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Have you seen this
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It's not illegible, but I do think the American insistence on machine-readable fill-in-the-bubble ballots makes for a much worse, much more difficult to comprehend ballot design than the Australian style, where you just write the numbers 1,2,3, etc. next to the candidate names.
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I think I would probably enjoy it. The appeal to me would be being able to do flips and such.
It strikes me as vaguely parkour-ish (also cool) except with maybe less risk of injury, plus badly failing an aerial silks move as a beginner probably looks less pathetic than badly failing a parkour move
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In England, at least, I believe gov't use of cameras pointed at e.g. someone's front door to observe comings & goings is considered "directed surveillance" that needs specific advance authorisation.
But there are still private cameras that can be seized, ambient surveillance in public places, etc...
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it's the mouse's sick sense of humour
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the problem with artificial intelligence is what it does.
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There are good movies of each of these kinds imo
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Some of Paramount's directors are worried that settling giving President Trump $15 million to settle his lawsuit and maybe smooth the way to his administration's approval of their merger could expose them to criminal liability for bribing a public official.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Are you reading "Sheev" as a form of "Joseph" here
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The furniture store I worked at had this one mix CD they'd play over and over. I got so sick of "Unwritten".
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Bald
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What would the movie be that combines what you dislike most about each of them
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I haven't seen the new season but in the first one I disliked that they several times concluded things by tricking the bad guy into confessing on tape. Got repetitive.
My fave ending was the racecar one where the bad guy "got away with it" but Natasha Lyonne psyched him out and gave him the yips.
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Wear earplugs to concerts
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Pontifex letterboxd account when
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Did you hear that his brother said he (the Pope) watched the movie shortly before attending the actual event so that he would "know how to behave"
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are you familiar with the new guy? He's from Chicago
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I may have context for this! Last night WPBT in Palm Beach broadcast the 1979 Clint Eastwood film "Escape from Alcatraz."
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Always concerned about becoming evil when I think about this, seems like that's a common side effect.
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Wait...
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Not sure if I missed an Attack of the Clones rerelease between when they did the Phantom Menace and now, but I guess I will have to watch that on the TV before seeing RotS.
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If you were trying to write the trinity into an allegorical fairytale, how would you do it? Seems kind of tough tbh...
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Who would you do. Henry VIII?
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Do you agree with this take:
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A society can provide a certain quality of life for the future non-working population (incl. retirees) based on how much that society produces at that future time. State pension schemes and private saving schemes are just different methods of accounting for this; they don't change that brute fact.
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You're missing something.
The "Social Security = Ponzi scheme" argument is "without a stream of new workers to pay in, SSI can't pay out".
But imagine everyone had a big 401k and *everyone* retired. What would they buy with their money? Nobody's making any food. You need a stream of new workers!
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An individual person can stop working and live on savings (if they have enough savings).
An entire society cannot stop working and live on savings. They won't be able to use the savings to buy anything, because there will be no work being done to make things for them to buy.