yucky

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by yucky 3y ago
Why would the government care if you're left or right, as long as you are a faithful consumer.
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by yucky 3y ago
> he had finally started focusing on violent crime instead of, “quality of life” crime like shoplifting and vandalism. Why not both?
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by yucky 3y ago
Worked in New York.
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by yucky 3y ago
> this disregard for the English language is truly despicable. You ought to be ashamed. I mean, you brought race into it and implied I would care more if it happened to a white woman. That is the textbook definition of race-baiti
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by yucky 3y ago
> Tell the world you will stop development until alignment is figured out. Oh alignment was figured out already, look at who is on the board of OpenAI and the connections they have to US intelligence.
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by yucky 3y ago
This is a tremendously naïve take on the situation.
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by yucky 3y ago
Everybody knows it's safer to live in the country, but that's not the argument he's making. He's saying it's also safer to live in any other city. I don't know if it's a great methodology though, going per
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by yucky 3y ago
Talk about a bad faith argument. Nobody took away NY Times blue check except themselves when they refused to pay for the subscription like everyone else. Just like they won't let me view their articles without a subscription, so they s
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by yucky 3y ago
A garment district holds no strategic value, so that wouldn't necessarily carry over to manufacturing.
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by yucky 3y ago
Shady sourcing = the actual laptop and the contents which later proved to be 100% correct. Also, Zerohedge was banned for quite awhile for the same thing.
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by yucky 3y ago
You want to increase depression, this is how you do it. People need shit to do, and as much as we lie to ourselves that everyone is a budding artist who if only freed from the bounds of work would create the worlds next masterpiece - that i
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by yucky 3y ago
> companies can potentially produce 10 times as many products/services How exactly is that a good thing? We already consume too much, now we will have 10x as much to consume? Unlikely that demand for "the things" g
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by yucky 3y ago
They banned NY Post for reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop and the contents showing "10% for the big guy" in reference to his father getting kickbacks on some shady Ukrainian and Chinese deals that Hunter facilitated.
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by yucky 3y ago
> despite the fact that their bill was basically Romneycare. Romneycare was a plan built for one particular state, one of the main problems with the ACA was trying to replicate that state-based plan across 50 states that all have
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by yucky 3y ago
> Millions of innocent civilians in the middle east aren't as happy about it though.
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by yucky 3y ago
So it's no different than it was before, so what's the problem?
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by yucky 3y ago
I think most people against censorship are still against it. I just find it ironic that the people who supported censorship before are now up in arms.
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by yucky 3y ago
I'm old enough to remember when we were told Twitter isn't the government so this isn't a free speech issue and if people don't like it they can build their own platform and blah blah blah.. Does that still hold now?
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by yucky 3y ago
As we've heard millions of times before when the shoe was on the other foot, this is not a free speech issue. Even more so now that Twitter is a private company.
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by yucky 3y ago
Someone else mentioned this, but there are a couple million government employees, a change in Administration doesn't really impact that in any meaningful way because the federal government is absolutely massive. NPR does have a bias to
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by yucky 3y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by yucky 3y ago
I disagree with this completely. I've been spanked a couple times by dang and it was warranted both times. And although I felt I was correct in what I posted, the tone wasn't right for this place, hence the warnings. That sort of
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by yucky 3y ago
> I'm sure Trump's blatant attempts to do so as confirmed by several members of his own administration are particularly outrageous to you. Strange that you didn't mention it. Yes, a bunch of Trump's dealings a
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by yucky 3y ago
Bail is designed to ensure you show back up for proceedings, and to protect the community if you present a danger to others. If you don't present a danger to others and you aren't running anywhere, then personal recognizance makes
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by yucky 3y ago
You didn't answer the question. We promised to give a billion dollars, then threatened to withhold it if they didn't do what we wanted. That is not a gift or a donation, that makes it a bribe. That was also a clear example of coer
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by yucky 3y ago
So which one is this an example of - not coercion or not bribery? Or not both: https://www.wsj.com/video/opinion-joe-biden-forced-ukraine-t...
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by yucky 3y ago
> Unreliant on Chrome? Correct, completely forked from Chromium (not Chrome) and in separate development. Brave continues to roll out superior features while the rest of the Chromium world lags.
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by yucky 3y ago
> What do you think diplomats do? Well, large parts of our diplomatic corps tend to foment and finance coup's around the world. We're pretty smart about it though, first we bring in the NGO's like The National Endo
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by yucky 3y ago
Remember when people were cheering that the Biden Administration added 87,000 new IRS agents. Surprise surprise..
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by yucky 3y ago
Brave is a separate fork and completely unreliant on Chrome. It also is the most privacy-focused browser so it's the opposite of "tracking-supported software".

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