timapplesauce

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by timapplesauce 4y ago
It’s pretty easy for gangs to acquire cocaine and that’s illegal pretty much everywhere. Even if you could wave a magic wand and disarm the American populace gangs would still be able to get guns from dirty cops, military arms dealers, or j
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
I do. It’s a big country so maybe your corner of it is as you describe. I have personally lived in 5 different states and visited most of the rest and never encountered anything like what you describe. Much like all over the world there a
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
> Supreme Court turn to the batshit insane side of reality. Following the Constitution as written instead of legislating from the bench is batshit insane? Federal protection of abortion rights should come from Congress, not an overreachi
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
What are you talking about? The establishment and mainstream media led by Hillary Clinton pushed the completely fabricated “Russian Interference” narrative that included the fake Steel Dossier, an FBI investigation, and undermined Trump’s
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
Your comment about fuel is definitely valid. However, what is so special about COVID as it currently stands now in 2022? There is zero hope of containing it, as it has become endemic so lockdowns are pointless. There are several vaccines
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
I hate tip culture. It’s just a way to hide and then pass on the true cost of employee wages to the customer. I agree with you, expecting a tip by default is an anti pattern. If someone is feeling generous or really impressed with the le
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
The other fatal flaw of Wayland is that it’s support on anything other than Linux is abysmal. I can run an X server on Linux, BSD, Commercial UNIX variants, Minix, macOS, OpenVMS, and even Windows. Heck at one point there was even an X se
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
None of these were being weaponized by the Chinese government.
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
I’m shocked that an app linked to the Chinese military would be harmful to our society and our children. For real though get your children off social media, nothing good will come of it for them. Tiktok is particularly scary.
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
I think that's the point. The idea is to come up with every reason to deny people. It's a backdoor handgun ban unless you're wealthy and well connected enough to deserve one.
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
The NY Post got their Twitter account suspended for daring to cover Hunter Biden’s laptop. That story in particular was heavily suppressed. What the media, both the social and traditional varieties, did to Trump is disgusting and goes way
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
I would argue in 2020 Biden had more of the passion votes. It was passion AGAINST Trump of course, not FOR Biden. The entire media apparatus with only a few notable exceptions worked tirelessly to undermine Trump at every opportunity and s
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
How much of our food supply comes from New York City and Los Angeles? Your comment implies that the needs of these states is somehow less important in the governance of our nation.
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
The Electoral College exists because popular vote would lead to just a handful of our largest cities holding all of the political power. Switching to popular vote would lead to presidents completely ignoring or worse enacting policies that
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
Nothing you mentioned would have overthrown the country. Violent regime change happens almost exclusively via military actions or widespread popular uprisings. The top brass of the military would not have supported a coup by Trump and the
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
> Look at how freaking close an incompetent reality show star came to overthrowing the country. Not very close at all. Unless you think American democracy is so fragile that a few dozen unarmed protesters that walked into an unlocked Ca
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
Gun registries only exist to support eventual confiscation via further erosion of 2A rights, such as red flag laws, assault weapons bans, and other restrictions on ownership.
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
Obviously I have no proof for this, but the timing would definitely suggest malice. The Supreme Court just handed down an opinion that essentially struck down California's concealed carry law, not to mention Dobbs. This smacks of chil
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
> What the supreme's did in practice was look for abstruse excuses to justify changing. Roe v. Wade was the abstruse excuse to justify the desired outcome. It was effectively legislating from the bench. > First, all the republic
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
Despite the merits of abortions, the Supreme Court’s job is to determine the constitutionality of laws, not create new laws or twist existing laws to say what they wish they did. The concept of “legislating from the bench” should terrify e
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
Yes and because there is no law banning abortion at the federal level, you are free to get one unless your state or local government has a law restricting it. This is the system working as intended.
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
I think this is a major factor. The enlisted pay scales are publicly available knowledge and for the lower enlisted ranks especially they really don’t look very appealing. Although military pay goes up every year, it has not kept up with i
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
I think it was overturned because there’s no actual Constitutional or legal basis for protecting abortion at the federal level. Roe, while absolutely well intentioned was a gross overstep of the court’s authority. It is Congress’s job to l
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
> I have a great deal of compassion for genuine hardship. The rapid increase in gas prices is causing a lot of genuine hardship. Not to mention the follow on effects of higher consumer prices for essentials like food.
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
I meant secondary as in a second vehicle so as long as you own an ICE vehicle already. I’m sure if I had an EV it would absolutely get the most usage of the 2. If I dropped $35-50,000 on a car you bet I’d drive it a lot! :)
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
That’s a very “let them eat cake” attitude that doesn’t serve anyone well. EVs are simply not an option for the majority of people in the world until their cost decreases and their range increases. Fossil fuels need to be phased out but fo
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
> By the end of this year, Tesla's Giga 3 Shanghai factory will reach a run rate where that single factory builds 50% of what Mercedes sells annually. Unless China locks down the plant due to a COVID outbreak.
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
Unfortunately, in the United States all of our major news outlets are extremely biased and have been caught red-handed manipulating or outright lying about the news. The only approach I've found is to consume a few news sources through
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
The simple fact of the matter is that if you take an EV for a long road trip across America today, your choice of route will be very dependent on where charging stations exist. With an ICE vehicle, it's barely a consideration. For th
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by timapplesauce 4y ago
I'm curious, what is a "credible" news source these days? I don't think any of the major news networks have much credibility any more, it's just that some may seem better than others simply because they align more w

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