elsonrodriguez

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by elsonrodriguez 3d ago
What kind of church…?
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by elsonrodriguez 3mo ago
If you run out of gas you’re also stuck. Only upside is that the recovery service can bring you a few gallons of fuel instead of a tow.
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by elsonrodriguez 3mo ago
> pg's reading of it is so blunt and misrepresentative that I'm nervous about what kind of content he's consuming. Guy wrote an essay criticizing “woke” on the eve of Trump’s inauguration and is now running interference fo
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by elsonrodriguez 4mo ago
> I don't select my engineering tools because they give me a bad feeling. Those bad feelings are often your years of experience trying to tell you something.
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by elsonrodriguez 4mo ago
Self install?
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by elsonrodriguez 5mo ago
One of the biggest fantasies in that book is that the "protesters" would be so unified and ethical in their plots. In real life the attacks in response to climate change(and in this case, economic injustice), will be committed by
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by elsonrodriguez 5mo ago
There is a video of Elon performing a gesture in which he forms a heart shape with his hands, and then mimes giving it out to the crowd. It is quite distinct from the multiple Nazi salutes he gave at the Trump rally.
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by elsonrodriguez 7mo ago
The inefficiency of creating, transporting, and converting hydrogen into motion is way too much to bear for the purpose of eliminating a 45 minute charging stop.
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by elsonrodriguez 7mo ago
There might be some political differences between these three women that may be relevant to the conversation.
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by elsonrodriguez 7mo ago
He also came down the stairs calling Obama a secret Muslim Kenyan.
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by elsonrodriguez 7mo ago
SPOILERS. In B5 the only thing close to ineffable alien were the ones that went beyond the rim. Most of the day-to-day aliens were stand-ins for human nations and cultures. The OPA and Mars were effectively the day-to-day aliens for the Exp
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by elsonrodriguez 8mo ago
> but don’t pretend this is some novel or uniquely partisan creation. There is no need to pretend. The specific excesses I mentioned are Republican actions. The Democrat failures do not excuse the illegal and immoral Republican cruelty.
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by elsonrodriguez 8mo ago
Your argument is ultimately that it’s ok to ignore the constitution, civil rights, and human decency because it’s time to do things “the hard way”.
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by elsonrodriguez 8mo ago
Even if the current state of immigration policy was forged in a bipartisan agreement(it wasn't), it would be inhumane and I would condemn it. Fortunately the Republicans, specifically Tom Homan and Stephen Miller, can be shown to have
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by elsonrodriguez 8mo ago
Are you trying to imply that Germany didn't deport anybody in 1939?
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by elsonrodriguez 8mo ago
I wanted to play devil's advocate here, but unfortunately did find an example of a "politically disapproved position" in frumple's post history: "The deportations will continue regardless of the tantrums of the hyst
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by elsonrodriguez 8mo ago
My point isn’t about the advancement of technology, it is about theft and destruction disguised as technology. If what happened to my wife happened to Warhol the equivalent would be someone tearing his paintings off the gallery wall and sel
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by elsonrodriguez 8mo ago
My wife draws comics and exhibits at comic con, and her website is basically being ddossed by AI scrapers to the point of NEEDING cloudflare to keep the site online. Then people get to use the models that stole her work and crashed her site
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by elsonrodriguez 10mo ago
> but at some point workers have to face reality. If workers have to face the current reality, we are in for an unfortunate time. The better outcome would be fixing the current reality before workers see what is being done.
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by elsonrodriguez 1y ago
> Sugarcane is mostly grown on degraded pastureland far from the Amazon. I vaguely recall campaigns against turning Amazon into pastureland via slash and burn.
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by elsonrodriguez 1y ago
Anecdote: In the days of Quakeworld, for important games, I would reboot into linux for the match. Framerate and ping were better.
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by elsonrodriguez 1y ago
Being stupid and controversial is now a popular ideological option.
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by elsonrodriguez 1y ago
I have tried this approach to mixed results, got Boxer set up on their laptops with a few classics, but they didn't really gravitate towards it. I searched for modern alternatives and settled on a mix of the Endless series of games on
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by elsonrodriguez 1y ago
Tesla’s valuation isn’t based on their ability to make a BEV.
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by elsonrodriguez 1y ago
Same here, it's been so difficult to find good shows after Bluey and Avatar. The gap between those two shows and everything else is almost breathtaking.
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by elsonrodriguez 2y ago
Dinosaur Comics I believe.
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by elsonrodriguez 2y ago
It isn't quite the same thing. There is a difference between trying to empower historically marginalized groups, and trying to re-subjugate historically marginalized groups. Improving the opportunities available to people tends to impr
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by elsonrodriguez 2y ago
> Is our society so fragile it'll fall apart if people are exposed to the wrong ideas? Yes.
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by elsonrodriguez 2y ago
>Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be, but a genuine one. I don't think any reasonable person would deny that. The problem with political correctness was not that it fo
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by elsonrodriguez 2y ago
Holy shit.

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