weswpg

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by weswpg 5y ago
by repairing it
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by weswpg 5y ago
as a Linux user, i use my iPhone for that. or you could try this: https://morgen.so/morgen-for-linux
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by weswpg 5y ago
Many banks will automatically transfer recurring subscriptions to your new card as a "helpful" measure. > Updater services allow merchants to know when your credit card information changes, and to alter their records accordin
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by weswpg 5y ago
> Thanks, I didn’t dig deep enough to find the boy buried at the bottom. That definitely clears things up. ...there's a boy buried at the bottom? i hope that's a typo!
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by weswpg 5y ago
> I don’t understand the title? How do you get ‘rejected’ by Code Academy? It’s not a ‘boot amp’ with an application process. You either do the free lessons offered, or pay up for one of the ‘Pro’ level tiers. From his blog: > I&#x27
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by weswpg 5y ago
> Zuckerberg wants to be the villain from that Ready Player One book but without any of the hassle of taking it over He probably sees himself as the misunderstood, genius creator of The Oasis rather than the conniving corporate bureaucr
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by weswpg 5y ago
conservation of energy can be broken if Temporal symmetry can be broken.
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by weswpg 5y ago
> He was assassinated for his role in leading the Iranian nuclear weapons program, not for his scientific achievements. Recall that America withdrew from the anti-nuclear weapons agreement with Iran, that Iran's Ayatollah has decla
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by weswpg 5y ago
Content that is inauthentic and/or misrepresenting the origin / source is definitely troll material
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by weswpg 5y ago
The article literally talks about retired generals tweeting. that sounds incredibly mundane
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by weswpg 5y ago
Why is the area referred to as "the west Indies" unless he thought it was India
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by weswpg 5y ago
Again, Columbus was not a very clever man.
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by weswpg 5y ago
Are you suggesting that we should take moral cues from our enemies? Or that normalizing peacetime assassinations won't have an obvious destabilizing effect?
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by weswpg 5y ago
Assassinating scientists makes you happy?
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by weswpg 5y ago
> I can tell you beyond a doubt people are mostly (99%) reasonable And yet, actual fascist governments have come to power even in nominally democratic countries . People might only be "reasonable" when left to their own device
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by weswpg 5y ago
> Aviation authorities swiftly implemented new regulations that required two authorized personnel in the cockpit at all times, but by 2017, Germanwings and other German airlines had dropped the rule. happy?
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by weswpg 5y ago
How many people do you encounter? In which parts of the country? How much do you know about their political views? How do you know whether someone is a Nazi if they don't announce it? You could have met plenty and not known it. Or your
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by weswpg 5y ago
Unions have been on the decline for decades going back to the deregulatory and anti-labor policies of Neo liberal governments and that probably has a lot more to do with the problem than pronouns
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by weswpg 5y ago
in your quote, it says that private businesses and political parties are making these decisions. that's likely done as part of their regular screening processes.
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by weswpg 5y ago
I think the point was they had no way of knowing, and that free will is real so it is wrong to punish someone deemed to be fated to crime.
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by weswpg 5y ago
> > about half of the homeless people are too mentally troubled/addicted to be able to handle an apartment. > citation needed To fully qualify the statement made by the person you're replying to: I would argue that it is
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by weswpg 5y ago
The article directly contradicts your assessment, though of course it is still unverified.
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by weswpg 5y ago
and then the BSG-style cycle of <!SPOILER ALERT!> humanity's renewed rise followed by another inevitable fall at the hands of artificial intelligence
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by weswpg 5y ago
This video [0] argues that most Australians fail to understand how the system works and that the mainstream political parties actively mislead voters into thinking that their voice is "wasted" if they vote for a 3rd party [0] htt
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by weswpg 5y ago
I think you're making an assumption about the assumptions of the person you're replying to. Many voter beliefs are implicit and how we express our political preferences can sometimes be reducible to a simple matter of group allegi
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by weswpg 5y ago
and then the next line clarifies that only the last part of the whole story was a joke: > #6, however, was quite real, so people went to work. Bezos assigned a couple of Chief Bulldogs to oversee the effort and ensure forward progress,
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by weswpg 5y ago
i have to drag and drop from the note list to link my current page to another
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by weswpg 5y ago
> opening up all the best parking spaces. Funny quote, but I don't think front-line infantry have the best parking spaces. That would be the flag officers.
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by weswpg 5y ago
> These fear mongering comments about data collection have never demonstrated real world harms Notable examples: * Strava revealed the position of US military bases * Muslim prayer apps sharing location data with US military In my own ex
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by weswpg 5y ago
The Red Scare began in the 1920s, long before nuclear weapons were invented, so the threat of nuclear war was not the primary determinant factor characterizing that situation

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