QuarterReptile

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by QuarterReptile 9d ago
In my experience (I have a 2015 TV that's been EOL'ed by anyone doing apps for TVs) streaming services are increasingly not allowing chromecast, instead requiring you to log in on the TV. I cancel those services... but I recognize
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by QuarterReptile 2mo ago
It's maybe more maddening when you realize it was part of Intel getting completely out of memory, so that stings a bit. On the other hand, Intel needed focus rather than the multi-pronged MBA-driven mediocrity they'd been pursuing
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by QuarterReptile 5mo ago
The overnight fix, to be perfectly clear, would require illegal firing of federal judges and getting rid of the filibuster, just to start fixing.
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by QuarterReptile 5mo ago
Deficit spending is one place where the major parties are in complete agreement. So it just wastes political capital, unless you see Thomas Massie somehow amassing a majority of Congressmen interested in his issues.
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by QuarterReptile 5mo ago
I think, despite all the furor whipped up and attempts by high-ranking officials to foment a coup, the military is actually very unlikely to disobey Presidential orders; this is based on my frequent interactions with military officers over
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by QuarterReptile 5mo ago
In fact, the current administration, not headed by someone from the military (and VP has military credibility but not leadership) is not at all aligned to the military except in that their base appreciates the imprimatur of honorable milita
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by QuarterReptile 5mo ago
Your "brighter kids" probably did their reps already, when you weren't watching. My 4 year old likes to quiz me on addition and subtraction at the dinner table -- two years from now, in some school, it'll look like he &#
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by QuarterReptile 5mo ago
For a long time, college education was the easiest way to legally discriminate against applicants. The signal is weakening and the expense of exhibiting the signal has skyrocketed.
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by QuarterReptile 5mo ago
The school system is going to crash out in the US. The public school teachers will readily share symptoms ("enrollment going down", "2X the IEPs of 3 years ago", "non-verbal ipad kids", "kids only sleeping
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by QuarterReptile 5mo ago
Compared to what, and measured by what?
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by QuarterReptile 5mo ago
On the other hand, healthcare administration headcount has grown over 1000% since 1970, and few things grow as fast. Feels like plenty of runway.
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by QuarterReptile 5mo ago
I think Maryland deserves a special shoutout. It's illegal, and not just in a CPS-steamrolls-your-rights-and-family sort of way, for an 8 year old to be left with children <13. Growing up, I think many girls had ended their babysi
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by QuarterReptile 5mo ago
We have a regulatory regime that requires that SUVs be bigger each year. It saves the environment that way.
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by QuarterReptile 5mo ago
>dollar is an entirely fictional unit and trillions of it can be manufactured at no cost If the abstraction works better for you this way, call them interchangeable units of American and Chinese insolvency. Or incremental forfeiture of d
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by QuarterReptile 5mo ago
FTA: China
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by QuarterReptile 5mo ago
I think OP needed "emergency service is cash up front". In a different domain, this is the painful lesson of almost anyone who tries to help people in a bind -- you can try to help, but yours is unlikely to be the advice that sets
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by QuarterReptile 6mo ago
You're more than 5 layers down in a day-old thread; there's no one else here. Just me talking to you and you, as I now understand, talking to no one.
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by QuarterReptile 6mo ago
Ok, I'll be clear too. I think your questions are meant not to seek answers, but as aspersions, and I am skeptical that any evidence, overwhelming though it might be in other cases, would satisfy you in this instance. Iran is exception
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by QuarterReptile 6mo ago
>You know the one about extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence? I will give you the benefit of the doubt on asking for these claims, but you should consider what burden of proof you are asking for: constant political sloga
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by QuarterReptile 6mo ago
Their idea of "martyrdom" is killing people who disagree with them. Not, "it can be ok to kill people who disagree with you once it reaches the point of war," but, " these people's forebears didn't listen
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by QuarterReptile 6mo ago
I agree that the quantity of tattoos on the SecWar is appalling.
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by QuarterReptile 6mo ago
North Korea was able to get nuclear weapons because we didn't want the carnage of artillery bombardment to Seoul that would have been the retaliation, had we stopped them. Iran was close to achieving that same thing with ballistic miss
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by QuarterReptile 6mo ago
I wonder how much of this can be attributed to breaking the ATC training/hiring pipelines back in 2014. https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...
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by QuarterReptile 6mo ago
No, that is incorrect. I disagree that my comment draws that equivalency, not least of all because claiming "as big a deal" is to make a comparison between two radically different concerns between fairly different groups, which co
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by QuarterReptile 6mo ago
Diego Garcia is an island of exceptional strategic importance to the West. When it eventually gets granted to a client state of China, that will steadily degrade the effectiveness of bases there. I expect slower movement than the time the U
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by QuarterReptile 6mo ago
>If your threat model includes the USA government then you can only go with obscurity, honestly Or move to Russia. Not recommending, just saying
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by QuarterReptile 6mo ago
And that's pretty much the thread. You're either subject to a large power's jurisdiction or subject to a jurisdiction whose sovereignty is at the pleasure of large powers... Pick a threat model, plan appropriately, and keep t
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by QuarterReptile 6mo ago
The Diego Garcia stuff is a very, very big deal. I think it's unreasonable to draw the comparison between the exceptionally short-sighted Brits and the uncommonly prudent Danes. But hypothesizing Trump Tower Thule as the motive is ridi
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by QuarterReptile 6mo ago
>If you're complaining about the prices, remember how capitalism works. Why get up at all, when gravity always just pulls me back down?
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by QuarterReptile 7mo ago
I got ads from the army about "extremely hot spy" over Valentines day weekend

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