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by tertiary 6y ago
It is interesting that all of the principles that I thought were fundamental to justice (like parties to a criminal investigation having access to all the facts, and not being able to hide them for their agendas) only really came about in t
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by tertiary 6y ago
I think the last four years has exposed just how much policy can be swayed by a single elected official without much oversight. I don't care that the next four years will have a president closer to my political beliefs, I want to to s
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by tertiary 6y ago
It's crazy, I feel like I'm just constantly being gas-lit whenever it comes to talking about Trump. "Don't believe the media, it's all rigged against him" "<x bad thing> is all just a myth, you&#x27
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by tertiary 6y ago
The thing that will sit deep within me for at least the next few years is that, no matter how you slice it, a vote for Trump is complicit acceptance of his divisive and harmful behavior. Of course you don't need to be a racist to vote
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by tertiary 6y ago
What's mask compliance like in Australia? I'm in a blue city within a sea of red. Everyone around me uses them, but drive 15 minutes away and you'll get looks for using one.
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by tertiary 6y ago
I don't know how I feel about this. I like the idea of complete transparency, but even without being able to capture dramatic photos of courtroom battles the US already has trial by media in some cases. I feel like adding photos and
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by tertiary 6y ago
Yeah, I'm in my 20s and I regularly use it without any confusion from the people I communicate with. Maybe its popularity varies with region?
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by tertiary 6y ago
All you need to do is look at the name ("INFORMATION DOMINANCE CENTER!") to know that the design is more about playing star ship commander than it is about being functional. The real operations centers I have been in are much more
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2020 Had the Warmest September on Record, Data Shows(nytimes.com)
87 points by tertiary 6y ago|62 comments
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by tertiary 6y ago
I don't think so, at least not according to Ocasio-Cortez [1]. It is a pretty new idea though and is probably in flux, so it may have been different in the past? [1] https://morningconsult.com/2019/05/06&#x2F
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by tertiary 6y ago
First off, you can have both. Green new deal doesn't ban reactors or anything. Second, I'm on the fence over whether I support more reactors and not because nuclear==bad. I trust the technology, but my concern is whether we can
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by tertiary 6y ago
Yeah, and doing away with qualified immunity.
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by tertiary 6y ago
> Either water down the second amendment ... or give the police what they need That's a false dichotomy and misses the main point of the argument to reduce police militarization. Nobody is upset when SWAT responds to a school shooti
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by tertiary 6y ago
> Why does the Pentagon do it then According to this [1] it was founded because of the war on drugs. It's purpose was very much to have militarized units that respond to drug offenses. [1] https://www.motherjones.com&#x2
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by tertiary 6y ago
That's not true in the 80% use case of SWAT teams which is drug offenses and executing search warrants. This is the core argument for demilitarization, not the straw man of "I don't want police to have the equipment needed t
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by tertiary 6y ago
> but those teams are only deployed in situations like bank robberies, hostage situations, school shootings, etc That's not true and is the reason people are upset. Nobody disagrees with the use of SWAT teams for school shooting an
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Federal Judge in PA Denies Voting Policy Challenge to Ban Ballot Dropboxes(cnn.com)
1 points by tertiary 6y ago|0 comments
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by tertiary 6y ago
The short version is that there is a global ring of powerful pedophiles that Trump is the only one capable of stopping who also happen to be anyone the far right hates... and also jews.
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by tertiary 6y ago
Exactly this. It has been frustrating watching basically any other news about this administration get flagged to death (or at least shoved off the front page) because "politics isn't allowed on HN." Then, we get an article
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All but one of Joint Chiefs of Staff quarantine after admiral tests positive(nbcnews.com)
26 points by tertiary 6y ago|0 comments
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Florida online voter registration system crashes on last day for filing(politico.com)
2 points by tertiary 6y ago|0 comments
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by tertiary 6y ago
I'm still surprised at how many "Sweden is a success!" stories keep showing up on HN. The country had TEN TIMES the per capita death rate of its neighbors (IE the countries you'd conpare it to if you want to control for
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Merriam-Webster Reports 30,500% Spike in Searches for Schadenfreude(merriam-webster.com)
8 points by tertiary 6y ago|5 comments
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by tertiary 6y ago
Trump is in multiple risk groups: his age, his weight, plus a high stress lifestyle. Implications of him dying weeks before the election are kind of scary.
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by tertiary 6y ago
Probably depends a lot on where you hang out. For me, it's more conservative than most of the internet I see (outside of Facebook). Probably has a good mix which is why you can get a lot of decent discussion here.
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by tertiary 6y ago
My assumption was that this is user generated flagging. It's not moderation. It's people saying "we don't want to see this stuff". Same reason people are down voting our comments right now :)
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by tertiary 6y ago
I'm confused why stories about Sweden's success keep popping up here. The country had TEN TIMES the per capita death rate of its neighbors and still has the highest unemployment of all the Nordic countries. Seems to me like the
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by tertiary 6y ago
I was going to say: adding the word "who" here is kind of clickbait.
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by tertiary 6y ago
That's a really interesting point that I didn't realize. Does anyone have a good history of how QI came to be like this? I can't imagine that it was the intention when this started.
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by tertiary 6y ago
Reading through, it looks like the flagging of people as 'deterrence' was already known. What's new is access to the data behind it and learning about the numbers here.

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