DemocracyFTW2

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by DemocracyFTW2 7d ago
> I don't think stealing $20 makes the local news these days https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_Emmely Got fired because she redeemed two orphaned bottle deposit slips worth 1,30€ (in 2009, so more like 1,50€ i
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by DemocracyFTW2 9d ago
> The only difference with Trump is that he says things out loud. The only problem with Flat Earthers is that they say things out loud. Also, grabbing other people by their **ies.
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by DemocracyFTW2 9d ago
> Europe can have a Starlink similar network Please don't, this is madness.
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by DemocracyFTW2 10d ago
Reading the Wikipedia article on the Equal Earth projection it would seem the map used in the resolution indicates national boundaries.
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by DemocracyFTW2 10d ago
To be fair you either produce a globe that faithfully reproduces the geoid (a sphere should do for most cases) or you'll always distort something on the map: angles, areas, distances. And then there's the question of the overall m
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by DemocracyFTW2 11d ago
"""As the only country to vote against the resolution, the United States said the Equal Earth projection pushed an "ideological agenda" and distracted attention from "genuine problems of international peace, pr
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by DemocracyFTW2 25d ago
This is tantamount to saying that the Egyptians from the 18th Dynasty onwards did have horses but no black or white ones because while the historical records concerning warfare did mention horses a lot, nowhere is there a mention of black o
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by DemocracyFTW2 26d ago
> If you need an LLM to interpret 2 short sentences, here is what it thinks sick burn
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
> entitled leftie thing ("Elon Musk should pay for my Instagram!") At least ever since Musk syphoned billions of dollars from the government, then illegally intervened in elections at home and abroad, then went on to destroy US
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
> Democracies don't handle nuance well. Failing democracies don't handle nuance well.
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
> I accused you You did not.
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
You can mock the grammar of "only colonialism when boats", but AFAIK when the Soviet Union accused some Western power of engaging in colonialism and got "well, you have your Central Asian dependencies" as an answer, they
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
> where it is not really a good fit due to concurrency I'm the first to admit that concurrency is and always has been a point of contention in SQLite. But, on the other hand, when your concurrency problem is "we have to co-ordi
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
As someone who cycled to school and back in a pancake-flat landscape, it often did feel like you were up against the wind in both ways. I swear the winds just waited for me, in the morning and the afternoon.
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
I'm not saying they didn't have a good or bad reason to do what they do, what I'm saying is this is akin to paying someone to paint the walls and suddenly you find out they're reconfiguring your smartphone. A tad too int
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
"HN"?
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
> It also feels different from say the optional (and way lower priced seat reservations in German ICE's) One has to add that most of the time when you buy a single ticket in Germany you have to (pay through the nose and) buy a ticke
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
Yeah, complains about stale too-warm air on the train and complains about staff airing the train during stops. This way you can't lose an argument either way.
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
> allows unlimited rail travel within one participating country, excluding the holder’s country of residence One of the things that always bothered me because it's such an arbitrary rule and has hugely different effects for people f
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
Yeah I mean the whole "OMG I have to pre-order my vegan meals??!" thing. Back in the day we had to WALK to school and when on a trip we brought along our hard-boiled eggs and meatballs wrapped in aluminum foil.
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
> Adobe started silently updating my /etc/hosts file This has indeed things like "!!1! MALWARE !!!!" written all over it.
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
Sounds all fine and right until "China is investing in infrastructure without interfering with local politics". Bru-ha-ha. What a zinger.
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
regarding your objection to 'metal'—technically that wasn't a 'dialog' but a 'monolog(ue)'.
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
except it's not so much about do stuff and build things, it's about literally raping the planet, extorting and exploiting everyone including retirement savings, and also to "move fast and break things" which we know unde
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by DemocracyFTW2 2mo ago
> disagreement with the founder’s politics Are you talking about the guy who did a double-down Nazi salute to celebrate Trump winning the election?
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by DemocracyFTW2 3mo ago
Probably preaching to the choir here but anyways: how much is one trillion? If you were to get your dream job where they promise you a pay of 1$ per second, 24/7: * You'd have earned 3,600$ after the first hour, and 86,400$ by the
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by DemocracyFTW2 3mo ago
If you were right it would still be wrong to solve the bigger equation by first cancelling the good things that trickled from the US GDP in the general direction of people whose lives are on the line, many of them children. And this is exac
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by DemocracyFTW2 3mo ago
Share your sentiment, but in this case the https://electrek.co article mentions Ziroth / Ryan as source of the information, and I'd guess (not seen the video though) as original research it carries enough weight to war
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by DemocracyFTW2 3mo ago
So what you're saying is basically we should stop implementing reasonable measures as a government because there will always be a Ronald Reagan or Maggie Thatcher who will dismantle it out of spite, greed, or both? Surely if we never d
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by DemocracyFTW2 5mo ago
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