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flipht,

Hello from kbin. It's nice over here.

flipht,

It's not the best, nor is it the only. It's one aspect across the entirety of human enterprise, and unlike an individual person, countries and societies are able to implement multiple initiatives at once.

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So they called the cops on a mentally ill man suffering from paranoia and having some sort of feeling around his dead brother?

Seems like a recipe for disaster. This is 100% why cops shouldn't be the go-to solution for non-compliance.

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It's not hard.

Cousin # = # of generations back to your shared direct ancestor - 1.

So if you share a grandparent (2 generations away), you're 1st cousins.

removed is how many generations away you are from each other.

So if your parent is first cousins with someone, you're first cousins once removed. You're second cousins to their kids. You're second cousins once removed to their children.

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Because they are immersed in an ecosystem that pretends that respect for human dignity and unearned respect for authority are identical because they use the same word.

They believe that others should respect the innate authority they feel they should hold as men. Simultaneously, since they don't get that, they don't feel like they need to respect other people's right to exist.

And then a group promises them everything they've ever wanted, if they are willing to do fascist shit. Of course they're into it.

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It's usually bags of money and pallets of equipment that go "missing" and find a new home with a warlord.

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I don't think you can expect rational discourse from a collective concern.

Some people will agree with you. Some people will disagree, because at the end of the day, if you're willing to vote for someone even when they don't do what you like, then they have no incentive to consider anything you like.

Neither position is wrong.

Our system, which sets up two bad options, is what's wrong.

This is ultimately a false dichotomy. We operate as if there are only two options, because no one person has the power to fix this, but instead of recognizing that the system is broken, we blame each other for not going all in on what we all admit is problematic.

flipht,

Why do people tap their breaks in the left lane when passing someone slower on the right?

Please stop. Tap your breaks if you're signaling something going on in front, or if you need to slow down faster than just taking your foot off the gas will slow you.

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I usually say oof when the conversation is a trainwreck I wouldn't want to contribute to.

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Butter is a little looser - the dough clumps around the chips but otherwise it's pretty smooth. Too much sugar is stiffer, and it's kind of folded over itself in places.

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So they amend their constitution. During a war. To force people into the streets to vote.

How does the government make sure the election is fair? Some people won't be able to vote due to danger. Some will be attacked. Some areas are occupied, and the occupation lines may change during the election.

If they tried to run an election now, Russia would publish their own results showing that the occupied areas voted for Putin. Trying to run elections is hard enough in normal times, doing so with Russia literally holding a large swath of your country is impossible.

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Again, what good would this do if you are in a war torn country that cannot secure its elections?

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Yeah, and they'll probably side when the accused abuser, even though they didn't give a single fuck when it was people accused of nebulous terrorism ties not being able to fly.

Warplanes strike Gaza refugee camp as Israel rejects US push for a pause in fighting (apnews.com)

Palestinian health officials say Israeli warplanes struck a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens. Sunday's strike came as Israel vowed to press on with its offensive to crush the territory’s Hamas rulers, despite U.S. appeals for a pause in fighting to get aid to civilians....

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This. Pretty much every company that does business with the US or a US state has clauses in their contract about "boycotting" Israel, poorly defined on purpose.

It's not your imagination: Companies are more willing to raise their prices now — and it's because we let them (www.cbc.ca)

Supply chains, worker wages and the price of energy has been blamed for the current bout of high inflation. But central bankers around the world are starting to clue in to something consumers have been aware of for a while — corporations just aren't afraid to raise their prices anymore.

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We already have those. It's called EBT/food stamps, and we just outsource it to local grocers and philanthropy food banks.

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The only thing they actually care about is how they're perceived by the rest of the cult.

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She claimed she'd face undue hardship because it's during the school week.

What?

She's got a husband. I bet she still has a nanny - she mentioned having one in her book. She's got two brothers that aren't going to be testifying at the same time.

The kids will be in school for 8 hours, and literally any one of those people could watch her kids for the remaining time. Normal people have to deal with this all the time.

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No, I read one of the many ridicule reviews that are quotes pieces. In this quote, she said that most of the good pics she has of her kids came from the nanny during the day.

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Republic refers to the method of representation. Democracy refers to how those representatives are selected.

They are not mutually exclusive.

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100%. Most business is just advanced sophistry at this point. Marketing and advertising serves a useful purpose for new products, when the market isn't aware that it exists.

But by quantity and cost, most advertising is just social manipulation and is effectively an extra drain on the economy.

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Republicans made a deal with JFK to phase out mental health hospitals and replace them with community based facilities that had a more home like atmosphere.

They did the gutting part.

Then JFK was assassinated.

Republicans decided that they didn't have to do any more after that, and LBJ used most of his political capital to get the voting rights act passed.

That's why our mental health system is so broken.

If republicans wanted to fix the system, they could start with funding the VA. Many of our troops wind up with mental health conditions due to their time in the service.

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The beginning of the drop in crime coincided with the "Broken Window" model of policing that new York and other large cities adopted. They like to claim credit.

But it also dropped in small towns that didn't have the same trendy police tactics.

The best explanation I've seen is that abortion became protected, so miserable women weren't forced to give birth in terrible conditions, and subsequently there weren't as many impoverished, abused children that turned to crime.

Guess we'll find out in a few years as the unwanted pregnancies start to tick up and economic mobility continues to stagnate.

flipht,

I saw one program that Rick rolled Bluetooth device lists.

flipht,

They want to be authoritarians, whatever flavor they have to be to have power.

They don't want anyone else to have power over them.

So when they're in the out group, they'll ramp up the persecution narrative, and when they're in power, they'll ruthlessly repress everyone else.

All makes internal sense, if you're an asshole.

flipht,

It's social media in the technical definition - it's a place to view media, both entertainment and news, with commentary, groups, the ability to follow someone, etc. Which makes it social.

But yeah, it's not quite like Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn. A little bit like Twitter though.

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No matter what we do or suggest, troglodytes are going to look at the step up or downstream from that and claim that nothing matters because nothing is "as good" so why bother.

Reject nihilism.

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Its literally colonizing though. It's sending their citizens to build settlements in areas that do not belong to them.

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They can sue a company doing the corporate media thing very successfully, because it doesn't directly fund them....but they can't hold gun manufacturers, oil and gas companies, etc. accountable for actual harmful effects.

Is social media good? Hell no. But it isn't illegal. These kids can literally work in factories again, be married off to pedos, and these people are faking outrage to distract from all of that.

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Janeway beats them both

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I played initially on PC - occasional glitches but overall fine for a game at launch.

I think console players had a lot more issues.

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Some countries make their penalties a percentage of income. Makes the sting equal for everyone.

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I don't think anyone told him he couldn't buy it.

The board of Twitter is who sued to force the sale, since musk had kicked himself in.

That doesn't mean his offer and subsequent behavior with the company isn't market manipulation to be investigated, which is being done by the government.

Both things can be true. He stupidly kicked himself into a deal he was forced to complete, and his behavior since has indicated that he's just gaming the market since he had to complete the deal.

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True. And we can't legislate our way out of this. Any legislation we proffer and make happen will be weaponized against the poor.

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It's all the same thing. He "offered" to buy Twitter and then tried to back out. Market manipulation.

The board of Twitter forced the sale, because they had every right and responsibility to their shareholders to do so.

Now he's wrecking the company seemingly on purpose. Market manipulation.

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Take genetic samples and create some patriot bears.

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Alan Moore, who wrote Watchmen, was trying to make this point through his media, but he also explicitly stated it in interviews. He was like, "Y'all do realize that superhero stuff is fascist power fantasy, right? You shouldn't like this stuff as an adult."

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Yes. They withhold taxes, and at that point it's all in the highest bracket, and you haven't had the cash to get a bunch of credits and deductions.

Some lotteries offer an annuity style payout, over 20 years. This can reduce the tax implications over the whole life, but inflation and not having the money invested can eat it up.

It's a trade off that would be great to have to worry about.

Army Corps of Engineers to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater a day as saltwater intrusion threatens New Orleans-area drinking water (www.cnn.com)

The US Army Corps of Engineers is planning to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater daily into the lower Mississippi River near New Orleans as saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico continues to threaten drinking water supply, officials said Friday....

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New Orleans and Louisiana could stop this by making the chemical plants use river water. Pull as much as you need, filter it if you need, and that's that. Right now they pull from the aquifers because they don't have to filter it.

NASA aims to destroy an Empire State Building-sized asteroid (interestingengineering.com)

Astronomers have been closely monitoring Bennu, which swings close to Earth every six years. However, the real cause for concern arises from the possibility that on September 24, 2182, Bennu could collide with our planet with a force equivalent to 22 atomic bombs. While the odds of such a catastrophic strike are estimated at 1...

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This guy dark forests.

Wyoming ranch accused of abusing children, unsanitary conditions will now operate without inspections (www.nbcnews.com)

A Wyoming ranch accused of abusing children and forcing them to perform manual labor lost its license earlier this year after state officials documented a litany of safety and sanitary violations. But the ranch found a way to stay open and will no longer need a license to care for children, a development that has alarmed youth...

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Sounds like the real traffickers/groomers. What the actual fuck.

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Exactly. You can't act like classrooms should be sacrosanct while simultaneously harassing other students. Makes no sense on its face.

Further, how likely is it that the harassment is only after school hours? If you can talk shit during the school day, you can take the consequences during the school day.

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The controversy comes days after it emerged that education officials had sent a threatening letter to the parents of a boy who had complained of being bullied by classmates for months, saying their public statements complaining about the bullying were “unacceptable” and urged them to adopt a “constructive” attitude.

The boy, identified as Nicolas, 15, later killed himself on 5 September in a Paris suburb, one day after pupils went back to school after the summer break.

Oh, got it. So they fucked up real bad and are now trying make this about the police response so no one will question why they helped a bully kill his target.

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Either he means what he says and can endorse products, or he's mentally ill and we need to give him grace or whatever the fuck and he should seek help.

If he's unstable and we shouldn't believe what he says, why the fuck are you offering him deals?

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If you're going this route, use the same logic they do: nature preserves that sell rights to hunt big game, to find the preservation.

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My concern is that if you can drop tens of billions of dollars on a single acquisition, what's to stop you from spending "just" one billion to manipulate the situation to put your target in a vulnerable situation?

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He put in some, financed more, and got backers for the rest.

Some of his backers were involved with competing projects.

In addition, he and they will eventually be able to take a loss, which they can carry forward to reduce their future tax liability.

And while all that plays out, he gets to use it to empower fascism, which also will probably be used to make him more money via government contracts.

If ever the government tries to stop him, he can now claim free speech violations.

flipht,

If you look at policies, people overwhelmingly support policies, initiatives, laws, etc. that progressive groups champion.

If you look at how people rate themselves and people they know, they will simultaneously say that they are all moderates or conservatives.

Politicians further misunderstand the overall lean of their constituents, because the loudest and most consistent voices are regressives screaming that all conservatives are with them.

Add to this that progressive groups tend to be focusing on actually doing the things, while regressives can quickly build a fantasy world and just all agree to repeat it ad nauseum, and you've got a perfect storm for people to not have any good way to actually describe the world they want to live in.

flipht,

Our entire society is set up to wring out anyone who is unfortunate enough to find themselves buying anything.

And as resources get squeezed, more and more people are trying to claw at smaller and smaller pieces of the overall economic pie.

The breaking point will be catastrophic.

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