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by Reasoning 1y ago
Yup, a lot of engineers here letting their egos be stroked. "Lawyers are bad people unlike me, a noble and rational engineer. If I controlled the government I would do things right, because I'm an engineer."
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by Reasoning 1y ago
Money laundering, give the money to a shell company and have them report it as income. Obviously not that simple but that's the basic explanation.
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by Reasoning 1y ago
> Communism has no future so long as it's supporters refuse to understand that Marx's magnificent philosophical and political system rejects borgeous human rights. Stalin couldn't have put it better himself.
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by Reasoning 1y ago
Glad to know I was a fool for ever joining the military...
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by Reasoning 1y ago
From contemporary ethnologists who used the term to refer to the proto-indo-europeans? Because the term aryan is common amongst the languages descended from the proto-indo-european language (Arya, Iran, Alans, Arios)? Nazi philosophy grew o
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by Reasoning 1y ago
Did it have to be written? Who's the hypothetical person who is confused that a 1,500 year old gold disk is older than the Nazi era.
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by Reasoning 1y ago
Definitely a manipulative framing on his part. He originally was convicted for MDMA and marijuana, was released on probation and then was convicted for synthetic opioids. He's probably serving time right now for the marijuana for break
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by Reasoning 1y ago
I'll add on, he mentions in his blog that he was making "tens of thousands of dollars a week" selling drugs. He was not a small time dealer and certainly wasn't just buying drugs for himself. His current sentence also (1
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by Reasoning 1y ago
MDMA and weed was his initial sentence. He's in prison now for selling synthetic opioids.
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by Reasoning 1y ago
Are you concerned that if you make prison too expensive society might resort to capital punishment to reduce prison costs? Or we end up releasing prisoners who are legitimate dangers to society. And to be clear, I'm opposed to capital
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by Reasoning 1y ago
If my employer payed for my housing and food I would not consider it unreasonable that my paycheck reflected that. > Why are they paid Because people have expenses other than food and lodging. Prisoners do to, some save money for after t
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by Reasoning 1y ago
> You see this in the data for smoking as well, as smoking decreases, you tend to see caloric intake and obesity rise at the population level. Nicotine is an appetite suppressor so that relationship is probably pretty direct.
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by Reasoning 1y ago
Can confirm it's common in the upper Midwest as well. My college apartment was furnished mostly with stuff we got from curbs. Never heard of the police taking issue with it.
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by Reasoning 1y ago
Spotify just made the 'brilliant' decision to remove the "Add this song to the playlist" button. Now to add songs that Spotify itself recommends based on the playlist you're listening to you have to, right-click the
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by Reasoning 1y ago
I don't have a strong preference either way but the argument is the scrollbar isn't just for moving your position on the page but also for communicating to the user where they are on the page. If you hide it you're removing h
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by Reasoning 1y ago
I'd also add to that: - Neural Machine Translation - English as the lingua franca
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by Reasoning 1y ago
"By the 1940s, the image without the groom had become the standard version, and it created the enduring visual signs of the strongman leader – when Nigel Farage makes a speech atop a tank, or Vladimir Putin displays his bare chest, bot
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by Reasoning 1y ago
> Countries with strong secular foundations regularly top global indexes of well-being, prosperity, and social progress. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-... Only 1 of the top 5 countries
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by Reasoning 1y ago
The Church of Norway became independent of the State in 2017. The Church of Sweden in 2000.
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by Reasoning 1y ago
> I can’t wait till we talk about Jesus and God in the same way we talk about Hades and Zeus. > When societies cling too tightly to the faith traditions they’ve inherited—by accident of birth—they often impede critical thinking, open
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by Reasoning 1y ago
> ...Christians get absolutely confused when you tell them that it is amazing how a middle eastern religion took over the entire Europe and the west. Some people even deny that Christianity is middle eastern Many atheists make this claim
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by Reasoning 1y ago
> In various texts, including Apocryphal works that date to around the same time as the Gospels proper, Joseph appears to suspect Mary of infidelity. This struck me as a strange statement to not explain further. Plenty of Christians inte
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by Reasoning 1y ago
Strong atheistic countries like North Korea and China?
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by Reasoning 1y ago
The cloud computing market is ~$600B annually. Google has a market share of 12% in it while Amazon sits at 30% and Microsoft at 21%. I'm assuming this is Google trying to stay competitive in that market.
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by Reasoning 2y ago
I think the point is there is a big difference between "He who does not work shall not eat" and "...anyone who was unwilling to work should not eat". Specifically the clause "unwilling to work".
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by Reasoning 2y ago
> In addition, they were the ones that pushed heavily for a monoculture on potatoes and a few oats over a diverse agricultural landscape; which allowed the famine to get so widespread. That doesn't mesh with what I've read. The
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by Reasoning 2y ago
New Journalism and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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by Reasoning 2y ago
> Why do people always think its the killing? Almost every vegan/vegetarian has most of their issues with how its raised and treated its whole life. But definitionally a vegetarian is someone who abstain from eating meat period, reg
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by Reasoning 2y ago
> Nature is not cruel, don't anthropomorphize it. You're defining the word cruel to narrowly. Per Merriam-Webster "causing or conducive to injury, grief, or pain" and Cambridge "(of an event) causing suffering&qu
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by Reasoning 2y ago
curl and ps are both aliases in powershell for their respective posh equivalents. For some reason grep isn't though, I'll give you that. It also has positional parameters meaning you don't have to specify parameter names, tho

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