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What good is it to sing helplessness blues?
Dad, husband, dubious Lutheran, former evangelical, IAM architect, cyber-security consultant, clock enthusiast, northern lights chaser, latent photographer. Probably disagrees with you about AI.
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In the original series, it was “no man”, which you could interpret as “humanity”. In TNG, they changed it to “no one” for gender equity, but that made it nonsensical as you note.
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It’s the Second Ukraine Extortion, even. He’s already been impeached for the first one!
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In both cases, I’d rather not wait the 15 years for justice to catch up
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This article is from 2021.
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www.msn.com/en-ca/news/p...
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MSN: www.msn.com/en-in/politi...
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On this note, if you haven't read "Expecting Better" by Emily Oster, I highly recommend it. Super good.
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I get the impulse. They're signalling allegiance to a movement which gets all the far-right militia type excited. And, also, at the same time, they're also trolling "the libs" because they think it's funny.
But you're absolutely right. It's a distinction without a practical difference.
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Lake Superior or Michigan somewhere?
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It's because the interchange from this angle gets so much anti-corporate mockery online
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They're de-funding VOCATIONAL training?
In an attempt to make their country better?
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I’ve always defending Musk’s right to run X whatever way he wants to. But he is no longer just a businessman running a software platform. He is a public official exercising government authority. That changes the rules of the game.
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There was a week in 2021, back when a family member having Covid meant you all had to quarantine, where my son's fairly large preschool had two remaining healthy teachers and about a dozen kids. It felt post-apocalyptic walking him down the dark hallways to his classroom.
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Anybody can propose legislation. It's a good way to make a lot of media noise.
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Being right too early is indistinguishable from being right by chance
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Because you TOTALLY asked for this… and MapQuest has NOTHING better to do…
We’ve granted you exclusive access to a place very dear to our heart: gulfof.mapquest.com
Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘
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Depends on if they mean 8% of the current value, or 8% of the new smaller value each year. If it's 8% each year, it's 29% by 2029.
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It's implausible that hundreds of thousands of public figures and tens of millions of voters kept the "mask" on for decades. It changed.
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Really? I feel like we've been getting like hourly updates on how he's doing.
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Sorry, I'll be more entertaining...
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That one has an easy answer: it's technically under the US Digital Service. But that raises a further mystery! The head and acting heads have resigned. Who is the head of the USDS? Nobody knows!
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Check, check, check
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Being doomsday-prepper-lite, I've been doing this for years.
What would you be your choices?
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Wait, how do you link mid-comment?
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These sorts of races also aren't as individual as we'd like. We've seen how easy it is for people's opponents to paint the entire set of incumbents with the strong opinions of one or two members. In Brighton specifically, it's a liability for the Dems to be overtly pro-Palestine.
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This feels like a “print and post flyers all over” sort of timeframe.
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I remember reading this kind of description from people who lived through totalitarian states. All talk was political. Yeah they’re usually violent and awful, too, but first and foremost, they’re all-consuming - total.
Possibly it was Hannah Arendt?