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Cis straight borderline-elderly middle-class white man.
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my serious answer to that is hard for me to articulate but it relates to Miller's profound dedication to the cult of white supremacism via creation of an authoritarian state.
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There are legal arguments for that, but he'd have a good chance of beating them in court.
Elephant in the room is volunteer-SA hunting down his family to do them harm.
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“I’m apolitical” I say, sitting at the cash register of my store that sells t-shirts with political slogans on them
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D'oh. Yeah that would make more sense; I didn't pick up the mirror frame artifacts.
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Is there something on those things that HASN'T been recalled yet?
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IIRC Elon didn't want to have any wiper at all - had some weird fantasy about it not needing them or something because of special glass?
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Pontiac had a minivan some years back that had 2 wipers mounted so they swung up to the outside like that. It looked very disconcerting, but I gather it worked OK. (Resting position was down.)
But TBC Cybertrucks have only 1 wiper, swinging up & to the right, apparently.
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True story: the first time my wife saw one, she said 'hey is that somebody's home-build project?'
She was totally serious, barely knew they existed.
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random aside: why is the wiper on the PASSENGER side of the front windscreen, leaving around 25% of the DRIVER SIDE front windscreen covered with snow/rain?
Seems like someone didn't think it through. Like maybe they didn't understand how to make cars.
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I lapsed on these about 3 books back, keep meaning to catch up but my to-read pile is DEEP.
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Ed, once again I appreciate your willingness to just let it all hang out. Many people share similar experiences, you're helping to validate what's been valuable about tech for so many of us.
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I grant you may have correctly identified the INTENT of some actors.
You need to also look at the actual result, & remember that:
1. The Trumpists trying to pull this off are not very bright.
2. It has worked less often for Russians than they like to admit.
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Sorry if this feels repetitive but I've made corners that big before & backed off of them because they affected me physically. It might be a thing with my eyes (retina damage), but if I were a Mac user I might have to stop because of this design.
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so if the radius is tighter, I can still parse it as a corner - but if the radius gets larger, I start to parse it as a new (curved) edge?
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Also I would love to understand why the additional radius on those corners is literally (& I literally mean 'literally') making me queasy.
I'm not even currently a Mac user & it's queasing me out.
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Also their skin & the outer layers of their flesh were often permeated with bony nodules. (Believed to have evolved to deter large predators - made them hard to eat. Humans are known to have butchered them but I don't know how common it was.)
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Their teeth aren't technically especially sharp, but they're more than pointy enough to punch right through a person (or lion, or crocodile), all of which they kill & often eat in the wild).
Yeah, they're mostly herbivores, but apparently are happy to opportunistically eat meat if presented to them.
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My problem with a lot of these things is they presuppose governing documents stand or fall on their logic.
What they stand or fall on is whether people are willing to uphold them. That's it.
Of course there are logical inconsistencies. It's a human-made document. They're unavoidable.
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I mean I guess it depends on what one thinks a Constitution does. Obviously we have one. Is it effective? Clearly not.
Kind of like how one can have a car that's liable to break down if you try to drive it more than a couple blocks or at more than local road speed.
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"Unfortunately they kept eating their riders."