affinepplan

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by affinepplan 1y ago
Leavitt's statement doesn't deserve further scrutiny beyond shallow dismissal.
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by affinepplan 1y ago
Some People In The World Sometimes Have The Same Name As Each Other
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by affinepplan 1y ago
gotta love how credulous you people are to the most insane statements by this administration, and how skeptical you are of the most unsurprising events in the world. this just in: agency infamous for fragile egos and abuse of power got thei
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by affinepplan 1y ago
"banal" --- what a word to use ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem
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20 points by affinepplan 1y ago|5 comments
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by affinepplan 1y ago
> They are not "thugs". They are federal officers. are they? maybe they should identify themselves as such with names, badge numbers, and warrants? > They are upholding federal law. they clearly aren't given the number
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by affinepplan 1y ago
I've watched the video several times. > Any average citizen would be arrested and detained. yes, ICE thugs would probably behave equally lawlessly towards any civilian challenging them for a warrant. that doesn't make what happ
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by affinepplan 1y ago
what on earth "other side" could there be to unidentified secret police arresting politicians of the opposite party
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by affinepplan 1y ago
it also covers anyone "presumed to be" an us citizen, even if the gov. does not have specific knowledge that they definitively are.
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by affinepplan 1y ago
> Why can't we have nice things? cars.
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by affinepplan 1y ago
> That the marching masses entering their neighborhoods were black is completely irrelevant LOL. sure it was.
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by affinepplan 1y ago
they're not the leader for FSD cars. he just claims to be, through a little-known trick called "lying"
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by affinepplan 1y ago
unsustainable. and should be unconscionable. almost every pressing social problem can be traced back to the lack of housing supply (of course, some traces are looser than others)
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by affinepplan 1y ago
it is not out of context. you are being deceptive that somehow surrounding context of the statement justifies such a horrible proposition from POTUS.
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by affinepplan 1y ago
it was not deceptive. the words I wrote were said by Trump verbatim. please watch the video. I didn't remove the word "criminal" from the middle of the sentence.
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by affinepplan 1y ago
except it was an honest quotation. what I wrote was said by Trump in the video.
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by affinepplan 1y ago
I quoted directly from the video. the quote I wrote was said verbatim
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by affinepplan 1y ago
he was also caught on hot mic today telling Bukele "home-growns are next... you're going to need to build about five more places" https://bsky.app/profile/coreyryung.bsky.social/post/3lmrygf...
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by affinepplan 1y ago
stop normalizing this idiocy. there was no country that wasn't already willing to negotiate trade relations with the US.
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by affinepplan 1y ago
so somehow roadways are "basic public services" but railways are not? this kinda just exposes the depth of car-centric bias. to any competent urban designer, in a place like Manhattan, public transit is the "basic public serv
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by affinepplan 1y ago
inb4 claims that congestion pricing is somehow regressive in fact, it is a progressive tax since reinvestments into public transit are phenomenal for the vast majority of low and middle Americans (and ALL the rest too, but especially thos
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by affinepplan 2y ago
> I really hate about using terminals: you can't just click to move the cursor quickly! alt-click?
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by affinepplan 2y ago
yeah this sounds like it'll be reliably enforced for sure
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by affinepplan 2y ago
uv is worth changing to. it legitimately solves python packaging problems the way no other proposed solution thus far could.
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by affinepplan 2y ago
yes, and if you think the _number_ of bad actors on each side are even CLOSE to similar in magnitudes then you are in a bubble that is feeding you bad information
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by affinepplan 2y ago
if it's any consolation, decisions like these (normally) have a very long lead time measured in years. now, these are not normal times, but even so I'd be more concerned about NIST decisions coming out nearer to the end of this
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by affinepplan 2y ago
> Depending on which bubble you live in you get bombarded with information going your way. ok but one of the bubbles lives in reality, and the information bombardment is of things that actually happen. the other bubble is mostly just hat
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by affinepplan 2y ago
Russia invaded Ukraine in a war of a territorial aggression. calling them "equally corrupt" is propaganda.
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by affinepplan 2y ago
> in hindsight both investigations were completely discredited .... discredited by whom, might I ask? possibly discredited by those it investigated?
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by affinepplan 2y ago
> too many things would have to fit perfectly for it to make sense things like immediately reversing course on military support for the only country at war with Russia? things like torching relationships with our closest allies we'v

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