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was8309
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  1. "...so many FBI agents at the Jan 6" citation? thanks
  2. maybe i'm doing a No True Scotsman, but i can't see where the Left has ever been against the poors. I thought the the origin of the terms Left and Right was For Democracy (the poors have a voice), and For the King (the wealthies) from the French Revolution. How is 'wealthies vs poors' different from left vs right'?
  3. I think police may not mind Waze, they may care more about drivers that are truly dangerous and are fine with filtering out hose that are signalling that they are paying attention and showing respect by slowing down when police are present
  4. one word missing "White" - White Christian Nationalists. not sure who would take that as an insult and who refers to themselves as such
  5. this is my confusion also - it sounds like they are conflating "modify and sell" with "modify and consume"
  6. the oil industry
  7. what if the 'too much' amount is the result of a vote?
  8. cobol is trivial to learn. the problem is that the core of old systems were written even before 'Structured Programming' and anything like reviewing and enforcing design standards. there is alot of 60 year old, currently running 'mission critical' cobol, some of it is inscrutable and unmaintainable, while some of it is so simple and elegant that it'd be a great way to teach a 10 year old about programming.
  9. i wish i could upvote this 100 times. like an cop walking into a bar full of criminals. any criminal that has to ask someone what to do won't last long.

    plus they can actually be enemies. two guys in a beef about who owns a dog can chain up the dog and fight it out. the dog remains owned

  10. either it works on customers, or it works on business people - by duping them into spending alot of money ever since Edward Bernays. projected to be a trillion a year 2025
  11. maybe it sounds like no protection from predation?
  12. sorry for late comment, but the problem is clearer to me when considering it as resource control, rather than 'wealth'. Earning $60k gives you control of barely nothing. It would take 10's of millions of dollars just to have any effect on a small US city. It's a football field with 9995 people stuffed in an endzone and 5 people controlling the rest of the field.
  13. sometimes a T is included - yintz
  14. back then I chose prism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Prism because the user wanted a local app and I only wanted to work with the most ubiquitous UI. was lightweight and wish it was still available
  15. is it ok to ask why this is being flagged? I don't know much about cybersecurity, is the article inaccurate or somehow bogus?
  16. and a tool to squash or expand the hierarchy helps alot. jEdit can fold/unfold based on indentation. along with simple prefixes : '-' for info, '>' for todo, '= {date}' for done, etc
  17. because of the rates of physical abuse of men against women vs vice versa?
  18. i just don't want another gas only car, and so will deal with some inconvenience.
  19. by south hills, guessing you mean the Mon Valley?
  20. how is social democracy more authoritarian than capitalist democracy?
  21. actually when the vaccine first came out, no one knew of or talked about long covid (no idea why I cant just edit my reply)
  22. the message was : 1) you're less likely to get covid if you are injected 2) you're less likely to need to go to the hospital if you are injected 3) when the vaccine first came out, no one knew of or talked about long covid
  23. pgh in the hause!
  24. I wanted this for a long time. Like you right click and get a choice of discussion, explanations, or clarifications, etc. I haven't studied Xanadu, but there just has to be something that does this out there already
  25. > 'is like expecting women not to be afraid at night'

    some women that I am afraid of would like a word :)

  26. I'm very interested in the recent origins of this playbook. 'never apologize, never explain' is really old, but it seems to be a thing now
  27. are you saying that Ukrainians want more than to just not be invaded?
  28. android 11 asks me if i want to charge only or also allow data transfer. Is it that we can't trust android to be not be hacked just by checking if data pins exist?

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