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5hr ago
Sure. But he also gets no points for making statements against interest.
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1d ago
A majority can vote to remake or suspend the rules at their discretion.
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1d ago
Ah, you appear to have Acrobat Reader installed which is what adds that (as well as the Share option). Microsoft isn't really to blame here, I think. They've done nothing except make it possible for third parties to integrate into Word. They may even have been legally required to do it.
FWIW, you don't need Acrobat Reader for general PDF reading.
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1d ago
I don't recall having seen this. Are you sure this wasn't something bundled from the hardware OEM?
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1d ago
Being from Wisconsin, Brandy is my #1 liquor. Most frequently to fortify hot tea, nog, mulled wine, or even just hot water and bitters. But also brandy, bitters, ice and soda for a refreshing sort of an old fashioned. In the dog days of summer though I'm more likely to reach for a G&T as a cocktail.
But overall, good light lager is just the best. You can drink it at a reasonable pace almost indefinitely while maintaining a warm, good-feeling buzz. Just about my favorite way to spend a summer afternoon is at the park beer garden under the oaks, with a book and a block of cheese, drinking a couple of liters of Spaten or Hofbrau helles for several hours.
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2d ago
Again, we can do any of these things.
This is the part that is wrong. We actually can't do any of these things, at least not to any degree of scale and competence. There are too many veto points, too many interest groups, and too many fief-building bureaucrats for anything that requires coordination beyond an executive order. And, there is insufficient faith in competent government execution and trust in expertise even if these things were not true, such that it would probably fail from lack of good-faith cooperation anyways.
That doesn't mean that tariffs are better than nothing. I appreciate Althouse's dictum that better than nothing is a high bar. But for all the people who cry that we have to do something, well, this is something and it can be done.
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2d ago
I mean, that depends a lot on the attorney's fees.
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2d ago
The question is not whether the left has suspicion and dislike of the Chinese, it's whether that level of suspicion and dislike is lower than the levels of suspicion and dislike of the right in their own country.
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2d ago
Not really! Remember they did comply with the regulations, filed required paperwork, and received required approvals. What they failed to do is make actually safe aircraft regardless of compliance status.
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3d ago
Indeed, I try to keep "90% of everything is crap and always has been" in the front of my mind whenever talking about history and especially when I feel the creep of nostalgia.
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3d ago
That's just the normal state of democracy, I think.
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4d ago
How many processes depend on gravity at all? How many require specifically 9.8 m/s^2?
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4d ago
Food processor
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4d ago
They seem to be coming around though!
https://x.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1906727995307381025
Summary: TracingWoodgrains ran a poll for both left and right respondents, asking if they'd rather have their opposite running the world vs. China.
For left respondents, China won handily, opposite for right-responders. Obvious selection bias and all, but troubling. The days of substantial fifth-columnism may be returning.
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4d ago
Probably not to the rights as such but to the court-invented magic incantation that replaces any actual inquiry whether and to what degree the rights were actually violated.
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4d ago
Not OP, but perhaps United States v. Texas
In 2021, after President Biden took office, the Department of Homeland Security issued new Guidelines for immigration enforcement. The Guidelines prioritize the arrest and removal from the United States of noncitizens who are suspected terrorists or dangerous criminals, or who have unlawfully entered the country only recently, for example. Texas and Louisiana sued the Department of Homeland Security. According to those States, the Department’s new Guidelines violate federal statutes that purportedly require the Department to arrest more criminal noncitizens pending their removal. The States essentially want the Federal Judiciary to order the Executive Branch to alter its arrest policy so as to make more arrests. But this Court has long held “that a citizen lacks standing to contest the policies of the prosecuting authority when he himself is neither prosecuted nor threatened with prosecution.” Linda R. S. v. Richard D., 410 U.S. 614, 619 (1973). Consistent with that fundamental Article III principle, we conclude that the States lack Article III standing to bring this suit.
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4d ago
Having no redress to those abuses - e.g., nobody has standing has to challenge or slow-rolling proceedings until the case is moot - is using the court system.
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8d ago
I really don't think that's enough for them. If it was just about body modification, then appeals to autonomy would be fine and a sensible position. But they want more than that. They want the right to do want they want, and make everyone else approve of it. They seek self validation from external sources and are sad at not getting it. Hence the moral blackmail.
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9d ago
Looking for new books as I approach the end of the Harry Bosch series.
A genre I really enjoy is "competence porn," in which a character or characters overcome challenges and trials via being really good at what they do, either against the uncaring Universe or against an opponent who is also really good at what they do. This was always the appeal of Star Trek, and in books I've enjoyed Andy Weir's novels, the earlier Took Clancy books, Bosch and Reacher, Starship Troopers, Sherlock Homes, and nonfiction like The Right Stuff and Failure is Not An Option. Looking for suggestions of a similar nature.
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9d ago
Second this. Expanse does a great job of crew as family in a fascinating evolving world.
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13d ago
It's simplistic but there's https://slowroads.io/
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13d ago
If battery life is a top priority, you're probably going to want something based on an M-series chip (Mac) or Snapdragon (Windows). The Snapdragon devices are still pretty new. Microsoft has them in a version of the Surface Book: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-laptop-for-business-copilot-pc/8tkcbz02bdvk
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13d ago
Well now they have the option of becoming women.
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14d ago
Factorio maybe? Exploration is not strictly required but is beneficial if you want more resources to exploit.
But the motherboard wifi is not talking to the LTE tower. Presumably there is an LTE device that bridges your private network with the Internet. You should at least hardwire the connection from your PC to that device.
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