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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
Before a couple of years ago, masks were often banned at the local level in the US. There's no good reason for bans or mandates in normal circumstances, and that includes being a democracy.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
Consider that the information you get could be one-sided because the major platforms ban dissenting views (in cooperation with partisan NGOs identifying it).
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
Maybe that leveling is itself justice.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
If the engineer responds by harboring a grudge against all encryption, and silently failing to employ secure industry standards, then neither he nor his other customers win. Medical professionals treat individuals, not political groups.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
Do you mean passive third-party requests I could block on my end, or something built into their backend that exposes their entire registration list? I thought it was only the former.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
Owning your own phone outright often solves this rent-to-own upgrade problem.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
You're right. I noticed this on Bing Maps before, but hadn't noticed Google following suit. It makes these sites so much less useful. Their unique location catalog is the reason I usually prefer Google, then Bing, over Here Maps o
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
Early adopters and enthusiasts always have different values. That's why we act differently toward technology in the first place.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
At least you can -exclude those names. Gas station convenience stores come up for "grocery store" searches, yet they're all named differently.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
Not all, not even most from the listings I looked at a few years ago. Only one of the three old Android phones I have supports it, and it's one without a recognizable brand (the other two are Samsung and LG).
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
The browser team could implement the ad blocker itself, instead of relying on third-party code. But even the apparently-best one of those (Brave) has a lousy interface for it.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
They basically did, until the underlying browser became incompatible. That was the point: to have a stable API instead of extensions relying on implementation details, which includes multiple processes.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
Which is made all the more difficult when people react violently to your attempts to connect with them, because they perceive your political stance as a threat (usually through misunderstanding). No wonder we clam up and brace for war.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
If you go to another country dressed however you wish, you might be acosted, too. We share our cities.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
She is a Democratic hero. There is nothing to cancel in her work which remains.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
The Union celebrated General Lee. Maybe we should tear it down, too.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
>a cache of pine cones worth $15 a bushel. These woody cones are in steep demand A bushel, even of lightweight pine cones, is fairly large at eight gallons. For some varieties*, a bushel of pine cones delivers 1.2 pounds of pine nuts per
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
Correct. Like I said, he had had no business remarking on their list of associations or dis-associations.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
>they saw the list and were left with the suspicion that those on it had been singled out with racist intent. They aren't wrong. Earnest had no business remarking on students' appearance in or how they express feelings in Theat
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
He was larping as an EMT, actually, offering medical help. When GI Joe was fighting, there were also combat medics doing the same with weapons to defend themselves.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
Is that the legal threshold for prohibiting acquisitions in the UK?
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
That sounds like a feature rather than a bug.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
As written, the First Amendment restricts Congress, while the Second restricts at least all parties to the document, both Federal and State levels. Obviously, such plain readings aren't popular.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
The Amish vote on how their community moves. People regularly leave. It's the same thing.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
>define what value and relevance a license has for such Government compliance? India is a democracy. Tech may move faster, but that doesn't mean it's right. Voters decide what's right, ultimately. The Amish are wise in thi
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
Older versions ( https://mises.org/library/three-more-attacks-civilization ) of his dishwater article, which seems to be ever-evolving*, included mention of TSP. That was dropped, then topical politics was added. Some pe
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
Joe Biden called it "hysterical xenophobia and fear mongering [against] science." Pelosi was on the ground in San Fransisco's Chinatown with similar words. Maxine Waters too, though she had been talking that way since 2015, p
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
Ringworm is a fungal infection, not a parasite like ivermectin works against.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
It failed to apply to populous or notorious Muslim countries like Indonesia or Pakistan, only to those which Obama had previously put on a list. It got a bad name for political reasons, not for the facts of the executive order.
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by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
That's sooner than I noticed it in America. Before that, it was long the start of the Christmas shopping season, which guaranteed prices would be higher, but selection was wider.

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