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by fortuna86 3y ago
Trump voting states don't offer services for homeless, so they leave for places that do. Is that so surprising? Not to mention the morality of cutting soup kitchens and shelters just so your state's homeless become someone else&#x
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by fortuna86 3y ago
One of my favorite travel tips is duck in anywhere, order a cocktail, tip well, then ask the bartender "If you were off today, where would you go?" Found the best bars i've ever been to this way.
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by fortuna86 3y ago
I've heard this, I haven't seen this. Maybe a smart phone was a status symbol 10 years ago, they are just commodities today.
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by fortuna86 3y ago
US isn't even on the top 10 list of worst / most aggressive drivers. They at least respect lanes as drawn on the road.
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by fortuna86 3y ago
GPT-4 +
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by fortuna86 3y ago
1. The data/emails were most likely stolen and the media was trying not to make the same mistake as reporting DNC hacked emails, which was a Russian intelligence operation. 2. Hunter Biden is not a politician, unlike the Trump kids (wh
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by fortuna86 3y ago
>I have been in several situations where I have been asked to prioritize and categorize essential and non-essential funding. Not for public / public funded / government jobs, so it's not necessarily made public. But it obv
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by fortuna86 3y ago
> Come on, wake up and smell the coffee. The business partner Bobulinski also considered it to be meaning Biden in an interview in mainstream media. Again, this is not proof. You clearly want this to be true, therefore you don't nee
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by fortuna86 3y ago
Whatsapp rolling out e-2-e to its 1b+ users was the most significant move in digital privacy ever, without most users knowing that it even happened.
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by fortuna86 3y ago
It's funny how common jailing-breaking iPhones used to be, I did mine immediately when it would come out and everyone else I knew did too. Now I don't know a single person that does.
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by fortuna86 3y ago
Got it, you added up 8 and 5. Question remains: > Also is 4% as opposed to 1% a change that alters any of the underlying fundamentals ?
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by fortuna86 3y ago
> Untrue Right, organizations routinely admit they are getting too much funding and ask for it to be reduced. There are so many examples of this, perhaps you could provide just one? > They chose to represent themselves as having their
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by fortuna86 3y ago
Users don't use protocols they use websites. Or more specifically, apps.
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by fortuna86 3y ago
> It doesn't really change anything, either way NPR have stated that federal funding is essential to their operation. Every organization on earth refers to every penny of its budget as "essential" as to not lose any of it.
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by fortuna86 3y ago
The story was suspicious for many reasons, is the point.
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by fortuna86 3y ago
The burden of proof justifying posting stolen materials from the laptop belonging to the family member of a politician is not on the person asking if this is in bounds, it is on the person defending obvious muckraking.
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by fortuna86 3y ago
There's a reason for that: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/13/hunter-bi... > The article said that more than 50 former senior intelligence officials, including five CIA chiefs, ha
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by fortuna86 3y ago
> "Hold 10 for the big guy". Unproven innuendo. > His father flew him on Air Force 2 to China to make private equity deals. Shouldn't have happened if he was doing business there. Also, again, where is your proof? I Goo
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by fortuna86 3y ago
Not fair, no news organization including Fox thought this was worth publishing.
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by fortuna86 3y ago
It was his, that doesn't mean the origin story is correct. Also he's not an government employee so what is the newsworthiness of any of it?
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by fortuna86 3y ago
Yes, every organization when faced with potential budget cuts refers to all of their budget as "essential". This should not be surprising.
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by fortuna86 3y ago
> 13% of member station funding comes from government sources What is the source of this number? Also is 4% as opposed to 1% a change that alters any of the underlying fundamentals ?
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by fortuna86 3y ago
Can you be reasonably certain they work?
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by fortuna86 3y ago
If you build editorial independent into a legal charter, and have a government that isn't authoritarian and protects the rule of law, why is it a contradiction?
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by fortuna86 3y ago
Also a "decentralized" social media network is something an engineer thinks is great, but no user does.
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by fortuna86 3y ago
China controls their state media, NPR/BBC etc. have state funding but remain editorially independent.
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by fortuna86 3y ago
Bullshit Jobs are an important part of every economy. If the criteria for work was "only jobs absolutely needed", unemployment would be at 30% and society would be unstable.
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by fortuna86 3y ago
Once you build a 5G system with Huawei, it's very hard and sometimes impossible to include other equipment. Huawei for this reason builds a "full-stack" 5G product that doesn't allow for anyone else's hardware but t
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by fortuna86 3y ago
How is it even possible to establish a monopoly market with airplanes considering you can operate both at the same time? https://www.quora.com/Can-an-airline-have-both-Boeing-and-Ai...
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by fortuna86 3y ago
Does any western government activity promote monopolies abroad and threaten consequences if such monopolies are fought against, all while accepting state-backed monopoly at home? https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-threa

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