pstuart

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by pstuart 3d ago
That rock got lifted up 10 years ago and they are now comfortable sunning themselves. Overton Window has shifted hard right.
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by pstuart 5d ago
Meanwhile my at home treatment used Braun 250mg lozenges, which probably cost ~ $4 a pop (wholesale) and for many 2-3 are enough for a treatment session. It's not like it's a novel drug -- the gatekeeping is ridiculous. Fuck the D
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by pstuart 5d ago
Add beauty pageants to that list. It's gross, and a lot of people are ok with it.
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by pstuart 5d ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that having a tuned LLM would probably be able to eliminate the need for a full time DBA query analyst. Disclaimer: I've never managed a ClickHouse cluster, let alone one of this size.
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by pstuart 5d ago
I have zero doubt that it was done intentionally to help their "friends" launder money.
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by pstuart 5d ago
I just heard this last night: buried in the "support for small business" was the repeal (or effectively neuteringO of the Corporate Transparency Act's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. https://www.wbur.org&#x
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by pstuart 6d ago
The irony here is that the origins of Silicon Valley have deep ties to the military as well, and it was the successful commercialization of those technologies that turned it more into a consumer / b2b space. But yeah, the tech bro elit
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by pstuart 7d ago
Phew, now I feel better. The Roberts court has been a paragon of impartial justice and I know they will make the right call for the people /s
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by pstuart 7d ago
Congress has been intentionally neutered to cede power to the republican executive branch. This November will be interesting...
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by pstuart 7d ago
War profiteering in the name of "national security". I guess Marc's pursuit of NFTs as the next frontier of "monetizing art" was not what he promised it would be: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/
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by pstuart 7d ago
Yes, it was entirely sarcasm. The DEA should be abolished, period. Not only is the War on Drugs a war of oppression on the citizenry, it has funded the cartels and promoted crime throughout the world. Secondly, the DEA controls what my doct
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by pstuart 7d ago
It's for a good cause! This has enabled the DEA to keep all dangerous drugs out of the country and avoid any sort of drug abuse epidemics! Think of the children!
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by pstuart 7d ago
Well how else are you expected to do en pointe whilst grounding oneself?
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by pstuart 8d ago
I have yet to read 1491, but yes I imagine that it would have been much more challenging without that first strike. But the weapons capabilities of the europeans were also going to make it happen one way or another.
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by pstuart 8d ago
Another appropriate word for the colonization of America is genocide. I'm old enough to remember being taught how America was settled by expanding into the vast wilderness of the continent, and that sometimes they had skirmishes with
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by pstuart 8d ago
It's both.
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by pstuart 9d ago
This will likely get flagged as flame bait, but I'm guessing that the accusations have merit -- that attack was almost like Israel's Pearl Harbor moment. See Project for a New American Century for how the US turned 9/11 into
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by pstuart 9d ago
I love this kind of work. They had an ambitious timeline and the last entry was at the beginning of this year -- do you have a sense if they are still going strong?
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by pstuart 11d ago
Yep, but that's a third rail here -- plenty of otherwise intelligent people drank the kool aid (likely by their parents). It needs to be understood by all citizens of the United States that there is an active effort to make it into a C
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by pstuart 11d ago
Why should the re-evaluation happen just at renewal? I'm assuming that whatever threat assessment systems they use are updating as relevant data comes in. They are tracking each and every one of us already, it's just a scam. Of co
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by pstuart 11d ago
I just had to pay to renew my TSA PreCheck. Because why? They already know my threat risk (zero), and in paying them again nothing changed except they took more money from me.
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by pstuart 11d ago
I do too. I was an Atari guy so it was even more of a vague curiosity at the time.
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by pstuart 11d ago
Who pays for the lawsuit? When do cops actually have skin in the game? Qualified immunity is a joke. They have absolute immunity with the exception of when it is too politically hot and the cops were stupid enough to leave a trail that work
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by pstuart 12d ago
Broadcast media is boomer stuff (disclaimer: I am technically a boomer). I expect its relevance to fade. That said, the failure to prevent media aggregation (e.g., Sinclair et al) is also a betrayal to the people. As a boomer, I recognize t
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by pstuart 12d ago
Sadly, not amazed. Flooding is a natural concern (but not natural enough to not build in a freaking flood plain), and most communities are not forward-looking enough to look upstream for solutions likely because it may be out of their towns
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by pstuart 12d ago
[0] meh, what's the point? [1] was coming from a Marxist, and Marxists are going to Marxist. [2] had nothing about feminism You're trying to muddy the waters with your positioning. Women's rights are just that. Co
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by pstuart 12d ago
It is a problem for millions of Americans: https://voteriders.org/article/who-doesnt-have-an-id-in-amer... Systemic racism is very much a thing, and while perhaps not foundational in this particular issue, we see sti
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by pstuart 13d ago
Right wing talking points. They see feminism as a threat (which it is to them , but for the good overall).
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by pstuart 13d ago
Women's rights are human rights. We all win when that happens (except for those that exploit and abuse them).
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by pstuart 13d ago
With freshwater increasingly being a problem, being able to slow down tributaries and allow the water to percolate and help rebuild aquifers is something that should be happening everywhere possible. Lost cost, high reward. Not sexy enough

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