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Obviously this frat-boy shit is dumb, but if you had to figure out if someone was a real American or a spy, this would be an excellent way to do it.
Like if someone said "I eat musli" or "I like grape nuts" you could go ahead and shoot the spy.
yesman Now • 66%
“If I should die, think only this of me: that there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England,”
Even their poetry was imperial and expansionist. Oh well, at least this gives me some context for that Roger Waters song.
yesman Now • 75%
Yes, that's exactly how it works. It just seems normal because it's on Law and Order, but threatening people with prison is coercive.
The Proud Boys have an initiation ritual where new members are beaten by the group until they can recite the names of five different breakfast cereals.
yesman Now • 42%
I collect irony and lefty outlets putting criticism of American Journalism behind a paywall is delicious.
yesman Now • 83%
You're gonna have to explain how a public defender has the power to jail anyone. Prosecutors coerce people to take deals thousands of times every day. Not only is that legal, and normal, the system would collapse without it.
yesman Now • 4%
You know, in communist countries they have no respect for private property rights.
yesman Now • 75%
Or is this Lemmy being pro-war?
Supporting Ukraine's violent resistance is not pro-war any more than shooting a robber in your home is pro-crime.
yesman Now • 33%
Corporate has asked me to tell the difference between these two pictures....
yesman Now • 87%
OK, the Utility is getting a loan against expected future payments by Microsoft. So, if all goes to plan, MICROSOFT IS PAYING FOR THIS!
yesman Now • 100%
Existential horror has calories?! Never mind potato chips, philosophy made me fat.
yesman Now • 100%
"Semite" is as archaic (and accurate) as "mongoloid" or "Aryan". It's no matter that it uses language as a proxy for blood. Reformed race science is still race science.
yesman Now • 20%
Where is the extraordinary claim? Pigs have been unmasking bitcoin owners for years. And the tools they use wouldn't be out of reach for an amateur detective or journalist.
There are laws and regulations to keep people out of your Visa statement, but the bitcoin ledger is pubic for anybody who cares to look.
yesman Now • 43%
These laws don't make BDS illegal, they make it so that businesses who contract with the state must not engage in BDS. This is a common tactic (usually employed by the left) to push business to do what they want, often when a law requiring it would be unconstitutional.
An example of this is preferential contracting to businesses owned by poc.
Also, I'd argue that the popularity of these anti-BSD measures have nothing to do with their effectiveness.
yesman Now • 100%
Through no intervention or design, the market creates perverse incentives that only benefit a few. So the solution is to fiddle with the incentives?
Ya ever notice that "market reform" schemes always seem like negotiations with an angry god? Sometimes I think that ancient civilizations would be much better understood if we stopped referring to the "priest class" and started calling them economists.
yesman Now • 95%
Y'all better get used to this shit. It's only a matter of time before the hot girl in class or at work can be your personal onlyFans model. Your going to have a fight with your partner over something your chatbot said to them. People will marry, divorce, and leave inheritances to their chatbots. You will run into your ex out shopping with a version of you.
yesman Now • 100%
which comes from the same family as Ebola and has a fatality rate of nearly 90 per cent.
The Telegraph
The average fatality rate is around 50 per cent, with rates varying from 24 per cent to 88 per cent in past outbreaks depending on the strain of the virus and quality of medical care.
Also the Telegraph
yesman Now • 87%
If you oppose the Kim regime, expanded internet access in NKorea would be a wise goal.
yesman Now • 100%
You should never adopt a pet you can't care for, and this mother was wise to foresee the vet bill for this high-maintenance kitty.
yesman Now • 100%
Violent criminals tend to be young, like solders, and for the same reason.
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I hate that when I abandon a comment, the annoying little "are you sure you want to leave the page?" dialogue pops up.
In recent events, I learned that some pagers only have receivers. How are discrete messages sent to these devices? How is it authenticated? How do they know the device got the message?
I have a recipe that calls for a dough to be autolysed (long bulk ferment while stretching and folding the dough). I'm fortunate to have access to a stand mixer. Is their any advantage to doing the autolyse? Should I just kneed it in the mixer to save time?
When Florida changed it's law to allow ex-felons to vote, I remember reading that the legislature put as many roadblocks as they could. Felons must complete all sentences, fines, and restitution before they can vote. So any sentence or sanction that can't be fulfilled by November should exclude him from Florida's rolls, right?
Yes, I think a creationist is closer to the truth than the social Darwinist. We can at least agree that the former does far less harm to society.
My calendar application changed the method to add events and broke my workflow. My workaround: I typed basic schedule info into Perplexity and have it convert the data to a CSV file and import it.
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