cautiouspesimist.bsky.social
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Do those interlocking grid pieces happen to have a surface that works with a wet erase marker (i.e. marks without smudging and will wipe off) Or are they a porous foam?
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His moron friend itching for violence will hear the shot, hear him scream and stumble and fire at wherever they think it came from (the crowd probably). Contagious shooting then takes over.
Doesn't sound lucky.
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In this context private means not state owned. Public school versus private school. Public broadcaster versus private broadcaster. Public land versus private land. Etc.
Not the details of share trading and oversight.
Which can be confusing with since the term is overloaded.
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So raising tax rates is good now?
Also, maybe take a closer look at the graph and try not be off by 100000% next time.
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I'm not a cautious pessimist. Usernames are meaningless, as are avatars. Why would I spend even a second thinking about either one?
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That wasn't the argument. The argument was storm troopers shoot bad haha.
Maybe you want the other part of the thread?
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I dont think its a scout handbook. And the crusaders weren't brown people when the Turks used suppressive fire against them at Dorylaeum. I don't think the concept is restricted by skin color at all in fact.
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You are very bad at judging people. Don't let that stop you of course, it is entertaining.
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I'm not horny for American Exceptionalism. Words have meanings though, and if you call soldiers shooting over the heads of other soldiers terrorism you have removed all the meaning of the term.
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You are certainly dping your part in making the word terrorism meaningless.
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Suppressive fire isn't supposed to hit people - it's supposed to make those people stay in cove, keep their heads down, and not be able to shoot back or observe.
But yes living up to the stormtrooper name is certainly committing to the firing on your own civilians bit.
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Have fun finding a curious expert, but not someone who knows physics since it's not a physics experiment, to check the math (you know the actual work).
If the physics doesn't matter why on earth did you not pick a field you are an expert in (or are working with an expert in) for the domain?
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What do you think the most common sentence was from the Nuremberg trials?
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It helps Americans. Sure fascists want to justify their violence, but its the mistake they can't learn.
People will die, but overreach is what ends fascists. Enough people realize they are "the other" and America is a well armed populace.
It's "how I defeated fascism with the power of love" 101.
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Humans at oil companies saw the data that CO2 was causing global warming. They decided to spend money to surpress that fact knowing it doing so would likely kill millions of people. So they could make more money in the short term.
How exactly is that not intentionally destroying the earth.
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Oil companies and tobacco companies knew their product would kill people. Both intentionally and actively hid and suppressed that information. Gave money to politicians to not act to protect people. Propagandized false information. To make more money. I put that in the intentional evil basket.
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You could read the article?
You know the one linked that says they are arrested not taken to a support program. So they get to sleep in jail instead of at a homeless shelter.
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No way he makes that. He won't be make the 2028 window let alone 2026.
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If it was a mirror the text on the wall would be mirror imaged (or if the whole image is the text not in the mirror would be).
Bit I certainly saw it as a mirror at first glance.
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He was the president two years earlier, so clearly it would not have because it factually didn't.
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Filler words and pauses have nothing to do with knowing or not knowing grammar.
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That's not wierd terrorism.
That's basic going postal for a youtuber.
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Giving $38 billion dollars to Tesla to reduce CO2 emissions and bootstrapping a billionaire's assault on science, welfare, and democracy seems a worse outcome than say housing the homeless.
In this hypothetical world where CO2 emissions are not bad.
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Your source does not support your claim. I'd put that in the lying category too.
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There'd certainly be less people suffering in el-salvadorian prisons.
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So a Google search but with the chance for some extra made up stuff snuck in?
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Why do you feel they would want make fewer sales and add more friction?
Click here to pay $13 or click this other button to open a browser widget and pay $10.
Why would they remove an option that allows people to use whatever credit they already have in the apple system?
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Its 1.5% of the military aid they fast-tracked to Israel, its not a meaningful cut for budget purposes.
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I didnt critize your choice in the slightest.
You did however say "you can definitely overdraft with an ATM card if you make a withdrawal before something posts to the account". Which is simply false (unless you opt-in which I'd already mentioned.
www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blo...
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If you tell your bank to let you overdraft, sure.
But if you don't, and why would you?, you can not overdraft. The transaction will just be declined.
There is not "time to post" it's a real time transaction - if the funds aren't there the transaction will be declined.
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How? It takes them 3-5 days to fulfill the order. And then you pay for shipping.
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If you don't write checks and don't use direct debit you can't overdraft with a debit card.
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Salesforce bought slack.
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Clearly if you are getting an AI to summarize them, they shouldn't have been so long.
Is that not obvious?
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So no answer to what it achieves?
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Of course they won't. They'll just make life a little bit worse, with the occasional instance of making it truly miserable.
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What does it achieve?
Emails are either short or have important information to be read or aren't read at all (no need to summarise).
If an email is sent that needs summarizing the sender should summarize it, rather than every recipient having an llm generate a different summary.
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That's not the middle. That's some from one, some from the other, some outside of them.
The list is stupid, but "in the middle" has a meaning and implies that the list actually presents a valid range that one could be between.
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What is the middle of "capitalism cannot be reformed" and "capitalism can be reformed"
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Because people will pay extra for it?
Because most food marketed as nutritional don't use as many preservatives and hence have shorter shelf lives?
Bananas, carrots, onions, broccoli are not generally more expensive outside shortages (ans tariff wars)
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That's what the system "thinks" you "want" to see. Note it doesn't actually think, and want is often enough makes you angry enough to interact with.
But art galleries are a better place than bluesky to judge contemporary art - given your general claim about artists in general.
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If that's what your seeing either that's what you are looking for or you are inept.
Contemporary art i see us nothing like that.
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Doesn't need to be. Advantage is so easy to get that there's really no downside to adding a "come up with something vaguely cool and you can roll to get advantage for no action cost". In 5e at least.
Saves everyone having a darn familiar with fly-by ;)
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That is not US debt works. If China "cashes out" they sell the bonds to someone else, nothing changes for the US. The coupon schedule stays the same, the maturation date stays the same. There is no refinancing.
It would make future bonds and note sales harder.
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Is Mercury a rocket?
It's a program. It's a spacecraft. But the rocket was the Atlas and the Redstone (and the Little Joe I guess).
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Phillips, Palmer, Bloomberg, O'Malley, Lessig? It's not like the 45-55 year old white guy field is empty.
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The Republicans certainly don't run 45-55 year old guys, so that seems a ludicrous reason. W Bush and next most recent Nixon... that's slim pickings.
Whereas, over the same period dems have McGovern, Carter, Dukakis, Clinton x2, Gore, Obama x2 in the 45-55 bracket.
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There was no due process, who knows if he already has...
But yes, on purpose is certainly coming. Dark times
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The mRNA has the instructions to make the antigen taken from the cancer. Same as covid vaccines being the instructions to make part of the covid spike protein .
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... -not pancreatic but the same concept.
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That type of research is massive risk and very low chances of massive reward. Private companies can't absorb the risks - they'll stick to the safer stuff and just not do the risky stuff. They don't care about the public good after all.