, people in Oregon couldn't be trusted to pump their own gas. I hope that there isn't a rash of gas station fires, as people can't figure out that you can't smoke.
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I wonder how many of the current NRA members are members by inertia, as in they joined previously, but never got around to canceling. There are a ton of organizations out there that support what the NRA used to support in terms of responsible gun ownership.
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This kind of thing happens fairly often to varying degrees. My parents recently bought a plot of land that includes a small section of logging road with an easement to a logging company, and IIRC to a public utility so they can get to their transmission lines. So, it was kind of interesting when we discovered that not only is that stretch being used for a use that doesn't appear to be covered under any of the easements, but there were signs informing us that to use the trail that we had to pay a private company to do so. I don't anticipate this being a long term issue, as the state has been pretty reasonable about the possibilities of allowing us to build a driveway over public land, I'd expect that the worst case scenario is that a land swap or set of easements are signed to give them the rights to run the trail over that stretch and for us to get a short driveway through public land. And strictly speaking, if we don't build a road, we'd be able to just drive over the land if we really wanted to. But, that's mostly because it's adults handling it and we're not standing in the way of a local politician. The property is going to be preserved for generations from any sort of major developments, and I expect that in the long run it will more or less be a continuation of the status quo where the skiers don't even know there's a driveway as it'll be covered by snow.
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I'm glad that people are figuring that out. Now if they can get behind a single other party that isn't the GOP, we might get somewhere. Personally, the Democrats lost me for similar reasons, I'm Bi, so I'm just supposed to support their homophobic candidates even when they changed their views after it became unpopular to be homophobic and did nothing to address the damage they caused? Sorry, Homey don't play that.
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The unemployment scheme that's being alleged reminds me a lot of Trump University where an actual billionaire is unlikely to bother considering such a scheme.
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If the grocery workers where Pelosi gets her ice cream would stop allowing her to buy it, I'm sure we'd have a good deal within a matter of days of her running out of ice cream. These people only care about themselves. The moment that they actually suffer even the smallest bit, like having to miss Christmas, they start to negotiate with some interest in coming to an agreement.
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These polls are a bit inexplicable when just a couple weeks ago, Biden wasn't in as good a position as Hillary was in the battleground states. And Trump has done a lot to look like he cares since then. Some of which actually helps people. Personally, I'll believe it when I see it. The democrats are running a terrible campaign here as well.
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I'm going to donate $100 to anybody that primaries her. And if she survives that, I'll be donating another $100 to the Republican running against her. It's important that these fake Democrats be run out of office as it's the only way to get politicians that will represent us.
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@ericworiax1277 The reason there hasn't been an offer is that McConnell won't allow a vote on it. The current proposal passed the Senate unanimously and yet we can't even get a vote on it. And yes, I'd like to see both parties stop lying, but let's be honest about which party is worse in that regards.
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@jilbertb Why would you need to read English to drive a car? People are typically allowed to drive in the US with a foreign driver's license.
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But, those guys are losers, he prefers winners.
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The especially sad thing is that he understood that his movement wouldn't come with him if he didn't say and did what he wanted. He's being purposely obtuse abouy it.
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It's pointless building walls when you have a border that is nearly 2 000 miles long. Not only is it expensive to build, but maintenance and monitoring for breaches is expensive as well. Then you get the cartels using things like catapults to launch things over the fence and people building ladders or digging under it. In this case, you've got a much shorter stretch to secure and the political will to do it.
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Possibly, more likely, the people at the intended address had moved without leaving a forwarding address and the package itself didn't have a return address either.
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She's not wrong. I remember drawing something when I was a kid where I realized that nobody is actually white, so I used the closest crayon color I could find. Considering how socially acceptable it is to blame white people for absolutely everything, I can't blame her for being rather insistent.
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Remind me who was President in 2018.
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@reh3884 It's the bit about the actual restoration to the condition it was previously that was denied. But, the case will continue for damages, which will probably be rather extensive, trees are not cheap to replace. The area may not be quite as it was originally, but if she gets a certain number of trees, she probably doesn't have to place them exactly where there were trees, which may be a bit of an upside.
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@danrend4986 True, and the main part of the population problem had been China and India. The US's population increase has mostly been the result of immigration for pretty much the entirety of our existence. Developing nations growth rates are nearly entirely something that you can put down to a combination in improvements in life expectancy and lack of adequate social safety net to ensure support in old age. It turns out that women don't like being treated like gumball machines popping out kid after kid after kid, and they'll naturally want to stop somewhere before 4 kids with most wanting a max of 2 or 3.
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But, think of the poor defense contractors that could be affected by that.
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King Honkie You got extremely lucky, the math does not pencil out if everybody manages that. No matter how you look at it, somebody has to do the crap work that nobody wants to do. Perhaps in the future there will be robots that do all that work for us, but at this point, not everybody can achieve what you claim to have achieved. You're completely full of it for suggesting otherwise. An economy where a significant number of people own multiple homes and travel non-stop would collapse within a matter of months.
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That's a detail that the MSM would be pressing hard if they weren't the propaganda arm of the elites.
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@shrimplyobsessed Possibly, but I've known people who were disciplined too much by their parents that wound up like this. Well, not this, this is world class idiocy of a level the world may never see again.
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It will be released because somebody will pay to see it. There's probably a few that want this garage and a larger group that will be rubbernecking the train wreck.
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Which is completely wrong. If 1.4 hours a week less work constitutes dependency for 1,000 a week worth of income, then something very strange is going on. $1k a week is more than I was making at my last job, but these people are only cutting back by less than 2 hours and that's evidence of dependency? The UBI has never depended on financial literacy of the recipients as part of the theory. People who earn a living wage aren't necessarily financially literate beyond being able to find work that allows them to pay the bills. They simply hire an expert or go to their financial institution and get advice there. If neither of those is the case, then they get books. People on a UBI are in more or less the same boat, they just don't necessarily have a job that pays all the bills. Videos like this that are so completely wrong do nothing helpful in terms of advancing the progress towards a workable solution.
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"If you're not cynical and jaded yet, hold my beer while I try this." I'm Joe Biden and I forgot this message.
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@ There's like 3 counties tops in the entire country where you can afford to rent an apartment earning minimum wage and keep within the recommended portion of your paycheck going to rent. It's hardly just a matter of people being irresponsible with their spending, there's also an entire system set up to take advantage of people.
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A lot of that has to do with the fact that the recording industry hadn't completely consolidated. There was a lot more room for some experimentation, especially in the '60s. Now, all the music that I hear is pretty much the same, I have no idea who did any of it and have a hard time identifying that it was different groups.
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What's religion got to do with this? If we follow the science, we would reach the same conclusion that for the time being the answer should be no. These treatments being provided to children is a very recent thing and expecting to skip over the usual research is a bad idea. We've got researchers refusing to publish the results of their research because it doesn't back the notion that transgender children should be treated with things that can't necessarily be undone if they change their minds with little evidence to support that providing the care will provide any benefits that couldn't be had in other ways.
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No such requirement, but without a fixed address or mailbox it can make service trickier. Worst case scenario is that the judge can authorize the notice to be posted somewhere like a newspaper and call it good enough. But, I think that requires that they believe you to be in the area, that's not likely to fly if they suspect you're living on the other side of the country or overseas.
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@jeremyvolland8508 The actual issue would likely be that the company is overseas and probably not easily collected from, even if you do win. Something of such low value would be a matter for small claims court, which doesn't bring any help collecting on the judgment.
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TBH, that's the bigger story. If the grades are that bad, it's not just one bad parent, it's a bunch of bad parents, a bunch of ineffective administrators and a bunch of bad, ineffective, unsupported or overwhelmed teachers.
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They're the two that the parties are allowing. Trump has the advantage of having people actually wanting him to be President. Biden was rammed down our throat by threatening another 4 years of Trump as if there weren't other candidates that could beat Trump. But now, 4 years later, we're in this position of being expected to toe the line because they won't allow other options. With how old Biden is this always should have been a contested primary.
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Only the independents that still vote. The vast majority of independents don't bother going to the polls as nobody makes even the slightest effort to earn those votes.
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@Cheepchipsable I'm still watching the video, but unless the contract specifies that they aren't allowed to coordinate with each other about the overtime, then I fail to see how this isn't allowed. It doesn't sound like anybody is being forced to avoid the optional overtime and that the court is probably overstepping. Canada doesn't have slave labor, so how can these folks be forced to work if they don't want the extra time?
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@nsnopper It's still "voluntary" overtime. The company doesn't haven't to allow for renegotiation if they don't want to. But, they signed a contract where the overtime was voluntary, forcing people to work when they agreed to voluntary work is still slave labor. I didn't hear anything to suggest that they weren't showing up for the hours that they were contracted to.
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@Silver77cyn That right there is the issue. There are literally hundreds of tribes throughout the US and they all have some number of members that may or may not agree. I personally think the update is a good one in that it does distance itself from the racist aspects of the animation, but still maintains a sense that these could be from the animated film. It was going to happen eventually, or it was going to feel dated in a way that the rest of the ride doesn't. And that's assuming that people don't start to get even more offended by it in the future. Best to just address it now before a future CEO uses that as an excuse to just demolish the entire ride for one that doesn't have such a perpetually long line for the amount of use it gets.
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Since when do women care about owing men favors? It's not like they ever pay a guy back for anything. I've met all sorts of women over the years that are all too eager to accept help when they need it, but afterwards, it's like "yeah, but what have you done for me lately." It's not like, I'm expecting sex or anything for helping a woman out. Consequently, I don't help women at all if I can help it. It's wasted energy that I could be using for myself and people that are capable of caring about me. On a side note, women of class do not accept favors from single men. Or at very least, give the guy a break and at least find out if he's looking for somebody. It's lacking in class to waste a guys energy when you know you're not interested in him.
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@soaringeagle5418 It's better than their first draft "make a run for the restroom." Test marketing that was disastrous, even with the possibility of an immodium tie in promotion.
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That's because at that time, it was still possible for normal people to expect to have a better standard of living than their parents if they worked harder and smarter. Nobody with any sense still believes that bedtime story at this point. There's also far less ignorance about what socialism actually is and what it's like in practice. All socialism means is that the workers own the means of production, it says nothing about how the economy is organized other than it be organzied for the benefit of those that actually generate the wealth. And there are so many different ways in which that can be done other than communism.
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I'm increasingly thinking that Trump is a better President than Biden would be. At least Trump knows how to communicate with the people and had the wherewithal to understand that the people need checks in their hands pronto. Joe still hasn't offered up a real plan as to how he'd handle things and yet Bernie is getting no credit for what he's been doing as the media tries to drum him out of the race.
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Same here, although at this point with only 2 parties that are colluding with each other to help the billionaire class, it's harder and harder to imagine that actually voting will ever have the kind of impact that this assassination has. Just look at the other health insurance companies rethinking their plans as a result.
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I do like the fact that they didn't go the lazy route of saying Berkeley, San Francisco or someplace else that is widely connected with the hippy subculture of the period.
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Because there's a bunch of cowards out there that won't accept reasonable firearm restriction and regulation.
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@cgungryfcdjs1352 I fail to see how that's any worse than the current situation where the majority of Americans don't have a meaningful say in the Presidential race unless there's a massive swing against the party that normally wins.
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@jnagarya519 Yep, or, in the case of lawyers, do such a crappy job of it that they probably get disbarred. That being said, as a practical matter, I don't know that quitting is preferable to being fired, and being fired could potentially drag this out longer making it more likely that they'll lose momentum.
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What I take away from this, is that they're not going to start caring until there's a party to the left of them that's got significant support. And it might take enough voters to make up 34% of the final votes in order to do it. Personally, if I don't get hazard pay for working through this pandemic, I'm through with them. No more votes for either party if there's a 3rd party option. And if there is no 3rd party option, then I'll vote against the incumbent every time. It is absolutely ridiculous that people on unemployment get money that they weren't owed, but the people working to ensure that we don't have mass starvation and have access to health care get nothing at all in terms of support from the government.
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@MAC_ABC It wasn't, in at least one case it was because the VP moved during the process and the lack of same address through the process is what the Democrats used to get them removed from the ballot. I'm curious as to how they should have known ahead of time about the move and what the new address would be. This is a party that's been running for President for decades, you don't think they know how to file the paperwork?
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It's more of an issue because companies like United Health Care are apparently permitted to have a financial stake in multiple layers of middlemen. So, it's not just that they've inserted themselves between the patients and the medical providers, they're also providing services that they can mark up to help their insurance branch increase how much that 20% of the medical activities is because it's then based on an artificially increased amount for services where they're taking profits at that level as well.
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If you can afford better than green eggs and ham then we gave you too much stimulus.
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What this proves is that either they don't know the connection of the accounts or that they're willing to violate their own terms because their feelings got hurt.
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Indeed, when the corporations that own most of the grocery stores are doing more for the employees than the government that's supposed to represent us is, something is seriously messed up. They do the bare minimum possible to help anybody, then go on a long vacation while millions of Americans are without work and those of us that are fortunate enough to still be working, may well be still out in public helping people receive their essential services and food, but the government won't do anything to help us, even though in many cases, that extra $600 a week that comes with unemployment may be more than what we're being paid for actually working an essential job.
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@Sairiui Probably the 2016 Ghostbusters that'll show up, tell some really bad jokes, and then suggest calling somebody that actually knows what they're doing.
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@shirleyking7598 TBH, this is why I"ve started buying up box sets of all the programming that I most enjoy. If you do it off ebay, it isn't even that expensive. The only thing that you really lose is the exclusive content, which is mostly not that great and you can just subscribe a couple times a year and be done with it.
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I heard 69, but yeah, he didn't donate that money, there was just another person with the same name. It's not like his name is super rare.
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There will be an investigation, I'm guessing the lack of avoidance is because they didn't see the plane and didn't realize they were so high up or for some reason the information coming from the tower wasn't properly understood. But, there'll be an investigation and we'll get an answer. I'm sure it won't be a satisfying one, but we'll get one eventually.
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It's amazing to me how far he'll go to avoid having to do anything to help the American people. The only reason that he's not eliminating the filibuster here is that he realizes that people would notice and demand he do so for other pressing issues.
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I personally work at a grocery store and it's hard to remember that we're in a pandemic because after a while you just get used to it. The government hasn't done a damned thing to help us or compensate us for our service and sacrifice. If we lose our jobs or get our hours cut back, which happens as essential as we are, we don't get to benefit from any of the pandemic assistance as that's only if the cuts were in response to the pandemic itself. People may not believe that our jobs require hazard pay, but we should at least get compensated for being left out of the benefits that everybody else gets. Call it what you want, but we're doing more work, in a riskier environment and not getting any compensation for it. In fact, it's only been in the last month or so that I've finally had more income than I would have had being on unemployment thanks to that $10k that they gave the unemployed that essential workers didn't get.
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@CC-vq1yg Yes, same goes for any questions about what state the venue is located in or whether a woman is his wife or sister.
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TBH, NASA uses the metric system as all Imperial measures are defined in relation to the metric ones. NASA is also one of the few places in America where the metric system would actually make sense. Most of the time, it's more cumbersome and annoying than the Imperial measures we use.
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@Luis-Torres It's not necessarily a healthy choice, but it does help a bit with moral knowing that the people who own the company are putting in the hours and are available if there's a problem. But, a better way would be encouraging employees to find efficiency gains that can allow everybody to go home a bit earlier.
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I found from my time living in the PRC that it's relatively easy to get them to think you know more Mandarin than you do. If you're using roughly the right tones and using any correct measure words, you're probably going to have a relatively tough time convincing them that you're a low level speaker. And if you're mostly using the same phrases over and over again, it gets even harder.
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The thing about the Iliad is that it has good and bad translations. Not all translations are as easily read as others. That being said, just because something is a classic, doesn't mean that everybody is going to enjoy it. It might be that that particular book just isn't for you. I thought the same thing about the Lord of the Rings when I first tried reading my dad's copy from the 60s, but more recent editions are both easier to read and more enjoyable as all the various errors that were made with it were fixed.
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From what I can tell, the only languages that ever go fully obsolete are ones that never caught on in the first place. There's still jobs for languages that "went obsolete" years ago, but are still being used in legacy applications because they can't justify rewriting the code in something more modern.
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I think it's interesting how when it's men that deserve to be loved that's sick, but when women think they deserved to be loved, that's completely reasonable.
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It would be several orders of magnitude better to just use white foam for the light reflection and simply spray layers of ice on top of that. It's still a stupid idea for a number of reasons, but it's less stupid than this one.
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If we had a Democracy she would have been voted out of office ages ago.
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@maythesciencebewithyou Right, because in that scenario the firearms they have are going to do the trick. Doesn't much matter how much training you've got when the other side can just flatten the entire house with a missile. These people are living in a delusional land from a century ago if they think they can realistically fight back via the firearms that are available for sale to the public. Also, the 2nd amendment is what allows the national guard to have access to weapons, not private citizens. There's a reason why it says "people" and not "a person" in the amendment. But, somehow this is the one they don't want to be literal about, whereas they're OK with corporations being people despite a complete lack of language or reason to think that corporations are people and the theory being initially proposed by a liar.
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@subularreno Things like this and dehydrators in general tend to be far more useful if you're generating food that needs to be preserved long term rather than having to buy the food to preserve as mass production scale equipment tends to be far more efficient.
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That's the thing, the media tends to get the money from the same place as the politicians do. She failed miserably to do anything when she had leverage and then she overplayed her hand when the GOP was seriously looking to give in to her demands. She couldn't or wouldn't articulate what good enough would have been and even under the most favorable case, she was screwing over the essential workers that were keeping this country from complete collapse.
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Yeah, there were exceptions, the local mosque here received protection from non-Muslims in the community, but on the whole, it was a tough time to be Muslim and to a large extent still is.
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People in states that haven't yet voted can still save us. No more of this silly vote Joe no matter who bs.
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@ThomasBlinuxguy Yep, they're the ones that are to blame. They gave the unemployed and corporations a huge windfall, but screwed over the folks that are keeping this dumpster fire of a country from a nuclear meltdown.
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But, poor people don't have any money, how are they supposed to engage in "free speech?" By which I mean, bribe politicians to ignore the constitution and their duties.
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To be fair, part of the issue is that she didn't keep 94% of the money going into the DNC the way that HRC did in 2016.
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It's worse, it's $5tn just in the highways and the like. This includes money for a bunch of other stuff.
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Keep in mind that Spirit air has a business model where you can avoid nearly all those fees and pay practically nothing for the flight. That's how budget carriers work, you just pay for the stuff you use. Also, the flights I've had with them have been some of the most pleasant flights I've had recently. Ditto for the other budget airline that escapes my memory that I took a few years ago. Sure, they make the nickling and diming more obvious, but at least the fares are quite cheap if you don't need that stuff.
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This is true. Even amongst their membership their hardline stance against even the most basic of restrictions on buying, like background checks, aren't popular. Most members realize that the kind of unlimited access isn't good for anybody except the manufacturers of the weapons. Most of the members want their hunting rights preserved, access to firearms preserved and for people to have access to high quality gun safety resources. To that end, there are plenty of organizations that advocate for those issues without also advocating for allowing access to firearms for domestic terrorists and those with known mental health issues. There's a special place in hell for them as well as for the leadership of the 2nd amendment foundation.
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It's not just this, but as sea levels rise and the sands get washed away, even safely constructed and maintained buildings may wind up having major issues.
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To be fair, he's not yet in office and the GOP is already trying to impeach him. Not that it makes it OK, but this whole situation is far beyond what you'd see in a farce.
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Don't keep it, remove it and place it on another car.
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No, he didn't. If he was concerned about the legality, that's when you call parking enforcement or possibly the police as appropriate. The individual in question didn't fear for his life, if he feared for his life, then he wouldn't have started the confrontation. What's more, we now know that the individual that hit him was correct in assuming that psychopath was dangerous.
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@petergilkes7082 Most other countries that would either not be criminal or would result in deportation. He absolutely was a hostage.
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They'll just give themselves hazard pay and bump up the security detail because it's more money than giving in.
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Exactly what I was going to say. Staying with your parents to save on rent, sure, but a quarter million dollars is an awful lot of money to have available to risk losing. I'm not sure I know anybody with that kind of money to risk on a speculative investment.
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That's because you're a decent human being. The Israeli government murders huge numbers of innocent civilians. I remember when they murdered Rachel Corrie while illegally destroying Palestinian houses.
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I thought the incentive to stay home was the pandemic. The unemployment increase was the incentive to not start assassinating the rich and powerful.
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We've already established that he hasn't got a conscience. I used to respect him, but this particular bill doesn't deserve to be debated anywhere. The man has the best possible healthcare in the US, and yet he votes to continue this one.
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@cindyl542 If he was clean, he could probably get a waiver for it, but this whole business is that he's actively drinking and apparently lied about his ability to refrain.
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@ulucio86 Yep, the US does propagandize our own people, but it's a matter of degrees. In the US, you can usually figure out what the truth is and spread it, that's not the case in places like North Korea. Assuming you can even learn the truth, it's pretty much impossible to spread the truth.
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I've been really frustrated the last few years because I see all these really cool CUDA only projects, then I look at the prices of the GPUs that support it and it's way more money than I'd care to spend on just a GPU. It's really about time that the government stepped in and put the slap down on the monopoly position that nVidia has right now over that. It wouldn't surprise me if it was ultimately nVidia doing it in order to reduce their exposure to antitrust lawsuits knowing that they're so far ahead that even with this being available that the nVidia option would still be the one that most folks use if they've got the money.
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@1funnygame Precisely, a lot of these programs were designed that way on purpose and it's even worse as often times they're forced to take jobs that they're offered, even if they pay just enough to lose benefits, but not enough to make up for the lost benefits.
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You'd then have to have something to hold the internal radioactive material.
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You can still buy battery containers with integrated testers. I think the issue is that nobody bothers checking batteries because most high drain devices have either moved to rechargeable batteries or have informative meters built in to estimate the battery life remaining.
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Yes, I'm not really sure how else you serve justice if you don't send it for a new trial with a new judge. The only other reasonable alternative would be to set aside the conviction completely, but I do think that a mistrial is probably the correct remedy.
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@starventure No, it's not, it's mostly the wealthy and uneducated that see it that way. The reality is that the trust is going bust because the wealthy have been hoarding their wealth at the expense of workers, which leads to money not being paid into the trust that should be. And to make matters worse, since workers aren't making what they should, it's also harder for workers to save enough to not need the social security pension money.
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@shipwreck8847 We'll see. I don't support jury nullification, but New Yorkers can be rather tough at times in terms of refusing to convict people if they don't want to.
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Yes, and there are plans with multiple screens that you're forced to sign up for if you want higher definition service. The real issue is that they're already charging too much for what they're providing and too much of the programming that they had been carrying is now on other services. They do have the legal right to crack down on this, but I wonder how many people will even keep subscribing as there's probably a lot of people that use somebody else's password, to watch a couple programs from time to time who would never otherwise pay to see the shows or just wait until the license moved to a different provider.
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Well, that would make it hard to sniff women's hair.
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Considering that tsunamis happen rarely and that villagers likely only had skills related to the sea, I can't imagine why that wouldn't work.
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I've been wondering about this sort of thing for a while. We tried to institute universal care in WA during the early '90s and had to back off when the system imploded. It's made little sense to me why we couldn't extend the ACA at the state level and provide guaranteed care to anybody who either had out of state insurance or who had residency in the state with employers paying into the system. Extending it to other blue states via a compact should be doable.
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I'm not sure who it is that is telling people that they need a lot of debt to build their credit, because it's not true. Just putting your living expenses on plastic and paying your bills in full and on time is sufficient to have a score over 800. Pay off the loan as quickly as you can without jeopardizing your ability to pay your bills and have a bit of money to enjoy your life.
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We could have had a public option for Obamacare for roughly $100bn a year, the reason we don't is that they needed that money to fund military expansion, not even just basic military operations, this is on top of that money.
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I think things are starting to change a bit. During this year's general election we got ranked choice voting. It was one of two options, the other being this weird thing where you vote for as many of the candidates as you like and winner takes all. I do think that with the increasing concentration of the population in urban areas that we will hit a critical mass where enough of the population is already using one of these improved voting systems that entire states will reform their voting methods. Considering that people on both sides of the spectrum feel disenfranchised by the current system, it's mostly corporations that are opposed to fixing it.
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Which is kind of funny because Microsoft Office includes a database program.
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Not only that, but the more money we give them, the more issues we have with our economy. The last few years we've had corporations like Boeing effectively lighting huge sums of money on fire. First they buy back their own stock, something that should be illegal, then they have those planes crash and their stock price tumbles. Incompetent parasites.
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Except that you folks have been squandering what negotiating power you had, hoping that the party elites will do you favors later on. Pelosi needed the squad to be reelected as speaker, and you couldn't get anything for holding up the votes. The blue dogs figured that out and were able to get something.
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It depends where you're located. Around here, the water comes from a public utility that owns the watershed and restricts access to even go inside of it. Other parts of the country though are likely to not be so lucky.
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Most of the people that want things reopened need money to survive. There's a few plutocrats that want things opened for financial reasons, but everybody else wants to go back to work because they're in dire straits. The fact that neither party feels like doing anything about it is a damning indictment of our political process. Even those of us that have had to continue working have gotten nothing but lip service from the government. We still haven't received the kind of enhanced benefits that the unemployed are getting, even as we take the risks associated with the front line.
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Yes, that was my first reaction was that him setting the camera up on that time frame isn't suspicious, this is hardly the first railfan to capture a derailment on camera. Between time tables and possible friends up the line, I didn't question the timing. I doubt that many railfans have hours to just sit around hoping a train will show up. However, they apparently had surveillance footage of him being the one that flipped the switch.
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@bigsweetc6 If it's money that was already going to be spent, you'd just get the regular inflation. The stimulus checks were extra spending that wasn't already going to be spent and in much larger amount. That being said, the whole thing is BS as he's not finding any of the money that he's claiming to have found.
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That's the usual problem. Just look at how quickly the squad got corrupted. They talked a good game, but every time that they could have withheld their votes to negotiate for something that the people needed, they gave up their leverage.
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Indeed, if WA wasn't guaranteed to go Biden, I might have voted Trump rather than Hawkins. But, my vote basically doesn't count beyond possible recognition and ballot access for one of the 3rd parties.
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@badluck5647 The issue there is that the DoJ is part of the executive branch, along with all federal law enforcement, the military and potentially the national guard if they get federalized. The Posse Comitatus Act does prevent the military from operating on US soil, but if we're at the point where that's relevant, we're already screwed whether he breaks that law or not. The failure here is that we've got one party that doesn't know how to fight, and the other party routinely runs on being anti-government with a bunch of people too stupid to see that this sort of thing is largely inevitable when a sufficient chunk of the politicians subscribe to an anti-government view where any government is to be avoided.
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Yes, also in most cases this will change nothing as most of the time the father is who the mother says he is. This mostly impacts the ones that are either not so sure because they were with multiple men or who are outright lying about it.
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@Joe-hz1nw Yes, there are practical reasons why the mother gets essentially veto power over the father, but the father should get an option to opt out entirely. There probably are some men that learn to love the kid anyways, but there's got to be a disproportionate amount of abuse that comes of it as well.
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@rogerfaint499 Not to mention blaming his supporters for failing to show up in force to support her after she insulted us and refused to make any effort at all to earn our votes.
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The YouTube monetization policy itself is a scam. People can't send a creator money through the platform until they've hit the minimum monetization point. So, you can get donations through 3rd parties, but you can't get it through YouTube itself. But, even if you do hit the threshold, then there's no guarantee about making anything from the videos as they're constantly tweaking the monetization policy and there may not be anybody available if they mistakenly demonetize a video that complies with all the rules.
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There's more to being chief than this, but at least we know he's honest.
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The thing is that we've tried liberal gun regulations, it hasn't worked, the Japanese have roughly 11 firearms related fatalities of self-murder, murder and accident combined. That's like 1% of ours when you account for the difference in population sizes. The reality is that regulations do work when they're not sabotaged the way they are in the US. Or do you really think that the Japanese are so different that cultural differences alone explain the massive gap in death rates?
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Not just that, but if the states have to switch by mail, it will be a lot harder for them to engage in elections fraud and discouraging the people that would most benefit from real demcracy.
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As a small business owner, it's even worse than he indicates. My customers are not getting a tax break, in fact they'll likely get a tax hike out of this, meaning less money for them to spend on my services. So, my growth will likely be slowed by this and no growth no increase in taxes coming into the government. 2018 is going to be a great year for the Democrats if they can get rid of all those corporatists that they've allowed in the party. More likely though, they'll chase off anybody that's even remotely progressive or populist in order to keep on the large donors donation list.
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Pretty much and the worst thing is that thanks to their corruption, everybody throughout the world will suffer. We've got a shockingly small amount of time in which to get our acts together with respect to climate change and people die every day as the result of not having adequate health care. Instead we have two right wing parties that seem to only be able to compromise when it involves screwing over the voters.
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@FakeSchrodingersCat That would have justified closing the immediate vicinity and not much more, certainly not shutting down the trains. Even if they had been IEDs, they were just too small to inflict any meaningful damage on most of the objects they were attached to. Worst case scenario would have been some shrapnel and that's about it. Simply keeping people out of the area while they sorted it out would have sufficed. These aren't car bombs that were involved here, they were tiny guerrilla art installs.
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@AndreaGalgani They do. It's a rather gutsy thing to do given how screwed up the courts are. But, it would be the right thing to do.
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I have yet to come across a "microaggression" that wasn't already considered to be a rude violation of social protocols.
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I'm not sure why that would be a problem, you just skip the part where it's in your head. Or at least that's what I always did.
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This is the best way to learn any OS. Most modern VM systems will have some ability to snapshot or export a system at will. It allows for a ton of screwing around without risking actually doing any sort of longterm damage. The number of times that I personally had to reinstall DOS because I did things like accidentally delete the . or .. files was significant. But, I did gain a ton of confidence knowing that it was pretty hard to do any long term damage to the computer, just to the files.
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I don't see her advocating for him or even paying attention to him. The school also messed up royally, but the reality is that the diploma that he gets will be completely worthless if he's allowed to graduate with a GPA under 1.0. There are just so many people that screwed up here, and the kid is ultimately not set up for even bare minimum type of functioning in society.
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An unpaid internship is supposed to be completely educational with the only benefit to the company being a potential hire down the road. It's the only reason it was ever legal for private companies to have them at all.
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People are still doing the work. There's not much difference between tipping for a person to take down the order and tipping just for the food preparation.Tipping at a self-order kiosk isn't any more ridiculous than tipping at most fastfood joints.
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From what I understand, that would already be known from the blockchain.
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The biggest issue is that the pump has no backup mode of operation for when it fails and the replacement parts/cost are prohibitive. There is also the issue of there being a lot of mass to get spinning, but some creative cutting could reduce that a lot.
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Privacy issues don't exist if the customers agree to it. It's a roof, as long as the work wasn't exclusively on the back side or some side that isn't visible from the sidewalk, it's not much of a privacy issue. Perhaps if a given install is done on a back country road with a long driveway there may be some potential privacy issue, but most houses are in places where you can see some of the work from the road.
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Yes, and that wouldn't inherently be an issue if there were plans in place to ensure that everybody had the basic necessities and something to do with their time. As things get more automated, there's going to be fewer jobs that involve anything useful going on. Either you'll have make work, roving bands of hooligans or some sort of pay for hobbies going on. There are few if any alternatives.
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@rickm6076 Yep, I was hoping that they would be rescued so that they could be made to pay for the consequences with money. This whole rescue effort was an obscene waste of money to rescue people who got their money by being cheap and exploiting the labor of others. I do feel sorry for the young man that went with his father, I was that age when my dad brought me up one of the local mountains with a guide. We had a top-notch guide and while we were in white-out conditions near the top, it was still a much, much safer thing to do as our guide had been leading climbers for decades and there are far more options for a mountain top rescue than from the bottom of the ocean. That money could have saved hundreds, if not thousands of lives of poor people, but got wasted saving the lives of a few people who were clearly in over their heads.
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That's not how I remember it, it was mostly about being able to choose the channels you wanted, without being forced to pay for a bunch of other channels. The issue with it was that it was complicated. Some channels would subsidize the other channels, other channels would be paid to be there and some were there mostly for diversity reasons. The issue I had was that the cost of cable went from $5 a month in 1985 to roughly $90 now and the amount of actual shows that I care to watch is even worse than it was back then. I only have cable because it's the only option I have for wired internet and not getting the TV and phone part of the package is somehow more expensive than getting it all together.
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You sir are the problem. The issue with those sites is that people are giving them money to post fake claims about climate change being a hoax. Trying to bury it just reinforces the notion that these conspiracy theorists have that there's something to it. And what happens for other things where the science isn't as firmly established? Or what if there's some important topic like HIV back in the '80s where there was a significant effort to prevent people from getting funds to research it? If you're looking up "is climate change a hoax" you should get results like that. You can't force people to think correctly by removing options.
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@maxstone9148 I remember when ACA was being debated that some folks were thinking that we should just give everybody the same coverage that the politicians get.
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I've noticed that happening more and more often as I get older and new editions of things come out. Some of it might be just my imagination, but some of it clearly isn't. I have a copy of the original theatrical cut of Star Wars and I'm very much aware of who was shooting whom in that cantina. My copy of For Your Eyes Only, does differ from the broadcast version from the '80s and '90s in that they took time away from that creepy bedroom scene and gave it to the hockey scene. In that case, it's arguably the way it always should have been as too much time was spent establishing Bibi as a predator that even Bond was uncomfortable with and not enough time was spend setting up the fight in the hockey rink. But, this stuff does have a tendency to warp perceptions as which character shoots first in the Star Wars cantina does fundamentally change how Han is viewed by the audiences. Whereas replacing the cardboard cutouts in the medal ceremony at the end doesn't fundamentally change anything other than make the shot look a bit more realistic. And, the problem is probably going to just get worse as it's easier and easier to have a computer remove and add things to scenes in ways that are very hard to detect if you don't know to look. It's one of the big reasons why I've been going back to DVDs as that gives me a guaranteed copy that will be the same forever.
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@hafirenggayuda That's probably the strongest point against this change possible. I can't recall any explanation given as to how they have children in their village when nobody seems to age, kids remain kids and adults seem to never grow old enough to die.
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That bit was mainly a reference to The Prisoner. It's been a while since I watched the movie, but I think he already knew that #2 was working for Dr. Evil.
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3 days isn't good, but if it were just 3 days that wouldn't be that big of a deal. I once went nearly a month on practically nothing and that's sort of how we evolved. The problem here and the reason why she's so justified in freaking out is that she flat out doesn't know how long it's going to be when she gets that next meal and once she does get that food, how long it's going to last. It's heartbreaking that she's so clearly a good person.
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@JRKonungrinn This was a 14 year old kid, not required to get that service. The service is for the airline to assume responsibility for the UM while in transit including employees escorting the kid between flights when transferring. There's no reason for a 14 year old to be forced to use that service just to avoid being bumped.
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I got vaccinated as soon as I could, but despite being an essential worker, the state put us behind teachers for the shots. I got covid before there was a vaccine and it was scary. I had a "mild" case and I've never been so sick in my entire life. I literally was so exhausted that I couldn't turn on the tv and I had to force myself to eat because I had no taste and I couldn't breathe. That last one was particularly scary. I've had severe surges shortness of breath due to allergies and asthma,but this was different.
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@lovewillwinnn And that right there is why we have most of our regulations. Enough companies take that attitude that it is a big problem for everybody else.
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Of course Obama is fine with that, he made massive amounts of money on his political career.
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His credibility takes a significant hit if you go to his website and see some of the stuff he's selling. I've personally been a believer for decades in being nice to my bacteria, not using antibiotics unless it was necessary and trying to make sure that the conditions were as good as possible for beneficial and neutral bacteria, but seeing obvious scam treatments be associated with the drive to ensure a balanced and healthy micro-biome is less than helpful.
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That happens a lot. The first time I met one of my cousins he was like a smaller carbon copy of myself. And apparently acting very differently from normal. In retrospect, that probably should have been a hint that there was something to look into when literally nobody else I've met really seemed similar. I really should check up to see what happened there. We live on opposite ends of the country and I haven't seen him since. I hardly ever see any of my relatives due to distances and my hating to fly.
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We shouldn't refer to this as a riot, they were storming the capital as an act of insurrection. It's far more accurate.
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Sharing links shouldn't require payment. That's would be like having to pay the NYT every time you tell somebody that an article they might be interested is in the edition without even sharing the specific details. Now, requiring payment for sharing the actual article or enough of a summary to reduce the need for folks to actually read the article.
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IANAL, but that clause should be removed by a judge with the remaining contract intact as its inclusion would otherwise render the entire contract void. In order for a contract to be valid, there typically needs to be an exchange of benefits. In this case, that clause being exercised merely because the builder thinks it can make more money means that the prospective buyer did not receive any benefit from the contract. We'll have to see how the actual court case goes, but with the funniness with the moved closing date and the forced sale of the house, there's almost certainly some sort of cause of action and the attorney should be able to get an injunction barring the sale of the house to anybody else until the legal issues are resolved. I would expect that any competent judge would rule that the clause isn't enforceable, but the rest of the contract is and the closing must go forward, but it is Texas where the judiciary has a reputation for being procorporate, so who knows.
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No, it's completely about that, the cost of a spare tire is practically nothing when compared with the cost of a car. The ones I see listed are all under $500 after tax. The cheapest cars for this year are something like $16k, so an extra $500 on top of that is just not that much money. The alternative ways of hitting the fuel efficiency targets are a lot more expensive.
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Imagine supporting people that support war criminals.
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Possibly, he may also have still been waking up. Driving a car at that hour of the morning is often times extremely boring.
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@Patrick-857 It's not inflationary. You hand everybody $1k in UBI and you tax it away from the people at the very top. The great thing about UBI is that it's a way of inserting money into the bottom from where it can circulate up to people that have more wealth. Whereas, tax breaks and money to the rich never trickle down to any meaningful extent.
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Sadly with all the various crimes against humanity that were committed by the British Crown over the centuries they were in power, it's difficult to not miss a bunch of these instances in the large quantity of other offenses.
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To be fair to Joe, I'm impressed that he remembered that long when he often can't remember what state he's in or what office he's running for.
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I agree, she does a disservice to anybody on the left with her dishonesty. The bottom line is that Pelosi should have taken the nearly $1.8tn deal and if Biden had still won added to that when he got into office. But, even if Trump had won reelection, that would still have guaranteed more help for the people. Pelosi is a waste of skin and should have been sent to prison years ago for her obvious corruption.
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It happens far more often than it should and usually by the time the driver sees anything on the track, it's going to be run over. At least these folks were smart enough to get out of the car. I'm not sure how long this was after the car broke down, but a call to 911 should result in the relevant railroad employees notifying any trains on that section of tracks to slow down or stop as appropriate. Even if nobody is harmed, there can still be some damage to the train, although probably not much.
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He specifically said that ADHD does exist, but his point was that a lot of the "ADHD" isn't really ADHD, it's children struggle to pay attention through an entire day of low grade clerical work. Get rid of the tedious work and the rates would likely return to normal. There's been an explosion in diagnoses of ADHD over the last 20 years and it's highly unlikely that it's just a matter of the disorder not being diagnosed, that's probably only a small part of it.
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Last election, I wrote in Bernie, I probably should have voted Stein.
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@fakeguy12 Why not? The only reason we have an issue with it is that we've created a culture where a naked body is inherently sexual. In other countries, you have phone sex line commercials with topless women coming on in the middle of cartoons. Granted, that seems a bit of a stretch, but I don't see how either of our examples is susbstantively different from areas where women commonly don't wear tops. You see a bunch of boobies and you probably don't even think of them as being sexual after a while.
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Voting blue no matter who has worked at some point in the past?
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It's not even that. As the video pointed out, there's likely selection bias there so the people signing that pledge are more likely to vote for Trump than Harris or whatever 3rd party options are on the ballot. And he's doing this only in states where the outcome isn't more or less set already. It's bad enough that between gerrymandering of the house districts, the small state bonus that applies to Electoral College where they get an additional 2 electors for having Senators and the all states get the same number of Senators, but to now be allowing candidates to direct incentives to people most likely to tip things in favor of their candidate should cause people to question whether this country still has a democracy at all.
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@sysbofh Considering that it's never actually been tried, and that capitalism has massive flaws as well, I don't know how anybody can claim to have that level of confidence. In the long run, everything will eventually lead to socialism just because that's the only way for there to be permanent stability over the system. Capitalism inevitably winds up with massive corruption and dictatorship, socialism doesn't. However, not all socialist systems are the same and not all of them work.
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@jblyon2 That's probably how my dad's plot of land is going to end up when he dies. I don't have any interest in hunting, and I'm not sure how enthused my brother is by it, so the land will likely be lent or leased to hunters during hunting season as it's not really the best time to use the land for other things that time of year.
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He likely wouldn't have even promised it if Bernie wasn't in the race.
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It's sad that Trump was the less serious threat to democracy. Say what you will about Trump, but at least some people supported him.
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Baby steps with ADHD is going to be hit or miss. Sometimes it's best to just go with it when you're in the mood, as long as it doesn't cause you to skip anything too important. With babysteps, it can be easy to lose interest midway through and basically just waste the time and effort for no ultimate gain.
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The only reason it hasn't been declared is politics. But, it's already been multiple quarters of contractions. We just haven't had significant layoffs yet.
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Considering how tightly these corporations have become tied with Web 2.0, it would likely destroy that as they need crooked algorithms steering people towards specific content because of money. I'm not sure if that would help push us back to Web 1.0, or a new Web 3.0 that's difficult to envision in any specificity.
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I think it does have more to do with the fact that the systems that they're trying to defeat have just gotten a lot smarter. But, the whole thing is probably in violation of various legal protections for the disabled as they also make it impossible for some groups to get past at all.
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Squatter's rights are a way of dealing with abandoned property. If you've got a vacant lot that's been seemingly abandoned, squatters rights allow people to move in openly and treat it as if it's their property. After a period of time if the owner, or one of their agents, hasn't had them removed the ownership is transferred. Normally, this takes enough years that it's not much of a problem. This is different though, this is abusing the way that tennant rights work based on cops unwillingness to intervene in what could be a civil matter. What they should do is handle it like trespassing and burglary if there aren't any lease documents provided. That will probably lead to other issues, like forgeries, but that would itself be a felony that could include some sort of repayment of the lost rent.
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TBH, Taco Bell isn't very good, but they are everywhere. Taco Del Mar, Taco Time and Del Taco to name a few are all better. Not to mention just about any food truck serving tacos and actual Mexican restaurants.
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One of the issues for them is how many people get their copy of Windows as part of the purchase of a new computer. With computers lasting as long as they do, they need something to force people to get rid of their old ones and buy a new one.
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From what I understand, it is retroactive to when you lost your job. Unfortunately, for many people they will be bankrupt and starving by that point, assuming they even get the money. That being said, the amount of unemployment is a problem, but it's not the one that people are talking about. I'm fortunate enough to have a job at the local grocery store. But, even with the hero bonus that the chain is paying to help attract and retain workers, I'm still making less than what people are being paid on unemployment. The extra $600 alone is roughly the same as $15 an hour for a full 40 hour work week,without having to go outside, interact with the public and risk getting infected. I don't begrudge the people on unemployment from getting the extra money, everybody can't work from home and if everybody worked at frontline jobs like grocery stores, emergency services or hospitals, we wouldn't be able to socially distance, but it's beyond crazy that nobody is holding the politicians feet to the fire, for not having given the frontline workers at least the same compensation that they're handing out to the unemployed. In the case of grocery store workers, we're literally the people that are risking our health and lives to ensure that people don't starve and we're not getting any sort of help from the government. The customers have been awesome, but it's absolutely shameful that none of the frontline professions have been adequately supported or rewarded by the government that's depending upon us. If we collectively chose not to do our jobs, huge numbers of people would die and there'd be rioting in the street shortly thereafter.
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It's not a racist response. Why should I personally pay for what people did previously? I don't see anybody beating down my door trying to make up for wrongs committed against me during my lifetime, let alone decades of anti-German bigotry that started during WWI and continue to the current day. I felt like crap about myself for much of my childhood because of the anti-German bigotry that was and still is being taught in the K-12 system. But, instead of whining about it, like some folks did, our community focused on building something to the point where most people don't recognize anti-German bigotry even when it's obvious. People whine about the 2nd Indiana Jones movie being racist, but it's no more racist than the other 3. It's just that the racism isn't being directed at White people. Or how about the black community paying reparations for their homophobia and super-majority support for California's Prop 8? Biden was right to refuse to accept responsibility for what previous generations did. The argument that we're responsible for what happened previously is literally Nazi rhetoric. It's blood debt and it's everybody as offensive now as it was when the Nazis were using it as part of their propaganda effort.
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@IMPOTUSx2 I can't help but notice that they don't ever seem to specify what it is that he's wrong about, let alone any explanation of why it's wrong or any links to sources that disagree.
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The worst part of these programs is that the companies providing the "free" tax software are the ones that are lobbying the government to not come out with their own simplified software. In most cases, the IRS could just send you most of the forms prefiled with information they already have and have you either just pay or issue corrects/provide informations on deductions with supporting documentation. There's no reason that it can't be done here for individuals filing their taxes. Businesses are always going to have more to fill out, but that's because somebody has to file the paperwork and nobody wants the IRS to go into every account and see what's there.
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TBH, I found the way he handled that to be rather endearing.
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That's probably both factually and technically correct. There's a ton of businesses that just remarket other company's products.
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That would violate the Posse Comitatus Act. However, you're not entirely wrong, I'd say that the National Guard needs to enforce the constitution if the POTUS decides to start ignoring the rulings. The problem being there is that it could spark a Civil War II if the governors of the states can't agree as to whether or not to step in or if those that do support this madness decide to obstruct it.
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I've been hearing that insurance companies are increasingly refusing to cover them at any price, and that was before the wave of vandalism.
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Around here, the city owns a stadium that's about to be redone. But, it's the stadium for basically all the football teams in the entire city. The local schools have fields with no grandstands typically and just a field with a track and the bare minimum to play. I'm not sure how a town of only 16,000 can justify having a stadium for probably only one or two teams.
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Permanent Daylight Saving Time is horrible. There's a reason why we went back off of it in the '70s. It sounds like a great idea until you realize that it means less light in the morning, but more in the afternoon. Most of the people benefitting from it are wealthier and retailers might benefit, but most people won't benefit from it at all.
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As disgusting as those comments are, they are protected by the first amendment. The only consequences that should come from them are social ones. People not wanting to have anything to do with threats of violence. But, it's also fairly clear that he's not really promoting violence, just making questionable comments.
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Straight people get discounts, damn. Lesbians get $8 off and now straight people. What about us bi folks? What do we get?
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@amolkhobaragade The problem there is that there aren't enough of us that are willing to vote Green rather than trying to block Trump. If we all voted Green, there's a very real chance that the Green party would win the Presidency. It won't happen though because many won't show up at all, or they'll vote Biden to try and block Trump. Or, they think that Biden can be bullied into changing his views after he gets what he wants.
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I'd certainly recommend waiting before jumping to conclusions. This certainly could be a maintenance issue due to the lax standards in place by the airlines, but it could just as easily be too many sensor failures for the plane to handle or pilot error. Hopefully, there's a report released in the future that contains enough information for people to have confidence in their findings.
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It makes me wonder how F-ed grocery store I work at is if the dollartree next door isn't losing all their employees to us. Then again, it's not anywhere near as big a mess as the ones in this video. I don't think I've ever been in when there were fewer than 3 employees that I could see somewhere on the floor and I can't remember ever having seen the kind of boxes just sitting there. That being said, this video just encourages the skepticism I have towards the chain as there are likely so many issues with some of these products being on sale for $1.26.
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@mchonkler7225 I keep seeing people post dumb stuff about leftists. You do realize that "Left" isn't a cause that people support, right?
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Because he won't do anything to help the people. The sad thing is that Trump passed that test, I'm not sure if Biden could. He forgets what office he's running for, he forgets what state he's in, he forgets which woman is his wife rather than his sister. Not to mention his inability to get sentences out.
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IDream0fDeathbutDreamsDon'tComeTrue have you ever heard of out takes? If it were just about acting, there would be few featuring castmates cracking each other up.
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That's probably a lot of it. The infrsastructure is improving, I've seen the local electric utiltiy installing curb side charging stations. But, while you do save a fair amount on gas and maintenance with an EV, any savings you get tends to be further out into the future due to the significant up front investment.
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A lot of that has to do with changes to the regulations made in the '80s where media was allowed to conglomerate and apparently foreign nationals were allowed to own media outlets. When most cities had at least 2 papers, it made it a lot harder for a handful of people to coordinate what coverage they want. Even now, the best coverage is often times the local coverage as there's so many TV and radio stations out there that it's a lot harder to cover things up, especially since they have to get buy in from their audience that's far more likely to be able to verify things. I haven't personally ever traveled all the way to the other coast to verify a story, but I can get a sense of the likelihood of something being accurate locally without doing any real work.
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@matthewbowen8065 I see no problem with that, the Senate is a deeply undemocratic institution, allowing trolls like McConnell to remain their for so long that what little humanity they had going in is completely gone serves nobody's interests.
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@rair1118 In all likelihood they're out of business regardless of what happens. Either via people deciding not to trust them in the future, the subsequent lawsuits or being crushed by demands for repayment of some of the recovery costs.
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@NissaMaezHartman Gen X thought the same thing, but the party didn't allow any candidates that would make it happen to happen and we never had the numbers to outvote either the Boomers or the Millennials.
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TBH, more like 75 Republican if you go by voting record.
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You forgot about Tulsi Gabbard, she's technically still running.
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Also, you can be pretty sure that whether they ram this through before the election or not, the appointee is going to be completely unqualified to fill the position and will continue to rule against the constitution when it would curtail the power of the rich and corporations.
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I'm not surprised. I had to pay taxes on money that was stolen by bankruptcy court. I had some money with a company that went bankrupt and the court just let them keep the money, even though it was my money, and I'd already paid taxes on it. It was a small amount of money, and it was more or less just interest, but it did anger me that they could just seize the money that was already paid to me before I could collect it.
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Good for them, you clearly weren't much of a friend or family member then.
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@JeffCaplan313 Management is hardly just supervising, it's also protecting the workers from upper management and ensuring that they have the necessary resources to do their jobs properly. You don't necessarily need to know how to do the job to manage it, but if you don't have recent experience, then you do need to trust your workers to tell you what they need and then go fight for it. Workers figure out if you're full of it fairly quickly and if they do see that telling managers that they need something that it gets done, they'll probably keep doing it. Plus, sometimes you don't have experienced people to hire. I hate that I was cross promoted to a department that I have no experience working in, it made the job a lot harder, but I did make a point of trying to avoid making any real decisions without asking what the issues might be.
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I'm guessing that there wasn't a signature on there that matched the rest of Mr. Doig's paintings which would make it extremely valuable if it were in fact a painting that he did. But, this whole thing seems like them looking to justify their initial belief rather than trying to figure out the truth and it should make people doubt the authenticity of other items that the gallery is selling if they screwed something this big up.
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TBH, I doubt we'll get rid of them any time soon. The reality is that people carrying cash don't necessarily mind and everybody that's likely to care the most uses plastic. The people that use cash and hate pennies are not a very large lobby and unlikely to spend money trying to influence policy. Probably the only people that really want them gone would be retailers and people that are trying to eliminate government waste.
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IKR, I didn't vote for him, I didn't vote for Trump either. It was clear that he wasn't fit to serve as he wasn't even with it enough to properly campaign.
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People who just go to the gym for the equipment are more or less just renting equipment and you don't need a lot of it to cover your whole body. (Actually you need 0 equipment if you know what you're doing, but a chin up bar and a few other things are helpful) The reason to be the member of a gym are access to personal trainers and classes and even then only if you're actually going.
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That was my thought. We don't really know anything about her, but there's only a handful of reasons why people would fall asleep watching the proceedings, that's the first one that came to mind. Especially given that this was a field trip organized by a non-profit.
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There are paths to getting a degree debt free, but I agree that it's ridiculous how much more constrained that path has become over such a short period of time.
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I also think that auto-renews should be optional for most service. Most services they could just as easily just suspend the account until you pay, there's no reason to act as if they're being stolen from if there isn't an immediate payment at the end of the term if you haven't canceled.
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Is he? It sounds like any other addict rationalizing the decision that he's already made.
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Employees are just strangers you haven't fired yet.
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Anyways, the "scam" here is that having such low interest rates can encourage spending more than you would like to and there's frequently a higher rate that kicks in if you don't pay on time. But, calling that a scam is rather weak. That's usually written out rather clearly in whatever paperwork they have you sign.
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Keep in mind that HRC also leaded a bunch of sensitive information and she's seen no consequences for that. She stole classified documents, failed to return or account for them and ultimately these same authorities looked the other way. Meanwhile, other less connected people were prosecuted for much less. It's as you say, he's being pursued for embarrassing powerful people, not because what he did was wrong.
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That's more or less why I've got a dual function smoke detector that uses both the ionization and optical sensors. I haven't had any particular issue with false alarms unless there was something burning, but seeing as that was always burning food, it hasn't been a safety problem. It gets disabled for a couple of minutes until the smoke clears and then immediately reenabled. That's also why it's worth the money to get your circuit breakers upgraded to afci if you can. It greatly reduces the likelihood of having an electrical fire from bad wires.
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Most of the folks that did this are dead or at least retired.
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Definitely not. There's nothing to gain and massive expense in converting. The only way we're going to further convert is if there's a nuclear war that destroys all the infrastructure. It would cost literally trillions of dollars for us to convert to a new system as it's having a mixture of differing measuring systems is untenable. The countries that went metric were mostly either undeveloped previously or bombed out by war which masked or reduced most of the issues with converting. They did not have functioning, enforced units of measure and an economy large enough to manufacture everything they needed. To make matters worse, the SI units contribute absolutely nothing of value beyond what being the basis for the definitions of the units that we're using. I've lived under both systems and not a single time did I find myself thinking that this metric measure is making my life easier, most of the time it was less convenient as the measures are completely arbitrary and often times bastardized down to units that are suspiciously similar to the imperial measures still in use in the US>
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@vavan100 If we aren't going to say that everybody deserves a job, then you pretty much have to say that everybody deserves to be provided with food, clothing, shelter and the basics of a decent life. The alternative is a dystopian society where the underclass ultimately overthrows the ruling classes and kills them in the most brutal way imaginable. As far as the line goes, if we didn't have the resources to do it, that would be one thing, but we've got the resources, it's just that we've shipped the jobs overseas with bad trade deals on the lie that the reduced cost of things would make up for the losses in salary. That hasn't been the case.
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@1940limited Not really, but the ultrarich will do all sorts of dumb things if it's a rare thing to do. Seeing videos of one of the owners, they put way too much faith in the hull, and not enough into communication or some fail-safe.
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In my experience, running towards the danger has saved my butt far more often than it's caused me trouble. These days, I've seen more threats to my life in civilian life than the vast majority of service personnel do in service. The world changes, and only the more moronic stick to a past that usually didn't exist in the first place.
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I was wondering about that. I see so many chains and restaurants around here with that promotion that I was wondering if they bothered to enforce it. It might be because I live far away from any of their locations. It looks like the closest location to me is roughly 140 miles away. I'm surprised it was even that close, they must be expanding.
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@Mrich775 You do realize that there are literally dozens of other nonprofits that support reasonable restrictions on firearms and fight against government over-regulation, right? It's not like the NRA is the only organization that's fighting to defend the 2nd amendment against undue restriction. That's the part that's always puzzled me, most NRA members do not agree with the extremist views of the organization, but they continue to support the organization with financial contributions even though there are other nonprofits that more closely align with the NRA's stated goals.
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Well, whether or not you think he's a white supremacist, what he did was certainly not the kind of judgment that most people looking to hire are looking for in new hires. That's for sure.
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@aviationnine-tailedfox2216 It's $100k and people have literally burned to death because they got stuck in them due tot he wonky door handle system. Not even because the car rolled over and the door got jammed either.
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100 Senators is roughly what it would take, especially when 51 of those Senators would vote for GOP priorities in most cases.
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Yep, there has been some great network TV the last 10 years, but there's also been a lot more garbage. The bigger issue, IMHO, is that they're competing against 70-ish years of TV and all the hits. There's also the issue that they have largely stopped producing TV shows that are standalone episodes. One of the reasons that people watch Gilligan's Island and the Brady Bunch these days is that you can watch just one episode without having to remember the previous episode. (The other major reason is that the were heavily syndicated years later)
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@strongereveryday2302 It doesn't matter, if they're advertising it to do such, then it needs to be usable in that way. There's just no excuse for them advertising it like that if extra steps are necessary. The Canon 10D that I bought over 20 years ago can go under water, if I put it in a specially engineered case. Same goes for vintage cameras.
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Yes, and he probably has no concept of what the current system is like. He's been in public office nearly continuously since 1973. Back then, the system wasn't as broken, most people had appropriate medical treatment available to them through their employers and even if they didn't, the costs were usually somewhat affordable. He had health care as a result of being a senator and then VP for decades. He's only been without for 2 years and I'm sure between medicare and whatever retirement insurance he get, he's set.
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My mother had a student that claimed to have brain cancer and even shaved her head. It turned out that she was a big fat phony and was perfectly healthy. Which, I guess in a way is better than there being another cancer case, but is up there with the crappiest things you can lie about.
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They know, they just don't care. They take the same bribe money that the GOP does and the only real difference between the two parties is that the Democrats aren't yet targeting evangelicals for votes. That's it.
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@maxwelljacobfreedom yes, I for one am shocked to learn that gambling is going on here.
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I'd imagine that the social security administration also deals with that sort of thing pretty much every month. Then there's the case where somebody goes missing, but no body is found, so they're "alive" until either a body is found or the time is up and they're declared to be dead by a court. In which case, they'd have spent years dead and a live for all practical purposes.
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They didn't put units on there, so it should be 24 days a year and 7 hours a day.
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Don't worry, we've thought of that, we just need to hand out more guns to the children in case that teacher flips out. Problem solved forever.
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@DanSpotYT That sounds about right. I can't share proprietary data, but every time I get an update, it's a few departments bringing in all the money. But, if we cut the nonprofitable areas of the store, you wouldn't get people coming into the store at all. It's like air conditioning. It is a cost, but these days if you haven't got it, then people are not going to do any shopping at your store, so stores pay for it anyways.
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@robertholston4708 Indeed. Literally the only reason why Biden was the nominee last time was because he made a few phone calls and got nearly everybody other than Bernie and Biden to drop out last time and pledge their delegates to Biden. Whether or not he deserves that power, he has it, and if he's not endorsing Kamala it's because he either thinks she can't win or doesn't think her likelihood of success is high enough to stake his reputation to. Really, she should be made to make her case at the convention to at least earn the support of the delegates. Her being coronated without doing any of the work risks a repeat of 2016 where HRC didn't feel like she needed to do the work either and wound up losing to one of the most beatable GOP candidates in decades.
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@l4kr Essentially, the whole thing does get rather complicated, but ultimately, benefits don't do anything for saving and putting yourself in a position where you don't have to depend on the company. If it's something like a retirement match or health benefits, that's reasonable, but a lot of the benefits aren't used by anybody.
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@codycast Um, a ton of people make minimum wage, far more so than in the past and for far longer. And getting a roommate is not the solution to corporations refusing to pay a living wage. It wasn't that long ago that people could afford a decent apartment on minimum wage.
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@machintelligence It's that kind of thinking that's going to get this challenged and then ruled unconstitutional. Simply being in a close vicinity to this show does not constitute an offense that will stand up to scrutiny. The active participants being ticketed, arrested and their cars impounded likely will as this kind of behavior is generally already illegal pretty much everywhere in the US and has been for many decades, but watching and filming is constitutionally protected and the prosecution has to prove that each and every one of those tickets was appropriate for anybody that cares to challenge it. I don't think they'll win the cases and even if they just try that's going to be a massive amount of time that the officers won't be out there looking for traffic law violators.
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Or, more likely, we don't put any actual effort into reforming them, we then turn them loose without any job prospects and probably no friends or family and are then surprised by a lack of positive change. Why would anybody change when their life is that screwed, and that's regardless of what you think about what led to them being incarcerated.
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@RealtyWebDesigners I personally use software to crack the DRM so that I can have a backup copy of all my books. It's questionable whether DRM is really even permitted to prevent people from backing up their media. I also do it because it's annoying to not have all my books in one place. Most ebook sellers use compatible DRM, but the when I was figuring this stuff out you could move other sellers' books to Kindle, but not the other way around. So, unless I only purchased from Amazon, I'd be stuck using multiple devices or apps to do all my reading.
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I hope Saager found those aliens.
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The company is going out of business, one way or another. Either because nobody is willing to buy tickets on a sub they've designed after such a catastrophic failure, because of new regulations or they simply get sued out of existence by the families of the deceased.
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@dedf15 That's been a recurring problem, some of those villains had less character development than Jaws.
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@tested People really should realize that the show was edutainment. It was partially about showing people how experiments can be set up, but also about getting people interested in science. I'm sure the folks on the show could have made more reliable assessments of the myths, it also would take the better part of an entire season per myth and probably not be particularly interesting.
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It's not just car manufacturers either. Harley Davidson has been doing that for years. At this point their cheapest new motorcycle is only $10k and they have nothing at all below that. By comparison many of the competitors have ones that are both half the price to get into the brand and more than just 2 basic product lines. Small cruisers and large baggers. One of the real issues in all of this is that customers can't exercise any real choice here if they are in area where they have to own a car other than what's on offer.
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@Sam-rk5oc How do these policies hurt workers? This little bit of debt relief is nothing compared with the things that are causing those problems in the first place.
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I'd wager this is more common now than it was when I was a kid. Towards my teenaged years we got a sound card and could hear something more sophisticated than the simple speakers that could mostly just beep. Before that it was 8-bit, at best, and it mostly didn't sound so great. I remember some of the games though, from the midish '90s could allow you to put a CD into the drive and listen to that as you played.
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As somebody else pointed out, she became an unaccompanied minor when she wast he only one that was bumped, even if she hadn't already been one. There's simply no excuse for this.
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They were acquired by a new owner earlier in the year and the new owners seem to actually get The Onion enough to get things back on track. They're even reviving the print edition. We'll have to see how long this lasts, but if the new videos I've been seeing are what they're going for, it's definitely promising.
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I would have liked to have something like this to dump my photos onto while camping. It seems to me that this sort of thing is trying to side step the lack of other infrastructure. Ultimately, much of Africa wound up skipping desktop computers and moving straight to smartphones that are a lot easier to deploy infrastructure for than the path that the US and Europe took .
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They're only pro-life when they need the evangelical votes.
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@Cre8tive81 I'm sure they are, the problem is that most of the time what they're top notch at is to serve the interests of the company and to deny as many benefits as possible without getting sued.
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It's not a real dilemma, there is one clear and correct answer to the question. The more interesting question is whether people would actually make the decision in real life quickly enough to actually make a difference. A much more reasonable one would be something along the lines of adding something to food that a small number of people could be allergic to, but that cures some other ailment. That at least does have some degree of merit to it as this does happen fairly often and the fact that it's not 100% for certain if anybody will be harmed, it makes it a lot harder to answer.
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Yes, but with changes to circuit breaker design, is that even a problem that's going to exist in 50 years? Even today, I don't see this being a particularly common problem to have. Between the GFCI and AFCI being mandated, Fresh Princing the outlet doesn't really do anything that the advanced features don't do better. Then there's AFCI that's likely to be incorporated in every single circuit at some point, rather than just the relatively long list of rooms that it's currently required for. You'd likely get far more safety out of making it easier to replace loose outlets that can't retain the items plugged into them any more than flipping them upside down.
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Yes, this is why using HDD is such a good idea and why you need to copy those files to a new drive from time to time as there's new formats available. But, that being said, storage formats for HDD and SSD are pretty stable at this point, you're not likely to be in that position any time soon. You're far more likely to have the disks themselves fail before the lack of hardware to read and transfer them becomes a problem.
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They're going to keep at it as long as we've got candidates that will let them get away with it. The only thing that's going to change it is if they have so few voters that they can't fundraise. It's not even about winning and hasn't been for decades, as long as they're still able to siphon off donor money, this will continue. It's why they don't care about losing to horrible Republican candidates, they can raise even more money like that than if they have good candidates themselves.
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I completely left the Democratic party as a result of them cheating Bernie out of his rightful nomination two elections in a row. And I refused to give Harris a chance because they didn't trust her to be able to win the primary, or even the establishment friendly delegates to choose her. If she's not trusted to win the primaries or the delegates by the people who know here, then I'm definitely not voting for her. And sexist that I am, I wound up voting for Jill Stein, again.
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When Trump is re-elected, he should really thank Pelosi and the Democratic leadership prominently in his acceptance speech because without them, he probably wouldn't have had any hope of winning.
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Why would she make the claim in therapy 6 years in advance of a supreme court nomination that she wouldn't know he'd be up for? And then, why put his friend in the room at the time it was happening? What people at the party said nothing happened, there hasn't been an FBI investigation. And at this point, we should all know that it's a crime to lie to the FBI, but it's not a crime to lie to the press. Plus, they're lying. The accuser hasn't specified in public which part it is that this is alleged to have happened at. So, anybody claiming that nothing happened at "the" party is a liar. Either they're falsely claiming to know that it didn't happen or they're falsely claiming to know which party it didn't happen at. Either way, they're liars. The fact that the GOP is trying to avoid having the FBI do an investigation as part of their background check duties gives reasonable people reason to suspect that the allegations might be credible.
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And yet mayor Pete will wind up in Biden's cabinet or similar.
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That one seemed particularly obvious in its absence and is arguably a more accurate depication of mental illness than some of the things that did make the list. I was also surprised that Pi didn't make the list either.
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@colt5189 Yes, but if you care that much about photo prints, you'll likely either send out for them or get a proper dye sublimation printer. Inkjets aren't really worth the headaches.
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Organic gardening isn't really any better, there's a pretty long list of chemicals that the government allows to be used in the production of organic products. Perhaps for some smaller producers they don't, but it's difficult to grow things that people can actually afford with just genuinely organic methods and supplies. And, some of it, like chemical fertilizers, make precisely no difference in terms of health and only make one in terms of the environment due to pressure to ignore the consequences of unsustainable practices.
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I like how they wen that direction rather than making him Indian Buddha.
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@bgriffininsd Yep, and assuming that Trump cares, and could find an attorney, Devon would just point to the fact that Trump was a convicted felon when the statement was made and as such, isn't liable for anything. That would likely apply even if, for some reason, the conviction got overturned later, so long as no statements were made after that happened.
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What he really needs to do is refuse to accept the results at the convention. We all know that the primary was rigged and there's exit polling data that suggests that there may have been literal tampering with votes. On top of which, the policies that Bernie has been pushing have been overwhelmingly popular regardless of whom won the primary.
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Thank God the really smart establishment Dems are saving us from Medicare for all and actual policies that might help ordinary people.
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This is why testing is so important. Covid can look like a flu or a cold or nothing and without testing it's virtually impossible to know for sure. I personally may have had it months ago, but due to a lack of testing, I don't know if it was the flu, a cold or covid. I'm going to get the antibody test as soon as possible so that I know for sure.
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@dawnbailey4468 Yes, although some justices are more egregious about ignoring the constitution than others are. I'd be more than happen to lose the Democrat nominated justices to get rid of the GOP nominated ones. And, I"d suggest going a step further and require that all nominated justices come off a bipartisan list of acceptable nominees.
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@SoloRenegade Not to mention that the rules about what can and can't be put in which bin is unnecessarily confusing. In a lot of ways, it was easier in the past when we had to separate out the metal, glass and paper from the plastics. At least that way the paper, glass and metal went to the right place with the plastics being a problem. There isn't any consistent way of knowing what can and can't be recycled in terms of plastic due to those stupid sorting machines.
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I think it's partially survivorship bias. The '60s had a massive amount of diversity in terms of the types of songs and types of artists that were releasing music. A lot of them were writing their own stuff and there were a significant number of labels out there. So, while there were a bunch of one hit wonders, the ones that stood the test of time had a lot of competition. The Beatles didn't show up and dominate things with no competition, they had to duke it out with the Beach Boys riding on the back of Brian Wilson's song writing. These days though, the industry execs have a tight rein on all of it and aren't willing to allow the sort of experimentation and competition that might lead to groups that people might want to listen to in 20 years ago. There's only been a bit over a century of recorded music, there's still plenty of space for new music to be recorded that people might like just as much. The industry is just too afraid to give up the control over it.
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This is a life time appointment to the Supreme Court as in he'd be one of the people that gets to decide how the other courts rule on things including sexual assault. Given that once put on the court, he cannot be removed without him either resigning or dying, it's unreasonable to put him on the court if the story is credible. And at this point, the story sounds rather credible. Dr. Ford made the allegation in a therapy session 6 years ago and the therapist has already indicated that the allegation was made. She put one of his friends in the room at the time, which is not something a liar is likely to do. That friend cannot say that it didn't happen as he can't remember. Orrin Hatch has come out and said that Kavenaugh has denied being at "that party" despite nobody indicating which party it was, which means that either Hatch or Kavenaugh are lying and probably both of them. There's also that list of 65 women that they were able to get within 24 hours of the allegations being made public. If you have a list of women that you haven't sexually assaulted, it should not get you off the hook for sexually assaulting a 66th woman. That's crazy There's also the fact that the GOP is refusing to request the FBI to look into the matter. If he's as innocent as he claims, then why not just do what the accuser is asking and have the FBI do a simple investigation to see if Kavenaugh can pass the background check. Yes, he might not be guilty, but he shouldn't be put on the court if we can't be reasonably sure that he's not a sex offender as crimes related to sex offenses will appear before the court. Not to mention the fact that there could be other things that he could be subjected to black mail over.
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@GorgeDawes TBF, the focus of the channel really hasn't changed that much, it's still focused on the law. It's just that the law that everybody is wondering about is tied up in all the illegal and unconstitutional things that a political figure and his political appointees are doing.
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@sharonsparkles7176 Uh yeah, that's why there's this obsession with sexism and racism, it distracts from the much bigger issue of classism. Racism and sexism remain issues, but they aren't on the verge of literally rendering the entire planet uninhabitable.
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Fortunately, the rich will be able to pick up a bunch of real estate for cheap.
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@Ehbfunbcc Whjfhbhjxf No, they didn't. After WWII, virtually all the other countries that previously had manufacturing capacity were set back to square one after the bombing campaigns. They grew up in a time where it was virtually impossible to fail if you were actually trying. These days, there are just fewer opportunities to go around as the Boomers shipped most of the decent jobs offshore and rewrote the tax code to allow the hoarding of ridiculous sums of money. Worker pay hasn't kept up with inflation or GDP growth in roughly 40 years.
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That's been my opinion for a while. There's so much music, even if the music were as good as in the past, you'd still have issues with any band getting enough mindshare to become s shared experience. There probably are better artists now than in the past, but hardly any of them get enough exposure to really resonate the way that groups like the Beatles, Eagles, Nirvana and the like did. People of those generations may not all have liked those groups, but chances are that the songs still bring up personal memories for them. I'd be shocked if there are any groups that manage a similar level of impact now. And that's whether or not they've got any artistic merit.
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@IL_Bgentyl There are enough of them at this point that they make the market. Around here they've bought up a massive portion of the rental market and converted the units into luxury units and then jacked up the rates to match. Everytime that we've locally been close to caught up on demand, there's another wave of internal migration to the area and a bunch more units get converted to luxury units. I'm hoping that with some of the higher paying companies leaving the city in response to having to pay a small percentage tax on the highest wages that it might finally help the market return to some sort of sane set of expectations on what you can expect for rent.
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@andrewkoster6506 Yes, I'm not sure that even the DNC has the ability to rig a primary for a candidate that lost so spectacularly.
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@jp__878 My in-laws come from a formerly rich and powerful family, he's not a patsy, he's just that level of arrogant about his abilities.
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Not to mention the fact that the only 2 nations involved are the US and Israel. Who in their right minds would trust those two governments more than any of the other roughly 190 options.
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Potentially various bars can disbar them if this nonsense continues as the government position on a bunch of this stuff is completely without any sort of merit.
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I'm not voting for either democrats or republicans again, except in cases where there's no 3rd party and they're the challenger. I don't think that hazard pay is asking too much. I'm working harder than I should have to, take on extra work and don't get any hope of assistance when I lost 60% of my hours.
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Absolutely, that is something he could do with a literal signature. The legislation for that is already in effect. As you note, he's choosing not to help people.
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@leyrua It's because there isn't a viable alternative in much of the country because the Democrats have moved further and further to the right. Both Sinema and Manchin were Democrats when first elected, even though neither one of them voted like that on any key issues.
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@JimboJS In this situation, that more or less means copy it. You always need a backup, some method of verifying the files haven't become corrupt and some way of fixing it if they do become corrupt. Using a Par2 utilitly, helps with verifying and error correction. (Basically it creates extra copies with signatures so that you can identify and correct the errors) You can also go with a filesystem like ZFS that has such facilities built in, assuming that you're using a configuration that uses multiple drives for that.
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@TheMemeCommander TBH, every year, it gets harder and harder for me to understand why I should have any faith in voting rather than dressing up like a homeless person and shooting a random exec. I don't personally support such actions, but clearly voting isn't working as the only factor that actually predicts what happens with legislation is the amount of money spent on trying to influence the results.
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I'm pretty sure that Kyle's girlfriend represents big leg, which is why he still doesn't have his.
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They died because they're a logistical headache and not super easy to recycle either. I do think that plastic is going away, unless there's a solution to the recycling and trash issue. Aluminum with a tiny bit of plastic lining is the superior option for most things. Aluminum lasts forever, can be recycled as many times as you like with very little material lost and once it's been dug up and initially processed it takes relatively little energy to melt it down to make some more cans.
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I used to live in China and there's no way that blurring his face would have made much of a difference. Korea is a different country, but I can't imagine that he sticks out any less than he would in the PRC. He may be in more of a tourist area than I was, but there probably aren't that many people live streaming with that skin tone in Korea.
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@crowstray That was what I was wondering about. Wouldn't the standard thing to do here be something along the lines of getting clear of the primary chute before activating the secondary? Which doesn't allow much time. Unless the primary really didn't open and that was a screwed up secondary chute.
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@theoverunderthinker That's entirely possible. One of the unfortunate things about trials where one side is dead is that you don't ever get to the complete bottom of what happened. The moving the truck was a bad idea, as was darkening the basement, but neither is likely to be enough to support a 1st degree murder conviction as they were in his house. The recording and the admission though pretty much guaranteed a guilty verdict.
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@sebastianyarrick2041 No, it wouldn't. Perhaps in the past it would have, but paying somebody to quit their job isn't bribery. Bribery, at this point, is handing somebody a massive bag of cash, labeled as a bribe, for the purposes of them taking a specific action as a result of receiving the bribe. And, I'm not really exaggerating here. Just about anything that one would reasonably assume is a bribe isn't a bribe as the SCOTUS has ruled unless it's so explicitly a bribe as to not have other explanations.
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That just goes to show that they really are being treated like Americans. That is to say with contempt, cruelty and indifference just like anybody else too poor to bribe politicians.
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This is one of the reasons why you should never buy property without title insurance. The insurance company in this case, if there is one, is on the hook to make it right. And with real estate, that can be rather expensive.
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The bigger concern was almost certainly lawsuits. If somebody gets sick after eating that dumpster food there's a fairly good chance that people will be sued. Especially in this case where the people eating the food may not be aware of where the food came from or may have underlying medical conditions.
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LOL, I was wondering where you were going with that until I hit the last few words. Bravo.
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Apparently, the infant died of natural causes, the police know the identify of the mother and nothing is going to happen after this. Which, is really how it should be, apart from the fact that mothers that just lost a child that early shouldn't be in fear of prosecution if they didn't commit any crimes.
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@Bangaboomerang It doesn't, it looks like a helicopter flying without knowing that it was going to collide until it did.
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@generals.patton546 I take it that you think the funniest thing about North Korea is that they're a democratic republic then. It turns out that what you name yourself doesn't necessarily say anything other than that it's your name. The more words like "people", "democracy", "republic", "socialist" and the like in a countries official name, the more likely it is to be the complete opposite.
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Yes and then there were the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis that were killed by militias that we failed to prevent during the ethnic cleansing. We deserve that credit as well.
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I've yet to understand why Gov. Inslee here in WA wasn't pushed during the pandemic as he's done a far better job than those in CA or NY. The main issue I have with Inslee is that he's been lying about how the vaccine is being distributed. He keeps claiming that it's based on likelihood of contracting the virus or getting seriously ill, but grocery workers didn't get vaccinated until after the teachers despite the teachers spending most of the previous year teaching from home and the grocery workers being largely unable to do so. But, teachers in the K-12 system are mostly white women whereas there's far more diversity in the grocery stores and as a result, one group gets bumped ahead before the other. Even if you don't consider the grocery workers deserving due to the likelihood of serious illness, you should be very concerned that the governor opted not to work on that firewall to reduce the spread in the only place that most people need to go.
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That right there is a major part of the problem, at this time it takes these projects decades to go from the planning stages to something that might function. That time will drop a bit in the future as more efficient paths are discovered and less research is needed ahead of time, so, if we did decide to stop funding this project, it probably wouldn't mean that we'd get something online any sooner. With improvements in magnets, the next one will likely be a lot smaller and cheaper to operate, and will probably still benefit from this project.
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Yeah, he's a total tool. Only the most brainwashed Democrats actually think that she's been a good leader when she keeps extracting losses out of victories. Had she taken the deal, Biden may have lost, but it would have forced McConnel to take action of some sort. It might well have saved some of those House races. Or, if McConnel hadn't killed it, people would have gotten help.
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I'm not even sure that it's not even legal to still be attending high school at that age. It's a large part of why the GED was developed. Having adults as students in the same school as high school students is a significant issue for so many reasons.
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@jaredtexter4440 If that's they're goal, they're doing one f-ed up job of it. A broader history that covers the ups and downs of various ethnic groups would be more effective than erasing entire ethnic groups that don't fit the narrative. It would hardly kill anybody to talk about the free black communities of the antebellum south or the experiences of marginalized white ethic groups.
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@warmateo6261 The point is that you avoid the shooter if possible, deny them access to where you're hiding, but if you can't do either of those things, the next thing is fighting with everything that you have available. But, clearly, that's an absolute last option after everything else has been used.
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@MrBUCHO11 That's a fair question. It's because the signals can't travel through the water quickly enough to get a fix. It's the same basic reason that the communications link was so slow, even when working properly.
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He had credibility at some point?
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We need to refuse to vote for any candidate that takes corporate money. Just ignore the policy positions, if they take the money they better not get the votes. And yes, that includes voting for a different party if need be. If none of the candidates do, then write in random people.
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I've heard calls to make it free for all that go, but I haven't heard any proposals for mandating additional years of schooling.
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You're mistake is thinking that Democratic strategists are trying to win. They're strategy is to lose as convincingly as possible, so that people don't realize that they're deliberately throwing elections so their corporate masters still get what they want.
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It probably isn't, the rich and powerful don't even want to pay what the laws they had written say they have to pay. This money wouldn't be hidden if it wasn't supposed to be taxed.
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@jv-lk7bc It's happened a lot in US history, the most commonly recognized would be the various tribes and Japanese, but the Germans and Italians as well were notable cases. And, there's a bunch of other groups that were ethnically cleansed by the US, those were just the ones that were thrown into camps on purpose. The Chinese weren't purposefully thrown into camps as I recall, but did wind up in the US concentration camps during WWII and were subjected to significant race rioting in the latter half of the 19th century. That's not even remotely an exhaustive lists, just some of the more clear cut cases. And it doesn't even count the various Africans that were separated from their cultures to the greatest extent possible to try to prevent them from having dangerous ideas like that being property is wrong. Part of the American experience of coming to the US is being stripped of your culture. It's a much more recent thing where people are allowed to demand that they be allowed to keep their cultures.
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@DBurns2007 This has happened a few times with Lucas connected franchises. Star Wars A New Hope was originally just Star Wars, it didn't get a name change until later.
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When I first heard about this I was curious how they knew that he was the one that did it and wasn't just somebody with a knowledge of the time tables or who had heard from a friend the next town over that a train was coming through and setup a few minutes before it came through. But, apparently there was footage of him actually flipping the switch.
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It's not the media, it's the party and the donors. The media is just picking up on their messaging because they like ad revenue.
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They make enough money to be able to afford bottled water.
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@YanPagh One of the things that sucks most about being Gen X is seeing all the potential we created being pissed away by Boomers that were too greedy to share and Millenials that are too ignorant of history to realize what we've created. It's physically painful for me to see computing technology that's harder to use than when I started using computers nearly 40 years ago. And, no I'm not joking, we had to learn commands, but there weren't random UI changes just to change things.
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@elliotalderson4568 They vary a fair amount, just not on anything that's actually important. They vary somewhat on social issues, but both parties favor the rich and continual war. Sure, the GOP does seem to want more of both, but the Democrats don't really do much in terms of undoing any of that nonsense. So, you get a ratcheting effect where it just keeps going further and further to the right.
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The Netherlands is also incredibly flat. Which makes bicycles an option. Around here we have steep hills that are sometimes more than 20% grade and even the flatter ones are numerous enough to cause problems. The moral of the story is that you have to consider what kind of landscape you have when making your transportation decisions as what works in one place may make no sense in another.
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@jeff86ing Most likely, it's going to be the 2nd Amendment Foundation, they're usually the only other clowns that they can find to quote when they need somebody to be against gun regulations. That being said there are tons of other organizations that advocate for reasonable restrictions on firearms and the other things that the NRA claimed to support.
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Possibly, but by the same token there is a massive catalog of that out there and it's typically public information that doesn't require getting permission to use the way that most other data sets do.
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@littlecoldhands That's also the precise thing that computer spreadsheets were designed to prevent. People used to do that on blackboards. They'd write a value in and then perform calculations to see how it flowed through the board.
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"if you don't like me, you can vote for the other Biden." - Joe Biden
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That's the thing, this isn't even improper. College employees are generally allowed to date and have sex with students. None of the allegations here constitute a violation of collegiate norms or morals. Which is likely a large part of why there wasn't any sort of discipline involved.
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Trolls and panicking? Why would they panic? She is a troll candidate. She dropped out early on in the 2020 primaries, contributed nothing to the ticket and is now apparently going to be the nominee for President. If the Democrats have a candidate that can lose to Trump, it's her. She needs to earn the nomination at the convention, because we can't have a 3rd election in a row where the Democratic candidate doesn't have the support of the voters.
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@dawncollier742 I'm sort of surprised that they don't just close the store to shoppers and just only do pickup orders at that point. Because if anybody does come in to buy something you've got to have an employee there for each and every item they want anyways.
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Possibly, but the people who most need to see this won't actually watch it and if they do, they'll just go back to not caring. The problem would have been solved decades ago if the profit motive for destroying the environment had been addressed. If they were required to clean up after themselves the way that many others are, it would have changed while the necessary measures weren't particularly onerous.
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Isn't that why the law is what it is now with requiring that a police ticket be on the car in order to do anything like this?
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I can't believe that I didn't think of that. I regularly put slices of goat cheese on my pizza and they work just fine. I can see how doing the same with mozzarella would work out. The main issue I see is that if you're going for multiple cheeses, that they might not mix properly.
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If they actually give people the money to pay their bills and get fed, probably not much. Certainly nothing compared with the deaths from allowing the virus to continue to rampage through the population. I personally work at a grocery store and there's no way that we're going to be allowed to stay at home, there just aren't enough national guardsmen out there to distribute food to the entire nation without us and the folks that work our supply chains. But, he should be able to get us PPE, hazard pay and ensure that when we do get sick that we're taken care of. Sadly, no matter what happens, there's going to be essential workers that die in the line of duty and it's an absolute embarrassment that we're not being compensated accordingly. We're not like health care providers that are trained and paid to deal with this. Most of us are making minimum wage or close to it and it's just not enough. Unlike most other workers, we have to deal directly with the public and we're basically cut off from the unemployment assistance that everybody else got as we're essential.
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At that point, this is more or less the old style where customers tell you what they want and you get it for them and ring them up.
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That's like saying that the Russians shouldn't need our permission to visit Alaska. Taiwan is their property according to them, the one China policy is more or less just something we say, it's not something that we're generally acting on. We make lip service to it and ask permission if we're going to go over there in an official policy just because it's the compromise that we've made to let the PRC save face. It's not generally acknowledged in the US, but the PRC has a number of "autonomous regions" including Tibet and Taiwan that are largely governed independently of the greater PRC. Doing something this stupid could easily cause problems not just of the PRC attacking us or our allies, but of sparking an internal civil war as there's a great deal of national regulatory action that is already being ignored by some of the provinces and other provinces are only nominally a part of the country. Not to mention that the whole thing is rather precarious and if the current leader loses the support of the People's Congress, there could well be a bloody struggle to replace him. When he was elevated to his current position, it was only the 2nd or so time that it had been done without bloodshed. And up until then it had been done every 10 years for decades, meaning that it was usually a bloody affair.
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Or women could stop exploiting their bodies for extra tips. This isn't men's fault here, this is women taking advantage of their bodies to make more money. As has been noted, women don't care at all about equality when they're benefiting from the inequality. If women decided that they weren't willing to put up with this treatment in exchange for extra tips, I'm sure this would change within a matter of months. It keeps going because there's enough women that like the money enough to justify putting up with the behavior.
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This is the first ever campaign where the loser gets stuck with the presidency.
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A lot of that is driven by profit margin. Larger more complicated bikes are easier to mark up. A $5k bike doesn't have much room for extra profit margin when compared with a $15k one.
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TBH, I don't think that's good advice. I bought a Synology NAS, a DS220J and it's basically useless. It's so underpowered that just logging in results in the software timing out if 2FA is involved and it barely keeps up with normal transfers rates over the network. I certainly wouldn't recommend buying a NAS from a company that would sell ones that are more or less completely useless.
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And yet we keep letting Fauci talk. He's repeatedly lied about various things. And that's a fact, he keeps having to admit to the lies.
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@Corgiking521 BS, that's only the case because robber barons have gotten used to stealing the proceeds of the labor. Just keeping up with productivity from back in the '70s would yield a wage of at least that much.
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The cops violated that student's first amendment rights. This is a public college and the college cannot prevent students from exercising their first amendment rights. What's more, it's ridiculous for the college to let Mnuchin rescind his permission to publish the video after the fact. The time for that would have been before the talk, not after. He gave permission and the college was under no legal obligation to honor an after the fact change of heart.
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This is typical. They engage in misconduct and then use it as evidence that they need to do something anti-democratic. They win either way.
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I don't really understand why Jared and Ivanka aren't on the hook for the rental of that apartment because they choose not to allow their secret service detail to use one of their bathrooms.
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You're probably right about the delayed gratification, it's one of the reasons why visualizing yourself completing a task can lead to procrastination as the brain itself doesn't know the difference between that and actually completing it. It's often better to imagine yourself doing the work in a way that you enjoy, or at least don't mind so much.
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That's the thing, McConnel is a psychopath that truly cares about nothing other than power and wealth. It doesn't matter how wicked the burns are, they don't translate into action.
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One would think that if you don't support abortion that you'd at least support real birth control and family planning education. Sadly, the folks opposed to abortion are often also opposed to the various methods of making the need less common.
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@pipedesigner I lost out on roughly $30k in income thanks to the pandemic. I don't think $3k in debt relief is asking that much when they were giving out all that money to the unemployed people above and beyond what had been paid in to cover the benefits. Or, the trillions in PPP money that often went to people that shouldn't have it. I think it's interesting how those of us that were in frontline roles whether it's at hospitals or part of the food supply chain only got the crumbs that they couldn't figure out how to avoid giving us, and this one thing that many of us benefit from is a problem.
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@GenerationX1984 Would it have been more acceptable if it was $5 worth of gas to get to work?
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You can thank feminism for women like that. Obviously, nobody has ever held her accountable for her views and the crazy stuff she's saying. Somebody should have told her that the haircut was a dumb idea and that people can have different opinions.
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@coffeedragonstudios TBH, it's a minor inconvenience, if we don't want to watch the ads, there's not much YouTube can do to force us to actually watch them. These days it's not super hard to set up a program to automatically click the mute button before and after the ad so that you're effectively not watching the ad, even though it's being shown. If anything, that's a lot worse for the platform than people being allowed to block the ads completely.
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He's already been impeach, it's the conviction that would have removed him from office as well as cut him off from most benefits of being a former President that were at stake. Obviously, he's no longer in office, so really it's just about the benefits and saying that it's not OK for the President to incite an insurrection in order to maintain power. Since the GOP is signing off on sedition, I'm not sure what a President could possibly do that would be so bad that it would warrant impeachment and removal from office if this doesn't meet the standard.
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Yes, although if you see a very low rating that can be informative at times.
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Exactly, if leaking information about war crimes after seeking redactions from the government isn't OK, then what precisely do we have the media for? Asking about which current popular music act is the most dreamy? Or perhaps getting to the bottom of what shampoo they think will give the most lustrous hair? The media is supposed to do what Wikileaks was doing and the media is going after him because he reminded people that journalists used to actually go after the powerful.
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@Anticrystal88 I think this is why it's so important that companies have HR separated from the party that deals with serious complaints. I remember a job I had a decade back where the HR woman was probably the worst troll I've ever come across, I would not trust that woman to do anything without an ulterior motive. But, the company did have a contract out with a 3rd party to handle those sorts of complaints and as far as I can tell, they were kept confidential to the extent that it's possible. I do think that in general it's best to split HR duties between those that are responsible for ensuring that contact information and benefits are up to date from the person that engages in investigating these matters.
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@itoibo4208 It's rather unfortunate that so many businesses have so little faith in their employees that giving them more than the barest of wages and work conditions is going to lead to them all leaving for other work and cost the company a lot of money. A lot of this is just so petty, things like allowing employees to have a bit of a say in their schedule is often times not expensive to do, it just leads to the crazy idea that they're not chattel.
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One of the things that accountants learn is that you don't have to worry about things that aren't large enough to be material and aren't going to have an impact on the decisions that you make. If it's only a couple bucks you probably don't need to worry about it unless you're in an extremely tight financial situation or those charges add up to something significant.
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@wowwhyisthistaken There's been no surge in ADDers, it's purely a matter of diagnoses being handed out. Up until relatively recently both OCD and ASD were disqualifiers for ADHD. Meaning that if you had OCD, you couldn't receiv and ADHD diagnosis at all, even if it was clearly there. There's also been a lot of inattentive ADHD that was never diagnosed due to it just not being enough of a problem for other people to justify the process being started on our behalf.
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It's because of teaching colleges. I was nearly run out of my program due to my ethnicity. Schools are even more racist than in the past, but if you don't go along with it, you'll be kicked out of school and denied a license. They call it professionalism. Apparently, it's unprofessional to expect to not be abused for being a man with light colored skin.
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He's spit on by his own people because his own people aren't stupid. These aren't lynchings and in most cases the officers doing the shooting aren't even white. What's more, white people remain the most likely people to be killed by police and nobody seems to think there's an epidemic of lynchings of white people by police. They don't think it, because it's a stupid idea. Likewise, police aren't lynching people of color and the facts tend to back that view.
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@Mark Heyne, water doesn't boil at 100C. I know this because I"ve measured it quite a few times and it only comes out when I'm at home. If I go into the mountains, it no longer boils at 100C. You think that the SI units make more sense than the imperial ones do because that's what you grew up with. In reality, they're completely arbitrary and even less intuitive than the imperial measures. If we're being objective about it, both systems are arbitrary, but unlike the SI units, the Imperial measures are based on the human body, so you learn how your body relates to the system and then you can estimate everything in an intuitive way. The Celsius scale is probably the most egregious case of the SI units being worse than the Imperial ones. A person's body temperature is roughly the same no matter where he is in the universe. Granted, the measures were a little off and that probably should be fixed, but water only boils at 100C under standard conditions. Move up the hill and it changes, move to another planet and it changes. And worse is that you don't compare temperatures to those points ever, that's for calibrating thermometers, you compare to your body temperature the way everybody else does.
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Probably nothing as the Supreme Court just legalized far more brazen forms of bribery. If getting rolexes, loans of fancy cars and large credit card debts paid for you isn't bribery, then I'm not sure how anything that the Clinton Foundation did could be considered bribery. I'm leaning more and more towards voting Trump as a big screw you to the Democratic establishment. They keep sending bad candidates for nomination and I don't think anything short of President Trump is going to convince them to start nominating decent politicians.
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It's also worth noting that the only tours of North Korea are state-run tours. The whole thing is highly choreographed and you're not allowed to go anywhere without the permission of the government. I knew somebody who went to NK a couple times and every time you go it's the dear leader's birthday. Even if you come back a couple months later, he has another birthday. Iran also requires you to go around with a minder, but from what I understand, it's much less choreographed than North Korea where literally everything you see or do is fake.
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Not just that, but you lose the sense of progress on these issues. There's still a long ways to go, but if you just ignore previous times, it makes it seem like progress is coming more slowly than it really is.
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We'll, to be fair, he is on his way to becoming a spoon millionaire.
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Or, you just buy the gear and make it yourself. A decent espresso machine isn't that expensive these days. A super automatic espresso machine that does absolutely everything except clean and load itself can be had for under $1k new. And if you don't mind foaming your own milk, which isn't really that hard, you can get one for a few hundred dollars. Which is a bit up front, but when a basic coffee shop coffee is upwards of $5 a cup, it doesn't take that long to pay for the machine and start saving. You can even go the route of simply buying a milk frother and an aeropress and get there in a matter of a few weeks of regular coffees without much reduction in taste over chain espresso drinks.
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@DavidLLambertmobile Otis was also the the man that invented the first practical elevator emergency brake. I would love to be able to go back in time and watch his demonstration of the invention before that crowd. Chopping away at the cable holding him up, only to drop a few inches as the brake kicked in automatically.
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@HowMoneyWorks TBH, there's only so optimistic you can be without becoming completely delusional. WA state is likely to pass rent control regulations in the immediate future, but it's going to be a cap at the lesser of 7% plus inflation or 10%, which is so high as to do little to help as the rate that people's pay checks have been increasing is at best a quarter that.
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Wouldn't surprise me, it's not just motorcycles that are somewhat out of fashion with the youth, it's cars as well. My guess is that there's some degree of connection where an increase in young people just don't see the need to own their own vehicle to begin with. Motorcycles probably are getting hit harder though because of the stigma that comes with riding one. I do think that motorcycles will eventually come back a bit, with future technology making cagers less likely to run over motorcycles and improved guard rails to make it harder for riders to kill themselves on their bikes. I'm kind of looking forward to self-driving motorcycles, even if that's not my preferred way of riding most of the time, it would be nice to hand things over to the bike from time to time to just relax and not have to worry a lot about what's happening.
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Honestly, it's sad. I used to admire him back in the '90s when he had Politically Incorrect, and he ultimately got canceled for acknowledging that he understood why they'd hate us enough to do 9/11. But, he's done a near complete flip since then, and most of what I hear is BS.
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Aida Rodriguez, you should be ashamed of yourself for those comments about Matt Damon. He's absolutely right about the fact that there's a difference between sexual harassment and the various types of sexual assault. I didn't have a choice the first time I was kissed by a girl, but it's incredibly disrespectful to suggest that the times I've been catcalled were the same thing as that or that being forceably kissed is the same thing as being raped. If you can't comprehend the difference, then you madam are the problem. And BTW, I'm a guy, women and girls can be every bit as pervy and abusive as men are, it's just that we haven't as a society really recognized that women are just as responsible for this as men are. We punish men, but for the most part don't punish women that engage in these sorts of acts and acting like this is a gendered issue just muddies the water.
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Keep in mind that it took ages for the Democrats as a party to get on board with same sex rights and a lot of the same politicians out there now, were putting it off and putting it off. I remember when Gravelle back ages ago stood up during one of the debates and unequivocally stated that they were wrong to oppose gay rights and should be allowed all the rights and privileges afforded straight couples. Also keep in mind that even if the allegations are true, none of that is illegal or immoral and it's unlikely that it violates the college's policies. I've worked at a college and we're allowed to date students, in fact I know of at least one married couple that met that way. The only real issue comes when one of the individual holds the ability to control the grades of the other, that would be questionable at best. In cases like that, it's expected to wait until after the grades are in before even approaching a student.
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@ericcarabetta1161 And ensure that the relevant offices are open 7 days a week for people that work to go without taking time off work.
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That wasn't Obama?
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She's a self entitled child. She behaved horribly, but is upset by allegedly mean supporters.
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@MoDeLi370 Definitely, I think the question though is whether this was on purpose or just the usual incompetence and lack of attention to detail that typifies this administration. I also wonder how much of this is the units being responsible for paying for their efforts at the expense of whatever else they might normally be doing.
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@Unknown-rb3ip Just not the people who actually make the decisions about what to ship to Israel and who to prosecute by the ICJ.
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Amber is a national treasure. I'd hate to have her off the show, but she deserves to have her own show.
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Not to mention that Biden isn't going to do much, if anything, to help the people. At least that's what he's promised, take us back to the Obama administration where they failed to do anything to help ensure that everybody has health care and still isn't in spite of a pandemic.
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You got yours, younger workers ma not get ours. And neither party is serious about following through on the promise that was made to us. The big difference is how quickly the money goes away. Biden just a couple months ago signed a law giving federal workers benefits for income that they were never taxed on. It moves the insolvency date forward a few months when they could easily have raised the ceiling on what got taxed to cover the increased expenditure.
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I don't normally agree with Tucker Carlson, but this was something that I already knew and he did excellent research on the topic. There's few, if any, areas left where women aren't doing better in America than men. You pretty much have to resort to things like death during pregnancy to find numbers where women are significantly worse off than men.
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Yes, it's a byproduct of how contract law works. If somebody just sends you something, you haven't agreed to any terms at all, so it must be a gift.
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Because the vast majority of those with student loans aren't the elite. Most of those jobs don't necessarily pay that well, especially with the burden of the remaining student loans.
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The date of 2046 has to do with the expansion plans on the service. I think that's when the last bits of the train system is scheduled to be completed. I wouldn't expect that to be obvious to anybody from outside the area. Also, these searches aren't random on the individual level. They generally have to do the entire train or bus, rather than on an individual basis unless they've seen somebody skip payment.
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@Lam Also, keep in mind that GFCI doesn't provide any protection against arc faults, hence the more recent AFCI breakers that will probably be standard in the US in the future. From what I understand, they're still not super reliable about false positives, but they should create safety that GFCI just doesn't in areas that don't have water.
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Thank you Hillary, you were so smart to cheat Bernie out of his nomination. Because god forbid the American people have guaranteed healthcare treatment.
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That sort of thing is likely the only thing they're useful for other than flying over sports matches. Just about everything that you can do with them can be done with other vehicles that are already being produced. I do think that having them flying over disaster areas and picking up survivors that would normally be done via boat or helicopter is a worthwhile reason to have them, but it's questionable whether that's a better solution than remotely controlled boats.
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If we had a decent democracy Sanders would have won.
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You do realize that a fiat currency is the only kind that would have scaled as the US economy grew over the years since, right? You can't dig up gold indefinitely just because the economy grew. What's more, gold is nearly completely worthless in cases where the economy collapses. Things like medical supplies and ammo are far more likely to be in demand than gold. At best, gold is a marker of status and a way of temporarily storing value. It's certainly not a practical means of trade in the modern era where we have other options.
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@Austin.Kilgore IKR, a harness with a couple carabiner would pretty much completely eliminate that particular risk, it would just make the whole climb take a lot longer. I'm not sure that going that route is really worth it, but that would eliminate the risk.
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If Biden is the nominee, he's going down in flames. I won't vote for him, and I doubt I'm the only one. Whether we vote for Trump, write something else in or just refuse to vote, it's going to tip things for Trump and the GOP.
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We know that, the more relevant question is why it was flying where it wasn't supposed to be and what could be done in the future to prevent it.
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Pramila Jayapal is not a progressive, she still takes corporate money, she voted for Pelosi as Speaker of the House, failed to make a stand on any of the pandemic relief bills to help ordinary people and in general has been a disappointment as our representative. In fact, I voted for the Republican opponent because she's such a failure as a representative.
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Even cities like Seattle that aren't strictly speaking lines, but are longer in one way than the other due to the local geography have issues that aren't easily solved. Yes, you can put all the necessary bits of life in neighborhoods, but you do need to get things to and from those neighborhoods and if all the neighborhoods are sharing the same road, that's going to be a disaster.
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In all fairness, it's not the USPS' fault that congress deliberately sabotaged them. They're required by law to deliver all first class mail for the same price anywhere in the country, which was always the case. But, there are a bunch of regulations with respect to having to fully fund all future retirement obligations and the like which normal companies don't have to do. The result is that they've had to cut costs by a lot and there's only so much cutting you can do without it negatively impacting service.
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Yes, I've seen a couple people on chemo and it pretty much destroys the body. If you're lucky, the chemo will destroy the cancer before the body is so destroyed that you can't continue, but chemo is hard. It's hard to say what would have otherwise happened, but it's completely disgusting that not only did they not give her any time off, but they also wouldn't allow people to donate their paid time off to her.
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My wife keeps getting tricked like that, and every time I ask her why she still buys from them, she won't answer the question. I've stopped buying from Amazon in pretty much all cases just because of how horrible they are for the economy. But, even if I don't buy from them, I still get packages that come in their packaging. It's a serious problem if you don't want to give them any money, as you often times don't get a choice.
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Arguably, we're already there at the Federal level, we get to choose from a small list of candidates that are approved of by the elites and nobody else wins with enough frequency to matter. The state and local level isn't as bad, but we're far further along the way than many realize.
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@annakingry9157 TBH, I think that if Jesus did suddenly show up, he'd be immediately crucified for being insufficiently Christ-like.
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Not to mention that she's not even trying to get anything for essential workers. Not to mention all the other people she's only slightly mote interested in.
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We know that the fire truck illegally tried to cross the crossing when the gate was down. What we don't know is if drugs were involved, inadequate rest or a distraction led to the attempt.
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It is, but keep in mind that these are people with experience on the prosecution side that can potentially be involved in lawsuits against the government.
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IQ is somewhat problematic because the highest performers on the tests are often not the highest performers in the real world. Those are often the people that have slightly lower IQs. It's also typically a very narrow test of intelligence that tends to increase self-esteem and decrease the willingness of the individual to take on the sorts of risks that would lead to higher achievement in order to preserve the position of authority.
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@ronaldmcdonald3965 It's mostly convenience, there's a Starbucks just about everywhere, so you can always agree to meet somebody at Starbucks and usually not have to go too far to find one. It's also a very consistent experience. Obviously, there are plenty of places that have better coffee and you can do it even better for yourself, but it takes a certain amount of arrogance to not be able to see why they're so successful. They give the elements of the experience that typical people want and since most people haven't had really good coffee anyways, it's not that hard to keep them happy. For most people, they're looking for a bit of a buzz to get them through the day, they're not paying for something where they can sit down and sip the coffee and really appreciate the flavors in the cup.
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@WhiteRaven___ He's not too bad, but SNL is a bit of a ringer which is part of why anybody with any other prospects only stays around for a few seasons. There's only been 10 featured cast members on for 10 or more seasons and the next longest length was Darrel Hammond at 14 seasons. I don't have a particular issue with him, but it does seem like he should have moved on years ago if for no other reasons that to let the show grow and evolve.
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@william3100 Umm, what? If you've got a wheel that's designed to do things like go over curbs, it's going to be put on a wheel chair, that's one of the more obvious uses for it.
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@maximyles Yes, the issue there is that you can't count on knowing when the next train is coming. Best thing is to call the relevant number at the crossing and notify whomever it is that's managing the train traffic that there's a breakdown on the tracks so that they can warn any trains coming down the line to slow enough to stop if necessary. Presumably, they'd also be able to arrange for a tow truck to move the vehicle off the tracks just to clear up the line again.
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A $50 surveyor's wheel likely would have identified the lot being off as well. They didn't do even the bare minimum of effort to get it right and they deserve far worse than this.
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Honestly, it's not dangerous. Quicksand is more dense than a person is, the absolute worst case scenario is that you get stuck and can't get out. More likely, you'd be stuck and it could take ages to get out on your own. As long as there's somebody nearby, you've got nothing to worry about.
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He was the only actually likeable or relatable person on either ticket.
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@Smileyassassin47c That gets a little complicated, usually, US companies are not subject to EU rules, however, the EU doesn't necessarily take that view in some cases, which makes it kind of dicey as to whether it's worth risking or not. So, some American companies will just go along with GPDR regulations, even if they don't technically have to because neither them nor the visitor is in the EU just to avoid the risk of having issues in the EU.
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I work at a grocery store and all that stuff is organized by some sort of a category and placed where people are likely to impulse by it. So, you get collocations of items that are placed near each other. It's why there's usually tartar sauce by seafood and wherever the rest of the sauces are in the store. Those are the two places that people are most likely to go and also most likely to see it an be inspired to buy the rest of the related products. You can do the same by putting items required for the same task together in a box, so that you just put them back into the box while you complete the project, then put the box away where it belongs when you're done for the time.
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@Dave5843-d9m And yet, they have crashes that no human driver would have, for example crashing into emergency vehicles on the side of the road or running over motorcyclists in the lane ahead of them because they have no way of accurately assessing the distance of vehicles that don't take up the entire lane. Or running into a jersey barrier at an exit off ramp because it's too stupid to know that there's an offramp there. As a result, they should not be allowed on the road with autopilot until such a time as they can meet such basic safety requirements as not running into things in other lanes and not running into things in the same lane.
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@l.baughman1445 That right there is the issue. There's plenty of lawyers when the standards for guaranteed representation are so low. Simply being present physically, even if the attorney has Alzheimer's or some other issue is considered good enough. And there's no legal requirement at all if you are dealing with civil proceedings.
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That's what makes fauxgressives like Jayapal such a disappointment. She represents Seattle and she still backed Pelosi for Speaker and still failed to make any meaningful attempt at getting help for the people in those relief bills. If a district like that can't elect a real progressive, then we've effectively lost already.
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Also, keep in mind that what a jury gets to do is pretty limited. It is crucial, but they pretty much just get to weigh the facts and the arguments provided, and then look at the law that the judge provides and decide which, if any, laws were broken and what the sentence for that should be. Juries definitely can go rogue for one reason or another, but counting on that when the evidence justified this outcome is asking for trouble.
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Because medical science involves other people in the process. We're not talking about requiring people to use the pronouns based on their sex, we're talking about whether it's permissible for the medical providers to provide treatments that haven't been determined to be medically appropriate at this time. There's scant evidence to demonstrate that this care actually improves outcomes the way that using people's preferred name and pronoun do. What's more, we've got researchers refusing to release their articles because it fails to support the use of gender affirming care for minors.
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@mrwascallyt9865 TBH, that doesn't mean much, before somebody takes the stand there's typically depositions where the attorneys ask a ton of questions, the ones on with the witness on the stand are typically either some of the ones that had been asked or are a response to questions that the opposing counsel asked. So, for her to claim not to know credibly is unlikely as she would have had to have already answered that question for the attorney to know to have the particular statement prepared to enter into evidence as her acknowledgement would likely be sufficient.
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That assumes that he's going to hit Biden. Bernie needs to start going after Biden and stop being so nice. The alternative is Trump 2020. Bernie needs to start harping on Biden's inability to speak, know where he is and has no plan to improve the lives of the people.
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It's a risky strategy to fix the primary for a candidate that was deeply involved with causing most of our problems and thinks what he had been doing is laudable. If he wins it's completely because people were voting against Trump, but it will be interpreted like he has a mandate for whatever crazy things he wants to do.
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I weigh 205#, but I'm also a rather large man. When I was that age, I weighed roughly 84#, perhaps this embarrasment will lead to some awareness of just how obese she is. I personally would not want to be allowed on a ride if I wasn't within the engineers' intended specifications. What does he want, for her to be seriously injured?
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I'm glad that the weather doesn't normally get that high up here. But, you're not joking, even in the 90s, you still have to take it seriously. Make sure to drink plenty of electrolyte infused water and probably throw on winter gear. Bonus points if it's something that can be soaked in water for some extra cooling power.
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I'm sober and it's already a lovecraftian horror with that hand where it's head should be.
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Yep, the headrest was the reason that I barely slept the last couple times I flew. Without the headrest, my travel pillow would have done a perfect job of cradling my neck so that I could sleep. It would be nice if they at least made it either removable or to adjust how far it protrudes over the back.
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@anon_rah01 You think that cashier that could have been injured was a legitimate target? Or the shopper standing right next to that guy that was shopping? War is extremely messy, but one of the expectations is that there will be at least some consideration made to avoiding unnecessarily harming civilians and other noncombatants. Something that Israeli regularly ignores while trying to claim the high ground of not being terrorists.
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We wouldn't have gotten to this point if we had a real opposition party. There were so many chances over the last 30 years to prevent what's going on now and the Democrats chose to turn a blind eye to it.
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I'm surprised they were wiling to diagnose both bipolar and schizophrenia, usually that would warrant a schizoaffective disorder diagnosis.
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@P_RO_ It's state by state, around here that's not the case, we get a choice of whether or not we want/need one that's compliant. Other states, have opted that they're less concerned with undocumented residents driving without a license than having their ID not prove legal residency or citizenship. The whole business of the Feds getting to dictate this is pretty ridiculous. It's a driver's license and if you need to prove citizenship or legal residency, there are other documents for that. Most, if not all, states put a bar code or similar on their driver's license which makes it extremely fast for federal offices to verify the status of the people with the possessed ID.
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@DarkWolfsDen I wouldn't have. He prepaid for $20 and that's all the gas that should have been dispensed. The contract there is $20 for $20 worth of gas. If there was more dispensed, then it's up to the station to either let it go or siphon the extra back. Had they got the cops involved, I would have reported them for fraud and extortion. They can't force you to pay for gas that you didn't agree to buy and unless they have some method of siphoning it back, its to bad for them. Threatening to bringing in the cops to get the extra money is ridiculous.
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@wesjohnson3035 They should be thankful. Dandelions are a blessing. They break up the soil and add calcium to it. Plus, they make for a pretty decent salad green. If it's enough dandelions to be an issue, then perhaps run an aerator through the lawn and add a bit of calcium while that's being done.
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@NathanTeaches Of course it's not a zero sum game, but the reality is that there's a ton of interest in solving these things when it benefits women, and much less interest when women benefit from inequities. Ideally, folks would care whenever unequal distributions exist due to the way the system is constructed.
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That person is a national hero and should be awarded a medal for it.
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No, one of the responsibilities of schools is to ensure that students going there are taught how to conduct themselves in society. As noted in the clip, doing this at work would likely get somebody fired, and doing it off work time might prevent you from being fired either. The first amendment does not apply to conduct related to a school in this context. They should have been given an in school suspension and forced to write a report on the Nazis and the holocaust. The flipping out is because we have actual literal Nazis that have been emboldened to own it in the public view. We even have a neo-Nazi US Representative at this point.
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@christiner2472 Why? Around here we can vote early and by mail. Most states have some combination of early voting and vote by mail as options. The real issue is that the options suck because the parties get too much say in which candidates are allowed to run in their primaries. On top of that, you've got gerrymandering so that the Democrats need to a couple extra points of support just to have the votes to see it impact the legislative process.
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@bremblepate-oc2vc The issue here would be the insurance commissioner and the fact that providing proper insurance for this sort of thing in FL is unaffordable. That being said, most people are not able to afford to self-insure anyways, doing so is incredibly expensive.
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TBH, I have a hard time feeling too much for him and I regularly feel roughly as bad that people go to prison for crimes as I do for the people they victimized. It just goes to show just how grotesque some of these executives have gotten and why Obama was such a loser for not whipping the votes in his caucus to get a public option. The lack of a public option, along with the states that opted not to expand medicaid are a significant part of why health care costs continue to spiral out of control
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That explains that. I was wondering how they'd get the mining company involved in this mine if it were an old mine.
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@Taladar2003 Hand counting the home coming ballots is fine, but this is the 21st century, there's no reason why any developed nation should be hand counting ballots when optical scan systems exist. Hand counting should only be for ballots where more judgment is required or possible as a recount.
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We also could have had rubber bands. That would have been a better choice.
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@youtubian2500 It's going to be screwed up. Neither Harris nor Trump should win, but that's the choice that most people are making. I had 8 other options on my ballot of people to vote for, but it'll be Trump or Harris, most likely Harris that carries the state despite having done absolutely nothing to earn the votes.
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Yep, it's kind of astonishing how little Gen X got to be the focus of things. I remember everything being "extreme" during the '90s and that was about it. We got one Presidency, and possibly just one as time goes forward, and he didn't do anything to help address any of this. Other than that, there hasn't been any point where we've gotten to be in charge as the Boomers have largely sucked the air out of the room and by the time they're gone, the Millenials will likely have the numbers to take charge.
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@nonyabisness6306 Yes, and it blows people's mind that Marx's version of socialism is more capitalist than what the US currently has.
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@TheInkPitOx It's not uneducated it's AAVE in which the double negatives are a legitimate grammar construct and oftentimes not using them is grammar mistake.
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lol, cue the incoming dildo fail videos.
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Possibly, but I doubt it. Given how horribly the IDF has bombed the crap out of the area, I do think that there's reason to have some sincere gratitude for protecting the hostages from Israeli aggression long enough to be released. IN the long run, the truth will get out regardless of what that truth is. But, it wouldn't surprise me if the letter is more truth than fiction.
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Biden barely has the ability to find the podium, and we're supposed to believe that he could put a hit out that came this close to working? I'm sorry, but who out there believes that Biden has that level of competence? Seriously, he thinks Trump is his VP.
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@craigewen7542 Look at what the Israeli forces did in response and do every time there is any effort to fight back against their oppression. Israel isn't exactly innocent in all of this.
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That's my guess, either that or some other ultrawealthy retreat.
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That's a good question and the answer is probably. Sometimes stores and galleries will take work on consignment and basically just handle the display and sales transaction in exchange for a cut of the proceeds. But, I'd imagine that in this case that they had bought the painting as this is a lot of money to put on the line over something that's on consignment where they've just lost a bit of potential revenue and possibly reputation if it turned out to be real.
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@cecesoclean4591 When I was younger and started to invest, you needed to have literally thousands of dollars in order to open an account without paying fees for doing so. You would then pay fees every time you wanted to trade and you'd be required to know how to set up a portfolio and what to invest in. Compare that with today where there are financial tech firms that will take as little as $10 and invest it for you in a diversified portfolio. They're willing to take as little as $5 (or less) a month and invest and balance the account as circumstances dictate without requiring much from the end user. It's super-easy, barely an inconvenience. References to other channels are tight.
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@hugogomez9228 Not really, many parents do a shit job of ensuring that the older child is still being taken care of and the standards are frequently much lower for additional siblings. Unfortunately, the eldest often winds up being stuck helping to raise the little shits on top of no longer being alone. And on top of that, the younger siblings are often times not punished for much of anything.
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@cocoacoolness That's how it's supposed to be in the US as well, but the rules haven't been well enforced and there's a major disincentive to reporting violations by the interns.
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This is why I'm no longer a Democrat. I won't be giving them a single cent until they start representing the voters.
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If any other candidate had been nominated, the Democrats would have a massive and very compelling weapon against Trump. Instead, they chose to ignore the voters and rig the primary in favor of the most senile candidate they could find.
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It's not the Democrats either, it's nonvoters and independents. Oddly enough, neither party seems interested in earning votes from nonvoters.
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@Roxor128 I think that's the issue I have with this. During the '80s and the '90s and the '00s and the '10s, I don't really remember referring to the current decade as being whichever one of those it was at the time, but we did refer to previous decades as such. There was a little bit of awkwardness in terms of how to refer to the '00s as it was the turn of the millennium but also as I personally prefer the naughties. From time to time, I hear people use this is the '90s as a sort of short hand for it being the modern era, but I don't remember any period of the last 40 years where I thought about the current decade as much as previous decades just because until you hit the end of one decade, or at least somewhere towards the second half, it's hard to really say what the decade really is. And arguably, what we think of as being a decade is more likely to be offset by about 5 years. The bigger issue is that in a lot of ways the music that is the backdrop to all of this has stagnated. A lot of people don't even remember what music they were listening to and quite frankly, most of it sounds pretty samey as there was a prolonged period where Dr. Luke and Max Martin wrote most of the hits and the music industry consolidated to the point where you didn't have the sort of variety that we had even in the '90s.
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@brandonleesmith1989 Yes and without a constitutional amendment, this is the last term he gets. Assuming he doesn't die of cardiovascular disease in the meantime.
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Yes. In an ideal world the allegation would have been made at the time so that it could be properly investigated and possibly prosecuted if the evidence was there. But, it does look like the allegation is credible and even if he is confirmed, this is going to be a cloud that looms over every and all case that the court takes related to women's rights and sex crimes. The only reason he's this far into the process is that the GOP is hell bent on getting the President off the hook no matter what damage it does to our country.
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He was on the same vote blue no matter who train as the other people that destroyed our Democracy were. In general, I like this channel, but it was a bit much to shame men into voting for Harris when there wasn't any effort to earn the votes by offering us things that we might want. It was about the impact it would have on other people. And quite frankly, a lot of us are tired of being expected to vote against our own interests because the stakes are so high. The stakes are high every election. Reagan's election resulted in many thousands of unnecessary HIV related deaths. GHWB had the first war in Iraq. Clinton spent most of his administration fighting various scandals related to his dealings and eventually his sex life while delivering very little to benefit the regular people as they fell behind. GWB failed to stop 9/11 and then created a massive war where hundreds of thousands Iraqis were killed in ethnic cleansing, the number may even have topped a million, as the US disbanded their military and failed to ensure there were troops on the ground to prevent the subsequent revenge and recriminations. Obama, basically did fairly little, although he did manage to get a watered down version of the Heritage Foundation's health care plan enacted, but failed miserably to get the US out of Afghanistan. And then, we all remember what happened with Trump in 2016. The fact of the matter is that the Democrats don't care about what the results are because the consultants that make the decisions are paid either way, and there's never any punishment for failure the way that there is in the GOP.
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That's a common practice. They claim to do it because larger checks tend to be things like rent. But, coincidentally, it also means that they get to rack up the most possible overdrafts doing it in that order.
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@Ray__E Let's also remember the amount of wealth represented by the passengers, if they wind up not surviving, which is highly likely, they were killed by their own cheapness. There's definitely a morality play in here. Being so very wealthy, but not paying for the equipment that could do this at a reasonable risk level.
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As much as I hate Mayor Pete, it would be more appropriate to blame Richard Nixon as he was President at the time that the bridge was designed and construction began.
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Well, that really is the point. Why does anybody that's not trans or in a relationship with a trans person even care. It really doesn't concern the rest of us. So many of these issues are non-issues, they're mostly issues because people figured out they could make a buck pushing them.
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Yes, pranks are things like what you'd see on Candid Camera or Just for Laughs. They're things that are actually rather clever and just result in people being somewhat bemused and confused about what they're seeing. Also, I'm pretty sure that they get releases from anybody that does get featured as part of the segment. If YouTube would even just require a waiver from the people featured in the videos it would put a significant damper on the most dangerous "pranks."
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@Soundsofthewood If you think banning those weapons would make it harder to overthrow the government you're clearly not a veteran and clearly no idea what's on the military arsenal.
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I've been experimenting with what I like to think of as task boxes. They're basically just a box with all the necessary things for a commonly done task. I can immediately put all that stuff into the box, and if I don't immediately put the box where it belongs, it's large enough and fast enough to deal with that it's not much of an issue. It's still an experiment, but it doesn't take me much motivation to put the things into the box that's sitting right next to me. But it does take a little bit to put the box away when I'm done. But, even if I don't put it away immediately, it's still contained and I could put away dozens of them in a short period of time if I had to.
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This is why we have to admit that the Democratic party is every bit as much the enemy of the people as the GOP is. They'll capitulate whenever there's anything actually important. Sure, they'll fight for abortion rights and other things that don't really matter that much, but on anything important, they'll give in immediately. Assuming they don't offer more than the GOP wants in the first place.
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@sm5574 Sort of, it's apparently a requirement for file explorer, but you can opt into using it, which is complete garbage. It shouldn't be on the computer at all if you don't want it. I'm old enough to remember when Windows used to let you just not install a bunch of stuff when installing rather than having to manually use 3rd party software to remove things you never intended to use. Granted, disk space is cheaper now than it was then, but it's still our disk space, we shouldn't have it filled up with stuff like that which we know we'll never use.
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He's mostly correct, the part he missed is that Osama bin Laden's goal was to get the US out of Saudi Arabia. But, he won virtually every other count.
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@p2p104 One of the great failings of the Great Recession was that none of the bankers involved went to prison. Until the C level executives have to worry about prison time from these sorts of shenanigans, it'll keep happening as it's not exactly the best and the brightest that wind up running banks.
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@IronHorse1854 Yes, at bare minimum if you're on the ground, that's one portion of the body that's not being directly exposed to the necessary oxygen to keep the fire going .If you can smother wider patches, then all the better. But, it does definitely decrease the amount of oxygen over all versus running and I wouldn't doubt that it makes it easier for people with fire extinguishers or even fire resistant clothes to smother the flames.
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That was one of the issues I had at the previous job I had. You get a tiny amount of extra money, no power to make anything happen, and a bunch of people above you on your ass because of things not being done, but there's no resources or power given to the manager to make it happen.
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This is just temporary. This likely will get to them again later on, that's when I'd give them credit, or more likely blame.
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I saw the bagel order coming and still laughed my ass off.
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@j10001 We could cut the military budget in half, or even by 75% and still have plenty of defensive capabilities. We currently spend more than the next 10 countries do, simply cutting it to the point where we're only spending double the next country would probably be more than enough.
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It can't be taken over, it must be discarded completely. It's not that long ago that the DNC more or less had the GOP on the ropes, but managed to incompetently fumble that away, so we got more of this bullshit rather than a choice. If this keeps up much longer, there's going to be armed resistance popping up as it's pretty clear that voting does nothing.
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Even without that, the fact that they hadn't taken any steps to enforce a ban in all those years is something. Most businesses won't enforce a permanent ban just because of how much of a hassle that can be, especially given that if they haven't seen the person in a year or two, they may not be recognizable and there may not be any witnesses available if they need a witness to testify to the records in case of further issues.
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It depends what they set it to. My motorcycle has a rev limiter to protect the engine, but it's set high enough as to not be an issue. I would want to see more actual details before being opposed to it. A limit that's over 100mph is unlikely to impact anybody that's not engaged in criminal activity.
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It's horribly inconsistent and you need to have clouds for it to have any hope of working.
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Not just that, but you don't typically save any time by tailgating. You can't drive through the car ahead of you. At most you might be delayed by cars that are changing lanes in front of you.
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Thank you Hillary, the GOP couldn't have done this without you.
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Ouch, and yet people out there have had even worse years. It's truly stunning.
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That's rather ridiculous. So, they won't allow cases involving National Security Letters or the No Fly List for lack of standing, even though people have a legitimate reason to be fearful of it. But, in this case, the existence of the law and being afraid of it are enough? And some people wonder why the court has lost its status.
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@jeremykothe2847 Yes, he's one of the most important scientists of the 19th century, which is arguably one of the most productive periods in science ever.
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Not true, the info was redacted and the intelligence agencies had the opportunity to influence what was released to the public.
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I didn't realize that she still had a career outside of The View.
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There's going to be even more legal issues if that new driver gets into some sort of a crash and doesn't have a title on file with the state.
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@jamesirwin7677 TBH, I think he should have worked a deal with Tulsi weeks ago to be his VP pick if he wins the primary. She could and would have gone after Biden for all this stuff that Bernie is too weak to go after him for. Hell, she had that lawsuit against Hillary for claiming she was a Russian Asset. It was never going to go anywhere, but she's clearly got the necessary balls to do what needs to be done during the campaign.
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Yes, and that's a real problem. If the cops are called during the initial break in, that's something that they can and do arrest people for. If the cops aren't notified until after they've already moved in, they'll often try to treat it as if it's a civil matter, even if the squatter had to break and enter before changing the locks.
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@sandrahedlund4214 You see the same basic thing with unemployment claims, there's inadequate oversight of the hearings that are done to ensure that the adjudicators are actually remaining neutral.
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@christophed8429 Yes, although it's worth noting that it's mostly because we let a bunch of MBAs with no understanding of how businesses actually operate to call most of the shots. And they make decisions based on trying to sell the business to a 3rd party in many cases.
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Yes, the police benevolent society stickers are one thing, they may play a minor role in terms of them knowing what sort of person the driver is likely to be. But, I'd also wager it can cut both ways as it could also signal a spoiled brat behind the wheel that might talk back and cause problems as well. But, these cards are next level.
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It's not about whether they deserve it or not, the pay often does not cover the cost of living without the tips. Tips are generally a situation of the employer handing off responsibility for paying the workers directly to random strangers that are not required to tip employees.
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To be fair, he can't figure out how a black man isn't in prison as a result of his crime bill.
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The problem is that the jury is only allowed to use the law that the judge gives them. The sole role of the jury is to weigh the evidence and see if the prosecution/plaintiff has made its case. If they did decide to vote not guilty, then this wouldn't have gotten to the appellate court and ultimately the highest court in the state. Now, there is precedence that other attorneys can use if the situation happens again. If juries nullify the charges, then it's whack-a-mole where every jury has to nullify it or people wind up going to prison over blatantly unconstitutional things. It sucks for those that are wrongfully convicted and have to hope that it gets fixed on appeal, but there isn't really a better way of addressing these things.
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That doesn't seem fair. How is Biden supposed to compete with facts?
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@fmccloud I don't know about you, but I'm looking forward tot he Lambo I was promised to agree that this is fraud rather than extortion.
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@HiloBoiz808 That's not accurate information, you would have to be eating far more fruits than people typically would before that's an issue. Yes, they are sweater, but most fruits have enough water and fiber to make it a non-issue in the quantities that people normally eat. Plus, there are a bunch of vitamins and minerals in fruits, it's hardly in the same category as candy the way that you're implying.
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He remembered that it's easier to rebrand a swamp to a "water hazard" and make money collecting the balls that fall in.
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I think it's more accurate to say that most Americans refuse to vote because neither of the major parties bothers to go out and earn their votes with policies that they want. We won't get 100% of eligible voters to vote ever, even countries that do have 100% participation, don't have 100% engagement, they have a bunch of people nominally voting to vote.
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I think over time, there's more interest by Americans in terms of getting to experience other cultures in a way that's a bit more authentic, but I'm sure that is a long ways off. I wonder how many of the "Canadians" that people see abroad are just Americans that have manners and don't want to deal with the guilt by association of the jerks.
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Yep, I upgraded from 11 to 10 pretty much immediately upon buying this computer, and only because it was under warranty and having Windows makes it harder for them to try to invalidate the warranty if something happened. Now, it's got Linux as the primary OS and 10 is just there in case.
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If only he had taken things seriously when the Garland nomination was being obstructed and RBG had had the integrity to recognize that she was too old to ensure that she could survive the next term. These people expect to be rewarded for their poor planning and lack of integrity.
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@JadusMoltriel A big part of the problem is that the community is trying to skip the actual work that's involved with building a large enough coalition to have a bigger say in what goes on. If the community can't articulate why we should be ignoring what little medial science exists on this topic, then the community doesn't deserve a say. We know from research that pronouns do have an impact, we also know that gender affirming care doesn't appear to have a measurable impact in kids. If the community can't justify why kids need to be given care that may not be reversible in spite of a lack of any research findings demonstrating that there's irreparable harm in waiting, then they really need to think about whether they're on the right side of this particular issue or not.
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Yeah, I'm curious how agreeing to those terms would be permissible. You have to waive your 1st amendment rights in order to exercise them? Who thought that was going to fly.
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Master/slave is somewhat problematic as it wasn't a particularly accurate description of how the devices function. Black listing versus white listing is just plain asinine though, there's nothing particularly problematic with it. From what I've seen, the term predates most of the reasons people might have for being opposed to it.
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@williammarsales254 Why? He did the thing that he got convicted of.
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That's normal, they are a Chinese company operating out of China, the US courts wouldn't have any sort of jurisdiction over the company. At absolute best, you might be able to get a court order seizing the goods that they are shipping to customers, which just leads to its own set of problems as those people would then be without their items, or there might just not be anything to be seized.
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Thumbs down, this isn't a gendered issue. You think I liked getting catcalled by 70 year old women, or made to feel uncomfortable by women trying to get me to hit on them? Or trying to snag kisses? This isn't a gendered issue and treating like it is is deeply problematic.
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His mother was a Democrat, so I doubt Fox TV was blasting 24 hours a day. IIRC the father was an independent or libertarian, so there was probably some exposure there. Not to mention that he was 20 at the age of the shooting and subsequent shooting death, that's plenty of time to get sucked into the conspiracy stuff without parental involvement.
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I cracked up when he mentioned his choice of weapons. Not only does it require two hands to operate, but the length of it makes it a challenge to use on his other hand.
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@ralfgockel2656 Raising prices for water, is likely going to have to be part of the solution. I'd imagine that people would get a certain amount at a reasonable rate and above certain cutoff points the price would rise substantially to discourage further use. Ideally, some of that money would be used on conservation efforts to waste less water.
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I worked through the pandemic after having to take out a student loan to cover the last bit of tuition after I had to switch degrees due to the pandemic screwing things up. I didn't get any hazard pay because the Democrats didn't even try after they took control of 2 of the branches of government. I didn't and still don't begrudge the extra money that went to the unemployed, but it seems fundamentally unfair that I was working in a grocery store for nearly the entirety of the pandemic and I only got a little sliver of hazard pay due to the city I live in requiring it. I didn't even get access to vaccination until after the teachers did, even though they were able to work from home for much of the pandemic and make a lot more than I do. The debt relief is a little something for a lot of us that didn't get any help that wasn't available to everybody. Sure, the interest and payment free period has been somewhat helpful, but it doesn't really make up for the cost of living increases and missing out on help that most other people got.
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Chris Seib In other words, you lack the intelligence to form a cogent argument and are lashing out because you're not bright enough to do anything else.
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The thing is that she's speaker because she's one of the best at fund raising. It's not because she's a good politician or has anything of value, it's because she's capable of raising large amounts of money.
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That's something that people whose IQ wasn't as high as they wanted say. The truth is that for what IQ is intended to measure, it does a fine job of it. The problem comes when you try to use it for things other than predicting success in school. A person's IQ is going to fluctuate on a daily basis depending upon how their brain is doing on that day. If you get a bad night sleep, you're not going to do as well as if you had been sleeping well. IQ itself does get over stated, I tend to believe that a moderately high IQ is more useful than one that's actually genius caliber, but bad mouthing IQ doesn't impress anybody.
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+Darrel Sutterfield, liar. The Democrats did it for lower level appointments due to the GOP's unprecedented obstinance. The GOP had an obligation to let Garland have his hearing and chose not to anyways. The GOP had no right to fill this seat, this seat was Obama's to fill.
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Only if they aren't afraid of the FBI arresting them for violations of the DMCA.
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Before Warren started those unfair attacks on Bernie, I would have thought she would be a good VP pick. But, between that and selling out on the issues and funding, there's no way that she'll be a VP pick.
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@darkjanggo I like how pointing out that it's such a missed opportunity when they could have gone with French Canadians or some other group.
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Arguably, Fallon should have been off the air before he even started. He sucks. Colbert has sold out, but at least he was, is and will be funny.
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Edward J Things like this are why nobody takes southerners seriously. It's been over 150 years now and you people still can't admit that the civil war was over slavery and the shame of having that symbol tied into your regional identity.
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What makes me uncomfortable is that it's installed and can't be uninstalled, so they can enable it at any time if they want to and hope that people won't notice.
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Yep, at this point, the only reason for anybody to run Windows is if you've got a proprietary program that doesn't have an acceptable alternative and can't be run under emulation. Those products do exist, but they've gotten increasingly unusual in recent years.
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Yes, would it have been that hard to just have the FA say that they were looking for adults to deplane to address the situation? And if it came down to forcing somebody off, indicating that it was just adults that would be deplaned and to tell the flight crew if they accidentally chose a minor? I don't know how often this has happened in the past, so this might be a novel situation where the flight crew didn't know, but it's still a bad look and something that shouldn't be blamed on the girl or her parents.
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Yes, but it shouldn't be surprising at this point. The establishment Dems have been more concerned with earning Republican votes than with delivering for their alleged base. You've got geniuses like Schumer that are against the checks, even though those checks will likely make a huge impact for the numerous people who are losing hours, but not eligible for unemployment. I tried to get unemployment, but when I had my hearing with the "arbitrator" it was clear that the arbitrator was effectively an employee of the former employer. Extensions should be in addition to the checks, not instead of them.
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@oliviav.3565 He doesn't agree with you, so he doesn't have objectivity? Considering the degree to which the Israelis made it hard to keep the hostages safe due to the excessive bombings, I do think that it probably isn't inappropriate for the hostages to have some appreciation for Hamas not letting the Israelis murder them during one of their war crimes. Whether that adds up to an actual expressed thank you or not is really on the person that's making the decision to show appreciation or not.
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If economics were a science, which it most certainly is not, it would be helpful in terms of figuring out policy, for the same reason that knowing things about physics and engineering makes for better designs prior to construction. $1k a month is hardly anything, but the fact that the average work decreased by less than 2 hours a week says a lot about how much money you'd have to hand out before it would start impacting on labor participation in general.
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And yet people claim that the only reason he didn't get a job right out of law school was his skin color. The fact that he's intellectually lazy with no work ethic wasn't at all a factor.
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@stoneyswolf This is generally true, although some businesses do pay for your lost wages as a benefit for being employed there.
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@yednekachewgeremew1886 pot has a strong odor. Somebody with a good nose can track it for a larger distance than you'd probably expect and there aren't many odors that smell similar.
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Yes, the primaries are far more important than the general election. Just look at all the candidates that could have been the President following the 2016 race. But, we were left with something like 4 possibilities in the general election, counting the other party candidates.
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Pretty much. At that point, the only hope would be for Bernie to run 3rd party or for Trump to be removed from office under article 25.
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@borisjankovici662 Having a stay at home order in place, isn't just about getting people to stay home, it's a way of coercing businesses into allowing employees to stay home and doing other things like freezing evictions while this works out. Any of these states that aren't issuing stay at home orders with specific rules are asking for trouble. God clearly does not care if people get covid-19, so WTF are people behaving as if that's the case?
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It's easier to say that you're resisting than to actually resist. If Trump were as bad as they say, then they'd be going to reeducation camps just for saying that they're resisting him. The reality is that as horrible as Trump has been, both parties have been complicit in what he's done. The Democrats could have fought him, but for the most part of only fought the most egregious abuses of power and only to make it appear like they were paying attention and fighting.
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They're not wrong about that apart from the idea that libertarians are terrorists. The biggest supporters of fascism in America and the folks without whom it wouldn't be possible are the libertarians. They're the ones that were early supporters of deregulation and taking the guardrails off the government. They're not terrorists, they just enable all the bad deeds that the corporate state engages in.
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That's not tenacity, that's idiocy. And it shouldn't be complimented. Now, if it were something more important like being roped into falsely testifying to put somebody in prison, that would be laudable.
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It was probably somebody organized, as this would take several people to load and unload the body off the boat. It wouldn't surprise me if it was mob related, but it could also be a family dispute or something else. But, whatever it was, it was almost certainly the result of multiple people sharing the same beef with the victim.
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@Nachiebree Yes, and this is also why it's recommended to have the bedroom doors closed when sleeping. If the fire starts anywhere other than in the bedroom, you have a slight increase in the time you've got to escape the residence before being overcome by smoke. Which is a lot less time with all the plastics in modern houses than it used to be.
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Yes, although the question then becomes, now what? The GOP is definitely not better, and third parties remain a non-competitor to the big two parties. I personally refuse to vote for either GOP or Democratic candidates except in the case where there's no 3rd party option and in that case against the incumbent. The complete lack of any sort of hazard pay for essential workers just made my blood boil, on top of the lack of real student loan relief or any meaningful effort to get it after winning those elections.
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@daydreamer8373 Eventually, but there's no reason it needs to be this dangerous. Tesla is just pushing things far faster than what they're technology can handle. If they were deadset on operating these with just cameras, there should have been more cameras and there should have been a period of years where all the autopilot system did was identify potential hazards in the road and flag the information for adding tot he model. And, anytime the vehicle crashed into something or was crashed into, that should have been sent off to be considered for inclusion. With a sufficient amount of that information, there should have been a period where drivers were allowed to engage it for no more than 5-10 minutes a time, a short enough period where they could still reliably focus on monitoring what the car was doing. Eventually, as things progressed, they could eventually allow longer periods, but how Tesla has handled it has been extremely irresponsible and led to unnecessary fatalities in people that weren't even in the vehicles.
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Years ago, I questioned whether there were more power outages or if we just noticed them more. Several decades ago, we were less likely to have a bunch of stuff plugged in that would remind us that the power had been out while we were away. But, these days it's pretty clear that it's happening more often. We ask more of the grid than we had, and there's been a bunch of neglected maintenance in many areas of the country. Recently, we've been having strings of electric polls falling over during storms because they weren't strong enough after decades of service to withstand and when one goes down, the line of them go with it.
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It's also not surprising given the long history of people covering for his incompetence. He didn't found PayPay, he founded a different company that merged with PayPal. He didn't start Tesla, he bought it and ran the founder out. And he himself has been the biggest thing holding the company back as he tried to fashion himself to be the next Jobs. Unfortunately, he missed the bit where Steve Jobs actually dealt with the engineers and wasn't prone to making public statements about future products until he had some idea about how to get there. He also wasn't in the practice of selling people murder-mobiles and then claiming that they weren't using them correctly to avoid murdering people. (Although the you're holding it wrong isn't that far off, it just didn't kill people like those Teslas do)
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They can work, the problem is that for them to work, they also tend to be rather expensive. It's why it's so important for there to be regulations in place that force reductions as it's usually cheaper to just stop polluting than it is to try and remove the pollutants once they're in the environment. There's also the issue of us having waited so long to start doing anything substantive that we don't have the luxury of waiting years for the offsets to kick in. Even if those trees do wind up absorbing all the carbon dioxide that we expect, it still takes many years, during which time there's extra in the atmosphere.And that assumes they don't die or get burned in the meantime, which is an increasingly common problem.
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Because this isn't about them, they'll get there's, it's too late to address that. What this is about is Gen X and onward that are getting progressively more and more screwed. If nothing is done, by the time I retire, the trust will be paying out less than what we paid in. Meaning that I would have been better off just saving the money on my own rather than putting it into the social security program, and I'm only in my early 40s.
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If they're using those fake job postings as part of their filings, that's already illegal. You're not allowed to lie in regulatory filings.
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The part of that joke I didn't get, is why he couldn't say it. Seems like that's exactly the sort of joke that belongs to white men.
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To make matters worse, Biden has been in office now for a few days and he has yet to sign an executive order to activate the provision in Obamacare to give everybody single payer health care like the folks in Libby, Montana get. If he was a decent human being he would have taken advantage of the pandemic to give everybody health care. Instead, he's picking culture war issues in an effort to get the GOP unified against him.
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Not likely, hospitals are legally required to provide emergency care regardless of whether or not they think they'll be paid for it. And if they truly can't pay, the hospital either waives part of it or the patient declares bankruptcy and has the bills eliminated. Which is part of why our health care is so expensive, there's a lot of charity care on top of a lot of care provided to treat things that would have been prevented had the patient received preventative care via regular checkups.
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Canadian law is going to be a bit difference, but I have no idea how this was ever legal in the US. It's pretty blatantly a violation of the constitution and due process rights of the individuals. I would assume that Canada, as well as most other modern free nations, would have some equivalent to say that the government can't just take people's properties without some sort of process and/or payment.
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stucorbett He's been studying deep sea exploration since at least the late '80s. I do think that it is fair for him to note that he wasn't aware that the vessel hadn't had any sort of sign off. If he had known that, it likely would have been a different story. But, this sort of innovation can be very hard to evaluate if you're not intimately involved in the design and studying the thing in depth with a microscope.
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It's never a good idea to anger the judge. Yes, they do have a duty to be as impartial as possible in how they run the trial, but the angrier they get, the harder it is for them to take a charitable view to miststeps. This is what the judge was referencing in terms of credibility as a judge that trusts that they're being given honest answers has the lattitude to relay more on that with less evidence than one that has reason to believe that there's a bunch of lies and BS incoming from just one side. It's a bit like that case where the only evidence was a written document produced at the last minute that was allegedly decades old. It was printed with settings that are normal now, but were impossible at the time and it went from a trial where there basically was no evidence either way beyond the parties to the contract to one of them very clearly being a liar on that detail.
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You can get solar powered exhaust fans that slip over car windows. You can get them for under a hundred dollars and I'm sure they work far better. At least up to the point where the temperature in the car is the same as the temperature outside.
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To be fair, at least she doesn't seem to be senile.
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Oh, so the Canadian technique then.
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@2ticketsoneadventure Or he didn't have anything sturdy to tie off to at home. I had a cousin that they found hanging on some playground equipment. It would be easy to tear into that about the reason he chose that place, but realistically, it was probably just a place where he knew there was a bar that would support his weight long enough to do the job. People like to overthink suicide and the reality is that it's just suicide. Sometimes there's not much to it other than a temporary belief that nothing is ever going to get better and the current state of affairs is worse than death. It's why netting and suicide prevention phones on bridges tend to reduce suicide rates. In many cases any little thing that interrupts the plan can be enough to stop it for good.
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@Foot751 You mean other than all the perjury during his confirmation and subsequently acting just as corruptly as the rest of them in those rulings?
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The idea behind the bar was to make sure that attorneys had a specific set of knowledge. Initially, it shocked me a bit, but the reality is that the amount of knowledge that's probably needed is a lot less than it used to be. You still want a lawyer that knows as much as possible, but research is far more efficient in the past. The main reason why you'd likely want an attorney with more knowledge is that you do need to know what to look for when you're doing searches for precedence and what the courts have been seeing. And in the state of Washington, you just needed to pass the bar in order to have the right to practice law, whether or not you attended law school had little to do with it.
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They used to, but then they started taking all that corporate money and now they're even worse than the GOP in terms of not caring about the constituents. At least the GOP doesn't seem to rig it's primaries.
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Since the shows came out on Disney+, I've watched practically all of them, I think I got to somewhere in the last decade before life got in the way. From what I can tell the first 2 or 3 years were garbage, then the show got better and better until round about season 6 or 7, then it dropped a bit but was pretty good until about season 10. It's still a funny enough show, but none of what happened after season 10 is particularly special and I do think that they would have been better off canceling it and giving Groening a contract to do something new as most of the stuff in the last 20 years has been so unnecessary.
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They could just remove the except and it wouldn't be unclear. You read it like that because you know what the rule is. But, that's not what the sign says. The issue here is that they opted to use negative language. If the folks that create signs in the US did it, it would be "Pay and display Mon-Sun 8:30am 6:30pm Maximum stay 4 hours. Public holidays no maximum stay." It's precisely what they intended for the sign to mean, but less likely to result in people misunderstanding the instruction.
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They won't, but accomplice is the right word here. Had they gone in immediately, there still would have been deaths, but there's a pretty good chance that the number would be lower than it ultimately was. This is what you get when the police are shielded from all but the most incompetent of mistakes.
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@paradoxexpress6976 Yep, prior to the revolution, women were actually doing pretty well in Iran. My wife is from Tehran and her relatives were doing probably better than women of their generation would have been doing in the US. One of her grandmothers was a principal.
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To be fair, the medical care has been free for decades. But the support is because they actually care about people.
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The problem there is that qualified immunity is just precedence. All it takes to undo that is laws that specifically state that it doesn't exist. Since QI isn't drawn from the constitution or any of the amendments, it won't be stronger than just a typical law.
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If you actually want to make money on machines, you go to video poker for one of the machines near the front and look at the payout schedule. Sometimes it will be over 100% with perfect play as a way of bringing in suckers. It's completely legitimate and casinos use those machines to give off the impression that people can win.
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@los1wochos Tor comes from the US intelligence agencies in order to shield operatives spread throughout the world. Making it easier to crack makes it harder to get that information. But, making it harder to crack also means more illegal activities using it. It's not a very easy problem to solve, but for the most part, it's not like there aren't other ways of sharing encrypted data without it. Its just more convenient.
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@USUG0 The Senate being like that isn't a particular issue with the House being proportional, especially if the Presidency can go back to being something where the winner of the popular vote generally wins the Presidency. The discrepancy in the Senate isn't enough to do the sort of damage that the EC has on the country.
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@madokachan You must be new here. Most of the time these sorts of things seem to be used to make things worse if there's a buck in it for that.
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@My_RI9 That can happen, but usually, you'd be still in motion until you hit the brakes. It would be extremely rare for that to happen in such a way that you couldn't either get on the brakes to stop beforehand, or let off the brakes to coast through the crossing. It probably has happened just due to the number of vehicles that cross these every day, but it's rare.
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Not necessarily, it also appeals to the most productive people who are sick of seeing leaches fattening themselves at our expense. It's a stereotype that the least productive like collectivism when really it's in the best interests of virtually everybody except the elites. There are many ways in which collectivist economies can be organized and it's not an all or nothing either, they can be a little bit collectivist or a lot.
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@MephiticMiasma Dude, he's broke. I'm not even sure how he's able to afford any of what we're seeing. I'm sort of surprised there hasn't been any sort of lock put on his accounts against getting money from outside the country when he's not allowed to work.
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They approved the school board attorneys to go to court to get the order. This could potentially still fail, but it's rather ridiculous that they didn't think about this earlier, this is not a particularly big town, so why are they trying to seize land without doing any planning for it ahead of time?
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Federal agencies, that doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't state laws that might apply to this and the dealers may be in trouble as well.
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Yes, what would be news is if any of this leads to prosecution of the individuals that benefit from it. At most, we might see some low level accountants or CPAs prosecuted, but I'd be surprised if they even do that much.
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@John-tx1wk Absolutely, only the totally worthless should be allowed to have multithousand dollar freezers full of ice cream.
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Given enough time, it doesn't take that much to become a millionaire. One of the big issues is that our economy depends on irresponsible spending by ordinary people. But, even $75 a month, which is less than a new car payment into a mixture of index funds would get a person to a million by retirement age if they started out at age 20 or so and continued it for roughly 50 years.
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You misspelled "black."
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@deborahboggs6040 Yes, there is no guarantee that the decision to drop the charges won't be accepted with the input of this new attorney. That being said, the longer this stuff can be kept in the news the better. It's only been a month and it's already hard to keep track of all the legal proceedings that are going on.
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Don't worry, I hear that the DOGE is going to be "hailing" new employees soon.
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The main reason that it hasn't happened is that you've got rentseekers jacking up the prices on apartments and bosses that insist on making the poors show up to work for 40 hours a day, even though it's pretty well-established that few people actually work during all that time with some companies having a lot of slacking off just to fill out the time.
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@illustriouschin Yep, that's exactly why my parents got a laser printer. They don't do a lot of printing and by the time they wanted to print, the ink would be dried up. Since toner is a powder, it can't get any more dry. The main downside is that laser prints do smear more and can have issues over time. But, that's not likely to be an issue for most people. It's more of an archivist issue than anything else.
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@stainlesssteellemming As long as you're registering one that's not owned by somebody else or being squatted on it's pretty cheap and the names they choose are mostly ones that nobody is likely to have thought of registering.
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It's interesting how it's just the single men that don't get help until the last bit. But, it's women that are "oppressed."
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@TheCommonS3Nse Not to mention that the WPA built the dams that allowed Washington State to eventually be a global leader in many areas of technology. We've got such cheap electricity that if a tech company isn't located here, they at least have a major facility here or a satellite branch here. We also have an Internet exchange point as well.
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Same here, they're talking about moving teachers up, but grocery workers and the like aren't even on the list for getting vaccinated around here. I think the earliest that's going to happen is probably in the fall, but we're expendable. I can't do my job remotely and if it weren't for the city council, I wouldn't have hazard pay. I might get vaccinated if there's a spare doses that's set to expire, but short of that, I'll be waiting until after many people that can stay at home all day every day get their doses. It's just such a lie when they claim that they're prioritizing people most likely to contract the virus when they're leaving out people working essential jobs that require them to be in close proximity with other people for much of the day.
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@dondakota920 The seller received stolen property and appears to have not done an adequate job of verifying that the vehicle was being lawfully sold. The thief and accomplices should be prosecuted as well, assuming they can be located, but the dealership does appear to have fenced stolen property.
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@jocksharerock7318 She chose not to because she would have risked a sexual harassment suit against her and having to explain her behavior. If you can't see that m then you're rather dense. There's a huge difference between what he did and what she did,
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It isn't anywhere near that bad here, but there's a bunch of hills and it's pretty common to see cyclists riding in traffic up the hill. They'll go like 3mph tops holding up traffic when there's a sidewalk that they're legally permitted to use within literally feet of the road.
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The issue with doing that is that you have to create the images that are lifelike enough and enough of them to process. AI programs require a massive data set for training for these sorts of complicated tasks and you would likely be better off training it on images of the various bones in the human body and how they're attached before moving up to soft tissue, skin and the positioning. Which is more or less what humans are doing when they draw. The best artists largely do start with a simplified skeleton and work their way out when they need something that is as lifelike as possible. With experience, they may be able to skip some of it and still have something that's life like and AI likely will eventually manage that as well.
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@charlotteruse8718 They do, that's what Medicare Advantage is.
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Yes, I wouldn't personally jump to conclusions about what the eventual order is going to be. But, the fact that the motion to dismiss wasn't immediately accepted is probably a good sign. It may well still be accepted, but if so, there will at least be some legal basis for doing so other than that the parties colluded together to drop it as part of a bribery scheme.
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@thinkbeforeyoutype7106 That's not an entirely fair comparison. Most of the Islamic Terrorists are legitimately terrorists, they're not freedom fighters. Yes, there have been instances of Islamic freedom fighters in recent memory in places like Afghanistan, but most of it is legitimately terrorism. It's not being done to free themselves or anybody else, it's being done to get the US out of Saudi Arabia even though the Saudi government invited the military presence quite literally. The extension to all Muslims is inappropriate and really ought to be condemned as it is just a fraction of that.
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Yep, it's kind of wild that while my political views haven't really changed much since I was a teen decades ago, apart from becoming a bit more fleshed out, but now I'm somehow both a radical leftist and a rightwinger at the same time with the way the boundaries are being drawn. My views used to put more somewhat right of center, but not that far right. I just haven't had proper options of candidates to support in many years, because the Democrats are more interested in poaching GOP votes that trying to go after the various disaffected nonvoters that could show up and vote at any time if the parties would earn their votes.
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Why would anybody vote for a Democrat? They haven't done bupkiss for the people. They shrunk the $2k checks to $1400, Biden hasn't waived any student debts. They haven't done anything for essential workers, amazing how what was $25k for essential workers isn't even being discussed. I don't see any sign of the Democrats using the power they have to do anything to help the people.
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Remembering is one thing, but just remembering doesn't really do you any good if there aren't viable alternatives. It's like voting in North Korea, even if you are willing to take the risk, there's little point in doing so as there aren't any other candidates that the state doesn't choose ahead of time.
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If that wasn't clear after 2016, it should be a flashing neon sign a hundred yards wide at this point.
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Um, no, salt causes water retention, and you'll sweat out a lot of it. Drinking pee is problematic, but mostly because there's a bunch of toxins that build up in it over time. But, the salt itself isn't a reason not to drink it. As long as you're not drinking the pee that was produced by drinking pee, you'll be fine. And as long as you're not doing it for more than a short period of time without getting other water to help wash the toxins out. It's certainly not something I'd recommend if you can avoid it, but it's not going to kill you faster than not drinking at all. I nearly died from extremely low sodium levels. They were that low in part because I sweated a lot of the sodium out of my body, and partially because I drank too much water that diluted it.
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I'm not surprised, although the X-Ray would show metallic objects and some other physical contaminants that might have been put in there, they wouldn't show chemical or biological agents in there. that being said as indicated by the episode, there likely wouldn't have been any chemicals or biological agents in there either if they had a way of screening for that. The most likely reason for a kid to get hurt by the candy being handed out is if it contained allergens that weren't listed on the label.
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@Chuck_Hooks Just as long as it doesn't help any Americans or give us the idea that politicians can be pressured to do the right thing for typical people in the country.
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@kenbrown2808 Only because they passed a law doing so. There's a whole bunch of laws over the last couple centuries that were made, but ultimately ruled to be unconstitutional. And what about people who just get stuck when one of these takeovers is happening? How do you know who is there to watch and who is just stuck in the middle of it? I do think that it's reasonable to ticket and/or impound the vehicles of active participants, but the rest of them aren't themselves doing something that would otherwise be illegal. If they were doing things that are otherwise illegal, there wouldn't be the need for the law change.
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@neues3691 The whole basis for the case was that there would be requests for that service, which violates the plaintiff's constitutional rights. Without the request, they would have had to wait until there was one to file the suit.
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Blind leading the blind? I hear an awful lot of women on here saying that this isn't true. If it's not true, do everybody a favor and tell us where the women are that aren't like that. These aren't hard tests to pass, these are absolute bare minimum standards. If a woman can't pick up the tab on the occasional coffee for us, then she's either a hooker or a whore. And that's not hyperbole. Somebody who exchanges affection, and possibly sex, for money is a prostitute. Also, I think it's amazing how women can whine about their being no great men out there even as they purposefully ignore all the great men out there by using absurd standards, but expecting a woman to be a half-way decent human being is asking too much.
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Yes, and I'm not really sure what the big deal is. The Democrats rigging their primaries for more GOP friendly candidates was far more shocking and far more problematic.
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At this point, I think the only candidates worth voting for are RFKJR and Stein, and of the two RFKJR has the most hope of actually influencing the election. He could plausibly take some states, so it kind of blows my mind that they haven't kicked Harris and/or Biden off the ticket and offered him a spot.
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@nealreiersen6823 If it's so important why did it take so long for QI to become a thing and why was it the result of a court ruling and not something that was passed as legislation? It seems to me that if it's that important that it would have been done through legislation much earlier.
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Absolutely, he was lying about basically everything, he never had any intention of doing those things. And the people realize that he was lying which is why we have Trump. Some believed that Trump might do some of what he promised, others didn't bother to vote and some just hoped that he would burn the system down so we could start over. Obama and Biden are why we have Trump and enough voters are falling for it that we might get more of the same garbage that didn't work the last time, but somehow because orange man bad, it's different.
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I recommend an electric goose neck kettle and if you've got the funds, getting one with a temperature control is so nice. I love being able to make my tea with water that's the appropriate temperature without having to mess around with thermometers and guessing when the water is cool enough not to destroy the tea.
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Come on man. If you haven't lost your job to globalization you're East Indian.
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@bece00 No, the reason why was that the German community was spread through the US and resettling is easier when you've got that network. Race had nothing to do with it. The Japanese were also offered that relocation when there were rooms available. They just didn't have a large network of countrymen across the country to tap into. Also, the Japanese got advance warning when the allies bombed cities, they bombed Dresden to the ground killing tens of thousands in a matter of hours. But, I'm sure their whiteness made that super easy.
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And I'm sure this time it will be more effective than last time, right?
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@AB-lx2zi It's highly unlikely, sometimes foods like instant coffee use chemicals to speed up the process or get more yield out of it, but I think even there it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that it causes cancer more than the underlying food did to begin with.
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@leovolont Yes and actually anything that takes you through a door will help a bit. When people pass through a doorway there's a context refresh that happens as you no longer need information about the room you were in and suddenly need information about the room that you're entering. It's why when people go to the kitchen they often forget what they were going there for. The upshot is that if you're stuck doing the wrong things on a problem, sometimes you can just leave the room for a couple minutes and you get unstuck. It's a bit like rebooting a computer that's acting up.
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I don't think he wants to win. On some level, he's got to know that he's not up to the schedule involved.
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These are secret service and local police that were involved in the decision making, I haven't heard anybody suggesting that private security had any impact on it.
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No, it shouldn't, the public wants all sorts of things that may not be good policy. The legislators should be enacting policy that in their view best serves the interests of the voters, whether or not the voters agree. Running things on the opinion of the voters is generally a losing strategy as even if you vote the majority on two issues that enjoy 60% support, you've still got up to 40% of the voters that didn't get what they wanted. And with each issue, that just grows. Then there's the times when outside interests convince people that they want something they don't actually want. For example, all those people who were brainwashed into thinking that they don't need or want medicare for all.
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@lilium-orchid They could have, the issue is that the building was designed as 1/4 of it, so unless somebody was really thinking ahead, they wouldn't have known there was a problem as they wouldn't have seen the plans altogether.
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You're not watching the video then. Up until he refused to follow orders, he might have been allowed to stay in the car. The resisting orders obviously doesn't justify the killing, but it definitely contributed. Characterizing it as an execution isn't helpful. Not is implying that guilt had anything to do with it. Had he not been killed, he would have been arrested.
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@Karebear42069 Possibly, but depending on how long it takes to identify the source of the banging, retrieve the sub and get them out of there, there's a really high probability of them being dead or severely brain damaged by the time the y can crack the seal on the sub. I doubt there's any provisioning for clearing out the air without cracking the seal. It is technically possible that they will be safe, but it's a very, very low probability.
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He could have given us universal healthcare during the pandemic, and chose not to.
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Dowsing involves a lot of different types of devices for a lot of different purposes. I cant imagine the forked stick doing anything at all. I have personally used metal divining rods and they definitely move on their own and quite suddenly. I would have been more than happy to go down just to finally have an explanation as to why and how they move on their own because the only thing I could come up with is polarizing the metal with the nervous system. Because they have to be held firmly enough that they don't wiggle when walking, and if you're holding them that tightly, then they only move to cross, they don't move parallel and they don't move away from each other. As somebody that's generally a believer in science, it bugs me that this seems to violate what I understand the rules to be. Hence, my suspicion that it's probably got to do with magneticism and probably the result of thoughts in the person dowsing rather than something metaphysical. Where I haven't found any sort of reliable proof of something happening would be the next stage of it actually predicting or locating anything. That's the part where I think that if we ever understand what's going on completely, we'll probably determine conclusively that it doesn't do anything.
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@MaynardsSpaceship If you can, some of us are needed to ensure that people are fed, not to mention the medical workers that are needed to treat everything.
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@kimschlehuber4339 You make it sound like a dishonest one would look worse than an honest one. The representatives know Gaetz and from what I've read, it's not like he makes his super creepy views particularly secret.
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The only problem with that, is that Washington State doesn't use voting machines. We use paper ballots that are optically scanned. In King County, where things were laid to rest, the count is done in a fishbowl room with glass walls on all sides and the desks have no drawers. It's possible to get a small number of fraudulent votes through, but not enough to explain the problem. The reality is that there are a lot of normie democrats here that care more about winning that what the winner would do. And the media continually lying about Biden's elect-ability definitely could explain the difference. Also, keep in mind that Hillary performed better in our primary than caucus last time, mostly because the corporatist supporters aren't willing to do anything out of the ordinary to vote.
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It doesn't, you can also be pardoned if you are convicted. However, being pardoned does not remove the conviction from your record, that would require a judge to intervene and decide that the record needs to be either expunged or sealed. But, in any case, if you're pardoned, you typically still have a conviction on your record forever.
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@jequirity1 This is true, I spent January and February in Snohomish County, WA and I likely got it when it first showed up in the US. But, I wasn't tested because there were no tests and no public awareness that it wasn't just one person that had it. Getting tested at that time, required that you not just have symptoms, but have either recently come back from China or be in close proximity with somebody that had. Just having a bad cold, with fever, severe fatigue and difficulty breathing was not sufficient to warrant a test. I hope that I didn't have it, but who knows.
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If a human didn't have enough light, the human would slow down so that there was enough stopping time. The Tesla in question apparently didn't.
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Can we finally find out what Biden is going to do if he's elected? Even after all these months, I'm still not sure why him winning is going to be better than Trump winning.
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@doofus3974 Biden is even worse. At least Trump won the GOP nomination without resorting to elections fraud.
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That's the thing right there. Why are these products being allowed into the hands of non-professional drivers at this stage? How many more crashes, injuries and deaths need to occur until they're barred from the streets pending further development.
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Which is rather astonishing given that there isn't usually a lot of compassion directed their way by POTUS, at least not since like WWII.
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Reef Keep dreaming, if he doesn't suspend his campaign and drop out of the race now, we're looking at 4 more years of Trump.
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@JebusHypocristosX IIRC, 93% is the heighest the top income tax bracket ever was, and losing that made a massive difference. We also shouldn't permit private money in public elections.
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The guns were out because he wasn't cooperating. Most felony arrests are made at traffic stops and the cops genuinely don't know if a driver or passenger has a weapon. This is why it's so important to move slowly and let the cops know if you need to reach into a bag. They don't know if you're in the process of committing a felony or have any arrest warrants until well into the interaction. I used to deal with a lot of law enforcement agencies when I worked security and most of the time, they want to get in and out as quickly and without drama as possible. Answering the questions as succinctly add possible and doing what they ask greatly reduced the chances of having problems. His lack of cooperation doesn't excuse the excessive force, but it likely nudged the confrontation in that direction.
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That's what happens when you hire Clinton people to give you advice.
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That's good to hear. They really should be questioning it. A ridiculous amount of the military activity over the last 40 years in particular has been mopping up the messes of the CIA going in and arming questionable groups because it was convenient at the time. The US literally armed and trained Osama Bin Laden during the '80s to go after the Soviets in Afghanistan. Not to mention that we were the ones that supported Saddam Hussein in Iraq as a counter to the Ayatollah in Iran, even as Hussein was committing genocide internally. And the Ayatollah was only in power because we decided to overthrow their government when we didn't like the government that they chose after chasing the Shah out. It's a recurring theme and don't even get me started on Cuba.
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They could have just measured the distance out using real measuring tools. It would have been like $50 for the tool and a bit of time to actually walk it off. They were just being lazy. What gets me is that even phone GPS could have told them they were on the wrong plot.
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I don't see any problem here, they go pretty hard against the establishment.
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@jonathangasana You do realize that the most powerful person in the country right now is the delivery driver that drops off her ice cream, right? If that guy would just stop doing his job, you'd see a lot of change really quickly, the moment that that cow can no longer get her expensive ice cream, she might actually do something to help the various essential workers.
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Also keep in mind that things being manufactured overseas puts us at risk of what they're doing as it's harder to inspect overseas factories and if we somehow manage to find our way to a non-nuclear WWIII we won't have the ability to repurpose factories to the war effort. And as we're finding out lately, foreign technology firms can be rather slippery in terms of the stuff that can be slipped into computer products, or just secured in a way that's less than competent because their interests lie with their government and not us.
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There's a decent chance that not all of the people in those pictures are the same person, which if that's the case, would help the defense out a lot. As did the mishandling of all that evidence.
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You see the same sort of pressure with DEI meetings as well, where you can have whatever opinion you like, you just can't actually express it without having to worry about retaliation. And, in no case is it particularly good for the organizational integrity.
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@wolfmantroy6601 They could ask, or they could also just indicate that this just applies to adults when making the selections. Really, there's no excuse for this. Anybody under 25 may not even have the option of renting a car and increasingly those under 21 can't rent a hotel room.
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That's not surprising, a lot of the activity that goes on in the brain involves charged particles moving around. As they move, they themselves generate tiny magnetic fields that can interact with other magnetic fields.
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@Sweet Toother Yes, but OTOH, if you have to borrow money to hire people then either you're a start up, and automatically a higher risk, or you're overextended, a higher risk.
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That's only because the democrats actually pay for their spending and the republicans just put it on the debt.
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It can't happen because if the people find out what's on offer from the 3rd party candidates, they might well vote for them. We can't have anybody that might represent the people allowed to win an election.
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And yet the same design wasn't pulled down in Seattle for nearly 30 years. We got very lucky that we didn't get our big earthquake in all those years, otherwise we could easily have seen a disaster at least as large as this one, owing to us never having a team in the world series.
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Ve Rams The root of the problem is that we have private funding of elections. Other things like partisan districting, lack of top 2 primary systems and that we aren't all voting via mail are also an issue.
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The short answer is corruption. Banks were allowed to gamble with money deposited by despositers above and beyond the typical mix of mortgages and loans. Up until relatively recently there had been laws on the books requiring that banking and investing activities be walled off from each other so that the FDIC wasn't on the hook for the much riskier bets involved with the stock market. The rest of the answer is that it was a decision to bail out the banks rather than simply buy up all the trouble assets and start cancelling out the various credit default swaps that were threatening to swamp the entire world's economy. It would have been far more effective than what we ultimately did. (Although it was still a massive improvement over what was done during the great depression, so progress)
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@ZakTheFallen No, but if they don't have any infrastructure here, it makes their services a lot slower and potentially harder to monetize as payments can effectively be blocked at the border.
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No, but his money does and until money is removed from politics his views will matter a lot. If Biden has lost the support of the donors and he doesn't have the support of the voters, I don't know how the DNC thinks that he'll be able to win in November. The previous 2 cycles the only thing the DNC cared about was electability, but now it's magically not on the list of concerns.
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@HAASgoggles There would be constitutional issues with that. Especially given the lack of protection that the victims of accidents get when it comes to deciding when it's time to start harvesting. In some cases, it's the same doctor representing both the donor as well as the recipients and the standards to decide if you're dead enough may or may not match with what the donor wants. It's why it's important to have the donor information in a living will, not simply attached to your driver's license.
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King Honkie Not in the literal sense, but have you actually tried to apply for a job in the last couple decades? Even with a degree the pickings are slim for jobs that pay decent wages. The jobs that pay well are mostly a combination of jobs with either a degree requirement or an apprenticeship requirement. Either way, it takes far more than a high school diploma to have any reasonable shot at success. The fact that a small number of sociopathic outliers can claim otherwise does not change the fact in any meaningful way. There's just not that many people who are managing it.
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@redthunder6183 The original silent generation was the one before the Boomers, but Gen X got such a very short period of prominence and was pretty much ignored by the time that we were old enough to have any real say in what was going on.
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Apparently, that's the plan.
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@zappyeats2579 Yes and traditionally you don't tip them anyways as they get a piece of the action by virtue of being the owner. There's a word for tipping the owner, bribe.
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@Vann20F They're not all gone yet, the courts have been ruling against him in basically every motion that's been filed, it's too soon to see what the appellate courts and SCOTUS do. And keep in mind that his immunity does not extend to other people or to state charges and if the judges in any of these cases decide to start levying contempt of court fines or having people locked up, he can't pardon that. Probably in coming weeks we're going to start to see to what extent SCOTUS is going to double down on the nonsense that they started by giving him immunity. We may not even have to wait for one of these cases to get to them, as they can attach changes to precedence to anything they like, it doesn't have to be germane to the particular case they're ruling on. Not that I'm optimistic. They knew perfectly well that this was a likely outcome of them giving POTUS unchecked authority for official acts and restricting the ability to test whether or not something was an official act.
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We're in a new year and if they had any decency at all, they would at least means test based upon 2019. But, really, they shouldn't be means testing at all, give everybody the money and then tax it back if they didn't need it. That way, the money goes out to the folks that need it and if they turned out to not need it, the worst case is an interest free loan to folks that didn't need the help.
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TBH, he's an attorney and I'm sure he's used to people being very angry at him. Not that it really makes it OK, but it is common for one litigant or another to be very angry at the attorneys involved when they don't like the outcome.
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Yep, Trump seems more deserving than Obama. Trump at least hasn't started any wars.
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There's no assumption needed now. They caught a guy that presented the same fake ID that he used at the hostel, he had a manifesto on him and from what I understand he still had what appears to be the murder weapon. And, he matches the images that were captured at the hostel. It remains to be seen as it probably is technically possible for him to not be the right man, but there is an extremely high probability that they got the right guy.
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He's just a suspect at this point, although it sounds highly unlikely that he's not the one that did it.
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@numnum_land Reasonable people disagree on this. The first amendment would be completely pointless if it only protected the rights of people to say things that are inoffensive.
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Probably, that type of racism is apparently still OK.
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One of the issues with winning races like that is that there's been a tendency to assume that moving more to the right to maintain the seat is the right move. For the most part, that hasn't even worked to keep the seat. They should make the boldest moves they can to improve the lives of their constituents by doing things like pushing for M4A and UBI at least through the end of the pandemic. Both positions are popular with a majority of the individuals in both parties, even if a slimmer majority with GOP voters.
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That's not going to happen as long as YouTube is playing games with which videos are being shown and burying the stuff they know people are likely to want to watch under all the garbage video sthat are advertiser friendly.
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@timapple9157 That's part of why Trump chose a random jar of mayonnaise as his VP pick in 2016.
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That's more or less all they've been doing the last few years, the GOP go their majority and has been ramming through as many nominees as possible. In at least one case the individual was severely unqualified and didn't even know what the terms being used meant.
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The thought had crossed my mind that he'd try to fake his own death to skip out on accountability.
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@tonykerr8147 Citation needed. It wasn't anywhere near enough to solve the problem, but if you think that it hurt more people than it helped, you're completely full of it. The previous system was collapsing, Obamacare extended the period with health insurance companies a few years, but inevitably, we'll be moving to something where everybody is guaranteed health care services without having to pay at point of contact. People that claim that Obamacare sucks, mostly had garbage insurance, but were very lucky in terms of not getting sick.
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He's absolutely correct though. He has the legal right to stand in the right of way for as long as you wants to. Especially when it comes to waiting for his bus. This is significant overreach and if they actually do call the cops, CVS would be on the losing end of that lawsuit. What if he was waiting for a ride and the driver was stuck in traffic? With how traffic can be around there, it could be a rather long wait, especially if the traffic is being halted by a crash.
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@finris1 As a matter of law this is a real estate deal and as such is legally required to have all the agreement in writing. I get the feeling that if this was legitimately not told to her and they didn't sign it as part of the package of contracts that were signed at that time, that the title insurance company may have an issue to clean up. Or possibly malpractice on the part of the realtors involved. Not to mention the question about how all of this was allowed to happen without the home owner being notified in the first place.
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That doesn't make it not criminal. A door lock malfunction doesn't entitle people to go through the usually locked door and help themselves to things that were secured. I'm not sure how this is any different. If the card was given to her to receive free gas and she didn't understand the limit, that would be different. It's not like they're prosecuting her over just a tank or two worth of gas, this was apparently going on for quite some time.
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It's one of my favorite parts of the show.
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I thought that I had read that the studio made him set it that far in the future because they thought his prediction of closer to 20 years was unbelievable. Then again, I might be misremembering that.
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@ Yes, part of the problem is that we're locked into this model where a "fulltime" job needs to be 40 hours a week. For a lot of those higher paying jobs, it would make sense for them to be closer to 20 hours and just hire an additional worker to make up the difference. The productivity would probably be higher.
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That's not inherently a bad deal, but it usually is a bad deal because of the lack of oversight and clawbacks for when they fail to follow through. If the new business brings in more money from outside the region, it can still be a legitimate net gain for the locality, that just usually doesn't happen.
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@zachisebi Yes, although you can blame that on making gender studies an academic specialty that isn't subjected to any real vigor or threat of having to defend the conclusions.
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It's like that around here too. Unless there's something going on to cause specific liability, it's an act of god and everybody's own insurance pays.We had a rather significant maple tree growing right on the fence line, although I guess slightly more on the neighbor's side, that was sick and could have potentially fallen down. It was eventually removed when efforts to preserve it failed, but it would have more or less taken out an entire house if it had fallen down. This is one of the reasons to know what your insurance covers and what the legal status of things like this is. Falling trees is probably not very unusual in parts of the country with significant trees.
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What gets me is that there are surveyor's wheels, the ones I see listed are accurate to more than 99% and they can be had for under $50. Obviously, they aren't anywhere near as accurate as the usual surveying gear, but far more accurate than counting telephone poles that may not necessarily be quite even as they work just as well if they're off buy a foot or two.
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Yes, and if I understood correctly, this was the 3rd voyage. That's pretty quick to get to a catastrophic failure.
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Your channel is how I found out about them and why I now donate a few bucks every month. It's not much in the grand scheme of things, but with the other people that donate it can have a significant impact.
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He was living far away from LA or the usual places that celebs live. I doubt he had any reason to have a camera system unless there were active threats. And, he had been retired for a number of years. He had a heart condition and had pretty much completely retired over 20 years ago.
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@fuzzjunky When I checked last week the P/E for Tesler was roughly 120 or thereabouts, and most of the other manufacturers I looked at were around 7 or 8. One of the issues with it is that car companies cannot grow that quickly. A valuation of a tech company being that high is potentially reasonable, but a car company just cannot grow quickly enough to grow into that valuation.
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@erinmac4750 He's been tanking it for quite a while, he's just been able to outhype the stupid stuff he's been doing. I do think that between being tied to a President that's extremely unpopular with middle and upper middle class people and the fact that he's openly exposing himself to be a Nazi sympathizer that it may well be about to tumble. But, who knows, I would have expected this sooner.
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@paulperry7091 That's why there should be basic finance included in the K-12 curriculum. It doesn't take much time and it's something that everybody will need and use as an adult.
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I don't know, that redneck road race across parts of the US South with messages that were designed to antagonize everybody they came across was probably at least as dangerous. It just takes on emotionally unstable individual with a firearm for that to go badly.
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I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't explain how much money would make it OK. Would it be OK to pretend that I'm a lesbian to save, say $30? Or does it need to be at least $100?
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@sturmherooflance That's what Kyle said and I never saw a farewell video. From what I could tell, they were trying to trick people into watching for a while before realizing that it was no longer the sane show.
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I upped my donations to Bernie to help with that. I need to figure out where to go to phone bank for him. I will not be voting for any more Democrats if Bernie isn't the nominee. He's literally the only hope of this party and they've been doing whatever they can to prevent progress.
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@r0bw00d That's out of scope for the problem. You only get to choose which track it travels down, or whether or not you chuck the fat guy off the bridge. Which is another issue as you don't usually have situations where there are literally only 2 possible reactions to it.
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That's mostly because John Carmack was smart enough to not just assume that using the processor's ability to pump out frames would be a reasonable method of timing the game. There were other games during the early '90s that would run weirdly if there was too much processing power. I remember one of the King's Quest games, (I want to say IV) didn't have sound for me unless I dropped my Pentium from 75mhz to whatever it was with the turbo button in the right state.
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@rogerszmodis This is true, but at that age these buildings often times are a demonstration of the architecture of the time they were built in. That doesn't automatically guarantee that they need to be preserved, but often times there aren't many left and fewer over time.
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She was VP, a position that's rather famous for having nearly no work involved.
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Why would they? They were explicitly warned this sort of thing and worse could happen before they gave him immunity. This was an easily foreseeable consequence of doing so.
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Yep. That being said, I won't personally vote for another Democrat or Republican for any office except if there's no 3rd party candidate and only to oust the incumbent. I've tried doing less in the past and it was completely useless. If enough people do the same, then at least it helps create a bit of a bias towards a 3rd party candidate and lowers the barrier to entry.
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No, veganism is a problem for humans. It's not a healthy way of managing your diet. But, for adults we allow people to eat all sorts of unhealthy diets without interference. The problem is when you're indoctrinating children to eat something that's not healthy. Parents are in a unique position to withhold proper nourishment and hence the need for a specific law telling vegans that they'll be held legally responsible if their diet choices result in their children being malnourished.
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I was tutoring a student in statistics recently and the question was rather ridiculous. It said that 30% of people polled considered Roosevelt to be the best President since WWII and the other 70% didn't. The glaringly obvious problem to people that have actually had American history is that Roosevelt died in 1945 several months before WWII was finished. So, the whole idea that he could be the best President of the post-war period makes no sense at all. He couldn't be the best, or worst for that matter, because he wasn't anything in the post-war period having already died. Although, I suppose he may have been pining for the fjords as they say.
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@Konrod, you seriously think that powers of 10 make sense? Powers of 10 make conversions that people don't do very often very easy while ensuring that none of the units of measure are convenient. It causes the problem where a meter is really too long for measuring short things and the centimeter is too short. The decimeter is a poor man's foot. Base 12 is something that gives a large number of ways of dividing it up without having to resort to fractions as 12 has factors of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12, whereas 10 only has factors of 1, 2,5 and 10. So, anything else has to involve either decimals or fractions. Plus, we have 3 joints on each finger giving 12 (if we exclude the thumbs) meaning that we can count to 24, without involving toes. To make matters worse, all of the units that the SI defines are completely arbitrary and disconnected from human existence. The kilo is based on an arbitrary amount of a specific metal, the meter is definited based on the distance from the earth's equator to north pole and all the other measures are equally arbitrary. At least the imperial measures are easily related back to our own personal body parts, even if the conversion does vary a bit from person to person, it leaves us with a much more intuitive estimate process as those conversions don't change much once we hit adulthood.
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@Ace The FireDragon, most countries use the metric system because they are either too small to have factories building things in the local measure or they didn't have a functioning and enforced system of measure that covered the whole country. The US never really went through that BS that the French did with thousands of different measuring systems. One of the great things that the Brits did for us was leave us with a functioning system of measure that we created an entire agency to oversea. The Bureau of Weights and Measures would regularly conduct stings and ensure that all measuring devices used for trade were accurate. As a result, we have a system that's convenient, relatively easy to use and universal across the country. Something that was generally not true in countries that agreed to adopt the metric system measures. But, as somebody that lived under the metric system for over a year, I will tell you that the things people cite as being easier with the metric measures are just not done often outside of science. You're not going to want to convert miles into feet typically, And probably not into yards either, you'd just use the decimal approximation in most cases as you are unlikely to be dealing with the precision necessary to go beyond 10ths of a mile in the first place. If you do, you're a professional surveyor and you're still not going to mess with yards or feet at that point for the same reason that you wouldn't normally mix kilometers, hectometers, meters, decimeters and centemeters in one measure, it's inconvenient to write.
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That's not surprising, the main reason that the original series didn't have any gay characters was that they lost a ton of ratings when they did that episode with the biracial kiss. It seems that Gene himself had no issues with gays, but was concerned with the fact that there ratings were down enough that they had to worry about being canceled. Then the next season they were canceled anyways. I'm not sure if they could have gotten anything meaningful past the censors.
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America used to have a rape culture. Up until the '70s there were still states where you could force your spouse to have sex and be immune to prosecution. That was a rape culture. Since that time our values have evolved as have our ability to investigate and prosecute rapes. The rates are dropping and continue to drop as a larger percentage of rapists are caught, some of them years later based upon DNA evidence that couldn't be tested at the time. Referring to American culture as a "rape culture" does a real disservice to people that have actually been raped. It also perpetuates the notion that there's nothing that individuals can do to reduce their risk. Had she chosen to limit her alcohol consumption to a reasonable level, it's far less likely that she would have been raped. I know that feminists hate that idea, but she's no less raped because he was responsible.
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Ran a poor campaign? Are you serious? He ran an extremely strong campaign given the amount of fixing by the DNC and the refusal of the media outlets to give him the coverage he deserved. What's more, he overcame one of the largest name recognition gaps ever to nearly win the nomination and is now the most popular politician in the US.
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@JRMCNEA Bernie had been pushing for $1200 in his most recent attempt, but had to settle for $600, but with Trump getting involved and pushing for $2k, it allowed Bernie to move the goal post on his demands. Still, it was rather weak of him to vote for the Cares Act without pushing for recurring payments and medicale care. It would have passed with or without him, so he should have gone on TV and demanded for more in order to secure his vote.
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Not learning from the past is their shtick.
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If the cheap drone I bought can operate without an app, and my old gopro can work without an app, I fail to see why this requires an app. An optional app is one thing, but what are you supposed to do if you want to use the camera and your phone is out of juice or you forgot it?
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LOL
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It's always been a problem in every system, it just used to be a lot less brazen.
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Honestly, a much more productive use of technology would be to identify neighborhoods with factors that are likely to make committing crimes easier and work with the local community to address as many of them as possible. Even just things like lighting and making sure that bushes are trimmed far enough back to make it hard for muggers to hide can have a significant impact without curtailing people's civil liberties. And they work more or less all day every day without the need for a cop to be present.
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@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 It was essentially a bridge deck suspended from steel trusses. When one of the pylons was damaged, it removed one side of the truss from support, leading to the rest of it coming down. It's a known weakness to this sort of design. It's a good design in the sense that it's very light and can be made with relatively long spans, however, if anything happens to damage the steel truss this happens. There doesn't necessarily even need to be enough force to take the pylon down outright, it just takes enough force to break the connection between the pylon at the steel trusses that are supposed to be supported by it to cause a collapse.
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@TissuDemon There is a small part of me that wonders how much of that incompetence is just a lack of care because on some level the cops are just as angry about the health care situation as the rest of us are. Or, it could just be a byproduct of police departments being allowed to not hire the best and brightest or worry that much about standards due to qualified immunity.
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Yep, there's going to be threeve millions on unemployment.
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The grocery store I work for is providing all those things. Granted, the hazard pay arguably ought to be more, but they've got masks for us and gloves. Anybody that tests positive gets 2 weeks of paid leave. The specific pay varies a bit depending upon the position, but that includes new hires. They don't want us coming in sick and they don't want us skipping out on testing when there's any indication that we might have it.
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@TheStarBlack There's that, but the agency that handles the permitting can force the issue. But, unless you've got buildings being built at the same time, that can be a bit of an issue as both buildings have to be engineered with a sky bridge in mind, and it's not simply a matter of bolting one on, the buildings have to have provisions for properly securing the parts of the building that aren't included that wouldn't otherwise be necessary and that floor is effectively no longer available for tenants that want to rent the entire floor.
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Yes and probably only 1/4 of the actual votes even matter for varying reasons.
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In other news, I'm shocked that gambling is going on here.
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I was shocked that it was even uglier in person than in the original illustrations.
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@Kite403 Yep, public funding is the way to go, if that's the only money they're allowed to use, it would greatly cut down on opportunities to bribe politicians with things other than actual votes from various constituencies.
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The difference is that they've mostly saturated the market and there are more competitors now than there were then. I read that the same way that I read MS and Adobe basically not filing suit against home users that were pirating their software. Few of those people would have otherwise paid and having more copies increases the value to the commercial users that do have to pay for their copies. (And do get the crap sued out of them if they're caught pirating it)
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@RedDotInABlueState91 I think the point when people mention that is that there's a lot of disaffected people that could theoretically show up to vote and they tend to skew blue when they show up. Although, with the Democrats giving as little as possible to the voters for such a prolonged period of time, I'm not sure that we can make the normal inferences about how they might vote if they could be convinced to.
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If they were likely to do so, they wouldn't have been nominated to be on the court.
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@aniksamiurrahman6365 The point of UBI is that people spend it in whatever way they think will be best, It shouldn't be so high that it prevents people from wanting to advance themselves, but you also have to realize that the study was only 3 years long and there's a lot of ways of developing yourself that aren't easily measured. Just cutting back to one job so you're not so burned out is self-development.
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Chances are that they didn't get enough donors to RSVP, or the ones that did said hell no.
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Money, the same reason why the billionaires didn't just charter a real sub to go down to visit the wreck.
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Fortunately, Bernie's friend Joe will do less than nothing to get us to medicare for all if elected. And same goes for Trump, he's still trying to wipe Obama's influence out of government.
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I'm surprised that he was in the general population seeing as he's both a former cop and somebody that murdered somebody while on the job.
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They also mysteriously have major renovations the year before they have their children going to college.
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Around here they've been converting normal apartments into luxury apartments and then massively raising the rent. The result is that normal people can't afford to rent, and can't afford to buy their own either. We've literally had people working full time jobs for years that are homeless.
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I'm willing to give it a try though.
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I think that's a lot of it. If you speak a few words of the local language, it does make a difference. French has a uniculture, that's how they've opted to deal with mulitculturalism, people are expected to assimilate into French culture. If you can say hello, thank you and several other helpful phrases in French, the experience will be a lot different than if you expect to go and say everything in a foreign language. It's not a high bar, most people could manage that level in less than a week. Similarly, knowing any Mandarin at all, will get a very different view of China than you'd otherwise get. I was mostly in rural areas and I get invited in to cafes by the locals or have these amazing interactions with people. It was kind of stressful because I was representing hundreds of millions of white people when I did it, but for the most part they didn't have a fixed mindset about foreigners, just most of them had never met any , so it was puresly based on what they saw in the media.
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That's the thing, the politicians wrongly think that the voters don't want whitecollar criminals sent to prison or that we don't get what they're doing. We do and we want them in prison even more so than the folks that do go to prison. A rapist or thief might ruin a few lives, but those white-collar criminals sometimes destroy the lives of hundreds of people.
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Not that the nobody but Trump voting is any better. Really, people need to start voting for candidates that are actually going to follow through on things that aren't horrible.
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It's difficult to get fewer than a third of people to not buy in no matter how stupid or crazy a politician is. In sales, about a third of the people who walk into a store will buy no matter what you do, to lose those sales you'd pretty much have to outright refuse to take their money. If you're anywhere near 30%, it means that you're effective approval rating is close to 0.
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I agree with him, although I'd say there's two or three things you get from a doctor that generally make it preferable. The differential diagnosis, treatment and potentially notes to hand in when requesting accommodations. But, that being said, sometimes the diagnoses are just broken. Schizoid Personality Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder are all autism and likely to eventually be fixed at some point. Those first two, the ScPD and ASD are virtually impossible to tell apart in many cases without a lot of extra testing because ScPD started out as the adult version of what would become Asperger's Syndrome. The two are a massive amount of overlap, but the fact that ScPD is considered to be a personality disorder, it doesn't require as much evidence from the past as ASD does. This is especially problematic for adults of a generation before the cameras were everywhere, as it can be hard to provide the necessary supporting evidence to say for sure that it's autism versus just being schizoid.
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I had 3 other third parties available. For me personally, I found Howie more compelling than the other options.
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That's because you've got an ethical base. These are all lies, it's just that rather than being completely made up, they depend upon selectively editing the information to make it sound different than it really is. If you've got to tell somebody that what you said was only technically true, it wasn't.
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Apparently, Ana has never rented an apartment because restrictions on what can be smoked in a rented apartment is a common thing. There's no law that mandates that a landlord allow smoking in rental units.
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Meanwhile in America, perhaps we were a bit too hasty with this whole Democracy thing, why don't we just let private organizations decide which candidates we're allowed to vote for and not prosecute any crimes by our chief executive.
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How is that relevant? If him being a narcissist changes how you interpret the validity of what you say, then you're an idiot. And of course he's a bit of a narcissist, he's a night club comedian when he's not doing the news.
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Yes, he didn't even pardon all the people that were closer to him that were arrested and convicted, I'm not sure why people would assume that he'd pardon the rest of them when he had the option to do so prior to leaving office last time.
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No, the way that to happen would be if the body decided that it didn't need any of the protein to generate and replace proteins in the body. And then for the body to process it perfectly and completely into glucose. The result is that it's pretty much impossible for that scenario to happen, as you'll pretty much always have a portion of the protein being used as protein. This is part of why you wouldn't typically restrict protein that much, there are other issues with excessive protein consumption, but not blood glucose.
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@ARockRaider It's just pining for the fjords. But yes, over time with fewer and fewer things being priced from 0-99 cents, there's not much reason for it to have a symbol.
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Most of us are capable of raising kids that don't engage in criminal acts that would warrant prison times. Sure, many do have kids that commit misdemeanors and virtually all parents have kids that commit minor traffic infractions, but being convicted of multiple federal offenses is not normal.
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Honestly, it's hard for me to have much sympathy. This is what the boomers did, they got handed everything, and then went out of the way to ensure that the following generations wouldn't have the same opportunities.
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It's rife with inaccuracies though. The metric system is extremely arbitrary through most of it's units and the unit that was most in need of reform, time, never got fixed. We could have had 10 or 20 hour days with 100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute. We could have had the even months have 30 days and the odd ones, except November with 31 days and put the leap year day at the end of November. But, that never happened. The rest of the measures are incredibly arbitrary, why 10 000 000 meters to the North Pole? They could have made it any number they liked, 30 000 000 would have given us a meter that's actually convenient, instead of the poor man's yard equivalent. Similarly, Celsius is really bad, it's only valid at sea level under specific conditions. It places the start and end points in weird places where they may not really apply to the location that you're at. Meanwhile, the KG was based off of a physical artifact that had a variable mass. It's not much in terms of variation, but enough to be a problem. The Imperial measures aren't perfect, but once you learn the conversion from the lengths of your personal body to the official ones, it's very easy to estimate things without a measuring device at all. And because temperature is roughly based upon body temperature, it's far more natural to estimate Fahrenheit temperatures than Celsius ones. People get brainwashed into thinking that metric is logical, but from an objective stand point, it isn't. It's incredibly arbitrary and makes mental math really hard. Probably the best example is all the people claiming that metric measures are better, but they don't even understand how to work with Imperial measures. Sure, there's a bit of investment, but there are so many factors that working with it without a calculator in the real world is a treat.
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@joeyjojoshabadoo889 At absolute bare minimum, he's an accomplice to all of this. And in both of those clips, he's guilty of assault and/or battery.
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@P.C.27 It's beyond me how there wasn't at least enough to charge the cyclist for a misdemeanor other than the disorderly. There's clear assault and battery in the contact, then there's filing a false police report and I'm sure there is some sort of charges that could have been brought in terms of opening the door in order to try to prevent the teen from leaving the scene.
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He said he's taking full responsibility, what more can he do? /sarc
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Yes, and any of us that aren't too stupid to miss it are appreciative.
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@ryeuhnbrus8287 What Israel is doing isn't that much different from what the Nazis were doing in the '30s before they stepped up to actual death camps and the holocaust. The reality is that Israel has stepped so far over the line that even the Germans have started to criticize their human rights record and for decades they wouldn't do it for fear of being called Nazis.
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What insurance companies have you been dealing with? All the insurers here have discounts for things like driver education training and not crashing for some defined period of time.
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I'm always curious about how they're going to justify coming to exactly the wrong conclusion if it's the one they need to make in order to keep their gravy train running.
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@TheSpeep I don't think there's a reasonable argument that there isn't significant rot in the "justice" system. But, I do think that there isn't sufficient attention paid to cleaning up the courts that go along with it nor is there enough attention paid to getting adequate funding for the defence attorneys that push back either. As long as the courts are willing to go along with the questionable confessions and things like parallel construction, it's going to be tough to clean up the police departments. I do think that if there were more accountabilitly in terms of how the police go about catching criminals that things would change relatively quickly. There's only so many citizens that the departments can shoot and if they have to keep letting people that are likely genuinely guilty out of jail over technicalities, it likely would also result in public pressure to adhere a bit more honestly to the laws regarding policing.
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@horusfalcon But, it sounds like they weren't particularly clear about what was going on while that was going on, or that she didn't understand what was going on. It can be rather hard to hear what's being said during boarding.
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This is absolutely disgusting. Part of accusing somebody is risking the possibility of ones character being damaged if the accused is ultimately not found guilty. In this case, there were enough women with similar stories that there was a certain amount of safety in making the accusation. But, justice isn't based on safety, it's based upon the law, the evidence and as much as possible not the people involved. This whole BS about rape being underreported because women won't report it is bull. We wouldn't have most of the things we have in society if men took a similarly cowardly view of our obligations. And we certainly wouldn't be whining about nothing being done if we didn't do something about it the way that women so often do.
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I've been with Firefox since before they were Phoenix, then Firebird then finally Firefox. It's been really depressing watching the project be mismanaged to the point where it's barely relevant. That being said, with sidebery and multi-account containers, it is actually a pretty good browser still and the extensions are still pretty strong. Admittedly not as strong as before they started separating the processes for the actual tabs out, but still pretty good.
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If we're going by research, the answer is no. Medical testing on kids is extremely rudimentary under the best of conditions for things that aren't controversial. For things like this where clearly intelligence isn't involved, it's even more dangerous as we're subjecting a generation of trans and gender non-binary kids to medical experimentation under the assumption that it will improve something, but where there's no real medical reasons for the assumption.
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@jamesmyers8619 Yes, I do wonder how long before the courts decide that monetary fines for contempt of court aren't good enough and start throwing people in jail until they comply.
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@alexmeza6565 You can't consent to things if you're under duress. It remains to be seen the degree to which that applies here, but given the level of alleged violence here, duress may well be the appropriate descriptor. Not to mention, that I doubt any of them knew these freak offs would be so involved that a thousand bottles of baby oil and IV fluids would be needed.
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It's largely the result of media consolidation and a small number of ultrawealthy people being allowed to own too many media outlets. It makes it practically impossible to get proper news as the folks that own the outlets have no real incentive to upset the applecart with too many anti-wealthy people articles.
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The problem is getting it enforced. Around here, the city attorney refused to prosecute theft if it was under $1k. And in part because the crimes weren't going to be prosecuted, the cops stopped showing up. At which point, there's not a lot that stores can do to protect themselves against it. The store owners have limited rights to stop the theft.
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@telcobilly Yes, ultimately, she chose to pull the trigger, she's lucky she didn't get a longer term.
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It should have happened ages ago. It's the height of arrogance that their new "budget" softail starts at $13k before taxes when other manufacturers can produce great motorcycles for far less. Same goes for the Livewire, WTF were they thinking pricing that at $30k when you can get great electrics for 2/3 or less. They need to go after new markets as the HD lifestyle is just not attractive to anybody under 50 and even for those of us that do like the leather and cruisers, it's asking a bunch to get us to pay so much for HD when there's Indian and some really amazing Japanese cruisers available.
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I'm still trying to know how he knew about my wife...
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@junholee4961 That's nowhere near good enough. That might protect whatever or whomever is in the elevator at the time, but a snapping cable under that much tension would be pretty much unstoppable as it slashes through everything in it's way. And there'd be no way of knowing which direction it would go or how high you'd need the shield.
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@kayleelockheart8208 I like "Crow Biden." But, the Black community keeps voting for the most damaging politicians as long as they're willing to give some pretense to wanting to help. The Clintons and Biden have been disastrous to the community. Not to mention Obama.
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@StupidAnon-gn8ih No, not even remotely true. Socialism is just the idea that the workers should own the means of production and have a say in how the spoils are divided. It says nothing about how the government should be organized. (Although some form of democracy or republic is most consistent with the people retaining control over things)
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I'm surprised that they didn't hit him with a felony for any of this. You can't prevent people from leaving so that you can call the cops on them. Especially, if they haven't committed any of the crimes that the local laws recognize as being a reasonable basis for a citizen's arrest or shop keepers privilege.
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Yes, a sitting President doesn't cancel fundraisers like that. The donors are revolting. It's rather unfortunate that their donations matter more than actual primary votes.
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@repletereplete8002 Yes, things like this happen and it's important to keep things in context. If my dad had been wearing a seat belt when he had his rollover crash in the '70s, I probably wouldn't be alive because he woke up with a boulder where the driver's seat was. Obviously, being ejected is far more likely to result in a fatality than a boulder crushing the driver's seat. He didn't start wearing a seat belt until sometime in the early '80s when state law was changed to require it in any vehicle that had one factory installed.
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@mychannel-rt2gn They do, but realistically, the courts didn't exactly encourage lawful conduct if he is in fact guilty.
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To this day, the standards are higher for military bases and motorcycles. You need not just the regular license, but also additional training.
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There definitely should be liability for when algorithms do more than simply give the user what they're looking for. Especially if the operator is promoting and demoting content for profit. I'm not sure that this here is the appropriate way of going about it or the appropriate justification.
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It's because there's a different business model over there. It's not uncommon to have an entire street of people selling basically the same things, there may also be "department stores" where the departments are owned by different people, which is more or less just a regular mall in a more compact form factor. It's a different buying culture and I wouldn't necessarily ascribe it to being more community oriented as malls were massively big in the US and really only started to decline due to the availability and practicality of online shopping. All of those countries will eventually have the opportunity to rely on online shopping like the US does, and then we'll see. But, when parts of Asia just recently got credit cards, it doesn't make for a particularly accurate comparison, as before CCs and debit cards became common in the US, people mostly had to shop in person, or send a check with an order form to receive the items later on via mail.
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@jenbrez70 This is why they need to make registration automatic. That and switch to mail only elections. That should cut down a ton on that and people who can't vote because the polling places close before all voters in line can vote or don't open at all.
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@Mr_Porter Yep, the whole point of it was to demonstrate just how corrupt the court is that that isn't considered a bribe under the current legal standards.
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Umm, how on Earth do people max out a 300cc bike? My Ninja 250 cannot red line in 6th gear. I can open the throttle completely and I'm still only running 12k RPM. As for the highway, I've logged at least a thousand miles on the freeway and it's perfectly fine. I don't have much in reserve if I need to pass somebody, but other than that it's perfectly fine. Only time it might be a problem is going through a mountain pass, but that's purely because I've got a carborated bike, a fuel injected one shouldn't have such problems.
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@teresalapier9354 I saw that, I wonder if they're plan was to retroactively go back and modify the content to be less defamatory, and even more mocking of the sorts of knuckleheads that buy into that. Much of the infowars stuff was already hard to distinguish from something really being pushed on Fox.
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@Dice-Z IKR, I've yet to see historical pictures of specific breeds where it isn't clear that the animals are the equivalent of European royalty.
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@@Walkingnluv Yes, hunger is not an issue, but while my grandfather made it nearly 2 weeks without any food or water, it's not unusual for people to die in as short a time as a couple days. And hypothermia is even faster. They should have appropriate clothes for the bottom and are probably huddled up as close to each other as possible, but just being that cold can deplete the oxygen levels faster as their bodies try to remain warm enough.
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You wouldn't need to, you'd just need to destroy the roads on either end and most of the people would die before too long as most of the population would be too far from other towns to be able to walk, and an insufficient amount of supplies would be able to come in.
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It's also worth noting that in most salons the people doing the hair are independent contractors who may not have any experience with that kind of hair unless that's who they've been working with. Unfortunately, the only way to get experience is to do the work, but if you don't have experience, it can be a challenge to get clients to gain the experience with. I don't personally think that salon that had to ask the hairdressers if they did it should have been shamed like that, it was a legitimate question and the receptionist might not know.
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@mrsvle Yes, although they are something that you can work on without having to have a bunch of specialized electronics.
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The only correct answer is clutch first. But, as you get better it gets increasingly hard to tell what got hit first as they're happening at virtually the same time. The only real exception is if you're using engine breaking, but you still wouldn't be hitting the needed without the clutch engaged.
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Keep in mind that Iger retired once, he's probably not going to be at Disney for too much longer regardless. All the magineers and folks need to do is drag their feet as much as they can and perhaps some of this won't actually happened. Plus, a bunch of this stuff is extremely early days in terms of planning and may not actually happen.
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LOL, that's the only positive thing I could say about it, I could listen to that man talk for hours on end. But, all the points that Kyle made are correct, this is a non-ad, there's nothing in it that any sane person would want. There are no promises to do something different or better. There's no indication that if elected that he'll take the people any more seriously than Trump does.
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I doubt that they'll allow a camera in the court, if they do, there's probably going to be 50 years worth of samples for rap songs.
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The money is owed to the lender as they just loaned the money, they didn't have anything to do with the actual car being purchased. The party that screwed up is the dealer and that's ultimately why the lawyer is involved as the money needs to be paid back by the dealer, but there's then the issue of the customer not getting a vehicle and the interest payments and potentially any changes in the market since then if they adversely impact the buyer.
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It's absolutely correct though, a sensibly lengthed dress wouldn't show that if she bent over like that. Women have no basis for whining on situations like this. If you choose to wear unprofessionally short skirts and show something, you can't really complain, that's ridiculous.
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I had a minor case early on and it was like the worse flu I've ever had and of it had gotten any worse, I'd have needed oxygen. But it was a minor case and I wasn't hospitalized.
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Yeah, I kind of feel like if she felt like her emotional state was so bad that she thought the team's chances were better without her is probably pretty bad.
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You misspelled that, it's c-l-o-r-o-x.
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@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep We know that this was good engineering.
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That's the thing, Biden is actually worse than Trump. His cabinet picks are worse and he's more likely to let the cabinet secretaries to do their jobs. Trump at least fights with his cabinet often enough that much less gets done than could be.
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Your generation also benefitted from substantially lower costs of attendance and the jobs you could get when you graduated paid better.
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@jewymchoser Precisely, this is just one project and the first project for this sort of thing is never the peak efficiency. As long as the thing does function to produce a viable output, the next ones will be able to improve on that. Now, if they finish building the thing and something completely unexpected happens that makes it not work, that would be a major problem. New designs with better magnets were always going to happen, it's just that we can't collectively wait for that to happen as we'd never actually build the thing.
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I boycotted that Ghostbusters movie for years. Then, I saw it for free on streaming and I legit could not get more than about 20 minutes into it. And, I was trying to give it a chance to see if I was wrong. I wasn't, it was just as bad as I thought. Fortunately, since I waited that long, my viewing wouldn't be a vote for more of that garbage. It's mostly the theater goers and folks that buy the discs that have that clout.
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Considering what Trump and Musk are doing to Social Security, they may decide that voting blue to take away some power from the GOP might be the right thing to do.
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The courts would, but so much of what he's done was unofficial, so at least he is still prosecutable.
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It's even funnier because men rate half of women less attractive than the average woman. But, women rate roughly 2/3 of the men less attractive than average men. Is it just me or is feminism mostly just a lot of periods and projection?
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It's an issue for women because they're spoiled enough not to have to deal with worse things in their lives. There's nothing particular offensive about that word versus other words that can be used t describe women. And nobody seems to have any issue with words that are primarily used to describe men in similar ways. The difference is that women seem to think they're above such things despite not having done anything to earn the special treatment.
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Well, he's not entirely wrong, often times drunk drivers will be ridiculously over board in terms of complying with such things so they don't get stopped. Also, 25mph is just plain dumb for most roads, if they want people to drive that, then they should do like they do around here and put engineered speed bumps that are safe and comfortable at the speed limit but sketchy when you're speeding.
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The fact that they don't know, or at least are claiming not to know, should be sufficient grounds for that not being allowed into the case in the first place. The rules of evidence can be rather complicated, but typically you can't get something entered into evidence if you can't produce a witness as to how the evidence was collected and that it reflects the condition in which it was collected. If they don't know that the statement was by the man they assert it is, then the entire proceeding should have been tossed as that was literally the whole basis for the court case was that somebody had requested the services. There really should be sanctions for the attorneys that brought this to the court knowing full well that they hadn't done any work to verify the authenticity of the cause of action.
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I see a lot of the busier drive throughs having a second lane for ordering. It does speed things up a bit, but more than that and you have logistical issues with needing a way to deliver the food to the other lane, and much of it involves things that are easy to spill like drinks. It's not like banks where they can just put the money into pneumatic tubes for delivery to the car.
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We have ads now?
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At this point, I'm not sure it's hypocrisy.
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This is why it should be required that all states allow people to vote by mail with some sort of receipt system to ensure that the vote is actually received and counted.
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Which agency? Apart from DoD which neither party seems interested in dealing with, what other agencies or departments are going rogue?
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@B_Bodziak Which kind of amazes me, given how I have never heard anybody that actually liked the VA. It's always been massively underfunded for the promises that were made to vets. It's even worse when you consider that some illnesses and health problems are far more common in veterans and as such, it does make some sense to try and consolidate them with doctors that have experience looking out for things that are more common in that community than the population at large.
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@Terabit3 Yep, it's unclear to me why he was let off the hook for with a disorderly conduct charge when there's a bunch of other charges that apply.
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OK, what does that have to do with anything?
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Perhaps, but if the Democrats don't get Biden off the ticket and replaced with somebody that's not senile, then we're going to get 4 more years of Trump.
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It's unfortunate that people are so ignorant about the effects of socium in the body. But, doctors are a part of the problem, the medical guidelines for sodium intake aren't based on any actual evidence and can lead to serious healthy issues. That being said, the dose you'd get from drinking a liter of soy sauce is way above and beyond what even the most lenient dosing on sodium would be. And doing so over the course of a couple hours should be expected to have extreme effects on the brain.
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They clearly don't care. Part of why this might happen is that younger voters already expect to not get some or all of the money we're supposed to get on the basis of the social security benefits because of things like the cap on social security income being taxed.
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@manofsan If it's a big enough deal that you need to be face-to-face, it's a big enough deal to take an overnight flight and get there the next morning. The number of people that have to be there on such a short time frame is just not ever going to be large enough to make this make sense.
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@senhowler He wasn't the director and producer can mean a lot of different things. But, even if he was the one that hired her as the armorer, that isn't sufficient to make him guilty of manslaughter.
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@gavnonadoroge3092 Yes, but filing frivolous suits can lead to disbarment and being banned from submitting things to the court. I suspect in the long term that they'll still wind up making more money from the gallery to justify this expense though.
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@patrickmaline4258 Yep, the first lady has even fewer duties than the VP. Just because we've gotten sort of used to first ladies doing things, doesn't mean that they're obligated to. I think they mostly take on causes and the like as a way of filling up the time as there is staff to do more or less all the work without her needing to direct any of it.
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@kelliea7451 I think that's probably why he's had such a resurgence the last few years. In this time of anxiety and trouble, just watching somebody take joy at something so relatively uncomplicated is worth it's weight in gold.
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I wouldn't even blame the marketers here, I'd blame the execs. The marketing department can only sell what they've been given to sell. Marketing is only a small portion of the issue here.
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@Gfish17 Around here, $12 an hour would leave you homeless. We have homeless people around here making minimum wage 40 hours a week.
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I'm still trying to figure out why Seth couldn't tell that one.
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Pretending that that's an excuse for her being the nominee without earning it is disingenuous. People voted for Biden because they either wanted his policies or specifically didn't want Trump to get another 4 years. Claiming anything else is just more copium. The DNC should have had a contested convention, this whole business of not knowing who the nominee was going to be and not knowing what the policies would be until after nomination is cartoonish and absurd.
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@UndarZ VP Harris even engaged in something like that when she was AG.
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What gets me is that I was working in a grocery store in a department next to the door and I would see people stealing large amounts of beer every day. I called security on them one day and was informed that that's not what security is there for. We finally had security that would confront shoplifters, but that's not what they were there for. I kind of wonder how the store still had a liquor license as just letting people come in and load up on a half dozen 24 packs of beer can't possibly be permissible.
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Being an unforgivable asshole is now a legitimate self-preservation strategy.
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There's a reason for that. Those folks are developmentally delayed and roughly the same maturity as a middle school student.
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I'm not surprised I was almost kicked out of Western Governor's University because a couple women got upset that I was advocating for myself to receive the same services that everybody else in my program received. They even went so far as to edit out the university personnel's comments where they were making unprofessional comments about me that I was responding to in order to make it seem like I was being unreasonable. And then when I did have my hearing, they lied to me about what the consequences I was looking at were. Rather than an informal warning, they opted to include the defamatory comments in my transcript and any appeal would have gone to somebody else in the same department. Sadly, at this point, the colleges often times don't bother to set up proceedings so that a handful of people can't just rig the system to get themselves off the hook and I hope he gets the entire $110m or whatever the highest amount that the courts will allow for that type of claim.
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@northernhemisphere4906 Dr. Luke and Max Martin alone are responsible for the lion's share of the hits over the last couple decades and a properly functioning music industry would have far more people originating hit music. It's part of why most music today sounds the same as the rest of the music. Even 20 years ago there was a decent chance that you'd know that two songs were by different artists without being familiar with their work in a way that's difficult now.
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The funny thing is that whether the stylist cuts off 2 inches of hair or a foot makes no difference in the cost of the haircut. So, if she just lets the hair grow out, she decreases the amount of money she spends on haircuts. An option that most men really don't have unless they want to be confused for women. I think it's hilarious that these women whine about that when men's haircuts are often so overpriced. Seriously, like $12 for a buzz cut, what's that all about?
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@anonygent No capitalism rewards the ability to rig the system in your favor, not effort. It's why the richest Americans are also the laziest. Or do you really think that Bezos, Musk and Buffet are really many thousands of times harder working than those folks in the back of house at the local restaurant? Socialism is just the notion that the workers should benefit from their work rather than 3rd parties. There are many different ways in which that can happen. Not all socialist situations require that everybody receive the same amount of money or be allowed to leach off everybody else.
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@GoogleAreEnemyCombatants That's not socialism, that's communism. When workers own the means of production, one option is that everybody gets the same amount out. Another is that people get out in proportion to what they need. Those tend to run afoul of human nature to a large extent, and I fail to see why they'd work better in the future. But, there are other options, such as factoring in both need and the degree to which you're contributing. Everybody gets enough to get their basic needs met, but beyond that, people get a larger increase of the surplus for contributing more. Or allowing people to give back some of what they've received as an investment in the system that pays some form of dividend in the future from some of the surplus resources after providing for everybody. Both of those are still socialism, but they're not at all what people think of as being socialism thanks to the degree to which fascists have been allowed to propagandize.
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@Arbaaltheundefeated He likely would be the candidate had he won in 2020.
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@doofus3974 Yes, he believes in it so much that he had the DNC rig voting machines and had his competition drop out so as to steal the nomination from Bernie. Yes, that sounds like somebody that believes in the institutions of democracy.
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@pengos1639 I think that it made a bit of sense as it can be a challenge to find people with stairs willing to let you film a short segment in their houses, especially if they aren't 100% confident in their stairs and don't have the money to fix them right away.
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It took me a moment to parse that out. That's the thing right there. He failed to get anything substantive accomplished, and ultimately the people running the party are still just as corrupt as they were before. He could have taken his ball and gone home after one of the last two primaries, and probably wrecked things for the part enough that somebody would have recognized what was going on. But, ultimately, he started simping for his friend Joe and sold out his own supporters. I don't know who would even vote for him this time around, given how little he cares to fight for what he believes when it comes to his friends.
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That's why they created a cptsd diagnosis.
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@Jplays23 Probably, there's a lot of judges between state, local and federal courts, just having more YT channels covering this stuff is going to rake up the muck. There's a reason why most judicial proceedings are done with the public being allowed to witness the proceedings. It's mostly things that are purely administrative and things of a sensitive nature that are done in private. Most of the time, the public has the right to attend the trial to make it less likely that this kind of conduct will occur.
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@randomletters9628 Yes, situations like this are good examples of where a preliminary injunction is appropriate, providing that the plaintiff can demonstrate that the necessary likelihood of winning. But, in that case, I'd expect a win for the business owner.
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Connor G I once spent an entire month on jury duty. He screwed up by not just oversleeping, but by failing to inform the court that he had overslept.
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Because they aren't recovering trillions and even if they were, they still need to deliver more tax cuts to billionaires as there's never enough tax breaks for them.
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I think part of it is that a lot of the Jewish mobsters were German as well. Which makes things somewhat confusing, as Dutch Schultz was both German and Jewish. There's also the issue of a lot of German things being misattributed to the Dutch due to the difficulty of Americans to pronounce Deutsch, Pennsylvania Dutch being a good example as it has little to do with Dutch.
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That's likely easier said than done. When businesses move there's a very real risk of losing out on enough business to put them under. Not to mention that they'd need to find an appropriately sized lot and deal with the hassle of getting all the equipment moved over and installed. Some of the lifts may not even be economical to move rather than replace, leading to a significant expense.
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IKR, if they're going to start a nuclear holocaust, the least they could do is be considerate with the sonic booms.
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@ProJoe-xb5ie Yep, we don't yet know what caused this, and considering that it's one plane slamming into one house, I'd be surprised if the FAA or anything Trump related had anything to do with this. He's only been President again for a couple months, it's not even likely that there was a missed inspection during that time.
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@MarcillaSmith Just limiting the number of rounds that can be in the magazine alone would make a huge difference.
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@Shrifbun Yes, and you can get reusable bags, and you can get vacuum jars and the like that can be reused indefinitely as well.
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@BradyHansen81 Those are the most populace states. There are more people there, so they should get more of a say in the result. We've still got the Senate where the smaller states get an outsized say in what happens in terms of legislation being enacted into law. Plus, there's no guarantee that enough voters in CA, TX and NY will vote the same way to dictate the outcome. TX is probably going to vote the opposite way for the foreseeable future.
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@BradyHansen81 You've got that backwards. The EC makes most states including CA count as much as RI. Voting in WA, my vote has never counted for the Presidency, it doesn't matter whether I vote Democrat, GOP or for Mickey Mouse, the vote doesn't have any hope of changing the outcome. And IIRC until 2000, the results even started rolling in before our polls had even closed.
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@RayZde Stability and not forcing your customers to have to use one specific version. I've had too many software products where one version won't work, but the previous version and next version do. I've also used a bunch of software where they provide free bug fixes for the life of the current major release, but they charge for major updates. It seems rather difficult to do both of those things if you're not branching. I realize that it's fashionable these days to not know the difference between major, minor and bug fix releases, but it is rather important if you can't guarantee that everybody is going to update to a newer version, or you're charging for major updates. Sometimes a major update means that the hardware that worked for the previous version just can't be supported, but you can't/don't want to leave that software unpatched because there's still significant numbers of people using it.
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Unfortunately? The thinking is of low quality and the conclusions are sketchy at best. I see no reason to ban the books, but I do think that exposure to them is really only valuable in the sense that we should have exposure to various ideas, even if they're clearly fatally flawed.
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King Honkie You mean other than defund the colleges and ship the jobs overseas that folks used to be able to count on to make decent money, right? My dad was able to afford to buy a house on his job as a carpenter making more or less the median wage and keep it despite going virtually bankrupt in the late '70s. There's absolutely no way that a person of his age at the time could do so now.
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While you're at it, why don't we talk about how the Boomers pulled the ladder they used to get where they are up after them so that following generations couldn't prosper as easily.
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@Vann20F Whether he's held accountable or not depends a lot on what SCOTUS decides to do. I don't think that the generals are going to be too keen to back him up if it comes to that, given that they have committed to fighting for and upholding the constitution.
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Because if it saves money, they'd have to find a different argument against it.Being less expensive and providing better results is just difficult to spin.
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They can afford to be banked, they just don't have a physical location near them and don't know about online ones. Postal banking would address that, but it's misleading to suggest that there are people that can't afford it as there are many institutions where you need as little as $5 or less to open an account. The bigger issue tends to be knowing what options are out there and having an internet connection to do so.
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@zvmZvm0102 The demand that causes people to open businesses won't go away. Nor will the prices that people are willing to pay. There will be new businesses that open up to meet the demand, the difference is that people will know how much they're going to be expected to pa ahead of time.
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@exploitedfight8081 keep in mind that he's known for pushing his responsibilities onto others while reaping the reward.
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Essentially, if you're known to have that sort of shady personal ethics, you're probably going to be willing to overlook other norms as well.
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@jgrenwod It's WA, there's no requirement that you prove residency to get the license because we would rather have people driving legally than driving illegally. The folks here without documentation are here whether or not they have a license to drive. The question is whether or not they are able to do so safely.
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For the sake of completeness, in this scenario would the US already be ethnically cleansing Canada, Cuba and the Caribbean?
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I'm "privileged" to live in a state where my vote doesn't count. It was kind of a tough call as basically all the tertiary candidates were worth consideration. Ultimately, I wound up voting Green because they seemed slightly better and had some hope of getting enough support for recognition.
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The movie is fine, people will get over their butthurt over some pretty minor flaws. I don't think that it will have the staying power of the first 3 movies, but it's hardly anywhere near as bad as this review suggests it is. I do think that the Rotten Tomatoes audience review score of 89% (as of posting) is pretty representative of what it should be. It's hardly a perfect movie, but it's not exactly dog meat either. I likely will watch it again at some point, something that I can't say the same about with respect to Crystal Skulls. People are entitled to their own opinions, but I do think this review, as were most of the other ones I saw in the lead up to the initial release, pretty misleading. The writers did a pretty good job in terms of laying pipe where pipe was needed and it's kind of insulting to them to just pretend like the plane flying ability came out of nowhere when that was set up in the first scene that we see Teddy. He's literally sitting at a table with a very bare bones flight simulator learning how a plane works. It's not like they showed up at an airport and all of a sudden he knows how to fly as this video implies. Yes,there was a fair amount of writer's convenience going on, but that wasn't one of them. Neither was the villain knowing to go to Syracuse. They established that there were two cities of interest with respect to Archimedes and were positioned to where the direction of travel would say where they were going. The movie is hardly perfect, but it's not a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination. It's certainly the best one in the last 30 years by a long shot.
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@TheLuceon In all fairness, they are a criminal as far as the system goes at that point, the judge that issued the warrant is the one that gets to decide how it proceeds from there. It's clearly not ideal, but the cops and court officers other than the judge don't get to ignore a lawful court order.
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Nonsense, UBI works with or without financial literacy. People can either hire an expert or get advice at their bank/credit union if they don't have the financial literacy. And, it's never been about discipline, there's entire industries setup to make it expensive to be poor. Things like grocery stores and check cashing fees mean that the poor outright have less to work with to begin with.
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Unlimited used to mean that they put no limit on it, so it was only really limited by our ability to use it and possibly things like maxing out our local connection.
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I take it he doesn't know anybody that's had to replace multiple flashers. My mother compulsively saves her turn signal clicks because her previous Chevy had to have the turn signal blinker replaced quite a few times. And my wife will turn off her turn signal if she's sitting in the left turn lane for very long, only to turn it on again when she starts moving.
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@billyFNbones Yes, also if the companies selling crap products aren't replaced by other companies, it means the product or service was a complete waste and had no market to begin with.
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@Nocomment9876 Yep, it's going to be interesting to see how they resolve future cases which involve things they screwed up.
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@Itried20takennames That's probably why. Getting people bodies off the mountain requires that somebody physically drag the body down the mountain. There's only a handful of helicopters that can get anywhere near the altitude of the top bits of the mountain and trying to deal with the various weird drafts is tough even with lower elevations. One of the risks these folks take when going for the summit is that they'll get in trouble with nobody able to provide the necessary help. It's probably only somewhat better than having a mishap while spelunking.
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@Wolfie713 He may not want it, but in many states you either get a RealID compliant driver's license or none at all. Around here the state decided that it was more important to have people diving actually licensed, so the driver's license doesn't involve checking citizenship information. The upside is that there isn't any sort of excuse for people without documentation to get a license. The downside, is that any decade now we're not going to be able to use our driver's licenses to go onto federal property because the license doesn't demonstrate our right to be in the country. The whole thing is both racist and ignorant.
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I think it's worth recognizing that the legal barrier in a civil trial is lower than in a criminal one. Since he hasn't won a civil suit, it's hard to say that he's clean enough to win a wrongful death suit which would be more similar to the defamation cases that he's threatening to pursue. A lawyer for the defendants might well be able to prove to the preponderance of evidence standard that Rittenhouse did murder those people, even if it's not possible to do so beyond a reasonable doubt. A different judge might not have excluded the evidence surrounding those supremacist links, giving the facts a very different look. Personally, I think he's a horrible person and ultimately people are dead because he chose to take the law into his own hands. The verdict was probably legally correct, but he's pretty much a worm for the way he's handling all of this. Little if any indication that he legitimately feels bad for having killed them. Just lapping up his 15 minutes of fame.
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Yes, also at this point TV has been around as a common thing for well over half a century and it's going to be harder and harder to compete with the best the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s, ''20s put out and the problem just gets worse over time, we all only get 168 total hours a week to spend on everything we do. Right now, even if we watch 8 hours of TV a day, that's only 1 hour per decade on average, and with how good the TV was in some of those decades due to forward thinking execs that paid for quality, it's going to get progressively harder to compete anyways. Especially, with so much available via both streaming and home media.
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@jclosed2516 It's not a practical scale in any way shape or form. The units are very close together and with 0 being where it is, when it's winter outside you have a much greater likelihood of extra headache when comparing temperatures in neighboring cities. What's more, it completely breaks if you're not operating under standard conditions and netiher 0 nor freezing are anywhere near body temperature which leads to additional headaches with estimating temperatures as the only natural temperature to compare with is body temperature. Fahrenheit isn't perfect, but based upon when it was created, it's rather impressive.
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I wonder if any of the passengers would have gone if it wasn't the CEO piloting the craft.
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@patrickpowers5995 They also shouldn't be permitted to engage in banking operations again in the future.
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IKR, I saw the video of this already and I didn't see anything particularly weird about it. This is a case where it's rather unfortunate that English doesn't have multiple options for we. Some languages do allow for a we that includes both speakers and one that doesn't.
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@michaelburk9171 I for one have very little faith that this is going to change their minds about their recent rulings. They were warned at the time of the arguments and by some of the dissenting justices that this could happen, and the majority still voted to give him this power without even permitting courts to consider whether it was an official act or not.
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Don't forget that even if they pass something, everybody but the essential workers could be taken care of. The essential workers get screwed.
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This is John Oliver, they probably have a light up sign for that rather than applause.
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@HalfChubFullTime Yep, there are oligarchs and there are robber barons. Although, oligarchs usually try to become robber barons when they can.
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Rank-choice voting doesn't really solve anything. It allows people to vote for whomever they want, but that doesn't mean that things would change in any appreciable way, you'd still have only 2 parties and if it changes which 2 parties it is, things have already gone way off the rails.
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Not to mention that it drastically reduces the likelihood of diaper rash.
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I'm never voting for Pramila Jayapal again after she screwed us over. It's bad enough that she voted for Pelosi for speaker, but to also vote for paygo is completely unacceptable. She's clearly just as corrupt as the rest of them.
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Indeed, she gave up all of the leverage she had counting on the GOP to be reasonable. The unemployment increase should have extended through the end of the pandemic. The PPP money should have been limited only by the number of businesses that qualified. And essential workers should have gotten hazard pay from the government through the end of the pandemic. But, she didn't even try to get any of that, because she's every bit as corrupt as the GOP is. The Democrats are going to continue to be worthless for as long as they keep selecting leaders based upon who is the most corrupt.
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That's sort of the point, you could have dangerous stairs in your own home. You need a proper railing and ideally one that's strong enough to catch yourself with if you start to slip. The treads need to be clear and provide enough texture to prevent slips, each step should be of a uniform height and depth, and ideally, they should be wide enough for whatever you're planning to bring up or down the stairs.
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@rik0904 We do. If you're walking around, you'll see these brass metal discs that are embedded in the concrete from time to time to indicate a specific location. When you get into more rural areas, it can be a bit harder, but there are benchmark locations for that as well.
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The Soviet's contributions to WWII has been vastly understated by the US. It's doubtful that the US would have won either theater without their massive sacrifices.
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Because we have to vote Joe no matter who. God forbid we get a President that actually cares to push policies that would benefit the people.
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I don't think anybody should be in that kind of position. This is especially true because there are many essential jobs out there which require a degree, but pay basically minimum wage. I'm not really sure that I'd care to live in a country with no social workers because getting the relevant degree means taking out a massive loan and then taking a tiny wage and hoping that you can eventually live a decent life if the loan is foregiven. It's messed up how many public sector employees are barely better off than the people getting public benefits.
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@jenshaw8085 The thing is that even if you are careful and do everything right, rapists are still a thing. Abstinence is 100% effective, but only if you actually abstain. If teens could abstain until they were ready to have kids, there wouldn't be much of a debate about all of this and with teen pregnancy rates being what they are, it's pretty clear that some portion can't wait.
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Yes, the city council just passed an ordinance that requires $4 an hour pay raise, but it's been a year and for those of us working those jobs we've already taken substantial damage to our bodies and additional risk that we'll never be compensated for. We didn't even get the extra money that the feds were giving out to basically everybody else. We got a paltry $1800 for the last year and if we were lucky, a little bit of hazard pay for a couple months at the start. That's it.
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That's more or less the issue. Even if they were going to take the trees down, that still shouldn't count, as most uses for trees other than for burning don't put the carbon back into the air anytime soon. Plus young trees remove far more CO2 than mature trees do. But, really, the issue here is that this is being done as a scam with insufficient work being put into ensuring that the figures are correct and that the savings do materialize. The result is that people think they're doing the right thing, but ultimately making the problem worse in cases where they could have bought a product that wasn't "carbon neutral" but turns out to have a smaller footprint anyways, or not buying it at all.
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In all fairness, they intentionally made their filesystem browser also a web browser so that people couldn't force them to remove it from the OS. It cost them rather a lot due to the cost of securing it when it was that deeply buried in the OS.
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I've been thinking about buying some offsets, but this kind of thing is what's making me hesitant. I've pretty much given up on convincing my wife that she can't just go around leaving lights on all the time and using disposable dishes for regular eating. It's particularly angering given that her dad used to work as an engineer for an oil company, to see her going around pretty much deliberately destroying the environment as best she can.
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I was going to say the same thing, most banks are terrible. Credit Unions are owned by the depositors so any money that they collect either goes to compensating bank employees or back to the members in the form of interest or services. The main way that can go wrong is if the executives are being overpaid. But, as there are no 3rd parties, that's easier to solve.
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There is one, it's called UBI and reducing the lenght of the workweek so that there are enough jobs and cash to go around. When we get to the point where there's legitimately no lowskill jobs out there, we'll be at a point where we can give everybody UBI to cover their basic needs and the folks that were working those lowskilled jobs can do something else. Just because a job is lowskilled, doesn't mean that the worker is. A bunch of them are working those jobs because they couldn't get a better one. You'd be surprised how many people are working those jobs with advanced degrees. It's hardly unheard of to get your coffee from somebody with a PhD in a field that doesn't have many openings.
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It's not really a surprise, given that those sorts seem to think that the other side is just as bad. And that is true to an extent,t he difference is the proportion of the left that's that bad compared with the proportion of the right that is.
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It's worth noting that young trees sink more carbon than older ones due. If you grow young trees for something that doesn't emit much of the carbon back into the atmosphere, you get more bang for the buck. As forests age, they retain more of the carbon, but sink less of it.
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I do think that these sorts of channels should have the view count blocked and possibly be demonetized. IIRC, The Guinness Book of World Records removed most of the categories relating to people doing extreme things due to the possible issues of people hurting themselves trying to beat the record.
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Quite possibly, but given how macguyvered together the vessel was, it's entirely possible that the communications system and emergency beacons could have failed and the sub had been stuck on something at depth. But yes, with something going that deep and suddenly losing all communications, the likelihood of being able to mount a rescue before the resources ran out was always a very long shot. There just aren't that many vessels in the world that can do it. None of them were on site.
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She's not wrong about getting people back to work. She's just wrong about how to go about it. Why is it that the people working get nothing? The unemployed make more than I do.
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Came here to say the same thing. How would we know that it was real, it could be just like that cup of "Flint" water that Obama drank.
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This reminds me a bit of what I've heard about the Johnson administration when they were waging the Vietnam campaigns. He was micromanaging far more of it than was appropriate for somebody in his position, much of which is best left to lower ranking officers and possibly NCOs.
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Zapp Branigan 2020
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@marymassey3843 When precisely did she lie under oath? Nobody bothered to do an investigation on the matter, but we do know from Kavanaugh's drinking buddies that he perjured himself when he claimed he never blacked out from drinking. We also know from common sensed that boofing is not farting. Honestly, what sort of moron thinks that there are people that old have never farted and are looking forward to doing that for the first time?
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@silvermeasuringspoons6462 Unless you're doing a lot of data entry, there's no real purpose to them. I know how to use a ten key, but I can't say that I use it that much at home. Those buttons are also useful ones to remap to macros.
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@nitrofreakmanho Yes and often times doing it with US taxpayer dollars. It's bad enough that they're doing these things, it's worse that my taxpayer dollars are going to help.
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TBH, you make it sound like it happens that often. For the relatively large number of rides that get set up and taken down every year, this is a relatively unusual event. I'd be more worried about the ride to and from the fair than the rides.
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Perhaps, but from the sounds of this, they may have violated her 1st amendment rights.
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Honestly,this whole thing seemed awfully fishy from the start as if mere ownership of some land is the standard, then it pretty much makes the whole title pointless as a good chunk of the population would qualify. It reminds me a bit of the Arthur C. Clarke book 3001 where he refers to one of the characters as being one of the few that had managed to avoid becoming a Lord. Which would definitely happen if you were able to get the title so easily.Such a small plot of land is just a pain to be able to even track. You get the land and if you're off by even a little bit, you're now on somebody else's land. And that doesn't even consider the reality that such a small plot of land isn't something that can be registered officially anyways.
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She's just as smart as she is attractive.
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@CaliforniaMatrix1989 If you look at the pond, it looks relatively steep, if the car got launched into the pond due to somebody confusing the gas for the brake, it's entirely possible that any deformation would have already disappeared by the time that anybody even started looking. Especially if there was any rain in the meantime. This isn't a pond with a lot of mud surrounding it, it looks like a pretty small amount as the last bit as it transitions from shore to pond is pretty steep.
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Could be worse, at least Switzerland is a lovely country, if a bit on the small side.
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That implies that they're not working from home. Just another right-wing hack.
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Why? These were old houses that were built next to forests that have been extremely dry and it's been extremely hard to fight all of these fires at once. At this point, there isn't really any indication that there has been anything criminal going on.
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They shouldn't be showing the sign, or really giving this any publicity. It's just going to encourage more people to do the same stupid thing. Self-murdering should never be glorified.
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@oceandark3044 Around here the lawns tend to die during the summer and come back during the winter, unless you do a ton of watering. You're better off choosing to replace the grass with native ground cover that is more than happy to take whatever rain does fall, which around here is less than they get in Arizona during the summer. The reason we don't have the water crisis they do, is that we make up for it in the winter and are able to save it in our watershed for use and distribution during the summer. We also own the entirety of the watershed as well as all the water rights for the rain, so there's no need to divvy it up amongst competing groups.
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@JohnDoe-qz1ql Back when SCOTUS still cared about legitimacy, the rule of law and the constitution, we'd have some idea what to expect. Now, it's going to depend upon which side is giving the best gratuities.
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@wasspj It sounds like under the technology of the day when the conviction was made, they got it right to the extent that they could. This is the result of new technology allowing for a better understanding of the evidence and to the credit of the prosecutor, there is actually an effort to right the wrong. There's a decent chance that the prosecutor doesn't just know this person is innocent, but has a decent sense of somebody else as there has been been nearly 2 decades during which DNA has been collected from numerous people that may not have even been available when the prosecution was putting together the case back then.
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I agree, it's not like you can't get a proper microphone that is light enough to hold comfortably for some period of time. A lav isn't even that hard to wear, assuming that you don't need for it to be hidden. A loop and a clip and it's on. Apart from a quick sound check to see if there's too much noise in the area, I don't see any purpose in ever recording while handholding a lav, and even then, it doesn't make much sense as it should be held where you're planning on wearing it.
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Because he's been winning his primaries.
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Citation needed. Rape is more punished now than it was in the past and the rates for rape and sexual assault are falling as better methods are available to investigate and prosecute offenders. The cases that don't get prosecuted are mostly the result of the crime not being reported in the first place or there being insufficient evidence to warrant a conviction. Whether or not you like it, rapists still have their rights under the constitution. That being said, the lion's share of the alleged rapes that don't get reported don't get reported because they didn't happen. They include cases where the "victim" purposefully got a bit tipsy in order to be comfortable getting the sex that he or she wanted. Cases where the "victim" was still well in control of his or her consent, but is considered to not have consented because alcohol apparently wipes out a person's ability to consent to sex. Specifically sex, that excuse doesn't apply to any other stupid things a person might do. Driving drunk doesn't get a similar waiver of accountability. And it pretty much only gets prosecuted for men that have sex with drunk women, not the other way around. That being said, cases like this are a huge problem. As are the people who discourage victims from reporting the crime because it's allegedly not taken seriously.
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Perhaps, but I look forward to a day when most people are actually smarter than me. The key takeaway here is that we should be investing a lot more time and energy ensuring that young people have the best training we can give them in dealing with morality. And I mean dealing with it, not parroting what we think is right and wrong, but how to evaluate it as much as possible. The intelligence thing will probably solve itself with any halfway decent education system, but we've failed miserably when it comes to teaching children how to develop morals and identify the difference between things that are considered to be moral and things that actually are. Or swap in ethics if you want.
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To be fair, the people propping her up lost interest in continuing to prop her up after that embarrassing loss.
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FWIW as an American trying to learn to read Chinese, the simplified characters aren't much help. At best the simplification makes it easier to hand-write the characters, but the written Chinese I saw while in China was itself simplified by the people doing the writing. I assume the same thing happens with traditional characters. The unfortunate side effect is that some of the characters are actually less simple in the simplified character set than in the traditional one. And to add insult to injury, the combination of only partially related words makes for more confusion. Not to mention that the simplified characters are harder to memorize than the traditional ones are where more of the meaning is preserved. I started learning the simplified characters so I'm going to stick with that until I can read the newspaper at least. But, eventually I'll probably learn the traditional characters as well.
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For better, or more likely worse, Trump has figured out that if he wants the #BernieOrBust voters that it would probably be a smart idea to try and appeal to us. Granted he's being rather hamfisted about it, but Clinton is actively chasing us away. She's crowing about how much money she's taken from various rich and powerful groups. Which is near or at the top for a significant portion of the #BernieOrBust voters.
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Bamboozle Plague It's a minority of liberals that are doing it and they're probably not even real liberals. I'm not sure how anybody claiming to be liberal would ever support Clinton. Between the racism, homophobia and sexism that she's used to try and get more power, I can't imagine anybody claiming to care about those issues supporting her or her husband.
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@Joelmgarten, First off, our grammar is perfectly fine, just look at those abominations of dialects that pop up all over Great Britain and the rest of the common wealth and say we're butchering the language. We're not butchering it anywhere near as bad as your folks do. Secondly, I'm sure the folks of Elizabethan England would say the same thing about your use of the language. As far as July 4th goes, we use of because it emphasizes the day over the month. We could also do that via the usual way of showing possession, but you still wind up with the thing being possessed after the possessor. Lastly, if we're going to choose a "correct" English, that English is American English as most native speakers of English are American and it's growing every year.
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I am a Sanders supporter and I met many people that had never been involved in politics before, but they came out for him. The thing that bothers me about this is that Hillary drained the coffers of the state party in over 3 dozen states through her Victory fund and I can't help but think that the money would have made a difference in at least some of those races. But, we'll never know because she illegally drained the funds and wasted them on a doomed campaign against Trump.
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@dr1flush he's lying, it's rather difficult to filter out and many people can't afford filters anyways.
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I wish they'd stop perpetuating myth that there's a war on women. It's pretty much just abortion rights. That's it. And BTW, men don't have any rights in these situations. It's whatever the woman wants to do and the man winds up paying whether or not he wanted the child. In many cases, it isn't even his child, but he was stupid enough to sign on the dotted line.
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@daraghokane4236 And unless there isn't a family or unisex restroom, there isn't much of a choice in the matter. Boys can't always have their fathers around when they're in public any more than girls can always be with their mothers. The only way around the problem involves either unisex restrooms or just letting them go in based upon the parent's gender identity. Plus, it's mostly the men's room where you could potentially see something anyways.
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@luckyowl10 It's not harder to use, and I have no idea where people got that idea from. For the most part things just work, if you've got hardware that's listed it will work, with Linux I've found it to be a bit hit or miss as to whether or not supported hardware will work as advertised. Yes, with the more mainstream versions you have to install the GUI separately, but there's also versions where that's done for you. And at any rate, with modern OSes, you should just do an install in a virtual machine to start with anyways, so that you don't have to deal with the inconvenience of living with any mistakes that you make. And, I'd advise everybody do that when possible for any new OS.
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That assumes that the local authorities will even do anything about it. Around here, everybody knows that the police outright won't come unless there's a significant amount of merchandise involved in the specific instance. So, we'll see the same people in basically every day and sometimes a couple times a day stealing less. Management tries to get them removed, but it winds up costing the customers a lot.
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He said that, but he also wound up getting several billion dollars in free publicity.
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@Ciridan Making the cable is one thing, but it requires a specialty ship to manage and those aren't cheap. It's part of the reason that elevators don't extend the full length of skyscrapers, the cabling to do that is massive and generally reserved for the freight elevator.
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@ebrown0071 What's scary is that he's going to move to the right as soon as he's formally declared to be the nominee, then further right if elected.
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"Technically" should really carry a definition along the lines of "this is a lie." The reality is that while Biden was talking about that last package being a down payment, that's not how a reasonable person would interpret the promise of a $2k check going out the door as soon as Biden took office. They promised $2k checks when he took office if those Senate races went for the Democrats and there's going to be hell to pay if they don't deliver.
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Just being forced to replace the tree with a similar tree can get extremely expensive, even without actual damages. Trees generally take many years to grow and are god help you if it's a sizable juniper or the like, those things can grow extremely slowly in some places.
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@dcastleb69 Not really, agnostic is essentially the safest bet in terms of being correct. It doesn't reflect a lack of any higher power, it just recognizes that it's pretty much impossible to know with any meaningful level of certainty if there is or not. I've met some atheists over the years who were just as religious about it as the more devout followers of organized religions.
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At a certain point, you just need more lanes. You can keep the number lower, by offering grade separated mass transit and defusing economic activity for reduced commuting, but at the end of the day, you can't just remove lanes of traffic and expect good things to happen, the way Seattle thinks it will.
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To be fair, stringing two sentences together without calling anybody a dog-faced pony soldier is probably testing his cognitive abilities.
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He's American now, so that makes it OK.
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That's one of the big dangers. Since we already have so many police in certain areas, there's going to be that much more data on those areas. Minor crimes might not be noticed at all in better off areas and what about when a body is dumped? How would they know where the crime actually occurred until after it was solved and probably used for further analytics?
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AOC was working class, and look at how well she's done. (Here's a hint, she's been an absolute joke)
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Perhaps, but what kind of idiot contractor climbs on a roof and starts going at it without knocking on the door and talking with the occupants?
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Won't happen, Bernie is much too old. He would have been either just getting out of office having served his 2 terms, or about to start his second. And Walz has the taint of this loss on him.
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But, but, when you add the $600 to the $1400 check, you get $2k. How can people not understand that as a promise kept. Gee, I wonder why nobody likes him.
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@juanpablohurtadolopez6986 We do, it's called a passport, it's just that we don't mandate everybody get one.
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@ohoyohummered It's not just that, donating to the DNC in '16 was tantamount to a donation to Hillary as she was taking nearly all of the donations that were being made to prop up her losing campaign. What they did to Bernie was horrific, but it was really just the tip of the ice berg. Why would anybody donate to the DNC when they have so little consideration for the will of the people?
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@ozsheila55 He also has tried to get GITMO reactivated for renditions. I don't think that Trump is going to live long enough to make proper death camps, but he sure does seem to want to.
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I’m curious how widespread this really is. I work in a grocery store that has a Starbucks inside and the woman working there was where I found out that we weren't being required to wear masks any longer. Honestly, one of the reasons why I stopped wearing my mask for most of the work day is that people need to see that other people aren't wearing masks, or we'll never get out of this mess. I got it early on and have had both doses of the Pfizer vaccine and there's no scientific reason to believe that the mask is doing anything for anybody at this point. I'm already over-vaccinated. The store encouraged us to get the shots with a small bonus for completing the shots, and now we're allowed to not wear masks at work if we're fully vaccinated. We're not being forced to take the masks off, and we're not being forced to leave them on. It's a privilege of being vaccinated that we don't have to wear the masks.
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In this case, it might be more appropriate to have them gluing the rocks that other prisoners broke back together before the other prisoners break them again.
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The main problem with the Green Party is that they basically do nothing other than run for President. You don't see them on the ballots during off years or for other offices. The best way to earn votes for the Presidential race is by helping people locally. If people start seeing these Green Party members helping them personally, they'll be much more likely to view the national candidate favorably.
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When I first moved out, most of my stuff was 2nd hand. Over time, I replaced it with stuff that was mostly on markdown at a significant discount. Lately, I buy mostly new, but it's mostly quality stuff to replace that stuff that I had previously and the stuff I had previously goes to a 2nd hand shop for redistribution. I do think that people should realize that there's a fairly nice stuff that can be had 2nd hand and that if they just replace the stuff that they use so much they wear out, they can save a lot of money on things that weren't contributing anyways.
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Times change, there's no longer any reason for girls that age to get married and have kids. So, 16 year olds might be fertile, but they're definitely not ripe and the whole thing is absolutely disgusting groomer nonsense.
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With the exception of gender studies and economics, there aren't very many truly worthless degrees being offered. They may not all have a directly applicable field, but they will typically at least improve critical thinking and ability to learn on the job.
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@tumpech If it didn't occur to them it's because they were half-assing the planning. With something like this there should have been somebody that was thinking about the worst case scenario. And this is a completely expected situation where some people don't get or respond to the email for one reason or another.
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Unfortunately for Clinton and Warren, women are too smart to fall for this. Why don't they just run on actual issues?
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IKR, $100k gets you a lot of dumpster and garbage pickups.
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We need a constitutional amendment to remove private organizations from the nomination process.
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It's particularly weird because negative signs aren't normally used for that sort of thing. It's more common for them to use parentheses to indicate that it's negative or to have all the numbers be positive, just debits or credits as appropriate. A financial statement may have negative numbers, but not typically in most other financial documents. Using a minus sign and then putting it far from the number it reflects is either incompetence or fraud.
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@Godkingzeus.69 Arguably he's worse. The first I ever heard of him was after that ill-advised trip to a certain Japanese forest and filming the body. I'm not sure who thought that was OK.
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@BigSnipp And Americans don't? Just look at how hard the GOP gets for fascists.
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@billlee8321 Yes, I think that's why these deals normally involve it being dismissed without the ability to try again. Typically, these deals are already stacked in favor of the prosecution on the basis of them being able to load up as many charges as they like to pressure people into pleading guilty.
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@gregmuon Yes, and don't they still have waitlists for some of their vehicles?
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It's not a great video though. I usually like these videos, but this one just wasn't any good. It doesn't justify a lot of the things which are driving this. It doesn't justify the removal of the thumbs down count, it doesn't justify the pushing of unpopular videos with such frequency, and it doesn't justify the complete refusal of the platform to allow smaller creators to make money through the platform. It costs YouTube practically nothing to handle it when a viewer clicks on the thanks button and donates directly to the creator. The cost of transferring money electronically is practically nothing, even when you include the cost of complying with various money laundering and fraud regulations. They could easily reduce the amount that the top creators get and give a bit more to the smaller channels earlier and have better videos. The larger channels are getting much of their money from direct sponsorship deals anyways. The smaller channels are the only reason that I even bother to come here. Only a couple of the channels that I regularly watch have more than a couple hundred thousand subscribers and most of them have fewer than 10k. You have the content distribution that you've got because they pushed the content being recommended in that direction. I'd probably pay for YouTube Premium if the kind of channels that I like to watch had a fair crack at the money. But, they mostly don't, you pretty much have to be searching for those sorts of videos to find them, and it's inconsistent how many of them show up, even when they're just about the only thumbnails that I click on.
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@nightlightabcd If the police need a list of phones that were in the vicinity to track down the culprit, who's to say that the culprit is even going to be the owner of any of those phones? It could well be the case in the future, if this ruling doesn't stand, that robbers start to pretend like they've got a phone so that police will waste their time violating the constitutional rights of everybody with a device in that particular area at that time while they skip off to some country that has nice beaches and no extradition treaties.
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It won't, the GOP likes the way that they've been ruling and they definitely won't allow them to be removed from office without having the ability to replace them with their choices.
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Absolutely, they played games with people's lives hoping to pin it on the GOP and people saw right through it. $2k means $2k, not $1400 and they did nothing for essential workers. When they didn't have the votes in the Senate, they had hero pay, but they didn't even try after that.
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@mierrasanders3373 No, it is lying, if what you're selectively editing what you communicate in order to give a false impression, that is the essence of lying. Lying is a more expansive term than what people realize, if you pulled this kind of stuff on the witness stand, you'd be risking a conviction for perjury. Lying is when you don't, tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. In the case of doublespeak, that's really not the cas.e
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From what I understand, the protocols were based around the assumption that as long as the hull wasn't breached, that they'd be able to locate the sub and extract the passengers. Which appears to be a bit optimistic here. It's entirely possible that the sub won't ever be located as it is rather small and if it imploded after being moved by currents, it could be a challenge to find even that. More improbably things have happened, but at this point, I would expect a good outcome to be that they were able to retrieve the sub along with the bodies. Anything more seems like fantasy.
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@Morpholigical Often times that's the case, the things that modern mental health professionals are treating now are not the same things that Freud was treating, which is part of why his theories don't apply. (Obviously there were other issues, but he spent most of his time treating things that are relatively rare now) That being said, there is often times an underlying neurological situation that does need to be addressed, it's just that the way the criteria are written doesn't always make it clear what the real issue is. Hence, the lack of evidence of a physiological thing, they aren't looking at that, they're looking at it purely from a treatment perspective.
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TBH, this was pretty much inevitable after that stupid Toddlers in Tiaras thing became a thing. WTF is wrong with people?
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Based on Biden's picks for the various cabinet positions, Trump appears to be the lesser of two evils. Not just that, but why should the DNC establishment be rewarded for their work undermining the will of the people? It's clear from the polling and exit polling that the people support Bernie's policies by a significant margin. The only reason that Biden is winning is that the press lies about Biden's electability and cover for his obvious dementia.
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I kind of feel like if you give the money back before they get to your name, that the bank might just skip it and move on. However, that doesn't mean that they necessarily won't file a criminal complaint or close your account or do something else to punish the theft. But, I doubt that they're going to bother suing if the issue is ultimately moot by the money being put back before they have enough harm to warrant a suit in federal court with so many accounts impacted by this fraud. TBH, that's probably the only silver lining that with so many people for the bank to sue to recover their funds, they may not bother with smaller accounts if the money is given back before they expend any resources trying to collect on it.
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@boneless8473 The same way most other companies do it. You go to the lab, fill out the paperwork show your ID and they give you a receipt that you had the work done. They then report whatever their results are to the business. I'm not the biggest fan of drug testing, but if you're going to be driving as a part of your job, I'm less opposed to it. I'm not sure about the others, but lab corp has a ton of locations and I'd wager that there are other companies that do the same thing.
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The issue here is that they're involving 3rd parties in it. It's also to avoid situations where people are being pressured to self-murder in order to benefit a 3rd party.
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You don't know what freedom is then. The masks are a minor inconvenience to prevent peple from passing the virus on to others. The only reason people should have still been wearing the masks is that they shots aren't 100% effective and we didn't have enough people vaccinated to do so. The big risk going forward are the people who take the attitude that freedom is the only thing that matters and define freedom in this childish manner.
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They don't. They hire a lot of people that make a lot of mistakes. It's a large part of why they cancel so many things prematurely. They just throw a bunch of stuff on the wall and see what sticks.
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@christianrios153 Except that it's intellectually dishonest of him to have posted this dribble. We're all entitled to our own opinions, but he's way off base on this particular movie and is pretty clearly looking to hate it. Watch it for yourself, come to your own opinion about it, but some of it is misleading and a few point he's just dead wrong about. I'm personally glad that I ignored his comments and went anyways as it's actually pretty good. It's not a bad movie, but none of the movies, the original trilogy included really stand up to people purposefully going out and looking for all the problems.
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I doubt he will, absolute best case scenario for him is that he gets deported directly to the US as that's where his citizenship is and no other country is required to let him in. So while many countries do have visas that can be granted on the spot, countries can typically deny entry for just about any reason even with a visa.
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TBH, I'm not sure what would have been kinder, what they got, or being kept in jail, tried and then hung from the neck until dead as was the case with many of them. Some were just sent to prison for the crimes, but there were a lot of mass executions to keep up with the backlog of individuals who were duly convicted of crimes against humanity.
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The Prisoner transfer for Bluray was awesome. One of the downsides here, is that even when they did use film, sometimes you didn't notice how out of focus things were. And sometimes they do a better job of correcting for noise than others. I never noticed how out of focus Ghostbusters was, but they made it worse by not properly accounting for digital noise over the top of that. It's why it's often best to scan the same image multiple times as the noise and sampling errors will tend to vary a bit, allowing for a cleaner scan.
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@Odinsday Yes, but if they lower the age at all, there needs to be language in there to prevent health insurance companies from using that as an excuse to get more profits. Typically the older customers are the more expensive ones, so cutting the age down would make it cheaper to provide them with insurance.
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That's because it's easier than having to do their jobs. The main reason why crimes are solved is because criminals are dumb. Smart criminals wind up in the corner office committing more acceptable crimes.
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@tule2955 And possibly underestimating the number of us that are going to vote 3rd party because we realize that voting for Biden would mean that the Democrats definitely won't stop rigging elections for neoliberal republicans.
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If you want something to blow your mind, stainless steel brake hoses. I replaced mine a couple years ago and the cost was roughly the same as the OEM rubber ones, but they'll both last much longer and they give much better feedback to me while I'm braking. Plus, the fact that I was able to get one that matched my bike's paint scheme was an added bonus. Those things look and perform amazingly.
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Sadly, our system does not guarantee that the attorney be competent or even awake. As long as they're a practicing attorney with the relevant membership in the bar, that's good enough. Even if they are suffering from dementia, asleep or spent 10 minutes preparing. It's barely better than nothing. We need the costs of representation to be covered by the government and paid back by the defendant if they're found guilty as part of the restitution.
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@OnlyNepaliON Why would it matter? It is somewhat faster if you've got a mentor, but by the same token, working through things on your own is something that you have to learn if you wish to advance past a certain point.
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@sirripsalot420 Which is? The OP's civic duty is to vote for whichever candidate they think is best for the country, assuming they're able to vote.
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@scoliosis9478 Keep in mind that Germany is also a more or less Northern European group as well, and during the time that the majority of the immigration was happening, there were preferential regulations for people considered to be "white." Italians and other Southern Europeans weren't considered to be white until much later.
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@Hellmark Which really shouldn't be necessary as it should be considered fraud to have a button that very clearly says that and then to bury it in the ToS that the actual "purchase" is for a license that has a number of restrictions and can be revoked at any time without refunding the payments. The whole assumption that people have both the time and the expertise to read these contracts and agree to them is just naïve. Nobody is going to go to an attorney each time they updated the ToS, especially since once you've got hundreds of dollars in books you're not in a position to decline the changes they make as they won't let you continue under the old terms or cancel the account without giving up your books.
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@charlesbirr6782 How did I get my passport then? I got my passport when I was in highschool and I didn't feel the need to get a driver's license until years later.
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@NB-qv2ip I'm an atheist and even I find all this "God will protect Israel and Netanyahu" to be blasphemous.
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@super-kami-guru The problem there is that people in disaster areas are losers and he likes winners. Perhaps they should have raked the sea and it wouldn't have washed up on shore like that.
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@AholeAtheist The logistics of that would be a nightmare. But, yes it would be less dangerous to people. At this point DST is something like twice as long as standard time.
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That's a point I hadn't considered. WA has a few spots were they've got odometer checks on the freeways. If your odometer is correct, it should turn over a the same time that you hit the appropriate next mark. If not, your speedometer might also be off by some amount.
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LOL, I was just thinking the same thing. One of the nice things about external frames is that you get much better ventilation. That being said, they can be a little bit annoying in terms of catching on things while out, so something that's a bit of a hybrid would probably be appreciated. External frame packs are also kind of nice because if you've got other gear that you need to lug around once you get to your campsite, you can usually detach the bag itself and lash things directly the the frame a la packboard. Which when I think about it, would probably be a great alternative.
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@JAAY2KAAY Yes and from the looks of it probably fairly shallow, but there should be more specific information over the next day.
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Was there any real question about that? Nobody seems interested in payment plans when it's tax cuts for the rich or spending on defense.
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@ba3725 Considering that the US is to blame for that by supporting the Shah when the people collectively wanted something else and that women's rights in the US appear to be going in reverse, it's foolish of anybody in America to assume that our intervention in their country is a good idea. These things probably will improve over time, but as long as the US and various other foreign powers continue to pour gasoline on the fire, that's not going to happen. Prior to the revolution, women were actually in a pretty good place compared with much of the world. Most of the stuff that you're referring to is more recent and came with the revolution.
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@poloniumpigeon I'm sure that it slips out of your hand more easily, but it also leads to nitrogen burns more easily as well.
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That should be something they answer, from what I've heard from a witness at the event, that roof is pitched in a way that it isn't obvious from the aerial photos. So, they probably wouldn't see him until the last minute. But, that also raises questions about why they didn't have that roof secured.
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Generally speaking, don't get in bed with Amazon, they have a long history of screwing the people that buy from them and the people that sell on their sites. Definitely do your research and figure out what is in your best interest, but please consider selling the book through as many different stores as possible. Ultimately, that's the only way that this will ever improve.
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That money could have given every man, woman and child $600 a week for roughly 9 months.
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@habibi750 I saw that. I'm not a doctor, so it wasn't entirely clear to me how bad the policy was, but cutting off the payments for anesthesia prior to the surgery being completed is deeply problematic no matter how the calculations are being done.
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@MaeMae-vg8wo Fortunately for her, SCOTUS has pretty much completely eviscerated statutes covering bribery.
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One, it's Vegas, and two there were quite a few decades for bodies to accumulate. Even just a couple a year out, far enough that the murderer wouldn't expect the lake to reveal over the last 70 years could number into the low three digits. Just about any major city with a substantial lake could be in the same situation. Around here Lake Washington is large enough, that there could well be dozens of barrels just like that which will never be found. The city is well over a hundred years old and any of the barrels from the early days of metal barrels would likely be covered in silt by now. Even after the lake level dropped due to the digging of a canal, there's still substantial depth in parts of the lake.
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Presumably, in these cases, they were lied to and for whatever reason didn't work things out until after they filed the papers with the court. Not that that's a good excuse, but with the chaos, they'll probably get more leeway in the short term than they normally would. That being said, I wouldn't expect that to last very long, just because the judges are very annoyed about having their time wasted with all the BS when they already have a bunch of other cases they're supposed to be dealing with and the government not having any sort of legitimate basis for any of this.
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@ryurineko Which is a miscarriage of justice, don't see how any of what the cyclist did doesn't constitute a felony, or at least a misdemeanor for unlawfully preventing the teen from leaving the area.
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@FabiolaRVela Is it? Canada hasn't been around long enough to say that, the country has only been fully sovereign for less than 50 years. The US hadn't even had the Civil War until roughly 85 years in. Who knows what cracks might form in the future that haven't yet started.
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Cenk's thinking like a real establishment Democrat, give up all your leverage in order to gain the potential for momentum. Then claim that you've been very effective at resisting so you need more money and votes because, god damn it, you're not Trump.
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I'm definitely not voting for him. Unfortunately, enough people will that the DNC won't learn a damned thing.
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The teachable moment is that if you lose your cool, you can snatch defeat out of victory. Will Smith had the higher ground until her lost his cool. Now Chris Rock has the moral high ground now.
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The governor there should be in prison for the deaths. Not just in the state, but other states where the spring break crowds came from.
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Yes, also GNU is a license, it's not the software. And as you point out, the software isn't even necessarily licensed GNU. Plus, it's been hard enough getting people to consider making a switch without this sort of weirdness.
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Yep, that was the case when I was a kid in the '80s. But, really, there are so many other issues that comes with things that aren't being made in a regulated facility in terms of things like allergens and food poisoning that are better reasons to just stick to the factory wrapped stuff anyways.
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This has nothing to do with our state of development. We could have this, but we choose to allow politicians to not give it to us. We have different priorities and values than Europe does, but my guess is that we're pretty close to the point where something changes. But, only if the people are offered real choices about whom to vote for. Otherwise, it might be wise to start buying stock in companies that manufacture torches and pitchforks because they're going to be in demand.
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That's the part that I'm curious about. That clearly is not garbage that was generated on the boat. Not that it would be OK, but that would just be laziness. This is more than just lazy.
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You act like the Democrats are any better. They could have forced the GOP to give us basic UBI and hazard pay for essential workers, but they opted to pass McConnell's legislation without extracting any meaningful help for the people. The corporate giveaways should have been withheld until there was something in place to protect normal people. They didn't even give us medicare for all until the end of the pandemic.
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The fact that you used the term "leftists" pretty much disqualifies any comment you might make. You can be against police brutality and against loose gun laws that allow people that shouldn't have guns to have them and for people to have more firepower than is reasonably necessary for lawful purposes.
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We need to stop pretending like homeless people are less than humans. It's convenient politically for some folks, but the fact of the matter is that these are people, and as a society we're failing miserably to provide for the common good. The sad thing is that we can't individually do much, it's going to take the politicians actually getting off their backsides and actually do something. But, we spend hundreds of billions on the military, but hardly any on solving homelessness. We're literally spending more time to allow people to be without housing than to just provide basic housing.
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@stoatystoat174 A ship turns over the course of many miles. No need for a giant ass wheel. The boats with large wheels are smaller boats that turn more quickly.
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TBH, I'm not personally convinced that it won't work.
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@07jdom also weight, a heavier skillet will resist temperature changes when you add ingredients.
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Depression has effective treatments and more are being developed over time. It's not like I don't get it, there were times where I would literally have to start making lists of people that might be impacted and alternatives to give me the motivation to not just give up. I know now that like the woman that Kyle's talking about that I have what is almost certainly undiagnosed and untreated autism. The only reason it's not diagnosed is that at the time I couldn't receive an Asperger's Syndrome diagnosis without getting the schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses reevaluated and by the time I understood that she wasn't saying I wasn't, it was too late, the criteria had been changed in ways that made it a lot harder. There is no legitimate reason for self-murder in response to depression. There is help out there and if it's not sufficient, better help won't come if the people that would need it the most are permitted to murder themselves.
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We know it's feminists and gender studies majors. I'm curious how we were able to manage without the whole stupid preferred pronouns thing.
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This is a cut for everybody that is younger. It amazes me how people let the Democrats get away with cuts to social security that the GOP would never be able to get away with.
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I was a bit surprised he didn't go around the back or at least a but further away. I mean they were deliberately setting up the conditions for a backdraft.
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@blacksharkmarketing6341 Not really, the Bee has some funny stuff, but it's far too political.
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Voting Green party or one of the other 3rd parties would at least potentially have some upside.
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@mal35m It's not arbitrary. Hamas doesn't have the funds for propaganda that Israel does. Israel regularly commits war crimes and somehow they're the "good" side? They're the "good" side because they're the ones that decided, not because they're any less reprehensible.
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We've had an increasing issue with this locally, where large crowds gather for competitions. If a teen is driving a car that's over $50k, I think that the forfeiture might have been necessary. Who gives a teen access to a car that's that expensive and powerful.
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That's really the thing, companies can produce high quality goods in pretty much any place that isn't an active war zone, however, there's a tendency to only take production overseas to save money and then to not be willing to pay for quality. From my time in China, I now know that the actual cost savings available there isn't particularly large, which is part of why production is getting pushed to other areas of Asia and probably Africa before too long.
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The main purpose of the estate tax is to reduce the rate at which all the money concentrates in the hands of a few people. Technically, it's not really the death that's taxable, it's more like the transfer of wealth and assets. Death is just the trigger for it, sort of like how getting married or changing jobs allows for certain other changes to be made in things like health insurance elections.
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@ That's probably not happening, one of the issues with traditional pensions is that you have to work for the same company long enough to be able to claim it. And, being able to move around is either social security or the various IRAs and 401ks.
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@Sam-rk5oc No, it wouldn't. At most, it would continue the trend a couple more years. The reality is that the cost of college is out of control, and a one time debt cancellation won't appreciably change things in either direction. There needs to be more subsidization of colleges, and there needs to be more restrictions on how mandatory student fees and tuition are spent. Similar to the rules on health insurers being required to spend more than a certain amount on actual medical care activities, colleges should have similar rules that they spend at least some percentage of their income on educational activities rather than administration and vanity projects.
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Allowed? If they had critical thinking to begin with, they wouldn't be in churches that discourage it. It's hardly every Christian denomination and church that require people to so bereft of critical thinking to be members.
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@fredsanford1437 That's the thing, how precisely does he handle it that doesn't make him a jerk. Not saying something, looking, commenting are all not ok according to these people. The only thing acceptable option would be to not be looking in case she shows of the goods. That seems rather ridiculous as then he'd be accused of not respecting her enough to look in her direction.
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Not to those that are paying attention. Florida has a great deal of trouble, especially with respect to fraud. And if that's not enough, they have hurricanes, sinkholes and a huge chunk of the state will be underwater as the highest point in the entire state is only around 300ft in altitude. Also, I'm not sure the last time a building up and fell down on it's own in any other part of the country.
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Rolling back odometers is often illegal under state law as well and can come back to haunt dealerships if they don't check for it. I wouldn't be surprised if this discourages dealerships from accepting Teslas as trade ins, just to avoid having to worry about whether they're themselves on the hook.
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@stevencooper4422 Any metal that's rare enough to be useful as a standard is also rare enough to not be very helpful in the long run. The rarity of the metal is what makes it valuable enough to be able to use as a backing for the currency, it also means that if you've got much growth that you're eventually going to run into issues with there not being enough of it for everybody to have the money that they've earned. At which point, you've got basically the same problem we've got with more "currency" in circulation than we really have with one dollar being potentially owed to several people. As long as only one of them wants it at any given time, there's no problem, but if more than one of them want it at the same time, there are issues.
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But, if we don't commit crimes against humanity, how can we stop the terrorists that we funded, trained and armed? Won't somebody please think of the defense contractors?
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It's nice to see a video by somebody that isn't a hothead and actually does care about a reasonable resolution to the matter. The whole two state thing was never going to work for the basic reason that up until recently you had more than 2 groups integrated into one area and trying to carve that up in a way where people get to have their holy sites in their state was going to result in an archipelago of states where you'd have to travel through each others area to get to your culturally significant stuff. If the US and the hardliners would stop fanning the flames, you'd probably see more of an influence being exerted by the folks that don't have a fundamental issue with the other side and mostly just want to get back to living their lives without fear of being blown up in an attack from one side or the other.
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To be fair, isn't that like half of the ones that already exist in the US South?
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The part about this that always made me uncomfortable is that it's effectively impossible for most people to know if they're getting their money's worth out of it, as by definition most people have no idea where their data is going and how many people have it.
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4TrackRadio It's the Silicon Valley ethos of moving fast and breaking things. For non-essential tech gear that's not a particularly bad strategy. But, for things like cars and government operations, it can and does kill people.
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@mattbrawner7888 This is part of why China requires that their buildings be torn down after 50 years. It's partially a reflection of the rapid growth and partially an acknowledgement that a lot of the standards weren't being properly met.
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People should stop claiming that Biden is compassionate, he could literally give everybody in the country single payer under the same provision that was used to give it to the residents of Libby Montana, he choose not to help. By being less shitty than Trump and the GOP, he'll likely be allowed to get away with it too.
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I for one look forward to the corrections when he has to explain that one. Garbage trucks often times have 2 steering wheels so they can be steered from which ever side they're picking up trash from.
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@carolkrone3610 So, training various war criminals in South America and supporting efforts to overthrow democratically elected governments, doesn't create an obligation? That's a weird way of looking at it. What ever happend to the pottery barn rule? You broke it, you bought it.
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So, how do you explain the incredibly small reduction in hours worked?
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It probably won't hurt him that much, the people that hate her that much were probably already not voting for him.
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@Andoresu96 The problem is that by the time he had the wealth to engage in this philanthropy, he had already destroyed countless lives, He could have done far more good for the world by simply not leaching so much off the businesses he was operating and allowing more of it to remain in the hands of the workers. Who knows how many other potentially great leaders and thinkers could have received funding if they could keep more of the money being generated.
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@Teampegleg It costs no money to not deplane a minor child in cases like this. There should just be a rule that minors can't be deplaned for this reason.
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But really, possible proper, or improper, repossessions aside, you're probably better off just paying cash whenever possible. Just keep making car payments to yourself after you've paid off the previous loan, and set that aside for when you need a new car. It's far less expensive in the long run and you're not paying interest on an expensive depreciating asset.
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@Monieloved1 His job is to lead the Democrats in opposition to what the GOP is doing, and all he's doing is making excuses. If he's not on the take, then he needs to step aside for somebody that's actually going to put up some sort of a fight. He's literally giving us "We've tried nothing, and now we're out of ideas."
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@cgungryfcdjs1352 Are you a bot? Stop posting this nonsense if you're not going to adequately explain your point and justify it.
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They're billionaires, there's no way they could have afforded to just rent a research vessel for the trip. /sarcasm.
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A lot of this happens as the result of mergers. A local Catholic hospital was allowed to buy the other big hospital on the area. Most of the offices are rented by the doctors and medical clinics located there, but because of Catholicism, none of those doctors are allowed to offer any services which aren't permissible by the Catholic Church. If it's a mall clinic, or there are other options, it's not so bad, but when that becomes such a significant portion of the healthcare services, they shouldn't be permitted to dictate what 3rd party clinics located on their property do.
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There's no point in emulation. It would likely be slower than just not having the support at all.
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Barring some really unexpected development, this was a lynching or extrajudicial killing.
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These days that was merged into the ADHD diagnosis even though it's a bit less obvious. Chances are that while you're not physically overactive, you're probably mentally overactive.
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@YamadaDesigns here in WA we declare the same day. Same goes for registration. Just check a party preference and select the candidate of choice. It's shocking how backwards some of these states. I had no idea until 2016.
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@rogeliosalgado Yes, and if the wheel gets at all warped or deformed, then you can't patch that. (Not that you would want to ride around like that, but if it happens, you can't ride anywhere whereas with tubed tires, you can patch it and get to somewhere that can do a more long term fix/replacement of the affected tire.
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@johnroberts3824 I'm pretty sure that's the point. Getting these people in is one thing, keeping them from getting corrupted before they achieve significant change is a bigger issue.
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@indescribableemptiness4104 Nothing, just that she can't demand that he turn off the cameras just because she doesn't like what she's doing being on camera. If she doesn't like it, she has the option of just leaving the property and approving and appropriate warrant to cover what's going on.
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@jovetj That's wrong. You can potentially use an ungrounded GFCI because many devices only have 2 prongs to begin with and for those there is probably no real difference. However, for 3 prong devices, they may well not have another layer of insulation, so that lack of a ground pin is a very big deal. So, to say that GFCIs don't need to care is a load of crap, they only don't need to care if they don't have a 3rd place for the ground pin to go. You're risking getting shocked as it does take a longer period of time for the power to shut down coming through the outlet than it does for current to be diverted down a ground. If you need GFCI protection, you also need the protection that comes from a properly installed ground unless the outlet only takes 2 pronged devices. Which is really the only reason they have been able to get away with that. Their stuff is double insulated and is used/installed generally with the understanding that there is no ground to rely on if something goes wrong.
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In general, it's nuts that the courts let people sign away their constitutional rights. And often without getting anything substantial in return.
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She could ask, but would probably annoy the judge in doing so. 30-60 days isn't reasonable without having a contractor lined up with time in the schedule.
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I've come to the conclusion that the only way out of this mess is likely to stop buying so much stuff, buy less, but buy as much of it as you can from people that are behaving responsibly. Also try to invest what money you can in companies that engage in more socially responsible behavior, especially with regards to the environment as that seems to be the one issue that can't really be undone.
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I recently bought a Synology NAS and put a couple of my own HDD in it. I can stream my own videos over the internet to wherever I am and to whomever I like. It is a bit of an expense to set up, but there's a ton of DVDs that can be bought second hand and ripped and copied to the device. With Netflix being somewhere between $10 and $20, it is economical before too long, especially if you start with just the movies you already own and add from there.
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I'd be more than happy to throw those in as well were I the person that got to make those decisions.
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@flakesinyershoe8137 This right here is why the law here in WA was changed along similar lines. Payment by check 3 days after the sale of the gear. ID required and I believe proof of ownership. WIth the shops being required to retain records for a period of time. It's obviously not going to stop the problem completely, but it should make it inconvenient enough that the problem is greatly reduced as scrapyards don't want that problem and the ones that don't mind would likely be found out pretty quickly.
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He aspires to that. He's more like what happens if you try to get Obama from Wish.
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Honestly, I do think that it would be better just to accept that people want to do this and allow a safer place to do it.
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@mikederucki Joe Machin is an Independent now from what I can tell along with Sinema. And they're both some of the worst that the Democratic party had.
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This is terrible advice. People who ask for free work aren't seriously about ever paying for your work and there's frequently so much free work available to begin with, that there's no reason to obtain it from sources other than the public domain or creative commons. Perhaps doing an occasional "free" bit of work for a tax write off makes sense at some points, but certainly not early on and at that point, you should know how much the work is worth. What's more, it's frequently illegal to work for free. An awful lot of those unpaid internships are in violation of minimum wage regulations as private for profit companies are legally barred from having unpaid workers.
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They're women, they're entitled to all the money that men get as well as the benefits that women generally get on top of that. I'm guessing that the settlement was an effort to buy them off so they'd shut up with the false allegations.
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@RokuroCarisu The thing is that much of this isn't even popular on the left either. It's popular with a small number of very loud activists. Splash Mountain in particular was rather egregious as most people haven't even seen the movie as it hasn't been screened or available for sale in decades.
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He doesn't really, it's just that the republicans vote in lock step often enough and the democrats are incompetent enough to make it so.
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@bleacherz7503 you can file, but there's no guarantee that they'll grant the motion. If it was a relative that may encourage the judge to change it.
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This isn't mercy, this is doing nothing because they might get yelled at.
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There are a lot of foreign drivers in the US, and a fair number of autistic people that can drive, but require additional effort to decode the language. There's a limit on how many characters can be on a sign for it to be legally enforceable. We used to have a school zone here where the name of the school was long enough to make it unenforceable. The reason it was illegal is that it ran the risk of distracting drivers as it would take too much attention to fully read the sign.
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Universal Studios Orlando has a version that you can actually go through. It's kind of cool.
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I assume it's that it was a repeated thing rather than a one off. Sending messages to people to annoy or aggravate them is something that's been illegal for quite some time. It's more the on the internet bit that allows this specific bit to involve farts as it's difficult to arrange without a computer.
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This is Seattle, operating the equipment is likely the cheap part of it. I live not that far away from where this story is happening and the terrain in parts of the neighborhood is rather rough, and there likely would need to be environmental reviews involved. This is a neighborhood that still has beavers, and parts of the neighborhood have steep hills and ravines. I'm guessing that this house is probably located in that section of the neighborhood, otherwise there would be no need for the digging.. That being said, I'd wager that the best course of action would be to get 5G internet via T-Mobile, as long as they don't need to have their own service or use too much data, it will likely work well. Netflix is generally zero-rated as long as they're using the T-Mobile compression, and most other options aren't so bad. Personally, I live a couple miles north of there and I'm only a few hundred feet away from the nearest fiber optic network from Centurylink.
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I watched the Real World and Road Rules for a few seasons decades back, but I kind of feel like those were so tame compared with what is going on with some of these more recent series. I definitely don't watch anything from the last 25 years just because of how messed up it's gotten.
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I hope that people in Chicago know more about this situation than I do, because it's unclear as to why the police have the authority to close the business or what the business was doing that warranted being forced out of business. Simply having people engaged in this sort of behavior in the vicinity ought not to be sufficient cause to close the business.
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What did you expect? The DNC has stopped listening to primary voters when choosing the candidate and absolutely refuses to adopt popular stances on issues.
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That's the thing, as long as the Democrats are allowed to rig their primaries, they can't save democracy. At best they can manage it's fall.
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And thanks to judicial immunity, there's likely no way of holding the judge accountable for that level of incompetence.
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I miss when the Onion used to post satire.
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@jameslowellblakenship2192 The bigger issue is that the taxable income for social security tax is capped and isn't imposed on all income. Eliminating the cap and applying it to all income would fix the problem once and forever.
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I've been struggling to help my wife understand the consequences of the decisions she makes. She's from Iran originally, and she basically doesn't trust me or anybody that actually knows how things work. She held off on getting vaccinated until she got the sniffles, and her mother forced her to get the one that was available rather than finding the shot she wanted. There's a ton of magical thinking about things like insurance and failure to really consider the consequences of her actions beforehand.
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@Krytern Probably. Psychotic would have been doing this with no reason at all. Doing it for such petty and miniscule reason would likely be psychopathic.
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@DrFraiserCrane If they catch somebody saying that to get out of jury duty, there's the possibility of a contempt of court charge. It's one thing if you've got a sincere, but very wrong, belief that that's OK, but jury nullification is 100% a miscarriage of justice and just means that the next defendant on a BS charge has to take the risk of being convicted in order to get the case heard. Any case where folks think nullification is appropriate is probably also one of the better cases to appeal as well.
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Probably right after they figure out that they need to actually earn votes. There's a huge number of voters out there that are to the left that nobody is courting. There's a huge share of nonvoters that could vote if they were given a reason to that they aren't courting. They only seem interested in rightwing voters even though the right wing is retreating to the right leaving fewer and fewer people actually being sought after for our votes.
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Intel is failing miserably and has a history of pulling out of the GPU related market. The hardware might be good, but nobody in their right mind ought to be trusting that this time they'll be in it long enough to be relevant. I think the last time they were relevant for graphics cards was before 3d accelerators were a thing that regular people could buy.
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Not surprising, in those days, I remember my dad taking his knife out at airport security, putting it into the bowl and being given it back after he passed through the metal detectors.
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If you're not in a good economic position, then you're certainly not in a position to get sick with it. The risks associated with the vaccine are significantly less than getting a case. I had it, and I missed basically an entire week. Had I gotten sick a few weeks later when testing became available, I would have been looking at closer to two or three weeks. Ultimately, it's your body and nobody is going to force you to get the shots, but please reevaluate, it's all well and good, unless you get it at which point nobody really knows how it's going to be.
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TBH, I hope there's laws put into place to prevent anything lethal being delivered via robot. And significant restrictions over non-lethal things like tasers and smoke grenades being delivered in such a fashion. This isn't so bad, but there's a natural tendency to want to escalate things to just deal with the entire issue.
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Not to mention how there's been a constant stream of scandals coming out of pretty much all of the religious institutions in the US. I'm not sure how many times folks can hear about the massive cover up of child abuse or just general abuse of people that are nonbelievers. So many religious practices are purely about the people running the religion maintaining their hold over the believers.
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He probably did, what he probably failed to do was get somebody that was incompetent to look at it from different angles to see what it looked like. You'd be surprised how valuable the input of the truly incompetent can be to avoid situations like this.
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If Bernie isn't the nominee, I will never vote for another Democrat.
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Yes, the reality is that there's a simpler solution, just extend those $600 a week stimulus payments to at least the front line workers that are so essential to people social distancing. Without emergency responders, grocery clerks, medical personnel and the like, there's no way we could make any progress in this as people would have to interact in order to avoid starvation. And if they contracted it, they might well die without medical intervention. But, congress doesn't respect or appreciate us enough to ensure that we have appropriate PPE or compensation for the extra risk we're taking on so that the death toll doesn't rise to the worst case scenario.
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Let's just hope that he isn't a Pearce or Buchanan.
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The business is going to be bankrupted. It is an open question as to whether it will be from civil suits that arise from the accident, or because nobody is going to be willing to take a ride with the company. If I understand correctly, they are the only company to lose anybody to the depths due to implosion.
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He's not wrong and this latest bit is just for show. Bernie realizes that he's sold out too much and that things like this are his only hope of maintaining relevance and tricking people into thinking that he's actually fighting for them. The squad has failed miserably to fight for us when they had the most leverage. Now, they've got 10%, or less, of the leverage they had, but they voted for Cares and they voted for Democratic leadership to continue. This is just a little bit of a crumb to keep people on board even as they sell us out.
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I think people need to realize that often times animals are more capable of taking care of themselves than we give them credit for. There are definitely situations where animals do need help, but a cat in a tree can often times just jump and safely do so from a height far higher than people would expect. Dogs are capable of swimming, and they're also capable of surviving in conditions that humans would have issues.
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SNL is OK, but there have been much better options for the entire time. I don't think a show like this lasts this long through so many changes of cast and writers while being the best. The State, Kids in the Hall, Monty Python, Mad TV and In Living color are IMHO all better shows over all. That being said, SNL isn't a bad show they've had some absolutely hilarious sketches of the decades that are every bit as good, it's just that they've always had more of a commercial sensibility to them and it's part of why none of those other shows lasted anywhere near as long.
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Yes, and we wonder why it is that we have so many career criminals. I had a coworker that got fired a few months back for failing a background check. She had disclosed the fact that she was a felon, but ultimately they let her go. With all the fees associated with being convicted and the lack of job opportunities, it's really hard to see how anybody manages to get free once they're in the system.
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Steams pretty horrible in terms of their terms. Weren't they canceling entire accounts over chargebacks at one point?
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It's hardly just America. China has "white man in a suit" jobs where companies hire white men to pretend to be in charge of the business to increase its reputation.
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There's no need, they law doesn't prevent people from asking for that information. It just restricts how the information is stored, used and transmitted.
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To an extent it depends where you are, some areas have more men than women and others have more women than men. And, it definitely does impact the dating scene when one side or the other has to compete. There certainly are areas where that's not applicable.
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@doofus3974 This is a first, I've never seen a Russian troll warning us about Russian trolls, this is a new one on me. If you go with objective news sources, then there's no possible conclusion about the primary other than that there's something incredibly fishy going on. Biden has no support and yet he's going to be the nominee.
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A less corrupt court probably wouldn't have let him run at all after January 6th.
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@C4Darkorbit Yes, the biggest issue that I've had with roundabouts comes from people driving too fast trying to beat traffic into the roundabout making it impossible for other users trying to enter the roundabout to judge whether or not it's safe to enter. That's how I almost got hit going through a roundabout that one time, the driver was nowhere near the roundabout and driving too fast and from the time that I started to enter the roundabout and when I was in, they'd closed the gap and didn't think they needed to yield. But, it would have been a much safer collision than what you'd get with a more standard intersection design.
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He's corrupt and incompetent and seems illiterate at times when it's most convenient to the people buying him presents. I really and truly do not think you want people to follow that example.
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Keep in mind that for poorer people, they're more likely to have shelf stable junk foods rather than foods that are healthier, but more prone to spoilage. Most of the cheaper foods have more preservatives in them.
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@Bobby_Wasabbi I remember when I was a teen my Dad gave me the advice to always leave a brick outside the back door of bars and be the last one out the door if something started. It took me decades to understand the advice. He himself had been a marine in Vietnam and I have no doubt that he'd fight dirty if it came to it. The actual lesson was a few things. First off, never get into a barroom scrap if you're not invested enough in the outcome to cheat. 2 the other side will always fight dirty. 3 Fortune favors the prepared. 4 only an idiot goes to a bar expecting trouble and doesn't prepare for it ahead of time.
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I was wondering if this was tied into Alex Jones or one of those conspiracy theories.
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@Icipher353 There's a reason that the term "limousine liberal" exists.
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Correction, the Democrats don't need to steal the election because they planned ahead and stole it months ago. We'll see what the final result is, but it's a question of which Republican wins as Biden has made it clear that his whole cabinet will be stuffed with deplorables.
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The fact that it's not a given is a massive problem and the fact that they may choose to rule in his favor in future cases before the court other than based on what the constitution says is quite problematic. As the video points out, this SCOTUS has no particular issue ignoring the constitution when it's getting in the way of what they want the law to say.
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@Neodymium5312 It's not a permanent loss of voting rights typically, you can usually get the voting rights restored after completing the sentence and whatever other items are on the list that the court orders.
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Also, keep in mind that the Secret Service found and dealt with the threat before Trump was in range of the potential shooter. Having more people wouldn't have changed anything. They had enough people to do the job and Trump is the one that keeps insisting on going outside to hard to secure locations because it's cheaper or he's making money doing it.
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Presumably, that would also be extortion on top of that.
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You don't get to be a billionaire if you're not selfish and greedy. Becoming a millionaire is definitely possible without severing your connection to others, but being a billionaire means that you've accumulated so many resources that you don't need, that it would be a full time job to spend all of it.
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It's worth noting that in that part of the country, cars rust rather quickly due to the salt they use on the roads. If you're not vigilant about getting the salt off, a car can have significant rusting in only a few years.
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@kayleethegreat111 Exactly, just because somebody inserts themselves into the middle of some transaction says nothing about what they do or do not do to deserve to be there.
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Possibly, but credit card issuers aren't always the greatest about that. They can have some rather interesting interpretations due to getting a slice of every transaction you put on their card.
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Well, thank god that Biden got us all $2k checks immediately after those last Senate races were resolved and waived all those student loans. The GOP will have no chance with the Democrats delivering such popular things.
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It's been known for decades, there's a reason why people have been known to refer to recruiters as "body snatchers." Despite what you see in films, there's little to no honor in the military, especially when you start talking about the higher level officials that order all the war crimes.
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@travisking9895 Indeed, around here they're installing a bunch of roundabouts that are only needed because the county got tired of cleaning up the aftermath when some joker thought they could just blow through an intersection without looking because there's rarely any cars there. It's somewhat less risky if you just slow way down, but even there there's the possibility of hitting a pedestrian because your ore focused on making that turn without stopping.
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Honestly, if he started a channel dedicated to fixing his health, I probably subscribe just to watch him slim down to a healthy size. I think that's a lot more impressive anyways.
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I guess if you're going to compete in the dumb ass Olympics, you might as well go for the record.
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@Glomly Bernie would have fought to get us medicare for all. Medicare isn't perfect, but it's far, far better than what's available on the private market.
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Yes, I fail to see how this impacts honest women in any sort of significant way. I'm sure there will be a small number of mistakes made, but in those cases, they can always redo the testing. Compared with the number of men that are forced to pay for somebody else's kid because the mother lied about the parentage, it's an acceptable risk.
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Come for the Blackberry, stay for the shredding of corporate greed.
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@Christina-cf9ot yes, that's the only way for nobody to get one of the questions right. Somebody is going to guess every possibility, the odds of nobody guessing at least once is astronomical. Every provided answer will be selected by somebody.
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@carolbrandt1086 You never paid taxes for social security on the portion that we're talking about. Fair would be not giving money based on income that was never taxed to support the program. Seriously, read the information the social security administration has on the WEP and GPO, the calculations just claw back some of the money that shouldn't have been paid out on the basis of the social security taxes that were actually paid.
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@MrTigerprincess The point is that most of the disruption was the result of their incompetent response. In all cases just keeping people out of the area would have been sufficient and no reason to close down mass transit for such tiny devices that were clearly no threat to what they were attached to. Simply closing down the immediate area would have more than sufficed and been far less inconvenient.
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Honestly, that's the real solution here. How much accuracy are you allowed to sacrifice in order to speed things up. I'm taking accounting courses right now and there's a bunch of shortcuts that are taken for similar reasons. The result is somewhat different from what it would be with proper math, but it's usually a small amount and you're rarely dealing with more than 4 decimal places when dealing with currency anways. Plus, since people are using one of two sets of rules regarding how these things are don, there usually isn't much trouble.
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This is what happens when 2 parties have a monopoly over power in congress and one of them has a fetish for being bipartisan. The GOP didn't used to be so crazy, but since they no longer have to worry about being seen as non-crazy to independents as the Democrats move further to the right, there's no longer the moderating pressure of having to try to poach some leftish folks and independents to put together a coalition.
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IKR, it could be 100% for Harris and it would mean absolutely nothing for the results. It's time to get rid of the Electoral College and let the people in all states have a say in which candidate wins the Presidency.
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@tested TBH, this might have been a funny thing for an introduction, but yeah, that was just something that the filmmakers put into the movie to help set the tone that this is an action-adventure movie, but also not particularly a serious one either.
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@toomanyaccounts It would also take no screen time at all as there's nothing in particular to test. It's not even really a myth as everybody knows that it comes from a movie and was mostly intended as a way of upping the ante when Indy appears ready to cruise to victory before ultimately being beaten. That whole bit of filmmaking is an absolute masterclass in how you set up a hero as being both heroic and one that could potentially lose it all if the bad guys are better.
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The school district here has provisions for feeding children in their homes. I don't know all the details, but I know there are pick up points for the students on free or reduced cost meals.
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@WendyOryen It's definitely not a waste of time, just don't expect to become rich by merely being responsible. I'm currently investing $30 a week in real estate via fundrise, that will likely be worth somewhere between $50k and $90k in 20 years. A bunch of people spend that kind of money drinking a coffee every day. That's on top of that 10% of my wages that go to my retirement account. I may not ever be "rich" but I should be comfortable and able to afford great vacations now and again. I'm very fortunate in that I've had my job through the entire pandemic and I've actually managed to gain ground.
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You've clearly never been attacked by a chipmunk.
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This is why they need to pass Medicare for all in the house and make the Senate vote it down.
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@drizz1744 It's not that easy. I know somebody that shares a name with somebody on the list. It's an incredibly common combination of Irish names that happens to be shared with a known member of the IRA. I don't think that retroactively going back to when he was born and changing the name is a reasonable suggestion. This is literally just a list of names with little other identifying information being provided there are countless people who share names with people on the list. Even if the individuals intended to be on the list are who security thinks they are, there's no oversight to ensure that any of them are actually guilty of anything and I'd be shocked if none of them were on the list for having dumped an intelligence agent with access to the list.
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So, how do you explain the IDF and Mossad?
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Arguably, it's even worse for the prosecution as the pistol may well have been damaged to the point where the trigger didn't need to be pulled. But, we'll never know that because they damaged it to the extent that it couldn't be tested.
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What's worse is that often times they would sequence the transactions so that rather than one transaction hitting the overdraft, multiple ones would. Even before one of my credit unions went overdraft free, there was a lower fee of a few dollars for them just transferring the money from savings to checking. It still sucked, but it was a lot cheaper than getting hit with a fee from both sides when the check bounced. (That ought to have been criminal, why should somebody pay two banks for one bounced check?)
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Several years ago, my broker had a bug that made it appear as if I had billions of dollars in my account. Obvioiusly, that was a programming bug, but I know that people tried to make use of the money before it was taken back. I didn't make any trades or interact with the money at all because I knew there'd be some repercussions if I accidentally spent money that wasn't mine, or possibly even in the account. I think the total money that people had listed in their accounts in total across the firm was probably more money than existed in the entire world. But, I kept a screenshot, because I'm never going to have an account where I'm a billionaire, so I figured I might as well keep the memory of a funny goof up.
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@thomasjones53 I think that's the problem. People read it without the education or critical thinking to really get what's on the page, and so they view it as being this magical writing. The reality though is that Galt's Gulch is a cartoonish and extremely naive view of what that really was when it existed. A society where people are just doing their own thing tends to break down due to people getting into conflicts and the less desirable things not being done without some degree of force or bribe to make it happen.] In some respects it's a beautiful idea, but it's incredibly naive to think that is possible without infinite supplies of resources and people to put a higher premium on cooperation than following a leader.
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I think that the bigger issue is how the small creators have been exploited for years and once they get large enough to get a share, it gets taken away with things like the invalid traffic bug and the vaguely worded rules against having too many ad accounts, but no information about which ones need to be closed in order to proceed.
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There probably will be sanctions of some sort. This news just broke. The other thing is why is there personally identifying information in the court record without the person whose information it is having the opportunity to file a motion to have it redacted or verifying the accuracy? It seems rather poor behavior to include that in public records without putting any effort into verifying that it even reflects a party involved in the proceedings.
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We didn't already know that Buttigieg was a right wing troll?
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@Cakebattered I'm pretty sure that's not actually true. It seems like that because the US is the 3rd largest country in the world and allows people both freedom of speech to complain about alleged miscarriages of justice as well as a lot of opportunities to get things overturned on appeal. The system is far from perfect, but it's not anywhere near as common as people make you think.
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@DeaDiabola It's sexual assault, and hardly uncommon. The TSA goes way above and beyond what private security can legally do when they do those searches. I used to work security , and I'd have lost my license and been arrested if I tried any of what the TSA is allowed to do.
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@riffdex Not true, the standard of living has increased because of cheap credit, people put things on their credit cards and hope that they'll be able to pay it off. As far as housing goes, in those decades you had a huge number of people moving from rural areas with cheap housing to more urban areas with expensive housing. What's more, the cost of housing has relatively little to do with the actual building on the land, the land itself has gotten super expensive. The land my parents' house is built on alone is worth roughly 25x what they paid for the land and the house when they bought back in the mid 70s. Perhaps if you live in a dying city or one where there's little chance of growth in the future that may be the case, but in areas that people want to live, the cost of housing has been growing a ton. It makes that whole average housing cost pretty much meaningless. You happened to be able to get that done, but you're completely full of it if you're suggesting that it's a reasonable possibility for more than a tiny fraction of the folks in your generation. Houses are just not that cheap and jobs just don't pay that well.
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The odds are indeed long, between hypothermia, dehydration and the increasing CO2 and decreasing O2 levels in the sub, the likelihood of them even being alive tomorrow morning are not ones that I'd want to take. Time will tell if they're actually on the surface, but if they're not, the likelihood is more or less zero for a successful rescue of living passengers.
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@loveflying4488 That's not really accurate, most of the individuals that served in Vietnam were volunteers. Only about a third were drafted and they themselves may not even have seen any combat as sending conscripts into war zones is asking for trouble. Most military jobs are on the logistics side ensuring that those doing the actual fighting have the supplies that they need.
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The Revolutionary Guard was probably aware of that at the time, the point was that they can hit targets inside of Israel. The Iranians are unlikely to want to see an escalation, but by the same token, they have to respond to Israel's transgressions or appear weak. The Middle East is a rather complicated region and the Israelis have made it a specialty to act like the little kid that picks a fight and then runs to hide behind the teacher. They've been trying to drag Iran into this and the Iranians have been trying to avoid it, but the attacks have to be answered. I don't know of any country with a military that would just let a foreign country assassinate people within their borders.
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@ddAndTheca The average car price in 2025 is roughly $48k. That just says a lot about just how poorly paid people are.
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Tim Ferris is more or less in the same boat. He can work such a short week because he has other people doing all the work for him, not because he's so efficient.
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Libertarian is such an ironical term. They aren't for liberty, they're simply for handing the power and control to a bunch of people that are not subject to any sort of oversight and limitation. Whereas when the government is doing these things, there are elections, when oligarchs do it, there isn't even that.
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Clearly they don't, just look at how many of them wound up destitute in old age, despite the various pension programs out there, the ability to buy a house with just one income and the degree to which the stock market has grown over the decades they were working.
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I paid, in spite of his commentary, and it was money well spent. It's a good, solid movie, and he's outright lying about some of the details in the review. People should view the film and decide for themselves, but some of the details like how Teddy knows how to fly a plane are clearly established in the film, he doesn't just magic the plane into action. And, there is a very good reason why they opted to kill Mutt off in Vietnam, that was necessary for the scene in Ancient Greece to work and for the end scene with Marion to make any sense at all. It's hardly a perfect film, but I urge people to watch it themselves and make up their own mind about it. And unlike the Crystal Skulls, it does at least have an ending that follows reasonably from the rest of the movie. And unlike Crystal Skulls, I can see myself watching it again in the future, not just if it's the only thing on TV.
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That's not likely. He's 80, so he's definitely got social security and probably some sort of retirement account that the courts can't touch. He'll have some sort of a home, it just might not be 5 star accomodations.
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@M0ebius definitely not me. I'm as shocked as the rest of you.
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A lot of them should be able to get coverage via medicaid, that is assuming you don't live in one of those ass backward places that refused to properly fund it. But, you're absolutely right, this is a major problem and it's embarrassing that the allegedly leftwing party isn't making political hay of this demanding that we get medicare for all. At least during the pandemic we shouldn't have to pay for medical treatment, that should be on the government.
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@pvpat92 I doubt it, jails and prisons have been infamous for that for many decades and nobody seems to care to spend the money to stop it.
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Charlie Brown, lol, seems rather appropriate.
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Quite possibly, although the abortion laws being what they are in many states, it simply being natural causes isn't automatically enough to not have legal problems that come as a consequence of a dead infant. Especially, if we're talking about a baby that died shortly after being born.
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I just got a set a while back. Usually the JIS screws should have a dot on them to indicate that they are. That being said, most of screws on my bike can also be turned using a socket.
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@stainlesssteellemming Which is why we should have minimum wages that are tailored closer to regional costs of living rather than state and national costs of living. In both cases, it does little to keep the areas affordable to the poorest and is commonly tied with insufficient welfare benefits to make up the difference. Ideally, minimum wage + welfare should result in people having a decent standard of living, but in practice both tend to be too cheap to allow for that.
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Could be worse, he could introduce transformational economic policies to screw over the working class. I'm sure he'll have to wait until after the pandemic is over to cut social security benefits.
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@RedKnight-fn6jr Something I saw fairly often in China was a bike lane marked on the sidewalk. In this case, they probably could and should, route the bikes onto something similar until it gets past the restaurant. And better still, stop approving restaurants have the kitchen in the wrong location. Those cars should be moving through that drive through lane in the opposite direction. This design generates traffic and crash risks the same way that those clover leaves do.
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This reminds me of the Catholic orphanages that moved out of the state when they were forced to place some of the kids with gay couples when they otherwise met the standards. Truly, they are small minded and petty about these things, even if it destroys other people's lives.
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Probably not. Having random people coming and going reduces the likelihood of crime as it increases the likelihood that somebody will see that door getting kicked in and increases the ease with which police can randomly cruise down a given street. One of the big things you can do to reduce crime is to increase the likelihood of criminal activities being seen. Dead ends and places which are hard to get to just attract different kinds of crimes.
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@theCastleberry It is. For the time being I'm somewhat shielded from that because I'm mostly interested in smaller autism channels that are mostly using YouTube for access to the audience with the funding coming either from direct donations or from selling to the audience. That particular niche is never going to be given a fair shake as autistic people have very little money and most are either unemployed or underemployed.
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Similarly, buying up all the troubled assets during the great recession would have been cheaper than TARP. It also would not have benefitted the rich as much.
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Dennis Walker What about those of us in states where they handled it well? We don't have the option of running a deficit to cover this even as tax revenue has cratered. We also lack the conditional power to keep people within the confines of our state. Apologists like you make me sick. The federal government is the only entity with the power and money to address this and they've chosen socialism for the rich and individualism for the poor.
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@BD1234-e8x No, from the sound of it there was a legitimate bench warrant involved and it needed to be dealt with. If not then, then at some point in the future. Innocent people get arrested all the time, it's not always possible to know if somebody is guilty without them showing up. IMHO, the real issue is that sometimes people don't know that they have a warrant out.
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Or Song of the South, compared with other Disney properties that people don't complain about, it's a breathe of fresh air. Uncle Rhemus is a surprisingly strong character in how he interacts with those white characters for the time period. Disney+ won't stream it, but they will stream the much more racist Davey Crockett movies.
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@de6um I think the issue is that there hasn't been sufficient consideration paid for the middle ground here. There's a lot of work that's really only of commercial value for a couple years, and some of it may not even be relevant to anybody apart from historians after 10. But, then there's things that do have more staying power, things like the early Disney movies, Agatha Christie novels, early jazz recordings. I wish the system were designed with a better balance because some books are like that and can take time to attract an audience. Moby Dick was published in 1851, but didn't become popular until sometime in the earl 20th century. Meanwhile, a bunch of media is popular for a few years and then is completely lost.
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@feckert7301 Moby Dick is probably the best example. It was written in 1851, but it took many decades before it got a reputation as a classic. During his lifetime it sold fewer than 2,000 copies. Personally, I liked it, although I recommend skipping the chapters about whales as those are rather dated and not super interesting. They're mostly just interesting as a matter of what people of that era thought about whales,very little of it is still considered to be factual in nature.
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I blame it on the lack of men in primary school education and the lack of fathers in their lives to set them straight. A good father supports his daughter and puts her in her place when she's engaged in this sort of BS. Then again, a woman that had a great father has some chance of actually getting some of those high quality men.
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The local libraries around here did away with late fees a while back. The maximum fine that they hand out is capped. They'll waive most of the fee. If you don't return the books, though, you can wind up being barred from borrowing until it is resolved and the fee does get sold off to debt collectors though. The last bit is less than ideal, but I'm not sure what the alternative would be as the borrower would have already had multiple opportunities to make things right at a minimal cost.
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@williamhanna4823 You're paying for maintaining the voltage, essentially. Any time a device is powered on, there's a voltage drop that then requires the grid to increase the voltage to put things back as they were. With small devices the fluctuation is minimal, but with larger devices you can get a visible flickering of the lights. As others have stated with AC current there's little to no movement of the electrons on and off the premises. Usually, there's more of a vibration.
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Despite what some folks would have you believe, Pluto is as much a planet as the Earth is. Neither one actually qualifies as a planet under the current set of criteria. The Earth hasn't cleared it's orbit, so not a planet.
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We could have bought all the distressed properties for less then we wound up bailing the banks out for. This time around we coukd have given every man, woman and child substantial UBI with which to pay their bills for just their first pandemic relief payment.
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@drekberg Having almost died due to water intoxication, it's refreshing that you acknowledge that sodium isn't usually a problem for people. That is, unless there's something else that's going on. Despite what many doctors would have us believe, getting dangerously low levels of sodium isn't that hard to do. I was able to do it by just avoiding the worst offenders, sweating a bunch out and drinking too much water. Which is a lot easier for people to do than one would expect based on the hatred of salt. I had similar problems years earlier when my doctor prescribed a blood pressure medication without bothering to check my sodium levels. I flat out stopped taking it the moment I was starting having memory problems and confusion. I'd guess that's because it dropped my sodium levels far more than was safe.
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I don't really get why it took so long. Politicians get some extra leeway, but this is ridiculous that they gave him this much.
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From what I"m seeing, if you're going to use it frequently, it's probably worth it, but if you don't use it that often, then you might as well go with one of those cheaper ones as there's not that much difference.
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@Nexalian_Gamer Beyond the morality of it, if the rats could contract it, there would be significant problems in terms of training and retaining them long enough for it to be worth it. Not to mention the possibility of one of them getting out and spreading it all over the place when there was just a couple of quarantined individuals that needed to be tested.
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If they don't destroy them, then they would have to ship them back to the country of origin and hope that they don't get back in the hands of other smugglers. It's the same basic reason why all the drugs get burned after they're no longer needed as evidence in trafficking cases. It's just unfortunate that in this case it's animals that are suffering as a result of this.
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@tynao2029 Or, we live in a society where healthcare isn't considered to be a right and he had gum disease that he couldn't afford to get treated.
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@jclosed2516 it's really not. That's what people say, but it's not true, the metric measures just suck. I lived outside the US long enough to know the system and it just became obvious how much it sucks. The people saying otherwise either don't know both systems or spend most of their time doing science. And no, water doesn't boil at 100C universally, that's only true at sea level on this planet. Try that in Colorado or Nepal and see how that works for you. Spoiler alert, it won't, the water will boil before it hits 100, guaranteed.
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You probably should, it remains a top ranked college and is incredibly affordable. It's mostly the ignorant that take that view. It would likely be an uncomfortable experience, but most of this BS is going on with humanities students, not with the other programs.
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It's a political rally, no taxpayer funding.
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Richard Curren au contraire, it's people like you that gave us Trump. Bernie is only responsible in so far as he didn't hit Biden or Hillary hard enough.
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The thing is that it's not a white power sign, it either means asshole or ok. That white power thing was debunked years ago. That being said, thanks to the news media's incompetence it's gaining that meaning.
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@scottv1600 And that was a bit of bad luck as there's a decent chance it would have been zero fatalities if they'd been able to get instructions to run for the other main support pylon. This was a suspension bridge and the safest place on it was on the other support pylon where the roadway wasn't being held up by the parts that collapsed. And that's generally true of suspension bridge collapses, if you're at the tower, you've got a good chance, if you're in the middle, you're pretty much screwed.
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The better question was why he's being listed on the ballot at all. He dropped out a while ago and pledged to Trump. I'm guessing it has to do with the timing of the announcement versus the deadline to get the ballots printed.
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This will make it so that pushing them on good surfaces is as annoying as pushing them over obstacles and pushing them over obstacles just about as annoying as before. There's a reason why this isn't already on the market.
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I have a certain level of respect for John Cage as he has the faith that centuries in the future, there's going to be somebody to show up at the right time to play the notes. Can you imagine being a professional musician and botching the one or two notes you were hired to play in a piece that spans generations? But, no pressure.
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@vvll9617 There's a lot of reasons that can happen. Bad power, user error, bad batch of drives, just bad luck. Investing in a line conditioner, with or without power backup is well worth it. This is also why I spend most of my computer use time on a computer with RAID5. It doesn't replace backups, but it does reduce the risk of silent data corruption messing up the backups I make. A couple times a month, I make ZFS touch every single sector on the disk and check to make sure that there have been no unexpected changes.
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It's pretty ridiculous unless you live somewhere that your favorite team isn't the local time. There's commonly an exclusivity agreement, so that you have to watch in on a specific channel if you live in their region. But, it may well be a channel that is exclusive to one specific cable or satellite provider and not available elsewhere. Unless, you live outside that areas, in which case there are options. Personally, the exclusivity is a large part of what killed the little interest that I had in professional sports as it became a chore trying to keep track of which games I could watch and on which channel.
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If it's not in writing, then there wasn't anything clearly about it. There's a reason why real estate deals require a written contract.
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The issue is that they haven't done anything real about wages, and they haven't done anything about giving people alternatives to fossil fuels. What should have happened 20-30 years ago is a ratcheting upwards on gas prices until nobody could afford it. Over time, the vehicles and the like that could use other fuels would be more attractive. Instead what's happened is that we've subsidized fossil fuels, and when the prices do go up enough to make a difference, demand drops, price drops and then people go back to using all that oil. Instead, there should have been a tax of some sort whenever the prices did drop like that to be used to fund efficiency improvements to get us off oil completely.
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@huemann7637 Quite possibly, if they're not dead, they're quite old. A 20 year old when this was done would be in their 50s or 60s depending upon when exactly this crime was committed. As in now old enough to have lived the best years of their life. And it could take many years before they develop any meaningful leads about the perpetrators involved. There's a fairly decent chance that whomever did this is already in prison on other charges though, so they may have just escaped conviction on this, but could still be sitting behind bars for all this time.
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@NickCampbellCampbeln At least that's transparent. In the US the outcome is increasingly rigged. You can vote for whomever you want as long as it doesn't result in regular people see some benefits.
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@fredericrike5974 Yes, around here no residency requirements to get the license, but I don't live in Tennessee. I think that it's messed up that the feds are allowed to make this rule as it just means that people who don't have the documentation, but are already in the country, don't get a legal license to drive. Some states, like Tennessee, are more concerned with people's residency status than whether they're safe to drive on the roads, some other states are more concerned with the people that are already here illegally being able to safely drive. Chances are that they're here illegally and they're going to drive illegally, the difference is whether or not you want them to have passed the driver's licensing tests.
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I was in a similar position. I was in special ed for reading in 2nd grade, but by the next year I had apparently caught up enough to not require the help. I had some undiagnosed learning problems that contributed, but these days, I can read books without much trouble. I do have to be very careful when reading if I need to be certain that I'm reading the right words, but I can do it.
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Yes, essential workers still haven't received any hazard pay to recognize our risks and the unemployed are on the verge of being thrown into the streets, that is the ones that aren't already being evicted. And we get two morons running for President, neither of whom is going to do anything about it. They won't even issue any reasonable sounding promises that they'll then break.
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@sucraloseUncle No, it doesn't. Just cutting more affordable options is somewhat better than also just jacking up the price being charged as at least if they cut the more affordable options the vehicles are in some way better. That's a similar position for people that don't have much money other than that those cars will filter down eventually. It's not like Breyers being roughly 30% air by volume and in the same size container as they used to sell.
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I see a fair amount of that on eBay, but most of the time it's legitimate where there's one listing for a bunch of vintage video games and a range on the price, or it's a bundle that you can make. I do wish eBay would offer up a more transparent way of knowing before clicking on the listing, but I get the feeling that it's probably easier said than done.
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Honestly, if you're not required to formally form a business, you are not an independent contractor. It should be a civil and criminal offense to employ "independent" contractors in these arrangements that don't have an appropriate business license.
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@timheersma4708 That depends on how fast they were going, whether they tried to stop and how soft the soil was. If they didn't try to stop and the ground was relatively hard, they may not have left any tire tracks.
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@maeschder I've spent years at college as a student and employee, I can assure you that it is in fact very real. At this point, every possible sociodemographic group other than straight white-men have an affinity group on campus to avoid having to come into contact with dangerous ideas and whereas everybody gets asked for pronouns, in spite of most people not being trans or gender non-binary and the best interests of those that are and are claoseted, there's shockingly little recognition of things like the Germans-Americans, Italian-Americans, Chinese-Americans and other non-Japanese-Americans that the US held in concentration camps during WWII.
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That's kind of ridiculous. People can break the DRM on the books and there are publishers that don't use DRM at all. It is certainly something to keep in mind when buying ebooks, but the concerns there weren't particularly warranted.
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Ah yes, rugged individualism for the poor, socialism for the rich.
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The Spanish Flu pandemic was a particular problem because they didn't know about viruses yet, they were under the impression that it was caused by bacteria, so they used measures that were designed to handle bacteria. They also had more people that needed to actually go out and work as a larger portion of the populace was required to ensure that the people had food and shelter. These days, we have a service sector economy, so while we will likely have shortages of supplies, we also have the option of making most of the population stay home, as society can temporarily function with a small portion of the workforce being required to provide food and medical care.
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Uh yeah, I would vote for her in a minute over at least Trump and Biden. And that's without any policy proposals. But, let's be honest, it's not like Biden has policy proposals or Trump would actually stick to any of his. #Amber2020
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As much as I tend to disagree with Saager, at least he's got a brain and uses it. He has a legitimate counterpoint even when he's wrong, it's at least an honest disagreement. So many of the MSM outlets have bad faith actors on their platform well past the point where everybody knows that they're bad-faith actors. You don't see much of that on the Hill.
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That's common of a bunch of Asian countries. The Chinese developed early sunglasses in order to help their judges to hide any emotions that had during proceedings.
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@STScott-qo4pw Personally, I prefer the kind of win where both the oligarchs and the tax attorneys are pushed off the decks of those super yachts, but I'll take what I can get. 😛
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Also, since when is being a transvestite the same thing as being transgender and just wearing the clothing of a different sex as a disguise? Granted being a terf is terrible, but the rest of this seems to be a bit of a stretch.
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In all fairness, that probably wasn't his fault. Just about ever specialty channel did something along those lines. Does MTV even do music videos these days? And hasn't The History Channel more or less turned into "The Ancient Aliens Channel" or some equally ridiculous equivalent?
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Indeed, there's a reason why the folks in Hong Kong and Mainland China were wearing masks. They knew from the previous SARS outbreak that masks are helpful as a part of a comprehensive strategy.
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@wickedphant0m Yes and even the ATM is themed to Gringotts Bank, which was a nice touch.
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They won't ask him to withdraw. They had to have known that he was suffering from dementia when they rigged the primary in his favor. They really don't care if he wins as long as nobody that's going to help the voters out wins. Trump is a good moneymaker for them.
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More or less the same here, I work at a grocery store and tutoring. The grocery work is clearly productive work. The other job is less clear, the value depends entirely on students.
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TBH, if they had some way of constraining the viewing angles to one side or the other, it probably wouldn't be so bad. It's the failure to consider other viewing angles that's the biggest issue.
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@johnmartin4641 That's bullshit. Taxes aren't punishment, they are the payment for benefiting from society. The richer you are, the more you have to benefit from society's continued existence. A homeless person would barely suffer if society were to suddenly crater. A billionaire would suddenly have to actually provide value or starve to death. Big, big difference. Just because you choose not to understand how taxes work, doesn't change reality.
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Because we have a legal system that's based on the notion that people are innocent until proven guilty. And you probably wouldn't like to live in a society where there isn't the presumption of innocence. As far as violent crimes go, it's not like they just get let out unmonitored.
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Pretty much, it's been ages since they bothered to pretend otherwise.
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@RustyorBroken Right, so long as there is nobody at the stick, the only time the FAA will ever allow that is if there's a real problem with the plane that prevents it from being landed. Simply having an engine cut out isn't automatically justification for bailing out because planes can potentially fly a fair distance even without an engine running and it's better to have the plane in good condition when the feds come in and investigate why the failure happened. Planes can often times be safely landed even without an engine, but for obvious reasons it is risky and best only done if you have a legitimate problem with the engine that wasn't identified prior to take off.
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@Patrick-857 That's not how that works. That mainly happens because the government chooses not to tax the excess away as they're more afraid of deflation than inflation. Truth is that short periods of both aren't a big deal, it's the longer periods where people start to expect one or the other that can cause problems.
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They were able to find $20k for unemployment enhancement, but $0 for essential workers. They do not care if people support what they're doing or not.
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I think if you weren't allowed to walk in a 360 degree circle around it, it might not be so bad, but from two different sides it's terrible.
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It's pretty clear that they wouldn't have had the right to do anything about his lack of willingness to share his receipt had other things not happened. Greeters should not be involved in the process of theft deterrence in that respect. It's up to security to catch these people. Having an unbagged item in a cart is not really sufficient. I go to the grocery store all the time and I'll regularly get things that aren't put in bags because I didn't have enough bags. Not being in a bag is hardly a reasonable basis for probable cause here, even if it is under things as the clerk should have seen them there when taking bags and putting them into an empty cart. Now, if security had him on camera taking the items and smuggling them past the register, that would have been a different matter. But, just having unbagged items shouldn't be sufficient to justify any sort of searches. Certainly not by the store.
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Pretty much. If they gave adequate UBI, testing and some method of entertaining ourselves at home. Not to mention that essential workers still haven't received any meaningful support from the feds.
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@david_wellington Yes, the term is "intrusive thoughts" not "intrusive internal monologue" those thoughts can take a lot of different forms, for example, the "call of the void" which often times impacts people standing near the edge of tall things calling to just jump. That's a form of intrusive thought, even though it may just be a feeling.
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@BCNeil Precisely. Universal jurisdiction is not a common thing and I think usually for things like crimes against humanity or bribing foreign officials. Don't get me wrong, as somebody that lives in the US, but a very long distance away from Delaware and the other states that are common locations for corporations, it is annoying, but there are a lot of practical issues with making it be where the customer is.
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I think it's worth recognizing that X can do so much more than what people commonly ask of it as it is. More features don't really do much when nobody is using all the features that they already have.
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Right and if they manage to import some of the street fighters from Somalia, it could get incredibly bloody very quickly and you might see the tactics spreading throughout the network of organizations that are mobilizing against Israel. It's about time that Israel got cut off until such a time as they want to engage in good faith negotiations to end the bloodshed rather than purposefully encouraging the extremists to attack them.
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Sometimes that's a good thing. Considering that the various American Indian reservations are more or less 3rd world in terms of development level, I don't think that fighting to keep the ones based on the outdated stereotypes is a fight worth having. Last time I watched the animated film, that entire sequence was incredibly uncomfortable to watch, given that it was animated while the Indian Wars were still somewhat active.
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ErfaanAdeeb Just shut up and hope it blows over. By filing this suit he increases the likelihood of a federal wire-fraud suit being brought against him. And, no, that's not as ridiculous as it might sound, that forged signature on merchandise that they were claiming to be Mr. Beast autographed as part of that giveaway could well cross the line on it's own, and that doesn't even take into consideration any of the rest of the shenanigans that may have occurred.
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+Chris Seib, way to prove my point for me. Knowing that 9.999.... is 10 is hardly something that is necessary to build a house.
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+Leesi D. I'm not sure how much longer that's going to work. Considering that Bernie is more popular than Hillary and that he beats the GOP candidates by a larger margin, I think it's time that the Democratic party took advantage of the situation to move leftward while we still can.
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That's false. He never filed a criminal report about that robbery. So, whether or not the robbery ever happened and what the particulars of the robbery were if it happened aren't relevant. This is something that the prosecutors are doing in an effort to distract from how terrible the Olympics were this year. From the various robberies and inadequate facilities to the diving pool that was turning green. Bottom line is that even under Brazilian law, Loche is innocent. What's more, if the guards took 160 for the repair of the ad, that's robbery under Brazilian law. The repair was 120 and that's all they could legally take.
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They're medical professionals, they don't get to make decisions based upon morality that would lead to bad health outcomes for the patient. They only get to make decisions based upon their medical training and judgment about how to best help the patient. This is a case where the doctors chose to provide no care to a woman that clearly needed it for reasons other than medical judgment. They should be kicked out of the profession until such a time as they decide they want to be professionals. I'm sure there are doctors out there that would prefer not to provide treatment for stupidity induced injuries, but they provide treatment anyways because they're professionals that actually care about their patients.
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That's not how sound waves work. The lion's share of the noise is directed backwards at the vehicles behind you with very little directed forward to the people that may pull out in front of you or to the sides at people who might run you off the road. This whole thing makes people feel safer without the pesky side effect of actually making people safer or requiring any actual work.
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This has nothing to do with her being a danger to society. This has to do with her failing to adhere to the rules of the second chance she was given. She could have just paid the fee and filed the paperwork on time and not been detained. Instead, she didn't just fail to file the paperwork months late, she went on stage in front of a camera and announced to the world that she isn't here legally.
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No. While we should clean our own house, the whole idea that we can't take NK to task for some of the most egregious human rights violations anywhere ever, is ridiculous. I mean seriously, with the possible exception of Vlad the Impaler, you'd be hard pressed to find a dictator that was more ruthless. I mean, seriously, they regularly use anti-aircraft guns for state sponsored executions. And that's if you're not lucky enough to have a "car accident" as means of execution. And let's not forget about the concentration camps that would make the Nazis envious. The US has some genuine human rights problems that need to be corrected, but the whole scope of what's going on in NK is apparently well beyond your comprehension.
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TYT hates the police and would rather back criminals than an aspect of solving the problem.
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Yes, it helps greatly when it comes to writing the character efficiently. You don't need to move your pen as much between strokes as you would in the Japanese style.
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I largely stopped watching TYT during the GE because of the loser Donald segments. But, the show is generally quite good.
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Jack López Nope, I'm just not racist. There's a difference. You think I didn't notice being screwed over so that they could redirect general education funds to students that were already going to college? There is no white privilege. You seriously think that anybody gives a rat's backside about those poor white folks in the Appalachia pr anywhere else?
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And it doesn't just apply to women, doing that with children also rarely works out. Express an interest yes, but if you're having to fake it, they'll know and then you'd be that adult that's more or less the equivalent of pretty fly for a white guy. The coolest teachers I had in school were ones that weren't trying to be cool, they'd find a way of bringing us along for the ride.
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+howard baxter, that's completely consistent. Infinity isn't a number and as such it's not automatically going to follow the normal rules. And, as you point out, it doesn't follow the usual rules. It depends entirely on how you got that infinity what you get. You can't really treat infinity like it's a number and because of that you've got all sorts of rules about how to deal with it. infinity + infinity is just fine, but infinity times infinity, infinity - infinity and infinity divided by infinity don't work out in an intuitively obvious way because it's a concept and not a specific number.
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+Darrel Sutterfield, it's in the constitution. The President nominates somebody and the Senate confirms them. This kind of apologistics is what's destroying this country. For close to 240 years that's how it's worked. The President would nominate somebody for the Supreme Court and the Senate would examine their record and credentials and give it an up or down vote. In no instance ever, has the Senate refused to do that much so they could steal the nomination for their party. Nor have they blanket refused to confirm anybody at all for such a prolonged period of time.
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There's no such thing as incurable gonorrhea, the cure for that has been around for decades. This is what phages are for. Antibiotics are for things like certain strains of e. coli that are dangerous even in small amounts.
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You don't get rich like that without exploiting other people. Nobody works that hard or efficiently. That money he has was only possible because we have tax and regulatory systems that are set up to take money from the poor and give them to the rich. I think it's cool and all, but let's be honest about the fact that you don't get that kind of money legitimately. It all comes from rightwing policies designed to rob the poor to enrich the rich.
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I think it's pretty clear that she isn't sane, I don't think that most people would consider psychopaths to be sane. The woman has a long track record of caring about nobody and nothing other than herself. Not that Trump is any better, but we could have had Bernie who is quite well educated and willing to listen to reason. He's also got more integrity than the rest of the Senate combined and has been rallying support for the people to fund politicians entire campaigns in exchange for not selling out to non-voting donors.
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@Two Mewtwos in Too-toos, pretty much. We will do that occasionally if we find the date to be particularly important. But, in general, when we use the date of month format it's an indication that we're speaking it out in little endian formatting. We only do that when we need or want to emphasize the date of the month because it makes no sense otherwise. If I want to schedule for the 5th, is that tomorrow or is that some months from now? \ Because we go month first, you can switch to the correct month of the calendar before looking up the schedule of the day. Whereas with the stupid DD/MM/YYYY formatting, that only works if you're talking about a day in the current month.
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She's here illegally because she failed to leave the country. She was given a chance via DACA, but she didn't adhere to the requirements of the program. She should have just coughed up the money and filed the paperwork on time, that way they wouldn't have had cause to detain her. But yes, we're the trolls, not you ninnies that can't fathom the fact that she herself broke the law by not complying with immigration law after she turned 18.
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So, kind of like how motorcycle license plates have been done here for years. I'm not entirely sure how that got started, but I suspect that it's because it rains and motorcycles don't have a rear window to display the paper plate. But, I've also noticed people riding around in cars where the window is tinted and you can hardly see that there is that printout in the window.
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And yet, the DNC chose to stick us with a terrible candidate that hasn't won a single primary.
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@marschma It's probably overkill as most people don't need more than italics, bold and different fontsizes. Latex and the like can be incredibly helpful for various technical fields though. Certainly nicer to read than the stuff that was in books from the '70s and '80s when typsetting was being computerized in a rather crude way.
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@peterjohnson1091 Yes, one of the local Catholic hospital systems was permitted to buy the largest hospital in the state. It led to a situation where the doctors leasing space were expected to adhere to Catholic doctrine with respect to what medical procedures could be performed rather than just what the state permits. So, a bunch of the reproductive related care was suddenly not available from the hospital. Its a pretty large complex of several mid-rise buildings with hundreds of medical practices there.
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@dirkdiggler69 Wrong, houses in Europe are not being built to withstand storm surges, because there's no reason to do so. On the other coast, we get mid-latitude cyclones from time to time and I sort of wondered why they do relatively little damage compared with even category 1 hurricanes, and the reason is largely that they don't come with storm surges like hurricanes do and it's not sustained gusts. So, the gusts may be over 100mph, but it's gusts, that's not sustained. And the highest recorded windspeeds in North America come from the West Coast due to the mountains being able to funnel the wind.
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It's never a bad idea to demand proof of things like that. Really the first thing to do after calling an attorney when you get fishy loan collections is to demand proof of you personally owing that money to them specifically in a given amount. If they can't do that, it's rather unlikely that they'd be able to actually get any court orders to recoup the money. This is the same sort of thing. Personally, I pay my bills, but that doesn't mean that you can't have bills coming to the wrong address and only hear about it after it's already in collections. Or, get a notice that something is being erroneously sent to collections. That's happened to me twice and in neither case was I required to pay once i got in touch with the person that would be able to provide the proof of the debt and me owing it to them.
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Who would do such a horrible thing?
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I like my water chunky style.
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Apparently and they're still doing nothing at all for essential workers. The only essential workers getting any help are getting it because the state or local government decided to take action. There may be some companies doing it, but most businesses that had been doing so stopped doing it last May.
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Voting red and blue is what got us into this mess. Obama could have had 2 SCOTUS picks, he was just a sellout and now this is what we get as a result. Or they could have let the voters decide the nominate Bernie and he would have blown trump out of the water.
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@416XYZ Yes, although probably not for the reasons you're thinking. They need to be banned because they give a massive advantage to people that can afford the time off when it comes to getting a job. If properly enforced, they don't really cause any other harms as the companies are not supposed to be having the interns do things other than what would reasonably be classified as educational.
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That would be compelling. The Democrats need to stop choosing their leadership based upon who the most corrupt member is.
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@sswwooppee Exactly, I don't get why people are still surprised by any of this. This has been going on for quite a few years and yet people still vote blue. Personally, I was done after Bernie got screwed. I've voted 3rd party that last 3 Presidential elections and at this point, I mostly refuse to vote for either major party candidate other than to unseat an incumbent unless they've actually done something particularly notable. With people voting blue no matter who, I don't know why the party would change it's ways as those votes are sewn up regardless.
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@lifesbutastumble Harbor pilots are completely useless if the vessel loses power and you haven't got any tugs escorting the ship. Really, somebody needs to go to prison over this because that section in particular needed not just a pilot but some tugs to ensure that the ship got through that narrow opening without running into anything.
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In a literal sense it's probably not true, people that are literally $5 a month away from being homeless have serious problems with how they manage their finances. But, really, who the F cares? Whether it's literally true that that $10 a month is truly unaffordable, or it's in that category of things that aren't worth paying for isn't particularly helpful to anybody else. All that means is that the streamer hasn't done a good enough job justifying why the expense is worth enough to find the money. Plus, right now, many people aren't as blessed as I am to have a full time job, even though it pays roughly minimum wage, it means that I can be one of those jerks that's lying about not being able to afford contributing. :-P
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Sort of, the typical way of addressing this is to prevent the ship from hitting the supports to begin with. That can be done through a combination of a skilled pilot, tug boats and barriers,fenders or rock walls to divert as much of the force around the supports as possible. But yes, without the extra protection, a ship that size contacting the supports will take the bridge down, there's not really any question about it.
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Climate Change will Kill us All !!! Banning menthol cigarettes is a courtesy to everybody that doesn't want to pay for or get cancer. Menthol makes it easier for people to start smoking by covering up the irritation that smoke causes on the airways. It's also more likely to be smoked by underaged smokers. Smoking is particularly obnoxious because unlike many other things you can do to your personal body, smoke tends to affect other people via 2nd and 3rd hand smoke. Not to mention the cost of providing expensive health care to smokers when it destroys their cardiovascular system.
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That's where the idea came from. The main work was deciding how to lay it out, and to use twice as many green filtered photosites than either red or blue. Also, whether to use RGB or CMY as the basis. It's essentially a way of taking 4 exposures simultaneously focused at the same distance. (1 red, 1 blue and 2 green)
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Are we really surprised that a man that was too lazy to make any sort of effort to win is now too lazy to do any work governing?
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Not cigarettes anyways...
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Single payer was always a dumb name for it. It failed to communicate what it is our why we should want it.
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@purewhiteloverbizarrejelly Which is somewhat ironic as back in the '80s Israel and Iran were on the same side against Iraq.
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It shouldn't and there's a literal man page covering the layout of the folders. man hier should answer pretty much all the common questions. As far as Linux goes, it really depends on what you're wanting to do, there's very little that I'd care to do with Linux that I can't do with FreeBSD personally.
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It's also worth noting that a steak a week isn't really particularly extravagant. I work at a grocery store and most days there are small steaks available for sale either on sale or on markdown for under $5. It's not uncommon for me to see little steaks under $3 on markdown. It's a serving of protein and if you know how to prepare it, it can taste great as a little indulgence.
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The same reason why nobody took issue with Apple's illegal monopoly over digital music decades back, there was a focus on money in terms of enforcement and even there they weren't super motivated to do things that the donors didn't like
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Yep, Israel is like that kid that read 1984 and got completely the wrong message from it and started insisted on having cameras and microphones everywhere.
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@TassieLorenzo To be fair, I was 11 year old the year that all the media outlets were obsessing over the 11-year old computer geniuses. But, at that time there were still a lot of command line utilities in common use and the graphical ones were built with the assumption that the users would need to tie that into knowledge they already had. So, you had the desktop paradigm with things like folders, a desktop and either a trash can or recycle bin depending on the platform. There were even games like minesweeper and solitaire built in to encourage new users to learn how to use the mouse. One of the major changes I've seen over the last couple decades is the assumption that we don't need the handholding and moving away from a shared paradigm. Back in the '90s and earlier developers were a lot more hesitant to abandon the designs that others were developing unless there was good reason for doing so. These days, they'll do it just because it's aesthetically displeasing.
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I was wondering about durability. I don't doubt that each unit is equally efficient at performing its task, however, it seems like if you've got a large room to heat that the heater is likely to be on for longer periods of time than a small room heater would be.
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@TheNiteNinja19 That's overkill, you're probably better off just doing that in the wet areas like the bathroom or kitchen and using GFI breaker on the entire circuit for the other areas. The other areas are much less likely to ever trip and you can save a bit of money and inconvenience by putting that all in the breaker box.
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@bobvoeh66 Yes and keep in mind that before the gates go down there's an alarm bell that sounds to let you know that the gates are going to be going down. It gives drivers the time to clear the intersection if they aren't able to stop prior to the stop line. There's really no excuse for ignoring the gate being down. It's one thing if you legitimately break down on the track, but even then, you call the number on the crossing or 911 to make sure the engineers coming down the line are able to stop, or at least slow enough to prepare to stop if your vehicle is still there. It never ceases to amaze me how many people get hit by trains. They don't swerve unexpectedly and far too many of these crashes occur at crossings like this that have an alarm bell, flashing lights and a gate that comes down.
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Around here the meters for residential installations have been outside for years. I can't remember if at this point the information is transferred directly to the utilities office or if they can just collect it by driving around the neighborhood without even getting out of their truck. Part of it is the sort of issue that you're talking about and part of it is just the efficiency of not needing so many readers. I think the water meter may be the only one we have where somebody still has to go around and look at every one. And those are generally right next to the sidewalk for single family houses and n a central location for larger buildings.
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@LindaYariger Yep, and keep in mind that one way or the other we would not be in this position had Bernie been allowed to have the nomination. In all likelihood he also would have beaten Trump, but now he would either be physically up for another 4 years, or he'd be handing it off to his VP gracefully and there'd be plenty of reason for folks to vote Blue other than orange man bad.
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@brad7566 Yep, nobody believed that Bernie was sexist without some actual evidence. He's been a supporter of women's rights for many decades.
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@N3s0_wastaken Being able to sign up isn't the standard when it comes to research. The whole thing goes by the human experimentation panel at whatever institution is sponsoring the research and only the things that pass that are allowed to seek out volunteers. Without that, no reputable researcher will touch it. It's rather unfortunate, but given the kinds of experimentation that were going on prior to those rules being put into place, there was hardly much of an option. The Nazis and Imperial Japanese were horrific and the American researchers weren't as far behind as they should have been. Some of the research which participants were effectively forced into was only somewhat less harmful. The main difference was that the American researchers stopped shy of torture for the sake of torture, but some of it was effectively torture. The unfortunate bit is that it does limit the kind of subjects can be settled scientifically, but that's a small price to pay compared with the suffering that was caused by the experiments on people that had limited capacity to say no.
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Probably just more of the same, put off the evictions until the wealthy can afford to buy up the cheap property.
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@fatshoeboxdoge I'm pretty sure that NDAs don't prevent disclosure of crimes, and some of the content in those videos is arguably criminal in nature. And, this was nearly entirely based on publicly available information.
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In all fairness, there's no medical reason for the boosters for people that don't have weakened immune systems. The vaccines are known to only be roughly 50% effective at preventing the vaccinated from contracting the illness, but natural immunity is much more effective and the vaccine is highly effective at preventing death and disability. What's more, by using all the vaccine doses for booster shots, it means that those in the developing world can't get vaccinated at all.
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@nazcalito She takes corporate money, you shouldn't donate to her either way.
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Not buying a bigger house or a nicer car is one thing, but there's little point in doing the work to retire if you're not enjoying life in the meantime. The point is, what precisely are you planning to do when you retire? Because even if you do everything right, there's no guarantee that you won't get flattened by a bus on the way home after your last day,a t which point, it was all for not.
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It's worth noting that you have to be making a fair amount of money in order to be subject to other federal taxes.
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Are we surprised? The governments on both sides are despicable.
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@SamuraiKage-iv3ow Yes, and that's a large part of the problem, simply switching team does little to ensure that you're going to get better governance. Both parties tend to be abysmal failures. The Democrats are slightly better than the Republicans, but on most of the important issues, they seem to figure out how to work in a bipartisan way.
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@wolfmantroy6601 They could have asked or indicated that they were just deplaning adults that are old enough to rent cars or hotel rooms. Anybody under the age of 21 or 25 could be in significant trouble if they miss their flight due to the lack of available hotels and rental cars.
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One of the big issues is that even qualified professionals spread misinformation. In the US it's common to recommend cutting sodium to levels that are below the minimum recommendation in the EU despite a near complete lack of any supporting data to justify it. Some people are sensitive or genuinely consume too much of it, but it's far less common than what American doctors would have us believe, and the advice is potentially deadly. High sodium levels may lead to hypertension in some people over the course of many years, but low sodium levels can kill a person in a matter of a few days or even hours as the neurons lose the ability to fire as part of the thinking process.
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It's not. It's a bit of a problem, but the problem itself is exaggerated by the activists that like to ignore the reality that things like broken lights, loose bumpers and the like are legitimate traffic violations for a reason. Those are things that are easily observable by the cops and can impact your safety on the road. That's not to say that abuses don't happen, but there's a reason why the amount of complaining about the police shootings isn't usually white people. There just isn't an activist set out there manufacturing reasons to blame the police even when there is full footage of the shooting from multiple angles showing definitively that the decease left the officers no choice. If people can't tell the difference between Tamir Rice and George Floyd, they really should just shut up and let the adults talk, because Tamir wouldn't have been shot if he wasn't screwing around with what looked like a real firearm, waving it around as he was walking and then lowering it in the direction of the cops. George, quite frankly should not have been killed, I can't think of any basis for that being OK.
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Yes, although that ship has sailed. It's funny how the right gets all up and arms about gun rights, but is completely uninterested in preventing this sort of thing from happen. And it's not even just a failure to push back, they actively encourage it.
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@The Return Of Snow Monkey If they're going to attempt to detain people, yes, then they had better damn well know that there's a problem and had better be prepared to take things to court. You don't just get to detain random people because you think there might be something stolen, but couldn't be bothered to do any of the work to have actual evidence. No, you can't be charged with criminal trespass in that situation. Where do you people get these ideas from. I used to work security, and there's no way that somebody would be charged with criminal trespass over refusing to show a receipt. If the individual refuses to leave after being asked to, then they will be charged with trespass if the police show up in time, and not before. They may have a stated policy, but it's not failing to live up to that policy that winds up with trespass charges, it's failing to leave when asked. A sign on the wall is just a sign on the wall until the business enforces it by informing the customer to abide by the policy or leave.
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It's not intended to, it is intended as a first step towards that. But, it would help considerably in terms of some of the other bits that are being done like fixing the existing loan forgiveness programs.
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@idbuyanewbmx One of the other reasons why we now have an all volunteer military is that it's a lot easier to get volunteers to kill people. When they were using conscripts, they had to go through a lot more work to get people to actually shoot at the enemy. It's still not easy for most people, but it's easier than when they were being forced to join.
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@jgeorge-g7k I genuinely hope that's what was going on rather than just a lack of competence and drilling.
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You do know that that's how people become billionaires, right? They wouldn't have been able to amass that sort of wealth without being extremely cheap.
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A reduction of less than 2 hours a week of work is consistent with the UBI needing to be super high in order to negatively impact workforce participation and probably was the result of people cutting back to just one full time job. The lack of any growth of wealth is to be expected. This was only a 3 year study and the sorts picked probably had a lot of delayed expenditures that don't show up on the balance sheet. These are things like getting their teeth fixed or auto repairs.
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@sersastark Yes, but he's refusing to promise to step in if Biden is out. Considering how he wussed out that last couple rounds, I'm not sure we can count on him.
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@lexiecove7203 Blame that on the DNC, they're using the SCOTUS picks as hostages to force people to vote for a candidate that won't do jack shit to help the American people out. He's even on record after his most recent wins as being so opposed to Medicare for all that he'll veto it, even if it gets past both the house and the senate. Where was this concern about Supreme Court picks when Obama was supposed to be able to nominate somebody to replace Scalia and the Republicans refused to even hold hearings? Not to mention when they did get to make picks, they chose moderate republicans to fill those vacancies? The only possible way that the people will ever win is if we stop playing this stupid game and punish the Democrats as many times as necessary in order to make them learn that their masters are the voters, not their donors.
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No. For one thing, the states have the ability to keep the signs and give up their highway funds. For another thing, I don't think that state governments have any constitutional right to freedom of speech anyways.
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@ThePooper3000 Probably a combination of random chance and being listed on one of the sources that the court uses for identifying potential jurors. Also, it takes a lot of jurors sometimes to find the fewer than 2 dozen that they need to make up a jury. When I was on jury duty they went through over a thousand potentials just to find the 10 or so they needed for the civil trial that could be there an entire month and who were otherwise suitable for the case.
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Teachers that explain things calmly tend to have students that fall asleep in class. Just saying, calm is really more reasonable when it comes to one on one learning where the direct attention makes up for the lack of energy.
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Yes, most people are better off buying into well-managed REITs if they want real estate exposure. Owning properties can easily be an entire job, and you may well get stuck showing up in the middle of the night to deal with problems that arise.
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Whether or not that's how things should be, that's not how they are and the photo doesn't even show him engaging with that materials. I'm definitely not saying that he didn't or wouldn't, but it's not in the photo. Simply being in the same room as that stuff isn't exactly automatic guilt by association, especially with all the other offensive stuff he says.
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@kommisar. it took the US decades to get to the point where they could make use of such legislation. If they had tried it in the 20s or 30s, it likely wouldn't have worked.
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Who stopped the republicans from taking up the issue months ago? They're the problem right now. The democrats failed to properly negotiate, but it's because of the republicans that the benefits expired with no plan in place.
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It's been my belief for many years now that if they can't predict gum disease based on flossing habits, then they shouldn't be recommending it. Part of why my gums are in the state that they are is that I was dumb enough to follow the advice I was being given. The dentist would keep saying that I wasn't flossing deep enough, but when I'd show him what I was doing, he said it was fine. The worst gums I have are the ones that are the easiest to floss. Flossing is mostly about having a plausible excuse to blame the patient as the dental bills increase.
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@absolutmo That's likely irrelevant as those sorts wouldn't be donating their bodies for research.
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Maybe or maybe they just genuinely believe that Black people don't hang themselves due to the symbolism of it. Either way, people grieving aren't known for being hyper-rational. Some are, but not everybody is, some get downright irrational when they hurt like that.
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@cdavid8139 Have you seen some of these bridges? Under normal conditions they just work, but some of these bridges that are still in use are a century old and older.
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@arjansahota4911 Still, I don't think it will motivate enough voters to make up for the various ways that the Democrats are poking their own voters in the eye. They chose not to give use medicare for all, they chose not to cancel any student debt, they chose not to give essential workers hazard pay, they chose to let unemployment expire and to not provide further stimulus payments. The fact of the matter is, that abortion is far less compelling when there are other bigger fish to fry. It will probably help some people come out to vote, but there's no guarantee that it will offset the various defectors that are disgusted by a party that's abandoned them on other important issues.
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@LRM5195 You're not supposed to pay attention to things when people are blaming things on sexism. Just like we're not supposed to pay attention to all the sexist things that HRC said when running for President and we're supposed to forget that they had to rig the primaries in order for her to even be the nominee.
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@drexeldragon1723 Yes, that's the bigger problem, South Carolina was the final nail in the coffin for Bernie's 202 Presidential run, but the state went red in the general election anyways. Personally, I think that it would make more sense to put the states that never vote for the Democratic candidate towards the end of the primaries, and front load a bunch of the purple states towards the beginning and middle of the primaries with the remainder filled out with a random assortment of the rest of the states. That would at least remove the pro-GOP bias in the process. So, perhaps we could get some Presidential candidates that might actually fight for the voters for once rather than falling down the moment the GOP threatens to fight them on something
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@annpeerkat2020 Even in NYC, it costs a retail operator less than $1 a day to store binoculars. Retail space and utilities can be expensive, but it's not that expensive. If you've got any sort of a reasonable storage system you can store a fairly large amount of stuff in a fairly small space.
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Definitely not, there certainly haven't been any rightwingers insisting that Alec was guilty and would be convicted.
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A common analogy used for risk analysis in many fields is to consider it a bit like a stack of risk factors. One or two risk factors and you're probably not going to have a problem but as they stack up higher and higher they get more and more stable and eventually topple over. You can't address every possible risk factor, but if you do address enough of them, you can be sure that you're not going to be having something like this happening.
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Presumably either the whole thing imploded or there was a catastrophic failure of the communications system and whatever emergency beacon is activated if it surfaces in an emergency procedure. The worst thing would be to be stuck in there until the air completely runs out.
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Same goes around here, they're being built in rural areas because there's the space and not enough traffic to make traffic signals worthwhile. That being said, they just started a project near me that's on the literal city limits, so it's probably just a matter of time before they start working their way into the city. The problem is that there aren't many busy intersections with the time to build a roundabout without tearing anything down.
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@johnPaul-qn3dg Not necessarily, we don't have the space for that, if they're filled with anything at all, it'll likely be plants of some sort. Most of the roundabouts we get are much smaller, so they're designed to allow larger trucks to just drive right over the top of them if need be.
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@randysmith9841 And if you're saying this generation, then you're full of crap. You benefitted from tuition that was subsidized to a much greater degree than what it is now. Back in the '80s it was still possible to pay for college by working a summer job. By the time I first attended college in the late '90s it had gotten to the point where a 4 year degree cost per year, what a 2 year degree does now. Not to mention that books quadrupled in price since the '80s. The underlying costs do need to be addressed, but blaming the students for it is rather ridiculous. There have been multiple life changing economic events over that time frame.
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@chrisschembari2486 And be bankrupt the next day. My recommendation for those rural voters is to have views that are less repulsive to the majority and they will be more likely to win elections.
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I don't agree, this is the same Puerto Rico that Trump tried to completely screw out of any aid following that hurricane and then went on to try to trade for Greenland. Whether that comedian meant to refer to the landfill issue or not, it was incredibly poorly thought out in the context of what was going on. And, I really do not believe that the comedian was that interested in Puerto Rican politics to know about their landfill situation.
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I think they are to a large extent. The concept depends on being able to draw some sort of a reasonable line, the numbers were usually a bit off as the things we think of as being "The '70s" for example started a few years into the decade and continued a few years into the '80s. Arguably it's more aligned to what people born early in the decade remember as their earliest memories than anything else.
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But he pretended to drink the water, what more could he have done?
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You may or may not have ADHD, but the tips for managing life as somebody with ADHD are just generally sound principles for just about anybody. The difference though is that for people with ADHD things like this are effectively mandatory if we want to get anything done and have it together; for other people it's just nice, but not essential.
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@aaronhiggs In a sense you're right, but my hands tend to cramp up when I'm riding in stop and go traffic. Also, the shifting aspect of the vehicle makes it harder to pass the licensing exam. The skill doesn't take that long to learn, but it's a skill when the beginning riders are already learning so many things over 2 days.
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What else did you expect him to do? The candidates that lose always support the winner. The issue here is that he's continued to support the corrupt DNC in the years since and there has been no meaningful change to reform the party. The party is still interfering in primaries and pushing candidates that don't support what the people want.
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@josephmurphy1459 So, I take it you're opposed to granted domestic violence survivors emergency restraining orders then. Because those are typically granted with extremely loose standards to ensure that there's a petitioner that's available to have a proper hearing later on. No right is absolute, they all have some sort of limitation for practical reasons. We have freedom of speech, arguably our most important right, but we can't make fraudulent/libelous claims and we can't yell fire in a crowded theater either. Similarly, we haven't let people under indictment have firearms so that they can't use those weapons to influence the proceedings while out awaiting trial.
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@DaddyWarCrimes78 Yes, although submitting false paperwork because you didn't do your job to verify the necessary information is grounds for sanctions and potentially disbarment depending upon how bad it was. Lawyers don't generally have to sign off on paperwork if they're not comfortable with it.
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Or, perhaps the campaigns should be considering why there are so many eligible voters that haven't already committed to their side.
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You're not allowed to speed in that situation, so it's kind of a moot point. If somebody is that messed up in the back of the car, you shouldn't be driving them to the hospital, you should be calling 911 for an ambulance. Even if you do get them to the hospital, the ambulances typically have an expedited check in process as they're usually in touch with the ICU doctors at the hospital as they're driving so that there's a team that has as much of the relevant information as possible upon arrival. The extra few minutes that it takes to drive the speed limit isn't likely to make much of a difference as that stuff then has to be done when you arrive.
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@dawnofjustice4689 I think the more typical way is to set up a nonprofit and assign ownership to the nonprofit. I think the hold up is probably the cost of setting up a gallery that's capable of housing the collection. Granted, it's probably a third the size of the total and they'd probably rotate some of them in and out of the visible area, but a museum that large would be extremely expensive. I personally would love to see them loan out the work more widely or at least get it stored some place with proper climate control and security.
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They could start by not collecting all that information in the first place.
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Hypocrisy is definitely the word here. They definitely could ban sssniperwolf if they wanted to, they just didn't want to. Although it seems to be a bit of a moot point now as I think she's left. Which is probably just as well as she doesn't seem to be the brains of those channels and her reactions had been getting lazier and lazier.
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@anthonyhenderson8632 This is what happens with so many broken families and so many families where both parents have to work because jobs no longer pay a working wage. Although in terms of Jack, his parents are scumbags to. From what I can tell, they drove him to harass influencers early on in his channel.
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I'd settle for hazard pay. I've been working in public through the pandemic and I only got basically minimum wage and that $1200 everybody else got. Meanwhile last week, I got to deal with a verbally abusive person trying to get a price check over the phone and chewing me out about how good I have it while he's been out of work. Dude was making more than I have been through the pandemic and was more interested in abusing me than in working with me while I bent the rules to help the guy out. This kind of thing really doesn't encourage me to care about the unemployed when we've been consistently hiring through the entire pandemic and positions haven't been getting filled. But, they got their $10k + benefits and I'll at most be eligible for the regular benefits and only under certain conditions as I'm working an essential job. Really, makes me want to just sit back and watch the whole country burn.
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@lightworker4512 Worker's Comp covers work-related injuries, don't assume that you'll be covered just because you're at work if you were explicitly told not to do something. But, if you were told to do something, you'd likely be covered.
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@Ollies2CentsWardill Yes, there probably will be sanctions levied pretty quickly for them failing to secure accurate information to submit to the court, but right now, it's unlikely to be at a level where they're at risk of losing their licenses.
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Thank you, when I took a cooking class in China, we were instructed to not even start using the wok until it started to smoke. When it starts to smoke, that's when you know it's hot enough for cooking. I can't recall what oil they were using in it, but if you're using the same kind of oil each time, you get the same temperature of wok each time by waiting until it starts to smoke. You can do a smilax thing with an infrared thermometer, but those have only become a thing recently, and their cooking methods go back millennia.
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At this point we know we're getting 4 more years of GOP rule, the question is whether it's under Biden or Trump as both of them are going to be selecting right-wing folks to staff the various agencies and the Democrats care more about obstructing the will of the people that earning votes.
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The problem is that it's pretty much impossible to boycott them without just not buying anything online if they don't get you choices of which company to deliver the packages. It's doable, but I'm not sure it's going to be that long before the other services follow suit.
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Keep in mind that the US used the term "internment camps" to describe our concentration camps during WWII. People forget that a concentration camp is basically just a camp where they're concentrating a group they're targeting. There's also usually some level of abuse and, in the case of the Nazis, often times a complex nearby for committing further crimes against humanity or outright executions en masse.
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@johndouglas4528 It's also completely pointless. States that require ID don't have lower rates of fraud than ones that don't. What happens is that in states that do require an ID, it's just another hurdle to poor people exercising their right to vote.
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Elizabeth Warren isn't much better. She's staying in the race primarily to screw over Bernie even though she has little chance of winning, even less so after most of the moderates and centrists dropped out. Her and Bloomberg only serve as spoilers at this point.
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Honestly, I doubt it was always secure, they're more likely just lying about that.
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UBI feeds capitalism. More or less every dollar handed to those people wound up being spent on something, hence the lack of growth in their wealth. That money then was able to circulate in the economy spurring growth. The amount being handed out was neither enough per month nor long enough to expect to see much of anything. That's especially the case given that it was like 500 people in TX and 500 in IL that got the full money. A longer study might have addressed what happens once the backlog of expenses is worked through.
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Yes, I remember when they tried to steal 6 figures from Notch by using a technicality that they considered themselves to be the owner of the money while it was in transit. So, they'd assume ownership of the money and then they might transmit it, they might refund it, or they might just keep it for themselves.
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Keep in mind that if Trump starts to take these things seriously and Biden has to actually show up for a debate, it could shift the other way.
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That may have been what he was told, but AFAICT, the only one of those that actually was going on, was invisibility and even that is not really accurate. During that time period, radar was in its infancy and they were trying to find ways of making things invisible to it. And, honestly, that explains most of it, the other ones were probably just things that people not directly involved in the projects were saying, or that was being spread to try and figure out where potential leaks were coming from.
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I remember when Amazon deleted 1984 from people's kindles.
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The main issue is that they don't appear to have a way of shifting the seat forward and backward. If they could do that, it would make it a lot safer to traverse stairs. As long as the seat is shifted slightly toward the upper stair, you won't fall down the stairs, the worst case would be sliding down the stairs.
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Yep, I get that Bernie thought Joe was his friend, but this is more or less what we should have expected.
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@viriathusthelanthrobat7516 Her career is over either way. Just look at how bad she lost in her home state. If the GOP runs somebody halfway decent, she'll lose. Not to mention the possibility of being primaried.
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Yes, I personally think that as time goes by and drivers have more experience with them that the resistance will fade. The first experiences that I've had driving with actual roundabouts, as opposed to traffic circles, was in the suburbs where they were being used to reduce t-bone crashes from drivers not bothering to stop at uncontrolled intersections. But, you drive through a few of the one lane roundabouts and they really aren't that big of a deal.
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That's not surprising, law enforcement and security personnel are generally trained to maintain a distance between themselves and the people they're protecting. That's part of why there should be a separate track for becoming an SRO, or at least significant training to overcome that. Ideally, if they're deadset on having an armed SRO, it should be somebody that's hasn't had a long career in law enforcement so that such habits aren't as much of an issue.
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Definitely true, one of them will lose and go back to the retirement home. Sadly, the American people, and people in general, will be the big losers.
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Chaos? This just means that these particular prisoners are going to be just like any other prisoners serving life without possibility of parole. If anything, that will reduce the chaos in this area as there won't need to be any appeals covering execution and many of those folks have probably already run through their appeals in terms of the actual proceedings that led to them being in prison.
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Same goes here. But, not just that, I won't be voting for another Democrat if Bernie isn't the nominee.
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And they say we don't need gun control regulations. We'll see if the driver would have been able to legally possess it. But having all those weapons is definitely a contributing factor.
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@jakedee4117 It gets complicated because club membership doesn't necessarily require that you engage in lawful activities at all times. So, you can have clubs where it is mostly people who are just lovers of bikes and like family, but have a few that are involved in criminal activities. I've personally got no interest in joining of those clubs as I'm more of an independent spirit, but, much of what is out there is absolutely wrong or outright purposefully made up by law enforcement to make it seem like they're not wasting taxpayer dollars on personal vendettas. I haven't personally encountered any Angles, but when I go to the big biker run there's always a booth for the Banditos and you probably wouldn't know those guys were in a club if they weren't wearing their gear.
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That sort of thing has been going on for decades, at a minimum, and as bad as it's been with BS things like messing around with discharge classifications for things as minor as being a little bit overweight despite personnel doing what's asked of them to be in compliance, and the VA that's only been fully funded in recent memory by changing the definition of full funding, it's probably going to get ugly.
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You mean other than the fact that this was happening via adjudication by the college? And the accused was frequently being deprived of any chance to cross examine the accuser? Or that the standards being used were significantly lower than the typical guilty beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt? These cases of alleged rape and sexual assault are criminal acts that should be handled by the police and the prosecutor's office. The reason for handling it internally was to try and do an end run around due process as the colleges weren't required to meet the same standards as the worst case scenario would be kicking them out of school rather than sending them to prison. The end result was a set of regulations that protected the accuser at the expense of the accused in direct conflict with the normal way things are done in the US where the accused are innocent until proven guilty. The worst is that there's no evidence to support the idea that there is a problem that is so significant that it should justify throwing out the constitution. The studies that allege that this is a problem were conducted with extremely questionable methodologies and do not represent colleges in general.
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Honestly, depending on the specifics that sounds like more of an OCD thing depending upon the specifics. For example, if I don't check my stove at least 3 times the house will burn down. It's delusional, but it's more of an OCD delusion.
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Yes, that and his refusal to hold Biden accountable for anything. Biden is only the presumptive nominee due to election fraud.
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Not true. About a third of people diagnosed with schizophrenia will commit suicide. This is an illness that absolutely destroys lives. Even when patients do manage to get to remission, the process can take years and pretty much trash your life in the meantime. The medications are pretty hardcore, but you're completely full of it if you claim that the treatment is worse than the disorder as treatment involves therapy and medication. And over time, the amount of medication can be tapered off, assuming the patient learns to manage without it.
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I'd assume that they were driving rental cars, as cars with out of state shouldn't be subject to being ordered to court in a different state.
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It's worth noting that the activity is already covered by other laws, regulations and ordinences. Touching is prohibited by law, so really touching any more than is necessary to get the cup of coffee already comes under prostitution statutes if I'm not mistaken. Likewise, OSHA covers any workplace safety issues that might come of it. This is just a bunch of kill joys trying to ruin it for other people. Personally, I've never been to one of these drive throughs, but I have no problem with them. There's enough coffee shops out there that these women could choose to work at other ones if they wanted to.
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Whether he's a thief or not CVS does not have the right to dictate what goes on in the right of way. All they can do is prevent him from being on the premises, or call the cops if they think he's actually broken any laws. But, simply standing on the sidewalk is not a crime, the public has the right to use the right of way, barring a specific court order or law saying otherwise. If people couldn't use the right of way, it would be extremely difficult to get around the city.
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But, you get purchase protection via debit cards as well. Granted, it's mostly fraud related, but just a couple days ago I had some money clawed back on my behalf by my bank because a purchase I made was broken on arrival and the company couldn't get it working and refused to refund my money. The process was no harder than it would have been with a credit card.
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It does, even though the connection to Epstein is tenuous at best, I'm sure before long there will be dozens of conspiracy theories covering this.
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The neighbor should learn to make it him or herself. If you just want a mocha, those are extremely inexpensive to make for yourself. $50 worth of gear gets something that's largely indistinguishable from the real thing. But, even if you want the real thing, you can buy a machine for about $500 these days and it would likely be paid off within a few months at that rate. I got a mechanical frother off Amazon for about $20 and use it in the microwave for the milk. And I use a ninja coffee maker to brew strong coffee. But, for a more budget friendly option, you can get an airpresso. Those sell for about $20 last I checked and so for just a bit over $50 you can get the equipment, milk and coffee to have at least a week's worth of coffee. After the second week, you're saving money. So, it's not even a case of having to do without the lattes, the neighbor could still have the lattes, it's just that they'd be homebrewed.
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That's the thing, if the voters don't punish the DNC for rigging primaries in the general election, then what's the consequence? Of course we should fight like hell in the primary, but if the primary is rigged, then why reward that with votes in the general election?
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In this case, it's not even a matter of him being the wrong man, there probably wasn't even a crime committed at all. The kid died of complications of pneumonia for which appropriate steps were taken in terms of seeking out medical treatment.
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One of the issues with data is that you need the right data and the ability to process it quickly enough to act on. So much of the data being collected by analytics firms in general is worthless, they're just hoping that with enough of it, they can look like they know what they're doing often enough to get paid.
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Definitely, and that's a large part of why I'm not voting for Biden.
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The scary thing is that this is his best effort at faking competence and ability.
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@wouldiwasshookspeared4087 I hear a lot of folks saying that, but it's not true. But, even if you do accept it to be true, then why on Earth is a ship large enough to cause a collapse like this being allowed to go through with no escorts? And if tugs genuinely aren't enough, then why is it allowed to sail past that bridge at all? A large enough block of concrete would have done the job of directing the ship around the support. There are a lot of folks carrying water for the various authorities here over very preventable deaths.
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That would be a horrible precedent to take. People are already being asked to sign away most of their rights to civil lawsuits, signing away the right of the government to enforce the law is just asking for trouble.
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Lol, same here. I've been able to keep the temperature under 90 inside, but it's been pretty miserable. Fortunately, things are cooling a bit.
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No, the issue here isn't that there would be a limiter, it's that limiting it to the speed limit has a bunch of issues, including passing and the implicit sense that if the car is allowing me to drive 50mph, then that must be safe, even if the road conditions don't permit safe driving over 30 due to visibility or snow.
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They cared at a community college? I work at a community college and they'd have no reason to care if people were in the halls during hours that school was open due to the fact that people don't all have classes at the same time.
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As if we didn't know that he was lying. I didn't vote for him and I will no longer vote for any Democrat or Republican in the future, except to oust an incumbent unless there's no 3rd party option.
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@gentleben7275 She's an outright fraud. She may have had good intentions, but she let it go to her head and she's repeatedly failed to do the right thing.
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What's more, a lot of sit down restaurants have take out and delivery as options. It's mostly the higher end sit down restaurants that don't.
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Apologize, I have never had a rubbish bin that ugly.
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David C nope, there's 2, one of them recommends voting for the other Biden.
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@KM-oi9ks Thanks to that Hillary rigged primary fiasco, I"m no longer a Democrat. If they won't let the voters make the decision, they should change their name.
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@jlcole300 That sort of thing is why there should just be a payment that goes out to everybody to help support the kids. It's kind of rough for the childless, but those kids don't automatically grow into upstanding citizens, so even for the childless there is something for them in doing so.
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@Marklin15 The point of it was presumably to make the offender understand the lives of some of the people that were impacted. That being said, there are a lot of other conditions that can lead to somebody legitimately using those spaces, the wheelchair is just the easiest one to temporarily impose on somebody.
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A couple things, it's a really good idea to have a printout of all the torque values for fasteners on the bike. When adding oil, it's a really god idea to measure it out rather than going by the sight glass or dipstick, it will greatly reduce the likelihood of putting the wrong amount in.
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Joseph11441 I vaguely recall seeing that headline at some point and refused to click on it because it was pretty horrible either way.
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Unfortunately, due to the way that laws are written and interpreted, it's virtually impossible to ever get a clear answer. Which is why lawyers say that it depends so often as it does. It's a bit of a scam that it's effectively impossible to ever know your legal rights without being an attorney and even then, it often has to go to court in order to get a final ruling. In order to know whether something is legal or not, you'd have to not just look up the law, but also the precedences that apply to it and the direction in which the courts are moving in that region. Fortunately, in most common situations things are pretty well established, but when they aren't, that's not likely to get you off.
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There's no real doubt that the metric system sucks amongst people that actually know what they're talking about. I've used both personally and professionally and the metric system sucks for pretty much everything outside of a very narrow scope. The reason that the ignorant think otherwise is that they've never actually learned to use the imperial measures. They're awesome for use without a calculator as they have a large number of factors. The units themselves are generally much closer to what you want than the metric ones are and you can even talk in terms of tenths of them if that's more convenient than converting to a smaller or larger unit. What's more, because the metric system is arbitrarily based on the dimensions of the Earth and a very particular lump of French metal, it's going to be completely useless if we ever get off the Earth and out of the solar system as you'd have no way of directly calibrating anything at that point.
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@Roxor128 Yes, it got handled so badly that the Libreoffice fork happened. IIRC, there was some sort of weird approval process required to get code into OpenOffice at one point, and when the fork happened, there was a bunch of code more or less waiting to be committed already, so the split became rather significant pretty quickly in terms of stuff that Liberoffice could do and OO couldn't.
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I wouldn't personally consider screaming or not to be a particularly compelling piece of evidence as to whether or not it was consensual. When something like that happens there's all sorts of ways in which people react, freezing is not something I would consider surprising.
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@wilsonfreitas8418 Yes, the P in PDF stands for Portable. Unless there are advanced features like that, then it should open fine on any computer. You may have issues with forms data, or filling out the PDF, but I've never encountered a PDF that wouldn't open at least enough to read on random other OSes.
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To be fair, if Clinton had been able to hide in her basement, she would have been up by a lot more. Every time she had an appearance, she lost support.
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The bar was found to be marginally effective at best. This system would still filter out the stupid and lazy, but would likely be somewhat less harsh on those with temporary issues like family illness.
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It's not an easy position for the police to be in when there's a Black man that's found hanging. There's a lot of folks out there that just assume that no Black man would hang himself due to the history of "strange fruit" in some parts of the country. But, it does happen, some Black people do hang themselves and it just means that there was a suicide. Beyond that, it doesn't mean much. That being said, after the rest of the results are available, it will likely to found to be a suicide by hanging as presumably there weren't a lot of signs around the death scene to lead to questions about what actually happened..
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Honestly, he was probably hoping she'd fall all the way in. She seems like a treasure.
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Yes, while source isn't really required for that, it certainly makes the process a lot more efficient and a lot less unpleasant.
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I used to save the state quarters and only state quarters out of my change. Over the course of a few years they added up to several hundred dollars. Probably the best thing to do is get a little tool to wrap the coins for the bank. Policies obviously vary, but you're more likely to have them accept the coins if they're wrapped up.
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@Orchidaceous1 And it may be as simple as the infant dying of something along the lines of seizure related complications at night when she was sleeping. That nearly happened to me, if the seizure hadn't happened when my parents were in the room and the county didn't have ER doctors that travel around the county to stabilize people in situations like that, I'd probably be dead. But, unlike this case, the state wasn't arresting women for infants that died of natural causes or for miscarriages.
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@DanakarEndeel It probably fell off the back of a truck and the "purchase" price was mostly a bribe to get it. I'm guessing the fact that the other personnel thought it was hilarious or didn't themselves want to go out that allowed it to continue.
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This is probably the best outcome we could hope for after the Democrats rigged their primary. He didn't earn the support of the left or progressives, and he seems to have barely gained the support of independents. He lost the support of basically everybody except for white men, and there's no good reason to believe that he'll actually do anything to help the people.
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He won't though, he's still going to have social security and he probably has some sort of pension/retirement accounts that the court can't touch. He's probably still going to be doine better than most of us will in retirement even after all of this.
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These kinds of videos are why I don't give you any money. The black community whines every time a black person is shot and never revises their view in light of further evidence when it changes the narrative. You don't see white people or Asian people behaving like that. If they can't revise their opinions as new facts come in, then on precisely what basis do they hold any moral authority?
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Bernie owes us all an apology for that weaksauce proposal. Just recently the DoD was increased by much more than that, this 10% cut wouldn't even take us back to where funding levels were when Trump took office.
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There's a difference between being uncomfortable and being taught that if you have any pride in your ethnicity, that you're a Nazi monster that should be excommunicated from society if not exterminated. That's the bit that often gets missed. If you want to create a new generation of racist monsters, fine, go ahead, but if you actually want to solve the major bits of racism, that's just not going to cut it. I wound up extremely racist in high school because after all those years of being taught about what a horrible person I was because of my racial identity, that all got into my head and displaced onto other people. Eventually, I realized what was going on and went about reclaiming as much of my racial identity as I could, and the racism subsided, but that's really not fair. Being expected to simultaneously be responsible for crimes against humanity committed decades before I was born while simultaneously being expected to participate in the ethnic cleansing of my own identity is a massive ask with no legitimate reason for happening.
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@Yggdrasil42 Yep, with the information we have, the most likely answer is just a pile of compounding mistakes that led to a tragic result. Helicopters are fairly slow and trying to hit a jet like that is going to be pretty tough. My guess is that it'll probably come out to an unclear command from ATC not specifying where the jet the tower was concerned with was in the sky, the helicopter not having a 4th crew member to help track other aircraft and the helicopter being much too high either due to a pilot ignoring/not noticing the altimeter readings or some sort of a defect in the altimeter that hadn't been picked up during maintenance or earlier in the flight.
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@angrydachshund They could have avoided that by just not suing her. Or by putting in even the most basic effort to ensure they were on the right property. It's not like any portion of this building was even on the correct property.
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I'm guessing his copy of the Bible makes it clear that you need to run away from lepers, steal alms from the poor and that prostitutes are a great source of attack ad intelligence.
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It was Mississippi. These are 3 of the more widely known casualties of the fight, but they're hardly the only ones.
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There was no need for this law, that behavior was already criminal.
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Eastern fence Lizard Probably benefits. 84 hours is a bit more than the work of 2 people, but only one set of benefits. They also don't need to shut down the line that extra time.
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That wouldn't happen, they'd likely only be on the hook for the cost of putting the house back the way that it was. So, at most. you'd be benefiting by the amount of demolition.
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@PunkrockNoir-ss2pq Ventoy is objectively a lot better, especially for those of us that have a bunch of ISOs that we occasionally need. It gets annoying having to have a bunch of labeled thumbdrives sitting around there that periodically need to be updated rather than just copying a new ISO onto it.
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Names often sound funny in other languages. Although, in this case, it sounds like the name that would have been given to a character written by racist American writers in the '40s.
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@ This is part of why people aren't supposed to have things out during take off and landing. A book or a cellphone can get launched and smack somebody in the face if something like this happens.
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Or, he was just looking at the pistols and there happened to be WWII memorabilia there. As somebody that has a lot of experience with photography, you'd be surprised how often people forget that there are other things in a photo other than the subject. One of the things that improved my photos the fastest was putting attention to the background before I started to think about the subject.
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The question is whether or not providing this care addresses a problem that couldn't be addressed with gender affirming care provided as adults and whether there is a reason to assume that providing the care will improve outcomes. As far as I've read, the answer is that the care isn't essential at that age and it doesn't really solve any of the problems people assume it will. Hopefully, more research will come out to more adequately answer the questions, but at the end of the day, there should be a presumption of not providing treatments to children that don't have an established safety or efficacy attached to them.
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@tookitogo Yes, although the difference is that these days there's through the lens metering and the ability to deliver more or less just the amount of flash that you need from either an on camera or off camera flash.
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Nebula is probably fine, but most of the content I'm watching is from smaller creators that aren't allowed to post to that site. There's little point in me subscribing when so many of the creators I follow are autistic and don't have a large enough audience to get noticed and invited over. Which isn't the worst thing in the world if you want solid creators that are doing mainstream stuff, but if you're mostly using YouTube for less common content, then it's a waste of money.
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@KTWEBS No, gold is supposed to be a savings against the apocalypse. Stocks and inflation protected bonds are the only savnigs that protects against inflation. Bonds like I-Bonds and TIPS that have their payout connected to inflation will somewhat guard against inflation. But, a balanced portfolio of stocks will protect against inflation in a way that virtually no other form of investment will. Everything those companies do to generate shareholder equity will take inflation into consideration and over the long term, stocks beat inflation by a number of percentage points.
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@highlandermachineworks5795 It's typically both, along with a bunch of loopholes to make enforcement as difficult as possible.
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@harduphiker Why not just clip it to your collar the way that lavs are intended to be worn? It doesn't take much time to clip and unclip it, but you get the sound that it's intended to capture. That being said, I doubt anybody really cares that much unless they're really into this stuff. Although, it can hurt a bit in terms of new viewers seeing it and deciding that the same lack of attention to detail is going to show up elsewhere.
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If you're buying things you wouldn't otherwise buy or paying more than you'd otherwise pay, then you're not disciplined. That's the real problem with credit cards, you might be paying them off every month and racking up those points, but if you're spending more money than you would have spent, which most people do, then you've lost out. Some people do legitimately keep their expenditures to just what they budgeted, but most people don't, hence why those points programs exist, they wouldn't be offering it if they didn't routinely receive more money than not having those programs at all. Or, those programs would have been cut years ago.
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Also in some states the vote went solidly for Trump, but the voters voted to move toward protecting abortion rights.
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I'm pretty sure that the Israelis have it.
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They can attach that to any ruling that they publish if they so choose. They are not obligated to wait for a ruling that is germane to that question if they don't want to. The bigger question is whether they'll choose to do that before or after further assassinations.
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What gets me is that with the amount of money they make, this is like chump change to them. At absolute bare minimum, the IRS ought to be looking at their books because a charge this large shouldn't be "forgotten about" if they've got proper books covering their obligations. I wonder how many charitable donations they might have covered that aren't covered.
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It's unfortunate that more doctors don't prescribe therapy for pain. I've personally found that most of my pain goes away, or is greatly reduced, when I acknowledge the source and take action to address it. The whole purpose of pain is to tell you not to do something that's hurting you. A bit of gratitude to the body for being kind enough to inform you of the problem is never a bad idea.
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@timramich You're rather slow, aren't you. The DMCA is a thing that prevents circumvention of DRM, DRM is increasingly being used in things like tractors where it has no right to be. You've got cell phone companies like AT&T forcing updates onto devices that they don't themselves even own. And most of the stuff you're saying is absolute BS, please do some research or at least quit working for one of the companies that's doing this, because either way you're not doing your position any favors by posting this ignorance.
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And what if they then start delivering those tacos directly to people's mailboxes rather than the mail? Just look what you've done.
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We have several around here. They have their own distinct architectural aesthetic to them so you know where the money probably came from immediately.
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@DHFlip18 We used to have that to a much larger extent and it was a massive problem. Anybody who was popular enough could incite a mob to go and get their opponents and string them up. The system we have is flawed, but that doesn't meant hat it isn't on the whole better than what we had previously.
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I don't think that's how that works. But, that seems to be how the airline would like it to work. When you pay for unaccompanied minor service, there's a lot more that you're supposed to get that's just not relevant to a 14 year old. For example, if there's a change of planes in the itinerary, there's supposed to be an airline employee that escorts the kid from one plane to the next so that they don't get lost in the middle. The bit about not deplaning them should not require an extra fee.
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@Teampegleg Yes, although a 14 year old doesn't need any of that. They just need to not be deplaned. Around here, 14 year olds are routinely responsible for getting too and from school which is a lot riskier than dealing with airports.
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@Keith2619 Yes cars are the most expensive depreciating item that most people will ever buy. The only things more expensive that somebody is likely to buy is one of those trailers for living in at a trailer park. Even ignoring the advice in the video and keeping that new car for 17-20 years makes a substantial difference over what many people do. My parents have been doing that because of bad luck with buying used, and they still go many years without a car payment. Just regular maintenance, fuel and related costs of operation.
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@litigioussociety4249 Yep, if you're using a Geneva Drive mechanism for all the hands, you'd get that effect where the hands stay in place until they're ready to move, and then they move incredibly quickly. It's kind of nice because it makes it very clear what time the hour hand is pointing to, but people didn't get used to that until digital clocks became a thing.
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@st.m.3979 Does it even really matter? It's not like a teacher is going to spend the time to make sure that the hour hand is the correct proportion of the way towards the next hour when doing an exercise like this and anybody that sees a clock is going to figure the rest of it out pretty quickly.
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You probably don't want to be on one of those lists. Some people get literal truck loads of stuff over the course of a year and it can become a real problem to dispose of.
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@xiaoluwang7367 I suspect that what will likely happen is that at that point, we'll start paying people to engage in hobbies.
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@DannyPops One of the big issues is that Elon has an extremely large mouth and a long history of overpromising what they can deliver. And they're still having issues like people being trapped in their cars if the software doesn't think they should be allowed to open the doors and the cars still can't figure out how far away motorcycles are.
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@jamesbrooks5442 Some will be, I'm guessing others will be demoted to jobs that don't involve providing protection.
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In practice, they wouldn't do a negative interest rate if they needed to do better than 0%, they'd issue a rebate or otherwise reduce the price they're charging. In practice though, I'm not sure how often they need to do better than 0% as that's already under the rate of inflation.
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@romulus463 They can't, the states get to decide how they apportion the votes to electors. it's how ME and NE get to split theirs when everybody else is going all in for one candidate or the other.
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Yep, there's always an overlay of feels that comes into play. If you can stomach it, it's often times extremely profitable to be buying when everybody else is selling out of fear. Just the fact that the fed deliberately keeps creating inflation where there might not be any is a massive part of the problem here. If people didn't get a reduction of sorts in interest they're paying in the form of inflation or were getting pay raises to cover the inflation, the economy would likely be a lot different. A healthy economy should go through short periods of both minor inflation and deflation. When expectations start to set in about what the future is going to be, you can get things like the economy seizing up due to deflationary expectations or people overspending because their loans are now cheaper.
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There shouldn't be any visible tips ahead of time. The service should properly compensate the drivers. I definitely miss the days where a flat $2 tip covered most pizza deliveries with more only really being required if it was an unusually large order or more inconvenient than usual.
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@k.o.h3599 And that's something that really should be fixed. Tips should be gratuities for service rendered somewhere between good and amazing. The customer shouldn't be in the position where they have to tip or the driver might not have a decent hourly wage as a result.
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@CraigGrant-sh3in That's part of why I refuse to say that BS "thank you for our service." Everybody involve knows full well how completely meaningless it is to thank vets for their service when the VA is such an absolute disgrace and the country keeps sending military personnel into places with little strategic value and with little consideration for ensuring that there aren't any war crimes being committed.
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Nope, OJ already lost the wrongful death suit, and he's a celebrity. Rittenhouse may wind up winning one of these suits, but it's hardly a foregone conclusion, as civil suits require a lower level or proof. Just being able to prove that what he did was more likely than not to be murder would do it, as would several other possible defenses. I'd be surprised if this gets to court, folks would probably just settle if they can.
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@atomic66 If he got free gas, then it's entirely possible that the next person might get screwed. Plus, the filling stations tend to make very little compared with the companies that supply the gas. Those folks get their money regardless, but the filing station doesn't make that much from gas directly.
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It's not necessarily necessary, but using the word allegedly greatly cuts down on the amount of potential damages and makes a court case much harder to win. In this case, just because he wasn't convicted, doesn't mean that he's not a murderer, the standards for sending somebody to prison are much higher than they would have been in a civil suit alleging wrongful death and it's rather important that he understand that. He was incredibly lucky to have been let off the hook for doing stuff that was at bare minimum ill-advised and likely worse.
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@willis7404 Rittenhouse wasn't an innocent bystander here to the same degree. Nick Sandman is known to have done nothing at all wrong, whereas Rittenhouse, at bare minimum, was engaged in some extremely poor judgment that was virtually guaranteed to end badly for somebody. Now, that's not criminal, but comparing the two situations is pretty ridiculous.
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@Gigaamped That won't ever happen unless the laws are changed to make them not responsible if somebody walking up to the window is injured by a car.
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Yes, simply requiring the same components for any changes, additions or deletions from a contract to apply to updates and statutory damages would stop this rather quickly. This whole thing is a bit of a backdoor to being able to arbitrarily change the terms after the contract has been agreed to when the original contract was probably not even properly agreed to in the first place.
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@DreadX10 That doesn't much matter. It's how they feel that does matter, and why would they come over to your side if you're insulting them?
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They're clearly younger siblings. Older siblings know the truth that is this video. We may not have actually wished for it, but mainly because we didn't realize we could.
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Of recommend reading "the power of when" by Breus , he goes into depth on what you need to do to manage your circadian rhythm, ultimately, you might just take time to wake up.
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@Sinvare That's the most likely way of succeeding with a 3rd party. The hang up is likely that anti-corporate Republicans aren't necessary OK with reproductive freedom.
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While I don't wish ill on anybody, the impact there is going to be substantially worse on the red states whose representatives voted for this. If we're lucky, this might result in changes being made to their representative to ones that are less fascism friendly.
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And once you see it you can't unsee it.
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@trishajury2959 Treason isn't really a thing anymore, not since most of the GOP politicians at the federal level were allowed to sign fealty pledges to Grover Norquist with no repercussions of any sort other than them being reelected.
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Unfortunately, this is far more applicable to mods that hacks. You can generate a hack without touching the source code, depending upon the game, but mods are much harder to do without touching the binaries.
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@tondaty CD-TEXT was supposed to address that, but I don't know that it ever actually caught on. Or at least, I never had any equipment that could make use of it, if it was even on any of my discs.
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I guess that explains all the appreciation for Python...
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@purplespeckledappleeater8738 TBH, I think Princess Tiger Lily is probably less problematic than some of the other characters they had in that movie, especially during the musical number. I don't personally have a particular dog in this fight, but if the images are any indication, it's a lateral move at worst and more likely a step in the right direction. At least that picture appears more consistent with the original film while removing the more offensive parts.
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@christiner2472 That's certainly a fair point, around here we're exclusively vote by mail with the only people that go to a physical polling places are those that need accommodations beyond the ballot and voters guide being provided in a different language.
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@HassanWilliams-xp5xn Because it can take some time to get notice to the family of the crew that died. The identities will be shared eventually as they always are.
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Tell that to people living near the Hanford nuclear reservation. Those waste containers are leaking due to them being from the 40s and the government isn't in any hurry to clean it's up. As long as it's store securely, it's relatively safe. It's the cheapness in handling it that cause problems.
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Cenk is making a huge mistake here. Fight like hell in the primary for the best possible candidate, but if the primary is rigged, then it makes precisely no sense to reward that with votes. If the candidate that won the primaries did so honestly, then fine, vote for them, but Biden is incapable of executing the duties of the office.
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Tip inflation is a real thing. It's good for waitstaff,but sucks for most other folks Few people want to think that they're cheap, so there's a ratcheting effect. It used to be that 15% was considered a good tip and there'd be guides like rounding taxi far up to the next dollar. Some of those rules, like rounding in that fashion, were always going to go away eventually. But, the peer pressure that comes from the minimum wage not keeping up is real and will continue until the issue is resolved.
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@bluedarkness7125 Run the footage in reverse?
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I'm in WA, and we don't have anything that trusting, but there are a number of places where the enforcement only comes around sporadically and if they don't see you, they wouldn't know if anybody is actually using the service or not. Typically, there will be something you put on your dashboard, or an envelope that goes in with the cash so they know who it's from and what it's for. I think that is largely inevitable when population density drops below a certain point, at least as far as some sorts of services.
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Not to mention that they still haven't done anything to help frontline workers either in terms of protection or compensation. In many parts of the country, there are essential workers that are making less than that $600 a week stimulus check, on top of having to actually work and take on the additional risk so that everybody else can stay at home. Granted, I'm grateful to have the certainty of a paycheck and ability to pay my bills, but it's unbelievably incompetent that the Democrats weren't able to get us anything, even as they held up things up in previous rounds. If anybody was even remotely confused about the party, that should finally dispel the notion that they care about normal people.
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@Foobar_The_Fat_Penguin It's of great historical significance and this particular book has a moderately interesting story attached to it.
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@whiteleopard1713 There's also an issue where at a certain point increasing the amount of plant matter that people eat increases emissions rather than decreasing them. Humans are ominivores and as such a bit of meat is necessary for proper health. It doesn't take much meat, most of it can be from plants. And, the amount of work that's needed to get all the necessary nutritional content in bioavailable forms from just plants is substantial. It can be done, but it's not cheap and it does require a ton of effort.
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And what of the Democrats that enabled his rise by not putting up a decent alternative?
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Typically, what I see is Dr. So and So PhD or MD or EDD and the like. In a medical setting, even if somebody isn't a doctor, they'll get the same, just without the dr. at the front. So, often times we'll see a nurse practitioner as in an APRN or a physician's assistant PA. To make matters more confusing, you're also getting degrees like an osteopathic doctor D.O. as well. So, having or not having a Dr. at the beginning of the name tells you very little, even if they do have a medicine related doctorate. Not to mention that if you're at a large hospital, there's a decent chance that the individual you are dealing with, a physicist as part of the hospital's radiology department. The state would have more of a point if there weren't already a requirement to clarify the degree within the fields they include.
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As far as I can tell, they're legal as pets in WA. But, my guess is that this is either somebody's pet or in transport to them.
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If people get used to getting healthcare without having to shell out tons for it, they might demand it to continue.
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There's a nonzero chance that Biden will ramble incoherently and crap his pants on stage before wandering off.
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The GOP is going to be fine, the Democrats will figure out how to deliver the races to them.
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How would the rich made money on that?
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Sort of, you paid for your parents, younger people are paying for you, and the benefits have been overly generous for what has been taxed on top of money being borrowed from the trust. The result is that younger workers won't get full benefits and nobody in either party seems to care.
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@drunkstormtroopr3627 They had potentially 4 days worth of oxygen, potentially death from dehydration or hypothermia could come sooner. It is possible to leave a couple weeks without water in rare cases, but typically you're looking at closer to 2 days. There was some water on board for drinking, but who knows how much, and if they're still alive, it's like spending the time stuck in a sewer.
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If he's doing this for views, then he's got some sort of disability. But, I do get your point, and yeah, gaining weight for views isn't worth it unless you're overcoming something that was causing you to be significantly underweight. Otherwise, it's just sick.
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@tortilla-plus-3892 What justifies that restriction on use? *BSD hasn't had any real issues with attracting developers and contributions from businesses. People keep saying that Linux is more free, but the fact of the matter is that there's somewhere between little and no evidence to justify that restriction.
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No, people hate vegans enough that the murderer will be a national hero after being identified.
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@MedicalAutonomyProject That's not an accurate description of the Canadian health care system. These things happen everywhere, except that in the US, you'd likely also be out of pocket for the follow up care unless you could afford a good lawyer to go after them for the damages.
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@Nuttymike That happens in every system everywhere and as you're implying, it's not a valid excuse for the US system being better. It's the best if you've got the money to pay for the best, for the rest of us, it can be deeply problematic.
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I like how he casually ignores the fact that she's basically a whale murderer. Those balloons go up, float over the ocean, fall into the ocean and choke sea creatures.
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Not to mention that he's giving the poor the idea that they have actual value and can expect the government to step in and help lift them out of crushing poverty.
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@mitra3021 It depends where you are. However, wherever your water comes form, the utility is supposed to then filter and treat it so that even if there is such material in the river, that it doesn't make it into your tap in any sort of significant amount.
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It was a pair, and they both survived long enough to be convicted. Terry Nichols is still alive, although McVeigh was ultimately executed. A lot of why people still remember 9/11 is that it was a bigger attack, with more unanswered questions and spawned 2 wars and the deaths of hundreds of thousand, possibly more than a million, every time people go through security they're reminded of it and on top of that, there's a holiday commemorating it.
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@strawdemindset Red flag laws to prevent individuals under court or hospital supervision from buying them. Restricting the number of rounds that can go into the gun at a given time would help, recognizing that some firearms have no legitimate purpose outside military use and not letting civilians buy any version of them, closing the gun show background check loopholes and require background checks for any transfer of ownership or possession of firearms. Arguably excluding cases where it's just a couple of people temporarily swapping guns at a range, if it's just for a few minutes of use. Any of that would help, it's not an unsolvable problem other than the lack of political will, even a mass shooting targeting congress didn't seem to impress upon them how much of a problem that we've got.
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That's probably because they're one of the few news outlets covering things like this with any actual seriousness.
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@derekchauvin8426 Not necessarily, the Russians have already stated that they don't consider these volunteers to have rights under the Geneva Convention, so, surrender may well be only slightly better than trying to fight. Just look at what the US did to those prisoners in GITMO. I"d caution against taking any of this too seriously when you've got such substantial propaganda efforts on both sides. This may well be true, but it could also be a matter of Russian propaganda as well. But, it wouldn't surprise me if foreign troops were being sent on high risk missions with very little support.
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@ennesshay5040 With the expansions of NATO into Eastern Europe and the previous annexation of Crimea by Russia, we really shouldn't be surprised by the fact that they went through with it. I'm not sure what the correct move would have been, but anybody that didn't think the Russians would invade were foolish.
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It must be a woman running that. My wife will go from complete denial about their being a problem to being so freaked out about it that she won't do anything at all to address it. Conveniently skipping the part where she takes any sort of responsibility or does anything at all to address the obvious problem.
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@geometerfpv2804 That's really not acceptable and that's a large part of what's driving the antivaxx, antimask and the rest of it. They lied about the utility of the masks, they promised that we'd only have to stay at home for a couple weeks and only gave us a couple weeks worth of financial support and they lied about the levels of immunity needed to reach hurd immunity. The bottom line is that they should have been honest up front and the compliance rates would likely be higher. I never had the opportunity to stay home as I needed to work, but watching those without jobs has been really disheartening. Everybody should have been getting those $600 a week checks and at the end of the year, they should have taxed it back from those that made enough not to need it based on 2020 earnings.
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I don't think accusing people that have clearly just made a purchase of stealing is common decency. The charged man definitely made a purchase, and is accused of having stolen something without any actual evidence that a theft occurred. Now, had he walked around the registers or been seen to hide something under the bags, that would be completely different.
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@alwaysdiscovering2998 TBH, it didn't appeal to me when I saw the pictures of it in promot materials just as illustrations. When I saw one in person, I couldn't believe just how ugly they are. It's far more ugly when it's surrounded by other things
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@myradioon I've been saying for a while that it looks like the love child of a Delorean and an Aztec that was beaten to within an inch of its life with an ugly stick.
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Obama and RBG were complicit as well. RBG could have retired before Trump took office, but she was so sure that Hillary would win. And Obama could have applied the screws and really punished the Republicans for refusing to allow an up or down vote on any of his candidates. The Senate could also have acted to block every nominee that the GOP came up with during that last year of Trump's term as well.
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@@cielange5027 If he's not a subject of a homicide investigation then, he probably is talking, assuming he he knows anything. We in the public don't know what he's been saying, but it's entirely possible, that a possible answer is that one of the deceased is responsible for bringing some sort of substance in that was either accidentally or intentionally tampered with. But, the toxicology report will likely answer those questions.
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@wintergarden7539 Yes and the fact that they indicate that he's being cooperative likely means that he is telling them anything that his attorney will allow him to say.
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#TepidFondue2020
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@ferencmartinovic6267 There's a reason for that. Beyond that point, you just need exposure to the words being used in different ways and to develop the necessary language habits of how the words are used and to use them often enough that you're not thinking about the language. Plus, things like tone sandhi in Mandarin is extremely hard to teach as it's largely a byproduct of what happens when you start to speak more quickly, but not entirely. There are plenty of times where what's "grammatical" isn't what's correct. Or more to the point, isn't accepted as being correct. And people's opinions will differ. I personally get nagged a lot by grammarly for treating time like a place, but that's how I think of the world. The world has 4 dimensions to it, being in the right place at the wrong time is functionally the same as being in the wrong place at the right time.
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@cekpi7 If you automate tasks, then you have a small number of options. One is to expect to be laid off, another is to spend the time looking to improve other areas of the business and sell the ideas to the boss. You may wind up promoted for it. Or, when you are laid off, you will have metrics about how much money you saved in doing so. But, really this is why there needs to be a UBI or at least profit sharing. It's also why the workweek should probably be shorter for the same money as most of those repetitive tasks exist just to justify having somebody at the office for 40 hours a week every week of the year. Much of it could legitimately be cut or offloaded onto a computer with no issues.
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@PatMonahanFan-uj1im Why? The FAA is unlikely to have had anything to do with this. The helicopter wasn't permitted to be where it was when it ran into the jet. There may well be something that the ATC could have done, but at this point, it's pretty clear that the collision wouldn't have happened if the helicopter had been within the altitude limits that are in place on helicopters near the airport.
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Once it's in the truck, it's definitely not the homeowners' property any longer. The question of where exactly the transfer of ownership occurs is what this entire situation is about. Because it's clearly not the case that the solid waste agency owns the trash in your home. But, if you don't put it in their bins on the curb, then I don't know how they can claim that they have ownership rights over it. Around here the city council gave the garbage truck drivers the right and responsibility to go through people's trash and determine if there's too much compostable or recyclable material in it. Nothing has been done to help residents understand what is and isn't recyclable as it's a massive mess where there's nothing on the containers that really says, we just get a pamphlet with examples.
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To be fair, it wasn't real resistance, the rightwingers that took over the DNC mostly are upset because Trump is saying the quite things loud and the loud things quiet. Makes it harder for them to go along with all that silliness.
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@blueseaview 22 Yes, especially if the chokehold is targeting the blood supply rather than the airway.
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@CKM-gf3ik It's worth bringing up, but I don't know how knowing another juror would lead to a conflict of interest. You'd still be barred from discussing the case outside of deliberations. When I was on a jury, two of the other jurors happened to work at the same company.
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@beach-px5dy ATC contributed to it, but from what I understand was in contact with the helicopter warning that it was on a collision course. I don't know why the ATC didn't tell the jet to just abort the landing attempt and come around for another go when the helicopter didn't appear to be properly responding to what was going on.
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Yep, this is why when you're engineering something like that, you'd likely want to go with a shape that keeps acceleration to a tolerable level and adjusts the radius to make that work.
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It's been over 15 years since the Israelis murdered Rachel Corrie, and nobody has even been put on trial for murder. The Israelis have no credibility when they can't police their own. The sooner the US stops backing their crimes against humanity the sooner it stops. It was one of the hugest mistakes of all time to let those nutters become a nuclear power.
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This is a large part of why I didn't vote for him.
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@admthrawnuru Generally speaking, yes, so long as it's not the evidence. I'm curious why nobody is being charged with evidence tampering if that money isn't still in the evidence locker where it belongs.
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@Xoxososowi We're already seeing manufacturing moving to cheaper places than China and if we cut back on the useless crap we don't really need, it wouldn't be an issue to manufacture most of the stuff we need with an investment in tools and equipment.
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That's more or less the government mortgaging the property to the people. But, yeah, this whole bit about people being permanent renters to private equity is gross. It's one thing if somebody doesn't want to own a house because they would prefer to be able to move around, but to not have the option while working full time is absolutely gross.
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@d_walsh Yes, it's unclear if the report got to secret service. There was a local police officer that went up to see, and came back down when the shooter aimed a rifle at him. I wasn't there, so it's unclear whether that police officer could have gotten far enough up the ladder to even get a shot off, let alone do so before being shot himself.
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IMHO, companies that are properly run, don't have issues with getting people to take promotions. If you've got a bunch of people refusing promotions, especially, the good folks that have other options but don't necessarily want to put up with the hassles associated with changing jobs.
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I agree, so why do people keep claiming that the vaccines will end the pandemic when there's literally no evidence to support us ever getting out of it without everybody contracting the virus and surviving? No expert should be claiming that a vaccine this ineffective at preventing vaccinating people from contracting the virus can stop a pandemic. The only pandemics that we've managed to stop had vaccines with much, much higher efficacy rates. Personally, I prefer to get real information rather than the socially sanctioned lies. Fauci has repeatedly been caught lying and had to admit that he was lying. Jimmy Dore is one of the few places where that actually gets covered. It's not a matter of his opinion, he actually shows the tape of Fauci admitting that he's lied and trying to explain his way out of it. It's not even taken out of context. The vaccines have done their job to cut the deaths down substantially and to decrease hospitalization, but we can't keep this up forever. Drug overdose deaths and suicides are up, people are getting destroyed and nobody in power seems to understand that if we're not going to open up, then people need help.
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@chokinonashes61 And yet, people struggle to point out what information is wrong. I definitely don't just get information here, the information that he's talking about with regards to vaccination is consistent with what I learned in microbiology classes. Not to mention the clips where Fauci admits to lying about it.
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They need to cut his funding and primary him if he doesn't take a more reasonable deal.
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Or we could just do like pretty much every other civilized country and actually take care of the root cause. Regulate ownership and transfer of weapons and ensure that everybody has adequate medical treatment.
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What gets me is that they aren't toeing that line consistently. If the party can do whatever it wants when there is a candidate that the people want, then why can't they do whatever they want when a candidate clearly has no hope? This election is why they rationalized giving themselves this power, but they aren't going to use it because they'd rather use it to keep themselves in power and removing Biden doesn't seem to do that for them.
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That wouldn't surprise me, small departments like that are where the incompetent cops from the cities often wind up.
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A lot of this comes from news media abandoning any effort at being objective callers of balls and strikes. Sure, they usually failed at it, but there was at least an effort to do so. Now, they go for "fair and balanced" ignoring the fact that on many issues there is one side that's clearly more right than the other. For example, voting rights, the environment and those forever wars. It's objectively wrong that there's a significant issue with voter fraud, that climate change isn't primarily driven by humans and that those forever wars serve no legitimate purpose and are frequently illegal. There's not much room for debate there, but the right gets equal time to push those views.
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@gregsimmons3323 I for one am shocked that he is exactly who he claimed to be.
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Yes. I think that unless the customer did something out of the ordinary to damage the car, then there shouldn't be any question about the dealership covering. Now, if the potential customer does something unusual, like say doing donuts in the parking lot, and something happens, then I could see the customer being on the hook.
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He'll show up, Harris had been bad in previous debates.
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@mayrnibird9224 I don't think that pointing out that the Israeli government can reasonably be grouped with the Italian Fascists, Nazis and Apartheid South Africans is anti-Semitic. Perhaps if they didn't go around murdering civilians they wouldn't be so hated.
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We should bring democracy to America.
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Why not? They care far more about Republican votes than Democratic ones.
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I've got a square pot with a basket. The main issue I've got is the amount of oil being a pain.
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I'm not sure why some folks are assuming that it's a hardware company and not somebody like one of the ones you're listing. It could even be a game company that wants to be able to use CUDA in some capacity in games. Although, given that the raytracing isn't being worked on, it's less likely to be a game studio.
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Probably not, if anything, it seems to be improving Biden's chances, rather than Bernies. Now, had this happened earlier in the process, it might have discouraged enough older voters from voting Biden to make a difference.
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@AbiogenesisGaming I put most of my tuition on credit cards offering 0% interest and just a one time 3% charge if paid off in time, I paid them off in time and took out one $3500-ish loan for my MA just before the pandemic struck. I'm personally disgusted that the interest rate hasn't been pegged to inflation, or less, at an absolute bare minimum. It's not just the amount people are borrowing that's a problem, it's how quickly it compounds.
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Yes, but the Desert Eagle has been around for ages and if i doesn't puncture the body armor, it will pack enough of a punch that the organs on the other side will be severely damaged.
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@pacnwguy9056 Yes, from the other report, this probably cost the businesses in the area a fair amount of money. Not to mention that this was a public area where people were hoping to get to use the little hill for sledding.
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@CAFFIENEHOUND It happens a lot. Around here they started building walls along the freeway to reduce noise. I'm not inherently against it, but the people who were benefitting were mostly people who just bought into the area after the freeway had been constructed as this was nearly 40 years later. So, they got to benefit from cheap housing and the taxpayers got to pay for the walls.
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@SilentEcho9194 you can blame Steve Jobs for that problem, it used to be possible to disable transmission completely with a switch, but now it's completely impossible on most phones.
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Are we really surprised? He outlefted Hillary as well. It's probably time to get some party clothes and hold a wake for the DNC.
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@mrfirestop415 What do you think "stricken from the record" means? There's a bunch of stuff that's said in open court that may not be permissible, judges can have that stuff removed.
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Right now I'm drinking an oat milk latte. One of the nice things about oat milk is that it really does a pretty decent job of replacing milk in foamed milk beverages. Although it does have a slight taste to it that doesn't match, with an appropriate number of shots of espresso that's not much of an issue.
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@TheBoostedDoge Computer history ought to be required for anybody young enough to have not been using computers in the '80s. It annoys me when people keep inventing new terms for things that have existed for decades. NASes are effectively just a form factor for a dedicated file-server. CPUS are not processors, that is the proper term for the motherboard, ram, processor and case, the computer includes the rest of it, unless it's a headless computer which lacks the monitor and input controls connected directly to it. When people start renaming things it leads to issues where you're reading through things historically and getting confused because of the lack of standards and leads people to think that it's a "new" technology when really, it's at best a re-implementation of something that's been around for decades. It's particularly bad, because a lot of the problems that arise from these "new" technologies came up previously and in some cases are the reason why the technology was set aside long enough for young people to not know about it. But, you wouldn't know it because Google doesn't want anybody looking at things that are from decades back.
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@ondreacounts2556 Same for Washington. I remember when the law went into effect and my dad started to use his. It looks like it was passed into law in 1986 and basically folks have to wear seatbelts in any vehicle that came equipped with it from the factory.
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@Sailor-Dave That's one of the reasons why nobody uses cast iron for structural elements any more. Cast iron is almost exclusively used for cookware and stoves because it's strong until it finally snaps. Steel will typically deform before it finally breaks, which allows engineers to identify a bridge that's likely to fail before it does. On a sub, any sort of failure is fatal. It might start out as a pin prick leak, but that will expand in a matter of seconds, assuming that the hull doesn't already fail enough to completely implode. Stress moves through materials in ways that aren't always obvious.
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Just because they're structural engineers doesn't make them competent engineers. They are right that the buildings shouldn't have collapsed, but only because planes of that size fully loaded with fuel shouldn't have hit the buildings. The official line of the planes damaging the fire protection at the core of the buildings which then weakened due to the extreme heat resulting in the buildings collapsing straight downward is completely consistent with what we saw. Any other explanation requires tom actual evidence as that explains everything that we saw. Building 7 is a bit more complicated, but still not unreasonable given that two buildings right next door and connected went down. This is just like the moon conspiracy where people are absolutely convinced that we never put a man on the moon, even though the necessary gear to fake it wasn't even invented at that time and there would have to be so many people in on it that it could never be kept secret for nearly 50 years.
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Definitely, they could have been more inclusive and probably kept their market without any issues. The problem is they went at it in the laziest way imaginable by just doing a bunch of race swaps and calling it good. There's more or less an entire world of public domain work that Disney has yet to appropriate, it seems awfully lazy to just stick with the stuff that was from parts of Northern Europe.
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Presumably he wasn't stabbed very deep. It wouldn't surprise me if it was a make shift shive that wasn't really long enough or sharp enough to do the job. That being said, it seems like it was probably extremely painful to get stabbed that many times.
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It's not as unusual as it should be. Anything involving the brain can result in gaslighting. I've personally been diagnosed with a huge number of different mental health problems, when it's been OCD, ADHD and autism all along. I do seem to have something funky with my memory in terms of remembering a lot of things, but having very little emotion or detail to anything from my life and I don't seem to fully process any of my memories, so I reconstruct things from logic and the facts I've stored.
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@luckyjasonfan His antics go well past lovable rascal and into the outright criminal at times. At the time it came off as more of a boys will be boys sort of a thing, but really only because audiences of the time were kind of used to characters scheming and getting up to shenanigans trying to get ahead by that point. If you set that aside, he's a pretty terrible person. I'm sure that Mark-Paul is probably a really nice person in real life, because it's usually hard to act as despicable as Zach if you're also horrible if you want the audience to follow along.
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It's partially a matter of depth. This one looks to have been relatively shallow, which is why you see any sort of meaningful movement of furniture in those videos. As somebody in Florida, I think the Mississippi River is probably the closest location to you that is known to be seismically active.
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I think it depends a bit on how close the course is to the house. I live a couple hundred feet from a golf course with a green band around it. If the golf balls are flying into the yard with this kind of speed, it means that the designers screwed up. They shouldn't be having the golfers teeing off in those locations in those directions. From what I've seen of the neighboring golf course, the only places where they're hitting balls in the direction of the fences or even along the fences are far enough away that most of the energy and speed of the ball are dissipated before they have a chance to clear the fence. Between the distance and the trees, I don't think I've ever seen a ball more than a few dozen feet from the fence.
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@thomastimlin1724 A lot of that has to do with the consolidation of the media. Also, you shouldn't underrestimate how much of an influence the Looney Tunes had in terms of making children aware of classical music back in the '80s when the shows managed to find their way onto TV.
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Yes, at least wait until after he's been inaugurated before announcing the effort. I'm not really sure how he can be impeached for things before he's even President.
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@1233-h1 As I heard it, she narrowly avoided being arrested for domestic violence in the incident.
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@jpoeng From what I've heard, it came down to the size difference of the parties involved and the refusal of the "prankster" to stop after being asked twice. The dude is large enough to have inflicted grievous bodily harm just with his hands. The fact that there were at least two other people participating in it would just make the fear more justifiable and from what I can tell, the juror recognized that there was a reasonable fear involved. This whole situation is part of why I learned how to use my words more effectively and be aware of where threats are likely to come from. It's not perfect, but you never know who's packing these days. Dude is damn lucky that the guy wasn't better with the pistol, as if I had been pulling the gun, I would have been shooting him in the chest until I ran out of bullets the way that any sensible person would. If it's a big enough threat to pull the gun and fire it, then it's a big enough threat to keep shooting until the threat is neutralized.
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@davidh9638 And that's a good example of a jury coming to the right conclusion, even though the defendant was probably guilty. With the tampered evidence and LAPDs reputation at the time, the right verdict was an acquittal. He may also have been not guilty of the actual murder, but with the amount of evidence tampering involved in the case, a not guilty verdict was probably the only just verdict to make.
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I'm voting against both Republicans and Democrats in every race from now on. The only exception being when it's against the incumbent in the general election. It's disgusting that essential workers have been completely left out of these plans. There is active negotiation to give basically everybody else help. The only money we get is when it goes to everybody and only because they can't figure out how to exclude us. Most of us, weren't even doing so hot even before the pandemic, but now we get to do additional work and take additional risks without being protected or compensated for it. Disgusting.
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Not necessarily. I've met people that work at MS and the software works for them, the problem though is that they cheaped out on computers for their testing lab, which means that if there is some sort of a bug found in the wild, there's no way to figure out what's causing it even if they want to. So, the only complicated bugs that get fixed tend to be the ones that come from internal users. The ones from the vast majority of their customers might not even be fixable due to a lack of necessary information about how the issue was caused.
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We now know what it's like when the Federal Government becomes like an average middle school.
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But the governor that poisoned the water endorsed Biden, isn't that s compelling reason to vote for him?
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I've seen some folks posting that the infant died of natural causes and they know who the mother is.
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The GOP was going to do it regardless, the shortsightedness is that they didn't do it themselves and fill the seat that went to Gorsuch. Not to mention that RBG should have retired when Obama could still get justices appointed.
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@split_ce Yep 4.4 is pretty tiny. One that size has to be like right on the surface for it to do any meaningful damage. I don't really understand why they even bother to report anything under about 5 unless there's actual damage or injuries.
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But, are they doing anything about the corruption at the unemployment office? They're notorious for representing the interests of the employer at the expense of the now unemployed.
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TBH, it would be more convenient to just stop delivering food to their homes. Either they'd starve or they'd start to care about the health of the essential, emergency workers they'd be forced to interact with.
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In a way, it kind of is, this is an ad for the death of our Democracy, it was looking like the people might get a say this time, but at this point, I don't think any but the most ignorant can suggest that we live in a democracy.
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That could certainly still happen. Also keep in mind that they do have one of the few profitable streaming services. Presumably that's because they have a massive catalog of TV and movies that people still want to see that they either don't have to pay royalties on at all, or only have to pay to the people involved in the production and not a 3rd party media company as well.
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@jujubhee The regular flu infected far more people, we have effective vaccines and treatments for it. Also, the likelihood of severe complications from the flu is much lower than with this and individuals that recover from the flu, usually are perfectly healthy afterwards. People like you need to shut the hell up before you get anybody else killed.
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@ShreN_ Yes, also a lot of projects are effectively make work projects to ensure that enough of the populace is employed to not have the time to revolt.
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Retirees on social security at least get all their money back at this point. I may well get less than I paid in because of the structural problems with the program that the current set or retirees collectively voted for.
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That and don't let my wife anywhere near them. I've had to spend a lot of my time cleaning mine up because my wife absolutely refuses to respect the rules associated with keeping cast iron nice. She'll insist upon cleaning them with soap and water, won't bother to completely dry them immediately and I cringe the moment I see that she's using them because I know that I'm going to be spending a lot of time addressing the damage she does to them.
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Sometimes things like that are genuinely faster and cheaper to resolve a suit. Presumably, there was some money changing hands in that case and Stevens got to have some standards to enforce with its use.
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The problem is that in a lot of these cases there is a legitimate reason to be pulling people over. If you've got a brake light out, that can be extremely dangerous, especially in the US where the brake lights are allowed to be shared with the turn signal. So, now you've got only 2 of the 3 required brake lights and the car behind you is playing a game of, turning, hazard lights or braking each time the lights go on, adding to the reaction time. The air freshener thing may seem kind of petty, but depending upon the size, it can obscure the view the driver has of the road and can potentially impact on safety. It wasn't a problem before the courts decided that it was OK to use these as pretext to investigate for bigger things that weren't inferrable from whatever they're using for their basis to conduct the stop in the first place.
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@TomFewchuk Hard to say, but given that you lose roughly 90% of the energy every time you jump up a level on the food chain, it's likely that there would be somewhat of a reduction. But, if we could just stop wasting so much food, we'd likely get a substantial chunk of that without cutting back on the actual consumption.
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This woman is a terrible human being. F you for shaming Matt Damon like that. Her specific situation isn't grey area, but claiming that there are no grey areas out there when it comes to these issues and deliberately misinterpreting his comments makes her garbage. Clearly, she didn't deserve to be treated like that, but she has absolutely no right to weaponize this sort of behavior against men in general just because she was hurt.
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Yep, I logged in for the first time in years and discovered that they had leaked my name without my consent. I only had an aching at all because a few groups for services I used only have FB and it disgusted me thay they had figured out my last name and changed my name without my permission.
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@Miriam-ui5pw I was as well, but it turned out to be autism instead. If you listen to her symptoms, a lot of that is seen in autism, but for completely different reasons with different causes. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is pretty similar to some of what she's describing. If you've been unmedicated for that long, it's worth considering whether they even got the diagnosis in the first place. I haven't been medicated for it in well over a decade without any of it coming back.
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We already have a shortage of young people that are thin enough to enlist, with this pandemic, we might have an even larger shortage due to covid related damage to the hearts,lungs and kidneys of potential recruits. On top of which, this appears to disproportionately affect those most likely to enlist.
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@drizz1744 The constitution says otherwise. People have the legal right to travel between the states without having to go through border control. The fact that it's an airplane doesn't change that fact. As far as it being a privilege, I had to pay for a ticket in order to fly in order to go to my uncle's funeral. There's no way I could have driven or taken a train to get there, it had to be plane or no go. You'll notice that there is no restrictions on car travel, walking, trains or bus service between states. So, why would those be rights, but not the airplane? The system we had was working just fine where the airlines decided who was allowed on the planes. It's just because the intelligence services got embarrassed that now we have to take our shoes off at security an go along with them molesting old people with diapers. It wouldn't be so bad if they actually caught terrorists once in a while. I don't think most of the people flying would be flying if they had a viable option to reach their destination in the time that they've got. The train is in general a much more pleasant experience, but it also takes several days to cover the ground that a plane can cover in a few hours of flying.
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No, but I think the question that will be going through James' mind for a while is whether or not the warning would have impacted on the willingness of the passengers to sign on for the trip. No passengers, no money and the company fails without anybody dying.
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@mofungo8882 Sadly, his refusal to take Biden to task and keeps implying that Biden can win and has promised to support him if he's the nominee just makes it that much easier for the DNC to steal the election.
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@zoe6723 Precisely, I think the only time that my vote has ever actually mattered was in 2012 when I voted from overseas. I shouldn't have to move, establish residency and figure out how to register to vote in order to have my vote matter.
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I don't think so. I think the change will happen suddenly as ML based text to speech programs drop the price of generating these audiobooks to practically nothing, and customers can do it for themselves with services where the author gets a cut when it's done. As big as Audible is, it doesn't have all books being published, probably nowhere near it.
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@RaimoHöft Yes, although it gets a little confusing because Dutch itself reads a lot like somebody took and English dictionary and splattered in a bunch of German words and called it good. It's kind of interesting because that same basic process happened against to produce Pennsylvania Dutch through a more recent bit of linguistic sharing.
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@gregwalker6281 Theoretically, that's what impeachment and court expansion/packing are for. Or, you go nuclear by flat out refusing to enforce their rulings. Remember, the court doesn't actually have the constitutional power to do a lot of what they're doing, overturning laws isn't a constitutionally granted power.
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I personally, chose to be on the front lines at a grocery store, but that shouldn't get them off the hook for failing to provide hazard pay to cover it.
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@willbill7250 Presumably, they can be locked from the inside in case something like this happens. But, whether it's locked or not, they've got tools to open the door without a key, and they didn't even try to see if the door was unlocked or break in through the window.
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We used to make people that were cited for jaywalking attend educational classes to help stop the practice. I've been driving late at night and seen people dressed completely in black crossing the street. Well, not so much seen as inferred their presence as the only thing I could see is the retroreflective lane markers disappear briefly as they walk past. But, we've decided to stop enforcing all traffic laws except the ones that apply to cars.
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To be fair, he's probably an expert on more than just safe staircases, he's probably more of a safety expert on architectural matters.
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@midbamarail When they say "free healthcare" they usually mean free at point of delivery. In much of the developed world you pay nothing other than whatever portion of your taxes go to pay for medical care.
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That's what I would like to know. How do they know who is and isn't there to watch? It's pretty clear that if you've got a car and a driver's license that you have the right to be on the public street. The intersection is being shut down by the individuals actively engaged in the show, the rest of the folks being there doesn't change that. It might add a bit of incentive, but the main audience is the other drivers that are participating and the people watching don't shut down these streets hoping that people will show up to put on a display.
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Sadly, even just putting things back the way they were before the previous GOP rule would be a significant step in the right direction. As it is, we're lucky to get 3/4 of the changes reverted when a Democrat is elected.
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Because they're the ones that did the work of studying and recording it. You pretty much never give credit to the first person to have an idea, because without doing any of the work to record and investigate, it's just an idea. It's usually not even possible as most ideas are never recorded anyways. The whole idea is kind or racist, the main reason why it seems to be mainly a European thing is just because they invented the printing press, which greatly increased the likelihood of copies of works being available to credit. A lot of impressive stuff was done by pre-literate societies, but in many cases we don't know much about how it was done or by whom exactly.
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What about those of us that are going to retire after 2035 when the trust is projected to hit the point where it can't pay the obligations? They've already had to raise the retirement age to try and keep the fund solvent, this move pushes that date a few months earlier. The reason why those folks weren't included is due to changes in the law back the last time that they addressed a funding crisis in the program. The change here is that people who did not pay into the system for a portion of their income and had pensions are getting free money at the expense of younger workers who may well not get the money that we were promised.
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@Bigrignohio They can probably figure out which portion of the dump was in use at the time that the drive was thrown out. I doubt that part would be that complicated to work out as they don't generally just dump materials randomly. They'll systematically go through from the back of the property to wherever the entrance is typically.
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@nafion112 Except it isn't really required, they just made it a requirement, but people have been able to get Win 11 installed without the TPM chip.
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That's my biggest concern with Biden winning. They fixed two primaries in a row and haven't suffered anything.
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The problem there is that in many areas, the main tax revenue comes from property taxes. This is especially true in areas without an income tax. Just banning increases on taxes in California has caused huge financial difficulties for the state. This isn't even talking about removing the taxes, whether or not the electricity transmission utilities make up the difference.
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@1954Gregb The service is assuming responsibility for ensuring that the UM gets where they're going, deplaning over something like this is something completely separate and there's no reason to charge the fee to ensure that it doesn't happen.
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The problem with them setting the program aside is that they would have to greatly expand the definition of standing to do so. Anybody could sue over any use of taxpayer funds without having to be affected other than by not being on the receiving end of it. I do think that the court is likely to decide to let the program go just so that they don't have to start playing whack a mole with the various cases that shouldn't be a controversy for the courts.
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Having spent a couple years living over there, this is a pretty substantial challenge of the cultural norms. Chinese people have their own personal beliefs and preferences, but it can be hard to hear about any of that unless you're a close friend. Part of it is probably the current regime, but a lot of that was the case well before the CCP took power. It's a culture that values face and tends to avoid conflict.
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Why not? Obama got one and he stated multiple wars.
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@randomjunk1977 Yes, and there's a reason why sprinkler systems can start showering the area with water without getting an external signal to do so. A modern fire suppression sprinkler, and probably even ones of the time, would have started to shower the area, the moment the heat build up was sufficient to trigger it.
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Hours if you're lucky. If you're wet, especially in water, it can be a matter of a few minutes. And often times it's not the hypothermia, it's the stupid stuff you do because you're brain is too cold to operate properly. The survival without water can vary. My grandfather lasted roughly 2 weeks, but he was inside with properly maintained room temperature and was going to die regardless. I personally managed nearly a month on basically no food. IIIRC, it was like a cup of yogurt a day due to a bad stomach infection. I felt fine through out, so I'm wagering that something closer to 3 months would be possible, although it would come with numerous longterm health impacts. This is why it's generally body temperature before water. (And it absolutely has to be clean, diarrhea can be absolutely fatal if you're already low on drinking water) And water before food.
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@BillAngler Same goes for the Israelis. The problem in both cases is the people running the governments. And whereas the PA is essentially already subject to legally enforced BDS, it's about time that the Israelis were also subjected to BDS until neither government has the means to wage war against the other and the people finally get the peace they deserve.
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Decades ago it was a much more reasonable argument to make when there was at least one party that was nominally to the left of center. At this point, the argument means that half the country doesn't matter at all to begin with, then there's the numerous states where your vote doesn't matter. The end result is that only a small fraction of the population gets a meaningful say in the results.
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When a group has power in society and license to say whatever they want without any sort of backlash, this sort of thing is more or less inevitable. It used to be radical to pretend like the status quo was for women to be abused, but that was never a particularly accurate portrayal of society. It's a conclusion that mostly comes of interpreting social mores through a contemporary lens and ignoring all the times where it sucked to be a man. There's never been a point in history, at least not in the last several millenia, where a sizable portion of the female population would die off. But, in Russia about a fifth of all men born in time to fight in WWII died, and Europe saw multiple generations where a similar number of men died off due to war over the previous 200 years. It's spoiled, self-entitled and I legitimately do not know where it's going to end. But, I do expect it to end before it destroys the world. Even self-entitled whiners have to recognize the damage that this fakery does.
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IMHO there's two issues, one is that the law allows them to do it, and two that they did it. At most they should have been allowed to place a lien on the property and at some point, foreclose, but at bare minimum these people should have been given whatever money back above the lien and reasonable attorney's fees for the process. As it stands, they're presumably still on the hook for any mortgage payments outstanding, even though they don't own the property and didn't get any of the proceeds from the sale.
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To a large extent yes, but in the case of I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, you have to consider what was going on at the time. Had the movie been made either earlier or later, it would have been far less offensive. The movie came out in 2007, but in the US, same sex marriage was in the process of being legalized starting in 2004, but it wouldn't be until 2015 that the process was completely finished. There's also the issue in that case, that much of it just isn't that funny to begin with. The lgbtqia+ community has a long history of laughing at gay jokes, it's just that they have to be funny and in some way clever. Watching a couple of straight actors playing straight characters taking advantage of something that took decades to earn is not likely to be taken well to begin with, but doing it during a period where there was a bunch of relevant court cases going on an many still couldn't get married is just rubbing salt in the wound.
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That's been the case for decades, though. I remember watching Beavis and Butthead before the disclaimers. The first episode I ever watched was that episode with Frog Baseball and trip to the blood bank that was banned shortly thereafter. By the time I was in college 20ish years ago, all my friends were talking about how much of a slide the channel had taken from being the cool one to VH1 being the cool channel that people actually watched. To be fair, those pop up video shows were awesome. It's a shame to have been watching through such an important era and for the channel to have so completely collapsed. I'd watch religiously in the morning before school to wake me up, and I'd stay up too late watching The State and MTV's Oddities. The Max was awesome, I should get the books. And the first few episodes of The Real World remain the only reality TV programs I've ever watched.I don't know why, but there was something about it that just seemed to be authentic. Or at least plausible.
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@lexiecove7203 They don't need to as their existence changes the narrative. Bernie had to get to 1991 delegates in order to win the primary, Biden and the other delegates just had to get a plurality or the ability to get other candidates delegates in the second ballot.
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Clearly by being photogenic and having a compelling story. She and the rest of the squad are absolute frauds. If even 10 of the Democrats that were "demanding" the $15 an hour minimum wage be included in the package, they would have had to give at least some improvement there. But, they ultimately went along with the BS.
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There's more safety issues with that than there is operating an espresso machine. The parts of the body that you're likely to burn wearing a bikini are also likely to get burnt if you're wearing short sleeves. But, mechanics where overalls for a reason. The gunk and oil that gets on the clothes is not something that you'd want getting on your skin with that frequency.
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As long as the box is set up to clean, the only real issue with a dead baby being dropped off is potential trauma to the people that open the box to get whatever is in there. It's preferable for these bodies to be properly dealt with, there just aren't always better alternatives if you live in a state where abortion isn't legal, there have been cases in recent memory of women in other states being prosecuted for natural miscarriages.
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Highly intelligent people tend to suffer from the Imposter Syndrome which is the counterpart from the other end of the spectrum from Dunning-Kruger. They both are the result of the impossibility of knowing how much we actually know. In order to know how much we know, we'd have to know more than we personally know. The two phenomena are two different strategies for dealing with that. Intelligent people tend to underestimate themselves. Unintelligent people tend to overestimate themselves. But, it's also worth considering that if you think you don't know much, there's more incentive to learn more whereas if you think you know everything, there's little reason to learn more.
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Yep, that was painful.
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Does that involve being pervy towards minors? Because not releasing the report heavily implies that there's something in there that would make the public uncomfortable with him being AG.
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That's how that's supposed to be done if you're doing multiple choice. A teacher that's been at it for a while can predict the common mistakes that students will make and provide an answer to match the most common errors.
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Now, if only they'd show a similar level of enthusiasm for actually doing the will of the people and addressing the needs of the constituents.
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I refuse to vote for Jayapal, she's such a fraud.
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They will, my guess is that Blackrock probably already owns most of the closest realestate to the new exchange and has granted citadel some sort of preferred rates on those locations. That allows them to slam trades in more quickly and as such skim a bit off of a large proportion of the sales at a guaranteed profit the way they do with the NY exchanges. That alone would be evil and profitable enough to justify the inconvenience of setting up a new exchange.
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Do we know that? It was implied by that evidence being discovered that it may have been her stuff, but I don't know that that has been proven and from what I understand, the police weren't at all interested in the source of the ammo.
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Yes, that's the biggest issue with it being a part of the underground railroad. There definitely were tunnels involved at various stops, but this is an absolutely massive tunnel for that. People would notice the dirt being removed and the literal tons of bricks. And, the entrance is at street level on the street side where people would be able to see folks coming and going. Most likely it's as other posters have side for the horses or as a tiny carriage house.
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It's usually already a violation of the restaurant's trademarks when they do it, the problem is that the enforcement is typically civil which requires the restaurant to hire an attorney to handle the enforcement. That being said, it probably should be considered fraud as well if the customers are being led to believe that the food costs what they say it does and that the delivery app has permission to provide the service.
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They absolutely have been using racial politics to divide people so that they continually vote for politicians that won't do anything to help the average citizen. The whole business of "white privilege" and "white supremacy" require an almost complete ignorance of the racial history of the US to accept. For virtually the entire history of the US white ethnic groups viewed each other in much the same way that people of color are viewed and the definition of white has continually be redefined. The Klan would burn crosses in Catholic yards as well as other groups. This isn't something that's very convenient to people that are trying to spin the narrative that race was always a major driver of these things, because the concept of race that we're using didn't even exist prior to the post-war period.
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Yes, and sometimes they'll need to quickly cast somebody for a non-speaking role in whatever they're doing. That's how I got to be an incredibly aggravating kid in an educational film whose whole job was to annoy the hell out of the ref while he was talking to the camera.
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@keokihiga8462 That's not clear enough, perhaps if it were built into a gate and written in one of those Central European languages people would really get the point...
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The issue is that this isn't within the law. If they want to be a private club, they probably could get away with this, but as a public restaurant they're definitely breaking the law. Even if they can be age restricted, having a different age for men and women is going to push it over the line. You can't have separate rules for men and women. Attorneys are going to have a field day with the civil rights violations involved with that policy.
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@liambermejo_official That's what strikes me as odd here. Perhaps there are details about what happened that indicate that he could have done something to help after the fire started, but it's a fire on a boat, there's not a lot you can do if the boat isn't set up with different compartments and fire suppression equipment throughout. That being said, if it wasn't properly maintained or didn't have smoke alarms, that might qualify.
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He didn't just make the accusation, it appears that they did commit at least one felony on camera. IANAL, but Jimmy really ought to shut up and hope that there aren't any ambitious prosecutors that see it and decide to make a name for themselves as the one that caged Mr. Beast.
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The issue is that both parties seem to be engaging in poison pill tactics. They'll be good on one issue or another and you're stuck either voting for them if you want to block whatever nuttiness the other candidate is promising. The result is that either you're stuck voting for the one that's less bad, a third party that probably doesn't have enough support to be competitive or nobody at all. I do think that people across the spectrum are getting frustrated enough that initiatives are popping up to do something, but by the time anything is done about it at the federal level, it may be too late to avert the worst consequences of the corruption.
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Dennis Walker it doesn't really make a difference, the numbers on both sides are just larger. The GDP and is relationship to the money is more relevant. Giving out $5tn to the people isn't a big deal when it's mostly being doesn't domestically and much of it will be taxed back automatically. Things like UBI are less expensive than what we've done.
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If you think that, you're a great fool. Pelosi isn't a great Speaker, she hasn't been able to deliver on the priorities that the Democrats claim to support and even when they did have both houses and the White House they still didn't get anything done. And under her leadership, the Democrats lost over a thousand seats across the country in the more important state races. She's a massive fundraising opportunity for Republicans as even most of the Democratic voters hate her guts. More recently, she got rolled on the Cares Act, a great Speaker would have kept it held up in the House with procedural issues until they were able to get more out of it. Unlimited PPP money for small businesses that qualified through the end of the pandemic. Hazard pay for essential workers, not giving $5tn to the largest corporations without accountability. All of those could been included in the Cares Act had she decided to actually do her freaking job as Speaker. The GOP desperately wanted that money for the donors, and her failure to substantively deal with any of that is on her.
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@msheakc Yes, although I'd wager that it will probably be donated to a museum. As well, it should be, not only is it old, it's also got a moderately interesting history and is a useful example of scientific writing of the era.
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@CarpeNoctem135 There are legal issues in terms of sales. The big issue is that the ways in which the bodies can be used aren't always made clear, in this case using it in this fashion is completely inexcusable. I remember a different case where a body was blown up by a military contractor as part of a test of protective plates for some military vehicle.
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Having lived in the 2nd world, the US is nowhere near that point. We can still avoid falling to that level, bribery isn't yet as widespread as you'd see in a genuinely 2nd or 3rd world country. It's still mostly the rich and powerful, in a 2nd world country you'd typically see small and mid-sized businesses as well as ordinary people engaged in the same kind of bribery to get normal business done. Sadly though, this is the direction we're moving towards and unless we start seeing establishment candidates on both sides being successfully primaried by candidates that at least care about good policy and refuse to take the bribe money, it may come down to an outright guerilla campaign of assassinations to prevent a further slide.
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Why shouldn't they be able to? That's what actual journalists do. Those candidates all had massive flaws that Bernie doesn't have. If you can't be bothered to justify why Bernie is as bad as those other ones, then why should anybody take you seriously? It's pretty clear that you're not informed on the issues.
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@PureMagma IANAL, but in that case, the contract likely wouldn't be enforceable. Being given a take it or leave it contract can be enforceable, for example if it's a very good independent contractor and you have some option to not employ them. However, if it's a contract update on something you already own and literally cannot use in any capacity without agreeing to an updated contract, it's unlikely that that will actually be enforced. Especially, if there's nothing in it for the owner for agreeing to it other than being able to use the device they paid for and can no longer return.
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Ron P you're not putting anybody's life in jeopardy, that kind off paranoid thinking isn't helpful.
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TBH, I recently saw one up close and it's even uglier in person than in the promotional materials.
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That's the thing, George HW Bush lost his relection campaign to Clinton, that's just how Democracy works. Cleveland lost his re-election and then defeated his successor 4 years later. Losing an election is a penalty for failing to deliver to the voters well enough that the challenger's promises don't win enough support. It's not even really a penalty, one candidate gets to win and all the others lose. The "ultimate price" here would be going to prison for sedition. He's just lucky that we apparently no longer execute people for it.
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@BLyatDragon He's not wrong though, the extra bit you get for the extra money isn't that much. Plus, there's a pretty decent chance that the extra money is literally doing nothing other than padding the pocketbooks of the shareholders. Things really went to hell when people decided that things are worth what you can trick people into paying instead of something that actually resembles the real world either cost of production or how much it increases productivity.
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It's not his fault. His great uncle was the Coyote.
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@Biplapgaming7 Yep, things said in responses aren't sworn testimony, so they carry very little weight. However, they can be used in court if it's convenient to the other party and admissible. It can also lead to other people with knowledge getting annoyed and coming forward.
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That's something that would require a constitutional amendment. While we're at that, we'd also need to clarify that the President is in fact, not above the law and that if you engage in an insurrection, you're not even allowed to run for office.
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Not if they don't get the bulk of the passage. The Republicans have had literally months to answer the Democrats offer. They've chosen to do nothing. I see no reason why they should pass anything that doesn't involve hazard pay, extension of $600 a week unemployment, a moratorium on evictions, medicare for all (all through the end of the pandemic). They could do most of that quickly, especially if they just pay the insurance companies and state medicaid programs to pick up the additional cases.
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@KameraShy I'm curious about what the HOA is doing if the dues for over a decade are under $2k, that's less than $200 a year and while this is likely an inexpensive part of the country to live in, $1400 probably includes interest and fines of some sort, so we're talking $100 a year which isn't a lot to work with, even when pooled with the various other owners.
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The insane bit about that is how little of that markup probably goes to the driver. These sorts of services are a lot more expensive to offer than one might expect. Even at minimum wage, it probably costs the business somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 an hour just to have somebody to drive the order out. And there's a pretty decent chance that there will be downtime in the middle as well.
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@dizzy_derps I A lot of takeout focused restaurants will have an employee that's doing things like answering phones drive the food out while somebody else mans the phone until their back. It's probably the only reason why they can offer delivery for free or so cheep. Also, some of that cost is probably just baked into their prices as it is usually a big part of their business and how they can save money by having a much smaller restaurant.
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Yeah, he was a horrible human being, but with the exception of being hopeful about the future, I realize that somebody else will replace him and probably be worse.
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I saw a similar system to the one we use for Sound Transit when I visited Italy in the late '90s. You'd have to buy a ticket before boarding the bus, and there'd be a machine to stamp it with the time. If the police caught you without a ticket with an appropriate stamp on it, they'd write a ticket. Which is basically how this works, but in a country with a different legal tradition. The reason they did it that way, is that it greatly speeds up the process of getting people on and off the bus as they don't have to deal with collecting payment while stopped.
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@Bunsybuiltit He could and should have gotten on Garland to get it done sooner. He also could have done a lot more to bolster the guardrails on this stuff to make it harder for Trump to circumvent. He could have chosen not to run again and had a proper open primary to find the strongest candidate with the strongest message. He could have given everybody health care during the portion of the pandemic he was in charge of In short, there is rather a lot that Biden chose not to try to prevent us from getting here.
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It's been my belief for decades that if you've got the opportunity to back out, then take it. Just never turn a back to them and if you can't back out, then fight dirty, and I mean dirty. That's the time when a sucker punch to the balls is fair game, same for any bit of sand you can get into their eyes. If you've got a flashlight, and it's dark, definitely use it to blind them as well. Because believe me that the other side cannot be trusted to not cheat as bad, or worse. This is also why I tend to be fake drunk at bars on the rare case where I go. The moment I straighten myself up and it becomes clear that only one of us is drunk, it tends to open up opportunites for just letting it go. If any of that seems unreasonable in light of the current situation, then you don't really have to fight it's a choice that you're making. One of the issues that comes from these situations is that the courts are never actually there and evaluating things based on the information that's available to the people at the time.
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I'd wager that there usually wouldn't be much of a surplus as cars depreciate quickly once they're off the lot.
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@MissTrust All states should have a method of ballot tracking that's available. My state will send me texts and emails indicating when my ballot clear various hurdles before being put into the hopper to count. I don't think that my state is at all unique in that respect, but the fact that it's not all states should be concerning.
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@muchosa1 It's a losing battle for them. You can always just take photos of every single page and then run that through OCR software to give you a nice epub that can be read the same way that a normal one would. It might miss some of the links without extra work, but there's nothing that they can do to outright stop you from doing that as it presumably falls under these same rules that apply to home recording of TV and radio.
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@yrulaughing418 There is no demolition side. The big reason to release the files is so that people can stop saying stupid shit like that.
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Teaching at different schools is so common that the college my mother taught at even called them "Roads Scholars" as in they were driving up and down the corridor getting to classes in different college districts.
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@No Comment Until This Instant No, it was "The bus that couldn't slow down.
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@BTrain-is8ch That's the mistake, it seems like the taxes are increasing because most of those people weren't paying for health coverage themselves, it was usually being paid for by the employer. Also, keep in mind that there's no similar concern over defense spending even when it's something like 6-7x the amount of money that it would take to give everybody high quality health care and still be over funded compared with the next most funded militaries in the world. The comparison should be witth the current health care spending, not simply the taxes and the tax itself should be on businesses and the ultrawealthy.
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I think that's more or less the nail in the ocffin in terms of any good faith argument that the Nazis were anything other than a form of fascist dictatorship. But, I do think that even without that, the elements of Italian fascism are simply too good of a match to come to any other conclusion. Most of the socialist elements of National Socialism were arguably more about building and consolidating power than the benefit of the people.
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You can thank the Democratic establishment for that. Had they just let the voters have their say during the primary, we likely wouldn't be dealing with Trump. Sadly, they've learned nothing at all from that and now we're looking at the possibility of 4 more years of Trump. If Biden manages to win, it will be purely because there's enough people voting against Trump to make it happen. Nobody wants that likely sex criminal Biden, especially when he isn't even trying to win.
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You have to add "*except if it's something that we support/oppose as appropriate" any time they say things like that.
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I'd love to see that, I ride in basically any weather except for lightning and it would be nice to have some information about gear that's good for that.
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$600 a year wouldn't necessarily be a problem, but the paychecks people are getting aren't rising anywhere near that. Some people do and some people get promoted. Beyond that though, there's a glut of hogs on the second hand market as their primary market ages out of motorcycling, or dies, and puts the bikes on 2nd hand market.
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They can work out the approximate location based on when it was put into the trash can. So locating where to look is probably one of the lesser issues. The bigger ones include the fact that the drive was likely run through a garbage compactor in the truck multiple times and has been sitting in the landfill for quite a few years where any opening in the drive could lead to stuff getting in to damage what is left.
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Honestly, you'd probably survive. Only a fraction of those in the military see actual combat operations, most are involved with the intelligence and logistics that are required to make that work.It's one of the reasons why it's so problematic for people to just assume that because somebody is a vet that they've seen things or are a damaged killing machine.
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@AmphyPhi Yes, although he is getting special treatment in the sense that he should already have been sentenced and in prison.
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That assumes that the Democrats need a spoiler candidate, they're fully capable of screwing up their own campaigns.
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Sure it can, what's many? Who are these millenials that are wasting money? Is this somehow different from Gen X or the Boomers? And how do you explain the much larger number that haven't got money to waste because jobs don't pay a living wage, even if you do save enough and what's the point of saving if the savings gets stolen by greedy corporations anyways. A lot easier to file for bankruptcy if don't have much money to begin with because you haven't saved any.
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But, she's a woman, what more can they do? If they did anything more, they might actually have a shot at winning the election.
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I just applied for jobs at the local grocery store for that reason. I've probably had covid 19 already, so I might as well help out.
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@Neithie Yes, it's important to be careful about things like that as there are a fair number of people who have limited mobility. But, if you're an influencer in particular, it's important to be honest about whether this is a permanent thing, and whether it's paralysis or something else, especially if you're fundraising off of it.
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One of the things that they've done around here is change the timing on some of the intersections so that all directions get a red light for a few seconds to allow pedestrians to get far enough into the street to see and be seen. It is somewhat less effective if you've got people turning on red and doing so without properly looking though.
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IKR, I remember being on a chat with customer care a while ago for a subscription renewal that I hadn't been warned about and the agent just reiterated the policy without actually addressing that they were required to provide me with notice prior to charging my card for the renewal, not after and that they had to give the money back. To which the agent just quoted back their policy. IANAL, but I have had business law and your policy doesn't get to ignore the law in most cases. There are relatively specific things that you can do with a company policy and they don't permit fraud.
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@zizlog_sound Mac OS wasn't, Mac OSX is. Or, more specifically, OSX is based on Darwin OS, which itself uses FreeBSD for the userland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) OSX itself is basically just Darwin OS with a proprietary UI over top of it. You used to be able to install Darwin OS on other computers, just without the Apple specific UI.
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That's the thing, no hazard pay, no student loan waivers, no medicare for all, no Build Back Better, I'm curious why anybody is going to vote for them when their only argument is that they aren't Republicans. That's a really strong argument, we're not Republicans. I'm sure when people are dying in the streets that they'll be comforted to know that the President isn't a Republican.
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According to Biden there are probably 50 Democrats that could beat Trump. So, how about we whittle the list down to anybody that's not senile and is able to promise voters things that they want in exchange for votes. And then actually try their best to deliver.
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Keep in mind that AWS is where most of Amazon's revenue comes from. It's literally where the money comes from for them to undercut other online stores.
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@P_RO_ You've got no integrity if you agreed to that and if anybody ever did get hurt, you'd be partially responsible. Saying that you've got access to a belt when at most one person did was a lie.
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The only way that people come to the conclusion that America had minority groups is via the racist belief that all white people are the same ethnicity. As if the Irish, Italians, Polish and Germans never had any real issues integrating and that we didn't invent entirely new terms to pretend like Spanish people, and their descendents, aren't white.
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@111dddcca If you look at the label, you can work out what the conversion should be for other things. And if it's something more bespoke, you can always estimate it based on a generic value. And just adjust that if it's not right. This whole thing is particularly nice for things like bread where you might be measuring a large amount of flour and you can just measure one bowl without having to be particularly careful about the many cups of flour your using.
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That's what I've observed. Around here roundabouts weren't even a thing 25 years ago. But, the planners have been integrating more of them. They started with rural areas to try and stop idiots from driving full speed through intersections and worked their way to the suburbs and pretty soon we'll have the first actual roundabouts technically in the city limits. I haven't seen that many issues with idiots. I think the worst I saw was some numbnuts speeding along a branch that went practically straight through the roundabout and almost slamming into me because they were trying to drive fast enough to get in so that I'd have to yield to them.
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That's because the vintage stuff was used long enough for the surface to build up. They were also typically using a lot more oil when they were frying things, so there was more of a chance to have a layer building up. If you get the frying pan properly heated up, as in starting to smoke, before turning it down and starting to cook, you shouldn't have eggs sticking. Even without oil, eggs shouldn't stick if you've got the temperature up nice and high before they go on. It's a tip I picked up for dealing with woks at a Chinese cooking school and it seems to apply just as much to cast iron as it does to woks.
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That's a concern I've had for a while now. The difference between science and pseudo-science isn't just that science theoretically can be tested, it's that it is tested. And when you've had experiments in recent decades dating back to Einstein's proposals finally being tested, that's kind of a problem even if he was right.
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@marshallsweatherhiking1820 It makes a massive difference in terms of treatment whether it's this circuit or that circuit in the brain as they run on different specific bits. Enjoying it once you're doing it is just fundamentally a different problem from being unable to enjoy things that you are doing.
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You have to dole it out in some fashion, otherwise it gets wasted doing stupid things like growing feed for the Saudis in areas that have scarce water. I do think that water rights need to be rethought in terms of how they're doled out given that it hasn't really been don since they were originally handed out and the amounts aren't necessarily appropriate.
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I wish the same could be said for grocery workers. we're abused, paid poorly and the companies over hire in order to avoid paying benefits. They don't even bother training anybody on how to handle the workload, I feel fortunate when I get to have my lunch break.
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Not well. Those are supposed to be universal rights, it also ignores the decades of reparations in the form of affirmative action and set aside. At some point, people need to figure out how to stand on their own 2 feet.
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@Katfancy40 Why? He painted the truck and from what I can tell, everybody that painted trucks had that plaque. Removing something like that over the feels can be more of a pain than it's worth.
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@jnorton8402 And I'm personally skeptical that they wouldn't have been at least as happy with a mermaid tale of African origin, given that this is just cultural appropriation and that it kind of just encourages the abandonment of any black or African culture.
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It wasn't necessarily homicide just because the body was found in a drum. There are other reasons why a body might be disposed of in that fashion, including drug overdose where they're concerned about the police figuring out where the drug operation they overdosed at was located. But, that being said, obviously, it's highly unlikely to be anything other than homicide. This just means they think they found evidence on the skeleton of a fatal injury.
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@thatonedog819 The problem there is that the underlings have varying degrees to which they could do anything and I'm guessing a bunch of the folks that were involved had already flipped in exchange for testifying or weren't close enough to do anything anyways.
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You clearly don't understand how this is supposed to work. You're supposed to vote for the candidate of one of the major parties and pretend like that will somehow improve your life. If they screw you over, you're supposed to pretend like you wanted it. Now that I say that out loud, that sounds an awful lot like the dynamic of an abusive marriage.
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@elzar760 Perhaps, but most of these scrapyards don't want to take a chance if the books can be audited at any time and then they have to take a gamble on whether or not the prosecutors are going to pick them. Before I changed jobs, I was selling liquor and cigarettes and while I was never there when the state liquor control board was taking a look at things, failing that could have cost us our license, me my job as well as potentially thousands of dollars in fines. Sure, most of the time when it happened, nobody found out, but it was a significant incentive to make a legitimate effort and preventing illegal sales. But, I do know of at least one clerk being busted when a parent caught their kids drunk and found out where they got the goods from.
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Please, don't stay home, come out and vote for somebody, even if it's a 3rd party candidate, write in or only the down ticket races. But, I'm sure as hell with you on not voting Biden.
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Yes and I think the way he reacted with all that anger just reinforces that fact. He could have asked for an FBI investigation and if he's as innocent as he's claiming to be, then there shouldn't be anything to corroborate the claims against him. But, make no mistake, even before and without the claims of sexual assault, he wasn't qualified to be on any court and he would be a disaster. He hasn't got the integrity, temperament or knoweldge to be on the court. He honestly thinks that the President can't be subpoenaed. That's terrifying. Especially given that the GOP refuses to hold him accountable for anything. It took an extremely unqualified nominee to a federal court to get Kennedy to do anything about it. And as I understand it, he was asking softball questions that any attorney should know.
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@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive Yes, it's an incubator, you need something to make it warm, and something to vent it if it gets too warm and for none of the circuitry to electrocute the baby. Farmers have been building basic incubators for decades with just a couple incandescent bulbs on the same basic principle.
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Why? It's not exactly relevant to daily living and there's a bunch of other stuff that people need to know now that wasn't necessary 20 years ago.
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Enjoy it while it lasts, it's only a matter of time before she gets her own show. She's just too funny and telegenic to be stuck in the writers' room.
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@dustin8420 In that case, the size of the quarry and lack of things like flotation rings and shepherds hooks was probably the final straw. A swimming pool is likely to be small enough that you can reach the hook out without endangering yourself, even if they do go under.
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Yep, they could cap how much student loans a student can take out to cover tuition and fees for a given semester. They could cap the interest at something approximating inflation. They could cap payments at a reasonable portion of all students' incomes if they don't want to make it free. That would fix most of the worst of it.
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@M.A441 You sound like my Persian in-laws. But, the fact of the matter is that the US backed the Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq war and attempted to reinstate the Shah. If you compare pre and post revolution Iranian culture, it got a lot less Persian and a lot more Arabic. That would not have happened if the US, and other parties, hadn't stuck their noses in.
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@Backinblackbunny009 Yes, I remember back in the '80s and '90s the studios were trying to make Orlando a thing in terms of studios and it didn't really work. They never did hit the critical mass needed to do much there. Most of the folks engaged in TV/Movies were in So Cal, the same way that a massive portion of plays are based in NYC to start. If they throw enough money at it, Nevada may be close enough to So Cal to actually work, but we'll see.
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There is no ideal solution to this problem, this solution here is probably the best case scenario at this time. Perhaps in the future it will be possible to take the fetus out of the uterus for incubation so that the father can raise the child without the woman needing to bring it to term.
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@neonspark707 So, I take it you're not in favor of Biden. He's had the whole thing handed to him. Sanders has at least earned some wins in primaries. Biden won one primary and then had most of the other candidates drop out and endorse him. He barely gets out on the stump and he won't debate Sanders. If you call that winning the primary, you're the kind of shill that's ruining the party.
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To be fair, Gore had more votes in Florida, SCOTUS just stopped the counting of the votes before the final result accurately reflected his win.
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The social security administration is still working out how to do this, but that just gives me the sense that it's another unfunded mandate. There should have been an explicit revenue source included such as specifying that any money that is spent on this needs to be offset by a raise to the cap the way that they normally do for COLAs.
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Please don't repeat the lie that the people running corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to increase shareholder value. That's not the case and it doesn't even make sense. Making moves to protect against downturns in the economy isn't going to increase share price, but it's vitally important to any business that wants to survive the next financial crisis. Training and treating employees well also doesn't directly affect the bottom line in the short terms, but does over the long term. The company I work for loses a ton of money because they cheap out on hours. Fewer hours to do the work, means less work gets done and more mistakes go unnoticed. But, they use a formula that doesn't factor in the amount of work being done and nobody with any power seems to care. If it were an actual fiduciary duty, you'd see employees being provided with enough time and resources to eliminate costly mistakes.
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It was probably a matter of nobody wanting to press charges. If nobody wants to press charges, it can be difficult for a case to go forward. Presumably they wrote it up as mutual combat because that was descriptive of what happened and nobody was seriously hurt. Had somebody chosen to press charges or there had been serious injuries resulting, it probably wouldn't have been written up in such a fashion. I'm guessing that the mutual combat wasn't a specific legal term, more as a descriptor of what happened.
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It doesn't really matter. It's assault either way and since she died it's manslaughter.
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You were fortunate enough not to get any of the other strains. I got the OG covid 19, and I was extremely sick and nearly needed to be put on oxygen. Which is to say, a mild case. I'm lucky to not have any kidney or heart damage and I've probably got holed in my lungs.
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Do they? The protests around police killings often fail to account for the possibility that lethal force was necessary and reasonable. Not to mention the notion that if somebody is pulled over, it's due to their skin color rather than the possibility that they just committed some sort of traffic infraction. It's an extremist view, to be sure, but there are definitely people out there that believe it.
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I largely stopped shopping at REI years ago as they went harder and harder for the rich outdoor enthusiasts. Increasingly, it's a bunch of overpriced gear targeted at the rich without much for those with normal income. The shop was always expensive, but gear used to be harder to make and legitimately closer to the cutting edge. That's no longer the case as most of the relevant patents have expired and unless you really need those last few ounces dropped from a product, something a bit heavier and cheaper to produce would be just fine. It's a store, people shouldn't be making their decisions based upon such a small issue. I'm fortunate enough that the store I work for allows fully vaccinated people make up their own minds about whether or not to wear masks.
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@TheMarcellification To be fair, it's hardly just Thailand. I remember students in China referred to him as "that nice man with the mustache." To some extent the European portion of WWII is unlikely to ever receive as much attention in that portion of the world as it does in the West as it wasn't something they were involved in. It's roughly similar to the ignorance we have in the US to the crimes of the Belgians in the Congo or the Armenian genocide in Turkey.
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@kyleolson9636 You can fix that with tax policy and not signing those stupid trade deals. One of the issues with things like the WTO is that they don't allow countries to enact environmental regulations or worker's rights if they cut into trade.
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If you wait until he's sworn in, you'll get nothing. This should have happened before he won the election. This sort of thing should have been something he had to do to get the votes to win.
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@randomdaveUK Yes, although, one it's UNTIL life, and they can potentially be impeached. I'll leave it to your imagination as to which one is more likely to apply.
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@Mr.Septon Yes and if you've ever dealt with the agency that approves unemployment claims, they're in on it too. I remember quitting because I was being forced to falsify my timesheets and wasn't being paid for the work I was doing. But, apparently, the HR witch's insistence that I wasn't approved to work the work I was doing was sufficient to get my claim denied, even though she didn't have to put up any evidence to the contrary, she could just say it without personally witnessing anything. The employment security worker was not even remotely interested in being impartial, they were clearly representing my former employer and couldn't even be bothered to pretend like they were doing their job fairly.
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That's only true because programming is rather more involved than just programming. You don't necessarily need to love programming, but if you don't love problem-solving, puzzles and searching for efficient solutions, you're probably going to be shit at programming anything interesting.
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That's a good idea, but probably not necessary. The stuff that needs to be preserved is mostly stuff that was never made available on home media. That being said, I'm probably going to sign up for their streaming service as it is somewhat profitable and it's one of the only streaming services that is actually profitable in it's current state.
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@glebglub Yes, but America is also a place where a defense attorney worth having costs a lot more than that.
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We need somebody that's a believer in democracy.
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@davidlazerz8564 An increasing number of them don't even live in the area. It's a massive problem that private equity is allowed to buy up so much housing stock that just adds tot he issues associated with having insufficient housing and depressed wages.
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Just not for essential workers, we get a gigantic F U from anybody in power. It's rather disgusting to go around seeing discounts for teachers and front line workers, but nothing for grocery workers or the various other people involved in the supply chain that were the engine of getting us through the worst of it. Teachers in particular is kind of galling because they were largely able to work from home during the worst of it.
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@hadleyrosenberg6075 I think he realizes that, it sounds like one of his delusions.
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@vloggetts Trains have incredibly poor brakes for how much weight they have. By the time the engineer can see something in the tracks, it's probably too late to stop. My guess is that either they didn't alert the authorities about being broken down on the tracks, or the call didn't get to the engineer until it was past the point of no return. One of the sacrifices that trains make for efficiency, is poor braking ability.
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Not true, if you actually read up on the history of the OS, you'd know that the reason has more to do with the Linux community having a contingent of hardliners that are willing to set ethics aside in growing the brand. There's also far more focus on growth at the expense of quality than there is on the *BSD side of things. It leads to things like alpha features making their way into stable releases and filesystems being included that aren't anywhere near good enough for production use and expecting the user to know that this stable release isn't stable. This isn't something that you'd see from the BSD camp. Also, I absolutely do deny it, you cannot add restrictions and then claim that something is more free, that is just complete nonsense and people like you are a great bit of what turns people off from Linux. Why install an OS that has such snobbery and elitism going on?
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I'm currently on medicaid, and it's OK, but it took ages to get my last medication refill because of the rules related to what manufacturers are covered. With Bernie's plan, that likely wouldn't be an issue as every manufacturer would need to have a contract in order to sell anything prescription in the US.
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@votersvanguard4898 The vehicles are almost certainly ones that belong to the road workers as you can see in the video that no cars were driving across when it collapsed. Between it being super early in the morning and the mayday call, the bridge was closed just in time.
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It's not imaginary, women get away with all sorts of touching that men don't get away with. Ever hear of a woman being charged for having sex with a drunk man? I don't think I've ever heard of that happening and what about all the drunk men that get prosecuted for having sex with drunk women? How is that even fair.
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She lost her series because she came out and then every episode after that was based on her being a lesbian. Had she kept doing the same show with the occasional episode about weird things happening when people find out you're gay, it might have lasted. But, there was really too much focus on that after she came out.
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You're absolutely correct about this. People are trying to pressure me to support Sec. Clinton if she's the nominee because a Trump Presidency would be disastrous, but I've had it with toeing the party line. If Bernie isn't the nominee, I'm no longer going to be a Democrat. I'll likely wind up voting for her anyways, but I'm definitely not going to be enthusiastic about it. I'm definitely not going to volunteer or donate. I'll vote and nothing more. I'm sick and tired of the Democrats moving further and further to the right. I want candidates with some conviction and who genuinely try to do the right thing rather than sell the voters out at the first chance. I don't expect that he'll be able to follow through on all of his promises. But, if he follows through on the things that are within the powers of the commander and chief and can get one or two of the other things through, I'll consider it to be a success. It doesn't much matter to me which agenda items he's able to get, all of them will make America better.
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Pretty much and this is an excellent example of how out of touch the DNC has gotten. Rarely, if ever, has Krauthammer ever had anything insightful to say. Most of the time he's been laughably wrong and included just so the right could have an opinion represented in the paper. Eventually, the paper lost interest and replaced him with somebody else. But, the fact of the matter is that the corporatist wing of the party is a dead end and they need to worry a whole lot more about having something to offer the voters.
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That's not a Catholic insurer, that's a normal insurer. The plan probably only provides Catholic hospitals because they're cheaper as they don't provide a lot of the services that people might need.
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No, what it means is that they knew here immigration status and that she was in the car before they pulled it over. They didn't just pull a random car over and discover that there was somebody that wasn't here legally. That's been done in the past where immigration would pull over people that were brown and make them prove they were here legally. Cenk isn't right, he's being deliberately obtuse about the matter. She was targeted in the action because they already knew her status. They weren't on a fishing expedition for possible illegal immigrants.
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Apparently, and the fact that he chose Tamir Rice was pretty ridiculous. Tamir would never have been shot if he wasn't carrying around what appeared to be a gun or had the sense to not lower it in the direction of the police. Toy guns are legally required to have that orange tip so as to reduce the likelihood of people mistaking them for real firearms. The video is out there and it pretty clearly shows that he was shot while lowering the toy gun in the direction of the cops. Perhaps they could choose somebody else that wasn't so clearly justifiably shot by police to use for these examples. Alton Sterling appears to have done nothing to have caused the cops to shoot him. Or at least that's what the videos appear to indicate.
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+Geandily The progressives are mostly with Bernie, Hillary is no progressive. She's a right of center candidate on the economy and on national defense.
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You claimed that it's impossible to tell without a magnifying glass and that people do that for the purposes of telling stroke order. You're completely full of shit. The magnifying glass has nothing to do with stroke order, it's part of a more general examination of the characters. In the vast majority of cases you can tell that they got the stroke order wrong without needing to resort to a magnifying glass.
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Indeed, her people still don't realize that they need to pivot to the left if they want to have any chance of winning the election. There's a huge number of people that can't stand her and her only hope of winning is to get smart and start doing some things to make liberals and progressives happy. I'm not going to be a Democrat anymore if she's actually given the nomination. I'm sick of being expected to vote for the establishment's horrible candidates.
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Considering that she's needed to spend literally millions of dollars paying people to pretend to support her online, I think it's pretty obvious why it is that we're the ones making demands. Bottom line here is that it's beyond suspicious that the candidate that "won" the most delegates has to go around paying professionals trolls to pretend to be supporters and generally troll the opposition supporters. She needs to cater to our whims because she doesn't have the votes necessary to win the GE and she's not going to have much luck getting the conservatives onboard. They hate her even more than the progressives do.
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The same reason we use dative movement in English to change the word order of our sentences. Sometimes we want to emphasize the day, but usually we want to emphasize the month. The way we do things in America is much more flexible than how they do them elsewhere in these cases. By adding a strategic of, we can speak it as DD/MM/YYYY format without people getting confused. We can also remove the of and put it back in the order it should be without confusion. The same goes for our measures, if we want to use decimals we can, if we don't want to we don't. In which case we use units that are usually of convenient lengths. The real question shouldn't be why we do these things like we do, it should be why everybody outside of America seems to think that these backwards systems are so convenient when they were never designed to make life easier for non-scientific pursuits.
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You're probably just not sexist or racist enough to see it. But, I assure you that if you were a man-hating, white-woman that the guilt would be completely obvious. I have a hard time believing that people would be so quick to jump on the bandwagon of him being a pervert and possible sex-criminal if he were white or a woman. I'm a man, I happen to be white, but what I see in the video does not look like masturbation and probably isn't a lewd act either. At most he's adjusting himself and even that is rather questionable as the motion of the bag makes it rather unlikely to be even doing that much. In all seriousness, this is part of why racism remains a problem.
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That's a lie. You don't have a PhD in anything relevant if you're claiming that the current climate change is similar to anything that's come before. As far as consensus goes, the verdict is in, humans are the primary cause of climate change this time around. We don't yet know how bad it's going to be, but we're already seeing the largest known die off of species in the history of the world. By the time deniers like you are on board, there might not be much left to save. had we taken this seriously decades ago, we wouldn't need to be taking a lot of these steps because the problem would have been contained.
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The joke is that he didn't once reference Marty's mother having the hots for him.
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You have that backwards, we have to stop HRC, so Trump is our only hope. Clinton is far, far more dangerous than Trump is. Trump doesn't have access to the connections that HRC does. She's already proven herself to be above the law, the last thing we need is another corrupt politicians doing what she feels like rather than sticking to the constitution.
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What constitutional crises? That's more or less what happened to Nixon. Voters elected him even though he was already being investigated for some serious crimes. He was then forced to resign or be impeached. Now, Nixon was somewhat more honest than Clinton, but in her case, they'll probably impeach her and remove her from office if she's actually elected. And that assumes that the voters don't care and that her campaign team stops being so incompetent.
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This isn't sour grapes. This is a matter of fact, we already know that she's guilty of mishandling classified materials, that report is already out. Just because you're a low information voter doesn't mean the rest of us are. We know that she's guilty and we know that the Attorney General is already on record as saying that she will go along with the FBI's recommendations about whether or not to prosecute. And we know that the FBI is presently headed by a former Bush era appointee. You might be right that she lucks out and manages to avoid the indictment, but it requires a significant amount of ignorance to pretend like it's sour grapes that drives the accusations. It's the other way around, the sour grapes are because they rigged the race in favor of a candidate that's known to be guilty and likely to be indicted. They wouldn't have a dozen FBI agents investigating her and they wouldn't be handing out immunity to staffers if they weren't expecting to bring charges. Not to mention that the staffer who was granted immunity and who set up her illegal server has been taking the 5th an awful lot during his testimony. So, you might choose to believe that there isn't anything on the horizon, but if you look at the facts that are already in, you'd know that her odds of becoming President are rather long. Bernie at least would have some hope of winning in the GE if he were nominated.
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It's because it's a relatively young country and people have had far more opportunities to move around than they did in the UK and most of the rest of the world. They also existed for centuries prior to the invention of TV, radio or even records, which means that the only spoken language they would hear would be from others speaking a similar dialect or from people who were clearly not speaking it correctly. Here in WA there isn't a particular dialect you've got people born here that speak like Canadians or Californians or various groups of East Coasters and they're not quite the same, but they aren't consistent enough between the dialects spoken to really point at one or another as the local dialect. Before I spent time learning foreign languages and traveling overseas, my accent was place-able to about 400 miles of where my parents were from by people knowledgeable enough about language.
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She was part of the DACA program until she failed to file for her extension. This isn't a woman that was fulfilling her responsibilities under the program being unfairly targeted by ICE, this is a woman that failed to file her paperwork until months after the deadline and as such isn't in the program. She's screwing things up for the other folks in the program that have been properly living up to their agreement.
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You guys are right on about pot. I'd like to see more studies conducted to figure out whether it should be legal versus decriminalized. What the age requirements should be and what the limits on various components of pot should be. But, it's already abundantly clear that pot is far less harmful than legal painkillers, even some OTC painkillers like Tylenol. Cannabis dependency is a real thing, but it's clearly less of an issue than other substances you can get hooked on. And baring an extreme case where you're literally suffocating from all the smoke, it's not going to kill you in any foreseeable time span.
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No, what blacks need to understand is what whites understand; if you're pulled over it's yes sir, no sir, answer only the questions asked as briefly as possible and avoid admitting to anything if you're thinking you want to challenge it. The woman deserved to be arrested, if she truly didn't do what she was accused of doing, she could have taken it to court. Often times the officer won't show up for a traffic infraction at which point it gets thrown out. But, getting yourself arrested by doing something this idiotic pretty much ensures that not only will the cop show up, but now you've been arrested on top of that.
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@thechosen, I've got OCD, well, I've gotten enough treatment and done enough work that it's probably OCPD. But, it's a failure to register, not forgetfulness. I've adopted the strategy with dimmer switches that are impossible to visually check to over turn them until my hand starts to slip. Then they're turned off. I have to accept the possibility that the condo will have a fire because if I let myself slip and do the checks, then I'm going to backslide. Similarly for the locks, I have to do it once really well, and then accept the possibility that it hasn't been locked at all or that the deadbolt only hasn't been locked. That being said, if TheTrivek42 isn't getting intense discomfort and anxiety from the unlocked door, then you're right about it being just forgetfulness.
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@You Counselling. Yes, some people who are traumatized go on to have OCD, but it's a very low correlation. Some people are just born with OCD tendencies and barring specific intervention will wind up with OCD eventually, no matter what happens.
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You lost me when you decided to mis-characterize the academic rigor of the school That 98% admission rate is because it's a really, really hard school to succeed at. They expect you to actually do the work and to be able to discuss the material in front of the other students. Sure, some students float through without any rigor, but the school produces a ton of doctors, lawyers and teachers. Subjects which can't reasonably be considered easy. People can and do regularly flame out because they can't deal with the freedom.
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@Nathan Lang and in China it could have happened on New Years Day 2009. Crazy people are rather innovative when they're being crazy.
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He has a shaved head, I don't see any white-supremacist gear in the video nor do I see any sort of indication that he's a bigot. In fact, it's rather unlikely that a skinhead would even have the jersey of somebody that wasn't completely white.
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IIRC, that one was heavy in terms of the subject matter, but was a relatively straightforward book.
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They get arrested and shot more because they behave differently when it comes to the police. I really don't get why you keep repeating these racist lies. BLM is a racist movement. Notice how quickly they forgot about the driveby that killed that black girl in Florida when they found out that the criminals weren't white? Or how they never, ever, revise their views when more information comes to light that suggests that the cops didn't have a choice. Or, the fact that it's mostly officers of colors involved in these shootings? It's really hard for me to feel sorry beyond just the fact that somebody has died in cases like these because of the hypocrisy and the effort to use the situation for personal benefit.
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Yes, they already tried ignoring provocations and that didn't do them any good.
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There's also Mafia sort where the books never actually arrive and the insurance company pays you for the "lost" books."
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We'll see. They have one of the largest catalogs of titles that people do want to see of any of the studios, so I certainly wouldn't count them out. Also keep in mind that they are right now one of the only streaming services that's in the black. Granted, it's barely profitable, but we'll have to see what happens going forward. They do also have a bunch of properties that they could potentially sell off without doing too much damage to their catalog. Suggesting that they're going out of business though is a bit of a stretch. Especially if they have already adjusted for the lack of value of the TV stations, and I think everybody knew that was coming, TV is just not what it was. The streaming service is a bit of a bright spot, even if it is just barely profitable as they do have a pretty massive catalog of things that they already own and can potentially create new content with. But, we'll see, but I wouldn't really expect them to outright go out of business or be sold off as they are one of the largest studios in the world and the DoJ seems to be remembering that they're supposed to be enforcing antitrust regulations, which makes this kind of a weird situation where they can't really be bought, but there aren't really many other options for selling significant portions of their catalog either.
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It's not relevant to the charges. He wasn't charged over what caused the fire, he was charged over how the ship was being run. That's the part that led to the actual deaths. It could potentially have been struck by lightning or had a random accident start the fire and he'd still have been charged for failing to ensure that the people down below had time to escape the fire the moment the fire started. Even on land, you sometimes only get a few minutes from when a fire starts to when you're dying from smoke inhalation. On a boat that size, you don't necessarily even get that.
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It's arguably too late now, we've got multiple generations that grew up under the current political climate there. Had we learned our lesson in the '90s and brokered some sort of a deal with them that allowed them to properly defend themselves against their Sunni neighbors, it may have been a completely different matter. But, back in the '70s they were a very progressive country compared with much of the world and the Persian people were never big fans of the Islamic hardliners.
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They definitely were working on making things invisible to radar, to not be working on that at the time would have been crazy. There's little reason to make a ship invisible, as they're already pretty easy to camouflage with sufficient lighting. Radar is both a bit trickier and a bit more important in general. I do think that those were either naturally occurring rumors when there's a lack of official information, or deliberately planted to identify where leaks were coming from if they developed.
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@MazHem No, it's not. If it says not to rinse it, it's because they've both rinsed and sanitized it, so all you're doing is increasing the risk of contaminating it. What's more, if there is something like e. coli on there, then you're not going to get that off as it binds pretty tightly to the surface.
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@just83542 It's worth realizing the insects probably aren't much of an issue. If you see those, then fine, rinse away, but make sure to use a food sanitizer intended for use with foods that will be going into your mouth. Plain water is pretty much completely pointless.
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That's a sign of incompetence. The only thing worse is when they have a secret limit and don't bother to tell you about it. I've been hit with that a few times where I set the password, save the password and it won't work because it's doing something weird witht he truncation.
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The issue here is that she shouldn't have been deplaned. She didn't need the full chaperone service, so they likely wouldn't have paid even if they knew. The issue is that the flight crew either wasn't allowed to or otherwise didn't bother to know that they were deplaning an UM.
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They should, this is precisely the reason they claim that we need the super delegates and Biden said that he wouldn't abide by the vote if he could snake it by using the delegate system.
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Yes, but the previous time they had looked it was 2/3 of that. And, it is a crack. These things have a tendency to build up steam as more people sign it gets to be less risky to stick your neck out to join the crowd. Still, it is a very small number when you consider the number of voters in Israel.
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Probably not, but it can't hurt. I don't personally think that Biden is going to win, if the covid numbers keep decreasing at all and Trump keeps unilaterally doing things via executive order, people are likely to remember that more than the stuff that happened earlier. Especially, if he can pin the mistakes on Pelosi who's doing a damn fine job of screwing herself over with that stupid hair salon conspiracy stuff and those expensive ice creams in those expensive freezers.
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For every item? It's one thing if it's just a couple items, but if it's every single item, that takes a long time. I used to work pickup for a grocery store and a matter of a few seconds per items adds up quickly. And this would be on the order of a minute or two per item on the rosy side of the estimation.
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I'd love to see him try. The company has been circling the drain thanks to his incompetence for years. I'm genuinely curious as to where he's going to find the money to move the manufacturing when they don't even have the funds to properly expand where they are.
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Theoretically, if somebody was going to do this, they'd be more likely to slip it into kid's buckets as they walked by because of that. But, really, the whole thing is so easy to figure out with modern epidemiological practices that the guilty party would be located fairly quickly.
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Possibly, but it's still more likely. Poker is played by a relatively small group of people, even accounting for the any increased likelihood of somebody like Lucy's background, that's likely still the case.
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It's somewhat better these days as the transactions usually go through more quickly and it's easier to get the current balance. Personally, I have an additional checking account with my local credit union for things that I think may take longer to go through. It makes it a lot easier to know how much money in my checking account is actually available, I simply transfer the necessary funds to the other debit card account and eventually the money goes away, but I clearly know the money is spoken for.
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@jameshead9119 Yes, although in that case, you could just float something white and relatively thin on top of the water and be done with it. Any idea is going to be stupid just because of the sheer size of the problem. Somethng like this might potentially be a portion of the solution once the emissions are balanced out to return things to the way that they were, but even then there's a massive problem to deal with and it would have to be neutral itself.
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IKR, when has that ever resulted in them learning the right lesson about what happened?
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To be fair, the unions became a part of the Democratic establishment and largely lost interest in helping the workers. It's one of the reasons why none of the unions have had the guts to strike. If the grocery workers or delivery drivers were to strike for even a day or two, the entire economy would shutdown. There's really power there that could be used to get real concessions that would benefit everybody.
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@delicious_seabass There's that joke that not being satisfied with the number of people that he hurt with C, he went on to develop a pistol that only shoots backwards. I'd wager that a fair number of people did call, especially since computer science was so much less developed at the time.
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@johnladuke6475 Around here they're often times not recessed unless on arterials. Because one, side streets don't get plowed and B the side streets are concrete with no blacktop, so recessing them is a right pain to get right. They can't simply just roll over the location with an appropriate roller to get the groove right, they'd have to do it in the wet cement. That being said, I do believe that in more rural areas around here, they will be on sticks at the side of the road, but I think that's usually more to do with weeds and not wanting to mess around in the middle of a country road.
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We don't know that happened, but it certainly is possible. The design was heavily reliant on the hull remaining intact and the ballast being released to bring the craft to the surface. If either of those two conditions weren't met, they were completely screwed as there doesn't appear to be a contingency plan to handle that. Even if they are on the surface, if they aren't located before the air runs out, they're still screwed as they have no way of opening the sub to get more air and they have limited water with no toilet available.
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@Purplethingyt That's not relevant, also, where I'm form women are allowed to vote. They also are more women eligible to vote than men.
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Not to mention the fact that if we withdraw our support from the party, it will implode over night. I've upped my donations and I won't be voting blue again in the future if he's not the nominee. Either the party let's him have his chance, or the party will die.
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If he's that sort of a person, he wouldn't be running. He would have stepped out last year or the year before and let the Democrats find the strongest candidate they could find.
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It's not a Dutch oven, there's no indentation on the top to set coals. I'm not familiar enough with this particular set to know, but the inside looks a lot like my cast iron does.
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@drewspinoso4849 Keep in mind that even if you did decide to vote Biden, what about next election cycle in 2028. How can we be sure that we'll get a better candidate? The last Democratic candidate to have the support of the voters was Obama and we all know what a sell out he turned out to be. HRC needed the super delegates to pledge inappropriately early to convince people that she was electable, but her support with the rank and file party members was abysmally low. Biden was more or less the same situation Obama had to intervene to talk a bunch of candidates to pull out and support Biden in order to prevent Bernie from winning. This time around, you've got establishment Democrats overtly stating that Bernie was electable in 2020, they just wanted somebody more establishment friendly rather than the candidate the people wanted.
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I foam roll my back as it helps me get the vertebrae moving again after a day hunched over at work. But, simply using the roller isn't going to be enough if you're not doing something to remedy the underlying cause.
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Yes, and yet, the nuclear stuff probably still hasn't been fixed because we're sending DoD money to countries like Israel and Ukraine.
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This competition didn't require an agreement to auction the animals being entered off. It was optional.
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@CigarMick It's already been stated that that wasn't the case for that competition and at any rate, the buyer was willing to give the goat back. Presumably in exchange for a refund.
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@joeymitchell5467 you should get out more. Bernie has the best chance of beating Trump, it's why the President is so concerned that he might be the pick. He's the only candidate trying to win votes rather than donor bucks and pointless endorsements. He's also the only candidate that thinks the people should have a say in the eventually President.
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You see the same thing with many highly educated people. They get so focused on the specifics that they lose their common sense. In this case, what happens if nothing at all had happened that would justify the arrest? That seems like a pretty obvious thing for the judges to miss.
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Exactly, I would love to hear what the justification was to not require the tugs to escort the ship past the bridge. From what I can tell, the distance isn't particularly large and this is the tightest part of the voyage out to sea.
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Except that the whole segment is a tad misleading. Yes, these things are true, but it's not accurate to imply that this doesn't also target white students. The same thing happens with the coverage of German history in the US. They lie about he Lusitania by omitting the fact that it was being used to smuggle munitions to Britain. They lie about executive order 9066 targeting the Japanese when it was a less specific order that wound up with Germans and Italians being in camps as well. That's on top of the various other people that were deemed close enough as to be confused with those that were and sent anyways. Also, white supremacy shouldn't be covered. The modern conception is based on a series of lies. Up until the '20s and '30s the "white" people were a much smaller group that included far fewer groups were considered. Somehow there was white supremacy, that somehow wound up with the Irish being referred to as n-words and Catholics getting crosses burned on their lawns.
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Doesn't justify breaking the law. I work at a grocery store and we get tons of stuff stolen, but we don't tell people they can't stand on the public sidewalk. We have neither the legal right, nor the time to do so.
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@jasonmaclean719 You're entitled to that opinion. There's a bunch of other stupid positions that people are free to have. He committed felonies, and was convicted. He shouldn't have even been allowed to run this time due to the actions he took on January 6th until whatever legal proceedings related to that could be properly handled.
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@lifethrowsyoulemons Probably not, Hamas needs the hostages for the same reason that they took them in the first place. Has it not occurred to you that perhaps they are telling the truth? At any rate, the truth, no matter what it is will emerge eventually.
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It's not really, it's a matter of priorities. Astronomy isn't relevant to most people now and unless the technology to move quickly between planets is developed, it never will be. I personally, think it's more troubling how few people realize that the Earth probably doesn't qualify as a planet at this point due to it not having cleared it's own orbit.
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Didn't they recently decide to up the DoD budget again? It's amazing how the DoD budget is never an issue for the GOP. Not to mention that the obvious solution is never tried. That being taxing the people that have that money.
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If I don't get hazard pay from the Feds, I will never vote for another Democrat or Republican in any race ever again. I've had it. They screwed up the response to the pandemic. They assumed that the GOP would be willing to allow it later and the GOP refused to allow it. Both parties are unacceptable and will never be cleared of the corruption.
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Why would you pray for war criminals? I'm not sure what sort of screwed up morality you've got if you think that Israel's crimes against humanity are any less offensive than the terrorists they backed and are now upset about biting them.
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It's worth noting the timing of this. Right now is the part of the year where people can change their plans without changing jobs, so I wonder how many people are going to be taking a second thought about having UHC health coverage, considering what's been coming out about them lately in terms of their policies. From what I gather, they're one of the worst in terms of denying coverage.
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@hamishf7444 They don't have to let him in the party. Yes, the alternative would likely be him running as a Republican, but that would be a win. Having turncoats like him in the caucus let's people blame the Democrats for inaction even when the actual Democrats are in favor of something. It's like with Lieberman where he would stymie any effort to improve the lives of the voters and have it reflect back on the Democrats.
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The challenge is that if that was an actual house cat, the right thing to do would have been to bring it to the vet to be fixed and then adopt it. At that age, it does look a bit odd for a cat, but there's all sorts of markings on cats and unless it does something strange like that weird sound, you might not realize what you've got.
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@magnetmannenbannanen There's always somebody that's willing to turn a blind eye in order to make a buck. But, records requirements and stings tend to cut down on the problem substantially. The point isn't to get to 0, the point is to get the problem down low enough that it's a minor annoyance.
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@culturedboor yep, it's statistically inconsistent. I'd heard it was one known case. But even if it's a hundred, out would still round to 0% chance of survival without vaccination.
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I saw it, I can't remember whether that was this morning or yesterday.
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@detectivecolephelps4760 If only it was just that, he forgets what office he's running for and what state he's in. That test that Trump shouldn't be proud of passing might not be something that Biden could pass. Trump is a moron, but he's probably not senile. Also, I think if Biden does back out of the debates in any form, he's not going to have a nice guy like Bernie covering for him. Trump will ruthlessly go after him for chickening out of any debates.
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@gregorsamsa1364 Yes, but you do have the option of just sending the ticket back with the payment. Seattle is becoming a world class S-hole city because we let people ride the bus for free because we have non-law-enforcement officers approaching people and we give several opportunities to understand what's happening before we issue tickets, but we don't necessarily get the right name from people caught not paying, so nobody knows how many warnings they've got. The result being that basically somewhere around 40% of the people that use the light rail actually pay.
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@biketothetop The truck was clearly moving in the video, so it didn't stall.
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To be fair, I don't think anybody thinks that the CIA is racist, they're perfectly happy killing and spying on people no matter what their skin color.
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They could have easily confirmed somebody else. At this point the process is so fouled up that the next nominee will likely have to face an extensive background investigation as nobody is going to believe it. The other detail here is that he might well have been the only pick they have that's acceptable to Trump. He's somebody that believes that you can't subpoena a sitting President and is a huge supporter of executive privilege which is something that Trump desperately needs as much of what he' wants to do is blatantly unconstitutional. We need a system where the President is required to pick off a list put together by a bipartisan group rather than being able to pick rando nutjobs that further a political ideology.
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@JENGA3991 I would have been happy to vote for him, he's one of the few candidates running that I would have voted for other than Bernie. At least on the Democratic side, I'm voting Green Party as they're at least promising things that might benefit me and the rest of society. The same can not be said for Trump and Biden. That being said, prepare for another 4 years of Trump as Biden is still not doing a damned thing to try and get more votes and Trump seems to be returning to the faux populism that worked well last time.
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Same, I thought that either she was just very good at what she does or did a bunch of outtakes trying to get that sound.
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A lot of it has to do with them being too cheap to have enough humans to sort through this stuff. And part of it is because they're gutless cowards that seem to cave to the smallest amount of pressure from advertisers. The current issue with invalid traffic and not having anybody properly responding to any of the affected channels speaks volumes about it.
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@Schmidty1 It's just a proposal, there's no reason that those couldn't be in there at this point. Bernie is a fraud and a sell out.
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@Sanquinity These are cherry picked examples, but people underestimate just how many bad ideas creative geniuses often go through before they even get to the point of being worth recording. Then of those ones, there's a bunch more that get set aside for one reason or another and it's just a tiny fraction of them that even get any sort of real action taken to create. These all have flaws, but as you note, eventually something similar was created that did work. In several cases, like with the tank, there were other inventions that were required to make it actually work, and in the case of the flying machines, he had most of the necessary elements there, the engineering team made that work mostly with stuff they found in his drawings. Actually taking action to make things real is important, but people underestimate just how hard it is to be a visionary. Just creating ideas that can be acted on isn't necessarily easy, especially if you're more forward thinking than just a simple modification or improvement on what we've got. That's why so many companies are started by duos, one that's better with the vision and the other that's more business savvy.
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These apps are bleeding these businesses dry, $5 is not what's causing this when there's already massive amounts going to these delivery app companies.
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He uses bad examples. If we were talking about 1900 and that decade or the 1910s how many of us would be able to come up with a particular image for those the way we did. We're at a point in the century where we had 2 decades in a row that don't have catchy names. Lacking a catchy name does make it a bit harder to do that, but the '00s were a lot of 9/11 related bullshit, the war on terror, the beginnings of the great recession and so many brown people being murdered because the US needed to justify the defense spending. The 2010s are admittedly a bit harder to characterize, but mostly because it was kind of a bland period for the first half and then a bunch of political turmoil as Trump couldn't figure out what he wanted to do and a bunch of social unrest related to the fraying of the social contract to a near breaking point. And honestly, that's not that much different from the previous century. The real question is whether any sort of consistent popcultural zeitgeist returns.
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TBH, unless you've got young kids, Universal is just a better experience these day.
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@Tamurila It doesn't. You are aware that not everything that people say is true, right? Because it kind of sounds like you take them at their word when they claim to be liberal, but engage in right wing policy pushing anyways.
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@Rainaman- Not really sure what you're getting at. Nothing that I've posted in this thread is untrue. People with any intelligence at all realize that fascism has spread in the US due to hardline Libertarians opposing even sensible regulations and limitations on corporate power. This includes the judges that have repeatedly move to legalize bribery to the point where I'm not even sure it's possible to bribe a politicians as even paying of their credit cards for them doesn't count as bribery. We wouldn't be in that position without the Libertarian opposition to regulations that would prevent that state of affairs.
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@felixsmith460 That's the only thing that works against blackmailers. You can't just pay and trust that they'll not ask for more or do it anyways.
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@James_36 It's part of living a life worth living. There are so many different ways in which you can vacation, but how many elderly people nearing the end regret taking those vacations? And more important, how sure are you that you won't regret failing to live life to the fullest when it's nearing completion? I do think that there is some truth to the notion that youth is wasted on the young.
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@Ra'Vion Johnson You'd test up to the 50th floor and assuming it didn't break, you'd steal the one on the 50th. Or, you'd throw it downwards sufficiently hard to simulate higher floors.
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Really Indian. Oh snap.
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I'm a little surprised that there wasn't either a dovetail or mortise and tenon with a peg at each of the points where the segments of the wheel came together. But, I suppose that may have been too difficult to achieve during that period of time and probably not necessary with a cart that's going to be pushed rather slowly by a person.
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@madmax2069 It's also not really relevant to a 14 year old as it involves the airline taking custody of the kid for the duration of their flights. I was about that age the first time that I flew on my own, and we didn't bother with that. I was more than capable of making my flights as I had flown through those airports in the past. There really should be a free option that just flags the kid as being a kid so they aren't deplaned for things like this. At least we're talking about the initial flight and not a later stage in the trip.
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No, what we need is for the government to actually do something about this problem. Japan has fewer than 20 gun related deaths in total in an average year. Sometimes it's in single digits. It's not that this can't be solved via regulations, it's that enough politicians have decided not to try that's the issue. I'm not suggesting that we need to go that far, but it's clear that regulations, when properly written and implemented, do work. And clearly thoughts and prayers don't. Adding more guns is just going to make things worse as now you'll have a bunch of guns that can potentially get lost, stolen or accidentally discharged.
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I've never seen stupid misspelled as "fate."
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Nullification isn't a right, it's a way of using the rights that jurors are given. It's also an abuse of power. Jury trials are unpredictable even without such abuses of power. The lawyers aren't going to know if it's a matter of not meeting the burden of proof or if the jury just decided that they didn't like the law. It also is on a case by case basis and if juries start striking down the best laws to set precedence with, then it can take a long time for reform to occur.
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I wonder how somebody with aphantasia or an absurd level of trust would have managed the blind driving.
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@Nielak-dg8nj Certainly, the same thing happened with OJ where he won the criminal case, but lost the civil case. The standards for a civil case are much lower and so sometimes you'll find those cases before and sometimes after, but since the standards are easier to meet it can be somewhat problematic.
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TBH, as long as you do a real stop, right turn on red isn't much of an issue except right when the light is turning and pedestrians step into the crosswalk. That's a pretty narrow scenario and not one that lacking a right turn on red is likely to do much about.
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Not really, Linux focuses on a bunch of flashy stuff, but much of it won't work. I remember one distro required a physical keyboard to be plugged in in order to log into the system even though I was using a bluetooth keyboard. I had to reinstall Ubuntu dozens of times due to filesystem corruption due to an unstable filesystem being used. It's easy to look like you're ahead when you can't be bothered to get the basics right. Hell, the first time I tried Linux it didn't even have a real package management system. You had to go and manually download all the packages that you needed, even though FreeBSD had a functioning package management system for years at that point.
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He did more time than Hillary did, even though Hillary's leak was far larger and she didn't attempt to redact any of it.But, she has huge amounts of money, so they're letting her off the hook for stealing all those emails. Anybody else would have been prosecuted, but she got off free.
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@lloydbraun6026 Just watch us stop working and see how long you last without food. Most of the work being done isn't essential and people won't die if there's not a movie in the theater or they can't buy beauty products. But, good luck living without food, water or medical care.
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@SonnyUploads It's completely relevant. If she'd died in her sleep while backpacking, I could totally see "she died doing what she loved" as being an accurate statement. But she slid literal hundreds of feet to her doom, not something for which that whole saying about dying doing what you love is intended to refer to.
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TBH, I think that any ticket revenue from such machines should be legally required to be spent on traffic safety in some fashion. Whether that be improving the design of the roads or possibly things like subsidized transportation home from bars.
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The PI is a bit of an idiot. Nobody should be talking to the police in a situation like this without an attorney. Even more so if he's innocent of any wrongdoing. Being innocent isn't a defense against being wrongfully convicted, after all. That being said, the whole thing does look fishy and it wouldn't surprise me if he does know what happened to her and tried to cover it up.
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They aren't. It was kind of cool a couple decades ago, but there are so many free media players that do it better now. And I mean free in basically every possible interpretation of the word.
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In all fairness blaming other people often times is common sense for a great number of people.
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@diegomagellan That's more or less what I'd expect. There won't be any real change until there's a proper public option, at a minimum.
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@darksaint0124 That has been changing, in recent decades more and more of those worthless treaties have started to get more enforcement in courts. A large part of the problem is that tribes are a separate legal entity to the US which can make it easy not to actually enforce any of it.
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Developments of this scale take a very long time to go from planning to final completion and sales to home owners. It's not something that any developer could ever do without those sorts of contracts in place to ensure that they're not stopped midway through after the point where they can halt development for more demands to be negotiated.
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@rustymand7086 Yeah, they like had a job, and stuff.
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@TechnicallyaNomad Apparently that guys favorite state is inebriation.
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Same here. I'm not really independent though, I'm specifically 3rd party, any party, where available and challenger when there's no 3rd party to vote for.
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This is why I'm again not voting for Biden. I didn't get any hazard pay from the feds and for most of the last year i was making less than the unemployed. Why shouldn't i get a measly 3k in relief when the unemployed got in excess of $20k? He can clearly do it, he chooses not to.
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I used to live in the back country during my summers during high school. We had a massive gravity feed system that could handle 5 gallons at a time. The water would feed through multiple rather large filters before coming out a regular faucet like you might use for a garden hose. The main thing that I like about my ceramic pump filter is that it's comparatively fast and I don't need to go through the hassle of finding a place to hang it. I can't remember what filter I had before that, but it came with a bag that could be hung so that you could just fill the bag with water and let gravity do the work.
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They should, but even with regular database backups, there's going to be some data lost that may not be replaceable. And it doesn't get them off the hook for handling it so poorly. Even with backups, it's not always easy to restore them on a moment's notice.
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So, what? Are you seriously suggesting that the proportion of men behaving like that is the same as for women? My brother probably wouldn't have married his horrible ex-wife if he had done any of those tests on her ahead of time. These aren't high standards to meet, any decent human being should be able to pass these tests. Oh, and the reason she's his ex-wife and not current wife is that after a few years, she got bored and left him. Didn't have a reason for doing it, she completely refused all help she was offered to address her unhappiness, she just dumped him. The one nice thing I can say about it, was that my brother didn't make that mistake a second time with her. When she realized how screwed she was due to her poor decision making, he refused to take her back.
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@icemuckbanggg Fair point. Although, I think that only applies to when you're fired for cause. Being fired for refusing to break the law presumably doesn't carry that penalty.
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@GhastlyCretin I think that's the most reasonable explanation. Often times these sorts of housing units will have separate locks on the rooms of the residents so they don't have to worry about the various people that come and go while they're away.
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@carlozchv The brilliant thing here is that the courts will probably say that the 1st amendment isn't a firmly established right and so he can't be sued.
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That's an important point that needs to be paid attention to.
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@thorondor4012 same goes for Jayapal. Fake progressive.
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Sort of, there are ways of protecting bridges against the full force of a cargo ship. For example, keeping the supports in more shallow water where the ground underneath helps protect the bridge. Having tug boats and fenders to prevent a direct impact as well. But, as you note, if you're talking about a more or less full on impact of a ship that size on the supports, there's not much you can do to stop that from destroying it.
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Not taking the stand is usually the smart thing to do for the defendent. The main time when you'd want to take the stand is if your personal state of mind is a legitimate question at issue. For example in cases where self-defense is part of the defense, you'd really need the defendant to take the stand in order to help demonstrate that there was some sort of fear that rose to the level of authorizing lethal force.
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It is for many men. Most of the clubs and activities that allowed us to interact with other men and figure out what's going on have been infiltrated by women that bully their way in and cause changes to be made to make them feel comfortable. Women have many opportunities to interact with other women without men being around. A large part of why feminism has been able to redefine masculinity is that most men don't have real opportunities to talk with each other in a setting where we're not going to get in trouble with the womenfolk if we have an opinion they don't like.
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Yep, nothing he's done has made me question my decision to withhold my vote from both him and Trump.
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Yes, I would expect this to be handled the same way that wins are handled if nobody claims them. I'd also expect that contract law would apply here as the owner of the credit card didn't enter into any sort of agreement with the lottery and would likely be entitled to just the resulting refund. As well as potential issues in terms of whether the one that is on their credit card is the one that won.
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Isn't it interesting how much the NRA and DNC have in common? Both ignore the wishes of their members and using corruption to do so.
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Amazon proves that. They got the head tax repealed during an illegal private meeting.
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@qwormuli77 that's exactly opposite of what the comment you replied to said.
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It came out at this point in the process in part because the GOP has been shortcutting much of the normal review. Had he been subjected to the usual review, it's entirely possible that the allegation wouldn't have been made public at all as he'd have been voted down based upon his record. AFAIK, there's no possibility of prison time at this point as the statute of limitations has already expired, and the whole point of making this public during these proceedings is that it's incredibly problematic to have an individual who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman on the Supreme Court where he can potentially cast a vote on issues related to women's rights. It was bad enough that Justice Thomas was confirmed despite being wholly unqualified for the position, but he was only accused of sexual harassment, not sexual assault.
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She's great, but they have a particularly strong line up this season.
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Most likely, there was an emergency ballast release mechanism that was intended to bring it to the surface, but there should also be a beacon, or more, that would help searchers to identify where it's floating on the surface. That doesn't appear to have happened, which means that it likely is either on the bottom or imploded. If the tapping is indeed manmade, then they're pretty much damned to a short period of misery before ultimately asphyxiating as recovering the sub in the available time is more or less impossible.
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The rules should be fixed, but this is the water rights, if nobody has rights to specific bits of water then it just makes the situation worse in terms of people overusing the free water.
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It may also be a company that's run by incompetent management that was forced to allow remote work.
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I bought The Man Who Sold the World because I loved the Nirvana cover. And the whole album pretty much blew my mind. It's just such a great bit of work.
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Because he didn't push enough. He could have given us all health care during the pandemic. He could have expanded and packed the SCOTUS. He could have just said no when SCOTUS declared that he didn't have specific enough authorization to waive student debt. He could have punished states that didn't expand voter access. There was a lot to do and he barely tried.
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Yes, although the term hasn't caught on with the public. The point of them is to have another step before getting to the point of using lethal force. As in force that's intended to kill somebody. Sometimes people survive being shot and sometimes people die from being tased, but if you know nothing about the specifics of what happened, hearing that somebody was just tased versus shot is probably going to suggest cause for relief.
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@afipdjh If it means preventing Bernie from re-entering the race and being the nominee, they may stoop as low as pulling a "Weekend at Bernie's 2" and enlist a Voodoo priestess to re-animate the corpse.
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Biden put more Black people in jail than Trump.
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@mierrasanders3373 that is lying. If you have to say that it's technically not lying, you're lying. Only people with questionable morals would say otherwise
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I voted against Jayapal because she's a corrupt hypocrite that doesn't have the spine to do what's needed.
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C A P Citation that they were doing that prior to 4chan's prank. They weren't doing it until they saw the prank and decided that it was a great idea.
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@veence It really depends what the specific issue is. As long as you've got the cash, the US is probably the place to be for treatment for cancer and other serious illnesses. Which is the rub, as long as you've got the cash and it's not more run of the mill care that might help prevent having that trauma in the first place.
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@yagballs676 Because there are some jobs out there that require degrees and pay well enough to pay the loans. There just aren't enough of them to go around.
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It is, it's not something that juries are supposed to do. It's a power that juries have as a byproduct of prohibitions on double jeopardy and that the deliberations are secret. The only thing that's publicly known if jurors keep their mouths shut is how each juror voted on the charges.
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@maxmazzotti6651 There's a ton of opportunities like that. WB mostly just needs to fire anybody that's enforcing DEI standards and focus on just telling the best possible stories.
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They mentioned on Breaking Points that the deductibles have gotten really far out of hand, sometimes in excess of $10k after paying hundreds of dollars of premiums to get what is essentially a catastrophic care plan and some routine care. I'm not sure what the point of having a plan is where nobody is able to actually afford to use it. at $15k, I wouldn't have even gotten out of that deductible that time that I spent 4 days in the ICU following a heat stroke.
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@turtlefrog369 It's unclear to me how Excel spreadsheets aren't a type of database. Granted, that's not what spreadsheets are for and there are some consequences of using them as such, but you can do a lot of the things that you would with a database with Excel.
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@heemlo649 The President can, Ford gave Nixon a proactive pardon against future charges related to Watergate and Jimmy Carter pardoned the various draft dodgers without them having to be specifically arrested, charged and convicted first.
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@andyrangel7383 it's definitely illegal and the feds will prosecute if they receive a report. Never sign papers indicating that you quit voluntarily.
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It depends which stuff you're smoking. The first 2 or 3 times I tried it, I didn't really get why people liked pot. The next time my roommates put down for the good stuff. I quite honestly don't remember the next 3 weeks apart from a few moments where I was clearly smoking it up. I wouldn't blame the drug, I'd blame my roommates for not pointing out that they had got the good stuff, so go easy on it.
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Yep, greed and corruption are the only possible explanations. There's no way this is incompetence. Just by accident they should be stumbling on winning issues.
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@transgoddess123 I was pleasantly surprised at how well they did with the theming of the much smaller version that they've got at their Hollywood park. It's a shame that Florida is so much further from me than Hollywood is as the Wizarding World must be that much better with the extra space they have available to work with.
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The usual thing is to cover the meter for a period of time after installation in order to prevent this kind of waste of time.
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Yes, a convicted felon is generally either in prison or they've completed that portion of their sentence. A person that is under indictment has a powerful reason to use that weapon to menace or assassinate witnesses. Which is the whole point of the restriction. They've already been accused of breaking the law, there's countless examples of people out on bail that intimidate witnesses or commit other felonies while waiting for their court date. Temporarily curtailing the ability to keep and bear a fire arm while things sort themselves out is completely reasonable when balanced against the rights of the victims and witnesses in the case.
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@CodeLife_12 There's a certain irony that the folks most in favor of the 2nd amendment are also mostly the same folks that think that all of this is OK.
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@c3ramics Are they though? There's tons of white collar crime that never gets prosecuted. That's assuming they fail to get the law written to allow what would otherwise be illegal conduct. I think a better explanation would be that we focus on finding crimes that are being committed by the poor and the poor having access to attorneys with less training and fewer resources to fight the charges.
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Generally speaking, whether you reduce, increase or stay the same with the dosages is largely a question of what the biggest risk is. Bipolar is interesting just because it does tend to recur as opposed to other disorders where you've got a more stable issue to treat.
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Senators. Have you seen how often they go on vacation?
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@benjaminfranklin329 Viewing the ads isn't supporting creators, either. There are so many games that YT plays with the revenue that small and mid-sized channels can't count on getting their share of the cut far enough into the future to rely on it. It's why you see so many of the same questionable sponsorships on just about every channel with any viewers.
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Yes, you have to get and keep the moisture out of the iron or it will continue to rust over time the way that cast iron pans will do if you don't maintain the seasoning. Once the rust and moisture is out, then you can hopefully seal it with something that can keep the moisture from getting to it again. At that point, it mostly comes down to whatever damage is being done by vibration and just natural processes over time.
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It's still paranoia unless there's some basis for the knowledge. Mental health professionals have no network of spies to verify that the suspicion really is unreasonable or not. In practice, if it's justified suspicion, evidence does show up eventually and there's usually signs that can be pointed to as to why the patient is feeling like that.
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@peope1976 Nothing is ever clear. One of the reasons this happens is that it's generally lawyers that are writing the laws, either lawyers turned politician or lawyers working for lobbying groups. If they handed proposed laws to laypeople, most of the ambiguity would be caught prior to being passed into law. But, that would take a bunch of time, and would lead to the laws actually benefitting people, so that's never going to happen.
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Clearly, it's the voters' faults for not being enthusiastic enough about being screwed over and marginalized.
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Not until they start setting up guillotines next to the reflecting pond. I'm not a supporter of that, but if they don't let us have our right to vote, there may not be other options left.
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It is, becoming a self-made millionaire without other people's work is rather tough, but it is essentially possible if you consider the investments you make as being effectively a large chunk of the cut you don't get paid. I'd say it's debatable one way or the other. But, being a billionaire would require being something like 30 000x as productive as a typical worker to be "self-made" and I'm pretty sure that that's impossible, nobody could be lazy enough for somebody else to work 30 000x more productively.
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@waterguyroks TBH, it kind of surprises me that they even bother with DRM these days because with few exceptions, the DRM doesn't appreciably delay the time that pirates get the software versus the paying customers and can create serious issues for paying customers.
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@TheTastefulThickness If it said rent, they'd have to charge significantly less than what the purchases that are being sold are going for. Which is sort of the problem.
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Did they do it correctly, or did they lump all the white folks into one group, blame the group for the situation and call it good? Because that's how it's been done for decades. You don't hear about things like the Germans and Italians being rounded up and sent to camps along with the Japanese and other Asians into concentration camps. I had to school my boss whose mother literally had to be relocated during that that executive order 9066 did not anywhere in the order specify that it was Japanese to be relocted. They were just one group, any group on the other side of the war was to be relocated. The US genocided hundreds of thousands of Germans at the end of WWII after having gone on a systematic campaign of destruction of German-American concentration during and following WWI where the German language was banned from being taught in school. And that's sort of the point, teaching about the various groups isn't a problem, the problem is that it's done in a way that's deliberately misleading and totally unhelpful.
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Because you can't say that the verdict was impacted with any level of certainty. It may be sent back for a retrial, but when you've got a juror that has a credibility issue, there is no easy solution. Also keep in mind that this was a 9 week trial. As in extremely expensive and depending upon the actual verdict, it might not even matter. If the jury votes to acquit, then chances are that the juror didn't have any sort of impact on the proceeding. It's when they find the defendant guilty of various things that it could be an issue.
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Because that's not true. The intellectually lazy think like that, but smart people realize that the the world has a pro liberal bias to it.
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Yes, the trick though is to find an ADHD friendly version. Personally, I recommend singing bowls or rock stacking as they are somewhat active, but will really pull your focus in. But, really just sitting there and counting the times that you pull your attention back to something you're focusing on works as well.
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Yes, but it's more expensive than evading taxes and not paying a living wage and as long as the politicians are allowed to get rich off of corruption, this will remain the status quo.
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Why bother when the workplace safety rules are so lax and the trains have been permitted to grow longer and longer.
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I think it's relatively common, I didn't realize that there was a high proof byproduct that could be used as part of hand sanitizer. Still generous to not be selling it.
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They didn't, but in all fairness, the squad hasn't done jack when it's counted. They haven't even tried.
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@funman4tw1 So? He wasn't the Presidential candidate and he wasn't an elected member of the legislature either.
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@JayBee-cr8jm Yes, if we went back to a time when the VP was elected separately from the President it would be a much stronger case, but the fact of the matter is that hardly anybody voted for her and I doubt anybody voted for the Biden/Harris ticket to get more Harris.
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Absolutely not, we need to stop pretending like white people are a thing. It's beyond ignorant to just keep splitting groups from the white category as if that is the solution. I'm extremely "white" and yet I failed my masters because I wasn't the right kind of white and they weren't even subtle about it. I was able to get a different degree, but it's far less useful, but because I don't smile as much as "white" people, that made me subhuman scum that didn't deserve equal access to education. Literally the reasons I was given came out of WWII era propaganda.
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@samanjj My wife is from Tehran and apart from her paranoia from growing up in a royalist household just after the revolution and during the Iran-Iraq war, people seem nicer to her than me. It's almost as if things are more complicated than people's ethnicity.
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TBH, I think they'd probably be better off replacing the wheel with tank treads. And just have the ability to reconfigure the shape between a round wheel and tank treads. It's probably possible to build a tire that could handle both positions. Although you'd need to add suspension elsewhere as that likely would be a very rough ride.
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The really angering thing in all this is that they'll have a successful show and arbitrarily cancel it at 3 seasons, regardless of how well it's doing with the viewers. They'll then replace it with something that's substantively the same, but different. Which then has to find a new audience, and it's gotten out of hand.
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@MrBrock314 Ah, that's interesting. One of the issues that comes up with those sorts of things is that it's not always obvious at what point you can say that something has been invented. Often it comes down to the person that comes up with a practical solution rather than the first one to do whatever it is.
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Not really, even with the Cares Act negotiations which should have been an easy win for things like hazard pay for essential workers and $600 a week for the unemployed through the end of the pandemic, she couldn't get that when she had leverage that she refused to use.
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To be fair, we have the 3rd largest population in the world and China is a dictatorship where they can do whatever they like to handle it.
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That's just ignorant. So, they just let the felons just keep driving when they can't be arrested in a safer location? Do you really think that cops enjoy pulling over people with felony arrest warrants out on them and possibly getting shot? There are definite issues with traffic enforcement, this just isn't one of them.
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I'm not planning on retiring, but I am planning on hitting the point where I can afford to work part time at something that I enjoy. Doing so greatly reduces the amount of money that I'd have to have in order to "retire." I've just seen too many people who retire and then die shortly thereafter because they couldn't cope with the lack of structure in their lives.
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@toomignon That would be my concern. I'd want to know more about the actual title that the new "owner" has before involving the police in this. For all we know they've got a title, just one that's the result of forgery.
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The biggest challenge was probably figuring out where to look. With such a big gap between when he was last seen and when they started looking, it was a massive area to search. This is one of the reasons why some cruise ships have sensors installed to detect when somebody falls overboard so they can immediately start looking.
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Which is really sad, because most of what actually matters in terms of emotional attachment is that your both willing to put in the work to make things work. Love is a verb, it comes when you invest in the wellbeing of others. And, it goes when you stop. The love aspect of a relationship is arguably the part that we have the most control over. It's the other bits where you do need a bit more consideration in care when deciding with whom to get involved.
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@weltschmerzistofthaufig2440 There's been decades of work on changing the environment and at this point, it's mostly a matter of waiting for the buildings to be rebuilt. The number of places where you can't go is shrinking every year.
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@kenyattaclay7666 That depends on the store. I haven't seen any of that at the store I work for, and I'm one of the people that puts up the price stickers for price changes and sales prices as well as spending a bunch of time attaching price labels to various products. It may happen, but I work for one of the largest chains in the country, and we don't do it, so I'm really curious as to who is doing this that makes it seem that widespread.
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@tanyarobinson1146 You can't get carbon monoxide poisoning if there's no combustion going on. Carbon monoxide gets into a house primarily via incomplete combustion. If you've got a place like I do with no gas service, there's no possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning.
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And yet, the domestic terrorists are usually right-wing rather than left. That's not to say that there are no left-wing jerks that would do that, but it's dishonest to suggest tray the left is unique in this regard.
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A poor guy wouldn't be giving away millions of dollars, but fair point, if it was a less rich person they'd likely already be arrested.
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Yes, and I'd add that if for some reason you do break down on the track. Immediately get everybody out and find the number of the crossing for the office handling the traffic management. Or call 911 to report it to emergency dispatch so they can try to get the trains that might be on their way stopped.
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IANAL, but, it's questionable whether the potential fraud and violation of court rules would be sufficient to set aside this settlement as the attorneys presumably could have pulled up that settlement, identified defects and chosen to fight it.
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@fluffyribbit1881 IMHO, the reason is because of how they diagnostic criteria were written. There remains no good way of diagnosing people that are in that gap as neither diagnosis is really intended for that. The people that fall in that sweet spot of being able to mask long enough to avoid any of the developmental disorder diagnoses are also likely able to use those same skills to mask over the schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses as well. But, I have seen in the professional research literature indications that really Asperger's Syndrome is essentially just extremely early onset Schizoid Personality Disorder and Schizoid Personality Disorder is essentially just a much higher masking much more alexithymic version of AS that can't really be identified due to the person not having access to much of the relevant bits of their own experience to ask for help. Personally, most of the schizophrenia spectrum symptoms I had, (and I do mean spectrum, I've had professionals indicate that I'm every one of the schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses except for schizophrenia), got a lot better when I started to treat it like a neurological condition rather than a mental health one. I made a point of just feeding my brain specific things so that the brain wouldn't be able to develop a lot of inappropriate connections and it got a lot better.
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@Shezzariin OTOH, they do own one of only 3 streaming services that's profitable. So, things definitely could turn around, or they could just keep getting worse. That's largely going to depend on whether they insist on continuing to do stupid things.
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I think people should really reevaluate the frozen foods aisle in general. There have been massive improvements made to the quality of the frozen fruits and vegetables that you can find there. This is especially helpful for singles and people on a budget that can't afford to have that head of broccoli go bad before they've had a chance to eat it. Also, a ton of things at the grocery store are frozen, a good chunk of things that just tolerate it will come in with a frozen delivery for practical reasons.
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@dotsmada2855 That doesn't excuse them from voting the wrong way on everything. Voting for those things allows the leadership t not bother trying and lets the media pretend like progressives are on board with some of this stuff.
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Walk through a half dozen doors and back. The context switches that occur at the threshold should help to clear out some of the gunk in your head, especially the wrong ideas about what you're supposed to be doing. Also, this is why it's good to at least read through all the problems the day you get the assignment even if you can't start working on it. That way, you've at least got some exposure in that your brain can start chugging away at.
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@steverolfeca Yes, although CA is a large enough state that often times companies will extend that to people in other areas so as to not have to worry about eventualities like a CA customer buying something while in a different state and having to wade through the legal issues that can arise when they go back home and are still using it. Also, Amazon has a presence in CA, so, they're subject to the laws there, but jurisdiction gets extremely complicated sometimes as WA is probably where they'd actually get sued.
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It's generally like that in Wa as well, the problem is that the groups that are paying for them are increasingly hard to match up to a particular interest group. We had a bunch of ads from "the congressional leadership fund" or some such nonsense and you can't really know who that is without seeing the ads. Then the inference is that it's some sort of right wing group, but who even knows who they're being funded by and for what purpose.
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IMHO, those of us that have immigrated legally or lived abroad with a visa, are well aware of just how problematic the way that immigration is currently handled. Having large numbers of people in the country without documentation or legal status is problematic for just about everybody involved other than the companies exploiting them.
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You're already likely getting more than anybody that doesn't retire before the system becomes insolvent. Nobody cares about us, they raised the age of retirement eligibility, and now they're siphoning money off for retirees that have pensions.
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If you want to feel very small. Just consider that in 100 years you will be dead. In 200 years ago, you'll be lucky to be a line in somebody's family tree and in 500 years, you probably won't even be that. It really puts things into perspective about how much most things are really worth in terms of stress and frustration.
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Yes, but nobody did anything to help essential workers. I've had my hours cut because the company hired additional people and didn't use the extra people to make the workload more reasonable. But, since we're essential workers and this is due to them overhiring and not due to the pandemic, we don't get any of the pandemic assistance that other folks got when they lost hours.
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Who would have thought the descendants of the people running the literal Spanish Inquisition would do things like this.
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Sadly, Trump has more cognitive faculties than Biden does. Two racist old White men going at it is not good. Biden himself neutralizes most of the potential ammo that could be used to go after Trump.
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@iandavidvillaloboswong5180 It's not absurd, he isn't going to prison for the rest of his life because he used a firearm to defend himself. He's going to prison for the rest of his life because he used excessive force in doing so. He literally admitted to using too much force, and there was a recording of him engaging in a coup de grâce as she begged for her life after having done the same to her cousin before hiding the body. That's murder, that's not self-defense.
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Yes, I for one will never vote blue again if Biden is the nominee. He's the worst possible choice of the various people running for the Democratic nomination.
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The worst is that these young people are likely to get other people killed as the younger people seem to handle it better than the older ones.
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Yes, which raises the question of why these systems are allowed on the road when they're in this condition. They're not anywhere near ready for fully driving on their own, but they're good enough that it leads to ignorant individuals thinking that it could self-drive. What's more, the use of the term autopilot just encourages the behavior.
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LOL, how did he know I was binge watching British crime shows on Netflix. O,o
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If this shipment was bought by Hezbollah and kept internally, probably not many, but if it was bought by them and distributed in some fashion, it could be a lot. It all depends where the pagers wound up.
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@thistles Just goes to show that not all monsters get arrested.
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There's nothing at all shady about it, this is more or less standard practice. They don't normally wait until the toxicology and autopsy results are in when they issue a preliminary finding. The alternative would have been to say nothing and deal with the complaints that the police weren't addressing the death.
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I once spent about a half an hour cursing out the customer retention reps at AOL because I wanted to cancel their streaming music service. Eventually, they decided that it was easier to just let me go.
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It would have been interesting to see how an induction cooktop would have compared with the electric kettle. I'd wager that they'd be relatively similar as you're effectively heating the bottom surface of the kettle directly.
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Not really, depends what you're using. For flour and similar weight is great. But, it gives you no meaningful indication about how large the materials should be if you're new to the ingredient and recipe. Just add the volumes up and that will roughly indicate the size of bowel needed.
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TBH, I'm not even sure this is cannon fodder, in my view, it's not really cannon fodder if you're not at least trying to attack from another direction or in a different way.
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That would be a slight step in the right direction as at least there'd be no pretense that the voters are involved. As it stands, they've been rigging machines in key states and disenfranchising as many voters as possible to get the result they want.
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That is true, although I kind of feel like it should be at times when the crime is obscure enough that you'd have to know to even ask an attorney to look it up in their law books. That's things like it being illegal to paint birds yellow in some parts of the country. Not things like destroying public property. It's not even like there was any legitimate reason for doing it either.
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@katherineberger6329 Yep, I would expect the government, or whomever is covering the insurance on it, to pay for a replacement for recovery later if applicable. That being said, clearling the debris from the waterway and reopening that section of the port is likely of higher priority. The bridge itself can probably be rebuilt in less time than one thinks, although the portion that was directly impacted by the ship may well need to be replaced and both of the supports pillars will likely need a lot more protection like on some other bridges.
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My soon to be ex is a good example of how everything can be one person's fault. She's got some sort of mental health problem or intellectual disability and she absolutely refuses to listen to any of what I tell her about my experience in the relationship and is continually doubling down on sticking her nose in my business and causing me problems. It very literally does not matter what I say or do, she goes after everything that I care about and the limit to which she is willing to do anything is to tell me that I'm wrong about my own opinions and experience. As much as I'm not looking forward to dating again, I'm not interested in being in a relationship where I don't get to have a say in any of what goes on without having a significant fight over it.
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@jeffostroff It's the lenses. Notice how the columns in the left and right of the beam aren't straight. If you do a correction of the image to make the columns parallel, you should get a more accurate sense about the beam's curvature.
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The reason it's being debated is that they let Oscar Pistorius compete with those specialized prosthetics and insufficient research into whether or not it's an advantage. From what I recall, there were reasons that was an advantage and reasons why it was a disadvantage. Really, what ought to happen is they should move to something closer to what they do with boxing and wrestling where there are different classes based on things like the weight of the athlete. It would resolve a lot of this without having to get into the issues that come from having trans and nonbinary people competing.
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There's so much incompetence. If Trump would just take action to help with the virus and funding so they can feed themselves, there would be a significant chance of him winning.
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@AhhPeepzilla That works out fine as long as you don't need to do too much plowing. There are areas along there that get enough snow in one location to completely cover that up, and that's without having to repeatedly plow the road.
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Conceptually, it's kind of cool, but it's the result of property that pre-exists the current border location and can be a bit of a headache in terms of enforcement. Usually that property would be bought off or the border moved to one side or the other. Or a giant fence built through the middle.
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@12799MaDeuce The lines exist to try to force people to use these technologies. Apart from the last couple years when the pandemic made it harder than normal to hire, there isn't exactly a shortage people willing to do the work if the company is willing to actually pay. Which is the usual hold up, companies that don't want to pay what the labor is worth.
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Yep, it's clear that the people in charge don't want to. All it would take is reducing or eliminating the weapons that we've been giving them and the conflict would get scaled down almost immediately as they try to preserve enough of them to defend against incursions by other countries in the region.
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I'm sorry, Kyle, but this is just plain ignorant. Oregon has a border, it's along one of it's sides, it's called the Pacific Ocean. If you want an example of a state without borders that would be like Iowa or Kansas. As far as ICE goes, being for its abolishment isn't automatically being for open borders, it's the rest of it where you imply that we shouldn't have the right to enforce the law. I do agree that there are changes that need to be made, but the argument that abolishing ICE is a necessary part of it is ridiculous.
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@88d4ce They've just recently started constructing a pair of those near me to help deal with traffic coming and going from the freeway. Previously you couldn't use the left lane going west because it was always clogged with the much too short left turn lane to get on the freeway. From what I understand, the pair of roundabouts shouldn't require knowing that ahead of time. You get in the left turn lane to eventually turn left or go straight. You get in the right lane to eventually turn right or go straight. Much less confusing than being hit with traffic in just one lane and have to worry about waiting it out or changing lanes to one that's going 40mph from a stop.
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@tomdfrog That's why my dad started smoking in the marines. The smokers would get breaks that nonsmokers wouldn't.
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Don't vote Demcrat either. They're only marginally better and working hard on being as bad.
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The real challenge they have right now is coming up with things that are more ridiculous than reality. This has the potential to be a golden era for the outlet.
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That's an interesting perspective. What I see is money being spent out of the trust for people that have other retirement and speeding up the race to insolvency of the social security system. Meanwhile, I'm in my mid-40s and without some serious changes, I might well not get my full social security payments. They've already raised the retirement age so fewer people live long enough and those that do can collect on it for less time.
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I'd consider voting for Tiffany if she had good policy positions.
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The difference is that in most of those cases, there's years of chances to change their minds and they aren't swamping the healthcare system. The obese aren't preventing cancer patients from receiving treatment, covid patients are. I don't think that They're subhumans, but it's morally reprehensible to boost their treatment above cancer patients and people who had limited opportunities to avoid getting sick. The vast majority of the hospitalizations are in the unvaccinated.
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It's better to vote 3rd party, that at least helps those parties gain some level of increased profile.
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Thanks. There's an intersection like that near me. There's a total of 5 streets and one private driveway that converge over the distance of less than 150 feet. It's a really confusing mess due to the DOT opting to just put a bunch of stop signs in and place the stop line for one of those in a really stupid place where you enter from one street and then immediately have a stop sign. A peanut-ish shaped roundabout that is low enough profile for trucks to drive over if they can't negotiate the turning radius would have made far more sense and probably not cost that much.
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Yep, it would have been bad enough just letting the dog loose with the storm coming, but some animals do manage to figure their way through it. But, with the chain, that's more or less a death sentence. Even if the water didn't rise, there was no ability to take shelter.
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@sailorboys100 The blame here rest solely with Harris and the DNC. Blaming the voters is lame, all eligible voters get to vote for whomever they like, or nobody at all. It's the job of the party and the candidates to earn those votes and then if they win, repay the votes with serious efforts to follow through on the promises made to secure the votes. The GOP knows that, and they keep winning, even though what they're promising is horrible.
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And this is normal for planes to hit reinforced concrete walls?
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@MikinessAnalog Yep, the only time I've ever been in a small cessna, my dad was having an introductory flight lesson and none of us were wearing parachutes. It was a small plane that wasn't flying high enough to have room for inexperienced parachutists and need very little room to land if need be. As long as the wings and flaps operated, there was relatively little risk of even wanting to bail out. I'm sure the risk of not pulling the cord in time and trying to clear the plane would have been more than trying to land the thing without engine power.
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He's probably just Canadian. It's spelled A-eh-R-O-N.
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Same hear.
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Congratulations, you're not an idiot. The issue is that neither party cares about the people.
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@LuckyCharms777 Senior skip day? I think we had that, but I skipped that year, so I don't know. It haunts me to this very day.
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That's being overly cautious. The risk is higher now than usual, but you're still far more likely to be killed driving to or from the airport than in one of these crashes. Not that that excuses any of this incompetence, but it hasn't really reached a point where that level of avoidance is called for.
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@MagiciteHeart Gambling isn't illegal at the federal level, otherwise it would also be illegal everywhere that isn't tribal land. The federal government has limited ability to target legislation to specific areas.
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@TheGrinnz were need a viable 3rd party and to avoid corporate interests whenever possible. Choose the smaller less corrupt businesses whenever possible and reconsidering buying anything where possible.
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Oakland is hardly the only city that does that. It seems to me that if they want that tax revenue from property values that badly that they should just have crews that go around and paint over it. Perhaps that would be something for the folks out on parole to do as part of their community service.
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Even in the US, it usually does, what's changed is statistical modelling software has vastly improved, there's been increasing polarization between the states and a bunch of bad court rulings that led to a flood of money going into the races.
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I wish there'd be more understanding. The point isn't to clear out the brush, the point is to clear out the stuff that is tall enough to bridge the gap between the bottom layers where the trees are pretty well protected against catching on fire and the canopy where there's far less protection due to needles and leafs not being particularly resistant to fire. Some species even require fires in order to release more seeds. Doing controlled burns right next to housing is a very risky thing to do, but if there were a routine every few years effort to just burn a portion of those areas that are as close as practical to the houses during a period where the fire activity is light, they could figure out where their containment needs to be first, and account for the weather over the next few days. There does need to be changes to the building code though to make the houses a bit more fire resistant. It's worth noting that most likely, there would be a combination of thinning the forests next to the city and burning the brush, between the two practices there's a significant reduction in the risk of this happening again. Especially if the stuff that gets built to replace the burned out structures is harder to catch on fire. From what I can tell, the averaged size of a prescribed burn was about 40acres in 2019. As in, about 1/16th of a square mile. Which means that when conditions are decent, a fire can be set and put out pretty quickly.
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Having 2 choices served us well for centuries, it's mostly the result of a series of bad SCOTUS rulings that led to a bunch of money flowing into politics, population shifting around to have more of a split between the political views of the states and the Democrats moving further to the right in their pursuit of bipartisanship and stealing votes from the other party rather than getting registered non-voters to show up to vote that caused this. The easiest fix would be to take away the small state bonus that results from each state getting an additional vote for each senator they have. That would have resulted in Gore winning in 2020 without even removing the electoral college.
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@idleoutcaster Yes and no, on the whole they are, but that doesn't mean that there isn't ever insurance. When the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapsed in the early '40s it was supposed to have been insured. But, a government official embezzled all the money thinking that a new bridge wouldn't actually collapse.
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@DjangoMarine-Esq Nope, there was a time when that was the case. These days, how the people vote is largely irrelevant as there's often nobody worth supporting. Just look at the Presidential race, the election fraud that the DNC committed ensured that the people's will wasn't going to be the nominee, no matter how many people voted for a particular candidate. It was all about them putting their thumb on the scale to get somebody that the voters would approve of. The only factor that tracks with the results is the campaign donations. It doesn't matter that majorities of both parties support universal healthcare, we can't have it because the donors don't need it and aren't willing to give up the control they have.
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@ballistictank8023 That doesn't surprise me, the larger the ship, the less precision you need as it's going to take a fair amount of time to see any corrections you make. Those large ships take miles to come to a stop when you want to.
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It would have been over in less than half an hour at that latitude. Even if they managed to find an air pocket and somehow survive the pressure as it built up, hypothermia would have killed them. And honestly, hypothermia isn't a particularly bad way to go. The brain loses blood flow as the body tries to keep the heat in the core as much as possible and eventually you just kind of pass out.
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@usmh TBH, I suspect that the reservoirs being used in the model might have been a bit misleading. I'm not sure how this particular building's system is set up, but they're often times a pair of reservoirs connected with a large pipe, so that water can slosh between the two sides. The water during the sloshing heats up and the heat is typically radiated out to remove energy from the system and give the building a natural tendency to stop vibrating when the wind dies down. As far as the water goes, the water would gain rightward momentum, but it would l do so after the building starts to move in the opposite direction as the water gets its momentum from the building and conservation of momentum requires that any momentum gain by the water come from the building. I assume that's what you're getting at.
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@johndododoe1411 Presumably the same thing that anchors most buildings like this, a massive block of concrete or bed rock. The damper is presumably necessary in part because of the restrictions on the size of the base. Keep in mind that a building of this height wouldn't normally require the damping. It's just not big enough for people to get motion sick, or for the freight elevators to have problem. I worked security in two highrises that were taller than this and neither had this kind of damping. It just wasn't necessary.
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durangojim not that many, under this scenario it's probably just enough to snatch a few senators. Hang one of them in public or put a couple heads on pikes in the capital mall and things will change quickly.
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@dinnerboons1504 Barely for historical reasons. It always should have been considered a 1st amendment issue. The main problem I have with it is that it's gotten to the point where it's mostly meaningless. It used to be an extreme way of indicating that whatever it is is destroying the country. Now it's because it's Tuesday in some places.
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This was a dumb decision for Kawasaki. I'm sure folks will buy it, but there was no reason to replace the 300cc with it. I'm still riding around a 4th gen 250r and apart from not being able to take it over the mountain passes, I have had no problem keeping up with larger bikes on the roads around here. People claiming that they need to replace it soon are full of it. I'm about 215# and I can get mine up to 90mph when I want to. Which is more than enough for typical commuter rides.
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@BKNeifert Prior to computers, you'd largely cancel in the same way that you signed up. The issue isn't that you have to call, the issue is that you have to call and go through the hassle when you were able to quickly sign up via a simple internet form. If there's no internet form, there isn't really an issue.
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@athormaximoff4634 Possibly, he may also be kind of jittery because he's hitting an emotional nerve.
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Sort of, but don't underestimate how many people first really connected with their music via Wayne's World.
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Honestly, that's why I've learned to use cast iron. Unfortunately, my wife refuses to treat it with respect, so it keeps sticking.
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I haven't been a fight in many years at this point. Part of it is because I'm about the size of Mike Tyson and I can put most adults down with one blow. But, a large part of it is avoiding being places where I can't just back down or avoid the problem to begin with. Your Dad would probably like my Dad. He spent several years in the USMC and advised me to leave a brick at the backdoor of a bar in case I needed it and then be the last one out the door if there was going to be a fight. It took me a while to understand that he was saying to be prepared ahead of time if I was going to have a barroom scrap and that the other side couldn't be counted on to fight fair, I just needed to be prepared to end it before they could. Personally, I haven't needed to use the advice, but I do make every effort to have the situational awareness to avoid being in that spot, but if I do get in a scrape, I will fight as dirty as I can because if it's not important enough to cheat at, then it's not a fight that I have to be in/win in the first place.
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@victorgbs Michael Falk is my hero. They have to have had somebody that really knew the condition pretty well to write that character. Dialog like that is incredibly hard to write due to the fact that autistic people are a socio-linquistic group on top of having a shared diagnosis.
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@dwaynepenner2788 It is, but if a business is relying on voluntary overtime, it means that the employees are taking it. And if they're taking it more than once in a while, it's probably an indication that the pay is below what it costs to live a decent life.
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I don't agree. If they really were innocent, or thought they were, and they've got the bucks and that's where a significant portion of their social circle is, then it's not really that ridiculous. These are probably people they enjoy socializing with, just not enough to travel to see.
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It's worth noting that in some places, there are restrictions on how much money they're allowed to raise like that in comparison to their entire budget just to try and discourage cities from using the tickets as a major revenue source to replace taxes.
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And your basis for this is what precisely? Incels rightly notice the massive hypocrisy with which women approach dating and are at a bit of a loss as to what to do about it. If you look at what women say they want and what they actually respond to, there's a massive chasm between the two. And in many cases, they want things which are in direct opposition to their own self interest. We've collectively raised the last couple generations of women to be incredibly picky while getting offended by the notion that they should bring anything to the table. They'll actually divorce a guy because they're bored with him and don't seem to think there's anything wrong with that. There are great women out there that aren't like this, but with so many women not considering men to be fully fledged people with our own jobs, hobbies and even keys, there's going to be men who are upset with women being able to have the things they want without deserving them, and ignoring even great guys because they're not quite tall enough or aren't rich.
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When the baby can survive outside of the mother's uterus, then it gets rights, until then, there's simply no way of disentangling the fetus from the mother. What's more, there's a relatively large rate of miscarriages that happen in the first trimester anyways and some of these "abortions" aren't even abortions as the "baby" isn't even a fetus, it's just a clump of cells referred to as a zygote. And it may or may not even be implanted in the uterine wall yet.
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Your state doesn't have a tailgating law? Around here the driver that rear ends is responsible in pretty much all cases, unless the attorneys can prove that the tailgating law doesn't apply. It's mean to ensure that drivers leave enough roof ahead of them to stop if the lead car needs to stop suddenly. I'd probably also have filed a complaint with the insurance commissioner as the insurance company should know that.
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@LUNUSt Hindsight? Oh please, this has happened a number of times over the last few decades to various other bridges, enough times that just because this bridge hadn't previously been demolished that it shouldn't have been an expected eventuality. We're just lucky that the death toll appears to be 6 and that it was just the road workers on the bridge rather than more car traffic passing over the bridge.
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Ad blockers will eventually win out. It may mean that you have to wait for the entire video to play in order to have an ML program remove the ads, but that's where things are headed. Especially with YT having so many ads on videos where the creator gets none of the revenue at all because of a glitch or technicality.
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There's a lot of photogrammetry software that only supports CUDA, so even if this isn't as efficient, the only people that care are going to be the ones that use it often enough for it to matter. If you're just doing it a few times or trying to learn, then a less efficient option probably isn't a problem. The cost of the nVidia cards has been way out of hand the last few years and there haven't been many options for ones that are more of a budget model.
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Gotcha, kind of reminds me of a couple decades back when we had a magnitude 5.3 quake. The water in the fish take sloshed back and forth and that was about it.
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@vlogbrothers There's also rules that require that customers be notified prior to being charged for subscription renewals. Companies like noom don't respect that though and just bill away and refuse to give the money back for the illegal renewal.
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Except he won't do that because that would suggest that Bernie's supporters matter and he isn't entitled to those votes.
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@anonymunsichtbar3715 That's also where most of the issues I've had with Linux come from. Because these are all independent projects, you get problems like some projects sucking in all sorts of functionality that they shouldn't have and leading to conflicts where one package will require one set of audio libraries and another will require a separate incompatible set and neither of the sets of libraries actually plays well with the other. It's massively annoying. *BSD is it's own thing and on the whole better engineered. That's not to say that Linux doesn't have its benefits, just realize that things are far less consistent in terms of functioning. I've never had FreeBSD dump me to a log in with a broken UI or file system that's clearly alpha quality that will require a reinstallation every time that I restart the computer, like some Linux distros have.
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They can be made to include an easement to cover the sky bridge related corridors when the permits are being granted. There's at least one building locally that has a similar walkway going from sidewalk on one side of the building to the other sidewalk as a means of including escalators along a rather steep hill. But, you have to have new buildings being constructed next to each other to even consider doing so. And it would have to be a city wide mandate with specific restrictions to ensure that a sky bridge could later be added when the building on the other side of the street was rebuilt.
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You may believe that, but she was almost arrested for domestic violence and was mentally unstable by her own admission. It remains to be seen what the truth is. We don't even know if she is even hurt.
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I wonder how many of those folks could potentially work productively if they weren't trapped there by a lack of funds to move elsewhere.
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Or he's trying to find the absolute minimum needed to avoid the guilotines being built.
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@vexhenry You misunderstood, it's "Don't use the Lord's name in a van" on a motor bike is perfectly fine.
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They call it paid leave, but there'll probably be a fair number of appointments for things like interviews and medical exams. The paid leave is important as it's less than ideal to let them keep working, or put them on unpaid leave where they may quit even if the investigation winds up clearing them.
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That's more or less what I was going to post. He was an incredible player, but he was also capable of doing some pretty impressive stunts that would likely get him enough attention to get somewhere. I have no idea what sort of music it would sound like, because he would arguably be even further out there today than he was back then. But, I think with his combination of charisma, talent and showmanship that he'd likely make it. He just likely wouldn't be as well known just because of the way the music industry has fragmented over the interceding decades.
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@raiogelato6921 They make fireproof safes that are designed for this, but it is worth noting that it's more useful if you live in a smaller home where the firefighters can get to the fire quickly, as they are more fire resistant than fireproof, but they will protect against water and heat, up to a point.
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Yep, I need to do that. I also need to make sure that every important thing eventually migrates to the important and urgent square.
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Not to mention the fact that those policies are hugely popular in every state they've conducted exit polls in. The only reason he's losing is elections fraud and the media lying to the American people about the relative electability of the candidates.
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I’m frustrated that it's not more common for people to support the people, and decry both sets of governments.
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This is true over the last 6 weeks, I've lost 80% of my hours. I'm fortunate, but now I'm just scraping by. Today, the store kind of screwed themselves by scheduling insufficient people when somebody couldn't come in.
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Especially if Biden keeps being so useless and it comes down to the corrupt system that Biden was counting on flipping for him.
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@michah321 Barriers work by deflecting the ship around the pylon. There's supposed to be tug boats along with the fenders or barriers. My suspicion is that when the report comes out that the lack of barriers and tugs will be a significant portion of what went wrong. I'd also expect there to be some details as to why the ship lost power so quickly on the way out as well. The whole thing is rather stupid as there were tug boats available, they just weren't required to escort the ship far enough out. They should have been there until the ship got past the bridge as that appears to be the tightest part of the passage to the ocean.
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He had integrity?
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@Sevenmountainisevil At some point during their run, they started to actually write that thought into some of the episodes because of how often she'd show up and somebody would be murdered. Monk did the same thing where he couldn't go anywhere without people being murdered, including places where you wouldn't expect a murder.
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The fear is that it people have a tangible experience of the government doing something substantive to help that they'll expect the government to solve other problems.
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@danielkokal8819 Yes, while it doesn't appear that anybody on the plane had much time to reflect on what was happening, if they did, at least they could take solace in thier entire family not being wiped out. Sometimes these sorts of things will wipe out multiple generations of a family.
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I'm pretty sure that includes office buildings after he kept declaring bankruptcy.
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If it's a recovery operation, it means a greatly reduced willingness to put anybody else's lives at risk. It also means that they can slow the process down a bit so that people don't get too fatigued.
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I don't think that most of them care about that. Roberts does to some extent, but it's largely because he's the chief justice and ultimately he'll be remember long after the other justices are forgotten.
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But, that would make sense and actually cause a positive change for somebody.
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Then report the crimes when there's still evidence to work with. That's the only reasonable solution here. Evidence disappears or is contaminated over time. People's memory of events get fuzzy and unreliable. Extending the statute of limitations doesn't do anything to prevent further abuse in the meantime. Anybody that really cares about justice needs to be reporting this stuff while it's still actionable. At a certain point, it just has to be too late and efforts to extend the date much more than it is already, are just going to result in other miscarriages of justice.
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He's from Kentucky, that is rich in parts of the state.
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I find that very hard to believe. This was in Eastern Washington and the man that stepped out of the truck appeared to be wearing a white shirt and no hat. Regardless, none of that justifies what he did.
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My dad used to be a small scale developer, he'd build one home at a time and manage things himself. Having a buyer on the hook for buying the completed home makes it a lot easier to get financing for the project, as the bank knows that the house will sell within a reasonable time of the expected closing date at or near the agreed upon price. This means that the bank knows that the contractor is going to have the money to pay back the loan. They may be willing to offer better financing options for the developer or financing when they might not otherwise be willing due to saturation of the market or having other developers that they could be loaning money to. It wouldn't surprise me if there was 3rd party interference, prompting the forced sale of the original home and the subsequent termination of the contract.
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You had a point, but you just had to lie about Jimmy. He's not an antivaxxer. I've literally never seen a video where he says that people shouldn't get vaccinated. He does point out that ivermecton isn't a horse pill, it was developed for treating people, and that there are treatments for the illness, but that's all true.
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That's one of the more minor issues, but for individuals that don't have a lot of money or access to a car, that can mean not getting treated at all as that probably meant taking a day off work. AFAIK, there still isn't a legal right to paid sick days.
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The issue is accreditation. We don't have the personnel to accredit every possible university in other countries, and some of them are quite bad. There are excellent medical schools in other countries, but it's tough to write regulations that just allow graduates from some colleges to come without retraining and not others.
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That should be Declinin' Biden.
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Wow, you must mean business, I didn't even see the usual reminder that we can get legal services or referrals from you.
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A moratorium would have been good, but they really needed to hand people money to pay their rent and utilities because we're going to see a wave of evictions as those landlords lose their mortgages and the banks repossess.
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@Olsenator That reminds me of the actor that fatally shot himself in the head with a gun full of blanks. He put the thing far too close and the discharge, without a bullet, was sufficient to kill him. The last thing we need is to have people that might not be familiar with these firearms messing with ones that an expert is supposed to have checked on a set where there's supposed to be no live rounds.
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One of the issues that MS has is that there hasn't been a particular legitimate reason for people to have to upgrade from 7, they haven't really added much of anything that typical people would view as must haves since at least that point with the exception of hardware support. People literally would still be on 7 if MS wouldn't force the issue by not continuing updates, taking down the activation servers and taking down the update servers. It wasn't much of a problem before people had their computers online all the time. But now, it's a massive problem.
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Doesn't really matter. Whether you vote for Biden, Trump, somebody else or nobody, and Biden loses, the'll still blame us. But, the only way that we're getting out of this hostage crisis is if people stop voting for Democrats unless they run on a platform of helping the people. And then stick with it after winning election. Otherwise, what's the point? The court picks from both sides have sold us out at key moments, with the GOP picks being only slightly worse.
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The problem is that if you're not an engineer, it's not always obvious what is and isn't a problem. And, the owners themselves only see a small portion of the building, mostly just their area and the common areas. I've got cracks in my unit, but they're fine, they happen whenever there's sagging over time, but I live in a much, much smaller 4 storey building, so I have far less to worry about as only 1 floor worth of stuff could possibly fall on me, and even that is rather unlikely as the building has been inspected recently.
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Except that there's been an ongoing process of devolving Scotland for many years at this point. It would be more like China saying to Northern Ireland that they really ought to be with the rest of Ireland. or the UK that you should really own Ireland. Although that's not perfect as there is a recognized status in all those cases that people can agree on.
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I think they are, at least those that take a class. The issue tends to be actually using the advice. A lot of the things that I do to keep my bike shiny side up are completely counter-intuitive. Leaning in on a turn isn't something that most people naturally do as everything in our brain is telling us that if we lean to the side that's down, that we're going to tip it over. When the reality is that leaning in on a turn tends to push the bike up and you won't actually fall unless you've already at the absolute maximum lean angle and really beyond.
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That's not their job, though. You do realize that there are fake homeless, right? In this case, she might well be actually homeless, but the moment you set lower standards in this regard and ignore criminal behavior, it just opens up an avenue for further theft. Shoplifting is a major problem, and a lack of enforcement is a major part of the problem. The correct way to fix this is to ensure that there are adequate social safety nets in place, not write carte blanche for breaking the law.
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Senile people tend to forget the recent things first. He probably just forgot how bad she was as a candidate.
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This is being somewhat addressed by this in terms of capping the payments and increasing the amount that's protected. There's also more options being provided for having the loans discharged for public service. But yes, I totally agree. I put pretty much all my tuition and fees on credit cards because the interest was lower and they could be discharged in bankruptcy if something prevented me from working. (I was using introductory offers and balance transfers that were like 3% transfer fee and 0% interest, but the interest rates on the loans were absurd)
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@RA-el6zj Apparently yes. I would have thought the fact that Submarines have been around for over a century at this point and usually not running at such a depth with extensive maintenance and examination routines would be pretty obvious. Not to mention the various water tight doors that can be sealed if there is a breach in one section.
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Yes and don't forget about the addresses that get a letter as well as a number like 221B Baker Street from Sherlock Holmes and all those weird addresses in rural areas which are designed to deal with the situation where houses might be a significant distance from each other.
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@spsawyer22 that's a good point, at least the chain I work for gives me enough hours to qualify for health benefits. Wal-Mart generally doesn't.
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That's what gets me. It's not clear that theft violates the constitutional restriction on seizure?
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 @ndsrocks1 exactly, the vote blue no matter blue who crew may never learn to withhold their votes as loudly as possible.
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Eh, that doesn't deserve praise, it should be the bare minimum when the whole incident is caught on tape like that.
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One of the big issues is that you have to buy a non-refundable ticket before finding out if you're going to qualify for the pass. Being in a wheel chair or mobility scooter isn't something that the DAS pass was intended for as most of the lines are wide enough for a reasonably sized one to navigate.
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Fundamentally, people misunderstand what budgets are for and have unrealistic expectations. A budget is just a plan for where we want/need the money to go to be on the path to where we want to go. As long as the essentials like food, clothing, shelter and whatever obligations are covered, the rest of it is largely optional. I get a little bit tired about people complaining about living paycheck to paycheck when they have the money to cover all of their bills. If that's the case, then living paycheck to paycheck is effectively the result of poor cash management strategies. Simply just setting a side some of the money to cover an essential bill each paycheck until you're a month ahead and then do it again until you have all of your essential bills covered will eventually get there. However, if all the extra you can clear up is a few dollars, it might as well be impossible due to the amount of self-control and discipline that takes.
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It's not in and of itself cause to dismiss the case. At most, anything that comes of failing to notify him of his rights would be suppressed. Any evidence unrelated to that would still be fair to include in the case.
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@HariSeldon913 Yes and by that time there's usually been so much damage done that it can't be undone for any sum of money.
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Just imagine being promised a city view room and realizing that all the houses had white foamy roofs.
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@Teampegleg There were more than one person in that fare class on the plane. They could have chosen somebody else without being in the next fare tier. If there really was just one person in that class, they wouldn't have the issues they had with balance.
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@Teampegleg Nobody is saying that the airline needs to be responsible for watching her. What we are saying is that they shouldn't be deplaning minors when they could deplane adults. She is taking responsibility for herself, this is not a normal thing to happen and it's questionable if she even needed to be deplaned entirely when there were almost certainly fat people that could be moved to rebalance the plane.
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Probably good genetics and a ton of work.
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Clinton shouldn't have been charged, I've met plenty of people who don't think that oral sex is sex. And it's pretty much the status quo for the target of investigations to perjure themselves. If they didn't have more to it than that, it should never have gone forward. People know that when you take the fifth that it's seen as admitting guilt even though it's not legally admitting guilt.
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There's a few reasons. Guaranteed loans, reduced government subsidies and the lack of competition. Much of the spending is on administrative positions that have noting to do with education and on building projects that make the college more competitive in attracting new students, even if it also doesn't do much for the quality of education being provided.
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If she does, she'll wait until it's clear that Biden can't gain the nomination and will do so well past the point where her endorsement would make a difference. The woman has no integrity.
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Probably not, the terms of these deals usually just cover whatever crimes are included at that time, there's no guarantee that if more crimes come to light that the deal will remain.
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@JohnDavid-u8b The usual way used to be to make it a flat fee, but limit the delivery area. Limiting the delivery area pretty much always makes sense because most food doesn't travel that well. Even just going a couple blocks is enough to make french fries cool enough to need to be reheated in the air fryer for crispiness.
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That was a different era. There was still a massive amount of infrastructure that was needed and most people working were spending most of their work day actually working. These days, not so much. But, things like the Grand Coulee Dam have ad a massive impact on modern society. He could also have had people work part time for the money and that's the route he likely would take if he were President now.
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@Curmudgeon2 TBH, the biggest problem with robocalls I've had the last couple of years was from politicians who wrote themselves a loophole to allow themselves to robocall people without permission. It's almost as big a problem as the military being allowed to use contact information that they obtain from schools for the purposes of harassing high school students. It speaks volumes about how dumb the recruits are if they expect to blatantly lie to potential recruits after having obtained the contact info from a 3rd party and continued to harass the target for months on end. I guess army recruits are smarter than naval recruits, as I got precisely one call from the army, and dozens upon dozens from the navy.
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TBH, for $1400 a lien being placed to cover it for collection the next time the house sells seems reasonable. I"m curious how strapped for cash the HOA is if it needs that $1400 right now.
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Nobody wants Kamala and it's got nothing to do with sexism or racism. (Although sexism and racism aren't helping her cause) She's just a terrible candidate. She doesn't have good policies and she only had like 2 or 3% of the primary vote in 2020. It seems like a bit of a stretch to suggest that numbers that bad are because of racism and sexism. HRC tried the same crap in 2016 and it didn't work there either.
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@w1ngnuts Those clever SOBs. They avoid paying taxes by being too poor.
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@jameskellinger8314 A lynching is any time "justice" is served outside of court by somebody serving as judge, jury and executioner. The fact that this was a cop doesn't really change that fact at all.
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@bavery6957 What gets me is that RFK JR could be quite good in some positions, HHS, the FDA and the like are just horrible. He'd probably be a good EPA secretary or possibly FTC.
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The won't, there's a very high bar that would require finding GOP politicians willing to follow through on removing them from office. Just look at what happened with the impeachments of Trump. The parties mostly just voted along party lines and there was no genuine effort on either side to look at all the facts and consider both the view that he should be removed and the view that he shouldn't.
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That's not at all how it works in the US, and John is being pretty misleading. Imagine being taught about the Holocaust and focusing entirely on the Jewish victims of it. The roughly half of the victims that weren't Jewish don't get more than a minimal mention, if that. The ethnic cleansing that followed as the Russians invaded the country in the ending days of the war and murdered civilians that had little to do with the crimes against humanity other than being part of the country leading up to the US murdering tens of thousands during an unprovoked firebombing of Dresden. Not to mention the fact that Germans and Italians were also sent to concentration camps by the US along with the Japanese and those that were confused as being Japanse. The problem is that the CRT alarmists aren't entirely wrong, there's far more going on than people simply feeling uncomfortable. One of the reasons why I gave up on being a teacher was that I couldn't in good conscience lie to the students about the history of the US to make it seem like significant portions of the US were off the limits to Russians during the cold war or that the Irish were the original target for virtually all the negative stereotypes used to denigrate black people. Not to mention the fact that applying modern racial and ethnic identities to times before they were widely accepted leads to really weird conclusions that don't make much sense and that there were communities of free black people in the South of the US prior to the civil war, things weren't great for them, but they existed. Around here, in the Pacific Northwest, we were still integrating our schools well into the '80s, so it's kind of insulting for folks to imply that there weren't white people that are relatively young who were legitimately caught in the cross-fire of integration even as we were having our own ethnic identities subjected to propaganda efforts out of the '40s. I remember buying a camera decades ago and the company bundled literal WWII propaganda with the camera. The problem with the thing that's morphed into CRT is that it silences the voices of the people who have the most power to really get at the heart of these issues. The folks that realize that a lot of this is kind of questionable and needs more discussion to flesh out and negotiate and cedes the ground to the folks that are so set in their ways, that there's not much point in listening.
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Canceling student debt is wrong. Many of us made the decision about whether to pursue a degree or how far to go based upon the understanding that we wouldn't necessarily be able to make those loan payments back. Canceling the debt now, screws thosef of us over who made more responsible decisions about not taking on debt for education. I have no problem with the government stepping in and reducing the interest rates to something minimal or possibly zero, and reducing the loan payments, but it's deeply problematic to waive the debt because people didn't think things through. What about all those middle class families that had saved money for years in order to send their children to college without debt? Why should they get fucked over not just once but twice?
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I'm just waiting for the inevitable $1 "IT'S OVER" thumbnail versus $100,000 "IT'S OVER" thumbnail.
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I'm Joe Biden and if you think my mental capacity has declined, you can vote for the other Biden.
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They are, and sometimes the "correct" grammar is not accepted as correct by really anybody. For example it's not "He is taller than I" as is commonly taught, it's "He is taller than I am" if we're being technical as the copular be needs the same thing on both sides. That being said, nobody is likely to say either one, they're probably going to say "He is taller than me" which is what it would be if we hadn't lost a case since branching off from German.
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@youtubegarbage7876 Nope, so, it's fewer sand then? Or fewer furniture? Fewer hasn't ever been used to refer to uncountable objects and the way that the word "items" is used at any grocery store I've ever been is a lot closer to being uncountable than countable. Or do the grocery stores where you live decline to check people out that have duplicate items putting them significantly over the limit?
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I avoid them whenever possible, but even buying on 3rd party sites doesn't guarantee that you won't be giving them money. An increasing number of things that I guy on eBay are being shipped to me in Amazon packaging. That being said, every time that people decide to buy elsewhere, whether or not it's cheaper or better, the sooner we might see some actual change. I always get sad when an obscure product that I need is only available on Amazon.
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The sad thing is that people actually believe that we don't have the money for things like ending homelessness in America, free college for anybody that wants it or medicare for all and paying off the national debt. The thing is that it's not that expensive, ending the illegal wars and collecting the tax debt already owed by billionaires would be enough to achieve all of those things and still have money left over. What we have is a lack of political will to do it by politicians that are being paid not to have the will to do it.
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Just? That didn't happen when they rigged the primary in favor of Biden or when they let Trump promise checks to individuals before any of the Dems?
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@dannyingram1196 It's not slander when it's true. There really has been an investigation and there really is a report that definitely would have been released had he not resigned. It's less certain what that report says, but it's unlikely to be complimentary if he resigned rather than let it be released ahead of his confirmation hearings.
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@parsonj39 Which is what makes us having to fill out tax returns so comical. The Federal government already has the information to just send most people a bill for their taxes without the taxpayer having to do any work. It's mostly businesses and those with complicated income streams that would need to fill out the forms.
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@neues3691 There is no controversy without the request. The proper thing was to wait until there was a request and as such both damages and a controversy before filing. There's nothing in any of this that couldn't have been resolved with cash and a change to the law if the designer had won.
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These are tests that any decent human being should be able to pass without thinking. Apart from the wallet test which may not work when one person is paying for everything already, all of these tests are completely fair for women to use on men. If you can't pass these tests, you're probably a sociopath or at bare minimum a narcissist. In any case, they aren't worth dating,much less any sort of long term commitment. Unless and until men start actually doing things like this, we're not going to see women behave in a way that's less transparently selfish. Lastly, if you happen to know where the women are that don't behave like that are, please share, there's tons of men out there that would be more than happy to "settle" for women like that. The problem is that there just aren't many of them out there and most of the women that think they aren't, are just lacking in self-awareness about what they're doing and why.
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We have a legal system where the defendant is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. It's why some defendants are allowed to be free while awaiting trial. A victim impact statement is something that the judge can consider along with the rest of the evidence when deciding whether to keep the defendant locked up or under what conditions they may be released.
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I didn't realize this was now a thing, at least include a DOE and per hour on the sign. So lazy. I suppose, they might literally mean up to $17.
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It doesn't really matter. The accusation of DEI here is on the basis of them lowering the standards in an effort to boost the diversity of the ATC rather than just giving the jobs to those that are most able to do it. I"m not sure if that's actually the case, or if it remains the case as I thought that had been addressed the last time he was in office. But, even if true it would only have been a minor aspect here. There's been a significant underfunding and under staffing of the whole system for decades and that's going to put a much greater strain on the system than possibly less qualified employees would. That being said, from what we know, it appears that this was a combination of a helicopter operating with 3 crew members when a 4th probably should have been there due to the business of the air traffic in the area and the visual navigation being used. The helicopter being 150ish feet too high and actually into the airport's landing corridor. And an instruction from ATC that may have been misunderstood by the crew of the helicopter, although there seem to have been other issues with the helicopter not understanding or properly complying with the instructions being given. The only bit of that which could have been impacted by ATC changes is that last one and even that is a significant stretch. Doubtless we'll get more information as time goes on and the investigation proceeds, but in all likelihood a bunch of the answer is going to be along the lines of what's already suspected.
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You misunderstand them. They are just relative to each other. You're supposed to use a real thermometer to decide whether to adjust the dial or not. You typically start with the dial somewhere in the middle and you adjust it as apporpriate. The real issue is that the freezer and refrigerator are being cooled by the same heat exchanger, which means that you're really, adjusting it to whatever it is that keeps both the refrigerator and freezer in their relevant safety zone.
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@roberthunter5059 Not just that, but you also have the issue that refrigerators are commonly large enough that there can be a difference in temperature between the bottom and the top. And in order to ensure that the temperature that it's claiming is being achieved, you'd need more sensors. Sensors that can themselves break and lead to customers suing the manufacturer. It's just a relative scale. If the food is too cold you move that dial a bit one way. If it's too warm you move it the other way. And you use a properly calibrated thermometer and daily checks to get it to where it should be initially. After that, you should hardly have to mess with the dial again.
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I disagree, because this happened so early, it was fewer ballots impacted and there's some time to get them replacement ballots. Had this happened a couple days before the election, that would have been far harder to address.
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@pattygould8240 Yes, but the tips don't work. I've tried pretty much all the standard sleep hygiene recommendations and they don't work for people with real sleep problems. They miss the fact that the circadian rhythm is rather complicated. When you eat, exercise, get light and bathe all have to be accounted for in order to have any hope. Even then, it's not necessarily enough if you're body didn't like the hours and for some people, more drastic measures may be needed.
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Don't ignore them, flag the account if it's a violation of policy, or have the channel removed from your feed entirely. The more people do that, the less likely it is that the videos will be shown to anybody.
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It's not about being threatened, it's about this being an incredibly insulting commercial that implies that were were engaging in those behaviors to begin with. The racism of having all the bad guys be white and all the good guys be people of color just makes things worse. But, sure, this is about being threatened, not the fact that it's a sexist ad campaign full of unmotivated man-bashing. What's more, I don't see any ads targeting women for the anti-social behavior they're engaged in, for example filing for divorce and taking all the husband's best stuff without cause.
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I live in Pramila Jayapal's district and I just sent her an email threatening to not just pull my vote from her next election, but to also donate money to her oponent regardless of what party that candidate is from if she doesn't publicly oppose this. I urge everybody else in one of the districts that's represented by one of these progressives to do the same. And really, everybody in every district ought to, but the bar should be higher for those claiming to be progressives.
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The plan for that was basically to just give the license some sort of fixed period and then make you buy a renewal. It's not a bad way of doing it, but there are a lot of issues in terms of people being used to getting their license with their computer and then not having to ever actually pay money for Windows. For most people, Windows is essentially free in their minds.
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@Trench216 And that's not what most people think. Plus, it's often not easy to buy computers that haven't got Windows pre-installed.
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I remember the DOS manual I got when my parents bought our first computer. It was massive.And there was so much useful stuff in there, along with less useful things like how to change the colors of the command prompt. I think a lot of why that stopped was simply the result of the internet allowing half-finished products to be shipped and as a result there wasn't the same kind of time to develop proper documentation. These manuals were often times being developed in parallelt to the later stages of development so they had a clear cutoff time just before the final touches were completed.
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@al145 The same people that reset the rest of the traps, apparently. The big issue with the boulder is that you can clearly see when Indy is crossing that pit that there's trees and sky above him, which means that he would have had the option of just not progressing past the door he almost gets crushed under to get to the room with the boulder. These are things that you just sort of have to buy into in order for the movie to happen.
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@petesig93 A lot of that has to do with car companies needing to ditch spare tires in order to hit fuel efficiency goals. Most cars these days have tire pressure sensors and puncture resistant tires as a result of it being easier to hit the targets by ditching weight than pretty much anything else.
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@UCjGRW5qik-9PLkAbB-S1ipg Sure it is, why wouldn't it be? If that's going to be the standard, then we are really not a very free society. There's a relatively small number of rights specifically stated in the Constitution, most of which were only ones that were important in the 18th century.
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The plan is imperfect, but it does address some of those affordability issues by reducing the student loan payments. If I understood correctly, it also does something about the interest payments. When I was paying for my previous degree, the student loan interest was more than what my credit cards were charging and I actually put most of the money on my credit cards because not only was the interest lower, but if something should happen, like disability, I could get that waived in bankruptcy court. Student loans are virtually impossible to get discharged in court.
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Yes, and that's why I wish people would talk more about alternate means to buying a house. The real issue there is that the price of rentals has gone up to the point where you're not likely to be able to save money to buy a house. It wasn't that long ago that you could take the difference between a mortgage and the rent and invest it. Since there was somewhere around 10-15% difference between the rates you gain from stocks and the interest you pay on a mortgage, you could actually get to homeownership at some point. But, with wages stagnant, rents skyrocketing and the cost of houses skyrocketing as well, that method of home ownership is endangered.
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Can't wait until Biden goes with him.
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Hard to say, could have been a DJ, could have been a dealer. I'm sure there's a bunch of other possibilities.
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I've been ducking my loan servicer because I don't want them to know that I'll pay if I'm actually forced to. The more people that duck out on it until the last minute, the more likely it is that there's going to be reporting back about the fact that there's a significant number of people not prepared to pay. Personally, I've got the money to pay, but having been screwed over on hazard pay while the unemployed got all that money they weren't entitled to, the least they could do is pay my $3k student loan off for me.
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I was thinking that, but it depends on how the house was specified in the listing and related contracts. If the house they live in is the one that matches the paperwork, then likely the address for the listing matches the newly renovated house, which means that it may not be as simple as just changing a few numbers on the listing and in the contracts to make it work. Such a change could potentially just lead to this issue popping up the next time somebody sells one of those two properties. At least as of now, both are held by the same owner, which should make it a lot easier and less expensive to fix.
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The one major bit of good news here is that we appear to be well into the realm of diminishing returns for campaign money in federal elections as the $1 bn that Harris' campaign spent didn't seem to do much of anything. Directing it in a smarter way may have helped somewhat, but the extra money didn't seem to do much of anything to boost a loser.
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@Gary Goldstein The thing is that even if she did, then it would be a jurisdiction covering NY Marine as that would be the court that has jurisdiction over the matter in the absence of a court having jurisdiction over her or both of them. It's worth recognizing that somebody has jurisdiction over everybody and everything that goes on somewhere. There are places where the government is so weak that there's no enforcement action possible, but there's still jurisdiction there. Plus, some areas declare themselves to have universal jurisdiction over things related to their citizens. Even being in international waters, doesn't mean that you're not subject to the law, the law would be based on whatever flag the vessel is flying and where it's registered.
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So, how do you enforce that? By the time you even get to the point of them ordering, it's effectively too late to do anything about it.
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@caitlynh3216 Yes, but eviction moratoriums just mean that after 4 months, these people will need 5 months worth of rent in most cases or at least increased rent until it's paid back. The government needs to be covering the costs associated with rentals and tell the landlords that they don't get to collect any more money while the pandemic is going on. This is one of the reasons why it was so stupid to give so much to corporate interests that had been spending most of their money on stock buybacks rather than on saving for a rainy day or investing in building stronger businesses. Apple, is going to be fine, they have a ridiculous amount of cash on hand. But, Boeing, decided that it would be great to just burn the money they got from Trumps tax plan, they bought back stock and then caused planes to crash, resulting in all that money just disappearing.
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@Roger-fs5yo Yep, I think I went once back then and I don't recall ever having gone again. I'm not sure if it was the cost or what, but only one of my friends ever had a party there.
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We'll see if it works though. Universal hasn't been standing still and unlike in the past where there weren't that many options, the competition is better than ever. Unlike at Disney, the express lines that Universal has actually work. You have a guarantee about how many you get, and you can get in the line whenever you like to use it. It is a lot more expensive, but it's still quite affordable compared with the cost of the rest of the experience.
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@pin65371 Yes, there'd be a fair amount of shared cost between the road they would have had and this replacement. I'm personally looking forward to the pair of round abouts that they're putting in near me to help manage the flow of traffic onto and off of the freeway. For as long as I can remember, the left lane effectively is only usable by people trying to get onto the freeway because there wasn't enough space to allow for a left turn lane long enough to hold the drivers wanting to get on. Soon, there will be a roundabout that should both hold more cars when necessary and allow them to get on without the wait. I'm glad that roundabouts are being put in when possible, even if it results in fun ones like this one. This one looks like it would be a lot of fun to drive around.
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@justinvaldez4449 So is Oregon. Which makes me wonder what the motive is, because this isn't going to shift the federal elections at all.
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@cindydott452 I doubt very much that was an oversight. What gets me is that it's already criminal to intentionally break a condom or other barrier type of protection under battery statutes. If they were going to make stealthy specifically illegal, they should have been more expansive to other sexual activity related fraud as it pertains to pregnancey/STIs.
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@mpmansell No, they're not. You're not typically subjected to prison or execution for losing the family court proceedings. It does happen, but it's not anywhere near as common as with criminal cases where the question is ultimately whether or not the state has met the burden of proof to have you tossed in prison.
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Came here to say the same thing. Larry almost killed the biker, but the biker's the ass somehow.
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@sagichdirdochnicht4653 nuclear is the only method we have to get us over the goal line right now and we should have been building up capacity the last few decades in order to offline as many coal plants as possible. Long term, nuclear may not make sense, but the population is starting to level off and will likely start declining a bit, making it easier to fill the capacity with renewables.
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I do think that ADHD medication is a bit odd like that because by definition you will be dependent upon it as it's usually not practical/possible to change the things that you'd need to change to properly get your stuff done without it. It's not like depression or many other psychiatric conditions where you can go to therapy and have it go into remission. ADHD is baseline condition for those with it. You can manage it better and arrange things to better suit you, but it doesn't really go away.
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@johnbemery7922 Yes, stimulus directly to everybody in the form of a UBI that can be taxed back from those that made too much money would be the simplest and most effective way of dealing with the problem. Unfortunately, at this point, too much damage has been done and more needs to be done. Additionally, nothing at all has been done for the frontline workers, we've been expected to do all the extra work and take the extra risk and we've been shafted. Neither party is fighting for us and I for one will not be voting to support either party in the future. I will only vote for them if a 3rd party candidate isn't available and against the incumbent for the rest of my life if I don't get hazard pay. Why should I have to make it on less than what unemployment was paying when I have to actually work and take on the additional risk?
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She won't have a vote for M4A because she knows it's going to pass and that they won't be able to take it back.
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Maybe, or perhaps some of them are going to vote for one of the other candidates. I have a total of 10 possible choices of Presidential candidates this year. Saying anything other than Kamala means that I'd likely be insulted. I'm not sure how many options other voters have in other states, but it's not just the 2.
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This kind of BS is why I stopped voting for her. Seattle is far too "liberal" to accept this bs. It's kind of like how Pelosi manages to keep winning reelection.
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@Hello8 goodbye9 there's no evidence to support that belief. In the nearly 20 years that we've been doing that in WA, there's been no evidence of an increase in fraud versus other forms. And believe me, the GOP has been working hard to find some. If anything, the system makes it easier to verify as anybody can watch the counting and there's the opportunity to challenge signatures before the votes are registered. Oregon has a similar system and they haven't had any elections fraud resulting from the mail voting.
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That's factually incorrect. Our legislature passed a law to put us on DST permanently. We've had the ability to go on permanent standard timem for decades, it's how AZ and a few others were able to opt out of the clock changes. It's going to permanent DST that requires an act of congress.
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It is, but they also hate having a ton of unused credit floating around when the economy takes a dive because it can mean that they are now on the hook for covering a bunch of theoretical loans that are now real loans.
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She did it in large part by kicking essential workers in the nuts. She's a despicable human being.
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And don't forget that essential workers still haven't received any compensation for taking on the extra work and risk. Giving everybody that $600 a week would have done wonders to addressing that issue as well as the issues related to foreclosures and evictions.
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"Looks like"? He has ambulances parked outside the warehouses so he can avoid paying for air conditioning.
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This is surprising? One of the issues with time tracking software is that it just tracks the time using the computer. It does not take a minute to leave a one minute voicemail unless it's a rambling message with little value. That being said, if the total does come out to being something crazy like 36 hours or probably even 10, then there should be some attention paid to what's going on. But, at work we've got the same basic problem where the prep work and clean up work aren't accounted for, so it might take us a reasonable amount of time to actually do a task, but it will always take longer due to the other work involved with it.
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@gregutz4284 Doesn't really matter as Trump wasn't going to unite the country and you can't unite the country when one side refuses to participate.
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TBH for me, being cheap is part of it, but I'm also deeply skeptical that they can provide the service without being even more exploitative than a typical restaurant.
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It's also worth recognizing that if you don't learn how to properly taste food, you're not going to notice the flavors that are there. Kids in particular often need to be exposed to a variety of flavors just to know what they are, and many people have sour-bitter confusion which can impact the perception of the food. Also a lot of Europeans have excessive sensitivity to bitter taste as well.
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IKR, this is just them making explicit what was implicitly the case previously. I don't know how they can provide a web browser that responds to the user without having a license to whatever you type into the browser for the purpose of surfing. I'm fairly sure that every site that we visit that takes users inputs has similar language in there that we're giving them a license to use the material we input as it's literally the only way that things like text or images we post to share can actually be shared.
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One of the main reasons I ride a Ninja 250r is that I can't afford a car. I was able to buy it for like $2500 including taxes and registration. I'm getting about 50mpg and my insurance is only $100 a year. Sure there's some cost of maintenance and repairs, but I do much of that myself. My motorcycle is nearly as cheap as the bus.
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The stock was vastly overrated and only a couple stupid Musk remarks away from disaster.
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@bluephreakr Mostly due to issues with contamination and having to get the bottle back to the same manufacturer as they tend to be custom. Plus, they degrade over time in terms of microplastics and hormones leeching into the fluid.
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That's not private, that's shy. Private is when you choose not to share because you don't want to. Shy is when it's anxiety based.
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@tortilla-plus-3892 That's technically true, but misleading, you can't include it in a closed source project if you want to distribute it, that's a pretty big restriction on use, if you can't sell it without including the source with the distribution and have to license your stuff to match.
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@waycoolscootaloo Depends where you live. And no matter where you live, that won't be true in the future as most renewable energy sources produce electricity at the end stage.
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False accusations are not incredibly rare. Those are questionable figures that are incredibly hard to quantify. Rape and sexual assault crimes in general are hard to count because most of them occur between people who know each other. Which makes it very, very hard to determine the difference between actual rape and sex where there wasn't an explicit agreement to have sex. The two are very different morally and ethically. As far as it being incredibly rare, I had a hard time finding the conviction rate in the US for proceedings that end in trials, but in the UK, it's less than 2/3 of trials for sexual assault wind up with a conviction, meaning that some portion of those 37% that resulted in aquitals were false allegations, we don't really know how many, but legally speaking, the crimes aren't considered to happen. In the US, the numbers are hard to find, but it's a similar problem, these are cases where there might have been a rape, usually the parties have some relationship with each other, but there isn't any evidence to assume that the crime happened beyond the evidence to assume that it didn't happen and it shouldn't be claimed that those incidents aren't false allegations as it's equally valid to suggest that they are. But, doing that would lead to a number that's several orders of magnitude higher. So there's pressure to not admit the truth on that.
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Not true, nobody knows because none of the ballots are counted until election day. There is some pre-processing that goes on, so the only thing that anybody does know is if the overall voting activity is up in various places that may or may not ultimately vote to support him.
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@malvane8061 When I was a kid, I thought I'd be one of the first to sign up if the country was ever attacked. But, when it was attacked, it was quite clear that getting killed in that campaign would have been completely meaningless. Joining up would have been only marginally better than being one of the Nazi soldiers. I saw the propaganda and the lies that were being used to justify the invasion, and that was not my war for not my President. The crimes against humanity that were subsequently revealed just underscored the point. Abu Ghraib, GITMO, not to mention the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis due to the failure of the military to even bother trying to protect the local population or have a plan in place to do so. Only the naive think that the military is some sort of a good thing, the rest of us know that they're neutral at best, and blood thirsty cowards at worst.
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It's also worth noting that this isn't a particularly simple problem for most people, that is unless they've got some understanding of statistics and how to evaluate the claims. It's definitely not easy to understand why switching is the best strategy unless you already have the explanation.
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Call me old-fashioned, but I don't think voting for people that would continue to supply the necessary arms to engage in genocide is the basis for claiming the moral high-ground.
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The only issue I've had is that I'm not ever quite sure when I'm done opening the can. But,t he one I've got has a pliers built in for pulling the lid off once I've gone around at least once.
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@0xCAFEF00D IIRC it was involuntary manslaughter and they weren't able to prove how the bullets actually made their way onset and into the weapon. The maximum sentence for involuntary manslaughter is only 18 months.
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@thomasbecker9676 She got the maximum sentence for what she was charged with. If you or I did what she was convicted of, we would also likely get 18 months.
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@killroy713 That's all well and good for you to say, but it's not the job of the actor to know how to do that, acting involves a lot of other stuff and you would not want one of those method actors playing psychopaths to check such things.
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@TheresaHall-vl1bm Most businesses can, as long as the reason for denying entry isn't on the list of specific reasons not to allow people in. It's completely fair game to deny anybody entry that's wearing a blue shirt so long as the people wearing blue shirts are all banned and there isn't such a significantly disproportionate number of people wearing that article of clothing of a protected class.
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To some extent, most of this is what we already thought, but it's great to have an expert explaining a bit more about what may have happened. There will be an investigation and probably recriminations, but I'd be surprised if what she's saying isn't most of it.
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TBH, this probably won't be very satisfying, but there isn't really much difference between the two groups in any objective way. The difference is probalby only a percent or 2 i n terms of measurable differences early on. The main differences are in practices and beliefs. The brilliant, tend to be willing to push harder, look stupid and probe a variety of approaches to a problem. They will temporarily walk away, but usually it is a temporary setting aside of things while solutions and skills improve. I've personally developed a reputation for knowing a lot and being insightful, but I've got significant brain damage from multiple episodes and learning disabilities. Objectively, I struggle more than most other people do, but I have developed the practices of brilliance and figured out how to make what I have work for me. Most people don't do that, so they wind up being less than they could be in terms of abilities.
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The poll workers not showing is just an excuse to close polling locations to suppress the vote. It doesn't matter if they get down to a half dozen locations throughout the state, they need to vote to go forward before people realize just how bad of a job Biden is going to do if elected and how unlikely it is for him to be elected in the first place.
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Yes, I used to work in a grocery store and there were a bunch of stickers everywhere calling attention to items that were eligible for purchase with the cards. It's not like you get to buy anything and everything in the grocery store, there is a list of what can and can't be bought with those funds.
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He was right, basketball players are not role models. The only reason why some kids grow up with basketball players as role models is that they don't have anybody in their lives to pattern their lives after. The only thing that a basketball player should be a role model for is how to be a basketball player.
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@johncostello6006 I just saw your post. Failing to follow local regulations definitely would make this a reasonable response.
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There's a lot of treatments that aren't provided to children for one reason or another. Their bodies are still developing and the ability to engage in testing on children is severely limited as well. Often times for things like this which aren't life threatening the standard is to just wait until they're older and see if there's something that still needs to be treated. But, in this case, it's become politicized and people are thinking with their emotions rather than looking at what the researchers have found in terms of when you do give these treatments to children and the lack of significant upside in doing so. This isn't purely a matter of gender affirming care being banned from everybody, just from children that are not in the same position to have a say in what happens with them.
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The good news is that with names revealed, it means that there will finally be people with standing to file suit over the existence of the list. I know somebody who shares a name with an Irish terrorist, so he has issues flying and they've got the Irish equivalent name of John Smith, as in it's a lot of people sharing that name, most of whom have no involvement with the IRA. The whole thing was completely unconstitutional from the get go, but SCOTUS is so cowardly that they weren't willing to deal with the issue over the last couple decades. With the list's release, they'll have to find a new reason to allow the completely unconstitutional security situation to continue.
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It appears to be the same people, so just the fact that this crime spree crossed state lines alone is going to make it a federal offense. And it's definitely a felony.
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Don't worry, he'll have the most diverse cabinet screwing us over ever.
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The issue here is that it definitely can be a problem, but that's mostly the more extreme versions that are more of an anorexia thing than a fasting thing. Everybody fasts every day, the relevant question is how long is optimal. The only way not to fast would be to engage in polyphasic sleep and insist on eating during each period of waking. That being said, humans evolved to fast, just like most other animals, meals weren't as easily obtained as they are today, and being able to go potentially weeks without eating was essential. I wouldn't personally recommend going that long, but people can go a lot longer without a meal than the medical community is willing to acknowledge and intermittent fasting is less damaging than the typical calorie restriction diets that get pushed.
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@lucascolantoni8012 It also doesn't do anything about the future student loans that will keep being rung up if they don't address the affordability issue. But, it would also show that the government can help.
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Mostly because of various corporations abusing their larger than appropriate influence over their markets. You've got companies in different sectors all using inflation as an excuse to jack their prices up as much as possible. The end result is that effectively the differences in price just get eaten away. If you get extra demand at the grocery store because restaurants are too expensive, prices get raised to deal with it. If the grocery stores are too expensive restaurants increase their prices to take advantage of that. But, because people have to eat, they wind up having to pay and the government hasn't done anything to break up any of the companies that are having too much of an influence on such prices.
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Perhaps Clint Eastwood is available to push him off the Matterhorn.
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Yep, I think it might be time for me to just stop logging in here and start logging in at one of those competitor sights. Even though there's a fraction of the content, perhaps those of us who do object to this change should be either moving our content there or creating stuff to put up over there if we aren't already making stuff.
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@the_kombinator This is one of the reasons why I'm running my own home streaming service for personal use and using owned DVDs as the source material. I own it in a way that corporations can't change. Sometimes they make major changes like making Han shoot in response, other time it's smaller things like adding back the more or less full hockey fight scene in For Your Eyes Only and removing most of the bedroom scene where the teen is throwing herself at a visibly uncomfortable Bond. It probably should have been that way from the start as it's abundantly clear about how the two feel about it, but the hockey scene is a bit of extra action that is helpful in understanding that scene.
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Really, they shouldn't be censoring much of anything. Especially when it comes to the pandemic, the "correct" information has changed a lot over time as more has been learned and correct information, like about masks and vaccines, would have been considered misinformation early on. Now, we know that masks are a part of the solution and that the vaccines are terrible at preventing infection. That's accepted fact these days, but weren't early on.
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@AaronHampton123 If you can't see the difference between this and Dahmer, you have no credibility of any sort. Dahmer would kill and eat his victims when he wasn't preserving the body parts. He was a sick and twisted man far above and beyond what these cops did. These cops should be put on trial and likely sent to prison for a long period of time. This false equivalency does nothing to support your view. Why stop there, perhaps they're exactly like Hitler for trying to kill somebody that wasn't white or perhaps Nathan Bedford Forrest while we're at it.
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We briefly got $2 an hour during the first month or so, since then we've gotten nothing. We're doing a lot more work than one person should be asked to do and nobody is compensating us for the extra work and extra risk. We don't get any of the pandemic assistance or protection and nobody is actually talking about it. There's a ton of talk about the unemployed, but the essential workers that are literally unable to quit and the only reason we aren't seeing mass starvation get nothing at all. $9.6k of unearned, undeserved money and the essential workers make minimum wage and get nothing at all. I'm sorry, but I have no sympathy. It's only been 8 months, people that are in dire states after receiving $10.8k from the feds on top of normal unemployment payments didn't have any savings and were not saving for the upcoming recession. Recessions are common and seem to happen every few years.
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@rixtrix11 Yep, we'll have to see if there's an answer for why the helicopter was up there. The altimeter should have indicated the proper altitude. We don't know if it was ignored, if it was broken in some fashion. Presumably, the night vision gear doesn't prevent it from being read.
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@ThugLifeBitches1 And they're almost certainly correct. You don't even need to be a submariner to know how long the odds of them still being alive is, let alone getting an appropriate rescue vessel into place and then extracted in time. And that's assuming that the vessel hasn't already imploded, you still have the issue of getting the sub to where you can work with it, decompressed and with an air supply before they all die. For all we know, they may already have decided that it wasn't possible and decided to spare themselves what is a very grim fate as the oxygen supply dwindles and carbon dioxide builds up.
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@texasman7051 From what I've heard, even on successful dives, the text messages barely made it to the sub. So, it likely wouldn't take much to take that from very little to nothing. Even just a reduction in power to the communications gear due to issues with the power supply would likely do it.
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@DarkusZarvix It depends, if the GP was the recipient of one of those forgiveness programs due to fraud via a borrowers defense, it might be the case. But yet, if the forgiveness was through this, then it isn't official unless the court rules that it's OK to proceed.
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@Norbrookc I think he looked at a map and came to the conclusion that China isn't really that far away.
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@No-ne6559 Yes, and assumptions can be changed or modified depending upon what informatino comes in later.
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No, because most of the people voting for this insanity aren't locals and haven't been here more than a few years. It doesn't take that many people to tip local politics past the breaking point and the city has grown massively over the last 20 years.
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Sure you can, it just requires time management with that in mind. I'm working two jobs and taking a full load and I can find time to be stuck. The trick is to start looking at the material as soon as it's assigned. You may not have time to do the work yet, it may be a day where you're working 11 hours and literally can't spend any of it on homework. But, just looking at it starts the gears working. Then, you go through and do things from the beginning to end and skipping anything that you get stuck on for another pass. This should ensure that you get the most possible points and learning that you can get. Then with the work on that other stuff done, you come back and start working on the parts that were more challenging. If you've got multiple classes in unrelated fields, you can switch between them so you're not hitting the same neurons so hard. And lastly, sometimes, you do just need somebody to help or bounce ideas off of. Sometimes I'll show up for a student and they solve it themselves before I can say much of anything as they hear themselves talking about the problem.
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Cenk is hopelessly naive if he thinks that a one term President is going to be moved at all after getting what he wants. He didn't want our votes now, why is he going to want our support after he gets what he wants? Also, Trump is a threat to democracy, but what about Biden and the DCCC fixing of primaries? Is that not also an existential threat to Democracy?
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From what I can tell, calling them cannon fodder is being too kind. Some of them were sent across an open field wearing uniforms that do not blend in with snow for no discernible reason.
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To be fair, a lot of the Boomers were probably donating prior to the take over of leadership and simply never realized how bad it's gotten or assume that other gun rights outfits are as bad. That being said, my dad owns a half dozen firearms and would never give them money because of their extremist ideology, even though he supports hunting rights, right to have firearms and gun safety classes. He just doesn't buy into this notion that we need to have assault rifles for hunting gophers as he served in Vietnam and is well aware of just how comicaly overpowered those weapons are. Even with the limits that are currently in place, they're still ridiculously overpowered for civilian use.
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I'm not sure I'd personally care to be so enthusiastic about a country committing a war crime, but that's just me. You do you.
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@CptCrackers The problem with that is that the local police are usually the ones that are actually involved in the seizures. It's unlikely that there are enough bailiffs to actually do that.
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@Razmoudah Math is short for mathematics. The Brits just do this weird thing where the remove the ematic from the middle. Resulting in a really awkward to pronounce word.
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I used to live over there and the party isn't anywhere near as popular as people think. Only a small fraction of the country has actual membership for reasons that I didn't bother to inquire about. Everybody keeps quiet about it because there are significant penalties for doing or saying things that call into question the party line. Unlike in the US, they do still have political correctness as in an officially "correct" answer. If people started to think too much about the situation, it could come tumbling down relatively quickly, as the party has more tacit support by a failure to revolt and minimal protests than active support. And while they don't seem to talk with each other about their positions, that doesn't mean that they won't tell foreigners that they don't like the government. And the foreigners are allowed to say basically nothing, as interfering with the country's political system is grounds for deportation.
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The timing of this is kind of interesting as my dad is hoping to close on a piece of property in the next couple weeks. Coincidentally, the hold up is over a stretch of railroad property that had been deeded to the previous owner in a quit claim deed and the escrow company/title insurer didn't want to proceed without the rest of the documentation. I can't blame them, having to fix a problem with the title if somebody comes out and contests it can be extremely expensive.
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He also kept his promise to not be Donald Trump.
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One of the primary jobs of sales is to find out what the customer needs and then giving it to them. Sometimes it involves explaining to the customer why a different solution is a better fit for what they wanted.
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That's the thing. These weren't problems in Windows 7 and earlier, it's just that they insisted on throwing it out in order to run the same UI on mobile, laptops and desktops. The worst is that they tried to integrate touch screen displays and set ups that require a keyboard and mouse. Had they just stuck with the Windows 7 UI design that worked quite well, they wouldn't have really any of these issues. What's more, historically, they were able to allow programs to have somewhat updated graphic elements based upon the libraries and that would likely still have worked, or at least passably.
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Considering how large eagles get, I could only imagine just how large the largest bird would be. Some of the larger eagles are so large that one person can't reach from wingtip to wingtip.
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Yes, I do wonder how many people would be self-diagnosed if diagnosis was easier to get. The only reason that I self-diagnose as autistic is that the diagnostic criteria were pretty well screwed up and there was only classical autism when I was a child. But, the psychologist thought that I've probably got Schizoid Personality Disorder, which despite its name implying schizophrenia, it's virtually identical to what used to be referred to as Asperger's Syndrome and the two names have often been used interchangeably at different times. I've got a bunch of additional testing to do to try and settle things for good, but it's a massive problem as self-diagnosis doesn't bring treatment or legal rights, and the diagnosis that I could get doesn't cover me for any of the stuff that I would benefit from treating.
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Yes, not to mention that she would have taken the gop deal and if they took the Senate they could have added to the package. She cut pay for essential workers and ultimately we may get nothing substantive. There's literal blood on her hands from the selfmurders that happened as a result of not getting people healthcare or financial support. People don't want access, they want health care.
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The issue tends to be the result of different factors. We do need more brush management in these areas, we do need a satellite monitoring where fires are starting, we do need improvements to the building code in areas that are at risk, we do need for the equipment and water supply to be in better working order. But, at the end of the day, there is only so much that can be done.
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Yep, that's the thing, they had they tried to submit the paperwork earlier in the day and something had prevented it, I'd feel a certain level of sympathy for them. But, it sounds like they literally did not try until the absolutely last minute. What's more, if they had tried earlier, they probably could have notified the court that something had gone wrong.
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You didn't think that Kamala was disastrous?
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It only counts as murder if you target the fetus, duh. If both die, it was part of God's plan.
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Definitely not if he isn't even going to try to earn our votes. And even if he tries, I doubt he'll have much luck, as he keeps digging himself in deeper and deeper.
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I urge you to consider voting for a 3rd party candidate. The Green party could really use those cast off votes as it could help them gain benefits that aren't currently available to them. Not to mention that there are several other parties out there that could also use more supporters. Last time I wrote Bernie in, but this time I'll likely vote for whatever 3rd party candidate is available, as long as they're not repugnant.
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The shameful part was that we sent troops in there for 20 years and couldn't even secure the roads from the nearest airport to the embassy. What we accomplished there could have been done purely with cruise missiles. The only reason it went on for decades was that we were paying one side to fight with the Taliban. It would not have collapsed so quickly if there were any iota of desire of the people to be free of the Taliban. At least on a scale large enough to matter.
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Eh, I voted for Hawkins, but sadly there's many morons out there that think that Biden would be an improvement over Trump.
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No, it doesn't. There are so many things that he did wrong that led to the conviction other than having and using firearms in self-defense. He went to prison because he used more bullets than the law allows and he was dumb enough to admit to doing so and providing a recording that contradicted his statement. Without the admission and the recording he probably wouldn't have been convicted. It's hard to say about the civil suit as the burden of proof is lower than it is in a criminal case.
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@@theviewbot He moved the car, removed the lights in the basement and sat in wait for them to break in. He then uses more shots than necessary on the first victim, then moves and wraps the body with a tarp that was presumably already there before waiting for the second victim and then shoots her while she begs for her life. All without calling 911 one time. That is rather cold and calculated to those of us that aren't psychopaths.
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@jamingoette9062 Voting blue no matter who is what got us into this mess.
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What do Harvard graduates do other than steal from the rest of us? The Wall Street geniuses were mostly educated at Harvard.
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And that's far easier to do now than anytime in the past. Between OpenDNS and NAS software that can allow you to VPN directly into the NAS, it doesn't require much sophistication to get working properly.
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@paullooper1090 Yes, but doing so at the sentencing hearing seems rather odd to me. I get that it's a bench trial, but why was there a sentencing hearing if he hadn't been found guilty?
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Absolutely and I wonder if he would have received the nomination in 2020 if he hadn't been able to hide in his basement and had had to actually travel around campaigning.
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Marriage being only between a man and a woman is incredibly radical at this point. Only the most radical of the hardliners at this point are still fighting that losing battle. The 2 sexes bit is a bit less extreme,but it's demonstrably false, at absolute bare minimum there are intersex people that are neither.
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@wesleystreet Yes, and Iran is only about 50 years out of having a rather modern nation. The sooner the US stops screwing around and gets a proper peace deal with them, the more likely it is that they'll eventually revert back to something a bit more modern. That being said, its' been a full 2 generations under the current political system, so it may already be too late for that outcome.
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Perhaps you should apologize to the Chinese for doing similar things to their cities. The fact that they were one bomb per city doesn't make a difference, plus we warned you people to get out of town before we bombed, something that you guys didn't do for the Chinese and the US didn't do for other countries that we were bombing.
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It will come, that's done at the state and local level. The city I live in voted for it a while back, but I haven't yet seen it on any of our elections. Apparenlty, they've given themselves quite a bit of time to educate the voters and get things ready as it's going to kick in roughly 5 years after the voters approved it. But, it will probably start the ball rolling on the county and the rest of the state if it goes smoothly.
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That's something that people don't seem to get. Humans mainly use our eyes when driving, but we also use our ears and our sense of touch as well. A car can use far more sensors and the only real limits are how many can be processed quickly enough to keep up with the car as it drives and the ability of car buyers to afford the systems. Also, these things have a tendency to get cheaper as the amounts of them being manufactured increase. From what I can tell, a LIDAR array for a car is well under $1k at this point and just the savings on insurance premiums from having the extra level of ability should more than pay for it within a few years.
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The timeline is probably fine. What there needs to be is better information for people being served as to how to file for a continuance while they seek out an attorney. A one-page form letter to the court to notify them that you're intending to address the papers should be more than sufficient for that purpose.
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Laundry lends itself to multitasking, I generally run a load basically every day if need be. I'll do other things in the middle, but it's vitally important to have an alarm or similar to ensure that you're reminded to move the laundry from the washer to the drier and then sort fold and put away. Also, it's a great idea to do clothes separately as much as possible. It also helps a bunch if you limit the number of types of clothes wherever possible. Socks in particular can take a huge amount of time if you don't just buy the same sort of socks to cover you. I've got basically 2 types that I actually wear. The rest I'll likely be getting rid of, but they aren't disorganized, so I'm not worrying about it.
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Actual religious people should be very concerned about using public funds for their institutions, that just opens up the opportunity for government interference.
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TBH, I'd do the same to other states if I could. Here in WA we've done a pretty good job of limiting cases and taking appropriate measures, but we have those F-ing morons in other parts of the country that are exercising their right to die of preventable illness as I type this.
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Bicycles don't need to counter steer unless they're going quite fast. Around here you can't go fast enough because then you have issues with either visibility or turning radius.
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@derosterhase1375 Only if you're going fast enough. Around here you mostly can't without special gear. Either you're going up hill, or you don't have the visibility going down hill or it's so steep that you're on the brakes did that you don't wind up over the handlebars. Below about 15 mph or so, you can't even countersteer.
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Not really, dictionaries get revised regularly, digital or not. Revising Mark Twain to rename that character to N-Word Jim or deleting all copies of 1984 are better reasons to get physical copies.
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That depends where you are. Around here the kids still trick or treat. The best place of all to trick or treat is at the local college's dorms. I did that one year and it was like the motherload, plus they had a pretty decent haunted house set up.
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A year or two ago a chain of motorcycle dealerships went under locally. They had a bunch of motorcycles that people had taken to them to be repaired locked up. It was a massive mess while they sorted it out. As far as I know, everybody did get their bike back, but there was a lot of volunteer hours involved as former employees helped sort out the mess. I have no idea what sort of lawsuits came afterwards and how that part of it resolved itself.
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@mitchelskulas870 If I were a dictator the first thing I'd get would be a bunch of head cannons.
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No, the Democrats just chose to ignore the voters and chase off the progressives. Offering Medicare for all, ubi and some substantive measure might have changed it. Pelosi holding up stimulus checks probably factors into this.
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A not insignificant number when you realize that only a few percent of the people in prison are there due to losing a court case. There really need to be a lot more rules in place to protect people that the police are investigating.
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This doesn't change that. Abortion isn't a little procedure in most cases. Even in the best of cases, there's emotions tied up in going to get an abortion. There's a potential baby in there after fertilization, and anything that the woman does is going to have an impact on her for the rest of her life. Most women are not so cold-hearted as to think of it like it's a mole or wart removal. That's not to say that I'm opposed to women getting to have abortions as an option when things do go south, just that I'm not so naive as to think that's not a life changing event.
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And yet the Democrats won't do anything about those voting laws to make it more accessible. It's pretty clear that the Democrats don't want to win, and I, for one, am more than happy to oblige them. They clearly don't want my vote because they refuse to do anything to help me, so I'm voting 3rd party or for whomever is challenging the incumbent.
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@PaulPupp Yes, also the public is usually allowed to attend sessions unless there's a compelling reason to clear the court.
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Like the Democrats have been much better. The reality is that there really hasn't been an option for those of us that want 0 undocumented immigrants in the country, but also think that it should be easier to get the appropriate documentation before coming. IMHO, it's been more than adequately proven that farms won't get all the labor they need if they aren't allowed to even start the process to get legal workers from outside the country until they've established that there is a shortage that season. So, perhaps we could get a guest worker program for that with people pre-cleared to come as soon as there are openings.
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@jadzia1071 Or more likely a cat issue. Cats can become self-sufficient rather quickly as they haven't actually evolved since they were completely independent. It's certainly possible that there were missed opportunities, but it's likely that nobody knew he was missing and it was just when he got too close to somebody whose job it is to care about that that the chip was checked.
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@jamesreid8638 Felonies are a minimum of a year in prison usually the range goes up considerably from there.
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What gets me is that unlike other countries, it's not like you even get to see any of what's really going on. If you got to China, you can interact with real Chinese people and you just have to avoid doing a few things like interfering with their internal politics.
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@ferociousgumby I think they say that because a lot of the people who do get involved in cults didn't put it on their to do list and probably didn't realize it until they were in deep. If they even realized it at that point.
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It's unclear whether she's incompetent or corrupt, but either way I refuse to vote for her.
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@breveth Where do you live where you can live for free where you like where you're not either squatting or trespassing? All the land is owned by somebody and if it's the government, then it really belongs to everybody, why should some people be allowed to monopolize public land?
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I had a coworker that was working full time making $12 an hour at the time. That was a few years ago, but he was homeless by choice. I can only imagine how much money he was able to rack up by not having to pay rent except during parts of the winter when the weather was too cold to be outside. I wouldn't recommend going that route as there's a ton of issues that come with being homeless, even if you have the money to rent when you need to.
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@jon.wilson That bit angers me more than anything else. He's not anti-vaxx, he's anti-Fauci and anti-lying. The vaccine is incredibly effective at reducing deaths, hospitalizations and permanent disability. It's barely better than nothing when it comes to preventing infection or transmission. I personally, think that most people should get vaccinated as long as they can tolerate the doses, but I had the virus and I recovered and that's really what needs to happen to end this thing. The vaccine is just not good enough to prevent enough cases to end the pandemic on its own. People need to contract it and survive it because they got vaccinated and were able to make use of improved medical treatments. At even 65% that's still a ton of people that are going to get infected pretty much no matter what you do. People still have to work and feed themselves because the government didn't bother to provide for them. That initial stimulus check was supposed to cover only 2 weeks worth of lockdowns, but it ended up needing to cover a lot more.
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@mrlarvux He does no such thing. At least not in the videos I've seen. I feel sorry for the people that buy into the b.s. that we need to get boosters, wearing masks and keep social distancing for an undefined period of time with no realistic idea of when it's going to end. The vaccine was supposed to end this, but now it's boosters and that's not even enough.
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In the US, you typically don't have the right to compensation for a false conviction except in very specific situations. I do think that it ought to be automatic, unless the prosecution can prove that it isn't appropriate. For instance, if the defendant did something that caused the case to be lost, like destroying evidence or witness tampering.
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That's a surprise? I think the last time they were actually relevant was when Wesly Willis was still alive.
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@wtice4632 Or more likely, I'm not ignorant about how the military actually works. The folks that are actually in harms way due to being on the front lines have always been in the minority. It takes a literal army of personnel engaged in the logistics of keeping the gear coming and the troopers supplied. And logistics has always been the primary driver of victory on the battlefield. Few wars are settled conclusively based on body count alone, it's usually morale and the ability to control the battlefield afterwards that are the ultimate factor. Either you've got control or you haven't.
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In February, the full situation want known and that was probably before the first stay at home orders were in place. The better question is why people like you try to invent fake controversies. You're not impressing people.
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@JamesJoyce12 Don't forget about Schwarzenegger's next film. He'll be Bach.
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They aren't Democrats. The Democrats have screwed things up so badly, that the GOP will benefit from not being Democrats or in office.
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@scottmcdaniel9282 And under your plan, what stops people who aren't being paid enough to live from just burning the entire country down? What people like you seem to forget is that these people that don't have the skills that companies are willing to pay for aren't just going to starve to death, and the less they have, the less incentive they have to maintain the status quo. They'll start burning things if for no other reason than they're bored and can't afford entertainment. Also, by your reasoning, we should be siphoning money back from the ultra-rich. In most cases they didn't actually earn any of that money legitimately, they "earned" it by paying people less than what they're worth. And as they said in the video, basically they're stealing from the workers that produced the wealth.
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@Bluebelle51 Same, most likely I'll vote Green party, but I'm definitely not voting for either Trump or Biden, either way we lose. But at least if enough people vote Green Party they get recognition and some perks.
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@chandlersleziak6416 I'm undecided there, but neither of those parties are getting into the WH this election, but a vote for either one, is a vote against the status quo. Ideally, we would have a party that represents both of those bases and turns it into something that could topple one or the other major party.
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Jerry Ogburn You clearly don't understand the system. The jurors are there primarily to weigh the evidence and to decide whether or not the prosecutor/plaintiff has made its case. They are given all the necessary law they need to render a verdict. If they think there's more they need, they can and do send notes to the judge with requests for clarifications about their instructions. Also, do you have a better method? Jury duty has issues in terms of fairness, but there aren't any real options that are any better.
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If it were practical for them to only employ and treat fellow believers, it would be less of an issue. The problem is that there are a bunch of non-believers that get trapped by it.
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Great video as always. Reducing lean angle is quite helpful if you're ever riding in heavy rain or snow as you want to keep that bike as close to vertical as possible all the time. Granted, that requires riding fairly slowly, but if it's snowing or that wet, you probably shouldn't be riding very fast anyways. But yeah, most of the time, visibility is more of an issue than lean angle, unless you're riding a land barge.
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For now. There isn't any real reason why we couldn't change the way that houses are constructed in order to allow for plumbing, electrical, and worse HVAC, to be installed via a machine. That being said, I do think that the trades are probably going to be some of the last things that are automated, if for no other reason than the massive amount of legacy infrastructure that's going to need to be maintained unless it can be replaced by something that robots can maintain without us.
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The entire role of the jury is to weigh the provided evidence and decide if the prosecution, or plaintiff, has met the relevant burden of proof for the type of proceeding. That's it. It's an incredibly important role and one that comes with a fair amount of moral ambiguity at times, but it ultimately comes down to weighing the evidence that the parties provide and deciding what the result should be based on that and the level of proof needed to win the case.
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He's either an escapee from the memory unit at the local old folks home, or he's running for Senate.
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Absolutely, both situations can be fixed, it's just that the people who make the decisions don't want to. It never ceases to amaze me that the same people that are so hot on sending in military personnel are so cold to the notion of paying to clean up the mess afterwards.
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Yes, that and how bad the traffic has gotten in some areas. Just yesterday, I had somebody pull out in front of me. I was driving my car, so I was able to slam on my brakes, but I doubt I would have been able to stop in time on my motorcycle. That kind of thing is always a possibility when you're riding the freeway and the lane next to you is almost entirely stopped, but your lane is still moving at regular speeds.
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That's one way of looking at it, the other way is that it's impressive that he was able to drive the approval for that that low. Just look at the polling that W was getting for his projects while in office. It wasn't really until pretty late after things had been massively botched and the bodycount of American service personnel was starting to rack up that people started to turn on him. They had to go so far as to ban photos being taken of the caskets to try to keep people in the dark about just how bad things were going in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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BIden is promising to take us backwards to where we were 4 years ago. That's not good enough. He's not just not going to fight for progress, he's going to veto progressive priorities if they do pass both the Senate and House. He's not acceptable as a candidate. Perhaps as a Republican, but certainly not as a Democrat.
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A lot of then are closeted. There's also a lot of brainwashing. Normal straight people just don't spend that much time thinking about gay couples.
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@DannaMcAllister Voting for judges is pretty much pointless as very few people are qualified to make a judgment of their qualifications. Voting for judges isn't like voting for most other offices, a good judge can be hard to identify if you're not an attorney as so much of what goes on in court isn't something that makes much sense without training. And that includes me, I don't think that I'm qualified to vote for judges, so I'll usually rely heavily on trade groups to make recommendations about which candidates to vote for when I do vote.
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It's the Internet, yes civility and kind language is nice, but it's the Internet, anybody who cares that much probably shouldn't be online.
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Possibly, although people do get kicked out of clubs over stupid things. And HOAs do punish the hell out of people over minor infractions. It's entirely within the realm of possibility that they are right, but couldn't prove it in court. But, that being said, I wasn't there, so who knows.
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@rwrocksteady You haven't seen his proposed picks to fill cabinet positions. He's likely to be even worse than Trump as he's going to leave more to the cabinet than Trump does and lack the cognitive ability to understand any of what's going on. Trump is a great fool and an imbecile, but at least he knows what office he's running for and where he is. The same cannot be said about Biden.
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There's another mode where you don't even have the thoughts bubbling up. That's neat, and kind of dangerous. There is a measurable speed up in reaction time when you don't have any thoughts.
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That's generally the case. People in the modern era are used to having a lot of pushy sales people. Asking somebody they trust to put some of their reputation on the line for a company makes a difference when you realize that the first couple buying decisions are based on the prospective customers opinion on the company and the sales person.
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I'd suggest not watching any of the 24 hour news outlets. There just isn't enough news that's relevant to the entire country to fill up whatever portion 168 hours is left after advertising.
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It's a matter of routine. Toxicology reports can takes weeks and in many cases, an autopsy is never completed due to it being irrelevant to the process. Presumably, the medical examiner was able to determine that the bones were broken that are relevant to death by hanging and that there aren't other suspicious broken bones or defensive wounds either. Which would lead to a preliminary finding of suicide, even though there's more testing that is coming.
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@socasack I don't share that view. It told her she won after it took her money. I don't care what the logs said, people don't get to examine the logs and nobody checks to see that losses are actually losses. Barring a situation where the amount that it said she won was not on the list of possible prizes, she should get the money. This is an entire industry that's built on quasi fraudulent activities. They can afford to pay for payouts that aren't clearly malfunctions to the people gaming with the machines.
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Some of them might go to Biden, but yeah, it's unlikely to be an even sharing and Bernie would be a net gain.
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@ Yes, although we don't really even need the wages other than that's how we keep score and track where the proceeds of production are going. With sufficient automation, it's entirely possible that a society could eventually arise that wouldn't require wages or work.
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That's luck. One of the managers at work had her notebook stolen of stuff that had no value to anybody else. She just left it sitting there for a moment and one of the local shoplifters stole it.
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You don't need to be trained to see that Biden has dementia. Just look at his anger and how he forgets where he is and what he's doing. Not to mention that he frequently can't form sentences. He should be in a care facility rather than being run for President. This is probably taking years off his life and just accelerating the decline.
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@pauliewalnuts2527 And, that would be covered by punishing the people actively participating in the shows. The people watching aren't shutting the intersection down hoping that people will take advantage of the closed intersection to drive recklessly. The watching and filming of the activity is clearly protected by the constitution. It's the thing that they're watching which isn't.
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MADD commenting on this is rich. They're literally the reason he was able to own a vehicle without the interlock device. What a bunch of hypocrites. The state should just pay for the interlock device to ensure that any cars owned by those that have been convicted of DUI are equipped when such a device is applicable. It's crazy how we've chosen to avoid requiring the interlock devices rather than just making it the state's responsibility to pay when offenders can't afford it. It's hardly a perfect solution, but it's likely to greatly reduce the number of repeat offenders.
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@freshmen6255 And when we have 100% effective means of keeping those morons from infecting the rest of us, they can have their personal freedom on the issue. I had an extremely mild case of what was likely covid-19 when it first arrived in the US. And, it was no joke, the fact that self-entitled people like you will risk other people's lives because of this arrogance is beyond me. I just hope that you're idiocy doesn't get anybody killed.
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@jujubhee Right now, and it could stay that way indefinitely, if not for the extreme arrogance of the people there to think that it can't or won't hit there. This virus is highly contagious and the only reason that it hasn't already hit WY, is that hardly anybody wants to go there. The virus is more or less starting with the places that people want to go and following the people to where they don't go. WY, happens to be a place where few people go, hence why there have been no deaths reported. That does not mean that there are no cases, thanks to a lack of testing, there are more cases in the country than we know about.
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@Narinjas Yes indeed, and some manufacturers even make units that have both methods of detecting possible fires. Mine will trigger either because it detects ions or because it detects particles that could be smoke. And from the comments I'm seeing here, I was probably right to do so. I rarely have any false alarms that don't involve actual burning materials. (I guess those are probably not technically false, but I've yet to need to use anything to put them out, so I consider them false alarms)
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What would happen is that randos would be paid millions to sit there on the board as the corporate executive scape goat.
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@randysmith9715 You can do that, but usually it winds up with massively inflated contracts to cover the entire service. The issue isn't so much the billable hours as it is how hard it can be to predict how much it should cost to provide a service and it rarely makes sense to try and track things down to the minute. Accountants are still expensive, just not as expensive as lawyers.
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It's not, a "Herman Cain Award" does not require that the recipient pass without producing offspring,t he "Darwin Award" does. If they've had kids, then it can't be a Darwin Award.
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They're not supposed to be, they're just supposed to rule on whether or not things are constitutional and how laws are actually interpreted in the judicial system. That's it. The reason why it seems like more than that is that both major parties have been punting issues that they should have been addressing to the courts rather than just legislating. The GOP has been particularly bad about that where they aren't even trying to push good policy, everything is about putting monsters on the court that are going to ignore the constitution on things like corporate power and abortion.
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Adymn Sani Yes, not to mention that the consultants that they consult with would lose out if anything substantive was done about campaign financing.
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@TeamDryRub8463 The college I worked at had furniture that was made via slave labor at prisons. I can't imagine that they were paying market rates for it.
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Not really, every implementation of "communism" has had that going on where the people running things and their friends get most things, and most others get screwed.
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At least you don't have to live here where virtually anything bad or strict is Nazi-like. If somebody or something doesn't promote rounding up groups for execution in death camps, I'm not really sure in what sense the Nazi label is appropriate. Things have gotten somewhat better in some ways, but there's still a lot of racism directed at anybody of German descent.
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I remember speaking passionately at the time about how much of a mistake Iraq was in particular. We knew that it was unlikely that Iraq had WMDs or any connection to 9/11. The Saudis would have been a better target than Iraq as they at least had some involvement in the plot.
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That was my thought. It's hardly unheard of for there to be a steering wheel on the passengers side for the same reason that postal vehicles are often times right hand drive. The bins will nearly always be on the passenger side and unless the trucks are intended to be used by two workers working both sides of the street, there's little reason for a wheel on the left side as they aren't known to parallel park, like ever.
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@wolfmantroy6601 How is this expecting people to raise their daughter? It's simply not deplaning a minor child that doesn't have the ability to rent a car or room if need be. She was lucky that this was near where she lives because if it had been between flights, she would have been screwed.
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Not really, there are plenty of legal ways of doing the same basic thing. It's just that they require you to put in the time to get the result. It's part of why the Beatles stopped dropping acid and switched to meditation.
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@royjackson419 There probably were a few that went on college exchange programs. But, in those cases it's not really a vacation as there is a fair amount of studying involved and it typically offsets some of the studying at their home university.
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This whole thing is kind of weird because normally, the odometer and the speedometer are linked, so that if your odometer is off your speedometer will be as well. Around here there are a few places on the freeway with odometer checks, you see what your odometer reads and there's another mark every tenth of a mile or so. It's done in part to help people know if their speedometer is working properly
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It's a convection oven in the same way that one of those Formula1 cars are go carts. To an extent they work on similar principles, but you're not going to get adequate results swapping them.
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Could we please stop saying that this is a $2.2bn package? It's closer to $7tn when you consider the leverage effect that the federal reserve is going to apply to those corporate payouts.
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They can, but they also often times take a dim view of people that are too poor or lazy to read the T&C as well.
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As the owner of such an animal, it's probably not as much of a turn on as most men think. It's incredibly hard to get condoms that large and if the woman doesn't have experience with larger toys, then it's probably going to hurt.
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@toobnoobify Those tickets help them to assess the relative risk of various drivers. If they aren't being ticketed, they won't be able to apportion the risk to them until there's an actual crash. But, since the number of crashes will probably be about the same, or possibly worse, that means that more responsible drivers will wind up paying for it. Locally, the state insurance commissioner decided that credit scores shouldn't be used, which means that people that are less likely to have crashes are now having to pay more money for those that aren't as capable of behaving responsibly and may have more of a reason to engage in insurance fraud for financial reasons.
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@user-lu8mc3wo3i Having the police selectively enforcing court orders is extremely dangerous. Law enforcment has chosen to investigate crimes associated with being poor while ignoring white collar crimes that are associated with being rich. It's also a tad disingenuous to suggest that that was the thing that caused it to go out of control. Had those guards refused to do their jobs, they likely would have been shot and new ones brought in. It doesn't take many guards being shot before the rest of them comply. Also, keep in mind that Nuremberg only happened because the Nazis ultimately lost the war. Had they not lost, the reality for the guards would have been very different. WWII was a lot closer than a lot of people realize, the UK was a mere weeks away from being eliminated and had Hitler waited to attack the Soviets until after having solidified his positions in Europe, he might well have succeeded in world conquest.
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This is definitely consistent with what I've found in terms of my alcoholism. I'd stopped using for about 6 months before I realized what was going on. I was in so much pain that I'd literally take anything to deal with it. Somehow I managed my way through that, but in the years since, most days I have no interest in drugs, except when I get lonely around the holidays.
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Not really, at most this solves the problem of going over curbs, which really should be a less and less common issue as more places require curb cuts wherever there's a crosswalk. New buildings generally require that there be allowances made to permit people in mobility scooters and wheelchairs to gain access to the building. And as other folks have pointed out, it's going to require a lot more battery power to operate something with this.
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TBH, it's easier to get DRM free music now than it was back then, there isn't much reason for them to tie the prize into a subscription unless the subscription service is the one that's providing the money to fund the promotion.
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@wowcarnage If money is speech, then wouldn't I be allowed to just not engage in any of that speech?
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@500ccRabbit It's greed, McDonalds has been moving away from being cheap and fast for quite a while. Compare the prices of McDonald's against Burger King and it's a pretty massive difference. If I use coupons, I can easily get an entire meal for well under $10 even now. And TBH, I'm not really sure that there's any real extra quality with McDonald's. the local BK has pretty good food for the price. It's not what I'd consider gourmet by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a very good value for the price. It's more inline with what the biggest local chains are charging.
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@drizz1744 It's not a handful of collisions and without access to the list we don't know for sure how common it is. But, given that they usually don't tell you why it's happening, it's hard to say how many of these people were on the list and how many were just really, really unlucky with the screenings.
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This is why golf courses should be designed so that shots aren't being made along the fence or too close to the fence. People are going to hook and slice their shots and both will happen on the same hole. The physics of how to design this isn't that hard, although wind patterns can result in a fence being tall enough most days, but have an errant ball or two over the course of years.
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Yes, if they had also put mortgage payments on those properties, it may have worked. But, really, the right thing to do would have been to just give everybody UBI so they could continue to pay their bills. This is what all the other developed countries did.
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@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL And when that body is capable of living without the mother, then we'll talk. Whether or not a fetus has it's own DNA isn't relevant to the fact that there is a required mother involved that may not have consented to any of it. The situation sucks, but there's not many ways of resolving the issue.
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Check out the dates on the urns when they talk about buying precious family heirlooms.
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A leader can only lead people where they want to go. When Bernie is leading us towards medicare for all and other priorities, we'll follow him. But, if he tries to hand our votes over to Biden, there's no guarantee that we'll follow. I personally wrote him in for President last time and under no circumstance will I be voting for a demented candidate like Biden.
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@Colonel_Overkill Unless she had dumb reasons, induction is better than gas in virtually every way. It's not nearly as adjustable as gas and you need to use compatible cookware, but overall it's just a better solution for most scenarios. Plus, around here they're phasing out new natural gas installs, so it's going to eventually be a moot point anyways the way that oil versus gas versus electricity for heating the house is. Oil is effectively not an option for anybody that doesn't already have it and isn't willing to pay the extra taxes.
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That's a solid point. I'm able to hold my breathe for several minutes at sea level, but there's no way on earth that I'd even consider trying to summit Everest without oxygen. The radio is a bit more understandable as the ability to get help at that altitude is pretty limited. Although, there again, it really depends where you are on the mountain when you do run into trouble. During a white out, you might only be a couple dozen feet from other climbers and uninjured and a radio would be a literal life saver in that case. You might also run into trouble when you're closer to the base camp and somebody could mount a rescue operation with relatively low risk.
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She won't, she has no integrity.
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It's also extremely expensive to operate a correctional facility on an island. A large part of why Alcatraz was eventually closed despite it being practically impossible to break out from, is just how expensive it is to ship everything you need to the island and have the staff needing a boat to come and go. It ads up rather quickly. A housing development would be expensive to have there, but a lot less expensive given that you don't have to security screen everything coming and going.
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It's a complicated country, but with party membership being a relatively small fraction of the population, they are always closer to a change of government than outward appearances might suggest. If anything comes along that is popular with the people, the government tries to either appropriate it or squash it.
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It's worth noting that the whole point of a Dutch oven is that it's effectively an oven on it's own, just surround the oven from the top and bottom with coals and there you go. I have no idea why people have started to refer to things that aren't Dutch ovens as Dutch ovens, but unless you're Xhibit, it makes little sense to put an oven in the oven.
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They aren't supposed to. The way it's supposed to work is that they're supposed to be living there in defiance of the owner for some period of time. If they're doing it without the knowledge of the owner, that time doesn't typically count. It's supposed to be the equivalent of homesteading on somebody else's property where the owner has years during which to object and have them removed. The problem is that the police don't actually remove the people the way that they would if they were in a store. If the store owner/manager, says somebody isn't allowed to be at the store, the police will tell them to leave and if necessary arrest them. For some reason, that doesn't apply in cases like this, even if there are no documents to demonstrate that the squatter is leasing the unit.
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Professors don't make very much money at most colleges. The funds from tuition mostly go to facilities and administrative costs.I do think that a step in the right direction would be to discontinue federally guaranteed loans to schools that don't spend at least 90% of the money they collect from students on academic activities.
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I doubt he cared about that, this isn't the first time he's done it and it's not likely to be the last. This is also something that a number of famous actors do. I've heard rumors that Stallone used to do his I'm a big tough He Man act at the start of production and anybody that laughed was fired. I have no idea if that was true, but I could definitely see it happening, especially back in the '80s and '90s when he was a major star.
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It would probably do it, the problem is that you would need an unimaginably large number of boats to make a meaningful difference. Which is the basica problem with most of these things. Apart from cutting the emissions that people use by making the companies that generate the things used to generate the emissions pay a tax to offset the problem they profit off of, there's not many other viable options.
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I personally, like the idea of lowering the medicare age every couple years by 5 or so years and banning companies from taking profit at multiple levels of the health care system, especially insurance companies that are limited in how much they're allowed to spend on non-health care activities as a percentage of the money being collected. Lowering the age relatively gradually both allows the system to expand to make sure that there's adequate ability to provide services and should help to reduce the expense of providing insurance for those that aren't yet covered as the most expensive people to cover tend to either have congenital health problems or are towards the older end of the pool.
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Not really any more than any other private club. I wasn't there for any of this, so it's entirely possible that it really was a medical condition, but from the sound of it, that wasn't sufficient to win the case.
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It does, but in this case a large part of the resolution would be a new roof anyways. As well as potential legal fees, damage done if it rains before it gets covered and interest on any emergency loans that need to be taken out to get to fixed while things go through the courts. It may well be them doing the right thing, but the cost would be substantially more than just fixing the roof and probably covered by insurance.
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It's not baffling, she pays them off. The Democrats aren't going to start winning meaningful elections until they stop choosing leadership positions based upon whom the most corrupt member of the caucus is. Even that alternative they were floating was just the 2nd most corrupt member they could find.
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@MrMagyar5 You'd be hard-pressed to find anybody that would trade the UK's NHS care for what the US has. Years ago I had a room mate whose elderly father had died prematurely due to an NHS screw up, and he still wouldn't have exchanged the NHS for what the US has.
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Then write the DNC and tell them that you demand real, fair primaries for the voters to choose the candidate.
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@chuckecheese5251 she didn't though, the primary was rigged in her favor. She started with hundreds of delegates before the first vote was cast. Even then it took well into the process for her to win. After which she just assumed that she was entitled to or votes and wound up losing to one of the least competent, least qualified candidates ever.
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That's certainly possible, there's a long history of serial killers targeting homeless, prostitutes and LGBTQ communities just because they're often less likely to be noticed if missing or to have people willing to step up give the police information to work with.
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TBH, it really isn't if that's what you're training for, and you don't worry about being able to write it up front. You can choose to include things that are easy to say and memorize the relevant words. If you're in a place where they're speaking the languages, you're going to get to say the same things over and over again. From what I remember of the PRC, they tended to want to know where you were from, whether or not you were married and what your job is. You would then add onto that anything in particular that you wanted them to know, and you'd say it so many times that you could rattle it off fluently before too long. Even without effective language instruction, I managed to learn enough over the course of a few months to get around on my own. The amount of Mandarin you really need for most things is a lot less than you'd think. Obviously, there's a ton of things that I couldn't do, but I could get around the country, get myself fed. If a taxi would actually stop for me, I could take a cab. Most of the time they wouldn't stop for me, so I wound up taking the bus a lot, or just walking places. Whenever possible, I would prelearn the vocab that I needed to conduct my business and pray to every available god that they wouldn't ask me something I didn't know or that there would be no problems with the task. If I really needed to, I'd mime things out. That was nearly 10 years ago and I didn't have Pleco to help smooth things out either.
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Yes, and if we could arrange it to be a one way ticket, I'd contribute plenty.
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How many individuals can pick a lock faster that cult the bolt or squirt liquid nitrogen all over it before busting it with a hammer? The point is that there's a minimum efficacy standard for some of these products, in the case of these cars, the security is significantly lower than the other manufacturers otherwise you wouldn't be seeing this kind of rapid uptick in those cars being stolen specifically.
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I'd like to see some evidence to support that belief. I've seen so many women over the years just ignore every worthwhile guy around her to go after the same jerks as all the other women are going for. Then they hit their late 30s and freak out because they don't have anybody and the only folks left are bitter from being mistreated for all those years, or already in some sort of a relationship elsewhere. Men tend to have much more reasonable standards. Sure, given the chance, most men will date super models exclusively, the reality is that most won't ever get the chance and are wiling to lower our standards accordingly. What causes these incels more than anything else is when those unattractive women behave like 9s or 10s and are generally horrid to them. Women don't generally realize what men have to put up with in the pursuit of a mate and don't realize just how horrible it is to always have to make the first move. And then to deal with women that behave horribly when they're not interested or are flirting with them just for attention.
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@constant9531 We could have that luxury too, it's just that back in the '70s and '80s the voters voted for politicians that rigged the system in their favor so they didn't need to compete in their elections.
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The source material was from Ed Gein and he was pretty screwed up. Rocky Horror Picture Show is arguably worse, but, IIRC, the author was trans, so who knows.
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Who said it's OK for Democrats to beat their girlfriends? This is a lifetime appointment to the court that decides how the laws are interpreted and what laws are and aren't constitutional. The fact that people like you don't understand that is terrifying. Nobody is saying that he shouldn't be confirmed due to the allegations. There are people saying he shouldn't be confirmed due to gross incompetence and there are people who are saying that the allegations are credible enough to justify proper investigation, but people aren't saying that he shouldn't be confirmed solely on the basis of this allegation.
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You don't need the emergency fnd to be completely liquid, I don't know who told you that, but it's not true. That's only the case if you don't have credit cards that have enough left under the limit to put the expense on. The actual thing is that you need to be able to get at the money within a month. Which is typically enough time to get it in time to pay the credit card bill on which the charge occurs. The key though is that wherever the money is parked, you have to be able to get at the money when you need it.
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Yes, why should they give us a candidate that actually supports policies that would benefit the American people when they just have to put somebody up of the right party and get those votes, moving somewhat to the right in order to get some independents and less extreme Republicans.
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@mattk6101 To what end? People thought they were voting for somebody progressive that would do things to benefit the voters when we elected Obama. He screwed us over and since then we've got more corporatist pieces of shit like Obama. What you say is going to be the case in just about every election. This time it's RBG, but next time it could be another liberal vote on the court. People get cancer, they get injured, they have strokes and the like, there's no guarantee that this won't continue indefinitely.
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@Gh44HZ Precisely, and if all the parties that are available aren't going to vote for laws to reduce those corporate profits, how do you fix it by voting?
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@MrBigdaddy2ya People have been making those assertions for decades, and there's no evidence at all to support any impact from violent video games. It doesn't make it more likely for them to kill and it doesn't make it less likely that they'll kill. That whole thing started due to a Doom level based on the Columbine school.
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Postal was an awesome movie, but I'm not even remotely surprised it got pulled that quickly. It's absolutely hilarious, especially the part where Uwe himself shows up as himself.
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@tomhenry897 That's largely a myth, the coffee in question wasn't just hot, it was far, far hotter than coffee has any reason to be when served and the customer got extremely bad burns as a result. It wasn't just hot coffee that got spilled.
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@cheeserdane Yes, he's doing things that even a confirmed cabinet secretary couldn't do. The fact that he's not confirmed and only is where he is because he was allowed to buy votes is deeply, deeply disturbing to anybody that cares about the rule of law. Which illustrates the point that the right doesn't seem to be so much about the rule of law as meting out harsh punishments for people accused of crimes,when they aren't on the right.
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IIRC, it was double pneumonia that led to sepsis. All they had to go by was that the man wasn't showing an appropriate emotional response, and we know now that he's autistic, hence the lack of typical affect.
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It's the same thing for plane crashes. Boeing crashes not withstanding, it's gotten downright rare for a commercial jet to crash.
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Yes, also keep in mind that this is more than most people are going to make. That's more than you'd make if you were being paid $30 an hour, even without considering taxes. Meaning that it would take years to pay back even a short period of incarceration. By the time you get to the 5-10 year range, you're never going to pay that off. Even if you are convicted at age 30, you'd spend the next 10 years in prison and get out at 40. You'd then likely be looking at minimum wage jobs and the debt would not be paid by the time you're old enough to even think about retirement. Yes, I do get that there needs to be punishment, but I do have to suspect that it's as you're suggesting, probably not going to cover the cost of incarceration.
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Most fruit juices are terrible when you're not suffering from temporary low blood sugar and it just gets worse if they've added more to it. Depending upon the fruit, they may not even be any better than actual candy.
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He could have started up the steps and turned back, or gone up really close and whispered something to him. Both would likely have resulted in Smith being the bigger man. But, as it is, Rock is the bigger man.
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The sub does have communications problems, but it seems irresponsible to me to wait that long. The longer the weight, the further the sub could have drifted before the search even started. Even under the best case scenario for a failure, the sub would have drifted a distance as it was floating to the surface and who knows what the condition was given that there was a communications failure. Seems to me that people were hoping that the sub would be able to communicate again so they wouldn't have to acknowledge that the under-tested sub had issues that future customers would find out about.
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Which is why they'll never let us do anything to collect the taxes they already owe.
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There's a lot of models out there which would guarantee everybody to health care when needed.
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That's a lot coming from Obama, he never fights as hard as when he fights against the voters' needs.
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@MelissaSteeber Yes, JN isn't legal so much as an inevitable byproduct of the secrecy in the deliberation room. It's ethically questionable, but the jury gets to weigh the evidence and there isn't anything to really stop the jury from putting a thumb on the scales as long as they're all on board with doing so. I don't personally support it because the trials most likely to get the JN treatment are also the ones that are the best chance of changing the laws on appeal. It also distorts the way that cases are tried as the defense can simply go after the jury's emotions and try to convince them that the charges are unjust, leading to a long string of prosecutions over something that could have been ended via an appellate court.
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@Vagabond_Etranger I've heard of that and it's absolutely disgusting as they control the actual work, so they can guarantee that a trucker can't make the payments.
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I doubt it would go to waste. I could be wrong, but I'd assume that AB blood goes to AB patients first, and if they don't have any of that, then they go with O blood of the appropriate type.
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Meanwhile here in WA, essential workers won't be getting vaccinations until this summer unless they're old or have pre-existing conditions. It's utter insanity that people that have to work with the public aren't going to be vaccinated even as we potentially spread the virus to others. We're being asked to make all of these sacrifices and we're not being taken care of our compensated for the added work and risk.
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@LoneTiger Yep, Steve is an attorney and can comment on that thing, and Blackberry is a repair shop owner and can comment on that aspect of it. As a book keeper, the amounts that they're charging for storage is absolutely ridiculous. $25 a day for something that takes up so little space is ridiculous. For example the average retail space rent in NYC is about $57 a month, per square foot. So, a pair of binoculars should be less than $2 a day as a legitimate storage fee, and that includes plenty of profit as a pair of binoculars properly stored is going to take up less than 1/2 of a square foot on a shelf and you can have mutliple levels of shelves to share that space amongst other items. I'm willing to bet that the cost of rent where this shop is located is less than what you'd be looking at in NYC. Just make it something reasonable like $25 a month, and just limit the amount of time that it's allowed to be there to some amount of time and you're good.
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@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 So, what about those of us that did work through the pandemic and then only got whatever money they couldn't figure out how to avoid giving us? They were literally giving people out more money for unemployment than I was making and even though I was working in public at a grocery store, they didn't even bother to vote for hazard pay. How was that fair?
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They need to do both. The state level is part of why they need to get so many more votes in order to take control of the house. But, we can't as a country afford another 30+ years of what is effectively one party rule while they deal with the issues at the state and local levels. One of the consequences of Obama running on the audacity of change, but governing on the timidity of what's possible is that they don't have much in the way of leeway or credibility to just step away from fighting the tough fights at the federal level as they have also lost the SCOTUS for at least a generation.
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I don't think it will. The Democrats didn't fight very hard to maintain the balance in the Court. They could have made the GOP pay a price for refusing to let Obama nominate to fill that vacancy during the last year of his term. They could have also leaned on RBG quite hard to get her to step down in exchange for a sympathetic replacement.
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Or do what I did last time just be honest about not being able to be fair. I didn't do it to get out of jury duty, I did it because it was the honest reality that due to the nature of the case, I would have no way of knowing whether I was being fair or not. I had already been on a different jury years earlier, so it's not like I had an inherent issue, I just am so dissociated that it wouldn't be fair to either party to have somebody that's broken bones without realizing it trying to calculate damages for physical pain.
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Probably because the Republicans won't allow them to fix it like a primary.
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@eldrago19 In many cases research studies require a trip to the library or an expensive subscription.
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Hamas just initiated this round, You don't think the war criminals in charge in Israel are above committing their own war crimes?
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@jimfarmer7811 I assume that the alternatives were more expensive. Around here, the property taxes and HOA dues for the condo I'm living in is less than what I'd pay for a studio apartment. If I couldn't afford this, I'd have to move quite far away.
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I get a bit of an itchy rash, but that's about it and I think that I have a much worse than normal reaction to it. That being said, I've never been licked over a wound and I'm curious WTF is wrong with people for allowing that. Just look at what dogs put in their mouths on top of just the different set of bacteria.
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They were scared enough to start taking the same bribes that the GOP had been getting, they aren't scared to own those policies, it's FOMO of those bribes that's driving most of it. The polling shows an overwhelming majority support some of those measures and yet they won't even feature them in ads out of fear of losing their bribe money
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Perhaps DSHS can take guardianship over him to prevent any more elder abuse.
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@sebastianmuenzberg4197 Yes, although the challenge when you're freaking out is remembering to do it.
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Congratulations, you are part of the solution. Most people can't afford the cost of a restaurant and a driver and a 3rd party app to arrange that and have everybody making money.
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I wish people would stop claiming that Elon is autistic, he's not, he's a straight up psychopath. As far as I know, he does not have a diagnosis, nor does he show any real autistic traits.
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@gabrielesolletico6542 Yep, there are degrees.It's one thing to repair something that was destroyed recently, or engage in ongoing maintenance using techniques of the era it was built in, but rebuilding something that's pretty much only been ruins in modern history kind of misses the point. We can't preserve everything forever, there just isn't enough space. I would love if nothing would ever change in terms of cities, but there are a great deal of issues that come of that.
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Was there ever any evidence that they actually worked though? Because there's little point in forcing students to sit through these sorts of videos if it doesn't impact their ability to drive positively.
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@CubeInspector I'm wondering how many other casinos are in the area. There are a few small casinos around here that are more or less just card rooms, there's only a couple tribal casinos within any sort of reasonable distance of me. It could potentially lead to people switching casinos, but gamblers can be very, very picky about which casinos are lucky and which ones aren't.
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I got unhired one time. Apparently, the general manager of the particular jobsite wasn't authorized to make hiring decisions. I don't even know how that can be a thing. I didn't find out about this until after I already showed up and filled out my W-4. I was rather surprised to be asked to interview for a job that I'd already offered and accepted. I did get paid for a few hours and was absolutely grateful to not be stuck working someplace with that kind of incompetent management.
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@ArizonaSquatch TBH, at a certain point there's not much point in being afraid. Just make sure you've got a water source and food to cover you until FEMA can get setup.
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It's a lack of proper education. There's a bunch of people that still believe that the South wasn't fighting over the right to keep and own slaves. But, it's hardly just Americans, I met an Australian years ago that insisted that the Brits gave up their empire voluntarily and that's a bit of a stretch. They lost 2 wars over America and the optics of them abusing the people of India on film was so bad that the public refused to continue going along with the occupation.
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@dickthedorkwing6082 Honestly, I think it would be a different issue if most of the chains hadn't used the selfcheckout line to reduce the number of cashiers. If it were an additional thing for people who don't have a lot and want to skip the line, that would probably be OK with a lot of people. You do a little work for the benefit of getting out more quickly. But, with people being forced into it if they want to pay for any of the products they want, it's going to cause resentment, especially without a discount or some form of compensation for doing so.
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@milton7763 I'm not sure the distinction between race, that doesn't exist, and ethnicity, which does, is particularly relevant here.
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Indeed, they could have gotten more for the people by refusing to vote to pass it without a better minimum wage or student loan cancellation. The stimulus money and assistance being tax free up to a point should have been a given. Where are these people going to get the money to pay the taxes on these things when the amount being given is so low? And with the student loan cancellation, this isn't even money that they borrowers necessarily saw. She and the rest of the squad are frauds. They aren't doing anything other than flacking for the Dems so that people don't completely leave the party. They aren't committed to any real change because that would be hard.
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You'd have that problem regardless of what measuring system you're using. Specifying something as being 20x20 without specifying the lengths can lead to a model Stonehenge that's only intimidating to little people and children.
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@zyrrhos The Helicopter was supposed to be down below 200ft, which would have kept it out of the way of planes. I'm sure a major point of the investigation will be trying to figure out why the helicopter wasn't where it was supposed to be.
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@Charles-d4e3b I agree, California and all those other places where they came from can have them back. It wasn't that long ago that the city wasn't a joke.
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Because the DNC has the right to rig it's own primary.
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Yes, I just hope that it doesn't take one of their love ones dying in order for them to grow up. Such self-centered children. Their parents screwed up majorly when raising them.
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You should listen to him because he has access to the donors that actually pay for these elections.
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@rusticfightr A large article can take weeks or even months of investigation to reveal. The Watergate Scandal would never have taken Nixon down, if Woodward and Bernstein weren't professional journalists that had sources to leak the information to tell them to keep digging or to have people to ask for information from. A rando with a camera and a laptop just isn't going to be able to do that with enough regularity to make any difference. Journalism tends to be pretty boring most of the time, they'll sit in on press briefings all year in case something happens. And normally, nothing much happens, but if they're not there that one day that something does happen, then they've wasted all that time. And, there is no way of handing out press credentials for such small briefing rooms to replicate that if media outlets aren't pooling their resources to choose which correspondents to send.
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It's also completely on brand.
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He's by far the greater threat to our Democracy than Trump is. The Democracts at least make a show of "resisting" but they actively rigged voting machines to force us to vote for Biden.
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They don't. If you left a ballot in one of those drop boxes, you can request a replacement and presumably, that's held provisionally until the election and only counted if the original doesn't show up. Here in WA there's a ballot tracker that we can use to verify that our ballot is being processed prior to being counted. Normally, within a few days, the status of it would change on the site, so if that had been mine in there, I'd no that it hadn't shown up for the processing.
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@stoicsavage509 Yes, although completely under-engneered for the situation, with no redundancy and questionable use even when they were working correctly. The only reason any of this was allowed was that there weren't any regulations of any sort in place beyond workplace safety rules, which can't possibly allow this.
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That sort of thing does work. Usually it's a graduated tax rate where at some point it's nearly 100% of the income earned above that point. And we had a top tax rate of roughly 90% back during the golden years of the '50s and '60s when things were great for most people, economically speak, socially it was a nightmare if you weren't a white man. The thing it does is greatly discouraging the interest in hoarding wealth by not paying workers as most of the ill-begotten gains just have to be paid to the government in taxes which can be used to fund social safety net programs.
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Which is unfortunate as you cannot exercise enough to make meaningful progress losing weight. The exercise portion is for the purpose of maintaining muscle mass. It's the reduction in calories that ultimately results in the weight loss, but there's some pretty definitive research going back to the '40s that points out that you can't just cut 10% of your calories from each meal and expect to lose weight, your body will literally start starving the brain to keep that from happening.
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Yes and that's the problem. People who can do that are better off using their self-control in other areas of their lives than ensuring that they don't overspend because of plastic. This is a bit like paying off your debts starting with the highest rate and working on them until you get to the lowest rate and pay it off. On paper it seems smart. In practice, people rarely have the self-discipline needed to finish it. This is the same thing, it's unnecessary use of self-discipline that could be used for other purposes that have more than a 1-2% payoff.
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@n4ughty_knight That's not really true, if you control for the improvements in childhood mortality and the women dying during childbirth, there hasn't been that much change in life span of humans in millennia. The main reason why life expectancy has been going up is simply that fewer people are dying in childhood or what are now preventable diseases and fewer people are starving due to a lack of food.
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Yep, got to protect the paid propagandists from people that might actually broadcast the truth.
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OK, so which dumpster should they use for the babies then? Because at least the mother of this infant did her best to give the infant a chance to be handled with some degree of dignity rather than be dumped into a dumpster and possibly wind up at the dump and completely forgotten about by everybody else.
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And yet, there will be no penalties to the IDF forces that killed the hostages. There were months where the IDF didn't even try to avoid killing hostages if they thought they could get revenge for the others that had died.
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@elia_berti In China they usually have outlet sockets that will allow you to plug anything in from any region. And as long as it's not a 115v only device, there's no real problem.
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You're nit a die hard, bleeding heart liberal if you think that.
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@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit I like the Babylon Bee from time to time, but it's too consistently right wing. They do have funny stuff, but this sort of content doesn't work very well if it isn't more equal opportunity. Part of why The Onion can get away with stuff like that autistic reporter sketch, is that it's far less political. (And for the record, I'm autistic, and that autistic reporter Michael Falk series is one of the funniest things ever, and just true enough to be hilarious)
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It's completely legitimate, the act that this law deals with was already illegal. If they wanted to pass a new law, there's no reason not to include lying about contraceptives and be done with it.
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@Jirodyne That is absolutely insane. The jury is just there to weigh the evidence that has been presented to them and the judge doesn't necessarily know about evidence that isn't submitted either due to it being actively withheld or because it wasn't collected. I do think that when it comes to the cops, judge and prosecution that it should be taken on a case by case basis as sometimes there are legitimate reasons to believe that the convicted is legitimately guilty.
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@Jirodyne You can never reach the level of evidence that would make that reasonable. You'd literally have to use a jury comprised solely of people that witnessed the crime and that has massive problems. We don't allow witnesses of a crime to be on the jury for that act for a reason. And often times we won't have jurors that have themselves been involved in a similar crime either.
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He's worse than she was. Which is rather amazing.
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The insidious thing is that nobody is offering the middle of the road solution. Crack down hard on illegal immigration and improve the visa process to allow folks into the country to do the jobs that legitimately will not be done by citizens. A bunch of farm work won't be done via citizens and permanent residents, so we might as well fix the guest worker program for that as it's not like the work will be done by people living in the US permanently with legal status.
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@GoMrTom Not necessarily, if all 4 sides were identical, they may not have bothered to print the entire plan on one sheet. This was during the '60s and the ability to zoom in and out was limited to whatever size paper you had available and had to be able to fit on the drafting table. It's completely plausible that there was only one L shaped building ever actually drawn and that nobody say more than that until well into the project. At that point, aerial imaging was quite a bit less common than it is now.
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It's hard to say exactly how much being locked up should be worth, but that number seems like a reasonable starting point.
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@patrickday4206 That's how it should be, however, case law doesn't agree. I don't personally understand how they decide what constitutional rights you can and cannot sign away. For example, no matter what is offered, you can't sign yourself into slavery, but you can sign away your right to a jury trial and you can sign away your right to engage in otherwise protected speech.
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Not really, there are rarely major changes made to it. The standards get updated regularly to account for changes in technology and changes in how people use the roads. Most of this stuff hasn't changed in decades. And usually what changes isn't something that's going to be radically different from what has been done as educating motorists about new signs can be difficult once they've got their licenses.
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Lilly Ledbetter Act wasn't needed. There was the tiniest of increases in law suits as a result. It was just Obama pandering rather than doing something that might benefit voters.
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I don't think so, the absolute most they could have based that on was him pointing a firearm that was supposedly cleared to wave around in an unsafe directly. I don't know that the jury would have gone for that. This wasn't somebody waving a random pistol around and accidentally shooting somebody. This was somebody using a weapon in the way that it was intended to be used and a previous armorer he's worked with came to his defense in terms of him being careful with the weapons on his set.
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@jaymethysell5111 Anybody living in the northern half of the US is going to hate this. For those of us along the Canadian border, we're going to get a net loss of 30 minutes of daylight and have the remainder of the hour after work during our commute. The people that might actually benefit from this are generally wealthy enough to be able to set their own schedules. And on days off, it's going to be no benefit either. Later sunlight means a harder time getting up and going to bed.
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@user-dx2dm8oq8g They do typically, I don't know that it's legally required as long as they're in a public place doing the filming, but it does formalize the terms that the footage is being used for. Plus, I doubt that there's a shortage of people being willing to sign the waiver to be on TV we just see the cherry-picked reactions that best fit with the show they want, you don't typically see the people that didn't fall for it or who didn't look like they were falling for it. The key thing though is that the pranks are harmless and funny. I don't think people are typically watching those shows and thinking about how dumb the people on it are the way that they do with a lot of these "prank" videos.
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@sassy0010 Absolutely, my point was that even if they do manage to get $15 an hour for minimum wage, you're still going to have a ton of people going without medical care because it will be unaffordable. I can't personally see a way of ensuring that everybody has medical care that doesn't involve some form of tax or greater social responsibility of the public at large.
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It gets fairly complicated. I do think that the second nuclear bomb probably wouldn't have happened if there had been better communication, because the surrender would have taken longer had it been the cause. Also, the US had already leveled Tokyo. I do think that the Soviets probably did have more of an impact on the Imperial Japanese surrendering when they did than the US educational system was teaching when I was in highschool though because even with the nukes, the war could have gone on for quite some time just due to how spread out the Japanese Empire was and that there was such a limited supply of nukes.
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@eugenecbell I disagree, it would be sad if that wasn't the case. I for one would not want to live in a country where that sort of thing was normal for young people to have to deal with.
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Isn't that already the case? The problem as much as anything is that the people who know are mostly people being paid to engage in tax fraud. Even in the best case scenario, they'd be behind where they were if they narced their bosses out.
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As a man with both OCD and autism, this is so very, very relatable. You shouldn't be thinking about things other than what you're doing if you're going to get anywhere. He's got his pens, he's got his paper, he knows if he's got the stuff he needs to continue working and the things to do the work are themselves cues to work. It made him many tens of millions of dollars, no reason to reinvent that.
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@Thanosisnotreal Perhaps it's because of my age, but I don't use those, I just use it at full speed manual control until it cuts me off. This isn't like in olden times before there were sensors in there to stop the flow when you filled the tank. The autofill position used to get people killed when they'd be going in and out of the vehicle and get static build up that would ignite the flames. With modern emissions controls, that shouldn't be possible anymore, but I doubt the problem will ever go away.
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She has an arc, it's just that it's not as long as Indy's was. And that makes sense, this was Indiana Jones, not Helena Shaw. Her arc is going to be shorter, and they couldn't push Indy too far, just because that movie would have been 4 hours long and the character development wasn't really necessary at this point in the series.
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It's not true now, now our retirement plans are finding a bunch of protective gear against viruses and profiteering.
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Keep in mind that a good chunk of the people without degrees got far more in terms of enhanced unemployment, as jobs that required a college education are more likely to be remote work compatible. I work in a grocery store since I was just graduating when this started and I only got hazard pay because the city decided to do it and it would have looked bad for the corporation paying it to file a suit to stop it. I just got the little bit of benefits that went to everybody else, and with my hours being regularly cut due to the hiring incentives leading to over hiring, I made far less than those on unemployment. But, I don't begrudge them that, that's a policy failure by the government. Also, we don't seem as concerned about these things when it's bombs to murder innocent brown people in foreign lands or tax breaks for the wealthy.
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They didn't. There were a couple of studies that allege that to be the case, by engaging in questionable research practices. If there were really that many women being sexually assaulted, the rates of prosecution and conviction wouldn't be so low. Same goes for the number of crimes actually reported to the police.
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@joshriver75 Depending upon the specifics, $5 might be something in the neighborhood of what the service costs to provide. Just because it's a $10 order doesn't mean that the cost of delivering is any less than if it was a similarly sized $100 order with the same distance to deliver.
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I'm guessing that they had somebody call one, or more, of their loans and they didn't have the cash on hand to pay. It does happen, but it's relatively uncommon except during times where there's a recession going on. Normally, a company that's profitable is able to arrange a bridge loan or some sort of arrangement to work things out. But, it does mean that any company that isn't generating the cash to service all of its obligations into the near future is in danger of going out of business or a hostile takeover.
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Term limits don't do anything if they're still beholden to the money.
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@apparition13 Yes, I'd expect them to find ways of nudging people over to the self-service pumps even without a discounted rate. I'd wager that they'll cut back on more and more of the auxilary services being offered to try and get the cost of an attendant as low as possible and that eventually enough people will be used to pumping their own gas that the service will only be for the elderly and disabled. Around here, things are self-service because I don't live in NJ or OR, but there is a button to get an attendant out to help pump. (Obviously, assuming there's one there at the time, some gas stations don't have anybody there in the evening or at night.
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If they pass enough different net neutrality regulations, you'll likely see the telecoms begging for a federal regulation that would simplify the process.
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Which isn't an accident, I'm pretty sure they intended to win by just enough that they would be off the hook for doing anything at all for voters.
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@HariSeldon913 And it wouldn't have if she had shown up. A non-lawyer could have gotten it tossed on the basis of a few pictures. Just the old-timey kidnapper style photos with a current edition of the paper would probably be enough for a motion for dismissal with prejudice on the basis that it didn't happen at all.
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They pretty much are in a lot of areas where the courts turn a blind eye to the fact that there's a lot of things like internet and cellphones where people are effectively required to have in order to participate in society, but the providers can put whatever abusive terms they like in there knowing that people really can't say no. It's the same thing with the illegal searches that are done at the airports. TSA does not have the right to pat people down or make them go through those invasive scanners to get on a plane. That's something that courts allowed even though there would normally need to be some form of probable cause in order for law enforcement to do so. Simply being out in public or driving isn't sufficient.
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Yes, but at least the ones that lived long enough got reparations and apologies. The German and Italian internees did not receive any of that. To date most people don't even know about the non-Japanese internees.
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@LinusLarrabee The problem with T-Mobile is that they do have some generous travel features, either they didn't understand what was included or somebody at T-Mobile screwed up. But, in no situation should somebody be allowed to rack up that sort of a debt without being cut off prior to being contacted. Just let the phone call a T-Mobile customer care line or local emergency. But, that's enough money to buy a house in some parts of the US.
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Yes, but if the money isn't in the account, they can't claw it back. Really, what this says is that there should be more feedback given to people that are sending money. It's kind of ridiculous that you can just send money to a bank account, probably just based on the bank number and account number, without any verification that it's going to somebody who at least has the same name as the intended recipient. That would be the same level of protection that a check would get you. I do think that there should be verification from the sender if the name isn't a sufficient match to the intended recipient.
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One of the wonderful things about right now is that even if you do have learning disorders and the like, audio books have never been so accessible. And, in many cases, ebooks are also available that can help in terms of making the text easier to read.
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Most of the hazard pay I've gotten, as the result of the city council, is going to go to paying off my student loan. There's no point in me going through the loan forgiveness programs, I'd have made the necessary payments to pay the loan anyways. After not giving any hazard pay for essential workers, I'm not going to ever vote for them again. I will not be voting for a GOP or Democrat again, unless there's no 3rd party candidate and only then to unseat the incumbent.
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Despite the context of this video, that one applies to basically every portrayal of weapons in anything resembling an action film. By the time that episode was written, there were already countless movies and TV shows with more or less infinite ammo.
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That's not a reason for bars to be open, that's a reason for liquor stores and other places that sell it to be open. And, you're not joking about the withdrawal symptoms. For all the whining you hear from smokers, the reality is that if you lock them in a room with just food and the basic necessities they will quit eventually. If you do that with an alcoholic, they could very well die. I remember when I quit, I've never been so sick in my entire life and I wasn't even a hardcore drinker either. I was just planning on taking a couple weeks off from the drinking as I wasn't exhibiting any self-control. Then, I got the headaches, trouble seeing straight and the rest. It was one of the most miserable few weeks of my life. And that's before the real cravings kicked in later.
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It would be a matter for whatever insurance is covering the building and if the HOA didn't bother with it, then the residents would be out of luck. The insurance you get as a resident is either renter's insurance or insurance on the unit itself depending on whether you rent or own the unit. It typically just covers the things in the unit, not necessarily the unit itself, but that would be laid out in whatever coverage documents are involved in the policy. The building I live in is insured by an HOA policy for anything that happens tot he actual building, but the stuff in my unit is covered by a renter's policy. If the building did fall down or otherwise become uninhabitable, then I'd probably be out of luck while looking for somewhere else to live.
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It's not great, but by the same token, the quality of the rules is generally better than ones that are written by lobbyists and passed without any opportunity for the people to comment on it.
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The ones around here are intended to be driven over by large trucks as there's often not the space to make them large enough to give truck drivers any hope of not driving over part of the roundabout.
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@keithcooper7027 The roundabouts around here only have an apron, there is no curb. I'm guessing it's because none of the roundabouts around here had the space to even consider adding one.
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It's kind of a weird thing. I haven't been following this as I live on the other coast, but it seems really odd to hold him responsible not just for doing the SA and murder, but also for the harm they came from him not turning himself in. That last bit makes very little sense in a country where the 5th amendment exists.
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Sure it will, the people buying have to have the means to melt them down or sell them to somebody who can. This kind of a measure will likely cut things down a lot as it makes the crime a lot less convenient and a lot less attractive. The scrapyards that aren't following the rules will likely be known by law enforcement before too long and they'd be put out of business. A secondary market for the gear might develop, but melting these down and separating out the metals in them is a lot harder than being able to fence stolen gear and have somebody else do it for you.
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I don't see any provisions for protecting men when women lie about being on the pill. And the rest of this was already criminal.
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It is, but considering all the people leaving various Christian denominations and just Christianity in general, I do think that aspect will stop at some point in the relative near future. The only reason it hasn't yet, is that there's a small state bonus that tends to favor areas where people haven't yet abandoned the religion. Sure, the Deep South will remain Christian for a while, but the cracks are there.
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Do it, and if she throws a fit, dump her, she's low quality.
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I would, but I think sending a #2 in a box probably constitutes bioterrorism at this point.
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@AltCTRLF8 It's not just that the Boomers were weak, it was that they were also self-entitled and spoiled. It's hard for me to feel too bad for the ones that wind up eating dog food in old age as they largely had things handed to them and they chose to burn it all down on the hope of becoming millionaires. Gen X has had it kind of tough by comparison, but we didn't get hit as hard as the Millenials or Zoomers have been. Even being one of the youngest of Gen X, college was still about half what it is now and there was at least some hope of succeeding.
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@thedeadliestname I think it's taken quite a while for people to really settle on anything because unlike most normal decades that was the turn of the century as well as the turn of the millennium and at the time, especially early on, that was kind of the focus. Personally I'll write '00s or if I'm feeling whimsical, the naughties. Which considering what the decade was like in many ways seems appropriate.
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@William1866 Pretty much. Back in the last election when she refused to endorse Bernie during the primary, it should have been a wake up call that she wasn't a progressive. She's in it for herself and not above stooping to some pretty shady tactics to get what she wants. Personally, I'd love to see Yang on the ticket with Bernie as he at least seems to have some morals.
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@DrunkDoglol Yes, that's a common problem, nobody would be in prison if they expected to get caught and convicted. Similarly, nobody would drink and drive or drive recklessly if they expected to get in a crash.
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TBH, a digital copy takes only slightly less time to make than a physical one does these days. There needs to be some way of ensuring that there's the money available for people to create these works. We can't just give everybody that thinks they want to be a writer or some other sort of artist money in case they create something of value. And there have been times when people have come out of nowhere to create great works of art. I think the real solution is to try to return copyrights to something a bit more moderate. Cut the maximum length down to something reasonable, if you can't generate enough money over the course of 75 years from creation, then you probably spent too much creating it and very few works that are so expensive wind up benefiting society if they are able to continue getting royalties. Most of the royalties typically come in the first few years.
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Thank you for your service. My vote is completely meaningless, no matter whom I vote for our if I don't vote at all, Biden will win the state. Still I voted Green party so that they hopefully get ballot access and recognition.
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If they'd actually bother doing something for the voters, that might be different.
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@barkerbikepirate4916 Reagan was largely behind that. Closing the institutions was necessary, the issue though was that it resulted in a cost shift to the states and there were never enough half-way houses and supported living arrangements to handle the people that weren't so ill as to be a danger to themselves or others, but weren't in any position to care for themselves without the help.
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Perhaps nostalgia, but musical quality was far better on CDs, there's so much more dynamic range available that you can't get on vinyl, not to mention that it's also far easier to do stereo on it. And, we could do even better if we cared to with DVD sized music discs.
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Chat GPT would come up with at least something to try, even if it's weird and involves pasta.
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Don't do it, jury nullification is something that screws up the legal system. If juries nullify verdicts that lead to the cases most likely to lead to a change of precedence being off limits for appeal. There's little interest in nullifying when you hate the defendant and the case seems cut and dry. It's the ones where it arguably shouldn't be a crime at all that are the ones that need to be appealed the most. If people keep nullifying the cases, it just means that more people are going to be subjected to the bad law as it won't ever get appealed and there's no right to a paid attorney to represents you.
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"Unlucky" isn't that what the mob says right after your bar mysteriously burns down after you declined to pay the protection money?
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Exactly, this kind of shenanigans is why I'm no longer a member of the party.
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People misunderstood the test. The test wasn't the battery, it's whether you wanted the battery to be good enough to get the reading you were wanting.
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One of the issues is that school libraries are often the best source of material that kids have. It's a place for the school to get kids hooked on reading books, a skill that greatly improves the mind more than just about anything. If they aren't allowed to carry books for political reasons rather than developmental ones, that causes a lot of problems.
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@TheThreatenedSwan Those aren't typically banned, the libraries just don't buy them if they aren't developmentally appropriate for kids. Even without a ban, there's no point in librarians having those in school libraries as school libraries tend to be smaller and feature a curated collection that's focused on the needs of students of the appropriate age. Books that are going to get a lot of parental complaints are just not going to be in there even without a formal ban.
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Are we really surprised, conservative justices don't get appointed based upon their knowledge and respect of the constitution. In fact knowing and respecting the constitution are seen as problems.
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@jaykoerner No, it's not, adverse possession wouldn't work in most jurisdictions unless you both knew about it and were doing so in opposition to the wishes of the owner. If the property owner doesn't know, then the clock doesn't start ticking and if they're OK with it, you'll never get there.
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@sunchips5 Adverse possession wouldn't work as they own both plots and for adverse possession to work, it needs to be adverse to the wishes of the property owner. They should have title insurance as that would still kick in even years later since the error is just being found now. Although, in this case the title insurance company would likely just pay for the cost of making the appropriate filings to fix the error.
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@ms_cartographer Yes, so even if they do have to hand over whatever extra money they made, the owner is still out hundreds of thousands of dollars and likely looking at a new mortgage to pay for. It's pretty messed up all around, from the HOA that couldn't be bothered to ensure that the new owner new they were in an HOA controlled property to the local judge that must have signed off on the foreclosure without bothering to ensure that service was provided for the proceedings. I live in an HOA unit and I don't think I ever go more than a week without hearing from the HOA about something. Usually nothing huge, but it does impact somebody in the complex and it's easier for them to send it out to everybody so as to not have to worry too much about people being missed.
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TBH, if they are going to cancel it they're like 80 years to late, the movie already wrapped, had it's theatrical run, was shown on TV, made available via VHS and pirated a ton. I'm sure they're going to have a ton of luck canceling it.
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But, I thought that Democrats shouldn't primary other Democrats.
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That's mostly due to the recording techniques being relatively primitive and how hard it is to preserve the music. There were some absolutely amazing artists back then. I was fortunate enough to have my eyes opened to it by an old-school Jazz musician that had actively played with, and met, many of the greats from the previous decades. Once you get into it, there is some amazing stuff. It's just a shame that it can be so hard to come by in quality recordings.
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TBH, I'm not sure why it's so focused on cash other than that the police want to keep it. Other than that other assets are harder to liquidate.
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Honestly, there's a lot of them, it's usually not the case where none of them work. But, that being said, as long as somebody isn't so depressed that they won't try any of the known functional treatments, they aren't necessarily that important. There's a lot of therapies that have scientific backing that don't really require medication.
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That's likely me too. But, I should look at all the other party candidates.
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@alalalala57 When? His area of expertise is relatively small. He's an astrophysicist. For most other matters, he has to do research to know what he's talking about. I don't see him talking about astrophysics very often and even there he's probably not that good, as the redefinition of planet didn't just make Pluto planetoid, but probably also the Earth and required a vote on a different definition after most of the attending astronomers had gone home.
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Not to mention those of us that had to go out every day and work in public because we were essential and we basically got nothing beyond minimum wage. I did eventually get hazard pay, but it wasn't until so many months into the pandemic and I'm still making less than those on unemployment are. I'd literally be making more on unemployment, but I wouldn't qualify. A pox on both houses.
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@DavidMcdonald-df8tb There's plenty of people that would rather take the train. I think the notion of having a network of high speed rail that is a replacement for air travel is unlikely to ever happen. However, for shorter segments, high speed rail could be. There are areas where high speed rail could work, you've got a corridor on the East Coast roughly from D.C. to somewhere north of NYC that could benefit. There's Vancouver B.C. to Portland, OR. There's presumably another one from Southern California to somewhere in Northern California. Most of the rest of the country, would likely be better off served with what we've currently got.
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@Sumire973 Having installed both a fair number of times, I have to call BS. Unless you've got weird hardware that isn't supported under *BSD, the install process isn't appreciably harder.
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I'm in the US and I tend to go with either Noughties or turn of the millenium. I think part of the problem is that we're just now in the '20s which is sort of the point in the 20th century that we started to refer to decades as being the whatever decade. The '00s were the turn of the century mostly and the '10s mostly weren't referred to much apart from when talking about WWI.
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@franklinbasil3666 That's not what executed means. The whole lot of them are lucky they're not going to be hung as traitors.
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If Biden wins, it's purely because there were so many people voting against Trump. He hasn't promised anything and he's been actively chasing away left-wing voters to try and win over Republicans. Against any other Republican in history, possibly including Nixon post Watergate, he wouldn't have a prayer.
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Sometimes I think we might want to go back to just letting kids touch the hot thing and learning not to do it again.
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I don't agree with all of his views, but he'd definitely ask better questions than we'll get and his audience is the one Biden needs to win. I don't know why anybody would vote for Biden, he's going to be horrible.
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That's the bit that I don't understand. Report cards are sent out multiple times every year and there are parent-teacher conferences. I do get that she may not have been able to get off work for the conferences, but how does she go multiple years without actually noticing the grades? The school can't allow him to graduate with a GPA that low. That's not to say that the school is in the right here, how on earth are students with grades that low not getting any sort of help? But, she clearly wasn't paying attention or asking any questions if he's got a sub 1.0 GPA and thinks he's good to graduate.
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You can get all that stuff in close proximity with a linear city. The problem is getting things, and people, in and out of the central portions of the line as there's a more or less exponential increase in need for roads as you get towards the outer edges of the line. If you need one road's worth of stuff at the middle, then it's going to need to be a lot more than one road at the beginning as each segment is going to need to be supplied.
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@kuroryuken One of the nice things about now is that most banks have apps that can be used to check the balance so that that doesn't happen. 9 years ago, there's a decent chance that that wasn't an option or that the website was further behind where your actual balance was.
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That was the same deal for my dad. He grew up in rural Wisconsin and the Marines were his ticket off the farm and into a better life. It's also why he made damn sure to have the funds to ensure that I wouldn't be in a position to need to take the same deal. My parents gave me money for college, what wasn't covered by grant money, on the condition that I not enlist. This was right before 9/11, so I guess it was a slight possibility. Post 9/11 it would have been completely off the table as it was obvious pretty quickly that we weren't the good guys, there were no good guys. There were the terrorists targeting innocent civilians and the war criminals targeting innocent civilians.
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Isn't that why they made him Mayor of Dunkin' ?
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@lapensulo4684 I doubt he could do that to his friend Biden. He's totally a good guy that could totally win the election.
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I personally, find cloths in a bag are a lot more comfortable than a pillow. That being said, a pillow case is nice as the texture of other things is often distracting. It's also great because if you want to sleep leaning against a tree, you can redistribute the clothes to cradle your neck.
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Presumably, because he hasn't been sentenced yet.
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Suspicious means that they can't rule out foul play. It may still turn out to be something that just happened without nefarious intent, but they don't have the autopsy report or toxicology back to tell them how they died. That should go a long way towards settling whether or not there was foul play.
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@seank6759 When you allow Republicans like Manchin and Warren to run as Democrats, that's the end result. They're so concerned about winning Republican votes, that they have long since lost interest in Liberal and Progressive votes.
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@toolbaggers A 14 year old does not need supervision. There is negligible cost in not bumping teens that are flying alone.
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And many people don't have the option at all. If somebody in the NW wants to go to Universal Studios Orlando or Disney World, you're looking at an entire week of driving, most people don't have the vacation time to even consider that, and the train isn't necessarily much better.
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Probably, and the longer you wait when something like this needs to be done, the harder it is to do. That's not even to consider how many of those children were bleeding out while the cops were messing around in that hallway not doing their jobs. I can't say that I know for sure what I would have done, but I'm not a police officer and I don't care a weapon.
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And the DNC was so clever about forcing not just Hillary on us, but Biden as well. I just hope that when the rioting starts, it targets the homes of the establishment rather than people that were innocent in all of this.
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They do get charged when it's reported. It is definitely a felony to defraud people out of sums this large.
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@pklifeupa7064 Through them in prison with that crimes bill.
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It's typically completely random based on data in multiple databases. It's not unusual for some people to receive several of them, and others to never receive one at all.
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@ThunderHOWL16 With permanent DST you dont' get any of the sun at all unless you're south. Here in WA, we'd be trading an hour of light during our morning commute for a half hour of light during our evening commute, at least for those working 9-5. But, that hour of light during the morning commute is a significant factor in maintaining our circadian rhythms. (Temperature and when we eat being other contributors that we have more control over) Perhaps if you're in Southern Oregon, Northern California or further South, and closer to the eastern edge of the time zone, it would be a benefit, but there's a bunch of parts of the country where it's not just not helpful, but actively harmful.
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Strictly speaking, we knew ever before January, most colds and the like have asymptomatic cases, what we didn't know was whether it could be transmitted, for how long or what the proportion of cases would be.
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The CIA, NSA, FBI and billionaires are by far the greatest threat to American democracy out there. Nothing comes close to undermining our own elections or killing our own people as those folks do. And people still think that any of them have our best interests at heart. The CIA literally trained Osama bin Laden. The FBI regularly targets and undermines progressive groups. Not to mention the NSA illegally scooping up tons of telecommunications information without any constitutional authority to do so.
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Pretty much. Unfortunately, the way that slavery and the history of Black people in America has been so poorly covered in the K-12 system for so long that it makes it easy for folks to have these kinds of ignorant views. This isn't like in school where they falsely suggest that all Blacks in America prior to the civil war were slaves or that all whites owned or supported slavery. This should be a much more targeted coverage of what went on at that particular plantation. Any White person around that plantation prior to emancipation was in part responsible for the slavery, even if tacitly.
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@raymondnoel6053 I'm not so sure about that. Alabama elected Doug Jones, I'm sure there is a line. The bigger question is whether we're there yet. In most cases it's because the democrats don't offer to help them.
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@realiteechecka It's also worth noting that the style of warfare that they are used to involves throwing large numbers of bodies against the opposing forces until they're overwhelmed, but with more modern strategies and technologies, that just doesn't work. A cheap drone carrying a grenade can do a fair amount of damage as do those anti-tank drones. It's pretty much impossible to keep up a military campaign if you keep losing multimillion dollars drones to drones that only cost a couple thousand dollars, tops.
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The reason they do that is so that when they list a serving size the calories and the rest aren't so scandolously ridiculous. Even if they know full well that nobody is eating such a small portion. The thing that gets me is when a container has something like 2.5 servings.
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The previous attempted assassin was a conservative, we'll have to see what the motive is this time.
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@marcsman07 which makes no sense as advanced degrees don't guarantee that you'll be rich. I recently got my masters in education and I won't be making that much more than what you can make with many bachelor's degrees.
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As opposed to his opponent that hasn't been pushing for stimulus checks and assistance to prevent the closures.
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Yes, this is why my doctors recommended that I take riboflavin.
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In systems where the accused is presumed to be guilty, there's typically a much higher level of evidence involved before charges are brought. I do think that innocent until proven guilty is the better way of going, but it's not like they'll typically go to trial with the relatively weak amount of evidence that they do here and hope that the defense screws up or they can get a guilty plea.
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Yep, if they make it easy for me to cancel, as in provide advance notification, especially if there's a link to cancel from the notification, I'm probably going to subscribe again if whatever it is is of use to me again in the future. And I'll probably recommend it to my friends if applicable. If I have to spend a half hour cursing at retention specialists because I've made it clear that I want to cancel and won't change my mind, they'll hear that as well. AOL is not something that I will ever give money to ever again as a result of that many years ago.
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That's like every generation, after a few years of real world experience, things tend to shift a bit. That's not to say that people automatically sell out, just that there's more understanding of how the values should be applied. I still feel every bit as strongly about most of the issues I cared about when in college, I just recognize the context within which they are happening and realize that they aren't all of equal priority. In some cases, they aren't even worth worrying about whereas others are even more important. W allowing the murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis is a pretty damn big deal and so is the FBI being allowed to root around in people's private communications. Abortion, is honestly, not as big of a deal as the private financing of elections. The only reason that anybody cares about abortion is that the medical community used it as a way of trying to drive midwives out of the practice of providing pregnancy related medical care. It's not an issue that anybody cared about prior to that.
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@szbalazs2073 It's still possible that the sub is on the surface and wasn't seen. It wouldn't have much above the water as it's not designed to be a boat. But, that being said, in all likelihood they died days ago of one thing or another. But, even if it is on the surface at this point, they're probably dead from exposure or just running out of breathable air.
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That is true, however, it's worth noting that the rest of us do have to pay some of the cost when people ride without helmets and suffer injuries that would have been protected or reduced by wearing a helmet.
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Lol, couldn't help but notice the product placement behind Grim.
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That's lazy policing. They couldn't be bothered to figure out whom the aggressor was. It wouldn't make the defense a crime, it would allow both individuals an out from charges though.
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But he isn't doing either. This isn't an issue of age, it's an age of him being senile. My wife's grandfather died in his late 90s and he was pretty good up until just about the end.
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That's certainly possible, but it's also possible that there was nothing that could be done. I stopped breathing as an infant and the only reason I survived was that I stopped breathing following a seizure when my parents were in the room with me. Had they not been there, I could have died of something that medical care wouldn't have been possible to obtain. I'm still not entirely sure that I made it through quite OK, I get the feeling sometimes that I got some brain damage as a result, but I'm mostly living a decent life, so it's not something I spend too much time thinking about.
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That doesn't surprise me. I do think that if you're in jail longer than the maximum term, you should just be released without having to complete the proceedings. Plus, you should be compensated for the lost time as the whole issue now becomes whether or not you've got to have it on your record forever.
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It's interesting how there's trillions of dollars going out the door and yet absolutely nothing is being done to help essential workers dealing with the crushing workloads and increased risk. We don't get hazard pay, we don't get really any meaningful PPE, we're going to be waiting until the fall to get vaccinated, but we've got trillions for basically everybody else. F the politicians.
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@M.A441 Why did the US put him back in power then?
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Years ago, I'd see episodes he'd filmed and kind of liked it, but that was years ago, and it sounds like he's completely lost the plot in the meantime.
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@A1SMOOTH I can't remember how long ago it was, but I'm fairly sure it was prior to MAGA and it was mostly just him chatting with interesting people and the biggest issue at the time was that he wasn't really up on the topic enough to know when to call BS. In retrospect, that was probably part of what led tot he later BS.
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Yep, Russia does have a history of hostage taking, so to give them the justification by breaking their laws is just ridiculous. Anybody who legitimately needs to travel to a country like that needs to be very aware of what the rules are and the resulting consequences of breaking them.
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TBH, I suspect that if this was going to come up, it would come up prior to actually being called to the stand. But, it's going to depend a bit on how much risk there is and how important the testimony is to the case. Witness protection is a thing that exists, so there is a provision in cases where the danger is substantial and the information is important. It's also worth realizing that attorneys probably don't want to use witnesses that are that averse to being there if possible, as they have even less of an idea about what's going to happen than normal. I'm guessing that either what they thought you could testify about wasn't that important, or that they had different witnesses to cover the information.
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No matter who wins, the results will be illegitimate. If Biden wins, he only was nominated due to massive election fraud in the primaries. The exit polling significantly deviated from the official count, the Iowa results where Bernie won were delayed long enough to blunt his momentum. And that's before you consider the legal, but morally questionable, bribes going to all the other opponents to drop out days before Super Tuesday. If Trump somehow manages to squeak one out, it's purely because Biden didn't have the support of his own party. Not because anybody actually wants him, more that so many people didn't want Biden that the few crossover votes were meaningless.
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It's not, it's the government's money, these organizations just administer the program. That's the only reason they could stop payments and interest in the first place.
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That dude that rescued the bird is a genuinely great person. I've got no idea what he's going to do in terms of caring for it, although over the short term, some appropriate bird seed is probably not that hard to get.
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@MagiRemmie I think the point there is that that is a constitutional thing. If it's usual and cruel by society's standards it would get addressed pretty quickly. If it's unusual and cruel, then it may just be a string of one-off torturing that might never be addressed. There isn't much point in constitutional rights that apply to things that aren't controversial, it's for things like deplorable people saying deplorable things.
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Not to mention that corrupt McConnel and the entire corporate wing of the party. Sadly, it won't happen as the wishes of the voters are not even relevant to either party.
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For medications like ritalin and the extended release formulations, that's what's intended. You can take it every day, but there's little point in taking any at all if you're not doing something that requires focus. If the stimulant is improving your anxiety, make sure to get screened for OCD, a significant minority of people with ADHD also have OCD.
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You have to keep in mind that Hillary Clinton was immensely unpopular and every bit as corrupt as he was. She was only the nominee because the Democratic National Committee engaged in elections fraud to make it so. They were subsequently taken to court and forced to admit that they rigged the election in court. Bernie, or just about any other nominee they could have fielded would likely have won. And even with such an unpopular candidate, she did manage to win most of the votes, but we don't go on that, we go on a system where state's vote all their votes for one candidate or another in most areas.
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@Megawolf2k That's only one of the problems, the big problem is that the primaries keep getting rigged so that candidates that might do things for the people don't even get into the general election. Once in the general election, they lie, cheat and steal their way into office and immediately break all but the worst promises they made in service to the donors. People know this, but because the primaries are rigged, there's not a whole lot that can be done via voting.
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Those meetings happen a lot, because the DoD is incredibly sloppy with how it handles its budget. I'm sure that wasn't the only time that a meeting like that happened.
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I'd love to see a Bill Burr/Terry Crews ticket.
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Defining wins and losses in wars can be rather complicated if the result is anything either than either an unconditional withdrawal or complete capitulation. The US' Vietnam conflict could be interpreted as a success as the US was there as a result of the domino theory that if they lost Vietnam, that other countries would follow. And that really didn't happen. OTOH, the US lost a lot of service personnel and didn't get to keep any of the land, hence why it's more typically considered to be a loss.
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@erictysick3361 He's got the auditing and recounts that he's entitled to. Do you have any idea how expensive it is to do the endless recounts and audits in the face of baseless allegations?
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At this point, scanning a random QR code is like putting a random thumbdrive in your USB port. It's horribly insecure and you never really know what you're going to get.
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That's mostly because it's easier to avoid single points of failure. When multiple weaknesses combine, it gets increasingly tricky to predict. Especially back when computers were limited.
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@DarkZerol Yes, although I'm not sure where people are that a barber pole is red and white, around here they're all white with red and blue stripes.
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I realize that this is a joke, but under no circumstance should people's lunches be in the same refrigerator due to contamination going in either direction.
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It's because the regulations are lax. It's definitely possible for homeschool to be a great education, but it's definitely not a guarantee. Plus, there's a lot of extra time in highschool anyways if you're passing all your classes.
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@ThePangeaArchivesInstitute The problem is that JD was right, and Mike is wrong. Even if you assume that the figures that he's quoting are correct, and they're probably at least in the ballpark, Jimmy is still right. You get a modest reduction in the likelihood of spreading the virus, and if you're at family gatherings the reduction is going to be so small as to be not worth considering as the more people you come into contact for longer time and in closer proximity the higher the likelihood of infection is. The vaccine, at best, will make it somewhat less likely, but that's every time you get exposed to the virus, and that can happen a lot in family gatherings. The reason to get vaccinated is the reduction in serious complications, not the reduction in spread. These vaccines are just not good enough at preventing the virus from spreading for that to be a basis for deciding whether or not to see your extended family.
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TBH, it looks like the car that Doc Brown based his time machine on in that parody video where he's far too concerned about Marty's children being romantically involved with black people.
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@pauljackson3491 Yes, just as long as we pretend like there are other jobs that these people could take that wouldn't be so exploitative we can pretend like people are choosing to work in those conditions. Nevermind that there aren't enough good paying jobs to go around due to offshoring and the just general failure to provide workers with a safety net.
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@ Racist comments like this aren't helpful. The maximum sentence for this is something like 36 years from what I can tell, life without possibility of parole isn't even an option for this.
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From what I understand, handedness is only about 25% genetic, so there probably was some actual increase in the number of left handed people as the result of seeing more left handed people, but the bulk of them were probably always left handed.
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@MonkeyJedi99 The newer ones look rather convincing, but I've got no idea how they stand up to UV rays. Plus, they will save water, but if you've got to replace them regularly, the plastics are a problem.
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You may not care, but part of the reason for the minimum wage is that employers have a huge influence over the market, and most people can't afford to work just for experience.
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@KönigVII I'm not sure that scrambling is necessary, but you definitely have to release them from the shell. I don't recall trying it, but I've got a tool for poaching eggs in the microwave.
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People like you were never going to vote for him. Let's be honest about that. The fact that you think that we're allies is a pretty strong hint that you don't get what's going on. These aren't conspiracy theories about the establishment rigging the primaries. We don't yet have it on tape for this election, but they had to admit under oath in court, that they rigged the '16 primaries in favor of Clinton. Now, we have a candidate that is clearly senile, benefitting from all of the other corporatist candidates dropping out in the span of 48 hours to get behind a candidate who had won only 1 state and didn't even have any personnel in upcoming states and you don't think that looks at all fishy? The honest truth here is that if you are characterizing it like that, you're either being paid to do so, or you're so out of touch with reality, that there's nothing that could be done to earn your vote. For those of us in the real world, a vote for Biden is a vote for a life that's even worse than under Trump. Just look at the leaked list of cabinet picks if you don't believe me. He's going to pack his cabinet with war mongers and elites, to at least the extent that Trump has and unlike Trump, Biden is too senile to have much involvement in day to day goals of the agencies.
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No, but potentially the company would be liable. I doubt anybody would bother with such a suit unless it turned gangrenous or the bags were somehow contaminated.
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Not of a problem as much as it might seem, most people don't drive far enough in a given day to run out of battery life. It's more for things like interstate truckers and road trips where the battery life becomes an issue. Even the slower charging EVs can charge enough to go nearly 180mi in an hour. Which is a bit on the slowside, but if you're charging while eating, that's not an issue. 180miles is also nearly 3 hours of driving on the interstate, at that point, you're probably going to want a longer break in order to stretch the legs and rest. Obviously, there are a few issues, that assumes that there's an appropriate charger, but most road trips are going to have chargers somewhere along the route, unless you're really going off the beaten path.
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I wear all my gear, why should I pay the price for other people who don't? The gear isn't just about the particular rider, it's about the family, the paramedics, the ER staff and the poor shlub that just killed or severely injured the rider when reasonable protective gear might have been enough to prevent or mitigate the damage. People who ride around without all their gear and adequate training are immature and self-centered and if they're lucky, it won't get them killed.
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Yes, why did they drop funding for hazard pay for essential workers? They didn't even fight for it, most people realize that essential workers needed support for the extra risks we're taking. I make significantly less than the $600 a week bonus the unemployed were getting and we've got nothing to show for it. I'm voting against Pramila Jayapal due to her support for Pelosi and lack of support for actual support for the people.
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Considering that by the end the new enlistees weren't even old enough to have existed in a world where we weren't at war there, it does raise some questions about why they were even signing up in the first place. Neither the DOD nor the politicians have cared enough about really any conflict since WWII to send in the numbers of troops necessary to win decisively, unless it was a tiny country. And win, lose or draw, a large chunk of those actions were either not useful or were actively harmful to our interests or the interest of global peace.
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@Cindy Giesbrecht, that's more or less what I'd recommend. Unless somebody lives in an area with no options for used bikes a membership is just too expensive. But, if you live where there are no used bike shops, there probably aren't any rental places either. Buy your own used one and make sure to perform routine maintenance. That way, you should have a bike that's convenient and safe. But, really, don't ride bikes in the street, it's ridiculously dangerous. Get a moped or scooter if you really want to save the money while being at least somewhat safe.
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Trump isn't a felon. The only reason she hasn't been convicted is that the DoJ is run by cronies. Considering that even amongst Democrats that 30% think she should have been indicted, I'm not sure what sort of bubble you're living in to suggest that she isn't more of a crook than he is.
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The only detail about this that I can't accept is the assumption that the timing device is an infinite number of 9s, as that's not really how precision works with measuring devices. However, if we ignore that and assume that it is in fact an infinite string of 9s the way that a calculator would express it, then the rest of it follows, even if it does seem weird to those that haven't thought about it. And in any practical situation, they'd be forced to round that up to 10 as they don't have the necessary precision to declare it to that many decimal places. With standard TVs they can at best measure it to either 1/20th of a second or 1/29.9th of a second depending upon what format of TV they're using. In either case it would get rounded to 10 seconds. 9.99999... needs to be the same as 10 for the reason you stated that 3.3333... needs to be 4/3 as it would break calculations if it wasn't. That's also why calculators generally carry at least one extra digit that they don't show you, so that if they need to round they'll have the precision to know that 3.33333333x3 is 4 and not 9.99999999. or something of that sort. Excellent video +1
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Because we're not in the same room with that woman. There's precisely zero chance that she's going to hop on a plane and fly all the way cross country to beat me for pointing out that she's full of it. Whereas if I were on the same train as her, I'd have to worry about whether she had mace or a weapon of some sort. Not to mention the possibility of being arrested if she assaulted me. And yes, I mean if she assaulted me.
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Because it's expensive hiring people to make up lies about the group. And once they get in one video they're not qualified to speak for other programs. The worst thing is that the claims don't even make sense. Every time I see a video like this makes me somewhat more sympathetic to the various 1% clubs.
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That's not even remotely true. Just because I've got a stiffy doesn't mean that I want to have sex. Not to mention that much sexual assault doesn't involve penetration by the penis anyways.
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Historical Banana So, in other words, you're either a troll or you've got the morality of a klansman.
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Rawbeard, that's a load of garbage. Without our contributions to climate change the change would be rather subtle and over the course of many centuries. There wouldn't be need for anything extreme because we'd have decades to plan for it. Changes over such a short period of this magnitude are unprecedented. Between the ice core samples from Antarctica and the various tree rings, we have a pretty comprehensive view of what the atmosphere was composed of for many thousands of years. We know that there hasn't been this level of change in recorded history and we know that we're the cause of it. Being a denier just means that the changes we'll have to make will be more expensive and possibly impossible if we allow it to go on much longer. At some point, we'll hit a tipping point and we might not get a specific warning about where it lies.
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I see somebody doesn't like the science and as a result chooses to pretend like it doesn't exist. Of course, I personally wouldn't notice. I live with weather which varies day to day and climate change is something that's only meaningful over longer periods of time. Just because you choose to be ignorant of the distinction, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Quit screwing things up for the rest of us. Why should we have to pay the consequences because people like you are too ignorant and self-centered to actually do something while something can be done?
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Do a better job of expressing yourself if you don't want to be lumped in with deniers. And it's not just CO2, there's other ones as well that are even worse.
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Vaccines are usually for viruses. In this case, there's a cold-war era phage treatment that would wipe this stuff out permanently, it's just that the FDA doesn't have an approval process for it. But, it works consistently and is extremely inexpensive. The problem is that they'd have to do clinical trials for every strain they use even though the number of people being treated would be a small number per strain and the phages themselves are far less dangerous than the antibiotics we usually use.
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It's a problematic headline, but it's mostly black people spreading the rumor that black people can't swim. I don't think I've ever heard a white person make that assertion and I've heard it from several different black people that black people can't swim. Of course it's nonsense and there are even black Navy Seals, so clearly black people who know how to swim exist.
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***** Burden of proof here is on the people alleging that there's a huge number of unreported rapes. The only studies I know of that cover the subject label sexual behavior as rape or consensual without bothering to ask whether the participants considered it to be consensual. And the studies themselves were highly targeted to certain quarters that are more likely to engage in partying. There's also the women's shelters that are a hugely biased sampling where they try to generalize to the population at large. Quoting anecdotal evidence like you're doing and pretending like it's a reflection of society at large is just plain ignorant. Rapes that are reported are taken seriously and prosecuted when there's actual evidence for it. Claiming that there's this mountain of rapes that don't get reported demands actual evidence. EDIT: And you ought to be ashamed of yourself for treating women like they're incapable of making their own decisions. There are no allegations that there's a huge number of male victims of rape by women that don't report.
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Ian Meadows, but she is a thief. Her violation of immigration law makes it that much harder for Argentinians and other nationalities that want visas to the US to get them legally. If people wouldn't come here illegally, we wouldn't need to be so strict about whom we issue visas to.
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Umm, Ana, that's exactly how community colleges work. You apply, they accept you and you attend. Anybody with residency gets in, that's why we have community colleges as an option in addition to 4 year schools and vocational institutes.
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Yep, I remember years ago watching a short documentary on comedy, and one of the comics was saying that if you've got something so dark, taboo and offensive that it can't ever be shown in public, he wants to touch and hold it. And, I do think that is right. The mechanisms that trigger laughing tend to be an attempt by the brain to reset after being given something that makes absolutely no sense.
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People don't trust Trump, but you better believe he'd sell more than 3k copies the first day.
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Indeed, America isn't perfect, but there's never been a period in our entire history where we were as bad as the Nazis. The closest we came to that was when we were clearing the lands of the indigenous tribes and even that was not even remotely close to what the Nazis were doing. It's beyond regrettable that the infectious diseases that the settlers brought to the New World eradicated countless natives even before the settlers saw them, but really, the comparison is rather silly.
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You do realize that in addition to this being an American channel the US film industry is one of the largest and the most distributed in the world, right? Most, or all, of these films saw distribution in a large number of other countries and had localized versions. Foreign films aren't typically distributed to the same extent. Although, that will likely change as China and India become more influential and develop films that are more widely marketable.
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Yes and it can be rather dangerous at times. For example Qǐng wěn versus qǐngwèn. The first is a common mistake that some students make which is basically please kiss and the second one is the intended polite request to ask. Probably not something you want to say to somebody's girlfriend or a big burly fighter. But, if you accidentally swap a 3rd tone for a 4th tone, you'll probably notice the teacher blushing. We can do that a bit in English by using tones to create innuendos, but that's a completely different thing from being a tonal language.
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Marbles McGee It's definitely not impossible without the magnifying glass, it's just easier with it. Depending upon the order in which you draw the strokes and components, you'll get slightly different proportions and positioning. It's not necessarily going to be super obvious, but it will look a little bit off.
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That presupposes that she's less evil than him. I don't buy it. We already know that she's a dangerous psychopath that cares more about her own self-interest than the well-being of Americans. We just suspect that Trump is the same in that regards. But, he doesn't yet have the demonstrated track record of making state secrets available to the enemy that Clinton does.
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I completely agree with him. Our country survived Pierce, Buchanan, Nixon and W, we can survive Trump. I don't think we'll still have any semblance of a Democracy if we allow somebody as corrupt as Clinton to take office and solidify the corruption in place.
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They also use Zulu for time, which is basically UTC. Presumably, that's because the military operates internationally. So, contractors operating in foreign nations are picking up and delivering based on the local calendar, which is usually little endian. Same goes for any meetings and operations with foreign personnel, they're all likely using the other date format. If you look at the list of countries that don't use that format, they're mostly rivals and adversaries.
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Kshama is pretty much destroying Seattle. She's hardly somebody that we ought to be looking up to.
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You make it sound like there's a choice. Around here the Catholic hospitals have been merging with the other hospitals and pretty soon it's going to be challenging to find care that isn't provided at these hospitals. So, even if the individual providers aren't Catholic, they're still bound by the hospital policies and can lose their lease if they break them. The problem here is a group of Catholics trying to control what non-Catholics do.
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Barry Stamour I see, so I'm dealing with a troll. Kudos to you.
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Herb Gross No problem, I've been tutoring students for many years, so my perspective is a bit different from that of teachers. Why is a more complicated and more sophisticated question than what, so most students really need the what/how before the why. If you can wrap the why into the how without losing the comprehensibility, then that's even better. But, I find that if I do enough problems correctly that I tend to understand the why without much extra help. This is a great video in large part because it successfully folds the why into the lesson without making the material hard to understand. It's unfortunate that it's so hard to do that on a regular basis.
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This method worked for me. The trick though is that the later you wait to get help, the more ingrained the habits and beliefs are. And the other one is that you have to be prepared to allow the consequences to come, even if the believed consequences involve deaths and destruction.
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It was her fault. I wrote in Bernie's name even though he asked that we support her because that was the candidate I wanted to support. I haven't forgotten about DOMA or DADT, both pieces of bigoted legislation were signed into law by her husband and it took her until 2013 to come around on the issue of GLBT rights. The probable lies squarely with the DNC and Hillary's campaign for this outcome. She did nothing to deserve my vote, nor did she even bother to court the voters in states like WI where she didn't appear a single time after the conventions. She went an unprecedented length of time without a single press conference and was largely absent from the campaign trail for long periods of time as she solicited bribes. This would never have happened if they had let Bernie have the nomination rather than fixing things in her favor.
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CJS929 Not really, incrementalism hasn't been working for us up to this point, why on Earth should we think it's going to work in the future. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting something else to happen is more or less insanity. The thing is that he had the votes to win, or would have had them if the DNC hadn't been purging the voter rolls, closing polling stations and influencing the vote with their unpledged delegates. The voters of the party wanted something far more progressive than what the party was willing to allow. They keep trying to protect the bluedogs, but every single bluedog Democrat that was holding up the ACA from something a lot better was voted out of office anyways. They diluted the party message without actually gaining anything at all. If you can't see that, then you're a damn fool. Bernie was and is the real deal, if the party had come along with him they probably would have picked up a few seats rather than losing them.
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I've noticed that myself. They don't have any actual grounds for convincing us to support her, so it's a lot of insults and blackmail about how we have to vote for her. I can't blame them, when you're supporting a candidate that flips so frequently and can't come up with a set of policy proposals to stick with, it's hard to make a case for people supporting other candidates to change allegiance. Unfortunately, it probably means that our next President will be President Trump or whomever the GOP ultimately nominates if they can figure out how to avoid nominating Trump.
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nk kean And yet the establishment was bending over to blow her. I can't vote for her and I won't vote for Trump, which means that it's between Johnson and Stein to earn my vote.
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The national anthem had a racist third verse and even there it's a bit questionable as to whether the verse was racist or was said by a racist. Nobody sings it and few people are even aware that it was ever a part of the song.
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That's how coded language works. She's using it with a nudge-nudge, wink-wink, say no more to segments of the population that are incredibly racist. Some people genuinely use the word thug to refer to people that are actually behaving in a thuggish manner, which is why they can use it as a code word. They can't use the word negro like that anymore because pretty much just racists and anthropologists use that term. And they're clearly not the latter.
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I don't buy Intel when I have a choice because I'm sick of the way they've behaved. Paying integrators to not use AMD products, getting in bed with MS to offer overpriced Wintel hardware and such. They've had good hardware, but it's not worth it to me.
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I felt that way before I started to study them. They're all broken down into radicals and functional components or are themselves a radical or functional component. There's only about 400 of them possible that are used to create all the characters they use. It's a daunting task because you need to know hundreds of them in order to read anything at all. And thousands of them in order to read any sort of regular books. But, there's a lot less confusion and complexity in the system once you start to understand how it works. Eventually you get to the point where you can guess at meanings without knowing the character based upon what the character is made of. Obviously, you won't always be right.
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It's not the left though, the actual left mostly voted against her. Either we wrote in somebody else or we voted for Trump. Clinton was popular amongst feminists and low-information voters, not actual progressives and liberals. She spent a ton of time pandering to the right rather than pandering to the left and it probably cost her the election. Only about 55% of Sanders' supports ultimately voted for her, that alone could have been the difference in the race.
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Most people that smoke smoke an average of less than one hit a day. Most people who smoke pot are probably only doing it a few times a year, if you're at a point where you're smoking multiple hits most days, that's probably not healthy. People taking more than one hit a day should probably talk with a doctor about cannabis dependency.
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Triggered? It's the same BS that they've been force-feeding to students for decades and it's even less true now than it was when I was a kid. Being white doesn't grant me any particular rights that other people don't have and it's a liability as often as it is an advantage. I don't remember people lining up to fund my education or encourage me when I was a kid, but I do remember being told over and over again how everything I had was stolen and that I didn't deserve any sort of success because it would be tainted. Bottom line here is that white privilege is a myth in modern America, money is the only source of privilege and more of that is being concentrated in a small number of hands anyways. At least if you're poor and black there's some hope that somebody will care.
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Indeed, most Chinese will have it a bit in school, but it's like all those "English" speaking Europeans. Some of them will pick up on it either because they work hard or have an interest in it, but many won't. When I was in China, I ran into a great number of people who could speak basically no Mandarin despite having had years of classes in it.
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Where's your grant money coming from? Also, since when does a degree in physical chemistry qualify somebody to comment on climate change? The interactions involved with that are several orders of magnitude harder to investigate than anything you're doing in the lab. Hence the "confusion" about climate change. There's no confusion that certain chemicals cause heat to be trapped in the atmosphere and there's no question about where most of them are coming for. There's also no question that the atmosphere is changing at a greater rate than previously. The only questions here are about how bad it's going to be. We don't yet know that, and expecting to know that completely when we know it's going to be bad just means that the eventual solution will be significantly more draconian than it needs to be if we fix it now. It also means that a ton of species will have died off that we can't have back. Hopefully none of those plants cure important things like cancer.
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LOL, you do realize that the Democrats chased those racists out of the party and they joined the GOP, right?
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That tree was robbed. It should have been the Oscar winner for best supporting actor that year.
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I don't see any problem with that. That's where the people live, not in the middle of nowhere. I hear this same kind of whining every four years when the governor's race is settled. Somehow because most of the votes for the winning candidate all come form the same handful of county that somehow invalidates the other votes cast. That's a load of BS, it doesn't much matter where the votes come from in an at large election, one candidate had more than the other and whether they're spread through the region or not, has no impact on that. As it stands, people in cities largely get ignored as the infrastructure crumbles and the freeloaders in middle America get theirs at our expense. How does that make any sense?
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Bingo, that's the connection here. They probably had ICE officers at the rally knowing that there'd be somebody that wasn't here legally there and they took advantage of it. This is basically the same thing as speeding when there's a traffic helicopter monitoring a road. You speed and then a few minutes later you're pulled over. It could have been retaliation, but more likely this was just low hanging fruit. She flaunted her violation of the law in front of officers and was subsequently arrested for it.
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You mean other than the fact that those other sources have all sorts of components that humans aren't supposed to eat, right? Not to mention the fact that we don't even really know what the optimal diet is for people, so how would we know if the diet contained everything that we needed? Also, meat is about more than just protein. It's about proteins, fats in a form that our body has evolved to digest. Much of the nutritional content of vegetables isn't bio-available, which means that even if it has the amount of nutrients we need, it might as well not as we can't make use of it. But, if you want to flood your body with testosterone antagonists and other things that are bad for you in order to be a vegan, that's really your own business. But, if you care about health, then meat and animal products are going to be a part of your diet on a regular basis. Optimal health requires a few calories from animal sources here and there.
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@DawnOfTheDead991, not really, the South almost won the Civil War, they had basically all the best generals and officers and had it not been for a catastrophic period of a couple months where luck fell heavily with the Union, we may well have lost. The real advantage that the North had in the conflict was a standardized rail system and ownership of most of the manufacturing base of the country.
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Women are a lot smarter about finances that they generally get credit for. It's how they know when to take advantage of one of those no fault divorces to force their ex to pay their way into the future without any benefit for him coming of it. Which is also why men have to be so careful about the women they date as there is no piece of paper you can sign that can't be overruled in family court by a judge that probably doesn't care about the well being of the soon to be ex husband when confronted by an enraged woman demanding that she be allowed to continue her current standard of living even without cause for divorce.
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Precisely. This isn't a team sport, all of the Bernie supporters I've met were enthusiastic about his message more than him. I think he's awesome, but I'd vote for somebody else in a heartbeat if they were serious about fixing the things he's focused on fixing.
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LOL, I've received the "I'm not like other women and how dare you suggest that I am" speech several times and every time it's basically word for word the same.
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If they're going to go blue, the DNC has to offer them something that's at least marginally palatable. I'm a progressive and I couldn't vote for her, so why would anybody even slightly conservative vote for her? BTW, I wrote in Bernie Sanders, there's no way in hell that I'm voting for Trump or Clinton.
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+SeanTheOriginal I'm pretty sure that the CEOs get to make most of the decisions, otherwise, why have them at all?
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The TH sound is just a hard sound to make. English is one of the relatively few languages out there that use it. It's not necessarily because of where you're living, I was born and raised in America and I was about that age when I was finally sat down with a speech therapist and worked it out. Completely ruined my accent stability from then on as I got used to listening to works as sounds as much as as words. The Dutch presumably split their words between the T and the H when they appear next to each other the way the Germans do. The other problem is that it requires you to stick your tongue out while doing it. Just stick the tongue a bit through the teeth and touching the upper teeth and blow with a wide mouth gets you words like theory or thing. Voice it and you get the and this. Since you speak English, you should be able to coach her through it fairly quickly. I find that even non-native speakers usually get it fairly quickly when they've got somebody to mirror.
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None of that is true. The GOP is the party that's fighting against comprehensive sex ed and access to family planning programs. Also, where do you think the Democrats got all that "tough on crime" and "super predators" stuff from? Here's a hint, it's not coming from the progressive and liberal wings of the party.
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+robert karas There's a huge difference between killing yourself and getting assistance from other people. I think it was a poor decision, but having doctors aiding and abetting it is rather ridiculous.
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Perhaps if you folks would have better judgment about whom you glorify you'd be taken more seriously. Most of the videos out there are about black people being shot that are inflaming tensions, threatening the cops and running away. There's little talk about what the community is doing to contribute to the problem and there's this incredible degree of hypocrisy involved with convicting the officers in the court of public opinion and then whining about the system being prejudiced. If there's a real problem here at all, it would probably be best to learn from Gandhi and stop fighting with the police and stop inflaming tensions to emphasize the difference between you and the police. It worked brilliantly in India, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't work here in the US where you have more rights.
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I'd like to see some evidence of that. IQ is purely for the purpose of identifying people that are more or less capable of dealing with a specific academic environment. Nothing more, nothing less. People complain about it, but the only real problems with IQ is that it's a narrow set of tests and it's routinely misapplied to prove whatever fool notion people have about different groups of people. But, within it's intended use, it's a perfectly fine measure.
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Well, it is a long hard thing with lots of seamen in it, so the better question is probably why aren't all the ships gay?
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@Catherinzsl I'm not surprised, in most cases, as long as the box is appropriately set up, a baby should be able to handle being in there for a rather long time without any harm. Granted, that's probably still measured in minutes, but most communities can get somebody to one of these boxes within a half hour if a mother is capable of getting to the box in the first place.
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Yes, and this is one of the reasons why having a gerontocracy is so bad. These lawmakers mostly already have social security, and if not, they've got a pension from being in congress.
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In all honesty, it annoys me greatly that those things are referred to as donut holes, as they're not holes. They are the thing that was removed in order to create the hole.
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@jimv1983 It's absolutely not a donut hole, the hole is what you get by removing it. It's a Timbit because of Tim Horton's and it's a far more accurate name.
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@bootmii98 That and really most of the security apparatus that was created at that time are blatantly unconstitutional. REAL ID is a particular joke as it has requirements that have nothing to do with security and it's being used to prevent people from engaging in constitutionally protected travel between states.
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Indeed, in a literal sense there is a very clear correct answer to the problem. You can make it more interesting by toying with the people on the tracks or whether it's a switch versus chucking some fat dude over the side. If it's pre-holocaust Hitler on one side or the other, could potentially make for very interesting considerations, especially since it's before the holocaust and not during it. You can make it equally likely that the people will remain on the track, or change the percentage that they recognize the danger and get off. But, as stated, it's really only good as an illustration of how you might approach evaluating a moral dilemma or the way that various schools of thought might apply.
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@icicle_man4971 This was already criminal conduct. The only reason to pass this law without including lying about contraceptive use is to perpetuate the false narrative that this is something men do and women don't do.
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TBH, I'd automate as much of it as possible. I get as much of my investments deducted from my paycheck and sent directly to my investment accounts as possible. I then use a robo advisor to make sure that the allocation is maintained. The more of the mandatory expenses that can be automatically siphoned off and put into a separate account as possible the easier managing your money is. Good luck.The Automatic Millionaire is one of the most sensible reads on the subject I've seen. It doesn't really oversell things and if you follow the advice, you'll at least spend less time messing around with money.
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@levibull6063 You also have a massive crime problem, so it's not like you folks are really much better in that regard. I've literally seen people writing about how people don't have legitimate reasons for going around with knives. Knives have a ton of legitimate uses, but since the criminals mostly moved onto knives, apparently, those are also a problem.
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I generally agree here, but, I do think that often times the diagnostic criteria are just defective in one way or another and there's clearly a significant thing going on, but it doesn't have any sort of a diagnosis available, and that can happen even with disorders that are known and have been treated for decades. A really good example would involve the autism spectrum, where there used to be a bunch of different diagnoses and most of them were merged into autism spectrum disorder and social pragmatic communication disorder. There's a reason why I said most, as neither pdd-nos nor Asperger's Syndrome were completely covered under either of those diagnoses, and the previous practice of diagnosing schizoid personality disorder also doesn't really cover those cases either. So, you get this sort of weird hole where there are people who are clearly autistic, can pass as autistic merely by being themselves, but do not have any possible diagnosis and as such do not have any sort of access to treatment or legal protections as a result of that. It's definitely not ideal, but the alternative is going to a sympathetic doctor and essentially getting a deliberate misdiagnosis to whatever the closest diagnosis is and hoping that it covers the parts of the disorder in that patient that need treatment while not risking your license to get the person help or sued for malpractice. This particular problem is set to get worse when future diagnostic criteria remove the ScPD diagnosis and attempt to cram those patients into either schizotypal or avoidant personality disorders with no provision for the autistic patients for whom the entire diagnosis was originally created.
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Same people that think corporatism and beating the Republicans are good things. Notice how the ads don't provide any reason to want the democrats to take back the Senate.
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Keep in mind that this is in addition to all the legal tax evasion through the tax loopholes they bought.
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Grow up, children like you are why we can't have nice things.
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@flamegod7 TBH, most of the reason why these vehicles are going to take so many more decades is that they are having to integrate with human drivers and pedestrians. They could make the process a lot easier by doing things such as putting up walls along the roads, switching from lane markers to center of lane lines and changing the paint to encode information to help the cars move through the city. Then just have most of the cars load themselves onto trains for city to city travel. It's still a big challenge, but doing things like that would likely move the timetables up consistently as that would be a much simpler environment for the cars to need to navigate.
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I remember the Marine Corps doing something similar back in the '80s with all those ads during football games with very attractive men in their dress uniforms. My dad was in during the peak of the Vietnam Conflict, and there's absolutely no way in hell that he would have let me fall for the propaganda. He was even willing to put his money where his mouth was by paying for the portion of my college expenses that the state was paying just to remove that incentive from the table. The navy recruiter calling me was absolute scum though, he kept calling and calling and calling. The way that he tried to prey on the my expected insecurities and promise things that I already had was one of the most disgusting things I've ever witnessed. It pretty much killed any sense I had of the military being at all honorable. There is a certain place in hell for recruiters and whichever politicians allowed them to get a hold on our contact information without our consent. The Army guy wasn't too bad, he called precisely once, was respectful and never called again. I guess, the Army just has smarter people than the Navy, or at least that's the impression the representative recruiters left me with. Never underestimate just how long people can hold negative impressions if you screw it up.
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As long as tipping is essential to these workers making a decent wage, the standard tip will be a necessary evil.
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Same here, I'll be voting for any available 3rd party candidate or Trump if need be. There's no way that I'm going to be complicit in the DNC stealing the second election in a row.
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This is the same reason we can't have a public option or medicare for all, it would hurt military recruitment. Not, the fact that the DoD and intelligence agencies are causing the problems that we need the recruits to go in and "fix."
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Sadly, thanks to the normy Democrats and the media, he might just get away with it. It sucks that the Democrats didn't bother to fight any of this stuff when there was still a chance. They didn't fight back in the '80s when media consolidation was becoming a problem. They didn't fight in the '90s when Clinton's people decided that it was OK to screw over the left of the party in order to appeal to Republicans and they didn't do a damned thing when the party started brazenly rigging elections. A pox on all of them, when the revolution comes they will not be spared.
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@ChristiaanHW If folks are driving sanely, it's not that much of an issue. It's when you've got folks that are driving straight through without slowing down that you've got issues. Everybody entering a roundabout should be slowing down enough to figure out who is and isn't needing to yield and allow those that are entering a bit of time to start entering rather than trying to take advantage of being in the roundabout first to avoid slowing down.
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I'm just surprised they haven't done the usual thing of just sending this stuff over to New Jersey.
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To an extent that's the sort of environment that the commandline was originally intended for. Early on, most people didn't have direct access to the computer, so much of it would be over a dumb terminal to the mainframe.
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So, what's your explanation for the Democrats running such a terrible campaign? It's not the voter's fault, it's the party's fault for failing to offer the voters a viable alternative.
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Who's trying to disarm the national guard?
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@JackDManheim It says that it was the result of a cramp. Although it could have been a cold shock response as well, you're not going to tell the difference between those two in an autopsy. But, it's not super relevant, he was far enough out that people couldn't throw anything to him and it only takes a few minutes to be brain dead, or actually dead. There's a lot of risks in these quarries and it's best to just not swim in them. This video is as much about highlighting the avoidable problems that can happen as talking about that particular death.
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@forevergogo The problem is that if you knew 40 years ago that you'd never use it, there'd be no reason to buy it and it would be extremely expensive for the people that do wind up needing it.
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And how much of a markup on the goods you buy are you willing to accept in exchange for stores letting people steal whatever they like? That's kind of the thing, the items that are stolen have to be paid for by somebody, and it tends to be the customers that ultimately cover the cost of anything that is stolen. (And don't get me started on the customers that just leave refrigerated and frozen goods on random shelves where we have to throw them out later) Compassion is great, but I work at a grocery store and watching the same group of people stealing day after day with impunity because the police can't/won't respond is infuriating. I can't blame the customers that comment on the fact that it's not right that they have to pay, and the shoplifters don't, because they're absolutely correct. The police and prosecutors office refuse to enforce the law. Not to mention the government that refuses to find ways of ensuring that everybody has at least the basics needed to live.
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He's not blind, he's pretending to be blind.
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Yes, that's why I don't understand the lack of tugs. This bridge isn't very far from where the ship had docked, there definitely does need to be some justification as to why the tugs weren't required until the ship was the other side of the bridge given its size and the lack of any other protection for the bridge. Tugs potentially may not have stopped the collision entirely, but they certainly could have reduced the impact enough to prevent the sudden collapse.
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@charlesmurphy1510 It's common knowledge and there have been people with knowledge saying as much. You wouldn't want actors to be checking anyways as they're not required to be experts and telling dummy rounds from live rounds isn't always easy. Having a non-expert check the gun under those circumstances isn't necessarily going to make things safer. It just adds another set of hands to screw things up.
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@planewire2153 Yep, there's still a prince, but he's nowhere near Iran and really doesn't have any meaningful influence. I don't even know that he has plans to return or seek to replace their government.
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How much are you being paid for this nonsense? Regardless of why the rebar is now exposed, it's still a violation that needs to be fixed. Also, these aren't hotdogs from the grocery store, they're ones that come from a supplier. Plastic bag or not, you're exposing them to bacteria either on the floor or when picked up and moved to the prep surface. What's more, the hotdogs themselves have bacteria in them that does grow and if not properly managed can grow enough to the point where people can get sick even after cooking them.
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That's something the MSM generally ignored. He didn't cross party any of the times that it really mattered.
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Apparently it helps if your father is POTUS though.
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Property tax is arguably the only tax the normal people should be paying. There are a lot of government services that only exist due to people owning those properties and the tax encourages the local authorities to do things that increase property values. I wish people would stop complaining about property taxes, If you're actually paying property taxes directly, then you're either wealthier than average or you are incredibly irresponsible and deserve what's coming.
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@Liatni The same people that were taught about "The War of Northern Aggression" and that the war was about state's rights rather than slavery? Yeah, they'll make the right decision.
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It's not even remotely funny. Women do this kind of thing far more often than we'd like to admit. And yet, we've got people like Aziz Ansari being tarred over nothing and people expect that to be taken seriously, when women do things like this.
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@David_K_pi Those folks are going to be fewer and further between as time goes by because even the homeless often have a phone that's capable of online bill pay. The bigger issue, for them, is that it can be hard to get a bank account if you haven't got a fixed address. Personally, I pay the current bills with the previous month's money and the only things that I don't pay off as soon as I've got a bill are things like insurance where they just take the agreed upon money out of my account on a given day. And for that, I like to just have a specific account with the money waiting for the transfer.
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Why doesn't the Senate have a right to it? The literal only argument against releasing it is that he's no longer in the house because he resigned to take a job in the incoming administration. The fact that he's up for that job makes the information completely relevant.
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Yep, same goes for white folks, the only white ethnicity we get to choose from is Latino or not Latino. None of the other options are even available and it's really awkward for those of us that comes from groups of white people that were previously ethnically cleansed. What white people do really confuses me, but the option I"m supposed to choose is white or possibly caucasian, selecting other is correct, but the instructions usually imply that that's a bipoc thing, but there's a bunch of white ethnicities that aren't bipoc. The whole thing is needlessly complicated and arguably it would be better to just let people put down whatever they like and then run AI over it to figure out how to classify the responses.
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It does get a little complicated, as the lack of a German mob has a lot to do with the Germans engaged in that sort of thing typically being Jewish. This was at a time where there was no Israel or any other specific nationality for Jews, so Russians could potentially be in a Russian mob or Jewish one depending on whether or not they were Jewish. But, without a German specific mob, there would just be a Jewish mob if applicable. And these were pretty much all run along ethnic lines until recently.
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It's pretty clear that he's being completely genuine here.
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They'll revise the figures over the next bit as they crunch the data. It happens a lot.
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That's only because they haven't been able to figure out how to plug that leak. If they could have the rest of us working as slaves, they would.
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This is rather dumb and will lead to a lot of wasted food. These numbers meant what they say. Sell by, that's how long the store has to sell it, best if used by, indicates the period before the manufacturer expects that it will start to go bad. And use by is more or less just best by. None of those have anything to do with actual safety, a product might go bad sooner or later, but without actually testing the item and physically inspecting the product, the manufacturer has no way of knowing when exactly that's the case.
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Yes and yet they're apparently not going to go for the full $2k that they promised. I don't really get it, by doing this they'll be accused of catering to the left, being socialists and the regular attacks, but they won't benefit as much from the benefits of actually helping people. We'll see where the process leads, but it seems foolish to not make the checks recurring checks or at least make the one check $2k rather than $1.4k. Don't get me wrong, this is a huge win, it just makes little sense to not go big if they're already overriding the GOP.
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@gammasmash1924 For this issue yes, but as important as this issue is, it's hardly the only issue. Having a SCOTUS that just lets the GOP get away with whatever they like with no constitutional basis is arguably a much bigger issue.
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@59Gretsch Nonsense, that term hasn't been used in a non-racist sense to refer to people in decades probably more than 50 years. Anybody still using it to refer to people is racist.
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They have, it just depends where you're living. Around here the medics have blood to transfuse and have had for years. I'd expect it to spread, but the amount of blood needed does require a temporary diversion of blood to the program, after that, it should be a relatively minor amount to replace any that is spoiled in some way. But, most of the blood being transfused is going to be the blood that would have been transfused in the ER anyways. So, it's mostly a wash in that regards.
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Honestly, if they were going to do that sort of thing, it would have made more sense to use one of those units that doesn't fire the projectiles anyways, if I'm not mistaken, there are similar units that need to be held to the skin to work rather than firing a projectile out to do the job.
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You can do that, the issue is that you're stuck getting the mortgage at the beginning of the process and if you're paying a mortgage, or rent, on the place you're currently living, that can be unaffordable.
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@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket That's definitely possible, this is why you'd want an attorney to go through the contract, and to make sure that you've got the cash, and a loan large enough to cover it. You'd also want to be mindful about the terms of the loan, because if the bank can modify the limits or call it, you can also wind up having to give up the property.
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@lenny108 Pretty much, if you're going to try to repair it, you're stuck with some sort of a plate to spread the force out. It looks ugly AF, but it can work. The issue with this type of a repair is that the wood was weak to begin with and this doesn't actually tie the repair into the surrounding wood. Really, for best results, you just want to replace the door completely with something that's made of real wood rather than sawdust glued together.
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@luigi5890 I agree, I'd hate to think that the corporate hacks at TYT would actually have somebody on their network admitting that vaccines are not a panacea and that this has gotten out of hand. We have treatments and the vaccines are effective at saving lives, but they do very little to stop the spread.
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Even more when you consider that when he had those strokes it didn't make him think that perhaps everybody should have healthcare provided by the government. He's truly out of touch with reality and the voters.
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@MichaelNNY Trump is a moron, but at least he's a moron that knows what state he's in and what office he's running for.
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Not to mention the essential workers that can't quit, aren't being vaccinated and won't be getting hazard pay.
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Yes and what's worse, there were many grocery workers that should have been wearing masks, but didn't because of his lies. He's got blood on his hands due to his lies.
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@thomastucker5686 This kind of condescension is why so many religious people remain stuck in their ways.
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I'd settle for them just listening to what the voters want and doing their best to earn enough votes to be elected.
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She can argue that, the judge and jury don't have to believe it though. And the whole thing seems awfully sketchy even if you buy that argument.
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This is also why it makes sense to get an insurance agent. If you're just getting insurance for personal uses an insurance agent is probably overkill, but an insurance agent can answer questions about what is and isn't covered and if they're an independent agent, they probably won't even mention it to the insurance company unless it's a question on the forms.
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I've bought a few switches that are basically just a pass through from the socket to a new socket with just a break in the middle for the switch. It can be kind of useful at times.
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I was just at their Hollywood studios last week and it's busy. The real question is likely going to be whether they keep producing their own films and TV in the future, or if they mostly go the way of renting their facilities to 3rd parties and exist as a streaming service. Those parts of the studio are profitable, it's some of the TV and movies that they're making that can be a bit of an issue. But, isn't that like all the major studios right now? At least WB can lean on their back catalog if they get smart people in to right the ship.
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It doesn't require it and honestly, computer suck at calculus anyways. You're far more likely to use linear algebra for computer applications. Differential Equations and Calculus aren't something that digital computers do very well. It's why analog computers were so far ahead in those applications for so long. And, they were in some ways decades ahead for that, but a pain to work with, and digital computers are powerful enough to be able to do calculus without that much trouble these days. At least with enough precision to be useful when linear approximations aren't good enough.
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They probably won't. However, she could go to prison for false statements she made with respect to her dogs being smuggled into Australia.
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@707imperial Yep, from the looks of it, this one was kind of shallow, but again, this is an area of the world that regularly gets earthquakes and there's a massive one coming at some point.
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I'm guessing that they asked if he was successfully not being Trump. That's the only thing I can think of. Biden has been terrible.
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As far as I can tell, it's completely broken on both Windows an Ubuntu. None of the discussions I've found online have been particularly helpful either. It would be great to be able to just run the docker image and connect via the browser to port 6901, but apparently that's asking too much and none of the help I've seen online has really shed much light on how to fix it. It's a common problem with software these days where nobody bothers to write documentation for people that don't already know how to do the task.
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TBH, they make ones that use both sets of technologies and as long as you place it in a location where you're not getting a bunch of false alarms, that's probably optimal.
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@` Yes, and it's probably best to have a separate unit for that as carbon monoxide doesn't rise to the ceiling the way that smoke does. That and combining functions on safety gear is often times a bad idea.
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Same here, I don't think those ever aired in Seattle.
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Why bother to knock out the whole thing? There are anti-tank weapons being provided to the Ukrainians. You don't need to knock them all out, just enough of them to prevent their efficient escape from the roads they're on. The fact that the Russians haven't managed to establish air superiority is a serioous issue for them.
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Climate Change will Kill us All !!! it took longer, because I said more.
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@DeGrate1896 no, it doesn't. That may be enough for manslaughter or second degree murder, but probably not first degree.
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The best thing about her is that she really goes after him.
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There's been an arms race in that respect. There are new methods of cheating due to technology, but technology also makes it easier to avoid having cheats. These days, it's not necessarily that hard for some subjects to have new exams for each student. For others, that means making students explain or defend the answer they got in their own words and possibly bringing them into the office if their scores deviate from the expected.
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@ One of the issues with the programs is that there's a hard cut off, you can easily earn just enough to no longer qualify for benefits, but not enough to be able to afford to lose the benefits. It leads to that sort of thing where people don't have much of an incentive to get a better job unless it's a lot better than what they've got, which is harder than getting a job that pays just a bit more.
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Is it? Women behaving like adults was a relatively short lived phenomenon. Up until the '60s gender roles offloaded most meaningful responsibility to other people and society at large.
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That's kind of cool, a similar mechanism is commonly in sprinkler systems where any heat source hot enough to melt that wax plug will automatically trigger the sprinkler. As long as the sprinkler head has enough water from the nearest standpipe, there will be water flow regardless of any problems with the computers.
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The thing that gets me is that by the time a lot of this stuff is litigated, the consequences are already felt. We've had a few illegal campaigns over the years around here where they were able to succeed with their aims and the penalty didn't come until well after the election, so they could basically just consider the cost of litigation and the ultimate fines as part of the cost of interfering in the election to give their side an illegal advantage. Not to mention that they were allowing a man to continue to run political campaigns despite having embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars while claiming to be working for free. Most people would have gone to prison for that much embezzlement.
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@jameelsazam2827 There was a body and idiots like you would claim otherwise even if they had brought it back as you hadn't personally seen and tested it for authenticity. The reality is that there wasn't really any other option. It had to be disposed of somewhere that wouldn't attract terrorists and anywhere else would have become a gathering place or target.
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@cdjhyoung the point of it was to deny his followers a memorial site and to avoid creating a focal point for a revenge plot. But really, simply removing or troops from Saudi Arabia and letting them handle their own security would solve most of our foreign terrorism issues.
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TBH, that's where I get very confused about this being a balance issue. Modern jets can be programmed to account for the weight distribution of the people in the cabin before taking off. As long as significant numbers of people aren't moving around the cabin, that doesn't cause problems. Adjustments can be made in flight if the plane seems to be drifting to the side as well. If it's a lot of people being deplaned for this, that's just strange. It's also strange that they didn't just announce that they were just going to select adults and entire families to address the problem so she could object. It sounds like it wasn't clear to her if she would be getting back on the plane after the distribution issue had been addressed.
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@GregLakatosChradm Of course they are, why wouldn't they be?
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Speaking as somebody who has lived over there, they aren't anywhere near we are in terms of military capabilities and by the time they are, the population will have shrunk enough to make it a relatively fair fight. But, if we pick a fight now, they have enough weapons and military personnel to put a massive hurt on our allies in the region and possibly destroy our economy. It is not a smart move. The better move is to wait until the country collapses under the weight of the incompetent and corrupt leaders and go in with olive branches and offers of assistance for anybody willing to commit to meaningful democratization.
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I can, they're the ones that keep this going.
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Usually when I see that on receipts, you're not expected to tip more.
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What's the alternative for them? I've seen doctors here talking about not taking insurance, but the reality is that for a lot of patients, that's just not viable. I had a roughly $18k medical bill for several days in the ICU years ago. The insurance covered nearly all of it, but if I was one of those people choosing to not have insurance to save some money, I would have been bankrupted by it.
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If you do that, then they wouldn't have statutory authority to issue citations for non-compliance. Even the tickets issued through speed cameras have to have a commissioned police officer do the actual writing and issuing of the citation. I for one, wouldn't be super comfortable with somebody that's not law enforcement being allowed to write tickets. Parking lot operators are bad enough, with the questionable contracts involved allowing them to do it.
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Citation necessary. If the "victims" need the rights of the accused to be eroded in order to come up with the "correct" results, then that implies that there isn't sufficient evidence to charge or get a conviction. The basis of our legal system is innocent until proven guilty because it's better to let a dozen guilty men walk free than to send one innocent one to prison. If you don't like that, then perhaps move to some other country where it's guilty until proven innocent. Or better yet, some place where they don't even bother with trials.
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In practice, that's not how that works. Traffic circles are for slower speed intersections like residential streets where they're more of an all way yield. Roundabouts are for higher speed intersections like the ones found on arterial streets. Those have a yield to the folks in the roundabout because that keeps things flowing with as little slow down as possible. Unlike with traffic circles, there is a much higher likelihood of having multiple cars wanting to use the roundabout at the same time. I've literally never heard of people hating traffic circles, because they're so innocuous and are at most a minor inconvenience.
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A lot of students like that get passed on more or less automatically. There's supposed to be remedial support provided to the students in order to help make it up. But, there's only so much of that you can do. If we're talking about somebody completely failing multiple years of school, they're going to have to be held back because there is only about a year worth of extra time in a typical high school curriculum to be had. So, you need to pass roughly 3/4 of the classes to graduate. Or at least that's what it was like when I was in high school decades ago, if you passed all of your classes and took the right ones, you barely had any classes required senior year.
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Thanks to the incompetence of the democrats, Trump is likely to win. Especially with the unilateral eviction moratorium via the cdc.
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This time around, I see no issue with giving it to everybody. For the whole country for the remainder of the crisis.
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@manolososadavinci1937 Yep, he shouldn't have even been allowed to run due to January 6th, the only reason he was allowed to run was that the courts decided that the constitution allowed him to run anyways. Technically, they could still stop him from taking office, but that would be an absolute mess and possibly lead to literal blood shed if the said he couldn't.
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Why would they need guns? There were how many people in the mob?
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UM service includes a lot of things that developmentally typical tweens and teens don't need. They don't need to be chaperoned through an airport, which is a large part of what the fee gets you. UM fee or not, they should not be kicking a kid that age off the plane for anything other than medical or behavioral reasons unless everybody is being deplaned.
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She hasn't earned it. We need a contested convention to find the strongest candidate. If it's her, then so be it, but if she doesn't earn the votes, this will be the third time in a row that we were expected to vote for a candidate that hasn't earned our votes.
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@jaykayenn The problem isn't the users at this point, the problem is the people designing these things to require manuals in the first place. Things that aren't actually involved in work should mostly just work with the features being discoverable on their own and requiring very little effort to figure out. Things like the popcorn button shouldn't even exist if they aren't going to work right. I'm lucky in that my popcorn button does seem to actually work correctly, same does the sensor reheat button. But, on many microwaves those buttons don't work at all. Anytime the majority of people are doing the wrong thing, it's worth considering why that's the case. You're never going to engineer something that's going to keep the "hold my beer" crowd from hurting themselves, but the interface should make typical tasks intuitive.
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Social security was designed as a supplement to pensions. And it's really a combination of social security, a pension, medicare, various welfare programs and discounts for the elderly. That being said, I don't disagree that it needs to be raised. Pensions are far less common than they used to be, and it's a lot harder for people to save for their own retirement. The way to do it is to make all taxable income subject to the tax and eliminate the limit. That resulting money should be able to allow for increasing the benefits without causing too much trouble down the line, provided that they take some care in how much of the increase to dedicate to additional benefits.
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@cedarstuff It is a solution for 99% of windows users, it's mostly people that have specialty software they have to use that might have to stick with Win or hope that wine gets the ability to run that software. You make it sound like modern Linux isn't significantly easier to use than modern Windows.
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TBH, using terms like Blacks and Whites just has a real Jim Crow sort of a feel to it, even though during the Jim Crow era, the term was Colored. Any term that is used is going to be kind of reductive, but I do think that there are degrees. It's not terribly consistent either, like ADDers is pretty much the normal way for people with ADHD to refer to each other. But, autistics seems like something I would have to see a lot of other people using in order to think that it's OK. Both refer to neurodevelopmental conditions that impact on most of who the people are in a way that skin color really doesn't. There certainly are ways of setting up society where skin color doesn't really matter much, but the way the brain is wired is always going to impact things a lot.
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@ And honestly, outside of that context, it's probably best not to unless there's a reason to do so.
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Yes, it's been a massive problem having schizoid personality disorder in the schizophrenia spectrum for similar reasons to having Asperger's Syndrome in the autistic spectrum. They have far more in common with each other than the other diagnoses that are in their respective spectra.
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@manictiger You're fine, just make sure the fox doesn't pay in mcnuggets.
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@peterhaag9344 neither plastic tarp is cheaper.
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@staceymoore779 Yes and if the driver does wind up paying the ticket, it's usually equivalent to a parking citation rather than a moving violation. I assume that's because they don't want to be subjected to countless drivers contesting the situation under which they got the ticket.
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@BackwoodsInsanity Yep, a lot of people don't think about it, but the only emergency vehicles that drive significantly over the speed limit with any regularity are the police. Ambulances and fire trucks generally adhere to the speed limit specifically because driving like a maniac when there's an emergency just increases the risk of others being hurt or killed. I'd wager the same thinking would apply here. There's two sets of tracks, so possibly two sets of trains coming, and it's not clear until the gate reopens.
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@aaronwilson4258 None of the schools I've worked at required me to sign over the work I've done. And I've never heard that from any of the teachers I know either. I have no doubts that some schools do that, but it's hardly the norm everywhere. Same goes for the colleges that I've enrolled in, none of them made me sign over any rights beyond what was required to administer classes. I did have to allow rights to my work to be included in databases of reports for the anti-cheat software, but that wasn't a universal sign over, just for that specific use.
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What is your alternative though? Involving mental health experts is not a panacea. A lot of these incidents are happening in private residences or areas with poor lighting. Most private residences are much too small to allow for disengagement if things go south, and adding an additional person to the mix in some cases just ups the ante. I do agree that whenever practical, there should be mental health counselors involved, but it's probably not going to make the kind of difference that people seem to think as the police are already trying to get the situation ended peacefully, even if it does mean having to haul somebody off to the hospital that may not want to go.
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@mariohigdon Also, a bunch of alarm clocks and lamps have built in charging ports these days.
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I think the bit about the audience is kind of funny. I had a similar realization at work recently. Without customers coming in and buying things and putting other things back in the wrong place, I'd just be some rando autistic guy arranging objects on shelves. It's literally the customers that make it something that's a normal thing to do. LOL
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Misogynistic is a bit of an overstatement, but I saw the movie and the boycott is pretty ridiculous. It's not as good of a movie as the original trilogy, but it's better than Young Indiana Jones and Crystal Skulls. It is kind of disgusting that the series won't end because there's no longer an appetite for the sorts of stories that are involved, it's just because a bunch of people are butt hurt over there being a female colead. Let's be honest, the critcisms that led to the boycotting were pretty superficial and if you see the film, it's pretty clear that in most cases they either were done for creative reasons or weren't that big of a deal. I generally hate PWB, but she's actually not too bad in this one. I can't see her replacing Indy, but she's far better than Kate Capshaw was in Temple of Doom. (Not sure if it's an acting thing or she just had a better part to act) I went in buying the flavor aid that it was going to be terrible, but it really isn't. It is not a perfect movie and I think that it would have benefitted greatly from Spielberg directing it, but it's not exactly a bad film either. Yes, they should have fixed the writing with the villains and with PWB as those are genuine issues, but honestly, they don't detract anywhere near as much as people are suggesting.
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I'm sorry. I think that's BS. At some point we need to recognize that a person's debt to society has been paid. If completing the terms of the sentence isn't enough, then we need to revisit the sentencing requirements. The loss of 2A rights are an issue, but the loss of voting rights is arguably even more important as that's what you'd have to regain that, other than court challenges.
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@Marco-cl9pb An automatic car these days might have as many as 9 or 10 gears that it uses. The only place you'll see that many gears is in a big rig where they likely have even more gears due to the size and fuel efficiency requirements. A slipper clutch or semi-auto transmission is a pretty good compromise between needing to control what gear you're in and not wanting to do a lot of work when shifting.
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Probably too much Gone with the Wind and not enough Roots.
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@TheMrPeteChannel Which likely won't happen due to the Hindenburg, even though that disaster was likely due to the material they used to cover the outside. The problem with these ultimately comes down to the massive volume you need in order to achieve a decent sized payload and their extremely slow speed when compared with airplanes. I think that with the advancements in computerized flight, as in the programs used to run drones, that this is likely the last, and est, shot these will have at being viable as at least now they can be held in a stationary position to do things like serve as a sky crane the OP referenced.
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I'd pay to see either happen.
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Why not? Sure the ones that were pointed out in this particular video are kind of silly, but they aren't always so silly and drawing a line between that and a regular roof can be tricky.
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@Panda_Roll Not necessarily, If sequential burger packages were tampered with, then it's likely that they would naturally end up in the same city and probably the same store as they usually take the next however many packages and route them to that store. It would be weird if they wound up in different stores unless the food tampering was done randomly througout the day.
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@Jack_Russell_Brown Honestly, that's why I bought one of those battery jump start boxes. A good one has circuitry to make sure that it's plugged in correctly and not going to damage the vehicle.
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That's unlikely, the longer the counting goes on, the bluer the votes are likely to get. This is because the urban centers tend to take longer to count and tend to be more liberal than the rural ones. If Trump wasn't already ahead by enough in enough states to clinch, he's not going to be President next February.
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A significant minority of people with the AS diagnosis aren't diagnosable with ASD, so in that case, it's definitely legitimate as the ASD label wouldn't be accurate, nor would social pragmatic communication disorder. Really, the whole thing is a massive mess where there's now a massive hole that gets filled with either no diagnosis at all or schizoid personality disorder even as the autistic wing of the disorder gets ignored and future ICD revisions may yank the diagnosis entirely. In that case, the people with the diagnosis would get either an avoidant personality disorder or schizotypal personality disorder diagnosis, with no path to an autism diagnosis for those that couldn't clearly be diagnosed as schizoid rather than autistic.
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It is, the challenge is that applicants only have standing to sue if they take the offer and if they take it, it requires funds to file suit.
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@TheKillerman3333 At some point, the property values will drop tot he point where the usual cast of artists and entrepreneurs move in for the cheap prices and things will start to move the other way. This isn't like in the past when a region could fall so far behind that it couldn't ever catch up. Although, we do have some states that are trying really hard to avoid catching up.
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Firing the inspectors general is one thing, the failure to replace them though is a completely different matter. If they had been replaced, there would at least be some plausible claim that waste and fraud was something they wanted dealt with.
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The worst thing about OCD is that it's pretty much the only disorder that directly blocks the path to recovery. Doing the things that OCD prevents you from doing is ultimately the only way to recovery. Yes, there are medications and therapy, but they just make it easier to do or not do the things that OCD was demanding as appropriate..
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I remember when the ACA was being debated that they could have paid for a public option as it wasn't that expensive.Just rolling back the at that time most recent round of defense increases would have been enough to cover it. Likewise, there is absolutely no good reason for requiring anything other than an income limit on SNAP and TANF benefits. If they're appropriately sized and taper off as people get more income, there just isn't any real downside other than the only downside that seems to matter. It costs oligarchs money.
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Yeah, he came out punning.
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@teraxe I spent a couple living overseas and there were no tips and no sales tax. It was actually pretty amazing, the locals made up for that simplicity by having a bunch of bargaining, but I got used to that. Now that I'm back in a place with tipping and sales tax, it seems really strange, even years later. Bargaining over the price just seems so much more honest than being shown a fake price that's off by as much as a third due to sales tax and tipping.
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I'm still extremely angry that the Obama administration chose to bailout the homeowners that borrowed more than they could afford and didn't even throw the bankers that wrote the loans in prison. Those that were responsible got screwed and those that behaved irresponsibly didn't. 10 years later and there were still tons of people that could afford to save, but chose not to. There's no way that 2/3 of Americans can't afford to save at least $1k. Yes, some can't, but there's no way that it's more than half. It's a lack of priorities. Even just setting aside a few dollars a week should have been possible. Just an extra $100 a month would do it in less than a year. Even $20 a month would still do it in under 5 years. Because they opted to bail folks out, the price of housing never did correct itself and so the younger people who should have had a crack at buying something were denied that possibility.
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It's offset in part by the money that we don't pay for things like counseling and all those public sector jobs that don't pay enough to cover the cost of college. We all benefit from those sorts of people getting educated, we just don't all share in the cost of doing so under the current system.
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Same here, I don't recall ever having paid much for the discs. Definitely less than any other option.
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I've been using it as my main desktop for many years. Sure, there are a few apps that don't work and don't have replacements, but most of those can run under emulation. I think the last time where it wasn't a viable desktop for typical use was back in olden times, when you needed special extensions to browse the internet. These days, pretty much everything that a typical user needs works just fine without much hassle.
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This doesn't look like the backfilled it. It looks like they were counting on whatever rock was under there to not give way.
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Ridiculous? I don't think expressing gratitude for showing the girl a level of humanity that the Israelis don't show their hostages isn't entirely unreasonable. We will eventually find out what the truth here is, but it would surprise me if the gratitude isn't in large part appropriate.
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@siroj1001 It's also worth recognizing that this isn't ISIS we're talking about here, these are mostly just Muslim freedom fighters. The fact that it also helps to undercut the credibility of the IDF right now just makes me more convinced that when the truth comes out that it will largely support the contents of this letter.
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In the US the government was still subsidizing most of the cost of college for those that went. These days, most of it is the responsibility of the students, and there are a bunch of bloat and facilities that aren't really necessary for anything other than attracting new students. On top of that, wages haven't kept up, which makes it even less of a choice than it was back then as many jobs that didn't previously require a degree, now do. So, you've got more tuition and fees and less ability to pay up afterwards. There's also been now 3 significant recessions during that period so even those that did finish their degree and somehow manage to get decent jobs, there's a pretty good chance that they had their hours cut or got laid off during at least one of these recessions.
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The media in general have been far too weak on him. They've also been incredibly weak on Biden. Had they bothered to take either candidate seriously, we'd likely be in a very different position.
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@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket Yes, but usually the dumpster will show up before they really have a chance to start and dropping off a dumpster is extremely noisy.
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Generally speaking, repressed memories aren't a real thing. The brain doesn't really work like that. Most likely, you were either traumatized at an early age when you were developmentally deciding whether the world is by and large safe and secure or dangerous and insecure. Any memories from that age tend to be extremely fragile no matter how a person's experience was. The other possible scenario is that those particular memories were misfiled in some fashion. That also happens where somebody has a traumatic event and for some reason represses the emotional component of the event by downplaying it's significance. But, speaking as an educator, once a memory is formed, it's there, when you think you've learned something and it's not there when you need it, you're either stressed and not accessing all of your brain, it wasn't transferred into long term memory or it wasn't stored where you thought it was stored. I suppose, it also could have been a series of relatively minor events that you haven't connected together. That's one of the big differences, PTSD really needs a specific event to kick it off diagnostically. EDIT: there are also some medications that mess with memory preventing memory formation. These are usually used in surgery, but there's a few out there that have other uses that may have some negative impact on memory formation.
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That is a consequence of not being respected, not the cause of not being respected. This trend towards not respecting men started well before those things were issues.
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@dianalea3702 The Lincoln Project is literally putting up more of a fight than he is.
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@Djordj69 Exactly, in theory, Libertarianism is fine, in reality, it requires a bunch of regulation in order to prevent bad actors from hijacking the entire system.
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@morbital I would personally visit vancouver more often if we had affordable HSR to get me there.
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@Justin_Beaver564 First off, you greatly underestimate just how much power corporations have now, they get to dictate the terms of things that the government would never be able to get away with. Secondly, you make it sound like it's OK to not have proper regulations to keep the corporations from having more power than they already do. They already get to skip out on paying taxes or living wages, and somehow get to dictate what the laws are through lobbying that normal people could never afford to do.
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It's worse than that. George W. Bush "won" by a vote of 5 to 4 at the Scotus and he had more of a mandate to govern. A big difference is that love him or hate him, W had a platform that he was running on. Biden does not. I did eventually find some policy positions on his website, but they weren't in his ads. His ads were mostly about unifying the country, making him sound like those South Koreans that want the Koreas to be unified under the North.
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Yes, but even more evil. He's more like if Kevin Spacey as Dr. Evil invented that child molesting robot that The Rock's character invented in that SNL sketch.
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They wouldn't need to do all of that, raising the minimum age to 21 for some of those weapons, mandate a background check for any transfer of ownership would do most of it. Here in WA we just got limitations on the size of magazine that can go into firearms and we haven't had a mass shooting in several years at this point. Obviously, it can still happen, there are no checkpoints on the borders for various reasons, but the nation as a whole can't go an entire week without one and we've managed it for multiple years. Clearly, a license and training requirement would probably help more, but it's probably not necessary if we're just wanting to end the issues of mass shootings. The rest of it would probably help with self-murder prevention and smaller scale murders.
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And yet the Democrats weren't taking things seriously. They could have had a near certain victory if they had just let the voters choose Bernie . Instead Obama had to get involved and rig the primaries.
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You make it sound like that would make any difference. Housing is massively more expensive now than it was 30 years ago and wages haven't kept up with inflation in nearly 50 years at this point. Even if they do avoid those traps, it's still a lot harder.
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True, although that should rarely happen as very little power is used when a car is just sitting there.
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That's the thing, had Bernie extracted a commitment to medicare for all, a green new deal or something of similar value to the progressives, it would have significantly reduced the likelihood of Biden losing. It's foolish to think that those coal miners in W. Virginia are dedicated to coal mining, that's just the only option for jobs in the region. It's dangerous and they're dying of black lung, literally coughing up black chunks of their lungs. Both medicare for all and a guaranteed jobs program would likely be very appealing to those voters.
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The vast majority of people that are living "paycheck to paycheck" are doing so because of poor money management. If you've got the money to pay all the bills with any left over at the end of the month, it's a failure to manage the money you've got. That's not to say that it should be OK for businesses to pay as poorly as they do or that it's easy for individuals who have barely anything left over at the end of the month to break out of it, but it is possible with time and effort.
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@Engired yes and the stuff I buy even comes in a plastic bag for easy storage.
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You're not generally supposed to be able to use somebody's history against them except in narrow situations. There are exceptions to that rule, but judges generally get to decide whether or not to allow it and if they get it wrong, that can be subject to appeals court interference later on.
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That's a good question and the answer is no. That wouldn't be infringing, although everytime the book went into a new revision or had a format change you'd need a new set of stencils. This is very much the same basic premises as binary patches are as they don't require more information than which bits to swap for the new ones and where those bits are located.
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There already is, Biden was not lawfully nominated. He was nominated because the Democratic establishment chose to rig the election in his favor. He's not somebody that the voters want and his policies are horribly unpopular, but the party was able to rig the election in his favor by closing polling places and insisting on having elections, even when they couldn't be held safely.
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@snowblind. Perhaps they should have written the 2nd and 3rd try in ways that comply with state law, then they would have been safe.
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The award would likely have have been a lot less if it didn't need to include medical treatment for life.
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That's only partially correct. What's supposed to happen is that if they were promoted in spite of not being ready, there's supposed to be remedial help the next year to catch up in lieu of some of the electives. It's not supposed to be students just being passed year after year without achieving anything.
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@sovietdies I don't think any reasonable person would agree with that. Most people would expect that any damages caused by the vehicle would be covered, not damages caused by people in or near the vehicle would be covered. If the insured sites in the car and throws things at passersby, would you really suggest that that should be covered by the auto insurance?
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@xcalibertrekker6693 Except that that's the case for adults as well. If you remove the people that might cause problems, you're left with FedEx or UPS flights with nobody aboard except luggage.
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@chri-k That's not a bad thing, if publishers don't enforce their rights,then it can be extremely hard to figure out if anybody owns the rights to a particular piece of media. There's a lot of things that over the years were protected and then they weren't because nobody cared enough to extend the registration. Or, the necessary supporting paperwork was lost. If you put something up and years later nobody has challenged it, that's a pretty good hint that the material was at risk of being lost forever.
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The unfair thing is that all of us younger workers are being screwed by this. It pushes the date of insolvency closer to now and it mostly is going to people that already have some sort of a pension. I don't see anything in particular wrong with fixing it in cases where the pension basically isn't there, but there should have been a specific funding source tied to this to not screw over the young folks that are already having to contend with depressed wages, age increases for eligibility and a fund that's likely to be insolvent in roughly 8 years from now.
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He definitely would. Why would Bernie supporters show up to vote when Biden isn't going to do anything for the American people. He'll do whatever minimum is necessary to look like he's not a Republican. I personally, won't be voting for any Democrat if Biden is the nominee.
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I think it's pretty clear what's going on. The Israelis are murdering random civilians in retribution, having created this apartheid state where other options are off the table. Really, both sides are engaged in some pretty disgusting actions, but only one side has the ability to stop escalating it and let the whole thing cool down. (Clearly the Israelis, but you wouldn't expect those war criminals to admit it)
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@LeadSlinger48 Here in WA, you are correct, no company can legally pay people less than the minimum wage, even if tips lift the wage up to or above our minimum wage. I still hate tipping as even at minimum wage, the wages are typically lower than they should be for the work that's being done, but there's not many options for those of us without much money other than to not go out at all.
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@nothuman1683 Why not? You do realize that you don't have to drink to be at a bar, you just have to be over the legal age to enter.
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@tinefajfar3676 In the US, those are orange, because we reserve yellow for when the speed limit needs to be lowered for truckers in most cases. It's a recommendation for other cars, but as I understand it, truckers are required to adhere to the lower speed limit. The construction zones get a much brighter orange color similar to the vests that construction crews typically wear.
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Right now due to the chaos, they're probably getting some degree of deference. But, that will run out very quickly and we're already seeing the orders being drafted in a broader sense than they normally would to eliminate wiggle room to try to slide things past the orders. Pretty soon, I"d expect to see lawyers starting to get held in contempt of court if they haven't done their work to establish what facts they reference in their briefs.
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I think the issue is that they need to get money from somewhere and it's unlikely that there will be enough people willing to pay a subscription to maintain it. Paid browsers have been a thing, but it's a difficult model when so many people aren't willing/able to pay for it. If they get this working properly, it should still be a significant improvement over the status quo.
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@Rollin8.0 Roundabouts are definitely superior to all way stops. We have some 5-way stops around here and that tends to be rather annoying. The thing about them though is that there's usually enough space to install a roundabout, so hopefully I'll live to see the day. Unfortunately, the local DOT thinks it's its job to make traffic as bad as possible to force people onto buses and bikes, so it may be a wait.
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@richardvazquez7035 Yes and wasn't he key to preventing most student loans from being discharged in bankruptcy.
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That's less of a problem now than it used to be, but it's still a problem and it's mostly because those apps are trying to write to are read from things that they shouldn't ever have been accessing.
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@DVankeuren Precisely, they can do all sorts of things in this sense. They could opt to hunt men for sport and allow a pack of wolves to manage their finances. It wouldn't be legal and the moment somebody won the inevitable suit, it would be done, but you can do anything at all, until somebody puts a stop to it. In all likelihood, both those cases would receive an immediate injunction and it wouldn't even get to continue while the court case proceeded.
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@michelesiger6890 For a poor person $250k is a lot of money, for a billionaire, there's little difference between that and $25m. Somewhere between the two figures lies an amount that would cover passage in a real sub rated for that depth.
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That's a pretty low bar.
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@stvo2009 Absolutely, we don't know what, if anything, he knows. It's certainly possible that he murdered her, but it's also possible that he didn't and is afraid of being railroaded in this manner. It also might be that he doesn't know anything that would be helpful and is afraid of being charged for lying if the FBI disagrees about his lack of knowledge. Or possibly something else entirely.
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@Mii.. I'm sure they will, what with the new ride that's coming out in 2024.
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Yes, he dropped that, the $15 an hour minimum wage, student loan forgiveness amongst other things.
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Yep, the only reason why the original panopticon design was the way that it was, is that they didn't have the option of installing a bunch of cameras and microphones.
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@scait88 It's been around for probably just about as long as humans have had the ability to form complex ideas. But, it's definitely been on a downward trajectory in much of the developed world. Even in the deep south where religious communities were a major institution, it is starting to shrink a bit. Although, that's probably going to take generations.
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It's been known for quite some time, the issue in the US is that there hasn't been the necessary space to install them without seizing property and the drivers are unfamiliar with them. In this part of the country, they started installing them in more rural areas in response to idiots just driving at full speed through rural intersections because most of the time there are no other cars coming. And, they've been working their way towards the cities. Somtime this month, there should be a pair of roundabouts on the city limits here to help manage the traffic entering and exiting the highway. Previously the left lane was pretty much perpetually full of cars waiting to get onto the freeway as there wasn't adequate space to do so. Now, they'll have a longer queue available, but will have the traffic lights eliminated to help them enter the freeway without having to stop.
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That's the thing, TYT is lying when they claim that this is just rightwingers that are disgusted. There are definitely prominent leftwingers that are disgusted by the film. It's hardly just a conspiracy to prop up Qanon.
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That's less of an issue that it might seem. It's more common to do that on votes where there's significant margin for or against the measure or on things that are more procedural in nature. In most cases, before something goes out for a vote, the head of each side already has a sense for how much support there is for the measure via an informal straw poll or simply talking with their caucus. In cases where it's closer, you're more likely to see the party likely to lose demanding a roll call vote or method that's more accurate. But, in practice if it's something that's not super close, the louder voices will tend to be offset by quieter ones and the general level of noise roughly proportional to the votes intended to cast. Plus, the person handling the affair can get a sense of how many people are shouting based upon just a visual scan of the room. That's not to say that it can or isn't ever abused, the proceedings in Nevada in 2016 were an absolute sham where the woman heading it outright ignored the progessives to come to the conclusion she wanted to have.
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He's being incredibly optimistic here. We're in this place because the Democrats are completely useless. In recent memory, they've had the ability to end the GOP in it's current form and they didn't have the guts to do it. What the GOP has been selling for the last couple decades isn't particularly popular, but the Democrats aren't offering anything at all. It took like a year to get this pathetic student loan reductione executive order. The Dems didn't even try to give essential workers hazard pay when they did have the votes to potentially do it. They keep losing because they refuse to take meaningful action on popular issues and force the GOP to be bad guys in opposing any of it.
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@loyalzerg Yes, and if for some reason the paperwork is fraudulent, you're then in a position where somebody who did nothing wrong has lost most of their worldly possessions. Even just packing and leaving in one day is a big ask. Most people who have houses also have jobs and commitments, and it can be difficult to get movers, or even trucks, on that kind of short notice. Then, you've got to have someplace to put the stuff. If it's an actual squatter, they'd see it as a possibility, for those that think, or do, have a real claim on residency, they shouldn't have to plan for the possibility.
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@TheEulerID That's not how US English typically handles stuff like this. It's a good example of how futile it is to try to dictate how language is used. They renamed the Sears Tower years ago, and I wonder how many people even accept the change. And yep, the HMS Victory would probably sound weird, but it's consistent with how US English handles those things.
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It's kind of interesting how the 1989 Bat-mobile was arguably the most realistic one, and then they got more and more campy until the Batman & Robin one was more or less a thing that looked like it was ripped out of a comic book. Then, Christopher Nolan goes back to arguably even more realistic for his series. One of the best things about going to the WB studio tour is that they have quite a few of the various Bat vehicles on display. And the actual real one is a bit smaller than I would have expected.
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@reformcongress If the doctor is ordering it, there's not much difference. The doctor still needs to write that it's needed, send it to the pharmacy and have a nurse dispense it. There's very little difference between that and what happens if it's an actual prescription. The only real difference is in an outpatient setting where you can just go and buy the non-prescription medication anywhere you like and in any quantity you like without needing the bring the form with you.
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It's worth using software like par2 to track both the integrity of the image as well as repair the image if it gets slightly damaged.
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I don't know, perhaps they'll make Biden the press secretary as he's doing a bang up job of campaigning for Trump.
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The good thing about depression is that it's generally one of the more treatable mental health problems to have. It's still a really big deal, but it is something that people regularly recover from in a reasonable period of time with therapy and possibly medication.
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And yet, it works perfectly fine in other countries. The difference is that we've never had any real gun control in the US. You can't do it state by state or city by city. Of course that doesn't work, there's nobody at the city limits screening for illegal firearms. But, nobody can credibly claim that regulations don't work when Japan has low double digits of firearm related fatalities most years. I'm sure they're that much different that it's not the strict regulations they've got in place that explains it.
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That's rather simplistic, this as a massive screw up involving a massive number of people. If it were just Trump, the problem wouldn't be as bad. Most of this is because state and local governments didn't lock down and both parties failed to provide funding so people can stay home.
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If you're going to use glass, that's how to do it. Otherwise, just use aluminum with a plastic liner. It's virtually 100% recyclable and any impurities mostly burn away with very little material lost in the process.
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@davidyoung5176 Because the amount of money you have in liquid assets is a factor when determining the amount that the parents are supposed to contribute. So, folks with money will spend down what they can in the year prior to college entrance to minimize their income's effect on financial aid packages. It's a really dumb system where if you suddenly get promotions or raises that last year, you're assumed to have been able to save money, money that you're not legally required to contribute, to your child's college expenses. But, if that money is from an uncle or grandparent, it doesn't count at all, so those lucky students can max out the financial aid and then have a wealthy relative pay the remainder.
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One of the things that I noticed about the options given is that none of them considered the difference in mass that air has versus water. The folks predicting that it would stay still were the closest, but I didn't notice any mention that the water particles that are pushing their way back into the tube are pressing against a pipe that's been backstopped against pressurized water. I'm only at 8:45, so we'll see what they conclude, but I think that's likely why there was the difference when it's water being sucked rather than air being sucked in Feynman's experiment.
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I'm not aware of anybody passing a law in any language other than English in the USA that was stuck down for not being in English. Laws are generally in English mainly because no other language reaches such a large portion of the populace, not to mention the actual courts hearing the cases would need to have interpreters for those laws.
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I'm likely voting RFKJR because he's neither Harris nor Biden are going to drain the swamp.
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@GeorgeCarlinWasAGod Why? I'm not a big fan, but they do an excellent job of putting on an entertaining spectacle. This isn't exactly NASCAR here where it's hundreds of left turns followed by more left turns here.
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It happens, but it's not exactly a common occurrence.
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From what I understand, technically you do, but in practice it's not enforced often, if at all. This is probably less of an issue with modern courtroom procedures disallowing one party to ask a long string of questions that you have to specifically take the 5th on, or even take the stand if you intend to take the 5th more broadly and juries being instructed to ignore the fact that the defendant is taking the 5th when considering the evidence. But, back in the day, I'm sure that lying as the defendant was more or less mandatory if you wanted a reasonably fair trial.
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@b33thr33kay Absolutely, there are tons of variations on therapy, with varying degrees of scientific support, by the time that somebody starting now runs through the available options and programs, these sorts of treatments likely will be there Also, it's probably going to be a while before it gets covered by insurance, so this is a good time to start saving up for it. Worst case there's money for a vacation to celebrate the results. Some people can and do make it through significant mental illness with the tools we've got. So, there is little reason to wait for these to be approved. Start with what we've got now and hopefully get at least some benefit. I've personally been diagnosed with several of the generally regarded as worst mental illnesses to have, as in extreme rates of self-murdering, hospitalization and worse. And, I'm not like cured, but with the right group therapy I function, even when I'm in a bad situation generally. It may be that in the case of @giaccommander7474 more is needed, but trying requires hope and if you haven't got any hope, then you're at an extreme risk for self-murder (BTW, there's a reason why I use the term self-murder, sanitizing it to a euphemism or even just suicide hides just how ugly the act is. I hope that others will stop whitewashing it so that people will take it more seriously)
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It's not surprising, nobody wants to think that they're trying to put an innocent person in prison. Nor do they want to think that they have. If they're gathering evidence on somebody, they will quickly reconcile that issue by just considering them guilty and it can be incredibly hard to change that mindset if more evidence comes to light that points to something else. A good prosecutor and good cops will recognize when they're trying to make the evidence fit their assumptions and knock it off, but often times they don't and if the judge and jury don't pick up on that you can get people railroaded.
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Mount Rushmore was itself a deliberate act of cultural vandalism as the Lakota people already had identified naturally occurring faces on the mountain. Unfortunately, it's not a simple choice as removing the faces doesn't put the previous ones back and unlike most of the other statues that people have been discussing, you can't simply move the monument indoors and provide context for it either. In the case of this statue, it's at least possible to move it inside so that people can at least continue to view the work.
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There's plenty of Americans that are also outraged, but America hasn't been a functioning democracy in decades. If any other country were handling democracy like this, we'd invade and bring ourselves democracy.
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Because people prefer what can't be seen to reality? It isn't right what happened to him, but it's also not right what all the hatemongers that use the Bible to back their views do either.
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@literaterose6731 Yes, if the right hadn't been going through such an odious period, he wouldn't be seen so positively. He's a pretty horrible person, just not as horrible as so many of the GOP of the time.
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Where are the progressives in all of this demanding something better? I don't hear anything from them.
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@nestam6844 We won't get hyperinflation. The elites will see to it that regular people are taxed to remove most of the extra money. That's what taxes are for, it's how the government removes excess money supply. The other option is arranged insurrection and seizing funds from the oligarchs that got most of the printed money as the politicians are too corrupt to tax the rich.
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In line with that mailbox thing, I used to work for one of the major shipping companies. A lot of people don't know this, but stealing a package from a UPS or Fed Ex distribution facility is a federal offense, not just a state offense. I assume that this is for the same reason that mail related crimes are typically federal offenses, but a lot of people don't realize that it's not just USPS facilities that receive that projection, it's any of the interstate mail delivery services. IANAL, so I don't know if that applies to services that only operate within the confines of one state. I assume this is the case because it used to be extremely difficult to know at which point in the process the package was stolen, meaning that if a package is shipped from Michigan to California via truck, there's any number of jurisdictions in which the package could have been stolen and it's simpler to allow the feds to handle it as they've got jurisdiction for federal crimes everywhere in the country.
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We had most of our railroad buried there. But, the city is kind of narrow and the waterfront is a very smart place to have a highway due time the needs of businesses. Even with the viaduct coming down, we've still got a rather massive street along the waterfront due to the ferries.
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You've been allowed to pump your own gas for motorcycles for ages, it's just been for cars. I guess they just didn't want to be sued for screwing up some biker's very expensive paint job. I wonder a bit about how many gas station attendants have gotten cancer from all the exposure to gas over the last few decades. The amount that a person might be exposed to filling their own tank is minimal, but multiply that across an entire week and it adds up.
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@sobanejaz123 I'm personally a fan of having a horizontal monitor and a vertical one.
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@JulieHerrick Yes, also keep in mind that there are provisions to pay teens less than the minimum wage, they could continue the carve otu and just raise the minimum wage for everybody else.
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@Cherish1056 People often don't realize just how cheap those have gotten. Depending upon the payload, a consumer grade drone can do a lot of damage. Hell, the Mexican Cartels even had cars that were rigged up with remote controls years ago that could probably have done the job. I can only imagine the range they'd have now with more modern wireless technology.
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High and low are relative, people maybe making that little, but they're likely also spending a lot less on housing and definitely a lot less on medical expenses.
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@billyjoejimbob75 Yeah, I had to reread that a few times because I knew there was a joke in there. It was worth the effort though, 5 stars would read again.
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The folks at the school didn't buy the gun and without the gun, this particular crime wouldn't have happened. Another crime may have happened, but probably with a lower bodycount.
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@RoyalConfetti You're an idiot then. The school did not buy the gun and the school officials likely didn't even know that he had access to one. There's only so much that the school can do about things of this nature. Students do the bits about looking up ammo and writing violent notes all the time, but it's the bit about the gun being purchased and him having access that should have been the final alarm that something bad is about to happen.
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People laughed at Douglass Adam's observation that flying is just a matter of falling and missing the ground, but that's more or less exactly what orbiting is.
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@tomy4453 Yep, it's the quickly bit that can be an issue. Cold shock response can be a very, very big deal. I had issues with that when I was younger, fortunately, I was close enough to shore that I was able to just stand up, but it would have been iffy if I had been that far out.
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@Ariesguy41499 Yep, also keep in mind that it's normal for the primaries to not reach all of the states due to a lack of viable candidates near the end. That's one of the reasons why it's so problematic to allow the same set of states go first every presidential primary season, by the time it gets to where I live, the only primaries still in question are being decided on a razor thin margin. That being said, I doubt the GOP primaries would have gone differently had they gotten to all 50 states before completing. Trump still has a massive amount of power in the party.
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NYC is a massive city, and just going through all of the camera footage can take a bunch of time to figure out where he went. This is both why law enforcement wants AI programs to do face recognition and why they must never be allowed to have it. Locally, there was a case about12 years ago where somebody shot up a bar before going on the run, the process to find him was somewhat slowed by the fact that the police aren't allowed to use the traffic cameras as the traffic cameras are only permitted to be used for the purposes of managing traffic. It kind of sucks, but once you start letting police access stuff like that it is an incredibly slippery slope to things like that stupid LOVE INT scandal.
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That's a side effect of weak parental protections for fathers. A woman can say that it's a man's or he might be dumb enough to sign the certificate and then he's legally the father. There has been some improvements due to DNA testing, but it's still pretty pathetic. It's interesting where there is a situation where there is an upside to this.
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No, it's because she didn't offer anything to men, it was extremely close and what we got was shaming.
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@mikezooper And if we could make that happen before the Earth gets irreparably trashed for our use, I would donate to the cause.
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Yes, in general that's what exclusions are about. They could offer an insurance policy that covered basically anything that could happen to the car, but it would be extremely expensive and probably similar in cost to the price of a similar car. So, they exclude a bunch of things which allows people to actually afford the car and in exchange it isn't covered for things that the driver probably isn't going to do in the first place.
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Good, folks like you and me aren't really the target audience for the club anyways. If everybody wanted in, the rates would have be be far, far higher. A large part of why the dues are what they are is so that not everybody that wants in can join.
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The biggest issue with DARE is that it doesn't address the things that actually cause drug addiction, but it does show you a ton of possible substances to abuse. It also encourages people to cut off those that do drugs making the addiction more of a problem.
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@senorverde09 TBH, that's the big objection I have to some of those more expensive SBCs, at some point, you might as well just buy a used computer, whether it be a thin client, or something else, as it can be nice to have space for HDDs.
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@far4955 Honestly, Duck is better, but at least with Chicken you can do a couple in different ways if you like. Turkey is pretty much disgusting no matter what you do, the gravy just makes it worse.
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I was intrigued by the idea of ending 4 direction intersections and designing cities on a grid of hexagons so that basically all intersections meet at a 120degree angle, and you can see all other traffic more or less at once. There's the obvious issue that you'd have to tear down entire cities to make it happen, which is why it likely won't happen unless we somehow get and survive WWIII. Locally, we've had tiny roundabouts for decades, but over the last 20 or so years they've become more common as folks get tired of people t-boning each other because they can't be bothered to stop on rural roads. The roundabouts are making in roads into the cities as well, but there's the issue of finding space in already built cities that makes it a bit of a problem.
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@TropicalCoder Or get a Nokia phone or other phone using Android One. Very few of the apps can't be uninstalled on my phone and the ones that I can't are mostly ones that are tied into the OS pretty tightly. Rooting it would result in the remaining apps being removable though.
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No need, from the title, this was in response to a shooting in the building.
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@ada-yw1bb No, they don't. I don't know where you got that idea, but they don't. There is a cap on how much income is subject to the tax and not all income is taxable. It's $168,600 for the 2024 tax year. Anything above that isn't taxed and that amount of money in some parts of the country isn't even that much when you consider the cost of living there. 63% pay no federal tax, but they all pay state and local taxes where an increasing amount of the government services have been shifted. The issue with that many people not paying federal taxes is not the one that you think it is. The issue is that we have a majority of the people making so little money that even the federal politicians can't bring themselves to impose tax on them.
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@Sitarman345 The lesser of 2 evils is a large part of why the Democrats keep running such horrible candidates. Biden is allegedly less evil than Trump therefore they don't need to earn our votes. I remember 20 years ago during the run up to my first Presidential election vote that a lot of my coworkers were circulating that quote about the lesser of two evils leaving you with lesser and evil. At the time, it seemed rather short sighted, but now I get it.
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Because that's never been done before...
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What's the point? They already made all of the books into movies and any new movies based on the franchise are going to have to contend with JK Rowling's bigotry. It could be done, but I don't see it generating the sort of money it would have 20 years ago.
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I got it as well. I appreciate the follow up about her returning to the musical universe.
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I don't see what the alternative is other than to enact strict limits on non-vaccinated patients unless there's a limited exemption for not being able to get the doses due to medical reasons.
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@konigstiger3252 I think we can handle 6 or so months of her. It's not like much gets done between the election and inauguration.
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@JustSomeDinosaurPerson Yes, unfortunately, a lot of these reductions in work hours schemes really only work for jobs where being there 40 hours is a lot less of a convenience. The ones where the reduction in hours would make the biggest reduction in human suffering, are the ones that will probably never see those cuts.
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Not for state charges, so the business records case he definitely can't. For the federal cases, it's been unclear, but with the current make up of SCOTUS they'll likely decide that he can.
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@rosemaryfabian2920 And Israel is doing any better by them? I mean they literally shot several of them as they were waving a white flag.
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@sadhbhdelahunt And the Israelis aren't complicit with the war crimes that Israel is engaging in?
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Why, y'all are freeloading on other people's work and expense. You do realize that many of the degrees barely pay enough to justify the expense, right? In some cases, like with social work, it's an appallingly low rate of pay.
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I was looking for that earlier. There's also that study where one of the authors refused to publish it because it could be interpreted to support not providing gender affirming care to minors. Really, the reasonable position to be taking is that gender affirming care for minors shouldn't involve anything that can't be undone unless further research comes out that supports it. We've collectively decided that research on kids should be limited for their safety, a consequence of that is that things like this are a lot harder to establish than for adults.
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-1 more ridiculous anti-cop BS. Tamir Rice was lowering what appeared to be a firearm in the direction of the police. This is clear, we have the video. Please stop misleading people about what happened. It is unfortunate that his lapse of judgment led to his death, but blame where blame is due. Expecting the police to wait while somebody points a gun at them just in case it's a toy is ridiculous. I wasn't allowed to have toy guns in large part because of that sort of thing happening.
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@Deich Ironic, in many cases, it's just as realistic.
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That's different, if you had asked for the help after being caught engaging in some misconduct on the job, they might not have had to help. They can't fire you for being disabled, but they can fire you for things you do.
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@TechnoEstate Hello fellow voter, I haven't promised them my vote, they just don't give a rat's ass to ask.
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I don't get why he hasn't been on here more often.
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@jeffk464 You can't really erode what wasn't there to begin with. There is no right to firearms anywhere in the constitution, that right was created by Supreme Court precedence and since we no longer have a court bound by stare decisis, that mistake could be fixed. It's pretty clear that the 2nd amendment only applies to the national guard which is why they get actual military gear and we don't.
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TBH, I'm not surprised. I think it was kind of dumb to try to offer them under their trademark. One of the things that HD needs to be a lot less afraid of is to start marketing things like that under a different name entirely. It's not likely people think electric motorcycle when they think HD anyways and a bunch of HD riders flat out wouldn't consider them legit HD motorcycle anyways.
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@beastrule Universal Studios Hollywood has that pretty well thought out. You can pay for one express line use per attraction or unlimited if you like. You just show up and get into a much shorter line after scanning your ticket. With just one ticket per attraction, you can do basically everything in the park in about 6 hours without much trouble. As opposed to Disney's way where you effectively have to bid on use for their lightning lanes and you can't even use it on some of the rides. Then again, Universal is in general a much more recent theme park where they could learn from Disney's mistakes and in general the rides load a lot quicker than they do at Disney. They even go so far as to use moving platforms on may rides to get people in and out that much quicker.
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That's not how that works. We have emergency restraining orders that are pretty much automatically granted without the person subject to the order being present. The due process comes when it's either enforced or when it's set for renewal. Likewise, this isn't any different from all those defendants that are sitting in jail waiting for their case to conclude. I wish people would spend a bit more time to understand how the system works before they spout off on things they don't understand.
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@Bu11eTnB1ade One of the issues with this ruling is that it will result in a lot more defendants being held behind bars than under the current system where they an be barred from having anything to do with firearms while the case is ongoing. This is one of those things where it might seem like a good idea to some people, but there are consequences. It's like how allowing people to be held for life without possibility of parole has reduced the number of times that prosecutors seek capital punishment. Mandate parole as an option for all convicted felons and you'd probably see capital punishment make a comeback. It's also the reason why capital punishment was so common in the old west as it was pretty much the only way of ensuring that the felons didn't just escape and do it again.
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@snugglesjuggler It's harder to do than you'd think. The real problem is that Tesla has tried to skip a stage where all the computer does is just record a ton of telemetry information about the cars as they drive around to compile into a library that can be used to train the system. There's only so much you can do with professional test drivers, they aren't necessarily going to be driving in the sort of conditions that regular people do. And for things that that Tesla slamming into an upended semi, that doesn't happen a lot, and it's going to take an extremely large number of such crashes before the system learns to deal with it. Doubly so since they don't appear to be using the situations where regular drivers come into contact with that.
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@weltsiebenhundert I don't like Backblaze, I lost a ton of data because of the weakness in their recovery method. There's a limited amount of time that you have to recover the files and the downloader was choking on the amount that I was trying to restore. It's OK, if you've got a separate backup for just large files, but it should never have come to that, especially due to the lack of proper notification at the time.
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It screwed us over having Obama obsessing over his image rather than being willing to get down in the mud and really fight for the voters. If he had done that, there's a much better chance that Trump wouldn't have been the nominee for the GOP.
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IKR, there have been so many bad decisions in recent decades that it's require a lot more specificity. But, I definitely agree that this does qualify. It was ridiculous for the government to be able to seize property to give to a private company.
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That's not enough, essential workers still haven't received anything when basically everybody else got money specifically for them.
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People like my wife are lazy. We live like 3 blocks from a restaurant and she'll insist on having it delivered, even though it's a half mile there and back.
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Folks are talking about Biden's age because Bernie isn't senile. If they focused on Biden being senile, that wouldn't prevent them from nominating Bernie.
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@darlacox RFK JR.has a chance, a slim one, of winning states. I've seen one poll where he's up 18 in WA. It's one poll and the others were mostly for Biden, but the fact that any polls show him up that much are pretty damning for Biden. RFK Jr. is on the right side of campaign finance, but has some pretty big downsides as well. I may well vote for him anyways as money in politics and SCOTUS are pretty much the biggest issues.
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They generally are unless they're black Supreme Court Justices, in which case nobody seems interested in doing anything about it.
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@dansmodacct I do think that should be the case. We hold onto these grudges for far too long. At some point, you either have to agree that they've served their sentence and can go about their business unhindered, or make most felonies a capital offense, because this situation where people are done with their prison and parole, but are barred from actively participating in society is BS.
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Possibly, but people keep trying to replace it and there's been extremely limited success in doing so. The install base is just too large and it's just too good at what it does to attract the kind of talent and energy necessary to replace it. Most of the alternatives wind up having the same basic problems anyways. Plus, JavaScript today isn't he nightmare it was in the '90s where just about anything you wanted to do would require testing to see which browser was running the code and doing something different from whichever browser needed accomodations.
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@alj25195 Which is funny, because Cluster A is where you find the Schizophrenia Spectrum Personality Disorders.
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You can blame the incompetent justices being put on various courts for that. Only a great fool would consider that anybody is actually entering into these contracts with a real understanding of what they're agreeing to or opportunity to have their questions answered. And in many cases, there may not even be a viable opportunity to not sign the contract. If you have to fly for a funeral or similar, you're stuck agreeing to whatever terms there are from the airline, and there's no guarantee that an abusive term isn't going to be shared between all the available airlines.
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Probably only if they let her keep the cat. The defining feature of a crazy cat lady is the possession of at least one cat.
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That's often the case, they're the classics in part because they were accessible enough for normal people to be able to read and appreciate. Most books don't get boosted the way that Moby Dick did by a bunch of Melville fans. More often, it's published for a mainstream audience and catches fire more naturally.
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@PilotFlight2Mars In the US we refer to those "survive stations" as rest stops and major highways will have one roughly every 2 hours. The government doesn't provide coffee r the like, but often times you'll see volunteers doing so. Bikers particularly appreciate it as dehydration can be absolutely brutal during the summer. From what I understand, those jogs are the result of how the US was surveyed using the range and township system. The jogs aren't really that random, they'll typically come at the end of one of those squares. If I understood correctly, they also apply to highways that either predate the interstate highway system or are too small to get better stuff. Much of the US is so flat that they could put the roads wherever they wanted to, so the jogs were needed to ensure that the drivers would periodically have to do something to snap them back to what they were doing.
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I think that's fairly clear, but due to the weird wording, it's understandable why a lower court would think that it allowed for the enhancement. I do think the uninterrupted part is rather important.
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I used to drown them out by focusing on imagining a catchy song. The idea being that the brain couldn't do both at once.
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@hazemelhusseiny5683 That's the issue. Doing it yourself is illegal in many places and many others have laws that are on the books and used that allow people that are going to do it to be hospitalized for treatment. I fail to see how this is substantively any better than the sorts of self-murdering that we have public awareness campaigns and actual police dragging people off to the psychiatric hospital.
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As a non-professional, my immediate assumption, blood is in perpetual short supply still. Perhaps in the future with medical advances we may have synthetic blood that's close enough that this would be a reasonable thing to do. But, it would probably make far more sense to develop drone technology to drop the appropriate blood off either at the accident scene or to the ambulance as it's en route to the hospital.
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@lemiphil2388 Yep, while there are somewhere around 40 or 50 ethnic groups in China, the Han are the largest at roughly 90% of the entire population. That presumably has been changing as during the period where there were restrictions on having children, the other ethnic groups had looser restrictions and could pretty much always have more than one child.,
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@guptadagger896 Not to mention, that when gold has been used in that sense, it requires the government to set a price for it and restrict access to it at which point, it's barely better than a fiat currency in that regard.
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That's not waterboarding, but it is deplorable.
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@youarelife3437 There's a lot of CG these days that is for things that you wouldn't expect. That being said, I'm not sure that the Onion has the funds for that level of realism out of CG.
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@ND-nr6mx Yep, the whole situation sucks, but most of the folks that are commenting on it are completely ignorant of how guns on a film set work, there are practical reasons why you wouldn't want an actor to check a gun, for example, getting the rounds in the wrong order of a revolver can lead to a bang when you don't need it, or not having a bang when you do. In normal practice with firearms, you're just worried about whether or not there are any rounds in the weapon and there's never any reason to point the thing at somebody you don't intend to shoot. Movies require the firearms to be pointed at people. We are rapidly approaching the point where there won't be any actual firearms on set and that it'll all be CG, but we're not quite to the point where that's the norm. We'll see what does happen with the court case, but I'd be surprised if they manage a conviction.
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@levarjones1925 that's why i started voting against her, she's a problem that needs to not be in office.
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Having no property taxes means that the government has no incentive to provide protection from fire or criminal activities. No incentive to educate the people living there or to put things in place like improved roads and things that tend to increase property values. Even just freezing property tax increases can lead to issues like you see in CA where prop 1 prevents the state from increasing the taxes paid on properties in most situations.
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Voter registration is just one source of that information. They get those names and addresses from several different places in order to try to avoid biases in the jury pool. Simply not voting isn't going to be sufficient to get you off the hook from serving.
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@That-Guy_ Essentially yes, around here the county gets people's data from a multiple sources, so just not being registered to vote wouldn't be sufficient to ensure you weren't on the list. As for making it that easy to become a voter, write the secretary of state where you are. Around here, just about every interaction I have with a government office comes with a link for information on how to register or update my voter registration.
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That's a tough one, they have the same right to defend themself as Israel, but that's going to wind up getting extremely messy. Unlike Gaza and the West Bank, Lebanon isn't a country that Israel can prevent from being resupplied and isn't occupied by them. Militants can come and go as they please over those borders, without Israeli permission. Which means that if Israel keeps engaging in these terrorist tactics the flow of weapons, supplies and military personnel could continue indefinitely. I wonder just how much longer these crimes can continue before the US decides that enough is enough.
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She also couldn't be bothered to oppose genocide by Israelis using weapons we gave them. If she couldn't bother to be against obvious evil, she didn't deserve to win. She also couldn't be bothered to offer working class men any reason to vote for her, nor did she offer an affirmative case for voting for her.
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@tony001212 That's a poor excuse. The reality is that it's much closer to 50%, but that doesn't actually help your argument. And BTW, yes, I know what hyperbole is. In this case, it's a lazy way of getting out of having to actually come up with a nuanced world view. You can just blame all the lefties, ignoring that a good chunk did not support this.
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@jordananthony6432 It's ignorant and misleading is what it is. This sort of rhetoric is not helpful in the slightest bit.
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@gawainethefirst So, for whom do I vote if I don't want the status quo then? A candidate that is significantly worse? Because that's been working out rather well, just look at the MTGs of congress and tell me that's better.
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@slee2819 Which means that it only takes roughly 47% of the population voting for this kind of silliness in order to get it. Which is sort of the point.
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@inicolov It's not complex, it was a stupid point and remains a stupid point. That sort of laziness doesn't really help change anybody's mind. In this case, it takes less than half the eligible voters to vote for a candidate for them to win. Rounding that up to that extent is neither informative nor useful. The fact is that there is a significant portion of the left leaning voter base that did not support these policies.
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I'm no longer a Democrat after 2016 and after 2020, I may not even vote for their candidates any longer. It's absolutely disgusting that at such a pivotal time in history, that they're more concerned with maintaining the power of the establishment than either the will of the people or the best interests of the people.
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There was definitely some luck there as not being vaxxed is asking for trouble. That being said, people sort of assume that you need to get a weeks worth of nutrition in 21 meals spread evenly across the entire week and there's no reason to believe that. You do have to be a bit careful as some nutrients are water soluble and do need to be consumed more regularly, but that's easy enough.
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Yes, the Democrats taking back the Senate would help for a while, but only removing him from the Senate will allow for things to start going back to normal.
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TBH, I don't understand why townhouses exist. It's not just the bit of extra danger or the exhaustion, but those stairs take up a bunch of floor space. I'm so glad that the place doesn't have staircases in the units. One staircase can be shared by the 6 units with the wasted space being kept to a minimum and being shared between the units. Rather than each unit having to have it's own internal staircase to allow access to the rest of the unit.
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@shadowthehedgehog4737 Sigh, it's not the fault of the battery that you don't understand how the technology works. Typical rechargable AA batteries have a lower starting voltage than the alkaline ones do. They also discharge at a different rate. Depending upon the batteries themselves, they may or may not have the same amount of milliwatt hours between the two styles as they're intended for recharge rather than chucking in the bin after they've worn down too much.
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I hope you greatly appreciated the improvement in your life not having that sort of judgmental influence in your life.
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@MichaelOnines Yes and that depends on what the results of the hearing is. If the judge accepts the new evidence and orders the inmate released, then changing the date won't matter. If the judge doesn't accept the evidence and they proceed, then changing it won't really matter beyond whatever relevant appeals are made. The appellate court that accepted that would likely issue their own stay on that basis.
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@doms.6701 Not really, or are you seriously suggesting that what you eat and what you come into contact with can't cause toxic substances to build up in the body? Doctors do use detox techniques with patients under certain circumstances with certain procedures. This is something they do for things like heavy metal poisoning where the substances have built up over time and need to be remove. Obviously, this isn't the same as what that woman did or those detox diets, but claiming that it's inherently a scam is ignorant. https://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/what-is-chelation-therapy#1
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@YouthRightsRadical The whole rollout has been done incompetently. It should have been a period of allowing longer and longer periods where the drivers are allowed to have their hands off the wheel covering a larger and larger number of types of situations until enough had been covered to reasonably be done safely. Monitoring the car driving for a couple minutes at a time isn't that hard to do. Having worked security, it is incredibly hard to be ready to step into action after hours of nothing at all needing action to happen. I fail to see why driving a car would be different in that respect. Instead what we get is these murdermobiles that kill motorcyclists and pedestrians because Elon has a hard on for being first, but lacks the maturity or intelligence to recognize that his solution is dangerous AF.
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Once I figured it out, my cast iron pan is my absolute favorite pan. I can even fry eggs in it without any oil if I want to. I don't generally do so because I'd like a little bit of oil to flavor it, but I was able to successfully do so. If I need to clean it, I get it good and hot and then run the hotest water I can get out of my sink over it to help loosing the particles. That usually gets all of it, I'll then put it back on the stove for a bit to remove the water before applying a small amount of oil to ensure that no moisture gets into any micro cracks that may have formed. It works very well.
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Depends how you go about it. Mandating that the defense is guaranteed a similar amount of funding to the prosecution, and that the defendant is not allowed anything more, would greatly increase the fairness of trials. I'd also ban mock juries for use by consultants trying to figure out which jurors to get tossed from consideration during selection.
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A better list would be channels that should have been banned, but weren't. Banning Bongino over being antimask was extremely hypocritical as none of the major news sites were being taken down for elevating Fauci and his lies. And I do mean lies, he has repeatedly had to admit that he was lying about things like mask and vaccine effectiveness. But, somehow, he and the outlets that published him are allowed to remain.
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Definitely, it's why we can get some things done, but other things don't get done at all even when we don't mind doing them and know that we should. That is until the last minute and there's real consequences of not doing it. The more he avoids having to do things that he doesn't like doing, the better things will go. That means, eliminating, delegating or automating. Sometimes delegation means just letting the person that gets annoyed that they're being left hanging do the task, it may mean paying somebody to handle it or it might mean trading something that sucks less for it.The more things he can move to one of those, the easier the management will get. If he even just gets one or two things a month, before two long the burden will go down and things will get easier.
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Or she's a fake progressive gold digger. She brought this on herself with the lying and unfair smear campaign.
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@tomrogers4667 That's not true. The only folks I've seen going to prison in those sorts of cases are the ones that didn't stop defending themselves when the other party turned tail and ran or were using excessive force above and beyond what the situation and law allowed. This sort of false claim doesn't help anybody out.
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@ahamed4152 That's a big problem. You have Democrats doing the same thing, and the problem is that the rest of it is often times monstrous either way.
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Indeed, they're somehow lacking even the Shatner or West ironic cool as well.
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Unless they can be bought from BMW in white, it wasn't the Iranians.
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@James-w6w2e Where are you going to find the prison space for that? Any theft under the limit is a misdemeanor. The issue tends to be getting a response and actually getting it prosecuted.
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That's the Schizoid Personality. It's effectively a person within a person that doesn't ever interact directly with the outside world. It's something that people doing these diagnoses should be on the lookout for as it requires a lot more work to get to the bottom of what's going on, even if you've got somebody coming in that wants a correct diagnosis.
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That would be an expensive lawsuit and probably a felony on top of that. This is why it's a good idea to keep copies of your payments and paperwork because repossessing a car that is fully up to date on owed money is theft and a quick report to the police along with the documents would likely make short work of it.
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@brkbtjunkie A lot of that has to do with how much more expensive it is to repair cars than it was back then.
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I've been saying that for years, and yet even with the head of the agency on tape saying that his job isn't to improve traffic flow, he still remains. The job of any DOT is to improve the traffic flow and safety, it's literally the only reason to have such an agency. And yet, we've got one here in Seattle that thinks it's job is to force as many people out of their cars as possible to the inadequate biking and mass transit options. Disgusting
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Even more so if you've got a rider riding on the back with you. A hard stop, even if you don't crash, is likely to lead to heads bonking together.
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IIRC, street addresses in Japan are based upon the age of the building, so two buildings next to each other won't necessarily have sequential addresses.
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@mb9604 I bought an '09 Ninja 250 for about $2100 + tax and I only paid like $100 for insurance the first year. Granted, I was at least 10 years older than the GP, but I doubt it would have been even triple what I spent on insurance.
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Here in WA where the governor took steps when the first evidence of community spread became obvious. The curve seems to be flattening and the growth rate is slowing. Things could still go bad if people stop taking precautions. But at this time, it looks like we may avoid having medical providers having to make literal life or death decisions about who lives and who dies.
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Why should white people apologize for slavery? Slavery ended 115 years before I was born. There were literally no slaves still alive when I was a child and few people were still alive that had even met any of those slaves. What's more, I have no ancestors that were involved in the slave trade on any side. Please take your Nazi blood debt bullshit and get the hell out of here. This is a false equivalence. He wouldn't be asked to apologize if this was somebody elses joke that somebody else had given. This was a joke that he himself made and as such, yes he does need to apologize if he doesn't want the consequences of not apologizing.
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@EMan-cu5zo So? Just look at the work being done these days. So much of the work being done by people earning living wages is complete and utter nonsense. You've got studies repeatedly coming up with the fact that most officer workers only spend a few hours a week actually working, with the bulk being either screwing around by the water cooler or in meetings. The reason why labor participation is low has to do with the nonsense of insisting that people work 40 hour work weeks, permitting a bunch of companies to render jobs redundant via mergers and then just flat out letting the infrastructure to crumble so that billionaires can have more paper wealth.
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@gbear1005 Yes, although the ultimate ruling is probably going to be against her for the same reason that if they had left a stack of cash sitting on a counter she wouldn't be entitled to that either.But, either way, it should make for an interesting case.
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So? A lot of us refused to vote for them after the DNC rigged the second Presidential primary season in a row against Bernie and Biden just happened to be in good enough with the DNC and the voters to get away with it. I don't think this would be nearly the issue that it is if it hadn't been so long since the primary voters got a say in the outcome. The last time that the voters got a real say in the primary was in 2008 when Obama earned the nomination. Since then it's either been Obama with token competition or a bunch of anti-democratic primary rigging.
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They probably didn't fire everybody immediately, they were probably fired effectively the next day, at least anybody that they needed in order to shut the building down.
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Khalid why make it illegal? The laws of thermodynamics pretty much ensure that this will never be better than a standard bullet train.
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@randal_gibbons orbital and suborbital space travel will happen before this does. That at least is plausible. Roughly 90 minutes between any two places on earth and uses a lot less than the near infinite energy thus would take.
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@randal_gibbons imagine jumping off a bridge into the water. If you're not treat high, it's fun, if you're several hundred feet up, it's fatal even though you can sink in it. The science on this is known and it's not ever going to be better than bullet trains or flying machines, it's just not possible without violating the laws of thermodynamics.
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Keep in mind that they've also been doing TV interviews where they hand out their names and addresses. Also, keep in mind that Biden lacks the stones to actually prosecute anybody over this. Ever since Ford and then Obama refused to prosecute the crimes of their predecessors, there's been effectively nothing to stop any President from committing crimes against humanity and election fraud.
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Yes, but we didn't vote for the people that are making the decisions and that should be deeply concerning to anybody of any political view anywhere in the world.
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Around here the right to issue these is based on the notion of there being a contract as the result of a sign being present. I received one years ago for being parked in the wrong part of a parking lot and not seeing the sign indicating that I should be parked in a different portion of the parking lot as there wasn't a sign in the lot to indicate that. After calling the company and explaining it, the ticket was waived, but I suspect they would have had issues with enforcement as that would have been a small claims court issue and there were no signs in the lot itself to indicate that the lot owned by one company was effectively more than one lot when it came to validation.
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At least women get maternity leave, and a lot more than is necessary. Men generally don't get paternity leave and if they do get it, it's significantly less than what women get. In most cases, a woman can be back to work within a week of giving birth and historically that's what happened. The remaining time has little to do with pregnancy and everything to do with bonding with the baby.
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+John M, there's absolutely no reason that it has to be the mother. Women whine about how men aren't more involved with their children, but men don't get much in the way of paternity leave.
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@becksyo1984 He drank water in Flint and shrimp in the Gulf. I'm not sure how believes that the water or shrimp were actually what he claimed they were. Plus, even if they were, that was so little as to be a negligible impact on his health.
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The issue I have in all of this is that there were no tugs required to escort the ship past the bridge and there was effectively no protection for the pylons at all. From the map, the bridge isn't that far from where the ship had docked, it seems awfully foolish to have no measures in place to prevent this other than having an experienced pilot. Granted, fenders and barriers are probably not sufficient on their own to prevent a direct impact, but with tug boats and an indirect impact, they might well have been enough.
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Don't worry, they'll find somebody even worse.
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This kind of thinking is why people don't really take women seriously. The reason you don't see more women leading is because more women aren't leading. You think it's great being a leader? Well, I tell you what, it's lonely at the top and it sucks being the person that's "responsible" when somebody comes by demanding to know who's responsible for whatever happened. It's much easier to just sit back and let somebody else make the decisions and take the blame if things don't work out. Women shouldn't be whining about this. Women have the privilege of not having to be at the top all the time. It's a lot of stress and work and you often get blamed for things that you can't reasonably have planned for.
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It angers me that the grocery chain I'm working for has extended hazard pay for a few more weeks, but the government that should be helping to compensate and protect us has spent dicky mcgeezacks on this and is also not requiring it. When a corporation is doing better for the workers than the government is, it just serves to encourage fascist sentiments. I'm going to ultimately be paying for these corporate bailouts while taking on this extra risk so that people don't have to choose between starving to death or eating. And, you've got unemployed people who are getting nearly as much as I make added to their welfare checks even as they have very little to spend their money on other than food and shelter. It's sickening. I don't begrudge these people the money, but I work awfully hard to be making only a couple dollars an hour more than the stimulus component of the unemployment checks.
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Not true, individual gun ownership isn't anywhere in the constitution.
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The reason this isn't getting passed is that there's massive support for ending the time changes, there isn't massively more support for going on permanent DST than standard time, the result is that this is closer to a 50-50 proposition than it might seem. This is on top of any partisan wrangling that's going on.
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I'd be skeptical of that as well, but who knows. People in deep trouble do stupid things.
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My wife's family has those stickers on their cars. I don't know that it really does anything, I was only in her car once when she got pulled over. But, it was an emphasis patrol looking for drunk drivers and we got pulled over because she had forgotten to turn on her headlights. (It wasn't super dark yet and it can be hard to tell if that car's headlights are on unless it's really dark) Neither of us had been drinking, so I don't know that we would have gotten a ticket either way. Yes, it was arguably ticketable, but I doubt the officer wanted to write her a ticket for this when he was there looking for drunks.
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@cvongall66 Are you for real? If he's not dead, then why have there been no videos from him since? He suddenly lost interest in terrorism? We've still got troops in Saudi Arabia, which was the chief complaint driving the terrorist operations.
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I was expecting there to be problems with bugs. I was very much surprised that he didn't set up some netting around the bumper to prevent that. I'm just surprised it was so few.
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Also, consider that Bush was allowed to steal the 2000 Presidential election even though he lacked the votes in Florida to do so. And that the court then tried to make the case not subject to precedent, but as then used the next time around when Kerry wanted to get recounts in Ohio. The whole thing has been in motion for literally decades, but the Democrats have absolutely no interest in doing anything to address it. Meanwhile there has been some work done in places like Seattle where the elections workers have gotten so fed up that an entirely new building was built by the county which places the counting in the center with glass walls surrounding it where the public can go to watch, just because the GOP refused to stop making fake claims of fraud in the elections there.
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For most people, it's possible over time. The issue is that not everybody can do it at once. At least not until robots take all those essential jobs. The key though is that you've got to have more income than expense. If that's not the case, because rent is unaffordable, you're not going to get there.
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Strictly speaking, the problem here is that he is right, the constitution explicitly states that any rights not specifically granted by the constitution are delegated to the states. The problem with that though is that there's a huge amount of case law since then that depends on that not being quite the case. There's also issues with the fact that many of the things explicitly in the constitution have become more expansive due to changes in technology and society. We have much more interstate commerce going on now than we did then, these days most of the things we do have some relationship with interstate commerce, whether we do it explicitly as our job, or implicitly via the things we use in daily living. In this case though, it's pretty freaking clear that this is not something that the constitution deems to be appropriate for the government to be regulating to this extent. If our houses and papers are considered to be private, and there are regulations on more intrusive searches of our bodies as part of the 4th amendment, then it stands to reason that there wouldn't be a right of the government to know what's inside our bodies on such a broad scope. There's other reasons why these abortion restrictions violate other areas of the constitution as well.
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@niyablake It's still gambling, regardless of the legality.
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Interesting, so they mention things that are real and ignore things that are not. That seems really strange. Why would they ignore sexual violence when it's not at all what the news media would have you believe? It's almost as if they're thinking critically about the world around them. Sexual violence is an issue, but it's massively overstated and tends to ignore violence against men.
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Sort of, how many of them voted for Trump or Clinton? Those that did kind of brought it on themselves. We could have had a politician that would have cared enough to try to help the people, but instead we wound up with 2 right-wing choices in the general election.
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It's amazing how out of touch you are with how ordinary Americans live. Yes, for some of these things most people could afford them, but there's a huge number of people who cannot afford things like travel, a healthy diet or a professional side business. The statistics have a huge number of people living paycheck to paycheck and having less than $400 of savings.
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That's a major issue, another is that the pool of applicants that can pass the fitness requirements has been dipping. If it was just putting ones life on the line for the political aims, that would be one thing, but the things that the military does is often times blatantly illegal under international law.
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He's guilty of at least some of it, they posted a video of them forging Mr. Beast's signature for inclusion as a prize in a giveaway they were using to encourage people to buy expensive t-shirts.
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Keep in mind that they've repeatedly ruled that pretty much any contributions that aren't explicit you will engage in corrupt act X if I give you this bag of money to do so are legitimate actions. So, this shouldn't surprise anybody that they're engaged in t he same thing.
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@ainumahtar IIRC, by the time that the BttF movies were made, the company was already out of business. There were a a few pretty significant issues like the cost of repairing the stainless steel body work.
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@setheast2773 I used to work pickup through most of the pandemic and I'm currently working on an accounting degree. The short answer is that the department does lose money on the face of it, there isn't a mark up for the service, as long as it's a large enough order. During the worst of it, there were a few customers order hundreds of items in one pickup, so many that they wouldn't fit in their car. But, my guess is that there's a few things going on that make it worth it to these stores to offer. First off, for some businesses like office supply stores, the profit margin on pickup is probably better as the orders are likely smaller and some of the items on there have better profit margins than what you see at a grocery store. Secondly, I do think that the job will eventually be heavily automated the way that they did with self-checkout with people only being involved in small portions of the job, like picking out fruit and putting it into a bag for the robot to collect. The service also reduces the amount of time that inventory sits on the shelf and the workers doing the work spot problems that aren't noticed by people who aren't constantly circulating the store really looking at each shelf. The most interesting bit is that a department that loses money may still result in a store that is more profitable by bringing in more customers, spreading more of the costs and potentially as a write off during tax season.
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@edgarcayce2.02 That's certainly a major part of it. She also refuses to have anything to address any of the issues that men face, it's a lot of trying to bully us to vote for her because we're sexist if we don't, especially those of us that voted Jill Stein instead. Had she said that on day 1 she'd declare the Israeli government a terrorist organization and cut all military supplies going there, I might have pinched my nose and voted for her anyways. But, she was a mistake as a candidate, they had literally 4 years of seeing Biden go further and further down the path of dementia and cognitive decline and didn't even pressure him to step down prior to the primaries so they could pick a candidate that people might actually want on their own merits.
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@staceywright1392 Yep, although, it would have to be pretty clogged up and you'd probably notice smoke and general particles building up first.
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How is that relevant? Israel doesn't adhere to international law and Hamas isn't going to do so either.
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@PascalD87 Yep, it's a bit of fun, self-expression and waiting for the time for the uprising. It is a bit of a rejection of the overly sanitized, but I haven't ever noticed punks being less clean than anybody else.
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The point seems to be to get the audience to consider whether they really need that extra gear next time they are in the market for a bike. Some people really love shifting, but for other people, it might make more sense to select a motorcycle with fewer gears as they might not even need the extra ones if they're mostly riding in town.
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OR and WA are vote by mail states. The only people that vote in person are the disabled and individuals who need special accommodations to vote. It's definitely preferable as I can sit at home sipping on coffee while I go through the ballot on an item by item basis and do any research that I haven't already done if I need it while voting and there's no pressure to finish in any particular time. If I want to vote over the course of several days, I can, or I can leave a contentious race off until later in case something happens that might impact my decisions.
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I thought the issue was heavy metal poisoning, that wouldn't be an issue in modern times with better equipment and better testing techniques. But, then again, I can't say that I've studied one way or another, but from what I understand, it's not any real risk these days beyond the typical damage of consuming drinks with that much alcohol in them.
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@STho205 From what I understand, one of the failsafes was to hit a switch to drop the ballast and allow the sub to rise just on its own basic buoyancy. It's unclear if that failed, or if there was nobody to trigger it because of some other reason. (Chances are that if nobody tried, it's because the entire sub imploded, as anybody should have been able to hit the switch to drop the ballast)
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@dfcx1 They also made a significant portion of young people hearing impaired because they didn't ever fit right and you had to crank up the volume if you wanted to hear what was being played.
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@dj_fity He hasn't lost the contract, it's just that the line item was changed to make it less explicit. I'm not sure where else the State Department is going to get armored electric cars from.
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@jamesstark4136 To be fair, that used to be a lot harder.
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It's worth noting that if you put the meat down your pants, the store can't sell it to somebody else if they do catch you and put it back. Just yesterday, I had to put back a random doughnut that somebody didn't want. Perfectly legal for the customer to change their mind, but it had to be thrown out so the store was out the money. It was perfectly legal so the customer wasn't arrested or anything like that, but the store was out the money for the doughnut. There's a ton of groceries that can't be sold because the A-holes took the item within the store and put the item in the wrong area. Some of them were lazy, some of them are probably vandals and some of them are doing it because they were going to steal it, but then got cold feet.
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That's the thing, no need to pretend like George was cooperating and being respectful. His behaviour should have led to him being detained while things were sorted, but not killed. Misrepresenting situations like this gets people killed when they decide that it doesn't matter what they did when pulled over.
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I wish they would, they wouldn't be here if they weren't taking more than they give.
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@tomanicodin Not being sold can be a lot of things, but in this case most of these items didn't even solve the problem they were trying to solve.
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@markberryhill2715 Yes, his message was definitely obscured by his tendency to bomb universities. There's a reason why he's the Unibomber. (Unabomber was a typo)
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@a.r.4707 That's my thought. I doubt any Arabic teacher would want to work with a student that is clearly wanting to learn Arabic to take advantage of Arabic speakers. If that's not the motivation, then I'm puzzled as to why they'd be looking for an Arabic speaker that's not Muslim as Islam is by far the most common religious view of speakers of that language. It's like insisting on learning Hebrew, but refusing to learn from anybody Jewish.
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Yes and yet she voted for Pelosi even after her gross incompetence and refusal to accept the good gop deal.
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Even without the law, she's likely risking lawsuits if somebody relies on their belief that she's a medical doctor when accepting advice and something goes wrong.
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@rockyshocks101 It's not just about how likely you are to default, it's also their estimation of how much money they can extract from you.
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@SelenaKnight-n7h Not specifically, but there are alarms and this one appears to be at a clinic that would have somebody around all the time for other patients with urgent needs.
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Which is why this restaurant is doomed. You think any of those young people that aren't allowed in now are going to eat there when they are old enough? Not to mention the incoming civil suits over how it was implemented.
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I've never really understood why the cost of things like this doesn't just come out of taxpayer funds. Any homeowner in that neighborhood could just as easily have been the ones on the hook for the damages, why not just have the city pay the reasonable cost of fixing it and be done with it?
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Not really, only 5% of cases even go to trial. Improving them is great, but it's not likely to make a meaningful difference.
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@ChillStreamsLive oh god, that could easily turn into a blood bath.
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@midlife_harmony I think it's more likely that it requires less reason for people coming from countries with a significant mafia presence to import it to the new country. In the case of the Polish, they would have had to figure that out on their own. In the case of Germans where there wasn't a history of the mob back home and there wasn't as much incentive to do that here due to where they were living and the smaller gap between their experience and that of the assimilated population, it wasn't desirable. The most famous German mobsters were also Jewish.
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@stevengarcia877 In WA, you get the choice of using these drop boxes or just dropping the ballots off at the post office. The problem though is that there's been a rash of post office drop boxes being broken into by criminals trying to steal checks.
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@Entertainment- They don't really need ventilation as they tend to open the windows at night. Air conditioning though is far less useful if you already intend to open your windows at night, have good insulation and the temperature drops enough at night to allow you to exhaust all the heat that built up during the day.
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@rehan3600 Also, keep in mind that he had to get approval from the Ayatollah to even run, so he's not exactly gong to be a liberal. But, the tragedy here is that we don't have anybody up for election right now that understands Iran or has any interest in making peace. Iran for it's part is mostly a regional power and still remembers the million+ that were killed by the Iraq government that the US supported in it's proxy war against the Soviets. Making a peace deal and sticking to it is the best thing we can to do undermine the legitimacy of the hardliners.
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It's worth noting that in recent years there have been more 4 and 5 floor buildings going up. Granted, it's mostly in areas around our new light rail stations, but we are at least moving in the right direction.
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It's also an ignorant thing to say. By the time he ran, it's unlikely that anything could be done. The mistakes had already been made at that point, and there was no saving the people trapped below. From what I understand, the issues had to do with a lack of anything in place to ensure that the people sleeping below were warned of the fire the moment that it started and given the time to scrambled up to deck and potentially off the boat entirely.
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Precisely, if you don't need the money, you're better off with computerized versions that take tokens and pay back tokens. You won't strike it rich with real money, but you won't be out real money either.
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They don't wonder because they don't care, they make money either way. They haven't cared about the people in decades.
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@CassandraY Most states are that way, although the closer it is to competitive, the more likely there is to be any attention paid at all. And that's really not good whether it's a red or a blue state. I often wonder how different the candidates would be if they had to earn all the states they get rather than just a half dozen or so that are in play. Around here, the state and local races are independent of the party and the general election candidates are often times from the same party. It means that unlike in the past before the parties challenged the system, everybody's vote does count. If you're a Republican in a Democratic district, you can still vote for the less liberal candidate, and likewise when it's reversed. It's pushed the candidates to a more cooperative position with the most extreme candidates typically losing out to ones that are willing to take the other side's interests into account.
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About the same time either party realizes that they work for the people.
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The issue is that in northern states, this would result in a decrease in the amount of light that's available to the people. Here in WA, we get a little over 7.5 hours of light on the winter solstice, and the sun rises just before 8pm. With DST we would still get roughly 7.5 hours of light, but it would come up at roughly 9am, meaning that most people would effectively be losing a half hour of exposure to the sun on the solstice and lose somewhat less the rest of the weeks on either side. It also means that the elementary school kids will go from having some light when going to school to having basically none until they get to school, and having the same amount of sun coming home either way. Not to mention the effects on our circadian rhythms of giving up an hour of morning sun for less light in the evening. The whole plan demands study and following the study should be chucked in the garbage where it belongs.
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I'm curious at what point the people with nothing realize it and start assassinating political figures that are propping up the oligarchs.
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Yep. I'd love to see it.
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@minuette1752 If the DNC elites hadn't fixed the primary for the second time in a row, it would have been Bernie versus Trump.
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I do think that an international treaty to set a minimum tax rate would be a great idea, but it's unlikely that enough countries would go along with it to make it work. The next best thing would be to change the tax law to require that they book profits before booking losses from overseas operations or to completely ban them from using foreign operations for US tax purposes. Which you might as well do anyways, as it's difficult for American authorities to really audit that stuff anyways. Especially in countries where they depend on cheating to get the business.
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That's kind of funny because I'm the other way around. I try my best to avoid them purely because it is risky and can lead to death or serious injury. But, the experience has always been rather pleasant getting blasted by mains current. Again, I do my best to ensure that all my electrical gear is properly maintained and insulated so that I don't get shocked, but that's purely because of the risk associated rather than the perceptive feel of being shocked. But, then again, I do generally have a pretty high threshhold for pain and have a kind of weird affinity for anything with voltage. Just being next to high voltage gear just makes me feel calm, although obviously the high voltage stuff is going to do serious damage in pretty much all cases if you get hit with that, so no taking apart microwaves for me. But, the typical 115v stuffis has never been a particular problem.
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Exactly, if what was going on weren't so deliberate, playing dead could be potentially a choice, but with how deliberately targeted this abusive use of power is, playing dead is just about the worst possible response.
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I unsubscribed because they deleted the farewell post and put Ryan Grim on the replacement Rising. I wouldn't watch many of their other videos.
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@jackiechun6540 Many of them probably just didn't care enough to bother. I'm subbed to many channels that I never bother to watch. I'd pay attention to the percentage of subs that are watching.
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That was not missed by me or the folks I was discussing with this at the time that of all the books to do this with, 1984 was probably the most on the nose one possible.
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@michaelfarros8298 It's not at all, look at the polling data on those policies, the people want that, it's just that the DNC rigged the primary, again.
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We've had the truth on both for decades. Whether people choose to believe it or not is up to them. But, the CIA definitely did start Bin Laden out in the '80s with training and supplies in Afghanistan, I'm not aware of anybody arguing against that. And, there were definitely planes flown into the buildings that took them down. This is also established as is the engineering failures that led to the buildings collapsing under their own weight when the central columns were heated enough to lose their strength. SImilarly, there is no need for a conspiracy, any time there's a public route like the one that JFK was riding at the time, there is the potential for a sniper to be in one of the windows, it's why the secret service has to do a lot of work securing the rooftops and have their own team looking for snipers in the windows. It's not an easy job. And Jack Ruby was frequently in the police station where he shot Oswald, it wouldn't have been unusual for him to be there, even without the crowds of reporters covering the transfer. It's all less than satisfying, but it distracts from actual conspiracies like the Democrats throwing races to the GOP to avoid having to make decisions that anger the donors.
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Yep, that's how I do it. Reliable charities are the most efficient way of getting help to the people. Just make sure to research the charity to make sure they're spending the money effectively.
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@FirebirdCamaro1220 Around here the days at the end of December are roughly 7.5hours of light. There's no reasonable way of adjusting the clocks that won't screw things up worse than just sticking to standard time. The folks most in need for the light live where the daylight is roughly the same, or less than the work day.
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It's consistent with the whole hyphenated American thing. Italian-American, Irish-American, Chinese-American. I think where African American is kind of odd is that it's being used to refer to people who in many cases were robbed of their connection back to something more specific in Africa. It also doesn't refer to other black groups like Afro-Cubans. It also adds a bit of an awkwardness in that you can't just assume that a black person in American is African American. I've got a coworker that's in the US from Africa on a visa and he's pretty clearly not African American. He has at least been to America, so it's slightly less completely wrong to refer to him as African American, but it's pretty completely wrong.
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How is that obvious? If her skirt was that short, then she was clearly less professional.
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@iandavidvillaloboswong5180 That's what forensic science is for, and if it was determined that you likely destroyed evidence due to the expectation of legal proceedings, they will add that to the list of charges. I personally think that's dumb just like it's dumb to expect somebody on trial to not lie on the stand, but I don't make the rules.
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Yep, this isn't a rightwing thing, Shoeonhead covered it and she's hardly a rightwinger. Yes, because there's no better way to fight hypersexualization of girls is by spending 95% of the film hypersexualizing girls only to have a very short bit at the end which implies that it's against that. And yeah, it's disgusting and rather anti-Muslim at that.
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Indeed, and if they can make sodium work, it's a helpful use for the sodium that is a byproduct of desalination plants.
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Transit workers at least get a decent wage and benefits. There's a bunch of other folks like grocery workers that don't get decent pay and often don't get health benefits either.
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@MotoCampNerd Probably a spring loaded valve.A spring of the right size would close the conenctor. Personally, I don't mess with things like that, I just use a liquid gas powered stove and don't bother with such things.
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I'm not sure about Canada, but in the US it's a crime to disobey flight crew instructions. And even if it's not a crime, they definitely can kick people off the plane for not cooperating during boarding if it's going to cause safety problems. Also, some people are naturally more shy or used to being required to do what the authorities around you say. The problem isn't her or her parents, it's that the airline screwed this up.
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Also, Biden didn't crap himself on stage. I'm surprised that the media didn't bother to point that out as that's roughly where the bar is right now. Anything shy of crapping the stage is a win for Biden.
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That's because they technically might not have been the ones that were in the video. That gets established in court, although the likelihood of two people looking like that with a kid that all match the people in the video and were in the park at that time is beyond remote.
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You don't think that they've thought of that? Most of the lumber is covered by something and that something is usually something like plaster or sheet rock and that takes a bit of time to burn through.
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Fair would be for roughly 60% of all the loans being waived, that would roughly bring it back into line with what it was in the '90s. Also realize that the earnings that recent graduates have made is substantially less the last couple years. I'm personally making roughly 2/3 what I would have been making had the pandemic not happened.
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@robertbrown1021 The reason these loans exist in the first place is that the wealthy and corporations stopped subsidizing then, but you still need a degree for most higher paying jobs, but the wages have also been stagnate for decades.
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@marqicewalker1766 Yes, I used to work security and in all honesty, most cops are kind of meh, they're not exactly saints, but they're not exactly the T-1000 looking to terminate all the black folks they encounter either. For the most part, if you simply don't screw with them, they won't screw with you. If you don't escalate it, chances are excellent that they won't escalate it either. Yes, more should be expected of them than random citizens, but that's no excuse for people not wanting to be shot to create excuses to do it.
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@zakkeewaheed9864 No, there's not. It just seems that way due to confirmation bias.
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People have known about that for years. It's just a bunch of security theater to cover for the fact that CIA trained and equipped militants went rogue and attacked the US on 9/11. It's also widely known in security circles that practically none of the security changes made when screening passengers have any impact on safety. The restrictions on liquids do make sense, but even there, they could just handle it the way that the Chinese do and make you open and drink some of it. It is pretty effective as most of the things that they're trying to keep out are going to taste and smell terrible. Either they'll smell the volatile chemicals, or the would be terrorist would make some sort of a face trying to drink it.
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@spartacus36526 The Democrats could try something radical, promising things to voters that we might want and then actually try to live up to the promises.
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TBH, the only time I use my 3L CamelBak is when I'm going for extremely long rides in the heat. It's great to be able to sip small amounts of water continuously to try and keep from dehydrating. It's essential if you're pushing miles and don't want to stop to sip water.
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That sort of thing does happen for adults. The issue more than anything else is that people are trying to apply that to children without having a medical basis for assuming that the kids need that treatment and that there aren't other courses of action that are more appropriate until they turn 18.
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IMHO, automation, is arguably the biggest advantage of the CLI. You can automate just about anything that has a CLI option with any language that you want to use, although Bash and PowerShell are probably the most popular choices due to just being on a bunch of computers already.
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You mean the areas that don't get any meaningful say in national politics because of the gerrymandering?
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That's not a productive line of reasoning, we can and should still feel bad for them, they were lied to and weren't adequately prepared for the kind of reasoning necessary to deal with this. And we all pay the price because they opted out of the vaccination, but not out of treatment and now cancer patients can't get their treatments because doctors and hospitals won't ration care to ensure those folks can get treatment. Place a cap on capacity for those that chose to not get vaccinated and save some of those other lives.
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CVS doesn't get to break the law and if they actually called the cops, they'd likely be on the hook for a rather lucrative lawsuit for it. The public has a right to use the sidewalk for most purposes, as long as there isn't a specific law saying they can't do it, it's a public right of way.
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We can, it's just that the politicians prioritize tax breaks for the rich and powerful.
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That's more or less what the research says. Even if children are provided with the care, there's no particular evidence to support that it improves things anyways. Really, the fights should be mostly for adults when it comes to medical treatment. It's going to take a certain period of adults getting these treatments to even be able to consider much in the way of research based on kids. The sort of prepubescent children where puberty blockers make the most sense on this theory are the last that would be tested anyways.
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The issue here is that these are elements and our ability to make elements out of other elements is pretty limited and extremely inefficient. Finding other chemistries for batteries that don't require extensive mining is clearly the way forward. At least in so far as we can't do more with less energy used.
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They're probably more concerned about the damage to their reputation, but I'll take it.
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@lasskinn474 If you're using a bunch of stuff at the same time, you can get power strips that monitor one of the plugs to decide whether to power the rest of them. It can be really handy for things like TVs and computers where you might have other powered devices taking power out of an outlet. It's kind of a cool application of relays.
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@BruceS42 If that's the signage, it needs to be replaced by something standard. Simply placing another grade warning pictograph sign would communicate the same information without requiring any English reading.
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No, there's no requirement that the "victim" press charges in order for there to be a prosecution. But, if the victim isn't interested in cooperating, it becomes a very hard case to win. It's most commonly done in cases where there's suspected child abuse or domestic violence.
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@manspeej In that case pick them up from the local thrift shop. You can always buy nicer ones later if you really need to, but most thrift shops have them for practically nothing as there's so many out there due to their durability.
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IQ tests likely can't be relied on when taken by the ND population as they aren't normed for us. One of the biggest issues with intelligence testing is that you can't use one test to compare different groups, each test has to be normed to the population that's being tested and as a result, you can't expect to compare the scores of European Americans with either Europeans or Africans and expect to get a meaningful result.
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The visibility on these helicopters is not great. It's why they often have 4 crew members to help ensure that they can see as much as possible. I don't think it's helpful to encourage conspiracy theories when the most likely explanation is simply that it was an accident.
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@brdatwork Probably the same ones that forgave Hilary for what her Husband did "for" the community.
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@ryri51 Harris is functionally a Republican, or did you miss the endorsement she proudly touted from the Cheney's?
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@msromike123 I've never been on a flight where people were deplaned for that reason. I've been flying for nearly 40 years across multiple countries. This is simply not a common occurrence and not one that the parents should be expected to pay more for just in case it becomes relevant. The airline is 100% responsible for doing this.
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It looked like a demolition because buildings nearly always collapse like that. It's just when explosives are used incorrectly or liquefaction tips a building over that it falls in other ways.
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@19Marksman79 Yes, although I was mostly referring to prior to the revolution. Persian culture itself is not Arabic culture and a lot of the things that people point at as being a problem for women in Iran are Arabic things that I doubt would stick around indefinitely if the US and our allies would keep our noses out of it.
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@MoonieLovegood They don't, but by the same token, the school library is supposed to have some. The sorts of books that you're probably talking about are by publishers that are pretty protective of their rights. As I've already said, the right way to handle this is to not get the entire project shutdown because the morally right thing to do isn't the legally right thing to do. Getting shutdown over such stupid actions does nobody any good.
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Blame the corporations and wealthy for not paying their taxes then. The money spent on illegal immigration is not that much compared with the money that the wealthy aren't paying in taxes.
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It's kind of messed up how his music is probably even more relevant than it was decades ago when it was new.
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I assume his definition of "great Speaker" Is one that's able to get the post back after having been a miserable failure the previous time. In that case, I can see his point. But, if actually getting things done that benefit the voters is part of it, then she's a miserable failure as Speaker.
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@tigerroselili5765 I thought they were going to go that route.
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Yes, although from what I see, making the railings a bit higher would be possible without scrapping the entire stairs or radically changing their look.
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Why would Disney hold Desantis accountable? He just gifted them huge sums of money by taking over the bonds for their improvement district and being too incompetent to prevent the previous board from signing over most of the stuff that Disney had wanted from the improvement district to begin with.
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@robbraxmantech Yes, but it involves the company actually doing the right thing.
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If I were the attorney for the buyer, I'd be looking very closely at why the contract went south after the original closing date. They knew that the housing market had heated up, and probably before the forced sale of the previous residence. So, they could have cancelled it prior to the closing date, I'd want to know why they cancelled after the closing date, because if there's any 3rd party involved, that 3rd party could well be on the hook for the consequences, and damages, of the contract breaking up, even if the builder's waivers are ruled enforceable. That being said, don't sign a contract where you're not comfortable with clauses being exercised without specific triggers you have control over, and preferably, not if there are clauses that you wouldn't be comfortable with in general. And definitely get an attorney to go through things any time the amount of money starts to become uncomfortably large, especially for property.
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You're what's wrong with the world. Nobody is ignoring gunshot wounds to blame deaths in Corinna virus.
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Same, but I don't understand why they weren't already working on this from the moment the first court cases were filed.
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Being a horrible person doesn't mean that a person can't make something great. There's a lot of people over the decades that were horrible people, but created things that are well-loved. Walt Disney and Henry Ford weren't exactly what I would consider positive role models.
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She really needs to get Audrey Plaza on for an episode, that would be awesome.
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@alexisdemoulin5514 Yep, Krashen, in interviews, is pretty clear about the fact that his method isn't 100% input, you do have 10-20% intentional study of vocab and grammar related to the language. It's not like you just expose yourself to the language and suddenly become capable of speaking. Any method that doesn't require some delbierate study/practice and output isn't a realistic approach. It may get there eventually, but part of why output is important is that it helps to evaluate whether you're leaning actual language or not. And unless your whole purpose in learning the language is just to enjoy reading, listening and watching whatever media they've crated, output is likely to be something that people need.
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@KatarinaS. I house sat for a couple that had one cat that would barely eat and one that was on a strict diet. You pretty much have to take the skinny cat's dish away as soon as it stops eating. It's a pain, but as long as the skinnier cat isn't losing weight, it's probably getting enough to eat.
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We've got something similar available in the US, but it's kind of a pain and you'd have to own the kitchen. But, we do have small water heaters that are designed to be mounted near the sink that can dispense hot water on a moment's notice. It's especially helpful if the main water heater is a significant distance from the sink.
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@Nono-hk3is It's a waste of electricity unless you're using it a lot. Which in America, we're highly unlikely to use it so long that the wait time reduction is worth the extra money for the electricity.
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And that's why it's so important to not vote for them. There's no way that electing them is going to do anything for the rest of us. They aren't magically going to get better policies of elected. The policies are always worse than what's promised.
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They should really have split as a party years ago, because the progressives keep losing out to the corporatists and the voters suffer as a result of not having the option of candidates that are going to hold to their promises.
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That's a bad argument to make. Just because something can be done doesn't mean that it will be done with the same frequency. As coal ovens were phased out the people who had been using them to commit self-murder didn't all switch to a new method, some portion of them had to work harder to go through with it and chose not to. Likewise, in this case it will be less convenient to figure out how to mix the liquid to taste better so you can expect that fewer kids will be doing it. The whole bit about either legalizing the flavors or kids are going to be huffing random stuff that they put in there for flavor is questionable at best.
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Isn't that basically Knott's Berry Farm?
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@abctalkies6981 This is a load of nonsense. There have been disadvantaged groups of white folks that had to earn their way out of the hole they were in as recently as the middle of the last century, but there isn't even any sort of real acknowledgement that it happened in the school curriculum, even though it wouldn't take more than a literal minute to mention that the US concentration camps during WWII also had Italian-Americans and German-Americans amongst others that were confused with those intended to go. When you look at those communities, there's far more going on than you seem to think, race can make things more challenging, but the modern conception of race that people use is a modern thing that didn't exist until sometime after WWII. What's more, the poorest non-indigenous people in the US are white, and get no help of any sorts. Not to mention that the various wealth gaps disappear if you throw out the top quartile of the income earners, as in the vast majority of the disparity is at the very high end and typical white people aren't doing that much better than typical people of other groups.
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@RomaHeart For you, as somebody in his 40s, this is just more theft of my social security benefits. I'm not going to be old enough before the trust hits insolvency and they've already increased the retirement age in an effort to push that off. I'm sorry, but it's hard to really feel to bad about people that have a pension and are getting social security not getting as much as they might when I'm paying in to a system where I might not even get as much out as I paid in.
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People don't find the things they are paid not to find. I'm guessing that they were more concerned about future legal work for the gallery, and less so about the details of this one. Really, it's a pretty damning indictment of the standards of both the legal firm and the gallery that this was allowed to proceed past the judge's warning that the case was falling apart.
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@mailasun 1.2v is typically what AA sized NiMH batteries start at, the cutoff is typically closer to 1v, but with a regular AA battery that's going to come rather quickly after 1.2v as it's pretty far into the discharge curve.
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That's how the tax burden got shifted to the poorest people. Things which were federal responsibilities not that long ago are now state and local responsibilities. At the state and local level most states have a sales tax in addition to or instead of an income tax and the sales tax is much harder to avoid for the poor than the rich. Money that isn't spent doesn't get taxed and winds up appreciating as investments in most cases. On top of that, the cuts that are made are virtually always to things that disproportionately benefit the poor and working classes, so not only are they paying in a disproportionate amount to taxes, they're also getting less out of the system when they need it. The end result is that our tax policy alone, pretty much ensures that wealth will trickle to the top.
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Even if they did, Biden was VP when those cages were built.
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@theeclectic2919 They also are super-delicate and aren't super nonstick anyways. Once I got my cast iron figured out, it was much more nonstick than any of the nonstick pans I've owned were.
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Yep. This appears to be rather clear cut, but we'll see. I have a hard time imagining what would justify the apparent excessive force.
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Nobody should be doing these things, it's disrespectful of the other folks. But, if they're not enforcing that consistently, that's wrong.
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That's usually a practical issue where they're hosting it and distributing it, so a website will often want a limited ownership right to cover that usage.
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There's that, but that should also do something for the banking regulations for the various dispensaries and pot shops that are legal under state law, but not federal law. Since they're barred from all non-cash payment methods, they're easy targets for robbers.
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It's also a convenient workaround for places where you have to offer the job to the first qualified applicant. You can get rid of most of the pesky minorities in earlier rounds, knowing that you'll still have qualified people to hire first.
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She also didn't offer anything to address men's issues.
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But, if they go broad, how do they get the potential for momentum?
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My wife and I wound up with cheap rings for our wedding bands. Mine is gold colored stainless steel and she has something with similar metal and Swarovski Crystals rather than gemstones. It was her idea and I'm so glad she didn't want to spend that kind of money on rings.
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We've already got equal pay for equal work, it's why the feminists had to move the goal posts to demand that women be paid the same as men, irrespective of their jobs.
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We already know that he's perjured himself, the question is going to be whether additional evidence will make it impossible for the GOP to ignore his obvious guilt. Boofed, means fart, really? How many 15 year olds do you know who have never farted and are looking forward to doing so for the first time? We already know from his own calendar that he kept for decades that he was at a party that was suspiciously like the one she claims to have been sexually assaulted at. We also know that his story has been changing without explanation and that he hasn't requested the FBI come in and clear his name. The likelihood of him being innocent a this point is extremely small. The number of coincidences that would be needed for him to be not guilty are rather substantial.
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It wasn't the cost cutting. They didn't understand harmonics at the time. The cost cutting measures likely wouldn't have been taken of they had a more modern understanding of harmonics. The more modern replacement bridges are designed to dissipate the energy.
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It happens, Benny Hill spent basically none of the money that he made during his career and probably could have lived a similar lifestyle on the salary of pretty much any job.
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@beetle3088 They are, you can have authoritarian socialism and you an have authoritarian capitalism. They are on separate axis.
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I'm not an expert, but I don't think that geosynchronous orbit can be achieved at the poles. I'm not even sure that you could hang a satellite up there long enough to be of any use.
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Yes, and it's just 14 years. In some countries, this would either be life or the death penalty. Whether or not that's an appropriate penalty, that is what the penalty is.
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Perhaps you should either get your stove fixed or learn how to cook. My electric stove works just fine. And, if an electric stove isn't good enough, there's even better technology in terms of induction stoves.
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It's been touched several times in the last few years.
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@fusionxtras Yep, typical papers should auto-ignate before the cast iron gets hot enough for the seasoning to take place. With such small lint sized bits of paper, all that should just burn away rather quickly.
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It should also be easy to figure out if they got your ballot. I put mine in a different drop box yesterday and when I checked the status, it had already been accepted for counting.
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The problem they had was the pricing and the customer base. For somebody like me, $9.95 for unlimited movies is actually too much as it's unlikely that there's going to be even one movie that I'm going to want to see during a given month and the cost of a ticket is somewhat less than that, if I buy a discount ticket voucher from Costco. Meaning, that I'd have to either watch the same movie twice or I'd have to find 2 movies that I'd want to see. Most months, there are no movies that I'd like to see in the theaters which is a large part of why I don't go. Then at the other end of the spectrum, you have the movie buffs that like to see all the movies or who like to see the same movie multiple times, and they're going to be very expensive as that second ticket is going to put moviepass in the red and cancel out the profit for at least 2 other people that don't use their subscription for the month. The price should have been higher, they should have included a small discount on the concession stand snacks and perhaps limited it to screening towards the middle and end of the movie run when there's less demand for the seats.
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It's not the taxpayers that get screwed over by canceling the debt, it's the responsible people who didn't take on debt that they couldn't afford. Waiving the debt is a form of moral hazard where people who chose to behave responsibly get screwed. I was fortunate enough that I could get the state to cover the first 2 years because I worked hard and was able to use the money the state was going to spend on high school for college. I was also fortunate enough to have had parents that had saved over the years to ensure that I wouldn't have any loans. But, even without that help, I would have had the option of studying part time over a longer period of time, enlisting in the military, getting a job with the state and none of those would have required me to get a loan in order to get a quality education. Were I not a white man from a middle class household, there might even have been scholarship money available as well. People who chose to take on debt shouldn't be rewarded by having the loans canceled. It screws over those that behaved responsibly, we won't be getting any of our money back, but some irresponsible folks that took on loans they couldn't afford get forgiveness, ridiculous. The main reason why college costs are out of control is that people keep lining up to pay. If people stopped paying the ridiculous sums of money, the college administrators would be forced to stop wasting money on pointless non-academic services and focus on the things that actually help education. Multi-million dollar gyms are just not essential to higher education.
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The real problem with this is that killing Prius drivers will just mean that they can't kill other people with their bad driving.
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@mikeh6700 Not true. The evidence for that is weak at best. Certainly not enough to justify ignoring established medical norms.
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OK, so how are they supposed to do a video in the time people have to cover this? There is a relatively large amount of diversity within most psychiatric disorders and if you really wanted to cover it to that extent, the videos would be multiple hours long and watched by nobody. Anybody who can handle more detail is probably better off reading it in the DSM-5 or scholarly journals focused on the topic.
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@Electric_camper Yes, also people worried about cost are probably buying used cars.
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I've seen a poll where RFK Jr. is ahead in WA state. It's an outlier and I doubt that it will come to that, but in spite of his rather questionable stance on some issues, I might vote for him just because he is promising to fight to get money out of politics and that's arguably one of the two most important issues. (The other being fixing SCOTUS) The Democrats need to do something and quick if they want to have any hope of winning. Perhaps for the sake of novelty, they could promise things that progressives want and then actually follow through on some of it if they're elected.
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It's normal that when there's an incumbent that that party won't have a real primary. I think that with how old Biden is, that was a massive mistake One of the reasons why they don't usually have a contested primary when they have a sitting President is that it allows them to direct those resources to down ballot candidates that are rather important to get anything done. In this case though, if they had a contested primary and Biden managed to win anyways, it would send a much more positive signal about his ability to do the job for 4 more years. That's not to say that I think that he'd win the primaries as he only won last time because the fix was in. He's not with the same it this time as he was last time.
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Yes, that and the fact that you can round those numbers and present them as a fraction. For most applications 1/12 increments is fine and if you need more than that, you'd probably be using digital anyways. My main beef with digital is that you do have to read it, if I need to track time without much thought, I've got one of those countdown timers where the red circle gradually gets a larger and larger white sector until the red is gone. I can look at it and know even faster than typical clocks.
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@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket That's not entirely correct. There's a time limit on that. They can't just look back at the books from years ago and decide that they want the money back. But, I strongly recommend against anybody that does know that they're being overpaid not to spend the money as some states don't require any notice about the money being garnished or the payment rescinded for a replacement check.
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They could have capped the non-educational expenditures by colleges that were accepting those loans and kept it in check, they just chose not to.
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Mycel probably, this is similar to the grandchildren of President Taylor. he had kids when he was extremely old and they had kids when they were extremely old and as a result our lives overlap. And up until this year, there was still a civil war pension being paid out.
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@danparish1344 Considering that he lost the civil wrongful death suit brought after the criminal case, he probably wouldn't win a defamation or libel case. Even if he wasn't a notable celebrity prior to being charged with the murder of his ex-wife and her friend, he probably still would lose the case.
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Not really, it's mostly folks coming in from other areas that did this. The local politics wasn't so bad before the massive influx of Californians in the late '80s followed by various other people bringing their dysfunction with them. In a lot of cases, there legitimately isn't even another option to vote for. Previous mayor Durkin probably wouldn't have been elected if the only other option wasn't so horrible due to the 15 way primary election that led to two horrible choices.
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The only reason to care is that the homeless might figure out where she lives and go burn down her house after taking her outside and hanging her as a traitor. It's going to happen if something doesn't happen to change the trajectory of events.
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Often times, vehicular manslaughter charges are light. Around here, we had somebody get busted for DUI 6 times and on that last time somebody else was killed. Since then, the penalties were tightened so that vehicular manslaughter was at least commensurate with other manslaughter, but it's arguably still too light.
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@@Crazy-Clown-In-Town It won't, but it can be greatly reduced, this wasn't a major problem 10 or 20 years ago. These days, I see the same folks coming in day in and day out stealing stuff. Most of them will go to the same place and steal the same stuff. But, without a law enforcement response, there's not much that the stores can do about it.
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@DisgruntledPigumon Given the age of floppy disk drives, I think that's rather appropos.
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@lreyla It's not a semantic argument, we keep hearing calls to crackdown on virtually non-existent voter fraud. But we have a massive problem with elections fraud that nobody in power seems to care enough to address. The minuscule numbers of people engaged in voter fraud isn't something that's having an impact on the results of the elections. The elections fraud regularly does.
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I didn't, I voted Hawkins.
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Rare occasion? Tax cuts are virtually never the correct solution to a recession as businesses hire and retain employees based upon their customers' spending and expectations in the future. The fact that people still don't get that is rather concerning. If you want to stimulate the economy, give checks to poor people, the money tends to work it's way up to the higher earners.
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@earlwheelock7844 Not really, it depends on how the law was written. In the case of riding animals, though, the main risk is to the rider. I can't imagine a horse, or donkey, harming anybody else because the rider is too drunk to drive. I can see an issue with people falling off the animal though, and as long as hospitals are required to provide charity care there is a reason to expect that people will behave a bit more responsibly.
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That's funny, whenever I've gone through customs one of the first questions they asked me before reaching into the bag was if there's anything dangerous in there. There's little point in denying it as they're literally about to open the bag and look.
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I've personally only seen that when they're really backed up. I tend to refuse to get in a line unless it's relatively short though. Most of the time, I wind up waiting because there's a longer than normal delay.
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Despite what people are saying, her campaign sucked. She basically skipped all of the primaries, didn't get a single delegate as far as I can tell. She wouldn't go on enough interviews to give people a sense of who she was and she failed to even try to message working class men about their issues. The only ads I got from the campaign were about how horrible Trump would be on abortion and immigration, and nothing promising to be an administration that helped working class men out in any way.
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Good one, that took me a moment.
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That's more of a question for a pharmacist, they know more than just about anybody about what you can and can't combine with various medications. Although, when it comes to supplements, there's often not as much known as you need to make an intelligent decision.
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In the world that TYT advocates for, attorneys shouldn't do their jobs just because the defendant is guilty. It's not surprising, they are anti-cop and refuse to let go even when more facts come to light that change the appearance of what happened. In this case, I doubt that things like this will have much of an impact, but the attorneys have to do the best with what they have to work with.
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@17kcotsdoow86 You probably shouldn't make that assumption. Around here there are no formal rules on what the signals mean with respect to the roundabouts. Personally, I think the most sane thing would be for the turn signals to be the same as they would for other intersections. A right turn signal meaning that you're headed to the right, the first exit. No signal meaning straight through and a left signal meaning the third exit. Really, that's what the rule should be as it tells everybody what to expect in terms of whether you're going to be crossing specific entry points.
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The US isn't sue happy, despite what corporations like to claim. The doctors need malpractice insurance to cover the cost of being sued by the patient to get medical care for the mistake. In many cases, people are forced to sue in order to get insurance companies to pay up. Sometimes you get weird things happening like grandparents suing their grandchildren knowing that the insurance company requires it rather than just paying the claim. What's more, in terms of malpractice, it would be a lot less expensive if the medical treatment aspect of it wasn't being paid by private parties. In a universal health care system, the only need for malpractice insurance would be to cover the actual pain and suffering along with any reductions in earnings, not necessary the actual cost of care. The cost of care can be extreme in the US for some of these medical blunders.
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A lot of people don't want to acknowledge that the various workplace discrimination laws would be blatantly unconstitutional if they only served to protect minorities. The reality is that as long as a group is marginalized enough to need the protection, it will serve to help them far more often than the opposite. If it starts to get to be more of a 50/50 proposition, that's a point where it might be worth considering if the protection is still needed. But, some portion of the folks get used to the protection and being able to blame other people for their failings, and as more and more people hang out in bubbles, it gets harder and harder to really know what the experiences that other groups are having is.
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You probably shouldn't have been. If you go on any video of music from the '50s, '60s, '70s or even sometimes into the '90s, you'll see a bunch of kids posting about how cool the music and wishing the modern stuff was as good. I don't think it's an accident, there was so much diversity of sound in the '60s in particular that there's something for just about everybody.
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@PhotriusPyrelus Yes, it doesn't excuse the brake check, but if you were that close, then you didn't leave enough room. A brake check isn't necessarily going to be any different from a car that has to slam on the brakes because a small child wander out from behind a parked car at the last second.
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@bidenharrismadmagazinesper574 Mostly because they're going to have to dump her as the candidate as she's been tainted by her failure to do anything about the Biden situation and she hasn't exactly done much as VP to give people a sense that she's ready to be President.
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A detail that he failed to mention is that devices with a ground are often single insulated, whereas ones with only 2 prongs are typically double insulated to make it that much less likely that you'd be shocked by them. Even in the US where it's standard for outlets to have 3 prongs, a good chunk of the stuff we plug into those outlets has only 2 prongs. Probably for the same reason that most of our stuff has the ability to run on 115/230v an 50/60hz, a good chunk of the stuff these days is designed to work anywhere in the world with as few modifications as possible.
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It's worth noting that the ugly American stereotype is largely a historical thing. Yes, there are Americans that are jerks when traveling, but we're more likely to learn some of the language and make an effort to experience the country than in the past.
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If there isn't physical evidence, then it gets very hard to determine that he did cheat, or possibly didn't. Excluding people because they do something suspicious could cause future problems as would failing to do anything at all.
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@kingofwrestling9758 Yes, but there's established designs for subs that can safely reach the wreck. It's just that they cost more money.
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Honestly, that often works out better than being a man that claims a horrible woman as a wife.
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I think that's why he's not going to be expelled or have his Oscar taken away, I also would be surprised if he gets suspended just because of how many other folks would be at risk of suspension if slapping a fellow member was grounds for a suspension.
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It will do a bunch. The individual components may not, but requiring an ID, issuing payment only as a check and a waiting period would make it massively less convenient. Around here you have to wait several days for the check after making the sale. This gives a bit of time for somebody to check up on the parts if it looks questionable.
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@rickerhart907 There were 34 crimes he was convicted of. You're saying that none of those are crimes that he did?
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The issue here is that they've gone from preserving to distributing. The wayback machine was somewhat iffy from a legal perspective, but creating a library that shares copyright materials is clearly illegal.
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The problem is that without networks, the insurance companies would have no idea how much to charge for premiums to cover the possible future costs. I'm not at all a fan of insurance companies, but by the same token without networks, all doctors would have to be required to provide service at some sort of standard rate or you'd have insurers being forced to pay whatever rate the doctors wanted to charge. With medicare for all, you'd likely see something more akin to the latter, but the prices would more accurately reflect the actual cost of service as doctors wouldn't be forced to highball every possible thing they're billing for to ensure they're getting the money they need when most of it is denied by the insurance company.
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@ It's Ya Girl, Jesus' Wife. How do people like you live with yourselves. Feminists decided to change the definition of rape to include situations like being drunk or failing to say yes to sex. Perhaps back in the past when there needed to be actual force involved you may have had a point, but sexist women like you should really rot in hell. But, really, women like you are exactly the kind that men need to stop associating with. If you don't take rape of men seriously, then why on earth should we care about women being raped? It's not our fault collectively that women exercise poor judgment about what men to associate with in private.
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@RedLeader327 You sir, are correct. When you hear about stupid spending like that bridge to nowhere in Alaska from years back, it's usually not enough to really worry about. It usually does have a purpose and is important to some people. The big one is the military spending, if we cut that and got the compliance rate for the ultra-wealthy to where they're actually paying the taxes that they're already on the hook for, we would have more than enough money to solve homelessness in America, ~20bn a year; Medicare for All, ~100bn a year and provide free college for everybody that wants it. We'd even have savings left over to pay down the national debt so that our adversaries don't have that leverage over us.
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Take a look at the video, there's not much mud at the edge of the pond and a car traveling fast enough to not be visible without diving would need to be going fast enough to where it probably didn't even touch the mud. I do think that this does raise a few questions in terms of a car going fast enough to get that far into the pond probably made some noise, but then again, if the car was on the freeway, there may not have been anything to see on the hotel side of things and people may have assumed that they got on at the next on ramp past the hotel, and only did a cursory dive and not thought much of it when they found nothing.
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@LeKain08 It's worth noting that slasher flicks were just the most recent morality plays at the time. Go back to the "children's stories" of the 19th century and they were frequently along the same lines. Even the tale of the woodsman from L. Frank Baum a part of the first Oz book was incredibly brutal even though Baum himself aimed to make stories that were less violent for children. Also, in most cases the characters being sexualzed and murdered were closer to 18 or 19 and usually camp counselors rather than younger teens like you're implying. And the actors themselves were usually a touch older for practical reasons as there's a bunch of restrictions on minors acting in movies that would be incredibly inconvenient for films of those genres.
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@LeKain08 I don't see an issue with it. This is a current controversy where a French film was made which sexualized girls that were even younger. It certainly does seem to be reasonable to point that out.
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For being a lawyer? That seems a bit harsh. If I were ever brought up on charges, I'd be angry if my attorneys didn't do everything within their power to get me off. The prosecutors will get to call witnesses to poke holes in those theories and if they're as ridiculous as it might seem the jury likely wont' buy it.
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If we were really "essential" in their eyes they would have held one of the initial packages hostage until something was done. But, at this point, the pressure for measures that would help the people is much less as the donors have already got theirs and now they want measures in place to reduce spending and future debt.
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I remember, when I used to work private security at a building with a lot of offices, how much of a pain these CEOs of smaller companies could be. They'd just assume that because they could largely do as they liked at their headquarters that the same would be the case elsewhere. It was always immensely satisfying to tell them no and to f-off as the building owner and management wasn't going to have any of it. It sounds like there was a lot fo that going on at this company, where the people who would say this was a horrible idea got fired and in at least one case sued.
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This is at best one factor that they consider, unfortunately, any sort of sensory deficit can come off as signs of mental illness if not considered. I've got vision function impairment that causes all sorts of trouble with my gaze. The gaze itself doesn't really serve much of a purpose in many cases as I'm not the type of person to look with my eyes. I don't entirely know why, but it's probably the result of some brain damage when I was younger interfering with my ability to process visual information.
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Yes, it's illegal regardless of what the motivation is.
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There's that, but I'm curious about who drives off the lot without a title. Not that it makes it the victims fault here, but I'm wondering how he managed to get insurance without his name on the title.
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If they did, we'd have medicare for all or at least a public option.
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Not necessarily, perhaps some people with high IQs and no accomplishments are like that. But, when people decide how smart they think I am, they don't look at IQ test results, they look at what I've accomplished intellectually, or really, whether I can solve the problems they can't.
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That's the problem, at this point they don't even seem to understand that they're supposed to promise things we want to earn our votes and then if elected they're supposed to make some of those promises come true. They've gotten way too comfortable with blaming the voters for not supporting them while making no effort at all to earn those votes.
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I'm not personally a fan of banning the turn on red. I think it makes more sense to do things like extending the sidewalk to the traffic side of the parking lane. It both prevents cars from parking too close to the corner and gives the pedestrians a more protected place to stand where they can see and be seen.
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Strictly speaking, the 2nd bomb was probably not necessary and probably wouldn't have happened if not for translation errors. Surrendering as quickly as they did after the second bombing is highly unlikely to happen if they weren't already in the process of trying to surrender. The first one is somewhat debatable, it's kind of hard to really understand the mindset that led to the decision based on what we know about what happened. It's entirely possible that if the bombs hadn't been dropped that we wouldn't have any nukes at all as that was the first that most learned that it was even possible. They might have been able to bury the research and nobody would have it.
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@oakstrong1 Why not? The South won the civil war, right? Oh wait, there was no civil war, it was a war amongst the states that the south won, and yet they had to make all the concessions. Sigh, the quality of education in the South is exceedingly poor.
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I can usually hold mine for about 2 and a half minutes, but I think that's probably because I've got asthma and the lung capacity was an absolute essential when I was younger. It probably started out as lung packing as my lungs themselves were fine, but it did and still does take an abnormally long time for me to completely inhale and exhale.
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@Ebani The point of the water is to prove that there's no oxygen leaking around the plugs. The reflex is still there, it's just much more dangerous if you do take that breath.
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@crypticnomad It should never exist. If parties want to agree to arbitration once there is a dispute, that's one thing, but there should never be any of these forced arbitration provisions in these sorts of take it or leave it contracts when the party agreeing to accept the offer has no way of knowing what the actual disputes might eventually entail.
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@Hero_Puddle Yes, if the parties want to agree to arbitration after some dispute comes up, there's nothing inherently wrong with that. But, the constitution does give people the right to a jury trial for most civil disputes, so why are we allowing people to waive their right without even knowing what the ultimate dispute might be? If the remedy is a refund on the fare paid, that's one thing, but in some of these cases people are dead or seriously injured, but it's arbitration anyways?
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@Dan-z2c3n It wasn't that long ago that most normal people could become millionaires from the start of their working life to when they retired. These days, I doubt that's the case.
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@Ohm71 I wonder how much of it is that and how much of it that he's not a subject matter expert on most of these things and doesn't do enough prep ahead of time. One of the differences between somebody that interviews professional and an amateur is preparation to know what sort of questions to ask and how to tell if somebody is likely to be full of it. Good attorneys and journalists know how to do that.
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Around here, carbon monoxide alarms are also required n most residences. I think the main exceptions are if you own the building. But, given that the sources of carbon monoxide in the house are in the process of being banned, I'd expect that to change back eventually. Personally, I live on the second floor of a building with only electricity for running everything. There's not much point in having a CO detector, especially since I literally have an electric fireplace insert rather than burning wood and the chimney itself is regularly cleaned and inspected.
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Which is rather telling considering how bad the stuff we know about is. They also settled so that when Smartmatic comes into court they can't referr to a verdict being entered against Fox for the same claims covering the same actions. Normally you can't referr back to a defendent's other actions except under specific situations to protect the integrity of the trial, but I don't believe that applies if it's a verdict covering the same fact patterns and same instances as the ones involved in a different trial covering a different party that was allegedly harmed by the defendant.
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Yes, but not just that, there's people who will never vote for another Democrat as a result of this. I've upped my donations to Bernie through the primary. I'm also going to be upping my participation in the campaign above what I did last time.
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@impatientcow9158 Yes, but after years of them encouraging that, I'm not really sure how that would hold up.
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And what of us younger folks? I'm in my mid-40s and this results in the social security shortfall coming sooner. This is literally stealing out of the retirement accounts of millions of younger workers that did not get a say in this.
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I refuse to buy WD drives these days, because I've had so many of them fail and they dropped the warranty period due to the failures, so it's not like it was just me.
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That's the thing. I worked my butt off to get the state to cover my first 2 years and my parents paid the second 2 years. I then paid the next year with a grant for work I had done and wound up paying for the rest more or less out of pocket. I wound up with a total of $3k in student loans. Why should my family and myself be on the hook for all of that when other folks are getting tens of thousands of dollars for being irresponsible?
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@xavierb9061 This is probably fine going over a curb, which would be a major win as there's still plenty of places in the US that don't have ADA compliant curb cuts to allow wheel chairs and mobility scooters over the edge. Going up or down stairs with this would be a lot safer if the chair could shift forward or back a few inches to keep the person in it over the upper stair when going down.
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@shaynannigans I've had issues using telephone systems because the voice recognition can't hear me.
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@MrTombombodil Yes, I do wonder a bit if there is some provision of the ADA that applies to this, given just how discriminatory it can be for many disabilities.
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This wasn't clear years ago when there wasn't even a public option in Obamacare or the continued resistance to medicare for all?
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Initially, I boycotted it, but years later I did try to watch it and I got like 15 minutes in and just gave up. It was just such a terrible movie that I can't really say whether I'm boycotting it or just not watching it because it was terrible.
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One of the arguments I saw, back during the second Iraq war, about why the protesting would go nowhere, was that nobody was being drafted and so there wasn't anywhere near the personal investment of knowing that your number could be called any day. If you didn't want to fight in that war, then you generally could just not sign up. The only people who fought in it from America that might not have wanted to be those that signed up before 9/11 and a bunch of national guardsmen. For most other people, it was a choice to not enlist to some degree. I do think that there should be a draft and that any assignments of the draftees should be done without knowledge of whom they are, specifically to prevent the rich and powerful from getting out of it that way.
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I haven't personally noticed people being more aggressive with their right turn on red over the last couple decades. I could be wrong, but I think it's a lesser factor than a lot of other things.
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@ I take if you've never heard of market failures. Part of why we're in this mess is because people aren't being paid living wages, part of it is messed up zoning regulations and part of it is private equity and foreign investors being allowed to buy up large amounts of the housing that does exist. Doing nothing is just not a viable option here. I've been watching locally as every time the developers catch up with demand, a new wave of internal immigrants arrive and many of them are able to pay massive amounts above market rates knowing that when they're done working for one of the local tech companies, that they can sell what they bought for at least what they bought it for, so it's not even like the pricing on it matters.
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What do you expect? The courts have been pretty ballless when it comes to raining this sort of abuse of power in. What the TSA does is pretty much completely unconstitutional and not even effective. I remember when I was a kid, my dad would bring one of those classic buck knives on the plane. He'd toss it in the bin along with his change, the security screener would see it and give it back to him after he passed through the metal detector. There weren't mandatory sexual assaults to get on the plane, and the experience as all around relatively relaxed. Sure, being hijacked was a thing, rarely, but if the passengers went along with it, you might get hijacked to Cuba, and then released to return home. (Even after 9/11, it wouldn't have been much different, it's just that people would have known to fight back) And, it's only possible because interstate travel is no longer a constitutional right in any reasonable sense of the word. If I want to travel out of state, it's hours of driving, or a quick flight that requires subjecting oneself to what used to represent an illegal search.
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Warren is in it for the power of being the first female President. She cares precisely 0 about anything other than her own feelings.
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@BriBCG Because they're absolute crap that's worse than nothing in a fairly literal way. The one I have is so underpowered that even just logging in with 2FA enabled takes a half hour to try until it doesn't timeout midway.
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You can donate the money to somebody that needs it, if you don't. I'd be happy to take it off your hands, I've got tuition to pay.
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When you can remove those bundles of cells from the mother and still have a viable baby, then we can talk about it as if it's murder, up until that point it's just the uninformed that claim otherwise. Late term abortions where the baby could survive outside of the body are very hard to get and even if it isn't viable, there are few clinics willing to deal with it other than by delivery.
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Yes, but none of the union leaders are going to do it as they're in bed with the oligarchs.
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@paulamorris9981 I'm curious how that applies to this. Trump would need to be reelected and it would really only apply to federal charges. I don't believe there's anything that Trump would be able to do to get him out of this. Not that I would expect Trump to, he's not a fan of losers.
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If there was voter suppression, nobody was doing as effective job of it as the DNC. They failed to hold competitive primaries and even canceled a couple. They didn't even let the delegates vote on the actual nominee at the convention.
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@dw3403 True, not that it really matters as even if it is true, there is no rule against him from issuing the pardon even if he was involved in it.
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@shawbros BS, either that or you've completely destroyed your sense of smell by smoking stuff. I can personally smell pot from a distance that I would never be able to smell cigarette smoke, it's just that obnoxious.
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@scudfarcus4343 Yes, and that's typical of most state laws on the matter. The issue here is that this isn't handled like trespassing. The woman that was arrested can't just come back later with a copy of the deed and have the man removed for trespassing, and probably burglary, she has to just leave it alone and file paperwork with the court.
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I'm not sure how she could accept that deal after all those lies she told about him. She is holding out for something, but I don't see how she could accept a VP pick when she has tarred him as being sexist.
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That's assuming that it was saved to begin with. If it's giving an error so quickly, it probably wasn't even recorded correctly to begin with.
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Bars in the US have allowed people to open a tab, or pay for the drinks as they drink, for longer than I've been allowed into those establishments. Most casual dining restaurants have you pay when you order as well. Sit down restaurants tend to bill after you eat, but if it's that big of a deal, I don't see why it couldn't be done, it's just a bit of a hassle.
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It's not a ridiculous idea. Without the statute of limitations anybody could be sued or tried over allegations that are so old that getting witness testimony and evidence can be next to impossible. Personally, I like knowing that if somebody is going to sue me that I don't have to worry about things that may or may not have happened in my 20s. Also, many developed countries don't have jury trials and a judge can block an entire country from talking about things, most countries are at least as bad as the U.S. with regard to judicial proceedings.
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@valkyrie321 I think part of the issue is that Libertarians have tarnished the idea to the point where more moderate voices that consider any unnecessary accumulation of power outside of the people to be a grave danger have stopped using any related terms.
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@michaeledwards2251 Yes, and always keep paperwork indicating that such obligations are done, along with the paperwork indicating what they were and how much they were for. I've had bills like that come in and it was a major issue as the college employees weren't allowed to show me the evidence that I owed the money until I had paid the bill. At which point, they would have the money and very little reason to give it back if the money wasn't owed. They waited many years before even sending the first bill and it wasn't until I could talk with somebody a little higher on the food chain that I was able to get it wiped out. I'm still unclear as to how I could be billed for a quarter I wasn't even in school and allowed to enroll in several more quarters without paying a real bill.
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In all fairness, there was a seductive couch behind the interviewer. He just got distracted.
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RFK was a pretty good attorney general. He could have been attorney general even if his brother wasn't President.
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No, not unless things are extremely close. We've been voting by mail for years here and it's rare for us to not know the result within a few days and usually we know by the next day. The longest counts were for governor when there was an extremely small margin of votes and it had to go to multiple recounts. But, even in those cases, it was a matter of weeks, not months.
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@caru93 Yep, I assume they probably just have whomever it is that they've assigned to deal with their websites do it.
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Hyperinflation sucks. Taxes are how the government removes the money they print from the economy.
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The ACA was a step in the right direction, but it was embarassing that he couldn't whip Baucus into getting at least the public option. The seats of all those blue dogs were lost the next election anyways. That being said, Obama wasn't a do nothing, he was a moderate republican running as a democrat. The unidirectional compromise was a feature, not a bug.
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For most of that time we didn't really need to guarantee it because it would typically get negotiated for in union contracts or provided as a perk to lure workers to work for your company. Also, employees wouldn't change jobs very often, so having a bunch of burned out employees getting sick wasn't profitable. That changed sometime in the '70s or '80s as companies were allowed to keep more and more of the profits, which reduced the incentive to provide decent compensation packages that include sick time and vacation. And yes, it's every bit as backwards minded as it seems. Here in WA, people are guaranteed one hour of sick leave for every 40 hours that we work. But, there is no lower limit on hours worked, you just have to work enough for the hours to accrue.
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@andrewrobinson1634 The landlord shouldn't ever be handing out master keys, those are pretty serious. When I worked security, I had master keys and those were to be kept secured at all times due to the literal hundreds of thousands of dollars it would take to change all of the locks it could unlock. So, nobody would ever get one of those keys that wasn't security or the owner. And that doesn't even include the liability if things were suspected, or actually, missing after the keys went unsecured which could easily get into millions of dollars with businesses like attorneys being in the room where their stuff getting stolen or broken into can be expensive. So, the landlord definitely screwed up, the degree to which the cleaning company is also on the hook isn't as clear. If the place looks like people are moving in or living in, then they really should have sought some confirmation. Assuming that the cleaners can even speak English well enough to. It wouldn't surprise me if they hired people that can't due to being cheaper.
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If Sanders does win, you better believe that the DNC will find ways of losing as many seats as possible to make it look like Sanders cost us representation.
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@dmay3391 His own chief of staff admitted that the President did it. He refused to provide any of the requested documents and made up of reasons why he didn't have to comply with lawful subpoenas. Many of the criminal activities were literally on camera. He did the things he was accused of. The fact that people don't know that it's deeply troubling.
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The appealing is subject to an appeal and Trump would still be prosecutable. Unlike Alec Baldwin whose case was dismissed with prejudice.
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@radityapoerwanto7018 TBH, arguably, the Somalis would have the greatest reason to celebrate with the possible exception of Korea.
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@spottedtime Not particularly, at least for the typical, you just didn't have folks dressing like they were at home going to bed. That being said back then you were allowed to bring your own knife if you wanted to, so long as it was smaller than the limit. Now, you can't even bring nail clippers and have to remove your shoes to go through security.
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That's pretty much inevitable, depending upon what aspect of the film they're looking at some of it can be fixed or adjusted a matter of a couple weeks before the film opens. The worst thing about this kind of a ruling is that it means that they'll need to stop fixing their films much earlier as they'd then be stuck with whatever it is that shows up in the trailers. It gets even more confusing when you've got other materials that aren't from the movie. I remember when I was a kid seeing a friend with some photos of Indiana Jones that weren't in the film.
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@maryannbravo5650 Not necessarily, sometimes organizations are led by people that push to hard for targets that incentivize careless behavior and there was probably somebody higher up riding shotgun that could have said no as well. 4 of them are unpaid leave, but it's entirely possible that some of them will be cleared to go back to work. It's a miracle that nobody on the fire truck was seriously injured and that the train didn't derail.
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@CalebCalixFernandez In a way it's rather sad when the US doesn't have things that nations that our politicians claim are failed states have. We also don't have postal banks like many other nations have. If you're going to ensure banking access to everybody, a postal bank makes sense as post offices tend to be distributed through as much of a given country as possible. Few things are more widespread in a typical country than postal service.
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Yes, he's Tom Arnold. In real life he is known for having extremely poor taste as he married Roseanne for a while.
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The point of electric vehicles is that it shifts the pollution to a smaller number of sources that are easier to address. You can also potentially swap out entire coal plants with more environmentally friendly options without impacting the items using the electricity. I don't get why so many people don't get that.
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It's old technology, there's no assembly line for it and it already has a bunch of issues in terms of noise, fuel efficiency and that they were permanently grounded due to that crash. Sometimes, just rebuilding older technology can make sense, but the Concorde had a bunch of issues and was meant to usher in a new age of supersonic flight, which ultimately didn't happen. Now, there's little point in having it at all as folks can work on flights, and teleconferencing has greatly reduced the need to travel that quickly.
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That's because Scandinavia and Germany are major contributors to the local culture. Not to mention all the carpet baggers that cycle through. Stand offish is a fair descriptor, but if you keep digging, we can be friendly.
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In all fairness, some countries do have a sort of a touristy bubble where everything is geared towards that. Especially countries that are poorer, but relatively stable with relatively low violence.
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@Just-Human Doesn't matter. That's all the more reason for them to not go on these unconstitutional fishing expeditions.
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@ebr-fan1117 Because they're literally caught on camera violating the Constitution and whatever oath they made when they got their badges. This isn't even just one search, this is them repeatedly searching people without the legal authority to do it. As far as innocent until proven guilty, that doesn't really apply to that woman that's righty calling them out for trying to enforce a blatantly illegal law.
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@adseigo I agree, Disney needs to fix that more than just about anything else. Universal seems to have a better grip on that. Two levels of express line privileges,one per attraction or unlimited for more. And, you just get in the appropriate line and scan your ticket. None of the having to hope you can get a reservation and know that you might have to choose between several other rides, or using it on the line that's the longest. It definitely felt like the genie+ was massively ovepriced compared with the Universal express line upgrade even though the Universal package was a lot more expensive. I think I only had two photo opportunities available with genie+ and the lightning lanes might as well not have existed as they were a real pain to use as you can only have one reservation at a time and popular attractions book out into the evening very quickly, meaning that you might not be able to use it at all on one of the popular rides, or have to give up most of the other uses of the lightning lane prior to that.
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@adseigo It's an OK ride, but they really shouldn't have bothered with the interrogation portion as the other riders tend to break the immersion to the point that it's not really worth doing. The amount of time it takes to get people to understand where to stand is also a bit much.
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Funny how folks did that when Obama was President. We can definitely blame him for continuing efforts to cut medical coverage and refusal to push for expansion. Those are completely on him.
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That's a gross exageration. I've lived in a 2nd world and the US is still generally better off than that. But, there are definitely pockets that are legit 3rd world level of development like some of the poorer reservations and parts of Appalachia where running water and electricity aren't yet available.
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Thank you for your service.
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No matter who wins, the people lose.
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That won't happen because Israel likes to make it as hard as possible for any of them to leave the country. A lot of that has to do with them not wanting people to know about the atrocities that the Israelis are engaging in and the fear that the angry folks that have been abused will take up arms elsewhere with fewer restrictions.
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@ElectronFieldPulse We kind of already did that though with the pandemic relief. And the reports that had come out at the time indicated that on the whole, the money was used on sensible things rather than just wasted. There's also the more targeted programs like the ones that were specifically for helping parents take care of their children as well. This study mostly serves as propaganda to fight against UBI rather than being a particularly informative study. The ones done in the 3rd world are far more likely to be what would happen if we got UBI in the US.
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"Your honor, my client would like to bring the court's attention to the possible gratuities after the verdict"
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You sir are the problem. The DNC continues to cheat in order to get their preferred candidate. If anything, Biden is a step down from Trump. Have you seen his cabinet picks? They make Trump's look perfectly reasonable. We have Trump because Hillary refused to do anything to earn our vote. So, we stayed home, voted for somebody else or voted for Trump. It's not our fault that the DNC can't figure out how to run a clean primary.
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@supermario69kraftgami23 That's an absolute load of crap. That is precisely the opposite of true. Monopolies destroy competition, they aren't caused by a lack of competition. And patents and regulations are what causes decentralization, not what causes monopolies. This is not even remotely confusing or complicated. It's just that a bunch of Ayn Rand wannabes choose not to learn anything from history.
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As much as I hate the metric system, I love the sign design on the traffic signs that most other countries use. They're designed to use as few words as possible so that the signs are understood no matter where you are.
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It's worth noting that at the same time this has been happening, more goods are delivered just in time for sales, meaning that if the truck is late, there may be no merchandise to stock on the shelves.
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Or, just letting us have our votes count for something. If he really wanted to show his appreciation, he could have dropped out when it became obvious that he was only winning due to election fraud and just let Bernie have the nomination that he's earned. Or, really, even just no longer laughing about people's problems would be an improvement.
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They're not wrong. This isn't like those cowards in Uvalde who were specifically trained and hired to go in there and stop the shooter, this is something that cannot safely be done without appropriate training and even then only as an absolute last resort. Even the trained rescue divers might not have chanced it depending upon what the specific danger was at the location. It's not unheard of for a strong of 4 or 5 people to drown trying to save somebody when they can't reach or throw something to the distressed swimmer. If you're not trained and equipped for the rescue, the distressed swimmer is probably going to drag you down with them or push you down as they try to get on top of you. It's extremely dangerous. Plus, it's worth noting that even if they were going to go in, by the time they got enough of that gear off to even try, it likely would have been too late. Perhaps you shouldn't be commenting on things that you know nothing about. They did the right thing and will be back on patrol before too long.
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I definitely recommend that people use a VM where possible whenever they're wanting to try a new OS. I don't personally get what the issues are with the *BSD filesystem logic, there's an entire man page set up covering the layout of the filesystem. (hier for those interested) Personally, I find the Linux filesystem to be slightly more confusing as there's an additional /opt root that seems to be used inconsistently by various programs. It's not a significant issue, I go back and forth pretty often with Linux running on my Raspberry Pis and in an emulator most of the time. But, really most of the folks claiming Linux superiority are making mountains out of mole hills and greatly exaggerating the differences. Both sets of OSes work just fine for typical users, but anybody claiming that Linux is just better is full of it. There are a few things that Linux is better at, but they tend to be more specific niches.
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@veryslyfox If they had the wallet, they didn't need the trick. They already had the information necessary to rob it. And chances are that that house wasn't that much more wealthy than the others in the neighborhood.
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What about poor whites? Why should they be locked into poverty? And what about reparations for other crimes of the government? Virtually all the wealth gap is the result of the top of the distributions being different.
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CHARLES MAX TBH, if people are going to do that, it helps when they're right. Data was plural and only remains plural in specialized contexts. In most cases, it's noncountable like furniture is. Datum isn't even a word that most people know.
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Or the poor, those folks taking out those loans usually are middle class as they aren't rich enough to pay outright and don't qualify for real financial aid.
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@jj947 That's not true. A little over 40 years ago they had addressed the problem and it's mostly the structural changes to the economy that made the fixes insufficient. So, no, it's an outright lie to say that it's been "about to collapse" for 40 years.
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@TheCommanderTaco I'm not sure that default applies to criminal proceedings. And, I think he did call to say he was late.
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And if the stores could tell you they would. The dates are just conservative estimates, the food may be safe longer or not even that long. Expecting a one size fits all label date to tell you the exact point where it's no longer safe is asking a lot more than what the food supply chain can provide.
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Around here a bunch of tickets had to be cancelled because there were too many letters on some of the signs warning of the speed camera. (The limit exists because we're driving machines that weigh thousands of pounds and require attention be paid to the road to avoid killing anybody)
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@Austin Duke That's exactly the thing, if you don't buy extra stuff or pay more than you would normally. The problem is that people don't normally show such restraint. There are people out there that do, but even in those cases, that extra cash back is costing you some added effort in exercising discipline that could be used in other areas of your life. In other words, there is no free lunch here. That extra money is coming from somewhere and people who use these cards are exchanging it for discipline they could be using to improve their lives in other areas.
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When one of the local Catholic run hospitals wanted to buy the biggest hospital in the state, that sort of thing was a serious concern for everybody other than regulators. And, most of the doctors working there are just leasing space, they aren't actually acting under the direction of the hospital. They just want offices where they can refer people to other medical specialties that are located nearby.
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Yep, I don't understand how they can win if they're not going after the low-hanging fruit. Biden isn't just an inferior candidate, but he is a real danger to the nation.
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@MarcSherwood TBH, the longest ride that I typically do on my motorcycle is roughly 200 miles round trip. These days, there appears to be several that can handle that with extra to spare. But, yeah, if you do hit the limit, it's not something where you can just carry a gas can to the nearest service station and return, the bike pretty much needs to be loaded into a truck and driven to a charging station.
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Yes and both parties engage in it. The Democrats do it by fixing their primaries to ensure that the will of the people isn't respected. They just don't generally do it in the general election. So, we get more Democrats that act like Republicans.
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This is why I don't give you money. There's no such thing as toxic masculinity. I'm not even sure why I have to say that. Nobody talks about toxic femininity, so why would toxic masculinity be a thing? Plus, you literally could not have this show without the contributions of men.
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That's why they'll be with us for some time. They're the largest of the studios in terms of back catalog and you're outright not going to be able to sell it off the way that they could have sold Ford off. The physical studio is profitable, the streaming service is profitable. The linear TV division is a massive albatross and there certainly have been some flops in the movie and games divisions. They certainly could fail anyways, but I'm just not sure who could even buy their back catalog other than the government as they're that large.
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@WinterXR7 Um, yes, they do. Most of the time when planes crash there are few, if any, casualties. It's just that those crashes don't remain in the news as long as the ones that result in large numbers of dead.
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He was in contempt of court for failing to call the court and hoping it would just go away. He wasn't sent to jail for oversleeping. That being said, I think that 10 days was rather harsh. A day or perhaps a fine of some sort would have been appropriate. Contempt of court is one of the few tools available to judges to ensure that people stick to the rules of the road in court.
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In cases like that, there's supposed to be remedial work and support provided to bridge the gap. There's a lot of reasons why that doesn't happen, but that's what's supposed to happen. The idea is that students have severe issues socially if they're held back and that they may wind up dropping out early and not even getting the exposure to the material that they would get by just being promoted. I'm not supper enthusiastic about that approach, but when done properly, it can work. The issue is that it's often not done properly and really screws students over in those cases.
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Socialism is a weird spelling for capitalism. The most ignorant people about this are virtually always pro-capitalist.
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@TheFredmac On what basis? You think that profit just disappears because it no longer gets leached out of the company to unproductive investors? Where do you think that wealth comes from in the first place? Wealth inevitably floats to the top in the absence of something to stop it from doing so. It happened in the USSR and it happens in North Korea.
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That will likely change over time, Linux doesn't have any filesystem with the same level of reliability and consistency. But that being said, unless somebody has specific software or hardware requirements that work on Linux rather than *BSD, it shouldn't be a foregone conclusion that the install will be Linux based. Many Linux programs can be run directly on FreeBSD with the appropriate compatibility mode installed and that's assuming that there isn't a version already compiled for FreeBSD or a source port of it. ZFS on Linux is a significant problem that I hope they will solve, there shouldn't be so many different ways of installing it which all use slightly differing feature sets making it a problem to switch between them.
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@ibeetellingya5683 Yes, if it were as easy as voting for somebody else, this probably wouldn't be continuing. But, it requires a 3rd party and none of the other options we've had is large enough to do much to rein in the corrupt practices of either party.
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Yes, she's a national treasure.
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I don't think that pointing out that women lying about birth control should have been included is at all unreasonable. If anything, that would be easier to enforce than claims of men sabotaging their condoms.
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We'll see, I do think it's more likely that he attacked them because he thought he could get away with it, but I'm sure there's more information available to the police from his social media accounts and the like to work with. But, it would be rather unusual for a serial killer to engage in such a diverse set of methods. Most of the time, they tend to stick to something more consistent.
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@PointsPointers When I first heard him talking about how CCs are evil, I didn't really get it. I pay my accounts off just about every month with the exception being when I get free promotional interest. Last money I switched to just debit and cash for most purchases and he was right. I'm not necessarily spending that much less than I was, but I'm finding it a lot easier to avoid buying things that I don't really need as it's a pain in the backside to figure out if I've got the money in the account necessary to pay via debit. IMHO, the best thing to do is to only put recurring payments on credit cards and do virtually everything else via cash or debit. The other things to put on credit is if you're getting a specific benefit out of it. For example, free insurance when you rent a car or free warranty protection. If you're counting on it for fraud protection, then you should be really thinking hard about whether the party you're paying can be trusted as you're not necessarily guaranteed for the CC company to believe your side over the merchant.
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But, that simply isn't the case. The minstrel shows were popular for less than a century, and didn't even start out so racist. Drag shows are just the most recent iteration of a tradition that's literally thousands of years old. I'm sorry, but you're just wrong about this. Cross dressing has never been exclusive to transgender people, there are various reasons why people do it, but for the longest time people thought crossdressing meant somebody was gay.
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They talk to him because the people that are allowed to make the decisions are also rather old. And nobody at all seems to care about the younger folks that are being stuck with this mess with the exception of Bernie and a few others that don't have any real say in what the party does.
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I recently had somebody more or less say the same thing. He seemed to think that as a non-English speaker that he was more qualified to know what a phrase meant. Not to mention that he knows more than the people who compile dictionaries and the vast majority of uses of that particular phrase.
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She doesn't need supervision, that's why they weren't required to pay. The only "extra" here would not being deplaned and most of the people on the plane were not deplaned. And that costs the airline nothing. I flew on my own at that age and I didn't need anything at all during the flight beyond what people normally get.
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Not to mention that only the largest of libraries would have that many books that aren't subdivided by categories along the lines of the Dewey Decimal system or Library of Congress. Normally, you'd partition them based on that first, then you'd just take the much smaller stacks of books and shelve them where they go one at a time. It's much faster for retrieval and storage.
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It probably isn't mostly grass, that neighborhood has a bunch of weird terrain and what isn't in somebody's lot is more or less forest land that is even more annoying to dig through due to regulations.
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That's not how that worked. The point of the tax is to do something to try to reduce the exploitation. Either fund the drivers more, or encourage restaurants to bring the delivery service back inhouse and paid like a real employee. These businesses would have all gone out of business anyways. It's just a matter of time.
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The definition hasn't changed, they reworded it to be less confusing. You'll note that in the first definition includes immunity, but not absolute immunity. There aren't degrees of absolute. In this case, vaccination was never perfect and no credible immunologist should have been saying otherwise. An effective vaccine may cut the cases by nearly 100%, but there's always somebody that doesn't respond strongly enough to get full immunity. Honestly, I like Jimmy, but this is a normal case where the dictionary writers are fixing a definition that was misunderstood about a particularly important word.
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This video needed a lot more research. The Zen school of Buddhism doesn't seek to disregard reality in such a manner, it seeks to reset the brain so that you can see what is truly there the way that a baby would, but with the accumulated wisdom of a great sage. Additionally, the point of koans isn't really to learn anything from them so much as they're intended to be used to force the brain into a position where it gives up trying to attach to the things you've wrongly learned. When you get it, the brain releases and you have the chance to see things as they are, not as you think they are. This is why the koans seem to be so nonsensical, internally inconsistent and confusing. The point of them is to fill you're entire waking thoughts with them until a solution reveals itself.
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20% is roughly what Krashen recommends. Anybody saying 100% input is completely full of it. It's possible to learn a language like that, but it's offloading a lot of the work to teachers and it's going to take a great deal of time to do. One of the big benefits to an input intensive strategy is that if you like the material and can find material of an appropriate level, it's easier to remain motivated to continue.
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That's part of the problem, a lot of these groups don't come from areas where critical thinking is particularly valued and even if they do, the facts available for doing the thinking are so skewed that it's virtually impossible to start with a reasonable premise. Despite that, I completely agree that the censorship isn't likely to be very helpful. If you ban talk of certain things you also ban the ability to get better at identifying them as being wrong and you run the risk of banning materials that are right, but not yet supported by evidence.
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If Biden had pushed some of the promises that he claims to be making on his site, things like wiping out at least $10k in student debt, adding a robust public option and ensuring that essential workers have priority for PPE, we would know who won by now. Not that he's going to do any of it, if he does, I'll probably drop over dead.
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@kristinaanderson4160 A lot of that has to do with how you introduce them to it. But, cats are desert animals and don't have a genetic history with positive interactions with water. If you feed them wet food, they may not even drink the stuff more than a couple times a month.
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@LTVoyager Meanwhile, I installed Ubuntu on my ancient Chromebook and it's working pretty well. (Admittedly a bit of a pain due to how the firmware flashing is done)
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You should be even angrier. The money is going to people with pensions to cover income that was never taxed for social security and there hasn't been anything to indicate where the money is coming from.
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If Biden is the nominee, I'm voting for Trump. At least Trump knew to promise a check to the American people to help hold us over. The Democrats should have been talking about that first and demand that the checks continue until the pandemic has wound down in the US and people can go back to work.
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That's the thing there, helmets protect against a lot, I've been hit by bits of gravel in the neck. It's literally the only part of my body that isn't covered by gear, and it hurt, a lot.
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@TheFanatic340 You don't really know what he was thinking or doing. I'm not sure what the speed limit was there, but a typical freeway speed is something like 60-70mph, if the wrong way driver was doing 100mph, that means that the rate they were closing was likely in excess of 160mph. He would have had mere seconds to determine which lane she was in and recognize that she was likely to collide with him. So yes, looking as far forward as possible may have helped, but probably not in this case. Headlights are aimed in such a way that even that wouldn't have helped much.
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@Londubh Things along those lines are fairly common when something has been grandfathered in. Once something has been completely torn down, you're typically starting from scratch. If it's partially standing, you often times are allowed to rebuild a similar structure in it's place, even if the current rules wouldn't permit any construction.
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@NathanTeaches That's debatable. They were required to stop selling or distributing the books, they were not legally obligated to delete the copies that were already downloaded. Copy right just refers to creating copies, not to copies that already exist. The ones that already existed were not ones that Amazon had any obligation to delete as those would have disappeared on their own over time and in many cases it was a moot point as the copy had already been read and they were trapped on the Kindles as there was DRM to prevent them from being backed up independent of Amazon's copies on their servers.
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@krysis54 From what I can tell, that's technically unknown as in the few times in the past when that was done, nobody challenged it in court, they just accepted that pardons work like that. It's really hard to say what the result would be right now if somebody did decide to challenge a pro-active pardon. The result could look very different depending upon whether it's Hunter or somebody that MAGA folks like.
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@Luniel11 Seattle has been doing that for New Year's Eve, I didn't see it the the Fourth of July. One of the great thing about the drones is that it can help with pacing as the drone sections tend to be a bit more relaxed.
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Some goes for Hillary and Biden.
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When I was student teaching, I had a set of 4 folders for the day's paper work. Distribute, Copy, Return and Grade. It didn't take much effort to figure out what went where as it was usually pretty clear.
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You're not, you're paying for the government to provide services so other people can't claim it to be theirs as well as the ability to drive o roads to get to it. Arguably, property tax is the only tax that should actually exist.
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Which is surprising when you consider that Pelosi and Trump are also fraudulent officials.
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All of them should have been executed for sedition along with the rest of the establishment insiders.
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Because they're trying to start WWIII. It's absolutely nuts the way that Israel is trying to drag as many countries into this as possible. I guess that Netanyahu figured out that it's the only hope he has of not being voted out of power and sent on a one way trip to the ICJ.
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After the HRC endorsed Cuomo over Nixon, we should be used to it. Passing over better qualified candidates in your demographic to support a crook.
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Not really, just because there isn't an actual shut down doesn't mean that there's going to be enough economic activity to allow people to get through without help. I'm sure that's part of the thinking behind that.
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@MikeInOregon That's a modern distinction. Native flora and fauna are more or less just a different way of referring to plants and animals that are indigenous to the region. Arguably, the tribes of the Americas aren't indigenous as they migrated there as well.
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@thomasplummer8103 How much would you say is necessary given the degree to which the US screwed South America?
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@drewgoin8849 Yes, and in all the years that these have existed, this is the first time I remember hearing anything about it.
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That's what the profile says. But, is that what they're actually responding to when men reach out, that's the really important detail.
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@timramich You might want to read Adam Smith, the father of capitalism, if you think that. In the absence of regulations to prevent it, every economy will always become a single source monopoly over everything. The only thing that prevents that is government intervention. Just look at how consolidated the US economy has become when people like you started to oppose regulations. There used to be so many more options when I was a kid, just before that BS started. Now, we have the appearance of choice, but the money mostly goes to the same small number of companies.
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It's amazing how many people here are OK with inappropriate treatment of minors, just as long as it's being done by people on the correct side of the aisle.
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People are stupid. From what I can tell, the worst of it is that there don't appear to be very many rest areas. 100F+ isn't that big of a deal if you have low humidity and know to wear winter weather gear that's soaked in water and can stop to re-moisten it.
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Probably, she was just being extremely thorough out of caution just to make sure that nothing was misconstrued.
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A pb and j sandwich would make a better candidate.
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If you read through the Old Testament, it reads a lot like we're all in a relationship with an abusive spouse. Just swap out all the references to God to ones that match the spouse of the appropriate sex.
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Nah man, this is actually funny.
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@chibicitiberiu Because if they couldn't do that, then nobody would be offering features that depended upon 3rd party code. From what I've read here, the affected devices are over 10 years old, meaning that they've been EOL for many years and who knows how many of them are even functioning at this point. That's well above and beyond what people should be expecting of this sort of hardware.
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@disguysn I work at a grocery store and we basically can't get anybody to show up for theft unless it's a lot because the prosecutors won't prosecute theft of small amounts. I'll literally see the same guy most days come in and steal a few drinks and walk out and there's nothing that can be done legally about it as the cops won't show up and shopkeepers privilege doesn't apply if the cops aren't coming.
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@ I've seen experts suggest that much of the stuff that was alleged to be with him won't be admissible due to them not being able to require him to identify himself early on and that much of it may not be permissible due to being obtained improperly. We'll have to see, but it sounds like he has good attorneys.
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@Jim Allen A few years ago, I had a company that was holding my money that refused to give it back. It was money that I had been taxed on, but because it was in their accounts, I couldn't get it back without hiring an attorney to get the court to give it back. To an extent I get it, if it's being held in the company's accounts there needs to be verifications and the like, but being told that I couldn't have my money back without any explanation as to why it wasn't my money, even though I'd already paid taxes on it was inferiating.
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The problem is that the voters aren't their constituents, the donors are.
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This is Hawaii, not Kansas, I'm pretty sure that the insurance companies already know how to deal with that and factor it into the cost of selling insurance.
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That's been the strategy of the MSM all along. They're doing whatever they can to delegitimize his views and supporters.
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I had my wedding back in February when it looked like things were getting bad. It was a small courthouse wedding. I'm thankful that we were able to schedule that so quickly. We're still waiting on the bigger, fancier wedding with all the guests until after the outbreak is over. At this rate, it may have to be our 6 month or year anniversary. It's nice to see that other people are being creative about how they get theirs.
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@masterthnag105 Yes, plus as a practical matter, what's to stop that person's family and friends from deciding that the person taking the law into their own hands isn't a murderous monster? That kind of thing keeps gang wars going on for many years, past the point where anybody knows who started it or why.
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@Teampegleg That was pure luck on the part of the airline. This could just as easily have happened on a second leg of the journey.
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At least this didn't happen in Canada, they would have had to firmly request that he stop throwing eggs at the reigning monarch.
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But, his rights are being violated. CVS does not have a monopoly over what goes on in the public right of way. If they saw something illegal, they are free to call the cops, but they would be on the hook for a lawsuit if the cops came and anything happened. Or even if nothing other than the cops coming as they don't have the legal right to dictate who is and isn't allowed on the sidewalk there.
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They pretty much always plead not guilty unless offered a deal. It's how the system works. We'll have to see if the plea changes or if there's a conviction.
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I'm curious about when John is finally going to get the treatment he so badly needs for his rodent fixation. The signs are all there, he needs help.
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@benterwellen I'm pretty sure the locations all use time clocks, so there may be occasional discrepencies in that regard, but not in a systematic way. Decades ago my roommate had been working for Albertsons and they were using timeclock punches for recording time. The mistakes that I've been reading about are mainly accounting errors where somebody didn't properly classify employees or apply raises that should have been paid. It is illegal and they'll likely wind up having to pay a lot of money as a result as these are hours that nobody disputes that employees were authorized to work and worked. It's primarily about how much they are owed for the money.
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Yep. I grew up there and the place is a s-hole now, a large part of it is Amazon's model. They largely don't hire locally and oppose anything that might cost them money. Now we've got tent cities just about everywhere and it shows no sign of improving. The city used to be high end back water when I was a kid, but now the place completely lacks any soul as most normal people can't afford rent.
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@noahmets The GOP has nothing to do with it. The democrats used reconciliation as an end run around the GOP, they could have made the $1400 the $2k they promised or even recurring. They also could have dealt with student loans. They still could deal with student loans, but Biden refuses to acknowledge that the power tart allowed the loans to be suspended could suspend them permanently.
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Even the Dems have failed miserably on dealing with the hazard pay. They've proposed $13 an hour, but the unemployed are getting the equivalent of $15 an hour for 40 hours. To make matters worse, that $13 an hour is based upon the number of hours worked and doesn't take into account the increased risk related to working essential jobs.
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This is just utter bullshit. So states like WA, CA, TX and NY that reliably vote the same way don't get any interest in our political wishes, while dying states like FL, OH and the like do. The whole video is a bunch of BS that just pushes us further and further in the direction of fascism where an increasing portion of the country doesn't get a say in what goes on at the federal level while the folks that actually do have an outsized say continue to claim that they don't.
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It also depends on the people having a say in which candidates are in the general election.
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His opinion here is shared by most actual experts in the field. Anybody that knows anything about either statistics or virology would know that he's not wrong about this vaccine having a minimal impact on spread. The figures that Mike quotes are far too low to consider counting on when deciding whether or not to gather with the family for holiday parties based upon the likelihood of spreading the disease around. Even at 80%, it's not much better than nothing.
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@divinecomedian2 Depending upon what led to this and the specific conditions, there are various possibilities from nothing to demotion to firing to potential criminal charges. They won't really know what the appropriate response is until the investigation is done. That being said, I'd be very much surprised if the folks in the cab managing the driving aren't severely punished. Fire trucks are extremely expensive and there could have been a large number of people hurt, especially if the train had derailed as a result of the collision.
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@larryjohnson3087 Stopping the fight is fine, the problem is that stopping it by knocking out the other party isn't.
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This isn't an area open for debate. Digital is better and it's not even remotely close. Misguided fools think that vinyl is better, but 48mhz 16bit digital audio is a thing and even standard CD digital is far better than what typical people can discern.
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The 1st amendment doesn't apply here, this is a private website. Whether or not it should be is a different matter entirely.
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Did you toss it in the oven for a bit to brown up the outside, or serve it as is? Personally, I've switched to prime rib for Thanksgiving, it's just a lot less work, even if it's not terribly traditional and the local grocery store will sell the entire meal ready to heat.
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That's worse that the current system where paying for injuries due to a lack of gear is already mandatory?
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Remind me again who supports racism? Perhaps it's time to stop blaming white men for absolutely everything and just limit to things that are actually us.
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@aebalc I work at a grocery store and I'll say that it's hard to say one way or another. I do hear near constant requests from the checkers for somebody to open a new line. And, those checkers mostly come from other departments. But where it's less clear is whether any of those other departments actually got extra hours to account for all the times that they get called to the registers. I'm grateful to work in a department that's understaffed enough that I don't have to do that. (Still, come on, our department is up regularly, it would be nice to actually have real coverage when we go on breaks or lunch)
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Why? It's far easier to keep increasing the legal age than it is to get people who have been legally using to give it up. Around here, a pack of cigarettes is something like $10 and you have to be at least 21 to buy one and the retailer is legally required to scan an ID for any purchase. And, you pretty much can't smoke anywhere except either at home or outside a sufficient distance from doors, windows and vents. Meaning that for several months out of the year, it's a pretty miserable experience.
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This is one of my concerns. I made decisions about which schools to attend and how far to go in part based upon the fact that I'd be paying nearly all of it. As a man who was born into a white, middle-class family, I wasn't going to get anything that wasn't given to everybody else. Even when I did qualify for work study, the college chose to give it to other people, which meant that I had very few choices for work while in school. Right now I've got about $3k in debt and that's about all that I've accrued outside my family and if this goes through, it's a slap in the face to me as I'll still have to pay basically all the schooling I've gotten, but the irresponsible folks with get a huge boost. If I had known they were going to waive the debt, I too could have gotten loans and taken that money and invested it or just had fun with it. Waiving the debt is just one big middle finger to those that were responsible.
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@@user-in6pw5vf3t They definitely will be gasping for breath, their lungs will start to burn and they'll gasp for breath as the CO2 levels rise as CO2 levels are what trigger the body to gasp for breathe. If the CO2 were being removed and replaced by something other that oxygen, they wouldn't gasp, they would eventually just pass out as nothing would trigger the breathing when they passed out.
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@JustSomePerson8 Not even remotely true, the lungs will burn, they'll gasp for breathe and eventually pass out and die if they aren't located and hooked up to some auxiliary source of oxygen before it's too late. If they're extremely lucky, they'll be able to be brought up to a safe depth and extracted using a rescue sub, but the likelihood of that gets less and less as time goes by and it's very possible that it's already impossible to do in time.
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@jhonspeedy Yep, my brother lives in a small town. There's never more than one cop out on patrol, so you know that if you see that car, you can probably get away with speeding as much as you like, as there's only one patrol car in the entire town. Honestly, I don't entirely understand why they bother having their own police at that point, usually such small towns just get protection from the Sheriff's department.
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@ALL4SCUBA05 Yes, although the rules in general were different back then and the bit that people forget is that Tokyo had already been flattened and that the Japanese had been given warnings that their were incoming bombing raids. I don't particularly condone it, but the rules were different at that time and it was hardly just the US flattening cities. The Japanese themselves flattened multiple Chinese cities themselves.
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@thesoundsmith LOL, good one.
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My apartment even has a shared neutral because of that. It allows you to cut down on the copper required by about a quarter as you're not duplicating the neutral. So, one hot from one phase and another from the other and both of them using the same neutral. It works, but it can be annoying for some things you might want to wire in.
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Starting earlier is an advantage, but it's not like you can't get fluent later on, it's just a different path and a large part of the issue comes with just being that much more busy. In some ways, I have fewer issues with language learning now than I did when I was younger, just because I have access to materials that weren't available when I was younger. If I wanted German video, I was completely stuck with having to have an expensive tape transfer done or have a PAL TV setup to watch on. And I'm not even sure if there were any Mandarin materials at that time, at that time, the English being taught over there was mostly from recordings and that's about it.
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@apveening That's mostly poor quality of education, which admittedly used to be fairly hard to teach due to not having the sort of electronic tools we have now for teaching pronunciation.
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No, but there is a law that says that theft is illegal. The machine malfunctioning is one thing, the coming back repeatedly to take advantage of it and selling use of the card is why she's being prosecuted.
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That sounds right, the point of FSB is to establish if you've got enough to bring them in for more conclusive testing. The potential crime is driving while impaired rather than just being a bad driver. Being a really bad driver would potentially be a different offense and wouldn't require any evidence of substance use beyond the legal limit.
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Just compensation is often a lot less than people expect. It's more or less the value after the government says that you can't use it for anything. Or, they'll condemn just a portion of the property and pay for that, leaving the rest of it unusable. That happened to my dad, he was trying to build on a piece of land that he bought, and the city condemned the only portion of the property that could be built on, and only paid for that portion.
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Two parties wouldn't be an issue if they weren't allowed to be gatekeepers of which candidates can run for President. Yes, there are other parties, but only two that have enough money to be competitive.
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He won't fight for any of that. We could have had a public option in Obamacare, but didn't fight for it.
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@AbsentMinded619 One of the few things this study shows us is that you don't need to. If this had been scaled up for an entire count or state, there would have been increased economic activity as more or less all the money handed out was spent on something with only a very small reduction in hours worked.
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And if he got caught doing that, it would be free room and board in one of the government's hotels with the nice grey bars and free clothing.
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@devilsoffspring5519 TBH, I think that depends where you are and how often you got. If you do go to a bar regularly, you'll know who the hotheads are and who the reasonable folks are. It also depends when you're there. Being there earlier in the evening probably also cuts down a lot on problems as folks are generally a bit less buzzed and a bit more likely to be going to work the next morning.
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And fortunately for these corporate types, the judiciary has been stocked with people that are too stupid to see the connection in any of this. As long as they don't hire arbitrators that explicitly promise to side with them, they'll ignore the inherent bias of arbitrators that are dong a lot of business with one party and only one case with the other. As if there isn't a significant incentive to not find the "wrong" way too many times. Arbitration should always be negotiated after there's a dispute and the company shouldn't be allowed to use the same arbitrators for their cases. It should be anybody that the parties can agree with off whatever list of licensed arbitrators is available in that area.
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@panachevitz You should have paid more, mine is 1,2,3,4,5 . You know, just a bit more secure.
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Perhaps, but then you'd get pulled over and forced to show the paperwork for the car. It's not ideal, but how many people drive a car without plates out of state? T ypically that plate comes pretty quickly.
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Here in WA where we have not just all mail voting, but top 2 primaries and our redistricting is done by a bipartisan panel. It's the only reason why I will continue to vote for Democrats at the state level because the vote is still meaningful. For state positions, I get a choice of quite a few democrats in the primary and usually 2 in the general election and I can choose candidates that are more open to things like democracy and keeping money out of politics. It's an effective model. The main reason that every state doesn't have something similar in place, is that it would be too hard for Republicans to win and the Democratic establishment is none too fond of it either. We wound up with the system we have in large part because the people had the ability to directly enact these things into law without the consent of the parties.
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@michaeldelyjah5696 Yes, and that's usually the problem with banks. I remember a while back when one of the big banks sent money to pay off the wrong debts and had to just eat the lost interest. Since the money was expected by the recipient and was for something they were owed, just later on, they got to keep it. Which seems reasonable, it was money that they had loaned and the terms allowed for the money to be paid off early. As such, they weren't under any legal obligation to give it back as it was legally their money.
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I'm not so sure we can say that we have a democracy at this point. Not after the Brooks Brothers Riot of '00 and the numerous elections since where bad candidate after bad candidate after bad candidate was forced on the people. Voters haven't had so little say in what goes on in decades, if ever.
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I'm just waiting for articles implying a candidate is a child molester for have a underaged girlfriend when he was 15.
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@brebrown5338 Yes, the fact that he was allowed to get so far in the primary does indicate how strong he is with his inner circle, and how feeble he ultimately is He wouldn't have been elected in 2020 had he had to actually go around campaigning or not been the only candidate with enough support from the elites to rob Bernie of his nomination.
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@verreal Precisely, and I work in a grocery store and from what I can tell, if you even bother to try to get the cops out, they won't come out unless there's a felony involved. So, threatening the staff would likely get a police response promptly, but theft probably not. And most of them no that if they leave immediately that by the time the cops come, if they even bother at all, they'll be long gone. It's mostly the same characters every week doing the bulk of the stealing. A company illegally expanding it's rights to encompass dictating who is and isn't on the sidewalk isn't going to make a difference one way or another. It just means they immediately go in, steal their stuff and then immediately leave when they're done stealing.
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Same here. Not to mention that she promised slightly more and actually campaigned.
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Just about anything could do that. Just by sheer random luck that could happen.
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If the layout of the building is typical for multi-student housing, each room was just one student, so there's no reason why the killer had to keep killing unless there was a reason for it. It's not like the studio dorm room I had the first year at college where there were two beds and one room.
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@madhavdhilip The issue is that Tesla is being way too aggressive about pushing the automatic driving capabilities. What they should have done was just spent a period of time with the system just trying to predict things like this and what the driver would do and fed all that into the AI before even allowing drivers to have the level of self-driving they've got. These systems basically all suffer for the fact that they can't replicate the experience you get from millions of drivers driving billions of miles every year.
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Pretty much and I wish he'd be more clear about Bernie Bros not existing.
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The correct only correct position here is that neither side has any moral superiority. At the militant and government level, it's basically terrorists versus war criminals. The people probably aren't so bad, but only one side is being funded by the US and one side has the ability to ease the tensions. I got my 4 year degree at the same ceremony where Rachel Corrie got hers posthumously after being run over by a bulldozer operated by Israeli settlers as they illegally demolished the house of the people who were previously living there. These settlers are not good people any more than the terrorists that they're complaining about. As long as people continue to take sides, and fund either side for things other than humanitarian aid, it will continue. But, BDS is something that can bring enough pressure on the Israelis to engage in real peace talks seeking a real solution that folks on both sides can live with. (At this point, there's so little going into and out of the disputed regions that effectively, we're already BDS on the whole PA) The continued crimes against humanity that they engage in makes it hard to view them as victims when they're the ones that are preventing humanitarian supplies into Gaza Strip and won't allow any sort of economic development that might make terrorism less appealing as a way of fighting for their rights.
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@SkolBuddy420 It's somewhat more complicated, but $10k would have been more than half of the money I spent on my Master's. I was working through most of the time and I wound up with much less in terms of student loans.
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@movdqa The typical solution I recommend, especially for 18 year olds is to study part time while working. One of the big issues with college over the last 20 years is that since so many people have 4 year degrees it can be tough to get a job right out of college without much work experience. I work at one of the local colleges for one of my jobs and I still recommend that people not study full time unless they've got the cash in the bank to pay most, or all of it, as they go. The interest on it and not being able to get it discharged in bankruptcy court are major problems.
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@GhostlyJorg Perhaps they dug up former Lieutenant Governor Charlie Parker of Wisconsin and brought the remains to Massachusetts?
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It could be worse. I saw a story a while back about a marine vet that lost his citizenship in Australia when he enlisted in the USMC, and is now stateless because the government decided that to get citizenship via military service that there has to be hostilities going on. And the fact that the first Iraq war had ended before he was fully trained meant that he didn't qualify.
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We use metric measures as the base for the system, but we're not likely to go fully metric any time soon for the same reason that metric time never caught on. The US had a relatively simple system of measures at that point and was actively enforcing those measures. That may not seem like a big thing, but it's a much harder argument to make if you're a large enough country to manufacture your own things and have a system of measure that most people know. Most of the countries that ultimately went metric either didn't have an enforced and monitored system of measure or were too small to be able to manufacture most of their own things. On top of that, Europe got a chance to largely start over as the result of 2 world wars destroying much of their infrastructure throughout the continent,. But, most of the things people claim to be advantages of the SI units are lies. They're not less arbitrary than the Imperial measures, they're not more convenient at things that people would normally be doing and they'll be incredibly annoying to work with when you're on other planets or in space since most of the measures were defined based on scenarios you see on Earth.
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This happens in Washington State all the time. We've got a relatively small majority of Democratic voters versus the GOP voters and the GOP votes tend to be in areas where the count goes more quickly. The end result is that if certain types of measures and candidates aren't up by a lot on election night, they ultimately lose. It's a bit of a byproduct of some of the larger counties dumping portions of their results to the public as they go whereas some counties can get basically all of it done in one round.
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I've been saying that for literally decades. And I got shouted down because some groups would still be left out. But, from my perspective, if that does happen, which it probably will, the amount of pushback towards more targeted policies wouldn't be as life or death.
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Bio-Dome was a poor choice, I would have gone with In The Army Now or possibly Jury Duty.
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I suspect that the reason that phone purchases were banned was that it allowed for people to steal the winning tickets, there wasn't any way of guaranteeing that the winner was the person paying and there were all sorts of opportunities for things like buying the same numbers to get half of the proceeds.
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I bet Biden remembers how hard Trump worked to allow his election and grants him and his family pardons. I think it's more likely that Trump doesn't live long enough to run for reelection. He's currently 74 years old and would be 78 the next election cycle. He doesn't exercise, he eats garbage, he is significantly overweight, I'd be shocked if he doesn't have a massive stroke or heart attack during the next 4 years. Assuming he's even alive, he may well be in a condition worse than Biden is now and in need of medications to make him lucid enough to do anything in public. Biden only got away with it because the newsmedia wasn't asking any hard questions and he didn't need to campaign. In a normal election year, even against Trump, I doubt he'd have any hope of winning. Biden may still lose, but the margins either way are far closer than they should be.
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Precisely, there's a ton of things he could have been going after Joe for that would have been true and he wouldn't do it. Joe appears like he might be senile, he has a contentious history with the truth and his policies have been some of the worst for the Black community. He should have been underscoring that for the last few months. Not just that, but he should be doing a better job of explaining why it is that his proposals benefit even people with good health care.
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I'm not sure if it is modesty, he probably does genuinely question whether he is a literal tens of millions of dollars worth of funny and whatever his fee for a show is these days worth of funny. Which is even harder to define than if the laughs you're getting for no pay are genuine, let alone it being so expensive that you can literally never work again and would have to put major effort into disposing the money that you've got.
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That's easy to say for somebody that's already a dad. For those of us that want that, and don't already have it, it's terrible advice. I did that through most of my 20s and 30s and the advice just doesn't work if you want to do the family thing. Women that express that kind of desire are rarely worth having. And even if you ignore the quality issues, there's just not many of them out there. 9/10 they're doing it specifically to get something out of the guy and in many cases they're already in some sort of a relationship.They're not necessarily even straight. Just my 2 cents, maybe you live in a part of the world where women aren't in short supply and where you can afford to be somewhat picky about what you go after, but that's not everywhere and I don't personally think that any of the incel crowd are going to change their views by having such an unrealistically rosy picture painted by somebody whose business depends on men having some degree of hope.
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Yes, but then there needs to be some enforcement mechanism when they lie. There's yet to be any real reckoning about Obama's lies and failure to use any of the power he was given to effect change. He had super majorities in both chambers of congress and all we got was Republican policies and nothing.
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LOL, also F you, now whenever I watch that show I'm just going to think of President Biden.
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Part of it is that insurance in the UK probably doesn't need to cover hospital care as the health care trust presumably picks up the tab on that. If you think about it, treating injuries, and deaths, are the biggest possible payments that an insurer has to make. If it's just deaths, then you're looking at the cost of repairing/replacing cars and fixing property damage.
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@Blksl. The Semites being antisemitic is a new one on me.
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@Yubyop So, they vote down the confirmation if they don't like him. They didn't even go through with any of the process and wouldn't have confirmed anybody that the President nominated, that's not constitutional, and a part of what led to the lack of legitimacy in the court. For decades there have been justices added to the court that are not qualified as long as they're friendly to corporations, expansive on government rights and will vote the right way on abortion rights.
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I liked the video, but there wasn't just her testimony pointing at his likely guilt, his own calendars from that time corroboration significant portions of what she said. And you presumably couldn't use it in court, there was a 3rd person alleged to have been in the room who wasn't subpoenaed that described a situation with a rather uncanny resemblance to the sexual assault that she is alleging. Presumably, in a real court case, the prosecutor or defense would have subpoenaed that 3rd party to shed some more light on the matter under oath. Consequently, if this went to trial, it would probably be more likely for him to be convicted than it seems. But, that being said, I doubt that with all the time that's past and the individuals involved that a jury would convict without a lot more.
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Could we please get through a video without the sexism and racism? There's a reason why you see so many countries where being white is a bit of an advantage, it's because for a couple millennia now the European countries have been contributing far more to the development of science and technology than other areas have been. It will change over time, but let's not pretend like this is something that happened due to skin color, it happened because Europe was fortunate enough to hit a specific milestone at the right time. It could easily have been various Asian or African groups had they developed a bit differently or earlier. As for men, are we really doing that well? Most of the sexual assault allegations that you see in the press are either from decades ago or are people that are too powerful to be able to charge and not get the conviction to stick. By most measures women are doing better than men are, so our patriarchy is pretty shitty.
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@canucanoe2861 And I'm sure that when the GOP said they were going to repeal and replace Obamacare that they were actually going to replace it after the repeal. The fact of the matter is that breaking up the unions as a precondition is either naive, ignorant or malicious, you know perfectly well that if the unions are broken up that it's going to be a free for all where the companies fight tooth and nail to prevent them being re-formed.
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UREA? That sounds oddly appropriate to what's happening.
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@SimoneandMalcolm For one thing Schizoid Personality Disorder doesn't exist. It's a dead diagnosis that disappears under the alternate diagnostic model from the DSM 5 and hardly anybody ever goes in for treatment of it unless there's a different comorbidity. I struggle to find any objective reason for it existing independently of AS, as it's really hard to justify it not just being an extremely high-masked and extremely alexithymic version of AS.
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@DukeOfJam7591 The 2nd wouldn't be controversial if there weren't so many morons out there. Both the case law and the constitutional amendment weren't at all confusing until relatively recently. Arguably, the 2nd amendment shouldn't be in the constitution at all due to a technicality related to the punctuation not matching. So, you get people that think it means one thing because one version says one thing and another group saying it means something else because the other version says that as well. And they're both sort of partially right as there is a version that says both things. But, the bit that most people get wrong, is that the 2nd amendment is what allows the national guard to exist independent of the federal government. That is currently the only well-organized militia we've got. We could arguably expand that to law enforcement, but going further than that requires mostly gutting the words and intention of the amendment as there is no process for training or organizing the rest of the citizens. It's why they get most of the same gear that the military does, but we don't. I haven't ever seen anybody arguing earnestly for the ability of the population to own mortars, tanks or nukes. Because that would be absolutely nuts. But, there are people that will argue that the line ought to be at various forms of handguns and rifles, even though the constitution was written manly decades before repeaters became a common thing and if you wanted to shoot multiple times without reloading, you had to carry multiple guns to do it.
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@Fadamor Yes, but that doesn't stop the Feds from trying. One of these decades they may actually start enforcing the requirements of the RealID act even though it's blatantly unconstitutional to require such an ID for the purposes that it's being required for.
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Nor will it impact any of the other people that get to actually make decisions for the voters.
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The Chinese used to have a system where whatever food wasn't eaten during the meal would be tossed into a slop bucket to feed to the pigs. Then later the pigs would be slaughtered and eaten and the process would continue. Really, those kinds of cultural practices would help a great deal. And because of the emissions from composting, if you trap the gas coming off of that, it can be burned in gas powered power plants. Those plants are incredibly efficient once the gas has been obtained, and if the source is from recent vegetation, it's produces very little additional CO2 beyond what had been in the atmosphere..
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Well to be fair, she might be making disastrously bad chili in an effort to kill him.
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Keep in mind that one of those planes was shot down by Russians and that on the whole, airplane crashes are way down from where they used to be. For example, the US has only had one plane crash that resulted in multiple fatalities since 2020. And in that case it was 10 people in a small plane. Korea wouldn't have many due to the size of the country and that most of the countries that those carriers fly to are going to have their own regulations and their own inspections to comply with on top of whatever regulations there are locally. It's probably why this is the worst crash they've ever had.
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@loug2414 the fact the cases are rising isn't evidence when in much of the US they aren't being worn. Masks were never claimed to be 100% effective. The reality is that the masks just depress the spread and are not a replacement for other measures.
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@HappyGardenOfLife Yes, he may still lose the court case as there'd be a lower burden of proof on the parties he's suing. Being convicted in a criminal court is a much more difficult thing than being found to be guilty of wrongful death which just requires a more likely than not standard. To get a criminal conviction, it has to be beyond a reasonable doubt. So, there's plenty of actual murderers out there where there was insufficient evidence to meet that standard that likely would wind up losing a civil case if they sued somebody for being accused of murder. It remains to be seen if that will happen in this case, but I'd wager that folks will settle if they can just because he was acquitted and they'd have to justify the statements being made in light of an acquittal.
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I've had some that last longer, but the issue tends to be that they don't charge enough for a lifetime license to cover providing it for the excpected useful life of the product or the owner. It's one thing for a knife to have a lifetime warranty that lasts 70 years, as a knife will commonly last that long as long as it's treated with any sort of appropriate care. However, most software products are not going to be usable in 10 years in any reasonable way. Software to load music onto a 20 year old Nomad Jukebox 3, is just not going to have anybody still using it with the frequency that would permit for updates. And, I think most people sort of get that, and at this point, there's not really anything stopping your from loading the software up on a VM and loading the content that way, as long as there isn't DRM preventing you from doing so.
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We've known for ages that the the CIA sponsors and engages in terrorist activities. We thought we were voting against it when we voted for Obama. Sadly, the left has basically no power, plenty of people know that the US trained and sponsored Osama bin Laden as well as terrorist groups in South America as a couple of examples.
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@Mustafa-yw7cl Tell that to my Iranian in-laws, I keep explaining to them that a large part of what led to the current political situation in Iran was the US overthrowing their leader to put somebody we wanted back in power. Us overthrowing the current regime is unlikely to turn out well. In there case, they probably have an overly sunny recollection of the Shah as they had relatives working for him.
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@khrysalis4746 sort of, but if you don't select the party box, the vote won't count. I'm not sure why that's in the envelope and not ballot.
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My Ninja 250 has 6 speeds, but The 6th speed isn't particularly necessary. I can hit free way speeds with fifth and I'm not redlining. If I'm on the freeway for long periods, I'll shift into it to drop the revs for efficiency, but I have to drop to fifth if I want to pass somebody and going up over Steven's Pass, IIRC, I was in 4th gear near the top so that I had the power to get over it. Most of my daily street riding is done in either 3 or 4th.
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I always wonder why people insist on doing that sort of stuff. Even if something goes horribly awry and they taze you or tackle you anyways, at least you're in a better position to argue that it's excessive force later on. Whereas if you are on their dash or body cam being belligerent and making it impossible for them to conduct things civilly, you're much less likely to get compensation for the resulting damage.
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I think it's interesting how the bleep comes right after the cursing is over.
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Weren't they also the only option other than the super old school flash powder or unhoused bulbs?
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They wouldn't have needed to. At that point, the US was capable of striking the main Japanese islands and they were running low on resources to the point of being willing to sacrifice their own pilots to keep things going a bit longer. Even if the Soviets couldn't invade the islands, just keeping the Japanese off the mainland would have forced them to eventually surrender. Realistically, it was probably a bit of both.
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@randysmith9715 Yes, but that's a lot more involved than just knowing which side of the street a given address is on, they're also expected to know what the address is for a good chunk of bars, restaurants and places that passengers might want to go.
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@powerofk There's also issues with addresses on the corner where there's no way of knowing what that address is going to be, if you've got the address, you'd likely know which corner, but there's no telling what address the USPS is going to give it. It can cause issues for things like liquor licensing that require an address if the one you're finally given is on the other side of the building.
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Here in Seattle there's been a lot of talk and effort to create more mixed use zones. It's become common for buildings to have retail on the lower level and housing on the upper levels. Through most of the city the sides of arterial streets are permitted to have businesses.
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@ I was pretty sure, but I'm also pretty sure that the folks in charge now aren't the sharpest tools in the shed and I wouldn't put it past them to send an email like that.
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@brianadams3189 The problem is that when people hit that level of impairment they often times forget the more recent stuff first. It's terrifying that we might wind up in a position where we're counting on somebody involved with the nuclear weapons to refuse to follow orders if he forgets that the cold war is over and accidentally starts watching war games or one of the various other cold war era movies. I do think that somebody in the chain of command will take the heat for refusing the issue the order, but it's not 100% if it gets passed that first person that's there with Biden if he makes the call. That being said, I don't expect it to come to that, but it is technically a risk of having a senile person in charge of the nukes.
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@RossTheBoss87 Nope, look up wiretap statutes, you don't just get to record people without their consent, even if you are on your property. There's a reason why stores post signs indicating that recording is in progress.
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That's not surprising, there's really only 2 reasons why they aren't more common. One being space and the other being a lack of familiarity. Space is likely to always be an issue in cities that weren't designed for them. Familiarity though is less of an issue. As more are built, especially the one and two lane varieties, people get used to them relatively quickly.
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@masonlane4153 You should, this isn't likely to get better as long as people treat this as our side against yours rather than what policy benefits people the most. Talking to them like they're subhumans just makes it that less likely that they'll realize that they're on the wrong side of things.
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@Kahadi The speed of the boulder depends less on the mass than people think. As long as there's enough mass involved to overcome any impact that the air has on the rolling boulder, then the actual mass of the boulder doesn't really matter in terms of how quickly it rolls. That's part of how it was determined that all objects fall at a uniform rate in a vacuum. They rolled things down ramps as the speeds the objects would achieve would be proportional to what would result from dropping them. In an era before modern sensors, it made the whole thing a lot easier and the whole thing really only failed because of the need for a suitable vacuum chamber to test really light things like feathers against rocks.
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Yes, but if it's that much of a concern, you can always bring a spare innertube, they're not that heavy.
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I learned in 2016, but sadly enough of the Washingtonians are going to vote Biden that our votes will continue to be worthless,
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@ExiledTexan yes, they may get money to the unemployed, but essential workers get nothing. Some goes for direct payments. Especially if they give liability protection.
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Joe Rogan is an interesting guy and pretty much always up for it if you're willing to discuss interesting topics in an honest way.
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Perhaps, shadow puppet show would be more appropriate.
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@apveening That's overkill, I just use PuTTY if that's what I need to do. Or, something like VPN with VNC that allows for more types of interfaces to be used.
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First off, would you really want them still out on patrol before the investigation is over? Why would any police officer want to be on the force if an unjustified allegation could lead to them going, potentially, weeks without being allowed to work? From what we see in the video, there were no laws broken and the officers themselves are doing nothing wrong. It appears that they do call for backup from an appropriate team that can perform water rescues, they just failed to do the idiotic bit about jumping in and getting themselves drowned in the process. There don't appear to be any boats or other pieces of equipment that they could have commandeered, and it also doesn't appear that any of the citizens standing around has any resources to do so either. This was just the tragic result of somebody doing something stupid and several other people being bright enough not to get themselves killed in a vain attempt at heroism.
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@jacobross8007 First off, it does appear that they're using one. It's hard to tell because we only see one bit of body cam footage at a time, but according to the union they did call it in. That can and likely will be verified during the investigation. Secondly, even if they did so immediately when he first went into the water and before he was having issues, there's no way that the dive team could have been there fast enough. It only takes a few minutes to drown and frequently the distressed swimmer will already be under the water by then and difficult to locate. Even after the dive team did get there, it took several hours to find the body. They warned him not to go in and that they weren't going in after him, I'm not really sure what else they could have done that might actually have saved his life.
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@BuddyBouncer Yep, in fact the Chinese developed early sunglasses as a way of helping the judges to maintain a lack of visible emotion while hearing cases.
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This could be really useful for power cycling devices that regularly require it. Set the Pi to cut the power for about 10 seconds and power things back on in the correct order whenever it detects a missing connection to the net.
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That's how you know she's an authentic feminist.
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@gothboschincarnate3931 New treatments are being developed all the time. And if the BPD isn't responding to treatment there's a decent chance that it's because it's autism that's been misdiagnosed. A lot of autistic women get a BPD diagnosis before they get an autism one. What's more, if all the hard cases result in the sufferer murdering themself, then there's going to be a limit on qualified study participants and the community knowledge of how to address some of this stuff goes away as well.
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I've been saying for years that the President shouldn't get to choose anybody they like to nominate and the Senate shouldn't be allowed a decision about whether or not to hold a vote on the confirmation. The Senate should be required to have hearings and to have an up or down vote for any nominee that doesn't withdraw. And the President should only be permitted to select from a list of potential nominees that a bipartisan committee has chosen as possibilities. That wouldn't solve the problem completely, but it would go a long ways towards preventing situations like Garland not getting a vote and jokes like Thomas, Alito and Kavanaugh from being seated on the bench. Kavanaugh is a particularly egregious example as he was caught perjuring himself during his confirmation hearing. That alone should have been grounds for him to not be confirmed.
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@Himmiefan The tower was clearly adequately staffed at the time, it appears to have been a combination of an unclear command and a helicopter that wasn't flying at the altitude it was supposed to be at. Having more controllers isn't likely to have had much of an impact on this.
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I'm sure that as long as you're careful it's fine. They can do some damage, but from what I understand probably not any more than a midsized dog would. I'm not sure that I'd want one around a small child though.
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It is though, it's not at all what Walt created. Opening day for Disney World you could buy tickets for $3.50 for an adult and $1 for a child. Which is roughly $24 and $6.75 respectively. Granted, the sophistication and scale has increased since then, would you really suggest that the experience is that much better now? Granted, you don't have to pay for individual tickets these days, but I'm not sure that really accounts for a roughly 300% increase in price.
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The point he ignores is that this gears are shorter because there are more gears. The current Porsche 911 automatic has 8 gears from what I'm seeing, the manual only had 6 gears, the result is that those early gears are going to be shorter. It also means that the automatic will spend more time in the power band. This has been known for ages. No matter what you do, automatics are just at a point where they can do most things better than a manual can. Sure, they aren't as fun and there are a few situations where manual is still better, but a manual electric basically isn't ever going to be a thing due to them not needing a transmission to convert engine speed. This isn't gearing the manual to lose, it's just how you lay them out of you've got the ability to just add additional gears.
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It might have been justified early on, but at this point it's self indulgent and asking for trouble. It's low quality thinking and we'll never get past it while feelings are this much more important than rational thought. We're at a point where cancer patients in many areas can't get treated because the unvaccinated are sucking up all the resources. I don't wish ill on anybody, but we need to be rationing health care so other people can get some. Go door to door, go to people's job sites and vaccinate anybody that well get it, but limit the bed space for the unvaccinated so that other life threatening conditions can be treated.
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Of course marijuana is harmful, it's just harmful enough to justify jailtime and ruining people's lives. There's plenty of other things that are legal which are also harmful. Alcohol, sugar and various chemicals that they keep putting in our foods without proper study.
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@tomasfuchsbauer1536 TBH, that's the thing I'm curious about. We know retroactively what the verdict was, but prior to the verdict coming down that she did it intentionally, the insurance company had an obligation to put up a vigorous defense. So, I am somewhat curious as to why the other insurance company didn't have to shell out and then seek a refund from her for money that in retrospect they wouldnt' owe. It's sort of like if somebody's house burns down, the insurance would be required to pay for arson by a 3rd party, but if it turns out to be the owner or the owner paid somebody, then they wouldn't have to pay.
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@peterwelby And there was a guy recently here who was vaulted over the top of the fence of one of our bridges when a drunk driver crashed into his car and his car pushed him over the edge. Doesn't mean that we need to install netting just in case another drunk driver hits another car that pushes another guy over the edge. Sometimes things are just rare accidents and the like and trying to nerf everything to address those corner cases just makes it worse for everybody involved. We typically spend more money trying to catch welfare fraud that we actually lose in welfare fraud. We'd be better off just letting it go and only going after individuals where there's evidence of something weird going on.
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@adambriceland6588 It's absolutely her fault for not elbowing Biden out of the way early enough to have a real primary and then running a campaign this bad. The only ads I got were ones trying to get me to give her money, but no effort was made to show me that she would do something for me if elected. So, she didn't get my vote.
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@cleopatraonlyfans Honestly, if somebody gets obese enough, there's going to be disabilities associated with that which come along. I don't think something being curable ought to be an excuse to deny the use of the term disabled as there's a lot of people that are disabled due to obesity and after a certain point it can be extremely hard to lose enough weight to regain those abilities.
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@Ava_Orchid It's also worth noting that the same condition may or may not be considered a disability in some contexts. The difference between being blind and being legally blind is significant, even if you've got the same level of vision impairment. One may get benefits when the other won't, even if you're talking the same general life experience outside of the benefits department. It's pretty screwed up, help should be based on your need, not how you came to need the help.
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@pohakumana I'm guessing the issue at the beginning is that he was still strapped into some sort of harness, but if you miss that jump it's a bit of an issue and I can't say I'd have a huge amount of confidence in my ability to hit the target.
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Yes, although keep in mind that the Alvin submersible that was used to explore the Titanic after its initial discovery has made thousands of dives over the past nearly 60 years. Presumably, it had a better design to start with, combined with better maintenance and monitoring to verify that it wouldn't fail under pressure. From what I can tell, the actual place where the crew sits is in its own sphere made of metal with minimal openings. In other words, a ton of good engineering decisions that likely will allow it to keep operating for years go to come. (Admittedly at some point the entire craft will likely need to be decommissioned, but 60 years is a rather impressive record compared with the Titan sub failing after only a few dives)
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To be fair, they haven't yet hit the bottom. But yes, referring to them as Soviets isn't accurate.
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Professionals are trained to see ASD symptoms in intellectually disabled white boys under a certain age. Anybody else is likely to have problems getting a proper diagnosis. I've personally been going the route of collecting every single misdiagnosis for ASD possible, and they still don't want to admit that it might just be ASD. I've been diagnosed and/or treated for Schizoaffective Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Schizoid Personalitly Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar 1, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Somatacization Disorder, OCD, ADHD and I'm probably forgetting something in that list. I think the only ones I haven't yet been diagnosed with are Borderline Personality Disorder and PTSD. At this point, I'm kind of stuck pushing for an ASD diagnosis as that list is bad enough that getting decent medical care can be an issue as so much of what I deal with medically isn't taken seriously as with all that comes a bunch of psychosomatic disorders like idiopathic tinnitus, IBS and migraines.
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Yes, whether or not that's an appropriate sentence for the crime, it is in line with what the Russian law provides as punishment. If anything, it's on the light side as there was a teacher recently that got 15 years for similar charges.
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I for one am going to do both. Got to love the ability to vote by mail. But yeah, perhaps we can finally get the 5% needed for federal recognition of the Green Party.
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There's services that will negotiate those sorts of things for you in exchange for a slice of the savings.
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Except that conservatives are also some of the poorest people in the US, the folks that would most benefit from reforms to the system so that people working are guaranteed to be able to support themselves.Most liberals learn just fine, the difference is that they don't have a desire to go back to the failed policies of the past. Often times they want to move to failed policies of the future, but for the most part at least those policies haven't yet failed. How's that supply side economics working for you?
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Apparently, Jesus owns stock in ventilator companies and really wants you to drive up the share price.
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In terms of campaigning and messaging. When it comes to actually governing the Democrats moved right, significantly. Even with the rhetoric, men probably wouldn't be moving towards everybody but the Democrats if the Democrats were putting policies into practice that we liked. After all, just look at all the Latinos that vote GOP even with all the toxic things the party says about them.
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@nata5212 yes, and they also should have been seen coming. Chernobyl and Fukushima wouldn't have happened if not for incompetence.
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@spvillano Exactly, the most likely situation here is that they were either lied to by the agencies or the agencies didn't know what the correct answers were and gave the answers that they thought were correct. That being said, if it continues, there will almost certainly be a bunch of consequences and we're already seeing it in terms of restraining orders that are broader than they would normally be to try and eliminate possible ways of side stepping the order to continue the conduct that the TROs were meant to stop.
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@FroggyHopScotch30 Yes, if he's not up to no good, then why is he refusing to walk?
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@robertheinkel6225 That's extremely generous of the other rate payers. Anything that happens on the user side of the meter is their responsibility, typically. Especially when it comes to things that are screwed into a faucet.
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Yeah, the only thing more cringy would have been if the Spanish had said the equivalent of "Pokemon go to the polls." The self-ownage would have been complete.
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@johnharrison6522 I definitely got Zep and Beatles because, duh, but I wasn't really thinking about anybody from the '80s or more recently. It's hard to say just because The Police and Nirvana haven't had as much time. But, then again, they also aren't actively touring as far as I can tell.
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Mistreat him? He'd likely just get the normal treatment that federal inmates get, which is absolutely terrible, but also just the normal treatment. There's no point in Trump doing anything other than just make sure that he served out his sentence like a normal inmate.
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Can we please go back to web 1, there isn't enough bleach in the world to get that web 2.0 taint off me.
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@-karter-4556 As with most other pursuits, you'd pretty much just memorize the stuff that's likely to come up regularly, then you'd memorize that there is no good solution to other sorts of problems. That covers most of it.
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@-karter-4556 As somebody with a relevant masters, I can tell you that this is absolutely not how the brain works. The brain is the largest single user of energy in the body and it is designed to use as little thinking as possible to keep the energy demands within reason. Unless you're using a structure or method with some frequency or it is analogous to something that you use regularly, you're probably not going to remember it with any reliability. That's just how the brain is. The alternative is the case where the neural network gets badly broken and connections lose all meaning. Think something along the lines of schizophrenia if you want to picture that. Generally, you won't completely forget much of anything that enters long term memory, but at a certain point, it might as well be forgotten as you're not going to remember it more quickly than you can look it up.
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@pedrogorilla483 The short answer is that the things that were being done before google were either so constrained by hardware that you'd need to know how to optimize the code. And any language that expected people to learn it would have comprehensive documentation available covering anything that one would reasonably need to know to use the language. Plus, the expectations of what was possible were a lot lower as much of the code just needed to run on one computer without having to worry about attacks coming in over the network. Chances are that whatever you wanted to do was something that could be figured out from the various examples given in the documentation.
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@shantanukulkarni8883 It is true for basically everybody, there may be a couple savants out there that do have it memorized, but the only other people that don't use google are people who don't care about actually producing anything this century. There's just too much for one person to ever hope to memorize while it's still relevant. Trying to memorize the entire thing would require specifically focusing on doing that for a prolonged period of time. Even with the best memory and the best memory skills that's not going to happen in any reasonable period of time.
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@Victoria-ot5om And even if the borrower does pay, it may mean something like the amount being paid is excessive. My parents cosigned on a car loan for my brother. He did make all his payments on time, but he also massively overpaid for the car. They should have gone back to the dealer and said no, we'll only pay what the bank will lend, or something less.
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For the engagement with people coming to complain about that?
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@zachhomolka8512 the problem with tp was that some is sold to businesses for offices and restaurants and some is sold to home users. The former had no distributor to get them to home users even as demand shifted away from businesses. Boosting production wouldn't help much as there's no distribution deals in place for those factories and gouging wouldn't change that quickly enough rather than rationing.
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I should probably try to figure out where my copy is. But, then again, what are the odds that Ralston would sue people for pirating that particular game?
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Thank god you were never impaneled on a jury then. Jury nullification screws up the system in ways that's hard to really protect against. It's not a right that juries have, it's a side effect of deliberation being done in private and jurors getting to make what is typically a final decision about the guilt or innocence of the defendant in the trial. The cases that would get nullified are the low-hanging fruit. They're the ones that are the most egregiously wrong with the most sympathetic defendants, in other words, the cases most likely to get overturned by higher courts and potentially resulting in new precedence to prevent people from even being charged in the first place. By nullifying, the jury is depriving the parties in the case of justice and depriving society at large an opportunity for the courts to reconsider a potentially wrong law.
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@thundercricket4634 That's not at all accurate. The job of the jury is to be the decider of the facts and the weigher of the evidence. Not whether or not the law was correct in the first place. The jury is to prevent the law from being applied to people where there's no, or insufficient, evidence to say that they performed the action they are accused of doing, not whether or not the action should be illegal. If an action is a crime and shouldn't be, there are other remedies for that. Juries going rogue and letting people off the hook prevents the crime from ever being evaluated by higher courts and sidesteps the legislators that are supposed to be writing better laws.
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@ac61900 And unless you're working for a government agency that would probably be OK. The district is likely to have a very large settlement for violating her rights if she chooses to file suit over it.
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In all fairness, what did these people expect? Recruiters can say whatever they like to induce people to sign up and whatever lies they tell are rarely sufficient to get you out of the contract.
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lol, they're not even witness tampering right.
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@Countryballs_Animation_Studios That's a real problem at firehouses due to the sleeping quarters commonly being on the 2nd floor. You can still put a rail up and around it to make it less likely that you'll fall down the hole prematurely.
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This is sound advice. Many students I work with keep saying that they don't get it, they don't understand it. But, the why isn't relevant until you know the what and the how of the bit you're stuck on. Setting it aside and doing some other work can result in it clicking better later on, but the worst case is that you've gotten that other stuff done.
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My mother got nailed for a parking ticket where there were two signs. One said no parking between these hours, which was fine, but the other limited how long you could park there without a special permit and that one was blocked so that it could not be seen. To make matters worse, the parking enforcement officer wasn't even a real officer, the result was that even though the court stuck to the ticket, although it was reduced. they did ultimately have to refund all of the money because the officer was not legally allowed to write tickets during that period. I do think that if cities were allowed to use hidden signs for these purposes that it would likely wind up the way that knock warrants might as well be no knock warrants as the police aren't required to allow time for the residents to respond before kicking in the door. And the kicked in door is the responsibility of the resident to fix, not the cops that opted to break it rather than wait for a response.
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Considering all the antitrust talk lately, this seems like a poor time to try to squash a competitor rather than try to find a deal to just serve ads on the videos that are being shown through that app. I mean the main purpose to the app is to allow people to follow the creators not to skip the ads. (Although if one of the options is ad-free, it probably would kill views on ad supported sites)
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@jspears357 Exactly. These are mainly for hobbyists and possibly for people with vintage gear where you can rig something up to translate the native I/O into something that can run through one of these devices. Anybody that's serious about this sort of thing professionally is probably going to be better served just owning an appropriate computer with this built in.
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Clearly we should force the helmets, it's not like the hospital is going to be allowed to not provide treatment for the injuries attributable to the lack of helmet and insurance rates be adjusted to cover it.
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You can't get away with playing defense unless you're massively ahead.
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@AnarchoHumanism yes, Biden is a downgrade over her.
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general patton No, the point of a vaccine is to give people equivalent, or better, immune response to the virus as they would have gotten had they contracted it. It's largely meant to be a replacement for actually contracting the disease. This typically results in immunity or cases being so mild as to be unnoticeable without laboratory equipment, but the goal has always been to prevent death and disability, the not getting sick in the first place is just a bonus.
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Properly configured, sudo should be safer than the administrator command prompt is.
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@00loopyl0 That's similar to dentistry. A DDS takes far less time than an MD does. But, it's also a much more limited scope of practice as well.
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Song of the South isn't even particularly racist, especially when compared with other Disney films of the era. Seriously, watch Davy Crockett and keep in mind that Disney will continue to show that, but SotS is too offensive to be streamed. This is more a matter of trying to clean it up before the morons decide to chuck all the books in the fire because they've got nothing better to do. In all fairness, he was trying to clean some of this up before he died, but still. If folks spent half as much time creating their own social support system that they do looking for things to be outraged about, most isms would be minor inconveniences.
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@OutSideTheBoxFormat No, the baker was not right. If you offer a service to the public, you have limits on what you're allowed to do. One of these limits is that you can't deny people service based on their sexual oriention. They'd also be wrong if it was due to their race or disability status. If they had such an issue, they could simply choose not to sell wedding cakes.
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@101steel4 I do wonder at what point British and American English are going to be different enough to justify a name change for American.
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@Kainis80 That's projection. If the SCOTUS had to adhere to the same ethical rules that the rest of the courts do, there would be a very different result in some of these key cases.
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Why would you boycott all Muslims? It's a tiny minority of Muslims that engage in that sort of thing. And a lot of that wouldn't happen at all if the US would simply remove our military from Saudi Arabia and stop funding the hardliners.
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They need that seat in case anything election related comes up.
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@ameliajolene I was diagnosed as schizoaffective when I was a teen, but now I'm diagnosed schizotypal, much less of a pain, but it took years of group therapy.
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@michaelp.3485 She couldn't even run an effective campaign, you think that a person like that is qualified to run an entire country? Just look at what a mess her previous Presidential campaign was, she was out extremely early.
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And don't forget that he's going to veto Medicare for all if it manages to get past both chambers of congress to his desk.
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Yes, and neither party is offering a middle ground approach where the path to legally come is streamlined down to something a bit more reasonable, but we don't just accept everybody that can sneak across the border either. Surely there is a better compromise.
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Same here, it didn't have to happen, but now that the democrats are trying to own the libs, why vote for them? If you want to own the libs, vote Trump.
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I'm taken to understand that a tilt-shift camera lens would allow you to get a direct on shot of a person standing in front of a mirror without capturing the camera in the mirror or using any digital trickery. That being said, you'd have to be moderately intelligent to be able to set that up. Certainly more so than somebody who didn't look in the mirror and realize that he was seeing what everybody else would see.
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You should be able to turn it off completely to practice panic braking. You'll never stop faster than with threshold braking and with threshold braking the ABS doesn't activate. The ABS system kicking in will slightly increase the stopping distance, even if by a little bit. ABS is great for people who don't know how to ride or are riding in conditions they shouldn't be riding in. It's also great if you're riding a larger, heavier bike that's harder to manage at low speed.
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@BuzzLOLOL Not only are they just credit for future purchases, but the purchase has to be done in the store itself, not online.
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Since the DSM got so screwed up, self-diagnosis may be the only option available for those that would previously been diagnosable. I'm fighting to get an ASD diagnosis because there is no other suitable diagnosis that covers me and without a diagnosis, there's no legal protections for any accommodations I might need and treatment would be restricted to what's available for an anxiety diagnosis or schizoid personality disorder. The irony there being that there's little to no evidences that schizoid personality disorder isn't autism. But when the diagnosis gets yanked for lack of pure schizoids, there's likely to be no provision for those that should have received an autism diagnosis in the first place and the lack of a recognized Sensory Processing Disorder to accompany Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder and ASD creates a massive hole where people need treatment, but probably won't have any access to it either.
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@NSUScooter Hardlines are what make laws and amendments easy to violate. They also wind up having to be amended constantly to keep up. It's why the constitution of one of those Southern states, IIRC Alabama, is so incredibly long. They have to keep amending it to keep up with changing times.
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2 Years? Kamala wasn't even the candidate 6 months ago. I think that it's completely unacceptable that she got to be the candidate despite literally nobody voting for her to be the candidate. It's even worse than HRC, and at least she was able to win some states. Kamala has not won a single state in any primary.
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@Artificial Hobos Yes, so can lowering the temperature in the room a few degrees or looking at something green. All 3 of these things often times happen when you go outside. (Obviously assuming it's not blazing hot middle of summer)
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It's even dumber when you realize that the kids pass this around and are usually fine, but they spread it to older people that do get seriously ill. Worst case, you're talking about kids that are being cared for by grandparents or parents with compromised immune systems. And as you not, that means not vaccinating other people, the elderly, front line workers in the food supply chain etc.
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@LaOwlett We had video of Chauvin murdering Floyd, we had all the necessary information to judge. The trial was mostly a formality and for the purposes of punishment.
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I got told off because my store manager was being written up for my department under performing. Only thing is that she'd demoted me already, cut me out of the bonus for managing the department through the holidays and I was still doing most of the work for the entire department because she'd hired an inexperienced manager and couldn't be bothered to make sure that he knew what to do. I quit a couple days later. The whole thing wound up costing the store thousands of dollars in lost sales over what they would have had to pay me to stick around.
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In all fairness, while the bubble isn't ever wrong, the other stuff in the room isn't always level. Sometimes it's better to take a step back and think about whether you really want "level" or if you're more concerned about the thing looking right. The mirror in my front entryway is the same way, it's not level, because if it were level, it would appear crooked AF. So, I split the difference.
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@RA-el6zj IKR, I'm not sure how this is really any different from visiting any other wreck, other than that they attempted it in a cut rate sub designed by people who didn't bother to get the designs validated or verified. People are going to be going to prison over this.
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@manofsan It would be more cost effective to just return the legroom and make the seats wide enough for adult humans. Plus, it's not really that big of a deal, I've been on a few trans-pacific flights that are just about as long as they routinely do, and with adequate legroom and width, it wouldn't have been bad at all. I mostly just chill out and nap.
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LOL, that's a good pick.
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I had a heat stroke and water intoxication years ago and I was fortunate enough to go to a hospital where the bill was less than that. It was like $2k for the ambulance and the hospital stay, including time in the ICU came out to about $17k, IIRC. I was fortunate enough to have decent insurance, thanks to COBRA, but without that, I would have been looking at roughly $20k for 3 days in the hospital. I was just fortunate enough that I had my insurance card and could ask for help. Which I was barely able to do as I had completely lost my ability to find words to speak.
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@ilfaus What's your point? For many people in the US, you can't get that kind of service, even if you've got the money and you definitely won't know how much it's going to be until after the fact.
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Yes, doubly so since many areas aren't taking it seriously. Here in WA where the government took it seriously when it first appeared to be spreading locally, the government started urging people to engage in social distancing and not long after started to force businesses to shut down and limit the size of gatherings. It seems to be working, the number of people who are being infected by other people appears to be going down, but it could be as long as several months before we can start opening things up again. Hopefully, by that time, we'll have more ventilators, protective gear and treatments to give the sick. And we were the first state in the country to have confirmed cases. Places where they got infected individuals later and/or didn't take precautions will likely have it worse. And we're fortunate to have a lot of people that can still work from home and draw a paycheck, to keep the economy at least on life support,.
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@I_am_Raziel RAID is part of the solution, but you still need some method of identifying bitrot and correcting or restoring it. One of the great things about living now is that there are programs that can automatically go through and verify that files haven't changed unexpectedly. The main issues tend to be files that you do occasionally change and making sure that the checksums are updated to reflect that.
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Nearly infinite cash would be required to operate it over a nontrivial distance. The world's largest vacuum chamber is a small fraction of the volume of tube needed just to go between nearby towns. You wouldn't even be able to get up to speed snd slowed in that distance.
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I genuinely wonder if the fact that he did enter a guilty verdict at the trial has any impact on the ability of the prosecution to get the sentence fixed on appeal. I don't know that it's allowed to rule guilty and then decide during sentencing that he's in fact not guilty. If he genuinely thought he needed more time, he could have delayed the ruling. Sentencing and the actual guilt are separate phases for a reason.
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My personal greatest regret about the last 8 years or so is that Trump didn't lock HRC up and that Biden couldn't figure out how to lock Trump up either and Biden is too senile to be credibly prosecuted for anything.
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It's more that they'd rather spend their money on things like this than risking it get into the hands or regular people.
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@Mnil52 That's Florida, a state that's notorious for being the last refuge of con artists and scammers. What's supposed to happen is that the company sees a bunch of claims coming in that they can't afford or that are more than they intended to pay and files a claim with whichever re-insurance company is covering them. The re-insurance company pays in cases where the amount is truly extraordinary so that the insurance companies don't have to charge enough to have the money to cover every possible scenario.
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@Tinystrom For future reference, that's where you hire an independent claims adjuster to review the coverage and see what it should have been and go to an attorney to get a nastygram sent demanding payment of the claim if it is supposed to be covered.
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There's a very real possibility that they didn't. The exit polls in key states like Texas and Minnesota suggest that Bernie was the actual winner, even after the massive voter suppression efforts.
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It's basically always spending cuts on things that benefit normal Americans, increases to the defense budget and cut to the taxes on the wealthy.
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I like how Shoe's hair inexplicably changes color mid video.
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Because Harvard doesn't charge for the education, they charge for the fact that they're Harvard and you can put it on your resume in the future. None of what you learn there has any more value than what you'd get at other colleges, you just get connections and the ability to put Harvard prominently on your resume. Which is apparently meaningful to some people. Although, that's mostly legal and business degrees.
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So, do you believe that doctors, hospitals and insurance companies should have the choice not to pay for or treat the consequences of that choice? Because they currently do have to provide the services.
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Vaccination would cut the rates down a lot, but you generally have to do a lot of other things until a virus has been dealt with. A 95% efficacy rate in a country the size of the US still translates to somewhere around 15 million cases. The point of flattening the curve, is to flatten the curve, not to elminate it. The main failure of the flatten the curve by staying home is that people weren't compensated for being out of work and those of us that were working essential jobs received dickie mcgeezacks from the government in terms of support. We should have received significant hazard pay along with being put towards the front of the line for vaccinations if for no other reason than the fact that essential workers are essential. People would run out of food rather quickly without grocery stores and the related supply chain feeding people. Those supply chain workers wouldn't be able to do their jobs without transit workers and the folks that are supplying the gas for their vehicles to get to and from work
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That's not necessarily what's going on here. Previously, you just needed to pass the bar, as in you just cram enough to pass it, which was probably something on the order of the 2 days that Steve referred to and that was it. This change makes it take longer in a sense as there's apprenticeship and the like, so it's a bit less pain at any given time over a longer period of time. It remains to be seen whether this will have any impact on the quality of attorneys practicing in the state.
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@diydarkmatter Yep, so I don't know if that's something that's changed or if that only applies to the ones being flown overseas and the ones being flown in this airspace are equipped with them. But, I was under the impression that there wouldn't be one, which kind of makes sense if it's got sensitive data being collected that could leak information to the other side.
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@defnotthekgb8362 Thanks, I had a feeling that was probably the case now that they're announcing that they found one from the helicopter, there's just so little reason to lie about that. Considering that the likelihood of a military helicopter going down within the US' borders being lost to an adversary, it wouldn't have made much sense not to have one, unless the helicopter was designed in a way to make installation impossible. .
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Precisely, I'm basically out of debt and saving money every paycheck in investment accounts. But, I was in a fairly good position to begin with due to my relatives and avoiding taking on much debt in the first place. The only debt I have right now is my student loan and I'm holding on to that until they start making me pay interest on it. I've got the funds to pay in full right now, but there's little risk in waiting until the end of the summer to see if they cancel any of them. But, if I pay now, I know I won't get any of that money back.
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Originally it was about cost and Elon's belief that it wasn't needed. It can add some complexity in terms of interpreting what it sees, but if you saw that many points in the road ahead, at bare minimum the system should have slowed down.
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Pelosi is the last one who should be talking about this she threw away all of her leverage and as a result we're in a really bad situation.
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Up to a point, but you hit the point where you don't technically need any more language pretty quickly. Even the newspaper is typically only at a 6th grade level.
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It's a tough call, it's not a 100% chance that they won't be saved, it's just something like 99.999% at this point. Regardless of which way they handle this, it's going to look dumb if they're wrong.
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@keepsformat Yes, although that can vary a lot. Some programs mostly just work, and some require a ton of futzing around with configuration files to get them to work.
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They're the ones that write the manual, they're the ones that pay money to help build the infrastructure. States are free to give up the money and to do whatever they like. Personally, I like being able to travel anywhere in the US and know that I'm not likely to be confronted by any roadway signs that I have to study up on to avoid being killed in a crash.
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Yes and essential workers never got any assistance from the government even though we were cut off from any assistance if we were to lose our jobs or have our hours cut because the business hired more workers. Non-essential workers would get pandemic assistance if there hours are cut, but essential workers don't.
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@stacymcfarland6070 That's certainly possible, although I don't think that's likely to make a difference as whatever it is would be in the bodies and most substances that powerful have a longer half-life so that a couple days wouldn't make a difference. Also, the tox report will probably shed some light as to whether or not that's reasonable.
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The fact that I see so many people in the comment section saying things along those lines is an absolutely damning indictment of how incompetent and corrupt the court has gotten.
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@lostbutfreesoul They do, however there are limits on what those rules can be. For instance, you can't make it a rule that the defendant has to plead guilty if they did it. And the judge can't have a rule that they can make out with attractive women in the court room.
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@frankchan4272 I"m guessing that not many people sought a refund as they managed to get out alive for only $1. Chump change compared with being killed or having the card destroyed.
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I'd wager it depends which classics, most of them are pretty accessible, but then there are others that require a fair amount of effort due to the language drifting over time.
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That's by design. Most companies don't want to promote internally because it can disrupt the entire business. If the CEO leaves, then they'd try to promote one of the VPs. When the VP gets promoted, they'd have to find somebody on the next rung that is ready enough for the promotion and if anybody along the hierarchy has quit recently, you're stuck hiring from outside anyways. I'm not personally a fan of promoting from the outside, but businesses that don't at least do some hiring from outside do end up losing a lot to the internal promotions.
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That's not surprising. I used to manage a grocery store bakery and corporate sets some sort of a standard markdown length. For us, it was generally things that would be expiring the day after tomorrow. However, if there were products that were safe to eat, but were kind of banged up, they might get marked down a bit earlier. A week is often the case for a lot of types of foods, it can potentially be even more for some.
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@HondaRidea Essentially yes, it's a balancing act between the actual safety and salability of the product. A good manager knows how to pace the products being put onto the shelf so that the number that need to get marked down is minimal. Ultimately, any products that are marked down, donated or thrown out impact profitability of the store and the compensation and the lost potential revenue does end up showing up somewhere, usually as price increases if there's too many markdowns being offered. As much as customers like the mark downs, if you put too many of those out, then you wind up having to increase the starting price to get to something that still leaves adequate profit.
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It rarely makes any sense to. Most things won't still be useful in 60 or 70 years. Normally, a life time warranty is based on the useful expected life of the product, because increasing it beyond that tends to make for a much more expensive item than what most people would care to pay for. Especially, when they may not still be interested in it after so many years, or there may be a better option. That being said, if it is longer than the expected useful life of the product, you do have a bunch of people getting rid of it before the lifetime of the owner, which does counteract that a bit.
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Yes, a lot of us were naive and ignorant. I should have cited McCain. Wouldn't have been better, but it may have solved the DNC problem.
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Why leave Kamala on the ticket? She's tainted in terms of failing to do anything about the Biden situation. Even ignoring that, she was never popular and I don't think she won a single delegate before becoming the VP pick.
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Pretty much all the animals were up for sale. 4-H is a farmer/rancher focused institution.
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Honestly, there's degrees of sheltering, but this feels a bit much..
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@croatiandirter Nope. Cashback is only good if it's actually spending that you have to do and you don't wind up spending more for it. In practice, that's usually not the case, if it was, then credit card companies wouldn't be offering it as a perk as it would cut into their profits by too much. Even in the best case scenario, that extra little bit of cash cost you the effort and selfcontrol needed to not expand your spending to avoid paying extra. That's effort that could be put into improving your life or increasing your bottom line.
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@swedeej114 You still wouldn't want to as then you'd have to comb through the records to figure out what your business spending was and what's going to be deductible. If your business spending is the only spending on that card, then there's a lot less effort that has to go into figuring out which expenditures are legitimate deductions.
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That's the way any reasonable person sees it. One of the issues with courts is that the judges and attorneys are often more interested in the legal theories than the reality to the actual parties in the dispute.
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If I search for something, that's what I'm asking for. And that should be what is prioritized. If the search engine starts prioritizing other things that I haven't asked for, then it puts me into a position where I can't reliably find what I'm looking for. Just imagine how much trouble there would be finding a pizza restaurant if the search engine decided that only pizza of the style made in Naples qualifies or refused to interepret champagne to refer to sparkling wines produced outside of that region, even though there was a prolonged period where other areas had drinks legitimately named that. The fact that they're focusing it on the keywords is a feature, not a bug, and there are other ways of handling the SEO issues that don't result in such biased results.
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@tomasjosefvela1 They don't have credit unions there? I've never been there, but around here we have a relatively large number of credit unions where basically anybody living in the area is allowed to join. Anybody can get an account and most people, even those with no or bad credit can get a credit card. It might be like mine which was limited to $300 or secured, but anybody around here can get an account. The bigger issue for some folks is needing to get to a bank or ATM to deposit/withdraw money. That can be a bit of an issue, but most credit unions share resources so if you're a member of one, you have access to all the other ones that are in the network.
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What we need is a constitutional amendment requiring the President to pick from a list of nominees selected by a bipartisan committee. It wouldn't solve the problem completely, but it would make it far less likely that we'd wind up with the unqualified jurists we currently have on the bench. With Thomas, Kennedy and Gorsuch being particularly corrupt.
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The problem is that if you're still picking your nose as an adult, that it takes more than just wanting to stop to stop. It's probably something along the lines of body focused repetitive behavior at that point and it's tricky to break a habit that we've likely had for decades and are doing without much thought. I'm guilty as well and the fact that I've got chronic inflammation in there doesn't help.
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@dmitripogosian5084 Yes, and it's not on the ticket, I certainly haven't ever been carded getting onto a domestic flight after getting through security. And the computer itself isn't on the plane anyways, that's at the terminal. I'm not sure how they're randomly selecting the seats for this, but there's no reason to believe that it's based on more than certain seats sections.
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Really, the thing is to avoid buying any of the products that are listed until the companies do better. That being said, sometimes going to a store you despise and only buying loss leaders can be even better. Personally, I'm not sure that I'll buy another Roku as a result of their heavy handed ToS update, I don't really need to as there are a bunch of SBCs out there that can do more or less the same thing these days.
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Then there would have been 2 or possibly 3 dead rather than just one. Going into the water to save a distressed swimmer is extremely dangerous and requires special training to even consider. He was warned not to go in while he was on dry land. It's unclear to me why there's a rule against swimming there, but I'm guessing that is part of why they refused to go in.
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@jaredholt4582 You make that sound like it's a bad thing. That's how Democracy works, if you don't have enough voters to support your cause, then you need to make a more compelling case as to why they should support you. The actual distribution of votes shouldn't matter in nationwide or statewide elections. Those smaller states get their own Representatives and Senators. And in most states, there's more than one set of policy proposals that the voters are in favor of. It's not like all of the Representatives of NY or CA just vote in lock step on every issue any more than it would be for all the TX and FL Representatives to do so. Here in WA we've had the rural counties whining about that sort of thing for decades, because they don't have the votes to elect a Senator or Governor of their liking. They regularly try to secede from the state in order to get their own Senators. But, the fact is that it would be undemocratic for them to get their say without running better GOP candidates that can effectively win the support of the people at large.
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What change? Biden isn't going to do shit even if elected. He doesn't care about the people any more than Trump does.
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@jovetj Why would they be? Japan uses basically the same power standard as the US and Canada do, at least with respect to amperage and voltage, and most modern electronics are designed to handle both 50 and 60hz. Anything in any of those countries with just 2 plugs is supposed to be double insulated as there's no ground to direct stray current to other than through the body.
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You weren't screwed, you simply never paid in on some of your income. You weren't receiving social security for income that you didn't pay the tax on. The calculations are done on the basis of trying to capture some of the social security tax that was never collected. The people that are being screwed are the younger folks that have to work longer and receive fewer benefits due to things like this.
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The over the speed limit bit is a serious problem for a lot of reasons. Restricting it to 20mph over the speed limit would probably be workable though. It's just a shame that a small number of idiots driving dangerously lead to things like this. That being said, the time for this sort of thing was probably a couple decades ago, at this point we're nearing the point where the automatic emergency braking combined with modern traction control will likely make the advantages of speed limiting moot.
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Yes, barring a new version needing to accomodate lidar and AI cars, I can't see much about these that can be improved. It definitely does follow the guidance that perfection is achieved when nothing else can be removed, rather than added.
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@beach-px5dy From what I've heard, having just one up there isn't necessarily a problem and there's others on site that can come up if there's a need. Also, if that airport is at all like the one here, it quiets down a fair bit at night.
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Yes, in the absence of more information, I think this is just a matter of him processing something on television that wouldn't be easy to process under better circumstances.
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@elia_berti I wouldn't know, but it's important to keep in mind that devices that only take 115v are unusual due to the mass production of gear for global export. Most devices if you look at the included transformer are set up to handle 115/230v and 50/60 hertz. Meaning that you can plug it into anything anywhere in the world with just a plug adapter. There are exceptions which is why I don't recommend just plugging things in at random without looking, but we're probably going to hit a point in the next 50 years where anything can be plugged into any outlet as long as it fits without any problems.
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@juliand2709 But, there was no standing there as Mohela didn't file the suit. The only parties that filed suit over it had no standing. But, standing isn't important apparently as neither did the 303 creative suit.
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The casino industry, especially in Nevada, is only slightly less corrupt now than it was when the mob was running things.
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Bernie is too old and has no credibility left at this point. He rewarded the DNC for screwing his supporters over two elections in a row, I'm done with him.
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@BigLeagueDrew The judge isn't really responsible for the evidence beyond whether or not it's admissible. Unless it's a bench trial, it would be the jury that would ultimately decide whether or not the evidence is what it says it is and whether or not it's relevant.
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@blakekaveny Yes, although that doesn't stop people from using that as a sign that he was at fault. I assume that was omitted form evidence because the prosecution couldn't prove that any of his duties in that capacity were relevant.
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A broken clock is right twice a day. It happens that in this case public health officials were making it seem like less of an issue than it was.
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They could solve it once and for all just including in these announcements that it just applies to adults and kids caught up in this without their chaperone should just tell the flight crew. Done, with minimal inconvenience for anybody.
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@rossmanngroup I'm pretty sure you can eat them, although this one is probably too small.
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Honestly, that's just a normal thing for living in one of these buildings if the HOA dues aren't high enough to cover foreseeable repairs. The building that I live in has had a new roof and painting done in recent years of a similar magnitude. The real question is whether they get on top of things early enough to keep the costs minimal, or they wait until it gets extremely expensive/impossible to fix.
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The problem there is that just because a lot of us vote for Democrats, doesn't mean that this is what we want. There's a number of reasons why we won't vote GOP, for example abortion, our out of control defense spending and a continued march towards no gun regulations at all. This is a minority of Democrats that go for this, they just happen to be influential and there aren't viable alternatives to either party at this point.
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I wanted to get a Smeg, partially because of the name and partially because the ones I saw looked like ones that you might have bought in the '50s.
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I need to pick up the box set. The Good Place is one of the funniest shows from the last decade. And I'm glad that they opted to stop producing more episodes while it was still very good. It's a concept that they explored about as thoroughly as possible without ruining it for the viewers.
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Yes and when the metric measures do something that actually makes it worth the inconvenience of switching over we might do so. The reality here is that absent contrived examples of people doing things that they're not likely to ever do, people have a hard time coming up with reasons to switch other than other countries are doing it. We already use the metric system in the areas where it actually makes sense. But, outside of science and medicine, there' just scant benefit from switching and plenty of times where it's less convenient.
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It gets even better, everything I've seen suggests that this money is going to come from young people who were already getting the shaft when it comes to social security via the age increasing and whatever reductions are required to deal with the shortfall. And nobody in power seems to be talking about doing anything about it.
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I think that's a detail that a lot of people are missing. I'm nowhere near as large as the "prankster" in this case, but I could knock that dude out in one punch. I can only imagine how much damage I could do if I were another 6" taller and significantly more muscular. Just falling over if you hit your head that can be potentially fatal, or just serious brain damage. The jury made mostly the right call, although I expect the discharge conviction to be overturned just because it was a discharge while engaged in self-defense.
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You made the right call, Seattle has been getting crappier and crappier. We've got homeless people next door tapping into our power, I just hope they don't hurt themselves doing it.
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@joyjo2031 I feel very fortunate that I've got a sweet-heart deal with a relative, otherwise there's no way that I could afford to live where I do, and I likely wouldn't fight to stay. It's kind of ridiculous how people who were able to buy decades ago get to have housing, and most of the rest don't.
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@ronweasley4096 I got the feeling he was just focusing on the parts that are the most relevant. The 400 pages are where he outlines the evidence and weighs his obligations. For us non-lawyers, the relevant bits are why he couldn't charge the President regardless of how much evidence there was of criminal activities and the attempts to obstruct justice.
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I was wondering how folks knew that he was appropriating the headdress. Considering the centuries of genocide and purposeful destruction of native culture, I think it's really time that folks that aren't members of these communities start actually listening to what the communities are saying. There's been a bunch of obsession over not using the term "Indian," but very little obsession over the horrible conditions on many reservations.
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Lol
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@JustBenInLA Yes, but in this case Uber likes to pretend like the drivers are independent operators even though the drivers aren't required to have their own business licenses and don't get to make any meaningful decisions about how to run their "business" other than which hours they want to be available for.
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That's the thing right there. If the consequences of not wearing the helmet weren't distributed beyond the rider, making it a personal choice would be pretty reasonable.
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@akrenwinkle I think it's more likely that he's just that naive. He should have threatened to take his voters with him if they didn't eliminate the super delegates completely from future conventions and make other concessions to shore up support. That might have allowed Clinton to win anyways, as there would have been some reason for his supporters to vote for her.
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How about those of us that may not receive our social security not being required to pay until the program is fixed? As it stands, there's a very real chance that younger folks won't receive as much out of the program as we put in. If nothing is done even putting the money in a savings account would generate a better return on investment.
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@johnschreiber1574 Possibly, but not necessarily. I'm not sure anybody still has their fax machines set to print these days, most of the few folks that still send and receive faxes, do so digitally.
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@joshuahudson2170 Yes, and sometimes the defense will waive the right if it looks like doing so will result in a more favorable case. But, even with a waiver, 10 years would be way too long. It's not so bad if he winds up being convicted, if he is ultimately convicted as that 10 years would be credited towards whatever the final sentence is and he's presumably in jail rather than in prison, so the time might be a bit easier than what he'd get. A murder conviction would likely be at least 10 years long anyways. But, really, he could be let off either due to actual innocense or because the prosecution failed to make their case, in which case this is 10 years of sitting in jail while everything he has falls apart. Money doesn't adequately make up for that, no matter how much.
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@brentwalker8596 That's a weird situation, but I don't see why the resident shouldn't get to take their stuff back if they're OK with the fact that it's been in the garbage.
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TBH, it's kind of unfortunate that the US can't revoke his citizenship and leave him stateless.
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Or like Zecco, they were lying and never intended for it to continue forever.
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As an argument that may have been acceptable 50 years ago, but we live in an era where we generally understand that formations like that are rare and that humans exist in sufficient numbers to destroy all of them if we want to.
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@Kiltedbear The difference is that if you're buying something from Walgreens it's been tested by somebody else to be exactly what you think in the concentration you expect. It's the same basic thing that wound up killing Janis Joplin. The dealer she bought that last bit from had stronger than normal and killed several other people that weekend as a result.
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@Rowsy91 I don't, unlike HRC and Harris, she at least has people that unironically like her. That's not to say that I think she could win, I think she'd get shellacked, but probably not by more than either of those losers.
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@dolphincliffs8864 I'm not surprised, things like this commony function as toggles for whatever behavior it was. Perhaps try adding some stop signs to the roundabouts and see if that solves it.
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@dreadbull5039 They don't have yield signs, or are those people just stupid?
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@camelsheit_on_the_walls446 Right, like Biden's going to be great for our Democracy, he couldn't even win the primary without massive elections fraud. The exit polling was significantly off from the result and there's many ways in which they've prevented progressives from getting to have their preferred candidate.
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It's the chain of command, they need to consider the possibility that there was a culture that led to the crash. In all likelihood the ultimate repercussions will be more localized to the people operating the truck, but sometimes the problem just reveals issues that are occurring higher up.
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@Green__one Yes, and that seems to be what's happening. I'm definitely not an expert, but it does appear that the driver and somebody in charge on the truck are in the list. And a couple of higher ups that are probably just included in case there's some sort of cultural issue in the department that contributed. It remains to be seen what happens, but they'll probably be off the hook, as long as they weren't pressuring people to push the limits.
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I think it will be enforceable, Amazon may not know where all the fake reviews are coming from, but they probably do know if they're fake. Likewise, whatever business is being advertised should be have the appropriate business records covering those expenditures. There may be some situations where a 3rd party is paying for them as a sort of smear campaign, but that's something that can be figured out as well.
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@kaijuslayer3334 Probably because of the military base that they have and don't want.
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@thomassimmer5186 It wouldn't have worked. The people there didn't want what we were selling. Literally the only reason why there was a war there at all was that we were paying for one side to keep fighting. Having married into an Iranian family, I can tell you that these sorts of cultural beliefs can be incredibly durable to the point where my in laws refuse to acknowledge what a bad idea it would be for us to send the military into Iran to reinstate the Shah, again. I do not doubt that the Afghans have similarly strong cultural beliefs that doom most efforts to bring a new government to them. They will, eventually, move towards a form of governance that's less authoritarian and tied to religion, but that has to happen from within. Even the German people that wanted a western style democracy need around 70 years and 2 world wars before they had one that was stable.
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@flipflopski2951 The issue is that these drones don't need to be as large as what they're presumably using that technology for and the Russian military is rather behind in many ways in terms of technology and R&D. Detecting things right at the water line is a lot more complicated than it might seem, especially if they're shaped to deflect the sonar or radar.
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I'm not surprised. It was pretty clear from early on that they'd charge Alec whether or not there was a crime and evidence to back it up. They were more concerned with the perception of being light on a celebrity than actual justice. In other scenarios doing what he did would very much be prosecutable, but it was a stretch to suggest that using a weapon that had been cleared right before the incident would be so careless as to represent a crime, especially when other people had already either been convicted or pled guilty to related offenses.
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They already did decades ago, it's just that the rubes haven't figured it out.
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My wife and i got pulled over last night, we didn't show our respect and cooperation by arguing and ignoring orders. Granted, the police in the Floyd case were way over the line, but it's dishonest to suggest that Floyd was cooperating and being respectful. Definitely doesn't excuse the amount of force used though.
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In the US even when you do have insurance and everything goes as it's supposed to, you can still wind up with a large bill. About a decade back I had a heat stroke and wound up in the ICU. The total bill was roughly $14k IIRC, including the ambulance. The amount I paid out of pocket for the 3 days in the hospital was around $1k. If you don't have that kind of money, which most Americans don't, then you're still screwed. Most Americans before the pandemic did not have $400 to pay an unexpected bill like that.
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Of course, they even printed the notes with Kevlar. He probably has a bunch more under his jacket.
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Videos like this are why I don't give TYT any money. Nothing is sufficient in their eyes to justify a police shooting, it doesn't matter if the perp has a loaded weapon aimed at the police and they've already fired shots. It's still not enough for them. This incident should be thoroughly investigated, but barring some actual evidence that the use of force wasn't appropriate, he should get back to work as soon as possible.
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Pretty much, people are onto his con. There are probably some that haven't caught on, but enough don't want Trump he might be able to trick people.
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I really don't understand why they keep voting for her. She's any extremely conservative politician in a liberal district..
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@Abdul-w1f Precisely, it's not fair to expect her to have the resources and know how to fix much of this, but she apparently didn't even look at any of the report cards. Even if he got all his passing marks on the same report card, that would still be terrible grades.
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@vickimeyers2672 They don't, but the people that do have the power take their recommendations seriously. I'd expect that in coming days that they will be reevaluating the restrictions in light of the new guidance and vaccination rates in their state.
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I do think that pretty much any time you need a bunch of disks that you're going to be stuck with one of basically three basic options. One would be some form of tower, a second would be some form of rack mount and the last would be just a bunch of them connected via something like e.SATA, USB or Firewire style of external connector. The tower is particularly nice when you can't or don't want to string a bunch of external disks together and you don't have a good set up for a rack. And provided you don't need much portability, it's rarely a bad option.
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robert hicks I wish I could stay at home. I've had to work through the pandemic for barely over minimum wage and less than what folks were getting one unemployment. Neither candidates have promised help.
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@corkortekaas7624 TBH, that seems rather foolish and more down to penny pinching than anything else. Having a tug there to prevent this sort of thing isn't necessarily that expensive in the grand scheme of things, considering that the bridge itself lacks appropriate fortification like some other bridges have to reduce the likelihood of it being taken out by a ship or barge collision. It's also worth recognizing that this was a suspension bridge through this section, so if either of those towers was destroyed, it would pretty much immediately drop the entire deck along that span, as opposed to some other designs where only portions would collapse immediately giving some time to mount a rescue or for anybody unfortunate enough to be on the bridge to get to a location on the bridge where the drop would be more likely to be survivable.
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charmander charmander Bernie didn't lose to Hillary, she stole the election via fraud and the DNC had to admit to it in court. The same basic thing happened this time, only Bernie didn't fight anywhere near as hard against "his friend" Biden.
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@lynnhubbard844 They are closed at the moment out of respect for the dead. But, I would be surprised if they open just due to the fact that between the lawsuits and lack of prospects for more paying cusotmers that they're probably done. I also expect that anybody that has a loan that can be called is probably calling it to try and get their money back before bankruptcy court prevents them from collecting.
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@SilverRagaire Yep, apart from Canada and Mexico, there aren't a lot of countries that we can go to that don't involve an entire day each way dedicated to dealing with traveling. But, there's a ton of stuff we can do without leaving the country that don't use so much precious time.
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To be fair, only the delusional think that the political establishment will allow candidates to follow through on pledges to work for the American people rather than donors. At least the trains are run by companies that donate money.
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@jillellis2146 What bigger picture? We didn't fix it years ago, so we can't fix it now? It's also not fair that the pandemic happened and a bunch of people lost their jobs. I was going to be making somewhere in the order of $60k a year as an entry level teacher, and I'm making like half that working at a grocery store. The $3k in student loan foregiveness that I'm getting is still a tiny fraction of how much I lost having to switch degrees to complete on time. Even if I had gotten the full $20k, that's still less than the difference in salary for a year. It's also worth noting that the other changes should make college more affordable for a broader part of the population by doing things like capping the student loan payments and raising the amount of earnings that are protected from the loans. What's more, a bunch of the people who are getting forgiveness didn't graduate college or are doing things like counseling that don't pay well enough to ever compensate for the expense of some of these degrees. That's also not fair. For decades society has been telling kids to go to college to make up for the jobs being shipped overseas while making college more and more expensive. But, we still do need a bunch of jobs that have a need for these expensive degrees, but the actual pay doesn't make up for the expense of college. Sure, there are jobs in the trades that pay well, but there's only so many plumbers and electricians that society can support without literal make work jobs.
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@vincei4252 Around here folks often have 3 meters. All of them are now outside, but when I was a kid, the gas meter was inside. I have no idea who thought that was a good idea, as that's the one meter with the least right to be inside a residential house. But, the gas company did eventually replace the meter with a new one and placed it outside where it belongs.
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Yep, how are voters supposed to vote for something different when politicians no longer even pretend to care about votes?
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That's what I always did. At least after filters became more accessible. I can't remember the model I used when I started, but it was kind of cool in that I could remove the canister and attach some included hoses to gravity feed into my bottle.
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I hate to break it to you, but no matter what program you go through, or if you just do it yourself, once somebody is an alcoholic, they are an alcoholic for life. Yes, some people, myself included, do get to a point where most days we don't need or want a drink, but you're going to have bad days that spring up out of nowhere, sometimes years after the last meaningful urge to use and if you make it through that, it goes back into remission. I gave up on any notion of being "cured" years ago when after the better part of a decade without any urges to drink I started having days where it was all I could do to keep from crawling into a bottle and taking up residence. That hasn't happened to me in several years, fingers crossed. Part of the problem is that you can't really say somebody is no longer an alcoholic other than in retrospect on their death bed having hit a point where there were no more urges and that's rarely the case.
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They're not, but if the cops were white, then yes, calling them Nazis, skinheads and the like would definitely be racist.
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And yet even Bernie has abandoned essential workers. We'll be stuck again making less than the folks on unemployment and taking additional risk in doing so. We're doing more work, for minimum wage, we get bare minimum PPE, we don't get vaccines and we're not going to get hazard pay even. A pox on all their houses.
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@dancovaleski6520 Possibly, paid leave means that they are investigating and don't have enough to fire them on the spot. I think it's highly likely that somebody will be fired and there may well also be others that get demoted.
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I can't speak of the other parks, but the Harry Potter area of the Universal park is slightly cramped, but not unreasonable for the number of people that were there when I was there and certainly enough room in the shops.
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Thanks, that looked like a wall. A brake failure, pilot overshooting the runway a bit, the landing gear just not deploying are things that don't happen commonly, but they are things that do happen if you have enough planes landing. Designing airports is hard, but the calculations to estimate the amount of force that the building would need to sustain and the plane would suffer from a collision aren't that complicated, depending on what's on the other side, they could even have designed the building to have a system similar to what's used to stop runaway semis on steep passes. But really, there's a reason why they try not to have anything in the flight path like that for planes to run into if they can help it.
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Quick, where's the my pillow guy?
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If you're on a date and you're putting money in the box, you're doing something very kinky.
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@JanPavlikdr It depends what you're thinking of when documenting. The documentation here is just how it's being done. There's no value to those kinds of comments that isn't better dealt with by removing or rewriting the obfuscated code. But, documenting the why and the objective of the code is immensely helpful in most cases.
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Here in WA there's a fee attached to maintaining the endorsement that's used to subsidize the classes. They're usually about half that price and usually the motorcycles seem to be fine.
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Not necessarily, anybody who lives in a state that reliably votes one way or another gets ignored under the current system. That's especially the case if it's a larger state that doesn't benefit as much from the extra 2 bonus electors that states get. The electoral college is deeply undemocratic and leads to most votes throughout the country not mattering. Several times in the last century the candidate that won the electoral college wasn't the winner of the popular vote and even the winner of the popular vote doesn't typically have more than 50% of the eligible voters supporting them.
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It's standard to call the cops in a lot of cases, the ones you hear about in the paper are usually ones which are ridiculous. Many of those situations don't even justify talking to them, just that the people involved keep walking. Although, Starbucks was completely right to ask those men to leave, they were trespassing.
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@supremeleader9440 That's why you need to. My vote is completely meaningless due to the state not going Republican since Reagan, but your vote had actual value and if you waste it by voting for a democrat you might not ever get another one that isn't Republican lite.
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@Joelsef It's because Elon keeps promising that they'll move fast and break things. They have to move fast with things like this because Elon refused to hire anybody that understood how to build a car factory.
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That's my concern. I'm not sure what he can offer her to get her endorsement. He can't make her the VP pick after what she did, perhaps a cabinet position as there's no way she's going to be a senator after this poor showing.
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Not quite, he also benefited from most of the field dropping out a couple days before those primaries. But yeah, Biden wouldn't have a leg to stand on if it had anything to do with his policy proposals.
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They say that, but TSA agents are the bottom barrel of security workers as nobody in their right mind wants to work their. The agency's entire existence is unconstitutional and involves a lot of illegal activities. Those searches that they do are completely illegal. Or, they would be if the feds didn't declare airports to be and exemption. I used to have a private security license for a few years, and we were absolutely not allowed to do most of what the TSA regularly does, in large part because it's illegal to perform those kinds of searches without either being law enforcement or having permission. And saying that people at the airport are giving permission is a joke. Most of them don't have time for other forms of travel.
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@chrisbaker8533 Yes, either due to a clerical error or being missing and declared to be dead, but still alive and either in hiding or stranded in the middle of nowhere. (Admitted, being that stranded is less and less common as time goes by and the ability to search effectively gets better, I'd expect that before too long we'll have computers scanning through large volumes of satellite imaging just in general and picking out potential signs of missing people)
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To be fair, the DNC didn't want to win, they wanted four more years of Trump. Those YouTube ads where they're begging for money so that they can beat the Republicans. No indication of why we should want them to win.
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@eyo8766 Yes and crucially they can leave at any time. Most of these workers go from field to field across the growing seasons and could choose to go back home at any time if they wanted to. As bad as this is, the combination of pay and working conditions is still good enough to entice them to make the dangerous trip across the border. I don't doubt that there are exceptions that legitimately are slaves in that they're not being paid and can't leave, but that's not the dominant group of laborers and is already illegal. If we want it to stop, then there needs to be a policy to ensure where they're coming from has opportunities and that the pay here is sufficient for Americans to be able to afford to do the work. Beyond just the working conditions, the pay sucks and often times the workers have to make multiple moves every year as different crops need harvesting.
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I won't be voting Democrat again if he isn't the nominee after the various shenanigans that have gone into trying to hand the nomination to somebody so obviously incapable of executing the duties of President or beating Trump.
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@ I've heard of that, and I've heard of schools being repurposed. I think that malls and schools are probably easier to convert as they are designed a bit differently. I don't doubt that it's still pretty hard to do, but at least a mall is laid out a bit like a neighborhood to start.
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Cars are depreciating assets and the most expensive depreciating assets that most people will buy on credit. Really, the best thing to do is to figure out what the payments would be and buy the cheapest car that's safe to drive. Just make car payments to yourself and when you've got the money buy something a bit nicer with cash. People don't realize just how much money they spend on car loan interest. It's also not bad to buy a car that's a few years old, but still in good shape.
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@odar9729 Yes, it is possible that they're just that incompetent and careless, but I think that it's more likely that they have a short list of suspects in mind and have at least one of them under surveillance. I'm not sure how else they'd come to the conclusion for people not to be worried if that's not the case. If there is another murder with this MO before they've caught this murderer, there's going to be chaos beyond what's already going on.
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Metal lasts longer, depending on what kind of metal you choose. Aluminum in particular lasts pretty much forever, as long as it isn't melted or crushed.
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@fulanichild3138 It can operate with 3, the issue is when you're in busy airspaces like this and relying on visual tracking of nearby aircraft having only 3 means that you've got a perpetual blind spot somewhere and it's hard to to maintain visuals on air craft without having a perpetual blind spot at the same time.
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Until we get money out of politics, that's how it works.
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Yep, it's the logical result of knowing that a = (v^2)/r. If you don't want acceleration to increase, then either v^2 and r have to be constant or r has to increase by the square of velocity. This leads to the conclusion that the radius is probably the thing you want to be messing with if you want to go faster without killing the riders. If you want to do completely circular, you pretty much have to do that sideways, as gravity is constant that way and the problematic acceleration is also more or less constant and you can get a roller coaster into that position with less trouble than with the more vertical types.
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@AbiogenesisGaming IMHO, if they're not going to fix the problem of college being too expensive, or waive debt, the next best thing would be to permanently cut interest rates to zero or even just peg it to inflation. When I hear about people with many tens of thousands of dollars in student loans, much of it is usually interest on the original loan. I'm fortunate enough that none of the debt forgiveness plans would help me out at all as I'm scheduled to have mine paid off in 10 years if I keep the recommended payment plan. They refused to even enroll me in any of the grants that could result in waivers because I hadn't taken the SATs recently. I mean, WTF, I already had a postgraduate certification and B.A. and somehow I'm not smart enough to be exceptional?
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As time goes by, the durability and reliability of equipment tends to get better and better as they engineer them to keep even the cost of maintenance down. Ever notice how prominent spare tires were on cars in the first half of the last century? They were prominent like that because tires weren't very durable when compared with modern tires. Cars used to not just drive more slowly, but they also tended to break down more frequently as the parts weren't as durable as they are today. You see this in other areas as well. As a result of this, you can't assume that the amount of labor that's going to be required to maintain the equipment is anywhere near as enough to make up for the jobs lost. If it was enough, then you likely wouldn't be paying for the equipment in the first place. It's a huge investment up front that needs to pay itself off over time.
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@johna9994 Some banks will allow you to automatically round the debit purchases up and transfer the difference to a separate account. It both makes saving and budgeting easier. I just round my expenses up when I'm budgeting and my income down to make the numbers easier.
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He probably shouldn't be. He had severe issues with schizophrenia and did a bunch of things which were far from virtuous. It's a shame that A Beautiful Mind chose to downplay those aspects to the extent that they did as it served nobody's interest to have him whitewashed to that extent.
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A weirdo running a fake religious university, I'm shocked.
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@RomaHeart That sounds better, Bernie is usually smarter about things like this. The money is ultimately coming from younger workers that are already facing a shortfall by the time we retire. Had Bernie been behind this there would have been an explicit increase in the taxable social security income in order to make sure that it didn't result in robbing young people to fund.
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$10k would wipe out my student loan completely. Most of the money I have is tied up in stocks and bonds and as such, will likely increase to account for any inflation that results from this. That being said, forgiving student loans at this point is one of the dumbest ideas out there. Giving everybody stimulus payments to help them deal with their current circumstances would allow those with debts of any sort to keep paying and those without to save/spend it as they see fit. Wiping out student debts after they've been incurred and people have made their decisions just rewards irresponsible people. I had to work my but off to keep from racking up massive debt from college, why should those morons going to Harvard and the like get their money back? It's one thing to decide that going forward we're not going to let people go into debt for college, that would suck for those that are already done, but at least it wouldn't reward irresponsibility like waiving certain debt does. Waiving student loans for veterans was a pretty big FU as well, they've had the GI bill paying for college for many decades now, if they couldn't finish their degree with that funding, why should we have to bail them out beyond that?
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@giin97 that's not going to happen, the number of people that want it are vastly outnumbered by those that don't. The most likely situation will be extra privileges for those with the vaccination card and not much else. So you'll have more seats available at sporting events and maybe a faster line you get in and that's about it.
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@memyself898 There are different ways of viewing that stuff and I do believe that an avoidance of it causes even more trouble than being somewhat interested.
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Keep in mind that the game is nearly a hundred years old and it was completely possible for it to be more expensive to find the money than to just pay the customer that lost their money. These days with computers, it's unusual for it to take long to figure out where money went if it's been transferred to the wrong place.
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Please let us know when you're arrested, and do the courts where you live allow us to bring popcorn?
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Iran is kind of complicated. I have Iranian in-laws that speak openly about wanting the US to stage a coup to re-establish the Shah. It surprises me that they don't seem to realize that they have the Ayatollah over there because the US already tried to reinstate the Shah only to have the people revolt and leading to the current state of affairs. (Admittedly, they had relatives that worked for the Shah in arts and education, so probably not the most accurate depiction of popular sentiment) Iran itself is kind of an interesting case where it was a relatively liberal place in terms of personal freedoms in that part of the world under the Shah, but clearly there were issues that led to the revolution.
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He probably will be, somebody commented that they reported this to the authorities that responded they were already aware of it. I just don't see how this doesn't get prosecuted, given how high profile he is and that the entire thing is on camera with him literally commenting on how dangerous what he was doing is. They almost have to prosecute just so that people don't copy this.
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One of the things I remember from when I was living in China was that pretty much every town had at least a Postal Savings Bank or Bank of China, due to the way that the government deals with businesses, they were both owned in part by the government and they didn't necessarily need to turn a profit in a given town to have a branch there. My assumption is that a government owned bank here would be more or less in charge of ensuring that everybody has access to basic banking services, not necessarily with many frills or features, just a safe place to park their money and a debit card.
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@keeptyrannyfromamerica8519 I find that hard to believe. There shouldn't need to be a specific law stating that you can't use water to make up the difference. Specifically adding water to the mix is a form of fraud and as such shouldn't require a specific law saying you can't do it. It's a misrepresentation of the fuel to do so.
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You shouldn't, it's bad. This isn't a red team versus blue team situation, there are very real negative consequences that come of these things. And, if they don't stop doing it, the villagers are going to come after you with torches and pitchforks.
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Same here, my vote doesn't count due to my state being reliably blue, but at least a vote for one of the 3rd party candidates could result in federal recognition.
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@yomomma5086 Nothing really does, but there are things that are worthy of a bit of pride and inspiration and there are things that aren't. I would like to have thought that we'd be past it by now, but for those that don't know, slavery and the confederacy are not things to be proud of or to seek inspiration from.
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They have plain clothes police that patrol the area near Tienanmen Square. I saw a group of like 12 similarly dressed individuals meet up march in formation for a short bit before separating and going their own ways. It was probably one of the weirder things when I was over there, and I saw some fairly weird stuff.
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There's also run flat bike tire inserts.They still allow for room for air, but in case of a puncture they provide enough resistance that you can still ride home.
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@doofus3974 The governor decided to postpone at the absolute last minute. Had he done so before voting started, the result likely would have been difference as the court ruling was in part based upon the fact that you can't change the voting rules after voting has started.
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People used to say the same thing about not wearing helmets. And yet these days most people don't feel that wearing a helmet destroys the experience.
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@kittenburger_prime Barring specific training and conditions conducive to a rescue, it's pretty much will happen.
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@SeaBass3945 There you go, they were clearly using reverse psychology to make him drown himself.
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Just to the people in power. Some of us think that both Hamas and the Israelis government are a bunch of horrible people doing horrible things. The difference is that unlike Hamas, the Israelis have the ability to stop escalating this and let things calm down. I doubt very much that Hamas would have popular support if the Israelis would stop murdering innocent civilians and blocking relief from the embargoed areas.
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@scifirealism5943 It's because a good chunk of the politicians need for the people to not be educated.
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That's mostly because they know we're about to have a massive crashes in the stock market and housing market. They're spending less because they know they're going to have a bunch of great investment opportunities coming.
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@stupedcraig Money in policitics is the only issue that definitely matters, although climate change is just barely behind it. You can't address any of our problems without getting the money out of politics and at this point, I don't even know what you can do to go to prison for corruption.
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I doubt it, wouldn't that clearly be an issue for the microwave manufacturer? Perhaps if they specifically recommended using the popcorn button there might be some possible suit, but just not warning against it seems a bit much. Also, it's in the instructions, not the section with warnings, so I doubt it's intended as a CYA for safety issues.
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I hadn't noticed that before and probably because of what Andres said, this is normal for people who are on TV. Typically if they are looking at their co-hosts there's a camera there so that you don't notice that they're looking away from the viewers at home.
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That's a good question, there are a lot of possibilities. It might be a case of him trying to find the minimum of what he can get away with. Which is unlikely as this is kind of ballsy. More likely, he does intend to do more, but needs to know if there's going to be the votes to modify laws rather than just reclassify it. Reclassification could potentially be undone just as easily by a future administration, whereas legislation is harder to reverse.
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Yep, I'm sort of confused about why she'd expect to find a lesbian on a site that's dedicated to matching people of a religion where some of the followers still literally execute people for homosexuality. Even in the US where it's legal, she can't have expected that the site would permit such an option.
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This is no different from other situations where there's injunctive relief provided so that the judicial process can proceed. It's a temporary restriction while the courts operate and if the court case is dropped or results in an acquittal, the harm to the defendant is minor. Compare that with the need to protect the victims and witnesses against the potential misuse of the weapon and it seems like a reasonable compromise. Otherwise, you'd be talking about basically all the defendants being locked up while awaiting trial and I don't think anybody is going to argue that that would be a lesser infringement than temporarily giving up the guns.
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@HenriFaust Judges make mistakes and sometimes there isn't enough space to house people for pre-trial proceedings. There's a lot of reasons and the whole thing is rather complicated. In an ideal world, it would just be the defendants that would go out and commit other crimes and engage in criminal activities that would have to wait in jail, but in practice, that's hard to determine with certainty. So judges go by the information that they have and their gut instincts about whether to release them prior to the trial and what specific rules should be attached to it.
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That sounds similar to the law in WA that just went into effect yesterday. ID requirement, payment by check 3 days after the sale and I believe a requirement of proof of ownership of the vehicle. I'm less sure about that last one. I'd expect this to become more common throughout the country as these are expensive items with expensive metals inside.
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@rossmanngroup That's OK I'm sure the agreement proscribes the cat-o-nine tails as punishment.
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@RichardBaran Yes and not just that Elon has been falsely claiming that they'd have full self-driving capabilities any year now, and that's been going on for years.
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That's what not voting in spite of being eligible means. But, in practice, neither major party seems to recognize it as such and neither party is interested in going after those potential votes.
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Honestly, I'd accept the promotion, then immediately start looking for a new position elsewhere.
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Deciding which side won a war isn't always easy. It all depends on the objectives in modern wars as one side is usually not destroyed or the other forced out completely. It's more common for one side to suffer heavy losses, but still retain the land, which is a bit of a mixed bag in terms of who really won.
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@PaulPupp No, but as a matter of fact, that has always been the case. The only difference is that access is better now and there are a lot more people looking. There was always the ability to find this stuff.
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@Po1itica11yNcorrect That's absolutely monstrous. People getting hit with a reduction due to WEP never paid into the system for the portion that they lose. It was there to prevent people from earning social security benefits on the basis of earnings that were never taxed, hence why it's the Windfall Elimination Provision. Likewise, the GPO is a reduction of 2/3 of the government pension for the money that wasn't taxed. Whereas the young folks are mostly being taxed on 100%, but potentially being paid out at some lower percentage than what we paid in for. Meanwhile, money is being given to people to cover benefits for which they did not pay and are not entitled.
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@SupremeInvigilator How is this different from any other injunctive relief? The right is curtailed temporarily until the court proceedings can complete, so that nothing happens that can't be fixed.
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The conviction will remain on his record unless he can get a judge to order his record be expunged or sealed. For him, that's probably not that big of a deal, but for other pardoned individuals it can still mean that their lives are ultimately ruined.
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Yes, although it's worth noting that lefties tend not to be strongly left handed the way that righties tend to be strongly right handed.
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Why shouldn't they be allowed to use the law? We don't know if he was guilty of theft, but if he said those things, then he absolutely does need to be held to the same standard that white people would. It's rather common these days for white people behaving like that to lose their livelihood when somebody takes offense. I'm not sure why being a person of color should be some sort of shield for obvious racist animus.
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I don't think she's crazy, I think she's got a severe personality disorder that leads her to do this sort of thing in the service of more power and attention.
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Around here you can use debit cards or cash. Using credit cards seems like it's asking for all sorts of problems.
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TV is somewhat better in that respect now, but it's still a problem. The issue that I've got here is that the kinds of videos I'm watching are mostly smaller channels and it's unclear to me how many of them get any revenue share and of those that do how much it is. There's little point in me paying for the premium package if most of the money is going to channels with less of a need. Especially with the dickish stuff like not allowing smaller creators to get donations directly from the viewers.
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@tirkentube A GFCI breaker will cut power to everything on that circuit. A GFCI outlet will cut power to everything past that point. If for some reason you want to have it just protect itself, there's normally a place to connect the wires so that they bypass the outlet on their way to the next outlet. That's not necessarily something that's always a big deal, as sometimes you just want that one to throw and let the rest remain on, and sometimes you really do want to throw all of them. If for some reason, you're using the same power to light the overhead lights in a bathroom, you probably want the lights to bypass the GFCI as you don't want to be left stumbling around in what could well be a puddle of water after the GFCI triggered.
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Tamir Rice wasn't killed for having a toy gun, he was killed for waving an illegal toy gun around recklessly and then lowering it in the direction of the cops. It does nobody any good to misrepresent what happened. I was raised not to wave such toys around because it was already known that doing so could result in being shot. And I'm not even black, a white kid might have gotten a slighly longer time to wave it before being shot, but let's not pretend like a white kid can wave such a toy around and not have to worry about being shot.
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In the US, the most I've ever seen is a card and maybe some food. Which is fine, I don't think that most people really want to see the company shelling out a lot of money for a party that could have gone to pay or perks.
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@Rexxxxxxxxxxxxxx They're absolutely not opinion based narratives. From an objective standpoint, the lane closure had no legitimate reason attached to it. Regardless of the motivation, it was a misuse of taxpayer resources. The fact that they had ill intent just makes it worse. I'm not surprised that the court overturned the conviction, the courts in general have been looking the other way when it comes to political and white collar criminal activities for ages now.
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@paultasker9759 If they want to survive, floating is the only viable option. That is unless you're luckly enough to have something to cling to. Yes, you might have to do a little bit of swimming, but if it's much more than that, you're pretty much screwed.
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"Last Week Tonight with Human Depravity" would be more on brand for the show.
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@BerserkPublishing Yep, if it were as simple as just switching parties, this wouldn't have gone on this long. The problem is that the GOP refuses to run competent and non-crazy candidates in places like San Francisco. I remember being pissed off at the Democrats years ago and specifically looking for a GOP candidate that I could vote for and even looking specifically to vote for one on the basis of not being a Democrat, they still couldn't get my vote because they were all poison pill candidates that were never going to win because they were absolute monsters. Now I only vote 3rd party if there is a candidate and against the incumbent if there is no 3rd party candidate. I don't know how long I'm going to do that, but given the negative progress that's going on in both parties right now, it's going to be a long while.
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Probably, they still need to be concerned about somebody else aligned with the Sunnis deciding to take advantage of the opening. But, even if they are just sending proxies, cash and supplies, it could still be a massive problem in the region. Hopefully when the smoke clears, the US will stop propping up the Israelis and demand that humanitarian aid be allowed to flow into the embargoed areas to help ease the suffering and hopefully reduce the support, and need, for terrorist activities.
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There is no particularly good way of dealing with that. The Federal courts aren't necessarily filled with fewer incompetents than the state courts. At one point, Trump nominated somebody that didn't even know basic legal terms and had basically no experience in court. Courts are going to be subject to intense measures to influence the results, and there aren't any great ways around it. Even a nonpartisan committee to decide whom to nominate still assumes that the people doing the nominating are going to be drawn from a broad range of perspectives, not a bunch of people that share one or two matters of agreement on things like corporate rights or government overreach.
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You do realize that it's possible to respect cops that do their job appropriately within the law and not respect those that don't, right? That being said, the balance between those groups definitely has been shifting towards a lack of earned respect in recent years.
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@diablense Yes, they pretty much print money. The more likely risk would be for some of the games to not be updated at some point. Although, that depends on how the system works, they may well have to keep the system updated for games in general to function making that a bit of a moot point.
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Indeed, the grid leaves traffic designers with a lot more options when it comes to routing traffic. With a cul-de-sac system, if a key road needs to be closed or has heavy traffic, there's no guarantee that drivers will know how to route around it, and there may not be a good way of doing so. A typical grid city will have a system of main arterials and side streets. People wouldn't normally be driving down side streets until they get close to their destination, hence why they tend to be narrower. The ones around here are basically one lane roads in most parts of the city with a parking lane on either side. It tends to keep speeds lower as you do need to pull off to the side of the road if a driver is coming from the other direction. Contrast that with the suburbs, and it's a right proper mess. You're not going to know how to get anywhere without a map and/or gps and if you do miss a turn, you may not even realize it for quite some distance. The solution here is really to fix the zoning so that there's more mixed use where it makes sense, improve public transit (BTW, mass transit, apart from subway, is a whole lot easier to do if you've got a grid layout to a city) and ensure that the streets you mean to carry the bulk of the traffic are set up to handle it.
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@ulbuilder I'm curious if any flight school would be wiling to accept him. Yes, money talks, but I wouldn't imagine that an instructor would want to teach somebody that previously had a license and lost it due to intentionally crashing the plane.
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@michaelrs8010 Israel struck first, even the BBC is acknowledging that the missiles from Iran were in retaliation for what Israel had already done.
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Yes, but how many elections should we have to deal with this? The elites stole every election since I turned 18. Bush, Obama, Trump, they were all disasters. Obama was a relative bright spot, but only because the standards are so low.
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They could make a perfectly round roller coaster loop, it would just have to be a very slow loop and there'd have to be a second set of wheels to keep the roller coaster from falling off the track. Using a shape that keeps the acceleration more constant and allows a transition to the necessary speed at the top of the loop to keep the car and those in it on the tracks is usually a lot more fun.
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The fact that that's even a thing is a good reason for MS to deprecate the registry and offer some sort of per application registry for those that haven't yet migrated away from it.
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That's a typo, they're all for State's Right as in the right to have monuments to slaves up.
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@The_Gnome_Chomskee Definitely not gerrymandering in this case, this is a state wide office, gerrymandering really only applies to offices that have districts. Election rigging, voter disenfranchisement and riling up the voters are big issues. And, unfortunately, the damage that McConnel has done will take generations to repair, and in some cases will never be fixed. If there were an actual, literal, hell, the man would be rotting in there for all eternity when he does finally pass. His antics have resulted in more death and suffering than just about anybody else. You'd have to look to figures like Hitler and Stalin to find people that have caused more deaths.
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I think you're confused, that's what causes people to drink Corona.
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Yes, but only one side can be proven wrong.
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It's the same thing as Hillary, every time she had a public appearance her poll numbers went down. She lost to Trump because people absolutely hated her personally and in terms of her policies. The fact that they couldn't get enough Democratic voters to back her should have been a red flag that she was likely to go down in the general election. Sadly, for the country and the world, they didn't learn their lesson and now we've got Biden being forced down our throats. Nobody really wants to vote for him, at best he's a vote against Trump. Trump, for all his faults, at least has some people excited to vote for him.
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He was already caught lying about masks, and now he's been caught lying about the number of doses needed to reach herd immunity.
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It does, but even if we had lost seats, but managed to take down high ranking Democrats, that would still be a marked gain.
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@christopherkidwell9817 I don't believe that's actually the case, in those situations the DA just stops defending that portion of the verdict. This isn't the same thing as dropping the charges. There have been cases that went to SCOTUS where they decided that innocence wasn't sufficient to let somebody out of prison if they've already exhausted their appeals.
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@arnoldromppai5395 Sort of, they can't rewrite the law, but they can change the interpretation of legal language in the law.I don't believe that they can do that here in a way that wouldn't violate the explicit language of the law, but they can often times do things like adjust the meaning of terms like probable cause or reckless in a way that makes the law act very different from what was originally passed. It's how we got that asinine qualified immunity rule that shields people that should be brought into court.
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@loistalagrand Kanji is harder to learn that Chinese Hanzi is. The actual characters are the same difficulty as they only really vary (as far as traditional characters to kanji) in terms of stroke order with the added difficulty of having a lot of readings. Chinese characters, even the simplified set, rarely has more than 1 reading, and I'd be hard pressed to come up with any that can be read in more than 3 ways. If you haven't already done so, I'd look into Outlier Linguistics as they have probably the best methods for working with Hanzi, and I think Kanji as well, in terms of how to break the characters down into components that can be used to more efficiently work with them.
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@rauschma The issue with Kanji is that unlike Chinese Traditional characters that mostly just have one way of reading, Kanji tends to have a lot of ways of reading them as it was not intended to be used for Japanese. It's sort of like Korean prior to the development of the Hangul character set.
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@milohobo9186 Also, keep in mind that bars are more likely to be on streets that have signaled intersections than ones that aren't signaled.
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@NormalityIsWeird Not really, you can identify the transactions to a wallet, but not necessarily a wallet to a person. If they couldn't do that, then it would have no value of any sort.
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@jamesshaffer7005 Probably, but by the same token, at that point, there are basically three options, the other two being an abject coward and the other trying to be as nondescript as possible.
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Precisely, I've got $3k in student loans because I chose to pay as I went and was able to manage alternative financing. I feel precisely nothing for those that were dumb enough to take on all those funds. People made decisions about where to go to college based in part on how much money I would have to pay back. As a result, I'll screw myself out of $12k because I was responsible.
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@carsonmmiller It's incredibly common for people to not know how to read notes, some instruments, like guitar and bass, it's almost a given, but you lose out on a lot in terms of being able to play music that you haven't heard or to understand the alternate fingers that exist to give the same note.
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To be fair, they need a scapegoat as they have no interest in actually helping people or supporting things that voters support.
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A lot of that money is renting a plane, which is why a lot of folks just buy a plane and sell it when they're done. But yeah, the pay for being any sort of commercial pilot is disgraceful.
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Why? I'm sad and frustrated by people not knowing things that are actually important. For example, not understanding how compound interest works or the impact of tax policy in the most basic sense has on the way that the economy structures itself in response. Astronomy is interesting, but it's really not terribly relevant to people that aren't involved in space exploration and likely won't be relevant for decades to come.
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This is why they'got more and better cameras in the local grocery store. But, ultimately, the local police won't show up for shoplifting unless it's a bunch of products. The local prosecutor has been pushing to not prosecute shoplifting at all as it's a "poverty crime." But, it's not just poor people, there's a bunch of people of various socioeconomic groups stealing for various reasons.
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It's one of the things I've been trying to remind people of in the post election time. He's already outlived the life expectancy of a man his age. He doesn't exercise, he eats garbage food and he's been significantly overweight. There's a very real possibility that he'll die of a stroke or heart disease. There's also now the possibility of him being killed riding in one of those swastikkkars as well. The Democrats and anybody that doesn't agree with what is going on, really ought to be fighting a lot harder because the more of this nonsense that goes on, the harder it's going to be to roll back in 2029 when somebody new takes office. I can't imagine JD Vance being able to get enough support to win an election as he was largely chosen to not be too threatening to Trump's power.
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To be fair, they probably were pursuing invisibility from radar, which we know because it's publicly known that there are stealth vehicles officially acknowledged by the government now. And, I believe some of them are now old enough to be in museums. I'm not aware of any that use electromagnetism the way they were experimenting with at the time, but they may have figured that out more recently. And that's usually the case, the gear we hear about is usually either already obsolete or just made up to try and bluff other countries into wasting resources trying to counter something that doesn't exist and may not even be possible.
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@Suuegrl The gates are down, if you watch at 1/4 speed you can see the gate arms down on all the crossings. It is kind of hard to see though even at that speed, but yeah, 911 has the ability to get through to the railroad to clear the tracks if need be. There's also generally a phone number on the crossing to get in touch with the traffic controller directly if a car breaks down on the tracks. Otherwise, it's a call to 911 as that could be extremely urgent. (Admittedly, some sections of track are rarely used, but you don't really want to take any chances)
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TBH, that mostly just HD riders and they're unlikely to ever buy an electric motorcycle. Even the HD offering sold poorly.
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Yep, personally, Fx is my favorite, but realistically, it's not like I have much of a choice. It's mostly just Chrome based stuff or Fx unless I switch to OSX and iOS. At least, Fx isn't aggressively going after adblockers.
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That's one of the reasons why I'm never voting for Jayapal again. She's a fraud and I'm glad that Jimmy is onto her. I just wish more people were.
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@loistalagrand They also tailored their learning to their specific needs in the moment. The one thing that really couldn't be easily addressed previously was the ability to hear all the sounds of a given language by using minimal pairs with audio recordings. That is some magic that is extremely hard to replace with older techniques.
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@Bakamoichigei PS3 is vintage, there are still plenty of original PS3s out there and I think it still enjoys patent protection. If it's not old enough to have it's patents expire, then it's not old enough to be retro.
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@benwalters4808 I'd be curious to see how much they made from campaign ads versus the mainstream media did. Considering that most of the shows they air aren't political commentary, they probably have significantly less to lose in terms of upsetting politicians.
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@xochilquetzal18 That's most likely what I'll do this time. And probably forever. At the state level, we have top 2 primaries, which means that voting for a Democrat is the only option in the general elections. But, at least there, the GOP candidates often run against other GOP candidates which pushes both parties more towards the center of the state.
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@rhetorical1488 It's not the mechanic's fault, often times they're required to offer up a quote ahead of time and not allowed to increase it. They may have used a more experienced mechanic or they may not have run into some of the issues that can arise. Plus if he got the car back in 1/2 an hour, that does not mean that the mechanic was necessarily able to get on to the next car immediately. Plus, a flat rate encourages them to move through as quickly as they can rather than milking customers for as much money as possible.
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@andykillsu I usually just reach up and take the detector down and remove the battery for a couple minutes. It always goes back up in a couple minutes and doesn't cause more trouble for the rest of the day. The only source of smoke here is either the kitchen or the grill. If anything else is smoking, I'm high tailing out to the entryway to pull the building-wide alarm and calling the fire department as nothing else should ever be smoking at all.
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They're too big to care.
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It's not kissing arse, it's recognizing that you've been caught dead to rights and not digging yourself in any further. It's somewhat unpredictable in situations like this whether the cop is going to issue a ticket or just a verbal warning, but if you resist arrest by running away, you're getting a ticket at absolute bare minimum, and more likely arrested. This isn't just American cops, cops in most parts of the world are going to chase suspects down and do what they need to get the cuffs on them while they figure out what's going on. The only things that are different about America is that we've got more firearms and we've got a relatively large minority of people that think that the cops never have the right to approach them for minor infractions
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@eichelbergergary That's fine for a copy. However, an entire retirement company had all of their files deleted by one of those companies due to a mistake in how they were provisioned. From what I understand, they had another copy of all that stuff, so they could restore it, but there were billions of dollars worth of retirement accounts that would have been in trouble otherwise.
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Possibly, or at that time of the day, the driver might be suffering from "white line fever" or just being too tired to properly register what's happening, or perhaps overestimated what the autopilot was capable of doing. But, its' been far too many years of these cars crashing into inanimate objects for them to still be allowed to sell the cars without any sensors to augment the cameras.
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@philuribe7863 I take it you work for MS then. Just the idiotic windows Recall and TPM 2 requirements alone are enough to make it a worse OS. And really, all of the OSes after 7 have failed to really improve much of anything.
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It's to help regulate the speed people are driving around it. One of the neat things about this particular design is that they have the option of straightening it into more of an oval or making it even more curvy if they want to slow traffic down through the roundabout.
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Possibly, or because he knows that whether or not he did anything wrong, he's likely going to have his life ruined as a result. We don't really know much about what happened and ithere's a wide range of possibilities from him murdering her to her just wandering off and him being too much of a dick to get her. Or even her offing herself and making him promise not to say where she's located. There's a ton of possibilities here, and I, for one, intend to maintain an open mind until there's more information related to the case to go by.
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@-yeme- Yes, but the state already says that you can't have contracts that benefit just one party. It's part of why you can't legally sign yourself into indentured servitude or sign a contract to give somebody your car at some future time. Both situations would give all the benefit to one side. And in terms of indentured servitude, that would also violate that person's constitutional rights as well.
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The thing you didn't address, and I wish you would have, is one of the team members signing Mr. Beast's signature to a shirt and then hiding it. If the basis of the giveaway is that these were the autographs, is there any basis for there being fraud charges involved with passing the signatures of people other than Mr. Beast off as his signature in pursuit of running that giveaway? IANAL, so there's very possibly something that I'm not picking up on, but that would appear to constitute wire fraud if they were fraudulently passing off other people's signatures as part of the prize package for the online giveaway. Like I said, IANAL, but that seems like a much stronger potential case than most of the rest of it is as we can see on camera somebody that is clearly not Mr. Beast signing his signature, hiding the t-shirt when he remembers he's on camera and it's somewhat unclear how many of the shirts that were sold in such a fashion were sold with fake signatures.
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Nobody votes in person in either WA or OR except for people who need ADA accommodations and the like. The entire county I live in with hundreds of thousands of people only has like a half dozen in person polling places set up for any election. Around here, it's the normal thing to do to vote through the mail and has been for quite a few years. Perhaps the rest of the country should try to catch up. It's so nice to be able to sit at home sipping on my coffee while I read up on the various issues as I make my final decision about which candidates and causes to vote for.
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It's still cheating whether or not the professors should have created new tests. You'll still be flunked on the test at a minimum if caught and possibly expelled from the school at the worst. If you're making use of materials not available to the general student population, you need to tread cautiously, and if it's the actual evaluation materials, you're definitely cheating.
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@BalmBeach Yes, there's been a few, but by 2010 I don't think I've heard anything actually good or unique. A couple of my favorites post 2000 would be The Shins - New Slang and Outkast Miss Jackson. Those are just a couple that spring to mind. In the last 20 years, songs have just gotten so samey that if you like the sound, there's good stuff, but if you don't, it takes a pretty significant deep dive to find the indie stuff that doesn't suck.
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You're missing the point,$1k for emergencies is just the starting point while you pay off any and all non-house debts you might have. After that, he recommends having somewhere between 3 and 6 months worth of expenses in the bank. Clearly, people weren't doing that because having that savings on top of the unemployment these people would likely be fine. That's not to say that I don't recognize that there are people who are in the hole far enough that they'll never climb out without going voluntarily homeless long enough to dig out. His plan won't work if you're not making enough money to cover basic food, housing, clothing and the like, then you're not going to be able to make any progress in moving on up. For everybody else, you could get in on the growth of the market. You can open an investment account with less than $100 now and you only have to deposit a few dollars at a time now. It's not like when I was younger and you either needed thousands just to open the account and probably close to $10k in order to have the fees not kill your earnings or buy directly through company stock purchase plans. These days, all but the poorest could be investing in a basic portfolio of bonds and index funds both foreign and domestic even with small bucks.
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It doesn't say that either, what it says is essentially no more than 10 years, with some ambiguity as to what happens if the President then runs as VP and gets the Presidency again due to the President stepping down.
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If you care that much, it's better to just completely avoid all their stuff. Piracy gives them the sense that those pirated copies could be converted into paying copies in some fashion. Avoiding them completely makes it pretty much impossible to make money off that without changing their practices.
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Yes, and that's the problem. The vaccines are highly effective at preventing death and permanent disability, but quite bad at preventing spread. Actual medical experts pretty much agree that you cannot vaccinate your way out of a pandemic with an imperfect vaccine. Ultimately, the only way out is for people to contract the virus and survive because they were vaccinated. But, that's not politically popular with a portion of the left. Ultimately, masking up, keeping businesses closed and getting boosters is of very little value at this point. They should have paid people to get the vaccine, allowed the vaccinated to not wear masks, and started opening up. At this point, the virus is endemic to pretty much the whole world and won't be going away, but with the vaccines and the medical treatments, the body count should continue to drop.
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The next target there is to see if he needs the medications at all. I was in a similar situation and over time with group therapy and a psychiatrist that was willing to lower my dose gradually, I did eventually get to the point where I didn't need the medication at all. But, that really depends a bit on the particular patient. I don't doubt that some do require medications, but some do manage their way out with appropriate therapy. There's definitely no guarantee that being completely off is appropriate, but it is possible, even if it is a bunch of work. I'm not like "cured," but my diagnosis went from schizoaffective to schizotypal and I'm largely free of the issues that required the antipsychotic medications.
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Those odors don't escape the unit. Personally, I don't really care one way or the other. The condo I live in has a no smoking in doors policy. If somebody put a motion to allow people to smoke in their unit, I wouldn't personally object to it. But, packs of cigarettes around here were well over $7 a pack before taxes last time I checked and it's getting harder for kids to get access to them and with most of the long term smokers starting as kids, it means that the whole bit about people smoking at all is probably going to start to decline pretty substantially from where it is.
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@PeachWood-j8j Nixon had many problems, but I don't think anybody would suggest that he was senile while in office.
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Engineering is pretty much always about cutting as many corners as possible while still maintaining a safety margin. The problem here was that they didn't understand harmonics and as a result the bridge's resonance frequency was reachable by the wind. A bridge that was tuned for the location wouldn't have allowed itself to shake itself apart. But with the technology and knowledge of physics at the time, it want possible. To make matters worse, the insurance premiums were embezzled by a state employee because a bridge that new shouldn't need insurance. So the government had to pay to rebuild and clear up the mess rather than insurance.
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@collectiveconsciousness5314 Why not? People are pretty OK with the blatant crimes against humanity and our support of authoritarianism when it's convenient.
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@mke723 Yes, but New Mexico isn't known for supporting measures that hamstring the states generating the tax revenue.
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Ethics aside, that would make no difference. He's too senile.
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@skygradient6248 I agree, I think that if we can get the oligarchs in check we'll probably get to the point where hardly any traditional work is done and we convert over to just paying people to engage in hobbies.
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@politicaltroll8920 I hope the point the GP was making was not about individuals, but about the community at large. But, otherwise, it's not true, we've got homeless people now that are working fulltime jobs and can't afford to rent housing.
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And yet the Las Vegas shooter years back would never have been able to gun down all those concert goers from that hotel window with something shorter. The fact of the matter is that it's more an issue of weapons getting into the wrong hands and having too many bullets lined up for shooting in the magazine. Just simply, limiting the rounds to something reasonable and putting safeguards into place to keep known dodgy people from getting their hands on these weapons would do a ton to improve the situation.
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Keep in mind that the North Korean soldiers almost certainly have family back home and if they do things like that and it angers their leader, there would be consequences. I doubt very much that they sent any personnel that didn't have family that could be used to ensure that they don't defect.
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Don't worry, I'm sure the tech billionaires would at least ensure that they're internet connected.
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The correct answer would be either 1 or 3 depending upon how you interpret the question. 4 isn't an answer you can get without misinterpreting what the words in the problem mean. This is why the correct answer isn't listed, 4 isn't correct and the poor soul who had to write the answered wouldn't get it.
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I thought it was going to be where he keeps the hookers and blow.
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@davidg3944 It could have just been misfiled. I've had some comments over the last couple years that appear on completely the wrong video. I'll click reply to a comment and it will wind up on a different video that I watched where it makes absolutely no sense.
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It's a misnomer. There wasn't a shortage as such, there was an excess build up of coins at people's homes that weren't circulating. On top of that, the US mint was shut down for periods during that first year, resulting in a significantly smaller than normal number of coins being minted. The result is that businesses didn't have coins available. I felt particularly bad for people that needed coins for doing their laundry because a lot of those machines were coin operated and you can't just go around without doing your laundry if you're one of those folks that has to work outside the home.
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@thechikage1091 It's a pretty big deal and more people will die as a result of this sort of thing. If people cant recognize the difference between lawful and unlawful police activity because they've decided that it's all racially motivated, it greatly increases the risk that force will be employed to resolve the situation. A lot of the traffic infractions are legitimate safety issues that need to be dealt with. And the courts should just go back to not allowing them to be used as pretext during a fishing expedition.
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I won't be voting for Biden or any of the other Democrats running for federal office. After Obama screwing us and Hillary stealing the election and destroying the party, I"m not signing off on it. They can go suck it. And as long as enough of us refuse to vote Blue, they'll either learn or there will be nobody left to learn.
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There's not much to speculate at this point. There are details that the NTSB will likely uncover to explain things like why the ship broke down so soon after getting underway, but the basics of what happened aren't that difficult to work out based on the excellent video quality that's available of the entire thing.
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It saddens me that I think I'm one of the few that can blame the cops sometimes and the deceased in other times. It shouldn't be so rare, people should be able to wait a bit for more facts to come out before jumping to conclusions.
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He's not electable. He'll go down the same way that Hillary did. He's doing nothing to earn our deserve our votes.
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As much as I like being alone, it kills the ability to get feedback and develop a network of like-minded individuals that can lead to reduced output.
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They're not, all their doing is putting things back the way they were before Obama messed it up. And BTW, this was already the case in the 6th circuit where the courts already ruled that you can't deprive male students of their rights in this fashion.
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@AliciaGuitar That wouldn't really have changed much seeing as she missed the court date and got ruled against on that basis. She still wouldn't have been there to argue the case.
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Calling the Greens a party is being incredibly generous. They run for President every 4 years and that's about it. As a party they've showed little interest in running for offices that they could potentially win. Here in WA we have a top 2 primary system, which means that in an awful lot of races the Greens could at least show up in the general election, if not win, but we don't see any of their candidates here. And we've got all sorts of crazy parties showing up on the ballots, including parties that haven't really been at thing since the 19th century. When's the last time you heard about the Whigs doing anything? But, the Whigs are more likely to take the governor's mansion here because they're actually on the ballot for other races from time to time.
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@randygraham926 Yes, I remember a few years ago going on a multi-hundred mile ride in 90F+ weather and I drank quite a few quarts of water and basically none of it came out as urine, it all got sweated out. Anytime the weather gets to be above the mid 90s, you're better off bundling up like it's the winter. And, perhaps dunking the coat in water if you're in an area with dryer air.
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@jokuvaan5175 That kind of thing is more common than it should be. Or, there's a minority group using it and the Klan can't have that. I do think that all these decisions should be based on the best science available. Fundamentally the only real difference between these drugs and the ones that come from pharma is that they're being used "recreationally" and big pharma isn't getting paid for it.
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@dwlopez57 Yes, but they didn't see it pass.
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That was what I was wondering. An unimproved property is basically just land that's sitting there as it always has. I could sort of understand if it's a large property and nobody has built anything on the golf course side, but that would be pushing it a lot.
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@RLplusabunchofdumbnumbers I wish we had mushy peas. All we got in our school lunches were suspicious looking grey string beans. Mushy peas would have been a major step up as they appear to at least be green.
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@susanfalla654 They were down. Watch the video at 1/4 speed and pause when they get to the crossing. It's not super easy to see, but the arms were in fact down at that point.
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The helmet disguised as hair wasn't a give away?
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Yes, although the DOS commandline was a lot less fully-featured as it needed to run on computers with far fewer resources than the ones that Unix was designed for. DOS was expanded over the years as new versions came out with newer computers being available, but it was never as powerful as the OSes that started out in academic institutions.
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He was living in Florida, but living there is punishment enough.
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@syav4467 It is, but if you count them anyways, then how is that invoking the amendment provision barring them from holding office? If they count the write ins anyways, that effectively also makes it impossible for any GOP candidate to win as well.
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It's not that unusual for serial killers to strike a deal in exchange for revealing the bodies of whatever victims might not have been located. At the end of the day, capital punishment doesn't actually work and the only reason he was ever caught was that DNA technology improved to the point where they could make use of samples that had been left at the scene of the crimes. Add to that the fact that various friends and family would wind up having to testify in court and deal with the dredged up memories of their loved ones and it's not a super popular move to go for capital punishment when the jury may or may not decide that it's a better option than life without possibility of parole.
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@milasudril Yes, and as they showed in Mythbusters, they can generate themselves. Which was funny because they were having issues with it even as they were trying to set up the conditions to create one. Roundabouts do help to smooth traffic out, but at a certain point, there's just too much traffic and a roundabout doesn't solve the problem when there's so much traffic that the roundabout is completely saturated.
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That would be rather unusual. Normally, there's a bunch of work that goes on outside of the court that also has to be factored in. The time specifically with the client is usually not the only time involved. But, if it's a simple matter that doesn't require any research, then the two figures should get a lot closer.
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@ruger51995 then perhaps folks on your side of the mountains shouldn't have been so irresponsible then.
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@Andreamom001 Honestly, I can definitely see that. Still illegal, but at least there is a way of looking at it where somebody that angry could rationalize it.
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It's partially outdated because the disorders people seek treatment for aren't the same and partly because it's so many decades later and we know more about how the brain works. We now know that what peple think about their childhood is more important than how it was and that everyone we remember things, we subtly contaminate the memories leading to interesting results.
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@ThatDamnedGamer1 That's the theory, but there's absolutely no evidence to back it up and in every possible setting students violate their own alleged learning style regularly. The only real benefit to including considerations for learning styles is that it promotes the students' exposure to the same ideas and concept from many different perspectives. There's also some benefit in cases where somebody has a learning disorder or sensory integration issue getting it in a form that actually can be understood.
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@adamochs3106 It's kind of funny how these same folks that are opposed to government overreach are going to take it public. And what's more, this is because Disney is actually on the right side of history.
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If you check the ingredients label, chances are that you'll see "ascorbic acid" as one of the ingredients in an effort to replace the vitamin c that was destroyed pasteurizing it. As far as storage goes, it depends a lot on the specific product, there's even shelf stable milk out there, it just takes the correct processing and ingredients to make it happen.
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Yes, I'm keeping an open mind, but at least they're maintaining a way of becoming an attorney without going to law school and having prospective attorneys apprentice should help to reduce the issues that come from high-stakes testing. This could go well, or it could go very, very wrong. But, given that the state supreme court is the one that decides who is and isn't allowed to keep their license once granted, they've hopefully thought this through.
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@johnsee7269 Those are going to happen, if you're lucky, you've got a public utility that's at least subject to oversight and not allowed to rake in outrageous profits.
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@michaelsurratt1864 Look at her record as AG though, it was absolutely horrifying. Hundreds of convictions overturned due to evidence mishandling. So, that's some combination of guilty people off the hook and innocent people prosecuted in spite of being actually innocent.
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@UnconventionalReasoning Look at her record, she was a terrible AG.
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@ReadABookAndLearn There are all sorts of NIMBY types out there of various socio-economic groupings. But he doesn't even care to get the word right. This whole ridiculous farce is an indictment on the local education system.
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You'd probably have to stretch your stomach enough to kill the nerves to have any hope of doing that. Or, eat much smaller pizzas.
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@Burner-B I haven't watched in quite a few years, but the clips that I've been seeing the last few years are over all just as funny as anything from previous years. It's just the stuff that pops up in every generation like that stupid The Californians sketches and The Ultimate Cheer that they ought to give up on a lot more quickly. Also, kudos on finally getting rid of Jimmy Fallon, he must have been an incredible writer, because he was an absolutely terrible performer.
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He's to the right of their governor. I think they can do a bit better. Perhaps they could try something novel like promising to get them jobs that are better than those crappy coal mine ones. And then actually do it. I doubt very much that the coal miners that are watching their coworkers dying of black lung are super attached to the job other than the money that they're making and the lack of other jobs that pay the bills.
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@NrangeGoDie One of the reasons why ticketing is disproportionate is because of the disproportionate amount of cooperation that the police get. There's often times bad actors on both sides of the interactions, but if one side or the other is acting a bit more respectfully, it can reduce the likelihood of things going really badly. But, if you're starting with the attitude that you didn't do anything wrong and that the officer is just doing it because of racism, it's really hard to have a positive, or even OK, interaction that follows and what may well have been a warning to get something fix is more likely to wind up as a ticket or arrest. It's clearly not always enough, but giving extra excuses to law enforcement to step over the line and then complaining about systemic racism is just not going to win over many of the people needed to have any sort of meaningful change.
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@Bootsystem66 Not true, everybody in the area is so sick of fighting that an impartial 3rd party is likely to be accepted just to be done with the violence.
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@lotus_flower2000 I pretty much stopped flying after the reforms were made. I've only been on I think 3 or so trips that required flying out of an American airport in the last 20 years. Previously, I had flown United on 9/10/2001, that next morning was surreal in a very literal sense as I was still waking up when I heard about what happened. Knowing who is on the list would allow for legal challenges to finally get a court hearing.
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@jannettsnow2856 That's not true, most crimes have a statute of limitations that bars prosecution after some period of time.
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@midatlanticbackyard From what I understand, this is more of a raven behavior, but that is clearly a crow.
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BLM is racist. They assume that when they're people are shot that it's because racism and I've yet to hear the admit when further evidence comes out that demonstrates conclusively that it was a reasonable use of force. After all these years, I have yet to hear them admit that Tamir Rice was a case of justified force. The whole thing is literally on camera. Why would anybody become a police officer if they were expected to be a bullet sponge without being allowed to neutralize the apparent threat? What would have happened if he had actually been carrying a real gun rather than a realistic fake and killed them?
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That would all be consistent with trying to use electro-magnetism as a shield against radar imaging. The fusing into the hull is rather unlikely, but I could definitely see something like that happening if they were unfortunate enough to be standing next to a short. You probably could get a bit of fusing, just not where somebody was outright halfway in with the ship around them. ' That being said, I do think that the fusing bit didn't happen, the psychiatric issues and memory loss would be consistent with being exposed to strong magnetic fields potentially. But, most of it was probably exaggerated to try and keep people asking the wrong questions until late enough that things leaking wasn't as much of an issue.
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@noelsrx376 it's impossible for a phage to infect a human, they can only infect things with ring shaped DNA. You'd be better off worrying about you house being struck by a meteorite. What's more, the they're already present, just not in sufficient quantities to make much of a difference.
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@krislvzep Thanks. The reality here is that we haven't done the necessary testing to know what the numbers are. Those figures are likely optimistic, but it doesn't take long for this to spread. And idiotic statements like the one you corrected are a large part of why. Here in WA we got virtually no warning about this coming. We were the first place for it to hit the US and the only reason why we haven't already had our medical system swamped, is that the mayor of Seattle closed the city early on, followed by the governor issuing more and more restrictions on what we do in public. Right now, it's just essential workers and businesses. Fortunately, it is working and it's likely that sometime between now and July, that things will start going back to the way they were. But, only if other states get their stuff together. We'll largely be rid of the virus by then, but if states aren't doing their part to contain their outbreaks, there's no reason to assume that it can't or won't come back and the constitution prevents us from closing the borders.
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I'm curious about how many people spend time researching these things to know to be offended. If it requires this much exposition to know if it's offensive, perhaps it wasn't offensive.
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@lm_b5080 Yep, it was a good movie, just not one that was historically accurate.
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Her point is that they don't have pockets of people that have been abused by the medical system there. They didn't have the Tuskeegee experiment there, and they didn't have medical professionals that thought that black people didn't feel pain the way that white people do and withhold appropriate medical treatment because of it. Don't get me wrong, at a certain point, people do just need to move on, or at least reevaluate whether things are still the same, but Denmark doesn't have the same historical baggage discouraging people from seeking vaccines that people in the US sometimes have.
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Biden is roughly as good as a potted plant. That is if the plant had Alzheimer.
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Bernie had a chance, but he's been fucking it up. The Democrats have more than proven that they can't be reformed as long as the GOP is worse and they're continuing to take corporate money.
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@reaganharder1480 They also cool down more quickly than most other options and have high efficiency of converting electricity into heated food.
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@ianbelletti6241 It shouldn't be much of a fight if the second mortgage is as old as it is. There is a statute of limitations on most things and if it's been over a decade, then chances are that the debt wasn't collectible and just showing evidence of when the mortgage was "written off" should be sufficient to get it tossed immediately.
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@Poodlepuffin That's not really relevant. It was done via phone, she contacted the bank that told her it was fraud, and the debt was so old as to probably not be collectible even if they did own it.
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I remember there used to be issues because there is a state defined default speed limit and that changes to that needed to be signaled with appropriate signs. The problem is that they aren't on every block, so if you're new to the area and you turn onto a street after the sign and before the next one, you'd have no way of knowing that a different speed limit was in effect. Similarly, we've got a school zone here that's on the corner of two arterials and the only sign indicating that there's a school zone when you turn onto the other arterial is literally on the corner and extremely hard to see if you don't know to look for it. The first warning is often times the sign saying that the school zone has ended. I've never seen anybody pulled over there, so I don't know if or how often it's enforced, but it's a ridiculous safety hazard to have a sign literally on the corner where drivers have to take their eyes off the road in order to read the sign like that.
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@rogerd777 TBH, it could become an enclave for death millionaires.
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4.4 magnitude is like nothing, presumably this one was relatively shallow if there's any meaningful shaking going on. I've only personally been through one earth quake it was a 5.3 and I mostly just remember watching the water in the fish tank slosh back and forth. I didn't even bother trying to get under anything because it just wasn't any point.
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Nonsense, they're just really opposed to basic arithmetic.
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Israel is one of the few countries that makes the US look good in terms of committing crimes against humanity with no remorse. The country itself may need to be invaded and have the regime changed to one that's in some measure better than a terrorist state. They murder so many innocent civilians and then wonder why it is that they have terrorists attacking them from the same areas.
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They were lied to about the risks of addiction. Since then those folks have largely stopped or reduced prescribing them. The ones that were taking the bribes though should also go to prison.
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I was surprised it took that long.
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Trump should have sent both Obama and W to Europe for crimes against humanity. Instead he is doing some of the same stuff.
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Autoparts stores usually, also you can often do that at those oil change sites. You may be able to drop it off at a hazardous waste disposal site. Around here they don't charge for taking it off your hands, just make sure it's properly labeled. A bonus to that is that they'll take basically any other random chemicals off your hands as well. So, it's a great place to dump any other random fluids from your projects.
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I gave up listening about 4 minutes in and just skipped around. It's just really grating to hear all that talk about the argument being this, from somebody with that accent while completely missing the point. When the US did stimulus checks, that money was, on the whole, spent rather wisely by the people who were in bad financial situation. And it's hardly the poor people making stupid decisions, it's that there's an entire system set up to prevent them from making other decisions. There's a lack of affordable grocery stores in those neighborhoods, there are significant restrictions on having any savings to cover emergencies, the moment you go slightly over the income limit you get a cut to benefits that puts you in a financially worse position than you were in. The reason why it looked so promising in 3rd world countries is that the main drain for those poor people is corruption and that can potentially be dealt with. They don't have a formalized system set up to exploit the poor and have a permanent underclass the way that the US does. Additionally 1,000 people in the middle of an established economic system does not a valid study make. The kinds of changes that UBI is expected to bring require a much larger portion of the local population to benefit from. It's money coming in near the bottom and filtering its way to the top. The people at the bottom have the money to cover basic expenses without working, so there's more money available for spending in the local economy Which filters up to more economic growth over time. What's more, because it is such a small study, most of that money probably wound up in the hands of Amazon as that's often the most cost effective way of buying things these days, but it does nothing at all to improve the local economy and little to lift those people out of poverty. Additionally, this was only a 3 year program, it takes a good chunk of that time for an economic system to adjust when such a radical change is made. As far as the 1.3 to 1.4 hours less, that's nonsense. Most of the folks who would qualify for this sort of thing were working significantly more than 40 hours making ends meet and the drop in income is probably not significant when you consider the cost of traveling to another job and the related expenses of working. Which makes sense, they needed to work less overtime, so they did. The long term financial change not changing is to be expected, as I already stated, this was just 3 years long with the money mostly going out of the area. This whole video is just the sort of ignorance that has come to characterized the debate. Ignore the fact that the study is simply too small to have any sort of expectation of a meaningful outcome and then say that we studied it, it didn't work, so don't bother. Which is stupid. People were working too much, so they cut back a bit. There probably would eventually have been some improvements, but burnout takes a lot longer to overcome than some people seem to think
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That's the last thing that we need. Then the cops get there and can't tell if they've got their suspect, just a bunch of cowbodys running around possibly shooting each other.
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I think YT is just a crappy site that didn't properly design the comment system. It's become pretty normal lately for comments to just disappear and when replying to people for it to not indicate anything beyond an @ and it can be virtually impossible to figure out which comment you were responding to in many cases.
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If it's not legible then it's not posted. It should be common sense, but it does require that the people that put up those signs actually ensure that there isn't any tree or bush likely to grow in front of it and to go around and verify that it's still the case before performing appropriate actions.
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It's already been rigged, they can have a free and fair election now because the primary was rigged to exclude the candidates with the most actual support from the people. The exit polling consistently showed that Bernie was the winner, but mysteriously, the machines being used to count the votes contradicted the exit polling being done by a significant margin.
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@Elle_kp It's because they expect to lose the lawsuit or spend so much money defending it that the $900 is cheaper. The problem of sorts is that it's not just guilty people that settle, sometimes settling is cheaper for somebody that didn't do it but where there's a lot of evidence to meet the more likely than not standard. In this case though, the whole thing is on camera, so there's no question that the PD is guilty as a matter of fact. Just not guilty as a matter of law as there was never a trial to determine that due to the settlement.
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Yes, although it's the Israelis, anytime they get criticized they either reference the holocaust or terrorism, as if it makes their actions any less disgusting.
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@Ciph3rzer0 Perhaps, but more likely, there will be a bunch of Democrats that just don't bother to vote for anybody. Then there will be folks like me that usually vote Democrat that choose to vote 3rd party. The polls are incredibly narrow and getting narrower when you consider the magnitude of the failure that President Trump's term in office has been and the body count in the US alone.
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That's more or less how it should be. If the receiver breaks it off, the ring should go back. If it's mutual, presumably, it should also go back as they'd both be in the same situation they would have been with regard to the ring if they hadn't gotten engaged. The last one is dicey, but probably would result from whatever witnesses related say.
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@Great-Documentaries It's more complicated than that, there was a lot of cross licensing going on in the past, and Intel practically killed them off with antitrust violations more than once. Intel needs AMD in order to be able to duck out on antitrust enforcement. Far more than AMD needs Intel as now there's a lot of mobile processors by various other companies that are the most widely used ones in mobile devices to protect AMD against excessive antitrust scrutiny. So, Intel can fail and AMD wouldn't have to save them.
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She's not a nice person, she's a vicious psychopath. She has thousands of dollars in freezers to contain her expensive ice cream, but was willing to withhold assistance to the American people, many of whom are now homeless or on the verge of it, in order to deprive the President of the ability to put his signature on the checks. Not to mention the fact that essential workers have gotten nothing. They handed out $10k to the unemployed, but the essential workers got basically nothing. That $10k is more than I made during those months.
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Kyle has a massive blind spot on the issue of drugs. If we were talking about letting people eat random stuff that they personally grew or collected, I think it would be a very different debate. But, as it stands a bunch of drugs are created by 3rd parties and they may or may not have any resemblance to what is naturally found in nature. Not to mention that society does often times have to deal with the consequences and simply legalizing doesn't solve all of that.
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They definitely should try and make a deal, perhaps some sort of cabinet post or a policy concession on something that would allow her to save what little face she has left. With Sanders, Biden, Warren and Gabbard being the only remaining candidates, he desperately needs her out of the race as soon as possible. Gabbard is still technically running, but she appears to be running in only the technical sense of the word. I think she has like 1 delegate at this point and doesn't seem to be spending any money.
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@libertyann439 Precisely, one of the reasons that Bernie has credibility is that he generally bends over backwards to do what he promises to do. This year in particular, it's of vital essence to be able to point to his credibility when running against a President that basically never does what he says he's going to do and routinely lies. I don't get why the establishment chose to get behind Biden rather than mayor Pete. Mayor Pete at least has the benefit of not appearing senile, knowing what office he's running for and not putting his foot in his mouth every time somebody puts a microphone in his face.
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@zinjanthropus322 But, that's still not them creating jobs, that's them matching the demand. What created the job was the demand for it to be done by people willing and able to pay for it. If you don't have people willing and able to pay, then you don't really have a job, you have charity work.
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@zinjanthropus322 No, but if you don't have demand, you'll never get jobs. Nobody is going to make those jobs without there being a belief, or proof, of demand.Very few people are going to give money for something with no market and no benefit to the area in general that has any sort of accumulated wealth to draw on..
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These calculations are often times done on groups of people or on individuals. If an employee is incorrectly classified, then they may not get the money that they're owed. Or if somebody in payroll types something wrong you get wrong results. I had a paycheck reversed last year because of an overpayment. They did get everybody the correct amount by the end of the day, but a lot of folks were very nervous because they were living paycheck to paycheck. Personally, I had more than a months worth of emergency funds on hand, so as long as I got the money in a timely manner, I had no problem.
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Social security recipients are already receiving payments that outstrip the ability of the program to replenish itself based on the revenue sources available. The result is that for anybody that's in their early 50s or younger is likely to see a cut to our benefits. And, we've got no reason to believe that there's any changes coming to address the situation. Especially when bad legislation like this is increasing the burn rate on the funds without increasing any sort of revenue to pay for it.
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@RKingis Yep and I've done that, although you kind of have to know what you're wanting to backup. Which is fine if you're manually editing it, and a bit of a problem if a program is doing it in the background for you.
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Etcher sucks, I've tried using it in the past and it never actually runs.
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Well, I mean that is more or less what an election is, a legally binding survey.
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That was the original. These days it's mostly FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, they have slightly different goals, but they all originated with Unix back at Berkeley before being completely rewritten.
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That happens and it's definitely not ideal. The only time I almost got lost it was in a field like that. I was lucky enough that somebody came up behind me that was still on the trail, or I definitely would have had to find my way to the edge and start working around until I found a trail.
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@downhomesunset Yes, although that 96 hours was a best possible case scenario. They might already be nearly dead from the change in composition of the gases in their breathing supply.
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Definitely not in the video and I'd be shocked if he had been prior to the filming. He seems do calm and cool headed.
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Yes, but I was disappointed by how long it took to bring up that this whole tape is violence.
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@mina86 Don't forget about mold and dust mites. And the fact that ebooks you can always print sections up to laminate. Which can be really convenient if you're interested in recipes.
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@kuil There was a pretty decend period during the middle of last century when it at least cared about the underlying company. Right now it's more or less the worst it's ever been in that respect since they put all those regulations in as a response to the stock market crash in '29. There's things like the concentration of wealth, the number of politicians on retainer, the legalized bribery, the deregulation and the tax policy that encourages conglomerates as well as the failure to actually enforce antitrust laws. Ultimately, only small companies go out of business, anything larger just gets bought by somebody if they mismanage themselves into the ground.
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@amohanjazz They probably will, I mean how many people under the age of 50 still read newspapers. The TV news probably has somewhat younger viewers, but even there, who has time to sit around waiting for them to cover whatever is of interest. Just in general, you have fewer young people watching TV rather than streaming services.
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@nolongeramused8135 Sometimes, but more often, they're intended to be enough of a pain that the potential thief moves on to the next victim. The only 100% effective lock is one that's so gummed up with crap that it can't ever be cleaned and unlocked. Obviously, such a lock is useless, so we're stuck figuring out what level of security is appropriate to the application. The nuclear launch button is going to require a better lock than a typical briefcase does for that reason.
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LOL, I'd kick in the $20 personally if they were that committed to it.
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Part of the issue is that it is rather subjective. This wasn't a poll where they were asking people to rank different aspects of the states, they were just voting the state up or down with respect to the other one. Some states like, WA and CA in particular have significant cultural rifts internally and you can't really say that Northern California or Western Washington are much like Southern California or Eastern Washington respectively. Depending upon where you're thinking of when ranking those states, you can come up with very big differences of opinion.
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@mateushtommason6314 It is possible for the same reason that the no fly list is possible. It would be pretty weak if the listed individuals could just wait 366 days between flights and not be on that list.
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@tonfleuren3536 From what I understood, that's probably due to the forebearance where she wasn't expected to make payments, but the principle and accumulated interest both were accruing additional interest.
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That kind of thing is normal in the naval world. Since ships can move around the world, they had to choose a standard. There's a lot of vessels that are registered out of a small number of nations just because they're the ones with the laxest regulations in place. But, that being said, I would expect that some of the people involved in the design of the submersible will be prosecuted in the US as that's where the negligent action was committed, not where the consequences were realized.
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@LupusRex-hf2rl I think the UN is a pretty good source of information on that, and yes, the Israelis have engaged in a number of crimes against humanity and war crimes. And it's been going on for decades at this point.
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@hmcm596 There's a practicality issue here. Had the Germans foreseen the issues of static discharge, the technology likely would have died out in the '60s as commercial airliners started to catch on. These airships were marvels of the time, but it took 43 hours to cross the Atlantic. When I visited Europe it took roughly 9 hours to go from the west coast of the US to The Netherlands. Which is literally thousands of miles longer in roughly a quarter the time. If time isn't important, then you've got ships and trains that are even more efficient and already have plenty of facilities for handling the flow of goods and passengers.
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If they don't abandon her, somebody needs to primary her in retribution for her behavior. It's not just that she backed off of popular positions, but she fought extremely dirty and left the progressive wing hanging in 2 straight Presidential elections.
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If they knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be keeping a cougar in a studio apartment. The cat may seem fine day to day now, but it just takes one incident to have serious repercussions. Just ask Seigfried and Roy about their tigers. They're more or less professionals handling large cats, and even they had a serious accident. The tiger probably didn't mean to hurt anybody, but being as large as they are, a miscalculation with the teeth can lead to serious problems.
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@jprec5174 lol, literally came here to say the same thing. Perhaps years ago, but who's dumb enough to fall for it after they've already given up the game?
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If you don't do that, you get what we've got in the US where they just wind up back on the street with new skills and then back in prison again. We don't even consider conjugal visits a right for any prisoner that has somebody on the outside that's interested. I'm not sure how we expect good behavior when we strip out every possible incentive to personal growth and more responsibility.
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She wasn't in school, which was the problem, any time they interrupted it would have been something innocuous as it was her lack of doing something the law says she has to do that was at issue.
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 @escobarinc.1805 she offered nothing to men and her policy positions weren't tested in primaries.
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We have a few 5 way stops around here and I wish they'd just suck it up and convert them to roundabouts as there's plenty of space for that when you're having effectively 2.5 roads intersecting. There's also a funky one not far from where I live which is a sort of weird 6 way stop, 6 ways if you include the private driveway that leads to a few houses. It functions normally from 5 of those directions,but from one of those directions to are immediately dumped at another stop sign with no indication about what you're supposed to do. Had they had competent engineers involved either the stop line would have been further back or they would have made it some sort of roundabout. Or possibly made that street one way only.
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There are a lot of forms of meditation. I think that methods that involve movement and touching things are an easier fit. I personally like stacking rocks and singing bowls as they don't require much focus to start, but as you progress through it, the focus will come. The though of just sitting there for 20 minutes can be a tough sell, even sitting there for a minute can be a bit of an issue. Also, I do think that meditations that are more focused on unsticking the focus and redirecting it are probably more helpful than ones that are based on focus alone. We don't generally have issues with focus, we are more likely to have issues with directing the focus to things that we need to be focused on to get our stuff done.
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Essentially you already do, the tip isn't subject to sales tax. That is the one of the only benefits for tipping from the customer's side. The tip is both voluntary and doesn't increase the sales tax.
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@CaneFu Him, but yeah. The point I was making was that with the exception of the most mild of cases and the most severe of tastings to the vaccine, you're better off with whatever side effects you get from the vaccine.
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@sadiemakesmesmile In order to be a licensed plastic surgeon, you need to pass most of the same classes that other types of doctors do. It's mostly near the end when they're training for a specialty that there's a difference. This is something that basically all medical doctors are going to be informed enough about to express an accurate opinion.
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Double losers are the essential workers making minimum wage and having to work throughout while being exposed with no extra compensation.
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@Jemmyjo Or just set up a gofundme for him and tell him it's "not" to bribe officials.
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@martyspandex That's my personally interpretation. I'm like right on the line in terms of what used to be AS versus Schizoid Personality Disorder. Most Schizoids have already been moved over to either Avoidant Personality Disorder or Paranoid Personality Disorder which mostly leaves the folks that are arguably extremely alexithymic aspies left in the diagnosis. If you look at the venn diagram of traits that aspies have versus schizoids, there is a massive degree of overlap.
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@kentuckyrailfan1 That explains the not fixed and is probably correct. It doesn't explain the not replaced and not properly monitored. I'm sure there are temporary measures that could have been put into place to shore it up so this didn't happen while they dealt with the problem of replacing it.
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Don't forget Richard III (1995) There were no Nazis during the reign of Richard the III.
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@FujishimaAkiko Even documentaries are hard to get right. Or, you wind up with a Burns style 30 episode retrospective of shoelaces.
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@PatchesOHoulihan69 I completely agree. As poor judgment as I think he was exercising in what he did, he did have a constitutional right to do it and shouldn't have been subjected to those attacks or arrest.
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Will they? I see a bunch of people trying to pressure me into voting blue no matter who, and I see Democratic leaders that are committed to doing absolutely nothing to delay or prevent the damage from being done. I'm sick of hearing that this kind of nonsense will result in there being hell to pay when nobody seems to actually follow through on the threat.
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Lately that is kind of how it works.
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Yes, and I for one will continue to not buy his poorly engineered cars. I will continue to not post on X and I will continue to not pay money to any of his other ventues. That's probably the only thing that has any hope of impacting his decisions, but I don't think that he's likely to do that now that he's been allowed into the government. I hope the people that were boosting blue no matter who like our steps towards instituting Apartheid here.
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And what will you say to the inevitable victims of this nonsense? The courts can't rule people back to life if the individual is convicted and loses their right to keep and bear firearms. Likewise, why should the victims and witnesses of the crime need to worry about a potentially armed offender trying to influence the process? There is no perfect solution here, but temporarily curtailing a non-essential right while the legal process works is a reasonable compromise.
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In what sense? Unless they're in a field where astronomy is relevant, I'm not sure that it really matters much.There are so many other things that are important and relevant to policy on this planet. Perhaps if space travel to other planets becomes practical that might change, but right now it shouldn't be super important with all the other stuff to worry about.
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How do you manage scale and speed without efficiency? Saying that you want scale and speed without efficiency doesn't make much sense.
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@nightninjajay1808 I was in the PR China back in 2012 when their government voted on the selection for their Presidency. The people I was working with didn't know for sure what day and didn't really care as they had no influence on the eventual outcome. In the US we are in danger of being in a similar boat if we don't punish the DNC and hard for this series of betrayal. I'm not going to say that Biden is the last straw, but we won't know for sure what the consequences are until it's too late.
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@jmac6202 It hasn't been released, but in cases like this, that's typically how it ends. Regardless of the evidence provided, there's going to be a significant number of people that decide that this was a conspiracy rather than just one angry madman trying to go out in a blaze of glory.
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Yes, not to mention those that got it before there were testing kits available and the mass media campaign to inform the public about what the virus is likely to be like. I probably had it during the last week of January, I had a fever, congestion, sore throat in the mornings and discomfort in breathing, as well as being completely exhausted, but I didn't know to get tested and it wouldn't have even been possible had I wanted to be tested.
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@Matt Z depends how many of Bernie's supporters don't vote at all. I personally am Bernie or bust. If it's not Bernie, I will no longer vote for any democrat in the future for any federal level office.
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It a shame how many restaurants lie about things like that. So often you see a delivery fee attached to a delivery order, but most of the time they don't bother to mention that the money doesn't go to the person doing the delivery. In a round about way, it might, but it goes to the restaurant and the tip money goes to the driver.
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I work at a grocery store and that's already an issue, but it's hardly causing any of the chains to go out of business. Depending upon what you're buying, just the credit card charges can wipe out any profit on a small purchase. And that doesn't include the costs of having a checker or self checkout machine. If the amount winds up being too much, what you'll see is them actually hiring an appropriate number of checkers until the operation can be run in a cost effective manner.
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@MmeHyraelle Not really, in this case, it would have just shifted the responsibility amongst insurers if she had had insurance. Which is what happened here, except that since the woman didn't have insurance, she was on the hook for the repair bills. The same basic thing could have happened in reverse where she had insurance, but the neighbor didn't and the neighbor might have been on the hook if that was how the law was written. By assigning it to the party that is injured by the act of god, it streamlines a whole bunch of things as now the party that has the insurance is the party dealing with their own insurance company, which somewhat reduces the conflict of interest as the insurance company does still need to consider keeping their customer after the damage has been done. That tree isn't going to fall a second time, so losing a customer over that makes little sense.
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That's because they're greedy and ignorant. Those democratic strongholds were the main thing keeping the economy afloat, but we can't let them have anything because they're left leaning.
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@SeasonedCitizen They don't have anywhere closer to explain it to you? That's not surprising, a lot of places don't really want people voting. Around here, the ballots are usually pretty straightforward, although occasionally there'll be things where you have to reject it if you want it. Typically though it's just fill in the bubble and X it out if it was a mistake.
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@UnconventionalMarketing Just notify the incumbents that you won't be voting if you don't get your stickers.
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I could completely believe that they would do that. They seemed to think she was fine last time, I don't see why they would know better now.
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The local prosecutor here was doing something similar. One of the big issues with this sort of thing is that the total isn't cumulative. So, if somebody steels $900 a day, they won't get hit with that felony on day 2 when they're up to nearly $2k, Which is kind of a problem.
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It would be more practical to invent high powered light rigs that could be set up in a matter of a few minutes. Which itself has a ton of issues.
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Anything that gets in the way of this idiotic idea isn't all bad. Permanent DST is one of the dumbest ideas out there. Permanent standard time, or keep the status quo. I'm not giving up my daylight because a bunch of ignorant folks south of me want more light after work. I only get 7.5 hours of light, I'm not giving up the hour or so that I get in exchange for a half hour after work. That's just plain dumb.
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Precisely, this is just the latest sign that the people recognize that the court lacks any legitimacy after that cute maneuver by McConnell to refuse to seat Obama's nominee and the nomination of more justices that are clearly not qualified, including several that perjured themselves during their confirmation hearings. This has been a long time coming, it's just getting faster. Legalizing all manner of corruption and allowing things like GITMO and DHS to get away with murder is hardly making things better.
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They need to start going after these bad actors aggressively before they kill us all. If they had any competence at all, they'd be withholding campaign money and primarying folks that aren't toeing the line on such important issues. But, ultimately, they don't want to do anything to solve these problems, because they're bought and paid for by donors that profit off the destruction.
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@kennethsorrells The reasoning on some of these arguments that get into precedent can be extremely tortured as they try to bend the facts and previous precedence to come to the conclusion they want. Schools are allowed to restrict the speech and conduct of students while at school due to their legal obligations related to making sure that students understand the expectations on them in society. One would think that one of the most fundamental expectations of adults is to actually live to be adults and since the schools are required to do that, then the police branch of a school district would have some sort of legal obligation to intervene when there's an active shooter known to be on campus. But, I do think that the logic laid out in the video is what they'll go along with, as the court currently consists mainly of hacks that got there to deliberately misinterpret the constitution to benefit the donors that put their money down on politicians.
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I'd point out that this is probably only being considered because he's in Washington State. Around here it can be extremely hard to find a woman to begin with, let alone one that's worth having. Too many men, not enough women. That being said, getting back with the ex is asking for trouble. In this case, the most loving and caring thing you could do for each other is not get back together.
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Thanks for the super helpful advice. And I suppose the next thing you'll tell me is that anybody that isn't rich is lazy. /sarcasm For those of us in the real world, meeting somebody worth committing to requires that there are people worth committing to out there. Men seeking love locally face a decision to either relocate for love or face the very real possibility that they won't find anybody that's both willing to commit and worth having. Even if we redefine worth having to the possession of a pulse. This isn't really that much different from areas of the country where there are no men, except in those areas, there are usually men, just not necessarily men that possess college degrees. And BTW, the condescension is hardly helpful. You try finding a date in a city where men outnumber women by a significant margin and many of those men moved here with absurd salaries to boot. Not to mention where nobody actually talks to each other because the women frequently threaten to mace any man foolish enough to try.
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@wesleystreet It's not entirely, but the people who use that rhetoric rarely have an understanding of hard work.
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You had me at 2 AAA batteries. The cheapo multimeters I've been using use 9v batteries and nothing else in my house has 9v batteries. The smoke detectors used to be all 9v, but the ones I've got are both powered by 2 AA batteries. I'll add this to my wishlist for when I have money. Fluke is a good brand, when I was a kid, a few of the parents of my friends worked there, and I have never heard anybody saying anything bad about their stuff other than it being expensive. Which, good god is that one link expensive now. I'm sure for the people it's intended for it's worth it, but that's a lot for a hobbyist.
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@richiehoyt8487 Around here we finally started work on our system in the late '90s and right now it's basically one line that goes past the airport and nearly to the city limits on the opposite side. Even just one line like that makes a massive difference in terms of how long it takes people to get around. The one dumb thing is that they didn't include must room for expansion of the train sizes. They just build the stations large enough for 4 cars, which means that if we need 5 or more cars at some points, we can't do that, and during peak hours we're already running the trains every 15 minutes, which doesn't leave much for expansion.
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Then again, you have people like some I know that probably won't ever get to have kids because they're too stubborn and stupid to go through all the necessary steps. Preferring to be entitled to sex and crap in bed and wondering why nothing is happening for them.
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@chrisnoname2725 I don't think concern for our fellow people is bad. But, you're right, it's not irrelevant to the question of just how bad she is.
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@lovelessissimo Also, the whole bit about him committing a felony on video wouldn't help his case.
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It doesn't to any appreciable degree. Perhaps the ivy league schools do, but nobody is as narcissistic as those rural voters that are far more concerned with preventing other people from having opportunity than even their own self-interest. Election after election they vote for candidates that are more about owning the libs than pushing initiatives that would benefit them. Sure, the coastal elites are narcissistic monsters, but they do usually believe that what they're doing will benefit everybody eventually. The same can not be said for those leeches in red districts that use their disproportionate sway on electoral politics to screw other people over.
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@michaelmoorrees3585 Yes, I'm kind of curious how you have a building with multiple owners without some form of an HOA. Really, the solution is to make sure you know what the rules are for the condo and be active on the board if you see things coming that you don't like. The specific rules about what the board can do without a vote will vary a bit from place to place, but the owners can always replace the board with people that are less nuts and often are required for certain types of decisions to be made.
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It's unlikely that there will ever be much of an improvement over these, with the possible exception of something that is tuned to work better with the lidar that's likely to be coming with newer cars. Or, possibly, an equivalent beacon that is just usable by cars and doesn't need to be exposed.
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At most, I could seem them being useful for a few niche applications like hovering in place for days on end to rapidly deploy temporary cell service after a natural disaster. But, there's not much that you can do with the technology that there aren't better options for these days. Especially now that quadrocopters have gotten so impressive based on advancements in computerized control systems.
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@Killer_Turnip King County, WA, USA has been giving blood to the medic one units for about 6 years at this point. Which obviously includes a period of extreme low supply due to the pandemic and they're still at it. A lot of it has to do with the fact that they serve not just Seattle, but also the rest of the county where it can take a while to get to the patient and then for the patient to get back to a hospital.
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Working well with both sides should be a disqualifying criterion at this point. We got where we are because the Democrats keep compromising with a party that is absolutely ruthless in not reciprocating.
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It's not so much that as that this isn't a normal problem to have. Quality brown sugar stored in an air proof container shouldn't be absorbing that much moisture. Even just using the bag it came in should be enough to keep clumping to a minimum. The workaround involves an ingredient unlikely to be in the kitchen for a problem that could be solved using things that most people already own.
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Eventually we need herd immunity, but that requires vaccines that don't yet exist. As well as an adequate number of ventilators and better treatments.
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Why else would he have chosen her? She made a bunch of those races tighter.
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It's a rate hike, but yes from what I understand.
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@MegaLokopo That's always the issue with multiple-guess tests. They are used because they are fast to grade and should not be used independent of other things like projects and homework assignments to figure out whether or not the students know what they need to know. But, for regular quizzes, they're fine.
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It's kind of screwed up that around here the city can declare a citywide default speed limit that's lower than the one that the state uses. They justify it by putting signs on the arterials coming into the city, but it does seem kind of ridiculous to allow a city to lower the speed limit on it's own. This is especially the case because nobody, including cops, actually abides by the new speed limit which is simply too low to be workable. It's the city's way of punishing motorists for jaywalkers being too stupid to not jaywalk in front of cars.
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Yep, it was pretty much the first one that came to mind when he brought up promo games for food products. They licensed a great engine from iD and made a pretty decent game with it.
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Bernie really screwed up there. Either that or he intentionally screwed us over. I'm not sure how either of those is acceptable. There's a reason why hardly anybody is showing up at Bernie's rallies these days.
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It's pronounced "Doggy" I don't know why people still get that wrong. It's the "Dog eCoin" as in "Doggy Coin" not "Doge Coin"
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That's it. Self-document code should tell you what is going on, but it won't tell you why it's being that or necessarily much about the goal of the code. That is what comments are for, as well as cluing in future programmers about areas of the code that are likely to need to be changed in the distant future. Things like the Y2k bug in the '80s where memory was limited and there was no certainty that the code would still be in use at that time. Or if there is the expectation that an API might eventually change while the software is still useful.
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@Li pov Yaj But, the reality is that she was useless before McConnel was leader in the Senate. And even in cases where she did have massive leverage over him, for example with the donors demanding action on the Cares Act, she wasn't able to extract or even demand anything of him and the Senate Republicans. She should have been able to get unemployment extended to the end of the pandemic, uncapped spending on PPP loans, hazard pay for essential workers and/or real oversight on the money that Mnuchin was handing out, but not only did she not get any of those things, she didn't even try. Failing to try is hardly something that you can blame on McConnell, even if he was successful in preventing it, at least then that would be something good for campaign ads.
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In the US, generally, you'll get credit for time served prior to the trial, so sometimes the convicted are released almost immediately when given credit for time served. Which is itself pretty screwed up because if they hadn't been found guilty, they likely wouldn't receive any compensation for being detained.
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@EebstertheGreat In the US it's a moot point because roughly 95% of all felony convictions are the result of a plea deal where the prosecutors load up the case with as many charges as possible and allow the accused to plead guilty to only a few of them in exchange for a shorter time in prison. This happens whether or not the defendant is guilty and so many innocent people plead guilty that we even have a legal term to refer to those that plead guilty because they expect to be convicted, not because they're guilty. It's the Alford plea and it shouldn't exist in any system that has any interest in justice.
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To be fair, he hasn't married many of them. That's a pretty huge that.
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Yep, I basically stopped then watching. It's disgusting that they're trying to take credit for Trump and Jimmy.
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Yes, there's so many ways that having things that aren't produced and labeled for distribution that can go wrong. At least the wrapped stuff you can look up what's supposed to be in there to see if it's OK.
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I’m not a trucker, but from what I understand, he didn't have a full license, and he was trying to maintain his speed using the brakes alone. Even a small truck trying to use brakes in conditions like that might have issues with the brakes glazing over from heat generated by excessive braking without time to cool. I've been in the truck with my dad when that's happened, and his truck is much smaller, and we've had periods in the middle where it was relatively flat. It's clearly possible to stick to the posted speed limit here, even with a big rig, otherwise they'd be banned from the road.
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You see that kind of mess East of Lake Washington where there were a lot of subdivisions built to house the people displaced from Seattle proper by increasing housing prices. The area is a mess in terms of traffic because there's few options for getting around. The traffic in Seattle is terrible, but there are slightly more options for travel and a lot of the constraints are based upon the topography of the area, rather than artificial constraints. For the most part, the streets themselves are either on a grid or off the grid due to hills and bodies of waters demanding something else.
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That's why other manufacturers use terms like "adaptive cruise control" and "lane centering" to describe their capabilities. It's a lot more clear what the car can do without being misleading.
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@jannettsnow2856 We should do no such thing. You clearly haven't thought this through. The statute of limitations exists in part to ensure that people can live their lives without fear of charges on decades old crimes to be prosecuted. But, it's also because evidence over time becomes difficult to obtain and, especially, with regard to sexual assault claims you're not even dealing with reliable memories. Sure, it looks like this doctor was guilty as hell, but most cases are just not that strong when new. In most sexual assault scenarios, you've got no witnesses other than the individuals involved, and it's entirely based on memories of what happened. Yes, it does suck, but the bottom line is that at some point people just need to get it into their head that they need to report this stuff in a more timely fashion if they want it prosecuted. Waiting until any available exculpatory evidence has been wiped out or forgotten isn't a hallmark of justice.
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@kevoconnor145 That's not relevant here, these were adults. Plus, even in your straw man scenario, that's still not a reason to do away with the statute of limitations, just offer a somewhat longer one to account for that. Certainly not offer up multiple decades of opportunities. I'm sorry that you don't appreciate living in a society that attempts to have justice for everybody involved.
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@micclay We all know what the answer to that is. If there were any legitimate reason for it, the defendant would have been found not guilty at trial, not during the sentencing phase. He was a judge, he can't possibly have never overseen a trial where the accuser is clearly full of it. It happens and the whole way this was handled smacked of him not liking the outcome.
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That's definitely true. The issue with recordings is that the local laws may or may not allow one party to record without the consent of the other. I kind of wonder what happens if you just say that you don't consent to being recorded and hang up. Because if you don't have the option of refusing the recording, then it's illegal in many places.
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It was apparently part of the settlement the way that there's often times cash involved when cases are settled.
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Yes, not to mention that essential workers are being left out of any support or assistance. We take on the risks and extra work get nothing.
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No it's not though. Even with an approved doctorate, you still need to specify the degree anywhere that your name appears. Both a D.O. and an M.D. are both allowed to use the title Dr., but the degrees are somewhat different. Similarly, you'd probably want to know ahead of time that somebody you're expecting to perform surgery on is a surgeon or just a regular MD. Sometimes, an MD doing minor surgery is OK, but you should know ahead of time without having to ask if they're qualified as a surgeon and why that is OK in a specific situation. Every business card I've gotten from a doctor and whenever I've gotten paperwork from a medical office, it always specifies the degree whenever the dr. title is used because there are so many ways of being a doctr. Even in CA where the rules are apparently more strict, that would still be needed as there are multiple degrees that allow you to use the title.
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Why would Trump do anything to help people when the Democrats wouldn't and didn't even run on a platform of helping people.
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@warrax111 With good reason, most people couldn't play Doom if the FPS was too high, and a benchmark that is capped would be pretty useless once computers got past a certain point in terms of power.
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@tristkiss Just ask Hillary how well that worked out for her. This arrogant ramming Biden down our throats isn't going to end any differently than when they were hell-bent on forcing Hillary into the general election. Biden is not entitled to our votes. If he's the candidate, he's not going to get enough of our votes to win. Especially since he's completely unwilling to try and earn our votes.
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He's prepared, but he'll do horrible things of he's elected.
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Because it's Chase. They feel that they're above the law and probably are. They let an unauthorized charge be put on my account and refused to reverse it even though it wasn't authorized and nobody could produce paperwork saying it was authorized. I was able to embarrass them enough to get some of the money back, but I will never do business with them again as a result. In general, just avoid them.
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I personally do a few minutes right after I brush my teeth in the morning and I brush my teeth as soon as I get up.
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It's probably both. And if she's convicted the person that bought the gas from her is probably guilty of receiving stolen goods.
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What does she know about empathy? She was the prosecutor the sent a bunch of people to prison over marijuana and then was laughing when she admitted to smoking the stuff herself. She's a pretty thoroughly horrible person.
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@nickymay6366 I'm fairly sure the person you're responding to isn't apologizing for Israel.
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@DeIeted Yes, the typical degree to be a practicing dentist is Doctorate of Dental Surgery.
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The real issue is that they didn't give a similar grant for those working frontline jobs. That $600 a week is almost the amount I was making prior to the grocer I work for granting a hazard pay bonus. If I were a rational actor, I'd find a way of losing my job and take the unemployment money, as it's more money and less risk for me personal. Instead, I'm taking this extra risk so that people don't starve to death.
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Firetrucks are rarely doing anything that urgent. The siren is there to get people to clear a path for them and to possibly drive on the wrong side of the street if they have to. There shouldn't be any tunnel vision impacting this. Any tunnel vision should be on the job of driving the truck without killing anybody before they get where they're going.
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Russia has a history of taking hostages on questionable grounds. It happens periodically and it's really best not to give them the opportunity.
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@jhoughjr1 Only if you're not buying age restricted items, things that always ring up or are using it for the "self-scan" discount. I work at a grocery store and I have issues with it at my own store. I can't imagine that it's a better situation for the customers.
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@trala8911 We had freezing rain the week before Christmas and the sidewalks were literal sheets of ice a couple inches thick. Even with studs on my shoes, it was still slippery as an ice rink, but also kind of tilty as well.
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So you're saying that God backs war criminals now? How is that not heresy? The governments on both sides are horrible, but there are civilians that just want peace and these sorts of messages don't help.
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Yes, burns, even minor ones, hurt a lot. It sounds like he's going to be OK though, which is good.
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@leo.girardi My organic chemistry prof had open notes, open notes, open resources, anything except the internet and other students was fair game. The catch was that if you didn't know your stuff well enough, you'd never finish enough of the test to get a decent grade. I've tutored college students for many years and it's been fascinating thing to watch as the arms race between the teachers and the students has gone on with the teachers needing ever more elaborate tests and measures to keep the cheaters at bay.
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@oceanhome039 That doesn't count, the car was intentionally ignited by the driver lighting fireworks in the back for political reasons.
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@ It's probably returning to something closer to what it's actually worth. The shares were artificially high due to the fanboys that were buying because of Musk, rather than what the company was actually doing and how it was performing.
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@disposabull Both funny and probably a completely accurate representation of how this happened.
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@04beni04 Yes and on that topic, please don't charge less than double minimum wage. Charging much less than that means that you're either not paying the taxes you're supposed to be paying, or you're making less than minimum wage. Depending on where you're located, taxes can eat up half, or possibly more, of the money the students hand over. Social security and medicare taxes alone will be double when working as an independent contractor. Also, charging too little can be bad for the students as they shouldn't be developing a dependency or coming to sessions unprepared.
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When the consequences of the resulting injuries aren't borne by the rest of society, we can make helmets optional.
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@chrisfranklin7547 It's because those waiters typically have fewer customers because the customers expect to stay there longer and receive a higher degree of service. And, typically, the high end restaurants also expect higher standards from the waiters than a lower priced restaurant.
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OSI is kind of a joke in that respect, there's a bunch of restrictions beyond what are reasonably necessary. That being said, in this case, it's not really open source if it doesn't come with the ability to fork the software. Being able to see the code is only part of what open source is aobut.
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One thing that nobody seems to care about is if the wages on offer aren't good enough for those that are unemployed, what about those of us that had to work throughout the pandemic? We didn't get to go on unemployment and rake in more money. But, somehow, the unemployed can't afford to work for what we've been making. The answer is rather simple, everybody should have gotten the $300 a week enhancement regardless of unemployment status, and anybody making too much could just pay it back via taxes later on.
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@martharetallick204 The problem, is that Biden has a 300 delegate lead and the likelihood of Bernie winning enough delegates to force the nomination is not good enough to risk all those lives. Really, Biden should be ashamed of himself. The only reason he's not is that he's not a good person and wasn't a good person even before he became demented.
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Around here, we're down to one citywide paper, a couple smaller neighborhood ones and the local TV stations to cover the local news. If something isn't big enough to warrant the national press to take interest, it doesn't get covered without those local outlets. And, I'm fortunate that there's even that many options. Many other areas are down to one or no options. There used to be a second citywide paper and when it converted to an online only outlet the remaining paper made a significant shift to the right.
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I made my decisions about my college financing was based in part on the fact that I'd need to pay it back if I took it. I could have had nearly $15k in loans, but I avoided $12k of it by paying as I go or putting it on alternate payment methods. Why should I lose out when I chose to be responsible when others didn't?
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@indian_crocodile Yes, any Titanic related misadventure would require them to have continued the descent knowing that they weren't in contact with the surface. It's a bunch of billionaires, so maybe, but probably not. More likely the communications gear failed and whatever equipment was involved with bringing it to the surface automatically also failed. Or, the whole thing did indeed implode and the tapping is just in the imagination of the people looking.
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Yes, but I do think he has a point about posting a sign indicating the weight limit. She'd still not have been able to go on the ride, but would have been spared her father embarrassing her on TV.
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Yes, whether or not it's required in the strict sense, refusing to show it is likely grounds to be detained while they sort things out. They will eventually get the receipt and go through the contents of the bags, provided the store doesn't decide that it's not worth losing a customer. Which is probably not the case as they did call them. In the mean time, the groceries likely are spoiling and you'll be sitting in jail until they decide that there wasn't a crime committed.
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@susanmclane7781 To make matters worse, the "food" that's prevalent now is so highly processed as to make it very hard for our brains to know how much to eat and to crave far more of it than we should be eating.
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@battleboat12 It is, but the fact that some people are using it doesn't necessary meet the standard. Alphabet still owns the trademark for Google, even though google is a pretty common term for searching for things now. It will eventually lose control over the trademark if that continues, but from what I can tell, nobody has tried to get the trademark removed as of now.
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Yes and only because the constitution bans cruel and unusual punishment, the amount of human suffering that those jokers have caused, just this year alone, would warrant far worse than the minimum security prison they'd get.
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TBH legitimately trans people, as opposed to anybody that's just faking for attention, are less than a percent of the population, but somehow everybody has to accomodate them more than simply using thier preferred name and letting them use their preferred restroom. It really doesn't make much sense, there is research backing the use of people's preferred names and pronouns, but there isn't any good reason for most of the rest of it. Why should everybody need to tell people their preferred pronouns when less than a percent of people have a different one, and a still small percentage are at all ambiguous?
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Honestly, this is what turns people off of Linux. First off, it's a blatant lie to claim the discrepancy is that large. If it were that large, BSD would already be dead. Not on the receiving end of decades of "BSD is dead" hurr hurr hurr jokes. Secondly, look at the various companies using BSD OSes, it's not exactly a set of 3rd strong losers. Netflix alone is absolutely massive. But, more to the point, we need an option that is more focused on stability and usability than whatever the current popular trend is. FreeBSD isn't terribly flashy, but it mostly just works and has almost everything I could possibly need.
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That's a stupid question. The reason why is that the 2nd amendment was intended to apply to state run militias like the national guard and policing organizations. If they meant for it to be an individual right, they could have used the singular form. It's especially clear because at the time, people wasn't the plural for person like it is now, it was a collective. If you read through the amendments, it's pretty clear that they are using plural and singular on purpose. Gun ownership is a collective right to deal with the lack of a standing army and the lack of fully staffed professional law enforcement at the time. It was also necessary as a check on the federal government for the states to be able to get together and oppose the federal government if need be. None of this is particularly complicated, the folks that are reading this to be an individual right are in the wrong, and there's a reason why it took so long for the interpretation to be changed.
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In general I agree, but those were bad examples towards the end of the video. People in that era also frequently died a lot younger than we do now. And, you're going to have to do something about the sleep, it can't always be do the work ahead of time and hope that it actually works. Most of the things that are recommended for sleep don't work.
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Doubtful, the statute of limitations likely expired years ago. I'm not a lawyer, but usually the clock starts ticking either when something is done, or when you reasonably should have found out about it. The thing to do is to always request, preferably in writing, a copy of the relevant paperwork to back the numbers. In most cases, that will be enough to get opportunists to do the right thing, but a failure to provide it is a good indication that getting an attorney to ask nicely might be in order.
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@Jorge-kn8oj That's why I've got mixed feelings about the statute of limitations. One the one hand, it means that things won't be brought to trial with evidence that's decades old, missing or lacks the usual witnesses to testify to their reliability. But, it can also mean that if somebody doesn't know to ask the right questions when something potentially fishy is going on, that the clock will start ticking anyways and can lead to massive losses for the injured party that can't be remedied at all.
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They don't. That only happens when they're worn out from years of plugging things in and unplugging them. If they get loose like that, you're supposed to replace the outlet with a new one. Any outlet design is going to have issues if it's worn out. It's just that in the case of the American ones, it's more obvious that something has gone awry and needs to be replaced and the UK style is better in that if anything at all is connected, it's the ground.
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@elia_berti You can get them in the US as well. I'm not sure what code says, but whenever I replace a loose socket around the house, I buy an outlet that has integrated shutters. They work just fine without the ground pin as the shutter only covers the hot and neutral blades. The ground doesn't really require a shutter as if the device is so badly shorted out that you have power going through the ground, you have numerous other issues that are more important.
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@chaos.corner Yes, although it's unclear what's more expensive, a simple plug and play outlet that can be changed by anybody, and probably without needing to disconnect power, or hiring an electrician to do the work. I'd wager the bigger issue is that nobody has done the work of creating it, and it hasn't been approved by any of the relevant regulatory agencies along with the lack of a safety record to go by. And, I'm guessing that there haven't been enough fires and electrocutions to justify the change either.
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Yes, and that's the thing. Also, what they're getting upset about here is that the accused are actually being afforded some of the rights that they have under the constitution. Colleges shouldn't be in a position where they're having to investigate these things unless they are alleged to happen on campus and have campus police. Under the Obama administration, they basically through the accused under the bus because of the alleged sexual assaults that weren't being reported or where the accused wasn't being punished, even for lack of evidence. Having the college be pressured to accept the accusations as true rather than following legal standards or forwarding the reports to law enforcement was grossly unconstitutional and resulted in things like that woman carrying a mattress around in an effort to harass a male student that she alleged sexually harassed her, in spite of a lack of evidence that he did anything wrong.
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@huonsmith that's purely a matter of how the gearing was done. Some vehicles have a first gear that's effectively just for starting and will rev to high for any practical use while driving and some will do 50 in first. It all depends on the engine and the transmission.
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TBH, I"m not surprised. If folks are going to use software like that, they should be asking it to find cases and then looking the specific cases up and reviewing the available information. I've got gpt4all installed on my computer and I wouldn't trust it to give me a correct recipe out of my cookbooks, but I would trust it to tell me where to look for the recipe. It does a decent enough job, but I have noticed that it will make mistakes from time to time.
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@sikamaru666 Right now, no, that would take a version that's been trained on legal data and I can't imagine anybody that would be willing to take on the liability of providing such a tool to attorneys at this point. Specifically because of what happened in this case and other possible problems.
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@yaboimax6356 The Babylon Bee has some funny stuff, but they're not anywhere near as funny. Perhaps if you're of a certain political persuasion you might think that, but The Onion has always had a much wider view of what things to mock.
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Bipartisan is only OK when it's a bipartisan screwing of the American people.
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Are you sure? You do realize there's 3rd party candidates or just not voting. A vote for Biden is a vote against democracy.
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@mE-zx7pt perhaps the democrats could try running candidates that promise to do things to help the voters.
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Unfortunately, he is unlikely to make $5m in total over the course of his entire life, even excluding whatever jail sentence he gets. And obviously, even the price of restoration, assuming it's possible, is likely more than he'll be able to afford as well. Yes, it is fortunate that nobody was hurt or killed, but these items are only marginally less precious than a human life and just as irreplaceable.
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@Jirodyne BS
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The government's obligations apparently end at birth.
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It can vary a lot from state to state in the US due to the local topography. Around here short stretches of trail can be upwards of 10% grade, whereas in some areas anything much above 4% is unacceptable. Around here, sometimes there is no flatter route, or if there is, that route can take you miles out of your way, essentially making the destination unachievable for most people. Some states you can pretty much run the trails wherever you like because there isn't much variation in the terrain to dictate that one area is really that much better than another is.
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Have you flown recently? It's absolutely terrible. The seats are too small and you have to be sexually assaulted to be allowed to take the flight at all. I flew when I was a kid and it was a generally pleasant experience. I was too small to really be impacted by seat sizes, but the process was far better. What's more, flying overseas is also far better than what we have here as well.
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That's a stock answer, most modern planes can be adjusted for some weight distribution variance, but anybody moving around can complicate that and lead to other people wanting to move around. That latter part is probably the real reason.
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@kstricl I saw speculation that in this case they needed to file when they did to avoid issues with the statute of limitations, but they do get 21 days during which to do this sort of stuff without having to particularly justify it to anybody. Which is fine, PayPal can start the process of figuring out to do with it and then adjust for the amendment.
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Indeed, when I was living in China I didn't even bother trying to use my traveler's insurance when I got sick, I just paid the bill the doctor presented me with. It was never high enough to justify the effort of getting reimbursed.
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It does, however you need a lot of it to make a measurably impact. Keep in mind that each time a neuron fires there's a transfer of ions back and forth across the cell membrane. Each of those charged particles moving generates a little magnetic field and is influenced by magnetic fields in the environment. The real question is at what point the field becomes strong enough to affect the brain as the medical treatment is a fair amount of magnetic field and MRIs aren't enough to do anything, at least not as far as I've heard.
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@SensitivityGames In Europe and the US, that's the main meaning that's relevant. Most simple shapes like that have established meanings from some point in history, most of which are completely irrelevant in modern times.
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She can't be, judges have pretty much complete immunity for practical reasons.
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I think the reason why the laws are often like that is that it makes the headaches of insurance companies fighting over responsibility a lot faster. I doubt there's much affect in aggregate on various insurance companies as one incident might go to one of the two companies and the next might swing the other way around.
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Won't happen now, that was when WA still had the death penalty. And that was probably true at the time, the deal just covered whatever crimes were covered by the deal, not any that came to light later on or were committed later on.
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She won't be re-elected. She lost her own home state in the primary. If she can't convince the Democrats in her home state, what do you think is going to happen when she has to win Independent and GOP votes to be Senator?
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I was thinking that good start would be to commit to allowing the voters to choose the nominee. It's hard for a candidate to get buy in from the voters if the candidate is being forced on voters, especially if there's a more popular option and the arguments are purely about electability.
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@Aires457 That's it precisely. The DNC chose not to have an open primary, or to make her justify her nomination at the convention because Ohio might not accommodate them naming the candidate late. It was close enough in some of those states that one issue might not have been enough, but being on the wrong side of Gaza and one of the other things wrong with her candidacy like not offering working class men a reason to vote for her were enough.
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Opinions will vary, but Krispy Kreme is vastly overrated. I remember hearing about it before it got here and thinking that they'd be good, but they're not good donuts.
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@Chunkosaurus Height? Who cares about that, they taste like pure sugar and have no substance to them. Opinions will vary, but when I want that, I get cotton candy.
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Metal also works well. They've found metal with writing banged into it from thousands of years ago. The main issues with these things is simply that the storage density is terrible. Also, archival paper will last a lot longer than one would expect.
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That probably should have been MLS.
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@joshallen128 The bigger problem is other people distributing .zip files. And as somebody else pointed out, the Windows start menu searches for those files online, so there's the potenieal for it to find a .zip domain name and decide that's where you need to go to get the file.
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Roughly 1/3 of the people that walk into a business will buy what's on offer pretty much no matter what you do. 1/3 will never buy no matter what you do. It's the other third that customer service influences. If you're not getting enough of the folks that will buy no matter what to keep buying, and hopefully some of them leaving positive reviews, you were in so much trouble that you shouldn't have been in business to begin with.
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@SimoneandMalcolm Is it even possible from a diagnostic point of view? The literal only reason that I didn't get my AS diagnosis years ago under the DSM IV was that I had a bunch of schizo spectrum diagnoses, as in basically all of them, on my record and it was explicitly banned to have both. I'm kicking myself now that at age 43, I really deserve a proper diagnosis, and it's going to be incredibly hard due to the fixation that the medical community on having the positive symptoms early enough in life to be developmental. For those of us that are old enough that the DSM IV wasn't in force when we were primary school age, it can be incredibly hard to gather the necessary evidence as these things weren't really on anybody's radar at the time.
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@bountyjedi There's a fair number of utilities that can be used in managing those files, anything that edits text files can potentially be used. With a few minutes worth of scripting, you can even automate revision control over it and see what changes are being made over time in case something does go wrong.
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It would be diluted, it's pretty much the NRA and the 2nd Amendment Foundation when you need an asshole to speak negatively about gun regulations like background checks and limiting the capacity of a magazine. Most other organizations realize that small things like that are more likely to preserve at least some of their rights than allowing the slaughter of innocents due to not having any substantive measures in place to stop it.
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There's potential issues in doing that. There's an inherent conflict of interest if it goes back onto their own lot as they have a lot of influence over what the price is that they get. If done honestly, with appropriate paperwork it's not so bad, but it raises a ton of questions about whether it was a legitimate price that they got for it.
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They couldn't just cut back on how much of the acreage they were dedicating to corn and either grow something else or slowly rotate their crop around their field as areas are allowed to grow other things like clover that can help rebuild the nitrogen content in the mean time?
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I wonder how long this is going to last before the entire system grinds to a halt because of just how many parts of laws aren't 100% clear beyond a shadow of a disagreement. Any law that explicit is going to be extremely long and constantly needing to be updated as new ways of getting around it are invented. Sometimes, like with antitrust, it does make some sense to let the courts fill in the gaps, but sometimes it makes more sense for actual experts to do so.
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@SouperMaruchan Credit cards are designed to encourage that. Why do you think so many of them give "points" now? If you use debit cards and cash you don't need to develop a ton of self control as the added work involved with figuring out if the charge will go through will discourage frivolous purchases.
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@EXROBOWIDOW They didn't necessarily need to push it out the tailpipe, but unlike most of the other emissions, it's an element, so your only real option is to either push it out the tailpipe, or find some way of trapping it. It's not like CO, O3 or NO2 that are problematic as chemicals, but the individual elements aren't of any real consequence and they are the result of chemical reactions going on in the engine.
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That's what I do. I found a skillet from lodge that's got very low sides that's great. I assume that it's for eggs and pancakes where it can be difficult to get under if you've got higher sides. In this case, it makes it easier to avoid getting burned. Alternatively, you can get dual burner griddles that are flat on top and large enough to fit more than one pizza at a time. On a side note, I still use a pizza stone, one permanently lives on the bottom rack in my oven to increase the consistency of the temperature across the oven. I just pretty much only cook the pizzas on cast iron.
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Proposition accepted, I'm voting Green Party of if they really anger me, Trump.
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The efficacy rate against transmission isn't anywhere near good enough to end the spread. It would need to be over 90% to have any hope of that.
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Yes, but far too many will accept the lesser of two evils argument. Personally, I won't vote Biden, he's given me no reason to. He couldn't even win the primary without rigging voting machines.
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Or more to the point, folks that see through the BS that women are trying to push. Just cruise a dating app and see all the women that can't get a date because they're too self-absorbed to have accepted what was available when they actually had sexual marketplace value.
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He's in high school, he should be able to manage better than this without any support. He's not even attending any of the classes. He's to blame, the mother is to blame and the school is to blame. Everybody involved here messed up.
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TBH, I was wondering about that as well.
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Indeed, why should he get to ruin things before Biden gets a chance to.
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There are various different ways that they can be set up, around here we don't get checks, but if they do have leftovers, it winds up offsetting against any future rate increases. We have public utilities covering electricity, gas and water service and for the most part it works out quite well. The things we don't have like public internet access are a hot mess though and far more expensive than can be justified compared with what it costs in other countries. Even if you account for the rural parts of the region.
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@lourias Yes, so can migraines. Personally, I have tinnitus and it can sound like all sorts of things. Ringing is sort of the classic, but tinnitus itself is often just a phantom sound that is generated in the nerves between the ears and the brain itself. It doesn't have to be ringing.
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Directly responding is usually not a smart idea. However, suing with clips that involve conduct that's questionable at best is just asking for trouble. I'm guessing that he's assuming that since he's the biggest YouTuber right now and this is already going to make massive waves that the lawsuit won't make a meaningful increase, but we'll see.
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Strictly speaking, a NAS is more or less just an external device that is using the network as the connection rather than USB and it kind of stetches it a bit if you're dealing with multiple computers. The proper term when these are connecting over the network to multiple computers really is file-server, although the line between them has gotten pretty blurry and I'm not sure if anybody still uses the term file-server at all now.
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That's extremely generous of them. When a municipality took the only buildable portion of a piece of property my Dad owned, they just paid for the piece they wanted, not the rest of it, even though it made the entire land worthless due to the topography.
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Considering the conspiracy theories I've seen in the comment sections of these videos, it's almost as if they want to be left alone and not harassed by a bunch of creeps.
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It's actually pretty easy to comply with this, they simply just don't allow ads covering races in the state of Washington, and to IPs located there. It's not particularly hard with all the information that Meta collects to know where the ads are being viewed. Now, if this case centered on VPN use or they didn't know who was using the service, a different result might be called for, but not in this case. It seems pretty clear that they aren't putting up any particularly serious effort to avoid breaking the law.
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As well, you should be, there's definitely no guarantee that Bongbong won't win and that if he does win that the result will be better than the current status quo. I hope that these challengers win.
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Yes, even pledge would likely do the job.
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@rudyschwab7709 The ones around here are paved over with a water permeable concrete. A lot of that has to do with the fact that they're too small for trucks to traverse without going over the middle. So, they have a short smooth curb and no plantings in the middle. The closest thing we have here to plantings in roundabouts would be plantings in traffic circles, but those are really intended to slow traffic as much as possible on side streets.
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TBH, if anybody is an expert on what an apartheid state is, it would be the country that literally coined the term.
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AFAICT chokeholds are not something that cops are trained to do these days. I assume in the past that was the case, but it's just a very dangerous practice. Even applied correctly, you don't really know what's going to happen as a result. If you've blocked the blood supply enough, but not the air supply you can choke them out even as they complain about it.
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@tim-elmer There may have been some truth to that in the distant past, but the helmets I've worn have large enough visors that I can't really even see the edges.
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I assume you mean about the Warren pick for VP. I don't see how that would work. It's not that she was campaigning against him or even that she chose not to endorse him in 2016 when it may have mattered, but that she's turned slimy. She's been lying about Bernie, slamming his supporters and done an about face on basically everything that I liked about her. I'd still vote for him on the ticket, but this would probably cost him my vote if he were up against somebody that was closer to him in terms of policy.
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@babetteshaw It's not ignorance, Biden could have done a lot more, he just chose not to get on Garland to get those charges in sooner so that it couldn't be slow walked until after the election.
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Probably inquire with whichever local agency handles your state parks. At the federal level it would be the US Forest service that does most of that There's also numerous non-profits that don't necessarily design the trails, but may have some involvement in terms of putting plans in action. To a lesser extent, even city and counties may have some work in that regard as well.
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I personally go with 500F preheated with a cast iron skillet inside. The pizza gets assembled directly on the skillet and after about 7-8 minutes, I have a wonderfully brown, crispy pizza that is just about as good as what you'd get from a quality restaurant. (And tons better than what you'll get from a typical delivery pizza place) The cast iron is important as it transfers heat more efficiently than the air, allowing the crust to get nice and crispy without burning the toppings. Alternatively, when I was in Venice, the pizza place I went to didn't even put the cheese into the oven. They baked the crust and sauce, and put the mozzarella and basil on afterwards. I have no idea if that's a common thing in that area, but it is a rather practical way of doing it.
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I agree, 18 year olds shouldn't be. As far as raising the age on these weapons, it's part of what we did in Washington, and we haven't had any mass shootings since. Yes, there could still be one using weapons leaked from other states or an older shooter, but there have been hundreds of mass shootings in other states over that same time frame.
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Yes, and not only did they destroy it, they also salted the ground to try and ensure that they wouldn't be able to grow the crops necessary to rebuild. Given how insanely expensive salt was a the time, that was pretty hardcore.
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@wilmagregg3131 Same applies to house cats though. They aren't domesticated. The big difference is that a bobcat is significantly larger and has much stronger jaws, so they can do damage above and beyond what a typical housecat could.
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@pin00ch Yep, while there are a bunch of games out there, it does still require more work than on Windows. But, OTOH, you don't need to buy a new computer to use Linux, so I wonder how many people are going to give it a go while waiting to save for a Windows compatible computer. One of the big advantages that Windows used to have was running on a much larger number of computers than the competition.
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@PhiberOptik1979 Yes, and in this case, the cause of the loss is quite simply that the Democrats didn't bother to run a competitive primary to force Biden to demonstrate his ability to get through another 4 years. Harris never campaigned in most of the states since she was allowed to skip the primaries. They didn't even bother to have a primary in Florida at all. The campaign failed to offer really any reason for working class men to vote for her, the only ads I personally was presented with were fearmongering ones about abortion and the need for me to give them money. I'd be hard pressed to name any of her policies that working class men should feel particularly drawn to vote for her over that aren't the result of altruism.
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The firetruck being on the wrong side of the street isn't an inherent problem, that's one of the things that the siren is for. The problem is that the truck was on the wrong side of the street in an effort to get around the gate arms that were there to prevent this sort of thing from happening. And, presumably, nobody contacted the railroad to notify the engineer that this might happen so that the train could be slowed to something that would allow the train to stop in time.
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@whysocurious7366 Yes and they have really strange values in some way. Any sort of extreme view is one that ought to be reconsidered. They're poor because of the policies that they support.
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When I was in highschool the head football coach at my highschool was in the same position. His legal name was Dr because his parents wanted him to become a physician. He did eventually go to medical school and become a doctor. I can't recall what the specific field was, but IIRC, it was something related to physical therapy. I'm kind of wondering what would have happened during the period before he was old enough to go to medical school in California rather than here in Washington where that law isn't on the books though.
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There's lots of ways of doing it. Requiring that there be a specific reason in order to be allowed to schedule one. Making people stand on one leg while talking. (Obviously, people who can't stand due to disability should probably be given an alternate option. Status meetings serve absolutely no purpose. If you're just reporting status, that can be done without everybody being there at the same time and decent project management system, or a text file, can do that just fine.
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This is bad information. First off, the math that you're excusing students for not learning isn't particularly hard math. Barring a serious developmental or intellectual disorder, there's no reason why everybody couldn't pass those courses. The anti-intellectual view that it's OK to be bad at math is the main reason for the lack of achievement in that area. You do not see ordinary Chinese people struggling to the extent that spoiled Americans do. Now, if we were talking about Calculus or up, you'd have a point and realistically most people don't need to know that anyways. But, introductory statistics and algebra are just not that hard. The reason why so many students wash out at that point is that they were passed along year after year without the schools providing them the support that they were supposed to get in order to catch up. As far as not being able to distinguish themselves if everybody has a degree, that's a load of BS. We've had points in history where virtually everybody had the same level of education and people still got hired over other candidates. It's just going to take more than a degree check to do so.
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I'm not a fan of war, but I can't see how Iran can not retaliate seeing as the Israelis started this and refused to take the chances given to stop.
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@MegaMediagamer it's also worth realizing that brown sugar is less refined than white sugar is. You can make it browner and it will probably work in recipes, but it has gone through additional refining that isn't really necessary. Personally, I've never seen C&H sugar clump to any significant degree. The clumps that form are mostly easy to break and the ones that don't just go in the coffee.
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The thing that gets me, is that these school zones require that you take your eyes off the road to see if there are kids present. The ones based on time are less of an issue as you don't need to pay attention to possible kids. Not to mention that kids are short enough that you might not even see them.
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@freethebirds3578 As opposed to the US where the private insurance companies just say yes to every reimbursement request? The fact of the matter is that in any system there are going to be limits placed on care. The only difference is who is placing the limits and to what extent.
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Right, clearly that is the ultimate last piece that led to the crash, two aircraft can't occupy the same place at the same time. The why and how that came to be is much more interesting and probably going to come down to a few factors. I doubt that it was intentional, it would be rather tough to intentionally pull something like this off.
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@ It's not though. A jet lands at roughly 172mph in order to remain in the air until it's low enough to finally touch down. A helicopter of this type, according to wikipedia, isn't necessarily traveling much slower than that. Making it a really tough maneuver to do on purpose.
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It depends on the diagnosis. It's a recent phenomenon for medical researchers to acknowledge that medical conditions can look very different between men and women. It does cut both ways as depression in men doesn't look like it does in women in many cases. It's a part of why mass shooters are more often men than women. Men are more likely to get angry when depressed than women are.
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There's a special place in hell for people that push this kind of foolishness. You managed it, but basic math and economics says that everybody can't. If everybody was making that kind of money, then you'd need to be making 8 or 9 figures in order to enjoy that lifestyle. I feel sorry for the suckers that don't realize that. There is, at least in the US and Europe, enough wealth being produced for everybody to have a roof over their heads, food on their table and health care taken care of. There's probably enough for everybody to have a modest vacation and eventually retire. Beyond that, there is not enough for everybody to live the kind of lifestyle that people making 6 figures are typically living. Yes, we can grow the economy some and we can reduce the amount of effort needed to produce that wealth, but we're nowhere near the point where most, let alone all, people can manage what you've managed and it's cruel and self-serving to suggest otherwise.
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It's not really the education system so much as the focus on building things for the sake of the jobs, even if the buildings aren't ever used. When I was over there there were effectively small cities worth of high rises that were partially completed and probably still not complete.
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@danielglover1453 And yet they were the ones that gave him the nomination. Bernie's policies would have actually helped their community between medicare for all and the efforts to reduce income inequality. They keep voting for people whose policies have been disastrous.
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It definitely is, the issue is that it can be relatively expensive for these businesses to file suit over and these companies have tons of venture capital to fight the suits. This is almost precisely what trademarks exist to protect customers against. You order something, wind up spending far more than you should, and the food winds up at your house cold or possibly unsafe to consume. If you get food poisoning, there's a fairly decent chance that you won't blame the driver, you'll blame the restaurant. Honestly, though you're probably up on things enough that you personally wouldn't, but a lot of people would.
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It's so satisfying that I might sub again just to unsubscribe again.
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@@bav192 Yes, even if they are located, the sub potentially still has to be brought to the surface and they need to be decompressed while there's still oxygen left. Although, if the sub can be brought close enough to the surface, there are rescue subs that could likely manage the rest of it.
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Dresden would have been a better choice. The city was of no strategic or military importance, it was more or less a tourist destination that was full to the brim with refugees that were fleeing from the Soviets that were taking their anger out on the civilians as they advanced. The city was firebombed and the initial death toll was on the same basic level as either of the nuclear bombings. (Although if you include death due to cancer, the nuclear bombings are probably significantly bigger as hardly anybody survived the firebombing due to either being incinerated or asphyxiated by the fires)
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@random832 Not when they're passing the site off as belonging to the owner it's not. Using it in the nominative sense is one thing, using it in a way that implies they have a business relationship with the restaurant is an entirely different matter.
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This is generally good advice, but, I don't think it should automatically be a 50/50 sharing of things, especially if the guy is making more and we're talking about a married couple. Men are going to need that extra money in case the woman gets bored and demands a divorce. In which case, he'll likely lost everything, not just the things she contributed, but probably the assets he brought into the marriage as well. It's hard enough to justify taking on the risk knowing that if you screwed up the screening process that no pre-nup will protect you against family court judges renegotiating after the fact or outright disregarding it. And part of that is standard of living.
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We don't all feel that way and for more recent riders in particular, a switch to an electric motorcycle would be less of an issue as the smaller displacement bikes don't really have that sort of a visceral feel like the larger ones do.
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The issue is that the super delegates would never go against the establishment. They existed as a way of putting their thumb on the scale to ensure that candidates like Bernie that are promising things to benefit the people wouldn't have an equal chance.
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I can't really blame them, even when we think we're voting for politicians that are going to address the problem, we don't get anything beyond the most meager or half-measures. That's assuming that we even get a say in the leader.
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Does that really matter? The better question would be how often they got pulled over for it and let off with a warning.
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I'm thinking it's got to be Elizabeth Warren. But yeah, no vote. They've shown no interest in the will of the people and giving us things that we need, so they don't get my vote.
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I used to have women lining up to get my attention and quite frankly it sucked. Imagine what those hot women are going through plus a complete lack of social awareness by the people doing the pursuing. It would have been nice to have a choice when it came to my first kiss. It's very, very hard to spot the ones worth your time when you're being distracted by women that can't be bothered to figure out how to behave around men.
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The only student loan I've ever had was because the college refused to hand out scholarship and grant money fairly. I met some of the people who got the money and none of them were in particular need of the money, it was just a way of the college selecting a few diverse faces to pad it's promotional materials. Rather disgusting.
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This is why it used to be the case that the top income tax bracket was 93%. You'd have to make a massive amount of money in order to pay that rate, and there should be something similar right now for wealth and capital gains just to discourage this sort of thing. If you're going to be worth $100bn then you have to have actually earned it, not just looted it off the workers.
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@therebornnewb0980 Around here we've got an entrance ramp to I-5 at the top of a hill. So, they wound up painting signs directly on the road as it was pretty hard to see the signs otherwise. It feels like something like what you're suggesting should be a part of the solution for such an important exit.
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And most importantly, the judges. Most of these abuses of power would have ended decades ago if the judges would simply go by a reasonable interpretation of the constitution rather than getting hard thinking about the legal theories. Not only is there no justification in the constitution for allowing it, the constitution is quite clear that the government can't just take your stuff without due process.
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@Nithinithinith It's definitely possible that he was dating a few of them, but dating 27 people even if you don't need to worry about being caught is difficult, to say the least.
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That gets complicated. If the patents are in Canada, then it can get rather messy as only Canadian distribution would be impacted. Nintendo had a similar issue with the Game Genie where the Canadian courts allowed sales to continue whereas the US courts issued an injunction. Ultimately, Nintendo lost, but because sales had been allowed to continue in Canada, Galoob was able to get a ton of damages due to being able to use Canadian sales to provide an estimate about just how much money they had lost as a result of Nintendo's suit.
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@adamk.7177 I stopped paying them because they're stuff has sucked ever since WoW came out. I'm not much of an MMORPG player, so I include WoW, but people that don't mind the genre would probably put that a bit later.
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Honestly, pain is an emotion. I'm not sure which I'd rather have chronic pain, or the chronic lack of much response to pain that I've currently got. It pretty much requires burns or something that angers my central nervous system or it doesn't really register very strongly as pain.
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A lot of folks continue to. I personally stopped because when you pirate you're just encouraging them to think that there's a price that people would pay for that crap and they can keep it up. Piracy is a form of support. If it's really that objectionable the way they handle their business affairs, you should have nothing to do with them at all. Personally, I buy physical media if it's something I want, and I'll buy used if it's something that I don't want to help with their current earnings.
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I think it's more a matter of being really careful to have all the right paperwork and that there might be areas of the property that aren't clearly searchable just because they had reason to come into the areas that turned out to have the bodies. Plus, at this point, they can lock the scene down and fill out the appropriate paperwork for the warrant, it probably doesn't take that long.
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@ImDumbSry I'm more or less with you on that. I think that if he were closer to winning, I might hold my nose and vote for him anyways, just because money in politics and fixing the SCOTUS are pretty much the sine non qua of doing really anything right now, but, a lot of things he says make me very uncomfortable.
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@kerenk Yep, I never got rid of the stuff I had, I did go through a period where I bought hardly any. I've got mine ripped to disk so that I can stream locally. I get the best quality picture short of physically inserting the disk and a very well-polished experience. At this point, I pay $0 most months as I've got all the stuff I really want, I just buy stuff that I want if I see any.
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TBH, it's more like "Nope and brother can you spare some change."
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It's not anywhere near as large a difference as you're making out, and most of the difference can be accounted for by home environment. In most cases, the difference in "aptitude" has little to do with aptitude and simply how much exposure the student has to related material. In the case of math, I was always going to be good at math despite having multiple learning disorders because I came from a household where both parents used at least arithmetic on a regular basis and would talk with me about it. Exposure and interest are far greater influences over ultimate ability than anything else.
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@jameskearney4100 Because there wasn't enough left to do with equality. Equity can be done permanently, but there just wasn't enough of a difference to justify further efforts on behalf of equality. For the most part, they are already getting an equal education, it's just not equitable.
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Old Black people that are apparently not smart enough to realize that they're voting for one of the people involved in destroying their community.
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You shouldn't leak proprietary information.
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@walterk1221 It's not required, but it makes it harder for them to argue that they never received it.
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Cost? Since when does the GOP care about how much this stuff costs. This is just a concern when there are dangerous ideas like that the voters can expect the tax payer dollars to go to productive things like free college and universal healthcare. IIRC, over $20tn of the debt comes from them spending too much and not taxing enough to cover the costs.
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@coyotetu It happened a lot. Virtually anybody that was making minimum wage or under $20 an hour wound up making more on unemployment. That extra $9.6k they were making during the 4 months it was a thing was more than I made during that period of time.
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It's WinAmp, can they actually afford more than that?
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This is not true. Google's initial popularity came from being faster than other search engines of the time with more comprehensive results. They managed that specifically by not understanding the language on the page. Other search engines weren't as fast or as comprehensive because they were trying to figure out how to understand what was on the page, and Google didn't and still doesn't. It's a real nightmare using the search engine these days because it's so limited in how it will let you search. And that's before the other issues that came up in the video.
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@th5841 Yes, at most this might temporarily cause new drivers to be a bit more cautious while they're gaining experience, but the movie is a poor substitute for proper driver's ed with more time actually behind the wheel with an instructor.
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TBH, I thought that using cast iron was kind of scary, that seems completely tame compared with working directly on the grates in the opening of the oven.
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Before SCOTUS blew up Chevron, there wasn't much of a difference. The reason that SCOTUS blew it up was because they didn't want any sort of regulations to be enacted. You can't get anything meaningful through the legislature thanks to corruption on both sides, and you're left with executive orders that are pretty limited in terms of what they can do and regulatory rule making where the law leaves it up to the experts at the agency to decide how to proceed with the task they were handed.
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That's the thing, these aren't "random" checks in the sense that you're thinking, they will check everybody on a given train or bus for compliance, but the buses and trains that they check are random. From what I recall of my, 2 rides, on BART, this system isn't that much different, there's no method of preventing people without tickets from leaving at the end of their trip. But, apart from that, the system is very similar in terms of how payment is handled. You either have a pass or have to buy a ticket at a kiosk for the appropriate number of stops and once you've got that, you can board the relevant trains and get to where you're going.
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@aryaganne9364 Clearly, the school screwed up a lot here. I think the focus on the mother isn't inappropriate though. I'm curious why she didn't have the time over the course of multiple years to look at any of the report cards. That being said, the school is definitely primarily at fault here. Why did they keep promoting him if the was this far behind? The kid is legally obligated to get at least the first 2 years of highschool as the laws stand. So, why was he nominally a senior when he had fewer credits than what a freshman should have by the end of the first semester?
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I'm voting them all out of office. I only vote for 3rd party candidates unless there's none on the ballot, in which case I vote for the challenger. Both sides are hopelessly corrupt on anything and everything important. Even at $3.5tn, the bill is way too conservative to make up for all the intransigence and delays that have kept things from being addressed in a timely manner.
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It's worse, this virus leaves literal holes in the lungs and possible permanent damage to the heart and kidneys. There's also no vaccination for that. Shingles is a big deal, but it does have a vaccine and generally doesn't become a problem until later on, you get decades of full health even in cases where you get it. And, thanks to vaccinations for Chicken Pox, the number of cases should go down and possibly go to 0.
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It doesn't make much sense for more open styles of architecture to use central heating. In this case, they'd probably be better off with infrared systems built into either the floor or the ceiling as they can be powered on and off more quickly and are better suited to the conditions described in the video.
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Logic 46 They do, but Americans shoot more Americans in general than you see in other developed countries. If the police weren't also doing so, it would be kind of weird. We have a system where we've failed miserably to regulate the availability of firearms to those who aren't able to use them responsibly. Whether it's criminals or just individuals that are to F-ing stupid to secure them well enough that their kids don't get their hands on them, there are tons of deaths that only happen because of our national fetish for firearms.
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I'd never seen that chart before, but that's completely consistent with my life experience. I've had tons of women that were interested in the fun zone to the point of being creeps about it. But, finding a woman around here that's not a whore has been extremely challenging. The only thing that seems to matter is the money. It doesn't matter if the guy is absolutely everything else they claim to be looking for, if he isn't loaded, they're just not buying. Unfortunately, the only way around this would probably be to get enough of the men to stop tolerating women like that that they had to grow up. The problem though, is that the kinds of guys that would actually hurt women if they boycotted are the ones that are getting exactly what they want out of the current system.
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You forgot the trans people of color.
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It would be nice if this meant we could have some Alan Quartermaine movies. When I saw it as a kid, I thought it was an Indiana Jones rip off, but the source material goes back to the late 19th century and is based on a really good book. (Although admittedly one that does have some questionable views on race, but it was the 19th century)
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Sigh, you do realize the grocery stores regularly donate foods that they can't sell to foodbanks, right? If this food wasn't safe enough to donate to a food bank, then why would it be safe enough for dumpster divers?
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Isn't it interesting how they infiltrate peace groups, but not the groups that are threatening violence.
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They've allowed him to get away with stuff for many years now. They won't punish him for basically anything he does and they're surprised when he screws them over? They should have primaried him repeatedly until he either lost or started to get on board to important priorities.
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You really shouldn't. There's nothing wrong with self-diagnosing, especially with how screwed up the diagnosis is right now. I had that same attitude, and now I regret it because many years later, I hit the point where I could really have used some of the things that come with a formal diagnosis in terms of work and school accommodations and can't get it due to how knackered the diagnosis has gotten.
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@danielphan5991 I'm not quite sure what the GP means, but the age thing is a dumb argument. The 25th amendment allows for his removal if he's genuinely impaired. But, until and unless there's some evidence that Bernie is impaired it's a non-issue. Also, consider that if elected, he'll have a VP that takes over if he dies and that he can be removed if necessary, it's a dumb argument to make. Most of the people making that argument are doing so because they need a reason to set aside a candidate who has such popular stances on the issues.
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@chrismcnuggett President Pence would like to thank you for such an idiotic decision. Voting for Yang because you prefer his policy stances is one thing, voting because you think that Bernie is too old is asinine.
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I'ts rather unfortunate that Perl is seen this way, but Python isn't. At least Perl is something where you can write it in some sort of sane way where things generally work the way that you might expect.
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@lashlarue59 He was reaching for a knife, he wasn't simply disobeying orders. I wish people would pay more attention to the circumstances of these deaths rather than immediately jumping to conclusions. Some cases, like George Floyd, are clearly murder by cops. Other cases like Tamir Rice are clearly the result of the deceased doing something incredibly stupid. Anybody that points a realistic looking gun replica or similar at somebody with a real firearm has no right to be shocked about being shot. That is always going to be legal so long as you're allowed to have the firearm in the first place.
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@neutronenstern. If you can swim 100m, you probably could swim across that distance, the issue is if you get stuck in a sudden cold spot where you stop breathing or get caught in a weird current. I've personally swam an entire mile in one go and I'm not sure that I would risk swimming in a quarry. At least not without really knowing what I was getting into and even then, I'd probably stick to the shallows.
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Please stop spreading misinformation. That information is available in the prospectus, if you go for no-load funds like those offered by Vanguard, you'll pay practically nothing for their services. Just because there are expensive ones out there, does not mean that all of them are.
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@cori7209 Even if they do, the former owner would be out hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Why should we do that for the elderly when the elderly haven't ensured that the young et our medical treatment? It should be about getting everybody the treatment they need, not just the old because of things they vaguely may have done in the past.
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Dumb question, but isn't the attempt to force the ticket into his jacket misdemeanor assault and battery? I'm not an attorney, but I see that the victim here is trying to avoid the unwanted and offensive contact, which should indicate assault, and it looks like there is physical contact which should constitute batter.
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I came here to post the same thing. She needs to grow the F up before she further makes women look weak and corrupt.
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@strqrt70 It blew my mind hearing the origins for some of the William's Star Wars themes being decades old by the time Star Wars was actually made.
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@stevegottenbass Yes, Gershwin and Berlin in particular have the added benefit of having their music added to movies that still retain relevance. Also, they wrote a bunch of standards that everybody records in order to have a sense of where they are in comparison to artists from other generations and as a way of learning the craft.
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@Krranski Yes, it's completely constitutional as far as anybody knows, and by the time we find otherwise, or even have the impeachment hearings, we'll probably be into the Trump administration anyways.
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Yes, although we're seeing the rate of increase slowing down and that is a necessary precursor to the population starting to drop. Large parts of the world are seeing birth rates below the replacement rate and China, which had been one of the biggest drivers of population growth, is struggling to get young people there to make use of the loosened restrictions on family size. It could definitely still go back to the way it was, but that would be rather unlikely given that an increasing portion of the population lives in areas with at least enough safety nets that having large families isn't effectively mandatory.
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@SoloRenegade Mostly yes, although there are a lot of medical jobs that do require a PhD. Psychology and nuclear medicine spring to mind. It's common to have nuclear physicists working at hospitals dealing with certain types of testing equipment.
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Jimmy, you're absolutely right about this. I'm working in retail right now and if we started to go to the lengths that David is suggesting, there'd be no end to it. Managers getting bonuses to save money. I can't double bag things because we don't have enough bags and aren't allowed to do it. I remember getting chewed out and cursed at by somebody that called the store and wanted me to price check something for him in case we had the cheapest price. Dude wouldn't even cooperate enough to help. But, I work for him and it's my job to do it. Except that it's not my job and I specifically am not allowed to check prices via the phone.
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Yep, it's the only one in several states. And it's funded nearly entirely by taxpayers in King County and whatever they get from insurance to cover the care. I'm not sure what the current bill is, but a few years ago it came out to roughly $100 per taxpayer in the county to keep it running. Still, I'd say it's money well-spent since it means that there's a trauma center that's close enough to not need the flights.
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Because Russia. If we're going to be upset with them over their laws, there's far better things to be upset with.
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I can't help but notice the lie here that nobody cares about women's issues. The Democrats haven't cared about the issues that face young men, especially young white men for many years, and it's comical to have them wondering why so many young men are voting GOP when the party spends so much time and effort blaming all white men for what a small minority do and is doing basically nothing to help our situations out. I can't say that I think anything good about the GOP either, but this kind of thing is why mena re skewing more and more rightwing, the Democrats don't want those votes and they don't want to earn the votes of the people that don't generally vote either, they're only interested in women, people of color and GOP voters. Anybody else isn't of interest to them.
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I use clear boxes for most of my storage and slip an index card inside on one of the ends with the contents written on it. I can see the label through the side. But, removable tape also works well, especially if you can't or don't want to be able to see through the box.
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@DavidMcdonald-df8tb Would they? Perhaps masochists would, but you can take a train ride without being SAed and humiliated. Plus, it's only about 350 miles between the two cities and by the time you account for the time to get through security, a high speed train would probably get you there faster. This is one of those things where I keep hearing people saying that people don't want to take those train trips, but we don't really know, because it's not been a practical thing since we forced the railroad companies to fund airports and New England does see a bunch of people choosing trains over planes.
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I was wonderling why the spoon wasn't entirely across the glass with the tip of the spoon being on the other side. Which if I guess correctly based on the positioning of the notch would be very stable.
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@ TBH, that's pretty much my attitude. I think that if we weren't living in such turbulent times, he would have been fine. But, there's a bunch of stuff that he did in a half-assed way that pretty much ensures that it won't be enough.
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@ You make it sound like things were hunky dory before he was elected. Things have been turbulent for decades and neither party seems to care about that so much as how to leverage it for their own benefit. It's truly disgusting.
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Pretty much and if they win, we can be assured of not having a say in Presidential politics for at least another 12 years.
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@ronswanson1410 Yep, one of the reasons that a lot of us don';t vote for Democrats is that arrogant attitude while failing to offer anything that might make us want to hand the vote over. Personally, I'm done with that BS. If they want my vote, they had better do something to earn it. That's how politics is supposed to work, the candidates are supposed to be competing to earn our votes, we don't owe any of them a vote.
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@mattz9268 I like how knowing where all the nearly 200 countries in the world are is some how important when we've got the ability to just look it up at any time. If we were talking about a more significant country like, Canada, the UK or even Iran, I think not knowing it would say something, but there are roughly 194 countries in the world right now from the lists I've seen, and some countries, like the Baltic states, don't really come up that often. Personally, I'm more concerned that Americans don't understand basic economics and that we need real change to the way elections are conducted or the entire world will continue to suffer from our failure to take corrective action on the politicians that are screwing things up.
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@MostWantedYouTuber That's kind of how that has always worked in every other part of the world with every other group. I'm not sure why we need the racist insinuation that it's just white people in one country that think that. There isn't exactly an authority out there that divided up the world on any other basis than possession.
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I'm Bernie or bust. If he doesn't get the nomination, I won't be voting or donating to the Democrats any longer. This has gotten out of hand and won't stop until the party is completely burned to the ground. Only one of the candidates at the last debate believes that the voters should get to choose the nominee.
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I do think that companies should be legally barred from calling it a "delivery fee" unless it goes to cover the actual delivery drivers and related expenses. Otherwise that's shady and possibly fraudulent.
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They don't really, they just go between buildings. I'm not aware of any place that has so many sky bridges that the side walk was at risk of being removed. The only skybridges around here are between buildings owned by the same party that regularly have business back and forth. It doesn't really make much sense to use them for other purposes and can easily save enough time to justify them.
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Literally, every exit poll that's been done this cycle says otherwise. Biden is the surest path to another 4 years of Trump.
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The complete unabridged Oxford English Dictionary would probably do it, but you're talking about quite a few feet of books as the entire set will fill the wall of a typical room. But, even if the books are capable of stopping the bullet, there's still the possibility of missing the books entirely and hitting whomever is behind it.
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This is also how the busts in the DIsney Haunted Mansions work. Rather than it being a positive bust, it's actually a cut out in the shape of a bust, so as you go by, it appears to be watching you. It's pretty cool what the imagineers were able to do so many decades ago with such little technology compared with today.
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We don't have many of these in the US, at least not around here and they're usually painted some other color. Most of the ones that I've seen are next to firestations to ensure that the trucks can get out if there's the need to when traffic is blocked due to a red light.
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@megans7504 It was a dummy round for that close up shot of the revolver. There was a small pop at the time that wasn't investigated. Meanwhile, they sent the expert responsible for maintaining the safety of the firearms home early. Ultimately, the blank + the bullet lodged in the gun were just as effective as a real bullet.
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Francis Maxwell We don't care about fake controversies. The Armenian genocide happened and Cenk admitted it years ago. It's mostly just racist trolls that continue to bring it up at every opportunity.
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I think it's more accurate to suggest that men had slightly better taste than women on this one.
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@BrendonKing Considering that in most cases there's no debate and the worker didn't necessarily do anything wrong, that would definitely be a step in the right direction. It's not like there's any real compassion being shown to the employees in terms of how this is being handled.
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I haven't looked into Wayland recently, the last time I looked into it was years ago and I'd recently been bitten by Unity being a hot pile of crap when it showed up on my Ubuntu install. Being so buggy as to be completely useless, but included in a mainstream release anyways. Xorg had a massive lead and honestly did, and still does, far more than what most people need. I doubt that most people are doing stuff like subdividing individuals monitors into separate virtual screens to give you multimonitor on a single monitor.
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Keep in mind that the last President from California was Nixon. And we all know how great that was.
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@pipedesigner That's not even remotely comparable. In both cases you get a very well defined benefit for the payments and have the option of simply selling the purchased item to recover the price if you have to. You might not care, but the fact of the matter is that we all made decisions based on our understanding of what was going on. The amount of debt relief on offer pretty much just compensates for the issues that year, and not really anything more.
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That's just the initial, that can be changed later on in response to a plea agreement.
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The problem there is that for customers we don't have any way of knowing. It's not as simple as buying more expensive parts, those parts might not be any better.
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Trump was never good, it was just that Hillary was that terrible. Sadly, Biden is likely to win because Trump didn't follow up on his executive orders with more help for the people.
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@ThatOneNerdGirly And Biden and Trump "need to be President?"
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I used to work security in a building that had a bank branch in it and we'd have to walk through every night, however, there was one very specific hallway that we were not allowed to go down at all, it was the one with the vault at the end of it. We could see the vault, but if we went down that hall the silent alarm would go off and the cops would automatically be dispatch. I never knew exactly how far I could go down the hall without triggering it, but I never cared to find out, I just knew I could walk past the hallway and I was fine. I may have been able to step a foot a few feet in and be fine, but there was no way of knowing how close I could get without triggering the alarm.
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The quickest way is the lucky sort, just throw them all from the top of the stairs and just select the few dozen near the top that are closed. I mean, after all, you wouldn't want to shelve unlucky books, would you?
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@NodDisciple1 Considering the notes, that's certainly possible. It's also possible that had he received funding, the device would likely have been tested near to the shore where there wasn't much pressure before going deeper. Any testing at all likely would have picked up the flaws. It's a lot harder to invent things in your head, or on paper, if you don't have the ability to conduct any testing or modeling of the proposed idea. Sometimes it works out on paper and there's some sort of unknown principle that blocks it. Especially back then when so much science hadn't yet been researched.
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LOL, I bought that series on DVD a while back. It's a shame that it got so few episodes for what was such a great show. That being said, I refused to watch this movie because it's pretty disrespectful that there's this trend of returning things to the culture of origin, just so long as that culture isn't European, in which case we need to reimagine all these characters as people of color. What's worse, is that this reimagining doesn't even help out in the long run. It sucks the air out of the room for stories that would more naturally fit people of different ethnic backgrounds. I'm sure that somewhere on one of many of Africa's coasts there's some variant of a mermaid tale that could have been a movie, but won't because rather than creating a new movie, Disney opted to just race-swap Ariel.
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The other issue is that 2 elections in a row, the Democratic candidate is illegitimate. Neither Biden nor Hillary actually won their primaries, so, I'm not really sure why Trump is that much more of an existential threat to the country than the Democrats are.
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@absoleet It's not surprising though colleges lie all the time about the financial aid situation and use it as a recruiting tool. I had my request for work study denied even though I qualified because the college was only giving it to people who didn't qualify in their first year or had it the previous year. So basically, if I wasn't fortunate enough to be able to get the money from my parents, I would have been stuck either with a loan or delaying my graduation. In other words, I effectively wound up with some sort of loan no matter how I went about it because the college was using financial aid money for getting new students rather than helping students complete their degree.
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@phoenix-tt A lot of Roman buildings were built like that. And actually, you see a fair amount of that in the US as well. If you look at aerial pictures of cities with buildings that are still there from before affordable air-conditioning, a lot of them will be shaped like letters of the alphabet to increase both the natural light and the ability to use windows for ventilation.
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In my view there's a couple major problems here, one they weren't enforcing any of their rules previously. A few short suspensions for violating their policies on their sites. Then there's the bigger issue that there's hardly any options for posting things online. If there were several equivalent sites to these sites, it wouldn't be as problematic.
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What do you mean? Most people who attempt to climb it survive, although a bunch have to turn back before hitting the top. I think that if more people were being killed that it would be more of an issue. I remember summiting one of the local mountains when I was younger. It was not guaranteed, we went the weekend that had the best history of success, but we barely made it to the top in whiteout conditions. Got a garbage view at the top, but we got some amazing views along the way. There's just something like climbing high things that is in the human genome ever since we evolved from apes.
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Keep in mind that the only enforcement mechanism the court has is it's own credibility and our willingness to go along with it. If the police stop enforcing rulings, then the court very quickly stops serving any purpose. It's part of why they're so pro-cop.
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@lgsazar9715 Lactose intolerance is basically an enzyme issue. Some people produce it naturally, most people don't. If people want to eat milk products, then you're basic options are to get lactose removed products, add lactase via supplement, eat yogurts that have the relevant bacteria and enzymes or just tolerate the issues that come of lactose intolerance. Personally, I'm making up a batch of live culture yogurt that usually helps keep the lactose intolerance in check. But, from what I can tell, if you want the bacteria to live long term, they need to be ones that can live in an anaerobic environment.
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@lgsazar9715 It is and the main reason why we do it is that it was one of the few options for vitamin D when our species started living far away from the sunny weather of the equator. It's also why the bulk of the people who can properly handle milk products come from the far north.
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@testing_oscar There's a lot of reasons for that, even if you can digest it, dairy products are a major issue for the environment and the milk itself does have other health impacts both good and bad beyond lactose intolerance.
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@fenixiliusstrife1253 Yes and since then Librarian of Congress carved out an exception to the DMCA as well to cover the insane scenarios where you could buy a copyright work and then be guilty of infringing on the copyright by loading it into RAM for use. Any copy in RAM does not count as a new copy and as such wouldn't be a derivative work.
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@suedenim9208 It's not likely a factor, in most jurisdictions, it's a random draw of people and there's no guarantee that the people receiving are even eligible to serve. There's a reason why they ask if there's any reason that you're barred from being a juror.
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Presumably, there are also federal charges that apply to intimidating voters as well.
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@charles-y2z6c yep, I work at a grocery store and nobody really cares about who donates. If you don't want to, for whatever reason, don't. It's not like you'd be the only one to say no that day. The checker is typically far too busy to invest much concern being l beyond ringing things up.
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@alansquared I think that if YT would be more transparent with potential subscribers about how the money is being divvied up that it might be easier to get us to subscribe. The fact that YT has regularledy screwed over smaller channels doesn't inspire much interest in giving money directly to the site.
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@RealSiViX Even when they aren't, they often get bubbled tot he point where they legitimately have no idea how everybody else lives. That being said, anybody that thinks that billionaires are thousands of times harder working and more efficient than the rest of us should have their head examined. You don't get that wealthy without a bunch of other people doing most of the work.
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@00WatName00 My personal suspicion is that they didn't look right away because there was no reason to. And some combination of rain and waves probably destroyed whatever marks there may have been prior to anybody knowing to look there. If the driver accidentally stomped down on the gas thinking it was the brake, there may not have been any tire marks at all to find.
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It's not the stones, it's the formation. The stones are probably hundreds of millions of years old, the formation is more recent.
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Sigh, considering that we weren't there, we can't come to that conclusion. The US Army didn't used to fight in urban areas, where it would be significantly harder to locate the source of shots fired. And that's a rather important detail that people are using to come to a possibly wrong conclusion. I wasn't there that day, so I don't really know, but I wouldn't just assume that this was cowardice. The school is a campus of multiple buildings where the sound of the bullets being fired did echo around. From what I've read about the trial, the jury came to the conclusion based on witness testimony that locating the source of the echoes was a major problem. The UCMJ may have snatched him up, but the UCMJ has a much different set of procedures and rules to follow that don't apply to the criminal courts. Ultimately, there would already have been significant casualties even before he would have been able to intervene.
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It's typically better to ignore it. Posting a dispute is risky. It may not buy much in the court of public opinion, but it is potentially admissible in court.
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That's interesting, but there's not much point in CO detectors unless you're burning things via gas or in a fireplace. If you've got an attached garage or carport, having a CO detector near that source of combustion is likely worthwhile, but otherwise it's completely pointless as you shouldn't ever be burning so many candles as to generate significant levels of CO as that's a substantial fire hazard.
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That's silly, the point here isn't to win, it's to lose so they can make all that cash for being losers.
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@JP_Names Yeah, because not enforcing the laws against shoplifting has gone so well. The reality is somewhere in the middle, but having a bunch of stuff on the books that's never, or rarely, enforced is even worse. If it's a legitimate safety issue, then enforce it, if it's not, then remove it from the books and stop enforcing it. This business of these things being effectively there just in case the police need a reason is BS. But ignoring minor infractions does cause a bunch of problems when people decide that they can just commit those infractions with impunity or when it leads to traffic stops for speeding that wind up being thousands of dollars worth of tickets because the officer got pissed off and started ticketing every possible infraction.
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Bravely? It's literally their job to take cases. The consequences of losing for an attorney aren't exactly extreme.
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@belindaknight8171 It wasn't right, but by the same token, it was pretty much inevitable given the way that so many "Christians" spend more time sticking their noses in other people's business and instigating fights than living their lives. People have pretty much had it with Christian interfering with our lives, and some portion of us are violent and lacking in self-control. Considering how important Roe v., Wade was, it was shockingly poor judgment to decide that was the time and place to try to spread the gospel. Still doesn't make what happened to him right, but he can't really claim to be surprised that it happened either.
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Because they're still a top rated university, the tuition is dirt cheap and you can get an incredible education if you choose to. Despite the FUD, the main issue here is the lack of enrollment and the fact that the administration hasn't been culled of the incompetents. Doing that, and the college will probably bounce back pretty quickly. A lot of the enrollment drop is likely a side effect of the administration not protecting the students from each other.
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Personally, I turn the extra milk into yogurt.
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Voting for Biden is also throwing your vote away. At least on paper RFKJR has some principles. I don't think it's that weird that Trump is calling RFKJR, that's called politics. RFKJR is running as an independent and we've apparently decided that it was OK for Obama to call a bunch of democratic candidates and arrange for them to all drop out as a way of rigging the 2020 Democratic primaries. Trump trying to be in cahoots with RFKJR is far less shocking as they do share one or two policy positions. That being said, I don't know how many of the RFKJR supporters are going to go to Trump versus Biden versus Stein versus just not voting at all.
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About a decade ago when I was attending college, I would often have to drive home in the rain. Because the geniuses designing the roads had changed most of the centerlines and hadn't bothered to install any of these on the new location, it was nearly impossible to figure out which of the two apparent centerlines was the actual centerline and which was the former centerline. You kind of had to keep as far to the right as practical without slamming into parked cars or run the risk of having to swerve to miss oncoming traffic.
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@dragons_red And if scrapyards weren't buying from questionable people, it wouldn't be necessary. It's one of those things where a few bad actors ruin everything for everybody else. The problem with the black market here is that you'd have to have the ability to melt down the catalytic converters and separate out the precious metals. Sure, it's definitely possible to do, but it greatly increases the expense and chances of being caught if you have to run your own smelter to do it. The problem is a problem in large part because of the ease of stealing the catalytic converters and selling them for cash.
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Except that the movie isn't sh__. I watched it already and I expect that people will come around to it as the reasons that it's "sh__" are rather contrived. There's a reason for all the stuff he complains about and the movie is actually pretty well written. Yes, there isn't adequate character development of the main villain, and to an extent he does seem to have a psychic ability to know where Indy is, but apart from that, it's a good movie. It's just that with Harrison Ford being as old as he is, they couldn't run him through the ringer the way they could 30 years ago. And for once, I do think that Phoebe Waller-Bridges is actually a positive addition to the cast. I'd say do yourself a favor, watch the movie and make your own decision. This move is far better than Crystal Skulls was. (Although that movie was far better than people care to admit, they just screwed it up by having an ending that didn't follow from the movie that led up to that point.)
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Probably delusion. So many pet owners allow their pets to manipulate them into over feeding. Really, having pets that are obese is a reflection on the owners not measuring out the food properly. Snacks and treats are fine, but they need to be included in the calorie budget or you're going to get a fat pet.
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@califaern3sto So?
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@mwfmtnman Or, more likely, that life experience will confirm how bad the Boomers are. I'm in my late 30s now and every year I become more and more convinced that if there had been a way of wiping out the entire generation without ending our species that would have been the way to go. Other generations have caused tons of problems, but none of them on the scale of the Boomers or with such reckless abandon. Not to mention the way that they collectively pulled up the ladder to success to make it harder for anybody else to share in the benefits of the wealth they enjoyed.
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@paullessard No, the GP is right, the whole industry is a scam. Thomas Kinkade is a really good example, his work is just not very good. But, he made tons of money over his lifetime based primarily on his name and reputation. The "value" of a lot of these pieces that you see at auction is primarily about the fact that they own something that other people don't own. It's not because the work is necessarily worth more than a different piece is. There's tons of great artists that never sell a single piece, folks like Van Gogh would not be known today if they didn't have somebody financing their unprofitable art. You're argument is that Van Gogh's work was essentially worthless because he couldn't support himself by selling paintings. You're talking about a guy who during his lifetime sold most of his work just for supplies versus now having work that goes for millions when they're even available for sale. Are his paintings really worth that much more now than back then? No, the reason for the prices is that virtually everybody has heard of Van Gogh, you don't need to know anything about painting to know that they're valuable. Same goes for most other well work being sold for large sums of money, they aren't necessarily any better than the ones that sell for a ton, they just don't have the art galleries pushing them for high prices. Dale Chihuly reportedly adds an additional 0 to the price of his glasswork that isn't selling to spur sales. If that doesn't definitively prove just how shady the industry is, then I don't know what would.
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@carljohnson5542 Also, this is hardly the place for it. Perhaps if people in general were more informed on the topic and there weren't instances of a half dozen people drowning in one instance as they each tried to save the people who were already drowning, there would be less interest in correcting people.
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It think the design probably would have worked if they had done it a bit differently. Instead of putting car parts in there, they should have put components that could have car parts swapped in and trusted the locals to figure that out. If they had wires for the heating element that were 12v and 4.5 amp they could put in a real heating element and at some point if it does break, a local could probably just swap a car headlight in without much trouble. Same goes for the alarm light, using a voltage that could allow for a car turn signal to be wired in would achieve the goal of having these available long term.
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@rossmanngroup True, although the rules associated with monetization are pretty much BS. It shouldn't take so many subscribers and so many views in order to get to monetize. It should just require that the content be in compliance with the rules for the site and enough views to make the payment large enough to justify the bank fees. It's not like the payouts are a fixed price, they're based on views. The whole thing is pretty much a scam to deprive as many creators as possible of funding without making it zero.
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@rl453 Only really at the Federal level and even then really only President. There's no inherent reason why we couldn't have more parties for most offices, it's just that there isn't as much need for a 3rd party in state and local elections. Around here we've got as many as a dozen or more different parties that people are running under because the candidates just use parties as a sort of descriptor. We've even got folks that run as Whigs from time to time. Which is more or less the way that it should be, the top two candidates of any party go on to the general election and in areas of the state where there is just one major party, they can and do face off against each other. It tends to put a bit of a damper on extremism as the candidates still need to worry about earning some of the votes from the voters of other parties.
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I wish more people would take note of the permanent disability that can result here. The death rate is closer to that of the flu than was originally thought, but the flu doesn't put holes in people's lungs, damage the heart and kidneys. With the flu, if it doesn't kill you, you're probably going to recover quickly.
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IMHO, somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 to $100 is where you get the best sound quality for the money. Above that there isn't really much to be gained, and below that the quality is going to vary a lot.
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@cabbage-soup Skullcandy makes some. They're decent enough quality, not anywhere near as good as what you'd get for the same price if you don't need the bluetooth or are willing to get an over the ear style, but they're decent enough for the money.
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The only reason to mess with the source at this point, is to more easily run it on modern OSes as a sort of historical oddity.
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So, what of people that can't afford to buy a house, and don't want to rent? We should just not own anything at all? Or are we idiots for buying condos?
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He's not going to cave, he's not going to have to cave. I'll be shocked if the Dems keep it together to get this done. I'm sure enough of the progressives and liberals will cave to let Manchin get his way.
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Eh, just a miniature vault inside of the vault as well as a delorean. That way you can vault while you vault while you travel back to a time when people were still concerned with the ability to do the same thing while doing the thing.
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This is not true. The main cause of death in a car crash, for the occupants, is being ejected from the car. It is extremely well established that the seatbelts do save lives. As far as the laws, just look at this case, people won't wear their seat belts if there isn't a fine associated with it.
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The worst thing is that they both voted to carve out exceptions to the usual rules regarding robocalling and the like.
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You and a lot of other folks think that, but you're wrong. Where on earth would we have gotten the gold to make up the difference in terms how how much economic activity there is now versus then?
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@JeffRebornNow Yes, I don't doubt that there are nuances that I don't know about, but the reality is that Persians aren't Arabs and most of the measures that we're objecting to came from the Arab world. My in-laws are from Iran and the reality is just not what people in the US think. My wife had a grandmother and grandfather that were both principals of schools and being in higher positions was very possible in Iran in a way that it hasn't been in much of the Muslim world.
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@TheDrAstrov If you're going to astroturf, please do so in the language you're responding to. If you're not astroturfing, please do it in the language you're responding to.
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@Mike77787 Why not? Billionaires do it everyday and are venerated for it.
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This is generally good advice, but if you're getting your income from an unreliable source, like a typical side hussle, you should have at least 6 months of savings before even thinking about quitting. You don't typically get unemployment benefits if you were the owner of the company and the income can be quite a bit less stable than a typical job.
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Maybe they should have thought about these things before rigging the primary in his favor. Bernie wouldn't have had these problems.
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If you go by the science, then virtually nobody should be getting the booster shot. It sickens me that people like Ryan Grim are lying about the shots. Ask an actual expert on the topic rather than Faucci and they'll tell you that the booster shots aren't necessary unless you've got a weakened immune system. This vaccine isn't anywhere near effective enough to prevent the spread by more than a little bit. Getting it should not result in changes to your behavior on the basis that you think it's going to prevent you from spreading it. It will slightly reduce the likelihood of contracting it, but if you have it, vaccines won't do anything to prevent you from spreading it but they will increase the likelihood that if you do contract the virus that you won't know.
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@Twebb349 Possibly, although if he told them he'd be dead on Sunday, that would likely lead to being put on psychiatric hold. Similarly quitting last minute could lead to questions as well.
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What would make you think he'd be any better? I don't remember him coming to Rachel Corrie's defense when Israeli forces ran her over with a bulldozer when illegally demolishing the homes of Palestinians to make way for Israeli settlers. To date, there have been no murder charges, despite the whole incident being documented and it being during the middle of a literal crime against humanity.
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It's also blatantly illegal. If it weren't already illegal, having a different age for men and women definitely pushes it over the line. You can't have different rules for men and women.
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@jeff6413 Yes, but what's the alternative? The Palestinians have been so deprived of equipment that they cannot mount any sort of meaningful operations other than via terrorism. So, we decry Hamas and the like, then what? The Palestinian Authority doesn't exactly have a standing army with which to fight the Israelis and thanks to the funding that the US gives them, they have one of the most overpowered militaries in the world.
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@JustCuteGirlz He was on Newsradio, you be the judge. I liked him on the show, but I'm not sure that he was doing much actual acting.
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@stevejester5658 Yes, and keep in mind that he was proposing it to the navy as a weapon rather than as a way of recovering expensive weapons. And he just had a theoretical drawing, he was asking for what is essentially venture capital to see if it could be created.
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That's the thing, if we had taken it seriously back in the '70s when it was obvious that we were going to have a problem, the sacrifices involved wouldn't have been particularly difficult. But, now we're going to need advanced technology, to cut back drastically and it likely still won't be enough. I hate humanity. fewer than 100 companies account for the vast majority of the problem, but they won't be held accountable for causing this catastrophe.
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They don't and the Israeli military doesn't even try.
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These same people were so convinced that HRC would win.
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Yes, but by the same token, the attorneys should bring that up to impeach the witness. And generally, lawyers prefer to keep those sorts of people off the jury and have their own witnesses handle because it's more predictable.
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@incipidsigninsetup I don't think they really ever set up checkpoints. Most of the time they alert the public to be on the look out. With a truck of that description, it should be far easier to find than if it were a car.
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@BasicDevBlog It was intentionally vague because they don't know what the users are going to be using the browser to use. They're updating it because a bunch of people misinterpreted it and they needed to explain it. But, the terms that people were using the software under always involved giving them the permission that's now explicitly stated. I don't know how you use a web browser without giving the browser permission to use the data that you input into the browser to surf the web. The advertiser stuff is something that probably does require even more explanation, but considering the status quo, it's highly unlikely that they're going to be doing anything worse than what various sites are already doing via various programming tricks. And, what's the alternative? Chrome is an even more egregious abuser of users than any of what I've heard people alleging that the new Fx ToS allows, and I believe manifest 3 is here, or if it isn't, it will be shortly.
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All systems have flaws in them, the issues we've got are because crime is used as a wedge issue to distract from the ultra wealthy that are robbing us blind.
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In a mass shooting, every unlocked door is fair game. Just make sure to have your hands up as much as possible running through any exterior doors though. Similarly, any property that needs to be destroyed attacking the shooter or avoiding them is fair game if you can't escape the rampage.
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Where do you think they got the idea from?
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You don't have the numbers, otherwise you wouldn't be "stuck with stupid laws." The folks in Eastern Washington say the same thing, but again, they don't have the numbers, so they don't get their laws passed.
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Remember, there are people who are barely literate that do drive and not everybody understands figurative language well enough to properly interpret these signs while also operating an extremely dangerous piece of equipment.The amount of reading that it takes to operate a car safely, shouldn't be much. Most of the signs use pictures and numbers that are familiar to most people around the world. The bulk of the rest of it is names to things that you can probably ignore unless that's the thing you're trying to get to.
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I don't think you're supposed to be eating bromine...
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Not having a property tax is a give away to the rich people who were able to buy in at the expense of the younger people that haven't been able to. And would then have a harder time doing so as the taxes needed for essential services would have to come from other places.
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Yep there was more today than usual. Usually there is just one, but I'm counting 2 towards the end.
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Or you can just close the account and open one at a credit union, assuming you've got an account there. Just having a bunch of people closing their accounts would probably achieve the same basic goal, just without having to lobby corrupt politiburo officials.
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@92cgray Yes, in all likelihood, they passed out within a matter of a couple of seconds, and it was like they just went to sleep. If you're going to go, this was probably the kindest way of going. Even though the ultimate crash was presumably pretty violent.
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That would at least be consistent. Biden is a PoS and it probably shouldn't surprise anybody that he's abusing his power in this fashion.
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@TheRealScooterGuy Even if it were an actual gun, it probably should beclassified as vandalism unless there was some reason to believe there was some other intent. Go out in the country and just about every sign you see is full of bullet holes and the ones that aren't are mostly too recent to have been shot up.I doubt anybody would consider that to be anything other than vandalism. I do get that when you're in town, that there's a bit of a difference, but I do think that it shouldn't automatically escalate above vandalism just because it is a gun.
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charmander charmander So, where are those good paying jobs then? The reality is that there aren't enough jobs that pay above minimum wage for everybody to realistically move up. That's the result of decades of hollowing out of the economy and shipping the good paying jobs overseas. I'd be more than happy to leave the minimum wage alone, if people could reasonably expect to make more after a few years.
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@mattbosley3531 It's spelled Clerk, but it's pronounced Clark.
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I thought the traditional response was, "of course, and 3 more yards to wrap around your neck. Oh wait, wrong joke.
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@Terrackhimself Yes, it's like that around here as well, there are certain things you can't do in the parks, but they're not allowed to search everybody because somebody might be violating the ordinance. They only get to search people if they see the requisite signs to justify the search.
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The issue there is that the sponsorships exist because YT isn't paying some of these channels enough. It's part of why you'll occasionally see sponsorships on tiny channels that wouldn't be making enough to compensate for the gear or purchases involved with running the channel.
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That was one of the lucky ones. There were countless more that died in the weeks and months after. Some even died decades later as a result of cancer due to the exposure to the radioactive fallout. The actual bombings themselves killed fewer people than died in the Dresdent firebombing. It's only when you consider those delayed fatalities that the nuclear bombings really pulled ahead i terms of scale.
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Don't sign up for eagle rider's memberships, they're a complete rip off. There's so many restrictions that the membership is basically worthless. Not technically a scam but close when they're closed half the year and you need to wait as the rental days drip in.
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Yep, those are also good ways to go about it.
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@artejikeme3673 Sort of. But you also see the experiences of white minority groups are also ignored. It's even more buried. History teachers still lie about the sinking of the Lusitania by a German Uboot. It was not a passenger vessel, it was being used to smuggle munitions with passengers being used as a human shield. And that Germans and Italians were also sent to American concentration camps along with the Japanese. Amongst others, those are just two easy examples.
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@HappinessHealthPeace But that's how the gangbangers in the movies do it. Why don't you want people to look cool?
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@Wild_Bill57 There's limits to it. Between being crushed in the compactor and the impact of exposure to the elements, the likelihood of it being recovered are pretty low. On top of that, we're talking about an encrypted file which means that they need more or less 100% of the portion to be readable or they have nothing.
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@Ericbjohnston5150 I'm wondering where the money is coming from just considering how expensive the purchase is and that there are extremely low chances of it being recovered in a state that would allow for the data to be recovered. Just finding the drive is likely a problem, and there may well be other drives in the landfill that don't have the data he's looking for.
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They may not have access to it after the Israelis bombed the section she was in.
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I tend to feel the same way, but I realized a while back that my internal monologue isn't a real internal monologue. It's mostly just perseveration over various things that I'm thinking about. It can be turned off completely, at which point, I have no internal monologue or really any other discernible thought process. That probably explains why my reflexes can be so fast.
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There's that, but a lot of this stuff would be far less prevalent if organizations took security seriously and had the guts to just refuse to pay.
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Possibly, although the schools are set up more for girls than for boys, which is part of why boys are identified more often. The sorts of things like gym that allow the extra tension to burn off have been shrinking over that same interval that the diagnoses started to markedly increase.
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Honestly, just add a tax to cigarettes to help cover the cost of tobacco related illness and it should be fine.
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@Mr.Morden Usually when you're talking about that, you're talking about low budget films that aren't intended to make any money, or attract any attention. The reason why films can be over a hundred million dollars has a lot to do with just how expensive it can be. It's not unheard of for A list talent alone to be paid $20m plus for a movie. A crew of potentially hundreds is going to cost a lot, not to mention the various sets they have to build and any special effects.
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It was pretty much inevitable now that we have effectively a 1 party system where the two parties agree on most of the important policies.
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@onalos1271 Sadly, we have a death economy.
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Yes, but they didn't turn out in enough numbers to offset the older votes. It's the same thing that happened in other communities as well.
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That's usually not the case. For black jack, they will intervene to comp the player, disrupt their flow or get them away from the tables, but unless they see evidence of card counting, they usually won't bother banning them from the tables. Same goes for some video poker machines that are programmed to pay out more than 100% with perfect play. All of the other games and machines in the casino put the player at a statistical disadvantage so the longer they play, the more likely they are to wind up giving the winnings back. Banning gamblers for simply winning is horrible for business and rarely necessarily anyways.
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How many alternates did you have? When I was on Jury duty for a month, there were only a few alternates and we could easily have run out if people had started to just not show up. The length of the jail time seems excessive to me, but they likely wouldn't have held him in contempt of court had he called in and let them know that he overslept. Failing to inform them when he knew is really what the contempt was over in this case, not that he overslept as people keep claiming. I'm sure this judge has multiple people every year that don't show up due to oversleeping and other things that are only partially in their control and this is the one that's making the news.
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I used to respect him. He's thoroughly sold out.
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That depends a lot on where you are in the country, how old you are and what kind of car you're driving. As well as what your deductible is and what your personal driving record is like. Drivers in some parts of the country just expect to have an accident every few years because of how reckless the drivers are.
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Because OSHA said they weren't allowed to put him in the back?
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Pretty much, I'm not sure how much faith I can have in her when she clearly has no spine. I used to like her, but she has no integrity.
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It's even worse when you realize that's USD and not CAD. Surgery is expensive here in the US.
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Around here, we just use curve warning signs for that. They are themselves retroreflective and evenly spaced. The further apart they appear, the sharper the turn. It's actually pretty impressive and probably not at all unique to America. I'm just not as familiar with the other st of traffic control devices that are used in most of the rest of the world.
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What gets me is that an increasing share of the people being expected to pay tips are themselves making minimum wage. Meaning that they're paying tips to people making more than they are.
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We used to have that, checks involved a name, a signature, an account number and routing number in the US. I'd assume that anywhere that has checks had something similar. Simply requiring a name that could be matched along with the numbers would likely have prevented this from happening. That's how checks were, even if you sent the check to the wrong place, they wouldn't be allowed to cash it as they weren't listed on the check. The thing is, that's not even that hard to do as they already have to have that information in order to comply with money laundering regulations. Just kicking it back to the sender if they don't match without showing the name of the account holder would be sufficient in most cases.
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@McTaco Capital punishment was so sporadic and hard to predict that it never factored into anybody's decision to murder somebody or not. Even in states where it is a much more common penalty, it's still a rare occurrence compared with the number of murders. For example from 1979 to 2023 Florida only executed 100 people, or thereabouts. Meaning that only a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of murderers were executed. If I went to Florida, the reason I wouldn't murder people would have nothing to do with the death penalty, it would have far more to do with the fact that I'm not the sort that goes around murdering people or at very least worried about going to prison for life. As life imprisonment is much more likely.
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@iati6294 Yep, it surprised me a couple years ago when somebody was surprised that I can't speak Spanish I'm mostly German and Norwegian, apparently there's enough descendants of Nazis in South America that Latino includes people that are about as white as possible.
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When you don't show up in court, the court generally rules on behalf of the party that brought the action. Sadly, once a judge enters an order like this due to a failure of one party to show up, it can be extremely difficult to get the order reversed, even in cases where the defendant was never served or notified of the court date.
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Keep in mind that that was during a time where being able to sign your name put you in the running to be a judge and that the surgical knowledge was pretty limited. Having the ability to keep knives razor sharp was a significant part of the training.
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@DavidEVogel Hmm, good point, essentially felines have kittens and panthera have cubs. So basically any cat cougar and smaller would have kittens. Anything larger would have cubs. Which is kind of a weird rule, but there you go.
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Because Democrat don't want to appeal to their base when it might actually matter. We clearly failed the Democrats, not them us.
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The thing is that he knew it wasn't true. He could have told us to make our own masks so that frontline workers could get the gear they need. The previous SARS outbreak should have told him that the masks were needed.
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Sounds like there's still hope for her.
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That's only part of it, the problem is that they use the money that current workers pay in to fund current retirees. And since the boomers were such a large generation and have lived longer than expected, it's meant that their projections were off and they haven't fixed the situation. They thought they had it fixed in the early '80s, but it's broken again. As it stands, I'm looking at not just having to work a couple more years to hit full retirement, but I'm also looking at a potential 20% benefits cut as well.
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That's why stoves are supposed to have a vent over the range. So that if things do start to smoke, the smoke is vented outside.
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I don't know about you, but I know that I feel far better being abused and oppressed by a diverse group of psychopaths. Definitely makes up for it.
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@johngranato2673 How many pet rock style fads go around? Those things tend to be fueled by a need for social connection and relatedness. You wouldn't have seen that fad going anywhere during the great depression because people had other things that were more important to spend their scarce money on.
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Apparently Trump is going to make America great again by killing off the boomers with covid. A bold strategy indeed.
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@mikeslater6246 Computers break a lot, especially if they aren't properly designed and maintained. And keep in mind that in many parts of the country, there's little interest in paying the taxes necessary to have government computers that are properly maintained and upgraded as appropriate.
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People work that out all the time. At some point, you see photos of the folks they're seeing, or a complete lack of that for no particular reason. It sounds like the sexual orientation of the individuals is not in dispute.
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@jhoughjr1 I disagree, I regularly get cuts to the point of bleeding from various paper products at work. I pretty much just have to point to the box that cut me and my coworkers don't bother to ask follow up questions as to how I cut myself without any cutting objects around me as it happes to them to. It's particularly bad for departments that work in the freezers and refrigerators as the skin gets dry and more prone to cuts from paper. Not to mention the various rolls from printouts that are probably even sharper than standard paper is.
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It would make SAD worse. Morning sunlight is the most useful sunlight. Losing an hour of it the morning and not getting an hour after work would just make it worse. The places with the shortest days are the places with the most need for the sunlight and would lose out on it.
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Perhaps, but we have a system where winning the Presidency is extremely expensive and most primary campaigns end as a result of not having the funds to continue the fight to the convention.
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LOL and I though jalopy was old. I remember as a kid thinking it was a brand of car that no longer existed by the '80s.
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Yep, and the difference between a mature looking 14 year old isn't necessarily that much from a immature looking 17 year old. Depending on where exactly you are in the world, sleeping with one of them may be perfectly legal and the other not.
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No, what's insane is that young people are paying into a program that we may not get full benefit from. Taxing it at least puts some skin in the game when it comes to tax policy. Without it we could see an expansion of programs to benefit the elderly at the expense of the young that would be stuck paying for it.
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Having worked at a college for many years and having spent 9 years earning various degrees, I can tell you that it's a mixed bag of who does and doesn't use the title. Having a doctorate does allow you to use the term dr., in most fields, but that doesn't guarantee that people choose to use it.I'ts a mixed bag as to who does and doesn't use the title and it seems to have nothing to do with their competence or ability. Some of the most and least competent people I've met are on both sides of the divide. I don't know any lawyers around here that refer to themselves as doctor, even though they need to either pass the bar or have a juris doctorate before taking the bar. (WA is a weird state where we just require that people pass the bar, there is no requirement that you go to law school to get licensed)
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@bsherder Because you don't know when the next train is coming, and trains can be a lot faster than they appear.
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@danitho I think it's mostly a European thing, most European families have one from centuries past, but I'm sure I wouldn't be able to identify mine. If you go back far enough, most people are related to royalty.
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@andrewtorrens7790 considering that these heraldic devices were mainly used in Europe and mostly drawing on European artistic traditions, I don't find this implausible. I clearly want there, but it certainly could be true.
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@shaan702 Absolutely, WWII was completely unwinnable without the Soviets and they paid a high price in blood in doing so. Had Hitler not engaged in that attempted take over of the USSR before he solidified his position in Europe, we might well have seen a world where the Nazis controlled virtually everything. But that's hard to say, but it likely wouldn't have been easy with so much of the developed world under Nazi control.
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@mjodr Precisely. Not to mention that mics are designed to be positioned in specific places, so if you're holding a lav, you're probably not getting the intended sound quality anyways.
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@mjodr Yep, it's not something that goes without saying because most people have no reason to know that. Different mics are meant to be used in different ways and for different purposes. If that wasn't the case, there's no way any movie studio would approve having so many different options. There may be some niche purposes where deliberately using the wrong ones makes sense, but it's just that niche.
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@Styxswimmer Would you like a gold star? I tend to make my own coffee, but still, sometimes you just need a quick cup when you're on the go and Starbucks is perfectly fine coffee. If you're not going to invest the time to really sit there and experience the coffee, then there's really no reason to bother worrying about getting great coffee.
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He was operating in a time where these communities largely were without the ability to vote. It's massively inconvenient for these people to vote in some cases, but they generally are allowed to vote. As long as they vote for people like Biden, they're going to be treated like this. Biden and the Clintons were supporters of various efforts that lead to so many Black men going to prison. There's also the issue that there's fundamentally a disagreement about the facts in many of these cases and these communities have done a terrible job of trying to explain why they should be immune to lethal force when white people have been killed in similar circumstances at or around the same time. One of the reasons why this case is drawing so much attention and people are largely in agreement that we need a trial is because it's not normal, we have footage that is pretty clear that he didn't do anything to warrant being killed and at basically every point up until his death, the police officers could have done something less dangerous to arrest him.
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That's not surprising. Vehicles depreciate quickly, especially early on, and dealers can't pay market rates for cars that they're trying to flip. Well, they do, by definition, just effectively wholesale market rates.
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That's a major problem. The content that they're pushing is of such low quality that nobody is likely to be willing to pay that much for it. I wont even pay for Netflix and the content is of much higher quality than the stuff that YouTube pushes. I'd be willing to sit through the ads if they weren't mostly scams and the creators I was watching actually got a chunk of the revenue, regardless of size.
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Vegan diets are nutritionally deficient and nutritional deficiencies in childhood and even before your born have consequences into the future. Unfortunately, there's much less room for error when it comes to proper nutrition in childhood and as such, fad diets like veganism are not appropriate for children. For adults it's possible to spend a lot of money on tests and supplements and obscure fruits and vegetables and largely work around the nutrient content that plants can't provide, but there's ultimately a price to be paid for disrespecting the body.
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Moravian Wallachia No, it's due to veganism. Our digestive tracks are significantly shorter than what's typical for an herbivore so we can't really make the best use of plant matter. I'm not aware of any species of animal that is born vegetarian. At any rate it's not common. Even cows consume animal products during their early weeks before going vegan. A child will literally starve to death on vegan diet during those first few months because mother's milk is designed to be the most efficient method of getting nutrition into the baby. Older children are a bit less of a problem, but a toddler has a very small stomach. Hence why they get done eating so quickly and are hungry again so soon. Their stomachs are proportionally smaller than an adults. Not to mention that during those first few years children grow more than they will at any point. I mean they'll pretty much double in size and then double again before they're 18. A vegan diet is just not suitable for children without major modifications. And I"m deeply skeptical that it's even possible to modify it enough not to represent a health risk.
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That's dangerous for motorcyclists. That left most lane is the safest place for motorcyclists to be as you've only got traffic on three sides of you and you're not likely to between a car and its exit at any point. The real issue here is that some people feel entitled to speed and have poor judgment about when they can safely pass. Here in WA the law has been sporadically enforced over the years, hence those clips from the WA State Patrol.
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Considering that they won't even tell you if you're on the no fly list, I think you're giving the government too much credit for accurately maintaining the list. The list itself is just a list of names with insufficient information to identify unique individuals. If you've got a name that's common in parts of the world with terrorists, you're probably going to be on the list. And since they won't tell you if you're on the list, then there's effectively no way off the list. To that extent the NRA is completely right. The problem is their conclusion, the right fix is to properly fix the watch lists so that people can actually know if they're on them and properly appeal them.
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Chris Seib I get that, I often times do things just to do them, but it's also important to not lose sight of the fact that math for the sake of math doesn't really do anything particularly useful. At the end of the day, if the precision of the math outstrips the use it's being put to, you haven't really gained anything.
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Chris Seib No I haven't. That's an attribution error. Whether it's beautiful or horrendously ugly depends in large part on where you look and what you prioritize. Some things, such as trig, can be incredibly elegant if looked at the right way, but other things like many of the integrals, are just ugly no matter how you look at it. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and math for the sake of math is mostly just a form of unchecked curiosity. Yes, it does drive things forward, but a bit of perspective is in order. It's very easy for that curiosity to wind up giving you useless wankering.
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What I'm saying is that I'd rather not get maced and then sent to prison. And yes, I'm serious about that, just because she started it, and he's likely innocent, doesn't mean that he's going to get off. He's already got his reputation destroyed, it would be just as destroyed if he denied it. On top of that, she likely would have beaten him. You can't fight back against a woman, you'll be the one that winds up in prison, even if she started it. Just because you don't actually know how things work, doesn't make it any less dangerous. Men being beaten by women are pretty much always presumed to be guilty, whether or not they actually are. Just look at this comment thread as an example. The video definitely does not show him masturbating. At least not in any sort of effective way, and yet he's already guilty.
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Gradient? Around here we refer to that as the slope. I think that Calc 3 would have been somewhat less confusing had we used the term gradient to refer to the slope rather than the tangent plane.
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+Geandily The Greens are a definite possibility for me, I'm very concerned about the environment, but the Democrats don't seem to be able to get the job done. And the GOP is pretty much beyond salvation at this point. I kind of liked what the Democrats used to be about, but they've accepted too much money from special interests and seem to feel entitled to votes on the basis of being the lesser of two evils. Bernie at least represents something that's real and something that's worth fighting for. Obama lost the idealists that Bernie has picked up because he strayed too far from his campaign promises.
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@meganschmidt548 You were probably also winded enough that climbing on top of them wasn't an option. Although, the alcohol probably helped a bit with that as well. That's the real risk of saving somebody that's drowning.
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He'd presumably already bought the jersey. And it wouldn't be a meaningful gesture if he didn't burn it. I wouldn't personally be caught dead with a Kaepernick jersey, he always seemed like a dick to me, but if you're going to protest, then protest.
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That was true, but modern automatics have up to 9 gears available for matching. I don't doubt that in the past when the number of gears available was the same or similar that manual transmission yielded better fuel economy, but these days an automatic has more gears with better mechanisms down than in the past. But, you are dead on about fun. Manual is definitely more fun.
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That would speak to the motivation of the person that signed the affidavit. I'd suspect that him being a cop factored in, but he is also related to several members of the church and nobody was hurt. Unfortunately, we can't know whether it was his job, his relatives or just genuine compassion that led to the charges being dropped, but it could be any of those things. Perhaps the pastor there was just an actual Christian. I know there's not many left, especially in the South, but that would account for the leniency.
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You do realize that humans were falling in love for millenia before we were forced to put up with this girly bullshit, right? Love is a byproduct of investing yourself in somebody else's well being. It's more or less inevitable and that's a large part of why women seem to have so little of it. Most of them can't be bothered to invest in any of the men they date because that would get in the way of them getting the things they want.
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John Johnson LOL, I give this trolling a 1/10. Try harder.
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Being outed remains an issue in the US. You may have chosen to out yourself and to do so consistently, but people still lose their jobs because they were outed. I was fired by UPS earlier in the year following homophobic bullying because a coworker realized that I wasn't straight. I was given no meaningful possibility of defending myself and they refused to tell me who had filed the complaints. This was literally hours after my supervisor had given me a glowing review. So, perhaps for some people being outed isn't an issue, but unless you're going around with it tattooed on your forehead, people are going to put two and two together at unexpected times and you don't necessarily have any control over what the outcome is.
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Historical Banana So, it's OK to not let black eat at a restaurateur's establishment because he doesn't like them? Because that's more or less the same thing here. Except that nobody has to eat at a restaurant, we have the option of buying and preparing our own food. People who go into the medical profession have an obligation to serve anybody in need. If you can't do that, then that's not an occupation to go into. Let somebody with more professionalism have those spots at the university.
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That Ducking Banana It's not how I choose to look at it, it's the only way that things actually function. What happens when you personally offend the medical care provider by whom you are? Some of us can't count on getting decent medical care because of bigoted medical professionals and it's a very tough position to be in as there are restrictions on whom is allowed to provide medical care.
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That Ducking Banana Not really, in many parts of the country you don't have many options for care. If you're in a big city, you might have many options, some of whom may even be on your plan. But, for those not living in town, it can be a challenge. Not to mention if you're a sexual minority, in which case it can be damn hard to find a competent doctor willing to provide service. Bottom line here is that if you don't have that dedication, then don't go into medicine. There's plenty of people interested in practicing medicine, don't deprive them of their spot in school if you're not going to do your job.
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That Ducking Banana You don't see it because you're being obtuse. People choose to go into medical care, nobody is forced to do that. We had a system where people weren't required to provide service equally and it led to all sorts of discrimination. And what happens if you're in an area where all the medical providers choose not to serve you? In a big city the likelihood of that happening is rather small, but if you already have a limited pool of options available, losing a couple to discrimination has a substantial impact on your ability to get properly treated. Bottom line here is that gays and lesbians get dropped by there doctors all the time. And even if they aren't dropped, they don't receive competent care. But that's Okiedokee by you because nobody should be forced to provide services they don't want to provide. Personally, I don't think that people should be allowed to discriminate based upon their own bigoted beliefs.
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People will suffer the consequences and it's already happening. The first forced evacuation for an island being swamped has already happened. Yes, we'll have options to mitigate things somewhat, but they're going to be expensive and increasingly expensive as things get further and further out of control. Had we in the US taken things seriously back in the '70s when it became obvious how problematic our dependence on oil was, we would likely already have the infrastructure to reduce fossil fuel consumption to the point where it wasn't an existential threat. And your point is also why we can't let Clinton win, she's not serious about taking on climate change and it was primarily her supporters that refused to even make the federal government consider climate change when making decisions. How effed up is that, even the Democratic platform isn't calling for her to do that if elected. And even that isn't anywhere near enough.
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Because they were allowed to have tobacco, and cash is useless if you're in prison and nobody else is taking it. Tobacco itself is something that was of use to enough prison inmates either for smoking or trading that it wasn't an issue. Also, I take it you're unaware of the fact that prisons are cracking down on smoking, with some jails and prisons going completely smoke-free in an effort to cut down on the cost of providing healthcare.
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originalShorai Yes, but when they toss the cell and confiscate them, you lose your savings. Difficulty in getting and keeping them probably does factor into it, but tobacco has been a currency in prisons for a very, very long time.
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Wait, we're not looking for a high score? But seriously, I'm not sure why heaving the fat bastard would be a problem for people other than in the sense that somebody that fat would be rather difficult to chuck over the railing. Perhaps this is happening in a place where the railings are assuming a normal sized person.
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No, you don't. Nobody knows what she's going to do any more than they know what Trump would do if he were elected. The two of them combined have more positions than all the members of congress combined. They're for things and they're against things and they're both for and against things, I don't know how anybody can claim to know which things they're actually for and which things they're actually against. About the only thing that Trump has been consistent on was same-sex marriage and Clinton has only been consistent about taking money from corporate interests to pretend to be unbiased.
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+Jeani Beani Beach That's a huge problem. The law around here specifies that you have to be mentally competent in order to get the assistance. Doctors told me that I couldn't be cured when I was younger, but I'm more or less perfectly fine now. It did take years of hard work in order to get better, but things get better. What's more, committing suicide in a painless way that doesn't traumatize others isn't terribly hard, there are plenty of places online where you can get the information.
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As far as I know, if you don't have that core in the grenade, the likelihood of it blowing up is more or less zero. Which is one of the reasons why they have the design they have, you can transport them relatively safely, it's not until they're completely assembled that there's a possibility of an explosion.
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I'm in that boat, even working at a college, I rarely meet people that are smarter than I am. Which makes me appreciate people that can call me out when I make a mistake all the more. Somebody is going to be at the top, once you get anywhere near the top couple percent, you're just not going to find many rooms where you're not the smartest. The key is to ignore intelligence and find people that are good at spotting the flaws in your reasoning and/or asking questions. Even a dimwitted toddler can give us some rather humbling questions. The one issue I do have with Entrepreneurs in Cars is that being the smartest in the room doesn't get you off the hook for networking and socializing. If you occasionally take a day or two to read books that's not necessarily an issue, but for the truly elite, it can be months or even years between situations where you're meeting people that would be at the appropriate level and I don't think that not spending anybody is a reasonable response. As much as I'd like to have a reasonable excuse to not spend time with people, it's just not a reasonable response.
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There's no evidence that there were illegal aliens voting in the election. If you have evidence of it, hand it over to the proper authorities and they'll be arrested. This is something that comes up routinely, but there's no evidence that this is happening regularly and certainly not with enough frequency to throw the election for one party or another. The election fraud to worry about is things like voter ID laws, closing polling places and voting machines that lack a proper paper trail for the voters to verify that their vote was properly recorded and can be audited after the fact as need be.
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***** So, in other words, you're completely and utterly full of shit.
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She won't win, nor should she win. She knows what the requirements are and she's already had her status extended multiple times. She chose not to extend her registration on time the way that she's legally required to and now she's going to suffer the consequences. I've lived overseas and I wouldn't whine about the authorities deporting me if I ignored their requirements.
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That's not even remotely true. Dr. Bass the first president of the ADA didn't floss. Flossing wasn't even a thing at the time. He had severe gum disease at one point and had to literally invent a solution to the problem. His solution was what's now referred to as Bass brushing. There's videos and it remains an ADA approved method of brushing, it's just not widely disseminated because it works. Basically, you're working a soft brushed toothbrush in between the teeth and sweeping the food particles and bacteria away from the gum line. You irritate the gums less and you get the material away from all of the gums, not just the part between the teeth. All flossing does is irritate the gums, spread germs from pocket to pocket and enrich the dentist that's giving out self-serving advice that doesn't work. My mother figured out decades ago that a dentist can't tell if you've been flossing through the entire 6 months between appointments, at best they can tell the last couple weeks. If you want to keep your teeth, stop flossing, start brushing properly and cut out the sugary and carbohydrate laden junk food that feeds the bacteria in the first place.
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That's what they always say, but the evidence is already in. Flossing doesn't work. If it did work, then gum disease wouldn't be so common. They've had well over a century to get it right and they still don't have any evidence to back the assertion. People who floss appear to have better gums primarily due to survivorship bias. If you've lost your teeth, then you've got nothing to floss. And if you've given up the possibility of keeping your teeth, then you're probably going to give up flossing as well. Personally, I've found that the more religious I am with my flossing, the worse my gums get. And digging deeper and deeper like the dentists demands is clearly not going to work.
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First off, the burden of proof here is on vegans to demonstrate that their diet is sound. We have literally millenia of human experience that demonstrates that a well-balanced diet of meats, animal products and plant matter works. There's examples all over the world. Examples of vegans are much more localized and much more recent. At this stage we're still establishing what precisely it is that makes a diet healthy. But, with that being said, vegan diets are typically deficient in fats, cholesterol, B-12 as well as having more exposure to various anti-nutrients and hormones that come in things like grains and soy. If you think that animal products are bad, just look at what soy and improperly prepared grains do to the body. In short, the "benefits" that people generally tout in the vegan diet usually aren't. Cutting your cholesterol and fat intake has some pretty serious health consequences as cholesterol is what gives your cells their soft rubbery consistency and prevents them from freezing and the best sources of vitamins A, D, E and K are mostly from animals. In some cases, like flax seed oil, the form of nutrients found aren't even usable to humans. But, the forms found in animal based oils are much more easily absorbed. At the end of the day, humans have teeth like we do because we're supposed to be eating meat. Our digestive system isn't anywhere near long enough to be living a purely plant based dietary lifestyle and anybody who chooses to disrespect their body by cutting out the meat and animal products completely is going to cut a few years off their lives in the process. The best dietary advice remains to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables and meat and animal products in moderation. Stray too far from that and you'll get sick.
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Your prediction video convinced me that Trump was going to win.
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How do you ensure that the evidence is sufficient to prosecute? Even sex crimes being prosecuted in a timely fashion it can be hard to establish whether or not the incident happened and then what actually did happen. Personally, I think it makes a ton of sense that people would downplay the effects. People tend to over-dramatize the abuse when there are degrees of abuse. There's a very real difference between an unwanted peck on the cheek, being penatrated and just gawked at while undressed and each person is going to have their own feelings depending upon their point of view and their maturity at the time. If we want these people to come forward and name names, then there needs to be some protection provided against the effects of doing so. Even if the prosecution is successful, the victims name is likely mud and that doesn't even consider the real possibility that the accused will be acquitted. Lastly, there's the issue of what you personally feel about what happened to yourself. A lot of that probably is denial or a lack of awareness that you get to consent to whatever physical contact people have with you.
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And yet it's only the Presidency where we don't directly vote for the politicians that serve us. We don't do that for the Senate or for the House. The closest thing would be the various cabinet positions and the Supreme Court justices, but that's a bit of a stretch as those aren't supposed to be political offices.
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Curtis Hanson The point is that we long ago dropped the idea of electing our Senators indirectly, but we still retain this indirect election for the Presidency. But worse is that we don't know who any of these electors are, nor do we vote for them directly. Which makes absolutely no sense.
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iamgoddard Yes, but nobody ever bothers to come here to campaign after the primaries are over because whether they win by 1 vote or a million they get the same number of electoral votes. And yes he did win the popular vote in 30 states, a large portion of which don't have many people in them.
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iamgoddard No, it's not to any reasonable extent. Small states get a disproportionate number of electors meaning that larger states get passed over for smaller ones every year. Not to mention that if you happen to have wanted Gore to win, you were essentially disenfranchised because the electoral college overrode your vote by handing too much power to small states. We would have had President Gore for at least one term if not for the small state bonus that the states get or if the electoral college didn't exist. It's not really that complicated.
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iamgoddard You've got to be fucking kidding me. Their whole lifestyle is founded on our largess. They pay for very little of what they have. The urban voters finance their lazy and self-entitled lifestyle even as the urban core continues to rot out from under us. But, thank god that some cheap farmers and ranchers don't have to actually pull their own weight because they've got more representation and can steal tax revenues from the urban taxpayers to finance their self-indulgence.
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iamgoddard And the cost of living out there is substantially lower than it is in the cities. Primarily because we're subsidizing them. Just because you're ignorant, doesn't change reality here. Rural America is suckling at the teet of the wealthier cities even as more and more of us can't afford to have the basic necessities of life without having to work multiple jobs. We export our tax dollars to rural America at the expense of programs that we want and need even as the greedy bastards living in the middle of nowhere have us subsidizing their lifestyle. I mean seriously, just look where the taxes are raised and where they're spent. They're raised in urban areas where the cost of living is higher and their largely spent in rural areas where the cost of living is lower.
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iamgoddard That definitely does not follow from my logic. I'm opposed to hypocrites in rural areas living off my largess and whining about how poorly they're doing even as they vote for candidates that promise things that make it harder for those of us paying for that largess to make a living. Cry me a freaking river. Most people in cities are not rich, there's a growing number of working poor here and I fail to see why they should have to subsidize you lazy fucks in the country that can't figure out how to support yourselves even as the policies meant to ensure that we can feed ourselves get cut. In other words, stop being such self-centered babies and just man up and earn some more money. I mean, that's what you lazy fucks in the middle of nowhere keep telling us in the city when rent and various other costs of living exceed what can be bought on minimum wage.
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iamgoddard I don't hate rural people, I just think that it's beyond ridiculous that we wind up subsidizing them while they continually vote to fuck us over in an effort to show how smart they are. We need to restore balance and part of that is taking away their special votes.
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To be fair, it's not her fault, it's the DNC for agreeing to fix the election for her.
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Of course he responded with what she wanted to say, for all we know she's a mentally unstable woman and she's definitely threatening physical violence. The only way to win in a situation like that is to run away and hope that she hasn't called the cops. He may have had a stiffy and was adjusting it. And quite frankly, it's painful and potentially damaging to let it just lie there in an awkward position. That part of the body is full of delicate blood vessels that can get damaged if there's too much pressure applied. But, regardless of what actually happened, there's nothing on the video that shows he was doing anything wrong. My guess about the backpack is that it's either a matter of having a stiffy or he wanted to have it in position to protect himself against the crazy black woman that was threatening to beat him.
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That was about 2 months, but yeah. The problem here is that they're so afraid to lose a few seats that aren't even being held by actual Democrats that they water things down to the point where only the die-hard fanatics can get excited about it. So, few bother to show up for the midterm elections and to support the much more important down-ticket races. The Clinton nomination was really the final straw in terms of me supporting the Democrats. Why should I be continually expected to vote for their bad candidates on the basis of them being less bad than the GOP candidates? This isn't a team sport, it's supposed to be about what's best for the country and right now it's neither of the above.
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Compare that with the typical deals. We paid $900 per job for those jobs to stay here. The $7m we're spending is a net gain for the country. It's not ideal, but it's so much more than what we get from Boeing for their tax breaks.
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***** The jobs were going, without the deal there would be 800-1000 fewer jobs here. Considering the cost, it is a net gain. In order for those workers to be here, they'll have to be working. We don't yet know what the pay will be after the deal, but the suppliers and others in the supply chain are going to be paying more than $900 per worker in taxes over the term of the deal. Hence the net gain on the deal. I'm not really sure how you could be so dense as to miss the fact that the jobs were going to be shipped to Mexico, but now aren't going to be. What's making the issue get worse is people like you that don't actually understand what's going on.
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***** Yes, it's a net gain on the deal, Jesus, is it really that hard to understand?
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That's not what spay means, spay only applies to female animals. You can spay a female cat, but you'd neuter a male dog.
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They should have made you the chair of the DNC. I would have returned to the party.
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4daluvofnikki I watched the video and the bottom line is that he had multiple chances to do the right thing and he chose to make one poor decision after another after another. He was shot shortly after they arrived because he was carrying an illegally painted toy gun and motioned it in their direction. He wouldn't have been shot if he hadn't made a string of incredibly poor decisions. This kind of attitude that the black community has no obligation here is why this remains a problem. You don't see other communities whining about their folks being killed when engaged in such foolishness. Perhaps less racism on your part and more effort to consider the context would lead to some enlightenment. I wouldn't go around brandishing a firearm looking toy and continue to hold onto it when hearing police sirens because I don't want to be shot. For all practical purposes he was armed at the time he was shot. It's not right to expect the police to know that he's unarmed when carrying what appears to be a firearm and motioning it in their direction.
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Needmore Zen Perhaps you ought to check your privilege. As somebody who's actually had a firearm pointed at him, I can tell you that you don't have much time at all to make a decision about how to deal with it. In this case, Tamir only gave the police a fraction of a second to make a decision and they made the only decision he left them. Now, had he thrown the toy down as they rolled up, or even just kept still while they gave him instructions or hadn't been foolishly going around with an improperly painted toy gun in plain sight, he'd likely be alive today. That's not the police's fault. The police officers made the best call they could with the available information. It could just as easily have been a private citizen with a concealed firearm permit or somebody carrying a weapon illegally. Put blame where it's due. On the person that was behaving in a reckless and irresponsible manner. It's unfortunate that it came to that, but he didn't exactly give them any choice.
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As opposed to the current situation where they don't bother to come to states like WA, CA or TX and spend huge sums of money on a small minority of voter in places like Ohio, Florida and other swing states. What you're arguing is that those rural voters should have more of a say than those of us in cities should. Have you seen the state of the infrastructure in the urban areas? We've been subsidizing the rural folks for years at our expense, but even basic things like getting potholes filled requires us to pay again through local taxes to get it done.
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You guys should do some actual research on childhood development if you think that 16 or even 18 is an appropriate age for drinking. Perhaps in other countries where they have a healthier set of habits involving alcohol. But when you consider the consequences of abusing alcohol and that children don't fully mature typically until their last 20s, it's pretty ridiculous to suggest that we're babying them when they get full rights well before the point where they've fully neurologically mature.
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Thank God bribery and extortion are no longer illegal in situations like this. I'd hate to think what would happen if politicians voted for things based on what they thought was good for their constituents.
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Sadly yes, it's unfortunate because the Metric system is all around a worse system for use in daily living. Yes, it does make science a bit easier, but for daily living it makes basically nothing easier. The only plausible scenario that is easier is for diabetics needing to monitor their diet, but that's hardly something everybody needs to do and can be done independent of the rest of the country.
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Sort of. It's easy to convince yourself you're stupid and incapable of learning, so I'd expect some degree of sampling bias in that direction for people that don't believe they can improve themselves. It's pretty easy to sabotage the educational process. People who believe that they can increase their total capacity are more likely to take steps necessary to make it happen. I don't think there's anything placeboish about this. Most likely the results are a result of sampling error or didn't measure the true capacity at the time the study was started.
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+THEEVANTHETOON Pizza delivery companies are a huge part of the problem. I don't doubt that you guys get to keep the tips, but those delivery charges are frequently pocketed by management even though it's implied that it has something to do with the actual delivery. By the same token, it's less of a problem for you guys as you mostly just show up, deliver the pizza and leave. In most cases the amount of tip has already been decided by the customer even before you show up. So, you're not in a position where you're having to routinely take abuse because failing to do so might result in the tip being withheld.
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You can tell when the pen is lifted from the paper it's rarely completely straight and you tend to crowd different parts of the character if you write it one way or another. A lot of it is instinct as Simo says, but somebody using obscure words like 吾 is unlikely to do it with the wrong stroke order as you generally study for years before you learn the literary only form of I.
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Will Darling The reasons are that it's faster to develop the muscle memory to write efficiently and that if you're writing at a reasonable speed people will tell. The whole basis for "cursive" Chinese is that most people have agreed upon an order of doing the strokes, which means that when things are reduced to squiggles that it's more likely that you'll have compatible squiggles to other people.
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Marbles McGee That's ridiculous. People are not paying tons of money in order to have an expert know if something was written with the correct stroke order. They're looking at the characters with magnifying glasses for other reasons, not to determine the stroke order that somebody used when writing.
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Marbles McGee Your well-reasoned argument has convinced me. Not really, but it's clear that you've got no idea what you're talking about, so I'd rather not waste any more of my time on an incompetent jackass.
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Marbles McGee You're the one that made the assertion, you prove it. But, considering that you're full of shit, I don't think you can.
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Will Darling That's a really, really bad example. The only thing preventing a printer from printing a perfectly legible character by placing dots in a random order is that it would be extremely hard on the machine, the printer knows where each stroke should start and end and as a result, you don't wind up with crowding and improperly spaced characters. What's more, printers don't know anything about order, they just print the things from left to right and top to bottom regardless of how the information would be written. Same goes for languages like Arabic that are written right to left, the printer prints those lines backwards.
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Will Darling I get the point, it's just that the point I was responding to is shit. When it comes to printing, the whole idea of order is meaningless as a printer isn't making strokes, it's making a series of dots on the paper that people interpret as strokes. They'd see the same character no matter how the printer puts the marks onto the page as the locations are hardcoded based upon the font the printer is using. As far as the other bits go, stroke order is important, and you can generally tell when people are getting it wrong because they're character doesn't look right. If they're engaged in running script the character they write will be completely incomprehensible in many cases as they won't have the correct squiggles.
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Will Darling It's not an excellent tool, it's a method of creating characters that doesn't address the question of what is and isn't the right way of righting a character. A printer doesn't write characters, it prints them. And it doesn't even print them, it prints a series of dots that we construe as being characters, they could just as easily be anything else as the printer doesn't know. Well, modern printers don't, some older printers would. Any order isn't right, that's very, very wrong as you're not going to be able look words up in the dictionary, and you'll waste a huge amount of time trying to learn to make individual characters look right when you could just use the stroke order that everybody else does and be 9/10 of the way there on your first attempt at writing a character.
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+Will Darling, it's hardly my fault that you don't know what you're talking about. I've already enumerated why you're wrong, but since you're kind of thick, I'll do it again. You can't look up characters in a Chinese dictionary, if you have the stroke wrong, you'll have to learn to write each character so that you can trick the people reading, your running script will never be legible to other people, you'll have a much harder time developing the muscle memory to write effectively and people will know that you're an outsider. Yes, with tons of practice, you might be able to slowly write in a way that people won't know you're doing it wrong, but that's a huge waste of time and energy when the rules are pretty straightforward in most cases. Yes, there are a few characters that violate the normal rules, but most of them follow them in an easy to comprehend way. The Chinese and Japanese do a fair number of things that are inscrutable to outsiders, but this isn't one of those things. They write the way they do because it's generally the best way of doing, just because you think you know better than they do, doesn't make it so.
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+Will Darling, I didn't misinterpret that at all. In no sense does your conclusion follow from that premise. Neither in the literal sense nor in the metaphorical sense does that back the notion that the stroke order doesn't matter. Reading more isn't the problem, the problem here is that your conclusion doesn't follow from your premise. No matter how much reading one does, if the premise doesn't lead to a conclusion it's not going to get any better.
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Will Darling No, I have issues with you not understanding what you're talking about and then trying to play it off like I'm wrong. There are reasons why those strokes are written in the order that they're written. If you want to do it wrongly, that's really your own business, you're the one that's going to suffer, not me. There's enough bad information about these characters on the internet as it is, do the people who want to learn a favor and stop spreading misinformation. You can get away with writing the characters in the wrong way for a short time, but if you want to have any hope of reaching literacy and having people be able to read what you've written, you're pretty much stuck writing them in the right order.
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It is indeed one and a half million, not a million and a half, not sure why. But, you'd never say one million and a half and mean 1,000,000.5 as there's no situation where that's likely to be true. Measuring equipment that handles millions of things doesn't also measure halves. As a result, we automatically throw that one out as it's not going to be correct ever. If it happens to be correct, then people usually point out that they mean one million and a half of one. But, I've never heard that as the intended number as there's no circumstance where you would need to be that precise while still dealing with a million. And I'm guessing that most of the time it's not a precise figure anyways, more of an estimate.
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Aren't most of those the result of the machines tipping over? And shouldn't those machines be anchored to the wall so that that doesn't happen?
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Barry Stamour They aren't the only ones willing to spend money on it, they're just willing to spend more than other groups are. Plus, this isn't a matter of profits, this is a matter of providing medical care to people in need. These mergers are mostly unnecessary and the relevant agencies shouldn't be approving them. Just because the Catholic Church is morally bankrupt, doesn't mean that the rest of us should suffer.
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Barry Stamour That's absolutely ludicrous. The Catholic Church isn't on the same side of reproductive rights as the Democrats and that's been true for decades. Perhaps you should do some actual research before people getting the idea that you're a fool.
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Hi Herb, That's just the way it is. I'll generally look at the region I've been given and the formulas I've been given and pay attention to how the parts interact. Unfortunately, you're right that this is more art than science it's not like integration by parts or u substitution where you can generally identify it via formula. By default I'll go with the form that gives me the simplest possible limits of integration such as x=(y^2)-1 rather than sqrt(x+1)=y, and I'll try to imagine what the equation is going to look like after each integration, but there's a huge amount of guessing involved and sometimes you're left with two equally complicated choices. BTW, this is a really nice video, I'd never seen anybody explicitly explain the u-substitution like that before. I wish we could go back and do more math in this sort of formal way rather than the flashier stuff that passes for math now.
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TBH, you'll likely do fine if you're quality in other areas. Contrary to impressions that women have, a given man is likely to look the other way over a lot of other stuff for a quality woman. Sure gorgeous women turn heads, but we have no more idea what we're getting ourselves in for before we go out with somebody than women do. It may be that you have to keep your weight in a certain range and make an effort to ensure that you're quality in every other area, but it grows old dating women that only offer looks. Plus, guys don't all evaluate looks the same way. I'd much rather have a girl that's got back than one of those skinny girls.
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For parking tickets, probably not. But for other types of tickets, it's not just the cost of the citation, it's the extra cost of insurance and possible points on the license if your state does that. For some people with the money, hiring a lawyer to fight the ticket is actually worth it.
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No, it's not. If you do it completely correctly, then it's at best not harmful. If you do it wrong you spread bacteria from pocket to pocket and sweep food particles into the pockets between the teeth. Much of what dentists do isn't in the best interests of the patience. Those "amalgam" fillings that they put in for decades are mostly mercury and were known to be toxic from the time they were invented. And the advice on brushing and flossing has nothing to do with oral hygiene. If you care about your teeth, cut down on the sugary junk food and learn to bass brush. Make sure you're gettig sufficient magnesium, calcium and vitamin D. Chances are that's all you need and it's far less likely to destroy your gums than flossing is. You can be pretty sure that your relatives that are dental hygienists have no idea who is and isn't flossing. Dentists are surgeons and they recommend surgical procedures even though less invasive methods would work better. Fix the diet and properly brush the gums and you shouldn't have any gum disease or tooth decay to worry about. Bacteria are only a problem if you've already got weakened teeth and gums.
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***** Appeal to authority, that's great. Don't blame me when you lose your teeth though. If flossing were effective at preventing gum disease, then there wouldn't be so many people losing their teeth.
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CJS929 There's the thing, I supported him as long as he was trying to take me someplace that I wanted to go. I stopped supporting him when he started to support HRC. It's why he was pressuring the DNC to change all sorts of things to try and keep us onboard. He know that we wouldn't follow him if he wasn't going someplace we wanted to go. And he was right about that, the DNC should have listened. He still wants to take us where I want to go and I support him on that, but I'm not going to support him while he's going through the motions and trying to make things less bad rather than good. Also coughnotruescotsmancough
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james beihl Precisely. As you say, incrementalism hasn't been working for us. There's a number of issues where incrementalism isn't going to cut it and the party has sold us out. Unfortunately, the upshot here is that with Trump in office it's unlikely that anything serious is going to be done about climate change or most of our most pressing issues. The party hasn't been shrinking because it's too progressive and needs to be more conservative, it's been shrinking because of the condescension and the refusal to think big. There's a ton of votes in middle America for Democratic candidates if they're willing to actually go there and find out what the people want rather than telling them what they want. A significant portion of the Trump voters would have voted for Bernie if he had been on the ballot.
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My mother was so selfish she had breast cancer twice. She's cancer free, but how selfish.
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The issue is that people shouldn't be using the open left lane as an excuse to speed. The thing that's making things dangerous are the jerks that insist that they should be able to speed. The passing lane is there for if you have to get around a large truck or a vehicle that's not capable of doing the speeding limit, not so that you can speed. If you're not actually speeding, then people being camped out in the left lane doing the speed limit aren't a problem. Also, in some parts of the country the rule is seldom enforced.
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That's a much more compelling argument for a candidate than anything that people are using to encourage people to vote for Clinton.
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Well, to be fair, that's been HRC's strategy through most of the primary.
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Yes, but how seriously can we take somebody that's made literally tens of millions of dollars for her self and a total of $3bn between her and her husband in total? She can say that she wants to reverse it, but her activities in this regard started way before that ruling became a thing, so I'm not sure that we can assume that her steps would go far enough to correct the problem, even if she is being honest about it.
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Sounds like she still doesn't get it. War won't solve it, the only thing that will is humanitarian aid. Dry up the supply of suicide bombers and sympathizers is the only way we can hope to end the scourge. And the sooner we can stop aiding Israel's crimes against humanity the better.
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Perhaps we need to stop letting the Catholic organizations buy out non-Catholic hospitals. They'll pay lip service to not doing this sort of thing, but once the mergers happen there's not really anything to be done about it. If the authorities force the issue, then there's protests, if they don't, then people get substandard care or no care at all for things that the Catholic Church doesn't approve of.
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Being a liberal leftie doesn't mean that you can't be racist as well. If you can't see the difference between referring to somebody based upon their behavior and what Palin is doing, I seriously suggest you do some soul searching about whether you're really as free of racism as you say. I don't agree with what the #BLM folks are doing or how they're going about it, but they're not thugs.
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Precisely. There's a double standard here. It's hard to say how far a a woman could get, but it would be far further than what a guy would get away with.
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If it were about the racism of the national anthem, why was he standing for it previously? Bottom line here is that the verse TYT refer to is no longer sung and might as well not be in the anthem at all. It's important historically as a matter of context, but the fact that most people are completely unaware that it was ever in there to begin with significantly undermines the notion that it's racist. At this point, it's pretty clear that the black community is less interested in progress and more interested in obsessing over a bygone era and blaming whitey for all their problems. It's demonstrably false that black people can't succeed on their own terms without selling out, foreign born black people do it all the time.
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This is why I refuse to take any more teaching jobs in China. While it is highly unusual for employees to be struck and basically banned in most schools, the reality is that other forms of abuse are common and to be expected by employers. I remember when the last job I had in China, the idiot supervisor dumped a months worth of work in my lap and demanded that it be done in 3 days. And expected that I'd be working on it on my own time because she was too incompetent to know how much time it should take to do the work. The Chinese cope with it by changing jobs constantly, that's one of the reasons why manufacturing is coming back to the US, the managers at the cheap factories are typically incompetent. The factories with the competent managerial staff tend to be much more expensive and after you factor in the distance and the shipping, you're not saving much money by doing it. I've seen competent managers over there, but very few of them work at schools, most of the work at factories because those factories pay better and allow them to travel.
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That's because you're not a feminist. He's absolutely right, I've personally been catcalled by creepy women, my first kiss as a kid was not a choice I was given and I would never suggest that those incidents are the same as being raped or sexually assaulted. I've known women that were sexually assaulted and each incident is different. Sexual assault and rape are serious crimes, but the aftermath varies a great deal depending on numerous factors. Trying to lump themall into the same category really only happens because we need a category when investigating and prosecuting a crime. The incidents themselves are quite varied. It's mostly the anti-man advocacy groups that silence those that didn't have acceptable abuse happen to them that get pushed out of the debate so that it doesn't hurt the cause. The ultimate result is the feelings of loneliness, isolation and damage that we should be trying to avoid encouraging. Sexual abuse is wrong, because forcing sexual intimacy on other people is wrong, not because of the actual effects. The effects are at most helpful in determining the punishment.
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I think Hitchens is clearly onto something even though it's for the wrong reason. Women are less funny in large part because they're less likely to put themselves out there by standing out, less likely to develop the skill and they have less need of it. Humor is for many things, but it's particularly important if you're trying to avoid a fight and in getting women to go out with you. But, the bottom line here is that women who choose to make jokes about things that men actually get, are probably going to have no shortage of men laughing along. And you're absolutely right about good lucking people privilege. Men that are interested in women will tend to laugh at their unfunny jokes for the same reason that women who are interested in men will find everything hilarious. It's not necessarily because the jokes are funny, but rather a way of trying to get the other sex in bed.
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14Schofield No, you were wrong, it's just that you can't comprehend you're own failure. This is why nothing changes for the better, you've got people spreading the sort of ignorance that you're spreading and then being smug that people disagree.
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Probably because most folks think that's a Harley. Kudos on knowing that it was a Triumph.
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That's ignorant. I don't like or particularly respect vegans, but that's a load of garbage. Breast milk is obtained with the consent of the woman that's lactating, cows don't get to consent. What's more, typical vegans consider situations where they have no choice to be exceptions. If you need medicine for treatment, it's OK to take it even if it's not normally vegan as long as there's no vegan alternative. And in cases where you're weak from starvation, it's OK to accept nutrients that are of animal origin as long as the body needs them, there isn't a vegan source and the body tolerates it. That's fairly typical of all the vegans I've met. There probably are crazier ones out there, but that's not typical to consider breast milk from the baby's mother to be non-vegan. Breast milk is literally the only thing that babies should be eating if possible. Formula is acceptable if she can't provide it in adequate amounts.
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@Chronically_ChiII You mean sudoku.
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The complex numbers are something that is consistent, dividing by zero frequently means that you've swapped your dependent and independent variables around and just fixing that is frequently the correct solution. Inventing a new number system wouldn't solve that problem and you'd still be stuck trying to figure out when to apply it. The complex numbers always apply when taking the square root of a negative number, but the results themselves are frequently meaningless.
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She wouldn't have attacked North Korea, but it's disingenuous to suggest that she wouldn't have started a war.
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You're absolutely dead on here. It was bad enough when she wasn't going to do anything to earn our votes because she's tremendous and she's winning. No need to earn our votes because she's a winner. Which oddly enough, sounds like Trump's campaign. But, it's gotten to a point where she's actively disrespecting our viewpoint assuming that we'll bow our head to her and I don't see that as happening. A vote for Trump is bad, but stapling the Democratic establishment to this right of center position for another generation is probably not something we can afford. For the first time since '84 when Reagan won the state, Trump stands a very real chance of taking WA. And I kind of hope he does just to prove the point to the DNC that they're not entitled to our votes.
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Star Wars wasn't an accident, but it would never have happened if he hadn't had people around him telling him no and recutting it. Just look at how the movies got worse and worse as he continued to work on them after release. Or how unforgivably bad the later films were. Or the fact that he didn't make any quality films after Star Wars. Calling it an accident is probably an overstatement, but he's not a good director. He was an innovative film maker and his work transformed cinema, but he would never have had the success with Star Wars without a lot of help from friends, especially his ex-wife.
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IMHO, The Empire Strikes Back was by far the best of the series. It was a much more complicated story, with much more complicated themes and was built on the back of a movie that wasn't intended to be a franchise. The rebels appeared to score a pretty definitive victory when they destroyed the original death star. At that point, the Empire having spent all that money on a wasted venture would likely have had a substantial number of star systems revolting at the same time, resulting the their supply lines all but disappearing and a huge boost to the number of rebels fighting against the Empire. But yeah, he is a great storyteller and had an amazing imagination, it's a shame that he couldn't keep his ego in check.
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Most likely, between being up off the ground and there being no way for birds to drop them down. If it still wasn't enough, he could wrap the supports with copper to keep them from crawling up. But, that's unlikely to be necessary unless the gutter is very close to the ground.
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I think that if it hadn't been based on such a well-known franchise it might have worked. It's kind of like Tank Girl, objectively pretty bad, but still kind of fun to watch.
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WeGotTehPie You mean other than the GOP that's continually running on things like keeping bathrooms separate but equal and doing whatever they need to do to prevent minorities from voting. And racist or not, he did more for the various minority communities than just about anybody in American history.
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Not really, Devo was a performance art group whose entire body of work is relatively consistent in being specifically about the de-evolution of society. Aqua was doing a ton of parody in their videos. I didn't personally realize it at the time, but they were doing a send up of pop music. Both were deeper than what you might first notice, but there is only one Devo.
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There's no science to back that up. The science is pretty clear about the fact that vegans are sacrificing their health by being vegans. The vegan diet is deficient in some pretty important nutrients like the B vitamins, cholesterol and fat. It also tends to have too much soy and other ingredients that throw their hormones off. Yeah, there's a bit of a reduction in the risk of heart disease related death. But the rates for all other causes of death increase by enough to more than offset the reduction. Simply put, if you care more about animals than your own health, be a vegan. But, it's a complete lie to suggest that it's healthier than other dietary options. Most of the "benefits" that people cite come from cutting back on meat and animal products.
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Asenueh Oh, that tired old chestnut. You act as though most cities aren't also ports of some sort. We can always source food from elsewhere. There's absolutely no reason why people in rural areas can't pay for their own infrastructure, I mean, we city folks are expected to not just pay for our infrastructure, but yours as well. Also, you guys are freeloaders. You're stealing our taxpayer dollars for your benefit at the same time that your politicians are screwing us over. If you can't figure out how to pay for your own infrastructure, then perhaps what you're selling is too expensive to compete with foreign sources.
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Asenueh There's two problems with that, one is that the farmers make extensive use of our ports to ship their goods overseas, so it's hardly urban only infrastructure. But, the bigger issue is that they don't pay their share of it. Rural voters contribute far less to the economy than their share of the taxes comes to. So, they get tax revenue to pay for their things and don't have to contribute for it. At the same time, you've got the urban core rotting from lack of investment, even as the farmers and ranchers are getting their lifestyle subsidized by us. Seems to me that if they're really as indispensable as they claim, that we wouldn't have to be subsidizing them and in some cases paying them not to grow certain crops.
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Asenueh How does that make any sense at all. They're steamed because they're poorly educated and self-entitled. Folks in Seattle bankroll an unreasonable portion of the state. I don't think that getting some money back is unreasonable, it's our largess that allows them to live the lifestyle they've chosen. And to make matters worse, the increases in tax revenue will largely go to less developed areas of the state rather than being kept in the Seattle area. So, even though they're wrong, they're still going to profit from it. The point is that right now we're prioritizing the rural at the expense of the urban and folks in the rural areas just expect to have an outsized role in voting far and beyond what they're entitled to. They've been whining for years that they should get to pick a Senator even though they don't have the votes to make it happen. It's astonishing that they haven't yet hit the point where they're greed has killed the goose that's laying golden eggs, but they're working hard to make that happen. Remove the electoral college and the unfair counting of the votes and we can perhaps get some semblance of balance restored to the system.
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Asenueh You're missing the point. You get all sorts of whining from Eastern Washington over the fact that they don't get to override the voters in Western Washington to the point of trying to gerrymander themselves into getting to elect their own Senator from their half of the state. Meanwhile because the development has been concentrated in one section of the state, along with the considerable cost of living increases, we wind up subsidizing them when they themselves aren't pulling their own weight. It's very much the same problem, but at opposite ends. The folks in less populated areas have a desire for disproportionate power and aren't terribly interested in the fact that they're getting far more out of the system than they're putting in.
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Have you ever seen Honduras and the US at the same time? I'm not saying they're the same place, but I don't think we've seen them at the same place at the same time ever.
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They're doing a cruddy job of that though. Tamir Rice and Eric Garner were not killed because of their color, they were killed because they made a string of extremely poor decisions. Unlike Alton Sterling who, at this point, doesn't appear to have done anything wrong. And it's rather unlikely that anything will come up that shows otherwise. But, the BLM people protested all of those and in the former two cases the evidence is out that the police didn't do anything wrong, and they still protest those deaths. It damages their credibility that they don't just jump the start, but they continue to champion victims that made huge mistakes as if they did nothing to contribute to the problem. If they want more training that's great and probably doable, but the level of paranoia is disproportionate to the actual problem. You didn't see people protesting Dylan Noble, even though he did less than what some of their martyrs did.
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This is why I don't give the TYT any money. She had a second chance and she messed it up. Also, she was targeted because they knew she was here illegally. Her family members were probably targeted because they had evidence that there were illegal immigrants living there. They weren't randomly knocking on doors of immigrants hoping for a violation.
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The problem with the Greens in the US is that they have a terrible name and just show up every 4 years to get on the Presidential balloting. If they want to be relevant, they need to start running for state and local offices where they can more easily interact directly with the voters even without much funding. The name isn't good because it is completely meaningless. I always assumed that they were an environment party, but they are apparently not focused on that at all, it's just one of many things they care about.
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mrbadguysan I think that's probably just the impression that I got from her site.
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And yet the Swedes are still on their witch hunt against Julian Assange. Prosecute the hockey player that seems to have at least done something wrong and let Assange go.
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It goes beyond that. Look at a model of our digestive track. It's somewhat longer than that of a dedicated carnivore, but it's much, much to short when compared with herbivores. Meaning that we're meant to eat a considerable amount of our calories in the form of meat, but we're also supposed to eat a considerable amount of fruit and vegetables. We shouldn't really be eating grain at all, but we should be eating a combination of nuts, veggies, fruit and meat. Other animal products are kind of questionable. Milk is horrible for our health, but cheese and other animal products are less clear.
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Pronouncing that list of words as unique words is non-standard English and if we're going to be laughing at people, it would probably be at the people who pronounce them as different words. That's a British English thing that's been retained by people in New England and to my knowledge nowhere else in the US is that the standard pronunciation. Arguably Southerners pronounce them differently, but they'll typically take the diphthongs apart and pronounce them as separate vowels, so I'm not really sure that should count. If you're wanting to know where people come from on the basis of their accent, there's no way of doing it that is quick and easy. It requires a fairly significant amount of time studying the various dialects and an excellent ear. A huge stumbling block is just hearing the sounds. There are a total of about 400 phonemes that are found in various languages and English only has about 45 of them total that are mixed to make about 12,000 unique syllables. If you haven't learned to hear the words as sounds rather than words it can be quite difficult to identify them. I pronounce rut, root and route as three different words, but my friend can only tell the difference between rut and route, but not rut which falls in between the two in terms of pronunciation. It's kind of an uh sounds with a sharp exhalation.
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That's not true. They probably said it, but it's based upon old information. The vegan diet is deficient in some pretty important nutrients like cholesterol. Cholesterol, you know that thing that testosterone is made out of and that is used by the body to maintain the appropriate amount of flexibility in the veins and arteries. Veganism isn't healthy and has never been demonstrated to be healthy. Also, if we don't need the animal products, then why is it that every society in every part of the world that has ever existed incorporates animal products into their diets? There's a small number of exceptions to the rule like the particularly religious Hindus, but it's never been common anywhere in the world and has always come with health problems.
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The theory under which vegan and vegetarian diets are preferred is based upon the already debunked superstitions that cardiovascular disease is caused by cholesterol levels and that eating fat makes you fat. There's no credible research to back that belief up now. And there wasn't any in the past either. To make matters worse, the foods that people use to substitute for the lost protein are often times horribly unhealthy. Soy is one of the worst things you can be putting into your body as it screws with the whole endocrine system by depressing testosterone levels and boosting estrogen levels. A diet with moderate amounts of meat and animal products is the healthiest and most natural diet for humans to be consuming. If you go too far away from that in either direction, you wind up with health problems. But, pretending like the only possible meat eating diets are horribly unhealthy amounts to willful ignorance. It might be possible to eat a vegan diet without major health consequences, but it does require a ton of work and probably information that we don't yet have.
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Race Lever LOL, I angered a vegan. I'm very much aware of what humans need to eat, just because you choose to not do any research at all, does not mean that I'm not right. Humans evolved to eat meat, the substitutes that we usually use involve things that our bodies don't digest properly. If you want to poison your body with soy products and grains, that's really your own business, but cutting out the animal products has a very real and negative impact on life expectancy and health.
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Race Lever Because we don't have to. I've eaten raw meat before and Sushi is never cooked. The only reason we cook our meat to not get sick is because we don't typically eat it as soon as the animal has been killed. If we were eating meat that was freshly killed like most other meat eating animals, we wouldn't need to cook it either. Just because you don't know what you're talking about, doesn't mean that I don't.
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Race Lever My bad, sometimes ignorance looks like anger.
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Race Lever That's quite the strawman you've erected there. Nobody here is talking about eating fast food. And BTW, the salads at many fast food restaurants are even less healthy than the meat containing meals. I get that you're somebody that knows nothing of nutrition, but give it a rest. There's absolutely no health benefit from cutting out meat and animal products after you get to a minimal intake. Moderate the meat and animal products and you'll have a much healthier body.
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That kind of behavior is illegal even in China. I used to live and work in China and no, the employers can't beat their employees. It's a rural bank, so they were probably used to getting away with that sort of thing because there are fewer options, but it's not legal. It's no longer legal to spank students for underperforming either. I'd expect that the bank executives are going to be in a huge amount of trouble for embarrassing the local party members. Unlike in the US, executives that embarrass the party or the country can and are prosecuted with anything from a fine up to execution depending upon the charges. I wouldn't expect execution for this, but China will execute billionaires.
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The only way leaving it in gear could possibly end well would be with a proper application of the clutch. At which point, not only do you put wear on the clutch, you're also counting on having it stay activated enough not to lead to your hand getting grabbed like that poor schmuck. Personally, I'm a bit surrpised nobody makes a tool to allow you to do this without putting your hands in or near the drive chain or sprockets. But, then again, this isn't very hard to do by hand and you definitely can't do this while in gear if the wheel isn't off the ground.
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This goes doubly for motorcycle mechanics. Fewer options and more expensive parts.
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Written language should not be translated into sounds when written and read. That leads to all sorts of problems as you're taking the visual and turning it into audio and then interpreting the audio. Even in phonetic languages that's a waste of brainspace.
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I think just this particular issue. They don't seem to be as nuts on other issues. Except drug policy and prostitution where they completely ignore the consequences of legalizing them. I just listen to what they say and adjust accordingly. But yeah, they'd have more credibility talking about police brutality if they weren't reflexively on the side of the #BLM folks and others that protest the existence of the police.
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No, she's dead on here. The bottom line is that the perception affects everything that the jurors think when they're weighing the evidence. There's practical reasons why we don't usually require defendants to cover themselves up, it isn't necessarily possible to cover all things like that up. But, in this case, the tattoos are not relevant to the question of whether or not the defendant is guilty and as such they should be covered during the phase where the trial is determining guilt. If he's convicted and they start considering the penalties involved with the conviction, that's the time where seeing the tattoos might be relevant. The unfortunate truth here is that our reaction to tattoos like that happens at a very low level and it's not easily ignored. The defendant has a right to a jury trial and as a society we aren't well served sending people who aren't guilty to prison. If he's guilty and convicted and we cover up the tattoos then we can be reasonably certain that justice was done. If the tattoos aren't covered up, then we'll never really know how much of an impact they had. I've been a juror and no matter how hard you try to keep that sort of stuff out of your mind, it's going to color how you weigh the evidence to some extent. Especially if it's something like Neo-Nazi tattoos.
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+Traktor 322 It could potentially converge absolutely, but definitely not without the absolute value signs. And even then, I don't think it converges absolutely either. But, it's late at night.
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Indeed, and they ignored Right Said Fred as well. I'm Too Sexy is probably one of the most danceable songs ever recorded.
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As opposed to the current system of election fraud where they implement various poll taxes and inconveniences in the form of voter ID laws that require people to be able to afford to take off work to get the IDs? Here's a hint, if you think that elections fraud is a problem, then why is it always whining about the imagined ballot stuffing by the Democrats rather than the very real efforts that go on by the GOP to disenfranchise voters?
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Because if you want kids, those kinds of women are a no go. They're great if you specifically don't want children as there's less likelihood for pregnancy. But, there's also the issue that a lot of women just won't date younger. It screwed me over pretty good because I went to a community college where the average age was 27 and I was in my late teens, so for the first bit it would have been illegal and then after I turned 18, none of the women would date anybody younger than them.
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@BelgianCat Yes, that happened to me when I was a teen. The difference was that I was in a much smaller pond and was able to stand up. But, I was completely winded by the cold water, but even if I hadn't been able to get myself out, I was in waste deep water and my buddies could have gotten me out without risking their lives.
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That's a strawman. You have to eat a ton of meat in order for that to happen. Eating a moderate diet that includes a mixture of animal and plant matter isn't going to kill a person. And it can't just be any meat, it has to be meat that's been modified to no longer reflect it's natural state and eaten in quantities that are abnormal combined with a lack of exercise In fact, I'm going to go to my fridge and eat some meat pizza just because of how obnoxious and ignorant the vegans are being in this topic.
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Allegedly, but yes, it is a ridiculous double standard there. They came down hard on Brock for having sex with an unconscious woman, but apparently, prosecuting this woman even though she was allegedly raped is A-OK.
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Nope, everything I said in that post is spot on. I'm curious why you would think that depriving your brain of oxygen is any less fatal because the fire happens to be in a dispensary. Just because you choose to be ignorant, doesn't mean you're right. It means that you have no idea what you're talking about. 1,500 Americans are killed by acetaminophen every year. I'm not in favor of pot, but that's more people than have been killed by pot in the last century and probably in all of history.
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That's the frustrating thing IMHO. The smarter you are, the harder it is to find a room where you're not the smartest person in the room. I'm always looking for people that are smarter than I am, but I rarely do. And too many people confuse having money and resources with being smart. The two are not the same thing. There's a level of financial attainment that's really necessary, but beyond that, more money doesn't really mean much. I look forward to having people call me out for making mistakes, because I'd much rather know about it then than several months or years later when the results aren't what I'm looking for.
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No, it doesn't, that's just what you pay. I'd be very surprised if the cost of providing emergency room care was much less expensive in New Zealand than it is here. The difference is that because New Zealand's medical system is set up to be more cost effective, the coverage covers more of the cost of the emergency room visit than if you didn't have coverage at all. But, if you didn't have coverage, I doubt very much that the cost of visiting an ER would be much lower than it is in the US. It's just very expensive to keep the personnel and testing equipment available on that basis.
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Cailin Tunnicliffe Again, it doesn't cost $50, that's what you pay, the government pays something on top of that. Most of the cost of ER service is having the equipment and technicians there in case somebody needs care. The equipment isn't any cheaper in New Zealand than it is anywhere else. I don't disagree without priorities, but if you're going to set people straight, you should probably know what you're talking about. People with health insurance here don't pay much more than you do, I think my plan charges $75 for the service.
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***** That's not possible. Somebody has to pay for the equipment and the tests, labor costs are likely lower than they are in the US, but there's no way that the cost of multi-million dollar, high precision equipment is that much lower there than it is in the US. The numbers don't compute. Either the numbers are inaccurate or the quality of care in the ER is substantially lower than it is in the US. There's no way that the equipment necessary to run an ER is that much lower than it is in the US. More likely, you're referring to something that isn't an actual ER, in which case we wouldn't be spending $1k for that either. Even in the ICU, $1k here is a lot of money. I remember spending an entire night in the ICU and the better part of two days in a hospital and the cost for that was roughly $18k before insurance, IIRC. Like I said, there's no way that your spending $50 for something that costs us $1k, $300 or even $500 I could believe, but there's no way that the cost is 5% of what ours is without massive cost cutting measures taken at the expensive of quality.
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grey ghost I see nothing wrong here because she deserved it. Just look at the video. Just because bigots like you can't see what's going on, doesn't make it any less justified. She could have cooperated and gotten a ticket or possibly a warning, but she chose to fight with the cop on the street. No white person foolish enough to do that would get away with it. So, why should a black person? If she genuinely didn't do anything wrong, she has the option of fighting it in court. Chances are that the cop wouldn't even show up and as such the ticket would be tossed.
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More cop hating from TYT, I'm definitely not going to be giving them money while they're hating on cops. Tamir Rice was shot because he did a number of extremely stupid things that put the police in a position where they had to shoot him. I've seen the video and it's pretty clear that Tamir was lowering the toy gun in a way that appeared to target the cops.
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raleighman3000 At some point I'll probably learn Dutch, but it's not a priority. I'm a native English speaker and I'm pretty good with German so I can open up a Dutch book and generally know what's being said without ever having studied. It would be kind of an interesting experience to learn a language without any instruction of any sort. That's more or less what happened with me. I was taught to make the sound and then I had people on me about it even though it wasn't causing problems with comprehension. But, the process did mess up the stability of my accent.
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This is good advice. Especially, if you pair it up with situational awareness. Never let somebody that you don't trust get within arms distance if you can help it, and manage the space around you whenever you're outside. I'd heard that it was more like 20 feet around a cop, but IIRC, that assumed that the firearm was holstered and the attacker had the knife out. Still, solid advice, yet another reason to have a rather beefy flashlight on you if you can't avoid being in a sketchy area at night.
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Depends upon the language. Mandarin doesn't seem to care much about the tones when it comes to singing, but some other languages do. I have a feeling it has to do with how many tones there are or really how many distinguishable syllables there are. Tonal languages tend to remain tonal due to it being required to tell syllables apart. We don't need to do it in English because we have about 12k uniquely identifiable syllables without the tones, but a language like Mandarin only has about 1600 if you include the tones and between 4 and 5 hundred if you don't. Which is why it's a good idea to know whether or not the language you're trying to learn features music that includes the tones as there's not much point in using it as study materials if it isn't using the tones.
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Citation needed. You're going to have an extremely hard time cobbling together an entire diet of plant matter that provides adequate amounts of bio-available nutrients. It's possible, but you make it sound like it's a walk in the park. Vitamin D deficiency, as an example, can take many years to become apparent and you wouldn't necessarily notice it in the mean time. Hence why vegans often times appear to be malnourished. It's because they often times are because they haven't managed to adequately replace the vitamins and minerals that they've skipped. As long as you're eating meat as part of a generally sensible diet, it's not going to do anything but improve your health. Where people get into trouble is when they eat much more of it than they should be and prepare it in ways that strips the natural nutritional value.
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It's not a large number, in one of those cases noted in the video it was 19 people in like 50 years. That's typically more than a swimming pool or a typical street corner, but not really that many.
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Under Brazilian law, he's not guilty of filing a false criminal report. In fact, he didn't file any criminal report at all. The Brazilians never go after people under this law who didn't file a report with the police. At worse, he defamed the off-duty police officers by accusing them of a robbery that didn't happen. Assuming that it didn't happen, which it sounds like they took 160 for a repair that cost 120. If that's true then they did rob the swimmers.
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We'll see, I didn't support Trump during the election anymore than I supported Clinton, but let's be honest about how the media has portrayed the candidates. You didn't hear much talk of Clinton's bigotry or the consequences of their bigoted policies on various people of color. Nor have we heard so much as an apology for DADT and DOMA. We won't really know how bad things are until Trump announces his cabinet picks, but whatever pain we suffer is going to be worth it for running off the most corrupt politician that the US has ever had. I mean seriously, she and her husband have received over $100m from various special interest groups on top of the campaign donations and donations to their foundation. No other candidate in the history of the US has received so much monetary support from special interests. Allowing her, even after she mishandled classified materials and lied about it to become President would have been extremely damaging to the Union. I hope that Trump follows through on his promise to have Clinton properly investigated for the things we already know she did. There's more than enough evidence to prosecute her for mishandling classified materials and it would send a strong signal that justice is applicable to all, not just the poor.
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+Moosewhisker, projections are covered in pre-calc here, although most of what you'd know about and appreciate about it doesn't come until much later.
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Nearly all of them do. There might be a handful of recently established countries that don't, but the reality is that people's morals were rather questionable in the past. I think one of the reasons why the US gets so much flack is that we have always aspired to more. We've regularly failed to live up to our own standards, but on the whole we aspire to have all these things dealt with and on the whole we're moving that direction. It's just that it's fits and starts and too slow, but we'll get there eventually. Just look at the progress that's been made over the last 50 years.
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The idea that BLM is a terrorist group is rather ridiculous. But, by the same token, they are somewhat racist. Not because they only protest when it's a black person killed, but because they automatically side with the black person and in some cases pretend like they were completely innocent, even when they made multiple poor decisions that put the police in a position where they had to shoot. Tamir Rice is a really, really bad example. Anybody who has seen the video sees that he appears to lower what appears to be a firearm in the officer's direction right before being shot. It's tragic, but expecting the police officers to allow firearms to be pointed at them is completely unreasonable. OTOH, I'd be very surprised if anything comes to light that makes the Alton Sterling killing anything other than murder. But, it's important to give the authorities the chance to do the right thing before jumping to conclusions. It certainly doesn't encourage the police to be more reasonable if they're declared to be racist automatically and reflexively.
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@scriptles It depends on the state as the Feds don't have the constitutional authority to dictate who can and can't have a driver's license.
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The Chinese legal system isn't necessarily that much worse than other countries. The Japanese police regularly obtain confessions via questionable means and only 5% of the people in American prisons received a trial to determine guilt.
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@JohnMorris-ge6hq Not necessarily, many parts of the world will execute people that aren't guilty due to mistakes or where somebody else pulled the trigger. No justice system that executes is free from mistakes being made.
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It already was, at least as far as tampering with protective barriers, that's a case where battery charges would be more appropriate.
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Drives last a lot longer if they've got clean power. So a sufficiently powerful power supply and a UPS / line conditioner makes a significant difference.
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Not really, how many years was Weinstein doing what he was doing before he was finally outed? This happens regularly and if you don't get why, I refer you to the current circus that you're participating in.
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Well, thank God nobody has done anything about the guns, I'd hate to think about how this would have turned out if they had to use knives to attack the people in those cars on the freeway. Perhaps it's time we just admit that guns are the problem and that there needs to be real effort put into treating them like the deadly things they are. Other countries don't have this problem, but we have to tolerate it here?
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@bobmahnamahknob The AD and armorerwere responsible for that. At most, Alec was partially responsible for not watching them handling the weapon before handing it to him. There's a reason why the charges didn't stick, the prosecutors were more interested in convicting a celebrity than worrying about the details of how the live rounds go on set and then into the weapon. The basis I've seen for people blaming him are normal use of firearms outside of the film and TV industry where you have the luxury of never pointing one at somebody that you don't expect to shoot.
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I'd recommending doing one at a time starting with the rear if you haven't ever done this. You still have to be careful, but you're less likely to do something that'll kill you or destroy the bike.
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I don't think they will or should take the Oscar away, but I would expect something in the lines of a suspension or some other mediumish level of consequence. This was bad, but if they start tossing people from the academy for attacking other members, the awards would start to be rather devoid of people. Doing in publicly on live TV probably does warrant some sort of increase, but considering how many stories there are of other actors smacking each other around harder than this, I'm not sure they really want to set that precedent with this. Obviously, violence for anything other than self-defense is wrong, so there clearly need to be penalties that are substantial enough to send the message that the spoiled members of the club are not safe from punishment. Even if they do have a number of blockbusters on their IMDB profile.
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@Buckboy2024 Yes, and then there are the guys on that panel that are probably well aware of what a waste of time the voting process has become. Even if by some miracle a candidate does run on a platform trying to appeal to you, it's pretty much a sure thing that only the horrible things that they promise that have any hope of actually coming true.
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I'd consider that to be fair. Forgiving student loans screws over that's that chose not to go into debt. Setting it to 0% would be a fair compromise.
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It is though. If you don't take the oath, then as far as the court goes, it's not usable by any of the parties involved in the legal action. It's basically just hearsay for all practical purposes.
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That's more or less what I do. I switched exclusively to laser printers some years back because I got tired of having to constantly replace the ink carts and having them dry up between uses. At least with laser printers, most of the time, it's just a matter of taking the toner out and shaking it around a bit if it isn't printing right. Then again, I'm just printing to paper and I use the printers far more often to digitize documents than actually print.
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These days, it's probably more common than you'd think. There are GUIs out there to handle basically any common task.
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I think the puzzlement comes from people remembering what Harris had been saying or who she is. By this point, most people had forgotten about VP Pence.
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One of the things we lost when we lost the AS diagnosis was a place for the folks that are nearer to the center of that. When the Schizoid Personality Disorder diagnosis goes away due to lack of research and use, there'll be absolutely nothing in the middle. You'll either be on the autistic spectrum on the schizophrenic spectrum or neither. It's kind of a problem for some of us as there's some chunk of the autistic population that's like me. Essentially too schizophrenic to be diagnosable as autistic and too autistic to properly fit with the treatments for schizophrenic spectrum disorders. From the reading that I've done, I've seen even researchers blurring the lines between ScPD and Asperger's Syndrome. For folks like me, I started having schizophrenia symptoms many years before a typical diagnosis would show up, but many years after developmental disabilities are usually identifiable, meaning that I can have a diagnosis, I just can't have one that fits me and might threaten to provide any sort of real help with the problems I have.
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Bernie has been a pretty big disappointment If HRC and Biden were going to steal primaries, he should have demanded something for it. Simply running 3rd party in either race might have been enough to get some concessions.
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@adriankoch964 It's a stupid design decision. In the US, anything that has only 2 prongs is supposed to be double insulated to protect against shocks. Things with a 3rd prong don't require the extra insulation as the ground should intercept any of that current and direct it out of the building via the ground wire. Having GFCI is nice, but it doesn't protect against shocks as the video indicates, so you still need the extra insulation if you don't have the ground. In the US, GFCI is typically required in the locations that are most likely to benefit from them, mostly kitchens, bathrooms, garages and other areas likely to have moisture. You can install GFCI berakers if you like, but then you have issues related to figuring out where the fault was that triggered it, when the more typical US practice is to just include the GFCI at the outlet which helps greatly in terms of figuring out which one did it. The one that makes a bigger difference is AFCI, and that is still coming, but that protects against far bigger concerns related to arc faults that can lead to fires. As far as earthquakes go, that's BS, the west coast of the US regularly gets earthquakes and the likelihood of having any power coming in when none can get out is a rarity, to say the least, assuming it's even possible.
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@JRMCNEA He should have been pushing the Heroes Act hard, but for some reason, I don't recall him doing so, even though the media I listen to normally covers such things. I guess, he cares more about his friend Joe than essential workers that get nothing. I lost 60% of my hours, but because the company chose to over hire, I never qualified for pandemic relief and that hazard pay would have been huge, but he didn't push for it when he had leverage.
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I'm sorry, but since when does there have to be an underlying crime in order for there to not be obstruction of justice? It's stupid to obstruct an investigation if you haven't broken any laws, but it's still criminal.
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@kilroywashere9678 There's any number of candidates they could have chosen. It's the complete and utter refusal to address the obvious Biden situation until after the last minute coupled with a complete lack of any effort to try to select the best candidate they had at their disposal. It's sort of like in 2016 when they were so afraid of Bernie winning that they rigged in favor of HRC. HRC proceeded to pretty much completely drain their funds while barely losing costing the party's ability to engage in any sort of oversight or barrier to the worst things that Trump was saying he'd do.
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Medicare for all would be a step in the right direction. It would increase the effective wages of workers as they wouldn't have to pay for that directly and the cost would go down. It would also reduce the barrier to entry for those wishing to try starting their own business. I'm not sure increasing the minimum wage is the right move, but we definitely need to do something to increase the wages of working people. Whether it's by increasing the minimum wage or putting into place tax policies that discourage people from hoarding wealth or something else is worthy of debate.
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That whole thing goes to show that the Israeli government isn't any better than the terrorists that they claim to be offended by. The "terrorists" kill one of theirs, and the Israelis kill 10 that are mostly not involved. It makes it a lot easier for neo-Nazis and the like to spread antisemitism with war crimes going unpunished.
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@CarimboHanky There's roughly 30k suicides alone, tens of thousands more of of types of homicides. Most of which would not happen with guns not being available. Not that i personally support banning them, but lets' be honest about the fact that a major portion of the gun related deaths is for things that are just not necessary.
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@pjm934 Yes, we don't know how far it has to drop before even his own delusions can't protect his ego. We're seeing the same thing with Musk where he nearly started crying during that interview when he was asked about how his businesses are going. I think the main reason that Musk hasn't already stopped the nonsense is that he honestly believes that he can do it, and doesn't want people to have to admit that he's a complete and utter fraud.
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That's how it works, they can't give everybody health care or free college because that would dry up the pool of potential military enlistees.
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Or Democrats, the Democrats could have codified the decision or not allowed those seats to fall into conservative hands, but chose not to even try.
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Starting with fuel injection? So, we're buying new bikes to learn on?
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Those states are constantly bailing out the Republican ones. Only a couple of the red states actually pay more in taxes to the feds than they get back.
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That's a temporary fix. The long term fix is to make it a temporary position where they can't get re-appointed after their term expires. The pool of judges be restricted to a group handpicked by a non-partisan committee and subjected to the same ethics rules that all the other judges are expected to adhere to. No more refusing to recuse themselves when matters coming before the bench are too close to home.
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They have their limitations. There's only so many cars that can move through them without it creating gridlock and you need the space for them. But, I definitely agree that we really do need more of them.
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Adding $500bn would make it a $1tn bill.
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Yes, the presumption is there to discourage people from following too closely to the car ahead of them. It's not for the purpose of letting drivers brake check or cut people off with impunity. Nor does it apply if you've got broken brake lights. But, it does often times make the matter a lot faster to deal with, especially in the age of dash cameras.
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@LancesArmorStriking In all fariness, the US changes leaders every 2-6 years depending upon the specific office and it's been decades of incompetent foreign policy with respect to the region.
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That's more or less what I would have thought. The layout on a modern keyboard is usually based on some formulation of the QWERTY layout for the local language, but if we're not using a physical typewriter with heads that can crash together, then there's no inherent reason to stick with that particular arrangement.
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@MrSofazocker I think the issue more than anything else there is that in practice it becomes learn Dvorak and QWERTY (Or local equivalent) as people aren't necessarily going to have multiple keyboard options, and may not be allowed to change the layout on the computer. It's probably not that big of a deal once you learn to touch type, but I can personally touch and I have to be pretty tired and unfocused to only type 70wpm, and there just aren't that many times when my fingers moving across the keyboard are the limiting factor on how fast I can type.
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I thought that I had issues with seeing faces, but it turned out that because I have no mind's eye, I see the faces just fine, I just have no efficient way of storing or manipulating what I've seen and if I need to go between a picture and the face or visa versa, I have real trouble. If somebody, including myself, changes their hairstyle in some significant way, I have to relearn the face as I'll go through a short period of time where it seems strange. I've got some brain damage and I have no direct access to a minds eye, which is probably what causes this. Without access to a mind's eye, it's virtually impossible to figure out what somebody would look like if they changed permanent or semi-permanent features like getting a hair cut or losing substantial amount of weight..
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@anticharlatan5823 they only need one and this is the hardest one for the GOP to sweep under the rug. The GOP will use any excuse to let Trump off the hook.
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There's industrial strength OCR involved, people only read it if that fails.
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The Libertarians this year weren't too bad. I might have voted for them if Howie wasn't on the ballot.
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It's not going to happen if the Democrats aren't prepared to actually fight for the wishes of the voters. And, I see far too many people making excuses as to why we still need to vote blue no matter who, even though the party leaders aren't ever held accountable for their incompetence and corruption. The politicians should be afraid to cross the voters because the voters will vote them out of office if they don't do what they're supposed to do.
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Only if Bernie goes after him about that. The one silver lining about Warren before she dropped is that she would have gone after Biden.
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You might not be buying it, but partial bans don't work to keep things out of the hands of those you don't want to have them. Removing the other flavors is about making them less attractive and harder to get started with. Counting on regulations to keep things out of the hands of folks that aren't supposed to have them, depends upon the retailers doing the right thing and them not having somebody else that's willing to be a straw buyer. In other words, tobacco in general is still going to be legal, but they're just making it as unappealing as possible to make it harder for people to start smoking. Really, the main ways of reducing smoking are, education, added cost and removed desirability.
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@sergeantchick2820 I'm not sure how that ignorance warrants an upvote. Whether or not I approve, North Korea handles it's legal system the way that it does and it's really about time that people just flat out stop going as it's not like you even get the benefit of showing them what foreign people are really like or any sort of cultural exchange. Even Cuba and China permit more access tot he population than North Korea does.
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Only because they spend decades fixing the many issues that come of it. One of MS' addictions is being overly careful about backwards compatibility even when it causes problems later on because you can still load files from decades earlier, ones that most people have had many years during which to update to a more recent standard.
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That wouldn't be surprising. Here in WA, it's technically not illegal to be naked in public, but you'd probably be arrested for something else. I remember about 10 years ago, somebody discovered that there was technically no law against being naked in the parks of Seattle. I'm not aware of any specific statute that legalizes any of this, it's just a matter of nobody bothering to specifically ban it. I'm not aware of there being a history of dueling here in WA state.
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Which is all the more reason to cut the Israelis off from any sort of military aid until things are resolved. Giving them weapons clearly hasn't worked and now they seem to feel entitled to steal Palestinian land and block legitimate humanitarian aid from places like the Gaza Strip. (We can't exactly cut the Palestinians off as we aren't giving them any weapons for self-defense)
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He really needs to stop campaigning for people that beat him. Instead, he should just take as many of his voters as possible and run 3rd party. Either way Trump is likely to win, but at least as a 3rd party there's some hope that he'd win rather than the other two. If he's not in the general election, I will not be voting for anybody blue in the future. I've been burned too many times. I haven't decided what party I'll focus on, but it sure won't be either of the big two parties with all the corruption.
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Does anybody? I think it amazes me that anybody thought that Biden was going to be the solution to corruption in politics when he was literally only the nominee due to a rigged primary.
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This channel was never going to pass over this sort of hard hitting journalism.
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@Pravdacz-tp8zu That's mostly because those other people don't wear pants, Kyle has no legs.
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@Singularity.82 Bandwagoning is tight.
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@Melora.Perseous Priority mail is kind of a scam. You never know if you actually got the service you paid for as it's just priority over the other mail. So, it's entirely possible that the mail got there in the same amount of time. And, despite the days on the pieces, most of the time there's no guarantee of a delivery on a certain day.
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That's part of why so many people steal when they go through self-checkout even if they wouldn't normally steal.
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@lordmonty9421 I haven't had those issues with mine. Well, except that my wife keeps washing mine with soap and then doesn't dry and season it, but that's any cast iron.
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@BrianJNelson I wouldn't go quite that far, the issue more than anything else is that Google is recommending things that aren't based on simple user preference. If they were doing that, they would have a much stronger case to make that they're not publishers. As it is, they arbitrarily put things into people's feeds that they didn't ask for and make it hard for users to get the things that they do want. If they weren't doing that, then there would be absolutely no case as they wouldn't be doing any of what a typical publisher does.
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I realize you're joking about the coffee, but it wasn't until roughly a century and a half later that coffee really took off in the US.
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I take it then that you were protesting in both 2016 and 2020 when the DNC did that to Bernie's supporters. Otherwise you're a hypocrite.
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If Trump wins, it's going to be because the Democrats have, yet again, not bothered to try to secure any votes from non-trans male voters. I don't see anything in her platform that speaks to any of my needs unless they're something that applies to everybody, but I do see a fair set of times where she says that it's basically for people, just not white men. People notice that sort of thing and while the GOP is absolutely terrible, the Democrats aren't even willing to pretend like men's issues are important issues. The GOP at least gives it lip service and pretends like they'll care.
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You're holding the oil can upside down. The purpose of the funnel is to reduce the likelihood of missing the opening. But, if you flip the can the other way, you can precisely line up the opening of the can with the opening in the engine and get the oil in that way. That's the whole point of having an oil can where the opening is to the side rather than the center.
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W was re-elected when I wasn't paying attention? Or are you referring to Reagan? I thought he'd died and been buried years ago.
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They're really not. Game trails are created on the basis of finding food, water and avoiding predators. Not necessarily the same set of criteria that most hikers and backpackers have when choosing a hike.
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I've noticed a few yellow lights lately that are so short that if you don't immediately slam on your brakes in moderate traffic you can't clear the intersection before the light turns red. IMHO, all yellow lights should be at least a specific time based on the expected traffic speed just so that that doesn't happen.
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It's because the people would expect the government to actually help them that's the issue. Most other developed countries have affordable, or free, higher education. We don't and the moment people realize that the government can help, they're going to expect it to start happening.
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axlroserules-i1w It's going to be a few more generations before that's accepted in the West, and probably a few generations starting from whenever neo-Naziism is finally stamped out, so the clock isn't even started.
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@jeanneganrude8549 TBH, I'm more likely to call them testicles.
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@darscassel From what I remember, Tesla has been on some pretty shaky ground financially for years. A lot of which was due to Musk's incompetence and big mouth where they'd have to abandon their plans in order to make it plausible that he wasn't making stuff up as that isn't legal when you're speaking on behalf of a publicly traded corporation. And, generally such laws are still enforced as they negatively impact the wealthy. I'm personally, surprised that Tesla is still in business, just because of how shaky their business model is.
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That's a new one. So, in your mind, Biden bombed those hostages using IDF goons?
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I'm personally disappointed that he failed to follow through on his pledge to lock her up. It's one of my biggest disappointments with his administration.
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My thoughts exactly and why I'm not going back to being a Democrat. I haven't decided what in gong to be m but definitely not a backer of either major party.
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It's not the people's fault, it's our leaders that have failed us. The DNC forced Hillary on us even though Bernie was more popular and could have beaten Trump. Then we get Biden forced on us when Bernie was more popular and could have beaten Trump. Now, 4 years later, they haven't promoted anybody to replace Biden as just about everybody knows that he's suffering from dementia, or something similar, and they don't have anybody available that can be swapped in to take on Trump. We may well wind up with Trump again and this time there's a real body of workers there to ensure that he gets up and running as quickly as possible and he has the SCOTUS giving him the right to do whatever he wants to do with his executive powers. And still the DNC is playing with fire and not giving the people a viable answer to Trumpism. It's hardly just the folks that are obsessed with the alleged Biden Crime family at this point that don't want him, a good chunk of the Democrats and Independents don't think he's up to it either. It's the same sort of thing that led to Trump winning in the first place, the DNC did not bother to consider just how unpopular HRC was even with her own base.
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Yes, and that's why if you can have those vented outside, it can cut down on the cooling bill during the summer.
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This feels like a foot in the door. Once they can do it for some titles, it gets very hard to say at what point it specifically becomes a service where you're paying both in terms of the subscription price and in terms of your time and attention. When it was just advertising other content on the service or bundles, that wasn't so bad as there was at least some sort of a natural limit to it. But, if it's ads to other things as part of the deal to get the content, there isn't a natural limit to that.
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Not really, one of the things that lead poisoning does is reduce your cognitive abilities. And there is a great deal that people won't learn if they're being paid not too.
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@foo219 Also, with CFCs, the damage from that has largely been repaired and on its way to being fixed. I suspect that it's on the whole a benefit that he did that over waiting for some other technology to be discovered.
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There's often times a carve out for certain types of professional driving. Plus, the cops do need to be able to communicate in some fashion while driving, especially in the modern era where there might not even be a second cop in the car.
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You don't. You'd have to have an extremely large patch, walk all the way out into the middle of it and tire yourself out trying to struggle to the edge. In other words, you'd have to work very hard to get stuck. Around here we have holes that are covered up by vegetation and if you step in the wrong place, you can fall in and be very hard to find. It doesn't happen very often, but occasionally people looking for mushrooms will just disappear. And because they rarely tell anybody where they're going, the likelihood of being found is very, very low.
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If they'd replace the switch with a foot lever, I'd totally go for it.
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That used to be somewhat true decades back, but with rent and housing prices on the rise, it's entirely plausible that the poor man just never had anything left over to save becaue the rich man stole all the gains of his labor. Thinking about it a bit more, that was only not true for a relatively short period in time. Go back to the 19th century and it wasn't any better than it is now.
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I already did. There were several other good candidates from 3rd parties, but Howie seemed a bit better.
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@johnkitners9386 Around here the medics have had the blood for about 6 years. I would imagine that as the problem is better understood that more areas will require it for at least some units.
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I get the logic, as long as there's a shortage of vaccine, it doesn't make much sense to send it to people where the doses are effectively going to be wasted because the people of the state aren't taking things seriously. But, by the same token, how is this any different from denying most essential workers vaccine because old people vote more often? That's what it comes down to, the people most likely to die are older, but they're also the ones most able to avoid going out in public. The essential workers in public facing jobs didn't choose to have those jobs assuming that we'd be thrown under the bus in case of a pandemic. It's really disgusting that the country isn't vaccinating us. We should be vaccinated if for no other reason than the grocery and transit workers, in particular, are some of the few people that can't be avoided. Unlike the medical workers that are trained and equipped for the task, we're not and we're paid much less than they are.
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Let's be real, she didn't do a very exhaustive search for treatment options if she's 29 now, has been going through the process for 3.5 years, which means she was roughly 25 at the point where she started it. With how little experience the medical community has in dealing with autistic women, I don't know how any of these doctors can sleep at night seeing a woman that age, late diagnosed, going through this process right now as a bunch of changes have been coming in terms of the support and help available for the autistic community in general and autistic women in particular. What's more, autism ought to be on the list of reasons that you're not permitted to make use of this service as we are notorious for getting fixated on something and pushing towards it whether it's a good idea or not. Combine that with depression and it sets an incredibly bad precedent. It's not like I don't get it, I've had a lot of crap over the years that doctors told me wouldn't be curable, and to some extent they were right, but in the year since I finally understood the results of my neuropsych exam and the implications, things have improved a lot. It still often times sucks, but at the end of the day, better treatments won't come if the people who most need them opt to self-murder.
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@jextra1313 Things might work differently in Canada, but generally those questions in the US got to a completely different department to figure out if the jobs are being posted in a way that gets a decent amount of diversity in the job applicants.
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@phil20_20 Harris can't win. She won no delegates in 2016 and brought nothing to the ticket other than being a woman of color.
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@phil20_20 No, she can't. She hasn't shown the guts or integrity to invoke the 25th amendment. She won 0 delegates in 2020 and she has done nothing in the 4 years since to be in any way notable. If they run her, they will lose.
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@angelarender9641 Go ahead, throw your money away. The fact of the matter is that neither Biden nor Harris are particularly electable on their own, even before Biden became senile. He's President because people didn't want Trump and Obama talked a bunch of other candidates to drop out of the race at the same time in exchange for political appointments for which they weren't qualified. Did you notice the way that Mayor Pete was all over that Baltimore bridge collapse? No, because he didn't show up until way late even though it was a massive failure. He had more of a presence in 2020 when he was trying to claim a win in Iowa even though Bernie did. I fail to see how the Democrats sleep walking us into fascism is appreciably better than the GOP's method
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Funny, but why a lesbian? People love lesbians, it should have been a gay man. Preferably also trans.
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She's not even a good rapper. She has the right to make music, I just wish the music was actually good. Sadly, rap jumped the shark decades ago. It's suffering the same problems that commercial music in general has.
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@The 6th mass extinction is long overdueYes and that's why vote by mail ought to be a legally mandated option in every jurisdiction, if not the only method of voting for typical voters. The main issue we have relatively low voter turnout here is that the options aren't very appealing, not because we force people to take time off of work and spend it waiting in line.
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That's how it's been for decades at this point. Nobody gets support other than relative to the other possibilities. If the other major candidates weren't so terrible, Biden would have no support at all.
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Criminals don't need to, the scrapyards do. I'm not sure why that's so hard to understand.
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@solutionsforabrightfuture3579 Except that in this case the typical criminal wouldn't ever be arrested as they wouldn't be able to sell the catalytic converter. They might try once for a misdemeanor, but pretty soon after would give up. They may even not get the misdemeanor, as the scrapyards don't know that it's an illegal seller at that stage. The scrapyards would have additional costs with respect to compliance, but that's about it. It's no different than other businesses that have to pay for the cost of preventing underage drinkers or smokers from buying from them. So, probably a bit better than the war on drugs.
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So ASMR is that feeling I get of flying when I watch videos taken out the window of aircraft?
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@mritaci15 Possibly, but probably not, there would be footprints leading to the spring and the area around the springs isn't necessarily stable enough to allow for somebody to carry a body to the spring. It's also illegal to leave the path in those areas because people can and do die in the hot springs.
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@JKabc1994 SCOTUS has been going down that path more and more over time in ways that make no sense at all. At this point, it's virtually impossible to be convicted of bribery due to the repeated bad rulings from SCOUTUS. It pretty much requires a "Take this money for engaging in that corrupt practice" in order to qualify under their reasoning. Which is probably influenced by all the overt bribery of SCOTUS justices of late.
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I don't think she's very smart. I don't see why they couldn't get the something if they're serious about that. I've only got $3k in loans, no excuse to drag this out. If they're not going cancel the debt, they should just admit that they won't so we can plan our budgets.
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@dalepettit6799 That doesn't mean that there weren't dummy rounds in it. If you're going to film that angle of a pistol, you may well see that the gun isn't loaded if there isn't something in there, that's the whole point of having them for scenes other than when you're loading it. Shy of weighing them, I'm not sure how he'd know if they were real or not. Plus, there weren't supposed to be any live rounds on the set at all specifically to avoid having any of them wind up in the gun.
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And yet it's par for the course. Israel needs whatever flimsy rationale it can come up with to distract from their crimes against humanity. Not that Hamas is really any better, bunch of terrorists.
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There are still standards, I'm not sure what gives you the impression that there won't be standards. There will be a portfolio that gets evaluated the same way it's done for some other licensed professions. Having a test be the thing that ultimately decides if you're going to be licensed or not is rather problematic.
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@0MGitsRayRay No, they wouldn't hunt humans, they're not large enough. Even cougars that are over a hundred pounds don't hunt humans. The only cats I know of that will hunt humans are hundreds of pounds. Unprovoked tiger attacks are a problem in some parts of the world, but bobcats just aren't big enough to be much of a threat to an adult human and they know it.
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@ViraLCyclopes In some places, you can shoot any cat that you see more than a few hundred feet from a building. I'm not aware of a similar rule with respect to dogs anywhere. The rule exists to protect the local wildlife against one of the most effective killing machines on the planet. As cute as they are, house cats have one of the highest success rates of any animal when they go after prey.
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Why shouldn't it? The ethics investigation has to do with things that are a problem for congress, the criminal charges that could be brought are independent of that. If the target of the problem resigns, there isn't much point in continuing as the only things that they could do would be potentially things like censure or expulsion from the house. None of which really remains relevant typically as it's definitely not normal for somebody under investigation to step down because they've been offered a job with the administration. I do expect that the report will be buried, but even if it is, it's existence would probably prevent him from getting a proper security clearance as any of those Democrats on the committee could just hand over the documents to the people doing the investigation for his clearance as they'd all have the appropriate clearance to look at things like that anyways.
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The representation of people of color in honors classes and making the dean's lists increased when affirmative action ended. Ultimately, getting those is more meaningful in terms of future success. Going you an elite university doesn't pay for itself, but it comes closer for folks that aren't white men.
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@andiward7068 It does a bit of both. There are things like the interstate commerce clause that tells the government that it can't do certain things with regard to managing trade throughout the nation. But, it also has language like was in early on about how senators are selected.
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I hope you found somebody. Schizophrenia is a hardcore disorder, fortunately, therapy and medications are both much, much better than they used to be. The medications don't drug patients to anywhere near the extent they used to and in some cases, the side effects aren't even bothersome.
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Evan Koch It doesn't need to be in the long run, if we would actually tax the rich and corporations, we'd have more than enough to cover things for the time period we need to. The reality is that other countries manage to figure out how to provide benefits to even larger sections of their country, but somehow the "greatest country in the world" cant'? Of course we can, they just haven't been able to figure out how to use it to screw over the working classes.
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@cascadestorm That may or may not be the case. Around here there are a few reasons that you're allowed to quit for. The bigger issue is that there may not be any jobs available when benefits run out and we don't know how long there's going to be that enhancement on unemployment.
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@888strummer That's really nowhere near enough for being literally the only thing between society and literally devolving into Lord of the Flies at a national scale. The $13 an hour would be sufficient to make up for the risk in most cases. Not really for those that wind up dying, but they'd likely qualify for workers' comp and at any rate they're dead, so no amount of money makes that righ.
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They won't do it though. We could give them 60 seats in the Senate and they wouldn't do it. There's just too many of them that are bought for this to actually be done. They've been letting the GOP gerrymander the hell out of the house seats to the point where the GOP has a permanent 2-3% advantage over them, and they've yet to do anything about it. They're just too addicted to the proposition of being able to run on how horrible the GOP is and not having to do anything at all about it. Even when they've had a veto-proof majority, like during the period where Obama passed the ACA, they somehow couldn't whip their own party hard enough to get a public option.
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@joancarlson8704 I'm positive that it is. Screwing with elections is a serious issue, unless you're FBI and are screwing over the liberals.
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dachicagoan That's not why he's against credit cards. I'm not massively in debt, I'm going to be able to pay off my student loans within a year or two if I watch my money and make that my priority. He's against credit cards, even if you pay them off every month. He's against them because they promote overspending and what little rewards you get from using them is pretty much always offset by additional spending if you're not extremely careful. What's more, even if you are careful, there are just better uses of your selfcontrol than ensuring that the plastic doesn't induce you to overspend.
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So, like P.T. Barnum said, there's a sucker born every minute. TSLA stock isn't priced like that on the basis of anything they're doing.
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The short answer is that they probably didn't have a line of communication to them. It's unclear to me if there was a language barrier involved or if they didn't have phones close enough to them to hear or if they simply were too far out on the bridge to get off in the time available. I'm sure more details on that will come to light as the investigation continues. But, if you see where the lights on their trucks are flashing, they were working at roughly the middle of the affected span between the pylons.
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@jimmason8502 Pot is a good choice for that kind of problem, more so than the other options. Just not if you're living in or traveling to/through countries where it's illegal.
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@aaronjohnson8715 Everybody in the courthouse understands that and agrees with it, they just don't have the power to make it happen.
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@mightypancake2211 Paying taxes in insufficient amounts by those that have money is why that stuff never happens. It is a lot more expensive to do any of that stuff when you're not caught up on the routine need.
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@mightypancake2211 Who is losing half their paycheck in an area that has those problems? And, it absolutely is those folks fault for continuing to vote for people that aren't promising to fix those things and also aren't fixing them. But, you're completely full of it if you're paying half your paycheck and having those problems. That's not a normal thing in any developed country I know of.
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And I"m sure that he'll now get a very thorough investigation of the Chinese legal system.
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@jason3298 The entire program is more or less a scam. I received one of them once, only to learn that it's completely useless to me as I live out of state and the "rebates" aren't even rebates, they're store credit on future purchases in a rather tight timeframe. So, no saving them up in case I do wind up near one of their locations, even though they were happy to advertise the "rebate" on their website.
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@imd1b4u More likely FBI informants. It's pretty unusual for terrorists in the US these days to not have some sort of tie to the FBI.
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It came out recently that roughly 70% of those killed were women and children, so even if all the other 30% were actual combatants, which they aren't, that would still be completely unacceptable.
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Not true, the Russian contribution was vital, but all they had was manpower m they had insufficient production power to beat the Nazis.
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And yet they aren't having any real financial issues. I can't say that I particularly endorse that kind of behavior, but I've never seen it at those businesses. I've seen it at plenty of other places, but not at those businesses. If you're getting an attitude, perhaps you should take a look in the mirror and try to figure out why you bring that attitude out of people.
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Yes, but one that's an essential skill in those fields and two having graphs for everything takes up a bunch of space and if you're dealing with an especially large number of related values may not even be possible. Honestly, I get the reasoning behind it, but this is how we get idiocracy. People failing to learn how to deal with such things, and in some cases refusing to do any work if it isn't presented in their preferred manner.
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@KareemDaKing Precisely for whom should they have voted if they wanted something different than the failed policies of the last 30 years?
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I already planned to vote against Pramila Jayapal over her vote for Pelosi to be speaker, and I'm going to follow through on it with gusto now that she's been so worthless at crucial moments not sticking her head out to fight for any of my priorities. She's a fake-progressive and her time in congress needs to end.
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They can only do that if it's close enough in just a state. If it's too many states there could well be literal rioting as the radical left has learned a lot about rioting in the last nearly 25 years. If Biden cared about this country, he would have expanded the court when he had the chance and packed it with judges that value democracy.
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IIRC, IDKFA was all the keys and all the ammo. And yes, the cheat codes were mostly for developer testing as Doom didn't have a console the way that their later games did where they could directly type things in.
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@love2scoobysnack If she's truly stateless, then the suit would likely be filed in the state where the insurance company is located. That would be the place which would have jurisdiction. Typically, you'd have to file suit where the defendant is located when there's multiple jurisdictions involved, but typically a place where either party is located can have jurisdiction.
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Yes, that's part of why it can be so intimidating. If you open up the information screen on all the keybindings, it can be rather scary. That and being set loose with an entirely blank screen with no visible menu.
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That sounds nice. To operate a business in the US, you need city permits for every city that you do business in. Licenses from every county and state as well. And that's on top of the federal taxes that you have to have paperwork filed with. All of them have different rules and regulations about what is and isn't taxable. Some of them do it based on business property, like my county, some do it based on income like the federal government and others tax based on sales. It's a real mess and if you're just sole proprietorship, as in working by yourself for yourself, you have to hire a tax accountant or spend huge amounts of time figuring things out in most cases. The county here literally requires that you report everything that you use, even if it wasn't purchased by the business, so if you do work from home, you're technically supposed to register and pay based on everything you used, even if it's not owned by the business. So, if you take your laptop from the desk to the couch to do your work, you're technically supposed to list both, even if you're just working from home that day. They do give you $15k worth of assets before you have to pay property taxes on it, but it's ridiculous and in some cases, especially with second hand goods or ones that you owned before opening the business, you may not even know how much to declare for the purposes of taxes.
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@BWGPEI Yep, it's gotten pretty good, I remember earlier versions that were a right pain to get working right. When I recently installed Linux, it did a great job of finding Windows and my UEFI.
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@unexplained_entity7514 And I can pretty much guarantee you that none of those people actually have software that would require them to do so. If it's not important enough to emulate, it's probably got an alternative or you don't really want to use it.
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@unexplained_entity7514 I"m personally skeptical that it'll happen. But, there's no inherent reason why it couldn't.
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I'm not. The DNC rigged 3 primaries in a row for bad candidates. And the last time we had a competitive democratic primary was 2008. They forced Harris' nomination through in order to guarantee eligibility in OH, but they wound up losing the state anyways and they had a candidate that the voters had no say in, hadn't bought into and didn't even know what she was going to be about. On top of that, she failed to run on a 50 state strategy, which meant that she didn't have people outside of the battleground states talking with their relatives in those states about the election. They basically ignored me completely apart from please for money. Certainly numerous of those for every message about what they're going to do to address the issues that I care about.
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Doubtful, the shore isn't steep enough for the car to get far enough in to not be visible from the shoreline. These cars got poor gas mileage, but they weren't literal boats.
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And the only thing that could make that happen is an actual 3rd party. The Democrats are worthless.
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It is, but the court itself is far less predictable than one might imagine. It's the lower courts that are a far bigger issue, SCOTUS has limited time and they can't take every case. If you've got tons of lower courts making bad decisions that SCOTUS can pretend they don't have time for, you get a similar effect to if SCOTUS itself was ruling on those issues. It doesn't set precedence the same way, but it could be a generation before we get to start fixing the court. In the long term, we need a nonpartisan group to decide whom to allow on the list which the President is allowed to choose from. The rest of the process would remain the same, but it would reduce the number of fully unqualified judges to be on the court. Thomas and Scalia are/were particularly unqualified to be on the court. People like to claim that Thomas didn't get a job right out of law school because of his race, but that ignores the fact that he is completely unqualified to be an attorney, his legal theories have no basis in law or reality.
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That was Schultz.
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Today - 1 days?
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He wouldn't have lost his job if he'd just apologized immediately, or at least linked back to other apologies if he didn't want to apologize again. He didn't lose the job because of the jokes, he lost it because of how he handled the situation. Hollywood isn't in a position where things like this are going to be tolerated right now. And in terms of homophobic jokes, perhaps never again. Simply apologizing like he was asked to do would have been reasonable, so would doing so during the show. He's clearly sorry that he told those jokes, but that doesn't get him off the hook for how he chose to handle the current controversy.
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@Phuq Cue I'm curious what is this "left" and why do people support it? I keep seeing these comments accusing people of being in favor of "left." But, I never see anybody saying what left is or why they want it.
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@44hawk28 It's not at all reasonable. The bag are evidence that the person was processed by a cashier on the way out. Barring some actual evidence that he hid something under the bags, the view that he stole something isn't reasonable. Plus, it's not supposed to be greeters that are catching shoplifters, that's for security to do. Security has a lot more information available to them than just a lack of a bag. At Costco, those folks at the door checking receipts are looking to make sure that the customer received everything they paid for. Or at least the big ticket items and others commonly forgotten. If Costco thinks you've stolen something, security will handle it, not the people minding the door. Which is as it should be.
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Why not? SCrOTUmS pretty much legalized bribery years ago.
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Possibly, but does anybody actually like him?
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Thanks for the post. I've noticed recently that the things I've subscribed to are no longer showing up in my feed. I don't subscribe to things I don't like and if I change my mind, then I unsubscribe.
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Perhaps, but even if enough voters do that to prevent Trump from winning this time, it just kicks the inevitable down the road until the next election when the party gets wiped out. As long as they completely ignore the will of the voter and policies at a time when the GOP has gerrymandered everything and controls SCOTUS, nothing is gong to improve.
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I don't have a problem with collaboration when it's something that actually benefits regular people. Personally, I won't be voting for Democrats in federal races. At the state level, we have a top 2 primary system with nonpartisan districting, so there's at least some impact on what the final policies are.
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Easy, both candidates suck and a massive number of the people that can vote, don't vote. The election is this close because the fraction of the people that care enough to vote can't agree on the candidate. But, rather than going after the various eligible non-voters, the Democrats keep going after GOP voters in pursuit of bipartisanship rather than going after the eligible non-voters. The 2020 race had high turnout of eligible voters, but it was only about 2/3 of the eligible voters as in if all the non-voters had turned out for a different candidate that other candidate might well have won.
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@Anurag Chakraborty So? Was that autocorrect mistake really worth posting about!?
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@grantgood8536 Not really, Trump wanted $2k checks Biden was pushing for $600. Trump has many issues, but Biden is likely going to be a lot worse. He's been creaming himself just thinking of cutting social security.
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@makeamericagreatagain3401 That's only because of corruption and a lack of a party willing to whip votes for it and use the polling data as a truncheon. It would be trivial to get it done with that level of popular support, hence why it never goes up for a vote.
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@kfcfingerlicker9292 No arguments with that.
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It is and that's why one party is run by war criminals and the other is run by terrorists. The only real differences are funding and recognition.
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@jrpurdon Of course his won't help me. But at least the GOP is willing to pretend like they want men to vote for them. The Democrats can't even be bothered to play make believe. Hence why I voted Stein.
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To be honest TBI can result in a huge number of different presentations depending upon what precisely got damaged. IMHO, it's medical malpractice to see somebody for mental health problems without screening for brain injuries in most cases. I've had a lot of brain injuries over the years, lack of oxygen, multiple concussions, stroke, water intoxication and whatever the results were of those seizures I used to have were. Each time is different, depending upon what was affected, but you're absolutely right, anger and emotional instability definitely can result from a brain injury, although you'd be more likely to need to compare TBI against PTSD as they do crop up at the same time.
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@mattcalza4199 that was years ago, thankfully, I'm in grad school online now and what few hours I've been working are online. The status quo here for people seeking unemployment is to need an attorney if the company appeals and extending benefits does nothing to help while the appeal is in progress.
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It didn't. It's like the Roswell UFO, the conspiracy theory is just a cover for what actually happened and it gained enough traction that even after the need for secrecy was gone, it stuck in people's imagination. Roswell was basically just a weather balloon that had been repurposed for use floating over the USSR with cameras to spy on the Russians. In this case, from what I remember, it was an electromagnetic experiment involved with trying to hide ships from radar. I have no doubts that people think they saw those things, but exposure to strong magnetic fields does cause neurological issues thatcould easily explain that.
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Oriental is no longer used because we don't use the term Oriental to refer to people. The fact that we don't use the term Occidental to refer to Europeans probably wouldn't help the case of anybody that wants to bring the term back into common use by people that aren't racist.
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@DarkTug I used to live in China, and I'm not really sure what having the name "oriental" slapped on a building has to do with anything as people in the US can do that, and we do still have oriental rugs available under that name. It's the use of the name to refer to people that's not permissible in polite society.
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@DarkTug That's just not the term used in English to refer to people from that part of the world. And they wouldn't care, because it's not a Thai, Chinese or generally Asian word of any language.
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@Laotzu.Goldbug I suppose, but India is on a different subcontinent and the only other major group on the continent not commonly included would be Russians. So, there really isn't much ambiguity.
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Probably not, there wasn't really anywhere to go fast enough to flee a hurricane in those days and the owners knew that the worst case scenario is that they'd have a dead slave on their hands if they weren't allowed to leave. Which was more or less what would have happened if they allowed the slaves to leave anyways.
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Where's Charles Bronson when you need him?
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@toomuchstuff4828 TBH, that's a common thing in much of the world these days just because of how vulnerable the drivers are. They're driving around with their back turned to the passenger. Not that long ago, somebody AWOL in the middle of a military trial hijacked and murdered a driver and went on a bit of a spree trying to avoid being taken back into custody.
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She isn't even talking about essential workers, we'll get nothing for our service.
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@jdeltaalpha5195 Yep, which is a large part of why I wonder if anybody would be willing to front the money for this. It's not like those ET carts that were buried in New Mexico that could be sold to collectors when found, even if the carts didn't still work. In this case, the drive has to be found, it has to be functioning, or able to be disassembled and read and enough of the encrypted bits need to still be readable to actually trade. If any of those steps fail, then the money is gone. The only people I can think of that might go along with that would be organized crime looking to launder a bunch of money.
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@lindaleeyou1234 Exactly, this money is coming out of the pockets of younger workers that won't retire before the benefit cuts happen due to the trust being insolvent. There's still time to fix the situation, but from all appearances, they're not even going to try to resolve things. They're just going to pay out less to the younger folks who had fewer opportunities to save or earn a pension. This is a massive reason why having a gerontocracy is so problematic. They got theirs, the hell with the rest of us.
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I'm not so sure about that, he has a definite agenda on the topic and does regularly ignore the consequences of his stances. Yes, reefer madness isn't a thing and often times the problems with drug abuse are overstated. That does not mean that there aren't still major problems that need to be worked out and major consequences of using drugs that can crop up. It's certainly easier to quit if you're not constantly surrounded with drugs and people doing them.
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@TheAGNOSTIC_who_YT_CENSORS Police are trained to go after active shooters and stop the rampage, they are not generally trained to do open water rescues without equipment.
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@laurancebell3015 Yes, and that's one of the horrible things about drowning. If there isn't something to reach or throw to the distressed swimmer, your other option is typically to call for help and watch helplessly until that arrives.
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Apart from it being under the seat, I don't see how it would be that much different from a tire iron or lug wrench other than being explicitly a weapon.
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@stickjohnny Ryan Grim is definitely wrong here. Getting a booster shot has very little effect on your ability to contract the virus, and basically none when it comes to spreading it if you get infected. Ryan Grim is an idiot if the reason he got the booster was so that he can visit with family members. He could have done that with just the original doses just fine, the booster doesn't really do much for typical people, and we had officials quitting because the medical science does not support the widespread use of boosters. If we had opened up to people with vaccinations earlier, the folks with vaccines could have contracted it, survived it and had a much more durable level of protection. But, we didn't do that, so now we're stuck in this never ending cycle of boosters and lockdowns rather than admitting that the virus is endemic and won't be going away any time soon. Even scarier is that with the abuse of the vaccine, we could see much scarier variants coming down as those will be the ones that manage to be the ones that evade the vaccination.
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@masteroftoontown Similarly, I do think that Endor would be a bit of a challenge as well. You can do a fair bit with forced perspective (and Disney Imagineers are experts at that) but you still need a fair amount of vertical space to make that work, whether you structure it as a walk on the ground looking up, or in the treehouses looking down. I do think that it could probably be done using screens to make it seem like you're looking down, but that's going to be very tough to accomplish and probably not possible any time soon.
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Overreaching to screw with the FBI is unlikely to be a good idea. They are generally a rightwing agency that was involved in things such as McCarthy's Red Scare and have over time interfered on behalf of the Republicans. They've probably also got a bunch of dirt on Trump and his allies and it wouldn't be surprising to me if they happen to "find" the same sort of evidence that they more usually use to railroad the poor when they need a terrorist plot to keep people scared.
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I haven't had issues with that in decades. Even 20 years ago, the main hang ups were graphics drivers and flash. Well, we no longer use flash and all the major GPU manufacturers are either using open source drivers or are in the process of opening them. Unless you need some sort of weird niche bit of hardware, chances are that FreeBSD will handle it just fine. I can't recall the last time I had to worry about it, things generally just work.
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They're right about the cleaning up the ocean. We have to keep the plastics from getting into the oceans and the best way to do that is to charge the companies that are producing the plastics for the privilege of using plastics. Some of that money going to remove the plastics is probably fine, but unless we can get more plastics out of the ocean than is going in, nothing has really changed. But, really if we can keep the plastics out of the ocean in the first place, the problem will eventually solve itself as it will degrade, the bacteria are already evolving to eat it and no more will be added.
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@aaronbredon2948 That's exactly what the court is trying to avoid with that bogus code. They're also trying to avoid having a third party be the ref for the violations.
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Because that's how the media portrays it. From what I understand, the people on both sides want a negotiated peace deal of some sort. It's the people in charge of the military that don't. At the government level, it's literally terrorists against war criminals.
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Doesn't matter, CVS does not have the right to dictate who can be on the sidewalk. If you disagree, feel free to write your representatives about getting a change made to the law.
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@michaelcoburn2975 He was my favorite Weekend Update host with Kevin Nealon being a close second.
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That's probably why neither party is running one issues. I keep seeing those ads from Schumer about how important it is for their party to take back the Senate, but they provide no reason why they deserve it.
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That Germantown joke needs an apology. Even now, fully a century after WWI and over 75 years after WWII, the discrimination due to the intense propaganda effort hasn't yet fully subsided. I was literally almost kicked out of college because I was "too German" to be a teacher. It was barely coded at all with fairly explicit references to racial stereotyping that wouldn't be acceptable to any other group other than Russians in this day and age. Complaining about it got me nowhere because there's been so much effort to dehumanize us over the decades that it's more or less what you get for choosing to be born German in America.
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The state lotteries siphon money out every time they run one. And, various authorities tax the winners. I'm guessing the issues is what others are pointing at that after a certain point, you can buy every single ticket and even after paying taxes you've got more money than you put into it. Which results in the pots hitting a natural limit somewhere just north of where the tickets times the odds of winning the jackpot.
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I'm not surprised. I bought one of their entry level NAS last year and it's borderline unusable for really anything. Even just logging in is apparently too much strain to handle and it times out multiple times before it actually allows me in. I'm lucky if I can run more than one of the included apps at one time and I don't think that it was particularly advertised accurately that it was worse than a much cheaper Raspberry Pi.
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@Gaeliclass His mistake was not running as an independent after the DNC screwed him over.
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@gck81096 That's where he lost me. Biden has failed to deliver on any of what Bernie believed in.
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These kinds of tweets are why they've had to try to redefine the term racism so that people of color don't have to be accountable for their racist views. If they spent half the time and energy working on their communities as they do trying to find new and innovative ways of blaming things on white men and excuse their own racism they'd have few problems.
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It's worth also noting that he isn't necessarily not a murderer because he was acquitted. People keep suggesting that because he was acquitted that he's not a murderer and that's never been the case. He personally might not be a murderer as defined by the relevant bits of law, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he should be able to collect from people claiming that he's a murderer even now, as the civil standards for wrongful death are lower than for criminal ones related to homicide. There's plenty of people, like OJ Simpson, who were acquitted in a criminal case and were later found to be liable for wrongful death suits based on the same crime. People claiming that OJ is a murderer wouldn't necessarily be required to stop making the claims based on the criminal case, even though continuing to do so afterwards may not be a good idea from the point of view of a civil libel or defamation suit.
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I rarely have more than 2-3 total types of socks between various uses. It's well worth it to stick to a compatible color palette so that everything matches without having to think about it. I've found that people start judging me if I'm wearing the same color shirts multiple days in a row even if they're different shirts.
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@gurusmurf5921 It's late in the day, but if they put Bernie top of the ticket with somebody that was committed to getting money out of politics, fixing SCOTUS and just about any other leftish policies they could still win. I don't believe they'll do that because they did force HRC on us and the next election they were so afraid of Trump that they shoved Biden down our throats as being "electable" even though Bernie was polling better than anybody against Trump.
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No, the dementia would still be an issues This is the man that has the nuclear launch codes and can authorize the Ukrainians to use American weapons to attack targets inside of Russia. In other words, he could still trigger WWIII. The Democrats have just decided to not invoke the 25th amendment. If Biden doesn't fit the intended use of those provisions, then I don't know who does.
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@kerritrouble3473 Nobody wants that fraud Obama after he sold us out when he was President and forced Biden on us.
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I see you traded up.
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I literally used sensor reheat today, I'll have to give the popcorn button a try and see how it works.
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I finally tried the popcorn button and my Kenmore microwave did a pretty good job, there were very few unpopped kernels and nothing was burned. I'll try orienting the bag in a different direction and see if that improves things.
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@defenestrated23 Yes, and I'm not even sure what the claim there was, that she did something on October 13th, and I'm sure it is true, she did something on that day. I'm just not sure what it is or how that's similar to what Trump is accused of doing.
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@milehighpodcast4486 Wouldn't that be 38? It's roughly 2 degrees F increase for every 1 degree C increase.
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This week, the company I work for screwed up the paychecks, resulting in them being taken back before being redeposited later in the day. Because I've got my ducks in order, I was able to temporarily transfer money to cover the withdrawals that I knew would come out that day and avoid over drafting the account. Unlike many of my coworkers, I didn't need to stress as I've got nearly a month's worth of earnings in my emergency fund and I have already set aside the money to pay the current month's bills. As long as the company doesn't avoid paying me for a month, I'd be fine. I do kind of get how my coworkers would be in a mess. We don't make much money normally and housing expenses around here are a lot. I'm fortunate to be paying below market on my rent to a relative, but I've also been extremely frugle. I buy most of the things that I get on clearance, I'm not afraid to accept 2nd hand items and to buy from the local thrift shop. I've got pretty good taste and as time has gone by, I have a place that has gone from looking like a college student's to one that is actually pretty nice. The key is being willing to accept stuff that's basically just functional and safe, and set aside a few dollars as you can to buy nicer and then wait until there's a sale to replace anything that isn't a legitimate emergency.
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@happyglowup7736 I've become a fan of 3 checking account finances. One for personal spending on anything I want to buy. The only rules are that I can't overdraft the account, borrow from another account or have shame for that spending. Another for expenses that I know are coming, but may take time to process, so the money in my other checking accounts is what's available and not specifically spoken for. And the last is for my general household adulty spending that hasn't already been automated. It sounds more complicated than it is, but with an alert to tell me when the balance drops below what I expect to pay out through the month, I can mostly just leave it alone as all those expenses either have an automatic transfer to cover them from each paycheck or I personally transfer the money when I agree to pay for it. Once I got used to it, it really helped my panic over money kick in at an appropriate time. I get to see the money getting low before it really gets low as all my crucial bills are already accounted for.
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@harpitap Jesus comes to LA a lot, I think he is a janitor at one of the highrises.
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Are we surprised? Decades of bullshit wars, huge number of casualties on our side that get more or less screwed over again by an underfunded VA system and being associated with war criminals like the ones at Abu Ghraib. I really can't blame young folks for giving it a hard pass. And that's assuming that they're even fit enough to be able to complete boot camp in the first place, what with the obesity epidemic and how unaffordable healthy food can be.
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@superdupert6 Really? I've had far more trouble with the private companies than USPS. The main issue I have with USPS is that the delivery times can border on fraud. That priority mail may or may not actually arrive any quicker and isn't guaranteed to get there in the specified time frame either.
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@hikari4415 It's one of the reasons why the new definition they used to demote Pluto was so dumb. It's also a detail that a lot of people don't know about. Ultimately, whether or not the Earth is a planet isn't super relevant to people that aren't involved in astrophysics or something related.
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That used to be the case, but it's been getting worse over the last 10-20 years. The commandline is plenty discoverable and all tools have some way of printing out every possible commandline argument. The hard part of the commandline is creatively thinking about how to combine different commands to do things.
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It's to identify shoplifters. There's no need to use changeable price tags as part of the pricing strategy as they already have digital discounts and deals in their app that do essentially the same thing.
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@CutoutClips Yep, that's the real reason for the digital tags. I used to manage a bakery department and it can take a lot of time to sort through the tags that I've been given and figure out which ones apply and to update the prices so that the customers know how much the items cost. A lot of the price tags weren't even intended to ever be put out, they were just there so that I'd know there'd been a change in pricing so that when I printed item tags I could put the right amount on or change how much I was putting out. The changing of prices to screw with individual customers isn't likely to happen. Anybody not using their shopper card gets a generic price, and the actual adjustments to prices are done via digital deals and coupons which are more likely to be seen by customers and are less likely to be seen by customers for which the deal wasn't intended and the issues of prices on the shelves no longer being consistent between when the customer picks the item up and when they get to the checkout.
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@markminch1906 They are unlikely to. It's more effective to give better personalized coupons than to try to individualize the prices.
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@youdontknowme5969 Department managers don't make much more than regular associates do. And, there's a continual increase in stuff that they want done without an increase in people to do it. It's common to get a cut in hours in anticipation of a new technology bringing increased efficiency, but nobody follows up to see if the gains materialized. And in many cases, I noticed that the new tech was less efficient.
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Apparently Washington State doesn't seem to care about anybody knowing the legality of this. I had heard years ago that as long as you were in the river or the flood plain you're fine, but surprisingly the state doesn't feel like providing any information about what the law is.
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@ballyastrocade5672 Muppet Babies hasn't ever gotten a release on DVD, and I'm not even sure that it's been shown on TV or streamed in decades.
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I think she hopes that they'll nuke DC while she's on her trip to Taiwan and will then be POTUS when she comes back. Or, she's finally lost her last marble.
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@denverarnold6210 A manual rudder doesn't do you much good as you need to be moving at a different speed from the water in order to steer. Ideally, you'd be going faster than the water, although going slower might also be technically possible. There's also the issue of trying to use a rudder that's large enough to control a ship that size without power. Steering a car without power steering is tough enough, imagine steering a ship like that.
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@fullmetalpotato1258 Right, which is why you'd generally want to have tug boats nearby to ensure they don't collide head on and barriers and fenders to make it all the more hard to collide head on as well. You're unlikely to ever solve this 100%, but not even having any of the elements is just plain sloppy. Those were not large pylons and it's unclear how large the ports under the water line were, but clearly not enough.
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Arguably he did a few good things, but things like not using gas during the war on the enemy, is eclipsed by the fact that he used that gas on people in those death camps.
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@sie4431 True, I think the point is that there's a lot of older people who wouldn't know who he is, it's not just an age thing.
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I'm not surprised, I do think this will become more common as the justices stray further and further from legitimacy. That's not to say that I condone it, but realistically, voting doesn't seem to do anything, people are going to find some alternate means of affecting change. Right now it's just people with mental health issues, but it's going to become more mainstream over time.
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@TheGiantRobot that's why it's murder rather than manslaughter. 2nd and 3rd degree don't require premeditation. A jury isn't likely to accept a 1st degree murder charge without evidence of premeditation. Right now there's none and barring a tape emerging of them talking about lynchings or similar, the charge wouldn't be appropriate
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Thrunabulax I dunno about that, serial rapists are pretty bad.
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Fuller House is significantly better than Full House was. Of course, we didn't really realize it at the time because the quality of TV programming during that time period was pretty bad. I'm surprised that they were able to include 2 Broke Girls when there are so many terrible TV programs from the '80s alone. Also, what about Bay Watch?
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To be fair, out of the hundred takes they did, this was probably the longest one that left even the slightest question about whether or not he's senile.
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@nillyk5671 IIRC, even by the administration's own figures, it's at least a half million that have been killed by the Israelis. Who knew that Hamas was so progressive? What with all the women and children that are apparently in their fighting forces.
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@LePedant Yes, but as we learned in 2000, it's just the 9 SCOTUS justices whose votes actually count. That being said, the Democrats were once again playing with fire and rather than having a proper primary, allowing the voters to choose the nominee and going for the strongest candidate they could find, they allowed Biden to strong arm them into being the candidate until he was completely unable to go the distance. I have no idea what would have happened had he actually won the race as he clearly was not going to be able to serve out another 4 year term.
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In a sense he was unlucky, I'm guessing that he drove drunk far more than just 9 times and even on that 9th offense, if he had taken a different route home, he might not have been caught. But, it's extremely selfish to focus on that rather than the fact that this person apparently did drive drunk and there's so much evidence that it's not even in dispute that he was over the line and crashed into that car with his car. And, his testimony probably did make it easier for them to decide that life was appropriate rather than a shorter term as nobody was killed int he crash and apparently the family is going to be OK.
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You're wrong about urine. It's more complicated. The more yellow it is, the more likely you are to have problems, but drinking a bottle of urine once isn't an issue. It's when you're drinking urine that was produced form drinking urine that it's a problem. The more clear it is, the less of an issue it is. As a way of stretching it a bit it's not an issue. But, again, it's one of those things that's best not done. As far as dehydrating, that's not true. People say that and there's simply no reason to believe it. I wouldn't recommend repeatedly drinking urine or drinking urine at all if you can help it, but it's simply not the case that it's going to dehydrate you quicker than not drinking at all is.
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Drones in general work rather well, especially since it's acceptable for them to be destroyed, the actual trained personnel are nowhere near the drone when it is destroyed and they can be significantly smaller and more maneuverable than ones that involve people.
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This isn't just America. I saw this all over the place in China. It was so ridiculous that even if you went into a police station when dealing with customs at the border, there was a button that you could use to rate your satisfaction. It's crazy, what person in their right mind would ever rate one of those folks as anything other than perfect? They literally have the power to kick you out of the country or throw you in jail while charges are pending.
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Now if only they'd try to take the radical step of trying to get young men to vote for them.
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TBH, that part of the story was a bit thin. Did she work at the museum or express a particular interest in those works of art? It still wouldn't make sense, but at least I could see the connection. If it was just about destroy random stuff, there's a lot of stuff out there that's simply easier to access for destruction.
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@underworldfilms86 yep, traditionally, they got their money through things like crates falling off of trucks, gambling, booze, protection rackets, insurance fraud and all sorts of other rackets. Much more direct and harder for authorities to track. I'd assume the rule was to avoid having to explain where that money came from in the first place.
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@rockfire1669 That's because the CIA and DoD were ultimately responsible. I doubt they went so far as to plan it or fund it, there's no evidence of that, but they did train Osama Bin Laden and the attacks were because we have military personnel in Saudi Arabia. Simply removing our forces from a country that's wealthy enough to have its own military or not training them would likely have been enough to prevent 9/11 from happening and the resulting hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians killed in the aftermath of the various resultant military actions.
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@Juiicyyy Yes, sometimes I wish they'd wait a bit until they have actual information before they start reporting. One of the benefits of newspapers is that there were only so many printings a day.
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The fact that it doesn't exist in your eyes isn't relevant. The fact that the issue exists for other people is what matters. Plus, the fact that you're not distracted by the signs, does not prevent you from being hit by somebody who is distracted by the signs.
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Yes, apart from not unloading enough rounds in to the "prankster" to do the job, (If you're going to shoot somebody, do it in the chest and pretty much empty the gun as you shouldn't be shooting somebody without the intent to finish them off. ) there's nothing that I see in the video that shows him messing up. It's more or less textbook, he gave dude a chance to back off and when that didn't work, he used legal force to protect himself. I hope he files a lawsuit for the various injuries that he's suffered as a result of being put in that position in the first place.
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Not really, this was after slavery, if you've watched it, it's clearly not set during the period before slavery was banned. It's rather subversive for the time.
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@docsavage4921 You don't think that it might be because he wasn't fit to stand trial? It's incredibly difficult to get that finding, and the prosecutor also gets to use their expert to verify. In less than 1% of all cases is insanity even attempted as the defense and it's pretty clear that that's a disproportionately small number of people to be mentally unfit for trial.
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They're already lining up to give women a pat on the back if Harris wins and blame men if Trump does. Meanwhile, they haven't made any promises to address men's issues.
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@ Minimum wage + welfare is supposed to guarantee a basic standard of living. There shouldn't be a lot of people in that situation, but it's an increasingly common thing as more and more of the money that should be going to the workers gets kept by degenerates like Musk and the other robber barons.
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@fwfeo That's the thing, they want to lose in the midterms so that they can have even more of a reason to fundraise on needing to pick up seats as this time they're totally serious about actually using the power that they've been given to do what the voters want. They pinkie swear.
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One of the awesome things was that here in WA state both GOP and Democrats came out quickly with similar bills to fix the problem. It's a shame that at the federal level the parties can't figure out how to do the right thing the way that our state parties did.
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There are so many issues with the way that that is handled right now. I don't expect that it's likely to ever be preferred to use person first language with that because the traits impact on just about every part of the person in a way that you're not really able to separate the condition from the person in any sort of a clean way the way that you might a person's skin color from their personhood. I go back and forth between referring to it as a condition and referring to it as a disorder just because it is rather unclear how to classify it. There certainly are aspects that are disordered and there are aspects that are just different.
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And really, that's not something that a potential customer should even need to ask about.
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Don't forget that in some of those states, haven't gone Democrat since the Johnson administration. They need to count, but let's be honest about the fact that those delegates shouldn't count as much as in areas where the Democrats typically win or can reasonably win.
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He was right, by not pressing the clutch first, you're sparing the clutch at the expense of the engine and the brakes add they then have to fight it out. There's no real benefit to doing it as the brakes are being applied and you're risking either locking the wheel or having abs kick in. By hitting the clutch you're putting more strain on it, but you're sparing the engine, transmission and brakes from unnecessary wear and tear. You can get away with this, but it's not a good habit.
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Not really, if she had been the first to the door, it might have just been her before he killed himself.
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@jwrosenbury No, the whole point of a jury is to have a group weighing the evidence to try and get the fairest hearing of the evidence. The feelings get in there because we're talking about humans, not because it's a desired aspect of a jury. Feelings getting in there is a large part of why trials are often times not fair. It's great if you're a pretty white woman with money, and not so much for the rest of us.
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@thesaltyspacecowboy8531 This is just ignorant. Jury nullification is a byproduct of the prohibition on being tried for the same offense multiple times and the secrecy of the jury room. It's also something that ensures that we keep trying people for ridiculous things, as the cases that get nullified are the ones most likely to get overturned on appeal. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean the rest of us don't.
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@rjai4890 Yes, he'll definitely be caught, he just did too sloppy of a job of it. Not to mention from what I can tell there are a ton of cameras in that part of NYC and the entire city has significant hardening in case of terrorist attack, which this arguably was.
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If they take it from Bernie, I'll vote for Trump.
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@Roxor128 Yep, that's the thing that coincided with their fall from being the dominant open source browser. The idiots running the project started adopting the stupid things that Google was doing with Chrome. You had the major revision number changes which caused the plugins and extensions to break. You had the stupid changes to the address bar and you had the the continual changes to the browser UI for no reason. The mobile version right now won't even show me the address bar without going all the way to the top of the page. I think that if they did a few things like beef up the workspaces, fix the UI so that it actually functions properly on desktop displays and listened to what the users are asking for rather than copying what Chrome is doing, they could probably win users relatively quickly. But, they're apparently not interested.
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It's worth noting that Obama got nothing done because he was incompetent. Had he included the public option or better, he likely would have had a Democratic majority for the next 2 years. Even failing that, he could have whipped the Democrats harder and looked for ways of getting some Republicans to go along. He could also have bullied them via the media to do things that might benefit the voters. He didn't do it, because he didn't want to do things that would help the voters.
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@RiamsWorld yes, it does. A police OPTION isn't for all. Only corporate hacks suggest otherwise.
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Any Democrat or Republican voter that cares about this country should just stay home. Y'all have done enough damage for a century's worth of elections.
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We won't know unless it's found. If the disappearance was either due to an implosion or it getting caught in the wreck, then it probably wouldn't much matter as there's no equipment in existence that could save them. If they sank to the bottom, but weren't crushed, perhaps, any other possibility, probably. At any rate, at this point, they're likely dead from dehydration or hypothermia, and if they're not now, then that's likely to happen before they run of air and the sub hasn't even been located yet. Once it's located, it would take time to raise, assuming it's not on the surface, and they can't just crack it open on the surface, it would need some time to decompress and I don't know if there's an option for that with this design.
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Clinton v. Trump was worse. We knew in like May or so that Trump was going to win and didn't see even the smallest effort to build a coalition to take him on. And to make matters worse, HRC burned through basically all the campaign money that should have gone into the down ballot races for candidates that could potentially fight back against Trump when elected.
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Your tip should be based upon the fact that these people should make a decent living. The whole idea of tipping based on anything else is antiquated and exploitative. Around here, they do get minimum wage plus tips, but in so many areas it's a tiny hourly figure and the tips don't even really kick in until they hit the federal minimum wage. Perhaps in some areas people are making decent money and the tips are a genuine gratuity, but in most cases that's not the case, the tips are an essential part of their income that has been left to the customers to pay directly. This is especially true right now, when the servers may well be going into the kitchen to prepare portions of the meal.
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Around here we use those for the actual centerlines, lane markers and foglines. We use these cats eyes on the centerline and at the edge of the road. We also use retroreflective films on most road signs as well as our license plates. It is amazing how much of a difference that makes in terms of seeing the road when there aren't any lights. It is rather unfortunate, because it doesn't do anything to help you spot hazards in the roadway, just to keep you on the road.
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@fleetadmiralsidiqi1941 Iran is basically just as democratic as the US is. When is the last time that we had a major party candidate for President or Senate that didn't have the blessing of the powers that be? There's currently 4 sitting senators that are independents and at least half of them were Democrats before leaving the party. And just look at the way that the Democrats rigged their primary in order to get HRC and then Biden rather than Bernie.
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Probably not, it's tough to get the pistons back into the brake without something to pry on. Especially if you haven't cleaned them. I'm amazed at how easy Lemmy had it when getting the assembly back in place. Mine are always so tight that I wind up struggling with it for quite a bit. And yes, that's with the pistons completely retracted and not having pulled on the brake lever. If you're that concerned about it, you might as well just replace them, pads aren't very expensive, and the process is relatively quick once you know what you're doing.
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@NickM_FirstofHisName Yes, I'm kind of curious where else this money would come from.
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@HomeDefender30 It has, it doesn't make him any less of a horrible human being. He went there looking for trouble, he found it, now there are two people who are dead at his hands. The fact that he's not legally a murderer doesn't make him any less of a horrible human being. And it only means that he's not a murderer because the term has a legal definition. If you heard the facts and didn't know the verdict, I don't know that it would be such a clear cut case of not being a murderer.
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Thanks, I was under the assumption that pilots have training on how to navigate without the GPS given how stupid that would be to rely on GPS when for a long period of time the US could just shut it off in certain regions and there not necessarily being any guarantee that there wouldn't be commercial planes in the area.
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You shouldn't, the IDF and Israeli government regularly commit crimes against humanity, including genocide. Clearly you didn't learn anything from Vietnam if you don't see the IDF for what it is. Hamas isn't any better, but they aren't doing what they're doing with US taxpayer dollars.
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Could we please stop using the term "allies"? There is no war going on, there's no reason why everybody can't have a decent life.
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He should have commuted all of the sentences to life without possibility of parole. This sort of thing doesn't really energize the base the way that it could, but it does energize the right just as much as if he had commuted all of the sentences. It's something the Democrats do a lot, they got the ACA passed without a public option, and the GOP still spent a bunch of time destroying it the way that they would have if there had been a public option. But, because there was no public option, it's allowed the prices to climb higher and higher and a good chunk of the voters in states that didn't expand medicare are in a worse position than they were before the ACA was passed. Obama could have whipped the votes if he didn't have this naive view of what a statesman is. Just about any statesman was able to find a way of dealing with the problems rather than just capitulating.
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In the US, it's normal to be expected to conduct yourself like you would on the job whenever you go in for a job interview. And these hearings were a form of job interview. But, more than that, your behavior when away from court can lead to problems in court where you have to recuse yourself even if the behavior is completely legal and consistent with the cultural norms of the area.
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Yep, whatever the rules are going to be, I hope that they'll enforce them consistently. I've been considering getting my own, but I'm still trying to figure out what exactly is legal and then whether I can even use one legally without having to be out in the street with something that may not be able to keep up with traffic, but isn't legal to use on the sidewalk either.
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@bloodofthelamb13 There's also not a lot of roles by which other actors even have the opportunity to try. The roles get written with him in mind, and I'm not sure who moves to LA in order to act when the only roles available are already going to an established actor. In this case, there's 7 roles here and as such, pretty much guaranteed to go to at least 6 other actors that might not ever have a shot at it.
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@kayl456jenna Yes, they share a very superficial similarity, but they're different. A traffic circle is basically just an all way stop that prevents you from speeding through it without slowing to see if there's anybody on your right. It works relatively well with side streets where there usually isn't anybody coming. A roundabout is designed so that the traffic does keep flowing most of the time and you're yielding to traffic in the circle rather than traffic entering the circle. They're two different things to solve two different, but related, problems.
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My expectations for him were so bad that he'd almost have to exceed them by a tiny bit. A very tiny bit.
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It kind of blows my mind that he thought those other people in line didn't know that she's morbidly obese. Now, if a bunch of people exchanged cash after hearing the number, that might warrant this report.
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I work in the bakery department of a grocery store and oil weeping is absolutely disgusting. By the time some of the products are ready for markdowns, they're physically slick on the outside as the oil has made it out of the product and out of the packaging. I hadn't thought about the fact that solid shortening could be used to avoid that.
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That's my main issue. These things may well help, but only in service of actual, real treatment. Drug addiction is usually an issue of poor social connections or an underlying medical condition that's being self-medicated. If you don't address those things, then the likelihood of getting and remaining clean is pretty small. I tend to cringe when things like magic mushrooms and MDMA are being touted as solutions to drug abuse problems as the research isn't really there yet and the fact of the matter is that if you're not dealing with the actual issues driving the use, then it just runs the risk of bandaging over the problem, or worse. Personally, I've been clean from alcohol for a little over 20 years now, and it only worked because I gave up just about everything. I lost all my friends from that period of my life and I pretty much had to start from scratch socially, building a life with people that either didn't use or who would respect my wish not to drink at all. These days, I'll drink a little, but only limited amounts of alcohol removed products like near bears and wines. The less than 0.5% alcohol hasn't been an issue for me.
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Just not enough to demand that his friend Joe actually try to earn our votes and follow through on advancing any of his promises.
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It shouldn't be, fewer and fewer cars come with them every year, more and more drivers don't even know how to change one. It's easier to meet fuel efficiency standards by just including tire pressure monitoring and runflats.
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@kennethmelnychuk9737 Or just have runflats and tire pressure monitors like most modern cars do. Plus, if you're going to be that far away from cell service or a major highway, it might make sense to just get a full sized spare and pop it in the back.
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Yes, but he waited far too long to do so. He should have done it last year at the latest.
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It wasn't even that big compared with the one that they're expecting. It was a significant quake, don't get me wrong, but compared with the big one it's not so big. Here in WA, we're still waiting on our big one and it's been over 20 years since our last significant quake. And even that one is a tiny fraction of the amount of energy that seismologists think is trapped in the faults here.
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They can mostly all be avoided by driving at a rate appropriate to conditions. The only exception would be crashes like when a kid pops out from behind a parked car.
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I gave up on waiting. I didn't have much debt, but having had the pandemic scuttle my career plans, I'm now making roughly 2/3 of what I was expecting to make. I've been working at a grocery store and the Dems absolutely shafted us on hazard pay. They had a proposal when they knew they didn't have the votes to do it. But when they did get into power, they didn't even try to get anything passed. I don't particularly begrudge those that were at home on unemployment, but the bonus payments that were handed out alone were more than I was making being out in public so that other people didn't have to. A little bit of student loan relief for having my plans scuttled by the government isn't a lot. Because of that whole thing, I will not ever vote for another Democrat or Republican except in the case where there's no 3rd party candidate running and even then only to vote the incumbent bum out of office. It's just so disgusting how much they failed the country and people like me.
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Yes, but then you're paying for extra space that could be used for other things. Life is full of tradeoffs.
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@@JohnnySilverfoote Clearly, you don't know anything about guns then. They were armed with standard service weapons. As in they didn't have hundreds of rounds, the rate of fire wasn't that high and they were still massively outnumbered. Even if every shot killed somebody, they'd still have been in deep trouble. This whole thread is rather surreal, a bunch of ignorant people trying to make excuses as to why this wasn't really that big of a deal.
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@letthatsinkin7879 I have, have you? They've been going after the ring leaders and the idiots that provided the most proof that they intended to commit a crime. I wouldn't expect everybody to be charged, there's a logistical problem in doing so. It does not mean that what happened was any less criminal. It just means that we don't have a large enough criminal justice system to charge that many people.
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Why wouldn't she know Arthur? The books are kind of old, but wasn't the show on until a few years ago?
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@kittyearsheadbands8810 Honestly, if it weren't for the last century of purposeful vandalism and destruction of German culture in the US in response to WWI and then WWII, I wouldn't see anything at all wrong with it at all. But, I do take issue with people suggesting that it's somehow progressive to steal more Germanic things, as if there wasn't a period of time where we had "liberty cabbage" and "Salisbury steak" in an effort to "get the Hun." But, somehow when various white subcultures borrow things, it's cultural appropriation and wrong. Casting her as Snow White is the epitome of cultural appropriation and a little bit of self-awareness of it isnt' asking that much. Worse, there's not going to be decent roles for people of color, if all that happens is that white roles get reassigned to people with a bit more melanine in their skin. I wouldn't personally have an issue with it at all, if at some point, I thought there'd be some reckoning coming for the various racists that continue to lie about the wars. Yes, the holocaust really happened and was probably even more horrific than most people realize, but there were also tens of thousands of German civilians that were murdered by the Allies in the closing days of the war as retribution and thousands that wound up in American concentration camps in the US. Not to mention the language literally being banned for a period of time from public education. BTW, it's completely possible to think that the Nazis were evil incarnate without letting the allies off the hook for the evil deeds and ethnic cleansing that they did during that same period of time. It's a bit like the actual issue with the dwarves here where they were a fine feature of the original stories and when Disney did the animated film, but at some point, the characters should be brought to life in a way that's more nuanced and reflects that they have actual personalities beyond the one trait that inspires their naming.
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@BlackSuperman2099 You misunderstand the minstrel shows and should probably do some more research. Yes, they evolved into something quite racist, but they're based on a history that spans thousands of years back to the Greeks, if not further, when they would have men playing all the roles and using masks at various points to reflect different characters. You see the same basic thing going on in China with Chinese operas using painted masks to help convey the story. Perhaps folks should just take a chill pill and realize that nobody is in a particularly good place to be accusing anybody of racism in such a broad way.
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I've had good luck foam rolling my back, but once it's unlocked, I need to ensure that the spinal erectors and abs, in particular, are strong enough to do their job. It's made a pretty massive difference as I spend a lot of time hunched over at work.
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Stop reelecting Republicans and Democrats to the Senate and Presidency. The GOP is nominating and confirming the most corrupt ones, but the Democrats aren't exactly fighting that with very much force.
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Yes, and IIRC, they hold the record for most #2 records without ever achieving a #1.
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@bobbynoe1 IIRC, he was also sued for sounding too much like himself.
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I wish they'd just ditch the cinematic universe approach and just focus on releasing good movies. I'd love to see a new Guyver movie, the ones they did in the '90s were actually pretty decent for being early '90s super hero movies.
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@zacharyoconnor9590 I might be thinking of a different one, the one I saw was VH1 Reality Show Bus Crashes In California Causing Major Slut Spill , which is fairly old and still there.
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@zacharyoconnor9590 If you search for it, I see two versions, the 14 year old version and a short from 21 hours ago. It's really weird how this just wasn't showing up in my history when everything else was.
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They've been republican-lite for many years now. I won't be voting for any Democrat in the future if Bernie isn't the nominee. He's literally the only hope of the party moving forward and they're doing whatever they can to prevent the will of the people from being expressed.
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It's really sad that we seem to have peaked with the younger Boomers, entirely of Gen X and maybe a few of the older Millenials. Computers have been getting progressively harder to use because apparently we no longer care about the software working, it just has to look pretty. Even if that means that it doesn't actually work right.
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Yep, they used to deliver 7 days a week and multiple times a day in major cities. But, yeah, they don't just shut down because it's Sunday. Sunday is a sort of catch up day for all the behind the scenes stuff that isn't directly delivering things.
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I like your videos, they're nice and thorough, but still easy to follow. I suspect that you're right that if a President did attempt a self-pardon that it would likely result in impeachment as it is an admission of guilt. Whether it meant removal from office is probably somewhat less clear and likely would depend upon the specific charges and case. But, if it's serious enough to try to prosecute, I suspect it would also result in removal from office.
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I switched to Linux Mint. I'd probably have switched to FreeBSD, but last I checked, I couldn't find a Crashplan equivalent that would run on it.
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@ Yep, for anybody that doesn't absolutely have to use a windows or mac only program that doesn't have an acceptable alternative and doesn't run adequately in wine, can probably use Linux without any real problems these days. There's even plenty of options that use a similar UI design to Windows and there aren't many things that absolutely have to be done from the commandline these days either.
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@SnowyAspenHills Yep, I've been using liquid gas for as long as I've been backpacking. My Dad had a Svea stove and I eventually picked up an MSR whisperlite. They both take the same sort of gas. I prefer the whisperlite mainly because the cool down time if I screw up the priming is significantly less. I've never personally been a fan of those sorts of one time use canisters.
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It happened because the people impacted by this are in close contact with the lawmakers. They weren't getting those payouts because they weren't taxed on the income that would have lead to the benefits they're getting. The WEP and GPO really only apply to certain situations where you've got income that wasn't subject to social security taxation and a pension. The social security benefits get reduced by a portion of the pension amount, but these people are still doing better than what you'd see with just social security. If they want to fix it, just increase the amount of the pensions and fund that. Social security has it's own tax and it shouldn't be going to pay people benefits above what they paid in for.
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@YouTViewer Why? It doesn't make a difference and you're not generally required to check that often. It also likely wouldn't have changed things as the payment would already have been past the point of stopping before being completed.
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Yes, we'd be shocked, but they'd be shocked at how much of our money goes to subsidize them in those areas. And how little investment goes towards our prosperity. The prosperity that funds your living in places that aren't economically viable.
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@tracigreen4786 Doesn't matter, it's still sex discrimination and probably race discrimination as well. It's only not age discrimination because the 14th amendment isn't normally used to help young people get fair treatment. If they want to make it a private club and require people to join, then they probably could get away with it. But, they're going to be sued into oblivion.
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This is good legal advice, it's a bad idea to count on getting a judge to overturn the terms of a contract. There may not be sufficient grounds to do so, or you may simply find a judge that is less likely to do so and the appellate court might say no. In either case, you're out of pocket thousands of dollars just to get that no. That being said, given the facts of the case, those waivers shouldn't be sufficient to get the builder off the hook. Forcing the sale of their previous home, moving the closing date and canceling is far more than simply the builder's convenience, at least to most normal people. Without forcing the sale, the builder probably would be able to cancel the contract, but I'd be very curious myself about what prompted the closing date to be pushed back and there may well be a 3rd party that could be sued for interfering with the contract who isn't covered by the liability waivers with the prospective buyer. Because if they just thought they'd be able to get more money in the abstract, they probably would have canceled the contract prior to the contracted closing date. If they pushed the date back and then cancelled after the original closing date, that implies that there may have been some negotiations or shopping around of the property going on. Obviously, there are other possible reasons, but I'm sure a good attorney would be getting papers to cover whatever communications were going on with respect to the property.
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@cobracommander9138 Yes, if anything this is likely to increase the standards for folks that aren't attending law school. Previously, you just needed to pass the bar, the law school was optional. Now, you don't have the bar exam, but there is a more thorough and longer process by which one gets licensed.
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@metropod Yes, and in this case the viewers can make their own judgment about what is on the tape. But, cameras can at times distort things, not that that applies here.
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It's the same reason that tipping a circular object gives you an ellipse. The axis in one direction remains the same and the axis in the other either shrinks or stretches.
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@snowsansa1527 That's not always viable due to all the people doing the same thing. That is unless you want to live in the middle of nowhere or a dangerous neighborhood.
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@georgegillespie3737 That's his point. Why is the line where it is when the 2nd amendment does not state anywhere in it that it's firearms specifically? Logically, it would extend further than that. And the reason for that, is primarily marketing, I'm sure there are folks that would want those things as well, but trying to justify chemical weapons or bombs to the general public would remove the last little veneer about this being about self-defense, hunting or other sport shooting.
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Essentially yes, the more accurate description of it would be that the national guard does have access to pretty much all of those things. I think nuclear weapons and cruise missiles are about the only thing they don't get that the military does. The "2nd amendment" that people refer to that applies to everybody else doesn't exist and never did. That's the actual expansion that you're referring to. It's not that it's broader than it used to be in terms of weaponry, it's that it's broader in terms of whom can use it as justification for owning weapons.
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@bigredd690 I've noticed just in general when driving around, that people drive like maniacs and wind up only a car length ahead of me. Whatever few seconds you might save driving too fast can very easily get eaten up by crashing, even if nobody in the involved vehicles are injured.
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A good one is 4 seconds of inhale, hold the breath for 7 seconds and then breathe out for 8 seconds.
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Normally, these materials are created in their spare time, not when they're specifically on the clock. Generally, the time when they're specifically on the clock is when there's students involved or they're required to be at school. During those times, there's usually students or other duties that they need to do. There's also issues associated with what happens to the materials as teachers move from school to school over the course of a career. The school could include terms that they own any new materials included, but that would be rare and difficult to enforce, not to mention expensive. Generally, the materials belong to the educator, but there may be some requirement to get sign off on their use at the school.
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@svenjorgensenn8418 Ah, so a second rate trade school wants that. Given the absolute garbage graduates that they've been producing for decades, it's sad that anybody is willing to go along with such silliness. And I'm being generous, their graduates routinely crash the economy because they have no self-awareness or selfcontrol.
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It can be useful trying to make a panic stop in the rain if you haven't practiced that. Last big rain I was in, I ended up fish tailing something fierce while coming into a stop light. Didn't go down, but did wind up a few feet into the intersection when I had to release and reapply. Would have been nice to have had ABS available. It's also somewhat useful if you have a sudden change in traction that leads to a locking of the wheel or if you're riding in the rain and the water on the rotor suddenly evaporates enough for the pad to bite. That being said, I think the case for ABS is somewhat exaggerated. If you're riding defensively and within your limits, the likelihood of needing it is fairly low and it's usually not going to kick in in situations where it would be a fatality.
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One of the reasons I wrote in Bernie during the 2016 general election, is that I couldn't stomach voting for Clinton after the things she and her husband did to the community. A pox on their house and anybody that supported them.
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I'm not surprised, the Israeli government is every bit as evil as the terrorists they claim to be trying to protect themselves against.
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@weilam03 The Chinese ones being sold outside of the PRC would probably be of higher quality, but mostly because the govenrment probably will use them to spy on people in other countries. I spent a couple years living over there and the quality of the stuff that's made in China there versus elsewhere is night and day.
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@crazymulgogi The Democrats do the same thing in the primaries. NY state purges huge numbers of voters before elections to prevent people from voting for unapproved candidates. SImilarly, California doesn't bother submitting provisional ballots as well. It's an establishment thing, the GOP just does so against the Democratic establishment candidates as well, whereas the Democrats just do it against people that aren't establishment approved in one of the parties.
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Probably because the Democrats are that set on not doing anything to give the voters a sense that things can be any different.
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@Q_from_Star_Trek That's it right there. If they have other people on, then there's a danger that there will be folks out there spreading dangerous ideas like that the party needs to respond to the voters rather than to donors. Or that the government can actually help people. So much of what the GOP has been running on over the last 20ish years wouldn't be effective if the Demcorats would fight hard for the government to go out and actually help regular people. It's a lot harder to convince people that the government is the energy when the government is actually taking care of people and responding to their demands. If the Democratic leadership where half as afraid of the democratic voter base as the GOP is of their voters, we wouldn't be in this mess. Instead, it's a bunch of vote blue no matter who, and even when they do control both chambers and the Whitehouse, nothing much gets done.
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It's been a problem for a while where units for rent are owned by a smaller and smaller number of companies.
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@frankney8284 That kind of thinking is why so many convicts wind up back in prison shortly after release.
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50% doesn't seem that unreasonable, perhaps for "showers" that probably is a bit much, but for growers, 50% is definitely possible. For many growers, just normal sitting there versus being about ready to be on the job is that much. The average length is about 5.6inches and the length increase just on a normal day between soft and hard can be anywhere from about a half an inch to 3.5 inches. So, yep, 50%, is definitely possible, but not necessarily for everybody. Yes, as far as the balls go, they do get rather far away when it's hot, the dick though only has so much it can grow.
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Mox Fulder A planet where election rigging is taken seriously. AKA the Earth. Biden wouldn't have even been the nominee if they hadn't been rigging voting machines. In some places the exit polling was off by double digits and mysteriously it was only in areas that were using voting machines.
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@spartacusforlife1508 It looks like it, but it's still close enough that even if he does win, he won't be able to do much and he'll only have a mandate to not be Trump.
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The thing is that they don't care and the more they set standards the harder it is for them to claim that these drivers aren't employees. The company didn't care about 0% of their drivers having appropriate coverage when they started and the only reason they care at all is that it looks bad when customers are injured and there isn't any insurance.
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TBH, it's probably not that much worse than the legal questions about whether Biden used an autopen to sign things and whether or not that's a legal signature. Not that it isn't absolutely horrific, but the Democrats need to stop shooting themselves in the foot and giving Trump cover.
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Yep, there's a special place in hell for her.
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@BlueBlur24 And it turned out that the only women in the race were also the only women that could lose to Trump, go figure.
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Yep, taxis were extensive because it's an extensive service to run. Early on Uber didn't even ensure that the drivers were insured for commercial driving.
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@zetanax1041 In the future this may become a problem, but astronomy is really only relevant to a small portion of the population. Mainly the folks that are sending space probes out into the universe. If we get to the point of being able to send people to other planets, then it will be relevant. But for now, I'm not sure that everybody needs to know anything about everything.
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I challenge the assertion that nobody would have believed this when wankel engines had already been used in production cars at that point.
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That assumes that leadership in either chamber wants to do so.
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As long as you can disable to ABS completely to practice, I don't see that as a problem. I developed my braking skill by firmly braking on steep hills. My next motorcycle will likely have ABS that can be completely disabled, just so that I can periodically disable it to practice braking.
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A Biden win would be disastrous for the country. His candidacy is a massive threat to the integrity of our Democracy. He rigged his way through the primary, hasn't given us any reason to vote for him and has purposefully disenfranchised huge numbers of progressive voters. The only thing he's promised is to get Trump out of office and that's going to done day 1. I don't recall who pointed that out, but after day 1, then what, he would have nearly 4 years to do other things.
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@jupitercyclops6521 Honestly, your GMC would probably be fine, but anything modern enough to have electronics involved shouldn't be jumped. Best to either call AAA or use one of those battery jump boxes that have circuitry in them to make sure that you don't destroy anything. I've got one and the moment you plug it in, the car will have the battery necessary to start.
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Yes, but essential workers got our money slashed from $25k to zero, even though we're doing extra work, taking on extra risk and the unemployed got $9.6k that we didn't. For much of the pandemic I was making less than those on unemployed.
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That's not really accurate though. The image on the right is certain possible, but the one on the left isn't out of the realm of possibility either. There are some extremely light skinned people living in the Middle East, the facial features are a bit iffy, but again, they're not that far off for what you see in people that live in the region. The reality though is that most of the depictions that were being made of the historical Jesus were being done by individuals that would have had no direct exposure to people living in the Middle East. As a result, there's many centuries of tradition of depicting him with more European features.
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I wish I had some gropies.
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But, thank god that people can still have their guns, I mean, surely that will stop the NSA from violating our civil rights with no accountability.
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syc 297 I think that if Obama were going to endorse Biden, he'd either have done it already or he'd wait until the general election. That being said, I think he may not endorse anybody this round as it's likely to just fire up the GOP base more than encourage people to vote for Biden. And no way in hell will he endorse Sanders.
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@lazvt8469 You're not implying that when Israel does it it's not genocide are you? Because in very few cases are there even court proceedings, most of the time they're released without any sort of trial.
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I keep getting ones from Schumer saying they need my money to beat McConnell and the GOP, but magically the add gives no reason why it would be better.
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@ericseiz3472 Yep, and everything at that time was eXtreme.
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We should have all known that he was suspicious just on the basis that he was giving away tons of money and didn't have any sort of explanation of where it came from. That's why I watched a couple of his videos and never subscribed before not even watching any. He'd give away a house, but there wasn't anything about the channel or Jimmy that explained how this wasn't some sort of scam.
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@mach1553 No, a dedicated file server is a file server. From what I can tell, NAS is just a shiny marketing term that mostly refers to a form factor. Nearly all the pictures I see of NASes are of stand along appliances that aren't rack mounted.
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You're state needs to fix the primary system then. Here in WA we use a top two primary where the top two vote getters from any party advance to the general election, even if they're the same party. (They aren't even technically in the parties necessarily, they just declare which party they prefer, so we even get Whigs on the ballot fairly regularly) Also, we don't allow the winner to draw the districting lines. Over time, that has led to a state where there's far less extremism in either direction in terms of what the legislature does. There are a few nutters, but the liberal bent to the state politics is largely because the GOP policy positions are just not popular enough to win as during those intra-party general election races, the more moderate candidate tends to win as the opponents get a say in how that shakes out rather than voting for candidates that will never win.
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@WaterKirby1994 Yes, but what have they done for us today other than giving us a second term of GWB by virtue of their incompetent handling of hundreds of thousands of ballots in the 2004 general election?
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Yes, and while we're at it, probably just don't do business with nationwide banks in general.
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God mode in that respect is mostly about messing around and it's a legitimate way of playing the game, just not if you're expecting to use the results for leaderboards or the like.
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@michaeldougherty6036 There's a decent chance that they own the property they're operating on, which greatly reduces the risks. In that case, they mostly just have to make sure their food safety is up to scratch and that they've got properly trained staff.
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@untunedguitar45 it's a real vaccine, you get the shot and the immune system gets exposed to the pathogen that way. Just because the mechanism is newer, doesn't make out not a vaccine. Also, the technology has been around for a while, it's just not as widespread. If you don't like it, Johnson and Johnson has a more traditional vaccine that is also effective at preventing death and serious illness as a result of covid.
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TBH, they're massively overrated. Taco Time and Taco Del Mar are better, but from what I understand neither chain is nationwide. OTOH, congratulations on them winning the upcoming franchise wars.
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It's unclear whether that information actually gets to the flight crew. It's not on any of the boarding passes I've received over the years on any airline.
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It's probably all those things, but I think it's also worth considering that they've been over promising for many years at this point and people are starting to catch on. It's been something like 5 years since they were supposed to have full self driving capabilities that could drive from coast to coast and they've already charged a lot of people for full self-driving capabilities.
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I suspect that it's probably the companies that are licensing the IP more than anybody else. They're probably pushing for higher per account fees in order to make up for the extra people watching beyond those in the same household.
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But, that gives us Harris, a candidate that nobody had a say on and most people didn't want.
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I remember being on jury duty many years ago and seeing one of the parties standing a few dozen feet away at the bus station. This was near the start of a trial that was expected to take a full month. I made a point of mentioning that I'd seen them, and I assume they told the judge as well, but I didn't see them in that station again. But, because nothing was said, it didn't impact the trial at all. I don't know that I technically needed to point it out, but they had to go through more than a thousand potential witnesses due to the length of the trial and I didn't want to waste everybody's time on the off chance that it became known later and became an issue.
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Chinaman, makes you sound like you're old enough to be in an assisted living facility. But, slur, that's a bit of a stretch. Chinaman, is a fairly decent translation of the Chinese word for Chinese person. And China person, is a completely literal and direct translation of the Chinese word. Now, had he used the term oriental, that's something that's clearly a slur, nobody has used that word on a person in any other way in a very, very long time.
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@iati6294 TBH, unless it's a porno, there's going to be absolutely no audience for it at all.
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If you put it into the refrigerator, the mass produced pre-sliced bread will stay mold free for quite a while. You can also freeze it. There's going to be mold spores getting in, mold is everywhere, but a few spores is unlikely to be an issue. We're literally breathing them in constantly, it's when it's larger quantities that you potentially need to worry.
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He is still the man that installed Biden as the Democratic nominee last election. And if anybody can put somebody forward that could compete with the VP for the nomination it would be him.
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Many of them don't so much support Trump as are really angry at the Democrats for failing miserably to offer a better alternative or even bother to listen to the voters.
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@zo62 yes, but which people? When hospitals run short, they are stuck triaging them. The big issue is that they aren't reserving beds and treatment for other serious illness. They should just reserve beds for those that opted out of vaccination and refuse any beyond that so that other injured or ill people can get treatment.
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@michaela.abbott222 Yes, but what about compassion for the cancer patients and those with other medical problems? Why should those that purposefully opted to not get vaccinated be allowed to bump them? It's not only the elitists that are concerned about making others suffer due to selfishness and ignorance.
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@bobbray9666 Easy fix, America can offer to do the work for them.
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@SanchoPanza-wg5xf Far more people have seen the Eiffel Tower than the Mona Lisa. It's a part of far more people's life experience.
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Because she sucks as a candidate wasn't even in the race 6 months ago and didn't have to justify her being given the nomination at the convention. Meanwhile, there are people that actually like Trump and want him to be win. I'm just surprised that it's not more tilted in favor of Trump as at least he has a history of winning a non-zero number of state primaries.
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I agree, for me personally, riding a motorcycle where I shifted, but the motorcycle handled the clutch would be awesome for traffic, but much beyond that would make me nervous. I like having control over the gear ratio and the process itself isn't that bad.
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@jenniferbringman9054 obviously he won't, but if he doesn't, then he had better win the nomination or we're stuck with another Trump term.
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@irish5347 That's not even remotely true. There's plenty of places in the world that that happens in. Sure, they don't change shape, but they do behave more like a wolf pack if you get enough strays together.
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That's the frustrating bit, homelessness in America, medicare for all, tuition-free college, to name a few, all could be paid for just by making the ultrawealthy pay the taxes that they're already on the hook for. If we also rolled the taxes back to where they were in 2000, we could give generous pensions to all of our citizens and pay down our national debt or replace most of our energy production with green renewable energy. We're choosing to let them off the hook because we've had courts decide that corporations get to be people and that they can bribe politicians in the literal sense. Apparently, it's not bribery to pay off a congress critter's credit card bills these days.
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@daosdresari7349 They pay the most in total because they have the most. Their effective tax rate is tiny, in some cases as low as 0%. You don't know anything about the topic if you think they pay anywhere near the tax rate of typical people.
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@mothertruckersparadise3260 They got that money by not paying it to workers. You know the workers that generate wealth. They should pay more because they benefit more from the government. I wouldn't lose billions of dollars if the government collapsed, they would.
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@chachacha2023 No, it's not, if you've actually bothered to read Marx, you would know that he just thought that the workers should own the means of production, that there shouldn't be a ownership class in society. Whether that means the government owns everything, or a collection of smaller ventures competing with each other that are individually owned by the workers, was not something that he dictated one way or the other. His ideology was much more flexible in the implementation details than many people realize and a lot of that has to do with when he was writing. He didn't have nations where the central government owned everything for the alleged benefit of the people to study. He wouldn't have known much beyond conjecture about what happens when it's from each according to his ability to each according to his need. Marx for himself did marvel at capitalism, he just recognized that the separation of those doing the work from the products of their labor was an inherently dangerous situation that would lead to the exploitation of those doing the work for the benefit of those that owned the means of production. He didn't have an inherent issue with trade and competition between different companies, just how the proceeds were split.
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Keep in mind that there are only 5 places on a monitor that you can hit with a mouse without looking. The 4 corners and wherever the mouse is already located. With a keyboard, you've got 9 without even moving any fingers.
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Biden won because of elections fraud in the primaries. But, Trump would have lost to Sanders just as surely as he lost to Biden. But, it is a bit questionable to suggest that BIden won fair and square when he wouldn't have even been on the ballot without elections fraud in the caucuses.
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And if they'd put in even the slightest effort to secure male votes the race wouldn't be so close.
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@ntnwwnet It's not dumb, it's poor and the offices where you go to get the ID aren't even open 7 days a week, which means that people would have to take off work in order to get one. What's more, there's precisely no evidence that having such an ID, or not, influences the election when it's not an explicit requirement to vote.
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@JoeyVaracalli The offices where you go to get them aren't open 7 days a week and they require that you have transportation to get there. What's more, there's precisely no evidence that having such an ID prevents or dissuades voter fraud.
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@chetanphoenix I'm not afraid of that. The Democrats have gone to the well with that too many times, if 2025 doesn't happen, then it'll be 2029. If 2029 doesn't happen then it'll be 2033. At the end of the day, the people are on to the con here. There's massive cognitive dissonance in terms of the claims that each election could end catastrophically, but then not actually trying to run the best candidates or make promises to encourage the voters to support them. Then when they do win, they do very little of what meager stuff they promised.
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@LindaYariger Precisely, the reality here is that the GOP is unlikely to change courses as long as the Democratic establishment is giving them cover. We need a party that genuinely cares about the interests of the people and is willing to fight to earn votes. Without that, it's really just a matter of whether we want project 2025 to be this cycle, or one of the ones when the party does eventually take power back.
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@darqentries That's it exactly. If the DNC is that afraid of more Trump, why are they running such a weak candidate? Why aren't they doing anything to try and win over the progressive wing. Why aren't they fighting tooth and nail to expand voter access in states that the GOP has rigged in their favor? Why aren't they concerned about the permanent disadvantage that gerrymandering has put them at down the ballot?
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I've been hit in the neck by gravel a few times, I kind of wish I had a neck protector that didn't make head checks impossible.
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@thecircledance That's mostly because they paid them off decades earlier and young people can't afford a mortgage to buy the houses at the current rates.
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As I understand it, they were given fair warning to evacuate the city. If you want cruel, the firebombing of Dresden was done without any advance notice and was of no strategic or military importance. It was primarily a tourist town before the war and was housing tons of refugees that were fleeing the advancing Soviet forces.
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So far half the Democrats that tried have failed. Sounds a lot different, doesn't it?
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@FaybayandRemi Yep, they're set up to remove as much of the risk of the parents being accidentally identified as possible, to remove as much of the risk of desperate mothers killing the baby to avoid the consequences of the situation becoming known. Sad, but it definitely does happen from time to time. Pregnancies aren't always obvious until later, and sometimes it can be concealed.
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@dingfeldersmurfalot4560 I agree with most of this, but if they don't have a 401k, it's their own fault. Sure, there should be a company match that many companies don't do, but it costs as little as $100 to open a retirement account these days and for that you get a low fees account that's automatically diversified across a broad range of foreign and domestic stocks and bonds. Saving enough is definitely not solely the fault of the workers, but not having anything saved is. Even just a few dollars a week being saved is far better than nothing.
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My main concerns with automatic transmissions and motorcycles are that it makes it easier to go faster than you intend to, leaves you having poor acceleration at key moments and makes it difficult to properly engine brake when needed. A semi-automatic transmission or auto clutch though are potentially really helpful, especially if you're in traffic and having to shift back and forth without tiring the hands.
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@Luked0g440 It wasn't a small number of rich people that did it. There were a bunch of boomers that voted for Reagan and his cronies. And then doubled down on HW and tripled down with Clinton. A bunch of neoliberal frauds that collectively handed the keys of the government to the richest. Prior to them, voting did actually make something of a difference, even if not on everything all the time.
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@sawyer4981 I see no problem with that. It takes time to ensure that the transaction has been completed and reverse it if it has. It seems like that because you're on different sides of the transaction. They remove access to the money when you swipe the card, the other party probably won't get it for a bit. Then if there is a reversal, that will happen on the vendor side pretty quickly, then take a period for it to be reversed. The money they could make by trying to make money on interest during that period is not significant and would be a violation of banking regulations. It's also why they're required to have some money in reserve to cover things like this.
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And yet, Biden still won't back Medicare for all our other things that benefit the voters.
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So, when are the IDF and the Israeli government going to stop engaging in genocide and crimes against humanity? Here's news for you, people aren't falling for the poor, victim Israel these days, we know what monsters the Israeli government is stocked with, and the IDF regularly engages in crimes against humanity. Hamas isn't any better, but it's not like they've got a lot of options in terms of how to defend themselves. I'm not sure what the IDF excuse for their campaign of genocide is.
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For hand tools, you can frequently get away with buying used.
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@jamescaron6465 You can read it, I put a link to it in my other comment here.
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Well, thank god that smarty Pelosi decided to not give us stimulus payments, they might have taken the Senate.
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@rabbit251 even if that's true, that's more spineless than anything else.
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2manynegativewaves In that case, I'll have to kill that guy that keeps porking my wife.
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Why should the federal government be any different from other organizations? Nobody uses GAAP internally, the only reason anybody uses GAAP is for the purposes of regulatory compliance, reporting to lenders, investors and similar. The governments don't need to do that as most of the information is already a matter of public record.
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@frankyflowers Yes, there's usually at least a few walls that are still standing, I remember when I was a kid that they burned a house near the school and from what I could see everything on the outside seemed to still be standing, but you could see the holes in the roof and IIRC, much of it wasn't even there afterwards.
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@spacemanmat How often do Aussies actually drive through those areas though? I'm sure truckers do, but there's a reason why those areas are so vacant, nobody's there. That being said, if you do expect yourself to be in such a position, buying an extra wheel may be worth it.
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The 5 star rating system is often interpreted as 5 stars means they can keep their job and for every star less than 5, they should be fired more quickly, with 1 star meaning that you think they should be fired immediately.
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Yes, priest holes are definitely a thing on estates over there. These sorts of things are far less common in the US as there was mostly just that one period during the '20s and '30s where there was a need for tunnels. There's definitely still bootlegger tunnels and hidden rooms that haven't been discovered. A friend found one only about 10 years ago. It was a tiny space that would open up if you opened a specific drawer. It wasn't large, but it was large enough to hold a decent amount of whiskey bottles.
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@kenbrown2808 That's usually a matter of public record. You can usually look it up if you care to. Or you can arrange with one of the jurors that does deliberate to find out what the result was.
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Allowing the media conglomerates to consolidate was a massive mistake.
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That's one way of looing at it. Ultimately, trails are mostly a marketing thing, give people easier access to the environment, and maybe they'll support initiatives to keep the parts that aren't impacted by trails protected. It's a bit of a win win, as bushwacking is allowed in much of the US, but is a much less pleasant experience in most cases.
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@morphe42 Which major candidate isn't going to give us fascism? The only hope is that enough people vote 3rd party to force them to start fighting for votes again.
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This is smarter than how the county here is dealing with it. They stop people, they issue a warning, they are not allowed to check an ID, so people can tell them whatever name they like, and so there's never a 2nd offense to start triggering consequences as there's no way of knowing if it is a further offense. Our system is essentially on the honor system where the fare enforcement is done sporadically and when they're checking, they check everybody's pass to see that they've got a ticket or that the transit card has been used. But, since the fare enforcement officers are required to take the passenger's word as to their identity, there's effectively no way of enforcing it on the people that are most likely to not pay.
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Because you'd still be able to go through the crossing arm? At a certain point, you just can't engineer around stupid people. I'm just shocked that a professional fire crew was this stupid.
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Yes, and I highly recommend anybody going to LA consider stopping by Burbank to take the tour. I had no idea just how much IP they own either completely or just in terms of the film rights. Being able to see a Bat Pod and then ride on a replica in front of a green screen was amazing. The photo opportunity to sit in a forced perspective mockup of a building from the Shire was also awesome. As banal as it may have been, getting a photo from replica sets from Friends and Big Bang Theory was kind of fun.
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And yet he outsmarted Hillary and the whole DNC.
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Don't be ridiculous.
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@Ghfvhvfg Yes, although IIRC, there's a general right to move wherever you like in Switzerland, so there's pretty more of that. In most of the US, that only applies to government land. And, the size of the US is so large that the likelihood of enough people taking the same route enough times for that to develop is relatively low. I spent several summers as a teen working on the local trails. They tend to need to be formally planned around here due to the way the topography is and wanting to ensure that people can get to places they'd want to go and leave paths that don't go anywhere alone.
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@zo7034 There were previously existing trails, but depending on where you are, nature can reclaim those rather quickly.
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If only they were opposed to spending. They're fine with it when it's going to the military or corporate interests.
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Around here, it's only illegal if you're coming up behind a school bus that's got the sign out or are on the other side without at least one lane between you and the centerline or any kids that might be crossing. It's something that I wish more people would realize because it gets to be a minor annoyance having people stop that don't need to be stopped. The whole point of the tickets is to not hit kids that you may not see or may have limited vision to see you. If you're on the other side of the street with plenty of space, that doesn't really apply.
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People keep saying that he's burned, but he keeps getting what he wants.
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Anybody wanting to start a business really needs either accounting knowledge or to partner with somebody who has it. One of the reasons why businesses fail is spending money on the wrong things and having no way of knowing where to spend the money to improve things. That's where managerial accounting comes into it. I work at a company that either uses the wrong practice for estimating how much work can be done by employees, or has overly optimistic figures, the result is burnout, frustrated customers and increased training expenses. It's one of the main reasons why I've spent the last couple years getting an accounting certificate so that I have those tools to know how to manage a business. (Honestly, training in accounting and experience in whatever market you're going after is a lot more likely to succeed that hiring an MBA with no knowledge related to the area of business you're in)
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No good can come of this AI, and it's about time we start to actually go after companies like Open AI that are loosing this sort of thing on the world with no plans about how to deal with it or any understanding of how it works. It's out there now and there's not any way of putting it back to the way things were.
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They probably expected there to be the usual slap on the wrist find by captured regulatory agencies. The fines themselves are often jokes as they're less than the amount that the bank benefited from the bad behavior.
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That's not surprising, the sensor likely doesn't account for the metal around the coolant system to warm up when taking the reading. My mother's car does the same thing where you can't trust its estimate of the outside temperature until the engine has warmed up.
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@Devonzell Pernell, exactly. For some jobs and some students a tradeschool education or apprenticeship is better for everybody. Often times you don't just complete it without a loan, you complete it having made some decent money and already know individuals that are hiring.
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The fee is for chaperoning the kids between flights and keeping an eye on them during the flights. Which is why kids her age aren't required to have it, but are allowed to pay for it. It's a lot less money than requiring young kids to have a parent or friend accompany them on the trip.
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@BrowntheGoodLordBird Yes, I think that the odds are good that if this stuff can be tied up in the courts for a few more months that they'll be at each other's throats. We'll also have to see what goes on with the approval ratings as the 2026 jockeying for position ahead of the race isn't that far away and people in states that Elon screws over might decide that it's expedient to be on the other side. Right now the GOP only has a couple votes more than the Democrats do in the house.
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This raises the question as to why they're ignoring Gov. Inslee. He had the balls to start shutting things down early when the first evidence came in that covid 19 was spreading in Western Washington. And he's gone stricter and stricter as it become obvious that people were ignoring the recommendations. The epidemic here isn't solved, but our system hasn't collapsed the way that it is in New York and the number of people that the people testing positive are infecting is decreasing rapidly. It was roughly 2.7 people on average not that long ago and now it's down to roughly 1.4 due in large part to the shutdowns.
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@makesmefeellikeatalltree8250 Yep, I read a bit about that this morning. It could still get bad, but if people keep with the program, we might hit the point where we can focus on tamping down on minor outbreaks when they pop up and testing people coming into the state.
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@GANTZ100pts You say that, but where's your evidence? You anti-tax people are lame, you folks assert things like that, but most of you are living in areas of the state where you're getting more out of the tax coffers than you put in.
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And yet he appears rather annoyed at the inconvenience.
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That would be great, although a more achievable goal would be for electric cars to sound like actual real cars and at a reasonable volume as well. It's f-ed up that so many electric cars do have a speaker, but they're using it to make them sound like UFOs and the extra reaction time that entails.
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Fortunately, the young won't vote and they can still count on those voters that could opt to vote Whig to carry them through the election. Oh wait, those voters have been dead for over150 years? Gosh, better hope that the youth don't start voting when they're older then.
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@Hope Fliers or the local Macdonald's is out of macnuggets.
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@magsteel9891 it took me a couple tries before I could do it and it still feels weird. It took a while for folks to get used to the masks, it'll take a bit to get used to not wearing them. People have different comfort levels and different risk levels and I'm fine with people opting to wait a bit. But at some point the masks have to come off or we'll never stop,
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Prisoners shouldn't have the right to vote. They forfeit a number of their rights when they get convicted of criminal activities.
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@buckiesmalls Yes, the only way that it would happen now is if congress would get some balls and refuse to complete the transfer of power to him. Unfortunately, even if they do that, then we'd be stuck with either Vance or Harris, and that could be ugly. Really, this is another situation where the Democrats letting the GOP steal their court nominations is coming back to bite us all.
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Aren't those available to basically anybody willing to cough up the dough?
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If he does it will be with the same sort of corrupt folks. Just look at how they just let the Republicans steal nominations without paying any sort of political price.
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That is an absolute load of crap. She didn't even try to win over younger blue-collar men. She didn't even try to win over the people that don't want to be associated with genocide in the Middle East. She made no promises to address men's issues and she already had a terrible reputation with respect to black men. She just took it for granted that those people would vote for her rather than Trump, a 3rd party candidate, or just stay home. Also, a bunch of women voted for Trump in all 3 elections, their votes aren't legitimate votes?
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No you won't, the small donors didn't save Bernie in 2020 or 2016, they won't save Biden now because nobody actually wants Biden. At least with Bernie, the voters were pretty clear about wanting him, they were just cheated by rigged primaries.
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Of course it was, just because you're blind to it doesn't mean it is. I look at Senators and Representatives I don't see myself in any of them. Doesn't much matter which one it is, none of them remind me of myself. There is no conspiracy here, some groups just aren't doing anything to improve their situation and aren't voting for politicians that might help either. Blacks and LGBTQ folks that voted for Hillary are idiots. She's made it quite clear that she doesn't care about their welfare.
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More ultra-liberal BS. This was the right thing to do. My guess is that marijuana will be legal nationwide under both state and federal law before too long, but this whole BS about not enforcing laws, but leaving them technically enforceable is problematic. Right now, whether you're arrested by federal or local law enforcement makes a huge difference as to whether or not their are charges. Businesses dealing in marijuana can't access normal banks and the whole system is unstable. Supporting the status quo, just delays a final determination of legality.
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Bernie shouldn't have let those BLM activists take his time. As a result of their incredibly rude behavior, the crowd didn't get to hear what he had to say. It's a hypocritical movement that only seems to care about black lives when it's some white person doing the killing. They shut up incredibly quickly when it turned out that girl down in Florida was killed by a couple of black men in that drive by.
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@user-lb9wj6qy2p Yes, but does that apply to the richest in both states?
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There's a lot of things like this that shouldn't exist that do. Those stupid constitution-free zones that cover the places where most people don't live, shouldn't exist. Same goes for qualified immunity and that whole political questions doctrine.
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There's also a bunch of people like me that will vote 3rd party because the Democrats aren't promising anything to justify the vote. Each election cycle they try to make people vote for their bad candidates because the GOP candidate is an existential threat, but rather than running the best possible candidate and letting the voters choose, they forced HRC and Biden on us. Even when they are in power, they don't even try to fight for the things they promised the voters. For better or for worse, at least the GOP does try to do the things they promise.
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I've thought for years that a good next step would be to just index the student loan rates to the growth in wages. Better would be for the government to invest in education the way that it invests in bombing brown people in foreign countries, but indexing the interest to the increase in wages would be a huge step forward on that front.
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What are they doing to do? Russia is too tied up with their operations in Ukraine.
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@WillKemp To an extent that may have had some validity 20 years ago do to survivorship bias, these days, modern Linux distros are at least as easy to use as Windows is.
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And yet we'll have to wait 8 years minimum if Biden wins versus 4 if Trump is re-elected.
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@marlock6573 Same here, I haven't completely stopped voting, but I mostly refuse to vote for major party candidates unless there isn't a 3rd party option and doing so will help to unseat the incumbent. That being said, the city I live in has ranked choice voting on the ballot this election, so hopefully we'll have better mayors and council members than we have had in recent years. They've been pretty bad, even by local standards.
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@Aclay94 Possibly, or he's got a very narrow range of issues that he cares about.
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@twilightgardenspresentatio6384 Maybe in the past before a significant chunk of the churches sold out.
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@gnomatic There's a difference between Libertarians and civil libertarians. The latter being people like me that mostly just want the government to respect the constitution, but not in the absolutist and confused way that Libertarians commonly do.
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It's crazy that private organizations are allowed to choose which candidates the voters get to vote for in the general election. That's a massive loophole that's been exploited 2 Presidential elections in a row with no hope of change next time.
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Zerk ' so, I'm lucky to be barely squeaking by on less than unemployment and getting to take on all this extra risk in order to do so? Did I miss when this country completed is transition into the worked of 1984? That is beyond messed up. I don't own a home, I make essentially minimum wage, I don't have benefits and I've got debt to pay. It's unbelievable that people saying that I'm lucky to be screwed over like this. The only thing in all of this which is better is that I've at least got a job, but the way they're talking about extending unemployment indefinitely that's not looking so desirable.
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@AConquerorsVendetta yes, add it turns out, I'm making barely minimum wage and I can only make things work because I've got unusually cheap rent as it's a property a relative can't unload right now. So a little bit of luck, but I'm living an extremely poor lifestyle on less than what folks on unemployment are making. You make matters worse, my income is about a quarter of what it would have been had the pandemic not screwed up my plans.
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@wolfmantroy6601 No, it's the airline that couldn't figure out how to balance the plane without removing the girl. The parents didn't have anything to do with seating assignments, that was the airline. The airline could easily have not deplaned a minor to address the issue. They chose to do so. This is not the parents fault.
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@nilremuk Yes, I'm not sure how hard it would have been to just say that this was just going to apply to adults. Really, it should be adults over the age of 25 as they can at least rent a car, whereas those under can't rent a car and those under 21 may not even be able to rent a hotel room.
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Not really. The standards lately have been very, very low. I didn't get any student debt relief and I didn't get any hazard pay from the feds. They gave a ton of money to people to shelter in place, but the people actually preventing the country from starving got as close to nothing as possible. No real fight and no real attempt at changing the direction of the country back to the way it was 30 years ago. A bunch of traitors remain in power and we get weak talk.
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Anything can be quantified if you try hard enough. Yes, some things will be more subjective than others, but everything can be quantified.
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Yes, there really isn't any way of looking at this which isn't damning to the airline. The best people have been able to do is blame her for not speaking up and the parents for not paying the fee. But, even that is pretty weak.
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Apple has been doing the same thing for many years. If somebody releases an app with functionality that they want, they implement it in iOS and then ban it from the store for duplicating iOS functionality.
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Gatorade has been pretty egregious. If you turn over the bottles, you'll notice that there's an empty gap that's surrounded by a wall of plastic. I've seen that with some of the condiment bottles as well where the dent on the bottom is getting higher and higher while the rest of the bottle remains the same. It's bordering on fraudulent and literally the only reason it's not clearly fraud is that they put the correct volume/weight on the label.
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From what I can tell, this wouldn't apply to intersex individuals anyways as they'd generally get a little bit of treatment as newborns and any affirming care they would need would be as that sex, not to change it.
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Most vehicles are automatics because it's nearly impossible to hit the fleet efficiency requirements without more gears. Modern cars will have up to 9 gears. Traditional manual cars tend to top out at about 5. Big rigs go up to like 18 gears, but also require a lot of specialized learning to manage so many gears. Motorcycles have largely been able to avoid that as the fuel efficiency is much better than what cars typically see.
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#1 should have really been the firebombing of Dresden. It had no military or strategic importance and was just a refuge of the various civilians fleeing from the retribution that the Soviets were enacting on any Germans they encountered on their way to Berlin. Unlike Hiroshima and Nagasaki where there was advance warning that the cities were going to be leveled, the Germans didn't get any such luck and many tens of thousands that were largely noncombatants were murdered. We will never know what the death toll was as most of the bodies were burnt to the point where they couldn't even be identified as being bodies. It's largely a myth that the Japanese didn't know ahead of time, they just thought it would be another large scale bombing raid like had been the case previously, the fact that it was just one plane in each case shouldn't really color people's feelings about the relative brutality.
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@jasonkinzie8835 Yes, and over the decades since many were tried, convicted and executed. There's still a few trials that pop up from time to time, but at this point, they're mostly people of questionable connection in that their presence may or may not have made any meaningful difference in terms of the ability of the camps to function and they themselves aren't even being charged with killing anybody directly.
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@rat3072 Up until recently it was policy that clerical workers and those not directly involved with the operations wouldn't be prosecuted. There have been cases more recently where the rest of them are starting to be prosecuted, but at this point, I'm not even sure what the point really is. They've prosecuted basically everybody that they were able to find who were instrumental in the functioning of the camps. The folks that few folks that remain are mostly indirectly contributed to the operations, not anything that refusing to participate would have had much impact on their ability to exist and function.
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@AaronSaltzer The solution was for the government to step in and cover most of the payroll costs to make up for the uncertainty. Most of those folks ultimately got unemployment anyways, but with the payroll being covered by the government the businesses could have opened up again as soon as conditions allowed for it. But, as it stands people are willing to go back to a dangerous job that barely pays any better than unemployment. That assumes it does pay better, my job does not pay better than unemployment.
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It happens a lot in some parts of the world.
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Honestly, victimless crimes like drug possession are a bit questionable in this regard. But, as long as they are felonies, the rules should apply. The point of the restriction is so that the accused doesn't have to stay in jail while awaiting trial which can be a massive burden in terms of trying to put up the best possible defense. I do think that giving up the guns is probably a deal when you consider the other ways that the courts could handle it.
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@Bu11eTnB1ade But that's not true. We already have emergency restraining orders and preliminary injunctions. I fail to see how this is any different. The alternative here is for use to just lock the accused up and that has massive issues in terms of curtailing people's ability to put up their best possible defense in court, as well as losing one of the most important freedoms that anybody has.
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When it was just archiving the web, I think they had a fairly strong leg to stand on, but now that they're duplicating media that's available elsewhere they've crossed the line into definitely a pirate site.
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@KiwiCatherineJemma I keep hearing that, but around here the signs for such stretches of road are purely numerical and pictographic. You're not going to hit a stretch of road here and not know what's coming. Even in places that don't use English, the Arabic numerals are typically understood. I mean literally, random Chinese people in China know Arabic numerals even though they have their own numbers as well. A trucker that can't understand the signage is particularly incompetent, as even non-truckers are going to recognize that second lower speed limit and the steep grade warnings.
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Which is why you have to go after the tools being used first and foremost. But, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't also ensure that everybody has appropriate mental health treatment and a decent livelihood. But, you don't see this kind of carnage in other developed countries because they actually care enough to restrict who can own what kinds of firearms.
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For whatever reason, the wacko 2nd amendment supporters don't consider those to be arms. But, I guess neither are mortars, howitzers, and rockets, as those would clearly be over the line.
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There's times when I think these ships should be required to have nets that can be extended when they're out at sea. Some ships already have sensors to warn the sailors that somebody may have fallen overboard, nets that can be extended when not at port would probably end this problem for good. We've got "suicide nets" on the local bridges that people were jumping off of and it's been pretty effective at stopping that problem. I see no particular reason why ships couldn't be fitted with nets as well.
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Well, Jersey is our official joke state, although Florida is trying very hard to catch up.
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It's still on his record, so he won't be able to do anything that involves a background check in the future.
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I'd consider voting 3rd party, that's what I'm doing. My vote doesn't really matter on account of no GOP politician winning a state wide race in decades, but there are a number of other candidates that I can vote for to show that it's not a lack of commitment or that I forgot to vote, it's that I specifically recognize what losers I'm being offered to vote for by the major parties.
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@TheScholarabull By that standard, so would snorting coke. It's a BS degree and the work that's being done is of appallingly poor quality, to the point where they regularly miss what people with no training in economics would immediately notice. It's basically just a gigantic circle jerk.
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Not to mention medicare for all and hazard pay for essential workers. Biden could give us all medicare with the stroke of his pen and he has chosen not to. Same goes for student loan cancellation. He's continued to delay the payments, which is really difficult for the borrowers because we don't know when or if we're going to have to pay anything back.
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Except, from that first scene in his house, he's already making fun of his attitudes towards the ancient antiquities act. He's just not as brazen about it as Helena is.
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It's pretty much a given that if it passes and gets in front of them that they'll find a way of screwing things up even worse than it currently is. I mean, they take bribes openly, why are they going to turn their backs on the wishes of their bribers?
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Keep in mind that that probably didn't start happening until quite a bit later. It's not like a period of time like the '80s where for a large number of people it was pretty good at the time or the '60s where it was quite turbulent and traumatic, but there was at the same time a massive amount of progress in most areas and a vibrant art scene to satisfy just about any taste.
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@Dominik7T Yep, it's not particularly viable if you don't live in a city, have a car and have the time to do it. But, with online pickup, it has gotten a lot easier if you do to order the stuff online and then just go and pick it up. But, the more people that do it, probably the better things will be for everybody.
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@benfelps More than that, it's that everybody is trying to make money without providing the service that's being promised. The Hong Kong subway system was dug and built by the government, but it's privately run with steep fines if trains are delayed. The times that I took the trains around town, I always got where I wanted to go when I expected to get there with no drama or fuss. I just had to figure out where I needed to go and it was a breeze. There's no reason why that couldn't be done with most transit systems in the US other than the hopeless corruption due to people continuing to elect anti-government politicians that are also pro-corporate.
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@rabbit251 I'm not really sure why you'd need or want that. The local rail and bus service allows me to use an NFC card or buy tickets with cash or card. I can even use my phone to buy a ticket as well. (Admittedly, I haven't tried that last one and the reviews indicate some bugs) And, I'm sure before too long that the NFC feature on phones will become an option as well. There's already enough spying on private citizens going on with the current system. Allowing the transit agencies to also have access to what you're doing after you get off the bus/train isn't something that I personally consider to be desirable.
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It's not just them, it's the democrats telling the progressives to go pound sand. The right was energized and the left wasn't. Both parties were working to disenfranchise the progressives.
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That's where you're wrong, those boxes are for VIPs to park while they wait to get hit.
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Nothing, this simply ensures that the witnesses, victims and prosecutors have less to worry about in terms of defendants trying to influence the process through use of threats of violence, or actual violence. There is a long history of injunctive relief being granted to ensure that there is something to litigate.
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Giving each state just one electoral vote per representative would greatly reduce the issues associated with the system. GWB wouldn't have been elected, even with the fraudulent exclusion of votes in FL if there hadn't been that small state bonus of 2 votes per state.
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I won't be shopping at menards again after I got scammed with their "rebates" that are only good for future purchases at one of their physical locations. I bought something through their web site and got a rebate, but the rebate is completely worthless to me as I don't live anywhere near one of their locations and it was not adequately posted that the rebates aren't real rebates, they're store credit if you go into one of their stores. There isn't a single Menards within quite a few hundred miles of me, I think the closest is like in Wyoming.
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@xpusostomos It's not though. This isn't cash or bearer bonds, these are rebates, and there's no reason why the rebate policy needs to be so lax that the rebates can be stolen, and then used to buy more merchandise. Menards has no real incentive to fix the problem as the rebates can only be used in person at one of their locations, as in they're not out any money, it's the customers that are.
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@TimeToCheckReality For one thing, they call them rebates, these aren't rebates, these are just store credit and pretty much useless if you don't live near one of their locations.
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@swdierks what about the next person? By voting to acquit none of the potential challenges can be heard by the higher level courts and as such you keep seeing people being charged.
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No, this is how justice works. If they wanted to be heard, they had a time to do it. Justice works both ways, ideally both sides get justice, but due to the delays, that isn't possible. I'd personally prefer not to have to worry about having to defend myself against false allegations from decades back, but perhaps that's just me. Justice involves being able to face your accuser and to have evidence and witnesses. By failing to report or prosecute this in a timely fashion, there is no justice possible and hundreds of the accusers might have never been abused. (assuming it's true)
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You can blame this on the Democrats. They could have finished off the GOP in 2016 and chose to force HRC on us allowing Trump to win. The GOP of right now is not the same GOP that existed prior to 2016. Having been whipped pretty good 2 elections in a row, the GOP was on the verge of admitting that what they were doing wasn't working, but rather than try to build a bigger coalition and allow the voters to choose Bernie, the DNC stepped in and rigged things for HRC who then spent nearly all the DNC money trying to prop up her losing campaign and made a point of punching the progressive voters in the face trying to replace those voters that were likely to vote for her with GOP voters that were more likely to not vote at all rather than vote for her.
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@SpXPtwn In fairness, I do think that many of them do believe that they're acting in the best interests of society, but when 95% of all charges wind up with a plea deal, it probably should be time to think long and hard about how just the system really is. They can't possibly have 95% of the people dead to rights. Then there's the outright scum like Nifong that was ultimately disbarred over his handling of the Duke lacrosse players case years back. But, that was an egregious abuse of power and I wonder how many other lives he ruined before being caught and disbarred.
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Yes, there are ways of making things suck less, but it's kind of a shame that when I started using non-Windows OSes about 20 years ago that things haven't really improved much. There isn't typically any recognition and separation of programs that I purposefully installed which are likely to contain user modified settings versus ones that don't. Which means that over time if you're copying the home directory to a new install that a bunch of cruft can build up.
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That's roughly how we started getting them. They were mostly being installed in rural areas because people would think they didn't need to stop when there's rarely any cross traffic. There was the space, so eventually they started installing roundabouts so that there was a much lessened chance of people killing each other in a t-bone collision at 50mph.
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Perhaps, but on the other hand, it would absolutely suck to see somebody else getting that kind of a tip when you're not necessarily working any less hard. These kinds of things can really breed jealousy like nothing else.
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Yes, but sadly when it comes to traveling, they don't recognize the right to travel without illegal search and seizures. So, you get these blatantly unconstitutional requirements like photo ID to board a plane, overly intrusive searches of people's own bodies to get on a plane. I remember when I first started flying, we were allowed to have knives. My Dad would regularly bring a knife on the plane and it wasn't exactly hidden, he'd put it into the tray while going through security. Not to mention the blatantly unconstitutional no-fly list where there isn't even a right to know if you're on the list, let alone a legal process by which you can challenge and get yourself removed. I know people "on the list" because they have a name that matches somebody else on the list. And then you get these BS cases where it's rather clear that the state has a reasonable regulation.
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I've seen people praising him for being heterodox, but what I've noticed is that just about all the heterodox politicians magically take the worst things about the Democrats and marry them to the worst things about the GOP, you don't really ever see the best of both worlds even being attempted. It's always the worst policies on both sides.
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@no-cv4dx Precisely, occasionally they can make it a mistrial, but from what I understand this was so bad that simply redoing the trial would not guarantee justice. They had already drug things out and screwed things up to the point that even if they did try again with a new jury there's no guarantee that Mr. Baldwin would receive a fair trial.
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@jonathonpolk3592 Yes, if there weren't so many issues related to the charges and the evidence collection there may have been a mistrial, but given the totality of the screw ups, there wasn't much choice. And arguably, he shouldn't have been on trial in the first place as even if the prosecution had made a stronger showing with less cheating, it may not have been possible to prove that the crime Mr. Baldwin was accused of even happened.
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Masks work which was known from the previous SARS outbreak.
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@zippydooda I don't think anybody was expecting for there to be a massive pandemic. The money I lost due tot he pandemic alone was more than it would take to pay off the little loan I've got. Plus, if we follow your logic, there's a bunch of essential jobs that just won't go filled as they don't pay enough to cover the cost of the required degrees.
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Round signs don't work, they'd be the lowest priority signs. When the eyes are scanning the environment it's shape then color then picture then text. If you're using round, then you're giving the eye a disadvantage. It's probably not a very big difference, but the US style sign is slightly better and I've never had any issues with not seeing it. In areas where there's snow, it might be an issue, but, if you've got snow, you should be driving slower than that anyways.
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Most likely the debt can keep growing until the house of cards that is employment crashes. There's a ton of BS jobs that exist purely because we don't want a UBI or proper welfare programs.
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The sad thing is that the Democrats will barely acknowledge that people like her exist and put up the most pathetic opposition to the GOP cutting these programs. A bunch of the cuts and restrictions came from Democrats because the GOP could never get away with some of it.
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I'm not normally a fan of claims being denied. But, in this case, the only way that denying the claim could be any more legitimate is if this were outright intentional insurance fraud rather than gross negligence.
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Are we getting more potential for momentum?
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Unity is what caused me to completely give up on Ubuntu. It was a buggy POS when they forced it into a release.
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Dermatology waits are the norm because there aren't enough doctors to meet the demands. That's not something that's likely to change much, in either direction, with medicare for all. What would change that is if we provided more financial support to encourage doctors to go into that specialty to help better match projected need.
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This runs the danger of having the same issues that GMO has. Because there's been insufficient public involvement in the problem, it gets polarized. GMO is a complicated subject where there's a massive difference between technology that's essentially taking genes from one individual of a species and putting it into another individual of the species. Versus transgenic technology where genes from a species that cannot reproduce with the target species. This is where crazy stuff like jellyfish genes can be put into plants. Both are potentially risky, but transgenics are particularly problematic as the technology has evolved at a rate that exceeds our ability to really understand all the ramifications. In the former case, the risk is mostly limited to things we can do right now in terms of mono-cultures and overrunning the local environment. Plus, in the case of transgenics, just because it wasn't previously possible for the specific gene to migrate to the organism in question, now it's possible for it to migrate into any organism that can reproduce with it. AI has the same potential, we could very easily wind up with a situation where you're only viable option is to opt out entirely or accept the consequences of the AI. And with Tesla's deathmobiles going around murdering cyclists and motorcyclists, you may not even have a choice.
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You can tell that the metric system is inferior because people need to freak out whenever you point out how arbitrary it is.
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@kind2311 Kittens have basically zero fear during the first little bit of their lives. A kitten that age may not even know to avoid people like the older feral cats do.
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They still are, they have a massive back catalog and there really aren't any companies that could buy it from them without violating antitrust regulations. They have the largest back catalog of any of the studios.
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The Middle East gets really complicated in that respect, but it's completely BS, regardless of which side somebody supports, to call for no retaliation from only one side.
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We've known about this war criminal content for decades. I remember hearing about the school of the Americas decades ago and it wasn't even a new thing.
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We is not entirely clear without other language to indicate what parties are involved.
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If the police want to take you into a police station, then it's past due to talk with an attorney. There are very few cases where you'd want to be there without one.
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@Mostdefinitelynotabot That's something that I don't get, why are they even allowed to dictate who appears on the ballot? Around here, the party gets no say in local elections. Candidates get to declare a party preference and the party doesn't even need to exist. It's just a way of knowing which party they'll caucus with. The top two candidates get to advance past the primary and that's it. I don't really see why we couldn't have a similar system for the country in general where the top 3 or4 vote getters regardles of party get to be on the ballot nationwide.
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A bunch of women voted for Trump because he was promising that, not in spite of him promising that. Abortion rights wouldn't have gone away in so many parts of the country so quickly if there weren't a sizable number of women that don't want legal abortions.
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@JadedArsenic Yes, I learned the rules of the road from that Mel Gibson documentary where he was zooming around in that cool car.
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@barneyklingenberg4078 Are the trucks not able to drive over the top of them? All the roundabouts that they've built here are designed so that a larger truck that can't negotiate the roundabout can just drive over it as the curb is relatively gentle and designed for that if a firetruck or some other longer than normal vehicle can't negotiate the turn. If I understood correctly the same basic thing was done with the older traffic circles, basically baby roundabouts for residential streets) The trees in the middle would be planted super shallow so that they could be run over if need be. (Admittedly, I haven't seen it done, so that one may be a myth)
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Yeah that's the thing. It's looking more and more like it's going to be a campaign of violence specifically targeting billionaires and politicians.
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"Why do people incorrectly quote me on the Internet?" -Confucius
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They are more complicated up front, but there are no moving parts and very few parts over all to break.
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They are though. We screwed up many of those countries, especially the ones south of us. They work here doing jobs that Americans can't or won't do, and send money back to relatives living in struggling countries.
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@daydreamer8373 It's not, the point is to have several different redundant types of sensors generating the data needed for the car to understand what's going on in the area. Even human drivers use more than just our eyes when driving. We use our ears and even just our feel for the vibrations when driving to help inform our sense of what's going on. Nobody should be saying that LIDAR is magic, but LIDAR does help the car understand a lot more about where physical things are in space and if you add radar dots and cameras, you can get a pretty comprehensive sense of what's going on around the car with which to have the AI make decisions.
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Sort of, most actual conservatives vote blue these days, and most actual lefties and progressives flat out don't have a party as the Democrats have moved further and further to the right.
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This doesn't need to be so poorly researched. Those pens and books were allegedly for gifts, I think it's BS, but if you don't do the research and address that, then there's no reason for people to take it seriously. Unless you're dealing with a Chinese official responsible for manufacturing, that 99 cent pen isn't going to impress anybody.
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In general people coming out of prison ought to have the money to start over as they're coming out of prison with no job and probably no money. An innocent person will have it slightly better in terms of not having a criminal conviction on their record, but there's still potentially decades of gaps in the employment history and for somebody being discharged from prison after that long in the last 20 years there's been a massive amount of change that they wouldn't know how to deal with.
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Yes, I see no reason why the policy isn't just to exclude UM from things like this explicitly when making the announcements. If for some reason, there is a UM that they don't know about, at least the UM gets a chance to say, yo' I'm not with adults here.
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Don't forget aboute medicare for all, as under funded as the VA is, the promise of healthcare on the other side is a recruiting tool, even if it's more or less a pipe dream.
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Somebody white. I guess orange was close enough.
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$10k is affordable for typical people if they live in an area where it can be the main mode of transportation. Especially since within a year or two, you'll see them being sold used.
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So, you could get buildings with a Spaceneedle like floor stuck to the top? There's a building sort of like that in Vancouver, B.C.
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Even if you exclude reproduction specific treatment, women are more expensive to cover than men. Not to mention that men get worse health outcomes at pretty much every stage than women. Seems to me that men ought to pay less, we get worse outcomes and cost less to cover.
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Wait, you progressed from Vim to Emacs? That's backwards, once you've got the basics of Vi down, there's little reason to switch for text editing.
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Don't worry, Mozilla is doing it's best to see that that doesn't happen. It amazed me watching them copying Chrome's stupid decisions. The major versions bumping multiple times a year, breaking the extensions, the way that they screwed up the UI on desktop computers to make it the same as for smaller computers. I've got a 24" screen, I'm OK having a proper set of menus at the top. That being said, I wish they wouldn't hide things like multi-account containers and sidebery as they make for a much better experience than just about anything I've seen other than Arc Browser.
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Also he gave the people an eviction moratorium until the end of the year via the CDC.
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It also pushes the program closer to insolvency.
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They may be, but they're also not paying anywhere near the cost of production for most smaller channels, and the rules involved with monetization effectively prevent new channels from any funding other than 3rd party sites. On top of that things like the invalid traffic "bug" and the random demonitizations of various channels for various reasons require that they pay more than they should just because the unpredictability and lack of options for getting funding directly from the viewers. There's a reason why nearly all except the smallest and newest of channels is touting various sponsorship deals. Perhaps if they'd do things like allow channels to get those thanks by just submitting the relevant legally required documentation, then there wouldn't need to be as much pressure on ad revenue to allow the creators to fund their channels. Or, perhaps Alphabet could also stop funding so many unprofitable services that they will then abandon after failing to provide any of the necessary support before then dumping the service completely.
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IIRC, in 2020 67% of eligible voters voted in the Presidential election.
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This is good, but you should point out that credit unions will typically take anybody with only a small amount of money. The ones I belong to only require $5 to join. Which is admittedly a fee, but compared with the other options, it's a tiny fee. I recently noticed that I have only 1 bank and 1 other ATM within a long walk of me. But, all the actual banks and credit unions are clustered together several miles away.
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The girl presumably lives on a farm, she is well aware of what happens to animals around there. My Dad had a "pet" cow that wound up being eaten later on.
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Of course there are no moderate Republicans left, they pretty much all moved over to the Democratic party so that we don't have any left leaning policies being put into place even when the voters think they're voting for it.
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@LoRdHaVeMrcY Um, there were crimes, he was convicted of those crimes, this was just to preserve his conviction. The SCOTUS has made it pretty clear that they're going to let him off the hook for pretty much anything he does on account of a couple of the justices being appointed by him and a good chunk of the rest being horribly corrupt.
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@jeffamckee We're arguably all victims here because this was done as part of electoral fraud.
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@BeanManolo I'm increasingly convinced that we need a constitutional amendment to fix the SCOTUS situation once and for all. The POTUS should be restricted to using somebody from a list that is provided to him or her from a bipartisan Senate committee. The Senate should be required to hold hearings and and have an up or down vote on any of the folks that are nominated. That right there would help remove at least the worst actors from the pool of appointees and allow for a more thorough vetting process as they could be given a preliminary vetting before they go on the list and then again during the confirmation hearings.
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@bluelynx4493 There's a pretty decent chance that we've already lost our democracy thanks to the Democrats just going along with horrible decisions like Bush v. Gore. Really, Gore should have just shown up on inauguration day and forced his way in, seeing as he was the rightful winner of the election having secured enough votes in enough states to win both the popular vote and the electoral college. That bit got overshadowed due to 9/11, but subsequent investigations found that if they hadn't tossed ballots as "spoiled" for people having written the name of the candidate they wanted in addition to poking the holes, Gore would have won by thousands of votes rather than losing. But, that never happened because SCOTUS stepped in an overturned the results of the election. They've just gotten more brazen in the years since as the Democrats have continued to concede ground to the Republicans in an effort to be more "bipartisan."
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In all fairness, somebody screwed up if that was the case. The house should have been grandfathered in if it had been properly permitted and built prior to the property line being there. And if the line was there first, then the people approving the permit should have known that when approving it.
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Some of the YouTube originals are being released as DVD sets. I'd go for those and skip the service if there's something that you really want to watch. You can always buy used and sell when you're done if you don't like it.
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The city can't catch them until after the cars are stolen and even if they are caught, tried and convicted, the expense in doing so can be significant. These suits aren't happening just because these are popular to steal cars, but because they're so easy to break into that there's literal tictoc challenges covering it. The city can't even send out police to catch routine shoplifter that might be detained by security, having to deal with that many car thefts is a major problem for the city to have to fund.
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jd To that point, I work in a grocery store in a department that's near one of the entrances, and very few of the shoplifters are doing so out of poverty and even the ones that might look it on the surface are stealing things that are luxury goods with cheaper options that are probably not any worse in quality. And yes, I see the same folks doing it pretty much every day, but getting the police out to intervene is pretty much not going to happen for a misdemeanor shop lifting charge. And collectively, it adds up to a lot of money, especially when they hit the meat department for a dozen expensive cuts of steak. I'm not personally convinced that jail time is the answer, but clearly the alternative of doing nothing hasn't worked and probably was always doomed to fail.
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@Nabeelco Except that it clearly does work to some extent as we didn't have this degree of trouble with shoplifters when the cops would respond and the prosecutors would file charges. Even if they just divert some of them to programs to clean up their acts, that's still some action taken to make it less likely they'll do it again. The current situation is basically that they'll shop lift something as if they were shopping, they'll go through the items looking for the one that they want, and then load up a shopping cart before walking out the door with the full cart, knowing that there's nothing that the store can do about it legally. Shopkeepers privilege does generally allow for those people to be detained, but it's not a long term detention, it's typically limited to the time it would take to get the cops out after they've been detained. And if there's no cops that are going to come, then it's questionable at best as to whether the shopkeeprs can detain suspects at all.
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@christopherg2347 That was a large part of it, the other part of it was that jails were very easy to break out of and lynch mobs could also easily break in. The concept of life without possibility of parole wasn't a practical possibility at that point, so for serious crimes, there weren't viable options for execution for serious things like murder and horse theft.
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@I_SuperHiro_I All that does is make the 3rd strike something stupid violent. It doesn't do much to stop people from offending. If the previous two interventions weren't effective, I'm not sure why the 3rd attempt would be any different.
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That's a little different, Berlin had been the capital before the end of the war when the country was split and the agreement between the two sides was that the city would be split as well. In this case, there isn't even any agreement that it has been split fin the mainland.
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It can also be extremely obnoxious. I was on the train a couple days ago and somebody was spouting that nonsense rather loudly.
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Yep, unless those particular drivers were involved in those incidents, which would make it murder, but at least revenge murder.
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This would be the right thing to do, so she won't do it. She's pretty much proven herself to be untrustworthy and vindictive. She doesn't even care about us, she already sold her soul in order to be in the race long enough to lose her home state to not one, but two opponents.
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@Chelaxim That certainly has been a part of it, violent crime in general is down from then, even though it may not seem it at times. But, there's also been a lot of progress in terms of law enforcement techniques to track and catch these people. Serial killers do still exist, but it's a bit harder to get away with now that there's not just much improved techniques for working with DNA, but the ability to track an individual to a family and then from there figure out which one it is that is the culprit. I also think that the fact that fewer people are interested in religion in general as the solution to their problems probably also factors in to the drop in these large scale cults. If more mainstream religious organizations like the Roman Catholics are having a hard time getting people to look past their sex crimes and just generally questionable take on reality, it's going to be harder for less mainstream beliefs to catch on.
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@MichaelKunz-mt2oo This sort of ignorance is why nobody takes 2nd amendment proponents seriously. The 2nd amendment applies to the national guard and policing agencies, not individuals. The individual right to guns was something that the courts invented. The constitution and the bill of rights do use person and people in various places to indicate whether something is an individual or group right. But, ignoring that, none of the rights mentioned in the constitution are without limits.
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@john-vy1ml nobody is talking about disarming the national guard. That's the well organized militia that is referred to in the 2nd. That's why they can have military grade weaponry and you can't.
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@Rhodophon who says that it can't? They needed the amendment because they had neglected to account for the lack of a standing army. Also, when they meant for it to be an individual right, they used the singular. When it was a collective right, they used a plural. It is a collective right to arms, not an individual one to firearms.
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As somebody with physics experience, I'm outraged that that frictionless can isn't also spherical.
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The issue there is that the last shoot out between natives and federal law enforcement occured in the '70s, and the conditions on the reservations remains dire in parts of the country.
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@ChristianNathanielLaCroix People use the term because they want to demonize mainstream Americans. If mainstream America is doing it it's cultural appropriation and if they're exporting it, then it's cultural imperialism. It's incredibly ignorant as none of the groups that are around today were the originators of the cultural things that they apparently now own,and somehow the Chinese adopting western styles of businessware isn't something that anybody bothers to talk about because it doesn't fit into any of those boxes.
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@hw-rg7gn No, this is on the Democrats for refusing to go out and earn votes from men. They care far more about poaching conservative votes than earning the votes of their base or expanding their base to include non-voters and people need to remember that.
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@piteoswaldo They can't hide it, these things have to be labeled. They can stick a line on the ingredients for natural and for artificial ingredients, but those come from a defined list and are required to be only a small amount. As far as adding water, water would have to be on the ingredients list if it's been added to the beverage as opposed to the water that's naturally in the orange. In fact, water is a common ingredient in many things that you buy. If you want to hear about a real scam, nouget. It's in a lot of candies because it's a way of charging the customer for air. It costs basically nothing to fluff up the ingredients and give a larger appearing candy bar, but people still buy it.
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@hefeweizen0723 Probably not, unless the prof is wanting to inject some levity. It doesn't sound like this is particularly novel as far as the law is over there.
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No, the people didn't speak, when the primary was held, there were hardly any options and everybody knew that Biden would win by virtue of being the sitting President. The only reason he's the sitting President is because Obama rigged the 2020 primaries to screw over Bernie. This is the Democratic party, the will of the voters hasn't been relevant in decades. I see the GOP putting more effort into winning votes than I do the Democrats.
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I wish they'd stop calling ASD a spectrum disorder. It's not a spectrum disorder, a spectrum disorder would be something like the schizophrenia spectrum disorders where there are different diagnoses within it that are at least somewhat helpful when presented with a diagnosis. ASD only has the Spectrum in it because there were a clustering of diagnoses that were obliterated to give a single diagnosis, but it inexplicably, and confusingly, leaves out ADHD and Schizoid Personality Disorder which are both in all likelihood also forms of autism. It also doesn't include Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder as well, meaning that there are more non-ASD autism diagnoses than ones that are "within the spectrum." (The non-autistic Schizoids largely don't get that diagnosis these days as Schizotypal Personality Disorder and Avoidant Personality disorder got most of them to the point where the diagnosis is mostly inactive at this stage) Yes, there are a wide range of specific traits and experiences, but that's mostly because of just how sloppy the diagnostic criteria are. There is no provision at all for folks with a more internalized presentation of the disorder. Which does make some sense as brain scan technologies have come a long way and it was just assumed that the developmental process gets close enough sooner than it really does.
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@wholeNwon Everybody needs a birth certificate at some point in their lives. It's used in a lot of official forms.
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@Wyonative08 As long as he's got an American parent, the nationality of the birth certificate isn't an issue. It's one of the issues that can crop up with birthright citizenship where being born in the country or being born to citizens leads to automatic citizenship.
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I guess the plan for the rest of is to go go mob the airports so they can't get away, given that only a small fraction of us would have any hope of getting away from the cities far enough to save ourselves. I think the only situation in which these bunkers would be of any use would be a deep impact style of issue where a meteor is on course to smash into the earth. In that case, this could potentially work, but the whole business of the billionaires expecting to remain in charge when the economic system shifts into one based on the work that still needs to be done is rather naive, to say the least. Really, being nice to the security folks, ensuring that they and their loved ones can come, and automating as much of it as possible is the only way. But, they aren't likely to do that because if they were those sorts of people, they wouldn't be billionaires.
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@goosegirly6867 Yep, there's been some increase due to improved emergency treatment, but the bulk of the increased life efficiency is from childhood mortality decreases. There's also another bump due to decreased deaths during childbirth. There's no reason why somebody that is free of accident and illness today is going to live longer than in the past.
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@PobortzaPl If corona virus keeps things closed much longer, all women are going to be wearing Walgreens make up.
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@adamhbrennan Firearms at and around gas pumps is generally something to be avoided.
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Except that's not happening here. A bunch of people made the mistake. That Jimmy is making here so they revised the definition to be less confusing. The previous definition used immunity to mean immune system response, but people didn't read it that way. That's why it's been dropped from the replacement deginition. A vaccine resulting in immunity wasn't really ever the point, the point was to prevent the consequences of being infected. The not getting it in the first place is just a bonus. It's why imperfect vaccines can be released and used even when they're marginal at best in preventing infection.
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So much ignorance. I definitely agree that we've gone too far, but Kratom? Are you serious? That stuff hasn't been through any sort of FDA review, why on Earth would you be pushing it? As far as the aspirin goes, he does have a point, if we pushed more people to suck it up over minor illness and injuries, we wouldn't be having the kind of problem that we're having. Some people need more and they should get it, but the fact that doctors assume that patients need painkillers even in cases where they could suck it up is part of the problem.
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@chistinelane You shouldn't use re-usable wood with food, it's not closed celled, so bacteria will get in there over time. Bamboo is fine as it's closed grained. It's fine as a one time skewer or chopsticks, but it will allow bacteria inside and is difficult to sanitize afterwards.
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@chasedooley6237 Smashwords is usually the best option when it has what you're looking for. It's DRM free and in several formats.
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What glass ceiling? There are women CEOs in all sorts of major companies and the only reason why there hasn't been a female POTUS is that the DNC rigged the 2016 primaries in favor of the least popular politician they could find.
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@boxhead6177 It's a little bit surprising because for decades the people pushing back were people who started riding and equated the experience with not wearing a helmet. That really shouldn't be the case these days and it's even worse because the bikes go so much faster and there's so much more traffic involved.
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@yeedbottomtext7563 Read the constitution, nowhere in it is there a right to individual gun ownership. The 2nd amendment is about the national guard being able to have weapons independently of what the feds think. And there certainly isn't a right to have enough gun power to take out a dozen or more people in a matter of minutes.
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@prefersoxygen9373 And yet, other countries don't have that problem. The Japanese and Brits both have strict laws involving guns where that doesn't happen.
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Could we please stop forgetting what a mom is? Animals are not children of people, that's ridiculous.
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@GulfOfMexico_1672 Only because he was pretty much laughed out of court and he's too much of a pansy to have a proper revolution.
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The no homework thing isn't that odd, there's been a decided shift away from homework for various reasons. A big chunk of it is families like this one were the parents can't/won't help the students work on it, or there isn't even a stable place to do the work without the support.
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@MaynardCrow All it would do is prove that both parties are trying to throw the election. Right now, it's just a strong suspicion, but that would prove it conclusively.
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Alfonso G I was wondering about that, his face being punchable has nothing to do with whether or not he did what he was accused of doing. Even after knowing that they were false, I still want to punch him in the face. Not that I would, I'm a civilized adult, but he definitely has a punch face.
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Interesting, my balcony has fake tiles as in a tile pattern pressed into the thin shell of concrete. The actual bit is extremely thin, and the building itself is only 3 storeys tall, which is probably why they could get away with it. If you don't look closely, it looks like tile work, but if you look a little closer it's real. I'm guessing this is a large part of why they went that route rather than tilework.
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It's normal US English to do that. It's the Concorde unless it's "a Concorde" or "this Concorde." Same goes for "The Yankees" rather than "Yankees." Or as they're more commonly known "Those jackasses."
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@ I can't remember ever having heard "The USA." But, I rarely, if ever hear "US" without it being "The US."
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@DR_1_1 TBH, these are things that mostly get decided based on feeling. It would be weird not to include the in the name when most other planes do.
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I personally stopped using a pizza cutter years ago, now I use a pair of scissors. If I keep making so much pizza, I'll probably upgrade to actual pizza scissors, but ordinary kitchen scissors work just fine if you don't have to have perfectly straight pieces or make smaller pizzas.
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@suraceryan It's possible that something happened to glitch the system, although I'd be very suspicious of convenient cooincidences.
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Negative language like that is just asking for trouble. The equivalent signs around here are much clearer. There's some sort of parking restriction on certain days, and possibly certain times, except if there's a public holiday. There's a little bit of ambiguity in that you need to know which holidays those are. But, I'm not sure how you'd fit that information onto a sign of that size and the city website has a page that lists all of those days. So, ours are "No parking between 7-9am 4-6pm except holidays." Which is pretty clear. You only get to park there during those hours if there is a public holiday and you can look those public holidays up on the city website.
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Interesting. That would be a better design. The US uses a variety of different styles of connector, the type in the video is just the most common one. Most incandescent lights use this style of connector, just in different sizes. Fluorescents and halogens both use different styles of connector. LEDs have a variety of connectors, mostly owing to them often times being bought to replace previously existing bulbs.
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You misunderstand. The boom is the conic boom from the money leaving the investors' wallets at supersonic speeds.
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If they're so identical, why not just buy the men's version of those products?
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Not when the other party is the democrats.
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Does this mean that the buyer can cancel at any time as well? Because if you can't also back out as well, that's likely unenforceable. You can't normally have terms that are benefitting only one party.
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@EssayOns-113 There's automatic cuts that come in when the fund runs low. According to the SSA, that's coming soon. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TRSUM/ . For young folks we're looking at a 20% cut to our benefits as well as the extra years we're already on the hook to work due to the fund running low.
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I fail to see an inherent problem with that, the only way around that is to also prohibit the government from issuing bonds.
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My wife has decided that she needs to yell at me whenever I'm picking at my skin. The place I pick at is a cyst that will never heal. It's literally not going to heal whether or not I pick at it. She literally refuses to understand that her yelling me at me over it just makes it worse even though I've told her it's mostly a matter of anxiety. But, somehow it's all about her, I'm doing it to insult her. If she would have let well enough alone and wouldn't do things she knows serve no purpose other than to stress me out, it wouldn't be as pronounced.
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The only security issue with elections is all the BS security measures that are used to make it hard for certain voters to votes.
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That's why I voted Green this election and I'll continue voting 3rd party until one of them becomes viable.
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It's good advice, but by the same token, around here there are a fair number of exits that can just sneak up on you because they're near a curve in the freeway. And you may have to change lanes multiple miles in advance when traffic is slow.
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A standard cup is 8 ounces by definition. It's only an issue when you have compactable ingredients like flour.
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@jaynesambito1315 The increases are paid for by increasing the cap on income taxed for social security. The issue here is that this new law is paying out benefits to people who never paid in on that portion of their income, and they didn't even require that the ceiling on taxed income increase to cover it. The result is that those that are too young are getting screwed so that a few percent of older people get benefits for which they were never entitled. The reductions sound bad, until you realize that the GPO only eliminates 2/3 of the amount they got in pension and it covers money that they were never taxed for social security on. So, they get 1/3 of the benefits on that portion of their earnings for free at the expense of everybody else. The WEP is hard for me to understand, but it's capped.
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@SonofStormblessed Even just requiring an offset via hike to the ceiling on social security earnings to not screw over younger workers would be a step in the right direction. The people getting these benefits were already getting a portion that was based on income they were never taxed on.
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@transitionaloldlady6348 Yes, although the voters don't have access to that, we can look it up on the county elections website though.
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@cynthiaharrison4610 Yep, the one issue with it though is that it doesn't necessarily have a way of verifying that the votes were correctly tabulated. Not that it's likely to be much of an issue here, as we use optical scan technology that retains the paper ballot until whatever checks need to be made and the process is over.
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Perhaps they shouldn't have participating in fixing elections. We literally wouldn't have had Presidents Trump or Biden if the media hadn't lied to the public about important issues.
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@advena996 That's what the fee is for and while teens don't require the fee. You pay the money so that the airline takes responsibility for making sure that the kid gets where they're going safely. For teens of this age, there's no reason for the service at all as most teens of that age are old enough to go to the mall unescorted, so being at the airport isn't that big of a deal.
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@Kas-tle Possibly, although that doesn't mean that the flight crew knows the ages of the passengers as that's not on the ticket and you've typically gone through multiple rounds of verification before you get to the gate. The only time I've ever been checked at the gate was in Canada by customs enforcement right before I got on an international flight. It's a smart move to take on last stab at finding people that shouldn't be on the flight.
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@deprecated8036 Liberals yes, Democrats no. The Democrats are on the verge of losing elections to whatever party can manage to seize the lefties and the progressives away from them.
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Just remember when you're hearing these people endorse Harris, they are the same people that thought Biden was good for another 4 years and Harris lacked the integrity to invoke the 25th amendment when there was still ample time to fun a decent primary to find a stronger candidate.
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Don't let that stop you. Hiking in particular is something that is for pretty much everybody. Unfortunately, it's taken far too long for trails to be added tot he system for people with mobility problems. Around here, the local bus agency has added a few bus routes to select trail heads to help increase the accessibility of the trails to people that don't have cars. And, all of the trails are mostly open to everybody, or may require a lottery draw to get a permit.
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In that neighborhood, it's likely one of those oddballs. I live near there and used to take the bus through that neighborhood, and the terrain is a lot more complicated than one would expect for being in a major city. If there isn't a pre-existing connection for either of the two local telecoms, there's likely a reason for that. There's likely also a reason why they want to bury the cables rather than using the same poles in use for power.
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Typically, the attorneys would have any relevant experiments done if they thought it would further their case. The two main reasons for the prohibition are that they need to know what information the jurors have and that experimenting at home can lead to unpredictable results.
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@troodon1096 Possibly, but when I was at the studio a couple months ago, they had the Batmobile from Batman Forever out of the warehouse and in their museum. There's also the issue of whether the Bat Pod counts as a Batmobile for similar reasons.
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@ The issue there is that there isn't a good way of handling that in cases like this. It's one thing if on separate occasions he drove like this and killed somebody, but when it's in a single crash, it's harder to justify just adding all the years up and calling it justice.
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@ Yes, and keep in mind that getting behind in your 20s makes it a lot harder to catch up later. In addition to the consequences you point out of being a convicted felon.
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@jeffostroff I'm in roughly the same part of the country, and when we had the siding done last year, the contractor that the HOA used to redo the balconies was able to put tile looking impressions in the concrete that was being used. The original balconies were made of concrete for the top with wooden supports and from the looks of it, the balconies are lighter now than they were as they have thicker plywood under the concrete than before, but the floor itself is the same height, this leads me to suspect that they were able to shave a bunch of weight with improved materials that weren't available in the '70s when the building was built. The earthquake risk in the area combined with the buildings being relatively short is probably a large part of why they went with wood rather than steel or concrete for the rest of the building.
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What about those of us that actually care about democracy? Precisely who are we supposed to vote for?
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@DDUU11 The good news of sorts is that there are special elections that are coming at the beginning of April to fill some of the seats that were vacated by Floridian politicians that joined the administration. There's 2 house seats and I haven't seen any indication of when the Senate seat will go up for election. But, if the Senate seat doesn't go up for election before the shit hits the fan with respect to social security checks, it will likely go blue. Or at least to a Republican that has the balls to say no to at least some of this nonsense. Also, trump is only about halfway through his first hundred days and has gotten his plans tied up in court. There's a bunch of folks across the country that are very angry at him and midterm election season is only about 8 and a half months away. Meaning that it just takes the Democrats, Lincoln Project and various AGs tying things up in court and dragging things out as much as possible before you get the opportunity to start voting these POS out. And, even in a normal cycle with sane people holding office, the party that holds the Whitehouse usually loses seats in the House and/or Senate and that's especially true if one party controls all three. The American people tend to be rather nervous with one party having too much power for reasons that we're seeing every day.
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From what I can tell, there's no requirement that a causeway be over open water, water, or even wetness at all. So, the issue isn't Guinness or the Chinese, that's just working as intended.
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In all fairness, most democrats hated HRC, she pretty much destroyed the party trying to convince them to vote for her. I wonder how much less damage Trump would have done if HRC hadn't drained the coffers of funds that were needed for the down ballot races.
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Except that those private surpluses are mostly foreign and we're borrowing the money to give tax breaks to the wealthy and engage in pointless wars.
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That initial restaurant's drive through is operating backwards from how it should, making it even worse. As you go straight for a right turn in, you should get to the entrance before the exit. The city should have a median in the street to prevent people from turning left into the driveway with a left turn/ U-turn lane at the next signaled intersection. And, since that is a bike lane, perhaps put some of those pylons in that deter cars from driving in the bike lane. Also, the drive throughs around here that get super busy tend to have a second lane to take the orders, and presumably more people inside to hand the bags as they get to the window.
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The best part is that this comes at the expense of younger workers, who are already facing a shortfall and increases to the retirement ages.
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He says a lot of good things here, but they need to kick to the curb the GOP politicians that have been allowed to run as Democrats and they need to be a lot more forceful about fighting back against the horrible stuff that the GOP does. For example, they allowed Sinema and Manchin in the Senate to avoid any real consequences for far too long, and they should have been primaried even if it meant that in the short term the party loses the seat to the GOP. There's not much point in retaining seats where the politician holding it reliably votes the wrong way on key issues.
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No Democrats support that. Many do support loosened requirements, but I don't know of any that support outright open borders. And, it probably wouldn't be an issue, even if they did. Europe has had open borders within the EU for decades without much in the way of trouble.
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@0816M3RC Hamas does commit terrorist acts, but let's not kid ourselves. Israel kills more and purposefully ensures that the people don't even have hospitals or jobs. The entire area is more or less an open air prison.
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@0816M3RC I'm not sure how defending war criminals is any better.
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Not to mention the essential workers that wound up being paid less than those on unemployment because of that $600 a week bonus, the unreasonably low minimum wages and not mandating hazard pay. At bare minimum, essential workers should have gotten compensation for being left out of the PUA program.
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The senior citizens absolutely would not take that risk in order to protect the economy. They're the ones that burned the economy down because they got theirs and to hell with the young folks. They mostly have money coming in from social security and had a lifetime to save for this.
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A decade or two ago it being "too entrenched" might have been a compelling argument, these days, they could easily capture and redirect the attempts to write to or read from the directory either to actual files or smaller virtual-registries if they wanted to. They could also have a system like on other OSes where the registry is built from other files and just regenerates whenever the OS boots up. Parts that don't change can potentially be cached without much harm. It would be a much better system than what we've got now.
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@JonnyCrackers Yep, that's a regional thing. Around here daddy long legs are harvestmen which are very spider looking, but aren't spiders. Crane flies are a completely different thing.
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The irony there is that if they had just made Bernie the VP in either election, they would be in a much stronger position. There's no way that Biden makes it the next 4 years if he's elected. No way, he seems to be doing even less work right now than Trump was and these same people weren't OK with that. I'm not sure there are any politicians available that could win at this point other than Bernie or somebody that is from his branch of the party. The more righty folks that are still voting Biden are not voting Trump and Bernie did a lot better with the independents than HRC and Biden did.
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Only cool movie hackers have the mad skills to hack the Gibson after all.
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That's a different issue. They shouldn't have been labeled by length when the sandwhich you receive isn't the stated length.
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Don't sell America short, I'm sure we can find a stupider way of getting labor power back.
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I think they're getting close from what I can tell. I see several bikes that can manage over 200miles on a charge, which is longer than the rides I usually take without stopping for gas.
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Considering that for many years they allowed the bicyclists to do that every month with impunity, I'm not entirely sure why anybody would expect them to take it seriously. They don't even bother showing up to arrest shoplifters these days due to staffing levels and the local prosecutors refusing to prosecute if it's not a large amount of money.
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Yep, although, I personally, just buy DVDs and then rip them to my NAS for viewing via a JellyFin stream to my Roku. It's a bit of effort, especially if I want to have extras, but once it's done, it's done and it becomes just about the most convenient way of watching things at a high quality and supporting the stuff worth supporting sot hat it remains available into the future.
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@eatatjoe It hasn't killed DVD availability for the most part. Stuff that's too obscure for streaming is probably still easily obtained via DVD or bluray. Personally, I hit a point a while back where I mostly don't particularly have a need for more media and most months I don't buy any at all. I think I've got enough that if I wanted to watch through my entire collection of DVDs and blurays that it would take at least a year.
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You can tell YT not to show you specific channels. I suspect that if enough people do that that the algorithm will stop trying so hard to push them. The problem is that enough people click and watch that it's like playing Whac-A-Mole.
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You're not weird that is common, it's just not the only reason for people to have trouble sleeping. Just count yourself lucky that therapy can address all your problems when they happen.
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Yep, although Futurama did an equivalent joke about walking.
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I disagree, I think thinking of how much the people suffer is what gets his rocks off.
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@sportsjefe James Randi is an asshole. That type of skeptic is every bit as frustrating and annoying as the people that they're trying to debunk. Often times the explanations are good, but sometimes the explanations are so convoluted and questionable that they're not any less ridiculous than the claim that they're trying to debunk. We don't currently have all the answers and if something doesn't actually violate any of the laws of physics, then it's OK to say, this is an odd result, perhaps more study is required.
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Well, thank god nobody has taken anybody's guns. It would be terrible if people had to resort to less convenient methods.
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The point so many people miss is that if the BLM supporters can't acknowledge the cases where the use of force was justified, then they don't have any credibility. Clearly some of these cases really are unjustified uses of force that should be prosecuted, but not all of them and it's not appropriate to second guess what happened after the fact while using facts not available at the time. Even in cases where the entire incident is caught on camera and the individual has what appears to be a gun that's fully visible on screen and is clearly in the process of being pointed at the officers isn't sufficient for the community to admit that the officers had a reasonable belief that force was required.
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@BluePieNinjaTV Yes, it's doubtful that they do every drive through order first, they probably just put the order in after whatever the most recently taken order is. This isn't that much different from theme parks with express lanes or lanes for the disabled. They have some formula to tell them how much spacing they need to keep things flowing as best as possible for everybody.
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I suspect that with the attorneys slapping down the possibility of changing the build to something that's not infringing would pretty much render any meaningful ownership rights zero.
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He murdered therm and buried then under the floorboards days ago. All work and no play makes Seth a dull boy.
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Must be nice to have them actually caring about your vote. Harris isn't going to do anything to substantively address men's issues and is barely even trying to raise her profile here. The literal only reason that it's this close is that she thinks that they can bully white, black and middle-eastern men to vote for her without offering us anything of value or even trying to figure out what we want.
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@Hyun Kim lol Touche
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The tanks are underground because it's generally safer, and the tanks tend to be rather big. A gas tank large enough to hold 50 000L or fuel is going to be pretty big, and you'd need one for each type of fuel that you're selling, as they can't be mixed together. The different grades of gas could theoretically be put in the same tank, but you'd only be able to sell it at the price of the cheapest grade, it wouldn't do anything bad to the engines other than running a bit less than efficiently until it burns through. Older tanks had issues with leaking, newer ones have a lot of really impressive engineering to track how much fuel goes in and how much is going out, and if there's a significant discrepancy the station knows that they need to have a check done to make sure it's not leaking. We used to have a lot of independent gas stations when I was a kid, but virtually all of them went under due to regulatory changes that required not just a replacement of the tanks, but also an expensive insurance policy to cover mishaps.
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If that's the case, it's purely because a bunch of progressives left the party completely due to the obvious corruption involved. Clyburn ought to be ashamed of himself for his roll in what's going on. He has to be ridin' with Biden because he was instrumental to forcing Biden on us.
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And we would have gotten away with it too, if not for those meddling sailors.
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If she cared about winning, she'd pass something in the house and make the Republicans respond. Either there would be stimulus or the GOP would have to take the blame for not doing anything. She'd then go on a media tour tarring them for refusal to do anything to help.
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Da bomb has been out of fashion for decades. You can say it, but only if you're wearing skinny jeans and a pork pie hat. Also, if you don't mind getting the crap beat out of you for being a hipster.
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He didn't get 10 days for missing jury duty. He got 10 days because he didn't call the court to inform them what had happened. It's hard to say whether he would have received no jail time, a fine or a shorter stay in jail, but this was largely the result of his choice not to call the court to let them know he'd overslept.
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The main benefit I can see to the solar panels is not getting stuck in the middle of nowhere for lack of fuel. Flat tires or some other major issue yes, but not a lack of electricity. And given how much simpler electric cars are in general, it would probably just about eliminate any being stuck in the middle of nowhere. Not to mention that unless you're broken down in a cell deadspot, you'd have the ability to charge a phone and call for help with relatively precise directions to your location.
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Not to mention the huge sum of money that they're just giving to corporations. For any that don't have stocks, they're getting precisely nothing out of it.
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I don't, That's how trademarks work and it's not easy to separate the reasonable ones from the unreasonable ones. The fact that other chains had referenced it first isn't relevant to trademark disputes, these aren't patents. The relevant question is whether the rights were held by somebody else at the time and whether the term is sufficiently attached to the owner and defended. It's the defense bit that might be an issue, as I see an awful lot of taco places using the term currently and I doubt that all of them are paying a license fee or agree to specific rules from Taco Johns. I get the feeling that they trademarked it because they could at the time, and have used it, but haven't really bothered to defend it in the years since.
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@N1korasu Prior art doesn't apply to trademarks. So long as the intended trademark isn't already a generic term or owned by somebody else, the trademark is likely legal. Simply having another business in another part of the country using the term isn't likely to be sufficient to get the term tossed. There would likely have to be some form of confusion involved for that to apply. The biggest issue for them likely being that the term is effectively a generic at this point as taco tuesday is such a known phrase at this point and I'm not sure if Taco Johns has been enforcing any property rights over it prior to this challenge.
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The onion gets everybody at some point. At least this one is more subtle than the one that got me decades back.
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@69fox You know that's fake because nobody moved to Seattle in the 70s. The city lost thousands of residents during that decade.
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@antimediaman9354 Yes, keep in mind that when people get demented, there's a tendency to start forgetting recent things first. It terrifies me to think what could happen if the POTUS forgets that we're no longer in the coldwar and decides to nuke Russia in response to incursions closer to NATO countries.
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Yes, although I think that probably violates some rules that would probably wind up with the sentence being reduced or tossed.
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The Democrats of the '70s hadn't figured out that it was more profitable to throw elections.
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That would be a separate call to the appropriate bar independent of this proceeding.
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@Liamtff That's not to say that I think it's a terrible video, I do think they bring up a lot of valid things to consider. I just wish they wouldn't have bothered if they weren't going to address some of the other bits as those are really the relevant things IMHO. I do think that the video is likely correct that the aggregate payments to channels is probably unsustainable, but I do think that the way forward needs to be more transparency about why Premium is good for everybody and for the curve to be shifted on the payments a bit so that the newer creators can get some money earlier in the process to keep people coming. There's just so many times that any of us can watch a Mr. Beast video or the various copycats out there. I personally would be more than happy to pay for a version that only shows ads on larger channels if it means that everybody gets a slice, provided that the creator is legally able to be paid under the various international regulations on the movement of money and subject to whatever minimum amount it costs to actually make the payment profitable.
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Yes and not one of them thought to blame the cat.
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@Ravi-qg1so The issue there is that it depends on the service. If it's UPS, Fed Ex or USPS, then why is anybody tipping them? They make more than I do and it's literally their job to deliver things. OTOH, if it's something like door dash or the like, then what we really need are laws protecting the drivers. A bit of tipping isn't going to change the exploitative nature of the business model.
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@imonbanerjee2997 That's a major issue. The delivery fee may or may not be used to pay for delivery drivers. I personally think that that should be regarded as fraud to call it a delivery fee and not use it to fund the drivers, but that's not currently how that works.
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Yep, they're mostly still stuck in the past when working harder would actually lead to being rewarded. You could be a good worker and get good pay or be a great worker and get great pay. Now, unless you're an excellent worker and get ridiculously high pay, you probably get acceptablish pay.
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Yep, the situation where non law enforcement is allowed to prevent people from leaving is typically pretty limited and in most cases will require that you've called the cops and will stop when they get there. Even then, there are typically substantial restrictions on when you're even allowed to do that much. Unfortunately, it's often not clear if you were legally justified in doing so until after the fact, at which point it's too late to make a different decision. Best advice is to just not do it if you've got any viable alternative.
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I wish they'd stop having Ryan Grimm on, he's so full of it.
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I wouldn't be so sure. I get it, so I voted 3rd party. Men in particular should be thinking really hard about whether they can support a candidate that clearly has no interest in any of our issues. Harris isn't as bad as HRC, but HRC was an absolute dumpster fire. We're stuck with the 2 major party candidates not being particular fans of democracy and we're supposed to say that voting for one of them means that you "get it." No, people are entitled to vote for whomever they like, but people voting for either of them have clearly not been paying attention over the last few elections as democracy has started to noticeably slip through our collective fingers.
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That's what the grocery store I work for does. The limits only apply to things that are in extremely high demand. From the does point of view, we're still selling pretty much all we want to sell, but more customers get to buy and we get some goodwill or of it.
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Anybody following his work at Tesla ought to know that he's completely incompetent. Most of the problems that Tesla has is the result of Musk tweeting stupid stuff that the company is stuck figuring out how to make work. For a while, the parts alone on a Tesla were more or less the full sticker price of the vehicle and the assembly line he set up was pretty bad as well. Which shouldn't be surprising as his parents gave him so much of his money and he wasn't even an original founder at PayPal, he essentially got bought out with his own payment service.
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I don't really get the purpose of this video. Perhaps a different title would have been better. If this was a significant problem for most people, they would already know this. The only time this is helpful is if you happen to have molasses, but not brown sugar, which is usually not the case.
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@persomnus They could have had you all arrested for stealing, but that would have been a bit of an issue in terms of needing to get workers from some place else. For what a small portion of the cost of providing food at a restaurant the food component is, it probably should have just been policy that you get some for free or at a steep discount.
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It's probably because you were either doing the wrong meditations, or you were trying to do too much at once. A minute every hour or two is a legitimate place to start and should still give you some results. You're usually better off with increasing frequency rather than duration in terms of the benefits of meditation.
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For those near the Canadian border, or further north, that would be the worst of all possibilities, we would lose all of that sun when we need it the most in late December and get absolutely nothing in exchange. Around here we get 7.5 hours at the end of December and sun rise is at 8am, moving it a half hour would vaporize a half hour of sun that most people wouldn't get to enjoy.
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If the last few elections are any indication, the DNC will put up token resistance and the GOP nominee will win, again.
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@dfcx1 Yes, and it's also relatively easy to foam if you're looking for an alternative that can be used to make decent foamed coffee drinks. The one that I"m drinking has been sitting here for a while and it's still got foam, even at the bottom. It's not quite as nice as if I used milk, but it's close enough that I don't have to think about what it's doing to my digestive track.
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@floralstripes8001 One of the nice things about most nut milks is that you can make them yourself at home if you've got the nuts and a bit of patience.
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And if a similar amount of effort went into research, there would be far less comments to respond to.
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@jessicaandersson4313 That's not relevant, the US is a big place and suggesting that the overall picture is everywhere is dishonest. Yes, there are a ton of issues, but tere also a bunch of people shooting themselves in the foot as well.
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Does it actually take 2 hours, or do you just think that it takes 2 hours. I used to think that it took hours for me to fall asleep, but when I hooked myself to the, sadly now out of business, Zeo sleep monitor it showed that it was actually just the normal 20 minutes, it just took several hours for my brain to stop thinking. It's probably because I experience dreams as thinking rather than as something obvious like images and sounds.
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@TheStubertos Melatonin is for short term use, it can cause issues with the eyes over the long term. I've personally had good luck with either Celestial Seasons sleep tea or Natra sleep from GNC. They both work pretty well and don't seem to mess up my sleep architecture.
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@FHL-Devils Historically privacy has always been pretty limited when you step out of secured residences. There was a period where privacy rights expanded a lot, but without a lot of moving, there was typically a relatively small group of people that you'd run into a lot that would know a lot about you.
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@nightlightabcd Perhaps, but the whole point of warrants is that people that aren't criminals do deserve some degree of privacy and until there's a conviction we don't have any way of knowing for sure whether one person is or isn't a criminal.
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You can't set illegal rules. The place is going to be hit with civil rights lawsuits before too long. The first time a 20 something with a good job gets told they can't come in, there'll be a bunch of lawyers waiting to shut the place down. It's one thing when bars due it in response to the laws around minors and controlled substances, but this is never going to wash in court. It's a business offering public accommodations, not a private club. The two are not at all the same thing.
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Thank goodness the really smart people running the DNC chose to rig the primary in favor of Biden, because clearly the people don't want medicare for all and other programs to help the people cope. Shame on Bernie for not doing more to punish them for their betrayal during the '16 election. Had he taken his voters and left the party, we likely wouldn't be seeing a Trump-Biden election.
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I'm less familiar with Australia than some other commonwealth nations, but are you stuck with those candidates for as long as we are? In the UK, they can dissolve parliament at any time and they can vote no confidence in the PM and have a new vote whenever they like, so long as it's at least once every 5 years. In the US, congressmen get 2 years, senators get 6 and the President gets 4. And barring a resignation, impeachment or death we're stuck with them for that long.
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@Ironraven001 That wasn't properly applied then. If it's getting into the waterway, then it wasn't properly applied.
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@vulpesvulpes1530 There is absolutely no science to back that claim up. The reason for the difference in nutrition has nothing to do with the fertilizers, it's the other stuff they do to the plants to make them grow faster that is. These farms are mostly growing plants that have been bred to grow faster, at the expense of the nutritional content. It's not the fertilizers.
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@TheMAmeph The environment is the main reason to go organic. Although with how modern organic agriculture is conducted, I'm not sure if that's still a benefit.
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@lindaswanson9328 Of course it is, everything always is. But, people buy organic products and aren't getting what they're being led to believe they're getting.
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That won't happen in the US, because that would require women to give up some of their extra rights.
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@javabeanz8549 Isn't that a common way of eating a pizza slice in NYC?
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@leondillon8723 So it doesn't drip.
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Why? His estate is unlikely to stop cashing the checks. In this day and age, I'm sure we're close to the point where actors could be replaced with computer voices. Perhaps not now, but probably in the next few years. For non-major characters, they could probably just swap in somebody else.
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It's not, it is a part of the solution, but it's definitely not perfect. It is a great option for base production while the energy storage problem is solved. In the long term though, it's going to be a combination of solar, wind, hydroelectric power doing pretty much all of that. That assumes that commercially viable fusion reactors don't ever work out. (Admittedly, we're closer on that now than ever in the past, but it's still going to be decades if it works out)
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@coocoo3336 The main issue with the current crop of renewables is that they don't work all the time. Solar works great during the day when the sun is out and wind power works great if you've got wind, but you need some way of ensuring that you have the necessary power when you need it. That's where nuclear comes in. I'm sure that eventually the problem of shifting power around will be solved, but nuclear is the thing that we could do right now to fill the gap while that happens.
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A taco is a Mexican sloppy Joe with some extra fixings.
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I do, but he's a tool. Harris has done little to address the needs of the younger men that could wind up tipping things in favor of Trump. I flat out refused to vote for them because of the lack of any clear reason for me to vote for her when she's silent on all the issues that I care most about and isn't really even campaigning in my state. I might have held my nose and voted for her anyways, but she's on the wrong side of the war between Israel and a growing portion of the Middle East.
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@youdontknowme5969 I used to work at a Kroger subsidiary and the woman that handles most of the promotional signs for the store tried to explain the then new promotion they were running and my eyes crossed as I got confused by the whole thing just because of how complicated it was because it wasn't a discount on what you were buying, or money back on future purchases or a redeemible toy. You got points, but you only got the points if you bought enough in a single transaction and you had to redeem those points for something else, and there was this list of things you could get or something like that. Granted, I've got ADHD and likely autism, but I'm a pretty sharp person and I just couldn't understand what was going on. And I was working in a store with a lot of immigrants and I would never have been able to explain it to even the native English speakers.
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@Burgee_6289 Often times that's the case, not always, but it should always say if you can buy just one of those items for $2 rather than having to buy both. Occasionally, you had to buy both though.
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@IrishFinalExit That's how pretty much all of them are going to be going eventually. Paper coupons are a massive pain that most people don't really want to deal with. The fact that you also have to use an app that allows the store to track your purchases just ensures that it will be sooner rather than later.
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That's the thing, but, anything beyond being accessories seems a bit much and I'm not entirely sure that would be appropriate either. It seems a bit like the other 3 defendants are more about satisfying the rioters than it is about legitimate rule of law. But, then again, there are plenty of laws on the books that lead to harsh punishment for accomplices even when they aren't physically present for a murder, so who knows.
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So, the Democrats that let this happen are off the hook and even being rewarded? Obama could have filled those seats if he wanted to, and they could have passed legislation to address the issue as well, they just didn't care as much about that as having something to fund-raise on.
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I'd argue that the only legitimately left position on it is some form of peace deal, whether it be a one or two-state solution with appropriate war crimes trials for the various people on both sides that were conducting crimes against humanity. I have yet to hear any other option that isn't some sort of fascist wet dream.
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TBH, why they pursued him doesn't seem terribly important to me, he did it and was convicted of doing it. If Biden had any scruples at all, he would be pardoning other people with similar situations that ran afoul of those laws. Which he didn't do because on some level he knows that it was a big deal, he just doesn't care.
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Could be, or they could see this as a rare opportunity to get the issue sent to SCOTUS for some work. As it stands, you can't get a QI claim heard as the moment that law enforcement cites it, the case is effectively over.
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Part of why that happened is that the Cares Act was so weak. If it had extended unemployment to the end of the pandemic and provided support for the essential workers and businesses, we wouldn't have seen this kind of pressure to open prematurely in so many parts of the country. I've been working at a grocery store and we're completely cut off from assistance in most cases. If our hours are reduced, we don't get relief money, if we're laid off or fired we don't relief money and yet we're making basically minimum wage. We're just now getting to the point where it's better financially to be working, but that's only because the politicians didn't extend unemployment benefits and the stimulus enhancements when they ran out.
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I hadn't heard about that. I do know that if you want to cool a few cans, you can just set them on the propane cylinder and harvest some of the cooling when that phase change freezes the outside.
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As opposed to Biden that didn't just offer Bernie nothing to drop the race, but chose Kamala Harris as an F U to his supporters.
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One of the reasons that I never got into rollerblading was that the brake they gave was on the back, rather than the front. I suppose it was intended that you'd use one of these other methods to stop and for the life of me, I only remember using the toe drag, but that's probably my memory, and I was probably already going fairly slowly when I would start dragging it.
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YT, Meta and the others made a deal with the devil to monetize this via advertising. This sort of thing pretty much inevitably to such bad behavior, especially when scammers are allowed to buy ad spots to advertise their scams. I swear most of the ads I get on YT are just scams.
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@centurionfragger9859 Probably, the question is whether or not it's actually enforced when advertisers are willing to pay for it.
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I can sleep peacefully knowing that I didn't vote for more genocide, can you?
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A zip+4 number gets a letter far closer to the ultimate delivery address than people realize. If there weren't so many addresses, a letter carrier could just about deliver it with just that information and a name. Of course, that would take a lot of time and be error prone, but for the occasional letter or package it works more often than one would expect.
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If you're going to listen to music, it's really supposed to be more like elevator music that you're not really going to pay attention to. This is one of the reasons why muzak didn't typically have any singing, it was meant to be in the background to cover the tension of being in an elevator with people you don't know.
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You're right we shouldn't. I'm far more concerned by the various people I see in this comment section that see CVS' illegal coopting of the sidewalk adjacent to their property as being acceptable. It's the public right of way, if he's not committing an actual crime sufficient to justify calling the cops, then they should STFU and just leave him alone. Taking any of the actions that they were threatening would likely have resulted in an expensive lawsuit.
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@daunteflores7596 most Americans lack $400 to pay an emergency bill. They can need the money and save it, that's hardly inconsistent.
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I hope not, I hope the judge decides whether to allow the case or not based on the law and the pleadings. It certainly does appear that she stole gas, assuming that our understanding is correct. It's fundamentally not any different from seeing a bunch of cash sitting on a counter waiting to be put in the till. The ability to grab the cash by virtue of it sitting there doesn't make it free money. In this case, being able to use the card to get the gas doesn't make it free gas.
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Please consider voting to oust incumbents. I'm not voting for either party unless there's no 3rd party to oust the incumbent. Otherwise I'll be voting 3rd party only.
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@ Referencing that movie is not a part of my particular set of skills.
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@umiluv the real problem is that you have to select a party on the envelope and only vote trim that category on the ballot. Nearly 60k votes are already set to be disqualified due to that.
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@animezilla4486 True, but it doesn't need to be everybody, just enough people to make it hurt.
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It won't end until the Israelis remove Bibi and his ilk from power. This attack was a direct consequence of him ordering attacks on Iran.
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So? It's still a terrible idea. There's a lot of restrictions that are placed on people who are waiting for trial.
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It's been working here in WA just fine. People can have the same firearms here that they do in the rest of the country, they just have to be 21 for some of them and deal with a couple other minor inconveniences. We've had zero mass shootings since then and people still get to have their firearms for anything one would reasonably need or want one for.
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When they do things like goose the economy with massive tax cuts, anybody that owns stock is likely to benefit. Same goes for most pro-business policies. They may not know what specific stocks they own, but they know that they're going to personally benefit in aggregate.
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I thought that it was particularly stupid when they decided to just copy what Chrome was doing without considering whether what they were copying made any sense. Especially that asinine decision to start bumping major versions every few months and break most of the plugins regularly. I wish they could release something along the lines of what Arc Browser is doing, but it's sort of unclear whether getting spaces for the tabs is a thing that they'll do.
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He can't do that. She can't accept. After all the dirty fighting, I don't see how her supporters could accept that as legitimate.
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@seasaltisland That's probably true, but varies a lot depending upon where you are. Around here, 60k would mean that you couldn't afford rent without taking extreme measures to cut other areas of the budget out.
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@earthwormandruw Yes, and from what I can tell, it doesn't work on bikes that use carburetors as there's nothing for the electronics to interface with.
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Apparently, the $2 extra above the previous bonus was too much. Not to mention the fact that many of us got our hours cut and weren't eligible for pandemic relief because the cutbacks were due to overhiring rather than the pandemic. So, we're stuggling and basically nobody except these city councils is doing anything about it. For shame.
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Yes. I do think that there should be a requirement that they actually follow you if they need that information. These trackers are lazy and collect far to much information in some regards. But, that doesn't tell you who wad driving.
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This is more or less a one off. They were given a temporary break in the minimum wage. After this, they'll just get the same increases that every other minimum wage worker gets. If these businesses are so poorly run that this puts them out of business, they deserve it.
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@URnickel_MY2cents The typical target inflation from the Federal Reserve is about 2%, this particular increase is a one off that will bring these employees back in line with the minimum wage that everybody else is getting.
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Solar roadways in Australia in the middle of nowhere could work, but there's so much space there that there's no need to put the solar cells in the roadway. It could theoretically make sense for parking lots, but I don't know that that will ever be worth the effort.
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Sort of, every bridge is different, but you can do things like keep the pylons supporting the span in shallower water where the ship will run aground before hitting the support. You can build up a massive concrete bunker around the pylons that can help to redirect the ship around the pylons, and have tug boats, but for various reasons none of those things were the case this time. Hopefully whatever reports are written after investigating will shed some light on why there were no tugs required through this stage as tugs alone may have been sufficient to prevent the complete collapse of the bridge. But, yes, if a fully loaded cargo ship hits the supports there's not much that can be done to prevent the collapse.
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The masks don't. They reduce spread via touching your face in public and contaminated micro droplets, but just breathing out will allow some viruses through. The n95 masks are barely more effective than surgical ones in preventing spread because viruses are that small. It's one of the reasons it took so long to get those requirements to wear masks. The efficacy is not well supported, but it does reduce spread some amount.
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Sounds like we dodged a bullet, that monster actually seems to care about the poor and isn't available for voting in that state. He might have actually represented people that aren't rich enough to bribe politicians.
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@rosepainting8775 Yes, although if the hours wind up being cut back to 20 to 30 hours, that opens up a lot of time to socialize outside of work. And that doesn't even include the time wasted on commuting.
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@hyleenpognaire8134 To be honest there's really only a couple reliable ways to get rich and they both require a lot of time and effort. It will vary a bit depending upon where you live, but in the US, all it really takes is the ability to set aside a portion of your income to stocks, bonds and real estate over the course of decades. There's also the route of inventing something extraordinary ore creating a business, but that's a lot harder and less predictable. Where it does become problematic is if you're living in an area where that extra money is being allowed to be siphoned off by extremely high rent and collected by a small number of corporate land lords.
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@geoffstrickler It's going to work for somebody if simply not reoffending is the standard, but arguably the sentenced handed out was inappropriately harsh. Most don't remain out of prison in part due to the lack of meaningful reform programs in prison and the lack of opportunities once out. What's more, we've got higher rates of violent crime than in Europe, but they don't need the kind of harsh penalties that we've got to make it so.
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TBH, the permits should be free and just to detail what you're planning on doing and where you're planning to be. The taxes to pay for processing and monitoring should come from the rich. If you look at the actual fees being charged, they are transparent about the fact that the money is going to cover the expense of government employees keeping an eye on the filming to ensure that the area isn't being trashed. My main objection is that there should really be a $0 tier for people that are just sticking to an established trail and setting up a single camera. That could also be commercial in nature, but not something that really justifies having a fee associated. A random check on some number of those licenses would likely be more than sufficient.
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@KingPossum Yes and I assume that they're probably understaffed and the room hadn't been rented for those days. But, somebody definitely did screw up as there shouldn't be anybody still occupying the room if it hasn't been extended and there should be some sort of computer system to let them know that the key hasn't been changed either.
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@bobmazzi7435 That aspect does make some sense if they're understaffed, but I'm not sure why they didn't notice that nobody had checked out.
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Possibly, but given how much evidence Israel is publishing of their people purposefully engaging in war crimes, there has to be a guilty ruling coming because if this doesn't lead to one, then I have no idea what a country would have to do to be guilty.
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WA doesn't have that, but there is online tracking available, just go to the appropriate county elections site and input the appropriate details to get your status. I dropped mine off yesterday and it's already been processed.
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Years ago TD Ameritrade leaked my email to spammers because they weren't securing their stuff and I heard about it from a technical website weeks before they fessed up that there had been a data breech. I had basically no spam before that. Maybe one or two a month from spammers trying random addresses, but after that point, the spam just kept flooding into the account. Fortunately, the spam filters on that account are pretty effective, but I'll never get the account back to where it was before they screwed it up.
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@rikkeles2331 Yep, the lack of exercise and the way he eats, I'd be surprised if he doesn't have a stroke or heart attack.
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@koro_kokoro Precisely who are they going to find that would be able to keep the MAGA coalition together? Trump has purposefully not developed any successors as he doesn't want there to be alternatives to compete with. Chances are that when he dies, the movement dies with him. That's not to say that there can't and won't be a lot of harm done in the meantime, but it's limited.
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@JamesMiller-fx5yi Yep, that's what I've been pointing out, it's unlikely that Trump will finish the term, he may not even survive long enough to help with the midterms. That being said, there's still a ton of damage to the institutions that can happen in the meantime, but if he does indeed die, the MAGA coalition will probably collapse into petting bickering and infighting.
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@tanukisan7x Yep, it was always going to end, and there's a reason why it wasn't replaced with a more modern design. Starting in the '90s they started to see the ability to conduct business online and by the time the Concorde was finally removed from commercial service in 2003, businesses had plenty of ability to teleconference and that has just gotten stronger and stronger since then. At this point, you can get internet service for basic tasks on a flight, and you can either work or sleep en route to where you're going.
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Yes, I do think people will probably get used to it over time, but it is unsettling seeing something that's more or less a robot dog from the neck down and an arm with a hand from the neck up.
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Coalesced really isn't the right word. After South Carolina, the establishment finally succeeded in rigging the primary. We would not be accepting the results of an election like that if it were a foreign country where we were bringing them democracy, so why should we accept it here? The exit polling pretty clearly showed that the voters chose not just progressive policies, but also Bernie over Biden. But, the news media really hasn't covered that at all.
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Latinos are often times white. It's kind of BS to recognize that ethnicity, even though it's a collection of ethnicities and not recognize any of the other non-Latino ethnicity out there.
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It's less rigged this time than last time, but it's still rigged. All the DNC needs is for Bernie to fail to get enough delegates to win on the 1st ballot. Then they can bring in the super delegates on the 2nd ballot and tip it to Biden. That's assuming that Bernie has the plurality. If he doesn't, then the result is likely the same, but there'd be no grounds for complaining.
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@mallk238 Yes, it's just a shame that we don't have a major political party that disagrees enough to actually fight against it. Biden could have done more to protect the country while he was in office, but elected to leave it half completed and then insisted on running without a real primary to ensure that he was strong enough to beat Trump. They weren't even willing to promise to do anything to stop our complicity with Israeli war crimes.
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@boni_slinger that's probably not true to any significant degree, most of the deaths would be shared as Biden wasn't exactly pushing for health care for all.
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@bryanjames7528 the number of people killed by police in total is far less than you people think. It should be lower, but it's hardly comparable to the holocaust like some of you people like to imply. A huge chunk of the dead were the result of legal shootings.
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Christopher Del Castillo how many of them are running for President this year?
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@SuperG3cko this is why you folks remain at the bottom of society, if you doesn't half as much effort on building your community that you do making up racist conspiracy theories, you'd be in charge.
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Luther Baker yes, they're both horrible and neither one is going to do a thing for these communities. The more people of color refuse to vote for candidates that can't show then a concrete plan to help and avoid giving money outside the community when there's a viable option in it, the quicker things will change.
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But, we're only 2 years away from an election, Biden can't get to make the decision, we should wait until the 2024 elections to ensure the will of the people.
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VW is probably glad that they won't have to deal with people referring to Beetles as Hitler cars anymore.
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And which particular policies is Harris targeting at men to help us? And that's the problem, Harris doesn't care about men, especially young men and ones that aren't Latino. Going through her campaign site and I see a bunch of language targeting minorities, and basically nothing that tells me that she even realizes that I have any problems that I need help with. He didn't get my vote because she didn't try to even promise not to pile on the way that previous Democrats have.
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@MonkeyJedi99 Driving under the limit is also illegal if you're delaying other vehicles.
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The Chinese don't buy Chinese if they can help it. The made in China gear available there is absolute garbage. I can't say anything about India though.
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@thomashahn631 That's what I'm trying to figure out. Because of her dirty dealing, she can't be the VP pick for Sanders, he might be able to give her a cabinet position or a policy concession. She's completely worthless to Biden though. She hasn't won her home state, which means that she's unlikely to be able to win re-election, assuming that nobody primaries her. Perhaps a consultancy job or something like that? It's really sad to see her sell out to this degree after the point where it might have made a difference. But, the biggest thing, is that she was foolish enough to hire Clinton people to run her campaign. Those idiots lost to the least electable GOP candidate ever. Not since Hubert Humphrey stepped in at the last minute had there been a candidate so unelectable.
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That only applies if you have an area with a continuous tradition of doing so. Most of the trails of the US were either converted to roads by the settlers or just left to be reclaimed by nature as they didn't survive a purpose important enough to be preserved once the white people started to take over.
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They just get the regular COLAs that come from increasing the portion of income that's taxed. The people that really get screwed are folks like me that won't hit retirement age before the fund hits insolvency and I see no evidence that anybody with any power is doing anything to address that. There's a very real reality that by the time I hit the full retirement age in the 2040s that I won't get as much out as I put in. On top of that, there are few pensions left and everything has been more expensive due to deregulation and neo-liberal economic policies.
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@ It's extremely expensive to operate a facility like that on an island, especially one that houses a lot of people that have court appearances to make. I don't know what the proper place to sight one is, but renovating a facility like Rikers would likely absorb all of the cost savings, and more. Plus, you then can't redevelop the island into something that might bring in more tax revenue. I do agree that having a jailscraper is in a lot of ways less than ideal, I just don't know what sort of viable alternatives there are.
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The difference is probably that the new one is on for longer periods of the day than the older one was. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it is probably on the whole better all around for doing that. I know I probably would have had fewer trips to the emergency room with cat hair/dust related allergy attacks with the more modern furnaces.
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@yagballs676 And how pray tell, do you know that ahead of time? That's a huge part of the problem, people do get these jobs, they exist, how does somebody considering college know if they will or not? It's never a 100% fill rate.
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It's also worth recognizing that since this action comes after the elections that were affected that it won't serve as a deterrent to people trying to use FB to skirt the law.
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@timbercest Indeed, the withdrawal symptoms are rather wide ranging.
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Not going to happen without an actual leftwing or progressive party. The democrats run on things like this, they have absolutely no interest in doing anything about it.
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Now if only they'd find a way of sparing these men from bothering hitting on them.
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People get confused, but it's pretty simple. If you're not in a privileged group, there's likely less impact on others with respect to these toxic views. It does not follow that it's OK to act on these sorts of degenerate views though. It's still racist, it's just less likely that somebody losing out on this just due to that is going to struggle to find a job elsewhere the way they might if the person is in a more privileged position in society.
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Waiving the debt is wrong. What about those that only signed up for military service as a way of paying for college? Or how about the various middle class families that had to scrimp and save in order to pay for college without taking on loans? Why should those folks get screwed over because other people couldn't figure out how to manage their credit responsibly? Lower the interest rates, lower the monthly payment if they must, but waiving the remaining loans represents a serious undermining of society. What about other kinds of debts? How can anybody make an informed decision about whether or not to take on debt if they don't know if the government is going to waive it one day in the future?
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Yes, and Obama figured out that you can lie your ass off and then blame the GOP minority when you don't even try to fulfill any of it.
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And the content of the video is any better?
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I'm not sure what you expect, I mean, it's not like the GOP has been telegraphing their intention to end democracy for the last few decades and taking steps to make it happen.
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@john_mccarthy_hi They can't legally do that. They're legally obligated to spend at least 85% of group policy premiums on health care activities. IIRC, it's a bit lower for individual policies. The reason that the rates have been going up has to do with things like out of control medication costs, the elimination of lifetime caps on services and the states where they didn't extend medicaid to cover everybody that wasn't otherwise covered. And if the GOP would have expanded medicaid with the money the feds were provided and would allow for regulations on pharmaceuticals, the price of health care would be a lot lower. Not to mention the markup on care to account for malpractice insurance because if a doctor hurts somebody, they're on the hook for paying for treatments that would be free in other countries as just normal medical care.
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Autism is just a developmental disorder, it's not the only one. I'm glad you were able to get a proper diagnosis. But, the other options probably wouldn't have made much of a difference in terms of treatment as it's mostly treating the traits that are causing issues in any case.
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@Samuel_Loegan He is a smart man. "Everybody has a plan until a tiger punches them in the bread basket"
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I'm not surprised women rate most men as less attractive than average.
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I think a bunch of those computers will probably be purchased second hand for those of us wanting to do things like build NAS boxes. But, yeah, there'll be a lot of e-waste that comes of this.
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It kind of is with things like this. It's a screwed up system where paying for sex is illegal, unless you film it and charge people to watch, in which case it's OK. Just don't do breast feeding videos with children, because then that's child pornography, whether the child is what's leading people to get off to it or not. The big thing here though is that we shouldn't have people in this kind of a situation where they're going to be taken advantage of like this. It's not like the country hasn't got the money to ensure that all children have food and medical care.
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I don't know why we're still so chummy with Israel. They're a bunch of war criminals and they spy on the US more than anybody else. The whole thing is a lot harder to back a side in when you realize that it's mostly terrorists versus war criminals where the typical people suffer.
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@Garth2011 makes me glad I live far away from there. It's scary how many of the buildings in Florida were the result of cartels needing to launder their money. On top of that, you've got the continued corruption and incompetence of local officials.
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@AegixDrakan The point is that we haven't raised the cap, nor have we done anything about income inequality and it wasn't that long ago that we had a bipartisan bill pass and be signed into law that stole more of the money to give to the elderly. So, we don't have any reason to believe that they're going to actually address the situation, especially since it involves taxing the rich.
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He's already won or lost, we're waiting to know for sure what the result was. The voting was nearly a week ago.
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In all fairness, dentists aren't actually doctors, they have a much shorter program of study. But, they are licensed and regulated so that if you go to one, you should get more or less exactly what you expect.
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@Powderlover1 That's no more, or less, true today than it was decades ago when this compromise was struck. The PRC got to save face, and Taiwan got to operate as the ROC in a largely independent fashion. It's not a stable arrangement, and as long as our corrupt politicians aren't so arrogant as to poke the (panda) bear, it would probably hold out long enough for the PRC size to shrink and the people to start seeing that there can be a better life for them in their own country. It remains to be seen what comes of it, but it won't be anything good.
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@FhillipFry How is that different from the other autonomous regions in the PRC that don't start with a T? Taiwan is only different in terms of being the ROC and where the government of China fled when Mao was consolidating power.
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@mattk8810 It was also not a flagged vessel, if it were a flagged vessel, then the laws of that country would apply in international waters. But, as it was in international waters and it lacked a flag, then it gets kind of murky as normally, you're supposed to have a flag and registration somewhere. But, since this submersible was not required to have that, then it gets complicated as to what laws would even apply. I'm guessing probably the US will be where any legal proceedings related to this happen as that's where the CEO and Company are domiciled, but it's probably going to be a massive issue to decide which of the nations involved in the search and rescue get to be in charge of the legal proceedings.
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@kx8960 For ships, the regulations are the ones of whatever nation they fly the flag of. In this case, there appears to be a loophole that it wasn't flagged to any nation, which mean that there wasn't any regulation. I would expect that issue to be resolved relatively quickly, as they can probably just amend that particular treaty to account for vessels that are for undersea exploration not having the ability to have a flag for safety and practicality reasons.
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Keep in mind that with the NRA being disbanded, Trump's executive order and Biden's disastrous pick for VP, things are looking better for Trump.
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More than that, we also have effective antiviral medications that are used. And the vaccinations reduce the severity of the flu for folks who do contract it.
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Lawyers tend to argue the truth and law if they can, but if their client is sufficiently obvious in their guilt, they'll go after technicalities to try and get that acquittal or dismissal. It's a necessary practice to ensure that the law isn't being subverted through technicalities that you'd have to be an attorney to recognize.
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Same here, but that doesn't mean that we have to vote for Harris. I voted for Stein, because she actually wants to improve my life. If my life improves because Harris is elected, it'll be by accident.
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That surprises me, isn't Macy's union? Or is that just it west?
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That's one possibility, another would be installing infrared heating. That's probably what I would recommend for this situation as it heats things pretty quickly, but mostly just heats the surface, not the air itself. And the height of the room makes relatively little difference. I've got an IR heater that I'll use when I'm cold while I wait for the heater in the room to get to where I like it.
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Perhaps a good start would be to not force Harris on us and to let us make up our own minds about which candidate should be the nominee.
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I'm not sure why the fact that it's women fighting those fires is so bad. Men currently make up over 90% of workplace fatalities. The main issue with the prisoners fighting fires is that they're not exactly free to make a decision. Time off the sentence is rather compelling with the system is being run in such an inhumane way.
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It can be both politics and good science.
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Of course, it is and because the Democrats have been so bad on these issues it's likely to work. They could and should have held out for more with the Cares Act, they could have gone on a press tour excoriating the GOP for not doing a decent job. They could have demanded that all health care costs be covered by the government through the end of the pandemic, but they didn't do any of that.
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@prussianblueppt Only if she has a message and the moderators don't do their jobs. She has a track record of not being able to defend herself when people start asking tough questions.
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Years ago I had read that they were considering adding a diagnosis to cover people that became raging psychopaths because they were surrounded by people that just kept encouraging the bad behavior and normalizing it. I'm not sure what happened with it, but it was a known phenomenon years before influencer culture really took off.
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@shadowprince4482 What gets me is the times where I'll see something in the news about somebody being pulled over for being black, and it happened at night and they're relatively light skinned. I'm curious how on Earth the cops knew that they were black in order to pull them over for driving while black. I can sort of get it if it's somebody with darker skin and a fro where the silhouette can be clearly seen, but sometimes it seems like grasping at straws to blame somebody else.
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No, they're just adding new requirements to make it harder to get away with.
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@thatjeff7550 That's the only driver's license available in Tennessee. Many other states do not require proof of legal residency to get a driver's license. It depends whether the state is more concerned about road safety or people being in the country legally.
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@Drebin2293 There really isn't. By making the only driver's license in the state require legal residency, it means that the folks that are here illegally also drive illegally. Folks flying between airports really have no reason to demonstrate citizenship as they're already in the country. We don't make people go through border control every time they get on or off a plane, so why are we checking for citizenship every time we get on a plane? (Assuming this time they actually follow through on making the RealID compliance mandatory)
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Yes, but how many drills and powerwashers per picture?
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@ I used to live over there, there are a lot of ancient Chinese secrets that nobody knows, because it wasn't on the gaokao so nobody bothered to learn it.
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@troodon1096 Yes, but it is a bit of a drill. Perhaps the rest will come later.
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That's only because you guys got sick of paying for treating moose bites.
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@LG123ABC It depends why you were fired, but yes, that's typically the case.
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@jimsackmanbusinesscoaching1344 The joke there is that most rehab programs are more about bilking insurance than about helping people with drug dependency or addiction.
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@mage1439 Something like that might not be sufficient, if somebody quits just to get around the regulation, the courts might not be amused by the maneuver.
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Keep in mind that at their peak they also employed over 10% of the population of East Germany as part of the security apparatus either directly as agents or indirectly as informers. I shudder to think what they could have done if they had the Supreme Court on their side, letting them access every single letter going through the network without putting any effort into collecting it. End-to-end encryption ought to be a basic human right given that it's effectively the only way to maintain the same level of privacy that used to be the norm. If nobody was around to hear you saying things, then there was no ability to retrieve that conversation later.
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This is YT, just go to the gear icon and slow it to whatever you like.
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Without mentioning it? I regularly see that printed on the menu as well as on the receipt. Then again, I don't normally go out to eat in such large groups.
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This isn't a change to the definition, it's a revision. Words regularly receive revised definitions as use changes or people are confused by the previous definition, that's all that's happening here. The previous definition was interpreted by many to mean that if a vaccine didn't make you immune, that it wasn't a vaccine and that wasn't ever true. All vaccines fall short of that standard and if a disease is common and bad enough, a 50% improvement might be worth getting vaccinated for.
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God no. We already have too many people who feel the need to vote on everything on their ballot, even things that they don't understand. If people don't understand, they should just not vote on that item. I know I've done that in the past. Voting access should be made as convenient as possible, but people shouldn't be pressured into voting if they don't care enough to have an informed opinion on the issues.
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Not to mention babies...
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Only Elon is allowed to buy votes.
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It's worth noting that just like during the Great Depression, that if you're well off enough to own your own home, you're likely to be fine. You might have to sell all of your things and rent out rooms, but you'll be fine. It's the people who didn't own their homes outright that are likely in the soup.
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That would be a lie, the money to fund this is being stolen from younger workers. This will cause the social security trust to go insolvent months earlier because it's an unfunded mandate to increase benefits.
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That's largely because the political class doesn't really care what the outcome is. They're going to be fine, in some ways, it's easier for them if they do lose because they can fundraise on that and don't have to deliver anything. The only way that Biden might be able to not drop out and still win would be if he kicks Kamala to the curb and chooses Bernie as his VP. One of the big mistakes that both HRC and Biden made were not doing anything to try and earn the votes of the progressive wing of the party. It might not be enough, but it would at least be something.
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That was bad, but I think the bit where they all pretended that Biden wasn't clearly in cognitive decline going back to at least 2020 is far worse.
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It's a bunch of propaganda from the manufacturers. The 2nd amendment is what allows the national guard to be armed. The 2nd amendment is used as an excuse to block regulation. The individual right to keep and bear firearms was created by the courts, but somehow that's ok, but not right to abortion.
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@JavierFernandez01 This is why the definition was revised. They used the term immunity as a shorthand for imune system response and the bare minimum revision for the entry would be to swap in immune system response for immunity.
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@susanmercurio1060 You're not, you're resistant. This is why the definition was revised, you're highly resistant, but as you get older, your immune system may no longer be able to fight it off. That's part of why they're still vaccinating people in the 95% of the world that don't have any cases.
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It's projection, they assume that because they're dirty crooks that everybody else must be. I remember many years ago when the state GOP sued to try to get the gubernatorial results overturned due to "fraudulent" votes, not only did they lose the case, but ultimately, all of the removed votes wound up being for their candidate. Not that the Democrats are particular fans of democracy, they just choose to rig things where federal law doesn't mandate better behavior.
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@jeffmorency3224 He also promised that we'd get $2k stimulus checks if those Georgia Senate races went to the Democratic candidates. We got $1400. I'm not sure why anybody expects that Biden will do the right thing on really any issue. I've literally only got hazard pay because my locality decided to make it so. They had an extra $20k for the unemployed, mostly because unemployment is an absolute joke, but nothing for the folks working on the front lines that couldn't just hide at home. I was literally shopping the grocery store dozens of times a week so that those folks could avoid having to get exposed. They were grateful, but it's an embarrassement that the federal government didn't even try to pass any sort of help for us as a massive chunk of the essential workers make barely more than minimum wage, and in many cases don't even get health benefits or sick days.
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If you choose wisely, some pump filters can be gravity fed.
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Yes, even being held back at all is rather rare these days. Same goes for being skipped ahead. One of my friends was held back and then skipped ahead 2 grades the next year. Granted that was 2 times through kindergarten and he was on the young side at the time, but still. Even at that age, it's rather unusual.
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Definitely, and IMHO, no ebike should ever ship without removable batteries. Between the theft issues and the fact that most people don't have an outlet near their parking spot, it makes little sense to sell an ebike without a removable battery.
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@zepher664 You make it sound like SCOTUS has always been 9 justices. It was originally 6 justices and the number is set by legislation rather than the constitution. There's also no enforcement mechanism for any of their rulings, so Biden would be perfectly justified in just ignoring the court when they're blatantly ignoring the constitution and the texts they're "interpreting."
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@patdbean There's a surprising amount of math that goes into that. You have to have periodic full backups to reduce the risk of one of the incremental backups getting corrupted and leaving everything after that unrecoverable. That being said, you do need a local backup. The vast majority of data loss is due to fat fingering something and the backups sitting a few feet away are unaffected. The offsite copies are for things like burglaries where somebody steals the entire computer or where the building burns down and everything on site is potentially lost. But, since most of the time that doesn't apply, it's important to have an on site backup that's attached to the computer constantly backing things up, even though it doesn't provide protection against power surges or fires. It just makes it so fast to fix mistakes that were made in terms of accidental deletions.
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Considering that it opens onto what was street level, the most likely explanation is some sort of storage.
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The whole situation is unprecedented. So far, the courts are holding the line, and really, the mostly just have to hold it until the primaries come along and you start to see the rats deserting the sinking ship. The entire GOP right now is centered around what Trump wants to do, and if he has a stroke or heart attack and dies, or even is incapacitated by it, that could trigger an implosion. Or, if his approval ratings slip too far, or Elon pisses off too many red states with screwing them over in pursuit of money for tax breaks for himself. Not that I'd rest on my laurels. It will likely get extremely ugly.
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Perhaps next time try running somebody that actually is willing to fight for everybody rather than just a minority of people on wedge issues. The Democrats haven't offered men any reason to vote for them, and the GOP is at least willing to cosplay like they care. Given that neither party is likely to fight very hard for working class men, it shouldn't be a shocker that the tie went to the party willing to pretend like they cared.
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@williampotter3369 TBH, if it were me, I'd be tempted to barbecue it. Scorpions are really good eating. That being said, this one probably is a bit small for that.
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@dawnhoughton4533 Scorpions can be rather delicious, I don't know why that's not more widely reported on.
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It's worth noting that for folks with ADHD, we should be making it as easy as possible to put something away, even if it makes it harder to take out. (I'd say that's more of an especially rather than an even if) Because that's going to be the issue, taking something out usually isn't an issue if you want it badly enough, but putting it back is commonly where the friction lies. Keeping books, or CDs, or similar, in alphabetical order is great for finding it, but a massive pain for putting them back and if you buy a new item that starts with A, you might be stuck moving everything else. But, if you just say, it's good enough for it to be in the As or A-C range, it'll be far more likely that it'll be put there. Even though it will take more to retrieve than if it was in strict alphabetical order, it's still far easier to retrieve than if it wasn't put away at all.
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Presumably that's because there's typically an age gap when dating. But, that is probably going to be the nail in the coffin for the restaurant. You simply can't have different rules based on different sexes.
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That's different. When you go to a store, you expect to pay the posted price for the item. And, they likely fix it immediately afterwards. It's legally required for them to honor the price in most cases. In this case, she didn't pay the posted price and she didn't notify the service center and she sold some of the gas that she stole. That's the issue, if she had shown some restraint, she had notified the station and not sold any of the gas, she probably wouldn't be prosecuted for this.
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@allengrant perhaps, but you can get something like 10 sets of lodge frying pans for that. Sure these last for generations, but is it really worth an extra hundred?
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@ViableGibbon It's probably the most accurate portrayal of a courtroom I've seen. 30-40 minutes of back and to the left while the same few frames of film footage is pretty accurate.
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@albertwatkins7050 No, and you can't really yell fire in a crowded theater either. In the case of the bomb, there's presumably a terrorism statute that covers it. In the latter, it's not technically illegal, but given how dumb people are, you should probably expect that somebody is going to start a rush to get out and trample people. And if that happens, you probably would have criminal liability. There's a lot of things that aren't technically illegal in and of themselves, but are still likely to wind up with somebody being arrested. Around here, public nudity isn't technically illegal, but it will be prosecuted anyways under other rules. The local parks are technically all clothing optional, but there's been a bit of a truce where only certain areas of certain parks allow people to exercise that right.
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@thrrax It's not enforceable. The US doesn't have access to the databases from other countries, so if you don't have a stamp in your passport, they likely have no way of knowing if you were even there. It happens in some parts of the world where having a stamp could result in serious issues from a different country as the only people that know about you crossing the border are the officials and anybody you see. By the time they do find out about it, it's too late and whatever damage has been done has been done.
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This is why Python is such a bad language for beginners. That workaround with the Tuple wouldn't work with competently designed language. That is clearly a bug that they couldn't be bothered to fix. The proper way of dealing with a variable that can't be changed, whether it's immutable or final or whatever other word a language uses is to create a new variable with just the portions that you're wanting and the new values. Or, better yet, don't use something that can't be changed if you intend to change it.
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@scottandrews947 Who is your non-elitist option?
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Get a second mic stand for the kitty.
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@macroman91 The reality is that if they set the limit to something reasonable like 20mph over the speed limit, that it will ultimately save more lives than n this sort of rare scenario would cost. It's more of a rationalization that there's a potential legitimate reason to speed here rather than one that's likely to come up. Even in a rural area, you're probably not going to want to be going much over the speed limit anyways as those roads are typically not designed to be driven faster anyways.
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@retroboomer3197 To be fair, I'm not sure anybody expected the the Democrats would go so far when it comes to carrying water for the GOP on things like this. The Democratic establishment doesn't want this resolved because then they couldn't run on it. And, if they did manage to resolve it, then people would start to get the idea that they can demand more of their politicians than thoughts and prayers on other issues as well. Remember when the ACA was passed, Obama had a veto-proof majority in the Senate and control of the house. He could have whipped/bribed the holdouts in his caucus to allow a public option or just allow everybody access to the plan that Senators and Congressmen get. They could even have done what I heard Ro Khana suggesting recently and required that private insurers cover everything that medicare covers. They could also have required that any pharmaceutical based on federally funded research be up for negotiation over price by the people that funded the research.
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He can, it's the same authority that was used to extend the interest free forbearance period. The problem is that the courts are packed with partisan hacks that had to go along with Biden's extensions because Trump had used the authority. I don't know how folks are going to wind up paying their bills on this after having so long a period without having to make payments and being told that they wouldn't have to pay that portion of the debt. I'm not even sure why he didn't just set the 0% interest and no payments to extend for the next 80 years, it would be effectively the same result and the next President would have to take the political hit if they wanted to rescind it.
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@NuggieIsMissing Same, but look at the age of the kid, it was probably "Dat's going to kill me."
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It's a self fulfilling prophesy, by failing to comply, he ensured that force would be used. The unfortunate reality is that they used more force than was justifiable and he died as a result. Now there's likely at least one cop looking at gong to prison for murder.
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Presumably, they'd get back their weapons if they are acquitted or otherwise win their case.
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And I hope that in 2028 after that happens people will remember that the DNC is what allowed that to happen.
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Yes and this also means that the time to deal with the issues in the program has been reduced by about 6 months as these are people getting benefits for which they were never taxed.
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@unbreakable7633 Yes, that's because appeals are done on the basis of their being something wrong with the legal process, not the result being wrong. So, unless there's something so wrong with the process as to warrant it being retried or overturned, it's probably not going to happen. And, there are rules about what kinds of things are even possible to be appealed in the first place.
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NNA S Why should they? The candidates never offer them any reason to bother. It's more of the same robbing of future generations so the boomers can be comfortable.
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NNA S And we saw how that worked out. There is a special place in hell for Obama when he finally dies. He's ultimately responsible for Trump and everything that came with him.
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@kylespencer6461 It's an illegal practice in the US and most other nations. The problem is that it's not enforced very often.
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I recommend including DVDsig on the disk with the appropriate checksum files it generates. It makes it a lot easier to verify if the files are still good. Just run the program and it will tell you which ones aren't reading.
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Don't forget about the money that we're going to send to Israel to help them commit crimes against humanity.
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He's an intersting individual and if you live in a major city there's a decent chance that it has one of his libraries. I can think of at least 2 locally that were built with the proceeds of his riches.
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@kewoshk People probably would, there's a lot of folks out there. There's no way that you're as big of a train wreck as my wife is. She's in complete denial and has granted herself a bunch of rights without my consent and is somehow angry at me that we don't have kids, when she won't do anything at all to move towards that goal and expects to outsource all the work to her mother and wasted several years towards the beginning of our marriage that should have been used building a functioning marriage, but was mostly spent by her on making it on s**t test after another after another because of her emotional problems and paranoia. I doubt very much that you're as bad as she is and the literal only reason that I stuck with her as long as I have is that the pandemic and our ages kind of camouflaged a bunch of that as everybody gets testy and depressed when they're largely trapped at home with nothing to do.
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I hope that he learned not to disrespect the locals. The violence and arrest were clearly uncalled for, but that doesn't make his behavior any less disrespectful. I'm glad the court case ultimately came out right as he should not have been arrested for simply being disrespectful.
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20 years ago, they were already being merged into a handful of media outlets. Even if they had embraced the internet, having all the news coming from a handful of corporations with more interest in cutting costs than exposing their own misdeeds would have been a massive problem.
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There was an alternative? The main alternative I saw was kicking this down the road a bit further, but the GOP has made no secret about wanting to do this and the Democrats have made no secret about not really caring to stop them. We get these temporary measures to put it off for another day because the party leaders would rather be able to run against the GOP doing things like this than to put measures into place to make it harder to do. Had we gotten a public option or been given the right to enroll in the same plan that the politicians have, we likely wouldn't be in this position as it would be very hard to cut that.
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There's a fair amount of work that went into it. I don't know if they were able to locate any cameras that got a good shot of the license plate, but even the low quality video they aired the night after, it did look like the license plate was black and white, which is TX, I just don't know if there are other states with similar colors.
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That didn't used to be the case. There has been a concerted effort over at least a century to make it so. It's just that there's so much space that it could be done after the country developed a pretty decent level of industrialization.
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If by retirement, you mean prison then yes.
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@lutherblissett9070 isn't that something that she let W set precedence for?
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Honestly, it probably won't be that expensive to deal with, it likely would just plug into the fuel injection system with a sensor connected to the wheel. This isn't that much different from the rate limiters that are already installed on some vehicles to help prevent them from redlining. The bigger issues are that this could cause issues for passing, potentially suddenly getting out of the way of a hazard and that it would require a map and GPS to know what the speed limit should be, otherwise it's largely useless other than from keeping people from going 120+ on the freeway at night.
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@mof5490 It's difficult to completely avoid sexualizing children if you want to have that message, but from what I've heard from credible sources, not TYT, they went well above and beyond what would reasonably be necessary to do so.
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Pizza delivery is probably the least risky way of getting fed right now. And that's for both the customer and the employee. Some of the chains are experimenting with zero contact deliveries.
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@mt11235 It makes sense in an incredibly legalistic fashion. Each storage unit has property belonging to different people, so that would be a different crime, so years later, there's been felony theft from 10 different people, which could be consider a string of 10 felonies and different occasions. It's one of the reasons why people get charged with multiple counts of the same thing. They may have stolen from 10 people, and it's 10 different thefts, so 10 different counts.
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That's a stretch, the Kennedy family has been lefties for quite a few decades and are definitely to the left of anything that's in the GOP at this point.
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Honestly, I don't know that dealership, but this was a masterstroke. Tons of free publicity and a kid that's likely going to go to them for cars well into the future, and possibly when he has kids they'd go as well. A large part of it may have been altruism, but I'm sure that they'll wind up making the money up.
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@KameraShy The term for that is misappropriation, and companies can and do sue over it. I would say that the only time it's safe is if it's public. You might be able to get away with it if there's a specific written release of the materials or contract term that allows it, but that can be rather risky and you might be bankrupt before you get a verdict.
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@svenjorgensenn8418 You can, the main issue with that is that you'd likely need an attorney to know what is and isn't in need of redaction. If you get that wrong, you're still going to be liable, but possibly at a lesser penalty. At which point, you'd be better off just creating something new for the benefit of the public.
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It seems strange in Iowa of all places for them to be considering banning people on food stamps from buying red meat.
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@cruisinguy6024 Around here we separate the ambulances from our medic trucks. The medics are literal ICU doctors that ride around going from site to site to stabilize people for transport. I don't know if they carry any blood with them, but it would make sense for them to have some on hand as they aren't going to be going as long without needing it and they're going to be called any time there's an accident that's significant enough to have that amount of bleeding.
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@Lachy Roberts, the right to face your accuser is one of the corner stones of justice. If you don't allow that, then the accused has a greatly diminished ability to mount a vigorous defense. Ultimately, if you're not willing to attach your name to the accusation, then you shouldn't have the right to expect any sort of punishment be meted out.
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To be fair, whenever I go to model railroad shows, there's always a booth there to make sure to spread the word about just how dangerous trains can be and why you should never do anything as stupid as what that fire truck did. And I don't live anywhere near FL or any other state with a reputation for idiots. Locally, it seems like we have at least a couple that get hit by trains every year.
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@smada36 VirtualBox allows you to set the GPU memory. However, I can't set it to 100% of the GPU's memory, it looks like I'm limited to a quarter of the total as I've got 512mb or memory, but VirtualBox is limiting me to 128mb.
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So? He does a better job with the news that TYT does.
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@@blueprada I'd assume that's more of a technicality. They're probably pretty sure that they are getting a large amount of attention. I can't imagine how awkward it would be if the "remains" turned out to be something else. Although, realistically, I wouldn't expect that.
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@CalmCapybara9 Yes, any time somebody is that dependent upon you for their support, you should have insurance to cover it. The only exception would be if you're so wealthy that it's not an issue. It's also potentially worth considering other forms of insurance for situations that might not be fatal, but just lead to an inability to work for a long period of time.
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I don't buy that. He didn't know that because the research hadn't been done to establish it. Yes, there was research being done, but so often promising research doesn't pan out for one reason or another. We know now, that substance abuse has more to do with poor relationships and LSD doesn't do anything about that that can't be done using other techniques. I do agree though with the implicit sense that LSD isn't particularly dangerous in reasonable quantities, provided you're in a place where there's nothing to accidentally hurt yourself with. The damage that it does is usually reparable by the body itself over time the way that most other things we put in our body that aren't completely healthy are.
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They probably just stuffed him full of drugs. The sands of time don't flow backwards. Even with a good showing, we have to consider what he'll be like in 4 years. He isn't competent now.
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@Vincent_Beers WIth progressive jackpots they do eventually get high enough to be able to ensure that you win more than you spend. At least if the logistics of buying every single ticket once and you're lucky enough to not have to share. IT's extremely hard, but doable. It's part of why paramutual betting was invented. It greatly reduces the incentive to just buy all of the possible tickets as the payout for each possibility changes depending upon the bets. I'm not sure what it's used for other than horse racing though.
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@Deploracle IIRC, they changed the winning conditions on megamillions not that long ago and now they're increasing the price to play. The result will likely be more pots that hit $1bn and people going nuts over it. Although, if people are able to just buy all of the possible tickets, that would cut into that a lot.
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AkJonny1965 I did as did pretty much everybody I know.
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I feel like this is the only way to serve legal papers that the recipient wouldn't turn them down.
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Chances are it's a recognized doctor filing the complaint. I'm not sure how many other people even know that this is a law on the books.
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I'm sorry, if you were born in 2001, your childhood was only carefree because the adults around you were whitewashing things for you. The decade started with the most successful effort to rig an election in modern American history and the biggest attack on the US at home since WWII and if anything it just got worse from there. Not that the previous century was really that much better, but children that have a carefree childhood usually have it because the adults around them are doing something right.
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Perhaps if Blacks would be more concerned with advancing themselves, they wouldn't be in that position. Whether or not they have a right to be upset by this isn't really relevant here. Loads of other groups have similar treatment, but don't even bother getting worked up over it. Countless gay characters are played by straight actors and the gay actors frequently aren't allowed to play gay characters. You've got all sorts of messed up portrayals of the Irish and Germans and I rarely, if ever, hear folks from those groups complaining about it. I can't recall the last time I heard any Japanese person complaining about Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's portrayal. The reason being, that these groups are more focused on things that matter. Not reinforcing stereotypes. At the end of the day, if it takes something like this to remove those officials from office, you're just going to get more of the same policies that disadvantage some groups at the benefit of others.
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@Douglas_Blake That's due to bad instructional practices. When I was a kid learning arithmetic in the '80s we weren't even allowed to have a calculator until we could do a bunch of this stuff by hand. In recent years it's become trendy to focus on the concepts and neglect the ability to do this stuff by hand. I once worked with a student in calculus III that couldn't function without a calculator to do the arithmetic. Calculators are helpful, but it can take a long time to mess around with the calculator if you have to do that even for basic multiplication and division that's included in the 12x12 times tables. And, it takes less than 3 months to learn all of them just learning one a day.
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@jstnxprsn No, back then they just didn't have the option of permitting calculators to do a bunch of this for the students. So, the stuff the students could do had to be done by hand, and it makes it a lot harder to get correct answers without learning anything when it's being done by hand rather than calculator. The math being done now is in a lot of ways better than what was being done back then, because they do have the option of using calculators to speed up long calculations. And graphic calculators to see what things look like almost immediately so they can go through the cycle of prediction and verification so much faster. Chances are that back in the '70s you wouldn't really ever consider what this stuff looked like unless it was relatively simple.
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Shut yo' mouth.
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@leyrua My parents apparently don't own either of their fences because when they moved in both neighbors were claiming ownership over them. But, it doesn't really matter beyond the fact that those neighbors are now responsible for replacing and maintaining them as you don't really have usable land under the fence anyways.
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The best answer though is cowboy coffee. Just put those grounds directly in the cup and don't worry about swallowing some of the grounds.
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@monte68x I wouldn't, that would just mean that a broken clock is right two times a day. Anybody can stumble onto the right position occasionally.
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@hewitc How has that worked out for you? It's been something like 25 years or so of voting for the lesser of two evils and the lesser evil is getting pretty darned evil at this point. How long until it's, well at least he only genocided a few thousand people. (not hyperbole, look at how many died due to Bush's incompetence in Iraq and Afghanistan)
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@Khalkara There is, HRC could have won against Trump had she actually been able to pass the Litmus test with the Sander's voters. The problem is that The leverage only works to spoil a candidate, who will then draw disastrously wrong conclusions from it.
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You probably don't need to. The typical limitation on smaller sport bikes is either the physical dimensions or possibly the carburetor at altitude. I'm a bit disappointed that they had this video, but chose large bikes. Just about any idiot can fit ample gear on larger bikes. Fitting some on something like a Ninja 250 or CBR 250 where you've got a small space with limited tie down opportunities requires quite a bit of thought.
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Al Gore was capable of winning the Democratic primaries without cheating. The same cannot be said of Clinton, Biden and Harris. Biden, just got lucky in terms of how badly Trump botched the Covid-19 response. Gore also would have won the electoral college had the SCOTUS not stepped in to grant it to Bush.
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The 2025 date is a bigger issue than the fact that it's just 10. With just 10, you've at least got a toe in the door. But, with the timeline being so far out, by the time that the measure goes into effect, it'll get weakened even further or forgotten entirely.
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The alternative is the unwashed masses start "confiscating" heads.
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@richdobbs6595 Do some more research. There have already been successful test reactions that resulted in a net gain in the reactor core. There is still a ton of work that needs to go into the efficient delivery of the necessary energy to the core, but the basic road map is pretty solid at this point. This project will deliver relevant discoveries to get us there. Fusion won't be the whole solution, but it will be a part of it.
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@masonm3454 racism exists, but the whole white supremacy bit is mostly based on bad statistics and ignoring the the white peope that don't make it. There's tons of white peope living in desperation, but nobody pays attention because it doesn't fit the narrative.
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I may have had it at the end of January when the first reported case showed up. Fever, minor difficulty breathing, extreme fatigue, but I'll probably never know as there were no tests available for those of us that hadn't come from China recently. That was a minor case, if I had it, do what you can to avoid getting it. We can still avoid getting the worst of it before we know more about how to treat/vaccinate for it.
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Yes, I had a portable CD/MP3 player and it was great. It had enough buffer space for an entire minute of skipping and I could burn CDs with whatever MP3s I wanted.
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@vickiehow- Yes, although Amazon is more or less the worst in that regard. Choose companies that don't do it when you can, but even just buying from companies that aren't doing it as much at least slows the slide to even worse.
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@RunD.Ones1s I don't think they care. The last few rulings they've handed down pretty much guarantee that they'll go down like Presidents Pierce and Buchanan who were the final straws in terms of the US going to war against itself. I don't know that it could have been avoided, but they all but guaranteed the Civil War would happen.
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Because he's a sack of human excrement that only exists to screw up the rulings the court hands down. There's a reason why he was the only one in his class to not have a job out of college and it wasn't because of his skin color.
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@Matthew_Raymond You'll notice that they'll do it when the right wing is outraged, but they won't do it with things like the no fly list and NSA spying on random citizens. You can't prove that somebody is on the no fly list because it's not a publicly available list. But, because you can't prove that somebody is on the list, there isn't standing to file suit over it. Not that the liberal justices are necessarily that much better, but there used to be at least some effort to pretend like the constitution mattered when it was a more balanced court.
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Who says that women's rights aren't important? It's men's rights that are pretty much completely ignored by the Democrats. I guess they don't care about winning the election enough to stoop to promising to actually do anything that might improve the quality of life for men or actually address any of our issues.
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This is family court, abuse of power is more or less standard when it benefits the wife or children.
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@michaelxz1305 40% is bad because it doesn't cost anywhere near that amount to provide the service and in exchange for taking the money, it means that other sites can't compete on pricing to give more to the writers, charge the customers less or provide better features/service. If they were taking 60% of the money, but providing services that would justify just a large cut, that would be completely different.
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There's nothing wrong with being a hyphenated American. But, in terms of African-American is a bit of an odd choice considering how many can't trace their families back to specific regions or cultures due to the intentional severing of any connection back.
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@thaneros I'm sure that's what he was thinking, but it is a very ignorant read on the situation on his part. People hyphenate in many cases because they are part of a community that maintains some degree of connection back to the old country. There are some people that don't, and I wish they wouldn't hyphenate, but it's a bad parallel to make when the more meaningful levels of connection that normally are implied with the hyphenation were broken ages earlier on purpose to prevent slaves from having a sense of humanity.
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Yep, they already had access, they just weren't allowed to use binoculars or something along those lines. I'd personally rather they be allowed binoculars and then not be allowed within 30 feet of the actual people doing the counting so that they can't intimidate the people doing the counting.
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@heliumcalcium396 Then what of the people that are so ignorant that they think that unfettered capitalism is any better? Even Adam Smith was smart enough to see that Capitalism without some safeguards would inevitably result in a single source monopoly over everything eventually.
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The difference is that with Trump in 2016 by the time they realized there was a problem, it was already too late. On the DNC side, they knew pretty quickly that they had to stop Bernie because he was making promises that voters were going to expect the party to live up to.
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@gfys756 AOC is just as corrupt as the rest of them.
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This is a bit like Perry Mason, you know they're going to buckle, you just don't know how and what their justification is going to be. I still remember their great "potential for momentum" bullshit they came up with when the GOP gave them absolutely nothing for shutting down the government over the debt ceiling.
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Traffic is the main reason why I would consider switching to an automatic. At some point, I might get a small automatic, just for riding around town in bad traffic.
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@RazorbackDevil Depends how bad the traffic is, I ride in traffic a lot and it doesn't really get much better.
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Unfortunately, those ignorant people will be the death of us all. Here in WA where we were the first hit, we're still going to be closed for an indeterminate amount of time. And these states are opening things up after having closed later. The Federal politicians are largely to blame for failing to ensure that people and small businesses could weather the downturn. And, the extra money being tacked onto the unemployment checks alone is more than many of those front line workers make.
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Yes, and it's rather telling that the Democrats didn't bother to put their A team on the job in 2016, 2020 or 2024. If they're as concerned about it as they claim to be, they would have actually tried to win male voters and used the primaries to find the strongest possible candidate.
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@hsuehyuanchang The ATC didn't give clearance, the ATC specifically told the helicopter that it was on a collision course prior to the helicopter not responding further. It's unclear why that is, and hopefully there will be at least some information pieced together.
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@ That's certainly how it looks and I have a hard time seeing how the ultimate report is going to deviate too much from that given the degree to which the helicopter deviated from the flight plan at pretty much the worst position. There will probably be other bits like Congress forcing the airport to take on flights that they're stretched too thin to handle just so that there can be direct flights for politicians.
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@Boatyarddog Yep, even if it stands more or less correct, the why the helicopter was up that high is likely to be more interesting.
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IMHO the people who have forgotten how bad Trump was are the DNC officials that should be pulling the plug from Biden's campaign and boosting somebody that can do the job. It was clear 4 years ago when he was using the pandemic to hide from the public while Bernie and Trump were campaigning that he didn't have it in him to do the job properly. I'm personally amazed that he's still alive given how bad his health is. For how much talk there was that people should use the 25th amendment to remove Trump, there's been a shocking lack of discussion about that when Biden clearly needs to be in a specialized retirement facility.
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The correct solution is to just work out a method of classifying athletes based on something different. Women can wrestle men in Greco-Roman wrestling without that much trouble, but that sport is based in large part on weight. There could probably be some adjustment factor added for upper body strength.
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Fair enough, y'all were the ones that destroyed Democracy, so perhaps fixing it would be the least you could do after forcing HRC on us and now forcing Harris on us.
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TBH, there isn't much difference in that style of battery, they're usually NiMH these days and there's not much you can do with that to differentiate. More expensive betteries like the lithium ion ones can have differences in their circuitry and the like which can make a significant difference over time, but for the most part, you don't have very many choices as they won't work with the wrong gear.
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@fosterpainter If you think that, then you don't understand the issue. There was never a constitutional right to arms as you're defining it. Private citizens were never allowed to have mortars or cannons and other such weapons. The restrictions were pretty much immediate.
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@diamondsmasher That often is the case, the same goes for the gas stations. They make practically nothing on the gas, and all of their profit on the stuff they sell inside. But, the oil company makes a ton while making people think that the gas station is.
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@calvinware7957 Not really, there are a lot of poorly run companies out there that haven't built their profits into their business plan properly. But, they're mostly small and mid-sized businesses or ones being kept afloat by VC long enough to have a lock on the market.
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Honestly, in my experience there's really not enough pros or cons either way to make the statement that one is objectively better than the other. Yes, Linux has somewhat better support from 3rd parties than any of the *BSD do, but I've also had far more issues with random annoying bugs with Linux than with *BSD, a large part of that comes from the fact that it's a kernel and a bunch of unrelated 3rd party software bundled into an OS that can occasionally have issues. Really, they're both good options and unless a person has specific software or hardware that dictates one choice over the other, they're both good choices. Personally, I use FreeBSD just because I got annoyed with those little annoyances that never seemed to get fixed, nothing super major, but annoying nonetheless.
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I'm glad there was some acknowledgement in here that the Democrats are more or less completely useless and not doing really anything that could plausibly result in any of this being addressed in any sort of meaningful way. In fact, they fought hard to prevent anybody that could do any better from gaining any power in the party.
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Those don't benefit society at large the way that the student loans so. Also, medical bills really should be, I'd be down with that. People hear about the underwater basket weaving and genders studies students and think that's all of it. The reality is that most of the degrees people are seeking are in things that benefit society as a whole. It's just that we've allowed the rich and uneducated to decide that the students should be saddled with the cost of the education that the rest of society benefits from.
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@Yoseman1 None of the individuals in power have had the interest and willingness to do that. The last time I remember any significant raise in rates was under Reagan and it was still lower than what they were when he took office.
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@multiverser9585 And that's wrong. I personally think that Trump was an absolute mistake last time and probably will be this time as well. But, if we stoop to the level that some folks are in terms of cutting out friends and family over this issue alone, then I don't know how this ever gets any better. The way to bring people over to your side is with some degree of compassion and understanding. And, it may be that they're not the ones that are wrong, it's sometimes ourselves that needs to reconsider our positions. For me personally, what I've learned from all of this is that those of us that are a bit more moderate, or at least go between the candidates, need to speak up and push back about this nonsense about how this election says things about voters because it doesn't. This election says things about the parties and how they go about selecting candidates and positions far more than voters. The voters just chose the candidate that more closely aligned with what they wanted, or at least was able to message effectively to that effect.
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The Democrats are the most useless political party ever.
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These were destroyed in primarily liberal areas, what makes you think that the left is burning their own ballots when it's the right that keeps going on with their fake claims of elections fraud?
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If he wanted to win, he would have picked a progressive like Nina Turner.
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Can we please stop pretending like there's any medical basis for providing gender affirming care to children? What science exists is pretty clear that it's not necessary, it doesn't actually improve outcomes, people just assume that it does. What's more, some portion of those kids do grow into adults that come to regret their decision later on. It's not like all of them are like, yeah, I'm glad I did it. The fact that we've got researchers that are withholding research because it doesn't back the view that kids should get that care ought to be giving off alarm bells about the basis for doing so being flawed.
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The only reason that it's not fraud is because fraud requires some degree of competence and intention. This was just corruption and it's only legal because the DNC went to SCOTUS to win the ability to nominate candidates over the objection of the voters. That literally was not the case when I was in high school,that came years later. So, a bunch of people don't know that because it wasn't true prior to 8 years ago.
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That one is easy, it will just run them over if they said mean things about Elon on Twitter. Joking aside, the self-driving car example is something that wouldn't even remotely be hard if Elon wasn't such a psychopath. The status quo of only swerving if it can be done safely is probably what's going to happen. And with the improved sensor array that ML powered cars has, it should be a much safer situation as the car would know if it's safe to swerve or has to plow through the pedestrian as it could quickly assess both options for items in the way. It should also be smart enough not to be in the position to begin with, provided that the pedestrian doesn't step out from behind a large object too close for the car to stop. In which case the car would likely just run over the pedestrian as happens now. Sometimes philosophers make things more complicated than they really are because it's their toy, but in cases like the cars, there is a pretty clear way that it should be done and it doesn't really involve any further ethical considerations. It's been decades since swerving was a reasonable way of handling the condition in most cases, and even before that it was purely because braking technology was bad enough that the car might not stop in a reasonable distance.
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What? That was syndicated in the U.S. for many years.
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Grocery workers and other essential workers that have to work with the public aren't getting vaccinated unless there's spare doses about to expire. It's disgusting that they want to move teachers up without ensuring that other groups that aren't able to perform our jobs remotely aren't vaccinated.
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@shnnktl That's definitely not the norm, none of the grocery stores I've been to during the pandemic have done much beyond the absolute bare minimum to appear to be taking it seriously. Only the cashiers get gloves, we do get masks, but I haven't seen any evidence of increased cleaning in months and there isn't really any staffing to allow for that anyways. Even with those measures I'm place most of us can't afford to get sick That's part of why profits are way up, fewer people are eating at restaurants and the grocery chains are barely spending any extra money, we just have to do a bunch of extra work. The bottom line is most grocery stores and the like are not putting any protections in place that they're not being forced to put into place and teaching can be fine remotely.
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I see no problem with this. Why should it only be white men that are prosecuted for these hate crimes? Those thing that he called those cops are deeply offensive, there aren't many things you can say that are more dehumanizing to somebody than comparing them with somebody that supported a regime that murdered millions of people. It's about time we start seeing people of color taken to task for their racism.
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They kind of have to as Harris' strategy was to completely ignore men's issues in favor of picking off women and whatever liberal republicans haven't already swapped parties.
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Honestly, that is the thing to do and then if the cops come, get yourself a nice lawyer and sue the crud out of the store for the violation of your rights. Stores have a limited right to call the cops and generally there has to be some sort of crime going on. Simply being outside is not likely to lead to anything that the police have any rights to. I know this because I used to work security, and once they're off the property, there's not much you can do about it. Now, if you've got evidence and reason to believe that they committed a crime while on or near the property, you can call the cops and file a report, but typically private security is restricted to operating on the property.
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@kkaybaltimore As long as the Democrats choose their leadership by figuring out who is the most corrupt, this will continue. The way people get to be in charge in the Democratic party is by being the best "fundraisers" as in being the most corrupt.
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It's not just that, but for us essential workers, we got no support, no hazard pay, spent months of the pandemic making less than what the unemployed were getting, doing more work, taking more risks and we're the lucky ones. It makes it incredibly difficult to go out there pretty much every day working in public and getting no help or compensation for it.
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@jsivco3sivco785 Yes, although the markup is less than that when you account for the other costs of selling the items. Sure, you might pay $5 forsomething and sell it for $10, but that doesn't mean that the $5 is profit. That $5 has to pay for salaries, rent, insurance and the various other costs of doing business. A gift card is definitely less valuable than the same amount of cash is, but the difference is significantly less than that.
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Sadly they're not moving right quickly enough to give us a viable leftwing party.
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And yet he hasn't tried to please the left-leaning progressives that he needs. He may win, but only because Trump chased enough right-wing voters and independents towards anybody else and he'll have absolutely no mandate to govern while in office. His whole Presidency would rightly be considered illegitimate by many.
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I used to work security in a high rise and there were some pretty rich people that would be there, but by far the hardest working folks were the ones working in the back of house at the various restaurants in the building, and they certainly weren't the ones being paid more than the lawyers and financial professionals.
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@TimDeGandi Might as well, there isn't any inherent reason not to. Above a certain point nobody is going to buy the parts anyways.
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One of the reasons. Another being that some areas are sensitive that it's not possible to visit them without noticeable harm being done.
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@Grand Inquisitor Not failing anybody isn't the problem. The problem is that the needed remediation isn't there. So, you get students that are passed from grade to grade that don't know what they're supposed to know. The way it's supposed to work is that those students are supposed to receive support catching up with the content that they didn't master. I have no idea what is supposed to happen if that content is everything though.
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Regardless of which party you vote for, they both want to screw over men, it's just that the Democrats are generally more friendly to allowing women to end pregnancies and avoid having those men stuck paying for it for the rest of their lives.
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LOL, so that's where I got that from. I always wondered why I did that.
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There's various reasons why it happens, although with a painting that's incredibly strange. It's most common with movies where the academy will allow a director to put an alias on a movie under specific circumstances. Basically, if the studio influence was so strong as to ruin the director's efforts the director will be allowed to have a specific alias put on there. It's not enough for it to be a terrible movie, it effectively has to be the result of the director not having the creative control to make a different film.(Not even necessarily a good film, just not the one that was made) Typically for the sake of everybody involved once you've got a name, it's very hard to change it in any notable way. Sure, you do get people like Jim Carey going from James to Jim, but that hardly confuses anybody.
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If you don't want to be attacked, perhaps stop stealing Palestinian land and engaging in campaigns of genocide.
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@romanpolanski4928 That's not going to happen because people aren't going to need to charge that fast. The only time when charging that fast is particularly helpful is if you're on a road trip. Most people are going to be trickle charging when at work or at home because slower charging is better for the batteries than rapid charging is. The places where they expect a higher portion of the EVs to be rapid charging are going to be more rural areas and they'll just upgrade that little bit to handle it.
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@BreakingNVain Exactly. I wouldn't trust an government to tell the truth without some degree of verification.
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Sort of, as long as you ignore all the times you seem him doing things that were shady AF at the Quickymart.
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I'd like her as a vp pick for Bernie.
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That is the Chaanist way. I eat when I'm hungry, drink when I'm thirsty, work when I'm idle and rest when I'm tired.
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I'm not voting for Trump, but it's not like Kamala or the Democrats have shown any meaningful interest in having white men voting for them. Especially younger working class ones. I personally live in a state that neither candidate is putting any meaningful effort into winning, so what I do doesn't really matter that much. But, the Democrats were incredibly arrogant through this whole thing about thinking they could force Biden on us even though he clearly isn't up to another 4 years and then they forced Kamala on us without even having the delegates get to choose somebody else. And, now we're surprised that there's a bunch of people that aren't already on board with either candidate. Not to mention the usual large number of eligible voters that don't vote for anybody.
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@chriswatchreviews4752 You act like the Democrats care. They did in the past, but the current crop couldn't even be bothered to mount a serious attempt at getting essential workers hazard pay when they had the votes to potentially do it. Sure, they were able to have a failed vote when they didn't have the votes, but when they did, they didn't even try.
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This has been my observation. It's not that the music is bad per se, it's that it's lacking in soul and doesn't seem to communicate much.
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@bobm9509 You make that sound like that's a bad thing. These bureaucrats are led by political appointees and they are often there far beyond the term of individual politicians. In some cases those politicians can be there as little as 2 years, which can be the amount of time it takes to properly right and receive feedback on a proposed policy change. Also, thanks for letting us know you're racist. These are regulations, they're not a call to stone non-believers. Just because you don't care about being able to breathe, doesn't mean the rest of us also don't care.
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@Captndarty Pretty much, plus the secondary market for motorcycles in many areas is really good. I wouldn't personally buy a new motorcycle as there's just too many options for quality used ones.
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@blacklight4460 There's really no substitute for knowing how to ride properly. The ABS and anti-wheelie aside for times when you screw up, most of the rest of that stuff is completely unnecessary. And even the ABS and anti-wheelie are just there for when you screw up. You can stop slightly quicker if you can do so just before the ABS kicks in. The main benefit of ABS is that it allows typical riders to get closer to maximum braking than what they could otherwise do.
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I see no problem with that. I'd rather have somebody that knows what they're talking about than an academic talking about the theory.
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@7403QCM That's the thing, you don't generally know when to stop so that you don't leave potential on the table without going too long. I do think that Fawlty Towers was probably about right, but there's no real knowing what it would have been like to have more episodes. That being said, sometimes they do get it exactly right. "Heil Hitler I'm home" got it precisely right at 1 episode and no more. IIRC, the whole point of the exercise was to see what you could get a studio to sign onto.
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The fix for that is increasing the traction on the steps. Depending on the situation, carpeting the steps can help, so can adding grippy adhesive pads to it to increase traction.
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Yes, by a lot. This isn't that much faster than what trains in the US can manage now.
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@TheIronpusher Smart is definitely not a word I would put to law enforcement. There's a reason why they mainly catch the dummies and have to falsify terrorist plots in order to catch any terrorists at all.
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I think that's the case in most places where banks exist. The main reason being that mistakes do happen and no country is going to make the banks accountable for the mistakes they make. Extending it to errors by users is just something that makes it look less self-serving and easier to prosecute.
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Yes, but FDR actually did things to help the people. The current Democrats aren't interested in doing popular things if it means the GOP calls them names. They'r weak and deservet ob e crushed. It's just sad that the rest of us will pay the price for their cowardice and incompetence.
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Because it doesn't work. Only veterans that have seen action and complete psychos can be counted on to actually pull the trigger when push comes to shove. Not to mention that now rather than having one active shooter armed and running around, now you'd have more that the police have to worry about and the situation can go on longer. Really, the fewer people with firearms during a mass shooting the better.
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Kit? All you really need is the right size wrench, tube and something to catch the fluid with. Having a kit might be nice, but it's really not needed.
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It would be very strange if they didn't, the voice you have is largely a function of your body shape and size as well as the actual vocal chords you have. In this case, the only thing that could vary would be the vocal chords and probably not by much.
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Citation needed, there's a lot of high functioning drug users out there. Just because somebody seems to be fine doesn't necessarily mean that they're completely clean. Same goes for self-murder just because somebody doesn't seem to be depressed doesn't mean that they didn't self-murder.
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@chrisgregory3063 Does anybody care about most of those things?
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@robertlee8805 what hyperloop is going 600mph? None of them are or will, they depend on a vacuum that can't be created or maintained.
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@randal_gibbons that didn't require a rewrite of the same laws of thermodynamics that were required to build the thing in the first place.
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@nathanlobono5818 As long as the same companies are allowed to own so many outlets throughout the country, things like that are at best a temporary reprieve. For practical reasons, there's probably never going to be many more outlets than we have, regardless of regulations, but it's harder to gaslight the people if the local options are covering things properly.
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@jimjones3287 That's an awful lot of assuming, Biden wasn't chosen by the masses. He was the default choice after the media buried any negative stories about him and falsely claim that Bernie wasn't electable. On top of that, what about the exit polling that didn't match the actual results?
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@markryan9894 Perhaps the Dems should have though about that before forcing these weak candidates down our throats and letting the GOP get away with stealing the Garland nomination?
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Moon-Maintenance Director Maybe, but Nixon and George W Bush weren't prosecuted out of concern for public safety. It would be great to be proven wrong, but I doubt it.
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Noncompetes shouldn't apply to people that are fired or laid off provided that the person didn't intentionally get fired as a way around the noncompete at a bare minimum. In most cases though the noncompete should be limited to while you're working for them and possibly a short period after. 2 years is an awful long time.
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That's what I'm wondering about. This footage was clearly sped up, but at some point, the lava was presumably far enough away to be able to move the car, but close enough to see where this was going.
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@crimsonlight4205 TBH, I assume that the car wasn't running because this isn't a pyroclastic flow, it appears that the lava is moving relatively slowly and that somebody should have been able to get the car while the lava was far enough away. OTOH, we don't know what the condition of the rest of the road is, it might be that nobody could drive from where the car is to safety.
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@ernestogastelum9123 They could, but it would be difficult to get a jury to grant damages over that when the damage is less than the entire car being melted by the lava. I'd wager that either the car doesn't run, the car was stolen or perhaps out of the frame, the roads weren't passable.
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@MrTlong2010 TBH, most of the worst people in America are Christians. They're the ones that are all too enthusiastic about taking lives, just as long as they can pretend like the people being killed "deserved it." Horrible hypocrites that use religion to rationalize crimes against humanity.
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I don't know that that's allowed. Or at least that's the specific reason why I don't have a formal diagnosis for autism, doctors see more of the schizophrenia spectrum traits and even the first neuropsychologist that was doing her absolute best to communicate to me that I needed to get my schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses re-evaluated with an eye to removing them so I could get an AS diagnosis. It took roughly 15 years to figure that out, by which time the DSM criteria had been "fixed" to make folks like me a lot harder to diagnose because there were too many autism diagnoses being handed out.
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Bernie needs to stay in the race until the primary for the same reason that he did last time. Biden could get covid-19 or the voters could wake up and realize that Biden can't beat Trump. especially when he loses a significant chunk of Bernie's supporters and other people are just not interested in waiting in line to vote for Biden.
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It's worth noting that the gifted programs were a massive mistake and never should have been created in the first place. The main issue is that the students in those classes aren't appreciably more able than those that don't make it in, and in many cases the decision is made at such an early age, that they're just the students that develop early. Once in the program, it can be virtually impossible to flunk out of it. A better model is really something along the lines of honors classes, where students can be included on a subject by subject basis and still have most of their classes with the rest of the student body.
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You mean like nearly every other country?
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@jasonsamuels3757 Physical media doesn't take that much space to store and event he disk space isn't that much. Pricewise, even if you're buying new discs, the cost is still pretty ridiculous for what you're getting. A boxed set of TV episodes to cover weeks worth of watching is less than $50 and you own that. They can't take it back. I just rip it to my HDD with some checksums and convert the files to something that my Roku understands. At this point, I basically haven't been buying any more media because I've got far more than I can watch. If I want anything else, I've got Max and there's far more than enough content there to justify the price. Plus, most of it is available for sale on DVD, so if I do see anything that I really like, I can buy a copy so that I have it.
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And I thought it was ridiculous when my parent's last printer wouldn't print black and white because one of the color cartridges was out of ink.
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@somnuswaltz5586 Drones can still cause fires, but the risk of that is a lot lower.
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Yes, although as a white person, I think I'm qualified to say that no white people want to work for a racist like her. And yes, you would be fired as well you should be because that's an expensive lawsuit waiting to happen. The fact that there are no white people at all is rather risky given that white ethnicities are such a large chunk of the population, not having at least one just by accident is suspicious. But to publicly acknowledge that it wasn't just an accident or oversight ought to have been grounds for immediate dismissal. Personally, I don't understand where people got the idea that having more melanin in the skin makes obvious racist behavior acceptable.
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The embers can travel a long distance in the air, in some parts of the world, they can also travel dozens of feet under ground to get past fire breaks that aren't wide enough. A lot of this would be more manageable if people weren't permitted to build so close to the forests and if the forests were permitted to occasionally burn. I do think that things would normally get better as once you've got this kind of a fire, you don't get a repeat for quite a while as the trees and undergrowth have to grow before this can happen again. Smaller fires can happen in the mean time, but they tend to be easier to put out.
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Won't happen, Bernie didn't demand anything for throwing his race.
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How about they don't pivot after the primary? Why is it that the Democrats need to pivot after the primary, but the Republicans don't?
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@chilldragon4752 They usually go with standard time. I'm not aware of any country that goes with permanent DST. The closest is probably China, but they have only one timezone.
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I've never understood the attitude that these people coming from other cities are going to make the city a "world class" city. If we wanted a world class city, we would have built one. We didn't have one, in large part because we didn't want one. If we wanted one, it would have been far simpler to just move to some city that's already world class and not had to destroy a perfectly good city in the process.
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The criteria and awareness are my personal suspicion. I got an OCD diagnoses over a decade before I got an ADHD one. And I got my ADHD diagnosis something like 17 years and counting before the ASD one. And I purely missed out on, what was at the time, an Asperger's Syndrome diagnosis because of my ADHD and schizoaffective diagnoses. From what I understand now, those diagnoses wouldn't block diagnosis, but in 2009 or so when I got the neuropsych done it wasn't allowed to have that combination of disorders at once.
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@AmandaComeauCreates Not likely, I'm just surprised that we've had two assassination attempts on Trump and none on any of the SCOTUS justices.
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Yes, although they haven't seen a similar zeal to help single people out.
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When I was on a jury, it was a long trial and there were a fair number of parts where witnesses made comments that weren't admissible. Because the trial was rather long, as long as something wasn't written down, they weren't taken into consideration when deliberating. That being said, those comments weren't particularly spectacular. Had there been something so dramatic as the defendant admitting to guilt in a way that wasn't admissible, that might have been different. But, I think the attorneys screwed up because multiple witnesses weren't instructed to not engage in hearsay.
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$15bn is like nothing, that's like a dollar a week for each person. That isn't going to make much of a difference. Whether or not it was in there wouldn't have gotten us to $1200 or probably even $700.
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He is, but keep in mind that the standards back then were higher. Just look at the various postmortem videos on major games from the '80s and early '90s.
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Honestly, creative jobs can be though to separate when you are and aren't working. If the lawyer is thinking about it in terms of any thing of benefit to the client, then yes the right thing to do would bill. But, if it's not something of benefit to the client, then you probably shouldn't. Just because an attorney isn't at the office, doesn't mean that they can't be engaged in things that can legitimately be billed for.
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@jogzyg2036 In all fairness, it's more or less impossible to keep to all the teachings as a bunch of them contradict each other. You can reduce that a lot by largely ignoring the old testament, but honestly, what's the point of even including that if it's not to be used? Personally, I only start caring when they start using that as the basis to mess with other people.
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@joshuahudson2170 Honestly, when it comes to gambling, as long as you know your limit and play responsibly, there's not much wrong with gambling. You're probably going to lose most, or all, of the money you allow yourself to gamble. Yes, there are exceptions that are really good at cards, but for the most part, it's rigged against individual gamblers.
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Health care is usually done on the basis of what medical science says, in this case, what medical science does exists says that kids shouldn't be receiving this care. If adults need or want the care that's different, but it's dishonest to suggest that there isn't a legitimate reason to oppose this sort of treatment being provided to children. We've got scientists that are so concerned about the results not backing treatments for kids that they refuse to publish papers, and you've got papers that are published that point out that there's little improvement that was seen in their study for those that were treated versus those that weren't.
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It often times is, we just don't pay as much attention to that. Often times drunk drivers wind up in single vehicle accidents where the only people hurt are hurt psychologically by it.
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@VetrDraugr Oh yes, they'll come down and create a minor inconvenience, if that's alright. 😛
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@moho523 FDR and Johnson both come to mind immediately. Johnson in particular realized that by pushing things like the Voting Rights Act and similar legislation that it would cost them electorally for a generation.
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The problem is that it makes it harder for republicans to scare people into voting for them and easier for people to leave their jobs.
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How do you propose dealing with the lack of physical evidence or reliable witness testimony? Because that's the detail that a lot of you are ignoring, sending somebody to prison isn't justice unless they had a real trial. But, that's not really the goal with extending the statute of limitations. Extending it doesn't ensure that there's evidence to work with, nor does it prevent further abuse. In this case, he'd been allegedly sexually abusing men for decades, and hundreds of additional allegations were made because there weren't charges brought until so much later.
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@crab7715 It's probably more accurate to say that it's a habituated racoon, when animals are domesticated their features tend to change as a result. It's part of why those foxes that the Russians domesticated don't really look much like typical foxes and have more dog like features.
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Not even close, you underestimate just how corrupt some of those 3rd world countries are. That being said, we seem determined to reach 3rd world status as quickly as possible.
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@Gallaid1 The health insurance, fair enough. The 401k is pointless, Roth IRAs are better, unless there's an employer match.
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@friedenstone9779 Given how much money Mr. Beast has, I would be shocked if there wasn't at least one law firm willing to take dogpack's case on contingency and file a slapp suit back at him. The channel was always super suspicious, but they haven't been particularly careful about what they've been posting publicly.
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@ceciledelaney5174 And yet, Biden failed so miserably that he was forced to step aside.
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@lau6438 (Obviously, I’m talking at the government level, not the civilian level as both civilian populations seem tired of the violence enough to accept some form of peace treaty) Hamas can't really stop the war even if they want to, as that's only something that the Israeli government can do. The Israelis have been stealing Palestinian land for decades and show no sign of stopping any time soon. Nor do they show any signs of allowing the full assortment of humanitarian aid into the region. That's not to say that Hamas isn't a bunch of terrorists and war criminals, just that they're already under just about every possible sanction and there's not a lot that can be done to make things harder. They're pretty much in a corner as much as is possible at this stage.
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Probably, but there might be a similar drive to have random people just downloading the entirely of the site the way that folks did when Geocities finally shutdown. I'm mostly surprised the site has lasted this long given that it's basically the world's largest pirate site.
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Something that people should be very afraid of is that North Korea isn't in the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and Iran could very well decide that they will get nuclear material from North Korea. They have multiple ways to get things from North Korea with or without Russian support and Putin may well decide that it's permissible for the material to travel over their territory to get it as they have nukes and nobody in their right mind is going to invade them. The whole thing is an absolute powder keg and now is really the time to write all our political representatives to demand that this go no further. Write to any businesses that do business with Israel and demand that they pull out as well. Because if this goes on any longer, it's really hard to say what's actually going to happen. There had been talks of using tactical nukes, which thankfully doesn't appear to be the case, but who knows about next time or if the facility wasn't adequately destroyed.
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This idea depends a great deal on their being enough women to roughly go around. If you're living some place like most of the western US, the only way that works out in any consistent way is if you move. A large part of why I struggle with women is that there's just not that many single women to begin with. Amazon brought in tens of thousands of employees from out of town and most of them are men. Kind of hard to compete with men being overpaid and in that quantity. But, I don't really want to move.
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@braxxian In modern times yes, but in the past you would have kings showing up to lead their troops.
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The information about the possible implosion is kind of old news, I think that came out day 2 or 3, before the information about the possible tapping did. The US Navy's information about there being a possible implosion event detected just wasn't circulated widely. And as good as their technology for detecting such sounds is, it does take time to process and verify and like with the tapping it could have been something else entirely.
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@Halbared I saw a lot of that in China, and I don't think it really works. They're just too easy to break off and put a bit of carpet over. They're mostly there for show and to keep people that aren't committed to rethink.
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@Aj-eb7ej As an American, we definitely need UN election monitors due to the rightwing's continued efforts to intimidate voters. But, really, the results are rigged in the primaries when the courts have said the voters don't have a right to dictate the nominees. Biden v. Trump this time around is going to go to Trump, even though most voters don't want him back and didn't vote for him in either election.
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Harris doesn't want men voting for her, she skipped the primaries and if you look at her campaign site, there's basically nothing to appeal to men, especially young men.
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This kind of behavior is why I no longer watch TYT and why I had TYT removed from my suggestions.
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It's kind of funny that Israel and Iran used to be kind of buddy buddy as the US was funding Iraq and neither Israel nor the Iranians had any positive feelings towards Saddam.
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@happyhelen1988 That's a detail that a lot miss. Suicide attacks from those areas are relatively cheap because despair is high and even humanitarian supplies are hard to get because Israel won't allow much of it into the area. Then Israel goes in and murders innocent civilians with the aim of getting the terrorists, and isn't held accountable. Not that the actual terrorists are any better, but it's not like there are many options with them being backed into the corner so thoroughly.
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It's this close because nobody wanted Harris as the candidate. She won a combined 0 delegates between the two primaries she ran in and was only the VP because Biden's team wanted to send and F U message to the progressives that Bernie being the most popular candidate means nothing in terms actually getting meaningful policy proposals or changes to the way the primaries are held to let the voters have a meaningful say in the resulting nomination. In 2016, HRC started out with a massive lead over the other candidates with the pledged delegates and in 2020, Bernie wasn't allowed to win the Iowa caucuses and that corporate stooge declared victory before the ultimate results were revealed he lost his momentum.
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@adambeaulieu6868 TBH, they've watered the term down to the point where I'm not sure if anybody even cares about that anymore.
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I'm fine with that part of the joke. Yes, they really should have included it, but IMHO that part of the joke is more obviously messed up and as such cutting it probably doesn't have as much of an effect as it might seem. Personally, I think he should have been allowed to host and to apologize on the air. Not a long speech or anything, but just a short one would be more than sufficient. He seems to have learned better and as such, I think he deserves to be allowed to demonstrate it.
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@allenmoses110 Neither does the Israeli government, so it's not terribly relevant until and unless states like the US decide to name Israel as a state sponsor of war crimes.
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Trump is a noted germaphobe, it's highly unlikely that he never washes his hands.
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There'll likely be some sort of a deal, I'd be very surprised if they are ultimately executed. Most likely there will either be some sort of a prisoner swap at some point, or they'll be used for propaganda videos and forced to confess before having their sentence commuted to jailtime or possibly expulsion from Russia after the conflict is resolved. That being said, I definitely would not want to be either of those men as none of the options are going to be good.
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This isn't a good thing, you've got a rightwing candidate and a far right candidate and no leftwing candidate. We'll have to see what happens after the election, but it's only nonpartisan because there is no real leftwing candidate. I highly doubt that Harris is actually going to follow through on any of the policies she's advanced that might benefit the people.
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And he's still not even promising to help essential workers. We're not getting vaccinated, we're not getting hazard pay, if we're lucky we're getting just the bare minimum PPE and he doesn't even have the decency to give us some concrete steps that he's going to take to help us. The man is a horrible human being, granted he's a less horrible human being than Trump, but a horrible human being nonetheless. He could have already given everybody medicare for all just with the stroke of a pen using that provision from the ACA, but he won't even do that. Just doing that alone would pretty much guarantee that he went down as the best President of the early 21st century and possibly one of the best of the entire 21st century.
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You do realize that Obama did that first, right?
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Yep, sadly there's a fringe element that are just crazy. And sadly, the news media is too lazy to bother interviewing more mainstream MRAs. But, like a lot of things, it's not convenient to the narrative that women are oppressed minorities and always were. On the whole, women have had it pretty good for millennia. Especially when you consider just how terrible it was to be a person during most of that time and compare against that.
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The great thing about those cheap earbuds is that they signaled to everybody around them that they're probably hearing impaired and you can probably talk about them without them being able to hear what you're saying.
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@pkmcburroughs I used to think he was smart back in the '90s. His show was even canceled in the early '00s for admitting that he could sort of see why the terrorists hated us. It's somewhat unclear whether I've gotten smarter or he's gotten dumber though. And perhaps he was never particularly smart to begin with.
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I've been working for a grocery store the last month or so, because people need to eat. The company I work for has been providing PPE and some additional pay, but where is the government in all of this? The Democrats were talking about getting us all $13 an hour in hazard pay, but after announcing that, they haven't actually pushed for even one additional cent. I'm fortunate, in that I already had corvid-19 early on and have less to worry about than most of my coworkers, but it's still not right that we're receiving additional compensation only from our company, whereas the people on unemployment are getting what is equivalent to $15 an hour just for being on unemployment. Don't get me wrong, I don't begrudge them the money, and I am grateful to have a job that I'm not likely to lose, but still. It's an insult to the various people that are risking our health and lives, that we're being given nothing from the government to help mitigate the risk or increase the reward of ensuring that various people have access to job. In my case, my job is to go around the store shopping so that other people can just pick their groceries up at the store. I'll never know for sure, but it's highly likely that there will be people alive after the pandemic because my coworkers and I were taking on that risk instead of the customers.
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We need to strip private organizations of their right to choose the nominees, get the money out of politics and require that all districting lines be drawn via either a non-partisan or bipartisan committee. Some form of primary that allows individuals from the same party to run against each other in the general election would likely also help a lot.
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The investigation will almost certainly be looking at why the driver did that as the responsibility is clearly on the driver of the fire truck. The footage in this video very clearly shows us everything we need to know to know that the fire truck was completely at fault.
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First off, the IRS doesn't help get a fire truck to me, that's state and we don't even have income tax here. Secondly, I don't mind paying my taxes personally, it drives me crazy that people with far more money than I do wind up paying a significantly lower rate even as they hoard opportunities and wealth.
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Make sure to write your elected officials and demand that they do something on these issues or you're never going to vote for anybody in their party again. And be prepared to never vote for them again. They won't listen, but if enough people write in threatening to cut them off and everybody in their party off, they might realize that they won't be able to get elected and as such won't be able to get those corporate bribes and "jobs" that they're accustomed to getting. Personally, between rigging 2 Presidential elections in a row and being unable to get me hazard pay for working as an essential worker, I've had it. If they don't get me my money, I'm out of here. Never again will a vote for the GOP or Democrats, even if they somehow manage to demonstrate that they're no longer corrupt. I will never believe that they've changed and I won't vote for them at any level of office or in any race.
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Catania Momma Italia 40% of practically nothing is still practically nothing. It's always worth considering what changes could be made to improve the situation, but we're not exactly back to the bad old days of Jim Crow and weekly lynchings which is more or less what some people would have us believe. The majority of people shot by cops are still white, and the total is a lot less common than one would typically think from the hyperbole.
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@michaelrs8010 In terms of Gaza, where would they put those military facilities and fighters where there wouldn't be women and children near by?
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@Alamaric And Biden is going to help with that? He's going to veto Medicare for all if it gets to his desk. He'll do the bare minimum, if his donors approve.
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Why would you? The goal isn't to scare the law firm, it's to scare the party that's going to be stuck paying the bills.
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@ericconnor8419 Yes, and even if you win, chances are that it comes out of the liability insurance that they have which just means a marginal increase in their insurance rates that they then pass on to their next clients.
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TBH, if I was wondering things like that, I'd put a melon in the helmet and place it someplace where the bullets wouldn't bounce into anything important. These bits of gear are for when the bullet does strike, not as an invitation to go shooting each other.
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@shindean No, it's really not. Obama could have put up an actual fight over Garland's nomination. He just opted to fold like his infamous tan suit. He also could have leaned hard on RBG to step down rather than waiting for HRC to win. The Democrats have chosen to not put up any sort of meaningful fight over federal court picks or gerrymandering at the state level which puts them at a permanent disadvantage in the house on top of the inherent permanent disadvantage in the Senate. And calling them out on that BS is absolutely fair. Also, you do realize that they could have just let Bernie have the nomination that he earned in 2016, right? Nobody wanted HRC except for the establishment, and even with her being one of the least popular candidates in recent memory, she still nearly beat Trump in the electoral college. Bernie would have won, as he had actually supporters, but we had to have HRC as the nominee since it was "her turn."
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On what basis? Even if she did successfully challenge the results, nobody would accept her as being legitimate as she didn't even win the democratic primaries.
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People overestimate how much and how often they need to eat. If you're a bit overweight, a person can go more or less a month with barely any food. But, you do need a bit in order to prevent bad things from happening to the digestive track.
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Yes, or it's a broken problem, but either way it's worth taking a bit to consider what's going on because that's not an acceptable result. In general when you have a step where all the variables disappear, you have to take a step back and consider what's happening. Often it's a mistake, sometimes it's the result of there just not being a solution, for example, looking for where Y=5x crosses Y = 5x +1. They're parallel, and won't cross without freaky curved surfaces. Or, if we're in 3, or more, dimensions, they could be skewed.
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Most trails in the US are not at all like that. It's mostly just large parts of the Eastern US that has trails like that. The ones around here are far more challenging and are often the result of this route being the least terrible route that doesn't add another few miles to the hike unnecessarily.
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@richs347 Part of the problem is that a lot of these terms don't have firm definitions to them. Fluency is incredibly tricky to define, but if somebody is C2 on an exam using CEFR definitions, that should be relatively reliable. C2 is overkill for virtually everybody, but if you know the language to C1 or possibly B2, then it seems reasonable to count that towards the tally. But, they probably wouldn't be lying if it was just B1, it's just not what most viewers would probably expect. It's also why it's much better to just focus on the things you can do in the language. If you can travel by yourself that's one thing, but if you're able to write content or do interviews in the language that's another.
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I'm voting against her. But, I'm sure she'll win reelection. There's plenty of fools here.
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@wormhole331 I'm not sure that's really any better.
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The payments for people that are jailed despite being innocent should be automatic in cases where there's a plea deal. Attorneys for the cleared person should only be involved in so far as it comes to figuring out how much the compensation should be. This person was in for 20 years, which means that they've lost somewhere between 1/3 and 1/5 of their life depending upon how long they live. I hope that some of this money can be used on concerts and vacations and trying to make up for some of the stuff that was out of reach for those decades.
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@davidh9638 There's the disincentive to future abuse, but there's also the matter of compensating people for what was taken. No amount of money will truly compensate for losing such a large portion of ones life and the horrific conditions in prisons that have people on such long sentences.
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@majesticunicornturle Essentially yes, America has a left, it's just a non-voting left because there's nobody to vote for. Anybody that appeals to that isn't allowed to win or in the rare exception is corrupted almost immediately. Just look at how quickly the Squad got corrupted.
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Not really, they were trying to get Democracy. They didn't have a strong democracy that had a history to really look at. It wasn't until after WWII that they finally achieved a generally stable democracy.
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Yes and over a thousand apologies for the wallets being dropped in the first place.
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Most plane crashes have survivors. It's fairly common for plane crashes these days to be in the single digits for fatalities.
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I use disposable credit card numbers that are set up to not allow renewal without my expressed approval. I either limit the amount of money authorized to just more than what it costs for the next charge or set the expiration date to expire before the next payment. In virtually all cases, they'll let you update the payment when you show up after it failing. The only reason for these autorenewals is to fleece the customer, not for convenience. In many cases, they don't even give you a choice about whether or not to autorenew.
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Yes, but he won't. The best we can hope for is him dropping the race entirely.
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I thought the mattress tag law was just something that applied to people selling them. Private citizens not engaged in the sale of mattresses were exempt from it. But, that being said, it's a tag, I've never removed one because there's no point, it's already under multiple layers of cloth when I sleep in my bed. Or maybe I always do, but you'd never know because there wouldn't be probable cause to get the necessary warrant to check. :-P
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It's funny how you right-wingers are against government intrusion, until it's something that you don't like, in which case it's OK to get right in there at the doctor's office to tell women what health services they can have and under what conditions.
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They just new that she hadn't accessed those files on the laptop during those times, that's not the same time as her not working those times. It would have been work to verify the accuracy of the logs to the extent that would be needed to even consider filing a suit over the matter.
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IANAL, but I'd go so far as to suggest that it's probably best not to answer the question about whether or not you understand the rights they just told you. Saying you did and finding out later that you didn't because there are words in there that mean something in a specific legal sense could become an issue in some cases. Not to mention that the cops are allowed to lie and I wouldn't trust them to accurately explain the rights anyways.
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Of course, because if you're white and poor, it's your fault.
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So, can doctors and insurance companies decide not to provide care when that goes badly? I wear a helmet when I ride, it doesn't seem fair to me to have to pay for the consequences of other people choosing not to.
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This is why I refuse to use those services. If I need a ride and I can't borrow a car or rent one, I use a proper taxi.
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I'm hoping to have the test for corvid 19 antibodies when it becomes available. It's likely that I had it, but not knowing is a problem. I work at a grocer and knowing whether I need to prepare for possibly getting sick, or can focus on just not transferring it around.
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It's not a violation of due process any more than emergency restraining orders and injunctions are. There is, and always will be, an issue in terms of what you do between when a wrongdoing is discovered and when the courts can resolve it. It's nuts to allow people that are believed to be dangerous to keep their weapons just because the courts can't work that quickly. Going by your standard, we wouldn't be allowed to lock people up prior to the trial and we wouldn't be able to place any restrictions on their release. Not to mention that people could do whatever they wanted while their day in court was still coming up, and hope that nothing happens that can't be fixed by the court. Which is to say that they voluntarily don't do anything at all as the court can only award money at that point, they can't undo the harm that was done. As far as Columbia v. Heller goes, the court was wrong, that is against the expressed language of the constitution as well as over a century of jurisprudence. The writers of the amendment was pretty clear about the fact that it was a collective right that was contingent upon being a member of a well-regulated militia. The fact that the SCOTUS has been stacked with incompetent hacks doesn't change that and is a large part of why the court has lost most of it's legitimacy. You've got justices that claim to be originalists that are perfectly fine ruling things that are completely inconsistent with what the text and the original intent was when it suits them.
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It's also worth noting that if you know that one possibility or another is more likely, you're better off just sequencing the if statements to hit the most likely ones first. No need for this sort of craziness in many cases.
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@DeanSpence-d9c There could only ever be 3 bullets unless there was a second shooter that was using a suppressor. We know that Oswald didn't have a suppressor as we can hear 3 shots and adding a suppressor for another shot is impossible with a target that's moving that fast. But, if it were a second shooter, then there's a bunch of other issue as in the angle of that other bullet is weird. You would be looking at a shooter using a suppressor and located near where Oswald was shooting from and somehow avoiding being caught when the police rushed the building right after the shooting. It's the usual issue that these sorts of things have, they all are more complicated and have more people and moving parts than are necessary. That doesn't automatically mean that they can't be right, but it's been over 60 years, a good chunk of the eye witnesses are dead and there have still been no leaks of anything that says that there was a definite 2nd shooter.
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That would be a "fall expert" this is a "stair expert" as in somebody that knows about stairs.
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There's a huge difference between not feeling empathy and not allowing feelings of empathy get in the way of doing things that are for the common good. Movements like BLM are built on a really screwed up morality. The people who are shot by the police are automatically in the right and the police are automatically monsters, even in cases where we have substantial evidence that it's the other way around or it's a genuine freak accident.
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TBH, he should keep pushing through the primary, hoping that Biden screws things up, but at this point, the result is more or less inevitable. We're going to have another 4 years of Trump as the Democratic establishment and normie Democrats have proven themselves to be so horribly incompetent that their candidate is even less electable than Trump. It literally boggles my mind that people think that Clinton and Biden have any hope of beating Trump. Trump for all his flaws at least has a base that supports him. What do Clinton and Biden have? Buckets full of money and cronies that are willing to rewrite rules in order to steal the primary from the voters. I still don't understand how anybody expects them to win if they can't even win their own primary without a bunch of cheating.
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If you understood American politics it would. Him on his own wouldn't be enough to sink the campaign anymore than Abigail Disney pulling all of her money from all of the Democrats if Biden doesn't bow out of the race. Those are just two major donors to the party and you better believe they're not saying things that are going to get them kicked out of their circle of friends. They're the ones that are normally doing things like organizing fundraisers, the big money fundraisers that the parties need to pay for the expense of competing.
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Why bothered? If we don't get Project 2025, it'll be Project 2029 or Project 2033. The Democrats could have finished the GOP off in 2016, but rather than destroying them, they ran HRC and absolutely refused to do anything to earn votes or make promises to the American people to show just how much better they were than the GOP. Parties have ended in the past, I'm not sure when there was a real Federalist party, but it was in the 19th century. As long as the Democrats refuse to promise the voters things that benefit them personally and actually follow through on it, the project will happen. I don't think that project 2025 is as likely with Trump as people are making it out to be just because most of the damage has already been done and I don't know that he likes 3rd parties having control without his say so. The main reason that his previous Presidency wasn't a bigger problem was that he was more focused on being corrupt and being the center of attention and having people telling him how great he was than actually destroying the democracy.
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Essentially yes, but if we were talking about a freight train, they'd probably have any trains on that stretch slow enough to allow them to stop for the fire truck. Some of those trains can take multiple minutes to completely clear the crossing.
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Yes, virtually everything the government does is a potential public good. But, that does not mean that everything the government owns is for public use. You'd have a lot of legal problems if you tried to invoke public use at a military installation or in the back rooms of a police station.
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We know the essential bits of what happened and how, there's going to likely be more information coming as they investigate as to why the helicopter wasn't where it was supposed to be when the collision happened and why it failed to respond in those last moments before the crash.
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I'm positive that's going to happen, this is a federal offense and with all the attention on elections security in recent years, the perp is probably going to get the book thrown at them for everything possible.
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Umm, why do you think that we have a President Biden? He's literally POTUS because the DNC appointed him the nominee and Trump was so unpopular at the time that anybody on the other side was probably going to win, as long as they weren't HRC.
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I had that. What worked for me was a mixture of group therapy with a mixed group (various different diagnoses), medication, cognitive behavioral therapy and just making the decision that I was more concerned about what would happen if I was wrong about people being monsters than being right. It was pretty hardcore but over time the symptoms lessen and I've been able to function for the last nearly 20 years without medications. I can't promise similar results, but be aware that no matter what they tell you, with proper treatment and a huge amount of commitment, it is possible to recover or at least to have the symptoms subside enough to lead a good life.
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Absolutely, it's only 2 years before the next election, we can't let a nominee be put on the court now.
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@CrizzyEyes Considering his record, that wouldn't have been completely out of touch with reality.
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@joecobb7153 And the Bolsheviks saved the world from Nazism. These things are rarely as simple as some people would like us to believe. WWII in particular had no "good guys" fighting to save the day, it was just a matter of degrees as to how bad they were. Even the US engaged in genocide as one of the strategies of trying to end the war.
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If Kamala had any value as a VP she'd already have exercised the 25th amendment at least a year ago and probably further ago than that.
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I'm not sure, but from what I understand, the time was short and any doors that were propped open, they wouldn't automatically close when the signal was given, and it can take time for somebody to do it manually. This is why a normal door like this will be kept open using a magnetic mechanism that can be automatically disengaged if there's a fire or an active shooter. It's also why it's generally illegal to prop open firedoors.
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What's in it for us? Seriously, I went to her campaign page and I see basically nothing there that suggests she knows that there are men's issues that need to be addressed. I haven't received really anything in the mail from her campaign either. What I did see on her site indicated a continuation of the same ignorant policies that led to men being in real trouble. I might have held my nose and voted for her anyways, but she's all in on Israel as well. Personally, I proudly voted for Stein, because at least I believe that she wants to make my life better as a core goal rather than as a byproduct that she couldn't avoid when helping other people.
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Sort of, the trees are dry and the vegetation was able to bridge the vertical gap between the forest floor and the canopy, and when that happens, you get fires that are a lot hotter as the trees are much easier to set on fire from the top where they have little proteciton versus the ground where it's a lot harder to burn through the bark. The idea behind prescribed burns is that you burn that stuff while it's still short enough to not reach up into the canopy and set the trees on fire. But, typically, you'd also want to thin out the trees as well so that the density of them that could light is lower, which in turn makes it harder for the remaining trees to catch on fire. This stuff gets even more complicated as LA has issues with the winds. Around here, fires can travel under ground for a bit and pop up where you're not expecting it.
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I"m not even remotely surprised that he didn't consider the controversy to be a real one. Joe isn't perfect, but I do believe that he does mean well. He just doesn't always come to these interviews with enough information to know if the person he's interviewing is full of shit. Really, it's probably better to view his show as being a recording of his efforts to learn more about various subjects and bringing the rest of us along for the ride.
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@InnerRise The young are. This is to give people benefits on earnings that was never taxed, and there is no provision that I've heard that raises the ceiling on social security earnings in order to fund it. The result is that the fund goes insolvent earlier, and the younger folks get some combination of reduction in benefits and age hike to keep anybody getting any money.
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@PeachyFlaming0 That's not true, and Kyle should not be saying that. The WEP and GPO exist to reduce money from leaking out of the program to people for earnings that were never subject to the social security tax. In short, folks haven't been getting those benefits, because you hadn't been paying in. And from what I can work out, the benefits that you were getting, especially with the GPO, included 1/3 of the normal amount of benefits on a portion of the income that was never taxed for social security prior to this change being made.
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@NatureBoy12100 They didn't pay money on it. I don't see an issue in terms of changing how the calculation of the reduction is done to clarify that it only impacts years they were working at one of the affected jobs, but this is money that's being given to people that was never taxed for.
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@dougieretro8896 Yep, this could have been done in a way that didn't screw over young people. They could have just specified that the social security administration needs to include it when calculating the increase in the social security income that gets taxed to pay for the program. It still wouldn't be fair as most of the people benefiting did not pay for the portion of benefits that they will now be getting as there were offsets for the pensions they got which were partially offset by a reduction in social security benefits. But, it wouldn't have screwed young people over as hard.
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@xEnder515 It won't be completely bankrupt or drained, but at the rate they're paying out, they will be insolvent somewhere around 2033 or 2055 and be unable to pay out the promised benefits if nothing is done to address the problem. And, giving out free money to people that weren't paying taxes on it is going to make it happen sooner. The GPO and WEP mostly just takes money back on benefits for which the people never paid taxes on. It's why it's the Windfall Elimination Provision, not the We hate government Employees Provision.
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@carolynbaker2405 That's not how the program works. The program reduces the social security benefits by a portion of what you got from the pension. And, it does so because that portion was never taxed for social security. What's worse, is that the reduction is less than it should be as you get some benefit for earnings that were never taxed for social security due to how the calculations are performed. Meanwhile, the younger folks aren't going to get the full payout they should have gotten due to the age of retirement being increased and the funds not being there to pay them out. Which will happen sooner due to this free money being given out.
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What liberals voted for Biden? His supporters are mainly conservatives.
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Yes, or at least ones that are an appropriate size for adults.
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Probably, but I'm not sure which direction they were coming when they were counting. They may have skipped the first telephone pole and simply miscounted the number they passed.
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Being shot on film helps, but so does being shot on a sound stage with technicians that are paying close attention to their work.
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It's not normally a problem. And from past experience, as you get closer to election day, there are people hanging around those ballot drop boxes constantly. This just suggests that it might be time to add a web came to the physical drop box locations in addition to the ones we have that are covering the facilities where the ballots are being handled.
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I don't think they know how many were in there. Also, I think that they come by and collect the ballots regularly this time of the year so they can start the process of verifying the signatures and the like before election night. That's How they can have an entire hopper of ballots ready to count the moment that the polls close.
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Honestly, your local dealer can probably order one in. They can order in a lot of stuff that's not directly available to the public. It's not like those manuals are somehow secret information, they just don't really sell well enough for most stores to bother stocking. Especially wen it's bike model by bike model and also roughly by year.
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You should do some more research. The guys pulling people over for traffic stops have a gun because they are the ones that serve the most felony arrest warrants. Of all the jobs in law enforcement, few of them require a firearm more than traffic stops. I guess a felony arrest warrant and showing up somewhere because there's a violent intruder are probably the main situations with greater need. Perhaps if we were in the UK where people pretty much can't have firearms that may be different, but not int he US.
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@colbyboucher6391 No, CDs are something you own. You get nearly all the ownership rights you'd normally enjoy when you buy a CD, the only rights you don't get come from making copies of that to sell. You're free to buy and sell your CDs on a secondary market as long as you like
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Considering that it appears to have been at street level at the time the house was built, that was my thought. Most other things that a tunnel might be used for would probably involve more secrecy than a tunnel with an entrance a street level.
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The line between Schizoid Personality Disorder, OCPD, ADHD and ASD are a lot thinner than they should be, and it continues to cause a lot of problems as even many supposed experts can't get that right reliably.
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Bernie needs to start going after Biden or he won't have enough delegates to make a meaningful argument that the DNC can't steal the nomination.
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They're more practical as a weapon than hatchets and knives, due to the increased number of cutting edges making the interval shorter. An axe or a knife needs to have a target at a relatively fixed distance based on the number of times it takes the weapon to spin. Although, there are some styles of knife throwing that don't spin the knife, but in general, if the target isn't the right distance, then you might as well be throwing a gun at them like in those old timey Superman movies.
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Yes, they should be held accountable. but, that being said, the corporations are handling it with varying degrees of integrity. I just got hired at a grocery store and while I won't get sick days for ages, anybody that tests positive does get pay for at least 2 weeks regardless of whether they just got hired or have been with the company for years. I'm not foolish enough to assume they're being generous, but generous or not, it would be foolish for them not to.
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@alanmcentee9457 It's a criminal matter as the work was presumably not returned to the students if it's up for sale. It's also likely some form of fraud.
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That reminds me, I need to donate.
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We're not quite there yet, those are still demonstrators, but it looks like we're getting close. There is no deal to help the average citizens and they aren't even putting up a convincing show of trying.
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That's only because he won't be allowed a folding chair at the debates.
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I'm not really sure I see a problem with that. Hopefully, both groups will wipe each other out and we can start electing candidates that are trying to earn our votes.
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She doesn't care about winning. She didn't even know what her platform would be when Biden dropped out, even though it was pretty clear to everybody that he wouldn't be able to go the distance and then finish a 4 year term.
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Backpacks are dangerous if you go down. They can catch on things and if you've got anything hard in there, it can damage your spine.
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I know how to dowse with a pair of metal rods and it absolutely drives me nuts that it seems to work. At least to a degree. You can use it for all sorts of things and the rods definitely do move on their own without my intervention. Where it breaks down a bit is in the predictive value of it. But, as somebody who does believe in physics, and science in general, it drives me nuts that something does seem to be happening, there does seem to be some sort of force causing them to move independently of my hands. They need to be held firmly enough that they don't move around due to tilting and the muscles of the hands don't permit causing them to move due to that either.
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Yes, although if you're going to go to a theme park in Florida, Disney is definitely not the one to go to.
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I do think there is something to the notion that we have more control over our exposure to pop culture and to things that reinforce the notion that it's a given year and the opportunities to experience older things being somewhat limited. In the '70s all of the media that people were being exposed to was primarily of the '70s and opportunities to expose yourself to older stuff was limited to what content providers thought would be popular enough to keep producing or what you could dig up at a book store. Now, it's roughly as easy to experience the culture of decades past as it is the new stuff and far less of our experience is centered around watching the same TV shows. These days, even a massive hit TV show's finale will garner a fraction of what viewership the got for the finale of MASH or Cheers which were at the time massive events across most of the US.
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I personally look forward to being proven wrong. Sadly, it happens less and less over time as I learn more and other people spend more time watching reality TV.
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@harryballs5080 That's the excuse the GOP is going with, but all those extra provisions could have been removed before final passage, the GOP didn't even take the measure up for debate. Provisions of bills passed in one chamber or the other are regularly dropped when they go to conference. Unless they're going through the reconcilation process like Obamacare did, there's no guarantee that any of those things would have remained. And BTW, even if what you say is true, that didn't prevent the GOP from coming up with their own counter-proposal.
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Friendly Neighborhood Contrarian Sort of, the Heroes Act passed the House, but never passed the Senate and as such never went into effect.
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Why not? Most people complete the hike without any sort of injury. This is one of those situations where in hindsight, I'd say she shouldn't have gone, but I'm not sure how I would have known to tell her that before she went on that hike.
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Not really, the effect is limited and requires regular repeats in order to maintain. Without that, it tends to wear out pretty quickly. It is a powerful technique, but it won't do much without cooperation.
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The whole practice falls apart pretty quickly if things are being notarized for which the notary hasn't actually seen the person signing. I've personally thought that the notary not doing anything to protect the documents against things being inserted or removed was kind of funny. In China, they would spread the entire contract out and stamp across the pages with their chop and made it a lot harder to actually slip something in there or remove it as doing so would make it virtually impossible to fake, but in the US, that seems to be far less of a concern. In this case, we'll have to see what happened with the notary, because while the notary could be in on it or screwed up, there's also the possibility that they found somebody that has the same legal name to come in and present a signature, although that would likely show in terms of the signature not matching other signatures that are presumably on record in various other places and easy enough to check by people not the notary.
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You can trade some of that volume for a run flat insert. Yes, you would lose some of the springiness, but if you're somebody that regularly rides along the highway or in the middle of nowhere, that may be a compromise that's worth making. Especially if you're riding along a busy road with narrow shoulders.
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You're just not as big of a dreamer as he is.
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@notvenom1152 Clint Eastwood was in a documentary about that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Chamber
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@terrified057t4 That's why CNN had a former blackhawk piloton, and the visitibilty of the pilots isn't good at all, and they can at best see 180ish degrees, anything behind them is completely invisible and with the business of the airspace, it's common to need 4 people on the helicopter to keep track of the aircraft in the area so this sort of thing doesn't happen. If they had the 4th, this might not have happened. If they had been where they were supposed to be, this wouldn't have happened and if the ATC had specified where the plane they were concerned with was, this probably wouldn't have happened. But, even with that, there's a bunch of information that's going to be looked at in terms of why the helicopter was so high and what other options had been available.
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@UnclePhil1112 Yep, how the voters vote there doesn't matter unless enough of them decide to vote GOP or 3rd party to result in a Democratic candidate not winning. It's the same here, we haven't voted GOP since Reagan, which means that any time I vote, it's effort for no real purpose. There just aren't enough people voting for candidates that aren't Democrats to make any difference at all.
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In other things, basically everything that my horrible wife isn't. Sometimes I think that she sees lists like this as do not dos, because she intentionally goes out and does the opposite of what a healthy, well-adjusted person would do. I am not going to miss her after the divorce.
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This is several years too late. There's only about 5 months before the next term starts, he's not going to be able to get anything substantive done in that time. Even using an entire term would make it difficult. Id like to be wrong on it, but realistically, the man needs a series of photos to find the podium at the debates.
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Competition. If the competitors aren't doing that, the customer just sees the price and doesn't mentally factor in the fact that there's no additional tipping required. It's the same reason why most stores don't include sales tax with the price. They could do it rather easily, but it makes their prices look higher than the competitors even if the final price is the same. Also, the tips are helpful when it comes to attracting the best available servers as expecting customers to tip often means more tips than if the money is just added to the bill.
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@Niosus It's not baffling. It would work if the projects that were being used as offsets did trap more than what your share of the emissions were in a reasonable time period. And that's the problem, even if the correct amount is trapped, it's often years later, which doesn't really help much with avoiding the upcoming problems. At best, that reduces the maximum problem.
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I will say that technically, Romans could split infinitives, but I don't know that anybody ever did. It would be the equivalent of when English speakers insert words into other words. For example Abso-freaking-lutely. And, I have a feeling that there were probably enough issues in doing so due to things like a lack of word separation and punctuation that it would have rendered the passage more or less unreadable.
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Yes, I was expecting this to be a bit more revolutionary. Tips have been on top of minimum wage here in Washington for quite a while, but the same basic BS tipping culture exists. Nothing short of banning tips from being considered a portion of wages is going to end the issues.
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@Rocchio753 No, they wouldn't. There'd still be money to be made and that money would have gone to the other chains.
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@Rocchio753 I know enough about economics to know that preventing the elites from stealing all the gains wouldn't crash the economy.
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#Amber2020
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@Casual_Stroll Ryan Grim is horrible, just look at Jimmy Dore's coverage. He's a shill.
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The short answer is that they don't care, the semantics are a smoke screen for them doing things that the rest of us know are wrong.
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It's gatekeeping. If you pay for a certificate, then there's supposed to be something in place to say that the person really did have the exposure to the information. In some fields, like programming, it's more important to know your stuff and be able to demonstrate it than have a degree or certificate. The problem is getting to somebody that can evaluate any of that without something like that to get through the screening software.
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Even in the US, the HD name is becoming insufficient to justify the prices they're asking. Overseas where there hasn't been the same love affair, they'd be foolish to think they can get away with that.
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To be fair, George Lucas did a perfectly fine job of destroy Star Wars on his own, thank you very much.
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So, who do I vote for to get it to stop? I was stupid enough to vote for Obama and he was an absolute failure. He did nothing to prevent the SCOTUS from falling into the GOP hands. He backed down any time that the GOP threatened to filibuster a bill. And, then he helped rig both the 2016 and 2020 elections for weak candidates.
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Why? What has voting Blue actually accomplished in the last 40 years? They're the same neoliberal hacks and just slightly less racist.
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Yep, if that message is mayonnaise and off white wall paint.
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@AWest-ns3dl Honestly, if you kill a couple people, you go to prison, possibly the chair. If you kill thousands of people with a faulty product, you get a bonus and free membership to the local country club paid for by the company.
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If bike riders wouldn't wear such stupid helmets, that would be a better stat. But, very few bicycle riders wear proper helmets, I'm not sure that a bike rider needs a full helmet, but they certainly need a 3/4 helmet.
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Great way to make your point, call the people that disagree with you morons while you completely ignore the problems with the ad spot. There's something ironic about somebody that's a bit of an intellectual dimbulb complaining about other people not being very bright. If you can't see what's horribly wrong with this ad, then perhaps you shouldn't post about it. I'm dumber for having tried to sit through it. The ad is sexist, why is this being targeted at men, we're not the ones raising boys these days. Why is it the white men that are the problem, but the men of color are somehow better? And why is this coming from a company trying to sell products to men? Couldn't they have found a less offensive way of making their point? To make matters worse, this was a spot directed by a woman whose previous work includes a body positivity film where she was somehow able to avoid disrespecting her target audience. For shame.
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@letiziaroselli9395 Could be worse, English is my first language and I still struggle to spell it correctly. Learning how to write correctly in a foreign language is going to vary significantly depending upon the language you were born studying and the ones you learn later. It's mostly a matter of practice over time and doing a bunch of reading.
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I used to live in China and in some places there were these physical cards that you'd have to insert into a slot mounted to the wall to get electricity. If the card wasn't there, there was no electricity in the unit.
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@DonOblivious Same here, the electric company funded them because they want people to cut down on the power they use so they can sell the power to utilities outside the state where they're allowed to charge more.
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@Carlisho That's different and some states allow you to do that when traffic is stopped, but not when it's moving.
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@rickershomesteadahobbyfarm3291 Yes and if somebody stepped on those nails, the property owner would likely be liable.
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You pretty much always have to have some sort of eye protection while riding. Getting a bit of grit in your eye or even just wind sucks.
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That's more or less what you'd expect from an extreme wide angle lens. I'm guessing the photographer used it because a longer lens wouldn't have been able to capture all of them in such a small space. Jimmy's feet are huge, and the rest of his legs get proportionally more normal size as he's got his feet stretched out in front of him and his upper body is relatively straight up in comparison. This is a lens effect that's often used by pornographers on foot fetish sites to make the feet look bigger if they want to emphasize that. This is also why you don't typically get flattering portraits with a wide angle lens as it tends to make the nose look super big.A portrait lens tends to be around about 85-100mm long as that gives proportions that are much more flattering. To make matters worse,t here are basically no shadows in the shot, which makes the effect even more unsettling than it otherwise would be.
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Yep, it's worth noting that the cost and expense of moving a building on a property doesn't really change much whether it's 12 feet or 200 feet, provided you've got a path to get there. Most of it is the lifting and the setting back in place after you've got the new foundation in.
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@windsurfer8824 They do, I just hardly ever hear people using those terms. I'm not sure if it's because I'm on the est Coast where most of those folks haven't been here long enough for a hyphen to really make much sense.
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Or, try something radical, actually do something to earn the votes of younger men. I don't see much of anything on her campaign positions that addresses the needs of younger men. But, somehow it's going to be men that are blamed if she loses, even though it's going to be women that get credit if she wins.
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I wish the government would start appointing competent people to run their response to the economy. Short term deflation isn't an issue, it just encourages people to hold onto their money. The constant inflation is part of why so many Americans didn't have any savings coming into the pandemic. Year after year, the Federal Reserve was purposefully injecting money into the system to artificially guarantee that debt was cheaper to service. The problem with that is that for those that don't have the money to be properly invested, you're losing 2-3% to inflation, but being paid at most 2% interest, which means that most Americans were already seeing an effective negative return on their bank balances. Which when coupled with the failure of wages to keep up with inflation tended to make people poorer. This is even before you account for people making poor decisions about money or being tricked into paying outlandish fees.
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@suzanne9150 For the time being, but there's going to be a shortfall projected to happen by 2033, and things like this legislation push that forward. Hopefully, they'll raise the amount of taxable income to offset that, but it should have been written into the law and it doesn't appear that there is any plan for paying for it.
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So, I'm scum for thinking that men have constitutional and statutory rights?
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So? They're being deprived of their 14th amendment as well as Title IX rights by having these things handled like this. If there's a rape or sexual assault that's alleged to have happened, the right venue is the police, kicking students out of school and disciplining them based upon much lower standards is a violation of their rights.
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We'll see, I'm sure they'll still figure out how to screw it up. There's still no help for essential workers. We're doing multiple people's work for minimum wage and get none of the enhanced pandemic protections. I've had coworkers get sick, but the feds aren't compensating us for the extra work and risk so that others can stay at home.
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They don't, Hamas only had one election, they pretended to be moderate and even then they got less than half the vote. How many more votes by Isrealis for war criminals until we acknowledge that the Israelis aren't any better?
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They can't be, because they're even worse. The GOP is why this isn't being paid for by taxing the people and businesses that benefit from having all these college educated workers that struggle to pay their bills.We can't simply do without social workers and the like, just because we don't want to pay for them to get the education. And, that's the implication of the people opposed to reducing the debt. We're coming off of a pandemic where a bunch of people lost their jobs. Hardly anybody got hazard pay, in large part because the Republicans blocked it when it was early enough in the pandemic to really matter, and the Democrats lost their nerve when they picked up those seats. We had trilions for businesses, but this is too much. Not to mention, that a bunch of this money is wiping out the debts of people that didn't complete their degrees for one reason or another. And how many of those that did manage to graduate were working for less than what unemployment was paying due to the unemployment bonuses that were being tossed around. But, somehow this is too much. Puhlease. I didn't personally whine about the tens of thousands of dollars that went out tot he unemployed above and beyond what they were legally entitlted to. I think a little bit of the money coming to me when I couldn't get a job in my field due to the pandemic closures and disurptions isn't unreasonable given how pretty much everybody else got far more.
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Good, Florida has a special election early next month, we already knew that there were going to be missed payments, at least that's starting to happen now with several weeks to the election, so perhaps some of those boomers in FL will vote down the GOP so that the Democrats lose their excuse for doing absolutely nothing about any of this.
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@Outlier2024 Yes, however, when the system was set up, you didn't have the kind of disparity we have now in terms of the richest folks getting most of their income via things like interests, capital gains and other unearned income. I'm not sure how we would resolve this in a sustainable long term way without expanding the tax both in terms of how much earned income it taxable for it and into unearned income.
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@bowwow7505 We're crying about it because you didn't pay the social security taxes to earn that portion of your benefits and there hasn't been a source of income indicated to cover the increase. Which means that when the program runs low in the next decade, the measures to save it will need to be more significant.
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I remember suggesting in 2000 that Gore shouldn't have accepted the results, here we are nearly 25 years later and I was right. Clinton was President and Gore legitimately won the election, they should have just ignored the bad SCOTUS decision that even they knew was a bad decision because they didn't want it used as precedent in future elections. A decision that doesn't set or confirm precedent isn't a real ruling anyways.
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@sandyhazlewood1664 That's the actual reason why they didn't play it safe and make Bernie the VP candidate. They were afraid that Bernie would be one heartbeat away from the Presidency and they needed a neoliberal to continue allowing corporations to pillage the country.
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Thankfully Biden won't do anything at all about medical care and medical expenses. Sadly, judges don't automatically care about how process serving is done and once the date is set, there's limited ability to challenge after the court date.
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Only if McConnell dies of covid 19.
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It's not a sensible proposal. Companies are not required to take advantage of the program and have to pay both $3 an hour as well as payroll taxes on the entire $12 an hour. Not to mention that depending upon the business, they may or may not even be making that much by remaining open. An awful lot of goods being sold are being sold at previous prices even though the cost of doing business right now has gone up due to PPE and other measures that have been required.
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That's just her excuse, she was never going to endorse Bernie, she could have in '16, but she chose not to then either.
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You can thank the MSM for that. They've been lying about Sanders for years, not to mention having the Iowa caucus snaked from him. I will not be voting for any more Democrats if Bernie isn't the nominee. Biden may wind up with more delegates, but look where he's getting them from. None of those Southern states are likely to go blue in November.
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You're being overly generous. The IDF bombing the tunnels killed a bunch of hostages, and the IDF doesn't care. It's not even like it was Hamas killing hostages, most of that was the Israelis.
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@schoolingdiana9086 That's shocking. Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if the FBI put the perp up to it so they'd have somebody to bust.
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They're for different things. The reason why woks generally use high carbon steel and not cast iron is that they need to transfer the heat at the base and dissipate it up the sides as it's common to move ingredients to the side to keep them warm while cooking other components. It doesn't retain heat as well, so they tend to compensate with an extremely hot flame compared to what you'd likely use with cast iron. Cast iron though doesn't dissipate heat as effectively, so when you add ingredients, that extra mass will reduce the reduction in temperature. As a result, it's probably not a good choice for Chinese.
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@simbamartens7192 Of Trump, Biden and Sanders, I think Biden is the most likely to die if infected. The other two seem to have better health.
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@flintfrommother3gaming I'm not sure about other people. But, given the shenanigans with how the ad revenue is doled out, and how these sorts of programs are run on other sites, I don't trust that the money will be given out fairly. They already rig the algorithm in favor of corporate news outlets and went to the extreme of hiding the dislikes so that people wouldn't know just how unpopular some of these channels are that are being pushed. I don't personally trust that they'll hand out the money to channels fairly.
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Pretty much the only countries not doing something like that are the US and nations with insufficient money to do it.
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It's worth noting that the easiest way to solve the issue of women having 2/3 of the debt is to stop having 2/3 of the college students be women. That's not the what people care about, it's that women have 2/3 of the debt.
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@SlyNine Most people can't. I got a summons recently, it was like the 6th one and the 3rd that I was actually able to do. I'm not sure if I'll have to report, but in post-pandemic America, I just got a post card to register with the court and anytime between then and the 8th, I can be contacted by the court to report. They've got it down to the point where it's 1 day or 1 trial. But, that's still a lot for many people as they pay basically nothing. I'm fortunate that my employer will cover the difference between what I would have made and what the jury duty pays, but that's not legally required of any business. For what is one of the most important things that citizens are called on to do, it's an absolute scandal that jurors are left with no pay, I"m sure when the pay was established it was decent, but I make more in a half hour than what jury duty pays for an entire day. Last time I was on jury duty, I could easily spend more on food, if I chose to eat out, than I'd be paid.
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This is interesting, when I last replaced mine because they got beyond the manufacturer's recommended lifespan, I opted for smoke detectors that use both technologies. Personally, I haven't had issues with false alarms, they will go off if I burn something in the kitchen or the grill on the balcony does too much smoking, but in general, they don't go off very often.
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The issue is that it's fine until it's not.
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If that's your response, then you don't understand.
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They are, nobody claimed that they would completely eliminate gun violence.
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3.5mm jacks aren't obsolete and the only reason why use them rather than the previous 5mm jacks was that they're too small for portable applications. But the older 5mm jacks are more durable. Perhaps someday somebody will come up with something better, but the only phones don't need to be any thinner and we don't need the inferior and expensive replacements.
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The irony there is that for many, just putting away money each week into a suitable investment account would eventually do it. Even just $30 a week would do it in 50 years. $100 and you'd be young enough to actually enjoy it.
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@LancesArmorStriking Sort of, nukes are probably why we haven't had another conflict of the scale of the world wars, however, it also means that the next world war we have might well be the last thing that humans do. It also opens us to a risk of a Dr. Strangelove deciding to nuke us all.
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It's interesting how they left off the fact that he was let go for plagiarizing an entire sketch and then lying about it.
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TBH, property taxes are arguably the most legitimate taxes you can have. As far as schools go, the issue there is that when the courts forced WA to properly fund education at the state level, it resulted in Seattle and a few of the more populated areas to send even more money than normal to parts of the state that didn't have their stuff together. The city winds up funding most of the state, while most of the rest of the state keeps sending politicians to the capital to undermine the city's ability to generate money whenever possible.
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Why do graduate students keep getting screwed? A lot of fields require an advanced degree, but don't necessarily pay that well. Not to mention that graduate school loans are at a much higher rate of interest and for some reason, if you're in school full time, you're not allowed to deduct any of your retirement savings.
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You do the best at integrating those promos into the videos.
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You could also go back to using a registry that is created from those ini files, something along those lines has worked well for FreeBSD for decades where much of the sysctl does come from editable configuration files.
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Considering how much we pay for farming subsidies, food stamps would be a step in the right direction. Let the customers decide which foods to subsidize, it's unlikely to be worse.
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It's up to 1750, so it's on it's way, but still not enough views.
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The issue is that we didn't make the bed, it was a small portion of the voting demographic that did and most of them weren't even here 20 years ago. You fail to understand just how quickly the population has grown here. There were roughly 2.6m people in the Seattle Metropolitan area in 2000, there are roughly 3.6m people in the area now. That's a massive change in population and when elections are tight, the influx can make a significant different. A large group of carpetbaggers came here and brought their dysfunctional views with them and this is what we got.
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@kipchickensout Anything you like, from simple soft links to revision control systems to basic rsyncing a backup to a separate directory/system. And since they're mostly just text files, you can use any other utility you like to quickly parse and potentially modify them. The problem with the Windows registry more than anything is that it tries to do too much and doesn't have any particularly good way of purging obsolete entries or fixing it when it gets corrupted. I've thought for decades at this point that if they want to have a registry fine, but at least have it generated from other files that can be edited by hand if need be. I've just had too many times where the registry got corrupted and took the entire system down. I have never had that happen, not even once, with Linux of FreeBSD. I haven't paid as much attention to Linux, but FreeBSD has sysctl that does a lot of the same stuff that the Windows registry does, but it's regenerated on boot from actual files. As to your question, there are a lot of utilities for managing those dotfiles https://dotfiles.github.io/utilities/
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@user-uv4mg4ve9p Social Security isn't super generous and it depends in part on how much money you were making while working.
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TBH, considering how many small children I see on bicycles, this seems far more responsible. At least motorcycles can get out of the way if need be.
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It wasn't, the trial and conviction happened before he was re-elected. But, with how recent SCOTUS rulings have gone with respect to the Presidency, it's pretty clear that if there were any sort of actual punishment that the SCOTUS would probably overturn it. Even without the punishment, they may opt to overturn it. The GOP hasn't even bothered to try to nominate justices that are actually competent in quite some time. Just look at how bad the Liberal justices are, and just how monstrous the Conservative ones still look by comparison.
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Also location, so you might want to go back to the 19th century and steal some land like the big boys did.
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Yep, for what we gave to the corporations, we could have had $600 every week for 6 months.
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As a motorcyclist, I would go one step further. Don't just wear a helmet, get a 3/4 helmet that protects the sides of your head as well. A bicyclist is less likely to go over the handle bars that a motorcyclist is, but falling over on a bike does happen and those 1/2 helmets do practically nothing for that.
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@Durgemann Probably not, probably just a bonus when they're trying to get services slashed to free up money for tax cuts.
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The answer is generally stupider than you expect.
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Some people will use a single incandescent bulb as a simple space heater. If you just need to keep a small room above freezing, it's not necessarily a bad way to go.
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LOL, I think I had that same one. I don't know that there were many choices for those players.
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Blame the Democrats, they thought they could get away with forcing a nominee on the voters for a 3rd time in a row, and this is what we got. They couldn't even come out against Israel's genocide because they picked the VP to the President that was enabling it. We needed a real opposition party that would fight against the gerrymandering, elections fraud and money in politics and we got the Democrats f-ing around and now we're finding out just how incompetent they were. Biden barely beat Trump in 2020, and they were willing to roll the dice with him again, in spite of him clearly being senile.
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Donald Hariot It makes discrimination slightly less convenient.
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It's not necessarily that hard if you don't mind cracking a book and have a bunch of videos or books that you're interested in. The trick is ignoring all the people that don't know what they're talking about. You shouldn't be studying too much grammar at any time, and ideally, the vocab that you're learning is stuff that's going to be relevant to the use you have for it.
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@GodBodyWorld I definitely can't speak for Africans in Africa, but the black folks I meet in the US have some of the dumbest ideas passed down to them without any real consideration for the accuracy. Things like black people can't swim because their bones are too dense or that back in the '50s when Dutch Elm Disease was going around, that trees were being cut down in order to make it easier for the government to spy on them. I'm not really sure how anybody is supposed to catch up, let alone succeed with that sort of stupid "knowledge" being passed on.
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@RocketSauce666 Twice exceptional often refers to having a high IQ in addition to some form of learning disorder or other neurological disability. But, it's not that tightly defined, somebody can exhibit giftedness in other ways rather than just by IQ. Being a highly gifted artist or writer would also qualify even if the individual has a normal IQ, or possibly even low one.
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The laws aren't the problem, the problem is that a lot of those companies were able to engage in regulatory capture so that even though there are antitrust laws that bar the conduct, the people running the agencies have chosen to ignore the law. Google buying DoubleClick was a good example. Google should never have been allowed to buy out their nearest competitor in the online advertising space. Clayton already bans mergers that would put us in the position where a market is controlled by a handful of companies due to mergers rather than just naturally being so good that other competitors can't compete.
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For whom? Harris is even worse than Trump. At least Trump was able to win primaries. Harris was more or less chosen as a way of screwing over progressive voters.
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That's my suspicion. There are terms associated with lottery tickets and I'm not sure that they would transfer when the original purchase wasn't authorized by an authorized card user.
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The real problem is that there are insufficient reasons to turn out to vote for Harris. If even a quarter of the non-voters turned out for a candidate, it would result in a land slide, but the Democrats are allergic to offering things to the people that they want and the GOP isn't afraid to.
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Meanwhile here in WA, Murray's ads are 100% about abortion and January 6th, but Smiley's are much more positive and actually address policy at times. The leadership of the Democrats is completely worthless and probably closet Republicans.
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There's a couple significant differences between fElon and Trump. One being that SCOTUS gave POTUS unchecked power recently and the other is that Elon isn't that old. He's only 53 which means that if he gets convicted on anything that he could very easily do 30+ years in prison. There's also the issue that Trump can't pardon people against contempt of court charges, and contempt of court charges aren't particularly capped, in rare cases there have been people in jail over that for years. But, I'm guessing that with roughly half of his wealth tied up in Tesla that the boycott is probably working in terms of that's a large chunk of his wealth that's potentially going up in smoke if this nonsense continues.
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I think the laughing sounded like nervous laughing that often happens to release the tension that's going on. And it's probably more informative about the audience opinion than the silence was.
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The unemployed got that extra $600 a week on top of the $1200 the folks like me that are working essential jobs got nothing. We got the $1200 and only because they couldn't figure out how to get the money out fast enough without giving it to us.
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@brettstowell4029 That's not true of the US according to the FAA information pamphlet. You have to be at least 5.
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@brettstowell4029 Not true, you have to be at least 5 years old in the US. And at age 11 or 12 you can do it without paying for a chaperone.
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LOL, Lake City Center, that's the Oreilly's I use.
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You'd also likely get you sued for harassment.
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It is moving, but because it's moving diagonally and probably less than the speed limit, it just seems like it's not moving.
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 @sandal_thong he was fatally flawed in the sense that he hadn't earned it. Earning the support of the primary voters is vital before worrying about the other party.
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She's probably wearing a furry suit.
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@frenzalrhomb6919 That's a generally true statement. In the US, if you look at our hardliners, a large part of what drives that is fear of other countries attacking us. A big difference is that the US is a super power and Iran is just a regional power. Much of the behavior that the US is concerned with is the result of the country needing to protect itself from Israel and the various Suni run Islamic states. Arguably, the best thing the US could do is broker some sort of a peace deal that allay the concerns of them having another war that kills hundreds of thousands of their own in exchange for agreeing not to pursue nuclear weapons. I'm not sure that there's a willingness to give them defensive weapons as part of it, but allowing them to install such defensive weapons should be a part of the agreement.
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One of the issues with eminent domain is that they don't necessarily pay the fair price of the land. They also don't necessarily buy the entire parcel. My dad owned some property and the city seized the only portion of the property that had any value, leaving him on the hook for the useless portion of the land. Or, they'll condemn the land and pay the deflated rate. And, these things are never done with bidding, so you get what they'll pay, even if what they'll pay isn't an accurate reflection of what would have happened if there were multiple potential buyers.
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You're lucky, I'm in my mid-40s and I likely won't ever get all of the money that I'm entitled to because they haven't fixed the system. There aren't enough workers paying in nor are they making enough for me to get my full benefit. I do have some degree of sympathy for the older folks, but the things that led to social security being insolvent were done well before the point where I was old enough to vote, and the folks collecting there's could have voted for politicians to fix things, instead, they just stole more to give to retirees for benefits they weren't taxed for.
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Yes, but that's old news. Libraries have existed for quite a while now, even free public libraries are rather old at this point.
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@rogerszmodis In terms of the criminality probably not, but in terms of somebody getting killed possibly.
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Could you please stop lying about the internment camps, they weren't for Japanese Americans. That's a myth. They were for any ethic group living in the exclusion area that we were fighting at the time. The Japanese just happened to be more concentrated on the coast than the other groups were and as a result were more likely to go to the camps than the Italians and Germans were.
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Honestly, I would probably have used sed and awk to do the same thing. It probably wouldn't have been quite as fast, but depending upon the length of the text and how often you're doing it, it would have been worthwhile. Plus, it wouldn't have required vim, which isn't on all machines.
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@nartouzumaki8232 Yes, because unlike Biden, Trump has the popular support of his party. I don't look forward to 4 more years of Trump, but the Democrats deserve that from trying to force Biden on the people for another 4 years having squandered their opportunities.
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@arandompasserby7940 No, there is a massive difference between refusing to support the system using legal methods and refusing to support the system that just throws more fuel on the fire. There's also a recognition that there's a lot to be lost if something like the IA gets shut down due to this sort of sloppy activity.
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@matthewboire6843 But, it doesn't, and that's sort of the point. If we're talking about political activism via such civil disobedience, that's more the sort of thing for a smaller organization that isn't in a position to have that much stuff in the archives that could be wiped out with one court ruling.
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@giantdad1661 And that works out fine, as long as you don't spill any of it on you while recklessly pouring it about..
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@‌ㅤ ‌‌ ׂ⁠𓅓 There's nothing professional about this. Evaporating liquid nitrogen can and does cause all manner of issues if you're not careful.
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This why people need to demand evidence of such people that the money is owed, that they are entitled to collect on it and that you are the party that's on the hook for the money. IANAL, so these things are generally a bit more complicated, but if they can't prove all of those things, they're not going to be able to collect on it.
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@JWRogersPS Essentially yes, from what I've read, it was the anthem of a musicians club and presumably a lot of drinking happened at meetings.
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Gender is different from sex. But the comment still applies given how many folks insist that they were assigned a gender at birth. Doctors do no such thing. It's sex so they know what to expect and what sort of treatment to expect to provide. Gender is a completely separate thing. Personally, I can't say that I really care one way or another, but the trans and non-binary folks have become something of a cult where it's not enough to just let them do as they please, you also have to cosign on all the nuttier bits like gender affirming care for children.
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She pretty much destroyed the party and the nation. She lost huge numbers of seats across the country under her leadership and the literal only reason why she was speaker, was that the Democrats choose speakers based purely on who the most corrupt member of the party is. She also completely failed to develop any talent for when these old fogies finally die. Which means that not only has the party screwed up the last couple decades, they've also effectively given up any hope of improvement in the next decade as well.
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Yes, although there does seem that with cheaper bikes it's a rather high price to pay if you're not already planning on replacing your shocks. $900 on a bike that cost $6k new is a lot.
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Because he votes the way they want him to, no matter how corrupt and incompetent he has to be to take the position.
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@fighter4freedom Uncle Thomas, nice.
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Perhaps the Democrats should have considered this when they allowed the GOP to keep stealing appointments that came up during their terms while ramming through judges during their time in office. Who would have known that there would be consequences.
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And, that'll last a few months, at best. Considering that 2/3 of eligible female voters didn't vote for Harris, I think the 4B folks are probably overplaying their hands. The most reliable way to get a woman's attention is to have a girlfriend/wife, especially if they aren't quite as attractive as she is.
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And yet they're doing nothing at all to help the grocery and transit workers who are the least easily avoided people. Looking at the state plan here, grocery workers won't be getting any until after they vaccinate most other people. Meanwhile, we're coming into contact with high risk populations on a daily basis and probably spreading it around. There's folks at the store getting sick, but we can't get the vaccines because the state has decided that who spreads isn't an important factor. From what I can tell, it's not until sometime after May that they're going to start vaccinating anybody under 50 that is working at those stores. Meanwhile, we're risking the lives of our loved ones if we cant' avoid them. We're being paid minimum wage in most cases, not being protected, taking on this additional risk and nobody seems to actually care. Grocery and transit workers in particular should have been far closer to the front of the line as we're a major vector by which this thing spreads as people can't avoid us.
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I wonder how my football coach would have done before he got his medical degree. His parents really wanted him to become a physician, so they named him literally D. R. and everybody called him that. He did go on to get a medical degree that would qualify under this particular law, not that it applies, we live in a different state. I do wonder what the basis is for this being allowable under the 1st amendment, as it appears to go beyond any sort of reasonable regulatory basis and affects people that have legitimate doctorates, rather than people just pretending to have doctorates. Around here, pretty much the only people I know of that have doctorates that never put dr. in their titles are lawyers and dentists. Even though it's juris doctorate and doctorate of dental surgery respectively
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@kerfluffle3781 And that's in some regards a massive problem. Poor people can't afford to pay for attorneys to protect their rights because the upfront costs are crushing. Then if you do win, you might not get an award that covers it. Really, there should be reasonable caps on how much you can spend on litigation and the loser should just pay the costs in most cases.
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It's not capitalism, it;s the deregulated abomination that we've got that's an issue It would still be a capitalist society if there were a near 100% tax on income of any sort beyond a given point, and a UBI at the bottom to ensure that everybody has at least a roof over their heads, clothes on their backs and food in their mouth, and not much more.
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@caspianprince It's only pointless if you never go 300 miles in a single day. There's no reason why you have to go 300 miles every day to require a bike that can handle that.
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@cp4512 Exactly, for the most part only getting 160miles on a tank isn't that big of a deal. You just pull over at the next gas station and fill up. There are a few areas where there may not be a gas station, but you can bring a spare tank. Electric motorcycles though, can take ages to recharge, so 160 miles may legitimately not be enough if you ever go on rides longer than that.
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@electric_boogaloo496 Yes, doubly so when you can't just carry a spare gas tank or get AAA to bring you gas to get you to the next gas station.
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Not true, that person woud qualify for Medicaid around here. That might be true if you live in a state that didn't expand Medicaid.
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Infinity usually doesn't count here because it's a concept and not a number. There may be situations where that's an acceptable answer to this, but we're normally not looking for trivial answers and infinity when we're solving things like this.
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The problem with it is that it's only got one real choice. If you choose to let the 5 people die, then you're probably a serial killer or really screwed up in the head, otherwise, the only reasonable choice is to swap one for the greater number as there's usually no particular reason to believe that that one person is somehow more important or that that option is somehow better. If it's not a 100% death scenario, like there's perhaps a 10% chance that that individual will realize what's going on and get off the track, but 90% that they can't or won't, it's a much more useful question as now you've got a 90% chance of killing the one versus the 100% chance of killing 5. Which is a lot harder to answer. If it's 90% in both cases, it gets even more messy and even more realistic as there's a 10% chance that making the switch didn't even save anybody's life.
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They had an obligation to pursue collections many years ago if they really are entitled to payment. At this point, it's past the statute of limitations and they don't appear to have taken the proper steps to deal with that.
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Neither do the folks pushing for these treatments for young children. Is it really such a crazy idea to just take a look at what the researchers are finding and just release the results of the experiments that are being performed and set public policy on that?
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My initial reaction is that they don't understand how BDSM works.
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But, if they do that, then they'd have nothing to run on because they sure as hell aren't going to start doing things for the voters in order to win votes, that's a thing of the past. Now, they won't even pretend like they're going to help us out.
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We hate Musk and the trucks, the owners are being targeted by association though.
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Honestly, this would be f-ed up even if these people knew the prankster.
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@WitchDoctor87 Most of us don't get to set our own hours. We also don't typically get to work from home or near our homes. They're also much more likely to have a window. By time regular 9-5 workers get to work, the sun is just rising and by the time they're off, the sun is just about to set. It sucks.
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@synchronium24 Except that for anybody along the border, you're trading sunlight in the morning for nothing. The sun goes at 5:30 rather than 4:30 and it rises at 9am rather than 8am. It's a bad trade. It's a net reduction in opportunities for sunlight.
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@Enclave. The math says otherwise. I'd lose an hour of sunlight in the morning and get a half hour after work. In other words a net reduction by about half hour when I most benefit from it.
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That's where having a chain drive is nice, you can mess with the gearing ratio. For belt and shaft drive motorcycles, it's not going to work out.
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No, that would be appropriate given that nobody really has any idea what she was doing while VP other than failing to effectively deal with the border crisis or even appear to be taking it seriously. It's unclear what else she was supposed to be doing other than being a warm body in case Biden died in office.
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TOBDNCNG-Marygrace Apparently so, but the thing that does concern me is that even if something like this does go to the courts with how they're packed, it might well become precedence that freedom of religion is unlimited, no matter what laws you care to break, as long as you "believe" that it's OK it is.
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To be fair, the FBI is almost completely useless at stopping terrorists that they haven't supplied with plans.
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If somebody would cut her off from ice cream, she'd cave in days.
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@mgord9518 I agree. Although, something being a bad language for beginners hasn't exactly hindered Python. Terrible error messages, dynamic typing and semantic white space are just bad design decisions to begin with, but foisting all of that on learners is asking for trouble. It's still better than starting out with old school BASIC, but not by much considering the length of time between the two.
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Right, because the stop the steal brain trust on the other side is really that much better. Or, how about the folks that think that the Democrats are looking to open the borders and flood the country with Mexicans? Bottom line, is that most people are dumb and easily led astray. The fact that you posted that BS tells me that you're probably not much of a critical thinker.
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@Martin42944 In Western Washington, they're used for both the center and the foglines of the road. We also use retroreflective signage whenever the road bends enough to justify specific signage.
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Kitten Katt If that's watt you think, then you don't know what you're talking about. If thart was true, we'd have President Clinton rather than Trump.
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That's the way that I look at it, the price difference isn't necessarily that much if you're already thinking about replacing the shocks. Or, if you're working with a new bike, you can probably sell the old ones.
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That doesn't let you leave it out. If you want to leave it out, you have to use ultra-pasteurized milk. The regular pasteurized stuff goes off pretty quickly both in terms of going sour and in terms of bacterial growth. Pasteurized milk can start to go a bit off just on the way home without refrigeration. Leaving it out is banned by the health code for a reason, not because it allows petty bureaucrats to issue citations and write restaurants up. Killing all the bacteria in food without destroying the nutrition or taste is extremely difficult which is why milk is rarely shelf stable without need for refrigeration.
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If the battery is still good, you can always just wire a second battery in parallel to the main battery for a few minutes while you replace the main battery. That being said, it's far better to just use one of these units to backup the save ahead of time than to bother with that. Also, while you're at it, it's worth putting in a proper battery holder if the battery in there is soldered to the board so that the next time you don't need to. These carts just get more rare over time, so it's better to take the risk of redoing that now than later.
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We'll see MGT is currently dealing with a trial by a bunch of voters that are demanding that she be barred from running due to having supported the attempted insurrection. I'm skeptical, it wouldn't surprise me if SCOTUS steps in and decides that it's unconstitutional to bar an insurrectionist from holding public office.
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It's not obvious that there's collusion here. More likely, there's a number of teams that wouldn't have been able to use his style of play regardless of controversy. Then there's a few that already have QBs that they're happy with, even though the play style is compatible. And virtually all of them did a calculation to figure out whether or not it was worth the disruption. And BTW, at least one team was considering giving him a chance before his girlfriend insulted them I'd be very surprised if the teams were talking about this to ensure that he didn't get a job. There's not that many teams and a ton of other QBs available.
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Keep in mind that they never reach across the aisle to help people.
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@aephos.overwatch There are a few, but most of them are much more targeted in the channels they sponsor and usually it's for niche products. But, like things that you start seeing cropping up on a lot of videos are probably either a scam or there's something to really look for about what they're doing or how they're doing it.
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@VioFax It's a shame that there have been so many scummy salespeople out there that that becomes a completely reasonable response.
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Eliminating the extra electoral votes that come from having senators would have resulted in Gore winning. It's not something we can change as that would require a constitutional amendment at which point, you might as well just fix the entire thing. But, that would be a compromise to those that think the small states would be completely ignored.
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The main issue is that they have up all their leverage and won't fight for any of it. They could have done better for the people, but they didn't even try.
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Perhaps he could try something novel like offering the voters something that might make their lives better? I know that's crazy talk, but it might get him the votes he needs to win.
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Ah yes, the Notorious C.A.T.
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There's a certain irony that that wasn't the n-word that we needed to worry about. His association with a different sort of n-word person probably ought to have finished him off even after he survived that.
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I think the difference is that the Wright Brothers pursued it to the point where they settled the question about whether or not it was possible to develop a practical flying machine. It's also kind of crazy how less than 70 years later humans weren't just routinely flying around in the air, but we'd already landed people on the Moon. That being said, the Wright Brothers were a lot closer tot he goal than DaVinci was, as there had been a lot of work done on gliders in the centuries in the mean time and the Wright Brothers had access to internal combustion engines to power it. They mostly contributed the control system and put all of the pieces together into something that could be incrementally improved into the aircraft we have today.
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Please don't burn it, vote 3rd party. This year the Green Party, or one of the other 3rd parties, might actually hit the percentage needed for federal recognition.
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Keep in mind that even if God told him to drop out he still says that he "might" drop out.
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I liked him, I would have voted for him if I'd been old enough to vote. He's the last Presidential candidate that seem to have real plans to fix problems.
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@colegordon9684 You do realize, that if people actually did that, the whole system would collapse in a matter of a few weeks, right? Not to mention the mass starvation and rioting that would ensure. Perhaps rather than making this kind of unhelpful comment, you could zip it. Plus, what you're advocating is likely fraud. The fact that there's so many people applying that they can't look at things closely, doesn't change anything.
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@RomaHeart It's more fair to rob you than it is to rob me. The WEP and GPO were enacted as part of a set of fixes aimed at preserving the program into the future. By rolling them back, it makes the program go insolvent sooner. There aren't that many people who are impacted by this that didn't have the choice to take other work. And, it does seem rather unfair that workers that may not have even become old enough to vote for decades after the changes were made are being expected to work longer and there's still a shortfall that means that he money that I see on my social security statements should really have an asterix because there's no guarantee right now that it will be anywhere near that much if they keep giving the money away without finding a way of offsetting it.
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Sometimes I think they may have gotten the wrong message from A Christmas Carol. Then again, if you don't stay long enough, it's a completely different message.
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@chadwillett619 It's not a linear curve and it doesn't get to zero before the battery is no longer powerful enough to perform. Usually somewhere between 1.2v and 1v the battery has been discharged to the point where it can no longer power the device that it's supposed to be powering.
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@t0nyz0 If that were the case, then NiMH AA batteries wouldn't exist. All the ones I've ever seen start at 1.2v.
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@ericcarlson6822 Yep, from what I can tell, in order for it to be an illegal bribe, you have to offer them specific money to engage in a specific corrupt act and you have to specify that the money is only going there if the corrupt act is done.
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@alerighi IIRC, as long as you were running the OS in 32bit mode, you still could run 16bit code, it's if you're running in 64bit mode that 16bit wasn't available. And, there's a fair amount of software that is 32bit, but depends upon 16bit installers to run at all.
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@thecount25 Yes, although I'm not sure it's as critical now as it was when Intel tried to get people to switch to Itanium.
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Depends which part of the neighborhood, most of it should be easy to connect, but if it's in that bit that's going the weird terrain, that may not be an unreasonable estimate.
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TBH, most of the reasons for using lethal force come down to either officer safety or ability of the officers to shoot around hostages and bystanders. Neither of those should be a problem when the weapon is being held by a robot. We've got robotic surgeons now that can adjust to the beating of the heart as the surgeon directs the scalpel. I would be very interested to know what scenario they are thinking of when they couldn't use a less than lethal option via a robot. Shooting around a hostage is inherently risky whether it's a person or a machine, but not necessarily more risky if you're using less than lethal weapons than actual guns. Pretty much all other situations you're going to talk about don't call for lethal force when there isn't a person there to protect.
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Keep in mind though that the current crop is more or less cockblocking Disney from releasing things that might appeal to children. So hopefully this nonsense will stop in another generation or two.
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Absolutely, no institution, with the exception of the government, should ever be that large. And even with the government, there's a reason why so many large nations use some form of federalism where there's a national government and smaller local governments. It greatly reduces the concentration of governance into one body. Even China with it's concentrated governance in one party, still has smaller government offices spread through the country and they aren't always in lock step with the official CCP.
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@JohnnyCash101 They were mostly smaller institutions though that were taken over by the FDIC before they had a chance to outright fail. Apart from Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, it was mostly smaller banks that lacked the capitalization to survive the mandated stress tests that were taken over.
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@BOSSDONMAN There were other alternatives, for example simply buying up all the troubled assets and then going in with a hatchet and tearing up these "too big to fail" financial companies into a larger number of companies.The problem is that the elites didn't want that in recent precedence having more or less killed antitrust regulations that would have reduced the likelihood of this happening.
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Well, thank god nobody is going to actually deal with these guns. Better to just let them keep mowing down innocent people so that we don't get limited to a small number of weapons with a small amount of ammo that can be loaded at any given time.
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They're looking for the culprits, there's probably going to be more police drive bys of the boxes and probably volunteers. As for those impacted, they can request a replacement if they dropped theirs in that box and the new copy won't be counted unless the other one isn't found. That is normal, except in this case they won't be filing any sort of voter fraud charges over doing so as long as there's some sort of legitimate basis for thinking that they used that ballot box. So, people from across the state had better be able to prove they were in that area that time if they want a replacement due to the fire.
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@flyingsnake3737 The closest thing would be being intersex or having something than the standard XX or XY chromosomes. And that's very case by case depending upon what's going on.
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@MikeNoble Yep, also keep in mind that it's not like the choice here is an electric motorcycle or no motorcycles. It's electric motorcycle or ICE motorcycle or ebike. And ICE motorcycles can be had for under $3k used. In fact, the local independent dealership had a 2018 sportster for under $3k this spring.
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@lifespanofafry1534 I could get a 2018 Sportster from a dealership for under $3k this spring, and all manner of others for under $10k and not have to deal with the nonsense related to the battery charging. It's not a matter of not having money to buy a motorcycle, it's realizing just how much of a rip off they are right now for what they're charging. The ones we've got are best for intown, but for under $5k you can get an ebike that does that far, far better.
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That's good. Drivers in general are distracted enough and I personally hate having to decode figurative language while driving.
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@demonpanther290 Where did I say that? I'm saying that things like "hocus pocus drive with focus" take a lot more concentration and represent more distraction than "distracted driving kills" or "Please concentrate on driving" do. And BTW, I'm licenced on 2, 3 and 4 wheels, I can drive just about anything 26,000# or less, I'm not the problem, the problem is clever signs that just serve to distract from the practice of figuring out what those other knuckleheads are doing on the road. I should be able to glance at the sign, see what it means and immediately get my eyes back on the road to scan ahead for trouble ahead.
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Ugh, you're no better than the people on the other side. Some of us are fine with pornography, but not prostitution. Claiming that all sex work is the same and that we can't be opposed to paying for sex, without also being against pornography and the rest of it is disingenuous at best. Paying for sex has numerous issues that are hardly easily solved, suggesting otherwise is rather dishonest.
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@TheCunningStunt Indeed, he's dealing with a judge who is already willing to break the law, doing things that are illegal or inflammatory is just going to make things more difficult later on. It's one of the reasons why running from the police is such a bad idea. Even if you are innocent, now you've got the legal consequences of running to deal with and it doesn't look great to the judge or jury.
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TBH, $199 for a deck is a lot. Personally, I use ChatGPT to read entire books for me and present me with a list of the most common words. I'll then choose the ones from that list that seem important and create flashcards based on that. It helps a lot in terms of the problem of not enough language materials that are at an appropriate level. The decks are probably good, but the likelihood of actually getting far enough with them to see much benefit is pretty small. At least with my approach of taking the vocab from specific books, TV, movies or other material helps shorten that a lot, so that I can see the progress I'm making and know if it is actually helping.
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Shouldn't the Democrats being engaging in some sort of self-reflection to figure out why people like that are voting GOP to burn the system to the ground? What does it say about the Democrats that voting for somebody that's pretty much promising to make it burn is more appealing than their candidate?
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@trippingthelight So, how many more decades of the Democrats actively selling the people out and helping the GOP fulfill their promises before that sort of vindictiveness is appropriate? Because it's been over 30 years at this point. Obama got GOP goals accomplished that they never could have gotten away with.
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@SaraphDarklaw Gotcha, that is a rather fine distinction, but one that could be the difference between splatting and not splatting.
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@47coffee If SCOTUS had any integrity over the last 30 years they would have put a stop to that. It made some sense allowing the government get information without a warrant by going through a 3rd party decades ago, but ever since the internet became popular and tons of information has been obtained by 3rd parties by questionable means, there should have been significant restrictions put into place as the current situation is effectively just as bad as not having warrants at all.
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The other details only potentially matter after the cat is retrieved, there's definitely more to the story. I'm guessing that she did take the cat, because the cat isn't just gone from the video, but the statement indicates she has the cat rather than just a denial. Cats are small and relatively fast, could have potentially been obscured by the bush. That being said, it wasn't a denial, so that wasn't what happened.
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I"m not convinced that Trump winning is worse than Biden winning. Biden will continue shipping jobs overseas, continue wars, probably start new wars, cut social security and stave off medicare for all. Biden should be cleaning up, but he absolutely refuses to do anything to try and earn over the progressive voters or the non-voters. There's more than enough non-voters out there to tip the vote one way or another. There may even be enough of them to elect Hawkins.
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@lordraiden007 If they were doing that, then it wouldn't be any different. The difference comes from YouTube using the algorithm to push things for profit rather than because the user is more interested in that type of content. Or the occasional random video to see if the user wants other types of content.
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Searching cars and things without a warrant is BS. If they really and truly think that they need to do the search, they could just impound the items until they could get the warrant. And really, the courts need to start doing their jobs in terms of not creating these sorts of loopholes that completely neuter the constitution. GITMO not being subject to the constitution when the US was the only authority in the area was nonsense. Declaring all these other constitution-free zones throughout the US wherever there's a border, which seems to include airports, is also not something that the constitution actually says, but the courts do. And then there's the qualified immunity, so even if the cops do do something that is clearly unconstitutional, they're shielded. It's one thing to shield them in cases where it is legitimately a bit murky, but there's a legitimate reason to think that it was OK, but some of this stuff is clearly not murky. I'm just glad that the city I live in banned most lies from being used by the police to speed up their investigations and potentially trick innocent people from incriminating themselves.
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The proper term is illegal alien. Any term that you use is going to be somewhat loaded, but if you're saying undocumented immigrant, that's a flat out lie. There's really not such of a thing in the US, there may be some places where they don't issue documents or care about people being registered as coming into the country, but that's not what's going on with the US. In the US, the closest to an "undocumented immigrant" would be the child of an illegal immigrant that's born away from a medical facility, but is a citizen by virtue of being born in the US, but lacks any documents to prove that.
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I was going to buy some facebook ads years ago, but it made me show them my driver's license to confirm my identity. No way in hell am I scanning a copy of my driver's license and giving it to them.
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Why? Her vote isn't sufficient to change anything. The Dems needed 2 GOP votes to flip. Only one did and in exchange we had Manchin voting the wrong way yet again. If Chucky the shoe had some actual integrity, Manchin would be off every committee he's on and not receive any party support. This is so bad that he should be excommunicated from the party even if it means losing the seat.
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@jamesgon7345 Israel won't allow that to happen. They're largely responsible for Hamas being in charge in Gaza. There hasn't been an election in years, Hamas won a plurality of the vote, but not a majority, and Israel sabotaged the other party that was running.
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Honestly, I bought a sub $100 pair of Sennheiser over the ear headphones years ago and they were good enough that I had to reencode most of my MP3s to something a bit better. I forget exactly how much they cost, but I think it was closer to $100 than $50. I think there's plenty of other companies that can do the same thing without charging a massive amount of money, especially since over the ear headphones have pretty much as much space as you need for good drivers and some extra circuitry. But, beyond that, it had some other nice features like the ability to replace the cable by just unplugging the one that came with it and plugging in the replacement and the ear cups were also similarly easy to replace.
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Use an air fryer to reheat the smaller batches. Roughly 400F for 2 to 3 minutes will rejuvenate cold fries.
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It's just because the Brits don't know how to abbreviate words.
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My credit union will transfer increments of $50 from my savings account to my checking account for a $3 fee. It's still not a good deal, but it's a lot less than what I'd pay if it bounced. Which can easily be not just $35 at some banks, but also the money the merchant charges on their end. Which is crazy, these things should only be charged on one end, not both.
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@Olivia P Switch to a credit union. What I personally do is keep $500 of my emergency fund in a savings account at the bank I use for paying for things. The credit union charges me $3 to transfer the money needed to cover the overdraft in $50 increments. So, it's still terrible to have an overdraft, it's a lot less expensive than it would be if I were being dinged $35 per item. And in practice, if there were a number of small checks that were being overdrafted, I might only pay once.
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@tramaynethomas3960 Yes, the only thing that works is switching to a credit union where the profits go back to the customers who are also owners. There is a wide variety of fee structures, so one credit union might be a better deal for a particular type of customer than another, but there's far less incentive to have confusing fees when the money they make has to be returned to the customers minus the operating expenses.
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@milleniallgt9715 Check out US treasury bills. If you can afford to not have access to the money until next month you can get a much better interest rate than what any of the banks will give you. Which is perfectly fine for your emergency fund if you've also got enough credit card capacity to put things on the cards while you wait to access the funds from the t-bills.
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@BDaltonYoung Zoos typically have special permits to cover the possession of animals that are often not legal to own.
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@neilwetmore That's because it's impossible to be too right.
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It wasn't as bad before the media consolidation rules were abolished. At least back then there was some hope that at least one news outlet would uncover the truth.
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At least here in WA you can. I was in a jury years ago where one of the witnesses didn't show up for his deposition and was herd in contempt. That's not even betting a witness, that's the step where they figure out if you've got anything relevant to the case.
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She'd lose, nobody wanted her in 2020, nobody wants her now. And there are going to be a large number of questions about why she hasn't exercised the 25th amendment to remove an obviously incapable President.
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I had an Australian boss that insisted that the British voluntarily surrendered their empire.
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@StupidAnon-gn8ih Without something in place, capitalism always ends in authoritarianism as the economic power eventually consolidates into the hands of so few people that nobody else has much of a say. It's already happened in the US where what the people vote for doesn't typically happen unless the elites consent to it. And it's just going to get worse and worse from this point forward if nothing is done to stop it.
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Generally speaking, the less processed something like this is the better. The fiber does provide some health benefits, but I'm not sure there's really enough fiber in an orange to make much of a difference when compared with 100% orange juice squeezed directly from the orange.
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That's generally illegal in states where you have to go to a voting booth. It's pretty much impossible to prevent in states where it's vote by mail.
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We do, the standardized tests are graded in a standardized way. Your skin color or gender don't affect how the scores are tabulated. They may interpret how a student answers the question. In class, you can't have blind testing because then the teacher would have no way of knowing which students didn't grasp the information presented on the test.
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@morenitomoreno1282 Of course? Why not? At some point we need to recognize that they've been punished and served their time. I do kind of get why convicted pedophiles aren't allowed to work with children, but that tends to go a bit overboard in declaring the entirety of cities effectively off limits for them once released. I definitely don't condone child abuse and exploitation, but at some point, you do have to let these people live somewhere.
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Presumably, the person whose car it is already got paid by the insurance company back in 2003. That being said, from what I understand, once the insurance company pays, if you later find the car, you get to keep the money and the car. (Obviously, so long as you weren't yourself hiding it as part of an insurance fraud scheme)
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@rkrkrk999 You forget how bad the English are at naming things. Probably the only people worse at it than the English are the Australians.
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This is bad advice. I've switched back to using just debit and cash for most things and it's a lot easier to avoid overspending if you don't use credit. What's more, those bonus points you get for using a credit card amount to basically nothing compared with the ease with which you can buy things you don't need or from people that aren't entirely trustworthy. I was personally skeptical of Dave Ramsey when it comes to not using cards even if you pay them off at the end of the month, but he wasn't wrong. They design those things to be addictive and the bank doesn't make any money at all unless you use them with most of the money being made via interest payments and various fees. If you're going to use credit cards, at least do yourself a favor and make them as annoying to get at as possible.
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@Graahk-r8u Israel can't use those nukes. Iran is right across a relatively small body of water from Russia, not to mention other former Soviet states that probably still have nukes. There's a bunch of Americans that no longer support Israel, using a nuclear weapon against somebody that Israel started the war with is not going to go over well. There's only so much astro-turfing that AIPAC and similar monsters can do to keep the US on Israel's side.
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That right there is why the stick notes should be in the men's rooms as well. Congratulations, I hope you're proud of yourself. He gets to make his own choice independent of pressure but you couldn't let the guy have that. I hope he has the sense someday to divorce you.
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@ Take a look at the sentencing range available. Judges and prosecutors are limited in terms of what the sentences that are ultimately imposed are. People are acting like this was first degree murder, when this doesn't meet the necessary elements to be so. The judge has a range and guidelines about how the sentence is to be calculated, and deviating from that can lead to the sentence being reduced or tossed completely. Prosecutors for their part have little incentive to offer a deal that's higher than what they think the judge is going to go along with as that would lead to the judge reducing it anyways.
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@medicine2202 There are typically fines and penalties as part of the sentence, but yes, the state will wind up having to pay a lot of it. I'm not really sure how you get around that without running afoul of constitutional provisions about how sentences are handed out.
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A plane has a range of potentially thousands of miles depending upon how much fuel it's got, which represents a large portion of the ocean. After about 8-12 hours or so you can be certain that the plane is no longer in the air, whether crashed or having executed an emergency landing. In this case, it likely has drifted a bit, but the speed the water moves is significantly less than the speed of an airplane in flight.
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@stevenandcarminabeedle9089 There's a certain degree of irony that a good chunk of those folks probably objected to it when it was the Black Panthers monitoring those locations to ensure that klansmen weren't preventing Black folks from voting.
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@theblanklogo I'm not sure about OR, but WA there's a way of checking the status of your ballot, I put mine in a box yesterday and when I just checked, I could already see that it had been received and accepted for counting. The county elections office should have appropriate information on how to do that. I just had to put my name, address and some other information in to find out that they had my ballot and it was ready to be counted.
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Israel has nukes, that should scare the crap out of everybody. I'm terrified about what happens if the US stops propping them up.
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Two things can be true. In this case, the world is overpopulated, but if you look ahead a hundred years, the population will be shrinking if the current birth rates continue their current trends. China is seeing a drop, the US is only growing because of immigration. Europe is largley shrinking. India isn't as far as I know, but as their economy strengthens, I see no reason to believe that they will be an outlier as few women want to pump out 4 or 5 kids.
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It's worth noting, that you don't need to use a script to simply prepend a date onto a bunch of files. You can use sed, awk and xargs to do that. ls -d \. | awk '{print $0," 20240922"$1}' | xargs mv should add the date, as of this posting, to every single file in a folder. If you add grep, you can do a more granular approach and not hit all of the files.
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@conservativeriot5939 Should've just told the cop that you're a corporation.
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Had this passed before the election, it would have hurt them with young working class men as this is taking money from those of us that are young enough to have to contend with both increased retirement age for eligibility and a reduction in payout due to the funds running low. I'm not surprised it passed at this point, most folks are just not paying attention as the elections are over and we have nearly 2 years for people to forget this was done.
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There's an easy solution to the hiring problem. Raise the wages and actually pay what you're promising to pay. The work isn't really that bad, especially compared with some other industries, but the pay is often not sufficient to get by on and the chronic shortage of hours and employees is a problem for employee retention.
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We've had a string of assaults against drivers to the point where there's a notice on all transit vehicles making it clear that any assault on a transit employee is a felony. We've also got a lack of police available for responding to such crimes, as well as an uptick in general criminal activity. As a result, drivers don't ask if people don't pay. They may just skip right to calling transit police, but beyond that not so much.
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No it doesn't, and if they had been properly regulated in the first place, that likely wouldn't have happened.
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Nobody has missed a President as much as the miss Trump. I can't remember the last time we had multiple unsuccessful assassination attempts of a Presidential candidate in the US.
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@Zurround In all fairness, a lot of people think that of Jesus.
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I used to think Elon was smart, he fooled a lot of people.
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If you get your bills paid every month with even a few bucks left over and you're living paycheck to paycheck, it is your fault. That's not to say that it's easy if we're talking about only $5 extra, but it is possible to get out of the paycheck to paycheck. It would take some time, a $100 internet connection would take nearly 2 years at that rate, but each bill that you save like that gets you closer to being out of the paycheck to paycheck cycle. And yes, it should be a lot easier to bust out of it, but if you've got the money to pay your bills every month and have anything left over, then it's definitely possible to get out of the paycheck to paycheck cycle.
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It hasn't been that long, it's been like that for roughly 15 years, but for many years before that we had an incredibly permissive absentee voter program where they didn't actually seem to care if you were actually going to be away or not, so long as you didn't also vote in person.
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I think if people realized how ancient the computers are that are used to process checks, they'd be appalled. About 10 years ago, I was working in security in a building with computers that were used to process checks. The computers themselves had literal reel to real computers handling a bunch of the work. It seemed to work, but it's scary that well into the 21st century that the computers doing such important work were already 40 years old, if not older.
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You can blame the Democrats for not offering them a better set of options that address their concerns.
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@ In what sense? If you can't be bothered to actually be more specific, it's pretty clear you have no clue what you're talking about. Or, are we going to pretend like Quebec wouldn't like to leave the country?
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@ It became partially sovereign in 1867, full sovereignty didn't happen until much later.
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@feniaksfirings Or, perhaps you could, because for most of that time, the British Monarch was still nominally the head of the state. Full sovereignty didn't come until 1982 from what I can tell. It's a bit cleaner with the US, because it was a clean break, but even there, there is a little bit of a discrepancy between when the US declared independence and when it was recognized to be so.
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@TomELong It can't be fixed because Seattle is effectively a dumping ground for the various incompetents that couldn't make it anywhere else. As the city has grown, so has the average intellectual capacity shrunk. Because, other states are not sending their best and brightest here.
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Possibly. Especially if any of this was in a written form. It can be a lot harder to walk back written statements than ones that aren't recorded.
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@ShishakliAus Depends what you consider performance. ZFS is far, far less likely to suffer from data corruption than other filesystems. Yes, that makes it a bit slower at times, but for applications like this, do you really need the extra transfer speed? The main downside is that it seems to go through disk drives more quickly than other filesystems would.
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@aidan8583 Amazon is the most abusive in this space, so any time you can give money to one of the other companies, you're at least discouraging the worst abuses. And, Kindles have never been the best option, Nook used to be the best, but these days, they have major problems.
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@OGmolton1 They used to, but personally, I wound up just paying for a commercial software app that does work. If it ever stops working, I just will stop buying ebooks and switch back to paper books that I can convert to ebooks using ML software to make it a better experience.
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@chaddaifouche536 Personally, when I can, I tend to prefer to buy from Smashwords because it's DRM free.
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@Blitterbug Yep, I think that and the inability to use whatever reader I want to use to read are the biggest practical issues with DRM.
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Woke is a massively broad term that includes a bunch of legitimate views, as well as leftwing extremists.
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@onlymebaby.9249 Name on rightwing extremist that people could label as being woke. I'll wait.
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Keep in mind that as long as the blood is being rotated, this shouldn't increase the need by much, if anything. The blood actually being used would be shifted from the hospital to the medics or paramedics. The blood that's not being used, would get rotated back to the hospital. It would take time to build the supply, but then you'd also have extra on hand in case of a natural disaster. The other logistical issues are a much bigger deal.
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@ Yes, and given the facts, even the maximum amount permitted for the crime based on the sentencing guidelines indicate that it probably wouldn't be much more if convicted at trial. I do agree that it's an insultingly short sentence, but that is probably a better outcome than some folks think.
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@ How is this activism? Judges have sentencing guidelines to follow and crimes have sentencing ranges to put a cap on how high they can go. Folks act like the judge can just sentence people to whatever they want to and not have higher courts overturn or revise the sentencing.
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@BFDWCAPS Roughly 95% of convicted people don't have a jury trial to get the conviction. There is always a risk of a prosecutor losing a case, but it's madness to suggest that in that many cases the prosecution doesn't have the goods to secure a conviction. I don't doubt that in some of those cases, they have a weak enough case where a plea deal is the only way to really guarantee it, but in those cases, you wouldn't have a defendant pleading guilty if they had a decent lawyer either.
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It would. But, the point of having a large portion of the populace holding some sort of a degree is that you don't really know what's going to happen. People with degrees often wind up making significant contributions to other fields of study than the one they trained in. And even without it, the exposure to new ideas is valuable in public discourse. It shouldn't be a surprise that the fear mongering party is also the party that attacks education the most aggressively. Simply learning things makes it harder to scare people due to the shrinking effect that it has on the amygdala.
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Because adding 3rd parties into the process has been so much of an efficiency gain. Government is as efficient as the politicians and bureaucrats want it to be. There's no profit motive beyond maintaining their jobs and a decent paycheck, they don't have to also pay off the ownership.
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It was never marketed as being unsinkable at the time, that's a myth that came about later. Nobody in their right mind would have said that it couldn't be sunk, if you ram into something hard enough, or get a long enough gash along the side, as happened, the thing will sink. It was just a ship that was vastly safer than other ocean liners of the time. The main reason that anybody still thinks about it is the divide on who was and wasn't rescued.
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@az-rule84 That was a solid point of James Cameron that the same basic attitude that led to the Titanic sinking is the same one that led to this sub imploding. Pushing ahead too aggressively in spite of warnings about the upcoming risk. Had the Titanic been traveling slower when it collided with the iceberg, it's likely that they eitherr would have been able to avoid the iceberg completely or puncture fewer of the compartments that were intended to trap the water. Ironically enough, the ship may not have sunk had it just run into the iceberg directly.
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@whitenuttergoku7310 The correct answer is when you lose faith in the drive whether or not the warranty has expired.
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@mjakotka Yes, and this is why I both have comprehensive online backups of any file that can't be automatically generated. (No need to backup the individual episode files for TV series if the original DVD ISO files are being backed up. Or individual MP3s if I've got the entire album backed up as a lossesless file with cue information) I also use a ZFS ZRAID5 array so that bit rot can be detected and repaired regularly so that I don't find myself in the position of having files that have been corrupted since the last time I opened them.
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@wolfmantroy6601 They shouldn't need to, the airline should just do better. It doesn't sound like they were being particularly clear about what they were asking if she was standing by the gate after being deplaned and hoping the door wouldn't close without her on board. Being a parent is expensive and they shouldn't have to pay for the unaccomapnied minor fee if all they're needing is to not be deplaned in this sort of unusual situation. The fee existed when I was a kid and it was for younger kids and involved a lot more than just not deplaning them in situations like this. A 14 year old has no need of that sort of service as the airline isn't supposed to deplane them like this.
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That's normal. Just redirect it back to what you're focusing on or just note that you're thinking and carry on.
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Of course, we wouldn't throw around the term "innocent Nazi civilians" during world war two. Allied forces literally murdered tens of thousands of them in the firebombing of Dresden. We will never know how many because there were a bunch of them that were fleeing the crimes against humanity of the Soviet forces as they took out their anger over what the Nazis did to their people on the civilian population as they were advancing. There were possibly as many, or more, killed in that bombing than non-cancer deaths from all atomic bombs ever deployed combined. And if it wasn't more, then it's pretty close to being the same. And it's really about time that we just acknowledged that it's possible to recognize the horrors of the holocaust without letting the Imperial Japanese, Soviets and Americans off the hook for some things that aren't really that much better. I used to live in one of the cities that the Imperial Japanese leveled during the war, not to mention the various sex slaves and medical experimentation of a similar level of brutality to what the Nazis were doing, just being done by a group whose crimes against humanity were apparently cleansed by the power of the atom bombs. Absolutely disgusting. I pray that we some day have a world where it's possible to acknowledge that both sides can engage in horrible things and hold both sides accountable for those actions on the rare case where such actions need to be taken.
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@Mutorcsym1391 No, they didn't. We're only a couple years from being 25 years after the fact, and no evidence of that has actually surfaced. Nobody has come out as having been involved in that, or having participated in that. There have been no death bed confessions or any other acknowledgement of involvement. Nor has any evidence from other sources emerged. We just have a couple tapes like this being misinterpreted and a lack of understanding of how buildings collapse fueling the conspiracy theories. We've got more information justifying a JFK assassination conspiracy than this being something other than what it looks like. A controlled demolition of a building that size takes a lot of planning and preparation. For that kind of thing to remain secret for over 20 years without anybody talking would make it one of the most effective conspiracies ever.
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So, what about those of us that are opposed to gender affirming care in minors, but are fully supportive of things that don't do any sort of permanent damage until they're adults? We must be absolute monsters. At the end of the day, these issues are complicated, but people shouldn't be ignoring what research does exist because of feelings.
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@murray1067 I get it, in that case, consider voting against the incumbent. Is there no challenger in your district? I'm planning to vote against the incumbent with respect to the other races. For President, it will likely be green party, but for representative, it will be against the incumbent.
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Have they changed, or am I just that much more aware of how disgusting they are now? I don't remember them being this horrible when I was watching them, but then again, I stopped listening several years ago.
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I'm glad I didn't watch it. I'm unclear as to why he couldn't have cut just Trump's mic or Biden's when it wasn't there turn to speak. That being said, who even cares, neither of the candidates has popular support and one of them couldn't even manage to win the primary without elections fraud.
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These days, we'd publicly shame and ostracize them for bringing the plague to school.
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@robadc Yes and while the conditions in what became the US weren't as bad, they were still bad enough that even the non-slave population fought 2 wars for independence to get the King of England out of there.
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@thealternative9580 Perhaps, but is it better with the UK? I think that's an equally valid question and I suspect that in most cases, the former colonies that still retain the crown as the highest authority aren't going to be giving up much in removing them from their government. They may nominally be the head of Canada, but the moment that they try to exercise any of that authority the authority will be removed making the whole thing purely symbolic.
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It's easier to catch somebody with a loose bumper that's going roughly the speed limit without endangering more lives. And since when is having a loose bumper acceptable? It makes it really hard to find fault with the police when people are complaining that things that are such a clear safety issue are being enforced. And in many areas, the police aren't allowed to engage in high speed chases just because of how dangerous that becomes for everybody involved. Going 100mph the police officer would probably be in danger of outrunning their siren.
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As long as the parties can rig the primary, the electoral college just gives the illusion that it's the problem.
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It's even worse, the friction causes the tire to wear out significantly more quickly than if it were properly inflated.
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David Duke coined the term and it's meant to give cover to people that are objecting to affirmative action programs as being reverse discrimination.
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LOL, Saager has taken over Krystal's seat.
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@SuicideJade I doubt that he's literally tired of talking about this, more likely, it's the work associated with delivering these updates so quickly and accurately.
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I must have missed it, when was the bad time to be a multi-billionaire? Or does that mean I still have time to go out and buy some torches and pitchforks?
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The main concern is that it's harder to disenfranchise voters as people just have to put the ballot in the mail or drop it off in the secured box.
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Yes absolutely. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy would likely address that, so would meditation. There should be a lot of therapists out there that can help with that.
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@Aphotic_One Even if he wasn't a criminal, I'm not sure if that's been established in the coverage I've seen, they still would be in the right not to get themselves killed trying to pull this off without equipment and training.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that remembers calling these tea kettles. I do have an electric one now, and I'll likely get one that has the ability to select different temperatures in the future. But, I mostly have it because I do drink tea and that's what I use it for, when I'm not using it for instant coffee on days where it's too early to turn on my espresso machine.
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That would be tough without relatively small blads and the seats being very far forward. The simplest way of doing it is to just blow the props in the moments before the seat is ejected.
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Yes, in large part because there would be no medical debt for the attorneys to attempt to collect on.
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All billionaires are evil, you don't amass that kind of wealth by being a decent human being. Fortunately, there's few of them. White people though are easily a large enough group to be able to tip elections one way or the other if they get on the same page about it.
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@mangmerciless9606 The shares are doing pretty well right now, which makes me wonder who it is that's buying all the shares knowing that it was massively overpriced to begin with and that sales in many regions have fallen off a cliff.
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My nightmare scenario is that Biden wins and Trump accepts it. We'll get 4 years of warmongering and bad policy that screws the next few generations over in a way that can't be fixed at all. At least with Trump, there's some hope that some of his crazy ideas will be fought. As opposed to when Biden does it and nobody fights any of the bad policies.
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Our library has kill-a-watt meters that can be used to help find wasted electricity, saving large sums of money over the years.
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What do you expect? Men have been increasingly left out as schools punish masculinity and fail to provided boys with the equal education that they're legally entitled to. Then they get to college, if they do, and it's more of the same with 2/3 of the students being women. There's only so many trades to go into and jobs in those trades, so you get this emasculated group of men that don't know how to go about things in a civilized way and have been provided with precisely no guidance in terms of how to be men, because conveniently enough, the vast majority of the teachers in the K-12 system are women who have no idea how to be a man. I'm not suggesting that we all stick to traditional views on gender, there's significant issues with that, but boys, and girls, really need people around them to help them figure things out. And being constantly exposed to this sort of demonization and negativity can't possibly be helpful in figuring out how to be a productive member of society.
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I'd add that you shouldn't put the pedal to the metal in order to get into the roundabout and have the right of way. I almost got hit by a car because the direction they were speeding in the lead up tot he roundabout and that roundabout had one of the sides that was able to go almost straight through without really much turning. So, I pulled in because it was clear, and this car that wasn't even in the roundabout almost slammed into my rear.
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@joeyoungs8426 Around here, the car culture is still developing what the local standards are. I just looked at what the state has to say, and the brochures on roundabouts say nothing about turn signals.
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It's crazy how fast they turned into a Nazi state. It's only 76 years since the end of WWII and they've already constructed the largest concentration camp ever. The thing is absolutely massive.
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@alexbaro Israel has overstepped so far, that even the German government is starting to call it out. Which is crazy because the Germans used to say basically nothing for fear of giving encouragement to the few Nazis left.
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@MH-bw9zt What lefties are doing that? Just because you've been brainwashed into believing that doesn't make it true.
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@WhichDoctor1 No, but the Iran-Iraq war was in the '80s and my wife grew up during that time. Yes, she doesn't seem to harbor that much ill will, but then again her family was well connected over there and probably wasn't as impacted. Similarly, look at Iraq after the US invasion under W. It almost immediately developed into genocide. Granted, some of that was revenge for the genocide that the Sunni minority had engaged in during the '80s, but still.
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If the Democrats go their $13 an hour raise propsal through, that would more less solve that. But the extra $600 a week alone is nearly as much money as I make and that's before the other bits of the pay. You'll notice that the Democrats are hardly chomping at the bit to address it because so many of us are making minimum wage or close to it. The DNC doesn't care about us, they care more about the employers and donors.
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@Diamantlos22 That was Henry, but I think part of it is that at least he dressed for the occasion and seemed to have some passion for what he was saying. This is somebody that clearly is only in it for the money and is just spinning the question. He's not even good enough at it to be tolerable. I'm pretty sure they only have him on there so they can dunk on him.
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@stupa_magoo Honesty, they can't trot him out because he's demented, it's as simple as that. They're afraid he'll do something that paints a target on his back.
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@archangelcharlie Whatchu talkin' 'bout?
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Yeah, Skeletor looks a lot older than that.
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It means that when you're answering you're answering the question that's been asked without gerrymandering around things that are inconvenient. Typically, the attorneys will ask more questions to follow up if anything truly significant is left out. They've usually already asked a bunch of other questions during the depositions stage of proceedings. Once you're at trial, they should already know about anything truly significant.
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They will, but having rode this as part of the studio tour, there's not a lot of room for error on the part of the driver. It's a relatively tight road and these trams are rather long.
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Asparagus grows in clumps if you're growing it in your garden. What you're not seeing is the rhyzomes underneath. I'm not an expert, but I suspect that the rest of the stalks were pulled in order to focus the growth on the ones that you're seeing.
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If you're having a hard time getting people to work because of the unemployment payments, perhaps you should have given the essential workers some money. I'm working for essentially minimum wage plus a couple bucks an hour in hazard pay from my employer. The stimulus enhancement to the unemployment payments alone is almost as much as my base pay. And, I have to actually go to work and take on that risk. The only thing about this that's better than unemployment is that I don't have to worry about being evicted or paying my bills. I've got income that will continue indefinitely.
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@foxallan I won't personally sign up for Hulu because they pretty much invented the idea that they can charge money for the stream, but still have advertising. It's unclear to me how TV stations can have ads that support more infrastructure, without charging or others have pay to watch, but no ads.
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It's not a small risk, middle school and high school teachers have somewhere between 150 and 200 students they see every day on top of any of their fellow teachers. That's a massive risk for infection. In fact, that's how I wound up getting infected myself. As far as the harm goes, most of that can be mitigated by adjusting graduation requirements and summer schooling once things are under control. You're not going to cure the heart, kidney and lung disease and death that happens as a result of these infections. And yes, people do recover and have permanent damage to their kidneys, hearts and lungs. People from the original SARS outbreak still have literal holes in their lungs years later with no sign that the damage will ever go away. Honestly, the harm done to the kids is less than the harm they'd suffer if they contracted covid and wound up causing a fatal infection in a loved one.
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@stevecarson4162 That's definitely true, but I'd also suggest that it's probably less common than it used to be and you'll find that from most other citizens as well.
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@scifi_shop This is an object lesson in why the US used to have a top tax bracket of over 90%, it discouraged people from accumulating so much money that they couldn't figure out what to do with it all.
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To be fair, these are the sort of folks that didn't let the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor stop them from locking a bunch of innocent civilians in concentration camps.
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@Katzykeens This kind of reminds me of Nicholas cage. Especially when he was playing that guy drinking himself to death on purpose in Leaving Las Vegas.
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@Dex2R7 Right now, when I retire, I'm likely to be lucky to get all the money that I put in back. And, that's not even considering the possibility of me dying early and losing out for that reason. Neither party seems interested in fixing the solvency issues that the program is going to have in less than a decade.
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There's a reason why those programs each have a separate line item on people's pay stubs. People pay into those programs specifically, unlike most other programs.
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Yes, you could lower the g-forces, but then you're likely to have the car fall off the track at the top, or you can have the higher g-forces and risk injuring the passengers. Changing the shape was ultimately the best choice as the varying radius could help to cushion the impact of the acceleration and allow for the car to stay on the track at the top and the passengers to not be hanging from the seat belt.
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Probably not, but they could screen against the names of candidates in the state as well as ones that are relevant to measures up for vote. It's not particularly hard as they pretty much just need to get enough of it to remove the incentive to try.
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That's the customers and a bunch of that stuff winds up being thrown out if the clerks aren't confident that it's still safe. I used to work at a grocery store and there was so much food wasted by lazy customers that would take things out and put them on a random shelf or put them in the wrong kind of cold storage for the product. Most stores don't have the resources to get around the store frequently enough to prevent that stuff from being destroyed. The stuff at the register either was already bad or should have been returned by somebody rather than left to go bad.
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@GamesFromSpace I can confirm. I was lucky enough to be managing the bakery department where less of the stuff has to be refrigerated. Most of the stuff you see in cold cases in the bakery is there because it either prolongs the shelf life for items that don't sell quickly, or because that's just where we had space. Or because it was an expensive item that we didn't want people to be able to easily walk off with. But, the amount of stuff that gets thrown out because customers can't be bothered to put it back where it belongs or give it to an employee to deal with is substantial.
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@genxx2724 They shouldn't have done that. The usual thing at the store I was working for was to only put them directly back if they were found sitting out, but weren't temperature controlled for safety. Otherwise, they'd be taken back to the appropriate department to be scanned out and disposed of or repackaged as appropriate. Berries are a head ache, but some other produce items can be repackaged without impacting customer safety.
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@genxx2724 Having worked at a grocery store, that's completely plausible. The courtesy clerks aren't always the most responsible ones.
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@brianfrolo245 I kind of feel like if they way they smell weed and don't find any during the search that there should be penalties for making it up.
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I doubt it. In 400 years the population will be a lot smaller just because that's the trend right now, decreasing rate of population growth and likely followed by a drop in total population. In addition, that will come with a drop in emissions as we get both fewer people and more efficient technology. Not to mention the increased opportunities to rewild areas and replant forests. This happening quickly enough to avoid the worst of it is rather unlikely though, but clearly we're not going to end up like Venus anytime soon.
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To be fair, it's human nature to look down on them. A few years ago, I'd probably be making derogatory comments, but that doesn't do anybody any good and just demeans everybody involved. We should aspire to calling the bullshit out without forgetting that somebody has died and his friends and family are in mourning. The real tragedy is that people that were following him appear not to have learned anything from it. It's a death completely wasted, he could have salvaged at least some of it by coming clean at the last moment, but appears not to have for whatever reason.
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@dolores2716 I feel sad for you. It's possible to feel sadness at the passing of somebody that did monstrous things while also feeling sadness for those that were harmed. I feel pain both for the harm the acts did on both the perpetrator and the victims. It's not an easy skill to develop, but it's the ability to do so is what separates us from animals.
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@michaelwheeler8552 The issue is that it's not allowed to block that area just because of how much foot traffic is there.
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@bladudemovies Yes, and it was only no time because he's been re-elected and SCOTUS has been pretty clear that any sentence would be tossed out as the President is above the law according to a majority of the justices. With no punishment, there's at least some hope that it won't be overturned.
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It's worth noting that it's a lot easier to clean up an on the ground mining operation than one that's under the sea. As long as the area being mined isn't the home to endangered species or on a slope, things can be put back mostly the way that they were when you're done. The issue tends to be that with more and better mining techniques that they don't finish. Or, they fail to put in safeties to do things like prevent the waste from contaminating rivers or just declare bankruptcy and not put any of it back. But, when done properly, it's not necessarily much of a long term environmental issue in terms of the literal mine. The consequences of the stuff that comes out is a different matter entirely.
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The trolley problem is a pretty bad example, regardless of what people say, basically everybody throws the switch, it's just a matter of how long before doing so.
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Are we really surprised by this? At bare minimum, universal programs targeting poverty would remove arguments against working on the problem.
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This isn't surprising, first the GOP decided that they don't want to engage in governance, now the Democrats are following suit by trying to get other companies to govern for them. The sad thing is that you'll still have morons out there that refuse to acknowledge that these companies should be restrained by the 1st amendment. These are the town square these days and it's one of the major ways that normal people can share and popularize ideas.
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There's a lot of better groups out there that support safety and reasonable efforts to keep weapons out of the hands of people that would misuse them and then prosecute those that do.
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I'm not sure that she's a feminist, she just used that to get her a boost. I doubt she has any real integrity left.
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@dianadialga3955 Adulthood is one of those rather tricky issues. Around here the age of adulthood ranges from 13 to 21 depending upon the specific issue. And some of it can be modified by the court in t he case of emancipated minors.
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At that point, you're basically screwed. You can't set up your own VPN for the same reason, the other end might be in a country that will turn over the data. In reality, you need to be smart about it, Germany and much of Europe learned a lesson from WWII about privacy and is much more protective. On the downside, they don't have as broad a concept of freedom of speech as we do in the US, so you can expect to have the account shut down if you deviate from their concept of freedom of speech or even have a warrant issued.
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Yep, we also all knew that the video was going to get it wrong. The only way for imperial measures to lose is to go into all these niche situations that very few people actually encounter. Seriously, the only reason that people think that metric is better is that they were told that it's better. They never bothered to learn how the imperial measures work. I used to live in a country that uses metric measures and thank god that I no longer have to put up with that stupidity. None of the units of measure actually make things easier. seriously. If for some reason I want to talk about pounds and don't want to deal with ounces or fractions of a pound, there's no law that says that we can't decimalize the pound. In fact, that goes on regularly. However, the same cannot be said of the metric system, people don't typically use fractions as part of it, except for very simple ones.
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@timf7679 From the customers, all this is just BS nonsense that focuses around tricking the customers into paying more than they would otherwise. Same goes for the service fees, there's no reason for those either, the businesses could just bake that into the price the way that they used to, but for some reason it's become normal to make some service fees and sales tax an add on rather than being included in the price. Plus, it gives a bunch of power to the customers.
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@mavicmaverick-pnw Yes, accountants exist and can figure out how much of the price to apportion to labor versus rent versus food and whatever other components are at play. The reason for tipping is that the business can put that on the customers without having to actually list an accurate price on their menu.Around here between tax and tip the difference can be 30% if you do the now largely standard 20% versus the older standard of 15%.
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@ It's not, it's legitimate forestry practice and literally required that bushes and anything flammable not be too close to the buildings. The water is a bit less clear cut, but given the failures to thin the trees and vegetation near the buildings to help prevent the fire from spreading into town, that should have also been a consideration. It was bad enough when it was just the right-wing that was anti-science, now the left is doing it too.
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I'm looking forward to hearing more about Cornflake and figuring out which woman is his wife. How it is that the rightwing of the party is getting behind Biden is beyond me. Mayor Pete had a better chance of winning.
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@fiiral5870 They don't have to comply if they don't have a presence in the EU. If they don't have a presence, there's also basically nothing that the EU can do to enforce it either. That's just how it works. It's far too confusing if companies can be hauled into court in random parts of the world where they aren't present.
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Bernie doesn't have a problem with Black people, he's winning the young ones by quite a bit. He has a problem with older Black people that aren't willing/able to recognize when they've been had. The Democrats of the last 30 years have been screwing them over and they keep turning out to vote blue no matter who. Biden himself was a part of that, but he was the VP to the first Black President, so he gets a pass, apparently. Sanders, OTOH, is actually advancing policies that would help them out, but they're so enamored with the establishment that they're not voting for him.
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I don't get why they allow Manchin to call himself a Democrat. His membership dilutes the brand. They'd have fewer issues gaining and retaining power if they'd expel him from the party.
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Luís Andrade That's true, the problem tends to be that the people don't agree as to which spending is the problem. As long as there isn't a clear majority on one side or the other, it makes it really challenging to get any of it fixed.
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Only a great fool would think that any auditing is going on here. Trump has only been in office for a couple weeks, it wouldn't be that unusual for a single small business audit to take longer than this to come to some conclusion. But, he's "auditing" entire federal agencies and releasing results already.
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Yep, a detail that a lot of people seem to be missing is that the reason for the no judgment sentencing is because that's the only hope there is for preserving the conviction. Any sort of punishment here is likely to get tossed by SCOTUS as they've ruled that the POTUS can do pretty much whatever he likes because apparently, the President is now a king, even though that's not at all what the constitution says. It's been a trend for a bit now where they go for the technicality over the spirit. So, unless you give somebody cash for an explicit promise for a politician to do something specific, it's not a bribe. Or, you can do that, but give the cash afterwards and it's a gratuity, which is somehow not a bribe. And you can pay off a politicians credit card debt, which is apparently also not a bribe.
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In China pick pockets are considerate enough to leave the wallet where you're likely to find it. Which is both completely foreign and creepy AF. It implies that after pinching the wallent, trying the ATM cards at the nearest ATM, they still knew where to find my traveling companion to leave the wallet sitting next to the sidewalk where somehow I saw it.
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@Moseeplo I've heard about that happening around here where somebody finds a wallet with that kind of cash in it and turns it in to the closest lost and found box for return to the owner. Also, keep in mind that keeping that amount of money would constitute a felony if the cops caught the party that kept the money.
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It's necessary because the previous rules were blatantly unconstitutional. These are criminal matters that the police and prosecutor should investigate before deciding if there's sufficient evidence for a trial. This is just doing an end run around that. Because the consequences don't involve a fine or jail time, the standards are lower than what you'd find in a criminal prosecution. Leading to young men that get kicked out of college and treated like criminals even when there's no evidence to substantiate the charges. If there were evidence to substantiate the charges, then there'd be no point in having the school involved as that can't bring prison time or monetary awards.
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@Jimmy Early, The schools aren't doing that though, they're placing the burden of proof on the accused, and denying him an attorney and the right to cross examine the accuser. In a situation like that, there's no hope of getting the truth, there's no guarantee that there even is a victim as often times both parties were drunk at the time and neither party was in any better position to consent than the other. Or, there's just no witness available, so there's no way of knowing whether or not there even was a crime committed. The only reasonable way of handling it is to make sure the cops find out and do their investigation. If there isn't sufficient evidence to move forward with criminal proceedings, then there shouldn't be consequences for the accused either,. Perhaps find some way of separating them when possible, but that's it.
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Yep, the Israelis are more or less literal Nazis at this point. This is scarily close to what the Nazis did just prior to building the death camps.
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@elijahculper5522 Whether we deserve it or not, if the DNC doesn't care about us, they're going to be completely irrelevant. They can't survive is a significant chunk of the Sanders' wing of the party leaves. Even a few percent of us leaving the party would ensure that the DNC never wins the Presidency again.
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Yes, they needed somebody that wouldn't do crap for the workers and could rake in the campaign donations. At no point was governance on the list of things they cared about. Surprisingly, obvious senility seems to be a non-issue for them.
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@camelfilters3224 And 75% of Americans live in constitution free zones. It's high time we stopped accepting the SCOTUS as the abitrators of what is and isn't constitutional. That role itself is one that they gave themselves in Madison v. Marbury. It's not one that the constitution gave them.
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@Tonixxy You get it. Deflation for brief periods is part of a healthy economy. The alternative is having constant inflation where only those that can afford to invest in inflation resistant things like stocks can keep up. Bank interest that you get for savings accounts tends to top out at about 2% which means that you never get ahead, you're operating with negative interest. With negative interest, you would be losing even more money than you would right now by storing money in a regular savings account. For those with enough money to be prudently invested, it will make a difference, but for the poor, it likely won't as the poor are more likely to be without even a savings account anyways.
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People who don't know somebody that has it or aren't a mental health professional wouldn't. It's not a diagnosis that gets a lot of attention because it tends not to cause much trouble, especially when compared with the other diagnoses in the family. I suspect that in a significant number of cases people with schizotypal just get written off as being eccentrics, especially if they happen to have a flair for the creative or an impressive intellect.
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Absolutely, sure you can pass unpopular measures like that, but you also can't pass unpopular measures like that. Sometimes it's a good thing, but it can be a bad thing too.
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@An_Actual_Rat It's because we don't generally use them at the same time. We rotate back and forth.
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It's not your money and as long as we have a system that allows people to accumulate that much money while other serious issues go unaddressed you're going to have people spending it like this.
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That wouldn't be so bad if they weren't allowed to lobby for more laws to justify incarcerating people.
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Primaries for the incumbent President's party are typically a formality. Had there been a decent primary field to start it would be a much bigger deal.
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I learned to read in the '80s and at the time, there was a lot of work that went on, but there were also some great games that encouraged literacy. I remember the TLC games that were built pretty entirely on being able to read the text between bits where you were just playing. So, the goal in reading the text was to advance in the game and for the most part those reading segments weren't very long. We also had a librarian for the school's library and there would be free books given out to all of the students in an effort to connect the kids up with that one book that sparks the connection to reading. And the books being given away weren't even intended to be educational beyond practice reading either. I got one that had a rather striking picture on the front including a snake crawling through a pile of skulls.
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Biden losing is the only glimmer of hope that the DNC might turn the corner and start worrying about earning votes in their own party again. Yes, I do mean glimmer as I doubt that will be enough. But, if he wins, you can be sure that it's going to be at least another few election cycles until they reconsider that strategy. The best thing would be for the Democrats to lose, but get enough seats in the Senate to run a real impeachment trial that actually subpoenas witnesses and digs up whatever dirt there may be. And stops rubber stamping pro-republican judges.
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Michael Richards will play him in that movie.
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It will, but it seems like it would be far easier to just use a perforated pan rather than worrying about the grates allowing the dough past.
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If it's a concern, stick with Ritalin, it's been in use for quite a few decades now and the health impacts are pretty well established. Newer medications may work better, but they don't have the same amount of study in terms of long term effects. That's not to say that they're necessarily unsafe, it's that we don't have as many years to uncover unexpected and rare side effects.
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@Everythingmaxxer I'd be curious about that as well, unfortunately, it depends a lot on the particular medication. Tylenol can destroy the liver with small, but repeated, overdoses, whereas most other medicines you need to either take a lot more than the recommended dosage or do so on a regular basis before you have issues.
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Pretty much, that's generally how that works. If you compare the cost of employing women versus men, it tends to be more expensive to employ women than men when you consider the actual associated costs, even if you ignore fertility related treatments. Women are just more expensive.
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I thought the biggest problem of modern society is that there's a guy that's getting applauded for raping various objects he comes into contact with. But, perhaps that's just me.
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@dsigner Depends what you're doing with it. If you're using it to cut out parts for models, you can easily save $5k over the course of ownership. You can probably also do other people's designs for a few bucks here and there.
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This is WI, a bunch of my relatives there are Democrats and a bunch of them are Republicans. She doesn't need all of the votes, she just needs enough of the votes to win the race and then actually follow through on whatever promises she makes to win.
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That makes a lot of sense, the weight is external to the vehicle, so you get nearly all the energy.
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But Jimmy, they have to pay for those corporate handouts somehow.
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@RandiSchaefer-uw2su Yep, around here the medics have blood with them, but they're also in a relatively urban area. A smaller town might just designate somebody to get the unit from the hospital and start driving to meet up with the ambulance along the way. (Obviously, starting a transfusion, even if the needle is already in, is probably going to necessitate stopping for a bit)
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What lawsuit? They can file one, they won't win because the way to tell if an animal has rabies is euthanasia and dissection. The animals weren't legal to posses apart from specially licensed experts.
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@sandrajones2262 That's a different department that handles animals versus human trafficking.
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Considering that he perjured himself multiple times and thinks that perjury is a high crime, the GOP shouldn't be voting to confirm him. And that's best case, worst case is that all the allegations are true, so he's not just guilty of perjury, but of those sex crimes as well.
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What about corn? I saw Chinese eating corn by stabbing the chopstick through the middle as a handle.
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The moment that that jackwagon Biden got in the race and refused to allow other candidates a chance to win, the people lost. As long as one of the parties doesn't respect the will of the people to decide the nomination, it will continue to happen. The Democrats haven't actually let the voters decide the nominee since 2012, arguably 2008 when the last time they didn't have either an incumbent running for reelection or a rigged primary.
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The Israelis have so overstepped reasonable action that even the German government has started to criticize them. This is the same government that for decades avoided having a stance just because of their atrocities during the '30s and '40s. That's how over the line the Israelis are.
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It's not just the people that didn't go to college and earn a degree, some of us made our decisions about which schools to attend and took longer to graduate because we didn't want to be saddled with huge student loans. This is just like when they bailed out all those irresponsible home buyers that couldn't afford their loans. Those that behaved responsibly got screwed and those that didn't were rewarded for their irresponsibility. The fact that we're in the middle of a pandemic makes is sort of OKish, but even there it would make far more sense to just give folks UBI which they could use to pay their student loans, or any other type of loan, as appropriate. It's also worth noting that it's mostly just the middle class that winds up with student loans, the rich have the money to pay outright and the poor often get financial aid to cover the bulk of it. The middle class often doesn't have the money to do that, so they get the loans.
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It's worth noting that when it's a white man that gets shot by cops, nobody cares even the slightest bit other than friends, family and hardcore activists. It barely makes the news, which leads to this perception that we've got roving bands of klansmen going around murdering people of color. Yes, we do have a problem with police shootings, but it's not targeted in that way and it's not helpful to pretend like race is the issue and not the lack of accountability for the shootings paired with a number social issues that are being addressed by providing more funding for police operations, not necessarily the training and diversion programs that might help.
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He's losing states that he shouldn't lose if he's going to win the general election. Many of those states never go Democrat in the Presidential election, whereas Bernie is winning states that he actually could win during the general election.
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It could still happen, folks are on paid leave while the investigation proceeds.
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@mattbingen Yep, it does happen, but mostly in areas where there aren't faults and a lot of oil. And when it does happen, it tends to be much smaller earthquakes that don't really do any damage.
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He's probably not doing this to get richer, if he wanted to get richer, there's a bunch of stuff that could be done less publicly to make it happen. I think Musk is more likely to be stupid enough, and surrounded by enough sycophants, that he actually believes that he could find the necessary funds himself. On top of which, he really likes seeing his name in the papers and really wants to increase government efficiency by that much. The problem is, that even if you cut the waste, fraud and abuse, you've still got a massive budget of things that do serve a real purpose that can't easily be done away with.
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Around here they still aren't paying much for jury duty, but they have changed how it's done so that jurors only have to physically go tot he court if they're being selected to be a potential juror. I just had my summons expire a few days ago and I got a post card indicating that I'd been selected and to register. For the month or so, I just had to check my email and voicemails to see if I'd been selected and since I wasn't selected by the end of day on the final date indicated on the card, my service is complete. Had I been selected, I'd still have to go to the courthouse and sit on the panel while they went through and figured out which jurors would be on the jury for the trial, but I'd only have to go in for one of those and if I didn't get on it, I'd be done. It was 2 days or one trial when I was previously on jury duty, but this is far more efficient and reduces the unnecessary inconvenience on people that are just in the jury pool. The pay for actually being on the jury is still pretty disgusting, but the legal system has little say in that. Other than to actually start ruling that a lack of compensation leads to a violation of the parties' rights to a jury of their peers for any proceedings that guarantee a jury trial.
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@ankorag Yes, also keep in mind that the amount we're talking about probably isn't even that much. I was on a jury for a month once between jobs and it took well over a thousand potential jurors just to find the dozen or so that were required for the civil trial. I don't regret doing it, but I can't imagine how I would have been able to afford it if I wasn't living with my parents while I looked for work. It was kind of cool to learn that around here jurors in civil cases have the right to submit questions to the court to potentially be asked of witnesses. I sent a question up, they debated whether to allow it and how to word it and ultimately it was asked. I never expected to get to ask a question of a witness during a trial. I've been summonsed like 6 times, and actually gone in twice and I wonder how much of the burden really is shared when they have to issue all these extra summonses to get enough people that are capable of affording to be without income for a couple weeks. This most recent time though, I would have received pay from my employer to cover it, unfortunately, I wasn't picked.
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@aaadamt964 You can blame the legislature for that, but I'm not surprised. Although with the pandemic, things like that ought to be permissible via zoom or other video conference software as being physically present doesn't really impact the oath beyond the ability to take somebody into custody immediately for being held in contempt. I've been a believer for a while that we should have a system set up where there's facilities in every county for people to participate in remote trials, for example when suing and being sued they should be able to turn up at court somewhere near them and only actually show up in person if there's a legally justifiable reason for it. It would help deter conduct that crosses jurisdictions from being unaddressed due to being unaffordable to litigate.
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@ChrisjayH1 Yes, the thing that made my voices go away was embracing them. I learned that they were natural processes that was going on with me and how to influence them. At this point, they're gone and they probably won't ever come back except in periods of extreme sleep deprivation and stress. Which is kind of a shame because as loud and annoying as they were, now that they're gone I miss them. It was pretty cool to be able to have an internal MP3 player of all the music I liked and be able to literally hear it whenever I cared to.
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A good step in the right direction would be to commit to let the voters choose the nominees without fixing elections.
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AOC is such a sellout.
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We'll see, that certainly could happen. However, WB does own one of the only profitable streaming services, a massive back catalog of materials to work with and they've been renting access to their facilities for decades. As long as they can generate enough cashflow to cover their obligations, they'll be fine. Worst case would be cutting back on the original content while they figure it out. Personally, I've love to see them do something with their older titles like the Guyver which feels due for a reboot as the effects available in the early '90s really didn't do it justice.
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Saagar is absolutely wrong here. If inciting a seditious mob to storm the capital to try and change the results of an election isn't an impeachable offense, then what is? That would result in a situation where you'd need to literally engage in treason, as in doing the same thing with the help of a foreign power. I'm sorry, but in what world is the ignorance of the Republican voters justification for not using it. The Senate trial is where the evidence is supposed to be provided to the public to justify why he's guilty and why being guilty demands that he be removed from office. The main reason that Clinton wasn't removed from office is that what he did isn't that big of a deal and it wasn't logically connected to why the independent investigator was appointed in the first place. Every day across the country, defendants lie under oath and Clinton was ultimately disbarred in part due to that. Every day, there are not people engaged in seditious insurrection. The lack of popular support may well mean that the Senate doesn't vote to remove him from office, but that should not get him off the hook from the House impeaching him for a second time.
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At this point, them being on the surface is getting to be the only way they could possibly survive. There's a surch being made and while the sub is rather small, it's not that small. If it's on the surface, it will be found and that effectively does give more time as that removes the need for decompression as they'd already be at more a pressure that's more managable.
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The description says cramps, although it could also have been shock due to a sudden, and much colder, bit of water.
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@jollyandwaylo Yes, it's their job to fix it if it happens. And they'll do that by cutting a check, sending an attorney or whatever other legal means may be required. Despite what it may seem, these cases are still unusual enough that the title insurance companies are in no danger of going out of business paying when it needs to be paid.
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@musictosoothe No, their job is to fix the problems if they arise by writing checks and sending lawyers. They're just insuring that the title is what it should be.
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Yes, you can do a search. My understanding though is that if you do the search and don't find a conflicting item and are found to be infringing that you've got to deal with treble damages. Whereas if you don't even try, that doesnt' apply. I'd hope that I"m wrong about that, because that's stupid.
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Which isn't correct, the US won and the impressing of US Sailors stopped. It's not needless, the Brits weren't stopping the practice of impressing US sailors without a war. This was long before the UN and any sort of international body existed to potentially tell them to knock it off or else.
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 @ewandewar3667 Um, what? The aggressors were the British. The Canadian land became a target after the US decided that a war was necessary to prevent further kidnapping of American sailors.
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@ They're not, they're Canadians. There is no such place as America other than the US, unless you're referring to the supercontinent, which hardly anybody ever does other than when they need to trot out that silliness about how there are all these other Americans out there. It's a dumb and somewhat racist thing to say.
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@ It's pretty unusual to be speaking in a context where grouping all of the people of the Americas into a single term makes sense. It's bad enough lumping all the people who live in nations where Spanish is the national language into a group, including also the English and French speakers as well, pretty much completely breaks it.
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@ I think YT screwed up the reply, I don't see any indication that I was responding to you about that. I was specifically responding to a post where they were saying that Canadians are Americans. Or, I misclicked.
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I'm curious how they know if it was intentional without the condom. And if they have a condom to work with, then why is it being kept. I don't really like blaming the victim, but it does deserve a certain amount of explanation as to how this is actually going to be enforced and how many women are having sex with men that they think are sabotaging the condoms. Condoms break from time to time, although it isn't common.
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@glitter-lk5dz Yep, you have to be pretty fat in order to float with your head above water. I had a classmate that was kind of tubby and when we were swimming, he could just bob there with his head above water, most people though require some effort to keep their heads high enough to breathe or to keep themselves back floating.
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@Paula_Shelton Having a hook is definitely not going to work. I'd recommend having a key bowl or similar so that you can just toss it in there when you get home and be done with it. I've rarely had issues misplacing my keys because I tend to just leave them on the closest horizontal surface to the door. Or, back in my pocket. Better than a hook, but worse than a bowl, would be one of those magnetic bars that idiots use to hold their knives. Dangerous with knives, but quick and convenient with keys.
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On the whole it's easier to just install elevators and ramps. The main reason why it can be a pain getting around for folks in mobility scooters and wheel chairs has to do with how much legacy stuff is out there and a failure to properly maintain it when it is in there.
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Gaslighting is more likely to cause cPTSD than PTSD. If I understand correctly, gaslighting alone wouldn't qualify a person for a PTSD diagnosis as it's currently defined. But, really, the difference is probably less important than it seems as long as the symptoms are being treated appropriately and it may have to be coded as PTSD in order to get insurance coverage.
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And they still haven't done anything for essential workers. If we lose our jobs because the company over-hired, we only get the standard relief, we don't get any of the pandemic relief. Most of us are working minimum wage jobs, many without health benefits, and we're not being paid or protected for it. It's one thing for frontline medical workers to be exposed to this stuff, they're trained and paid to deal with infectious diseases, those working in other essential jobs aren't. At this point, they aren't even talking about compensating us for our extra work, risk and lack of protections that everybody else got. For shame.
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That's why they keep appointing incompetent judges, competent judges would see what's going on and stop it. Voting is the fundamental right that makes the rest available.
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@jimster1111 The one with the money in the receptacle is typically the one that counts, as that's where the money is. The one on the dashboard just lets them write the ticket before taking a look at the envelopes. Plus, it likely counts as fraud with additional charges for lying on a government form.
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Don't worry, the Democrats will insist on passing the trust act, but with some moot little concession. Then they'll give themselves a pat on their backs for having "resisted."
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The Democrats aren't that much better. They are better, but not by what I would consider an acceptable margin.
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@RomaHeart They're coming, the fund is going to run a shortfall sooner due this as the money being given out is based on income that was never taxed for the payouts. As far as I've seen, there is no funding source to make up the difference either.
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@ladyknu-knu9906 You got yours, the cuts come when the program runs low on money and can't continue to pay out. There's still some time to fix it, but things like this where money is being given out without them taxing for it is going to hasten it. The awareness of the shortfalls have been around for years, this shouldn't be news that anything that increases the payouts without being offset by increases in the cap on social security income is going to lead to eventual cuts to benefits. The lack of anybody official explaining to the young folks how they're going to avoid cutting benefits to pay for this or what the funding source is is not a mistake.
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@annmarieknapp2480 But, the folks that paid in did get their benefits. They may not in the future, but they did get their benefits. the GPO and WEP exist to cover the funds that were not taxed for social security. Hence why those folks only get some of their social security and not all of it. You can read about it on the social security administration website, the reductions due to the GPO and WEP are less than the amount that you get from those programs and it covers income that wasn't taxed for social security, not all income.
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I tried that, all I got was Obama.
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@adb_500 It's colored as in not white. It's arguably just a more offensive term that bipoc replaces.
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2 streaming services at once isn't so bad, the bigger issue tends to be finding things to watch.
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@johntherecluse5121 Yes, although the pregnancy planning options were more widely available previously, so we'll have to see if that changes things at all.
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You are a horrible human being if you honestly think that. Go get actual mental health treatment. Or, are you going to say that we spay all teenage girls in case they get pregnant and trap a man that wasn't even the father? Either way, it's thoroughly repugnant.
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@レックウザさん Presumably, given that the comment was setup like that time Peter setup a cutaway gag.
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@bigutubefan2738 There has to be water to find it. Personally, I'm skeptical of that last bit about the dowsing locating things that you don't know about. I know how to dowse using L-rods and they definitely move independently of my body, arms and hands, but as somebody that spent years in college studying various sciences, it makes me deeply uncomfortable that something is happening and there isn't a decent explanation for it other than either magnetism or metaphysical powers. At any rate, in my experience, it's more of a party trick than anything else. I was never able to find anything that wouldn't also have been found using a metal detector and the metal detector likely would have found it at a much higher rate with only a few more false positives.
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They aren't doing nothing. There's regulatory paperwork that has to be done as well as the running of the various computer systems involved. Plus, they're probably stuck paying for fees associated with the various credit card issuer networks as well.
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The standard of consumer pricing is really dumb. What about other aspects? For example, you effectively have to waive your constitutional right to a trial if you want a cell phone because all of the carriers require that you agree to the waiver. But, all of them do it, the only option for not doing so, is to not have a cellphone. And even worse the landlines increasingly have similar rules as well.
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You shouldn't be surprised by Gen X, we get ignored a lot, but the reality is that we haven't necessarily been doing so hot ourselves. We had the Dotcom bust during our early years of work, we haven't seen our wages increasing. College tuition wasn't quite as bad, but it was still terrible and we likely suffer from lack of decent health care the way that other groups do as well. Not to mention the numerous bad Presidential picks that we've had to contend with.
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B Job You assume they're against it. My Iranian in-laws want the US to go to war with Iran and replace the government. I doubt it's a popular view as they're not Muslim and were pretty well off before the revolution, but you can't assume that they all are opposed to it.
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@Meier Bram So? People say that like it's a valid argument of some sort. The parts they choose to leave out are that the Japanese were warned in advance before the US bombed their cities both before conventional bombs and the nukes. The Germans were not so fortunate before the US used fire bombs to murder the people sheltering in Dresden, many of whom were only there because they were fleeing Russians exacting revenge against the citizenry. The US has clearly done horrible things, but using nukes is hardly what people like you make it out to be. They were warned ahead of time and the use likely wound up saving large numbers of lives as an actual invasion would have likely have killed at least as many.
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@Marcellarsson51 If she hasn't yet, she likely will be unless there's something very different going on than how it appears, Amazon fires people over some of the dumbest stuff, but theft is not something they're likely to tolerate for various reasons. If she stole the cat, who knows what else she stole.
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I must have missed the part of the story where he was crucified.
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@ArawnOfAnnwn cast iron is better. It's basically just iron with not much else in it and it's been used long enough that we know about any significant health risks. You might get a small amount of iron in your meal, but that's about it.
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@factsoverfiction7826 I think the problem is that they were rich enough to have servants to handle that stuff, or replace it, before they immigrated. Her mother is at least as bad about destroying things and ruining the seasoning. My wife regularly goes on a rampage damaging most of our stuff so that she can appear to be cleaning. Try as I might I can't convince her that we're not rich enough to just buy new things to replace all of the things she's destroying and that a but of care is appropriate. After watching the video, I'm tossing my nonstick cookware because she's damaged the coating to the point where is worn through by scrubbing after she burned food into it.
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@ The prices that are being charged are so far above that rate that they would have to be massively marked down to be in danger of that. It didn't suddenly become 2 or 3 times as expensive to do that over just the last couple decades.
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@ IMHO, the only housing that can be treated as an investment is arguably rental units, and even then, there needs to be some effort to prevent a small number of landlords from owning enough of the market to be able to set their own prices.
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What does popularity have to do with it? She's just supposed to get whatever it is that she wants because she had a right to be President.
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You can do that with the text files that other OSes use without much effort. Tripwire in particular can also check the binaries as well while you're at it.
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@krabz9390 You mean other than the bribing of public officials, using the President and Whitehouse to have a Tesla ad? The fact that the cars are dangerous and of poor quality? The fact that he's been illegally and unconstitutionally chopping the government to pieces? If you need a solid argument, it's purely because you don't understand what's going on and should pay attention. There's a reason why they're losing just about every ruling that's been handed down regardless of what the political leanings of the judges are.
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Nope, this is why people think rightwingers are dumb. In order to get paid, you'd have to have a fake ID, a fake bank account and fake paperwork for the converter. Sure, it's possible, but tricking a financial institution into opening the account, then tricking the scrapyard into thinking it's legit is a massive hurdle.
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@niyablake Around here they now have to wait 3 days. The wait period is less important than it being long enough that they have to come back later to get their check. People selling for drugs are probably not going to be coming back for the check.
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I was really disappointed with Disneyland when I went recently. The lightning lanes are a joke, and much of the stuff they've got hasn't been adequately maintained. Compare that with Universal Studios Hollywood where, most of the changes since I last visited either park, have been positive. I was a bit disappointed that they ditched the animatronic King Kong, but I had relatively little to complain about. Their express lines worked relatively well, with short waits on the attractions that we wanted, and we didn't even bother using it on the studio tour as we went when the line was super short. (I will say that the best thing about lightning lanes is that if the ride goes down at any part of your reservation, they cancel it, give you a pass for any ride that takes the lightning lane and let you immediately book your next use)
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This is why I adjusted the allocation in my IRA to be significantly more conservative. The market will crash and only at that point will the politicians start to care.
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Paying for transcripts is rather screwed up. That ought to be funded by tax payer dollars, at least for the parties involved in the legal proceedings. 3rd parties having to pay doesn't seem to be too unreasonable. But, it's really messed up how many government services are now being charged to people that may or may not be able to afford to pay it.
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That will be made public eventually. I'm curious as to how this is involuntary manslaughter rather than an accident. This is why the public is generally allowed to observe court proceedings. EDIT: from what I can tell, it will depend on whether or not the professor was criminally negligent when causing the death. (Or if he caused the death at all would likely be another issue)
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As long as the candidates have to be approved by private organizations that are free to rig their process however they like, the electoral college will be a bit of a moot point. Whether Biden or Trump wins, you know that Wall Street and the donors will be taken care of. The rest of us, will have to worry about eating dog food, but the moneyed interests will be looked after.
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And congratulations, you sirs are part of the problem. We know relatively conclusively that the problem here is the guns. We've seen other countries like Australia go after the guns aggressively and they've only had one mass shooting in the last 20 years. If you buy into the BS about people having an individual right to bear arms that can't be infringed upon, then the problem cannot be solved. You're never going to get to all the people that could have a secret stockpile they purchased on the black market. Or as in the case of recent mass shootings lawfully purchase firearms. These are crimes that happen purely because of the availability of the tools necessary to commit them. There's a tiny number of people that an engage in a bombing campaign and other weapons are just not efficient enough to carry out anything on the scale of these attacks. Not to mention the fact that tens of thousands are killed by firearms each year as the cause of suicide. We know that we have to reduce the numbers and type of firearms available, but videos like this make it sound like that's not the solution. It is the only solution that's going to work. Most of these guys are just not diagnosed and as such, couldn't be excluded from owning firearms in most cases, without infringing upon the rights of other firearm owners.
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Harris was put on the ticket as a middle finger to the progressive wing. They could have gotten a much bigger boost by choosing somebody else and then just providing a detailed plan to help them. Just legalizing or decriminalizing pot would probably have had a bigger impact as putting people in color for minor crimes is a huge issue.
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You make it sound like the GOP isn't also guilty of flagrant ethical breeches. The GOP appointed SCOTUS nominees are the worst offenders in recent history. (Not that the liberal ones are much better, but they are somewhat better)
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It's not yet, but I'm not optimistic as the GOP politicians that would be needed to impeach the POTUS seem to be doubling and tripling down on this and SCOTUS hasn't yet given any indication that they realize how badly they screwed up. The lower courts are still holding the line, but it's hard to say what's really going to happen as he could get shut down by SCOTUS where they could fix their mistakes at any time. One of the things about SCOTUS decisions that a lot of people don't realize is that they can attach things that are unrelated to a particular ruling to it, so they could take away qualified immunity or Trumps general immunity to pretty much anything any time that they publish a ruling. They could also slip language into a ruling to suggest that they were hasty when they deferred so much power to the executive branch to embolden lower courts, and they could just flat out refuse to hear cases where the lower courts ruled against the madness. That being said, I do think it's worth being very worried and it's likely also worth calling your congress critters and demanding that they do the right thing. Especially, if you happen to have a GOP representative or senator.
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When it comes to the ATM malfunction, my guess is that they couldn't figure out which of the transactions actually resulted in money being handed out to somebody that wasn't being charged for it or that they couldn't figure out how much it was. They may also have been unable to identify any cases where the person got enough as a result to justify a felony prosecution.
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Yes, I do think that both issues will improve over time. Especially the expense when the charger situation is dealt with. Most trips are only a few miles a day, and the older EVs that did exist in the '80s could handle that just fine. And with the improved rate of charging in modern EVs, the chargers in rural areas mostly need to be close enough that you can skip one if it's broken. The big advantage that ICEs have is that you can more easily bring fuel to it if you have to. As much as it sucks having to walk for gas, it's at least a thing that can be done.
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This is an interesting video, but you shouldn't expect to be able to sync turn signals unless there's a standard that requires them to blink at a specific rate. Otherwise, car manufacturers will choose whatever random rate it is that's cheap to use and it likely won't be calibrated between cars or models. Unless everybody decides to use the same frequency, you should expect them to drift a bit as they're just meant to attract the attention of human drivers.
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@stargazer7644 It used to be a common prank to get people to pee on an electric fence. I got a bit of soap up there one time and it was about the most painful thing I've ever dealt with, and that includes having the bones in my arm set and having a doctor cutting at an ingrown toe nail with no anaesthetic covering the incision. Having an electrical current going through there must be the worst.
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Yes, that's what I'm wondering about. Some of the components here could be updated, to make them easier to assemble, while still operating as the classic did. And yet, nobody is producing them. Perhaps somebody could do a Kickstarter for new ones.
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If the cat tower gets one level higher, that will result in less cat in the video. Also, I don't think that subscriber numbers mean much to YT once you get beyond the monetization limits. It's something that mostly matters in terms of getting sponsors and since you're self-sponsoring, I don't think anything other than likes and lack of likes matters much in terms of it getting pushed out.
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That's what happen when you have a uni-party, the elites don't really care which it is, because they'll be OK either way. The people didn't get to choose Trump's opponent. Had Biden been primaried, we likely would have wound up with a different nominee with positions that people understood and wanted. It took weeks for Harris to even announce what her positions were going to be when Biden finally dropped.
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@ronbennett7885 Yep, the way the crossing normally work is that it's the lights and the bell, then the gates start to go down. After the train passes the process is reversed. And yeah, grade separation would be great, but it's hard to do after a line is already in service. From what I understand, these are pre-existing tracks that brightline started using. It can be more realistic to build an overpass, but that has it's own set of issues and expenses.
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@Green__one I don't believe that the flashing lights apply to railroad crossings. They do apply to most other situations, it's why they're able to drive the wrong way down streets if they have to and go through red lights, assuming the transponder hasn't got the light changed for them.
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@Mr22thou Yes, it's counterproductive. Somebody who's name rhymes with Ernie Anders or somebody with those policies and that endorsement probably could win. The issue is that the Democrats are used to cramming candidates down the throats of the voters and expecting us to take it. They are more concerned with avoiding setting precedents of the voters getting a say in the candidate than in project 2025 and it shows.
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@acmhfmggru They sell ones that are absolutely unusable. The fact that some of them are so incredibly underpowered that they won't even run the core functions without issues says something about their customer care.
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@VeronicaExplains Yes, although the wonderful thing about the CLI is that you can use pretty much any language you like. Bash is popular in large part because it's already on most Linux systems in the same way that Basic was usual an option for Windows and how most modern Windows versions have powershell easily available.
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Suffer permanently and without hope of improvement? She's got depression and autism. Yes, depression sucks, I battled with it for years, but I haven't needed any medication in years. If her autism permitted her to be diagnosed as an adult, it means that properly addressing that would probably make most of those issues going away. I have had an amazing amount of improvement in my quality of life now that I know to take care of my needs, which took longer than it should because of the wholly inadequate support for autistic people that was particularly common for those of us in our 30s and up. It's not that much better now, but if folks just go murdering themselves over it, that won't ever change. Medical professionals aren't always the best judge of what can and can't be treated when it comes to mental illness, I was told rather matter of factly that I'd be on medication forever for the psychosis and I haven't needed any pills in roughly 20 years at this point.
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@Joseph fiorini, I fail to see what the problem with the use of the term "China Person" is. And I doubt very much you'll find many Chinese people that are offended by the use of their own word as a descriptor. Now, you may find some American born Chinese, especially ones that don't speak Mandarin, that get offended by it, but the term itself is a literal translation of the correct term used when referring to the Chinese people. If one is going to be offended by the video, that is one of the least offensive things to be offended by. The video would have been just as offensive had he swapped out the more commonly used words for Chinese people.
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@nathanbanks2354 Yes, around here we've had traffic circles for decades, but proper roundabouts have been rather rare. The way it's been working is that DOT has been installing roundabouts in more rural areas and it's been creeping closer and closer to the local major city. It's not really by design so much as that's where they have the land available without having to tear down any buildings. But, it's had the effect of priming some portion of the driving population to know how to handle them. There's supposed to be a couple going in near me near a freeway on ramp, so I'm looking forward to that as that bit of road is super annoying. The left lane is usually clogged up with people trying to get onto the freeway, but you have to drive the road relatively frequently to know that. The proposed turbo roundabout should make the situation a lot less confusing as either lane would be useful in terms of going straight, but the left lane would be straight or left and the right would be straight or right. And since there's only traffic entering from 3 sides off them and exiting from 3 sides, it's relatively intuitive as only one street requires the ability to drive straight through rather than both..
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@Lipi19821 Perhaps it's due to space, but most of the roundabouts I see getting installed are too small for that. They generally have a smooth curb that allows larger trucks to drive right over the top if need be.
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@rikmichaels9233 There is grecco-roman wrestling, but hardly anybody watches it.
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As somebody that's studying accounting, that is not at all what amortization means or what it's for. Not that it's Steve's fault, he's referencing the rationale that the city is likely using. Amortization is something that's done to account for reduction in the value of certain classes of assets. The only reason why it's done is so that you don't have these periodic significant loses when that reduction in value does get realized until then it's only marginally more real than paper losses on stocks that haven't yet been sold. (For land, it's depletion and for machinery it's depreciation) It can't be used as compensation in any reasonable way as the only actual benefit you get in terms of money is in write offs on your taxes and even then, that's money that a business would already be including in their financial calculations. I'm not surprised that the city had to back down as they provided precisely 0 compensation for the business.
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I think his argument is that he also said that the last stimulus package was a down payment on the stimulus package. But, that's rather lame and not something that normal voters should know, it's overly complicated and unnecessarily confusing.
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That Dennis Miller thing is why that Family Guy had that joke of him telling jokes with language that's ridiculously over the heads of most people and basically a word salad of terms.
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Hasn't hey already locked down the Pelosi millstone?
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To an extent whole language does work, but you have to know how to read in a language before that is even possible. So, it can be somewhat helpful for older students trying to learn to read a new language, but it really doesn't work with kids trying to learn to read their first language and often times not knowing the grammar that's being used either.
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It's been going on for decades and you can never overestimate the Democrats ability to carry water for the elites. We could have had a public option when Obamacare was passed. We also could have had the DOJ investigating things like UHC buying up providers and facilities that they were paying in an effort to bump up their allowable profits.
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@KjartanAndersen And part of that is probably the fault of whomever it was that sets the rules for the port. Considering how close that bridge is to the port and how narrow it is, it seems awfully irresponsible to not have tugs escorting the ships through that portion. After that, the waterway appears to widen significantly and have fewer significants things to impact. Around here we've got boats that are required to escort oil tankers through much of the passage just to have the ability to get a quick start in preventing an oil spill from getting out of hand if something should happen. And the area isn't anywhere near as tight.
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There's also sensors to help them know if the plane is over the limit or unbalanced prior to taking off, which is how they knew that something needed to be done in the first place.
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Only if we can address the fact that it's "normal" to make no effort at all to address men's issues. Considering how much DV is the result of anger management issues, perhaps addressing some of the things that lead men to be angry and frustrated could be a portion of the plan to deal with the problem.
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A lot, there have been zero lives lost in WA due to mass shootings since we fixed our firearms laws. This included raising the legal age amongst other things. People can still have the same weapons they can in other states as long as they're old enough and legally allowed to own them.
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@gretahendrick1937 No, it's more like switching from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey to Circus Vargas of Cirque du Soleil. A bit less circusy, but still a legitimate circus.
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It doesn't matter whether or not the President is, the power to issue pardons doesn't contain much in the way of restriction to what it can be used for and we don't even know if it can be used for crimes not yet committed or for the President to pardon himself.
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No, the flu is an influenza virus. Honestly, where do people get that stuff from. The influenza virus causes influence, aka the flu.
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IIRC, there's no requirement in WI to have a driver's license to operate a tractor on public highways. So, if you really want to drive without a license, that would be it. But, tractors aren't exactly the fastest mode of transportation and you'd just about be better off just walking. Also, I don't think that includes all highways, you wouldn't be allowed on the interstate like that.
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I had 10 candidates on my ballot, 9 of whom are still in the race as far as I could tell.
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The bigger ones are good eating though. It's hard to be afraid of something that's food.
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@lilsheba1 Which is fine if you actually keep the fumes on your side of the line. There's legal concepts related to things like "light trespass" where things cross the line onto somebody else's property and cause problems.
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@shawbros Of course you could, how do you think the air gets into your car?
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@archangelcharlie That's a bit of an apples and oranges thing there. Yes, technically, it is the Willis Tower, the issue is that there isn't enough marketing to get people outside of the Chicago area to pay attention. Those in the Chicago area may just refuse to accept the change. Renaming sports venues works a bit better because there's a ton of money involved in marking things related to the venue, so people will tend to accept it over time more regularly.
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@orangejuice7964 The only real reason to retain the registry is that it was a convenient way to make it harder to port programs to other OSes. It doesn't make it that much harder, but every little bit helps.
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@phillip6083 Yes, but there are other ones for other conduct, I don't know about this case, but I do know that if somebody is busted with poached animals in their truck, the fish and game wardens can and will seize pretty much everything you've got on you that is even tangentially related to the crime. So the truck, the boat and trailer if it's fishing, the hunting or fishing gear, it's enough stuff that just the loss of all that stuff alone is a pretty stiff punishment. And that doesn't include the relevant fines, prison time and being barred from ever getting a license to hunt again as things that are on the table for punishment if convicted.
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I'm not really sure that it's true. From the silent era onward there have been a great deal of movies that are from Europe that aren't just art house fodder. I think the issue tends to be in distribution. There have always been difficulties in taking home media between Europe and the US. TVs used to be PAL and NTSC, which were different enough that you had to have an appropriate TV or pay for expensive transfer. And when DVDs came out, there were artificial restrictions in terms of region locking. There are a great deal of European movies and TV shows these days that typical Americans would find to be very familiar and enjoyable, it's just that they don't normally get distributed here. I went so far as to flash the firmware on my optical drive because I outright couldn't watch any of that stuff without owning a bunch of different drives.
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@staticbuilds7613 Banks going bust isn't a big deal for the account holders in most cases, just make sure you're below the insured limit and have some source of money for the short period they're closed. The FDIC swoops in and seizes control. The big issue is that you typically wind up with an account at Chase as they're the one that gets to buy most of the banks that fail. That being said, I tend to recommend having 2 credit unions or one credit union and a credit card issued by a different credit union.
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@Niever TBH, if they're in an area like that, there may not be other local options.
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@mattmarzula So, how are things going at working for a major bank? Steal any good candy from babies? What you're saying is absolute nonsense. Credit Unions are regulated and insured just like banks. But, unlike banks, there isn't an incentive to cut corners to pay shareholders as the shareholders are the depositors that would have their money stolen in that scenario.
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@kevoconnor145 And I hope you never have children because you've got degenerate values and no integrity. The fact of the matter is that watering down the standards because you are feeling triggered is the kind of thing that leads to totalitarianism eventually. The fact of the matter is that our legal system was designed to err on the side of caution when sending people to prison. Prison is an extreme measure to take and even with the safe guards we have, people regularly have to be let out after being wrongfully convicted. Yes, some people will avoid prison that shouldn't, but the alternative is even worse. Sending people to prison without due process is hardly virtuous.
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I've been fighting with Noom recently because of the way that their auto-renewal works. When reputable companies, as in ones that aren't scammers, have an auto-renewal they provide advanced notice of what the amount will be and when exactly it will be charged before the auto-renew is used. There are issues inherent to auto-renewal, but reputable companies like Masterclass will send a proper renewal notification ahead of time to let you know to log in and cancel if you want to. Pairing that then with a no refund policy is deeply problematic and expressly illegal in some parts of the US, as well as something that the FTC says isn't legal. As long as the cost of taking things like this to court is so difficult, companies like Noom are going to get away with what is for all practical purposes is a scam. They do not disclose that there will be no notification ahead of the charge and as a result, it's up to the subscriber to just know that they're going to have to keep track of it because that's part of how the company makes their money. I was able to get half of the money they took back, but it should have been all of the money as the were well aware of the fact that I had stopped logging in and that they didn't have my consent for the charge. I can't help but wonder if they would be so bold if suing them over it didn't require me to have them served out of state and then deal with the hassle of showing up to small claims court out of state to get my money back.
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Yes and it turned out they were on Earth all along.
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Rubalix There's also potential law suits if what the AI produces happens to copy what somebody else has done in an impermissible way.
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Wrong door? Are you saying that most garbagemen use the wrong door?
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Unlikely, if it's not legally available, people probably won't start smoking it. Some will switch to regular cigarettes and others will quit. The nicotine is the addictive component of cigarettes, it's not like pot where it was banned in all forms.
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@joefineman648 Won't happen, they'd be sued back into the stoneage. I could possibly see somebody adding a drop of menthol flavor to cigarettes or dousing them, but you're not going to see commercial support like that as they'd get sued out of existence. Plus, there just isn't that level of demand. If that was going to be a thing, we would have seen that when they banned all the other flavors.
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@cweretelnyk The Republicans have effectively won ever election since the '70s in terms of the policies that got put into place. It's been a question of more moderate or more extreme rightwing. Even the most liberal thing that Obama did was a health care policy that was more right wing than what Nixon offered.
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You make it sound like there aren't other effective means of quitting cigarettes. Quitting, any drug, is possible if you have an appropriate treatment plan in place. ecigs as a crutch is a pretty weak justification for offering an option that's easier to start.
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Yes and thanks to Obama and his cronies, the housing prices never corrected. As hard as it was, people who borrowed more than they could afford should have been allowed to lose their homes. It's literally the only way that the younger generation could have any real hope of home ownership. But, because folks were bailed out, there was a new floor on the value of property and those that could have afforded the fair market value were not able to buy at the fair market value. They had to pay the inflated prices that saving those homeowners created.
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Arguably the Golden Gate is even harder to maintain as it's located over salt water and the Eiffel Tower is neither over water nor adjacent to salt water.
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@Darkk6969 In all fairness, new Coke was more or less knock off Pepsi.
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@XMysticHerox They shouldn't be, only the GGB is steel, the Eiffel Tower is iron.
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@JeffY-y3z Also keep in mind that the GGB is built over salt water, which makes comparisons even trickier.
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The issue tends to be that there isn't anybody worth voting for and anybody that is and somehow manages to get elected gets corrupted.
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Not any more than Linux or Windows is.
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@KDSchiester Yep, that's generally what I use. Most of the other search engines try to give you what they think you want rather than what they ask for, which makes it even harder to avoid those sorts of sites. It was a bit of a eye opener years ago when I tried Bing and found out that the results weren't any worse than Google's were at that point.
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There were a lot of improvements to the way that elections were made in the last 4 years because they wanted the count to be completed with plenty of time in case the results were challenged in court. Additionally, a ton of people voted early, which meant that work involved with verifying registration, signatures and prepping the ballots to be counted was done a lot quicker than normally. I personally was surprised by how quickly it was done, but most states use optical scan ballots similar to what kids use for their standardized tests. The ballots once loaded into the machines can be tabulated extremely quickly.
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It's worth noting that the situation with apps and technology at credit unions varies a bit, but the ones I'm a member of have improved drastically over the last few years. It's also worth checking out all the local credit unions that you qualify for as various credit unions return money to their members in different ways. Some have higher interest rates and higher fees whereas some others have lower fees and lower interest rates on deposits.
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I used to buy from them many years ago, back then it wasn't nearly as bad, this was before the push to advertise it on YouTube was a major thing. But, I stopped buying years ago because of how crappy Amazon's practices are.
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@southcoastinventors6583 Not enough to matter, and you're giving them more money if you opt to buy the book in a different format. Depending upon the genre, an ebook with text to speech may be good enough. The author gets money, you've avoided rewarding Audible and if you buy what audio books are available elsewhere, you're nudging the market in the right direction.
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That might have been legal. Some areas allow for limbs like that to be removed by the neighbor.
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@BrooksFoodLooks Early on it made sense to elect the President indirectly because of how large the country was and the time it took news to spread about what platforms the candidates were running on. The electors could go to DC and do some debating and choose the candidate that best reflected them. However, at this point, the system makes absolutely no sense in anyway and an increasing portion of the elections are going to the one that can figure out how to use advanced statistical tools to just get the necessary votes in specific states to win the election. I don't think that if those tools had existed when the constitution was being written that they would have gone with this method.
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What's the alternative? Vote for the loser Democrats that sleepwalked into this? They were even running on Trump being an existential threat to the country, and failed to really do much of anything to protect against this.
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You shouldin't put money into an employer 401(k) until you've maxxed out the contribution limits on the Roth IRA. That is unless there's a match. In which case, you'd max out the contributions to get the match, then max out the contribution limit on the IRA and if you still have more to invest, you'd then put more into that 401(k).
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I think the cost depends a bit on the airline, but there isn't really any good reason for tweens and teens to use the UM service, at least not if they're typical teens. Kids that age are already capable of navigating malls, the only real difference is a bit of time management and finding your way to the gate. Which shouldn't be problems if they're properly prepared.
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@sandlotkrew8778 There's now a body that matches her description, they should know soon enough what happened. I agree with you that people should wait to see what the results are before jumping to conclusions. There's still possible explanations to what happened that don't require him to be guilty of anything.
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@mitchgriffin2150 Exactly, just because you aren't guilty, doesn't mean other things can't come to light or appear to. And there are a small number of cops and prosecutors more than happy to have the case closed by tossing some rando in prison.
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In this part of the US, we usually have both. I'd wager the reason why Russia doesn't have both as well has a lot to do with snow plows and the difficulties in installing them properly if you're going to plow over the top of them.
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@tevinpayne3076 The thing is that even when the Democrats controlled both chambers with a super-majority in the Senate, they still weren't able to get much done. And they failed to punish the GOP for stealing that SCOTUS nomination.
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Switching to Chinese characters is a massive improvement. That's like 20-50k worth of words per character.
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The US is a very large country and it's only been in recent times where shipping the nonfrozen stuff was economical. The concentrate does require freezing, but it also uses a lot less space so in the space of a half dozen of the jugs, you can get at least a couple dozen of the cans. And, the shelf life of those cans is a long time whereas the jugs are probably only a few weeks at most. Also, a bunch of the cost of these is the shelf space and time spent stocking the item, so if you've got something that can sit there for a long time, you don't have to worry about marking it down, and you don't have to sell as much of it to justify the space.
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@jego207 You should do that from time to time with any medium just because there's always the risk that some cosmic rays will damage an essential part of the medium. Most media types include some form of parity into the specification to address the likelihood of those particles interacting with it.
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@addydiesel6627 SSD as a backup is fine, you should be retrieving the backup periodically to verify anyways. Just leave it plugged in for a bit to let the drive retrim when you do so, or copy the files to a spare drive before putting the new copies back into storage. .
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@junfaa The right therapy can make a massive difference. The only thing that actually improves things is a change in mindset. (That being said, there do seem to be some mental health conditions where medication seems to be essential, at least over the short term)
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He's mostly right, except for the racist cops. The reason why you see a disproportionate number of people of color shot by police is that people of color are exposed to police a disproportionate amount of time. If you actually control for that, the rates aren't that dissimilar. Or, to put it a different way, when white people get shot by police, it rarely makes the news for more than a day or so. When people of color are shot by police it's often a much bigger deal. The reason being, that there are fewer of those incidents and as such, they actually are news. It's the amount and type of exposure to the police that's the main problem here. As long as there's more contacts, there will be more shootings, regardless of intention.
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@username4835 Judicial immunity definitely exists for a reason, but in cases like this it shouldn't apply. I'm not sure how you have a fair trial if the defense isn't allowed to use theories and arguments that are supported by some level of evidence.
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It's better to make cards that are targeting things that you yourself are interested in. Ideally using entire sentences from books or movies that you're interested in with the word removed and a picture indicating the intended meaning. Arguably the most important part of language learning is to be getting your input in the form of things that you're actually interested in and at a level that's not too hard. ChatGPT can do that pretty easily if you feed it a sentence, the word to have the card for and an image to use along with the sentence on the front. But, Anki is really more for things like developing the ability to hear by having a pair of recordings that are off by just one sound. Or for words that you expect to need for something like a trip. And whatever other words you need in order to be able to more comfortably enjoy media in your target language. The words will pile up over time if it's your main way of learning grammar or vocab.
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@j.k.4203 The landlord hires the property management company, they're ultimately the one in charge of that sort of thing.
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Yes, but absolutely terrifying because the Democrats can't seem to figure out how to beat them. Or just don't care to try.
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@LeStickChick I didn't, but given that you're making things up, I'm not surprised that other people are reporting it.
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Rittenhouse Rules Yes and if they aren't yet dead, by the time they figure out who did, they'll probably have already passed. Even a young offender of 20 would be in thier 50s by now depending upon when exactly the barrel went into the lake. It could potentially take years to identify a suspect after all this time, assuming they even figure out whom the victim is. Which could also take time, there are bodies they found on land during this time period in better condition that are just now being identified after having them for most of that time. SO, who knows, but it's likely that by the time they get the information to consider filing charges, that the murderer will already be dead. And probably most of the people that knew the victim as well.
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Whether or not he's on our side is immaterial if he's this ineffective.
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@belkyhernandez8281 Voting hasn't worked, do you really expect people to put up with the status quo much longer? Because the options are fairly limited when voting doesn't work.
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Only Israel has the right to defend itself. /sarc
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It's probably not AI, it's probably an overly constraining template. The effect is probably pretty similar, but I hope that with media companies starting to back out of China that there will be at least some increase in creativity.
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Vi is the same way, there's just so much stuff that's baked in even before you run the entire file through sed or awk.
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He's not being blamed for ecommerce booming, he's blamed for not actually paying his workers a decent wage for taking on the risk. Also, keep in mind that his having that kind of money is part of why we don't have things like medicare for all and government paid for college.
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Now that they're Nazi cars, they might decide to. But, from what I understand, he's losing what popularity he had with the MAGA crowd, so we'll see how much longer before Trump kicks him to the curb. And if that happens, I doubt that the folks that are boycotting Tesla are going to decide he's learned his lesson. It's going to take a while for the taint to be removed from the brand. It will probably require him exiting the company and them changing their name to get anybody to drop it.
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@Siranoxz Yep, keep in mind that several European countries natively speak major languages. German, French and Spanish in particular are some of the most commonly spoken languages in the world. And then there's English that does or doesn't count depending upon whether or not you consider it to be in Europe.
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The issue is that that would be very expensive and thanks to how expansive copyright terms have become, that would be very expensive. By the time you know if something really is abandoned, there may not be any available copies to work form.
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@sjneow That would likely strengthen the case, but probably not be necessary to move forward.
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The Democrats will cave because they're stupid. They should call the GOP's bluff as the GOP voters are the ones that are going to get hit first, not to mention their donors.
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@1pcfred Indeed, depending on how a person is and how their nervous system is set up, a shock that's kind of pleasant for one person could be potentially fatal for another. I've been shocked a few times and had no particular issues with it. I didn't particularly want to let go, but I had absolutely no trouble in actually doing so. But, in general electronics have always worked a bit oddly around me, so I kind of wonder if there's a connection.
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Who amongst the living now had anything to do with inventing racism? I'll wait.
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It's likely not even that, it's a lot easier to create an engine with straight cylinders rather than curved ones and if it starts to wear down, you have the option of boring it a little larger and putting slightly larger cylinders in.
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There are better and worse ways of handling it. The real problem with Netflix is that when they started streaming, there were hardly any other options and they didn't own any of the stuff they were streaming. I think that in the long run Disney, Max and Paramount have a better chance of finding a model that does generate profits. But, mostly because they have a significant back catalog of material that people want to see, so they don't have to go all in on new stuff. With the amount of stuff on Disney+ and Max that I personally would like to see, it just takes a relatively steady drip of well written and well executed shows to justify the money. Netflix though is likely to be one major studio pull out away from going under for the foreseeable future as they own hardly any of what they stream. IIRC, both Max and Disney+ have recently posted profitable quarters, so they may well be within striking distance of sustainability.
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@rishabhanand4973 A bit, but without decent candidates available, it won't do that much.
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They deserved what they got. The statute is quite clear that what they did was a violation of the law and not covered under 1st amendment protections. The court has, once again, chosen to be ignorant of what the law and constitution say when it's convenient.
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@ It's even funnier when you realize that us younger workers may not get our social security, but it's the oldsters that are whining about this while voting for politicians that are choosing not to address the upcoming insolvency. It's unlikely that I'll get 0, but there's a real chance that I'll get less than what I've been promised and Biden just gave a bunch away to federal workers that hadn't paid in to the system.
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Oh, great, more shaming of men. Perhaps if the Democrats would offer us something, we might not be leaving the party.
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@katiekane5247 Yes, but in the US, the company is only required to make reasonable accommodations and clearly allowing an alcoholic to drive such a large vehicle isn't reasonable. The bit of it being a disability shouldn't be relevant.
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@paulparker9376 Yes, cases like the one in the video are part of why there's a limit to reasonable accommodations, and not just accommodations.
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It's worth noting that the model being used in the Netherlands is hardly free of issues. One of the big issues is that it can be surprisingly difficult to establish whether or not the participants are doing so willingly. That being said, it's still better off than the status quo in the US.
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It's got nothing to do with that. It's insufficient taxes on the rich and corporations that do that. For the most part the illegal immigrants take jobs that pay so little that citizens can't afford to work those jobs.
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Why would they have that goal? Apart from the default install not giving you a GUI without you installing it, I'm not really sure what else would need to be done to make that happen. And there are OSes that are basically just FreeBSD with that last bit done for you. (Not that it's that hard once you get the hang of it and you can always learn that part in a VM without having to be without a computer while configuring it)
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@Sumire973 That's the thing, FreeBSD has basically just one installation with configuration options to tailor it for various uses. I see a fairly decent list of desktop oriented flavors here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BSD_operating_systems, but there's a reason why so many of them have failed, once you understand how to install and configure the GUI, there's little point in using a version that's specifically tailored to desktop use. As long as you've got a supported GPU, setting it up isn't that hard these days. Most of the time Xorg will figure out the configuration on its own without much interaction from the user.
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@universalsoldier2293 It's worth noting that for middle and high school teachers they're interacting with closer to 200 a day. But, yes, it's hardly just them. I'm a grocery worker and I won't get vaccinated unless there's spare doses that are going to expire. We're not listed until probably next fall at the earliest here. There are people literally that don't ever have to leave their houses are getting vaccinated because they're in a high risk group, but the grocery workers that are being exposed on a daily basis and probably spreading it around aren't getting vaccines unless there are expiring doses. Those expiring doses are going to start getting less common as they change the syringes to squeeze more doses out of the vials.
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@pk7ghalm23 No, but the other reforms in the executive order did change the way that the payments were calculated to ensure that the people paying the loans had more income available after paying. They've also been adjusting the foregiveness programs that do exist and cleaning up the mess from when they were implemented in the first place. I do believe that far more is necessary as a good chunk of the degrees people are seeking are necessary for jobs that are essential to the functioning of our society.
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@Ben-iz9ud BS, that's not what's happening in the vast majority of cases and you're showing your lack of education by saying that. When students pick a degree, they're likely doing so years before they'll be able to use it. Up to 12-15 years in the case of some advanced degrees. Good luck judging the state of the economy that far out. Also, just because one doesn't use the degree directly, does not mean that the studying isn't applicable to a different job. So many people these days have to retrain and having been trained in the first place does help.
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@matthewharper7333 The only reason why there is a student loan debt problem is that the government stop subsidizing the education and allowed schools to spend a bunch of money on non-academic things paid for via that student loan money. I've been out of college for 20 years as far as my BA goes, and in that time the cost of community college has gone up to the point where people are spending money on tuition and books at a 2 year college that I was spending at a 4 year school. And, whereas I could buy used books and sell them at the end of the quarter if I wanted to, most of the students now can't sell their books back, because there's an online code that's often required in order to access course content. There's nothing fair about any of what's going on, but the rest of us benefit from people that go into things like social work where the wages just are not sufficient to pay off the outrageous loans that those folks have to pay in order to get the necessary degree to do the job in the first place.
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@robdillon8922 Why is it fair for the rest of us to freeload off of these people that put the time and energy into getting a degree in order to work jobs that don't pay enough to pay the cost of education back, but still require the degree? People have this assumption that if you get a degree that it pays for itself over time and that was the case in the past when college degrees were cheaper and the pay gap between jobs that did and did not require degrees was larger. But, at this point, we're already seeing Gen Z opting out of college due to how expensive it is to attend and the lack of pay off at the back end. But, we're still going to need the jobs filled that legitimately require those degrees and we're unlikely to actually be able to pay enough to make it work out.
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We didn't, we chose Bernie in the primary, hence why we got Trump.
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@smartestmansays2157 you're incompetence is going to get people killed. The flu kills between 0.1% and .7%. covid 19 is at least double that. On top of which it's twice as contagious.
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@callamastia Unlikely? If the door is properly installed, it should be very hard to bust down. I had somebody try to kick my door down some months back and they gave up and went away. Perhaps if developers wouldn't cheap out on the screws they used it would be less common.
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TBH, I don't judge the viewers, but I still don't get why people are willing to watch animation that's often times of such poor quality. I assume the writing is better, because it was always ugly AF compared with the better quality stuff from the US.
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I can't help but notice that you conveniently leave out the part about whether you actually have those conditions. A lot of people with addiction problems don't realize they have a problem, so they're "smart" enough to avoid treatment until they realize that they have a problem at which point, they realize what dumbasses they've been.
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You can thank the do nothing Democrats for that. Obama could have whipped the votes to get a public option, he probably could have put everybody on the same health plan that members of congress get and then just done a publicity tour telling the people that the GOP was trying to prevent them from being on the same plan that he and members of congress get to use. But, he started with a heritage foundation proposal and watered that down even more because he wouldn't whip votes in his own party when he had control of both houses of congress. It didn't even need to be complicated legislation, he could have just passed legislation that dictated that the medicare age was going down 2 or 3 years every year until everybody was covered and that the funding for it was not subject to the budget cap. It would have taken like a couple days to draft and all of the effort could have been put into publicizing the benefits and bashing the GOP for opposing it.
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@karols432 Considering that court records are publicly accessible, the suit by his renter's insurance company for him trying to use that policy for something pretty explicitly not covered is going to come up, and on a claim of this size, they're definitely going to do some sort of an investigation. If he was asking for a few hundred, they might not put much into it, but this claim is going to be for a lot of money, so probably they'll be willing to put more resources into it than would normally make sense.
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@patricksullivan7140 Also, which candidate should we have voted to not throw people under the bus? I personally voted Stein, but the Harris camp shouldn't be so smug when they are supporting Israeli war crimes and can't be bothered to offer anything for Americans to look forward to had she been elected.
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@laurendaryani4893 Don't get me wrong, I do think his views are pretty disgusting and I wouldn't be surprised if he does have some of that stuff at home, but going based on that one photo is pretty weak.
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Yep, there's not a lack of shelter space, it's other issues. We've got a homeless camp next door and somebody is going to get killed. I'm not talking about crime, but they keep stealing electricity by wiring into the building wires and have already started one fire that required the fire department to come put it out. I think we should give them all safe, if minimalist, housing and then crack down hard on people choosing to live in the streets. There's nothing humane about letting the camps take over entire parks.
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You could probably also do this on a grill for a more woodfired oven variation.
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It's worse for those of us that have been voting for decades as the Democrats continue to throw winnable races and refuse to fight hard for their voters. Even when Democrats do win, they absolutely refuse to do much of anything to make things better. Literally, we would have a better health care situation if Obama had just let the GOP pass it into law and put up some sort of token fight over it. The Heritage Foundation came up with the plan anyways.
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Please consider voting for the Green Party candidate rather than doing a write-in. That's probably the clearest way of communicating that you don't view the primary as legitimate and if enough of us do it, the Green Party might be able to hit that 5% they need for recognition.
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@zomfragger This is a large part of why I refuse to install the work provided software on any of my own devices. I simply don't trust them to restrict themselves to just the time I use with their app.
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They had their chance to save in a way that the younger people haven't, and I don't see anybody coming to save my social security. They've already increased the eligibility age for me, even though I'm in my 40s and none of the politicians I've had available to vote for have been willing to actually do something to address it. Meanwhile, wages have largely be stagnant for my entire life allow for fewer options in terms of savings, and housing prices have continued to go up as insufficient new housing stock has come onto the market to allow us to buy in.
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@dyhidrogenmonoxide Does it? I could have predicted these results before the study was begun. Despite being paid enough to just not work, they only cut their hours by an average of less than 2 hours a week, but their wealth didn't appreciably increase. I'm not even sure how that wasn't just assumed to be the case. Rather than stop working the way a lot of the UBI critiques allege will happen, they kept working. And, the net wealth didn't increase because this is a massively short and underfunded study. This is 1,000 people getting a UBI for only 3 years. And there is an incredibly well-developed system in the US to take advantage of the poor. Things just cost a lot more and a lot of these people were already in a bad situation. 3 years may seem like a long time, but it really isn't and expecting that there would be some sort of meaningful change in such a short period of time was never realistic. Considering all the payday loans out there, a net change of zero over the time period studied is arguably success. Especially when you don't get the kind of knock on effect of local economic growth from such a small number of recipients.
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@davescott7680 Yes, that value leaving was pretty much a given, the company will wind up going out of business because the advertisers are scared to have their brands associated with the filth that's on the site now. Not that it was super great previously, but now it's so ad that the advertisers won't touch it.
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The issue there is how bankrutpcy laws are written. Once a company declares bankruptcy any property being distributed, even returned to its rightful owner, requires a sign off from an appropriate designee to ensure that the creditors get whatever they can get. Unfortunately, this can lead to issues for property that's not owned by the business being seized. If you haven't got the money for an attorney, or an incredibly clear documentation that it's yours and not available to cover the creditors' losses, you'll likely not get it back.
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@jstreets1983 It happens a lot with gang related violence, anybody who does know anything isn't willing to talk either because of threats or because they've got their own bodies buried or outright don't trust cops. It may not be Omerta, but it is hard to prosecute a case if nobody is willing to cooperate in the investigation. Probably the only reason anybody was willing to talk at all was that the dude was dead and it no longer carried any downside.
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You mean civil libertarianism, Libertarians love fascism, it's why they universally oppose measures to keep corporations from running amok. Civil libertarians are the ones that are concerned with accumulations of power outside of the people. Libertarians are the ones that are only concerned by it when it's the government.
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@supermario69kraftgami23 Nonsense, that's the same idiotic claim that Libertarians trot out all the time. Monopolies exist because things always proceed that direction in the absence of regulations to stop it. Patents, copyrights and Trademarks have absolutely nothing to do with that and are of absolutely no value to any company that has enough market share to be a monopoly.
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I get most of my news from Jimmy and Krystal.
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The Lincoln statue was commissioned by freed slaves and Booker T. Washington gave the dedication. The reality is that this is the result of them being bubbled there's very little open-minded thinking going on with respect to this.
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As somebody that has had a heat stroke, I wouldn't wish it on even the most monstrous of offenders. We're supposed to be better than that. I ultimately recovered more or less completely, but briefly I completely lost the ability to speak.
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Absolutely, did anybody think the guy that wanted to cut social security would allow anybody even remotely liberal into his cabinet?
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Yes, it's even worse when you realize that he was involved in writing the crime bill that led to that happening.
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Honestly, it probably depends on what sort, some don't really do anything particularly feminine to begin with and some do. But there's a ton of ways for women to have sex that wouldn't require that.
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@NeoFreshair So? If the claims are true, it's completely valid to be suing over it. The courts can only do two things about things like this order the defendant to take some action or to pay money as compensation. That's it. And once a harm has been committed typically money is the only way to make that up.
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That is true, being assraped in prison is unlikely something that somebody will ever forget. Not that I endorse it, but realistically, the authorities have done a piss poor job of preventing it. In this case, the guy's a psycho that's been looking to shoot somebody for quite some time. This is just the first person that was unfortunate enough to cross his path where there was an even halfway plausible excuse to whip out the gun and pull the trigger.
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@Sarah Santos, women are paid the same as men are in terms of take home pay and grossly overcompensated when you look at the benefits packages that they receive. Just because feminists continue to lie about those facts, doesn't change it. If women really were being paid as little as you folks claim, then why are businesses bothering to hire men at all? Either it's not true or women are just crap at their jobs to be worth that much less. The studies that have been done have found it to be a statistical tie when you consider other factors that affect pay.
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It's not and lying about that isn't helpful. The cases where somebody dies are a small fraction of the cases. In most cases, there are mistakes made multiple people leading to the death. This kind of simplistic rhetoric is not helpful. You don't hear thus when white peyote are killed under similar circumstances.
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That was a pretty good example of how corrupt and incompetent the court is. It's pretty clear that the constitution doesn't permit the use of eminent domain for private businesses just because of potential taxes.
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@grymjaw That's where tax policy comes in. Just make whatever taxes to cover it kick in to get the money from wealthier people. They may still use it, but they'd be paying for it.
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@binaryvoid0101 It's controversial because of the various groups that get ignored. People rarely talk about the ethnic cleansing that went in over the history of the US when it comes to white ethnic groups. A lot of people genuinely don't know that German-Americans and Italian-Americans were also thrown into concentration camps on US soil during WWII because it gets left out. A lot of people are not aware that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_v._Nebraska came about because anti-German sentiment during WWI and as a result other groups have gotten to benefit from it being settled precedent that you can't ban languages from schools. The whole reality of that looks very different when you consider the whole context of what happened rather than cherry picking. While the popular conception is that lynching was white on black crime, the reality is that a solid third of those lynched weren't black. It was still horrific, but there's no reason to pretend like those other victims didn't exist.
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You clearly have no idea what catalogs they own. Thanks in large part to Ted Turner, they have the largest back catalog of any of the companies. It's unlikely that anybody growing up with access to American media can't list at least a few titles that are owned by WB these days.
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That's because they eventually got it fixed. It used to be both broken and stupid.
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@Po1itica11yNcorrect The GPO and WEP apply to income that was never taxed for social security and the reduction is only a portion of the amount of the pension. People that were being impacted by the GPO and WEP had the option of investing in those same retirement accounts. They just got a break in terms of having some of their income not taxed for social security, even though they're now going to get the benefits as if they did.
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We'll have to see, but I would expect some gun charges to come of this in terms of who gave the teens the gun.
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That's overstating it. They have one of those every election and the Democrats couldn't even be bothered to run a candidate looking for men's votes. The worst of the damage has already been done, and the DNC isn't even remotely worried about it. They'll be fine, the rest of us not so much.
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I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one that's figured this out. The sounds of a foreign accent when a speaker of a language you want to learn is speaking, are mostly the ones that are the least similar to the ones in your language. So, if you figure out how to speak with that foreign accent, and then apply it to the foreign language, you will sound far more like a native than if you skip the step. I wish it was something that more people knew because it does make the process a lot easier.
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@eileenmcdonald1599 Yes, between the various degrees I've earned, I've been in college for about 8 years and online is definitely harder on the whole, but that's mostly down to organizing your own time and not getting to benefit as much from in person interactions with other students.
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He loved crashing his motorcycle without a helmet? Damn, that's hardcore.
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This helps several percentage points of the population, while hastening the demise of the program for anybody that isn't going to retire before the program goes insolvent. It's just another F U from the gerontocracy to the regular working class people.
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@perwestermark8920 Perhaps, but how many years should that encompass, and how much would customers pay to make that so? For enough money, companies could keep these products working pretty much forever. I doubt many people would pay the thousands of dollars per unit that would cost though.
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No, you pay interest on the loan because that's how the bank makes money. The alternative would be a system where you just pay an additional sum of money to cover the interest and then penalties whenever you might fail to pay enough or on time. The main issue with that is that it's a bad deal for both the bank and the borrower, as there's no incentive to pay it off earlier than the contract indicates. Which means that the bank can't get the money to loan to somebody else until the end, and the borrower can't cut costs by paying more than the minimum, as they're on the hook for the same amount either way. The interest itself will include some allowance for losses if the reposession doesn't quite cover the amount remaining, but if the money that isn't recovered is mostly interest, or it's less than their allowance for essentially defaulted loans covers it, they probably won't bother. Small claims court is cheaper than regular court, but it's still not free.
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@Carpaintry_of_God I was on an intercity bus one time and there was a literal burning van on the side of the road and nobody stopped. I didn't even hear anybody else on the bus commenting on it. It was surreal. I made sure the next time I came through to see if there were any indications of a fire there because it felt so unreal.
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@dannnarutam TBH, taking the studio tours and visiting a taping/screening is probably a much better use of time in LA than Disney is.
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The same reason that Richard III isn't. Unless, there were Nazis in England centuries ahead of time.
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@wmdkitty Wasn't that essentially the plot of Crank?
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@user-lc5hr2pe1b You can't do that, parents have jobs and there needs to be somebody there to watch younger children. WIth older children that might work, but you're going to be stuck with the schools needing to be coordinated in order to use the same set of buses for the younger and older kids.
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@davidfaustino4476 It wouldn't help that much. Around here the sun doesn't come up until nearly 8am under ST, with DST you'd need to shift the hours of school several hours later in order to not have the kids going to school in the dark. 9am is not doable for most working parents until the kids are old enough to get their on their own.
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@scottshawn70 Yes, although fans subbing in Luke is kind of required anytime somebody wants to say that out of context for people to understand the reference. So, not technically the quote, but pretty much mandatory if you wish to use it and be understood.
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Biden is taking it for granted, he's still not doing a damned thing to win over progressives or earn the votes of nonvoters.
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@chuck-f6p That's one of those things that served a valid purpose when they wrote the law and it was only when the Heritage Foundation started pushing judicial candidates that weren't qualified purely to subscribe to their radical ideology that it became a problem.
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@maestanton8053 I've been meaning to do that. From what I can tell, the VIP tour is a pretty good deal in terms of what is all included.
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@harddrivesys From what I've seen at both Universal and WBs, most of the stuff on the backlot is repurposed over and over again. The stuff that's just left to rot is mostly stuff that is of an extremely specific purpose that can't be redressed for a new movie. It'll rot just due to there not being a particular reason to clear it out between uses. That's more or less what happened to that ruined facility from one of the Jurassic Park sequels.
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Totally agree. I want ABS, but I also want to be able to turn it off when I need to. Practicing panic braking should be done without ABS as the shortest stopping distance will come just before the ABS kicks in.
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@Bryan-Hensley And if it isn't something that can be made to work in the next few years, then there's not much point to it ever being developed.
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@jasonschulz3819 I don't think that the results are going to be certified until they've counted all of the ballots that were received in time. That being said, in states like GA, they had enough counted the night of the election that they would have needed to find tens of thousands of ballots all voting for Harris to flip the state to her. As in, possible, OH did find more ballots in 2004 that had been misplaced, but that sort of thing wasn't ever going to happen this time with so much concern over Trump refusing to accept the outcome and staging another coup attempt.
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I don't agree, they used to show these sorts of videos and it didn't really seem to make much of a difference. The main reason that the death rates are lower than the used to be is technology. Things like mandatory seatbelts, collapsing steering wheel columns, crumple zones, ABS, ESC and the like saved far more lives than these videos ever did. And, one of the big reasons for the increase in fatalities is the vehicles that are being driven have larger blindspots and are larger than need be so the folks inside are safer at the expense of everybody else. If we actually cared about safety and reducing traffic fatalities we wouldn't be using unproven scare videos, we would be extending driver's education and requiring more time driving around with an instructor during a mandatory and heavily subsidized course.
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Time doesn't make the crime OK. The statute of limitations is a reflection of the fact that evidence gets harder to collect over time, witness memory degrades over time, and people shouldn't have to look over their shoulders for the rest of their lives over many crimes.
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@chezmoi42 Some of us value justice. I realize that's an unpopular perspective, but justice is not served by waiting to report crimes and then have very like evidence on which to base a trial.
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@tim3172 If that's what you like, there's any number of countries that don't provide the accused of due process. I doubt you'd like it, but whatever floats your boat I suppose. Even when allegations are new, these cases are tough to litigate, adding decades of time to allow people to forget specifics and for evidence to be lost doesn't serve any legitimate role in justice.
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@VictoryLlama The surest way to know that the Nazis were socialists is that they went out of their way to Attack the Soviets preemptively before wrapping up their business in the rest of Europe as socialists and communists are usually roughly on the same side of things, even if there are significant disagreements.
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The autistic community would like to thank you for your service. Because clearly most of these things are not things that anybody else cares about enough to send angry letters in about.
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@jessecarliner7733 Don't you mean Sundae Sunday?
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The big issue is that the house has already gone home. Even if it did pass, it's too late. But, they should just pass the bill and then just undo most of it when Biden takes office.
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Just remember kids, it's not racist if it targets white people. eyeroll
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My favorite is claiming that there's a child around the corner where you can't see them and using that as the basis for insisting that going over 20mph is speeding. And then giving it the schoolzone enhancement. Because nothing screams safe driving like looking off to the side of the road and trying to guess the age of anybody you see.
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What he means is that he doesn't want to give anything to essential workers. That's what it comes down to.
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@JJfromPhilly67 If what they're doing is sufficiently bad, it doesn't even take very many.
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It wouldn't be particularly practical, but if you lined the wall with piezo generators you could probably harvest some of the sound and generate some power out of it. I doubt enough with the speakers we have available, but probably some.
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His mistake was not putting any speed holes in the hood and flame decals on the sides.
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@Palatard because the ones that aren't, tend to leave the party. Sane reason why the republicans are so bat shit insane.
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There are a lot of options and it's one of the reasons why the Secretary of State is often such an important office, they're usually the ones that are involved with running the elections and making the statewide decisions. Around here we get a scantron style ballot where you fill in the bubbles to indicate your vote. You can then X that out if you made a mistake and mark a different one. They generally pre-process the ballots to the point where they can turn the machines on the moment the clock hits 8pm and the voting closes. Although, that mostly means that you're no longer allowed to put ballots into the collection bins and you needed to have a postmark by then as virtually nobody votes in person any more unless they need assistance.
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I've personally been happy with Creality. But, it all depends what you want to do precisely with the printer.
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@lindamastropietro4429 Generally speaking, apart from routine legal work like writing wills and creating trusts, you want the sort of lawyer that most other folks hate. Somebody that's an aggressive shark and not afraid to play tough.
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More like we don't like being disrespected by condescending jerks. The violence and arrest weren't called for, but that does not mean his behavior was appropriate. Considering all the BS that offends Christians that Atheists and other religious believers are expected to accommodate, it seems kind of hypocritical to use his 1st amendment speech in this fashion.
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@Melissa-dd7ys Phlebotomist would probably be a better choice around here, it's like weekend course. Sleep lab tech is like 2 quarters and pays decently.
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@timwasko847 That more or less proves the point that what they did worked. It's been ages since we went even a week without at least one.
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Christmas is canceled this year, because 2020.
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In all fairness, I"m not sure who would have expected that we'd wind up with this current uniparty and stacked courts in favor of giving the POTUS unlimited power. Pardoning him wouldn't have been as much of an issue if we didn't have a court that was 6 to 3 by virtue of 2 stolen nominations. And there being highly partisan hacks on one side of the equation that are allergic to anything even remotely democratic taking bribes.
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@eprom239 I think the issue there is that he's jumping from an unstable surface and far more concerned with having enough force to clear the bucket and the ground.
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Yep, I almost got hit entering a roundabout because somebody was speeding entering the roundabout. So, I started to pull into the roundabout and was in the roundabout before they got in, but because they were going so fast due to that direction being a more or less straight through due to a retention pond the roundabout had to accommodate, I almost got hit. As you say, you're supposed to slow down a bit as traffic entering can take a moment to start moving due to the angle involved with checking for incoming traffic.
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I definitely feel bad for the girl. She's clearly being screwed over by her parents and is now being embarrassed on TV. She's being set up for a lifetime of health problems and general misery. Unfortunately, your weight as a child is a bit of an indicator of what it's going to be later in life as it can be very hard to change those eating patterns later on.
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@wownewstome6123 That's the theory, but it hasn't really panned out that way. Apart from nukes that seem to have stopped another world war scale conflict, most of the other research hasn't appreciably improved the situation.
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It wouldn't be so bad if the GOP weren't so clear about the fact that they're absolutely hell bent on destroying our democratic institutions in favor of oligarchs. Mere incompetence being met with playing dead could potentially work, but when it's deliberate, lying flat isn't going to work.
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IKR, 2 democratic Presidents in a row massively under deliverered on what they could have delivered on. And Biden wasn't even the candidate people wanted, it was the candidate that the DNC gave us because they didn't want their voters to start expecting them to do things to make our lives better.
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@scifirealism5943 Yes and no. We can have a more just-world, but as you're implying there's absolutely no guarantee of it, especially with how rigged the current political system is.
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I've been saying for decades that poverty needs to be targeted before racism if you want to make any progress on the issue. The lack of help available to poor whites gives a fig leaf to racists that use it as an excuse for blaming immigrants and people of color. But, if you ensure that anybody at the bottom is being taken care of, any remaining issues with racism are not going to generate the same level of angst and motivation to fight against it.
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Probably not htat many, but that being said, we clearly need more mental health services and for them to be easier to access.
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@kaintkk Yes, a couple of particularly good pieces of advice for people with business before the court. Never piss off the judge and think very carefully any time the judge is asking you if you're sure that you want to do whatever it is you're trying to do.
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You can't release people alive after Israel kills them. That's not how death works.
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I'll be voting against Cantwell next time she's up for re-election. Her and Murray have been there for far too long and have long since lost any interest for doing things to help out ordinary people.
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They do have special care requirements, but unlike lions and tigers they don't kill people. But, depending upon where you live they may or may not be legal and you'd need a vet that knows how to work with them as they are large cats when compared with typical house cats.
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@cutterboard4144 Everybody does though because writing all this stuff from scratch has a lot of expense involved and the result may or may not be any better. For a while, pretty much every network connected computer in the world used the FreeBSD TCP/IP stack. That may still be the case, but without the advertising clause it's harder to know for sure. That being said, I do think that features like this should be segregated into their own modules and downloaded by the user separate from the base installation because of things like this.
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I still think of "Walkin' on the Sun" when I think of Smashmouth personally. They didn't have a particularly large amount of output, but enough to prevent the from being on a list like this. Most of those others are justified though. Personally, "Mambo No. 5" is one of the happiest tracks I've ever heard, but "Baby Keep Smiling" on the same album is even more infectious.
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TBH, the joke wouldn't have been a problem, if she wasn't benefiting from an oppressive system that puts some people in the position where they have to work these jobs or become homeless. For me personally, I'm lucky to not have to worry about eviction or going hungry. But, most are not so fortunate. Personally, I specifically took a job at one of the local grocery stores specifically because people need to be fed and since I likely already had it, it made sense for me to be on the front lines. I lack the necessary medical training, so it had to either be grocery store, shipping company or private security as those are all ways in which I could contribute. But, there is a certain logic to refusing to deliver or support the leaches that put us in the position of having an insufficient quantities of respirators, personal protective gear and means to produce whatever medications are found to be effective.
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Haitians aren't known for eating cats, these animals are potential carriers of infectious disease and aren't legally owned.
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Yes, although, I'm not necessarily sure that the precinct is any different in number of voters than other states, it may be physically larger in some parts of the state to have enough people to warrant a precinct.
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I stopped watching when you started repeating republican talking points. We've never had taxes so high that they put well run businesses out of business and that includes the period where the top tax bracket was over 99%. The laffer curve has been so thoroughly debunked that it shouldn't even be included as a possibility,
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Yes, and it kind of blows my mind that there were no measures in place to protect against this. This specific situation of the landing gear outright not being deployed is rare, but there are a number of other things that can lead a plane to overshoot the end of the runway, sometimes at nearly full take off speed. The building shouldn't have been there and if they had to put it htere, there should have been something along the lines of what they use to stop runaway semis on mountain passes.
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@Jude30 TBH, shy of being some place like the inside of a shelter or whatever part of the building is the most structurally sound, the best you're going to get outside is sheltering from debris. You're not going to avoid being sucked up if it's that close. It's a moot point for me as we get like 1 tornado every few years around here and they're rarely around long to cause much damage. Most of the time, they'll hit nothing, or they might suck a roof off, but the likelihood of being injured is quite low. Contrast that with areas that get them more frequently and get larger ones. I'm personally, more concerned with mid-lattitude cyclones. We get those slightly more often, but again, it's not much of a risk as long as you're inside and don't get crushed by a falling tree. The gusts get to be up over 100mph, but I don't think we've ever had sustained windspeeds as high as a hurricane.
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@lmoelleb It's not as much of an issue now as it used to be, but I've had registry corruption take down entire systems, especially in older versions of Windows and if you start to get bloat, it's not easily cleaned up without risking damage to the registry itself. With the exception of per key permissions, which isn't by default on other OSes, I don't see anything in the video that justifies such a weak point being included in an OS. All of that can be done with other OSes using things like remotely mounted homes, group permissions and the like. And, in most cases, the options just work better with less trouble and can be cleaned up relatively easily.
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@tunderhay On *nix that stuff is stored in predictable places, things that are stored for the system at larger are generally in /etc for the base, in /usr/local/etc for system wide default configuration files. And in /home/user/ for user specific configuration files. And, unlike with Windows, you can nuke a users configuration files for everything, without impacting the system at large and depending upon the program.
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@meph5291 The per key permissions can be a bit of a pain by default, but I do question a bit how often that's really the appropriate tool when you can, and should, apply permissions to both the device, executables and configuration files that you need to work with those. It seems to me that the main reason that Windows has per key permissions is because they didn't properly design their security model.
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If you're ever in LA, one of the TCM sponsored classic movie tour at WB Studios goes into the warehouse. You don't get to see everything, but you see a lot. Every item in the warehouse has an asset tag attached that gets scanned any time that it's moved and there are probably periodic scans of everything to ensure that they don't have things unexpectedly missing.
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@harleys5601 Keep in mind that they also have some of Batman's vehicles in the studio tour, so any time that they decide to change which one is on display, it would temporarily change the number. There may also be times when one is being removed for a cleaning or for promotional pics.
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Are we sure Bernie isn't going senile? The Democrats haven't been an opposition party in decades. They're a second party that exists largely to give the GOP cover while they gut the economy for their wealthy donors.
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@BenJalahmela Ultimately, that's what it's always going to be. The food is supposed to be safe on any of those dates, and usually a bit past. However, if it hasn't been handled properly or if there was a defect in the process or packaging, it might be bad earlier. And, it's likely to be good for some time after those dates, even if it's not as appetizing. Ultimately, it does come down to your personal judgment as the store isn't in your home inspecting the food any more than the manufacturers are. This may simplify things a bit, but the problem is going to remain. People have had the ability to ask store employees and the manufacturers to explain those dates for decades, simplifying it is likely just a feel good measure that won't appreciably change things either way.
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They all have it, it's just typically a hidden feature. Just Google it and you should be able to disable it. I don't generally bother, but I have tried it successfully.
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It was taught that way in the US for quite a while in large part due to the timing. But, in recent years, there's been more debate over the actual cause of them surrendering at that time. But, the Russians, running low on resources and the US having the ability to level their cities were probably all significant contributions to the decision.
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I feel like we need a change of laws to make submitting false accusations of voting fraud a crime that carries with it loss of voting privileges. I'm not suggesting that it be automatic, but if there's no basis for the belief that there's actual fraud when the report was made, there should be consequences for the parties that are benefiting from the witch hunt.
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I've also seen Asperger's Syndrome referred to as being "schizoid of childhood" in some research literature. There was also some research to suggest that AS was a separate thing from autism, which is one of the reasons why it was so foolish to merge it with the other developmental disorders. Merging it pretty much kills research and makes it a lot harder to find research participants. Schizoid Personality Disorder for it's part is probably going to go away in the near future as there's very little research into it due to a lack of schizoids showing up for therapy due to the lack of a requirement for there to be clinically significant distress as part of the diagnostic criteria.
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Carbon monoxide doesn't rise to the ceiling or sink to the floor the way that a lot of gases will. So, you have to actively ventilate it out if you've got a build up. That's not to say that there may not have been dangerous levels at the time they died, just that it's less likely.
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You make this sound like it's somehow a bad thing. Considering how easy it is to get a credit card these days, if you're getting declined for a new one, they're doing you a favor. Most credit unions will give you a low limit card to start out with and increase the limit as you pay on time.
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@markbernier8434 Mostly, but keep in mind in those days the jails weren't very secure and breakouts were common. They also didn't have the resources to keep somebody in prison permanently in many areas.
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@irdmoose Even without it being illegal, you're still risking being roped into somebody else's felony. I remember a decade ago when I was working security that it was a common thing for drug dealers to steal cars to do drug runs in, they'd then abandon it on the side of the road. The cars would be mostly fine afterwards, but if it was your car, then you lost use of it for the period it was stolen and the period where the police are collecting evidence. Plus, I'd imagine a fair number of people had to get a defense attorney involved in case the police didn't believe that the car had been stolen.
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@shawnmccarty6923 I think more likely, they'd change the law to make the person doing that accessory to whatever it is that the car thief does after stealing it.
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That's an excuse and that's not how it has to be. Here in WA, the parties don't get to do that. The politicians just say which party they represent and the voters get to decide which candidates out of the available options are in the general election. What you're proposing is more or less the same system they use in Iran where the Ayatollah decides which prospective candidates are permitted to run, and the voters just get to choose between the ones that have been approved. It's still "democracy" I suppose,. but it leads to a near complete impossibility to really challenge the government on anything meaningful. If you think that's fine, then keep carrying water for the corrupt parties that won't let anybody win that's going to represent the people.
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@FTZPLTC That works better for the UK where the Prime Minister's term is a maximum of 5 years rather than a guaranteed 4 years and where there's more than 2 major parties to choose from for that position. There are clearly still some issues there, but allowing the parties to choose the leadership makes more sense as you don't really know which parties are going to have the votes ahead of time, it's a bit like how we in the US don't get to vote for Speaker of the House or President of the Senate.
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@ErikCrowKrahe what's more awesome is going through space to get where you want to go. It's faster, more flexible, more fun and just as fatal if you screw it up.
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@thirstfast1025 we've been putting trains in tubes since the 19th century, the issue is that you hit a point where you can't increase the speed and capacity enough to compete with the aerospace industry.
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They're both horrible, but only one of them is a convicted felon that did a pretty successful job of overthrowing the government. We've got judges that he appointed doing whatever they can to take power from the voters and give it to corporations.
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Why? It isn't like this wasn't known for many years at this point. People just don't care about it. I'm glad to see some of the language learning resources moving off of Facebook so that we're not stuck with Facebook if we want to communicate with other students. I don't agree with him about the censorship, ultimately, if people aren't learning how to evaluate these sorts of claims and think about it critically, there's not much you can do to prevent this kind of problem. You might slow it a bit, but that's it.
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@BlakeAlexander12 So? You're talking about the margin of error at that point and quibbling about whether those folks in that crash in San Francisco years back that were run over by fire trucks count.
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@ Yes, it's still better to not have planes crashing, but people forget just how infrequent the crashes are at this point and how few people are killed in typical crashes. It's not God's doing, it's that there were investigations made every time there is a crash or serious incident and changes made to try to see that it doesn't happen again. As a result, plane crashes and the body counts have both gone down substantially.
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I'm thinking about making one my next bike. As much as I loved my Ninja 250, it barely handles the local mountain passes due to the engine being so small and it not being fuel injected. And, it's been sitting unridden for quite a while because of how much time ti takes me to do anything in terms of maintenance and repair. Granted, it doesn't need much of that, but when you're stuck working on it outside, and rather busy, wasting a bunch of time dealing with things like fairings gets old pretty quickly. And the lack of options in terms of a center stand makes it just that much annoying to do things like chain maintenance.
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This seems foolish of her. These are some pretty serious crimes even if the goal is something that's relatively banal.
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They're great as long as they aren't stolen or destroyed.
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@blaze129 Yes, although it's not surprising given the degree to which much of the genocide and ethnic cleansing that was done wasn't ever acknowledged in schools. It's hard to stop things like that from repeating if you can't admit that groups like Germans were ethnically cleansed and one of the important civil rights court cases involved the German language being banned from schools. People grow up with this questionable narrative that it was white people versus everybody else and the reality was a lot worse than that. What constitutes white changed a lot over the centuries and there were definitely instances like with Black people and the Irish where the Irish were the less desirables and there were real questions about whether a Catholic was an acceptable choice for POTUS before JFK was elected.
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I'm not sure what people expected. The conservative justices have been at it for decades intentionally misinterpreting what the constitution says to whatever the most convenient interpretation is. It's been ratehr disgusting.
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I've never tried this but that was more or less my thought. if you reach across the ladder to hold on, that should result in less shifting of weight.
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@slimerone The death rate we've got is because we were able to slow the infection rate enough to mostly avoid having the hospitals overwhelmed. NYC got overwhelmed, but much of the country hasn't. Additionally, we have no idea what the actual death rate was as there's tons of people like me that likely had it but couldn't get tested. I had symptoms consistent with covid, but there were not tests available at that time. This winter it's likely to be even worse as the infection rate barely dipped during the summer and is set to increase substantially lthis winter as we still aren't doing the contact tracing, testing and quarantining necessary to avoid it. Not to mention that the frontline workers have largely been left to our own devices. We're not getting any support from the government, we're not allowed to quit or get unemployment except for under extremely narrow exceptions and we may have to engage in a general strike to get any help at all.
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@darrin8955 I take it you voted 3rd party then, because those were the only decent choices for those that don't support racist policies.
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@dma65a2 They said the same thing when I first got to vote for President in 2000, since then the candidates the Democrats put up have gotten worse and worse and worse. At this point, they put somebody up who refused to be against literal genocide.
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@darrin8955 Yep, neither Trump nor Harris was that for me, so I voted 3rd party. Sadly, so many people think that the Democrats are entitled to our vote if we don't like what the GOP puts forward. Nobody is entitled to our vote and the sooner people wake up to that and make the candidates earn our vote, the sooner we can get our democracy back.
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@THICCTHICCTHICC Yep, the colonists largely squandered that, although a fair number of highways follow routes that were established by those trails. The ones that didn't have an obvious use, mostly were reclaimed by nature.
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The fact that anyone would even vote Republican at this point is pure insanity. The Democrats are just slightly less competent and less evil than the Republicans.
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We'll see. I'm personally frustrated that the International Court hasn't hauled Netanyahu in for the various crimes against humanity that he and the IDF have been taping.They're the ones that forced Iran to respond by violating the Iranian borders. The fact that it took so long for the Iranians to respond is because right now the Iranian government isn't stocked with as many psychopaths as the Israeli government is.
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That's far more likely to be workable at some point. A beam of light being bounced across a couple satellites before being directed at such a facility is at least something that could happen. I doubt that the practical issues with it will be solved before there are better methods of generating renewable power, but it's a lot more reasonable than this is.
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@karlwolfenstein4496 It's probably not taxable in full, part of it might be, but it's a lawsuit covering property damage, so some portion of it won't be taxable.
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This video was brought to us by the Letter E? What is this Sesame Street.
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@Cometcast12 That assumes they can still afford an attorney and ultimately the judge won't necessarily recognize the change as being significant enough to warrant a change. The amount that courts are allowed to garnish for such things is a lot, mostly because father's get tossed under the bus in order to try to protect the kids.
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@ferrisbueller9991 Automatic, is probably a bit much, but it should just be a matter of submitting a copy of an unemployment application or the previous year's tax return with an appropriate form indicating that it's being filed under relevant perjury penalties. This is after a court has already done an initial round, so there shouldn't be any significant assets that weren't either already disclosed or his outright, this is just about changes in income now.
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@XYZ-kb3mm Does it? There's plenty of men that would want the responsibility, but can't because they're stuck with other things like earning a living when the mother can't earn as much. If these women don't want that, there's frequently a father that would be happy to get the custody.
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There's a number of issues there. First of all, it's not discretionary, they check everybody on the particular bus or train. They are specifically labeled as fare enforcement, and they wear clothing that is extremely high vis. There is absolutely no question about who they are or what they're there for. Yes, they'll do other things in terms of enforcing other crimes, they are police, but everybody with any knowledge of the system at all knows what they're there for.
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Why would you visualize it? In this case, they're both the same hour number, so it's going to be 12pm and in most cases medications aren't that picky about timing. If it is that picky, then you'd probably just set a timer to tell you when to take the middle dose.
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Which he is right to do here. These aren't protestors calling for a reduction in deportation or restricting it to certain cases, this is protestors demanding no more deportations for any cause. People like that shouldn't be pandered to, they're self-centered and have no place in the US. Nobody has a right to sneak into a foreign country and demand that they be allowed to stay permanently, that's crazy. There''s a huge difference between what the protestors are demanding and reasonable policy.
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@donnadumare Yep, although SCOTUS is really what everybody is worried about as the court is so packed with corrupt morons that they may well decide to go along with this.
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I think these things get rather complicated and ultimately, the fix needs to start with fixing the K-12 system to ensure that all students get a quality education. College admissions to elite universities should not be a concern, as they really don't do much for the students other than set up networking opportunities. In California, one of the things you left out was that there was an increase in the number of minority students making the honor roles after they were placed in colleges that were more reflective of their actual abilities. I'd expect that you'll start to see more and more at those elite universities as well if the K-12 system gets fixed. There's also the matter of uneven home life where those with better education and more resources can better prepare their children for school, which leads to some students being behind even before their first day of kindergarten.
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Nobody has come up with an explanation that's simpler or with more evidence than that Oswald was working alone and was shot by Ruby also working alone. Efforts to shoehorn in other parties wind up running afoul of what we reliable know and involve ignoring that these are people who had established histories prior to the assassinations. As unsatisfying as it is, sometimes people just get lucky to be in the right place at the right time to put a plan like this into effect.
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That's unfair to Chamberlain, nukes didn't exist when he was in charge.
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I think part of why he did it the way that he did was for political reasons. Give the relief, get slapped down by partisan hacks when other partisan hacks challenge it and then do it again and hopefully have the relief come closer to the election. But, then again, he rarely does anything that smart, so who knows.
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Not necessarily. Often times you're just seeing the young, the parents are somewhere in the vicinity. The worst is when you see a seemingly unaccompanied bear cub as the parent is usually nearby and can be rather upset by a human getting too close. Mind you, a bear can run faster than you'd probably expect, although somewhat slower down hill due to the front legs being shorter than the rear.
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In the long term y'all are going to lose, because people prefer reality to fantasy. It will take a long time for the South to wake up and accept reality, but it will happen eventually.
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@Gatorade151 Yes, if the donors are publicly stating that they won't give money to him, then he's pretty much done. If he was getting a bunch of small money donations from voters he might be able to survive that, but the voters never wanted him. There were just enough that didn't want Trump for him to win.
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Why is it that the US is only #1 at things that we don't want to be winning at.
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@TheJudge_Carls_Junior_Rep Not really, most of those stories were old enough that they could have found a version that was already expired under the current age requirements. The second of the Grimm Brothers to die died in 1863, so life +70 years would have put that at 1933. Hans Christian Anderson would have been off limits until 1945. I think it's mostly folks like Mark Twain that would have been an issue as he died in 1910, which mean that work wouldn't have been made available until 1980 if the current limits were in place. Those are some more recent sources of material, there were a bunch of other Greek and Roman stuff, as an example, that have never been copyrightable in the US, or really anywhere, due to predating copyright laws by centuries at a minimum.
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This is similar. The fare enforcment officers are clearly identiable to anybody in the area and you're not going to miss them. If you get off the vehicle in response to them getting on, they're likely to then have probable cause for more of a thorough search. This is a simlar system to what is in use in many other places in the world, the main difference, is that it's in the US where the expectations and law are somewhat different.
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Keep in mind that there are several special elections coming up, I think there's 3 GOP seats that could be flipped. After that, we're a little more than 9 months out from next year when the primary seasons starts and hopefully people are setting up to oust the incompetent Democratic leaders and all of the GOP politicians that are up for reelection.
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Perhaps the Democrats should have offered people a positive reason for voting for them rather than Trump. People noticed that the Democrats weren't that concerned about Trump winning in terms of strategy. They couldn't even be bothered to come out against Israel engaging in genocide using our money while people are struggling with paying their bills. Nobody that voted blue or red should be claiming the moral high ground here.
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@Thezuule1 People are entitled to their wrong, messed up opinions. 😛
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You think they aren't trying? Even if you ignore the impact on wildlife, the airline mechanics probably don't like cleaning up the mess of something large an meaty going through the engine.
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Possibly, but I live near there, and it really depends on which part of the neighborhood and where precisely the building is. Parts of that neighborhood have rough terrain that are a lot harder to wire than a standard property would be and given that there's apparently no service for cable or phone service, it's likely a hard-to-reach lot. Or, it could be Comcast being dicks, that's always possible with them.
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She's not wrong. You can communicate a lot with just simple 3 word sentences. Grammar is certainly helpful and you don't want to neglect it too much, but it's usually wrong words that trigger misunderstandings, wrong grammar can, but it's far less likely.
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No, it's not. That's why you write to a new file and then copy it into place when completed or buffer the write. Also, apart from a failing drive, I can't remember the ever happening. I have, however, had the registry go bad a few times and take my entire install out with it. And if any of that's a concern, you really ought to have a USP protecting the computer from power problems.
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@gh3ttoduCanada To be fair, that was his renter's insurance, this would presumably be an auto insurance policy. I suspect that as others have responded that this level of negligence would be enough to get them off the hook.
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@redslate Yes, it's like how prior to a conviction people allegedly did things. After they've been convicted you can say that they did them. Same thing here, if you don't yet know who fired the shot, you kind of have to use the passive voice.
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@ Or, just not have so many guns everywhere and require people that wish to buy one take some sort of gun safety class. We don't let people drive cars without a license, but we let people use firearms without any knowledge that they know how to handle them safely. It's not even like the amount of information you need to know is really that much. It can probably be accomplished in an hour or two and cut down significantly on this sort of thing.
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@ In all fairness, we don't really know if the firearm was defective as law enforcement destroyed it and there weren't supposed to be any live rounds on set at all. In this case, she had no reason to believe that any rounds in the weapon weren't live and she had no reason to believe that anybody else was checking to see if it was loaded.
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@la6136 Like the blue-Anon folks are any better. The honest truth is that there's a bunch of folks on both sides that are brainwashed to the point of being more or less impossible to convince that they have to reconsider their voting strategy if we're to move beyond this.
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@YT4Readers That's a fair point, I forgot about those as I'm not anywhere near them. The point though is that there is a rapidly closing window for Trump if he really does want to be a dictator and even if those special elections are won by the GOP, which seems less likely after all that's going on, that it's just like another 10 months before a bunch more of the vulnerable GOP members of congress have to start worrying about going out in public meeting constituents and Democratic leaders could be primaried.
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I can't speak for others, but I felt far worse about it when W and Obama were doing their things than Trump. Everybody knows that Trump is a clown that barely represents the country, not so true with the other two.
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Are we really surprised? Pelosi refused to develop any younger leaders to protect her ability to be corrupt and I don't think that the Senate was any better. They put a bunch of effort into squashing Bernie and the progressive wing of the party, and somehow were running campaigns on how catastrophic Trump would be if re-elected without any sort of seriousness. I'm not even sure what reality these people think they're living in where they can't decide whether or not there's a threat to be dealt with here.
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That's a bit different. You're not going to be Trump stink on you by interacting with Trump supporters any more than you're going to get Harris stink by interacting with Harris supporters. But, you could contract a dangerous virus by hanging out with people that aren't vaxxed. And, even if you are vaxxed, it can take nearly everybody being vaxxed to really see much improvement in terms of rates of infection.
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@BrjanBuckmaster I'm not sure, in a criminal trial, it just takes one juror to hang the jury, although that can result in an acquittal. In civil trial, it takes a simple majority for any of the counts.
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Understanding the postive/negative reinforcment is important for when you want to set up your house to encourage things you want and discourage things that you don't want.
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The choice of colors was not an accident.
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@SH-jr6qt I don't agree, but that's neither here nor there, it's going to depend upon what the jury finds, but I don't think that it's a clear cut case and decent attorneys should be able to deal with the issue. Without knowing how the rounds got into the gun and why they were even on set, it's going to be a harder case to try and win.
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Yes, but keep in mind that it's not just the culpability that's being considered, it's also what the punishment should be.
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It wouldn't be an issue if the feds would pick up the tab for damage done and set specific labor standards.
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That's the thing, the GOP knows not to bargain, it's just the Democrats that are willing to compromise. You cannot compromise with somebody that refuses to compromise with you. It's why we didn't get at least a public option in Obamacare, even though all of the Democrats that were holding it up lost their reelection bids the next time out anyways. Obamacare with a public option may have worked, even with the GOP trying to sabotage it.
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@acurisur Yep, and pretty much goes back to the beginning. I think somewhere around DOS 5 there wasn't much reason to upgrade to a newer DOS. And, somewhere around Windows 7, there wasn't much of a reason to upgrade to anything newer other than security features.
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@jayhill2193 They had to extend it that long because Vista took so long to come out and when it did, there were so many hardware compatibility issues related to drivers that people avoided it like the plague. It did get extended support, but probably not by as much as people think. Windows 10 came out in 2015, and in 2025 the support is being ended. Meaning that XP probably only got 2 years of extended support.
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It's the East Coast Bias, even tiny bullshit stories wind up being hyped up around the country, even as much bigger stories elsewhere get ignored. It's gotten worse as there's been more media consolidation leaving many places out west without multiple outlets competing to uncover stories.
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Not really, this was all known ahead of time. What I would expect is for there to be some sort of treaty going forward to clarify who is responsible for regulating the activity and for future adventure tourists to demand that the vessels they take to these depths are properly rated by somebody that knows what they're doing and is independent of the company that built and operated the submersible. Conventional designs can be used for thousands of dives over decades when properly maintained and monitored. The Alvin has been in operation for nearly 60 years and has taken thousands of trips down to the depths without losing any crew to such a catastrophic failure. This sub was down there a fraction of 1% of those dives and had a catastrophic failure.
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@benroberts2222 I'm guessing that the difference here is how many military personnel aren't serving close to home. All the other bases would be infiltrated as well.
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While you're at it, also don't vote Democrat as they're the ones that allow the GOP to get away with things like this. If they weren't progressively shifting the Overton window to the right, the GOP would have to put some actual effort into appealing to independents and people towards the left.
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Presumably, this was done to avoid having to have a police officer directing traffic. Around here you can't direct traffic within 150' of an intersection unless you're law enforcement as only law enforcement is allowed to override the traffic signal. This is to prevent confusion about which takes priority. The police always take priority to the signal and the signal takes priority over anything else.
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That tends to be how people wind up with PTSD. There is no inherent reason to it, but we can always choose to create a silver lining from that sort of thing by living our best possible life and making the world just a little bit better each day. I'm not a vet, but between medical emergencies, attempted murder and motorcycle misadventures, I often wonder why precisely it is that I'm still here. And that first bit is honestly the best I've been able to come up with other than sheer luck.
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For those that have debt, that's great, for those that have savings that isn't invested in high quality stocks or mutual funds, it sucks.
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It sounds to me like this video is of the archives, you were in the props warehouse. And I really wish when I was a kid it would have occurred to my parents to go on the other studio tours rather than just Universal. But, then again, we mostly went for Disneyland and that's clear the other end of LA from the studios.
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They're in position they are financially because congress sabotaged them at the behest of UPS and FedEx. They're also required to deliver first class mail for the same price, no matter where in the country. Something that the private carriers don't have to do.
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@5agrasen That would depend on how likely they think it is to be caught. That kind of thing would constitute grand theft in the US and typically be a felony.
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Had Biden been re-elected, it may have had to come so late as to be moot.
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With modern disks being so large, fat packages are often times a reasonable solution to a lot of different problems. I wouldn't go so far as to say that all programs should be like that as I think that goes a bit too far.
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@AncientActivist TBH, those weren't to my personal taste, but compared with the typical high fashion, it wasn't that bad.
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Or get in a time-machine and convince Harris to actually have some policies for men. This is a tight race and having one candidate that flat out isn't trying to win the votes of young men in particular is just asking for trouble.
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@cassady7169 Yes, the minimum wage won't appreciably increase the housing stock or prevent landlords from engaging in illegal collusion.
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@skeezix8156 The reality there is that it's kind of pay some now or a lot later. The solar stuff is kind of expensive to put in, but once it's in the maintenance costs are a bit lower and realistically, we can't continue with the current types of power generation forever. Personally, I would rather see some more nuclear in the mix, but given how badly Hanford has been handled, I'm not holding my breath.
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Most of these songs are too widely known for a successful cover. I'm not sure they're all that bad, they just either didn't adequately re-interpret the original version or took it in a direction that didn't work. IMHO, the best covers tend to be ones that actually add something rather than being a cynical cash grab. Johnny Cash's version of Hurt is a goo example, it differs almost completely from the original, but does so in a mindful and respectful way that eclipses the original. Same goes for the covers that Nirvana did for their unplugged album. Even The Man Who Sold the World was different enough in a good way that people accepted it.
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This one would make sense of she hadn't already contacted covid previously. Covid damaged the kidneys, heart and lungs in addition to being easily spread in a hospital environment. But, don't let facts get in the way of your thought process. I don't know that this is the right policy, but let's not pretend like it isn't consistent with rules involved with organ transplants.
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It's a reasonable response. By admitting that you wouldn't vote for a 15 year old, you've admitted that it's not age that's relevant, it's something else. The fact that you can't understand that reflects on you, not Steve.
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You should thank the Democrats, they're the ones that enabled him and failed to do anything substantive to put guardrails in to stop him from abusing his power.
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I don't think that giving lipservice to the PRC while effectively undermining them and their "control" of the island is really that big of a deal. People who are saying otherwise are ignorant about what the current status quo is. We pretty much just say that Taiwan is part of the PRC, and that's more or less the end of it. We're still ensuring that they have military gear to help put off an invasion and other things that wouldn't be consistent with us considering the island to be owned by the PRC.
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You should, it works. Here in WA, we haven't had any mass shootings in several years since we enacted regulations raising the minimum age to buy these weapons and shut the loopholes on background checks. People can still have their weapons, we just don't have known dangerous people with easy access to firearms.
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The song was a good choice, but WTF are trans people getting a nod when bisexuals still remain the redheaded step-children of the community? We make up more than half of it and yet we don't get any attention or respect. People sort of get Gays/Lesbians and Trans is sort of something that people can analogize, but the first decent portrayal of a bisexual character I saw was in the Good Place, that was only like 5 years ago. Not to mention, that if they're going to pander to trans people, then perhaps doing so with medicare for all that covers related medical treatment might be a good way to go about it. Ensuring that everybody has access to sex ed in school that educates people about it would also be a good way of pandering.
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@honkhonk8009 And how would that tell how the hand moves and which positions are reasonable positions to be in? Which is really the problem, you've got AI that doesn't already know that, and isn't being trained on things that would let it learn.
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Clearly, it's reefer madness.
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You have to remember that a large part of why South America is in such bad shape is because of US intervention in the region, destabilizing countries for the profits of our rich.
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@NebkadBible Yep, I'm definitely not a wokester, but it's pretty clear that things like the School of the Americas did create an obligation to help in some fashion. Most of these folks work extremely hard in the US and send money back to relatives. Over time things are actually improving.
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Joe Biden is a useful idiot. If Donald Trump is the sort of danger that the Democrats would have us believe, why are they using a C league politician to go after him? Perhaps go after him with a candidate that has real supporters. You know, people that actually would still want him as President without Biden.
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IANAL, but courts tend to defer to what's on the paper alone, without considerations for external factors as there's no way of knowing about that. But, given the circumstances involved here, the missed closing date and the cancellation made after forcing the sale of the previous house and days before the new closing date; I'd wager that there's grounds to suspect 3rd party interference. The market has not changed that much in just those few weeks to warrant the builder expecting significantly more money for exercising that clause. Going through discovery based on those weird behaviors by the builder might well reveal 3rd part interference that would not be covered by the contract. The screwed over buyers might well not be able to sue the builder, but if there was a 3rd party interfering, that party does not have a waiver with the buyer, and would be potentially liable for any damages that occured if they did indeed induce the builder to terminate the contract. Obviously, we wouldn't know whether or not that's the case, but given how important it was for the builder to have this family close and then at the last minute to feel equally strongly that they not move in, after changing the closing date, something may be going on that isn't covered in the contract.
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The real reason is that they aren't interested in paying for code that works as advertised without numerous bugs. Fixing bugs is always a lot harder to get funded than new features. Even in opensource there's often far more interest in new features with bugs being mostly fixed by programmers that are either being hurt by them, or who have a passion for the project.
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@digiryde Even without those moments at the end of the day, you're trying to code something that runs the way that you want it to run. Even if what you're doing is theoretically correct, it doesn't much matter if there's some sort of bug in the compiler that does something you weren't wanting.
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@publicacct5626 If you've got it set up where you have to run the entire thing at once in order to debug it, then you've got a problem. And yes, of course there are things that are going to pop up at scale that wouldn't be a problem with smaller scale builds, but if you haven't fixed those smaller scale builds and deployments, then why would you assume that a larger deployment isn't going to have massive problems?
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In all fairness, cops can lie about all night bowling, lasertag and pizza parties, be we can't lie to them about all night bowling, lasertag and pizza parties.
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I think what this tells us is that we should be classifying people based on performance characteristics rather than gender. Gender and biological sex has never been quite as binary as people have believed. You've had effeminate men and masculine women. I've met women that were absolutely massive, as in over 6' tall and built. Not trans as far as I know. We already do this in sports like boxing and wrestling, where there are established standards for categorization. So, you'd take a few measurements of weight, or something else, and that's your class for competition. Golf has the soon-to-be renamed handicap to allow people with different skill levels to play together. Also, the Special Olympics has multiple classes for similar reasons. It's hardly perfect, and I'm sure with more thought and research, something could be worked out to make it reasonably fair.
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Yep, she could have gotten something for allowing the final passage of the Cares Act if she wanted to. She didn't want to get unemployment extended, hazard pay for essential workers or any of the rest of it, she didn't even try until after she'd given up all her leverage and even then, she didn't fight for any of it on TV or in the media.
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I'd be surprised if any meaningful number of them that weren't bi or lesbians to begin with are still doing this next year. As much as it can suck for men, the reality is that women pushing this are really bullets dodged.
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And yet, the vast majority of voters picked racist bigots as their preferred Presidential candidates when there were other options. The Harris supporters really shouldn't be too smug when she was part of an administration that was crucial to Israel's genocide in Gaza. They literally would not be able to to do it without the US' backing.
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@zealoustherealous I hadn't heard about gray jay, but I'll be looking at it more closely and likely using it.
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@taylorhickman84 YT already kind of does that with the demonetization and screwing with the algorithm to make sure that only Mr. Beast and a handful of super "popular" creators get prioritized over the folks that we might actually want to see. For a significant portion of the YT creators, they either get no money at all, or they get very little. Whether or not we see the ads makes little difference to them. It mostly matters to YouTube. In fact, YT won't even allow you to use that special thanks button for creators that aren't monetized and there are a number of reasons why they can't be monetized including not having enough subscribers. But, even without many subscribers somebody may have a video that somebody appreciates enough to give some money to, but historically couldn't unless the creator put up a 3rd party payment link. Plus, the amount of money that creators make from an individual ad is pretty small and if the ad revenue loss due to this becomes big, there's other ways of making money on the site that don't involve YT ads.
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Around here we vote by mail with dropboxes and voting offices availableas needed. Somewhere around 96% of the people in the county live within 3 miles of a drop box and we can drop them off at any post office for free delivery to the elections office. What's more, we're using an optical scan system similar to what's used on standardized testing and we've been using it for over 20 years. I've literally never voted with those stupid poke out the vote you want cards and I'm in my 40s. The system works pretty well, the few illegal votes that are cast haven't affected any elections and when the GOP tries to challenge the outcome, they usually wind up losing a few votes because their voters are marginally more likely to engage in it. (It is worth noting that even though all the votes are in favor of the GOP, it's still a literal handful of votes out of the hundreds of thousands that are cast) And, the voting is done in a fishbowl of a building where observers can watch from basically any angle they like, the desks have no drawers and nobody is allowed in with anything other than their personal clothing.
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It is, but that's the case with most languages. The thing though is that grammar is useless without vocab and you can pretty much always express a lot with a smaller grammar set than people realize. In any language there are redundancies and different ways of expressing the same idea. And, a bunch of the grammar will be learned from exposure or from the example sentences that people ought to be using when learning vocab.
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@etienneturgeon Um, what? Speaking is one of the most common issues for people to have. Reading and listening are mostly a matter of having the correct vacab for the media you're trying to understand.
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There were other people kicked off. The issue here is that they shouldn't be deplaning teens just because they didn't pay to be chaperoned for the trip.
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Except that the Democrats won't do anything to win if it involves taking popular stances. The Republicans though are blood thirsty and willing to win at any cost. Just look at the blatantly unconstitutional efforts to gerrymander their way to victory and the various corrupt acts that they regularly benefit from the Supreme Court engaging in if you don't believe me.
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@notoriouseagle1074 Because young people are more likely to call out the GOP BS and actually judge policies based on their merits rather than being scared by Fox News.
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So, for whom are they supposed to vote for? Neither party seems to care about actually doing anything about the issue. They both get donations from the same corrupt oligarchs.
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Restaurants can already kick people out for not having control over their children. A sign indicating that when they come in would address that issue without violating the law.
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We'll see how that lasts. I could definitely see the same channels for buying them still existing if that becomes the issue. This stuff was being made without a massive laboratory, so I fail to see why that couldn't happen again if we have issues with pricing and availability. Same goes for pot, since it was legalized here, the main issue we have is criminals robbing the dispensaries because the feds won't allow dispensaries to have bank accounts.
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The actual answer would likely be none of those, or possibly all of them, without the qualifiers about most closely resembling it. I'd wager that all of them except A would pop up when flying due to the fact that you can keep a helicopter relatively steady in terms of ground speed, but also keeping it steady in terms of air speed at the same time is going to be an issue.
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@NJGuy1973 But, Freddie Mercury was the only one that was still active in any meaningful way. Elvis was already well past being relevant and MJ hadn't released much of anything notable in years.
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@jdenino6022 I saw The Who a few months before the Pandemic when they played Seattle. It was awesome that they weren't just doing what they had, they redid things to be accompanied by the symphony. It's a shame, but completely expected, that there aren't going to be any more tours for them. But, I wasn't expecting there to be any more after that due to legal issues and hearing loss.
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@wlh227 Yes, and that cheating likely wouldn't be relevant in any legal proceedings anyways as the claims that he cheated are specific to specific matches. The courts generally go to length to make the legal proceedings about what happened in specific instances unless one of the exceptions to that rule applies.
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@Garywhitetrumphobgobbler If I'm not greatly mistaken, when they're talking about using this stuff for medical use, they're typically microdosing as in less than what you'd take recreationally. I'm sure there are situations where larger doses are medically appropriate, but frequently taking enough of this stuff to see the more extreme results doesn't do much to help out. How many times do people wind up taking drugs convinced that there's all this brilliant insight going on, only to listen to or view the recordings and find out that it was completely mindless and a waste of time for creative use.
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Correct, the grocery store I work for has been providing masks and a small raise for the time being. The government has done nothing for us that isn't going to everybody else. Scratch that, less than what other people are getting, the unemployed get a $600 a week stimulus bonus, which is more than many people working in things like the food supply.
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This attitude right here is why we can't have nice things. Your childhood worked out for you, because you were privileged enough to be born to parents with the resources to make that work. Most folks are not that lucky and the number who are is getting to be less and less and less each year. The main reason why we're seeing that kind of attitude in employees is because of the lack of incentives. Most employers do not align their compensation with desired behavior. Why on earth should any employee show any initiative or go beyond the bare minimum when the compensation is meager and extra work doesn't lead to anything other than lay offs? In terms of the college itself, the enrollment drop is definitely a big concern, but it is still a top ranked college. The real question is how much more of a drop is the legislature going to tolerate before they fire the college adminstrators that have encouraged this to happen. At bare minimum the college president should have been fired last year when he refused to do anything substantive about it.
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@THEEFunkySoulBrotha I rarely gamble, but blackjack would be one that you can reliably make a profit at with perfect play, similarly good poker players can make money at it. Although, the easiest money is generally sports betting. If you look at the odds often times the bookies give slightly better than appropriate odds for unpopular teams and if you bet for all the unpopular teams you'll come out ahead. But, you do have to do the work of verifying that's the case on that particular day with that particular bookie. They often do it as a form of insurance and as long as there aren't enough people doing it, there's no problem for them.
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I think this just further establishes that money > race. Anybody who thinks that racism is a bigger problem than wealth inequality is just plain wrong. If he had just kept his mouth shut after getting that slap on the wrist, people probably would have forgotten about it.
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They actually came? My parents found a bike parked by the telephone pole in front of their house. It was there for weeks and they couldn't get anybody to come over and deal with it. I can't remember what ultimately happened to it, but they didn't take it.
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@jasonpatterson8091 That makes more sense, making him give up holidays as a reduction does make some sense as those days are likely to be more punishing than regular days. 18 total days would have been ridiculous even by normal standards.
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@quademasters249 The issue here is that alcoholism is a disability, which means that you could come to the same stupid conclusion here where being sued for being drunk on the job is suing somebody for being disabled. There are a bunch of issues with that line of reasoning, but it can be arrived at logically if you're not thinking about what it all means.
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@ianbelletti6241 Why would they? Don't their insurance rates increase when there are successful claims filed? It's part of why a former employer had free breakfasts when we went a certain number of days without injuries and why my current employer sometimes hands out gift cards when nobody in the department gets hurt. It's not being done purely out of concern for our safety, the rewards are cheaper than having to pay the increased premiums when people get hurt.
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Could they even address all the legislation even if they wanted to? Even if they just restrict that to the stuff they want to address, there still likely wouldn't be enough time to do so.
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@Dandelion_Stitches Yes, and yet the DNC forced Kamala on us without making her justify her nomination. As horrible as Trump is, he at least has won primaries and is doing what some portion of his base wants. Kamala is the nominee because she was the body left when Biden's performance was so bad that they couldn't continue gaslighting us about his abilities.
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I'm curious how anybody can call this a bombshell when people have known that her and Pelosi are well into their cognitive decline and yet the ruling class continues to prop them up. It's got to be horrible to be this sort of warm body that gets wheeled out whenever it's convenient.
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I'd probably do more commenting if Youtube had a decent comment system. There's not much point in commenting when you can never find the replies as most of the time the replies to my posts are hidden.
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Yes and no, at the wide angle it's rather simple, but there are probably hundreds of thousands of members that had to be modeled to ensure that the stresses would flow the way that the engineers intended to and that there was enough margin for safety, particularly in the direction where it's so narrow at the bottom. It's one of the fascinating things about projects like this. The basic idea is rather simple, but proving that you've got the materials to actually do it with sufficient safety is another matter. After all, people would get cranky if you built the building as a test and it just fell over like those ones in Kobe did.
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@mjmeans7983 That's maybe a bit too far, but they should be restricted from lying about anything other than their identity. It's kind of amazing that the FBI is incapable of busting any terrorists that they don't supply the plan and equipment to.
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@DHFlip18 And who is to judge who is and isn't guilty? The point of having jury trials is that a group of people separate from the parties involved in the matter are better trusted to weigh the facts than people that are directly involved in the controversy. Back when this was a major problem, it was kind of interesting how it was mostly Black people, Jews and immigrants that were on the receiving side of this form of justice rather than those with power.
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Here in WA, we've apparently had blood for the medic one program for years. Basically ER doctors attached to the fire department that go to the scene of the accident and stabilize patients for transport to the ICU. I'd be surprised if laws don't change as the understanding of how to run this part of the program improves and changes are made to ease the blood shortages.
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Why do you assume that it was a Democrat?
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Postal wasn't a particularly bad movie, it was just a niche movie and it's reference to the 9/11 hijackers in any way other than the approved of manner is enough to get it pulled. The movie itself was quite funny if you've got a rather dark sense of humor.
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We'll have to see. SCOTUS gave him all that power when he wasn't President, and partially on the basis that they thought he'd have at least some self-control. It remains to be seen if their same logic is going to apply now that he's running absolutely amok and SCOTUS enabled it.
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@Robin_Goodfellow That's exactly what I'd suggest. I personally had the good fortune to spend several summers doing so when I was a teen. Time well spent. It pre-existing trails, but I have a feeling that if I go back, that the rock work is probably still there. Although the wood is probably gone in the decades since.
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To a large extent I agree, however, there's only so much you can do to prevent things like cancer or a random mugging and if there aren't any quality women around, which is likely the case if you're in most of the western US, then it doesn't really work out so easily. (And yes, I know about the western US, it's hard for there to be any quality women if there aren't any single women)
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What about the people that voted for Hillary?
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The only reason people are saying age is because Bernie is a year or so older and they don't want to open the door to him snagging the nomination. He would have been the nominee had they not forced Biden on us anyways.
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They aren't charging enough, the delivery apps take too much of the price and things are just going to get worse. If anything the fee killing sales probably is allowing these businesses to remain in business longer as the take from the app is massive.
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Back in the '90s the DOD was subsidizing FPS games as a recruitment tool.
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They're basically ebikes that don't have anything limiting their speed or power to qualify for use without a special license. And, I think that's a major problem for the manufacturers. The range and charging time isn't good enough to be a reasonable alternative for regular ICE motorcycles, but for in town use, ebikes just wipe the floor with them in terms of ebikes being allowed to be used wherever bikes are, so bike trails and bike lanes where motorcycles are not allowed. Sometimes, even sidewalks.
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@patrickbyrne5070 That's mainly down to the fans, although I'm guessing that they probably are really nice people in real life.
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@nerdy1701 Things can still go wrong with those, but once the employees know how the machine works, the mistakes tend to be a lot less likely. In general those, tend to be a lot less error prone than other options, as long as people remember to clock in and out as appropriate.
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Possibly, but I think it's equally likely that they're just not paying for enough accountants to deal with the payroll and when they switched systems they were probably promised that it would take fewer workers to do the job, but couldn't be bothered to figure out if there was a reduction in time spent dealing with it.
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Ryan Grim being on there is hardly a reason to watch, the dude is any access journalist that's thoroughly bought and paid for. Just watch Jimmy's coverage of that ass. His being appointed alone should be sufficient to tank the show.
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But, they didn't, it's true that she posted the pictures on purpose. As horrible ad they were, it's unlikely that they broke any laws.
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@lylecoglianese1645 Yes, but Kroger does have stores that are similar in scope. That is stores that do a lot more than just groceries. Fred Meyer is one example where the grocery store portion is typically less than 1/4 of the total store area.
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@Obelix Exactly, the democrats used budget reconciliation and couldn't even be bothered to make it the $2k they promised, let alone any of those other things. They needed 0 GOP votes and completely own the lack of effort to make any of those things happen, just like how they stopped pushing for hazard pay for essential workers when they gained the ability to make it happen.
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It's time to hold the Democrats accountable for allowing the GOP to gerrymander themselves to a permanent advantage in the House and being able to steal SCOTUS nominations that should have been made by the Democrats. The Democrats need to be as afraid of their voters as the GOP is.
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I don't necessarily mind my job, but I am working for a grocer and it would be great to be able to work from home. Still, I"m grateful that I have to worry more about interest that I'll be paying on my loans than losing my job or becoming homeless.
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@fx4426m Speaking as somebody that's going to be 43 later this year, if you seriously think that you are autistic, get the evaluation done while you're as young as possible. That will give you the best hope of getting an accurate evaluation, whether you are or aren't autistic. Past a certain point, it can be virtually impossible to get an accurate diagnosis due to the coping strategies and accommodations that you would be making. That is unless you are OK with the possibility of never getting an accurate diagnosis and want to chance finding out later on when you burn out and can't really function any longer.
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No, the message is that we need to deal with our corruption before we lecture foreign nations about it. How precisely does she have the right to drag us into something that's at most a cold war and more of a rivalry while orchestrating the movies that gave most of the power that the PRC has to it?
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The ballots will be set off to the side until election day and processed like any other provisional ballot.
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Yes, pulling a permit these days isn't necessarily very hard. Now, if the process involved having to travel out of state to apply, like it does if you want to file for a mining claim, I think there would be a point here. But, there are permits involved with other commercial activities on public lands that are more or less just get a copy of the rules from the state and there isn't even a fee associated with it. Letting the government know about more invasive than normal use isn't a particularly high burden and unless the government starts to decide that some commercial users are OK and others aren't, I fail to see a 1st amendment issue here.
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A couple of things, unfortunately, most people never hear from 2nd amendment advocates that aren't crazy. They just don't get any media coverage. And secondly, pretty much being a supporter of the 2nd amendment in modern times means that he doesn't understand the history of the amendment. The 2nd amendment basically only applies to a vanishingly small number of Americans and was always intended as a replacement for a standing military, not in addition to a standing military. And lastly, it's questionable if the 2nd amendment is even an amendment, the version ratified did not match the version that was passed, so in a sane world, it would have been tossed and the process done again. The next best thing would be to just parse it as written, which is to say that you've got to be a member of a well-regulated militia as that's clearly what the 2nd amendment was for.
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It's not just that, but the conditions that we keep both those that are just accused as well as those that have been convicted is absolutely disgraceful.
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From what I can tell, that's changing because customers hate not being able to safely use those controls without taking their eyes off the road. The old controls had a lot of features built into them that allowed you to feel your way around the panel to the various controls without taking your eyes off the road. It was still somewhat distracting, but because you were still able to keep your eyes on the road, you could stop doing so if you needed to suddenly concentrate with minimal interference with your driving. My wife's Ford has a touch screen, but most of the essential controls also have a physical button on the steering wheel/column and the essential display bits are behind the steering wheel as well to help you to use them quickly. And a bunch of the stuff just isn't accessible at all if you're moving.
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@Metqa If you're in town, you can do it at a stop light, if you're on the freeway though, you may not have a safe opportunity to do so. Back in olden days, it was a simple knob that didn't require you to look at all.
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It is her fault, she failed to use the leverage she had. She could have withheld the corporate aid until she got more.
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I agree, let's make his wish happen by swapping him out for a better candidate.
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Indeed, I'd hope most people would realize that people like that could be rehabilitated.
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Schizoid Personality Disorder is clearly the least problematic for other people as the only real harm being done to others is a failure to reciprocate emotional connections in most cases.
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Why would they? I still haven't heard any such admission about how bad of an idea it was to for HRC on us and then go with Tim Kaine rather than running mate that might have been seen as more acceptable to the Bernie Sanders' supporters. We got more or less an F you, you'll take what you're served and like it. Unsurprisingly, enough people were like no, and she wound up losing to one of the most beatable candidates in recent memory.
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If we don't use the 25th amendment on Trump, then it's pretty much only usable for anything other than a President in a coma or who is specifically known to be compromised by a foreign government. For example, if a family member is held hostage.
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You must have missed the memo, now that Biden is President Trump isn't, so everything is good. Everything is good.
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That's been a problem for a while and it's really screwed up the Presidential races as there's a bunch of them in Florida and if it hadn't been for the pro-fascist voters in Florida in 2000, there would probably be a million fewer dead Iraqis now.
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It's only self-insured if you have the money to pay. I get sick of people not buying insurance and then expecting the government to bail them out, while opposing things like universal health care coverage as being handouts.
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@sages101 It doesn't need to be bigger, it just needs to be somebody that can withstand the beating for a bit. Large people tend to tire more quickly than smaller ones do.
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@DrakonIL Except no, that wouldn't happen unless you're first encountering a clock in a location with no natural light or context to tell you that it's not 9. You learn to use a clock typically with other clocks in your environment somewhere. Learning to use a clock where there are none in the area is just going to end badly reguardless of how the skill is taught.
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@st.m.3979 By that standard nobody would ever be taught anything significant as what gets taught is almost never correct. Most of the stuff that laypeople are taught is simply good enough. As efficient as it would be, the reality is that there's a bunch of pipework that needs to be laid before people can properly understand the intricacies of complicated skills. The only real alternative is to slavishly copy what an expert does and hope that the apprentice figures the rest out on their own. Which can work, the Chinese did well with it for centuries, but it has massive limitations in terms of creativity.
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Indeed, it's rather obvious that the planet is banana shaped.
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@shaunmcfarland6021 Yep, the only question is which one, and I'm guessing the presence of Secret Service nails that aspect. We'll have to see if this was a local, if it's not a local, that would make it a bit harder to manage.
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@carolynbrubaker1619 I'd be fine with HRC and Biden being thrown in prison if it meant that Trump and some of those SCOTUS justices could be sent to prison with them.
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@sirdidymus9032 Section 230 is a completely different thing, and I think it mostly talks about the degree to which they're responsible for what's posted here.
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You're already paying for it, the ICU visit is a massive portion of the total bill and hospitals are legally required to provide service whether or not there's any insurance. Then afterwards if there isn't any insurance, they wind up on various welfare programs where taxpayer dollars are picking up the tab. It's a myth that these costs aren't passed onto other people. It's been that way since sometime in the '80s when Reagan tried to wallpaper over the lack of universal care by mandating hospitals engage in charity care.
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The first one is even funnier when you realize that Orcas aren't whales, they're dolphin.
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It's been going on for decades where the elites in both parties have systematically disassembled anything that might lead to accountability for those in charge.
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And after 5, there are presumably policies in place to ensure that they can all get treatment when appropriate.
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Current restaurants don't necessarily get a choice about being listed. There's been a problem for years of the apps listing restaurants without permission or even the knowledge of the owner. I think it is better now, but particularly in the beginning restaurant owners wouldn't have any idea it was going on.
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I was shocked when I did mine, the cost of the stainless steel lines was barely more than the cost of OEM rubber ones, but have a better feel and better durability.
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@johnkeck I don't know, but that wouldn't surprise me. Building things is often times cheaper than restoring them as you can arrange what you're doing to reduce excess cost. But, if you're got something in place, you have to prioritize not having the stuff that's already there falling down. When I was a kid, the local college football stadium collapsed during renovation because too many supports were removed by somebody that had no idea what they were doing.
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That's what gets me. It's been nearly 25 years of these "existential" races and yet the DNC never seems to consider that they need better candidates and that those candidates need to follow through on their promises when in office. The Republicans are absolutely brutal when they take over, but the Democrats are playing paddy-cake,
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@xxsm6012 The one we live in. The Democrats have been using tokenism and DEI as a substitute for policy for a while now and it's getting rather hard to point at anything that the Democrats are doing or promising that's unrelated to DEI that isn't just a slightly softened version of what the GOP wants to do as the party moves further and further to the right.
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They have a massive back catalog of stuff that people actually want to watch. I visited the studio recently and it kind of blew my mind all the various properties that the studio owns the rights to. Arguably WB has a bigger chunk of the TV and movies that I grew up with than Disney. We'll have to see how things go, but they could well still turn things around, that is if they go back to focusing on making stuff people want, or at least avoiding spending a lot of money on stuff that the fans hate. If they just stopped producing more than just a few TV shows and movies and really focused on nailing the stories and characters, that would probably suffice. The studios get leased out all the time to 3rd parties and the streaming service is profitable. They've already marked down the TV channels, so they might as well cut them loose entirely.
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Yep, I'm fortunate enough to have gotten enough money in hazard pay from the city's ordinance to cover my student loan bill, but I had to save like crazy to do it and now it's been extended multiple times, meaning I could have saved at a more relaxed pace and put more of the money into my emergency fund. I've been deliberately ducking my loan officer because I don't want them to think that I can pay until the absolute last minute.
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@margarita8442 There's the rub, assuming that they are indeed still alive, they don't have any way of knowing if they've been located with time to be extracted from the sub. This is like a real life example of one of those ethics dilemmas that people like to think about. They don't actually know if they're going to be rescued, and if they aren't going to be rescued, then offing themselves to preserve oxygen is just extending the suffering of the younger passengers. And, if they are rescued, they don't really know if the rescue is going to come a few minutes later, or if the sacrifice will make any difference. Plus, these are all wealthy people from what I can tell, they don't have any sort of morals or higher purpose, if they did, they wouldn't be so rich. The company owner might be the only one that isn't in that position, but also likely the only one that can keep things kind of in perspective as well. So, who knows.
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And yet, Harris and the Democrats didn't care. It's hard to claim the moral high ground when you're literally supply weapons for another country to use to engage in genocide.
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This is what happens when they hand out qualified immunity and then put the standards to even test f it applies so high.
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He's got a point, those guys are losers.
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These sorts of suits are needed to flesh out the extent of protections. But, that being said, this is a stretch. The copy in RAM isn't a copy as far as copyright law goes and even if it was, modifying a copy isn't a violation of copyright, it's the distribution of that copy that might be. The patches would only violate the law if they contain code that is protected and there isn't an exception for it. At most, this might result in certain types of cheats being banned, but it's unlikely to ever prevent people from developing middleware or intercepting API calls as those wouldn't necessarily need to create a new copy to work.
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@tonycamp4514 If there is even the slightest wiggle room SCOTUS might decide that it's not enforceable. That being said, the fake reviews might anger enough corporations that SCOTUS will be allowed to let it stand.
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@Bobs-Wrigles5555 When we agreed that open face sandwiches can be a thing, we opened the floodgates to things like tacos and pizzas being sandwiches.
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This was pretty much inevitable as YT has stopped directing viewers to content that we want, instead funneling anybody to a handful of creators while screwing with the ad revenue for smaller channels that might be using the money mostly to produce quality content.
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@THICCTHICCTHICC Sort of, there were trails in the US from the various tribes, it's just that the ones that were useful to the colonists were preserved and expanded into roads which in many cases became highway routes. The ones that didn't, tended to just return to nature as it does take a fair amount of use to maintain the trails as natural processes tend to reclaim it when possible.
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Same here, after the shameful way he stepped aside to let Biden steal the nomination after the disastrous turn that HRC steeling the previous nomination, he pretty much lost all credibility. Personally, I'm voting 3rd party. I'll probably vote RFK JR, but I might vote Stein again. I'm definitely not voting for Biden or Harris or anybody corporatist.
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There's pretty much no such thing as guaranteed income. Emergency savings is based upon spending, guaranteed money allows you to get away with closer to 3 months worth of savings. Trying to be too smart can break things when you can't afford to recover.
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Probably, although wax was also commonly used back then to color things like buildings. A lot of the Greek temples were very colorful back then, but since then the color mostly disappeared. I do think that it's the most likely explanation, but I could also see the nubs being used as pivot points and you could quickly put different rods into the different holes to convert between different weights.
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Because the Israelis insisted on screwing over the other options the last time the Palestinian Authority had an election? I don't know how people can take sides when the IDF is at least as bad as Hamas is.
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It must be nice to live in a state where your vote actually matters. Politicians mostly don't even bother to campaign here and the President rarely even bothers to make promises during the campaign for things we want. Time to end the electoral college. Why should small states and ones that are evenly divided be the only ones that count?
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@gasdive That's an example of grossly overspeccing the power supply. There's only a small number of things that legitimately require that much juice. In order to get that, you have to massively overspec all of the wiring in case you need the extra capacity. It's incredibly dumb. In the US, there's a solution to that, you run a different circuit for such things, or you wait. The power coming into the house is more than enough to do that. We can't have that in the US in large part because, unlike in Europe, we didn't have to rebuild everything after WWII. And you make it sound like it's just the US, from what I can tell, it's hardly just us and the Japanese. You see 10A 240v systems in much of the world and while that is a bit higher than what you see in the US, it's not that much higher. There's also the issue that if you're going to have the extra juice, then you're having to spend extra money if you need an extension cord that uses the extra juice. When all is said and done, it just makes no sense to make that change for so little gain.Certainly not enough to throw out all the infrastructure and start over.
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@Monkeh616 Such ignorance. You guys had a newer electrical grid than we do. One of the perks of that is that you can design them better without having to worry about integrating into an older system. In the US, we have been using an incremental approach, you no longer see those plug systems that we used to use in new construction. You also don't see new systems using aluminum wiring these days either. We have increased the voltage a bit over the decades, but shy of throwing everything out and starting over, there's only so much we can increase it. The other issue though, is that the other systems are massively overspecced. You don't need the 80% rule, because most devices just cannot use enough juice to get anywhere near that point. Perhaps space heaters or an electric car charging system can, but the vast majority of the things you'd plug into the walls isn't going to stress the system. As devices get more and more efficient, the advantage is going to go away. Things with heating elements will always use roughly the same amount of power because they're converting the electricity into heat on purpose, but for virtually everything else, the power consumption is getting to be less and less.
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I've had a bunch of arguments like that. I mostly just engage in them because I'm feeling kind of grouchy and it helps me avoid annoying people I see in person. It never ceases to amaze me when people prove my point about them not knowing what they're doing far more thoroughly than I could ever do. The funniest thing is that they don't even realize it.
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And, keep in mind that men don't have anybody that's advocating for us in this election. The GOP is engaged in some degree of lip service, but the Democrats can't even be bothered to give us lip service or pretend like our issues matter.
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Hi, this is good advice. I'm super-organized at work because I have a very clear idea what the short term consequences of not being organized are. So, I do whatever I need to do to immediately straighten things up, or do so as soon as possible if I'm forced to forgo it. It also doesn't hurt that there's just less to organize and I have to do it from scratch every day as all the stuff I organize is on its way out of the building shortly after I organize it.
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I think that's a bit overly dramatic for the change they've made. After what they did to Splash Mountain over less, no attraction is safe if enough activists decide that they're no offended enough to demand changes. This is a pretty benign change to the ride that will reduce any pressure to remove the rest of it as the rest of it isn't particularly problematic for a story set in London at the time it was set.
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Within reason yes, I remember the one when I played football about spearing where actual footage of deaths and permanent paralysis from spearing were shown and seemed to be effective. But, I'm not sure how effective the blood on the streets film about car crashes really was.
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@stuarthall3874 The futurist failed to predict that Reagan would come into office, tax rates on the wealthy would crater and the wages would stagnate while more and more of the total tax burden would land on the poor. Had the same breakdown of the GDP been maintained, that likely would have worked out.
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@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 Not really. It's a bit of a numbers game to have the appearance that a candidate received more than 50% of the vote. But, in practice, that's not what's going on. You don't have to select 3 candidates, but if you only select one or two, it means you might wind up in a situation where at the end of the process your preference didn't count at all. The problem here is a lack of candidates representing the will of the voters and corruption. This doesn't address that in any way, shape or means. In this case, it appears to have helped a Democrat, but I'm still not sold on such an undemocratic voting system being used. It helped the dems this time, but it could just as easily hurt them. How many of those "votes" that were used to win the election would have gone to him had they finished with the first ballot? Answer, not enough to win.
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@John-yh5gm Why not? My mother has had a microwave/convection oven since sometime in the mid-80s.
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Not necessarily, only if they were denying abortions to men.
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This is probably where the idea that all autistic people are hardcore introverts came from. Because it's just shy of impossible for us to not spend all that time analyzing what's going on, due to it being very hard not to analyze things when we're being asked to respond to an assortment of figurative and language without really knowing what is and isn't being requested. I realized a couple of days ago that when the boss comes by and asks how you're doing, that's not at all what the question is.
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TBH, this is one of the rare cases where the bit of bait and switch was warranted. He's not writing a joke here, he's writing a bit. Writing a bit is much more involved than just writing a joke. He's got a set of smaller jokes that are being woven into a larger one. Writing simple jokes isn't really that hard and people often times make them off the cuff. I personally struggle with figurative language at various points in my day and I can do that. I just have to be careful because I can be more cutting than I intend to be due to a lack of appropriate body language.
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There are strategies that do work effectively 100% of the time, it's just that you have to have a reasonable income to begin with and you have to invest in a mixture of index funds and bonds over the course of decades. Doing it faster with less of an investment gets into the range of less reliable to borderline impossible.
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It's not above his pay grade, he should be talking with experts to come up with a proposal, even if it's not perfect or novel. As President, nothing woud be above his pay grade,
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@MistaDobalinaMistaBobDobalina Those are related. The rules didn't just allow the telecoms to block the calls, but they were also required to put more effective measures into place and block call centers that weren't complying with the law from having their calls terminated in the US.
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I wish there was a version of this without the script. The script has been broken recently, possibly related to the 64bit version of Raspberry Pi OS being released and the instructions for installing without it are pretty much broken as well.
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No cut frame sliders are waste of money. Most of them are designed in a way that allows them to shift when you do go down. Had mine crack the fairing anyways because they pivoted. Best to just bite the bullet and cut the hole. That way, there's nothing to pivot.
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@lucasrem We'll see how long that lasts, with recall being a mandatory install, even if you don't use it, I have a feeling that a bunch of the people who refuse to use an MS account are probably just going to move to other OSes.
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@mikestrivens2039 Keep in mind that around town ebikes are often allowed in bike lanes and to use bike trails. And the top speeds that are permitted are often times only like 40mph tops. So, there's little reason to own an electric motorcycle just to go around town. Might as well get an ebike that can be taken into your apartment and charged there. You can even take them on the bus or train if you break down.
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I personally remember, it's part of why I didn't vote for the Democrats. This is coming out of my paycheck and there's been no effort made to explain to me or any of the younger workers where they're going to get the money to pay for this expansion other than stealing more of our social security money.
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Precisely, if you see one of the sides where it's both people's arms rather than just from one of their backs, the sculpture looks a lot better. Perhaps they'll find some way of constraining the view point, or encouraging people to look at it from one of those vantage points.
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@felixvaladez6103 Naming one most recognizable building is never going to be agreed upon. Even back in antiquity, we had the 7 wonders of the world, not the 1 wonder of the world for a few reasons. One of which being that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon versus the Colossus of Rhodes would be a really hard contest to have. Similarly, the Egyptian Pyramids versus the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus is also a really hard call.
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Is it just me or is the painting on the left in Seth's place nightmare inducing?
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The more that I hear this sort of stuff, the more I'm glad that I basically don't do business with them at all any more. A couple times a year, there'll be something on there that I get recommended from elsewhere that can't be had from anybody else, or I'll get something from a different site fulfilled by them, but I basically don't do business with them any more.
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@Hello8 goodbye9 you mean people that believe in democracy? How much is Putin paying you to undermine democracy? If you don't have the support of the people without elections fraud, then you should get a say.
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In virtually every time there are threats involved by the prosecutor to get the guilty verdict. There's no reason for anybody to threaten if they weren't threatened with something.
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I think they did yesterday, but that being said, even if I'm remembering correctly, that's still inexcusable.
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The US has never lived up to any of that, those ideologies were always aspirational and likely always will be aspirational, the question is whether or not we're moving in the right direciton. Right now, we're clearly not, but if we all hold politicians and companies accountable that could change.
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Most methods of power storage are going to naturally want to output DC power if you don't create additional circuitry. This is true whether it's an actual battery, you're moving water or sand up hill or using fluctuating heat to generate more electricity from that later on.
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The HOT and HOV lanes work a lot better if you give them dedicated on and off ramps periodically. One of the issues with the HOV lane in particular is that you often times have to cross multiple lanes to get in and out of it, meaning that it can take a few miles to get into the lane and back out of it during traffic. Which is less than ideal, given that those are the periods where you most want to consolidate whatever traffic can't be eliminated.
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We can, they just have chosen not to virtualize it for the programs that legitimately need it as part of a phase out period.
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She kind of is right about sexism. If sexist women wouldn't allow each other to blame sexism for their own incompetence, she might have run a decent campaign. But, the moment she tried to claim Sanders was sexist was the moment she lost any hope of winning.
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It only works that way when you're the establishment favorite. If you're not, then you need to prove you deserve the nomination to party officers.
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That was risky, but laudable. Hopefully the employee doesn't get into too much trouble for doing so. That generally needs an attorney to authorized, just to make sure that nobody is sneaking off with items that are due for liquidation to pay back whatever money is left.
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You mean how remarkably coincidental. Even if this had been successful, all that would have meant was a bit of delay and a new judge. If they were that powerful, they would have just chosen a different judge if they took exception to her.
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Mostly business people with an urgent need to get there, most other folks wouldn't have been able to afford it anyways. But, if you've got a serious issue at a factory that requires somebody on one side of the Atlantic to show up, the cost of at ticket can be a lot less than idling an entire plant.
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Bernie helped squash Williamson. I voted for her in the primary anyways, but Bernie helped squash her before she really even got to my state.
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I think the basis for the reversal was BS, but having permits for commercial filming does make a lot of sense. There's a lot of permitting like that which goes on. For example, the permit for panning for gold in public streams and rivers here is free, and it mostly involves getting a copy of the rules from the state. In terms of commercial filming, filming outside can be incredibly invasive and damaging to the area. A bunch of moving back and forth over the land and potentially setting up lights and mics to cover what's going on. Photography can involve most of those things, but in practice most of that stuff isn't useful in outdoor photography. I do think some form of license to ensure that the people involved know the rules and the government can keep track of what's going on in case there is damage is fully appropriate. Journalists really should be an exception though as trying to pull a permit for breaking news is ridiculous and even for nonbreaking news, it's just too close to regulating journalism.
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It's not a better system if you don't have better candidates. The 50% number is largely arbitrary when you have to go to 2nd and 3rd ballots in order to determine a winner. You still have a candidate that didn't win a plurality of the votes being elected as was the case in thissituation. The real problem with American politics is that whomever is elected, they don't represent the voters in most cases. Changing to RCV doesn't address that in any way.
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That's the thing, it's not even immoral. I've worked at a college and college employees are allowed to date students, just as long as they're 18 and up. It's frowned upon to date somebody where you control their grade or to allow it to influence your professional work, but it's not against any rules. The reality here is that the groups making the accusations are behaving in a homophobic way. The only thing here that anybody might consider to be immoral would be the gayness of it. But, this is the 21st century, perhaps we should give them a bridge so they can get over it. In fact, I drive by one that's just sitting on the side of the road completely unused, perhaps I could send it to them.
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@GANTZ100pts There were 3 options on the ballot early on and eventually the last vote was surface street versus tunnel. A street would have been absolute madness and people saying otherwise are completely out of their mind. Just look at how large the street we have along the waterfront now, just imagine how much bigger it would have had to be in order to also handle the through traffic trying to bypass downtown completely.
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@mirrrie Without getting into details, there are a bunch of ways of doing it that keep the consequences for others at a minimum. It's hardly a choice of have doctors provide the means and a grizzly death that traumatizes other people.
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Keep in mind that Sen. Collins was selected because she is a dim bulb that can be easily manipulated by special interests. This is not a smart woman, she is an idiot of the highest caliber.
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@terrythetuffkunt9215 The difference is that you guys say that about just about every report, whereas we restrict ourselves to times when there's actual evidence.
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@wowfirebat Yes, although for most other uses, crystals are sufficiently precise and accurate. It's mostly things like GPS which normal people use that benefits from higher levels of both.
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@sblackm1 IMHO, a large part of the problem is that they are trying to do it without the sensors. My wife's Ford has a camera as well as some sensors and I don't personally trust it to stop suddenly if something does enter the road. On paper it is supposed to and it does seem to know how far ahead the car in front of me is when I'm using adaptive cruise control, but I haven't seen it actually use the emergency brake yet, and I'm under the assumption that it might not work, so I'll stop on my own before it kicks in. That being said, I wish the adaptive cruise control were set up to allow it to go even slower because in traffic, it'll keep kicking me back to manual acceleration and that really tires me out.
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@JustXavier Cameras can be enough, however, the amount of training that it would take under every possible scenario is a lot. It's ultimately cheaper just to use LIDAR and other auxiliary sensors than to try to get a camera only system to work. The sensors are expensive, but the cost of them has been coming down as the quantities being bought have increased to generate a better economy of scale and more experience integrating them into designs.
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Yep and Disney is hardly the only company to do something like that.
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That's one of the reasons why giving these lethal weapons makes no sense. The robot isn't going to fear for it's life, chances are that whatever happens, the damage can be repaired. If not, it's still likely going to be cheaper than whatever it costs when an officer is shot, or shoot somebody else. There's a bunch of possible shots that could be made with a sufficiently advanced robot that would be 1 in a million for a human to make. There's a bunch of stuff that could be done like gumming up the gun or knocking it out of a criminals hand that would not be practical (and virtually impossible as well) for a human.
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@imofage3947 One would hope that anybody that's actually responsible for controlling one of these would be selected and trained for that. And probably eventually some form of machine learning to avoid accidental discharge as well.
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We don't want to a be a world class city, and we don't have any actual socialists in our city council. They talk a good game, but on the rare occasion that they accidentally do something socialist, they're sure to walk it back as quickly as possible. Just look at that head tax they passed and then immediately unpassed when Amazon called to complain about it. That's not the act of socialists.
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@movdqa My union and employer are picking up the tab on my current degree. I'll owe nothing for it other than having to remain employed at a covered position until I'm done with the last semester. It still happens, but it's far less common than it was as the tax exemptions aren't as good, the tuition is higher and there's less competition for workers.
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@evelynhopklnson954 You make it sound like there was a viable alternative that wasn't just fascism in a few more years.
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Yes, but then they wouldn't be the Democratic party. They didn't learn from losing in 2016 or barely squeaking by in 2020 and they have my full confidence in their ability to learn nothing this time as well.
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The problem is that, as the video points out, hair matters in a bunch of real circumstances and schools are legally required to prepare students for adulthood. Part of that is to restrict some freedoms somewhat so that there's minimal disruption and the students can cope in the real world. Personally, I think the hairstyle restrictions are often a bit much and do seem to be harder to follow if you've got some fluffy hair, but there's only so far that the schools can go ahead of society at large before they're not preparing the students for adulthood.
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He's talking about 20% of his income being $200k, there's no inherent reason for him to shoulder the additional risk associated with buying assets closer to a potential ceiling, as he could just stop working altogether if he wanted to.
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I'm not a feminist and dislike them to the extreme, but shouldn't the limit on rape be something like, say, 0. No rapes at all?
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The student loan interest rates are egregious at this point. The top rate is over 10% and there's no guarantee that the degree one seeks is going to result in a job that can pay it back. I'm going to WGU right now and they've done a pretty good job of keeping the cost down, but it's more or less completely online and that doesn't work for a lot of people. The assumption that you can get meaningful financial aid to make up the difference just isn't the case for many students.
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@peterteddy3367 They greatly underestimate how dedicated the Democrats are to ensuring that the party remains as unchanged as possible. They could have finished off the GOP in 2016, but it was more important to rig their primary for HRC and chase the progressives out of the party than put an end to that horrible GOP that was finally starting to consider changing their platform to something that people want.
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If I'm not mistaken, the first of these businesses were in Everett. And, while I could see potential prostitution or OSHA violations of it, those are both already covered by other laws and regulations. As you mention, these typically have some sort of screen or fence that prevents random passersby to see what's going on in the stand and they aren't supposed to allow more than just a bit of gawking. This is several steps less risque than a strip club. It's about what you might expect if you're getting served coffee at the beach.
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@feral_housecat What justice? It was an illegally possessed squirrel. The options for handling it once it came to the attention of the authorities were pretty limited.
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I didn't need to sand it off, I scraped it off after using it for a while and reseasoned it. I'm perfectly happy with it and expect the set to last generations. Well, if I can keep my wife away from it. I keep having to reseason it when she decides to scrub off the seasoning.
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How do you proceed then? Apparently we've decided that you can't prosecute sitting Presidents and the primaries are only a few months away. This whole situation is weird and not one that really fits with the normal way of doing things. And no, the law isn't relevant at this point with how stacked the courts are with incompetent justices that Trump and McConnel got seated. Just look at SCOTUS with a bunch of openly incompetent judges doing things to the country that will take generations to fix, and in some cases may never be fixed due to the courts unwillingness to acknowledge when decisions were wrong.
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@darthmalagus Except it's clearly not that clear as the Colorado ruling would have been different. The man is probably the most corrupt to ever be President.
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I'd pay $100 if it would last decades.
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Probably not much. They can't arbitrarily raise taxes on the portion on their side of the line. Nor can they seize it either. If he chooses to build something on that side of the line, they could potentially tie that up with regulations, but realistically, I doubt they're going to care.
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You mean Pelosivilles.
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That would only work if SCOTUS wouldn't invent new justifications for it not being real bribery.
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That's true, around here it's illegal to drive if you've been up for more than 18 hours. Never tell a cop when you woke up. It does make some sense, tired driving can be every bit as dangerous as drunken driving. I almost fell asleep at the wheel and had to pull over. I thought I was just a bit tired, but I was wrong.
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@WhiteLeper Finally? The US Federal government gets audited regularly, it's mostly just the DoD that routinely fails.
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Why? We need their streaming service as it's one of the few that actually generates profit.
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Lots of things get patented on the basis of it being something they might do that ultimately aren't used for one reason or another.
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What's worse is that TX is a major source of politicians against providing people with medical care. If you took TX out of the mix, that alone would be a huge reduction in the amount of energy fighting against getting everybody medical care.
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You do realize, that the activists claiming to represent them are part of why Trump one, right? There's a difference between living your life out in the open and deliberately antagonizing the opposition with things like drag queen story time for children and freaking out if people that don't don't have any reason to expect you to want other pronouns or absolutely insisting that biological women are birthing people and such nonsense. Same goes for a bunch of other groups. Society may well get to the point where those are accepted positions, but we're nowhere near that point and deliberately offending people is unlikely to get us there anytime soon. It's really up to these various communities to decide what's best for them, but it rings rather hollow for people to whine about the outcome of this election when it was the result of mindless activism with no thought about what the consequences would be. Harris was only the VP because people were freaking out and Biden promised to choose a woman of color for his VP pick to get him passed the primaries.
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@Cellphone Dave Nope, inflation is generated by printing more money at a rate that exceeds the growth of economic activity.
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That's not how it's supposed to be done. If you don't pass and get moved on automatically, there's supposed to be remedial work that's provided by the school with the time coming from fluff electives. If that's not how it's begin done where you are, that's incompetence.
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Isn't part of the issue with none that it's effectively a collective? If "not one" of the people here has or does something, that implies that there's a group of people not having or knowing it. So, using the singular with it can be OK and so can being the plural, it comes down to how you usually use collective nouns.
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Yep, I think he's more of a non-rightwing libertarian. He does seem to have genuine interest and curiosity about the world. My biggest complaint about him is that he hasn't got the personal knowledge about some of these topics to do a proper interview, so he does get played from time to time. But, I believe that he sincerely does have good motives in what he does with his show, even if he does wind up being used from time to time.
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This would be funny if people weren't getting sick or dying as a result.
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@WarrenPostma No, or they didn't do a good job of explaining it. Code should document what is being done, it does not follow that the code is going to give you any information about why it was done the way that it was, or possible issues with other options. The point of comments is to tell yourself in the future, or future developers, why things are being done the way they are, or what you're trying to accomplish with the code. Not how the code is doing it. That should be obvious from the code itself if it's self-documenting.
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@pablofernandogonzalezolmos8472 Yes, abbreviations are only find if you can open up the source a year later and remember what it means. In olden days, it made more sense to abbreviate, but with modern development environments providing autocompletion, there's no real reason to. That and storage is a lot larger than it was 30 years ago.
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I'm not generally a fan of changing things like that, but yeah, this one is over a century past due. There really isn't enough education that could make it ok to have that on a state flag.
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@Manolo0528 I've lived overseas where other languages are used, there isn't really much actual literacy required to understand street signs.
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This is where elections matter. There aren't the necessary votes to win a vote in the house, and there definitely aren't enough to win in the Senate either. This will go nowhere, but at least somebody is doing something, even if it's completely symbolic. This is also why it would have been such a good idea to expel the seditious members of congress that were involved in trying to steal the last Presidential election.
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There's also flexibility. There hasn't been much change since PC97 came out, but it didn't really change much other than specifying colors for a lot of the common ports and that was about the time that you started to see buttons that were electronic rather than mechanical, so you could have a computer that could switch off without touching the button. Personally, I do think that I'll probably go back to the '70s era of computing in terms of using a thin client for much of my work as the room I work in is rather small and gets hot rather easily. A small computer like a Raspberry Pi with a monitor, keyboard and mouse with the rest of the computer in a larger room where it's not baking me would work perfectly well. There's even off the shelf KVMs out there that do just that. Or, you can use VNC or RDP to do the job in a more DIY style.
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Aren't they the ones that own Circle K convenience stores? Anyways, I'm not sure they really count as a cult as they don't seem to be particularly any worse than other organized religions.
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It's all well and good, but you have to realize that the metric system was created because the French didn't have a functioning measuring system. And most of the remaining places where it was adopted either didn't have a defined and enforced measuring system or were too small to be able to compete. I think it's really interesting how the truly ignorant like to make fun of the imperial system without really understanding how it works and why we might not be so keen on changing. I've had to live with the metric system when I lived overseas and my god is it inconvenient for pretty much everything. Even over the months, I was living with it, I never encountered anything outside of science and medicine that made me appreciative of it. And that shouldn't be surprising, it was designed to solve a problem that we didn't have in the US. In the US we had and have the Bureau of Weights and Measures that defined the various units we use. We had and have several agencies responsible for ensuring that any measurements being used in commerce are accurate. Then there's the issue of the convenience and I'm sorry, but base 10 is a shitty reason to bad mouth the imperial measures. Not only is there no rule against doing that with our measures, but we do it literally all the time. Engineers working on roads have decimal based measuring tapes when they want it. We regularly have things that are 5.25 feet when we're lazy about converting into inches. Similarly, we can say that a distance is 10.636 miles or we could convert that into some mixture of miles, yards, feet and/or inches if we wanted to.
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Motorcyclists have been doing slow races for ages, it's one of the best measures of skill you can have. But, it would technically violate this law if I'm understanding correctly.
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Because she started it. She has no integrity. She's been fighting dirty for months now and she brought this on herself. She claims to be a progressive and if that were really the case, then it should be about the policies, not the ego. Perhaps, she shouldn't have made up those outrageous lies about Bernie if she didn't want to be tarred.
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It won't happen as long as there are still carberated bikes out there.
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That's also why the TSA gets away with the blatantly illegal security screenings because apparently we all have other options. I have relatives that live thousands of miles away, it's simply not viable to use any other method of travel to see them and definitely not on super short notice like for a funeral.
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There will be, and I really don't believe for one second that Trump would pardon the perpetrator if he's elected. There's a ton of people that were more helpful to him that he didn't pardon while in office. He could even have pardoned some of the January 6th folks that had been arrested, but chose not to.
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The problem with lifetime licenses is that they have to be pretty expensive to actually mean that. The issue is that they don't generate any more income, so it has to be set aside, and it has to be enough to pay for continued support, and that's not cheap. I've seen various businesses have to figure it out. Redchairsoftware back in the day had the best software for connecting my Nomand Jukebox 3 to my computer, but they went out of business in large part because $20 for a lifetime license was too little for the work they were putting in, and they were locked into a shrinking part of the market. DDI Software did probably the best job in terms of negotiating the reality that the model was unsustainable. Anybody on a lifetime license could continue to use it, but the support was largely limited to things that would continue to allow use, not new features. Which, in all honesty was fair enough, had he continued to try to keep the license terms the same forever with new features, it likely would have just caused the company to go bankrupt leaving the folks with those lifetime licenses without even a modern, and very well featured, piece of software to use. A lifetime software license can really only continue for a lifetime if it's massively expensive, otherwise, it's always being partially subsidized by something else and if that something else starts to dry up, a company can run into trouble rather quickly.
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There's a bit of issue with the entrance. If there isn't a way of getting into the tunnel from the back side, then it's not of much use for secret stuff.
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The US has that to a limited extent in terms of the government owned parks and wilderness where you're free to walk wherever you want to. One of the issues, is that even if you have the right to, doesn't mean that it's a particularly enjoyable experience, and the government encourages people to take trails as it helps balance the damage to the environment with the interests of the visitors to have an easier to navigate way to get to whatever features they want to see.
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They've also been covering the costs associated with the district. Which means that any taxes they've been collecting have had to go somewhere, this is the same sort of thing I see locally where the rural areas are bleeding us dry wanting us to fund their operations, but not paying in either. If they were collecting taxes and making the counties pay, that would be very different.
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@ryateo1 Nope, they get millions in taxes and millions in expenses to go along with them. I'm not sure why that's so hard to understand. They've been collecting the taxes and using them to cover the cost of operations for district services. If they go through with this to actual implementation, that means that now those counties are going to need to cover the cost of those services with the taxes being raised. They may well come out ahead, just not by anywhere near as much as folks are suggesting.
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@jswaggart01 I doubt they would do that, but I do think that they'd probably reserve less R&D for the park than they had and it will probably fuel any expansion plans they have at other parks and for new parks entirely.
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@ryateo1 You make it sound like Disney is the only company doing so. Much of Florida has already been ruined by developers independent of Disney. Disney itself is a relatively small part of the entire state.
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@ Less is the grammatically correct one for the checkout lane. Less is typically used with uncountable items and the way the rule is usually applied, it's not actually items of count below that number. It's more like times the cashier has to scan unique bar codes. So, less is much more in keeping with it's use and meaning than fewer would be.
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It's slightly more complicated as parts of Eastern Europe have even more weapons than the US does, but the easy access of weapons is a significant factor, as is other social factors in the US. Limiting the weapons available to ones that have legitimate civilian use would make it a lot harder to massacre large numbers of people though. There's little point in being able to load up more than 5 or 6 rounds for civilian use.
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Unfortunately, I'm sure somebody is going to do better.
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@madmax2069 Which is why they should have just included that this was just for adults when making the announcement.
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@kelleyspears1218 The issue is that providing insurance for hurricanes in Florida is extremely expensive as the state gets hit frequently and the storms seem to be getting bigger. The result is that the amount of money that the insurance companies have to charge just to break even on the insurance is increasing, but the amount of money that the people living in those areas are making isn't necessarily increasing. So, either they pull out, they increase the rates a lot, or they come up with more creative ways of cutting the payouts. This is in contrast to the West Coast where much of it is staring down the barrel of a massive earthquake. The risk goes higher every year, but every year they're collecting money to pay for it and the building code standards have been increased a lot over the decades to help mitigate the loss of life and property. Wildfires though, are basically the same problem as hurricanes in FL where the fires go around more and more of the West every year, but unlikely hurricanes, once a forest has burned to the ground, you can be reasonably sure that it won't happen again for many years as there's not much to burn.
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McConnell isn't much better, he's only gotten things done by having a majority and benefiting from the complete inability of the Democrats to identify principles and then stick to said principles.
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@briant7265 That particular joke wasn't even remotely funny. Especially in light of the fact that the President is trying to kick millions of people off of their health insurance.
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@wmdkitty Scoff all you like, but it works a lot better than that over the counter pain medicine crap that does absolutely nothing.
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@matthewschwartz6607 They absolutely did, look it up. It didn't last very long because they didn't use it to help the people, but they definitely did have one long enough that they could have gotten the ACA through.
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@matthewschwartz6607 Obamacare is a pretty good example, they had a supermajority in both chambers, and he then spent the time lying about the fact that he couldn't even get a public option through. He chose not to, he could have whipped the votes. Every single blue dog that held it up was voted out of office the next election anyways.
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Honestly, it was far more targeted than normal, probably because the intelligence agencies wanted to know with absolute certainty that they got him. Otherwise, they would have dropped a cruise missile on the site and called it good.
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They definitely could have found somebody that knows how to do it, but isn't committed to it being some sort of metaphysical thing. I learned how to do it back in the '90s from an old time miner, and it still doesn't sit right with me that something seemed to be happening. It would be a lot easier for me to dismiss as a crock if I wasn't able to do it. Where it does break down is that I have a great degree of skepticism that rods crossing really is in response to something external to the person doing it.
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Around here we have houses that fall into the ocean as the land erodes due to storms. So, I'd wager that including the land in that probably depends a bit on what's going in the area in terms of the local geology. We also had an entire town wiped out in a landslide. (Admittedly, it was probably more of a housing development, but the land was completely worthless afterward for anybody that was fortunate enough to survive)
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The house always wins.
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@OREYG It's more likely that the patents and 3rd party contributed code hadn't been completely vetted or that they have some sort of internal use for the code.
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He's not wrong. China lacks the naval and logistical systems to engage in a more conventional war like the Japanese did during WWII, or the US did during the Vietnam conflict. China can't presently invade Taiwan for several reasons even if you ignore the US, they simply don't have the number of boats to make it across from the mainland quickly enough to do the job. It's more or less what failed the previous attempts. If China thinks that it's existence is at risk, their only real military options are to strike close to home at the US' allies, or use nukes on the US. And keep in mind that China is a much weaker country in most regards than the media will have you believe. They have a massive population, but fewer than 1/10 of the population positively supports the party, most of the rest are indifferent. Much of the manufacturing activity is being moved to cheaper parts of Asia, and what technology they do produce tends to be riddled with manufacturing and design defects. But, they do have nukes and their leadership has a track record of being willing to kill tens of millions of people if need be in pursuit of one of their goals. Once you kill tens of millions, there isn't necessarily that bige of a jump to billions. The numbers are already so large as to be practically impossible to comprehend.
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No she doesn't. I wouldn't just assume that black people and women are going to vote for her. She abused her power as AG.
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Being acquitted doesn't mean he's not a murderer, the bar for that is quite a bit higher than what will come up in court for a slander related suit. It's one of the reasons why attorneys will often wait for the criminal case to wrap before filing a civil suit, as a criminal conviction guarantees a civil award of some sort.
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You can flag their videos to not show up in your feed. I do that when I see a bunch of junk videos showing up in my feed.
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That's definitely true. Typically, the water around here is pretty clean, and clear, you wouldn't be filtering anything that's not if you had a choice. It's still got the potential for parasites and the like, but there's not much to filter out other than pathogens. A filter can last rather a long time before clogging.
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Because this hasn't been a problem, and it still isn't. These voters have the opportunity to request a replacement ballot and there's still a week to go until the actual election.
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What gets me is that if the DNC hadn't forced Biden on the voters, Bernie may have won the primary and we wouldn't be in this mess right now. If Biden had actually done things like give everybody health care during the pandemic and fought for hazard pay for essential workers, he might have more support than Trump. Trump for all this flaws did a lot more in terms of checks than Biden did.
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Fortunately, nothing bad ever happens when you bring the dead back to life.
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Hey Steve, what about bench trials? Not only does that judge have to hear everything and see every potential piece of evidence, but they also have to disregard anything that isn't admissible to the trial when making their ruling.
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@mist2961 He was 19 years old and had a rather large reason to not be too strong-willed with his father. At age 19, he probably hadn't gotten to have much of a life. Granted, his father was a billionaire, so he probably had a pretty decent 19 years, but there's really only so much life you can live in such short of a life.
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Arguably that would be Al Gore, but only because of just how horrendous the atrocities committed by W's cronies.
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One of the best things I did for my motorcycle was replacing the stock springs with some after market ones. I've got large strong hands and the OEM ones were just too soft for my liking.
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@shaynegadsden Most education jobs don't pay well enough for the educators to be making new materials for every new job. So, most schools don't demand ownership over the materials, at most they might demand rights to use the materials in some fashion and even that's not typical.
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Yes, the court went out of its way to give Congress time you work out a solution and they didn't even make a serious attempt. The court has done tons of things to undermine its authority, but this isn't one of those times.
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Thats it, exactly. Neither M4A nor UBI have been on the table, even though all the other developed countries have done form of both or were able to squash the spread enough you get back to work. Both have tremendous support, but don't even get a vote.
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I thought the worst thing to happen to Chicago was not being NYC, but somehow being really invested in it.
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@toms382 That may be out of date, or they may have just converted over to being a purely online business. If this is their attitude, they're going to be a purely out of business business soon.
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@TheDarthbinky It did abolition it. What your referring to is a loophole where convicted prisoners, who can still be used for slave labor under the amendment as part of their punishment, were leased out to private interests. So, it's kind of misleading to say that FDR criminalized it when he mostly just modified it to be less of an impact on those that aren't convicted of any crimes. These days much of that work is done by illegal immigrants anyways, and we just lock the prisoners up in some facilities for 23hours out of the day. Which seems somewhat less humane.
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Obviously, if you're hit by a bus on the way in, you'd be off the hook after explaining to the judge why you didn't show up and potentially providing some evidence that it happened. That's why it isn't automatically pay this fine and sheriffs coming to drag you off to jail for contempt.
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@kitchenbriks3685 Absolutely. There's folks like my wife that don't understand something and then insist that it's a part of some sort of conspiracy when really, she just doesn't understand how it works. That's not to say that some of this stuff can't or shouldn't be fixed, but a lot of things that look fishy are legitimate.
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Because the IDF is stocked with war criminals that were more concerned with getting revenge than on the safety of the hostages. They literally murdered people with bunker buster bombs without even bothering to consider if there were hostages in the area.
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@AlexanderEalley They're Hamas, not IDF. You know the folks that were killing hostages being held by Hamas affiliated groups because they cared more for revenge than getting their folks back. The folks that regularly murder innocent civilians because they've got the Palestinians so pinned in that civilians can't get out of the way, and that regularly jail Palestinians as fighters, whether or not there's evidence of it.
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Why?There isn't much harm in having the parents inspect the candy before letting the kids eat it. Sometimes it's subject to a recall that the people giving it out might not have been aware of, and sometimes there's allergens in there that the kids may not expect to have an issue with.
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It's like that in most parts of the world. It's difficult to create a learning environment where people learn specific things to pass the class. I learned my Mandarin mostly outside of classes and learned it based on what I needed to be able to speak.
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People that understand what's going on want to be vaccinated. No vaccine that's passed the stage 2 trials has ever had worse side effects than actually getting covid. I had it early on and I don't think I've ever been that sick in my entire life. Personally, the people refusing shots that they have access to for reasons other than being specifically warned not to take them based on their own medical history pretty much disgust me. The shots are safe, the people that I know that have gotten the shots haven't gotten safe and I haven't heard or seen anybody at the pharmacy at work get sick either.
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Vote Joe Rogan 2020.
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I'd want more details as the DAS was never meant for folks in wheel chairs. Most of the lines are wide enough for the wheelchairs and the few that don't have arrangements that can be made at the ride for a call back. The DAS was mainly for people that can't wait in the line for one reason or another.
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Plot twist , Seth was the ghost in the Ghostbusters library scene.
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@derekjones8366 It does matter as some pills will cause the consequences to happen more quickly. IIRC it's the Eggshell Skull doctrine or similar, basically it gets people off the hook for when the consequences of an action are more severe than what one would reasonably anticipate. Basically if you throw a rock at somebody's head, you should be responsible for the normal consequences of that, if they have a weaker than normal skull and are more seriously injured you shouldn't be accountable for the extra harm caused, just the reasonably expected harm. So in this case, if he had been taking drugs or had some other ailment that made him more susceptible to death or serious injury than normal, that should be taken into account. In this case, I doubt it would change anything, but an attorney would be negligent for not trying pretty much everything possible, except for issues that are being saved for appeal.
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@ That's completely different, the convicted POS was driving recklessly and could very easily have been amongst the dead. In your scenario, the only way that could possibly not be attempted murder is if you intended to eat it yourself or didn't know that it was poisonous.
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@ Keep in mind the sentences that the legislature permit under the relevant laws. It's not like a particularly egregious case is allowed to exceed that or what would typically be the sentence based on the specific fact pattern involved.
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@TrackerRoo You say that like the Democrats would actually fight for any of that. They didn't under Obama, and they wouldn't have under HRC or Harris. Biden, to his credit, did at least do some stuff to help workers, but his legacy is going to be based on his failure to bolster the guardrails to prevent or reduce the harm from an out of control SCOTUS and POTUS.
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@douglaslangley9251 same here. I work for a grocery store and they've given us a $2 an hour wage and only because the company decided to do so, the kind of money needed to properly compensate us needs to come from the government. At least, they're requiring us to wear provided masks.
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I've seen comments suggesting that it's not just husbands pressuring their wives to vote the "right way" but wives doing it to their husbands as well. It's not OK to pressure people to vote a particular way, or at all.
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This is why I refused to vote for Cantwell here in WA. We cannot continue to have Republicans running as "Democrats" and we cannot continue to have only one party that compromises.
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It seems to be working for the Democrats, they're not really much better than the GOP, but somehow they keep getting the votes. (Notable cases like DeSantis not withstanding) And even in the case of DeSantis the only reason he can get away with that is because the Democrats are giving him cover to do it by not running proper candidates with actual alternate policy proposals. It's all vote for their candidates because they aren't nearly as monstrous.
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@Po1itica11yNcorrect Yep and for 2024, it was $168,600. As you're implying, it does get raised to cover the costs of paying out. But, there will need to be some sort of a change or the program is going to run out of cash to pay out the promised benefits.
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I suppose. However, if you've got a large basket of foreign and domestic index funds along with bond funds and some REITs, you shouldn't have that sort of a problem. Whenever I've seen people giving the advice, they're going back and seeing what returns you needed to achieve and the historical averages, even including terrible times to invest, are generally still high enough to justify it. Especially, if you've diversified into bonds and other asset categories for a portion of the investments.
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@anotherpace Even in the US, it's generally encouraged to have a portion of the stocks and bonds be foreign ones to avoid the situation where all of your eggs are just in the US basket.
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@rogeliosalgado The issue is the rim and the wheel in general. It's great for motorcycles, because the added weight of the wheel isn't that big of a deal. But, if you've got a pedal powered bike, the extra weight needed to resist warping can be an issue. One of the great things about inner tubes and spokes is that if the wheel does warp a bit, you can still pedal home, just not as quickly and it can be a rather rough ride.
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@fakjbf3129 They regularly refuse to hear national security letter and no fly lists for lack of standing. You typically can't even get a full trial on those matters because of a lack of standing, let alone have the matter get all the way to the courts over something that is clearly a constitutional use of government power. If we had qualified jurists on the court they would have come to that conclusion as the matter had been extensively litigated up until this ruling.
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I'd like to see fewer segments with easier to manage modifications. As it stands, doing something as simple as just adding some luggage bumps a bike into a different category when it might make more sense to just offer an easy to install bracket. And definitely yes about the color, but a lot of that comes from having to import all the bikes from overseas.
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It's worth going to the various charity information sites as they commonly are required to have paperwork filed with the government. It's like that in the US, and I'd wager most of the developed world has rules in order to have that status.
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I definitely trust that corporations will screw over the workers to benefit the execs.
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And, had the Biden administration decided not to let Israel engage in genocide in the Middle East, there would have been a much stronger case for them being less bigoted than Trump. Harris couldn't even give any indication that she'd be in favor of stopping the crimes against humanity.
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Nope, it absolutely is, online learning as currently executed violates numerous federal laws related to students with disabilities. But, even for general education students, it mostly works for the A students that don't really need need much help. It definitely doesn't work for the poor, homeless or anybody who doesn't have a good connection. I'm just about done with a master's degree that was any online only affair wherever possible, and it definitely suffered due to being online only.
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@tnasty123abc That was also nearly 90 years earlier when folks didn't know any better. It was also a film by people that weren't being offended by others doing the same thing. Granted, there wasn't really much of an opportunity for other groups to do it, but that doesn't change the fact that the filmmakers weren't using the outrage to try and advance themselves personally. At this point, few people would suggest that Birth of a Nation isn't at bare minimum deeply problematic and more realistically deeply racist.
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I thought about it, but I couldn't find anywhere that actually showed how to setup dependencies. I just wanted to code a simple GUI window pop up and all of the information that I found was from a now unsupported method of doing it and I just gave up because it was a waste of my time when other options have the decency to not discontinue that sort of thing to this extent.
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Having gone to both Disney Land and Universal Studios Hollywood recently, it's astonishing how much ground Disney has lost over the last 30 years. (The last time I visited either park) Universal has a express line system that actually works in a reliable fashion, you're guaranteed a use on every single attraction, (more if you pay to upgrade to unlimited) and most of the stuff in the park is either new, or at least looks it. In terms of theming, the areas that they have themed don't really look that much worse than what you'd see at a Disney park. That being said, due to the use of 3d screens in the rides, it's worth bringing motion sickness medications if you're prone to it.
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Milk is a particularly easy one to tell if you can smell. The odor is pretty easy to identify and if it's really been too long, it can get chunky. Many other foods require a bit more effort.
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I'm pretty sure that both Trump and Vance are familiar with being frauds.
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Although in all fairness, I'm not sure that MTV counts here, they started that many years before Netflix launched the DVD service and it was pretty much inevitable by the late '90s that people were going to be able to just watch the videos online eventually anyways.
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@vforwombat9915 In the US, in British English they tend to treat collectives like they're plural.
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@krustyb9068 Hopefully neither fish aren't supposed to sleep with chickens.
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Just because the airline knows doesn't necessarily mean that the flight crew has access to that information. Unless somebody is specifically flying as an UM, they have no need to know anybody's age apart from for alcohol service and they have to card for that anyways. In fact if they're taking data security seriously, that wouldn't even be provided to the cabin crew.
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How is this overreach? Arguably, a shorter jail stay might have been warranted, but if we take the ability of judges to hold people in contempt and get to decide on the length, the whole system falls apart. Imagine having to have a full court proceeding every time something like this happens. You'd never get anything done. Holding people in contempt of court is a part of the system and he could have avoided this problem either by getting up on time or by calling the court immediately when he realized that he had overslept. I doubt very much that he was the first to ever oversleep for jury duty. Things like this are one of the reasons why there are alternates.
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Even if you are touching them, you may still be able to sue if the guard's physical contact isn't appropriate to the level of contact.
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I think part of the reason for blaming women has to do with the way that women have benefitted from a rigged educational system that places female achievement ahead of male achievement. Afterall 2/3 of college students and graduates are women these days and there hasn't been a single year where more men graduated from college than women since 1981. And despite that, there's an excessive focus on how 60% of the student loan debt is owed by women, which is obviously absurd that the gender that's getting 2/3 of the degrees would have roughly the same amount of the debt. It is definitely overstated, but the resentment is also justified. The educational system is rigged in favor of women, whether it's intentional or not is going to depend on your political beliefs, but with virtually no men in primary or secondary education, it's pretty much inevitable for the schooling to favor girls at the expense of boys unless specific measures are taken to prevent that outcome..
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@a64738 The manual should say, but I doubt it's standardized.
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It's especially scary when you realize that in addition to being very large, they also can be challenging to maneuver and hard to get back under control if something goes wrong.
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@motocrosser784 You absolutely can, filming people on your property isn't an absolute right, there are restrictions to it.
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@motocrosser784 That's not really accurate. By your reasoning, landlords can put up cameras in common areas if they like, because it's their property. Which is clearly not true.
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@LSwick-ss6nm This isn't accurate, one of the terms of entering the premises is agreeing to be recorded and there are generally signs indicating it so you can opt out by not entering. By your reasoning, a landlord could install a camera in areas of an apartment other than the bedrooms and bathrooms, because it's their property, they can film. Which is obviously not true. People would quite reasonably be upset by being filmed.
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@williamyelton2227 If a group is genuinely at a disadvantage structurally, they will disproportionately benefit from measures to address things like poverty or access to healthcare. But, it would happen in a way that didn't leave people in as much need out of the help.
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@ellieporter3270 There's no reason to do both. Focus on the universal programs and if there's still issues that don't go away as a byproduct, that is the time to consider something more along the lines of a DEI initiative. In practice, there's little reason to believe that that would be necessary as the main differences are at the most wealthy within the groups and far less so at lower levels of wealth.
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@Stunkos Yes, one of the things that I've pointed out for decades now is that if universal programs don't completely solve the issues, further programs will not permit any hiding spots for bigots to hide their bigotry if there is more targeting. Part of why racists can get away with stuff like the welfare queens speech and the like, is because it isn't universal and there are a bunch of extremely poor white people that nobody seems to care about helping.
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Blame the Democratic leadership for failing to do anything to bolster the guardrails on the Presidency or take steps to neutralize SCOTUS' ability to abuse its power. The literal only reason Trump won either time is that they insisted on forcing terrible nominees on us.
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No, he's a lying sack of shit. Where was the outrage when they gave $5tn to the rich and corporations? That alone would have given everybody roughly $300 a week for an entire year. What's more, I don't see any signs of recovery around here, the homeless have by and large taken over most public spaces due to not having jobs or shelter.
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In all fairness that guy that threw the punch is exploiting the loophole where those sorts of idiots can't tell Koreans apart and the police are probably not super interested in dealing with it either.
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Yeah, thank god that the really smart DNC and MSM decided to force Biden down our throats.
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Worked well enough for Hitler. Oh wait, I see your point.
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@marymcq2 I wouldn't be so happy about that. It pushes us closer to a civil war or somebody deciding that it's open season on SCOTUS justices that have completely lost any sense of responsibility or ethics. There's a fair number of folks out there that take the aphorism of "we've been given 4 boxes to use to protect the country, soap box, ballot box, jury box and ammo box, use in that order" literally. We've already had a CEO of a major health insurance company assassinated, do you really think that more bad rulings aren't going to inspire a similar level of patriotism? Barring something else putting things back on the rails, it's pretty much inevitable that somebody will.
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@toh6261 You think he'll follow through on that? It requires reading literal tea leaves to guess what we're going to actually get when he takes office in a week and a half. For all we know, they'll snow him good and he'll send our own forces over there to help.
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@bonnieparker9584 In civilized parts of the country, it would only be legal if he was actively engaged in that at the moment that he was killed while trying to prevent it. Any other time it's just moderately justified vigilante murder.
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I wish they'd come up with a better name for this because none of this is nice behavior, but there's tons of legitimately nice guys out there that don't go full psycho and yet are treated horribly by women. Being nice definitely doesn't entitled people to sex, but women that reward bad behavior with sex and relationships have no right to complain about actual nice guys complaining about being treated badly.
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@neilkurzman4907 If they were indeed the ones that did that, they clearly don't have $10,000 without it being a massive inconvenience. That's especially the case after they spend whatever they're spending on lawyers.
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@leviharrison4127 So? Trying to get something thrown out that might not even win is one thing, judges are often times hesitant to intervene on something that may wind up becoming moot. But, the whole thing does have a massive issue in terms of one ultrawealthy individual being behind the initiatives and him not necessarily having the best of intentions. In this case, all of the initiatives on the ballot were unnecessarily confusing and that's been an increasing trend in recent years where it's not at all clear how you need to vote if you have one position or the other.
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Here in WA state we're getting additional cameras to cover bus only lanes and blocking the intersection. That's on top of speed limit cameras and red light cameras As a motorcyclist I'm concerned by them because it puts me in a position where I might get run over if I stop as needed. AFAIK, the cameras do not tell you if it was safe to stop in time. But, at least in theory, I think they've got enough lag time that that situation isn't an issue. I got the flash one time because I stopped and then a moment later started to creep up for my free right, but I never did receive a ticket. They don't count as moving violations for the purpose of insurance.
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Presumably, the judge issues a warrant and the US Marshals go get them. What happens after that depends a great deal on just how far gone the federal government is.
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@bend1951 In the grand scheme of things it doesn't, but it can take a very long time to die between when the thing that proves fatal happens to when the end comes. Being trapped in a cave with no means of being extracted can result in death weeks later all the while knowing what's going to happen. Whereas asphyxiating on nitrogen is like a few breaths and you just pass out and don't breath again as the oxygen gets pulled out and your body shuts down in a matter of a few moments. In the grand scheme people who died in both ways are still dead, but it's a very human feature to find one of those two to be preferable to the other. I think a lot of that has to do with our thoughts on our own mortality and preferring to go out in a way that involves less suffering.
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@X_BILSON Yes, none of us will be alive for the 200th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, but there are definitely ways that I wouldn't want to go.
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Not really, that happens independent of men. Women have to have these meaningless campaigns because women frequently don't get along. Men don't because we don't need to. It's more convenient to blame men than you admit that women have issues independent of us.
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@jimpawa5793 Mainly because Seattle didn't get the massive earthquake that's coming before being torn down in large part due to knowing that it would pancake the same way the Nimitz did in 1989. There are aspects of the viaduct that I do miss, it was an incredibly view in one direction, although there were a bunch of other issues with it beyond just how unsafe it would have been had we gotten the expected earthquake first.
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Is this really a surprise? This is the same party that won't let the voters choose our preferred candidate for President as the nominee and then is surprised when the loser winds up losing in the general election.
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As it stands, it's an unfunded mandate to increase payments. The result is that the insolvency date for the social security trust has moved forward several months and younger workers are going to see a cut in our benefits if nothing is done about the situation. To make matters worse, with so many old people in congress, there's not much interest on their part to do anything to address the issue. They've already increased the retirement age, the next thing would be either more increases in retirement age or a reduction in benefits, because this signals that they aren't interested in increasing the amount of money that's subject to the social security tax to pay for the additional spending this brings.
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Just keep in mind that the only demographic that actually mattered was in favor of it. The people bribing the court.
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I accidentally used 14oz., of sweet and condensed milk rather than evaporated milk. It didn't puff up very much, but the resulting product was incredibly smooth, if a bit too sweet. I'll likely try it again like that, but with only half a cup of sugar instead to compensate for the additional sugar in the condensed milk.
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Because if there's anything that the courts are known for it's allowing people to get off the hook due to psychiatric diagnoses.
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@JohnMoran He is, but he's not losing by that much more than he was losing to Hillary. If enough progressives refuse to vote for Biden, Trump might win anyways. Really, this election looks more like a race to see how can avoid winning the Presidency. Both parties seem to be working extremely hard to lose. An electable Democrat should be trouncing Trump, and yet, it's still mathematically possible for Trump to win. Yes, a long shot, but still possible.
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One of the reasons why they got away with so much and still get away with so much is that they're perfectly fine going after everybody, including groups that they hold near and dear. It's a shame that Isaac Hayes turned out to be such a hypocrite.
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@waterlevelroute Precisely, there's a reason why risk and reward both tend to increase together. The most consistently wealthy people are the ones that can routinely identify when the risk hasn't risen as fast as the reward and can take advantage on that.
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@imrana3618 No they're not. I'd challenge you to find any mainstream stock that can go from $600k to $0 just because a bunch of crackheads moved in and turned the place into a toxic waste dump and removed all the copper from the walls. Stocks aren't particularly risky, as long as you bother to do your work in evaluating the company, or stick to index funds covering the market as a whole. A proper protfolio should always include a combination of stocks, bonds and cash. A better portfolio will include real estate in some form or another whether it be literal housing units owned by yourself or shares in a trust that owns them for you. The fluctuations of the stock market are normal and healthy, as long as you buy solid companies, and shift your holdings towards bonds as you get closer to retirement, it's largely a non-issue for most people.
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@CoffeeAndBusiness Tell that to the homeowners on the Love Canal or in Detroit. Real estate like any other class of investment can lose money, it's just a different form of investment that is best added to a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds.
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If Bernie's not the nominee, it's only because of the continued elections fraud. Biden is promising absolutely nothing to help the people. Under no circumstance will I be voting for Biden. And yes, no circumstances, even if Trump shoots somebody in the middle of Times Square.
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Not to mention, just dehydration after this time could already have killed one or more of them. Most people die of dehydration after 2 days without water, and it doesn't sound like it was carrying enough water to outlast the air supply. I hope to be proven wrong, but in all likelihood they died already. I do think that dying from dehydration or hypothermia is preferable to asphyxiation over such a long period of time though.
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@calvin7330 That depends on the sport, often times only some of them are free, and some of them require a cable or satellite only channel that is only available through one provider and that is the only option for watching it.
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That's certainly possible. Knowing how SCOTUS has been ruling, there's a pretty good chance that regardless of what the judge does, that he's going to walk. But, if it remains in the press long enough, it might scuttle his chances at being reelected.
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You do realize that there's more than one woman running, right? I voted Stein in part because of the voter shaming from Harris' side, along with the lack of any real policy proposals to address men's issues like workplace safety or the education gap.
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The law is fine, what's not fine is the expectation that people can wait decades to report something after all the evidence is gone and memories have grown fuzzy. In a case like this, it's rather tough, but most of the time these cases are hard to prosecute due to a lack of evidence. Allowing allegations from decades earlier to be brought is just going to result in kangaroo courts where justice isn't being served. If people want their cases heard, then they need to file charges when there's still evidence to collect. At this point, there may not even be witnesses to vouch for some earlier documentation the way that the rules of evidence generally require. Without that, you'd wind up with an actual acquittal rather than no charges being brought.
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@patryuji This is true, for example Armoni t-shirts are about $40 for 2 which is roughly the same price as other manufacturers, but since they're intended to go under and Armoni suit jacket, they tend to be of high quality so as to not screw up the look of the much more expensive suit.
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@pangaeamenslijk9183 IKR, for that price you can just about get a high end t-shirt from Armani.
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Yes, the slap in the face here is the failure of the government to do anything real to deal with the cost while giving out tons of free money to the rich and powerful. This executive order does help somewhat with affordability, as do the fixes to the public service waivers, but the real fix here involves legislative action to restrict how much money colleges can spend on things that aren't education related. Particularly with administrative and facilities expenses that aren't related to education. A $100m gym is impressive to look at, but probably not worth $100m if it's not being paid for by an endowment from a philanthropist, when it's paid for via student fees, it just contributes to bloated tuition payments.
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Just out of curiosity, how much did Google pay you to say that? Nothing he said in the video isn't true to a reasonable degree. Google is well known to engage in all those shady tactics and I remember when they used to put paid results at the top of the results without adequately disclaiming them as being paid results.
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It surprises me a bit that these waivers are still considered to be legal. The number of waivers for safety concerns that people are expected to sign are so common that I don't think most people really consider the risks they're agreeing to. Seriously, there will often times be things included that aren't reasonable or foreseeable risks or that are 100% the result of the company asking for the waiver engaging in unsafe practices. At this point, there's been so many of these waivers signed that I think most people are desensitized to them to the point where I do think there's a reasonable argument in many cases that the contract term shouldn't be enforced as there was a lack of comprehension about the term being agreed to. It's not that different from the explosion in number of warnings on labels just in case something happens, making the real risks of things that could happen far less obvious.
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Once SCOTUS said that Trump had to be on the ballot in CO, it was pretty much all over in terms of invoking the 14th amendment to prevent him from running. Theoretically, he should be barred from holding the office, but SCOTUS is unlikely to actually respect the constitution on that issues.
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Draft dodger or not, he is the commander and chief.
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@paulwalther5237 TBH, 10k is far too many for a single deck. When I'm setting up decks, I keep them a bit shorter as even a 1k word deck gets to be an extremely long study session over time as you get further into it. Not to mention, that it isn't very motivational to know that you're on word 2k and still have 8k left, with the 8k left being words that are less frequently encountered than the ones you've already seen.
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So, asking the Nazi guards to walk away wasn't o.k.? We've recently prosecuted former guards for not walking away. These personalities are not that much better tens of thousands are dead as a result. We haven't yet hit death camp levels of bodies, but we're uncomfortably close.
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I don't think we do. It does happen, but perhaps if you live in a place where people drive like crap and have bad roads it happens. Around here, it just doesn't happen that often. The only place that I know of around here that has that issue is one particular house on the corner of two arterials which has had it's brick wall demolished a few times by vehicles losing control. But, it's on an intersection, there's basically no way of engineering an intersection where cars aren't pointed directly at the corner at some point in the turn.
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From what I understand they don't know how the bullet got into the gun. They don't know why there was live ammo on set at all and couldn't be bothered to do any of that work. If that's accurate, it's going to damage the prosecution's case substantially. I don't know if he was even allowed to check the weapon after the armorer had checked it. Not that checking it might have made much of a difference as dummy rounds can look very realistic. With so much of the negligence being spread amongst multiple people, I don't see how they'll meet the standard of guilty beyond a reasonable doubt for him as he just pulled the trigger based on what appears to be a good faith belief that it had been checked and was told which direction to point it and what to do with it.
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A good financial professional should be keeping a close eye on their area of expertise. Being so clear in the explanation is great.
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Considering that the Flash since 2014 and is still airing, I don't think it qualifies as an obscure reference. It doesn't even require cable.
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This is more or less the same basic reasoning that allows for drunk driving checkpoints or security checks at the airport or courthouse. People using the service know that they may be required to show proof of payment. The main difference is that in this case, the only enforcement mechanism is being asked to show proof of payment. BART and many other systems have turnstiles that force you to either show the payment or pay the fine for riding the entire system. Personally, I'm not the biggest fan of these situations where you're presumed to have agreed to it by virtue of being present when there may not be a viable alternative, but this is hardly unprecedented.
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It's like that in many other states though and it's not absurd. It means that since nobody caused the tree to fall, that all the coordination just needs to be done between the injured party and their own insurance company. It greatly reduces the conflict of interest as once a tree has fallen, it won't typically fall again. So there's less of an incentive to screw the customer over than if it was the neighbor's insurance. It also means a lot less time spent coordinating between 3rd parties.
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Not really, but we do need 2 parties pushing for different priorities. The problem with the Democrats and the Republicans is that they're equivalent to the coalitions that you see in parliamentary systems where they have many parties However, since the Democrats keep moving further and further to the right, the GOP has gotten to be less and less diverse, it used to be that there was a genuine split in the GOP over illegal immigration with some being for more control and some for less. However, as the Democrats have moved further and further to the right, the positions that conservative politicians can take has greatly shrunken to the point where it's mostly just MAGA Republicans and not many others have been able to figure out how to remain relevant.
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@Stunkos Precisely. A big difference is that the Democrats and Republicans create their coalitions before joining a party. Whereas in many other areas the parties join coalitions. There isn't really that much difference and if the Democrats would go back to being a leftwing party, you'd see more variety in the GOP candidates on various issues.
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@Porpentein It has to do with how the system is set up, you can do things like have a proportional voting system where parties get a certain number of seats based on the portion of the votes they won. You can also do things like bar parties from choosing which candidates are on the ballot. Here in WA State, we have a bunch of parties at the state level because the parties are only allowed to choose the nominees for the Presidential election. So, every other partisan race the candidates get to put whatever party they like, we even get some folks on old or obscure parties like the Whigs running candidates. But, TBH, that hasn't really changed things so much as the fact that we permit individuals from the same party to run against each other in the general election and when districting is done, we don't permit the winners to gerrymander themselves to an advantage as it's a separate committee that does that.
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There probably were, but thanks to these policies, the folks like her often didn't come into direct contact with different ethnicities without specifically moving to areas with different races. In which case, there's a name for it, gentrification.
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Yep, these can't be filled at any gas station and it's not likely to be able to be taken for another trailer while she's in it. That's a bunch of waiting and a bunch of witnesses. The concern I'd have is that something happens to her before he goes to fill the tank or get a new load.
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@squal6216 $10k would more than pay mine off, I've been saving like crazy over the last couple years to get mine ready to pay off. But, I do think that they need to do something about the crazy interest rates and the costs as well going forward. I also think that it should really be closer to $50k or all, considering how much money we spend on things like defense, it's not like we don't have the money for free, or inexpensive, college and medicare for all.
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@orppranator5230 The issue of the thief is essentially a non-issue typically as the items would eventually go back to the owner and until then would be in evidence. The drug dealer though is where forfeiture has some social benefits as otherwise they'd come out of prison rich and never have to work again as none of the of the proceeds would belong to anybody else.
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@thystaff742 Because it's not criminal, it's civil.
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The risk at college is a lot lower than it would be in the K-12 system. With the exception of some of those 101 level classes with several hundred students at most colleges, the number of students that the professors interact with is half that of the public school teachers. On top of that, most students take only 2 or 3 classes a quarter, meaning that they're not exposed to as many people per day. They're also older and better able to handle working from home if they start to feel sick.
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@danceswithmules Except that's not true. It requires more electricity to get and keep the water over 120F than it would for the dishwasher to heat its own water. What's more, the scalding hot water that it needs to actually sanitize the dishes is going to be well over 120F anyway. Meaning that either way, the dishwasher has to heat the water. The end result is that if this is the only consideration, you're still better off dropping the water temperature, as the few cups of water that a modern dishwasher uses is just not that much electricity.
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@NorthernChev Perhaps if they're older. Modern dishwashers have to heat the water they use anyways, why would they need incoming water to be that hot, when they heat it up themselves? It's not like modern dishwashers use that much water.
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@Pettingson Same in America and pretty much everywhere. Older ones might not have been able to do it, but you need water that is so hot as to be dangerous to humans in order to benefit from being hot. The only reason why you're supposed to use "hot" water to wash your hands is that it's more easily able to get into tiny crevices and things more easily dissolve in hotter water. Not because it's going to kill pathogens. To do that, you'd need water so hot as to scald the hands.
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It depends on what kind of videos you're watching. I keep getting videos of a guy bothering a caracal even though I have no interest in that. Meanwhile, many of the videos I do watch are from creators that get little if any money from YouTube even though the site is running more and more ads on the videos.
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Likely the only way that will happen is if something is done to make all of the businesses doing this stop. It's the same bit about sales tax, you can include the sales tax in your prices, but you're then competing with other stores that aren't.
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Somehow we went from basically no significant issues with the problem a couple of decades ago, to a crisis so bad that we need to allow tons of medical procedures and accommodations in order to keep them from imploding, and that does require some justification. The feelings and emotions related to being trans can't possibly have changed so much over the last few decades that now trans people are just incapable of regulating their emotional state at all. There was an underlying risk of suicide, but in all the years I was in school my district there were no suicides of anybody known, or suspect of being, trans, even though there were suicides for other reasons.
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$200 is far too much for flashcards. Especially when ChatGPT can make you a set of flashcards based on whatever text you care to use. Texts that are probably more inline with what you're specifically interested in.
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That's quite possible. It just sort of surprises me that nobody has found a vintage set that still had some residue in there to analyze. It may even be that the 3rd type wasn't ever standardized.
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Normally, it only happens if the SCOTUS justices that review the application see there being something in it that justifies it being heard by them. The court can't hear every case, so they tend to choose things where there's a split between the circuits or where there's some other compelling reason why they want to rule on a particular case.
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Batman and Robin actually had a proposal for this. It was pretty dumb, but most people were focused on the nipples on the Batsuit. It used several mirrors to direct the light to a telescope. Adding another satellite or two would get around the issue of the rocks. but it also adds a ton of issues. I can't imagine how this would be technically feasible, at any price.
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Except for political corruption, I don't see any reason why the health sector should involve so many profit making entities. The only people making money should be the people doing the work for the time and effort they put in as well as reasonable profits on the medicine and supplies. There is no good reason to allow for profit entities to siphon all that money out of the system without contributing anything. But thanks to the GOP and the "pro-freedom" folks along with the corrupt courts, it's not likely to improve anytime soon.
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Yes, although there's little point as the Israelis don't care about murdering innocent civilians.
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@beccacroce7380 Anything other than the actual tribe the person is from is going to carry risk of offending. The only activist I've known used the term Indian and quite honestly, the folks that should be the most offended would be white folks. And, even there Indian is kind of dumb as Columbus thought he had discovered the other way to Japan, not India, the Europeans were well aware that Japan was more or less the furthest east you could go and be on some sort of a known map. That being said, this is a group that often times has much better things to worry about than a simple slip like that.
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@YTPartyTonight That's exactly right, early on scepticism was reasonable, but the negative side effects of vaccination haven't really appeared and Pfizer now has an approved drug.
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It's worth noting that grocery store workers are essential workers and as such we don't get unemployment from being laid off or have reduced hours like other folks do. We got the same $1200 that everybody else got and no more. We briefly got $2 an hour, but that ended months ago.
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The Israelis shouldn't be committing crimes against humanity. Has it not occurred to you that there aren't many options these people have? I'm not sure why people think that the Israelis are somehow blameless here. They're every bit as dirty as the terrorists they claim to be fighting.
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I think this is a good time to recommend that everybody that can scan their photos and keep a copy both on site as well as in a location that is geographically separated. Personally, I pay for online backups in addition to a copy that I keep in the next building over. The stuff I care the most about in terms of photos and the like are all backed up so that it's not something that I have to worry about. It's too late for a bunch of these people, but a subscription to one of the online backup services isn't that expensive, and for things like photos, you can always burn it all to a couple DVDs and send a couple to family living out of state.
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Usually not. Mentally ill people are rarely dangerous. Especially if you aren't so stupid as to corner them. And usually, when it is somebody that dangerous, they're already known to be dangerous by law enforcement.
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@bitrot42 Yes although somehow Linux and *BSD have options that generally work pretty reliably.
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@LC-uh8if Fair point, although I'd point out that unless judges are going along with it, it doesn't much matter as it's not material.
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@Yautah To be fair, part of why the European roads are the way that they are is that a lot of the stuff got bombed all to hell during WWII which allowed for some decisions to be made based on modern thinking without as much old infrastructure remaining. In the US you can see a bit of progression from the cities that were set up by the Dutch and Spanish, to the ones that were set up by the Brits and ultimately by Americans. But, since so much of it was done prior to cars or bicycles being invented, there are definitely goofy fossils in the system, such as the lack of roundabouts.
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@KenKen-ui4ny Yes, IIRC, when my grandfather visited London he got trapped in a roundabout for a bit. Around here, I definitely am seeing that as more of them are built that the drivers are starting to get used to them and understanding that you just have to yield to the traffic in there, you don't have to stop unless it's not safe to enter. I regularly pass through two of them on my way to my mother-in-law's and it's not a bad experience. There's probably going to be a couple proper roundabouts being built within walking distance of me and half inside the city. Which AFAIK would be the first one in the city that was a proper roundabout and not just a traffic circle. (We've had traffic circles on many residential streets since well before I was born and they function like baby roundabouts)
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Possibly, my suspicion is that he'll probably die shortly after the election. He's been in hospice for quite a while a this point.
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The simple solution would have been to give everybody that $300 a week whether they worked or not and then taxed it back from those too wealthy to need it. They didn't want to do that because that wouldn't transfer enough wealth to the greedy. They want people to be foreclosed upon and evicted so that the bankers can take the property back and resell it, or keep it for renting to others in the future.
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we'll see what this turns up, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were anarchists from Eugene. This is exactly the sort of thing that they've done over the years. Although, I'm sure there are plenty of other options.
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I'm not sure that that justifies stealing from future generations that are already contributing more than they'll get out of it if there aren't changes to fix this mess.
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I take it you didn't see that rather uncomfortable video from Ye West's recent visit where he was going off on how great he thought Hitler is and how much of a fan he is of Hitler. I feel really sorry for Ye that he doesn't seem to get the mental health treatment that he needs.
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@waynedavies3185 People who aren't engineers usually don't understand the way that stresses travel around surfaces. I'm not an engineer, but I remember listening to an expert talking about the difference between drilling a round hole in a slab of concrete versus a square hole and the implications that has for cracks forming. The same thing occurs with pretty much anything under some sort of stress. Just a little weak spot can grow to a large size in the blink of an eye if there isn't sufficient resilience built into the design. I remember the way my parent's house was completely without support on one corner due to dry rot and you wouldn't have known it without seeing the siding removed because of the redundancy that is in standard construction designs. (Not that it was a good situation, but that it didn't result in a critical failure of the structure)
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If you keep the device, I could see that being an argument for theft. That could be conversion. Still it seems rather thin.
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Not really, her numbers were low, and I mean low, there's no way that only 2 or 3% of Democrats are people of color. She under performed even within those respective communities.
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It might not, the SCOTUS has continued to chip away at voting rights and allow corporations to spend more and more money on races. By the time the younger folks get a chance to vote, the country is going to be in extremely bad shape and might not survive. It's been going on for decades. Al Gore conceded the race in 2000 to W, just because SCOTUS said so. It came out later that next year that he had actually won by tens of thousands of votes in Florida, but a bunch of "spoiled" ballots were tossed because the voters had written the name of the candidate in addition to removing the chad. And in 2004 W was re-elected because hundreds of thousands of votes in Ohio were screwed up. Then there' the gerrymandering which means that the Democrats need a significant majority over something like 54% just to get half the congressional seats. This all happened because the Democratic party doesn't care to win elections. They care about donations and about enriching themselves, but not about the voters.
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Because some of us are sick of not being presented with reasonable choices. Even if they do promise to do things for the people, and have the votes, they don't even try. The GOP just has to put up a token defense and they fold. A vote for Democrats is a vote for fascism in a few more years.
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@Marie-r4i2u Bernie, the only reason why we're in the current situation is because the Democratic party wouldn't let him win. He'd be the sitting President now if he'd been allowed to win in 2020. So, he would be a 1 term President, but he's fully capable of doing the job.
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@MReginaldGoldstein77 I had to reread that as I initially thought it was graveyard shift. Nice one.
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@joshuanoble5895 TBH, I'm kind of curious why they didn't send a bucket up to him rather than having him jump. He's probably already got a harness on, transferring to the fire truck would probably be safer.
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@burnout_2017 Keep in mind that there was probably a lot of that money spent on traffic studies to figure out what to do and try and figure out if this might be an appropriate solution.
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My wife is inot law of attraction stuff, and she basically can't do anything. She can't even acknowledge that because she's choosing not to have a job and choosing not to cut back on her spending, the likelihood of us ever being able to afford to buy a house is virtually nill. But, she still swears that she's good with money and that I'm the one that isn't. Even though, every week I have more money in the bank than the week before, and that eventually, I'll have a pretty decent amount for retirement.
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Those are traffic circles, they do function like tiny one lane roundabouts, but they're usually a bit different in terms of having plantings and you usually being able to proceed straight through.
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OK, I'll bite, if they needed to kill Oswald before he talked, then why did nobody kill Ruby? He lived another 4 years after shooting Oswald on live TV. Whether or not you choose to believe his cause of death, that seems like an awful long time to wait and to assume that he didn't also "know too much" seems like a bit of a stretch.
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No, it's absolutely not legitimate unless the professor releases the tests for use as study aids. Getting caught with tests that are not for public use is definitely going to result in some explaining to do and possible sanctions. None of the schools, colleges or universities that I've studied at or worked for would accept that as an excuse for cheating. Unless the proff releases the tests for such use, it's cheating. Of course, it's both naive and lazy, but it doesn't make it not cheating and it might make for a little bit of a defense, but these are institutions that are required to prevent cheating in order to maintain accreditation.
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This was presumably a civil matter, criminal is where you're talking about prison time. Although, the $700m is a bit of a joke given that he hasn't got it and even if it does get reduced, he still won't have that. So at best this is symbolic.
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@musicloverme3993 Possibly. But keep in mind that if you quit for any reason, the public officials involved in approving claims will make it a massive problem where the applicant has to prove that they quit as a result to something specific on that day and will not consider anything that happened previously. That's what happened to me. I showed up for my hearing and the official was very clearly representing the company and wouldn't consider any of the abusive behavior that led up to me quitting. It was considered voluntary because the last straw wasn't sufficient to warrant me quitting. And none of the stuff leading up to that final straw were considered. Plus, they let the HR troll lie her ass off without seeing any of the evidence, but i had to have evidence to support my claim. I think most states are like that, assuming they aren't worse.
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That's her weak spot, she doesn't know anything about defense and she doesn't know how to deal with things when she doesn't have a bunch of one-liners from her writers to use. I'm not even sure she can handle the moderators of the debate pushing back against things she says.
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I've done that, the issue I've had is that the crust never ends as crispy that way. I pretty much just use cast iron for when I'm making my own. For frozen pizzas from the store, when I'm even lazier than just buying the components, I'll use the airfryer. The main issue with the airfryer is that it doesn't really allow you to deliver the energy directly to the crust the way that you need to if you want a nice crispy crust without burning the toppings. It certainly works but, I'll take my cast iron any day.
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I wouldn't say it was moronic, it's very cynical. They get more money when they don't control the white house and they aren't expected to follow through on their promises either.
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I'm going to be buying at least one used computer for use as a NAS. Preferably something that's somewhat energy efficient.
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@thegalapagos57 I don't believe that it's possible to be a recruiter if there isn't something very wrong with you. The amount of lying that goes into that job is truly astonishing.
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Not really, it can be as simple as Donald Trump being less pro-war than Harris. Say what you want about him, but we'd probably still be stuck in Afghanistan if Trump hadn't insisted on getting the country out of there, meanwhile, Biden keeps supplying the Israelis with weapons while ethnically cleansing Gaza and Harris refused to be against Israel's genocide.
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I personally went to a really tough middle school with a significant discipline issue due to ineffective teachers and administration. I legit forget how many fights I was in and at a certain point it got so bad that people would just get the hell out of my way as I walked down because there was this perception, admittedly I didn't discourage it, that I was the top dog in the school of about 1200. I didn't start any of the fights, but there wasn't exactly any adult supervision to mediate any of the disputs. I honestly would have been arrested and likely done time if we had had an SRO. We had a security officer, who seemed cool enough, but he was security and he had no legal authority to arrest anybody. He happened to be black, but I think that wasn't anywhere near as much of a factor as that he was the only security we had and had no authority to make arrests. If somebody legitimately needed to be arrested, they had to call the cops. The only scenario I can think of where having an armed SRO might make sense is for a rural school that can't get a police response in a reasonable period of time. And even then, I do think that the weapon probably should be locked up somewhere. Just handing a weapon risks accidental discharge if you're not careful.
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Sanders/Willamson could actually win. There's a bunch of people that would vote for them that wouldn't vote for either Biden or Trump. And they're unlikely to lose any votes to Trump that aren't already lost.
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@teadrinker7098 Perhaps, but replacing Harris with her could. Nobody wanted Harris.
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It's only hard to prove because the Supreme Court has been bribed so many times that they think it's normal and acceptable.
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Veterans are lucky to get those 2 days, considering that they're members of the world's largest terrorist organization and tools that are used to undercut American democracy. The US sponsors the lion's share of dictatorships, and veterans failed miserably to prevent the hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians from being slaughtered in Iraq. Not to mention the various drone strikes on innocent civilians.
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@conkcreet1344 No, but considering how many places there are where it's stigmatized or criminalized, it's clearly going to take more than one day to address. Call me when that's no longer the case and we can cut it back to a single day.
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@wjumeau Black History Month. Perhaps you should think a bit more.
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To be fair, that was before people had any reason to believe that the Republicans were the ones that couldn't figure out how to balance a budget if their lives depended on it.
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I like how she chose one that blends in with her blankets.
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Fire fighters doing that is weird. When the police do that it's really hard to know if they're doing it for a legitimate reason or not as for some types of calls they don't want the people to know that they're almost there.
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@mattwroe4776 Sort of, American history tends to start in the 17th century with the first colonists. It's also worth noting that if that's the standard you set, then most countries in the world would have a shorter history than the US.
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Probably due to immunity rules that can't ever be challenged in a systematic fashion.
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@CommandLineCowboy yes, and coal power itself was even worse.
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I don't agree with cutting ties with people over this. People have a right to vote for whichever candidate they choose and if you shun the ones that vote in a different way from you, then how do you ever expect things to improve? That's especially the case when the folks being shunned were on the winning side of the election. Are we just supposed to wait for Trump and the GOP to screw things up so those folks leave the party and then hope that they don't just stop voting? Really, the only way to get those folks voting for a particular side, is to be decent to them and look for that common ground. I personally refused to vote for Harris and a lot of that has to do with the way the party treated the Sander's supporters. I cared enough to not just donate to him but to volunteer and for the party to put that much effort into squashing us and then offering no reason to vote blue other than because Trump was worth, was insanity. The party got the shellacking that it deserved and apparently, people aren't learning any lessons from the way that the previous 3 elections went with Trump winning 2 and Biden barely squeaking by the time they went. In none of those cases did the Democrats get any sort of mandate or message that the people thought they were on the right track.
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It was on tape, and he's been convicted. We know that he did it, there's no question about it.
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Google's Playstore used to have more reasonable terms, these days the "return" period is so short that by the time you've got the app installed, you might already have used up the 5 minutes they give you to request a refund. When I first got an Android phone, they gave you a day. You could at least see if the app would do anything. Now, you can't.
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@daninraleigh Not really. Around here, you're responsible for the pipes and anything connected on the customer side of the meter. Mostly because that is the property of the owner, and few people would want the water company coming inside to inspect things and approve fixtures and installations. Toilets can potentially use a lot of water if they're not sealing properly between flushes. Back before aerators were common on bathroom sinks, you could fill dozens of cups with the water if you left them on while brushing your teeth. Depending on how bad the toilet leak is, that can add up to a lot of wasted water.
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That only works if the establishment allows candidates that are running on issues that voters want to win. Harris won 0 primary delegates the last 2 elections combined and she was selected as an F U to the progressive wing of the party, a vote for her is a vote for a continued slip to some form of authoritarianism as it's not like they were even pretending that they weren't rigging primaries.
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I think there were assumptions being made and a bit of hyperbole. But, depending on how precisely it played out, there wouldn't necessarily have been much and if it had taken weeks to locate the bodies, the goo might have already been eaten. The main point was simply that there probably wouldn't be enough to recover as it was on the bottom of the sea and might not be in any sort of condition to retrieve separate from whatever is left of the hull.
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I'd like to see more electric motorcycles with fake shifters to help restrict your speeds to small ranges. It would both be a nice tactile feel as well as a way of helping to avoid speeding tickets.
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They also aren't including student loan forgiveness in this. If Biden is going to stick to his lie about not being able to do $50k, then logically he wouldn't be able to do $10k either. But, congress could. I personally don't agree with loan forgiveness on that scale. Why should those of us that went to lengths to not have student loans or to pay them off get nothing? And what of the people who go to college knowing that other people had their loans forgiven without having to do anything to earn or deserve it? I'd be fine with making college free going forward. But, changing the rules on people that have already gone to college and made their decisions is part of why people do stupid things. I decided what colleges to attend and how much to go for based in part on having to pay it back. I'm a white, middle-class man, nobody gives a crap about helping me out pay for this stuff, why should my taxes go to pay to help other people more than they're already being helped?
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IKR, I still can't figure out how people didn't notice that Biden spent most of the previous campaign cycle hiding in his basement just being not Trump.
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Yes, but even there, the processing plants may have insufficient protection. But, likely less trouble.
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No, but the people pushing these treatments for children do have an ideology and it's got nothing to do with science. Do the research, figure out what the truth is to the best of our ability and make a decision on that. The current status is that there shouldn't be such treatments provided because there's inadequate medical basis in doing so. The trans kids will be trans adults and they can get whatever care they like at that time. That's not something that's being dealt with in this case.
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Perhaps, but the gun came out after he refused to follow orders. My wife and I were pulled over yesterday and wer just answered the questions and followed his orders. His sidearm never came out. Pointing a weapon at a driver requires additional paperwork and is a real pain, even if nothing else happens. Cops don't normally go around pointing guns at random people, especially if they've got a body cam.
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@StreetPreacherr In a legal sense it is, nobody is holding a gun to their heads telling them they have to sign. But, from a practical sense, if you've got a substantial viewer base, it can be very hard to change platforms quickly enough to avoid having to sign the new terms.
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@GKTorn. That sort of thing is why I never tried to join. There's a pretty decent chance that I'd be able to join, the practice test they have is pretty easy. But, I've spent many years hanging out on college campuses and if I'm going to be in a group based on intelligence, I'd prefer it to be based on something practical rather than an arbitrary score on one of the approved tests.
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Knowing GOP politicians, they'll likely triple down on inaccurate and insufficient sex ed and then just leave the resulting children to fend for themselves before they allow non-rich people to benefit from government assistance. The Democrats will then point to the GOP and say we can't do anything at all. Pathetic worms.
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@covenant11 Yeah, he's not going to run, if he was, he'd have already announced an intention to do so. At this point, Kamala already has the necessary delegates to get the nomination. It's not right, but she's got the delegates.
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I won't believe it until somebody assassinates one of the corrupt politicians. They've got such a lock on voting that even when they think they're voting for improving conditions, the politicians did the opposite.
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@fredhair no, but the zeitgeist kind of does. Web 2.0 is all about profiting off of the contributions of end users rather than having to contribute anything other than the site. Whereas with web 1.0, you had to make some sort of contribution if you wanted to get paid.
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@thegoldenatlas753 nope, Wikipedia is web 2.0, nearly all the content on it was user generated, hence web 2.0. The Merriam Webster dictionary site is basically 100% their creation, which is typical of web 1.0 thinking.
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A high school student could have done a better job with this. People should get vaccinated because it reduces the likelihood of getting hospitalized, disabled or killed by the virus, not because it's particularly effective at preventing infection. A vaccine with such low efficacy for preventing infection isn't going to provide the benefits that Grim was talking about, you get a marginally decreased likelihood of spreading it because there's a marginal reduction in likelihood of contracting it, and that's it. You wind up with a somewhat increased risk of getting and spreading it if you think that you can start doing holidays with lots of different people in small spaces, but still have a relatively low risk of serious complications.
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The issue here wasn't disinformation, it's that the Democratic party ran a couple of candidates that weren't up to the job. Biden was barely with it enough to earn Cornpop's vote in 2020, and without needing to actually go out and campaign. Harris has never won any delegates in the primaries and couldn't be bothered to message working class men to vote for her. The only ads that I personally saw from her campaign were fearmongering over women's rights issues and immigration and wanting me to give them money while offering me nothing that would address my personal life situation or the needs of working class men. Combine that with her just not campaigning in most of the country due to skipping the primaries and we shouldn't be even remotely surprised by what happened. They didn't even bother to have a primary in FL, even though it's a state that was listed as competitive this time around.
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@orwellsgoatatemyradishes4358 He doesn't need to fight dirty, just attacking Biden for his electability issues and record likely would do it. It's completely fair to attack Biden for being even less fit for office than Trump is due to apparent dementia.
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I think a good example of a prank where other people make it a problem was when the Cartoon Network put some LED signs up based on one of their characters years back. It pretty much shutdown Boston because they decided that these things were IEDs and needed to halt traffic in those areas. The advertisers doing that had no reasonable basis for expecting such a response. And as somebody with some bomb recognition training, the whole idea was laughable. They weren't large enough, and they were positioned to be seen, not to damage the infrastructure and could easily have been disabled without anybody's life being risked.
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That just shows that they're a fraud, only people in the deep south should be allowed to vote, everybody else has wrong views on everything.
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So? It's not like she hasn't been screwing things up on her own.
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Nothing that Mossad does can be characterized as heroic. They're on the same basic moral playing field as the CIA and Al Qaeda.
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I work in food service and there are a lot of things which would make me too sick for work, but not too sick to go outside and do things. Diarrhea is one of them, if I've got watery bowel movements in the last bit, I can't go into work. So, even if I do take some medicine and it clears up, I still can't go to work right away. The same goes for vomiting. So, I can be chilling at home and generally fine to goof off, but be potentially infectious and could give somebody food poisoning if I went into work. Really, what this says is that we need stronger protections for days off. A mental health day is a legitimate part of one's health and a legitimate reason to call in sick. I'm autistic, and I do a really good job of coming in if at all possible, but there are definitely days when I'd rather not show up because I can't do things that shouldn't be a part of my job, but corporate expects us to smile and give customers "good" eye contact, whatever that even means. It hasn't been a problem yet, but technically it could be a hassle to deal with at some point in the future.
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@crazycoffee Don't post under your own name, and don't post your photo. If they still figure it out, they're probably engaged in stalking and you can probably get a restraining order as well as some sort of lawsuit.
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@thevalorousdong7675 That worked better before mass shootings became a normal thing. Now, that's likely to get you fired and possibly put on psychiatric hold depending on how credible the police think that is.
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@crazycoffee There are corners of the site that are, but in general you are correct.
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This isn't a good policy, this will result in a reduction in benefits for millions of future retirees if nothing is done about it.
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Yes, especially if there's a lot of Bernie or bust voters. He's uninspiring, he repeatedly puts his foot in his mouth and he has a horrible record on mispeaking and telling outright lies.
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@willdejong7763 No, not in the least. The jury exists to determine whether or not the prosecution, or plaintiff, met their burden of proof to the relevant standard, nto whether or not the crime should be illegal in the first place. Perhaps it's different in other countries, but the reason the US has juries is so that there's somebody largely impartial to look at the evidence, listen to the testimony and decide whether the accusing party has met the relevant burden of proof. To allow the jury more than that is to risk a ton of unforeseen circumstances like what used to happen in the Southern US where juries would decide that they knew perfectly well that that white man murdered that black man, they just didn't think it should be a crime.
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@powderandpaint14 Being against slavery is one of the least controversial positions to have in the US and has been for many decades. It's like being against being killed by nuclear weapons destroying all the previously inhabitable land. Very few people would suggest that to be a positive outcome and even those that would typically would be OK with it for other reasons.
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@razvanlex That's what we do, mostly because the unit only has electric baseboard heaters and the AC is a portable one due to the fact that it's so hard to get an AC that can handle windows that open tot he sides. That being said, most of the time, it cools down enough in the evening that we can run the AC a bit before bed, and then open the window for the rest of the night.
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They don't say that the WTC buildings were brought down by planes, that's what happened. The planes were seen by people crashing into the buildings and because the WTC buildings were set up to allow for large, and mostly, open floor space, if anything caused the core to fail the whole building would come down. In this case, too much of the fireproofing was destroyed by the planes to protect against the subsequent fire. That's been known for quite a few years at this point, and is completely consistent with the towers being designed to withstand a smaller plane, with less fuel, colliding with them. As for why building 7 collapsed like that, it's because that's how buildings virtually always come down. They're engineered from the beginning to collapse inward, gravity works downward and barring somebody screwing it up massively, the building always comes down like that. You'd have to have a Kobe style earthquake where the land liquefies unevenly or screw up the explosives placement to get anything else. Now whether the building was intentionally brought down or fell down due to the underground connections is another matter, but there's no way that they would have been able to rig all those explosives that quickly without anybody noticing it. Getting your hands on that much explosive material without being on a list is rather hard to begin with, but then installing it all without anybody noticing it's being done while there are a bunch of people in the building is something that does require a lot of justification. As far as I can tell, this is simply a byproduct of the chaos on the day and if you pay attention to the on the ground journalist, she doesn't refer to building 7 when she's talking. People make mistakes, and presumably everybody involved here was in shock. I don't think that anybody outside of NYC had ever heard of building 7, so it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that people were reacting to that one. More likely, there was a mix up and somebody had a script ready for when the building did collapse due to being weakened. And now, we get to spend time over 20 years later, trying to turn it into something that it's not. This is just like JFK, it was Lee Oswald and a lot of luck that resulted in the assassination being successful. I know folks don't like that because of the huge impact it had on the history of the '60s and '70s, but that's the truth, and even today, nobody has turned up conclusive proof of another option being likely. It's sad to see this channel devolving into a bunch of misinformation and conspiracy theories when there's very reasonable, and well-supported explanations.
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Keep I'm kind that smart people have to tell people how smart they are. Likes great countries don't need to say it.
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Because we stopped enforcing laws like that against powerful people. Trump shouldn't have been permitted to run for office again due to the previous insurrection that he incited and that he still doesn't seem to think that he lost in 2020.
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@BrettDevenish-r5j Doesn't matter, it's an illegal job.
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@deathbeforedecaf7755 Yeah, I thought it was chicken spiked with oxy.
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One of the nice things about ritalin is that it's out of the system pretty quickly, so if you want to take a break from it you can, even the various extended release versions will leave the system pretty quickly at the end of the release period. I do think that it's unfortunate that they're addictive to the rest of the population, but usually not those with legit ADHD. It makes for a big pain in getting the medication at times.
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When it comes to the lottery, you're generally right. But, spending a couple dollars when the pot increases beyond the cost of the ticket * the odds of winning can be a reasonable thing to do. But, you're probably still better off putting that dollar in the bank.
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I refuse to vote for Biden because I refuse to endorse this neoliberal foolishness.
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You forgot to mention rivet versus clip chains. It's worth learning how to do the rivets as it eliminates the possibility of something happening to the clip that allows for the chain to snap around and destroy parts of the bike as well as whatever is behind you.
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@jeraldbottcher1588 How much more significant could the sentence have been? From what I can tell, the maximum would have been 6 years per victim, but sentencing guidelines apply, and from what I understand, this was a first offense, so the sentence would probably have been lower than that had it gone through the normal trial. I do agree that it is light, but you act like the judge rejecting it would lead to a sginificantly higher sentence, and even at the highest sentence available, it would still have been only 36 years, with some portion of that off for good behavior after putting everybody through the ringer going thorugh a trial.
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@jeraldbottcher1588 The families of the deceased, as far as I can tell, the sentencing range on this wouldn't carry a significantly longer sentence anyways, and there's always the possibility that he wins on a technicality or on appeal. It's not what I would consider to be adequate, but if you look at the sentencing guidelines, it doesn't appear to me like a trial would have resulted in a sentence that was much longer. This way it s over and people can move on with the healing process.
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@ Yes, but how much higher would somebody with no priors and no other aggravating factors beyond the speed going to get? I think that's the point people are missing, there are sentencing guidelines and people rarely get anything near the top end of the sentencing range without a lot of other stuff going on.
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Yes, but he claims to be a Democrat which makes him a useful idiot. They can blame him for anything that the party doesn't want to do and people seem to buy that BS. The Democrats could primary him and probably get him voted out of office, if they wanted to, it's just that they need him to vote the wrong way on key votes, or those things might actually happen.
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Sexplanations has a video where she effectively just sits there and "listens" through the internet.
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@Odinsday perhaps the U.S. military will finally bring us democracy.
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It does, the issue is that they tend to use robusto beans and then process them in a way that does the beans no favors. If I know that I'm going to want a cup of coffee quickly with lead time, I'll do cold brew. But, it's difficult to compete with coffee that's ready immediately. It's kind of a shame that coffee in tea bags isn't a more common thing.
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@olive996 There's degrees of danger. The real issue here tends to be the stuff that might have been left just under the surface, the odd way that the water can circulate and the tendency of these places to not be easily reached via emergency responders. Even just people agreeing to stay in a relatively small area that can be reached more easily would probably help a lot.
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They may have worked had they had better messaging. Most TV ads can be repurposed to be YouTube ads if the content is appropriate. The only ads I saw from her were ones promising me absolutely nothing and begging for money. So, I"m supposed to ignore my hardships so that crises that the Democrats couldn't be bothered to deal with could impact other people. So, even if I did give her the money and she won the election, she wouldn't even have to break her promises to give me nothing, because she wasn't promising to improve my life in any way.
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If we vote for Harris, that means that the Democrats won't learn anything and we'll continue the trend of not being allowed to choose the President.
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Here, in WA, I'd rather be ignored than have the epidemic spiral out of control. Right now, we're dropping in the rankings of states, in part due to the rates of increase here decreasing and in part due to other states having issues contain the outbreak. The real tragedy of it is that we've been surprisingly successful, even without any help from the federal government.
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Because it's irrelevant. Folks move to near the stores to steal. That is the ones that aren't engaged in organized crime. People don't steal hundreds of dollars worth of meat to feed their families.
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There's that, but why are courts allowing dealers to have such blatantly one sided language in a contract where the dealer can effectively do whatever they like?
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And if you're just injured, the rest of us get to pick up the tab on that. Which, honestly, with a car crash you're far more likely to be seriously injured than killed. And I shudder to think what the airbag does if you're not restrained to the seat when it pops off.
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@jonevansauthor Yes, and there's always self-publishing epubs on your own website via one of the many ecommerce providers.
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Not really, it's jealousy. You're jealous that there are more people living there who are making more money than you are. Most of the rest of the state suckles off the King County teet whenever taxes are being distributed. There's an amazing lack of any sort of appreciation for what the county does for you.
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@ToughLoveRecords A big mistake that Trump made was not assigning FEMA to handle distribution. It led to nuttiness like in WA where teachers got vaccinated before food services workers. It doesn't really make much sense to bump teachers that had been teaching remotely ahead of the people in the food supply chain that can't work remotely and are about as essential as you get.
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@themysterylady842 These are presumably small town cops, as in the cops that are so worthless and incompetent that they couldn't get a job in a real department.
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@zf8496 2014? It started going wrong during the browser wars where Netscape and Microsoft were releasing competing standards to break the web for the other browser.
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Lonely 1 no, they haven't. They've put on a show like they want to, but I've yet to see any evidence about them being serious about it. They held out for 11 days and got nothing that the republicans wouldn't have given them without the delay. They could easily have refused to pass any of the first 4 measures unless there were provisions for us in there. The people would understand a delay to support the frontline workers that are ensuring that people are safe, fed and cared for are being protected. Compared with the other delays in getting money to people, it would be a fraction of the time. I work at a grocery store filling online orders, and people are super supportive of us, it's the politicians that aren't.
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@kristi1189 that would be reasonable, so we can assume it won't happen. Neither party really cares about us, we're essential for a reason, but you wouldn't realize it be looking at where the money is going.
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@DivineGrace-ex1gd I'd google the elections tracking in your county for more information.
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Sort of, it was a masterful way of shifting tax burdens onto the poor. They cut government services in order to "balance" the budget. Most of those services were legitimately essential, so the states and localities wound up having to pick up the tab. But, in most areas, the taxes are things that poor people have to pay and can't easily avoid, like sales tax, and so they wind up paying that. The end result is that the poor wind up with a higher effective tax rate as they're paying for things that used to be funded via the federal income tax. In some areas the stuff just isn't done, so they don't get the services they need either. It's brilliant in an evil genius sort of way.
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That's not what the money is for, that's for the airline chaperoning the kid through the flights they're taking. That shouldn't be required to simply not be deplaned and potentially left stranded in a random city.
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I do have to wonder if the reason for this wasn't that he had done something similar when he was younger and genuinely doesn't think there's anything wrong with it. It's unclear to me how he could deliver a guilty verdict and then reverse it during sentencing. Sentencing phases of trials only happen if the defendant is convicted.
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@Superabound2 And it doesn't work very well. If you punish somebody, you teach them to avoid being caught, which may or may not include ceasing the activity that triggers the punishment.
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@bece00 I don't recall the Japanese language being banned. Nor were various Japanese ethnic foods renamed in an effor to stamp out the culture. You can say that all you like, but the fact of the matter is, that regardless of size, there was a much greater degree of cultural vandalism targeted at Germans that was not targeted at the Japanese. They got an apology and modest checks decades later, but the Germans have still not received any sort of meaningful acknowledgement or reparation for any of it. As far as the Atom bombs go, they knew the cities were going to be flattened ahead of time. Whether it was one bomb or an entire squadron is a moot point. It doesn't make the tens of thousands that died any less dead. Your racism and ignorance proves my point better than anything I could say. You think that, because we've screwed up history and written some rather important stuff out of the curriculum.
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@bearcudlybear It didn't. The executive order didn't specify specific ethnicities, and they were allowed to resettle in other parts of the country. If it was a matter of racism, then they got it backwards, because apart from this, the Japanese got off extremely easy compared with what was done to the German community. Banning our language, renaming our foods and rewriting history to blame the ethnicity for things that weren't our fault. We're hardly blamed for more than just the holocaust, apparently, it's our fault that the US was using civilians as human shields for munitions being smuggled into Britain on the Lusitania as well.
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This only happened recently, it's still well within the statute of limitations. We'll have to see what happens, but it's entirely possible that they'll both wind up in prison over this. Just because we're talking about a civil suit does not mean that there couldn't be criminal charges filed as well.
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@nopejhonson958 It's also an antitrust violation when you're a company the size of Disney.
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@GreatValueOprah Oil paintings have a tendency to crack over time, especially ones that are on canvas. They are very durable, but they do have issues that require restoration over time. His work is relatively recent, so the pigments are probably more stable than older paintings, but it does seem like there should be more care taken in terms of the air.
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What grassroots support? She was chosen as part of a strategy to squash the grassroots network that Bernie had built up in 2016 and 2020.
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@dmaeder Here in WA that's the norm. If you're using the Dr. prefix then it is always paired with some sort of suffix to specify what type of doctorate the person has. It's also common for the degree to be used as a suffix for professions like nursing or dentistry even if there is no title being used. I assume that has to do with licensing requirements and the policies of the various institutions these people work for. But,while you might say Dr. So and So, it would also be written with the degree and you can always ask if you need or want to know what the doctorate is in.
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@Zero.0ne. The solution is to properly fund the police and then actually prosecute the people that are caught shoplifting. We've tried defunding the police and it hasn't worked. Arguably, it may have worked if the defunding had happened after the point where other services were able to intervene earlier, but that's not what has happened and we'll need to get the policing back before we even try to make another go of it.
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@jaylu7021 Shopkeepers privilege used to allow them to detain people that had been caught shoplifting. But, it's a limited right and if the cops don't show up and the prosecutors won't prosecuted, it's not something that works. It's a limited right to detain suspects while the cops come.
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It's hardly just racists that are voting this down. It's a racist class that deserves to be called out for it. Racism is hardly just an issue that white people have, my Japanese-American boss is rather racist himself and it doesn't seem to bother him when it's people of color behaving in a racist fashion. Just because the impact isn't the same, doesn't make it any less racist.
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So, how many people do you think should die because the medicine wasn't ever developed? Things have improved a lot over the decades, but it's absolutely insane to pretend like we could have just skipped the animal testing for the more modern techniques using things like cells on a chip and super computers. The attitude that there shouldn't be any testing on animals is one of privilege. We have the privilege to call for the ending of the practice now, only because enough testing was previously done to enable scientists to develop other methods of testing that either don't involve animals or that are less harmful to them. But, this whole business that we're ready to stop completely is just insane. We're not there yet and likely won't be for quite some time.
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@christinecasey8094 TBH, it'll probably be pretty quick once he's out of office, assuming the Democrats don't screw that up.
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@jensschroder8214 Canadians speak American English, as in North American English. It's still close enough to British English to not get a separate name.
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Yep, people need somebody more substantial than that loser to be the culprit because JFK's assassination changed things substantially, we may not have wound up having a full on go at Vietnam if LBJ wasn't having to guess what JFK's ultimate goal was in there beyond the plans he left for the shorter term. But, the whole thing is easily explained with facts that aren't in dispute, we know Oswald was a communist, we know the Russians didn't really like or trust him, we know that it only took one hit to kill the President and that Oswald had been working at that book store. You could make sort of an argument that the change of route was convenient, but nobody has produced any evidence that the government had reason to suspect such a loser to succeed, or even try. This is before computers powerful enough to track all the malcontents in Dallas existed.
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There's also the issue that he's autistic and his failure to respond with adequate emotion led prosecutors to look for something to put him away for.
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@brian2440 and if you people had started the process back in the '70s when we knew there was trouble coming we wouldn't need to. The fact of the matter is that we could do it in 10 years, it's just that it would require the rich to start paying taxes.
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So, I take it that Trump is going to serve prison time for those 34 felonies he's already been convicted on then.
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That kind of thinking is why we don't get effective reform.
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@ If we're being fair, when the fund goes insolvent, they should start the cuts with the oldest people and work their way to the younger ones as the younger folks mostly didn't have any sort of a say in it and didn't benefit from the easy economy either.
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Exactly, neither Trump nor Harris made any serious effort to earn my vote, so I voted 3rd party for somebody that was saying things that I think might make my life and the life of others better. Of course, it'll be Harris or Trump, but that's not my fault.
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While the sentence seems overly harsh to me, he brought it on himself by not calling the court as soon as he realized that he overslept for court. The judge really only had the choice of a fine or putting him in jail to think about what he had done. His life was likely fucked up due to his own choices.
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When it comes to more, it depends a bit whether you include the subsequent cancer deaths from the nuclear radiation. But yes, you are correct. Years ago, I lived in one of the Chinese towns that the Japanese had leveled during the war. People there have not forgotten the crimes committed against them by the Imperial Japanese.
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I disagree, this is completely consistent with who he is as a person. Hes' not a rightwinger nor a leftwinger, he does side with one side or the other at times on different issues, but I think it's more likely that it's a sincere belief and a way of demonstrating that he doesn't really care one way or the other about whether other people are trans.
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@Desert_Rogue_Tanker Yep, the Democrats were running on the idea that Trump is an existential threat to democracy, but couldn't be bothered to try to find the strongest possible candidates in any of the last 3 elections.
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@yildendelta6761 Please don't spread misinformation. Medicare, for all includes an expansion of benefits in part A to include most essentials. The Medicare part is just an indicator of how it would be managed, not what it would cover.
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Locally, they may not have enough workers to do the work, but it doesn't magically just show up when you raise wages, it can take a bit of time and people may not be able to move there, even if they're willing to accept the job.
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If you're in need of that, you can probably afford higher end gear.
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@ne0n_witch FIrst off, the ToS is pretty clear that they have license to use the data to do the things that we tell the browser to do. That has literally always been the case and I'm not even sure how you use a browser that just ignores all the stuff you put into it. But, beyond that, if you accept that Fx is terrible, then what? You're basic options are buying into the iOS and OSX ecosystem and using Safari, or switching to something that uses Google's engine, and all the issues that come from that.
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@AmyCS83 but it's ok when the democrats rig their primaries? They admitted to it under oath.
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The British crown no longer has the ability to lock people up in the Tower for wrong speech. I wouldn't expect any sort of honest conversation about the Thai royal family until the penalties are dropped, or at least reduced to a fine.
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Men have pheromones that help keep us from killing each other in work situations. It's something that men have evolved and women haven't. It doesn't mean that women can't work together, but it does mean that women need to work harder at it.
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That's not at all what happened. They didn't legally have the squirrel with the appropriate permits. Perhaps they shouldn't have advertising that they were breaking the law?
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Lawyers are officers of the court and if they're allowed to falsify documents or even turn a blind eye to it when they should be paying attention, it would completely destroy the system for everybody, not just for cases in which that particular attorney was involved.
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 @mike0middle HRC was incredibly unpopular. She also wouldn't have won the primary without the super delegates pledging to her before any primaries were held.
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 @mike0middle the polling was good, the votes just broke for Trump in most of the battle grounds.
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Yes, but congress already approved the laws that he's using. They also decided to make the waivers tax free. It seems like congress did make a decision, it's just not one that right wing hacks like.
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@MonkeyJedi99 I"m not really sure how they can enforce these laws if there isn't the threat of something like taking your license away if you don't go along with it.
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Only if it wanted to be factually incorrect. I've used both systems in daily living and you're fooling yourself if you think the metric makes anything other than science easier. Seriously, I expected that at least once in the nearly 18 months that I was stuck with the metric measures that I'd find things easier. Nope, not even once in any of the situations that I found myself in did I find the metric measures to be of any help whatsoever. The reality is that people hear about the imperial measures, never learn to use them and just assume that they're inferior. The reality is that if they really were inferior, the US would have abandoned them in the 18th century right after adopting them. But, that hasn't happened because they just aren't that helpful. You get used to the imperial measures and you pretty much always have a unit that's appropriate to the situation without having to cheat. Things tend to be sold by the half kilo because the kilo is too large of a unit to sell food by. Oddly enough, half a kilo is just slightly more than a pound. And the meter is too long for practical uses and the centimeter is too short. You wind up with 1.7m of height or 170cm and people seem to agree by consensus to ignore the 17 decimeters that that same person would be, which again is relatively close to a foot.
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Don't forget about Feinstein.
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Kyle, I hate to break it to you, but JFK is dead, he got shot in the head in Dallas.
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I'd love to see them do something with some of those older movies that never got the love they deserved. The Guyver in particular seems ripe for a reboot as the previous movies didn't have the kind of technology available to do them justice.
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@AxePlays-hc5dj Yep, when I heard that it seemed like a particularly weird day to hold the election.
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The issue tends to be time. There's a lot of history that has to be left out in order to have students graduate when they do. You go to college and learn a bunch of stuff like that the HS version is often lacking to the point of bordering on fraud.
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That's the thing, compared with the profits that these 3rd party apps are extracting, $5 is just not that much.
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@mfb3042 yeah, that whole trail of tears thing is hardly a big deal. Jackson did some great things, but he also did some horrible things.
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@LaOwlett That's not true. He died due to being choked and the trial confirmed that. Which is exactly what it looked like on tape.
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@LaOwlett Not true. And not even relevant. The jury came back with the only reasonable verdict based on the evidence.
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@ConquerDriving it doesn't take much pressure to get the brake lights to come on. Chances are that if you use any force at all, the brakes will come on. Some vehicles you don't even need for the brake to actually engage because the switch gets triggered before the brakes start to actuate.
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Keep in mind that most of the German actors were Jewish and it was too soon for people to pretend like they'd forgotten how bad the Nazis were.
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Except apparently the stone that represents not murdering civilians and noncombatants.
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This is a load of garbage. Being against people coming here illegally is not the same thing as being against people immigrated or visiting here. When are you guys going to acknowledge that? Every time an illegal immigrant comes here they make it that much harder for other foreign nationals to come here legally. Most illegal immigrants come here on a legal visa and then overstay. Giving them permanent status increases the incentive to come illegally and makes it harder for folks from those countries to get visas to come here legally.
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wute aevere Yes and most of them are proudly voting Biden.
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@olivertoeknuckleiii2093 Full benefits are going away if nothing is done. The real question is how much of what remains will actually be paid out. The trust will run low on funds within the next decade if nothing is done and neither party seems at all interest in doing what needs to be done to stop that from happening.
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@JohnL-qe4pi From a legal perspective perhaps, but he's still been convicted by a jury of his peers and that can't be undone in terms of what future historians write about his presidency.
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I wouldn't necessarily count on that. I do think that China will take a longer term view on it rather than firing nukes, but nukes are their main military option as they don't have the gear and vehicles to engage Korea, or Japan and certainly not the US. I also wouldn't assume that killing billions is going to be an issue for the leaders, it wasn't that long ago that they killed tens of millions of their own people via incomptetent domestic policy, a jump from there to billions isn't really that large. That being said, I'd expect that they would form a block with Russia and possibly India as trading partners and menace the allies that the US does have in the region on top of engaging in other issues with finance, trade and currency as they don't currently benefit to the extent that they had when they signed on to those treaties.
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You'll note that the Harris campaign has been comparatively little effort into trying to earn men's votes. If you go to her site there's a fair number of mention of women and people of color, but I didn't see anything at all that would directly benefit me, even though a bunch of the stuff is suspiciously similar to the nonsense that has been hurting me in the past. It's not as obvious as it was in 2016 that they don't want the male vote, but it's pretty clear that they don't want men voting for them unless they're a very specific kind that has no self-esteem and is fine with being permanently locked out of any sort of access to higher education or a better life.
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Also, keep in mind that the people trying to assassinate him are people that bought into Trump's BS. It's not a bunch of wacko lefties or independents going after him. It's his own former supporters.
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@mr.funnyman9765 No, many areas moved to recycling programs that made the deposit programs a bit of a problem.If you've got free curbside pickup of recyclables accepting a deposit for them means paying for collection twice and disincentivizes the use of the provided bin while also increasing emissions a slight bit as now you've got the bottles being driven back to the store on top of the truck that comes by to pick them up both from the store and from the house.
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@kbcustoms3571 So? These people were asked with respect to this tunnel, not if the entirety of the underground railroad were under ground or involved trains.
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I see a lot of people saying that on YT lately. But, a more realistic stance is for it to be 20% study and 80% input. Perhaps a bit less, I think Krashen recommends somewhere around 10-20% deliberate study activities.
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@father_saturn That's probably the 2nd least reliable way of learning a language the only thing worse is 100% CI.
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@bikesformice Those can exist in the US as well, and it is something that the zoning department sometimes gets in exchange for allowing a variance of some sort.
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@JonathanHilierChannel The issue there is that whichever floor you choose has to be designed in order to take a potential sky bridge that is only built if a new building is built next to it and somehow somebody has to pay to construct the sky bridge. It's just not terribly practical in most cases.
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I think the issue is that it was hanging outside from a tree limb. For some Black people, the notion that a Black person would do that is impossible due to the "strange fruit" symbolism of it. Realistically, there's nothing stopping a Black person from hanging themselves anymore than a White or Latino person. People who follow through on suicide are not in a place where they're thinking a lot about how other people will view the act, at least not in a rational way.
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@ArthursJoke Because we're completely ignored. It's as if we don't exist at all. Why is society in general obsessed over Boomers, Millennials, Zoomers and now Alphas?
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You can't in WA or OR, there aren't any polling places to go to that could handle the number of voters that participate in the elections. WA has voted by mail exclusively for nearly 15 years and Oregon has been for decades. There are a few polling places for the disabled and people who need accommodations, but not anywhere near enough to cover the millions of people that need to vote.
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No matter which candidate "wins" the result won't be legitimate thanks to the rigging of the primaries and complete lack of any real accountability from the media.
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He's antiwar, he's trying to end it by associating with it enough that everybody becomes repulsed by the idea of another war.
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And yet, it's completely acceptable to try to shame men into voting for Harris even though Harris has put no effort into earning those votes. I proudly voted for Stein because she at least deserves my vote. Harris and Trump definitely don't.
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To be fair, isn't Mayor Adams still in the process of being prosecuted himself?
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And that's completely valid. The honest truth is that for most people, it's simply a matter of preference. Yes, there are pros and cons either way, but with a few exceptions, it's really not an imperative. Both will get the job done just fine.
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Pretty much. I still don't get why the corporatist candidates didn't unify behind somebody that wasn't so clearly senile. I might have voted for Mayor Pete despite him being so loathsome.
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It depends what you're doing, but I know that at my job, 6 hours is about the point where I start getting tired and have a hard time keeping up with the earlier pace.
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It's a tough question, but I think the physical medium is less of an issue than what options allow for easy backup, verification and replication of those files. Personally, anything smaller than a Blu-ray disc is just not worth considering. You'd have to spend so much time swapping discs to verify the contents that it wouldn't be worthwhile. Personally, I use a combination of online backups (A good online backup service will have a way of backing up a copy locally as well as online. Most of the time you don't need the online backup, that's just if the building burns down or somebody steals your stuff) and a ZFS ZRAID-5 to store my files. They can be quickly scrubbed to discover read errors on an automatic basis and to report any files where the checksum does not match with the expected value and repair the damage. If it can't be repaired, it will tell me precisely which files I need to recover from my backup. I've had multiple disks go bad in this arrangement, and I just keep a spare just in case a drive does start to go bad. I have yet to lose any data due to a hard disk failing since then, and most of the time I don't even need to touch my online backup other than to verify that the files are good. I haven't had a chance to do it, but I need to set up an offline set of disks that I can quickly mirror from time to time. The vast majority of the files I have on my computer do not change very often, so having those files backuped up to storage media that I only need to plug in from time to time to verfiy and update would be good for me. I just don't have the money right now for 2 8tb disks.
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@williamjones4483 I always make a copy of those discs using something like infrarecorder. (Specific software doesn't really matter, but that one is free and reliable) If the software is that important, I'd recommend also creating a par2 file to allow for verification and recovery of the file if it starts to rot. Quickpar works pretty well for that on Windows, but there are other options.
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@SevenSixTwo2012 Whether or not that's true is largely irrelevant, you still need to bring them online from time to time to verify the data and to make sure that the files you care about are there. I'd do that at least a couple of times a year. Plug it in, run the disk through a verification tool, and then unplug it and put the disks away. Depending on how important the data is, it can be worth doing this on a different computer, and in a different location from where the data was generated and unplug that computer while you go through the verification process. Obviously, that's far more effort than you'd typically need, but if the data is that precious, it can be worth it.
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@tnndll4294 Probably not. What can happen with DVD-Rs and the like is that the layers can start to separate, the dye fade and whether they're in sleeves or cases probably wouldn't make that much of a difference. They are a terrible medium for archiving just because it is such a labor to load them into a drive to ensure that they weren't corrupted since the last time you used them. The only time when such a medium really makes sense is if you need to prove the the files weren't tampered with. In that case, you'd want to use something like par2 to generate the parity information necessary to detect and repair damage.
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Jo Blow There was no need to means test the $1200 checks, it would have been easier to just tax it back in April when income tax returns are due again. It would have sped things up to just have to verify that the money was going to a living person with a given bank account. And yeah, that's more or less what we get when the Democrats choose their leadership based upon which politician is the most corrupt. She basically did minimal negotiations with McConnell and we got his package passed. At no point in the process was there any serious consideration for doing something good for ordinary Americans.
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@Kai-tn4yx Perhaps some, but unless you're giving money to people that are rich enough not to have to worry about money, they're probably going to spend it on essentials. When there's no spending going on there are two choices, give money to the people or have the government spend loads of money. Depending on the specifics one may work better than the other.
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People were able to hijack the word woke because it was a very broad and ill-defined term. If it had a more specific definition, it wouldn't have been easy to subvert. There's only so much you can do with African American in terms of hijacking that. But woke refers to a pretty wide spectrum of perspectives and ideas.
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They've been doing that sort of thing around here for decades. The GOP isn't popular enough to win state wide races, but they are close enough to come close at times. So, logically rather than trying to offer up policies that might be more mainstream they kept insisting that it was elections fraud. It was absolutely hilarious when one of the gubernatorial races went to the courts and the GOP didn't just fail to get any of the Democratic votes tossed, they did wind up losing a few votes due to various issues. This is probably going to be increasingly common as the Democrats keep letting the GOP get away with gerrymandering and rigging elections by setting up an absurd set of standards that allow them to remove just the voters that they think are going to vote against them from the rolls.
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@tapchoke2363 They're not my favorites, but they're up there. For me personally Norm MacDonald and Kevin Nealon are more or less the pinacle of that segment. Although the few clips I've seen of Jane Curtain were hilarious as well.
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TBH, this kind of feels like karma for the degree to which he and Obama screwed over the country.
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@rmo9808 It depends where you live and also which subsidiary. Some of the subsidiary corporations are more generous about it. Around here, a store is only technically required to match the price if it's misleading. So, if it's an old price tag with an expiration date on the price, they might opt not to honor it and probably be within their rights not to. But, in practice companies will often times pay it and just remove the price tag until it can be replaced just to avoid angering a customer and the possibility that a court might decide that it did run afoul of the law..
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That wasn't the student's money, that was the banks money. If the bank didn't properly send the money where it was supposed to go and couldn't figure out where it went, that's really the bank's problem. I definitely wouldn't have spent the money or transferred it until the time limit ran out, but usually the banks will figure out where the money went when they make these mistakes and fix the problem at some point. Keep in mind that when people make mistakes, the banks don't go out of their way to fix it. Neither should customers when ti benefits them. In most cases, you leave the money where it is and the bankers will figure it out on their own,.
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This underscores just how irresponsible that Governor of Florida is to not have closed the bars and the beaches, knowing that spring break was coming. They could well bring the disease back to their homes. I likely had a minor case of it when it first showed up in the US, and it was no fun. I was fortunate, in that I didn't need a ventilator, but I did have extreme fatigue, difficulty breathing, fever and runny nose. But, I was still able to breathe well enough not to need extra treatment. If I had been able to get tested, I would have, and I would have been willing to self-quarantine, but testing wasn't available in late January if you weren't coming back from China.
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And yet, I didn't get hazard pay from the feds, they gave pretty much everybody else money. I did get some hazard pay due to the city, but I'll have to give most of it back because of my student loan that Biden refuses to wipe out any of the student loans. He also refuses to give us medicare for all.
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TBH, I've started driving through roundabouts more regularly as there have been more of them moving closer and closer to the city, and most people seem to understand how to use them now. The biggest issue I have is with assholes that speed to get in there as quickly as possible and still expect for traffic to yield to them, even though they were nowhere near the roundabout when I entered. As in I could see them in the distance, and they were driving so fast that within the couple seconds it took me to pull out they were now in the roundabout and expecting to be yielded to.
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@aaryashapardesi3390 I heard Dad, but it was probably "dat's"
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They were able to find and recover those Atari ET cartridges, but there were a massive number of them. The likelihood of the drive being located and not destroyed by the elements in the meantime is pretty much nonexistent.
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IIRC, most of the failures tend to happen in the first couple years. There is no particular maximum life span, although it is a lot longer if you've got a UPS attached with a line conditioner. If you've got good power going in and reasonable heat dissipation, they can last for decades.
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That depends where you are, but if such a display does cause a crash, then the operator likely is on the hook for some portion of the damages.
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Which is the right thing to do. The settings should be in some combination of the install directory and user home directory as appropriate. If you've got a system wide package system like on Linux and most of the other *NIX OSes, then you can put the settings elsewhere.
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It's easy to have balls when there's no chance of it actually going anywhere. Sort of like when the Democrats were for hazard pay for essential workers, until they had the votes to plausibly do it. At which point, they made no attempt at all.
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@bbartky Yes, although I think that looking back on it, Reagan's damage to the country will probably be far more significant. That being said, that assumes that at some point the Democrats either completely lose the support of enough voters to prevent a 3rd party from coming in and outflanking them on the left side and there's some semblance of sanity that returns to the system as the voters finally get a progressive and/or left wing option to vote for. Which is not exactly a given given that the SCOTUS keeps legalizing bribery and extra restrictions on prospective left wing voters.
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@danburch9989 They still had the right to file the suit. We don't know that the lawyer didn't advise them that it was a longshot. Jury trials in particular can be incredibly unpredictable. It's not the lawyers duty to say to no to cases unless they really don't have any sort of case to file and given how far it got into the progress, there was something there, even if it wasn't sufficient to win the case.
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Considering how much of a fan the GOP is of literacy tests, perhaps we could have literacy tests for people that want to be federal judges.
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@poruatokin yes, the main issue with it was cost and the ultimate development of better telecommunications equipment. The sonic boom wasn't anymore of an issue for it than other aircraft capable of supersonic speed. The sr-71 otoh, leaked like a sieve at lower speeds and would have issues with that.
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@poruatokin it's the same problem, the energy necessary to make any meaningful reduction dooms this. You're not going to drop pressure enough to compete with the aerospace industry that just had to get the items up to where pressure drops on it's own and isn't constrained to specify routes. Bullet trains themselves already go so fast that you're not going to benefit much from a reduction in air pressure, as those who need even faster just fly. Additionally, tunneling is expensive and inflexible to begin with.
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That was more or less my first thought. Trump and the GOP don't need to stage a coup as the Democrats are trippin over themselves to hand the power over. Anything to avoid having to do something to help the voters out. I won't be voting for either major party in the future unless there's no 3rd party candidate available and I can unseat an incumbent. They're all thoroughly horrible people.
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@sikchan5834 I'm not sure what the specific manufacturer is, but all of the Kirkland Signature products are produced by somebody else. Usually that somebody is one of the name brands.
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Who is teaching boys those behaviors? It surely isn't men as increasingly it's women raising boys. Perhaps rather than targeting men with this propaganda, we should be directing it at the women who don't know how to raise boys. But, beyond that, how much of this behavior is even normal? I'm personally upset by this commercial because it sends a clear message that men are horrible people, especially why people and only men of color can actually do anything about it. That's a shitty message. If you want to end the cycle, perhaps tell women to shut the hell up about masculinity and let men handle it. It turns out we do a far better job of raising boys than they do.
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@addydiesel6627 All media suffers from some form of entropy. Any method of storing data needs a way of verifying that the data is still good and repairing/replacing it as appropriate. That includes HDDs, the mechanical bits can seize up, or the spindle motor can fail. I've had a lot of drives over the years that had a spindle drive fail. Recovering data at that point, requires sending it to a specialty company and hoping they have the appropriate parts to recover the data and that the head didn't crash into something important in the mean time.
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Around here it's some sort of non-moving infraction, mostly because they don't want to have a bunch of people challenging the constitutionality of the cameras that they know violate people's rights.
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@tattootempest All of those go to the registered owner as they don't have any way of knowing to send it to somebody else.
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Agreed, there are historical reasons why white men are in the position they are and a lot of it has to do with being the drivers of the most important innovations of the last couple millennia. Having inequality is an issue, but let's not pretend like there's some sort of a conspiracy to keep these people down. There's plenty of white groups that had to deal with the same stuff, the difference is that rather than whining about it, they actually did something about it. These communities have plenty of resources to dig themselves out. Sure, it would be great to offer reasonable assistance, but groups like the Irish managed in spite of a more or less complete lack of help from other groups.
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That's a good one. I wish I was good enough at Photoshop to make that happen.
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@lockibocki I don't know that it did. If you look at Reagan when he was shot and nearly killed, he only got a bump for a couple months. We still have a couple months for people to forget this ever happened and if the dems remove Biden and Harris and nominate somebody that's actually going to challenge Trump, we could still get a tight race. And yes, I do mean replace both of them, while Harris does have less power here, she is part of the first administration to have a President shot on their watch sine Reagan got shot in '81. Even W, as hated as he was, just had to deal with some shoes being thrown at him.
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@_filifjonkan4290 I'm inclined to believe that it's substantively true, but you are correct that the truth will come out eventually.
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Who is getting free education? Just because people aren't here legally, does not mean that they aren't paying taxes. They mostly do pay taxes, as they don't want to run afoul of the IRS. ICE may be feckless at times, but the IRS will straight up track you down no matter where you are to get their money. Just remember that of all the criminal things that Al Capone did, it was tax charges that ultimately put him behind bars.
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That's just how they do business and why people should be outraged by all the banks they're allowed to buy.
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Nowhere, this is just so they can pretend to be better than the terrorists that they're after. Keep in mind that these are the people that murdered Rachel Corrie as well as stealing land by violence and pushing more and more of these people into these tiny apartheid communities that they're now terrorizing. Really, it's about time for an embargo of any sort of military hardware going to Israel and BDS the country until they stop doing things like this. There's little that can be done on the Palestinian side to end the terrorism, as they're already being sanctioned into the dark ages. But, we can remove Israel's ability to commit crimes against humanity.
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Wasn't "Hooked on a Feeling" more associated with REO Speedwagon and David Hasselhoff?
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Not true, they're not perfect protection, but they do reduce the risk. It's supposed to be a part of the strategy to avoid infection, not the entire strategy.
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It's almost as bold as one of the parties not even trying to address issues that men care about.
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I work at a grocery store and one of the local health department inspectors will go on about how and why Dawn is the best for washing dishes. Part of it has to do with the enzymes that are included rather than just the detergents. It's a bit of a pain, but ultimately good when people in those kinds of jobs have a passion for it.
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It's far more likely that he'll die than be removed. He's starting to do things that negatively impact on Red states, but so far it's not having much of an impact on the actual politicians that could remove him from office.
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@ZacharyNoah JD Vance was selected in part because he wouldn't be able to keep the MAGA coalition together and threaten Trump's power. Just his wife being Indian alone, would probably be enough to lose large chunks of the coalition.
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@annakingry9157 I observed many years ago tha tthe GOP objects to the "tax" part of the "tax and spend."
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Please don't misrepresent the around the forearm method. If you're doing it that incompetently, you're going to damage the cord. The right way to do it is to allow the cord to get used to it by being gently and double coiling it when you first get it. First you coil backwards to get basically all the twists out of it. Then you coil it forward rather loosely. After a period of time, the wires will gently adapt to the shape and you can coil it just as fast as you did with the other method. Once coiled you'd hang it on the wall between work days allowing for gravity to gradually help the process. Yes, it is work, but anything worth doing is worth doing right. For larger gauge wires, you don't really have much choice as trying to daisy chain a 10 gauge wire gets to be a bit of a challenge if you want it to have a reasonably compact size. My Dad has been doing it for decades and I've never seen a single extension cord in my 40 years on this planet that he had to replace or dispose of due to wires damaged by coiling. In fact, after a while, the cables want to be coiled like that and it's very obvious when you haven't got it quite right. Every once in a long while, something might fall on one and damage it from outside, but the only wires I've seen trouble with were the result of the insulation physically breaking down with the wires still intact. So, please don't misrepresent the technique, it does work quite will if you actually bother to take the time to do it right. The main reason it doesn't work is that people don't do it right as coiling is just slightly less obvious than just dumping it in the back of the truck and untangling it later.
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benjovi55 They absolutely are, people routinely have to drive an increasingly long distance and then stand in a line for hours in order to vote. Before we switched to all mail voting here in WA, the wait was never longer than a half hour. This is being done in areas that are more liberal and more progressive as a means of ensuring that the will of the people is distorted in favor of the incompetents that are in power.
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@IliyaMoroumetz Absolutely, really, we need both as well as mandatory vote by mail options in all states in order to prevent this sort of abuse of power. Right now Bernie Sanders' policies are overwhelmingly popular and yet he's losing to a candidate that holds no rallies and doesn't even have a ground team in most of the states. Meanwhile, the exit polling does not match the results, by rather a lot. If this were a different country, the results would be declared illegitimate and they'd run the election over as many times as it takes for the two numbers to match..
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benjovi55 not really, with so many people living paycheck to paycheck, not having paid time off and having less than $400 in savings, that's just not an option. Just because you have the resources to do that, doesn't mean everybody does. Ignoring all that, even if people can, why should they? We vote by mail here and even postage is covered. No waiting and the only people left out are those with no addresses and even for them, there are provisions.
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@HeidiPedersen-x4o Chances are he'll have died of a stroke or heart attack by that point.
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They are designed in parts of the world where there isn't a continuous tradition of using them. Or, if there's an expansion in order. But, you have to have space, or the trail just winds up being wherever it needs to be, and you might throw some stuff in to help keep the erosion to a minimum.
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@waggtech4883 The meter for my parents used to be installed inside next to a window. A few years back the gas company came along and reinstalled all of those outside where they could be seen without going in. That being said, that was when they installed high pressure pipes and I think the new meters had wireless connections, so I think the only reason they moved them outside was for accessibility in case there was an emergency and they needed to cut the gas without going inside.
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Which is why I'd expect that the solution to this will be the same basic one that human artists use. Train the AI on skeletons and how to draw skeletons. Then train it to add muscles, ligaments and tendons to that. With that stuff out of the way, the AI should be able to draw pretty much any possible pose for the hands and with a similar process, the same goes for the rest of the body. The hands and feet have an enormous number of both bones and muscles when compared with most of the rest of the body, and if you don't know how those work, or apply the knowledge incorrectly, you get weird sausage figures that seem to have jelly bones.
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@martharetallick204 I think people might still be sending her snake emojis, so it could be years...
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@terryharris1291 You forgot about the plagiarism, don't forget about the plagiarism.
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Her father was an experienced armorer and I'm guessing that whoever it is that hired her thought she was up to the job. AFAIK, we don't know how the live rounds got on the set or how they wound up in the revolver, but there were some found on other belts later on. It could well be her incompetence, or it could be somebody else's, but I don't know that the actual answer is something that we know at this time other than who was and wasn't convicted.
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@binaryblade2 Yep and that's why you don't normally have people at the range worried about whether they've got dummy rounds, blanks or live rounds.
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@leDespicable That's the same basic problem that I've got. I’m fortunate because the unit I live in has a vent for the portable variety. But, all the windows are sliders and they won't take typical window mount air conditioners without special brackets. There aren't many options for window for windows that don't slide upwards other than these portable units. And sliding windows are much easier to deal with than the fancy windows that are common in Germany. At least with sliding windows, it's possible to buy or build a bracket that can hold a window mount unit securely.
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It's Hollywood, they probably forgot that this conman was supposed to be telling the truth this time.
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@chachacha2023 But, national socialism isn't any more socialist than the People's Democratic Republic of Korea is democratic. Yes, the Nazis did, early on, engage in public works programs and charity to help the people, but that wasn't their end and as soon as they had consolidated power they moved towards projects that were pretty much just about the building of the myth of Germany and the Nazis. And, people certainly didn't have the level of control over what went on that you'd typically expect out of a socialist nation.
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@realryanchapman I assume that the confusion is because they were going to wipe out all the other races over time if they were allowed to. But, it is worth noting that the borders of Germany were expanding as they took over more parts of the world, and likely would have eventually included the entire world had they been allowed to keep expanding. It does lead to a little bit of grey area, but I don't think that there's enough to justify putting race before the country. I think that if race did come before country, you wouldn't have necessarily seen the national boundaries expanding the way that they did. Some of those areas likely would have wound up as territories or satellite nations rather than actual physical bits of the country itself. At least not right away, perhaps eventually, but absorbing other regions is a longer term project normally.
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Except it does belong to the tax payers, why do you think college suddenly became unaffordable over the last couple decades, it's because the tax payers stopped properly subsidizing it.
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The reason why is that she's incompetent and her books have been used to indoctrinate generations of people into the idea that fascism is good and the government doing things for the people is bad. People latch onto it like it's a good idea, but lack both the education and the critical thinking to recognize that we've been there before. That was like what much of the US, and really world, were like before the invention of regulatory agencies and the like. We have those institutions and those limitations on freedom because not having them was terrible. There are countless history books that one can choose to read to understand just how bad her ideology was. At least with Marx, he recognized that if we simply prevented 3rd parties from owning businesses, we could still get nearly all the advantages of capitalism without treating people like cogs to be worn down and used up.
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I agree, although, I do think that sometimes lifetime being the useful life of the product can be an appropriate use as well. But, that depends on what we're talking about. If the product is still under warranty coverage past the point where 90% of people have thrown it out or otherwise disposed of it, I'd say that's probably still a reasonable thing to label as having a lifetime warranty. Or perhaps more to the point, software that's purchased solely to interact with a particular product type. I bought transfer software for an MP3 player decades back and it wouldn't really make much sense for them to still be updating it now as hardly anybody still has that MP3 player.
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God is a fan of genocidal maniacs? I must have missed that part of the Torah.
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Perhaps they should have let the voters decide who the candidate would be. And perhaps they should have demanded that Garland be seated and RBG should have stepped down ahead of the election.
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I started doing it because when I was turning from an arterial onto a side street, I couldn't see what was on the side street and didn't want to get run over by somebody coming up behind me on the arterial.
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I see little Bobby Tables has struck again. When will people learn to sanitize their inputs?
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@Times_Ticking True, but to some folks, any time the feds do anything, it's an overreach because they don't want government at all.
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Bars and pubs benefit from being able to subsidize the food with alcohol sales. What is absolutely damning though is that Burger King can still offer up a meal under $10 with coupons and the bigger local chains around here are somewhere in the middle for better food and profits that are mostly kept locally where it benefits the local economy.
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You appear and then once then, they can call you to the stand. It's a bit of semantics as you get this sort of subpoena and you know that you might be called to testify. You might not be, the attorneys might run short on time and not need the extra corroboration.
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How so? The case was tried before he won re-election. Had he lost, there's a decent chance he would have received actual punishment. But, given the way that SCOTUS has been ruling with respect to what the POTUS is allowed to do, there's a lower chance of this being tossed on appeal due to a lack of actual punishment associated with it. He's been convicted and "sentenced." Even if they do overturn it, it doesn't change the fact that he was convicted. Only the MAGA folks seem to be unaware of how big of a deal this is. But, somehow the stuff Hunter Biden did is a big deal.
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@zzygyy It won't, it can't be removed from his record as it's a matter of public record that he was convicted, it's in the papers everywhere and people are going to remember this for basically as long as the US exists. He's been let off the hook for leading an insurrection, and this is a blot on his reputation? As far as Kangaroo court goes, this sort of fraud is a very big deal, far more so than what Hunter Biden was convicted of. But, somehow you people think that was legitimate, but this wasn't. Go figure, I guess you're only law and order folks when it's the other side being convicted.
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The issue is that there's an optical illusion of sorts that makes them seem like they're further away and not moving as quickly as they are. A lot of that has to do with how few trains most of us see in a given year.
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They shouldn't have gone after Napster. I don't think that it's a particular coincidence that they had their best year ever when Napster was fully operating and then they shut it down and the record sales more or less fell off a cliff. Of the albums that I have in my collection, probably half of them came from that year or two when file sharing was a thing before they started to hammer the people doing it. There was a massive catalog of stuff to test out and it made it super easy to find groups because if there was something that you wanted, then it was likely to be in a collection with other things that might also be of interest.
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If he had a camera while paying them to do both sides, that may have constituted legal pornography.
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I've got an MA Education Studies as well as a TESL to go along with it and I think the only app I've encountered that seems to deliver would be fluent forever and only because it's based entirely around sentences and phrases with images for the meaning. But, even there, it has some issues in terms of a lot of the less concrete words being tough to create flashcards for. Personally, it didn't work that well for me, but that's mostly down to the way my brain works being a tad different. At the end of the day, none of these apps do the thing that people most need, as in actual communication with experienced users of the language. Although learning with texts is quite good for the reading component.
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@msimon6808 That's probably not that far off. Alcohol and tobacco alone are a pretty good chunk of the way there and we have a pretty lenient view of what exactly constitutes addiction to those as opposed to other substances.
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It's not, the 2nd amendment is for purposes that are obsolete. We have a standing army, and we have full time policing by armed officers in basically the entire country. Those were literally the only reasons for the 2nd amendment other than overthrowing the government. And you're not going to overthrow the US government with the weapons that are covered under the 2nd amendment.
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@ I don't think there should be any restrictions on the money, so long as it's spent at a grocery store. Well, perhaps no alcohol or smokes. The people on these programs use the money for sensible things far more often than some folks would have you believe. I used to pick orders for food stamp recipients using online pickup and I never saw any of them ordering weird things or amounts of luxury food that weren't in a typical quantity. Most of the time, I didn't even know that it was a foodstamps order until they arrived with their card to pay.
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I like your videos, but let's be honest, at a certain point trying to make things visual just makes it worse. And that point is somewhere before intermediate algebra. You give up a ton of potential by trying to visualize things. The human brain can't handle more than about 4 different dimensions at once, but by the time you hit calculus there are situations where you might be dealing with at least that many different dimensions in a problem, or really coordinate substitutions and nested functions and trying that visually is just a waste of brain power. It's far better to just get away from the visuals as soon as possible and to only return to them in situations where doing so makes sense or when using a branch of math like geometry where things are more naturally visual in nature. EDIT: As far as the topic goes, those 3 different notations exist with very good reason. The first works best if you've got a single number or short string, the second with the radical allows for longer strings of terms while still informing the reader what the operation is going to be. Whereas with that first notation, you'd wind up with a fractional exponent, something that used to be hard to print, and you don't get to it until after reading the string of terms. The last one makes the most sense if you're working with exponential expressions as you still get a meaningful result even if that 8 turns into something that can't easily be expressed in terms of the base being used with the log.
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@MrBearyMcBearface The usual way people come to appreciate the terminal these days is starting with things like that and seeing the cool stuff that can be incrementally added.
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That likely wouldn't work. The main thing that they have going for them is a massive catalog of videos. If you had stuff being removed for any reason other than the law says they have to, it would make it harder for them to defend their niche against newer rivals.
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To be fair, Biden isn't going to give people healthcare either and the democrats aren't exactly enthusiastic about providing help to the people either.
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I personally always hand over my money for a used car before I ask any questions or do any bargaining because after I've bought the car the seller is clearly going to fix any issues with it. Look at me, I'm like a really smart guy. Yay Biden, we're going to push him to the left after giving him our vote for not being Trump. I'm the smrtest person of all time.
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@WarrenPostma There's that, but there's also information about what the code needs to accomplish. Just because you've got some sort of a return value doesn't mean that you're not going to want more information coming back to the code later on without remembering why and what you were doing.
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@PrincetonTech-h1w There's also times when the algorithm accidentally gets it right. It's widely known that it does sprinkle in a mixture of random other videos to check to see if you're clicking on them even though you haven't in the past.
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Biden will step down, the issue is that he's not required to until inaugeration day, and only if he loses. As long as he thinks he can win, he's not obligated to bow out of the election. Since term limits were enacted, very few Presidents have opted to not seek another term. LBJ is the only one that I can think of.
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@crosslink1493 Clinton was a republican on many economic policies and liberal on many social ones. The irony there is that the GOP still hates him, but for some reason many liberals still like him.
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And yet the democrats are throwing the election. They aren't even proposing things to help those in the frontline.
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This time, the Democrats might not let them off the hook the way they did the previous times. The only reason why the GOP wasn't finished after W was that the Democrats let them off the hook by adopting their policies rather than ending the forever wars and doing things to help the people.
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So, we should also let everybody out of jail that's there during pre-trial proceedings? That sounds like a great idea...
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Finally, I still don't understand how a Republican keeps winning in CA.
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@jasonvoorhees895 To be fair, if you'd left fewer of us dead, we might have gained relevance eventually.
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That's part of why there are all those cameras now, that would be a neat trick with a camera.
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Unless I'm really hungry, I'll throw my take out french fries into my air fryer for about 2-3 minute at 400F and it turns those limp fries nice and crisp.
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@troutman-sw9qc Voting blue all the way is what got us into this mess. The DNC keeps rigging primaries in favor of candidates that nobody wants and once in office they take a hard shift to the right. There is absolutely no pressure on the GOP to try to pursue left wing voters because the Democrats keep pursuing the right wing ones and there aren't let enough lefties to challenge either parties for the Presidency.
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There's always going to be insecurities when that's such a significant portion of your job. Not to mention that there are a lot of possible accents and depending upon whom you're hanging out with, it can make it seem like yours is worse than it really is. I grew up 4 blocks from my best friend, but he still makes fun of me for the way that I pronounce roof.
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@frishter That's misleading, the reason for that is that those Capitalist countries have extracted so much from those other countries that those other countries can't provide a decent standard of living for the people living there. Socialism does work, if you actually bother to read what Marx actually said, versus all the BS that's been put out by fascists. The only difference between Marx's version of socialism and capitalism is that under Marx's socialism, the workers own the means of production. That's it. There's no requirement that everybody make the same amount of money and no requirement that everybody live in holes and have no possessions. Marx himself marveled at what capitalism was able to achieve, his issue was that workers are not just machines to be used until broken down and used up.
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I assume that they look at when and where the streaming is going on over time. If you do that once, it's probably not an issue, but if it's regularly streaming from different locations either simultaneously or with a short turn around time that they'd know before too long.
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@soicygothlaflexico While, I do think the OP here posted an unhelpful and kind of dumb post. The thing though, is that the freaking out over Fx explicitly stating that they're going to take the stuff you enter into the browser and use it to do what you're asking it to do isn't a big deal. And, I'm not sure how people think that the browser works if Fx doesn't have that right.
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Not really, there are still going to be standards, it's just that the court recognizes that the barrier to entry is both disproportionate to the need and doesn't do much to prevent incompetent attorneys from being licensed anyways. If it had kept incompetent attorneys out to some significant degree, they may have opted to not take this approach.
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You make it sound like red is any better. Really, they're both the problem and voting 3rd party is pretty much the only way out of the problem we're in, but the people that realize how corrupt team red and blue are mostly don't bother voting. If all those folks would vote 3rd party things would change fairly quickly.
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Then you didn't address whatever it was that was causing you to smoke in the first place. Substance abuse has little to do with the substance and everything to do with the user. Blaming the government regulations for slipping is just weak. I'm a recovered alcoholic and I set a firm limit of no more than 0.5% alcohol in anything I consume, and it's a fairly clear line, if I don't know, I don't drink.
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I hate to break it to you, but most men really and truly don't care. Roughly 2/3 of women eligible to vote didn't vote for Harris, which means that there probably won't be that much 4B going on, and that it will probably last a couple weeks before the women trying it remember that they have libido too, and give up on it when they see the other women getting the men that had been out of their league.
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There are good ones out there, I've got a Ninja air fryer that doubles as a toaster oven and it very clearly is operating like the other air fryers I've used have.
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Yes, I like other cuts, but flank and flat iron steaks are the ones that I go for the most often. Especially if I'm wanting to marinade it.
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My assumption is that they want to investigate if there's a culture that led to this. I think that they'll probably wind up disciplining the folks on the truck involved with the actual crossing, but who knows. But,we'll have to see. My guess is that the Assistant Chief will probably not be found to have any responsibility, but who knows.
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I hope this works out. I had an account with Zecco and it turned out to be a whole lot of bait and switch. First they increased the deposit requirements in order to get free trades to a substantial degree, then when I got back to getting free trades, they canceled the free trades completely and admitted that they never intended for the free trades to go on forever. Needless to say, I transferred my account elsewhere because of it. As a result, I'm somewhat hesitant to trust Robinhood or any other financial services company that promises free trades, especially one that's going public.
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That's more or less what the labels are for. When it's working properly, it's just an estimate as to the likelihood of it being safe or just unpleasant. Ultimately, you have to smell it, look at it, and potentially taste it and if any of that is off, you just toss it out. But, it's rather unusual for there to be problems if those dates are still in the future.
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No, that's not good enough. It's a fast moving disaster or a show moving one. Neither is an acceptable choice. At least with Trump, the democrats will likely have both chambers of Congress.
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Realistically, you're not going to want to do just one or the other. A bunch of the vocab really has to come from exposure to content that you can understand and enjoy. Now, whether the deliberate study needs to be flashcards or not, that's a different matter. But, there's no reason to have massive decks of cards as the main point to deliberate study of vocab is to get a word into your head so you can recognize and/or use it to speed things up. Mnemonics, SRS flashcards or even just repeating it technically all work, although mnemonics and flashcards are the way to go for deliberate study of vocab, and probably both for any word that warrants deliberate study.
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@fransmith3255 That's horribly inefficient and a waste of time. Normally, the vocab for the flashcards comes from a mixture of what you need for conversation, is in the books you're reading or the movies you're watching. Then it gets put into flashcards along with the entire rest of the sentences, or at least the rest of the clause. If you're not deliberately spending some time studying vocab, it's just going to slow the process and create situations where you don't have an entry point at all to a given context as you don't have the words. It's one of the issues with being an intermediate, there can be a significant amount of work that goes from being able to do basic tasks of daily living in the foreign language and being able to have friends without the language being a struggle every time you hang out. You're not normally going to bother memorizing random words as most languages have 15-20k or so of vocabulary words that adults have. And some languages have hundreds of thousands of words in the dictionary, on top of whatever slang is going on.
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@fransmith3255 I think there's nuance to what you're doing that I didn't get from your posts. The choice of grammar and vocab needs to come from the things you're wanting to do with it, so you can get the input.
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No, you really don't. If you did, you'd stop blaming other people for your problems. It's just that you people don't exercise any introspection or make any effort to stop reinforcing the stereotypes, This whole blood debt theory you're building your community on is literal Nazi stuff. There's plenty of white ethnic groups that had it worse than what the black community has now, and people forget because they built durable institutions to address it.
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This might be the last time I say it, but Jayapal is absolutely correct. The status quo sucks, permanent Daylight Saving Time is horrible, the only meaningful improvement would be to standardize on standard time. But, that doesn't require an act of congress, any state can go off the current DST debacle for standard time, it's just if you want to go to permanent Daylight Saving Time that you need federal approval. The fact of the matter is that in WA state we get approximately 7.5 hours of light, shifting to DST doesn't benefit us at all as we'd still be commuting as the sun goes down, having completely given up the much more valuable morning light. The sun would go down around 5:30 rather than 4:40 which really doesn't help most workers at all. But, it does make it more dangerous for kids because rather than the sun rising just before 8am, it would be just before 9am after the elementary school children are already at school. What's worse is that the most populated parts of the West Coast would be disproportionately darker than those towards the eastern part of the time zone, meaning that Seattle, to LA would be harder hit than those further east in the time zone. She is absolutely on the right side of this issue for her constituents. We don't want permanent DST, it's mostly the retailers and business groups that want it. The farmers certainly don't want it, they get up based on the light and the animals. Educational officials don't want it as it's hard to get students to show up and be awake after the change.
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@TheTomexification Yes, and it's unlikely that things have changed appreciably since then as they're still using just the cameras and what AI improvements they could generate based on their own test drives. Things like the car slamming into an upended semi is just not something that's easy to train for as it doesn't happen that often. I've seen precisely one over turned cement truck in my life and another time I saw a boat that had been flipped by the wind. I'd be terrified of coming across either depending upon just camera based AI detection systems as those things are unlikely to come up during training.
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@daydreamer8373 Tesla's still regularly drive over the top of bikers because they can't figure out how far away the motorcycle is using only the cameras. LIDAR and other sensors are needed for these systems to help reduce issues like that. We may well get to the point at some point where the extra sensors aren't needed, but we won't get there any time soon and Elon seems to genuinely think that we're already there in terms of the AI modeling.
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You're right, that's not how amortization works. Amortization is a way of accounting for the reduced value of certain assets. It's a way of recognizing that things like copyrights and patents will eventually be worth zero and keeping track of it over time. Independent of actual income from the asset, it's just an expense.
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Keep in mind that if regular people aren't members, it makes membership in the organization by manufacturers less attractive. The NRA is hardly the only group they could choose to fund, and if they haven't got members, then they're not particularly relevant. Plus, the line they've been toeing is less and less popular, which makes it harder for the manufacturers to use the organization to support their ability to sell their weapons. There's also contribution limits in play where a bunch of members can each donate money, but the organizations themselves can't replace all that money even if they want to.
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The FDA does it because using the terminally ill as guinea pigs is deeply exploitative. The FDA permits some drugs with limited testing to be used in cases of rare medical conditions because there's little alternative. People like you are pretty much going to burn in hell for misrepresenting the issue. Those people are terminal, the likelihood of any of those medications making a difference is miniscule. It's far more likely that the medication will either do nothing or hasten their demise. The FDA and pharmaceutical companies have issues, but it's an egregious lie to suggest that the FDA is preventing people from getting safe and effective medicine in cases like that. Anybody that dies that wouldn't have due to that is a drop in the bucket compared with the people who die from lack of access to medications and treatments already approved.
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His position as a major donor and somebody that gets to talk with other major donors gives him the clout. Being an actor doesn't really mean much on it's own unless this is the 19th century and acting in a play.
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I think that the movie is probably intending to make fun of Barbie at times to attract the people that hate Barbie, but it turns out that they're making fun of the far left.
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That's the thing, who is watching this show and thinking that these portrayals are in some way accurate? The worst offender is arguably foreign exchange student Ueter, but really, none of the other characters in the show have much depth, and that's fine. Really, the main problematic bit about Apu was the whole parenthood bit. All the fertility drugs that wound up giving him a bunch of kids in one go was poorly considered, but on the whole, he probably is the most well-rounded character on the show.
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No, but I would expect that people will somewhat reduce their tips to partially offset this. They'll still be making minimum wage without the tips, but it should somewhat reduce the pressure to put up with abusive customers. Personally, I'd rather that tips be outlawed completely if they're not actual gratuities for exceptional service or extra favors.
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The polls weren't wrong, the results were within the margin for error, they just broke in Trump's direction in key states.
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Probably more than cones, but yes. I don't know the law where this happened, but around here you'd have to have a police officer directing traffic to keep that lane closed so that something like this doesn't happen. You'd likely also have a truck at a minimum parked to prevent vehicles from driving under him. Not just for his safety, but to prevent people driving under from getting hit.
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@IcyTorment Not really, you haven't met him, he's terrible.
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@sepg5084 I have personally had multiple Windows installs taken down due to registry problems. And I've been using windows since 3.0. The registry used to break horribly if you did a lot of installing, uninstalling and reinstalling of software.
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@Zullfix The issue with the registry is that it's a single point of failure that other OSes mysteriously don't need. Other OSes can figure out how to build a quick list of the settings people need to access quickly from configuration files at boot and leave the rest on disk where they largely don't interact with each other at all.
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All of those women tasks that make women need naps could easily be outsourced and not necessarily for much money either.
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Yes, if the transit workers, teamsters or even the grocery workers strike for even a day or two, you'd rapidly find the economy grinding to a halt and the politicians tripping over themselves to give in to demands.
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@Robbedem The barrier to striking in Europe is a lot lower than it is in the US. In the US if you lose your job, you lose your health insurance and unemployment doesn't pay very well. The main reason for those $600 a week stimulus enhancements were that in many parts of the US, the unemployment checks are too small for anybody to survive on for very long. The main issue with the $600 a week is that essential workers didn't get any of that and for months we were working our asses off for less than what folks were getting on unemployment and it's only been in the last month where I've finally had more money than I would have had on unemployment.
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@xsteelfeverx8004 They generally are, hence the migration patterns. There's far more red states losing population than blue states and the blue states that are losing population had previously gained far more than what really worked for the state.
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@xsteelfeverx8004 There's a lot more to NY than NYC, NYC has been a toilet since at least the '70s and probably before that. It's the most hated city in the country by the locals. Most other cities have an area where the folks speak similarly to the folks in town, but NYC it drops off almost immediately because nobody wants to be confused for being from there.
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There are a lot of other treatment options for nicotine addiction these days that didn't exist in the past. I'm glad that they helped you, but addiction isn't really about lessening the exposure in most cases. Sure, there are drugs like alcohol that can require the user to titrate off them to avoid serious issues, tobacco is not one of them. However, ecigs are also an easy way to go the other way as well and there is no guarantee that the devices are even safe. Sure, cigarettes are bad, but they don't blow up in anybody's face.
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@robmortality It gets somewhat tiresome, speaking as somebody who has had substance abuse problems, hearing all the whining from smokers about how tough it is, even though there's a lot more help and support for that than most other substances. This is the 21st century, we have a pretty good idea as to why people get addicted, and we have a lot of treatment options that didn't use to exist. There's little reason to switch to ecigs when you can simply increase the duration of the times between cigarettes and get there before too long. If that's not good enough, there's a variety of medical treatments available now to take the sting off.
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People do have several thousand. I've got $3k, but I'm not in trouble, it's the folks with tens of thousands of debt or more that have the need the most. Roughly 35% of student loans would be completely canceled for $10k.
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@DammikaW48474 How does Biden win with no popular support and no donor support to try and get votes?
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@jackiechristian-di6sy I take it you're looking forward to 4 more years of Trump then, because Biden can't win. I mean 3/4 of the public doesn't think he can make it another four years.
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You do realize that roughly 2/3 of women eligible to vote didn't vote for Harris, right? And there's no guarantee that the ones that did were the intelligent ones. Most likely, it's a mixed bag of folks that were more concerned about abortion rights than the genocide being funded by America while inflation increases. Or, who were tired of the nonsense regarding restrooms.
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@andrewfreedman6087 not really, or would you like your medical records leaked because it was convenient for somebody else.
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TBH, the notes should go in the men's rooms as well to remind men that they don't have to vote for Harris just because the media says they have to. Harris hasn't done anything to try to earn men's votes, so men should realize that it's OK to vote Trump, or like I did 3rd party.
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@Sonny_McMacsson It's worth noting that cruel and unusual will generally have both components, that doesn't guarantee that both components are what leads to something being unconstitutional. For example, drawing and quartering isn't something that would likely ever have been accepted as not violating the rules against being cruel and unusual. Part of which is because it was never usual in the US, and part of it being because it was explicitly intended to be torture. Over time, things that were considered to not be cruel and were definitely usual punishments have been ruled to be cruel and unusual. For example, executing individuals with intellectual disabilities and some of the chemical methods for execution. They were the way it was done in every state that used it for capital punishment, but it was cruel, even though it was a usual punishment.
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@oraclejmt Apart from some obscure hardware, what precisely is *BSD missng that can't easily be rectified? Going back a couple decades that was largely true, but these days, it's got support for all the things that you're likely to want, unless you want something that is obscure or niche.
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@b3dazzl3 They're seditious traitors and there's no way that they should believe that they are actually qualified to do any of what DOGE claims to be trying to do.
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The problem is that not everybody lives near a bank or free ATM that takes deposits. I've only got one within walking distance and it's not that great. Some people have none without taking a lengthy bus ride or walking. If they don't have an internet connection with a bank that allows deposits via the internet or mail, the bank might as well not exist as they're not going to be able to make use of it. And it's probably more common than one would think. I live in a major city and I've only got one bank near me. It's several miles to the next nearest bank or credit union at which point there's a half dozen clustered there. For those that have to take the bus or have limited mobility, it's a real problem even in a major city. If you get out into the sticks, it can be even worse.
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I do think that a distinction needs to be made between those that are actively participating and those that are just there. There's a whole host of constitutional problems with just arresting people for being present. Same goes for the tickets. People do have a constitutional right to be there on the sidewalks as well as film the thing to post on social media. I'm not sure how they know when they're writing the ticket whether this is a person encouraging it or is engaged in protected speech. And even if they are just filming it, that's still within their constitutional rights to do, provided that they do so from a place they're allowed to be. And given the traffic on the street, watching isn't going to close the street anymore than it is. Impound the cars of the people doing it and write them hefty tickets, that seems reasonable giving that this is a genuine risk to public safety. I've seen a video where one of the bystanders did get hit by one of the cars doing donuts. (Fortunately, he didn't seem to be injured)
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Ugh, please stop spreading these myths. The US has terrible upward mobility and the hardest working people are the ones that make the least amount of money. Moving up involves multiple generations not screwing things up.
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That's different, the medical basis for doing that exists in a way that it doesn't for giving trans kids gender affirming care. I don't personally think that it's such a crazy idea to listen to what the researchers are saying on the basis of working with the population.
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@suedenim9208 That's one way of looking at it, or the other is that the ultimate award, and legal fees, is likely less than the cost of being expelled from school. Especially, if the course was later in with a bunch of money sunk into tuition and fees.
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@svenjorgensenn8418 The defendants allegedly illegally copied and distributed the exams without the right to do so. He may be just looking for the names so that they can be punished by the school, so far as I know, thar's legal. That's just as legitimate as pursuing it for a settlement.
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@20PINKluvr Privilege? They aren't that expensive. I've got one at both ends of my hallways and they're like 15' apart. (The second one was probably installed there because it's right next to the bedrooms)
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@cheesygerit2299 Installing your own smoke detector is neither expensive nor particularly complicated. It's typically just a couple screws into the ceiling for the mounting bracket. I'd be surprised if there aren't any charities that give people the detectors for free just to avoid the issues that come from being killed in a fire. After all, you're never too old to die in a fire.
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@mjs3188 Probably not. When my parents moved into their house, there was no insulation. Granted the house had been built well before the '50s, but nobody had bothered to have any installed either, probably due to the cost of installation versus the cost of just burning more fuel to keep the place warm.
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That's easy to debunk, that was based on a research study of how quickly misinformation is spread. The actual number is close to 0 as spiders instinctually avoid the sort of warm, humid air circulating from your mouth due to it being hard to distinguish from an actual predator wanting to eat them. And at the end of the day, they don't really care whether they're eaten on purpose or not.
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@fisyr Why not? It works on other OSes without any problems. Any 3rd party software should be checked for by the program if it's that sensitive.
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@XtreeM_FaiL Yep, that's the part that really doesn't make sense. Having people temporarily deplane while they plan out the rearrangement makes some sense, but not letting them back on with new seats is the bit I don't get unless they were actually overweight and it wasn't being properly communicated.
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The neighborhood has rough terrain, if the lot is in that section of the neighborhood, the cost is likely much closer. Especially if there's the need for an environmental impact study due to being adjacent to the beaver pond. Or, it could just be a CYA quote to try and discourage the person from actually signing up for what could be annoying service to provide.
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So?
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Which is grossly unconstitutional. The point of having electors is that they can vote however they like. The only reason why they get allocated based upon votes rather than at random is that they're more likely to advocate for that candidate at the convention. It was never intended for them to be forced to vote for a particular candidate. This ruling, is just another case of the court ignoring the constitution to do what they want. It's also another step back from Democracy. Really, the system should be abolished as it's grossly undemocratic to have non-elected officials have the final say in who the President is.
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That's interesting. As a grad student if I want to get a federal loan, it's over 10% right now. I'm fortunate enough that my parents can add my debt onto their line of credit for a fraction of that amount, but I wonder about those folks who can't do that. 10.5% is the low end of credit card interest and unlike a credit card, you can't wipe that out in bankruptcy court if you have to.
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Keep in mind that often times the parts are interchangeable between closely related model years. That doesn't lead to it being legally required, but if a part was used through an entire model generation, and the warranty period, it would mean that the part will probably be available 7-10ish years later as a consequence of that. But, warehouse space is limited and the law doesn't require it.
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Often times there were short tunnels to and from the houses and buildings along the way to make it harder for people to see people that were coming and going from the house. Some houses in the UK had similar priest holes that the clergy could use during the period where the monarchy banned all non-sanctioned religions. That being said, it's doubtful it's something like that if the road had been low enough for people to see the doorway. I'm not sure what it is, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were something along the lines of a place to put the carriage when not in use.
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You must be a millenial if you're letting MS off the hook for the inconsistency. As somebody that's used MS products from MS-DOS 5 up until the current releases, I can tell you that it is precisely because they're incompetent and don't really care what they're doing. If you'd used Windows 3, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista and 7 you'd see a very clear evolution going from something rather rudimentary to something that's quite well polished. And if you were one of the few people to use Windows 1 or 2, you'd see it there as well. What changed is that they threw the entire thing out with WIndows 8 when they tried to support one UI on all of their devices, from small smartphones with touch screens to massive desktop monitors using keyboards and mouses for interacting. The end result was something that was butt ugly and didn't function very well. Had they stuck to evolving what they had, they likely wouldn't have generated as much excitement, but that's a good thing. This is computer software for people to use to get things done, it shouldn't be changing just for the sake of change. People shouldn't have to learn how to use the software all over again just because MS wants people to be forced to buy a newer copy.
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Nothing good ever comes from signing up for Facebook.
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His failure was dying in 1946 before it became relevant again.
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Because you need domestic production to avoid a repeat of the OPEC created oil crisis of the '70s. Having the capacity overseas means that the producing countries have the ability to dictate what goes on here. Smaller countries have a smaller demand and aren't in the same position to have their own domestic production, but they're also in a better position to find somebody that's wiling to provide them with the vehicles they need. Whatever country builds the EVs that the US depends on is going to have us over a bucket, and the process may violate human rights and result in us continuing to fund countries with an iffy human rights record. This is especially going to be important if they can get sodium based battery capacities good enough to compete with lithium based batteries as there's a ton of sodium available, and given a possible need for desalination plants to provide drinking water in the future, diverting some of the excess sodium to battery production would help with the problem of disposing of the excess sodium that results from the water being removed.
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@cisium1184 Yes, a tariff is just a tariff. If no goods that are subject to the tariff are imported, then no tariffs are paid. However, it can even the playing field a bit if other countries are doing things like using slave labor. Although the WTO greatly reduced the amount of situations under which tariffs can be used to deal with various ways in which developing countries can undercut developed ones.
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@GermanLeftist the place for questions is in court with an attorney. The people in this thread misrepresenting things aren't doing anybody any favors. You comply with the orders given and of they're not lawful, there is a legal process for handling that. You can refuse to obey unlawful orders, but don't be surprised if there's negative consequences. It's clear from the video that he wasn't complying with lawful orders. The aftermath of that wasn't legal, but he won't get an attorney as he's dead.
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@eightykakes15 nobody said that. Failing to obey lawful orders is what caused them to use force, the choice of tactic and ultimate result is on them. But regardless of what convictions may or may not result, he's still dead. Fact is that even if he hadn't died, he likely would have been booked, which isn't a great outcome either.
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Dennis Young it can, but if certain groups don't reinforce the stereotypes, they eventually weaken and go away. There's a legal process that comes into play when there's a miscarriage of justice or abuse of power and cities often pay to settle lawsuits. Sadly, you can't benefit of you're dead, which is why is important for everybody to pay it cool as much as possible. Don't give thugs any grey area to and their authority and you might get one of those settlements. Or better, not harmed.
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@Silverfang447 apart from donating to her opponent, what else are most of us supposed to do? Most of us don't live in her district.
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Kyle, I generally agree with you, but it's not "a little bit more than they would be making," it's roughly $15 an hour in addition to the normal unemployment they would be getting. The extra alone is significantly above minimum wage in most parts of the US and even here where our minimum wage is higher, the $15 is almost as much as my base pay for 40 hours over the course of the week. I don't begrudge them the money, but Lindsay Graham has a point, that there's a problem. He's wrong about what the problem is, I'm a frontline worker and due to the generosity of the grocery store chain, that $15 an hours from unemployment is only about 3/4 of my pay for working 40 hours. But, I have to actually work and I have to do so in a public space surrounded by people. I do get basic PPE from my employer and am required to wear the mask, but there's still risk involved here. When they put the provision in there for the extra $600 a week for unemployment, there should have been a similar provision for those of us working frontline jobs to also get $600 a week in order to help compensate for the extra risk we're taking on. It's a comment on the dedication of those working in grocery stores, hospitals and other essential places where the work has to involve direct contact with the general public that those businesses and enterprises remain open and people can still access essential goods and services. It's also a bit of a slap in the face that I'd be making more on unemployment by such a large margin while the politicians have done precisely dicky mcgeezacks to mitigate the situation.
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You may believe that, but very few people would be able to afford such a policy. Sure it sucks for this woman, but if you read the terms of the insurance whether or not this kind of use is covered would be in there somewhere.
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@ IIRC, around here they're in the process of planning to build a more up to date facility around here. I have been fortunate enough to not ever be arrested, but I don't get the sense that a facility that's older than I am is really up to snuff in really any regard. A new facility could probably be built that would be safer for everybody involved.
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@ The punishment is losing your freedom and potentially having to do work. It's not supposed to involve being subjected to squalor. Other countries somehow figure out how to be humane to their inmates. As far as 12 months goes, that's probably a misdemeanor or the absolute bottom end of a felony depending on the rounding. There may not have even been a victim if that was the sentence. You can get more time than that for all sorts of minor offenses.
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I'm curious what the alternative here is. This is how progress is made. Richard Roundtree playing Shaft was groundbreaking and led to better roles being available to black actors, but on it's face, it was a blacksploitation film and if we took this line of reasoning, we might not have gotten any of the black films of the '70s. Granted, The Wiz wouldn't have been made, but still. I do think though, that with the amount of work he gets, with respect to other actors of a similar height, that he's probably not in the best place to be criticizing these sorts of roles when there aren't a lot of them that are available for other actors.
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@-TheChurchOfTruth- No, it's a small amount of psychopaths that are in congress and refuse to take any sort of action at all. When over 90% of the public supports some of the regulations that would reduce the likelihood of this happening, it's not society. Whether the measures that enjoy that level of support would be enough is up for legitimate debate, the fact that we haven't even got that is a sign of just how corrupt and uncaring the people in charge are.
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What does it say about the Democrats that they lost to this guy twice, and barely beat him the third time. And despite their stated views that it would be this bad, they weren't doing everything in their power to appeal to every voter that wasn't die hard MAGA.
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The elites crush any effort to fix the system. We had a chance with Obama, but he screwed it up by not whipping the votes for at least a public option.
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Why? The BBB is an absolute joke.
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This reminds me of Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas.
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Part of the problem is that Trump lies constantly and reverses himself, it's not at all clear which of the horrible things he's promising to do are shiny enough for him to follow through on. Harris, OTOH, has been in the race for less than 6 months and didn't even have a platform to offer the voters initially. She didn't compete in any of the primaries this time, and didn't win a single delegate last time. I'd be somewhat hard pressed myself to really say much about either candidate that I think might actually apply if they're elected. I'm somewhat fortunate in the sense that I live in a part of the country that doesn't get a meaningful vote. The state hasn't voted GOP since the '80s and none of the candidates put up much of a fight for our votes in the general election. From what I've seen from both candidates, they flat out don't want my vote.
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In a courtroom there's usually members of the public so the lack of recordings is usually less of an issue. Family court can be a little different by its nature, but normally, you'd still have witnesses along with a courtroom record of what happens.
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To be fair it will be his fault for not taking the primary seriously and not hitting Biden hard from the start. At bare minimum he should have refused to pledge to endorse him without concessions.
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@aaronhartmann7658 The dashcams are one thing, it's the sharing of the footage that's at issue. The moment that the courts decided that they don't need a warrant to get records from 3rd parties we were pretty much doomed to this. Why bother with a warrant when you can just buy the information from 3rd parties that aren't similarly constrained.
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How is this any different from the various other safety laws that exist to protect the public from having to deal with the consequences of people not making the minimum effort to protect themselves?
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Yes, at what point are the democrats going to stop rigging their elections and let the will of the people happen?
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There has been one election in the last 20 or so years, and Hamas won fewer than half the votes even as they tried to portray themselves as moderates. Meanwhile, there have been a number of elections held in Israel where war criminals keep winning. Doesn't fit your stereotype, now does it?
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Possibly, but actually repairing the battery pack wouldn't involve moving it and few people are going to route the wires other than as intended just because of how hard it is to route wires. It could be an issue, but I'd expect that there'll be other battery chemistries coming that are less problematic as there isn't enough lithium to meet our needs anyways.
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@C_Kava Happens, and sometimes mail falls behind a machine without anybody noticing. It's amazing how infrequently letters are lost in the mail just because of how small they are compared with the size of the buildings they travel through.
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I used to live in China and the typical design over there is universal. You can plug anything you like into the outlet and all you have to worry about is that the device can handle 230v electricity. You don't use all the plugs at once, you use the two or three plugs that are relevant to the item you're installing. I assume that was because it's an export economy and there was no telling what plug you'd have on the items you purchase.
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@scarlet_phonavis6734 Essentially yes, from what I can tell that only applies if they want to be part of the prime program or something along those lines. Chances are that if they are able to sell for less elsewhere, that you're not even going to be shown their products without really looking.
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@Thingsyourollup I've been a member of a few CUs over the years and it seems like the criteria for joining have been broadened at all of them over the years. All of mine used to require being an employee or family member of a given company, but all of them now accept that you just live in the region. That being said, if you don't live in the area, you probably wouldn't want to join anyways as you'd constantly be doing business with a different CU.
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It's possible, it's just unlikely for a cat to survive in the wild that long. Living in a home the record is roughly 39 years and the current oldest is 36. In the wild, it's going to depend a lot on luck and being able to avoid being eaten or run over by a car though.
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Yes, race itself is purely a social construct, but the accent is completely unjustifiable. In the case of the video, a non-native speaker would learn the name of the ingredients they were using,
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@marlo3898 That always confuses me because around here, you don't buy apartments, they come as part of the building that landlords buy. It's hardly just you, I hear other Americans, especially in New England using the term like that.
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@neoqueto That card was the last time they were even remotely relevant until the ARC cards came out and from what I can tell, there was a gap of roughly 20 years where they effectively only existed in integrated chipsets that nobody wanted if they could get drivers for AMD or nVidia.
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@gilesluver That wouldn't be more representative. There would just be more representatives. We already have so many representatives that getting to somebody that actually cares about your vote and is on the appropriate committee can be a bit of a non-starter.
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So, what's the alternative then? We need to enforce the laws. How is it fair to people who want to immigrate and are willing to follow our immigration laws? The main issue that I'm seeing here is that we're too lenient on those that disrespect our borders, and not kind enough to those that are willing to follow our laws.
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@Phosgg94 Yep, there's a lot of technology that the Amish use, people miss the point that there is no blanket prohibition on technology, there's just a very conservative view on it and a lot of consideration for the impact that it will have on their community. There are Amish computers, they're pretty basic and have religious studies materials included, but some Amish communities permit them to be used.
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Here in WA, you just mark the ballot with the party you want to vote for. The main problem this time is that the checkbox wasn't on the ballot, it was on the envelope where you could miss it.
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Because these are 3 drop boxes out of however many of hundreds there are throughout these states. It hasn't been a problem before, and it still isn't. The people who voted there can request a new ballot and they'll only count the new one if the old one doesn't show up.
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@hayuseen6683 Perhaps, but it's also not protected speech if they decide to fire you. That being said, it's best not to work for an employer that would get bent out of shape over something that minor.
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It's also worth noting that most clinics that deal with addiction have abysmal success rates.
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@shrimplyobsessed Yes, or he'd be used in some sort of prisoner exchange. I'm not sure that there is a worse place in the entire world right now to go to prison than North Korea.
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It's a damning indictment of the media that they've been willing to go along with any of this and have been for years. The free publicity they gave him in the run up to the Presidential race in 2016 and their refusal to hold the Democrats accountable for rigging their own primaries the last 3 times in a row is a lot of why people don't hold them with any particular esteem.
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It was a similar sort of a thing at my previous job. They kept offering me promotions, but you get a very small bump in salary, no increase in ability to enforce whatever managerial decisions you get to make, and you get yelled at if everything isn't the way they want it to be. I got stuck managing the department for 4 months without any pay, I found out at that point, that they weren't going to give me the manager bonus, a portion would be going to the new manager when they eventually decided to hire one, and he'd be getting a bit of bonus based entirely on the work that I had done. I stuck around for a few weeks, but the whole thing just reinforced the reasons I had for not wanting to be a manager there. I could do the managerial tasks quite well, but I had absolutely no faith that after having been promised by corporate that I'd be taken care of, that taken care of meant being present when they gave somebody my bonus and completely left out of any pay for the work I had done, while they took their sweet time looking for somebody to fill any of the open positions in the department. I think, there were supposed to be 3 or 4 total, and we had 2, which meant the only way to cover all the shifts would have been for us to both work 7 days a week.
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Good, every time somebody drops out or resigns over something this small, it just encourages them to do it again. As long as he does what he can do to make it right, he should be cut dine slack. Granted, this wasn't that long ago, but tons of people behaved badly at that age.
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I hadn't considered that moving things from state to federal court would still be state law. But, considering that cases get moved to federal court all the time due to the parties in the suit being from different states, that kind of makes sense. It's still the same law and the same actions that are being disputed.
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You do realize that the average number of fingers for people is somewhere between 9 and 10, right? Meaning that the restriction still makes it less likely. Even just making it "has fingers" would still reduce things as there's a few without fingers or even hands.
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The Democrats are going to lose a lot of power unless something miraculous happens, and they start to actually make huge moves to help the people. Not being Republicans is just not going to cut it if they want to turn out the numbers necessary to hang on to the slim hold on power that they've got. Just one seat in the Senate going the other way would change things dramatically.
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@anilraghu8687 That's the biggest difference between my current AAB. and my previous AA, BA, MAES and TESL programs. On paper going back and doing a 2 year degree after completing two graduate programs should be easy, but it's completely online and the opportunities to really immerse in the subject matter is greatly reduced. I'm managing fine because I know not to get too hung up on things, but I would have failed miserably if I didn't have so many years of college under my belt before starting on this.
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It's worth noting that individual states can, and some have, gone to permanent standard time, it's going to permanent DST that requires an act of congress and this is an attempt to force the entire country onto DST. Offering states the ability to switch to DST on their own would be far more likely to pass, as well as put to bed for another generation, the notion that DST is a good thing.
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@airplanes_aren.t_real No, you can be a producer by just writing a check. If you've got enough money you can be a producer on just about any movie you like, just sign the check and hand it over. The producer has responsibilities in terms of hiring and firing people on the set as well as ensuring that things are moving along. If an actor has a tantrum, the producer will often be the one that goes to their trailer to coax them out and back to work.
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Yes, but most Presidential candidates also ignore the most populated states and GWB wouldn't have been elected without the electoral college.
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@blisphul8084 Yep, the issue is the insistence on using text messages for the process. Text messages are just not secure and usually if they offer text messaging, they also offer voicemail, which is completely insecure for most people. Which means that if somebody does want in, they can break into the voicemail to get the code and then the company blames you because you were using 2FA which much means that you authorized it. There are better options like OTP and FIDO enabled dongles.
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@spongo Government spending causes inflation, but in this case it would be offset by taxes and the reality that if everybody is getting regular medical care, any resultant inflation would be offset by savings in terms of unnecessary treatment.
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It's really not semantics. When terms are used improperly it makes it a lot harder to research the history of the topic and makes it very hard to draw any lessons from the technology when it went under a different name. Fixating on the fact that it's storage that's connected to the network rather than the server that is doing the connection is asinine.
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@mimcduffee86 You think the courts are going to go along with that? He is rich, but there's a bunch of otehr rich oligarchs that don't want him in control, I wouldn't assume that this will other indefinitely. At some point, Trump , MAGA and SCOTUS are going to tire of his antics and kick him to the curb.
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So, this is why my marriage is feeling so doomed. I need to go out and start putting this stuff into action post haste. Thank you for saving my marriage.
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Language school isn't inherently useless, but having worked at a few, the issue is incentive. There's a huge incentive to give students what they want, which isn't necessarily to learn the language effectively. If students stopped giving money to schools that were in the business of handing out busywork, you'd find language schools would be much more effective over night.
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@aurycoo It depends on many factors. The biggest ones are cultural and willingness to play with the language.
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@finnjay6149 Yes, it's because the strength of the exoskeleton gets proportionally weaker as the animal gets larger. And due to the lack of lungs, it is limited on how much thicker it can get. To make matters worse heavier creatures fall a bit faster due to air resistance than smaller ones do. I have absolutely no idea if this scorpion is still in the range that can survive versus can't. For rats and squirrels, they have more ability to flatten out than anything with an exoskeleton can.
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@MarkRobbo96 The US has far, far more judges, some individual states have more judges than the entirety of the UK. And on top of that, we've also got the federal court system. On top of that there are huge numbers of potential judges to be picked, if you want somebody that can rule reliably the way you like, you can usually find a bunch of lawyers that would be willing to do that unironically as judges.
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@TesterAnimal1 We used to, the way it's set up is that the President nominates justices and the Senate confirms them. However, ever since Bork was denied his seat, there's been a bunch of partisan hackery going on to try and deny nominees their place on the court. In the case of Bork, he was a hack and somebody that Nixon had used to fire the prosecutor that was looking into his crimes after others had quit in protest.
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Not really, it usually happens either because you misjudge the step or the steps aren't even.
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@VestedUTuber Indeed, but I do think that they need to solve the problem of the long lines before they even consider anything like that. Space Mountain is a very long line or you can spend $25 to get in a much shorter line.
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That's why you wouldn't do that. You'd just give the blood to the ambulances that are specifically designated to stabilize patients for transport. Patients in that condition need more care anyways, so just give the folks that are trained for that the blood to do the transfusion. It takes the number of vehicles that need to be supplied from thousands to only a few hundred for a major city.
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It's not the public that are being particularly naive, what morons are still willing to lend him money at this point? All he seems to do is pop up online and do some trolling, issue a ridiculous statement and make the company then struggle to follow through in order to avoid being hit by regulatory fines for having no intention of doing it. Tesla struggles a lot due to these dumb statements that Musk makes and in many cases, they don't even have the plans in place before he makes the assertions.
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People are freaking out over this, but at this time, the research is basically that there's limited upside for minors to get this treatment and significant consequences in terms of if they change their minds or didn't think things through. Unless more research shows up to suggest a change, that's really how it ought to be. Having people freak out because prepubescent children aren't being allowed puberty blockers on the assumption that there will be irreparable harm is just madness. If such harm is irreparable, that should show up in studies, but given how quickly we went from having basically no transkids to them being seemingly everywhere, I do think that a certain amount of caution with things that can't be undone is wise.
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@1milliondogs Possibly, when I was over there, it looked more like it was dependent on apathy or indifference of the people being ruled to the ruling party. As long as things are getting somewhat better than they were, the people don't have much of an incentive to ask too many questions or even know what's happening at the nationwide level of governance. But, if there's a prolonged downturn, or too much awareness of what things could be like with a government that represents a larger slice of the population, it could turn ugly for the party rather quickly as the members are outnumber by dozens to one and I have no idea which way the military would break in that situation.
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Why should men pay for reproductive care for women when reproductive care for men isn't generally covered? Really, both should be covered, but in practice, it's something that men don't get and nobody seems to notice or care.
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+Kuma El Negro, Men need reproductive care because as we age we tend to have issues with our plumbing and none of that is covered under insurance. Things like obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, stress and the like damage the vascular system as does inflammation and scar tissue. That's assuming that it hasn't been damaged years earlier for one reason or another leaving a man incapable of having sex let alone having children. None of that is covered under insurance. This whole system where men are expected to subsidize women while our own needs go unmet is absolutely ridiculous. Women that choose not to have children make more money then men do and yet we're continually being told that we need to subsidize women. Women's health insurance is more expensive to provide even when excluding costs associated with pregnancy and even though men aren't being provided with any reproductive care and somehow we're wrong for questioning it.
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@MatthewThompsonAllen This is true, it is a sign that he's also not qualified to be President.
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I love how he actually had the math of what the increase was put into the video so we knew it was right.
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I agree that it should be banned specifically because of your second sentence. There's a lot of people who lawfully and safely drive vehicles that are distracted by those sorts of signs. In much of the world, there are no words on signs unless absolutely necessary and usually because it's a name.
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The FBI never does anything that's consistent with the law. They're the agency that spends most of it's time looking at child pornography and entrapping the unintelligent into fake terrorist activities so they have somebody to arrest. There has never been a period of the agency's history where they haven't been corrupt as hell and nobody should take what they say to be truthful.
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IIRC, it's been known for several decades that Southern California is out of water and has to import it from the North. A bunch of the people that left California in the late '80s did so in part because of the water shortage.
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@DJF1947 It can be, but usually it's not.
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The signs are fine, it's mostly the newer more international designs that they've created that are an issue.
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Cavities are essentially the result of poor diet. Cut all of the sugar, make sure you're getting adequate vitamin d and calcium and you'll likely see marked improvement. The big issue with dentists is that they have a vested interest in filling cavities and the like. So, people get very little advice as to how to avoid cavities beyond brushing and flossing, but brushing and flossing are a best minor contributors to oral hygiene.
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The issue was that it was an unknown problem and the bridge was fine when it wasn't windy. They wouldn't have used that design if they had a more modern understanding of harmonics. Plus, doing retrofits at that time was much harder due to the lack of computers.
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We've got it figured out, every time there's a mass shooting event, especially involving children, there's a massive opportunity to fund raise to either stop it, or to stop people from grabbing folks' guns. Stopping the mass shootings would just end the gravy train.
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TBH, it seems to me that if solid tires were such a good idea, that we would have had them decades ago. Especially during the early years when the materials were so poor for the purpose. Flat tires today are much less common and tires are usually thrown out due to the tread wearing out rather than puncture. (Although we're talking bike tires, so probably a larger share are damaged due to puncture than car tires)
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@Po1itica11yNcorrect The point is that they shouldn't be handing more out to the retirees without addressing the issues with the fund. They've already stolen a large amount of my future benefits and this just digs the hole that we'll have to get out of even deeper. But, then again, you knew that already.
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@scottwendt9575 Barely, Seattle had essentially 3 options, replace it with another viaduct that was properly engineered for the expected earthquake, tunnel under or just tear it down and build a massive road. There were a fair number of people that wanted the road option, which would have been even worse than what you probably would expect as there's a ferry terminal there that requires a significant amount of road to feed it on top of it being just a couple blocks from two stadiums. Ultimately, the tunnel won out, mainly because the cost of it after accounting for the damage to downtown businesses was less than replacing it with another viaduct. We still wound up with a massive road along the waterfront though. Personally, I miss the proper street cars we used to have running up and down the waterfront next to the viaduct.
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Exactly, I'll sometimes ride mine for 160ish on a long ride, which is probably doable with a modern electric motorcycle, but I don't have any way of charging at home and if I want to do a longer ride like from here down to Southern California, that would be me stopping for a long time every 2 or 300 miles. Which is just not reasonable.
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This nonsense started well before that was an issue. It wasn't until I started to use USB drives and the like that I started to have disks popping up with changing letters. Floppy drives were basically always A; and/or B: and the primary HDD started with C and continued to the end of the disk before moving onto the next disk. In practice, there was no inconsistency as there would usually be only one drive and probably only one partition per drive. The only reason I have problems with drive letters changing now is because I'm swapping a pair of disks for backup that I want to use the same drive letter.
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There's not much point in the detectors unless you've got natural gas or some other combustible fuel for an appliance. But, if you've got anything like that, have a fireplace that you use, or even park the car next to the building ina carport or garage, a CO detector is likely worth it because you likely won't know you need it until your lips are going numb, and you're already being poisoned.
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If you've got simple code and can count on everybody using the most current version of your code, then CI seems like it might work out. As long as you know if the code is correct and reasonably secure. Honestly, if the code is that simple and short, then it doesn't much matter how you're handling the revisions, it'll probably work. But, if you've got something as large and complicated as an operating system, I'm not even sure how you would be able to apply CI in any sort of sane way. Sometimes, the best thing to do is to just use several branches and be done with it.
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The issue is that they make it far too easy to spend money. Most of the guarantees they offer are about making you feel more secure in spending the money. Personally, I think he goes a bit overboard on that front. I've switched to only using my credit cards for my utilities and select things where I have a specific reason for wanting CC protection. But in general, it's a lot easier to stick to your budget when the money is coming out of the account immediately.
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@jimquantic This just goes to show how good Pelosi has been for the RNC, under her leadership there have been basically no younger polticians developed that have any hope of winning. It's much like HRC bleeding the party dry in her attempt to force herself on a populace that wasn't interested. Honestly, if you can't even win your own party's nomination without cheating, why would you expect the other party's voters to be any more interested?
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What about men? Women already get considerably more access to education than men do.
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@christasimon9716 If you think that's bad, just imagine what that would be like if they didn't have to risk themselves being killed if the PIT goes poorly.
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You're doing the fans a disservice with this review. The plane flying it is set up when we meet Teddy. It's not like he doesn't have a sense of how to fly a plane, it's that it's only been on a basic simulator. A stretch, but not out of nowhere. I've got ADHD, and I didn't have any issue sitting through the movie, the pacing was fine by me, I enjoyed the car chase sequence and for the first time ever, I actually liked Phoebe Waller-Bridges in something. I do agree that the villain should have had better writing, but keep in mind that they established that Archimedes only lived in two cities, so if they're going the wrong way towards one, then it's not unreasonable for them to guess that they'd be going to the other one. Personally, I'd recommend strongly that people watch the movie as it is actually pretty good if you just want an action film and realize that Harrison Ford is really too old to be the only protagnosit in an action flick. He does a pretty good job of keeping up with it, but he really needs other characters in a way that he wouldn't have 20 years ago.
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@Afura33 If it were just Trump supporters that have noted what a fraud Harris is, it wouldn't be a problem. The problem is that she's incompetent and lazy. She has regularly got destroyed over easily foreseeable lines of attack and then blamed her campaign staff for her not bothering to do the work. Those instances with Tusi Gabbard at the debate and Lester Hold where she doesn't even have a response for the question she should have known were coming are illustrative of just how bad she is. That whole bit where she was laughing about sending people to jail over pot, even though she's smoked pot was particularly disgusting.
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That's clearly not legal. While the first amendment does not apply to private companies, this would likely be an example of misappropriation and likely something that could lead to the homeowner being awarded damages. Companies cannot use your person as an endorsement without your permission.
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@sam-l5s He didn't win in 2020, he had the election handed to him on a silver platter. He didn't even need to campaign for it. The establishment Democrats saw that Bernie was nearly unstoppable and Obama made some phone calls to get everybody except Bernie and Biden to drop and throw their support behind Biden. Then when it came time to choose a VP, Biden chose pretty much the only opponent with no strategic value other than as a middle finger up to Bernie's supporters and then spectacularly avoided doing anything to warrant being voted for. He wound up barely squeaking by, but this time around, he needs those votes from voters that they pissed off getting him into office and they won't have them, because he's such a terrible candidate.
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@walterpierce6061 What primary voters? The ones in 2020 that wanted somebody else but got tricking into voting him because "he was electable" or the ones this year where there weren't any serious contenders willing to run against the incumbent?
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Towns have been closed or relocated for various reasons. But, they usually aren't removed from maps, it's usually not necessary.
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P Lightfoot Winfield Which is why all those other developed countries are "ruined"? Just because you don't understand, doesn't mean that the rest of us are similarly ignorant.
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There might not have been any, even if it is true. It may have just been a couple bad mushrooms in one package, or whoever it is that accidentally put the mushroom in may have realized it and the remainder destroyed. I do expect there to be a more thorough investigation over time, but there's a reason why it's innocent until proven guilty.
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Don't laugh, that's part of why there haven't been any mass shootings in years here in Washington state.
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To an extent, inequality is a good thing, it helps drive innovation. The problems come when the powerful can buy political influence and use that influence to avoid having to share any of that with the people doing the work. The existence of billionaires is less of an issue if everybody is fed, housed and has a decent standard of living.
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I think it's interesting how people claim that Trump is the worst and that he's destroyed the country when St. Ronnie Reagan did so much damage to the country that it may not ever be repaired. It was during his presidency that they deregulated the media so that they could consolidate leading to the state of affairs where there's very few options and very little competition for scoops.
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Them and the careless.
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@macgeek2004 Whether or not he runs 3rd party, the result would be a 2nd term for Trump. There's no way that Biden is going to be able to beat Trump in the general election. At least if Bernie runs as a 3rd party on the green party ticket or something along those lines, there'd be a non-zero chance of Trump losing.
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A good rule to live by is that the more the returns of a business opportunity improve on the normal return for a similar business, the more speculative it is. That's not to say that it's something that you shouldn't ever put your money into, but realize that the bigger the gap the more risk you're taking on, either that it fails or that it's an outright scam. It's also worth realizing that if you put away a few bucks every paycheck into a conservative set of index funds, bonds and REITs, you can do very well for yourself over the course of many years with relatively little risk. The risk comes from putting it all into a smaller number of businesses and from not being in the market long enough.
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Yes, but what are people going to do, vote blue? We've seen what happens when people vote blue, it's whatever minimal amount they need to do to not technically be Republicans, at this point they're even palling around with Cheneys.
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If it was scammed, they probably don't have the money. But, that being said, the company should be responsible for it anyways, seeing as their security practices appear to be to blame.
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That's not surprising. I haven't seen one, but now that these reflectors can be made so small, placing a light behind it isn't that hard.
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It's sad that neither major party candidate is competent. We all know that Biden is going to fight to prevent people from getting medical care and probably try to cut social security because that's who he is. He's not any less corrupt than Trump, he's just better at pretending that he's not. And, at this point, regardless of his motivations, I doubt there's enough of him left for his motivations to factor into whatever happens during his Presidency. It's crazy that it looked like Trump had finally figured out what was going on and was starting to make moves that would help, but then he forgot and totally muffed it. Even a couple months ago, he still had a shockingly good chance, but at this point, it looks like Biden may win by virtue of not being Trump. And we're all going to suffer because the DNC is going to keep rigging Presidential primaries as they won't have learned anything by winning.
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Yes, might might wind up destitute with only a few dozen millions.
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They said the same time when the minimum wage was set at $15, I doubt that any of the properly run restaurants are really going to have that much trouble. It's only a 16% increase and they'll just increase their prices to compensate. Yes, wages are one of the three biggest costs for a restaurant, but this is a one off increase to bring them into parity with other businesses.
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@dan6442 Being in a bed for a prolonged period of time isn't a definitive sign of torture or abuse. This is a country with limited resources and he could have fallen ill and they may have not been able to provide treatment. That is clearly being extremely generous, but it is consistent.
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@joshuahudson2170 I didn't know that, that does make some sense as unlike waiving your right to remain silent where whatever you say is now fair game, the speedy trial requirement is something that could be undone to some extent, you wouldn't get that initial bit back, but you could reduce the rest of the delay. Still, 10 years, even if there is no motion to get the speedy trial back seems excessive. Probably not a problem if he is guitly and is ultimately convicted, but in any other case it just absolutely sucks.
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I think it's cute that people think that the bad candidate won't win. The bad candidate always wins. Both Biden and Trump are the bad candidates.
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Trump won because he had a base of support that wanted him, rather than being forced on the voters the way that Harris was.
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@branscombe_ Umm, no, at least when it comes to scientists, biologists and chemists that's not true. There's a body of practices and research that's used. Anybody saying that is ignorant and should find another job. Teaching is a bit different in that there isn't the kind of firm body of evidence on some of this stuff to really say what the right thing to do is. So, a lot of it is tradition based until somebody either finds a big enough flaw to change or something is better by a large enough margin to justify the change.
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@arglebargle5531 As somebody with a massive capacity for memorized facts, that last bit about keeping up is a real problem. I think it's likely the real reason why such a large share of the innovation comes from younger people, they've got a cleaner slate in terms of not having a lot of wrong things in their head. They also don't have a lot of wrong things in their heads, so they can make a lot of mistakes when they are confronted with things that have happened before or are close enough.
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I'm not sure why they would. Although, the only time I've driven in Oregon, I was close to the border and riding a motorcycle, so I was allowed to pump my own gas as they're not required to pump it for motorcycles. They probably aren't even allowed to for liability reasons.
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@chazw3x It's probably mostly convention and what you're used to. The only real difference is that with the gas station attendant, you're outside and trusting them to go into the gas station and ring you up for the gas, rather than booking it to the nearest getaway car or copying the numbers.
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@ExplainingComputers This is a good video, although a part 2 about how to monitor the integrity of the files would be helpful. Some of these options are not practical due to the issues of loading up the files for verification. DVDs in particular might last a super long time, but they don't store that much information and you physically have to load them up to see if they're still readable. HDD don't last as long, but you can have a pair of them and file verification on even the largest of them should only take a few hours without you even having to sit there babysitting it. Then you've got things like QuickPar that can both verify and recover some limited amount of data problems, provided the files are on a writeable disk. Personally, if I am going to use an optical disc for backup, I always burn a copy of dvdsig along with the file it generates with all the checksums. It makes it quite easy to verify that the disc is still readable and tell me which files are impacted if there are any.
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@thedude8526 It's a pain and thanks to the teamsters you make less than minimum wage for the first bit, during which the union will do absolutely nothing other than take your money. After that first 90 day period, the union is a lot better, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth having seen them just taking my money without doing anything at all for me, only to lose my job because one of their people made illegal complaints about me.
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Hard to say, but the black community tends to assume that anytime they're pulled over it's so the police can violate their rights and the media pushes that narrative. It's normal to be nervous, but pushing this as a case of him being respectful and cooperating is not doing anybody any favors.
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@deannespuhl3948 Sounds about right. For all the moral issues of dealing drugs, the reality is that if they start killing their customers with bad drugs that it's bad for business.
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@cardboardcheddah3715 They would have stayed in the weather long enough to die of exposure when they're in a neighborhood with people all around, without the drugs? That's a bit of a stretch.
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@Helen4Q Lower end drug dealers sometimes cut the drugs with other things to try and stretch the stuff they bought further. The higher end ones arent' as likely to do that as it increases the attention and makes it harder to charge high prices when they're killing customers.
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Having lived in China teaching English to those students, I cannot emphasize just how horrible it is. The government knows that it's a horrible situation, and there has been progress made to de-emphasize that test. At this point, there is a plan B for those that fail it, but the whole point of the test is to quickly weed out the students that they don't have available space for at their colleges. If anything, it makes the problem of upward mobility even worse, as those with the power can afford to fail the test and then go overseas to get their degree. Then, when they come back, they have a rather fancy foreign degree. Despite the BS you hear in the US, the fact is that the Chinese government is well aware of how bad their educational system is and is putting a large amount of resources into making it less traditional and somewhat more western. Having students attending all those subjects and then only be tested on a couple of them is a massive waste of time, and students just go through the minimum motions they can get away with in order to not be punished.
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@michaeljohnangel6359 Only if it is eventually created and you developed some portion of what it eventually required. I think that DaVinci was an inventor in the sense that some of it did work, or was made to work without much additional ideas. However, he's arguably more important as a visionary than as an inventor. One of the issues that folks like DaVinci have is that some of their ideas are so far ahead of their time that it's difficult to establish which ones are ahead of their time and which ones are just fantasy. And sometimes, even the fantasy ideas wind up having some pretty significant real world impact. Nobody knew definitively that it was possible for humans to fly using heavier than air planes until the Wright Brothers built one that did work and could be modified to become practical. It was highly suspected to be possible, and other inventors were close, but people had been trying for quite some time before they got the key components in place to actually do it. Same goes with the space race, people had dreamed of it for as long as there were people to see the moon, but until somebody actually got to space, it was a legitimately open question as to whether it was even possible. Today there are people who still don't believe it's possible, in large part due to the radiation exposure.
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@akulkis Either that or it's ennui or just complete indoctrination. Folks that aren't terrified in that sort of a situation are dangerously close to being suicide bombers. They've likely completely given up on coming back alive or have made their peace with death.
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@jaycobarbogast That's the thing. It puzzles me that people keep giving them money, only about a third of their members support their extremist ideology, most of them are willing to accept reasonable restrictions as long as they can still get the hardware they want. Most of the members are OK with background checks and efforts to keep firearms out of the hands of terrorists, criminals and individuals who have mental illnesses that make them likely to misuses the weapons they buy. And there are literally dozens of organizations that would make better use of the money to that end than the NRA has.
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@warrenlehmkuhleii8472 The National Firearms Act is most certainly not unconstitutional. Or are you seriously suggesting that anything that qualifies as a weapon is fair game? I'm sure there are some folks out there that have genetically modified anthrax for "duck hunting" if you know where to look. You should seriously look into the shenanigans that were happening prior to the act being passed. That was in response to such notables as Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger and "Machine Gun" Kelly were running amok with the use of the weapons that the law banned. I realized that the uneducated don't understand that constitutional amendments all have limits, but are you seriously suggesting that we should permit criminals to purchase military hardware that easily?
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You make it sound like ladies' nights aren't illegal and that women's studies programs are anything but an excuse to push a far left agenda. The rest of it is pretty crazy though. Ultimately, women have gotten a bit of a free ride since more or less the beginning not being responsible for things like defense or the day to day management of society.
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@ViciousVinnyD MS used to only enforce their copyright against businesses that were illegally pirating their software because it was better for business to have that unlicensed copy than have them using Mac OS, Linux or something else entirely.
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@SoftwareRat That depends what software you're running. There's some pretty important software that's running only on Windows. But with how hard many major vendors are going after the SaaS model, more of those will likely be websites in the future which would make it harder and harder for MS to maintain that.
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Well, thank God the DNC let Biden elbow everybody out and then force Harris on us who then proceeded to barely try to win.
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@billywitt Yes, in this case, they're probably there for whatever it is that Russia has agreed to give North Korea for their efforts. They're there more or less as mercenaries. Except, that any of them that do survive are unlikely to get any real payment when they get back.
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@pcatful Yes, although there are degrees. I'm sure when my great uncle was invading during D-Day that he had a fairly good idea what he was there for. My Dad in Vietnam didn't have that same luxury. Not that it really matters, because the larger scale conflict is just not relevant to what's going on at that moment when you just have this one objective to deal with while trying not to become a casualty.
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Bernie's a moron if he didn't see this coming when he ducked out of the primary without demanding meaningful changes promised on camera with no wiggle room.
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I'm not sure that you can credibly claim the US has a functioning democracy at this point, what with the only correlation between what is done by the government is with the donations being made.
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Clearly, I don't know the last time I saw the letter carrier show up in such a large truck.
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@cromulence Or somebody who has been using Windows long enough to have seen the many problems that have arisen from it over the decades compared with how other systems handle the same basic problems.
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Possibly, but I doubt they were expecting to get guilty verdicts on every charge. Often times they'll overcharge defendants in case their biggest charges fall through in order to ensure something sticks.
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@charlottehanna790 Honestly, my money is on him leaving her stranded without her phone. Or, she just wandered off without the phone and he was too much of a coward to get help. There's certainly other possibilities, we'll have to wait and see what turns up, but the assumption that he knows much more than that isn't necessarily reality based. It could be as simple as her doing something stupid and him running when he had the chance.
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Not going to happen, every year more and more of them get Medicare by being old enough and the few that don't are close to qualifying. It's less compelling if you're a few years out from qualifying.
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If they wanted to take this problem seriously, the first step would be to simply require that corporations book profits in the US before booking losses. So, they have to book their overseas profits and then book any losses they wish to deduct. That alone would have a significant impact in terms of offshoring and tax evasion.
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@moss787 That attitude is why I'll be voting 3rd party this year. Neither of the major party candidates want my vote anyways, so I might as well register my dissatisfaction by voting for one of the other choices. I'm not voting RFK JR because he's more or less not running, and was pretty nutty. But, that leaves me with 7 other not-Dem, not-GOP options to vote for.
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@phen314 Renaming buildings is pretty stupid unless the building can get in the paper on a daily basis under the new name. It will likely always be the Sears' Tower to me for the simple reason that I don't think about it all that often. It's the same reason why Seattle's Columbia Center has had something like 4 or 5 names over the decades and you can sort of guess roughly when people moved to the area based on which name they call it.
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@supa3ek Invading from ships has been an issue for basically as long as armies and ships have existed. The Roman's early attempts to capture land in Great Britain failed in part due to sea sickness coming across the channel. During WWII, they got extremely luck for D-Day as they'd been able to bomb a bunch of the defenses before invading and were able to bluff Hitler into repositioning a lot of the defenses to a different part of the continent. Even with that, it was still a bloody mess.
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@psychohist Yes, but presumably, they knew about the USS Cole attack, I mean even the civilian population in the US knew about that pretty much immediately.
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It will also likely last far longer than it would have with the more straight route. One of the unfortunate things is that the plans typically need to allow for the trail to continue to exist for as long as possible with as little maintenance as possible. States can have thousands of miles of trails and hitting all of them every year for maintenance isn't possible. Some of those trails may only be accessible for a few months after the snow melts and before more snow falls.
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It's close enough, but with the way that polling works, it might be a literal 2/3 when you account for the margin of error.
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@Blue, not to mention that the colleges have a vested interest in the outcome of these proceedings. On the one hand, having a finding that nothing happened means that their sexual assault tally doesn't increase, but on the other hand, women do a ton of whining when they don't get there way. Case in point, that women that was carrying around the mattress to symbolize the alleged sexual assault she suffered. Never mind, that this was a massive violation of the other student's rights as there was insufficient evidence under even the lower standards that universities apply to these things.
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He's a Nazi, apparently one of the things they're superior at is being resistant to being annoyed by Trump.
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TBH, you probably don't need a larger bike unless you're planning on riding 2 up. I regularly ride in a group with larger bikes and I don't generally have any trouble keeping up. Occasionally, I'll have some issues passing on a crowded freeway, but we don't usually ride on the freeway when we can help it. On those interesting twisty roads, these small bikes kick ass.
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@andyharman7581 Around here the minimum wage is nearly $20 an hour right now and there is no exemption for tips. I think the restaurant workers are still making a bit less before tips than the regular minimum wage, but that exemption ends the beginning of next year.
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@HerMajesty1 That's not relevant, the relevant laws are federal in nature.
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@blaketheman96 not really, as the body cam footage shows, the officer appears to have had poor visibility of what was going on in the car.
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@DJStig I'm not sure that applies to the SCOTUS.
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Honestly, they'd do a better job if they fixed the way that the ad system worked so that content creators can get funding earlier. It's nuts that you have to have 500 subscribers in order to get donations through the thanks feature. And likewise, they can't help but screw various channels via the algorithm and can't be bothered to substantively address problems like the invalid traffic bug or cases where a person can't get monetized because of a vague message about an old adwords account that the creator can't figure out how to delete. As far as paying to upload, why would anybody start uploading videos if they had to pay? It can take years for a channel to reach a large enough audience to be monetized, so you're putting in hundreds of dollars for just the uploads after spending all that time and energy creating the things in the first place.
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@sg5sd It's Steam, people over there are different. YouTube is nearly 20 years old and uploads have always been free. As far as Steam goes, there appears to be some actual human involvement in the process that doesn't happen here. You don't get an actual human involved with a YouTube account unless you're a relatively large channel. Also, if I understand things correctly, the money includes permission to sell your game. So, more payments, but also profit if that happens.
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It's not that surprising it's easier that way and the courts have given an ungodly amount of power to law enforcement, even though the constitution wouldn't permit it.
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Please stop pronouncing it as "doge" it's "doggy" and it just made Trump its bitch.
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It kind of amazes me that hacks like Black can conveniently forget that it's not our jobs to find a reason to vote. It's the parties and the candidates who have the responsibility to earn our vote and give us a reason to come out and vote. With so many people not voting at all, that's an absolutely damning indictment of the political elites.
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Yep, the good thing there though is that in modern times, it's possible to buy decks of just minimal pairs to train your ears to hear the differences in words that differ by only 1 sound. It's not something that used to be practical, but for most common languages, they do exist and it wouldn't surprise me if they become available eventually for pretty much any language. The main reason why that wasn't the case previously, is that the resources were bad, most of the teachers don't know how to teach it and it's a lot of practice.
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Why is tictock allowing this influencer to coach people on how to break the law? Perhaps some of these people who have to go through this should consider suing the company for enabling this.
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There's also the issue of needing helium to get it to work. With the shortages we're already having in helium, I'm not sure that a new technology that really requires it is such a good idea. I do sort of see the theory behind how this might work, but I don't see this one as being practical soon enough to be useful ever. It looks like the population of the world is about to start declining, which opens up opportunities to clean up the atmosphere and if conventional airconditioners are being driven by clean power, then it wouldn't much matter.
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Not necessarily some people are so delusional that nothing shy of that will clue them into the fact that their marriage is even in trouble. The problem tends to be that by the time the threat is made, one party has so miserably failed to pay attention to the marriage or put work into it, that there's not much that can be done to fix things.
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Over the next 4 years we're probably going to figure out how far precisely the Democratic Party is wiling to go to avoid having to do anything to benefit the voters. As screwed up as the stuff the GOP has been doing, you really can't argue that there aren't significant voting blocks in their base that don't want it.
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@julymagnus493 It's performative, they don't really care if Trump is re-elected, in fact it would be good for them financially. It's the rest of us that suffer for not having real choices in the general election.
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They bought it from iTunes because after a while, that was the only place to buy digital music if you didn't want the entire disc. They had so many exclusivity deals that it was effectively impossible to have an MP3 player with legally obtained music that was from any of the other digital music stores as Apple wouldn't allow their DRM to be licensed to other manufacturers. IIRC, if you wanted that music, you had to have an iPod, either by Apple or HP.
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It's by design, they don't want us to get to vote for people we want representing us.
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It's worth noting that this is the time to start advocating for whatever it is that you want to happen as both parties are the weakest they've been in at least a century. The GOP is basically the party of Trump and whether he's able to finish the term, or not, sometime in the next 4 years the only thing that the GOP is about right now is going away. Likewise, if this doesn't trigger a real reckoning with the DNC and a thoroughly cleaning of house, then the lefties, centrists and progressives need to flat out leave the party completely, because there is no hope. The DNC is going to continue to throw winnable elections and be rewarded for it with fundraising dollars.
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If the GOP was any better we'd at least be able to vote for something better.
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Why? Women are why Trump won in 2016.
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@petemaynard My personal suspicion was that the car was in gear and the driver got confused about which pedal was which. I'm not sure that somebody that was trying to dispose of the car after killing the owners would try to dispose of it in the one pond that was almost certainly going to be searched for evidence. But, it's certainly possible, especially if the perp was somebody that didn't expect to be tied to the location.
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I stopped listening to Bernie when he started to push Biden on us after Biden rigged the primary in his favor.
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But he's running against Biden, there's still more blood in his hands between the crime bill, fighting Medicare for all and the disastrous Iraq war.
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Strictly speaking, this would be assault and battery, but a DA in a real town would have better things to do than to prosecute this, especially if the "victim" isn't interested in pressing charges.
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@LD-qj2te The fears over 2025 are overwrought. At this point the concept of Project 2025 is out there and nothing shy of a voter revolt against the GOP and towards more democratic parties is going to take it off the table. Unfortunately, the Democrats are extremely slow learners and are probably going to force an unpopular candidate on us, just one that's not senile, and then throw up their hands as if there wasn't anything more than could be done. Even if we somehow manage to avoid 4 more years of Trump, the resources and connections that were created for Project 2025 are still going to be there and they're still going to be pushed on the GOP politicians. And thanks to the Democrats not caring about winning elections, the GOP has a sizable advantage in terms of congress where they don't need a majority of the popular support to control congress.
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I've got a water kettle. Actually, I've got two, my wife has one that she bought when the old one broke and didn't bother to tell me that she'd ordered one. I bought a nice one that allows me to set the temperature so that when I'm brewing tea, I don't have to mess with adding cold water to get the right temperature. It's worth noting that we've got 115v electricity which is slower than the ones in most of the rest of the world.
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That's not how the electoral college works. That's just like saying that anybody who voted for Gore, Kerry, McCain, Romney or Clinton didn't have a vote that counted. If you're living in Florida, they are actually trying to get your vote, that's what people are referring to. People in places like California, Texas, Washington and New York where the vote goes the same way every election cycle get absolutely no attention from either candidate. Our issues don't become campaign ads and the candidates basically don't come here. And BTW, it's not like the rest of the process is any better. Thanks to gerrymandering, the GOP has a permanent several point advantage and the Democrats have a significant number of safe districts where the politicians there have no interest in fixing the gerrymandering as it doesn't directly affect them.
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Tough, perhaps they should get over their homophobia then. Most members of the lgbtq community had to contend with that for years before coming out and even after coming out if they're not constantly bringing it up.
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@adamleblanc6263 I assume this is similar in Canada, but in the US you're legally required to follow flight crew instructions. I'm somewhat less clear on exactly at what point it becomes a criminal matter to disregard them, but they can kick people off the plane even before they get airborne.
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 @wolfmantroy6601 The fee is for being chaperoned, not to avoid being abandoned in the airport, and airport that could have easily been hundreds of kilometers away from her home.
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One of the few positives of Trump was that he wasn't engaging in new wars.
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You think they didn't know? It was clear 4 years ago just how much more energetic Bernie was than Biden. The party literally had to rig the primary to get Biden at the top of the ticket and he didn't bother to do anything to earn the votes of the progressives and independents. He got a little bump from the people with buyer's remorse for voting for Trump, but that's it.
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Why should we? The Democrats are doing basically nothing to help young men out, why should we turn out for her? This has been going on for decades and while the GOP isn't doing anything for us either, at least they're giving some lip service. The DNC can't even give us lip-service or pretend like our issues are important to them.
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@rustinstardust2094 They used divers, but I'm guessing they didn't use enough dives to avoid the problem of not going quite straight and just barely missed the car.
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And, I can pretty much guarantee you that the men that are being boycotted appreciate not having to deal with the crazies. Judging people in such a shallow way is a good sign that they aren't wife material anyways. And probably not even shag material.
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That doesn't make this any less retrograde in terms of freedom. The people had a right to have a say in which candidate became the nominee and then subsequently the President. Things have been moving backwards for decades, such logic about implications would be far more compelling if the Democrats didn't win the right to rig primaries and the GOP didn't regularly win the Presidency over the objections of most voters.
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They don't need it, the census data showing the various immigrants that are allowed to drive is more than sufficient justification for banning the practice. The burden of proof in this case is on the people that want the funny signs to show that they're more effective or at least safe. Which they likely can't do because they do require more processing time and depend on higher levels of English. The signs used in the US already use a lot more words than the ones used in most of the rest of the world where the signs have the least amount of words possible so that they can be used by countries that are used to having a lot of people from other countries driving through on their way to another country.
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Objectively? I've been using it as my main desktop for many years now. Apart from a couple specific Windows only programs that don't have good opensource alternatives, I don't have any need for anything other than FreeBSD on any sort of regular basis.
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@Dianaranda123 Yesterday, the local grocery store tried to charge me a sugar tax for a sugar free beverage, I told the cashier to take it back. I'd wager that if enough people complain and refuse to buy, that it will be fixed quickly. If people do pay anyways, then it won't be fixed until there's a class action suit and people get a couple pennies on the dollar of taxes improperly collected. The issue more than anything else is that if people don't refuse to go along with such things, then it will become inevitable. There are a decent number of DIY cloud apps that you can install on your own hardware, or even on leased servers. And honestly, apart from the challenges of accessing it away from home, it's often just as good. And accessing it while out and about is a known problem with known solutions.
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Why does volunteering change anything? The days of for profit fire fighters are long gone, these days fire fighters work for a government.
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@stevelehto Honestly, if somebody is that concerned about being pulled over on suspicion of DUI, it's probably time to re-evaluate your drinking and other life choices related to it.
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That's an aspect to consider, was there any actual damage done here? As you say, he literally bragged about grabbing women by their genitals without asking on that Access Hollywood tape, I don't think anybody watching the exchange that led to the suit would have their opinions negatively impacted by the segment as they either believe Trump's own statements about his conduct towards women or they likely are so stuck in their views that nothing can change them.
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@lp1645 And yet, men are much more likely to be assaulted in public. The fear is not based in reality.
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@ Israel killed the hostages. It seems perfectly germane to mention the other people that Israel killed.
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It's not, the public speaking is just the only real way we have to judge the President directly. We have no idea what's going on behind the scenes, we don't even know how much of the decisions are being made by him. He hasn't even had a full cabinet meeting since before the 10/7 attack on Israel.
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I'm sorry that your candidate was a dishonest liar. She brought this on herself with those lies about Sanders and insistence on abandoning progressive policies.
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Yes, if you look at the bridge, if it had happened a couple minutes earlier, there would have been ample time to get the roadworkers to safety as the other main support made it through fine, simple standing there likely would have prevented those deaths. And it would have made it a bit easier to get the traffic stopped on either end.
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I'm guessing that some of the folks were clapping because they agreed and others were clapping because of the epic self-pwn.
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@Aysim07 Umm, what? Everybody was oppressed for most of human history except for a handful of people at the top. The main difference is that the several hundred year period you're referring to was happening at the same time where that was starting to change. This sort of self-indulgence doesn't do anybody good as for most of human existence life just sucked if you weren't one of the few that were in power and the difference between slave and a typical person wasn't usually that large. It wasn't really until more recent history where the gulf widened significantly and the situation diverged wildly from indentured servitude.
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@jaelenrandolph2030 There's no such thing as "microagressions" "Microaggression" is just another word for rude. I have yet to see an example of a microaggression that wasn't also a violation of normal etiquette.
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@@user-zl8ni1fe7q Not just that, but the term "reverse racism" is racist dribble cooked up by David Duke of the klan. The term is utterly nonsensical as it has many possible interpretations and implies that there's a directionality to racism. So, as you say, there's no point in new terms, if the behavior is racist towards one group, it's going to be racist when the parties are flipped.
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@dirtdiv3r But, we know that she had previously had a meth problem for which she was in treatment. There was no information given about the black suspect that would suggest any proclivity towards weed. We know that he's a black professional and that's it. He certainly could have been the culprit, well up until the reveal near the end, but there's nothing in the video to suggest that he's a reasonable suspect to have based on any evidence at all.
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@matiascamprubi-soms7719 The literal only reason that Biden was the candidate in 2020 was that the elites gaslit enough voters to pick him over Bernie.
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@RealBradMiller Yes, and if that's not clear enough, just look at his hair.
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I think the only time you're likely to hear the term these days is in reference to "oriental rugs." It hasn't been considered acceptable to use the term in reference to people in decades and honestly, even the term Asian is probably only going to be something you'd use to describe somebody if you don't know a more specific word.
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I think they will get to a point where they can sell the motorcycles, but they're far to expensive for what they're offering and for the in town use that these are suited for, ebikes do that better for less money. I do think that if they get rapid charging and/or better batteries that they'll be more compelling, but right now with battery life being what it is and how hard it can be to charge if you don't have an outlet next to your parking space, it's just not a product that is particularly compelling.
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Those clowns are why we're in this mess in the first place. Stop voting for Republicans running as Democrats or it's just going to get worse. Obama could have made the GOP paid a price for stealing his nomination. The Democrats could have refused to seat any nominee during that last year of Trump's Presidency or refused to confirm any of the judges that the Trump administration was nominating the way that the GOP did, but they chose not to. They chose not to because they didn't care about what's going on now happening. If they were unaware that this was a likely outcome, it was professional malpractice as just about everybody knew that it was going to get bad. You can't have judges on the bench that can't get through a confirmation hearing without perjuring themselves and expect that they'll be any less corrupt once seated.
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Apart from degenerate religions that encouraged having irresponsible numbers of children in order to compete with other religions, people never really wanted to have the number of children in some of those large families. That's why bs like making it a sin to waste sperm and the like were created, and effective birth control measures are taboo in some quarters. Most likely, we'll eventually return to a point where most families are having 2-3 kids tops and the population drops back down to something significantly lower. Realistically, there's not any inherent reason why there needs to be more than a billion people on the planet. At that population size, there'd be no meaningful risk of extinction and the foot print would be small enough not to do much permanent damage to the environment. It would take a while to reach that point, but there'd be no need for genocide or ethnic cleansing to get there either as a billion is still a large enough number to have all the currently existing cultures represented.
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Which works out fine as long as they don't ask too many questions or subpoena your phone. At which point you'll likely get free room, board and clothes and the local government run hotel. Only catch is that you can't leave for quite some time.
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@JeffLiwag That's wrong. The fallacy is completely different. Begging the question was correctly used here, there's not no indication that the fallacy was intended. Begging the question had been used to mean that something needs to be examined for ages.
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Just wait, it will be eventually...
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@Salmagundiii Yes, my guess is that it's ultimately going to be whatever groups recorded the most standards and were able to get into the most movies that people still listen to. Especially anybody that manages their way into the Christmas Canon. Getting in there ensures that you'll be listened to forever. I was kind of surprised that nobody has mentioned Bing Crosby as he's been the best selling vocalist ever, with outright sales that are competitive with the number of times some of these songs have been played. And he's recorded Christmas canon songs, been incorporated in movies that retain popular appeal many decades later as well.
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Arguably the biggest issue that the execs have is figuring out how much money a show is really bringing in. With OTA programming, they could look at the ratings and the advertiser dollars and work out how much the show was bringing in and look at what they were spending on advertising and production costs. With streaming, it's pretty hard to say how much a show is really contributing to gaining and retaining subscriptions. You don't have any idea what the other streaming services are doing in terms of numbers the way that they would in the olden days with Nielson ratings, it's all a massive guess. So they go for metrics that are easily quantified even if they are completely inadequate. Part of why they look at binging that first day is because if a show isn't in that top 10 the likelihood of an audience even knowing it's there is pretty low. At least that's Netflix. I've recently subscribed to Max and I find far more programming that I might actually want to watch just on day one than I would on any given day on Netflix.
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It gets particularly confusing because there are motorcycles/scooters, mopeds and these sorts of electric assist scooters and bikes and the rules aren't all the same. I'd personally be good if I could ride something like this on the sidewalk, but at no more than double the typical walking speed where there isn't a bike lane.
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This is good, you can get ratcheting combination wrenches for not that much money if you don't mind used. I got a set of lightly used Kobalt ones for not that much money. By the time they break, assuming that I can't get them warranty replaced, I'll have saved enough money to buy something really nice. Also, it's really good to have an appropriate tool for removing those plastic bolts when working on bikes with fairings.
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We haven't had a real election in quite a few years. Obama was the last candidate that the left wanted and he turned out to be a complete fraud. Before that it was Clinton who was also an absolute fraud.
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@JeffRebornNow Yes, and if the US, and other foreign powers, would get our noses out of the country, the local culture would probably reject a lot of that stuff because it was never authentic to the country's native culture.
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@isupportthecurrentthing.1514 it emerged from a lab where they were looking to give it more functions.
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You'd shadow proper pronunciation. If that's not enough, you can get minimal pair decks where the words are just different in one sound. I'm curious how you would address that which isn't input heavy.
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Seattle is only marginally better. It's only surrounded on two sides by water, but there are large hills, about the same size as the ones in San Francisco. On top of that, as a result of the hills and water, it's virtually impossible to manage the traffic without an expensive train system.
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I've been going through my unit and replacing receptacles because I'm concerned about this and the fact that some of them are so loose that there's exposed metal that could cause a shock. For beginners, the lever nut based receptacles like the Leviton edge receptacles are great, there's basically no exposed metal and it's pretty easy to ensure that you've got a good connection to the receptacle. Plus, when they do eventually get loose again, they're going to be a snap to replace. I've done like a 8 or 9 recently and it only takes a few minutes per receptacle once you get the hang of it
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@Helezhelm if the Democrats want to win, they'd better not just anoint her. Biden screwed us out of the second proper primary for the second time in a row, the least they can do is have a televised contested convention and make her earn the nomination.
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That was one of the things that was far less common outside the US than inside it. For the most part, slavery wasn't a continuing experience for a family. It was at most a generation and typically anybody born to the slave wouldn't also be a slave.
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As I understand it, the basis for those class action suits is that the applicants were deprived of the application process they paid for, not that they necessarily would have gotten in. It's a much easier case to make, although not a slam dunk. With all the employees that have been caught up in this, the case may well go in favor of the plaintiffs. As they were deprived of the admissions process they were promised when they agreed to pay the applications fee.
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@marcogenovesi8570 Yes, or at least that's their excuse. There were ads prior to the adpocalypse, but mysteriously the larger corporate channels are often allowed to violate the terms that everybody else has to follow and a bunch of more popular videos get buried by the algorithm to favor those rule breakers. It's clearly about more than just the content i question.
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@ToiOraLAT I do think that focusing on just getting through the day is the only thing that really works in the short term, but yeah, the number of days needing to be continuous isn't that big of a deal. If somebody has only had a drink on a couple days out of a year, that's still quite impressive and worth celebrating. Yes, it is possible to get so drunk on those days that it screws up the rest of the year, or leads to death, but barring that, a couple days out of a year is quite good for somebody that is a problem drinker. In fact, if you can stick to only getting drunk a couple days a year, that's probably an OK outcome for a treatment program as it's less than many non-alcoholics get drunk in a year.
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This confirms my decision to not vote for Biden. Hawkins 2020. The squad is a bunch of incompetents or sell outs.
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I personally just smoosh mine against my dinner plate until it's roughly the same size as the cast iron skillet that it's going to be baked in. Then I take it out and hold it vertically and work it around before putting it back on the plate and stretch it some more. Sure, you can hand stretch it the way that they do in the movies and TV, but if you're not making a larger pizza, that can be problematic as that requires a relatively large area to work with. The dough winds up being even and the right size before I throw it into the preheated skillet for a trip into the oven.
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If they're retired and residuals don't count, how would they be able to meet that minimum? Seems like they should just admit that it's being cut.
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Yes, although the code is the first step towards the public having confidence. Without a code, then it';s tough to definitely know if they're being ethical to the appropriate degree. We can know when it's far over the line, it's when it's closer to the line that it's more of an issue.
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A grid city can pretty much avoid all of those issues if it's set up to do so. The issue more than anything else is that a grid system allows you to avoid mixed use zoning in a way that the alternatives don't. IMHO, a grid city with mixed use will always beat cul-de-sacs and other less orderly arrangements of streets. You can always close off individual streets if you need to and so long as you don't allow people to build on that extra space, you can always reclaim it if need be. But, trying to create a grid layout if you don't already have something along those lines is incredibly hard as you're likely to have to bulldoze a bunch of buildings.
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What you and he don't seem to realize is that refusing reasonable regulations now just increases the likelihood of a more complete ban later on.Cars are getting safer, but at a much greater rate than motorcycles, and the numbers even now don't look good when compared.
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@anonygent There's no evidence to support that either. They're better at rigging the system in their favor. How does inheriting a boatload of money make them smarter? For every one Warren Buffet, you've got numerous Gateses and Musks that came from wealth and could take advantage of opportunities that the rest of us couldn't. They then engaged in all sorts of morally and legally questionable shenanigans to amass massive wealth. These people didn't earn it, they stole it with their parents money.
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@GoogleAreEnemyCombatants So, you're just not educated. Got it. Communism and Socialism are not the same thing. It's not a word game, it is a very important detail. Communism is just one form of socialism.
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@andrewcarlson2178 Becoming a millionaire plumber these days is pretty "easy." As long as you don't mind doing the work that most others won't or showing up in the middle of the night for emergencies.
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The irony is that privileged, rich white people are the only demographic that doesn't need to vote in order to get pandered to. They can just make a few calls and get what they want.
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I have to disagree about the age, I"m sure they did exist 30 years ago, but it wasn't really until the first Pentiums started showing up that I remember seeing them available. Before that, they were mostly the pizza orientation boxes that were intended to sit directly under the monitor. I suspect that it wasn't as much of an issue because many computers of that age had somewhere between little and no need for ventilation. They also tended to not have much need for multiple storage units either with most of them having either one or two floppy disks and perhaps a HDD if you were well off. EDIT: I wouldn't consider it to be a tower if it's meant to sit on it's side. Apart from an old Magnavox I had, I never saw any computers that were designed for both orientations. They would have a very clear side that was made of unpainted metal that was intended to be placed downwars. Or at least all the computers I had, my friends had, the computer labs at school had and the ones at the hardware stores had were like that. I think it was just a relatively brief period where they made ones that could be kept in either orientation were a thing before they needed to optimize the heat dissipation and assume a standard orientation.
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I don't think siding with war criminals over terrorists is really the flex you think it is. Plus, apparently, this firm doesn't actually value free speech and probably was just looking for some affirmative action hires.
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Or wait a few years until people have lost interest in this silliness and actually watched the movie. You've got a bunch of prominent YouTube reviewers getting views by overstating the problems with the movie and ignoring the intent of the movie. And, that's pretty common, some genres of movies use an inverted star system. You know that a Wayon's Brother's movie from the '90s was going to be bad if it got more than 2 stars. You do get the hardcore fans upset over some of these decisions, but I don't think that's a large enough portion of the audience to matter that much. I'm sure that if we go back to Crystal Skulls that there were people insisting the same thing. I do think that this is a tempest in a teapot. I get that it's not everybody's particular cup of tea, but there are some of us that genuinely enjoyed it, even if it wasn't as good as the original trilogy. I do think that it missed the mark by far less than what some folks think and it's clearly better than both Young Indiana Jones and Crystal Skulls. And I've seen people saying that it's worse than Crystal Skulls. Not true, at least they set up the ending for this one rather that completely switching the ending with no prior pipe laid for it.
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@mikevignola4213 Yep, but I imagine it depends on how popular British programming is in your particular neck of the woods. Around here PBS regularly had various programs from the UK. The DVD set was released in the US several years before House had its first episode.
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We don't have enough cops. A lot of lower level crimes don't get enforced at all, and even for more serious crimes, there aren't really enough cops to get there promptly.
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It's paid leave now, that does not mean that there won't be punishment coming. Although, I would think this would be pretty cut and dry, at least as far as the driver goes.
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Probably a fair number, the US has a fairly large number of such ponds and if you don't know how far they got into their trip, it can be hard to even figure out which ponds to search. These days, it's probably a lot less of a problem as there's often cellphone logs of which towers were pinged, fewer routes in use and the technology to quickly search large areas for tire marks is a lot better than it used to be.
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@leonalivingston8041 Historically, it was probably pretty common as up until the modern freeway system was built, there were a lot of smaller highways in common use that went around lakes and smaller ponds rather than taking a relatively straight path through the country. There were also more opportunities to go off the road due to a lack of ABS and ESC built into the cars and lax standards when it came to drinking and driving. Even in recent decades, it can take weeks to locate a car that's just in a field sometimes if you don't know what their intended route was.
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Chinaman, is at most a weak slur. But, considering that the Chinese word for Chinese person is literally China person, calling it a slur is questionable at best. What would be a slur is referring to somebody who isn't of Chinese ancestry as a China person.
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The moment I found out that it was only 8 pages, was signed unanimously and didn't involve any independent party to enforce it, I knew it was garbage. If Justice Thomas is signing on, then you really have to question how good it really is.
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Can we please stop using the language of war when indicating where we stand on the issues? If you're an "ally" it means you're an ignorant tool. Whatever happened to being supporters?
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It makes middle-class, suburban, white people feel better about the damage they're doing.
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Did they? The exit polls suggest otherwise.
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Menards' rebates are pretty much a scam. I ordered something from them online, which came with a rebate. The problem is that it's only good if you go to an actual location, something that's not properly disclosed up front, and it expires in only a few months. Meaning that I bought something from them on the understanding that it would be less expensive, then I find out that the rebate itself is completely worthless as I can't get it in cash and I can't even use it because it's only good if I travel to one of their stores. (The nearest one is over a thousand miles away from me) I'll never be buying from them again.
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@jolojrdook1419 Considering that the regime collapsed from both end, he likely would have been sent to a front regardless of what he did. Either as punishment or as a replacement for somebody else that failed.
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He's not. The whole thesis assumes that the Democrats actually care about winning. Given that Pelosi and Schumer keep getting re-elected to their positions in leadership despite abysmal performance, I don't think you could give theme enough seats to actually do anything about any of this. It's a large part of why they don't already have a veto-proof majority when the GOP is doing things like trying to overturn an election that was a couple years ago and attempting to ban abortion.
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@exrobowidow1617 At least in that case, there was no harm done, except maybe a bit of bruising to the ego.
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If messing with python isn't the top one, then somehow society has gone wrong.
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Obama should be the winner here. Everybody knows that Trump and McConnel are terrible, but Obama screwed up the next 4 years by rigging the primary.
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@libertyboxx5834 I thought that the norm in prison was for it to be liquid or powdered soap, not something that you could pick up anyways.
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If Trump had run this ad through the campaign season, he'd be on his way to a comfortable win on Tuesday. Biden is a horrible candidate and quite possibly worse than Trump. Like Hillary, he wasn't even able to win his own primary without rigging primaries, and somehow we're supposed to want him to win?
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I'd diversify. Clear Value Tax has a bunch of good information, but his ignorance over inflation is pretty embarrassing. He doesn't even know what hyperinflation is, but is sure that we have to worry about it. The only nations that have ever had hyperinflation were ones that weren't producing anything, weren't taxing anybody and were printing money in order to pay their bills. Not something that has anything in common with the US in the present.
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What special protection? That was a memo and it's hardly the only memo on the topic, sometimes they think you can and sometimes they think you can't. There's no constitutional provision that prevents prosecution.
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He's also an absolute psychopath that worked for McKinsey.
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@modtwentyeight Yes and from what I can tell, those are usually automated, so there was something coming, or at least the sensor thought there was. And, it turns out that, yes there was a train coming, it wasn't a malfunction. Even if it was a malfunction, the thing is to call the office of whomever it is that's coordinating the rail traffic to get the trains slowed down enough to be able to stop for the crossing.
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I don't know if he could. Most of the projects that made him famous were from relatively small teams. I get the feeling that VR at Meta is a much larger enterprise.
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@johnjay6370 I'm not surprised, we're nowhere near the point where that's solved. You're trying to get the brain to think that things are the distance they appear, but your eyes are focused on a point that's much closer. Unless some new technology comes along that changes it, you're likely to always have the issue of the eyeballs being focused at a different distance than where they're pointed. It's been a problem for decades and may be an issue for decades more. I'd wager that you'd need something along the lines of contact based imaging to have any hope of it working.
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@kenyattaclay7666 They have an attorney, any city or town is going to have an attorney if for nothing else other than to handle prosecuting whatever crimes are committed within the city limits based on city law.
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Yes, the whole point of them is one last thing to try before going for something that is solely intended to end somebody's life. They do occasionally kill people, but the rate is so low as to be a statistical anomaly.
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Regardless of the accuracy of your post, how is this relevant to the Green Party running for US President?
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I refuse to vote for her. I'll vote for anybody else to unseat her.
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He completely lost any credibility when he didn't run 3rd party in 2020 when he wasn't made the VP and basically none of his policies were included in the platform. They didn't even do hazard pay for essential workers, the fact that he couldn't even get that just shows how little he cared in terms of actually forcing things.
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But, wouldn't have yelling, shouting and making a scene potentially have led to other charges related to resisting arrest and disorderly conduct? This is what we get when a bunch of law and order people get into positions they shouldn't be in. It's hard to have much respect for the legal system when this level of incompetence exists there. I hope that this is a minority of those involved, but it sucks if you get railroaded like this. I hope he gets a massive award in whatever upcoming wrongful arrest and prosecution suits are filed.
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I think the main argument against that is that if the Marhals decide they don't want to do their jobs in terms of executing the warrant, then what. I think they'd probably start with having the DoJ lawyers that are enabling this to be hauled off to holding cells and ultimately jail by the bailiffs. They'd already be in the building and the bailiffs work more closely with the judges.
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They can't control people writing a set of patches to run on top of their code. Even Nintendo can't stop people from making and trading binary patches of their games. I doubt that WinAmp even has hat many attorneys.
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Just not enough to give the voters a chance to choose a candidate.
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Why? So, men that aren't trans aren't allowed to be transvestites and get fabulous? This is just one of the last vestiges of a theatrical tradition that goes back literally thousands of years. The main other one is sketch comedy shows with insufficient casting to avoid crossdressing. Transvestites were never exclusively transgender. There were various reasons for it.
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@trinhminh-ha6895 Paying off the mortgage is somewhat more complicated than the David Ramsey types would have you believe. The main advantage of paying it off is that you can only be foreclosed upon by the government, not a banker. But, if you've got a low interest rate like what's often available now, it's not so easy as even after factoring in the cost of interest and inflation, you may still be ahead if you invest the money rather than using it to pay the mortgage down.
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I'm definitely not watching this BS if Ryan Grim is going to be on everyday. I did not subscribe to watch that corporate tool. Unsubscribe.
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That's my fear. They'll replace him with with the worst alternative available.
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Yes, but only because I can't vote to throw the lot of them down a very deep mine shaft.
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Winning elections is easy, just don't be a Democrat.
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Bernie got this one right. Abolishing ICE does nothing helpful, we still need enforcement, what makes you guys think that moving it to a different agency would change any of that? As Bernie notes, we need to fix our immigration laws.
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No, the moral is to not get too big for your britches. He crashed because he forgot that he couldn't fly too high.
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Since when is stupidity and poor judgment a mental illness?
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Why should Biden crush Trump? Trump has people voting enthusiastically for him and he's done in part what they wanted, burned down the establishment. Biden is promising absolutely nothing to the voters except to take us back someplace we don't want to go and he couldn't even win the primary without rigging electronic voting machines and having the donors get all the other candidates to drop out at once. As horrible as Trump is, that's not anywhere near enough. It hasn't been since Clinton in the '90s that the race has even been about policy. Since then it's just the same, tired refrain of how bad the other buy is. Pathetic.
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It's not supposed to be either, it's supposed to be a part of the solution.
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In all fairness, how much of what Biden was doing was him doing it. I'm definitely not a MAGA person, but Trump has also been, probably rightfully, accused of outsourcing a bunch of his important stuff to other people. Given that his people were lying about his health, how certain are we that he was doing any of the work?
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@pageljazz Probably, I know that I'm sometimes referred to as a Xennial as my birthdate puts me right on the line between what's considered Gen X and what's considered Millenial.
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@cheril.6674 It would mean that you're right on the line, sort of like Xennials being aged to have experience consistent with both gen X and Millenials, but not really directly relating either. The whole business of separating out generations doesn't really work out so well as people are being born every day.
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And that's really a problem, there should be signfiicant restrictions in place on what Senators and Congressmen do after they leave office to prevent this kind of corruption. The US is one of the few places in the developed world that tolerates this sort of blatant corruption taking place in plain sight.
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@nikovidovic3410 We'll see. The governor is currently a Democrat and it looks like he may be running against a progressive that's going to actually promise to do things for the people of Kentucky. McConnell himself isn't particularly popular in Kentucky, he's one of the least popular Senators in their respective state. He does have a bunch of political savvy, but I wouldn't assume that he's going to be re-elected if he has to go up against somebody that's going to push for universal healthcare and universal basic income. The state of Kentucky is a poor state and will only get poorer as coal continues to be less and less viable as an energy source. The miners know that and the Democrats have largely failed to promise to help them find some other way of supporting themselves.
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@ohoyohummered We'll see, politicians that are in office for decades lose campaigns all the time. He's done basically nothing for the state of Kentucky and is not particularly well liked there. A progressive candidate promising policies like universal health care could potentially defeat him. Especially at a time where he's refusing to allow the Senate to even discuss measures to help people cope with the current pandemic.
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You do realize that we're talking about the Democrats needing to do it though, if anybody can lose to Don Jr. , they'll find and nominate the person.
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That assumes the people running Israel have any decency.
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@javabeanz8549 Yes, also the data density kind of sucks. IMHO, pressed metal is probably a better choice if you're looking for data to potentially last for thousands of years. There's a reason why when they sent out that interstellar message decades back, it was on pressed metal.
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You got lucky that you did that before the used car prices really started to shoot up, otherwise you would have been out the car and had no reasonable option for getting another one. I hope that in the future you'll consider setting aside the car payment money in your own account after you've paid the loan so that you can pay cash the next time.
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As long as he gets paid, he really doesn't care. The man is a psychopath.
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@Iloveyoursmile The YT comment system sucks. The ATC probably wouldn't have known as their system can easily be off by 100ft versus the altimeter just because of the error on radar. As far as the helicopter goes, who knows, it might well be an attention issue.
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@slopsec2358 Hopefully they had vetted here, but she's probably not wrong about the benefits of an extra set of eyes in such congested airspace.
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Because they don't care. That money was needed for defense contractors and mercenaries. If they really cared about recruitment, they'd stop asking our service personnel to get maimed or killed doing such stupid BS. They'd put a bit more effort into trying diplomatic solutions and stop supporting a plurality of the authoritarian regimes in the world.
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This is part of why i stopped using Arc Browser and returned to Firefox. As much as I liked the tabs as bookmarks and it's way of handling spaces, the fact that it's built on Chrome means that it's beholden to whatever Google wants to do, and depending on how they go after the adblockers, it will eventually be something that's so intrusive that it can't be worked around without an extensive effort. That being said, ti's largely futile as ML tools will evolve to just cover up the ads or claim to be running when they aren't ever visible to the viewer. Even on YT, eventually it will likely be the case where people just queue up the videos and let AI identify the ads and then just watch the result later on and I'm not really sure what they could do about it. And, I doubt they care because so many of the ads that I've seeing are for outright scams.
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Patriots aren't voting for that undemocratic hack. She won zero primaries and didn't even have a platform ready, despite having worked with Biden long enough that she had to have known that he was too senile to last through the next term.
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The detail he ignores is that they'll have to keep ramping it up for years before it's an issue.
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@szahmad2416 Kamala can't be the nominee if they want to win. They're engaging in essentially a party coup, why leave her when she did nothing to prevent us from being in this position? Put Bernie as the top of the ticket and somebody that's liberal/progressivish and it would probably win with ample margin of error. There just aren't that many candidates that the voters know and trust that are available right now. I might well volunteer again for Bernie, even though he did kind of screw us over the last two times.
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@vicfontaine5130 It's been off the table is probably why. We haven't had anybody really whipping up support for it. Biden could have given it to us so that we would know how it would be, but it will resonate.
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The problem there is that you're assuming that people who didn't vote for Trump are people. Clearly we aren't, so crimes against us are not that big of a deal.
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The translator works for whatever party they're translating the language into. So, if it was being translated from English, the translator does not work for Trump, and has no incentive to try to cover this up. It's done because it reduces the likelihood of deliberate mistranslations.
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IIRC, the original settlement between Apple Records and Apple Computers included a prohibition onApple Computers becoming involved in any music related business. Ultimately, there was a new round of lawsuits when Apple introduced both the iPod and the ITMS.
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@ I think both sides are terrible, but it's the Democratic elites that are sucking the air out of the room for any meaningful alternative to the MAGA republicans. They keep moving further and further to the right in pursuit of GOP voters and right now, they're at a point where there aren't enough voters to the left of the Democrats to force them back, and things like the debates and the state ballots freeze anybody else out as well.
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@Silver-jv1us You're just proving my point here. It's not lawfare, it's a legitimate crime and he was legitimately convicted. He is a felon, he was convicted and the literal only reason that he didn't get any time for it, was that the SCOTUS would have overturned it. The fact that people like you seem to think that it's not a big deal, is deeply problematic. But, somehow, Hunter Biden and the Biden crime family is an issue, even though only Hunter was convicted.
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@Iamjusttryingtobecomethenextm at a certain point, you're better off using different storage methods though. Having 3 months of savings in just a regular bank account is fine, but much beyond that, you should be able to find something like TIPS from the federal government that can still be accessed Before you run through the first couple months savings and protects against inflation.
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And when a mishap or crash just affects you, then you can have that choice. If emergency responders and witnesses could just choose not to be impacted with it, making it a personal responsibility choice would be far more reasonable. Allowing those stupid brains on the half shell style helmets is beyond asinine. If they're only going to require a half of a helmet, it really should be the bottom half that you're forced to have.
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@davidlane1248 Yes, and it's only going to pick up. A bunch of it is still tied up with temporary restraining orders. It's just been in the last week or so that we've started to see massive layoffs impacting things that people actually care about outside of the workers. SCOTUS is signalling that they haven't learned from any of this and they're perfectly fine with Trump abusing his power. I wonder how long until a literal lynch mob forms and decides to start handling what SCOTUS is likely to choose not to do.
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@kennethmoses4900 We could put the maintenance of the lines up to competitive bidding and pair that with stiff penalties for failing to perform. It's the model that Hong Kong uses for their subway system. The government built the system and a private company handles the actual running of it and maintenance. There are stiff penalties for even minor outages and roughly 95% of trips end within a few minutes of when the time table says they should.
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@007kingifrit That works for the internet, but only because of how the system works. Power companies route power from whatever facilities are generating it to the customer. It can be extremely expensive to build new generation capacity.
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@nobodyimportant2470 The way it's currently done makes more sense. The electric company buys power from other companies if they are short, which means that areas that can generate more power can sell the surplus to other areas. As long as you're not in Texas, in which case, you're basically screwed if they don't have enough because they aren't connected to anybody else.
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Add enough stuff to the curriculum and if you're lucky, irrelevant things like this will be forgotten rather than things the students really need to succeed in life. Sad, but true.
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That's factually incorrect, the people that are getting these payments are getting it because they're now including income that was never taxed for social security. It moves the date of insolvency for the trust forward because the benefit is coming without the recipients having paid in. This is the result off Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset which were intended to make things a bit fairer in terms of people like your mother not getting benefits that she didn't pay in for.
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Have views that are less toxic to the majority of voters and you'll see more of your views being reflected in legislation. If anybody has marginalized you, it's yourselves. Perhaps if rather than spending all that effort trying to screw over Seattle, you spent that effort building yourselves up, you wouldn't have those issues. The funny thing is that those of us in the West basically don't give you any though because you're just not significant enough. On second thought, you probably shouldn't remind us that we're subsidizing you.
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@Mb91555 Citation needed, how would you even know. It's pretty well established that women will let each other off the hook for all by the most serious offenses and then unionize against men. How often do you hear a woman's girlfriends disagree with her when she badmouths her boyfriend or husband?
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With the amount of money on the line, it's probably worth taking a close look at how that policy change came to be made. It might be that he did ask for it to happen, but didn't realize that there was a change made to that or it might be that there was a change made and that he initialed the paper work without realizing that the coverage had been dropped. But, also keep in mind that the burden of proof is on the plaintiff and so just a lack of specific instructions to remove the coverage might not be enough.
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So, they support genocide and crimes against humanity? You've got an F-ed moral compass if you think that war crimes are OK.
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I think the thing there is that it was MDMA, on some other drugs it might well have ended with everybody forming up a cult and murdering their parents.
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Yep, they didn't get me hazard pay and they aren't getting me loan relief and they aren't getting people Medicare for all either. But, the unemployed got tens of thousands of dollars they weren't entitled to, but I get no help.
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@paulweeldreyer7457 that's one of the reasons why I'm no longer affiliated with any major party. It's disgusting that members are expected to look the other way over major problems.
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@CoRin-o4v It happens. My parents bought a piece of land the year before last that's divided into 3 pieces. Historically, there was a railroad that ran through it, so there's one piece of property on each side and one for the right of way for the tracks. So, 3 bills. Although, each bill isn't that large. They could have them consolidated into one property, but then they'd be one piece of property forever, and if for some reason they wanted to split it up again, that would be a bit of work. I'm not sure these things are as unusual as most of us would think. Especially for property in more rural areas that was platted out with older technology and techniques.
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@Garth2011 The issue is that the property is in different jurisdictions. Without moving property between them, it's not something that can be resolved.
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You can still be pulled over for that. The actual limit is one aspect, but in general you have to be able to operate the vehicle, any substance that impacts that can be cause for an arrest, and sometimes just not having the reaction time due to things like sleep deprivation or prescription pills can as well.
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I don't think that jail time as the punishment for contempt of court is common enough for those with money. I'm sure it's used often enough on people that haven't got any money. But, how much punishment is a fine for those that have huge sums of money?
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@elksalmon84 Yes, just as long as it's not needed to stop shop lifters apparently.
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Possession laws are popular with the cops because they don't have to do any work, and don't have to worry about how the item came into the possession of the defendant, whether it was intentional or they're being framed isn't relevant. Possession without some other crime related to the item shouldn't be legal. Logically, I think most people would agree that it does matter how it came into their hands. If somebody legit slipped an item into their bag and they've got no knowledge of it, that's going to be different from somebody that's intent on using it for criminal activities.
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That sounds about right. The moment I see or hear my wife I immediately get exhausted because I know that what's coming will be a massive waste of my time and energy. Literally, she will make the same request repeatedly until such a time as I snap and start yelling and cursing at her. And that usually isn't enough, she'll persist for a bit after that. I think my record is something like 20 or 30 minutes of answering the same question the same way.
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This is what happens when people keep voting blue no matter who. The Democrats had multiple opportunities to head this off, but apparently, it was more important to have this as a fundraising argument than to actually address. And, it's likely to get worse as the next court death could well be one of the Democrat appointees.
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@gaehenry5086 Yes, that's by design as the other methods are to either vote them out of office or impeach and removal from office. The 25th amendment is another option that's more aimed at situations where a President is physically or mentally unable to continue. Although, the Democrats failure to use the 25th on Biden when he was clearly incapable of continuing to serve undermines the ability for anybody to invoke the 25th amendment on Trump and have it have any legitimacy with his followers or those that could otherwise be convinced that he's incapable of serving.
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Indeed, although most of the films were pulled because audiences judged them to be terrible. Personally, I rather liked Postal, but I'm not even remotely surprised that it made so little at the box office. I was a bit surprised that it opened in any at all, given that the movie starts in the cockpit of one of the 9/11 planes and it turns out to be the passengers that cause the crash, not the hijackers. And gets more offensive from there. Still hilarious for those with a particularly dark sense of humor that don't mind the various offensive things that happen. In other words, people who actually played and enjoyed the video game of the same name.
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@Palatard yes, and probably give her an extra large Christmas present.
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Pensacola probably has more Christians than Seattle does. In this neck of the woods, we don't particularly care for that sort of fantasy stuff being pushed on us. It doesn't make the violence OK.
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@stefrost4029 It's hard for restaurants to compete with ones that don't include the tax in the price. For the most part the only places that I've seen tax being included is at sports games from the vendors walking around because of how much of a pain calculating and dealing with the change can be while traveling around the stadium.
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I kind of feel like they should take away the viewer and subscriber counts being displayed if they're going to take away the thumbs down counts.
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My Pi 1 does the Pi-hole duties and my Pi 3B+ does the retrogaming, my Pi 4 does pretty much everything else.
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It is worth noting that USAID was a cover for the CIA in a lot of cases, they also did a lot of good stuff, but it's not just aid for things like HIV prevention, there was also a bunch of money laundering in terms of sending out grants to countries to support things that aren't so savory.
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The same reason that Rupert Murdoch was allowed to own a media conglomerate, corruption.
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Yeah, I get that. It's been super-frustrating to me that he's learned absolutely nothing from his loss in '16. He keeps undermining his own arguments with his "my friend Joe," "I'll support the eventual winner," and "Joe is up to the task if elected" talk. Why vote for Bernie, when he's going to campaign for the eventual winner. He should have left the party, or at least refused to help his opponents get the votes of his supporters. I for one, will not be voting for Biden at this point. The man is even more out of touch with reality than Trump is, and he couldn't even wait until the primary was over to promise to veto Medicare for all if it managed to pass both houses.
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@1simo93521 TBH, I think that's a good chunk of it. As an autistic person, it took a lot longer to find a partner than my NT peers did. I'm still hoping to have kids, but I am 43, so I'm way late in that regard. My parents were a bit younger, but my mother was 30 when I was born which was pretty old at the time and both sets of grandparents were still having kids well into their 40s.
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That's optimistic, I can't imagine anything they do with the show actually moving the needle in either direction on this.
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I take it you didn't watch the video, because the bar isn't very effective at that.
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It won't happen, you'll get at least one of the more corrupt members of the court to vote to sustain it on purely technical grounds that display a shocking lack of intellectual capacity to understand the connection between these decisions and the world around them.
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@SamClemens-d5n Stare decisis is in theory not a major problem. The issue is when you get corrupt judges making bad rulings and then refusing to fix the mistake because they don't want to up end things. Some decisions are so bad and conflict with any reasonable reading of the constitution that people should expect a fix. Things like Gore v. Bush where the court had absolutely no business stopping the counting and it wound up resulting in the wrong candidate taking office. Even at the time, they knew it was iffy and didn't want it to be considered precedence, but in 2004 it was used again.
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@dlengelkes That's a non-starter, there's a bunch of stuff that can't happen if there is no eminent domain. For example, there are a bunch of light rail projects going on around the US right now, those are expensive enough without having to contend with people setting ludicrous prices on the property that the project needs knowing that nobody can force them to give it up.
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His job is purely for this particular case. Once it's done he's out of the job. That's just how special prosecutors work.
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That's always possible, however, my guess is that they'll probably find that it was somebody who had suffered due to treatments being denied. There are likely other possibilities, but there are probably far more people disgruntled by that than most other things.
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@Rowsy91 No, exit polling data is normally close to the actual result. The U.N. uses exit polling as a way of identifying elections fraud as the exit polls on legitimate elections mirror the actual vote count closely, having the exit poll off to a significant degree points to tampering.
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@jamestepera3356 Just keep telling yourself that. But it's not like the DNC isn't already known to engage in rigging elections. They had to admit to it under oath after Hillary stole Bernie's nomination last time. Is it really unreasonable to notice how fishy the results were this time and pint to fraud? In every state, Bernie's policies were overwhelmingly popular with the votes, and yet he lost to a senile establishment figure promising nothing to the voters. Yeah right.
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@joeybulford5266 Biden won because he cheated and was willing to kill his own supporters to get the nomination before they realized how racist and senile he is. Also, it's mostly older black voters that went for him, not the younger better educated ones that expect actual help from government in exchange for votes.
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@Froward_Thinker Obviously, they should have tried to arrest him so we could have the usual flamewar about how dare thecops use force on a person of color.
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I sort of get why conservative women would, but why would any conservative men vote for Harris when she's promising men as close to nothing as possible.
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And Biden won't? He couldn't even win the primary without engaging in elections fraud, and he expects to win in the general election? I'd love to vote blue, but I only see two red candidates and a green one.
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@vickidvorak5819 And Biden has been sneaky about the fact that he doesn't intend to debate Trump before the ballots go out and hiding away so people don't notice that he's senile? Yeah, that's a guy that should win. For better or for worse, Trump may be corrupt and incompetent, but at least he can pass that dementia screener and the Democrats have been absolutely complicit in the state of affairs. The only real saving grace of a Biden win is that we'll finally have an opposition party that understands that it needs to oppose rather than enable the other party.
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There's no reason why you couldn't add shifting and gear emulation to a motorcycle. Many modern cars have "manual" shifting that's heavily based on software doing the actual shifting.
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We'll have to see what the deal with the landing gear was, but the construction of the plane's structure is probably not an issue. A plane constructed to handle this impact would be completely impractical to fly for commercial use.
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@matthewschwartz6607 no he doesn't. It's the same authority that was used to suspend interest and payments several times already.
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TBH, I'm not a Trump supporter and I don't think there's anything he can do or say to get my vote, but he's just a few feet from what appears to be some WWII memorabilia. That stuff is in poor taste, but I don't see anything in the image that suggests that he's interested in that rather than the pistols he's actually looking at.
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If he's playing games with the police, they'll definitely catch him. That's the main reason why serial killers get caught other than just pushing their luck too far.
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Kids that age used to hang out at malls by themselves back before malls started to get killed off by online shopping. I'm not sure that an airport is that much less safe.
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LOL
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@lolawants2008 Non-smart phones had better methods of locking the keypad that wouldn't just go off and dial 911 in your pocket. There was a massive public awareness campaign covering that. Most of the buttdials to 911 are specifically because Steve Jobs wouldn't allow a physical method of preventing it that wasn't subject to butt dials.
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I'm 43 and I've never voted in a Presidential election where the Democrats weren't freaking out about how I have to vote for them because the GOP is horrible. It's rarely about what they're going to do for me, or why they're worth voting for, ti's always to stop the GOP. Then they get into office, do barely anything to help me in any ways, put up a defense that's weak AF and then demand that I vote for them again because the GOP is so terrible. It seems to me that if the GOP is so terrible, that they would put some actual effort into living up to some of their campaign promises. They'd make the GOP pay when they try to steal SCOTUS picks, or would have flat out removed the judicial filibuster to fill those seats after heavily leaning on RBG to step down while they could still appoint somebody knowing that she wouldn't last another 8 years had Trump won the election and been reelected. The truth is that the Democrats don't care and haven't cared in decades. A GOP win just means more donations for them the next go round as they hang out with the various politicians and operatives supporting the GOP's efforts.
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@YakubTheFather Yep, I haven't decided whom I'm voting for, but it definitely won't be Trump or Harris. They're both terrible and the choice there is whether you want your fascism here sooner, or later. Neither one represents actual legitimate democracy in action.
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That's a large part of the problem, each election become the most important of our lifetime and each time we were asked to vote for a candidate that was marginal at best. There weren't any candidates available in the general election that would make more than a showing of fighting for the things they ran on.
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You should watch "er is wieder da." It's absolutely hilarious to see Hitler being foiled by everybody thinking he's an avant garde comedian.
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Yep, we need humor at this time, but in ways that don't risk spreading this plague.
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Which is true, but that doesn't require humor. "Destracted Driveing Kills" "Please pay attention to the road' "Put away the cellphone" all have similar meanings in terms of paying attention to what you're doing, even if they do have a slightly different meaning, none of those are hard to understand or require undo attention.
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Except it clearly isn't dereliction of duty as the jury found that locating the shooter in multiple buildings based on the echos from the shotsfired wasn't possible. As far as the legal proceedings go, that is now settled. People can get angry and disagree, but the fact of the matter is that he had his trial, one that probably shouldn't have happened, and the jury found the numerous witnesses that testified that the shots fired couldn't be located due to the echos. People act like it was one building and that the shots could be easily located. The reality is that either the shooter couldn't be located at all, or that the uncertainty was great enough that going to the wrong building could have made things even worse. I don't know what the truth is as I wasn't there, but give the jury some credit. They probably got it right. It is unfortunate that sometimes there isn't anything that can come from cases like this that doesn't absolutely suck.
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No Ana, those aren't facts, they're quotations from somebody else, not from researchers. If you're going to call out Ben, then it's rather hypocritical to cherrypick what you like and use that rather than citing research on the matter directly.
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It wouldn't be this close if the Democrats would remember that men get to vote and aren't obligated to vote blue. Show men some policy proposals that actually address our needs. There hasn't been a single year where more men graduated college than women since 1981 and the good paying jobs that don't require a degree have largely been shipped overseas. The ones that do remain are things like plumbing that can only be expanded so much, they're not going to start requiring a bunch of new plumbing as a make work program. Likewise, there's been no talk about reducing the size of the military or dealing with the workplace death gap between men and women where men are far more likely to be killed on the job than women.
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This isn't gun violence and this isn't the US. Something will be done, because something is pretty much always done as a result of these instances. One of the areas where governments seem to do a pretty good job of getting it right is aviation. It's part of why these crashes have gotten to be so rare. Most of the time, everybody gets where they're going safe, if there is a crash, most of the time the survivors outnumber the dead. In rare instances you get this where everybody, or almost everybody dies. Keep in mind tht the elites that make the rules often rely on commercial aircraft themselves, so there isn't the level of incentive to not address the issues that arise in a substantive way.
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Yes, not only can you be drug into court for a hearing, and then either fined or imprisoned, but during any further proceedings the attorneys will have a field day with it when trying to damage the witness's credibility. It happened to a witness when I was on jury duty and in addition to being fined, the attorneys made a huge deal over the fact that he just didn't show up. The inference being that he's not the most reliable witness. What the jury does with that will likely vary a lot.
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@iansaunders2781 TBH, I've got Max, but I prefer to watch here for the comments.
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@Greyskydies That's a good question. While, it definitely does happen, we don't necessarily have any basis for assuming that's the case now. I remember when I was a kid, half the cars on my block were registered in CA because at that time it was cheaper.
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You make it sound like Biden wouldn't. He's part of an administration that shifted a ton of wealth to the wealthy at the expense of the voters.
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It's easy to be moral when you can count on all of your fellow party members, including Manchin, to vote to confirm. They didn't need her vote, had Flake not Flaked out, that would have made it a tougher decision.
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I personally hate D.C. because it's all the way on the other coast, whenever I tell people where I'm from, I have to explain that I'm not from D.C. and they've bogarted cultural treasures that we have to fly all the way across the country if we want to see them. We fund many of those cultural opportunities with federal taxes, but anybody on the West Coast basically doesn't get to see them with any regularity as we're effectively giving up a day going and a day coming in order to go. Add to it the cesspool that is the capital and I'd prefer if we just ejected the city from the country and be done with it.
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I'm not sure it's possible to draw that distinction in any sort of reliable way.
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@JEEDUHCHRI Possibly, although it's also his job to push back, the fact that it doesn't happen consistently across all shows doing interviews is a major problem. My wife had Fox News on and they were doing a panel on the Israel-Hamas fight where every single panelist was pro-Israel.
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Are we really surprised? The Israeli government and military aren't any better than these terrorist organizations. They just have the status that comes from being recognized.
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And the detail that frequently gets missed is that the population was warned that the cities were going to be leveled, the fact that nukes were used mostly just affects the numbers that died later on. And in all fairness, there wasn't a lot of information available about what the long term consequences of nuclear fallout would be, although they can't have thought it would be good.
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None of this is terribly surprising. It gets worse when you realize that the people at the employment security office that's supposed to decide whether or not to approve unemployment benefits is in on this as well. They'll demand a level of evidence from the applicant to verify the claim, but allow the HR reps to make claims about forms they haven't even seen and can't reasonably be expected to have any knowledge of. The whole system is hopelessly corrupt and as long as a large enough chunk of businesses engage in it, it's virtually impossible for workers to avoid it.
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Keep in mind that it's also illegal to lie to law enforcement. So, any answer other than no, is a lie. So either they can nail you for admitting to a moving violation, or potentially for lying to the police.
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user-kv6wh5ut6o Probably, but if you're doing it in a kickass car they might be more interested in that and asking you to show some restraint.
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I think there's a pretty simple answer to that, it's not American heritage that they love so much...
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@tbqhwyf Around here, that's more or less how it's handled on our light rail. It's a more up-to-date version of what I saw in Italy over 20 years ago. You'd buy a ticket and then get it stamped on the bus and unless the fare inspectors showed up and looked at your ticket, the ticket was pointless. The buses get basically no enforcement as the bus drivers no longer push the issue, ever since we had a driver that got shot leaving the entire bus to careen off a freeway bridge and onto an apartment building. (IIRC, somehow the only fatalities were the driver and the guy that shot the driver, both of whom died from the gunshot wounds) For a $10 fine youd have to be catching people regularly doing it. $10 is only like 3 rides around here, so if you're not checking roughly 1/3 of the time, then it's still a sucker bet to pay for the ticket on that basis.
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@fiyahquacker2835 I never said it didn't, I was calling out the notion that the lack of abortion changes anything in that regard. Sure, some women may not find the process to be life changing, but that shouldn't be the assumption going in.
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@judithjanes5738 Procedure wise yes, but you're completely full of it if you're suggesting that it's always emotionally or morally easy. You really ought to apologize to the women going through this for your callous implication that they're unfeeling robots.
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@ej4528 So, women that get pregnant and want an abortion are unfeeling monsters, got it. Seems kind of insulting to me. There are women out there that view decision as being essential to their future lives, but to suggest that it isn't usually a more complicated calculus is insulting. The ban doesn't really change the fact that this is a complicated decision to make that will impact lives in the future. There is no going back. Personally, I don't oppose abortion, that's a choice that ought to be allowed for practical and moral reasons, but to suggest that it's no biggie the way that the post I was responding to is just plain ignorant. Absolute bare minimum is dealing with situations with people that are jerks about abortion.
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And that explains Clinton, W and Obama? Without them, there likely would have never been a Trump Presidency. The bottom line is that neither party serves the will of even their own voters.
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Probably not, at least unless there's a bunch of anti-Christian writings to prove that this was being done specifically because of the link to Christianity. It can be a lot harder than people realize sometimes to get hate crime charges to stick as it's not enough to just target somebody from a protected class, the prosecution has to also prove additional things related to the attack being motivated by their membership.
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While we're at it, I can't possibly be the only one that was frustrated and confused by the fact that the Fresh Prince doesn't once wear a crown or meet with his father the king. And they had so many episodes across two series to do it.
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When I was living in China the only tipping was in sectors that got a ton of foreign tourists or a token amount for a massage. It was roughly 16 US cents at the time, which even in China was more of a token amount and just in response to an unusually good massage. It was more or a way of communicating the compliment than about the actual money. In most restaurants if you tipped the server, they wouldn't show up at work the next day at all. I never did get an explanation as to why that was. People who don't experience what it's like to see a price and pay the price have no idea about just how much wasted mental effort goes into figuring out if you've got enough money to cover the cost.
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Not just that, but he could also just upload audio of him talking over a photo of himself while setting the rest of the gear up. It's an excuse from a man that's put the absolute bare minimum into his campaign because the establishment has been propping him up. He's going to get obliterated in the general election if he's the nominee and the only way in which the Dems win the election is if they use the super delegates to weed him out. Ostensibly, that's why they have super delegates and it would disgust myself and a good chunk of the Bernie supporters, but this is precisely why the DNC claims to need those super-delegates.
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@jpcaretta8847 That's a point that people really need to understand. Some materials are extremely strong when it comes to tension, others are strong in terms of compression. Some may be strong in both aspects. But, while you could use a rope to make something a bit stronger against internal pressure, such an approach would do nothing to prevent the same thing from being squashed. It's part of why you see barrels with those metal rings on the outside being used to store things, but not being used to protect the contents against being squashed.
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@tunneloflight It doesn't remove the lag, it gives the pedestrians more visibility both to see and be seen. If pedestrians are being run over because of that, there are so many things that need to be fixed. Perhaps in the past when vehicles were smaller, but the end of my parents' street is incredibly dangerous because large vehicles are often parked there and you can't see the pedestrians and the pedestrians can't see the cars.
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Because civil cases have nothing to do with guilt. He was found liable, which is the civil court equivalent of guilty.
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This is why it's not recommended to go with kidnappers. There may have been a time where you could expect to be held for ransom for a period before being released, but most often these end badly.
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What patriarchy? Considering the sad state of affairs that men are being expected to deal with, I'd say that any patriarchy that exists is doing a terrible job of oppressing women.
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@mrfirestop415 That's rather problematic as there's a bunch of stuff that's not allowed to be used in the trial that's defamatory, or outright made up.
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@suzanne9150 And what of the younger people? We're paying in and the system is projected to be insolvent by 2033 with this particular change pushing it forward a bit. They've already raised the retirement age in order to try to keep it solvent, but changes like this are really problematic when you've got people that had other retirement provided in exchange for losing social security for a portion of the work they did. Whereas a bunch of the younger folks just have social security and whatever they may have been able to save in a defined contribution retirement plan.
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I'm not generally a fan of stripping people of rights without conviction, but this would presumably fall under the same basis as injunctive relief. There's also a lot of people the last few years that are being charged, but released into the public while awaiting trial. If there's a ban on preventing them from owning, possessing or buying firearms that becomes a significant factor i locking people up before trial as they'd be able to buy firearms and go after the prosecution and witnesses much more easily. There's also the issue of the 2nd amendment not being intended to be this broad, it was written to deal with the reality of the day where muskets were the main firearm and even in those days, the amendment did not allow people to own cannons and mortars, it was basically just muskets. It was also the case at the time where the US did not have a standing army and did not have full time law enforcement in most of the country, leading to the need for armed citizens to be rounded up for a posse if the local law didn't have the manpower to do the job.
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@kenpachizaraki7234 But, how is that well-regulated? It seems to me that the pro-guns side will interpret things in whatever fashion is most convenient to the argument that they want to make with little concern for the historical or constitutional basis of the claim. Had the writers written simply militia, you'd have a point, but in no sense is a rando with a gun part of a well-regulated militia if there aren't any particular rules, training requirements or orders coming from somebody. The well-regulated militia to which the 2nd amendment refers is the national guard. It's why they get to have most military grade weaponry and we don't. Sure, there are things they don't get like nukes, but they get most of the rest of the stuff that the military gets.
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@Stefan Yes and it's easier to remedy somebody who is ultimately found to be not guilty for a temporary loss of a very specific freedom than the families of the victims that have to go to bed knowing that the person charged with hurting them has the ability to get a firearm, or worse has it and uses it. This ruling seems counter to the way that injunctive relief normally works and if allowed to stand could undermine injunctions in general.
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@kenpachizaraki7234 So? That's why the national guard gets these weapons and randos don't. I don't see the 2nd amendment nuts clamoring for mandatory training that would make everybody a member of a well-regulated militia. What we have is a completely unregulated militia and tens of thousands die every year from firearm related wounds and in Japan, roughly 11 do.
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@FazeParticles Yes, but there's the bit about being well-regulated and I'm not aware of any regulations out there, and certainly no training requirements. The point of the amendment was that we didn't have a standing army at the time, so we needed the ability to draft one quickly if we were attacked. It did ultimately happen less than 50 years ago with the inaptly named War of 1812. Now, it's mostly used by extremists as an excuse to have weapons that they haven't got any legitimate need for and may not even know how to use properly.
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The right way to do it is to take payment after the work is done and offer to completely waive the fee if the work isn't at the promised level. If they're not willing to pay at least a few dollars for the work, then you haven't adequately sold your skills. Part of freelancing is marketing. Sometimes, it does make sense to give things away, but usually that's things like razors where you can make the money back on the blades.
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It's less of an issue now than it used to be with several motorcycles being able to go over 200 miles on a single charge. But, it's still probably quite a while before we have ones that are suitable for long distance touring.
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@DailyPolemics Yep, that's a large part of why I'm not going to be buying an electric motorcycle anytime soon. The only way I would have of charging it would be removing the battery and carrying it into my apartment.
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@DailyPolemics Yep, these vehicles are really meant to be charged at home and charged at work. It can work fine if you only charge at one end, but if you can't charge at either end, then it gets to be a logistical headache.
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In all fairness, there's so many black people afraid of swimming that it might as well be true. The usually excuse I've heard when it comes up is that it's something to do with their bones that prevents them from floating or some such nonsense. It's not true and a major problem when they are near bodies of water and can't swim if they fall in.
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That kind of reminds me of shows like Red Dwarf and Fallout where the first episode is titled "The End."
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They managed it in 2020 with a candidate that was already in decline, at this point we're in danger of needing Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman to do a quick Weekend at Bernie's job. Which would be somewhat ironic given that the actual corpse here isn't Bernie Sanders.
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Sadly, it's probably going to take an active shooter situation in the Supreme Court or one of the chambers of congress to get any actual movement on the issue. The Democrats love running on doing something about it, and the GOP loves running in opposition to any sort of substantive effort to reduce the risk.
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If we cut defense spending back to what it was in 2000 and rolled back all tax cuts for the wealthy since then, we'd have no problem paying for this. I get that you're an accountant, but they never seem to care about debt when it's going to the rich, but when it's going to the people, that's too expensive.
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A lot of what's going on is the result of the people profiting off all of this not being the same people as the ones being hurt by it. If the ultra-wealthy saw some reasonable possibility of it hurting them, it would likely change the calculations a bit.
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This is generally good information, but they didn't fold Asperger's Syndrome into Autism Spectrum Disorder, most people who were diagnosed as AS would have lost their diagnosis entirely if the DSM didn't include a grandfather provision for those with a well-established diagnosis and treatment. In fact 2/3 of those with AS and atypical autism diagnoses would have otherwise lost them as the spectrum was constricted to remove those least able to defend their diagnosis. I'm personally parked in the hole that they created. I'm somewhere between ADHD, ASD, the Cluster A PDs, the Cluster C PDs and Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder where there really isnt' a recognized diagnosis, so I can have severe autistic traits that have set me back a bunch, but there's no diagnosis, so no legal protections and only treatments that are available for anxiety or Schizoid Personality Disorder and that is likely to be removed from the ICD eventually as there are few if any pure schizoids out there which makes it a diagnosis that isn unnecessary. Really, the whole thing is a massive mess just because a few researchers thought there were too many diagnoses being made, even though that always happens with a new diagnosis and it can take some time for the clinicians to adopt a new diagnosis and figure out what it really looks like in the wild. They were studying autism for a full century, but the higher masked versions weren't really even being studied actively until sometime in the '90s and nobody was even researching masking until somewhere around the turn of the millennium.
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@sergeikhripun Apparently and this is one of the reasons that he should have offered the VP pick to Tulsi in exchange for her going after Biden on his electability and fitness for office. They're completely legitimate issues and we're likely to wind up with another 4 years of Trump because Bernie is afraid to get dirty. If he bloodies Biden enough before the convention, it could well be that Biden doesn't have the votes on the first ballot and that the delegates switch sides to save the country from a senile old fool.
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@raymreed You would be surprised. The post office is required to provide service to anybody in the US no matter where they live and first class postage is the same to everybody no matter where they live in the US. Granted individuals that live so far away from town that the mail has to be delivered via horseback are probably not in need of banking, but the post office has the infrastructure in every community to at least provide basic banking services. Even just being able to make deposits and withdrawals, even if the money gets transferred elsewhere is something that many people don't have. Especially if they're living in poorer neighborhoods.
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@DarkForce2024 Sort of, if it's you paying, that's true, if somebody else gets the card and makes the transaction, then not so much.
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That has it's own issues, but probably ones that are better for society over the long term. Really, what people ought to be doing is avoiding Audible and either use whatever competitors or exist or run their own books through ML based text to speech programs to make their own. It's not as good of an experience, but it beats the current situation where so much money and power is in the hands of a psychopath.
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@owenlarson07366 Nobody wants Kamala. She had like a 2 or 3% share of the votes last time. They can afford to lose those votes if they get somebody from the Bernie wing of the caucus to take over.
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@america1st721 Yes, and now she's a ghost. Boo.
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If you want a gun for safety, you shouldn't be allowed to have one. Having a gun reduces your safety, it doesn't increase it. The likelihood of needing a firearm for self defense is practically zero and even if you do end up in that situation, the likelihood of being able and willing to use it is practically zero as well. Meanwhile, every time you handle a loaded weapon there's a nonzero chance of accidental discharge. You're far better off with other options, a good tactical flashlight is more likely to save your life.
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The ship would have been headed to hell, but sure the sailing would have been good. She would have been just another step towards totalitarianism.
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@Amy-t4f3f Given how many people unironically liked Trump, Harris and Biden, I think it's a fairly sound theory.
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@prestonjones8672 There's also riboflavin, vitamin b-6, it's what my doctors recommended. But, really, doctors should be recommending cognative behavioral therapy as one portion of the treatment plan as migraines are definitely impacted by what and how we think about them. I rarely notice mine any more, until I look around and everybody's got auras.
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I'd wait to see what the results of the investigation gives us. Boeing planes are generally safe, just less so with some of the more recent models when Boeing was cutting back on safety standards to free up more money for stock buybacks and moving production to the Carolinas.
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The donors mostly agree on the key issues, it's some of the social and foreign policy ones where they disagree. Hence why the Democrats don't really ever bother to undo what the GOP goes. They'll roll it back a bit until the GOP can win again and keep going.
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That used to be more the case back when wages actually covered the cost of living.
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@valenciamcneill2932 Most of them are going to vote for the Libertarian candidate rather than Biden.
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That's been going on for decades ever since the GOP policy positions weren't popular enough to win elections. Then the Dems piled on as well as it allowed them to not have to take any responsibility for their policy positions. Now, it's basically just a matter of who was most effective at packing the court with incompetent justices.
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There's a lot of possibilities for that. Some of which can be built at home without much knowledge. The one that I found the most interesting was using glass tubes filled with water to grow algae that could then be converted into diesel. It's effectively carbon neutral and would work with the engines that we have today. Plus, it can sit for a period of a few weeks without much trouble.
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@TheOneGreat There are some amazing games out there that would be completely impossible previously. But, there's also a ton of shovelware and general crap as well. There always was, but I think the lack of real demos and shareware is a big part of the problem. You have to pay to see if you're going to like it without any ability to really get your money back.
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People need to stop asking him questions about things that he's not qualified to talk about. This is the same logic that leads people to falsely believe that exercise is the best way to burn calories. It's not, nearly all the calories burned during exercise are the result of the body's need to regulate it's own temperature. You burn nearly as many calories sitting in a warm bath or outside on a cold day. The main benefit that comes with exercise is that you're using muscles which maintains muscle tone.
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@Carrancka Yes and apparently his ego has grown to large to remember that. He probably still thinks the Earth is a planet when it may not be due to that asinine hit job they did on Pluto. The Earth arguably hasn't cleared its own orbit, which makes it a planetoid and not a planet.
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I remember it being great decades ago because of that. But, even the basic WMP has gotten pretty good and there's a ton of better programs that can handle more formats and work more efficiently. Sometimes software needs to be left in the past with Bonzi Buddy, Clippy and Bob.
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That's something I've noticed, the terms often times change successively until one sticks. And usually that one is pretty goofy, but it was the one that was in use at the time when things were good enough for the community to not have a bunch of activism going on.
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There's definitely a difference between Walmart checking receipts to prevent theft and Costco mostly doing it to ensure that none of your stuff was left behind at the checkstand. You can walk past that person at Costco if you really want to. Security would have already intervened if they had grounds to believe that you've stolen something. Plus, if a store does make an accusation and there isn't anything stolen that's found, it can result in a lawsuit that they wouldn't be likely to win.
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Of course it should be required, the sort of people who ride without helmets are exactly the same people who should be wearing them all the time, because they're too immature to make wise decisions. This whole, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to, foot stamp reaction is not something that reflects and individual who has the maturity to get away without wearing one. People who don't wear a helmet do not understand what it's like to go around with a head injury. Trust me, it's not fun to wake up in the ICU and have the doctors watching carefully to see if you're going to be able to feed yourself and not be allowed to get out of bed without somebody holding a harness while you walk so that they can verify that you can still walk without hurting yourself. It's one thing if that crash is fatal, but if it's not fatal, they're going to regret their decision to not wear a helmet. Similarly, those other bits of gear are what are going to reduce the likelihood of waking up in the ICU without an arm or a foot and collectively contribute to the likelihood of pulling through at all.
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@legendareNz That's what I'd expect. Unless everything is coming in on the same day and has an expiration day that's a multiple of weeks, you wouldn't have everything expiring on the same day, that would be wasteful. That being said, there usually is a day of the week where more of that is happening, usually based on whatever day the new prices start.
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@avulonanderson2372 These are signs, punctuation can be problematic in terms of visibility. The whole issue is that they included the word "except." They could just remove it, or they could replace it with "only on holidays" or "holidays only." Which would convey exactly what the policy is. It's especially problematic for the subset of autistic people that drive because it literally says that the time limit only applies on holidays.
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And yet, if Harris would propose policies to deal with things like the education and workplace safety gaps, she wouldn't need to worry about losing a few votes in that fashion. Sure, everybody should be able to vote for whomever they like, but the ultimate winner and policies are also important.
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I don't get how she keeps getting re-elected, she "represents" San Francisco.
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They do, but the issue is that they started doing this before we started seeing significant inflation. They were doing it when inflation was like 2 or 3%. If I want to pay those prices, I can think of a lot of other casual dining restaurants that I'd go to with better food for the money.
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Innovative? Drug Cartels have had remote control vehicles for many years now.
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From what I understand, the term dwarf has been sort of grey area for decades, with some folks finding it to be offensive and others having it be a preferred term. Really, I wish people would pay more attention to how they're using the words rather than what the words are. Of course, with black folks using the n word and close variants of it, and then saying that nobody else can say it, in virtually any context, it doesn't exactly move things forward, it's incredibly hypocrytical, considering that that's not even their word. That's a word that they've appropriated as their own, it's a word that refers to redneck, or cracker culture if you really want to push the boundaries, they're just the most recent group for it to be used. And it's hardly just black folks that have it used sand n, is a term that people use unironically to refer to Arabs. Also, there's nothing particularly leftwing or progressive about TYT, they've always been in it for the money, and they were pretending to be leftwing when they thought it would get them money.
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@stuwest3653 IKR, that happened to that famous stairway in Hawaii, people refused to be careful and they eventually closed it because they got sick of dealing with people hurting or killing themselves on it. They eventually went so far as to remove the stairs completely as people were ignoring the closedness of the stairs.
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I'm curious as to how showing bare breasts and girls wearing panties isn't hyper sexualizing. They may tell themselves that this is a movie trying to fight against hyper sexualizing young girls, but they themselves hypersexualized those girls. The US does have some weird hangups when it comes to kids and sex and the combination of the two, but the "message" they claim to have been trying to make was always going to be overshadowed by the controversy. And they don't seem to have understood that the plot didn't require this level of exploitation.
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In the long run, the only solution that really works is refusing to vote for the Democrats until they commit to free and fair primaries followed by actually using the levers of power to deliver on their promises. Harris was an empty suit and enough people saw through it that she lost to one of the most beatable candidates ever.
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I disagree, following somebody into the bathroom isn't cool, they should have just camped out until she came out. I really don't think we want to have randos following people into bathrooms and hoping that they're not dangerous randos.
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It's worth noting that Biden is probably too arrogant or senile to make use of it.
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So, you're a part of the problem then. When GOP candidates can't get a consideration other than by going along with this MAGA insanity, I'm not sure why people would expect anything else.
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He also stole a bunch of money from younger workers to give to people that hadn't paid into the social security system rather than just fixing it for those that weren't receiving benefits that they actually paid for. The automatic cuts are coming, and there may not be time to avoid it if they keep digging us into a deeper and deeper pit.
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Exactly, Ultimately, what makes the language permanent tends to be repeated exposure and use of it; any of the vocab that sticks while reading or watching videos is more or less just a bonus. Learning ab it of grammar and vocab intentionally helps bridge the gap. It's not like studying it is going to make it yours to command forever, but even just having one use of a word memorized gives you a hook to hang any additional meanings on.
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Are you going to apologize for trying to shame people into voting for Harris rather than acknowledging that she wasn't promising anything to the roughly 1/3ish of Americans that are white men? She wasn't entitled to our votes, some of us voted Trump that wouldn't normally have, some didn't vote at all and some like myself voted Jill Stein because at least she was offering stuff that I could identify as being in my best interest when neither of the major party candidates were.
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The Dems are complicit. They regularly rig their own primaries and they routinely fail to do anything about the gerrymandering that leads to the GOP controlling Congress with less support.
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The point of them is to mount above the counter for smaller kitchens.
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Unfortunately, even if he does that, it'll probably be somebody terrible like Kamala that's just as much of a sell out as he and Obama were.
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Also voter suppression and the coordinated dropping out of all those candidates just before Super Tuesday and Warren's self-entitled refusal to back Bernie at a crucial juncture.
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@michaelrs8010 Iran is a regional power that's mostly interested in preventing another Iran-Iraq war. Prior to that coke-monkey Bush overthrowing Saddam, the Israelis and Iranians were largely on the same side against Iraq. People act like the Iranians are these power-hungry, mad people trying to take over the world, when most of their military ambitions are simple the same ones that everybody else has, they just don't want to lose another million people in a war.
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The real reason that the trust isn't keeping up is that the income is increasingly going to a small number of people that pay hardly any social security tax on it. And, an increasing share of the wealth being generated is in forms that are not subject to social security tax. The ultimate fix is to remove the cap and to subject all taxable income to it, not just income that's subject to income taxes. It would solve the problem permanently, and it would likely result in the actual tax being lowered a bit for nearly everybody.
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@MrThatGuyYouForgot Also making $0.10 more than minimum wage is working above minimum wage, but basically no better.
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Yep, but the optical discs are even more important. Thankfully, I think it's possible to dump anything from the PS3 and older at this point, some of them are really easy like the Saturn and PS that can be done in a regular computer from RetroArch. Some are a little harder like the Dreamcast where it's just a cheap SD card adapter and disc to dump any of them. The Wii and PS3 are a little harder as they require that you have the system jailbroken to do. But, once you've done that, it's not that hard. That being said, the carts can be damaged over time, even if you don't use them, so backing those up for posterity is also a good idea. It's not a bad idea to use a combination of checksums and something like quickpar to repari minor damage and just run that on some sort of regular basis.
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@chodesworthwellington9844 Sort of, they could still be aiding and abetting, but it really depends on the situation. At this stage, it would be unlikely for them to be charged, but if they were aware of facts that made them believe he was guilty, they might be charged anyways. But, as it stands, I wouldn't expect any charges.
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@jack-i7d7l We've also had a couple of orders from Republican appointees, so it's going to be interesting to see what some of those more corrupt circuits decide to do with this.
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What gets me is that they don't interpret a credit card expiring and failing to renew as a condition that should lead to halting the subscription until it's been updated. In most cases, just locking the account until the money has been paid or the subscription has been canceled is viable, they just don't want to to it because it would cost them money.
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@ronwade2206 Biden is a massive hypocrite and not necessarily the sort that can credibly claim the high ground as his high ground is barely any higher than Trump's is.
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@flopsinator5817 Yes and even within a region, the home owner's association may not allow it. The one I'm living in won't allow you to do any maintenance in your spot, if I want to work on a car, I have to find somewhere else to do it.
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Keep in mind that none of these cults jump straight into the super crazy stuff, it takes time to indoctrinate people the same way that it took generations to indoctrinate Catholics to turn a blind eye to what those priests were doing.
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It likely wouldn't change results that much as the Democrats would just try harder to throw the election. The only reason that Trump won was that the Democrats haven't run a proper competitive primary since Obama in 2008. The previous 3 primaries were outright rigged and Obama was popular enough in 2012 that it would have been pretty much impossible for another candidate to displace him. The Democrats refuse to let their party choose the nominee and it continues to cost them.
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That assumes that he both cares and is with it enough to know that they aren't currently doing so.
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That's why Trump is likely to be reelected. Biden is horrible and he's done a tremendous amount of damage over the course of his career. Why should I bother to vote for another lesser of two evil candidates when he wants to cut social security and will fight against medicare for all.
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The UK also doesn't give the citizens the right to a jury trial in cases where the US system does. Justice involves justice for the accused as well as the accuser. Trying a sexual assault case decades after the fact means that you've pretty much just got the accuser's memory to work with in many cases, any remaining physical evidence may not be admissible and it's incredibly difficult for the accused to remember what happened when it might not have been memorable at the time. A civilized judicial system recognizes that litigating things from decades back just can't be done fairly in many cases and doesn't try.
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I'd already had it by the time Trump banned travel from China. Letting people come home made a lot of sense, the problem there is that there weren't any provisions for quarantining them.
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I don't understand why that isn't ringing any alarm bells. We don't need more shifting to the right, we need a shifting to the left along with real outreach to men as well as registered non-voters. It's beyond me why any men are enthusiastic about voting for her, she is not our friend. Stein and some of the other 3rd party candidates might actually have policies that wouldn't screw over men in the process.
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@TheHaratashi That's more or less the point, over the last few years people have blamed all sorts of things on Putin that make no sense. Putin is a monster, but he hardly has the time or interest in getting involved in some of the penny ante BS that people think he's involved in.
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The thing is that technology will probably be needed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but we do need to get things back to something approximating zero net emissions for there to be any chance of it working. It almost seems like they would have been better planting and burying thousands of tons of trees than building the plant.
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@sou9472 this kind of ignorance gets people killed. The fact of the matter is that he was extremely emotional and definitely a threat to the officers. This is a very large man won wouldn't keep his hands where they could see them or comply with lawful orders. That doesn't justify them choking him out by kneeling on his neck, but it does justify the weapons.
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@supremacy2040 How much of it actually comes from people that have studied the matter and have something reliable to base the evidence on. I rarely see a situation where this is the case, where there's been sufficient study to come to any firm conclusions. And usually not anything too important. For the things likely to destroy the world, there's usually a known conclusion with ample evidence on just one side.
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People were less lazy. Also the city council has been doing it's damndest to get people out of their cars, which makes it more of an issue to go and pick up the food.
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I wonder if the judges are handing down sentences expecting that there will be additional days tacked on due to this incompetence and just factoring it in the way that they factor in time served, but with less transparency.
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The language he referenced suggested that the judge can lower or adjust the sentencing when reconsidering it, not when making the initial sentence. My guess, is that it was to deal with eventualities like this when they wanted to ensure that nobody got less than the charges warranted because they were connected or the judge liked them. There have been cases where defendants got basically no jailtime just because the judge liked or related to them.
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To be fair, Teslas are dangerous pieces of garbage. This is just the last push for people that were willing to overlook that.
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@peterk2455 A bunch of us wouldn't mind an electric motorcycle if the charging time and battery capacity were better. I do think there are things they could do like give us "shifting" that set a range of speeds to help us enjoy the ride and reduce the issues related to acceleration and handling. But, as they become more practical, I do think that people will get used to riding them. Gear shifting is fun when you get used to it, but it's not like that's the only part of riding a motorcycle that people connect with.
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This is probably more humane. They don't have to sue without knowing how much money would be involved in the suit. Plus, in most cases by the time they have sold the vehicle, it's likely to be a matter of small claim's court rather than big boy court. So, there's no defense attorney needed. You can simply come in with your documents and they'll bring their documents and you can learn how to defend yourself in small claims court for these sorts of simple actions relatively quickly as it's designed to not have attorneys involved. The biggest risk is that the other side will simply be better known by the judge.
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@lisam4853 I don't know, I haven't been to McDonalds in a very long time.
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The only way to know what the healthiest option is is to look at the ingredients label and make a comparison. One of the nice things about the concentrates is that you get to choose how much water to add as a part of the process. Yes, you can do that with jugs, but you're stuck moving it to another container if you want to.
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They're pretty much cockroaches, and the Democrats aren't exactly shoes. Even if the Democrats do get the necessary seats, there's no way that they'll actually do anything about this. This is the party that's let the GOP steal SCOTUS nominations without repercussions and allowed them to gerrymander the hell out of the house districts. Doing something about this is not in their DNA and I doubt that's going to change any time soon as they're clearly not interested in anything other than being slightly less terrible than the GOP.
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@surferzapper20 In all fairness, how many people could identify when a given song was actually released by listening to it without knowing the answer or being a major music buff? I think that's part of the problem in terms of the generations. We have far more control of our personal experience of pop culture and what parts we want to experience. Sure, there's bits like when there were all those riots and lockdowns a few years back, but it's not like we turn on our TV and only get a choice of whatever is on the half dozen channels we can get and are largely restricted to the books on offer at a local book store or at the library.
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Yes, and not just that you have to recognize that intersections with a traffic signal are also typically roads that are driven at a higher speed. The residential streets rarely have a traffic signal and are by law default speed limit of 25. The signaled intersections are by default 30mph. On top of that they may have speed limits of up to 50mph for traffic signals in rural areas. But, most of the time the signaled intersections have somewhere between 5 and 15mph of extra speed allowed by sign. On top of that, though the roads are more likely to be engineered in ways that encourage faster driving via more lanes and items to gauge ones speeds further away making it feel like you're driving slower than you are.
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@mileselam641 But, that's not traffic signals, part of the issue is that signals, but part of the issue is how the drivers treat the signals. If there's insufficient traffic signals or the yellow lights are inappopriately timed, it's going to cause a lack of compliance. Around here, folks usually do stop for yellow lights appropriately. In other areas folks may be expected to run red lights as a normal thing.
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It's not just them, the democrats could have extracted a lot more for the people by holding up one of those initial stimulus packages for UBI and compensation for essential workers, they chose not to. They're every bit as responsible add the GOP is for doing nothing to help the people.
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No, the DNC has failed this country. They messaged me a bunch about how bad Trump winning would be, while they rearranged deckchairs and were shocked that their refusal to offer anything of substance to voters didn't work.
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And yet, in the many years these have existed, this is the first time I've heard of it being a problem. Perhaps if we didn't have a convicted felon telling people that there's a bunch of elections and voter fraud that it wouldn't happen. Trump isn't even eligible to hold the office due to the 14th amendment.
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That's more or less what I thought. Here in Seattle we've been getting the speed limits reduced in order to reduce fatalities. But, the city isn't increasing the number of police enforcing the rules we have nor are the police out ticketing people for things like jaywalking or riding bikes in an unsafe way. They've already lowered the speed limit on most roads to 25 for arterials and 20 for residential streets. The residential streets makes sense as we have a huge number of narrow side streets with no room to maneuver if a child appears in the road or somebody opens their door. But, the speed limits for the arterials makes no sense. The limits themselves weren't unsafe, the typical speed limit was 30mph which on most arterials is reasonable, and a few being either 35mph or 40mph and rather than focusing on improving visibility and finding ways increasing the sense of speed, they change the speed limit to something silly. Needless to say, that concern about the speed limits not being taken seriously certainly does seem to be a problem, because nobody is under the delusion that the speed limit change was an appropriate response to jaywalkers being hit. And I haven't seen any increase in police enforcing the new limits.
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None of them are, unless you're a prude. Especially that teacher sex trial and the Tiger Woods sketches where the whole point is that people wouldn't tolerate it if the roles were reversed.
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My favorite response to somebody listing their soul on eBay was that if souls don't exist that violates the ToS, but if souls do exist, then that violates the ToS for being a body part.
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@Shelby Gene You're one of the rare people who actually has the tools and know how to do that. Most people are not so fortunate. People of your generation are incredibly arrogant about what's realistic for most people. I'm fortunate enough to have access to a machine shop, but most people don't. For them, a bike that's more than 10 years old can be a real challenge to keep running as they have to hope the model was popular enough that some 3rd party is willing to keep producing compatible parts. Even if they are from overseas.
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@squaretriangle9208 It's mostly because older techniques involved too much grammar and most language books provide more grammar than a learner can use at the expense of vocab and actually exposure and use of the language. Having some knowledge and awareness of the grammatical structures of a language can help a lot in terms of making more of the inputs something you can use.
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Could you please stop lying about firearms being used for self-defense? That number is a tiny fraction of the suicides alone. It's more or less a statistical anomaly that would go away completely if we got real gun control regulation and did buybacks to reduce the available supply for the black market. Other countries have serious restrictions on gun ownership and they do not have these problems. All the "solutions" you're proposing are at best half-steps to work around the belief that people need the firepower that's currently available. You don't need these sorts of weapons for lawful use and you definitely wouldn't need them if they were removed from the population.
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I'm not at all surprised. The Democrats haven't been particularly interested in fighting to maintain their majorities in either chamber of congress or the Presidency. Meanwhile, the GOP has been ruthless about going after the necessary senate seats and Presidency in order to get the court to issue bad rulings in their favor because they don't have popular support. It kind of works because of how anti-democratic the method and allocation of senate seats is.
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@anteshell Um, the US does that too. Fraud just happens to be a pretty broad category that can be hard to pin down at times.
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@StuartChignell That's kind of a word game. The judiciary is a part of the government for all practical purposes, that's where it gets both its authority and its funding from in pretty much any country.
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I'm interested to see what their vote is this time around. I can't imagine any of them being particularly enthusiastic about Biden and I'm guessing that a bunch just won't show up to vote. But, who knows. The DNC could hardly have rigged it for a candidate less likely to win over Black voters. Most of the place which gave us Biden as the nominee are also places where the Democrats rarely, if ever, do well.
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@MikeInOregon It's always nice to have cowards announce themselves proudly. Makes it really easy to know who's going to be wetting themselves if anything happens.
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@wtice4632 A battle that was roughly 250 years ago is what passes for relevant? This is why your side always loses in the end.
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@chriser555 I realize that is trendy to make things up, but that's not factually correct. There were a total of 3 ships during the first halfish of February and they all docked in Asia. In short, the risk during the first week or two of February looked a lot lower than it was. Even now, the number of ships affected is a tiny minority of those that had sailings since the virus was first discovered. With what we know now, it would be foolish, but it didn't look like it in early February.
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@chriser555 You absolutely made it up. There were 3 ships that had any cases on our before the 15th and only one was a major problem. Stop lying about what the situation was like back then as it wasn't anywhere near the problem you're claiming.
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Honestly, the main folks I see getting called out for the BS are those that were very slow to adjust to changing norms. Most of the folks that were using the terms when they were accepted terms, don't get raked over the coals and at most can issue a short apology and move on.
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It kills power to the entire circuit, that won't usually cut power to the whole house, but it's enough to be really annoying as now you've got not just one outlet to check, but possibly all of the outlets on that circuit and you can't just walk up and look to see if there's a light and some incriminating object next to it like you would if they were putting GFCI into the outlets.
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@ I missed the word central. Yes, if it's central, it's going to cut the power to everything. That sort of thing is why it's best to think a bit about whether everything needs to be behind the same GFCI circuitry. Personally, I keep a thermometer in the refrigerator to help me know if it's been unplugged too long, but it would be nice to have something to warn me if that's the case. If I ever add GFCI protection to that circuit. Which isn't a priority as the outlet for that is well away from water sources and at eye level.
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Other countries don't spoil women to the extent that the US does. We've literally got girls being indoctrinated into thinking that it's normal to have the system rigged to push for equality of outcome while getting to whine about being oppressed.
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The only way it ends is if people stop voting Blue or Red. Especially Blue as the Democrats are the ones doing this. They've chased the GOP to the point where what used to be a moderate Republican is now a Democrat and a liberal Democrat basically has no party.
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@emsleywyatt3400 The issue is that according to the Democrats every one is a make it or break it and if they do get in with all the power, they don't do anything to fix the situation or give the people a reason to think that voting for them in the future is a good idea.
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There are rarely things that go on in a courtroom that are done without anybody present other than administrative tasks to keep things moving. Things like discussing what evidence can be admitted, and even then there's normally a court recorder recording it so that any appeals have that record. The cameras thing isn't a very big deal, we had well over a hundred years of court cases where there were no cameras in courts at all, it's only been in relatively recent years that we have not just photos but video to go along with it as a normal practice. But, virtually anybody can go to virtually any court proceeding that they want to and sit in the back and watch. It's part of how the public knows that the judges and lawyers can be trusted in handling these things. This is normally the case unless there is a reason that meets the legal standards to have the room cleared. Typically this isn't done unless it's something particularly sensitive.
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TBH, I think the most likely answer is going to be whatever artists created the most standards or were associated with the most popular movies/musicals. Part of what keeps folks in the public's mind for so long is when they are the one that has a bunch of standards. You hear about this song by so and so, and it turns out that it's been recorded by a bunch of people and listen to some of them. It doesn't take very many people doing that for different songs for an artist to remain relevant.
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I'm just surprised that anybody showed up. I assume those were the people who either went to make sure he was dead or out of social obligation.
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This is one of the main reasons why there are so few signs at the WB studio, just about every part of the studio has been used to film something at some point. Often times, you wouldn't realize that it was just a regular studio building with a few temporary signs.
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@IT-kone You can dowse for anything. Water with the wooden branch is just the most stereotypical one. L-rods and pendulums are also used by some. I'm personally skeptical that it can be used to find things with any sort of reasonable probability. But, I do know how to do it and it did seem to work to some extent. It bothers me as it makes no sense to me that it was working, but the alternative of it being coincidental also doesn't sit well with me. If it's coincidental, then it seems odd that it doesn't work for everybody roughly equally.
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The short answer is that you can't really. Without selective breeding like they did in Russia as an experiment, the best you get is an animal with the intelligence of a toddler and the dexterity to get into basically everything. Plus, I've seen raccoons in the wild that were easily the size of midsized dogs. Granted that was in an urban area, but still. The amount of trouble an animal that size with very functional hands is a lot.
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Do we really need to hear more about Trump's gaffes? Everybody knows he's not in the best place mentally either. But, he is able to at least answer questions from the press and hold rallies while being somewhat coherent. Also, he's been VP for 4 years and President for 4 which barely puts him behind Biden.
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People have been saying that about Trump for years and Trump actually went to the doctor for the evaluation. Biden refuses to do that, I'm guessing because his handlers don't expect a positive report.
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210k are dead because the DNC refused to let the voters choose Bernie as the nominee and Hillary's people couldn't figure out how to win an election because they couldn't rig it like a primary.
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They get the same donor bucks and sweet heart jobs after leaving office.
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I don't want credit for keeping him from being lost, because we've clearly screwed up.
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I've heard that claim fairly often, but I have yet to hear a compelling explanation as to how they're even seeing it in some of those cases. Especially at night. I saw a video of a black woman that was extremely light skinned claiming that she was pulled over at night for being black. There is no way that that officer knew she was black prior to the stop. And may not have even realized it even then due to it being dark out. There's a lot of bad actors on both sides and if we're going to be playing a game where everybody is looking for reasons to be aggrieved it will never end.
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That only applies to people without personal connections to the levers of power.
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Why? Most of those trails were either converted into highways or have long since been returned to nature. There probably are some trails that aren't in either category, but the ones that did exist were for practical purposes, not for the purposes of recreation.
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@falconquest2068 They found the body much more recently, before that point, there wasn't anything they could do. One of my dad's marine buddies stole his car and got busted for a dui in it. It hadn't been reported as having been stolen, so they had to ask him. He opted to say that the car was loaned, but he wasn't required to. Without him saying it was stolen, there was no case possible for theft.
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Nobody read the patriot act either, what could possibly go wrong.
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No, it's not. Or do you honestly think that people should be permitted to have their own tactical nukes? No right is absolute.
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The Democrats don't want to be saved. They forced HRC on the people, then they forced Biden on the people and now they're giving us no reason to believe that they're going to change their behavior and nominate somebody that the people want. At this point, we've even had mainstream establishment Democrats admitting that they rigged the 2020 primaries against Bernie even though they knew that Bernie was electable.
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@SupahGeck One might argue that his nomination last time just exacerbated that. HRC in 2016 and Biden in 2020 were specifically chosen to screw over the progressive wing of the party. Biden could have chosen Bernie or somebody from Bernie's wing of the party and we'd be in a much stronger position. He then made the mistake of not doing things like giving the people health care during the pandemic and failing to respond to the SCOTUS.
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@DaveMustang74 Trump can't save him, this is a completely foreign country and he'll be there until the South Koreans decide that he's been adequately punished. What does he expect, that Trump will send in Seal Team 6 to break him out of prison and take him back to the US?
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Incompetence is being kind, they deliberately threw the election because they make the same money either way, it's just that if they lose it makes it a lot easier to fundraise and they aren't on the hook to follow through on any of the promises they made.
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@dylank.4498 Why? At this point anybody that's still a Democrat probably can't be reached. Blue MAGA and Blue-anon are real things, the left really shouldn't be making fun of the right for being out of touch with reality after this election. The DNC has been just completely ignoring the will of the people for too long, and we all suffer when there isn't a viable alternative to what the GOP wants to do.
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Sen. Collins is a useful idiot. She'll have qualms, but except in rare cases, she still votes the wrong way in most cases.
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Then you don't get it. The stimulus is better than the alternative.
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Have you tried doing it as soon as you get up in the morning? If you don't wake up at some point, you've got bigger problems than trying to remember to meditate.
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You definitely don't need a lot of fancy equipment to get a quality resistance training experience. Perhaps a mat if you've got hard floors, loose fitting clothes and a pull up bar. But, you may not really need one if there's something that's roughly the same, in your environment. Outside stairs may be good enough if you can reach them and there's something to grab.
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Because Joe is his friend and he doesn't seem to have the awareness to realize that if he doesn't go after his opponents hard on things like that, that he won't ever win.
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What are you talking about? Nobody was going to be converting old homes over to electric only. The mains are still in the ground and are unlikely to be removed until the number of customers drops below whatever level is needed to justify the infrastructure. As far as the expense, $50k is a lie. It's a few hundred dollars, maybe $5k tops as all of these homes already have the 230v service coming to the home that an electric oven and anything else would use.
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Around here teachers in the K-12 system get something in the order of $60-70k a year. Which for how expensive it is around here probably isn't enough, but it is enough to cover a decent living if you're not blowing nearly $10k a year on groceries.
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@PleikuNguyen Some states pay so little that teachers have to have a second job just to get by, not even accounting for the 3 months in summer that the wages aren't necessarily intended to cover.
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Those are the wrong questions. The issues with ethanol in the gasoline are what it does in terms of corrosion of the engine and the moisture that it absorbs. Fuel efficiency definitely does take a hit as it's less energy dense than gasoline is. The carbon build up shouldn't be an issue if the engine is properly tuned.
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@teamseshmason Generally speaking, providing the opportunity is a legitimate sting, going the extra step of providing material support and/or plans would be entrapment. Simply baiting criminals with a bait car or fake packages isn't likely to rise to the level of entrapment.
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The issue is that cities like San Francisco and Seattle did it backwards. The draw down in police is supposed to come after a drop in need due to services being provided by more appropriate agencies,not before. Reducing policing numbers prior to any of that being put into place and seeing a related drop in crime was never going to work and only great fools would expect otherwise.
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@sepg5084 Not just that, but take a look at craigslist, there are tons of HD motorcycles for sale used and many of them are relatively new in good condition for a fraction of what you'd pay new. I've seen them for as little as a few hundred dollars if I'm wiling to put in some time and effort to refurbish them. In some cases you can even get them for free if you're willing to tow them away and put them back into working order.
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@sir.fender6034 The issue with that is that you need to load them into a computer from time to time to verify that they're still intact. Personally, I recommend using HDDs as they have much larger capacity and if it's archival data, you just need a couple so that no two are plugged in at the same time. Programs like DVDsig have existed for years and can automatically scan the entire drive to make sure that the files haven't changed and are still readable.
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@mrnmrn1 It's fine for a copy, however, you really need to have some other offsite location for another set of copies, preferably on a different medium. Some day, I'd love to get a tape drive, but for now, I use a pair of external HDDs that I swap on top of the online backups. It means, I generally have two copies that are not in my building at any given time. So, the amount of possible data loss is minimal.
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Yes, that's part of why there are so few independent filling stations now versus in the past. I remember a few years ago almost running out of gas because just about every shell station within several miles of me had closed their pumps for replacement. I finally found a different station that was open, otherwise I would have run out of gas. I'm not that brand loyal on gas, but I also had never been in a position where 4 gas stations were all without gas at the same time.
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@philuribe7863 Like you have a choice. It's installed by default, can't be removed without risking breaking updates and there's no guarantee that MS or some random cracking group won't enable it for you. Considering all the webcams built into computers that were converted for blackmail by cybercriminals, I would not assume that it won't be smilarly abused. Even under the sunniest of views, it just sits there wasting bandwidth and wasting disc space.
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@philuribe7863 It's required to be installed and if you don't, that can break updates. From there, it's just a matter of time before cybercriminals or MS enable it via some sort of a trick.
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@philuribe7863 You think you'll have a choice? Either MS will do it or malware crews will. There's no way to remove it that doesn't come with the risk of breaking updates.
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5% is his riskiest? People are accepting advice from somebody that conservative? Even with fees that's below the market average and it requires some relatively risky stocks as part of the bucket to do that. 5% is better than inflation during normal times, but with a rate that low, you need a massive amount of holdings in order to do much of anything.
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@luckylanno They often times have 2 steering wheels, but I think if there is only one steering wheel it's on what's normally the passenger side.
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I hate those. I can legally turn, but who knows if it'll be safe to do so at any point during the cycle.
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I kind of get not having the meetings if she's a single mother and needing to work. But, even in that case, there should have been attempts by the school to reach out to figure out what was going on. The other bit about her not knowing that he was failing is really puzzling. If he was a senior, then there should have been at least 12 report cards sent home during that time. One per quarter for 3 years. Even on the trimester system that some schools are on, you're talking about 9 report cards that she should have seen. And, apparently, she didn't see any of them.
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The laws in Louisiana are very different from most of the rest of the country, as it's the only part of the country that was under the Napoleonic code prior to becoming a part of the US. As a result, the way the state laws are applied and operated can seem a bit odd at times.
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@organizedchaos4559 That's definitely possible. We don't know much about what's going on, but we do know that people are apparently harassing his parents.He might just be hiding until if, or when, a warrant is issued.
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@karlelshoff4720 Idiocracy was caused by lazy people being allowed to use excessive AI.
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Well, they're halfway there.
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The US picks the POTUS for 4 years. We're stuck with them for 4 years so long as they don't resign, die or are impeached. We've got more people than live in Canada that are eligible to vote in 50 states that each get to have a hand in the process. Not to mention Puerto Rico and a few other territories and the military personnel on bases around the world. It's not quite as complicated as India, but IIRC, India is on a parliamentary system and they aren't stuck with their leadership for the same duration.
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@paulwalther5237 IIRC, native speakers of English learn and average of 4 words a day from highschool to college. The issue is that it's hard to hit anything near that until you're fairly far along. Those students are doing a lot of reading, a bit of formal memorization of vocab and encountering far more words than most language learners are until they're pretty far along.
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@etheth888 Presumably, around here you have to be at least 18.
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Why would this time be any different than last time? There were a lot of issues with Hillary, but it's unlikely that she was or is senile. If they didn't learn last time and are getting behind Biden this time.
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Of course not, people that suck and people that blow are usually the same people.
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@NElectronicSoul As long as it's not a random assortment of =,D and 8, it should be fine.
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@sergeant_salty Are they constructed in a similar fashion? Having a wall is one thing, but it should be engineered to stop planes without completely annihilating them like we see in the footage. They've been using barrels of water and similar to protect car drivers that previously would have been killed running into the leading edge of jersey barriers for quite a while. Obviously, planes aren't necessarily as structurally sound as the cars being driven in the US and they are a lot larger, but it's still doable. It looks like the runway wasn't designed to handle the situation where the landing gear were inoperable. Which is rare, but it is clearly possible.
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@cynthiarothrock4255 Probably, depends on the roof, but if taking the ladder was intended to have that effect, then it's likely that it wasn't safe to climb down without a ladder.
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@ChelleLlewes No, they aren't. Some of the most childish people out there are Boomers and they're well past the point where they should know better.
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@notchit3542 Don't forget about the money that they're going to send to the Israelis. It wouldn't surprise me if it dwarfs what the Ukrainians get.
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@speedy01247 But, what were your expenses? Was that 3 to 6 month worth of expenses? If so, then you've got a very strong counter-example. If not, then you really shouldn't be complaining, you were one disaster away from the brink even before the pandemic.
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@stratecaster547 Not really, most of the extra money just goes into investment accounts, if you had most people saving and behaving responsibly, you'd have the situation where you'd have few rich people, but most people would eventually be wealthy enough that they didn't need to work. You'll always have people spending money on something, it's just that the something is likely to be less and more highly valued.
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@Ladidadidaaa04 Exactly, the money for this is coming from the folks that are in general too young to actually get all the money we were promised from social security. They've already increased the retirement age, and now they're diverting the money to people that have pensions elsewhere. Those provisions were put into place in an effort to keep the trust solvent. Remove that and it just speeds things up.
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You can do the same thing with a regular Raspberry Pi. It's a bit of work and I think it's probably more expensive, but it's less likely that you'll have anybody messing with the chips or firmware on the assumption that you're going to be using it to remotely access systems. You can probably also wall it off from the rest of your network and only permit it to speak over a secured channel using certificates as part of the authentication and blackhole any other packets at the router.
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Take the tour, you won't necessarily see those, but you get to go through a portion of the props warehouse and there's a couple buildings worth of museums with other props. You may have noticed that the Batmobile from Batman Forever was missing, it was in the museum when I visited last summer next to the Batwing and one of the Bat Pods from the Nolan Batman movies. Also, the Mr. Freeze costume looks really impressive in person.
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@poudink5791 FreeBSD isn't going anywhere any time soon. It's just far too common of a server OS for that to happen any time soon. What's more because there are so few restrictions on use of the source code, there's little reason for companies to ditch it.
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The plastic reflectors are probably not so cheap. They are plstic, but they're designed to not do much damage if they come up, and they're small enough that they probably can handle even a large truck without much trouble. The dots are more about giving you an auditory and tactile warning that you're starting to drift into the next lane, the same way that those grooves on the shoulder are meant to make it clear that ou're leaving the roadway entirely.
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Um, the US doesn't hate them and I've been seeing a ton of them in construction the last few years. It's hard to imagine sometimes just how big of a challenge it is to add new traffic control devices and designs to so many trillion dollars worth of infrastructure when we're not even paying to maintain the stuff we already have. There's been literal bridges collapsing in last few decades due to insufficient maintenance. It largely started in more rural areas around here where they got sick of people not bothering to stop at intersections, but I've been seeing them moving closer and closer to town where the other issue of space becomes a factor. But, I'd expect that over time, there'll be more of them in town as well. It may take quite a while as interesections don't usually have additional space for a roundabout, but I think there's a decent chance that if AI cars don't beat them to the punch that we'll have more roundabouts. Even if AI cars do, we may still get the roundabouts.
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If I'm not greatly mistaken any proceeds for lawsuits related to this illegal action would be between him and the attorneys involved.
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@martell203 Precisely, it really is as much about him accepting and touting it as that the governor thought that Biden is on his side of that.
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He could have taken the moment to mention the non-Japanese internees during WWII. I had an argument with my boss because he couldn't admit that there was no requirement that they be Japanese. Many were German or Italian, but others were Chinese.
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Perhaps the DNC should try something radical like earning our votes. We can't credibly claim to have a democracy, or a republic, if we go multiple elections in a row where there's only one party to choose from. Nobody wanted HRC in 2016 and people didn't want Biden in 2020. The DNC got lucky that even though HRC was less popular than Trump in 2016 that Trump was less popular than Biden in 2020. But, this time around, nobody likes Harris, she's not going to inspire people to come out and vote blue. She isn't going to do anything to deserve the nomination, some of us have not forgotten about here laughing about putting people in jail for smoking pot, even though she's smoked pot.
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@jamesrankin1728 This is a civil case, however, the claims laid out are also criminal in nature as there is no such thing as mutually agreed to combat in this context. This didn't happen in a boxing or wrestling ring, so barring the plaintiff having done something that would allow for the guard to engage in defense of his client, it is a criminal matter that could be pursued by the police at any time. They may well be waiting for the results of the civil case to help bolster a criminal conviction as a civil case appears to be a sure thing.
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So, basically rightwing Hillary or Biden voters then.
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I tried making Universal my personality, but it's getting harder and harder to find places to dispose of the bodies. I think my neighbors are starting to suspect something is going on.
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 @Rakibrown111 being anti-Trump should be a given, he's in the other party. They should be trying to earn the support of their primary voters first.
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A large part of the problem with the electoral college is that it's a bad weighted average to use. When there were only 13 states that were relatively similar in population, the difference wasn't that large, but neither Trump nor W would have been elected if they used a better weighting method for the votes. Each state gets 1 vote per representative plus 1 vote for each Senator. The result is that there's an additional 100 votes that muck things up. Wyoming gets 3 votes which triples it's voting power in the race. California has 55 electoral votes. Rather than getting a tripling of it's representation via the electoral votes from Senate representation, they get somewhere around 1% increase. Most states get somewhere in the middle. The end result is that states that do a bad job of retaining their residents or are just physically smaller get rewarded for it. States that are physically larger and doing a better job of attracting new residents get punished for it. It's more or less the opposite of what it should be and just increases the dysfunction that goes on. Removing the extra votes from having Senators would significantly reduce the issues with people winning the electoral college without winning the popular vote. You'd still have the issue with nobody bothering to campaign in most states, but that list would likely be smaller.
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That's how it is locally, the city instituted a minimum wage and increases it yearly to reflect inflation. It's really not enough, but far better than before.
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@hamzerpanzer not really. The system avoids weird decimals, but lets you use then anyways if you like. The reality is that a base 12 metric system would have been an improvement over the base 10 one that they're trying to cram down or throats. Most of the genuine problems with imperial measures are in obscure units that aren't used much. Because they aren't used much, there's no inherent reason that they couldn't be redefined or replaced to solve the problem,
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@olivinator this is generally true except that the kilogram and not the gram is the official unit for some reason and is 10 000 kilometers to the north pole rather than 10 000 000 meters.
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@olivinator you use decimal points. This comment exemplifies why nobody should take pro metric people seriously. If you don't know our system and we know yours, how do you know we're wrong? Anyways a base 12 metric system would probably have gotten us on board as that woud have contributed something of value that we didn't already have, we'd get to keep most of the benefits of tee imperial measures and gain additional benefits. 144 degrees being boiling is much less ridiculous than 100 is.
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@Rashed1255 I'm guessing that it was probably 1/8 of a kilo. 1/2 a kilo is slightly more than a pound, so if you quarter that, you get something closer to 1/3 of a pound.
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@not_herobrine3752 that's just to contextualize it. You see that more regularly with large items. For example Libraries of Congress for data storage.
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@sure1376 Yes, most significant props have several versions made for various reasons including wanting ones that are scale for when the sets make use of camera tricks to make themselves larger, along with the fact that having a spare in case one breaks can be useful.
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They have an original Bat pod in the WB museum portion of the tour and a couple replicas that visitors can sit on and be green screened into Gotham City.
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No, that's not even remotely true. Comedians need to get closer to the line than other people do and there's some benefit to it. But, the fact that somebody is a comedian does not get people off the hook. Just look at Michael Richards after that n-word tirade, by your reasoning, that would have been fine because he's a comedian. The fact of the matter is that comedians will overreach at times, but that doesn't make what they said acceptable, it means that they need to apologize in a timely fashion.
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Don't blame the voters SCOTUS could have allowed the states to refuse to put Trump on the ballot due to him trying to overthrow the government after he lost in 2020. Trump shouldn't have even been on the ballot for people to vote for due to his unsuccessful insurrection.
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Harold Williams Congratulations on being only slightly better than the officer that fired that shot.
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The short answer is that even regular clothing gets very heavy when it gets wet. I remember having to do a float test years ago where it was a half hour fully clothed. It is not as easy as one would expect, unless you're wearing lighter than normal clothing. Add to that, the rest of the kit that a typical officer would be wearing and that alone could be enough to drown them. They could potentially take the time to get out of it, secure it and jump in, but even if they managed that quicky enough to get to the distressed swimmer, there's then the issue of being drowned by the swimmer as he climbs on top of the officer to save his own butt and drowns them both. So, really, I don't see anything in the video that would lead me to think that the officers could have done anything more. But, this is just the video that gives the best view of the now deceased, we don't really know exactly when the other officers called for the dive team. A death is generally not something to celebrate, but in this case, it was his own stupid decisions and refusal to obey lawful orders that got him killed. Unfortunately, the bystanders will likely have trauma to work through for years to come. I'm fortunate enough to have never seen a drowning, but I'd imagine that it would be pretty horrible to see somebody dying that could potentially be saved, but isn't because the necessary equipment isn't there to do it. Just having to watch until they slip beneath the water seems horrible. I don't think being on the phone with dispatchers is really that much better.
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If you're going to do that, you might as well just pre-fry the dough a bit on a cast iron skillet until firm enough to take the rack. At that point, you might as well just use the cast iron. But, this is an intriguing idea. You could probably also try using one of those trays with the extremely small mesh in it. They should allow the air through just fine, but prevent the weird corrugation that goes on in his video.
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If that 8 year old is super rich and super connected that might be appropriate. Until that kid can have successful donation parties where millions are raised by the campaign in one evening, Clooney is the one to listen to. We went down this path with HRC and even with the campaign dollars she still lost. Biden is probably less popular than HRC was, at least people generally agreed that she wasn't senile.
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Yes, it's hard enough to blockade an entire planet, trying to blockade a patch of space only really works if the planetary bodies in the region force ships to travel through a narrow path. Otherwise, they can just go around.
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@arkvoodleofthesacredcrotch6060 The rounds themselves are probably not that much more of a threat than the other bits of dust and pebble flying around. As long as they either fall to the earth quickly, or have the necessary trajectory to leave orbit, there's no real problem. It's the ones that orbit that would eventually be an issue.
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OK, so what precisely is it about Harris that's decent? She's got the same view on Gaza as Biden, and literally the genocide there is only happening because the US is supplying the gear to do it.
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@jamesodell3064 Most people interpret natural born citizen to be anybody that is a citizen without having to go through the naturalization process. In the case of McCain, he had parents that were citizens, and same goes for Ted Cruz. They're both horrible people, but they were both legally permitted to run for that office.
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It's actually harder to do that with the registry than with configuration files. A short shell script can both check the file into the revision control system and make the edit with little fuss or muss. Or, you can do it without the script at all in like 3 lines of commands. And really, it's only one line if you're concerned about having that backup.
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The thing is that at this point, even if he does bow out, I'm not sure how the DNC is going to be able to locate and run anybody in his place. They knew 4 years ago that he was slipping, they had to have been aware last year that he wasn't going to be with it enough to continue, they chose to hope he would get reelected and then die in office for the VP to take over.
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The guy was right to consider that psychopath a threat. Unfortunately, he wound up paying for it with his life. The point that a lot of people are missing is that he was absolutely correct to consider the guy harassing his girlfriend a threat. But, even so, there wasn't really any good way of dealing with it that wouldn't net him the same basic charges that the murderer is facing. We know now that the gunman was armed and mentally unstable, at which point there are no good options left. Especially considering how little time there was between when the gun came out and when the fatal shot was fired.
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It's worth noting that apart from the original Apple computers, Apple wasn't ever early on anything signficant. They were after the intiial work was done by somebody else, they just came in and polished it up and pushed it out. Mac OS copied what Xerox was doing and the iPod was basically a rip off of Creative's Nomad. The iPhone was arguably more Apple's work than anything else as it was mostly a Newton updated for wireless communication and a better interface.
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@JesusIsKing91276 Yes, although most HOAs have rules about noise and there's almost certainly some state or local laws that apply as well. I'm not personally a fan of alcohol, but it's ignorant to equate smoking with alcohol when one rarely ever impacts people outside of that one particular unit and the other may very well depending on how well sealed the units are.
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n00bMaster69 I'm bisexual and I don't spend that much time thinking about it.
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I wish I was able to read minds like you can, I'd be very powerful.
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@diamondstud322 I think it depends a bit on the size. My parent's had a cat when I was a kid who had a pouch that really hung down and would wave back and forth as she ran around the house. From what I understand, in her case, it was a result of being spayed and wasn't there beforehand.
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@potatocasseroli Probably still worth the money though, putting her on a diet probably extended her life, or at least the quality of life, and may well have prevented other health issues later on. Still, probably slightly embarrassing.
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You're arrested whenever you are required by the police officer to stay put. This happens a lot because officers often need to figure out the facts of what's going on before knowing if there's any basis for continued action. You'll see it at a traffic stop where you're not allowed to leave until the officer has done things like verified that there are no outstanding warrants and that the license and registration are up to date. You're under arrest as in you can't leave, but in most cases they release you within a few minutes after having verified things and possibly issued a ticket. Not all arrests result in being taken into the station and booked. In fact, most of the time when people are under arrest nothing more comes of it than a report being filed.
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Really, what you're supposed to be doing is rotating through the food quickly enough that you're eating it before it expires. That being said, the dates are generally just estimates, although the ones on meat are probably the most trustworthy ones due to just how short they are and how quickly meat can go bad.
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Probably because that might actually solve the problem and if the problem is solved, then there's no more need for taking things away from the men that they're blaming.
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Here's an idea, perhaps scale back the BS missions to places where the US has no business and focus on things that actually increase national security. Actually have the resources in place to support the personnel as they reenter civilian life. And, perhaps, stop being so disrespectful to potential recruits. I still remember the shameful and disrespectful comments made by the naval recruiters as they tried to gaslight me into enlisting. It's not a great way to encourage people to enlist if you have to start by verbally abusing and gaslighting the people that you've chosen to contact. I wound up not enlisting, in large part due to how BS the wars that were ongoing when I was still young enough to consider doing so. I did wind up working security at one of the buildings that was on the original list when they were planning 9/11 though, go figure. These days, there are just a lot of other options for people that want to protect their country, but not engage in the sort of questionable operations that the DoD has become fond of. I can't imagine anybody with integrity seeing Abu Ghraib and being like, I want to joint that organization. And possibly even less so when they didn't go all the way up the chain and get everybody that led to that failure for something.
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Most people come and go just fine, the worst bit is that you're giving them money and allowing them to spread propaganda. And, honestly, that really ought to be enough reason not to go. It's not like most other authoritarian regimes where you do get to at least experience some of the local culture. I used to live in China and I could go pretty much wherever I wanted and talk to whomever I wanted to. I met smugglers and one of my friends heard some of the real gossip from somebody that wasn't the fan of the government. I was pretty careful about how I did all of it, but there wasn't really the same level or risk that going to North Korea has. Plus for all the folks talking about torture, it's hardly just North Korea that does that, Japan has had issues with confessions being tortured out of people just because of how important that can be and the US is a bit better, but there's a lot of psychological abuse int eh process there as well.
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What these videos demonstrate is not what the black community is saying. What it demonstrates is that being caught breaking the law, disrespecting the police officer and then running away or fighting ends badly. This is something that I was taught as a child. Don't run from the police or fight with the police. Answer questions as shortly as possible. And for heaven's gate, don't commit any crimes when the police are watching. Videos surfacing where black people are just randomly pulled out of their car and beaten for no reason are few and far between because it's a rare happening. Cases where black people are pulled out of their car and arrested for being surly and refusing to obey lawful orders are much more common because it's much more common. Something does need to be done, but blaming the police for things that happen after the suspect has forced their hand is questionable. Yes, the beating was more than what probably should have happened, but it misses the point that there would have been no violent arrest had he just taken the ticket option that he was offered.
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They may dispute it, but that is literally what "recite the alphabet backwards" means.
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Around here the city has been buying up such facilities for housing for the homeless. The problem is that the areas with a homeless problem tend not to have much spare capacity. The same presumably goes for the places where these undocumented immigrants are being bused. Liberal parts of the country are mostly doing pretty well, so fewer of those types of facilities can be converted into housing as they're in use.
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@wholelottapurrring5392 LOL, I was wondering if this was another one of those Mandela effects, as Frankie is sometimes short for Frances.
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If glass doesn't flow at room temperature, then why is it that so much older glass is so distorted when you look through it? And by older, I mean the '20s after the basic process had largely been perfected, it wasn't always so distorted that as you move past it, the things behind it appear to move weirdly, right?
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What illegal seizure? The squirrel wasn't legal to have.
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Grammar, definitely not, basic pronunciation is. I definitely didn't have much of a grammar foundation when I was learning Mandarin and that worked out fine. You really don't need more grammar than you can internalize, more than that is just a distraction from learning more vocab and actually going out and interacting with people in the language you're trying to learn, or at least reading books and watching videos.
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@1mikon I'd say definitely not, it's important, but it's hardly so important as to be on par with pronunciation. Far too many people can communicate with zero grammar for it to e that foundational. It's less than ideal to not know any grammar, but it's hardly mandatory if you don't need to communicate efficiently.
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@yoeyyoey8937 Is it because of the boycotts, or is it because of the product? Keep in mind that they have a lot of different brands and for all the furor, it will blow over and in the meantime, there's going to be people buying the product in solidarity or to show it to those folks that actually unironically care about there being a transwoman on the can.
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Criminal cases can't typically be refiled when dismissed. With and without prejudice is typically a civil thing as the consequences of losing a case are primarily monetary, although there may sometimes be an injunction involved against certain activities relevant to the suit.
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@kosmique Yes, those things could potentially be used as evidence to support premeditation. But, I'm not sure if that would be enough to make it murder if he called 911 after using minimal force when they're the ones that broke in.
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@MyLifeOutdoors Why not just use a stove that uses white gas? It's what I used back when I was in the boyscouts including a couple 50 milers. My MSR Whisperlite worked reliably and doesn't require such nonsense to avoid wasted fuel in the bottle.
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@timdowney6721 The judge can find them in contempt of court that doesn't require DA cooperation.
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They did, keep in mind that the footage in this video is just from the officer that was watching, not the other officers that would have been the ones calling for help. If possible in these situations it's important to have somebody watching just so you know where they slipped underwater if possible. It took the dive team roughly 5 hours to ultimately find the body after they go on scene.
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@charlieberry7562 The same way that he didn't know. They're f-ing morons. I know very little about firearms, and my understanding is that the Desert Eagle is renowned for being extremely powerful for a handgun. I don't think this would have been well-advised with a less powerful firearm, as she could have missed, even if the book was thick enough to stop the bullet. But, I'm not sure what kind of moron would choose that particular gun for this stunt.
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Because the defense industry owns the politicians.
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Return fraud is a significant problem. It's why you'll often times see store employees ripping up receipts to ensure that somebody doesn't use a stolen receipt to sell back stolen goods to the store. Effectively it's a fraudster selling the store's merchandise to a customer.
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I'm not sure, I personally think that Biden is a bigger threat to our democracy than Trump is. Trump, for his part, was at least able to win his primary without anybody needing to rig it. A Biden Presidency likely means new wars and an increasing share of the electorate that has no say in politics due to voter disenfranchisement.
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They shouldn't. She polls better than he does, but not by enough to justify it. If they succeed in removing Biden, they should get Kamala to either step down or remain as the VP pick.
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@lynnquillen4813 You mean the ones that actually believe that Trump is an existential threat to our democracy or at least understand that they're not supposed to be running interference for the GOP?
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Perhaps, or he's just the first. I doubt there's going to be a real penalty. At least not what we would get.
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@brianrad68 I'm curious how they know in some cases. A cosmic ray can potentially flip a bit that could lead to a different than intended out come. It's unlikely to be a common thing, but if that did happen, you probably wouldn't be able to tell that it wasn't the correct result for that spin.
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@Mike__B I would assume so. If they just wanted to get her off the premises without making a scene, they'd probably have comped or or something along those lines. Then again, this is Jersey, so who knows.
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It's more baffling that the Democrats didn't run on the issue of telling Netanyahu to stuff it.
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I'm not surprised. People outside the US don't always realize that in a lot of cases, there are ethnic exclaves that can exist for a very long time. And having a way of reflecting which people still maintain some sort of connection to the old country versus those that haven't has been something that we've cared about. It's not really that important in most other countries as it doesn't typically happen to the extent that it does in the US. That being said, African American is in some ways a bit of an oddity there as up until relatively recently, it was mostly the descendants of slaves who had no connection of any sort back to Africa other than the vague sense that their ancestors were from some part of it that they couldn't identify. Most people hypenated Americans have the benefit of being able to at least name more specific nations as their place of origin.
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@denniszakowicz3273 It's less than ideal as a way of communicating that somebody is of European descent, but doesn't have any sort of actual connection back to the continent or any of the countries. I wish there'd be a better term as Caucasians are something else entirely.
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That's why folks were saying age and not senility. Biden had to step aside due to senility, not age.
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It's mostly because things built up with less traffic or less space. But, around here they've been building a ton of them, so I would expect that in a hundred years there'll be a lot of AI cars handling the roundabouts like champs.
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@waltersobchak1719 Frequently those are on sensors so they change rather quickly and are defaulted over to whatever road has the most traffic. But, I've been stuck with ones that are broken where it'll be over 20 minutes for it to change. All part of the local DOT's plan to force people to give up on driving.
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That would be a lot scarier if it wasn't based entirely on fantasy.
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@BrotherNate27 No, not without twisting logic to the point of breaking. There's no basis for assuming that God exists, and the logic that people attempt to use is tortured at best. People believe it because they believe it. There isn't any actual evidence to back it up though.
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I'm sure she'd argue that having won the election by representatives that were voted on by the people that she's just as legitimate as the President. And really, neither politician really represents the people due to how corrupt and anti-democratic the selection for those positions is.
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They don't really intend to. This is why crimes like possession are so problematic. If you've got something illicit you're automatically guilty whether or not you knew it was there or intended to have it. This is the same sort of thing, whether you watched, intended to watch you're guilty. It's really easy on the prosecutors as they don't need to bother to prove intent or even knowledge that a crime was being committed, just that you were there. Never mind whether you were intending to be there or were just caught up in the traffic and couldn't leave.
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How do they expect to win when they couldn't even win their own party? The GOP voters are largely in lockstep and they're not automatically going to pick up enough independent votes to make up for the portion of the third of the DNC voters that defect to a 3rd party.
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As an autistic man, I approve of your decision to stick to a limited wardrobe. Also, it's nice that you've got the integrity to apologize when you mess up. It's really good to see that you've got integrity.
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@johndorian4078 That happens and there are software programs out there that can generate entire exams based on what the professor wants to be on it.
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Clearly, we just need to give him a couple dozen more seats in both chambers. eyeroll
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It's because they don't want you to use it. The rebate program is more or less a scam. It's a rebate off a future purchase and can only be used in one of their stores, despite the rebates also being issued for online purchases and sent to addresses that are nowhere near a store.
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That's the thing, it's gong to take losing to Trump at least twice to have any hope of letting the voters decide.
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@duckentity4515 You're both kind of right, these are all owned by WB, but a bunch of this stuff gets seen in non-WB productions. One of the reasons why WB is likely to remain in the long term is that they don't just make money from their own productions, they also make money from renting their props and facilities to other companies. It makes the WB studio tour so special as so much of it can pop up in any TV show or movie filmed in the US. For example, the scene in the original Jurassic Park movie of the T-Rex chasing the jeep was filmed there when a storm forced the production to leave Hawaii early.
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I'm in her district and I no longer vote for her and definitely won't give her money.
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@pauliewalnuts2527 But, that's already illegal, simply watching doesn't involve any other crimes and there's nothing to watch unless somebody else closes down the intersection to do this stuff.
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@valcaron But, the intersection is already being closed down by the people actively engaging in this activity. Whether or not 3rd parties are watching doesn't have much of an impact. It's not like this gets advertised widely ahead of time so that people can come.
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The body is pretty big, but the leg span is nothing to write home about. I'm sure if I went rooting around the areas behind the oven at my parents place, I could find something with a larger leg span.
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The way that he was looking around like he was taking a wiz in a public restroom next to a very tall man even before that was probably the funniest bit of the whole clip.
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@CrudeConduct666 I think that's mostly due to people needing to fill up a gallon of gas for a motorcycle or lawnmower. But, the only practical reason I can think of to require at least 2L be purchased is if they're trying to keep the credit card processing from eating all their profits.
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@volundrfrey896 That's only required if you want to pay with cash because the pumps won't take cash. IIRC, there's usually a call button if you've got some sort of disability that makes it hard to fill your own tank. Assuming you don't live in one of the 2 states that doesn't trust you to fill your own tank.
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More likely, the donors chose him because he's not going to rock the boat or do anything to give the voters the crazy idea that voting Democrat means that they're entitled to actually have any Democratic priorities enacted.
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The TSA itself is grossly unconstitutional, but they've been allowed to use the "It's consentual" justification for decades even though air travel frequently isn't optional. I had to get on a couple planes in the last couple years to go to funerals and the plane was literally the only way that I would have been able to get to the funerals. I don't think that a reasonable person would think that not going is a valid option when it comes to not wanting to be subjected to an otherwise unconstitutional search. Somehow we managed it for decades without being sexually assaulted and they haven't caught any terrorists at all in that time.
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Israel was already going after leaders, they're the ones that have been dragging Iran into this war.
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@billhartsford4820 IKR, what I do is go to Costco and stock up on a meat. $150 worth of meat will be enough protein for at least a month. (Usually a mixture of cheeper cuts of beef, chicken and fish) I'll vacuum seal and freeze it in portion sized containers. I'll also buy a bunch of vegetables and rice to go along with that. Then there's peanut butter, jelly, honey and the like for lunches and basic cereals for breakfast. It's still a lot of money, but it's far less than $800 a month and the cooking involved is pretty easy. A few days ago, I took some of that meat and made some cajun flavored beef kebobs. The thing that's nice about it is that it's still pretty much fool proof to cook like that and if you add in some fresh fruit on top of that, you've got a relatively healthy diet on a relatively low budget and without needing a lot of cooking skills or meal planning.
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@alanmcentee9457 Usually it's folks like Madoff that made the mistake of robbing rich people.
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Possibly, but they can't legally operate as law enforcement, they aren't commissioned law enforcement officers. They have the same right to make arrests that you or I do. If any of them are identified, they'd be looking at jail time for kidnapping and felony assault, amongst other things.
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@ChuckNorrizzed White people are people of European descent that have lost any sort of connection back to a more specific part of Europe, so probably. I go back and forth on the thing, but since I'm a hyphenated American, it feels kind of presumptuous to tell them what they should call themselves.
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They probably won't. It's easier to just change the discounts and coupons being given based on a customer's shopping history with their club card than to change the price. I totally get why people assume that they'd want to use these to change the prices for individual customers, but there's so many issues that can crop up with that, and few customers complain about the discounts they get with digital coupons.
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@bp6942 Sort of, it pisses them off because there are efficiency metrics that apply and can cause issues.
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@mandyslittlelife sort of, I think the main difference is scale and that the tent cities aren't meant to be permanent.
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They accidentally printed several dozen copies.
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I was wondering how long it would take for somebody to point that out.
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You probably don't need to use all of those gears. I've got a Ninja 250 and I do most of my riding in 3rd or 4th. I'll only touch 5th on the highway and 6th only on the freeway when I'm going a longer distance and not wanting to pass. If you're being annoyed by that, consider changing the gearing ratio.
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And yet we're no closer to making headway on the problem of overdiagnosis of NT syndrome.
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Yes, IMHO, the only time they should be allowed to outright cancel a lifetime subscription is if there were violations of the terms by the customer or the company literally goes bankrupt and people they owe money to get the rights to the service. The actual issue tends to be that they under charge for the life time licenses and sell too many of them. You need a certain amount of cashflow in order to continue to provide the lifetime license, and if they didn't charge enough collectively for the life time license to be paid for by interest or investing income, then it's eventually going to lead to problems.
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@FantomWireBrian I think that's fairly common and probably a defense mechanism. My Dad served in Vietnam and he was the same way about it. It was just a job in his words. The most recent I've heard him speak about it was that it was probably not something that he should have been involved in. And mind you that was somewhere around 50 years later. As somebody that's had a fair number of near death scrapes, I can tell you that being nonchalant about it is probably the only reasonable response that won't result in death. Far too often people freak out or push things too far, being relaxed and accepting that things may not go your way is pretty much a must when the stakes get high.
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@dreadlord5581 How on earth is that even remotely surprising? That was never a recognized thing to not let the sitting President choose the nominee to send to the Senate for confirmation just because it was nearing election time.
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I think the big question here, is that most women won't date good guys unless they're loaded. So, how on earth would they know that they've got a good guy when most of the good guys are completely invisible to them in the first place? In my experience, even the hurt women that ought to know better than to date jerks seem to not care about anything other than money. It makes it extremely hard to care about their well-being when they are so purposefully obtuse about the fact that maybe money doesn't make good men.
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@markzuckergecko621 It would be a coup, yes. It wouldn't be the first coup in the US in my lifetime. Or have you forgotten about Bush v. Gore where the results of a lawful election were overturned and the SCOTUS just appointed Bush to be the President even though he didn't have the necessary votes to win the electoral college?
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Not really, I can go to the elections website at any time and view the rooms where the ballots are being dealt with. Anybody else can as well, whether they're in the country or even in another country.
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@redneckcoder Not true, look at medicine now versus before the government got involved. If you don't think the government is doing a good enough job, stop voting GOP.
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Probably, the Welsh are white people.
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They should, the stereotypes in Peter pan are far worse than the ones that Got SotS cancelled and Splash Mountain destroyed. That being said, it looks like the update does a pretty decent job of being a bit more respectful while still having the same sort of feel. I'm sort of surprised that that whole scene hasn't already been axed from the animated movie.
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@crosswalkX Disney is pretty inconsistent as the cigar store Indians are still on view and there's still signage for coonskin caps even though that particular abbreviation for racoon has fallen out of favor on account of being a racist way of referring to black people.
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@JosephEHall-bl2el Possibly, the outlook for that isn't so good, but I found that the worst of my schizoaffective went away with tons of cognitive behavioral therapy. It's not like cured cured, but most of it except for the disorganized thinking has gone and stayed gone for over a decade. That being said, the outlook without medication isn't good and reductions in medication should be made slowly and cautiously with plenty of support and a qualified medical professional overseeing the process.
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@DrTraceyMarks I think that's why therapy was so successful with my schizoaffective disorder. I had good doctors, cutting edge group therapy and a ton of CBT, and today I've been free of meds for over a decade. But, it took years of work and I had to have the intestinal fortitude to just accept that most of my life experience was probably not real and to accept that there could be consequences if the psychosis wasn't really psychosis. I completely get why the diagnoses are so devastating, as it's asking a lot of anybody to accept that basically their entire existence might not be real and that this other reality is real, even though there's major flaws with that as well. I do have some difficulties with understanding my life before a certain age, but it gets complicated by the fact that I had done some legitimately amazing things where there is actual documentation to support that it happened, but some of it I'm not even sure if it happened or not despite being years before any psychotic symptoms were identified.
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Both of my credit unions have ended overdraft fees. One of them did away with them completely and the other did away with them in most situations. Personally, even before that I switched to a two checking account system to avoid having that problem. If I have to write a check or have payments that won't have the money removed immediately, I'll do that out of the second account. I'll transfer the necessary money and I don't have to worry about things bouncing or having to keep track of it. I'll start with some reasonably about of money to ensure that I have something there even after everything clears. It works great, although finding a credit union or bank that doesn't charge the fees is probably a better choice.
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@danhedman8435 They're not. They can either transfer money from a different account, which is what my credit unions do, or they can refuse to honor the request for money. With computer technology being where it is, there's no reason why they can't transfer the money for you. (Although whether or not they should gets a tad complicated as there's many reasons why a charge to an account may not be a valid one)
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Yes, and I really don't understand why men are obligated to vote for Harris even though she's made no effort to earn our votes. People should vote for whichever candidate they think will best advance the country, all this shaming is getting really old. And is particularly galling from the left as the left is the side that complains the loudest about that.
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I think the big issue is that everybody knows that Biden can't win, and certainly can't do the job if he does win. The problem though is that the party leadership has done a crappy job of promoting younger politicians and there really aren't any other options that could win. I think Bernie might be able to win this election, but that's a long shot, and then they'd be in the position in 4 years of needing a new candidate as Bernie definitely can't handle more than that, even 1 term is asking a lot at his age.
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It won't, at this point anybody who doesn't know that safety belts generally save lives isn't going to be reached by a sign, no matter how clever it is. Around here safety belts have been required in any vehicle that came with them factory installed since sometime in the mid-80s. Anybody young enough to know what on fleek is, is probably somebody that's too young to have ridden in a car that didn't have a factory installed safety belt for every seat. (Side note, I remember going with my dad to a junkyyard to get a lap belt for the rear seat because the Toyota they bought only had 2 rear belts even though it had 3 rear seats)
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@jtarwa4088 That's normal elections. This election there has also been people getting arrested for overt voter intimidation of strangers.
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And some folks are barred from giving for reasons that are no longer relevant. It's also a matter of bureaucracy.
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I'd give Trump that last flight on Airforce 1 just to get him out of D.C.
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@jacobew2000 The difference is that for profit prisons take some of that money and send it to investors rather than just staff and maintenance.
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I wouldn't, the power cost alone would pay for a proper NAS over time anyways.
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Are we really surprised that a party that relies on gerrymandering and voter disenfranchisement to gain and maintain power think that Trump can do whatever he wants to do?
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@sunbro29 How often does that happen though in somebody who isn't terminally ill from something else? Also, as long as the person lived long enough to reproduce, evolution has nothing to do with it.
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TBH, not publishing them as standalone books seems reasonable. They should just bundle the books together along with the illustrations that he did producing anti-Nazi propaganda. It would really help to enlighten folks as to what the man himself thought. He had been editing the books in more recent years to update them for things like this, he also was producing books that were deliberately targeting racism at the same time when racist images were in his other books.
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@remyllebeau77 I cant' comment on other divisions, but the Kroger subsidiary that I was working for was testing them in a small number of locations. If people in those locations refuse to shop there until the tags go away, it could still happen. That being said, the real issue with them is that there isn't any enforcement agency that would go in and verify that the tags aren't being changed inappropriately. I think if there were stings on that sort of thing, it would probably make people feel more comfortable about it. The shelf tags that go up there are often times wrong due to how many have to be updated and how often that happens. As far as tying the cameras into that, I don't think that's likely to happen anytime soon. That's mostly for the purpose of identifying people that are known to not be allowed and counting how many people are in the store. They're far more likely to keep the current program where they give people discount coupons in the app rather than trying to mess with the prices that are displayed. Especially since there might be several people in the area and they generally have to honor the price tag except in a few exceptions.
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@rha600 That's not true, people are still going bankrupt due to health care. Many of the red states didn't even expand medicare to cover everybody that can't afford insurance.
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@IHateStaleCrackers How much would it take to get you to take a job where you're expected to commit suicide for the PR? Because that's effectively what you're talking about. Without gear and training, the likelihood of the cop that went in after him surviving aren't good. This isn't an active shooter scenario where we arm and train them to deal with it, this is something where the likely training would have been to simply call dispatch for somebody that's trained and equipped for it.
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@M-elephant7777 Probably and it also serves as potential advertising for the network if the book sells well. Which it probably will because they'll pay to buy up enough copies for it to do well.
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@EPaulIII That's probably one of the lesser reasons why departments moved to body cams. It makes it a lot harder to pull that kind of crap.
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My wife insists on answering the phone when random people call. She did that on my phone once and I started getting calls from the same person roughly 7 times a day for months. I felt kind of bad for him because he seemed like he may have had dementia, but that was a lot of calls to ignore and my voicemail would be completely full of his messages.
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In line with this video, you aren't saving money by buying on sale unless you meet these 2 criteria. 1) you were going to buy it anyways and 2) you take the savings and put with the other money you've saved. That's not to say that it's wrong to take the money from the discount and spend it, just that you aren't saving money when you do that. It can be completely legitimate to take the price reduction and spend it.
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@Q_from_Star_Trek As long as the cost to the tax cheats for defense is high enough, and they're personally forced to spend enough time in meetings dealing with it, they'd be punished. It would be better if they'd just pay their taxes, but if the best we can do is make them spend so much money and time trying to avoid paying that they don't benefit from the tax evasion, then at least that's something.
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@johnmartin4641 47% of the population pays no income tax, but it's because they don't make enough money to be taxed. Also, that's just federal income tax, there have been tax cuts and service cuts over the years handing off more and more to states and localities. Those taxes regular people do pay, nobody, even the homeless around here, are allowed out of the sales and use taxes. It's a flat up lie when people say that there are nearly half of the people not paying taxes, it's just income taxes and it's just because employers refuse to pay workers well enough to be taxed.
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Yes, but why on this topic? You could say that about basically every subject ever, but there's only so many hours in the day and learning about one irrelevant subject isn't better than learning about the latest craze on the various social networking platforms.
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It's not supposed to be taken literally. The whole point of that is to highlight the decision to spend money on the present versus the future for things that can easily be avoided.
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@bobblacka918 Yep, I think on the balance having zoning departments is a net good. The problem is that so often the politicians that get to decide what the rules are screw things up. There's also the issue that a lot of those sorts of things have to be located somewhere and most people don't want to be next door. Although, being next to a club isn't a big deal if you're the sort of person that works a night job.
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@mariegarside8830 Even with those things, I've been to a few hotels recently where you have to be at least 21 years old, even if you have a credit card and ID>
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I might be happy with the result if I actually knew what he was going to do if elected.
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@msotil It's arbitration, not a court. It's disgusting the way that those unconstitutional proceedings get treated as if they're firm decisions that can't be challenged in court. There is nowhere in the constitution that says that they exist, so that should have little bearing on what actual courts do with the rulings. Especially when the courts are then being asked to enforce the results. Along with GITMO and constitutin-free zones, it's just another example of how our constitutional rights are being chipped away at over time.
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They don't generally wait until all the counting is done, they'll wait until there's sufficient margin to ensure final victory. If he wins at least 2 of the states he's ahead in, that's game over for Trump. Pennsylvania alone would be sufficient to guarantee the necessary electoral votes at the convention to win.
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This isn't surprising, they oversaturated the Star Wars market on top of making Star Wars TV shows that at best appeal to a relatively narrow viewer base. I personally lost interest in watching any of it because there were too many and I clearly wasn't the target audience. The fact that so many of the movies seem to be redos of previous movies isn't helping.
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@thomassosa65 At this point, do most American citizens even have much capacity to be embarrassed? I mean, I'm losing track of all the stuff that I could be embarrassed over.
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@poorsvids4738 Owning an expensive truck isn't inherently bad, the problem is that this one is massively overpriced and more or less garbage. People have gotten trapped inside during firmware updates.
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That's most of the Democrats that hold actual power in the party. They fight any effort to drag the party to the left the way that they should be fighting the GOP and fascists.
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Does it rally matter?
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In all fairness, the 3/5 compromise is somewhat less racist than people make it out to be. The racist part is that people were allowed to be owned as slaves on the basis of their race. The 3/5 compromise was a foot in the door towards giving them full constitutional rights. Admittedly, that's cold comfort for anybody that was living as a slave at the time, but it's not like the Northerners didn't get anything out of compromising there. It was more or less just the best they could do and it lasted less than 90 years.
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@blakekaveny Was there ever a universe where they would? If the compromise didn't go through, we would have likely wound up with 2 countries and who even knows when slavery would have been abolished as there wouldn't have been a civil war that was largely focused on it.
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Yes, but OTOH, that's what gave us Mystic Manor in HK DL, and that one is also a lot of fun. It's not as iconic, but in some ways it's a more enjoyable ride.
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It is, but I wish he would have included hazelnut milk, it's pretty much the king of responsible milk substitutes. But, really, any substitute you use is going to be easier on the environment than cow milk.
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They stopped running on anything legitimate years ago, and even when Obama did run on legitimate things, he failed to really put much effort into delivering. Even his signature health care legislation came from the Heritage Foundation and was to the right of Nixon's proposal from the early '70s. In other words, we would have been better off if Obama hadn't done anything and they'd just pretended to fight against the GOP proposing it themselves when he left office.
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@hattielankford4775 Which candidate is preogressive? The one that hates immigrants or the one that throws people in jail for truancy and laughs about sending people to jail for marijuana related crimes while having actually smoked the stuff herself? Yep, clearly one of them is progressive.
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@hattielankford4775 Harris isn't a progressive, she's a pretty horrible person and if anybody bothered to check her record they'd know that she's just as bad of a person as he is, it's just that she cares a bit more about the rule of law than he does. But, both represent the destruction of our democracy.
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@Foot751 It's because the Democrats are completely incompetent shills of more or less the same people as the GOP is. Had they let the voters choose the nominee in 2016, 2020 or 2024, he likely never would have been President. Even in 2020, he lost by a tighter margin than people realize. One of the big points of having primaries is that it helps the party to select a strong candidate with the best chances of winning and moving the party's agenda forward. Which is another issue, even when people do elect a Democrat to President, they fail to deliver any real help for the people. Obama was a particular fraud, he ran on the audacity of hope and governed on the mediocrity of what could be done without dirtying his image at all.
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Because they can use lower standards of evidence, in a court of law, the police and prosecutor would have to be convinced that they have a case in order to proceed. And once it gets to an arraignment, the accused has a legal right to an attorney. And at trial, the legal standard is on the prosecution to prove that the accused is guilty to beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt. Which, as you might guess, would result in a lot of these cases being dismissed without charges being filed and of those that do get filed, many of them would result in acquittals when the prosecutor can't meet the legal standard. In short, the colleges are being pressured to do it because feminists are looking for ways to hurt men, rather than out of a legitimate desire to see justice served. Justice for this involves the courts and a jury of the accused's peers.
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I hope you did, modern treatment options have improved a great deal. Between medication and modern therapeutic techniques, there's a good chance that you'd see improvement.
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If it's that sort of a concern, why would they want them outside with nothing to do?
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The episode is available again. I found the complete series on Sling including that episode. I'm not sure how long that's been the case, but it should never have been restricted. Perhaps not shown on channels in the NY area, but when you ban things like that the terrorists win. It's not like the show featured terrorists actually flying planes into the towers.
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@ghostlyme I assume that it's a locality thing. I had largely stopped watching the Simpsons at that point as it had jumped the shark, but I'm guessing that it might have been banned for longer in areas near NYC.
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No amendment is absolute.
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@andmos1001 Yes, there's a difference between something slowly aging over time, versus something that was damaged in a way that could have resulted in a complete loss over the course of a few hours.
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@CP-ir3ft He didn't date his students, that doesn't mean that he can't date other students at the same college.
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@voodoopriest100 I don't think sexual assault allegations from a credible source are less than allegations that even if true wouldn't be illegal, immoral or in violation of college policy.
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Around here, you don't even have to go in person to watch, they have webcams set up to watch everything that goes on in the rooms being used 24 hours a day so that nobody can slip in late at night for a bit of elections fraud without risking people being up late watching.
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@petergerdes1094 I think that on paper, it should be possible to set up an electronic ballot so that the voters can verify that the vote was tabulated correctly without the polling workers knowing whose ballot was counted. Which isn't currently possible due to the way that all the identifying information is removed before the ballots are counted. But, there are so many issues that I wouldn't expect online voting to happen any time soon.
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She did, it just turns out that she has no principles and will say whatever she thinks she needs to say in order to gain more power. I'm not sure why anybody thought any different considering that she was sending people to jail over truancy and pot, but letting Mnuchin off the hook for illegally stealing people's homes.
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Does she? She's lazy and both Tulsi Gabbard and Lester Holt got the better of her because she couldn't be bothered to prepare for expected lines of questioning.
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Not having a contested convention would be a disaster, remember 2016 and 2020?
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If that's the case, that's screwed up. The bank is should only get the amount of money that they are owed on the loan, any surplus after that would be the property of the owner of the car, especially since appreciation is largely the result of the owner's actions, not the lender's.
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If it's "with extreme prejudice," there ma be openings coming up soon.
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I must have missed the portion featuring Wally, but then again I suppose they were haven't a hard time finding him in time for the taping.
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It's just one of those things you have to learn from experience, sort of like what happens when you stick a fork in an outlet or have people standing in lines to vote during a pandemic. Fundamentally unknowable.
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I would hope this would end the asinine practice of recommending things to users rather than just giving us more of what we asked for. That's the main weakness to Google's side. They choose what to present to users even when the users are asking for other content. If they were simply giving the users what we ask for rather than putting a thumb on the scale to ensure that certain outlets get views, they would be in a much stronger position.
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Because we have money in politics and donor cash is what keeps the incompetent folks like Pelosi and Biden in power.
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And you want to make it easier to deprive people of their civil rights just by being accused of something, even without substantive evidence. If you really cared about the issue, you'd be questioning why these cases aren't being referred to the police for a real investigation and possible prosecution. The answer is that the goal here has nothing to do with justice, it's just another effort to demonize the relatively few men that remain in higher education.
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@dougsimmon7460 Prison is cheaper than execution. The amount of money it takes to prosecute a capital case and see it through all the appeals that inevitably show up is a lot more than just putting them behind bars for life. In the past, there were practical reasons to use it, but most of those issues no longer remain in developed countries. We have plenty of resources for putting the sorts like this behind bars for the rest of their lives without risk of them escaping. Neither of those two things were the case when capital punishment was popular.
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@jamesshepherd8565 Or, we acknowledge that capital punishment doesn't actually do anything to deter further crime, doesn't ensure that the right person is punished and does nothing at all to help those that were impacted move on. All while costing a lot of money and resulting in innocent people being murdered by the state.
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@michigandersea3485 Crafting the perfect config.sys and autoexec.bat was absolutely mandatory until really people started to move to Win 95 and that first MB of RAM didn't require all the babysitting.
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Please stop lying. Natural immunity is the best immunity if you survive intact. That was settled ages ago. Anybody claiming otherwise is an anti-science nutter. The only reason we have vaccines for anything is that not everybody that contracts these things does survive in good shape afterwards. If we cared at all about getting through this as quickly and safely as possible, vaccines would have only gone to those with increased risk of side effects. The reason being that we get all these variants as a result of preventing them from spreading naturally. We don't have a vaccination, still after years, which is effective at preventing transmission. Without that, there is no way of vaccinating our way out of the pandemic, we're just creating new variants. If we want to actually have sensible public health policy, we need to remove Faucci and get somebody who actually knows that lying to the public is wrong. How many more times does he need to admit to lying before people stop listening to his idiotic advice?
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Don't forget the Democratic leadership that keeps moving to the right trying to get rightwing voters while offering their base as little as possible and then fighting hard not to deliver on any of it.
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We're getting a pair of them near where I'm living. And all I can say is that it's about time. The left lane going west has been nearly unusable for years due to the traffic backing up to get onto the freeway, leaving the right lane being the only one that's functionally available for right turns and going straight. They just started construction on a pair of turbo roundabouts where either lane should be available for going straight and then either the left or right lane is also for turning in that direction. It should clean things up a lot, even if they wind up needing to add a signal to it during busier times of the day. There's a traffic light near me where you can have to wait 20 minutes for it to turn at some points in the evening because it just won't change unless there's a car coming from the opposite side or a pedestrian activates the signal.
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@rudib-5304 Presumably those are similar to the firestation signals here. They're basically blinking yellow unless activated. Around here, we just have the green phase in one direction pretty much perpetual during certain points of the day, which can be an issue if the sensor for the other direction isn't working properly.
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It was a bad debate. Michael wouldn't shut up and let Cenk give his counter examples and really had no leg to stand on. I'm not sure how you can be a great Speaker when you're not delivering on much of anything that the members of your party or district want.
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@fastfreeks nope, people just realized that he was doing the best he could with such an incompetent response from the federal government.
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@fastfreeks you're an idiot if you don't see the relationship between his reelection and those things. Most of the problems in this state cone from the red areas' mooching off the blue areas.
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@fastfreeks Yes, I read what you said, although youtube makes scrolling very difficult. And yes, you are an idiot if you can't see why tax increases would fail without the governor losing his election.
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@ruger51995 You don't remember when folks in Yakima were doing basically nothing to manage the pandemic response and then started to set state records?
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@LilyGazou Not really, having more voters supporting your policy positions causes having a permanent democratic state. If the GOP would start actually supporting popular positions that could change.
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@kkhunt7 That's not how Democracy works. The problem here is that you think you should get a chance without having the popular support necessary to have a chance of winning. Splitting the state would be just a way of giving supporters of unpopular positions an increased say in what happens.
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And they wonder why politicians don't try to win the Black vote. You spend the money to do the outreach and try to help them get what they want, and the vote for somebody with a terrible record with respect to the community.
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There's too much. If you take either of the studio tours there are a couple buildings full of props you get to see. And the classic movies tour allows you to go into their warehouse to see a bunch of the stuff that's still available for various people to checkout for use in new projects. There's a bunch of stuff including the piano from the Casablanca TV show and some of the suits that the agents wore in The Matrix. So many chandeliers and desks.
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@kyngcobra3584 I think the main issue was just the amount of stuff in their archive and their prop warehouse versus the space they have for their museum portion of the tours. The amount of stuff in the museum is a tiny, tiny fraction of what they could put in there.
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The smart and the elite going into the military? Seriously? Perhaps before we started being involved in perpetual wars that was the case. The military itself varies a lot, perhaps if you're focused on those that are officers, that might be true, but the people who wind up in the military do so for various reasons and represent various levels of ability. For many, the military is the only way they're going to go to college as they aren't bright enough or connected enough to make it happen. You have far more enlisted members than you do officers and the bar to clear for enlisting is extremely low. It wasn't until relatively recently that they've had to start turning people away who lack a high school diploma.
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Why not install it in a VM and see if you like it?
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I'd love to see them introduce something like the spaces that Arc Browser has. So that I can go back to using Firefox while there's any alternative at all to Chrome.
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TBH, it wouldn't surprise me if it was an unplanned stage slap with just enough on it to cause some redness. There's a rather large wind up from Smith and it looks like Rock is trying to dodge out of the way as he's being hit. But, it could also just be a larger than normal slap and Rock probably wasn't expecting anybody to be dumb enough to pull a stunt like that in front of such a large audience.
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Sadly, it's going to take a super majority of the donors to make they happen and they'll have to name a new carrier after manchin.
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@asteroth1986 They could always make it a porno. I'm sure that would sell.
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@PeleLua1 In practice, it probably wouldn't happen. During the day leading up to the "polls" closing there's a ton of people milling around the drop boxes. So, it would have to be the evening before. I could be wrong, but I think that they tend to do more pickups in the last couple days just so that they have as little to do the day of the election as possible. So, as long as you don't want to drop the ballot off at night the day before the election, you're probably fine.
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In the US, it depends where you are, around here the city owns the electric company and while rates have been going up a lot, it's mostly to fund modernization efforts and deal with the dams that are being torn down to help rehabilitate the fisheries.
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Indeed. And I'm guessing that the 61% being under 20 minutes includes people that never view porn and married people that are emarassed to be caught as well as people that are understating it.
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Well, in this case the two things are exactly the same.
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@chelsearunyan Biden can't acknowledge that he's senile and was never the candidate that the voters wanted.
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Warren is a fake progressive. There's no way in hell that she should be the VP pick after the way she's sold out and smeared him so unfairly. Not to mention that she's staying in to try and prevent him from getting an outright majority.
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So, you've never had any integrity, I'm not sure why you'd be proud of that.
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He doesn't live at that house, they probably used a drone, and this is more of a way of them showing a bit of teeth with some hope of things not escalating an further. But, ultimately Bibi is a genocidal madman, so I'm not sure there's much that Iran can do to not get dragged into Bibi's war to keep his power.
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And men aren't? There's more shelters for animals than for men.
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What isn't being audited? Trump fired the inspectors general that do that, and the only department I know of that hasn't been passing audits is the DoD. This is a made of thing to justify fascists taking over.
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They don't care, his views were known years before he ran for office. I don't believe for one second that anybody believes his sincerity.
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It's worth noting that even if the 83% Reid Technique were accurate, that's still terrible.It comes out to about as you get that 83% of the guilty and of the innocent.
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That's not going to happen in the next 8 days. An injunction is the best we can hope for right now, any legal action would have to happen after the election and if Trump manages to win, any federal charges would likely be pardoned by Trump.
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@jeromethiel4323 That varies from state to state. Some states, especially TX IIRC, are very specific about what you need to do to be allowed to use the title or refer to yourself as such. In the case of engineer, that's a bit of overreach. I do think that calling it software engineering is kind of ridiculous as it's not anywhere near what engineers do, but that's the route that the industry chose for the degree. I'm guessing it's because it started with electrical engineers and progressed more in the software side in recent decades.
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@Demmrir If you're still not a millionaire, it's a choice of priorities. There's definitely responsible ways of spending the money and not having a million. You could, and probably are, living in a high cost area and you could be pililng most of it on to paying off a degree or your mortgage. But, the only way for you to continue to make that kind of money and not become a millionaire within a decade is to choose not to make it happen.
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@Tonixxy What tends to happen is that by the 4th or 5th generation you get spoiled kids that blow the wad on dumb things because they've got no idea what the value of money is. Most of the richest families in the US during the late 19th and early 20th centuries are no longer rich. The Vanderbilts had been extremely wealthy a hundred years ago, but I think Anderson Cooper might be the richest Vanderbilt now and that's mostly from being a famous TV personality. I do think there's something to be said for donating most of the accumulated wealth and requiring the next generation to do something to earn their wealth. It makes it far less likely that you're breeding a generation of psychopaths.
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@jaredjohnson8387 I think people confuse being rich with being comfortable. I've got all the money by day one of the month to pay all the month's bills and generally do before they are due. I've got a tiny $1.4k emergency fund and the cash on hand to pay the few debts that I have. For those that are living paycheck to paycheck, that might seem unattainable, but the fact is that if a person has the money to pay all of their bills at some point in the month, then paycheck to paycheck is a choice. Likewise, having a proper emergency fund just means that over time you've spent that much less than you've made. Sure, you won't get there in a couple months unless you're very well paid and very cheap, but over the course of a few years it's attainable. Now, I've got things set up so that there's not much in the way of discipline needed on my part to stay the course. I can have the thing that I want, and still be financially responsible. I may not ever be rich, but I've got a pretty decent shot at being a millionaire when I die.
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That's the thing, he's not even try. The same way that the Dems didn't even try to get hazard pay for essential workers after they had the ability to actually do it. The only reason that these debts exist in the first place is the failure of the government to adequately fund higher education and allowing student loan money to go to fees that don't serve any sort of legitimate educational purpose. It's not a complicated problem to solve. Colleges aren't going to start cutting back on the BS wastes of money if they have to find students that can afford to pay the related fees without a loan.
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How intellectually lazy do you have to be to dismiss it on that basis. We know they weren't fighting.
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There are tools, for example zeroinstall and just using the no-install version of software. Many, if not most, software programs these days offer that. At least as far as free and opensource software goes.
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@threedragonstalk2123 If it was built by German POWs, that would raise some pretty big questions given that this was built decades later with the US in a completely different military conflict.
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@fixedgearfever69 Plenty of groups did, it's a simple shape. The symbol itself was borrowed from Asia because it had helped with the mythology that the Nazis were trying to build.
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@comet8260 It's probably not a typical desk chair, they probably spent a few bucks more to get one with more adjustment range so they could avoid having a bunch of different chairs for the various heights of folks they were going to have on camera. They may still need an much taller, or shorter, chair for folks that are at the extremes of height, but that chair probably is adjustable for most people they have on.
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@bengillen1287 I personally think it makes here look pretty good in terms of maintaining composure through the last little bit before the cutaway.
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@rosesmith6208 Obviously, it doesn't take many jackwagons riding irresponsibly to force licensing and/or registration. Bicycles just don't fit particularly well either in the street or on the sidewalk as they typically can't ride fast enough to be legal in the street, but are often too fast to be safe on the sidewalk. E-bikes do address both issues to some extent, but there's enough irresponsible riders to make it an issue. Personally, I've felt for years that if bikes are going to be operated in the streets, that they need some sort of license plate and to actually comply with the laws. This whole business of taking more and more lanes of traffic away from cars to give to cyclists that don't feel like complying with the law is an issue. I'll see them on some rather steep hills where they're puttering along at like 3mph on a street with a 30mph speed limit, when they could just as easily be riding on the sidewalk at that speed. The whole thing just turns into an extremely dangerous situation as folks get impatient and pass. When really, riding 3mph on an arterial has never been legal. It's usually fine on side streets, but a major safety one on busier streets.
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Harris was going to cut the military?
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Why? There was a point decades ago when knowing how to drive a stick was in some way advantageous. At this point, manuals have worse fuel economy and require more effort to operate.
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The only way to completely prevent it is for the studio to control every aspect of the game, the hardware it runs on as well as the input devices. I do feel for them as excessive cheating can ruin an online game, but that doesn't make it OK to over extend copyright law to this extent. Even if they win this suit, I'd expect that the groups that create the hacks will just change to distributing patches that don't contain any copyright materials at all or middleware that intercepts API calls and the like to do so. None of which would be impacted by copyright law, just the ToS that the developers have.
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@BabaYaga-yh3yi These barely release any pressure. IIRC, they're expecting an 8.0+ earthquake to hit the region. A 7.0 earthquake is significant, but would barely release any of that. Each increase of 1 magnitude is roughly 10x as much shaking and 32x as much energy released.
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It's because Biden is a horrible human being. He won't do anything to help the people. And thanks to St. Ronnie deregulating the news media there's little competition other than a few youtube channels.
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TBH, I'm somewhat surprised that they don't all cut the compressor when the door is open. At least the ones that don't have the door on the lid.
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TBH, I used to live there years ago and it wasn't like that back then. I doubt very much that things have changed that much in the last decade. It's a country of over a billion people, there are going to be some A-holes. For every one monster child like that, you're going to have literally dozens, if not hundreds, of better behaved children. A large, and difficult to solve issue, is that the typical kid spends so much time in school studying for their high school final exam, and doing what the adults around them say to do, that there isn't a lot of time for developing emotionally. It has worked for them for many centuries, but it can put them at a disadvantage when it comes to competing with other countries for development resources.
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Car keys are bad enough, Biden has nuclear launch codes.
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I think part of it was that there was a long time where you couldn't easily see the older episodes as they either weren't available or you had to get specific sets to see the older ones. This video confirms what I've long suspected. SNL goes through phases where it's very funny and ones where it's not. I personally prefer other sketch comedy shows, but I do think that the hate that SNL gets is over the top by quite a bit.
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Obviously, it's purely because we don't really want to go down the rabbit hole of deciding which animals should deserve a new status that's above property and below people. We sort of had that in the past with slavery, and that didn't exactly end well.
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Clearly, because this one is a Democrat. Somehow it's different when it's a demented Democrat than a stupid Republican.
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@marymcdonald3897 And if it was their land, that would be fine, but they've been stealing land for decades and pushing the people who were living there into these apartheid regions.
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If you've got any information about how to handle traffic stops as a motorcyclist, that would be greatly appreciated. A lot of this is going to apply to us as well, but cops seem to particularly dislike us. Last year an off duty sheriff's deputy illegally pulled a biker over a couple blocks from my aprtment and put a gun in his face without even bothering to identify himself as law enforcement. Fortunately, the biker had the whole thing on tape and nobody was shot. But, the guy didn't even know it was a deputy until near the end of the encounter and only received a settlement due to capturing the entire thing on tape. Obviously, that's not the norm in any part of the world, but biker cop interactions can be more tense due to the bad blood on both sides.
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The thing the Democrats don't understand is that like him or hate him, nobody can claim that there aren't people that are voting for Trump. The same could not be said about HRC or Biden. People were voting for them as a way of voting against Trump and that requires a significant amount of hatred that doesn't translate well into doing things while in office that make the next time easier. Even if Biden weren't infirm, he'd probably still be having issues because of that. He shouldn't have been the nominee and only won because a large number of people would have voted for anybody not named HRC as an alternative to 4 more years of Trump.
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Biden: "Challenge accepted."
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I take it you've all forgotten about the hertz donut.
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Most cars can't hit 160mph and you do need an engine that can go significantly over the top speed limit in order to make passing less dangerous. A limiter would allow you to still accelerate relatively well near that top operating speed, but still not go above it. Personally, I'm not a particular fan of this, but given the jackwagons that drive recklessly, I'm also not a particular fan of the status quo where people are driving far faster than conditions allow and kill bystanders.
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Well, it's official, Biden is winning the no-legs vote.
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@AwkwardRenegade It shouldn't be surprising. Conservativism is the default as it doesn't require any change to something new. It's a conservation of the status quo or possibly regression to a previous status quo. No need for new thinking or ways of doing things involved.
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It took me a moment to realize that it was the year 1939. Funny, but true.
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It's a club that they charged hundreds of thousands of dollars to join and tens of thousands of dollars a year for membership on top of whatever food you eat. That does come with some restrictions in terms of when they are allowed to kick people out. Apparently, in this case, that didn't matter, but it can.
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The solution is to make them prove that their using the telecom fees to build out their network like they're supposed to be. Everybody with telecom service pays a fee for universal access that's supposed to be used to expand access to households and neighborhoods that aren't currently being served.
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@ohsweetmystery Try working such a job now, without tips, it's a tiny amount of money that you're not going to support yourself on. Waiters definitely do not make very much money unless the customers are generous with the tips.
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@Bit01 IMHO, it should be illegal to list the item as a "delivery fee" unless it actually goes to cover the costs of delivering the food. In many cases, the delivery driver is responsible for their expenses and may receive $0 of the delivery fee. Really, in general, it should be illegal to consider tipping as part of the compensation package, the wages and benefits paid should be sufficient without any tips.
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Umm, but that's how it's always been. The question here is whether or not they have to let the person on the ballot at all.
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History has little to do with why those people are in prison. They're in prison because they broke the law. What happened in the past has nothing to do with it. Don't want to go to prison, don't break the law. None of these are cases where the individual is innocent. Just because you're racist, does not mean the rest of us are.
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Doesn't matter, the point is to prevent as many people as possible from getting it.
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This is one of the reasons why I prefer to use pods. I can just drop one in each load and I get a consistent amount of cleaning out of it. It can be a bit of an issue if I have different sized loads, but it hasn't been an issue. My mother bought a washing machine that meters the liquid soap itself. It's kind of cool as she can just load up the reservoir from time to time and not have to worry about dispensing it each load.
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We'll see where the mistake was made, but as others have pointed out, given that both the clean up company and the locksmith both showed up to the same house to work, it appears that the landlord or property management company gave out a wrong address to somebody.
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TBH, that's not true and I wish people would stop saying that. I regularly see students from other countries that can't handle the math we expect of the students here. And no, it's not a language barrier thing, they get translations if they need it. Yes they're nominally in higher levels of math, but the rigor isn't there and it's mostly a bunch of memorized calculations.
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It would be nice to get a more scary land, Universal has a lot of that sort of thing and it would be nice to see Disney offer something for folks that are in between the age of being children and being parents.
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Oh, great, more voter shaming. I'm glad I voted Green. You folks are absolute jokes. If you can't come up with a reason why we should vote Blue, then do everybody a favor and shut it.
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He won't win though. He's clearly senile and his cabinet picks are going to make Trump's look moderate. He's going to put Bloomberg in charge of the IMF and all of the other finance-related postings are going to billionaires and Wall Street execs.
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@danielduncan6806 It probably wouldn't be an issue as they have already been replacing pieces of it for quite some time. Whichever bits of the tower are there when you were young, is probably going to be "The Eiffel Tower" for a particular person, even if 90% of the rest of it has been changed since then and that process can continue indefinitely. Presumably, parts that are taken off from each period could be preserved.
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@chestnu1 I don't see why not. That's how London Bridge came to be located in Arizona.
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I think I say this every time I see a video like this. Buy yourself DVDs, rip them to disk and stream them across your own network to your TV. It's the same experience,just no lube required. Personally, I like Jellyfin from a Raspberry Pi, but there are a few other options. It's great, it downloads info about the media I'm watching, nothing unexpectedly disappears, and I can just have it give me a random episode of a show if I don't have a strong feeling of which episode I want to watch. And, I can be sure that no ads will ever be added nor will any of the content be added to include advertised products in or change the way the entire show or movie is interpreted by things like who shoots first and whether people are smoking or not.
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@RadDadisRad Considering how badly you guys fucked up the Presidential primary, I'm not sure that I'd be suggesting that Iowans know anything right now. Thanks to you're idiocy, we're likely to not have an effective President for the next 4 years. I'd personally have issued the order and tried not to be so conspicuous.
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@yellolab09 Absolutely, the farmers out in the sticks may not have to do much to avoid this, but what about the cities? Sure, they aren't as big as in some other states, but that doesn't mean that people can't get it there. It just means that the threshhold between functioning and swamped is hit with smaller numbers. If they don't get their stuff in order, they'll max out their resources sooner. What's more, any illnesses there, will bring resources that could be used elsewhere. If they're taking the relevant precautions, then fair enough, but if it's because they're too arrogant to put proper measures into place, then f them. They should get no additional resources.
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Grim is an absolute fraud and the worst part of Rising. Well, that and that horrible woman they kept getting that couldn't say anything honest to say her life.
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The way he uses the term metro is nonstandard and I don't think even a word. He means a subway. It's also misleading because Seattle has more than one light rail system that are independent of each other. We built 3 independent systems, 2 street cars and one that's above, below and on the ground in various places. Trying to bury a line completely in a city wth huge hills would require some stations to be several hundred feet below ground.
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@neoasura Show the right to high-powered weapons with massive ammo capacity in the constitution. You can't, because the right that's in there was never intended to allow for the private ownership of such weapons. It's the same reason why we're not allowed to own howitzers and chemical weapons.
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@LUM-kb2rl Not that quickly. I go to Costco and buy an entire month's worth of meat for about $150. If I had to limit myself to the grocery store prices for two people, it would be a lot more than that. A box of bags at Costco is $30 and lasts for quite a while.
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He's in people's feed? I thought that channel was a cat that had this guy sitting with it talking about privacy and right to repair.
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"That was not what I meant by a blow job" -JFK probably
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Yep, it would have happened at some point prior to the convention. Bernie sold us all out and now we get to have another term of Trump. I could be wrong, but with the steps that Trump has taken and the ones that Biden hasn't, I think it's going to get tighter and tighter and that on the day after everything is declared, that we'll be looking at a second Trump term. Biden isn't doing a damn thing to try and win over the votes he needs to win, he's going after Republican voters that probably don't mind the horrible policies that the GOP likes.
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There's little point to that, it's trivial to add the flavors back if you want them. By contrast, adding flavors to cigarettes is a much more involved process.
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Ultimately, it is the bank's fault for not having a process that would catch that. It doesn't take much effort to verify the recipient against the name of the business that was the intended recipient. That would be a similar level of verification to what you'd get with a check. In order to send money, especially that amount, there are anti-money laundering regulations that require that the banks know whom the parties involved are. So, it's not like they don't know who's sending and receiving the money, they just didn't have adequate ways of verifying that the information was correct. And yes, triple checking is nice, but some of us have learning disorders that make that tough and there's typically a lot of numbers involved, if any of them aren't correct or you've misread the original account number, it can be very hard to find the mistake. Whereas having to get the account and bank numbers correct on top of the name of the intended recipient right would have prevented this from happening. I work at a store that handles Western Union, and I've been there when customers were having issues because the middle name of the recipient was incorrect and the money couldn't be received. (Such mistakes can only be handled by Western Union, not the 3rd party retail store that has the machine)
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@Fr00stee Yes, the primaried LBJ and while that didn't work out due to them losing to Nixon, LBJ likely would have lost to Nixon as well, but at least there was a period where the Democratic Presidents couldn't take running again for granted if they didn't still have the support of the voters.
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@rog6725 Crystal Skull was over all not a bad movie. And in the near future, we're going to be able to have AI replace that last part of the film with something that actually matches with the rest of the movie. That last temple scene where the skull ultimately belongs to an interdimensional traveler made absolutely no sense and was neither set up in the film,nor was it consistent with the universe that had been set up in the previous 3 films.
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@ultimatewafflegaming1018 I doubt it. For years, I only had Star Wars Episode IV to watch, and rarely got to watch the other two movies. I think what will likely happen here is that parents will curate the movies a bit, at least until the kids have enjoyed them.
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That doesn't surprise me. There's a few things that need to be added if you want to go deeper. Also, keep in mind that the air pumps were a lot less sophisticated than they were in the 19th century, so just pumping the air down with the right bits of diving gear, still likely would have ended badly.
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@wrongthinker843 How many women have experience with long term celibacy? Unless we're talking about somebody that's horribly traumatized or ugly, most women can get laid in a short period of time if they really want to.
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Self driving cars definitely will be there eventually, it's just a matter of when it happens. The fact that incompetent morons like Musk are screwing it up so badly does not mean that it's not coming. With the exception of some animals like deer that like to dash in random directions when startled, most other animals will figure it out and roads themselves will be engineered with ML cars in mind. At this point, it appears that we'll have nuclear fusion at some point in the foreseeable future, probably not soon enough really, but at least at this point there have been replicable test fires that did generate more energy than they put into it. The better question really is about the timing. That's a lot harder to say, but it will eventually happen, even if the roadways needed to have tallish fences on both sides with breaks where the cars are supposed to be entering or leaving the roadway. I also don't think we're anywhere near that point, it'll be at least a decade or two at the minimum and there probably will be a lot of road redesign to lower the bar a bit as well.
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I wouldn't draw any conclusions, the summons normally go out randomly based on various databases. You might never have been summoned again based on random chance. And, most likely that's the case.
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Sorry, they weren't charging women more money for insurance because they were women. They were charging more money because women are more expensive to ensure, even if you leave out pregnancy and reproductive related care from the calculation. Women use health care more than men do and as such were more expensive to cover. I fail to see why it is that men, once again, should get screwed over by women.
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@mf-- There are guidelines that require certain compensation over time. It depends on how long the wait is although it can be hard to make use of things like food vouchers if the restaurants have already closed for the evening.
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Why? That one is cut and dry. Illegally possessed animals that can carry rabies were seized and euthanized prior to testing.
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If we get vote by mail extended to most states, that would change the political system to any extent that is hard to comprehend. It would be far more difficult to suppress the vote if everybody can vote at home. Also, it allows people to research as they vote.
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@sophisitcatedpsyco Personally, I think there are a lot of steps involved for a gold fish to understand what's going on. They are smarter than we generally give them credit for, but there are a lot of buttons there for the gold fish to figure out, and tie those buttons to things that are going on on screen.
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@DPF61008OConnor How's not being NYC going for you?
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This is generally good advice, but as somebody who mostly has transferable skills, it can be extremely hard to get the information to be accepted by online applications. Sometimes the company won't even allow an applicant to list a degree unless it's specifically one of the ones that is on the list. Makes it extremely hard for the application to even be seen by HR let alone the person who is making the final decisions.
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You obviously haven't met my wife. I've had to throw out most of my nonstick pans because she refuses to stop destroying them by scrubbing the finish off. Nonstick pans are reasonably safe, but only if you don't damage the surface. If you start damaging the surface, then all bets are off. At least with cast iron, you can keep reseasoning them and probably going to be fine. It takes a fair amount of time for them to rust badly enough that they can't be fixed.
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@JohnLee-tb3nh Florida is more or less all the con artists go when they can't make it in other states.
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We don't accept it, it just turns out to be a very hard condition to treat.
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The underlying issue is that the right continues to nominate incompetent and corrupt judges and the left doesn't feel like what happens on the court is important enough to go to war over. Really, what we need is a constitutional amendment putting term limits in place, requiring a code of ethics that exceeds that of the rest of the courts and that the President be required to only nominate judges that are on a list created by a bipartisan working group. Those things wouldn't solve the problem completely, but they should put enough guard rails in place that the current wholesale corruption wouldn't happen again.
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@veilmontTV He sold out. The Bernie of 2016 would not be doing this. He let the party corrupt him and now he's got no credibility left. Some of us put a bunch of effort into his candidacy and got screwed over when he folded like a cheap suit. He should have threatened to run 3rd party if HRC and Biden didn't do anything to earn the progressive vote.
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Fortunately, Christians are going to lose. People are not at all interested in such bedtime stories.
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Um, middle easterners are white. Have you not seen some of those Saudis? Caucasians have inhabited Europe, much of North Africa, the middle East and Western Asia for ages. It's not at all unreasonable for Jesus to have Caucasian skin. Not to mention that painters would have had few alternatives to model in much of Europe anyways.
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Perhaps, but those folks already saw her, it's not like this was happening in the dark or with blindfolds on.
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They obviously shouldn't, this is no different from emergency restraining orders that are generally granted more or less automatically, unless the petitioner is completely and absolutely full of it. This is done because a dead petitioner can't be resurrected if the court finds that they had a right to the relief. Or the slightly higher requirements for injunctive relief to prevent the court from being in the position of making a ruling that's rendered moot by the action already having taken place in a way that can't be undone.
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He's just doing his job of impeding any popular uprising from the left.
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@dmitripogosian5084 Essentially yes, although it can get tricky if any part of the flight does fly over US airspace. There's no visas required as long as the flight doesn't land in the US, however, things like the no fly list do still apply just for entering US airspace.
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I wouldn't do anything important with an SSD, the way they fail is terrifying. Most of the time, a standard HDD will give some hint. Obviously not always, but I've had many fail over the last few decades and 100% of them gave hints ahead of time that they were failing and to make one last backup before replacing them, with the time before last having 10mb of unrecoverable data on the disk. Not a big deal, the data was backed up, I just like a copy of all those files so I know if I was able to restore everything.
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@psp420bam You shouldn't. When that thing goes, you may not receive any warning at all. The data will just be gone with no hope of recovery. SSDs are fast, but they're not very safe for data.
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I tend to agree with you here. There was a period of my life where I was working 12 hour days 3 days a week, which left me 4 days off. I would meditate for about a half and hour 4 times a day working on my ability to focus. I got pretty good after a while and I had the kind of focus that I'd previously only seen with the teacher of meditation that I learned from. It didn't last because I'm an ADDer and maintaining a life where I could set aside the time was no longer possible because I quit my job because I was sick of being mistreated. But, it was kind of cool because I could see the managers doing it realizing that I was largely immune to negativity coming from them and would not be moved by it at all.
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@EverythingHoops7705 We can care about more than one thing. The resources used to track them down for prosecution were never going to be used in the Middle East to stop Israel from engaging in crimes against humanity or Hamas from engaging in terrorism. Just to pick an example.
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That's what right turn on red is now and always was.
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@MrBalrogos Not if you use cast iron it doesn't.
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I doubt he would have gone up, the video doesn't specify why, but I'm guessing that part of the reason was that he's a big guy and the capsules aren't very large. From a practical standpoint, it just wouldn't have worked. The maximum height is 76 inches, but Big Bird is roughly 100 inches tall. Not to mention the practical issues with him wearing the gear at various points during the mission.
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Crispy pizza crust requires a ton of energy. Personally, I just use cast iron to get the extra heat into the crust without destroying the toppings, but he flips the pizza over before applying the sauce, cheese and relevant toppings. But, either way, if the crust isn't crispy, it's because you didn't get enough energy into it. Going longer will probably help, or you can just switch to a cheap cast iron grill and avoid the dangers associated with this method.
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You're still being spied on, but you should get results that aren't messed with by Google.
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Except that a lot of these things aren't actually racist in any way. It's a way that stupid people go about protesting. Or, do you think that freed slaves would put up a racist statue targeting black people? Because that's the kind of thing that's being taken seriously. A lot of this stuff is conspiracy theory stuff, but it gets taken seriously because people are afraid of being called racist.
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Modern Windows permissions are a lot better than they used to be when the registry was first created.
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No, it couldn't, you can't just swap different chips. These chips were likely built in facilities that were in process before the pandemic.
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First off, it's questionable if that's true. The numbers I've seen are pretty similar right now. Plus there's been a massive amount of investment made in making cars safer and the number of fatalities on the road has been going down for decades. Which means that even if it is currently true, it's not by a large margin and since we're not doing anything about gun deaths, it's probably going to be false within a few years. Secondly, whether or not cars have mufflers has little impact on fatality rates. Cars that are silent are more dangerous than ones that make noise to the point where when we move to all-electric vehicles they're going to have some sort of sound makers in order to give people that warning that they're coming. But, more importantly, we need cars, without them our economy would grind to a halt. We don't particularly need guns and there are literally tens of thousands of people who are killed by firearms that would either not be dead or would have to put some effort into killing themselves.
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That's not safe enough, I try not to have any of those people. It has made life a lot less stressful.
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Probably not, but we'll see. In pretty much any other situation, that would be the case, but this isn't one of those cases. You don't want a non-expert to be messing with a prop gun specifically because they can introduce their own mistakes to a weapon that's supposed to have been checked by an expert. We'll see where this is going, but I don't see the behavior as being sufficient to rise to a guilty verdict just on the basis of what is publicly known. There's just too many people that made too many mistakes and from what I understand, the police haven't bothered to figure out where the rounds came from and how they got into the gun. Which if that is accurate, the defense is going to have a field day with as those are completely relevant. This isn't a parent at home who is the only person that could check, this is an actor who shouldn't have had ammo on the set at all. Not at all the same thing.
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Why stop now? They've been nominated unqualified judges for the post for decades now. Thomas, Scalia and now Kavanaugh are the most egregious examples. They're put on the court specifically because they're known to be incompetent in a way that's convenient for the donors.
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There's two kinds of people. People that have ground inside and people that have floor outside. Most people don't differentiate between the two unless they're being careful.
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You do realize that several of them have degrees from the University of Wassup, right?
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And the third borns
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@hinzster Except that they're invisible and if you have something change the indentation it can be a lot of work to figure it out. Semantic white space is always a bad idea because you don't see it. White space is generally for the programmer, not the computer. The computer just needs enough white space to know where one term starts and the next one begins and sometimes that doesn't even require any whitespace at all.
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I guess what I don't get here is why she didn't just issue a search warrant and then have it served before he left court. For what's being done it wouldn't have taken long to get a couple deputies out there to conduct a much less problematic search of the house. That probably would have been within a judge's discretion to do if she thought that there were enough assets not being disclosed to be material for the matter of equitable distribution.
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The difference is project 2017 didn't happen because most of the establishment underestimated how hated HRC was and how loved Trump was by a portion of the populace.
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Don't worry Biden has promised to save us from medicare for all, even if it somehow manages to pass both chambers.
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@lunawalker6648 Um no. Time and time again the Israelis are caught stealing Palestinian land.
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Because it's dangerous and because it's there.
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We're getting there, after they refused to get me hazard pay while giving away trillions to corporations, I've completely had it. I left the party years ago, but now I won't vote for any of their candidates no matter what they say. The only situation where I'll vote for them is if there's no 3rd party candidate and it could help unseat the incumbent. Other than that, I'm never voting for them again. They can go screw themselves.
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@smilebehappy6102 It's worth noting that in that case, nobody is the wiser because nobody examines those logs. People lose more often than they win, so nobody is going through those logs to try to find false losses.
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They're not. If they were more effective, the change wouldn't be happening. They confuse significant minorities of drivers with little gain.
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Not at all, what about the employees that need those sales to ensure that they don't get their hours cut? Most retailers don't grant a lot of time for employees to do their work and when sales take a hit, often the hours available also takes a hit. It's really easy to make it out that this was a win and in a sense it was for that woman, but when police refuse to enforce the law with regard to shoplifting it becomes a stealth tax on everybody else. Around here, you pretty much can't get a cop to come for shoplifting unless it's an extreme amount of stuff being stolen or there's a weapon involved.
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Clearly, they themselves are generally so rich and old that nothing that Trump does really impacts them personally, but with him and the MAGA folks scaring the crap out of their supporters, it leads to a lot more fundraising opportunities. Seriously, people need to stop giving them money until they actually commit to actually doing things to improve conditions for the voters.
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What's the point? They're probably already going through a list of all the white men that have lost close relatives due to UHC denying care and are asking the public for help to try and get to the perp faster. It's unlikely that anybody else will be assassinated, but you never know, there may be doctors that he considers partially to blame for whatever happened.
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You have to be a registered voter in a battle ground state to get the money. Things like that do shift voter opinion, hence why it's grey area at best. Honestly, I don't understand how people could be so stupid as to think it's not meant to influence the election unless thre's a literally, I will give you this for that corrupt act. The GOP used to be the party of morality.
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You would think, but the Democrats will find a way of letting them off the hook the way they did last time the party appeared to be about to die.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, Hillary might well have been up by this amount if she had been able to get away with not speaking in public. Every time she spoke, her polling got worse. People didn't like her and the more we saw her the more we didn't like her.
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The Democrats are continually covering for them.
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@lordpowell3788 most trees can't throw their bark this easily and reliably.
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@cathybaldry7822 Around here we'll sometimes cut a strip around the trunk of we just want to kill it and let it dry out a bit before removing, or to leave standing for woodpeckers and other animals that need dead trees.
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@savage22bolt32 they're tapped, that minimally disrupts the bark. You can do that with any tree, but some are more susceptible to infection afterwards than others.
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@wulf7463 yes, yes grow at the fastest rate when young, and the carbon from the wood products will likely be it of circulation for decades.
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Decades ago, I thought he was smart, but the more I've seen of him, the more clear that it's become that he's probably not smart enough to have a proper job and that if he weren't a nepo-baby to Nazis, he would have wound up struggling to get any sort of job.
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That kind of thing has been an issue for many decades, at least the schools no longer force the kids to eat all the food that was in the lunch like they used to. I'd definitely recommend any parents that have kids being forced to buy the milk consider seeking legal action against the schools that are doing that because food allergies are allergies and there is a legal obligation of the schools to provide a safe learning environment for all the students, even those with food based medical issues.
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@Onoma314 It wouldn't surprise me if it got repurposed, although I'm curious how they got in and out without being observed. A lot of the infrastructure that booleggers used was already there, it just needed a secret entrance added.
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I'm a man that voted for Jill Stein, because that was the right thing to do. The Democrats have been quite clear that the don't want white men voting for them. They don't want black men voting for them. They don't want Middle Eastern men voting for them.They seem to tolerate Asian men and Latino men voting for them, but mostly because they check DEI boxes that they care about.
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@Karlaintheburbs It's almost as if minorities are capable of having their own opinions and if the Democrats want the votes, they need to earn them.
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We'll see, having the weapons is probably legal in WA, as long as he's either got a permit or is carrying them visibly. And as suspicious as this behavior is, there are other possibilities. Still, this is a case of better safe than sorry and it's better that people reported it and there was a full on response before anything happened.
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Another solution to the light switch and switching the bed stand lights is to get ones that have an electronic switch that turns themselves back on when power is restored. One of the things that I like about my Hue lights is that if I need them on, I can always power cycle them to get them back on. And, I can have a remote control by my bed. That way, I can turn them off from bed and use the light switch as well. There's likely other smart lights and plugs that do that.
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I don't think they expect him to start acting like a Democrat, they're counting on him to be that guy that always votes the wrong way on key votes so that they can claim that they were trying, but not having to actually worry about actually succeed.
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deee 327 Not really, more likely, what would happen is what you see in parts of the Middle East where it's bombings and continued terror attacks with a small number of gunmen hitting soft targets. In that scenario, the people handling firearms are going to be worthless, it's the folks that know how to build and use explosives that will carry the day. So, not anywhere near as lopsided as you're suggesting considering all the academics that know how to produce and use explosives.
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Except that's not his position. His position is better thought of as being 80% CI, with the rest being deliberate study and practice. Hitting 100% CI at the appropriate level is pretty much impossible without either doing some deliberate study or having the materials built for you with and your goals in mind. Even if you get that, very few people are going to complete it far enough to actually say that they've learned the language to the extent that they can properly use it outside of a narrow context.
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My guess is poorly thought out policies and insufficient room for the flight crew involved to make better decisions. Simply making it so that the deplaning was just for adults or kids with chaperones would have avoided this.
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I wouldn't expect that to happen, I think it's probably just being floated in order to make the final selection less objectionable to the public.
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They likely could eventually, they tried to do it with Itanium and that failed in large part due to AMD coming up with their AMD64 set that allowed the older X86 instructions to continue working even as new ones with 64bit support were added. It also didn't help that a lot of large corporations had a bunch of software that ran fine on the older processors that needed to be rewritten to handle the new processors. At this point, we're far enough away from those sorts of systems that some combination of emulation and wrappers could deal with whichever instructions are impacted by completely removing those if they want to.
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@wjrasmussen666 Have you ever watched firefighters working a fire. They don't generally go inside until the scene is safe to proceed. It's a bit odd to watch them slowly preparing to enter the burning building in a very methodical fashion. Presumably, that's if they don't believe there's anybody inside that needs to be rescued.
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Possibly allergies, possibly moving someplace where they aren't allowed to have pets. Sometimes it's because the owner died.
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We voted for a billionaire?
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@GARDENER42 Except that it's mostly conservative voters that get caught doing it and states that vote by mail don't see an up tick in fraud.
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If you're paying 10.5% for your mortgage interest rate, you're in trouble. And that's what the student loan interest rates I was presented with looked like. He's so full of shit that's it's crazy.
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For context, a couple buildings in the background at 0:17 are the superior court building and city lock up.
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@KylesMom1983 Exactly, Biden didn't finish the job in terms of putting all the guard rails into place that he could have. The DNC let Biden run largely unopposed in the primary, ensuring that we wouldn't have the strongest possible candidate to go up against Trump and they didn't really bother to try to earn votes from men, especially white and working class men. And then, we got stuck with Harris as the candidate who couldn't even seal the Rogan podcast interview even though he was willing to give her some time, even though they didn't even bother to ask until early October before the election. Not to mention that they were more concerned with Bernie being elected in '16 and '20 and waking voters up to the idea that the government can do things for the people when the politicians aren't all bought and paid for by similar people to the ones that own the GOP, just with a slightly less monstrous agenda.
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They already do, this little bit is tiny compared with the reduced wages the poors get and having to pay most of the tuition back with interest in such low wages. Not to mention the regressive taxes that the poors are disproportionately stuck paying.
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@deanjustdean7818 He doesn't have a right to an attorney in a civil matter. I do wish that it was a legal right, but it's not. That legal right is reserved for criminal proceedings and doesn't even guarantee that the lawyer is competent to practice.
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Don't forget that Biden has a tendency to make things up and seemingly has some sort of dementia.
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I'm not an attorney, but if I remember correctly from my business law class, that isn't legally enforceable. It requires offer and acceptance, mutual assent and consideration. It's unclear to me how any of those are actually being met with this change. There surely isn't acceptance or assent if it requires spending money to opt out of something that you didn't agree to in the first place.
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It's a similar legal basis. You are present in this place where you know there may be a check, so you've consented. I don't personally like it, but it also happens with carding at bars or preventing unauthorized people from going into K-12 schools. I'll be interested at how the court addresses it as it's not just up or down on the issue of fare enforcement, they may find something in the middle where you're allowed to ask and check, but can't take other enforcement actions. The big issue though is that the guy had arrest warrants and this isn't much different from traffic stops where most felony arrest warrants are served.
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You can, and some do, but what's the point really? Every browser has some sort of a license to take the stuff you enter into it and provide it to the sites that you're navigating to do whatever it is that you're wanting to do. If you don't give that permission, then you've got this weird '90s style demo kiosk browser showing what the internet can do.
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There are issues, I have no direct access to my inner thoughts, it's kind of surreal going around not really knowing what I'm about to do because I have no direct access to my thoughts.
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It's not rogue, it's doing exactly what the GOP intended to do when it started packing it with unqualified idiots.
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Yes, that's how that works. If you can't get them deported, then why should they be permitted to send them to other states to deal with?
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@masha7377 That's a common attitude. Art is produced to be enjoyed by other people. Unfortunately, the moment a piece winds up in somebody's house, it tends to get forgotten relatively quickly. One of the great things about digital art is that it's easy to share with the world, but the downside is that it's virtually impossible to make a profit or support yourself like that, even if you do gain a following.
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@janjansen201 Perhaps, but you can already buy the merchandise just on the strength of the TV program and youtube channel. That being said, I'd love to see some of these pieces being stored properly in a climate controlled facility and loaned out on a more regular basis to museums throughout the US, if not world.
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Why? It screws over the responsible and rewards those that made bad decisions.
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Temporarily deplaning does make some sense to me, as that can be quicker. But, permanently deplaning them over a balance issue makes very little sense.
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I never had issues, but you needed to be careful.
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Part of that is a lack of support, part of it is a lack of signs. I'm not sure I care who wins, either way the people will lose.
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I like to think that the government, along with everything else, can improve over time. That damage is done, although I do wonder what the alternative would have been as we didn't get better ways of generating power or distributing water until decades later.
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You can also use them to open stuck pickle jars.
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The going up is only reall a problem because our taxation and regulatory policies encourage the wealthy to stockpile money rather than allowing workers to share in the growth.
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It works relatively well as long as the cord is long enough and isn't too thick. In practice, it's mostly the larger gauge wires where you might want to do this, but can't really.
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@mikechappell4156 Years ago, I had problems with the montor settings not being stored beyond the boot, so I exported that portion of the registry and imported it after I booted up. It was stupid as a better system wouldn't forget something like that.
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I think the resolution of that for the folks to show up for the "voluntary" overtime and work as carefully, and slowly, as possible. It's overtime when folks are tired, so no reason to risk injury for overtime you didn't want in the first place. I think that would probably solve the problem before too long if it takes an hour to put each piece in place as folks walk back and forth for every piece of tie wire, nut and bolt involved.
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A large part of it has to do with numbers. I'm not sure what the current population of undocumented people in the US is, but last time I heard a number, it was 11m. It's kind of an old number, and probably high given how much deportation has been going on the last few years, but even if it doubled, it probably still wouldn't be enough spending to make much of a dent on those problems. As far as lowering the age goes, there's a simple and bipartisan solution that the politicians refuse to use. Simply bump the cap on the payroll taxes that fund the program. Increasing it to even $200k of taxable income would make a huge difference.
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@Tpforbunghole I believe that's for medicare. Social security is higher and getting worse over time as the corrupt crooks running the government refuse to fix the program to deal with the relatively small generations coming. The program uses current worker dollars to fund current retirees as the main source of income. You are today paying for the people who came before you and the folks currently paying will be paid by the next generation. The problem is that it doesn't handle the massive swings in generation size or the comparative weakness in wage growth at the bottom. The part that's actually taxed. It frustrates me that people whine about the social security payments that they get now, even though they had decades of generally good economy to work with, and they've opposed the policies that would allow the current workers the same opportunity. Meanwhile, for the younger generations, there's a real possibility of getting less than what we put in, after having our paychecks robbed for decades by corporations.
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I don't know where people get the idea that Krashen prescribes 100% CI. I've seen him on camera being very explicit about the fact that his position is that some deliberate study is necessary. It may well be that close to 100% of the actual acquisition is from the CI, but that doesn't mean that you can completely ignore deliberate study and expect to get a good result before quitting.
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It's going to continue to be a menace to public safety until people start driving on the correct side of the road. Somehow, that's the detail they don't fix, they just put a barrier between the two sides to ensure that nobody fixes their mistake. Typical bureaucrats.
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Sawant is terrible, she's pretty thoroughly despised by pretty much everybody in the city. She wins in one particularly left leaning part of town, but she achieved those things in spite of herself. She's easily set us back years as she keeps opening her mouth and getting the city sued and has basically no credibility. She's more of a figurehead than an effective politician.
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Yes, I think giving it to Mayor Pete or possibly Klobuchar would have made far more sense. Our main hope here is that Biden screws himself over during the remaining debates.
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But, if they tell somebody that they've written the debt off and that they aren't going to pursue it, wouldn't that be a waiver of the right to collect under promissory estoppel? Especially, if they stop sending bills and don't furnish the borrower with documentation about where the debt is being sold to? Also, the fact that it's been over a decade, I can't imagine any of this was still a collectible debt.
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@facehugger3 Yep, I didn't vote for either of them, but this is how democracy works. The Democrats have rigged so many consecutive primaries that the only way they can win is if they have a candidate that's so unpopular that the opposition tips it their way.
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Doesn't make these booby trap attacks any less war crimes.
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They won't. This is exactly what they expected would happen when they gave him, of all people, unchecked power. Expecting them to get braincells or morality is asking far more of them than is reasonable.
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@cosmoray9750 The promiscuous behavior isn't the problem, it's the lack of birth control and then trying to stick the guy with the most resources with the tab that is.
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It's unusual for a law firm to be opposed to international law, bold move. That's certainly a choice.
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99% of the people who use Fx were the ones that didn't jump ship over the last couple decades as the developers put more and more effort into chasing people away. Really, Fx is the Democrats of the browser space. Moving further and further towards the rivals and being surprised why hardly anybody is using them any more.
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I'm glad people noticed that. Biden is promising basically nothing to combat climate change. A green new deal and ending fracking should be mandatory for anybody claiming to be a Democrat.
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You can do that with Windows, but it requires that the software be setup like that. I'm grateful that more and more programs are at least offering a no-install version of their software.
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We shouldn't have blown on our games, just don't push the card down in the NES and that problem doesn't happen.
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How do these pundits not know about how ballots coming in from different parts of the state at different rates affects elections? I've known that for many years, it happens every election where the larger counties in the state take longer to count and tend to be more liberal.
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No, what she's got is clearly treatable. What's going on with her is pretty common within the autistic community and I doubt there are that many of us that haven't considered self-murder. The problem here is that euthanasia laws should specifically be for real problems that can't be solved. She's only 29, that's nowhere near enough time to have genuinely tried the most appropriate mental health therapies for autistic folks. One of the unfortunate realities is that we don't get the same benefit out of some of the most common treatments that non-autistic people do. There's a lot of adjustments that can be made to how we live our daily lives to improve things and she quite frankly has not been diagnosed long enough to have any right to have other people involved in this nonsense. I realize that there is this human compassion to let people free themselves of their suffering, but there's no particular basis for assuming that this is going to continue for decades. The amount of information about autism and how to deal with it has been increasing a lot, and I mean a lot. In the 15 years between when I narrowly missed out on my Asperger's diagnosis due to having a bunch of schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses in my charts, there has been a massive amount of improvement in terms of the options for improving quality of life and sources of things to try. And, I do get it, it's not like I haven't ever stared down at a bottle and thought about it, but at the end of the day, each time you step up to the abyss and decide not to do it, it gets a bit easier, and as scary as it was seeing monsters everywhere because I suddenly lost my ability to see any faces at all, at least now I know that it's because of autism, not because of schizophrenia and I just need to continue to just ignore it and it'll go away with some rest and a reset.
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@Dutchlad112 I'm sorry, but that's bullshit. Most autistic adults have a similar laundry list if we weren't either diagnosed young or very lucky. Personally it's Generalized Anxiety, Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar, Schizoaffective, Schizotypal, Schizoid Personality Disorder, ADHD, OCD, Stigmatization issues, IBS, tinnitus, severe allergies to animals, heat stroke and water intoxication amongst other things. And I'm not super rare in that regard. A bunch of those were things that I grew out of or where there was some reasonable debate between doctors as there aren't medical tests that can always tell the difference and some of those are very hard to do a proper differential diagnosis on. And some of them, I probably didn't have, it was just the underlying neurological condition. The point is that, I don't see anything in the reports that suggest that she's really that special in terms of the suffering. There is a lot of concern about people with depression and self-murder as the condition literally robs people of any hope for the future, the same hope that you need to proceed with treatment long enough to find one. The human spirit is a lot stronger than people think and I do question whether she'd be throwing in the towel if she had to be the one to do her own dirty work, or if she'd keep looking for other options for treatment as mental health care has been going under a bit of a revolution the last couple decades, especially when it comes to various neurodivergent people. I don't I would have had it so tough if I had been allowed to know that I've got some sort of pervasive developmental disorder rather than just being really screwed up in the head.
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@wingracer1614 Yes, and that's why this likely will be useful. I doubt that it will solve the problem completely, but having enforcement actions against online market places that don't take down fake reviews and the ability to investigate businesses that appear to be paying for the fake reviews would have a noticeable impact. As opposed to the fake calls, where it's a lot harder to just sever ties to over seas call centers that may have some part of their business making legitimate phone calls.
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@brianorca Yes, the buying side of things is much more likely to be something that they can actually enforce. I doubt most of the people on the providing side even reside in the US, or at least when it was actual people leaving the reviews, bots could be located anywhere.
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@DaveP-uv1ml I remember years ago being threatened with a law suit for pointing out that giving things away for reviews was more or less buying reviews. Thanks to the Mr. Beast drama, I now know that it may have also been an illegal lottery. I do realize that it's difficult to get people to review products and services, especially if it's not a mediocre opinion, but paying for reviews from legitimate buyers is problematic.
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Yes, but as long as the courts are backing bribery, there's not much to do without fixing the courts. At this point, you'd have to literally hand them cash for an explicit, in writing, promise for a given vote in order for it to be considered bribery. Anything shy of this has been legalized by the courts.
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It's a good thing that he's winning the old people vote, because it's not like the younger voters are the future of the party. eyeroll
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@mina86 Yes, although the DRM isn't that much of a problem. Tools to extract the text exist if the tools to break the DRM cease to. A simple program to flip through the book and screen shot every single page isn't really that hard to write. And OCR already exists to easily go through hundreds of JPGs and convert that to a proper PDF with reflowable text in many cases.
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Yes, and at this point the damage done from the CFCs has largely been repaired. The hole is still there, but on the whole, it's been repairing itself. Lead was an dremains an issue, but it's important to recognize that this was happening at a time where there was still a bunch of coal power plant emissions that were putting out far worse stuff than the lead was. When I helped my dad remove the shingles from his roof in preparation for roofers coming in, there was a thick layer of coal particles covering the entire surface from about the time that Midgley was doing his inventing. Lead will be an issue for quite some time, but ultimately, it's mostly out of the air and for the most part as long as you limit your exposure to the dirt, it's probably not a major issue and I'm sure that as time goes on that there will be improvements in ways of removing it from the body when it is too much.
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Normally, somebody will be on a ventilator for a few days, the corona virus patients are on ventilators for 2-3 weeks. That's in addition to the increased number of people needing to be on ventilators in the first place.
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One of the reasons that I refuse to pay for Premium is because of what they did with Google Music. They had a great app that could play music just fine. Then they decided to force everybody off of the app in order to charge a fee for playing our own music and running ads on our own music as well. To make matters worse, they took away just basic music player functions in order to force people to pay for a subscription even if they weren't listening to licensed content.
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You can do like I do with that sort of stuff and just use the option to remove the channel from your recommendations. If enough people do that, the behavior will stop before too long.
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Have you heard any of the music lately? It's not necessarily bad, it just all sounds more or less the same. I'm not sure how you'd manage to attract a following the way they did back then. Even though Randy Newman and Harry Nillson wrote most of the biggest hits of the late '60s and early '70s, there was far more diversity of sound then than now. Oddly enough, it's largely still the case that most of the music today, at least as far as the hits go, is written by a small number of writers, they simply do not have the same level of talent or dedication to the artform that was the case previously. As long as it's a hit, that's good enough, even though it probably won't be something that anybody really yearns for the way that they do the older stuff.
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@GLJosh Those definitely exist, and the local library has some kill-a-watt meters that can be borrowed. Last time I did that, I found that most of the things I owned didn't really have much draw when they were powered down. But, I got my parents a power strip that would power down most of the outlets when the TV was turned off. It happens automatically, so the TV is on the monitored line and the DVR was on a bypass line, and the rest of the stuff would get completely powered down every time the TV was turned off.
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@Zundfolge If you own the house, a better solution would probably be to have AFCI breakers installed to cover that stuff.
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@JohnRunyon Yes, I think the times when that happened were probably times when the wiring wasn't very good, and the device was in a sort of quasi on state which created a bunch of extra resistance on the circuit and led to a fire. These days, I think the closest you'll see to that is those stupid dimmer switches that can be set to a position where they aren't on, but they're not completely off. My mother's shop had a small fire due to that when I was a kid.
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That's why Klobuchar is the wave of the future.
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It's not a loophole, it's there to ensure that people aren't harassed based on decades old allegations that lack evidence to be tried in court. With hundreds of people alleging to have been abused, it's a bit hard to believe that none of them were willing to report it to the authorities, but we need to change the law to allow for the elderly to be prosecuted for what they allegedly did as young people. That is insane. The solution here is for people to realize that there is a ticking clock and to actually step up and report it when there's time. Extending the period isn't going to lead to anything other than an increase of innocent people being prosecuted.
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@justayoutuber1906 People forget that unless you've got a question that is dead simple, there's usually a trip to their law library to look up not just the law, but what precedence might apply and what the case law has been like. Most of the time, the answer is that it depends for a reason, a different, and sometimes very similar, set of facts can lead to a very different outcome.
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@Waynestarmoon It's Trump, Epstein would probably have been put in charge of PBS.
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@HAASgoggles I've got the terms laid out in my living will and to what the precise situation is where they can have whatever they can use. I don't believe that the organ donor program on the drivers license gives them anything other than carte blanch to do what they like. It doesn't say what you personally consider to be death for the purpose of organ donation.
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@Primalxbeast if they've genuinely determined you to be brain dead, there's no point to anaesthesia as when a healthy human that's asleep can't feel any pain. One with so little brain activity that it can't be detected isn't going to feel anything, You do have the option of requiring cardiac death which is an even harder standard to screw up. But, at some point, either you trust the process our you don't and it's up to us all to make the decision for ourselves while it's possible.
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Yes, but shouldn't we be looking for better ways to get them fed and educated. Also, we should be doing something about increases in domestic violence.
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TBH, if it weren't for videos like this one, I wouldn't know that was a thing. I don't remember ever having clicked on one, and I definitely don't now. They're not just mean spirited, but often times they aren't even clever.
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Yes, my Dad has extension cords that are older than I am. The wires inside have their own twist to them and if you twist the cord the same way every time, they'll eventually work it out and coil really nicely. It's a lot of work to do it with somebody else's cord, but once you get the hang of it, it's not that hard. The method he shows here doesn't really work with thicker cables, the cable has to be thin enough to be able to get a reasonably sized loop. But, coiling will always work, at the cost of being a bit easier to tangle up if you don't plug the ends together and wrap them in some fashion.
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@Mogman150 That's demonstrably false, if that's causing the cord to break then you've either been doing it wrong or you've got a cheap cord. My Dad has several extension cords that are decades old where he's done that every single time and the wires inside are going to outlast the outside protective cover. If you half-ass the coiling process like he is doing in the video, then yes, you're going to wind up with a broken cord, but if you actually do it correctly, then no, it won't break, not now not after decades. You do it gently and respect the wires on the inside, over time they'll gradually adapt to a certain curve and resist any other coiling you might want to do. After time, you'll take it around the forearm and the cord will just want to be that diameter even without needing your forearm. Extension cords often need a bit of time to break in due to the way that they come coiled from the factory. Over time the wires and cover will relax a bit and you'll get a better coil out of it. The main downside is that unlike the daisy chaining making a coiled extension cord longer is a bit less convenient and you need to be more mindful of getting it wrapped to prevent it from tangling when you're storing it. One of my personal pet peeves is when people use a technique incorrectly, get bad results, then declare the technique to be bad, when it was just the implementation by a bunch of knuckleheads that was to blame for the failure.
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@judsonkr Nope, he showed 2 right ways and a third deliberately incompetent right way. If you did the other methods that incompetently, they wouldn't work out well either. My Dad has a number of extension cords that are years old and in most cases decades old that he's coiled in roughly that manner regularly. In fact I've only seen him buy a new extension cord because he needed a thicker gauge, longer cord, was already using the other ones or a cheaper one got damaged by something external damaging it. I've never seen him buy a single replacement cord due to the way he coils them. Not once in the last nearly 40 years that I can remember. The difference is that he doesn't force them into that coil, he developed the coil in each extension cord by gently coiling it the same way each time and allowed the cover and wires to gradually sort themselves out. Now, if you take one of those extension cords and try to coil it in any other way, it tells you not to F-ing coil it like that. But, if you do it the right way, then it will coil up very nice, very neatly and very easily. The wires inside will easily outlast the outer cover and the bits at either end.
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Not officially, however, there are laws on the books that would be at play. For instance having different ages for men and women is definitely illegal sex discrimination and it's likely also race discrimination as a disproportionate number of black men don't even live to see 30 let alone 35. That being said, the constitution does ban special treatment under the law, but nobody seems to care when it comes to age restrictions on the youth. I wouldn't expect it to wipe out all restrictions, for example controlled substances, but BS like age discrimination being permitted unless the person is over 40 is pretty blatantly unconstitutional. Such laws are pretty blatantly in violation of the 14th amendment, but the courts generally don't care about that.
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You mean a "Razr in an Apple."
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@Arltratlo In the US, nearly all roads in the country are some sort of highway. Keep in mind that the entire country of Germany is the same size as Montana. The US has a massive amount of space and in rural areas you do get highways crossing, although it's usually not that may lanes and there's generally either a traffic signal or a clover leaf or some other engineered interchange built to address it.
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@xFD2x Years ago I had the fortune to take with somebody working for the state DOT and he explained that the rural roundabouts were being put in for the simple reason that knuckleheads were assuming there would be no traffic coming, because there usually wasn't any traffic coming, and blowing through the intersection. The resulting t-bone collisions were killing enough people that the DOT started just putting in small roundabouts to put an end to it. But yes, the stop signs are cheaper and they should be sufficient, you're just neglecting the human element.
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Because that worked so well in 2016.
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She must get on great with Warren.
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It is, but 8% would make it harder for them to start Civil War II. They could definitely cause a ton of damage guerilla/terrorist style, but probably not as much as a Civil War II would.
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kidfantastic TBH, I kind of think it should be 0%, but I also think that in any country where you're supposed to cover the cost of something of society wide utility, that's a big ask.
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@KeiPalace I'd be fine with 0% interest, but realistically, even just knocking it down to something around inflation is probably not going to be politically viable due to a large number of people hating college and the folks with money being opposed to it.
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@aetherwizard3218 Which works out great, until you need a doctor, lawyer, social worker, counselor or any number of other professions that require a college degree and may or may not pay well enough to cover the cost of the degree and possibly delaying full time employment. Why should college graduates have to subsidize the services that we all use?
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@runed0s86 Nope, it would cause some inflation. That's it. And probably not even that much.
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@somewhereinchicago8743 Private companies charge interest on it in the US, that's not the case in every part of the world. Interest is one way of accounting for the lender not using the money for other uses. Another way is to just charge a markup on whatever is lent. For example, expecting to be paid the original $100k and an additional $20k to cover the alternate uses of the money.
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@johnmoser3594 These aren't private loans, this is the government creating money in order for the school to get it's money before the student pays for it. Therefore, additional money created gives you inflation. The inflation only exists so long as the loan isn't repaid. As the loan is repaid, the extra money is destroyed. The whole thing isn't even remotely complicated.
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King Honkie you were born in an era when that was still realistic. The world isn't the same as when you started out and pretending looker it is does nobody any favors.
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@BaresarkSlayne it's because the tax payers no longer subsidize 80%of the cost. It has nothing to do with supply and demand, just that the older voters don't want to extend the same benefit they had to those that really need a degree to be considered for most decent jobs.
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@PandemoniumVice he didn't file. He should have and we were extremely broke for years, but my parents were able to manage. It made a huge impressing on how I view money versus my brother who is one a few years younger. Now, there wouldn't be much of a choice as the laws have changed to make it harder to get out of debt.
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Loraine Jones that's a small factor, the cost is largely due to the consolidation of the publishing industry and the failure of the government to offer the same subsidies. It used to be 80% subsidy, now students pay 80%, assuming they're not able to get funding.
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King Honkie nobody is saying that, what we are saying is that there is no guarantee that if you work hard it will get you anywhere. The hardest working people I see are the restaurant workers making virtually nothing. In order for work ethic to pay off, there needs to be enough food paying jobs for all willing to do the work and that's far less true now than it was several decades ago. Even then it wasn't a guarantee.
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Yes, but I don't think he'll do it. When he dropped in 2016 and 2020 he didn't even make the DNC give him concessions for letting them screw his supporters over. He, or somebody of his choosing, should have been the VP pick in 2020, as it stands the party offered absolutely nothing to try to earn the progressive vote.
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That's what I don't really understand. The GOP policies aren't good for blue states, but the impact on red states is often far, far worse than for the rest of the country. Those are the places that are being hit by hurricanes and tornadoes far more oftne. Those are the states that get far more federal money. Those are the states with far more issues with poverty and where women can't get abortions without moving across state lines.
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@Anton Ivanchenko Isn't that only a step removed from when they let Hitler just annex parts of Poland in WWII? This might be slightly better in that at least this is Ukrainian land, not some other countries land, but still.
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@fabianlaibin6956 That reminds me of Tale Spin.
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@VitalVampyr The people who were hit by the WEP and/or GPO were only paying social security taxes on some of their income, not all of it. That's why they get some, but not all of the benefits. The WEP and GPO only cover wages that weren't subject to social security taxation. It's social security benefits that should never have been paid out as there was no tax supporting it. And the GPO in particular only reduces social security by 2/3 of the pension amount. So, they're still getting 1/3 of the normal amount for money they made, but were never taxed for. I do agree that the correct solution here is to eliminate the cap, and I'd add expand it to all forms of income that aren't tax exempt.
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In WA, there's no particular need for it to be provisional. If the ballot was put in there the day that the fire was set and it hasn't been received, it was destroyed. One of the nice things about WA is that there's a pretty good system for tracking ballots so that you don't need them to reach out to you if there's a problem, you can look yourself. I'm sure though that they'll keep them set aside until they've gone through the ballots and count the ones replacements where there wasn't another ballot cast.
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I'd love to have an electric motorcycle with a rate limiter lever replacing the normal shift lever. That would be so sweet, it could be programmed to behave a bit like a transmission.
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I like the idea of the lights, especially during the winter when we get 16+ hours of night every day, but the lack of ECE and Snell rating is enough to put me off.
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@ How is it unfair? You guys got to buy property when it was affordable, the younger folks didn't. Why should the younger people have to subsidize the rich that screwed us over in terms of economic policy?
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@ It doesn't. Specifically what law does this violate?
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@ Why not? DO they cut you off from police and fire protection? DO they roll up the roads leading to your house? Are trucks no longer allowed to deliver things to you over public streets? A lot of young people will never be able to afford homes, why give the elderly yet another giveaway at our expense?
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No, she's arrogant and senile enough to assume that there won't be consequences of this. I do think that nuclear war is rather unlikely, but there's numerous other ways that the PRC could make us pay a price for violating our gentleman's agreement to let them pretend like they own the island. This is likely to just be the latest shove by the US politicians of the PRC towards Russia and a new megablock of countries that are no longer in our sphere of influence at all. And China and Russia were barely in our sphere of influence to begin with. Now, they'll likely be out of our sphere for at least a generation, if not more.
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@theguybehindyou4762 I'm not surprised. While the young folks do have more interest in inclusion that previous generations did, that does not excuse having media that is devoid of any sort of value. It just means that there should be compelling stories and games tat have a broader base of inspiration. They still need to be fun and entertaining.
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@hirotakasugi4891 Not really, these sorts of situations are still relatively rare no matter what people might say. Far more people murder themselves with firearms than use them in any sort of self-defense situation.
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He's a sell out. He let the Democrats rob his rightful nomination 2 elections in a row and didn't do so much as run 3rd party the second time to punish the party for screwing over the voters. He's a large part of why we are where we are. If he had run 3rd party in 2016, we still would have had Trump, but in 2020 the DNC would have been forced to let a better candidate win the primary.
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@SirJarlsburg It definitely transmits between kids and anybody claiming otherwise is either a liar or incompetent. I personally witnessed it ripping through a middle school in the early days of the pandemic and I've never seen anything else move through a school that quickly. I'm not aware of any of the kids getting so sick that they needed hospitalization, hence no testing and why people think that ut doesn't spread between kids.
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@justinprice8016 In all fairness, a lot of parents don't have child care options if the kid doesn't go to school. That's one of the things the government should be helping parents with.
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@luisalejandro2335 Construction workers shouldn't be coming into contact with hundreds of people a day in tight quarters. Also, as an actual essential worker, it disgusts me that construction workers think they're essential. You're not, nobody is going to die if those projects are delayed a few months or even a year.
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There's certainly some, but barring an actual intellectual disability, most people that are willing to put in enough effort can learn to fluency 3-7 languages. Probably not native-like fluency, but enough that they can handle most circumstances without any real issue. The real limitation tends to be in the maintenance. Learning a language is one thing, but maintaining it is a lot of work if you don't have time to regularly use it.
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I could see that. IIRC, they could make Warren Secretary of State which would put her just beyond Mayor Pete in the line of succession.
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@brandishwar That's also where the practice of the employment security people effectively working for the employer came from. The tax revenue that funds the department comes from the companies, so they'll side with the employer in virtually every case and accept assurances that evidence exists from HR reps that may not have even seen the evidence themselves. Assuming it even exists.
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It doesn't though, this is just more stealing from the young to give to the elderly. The money for this is coming out of the pockets of the younger people who are already having to work longer to get their benefits due to the shortfall.
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@RomaHeart The money is coming from the payouts that the young were supposed to be collecting. A lot of us don't have pensions, may not have enough in our defined-contribution accounts and now we're looking at losing out on more of our social security due to money being given to people that at least had pensions. It's not ideal, but those limits were part of what was done back in the early '80s to try and avoid having the entire system collapse. I don't doubt that there were reforms needed, but without specifying a funding source for this, it's functionally stealing from young people that are going to need that money when we hit retirement age.
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@RomaHeart Most of you folks knew what you were getting into. This has been the case since the early '80s. Those of us that are younger are already seeing the age of retirement for social security increasing, and this will push the fund into insolvency earlier. There were decades to deal with this problem, but folks that are in this boat mostly have other pensions to cover this. Why should the young people who may not have even been born when these policies were enacted give up our benefits because a bunch of boomers suck with money? The young folks got screwed from just about every angle. Housing eats up most of the money we could save for retirement. Pensions mostly don't exist. And even Social Security that's supposed to help keep us from extreme poverty is being cut so that Boomers that had better options than we did, get theirs. And that doesn't even include the debt due to cuts to education for the degrees that young people were told to get in order to have a decent life.
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@RomaHeart And that's something to address, just not as the expense of the young folks that are already getting screwed. You made your choices, we didn't choose to be born after the party was over and to be stuck cleaning it up. That was you people.
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I think it's sad that people aren't giving the movie a chance. It's somewhat concerning that some reviewers couldn't be bothered to pay attention to the move as it does clear up the question about why Indiana Jones didn't believe in magic in Raiders of the Lost Ark when the events from Temple of Doom had already happened. It's an Indiana Jones movie where Harrison Ford is 80 years old, I'm not sure how anybody expects him to have the athleticism to perform the way he did even when Crystal Skull was in production. People are certainly entitled to their opinions, but it's a fun movie. I'm not sure it's going to hold up as well as the original trilogy, but there was a lot more attention to detail than the reviews I've seen give it credit for. It is a long movie, but it's not a boring movie and this is the least insufferable I've ever seen PWB.
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@RobinRockefeller It's a burden on the rest of us for people that are getting another pension. This was the result of Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset as in, it was an effort to even things out a bit to help keep the program solvent. Adding those folks back in without establishing a funding source just steals from those of us that are young enough not to get ours before the program goes insolvent and starts paying out less than what folks paid in.
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 @TheJustineCredible so, the women that voted Trump didn't?
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 @juliet3827 Yep, if I could learn the Chinese to get around in a few months, there's no resin they couldn't learn the necessary English.
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That information will be provided in the suit. The Japanese court system is different from the US, but it can't be that different that the company will be completely in the dark until they show up in court. This was just the notification letter, I'm not a lawyer and I haven't had any business law classes dealing with Japan, so I don't know how unusual it might be to not include it in that notification of the incoming lawsuit letter.
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@NoraIconiq Yes, although software patents are typically garbage patents where the actual code used doesn't necessarily need to be included the way the equivalent would be for other types of patents. They will have to prove whatever their claims are, but if it's related to Pokemon related capture mechanics, that should really be expired by now as there were Pokemon games for the GB and those patents should be expired by now, they haven't even sold the GB system in over 25 years a this point.
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@kaijuultimax9407 Patents covering that presumably expired years ago.
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Will be? Those spaces are already mostly full of Trumpvilles.
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This whole bit about being handed a list of names is particularly bad for folks with ADHD or other conditions that impact planning. I gave up finding a provider for treatment for my ADHD and got my prescriptions from my GP because I could not find anybody that was taking patients and could provide treatment to an adult with ADHD. When I talked with my doctor, he was pretty clear about the fact that there just aren't any doctors that do it and that it's common to have a GP prescribing for that. I didn't really need more than that, but it's horrible that a doctor without specialized training is the status quo for treatment. Even if you do manage to get a psychiatrist to treat ADHD in adults, virtually none of them are qualified to provide care as it's only been in the recent past that the doctors started to recognize that ADHD doesn't go away just because you're an adult.
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I'd load up on late '80s to late '90s cyberpunk programming so you'll be ready for what's coming. Only those capable of hacking mainframes using UIs that were clearly designed by people on acid will survive.
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It's not going to pass, but this is the right move. The reality is that marijuana is just not dangerous enough to justify making it illegal. Unlike some other illegal drugs, marijuana just doesn't have much impact beyond the individual user. Potheads aren't really known for committing other crimes in order to pay for their habit the way that some other drug abusers do.
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From a clip I saw with one of the founders, they put a lot of their eggs in the hull basket, assuming that if anything else failed that they'd be able to retrieve the sub and extract the passengers in time to save everybody if something like this happened. I'm not sure what precisely happened, but if they can't locate the sub in time to extract the passengers, then it doesn't really matter that much if the hull was OK. It's arguably worse because 4 days being trapped before eventually asphyxiating in a particularly unpleasant way is one of the worst ways to go. It's up there with getting stuck in a cave and starving to death as rescuers try to figure out how to get you out, in terms of awful ends.
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@Dkgow Yes, but I was on a Southwest flight recently where they had basically every seat sold, (I think there was like one free seat available when we left the terminal). So, on a flight like that, you're probably not going to have a choice about sitting between passengers of that size. I do think that the seats need to be built to a reasonable size though, I'm not particularly overweight, but my shoulders alone are wide enough to make it hard to cram into some of the seats on airplanes. I'm not really sure how being wedged between two fatties is even safe in case of crash.
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This is exactly what this law was intended to prevent. These people flooded the capital with the intention of preventing the lawful counting of electoral votes. The court got this wrong and it's time that something be done about it. The justices that vote for this ought to be impeached and removed from office, although that's not going to happen with the GOP having enough votes to prevent that. The next best thing would be to expand and pack the court. But, really what this shows is just what a failure Obama was as a President that he didn't lean on RBG to resign and didn't make the GOP pay a price for not confirming his nominees.
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You're supposed to empty them out when not in use and IIRC, there's a part that's included to help keep it open so that it completely dries.
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That's a huge problem. It's also why it should be required that all states vote by mail. The wait lines in these various states is often absolutely ridiculous. It takes hours in some cases. Here in WA we never had wait times that long even before we switched to only voting via mail.
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@RobinDale50 At absolute bare minimum, he did nothing to shut the riots down when they nearly hung Mike Pence. In the lead up to the rioting, he was spreading a bunch of misinformation about the results of the election and encouraged people to act out on it.
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How is Kamala Harris any different? Her ticket needed Obama to step in and rig it for them, and this time she didn't need to win a single state to be the presumptive nominee. Pot meet kettle.
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@lu77xiaojun37 In this case if they have no passports, they'd just be deported right back.
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@alwaysfallingshort Everybody knows that having children will fix any marriage.
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Something that got lost in the video because Steve isn't here is that the bus in question is a rapid transit bus, in that it's meant to load as many people on as quickly as possible, so there's no way of checking the tickets. Our regular buses do have a driver that you'd have to show payment to on the way through either in the form of a transfer, a card swipe or actually paying. It's not enforced much due to a string of felony assaults on drivres, but there would be the ability go generate probable cause there. The rapid transit buses have people entering the bus from any of the doors and the driver has no way of knowing who has and hasn't paid. So, buses are periodicall boarded at random for fare enforcement officers to verify that people have paid and fine those that lack evidence of payment. It's not any less constitutional than the requirement that people at bars have proof of age to be in there. My personal concern is that if this does get overturned that it may lead to other issues cropping up like the ability of bartenders to keep people out that are under the age or adults out of K-12 schools and the like as the authority to enforce that depends on the right to verify who are there on the basis of their presence in those locations. I do agree with the defense attorney that allowing the charge in this case doesn't set a good precedent either, I just don't think this is as open and shut as some folks here make it sound.
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It's not chicken, why do you think they no longer have Smurfs in Belgium?
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I used to have that problem years ago. I've since recovered enough that I no longer get that at all. TBH, I miss them, it's really weird because at the time it would get so loud that I couldn't hear anything else that was going on and it made it nearly impossible to socialize, but now that they've been gone for so long, I kind of miss them. For me, the only thing, other than medication, that helped that was focusing on actual music as intently as possible, it made it very difficult for the brain to make the hallucinations when the neurons were busy processing actual sound.
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I voted against Jayapal because she voted for Pelosi. I told her ahead of time and now I won't vote for her. My vote doesn't really matter, but if enough of these votes that don't count add up, there's issues.
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I thought he was going to say, you're right, it's not manilla, it's white.
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It does, but unless you're doing a lot, the impact can be rather subtle.
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@josephstalin839 10% of the population can do a lot of damage and it isn't necessarily going to remain 10% indefinitely. There's a lot of things, both good and bad, that started out with far less support and eventually grew to be majoritarian positions that reasonable people would have a hard time opposing.
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Yes, but they're smaller bikes and there's a lot less reason for those to use have float to them as they just don't get as hot.
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We don't want people like that here. That doesn't mean that the violence was acceptable, it wasn't, but we really and truly do not need people bringing those sorts of retrograde beliefs here. We are collectively well aware of the existence of Christianity and the core tenets. If we don't already go to Church, there is a reason for it. Stop trying to convert us.
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It was a couple decades ago, but I doubt that it's as good now, comparatively speaking, as it was when it was more or less the only option. Personally, I prefer Foobar2k , VLC and any number of other media players depending on what I'm doing. I think the last time I thought about Winamp was when Wesley Willis died and only because he's the one that came up with the whole catch phrase.
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Yes, something like 49, and I don't think they run concurrently, so he'd be out of prison in something like 7 or 8 centuries.
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I don't agree, I think they should be honest in what they're doing when they're not undercover. But, expecting the cops to show their hand too early just means that genuinely guilty people get off the hook.
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That doesn't surprise me. I've switched to using dropps and that's probably about how much is in one of their pods.
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@kaboom4679 Indeed, I did some work in a wilderness area and you don't get to use any power tools there. Pretty much the limit is battery operated things that don't generate much of a disturbance. It was kind of cool because we got to cut down a tree with a crosscut saw as chainsaws were prohibited. (I was working for a contractor to do work for the forest service, and we didn't get an exemption from the ban) But, it also meant that we were schlepping a large amount of gear that would normally be moved in via some sort of motorized vehicle as pack animals weren't an option.
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@Strideo1 It's not overbearing, wilderness areas are set aside to exist for the rest of eternity as if humans didn't exist. Or as close to that as possible. It is a tough situation where the motorized equipment is for removing a plane that has a body in it, but without the bureaucracy, you have issues about where you draw the line. I worked for a contractor that was doing work for them and we didn't get any motorized equipment, so I'm not sure what about this necessitated a helicopter if they were just interested in removing the bodies for a proper burial. If they ultimately got the permission to use a helicopter to remove the wreckage, then I'd say that the system is working as intended. They got the variance they needed and the area was protected.
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He definitely should have eaten a taco because all Latinos love tacos as they all ate them back home, in Mexico where they're all from.
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Mostly because fine art is a scam. It's mostly used for money laundering and as a way of transferring wealth without having a record of having done so. Take a painting in my vault and put it into your vault and now we've transferred potentially millions of dollars without any record of it having been done.
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@davidrosenberg9615 The issue is that he controls the DoJ and SCOTUS and there's a decent chance that the court could decide that pardons now apply to state convictions as well if they try. So, the DoJ won't prosecute at the federal level as he's their boss and the SCOTUS has already said that he's immune.
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That's typically neither criminal nor a tort. The only situation in which a woman failing to keep her legs closed could be subject to court actions would be statutory rape or as part of divorce proceedings. Definitely not in this case.
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@morgan4373 That is sound advice. I remember being most of the way through a 20 mile one day through hike when I had a back spasm. It was my own fault for not having my stuff adequately balanced, but more focus on how I was using the pack and the comfort likely would have prevented that from happening.
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IKR, there's a reason why he was hiding in his basement through most of the campaign when everybody else was campaigning.
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@bongbong-bongbong-bongbong Research is cheap, and Russia is an alternate means for things to make their way into North Korea.
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@Rockthelocs As long as the Democratic party is so horribly corrupt, I'm not sure it really matters much which candidate it is.
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I'm voting 3rd party, having decided which party yet, but probably Green as they seem to have the best chance of crossing the 5% threshold and I agree with most of their policy positions. Not all, but enough of them that I think their relevance would make the world better.
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He wasn't visited at any time because he wasn't saying anything publicly. No public statements makes it incredibly difficult to identify him as a threat.
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@VenomTech72 So, he wouldn't have run for re-election if he had been elected in 2020? Serious question. He's not too old, he's in better condition than both Biden and Trump are, and if they run a VP that has similar policy positions, then that would go along way towards neutralizing that argument. The whole reason that people are obsessing over Biden's age rather than his obvious senility is so that people will go that we can't have Bernie because he's too old. Which may be true, but the VP pick can deal with that if he turns out to have issues a couple years down the line.
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@concerned_2023 In situations like this, there's also sometimes a culture where higher ups are putting pressure on subordinates to push the limits.
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@kaylapalooza66 Yes, also consider that in most areas, the crossing is automatically activated when a train is coming, so if it's still down, there's a high probability of another train coming. I'm sure these do break occasionally, but it's far more likely that another train is coming than that the crossing is broken. And, even if it is broken, the thing to do is to call the number of the crossing or back up and find an alternate place to cross the tracks.
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Depending on where you are in the US, there may not be an alternative. I mean, I wansn't building rock walls and rock stairs on those trails just for fun. And hauling buckets of gravel is not what most people would consider to be enjoyable. It had to be done because there weren't viable alternatives other than closing the trail down.
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What about essential workers? We haven't gotten shit in any of these deals. We got the $1200 that everybody else got, but only because they couldn't figure out how to exclude us. They gave the unemployment additional funds that they weren't entitled to, but we got nothing. Most of us make minimum wage or slightly more and we've gotten no support.
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TBH, I'm not sure that it can be a boycott when Teslas are trash and other companies have largely caught up with Tesla and in some cases surpassed it, without the association with Naziism.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that caught that.
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@2DRonaldo Of course he doesn't, but he understands that you have to at least pretend like you're going to help them. The DNC though, doesn't even get that. They aren't even willing to pretend like they're going to do things that the voters want or help the voters in any way.
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@jp4546 probably just as well in some respects, my dad went to the VA once and then never again. It was never fully funded and there were vets with a ton of need that didn't have other options.
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Congratulations for ditching the losers.
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That $20 bit is kind of absurd, but I guess that would technically be theft. Although, I don't know anybody that would follow the steps to ensure that the owner was given the opportunity to claim it. Personally, if I don't see who dropped it and can't figure it out, I just hand the money to the first homeless person I find.
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There is no other timeline, the DNC sucks in all possible timelines.
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@ABetterCoalition In all fairness, they had the delegates at that point because they'd rigged the primaries against him.
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@arturo0727 Bernie screwed us all over by having too much faith in the party to make good decisions. I'm hoping that the silence is because he's doing stuff behind the scenes because he's one of the only active politicians they've got that could pull this off. Otherwise, this could be a very messy 4 years, and that's even if Trump doesn't decide to test the limits of his immunity.
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The store I work for doesn't do drug tests because pot is legal here and they wouldn't be able to hire enough people if they knew who was smoking it. They just drug test if there's an incident that requires it.
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This kind of ignorance is one of the reasons that the political system is so badly broken. The Senate didn't propose anything and they didn't even take it up for debate. Those proposals could have been stripped during the legislative process. It's typical for things to be unrelated to the main purpose of the bill and they're often times removed before final passage. But, it's an argument that the uninformed use to rationalize their hatred of Pelosi. Pelosi screwed up massively by not holding up the initial Cares Act for unemployment benefits to be extended through the end of the pandemic and for the $600 a week to also be given to essential workers. Many of the essential workers are making minimum wage and are unable to quit because we're essential. We quit or have our hours reduced and we get nothing. Whereas the government gave nearly $10k to non-essential workers that lost their jobs on top of the unemployment benefits that they were entitled to.
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@terryarmbruster9719 Yes, most "Kroger" stores have some other name on them. It's just when you look closely you can tell that there's Kroger branded products in places and Kroger trademarked images here and there.
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@Absaalookemensch I used to work for a different state, and people can be downright petty. Everybody thinks they're your boss, and it can be difficult to take a break because you have to find some place that you're not going to have people watching. So rather than a reasonably 10-minute break, it either winds up being closer to 30 to get out of the public eye, or as much time being wasted by the supervisor explaining that we're entitled to breaks.
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I'm kind of curious what Pokemon related patents could still be relevant. But, we'll have to see.
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At this point, voting won't do anything. It's a question of which corporate tool will win as all the candidates that might have advanced the things that the voters wanted have already been weeded out by the establishment.
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Well, Harris and the Democrats definitely don't, especially Harris that went after black men inappropriately aggressively when she was AG of CA.
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Pretty much, he got basically everything he wanted and gave very little in exchange.
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Around here our medic one program has been carrying blood for transfusion for about 6 years. We were the first place in the world to routinely send actual ER doctors out on calls for critical care directly to patients in need of stabilizing prior to transport. So, this is probably going to spread through the US eventually, but the blood supply is rather limited, so it probably will just be select units for the time being.
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When my parents had their furnace replaced, I'm guessing that the company did something similar, because the unit is absolutely tiny compared with the old one. Granted the old one was pretty old, so some of that is probably efficiency But, that being said, natural gas is being banned here for new installs and I'm sure that over time it will be a choice of base board heaters, heat pumps and IR. Personally, I've got baseboard heaters and an portable IR heater and that seems to work just fine. Sure, it does take a while for the place to warm, but I can program the thermostat to start heating it a bit before I get home.
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Who do I have to vote for to get policies that actually address the numerous men's rights issues?
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@angrodNumenesse English has both a ton of homophones and a ton of words, on top of grammar that relies on a bunch of implicit knowledge. It's a bear of a language, unless you speak a related language.
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It is, you've got a bunch of loudmouths that haven't seen the film avoiding the film because they were told that certain things were true about the movie. I'm glad I ignored those reviews as very little of what they said is actually true. And even the stuff that was true was largely pretty misleading. Yes, they did kill off Mutt, but the movie is already very long, taking a detour to kill him on screen so that the plot can happen would have pushed the movie to over 3 hours and done nothing to advance the plot to justify the diversion. The movie definitely does have flaws, a lot of them, but at the end of the day, it was a fun movie and that's really all these films were ever intended to be. They weren't meant to be ponderous think pieces, they were mostly fun movies to watch.
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It's only as good as the judges and juries. Keep that in mind when we're paying practically nothing to jurors.
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@celyl That's my assumption. I think it was mostly cylinders, but platters did technically exist by the time this was recorded. Both of which use similar technology and mainly differ in terms of the shape of the media. Most likely the original video was a motion picture with a separate recording and having both of them survive is rather impressive.
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@Hh-hh5nm No, the Qing dynasty was the last dynasty before the Communists took over and ended it. When I was over there, one of my favorite things was visiting a house that once belonged to an official with the government at the time. I can't remember how old the house was, but it could have been as recent as 130 years.
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@eeeyrie That's a fair point that this wasn't done in China, a bunch of the folks that were associated with the government did flee to Taiwan or the Republic of China as it's officially known.
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@jasonpopielarczyk7511 That would be a snag, and they can potentially stand for many years before they become rotten enough to be unsafe. This is the case with things like those pines being killed by beetles out west, but they can also be killed by a more gradual rotting from the inside, like in the case where there's water that's able to collect in a hollow near the top of the tree. But, if in doubt, ti's not a bad idea to have a certified arborist come over and take a look. It's likely to be a free part of quote process anyways.
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To be fair, they did find the real life Clayton Bigsby recently. So, who knows.
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@tinamoul Perhaps, but why would he care? You're not his audience.
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@mynameisworld TBH, in some ways it still seems more humane than in the US where a death sentence can be anywhere from 10 years from now to 50 years to never depending on how the appeals process goes.
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Bernie made a massive mistake in 2016 not running as an independent when HRC and the DNC screwed him over.
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Or vote Green and maybe at some point we see a second party become viable.
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@techboi_420 Men don't get to have abortions. ..
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@randomuserame Father's don't get to choose to have abortions
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Why? You just throw on your winter weather gear and it feels fine. If you're luck enough to be somewhere with low humidity, you can even dunk that gear in water for extra cooling. That's what I did the last time it was that hot here.
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@ChrryCola-ln5uq Not if you throw on winter weather gear and keep it to a reasonable amount of time.
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I don't. I would prefer to get protection before being seriously injured or murdered if possible.
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@kirishima638 Yep, and a lot of people seem to believe that corporations are required to maximize short term profits. Corporations are not required to maximize profits whether short or long term, they are only required to aim to earn profits. The amount, is not required to be as large as possible, or so large that it risks endangering the continued existence of our species.
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The condo I live in has a similar rule about the carpet, but there is a provision for what happens if you want the carpet removed and some units have had their carpets removed over the years. The provision mostly involves ensuring that the new flooring is approved and has appropriate sound abatement.
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You mean the DCCC, it was Hillary's turn and the voters weren't smart enough to know whom they wanted.
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That's not quite accurate, the men's teams got cut in large part because they couldn't find enough women to fill out the other side of things. Part of that is that the sports that women prefer to play tend to be generally less expensive than the ones that the men play.
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@NickM_FirstofHisName On the whole, soccer remains rather unpopular in the US. That is beginning to change with immigrants moving to the US and retaining their interest in the sport, as well as many children growing up playing on teams, but as of writing, it's a relatively unpopular sport compared with others like football, baseball, basketball and hockey.
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If charges are dismissed then you can't be tried again for the same crime due to the constitution's ban on double jeopardy. However, in many of these cases there could be other charges that weren't involved int he proceedings that could be done to sort of mitigate that. The only way of doing a redo is if a mistrial is declared and judges are hesitant to do that as it means that there's a lot of time and money that's been wasted. The plaintiff, or prosecution as appropriate, gets to waste a bunch of money and the defendant is run through the ringer again both financially and emotionally. Once a criminal case is dismissed, that's it, there is no do over and that's part of why good prosecutors will let things sit for a while if they think there's going to be more evidence to be found before getting things started when they can.
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That's mostly because TX doesn't really want young people or those that have jobs to vote.
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@MB-ig6gl That's wrong, the FSB is used to establish their legal authority for more authoritative testing. The FSB tests are hardly conclusive, but the tests conducted back at the station or via a blood test are. Refusing the roadside test isn't necessarily a great idea unless you are marginally impaired or have some specific reason, as they could still haul you in on suspicion anyway. Otherwise, nobody would ever cooperate with the FSB.
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And the whole authority that they're using has already been used to extend the no insurance period, so if this is set aside, I can only imagine the cluster it's going to be when they have to roll that back as well.
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It really depends. The building I live in has an HOA and most of the rules are pretty reasonable. But, as Steve said, you can get a new board with jerks that overstep. But, I don't have to worry about maintaining the outside of the building and I've generally got access to common areas and hardly anybody uses the pool, so it's like having my own pool. I like living in a building that's mostly quiet during the night. And that doesn't happen without some infringement on our right to make noise during the night. Then there are horror stories like this one that pop up frequently.
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Yep, this video is rather embarrassing. Actual experts on the topic recognize that you can't vaccinate yourself out of a pandemic with vaccines this imperfect. Scientists have managed to do it with Small pox and are on the verge of doing it with Polio and a few others, but the efficacy rates of those vaccines are much, much higher. Even if accept the figures that Mike is quoting, and I see no particular reason to doubt them, it still makes Ryan Grim a moron for thinking that the vaccine will do much to prevent the spread. That's not how vaccines work. Physically being in close proximity to somebody that's infected can rather quickly burn through any protective effect that the vaccine might have and lead people to get infected. On top of which, anybody that has a weakened immune system might still contract it even with full vaccination. I know one 90+ year old that has contracted it twice after being fully vaccinated because at his age, his immune system just isn't that strong. He survived because he had the vaccine, but no amount of other people getting booster shots will prevent that from happening. If we cared about ending this, we'd admit that the vaccine + medical advances are good enough and go back to business as usual. Eventually enough people will survive that the cases of hospitalizations and deaths will plummet. But, in the absence of much, much better vaccines, there's not much reason to believe that a booster is going to do much, especially when so many people in the developing world haven't gotten their full vaccination yet.
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@munkustrap2 The 2nd one was because we mistranslated the response that the Japanese sent in response to the first bombing.
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@sparkleypegs8350 Especialy when you realize the hand that she had in putting people in this mess and then failing to do anything substantive about the nearly $5tn that large corporations are getting where the regular people are getting $1200 one month and probably pay back eventually because large corporations don't pay taxes.
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@bradhaines3142 Which is fine, but the people working those jobs need new jobs in that case then and the number of jobs related to maintenance and building these devices are going to be fewer than the jobs they take. Dangerous jobs really should be automated away as fast as suitable alternatives can be found though, we just need an appropriate tax or other source or revenue to deal with the displaced workers and to discourage it from happening for jobs that aren't dangerous or undesirable if there aren't other occupations available.
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@jemma6596 Yes, although in all fairness, he does have something that Carlin doesn't have... A pulse.
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There are different models, but a lot of that has to do with the way the privatization is handled. There commonly aren't a lot of restrictions or tools put into place to ensure that price gouging doesn't result.
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We've had that in my part of the US for many decades. We refer to them as traffic circles, and they do function a bit like an extremely small roundabout. They usually have a small tree or similar to block visibility to the road ahead to encourage people to slow down, as if the relatively large size of the traffic circle to the size of the total intersection doesn't already.
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@brendanpowell8184 Do they have trees and bushes planted in them? The ones around here do, and it makes it rather hard for people to try to drive too quickly through.
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Soda stream is made in Israel. Sure, you can buy it, but you're encouraging the wanton murder of Palestinians with the purchase. Most of them aren't even armed and many of them are just protesting
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Same sort of thing goes on in education where despite being massively overstaffed with women, there are similar stereotypes about men.
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The problem is that neither side here has clean hands. One side wants to remove the information about the civil rights groups. The other wants to pretend like there are no white ethnic groups that suffered and suffer from racial oppression. Anti-white racism in schools is so bad that I gave up on teaching because I refused to be a part of the problem. It's sad that we can't call out bigotry no matter what skin color people have or their particular gender. Teaching students about racism targeting people of color should not require blaming all white people in general, regardless of whether the individual had anything to do with it or even benefitted from it. Russians were banned from significant portions of the US during the cold war. The German language was completely banned from public instruction and it was a case revolving around that which prevents governments from banning languages from instruction. Anti-Irish racism was so bad that in some areas, business owners would hire black people over them because, and I quote, "At least black people can keep a clean house." Not to mention that most of the slurs and stereotypes targeting black people were originally used by the British to target the Irish.
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Pretty much, same goes for the GOP in general. Biden isn't going to bring enough voters to the voting booths in November to win those critical downticket races. If large numbers of progressives don't leave the party and refuse to vote for any more Democrats, then we're going to get another rehashing of this each time there's another Presidential race. At the state level, I'm likely to vote for Democrats, but only because WA is a top two primary state, thanks to the parties trying to steal our ability to make our own decisions in the primary. The end result is that voting blue no matter who is often times the only possible strategy as there's often times only Democrats available in the general election. Literally, it's one Democrat versus another and at least in that case, I can choose the one that's more progressive and withhold my vote from the more corporate one while voting to encourage progressive policies.
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The crust should brown if it's at 500F or up and on pre-heated cast iron. You should see obvious browning within the first 10 minutes.
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@dennissvitak5475 You misunderstood. It's one thing if you've offered to sell to somebody that you expect to pay, it's quite another to sell to somebody that you expect to default on it.
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It's largely a matter of media consolidation. There's excellent reporting being done by smaller organizations, but it's expensive having a reporter at city hall everyday in case something happens. Similarly investigative journalism can be incredibly expensive as it can take weeks or even months to fully investigate a story.
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@I disagree, Iran has elections and the people can vote for whomever the like. The catch is that in order to be on the ballot the candidates have to have approval. What you're suggesting is that we just don't even bother with real democracy, we let the party limit the candidates, but we still get to vote between the lesser of two evils, so that's clearly still Democracy.
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@ TBH, I'm not sure that's really much better, around here, I don't think they had any campaign appearances at all, and there wasn't even any lips ervice like what we thought mattered. And people still voted for her.
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I like to rent from time to time. Last time I wound up locking the front brake going 60. It turned out fine, I just released the front brake and reapplied, but there's a reason why you need to keep your head and eyes pointed where you want to go. There's a difference between a bike that's fishtailing back and forth and one that's turned 90 degrees to one side. It never would have happened on my own bike as I'm used to how it brakes.
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They wouldn't, presumably the drones can be repurposed for other things the rest of the year or sold used.
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@ That's what I was taught back in the '80s. It ended the practice of the British capturing sailors and impressing them into service under the crown and it was the last time the US fought with the British. To refer to it as anything other than a loss is a bit of a odd direction to take as there were no further hostilities between the countries after that that I've ever heard of.
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@ People who are teaching it as something other than victory are wrong. The Brits stopped impressing US sailors into their navy and from what I can tell, there were no further fights between the US and British forces. Eventually, we were on the same side with WWI. To not refer to it as a victory for the US, when the US got to keep independence without any sort of significant loss of land and was now free and clear of the empire completely is a bit of a stretch.
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@ It wasn't a stalemate, this is what victory looks like when you're on the defensive end of the conflict.
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@ That's mostly due to time, although sometimes it's on the basis of bias. There's really no good reason to let generations of students believe that Executive Order 9066 targeted Japanese Americans specifically when nowhere in the order does it specify Japanese or any other synonym for it. The Japanese-Americans were the largest group in the concentration camps, but German-Americans and Italian-Americans were also intentionally included and there were other groups like Chinese-Americans that were also mistakenly included even though the Chinese were effectively on the US' side of WWII as they were against the Imperial Japanese and shouldn't have been subject to the relocation order.
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@ Yep, I think the whole notion that things can't be both a stalemate and a win for one party are kind of misleading. It's kind of happening right now with Ukraine where they've managed to keep the Russians largely bogged down for years now. Sure, Russia has managed to secure significant amounts of land and kill significant numbers of people, when this is over, there may well be a credible view that Ukraine won as Russia doesn't appear to be any closer to fulfilling their aims and has run through a massive number of young men. .
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@C.Noble13 Nazis are most certainly not left wing. I'm not sure where you got that idea from.
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@robertknight4672 It does, but I don't believe that you're required to wear long sleeves when making coffee. I work in a bakery, and I wear short sleeves and I have to be mindful not to burn myself. Making espresso is significantly less of a burn risk than working around ovens and baking racks is. I was recommended to wear long sleeves, but I'm an adult, so I just conduct my business carefully.
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Supracor is the best material for seats. It doesn't get hard in winter or hold onto heat in the summer. It redistributes your weight, but doesn't shift around. And it's not even that expensive.
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@sarumano884 That's a solid point. Even today, trade secrets remain a powerful way of protecting your information. It's part of why patents exist. You turn over all the details of your invention to establish that it functions and you're granted exclusive rights to that invention for a fixed period of time. For things that lack similar protections, trade secrets tend to do a similar thing, just far less reliably and you're on your own to ensure that they remain secret. It can be as simple as only a couple people knowing the recipe for a spice blend and them being the only ones to actually mix the batches.
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It depends where you are. In this portion of the US, the medics do bring blood whenever they respond to a call. And apparently they've been doing so for about 6 years.
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The only issue there is that it doesn't account for the bribery that goes on. Most of the issues we're having in the economy would be saved by giving everybody in the country $600 a week for the remainder. Just tax it back from people making large amounts of money. As it stands, the essential workers have gotten nothing despite taking on the extra work and risk. The unemployed are going to be evicted or foreclosed upon and going without despite largely being giving an extra $10k that they didn't have a right to.
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I'm voting Green, there's no way that I'll vote for either Biden or Trump, they're both horrible. Biden is worse as I doubt that anybody is going to be able to take up Trump's mantle, but whatever Biden does would have enough consistency that folks would continue.
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The bit about the signage puzzles me. Around here we have steep mountain passes, probably not as steep as this stretch, but quite steep. None of them have signs that require any English proficiency to understand. They're all standard MUTCD signs like you see throughout the US, and none of them require any English knowledge to understand. Are there really signs there that require English proficiency to understand? Around here, none of our steepest passes have English only signs warning of the grade. It's a picture of a truck coming down a triangle with the relevant number for the grade. Anybody capable of driving a truck would understand it.
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TBH, it looks like this summer will be a great time to buy, assuming that the Federal Government continues to refuse to properly respond to the current crisis. There's likely to be a ton of foreclosures on top of people not buying property if they don't have a solid job locked in with enough pay to cover the expenses.
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No, that's not the judges fault. As harsh as it sounds, it's the failure of any of these hundreds of people to file a police report when there was time to prosecute that are ultimately to be blame for the case being dismissed. Evidence disappears or is no longer admissible due to a lack of witnesses to cover it. As a woman, you probably shouldn't be too eager to change that rule as there's a bunch of women over the past few decades that would suddenly be fair game for prosecution due to the way that the police and prosecutors would refuse to take allegations like this seriously when it was a female perpetrator being accused.
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Slowing is part of it, but I'd argue that reducing the angle between the cars from 90 degrees to something closer to 30-40 degrees has a massive impact.
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Definitely, but while he's right that it's an issue, he's completely off base about what's wrong with it. The issue with it is that you've got people making minimum wage working for grocery stores and that $600 alone is more than many make. Even here where the minimum wage is higher, it's still only slightly below minimum wage. And the same government that's handing that money out, is doing nothing to provide hazard pay or support for the people that have no choice but to be interacting with the public. People that ensure that emergencies are responded to, health care problems are treated or that you have food to eat. And, I'm sure I'm missing other people like those that ensure that there's fuel for the trucks we use to get ship those supplies around.
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I have heard of restaurants closing midmeal, but at that point nobody had paid for their meals, the typical contract of sorts for sit down dining is that you order and eat first, then settle up at the end of the meal. So, if they shutdown midmeal, you haven't yet given them the money and can at least negotiate over what portion of the meal you'll be paying for. Worst case, they wrap up what you ordered and you pay for that. In this case, I'd wager that this was a tax related closure or they had one of their loans called and had to repay by signing over the resort. Years ago, I was working security in one of the local highrises when one of the businesses went under. They were fine one day and the next day the bank called their loans and they didn't have enough cash on hand to pay up. The result was that they had to immediately shutdown their operations and file for full liquidation in bankruptcy court. They were a profitable business, but they didn't have the cash on hand to settle the debt and as such had to close after more than a century in business.
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@nehemiahmarcus308 that's more about being lazy or cheap. It's like cornbread mix, that doesn't did anything social either.
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So, it's OK for you to free ride on the education that the students were stuck paying for? That seems awfully hypocritical to me.
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I'm not sure whom I can vote for that can win and support democracy. I'm voting for 3rd parties, and against incumbents, but that won't do much.
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No, people didn't. Please stop lying, are you really suggesting that if say, Hitler's reanimated corpse had been running with Biden that we're stuck with Hitler's reanimated corpse as the Democratic nominee because folks voted for Biden and as such voted for a reanimated corpse is now the rightful nominee? Because it doesn't really get any less ridiculous if you swap a more reasonable candidate like Walz or Harris for Hitler's rotting flesh.
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Taiwan is considered by the People's Republic of China to be Taiwan Province, it is one of several "autonomous zones" within the larger PRC. The official line more or less is that Taiwan Province belongs to the PRC, but they choose not to exercise control over it.
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@Ben-Hawy He refused to do it because even a professional life guard likely would have refused. This was open water, a good way away from the shore, and who knows why the lake was off limits for swimming. They took the two moves they could do, he ignored their warning to stay out of the water and they called the dive team that couldn't get there until after he was under the water and the team then spent a number of hours looking for the body before finding it. The unfortunate reality here is that the officers did the right thing as they didn't have equipment to help him without drowning themselves, and they did take the one move that they were trained to make.
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It will push the insolvency date forward a few months. The bigger issue is that it's just another sign that nobody in power has any interest in fixing social security. They'll give more and more out to the retirees in order to get votes, while those of us that are younger may very well not get as much out as we paid in. One of the things I know is that the first step to getting out of any hole is to stop digging. In terms of social security, we've opted to get more efficient digging equipment to keep digging our way out.
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She doesn't care about people, she was completely comfortable sending people to prison over marijuana despite smoking it herself and withholding exculpatory evidence in critical cases. The woman is every bit as much of a psychopath as Trump is.
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It's worth noting that Pepsi has a variant with real sugar that comes in a normal bottle. The only difference being that it has real sugar and says so on the bottle. Same plastic bottle, same everything else other than that one ingredient.
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@SteveM-gj2vy And I suppose that continuing to offer the Republican light candidates is going to change things? The fact that you don't know what socialism is probably has something to do with why you can't form any actual arguments.
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They're not, the hundreds and hundreds of videos are still a small fraction of the total cops out there and a tiny fraction of the total contacts with police each day. There are, admittedly, far too many bad apples, but it's a massive overstatement to suggest that that's the status quo.
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@rarrawer Before these things were invented, we had a few actual light up equivalents on streets where there was a median popping up where one lane would turn and the other would go straight. It seemed to work fine, but one of these would probably have been a better solution to the problem as it could be properly protected, and easily replaceable if it somehow got broken. They are still there, but I do expect that they'll be replaced with one of these at some point in the future.
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@terrywbreedlove they're not, there's plenty of videos by people driving for them making far less when including the cost of gas and depreciation of their car. Also, paying both haves of the payroll tax means that nearly 20%of that money goes to the federal government one top of the normal amount. Meaning that that $25 would be closer to $20 even before taking those other expenses into account.
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We definitely should mention the others because it's rather informative of how he went about having all those ideas. Walt Disney used a 3 room approach wherein the first room there literally were no ideas too stupid to mention. A second room where they would take that list and cull out the obvious ones that had some sort of significant issues. And a 3rd room where none but the stongest ideas were permitted to survive. People forget just how many ideas there are out there, if people haven't had an idea, it's far morel likely to be a terrible idea than one worth pursuing.
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Around here they're frequently not hardwired in unless it's a commercial building. I do think it depends a bit on how the installation was done, the dorm I lived in during college had the integrated system where any room's alarm going off would turn all the sirens on in the whole building. The building I live in now is a bit smaller and you have to manually pull the alarm if there's a fire. The alarms in the individual units are not connected to anything other than themselves. There's pros and cons both ways, but I think it's mainly an issue of the size of the building and how many firewalls are involved. The high rise I used to work at as a security officer had significant firefloors every 5 floors, so if you dropped down 5 floors from any level you'd either hit an exit to the building entirely, or you'd be on the other side of the protective barrier. The common area at the bottom also had these shutters, which always weirded me out as the escalators had no protection at all when the area was sealed.
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@tsuikagura Sometimes companies have bad batches. I remember Maxtor had a bad 8gb model back when they were still in business.
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No, presumably making her whole in this case would involve money for treatments related to the defect and compensation for any suffering. But, she's in the UK, so the health care would be covered by the healthcare trust there, so most likely it would be money to cover any pain and suffering relevant to the condition.
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@bigbadjohn10 It's the UK, so those things should mostly be covered by the health care trust, but in the US that would definitely be the case. Whatever she's awarded will probably take the public health care into account and only cover treatments that aren't already covered, as well as any pain and suffering related to the condition.
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It likely would have had the same result. He was acquitted because jury found the argument that he couldn't figure out where the shots were coming from to believable. If the individuals involved in the court-martial had the same information, they likely would have reached the same conclusion. It can be damn hard to figure out where shots fired are coming from when you've got the sound bouncing off of many hard surfaces.
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@VampageRampage This reminds me of that standup routine about how according to racists, Mexicans are coming to the US to steal our jobs and Mexicans are lazy. It turns out that some Mexicans come to steal our jobs and some Mexicans are lazy. And some don't even fit into those two groups. It's almost as if there are multiple kinds of Mexican people.
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I"m not sure why Nunchucks would be illegal, they're probably less viable as a weapon than a Millwall brick and any number of other improvised weapons. What's next are we going to be forced to choose between a couple rolls of quarters and our socks? Good luck doing laundry at a laundromat like that.
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For the most part, no, a battery is a battery. The only measure that typically matters is the number of mAh that are in the battery. A 9v battery is a 9v battery, as long as the mAh is the same, you shouldn't see any meaningful difference. There is some variation in how well they do with cold and how flat their discharge curve is, but chances are that any differences that you're seeing are the result of the placebo effect. If you want to see a significant difference, you have to jump to something like NiCad or NiMH which do have significantly different characteristics.
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Considering how many people pronounce that incorrectly, squeal is far less stupid than the other ways that I hear people pronouncing that. For the record, it's pronounced SQL.
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The answer is that it's weaker security and really only acceptable if you absolutely need to be able to remember it without a password manager. It's less than half the entropy of a random password involving just the alphabet and numbers. The problem is in the notion that there are more words than characters as that assumes that you know the extra words and somehow that words are more secure than other strings of characters. Which is largely false, you probably don't know more than a 10-20k words. And it only takes 4 random characters to exceed the number of possible English words. At just 3 you've already exceeded the vocabulary of any college educated writer by an order of magnitude. (That's assuming 26 lower case letters, 26 upper case letters and 10 digits, it gets out of hand even more quickly if you allow a few punctuation characters as well)
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I was surprised he didn't mention how the positioning of the rifle made it look like he had a giant black cock.
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@Konraden I'm not really sure that's any better. It is somewhat safer as this was probably not shot at an actual range, but it doesn't really make him look any less crazed or any more competent to be elected.
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@eepinwillow For now, I don't know that it's going to be that much longer before they can take O+ blood and covert it into O-. That would make a pretty significant improvement.
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@oompaloompa9139 She should have plenty of ice cream to share.
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Cenk is definitely an asshole. I used to get rated like that as a teacher at a training center. It was a 5 star system and anything under 4.5 stars would eventually lead to termination. And most of the time the comments to go along with the rating were in Chinese, with no given translation, so how am I even supposed to make use of that? I had students that weren't even remotely ready for class showing up and giving me poor scores and I wouldn't receive any feedback close enough to when the classes were given to make any sort of adjustment or fix anything that I might personally have done. And ultimately, I was terminated. In the time I was working there, the management had chased off or fired 4 or 5 other teachers. It's one thing to provide a means of feed back, it's another to make it so easy with so little consideration about what the feedback even means. At this stage anything other than full points means that you think the worker should be fired.
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If she gets a landslide, it's purely because of how bad Trump is, not because she deserves it. She's very clearly not interested in men voting for her, otherwise, she'd be promising to address some of the many areas in which men have fallen behind women. But, she hasn't and she doesn't deserve any of our votes. I know, I'm not voting for her, if that means Trump wins, then so be it, but she hasn't earned my vote and isn't getting it.
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People who take your view don't get what's going on. Government isn't the problem, it's the anti-government politicians and those that support the oligarchy that are the problem. There's no reason why the government can't work, it's the folks that are opposed to the regulations that would prevent private interests from engaging in regulatory capture that are.
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Why did he have to? He got absolutely nothing out of it. Bernie is old enough that he's likely nearing the end of his time in the Senate. The people support his policies, at this stage there really isn't anything to be gained by endorsing Biden other than them not Nadering him.
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And they'll get away with it because the Democratic leadership is so useless. They could have held the GOP's feet to the fire when they were wanting to give all that money to the corporations. They could have gotten hazard pay, extension of benefits through the pandemic and uncapped PPP loan money. But, they didn't even try because they've deluded themselves into thinking that the GOP is capable of dealing in good faith.
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@anonymunsichtbar3715 There's a different philosophy here. Linux makes you download a different distro or installation disc depending upon what GUI you prefer to install. *BSD lets you download just one image and then just install whatever GUI you like. Or, you can get one of the desktop oriented flavors, but by default you get a CLI interface and the choice of what to install over the top of that.
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You think Harris would have done anything to help? She wasn't even willing to threaten windfall taxes on the profiteering companies or to raise taxes on the richest to subsidize things to help the poor and working class people.
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There's no reason to cut back that far, and a few reasons not to. For one thing, coffee removes the calcium that could become kidney stones. It's also great for the liver. You have to drink a lot of coffee before it's an issue, providing that you drink it early enough in the day to not mess with your sleep.
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Not true, if that were true, they wouldn't be prosecuting. Honestly, the lack of critical thinking holds the whole march of progress back.
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Eh, why not, they have up on money for essential workers months ago.
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@fangirl3086 That's a bit different, there's typically a lot more physical evidence and you're not dealing with he said she said. Murder typically doesn't have a statute of limitations.
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@kevoconnor145 throwing people in prison without due process is hardly justice.
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@kevoconnor145 This is idiocy, even in your example, scrapping the statute of limitations isn't necessary. I'm sorry you're not capable of seeing what a colossal erosion of civil liberties that would be.
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@tim3172 Sadly, sticking up for civil rights invariably results in sticking up for scum. Bottom line is that lowering the bar for prosecution is just going to increase false arrests and innocent people in prison. There's still going to be issues securing convictions due to a lack of evidence. Some of us care about civil liberties.
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@kevoconnor145 The part where there's no evidence because there wasn't an investigation until years later.
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You can blame the Democrats for failing to offer more. How many more election cycles are they going to run on being better than the GOP and then get into office and screw the voters over?
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I'm not, this is just another crack in whatever remaining credibility that the Democrats might have had.
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@Gwydion_Wolf Yep, I see people saying that any parent that could would, but how many parents have children that go to prison? Sure, it's more common than it probably should be, but most parents do not have kids that have the sort of legal problems that Hunter has.
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And they don't even care about Republicans, they just care about their donors.
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The problem is that it's been a quarter century where the usual reason to vote blue is that they aren't as bad as the GOP. Obama was a bit of an outlier in that he was promising things that people wanted. But, in no case over the last 25 years have the voters been given anything of much value by the Democrats. And what little of value we've been given, they've let the GOP strip away without much of a fight. A vote for Harris or a vote for Trump means that you're OK with the continued progress towards not voting at all because they both represent a massive step backwards away from Democracy and towards some form of totalitarianism and people don't seem to understand that. Harris didn't win a single delegate this primary or the previous one. She's just the nominee because the guy that the DNC rigged the election for was clearly too senile to continue and they didn't even have a contested election. Meanwhile, they screwed over the progressives for a 3rd election in a row and couldn't even be bothered to promise to address men's issues. I barely got any mail from their campaign laying out their chase and in general it felt very much like they're not going to be my President. They're going to be the President of a few swing states, women and a few minority groups. Because they aren't actually promising to make my life any better, but I have to vote for her or I'm sexist. So, I voted Stein as she at least is promising things that can clearly help me, as well as the rest of the country out, and all this voter shaming hasn't exactly encouraged me to hold my nose and vote for the horrible candidate.
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@vvitch-mist20 Wait, what? Women nearly always serve less prison time than men do for similar cases.
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Yep, I voted Stein because she actually cares about the voters.
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@liamwatson5125 Sure you can, just make sure they're made of iron.
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Yes, this is a case where the language should be updated to reflect the normal meaning of the word. That is unless this test is only going to be used on attorneys. In common use, recite does carry a musical connotation. We have musical recitals and people will recite poetry. Yes, poetry doesn't necessarily have tonality, but it's not the same as just speaking or listing the letters in reverse alphabetical order.
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We weren't there, but if his account is accurate, then it's not rape. He got off her when she indicated that she changed her mind. There is some question about why he later had sex with her when she said no previously, but at some point, a woman does have a responsibility in all of that. Laying naked with somebody that you don't want to have sex with and making out with them is going to be interpreted in a sexual way. By no means does this make rape OK, but let's be honest about the fact that people consent in different ways and one does have the right to change ones mind either way.
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Not just that, but you can be somebody's friend in one context and still fight vigorously against them when they're this wrong.
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Some modern smoke detectors have a secondary sensor that picks up on chemicals in the air that come from something that's just smouldering, but not necessarily actively burning. In this case, some fires can move surprisingly quickly, so it seems rather foolish to not have the detectors in there in case something does start burning in a room that none of the firefighters are in. Also, smoke detectors aren't necessarily that expensive, in many areas the fire department will give you a free smoke detector and if you need them to, they'll even install it, just so that it's in the building if it ever does catch fire so that they don't have to sift through the ashes for human remains.
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Yes, but presumably the government there is doing what it can to ensure that people don't lose their homes or starve during lockdowns. Not that it makes it easy to be locked in, but at least your country is civilized enough that people won't be homeless as a result of a government order.
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One thing that I noticed when my parents had their ancient furnace replaced, it may even have been the original gas furnace that was installed when the coal one was removed, that it was no longer obvious when the heater went on. The new one was on for longer periods of the day, which meant less swings from hot to cold and probably a bit more efficient as a result.
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@a2pabmb2 That would be a hard case to make. There's boatloads of evidence that he's guilty. Even the court wasn't unanimous in whether or not he could be retried. Convincing a jury that he was wrongfully imprisoned would be tough.
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@Mautemas He won't have access to drugs and I doubt very much that if he's in with the general population and tries anything that it's going to end well for him.
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People make far too much of Project 2025, I didn't see anything in there that wasn't a logical next step or something to fundraise on. If people didn't see this coming with the Democrats running further and further to the right, then they sort of deserve what we get. This is the inevitable result of voting blue no matter who.
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That depends, I've had to reseason mine quite a few times over the last couple of years because my inlaws can't fathom that you need to be a bit cautious about how to deal with the seasoning.
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Normally, a lot of this would be considered to be moot as they already have their hands on this stuff and there's some possibility that the information isn't being secured properly and that other stuff has been deleted in a way that can't be undone. That being said, this is a very different situation from what you normally see and there's still some possibility that further harm could be headed off by appropriate court rulings. The big issue is that the SCOTUS at the top gets to have the final say and all of what is happening is a natural consequence of the rulings that they've been making where you can't just not question the motives of the President exercising his powers, but also things that might be legitimate exercises of those powers. It's pretty clear that the justices that voted for it were some combination of completely corrupt and completely incompetent.
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Or, SCOTUS was more SCOTUS and less SCrOTUmS, that would also be true. They had to completely ignore the constitution to give him the power that he's now abusing and history will not look kindly on that level of corruption and incompetence.
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@AJourneyOfYourSoul Yep and to be fair, their food is a lot better than at some of the other nationwide chains. Personally, I prefer to go to one of the local chains, it's about the same quality, and a lot less. But, part of what you're paying for at 5 guys is the ridiculous amount of options as everything is to order, they don't really have a default burger.
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You don't want those cars driving around your roads and spying on your infrastructure. They are cheaper, but how much of that can possibly be saved by not needing to make a profit without it being the government subsidizing them to have an expanding network of mobile spy cameras?
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@biosensei-s5e I wouldn't personally expect it to be more of a problem for Chinese cars than other ones. The big issue is spying. This permits the Chinese to potentially backdoor these and get lots of spy data about sensitive installations and how the roads are functioning for use advancing their interests.
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@DRAGONFLYSIOUXSIE It's not, I don't want those mobile spy cars roaming the streets and shipping information back home about what people are talking about inside of them. If folks think Tictok is bad, this would be multiple orders of magnitude worse.
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I have to wonder if that picture of Trump as the Pope and the comments that Leo XIV made pushing back against Vance had anything to do with this.
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So, what's the alternative then? The child in these cases does also have rights and the father presumably is still going to be on the hook for child support. I'm not suggesting that that's a great situation, but I'm not sure what the alternative is that doesn't violate the rights of the other parties involved. This is especially the case when the government isn't going to step in and help cover the cost of raising a kid.
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I'd love to see Yang on the Ticket with Sanders. He'd be a great VP pick, but I'm not sure that he'd bring enough voters to make it work. He would make a great pick for a possible Sanders' cabinet if he gets wins the general election.
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Yes, and that's ultimately a large part of why I wound up being recommended schizoid personality disorder rather than autism spectrum disorder. I already had questionable diagnoses for both schizoaffective disorder and schizotypal personality disorder in the past. And, I didn't really interact enough with other children for the lack of connection to be obvious. And, ScPD and ASD are virtually identical other than the age of onset where in my case, I was a bit too old for ASD, but a bit too young for ScPD. I've also had a bunch of things that were comorbid to both.
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Clearly, it's 24 days a month and 7 hours a day. Don't they put their days and months goofy ways around? So, really, they're giving you more than they advertised. /sarc
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@xpusostomos Those are much more common now than they used to be. It's getting to be a lot less common for programs to not have a no-install version that is essentially just a self-contained directory that contains everything that it needs to run.
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Not even remotely true. you don't need a license to teach at private schools and they can kick students out for almost any reason they want.
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@frankbrzozowski6343 But, the angle of that wouldn't match any of the bullet wounds. There's also the issue of there being no recorded sound of that shot in any of the existing recordings of the assassination.
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@ILSRWY4 The difference is that she was Jackie O through much of her life, referring to her as Jackie Kennedy wouldn't be any more accurate than using her maiden name after she got married.
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That's definitely going to be high on the list of possibilities. But, the bridge was presumably OK previously, so there's probably something else that was the final straw.
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Yep and aren't the Israeli and US governments the most likely to violate any contracts they sign? The entirety of both countries is built on stolen land.
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Green party. Next best would be Trump. At least with Trump he hasn't started any new wars.
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Yep, good cranberry sauce isn't that hard to make, and it's far better on turkey than gravy is. Personally, I like my cranberry with some orange slices, brown sugar and cinnamon incorporated. It's especially handy after the fact on turkey sandwiches the next few days.
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In 35 American states, ambulance services isn't even considered to be an essential service. When I had to be taken to the ICU, the ambulance ride was roughly $800 IIRC, but I only had to pay 20% for the ride after insurance covered the bulk of it. Then again, we've also got ER medics that ride around town to stabilize patients for transport, so we're a but ahead of the curve for emergency services compared to the rest of the U.S.
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WA and OR don't even have the infrastructure to vote in person these days as both states have been exclusively vote by mail for many years. They've collectively got enough kit to vote in person mostly just for individuals that need accommodations.
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@wobblysauce My Frogg Togg water shoes are quite light. Mostly because they come completely perforated with the thinnest material they could find. They're not as light as those sandles, but they've got a real sole, so probably a lot better walking through water.
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I suppose, but wasn't this developed for use with ropes and then later applied to cabling?
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Apart from some extremely out of date enterprise software, pretty much everybody else is using some form of DOSBox, DOS running in a VM or FreeDOS for this sort of thing. And even with the enterprise stuff, it probably would be better to be run in that fashion, but it can be a massive headache to make sure it works properly in the new environment and move it to the new set up. At which point, you might as well have just fixed the program to work with more modern OSes anyways.
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@ecousins4209 I'm fairly sure that this is illegal under state law in many places. I think the most likely consequence here if it's really happening is that dealers are going to be even less inclined to accept Teslas as trade ins.
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@user-yx3tl7pv3j He may, but keep in mind that many states do have their own set of laws with respect to odometers and potentially the dealers could be at risk if there's been odometer fraud. Even if they aren't themselves liable, it's just another reason for them to not want to accept Teslas as trade ins.
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@susanperry4177 Yep, there's a lot of other places where you can get stuff shipped to you that don't have these horrible work place practices. I'm sure none of them are great, but even if people just avoid the worst offenders, that should at least stop the slide to even worse.
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@piotrkaminski9932 Apparently, you're not smart enough to see through Israeli propaganda. eyeroll The reality is that when it comes to the planning and execution of these military operations it's terrorists against war criminals, with the people that they purport to represent mostly just wanting some sort of stable peace.
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@DavidMDevich That is an issue, but there's no excuse for some of this stuff going on for literal decades and then putting no effort into getting it right.
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It's a different branch and the people don't get to vote for judges. This is the only way to deal with the problem However, with the President, they're only in office for a max of 4 years between elections.
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It certainly happens, that's basically the only way to live in a country for decades and be incapable of speaking the local language well enough to go about your business. Part of why that happens in the US, is that we provide interpreters for far too many things. It's one thing to talk about interpreters for medical appointments and immigration services, but most of the rest of the time it's not helpful. I moved to China for a couple years and I was able to work through most of it fairly quickly. Sure, there was a bunch of stuff where I still needed help, but for the basic daily living stuff, I could manage on my own pretty quickly.
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@Alec72HD I don't think the racist policies they have in France where there are areas with unemployment rates well into the double digits are a model to copy.
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@Alec72HD Most developed countries don't have massive slums the way that France does, nor do they set a national standard for how the language is spoken.
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In some countries, the penalties are some percentage of your wealth. It's how you get those half million Euro speeding tickets. I do think that we need to rewrite most of those laws to make it equal impact, rather than equal dollar figure.
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He has parkonson's it's readily apparent that he's deep in decline from the way he moves around and the lack of expression on his face. The main needs somebody to sit him down and tell him the truth. Get somebody else, Bernie is in amazing shape for somebody of his age and get a VP that's on the mainstream edge of progressive and you'd have a winning ticket.
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That's the thing, the court gave them months to work on a fix, they didn't even start worrying about it until right before the end.
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This would have been a lot more useful if you chose bikes that don't have decent luggage options. Any idiot can do this if they've got mounting hardware. A small sport bike has barely any less carrying capacity than those bikes, but is a lot harder to pack.
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I'm still trying to figure out why she was the VP pick. She got 0 delegates, had a reputation for brutalizing PoC in CA, had terrible policy proposals and was absolutely despised by the Sanders wing of the party. The only thing I can think of was that they were hoping she would piss off the progressive wing in a bid to get more right leaning voters.
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Remind me again, which candidate was egging his followers to attack people and which candidate was nearly killed by two of his own followers? The left doesn't have a problem with violence, it's the right that does.
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@R8DYSETGO For decades around here it was a poorly kept secret that if you wanted to murder somebody, you just had to hop behind the wheels of a car while doing it and that would pretty much guarantee a super short sentence. I suspect that there were some limitations to it, but vehicular manslaughter and the like carried a significantly lower penalty than other forms of manslaughter. It has been fixed so that there is parity, but it was ridiculous that for so many decades using a car resulted in a lower penalty than if you did it in some other way.
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A bunch, they deleted some of my comments. They posted and moments later the posts were just gone. And I don't even have inside information. It's just the usual pointing out that the Israelis aren't innocent.
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The local news station is staffed with heroes for sending the black guy to cover the story. I'm not sure how much better that moment could have been with anybody else. He's literally got a massive hint that perhaps saying "n*****" is a bad idea and saying that they don't employ any of them is even worse.
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Really, somebody needs to get McConnel out of the Senate before he succeeds in destroying the country. And while we're at it, perhaps throw him in prison for those sweetheart deals with his wife.
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@sebastianmuenzberg4197 Yes, the trick there though is to remember that you can do it. The most effective meditation is often the meditation done under the hardest circumstances.
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I'm under another situation where a noncompete makes sense. I can't currently work for a competing retail establishment, but the moment I quit the restriction ends. Which, I think is pretty reasonable as a way of preventing conflicts of interest and trade secrets from migrating. (Although with the number of employees that flow between competing chains, I'm not sure how much there really is other than pricing and expenses to share) The bit about these going beyond the term of contract or a short period afterwards other than when you're selling a business that you were running seems wrong to me.
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This is absolute nonsense. If they aren't compiled together, then they are separate programs, merely sharing an address space is really pushing it a bit further than it should be and this kind of thinking really puts companies off from contributing.
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@SylviaRustyFae It's mostly a fee to go towards the added work that's involved between flights. There shouldn't be any actual fee for what goes on on the flight itself as there shouldn't be any real increase in work for the flight crew.
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"Fortunately" it's more likely that Trump will actually win and this will be avoided. Just look at the polling data and the Biden teams complete refusal to go out and get the votes of the tens of millions of eligible voters that don't bother. Hell, I won't be voting for him and he has failed to do anything to secure my vote other than not be Trump. Not enough, there are other "not Trumps" I can vote for.
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That's why the minimum wage exists. To reduce the pressure to race to the bottom in terms of wages. Even at the minimum wages we're looking at for next year, that's really not enough even when compared with welfare benefits.
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@cassady7169 Workers only have the negotiating power to do that if they're in a union. Otherwise, the employer generally has the upper hand in terms of pay negotiations.
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@how2pick4name The thing is that they pay on the basis of individual ads. If the ad doesn't play because nobody watched it, it's the same amount they get from not watching any other video. It's them trying to consolidate all the views on a small number of videos that's a problem. Nearly all the ads that I see on this site are for scams anyways. It's also a good reason to stop limiting which channels we can send thanks to. As long as the payment can be legally made, that should be the only thing that really matters. I have no problem with YouTube getting a cut of that money for providing the service.
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@paulsheldon8838 It makes precisely no money if nobody clicks the ads. And, the degree to which the traffic is concentrated into a few channels increases the risk by a lot in terms of what happens if those creators decide they want to split off and create their own website.
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My room mate had a bad experience with the NHS when his father was dying. But, even with that experience, he was very clear that he supported the NHS and wouldn't give it up in order to get what we have in the US. And that was really telling, even with a significantly bad experience, he still overwhelmingly supported the system.
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@thomashowl6488 yeah, really. My dad spray painted his '76 Ford Courier several decades ago. Took forever, used a ton of paint and didn't look particularly good when done.
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You're better off with Ritalin, unless you're looking forward to getting Parkinson's. I'm not sure why Adderall is still being prescribed when there are so many other options these days.
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In Europe they actually enforce antitrust regulations regularly. I can't remember the last time they actually took antitrust regulations seriously.
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@Quiltfish Yes, I think it's pretty funny how people just assume that these things have names like that, I remember years ago, there was a sound recording on the site clarifying that it is in fact es queue el. Which logically gives you es queue lite. I'm not sure at what point people decided that everything needed to be an acronym, but I challenge people to actually pronounce "PCMCIA" in any sort of sane way other than those letters in order.
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The expense is largely a combination of those expenditures combined with the government providing fewer subsidies for operations of the colleges.
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I think more likely things would go back to how they were before the protections were passed. Probably smaller platforms and more censorship. I'm not convinced that there will be that much change as most platforms have rules above and beyond what the federal government can enforce.
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@Dustin.DeWind I doubt 230 is having that much of an impact at this point as the rules that the tech companies have are stricter tab what the feds can have under the constitution. I certainly won't argue that reexamination and adjustment aren't in order, section 230 is nearly 25 years old and the net has grown enormously since then. The bigger issue is the degree of consolidating that has been going on over the last couple decades where you don't have much choice where you post as opposed to the '90s where there were tons of fora and chat rooms with different rules and norms to choose from.
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@MeppyMan Chiropractors do sometimes overstep what the service they're providing does. But, what they do does qualify as evidence based medicine in most of what they do. It's just that they can overstep a bit in terms of what they think the consequences of having the spine properly aligned will do.
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I'm pretty sure that most women would appreciate a good "stare lift."
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@295Phoenix I voted 3rd party because he wasn't going to be good and I couldn't stomach Trump. I also refused to vote for HRC the previous time. I'm going to vote 3rd party again next time unless there's no candidate available.
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I agree here, as a recovered alcoholic, this kind of press makes me very nervous. At most, these sorts of treatments may wind up making the process a bit easier, but they are definitely not a replacement for real treatment. It's a shame because this distracts from things that we know work for treating alcoholism and there are so many facilities and programs that are basically just there to suck up money from patients without any evidence behind it. That's not to say that I think this wouldn't or couldn't work, just that there's a ton more research that needs to be done and the results may well not be much better than what we can do with a real evidence based treatment plan. Personally, I'm as close to "cured" as is possible, but I'm not cured, and I could very easily have a relapse if I'm not careful.
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The 4pm rule is somewhat arbitrary. It may be earlier or later depending upon your personal biology. But, unless you're getting poor quality of sleep and a trial run without coffee later in the afternoon improves things, there's little reason not to. And, in some countries, it's common to be drinking coffee into the evening, so the clearly get no sleep. :/
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That's the thing, as long as there's enough airspeed across the wings, the plane will start to rise. If the windspeed is just right, the plane may not move forward, but it would rise.
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@timb7775 Around here, most of the calls that could arguably be that urgent are handled by the much smaller medic one unites that drive around in vehicles that aren't that much bigger than standard ambulances. If you've ever seen firefighters responding to a fire, it can be a bit unsettling just how slowly they progress when they know there isn't anybody trapped inside. And a large part of that is so that nobody makes any stupid mistakes. Although part of it has to do with modern techniques that depend more on venting a bunch of the heat out of the building before they even proceed inside.
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@MidnightLucario1 Yep, the DNC is probably the biggest supporter of the GOP out there. They keep throwing elections they could win.
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Why? People rarely fall to their death there and there's already the means to climb it with reasonable safety.
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I think this is a publicly owned train, so the video would be released eventually, regardless.
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@BasicDevBlog Google's Manifest V3 pretty much guts adblocking and there's no guarantee that they won't go even further if they need to. If you want to switch, don't let the door hit you on the way out, but this level of freak out over them making explicit what was implicit previously isn't doing anybody any favors. The language around ads will probably be cleaned up, but last I heard, they were trying to get their own ad network setup where the advertisers were at least moderately limited in terms of what they could see and Fx has made a lot of progress in terms of isolating sites from each other.
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There's so many 1 hit wonders out there that it would be hard to create a comprehensive list that's still short enough to sit through.
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That's not always the case. The department that I work in at the local grocery store has been understaffed for months and nobody is applying. It's not even that bad of a job. But, at this point with only 2 people in the department, things are grinding to a halt as I'm already working 6 days a week and can't really work any more and there are so many open positions in other parts of the store that there isn't really anybody to borrow either. For me personally, I could train somebody to do the stuff that needs to be done in a matter of a few minutes, it's just that there isn't anybody to train because nobody is applying.
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@jarretgosbee7717 Yes, although a foldable stationary bike isn't necessarily that expensive. A pretty decent one can be had for a couple hundred bucks and takes up no space.
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Most liberals don't support this sort of nonsense. There's a loud minority that do, and normally they're about as relevant as the Libertarian party is.
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Yep, that's virtually always the case with that argument, it assumes that there aren't wider consequences, but we know that's not true. People regularly go to prison for stealing money for gambling. I'm sure we could do better without the bans, but it would take some effort and it would cost casinos.
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Yep, he's definitely worse than Nixon and probably only Pierce and Buchannon were worse. Even then, they were only worse because they preceded the Civil War. And we still haven't had a civil war resulting from Reagan's rank corruption and incompetence as a leader.
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I'm not so sure this is sudden or unexpected. Attorneys do this all the time and try to convince the job to end the trial if it's in their best interest and they have any sort of argument to make to support ending it. Anytime they think they can get the judge to suddenly rule in their favor, they're going to go for it.
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@heatshield Yep, and that's why there's often a 4th crew member on board these flights so that there's more eyes that can cover a larger section of the sky, which apparently wasn't the case here, for whatever reason there were only 3 crew members which meant that some part of the sky was not being monitored at any given time.
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@krismDK These devices don't use that much power. My fries get plenty crispy in a wall outlet at the normal 115v, although it is at the upper limits of what's advisable with a kitchen outlet at 1800watts.
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I agree with this. I road my first Harley last weekend, it was a rental and happened to be new with only 5miles on it. I ended up liking it a lot more than I expected. It was a softtail and for the kind of riding I was doing, it was quite capable. However, there's a reason I don't own any HD motorcycles and that comes down primarily to the fact that most of the highways around here are curvy and twisty and not the kind of straight lines that the HD baggers are designed for. I was literally scraping within a couple minutes of taking the bike out. But, that being said, branching out is a good thing. HD does make some nice bikes, but hopefully when they go midsized, they'll have the sense to build an engine that's easier to maintain to what they've been designing for their other bikes.
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Pretty much the only promise he kept was to not be Trump.
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That's the main problem with this segment, that in a lot of these cases, the businesses didn't know how long the hazard would continue. I'm not sure what other option there was other than to set a date and then extend if need be.
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@jcg03002 What we pay attorneys in public service, especially the ones working as public defenders, is a travesty. In most states you're legally required to attend law school before passing the bar before being allowed to practice, which is an extremely expensive proposition. Even in states where you just need to pass the bar, that is a ton of time and effort and probably cutting back on how much you can work to manage.
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Not to mention that she was lying about the first responders, she's done nothing for the essential workers.
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It would be our money if the government policies didn't result in half of the people making so little that trey do pay federal income tax.
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OK, then explain why her platform completely leaves out men's issues if she's going to be the POTUS for all Americans. Is she going to deport all the men? Because roughly half of all Americans are men or boys.
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Essentially Biden did. As the sitting President, Biden was pretty much guaranteed the Democratic party nomination. So, it was more or less run as something else or burn through a lot of cash campaigning against somebody that might not be beatable. The calculus has changed as the donors have started to take notice of just how weak Biden is and how Harris isn't really able to do enough to make up for it. If the Democrats are so concerned about Trump the best thing to do at this point might be to just not have a nominee and just pledge support to RFKJR. Which will not happen for so many different reasons.
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It's high time the courts start to actually protect people's constitutional rights, curfews like that are not constitutional. Now, if the curfew was later, they might have a point, but that effectively bans teens from employment, going out to movies on weekdays, study groups after school and a bunch of other things. If they really care about order, they'd be fining parents that don't actually make sure their kids know how to behave.
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Close, dude nearly hit a turkey.
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Technically, you can, the issue is that people tend to give up too early and it requires materials that are hard to come by. Most educators fall in the middle in terms of the view that you need both deliberate study and a lot of CI. It makes little sense to not make use of an adults ability to study strategically just to get to 100% CI unless you're in a position where you have to learn the language and don't have access to any sort of education to do so. That's more the domain of accidentally learning English by playing video games that are in English.
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@Reichstaubenminister And, ironically, it's less free than BSD and MIT licensed software in that respect. But, either way, just being able to look at code isn't something that most people would consider to be open source.
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TBH, I knew what the "correct" answer was immediately, and it was also immediate obvious that the choice to reflect me was the other one.
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She spends a lot of campaign dollars advertising with the news outlets that would be demanding those debates.
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Perhaps, but now they're more like the Browns. Technically a team, but only technically.
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Not true, if that were the case, it would be really easy to catch those people.
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@M414-q6o No, my point is that as impressive as it is, it's not anywhere near the limit of what people can do.
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@Nicksonian Yep, that's not to say that they don't ever get a scoop, but the system depended upon there being many reporters at many different outlets competing to get their story out first. They didn't have the option of just waiting for somebody else to publish an article on before commenting on it or drawing conclusions from multiple news sources.
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@BrokenLifeCycle Yes, although the bigger issue are depreciation, maintenance and advancing technology. They could engineer a bridge that will last a thousand years if they wanted to, it just doesn't usually make much sense given the cost of construction and maintenance would be far greater than building a new one a few decades into the future. That new bridge would likely have better designs and better materials and could be built to take the needs of the people into consideration. One of the bridges near me was built long enough ago out of mostly iron, and it was closed to traffic well before I was born due to safety concerns related to modern vehicles. It remains safe for people to walk and bike on, but it wouldn't handle modern vehicles.
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Sort of, we need some for optimal health, but you can live a reasonably healthy life without it.
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@Dawid Shields No you won't, they already past the measure that makes it tax-free. That was like 2 years ago at this point, and I don't think that it's expired.
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I live not too far from the part of the city that he's talking about, and I wouldn't assume that. This is a neighborhood with steep hills, beaver ponds and a bit of a ravine, if the house is situated in that portion of the neighborhood, chances are good that it is if it doesn't have service from either CenturyLink or Comcast, then it's going to be a lot more expensive than you'd normally expect.
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@mdargusch No, it's not. The bandwidth is being paid for.
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That was legal. Perhaps other people that have illegal animals they won't make it public.
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That's simple, it doesn't include provisions for women that lie about being on other forms of contraceptive when "stealthing" was already illegal.
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@dragonore2009 Bill Gates stole most of the ideas that made Microsoft from Xerox and pretty much held the work ransom. He didn't create anything, after Basic that want already out there.
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@dragonore2009 As opposed to the alternatives that pretty much all result in some form of oligarchy. If a minority group can't convince the majority of something, perhaps they shouldn't get it.
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The main ads I remember seeing were fundraising on the basis of beating the GOP. There were no reasons given as to why beating the GOP was important or would benefit me as a voter, just give us money because we're not the GOP.
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Oh please, if you're having no respect based on a theoretical basis, then you're beyond saving. If you're going to have no respect for them, it should be on the basis of things they say or do.
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@corybrockman1865 That's the only reasonable justification. He was sentenced to 25 years and he's been in for a bit over a decade, which means that he probably would be released on good behavior before too long.
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@electroteque no, it's not. None of the stimulus went out to everybody. I only got $1200 because I was dumb enough to be an essential worker. We got massively screwed. But this making to much didn't get that.
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He should paint "have a nice day" or "Thank you please come again" on it.
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It's also uncomfortably close to actual entrapment. The FBI pretty much can't catch any terrorists without creating the plot, finding the folks to engage in it and then arresting them.
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Probably the easiest is one of the GUI wrappers for rsync. I'm not sure why the hate for cli tools, it's not that hard to type, rsync -a source destination. And add --remove-source-files if you want it to be more of a move.
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seventhsinn They don't. The reason why it seems that way is that the European countries took over most of the world for a period. In the US, it's because what's "white" has changed over time to only include the individuals with light skin who were successful. So, it appears that white people are in charge, but only because the last remaining group with light skin that isn't yet included is Hispanics. And you can already seeing successful Hispanic people dropping references to that part of their family when they make it. Same as the other groups that make up white America.
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@battleboat12 Yes, a different sporting event sharing that name would almost certainly run afoul of the trademark, but if it were something that was completely unrelated and not trading off the tournament, it might be allowable. For example, a black friday style sale running during the same time might be able to use the term, provided that it didn't cause any confusion over a connection with the tournament other than being at the same time. But, using march madness in some other country where the tournament isn't a prominent thing likely wouldn't run afoul, even if the NCAA bothered to register it there. (Although, if it's that unnotable, they probably wouldn't bother to register it there, and as such there wouldn't be anything to infringe upon)
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Warzone has improved greatly in terms of graphics over the years, if I'm not mistaken. It seems to me that there has been a lot of work done on improving the look of the game, along with the other aspects.
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I will no longer vote for an incumbent Republican or Democrat as a result of not getting proper hazard pay. And even Republican or Democrat politicians as challengers unless there's no 3rd party. I've been making less than what folks on unemployment were making and we barely got the vaccine before the general population. BTW, I've been working at a grocery store and I did get hazard pay, for the last few months, but because I got my hours cut due to excess hiring by the company, I wasn't eligible for unemployment.
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@VideoArchiveGuy Unlike Kohl's Cash, Menards rebates can only be used in person, making it substantially worse than what other companies do. I made the mistake of buying something from them, partially due to the "rebate" only to learn later that it's not a real rebate, it can only be used on future purchases and only in person. The closest location to me is in Wyoming, which is a ridiculous distance to go in order to make use of one of their "rebates."
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If they do return from the dead, they'll probably be at most 1/3 of their current size as it would require everybody that had been giving them money to sign up again and there are a lot of other gun rights organizations out there without the baggage of the NRA. Many of them are OK with reasonable measures like background checks and limitations on the number of rounds you can have in a magazine in order to preserve more important firearm related freedoms. It's also worth keeping in mind that the 2nd Amendment can be revoked or modified at any time through the amendment process. It wouldn't be the first amendment to be changed in that fashion and at some point people are going to get fed up with the mass shootings and they may just demand more restriction than what you can do without an amendment.
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Why would they? With the mess that the politicians have made of the pandemic, it's probably more profitable for them to be out of power.
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This is kind of an old school thing to do. I remember when I took pre-calc years ago we did something like this to determine whether a data set was linear, exponential or power. If it was roughly linear with linear scales, then it was a linear equation. If you graphed the points on semi-log paper where one axis was linear and the other was exponential and you got a line, then it was an exponential curve. And if you used logs on both scales and you got a line, then it was a power function like X^X or the like. It's a shame that this appears to no longer be covered because it makes certain transforms make sense. A U substitution involves swapping out the independent axis for one that is now in terms of U, hence why you need to change the limits of integration unless you swap the original back. And if you're using the jacobian, you're swapping both axes to the UV plane typically. And you see the same sort of thing going on, albeit a bit more complicated when you switch between various other coordinate systems.
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For those of us that are males that are also gay or bisexual, in particular, it was a nasty trap as you weren't legally allowed to serve, but even after Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Harass, Don't Pursue was instituted, there were still huge numbers of people thrown out of the military and not receiving their honorable discharges. That was extremely expensive and damaging to all those involved for reasons you're fully aware of. A consequence of it is that most military personnel were fine with it as long as they weren't at risk, but it was precarious where being a threat to somebody else's promotion could be enough to get a complaint that would wind up destroying lives. Removing the draft helped that, but now that things are legally integrated, the draft should return with some teeth to ensure that the rich and powerful are not allowed to avoid their share of the commitment.
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It would have been interesting to have the 92% of Americans wanting cheaper medications with the percentage that work in that industry.
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I do think that skipping much of the interrogation stuff would be worth while. Especially since you invariably get a bunch of other riders that break the immersive element. I'm not sure what the point is in spending alll that time and money training the literal cast there, only to have people engaging in flash photography and mugging for selfies while the rest of us are trying to enjoy being in that bay with all the storm troopers. Also, would it have killed them to add a little bit of motion to the storm troopers? Even just a little bit of motion to a head, or an arm would have made them come to life.
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Which works out fine, until a pandemic comes along, and suddenly you're no longer either able to collect the rent or evict the tenants to find ones that will pay. Only idiots put all their eggs in the real estate basket. Stocks, bonds, real estate. Not to mention a bit of cash and supplies in case of natural disaster.
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@MrTrailerman2 I forget what the limit is around here, I do it as immediately as possible just because until that title has been transferred there's a bunch of problematic legal stuff that can come of it. There's a lot of places where you can get your title transferred around here, many dealerships are permitted to handle transfers, even for vehicles that they didn't have any hand in selling. I don't think I've ever had to wait more than an hour in total ever. The driver's licensing thing though can be more of a wait here, but the state wound up privatizing most of that in part due to the long wait times.
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That's not true though. He wasn't cooperating. Obviously, this was excessive force and ultimately murder, but it's dishonest to suggest that he didn't contribute to being restrained.
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@denisohbrien We have an ungrounded version because by the time grounding was added we had a massive stockpile of devices that use it. Plus, as long as you double insulate the device, there's no issue. This is another time where the US being so far ahead a century ago has gone on to bite us on the rear. I'd love for us to adopt the UK style sockets as they are clearly superior. But, modern sockets here can be bought that are nearly as good, featuring a shutter to make it difficult to jam objects other than a plug in.
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@chaos.corner I've thought for some time now that outlets that are in those sorts of high frequency areas should be designed to have the entire socket portion pop out with just a couple screws and have a carrier that is wired into the building wire for that sort of reason. Hardly any business is going to go in and replace those sorts of thing unless they're facing a significant liability if something happens.
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@marcokrueger3399 That's overengineered, but not that much of a difference. I haven't seen that kind of loose outlet that wasn't quite a few decades old. But, you have to realize that in the US, it's not uncommon for there to be buildings with knob and tube wiring still in use, with the outlets being a full century old at this point. As is often the case, unlike many other counties, we still have a bunch of buildings with wiring that predates WWII. Just as a practical matter, there's little point in outlets lasting more than 40 or 50 years as there's likely been improvements to the design such as integrated shutters and protection against faults that couldn't previously have been prevented in the meantime.
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@marcokrueger3399 I know, my point is that everything has a duty cycle of some sort associated with it. The unit I live in is the worst one I've ever been in other than a hotel in terms of loose sockets. The only other loose sockets I've ever encountered were in ancient buildings that are still on knob and tube with 2 prong outlets. I'm somewhat less sure how long the outlets that are currently being installed will last, but in all likelihood it will be a great deal longer as the shutters are extremely stiff when new and just make the problem take longer to develop.
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TBH, it largely is. Most of the actual suffering comes from resisting it. If you just acknowledge the pain and do something to address it, normally the pain goes away pretty quickly. You wouldn't want to completely opt out of pain anyways, as when that happens, amputations tend to be in your future. The big issue tends to be chronic pain, at that point, things are so out of control, that it doesn't seem to apply.
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@mmcbey1401 Not in this case. Unlike much of Europe the US was fortunate enough to avoid being blown all to smithereens during the world wars. The result is that we didn't get that opportunity to do a rethink on how our existing cities were laid out and we more or less explicitly designed the suburbs to be a traffic nightmare with few thoroughfares There's a highway not that far from me that's a traffic nightmare through much of the day because it's effectively the only option that doesn't involve driving on a maze of smaller and less direct streets through the area.
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They investigate it as a violation of the student code of conduct and if, to whatever standards they want to use, think it's possible that the accusation is true, then they can kick the student out of school. It's not being tried as a criminal offense, which allows them to use a much lower legal standard and prevent the accused from standard things like retaining an attorney and cross-examining the accuser. And in most cases, the accusation never makes its way to the police for a real investigation, leading to cases where people are being deprived of their due process rights.
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+Jeff Chang, they do have a lower standard than criminal courts, but as you note, you do have rights and the plaintiff has to prove both that whatever happened and whatever damages they're seeking.
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@Brokkolesz typically yes, but not always, sometimes they try to cut corners by not undercutting the gear leading to issues.
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@dekulruno Yes and that's why it's best used as backup after doing a regular set of search to find other things that may have been missed which you can then look up and verify before using in court.
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@davidh9638 Both practices are in the constitution, yes the hitchhiking isn't as explicit, but freedom to move about is in there. It's a shame that the courts have allowed it to be watered down to the point where it effectively doesn't exist these days. The whole TSA thing is completely unconstitutional and completely ineffective.
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Biden hasn't helped me out with the student loans, he hasn't gotten me hazard pay, and he hasn't given us medicare for all. Most of that he could have done on his own. But the lack of even a proposal for hazard pay is ridiculous. They were willing to propose hazard pay for essential workers when they couldn't make it happen, but as soon as they got control over the legislature and Presidency, they don't even talk about it. They could be helping the people, they are choosing to lose rather than set precedent that the government can help people.
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The same way that both Trump and Biden were able to suspend both payments and interest. It's federal loans, Presidents have had the authority to do it since the '60s, it's just not been used to completely wipe the loans before. Plus, if he can use it on loans for for-profit colleges, then he can use it on nonprofit ones as well. There is no provision that says that he can only do it for profit student loans.
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Not to mention the cream of wheat chef that's getting the axe.
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I'm glad he's finally calling Sonic out over their BS. How can they be "America's Drive in" when I have to get in my car and go on a road trip to eat at one? And they advertise here all the time. I think there might be a couple in the state, but not where people actually live.
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Technically, the law permits discrimination based on being too young, not too old. However, if the courts would actually enforce the constitution, those provisions would apply to everybody, not just those over 40. In this case, the fact that there's 2 different ages, one for men and one for women, is the thing that would most likely get them in trouble. However, if this results in some races being kept out more than others, that would likely also be an issue. And considering that the life expectancy of black men is so much lower than for other groups, it probably wouldn't take much of a leap to file suit as a race discrimination thing the way that companies can hire people based on looks, so long as looks aren't discriminatory on any covered class.
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@levindeed He probably wasn't innocent though. Just google the stuff that was undeniably found in his residence after he died. He had a bunch of stuff that makes no sense being there if he hadn't done it.
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Violence isn't the answer, but then again voting hasn't been the answer either. Even when people think they're voting for something, they wind up getting the opposite. Obama promised hope and change, at the end of the day he didn't even try to change things. On virtually every front he went with the right wing proposal and in the rare case where he didn't, he didn't fight to actually accomplish the goal. I still don't believe in violence, but violence is inevitable as long as there are so many people that don't have a party or candidate that's looking out for them even as they suffer like nobody in this country has suffered for generations while the elites prosper.
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Keep in mind that if people keep not having enough kids to keep up the population, eventually the price of real estate will drop to something pretty reasonable as we don't need the current number of people to provide all the things that people need to thrive. The thing that worries me though is that if the drop is too fast, that can cause it's own set of problems.
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@Shogundoxie1414 I don't think they even do that anymore due to them not wanting to have their leader subjected to depositions and have to start answering questions under oath. It's my understanding that if they do kill people, it's via incompetence and lack of care, rather than actual intentional murder. After all, they do need people to pay for their costly services and they can't do like the Catholics and require a new mass for each body part from the victim of a serial killer is found. (Yes, that really is true and it's both petty and corrupt, there should have been some sort of a break after the 3rd or 4th body part was found)
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Which explains why gun violence is so much less of a problem in areas with real regulations, how?
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@mirceazaharia2094 Essentially yes, there are plenty of countries with more guns than the US and fewer problems. They have a combination of better morals and better regulations. And the regulations clearly aren't aimed at disarming people either, in some cases they can have stuff that we can't. But, there's enough irresponsible jerks to ruin it for the rest of the responsible gun owners.
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The democrats passed legislation over 2 months ago to address it. The republicans waited until a couple weeks ago to even debate it.
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The most disappointing thing here is the poor performance with headphones. There's a ton of people who would be willing to wear headphones while watching a movie at home for the emersion. I still remember watching Austin Powers with a 5.1 setup and hearing the water dripping in the background. It's a shame that it can be a bit of a pain to set that up if you can't run wires in the walls.
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The voting by mail could doom Trump's efforts to be reelected as the ballots are likely to go out in 2 months. But, that being said, we don't really know how many of the typical progressive voters have had enough and will be voting 3rd party, or not at all. I'll be voting 3rd party, especially if it leads to Trump's reelection as Biden winning just means that the DNC can continue without doing any soul searching.
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@tru3sk1ll I recently saw a black shoplifter in blackface. Blackface is like going around with a toothbrush mustache. It's not itself particularly racist, but good luck doing either of those things without also engaging in racist things as they're incredibly tightly bound together. I do think that as time goes by that people will have stopped doing it long enough that the connection won't be there, but I wouldn't expect it to happen anytime soon.
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Poor families get a lot of support in terms of federal grants and scholarships. It's mostly middle class families that are suffering in that fashion. Plus, even if it were true, that's still no excuse for why we're saddling students with the costs of education that everybody benefits from.
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@jesusofbullets Yes, I considered getting vaccinated for it years ago because I was headed to an area with more rabies. But, the vaccine just allows you a little extra time before you start the regular course of shots to treat it, it doesn't prevent you from getting it and you're usually better of avoiding questionable animals in the first place.
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RCKING97 It depends where they are in the infection. Early on you might not, but by the end you definitely would. If it was always obvious, rabies would have been erradicated many centuries ago.
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@drew8235 It definitely will happen eventually, first it will start with new construction not requring a plumber because there's a machine that can be made to do that for us. Then, the older buildings will come down because they generally do eventually, even the relatively new building that was built for Psycho was replaced piece by piece until it was completely new before being torn down in it's entirety. Other buildings may last longer, but very few buildings last for centuries.
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I've been wondering about those. Also, have a smoke detector. They aren't that expensive and the local fire department might even have some to hand out for free. They might even install it for you if you can't install it yourself. It should never have come down to that little girl figuring out to go get her dad to deal with the fire.
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@sunshineflorida7366 Have you ever seen a gay comic? They make more gay jokes than anybody else, but the key is that the jokes are funny and they know what the consequences are for the community when homophobes like you are permitted to spread these sorts of ideas. The problem isn't just that he made the jokes, it's people like you that seem to have no idea what the repercussions have been.
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@retiredyeti5555 That's not surprising. I had a great uncle who invaded during the D-Day invasion and I can't imagine how much that must have screwed people up afterwards. Probably the only kindness in it was that for many of them, it was over in a matter of minutes.
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Then what would you call them missing a filing deadline other than a technicality? Excluding damning evidence because it was improperly collected is more what the framer's of the constitution had in mind than missing a court filing date by a few hours.
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It's certainly a rare situation, but what happens if you need to get out of their quickly or if the sensors are broken? People already die when they can't get out of their houses as a forest fire is bearing down. If the car is out of commission due to the seat belt sensor being busted, that could be fatal. As opposed to not wearing a seat belt which people generally know to do and are usually the ones harmed by their own poor decisions.
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Indeed, this right here is why this video isn't great advice. I've been doing that for many years and it only works if there are women in your vicinity that are serious about finding somebody. This notion might work where he's from, but it doesn't work if there's any sort of meaningful competition. I'm the guy that most women claim to want, but I never get a second date. Doesn't matter how funny, insightful or otherwise amazing the date is, the women can't be pleased.
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More racism from TYT. It's not because of race, that's something that you're inferring. That implies that this would be different if all those folks were white. The GOP has been screwing us over in Seattle for decades based on the fact that the city voters are not in the same party as the rural voters that generally vote Republican.
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Not really, there are a lot of ways that people can respond, even when they're happy about the outcome. Shock and extreme happiness are both possibilities. But, if they were the ones that threw him overboard, then other emotions are definitely possible.
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Yes, I think what that says is that the vote blue no matter who coalition has done a very effective job of chasing out anybody with critical thinking skills. That's not to say that all Harris supporters are doing this, but the ones that are adult enough to really consider the positions of the candidates are probably not the ones ejecting people from their lives for disagreeing. Personally, I view this as good riddance for bad garbage. And, hopefully the non-Harris voters and the Trump voters that were mostly voting against Harris can create a coalition to compete with the GOP and Democrats in some sort of serious way.
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Fortunately, the dems are too smart to let the voters choose the nominee. 4 more years of Trump.
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It's probably nothing of the sort. We should wait until there's more information, but sinc this is China we may never get a truly accurate picture of what happened as the state owns part of the airline. I used to live there and the safety standards for planes are lax, they'll go with more than the acceptable fuel leaking and the like. The planes look clean and feel safe, but they're not necessarily properly maintained. Between bribes and lax standards it could well be that there was just a failure in one of the sensors or onboard computer that had a fix that was never applied. Still, we should take this with a grain of salt and see what the report says.
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@oneviwatara9384 That's rare. It's been over 20 years since the last airline crash in the US killed more than a hundred. Since then only one crash killed 50 or more and the next largest crash killed 49 from what I'm seeing. The fact of the matter is that US airlines are as safe as possible, the number of individuals killed in crashes and mishaps is statistically indistinguishable from 0 and many years it is zero.
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@MrBurns-tf4if Having lived over there and spoken to people who had relatives flying, it's most likely improper maintenance, the same way that when there's a crash in the US it's virtually always either improper maintenance or errors by the flight crew. Generally speaking, plains overall are engineered to be quite safe and very conservative, issues like the 737-MAX notwithstanding, traveling via plain is by far the safest way of getting between two distant points. If it did do a nose dive like that, it wouldn't surprise me if there was some sort of issue with the sensors that the pilots were unable to overcome in time. But, hopefully the government releases a thorough and accurate report, not necessarily a given in the PRC where the state owns part of most businesses and controls the press pretty tightly.
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Obama did a very similar thing, he immediately got started on things that were pretty much designed to anger the GOP so there wasn't really anything that got done without having to really fight it out. Conveniently, he chose his own ego over doing the fighting, so he didn't have to do anything particularly liberal.
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YT does that occasionally. Sometimes I've gone back to my responses and found that they got posted to a completely wrong comment section, even though I was very clearly responding to something on a different video.
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More likely heading to Oregon for some cocaine, that's normally what people that dress like use.
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It's because it's bad policy. It didn't come with a funding source and a bunch of the people that are getting the money were never taxed on it. The result is the fund running low on money several months earlier and this just signals to younger workers that the people in charge really and truly don't care to fix the problem. They got theirs, f off you plebs.
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That's the thing there, I do think the hostage analogy here is rather apt as I doubt very much that he wanted to do this and I wonder if he isn't counting on people to heed is advice there and just leave the party. Realistically, Biden can't be trusted to honor any of the promises he makes to the left as he's far more interested in the money coming from the right.
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So, how do we determine that before the trial? Because this is a segment of the population with a disproportionate motive to use the weapons for criminal activity and the victims/witnesses have a disproportionate reason to be concerned, we grant what is essentially an injunction on defendants while things are sorted out. The main alternative would be even more invasive as judges wouldn't be able to credit defendants for not having firearms when deciding whether or not to put them on pre-trial detention rather than house arrest or even less invasive options.
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I doubt they'll actually go through with it. One of the reasons being that negotiating with terrorists is a bad idea. In this case the same logic applies, Russia does take hostages and while it appears likely that she did plead guilty to something she did do, that's not a guarantee. Consider what a monster Victor Bout is, it would be extremely foolish to let him out as part of a deal.
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@simonriley3887 Yes, but they aren't used to having to defend against attacks. Both Tulsi Gabbard and Lester Holt managed to take her apart over questions that she knew would be coming. Perhaps she's learned something since then, but I doubt it. I suspect the reason why Trump is backing out of this right now is that he's not sure that she's going to be the nominee at that point.
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Yep, but you also lose a ton of power with the shaft. IMHO, belt drives are probably the best compromise in terms of power efficiency and maintenance. But, for the smallest bikes and ones that are intended for higher performance, really require a chain though.
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It is, and that's due to the GOP being allowed to steal nominations that should have been the Democrats to make and the Biden administration failing to pack the court to get around that. It's a genuine question what SCOTUS is going to do now that the abuses of power they legalized are actually happening rather than theoretical.
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@dingus6317 Considering that he recently acknowledged the harm done to the German-American community via the US concentration camps in the US where German-Americans that couldn't be conscripted or resettled were sent along with the Japanese-Americans, his ethnicity is unlikely to be why. He could just as easily have said Italian-Americans or Chinese-Americans as both groups were sent to the camps as well.
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But, it's really not a pattern. The main issue is the number of contacts between law enforcement and some of these communities, everything stems from there. This case was a case of bad actors engaged in illegal conduct. But, in many other cases, that's simply not the case and the news media failing to differentiate between legitimate actions that lead to death and illegitimate ones is part of the problem. Tamir was shot under similar circumstances to a white guy that was shot in my parents' neighborhood. The police rolled up and within a matter of seconds had killed him. In both cases the recordings were pretty clear that the police had the right to use lethal force and yet in only one of those cases did people get outraged over it. As long as we're failing to differentiate between legal and illegal use of force there's little hope of actually addressing the situations that leads to these kinds of killlings.
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The difference is that the GOP has a long history of engaging in elections fraud and is unlikely to actually result in any of those ballots being handed into the appropriate authority. This is the same party that is currently fighting in Texas to restrict drop offs to one per county no matter how large the county is. The Democrats actually hand the ballots in and wanted that to deal with the problem of voters to be able to actually get their votes cast.
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They aren't getting the same vaccine that's available in the US. So, it's hardly relevant, all the people dying from the shots or none of them isn't relevant when the shots they're getting aren't available in the US.
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The school will eventually recover, but definitely not in the short term. And definitely not as long as Bridges remains at his job. The school was created because there was no public university serving that area and that would be true again if TESC did go under. But, in order for it to recover, they're going to have to fire Bridges and they're going to have to start expelling students for violating the rules. It was against the rules when I was going there to harass people. And the videos we're seeing are well above and beyond what people have a legal right to do.
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Yes, here in WA where the governor actually cares about the health and safety of the public, we're seeing significant progress due in large part to the governor closing most businesses in the state until the epidemic has cleared enough that we can go back to working in public. For quite a while, we had the worst numbers, but now, they're bad, but it looks like we may avoid having our medical system collapse due to a crushing number of cases. With any luck, doctors won't be forced to make decisions about which patients live and which ones die based upon a lack of equipment, supplies or personnel.
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Potentially, but it's a bit like asking about jury nullification, it often results in being blocked from the panel, but if the judge thinks it's an insincere dodge they might order you on anyways.
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And I don't? This money is coming out of the pockets of the younger folks that are already at risk of not getting all of our money. Perhaps be a bit less selfish and realize that at least you got yours, we may not get ours. The trust is expected to be insolvent by 2033 and this pushes that date a few months earlier.
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@CommanderWiggins In all fairness, most cats aren't in bred all to shit like dogs are. The answer is usually American Shorthair. Although, there are other possibilities, there aren't that many other options in the US, if you're not specifically looking for something else.
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@SethFacundo Absolutely, nobody should be arguing otherwise. We know for a fact that the drugs are bad approach doesn't work. Some people are going to ignore the warning and unless something bad happens pretty much immediately, other people will follow suit. I don't personally agree with Kyle's boosting of drugs, he's got a pretty substantial blind eye to what can happen if you overdo it and if there isn't appropriate medical treatment available. In many cases these substances aren't much of a problem, but that doesn't mean that we should be throwing people under the bus the way that he's proposing by legalizing all of them without bothering to have the research in hand to know how to properly provide treatment and education to potential users.
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Well, the normie dems wanted electable last time, so now this time the man is even more senile than he was last time and a bunch still seem to think that he's better than Trump.
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There needs to be more enforcement, there needs to be severe penalties and when these jackwagons kill somebody, they need a stiff prison term as well as to have to go around and explain to people why this is a problem. Around here, we're having a lot of problems due to the lack of policing. The city council is more concerned with appeasing the BLM people that are never going to approve of policing than public safety. I see so many people jaywalking and texting while driving because there's no enforcement. I see people jaywalking in the dark wearing dark clothing. I've almost hit people like that. My mother had a guy walk out in front of her car just as the light changed. Thankfully, she saw him in time, but he could have been run over. And this was less than 50 feet from an intersection with a cross walk.
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So? Gold has significant issues, not the least of which is that you can't necessarily conjure up enough to cover the growth in the economy forever.
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At the time yes, although these days, you can do a lot with sound stages and most major movies are filmed in part on location.
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@anotherfreakingaccount Seattle hardly gets any rain compared with many other major cities. It's the distribution of the rain that sets it apart.
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@tracesprite6078 In all fairness, I doubt they intended to kill him, they probably wanted a political prisoner.
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@honeybunch5765 Exactly, that, early as much as the risk of being taken as a political hostage, is why I wouldn't ever go there. It's not like when I lived in the PRC and could largely interact with the locals freely so long as I avoided interfering with their local politics or talking about certain subjects. At least my presence and the presence of other foreigners had some chance of encouraging a peaceful outcome in the future. With North Korea, you don't ever interact with people that aren't actors whose family are being held hostage. You don't ever get to encounter the real North Korea and you give them the opportunity to get a hostage, puff up their image or leave a few tourist dollars for them to use on their camps and swag for their fearless leader.
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@inviteonlyn0exceptions108 And she was terrible at it. Quibi is pretty much a compete dumpster fire. Not to mention what she did to HP.
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In some cases you can get loans cancelled if they were the result of the college defrauding you. If I don't get foregiveness through this, I'll likely go that route as the only reason I have the loan that I have is that the college refused to provide me with the help that I was promised when I enrolled. It resulted in me being one term behind where I should be and having to pay those bills. Plus, this was right before the pandemic, so I'm not even making the money that I would have had I graduated a year earlier.
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Presumably that's why Trump wants a deal.
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Please quit spreading these lies about the cost of college. Yes, it is too expensive and yes having these loans be immune from discharge in bankruptcy is wrong. But, nobody has to take the loans. There's numerous ways that students can get the education without going massively into debt. They aren't as convenient as borrowing the money, but they do exist. Around here, WA state, you can get the first two years paid for through running start. The next two, you can finish part time while working. Other states don't have that program, but you can do the entire degree part time while you work. Nobody is being put into a position where they have to take out massive loans to get a degree and it's not helpful to continue the lies about students being forced to. If you spread the spending out, you also get more tax credits to pay for a portion of it. And when you do finally graduate, you'll have work experience to make the transition to a career easier.
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@TheModernNobel Honestly, it's just as well that it does that as the only flavor is sugar, and if it stuck around longer the experience would be unpleasant. Being fluffy and airy is not necessarily bad, but when paired with sugar as the main flavor, it isn't a good donut.
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@m.f.3347 What that tells me is that you don't have any real donut shops then. These places start out like that because they're new. The same was the case here with massive lines, but now if you drive by one of the locations it's not any more busy than other donut shops.
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@kinsmed What's your point? The reality is that women have been making at least as much as men for decades now, they just go into fields that pay less. But, they pay less regardless of genitalia.
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@dw999 LOL, you do realize that posts like this won't get you laid, right? Facts don't agree with you.
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@Redridge07 She sent 1500 people to jail for something that she herself has admitted to doing. Not to mention the people she sent to jail for truancy. Just like Hillary, she's a deeply flawed candidate that everybody saw through. But she's on the tickets because Biden promised that he'd choose a black woman. She doesn't help him at all in any way.
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@MMMMMMarco Or, perhaps it's time for MS to join the '80s and stop messing around with those .3 file names.
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With the moves that Trump has made on evictions recently and the populist lies starting to show up in his speech again more or less guarantees that the race will tighten and Trump has probably already won. Biden won't do anything to earn my vote and Trump at least is pretending like he wants our votes.
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What this tells us is that there are basically no progressives in the party and that we need another party.
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Tbh, tempted to try and figure out how to donate to them.
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No, in fact one of the reasons why we still have that stupid list is that it's not subject to FOIA requests, so you have people like a family friend that shares a name with an IRA militant that has a great deal of trouble getting on planes, but since you can't just look at the list, there's no standing to file suit over it without having access to the list. And if you don't have standing to file suit, discovery gets shut down pretty quickly and the insanity continues. I'm hoping now that some patriot has liberated the database that this will lead to a bunch of lawsuits that forces change. But, I won't hold my breathe.
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And what you folks ignore is that the 2nd amendment isn't talking about those weapons. It's talking about things like mortars, cannons, missiles and various other arms, the amendment does not say at any point that a person has the right to a firearm. It says that the people collectively have the right to keep and bear arms. That is a massive difference and anybody claiming that the 2nd amendment grants an individual right to firearms is ignorant because that's not at all what the amendment says. If you read the rest of the bill of rights, they use the singular form where it's intended to be an individual right and plural where it's intended to be a collective right. The 2nd amendment as written as would have made sense at the time was intended to guarantee that the national guard would have the necessary weapons to fight back in cases of invasion or insurrection, not so that idiots with no training and questionable mental health would be able to mow down dozens of people with a weapon that the people writing that amendment couldn't have even imagined.
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@godssara6758 Unregulated militia, or do you you regularly train and receive orders? The militia to which that refers is the national guard. They're regulated, trained and equipped. The 2nd amendment does not refer to firearms, it refers to arms because it's not talking about individuals' rights, it's talking about the sort of weaponry needed for national defense. So, it's just blatant made up BS to indicate that it's just firearms and extends to ones so powerful that the people writing it likely wouldn't have been able to imagine. Cannons, missiles, machine guns, chemical and biological weapons, nukes, mortars, mines and drones are all arms, and none of them are included in the 2nd amendment as currently imagined, and more than one of those isn't even legal under international law.
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And, it will require a motor with a more powerful battery to handle the increased friction.
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Didn't they already delete the Department of Education? What's the point of having a secretary for a department that they're going to pretend doesn't exist?
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There's a lot of that that goes on because there isn't any way of verifying the food safety of the other items in the bag. Usually when one starts to go moldy, it's only a matter of time before the other ones do because the mold you see is just the flower of the actual mold inside the food and grocery stores have no way of knowing which molds are OK and which ones aren't. That would take a mycologist and testing to know for sure. It's safer and simpler to just toss it out.
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I'm fairly sure it's not the college, but figuring out how to survive spring break that accounts for that...
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Yeah, because Trump was such a great President that he won reelection, oh wait, he lost to the demented guy. And he might well have to serve out his term from behind bars.
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It's Apple, anybody that's buying their stuff these days knows what they're getting into. This isn't like when Jobs went insane and started locking down everything and eliminating the features that could be used to use their products in an unapproved way.
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@brayannexon4613 That's already kind of the case where one manufacturer might use a power adapter that doesn't properly register with a different brand. It's quite annoying.
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@andrewk8636 Yes, this isn't exactly new behavior. Apple has been getting away with this sort of anticompetitive behavior for decades.
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But, it is OK, the half-life of these radioactive elements is about 12 years and roughly half of it has already decayed. They're not just going to dump the water they've got in directly, they're going to dilute it down even more and release it gradually. The amount of material we're talking about is a tiny amount in comparison to the volume of the water and I'm sure they'll be monitoring for changes in radiation levels in the area as they do it.
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I always find it puzzling the way that women seem to think that their friends and other women are dating nice guys despite a complete lack of actual evidence to support the conclusion. Any guy that doesn't tolerate being passed over and used as a plate to spin while a woman looks for somebody better gets re-categorized as somehow not nice. I heard enough whining from women about how few nice guys there were when none of those women would have realized that maybe whining about that sort of thing with single men in the room isn't productive. Either they aren't nice guys, in which case you shouldn't be saying things like that. Or they are, in which case actually dating them would make sense.
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I'm guessing that you probably already knew that though if they were being that brazen about it.
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@shawbros Yep and cigarettes smell way better than pot smoke does. Really, when we're talking about fumes, it's really tricky trying to keep them contained when two people are living close together.
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@shawbros Nope, I'm sorry, but that's just factually incorrect. Cigarette smoke does not carry dozens of feet the way that pot smoke does. Perhaps there's something wrong with your nose.
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@Tonto Y Quiennosabe it's very sad.
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So, what happens if you do need to do some division and don't have a calculator near by? That is a problem that does still happen occasionally.
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In all fairness though, the Teamsters took money out of my paycheck resulting in me making less than minimum wage and then did absolutely nothing to help me when of their members got me fired. But, that's probably the most corrupt union in the US.
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@joshyaash One of the big problems with the whole #BLM thing is that policy proposals don't make for snappy hashtags. One of the things that the civil rights movements of the past did so much more effectively was communicate to media outlets that were willing to cover them what the issues were, what the demands were and how the two related.
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Apparently, you'd be wrong. Folks didn't get to be ultra high wealth by spending more on things than absolutely necessary.
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You can easily back those files up or use revision control for any time you manually edit them on Linux. The same isn't really the case with the Windows registry.
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The correct answer was to provide hazard pay for those that were working in jobs that took them outside of the home. Perhaps decreasing as things got closer to normal. The only reason that I got hazard pay is that the local municipality made the grocery store pay it. But, many others aren't getting it. I've had my hours cut to the point where I'm making less than the folks on unemployment are and that's even with the $4 an hour hazard pay. If I had the choice, I'd be very tempted to go on unemployment, but I won't qualify for it. The only reason that I'm making something at all comparable to unemployment is that I'm working 2 jobs and getting hazard pay at one of them. And I'm still not making as much as I would on unemployment, that's f-ed up.
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He wasn't getting a cut of it and the more work is out there the more it dilutes the value of the work he's doing. But, that would be extremely weak justification for doing it and I doubt any artist would do it over simply wanting fewer works out there. It being an early work would make it marginally more likely, but still.
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Well, tombstones do often times say, rest in peace, so probably not that far from the truth.
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Possibly, but there's no point in being terrified as the driver of the train, you're going to hit the vehicle, there is no swerving or stopping for it.
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@wert2789 Yes, but by the time he saw the vehicle, he also knew that hew as going to hit it. He probably also saw the people on the side of the road as well. But, he may not have had full grasp of what was happening in the limited time that was available to process it.
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@xinlou6707 Doubtful, unless the message was received right before the collision. I'd warrant that they would stop if they could, just to avoid the section of track being shut down for an accident investigation. And a larger vehicle on the track can even derail a train.
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Don't say that, he's promised to pick a woman, and she's allegedly a woman.
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@ Yep, people that don't do anything productive, by whatever means they personally measure that, wind up horribly depressed over time.
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@ To a large extent yes, but most people include generating things as part of that purpose. Whether it's kids at home or work products while away. If work weren't part of ones purpose, there would have been much higher rates of suicide when people were working 6 days a week than there were.
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That's not really that young, people far younger than that have heart attacks and die.
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Trump has been doing more the last couple months than Congress. Which is sad because most of it is for show. But he did manage to figure out that the CDC can effectively block evictions during the pandemic, which is more than Congress was doing at the time.
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@godofdestructiondiecast6756 If the democrats were better negotiators, the woud have held up the cares act and gone on tv demanding more for the people. Unemployment extended through the end of the pandemic. Free healthcare through the end of the pandemic. Hazard pay four essential workers through the end of the pandemic. PPP money with no cap. But, they didn't even try to get any of that.
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@Savvynomad225 LOL, I guess I'm enough of an optimist to think that Biden is with it enough to destroy the country on his own without her help.
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@DKNguyen3.1415 That's not true. I used to be a department manager at a local grocery store and it happens pretty regularly when they're changing prices if you're not careful with your price tags. The customer winds up getting the lower price either way as they are entitled to the lower of the stated price or the system, so long as it's not an obvious mistake. In practice, that means that if the price tag matches the item you get the lower price for pointing it out.
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@PasleyAviationPhotography The sign was expired with a posted expiration date on it. That does not qualify as a pricing mistake and it happens every single week due to the store I work at opening before the department I work for opens. OTOH, for $3 it's not really worth angering a customer and the sign was presumably taken down at that time. It was probably worth it to them as a finders fee.
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I disagree, it is a good thing if you don't know who Jack Doherty. I wish I could unsee that stuff.
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Not always. I think the plan got killed by student activists, but one of the local community colleges wanted to build a $10m athletic center funded by fees paid by students that would graduate years before it was even completed. So, it's not always paid by those associations. Many smaller colleges don't have athletics programs that bring in enough cash via either tickets or donations to fund such projects. They simply build as a way of increasing enrollment.
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This is one of the reasons that Trump will be re-elected if Biden is the nominee. He's pushing for more than what the Democrats are. Sad
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The savings on PC games is even bigger. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that we hit the peak of what better graphics can really do decades ago and the publishers didn't really notice.
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@chigstardan7285 I saved so much money when I switched to playing retro games. I'm old enough that those "retro" games are mostly ones that I passed up when they were new for one reason or another.
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I'll need to look into that, because that sounds awesome.
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They have a museum. There's a bunch of stuff on display and I'm not really sure how much more they could put in their museum without having to expand. Given that it's in the middle of a working studio, they don't exactly have much to work with. Plus, this is just the archives. It's mostly stuff that can't be reused later on. There's an entire prop warehouse full of stuff that can be rented.
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They probably are. I'm less clear on the regulations for cars, but motorcycles are legally required to have them on the rear. Manufacturers will also typically put some in other places as well.
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I doubt he'd do that to his friend Joe.
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@gaiustacitus4242 The games are generally rigged when working as intended. The issue is under what circumstances it's permissible to say that a player won and then claim that it was a malfunction. Personally, I think that the only situation where that should be accepted is if the machine wasn't supposed to register a win and the amount wasn't a possible prize amount. In all other cases, they should just pay the money and if it was broken, fix the machine.
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He's not antivaccine and none of what he's saying isn't true. If you go with the actual information from actual experts, rather than that fraud Faucci, you'd know that. The vaccine is marginal at best in terms of preventing the spread. The reason to get vaccinated is that it greatly reduces the risk of serious complications. He's completely right to make fun of Ryan Grim as vaccination, especially this one, can't do that. Even with a more effective vaccine like the one for measles, I'd still recommend against going places where you expect people to have the measles.
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@Anonsense-w5g Yes, and how about the Democrats try something novel and actually promise to address some of the issues that men are facing and then actually try to follow through. There's a fair number of men that haven't so much left the party as the party has abandoned us. And while this channel might like to claim that it's all misogynists, I'm not sure how he explains those of us that are voting Stein rather than Harris. At least with Stein's policies, there's a decent chance that everybody will get to share in the benefits of the policies.
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The irony of this video attracting a bunch of antisemites is surreal. Perhaps the IDF could try going a few months without committing any war crimes, they might get some support.
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@matthewdonohue7754 Don't be too sure, if even half of the allegations turn out to be provable in court, he could go bankrupt. Not to mention that there appear to be crimes committed in all of this on camera. So, we'll have to see what lawsuits are launched against him and if any criminal probes come of it. YT is probably going to fight pretty hard to protect him, I mean sssniperwolf was eventually punished by YT, but it took an awful lot and she wasn't anywhere near Mr. Beast in terms of subscribers and probably ad revenue.
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@johnnydjiurkopff Absolutely. Foreign fighters are more trouble than they're worth. If they're caught, the Russians gain leverage for future prisoner exchanges and the ability to make them perform for propaganda videos. They can point at the foreign fighters as evidence that Ukraine can't take care of itself.
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That depends on what's in the smoothy, but really both are probably best considered to be sometimes foods.
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I wouldn't have apologized, and then I would have run ads in his home state tarring Cotton for it.
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@toodarkpark The modern concept of a NAS is just stupid millennials creating a new name for something that already had one and then trying to claim credit. These are file servers, as in they serve files over some sort of a network. It's even stupider now that these devices commonly include other abilities that are more server abilities, making it an even dumber name.
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@david-r1c5r It doesn't vary much at all. It's a device that exists primarily to provide services. There can be a little bit of wiggle room in terms of the line between a server that somebody occasionally does work direclty on, versus a workstation that occasionally shares files. But, servers are there to serve and workstations are there for work.
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@zacharylewis417 It kind of annoys me that any of this is being debatable. What makes something a home server is that it's a server at home. A NAS is a term for a file-server because millennials can't be bothered to ever use the right name for things. Although NASes do tend to be in a form factor that isn't rack mountable, not that it's a rule. For practical reasons, you're probably going to refer to it as an SQL server if it's serving SQL queries whether or not it's also a home server.
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@Graahk-r8u Iran can't use the nukes any more than the US, Russians or any other nuclear state. Iran itself is located a short distance from Russia and I doubt the Russians would tolerate a nuclear blast that close to their borders.
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Singing isn't reciting, but also just saying it isn't reciting either. It's a trick question as reciting normally has a musical connotation.
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Same here in WA. As an essential worker who had been working part time last time while I was in college, I wouldn't qualify for anything at all because essential workers didn't qualify for PUA and I didn't work enough hours in my base year to get regular unemployment. At one point, I lost 80% of my hours, but because it was a business decision to hire too many workers, I wouldn't get PUA. Fortunately, I've been able to cover my bills and save, but if I lose my job, I won't get any help from unemployment.
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@TheMulToyVerse As far as I know, the federal one is the pandemic unemployment assistance and requires the loss to be due to the pandemic. I wound up giving up as people quit and I got the extra day I needed to make ends meet. But otherwise, I would have been screwed. The system does not properly protect people leaving college for work.
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Cigarettes around here are somewhere north of $10 a pack. People regularly come in to buy them and they're mostly people that can't really afford it. A pack a day, or even 2-3 a week properly invested over their entire working life would go a long ways toward retirement.
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@camaelyonzz7443 Primarily, but you do also have a few people that get the right vaccination and for one reason or another the immune system didn't get enough of a boost. But, typically it's due to the wrong strains being chosen or having mutated in the meantime. They'll try to guess what the dominant strains will be in the fall and winter, but they're doing it months in advance to get the doses manufactured in time for distribution.
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@kenconnelly773 There was a court case back in 1983 from what I understand that said that it's dead.
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The answer is that if you break down on the tracks that you call 911 or at least the person managing the train operations on that track. There should be a phone number posted at or near the crossing so that they can get any trains on that stretch of tracks stopped before they get to the crossing. Or at least slowed down enough to be able to stop if it's still not cleared.
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That's literally the only reason why there are these ridiculous abortion bans that prevent women from getting abortions after they know they're pregnant and increasingly before they know.
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Is it perhaps time now, finally, that we admit that SCOTUS has no legitimacy? For decades, they've been thumbing their noses at the constitution, appointing George W. Bush to the Presidency despite lacking the votes to win the elctoral college, legalizing bribery, making corporations people for everything except explicit voting amongst numerous other things. The fact of the matter is that they don't have legitimacy, and it's a matter of time before people figure it out and just don't follow the rulings that they hand down. The latest bit where the GOP wouldn't even allow for hearings from qualified judges should have been the last straw and resulted in further court rulings being just ignored.
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I don't see an issue with that. There's roughly 190 countries in the world and it changes from time to time, Iraq was a regional power at the time.
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It probably still is. The big thing that's changed is that it's more heavily covered. I'm in my 40s and it was always there and not really getting that much better very quickly. There was a period before I was born roughly the '40s through the '70s where it was improving dramatically. But, since then there hasn't been much improvement and these issues are mostly used by the wealthy to distract from the increased income inequality. Which is to be expected. Most of the work and progress that was really necessary was completed by then. By the '70s you had college educated black couples making more than white college educated white couples. And while there were definitely still issues with racism, the bulk of the necessary progress had been made. Going forward, there just wasn't the same easy projects to undertake and when you do largely achieve your goals, the infrastructure pushing it doesn't just go away. I think the only time that ever happened was when the March of Dimes largely stopped doing anything with Polio as it wasn't an issue and started to focus more broadly. For the most part, the sort of extreme views that lead to that impression are far less common than people think, they just get amplified by social media companies trying to keep people engaged with their site and the news media that hasn't had so little respect for the news in decades.
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We dropped the gold standard because we couldn't dig up gold fast enough to keep up with economic expansion. One of the issues you have on a gold standard is that your economy had better not expand more quickly than you dig up more gold as you wind up with deflation as a result. It's essentially impossible to maintain a gold standard if you don't control the supply of gold. The main issue with going off the standard is that a bunch of incompetent morons were allowed to tell everybody that inflation is OK and deflation is always bad when the reality is that short periods of deflation are a healthy recovery and the only way of preventing the kind of inflationary expectations that have pretty much destroyed any interest in saving money for the future if you can't afford stocks and bonds.
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Yes, she still is, but you'd be forgiven for not knowing. She has 1 delegate and hasn't been getting any coverage.
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I get that they're allowing all that extra time because they want to ensure there are no issues, but voting that far ahead of the election is asking for trouble. That is especially true this time around where we don't know what things are going to look like in November. Definitely not without seeing Biden's dementia on display at the debates. Trump has passed that cognitive test, but can Biden? Trump isn't the hone forgetting where he is and what office he's running for, that's Biden.
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Yeah, this is definitely my favorite segment from the show.
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People tend to forget that things you hear don't just come in through your ear holes. If that sounds only came in there, you would have an extremely hard time hearing yourself. That being said, this is something that needs to be handled very carefully as these devices do come with consequences and if legalized, we're going to have a hell of a time regulating or banning them if the consequences turn out to be worse than expected.
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Yeah, but Biden needs women to vote for him. And there's just enough women that aren't smart enough to see through that to make a bit of a difference.
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This right here is why you answer the question that was asked as briefly as possible and hope that your team will object if there is anything to object to.
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I could be wrong, but I have a feeling that they took advantage of that time to do a full and complete audit of the facility to make sure that everything was where the system says it should be. Given how easy it is to socially distance while doing that and the drop in demand for use of the props.
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@christuffer Honestly, she's not that bad. As much as I hate to admit it, the studio does seem to have a point about some of the fanbois being out to ruin it for the rest of us. It's not a perfect movie, but I do think that it's pretty clear that there's been a lot of unfair BS about the movie that completely misses the point. I hate PWB in just about everything else, but she really isn't a real problem in this one. It's mostly a bunch of fanbois that are up in arms because Harrison Ford is too old to carry a movie like this and needing something to fill the void. No matter what actor or actress was chosen, we'd be getting the same BS. Just like with Shia in Crystal Skulls who also wasn't too bad.
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That's effectively what Seattle did decades ago for many residential streets. The traffic circles are more or less that, except with a 6' circle in the middle that's planted with a tree and some bushes. It effectively turns it into an all way stop, except without the need to actually stop if there's nobody coming from your right.
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We know that the Democrats aren't interested in running, so he's got a good chance with how cowardly the GOP politicians are.
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Not really, the batteries all tend to have the same basic chemistry, the only real differences come in terms of how much chemical they put in and how well they seal the battery off. Just divide the mwh, by the price and the highest number wins. Now, if you start having issues with them leaking and the like, then you'll probably want to buy a different brand, but in general, there's very little difference in these batteries.
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@John-Smith02 I agree, Harris would never have been the VP if Biden hadn't promised to choose a woman of color for VP.
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I will say that chandeliers aren't necessarily that much more expensive than other options. They can be thousands of dollars, or more, but the one I've got was only a few hundred dollars and the next step down isn't really that much less expensive and was quite ugly.
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Why does that first bit sound suspiciously like a hostage video. Quick Seth blink twice if you need Seal Team 6.
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The issue is that it messes with the pricing policy. What the customers are presented with before they order is a price and that's what resonates, whether it is or is not inclusive of tip, the amount is what they see first. And, it's actually a fair amount of thinking to figure out what you're going to be paying with tax and tip. I didn't realize how much until I moved to a place with no salse tax and no tips.
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@Wolfie713 First off, it's a typo, you know perfectly well that it's a typo. Around here we would rather have people driving with a license than driving illegally and possibly not knowing how. As far as the racism angle, it's completely racially motivated that they would prefer the people that are here illegally to drive illegally than to just license them and, hopefully, have them having some idea what they're doing. As far as that first bit goes, clearly we're not quite on the same page. None of this would be a problem if a bunch of racist folks weren't more concerned with residency requirements than safety on the roads.
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How would voting for Harris have been much better? It remains to be seen how much of a leash he gives to those folks in the administration. But, we know that Harris would have let the Israelis continue to get away with literal genocide.
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@kcrowe8583 Given how little disagreement there is on key issues, they aren't entirely wrong about that. The DNC outright doesn't care about winning as their consultants get paid either way and their leadership can then run on getting back in power. Even if they do lose their races, they just move over to the private sector and collect their rewards for voting the right way on whatever issues.
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None of the constitutional rights are unlimited. Why is the 2nd amendment sacrosanct when literally all the other ones have restrictions?
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Don't be greedy. A candidate like that can't win in this environment. Sigh, that is more or less why I'm voting 3rd party.
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The accountability comes later after the investigation. There'll be meetings, interviews, probably medical exams before those 4 are allowed to go back to work, assuming that they aren't fired or demoted. I think most people would rather pay folks like that for paid leave than worry about potentially dangerous firefighters showing up when they're needed.
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I used to work at a grocery store and it's simply not possible to put a date on anything that always applies without wasting a ton of food. The label is an estimate of how long the manufacturer is confident that the food is still safe and an experience they want to be linked to. The actual point where it's no longer safe can be much earlier, if there's been issues with damage or storage or it can be significantly later. Ultimately, if it smells funny, looks funny or has the wrong consistency, it's probably bad and should be tossed out.
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@Flussig1 So, what do you do instead? Those dates are used for a lot of things, for instance making sure that the product on the shelf is being rotated so that there's nothing hiding in the back for years. It's used for identifying products that are subject to a recall and for helping the customers to estimate how long the food is good for. It's definitely not perfect, but I'm not sure what the alternative is other than to return to how things used to be done where pretty much everything was presumed to spoil in a predictable way and accepting the food poisoning that could come of getting it wrong.
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It's Texas, you can be sure they'll bend over backwards to make sure that he can have as many as his house can hold.
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Csongor Kovács That's not true any more than most Republicans being antiabortion white supremacists that really like building walls.
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If we're going to kill people, that's the way to go about it. It's painless, hard to screw up and relatively quick. But, really, the only time that it's acceptable to kill somebody else is in selfdefense.
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Yep, the last time I crossed railroad tracks the bells started to chime just as I entered the crossing. I completed the crossing because the bells and lights start with time for anybody that is in the crossing to cross and for folks that aren't to stop before the arms go down. But, there really is no reason for people to wind up on the wrong side of the arms if they don't have a break down.
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Possibly, but option b is still less likely for the same reason.
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TBH, most experts push some combination of deliberate study of grammar and vocab along with inputs. What varies is how much of which and how calibrated the input needs to be. But, anybody claiming that it's 100% study or 100% input is probably a charlatan that is best avoided. The correct answer is probably between 20% and 80% of study versus input. And methods like mnemonics can cut down on the intentional study a bit.
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This sort of problem is why they shouldn't have skipped directly to the bathrooms and athletics. The most reasonable thing would be to just have a default policy of using the men's room. Most men are a lot less uncomfortable with women in the men's room, provided they understand the rules, than women are of men in the women's room. Plus, as a matter of practice, the lines for the men's room are just a lot shorter in most cases.
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@KittenBowl1 It depends where you are, in some places you don't need permission, in others both parties need to agree.
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So, horse battery staple correct isn't a good password? Color me shocked.
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That's why I voted Green Party in the Presidential race, neither major party cares about democracy.
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Yes, also not to essential workers.
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The point of the pizza stone or steel is to get as much heat into the crust as possible before the cheese and toppings burn. But, if you have to practice this, then I don't get the point. I use a cast iron skillet that was pretty cheap and already in my possession when I make pizas and it's basically no clean up at all. Even the cheese barely sticks to the skillet. Even a double burner griddle will fit in the oven and can be had for not much money. You save the mess and you get to use it for cooking other things when you're not making pizzas.
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@I..cast..fireball You can and should ignore the billboards, these roadside message boards are intended to be read by motorists and are supposed to be written in a way that they can be quickly read without distracting drivers.
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@travisd6863 And presumably if a billboard really is so distracting as to cause a crash, there's the possibility of going after the billboard operator and whoever it is that paid for the ad.
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Pardons remain on your record and you couldn't historically receive a pardon if you hadn't been convicted or pled guilty. ALl the pardon does is wipe out the punishment part of the conviction, you were still convicted and it's still on your record unless you can get a court to expunge your record, which is not automatic.
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There's already restrictions on that in much of the country. Which means that this could wind up going on until the spring. On top of that, there's a court process behind it that would take a bunch of time due to the sheer number of cases.
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You are why we have sacks of shite like him on police forces across the country. He wasn't doing his job, he'd already gotten the suspect into handcuffs, there was literally no reason for him to be on anybody's neck for that long, or at all.
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@no_peace Honestly, I think the system here is probably not that different from other systems. You can pay for a ticket with cash, credit or money loaded onto a transit card. Or, you can use the transit card's RFID chip to pay for it directly. Somewhere around here, I've got an Oyster card from Hong Kong that functions similarly. Since we don't have physical barriers to prevent people from entering areas of the system without paying, so we get these random checks of everybody on the bus or train. I think the main difference is that this is being litigated in WA, USA, so the legal result may not quite match with other nations or states.
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Likewise, we didn't withhold our votes from Harris because it wasn't owed to her. We were just voting to kill off a party that hasn't even pretended like we mattered in recent elections. The only time that men are actually brought up by Democratic politicians is when we're being blamed for every problem. I personally voted Stein, others voted for Trump, one of the other candidates or just didn't bother at all as neither candidate was really promising us anything with any intention to follow through. Of the two major candidates, only Trump was pretending like he'd do anything for us.
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@shootingbricks8554 that depends on where you were living. In some cases that was even on a county by county basis.
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Warren is such a snake. She's deliberately ignoring the fact that Clinton only had a plurality because the DNC establishment deliberately rigged the election to nominate her. Even before the first vote was case she already had hundreds of super delegates pledged to her. The DNC refused to have a sufficient number of debates to allow other candidates to get name recognition.
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@veliskaya Is it? How does it work out when you just choose not to buy any food?
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Not unless she earns the vote. The dnc needs to stop forcing weak candidates on the voters. Make her earn it at the convention, it's the best they can do considering we don't have time to redo the primaries.
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@LisaLove-m4l They is what used when the gender isn't known. And that's been the case for quite a long time prior to any of this pronoun stuff becoming a thing. It, means that it's an object.
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I'll be taking the mask off as soon as I can.
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@kamil3409 That's a completely different thing to income.
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@simle6010 Yes, I remember going to the zoo when I was a kid and petting the lion cubs and the tiger in the cage next to it was also OK-ish to be petted. The problem is that these are still wild animals and if they get triggered by a sudden movement or the like, they can do a tremendous amount of damage. Even if the rest of the time they're perfectly friendly and well behaved. Bobcats are kind of tough because they're not that big, but in some ways that makes it worse because they are large enough to do some damage if they do bite or scratch.
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@strange4107 Yes, and if you take a kitten and it gets out, there's a pretty decent chance that it will figure out how to feed itself. Likewise, if a kitten is born and starts living independently, it can be a challenge to get them used to a house cat lifestyle. Chances are that you'll have an outdoor cat at best.
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Unpaid internships have skyrocketed because entry level jobs don't really exist any longer. Even when I graduated nearly 20 years ago, there no entry level jobs to be found in many fields. The "entry" level jobs would require a specific degree and 3-5 years of relevant industry experience. The millenials taking unpaid internships are doing it because it's often times the only way to get the experience as companies are too cheap to pay for training.
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As in the only people in the state that are actually impacted by this. The folks in Eastern Washington have no need for this as you don't have inversions there and the population is a lot less dense. This was just another situation where jealous folks in rural areas trying to stick it to the urban dwellers that are actually making money.
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I'm not sure it's really that obvious. Especialy the bit about needing to go through this even if you're replacing the tire with the same model. I was surprised how much of a difference it made going between a rear tire with roughl 9k miles on it and a new one of the same design.
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I guess, I'm not really seeing anything in this, apart from the abortion stuff, that they haven't been openly saying for years. And I'm pretty sure that the abortion stuff is more or less just the logical next step following the overturn of Row v., Wade so even on that count, I'm not sure why people are shocked that the party is pushing this. Just remember, this stuff is only possible because the Democrats keep throwing winnable elections and fights and the GOP never does. So, the Democrats are just as responsible for this garbage as the GOP is.
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Yes and I know of one "intersection" near me that's effectively 2 intersections that are dangerously close to each other. A round about would make the whole thing a lot less confusing s theres' 2 streets crossing, another street intersecting a car length from that intersection and a private driveway that also intersects the intersection. It's a massive mess and just putting in a simple roundabout would make the whole thing a lot less confusing. Even making it a traffic circle would make it a lot better.
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@gamepeon8038 No he's not. They had to let him out on account of him being dead. The body would stink up the prison.
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@heyheyhey33351 It's a damning indictment of the Democratic elites that didn't bother to even try to find a candidate that the voters wanted after having outright rigged the primaries the previous two cycles.We know Trump is going to be a disaster, the fact that I can't vote for Kamala is completely their fault for not even trying to earn my vote. Not that it matters, the electoral college ensures that my vote won't count no matter what candidate I choose.
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That's largely the concern that I have for them. One of the issues with these cameras is that they don't take into consideration what's going on. We've got some speed cameras here that are in school zones and they're only active at certain times of the day. We've also get red light cameras that fail to consider that yellow means stop if you can safely do so, and a few of the yellow lights we have here are only like 2 or 3 seconds long.
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Paying the debt is pretty easy. They could just cut the funding to Defense to pre-9/11 levels as well as reverse the tax cuts made for corporations and billionaires to 2000 levels we shouldn't require anymore work.
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That's just their cover for all the horrible things they do. There hasn't been an era of the agency where they weren't hopelessly corrupt and engaged in undermining democracy in favor of fascism.
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Finally, people from across the world are banding together to bring Democracy to America.
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Only because it is complicity. And, it's something that the Democrats have been doing for decades at this point. Even the the ACA was a rightwing proposal that got watered down to be even worse.
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It's the first time there's been a face off between Presidents since Cleveland and Harrison over a hundred years ago. It did not go well for Harisson.
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He can, but it's pretty clear that that's not the issue. He has clear statutory authority to give everybody public healthcare and is choosing to not do that as well.
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Yep, hasn't it been known for decades that oil companies were funding scientists that were skeptical of man made climate change? And isn't it old news that the scientific consensus is that it is happening, the main question is how fast and how bad is it going to get along with what can be done about it.
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@riot-van5986 IKR, often times the Blue candidates are just as corrupt and out of touch as the Red candidates. Don't just vote for the ones that are pushing for the people, hold their feet to the fire if they do win.
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It doesn't seem ready for primetime on Windows. I've just spent a bunch of time trying to get it to actually connect to the localhost and there's no indication that there's any actual problem with the install. There isn't anything going on to say why it's not working or that it's not working. Everything appears to be working as it is intended. This is one of the reasons why I hate tech tools, I've been using computers for decades, but developers these days can't be bothered with things like error messages.
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@DoylesDigs I think you'll find that falls on deaf ears.
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@Carahan There's a few like that. Major Minor shows up as well.
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That's what the investigation is likely to center on. We can see in the video that the arms were down and the truck was going around them, the question is probably going to be if this was drugs, lack of rest or distracted driving. But, at the end of the day, there's going to be millions of dollars of damages involved here between the truck, the train and the injured parties. Just the injuries alone could potentially stretch over a million.
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@Obso Erver Biden isn't really an upgrade. He'll likely start a war, cut social security and engage in all the corrupt initiatives that Trump was too incompetent to succeed at.
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@condatis6175 No, it just wasn't a war crime at the time, as war crime is a legal construct. In an ideal world, that would never have been acceptable. But, Sun Tzu was right that pillaged supplies count twice as much as the supplies you bring yourself. Which is something that the Israelis do in terms of stealing Palestinian resources and then profiting off them while doing their best to prevent any sort of economic development of the strip.
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@JaneDoe-hs5rr lol, I was just about to complete that sentence.
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That's the thing, the feds have done basically nothing to help those that do have jobs out. We got a small fraction of the money that they gave to the unemployed, and most of us are making minimum wage, or barely more. Even with hazard pay from the city, I'm still making less than what I'd be making on unemployment and this has been going on for the better part of a year and a half.
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If they were good at their jobs, they wouldn't exist. Most of their funding is due to their failings.
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Location is a somewhat ambiguous term globally. In some cultures here is literally right where you're standing, in the US if you say that you're here, they may mean that they're literally here, at the door or in the parking lot. In this case, if it's literally right where they're standing at the unit, but if you don't need to get into a vehicle to get to the next location, it's reasonably to say that it's the same location. In this case, it was an uninterrupted crime spree at the same facility, so it seems reasonable that it would be one occasion. Sort of like how we wouldn't consider a mass murderer to be a serial killer that killed everybody in one uninterrupted go. Different people's rights were infringed on in the mayhem, but it was one occasion rather than multiple occasions of a single murder. And we'd probably extend that even if they jumped in their car of fled on foot murdering as they went.
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Yep, I think that the kids today see the same things in the old stuff that Gen X did. My parents are Boomers and so I heard a lot of music from the '50s through the mid-70s when they were around. I also heard more recent stuff, but it doesn't seem weird to me at all to listen to older music, good music, the really good stuff, has a way of remaining worth listening to well past the era during which it was written. It's just that it's only been in recent decades when there was the kind of access we have now to older music.
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Rank choice isn't necessary, but it likely would help. Top 2 primary systems also helpful. Here in WA since we switched to a top two system we've had republicans versus republicans and democrats versus republicans in areas which were safe seats fur one party or the other. In virtually all races the more moderate candidate won.
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Absolutely, that promise he could keep, he couldn't keep the promise not to stiff women's hair, that would be too hard.
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@elgatofelix8917 Many of us were smart enough to not vote for Biden. Also, how is that any better, at least the Bernie supporters were smart enough to not make Biden our #1 choice.
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The microbiome testing will probably eventually be useful. The microbiome is a rather significant portion of our immune system and has a significant impact on nutrient absorption. But, we're nowhere near the point where we know enough to make much use of it.
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They need better mics, I didn't hear the tripper apologizing for tripping the suspect.
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Same here, there might be a couple pebbles by the end of the bag, but those can be thrown into coffee as sweetener. Molasses otoh, I pretty much never use that for anything, I've got a couple recipes tray call for it. This seems like a lot of work for something that cooked be solved by desiccate packets or a vacuum container. Or just divide it into smaller packets and freeze them. Freezer air is much less humid than room temperature air.
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@merlynjep or treacle, apparently. It's not a German word I've ever needed to know as I rarely back with it to begin with, which somewhat limits my need for a word for it.
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@bmint That's pretty much the norm in much of the world that the government owns the waterways regardless of who owns the land around it.
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That's not possible, insurance companies cover different things to different extents and one of the reasons why there are all these weird things that wind up on the bill is that the medical billing department basically submit a request for compensation for every possible aspect of the service that was provided. The insurance company then goes and decides which ones to pay and how much. The end result is that the doctor gets paid, but depending upon whom is paying, you'll see very different rates and different bits covered. It's also why you can negotiate medical bills down so much when you don't have insurance. They're sending out a bill as if you're going to submit it to an insurance company for reimbursement, they don't expect to collect on most of it, so you can pretty much immediately get them to drop most of that BS and come to a number closer to what it cost them to provide the service along with whatever reasonable overhead they need.
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@rhondanighman Healthcare is probably the best possible example of something that shouldn't be governed by the free market. I had a heat stroke a decade back and wasn't able to communicate anything to anybody. They had to go through my wallet to figure out whom to contact about it. If there hadn't been any contact information that they could find, then it would have been a massive problem in terms of figuring out to do and what to pay for. There was little room to decline whatever testing and services the doctors wanted to do, or I could have been left permanently incapable of speech. This kind of scenario happens every day somewhere and repeatedly, yes for less serious situations a free market might sort of work, but even there the cost of deferred medical care is expensive.
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@efrenbernardino6704 It will hurt his chances when people don't turn out to vote for him. Just like last time, they screwed Bernie out of his chance and enough people failed to turn up in the right states to tip things to Trump. It's going to be the same thing again. Putting up Biden neutralizes all that as Biden also lies about his record and is even worse off in terms of cognitive faculties than Trump. Barring giving it to Clinton again, there's few candidates that are weaker than Biden.
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Yes, and the haggling is over how much corporate welfare to provide, rather than the measures that would help ordinary Americans. Which is both to be expected and incredibly disgusting. The checks to the people and welfare extensions should go out immediately. The terms for the bailouts of industry can wait.
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Rabbits are just pigs for people without money. At least, if you get a pig, it'll eat your enemies.
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@KangHolion There's degrees, the real concern woud be not conceding and convincing the military to go along with it.
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Why not? Hospitals and emergency workers are legally obligated to provide at least basic care. And that is extremely expensive in the case where there's a head injury involved. If we're forced to pay, then it seems reasonable to enforce basic safety requirements. There's a pretty decent chance that even with helmets, that motorcycles will be banned before too long due to how hard it is to get AI cars to deal with them.
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@Mike-01234 If it was put in by the rescue, then how would it have the information for this couple? And how would the information be up to date?
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@humpteedumptee8629 There was also Milo and Otis. Animals can travel farther than people realize. Although, the likelihood of being eaten by a larger animal is a major risk. Not to mention being run over by a car.
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Doesn't work like that. Dismissal of charges is permanent the same way that a not guilty verdict from a jury, or judge in the case of a bench trial, is permanent.. You cannot be charged again for whatever charges were dismissed. You could potentially be charged for other things if the prosecutor didn't file charges for every applicable charge, but that probably would get challenged by the defense if it looks to be an end run around the constitutions prohibition on reprosecuting crimes.
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You really shouldn't, he's horrible. He'll take people's healthcare from them in the middle of the pandemic.
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At this point, Trump winning is more or less inevitable. Unless super-delegates flip in favor of Sanders at the convention, or something happens to the economy that's so bad that people are willing to accept dementia Joe as President over Trump, we're in for 4 more years of Trump. The shame here is that the establishment could have stuck out of it, or could have chosen a more electable corporatist candidate than Joe. But, it's Joe's turn and anybody that says otherwise doesn't understand how things work.
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Mohamed Hussein Yeah, it's so racist of me to want them to have access to medical care without having to pay at point of sale and for government policy to work to ensure they have a shot at a decent life. Yeah, I'm a real hooded klansman there. If you want to see a racist, I recommend purchasing a mirror.
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Mohamed Hussein The young hate Biden because they know that his policies are terrible and that he has a history of saying and doing racist things. Precisely how much are you being paid to post this BS on behalf of Biden?
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@johnc.8298 Most likely yes, but his system really wasn't designed to handle a situation where both candidates are horrible options. I won't be surprised regardless of who wins. That being said, it's probably slightly more likely for Biden to win, but it's going to depend upon how many of the progressives decide that they're willing to vote lesser of two evils in key states.
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Only because the state ultimately chose not to require the helmet. The amount of insurance coverage in order to not wear a helmet is ridiculous. Head injuries, even relatively minor ones, are expensive to treat. That $10k insurance requirement can easily be run through in a day of intensive care.
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@Memevze TBH, it wouldn't surprise me if this wasn't part of an ill-advised effort to appear less scary.
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@nickmcgookin247 On of the things that I'm curious about is what sort of actions were attempted to contact them on the bridge. Which given the the wold have been tough to do.
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OCD is one of the hardcore disorders that people get. The only saving grace to having that disorder is that it is generally treatable, but the longer it takes to get treated, the harder it is to treat. I've suffered from it for years and the thing that tends to work is medication + some sort of therapy. Medication to help open a crack through which you can start using the techniques being taught. I've had to just accept over the years that I might come home to find the place burgled because I forgot to lock it or that it will be burned to the ground because I forgot to check a light switch. The moment you start checking things, you're just digging yourself deeper into the hole. And no, it's not easy and at a certain point it can be damn near impossible to do, but that's where medication and therapy come into it. The intrusive and repetitive thoughts are the thing that's much harder to solve.
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Just going by Google Maps, it's kind of hard to tell if breaking away from the river earlier to allow for a more controlled ascent would be viable. But, sometimes, there just isn't a decent route and it then becomes a question of whether it even makes sense to to shoehorn a trail in.
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@mikebevan1034 Billionaires are more or less destroying the world, what about the millions that are at risk being some a-holes want to use money to set a high score? Nobody is so valuable as to be worth that much more than ordinary people.
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Eh, the purpose of depression is more or less to spur action to change the conditions in which one is living. Where it becomes a problem is when the depression is so debilitating that it gets in the way of making those changes. In most cases, once somebody with depression starts to make changes to improve things, the depression starts to lift a bit.
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Much less efficiently with actual people.
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@seanmatthewking It's basically impossible to prove a negative, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZy5Pcho-4s , is just one of the many places that it's been debunked. As much as I dislike the ADL's hypocrisy, this isn't one of those areas.
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SonOf McGringus Finish reading my post.
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But, he did fuck it up. He gave up most of the things that we might give to NK in exchange for nothing.
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@AtleyCarman-xe7rs Typically a human is expected to drive slower if they are having issues seeing ahead of them, the computer vision system doesn't seem to do that.
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Neither Harris nor Trump were running on that. But, considering how poorly the 3rd party candidates were doing, most voters are just full of it.
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Sadly, that's not surprising. Childhood weight has a significant impact on how easy or hard it is to maintain a healthy weight as an adult.
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IMHO, the best GUI applications are basically just interfaces for commandline programs that simply put the necessary command together for you, so that you're not dealing with a super long command to type out, but can if you want to, or choose to save it for use again. Handbrake is kind of nice because it allows you to export the settings for use in the terminal or just use again in the future. That's super nice for things like TV series where you might not want to waste the space of storing the episode on your computer when you aren't planning on watching it again for another year and can just quickly tell it to do the conversion again while you do other things without reconfiguring things.
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@ Around here, they even made it easier in recent time where you can just sign up for updates to every ballot you get, rather than having to retain a part of the ballot to type information into their site. More importantly, they now notify me when they send my ballot so that I know to look for it. I've never had one go missing, but it's nice to know to look out for it, especially if we have a repeat of 2024 where fools are burning ballot drop boxes.
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@P_RO_ As a recovered alcoholic, I can assure you that what they were offered was completely useless if the individual is in their 50s. Even now, most programs are absolute garbage. There's little to no scientific evidence backing most treatment programs up, and chucking people in prison where they lose any positive influences they might have had isn't going to help. You can choose to believe or not, but I'm 20 years sober, so I think I know a thing or two about what it takes to beat alcoholism. Sure, I operate under the assumption that if I do take a drink, that I'll have to start the process over, but that's a small price to pay.
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@mdeadinbed And, precisely how many more deaths are you willing to accept responsibility for in order to be right? I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror if being right was more important than saving lives on the road. But, that's just me.
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@mdeadinbed Yes, but drug abuse is not a choice, it is a medical problem that requires treatment. To throw people in prison, without real and effective treatment, and expect that there will be any change is just plain ignorant. I got clean off drugs, I got incredibly sick doing so, and I've had regular periods where it's all I've been able to handle to keep from crawling into a bottle. Putting this down to a choice in a country where you oftentimes don't get a choice in terms of whether or not to drive, is neither accurate nor helpful. Alcoholics and drug addicts exist. Some portion will get behind the wheel, the question is whether we care to do the right thing and get them clean so they don't re-offend, or just accept the cost of not doing so.
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I'm working my way through a second round of graduate school as an essential worker. There's a significant of variation and thanks to the hours, it can be hard to go back to school as you have to do it online. I can be scheduled to be there any portion of the day from 5 am to 8 pm and some other positions are worse. Only online colleges with out fixed classtime are even possible. BTW, people would starve to death within weeks if we stopped working. I'm not sure how much more essential you get.
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That's pretty much women's fault collectively. Women are at least as disgusting as men are in this regard. The main difference is that women get away with not having to make the first move, so they don't get used to having to do so. Which moves the window about. But, the whole idea that women don't gawk, catcall or touch is rather ridiculous. They just aren't used to having to make the first move, so they're less likely to do it at a restaurant or bar.
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@makuru.42 It's one of the consequences of them not being a bank in the US, although from what I understand they are a bank in some other jurisdictions.
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@lawrenceleverton7426 Doesn't matter, that's still assault with a deadly weapon. Blocking traffic is something that the police can deal with as appropriate. It is not typically an infraction that permits such behavior.
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I'm not, at this point, I'm not sure that the government can handle any more of this corruption.
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Considering that the courts are generally loathed to reverse course on these sorts of matters, I wouldn't expect this to ever be a particularly common source of appeal. If something is that common, I would expect that the governor or President as appropriate would probably be pardoning a bunch of them just to clear the backlog. Otherwise, the solution is fairly simple, just add more judges to deal with the problem. It's pretty clear that the framers of the constitution did not intend for people that we know to be innocent, either actually or legally, to be stuck in prison.
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Simply, extending the $300 to those that have been working under such conditions would go a long way towards solving the problem. I've been working in a grocery store for nearly the entirety of the pandemic, and for most of that time, people on unemployment were making more money and not even required to engage in job search or self-improvement activities the way that they normally would.
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Yeah, he ignores the roughly $5tn that they gave to the rich and powerful in the Cares Act and then whines about how untargeted this all is. The reality is that the $5tn of giveaways could have given pretty much everybody in the country roughly $300 a week for an entire year. And yet, he has issues with the inadequate $1.9tn being too unfocused. He's probably right, some of that money is going to go to people that actually need help.
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TBH, moving to a foreign country tends to change the math on this sort of thing. It's probably easier to find a woman in Italy than in WA, but figuring out who is and isn't worth ones time and trying to filter out ones that are just looking for a green card makes it somewhat more risky.
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Liar, those weren't BLM protesters doing that. The rioters were mostly anarchists and racists.
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They're cluefull, it's just that they have corrupt motives.
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@admthrawnuru No, it's not at all. The cases which would be nullified would be the ones that are most likely to result in new precedent being set. The best practice is to faithfully discharge the duties that come of being a juror and let the attorneys figure things out. When I was on jury duty, there was a lot of information that we weren't given for one reason or another. We would regularly be sent back to our room while the judge and attorneys would confer about what was going on and whether or not something was going to be allowed. As a result, you really can't say as a juror in most cases if nullification is appropriate, as you just have the evidence that was admitted and perhaps some things that were stricken from the record for violating the rules.
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@tanucci733 You can, but purely because jurors get some degree of secrecy in how they go about deliberations. It's not a feature of the system and would break things pretty badly if attorneys were allowed to just come up with emotional reasons to convince the jurors to ignore the law. The system isn't perfect, but there's already enough racism in the system in terms of how defendants and victims are viewed without adding any more opportunities. We had that, it was absolutely horrific and allowed thousands of murderers to escape conviction. This was particularly common throughout much of the South where lynchings were common and rarely even brought to trial because jurors wouldn't convict.
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It was always a terrible solution to the problem of storing configuratoin information. Sysctl from FreeBSD is a much better system and there are other systems that other OSes use as well. At a quick look you can identify a bunch of setttings and you can either adjust them once using a built in tool or you can have it changed more or less permanently by editing one of the files it reads. Some portions cannot be changed at different run levels and sometimes you need to adjust the permission to do any operation on it at all. In the years I've been using the OS, I have never had any problems with that system. I have, however, had the registry cause significant problems at various times on Windows that required a reinstall. That hasn't happened in a while, so perhaps they've finally got that fixed.
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Probably not, typically witnesses will be answering questions that they've already had to answer for depositions or when being questioned by the investigating officer. A truly inappropriate question coming up during trial proceedings is rather unlikely, as it's incredibly risky for the attorneys to ask a question that they don't already know the expected response for. But, if it does happen, usually one set of attorneys will object if there's any grounds to do so.
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@Seronu Yep, for those of us that aren't involved in the actual rescue process, thoughts and prayers are the most we can offer. In all likelihood, it's already too late. After locating it, they'd probably have to bring it back to the surface and then get them out of there without inducing decompression sickness, and that is an extremely tall order.
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What law specifies that?
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That's because it's not illegal to receive unsollicited spam calls. In this case, it's illegal to pay for the fake reviews rather than to just leave the fake reviews.
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The Democrats would have more credibility if they hadn't just voted to cut social security benefits on younger workers by giving it to older workers for income that they were never taxed on and didn't even manadate that the extra benefits be paid for by raising the ceiling on social security benefits. The cuts already arrived years ago in terms of the retirement age going up, further cuts will come if nothing is done to actually address the issues with the program. In less than 10 years the trust is going to have less than 80% of the necessary funding to pay out the obligations. And the Democrats just sit there and ignore the problem entirely. All it would take would be raising the ceiling on what's taxable and expand it into other types of income that aren't currently taxed for it in order to ensure that the rich don't just evade the tax.
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@danafletcher2341 And how do they keep the moisture out of the fuel lines? I'm going to have to look into this more thoroughly as my only option for ethanal-free gas is premium stuff and my motorcycle manufacturer indicates that regular is the preferred octane rating. Meaning that I'm spending more money and if the ethanol gas isn't a problem, then I might as well get that. Also, I get the feeling that the ethanol-free premium gas is getting worse gas mileage than the regular stuff. Which doesn't much make sense to me.
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Absolutely not. GMO is something that people do purposefully and in a controlled manner. The big Agra spend huge sins of money lying to people about the process.
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Well, thank God Harris will do something about this, oh wait, none of the Democrats really care because they can just fundraise on this for decades while not really being impacted by any of it.
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I kind of want Eastern Oregon to secede from OR and join ID so we can have a state shaped like it's giving aliens the finger.
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I'd rather have an incompetent that can't get anything done than a senile that appoints people that will get things done for him.
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You're just now realizing that? Something like half of the people in the country live in "constitution-free zones" that the SCOTUS permits because they're too cowardly to tell the government they have to obey the constitutional rights of the people who live near airports and other borders. Not to mention the completely unconstitutional Bush v., Gore which handed the election to Bush in spite of him losing the vote in Florida by literal tens of thousands of votes and led to no GOP candidate for President winning with more than half of the popular vote. Not to mention the court stripping away more and more power from the voters while allowing more and more brazen bribery. At this point, I'm not even sure if it's still possible to be convicted of bribing a public official due to the extremely broad permission that the court has already granted.
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The answer is no, too many people are voting blue no matter who and the GOP absolutely does not care about elections as long as they've got a permanent advantage. Channels like this that are boosting Kamala despite her literally winning no primaries in this or the previous election and without even made her earn the nomination via a contested election is a large part of the problem. She literally hasn't even bothered to try to win over the young male voters that are leaving the party due to the parties attitude that our issues don't matter.
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So? Project 2025 won't be dismantled even if the Democrats ultimately win. It's with us probably forever or at least until we get money out of politics and SCOTUS under control.
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There's no such thing as "white racism" that's something that was invented to let people of color of the hook for their own racism. And yes, there should have been cover for things like the antebellum free blacks in the South and the stuff that was happening in Africa, but that's not justification for inventing racist terms. If it's as one sided as people of color seem to think, then you don't need to add white to racism because it'll come out when all the examples involve one race being racist to other races. And BTW, it's not even true, what we refer to as "white" really wasn't a thing until after WWII, before that, most of the groups that comprise white didn't get along.
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Was casting a Latina as Snow White really the right thing to do here? I mean, it's rather interesting how when it's a white person being cast as a role that was written for people of color, that it's cultural appropriation, but somehow when the oppressed group is white, the same standard does not apply. It's frustrating that after a century, there's still no meaningful acknowledgement of the cleansing of German culture from America, and it hasn't really stopped. There's nothing inherently wrong with recasting the role to different ethnicities, but it should be actually rewritten, otherwise, you're insulting multiple groups and I don't think that it's asking much for people to pretend like doing something that's been a matter of routine for a century is somehow a good thing or progressive. Taking German culture and destroying it isn't progressive, and it's not OK. If you're going to re-imagine the role, that's fine, it's public domain, have at it, just please don't pee on our legs and tell us that it's raining. Or better still, lift the equivalent story from a different culture for once.
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There's a few issues with this, but it's completely unnecessary. If there's a conviction for DUI that caused the death, then a wrongful death case is pretty much an automatic win. The attorney wouldn't have to establish guilt, that's already been done, they'd just have to establish that their client was harmed, the children of the deceased being harmed is an incredibly easy bar to meet and the amount of the damages. That last bit is really the only one that can be tricky.
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That 6th gear probably isn't even necessary. The 6th gear on my Ninja 250 only gets exercised when I'm on the freeway for longer periods of time. Otherwise, the little savings in gas is offset by the ability to better accelerate at speed.
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@ettan5812 Yes and the greater the perceived challenge, the greater the interest.
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@janelle.loves.languages Good luck with that, there are a bunch of levels where you're just not going to get that without paying a fortune for one on one or small classes. Theoretically, it's possible to learn an entire language just with input, but good luck actually getting the content to do it. I'm skeptical about your claimed languages because I have spent a ton of time looking for materials in Mandarin and German that would be appropriate to help bridge the intermediate gap there, and there just isn't much to be had. It's only been in recent years that media availability has improved, but even now, trying to find that i+1 content that the input hypothesis purists push, is just not there without paying gobs of money for. Neither German nor Chinese DVDs play on US players without importing an appropriate region free player or locking your player to a new region. And, the materials that I do see are either way too low in difficulty or are much to high for an intermediate to use without a lot of time spent on learning vocabulary to bring the level down to that i+1 level.
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@janelle.loves.languages It's not about thinking, it's about the near complete lack of materials at that i+1 level that aren't either bog standard boring people to death or incredibly expensive. And, if that's not the case for German or Mandarin, I have not seen those materials. Plus, I've seen Krashen talking about deliberate study and he was pretty clear about the fact that his method isn't 100% CI.
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@JackieOwl94 It's the border, once you enter the border, you're not allowed to turn around due to regulations. That's why there's so much interest in getting people to turn around before they get there. Also, the border itself isn't just a line, there's a bunch of stuff on either side that deals with customs and immigration.
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Only in America can one party control the government, negotiate between $10k and $50k and wind up at zero dollars as the compromise.
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Depends a great deal on the type of engine in the bike and where you're located. Some engine designs are easier to bump start than others are. Plus, would you really want to push an 800# bike fast enough and far enough to get it to turn over?
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@AirCone Of course, the eastern front is to the right of the country, duh.
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@sisyphusvasilias3943 You don't think that trying to prevent him from getting an outright majority so that they can use super delegates on that second ballot is cheating?
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rustydog0329 Pretty much. That's why in these kinds of situations, the insurgents tend to resort to terrorism. I'm not promoting that, but realistically, that's what it would take to bring down the establishment if Bernie doesn't break through.
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That's the main reason why the Democrats are in such trouble. They haven't been allowing the voters to choose the candidates. Had the voters been allowed to pick Biden either last election or this election, it would likely be a different calculus.
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Yep, there are systems to help a plane fly when unbalanced, but sometimes just moving people around is the safer option.
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The problem is that the Democrats completely ignored men other than to chastise us for not supporting her because of women's issues and immigration and various things that don't directly impact us, while promising absolutely nothing that might address any of our issues. And things like male loneliness, the gender education gap and the various social services where men are at the back of the line aren't things that the Democrats are willing to even pretend to care about. The only messaging I got from Harris was that she needed money because of what Trump would do to women, illegal immigrants and other people without offering any concrete plans to improve my life. I voted 3rd party, but a bunch of the votes for Trump were votes against Harris and she couldn't even promise to do something about the Israeli war crimes being committed with US weapons.
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They're tax paying residents as well, I don't see a problem with some of the collected money being spent helping them.
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What unprovoked attacks?The only attacks I've heard of have been the direct consequence of Israelis actions in the Middle East.
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That's a new one. I wasn't aware that hate crimes laws were meant to protect racist bigots.
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You mean she keeps getting tied up with her own rope because as a super hero she can't figure out not to get tied up by her own rope?
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The flag waving looks suspiciously like everybody in the room thinks that if they don't wave the flag, they fail the process and are going to be deported.
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And nobody is talking about support for essential workers. We're stuck working as we can't get unemployed for losing hours or being laid off as we're essential workers. We get to see the unemployed getting help, but we get none of any sorts. The $600 a week they were getting is more than many of us were making and yet they are on the brink even though they had more money to set aside than we did.
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Not to mention essential workers that have been bent over pretty good by both parties.
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She had options, she chose to opt out of all of them. If she's 16, she's pretty close to having the legally required 10 years of schooling to be allowed to drop out. Making this whole thing utterly idiotic. Suddenly, school, including online school, is so unbearable that another year is too much? Seriously? The school has legal responsibilities to the students, and getting sued for allowing students to just stop coming to school doesn't serve anybody well. We grant this one the ability to just stay home, so what about the kid that's being bullied, or that has mental health issues or can't afford fashionable cloths. Clearly at some point a line needs to be drawn.
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From what I can tell, if you're already needing to replace your shocks, the extra money for the ohlins isn't necessarily that much. From what I can tell for my 09 Ninja 250r, it's only a couple hundred bucks extra. But, it's definitely not something that I'd personally bother with if I wasn't already intending to replace the shocks unless I had specific reasons for wanting to do it.
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Yep, I'm sure they knew it wouldn't make a difference. They could have applied more pressure and called their bs out.
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Cubans have been pretty pro-fascist for quite a while, they're a large part of why GWB was able to steal the election in 2000. This is one of those FAFO situations which screws the rest of us over. And, I'd be shocked if it actually causes any significant numbers of them to recognize that fascism isn't really any worse than the type of government they had in Cuba.
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IKR, I volunteered for Bernie Sanders at a couple of his events and the communication to us from the secret service was non-existent. They changed the rules about what was allowed into the venue and it took ages to get any information. It did eventually trickle to me through one of the security officers for the venue, but they were taking forever to clear people through security, even though the stadium already had metal detectors installed as a standard part of entering the facility.
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From what I've pieced together, roughly 2/3 of women eligible to vote didn't vote for Harris. So, I would be very surprised if this has any sort of meaningful impact other than accelerating the balkanization of American political discourse.
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It's arguably sedition as there doesn't appear to be any actual violence involved.
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@GoldOxide8463 they were already supposed to not buy stolen property.
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They're not stupid, they're just to corrupt to care.
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I think there was a time like in the '60s when super sonic flight made some sense. But, at this point, teleconference and remote sensing technology is to the point where you don't necessarily always ahve to go to do business, a lot of that can be done using teleconferencing and people have the ability to do office work while on the flight as well. Physically moving people that fast is just not a common enough need for this to gain much traction, unless it can also be cheaper or more environmentally friendly, which it won't just due to fuel consumption alone. .
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It's not surprising, most of the actual consequences of the stuff he did didn't become apparent for years or even decades after he left office. Some of it is just now becoming clear that he screwed up. Plus, a bunch of it was stuff that corporations wanted done, which meant they had a powerful desire to bury it and thanks to Reagan the ability to consolidate news outlets under the control of a smaller number of oligarchs.
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@paritybit7830 That's part of the point. Historically there had to actually be a proper signature that you could verify or in the case of something like an X, there would be an expectation of their being a witness to the signing. At this point, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of evidence of people agreeing to things because it's done through shady means like clickwrap licenses and ToS that are clearly not going to be expected to be worth enough to justify paying an attorney to review it for things of this nature so that the people agreeing to things have informed consent. So, you've got people that are allegedly agreeing to things that they may not understand and that's somehow enforceable wiith a binding arbitration even for things that would normally have a constitutional right to a jury trial.
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The one I've got is held more like a traditional can opener, but it operates the same way, it makes it pretty much immune to weird can shapes.
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And it's not even being made available to grocery workers yet. Folks that people have to interact with or they starve. We aren't just at risk of contracting it, we're also a vector for spreading between households as there's basically no way of avoiding grocery workers, even if you are avoiding interacting with other households at other times.
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Why? The bulk of the people who voted for this were never going to be impacted by this in the first place.
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From what I can tell only about 1/3 of women eligible to vote voted for Harris, so even if 100% of those are committed to 4B, it's probably not going to be enough to pressure anybody to change. And, most of the folks that are boycotted as a result are likely to view this as having a bunch of crazies out of the dating pool so they can focus on folks that actually respect them.
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I've seen a couple solar eclipses and a lunar eclipse and it's definitely worth going if you can. That first one in particular was like absolute magic. I can completely understand why some cultures would have a lot of superstitions surrounding them.
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I'm not surprised, I've heard a bunch of excuses about the social sciences as to why garbage results are acceptable. Apparently, the hard sciences are just easier to do reliably and always have been. There certainly hasn't been an effort over the course of centuries to ring as much reliability out of the methods as possible involved. It seems to me that so much of this is in part the result of considering crap results like those with a P in the .7-8 as quality work, when really, that just indicates that there's potentially a lot more to what's going on and that there should be work made to get better results as ..75 is not that much better than 50/50. It's certainly not good enough to do much with. Yes, humans can and do vary, but that doesn't excuse t he attitude that there's no need to figure out ways of ringing out more reliability and more reproducibility from the test participants you can get. Sure, the results will never be as precise or generalizable as you get from physics or chemistry, but there's a lot more that could be done if folks were expecting more when they designed and executed the experiments.
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The right was always pro-cancel culture, they just spent a period pretending like they weren't because it was the far left doing it.
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A general strike probably won't be enough, it's likely to take a campaign of assassinations to change things. I hope that I'm wrong about it, but I think we're too far along for lesser means to work.
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You don't necessarily have to use the trails, but it's generally a more pleasant experience than bushwacking is and if you get lost, it's a lot easier for search and rescue to find somebody that's at least intending to follow a particular trail than god only knows where in the middle of a massive forest.
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It is, but so is being in classes based on your calendar age when you're ability and development levels are significantly different from the other students. I was bored out of my mind through most of middle school and all of high school. Granted, I do have ADHD and likely dyslexia, but I was allowed to go to college in lieu of the latter half of high school and did better both academically and socially than I was doing. I now know that I'm almost certainly autistic, but sometimes it would be better to ignore the age and look at whether the student is really better off with their peers based on their age, or if it should be based on ability or developmental peers.
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The purpose of a rebate is typically for manufacturers to change the price of goods that they've already sold and ensure that the customer receives the money that they should. A lot of them don't get returned, which is probably also good for the manufacturer. That being said, these days, the electronic rebates are probably the best as you get your rebate pretty much immediately, and they know that they can stop accounting for that product being returned to them.
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I'm not sure it would have made much of a difference. It's not like zipping yourself into a suitcase is a thing.
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@l.w.paradis2108 They were, but even into the '70s there were good opportunities for those willing to do the work. Even after bankrupting his business, my Dad was able to keep the house without declaring bankruptcy and build up a decent sized nest egg via social security and his companies pension plan. My mother didn't even go back to work until years later. Now, they're comfortably retired and have the money to afford a house, a condo and a vacation property. Don't get me wrong, there were plenty of lean years, but this would not be possible today and was only possible back then because they moved to a declining city right before it turned around. 10 to 20 years earlier, it would have been easier. Hence, I have very little sympathy for the Boomers that failed anyways. For the most part, they are to blame for their own failings. They had access to good paying jobs and the ability to save money in a way that most young people don't. Rent wasn't out of hand back then the way it is now and wages were actually trending upwards along with inflation.
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How else are we supposed to keep fatties and ugos out?
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@martintaper7997 he won't, he's made out clear that even if Medicare for all makes it to his desk, he's going to veto it. Rarely had anybody gotten so little for rolling on his supporters.
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If that's not enough, consider just how hard it has been to get anything through congress the last couple decades as things have gotten mired down in gridlock. So, they can't pass more specific laws to cover what regulatory agencies had been, the regulatory agencies can't enact the regulations they were supposed to and the courts can rule things to be unconstitutional. This isn't really that much different from the rulings on student loan forgiveness where congress very clearly intended for the power to be used in such a fashion, as they explicitly made the forgiveness tax free.
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@candacevillegas-giron8560 It's a publicly traded company. There are no laws restricting certain races from buying stocks. This whole thing is just a distraction from other more serious issues. If you've got time to care about this, then you're more privileged than I am.
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Which is part of why I refused to vote for either major party candidate.
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Possibly, bitrot is a real problem. We collect a ton of data, but we don't know what to preserve. Many important things like game source code is already lost forever.
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There's a right way and a wrong way. A big part of it is that even a small adult is still massive compared with a cat. Being more chill tends to get better results than trying to force it.
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Yes, but Trump knows what state he's in and what office he's running for. You can say a lot about Trump's lack of intelligence, but the reality is that he's a lot more capable of running for office than Biden is. And unlike the DNC, media and Bernie, Trump will actually call Biden out for being unfit to fill the office. Biden is one of the few candidates that neutralizes most of Trump's downsides. He's senile, he lies constantly and he sexually assaults women.
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@jaykoerner The point here is to make this so inconvenient that people don't see it as free money under the car. Smuggling this stuff out of the country or sending it to a black market smelter is a massive inconvenience. Sure, it can and probably will happen, but not in the numbers that we're currently seeing. Enforcement is never perfect. But, most scrapyards don't want the hassles associated with having cops coming in and having to explain why the books don't cover all the transactions or where that extra money is coming from.
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@rationalbushcraft Probably, but the skill needed to do that is a lot higher than the skill to chop one of these off the car. Obviously, once it's been melted down and the metals separated, you wouldn't know. But, if the metals aren't separated, a metallurgist would have a pretty decent sense of what it was based on the breakdown of the metals present. Which is something that they'd need to do just to know how much it's worth.
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@jimster1111 Honestly, you are right, but if you wanted to scrap an entire vehicle, you'd probably just sign the title for the whole thing over to a professional scrapper. If for no other reason than how long it takes to take a car apart and shop the pieces around.
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I must have missed the other pardons for people that got caught doing the same thing that aren't related to the President.
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It's not necessarily, I remember a few times getting free products because of a billing glitch on their end. I also remember giving customers free stuff where I work because of glitched systems. It definitely does happen, although it probably is more common for the businesses to get the freebies than the customers. (And, it's not like I just kept the items without offering to pay or return either, there just wasn't a reasonable way of handling it that wouldn't have cost the business even more money)
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Man shares the same root as man in mankind and human, it's a nongender specific way of referring to people in German. Sort of like one as in one ought not do that. Feminists confuse that with Mann as in a man.
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Why are we asking Ryan Grim about this? He's just as much a swamp monster as the rest of the mainstream media. His whole organization is there to carry water for the establishment. And when he gets caught doing something like that, he can't even back it up. Jimmy's got his number.
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The Iranian people don't want a regime change, they seem to want more modest reforms, but even my in-laws that had worked in arts and education under the Shah and had been talking about how they wished the US would engage in a regime change in order to reinstate the Shah have been incredibly quiet now that that's on the table. I have to imagine that if loyalists are shutting up about the prospects that people more opposed to a return of the Shah or anything equivalent are probably going to be even more opposed to it. We should have learned our lesson about regime changes in general following how the effort in Iran turned out. Trying to dictate the governance of a country with so much in terms of natural resources is extremely hard. Sure, a smaller country can possibly be made dependent on another state to the extent that they are inclined to go along with it, but Iran is massive and has resources to cover them for most of the typical stuff. Plus, they have a relatively short shipping route across the Caspian Sea to Russia and with that access to Chinese goods. Trying to cut them off from those trading partners is not an easy feat to accomplish.
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@pomerlain8924 Have you never encountered any old folks with dementia? Biden pretty clearly has Parkinson's you can see it in the way he moves around. I shudder to think of what happens if he lets the Ukrainians use American supplied weapons to attack bases in Russian territory.
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I used to live in China and it's really a mixed bag. I met some of the nicest people there as well as some of the scummiest dirt bags there. A lot of it depends on where you're from and what you look like. A lot of the Chinese I was dealing with in rural areas had never met any other white people before, so I had to be on my best behavior constantly, as one bad encounter with the only white person they've ever met could cause the rudeness. In cities, it was a lot less so, they had some sort of an idea what to expect in a lot of cases, but the society is very tribal in the sense that guangxi and personal and family connections are important. Guanxi doesn't really translate, but it's a relationship, a debt and obligation and partnering. If you're coming in as a tourist they don't really know how to categorize you, so a lot of the normal social scripts don't necessarily apply. Additionally, most tourists are on tours and don't get much beyond where the typical tourist areas. Also, if you speak any Mandarin, or the local dialect, you'll find that they warm up a lot, much of the "rudeness" is just that cities are busy and the culture is very introverted with outsiders being viewed with suspicion for political reasons.
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Higher wages tend to increase prices, although if it's done properly, the two should largely cancel each other out.
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There's a decent number of Christian Fundamentalists that thinks that the Jews having their state will bring about the rapture.
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TBH, some people have a more set routine for elimination than others do. Just from a business standpoint, as long as it's not taking hours out of the day, I think it's better for employees to be able to use the restroom when they need to, rather than losing all that productivity trying to hold it in and potentially making a mess if they can't. Mistakes can easily wipe out any savings that not letting them use the restroom might have saved. Not to mention that the kind of employees that would tolerate that are probably not the best employees out there.
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Does the cap help people? Doesn't that just mean that there's more interest accruing over time?
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Yep, and it's a large part of what got me through psychosis. Psychotic delusions will usually be more complicated than reality.
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I stopped watching those movies years ago because there were too many of them and there was too much being split amongst different movies to properly understand what was going on. It was great for the mega-fans, but for more casual fans it was a lot. I miss when franchises were more limited in scale and usually didn't have more than 3 or 4 movies.
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@d.h.8202 The Israelis regularly murder innocent civilians on the same basis. The big difference is that Israel is friends with enough powerful nations that we call it defense rather than terrorism or war crimes.
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@evilmark443 I live a few miles from that neighborhood and depending upon which part of the neighborhood this is in, the terrain is pretty rough. I'm guessing that this property is probably beaver pond adjacent on the edge of a ravine. As in, something that likely would come much closer to that bill to connect than would normally be the case. If that property isn't already connected to either Comcast or CenturyLink, there's likely a reason for that. Also, most of the properties in that area are already connected for phone service, so presumably, they'd be able to get service from CenturyLink for much less. A house without either cable TV or a landline is an oddity here.
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@GentlemenMonkey I live near that neighborhood, and it's likely that the terrain is pretty rough. Seattle isn't like most other major cities, we've got significant ravines and rough terrain that aren't found in most cities. In terms of Northgate, there are still beaver ponds to be found there and parts of the neighborhood are extremely steep. It wouldn't surprise me if the cost of this service is higher than what one would normally expect for a run that length. And that's even before considering any permitting that's involved.
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@scottmcshannon6821 Because the rule of evidence exist for a reason. Yes, you can get situations like Michael Jackson where he managed to win multiple lawsuits by getting evidence buried, but it can also mean things like illegal confessions can be prevented from falsely convicting as well. There's also the issue of hearsay, it may be true that somebody said something that's relevant to the proceedings and true, but it should be coming from somebody that either said it themselves or is a party to the proceedings. Without that, then you have no way of knowing if the testimony is accurate to what was said. If you can't win the case without violating the rules, then you probably should be pleading out or settling the case as appropriate.
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I say that MAGA supporting ex-fiance is getting off easy not getting married to somebody that can't respect his beliefs. That's not manipulation, that's just how that's supposed to work when you disagree on things of this type.
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Vilma Betancourt won't happen. Neither Trump nor Biden will nominate somebody that won't continue shilling.
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They verify it by you either showing them the printed ticket from one of the kiosks or you present your physical card and they have little machines that verify that they've been scanned within the allowed time frame. The only way in which you could pay for a ride and not have a physical proof of purchase would be if you either lost the ticket, or there was a malfunction at the kiosk that prevented one from being printed. In other words, it's highly unlikely that you'd pay and not have the ticket, unless you lose it. And even if you do lose it, if you paid via credit, debit or one of the ORCA cards, you'd likely have the ability to legitimately get the fine overturned without much effort.
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The information is generally accurate, without targetting a professional audience, it would be challenging to do much better.
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Nope, just however many they need to make sure that none of the lobbyists have to do without. The things that would impact the ordinary voters were agreed upon days ago, it's the amount of largesse and terms for the corporate welfare that's kept things stuck.
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Whatever it takes to prevent the voters from getting the policies they want.
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I'd like to have one where the shifter is effectively a variable rate limiter. Each "gear" is set up to keep you within a range of speeds without having to worry too much about going above the threshold.
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It's worth nothing that the NRA deserves to be dissolved if for no other reason than the fact that it is advocating for policies which go against the majority of the membership. Most of the members don't want people to get their hands of firearms that aren't going to use them responsibly or that have a criminal record. The NRA as an organization is just absolutely repugnant and repulsive, they advocate for policies that ensure that criminals will be able to easily get their hands on firearms and that the ones available are far more powerful than what one would reasonably need outside of an actual combat zone. Lastly, for those that do support the purported goals of the NRA as indicated by the charter, there are tons of other nonprofits that are faithfully protecting hunting rights and access to firearms that are appropriate for self-defense and that fund classes to learn to responsibly handle and shoot firearms. The money should go to them, not an extremist organization that is fighting hard to ensure that mass murderers and terrorists will always be able to get their hands on powerful weaponry.
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Pretty much. If they cared about the American people, the folks that dropped out would have chosen a different time or chose to back Sanders.
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@MissionaryInMexico I feel very fortunate, it's partially that the chain is a bit better and a lot to do with the store management knowing how to effectively manage. I can't indicate which chain due to the media policy, but we're big in western Washington. As I've said, the politicians should be embarrassed as even what the store is doing is arguably inadequate, but more than what the politicians are doing.
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Tulio Porrata The problem is that those loans are for small businesses. The large businesses got their, undeserved money, in other provisions, this is for small businesses. Plus, in a lot of cases, these large corporations wouldn't be hurting for money if they'd handled their money more responsibly. Boeing, as an example, took their profits as well as taxpayer dollars and used them to buy back their own stocks. Apple, saved huge sums of money and doesn't need help right now. They had literally hundreds of billions of dollars in the bank because they were actually saving for opportunites in the future.
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They're talking about $10k, that's hardly the whole thing and considering how much ground people lost due to the pandemic, it should be more. Also keep in mind that much of the debt is due to the government not funding it properly. If we funded it as much as we did 30 years ago, there'd be no need to wipe any of it.
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It probably wouldn't factor into it except perhaps during sentencing. The criminal justice system makes it incredibly hard to get off the hook for things. Even being unconscious when the crime was committed isn't a sufficient excuse to get you off the hook. You have to not understand that the crime is a crime in order to be off the hook, and even then you're stuck at a mental hospital indefinitely. Not being in control due to psychosis isn't sufficient from what I understand.
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The damage to the bus would be covered by that, the damage to the car would not. Presumably, because the cleanup of the scene, and likely towing, are of the car's parts more than the bus, it would be covered under any policy covering the cost of repair or replacement of the car. But, IANAL and I don't really have access to any more details than this.
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I can't speak for Sam's Club, but Costco does it to make sure that the customer receives everything that they paid for. If they think you've stolen something, they wouldn't be having those last couple people at the store "discovering it" they should already have it on camera and one of their loss prevention officers deal with it. Not the people that check the receipts. I've had them occasionally ask questions because they couldn't find an expensive item on the receipt. But never about cheap ones or because there was something that they found in the cart, but couldn't locate on the receipt. I doubt very much that they'd put up any fight if you refused to show it to them though.
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@LeeSohlden It's not a 2 hour process. For example English has over 10,000 uniquely identifiable syllables, you're not even going to get once through on that in 2 hours. You might possibly get thorough all the phonemes in that.
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Christianity is pretty much doomed no matter what. This sort of freak out is just another nail in the coffin. The whole thing is an absolutely damning indictment of Christianity as a whole that there's so much gasping and clutching at pearls even as the religion is used to justify crimes against humanity and abuse of ones fellow people.
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@Rickmakes They do it because they know a substantial portion can't ever be redeemed due to the tight time frame to use it and the need to go to one of their locations to use it, even if the "rebate" is for an online purchase.
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But the song was en Espanol, what else could he have done?
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@mattdsoares How often are you in to see somebody where you don't know that already? The only time I can think of is when I was hauled into the ICU after having a heat stroke and I don't have any idea who any of the people were independent of the medical records. And title, title and suffix or none of the above wouldn't do anything to change that.
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Yes, and while we're at it leave the debate rules alone so that they don't screw over Tulsi Gabbard, who is still running, despite being left out of the last debate.
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Sort of. In this case, yes, but not always. If somebody sends you something unsolicited, as in with your correct name and address on it, you can generally keep it without repercussions. Sending something to somebody unsolicited implies a transfer of ownership in many cases. It also helps to keep down on fraud being committed by sending things unsolicited and then following up with a bill. But, if it comes to your address with a different name, then you probably won't get to keep it if the owner contacts you to get it back.
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@gregorymalchuk272 This isn't a large enough portion of the US for that to be a risk and with the exception of Texas and Hawaii the rest of the states have some sort of connection to a power grid outside their area where they can buy electricity if they aren't generating enough. Plus, from what I can tell, the residents aren't getting the service that they paid for as it is.
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They'd be on the hook either way. Being self-insured also means that the rates won't go up as a result of this beyond the money it cost to pay this off.
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You can always encrypt the files individually on the client side, but that can be a real pain.
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@ThisIsATireFire Yes, although they have been in the process of decommissioning some of them to help with the salmon. But, the state does commonly export electricity to other states.
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@nancykraus5127 Presumably the OP is referring to Mein Kampf.
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@karlojoki6314 They all die eventually. Just about every drive I've ever owned has gone bad eventually. There are some models that are more reliable than others, but there is an element of luck in terms of how long they'll last.
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You shouldn't, this is absolutely terrible for Democracy. If people refuse to interact with people that voted differently, nothing will ever get better. And, it's not even like Harris had the moral high ground. She didn't earn the VP position, and refused to be against genocide the the middle east while completely refusing to offer an affirmative case as to why working class men should vote for her.
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This is bullshit. I work at a grocery store and we've been voluntarily rationing things like toilet paper and other essentials in order to prevent panic buying so that people have the ability to buy some. They may not get the specific type or size they want, but we've had all the essentials every day of the crisis because of it. None of the prices have been raised in order to ensure that the public can have a chance to purchase what they need. Gouging is not necessary, it's just a way of a select few that could buy up supplies getting rich and rarely increases supply. In terms of tp, the issue is getting the commercial supply to retail customers where there's no current retail distribution contracts in place.
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@Lofote Only because MS refuses to write the code to visualizer it. There's no reason why they can't just present those programs with a readable version and then write whatever bits they want to a separate file that can be loaded next time the program is run. Especially since such software probably shouldn't be making system-wide changes anyways.
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They probably didn't, this is probably more on Biden for waiting as long as he did. The legal system is rather slow in operation.
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@RobertMarshall And the similar road in Seattle wasn't torn down until decades later, even knowing that the same thing could happen there and a significant earthquake during that period.
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Meanwhile, Windows completely lacks the ability to kill processes if there's something wrong with an unresponsive driver or piece of hardware.
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The Uranus joke is a bit outdated as that's no longer the proper pronunciation as the world has now standardized without the long a sound.
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I wouldn't mind cyclists so much if they didn't ride like utter jackasses. That and if the local authorities wouldn't keep putting the roads on a diet without ensuring that the buses and other options to driving functioned properly.
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This is increasingly my favorite news channel on YouTube. Not sure why I haven't already subscribed.
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@Rosannasfriend Most of the time, the person that winds up getting killed made serious errors that led to their death. You can't go back in the car to retrieve a weapon and expect not to get shot. For those really concerned, just havin the license, proof of insurance and driver's license where you can get to them quickly and have them sitting on the dashboard before the officer gets to your window. Then just place the hands on the wheel and wait for instruction. It's typically overkill, but for folks that afraid, it's worth the effort. Cases of people legitimately following the officer's orders being shot are rare. Even amongst these fatal encounters.
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In a place like that you've probably got something similar built into road signs instead of the road itself for places like where there's a sharper than normal bend in the road. We've got these both in the centers of our roads as well as most signs and pretty much all license plates.
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I've been thinking recently that since Obamacare was essentially the Heritage Foundation proposal, it might have been better for him to just not do anything and just put up the normal feeble attempt to block the GOP from doing what it was going to do anyways. Because they started with a GOP proposal and it got moved to the right from there.
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I'm stuck working at a grocery store, minimum wage one or two days a week due to the store over hiring and basically no protection. I'm doing more work than one person should do and nobody is talking about it in any substantive way. We can't quit and if we get our hours cut, nobody is helping us pay our bills. But, if we had our hours cut due to covid-19, we'd get at least some help. But as essential as we are, we get basically no support.
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I like eating bugs and I like intermittent fasting. Now you don't know how to respond, do you.
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TBH, the guillotine is rather kind considering the kind of pain and suffering they've caused. If we're to the point where we're executing the oligarchs, something more painful and bloody is probably in order.
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And yet we're still not vaccinating the food supply chain and transit workers the literal people without whom people couldn't social distance and the few people that are completely unavoidable. There is a certain amount of sense to vaccinating health care workers and the elderly, but we're not vaccinating the folks that are in prison, we're not vaccinating grocery workers we're not vaccinating any of the people that are likely to spread and can't quarantine. I'm not even sure when we're going to start vaccinating essential workers in WA, but there's going to be tons of doses going out for people that can just stay home while the roughly 12,000 grocery workers that are most likely to expose them won't be getting vaccinated. It's probably not going to be until the fall at the earliest. We're not being protected, we're not being compensated and we're basically being told to F off because they've figured out that they can curry favor with the elderly while the minimum wage workers supplying food to the populace and the transit workers that get those minimum wage earners around are being given the middle finger.
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Although, strictly speaking, those were presumably lawful searches as defined by the laws of the time, but definitely a fair point to make.
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That's really bad advice in many situations. For example, when learning to ride the motorcycle, it's better to open your mouth and be thought a fool than to keep your mouth closed and be a grease spot on the pavement.
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Yes, and this isn't a particularly obscure law, either. This is something that you should be researching if you're going to be taking such substances across borders. Even in the US, there are some substantial penalties for drugs.
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Apple uses a userland that's mostly from FreeBSD and had been around for a number of years as FreeBSD since the various conflicts with AT&T over their right to use UNIX source code. It had a mature system for dealing with those things even before OSX integrated it into their system. Apple further makes things easier by using what are essentially fat packages where very little is done that passes out of the package and into the rest of the computer without the user requesting it.
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Totally not a scammer, Jesus finally answered here prayer. /jk
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I doubt they'll agree to that, but I'm sure there's going to be somebody somewhat less horrible that the public will view as acceptable since that person isn't as bad.
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@charlessammons9987 I'm curious about that. I don't think the US had a law on the books to bar criminals from profiting from their crimes via things like books and movies until there were rumors that David Berkowitz might get a book deal decades ago. IIRC, he had no intention of writing a book, but that was enough to get laws passed to prevent them from getting book deals and the like.
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@CD-vb9fi That is an absolute lie. That has never in the entire history of this country been the case, and even with the massive expansion to the interpretation of the 2nd amendment in recent decades, still not true. The 2nd amendment was always about the national guard and policing agencies. That being said, grenades, RPGs, nukes, switchblades, gravity knifes, tanks, daisy cutters etc., are not now legal really anywhere, and some of those things have never been legal for possession or use by private individuals. It's kind of amazes me that there's so much ignorance on the pro-2nd amendment side about what precisely the text means.
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@Isomnophilia I think early on the things he was saying and doing weren't so obviously scams. But, if you've read up on him, he didn't found PayPal, he was part of the founding of a different online financial service that merged with PayPal and all his initial money came from his parent's emerald mine. What we've seen play out over the years since is more or less the inevitable conclusion of being born on 3rd base and being surrounded by people that are willing to go along with the insanity no matter how ridiculous things are. The fact that any of what he promises happens is mostly coincidental and the byproduct of the few smart people that he hasn't sent packing for showing up near his desk at the wrong time of the day.
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Yes, and that's a large part of why I voted 3rd party. I knew that either major party option was gong to result in no help for the people.
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Please consider the Green Party for your DNC burning needs.
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Only an idiot would trust those rural voters that have an outsized influence on the government and regularly vote to own the libs without considering how much the libs have done for them. They couldn't live their unsustainable lifestyles without the libs, but they regularly vote for politicians that move to screw over the engines of the economy.
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Considering how he came to be the Democratic nominee in 2020, this lack of ethical consideration shouldn't be surprising.
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I don't think any of what is in the video should be taken to say that people can't have imbalances for one reason or another. Just that a generally healthy person doesn't need to detox. And really, even then you wouldn't be detoxing so much as recognizing that certain behavior patterns are not helpful and reduce them because of that. In terms of dopamine, it is more of a molecule that encourages people to seek out rewards, but it doesn't really care if you get them or not. It's somewhat interesting in that if you load up your shopping cart with a bunch of stuff and then just leave the website will likely give as much benefit in this regard to actually buying the items.
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It could have been handled better, but I don't fault the park here, a kid that overweight shouldn't be going on any sort of ride of that type. The stress on the heart is already going to be significant without the stress of the ride.
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I'm not sure what more security would have done here. The Secret Service found and dealt with the threat before Trump was anywhere near range of being shot at. The Secret Service has a fair amount of experience, securing this particular golf course, more resources wouldn't have made any sort of difference.
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Bullshit. I see folks out in uniform regularly and I've never seen that happen. None of the veterans that I know have mentioned it happening either.
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@FreedomAndLiberty2024 I'm not surprised, the rest of the state has been rather jealous while being perfectly happy with the subsidies that we pay out. The city carries most of the rest of the state economically.
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The problem there is that it takes years for a conviction, are we supposed to wait until that happens to bar people from being on the ballot? And if not, then what should be the relevant standards. The fact that the justices that he appointed didn't recuse themselves tells us just how corrupt the court really is.
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I think lawyers are supposed to inform their witnesses as to what the basic rules are. They're not supposed to coach the witnesses about what to say, but the witnesses should be told that they can only testify about what they said/did/saw and what parties in the trial said or did.
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Possibly, but the bigger issue is that the customers would be less likely to be able to afford to sue I'd they have to travel out of state. It gets even more expensive and difficult to file a suit if you have to travel.
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I bought my ratcheting combination wrenches off ebay. They were "used" but I had a hard time finding any evidence of use. I may not get the warranty that I'd normally get, but by the time I break any of them, I'll have saved enough money to buy a nicer set. IIRC, I paid roughly the price for the non-ratcheting version and got the ratcheting version. It was quite a good deal.
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That's one of the reasons why fingerprint scanners usually have pulse detection or something similar these days.
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That's why a Biden/Harris ticket is doomed. Nobody wants Kamala, even on the Democratic side she only got like 2% of the primary votes last time. There are people that legitimately want Trump to be the President, the same largely can't be said of Biden. And that's even before people started to realize just how senile Joe really is. We knew last time that he was slipping, but I'm not sure people realized he had slipped this much.
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@ShortsWayUp If they could do fast charging, I think you'd see far fewer people complaining about range. But, if you can only do 200 miles on a charge and then have to wait several hours as it charges, that can be a problem. I've regularly ridden nearly 200 miles on one of my favorite routes and I have ridden closer to 400 miles in a single day. And, being forced to wait hours to charge because there's a lack of fast charging is a significant problem. I wouldn't necessarily mind having to wait a half hour more often, it's often nice just to stretch the legs, but if it's going to be hours, that's a problem.
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You'd be in contempt of court if they found out about that. Bottom line is that it's not that hard to avoid violating the jury instructions. At least it's not hard to avoid the ones that would lead to this sort of punishment, the other ones can be a bit confusing, but you can typically send notes to the judge if you don't understand the instructions.
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@Delimon007 There's the statute of limitations. There's also potentially promissory estoppel, which may apply here. If the banks said that the borrower didn't have to pay the debt, stopped sending out bills and never notified them that the debt had changed hands, that may apply. But, simply waiting for the housing prices to rebound may well represent a forfeiture of sorts of the right to collect any of it.
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@raistlarn Standard practice is to demand that they provide proof that the debt exists, that they are entitled to collect on it and the specific amount they are trying to collect. Without that, they have no right to collection.
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The main difference between AC and DC is that with AC the electrons vibrate in place and with DC the electrons move along the wire. So, presumably the minimum frequency for AC would be the point where you start to get electrons migrating from atom to atom. At that point, you're more or less just changing the polarity of the DC quickly rather than dealing in AC current.
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This video would be more useful if the Nokia 7+ was actually for sale in the US. The phones available in the US are so incredibly terrible, that it makes me want to vote this video down for being such a tease. Midrange phones that are actually available are pretty bad.
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@vladimirakopyan4088 IMHO for in town riding, electric bikes make more sense. They can be used in bike lanes and on bike paths and motorcycles can't, even if they are electric. Electric motorcycles make more sense when you leave the city, but that's where we need more charging stations, faster charging and better batteries to make things make sense.
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Biden's not that much better. He's only the President because of 2 rigged primary seasons in a row.
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Yes, but if you're just commuting in town, you're better off with an ebike that's allowed to use bike lanes and bike trails. I think the big issue here is that they aren't yet ready for longer trips. They have improved a lot and with some of them getting over 200miles a charge, it's probably not going to be long before electric motorcycles are ready to replace ICE ones. But, there's still a bunch of places where charging stations are sparse and it's probably going to be years before electric motorcycles are ready for cross country road trips.
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Well, at least they're giving lip service to pandering to progressives. Doing that might have won the DNC the Presidency last election.
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What we need is a real 2nd party that isn't taking money from the same folks that are donating to the GOP.
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Israel started it. Israel bombed the Iranian Embassy in Syria.
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@Q.A.a.R.I.S Yes and if you're trading on expertise for credibility, that's a big problem.
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Shame on the DNC for continually ignoring the will of the people.
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Yes, because we all know that the next segment is going to be on the trafficking of babies by pedophile rings for use as sex slaves.
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@benjaminchen8857 I haven't bothered to watch the video yet, but it looks like an method is being missed. Rather than repoing the money back, it could be taxed from the wealthiest people. In America, the wealthy don't generally pay the taxes they owe and they have so much money that even if they did tax back the money that we've been spending, they'd still be ridiculously wealthy. Bezos alone could afford to solve homelessness in America and still be worth over a hundred billion dollars.
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I think we also agreed that adding the Duke's of Hazard theme song over top of it makes it better.
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@kirkmarshall2853 TBH, I do think that once a felon has completed the terms of their sentence successfully that they should get their rights back. Part of what can make it hard for felons to move on and better themselves is the ludicrous restrictions, for some type of felony there's nowhere they can legally live, but they also may not be allowed to move out of the area either.
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Mitt Romney's proposed Patriot Pay is an absolute joke. It's $12 an hour of which the government is providing $9 and may or may not waive the resulting payroll tax on it. It's meant to look good, but it's incredibly flawed to the point where people may not even get it. Simply providing the same stimulus bonus to our paychecks that people have been getting on unemployment would be more.
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They're only a recent thing in this part of the US. I'm not sure when they were added, but for the most part we've been using the type of reflectors that are commonly placed on bikes and aren't as specific. I think that was also about the time that we switched from using led nitrate for the centerline to a retroreflective yellow plastic bit that gets torched to the road. That stuff is the real hero here, it's even more low key than these cat's eye things. Also, I’m not sure when we started to do it, but we've got the left fog line of our highways out of yellow when the road is divided and the right is white, so we know that we're on the correct side of the road when it's too foggy to see. I'd assume that this isn't just something in the US and that the other technical specs for road markings also does something similar.
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@ronswanson1410 same here. I'm voting 3rd party, but I live in a state that hasn't voted GOP since the '80s, so it's not like if I did vote for either major party candidate that it would make any difference.
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@guyvizard549 Or, perhaps it's a damning indictment of both parties to offer us something that justifies voting for one or the other. In 2016, it felt like Trump wanted votes and HRC couldn't be bothered to try to earn any. This time around, it feels like neither candidate really wants my vote. They certainly aren't promising me things that I might want to vote for them. I can't trust either one of them to fix the courts or get money out of politics, so what's the point? The only real difference is how quickly you want to get to full on fascism, and I'm not old enough to die before that happens.
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Seeing that fraud Obama in one of the ads for this video was rather ironic given that it's partially his fault that we're in this position. He should have gotten 1 nominee at a minimum and should have leaned on RBG to admit that she was too old to make it the potential 8 years to get through the Trump administration. Those 2 would have shifted the court from 6-3 to 4-5.
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@lka1988 There's also 3rd party software that can break the DRM as well as stores like Smashwords that don't include any DRM to begin with.
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Kamala and the Democrats have failed miserably at giving people a reason to vote for them is why. People voted for Obama on the promise of hope and change, and he screwed the people over massively. I'm surprised that anybody is still willing to vote Democrat after that fraud and then the 3 rigged Presidential elections in a row that followed.
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@cag1763 I think the fire fighters a bit tougher than that. The train does not stop at these crossings, by the time the truck was even visible, it was well past the point of the engineer doing anything about it.
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I think a lot of people would beg to be the ones to get off instead of her if they were running that tight. Just the people with flight anxiety under normal conditions alone would do it. That being said, it was more than just her. She was just the only minor on her own.
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@215Gallagher How about they just go back where they came from then? I'd love to have my German health care system, but I was born in and am a citizen of the US. I don't demand that the German government provide me accommodations on that.
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I was wondering about that, the customer facing fuel pumps are presumably labeled in an equivalent way to the ways they are in the US. I wasn't sure if the fuel points for delivery were similarly color coded, or were just labeled. But, either way, I'd imagine the driver is going to be out of a job. As far as the War in Ukraine, that is more complicated. Apart from Hawaii, most of the US doesn't use much Russian fuel. There is a bit of increased cost due to more competition from foreign companies, but most of the increase is the result of American oil being shipped overseas for a larger profit and the Biden administration refusing to do anything to regulate the activity.
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The only reason is to kill the democratic party. It's high time that the party pays a price for continually kicking us to win over republican voters.
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Jim Jordan isn't running for President and presumably wasn't getting any of George's money.
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Yes, and it's worth noting that not everything needs to worry about energy density in terms of mass. Stationary power storage like a desktop computer backup battery or storage for a photovoltaic system can be heavy and it's not much of an issue. It would still be helpful in terms of saving the rare metals for applications like planes and cars where weight does matter.
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@monad_tcp I personally prefer to trust the scientists that overwhelmingly recognize the connection between the composition of the atmosphere and the temperature. I get that you're going the bold route of buying into propaganda produced by scientists funded by the people doing all the emitting and now politicians that are being paid by the same folks, but this is as settled as anything ever gets. It's not a question of what the relationship is, it';s a question of how quickly is it going to get bad, how bad is it going to get and how long to we have before that happens.
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@MostlyLoveOfMusic Yes, that's why we haven't adopted celsius. It's one of the dumbest possible ways of measuring temperature.
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Umm, you keep saying Washington, Washington is a state, Washington D.C. is the capital.
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To be fair, I think a lot of people knew this was going to be horrible. I don't think that anybody could have reasonably predicted half of the unhinged madness that's going on. The mass deportations, yes. Musk being allowed to take control of the Treasury and OMB, not so much.
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It's batter, but yes, this is already illegal. Assault would require that it be done in a way that the victim knew it was happening. Battery is just the actual contact.
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If you don't own at least one Apple device, you're probably just bi. If it's up your arse, then don't comment. There's certain things too gay for the community.
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@willmeredith8765 Yes, but tax policies can remove a lot of the incentive to engage in greedy actions.
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That's why things like that are not left unattended. Either they're locked up, or there's a person that's physically watching to ensure that nobody mixes the breakaway props for the real thing. I suppose somebody could do it on purpose, but more likely, somebody could accidentally set something on the table that looks like the prop. There was a time when the breakaway stuff was much more obvious and leaving things sitting out might have been reasonable, but that was decades ago.
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@Cosmic_Solace That depends what you're doing with the tree. If you're turning the tree into wood for building something, then it's probably a good trade as the carbon won't reenter the environment for years and the saplings will absorb more carbon dioxide than a mature tree will. But, point taken for many uses the carbon dioxide gets freed by whatever use your using the tree for.
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@Remychat9 We've known that for decades. The Israelis at a government level are no better than the terrorists they purport to be fighting. The only real difference is the degree to which the organizations are recognized internationally.
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There were rumors that some of it was irresponsible people partying on New Year's, but we'll have to see what the results are when they figure out where it started.
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@rds990 It's more likely a combination of Biden being stubborn, wanting to see the GOP VP pick and needing some time to locate possible replacements. I do appreciate the fact that there's going to be at least the appearance of caring about what the voters want. Realistically, Bernie is probably the only possible candidate that the people might want and know enough about to possibly win.
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That generation collectively voted to pull the ladder up behind them screwing over future generations. It makes it kind of hard to feel too bad when you realize that they were working when it was the easiest to save and didn't. I won't get my full social security payments if nothing is done to fix the system.
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Never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to screw sure things up.
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Perhaps we should have put some of those politicians on trial for sedition when they signed that fealty oath to Grover Norquist and then went onto sabotage any effort to improve the country or have a functioning government.
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I thought it was mostly in titles for YouTube videos.
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Perhaps overseas, I haven't really ever seen that in the US. And that's probably part of why companies have no loyalty. A going away present is not going to inspire anybody to change their mind, but it does send a message to the rest of the employees that the company values them.But, only if it's done consistently.
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He's not going to be in charge of the EPA.
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Presumably he could be the same way that you can be compelled to tell the court if you were driving that car. There's a relatively small number of things that are germane to a civil case that you can't be required to answer.
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Possibly, or some unhappy worker is shipping their entire work station overseas one piece at a time.
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That was already the case, or at least it was a couple decades when it came up with an attorney I knew.
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There's no valid reason for flying the flag. It's purely a symbol of the confederacy. Anybody flying it now is either racist or ignorant. The confederacy only existed due to racism and slavery.
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What precisely did you expect him to do? Also, that facility, did not launch the state's epidemic, I'm not sure where you got that idea from. WA was the first state to have a known case and we didn't get the testing or any other support that we needed from the CDC. I may well have had covid-19 at that time, but due to a complete lack of testing and near complete lack of test kits, I don't know and likely never will know for sure. We can nitpick all we want, but it's unrealistic to expect that he would have done much better without a lot of information and gear that just wasn't available.
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This is rather disgusting. Here in Seattle we own our own water source which isn't shared, and we've managed to significantly cut the total amount of water used over the last 30 years, despite the population of the city growing substantially. It wasn't a particularly big deal, I don't really see myself wanting to use water and not being allowed to, or feeling deprived. Occasionally when we're having a drought there may be some restriction on its use for things like watering lawns, but that's about it. For cities in the desert to be behaving like this, it's absolutely disgusting. If we, with probably plenty of water for the foreseeable future can cut back, I see no reason why they can't.
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I have a few issues with VLC, but it's one of the media players that I regularly use. I just wish they wouldn't have features in that don't work, and don't seem to ever get fixed. The custom bookmarks feature still seems to be completely non-functional in terms of being able to save between plays, which makes it more or less completely pointless.
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Racism has little to do with the lack of achievement in some of these communities. Or are you seriously suggesting that Africans that have immigrated here over the last 30 years are dealing with less racism than those that descended from slaves? TYT are right in that it's not an individual pull yourself up by the bootstraps kind of a deal. Groups that work their way out of that have to actually work together. And they don't do things like having tons of children out of some sort of a committed relationship. Racism is an excuse. The Irish and Italians also had to deal with significant levels of racism, but they were able to build up their respective communities enough to not be stuck in it all these decades later.
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@danki2000daniel Do you have any evidence that that is the norm these days? It happens, but it's not anywhere as common as people like you claim. It's also not an excuse for why the Black community generally doesn't support their own being successful. The community is doing a lot to keep itself down. If you don't believe me, just look at the Africans that have immigrated to the US in the last several decades. Mysteriously, a lot of this "racism" doesn't seem to be holding them back from achieving things academically and in the work force.
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@BobbyMarley718 This is liberal BS though, not everybody commits crimes and at the point where you're caught, it's lame to suggest that you should be allowed to get away with it due to your skin color. Yes, there are disproportionately stiff penalties for people of color, but that ignores the fact that you're likelihood of being arrested and successfully prosecuted decreases significantly if you don't commit the crime and don't hang out with criminals in the first place.
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@mxlbabe They were substantially poorer because at the time even with training a Black attorney could only have Black clients due to racist policies of the day. The best he or she could hope to be is an attorney for others in the community. That's no longer the case, there are successful attorneys of all cultural backgrounds and they have clients of all cultural backgrounds. Most people are more concerned with the fact that the attorney will provide the legal service they need rather than their skin color. If the Black community would support Black businesses and pool the resources they have, that would change. There's plenty of money in the Black community to change things. They've certainly got more money than the LGBTQ community had at the start of our civil rights movement.
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@mxlbabe So, what? My family didn't arrive in America until after most of that land had been granted. In any case, my family, like most of the later arriving immigrants, moved to cities first and as such, they did not get free land like you're suggesting. The wealth that does exist in my family is the result of things that were available to other people. And the failure of some communities to organize effectively should not be put down to racism. Back during the '50s and '60s the Black community had hugely effective organizers, if they still had effective organizers, these problems would be a thing of the past. You see the same problems plaguing white people in certain parts of the country because they don't have the resources or knowledge to work their way out of their holes, but nobody blames racism for that.
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@Bobrogers99 As previously stated, they have different rules. A roundabout generally is designed so that everybody can keep moving and that you yield to those already in. A traffic circle is essentially just a four way stop that permits a rolling stop rather than a full stop and mandates it by having a tree blocking you from just ignoring it. For residential streets they work quite well. But, they fail miserably when you've got larger streets with more lanes of traffic and higher speed limits. The main advantage of a traffic circle is that they can be installed pretty much anywhere, if you had a 4 or 5 way stop, you can usually install the traffic circle, the only real restriction is that they break badly with more than one lane of traffic being allowed through the intersection.
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@pdawg193 Yes, although getting trapped in them is a real thing that happens to people that haven't driven in them before. A one lane roundabout isn't so bad, but having one where there are different lanes going to different places can be tricky. My Grandfather got stuck in one driving in London. There were no survivors. /jk
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@Ladywizard If the squirrel is suspected of rabies, the raccoon could as well. Seizing one of them and waiting on results means that the other one is potentially infected.
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It was far more widespread than that. The Democrats have been complicit and could have put measures in place to stop this stuff.
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@dontworryaboutit5490 Iran attacked Israel in retaliation for what Israel did, even the normally pro-Israel BBC had to acknowledge that Israel technically hit Iranian interests first.
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@umdiaaposooutro2393 From the photos I've seen of the bridge, it was essentially a suspension bridge with steel trusses supporting the cables supporting the deck rather than a pair of towers. One of the weaknesses of a suspension bridge is that if something damages the towers, everything on either side up until the bits that support the other sections of road comes down. In this case, it's even worse because unlike with the Golden Gate Bridge where there's two towers above that support the deck from opposite sides, this entire span was hung from a set of trusses that suddenly were without support on one end leading to the catastrophic collapse of not just that section of the bridge but also portions on either side that were damaged by the sudden shifting of the forces as the structure became unbalanced. And as @BusinesssEngineered said, this wasn't like a tap, this was a massive amount of force applied by a rather large ship. One of the issues that ultimately caused this was a lack of proper protection against this. There were no tugs in the vicinity to prevent, or reduce, the impact and there were no structures in the water to direct the ship around the pylons in the case that something like this happened. If you look here: https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attachments/road-safety/2587213d1711525914t-usa-baltimore-bridge-collapses-after-cargo-ship-crashes-into-img_7392.jpeg there's basically nothing except a couple of relatively small concrete structures to prevent a direct impact, and it doesn't look to me like it would be very hard to miss those structures in anything other than a headon collision.
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@Penelopesyoutube Yep, as with so many of these decisions, it can, and likely will, appy to Presidents of both parties before too long. It's not like a decision like this is just going to disappear the moment it's no longer useful for the GOP.
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Grotesque is completely the right word here. It's been stretched and mutilated beyond recognition. There should be taxes on these machines to help cover the costs of the jobs they cost and to help train the workers that are losing out. Tips themselves are rather disgusting and if you've ever had the benefit of living someplace where there is no tipping and there is no sales tax, it's hard to imagine just how much brain power goes into figuring out how much the final bill will be when you get to the checkout. What's more, when the devices do charge for things they're not supposed to charge for, where does that money even go? I've seen these machines decide to charge inappropriate taxes for things that are clearly not taxed and somehow I'm supposed to believe that the money goes where it's supposed to go.
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The issue is that this is widespread enough that there may not be anywhere else to work that isn't doing this. Places that don't do this don't have as much turnover.
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There's a difference between letting one woman touch the stuff and thousands of people a year touch them. I was surprised that they let just random people hold a real Oscar.
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Why bother talking about it? The Democrats don't care about winning elections and there aren't 3rd parties that have enough infrastructure to beat both Trump and whatever candidate the Democrats put on the general election ballot. The infrastructure is now there for that, and it's not going away even if Trump does lose. The Democrats had their chance to finish off the GOP in 2016 and decided to use that as an opening to force HRC on the people. That lead to Trump winning and energizing some of the worst people possible for democracy. Perhaps talking more about how the Democratic leadership failed us would be more appropriate, because the people deserve a party that actually is pushing for their interests, rather than racist party, and not racist party that both agree on too many policies to represent a real choice.
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I've objected to the idea that anybody can become rich for the simple reason that if everybody did it, you'd have hyperinflation. Before they ended their currency, Zimbabwe had everybody with billions of dollars. Those billionaires need those billionaires just for the bare necessities. But, as more of the work gets automated, we could have more or more wealthy people over time as the work the poor had been doing is done by computers and robots.
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Your anger is focused in the wrong direction. This is a wedge issue intended to distract from the reason we don't have money for handouts to more people. If the rich and corporations would pay their taxes, we'd have plenty of money to ensure that everybody has a home and that everybody is getting appropriate medical care. Jeff Bezos alone has the money to end homelessness in America and still have tens of billions of dollars left. The rich just choose to bribe politicians and go on fake space trips than do anything about it.
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That's not a real problem. The only time that might be an issue is if you never actually expose yourself to the language or use it with other people. I'm not aware of anybody that learns languages through textbooks and doesn't ever read or otherwise use the language outside of that context.
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@Reflektor-o2c It's a made up problem that people don't have. The only way that happens is if you're avoiding coming into contact with the language outside of language books. And if that's the case, then it doesn't really matter. Personally, I do just fine in the languages that I know. There's always more to learn if you want to, but I can already use the languages to travel.
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@afriedrich1452 I'm curious what the woman is getting out of the purported contract, because if she's not getting anything out of it it's not a legal contract. It may potentially be a legitimate gift, but not a legitimate contract and the fact that this wound up in court suggests that it's not a contract.
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@robertheinrich2994 In the US, notaries just serve to guarantee that something was signed by the people listed, that's it. They don't do anything about issues that arise from pages of a contract being added, removed or substituted.
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They chalk the tires because in some places you're not allowed to keep continuing to feed the meter, so simply seeing that the meter is currently showing time left, does not automatically mean that the car is parked there legally. Without the chalk, it's tough to know if the car has done that. I don't personally agree with the practice, but meters are commonly used to keep people moving, so that there is a parking spot for people, rather than having somebody camped out there all day.
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If you mean, collapse of the DNC, then yes.
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No mention for the Tootsie Roll?
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Same here, it runs, but the connection isn't made. I'm probably going to just go back to full VMs as at least VirtualBox just works, whereas the Docker documentation is just terrible.
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It's because a bunch of rich Americans set up think tanks to invent reasons why the government helping people is bad, so that they don't have to fund those programs.
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@TheDecoCottage You can somewhat mitigate that by having a fully funded emergency fund, pay current expenses with previous month's earnings and have appropriate long-term care insurance. But, at some point that won't be enough and before that happens, the government should be providing a safety net to prevent running out of those things.
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They lift it every year. But yep, the cap should be eliminated, and they should include other sources of income along with it. Doing so would make the program solvent for at least another 75 years and help mitigate the issues that we have wit this legislation where the money is being stolen from the future benefits of the young.
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@stephenbarabas6286 Often times being permitted to filter at stop lights is a nice sweet spot.
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For now, but there comes a time when the necessary dams can't be built high enough around an entire city.
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@machintelligence Yep, the HOA where I'm living is pretty good over all. If anything, they're overly lenient. I think the only thing that I've heard of them doing wrong was trying to lowball one of the members for black mold, which is the HOA's responsibility in the documents. It was particularly dumb as the tenant of that unit had been on the board previously and knew perfectly well that it was the HOA that was responsible for it. But, overall, I haven't seen or heard much to indicate that they even exist beyond the occasional minutes from the meetings and construction related notices. That being said, nightmare board members being elected could change that.
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The fact that a bunch of war criminals have nukes ought to terrify people more than it does. And yes, without the support of the US, the Israelis would have had to sit down for a negotiated peace deal years ago and stopped stealing Palestinian land.
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Yep, with the 50 seats it looks like they're getting, then they won't be able to blame McConnel for preventing the $2k checks and more help to the people. I'm sure they'll come up with some excuses and I'm sure that the jackaninny Manchin will screw things up whenever possible. Seriously, I don't get why he's allowed in the party when he pretty much always votes against the Democrats when anything important is going on.
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The problem is that it's a camera for the school zone, not general speeding. Around here they're only turned on when school is supposed to be in session.
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@fnjesusfreak that's safer than what we get. Around here it's generally based on whether or not children are present. It requires looking to the side of the street and guessing if there are any children or children looking people.
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Yes, and he wonders why he needed the dnc to rig the machines for him.
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What's it called when an entire political party does that to people?
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I don't understand why I'm being punished for being too young to get my social security before the trust becomes insolvent.
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It's not supposed to be constitutional in the US, we're supposed to have a right to a speedy trial. But, the courts have been packed with incompetent and outright corrupt judges that don't care aobut that.
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@XLightChanX It's a tough situation as more pre-trial proceedings is probably a good thing for the parties involved, but somebody behind bars during that isn't just losing their freedom, they also have significantly limited ability to fight the charges. Being able to meet with your attorney whenever you need to, or even call them if there's a development is absolutely critical. Potentially so is the ability to move about the city, assuming that you aren't under an order restricting your movements.
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It wasn't just them, the official excuse was that larger charges were probably more important. But, regardless, it had the effect of changing what might have only been one or two overdrafts into potentially several times more.
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@rojodiver3344 you don't typically need to know in order for it to be manslaughter. That typically just requires that somebody dies due to recklessness.
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The archive is special, the props warehouse can be visited by anybody willing to pay for a tour that includes that as a stop. It's well worth it IMHO.
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It depends a bit on the language, but at least for English a Highschool student probably knows 14-20k words. 6-`0k can be more than enough if you don't care about being able to converse on every topic imaginable. And, by the time you've got that many words, you can probably learn most of the remaining by reading and watching movies.
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A UBI would have also solved the hazard pay issue.
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I'd wager that it probably is racism, the same reason why nunchucks would be illegal. They're not a practical weapon for most people, and there are definitely better options for those that are willing to learn how to use them effectively.
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@mleadenham1 TBH, my assumption is not. There's a couple issues in doing so, one being that Latin depends on the ending and position of words to know where one word starts and another word ends. Putting a word inside of a word in that fashion would probably run into similar issues that you see in Mandarin where the users of the language struggle to imagine what a word would become if you give it different tones. There's also a general lack of punctuation, we can do infixes in writing in part because we're used to hyphens being used to graft words together and the spaces can help to keep track of whether we're onto a new word or not. That wasn't generally the case with Latin. Romans may well have done it when speaking, but that's a lot harder to know, but given what I've suggested already, I doubt that they'd be deviating in that fashion from what written Latin could do or it would show up in the written form eventually.
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@alveolate TBH, I think grammatical form spotting could be a much better hobby than those a-holes that police other people's grammar and spelling.
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@acousticmeow8403 Yes, and this is why there are usually regulations in place to help ensure that the cheapest service provided is reasonably safe for those buying it. It's the same reason why there is a public health department that has food safety standards and not just trusting the restaurant to engage in safe practices.
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@stevelehto Years ago my brother got a speeding ticket in a local speed trap. I'm guessing that the technique you mentioned here wouldn't have gotten him out of it. It might have gotten it reduced, but it's a local fundraiser, so who knows. But, he went into court along with quite a few other people and they got to plead out on it in exchange for the ticket being suspended. Not a bad deal for folks that can afford to take a morning off work to go into court. OTOH, had he gotten ticketed again in the next year, it would have been a very expensive ticket.
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@1112viggo The military nearly always has significant budgets for things like this. A minor improvement in key technology can make a massive difference in future conflicts.
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They did that around here, no smoking in most public places, and only smoking either at home, or a distance away from any doors, windows or vents. On top of that, cigarettes are over $10 a pack these days with taxes. I don't see how anybody can afford to smoke, but I see people coming in all day buying them, so clearly they have money for that.
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Aren't we already to? This constitutes battery. No assault, but that's just because it's being done from behind.
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Fire extinguishers don't kill tens of thousands of people every year. Plus, the Japanese don't let people have guns for self defense and they have fewer than 20 firearm related deaths every year. It's astonishing to me how ignorant the people are that are pushing against firearm restrictions are. If you don't know basic facts about it, you should keep your mouth shut.
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Much of the stuff that's actually used by the military is either ungodly expensive or legally prohibited from being sold to anybody else.
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Not to mention that he only seemed to win big in primaries where they could rig the voting machines and the votes didn't track with the exit polling being done at the same time.
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The only acceptable about this ad was that Sam Elliot is really pleasant to listen to. But the rest of it was bullshit, this kind of bullshit is what makes me hate this country.
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Because standing up against terrorists in favor of war criminals isn't something that lends itself to catchy slogans?
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Before this I wasn't likely to ever go to one of their games, but now I'm definitely not going to any of their games or buying any of their merchandise. I wonder how many other people they've turned off by their antics. If they want more money, then they should be more popular and stop pissing off the fans with the politics.
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It won't happen if the Democratic leadership continues to pretend like nothing can be done without controlling more of the government.
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@davidfrederick9973 Precisely, they weren't told to consider that which effectively hands the win to the plaintiff automatically. There's nothing in this that suggests that a new jury won't issue the same verdict. I'd expect that the defendants will see the money that they initially were ordered to pay and just settle the suit before retrial. Especially given how few people are likely to consider having windows broken dozens of times to be reasonable.
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We'll have to see what caused that. It could be pilot error, or it could be a maintenance issue, or it could be the usual Boeing incompetence.
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Perhaps it's time we stop blaming voters and start blaming the parties for taking all that donor money and then not even bothering to improve people's lives. Biden could have given everybody health care during the part of the pandemic he was President for, and chose not to. Obama could have filled 2 seats on SCOTUS by nuking the judicial filibuster for SCOTUS nominations and elbowing RBG out. They could have had a real primary this time around given how old Biden was and how clearly he's dealing with dementia. The voters in 2016 and 2020 wanted Bernie, but we weren't allowed to have him as the nominee because the elites thought they were smarter than us. They didn't even offer us anything to caucus with them because they were more interested in poaching right win votes at our expense. It's literally the reason why a candidate that won 0 delegates was the VP that they tried to force on us.
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It's not years away, unless you include negative numbers. I've used Linux and I currently use FreeBSD, there were basically no sacrifices made in doing so. The only issue I've had is the failure of online backup services to support FreeBSD. It makes backups expensive if I don't go the route of using an emulator, which is mildly annoying. But, FreeBSD can do pretty much all the normal tasks that people typically expect out of their OS, it's mostly just the same FUD that the Linux community has been spreading over the course of the last several decades. It rings less and less true with every year.
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Yes, but in some cases, they can get the trains to stop. But, that's pretty hit or miss and depends upon the trains being far enough out to do so. Most of the time, I don't think they even do so unless there's something wrong with the tracks or something broken down on the tracks.
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If she wins, you likewise won't ever get to vote in any sort of meaningful Presidential election either. Choose your poison carefully.
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@harryballsak1123 Obviously not, they're just pawns. They could have given everybody that needed to work, the same bonus and been done with it. The people working would have hazard pay and the unemployed would have help. Instead we couldn't have hard pay because we needed to help the unemployed when they could have just given the money to everybody.
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Many of the ones I've seen are outright lying about the amount of capital that it takes to achieve those results. Nobody expects to make money watching YouTube, but for those that don't have any sort of degree or training in finance, it sounds good. One of the major problems is that the advice typically assumes that you're making enough money to take advantage of the advice, which may well not be the case if you're looking for financial advice on YouTube.
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@llkellenba Yes, but if Harris wins we likely won't see much improvement, and what improvement we see will be just what the justices that are taking up spots that Obama chose not to fill can't figure out how to bar.
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Because it wouldn't get the necessary votes. Those poor areas have a ton of clout when it comes to getting things passed.
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And what happens when the defendant takes that weapon and uses it to intimidate or assassinate witnesses and victims? Just the idea of them being out there and armed does cause harm to the process. Nothing about this presumes that they are guilty, it presumes that out of the pool of people that have been charged, some portion of them will use those weapons to either commit other crimes or influence the process. And that it's a large enough number to justify the protection to the other parties involved in the case. It's not ideal, but the alternative would be to allow even fewer people in the pre-trial phase of proceedings to retain their ability to be outside of jail.
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Python is popular with beginners because people keep saying that it's good for beginners and it has some features that appear on the surface to be good for beginners. It is,however, a terrible language for beginners due to things like syntactical white space, dynamic typing and unhelpful error messages.
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The really dumb thing is that getting into one of those schools has little, if any, impact on how much you make in most cases. There are some situations like with legal degrees where having the right name on the degree may have an impact, but for the most part, you're flushing money down the toilet that could be better used for other things.
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@wownewstome6123 It's legal to refuse to hire young people, it's not constitutional and if it starts to become more common for employers to refuse to hire young people, we might finally get the courts to acknowledge that there's a 14th amendment right that applies to young people.
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There isn't a free delivery option? Around here, there's a program that the local grocery store has to get free pickup or delivery for $50 a year, with at least that much in coupons and points.
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Giving everybody a check for $50k would make more sense. I don't get why those that were irresponsible are always those that get bailed out.
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Intelligence testing has to be relative because there isn't a zero point to measure from. It's not like temperature, where we can base the scale at an absolute zero intelligence or have scores getting higher and higher because we set the bar at a specific concept of what 100 should be. So, psychometricians opted to base it around the mean and standard deviation when making the decisions so that it would effectively always be somewhat applicable, as being a super-intelligent person by the standards of a hundred years ago isn't super helpful if you can't navigate the streets of a modern city or operate a computer.
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That's common. I just do a few minutes right after I wake up. Usually, I'll wake up, brush my teeth and then meditate. I'm a fan of using a mechanical counter and just clicking off once a day when I do it and then using google to calculate how many days it's been since I started. I'll divide the times I did it by the total days and just focus on trying to keep that percentage as close to 1 as possible. It has helped a lot in my consistency as unlike streaks missing a day doesn't start you over. Which can be a big issue if you're got a streak that's going a month or two, losing one day starts the streak over, but if it's a percentage at that point it barely hurts. I'll periodically reset it to zero because of that.
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@Don.M. Around here the shortest day is just a little over 7.5 hours, there's no way of shifting the time forward by only one hour that improves the situation. Shifting the time an hour later, means that you lose a half hour of outside of work light for those working 9-5 jobs and doesn't help other folks much. You'd have to shift the clock forward by 2 hours in order to see any actual improvement and chances are by the time folks get home, the sun is already down anyways.
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@xa1531 The regulations are necessary to place limits on the damage that it does. The big issue with capitalism is that there's a major gap between those doing the work/suffering the consequences and those that reap the rewards.
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To be fair, that's kind of true. Few people need 11, for most purposes Linux, OSX and other OSes will do what most people need at least as well as Windows does.
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It definitely was down, it's tough to see, but if you slow the video down, you can clearly see that the gate is down. This sort of thing is why they built a massive pedestrian overpass next to T-Mobile Park in Seattle to discourage people from trying to cross the tracks when the gates were down and the chime was sounding.
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It's particularly hard for immigrants that come from places where physically moving large amounts of cash to pay bills is the norm. In China it's not unusual for people to strap thousands onto their own body in order to pay for a car in cash. In the US you've got Chinese business people trying to buy restaurants in cash and having it seized by the police because only drug dealers would have that kind of money. In those cases the only evidence is a larger than normal amount of cash and no evidence of any kind that they did, let alone sold, drugs.
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YouTube deleted some of my comments criticizing Israel. The posts showed up and moments later they were gone.
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@Userhfdryjjgddf If you want to see something scandalous. Go to your local grocery store and turn the Gatorade bottles upside down. They've gone so far as to create a skirt around the bottom edge to make it appear that you're getting more than you are, as if just hollowing out the bottom wasn't enough.
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You shouldn't be, there's a bunch of corrupt justices on the court that have already given him a bunch of power that isn't provided for by the constitution.
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If he fought this hard for any of the things he promised, he would be phenomenally popular.
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Liar, Republicans already have a 2-3% advantage due to unconstitutional gerrymandering and various other forms of electoral fraud. The only reason it's not more one-sided is that nobody likes what they're selling.
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That's fine if your a woman, but I don't see anything on her site that promises to address any men's issues.
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I get really confused in terms of Ace versus True Value, because if I go on Google Maps and look for True Value, I just get Ace locations. Even though, I thought they were different chains operating under a similar business model
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Yep, but that being said, I wonder if the decision to use steel trusses to hold the bridge deck up contributed to the amount of the bridge that went down versus the tower design from the Golden Gate bridge where the road deck on one side of the tower balances the other side and the towers themselves are absolutely massive.. But yes, when a suspension bridge collapses it tends to go down completely and rather quickly. Whereas other types of bridges can take a bit longer to actually collapse and may slump on their way down rather than just collapse.
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@lifesbutastumble It's a fair point, from a technical standpoint it's a continuous truss bridge. Although the bit of confusion for us non-engineers is that the bridge deck through the middle is in fact suspended from the truss by cables from what I can see in the photos. A truss bridge of the sort that I have more experience driving with probably wouldn't have collapsed so quickly and completely.
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Anytime I click on a video and it's just AI voice, I click away without paying attention to whatever the content is. I'm sorry to those that aren't native speakers or are shy, but so much of that content is just garbage generated with little, or no, effort or fact checking.
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@reneekraeplin8943 It won't. Al Gore won in 2000, and those results were allowed to stand without completing the recounts he was entitled to based on SCOTUS over stepping. And, considering that the Democrats didn't even bother to try and up out their A team, I can't imagine this being overturned, especially not by this SCOTUS after he's already been inaugurated.
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@wncwaterfalls The Democrats don't care. Or at least the leadership doesn't and the rank and file aren't gutsy enough to demand change.
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@vsevolodozerov8947 Clearly there weren't, because it wouldn't take a police investigation to notice tire tracks and make a few calls to the local newspaper to keep it in the headlines until a proper investigation of that were conducted. The banks of the pond are fairly steep near the water line, and I'm guessing the car was going relatively quickly when it went into the lake if it was able to get deep enough that nobody noticed it. Plus, it doesn't sound like anybody even started looking for them for a few days until after they failed to show up back home. Meaning, that whatever tire marks may have been there might not have been noticed until the water wiped them out.
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That's a good question, but it can take a prolonged period for some channels to find an audience, and YouTube already screws smaller channels in terms of running ads on them without giving them anything at all for the handwork involved with creating the videos.
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Responsible gun owners that aren't smart enough to know that a system having flaws is not a good reason to avoid trying shouldn't be allowed to own weapons. Regulations do work, there were clearly flaws that led to this that should be fixed. There's a special place in hell for people that own't even try because there might be flaws in the attempt. We do know that this sort of violence can be cut way down, it's unclear why he fell through the cracks, but there's no way of knowing how many other would be mass murderers are prevented from actually going through with it.
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@jameslydon3314 This is true, but theoretically the rest of that should have qualified under the red flag law the same way that emergency restraining orders are typically given out in practically all cases. Yes, every once in a long while there might be one denied, but they're typically granted before the proceedings to try to ensure that everybody is alive to have proceedings.
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That would be the Imposter Syndrome, it's the more intelligent counterpart to Dunning-Kruger. Typically, it means that you're above average intelligence as unintelligent people don't usually underestimate themselves.
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@daixer3156 Russia has a history of not prosecuting Russians that commit crimes abroad. As long as he's not dealing arms that are being used on them, they probably don't care.
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@kauinoa2004 So? The overtime is still voluntary, if nobody wants to do it, or agrees to, then they shouldn't have to do it. It's not really voluntary if they can be forced to work.
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We've started using that here. We also started painting the left fogline yellow and the right fogline white, so that you know just from that whether or not you're on the right side of a divided highway, even when visibilty is poor. I'm not sure when they started doing that, but it was about the same time that they stopped painting the centerline with led nitrate.
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I'm sure that there are companies with good products that are destroyed by bad reviews. But, most of those are going to be smaller companies that are over-leveraged to begin with. It also happens occasionally with video games and movies. That being said, I doubt very much that it's a real thing that happens often enough to warrant the causal link being implied.
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That's different. It's a different problem with a different solution. Is it really that crazy that we actually look at what the research does before we let activists make demands and then just completely ignore the collateral damage?
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@DoneRegularly That's generally the best course of action. Lawsuits are public records that often bring attention to the people involved and they move a lot slower than the internet does. By the time this actually hits a trial, assuming it's not settled, the internet will probably have forgotten about it, whatever damage will have been done and there's no way that this suit will result in Mr. Beast being compensated enough to cover for the losses. And that assumes that he even wins, which is not likely.
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@joffles6516 TBH, what reputation? Even from the first videos I saw from that channel, it was highly suspicious as there was never any effort to explain where the money was coming from to pay for the stunts he was pulling.
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I guess this explains why they're called Air Conditioners. I've got a relatively large swamp cooler and it works fine, the best use I've found is outside where the humidity is low and you don't need to care about mold in the area.
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These kinds of things are pretty hypocritical. I got run out of the profession for refusing to tolerate racist things being said about me, by gasp, making an appropriately worded email to somebody at my own college. There are no professional standards for teaching any longer, as long as you're not either a white man or on the approved list of ethnicities to denigrate. Otherwise, everything goes and there's a reason why so many young people think this is OK, it's been normalized.
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To be honest, there's no way that Democrats are this bad at politics, it's the corrupting influence of taking the same money that the GOP is addicted to. The American people would understand, if the stimulus was being held up because the Democrats were demanding UBI for the duration of the lock down or in order to get hazard pay for frontline workers. They'd probably also understand if the money was going to keep them employed or to enable employers to allow them to work from home. But, for them to get so very, very little while delaying funds that many people can't afford to wait for is unconscionable.
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The minimum wage is supposed to apply to everybody, there was a temporary partial exemption because of the amount of increase there was all of a sudden, but the plan was always for them to pay the regular minimum wage. And, they wouldn't have gotten that break at all if the city hadn't decided to put the city minimum wage above the state minimum wage. At the state level, tips do not count in the calculation of minimum wage earnings. The reason why those remain problems is that the city is stuck subsiziding a bunch of lazy layabouts in other parts of the state. If the taxes were kept locally, we could provide much of that with the taxes people are paying here.
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I take it you're being ironic there, because the fact that people think a vote for either major party isn't an absolutely damning indictment of the system should be of great concern. One candidate tried to unsuccessfully overthrow the government 20 years after the previous coup. The other side of the ticket is only running because a bunch of oligarchs were afraid to have a senile old fool up against the failed coup leader. The pushed aside candidate himself was only President because the party rigged the primary process against the candidates that the voters actually wanted. None of that is even taking into account the massive amounts of money that the rich and powerful are allowed to spend tricking people into voting for candidates that won't do anything to help them. This doesn't sound even remotely like a functioning system. This sounds like a country that's about to completely lose its democracy, but nobody seems to notice.
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Interesting and yet we had one for VP nearly a century ago.
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@jared_du_jour That wouldn't surprise me, back then newspapers had a lot more color in the vocabulary that was used. A gangway in English usually refers to a specific narrow passage way on ships.
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Ranked choice voting is a bit of sleight of hand to make it look like a candidate is getting more than 50% of the vote, when really, they're still getting less than that. It's trivial to come up with a scenario where the least popular candidate wins by being slightly less unpopular than other candidates where under the current system they'd be in 3rd place. It literally makes no sense when it doesn't address the real problem. The real problem being a lack of competent, qualified candidates running in the first place. All this does is make it harder to push for a real solution to the problem.
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Plot twist, the guy isn't a guide and just leaves them there.
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That's always been the case. There's a lot of laws on the books and most people could be arrested or ticketed for something during the course of the week. If the police went after absolutely every infraction, they'd run out of space in jail. As it is, only roughly 5% of all charged crimes actually proceed to a full trial as most of them are pleaded down for lower charges and just receive a sentencing. That being said, it is dangerous and needs to be done carefully, I work at a grocery store and the same individuals come in and steal pretty much every day because there's not going to be a police response and even if they are arrested, they won't see any jail time for it. Meaning that it's effectively just an unethical way of grocery shopping and an illegal side hussle to sell the proceeds.
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I liked the plan to put her on one side and Jackson on the other side. Seemed awfully appropriate. Leave it up to us to decide which side is the front and which is the back.
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This is what happens when both parties are captured by the same donors. The Democrats should have seen Bush v. Gore as a warning to take the kid gloves off and go after the Republicans aggressively, but they didn't. They kept compromising and going after GOP voters rather than finishing the party off. It wasn't that long ago that the GOP was so weak that they could have been done for good. Now, they've pretty much succeeded in overthrowing the government for all practical purposes. The regulatory agencies can't regulate, you can't get any reasonable legislation through congress and now the POTUS is immune to prosecution for official acts, whether or not those acts would normally be criminal.
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@Homedepotorange I think the point is that when people were looking at that angle, they didn't know that the car was in that pond. There's a rather long distance between the hotel and their ultimate destination where they could have been carjacked.
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Nope, probably the 17th. Loma Prieta 10/17, Northridge 1/17. So, clearly whatever this one is 8/17. (obviously, I'm kidding, although I would kind of freak out if that did happen)
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The key point is that we either mail them in our drop them in secured boxes. But they're suppressing the vote anyways. Tens of thousands of ballots won't be counted because they didn't check the party box that matches the vote.
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In cases like that, you're probably better off putting them near the side of the road instead. But, if you've got enough snow to cover them, which is definitely parts of Canada, even that is probably not enough. At some point, it's just not going to work.
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It doesn't happen often because the underlying reason for the agency to be created doesn't usually go away. For things that are more temporary in nature they tend to just delegate that to whichever agency is closest to the issue.
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@Resi1ience It's probably the most honest thing any tough on crime person has ever said.
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Miyu Miyu I doubt it, the money they're making from selling those kits, books, courses and the like is probably going to be more than what they'd make from the paintings. The paintings are popular, but a large chunk of the value is that you can't buy them. He produced a ton of paintings and a lot of them look the same to people who don't really know the work. Painters who produce such a large volume of work, hardly ever see the kinds of prices that produce sticker shock. There probably is a few million dollars in the paintings, but compared with the value of the supporting company, it's just not that much.
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In all fairness, normally it's not that big of a deal There's a minder with you at all times when you're outside of the hotel and everything that you see is staged to reinforce the official view that the government wants you to see. As in, in most cases, just being there and seeing what they want you to see is sufficient for the government, they don't normally need to arrest people and it's arguably against their interests to do so. That doesn't necessarily mean that he wasn't a genuine hostage, but I wouldn't necessarily assume that he was either.
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I take it that you're engaged in BDS against Israel, then. Their government literally engages in genocide as defined by the UN.
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How do we do that? Most of this is packaged with a lot of other issues and there isn't necessarily even another option that doesn't involve this sort of BS.
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At which point, folks will have paid off that money. Personally, I'm fortunate that I'm getting hazard pay that's been sufficient to pay my student loan. I'm holding back on it until the absolute last minute.
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Then mission accomplished.
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@SPBurt1 Not true. Value used to be based upon the amount of labor and resources that went into producing it and how much it contributed to productivity or comfort. The current situation where value is completely meaningless is a new invention that is hardly universally accepted. The ability to find a few rubes to massively overpay for something doesn't impact the underlying value of the purchased item. It just means you found a couple rubes to overpay. And unless you continually find more and more rubes, eventually you get a Dutch Tulip crisis.
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We won't, the DNC didn't learn anything from 2016 or 2020, or really 2000 or 2004, they won't learn anything from this time either.
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Why would he pardon him? What precisely would there to be gained in doing so other than the fact that he's a Democrat and you've got poor rhetorical skills.
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Did she? If she predicted this and put up that pathetic campaign, then she's complicit.
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@brendaj8501 She didn't send me a single ad that wasn't begging for money, so I voted 3rd party. She didn't have an amazing campaign, she didn't really even bother to try to get working class men to vote for her until the absolute last minute and she couldn't come out against genocide. She was dealt a tough hand, but she certainly did not run an amazing campaign. She completely ignored roughly a third of eligible voters entirely and didn't offer us any reason to vote for her.
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I think the reason that this went out of fashion is that devices generally included more reliable battery indicators for things that were expecting to run through batteries very quickly. I remember starting to see multi-segment LCDs on electronics popping up about that time to help customers know when the batteries were going to go bad. My portable CD player had one, but my Gameboy didn't give any indication of how long I had left that could be used to clearly indicate how long until I needed new batteries. Flashlights could go through batteries pretty quickly, but tended to dim gradually over time as the voltage dropped. Plus, there was an increase in quality rechargeable batteries about that time. Whereas the rechargeable batteries of the '80s were terrible, the ones by the late '90s were starting to get pretty good and if you were using a high drain device, you were probably using some sort of rechargeable battery rather than a regular alkaline one.
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Being born trans is inherently unfair, no matter what people do about it. But yeah, I don't exactly see transmen trying to smash down the doors to get into men's only leagues and competitions.
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As a German American, that's f-ed up. At least people learn about the Japanese interned, most never learn about German or Italian internees.
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@kenbrown2808 That's asking for trouble, having a dead red law makes sense as sometimes the sensors don't detect smaller vehicles, but making the stop signs and reds optional is just asking for trouble.
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If they were ethical, they would just pay the amount ending in .26 and let the policy holder pay the remaining .60. Problem solved, they just don't want to pay the money they owe.
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Her publicily expressing it on video is what's dumb.
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@jeffostroff You can make something fool proof, but you can never make it damn fool proof.
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The J isn't silent, where else does that h sound come from?
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Definitely not, shoplifting is a massive problem and a lot of folks don't realize just how big of a problem it is. A lack of enforcement around here has made it just that much worse, the store I work at can't get anybody to show up when somebody is shoplifting unless it's a massive amount and the local prosecutor's office won't actually bring charges because it's apparently now a civil rights matter. In the meantime, customers have to come in and see people stealing and want to know why they have to pay. I can't blame them. I wonder why I have to pay when the same folks show up regularly and raid whatever is closest to the door before walking out with the goods. The whole business of shoplifting being a result of poverty is at best a gross exaggeration. Plenty of people shoplift that don't have any legitimate reason to and when there are folks that legitimately need to, a better solution is to just get help to everybody that needs it, rather than demonizing business for not wanting people to steal their stuff.
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@rl453 And I'm sure there were significant numbers of us that did like I did and voted 3rd party. There were probably others that didn't vote as well. The arrogance of the DNC that they didn't make Bernie the VP pick either time and didn't offer anything to his supporters to get us on board with their terrible candidates is ultimately what put us in this position. There's little point in voting blue at this stage as they're still worming their way further and further to the right, but not by enough to open up space for 3rd party.
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Even without that it was still possible. My friend's Leading Edge computer forced Mario to jump into a pit. Nobody was even touching any buttons and there Mario goes to the nearest pit to end it all.
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@JHimminy So David Hasselhoff still has a chance!
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Years ago I had an account at a discount brokerage and one day I logged into my account and saw some crazy amount of money in it. It was billions or whatever the largest values of the variables they were using could handle. I didn't do anything at all with that "money" or any of the money I had in the account just because I didn't want to deal with the hassle associated with accidentally using some of it. Other people were trading with the money and I assume that some portion of those wound up in prison over it if they couldn't cover the amount they had used. While, the money being indicated there and usable wasn't our fault, we all had the choice about what to do about it. I don't recall even bothering to report it as it was a pretty widespread issue and my account got fixed at the same time as everybody elses.
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That's from the US side. I doubt that the Brits were spreading news of it to the other colonies.
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He does, the issue is that it has an influence over the roles and perceptions people have of him and folks of his height. For better or for worse, there aren't a lot of roles for those that are that short, and having them be skewed by the 7 Dwarves and various other mythologies isn't helpful.
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It's not bad for your health. It's bad for your finances. But, if you're still able to cover your expenses and save sufficiently for the future, it's not much of an issue.
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It likely won't go away, but with effective vaccines, it will likely become more like a minor annoyance over time. The Spanish Flu is still out there, but it isn't a particular killer these days,
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Be a bit cautious in paying off debt, unless you can pay it off completely, you need to ensure that you've got the money on hand to pay the bills that come due, even if that means paying a bit more interest in the long term. If you hit a recession and there are significant layoffs, especially if you're impacted, it may not be possible to get more credit. And that's especially the case if you start missing payments because you paid off too much of your debt early on.
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@autumnrain7626 Most of the time such matings result in no viable offspring. It would be like if some sick perv screwed a chimp. Occasionally you'll get ones that live for a few years before dying. Then you've got ones like mules that can live an entire life, but are incapable of further reproduction.
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 @Repetoire I'd take what you've read with a grain of salt. There are massive restrictions in place on what you're allowed to do in terms of testing on children.
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I get most of my news here and from other folks that are trying to cover things fairly and objectively. As you've noted, none of them are perfect, but if you're not aiming towards objectivity and fairness, you're definitely not going to get there. Ever.
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This is the best argument I've seen for allowing 85th trimester abortions.
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Probably not, you typically get to have jurors excused of you have a specific reason that the judge accepts. This removes the ability to base it entirely on gut feelings.
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@SeanPat1001 Arguably this was an illegal wiretap.
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The Democrats rig their primaries and then capitulate to the GOP at just about every opportunity, they're not exactly any bigger supporters of Democracy than the GOP is.
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I'm not really sure they realize it. They're still getting their money, so the candidates are good.
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No matter who "wins" the general election, the results aren't legitimate. After Biden had the primary fixed in his favor and refused to do anything at all to try and win over Bernie's supporters, him winning is just not legitimate. He wouldn't be the nominee without election rigging and we're asking that Trump supporters accept a result where somebody that's already guilty of election fraud didn't do it again?
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@davidc8982 It's always going to be a part of the solution to anything significant. At bare minimum, it reduces the pressure to change the laws in negative ways. But, it was also always going to be a scam, as the small number of companies that are responsible for most of the impact here have a powerful incentive to not change.
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@jackieeeap2 It's cheaper to just offer pickup service than it is to have an employee walking with a customer from shelf to shelf unlocking things.
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There wouldn't have been proof at that point, just reasonable suspicion. Proof would have happened during the next bit, or possibly not. But his failure to comply early on in the stop ensured that they'd want to restrain him whole the matter was settled. Depending on the specifics at that point, they likely would have booked him. They used to much force and he died as a result, but the issue of the 20 wouldn't have really mattered beyond being the basis of the stop until later in the process.
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I'm seriously concerned with all the folks that are suggesting that Putin will use nukes just because he's been denied a win in Ukraine. That's crazy, and what's most likely to lead to him using nukes is if we start to invade Russia. As long as the conflict is on Ukrainian soil, the likelihood of nukes is quite low. The scary thing about nuclear war is that if you're in one of the first targets, you probably wouldn't even know until the nuke actually hits. Modern nuclear missiles travel at extremely high rates of speed and the DoD might not even bother to warn people about it as there'd be no point. You'd literally look out the window and see the mushroom cloud if you're far enough. Otherwise, you'd wake up dead.
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The only reason that tuition exists is because we largely stopped funding education and allowed colleges to spend tuition money on stupid nonsense like unnecessary administrators and facilities. Plus, promising to do something about it does fall within the normal rules for politicians earning votes by promising things that the voters want. Something that the Democrats usually forget about.
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Probably not more than when he was pitching the show that ultimately became Seinfeld. Plus, he probably has a bunch of other possible bits he could have used, I think he's probably just having fun. He's got the 0s behind his bank account to say that people like what he's doing.
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That's more or less what I like to do. I personally like to get a 1920x1200 monitor and then set a 1280x1024 monitor vertically next to it. The smaller monitor is mostly for things that I just want to read or things that I want to keep track of.
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It disgusts me that people are so OK with these campaigns completely ignoring most of the country to focus on a small number of states. And, it hurts the down ballot races when there isn't the opportunity for those candidates to appear along side the Presidential candidates.
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@TheGuruStud Just crashing it on your property (Admittedly that would be hard without autopilot) would probably only break environmental protection laws if any apply. That being said, he's likely to get sued if the contract for the advert didn't involve staging a fake crash and it could be either civil or criminal fraud if he didn't disclose that. If he did disclose it, then likely the company would also be liable for some of it.
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@christopherg2347 Crashing into or near a populated area because of gross negligence is a pretty big deal whereas crashing in the middle of nowhere has much less impact on other people. If the plane had somehow managed to hit an occupied building and killed somebody on the ground, it would be manslaughter. Plus, if it just destroyed something on the ground, but didn't hurt or kill anybody, it would likely be a destruction of property related crime the same as if you run over somebody's mailbox while driving recklessly.
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It's near Corvallis according to the title and the summary. As far as I can tell, there's only one Corvallis in the US, that's in Oregon.
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It's not the government it's the weak ass Democrats that refuse to take off the kid gloves and fight against this. People act like the people had a vote for something much better, and the reality is that what was on offer was more of the same, some tinkering around the edges and that means that people like her are basically on the brink of complete collapse no matter what happens.
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Yes, but they'd be educated orphans.
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He's going to be the only illegal immigrant that Trump isn't married to that isn't going to be deported.
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@thedavesofourlives1 One of the nice things about GFCI is that it's something that's often times easy to retrofit without being an electrician. It just requires the ability to replace the impacted outlets with GFCI ones, assuming you've got the necessary 3 wires to do it. If I understood correctly, for best results AFCI really wants to be in the circuit breaker and that's likely best done by an electrician, especially if you're breaker box is like mine and lacks a method of powering it down.
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@SubscribersWithoutAnySubscribe they always were.
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exactly, the terminology causes problems by not being a good descriptor of the situation, it causes problems, ergo it's problematic.
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@SubscribersWithoutAnySubscribe you're not right, you're illiterate. In any case, both definitions of problematic apply, so I'm not really sure what bug got up your backside.
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Which group, both sides are more or less equally guilty here. The actual members of the general citizenry are far less enthralled with hatred and violence than it seems. The issue is that you've got some pretty powerful bigots in some pretty powerful positions and until that changes, it's hard to have any sort of lasting peace. I do think that in the long term, a one state solution where there isn't a religious figure as head of state is the only viable path. It's just that until the outside powers that are using the region as a proxy conflict get out of it, there will be no peace of any sort.
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@John316TOGODBETHEGLORY It's not truth, the IDF is at least as bad as Hamas is. It's not uncommon for them to murder dozens of innocent civilians in retaliation for a single Israeli fatality. And just look at the blatant crimes against humanity that they're filming themselves engaging in and releasing for the public to see. Claiming that at a national level that the Israelis are any better is just plain lying.
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This has been a thing for much longer, it's just now the case where ordinary customers are being subjected to it without necessarily understanding it. As early as the '80s you had expensive computers that came with physical modules that were only unlocked via a payment and visit from a support tech to enable the modules. For decades MS has been writing full featured OSes and then removing a bunch of features for the cheaper versions. Which isn't a particular problem, but it does cost them more money to create those cheap versions than the expensive ones.
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He shouldn't have been the 2016 candidate, but that's in the past.
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Um, a lot of people got killed for everybody to have the right to go to whatever public restaurants they wanted to. I don't think most people would support a return to the Jim Crow south.
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It's not at all shocking. Biden did whatever he could to discourage progressives, refused to offer any reason for voting for him other than a return to norms and not Being Trump. On Trump's side, he failed miserably to deal with the pandemic and oddly still did more than the Democrats did. He failed to hit the same populist notes that he did in 2016. And yes, it is sad, Bernie would have already won by now. Chances are we would have known on election night.
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@heistube9556 Probably and as a passenger you have no idea as to why there's one seat available there. It could be too obese passengers, or it could be one passenger that likes an aisle and one that prefers a window seat.
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@TheDrAstrov And I’m sure that "Ukraine is part of Russia" and that "Putin is freeing them from Nazis." Face it, all bets are off when Putin needs a distraction. The US is far from perfect, but it's an outright lie to say that the country doesn't engage in hostage taking.
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It's unlikely to cause problems with the shortage. The issue likely would be simply building up the supply to do it. Once the vehicles are stocked, the blood would be rotated in and out of the vehicles, and the blood that is actually administered should be mostly the blood that would have been administered in the hospital anyways. The other issues with logistics are more likely to be a problem.
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@DellikkilleD That's the romanticized version of it. The reality of self-murder is extremely ugly, we're not talking about somebody that's going to shuffle off this mortal coil in a few years with or without the help. There's some room for debate whether it should be euthenasia or permitting doctors to just prescribe whatever amount of medication is required to bring the pain under control, including amounts that represent a fatal overdose, but when you're talking about somebody who's only issues are mental health ones that could be treated at some point in the future and the only risk of life is self-murder, it's a lot harder to justify involving 3rd parties. I had those thoughts myself when I was younger, but it wasn't until the friend I had that most reminded me of myself actually doing it that the ugliness of self-murder really became clear. There is nothing romantic about it, it is an ugly thing and it's really only morally justifiable when connected with cases where the person is dying one way or another, not ones where the person might choose to murder themselves.
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@MrSev3369 Perhaps you should go back to history class. Weapons like the AR-15 were not even considered when the 2nd amendment was passed and many of the folks involved in that process didn't even think we'd still exist as a country long enough for it to become an issue. As far as our existence as a country, we had no standing army because the framers of the constitution were so afraid of a military-industrial complex developing, hence why the national guard has a 2nd amendment right that was not extended tot he rest of us. And, that remains the case, the national guard is allowed to have military grade weapons, but not private citizens.
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@davepowder4020 What gets me is that it's largely the same state's rights politicians that pushed the Real ID act the hardest.
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@jimdavis1566 Umm, what the GOP only considers somebody to have a right to life before they're born or are on their death bed. After that, they really and truly don't care. Capital Punishment, Health Care, Wars, these are all very popular with the GOP.
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That's the thing. The grocery store I work for has been hiring through the pandemic. But, it doesn't pay as well as unemployment does and health insurance when you're unemployed here is completely free, whereas the company plan has deductables and copays to worry about. (It's not a bad plan by any stretch of the imagination, just not as affordable as medicaid) I'm lucky, that I'm renting from a relative, otherwise I'm not sure how I would make ends meet.
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@oceanside88 People like you are ruining this country. There is no scientific reason for people to wear masks after getting fully vaccinated unless they specifically have a weak immune system or live with people that are at risk. If you're not in that boat, then the mask is purely a safety blanket. I'm not really sure why anybody would want to get vaccinated, if you still have to live like you weren't. For most people, it's not fatal and many don't even get seriously ill. I'm going to have to start masking up again at work because of people like you spreading misinformation and discouraging the unvaccinated from getting vaccinated.
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@johndanenberg217 Yes, the point of the vaccine is to prevent death and serious disability, if it happens to also prevent infection, all the better, but prevention is mostly a byproduct of efforts to prevent death and disability.
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Those bounce back in almost exactly the same direction as it comes from because the angle it comes in is the same as the angle it goes out, and if you've got 2 of them at 90 degree you'll get the original direction back. If you par a 3rd lens, then you get the light coming back at the same angle precisely. And if the retroreflector is small enough, it goes back to almost exactly the same location that it came from.
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@jamesmamma4763 The difference is that the American government mostly does it's own dirty work without funding from other countries.
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@jamesmamma4763 I must have missed when the US cut Israeli defense aid from the budget. Defense being somewhat of a euphemism as nothing Israel does has been defensive in years.
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@ThoraeJenkins Yes, I liked Arc Browser, but it's Chrome based and it's a right pain to export your spaces from. In fact, it can't be done at all without 3rd party software. Personally, I find Fx with sidebery to put the tabs and bookmarks on the side to be the right call and then I'll combine that with the multi-account containers to get a similar effect to Arc Browser's spaces.
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These people had literal years to find jobs elsewhere. And the economy was pretty good for most of it. If the pandemic was the line, they have no moral compass at all. Just look at the horrible things that Fox has been spewing for decades.
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I think that Tiffany might have a shot.
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It's unfortunate that so many people don't realize that you can broadly break meditation techniques up into ones that develop mindfulness and ones that develop focus and concentration. Being mindful can be very useful, but so can the ability to maintain focus on a single point as if it's the only thing in the world. ADDers tend to be good at the single pointed focus, provided it is the thing that we are hyperfocused on right now. We're typically not so good at directing that focus to other places and keeping it there.
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@DAnne-hd4cc They also didn't know that he was autistic at the time, and that may well have been part of what convinced them to go for the death penalty rather than some sort of super-long prison term.
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I'm curious about how much you should be allowed to miss a deadline by. In this case if they had tried earlier with more time to spare, perhaps some leniency would have been called for.
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@colincampbell767 If it floated to the surface, that's not a concern, it can't be opened from the inside. In order to get it open there has to be a ship there to be able to open it.
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I think that Delaney's suggestion of just paying people to get the shot is the right way. There's going to be enough people to volunteer to get benefit from it.
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@preeyakumari-i2q He's 82, but he's in good condition and he would have been 82 had he won the 2020 election as well. The only difference is that he hasn't been run ragged the last 4 years being President. Also, I think running a Sanders/Harris ticket wouldn't work for the simple reason that Bernie is 82 and having somebody that brings absolutely nothing to the table in terms of policy or votes that close to the Presidency makes no sense. At absolute bare minimum whomever it would be under that scenario should be somebody that is completely committed to getting money out of politics and fixing SCOTUS. Just about everything else can wait.
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@jugulagu3397 Nobody else came across a large enough group of people to have any cause to do that before white folks did. All of those people had names for themselves and those around them, they were just more granular, there wasn't any need to conceive of entire races as even the people encountering enough groups to even care, were mostly the traders going back and forth along the silk road and they had little reason to come up with a system to cover people beyond the folks along that route.
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I'm not convinced that he even got the votes at all. The exit poling consistently revealed Bernie's policies being more popular and that more of them voted for Bernie than Biden and yet Biden allegedly won. In any other country, the US would declare the results to be invalid.
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What's worse is that it's a safe Democratic seat, they should have a Democrat serving their district.
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Around here they mostly didn't have particularly large parking lots in most cases. The only one that I know of that does is one of the few ones left. Most of the bowling alleys here have normal-sized parking lots, as you just don't need that many parking places per lane.
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The issue there is that those people typically do have that right, it's called paying your bills. The issue here is that there hasn't been adequate notice before old debts are sent to collection and sold off. Any time that happens, the debtor should have a right to receive a copy of that agreement, or at least notification that the debt has changed hands.
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@maiwork6104 Harris and Trump wouldn't have been either if Bernie had been allowed to win the primaries in either 2016 or 2020.
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Yep, I may well have had this just after it popped up around here. It was a minor case, but I was still extremely sick for 4 days with fatigue, fever, difficulty breathing, no appetite at all. But, because there was no testing available, I may never know for sure if I've had it.
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And if the Democrats would let the voters choose the candidate, it wouldn't have been. The fact that it was this close in spite of nobody wanting Harris and her being a diversity hire to piss off the progressives and she still did this well is rather amazing.
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Yes, and if they did it that quickly,t he chances of the bobcat being successfully released is probably pretty good.
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Renting versus owning winds up being more complicated because people move around more for jobs and if you own, then you're stuck either selling it when you move or figuring out how to rent it while you're away. So, you greatly increase the possibility of being trapped in an area where economic opportunities are going away if that's what's happening in the area versus just renting. Really, with how the economy has been changing, there shouldn't be so much emphasis on owning as a pathway to wealth as it's just not realistic for most young people these days.
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The more troubling question is "How would she know?"
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@@jzsbff4801 It's not a special definition. A dilemma isn't going to have an easy answer.
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@jpruhu7662 they'll vote for her anyways. They did last time.
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That was my thought. Also, I can't imagine that the filtration on that is anywhere near good enough. Not to mention the stakes being way to small to prevent that booth from being blown away if you don't have a vehicle in it.
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@user-bg2oi4bz3p That's simple, you take on a roommate. That's what they did during the great depression. Fewer home owners were destroyed by it compared with renters.
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Precisely, the national debt only exists because of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations and the post 9/11 overspending on defense. If we repeal both of those things alone, we'd be running a surplus that would lead to the debt being paid off without most people having a tax increase.
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@liammorris1018 There is, there's a safety release that's supposed to drop enough ballast for the sub to rise to the surface. It's unclear whether that failed or if something else happened. But, they put a ton of faith in the hull and the safety release mechanism to bring them to the surface where they could be recovered if something happened. It's still unclear what exactly happened and until they either recover the sub, or find a debris field, that answer won't be knowable.
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It used to be extremely common. Most of the patients Freud had were suffering from it.
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He can say he did it all he liked, but if there isn't any evidence, they probably won't accept it. He's not getting out of prison and there is no death penalty in WA, so as long as none of those unknown murders are in some place like Idaho that does have capital punishment, there really isn't anything other than attention for him to claim ones he didn't do. That being said, he's done so many that he may well not know how many he isn't yet convicted of murdering.
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And anybody that voted Harris was voting for more genocide. Perhaps think things through a bit better? Neither side has a particular claim to the moral high ground here.
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They do, it's not like in this case they were lacking in time to react appropriately or had any legitimate fear for their lives.
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Around here, the state introduced tiger muskie to some of the lakes in an effort to clear out the junk fish. They had to change state law after getting the fish because it turned out to only be legal to stock the lakes with trout. The tiger muskie are sterile and so as they are fished out or die of old age, there aren't any more of them. And they have a massive appetite as they are rather large fish.
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This is terrible advice. People like you are why so many people can't afford housing, even when they do have jobs.
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That doesn't make the protesting outside with masks any less stupid, it just means that having indoor rallies without masks is even dumber.
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The main reason that that's probably not it is because the tunnel predates it by a lot. But, that being said, there are still bootlegger tunnels and rooms left to be discovered even now.
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It would be cool to be able to switch that on and off. Riding in traffic gets really annoying after a while when the clutch hand starts to cramp...
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@ZboeC5 The problem is that the city attorney basically stopped filing certain kinds of charges for political reasons. We then got a bunch of city council members that took a similar line and the mayor as well. Voting does matter, but crime is only one facet of these campaigns. And we had at the time a top two primary where when there were a bunch of candidates there could be pressure to vote for the candidate that you thought could beat the candidate you hated. We do now have a ranked choice voting system in place for future elections, so hopefully voting will be more impactful as the voters will be able to give different levels of support for different candidates and completely withhold support from the worst candidates.
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The same basic principles apply. Modern tools do help a lot, but at the end of the day, it likely will always be part art to go with the part science.
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@madmonkey762 Except that Iran already did that and Israel just continued anyways.
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@ericmac8110 The I in Brics is India.
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@pedro6720 It probably is. He's the largest channel of all time on YouTube, this is a massive scandal, and part of how he got to be the biggest channel of all time is YouTube aggressively pushing him and a select number of super popular creators a the expense of smaller ones. That doesn't mean that I think YT is responsible for all of this, but they have skewed things in favor of creators and channels that people aren't super interested in while burying ones that might be a better fit.
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SNL called it. He merged his goals and built a swamp.
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@negentropyagent7337 Most of them are psychopaths too.
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Absolutely, and even with that in mind, we can remember how terrible Trump was all we like, that doesn't mean that we have a viable alternative on our hands and at this point, I have no confidence that we will be given one. We're less than 4 months before the election and they aren't even floating Bernie, or somebody from that wing of the party. I'm not sure how a new entrant could win at this point if the people aren't already deeply familiar with their stance on the issues and their policies. I think the only possible person would be Bernie, and he's getting pretty old. It would probably be him running and then stepping down a couple years into it due to age and health so the VP could run. And that's not going to happen.
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@DaleHartley People like you are why we got Trump the first time, why we're in this position now and why we probably will get trump again in the future. It's absolute madness that people keep rewarding the DNC for ignoring the will of the people. Biden is old enough that there should have been a real primary to demonstrate his ability to manage for another 4 years.
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@scottg247 That makes you a horrible person. A significant chunk of our inmates wouldn't be in prison in other countries. They're in prison because the prison industrial complex needs to have prisoners in order to turn a profit. So, you get people going to prison for long periods of time, in most cases without a trial, over piddly little drug charges.
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What's really scary is that these are cults. Organized religions have done far worse. The fact that these are cults rather than mainstream religious organizations speaks volumes for how far we've come as a species.
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@anon457 Yes, but it will be enforced until such a time as the courts decide that it's not constitutional and those that complete their sentences in the meantime might not get anything back.
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@askleonotenboom Yes, but I've never really bought into the notion that this really is any better. And it's going to vary widely from language to language. correctHorseBatteryStaple is 50.98 bits worth of entropy EUf8wfxChNLSDUDjHH5gsyVyD is 138.33 bits of entropy. This is one of the things where Randall screwed things up. It's weaker security and it only really makes any sense if you're trying to remember the password. Which doesn't really make much sense as over the years, I've accumulated hundreds of passwords and in many cases there are mandatory password changes as well.
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I do, Harris and the Democrats failed miserably to address the concerns of the people, and we're all going to have to suffer through whatever comes as a result. The voters aren't the problem, the voters can only vote for people and issues that are on the ballot.
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One of the issues with the style of politics that Clinton was engaging in was that it was more or less completely devoid of any real purpose. It was a bunch of triangulation and tricks and ultimately, there hasn't been any real rollback of conservative positions since then.
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It just uses camera feeds, I don't know about those cameras in particular, but the backup camera that I bought for my wife's old car was capable of seeing in some pretty dark conditions, so there's no reason why the cameras that are using on these cars shouldn't be able to see in near complete darkness. Whether they're properly trained to interpret what they see at night or not is likely the issue.
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I supposed, although even at $9.99 a month at a minimum, Max is profitable. That being said, they are well-equipped to have that free streaming wit ads as they have a massive catalog of stuff that they basically just owe residuals on for further use.
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matej nemec Yep, but that's more an indication of how great they other movies are. I think the discussions of thus movie would be different if it hadn't been an Indiana Jones movie.
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Unlikely, he's not going to get enough progressives to make it a solid win. He may not even get enough to squeak one out.
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Yes and the essential workers still haven't received any help.
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Yep, the Batmobile was a great one, that car that the Monkees were driving around in during the show was also awesome.
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@foragingfleur She should, that's more than I make. It's absolutely unacceptable that there's nothing for essential workers in any of the current proposals. We've been doing additional work and taking additional risks and we haven't gotten anything that hasn't gone to everybody else. Many essential workers didn't get any hazard pay of any sorts and those of us that did received a small amount that ended months ago. What's more, because our jobs are deemed essential, we don't get funds for losing hours or for losing our jobs unless we normally would. The end result is that we're effectively working with guns to our heads as we don't get any of the money that others get and still have to pay our bills.
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The US Marshals theoretically are there to enforce warrants and apprehend fugitives. The question is whether or not the judges will issue the warrants and the Marshals will go and actually start hauling folks off to jail. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if they start with the DoJ toads that are coming to court without having done their jobs, as they're in the court and the bailiffs can just drag them downstairs and off to jail.
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@sacredrider The difference is that Hamas stopped pretending to be good guys many years ago, the Israelis still pretend to be innocent victims.
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@pedrocuervo3868 God is clearly trying, but not having the entire country wiped off the globe for being run by war criminals seems to be the most they can ask for.
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If this is the thing that is putting them out of business, they deserve it. This is an approximately 16% difference between them and other businesses. They received a temporary break on it due to the significant increases in the minimum wage. Just increase the price of the food to cover it, or find ways of being less wasteful. They already benefit by being allowed to outsource some of the compensation of the employees to customers, something that many other businesses can't get away with and they're whining about having to pay minimum wage.
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@rasputinspickledpeepee1976 I used to work in a grocery store and there are so many products that you can get to make cooking a lot easier while still being significantly more cost effective than eating out. One of my favorites is to buy a frozen package of noodles and veggies, get some tofu, beef or other protein and a bit of stir fry sauce. The entire dinner is done in a matter of minutes for significantly less than what a restaurant can afford to sell me dinner for. There's also hacks like getting a frozen pizza and adding some goat cheese to it.
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@jhowardsupporter WA hasn't had an income tax in the decades since the first one put into place was ruled to violate the state constitution. Which is a shame because I'd much rather pay a portion of my earnings to the state out of my paycheck and get to deduct some of that from my federal taxes than the current bit where it's incredibly hard to deduct and I have to mentally keep track of how much I'm really going to have to pay when shopping.
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It was voter suppression and a messed up elections. Expecting people to stand in lines for many hours is just ridiculous.
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@CT-td9mt Israel did. I'm not sure why that's so hard for people to remember. This time around, the Iranians are the good guys. They're even the ones that ignored attacks trying to avoid having an unnecessary war break out.
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I'd go on a road trip to pee on their graves.
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The second bomb was probably unnecessary and probably wouldn't have been dropped if lines of communication were better. They wouldn't have been able to surrender so quickly after it was dropped had they not already been planning to surrender. The thing that likely did it was that the Chinese were pissed, the Russians were pissed and the US was capable of absolutely destroying their cities with whatever warning the US cared to give. As in, they were running out of resources and were pinned down too tight to turn things around. Especially with both the Italians and Germans out of the war.
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@andy2641 Yes, and all because the DEA screwed up and failed to notice the opioid epidemic sooner and refuse to allow one of the major factories making one of the stimulant medications to go back to doing that. There were some minor compliance issues, but there weren't missing doses out there as a result, it was stupid BS like failing to write "canceled" along with the line through the line indicating a cancellation. And people aren't having fatal overdoses on Ritalin and adderall in any particularly alarming numbers. Off the top of my head, I can't recall the last time I heard of anybody asserting it as a cause of death.
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In all fairness, the scale of deaths from these inventions is far beyond what could be encompassed in even a very, very long video. We're talking hundreds of thousands and probably millions over the course of nearly a century, and probably more going forward. Considering the subject, it's an appropriate break from the user.
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That and $5 will get you a cup of coffee.
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@kenyattaclay7666 They'll look for bodies in dumps and sometimes other evidence, but that's the government doing it and they only do it if they have reason to think that it has to be done.
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Why would they need a motive? Every year people kill other people without any reason to do so at all. Not having a motive is not something that gets you off the hook for murder.
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@gotafarmyet4691 Clearly it can be done safely, people do it from time to time. The question here would be whether the guy operating the balloon knows how to do it and if he's set up for it.
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@legitdragon6202 It's also kind of a bold assumption to think that the Pope cares about what the Bible says. There's a long history of Popes doing whatever they want and finding a way to sell it. Indulgences and purgatory are not in the Bible.
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My wife's grandfather passed away last year, he was almost 97 and blessed to be in pretty good shape until near the end. .
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Yes, not that he was particularly with it the previous election, it's just that neither party is giving us a choice of somebody that's competent and not batshit insane.
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@holadonkey Yes, but we still need the Democrats as having a single party that agrees on everything is extremely dangerous.
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@AwakenedRaveN Because it's hard to solder when the cat has figured out that that's a source of warmth?
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The oligarchs started the class war, the workers and lower income folks just haven't been able to effectively mobilize to counter it.
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It's pretty clear that government funds can't be used for religious activities. Hence why religious charities that serve everybody equally can receive government funds if it's a secular service.
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@jenniferhampton5171 Yes, if they were erroneously removed, they could have reregistered. A significant portion of the 19m people would also be the result of deaths. There were approximately 2.9m that died in 2019, 3.5m in 2020, and probably numbers in between in 2021 and 2022. So, for there to be 19m people legitimately removed, just by death would be a stretch, but people get removed for being inactive, being sentenced to prison or moving out of state. Most of those groups are able to reregister to vote and a good chunk of that was probably just people that were removed from the rolls for having sat out too many consecutive elections in a row.
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Here in WA, they required us to pick party affiliation on the envelope next to the signature and it has to match with the vote inside on the ballot or they won't count the vote. Tens of thousands of votes will never be counted because of that. There's various reasons why they don't match, included newspaper staff that aren't allowed to select a party affiliation.
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@FilmyMcTelevision Indeed, most of the work is that expensive because a bunch of rich collectors decided to bid it up. The masters are amazing, but are they really that much better than other artists? Probably not, at least not in the last century.
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Actually, what Terra was trying to do is legitimate. That's how currencies that are pegged to a different currency work. The Luna coins are effectively the ones that would be held in reserve to help maintain the peg. You use those units of currency to buy the currency that you've pegged the currency to if you need more of them and sell the currency you've pegged it to for those reserve units when it's flipped. The main differences are that these are crypto currencies for real currency and you typically have a finite amount of currency that can be held in reserve for such situations.. That being said, it doesn't really work very well unless you can generate as much currency as you need to keep things pegged.
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Well, how else are we supposed to get rid of the few pesky men that actually managed to go to college? Right now, they're 40%, but if we keep persecuting them with false rape allegations, perhaps we can get it to the point where it's only women and gay men in college. /sarcasm
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No, racism doesn't require the ability to oppose a whole race. Jesus H Christ, you people are ridiculous. Racism has always meant judging other races by their race rather than by the content of their character. Usually considering them to be lesser because of it. Being in power has absolutely nothing to do with it. That's something that racist people of color think because it completely excuses their own bigotry and ignorance.
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If you're looking for Nanaimo bars, you should be able to pick one up at the bakery of the local Kroger subsidiary.
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Thank God they're doing this, I'd hate to think what would happen if people actually knew what is happening there.
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Only if it survives the current election season. I'm not hopeful that it will survive if Biden becomes the nominee and that's regardless of whether or not he wins legitimately.
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That's a detail that the folks who were up and arms about this didn't know. If they started the show now, there would be little point in casting somebody that wasn't Indian in the part as there would be somebody great who could do it, even if it's just a few days work a season. Back then, there weren't anywhere near as many options
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Considering how much ammo is bought by police departments, I fail to see why the rounds should be interchangeable with ones that do carry actual projectiles other than their intentional to mission creep it into the lethal area. Plus, the amount of ammo that you're talking about is small enough that even a few hundred dollars a shot for completely custom made in a factory that doesn't manufacture live rounds is still pretty reasonable. A robot doesn't need to practice with actual ammo the way that people do. Ordinances and laws do work when they exist. I remember 10 years ago we had a mass shooter on the loose and the police weren't allowed to use traffic cameras to locate him. Sure, it did make for a scary day, but ultimately, it was probably less concerning than allowing the cops to use traffic monitoring gear to keep tabs on people. Some of those traffic cameras have the ability to be remotely aimed, so imagine that.
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It's not worth turning out. Regardless of which candidate wins, the election will be illegitimate. Biden is only the nominee because of rigged voting machines. In some areas the difference between the vote and the exit polls measured into the double digits. If Trump manages to win, it will only because Biden was such a disastrously weak candidate that didn't even have the popular support of his own party and pretty much completely refused to offer the non-voters and progressive voters a reason to vote for him beyond him not being Trump. I forget who said it, but if we're voting for Biden to get Trump out of office, that's going to be done day 1, what about the rest of the term in office?
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Likely, but they may also decide to give the testing to essential workers first, then to others. It would make sense as it would help predict where we're going to have food shortages and the like.
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@redrider7730 I'm not really sure how anybody can consider what casinos do to be theft. For the most part, it's all done in the open, people can calculate the expected value of the attempts they make at winning and in most cases it isn't even that hard to do. And everybody knows that the system is rigged in favor of the house. What they're selling isn't the money you could win, it's the daydreaming about winning that people definitely do.
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The public health officials aren't much better. Grocery and transit workers have to work with the public, but we won't be vaccinated until the summer at the earliest. Here in WA, we're not even on the list that's been published if we're not older or with health conditions until after folks that can stay home are already vaccinated.
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The employees probably know that the device was crushed during the process as the garbage trucks have their own compactors to get as much into the truck as possible. I doubt any of them even bothered to look, given that it doesn't sound like he notified them immediately of the loss of the drive.
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Nobody should be watching that film. If it is intended to prevent sexualization of children, it does a really poor job of it.
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America is massive on a size that is hard to really understand and the trails that used to exist mostly were reclaimed by nature as they don't align very well with the more modern conception of what they're for. The main purpose of trails in modern America is as a way of giving people access to the land in a more concentrated way so that most of it is preserved with as little impact from visitors as possible. There were pre-existing trails, but a lot of them wound up being repurposed into the routes for highways through rough areas of the country or just abandoned.
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@EricHunt And, I wish that weren't the case. Apart from the trails I'm seeing start to pop up that are more accessible to wheel chairs and the elderly, we already have so many that can't be properly maintained that more of them isn't necessarily a good thing.
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Yes, which is why they do it. A universal policy would help more people and offer less of a distraction from the oligarchs that caused the problem in the first place.
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Yep, ecigs themselves were marketed in a dishonest way and were implied to be safer. But, there's a lot of aspects of the devices that should have been evaluated, not just the number of chemicals involved.
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@jellybr3ak That's already a violation of the ToS going back to the first version of the ToS when YouTube was independent of Alphabet.
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I wonder how much of this is the result of over-scheduling the kids in activities combined with a lack of proper literacy education and librarians to find books that the kids want to read while still young enough to build a life where books are a significant part of daily living.
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Ever since they started worrying more about electability than policy, they've run worse and worse candidates. It's hard for me to imagine why I should vote for anybody the major parties are pushing because none of them are actually going to do things to improve my life. Both candidates could have given the American people health care during the pandemic via the provision in the ACA to do so during a pandemic, and they chose not to.
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@LynXthecat1 If he couldn't swim, he wouldn't have been so far out that nobody could get to him in time. Most likely it was a cramp or cold shock, neither of those go away if you know how to swim.
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@ssmith65785 I've seen people that can't float even with air in the lungs. I'm still trying to figure that out, but they were extremely lean.
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@maso4xx That's uncommon, but I have seen it.
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@cmbooks2000 To be fair, Bill Maher's humor is for modern-modern audiences, we simply aren't there yet. But, in 40 years we'll think it's funny. Assuming there's anybody left to laugh at it.
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Why would we? He's a massive hypocrite.
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Of course, but how on earth does that ever get addressed when the courts refuse to hear any of those cases?
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@ericsmith6394 Sure it will, there's little incentive to go with the cheapest labor if you just have to give the proceeds to the government. A large part of why there was such a drive to offshore everything possible is that the taxes were cut to the point where nearly all of the additional profits were being kept by the people deciding to offshore things.
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@CuriousCrow-mp4cx No, the WTO has the power to punish countries for the sorts of policies that i referred to when they're considered trade barriers. So, you get to have the bare minimum of those things in a lot of cases. It's been the case for roughly 30 years that the WTO can punish countries for being too aggressive in terms of addressing environmental or labor issues.
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@anonymous.2471 Nonsense, that is what tariffs are for. Tariff the countries undercutting our factories with unfair competition. Increase taxes on the wealthiest and offset them with incentives to build up the infrastructure. Nothing about this is really that complicated, it's just that the people who own all the businesses don't want to be in a position where labor has any leverage.
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@anonymous.2471 You're not though, this is a bunch of rightwing talking points. We got here via bad tax policy, but somehow tax policy can't push things the other way?
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@JemieBridges So, at that point, just pay folks to engage in hobbies, because there is a reason that "idle hands are the devils playthings" is true even beyond just religious views. People need something to do or create or they get horribly depressed. I've kind of lost track of where I am here due to YT's lack of threading, but I do think that a lot of the disastrously terrible stuff being done by oligarchs is because they aren't actually building anything of value.
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This has been going on for a while now with more and more power being taken from congress and handed over to either the President or SCOTUS.
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@youknow9092 Other countries manage to give their citizens the things that Sanders is promising. Oddly enough, the giveaways to the rich and powerful isn't an issue. Just cutting the military budget back to something reasonable would pay for most of it.
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@Jerome-t9t9 Yes, people need to stop letting Obama and the Democrats off the hook. Obama could have whipped the necessary votes to include a public option, he just didn't really want to include something that would be that audacious. Meanwhile, the Democrats have done basically nothing to address the mistake in the years since.
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It's worth noting that companies used to have "personnel" departments, now it's Human Resources.
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Or, just having mashup of all the crazy stuff that Kamala has said. She's a terrible candidate and if the Democrats want to win, she either needs to be replaced, or they need a new candidate to sit atop the ticket.
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This whole streaming service thing is why I switched back to physical media that I stream over my local network using Jellyfin. Once I got used to how the interface wants my files named and organized, it's a vastly superior experience. Everything on there is something that I might want to watch. It has no interest in keeping me trapped, so the stuff I want is easier to find. I can have it give me the list in whatever order I like, including random, and it tells me what time it's going to be done, if I watch it without stopping midway through. But, the best thing, is that nothing on their changes or disappears unless I want it to and I can have the DVD bonus features right there with the film. It all winds up costing less than a subscription if you use a cheaper streaming box and stream the content from your computer. I think within a year, you're already saving money over any of the Streaming services, depending upon where you buy the discs and how many.
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Bush V., Gore was never constitutional in any reasonable interpretation. It was written because corrupt judges wanted that result. They wouldn't let the Democrats get the time to recount all the votes in the state, but they also wouldn't let them count only those in districts that were affected. It was BS justification, making sure that the votes were counted isn't counting some more than others. And if it's unconstitutional for some votes to count more than others, you could make the same argument about how the electoral college is handled.
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@williambarry8015 I can't say that I disagree, the parties largely agree on all the most monstrous stuff, it's just a matter of whether you're on the team that's pushing for it more aggressively or the party that's rolling back a portion of that and doing nothing when the other party is in control It's more or less the same set of donors funding most of it anyways.
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4.4 generally isn't, but from the video, it appears to have been relatively shallow and right underneath a neighborhood rather than in the middle of nowhere.
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The main issue with that is expense and that you need far more of them to replace the capacity, due to the decreased ability to cool the lines when they're under ground. It can also be somewhat problematic in case of an earthquake, but that's the case no matter what you do, earthquakes tend to take out power infrastructure.
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What gets me about MS Office is that you're forced to use their cloud just to get autosaves. Even if you don't want to save them online or share them with others, you're flat out not able to autosave documents to your desktop.
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And they don't seem to think that it's wrong that women are making such a large portion of the tipped income? That's just over 85% of the tips. Are women really working that many more hours in jobs that have tipping? The problem here is that tips themselves encourage all sorts of abusive practices. It's getting a bit old having people care because it's women, even though so very little is expected out of women. What about the people of color and the LGBTQ community that suffer when bigots withhold tips?
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@P_RO_ Yep, either the city gets dissolved and absorbed by the county, or you get a situation where there's somebody that's assigned by the court to manage things while the funds are paid off. IIRC, that was a big part of what went wrong in Flint Michigan.
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@slee2819 It happens, it's just harder for a larger city to go bankrupt just because there's more opportunities to raise the funds and more municipal stuff that can be put up as collateral. Plus, municipal bonds are commonly tax free, which can make them attractive. But, there does need to be some degree of stability in the area to project future taxes to pay back the bond issues.
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You do realize that the IDF killed the hostages, right?
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@PsychoLingo CI wouldn't, if you want accent free, you need to specifically study the sounds so you hear them. Minimal pair decks with words that are just off by a single sound are how you develop the ability to hear the difference. And, then you have to spend a bunch of time actually working on accent reduction. I don't personally recommend people go too hard on that unless they are young enough to still have time to learn the cultural norms because without an accent, you're expected to behave like a native speaker.
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Possibly, or they could do like the jury did for Getz decades ago and acquit on the most serious charges and then just convict on a couple minor charges. In that case, he was guilty, they just nullified that charge. In this case, it's somewhat less clear as to whether or not Luigi was in fact the shooter. I think he probably is, but there's a pretty significant amount of room for error on the identification due to how that was handled.
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@AT-wl9yq Yes, and even those do fail. I have a DVD from a couple decades ago that won't read due to some sort of failure of the medium, I can see a significant portion of the disc is discolored. That being said, most of the discs I have of that age still read, I just recommend against people assuming they're going to last, because it just takes a little defect in the seal to allow moisture in to corrupt everything. I have a few more recent discs that also fail to read, although the cause is less clear.
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@justincase9471 I've looked into tape drives and none of the ones I've seen look to be meant for homeusers. Most of the ones I was finding were thousands of dollars for the drive, then you have to pay for the tapes you're using.
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It's not really that dumb. Last I heard Seattle's Columbia Center got approved for a significant antenna to be installed which would take the height up over a thousand feet if that were what we were going by. And, buildings could just keep upping their heights by building taller antennae up to whatever point the FAA says no more.
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The kid was given options and didn't like the options that were given. Please don't make this into something that it's not. There's definitely a reasonable argument to be had over whether the options given were the legally, and constitutionally required, options, but she had more options than use the men's restroom or drop out of school.
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@sprybug And yet, trans people somehow managed to survived before the current notions on rights came into fashion. I'm not suggesting that the options she was given were ideal or necessarily sufficient, but she was given options and apparently opted to reject all of them and just stay home.
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@BoringTroublemaker That's a lot less common than you're making it out to be. The only way that would be the case would be for somebody to be spending more than they make on essentials. That definitely does happen, but it's not common and no matter what you do in that situation you're screwed. To not have an emergency fund means that you're either just starting out, or things are already out of hand. Sure, for some people $5 a paycheck is legitimately a lot of money, but even at $1 a month towards the emergency fund, you should be able to break free of payday loans and the like. Sure, it would take years to build up a proper emergency fund, but any emergency fund is better than none.
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Honestly, you'd probably have been better off just dropping it at the nearest shop. I wouldn't personally open a wallet that I found, just because then I'd have to explain if there's any money missing why my fingerprinters were on the contents.
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I've got an ADHD diagnosis, along with likely autism, and I was never able to get mental health services because of how hard it was to access under medicaid. I had to call basically all the providers in the area, few of which were even providing services for ADHD. I eventually found one that would, but the don't make intake appointments, so I had to go down there and wait in a room with a lot of people that had a lot of issues and be overstimulated by the shouting and erratic movements of the folks there. I did get the referral, but I wasn't able to actually use the referral because of what a pain that portion of the process was. And this is in a state that's not actively trying to avoid paying anything to medicare to cover the uninsured. Thankfully, I do now have a job that includes good health coverage, but even there, it was a massive pain involving phone calls in order to get an appointment for service.
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That's different. In the case of Uvalde, that was explicitly part of their job and something that they were both trained for and equipped for. In this case, they did what they were trained for, they called the fire department that is apparently the agency with the dive team. I don't know why that falls to the fire department and not the cops, around here the cops have their own dive team, but that's apparently how it is there. Other than that, without training or equipment, there's no point in jumping in. He was far enough out to drown anybody dumb enough to jump in after him. I don't know why there's no swimming allowed in the lake, but that probably has something to do with what happened. Since they don't appear to have the appropriate gear, we can't know that they wouldn't have thrown or reached something to him given the chance.
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Some of us got sick, but not so sick that we needed medical intervention and got sick before tests were available. I'm hoping for the test so that I know for sure.
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A quieter boom does make it a bit easier to market, but the whole concept made far more sense before the Internet allowed people to do most of the stuff that might need to be done on such an urgent basis online.
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@koownmyo A good dad wouldn't have a kid that was convicted on federal charges.
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Of course, you can, a simple graduated tax system with some of the money taxed from the top given to those at the bottom to subsidize a basic standard of living would do just that. It would disincentivize the hoarding of wealth and opportunity, while giving a boost to those at the bottom. This would allow them to have the room to try and make a go at things that would otherwise be too risky. Income inequality became a problem in the US in large part due to inadequate taxation of those with money.
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T-Mobile may not have a peering agreement with whatever network the phone was connecting to. What makes roaming relatively affordable is that the carriers are often swapping capacity.
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@Nakameguro97 He likely would have just had it discharged in bankruptcy. That's a massive charge without it being secured by anything.
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They should blame Biden, Pelosi and Schumer, they're mainly the ones responsible. I don't agree with blaming the SCOTUS here, they did rule correctly, it's not their fault that the politicians in Congress didn't bother to do anything with the 2 months they were given to address the eviction moratorium issue. The court was pretty clear that it had to be done legislatively, and they didn't even try until it was too late.
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@anobody3803 That's what we learned from 2020, Bernie would have won with a better margin, but they rigged it for Biden leaving us in the present situation.
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We should do like we do in WA. Open primaries, vote by mail and protections against gerrymandering in the form of not allowing partisan districting.
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It's not right. The extremists already have better weapons than what you'd find in Syria and they're mostly using them to commit genocide in Gaza.
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@pecan11 I blame Obama and HRC for that as much as her. Obama should have gotten 2 appointments.
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It's worth noting that if the store manager thought the food was safe for human consumption, it would have been either sold or donated. They get a tax write off for the donation. Grocery stores regularly take items that are still safe, but too old to be sold. Usually somebody from a local food bank will come in a few times a week to take the donations. I realize that it's easier to blame the store, but what happens when somebody gets sick because the food was no longer safe? Just because something hasn't "expired" doesn't mean that it is still safe to eat, most of the time it's fine, but occasionally there's a broken seal that nobody noticed or the like. It's also worth noting that dumpster diving isn't the solution, the solution is for the politicians to get off their brains and actually give people money for food and shelter until the end of the pandemic at the sonest.
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What media bias, you mean sticking to actual facts? It's primarily been the conservative news media making up lies.
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They love Ozempic. You go on that and if you ever stop taking it, you're back to where you started and IIUC, worse than when you started.
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@eraldylli Yes, have people not forgotten that Bernie just stepped aside without making any demands in both 2016 and 2020 and now the current President seems to be completely fine with Israeli forces continuing to commit crimes against humanity.
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IKR, I don't think I've seen that movie in probably 20 years. That scene in particular was awesome. First movie that Mike Myers ever did where he played more than one character.
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Well, thank God that Biden's people put their thumbs on the scale and tried to force another 4 years of him on the people and we got stuck with Trump v Harris as the major party choices.
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It's time for a constitutional amendment that limits the President to nominating people to federal courts that don't come from a list created by a bipartisan, or non-partisan, working group. The President could choose whatever individual they like from that list, but they have to use the list and the Senate has to give the nominee an up or down vote as long as the nominee doesn't withdraw. And while we're at it, puts some sort of term limit in place and requires that the court adhere to some sort of code of ethics.
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@jerm1027 A lot of us don't have the ability to charge at home. I think that if home charging stations were more common, that it would be less of an issue. The longest rides I usually go for are like 160miles and I see that some of the current electric motorcycles can do well over 200miles per charge. So, I do think that we're getting there, and we'll probably be to the point where electric motorcycles are a serious threat to ICE ones within the decades. But, for in town commuters, they make no sense as they can't easily be charged if you haven't got a charger at the parking place and they aren't allowed to use bike lanes and bike paths. Eletric bikes can generally be taken inside to charge and can typically go wherever normal bikes can go, which for in town use is a massive improvement.
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@L0n3W0lfBl4ck In that case, you'd probably want to remove the battery if you can and take that to some place with power. But, it is indeed a massive problem for certain types of riding.
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I'm not surprised, we have an entire system set up to degrade and dehumanize prisoners with insufficient and inadequate measures in place to reduce recidivism. The law and order folks that are pushing it are often times bigger monsters than they claim the folks in prison are.
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That used to be how that worked when fire departments were private. But it sucked and many buildings burned while they fought over payment.
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It's not a requirement that she provide corroborating evidence, that's the job of the federal bureau of INVESTIGATION. She provided more than enough information to come to have a real investigation. We didn't get a real investigation because he's guilty and the GOP wanted plausible deniability. There were dozens of witnesses that were willing to talk to the FBI, but were never allowed to. Not to mention his drinking buddies that wrote that op-ed accusing him of perjury. Perjury alone is sufficient to bar him from taking office, regardless of whether any of the rest of this was true.
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@ Yes, but they didn't use a Tesla when they did it.
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@baronknownot780 Only if the prospective customers have money. Also, advertisers don't get people to buy things they don't need, those products typically do something that the customer needs, it's just that some needs are more durable than others are.
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@techietisdead Possibly, the source I heard was a veteran that CNN interviewed and she looked like she might have flown one of the older ones as she's now retired. People flying the most recent ones are probably still in the service and less free to talk about any of the specifics.
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That would have been a harsher penalty than Trump got for actual contempt of court with all those disparaging remarks he made after just about every day of trial.
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That's part of it, part of it is that the Democrats are useless as an opposition party. Obama could have punished the GOP for refusing to give Garland hearings and an up or down vote. He could have elbowed RBG out, and now Kagan is likely to be the next to die because her health isn't so good. The result could well be a 7 to 2 vote in favor of GOP positions on most issues. Right now the Lincoln Project is literally putting up more of a fight than the Democratic leadership is.
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@ That's a better example, in this case, there is a sentencing range and from what I can tell, the sentence he got is near the top of what a defendant like that can get based on the guidelines.
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He's not smart, the Democrats are just too corrupt to try. They definitely could get him to toe the line from time to time, they just don't want to. They need him to foil the things that they didn't really want to do in the first place.
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Why? If they did that, then there would truly be no point in 3rd party candidates ever running. The main point of 3rd party candidates in the race is to pressure the major party candidates to adjust their messaging and promises. This isn't like a parliamentary system when 3rd and 4th party candidates routinely win elections for major races.
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@asherlito3801 That ony works when there are viable alternatives or at least ones that are acceptable.
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@joepiekl It varies a lot, but a lot of the complaints about big corporations come from the fact that they've got the scale of economy to pay better, they're just choosing not to. Whereas small businesses that do that have fewer options for better treatment. I do think that likely will get a bit better over time as there's more companies that provide things like accounting to many different small businesses which allow for the burden of payroll and taxes to be shared and driven to something closer to what the larger companies pay.
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So, I take it you didn't vote for Harris or Trump then.
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Yes, although in all fairness, most of Idaho isn't that far from WA where abortions are legal. A major problem in states where it is legal is people crossing the boarder to get an abortion. And those that are stuck have to go back to the old school, and super dangerous, coat hangers.
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@ I'm saying nothing of the sort. I'm saying that trying to remain closeted is a ton of work and even minor slip ups can reveal all.
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@jamesmitch9792 Even with the general rigging of the process, Bernie almost won. You can make an argument that he lost and had fewer votes, but nobody is definitely not accurate. There were plenty, it's just there was a bunch of cheating at key points in the races. He won Iowa, but the press didn't report on it until days later.
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Really? Around here the self checkouts at every store that I've been to is about 1 cashier for every 4 machines. Which is often times not enough, but a second cashier would still be a reduction in cashiers for the capacity.
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@MarketsDriveTheWorld It was also extremely difficult to live like that. Hence why people invented better and better tools.
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IKR, but increasingly they're the only option. They're the preferred option for taking over distressed banks that the FDIC seizes and are so large that any time they buy a bank, they need a waiver.
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You're allowed to leave after 10 years of education, given that we're only in May, that would likely only be a few months or possibly an entire year. But, in either case, not that long. Perhaps if we stop coddling everybody and actually taught people how to deal with their emotional state, we'd get better answers. She could have either sucked it up for a few more months or taken the online option and been done with it. The options being provided weren't great, but for such a short period of time, I'm a bit skeptical that they wouldn't have worked, especially since she presumably didn't just wake up and feel this strongly about the situation. Finish the compulsory bit then find a friendly college with a GED program to finish up with. Problem solved without anybody's lives being ruined.
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Don't worry, I've seen recent videos of him, I assure you that he's taking all of the drugs and probably already has all of the diseases.
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That was never a real problem for most people. There just aren't enough files for configuration for that to be a problem.
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@adenmitchell7633 Perhaps the first car, I don't think any of the other ones know that they were stuck behind a street legal go cart.
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This is more blatant than what happens in the other states. Usually they do like UPS does and makes up a questionable excuse to deal with it and shields those making the homophobic complaints. Making it illegal is necessary, but it's hardly enough, firings based upon complaints should involve protections to the party being fired to confront their accuser. Until that happens, there's no protection involved.
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@nsahandler Because somebody has to maintain the building.
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One of the reasons why trails are put in is in order to concentrate the traffic to a narrow corridor that still allows people to get to whatever scenic feature they were trying to go to.
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It's Texas, does anybody really think that she's going to take the state? That would be like people thinking that Trump is going to win NY.
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They did, the delivery services lose massive amounts of money, the restaurants lose significant money being listed and the drivers don't make what they should. The only people that actually have been benefiting from this are the customers. The point of this is to get the 3rd parties out of it if they're not going to pay proper wages.
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@ragingnep Of course, but when a small portion of the population controls such a large chunk of the wealth, it is a massive problem. If it's just everybody advocating for things that benefit them personally, things would tend to even out over time.
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I remember reading a book on intermittent fasting and it was absolutely chock full of references to research studies that had been conducted over the years. One of the issues I have with the anti-fasting view is that if intermittent fasting isn't healthy, and we know that more conventional dieting programs don't work, then what on earth are folks supposed to do in order to maintain a healthy body weight, because exercise doesn't burn enough calories to make a difference either.
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A better use of that time would have been to invent a way of getting the politicians to actually do their jobs.
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The incubator is an interesting design mistake. What they should have done was pick voltages that are used in cars. A heating element that can be powered by 12v and 4.5 amps could be swapped for a car headlight. The turn signal alarms may be fine, but if they put a regular light socket that magically fit a light bulb from a car, a local could figure out how to get that to work with stuff that they have on hand. I'm not personally sure that I would have caught that myself, but there is a difference between designing things that are easily jury-rigged and sending something out that's already been jury-rigged.
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More or less the same way it would affect anybody else. Some of it aligns with the already held delusions in which case it might make it a bit worse and some of it doesn't and likely will just be disregarded. This is more or less the same as anybody else. The main difference is that people with schizotypal have some delusions and mannerisms that don't match with society in general. But, keep in mind that most people have delusions and most people will buy into at least some of that BS you're referring to. People with schizotypal are no different. OTOH, depending upon what kind of therapy they've received, they may have more tools for evaluating and avoiding it, which would possibly change things a bit.
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@user-dy9ux5dc6e That's my main concern with these. I'm just a home user, so I can use whatever I like, but it does make me a little bit nervous using hardware that may have a backdoor wired in.
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Not necessarily. In many cases people don't have time off from work. This is especially true if you don't have a regular doctor and medical care to coordinate the care.
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@julielacaze3253 Yes, but some people spend all that time working multiple jobs. Time to go get vaccinated isn't equally available to everybody. And if you're in a rural area, the nearest clinic vaccinating people might be a long drive.
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@Devon1122 Yes and that's why we should have medical teams going to people's places of business or homes to get everybody that wants to be vaccinated vaccinated,
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How is it any different from the crimes against humanity that Israel commits on a regular basis?
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@JohnMoran That's what's so scary, either way it's going to be a shitshow, Biden will have a team that's able to accomplish things, he might be able to roll them back to where they were following Obama, but even that isn't anywhere near good enough to deserve to be President, things sucked under Obama.
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I'm not afraid, I'm looking forward to it.
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It's a lot easier to do if you've got access to people that are completely ignorant of whatever system you're writing about to try the instructions. It's still not at all easy, but it greatly reduces the likelihood of missing things due to just assuming that people won't do that.
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When I was living in China, I regularly saw what is essentially just the heating element from one of those cheap electric kettles that was available for placing directly into a pot. Didn't seem terribly safe, but nothing about the electrical system over there seemed particularly safe. With the dozens of cables going between electric poles to the sockets that could conveniently accommodate basically every style of plug and more than one at a time too.
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The local paper probably has them digitized. I know that my local paper has digitized archives going back to at least the mid-80s as I looked. I'm not sure when they started doing that, but I know that decades ago, journalists were already using computers and submitting things via modems.
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@Markinfilm yes and because they're inherited, many currently poor families have them.
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@mattwong5403 Except that's clearly not the case when the generals are this incompetent. We've known since Vietnam, and probably earlier, that you cannot win a war on foreign soil without the support of the local population, and you cannot get that support if you're not protecting them from the enemy. 2 opposing armies having at it is not going to guarantee that the locals will take a particular side. We failed in Afghanistan and Iraq because there was never any serious intention of protecting the local population from being annihilated by the enemy. There were never enough actual personnel on the ground to do the job, nor was there any interest in drafting more to make it so. Ultimately, Iraq has fared somewhat better, but mostly because the Shia were able to slaughter enough Sunni to reduce the internal strife, which is probably not what the people planning the invasion were expecting as they didn't do anything at any point to prevent or address it. In Afghanistan, the fall was swift in large part because we were paying one side to fight with the Taliban and that was the only reason they were fighting. They didn't particularly want what we wanted them to want. At least not in numbers large enough to field a large enough military to stop the Taliban from seizing control almost immediately. The best trained military in the world should have competent people from top to bottom and the US military definitely does not, the higher you go, the less competent you're talking. Most of the conflicts we've been embroiled with over the last couple decades are the direct result of incompetence at the DOD and our intelligence agencies.
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If you live by a gun range, it's your own fault and the fault of your community for not requiring that they use enough sound suppressing materials. Gun ranges receive far less regulation in terms of health and safety than they need. They can keep the sounds inside the range if they want, the problem is that in some areas they're allowed to have them outside or to have insufficient sound absorbing materials to keep the sound in the range.
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It kind of irritates me, but dogecoin is dog e-coin or doggie coin. I'm not sure where people get that other pronunciation from.
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That's what I'm wondering. This continued insistence on cramming bad candidates down my throat is a large part of why I don't vote for Democrats. I won't vote Republican either because they keep running bad candidates where I live.
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Honestly, do you think that if a student that was being bullied just stopped showing up at school, they'd get a different result? This isn't about her being trans, it's about her not getting the legally mandated education. Whether the options provided for dealing with the restroom situation were sufficient or not is a separate matter.
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It would be harder, but who even knows how to order drinks at Starbucks with all the crazy invented words they use.
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@watamatafoyu In some more woke areas, it can be hard to get the police to respond to things that aren't. Especially if they think the issue can be resolved in civil court. Around here the prosecutor wouldn't prosecute anybody for small amounts of pot or for only stealing a little bit. It leads to a lot of problems when word gets out that as long as you don't steal too much at any given time that you won't face any consequences.
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We've been voting by mail for years, the only people that vote in person have certain disabilities. It works well, but voting is still lower than it should be.
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@ThomasBomb45 Beyond a point yes, but if it's too slow it can be a safety hazard as it can be hard to get on the freeway or out of the way if something is coming up behind you too quickly. But, it is heavily dependent upon how the vehicle is geared as well as the actual engine.
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That's true, but if you synthesize what they say, you can get rather smart.
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@BSuydam99 IKR, here in Seattle, the Columbia Center is built in a similar style and looks just as good. That was a fairly standard style for decades.
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It's not working because banks like Chase refuse to issue charge backs to companies that fail to get the customers consent before renewing. They're already supposed to notify you before the charge is made. This just makes it easier to cancel.
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@GEOMETRICINK Yes and unfortunately, when gerrymandering is banned, it can take 20-30 years to see any impact from it. Here in WA, we changed the way districting was done in the early '80s and the changes that resulted are still working their way through. The first new set of maps were produced in 1992.
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@edwinsoto6932 Not really, 10-15 seats is a drop in the ocean compared with the seats lost by their refusal to run on policies that are popular to voters and then failing to make any sort of meaningful attempt at delivering. Just this last cycle, Biden refused to give student loan relief, shorted everybody on stimulus checks and hasn't done anything to get us all health care coverage. They won't even give us free covid testing.
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@edwinsoto6932 Or they could, you know, try to push policies that are popular with the voters. The GOP stances on most issues are unpopular, and I mean really unpopular, they only win elections because the Democrats refuse to run on popular measures and then actually follow through on any of it.
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You sir are why we have Trump as President. Who wins is about policy, if you're voting on the basis of somebody being a winner, then you are the reason this country is so messed up.
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Not that she's to blame, but this is part of why it's worth driving a little further to give the officers a safer place to park. That being said, I doubt she'd thought that they would be so incompetent as to not just park on the tracks, but to not move the vehicle as soon as she was in it.
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@earphonejack4593 Exactly. One of the issues with voting lately is that there often times isn't a candidate to vote for that has any of the resources to win.
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This is parkinson's, it's not going to get better and he's in office for 4 more years if he's reelected. He's a danger right now, just imagine what's going to happen over the next 4 years if nobody is willing to exercise the 25th amendment.
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To be fair, the school is also clearly a major factor here as well. But, she's not making herself look good by being this generally ignorant about what's going on with her son. The report cards alone should have been a clue that he wasn't on track to graduate.
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@mattk6101 Perhaps the DNC should have thought about that when they decided to all get behind the only candidate in the race with dementia. I might have been able to hold my nose and vote for one of the other candidates, but definitely not Joe. Every election cycle, the only reason to vote blue is that the blue candidate is slightly less horrible than the red one.
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Car drivers pay most of the cost of the roads, if we stopped taxing cars to pay for roads there'd probably be less complaining about it.
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@nicokelly6453 Or just remember that bikes are allowed on the sidewalks and be smarter about what sections of roads they're allowed on. I've seen far too many cyclists riding at 2mph tops up a steep hill when there's an equally steep sidewalk just feet away and jamming up the entire road in the process.
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@user-wq6de6jb2i That's misleading everybody uses those streets for vehicles either directly or indirectly. And the car drivers have additional fees related to maintaining those roads as well.
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