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by pluto9 6y ago
> Several Marines had shot M16s into the building, we were told, at the request of police officers who were fired upon by a man with a shotgun while answering a domestic-violence call. The details of this incident are rather famous in th
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by pluto9 6y ago
Don't forget this one: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ups-hijacking-gun-battl... There's even a video of this incident that shows them using occupied civilian vehicles for cover.
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by pluto9 6y ago
> Where are the soldiers? Without doing any research, I'm guessing it's one of two possibilities: - They're not in the top 25 because death rate among soldiers is low overall. The vast majority of soldiers are clerks, mech
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by pluto9 6y ago
Missiles (and most other weapons technologies) are definitely a gray area. Yes, producing them means they can be used for bad ends. But not producing them doesn't mean they'll cease to exist. It means you can't challenge anyo
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by pluto9 6y ago
50K seems incredibly high for a relocation. Do you have a source on that? What are the expenses that add up to that amount? All that aside, that's a one-time cost. H1B workers can be kept in limbo for years, since employers can apply f
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by pluto9 6y ago
The H1B worker isn't competing with the average Joe, he's competing with the Joe who's qualified to do the job, but didn't get it because the employer preferred someone with no leverage who can be easily controlled and u
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by pluto9 6y ago
> this will make a lot of IT jobs much harder to fill Harder to fill with people who have no leverage and can be easily controlled and underpaid, yes. > much higher paid That's the point.
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by pluto9 6y ago
It isn't Kenneth Walker's responsibility to "make the situation better". It is the police's responsibility to not create an unnecessary life-threatening situation in the first place. You're arguing that people
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by pluto9 6y ago
Because those forecasts are outliers, if you can even call them forecasts. Is this quote from your linked article what you're referring to? "Despite a temporary drop in carbon emissions from the 2020 outbreak, countries turned to
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by pluto9 6y ago
> It's reviled because proponents are reliably racist idiots It's reviled because it's inherently immoral. Its proponents are indeed usually racist idiots, but even if they had the best of intentions, it would still be imm
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by pluto9 6y ago
If doing something with the express purpose of silencing certain perspectives isn't censorship, then what is? > LinkedIn is not banning people for being racist. They’re simply saying, “if you want to be racist, do it with your real
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by pluto9 6y ago
> “We’ll spend most of our time together in open discussion, so please consider bringing questions or experiences you’d like to share,” read the invitation email to staff. This reminds me of the James Damore incident. They asked for peop
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by pluto9 6y ago
Generations may play some role, but I think the extent of that is unknowable. On the other hand, I think it's pretty easy to attribute these upheavals to outside influences and circumstances of the times. The abolition of slavery argua
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by pluto9 6y ago
Ironically this "theory" sounds like an observation someone would make while stoned.
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Predictions like this are made all the time, nearly all of them wrong. A few are bound to be correct(ish) by sheer chance, and when they are, people dig them up and think they've found something clairvoyant. This prediction isn't
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by pluto9 6y ago
> And even then they can just practice them. They might even learn something. And you can "just" contribute to OSS, can you not? You might even learn something. You seem to be advocating for the interview style that fits your p
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by pluto9 6y ago
I don't think it's in bad faith. If an employer offers on-site cafeterias, catered food, nap pods, free massages, game rooms or other stereotypical tech company perks, they may simply be trying to improve employee happiness beca
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by pluto9 6y ago
I'm amazed that people are able to quickly "try out" new keyboard layouts. I'm not a particularly good typist as it is. I feel like a new layout would take months of infuriating practice and lost productivity to learn.
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by pluto9 6y ago
> Planned parenthood isn't an organization created to defend a constitutional amendment. It relies an a particular Amendment to provide some of it's services, but it's not a fair comparison. Frankly I don't see why th
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by pluto9 6y ago
Do you expect Planned Parenthood to promote the GOP, and do you consider them fascist for not doing so? Supporting one party over another is not an act of fascism. They promote the GOP because the GOP supports their goals. Do you think it&#
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by pluto9 6y ago
I'm sorry, I don't understand how either of those links shows that the NRA believes in the things mentioned above. Can you clarify?
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What if he did? Is he not allowed to have his own opinion? Do you agree with Barack Obama on everything?
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by pluto9 6y ago
The MQ-9 Reaper is a larger counterpart to the MQ-1 Predator. They are both designed for military use, both capable of carrying weapons, and both appropriately named given their original intended purpose. They're also both airplanes. N
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by pluto9 6y ago
I don't know why rumors like this persist when they're so easy to fact check. When I go on Walmart's website, a 2-liter (~half gallon) bottle of store-brand cola is $0.87 and a gallon of drinking water is $1.00.
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"Chinese" in this context pretty obviously means "acting on behalf of the Chinese government", not "having Chinese heritage".
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There's more than one kind of fitness. Bulking and cutting optimizes for maximum power-to-weight ratio. I won't deny that there's an element of vanity to it, as there is with any effort to be fit, but that doesn't make i
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by pluto9 6y ago
I had a dog just like this when I was a kid. She was terrified of my father and all other adult males since the day we brought her home. She only began to recover years later as my brother and I, who she trusted, grew to resemble him.
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by pluto9 6y ago
You could make this argument about any potentially fatal disease. Are you willing to crash the economy to save the people who die of the flu every year? Probably not, right? Presumably because fewer people die of the flu. It's an unple
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by pluto9 7y ago
Interesting. I suppose it's possible. Whatever went around was incredibly contagious compared to the usual flu. Almost the entire office, including myself, came down with it over the course of 1-2 weeks. I'd like to think you&#x27
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by pluto9 7y ago
Something really nasty swept through my office (in the US) at the end of January, and one employee actually died. Some of us were speculating that it could have been early cases of COVID-19, but symptoms only lasted for about 5 days for mos

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