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10mo ago
The part I struggle with is, how does a society argue against compassion?
By showing that what is claimed is compassionate is not really so.
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10mo ago
I can’t imagine David Mitchell needs too much of an excuse not to leave the house.
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10mo ago
What is tpot?
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11mo ago
The hope is that the decimated services immediately switch over all their efforts to the critical stuff because they’re decent people who don’t want grandmothers to starve to death and leave the makework to one side.
That’s a very optimistic view of government agencies. These are the same institutions that close federal parks every time their budgets are threatened. It’s more likely that they will withhold the vital care grandmother needs so that the whole world will see how necessary they are and how evil the people who are trying to take away their money are.
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1yr ago
I think part of the reason the comment count was low was because the thread wasn’t pinned, so people didn’t see it and posted in the main thread.
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1yr ago
What can be seen as more surprising, this story was revived in 2014 by Eric Raymond on his blog and reaction of libertarian both left and right tended to be positive and affirming.
Off topic, but is esr blogging anywhere? I used to read his blog, but haven’t seen anything from him since his website died.
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1yr ago
• (Related tidbit from outside this particular hearing: Senator Bill Cassidy, Bernie Sanders’ Republican counterpart on the Senate HELP Committee, has complained that we have a shortage of trained nurses partially because many states require nursing colleges to be taught by nurses with masters degrees, who are few in number and already mostly working as practitioners. I can buy this because in my experience looking into other healthcare issues, state level regulations often do make federal laws go much less far. For example pricing transparency rules don’t really matter when states allow hospitals to be monopolies.)
• Democrats responded that the rule provides $75 million in grants to train nurse aids, and also pointed out that Democrats repeatedly have tried to boost federal spending to help with this kind of training and hiring but Republicans were opposed soooo.
So the states restrict training more than is federally required and the response is to give them more federal money so the state can get out of the problem they caused? Seems wrong.
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1yr ago
I think their point is instead of Israel saying straight out, “Arabs can’t have guns”, they prefer to make it harder for everyone to get guns.
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1yr ago
They get married in the Shades series, which seems to support the theory that a woman’s fantasy includes marriage.
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1yr ago
If you click on view source you can still see the original version.
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1yr ago
I don’t have a twitter account, mostly for my own sanity. One of the worst new features is that if you are not logged in to twitter you cannot get a chronological feed of an account, it sorts by most popular, which is more than useless. (You can change it if you’re logged in).
Also, unless you’re logged in, you can’t click on a link to a twitter comment and read the replies. Only the actual tweet is displayed.
On the other hand, This has caused my twitter usage to go down to less than a minute a week, which is great.
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1yr ago
If the hospital is the site of a military installment, the number is not unnecessary, just excessive.
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1yr ago
https://www.dailywire.com/news/so-heres-giant-list-all-dumb-stuff-ive-ever-done-ben-shapiro
That article is the first on his list of dumb stuff he’s said, and retracts.
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1yr ago
Ben Shapiro famously tweeted that "And by the way, I don't give a damn about the so-called 'browning of America.' Color doesn't matter. Ideology does." But of course, when it comes to Israel he massively cares about demographics, although he can hide behind the unique fact that membership to his "ideology" is genetically inherited.
It can be very easily argued that ben Shapiro’s problem with hamas is ideological. He often mentions that there is a large amount of Palestinians living in Israel. I haven’t heard him say they need to be removed.
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1yr ago
It seems to me that the solution will involve the Israelis taking control of Gaza’s airspace with extensive armed and unarmed drone surveillance.
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1yr ago
It does not explain why Saylor Swift earns so much (it's not like she works 1000x harder or puts in 1000x more hours)
She provides more than 1000x the value. Do the same exact production, with the same exact experience, but substitute Taylor Swift with a random woman singing the same exact songs. How much of the stadium would be full? How much would each ticket go for? I would say much less than what it is now.
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1yr ago
Super Supportive on royal road. It may be the best I’ve read on the site.
The story blurb, while accurate, doesn’t do it justice. The author excels at fleshing out characters, and making you really care for them. Just finished a major arc a couple weeks ago, so it is a great time to jump in.
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1yr ago
And, as the saying goes, the man who divorces his wife and marries his mistress leaves a job vacancy.
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1yr ago
There is a writers strike going on now, so even if they had the story plotted out the can’t do any rewrites or punch ups.
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1yr ago
Didn’t the family get $700000? The author of the book probably had his own separate deal.
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1yr ago
The format of having a “3 act” country song, where the words of the chorus are the same, but the lyrics of each act change the meaning of the chorus is very popular in country music.
I can only think of a couple examples off the top of my head right now, but there are a lot more.
Kenny chesney’s there goes life
Tim McGraw’s Don't take the girl
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1yr ago
Why did Cameron feel the need to plug in an invented romance, I have no idea. Wanted to make a chick-flick? Who knows.
Here's 1.8 billion reasons why. I remember when it was in theaters, and many of the women I knew went to see it multiple times. The music video was blared non-stop on MTV. It wasn't because they were moved by the sacrifice of the men in first class.
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1yr ago
in addition to the other reasons given in this thread, Peter Parker wasn't race swapped. He was replaced with another character, Miles Morales, After Peter Parker was killed. All this happened in an alternate universe.
Also, it is very common for conservatives to be initially upset about something, but after a while they accept it. Miles Morales was introduced over a decade ago. There definitely was some complaining at the beginning.
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1yr ago
too many spaces after the greater than sign, so it is doing both a quote and code block (I'm assuming). Looks like the line height for code is messed up.
Just quote:
Again and again, why do people keep on jumping to race as the most accurate way to filter for being able to integrate?
Just code block:
Again and again, why do people keep on jumping to race as the most accurate way to filter for being able to integrate?
Both:
Again and again, why do people keep on jumping to race as the most accurate way to filter for being able to integrate?
If each bill was only one item that would be a huge improvement. Want to pass a 6000 page bill? Break it up into 6000 items and vote on each one individually.
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