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by yyuugg 2y ago
Palm oil cultivation is wildly harmful in many cases. And palm oil is not a replacement for olive oil.
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by yyuugg 2y ago
Have you spent any times with bees? Beekeeping really changed my opinions on bees. They are quite industrious and very gentle.
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by yyuugg 2y ago
Are those body builders controlling for other variables? Changes in diet, exercise, performances, routines, etc? I'd believe any number of things could correlate with body builders as they spend a lot of time changing their bodies.
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by yyuugg 2y ago
I believe it's possible to improve things. I don't think this is an example of a material change. I, personally, find both the incoming and outgoing administrations to be truly repellant. But where it makes sense to do so, I will
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by yyuugg 2y ago
Civil asset forfeiture, including by the DEA, is still very much a thing. Having a President end it in airports affects some tiny fraction of the broader problem. And it only ends it until a future admin un-ends it. I could see both democra
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by yyuugg 2y ago
Exactly what I'm saying!
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by yyuugg 2y ago
The U.S. has funded terrorist organizations since forever. You think this is novel?
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by yyuugg 2y ago
Maybe if your leader is a dictator and it looks like you are losing, defecting might be a better option than fighting to the death for a leader who doesn't care about you.
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by yyuugg 2y ago
I don't know that I agree with this characterization. Was Assad particularly stable? Was he able to prevent rebel groups effectively? HTS of today might be different from HTS of the past, but that's very much could be just their p
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by yyuugg 2y ago
If by "for years" you mean "since its inception" then yes, 100% agree.
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by yyuugg 2y ago
Did they stop it? Maybe in airports, maybe. The practice is still very much alive.
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by yyuugg 2y ago
In general, I find the concept of originalism to meet this criteria. Especially as originalist justices are turning to tradition over originalism. The bend from "the words as originally written" to "our traditions" is
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by yyuugg 2y ago
So... nationalism? We like our surveillance state and demonize their surveillance state?
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by yyuugg 2y ago
It's absolutely pseudo science. People love it, and it's useful as a tool to recognize "different humans problem solve differently", but like, taking it more seriously than that is a problem.
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by yyuugg 2y ago
This ban has always felt so silly. If it's privacy and data harvesting as a concern, don't a million apps do that? If it's anti-China sentiment, why TikTok and not a million other things? If it's about protecting elect
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by yyuugg 2y ago
The latter, but it's always been the latter. But usually they've been better at using the former to hide the latter. Recently, there's been a much thinner veneer of "legal principles".
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by yyuugg 2y ago
I'd be shocked to see a leftist still on Twitter, tbh. I'm sure there are plenty of Liberals, but I doubt there are many Leftists.
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by yyuugg 2y ago
I talk about MySpace and Digg regularly, they are unpopular, and they are the exact thing happening here. I think we're in the interregnum period between X and whatever picks up the crown.
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by yyuugg 2y ago
Then it's a good opportunity for you to reflect on why it doesn't make sense, go and educate yourself a little. Congrats, you learned you need to learn a little today!
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by yyuugg 2y ago
X, as a platform, is absolutely cooked. I'm sure it will remain around the same way Truth social is around. A small group of right wing folks will hang out there and argue to their last breath that it's more free speech or somethi
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by yyuugg 2y ago
The author might be wrong. It can actually be racist in ways beyond "African people are genetically inferior." I didn't find the author to be particularly deeply invested, they seemed to want to score some points over "s
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by yyuugg 2y ago
This CEO, in particular, has almost certainly taken actions that resulted in preventable suffering and death. To some degree, that's the nature of running health insurance companies, but if he put profits ahead of patient outcomes, I t
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by yyuugg 2y ago
I don't think this ceo should be killed. However it's absolutely the case that this ceo has taken actions that resulted in the deaths and suffering of others. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if someone lost a family mem
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by yyuugg 2y ago
Gun owners don't call them silencers. Movies call them silencers and non gun owners watch movies so that word has entered the lexicon. But it's extremely incorrect-- suppressors don't silence guns. Suppressed firearms are sti
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by yyuugg 2y ago
I don't think the parent poster is doing that, I think they are pointing out that when the ai products are faulty and result in the predictable deaths or suffering of people, someone out there might get angry enough to make bad choices
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by yyuugg 2y ago
Double check my thesis. Hint: It was not a judgement on the problematic nature of these laws. We can discuss that elsewhere if you want, but that's fairly orthogonal to the discussion. Stronger hint: my thesis was focused on which grou
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by yyuugg 2y ago
Case in point, Elon Musk thinking Grok thinking he's cool means he's cool, lol.
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by yyuugg 2y ago
This is some cursed shit. "Dance for the computer, it will judge you". It reminds me of the npc streaming from a while back. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/npc-streaming
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by yyuugg 2y ago
But also, "Terrorists". The label the state will apply to anything they dislike. See organizations like Food Not Bombs being called terrorists in Florida for handing out free food.
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by yyuugg 2y ago
Oh believe me, I do. The democrats are absolutely complicit. But noting Reagan as an inflection point is also important because it humanizes the span of time. It was not "always like this". It happened because of one admin. It can

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