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Let me put it this way: I would sooner see that $50 million spent on cancelling American student debt (and I find that idea also reprehensible) than on condoms for foreign countries. At least then it's American tax dollars spent for Americans.

I also object to giving Israel (or Ukraine for that matter) GBU-12s, they can buy that shit from us at fair market price if they really want them.

Foreign aid should only be the result of us having surplus monies that we cannot figure out how to spend ourselves.

Middlemen like town criers and nowadays "journalists" were useful when distributing information en masse quickly was a tremendous if not next to impossible logistical challenge.

Today when anyone can get information straight from the source instantly, we do not need these middlemen. There is no reason for this to be an NYT link, nor any other middleman link.

The less players there are in the game of telephone the more accurate the information will be.

Practically all laws, rules, and regulations in aviation were written with the blood of those who, well, sadly had to embrace the Earth so to speak.

On the face of it they may look discriminatory, especially the age restrictions, but the FAA will be more than happy to cite objective and scientific evidence supporting them which were, again, written in blood.

I'm going to head this off right now: This was between the pilots of the American Airlines flight and the Blackhawk, and the ATC at Reagan. Short of the controllers being literally understaffed, which I assume is not the case, the focus of this investigation should be what the sincere hell happened in the air there.

This was a wholly preventable incident, hell this should have not happened period. Something likely very basic and fundamental failed catastrophically, and we need to figure out what and why. Bringing politics into this at this stage is unnecessary and deleterious noise unless findings implicating politics come to light.

>Most people don't give a shit.

I think it's more accurate to say most people can't (and don't) care about big monetary figures.

As far as Joe Average is concerned, ChatGPT cost $OoomphaDuuumpha and Deepseek cost $RuuunphaBuuunpha. The only thing Joe Average will care is the bill he gets after using it himself.

You're only strengthening my argument.

An ambitious man isn't going to care what some "studies" say about how bad and sad and evil the world is. He's just going to do what needs doing and enjoy the fruits of his labors.

You're never going to succeed if you let others' negativity beat you into submission. You're literally in the company of people who create and invest in startups. Who cares what bad things others are saying, it's your life.

>WD mixed both CMR and SMR

I was a fan of WD HDDs before and I was in the market for some drives for my new NAS a few years ago. When I checked what drives were on the market, I saw WD doing that while Seagate still clearly marked which drives were which.

I swore off WD that day because my time is too valuable for their bullshit. I have no clue if they have amended their marketing, but I don't care since as far as I'm aware Seagate still clearly marks them and the drives I bought from them have all been fine. I'll likely buy Seagate again next time I'm in the market.

This oft repeated notion that any vote outside of The One True Approved School of Thought(tm) is "not democracy" is dangerous.

Regardless of the process, a voter's vote is a vote and the sum of the votes (including voters who do not vote, "I don't care." is a valid vote) is the democratic will of the people one way or another.

Also, if you truly do want to argue that voters should vote a certain way then you should plainly say so instead of being disingenuous.

Public schools being extensions of the government can't teach religion without violating the guarantee to not favor certain religions over others.

That being said though, the US is in practice a Christian country first and foremost and that's likely not going to ever change.

That depends entirely on your own perspective, namely if you're ambitious or wallowing in despair.

America is a free country, the country and indeed the world is what you make of it. Nobody ever said living free was easy.

Non-native speakers can sometimes speak better English than native speakers, but on average that is generally not the case.

It's also worth pointing out that "reading" here seemingly does involve English specifically and not English and Spanish or whatever other language(s) overall.

A massive influx of immigrants who likely don't speak English natively, regardless their legality, is inevitably going to cause a drop in English literacy rates unless it's controlled for and I think it's a question worth asking because the methodology isn't immediately obvious.

Because there are two unstoppable laws of the universe:

Physics.

Laziness.

Forget authentication, I know some people who leave their car key in their car and their front door unlocked because they can't be arsed.

Not only is it a bad headline, it's false.

The name of the linked bill is H.R.25 - FairTax Act of 2023.

As evidenced by the name, the bill was introduced to the House on January 9, 2023. Who was President in 2023? Joe Biden.

I am flagging this thread because it's fake news, I hope gniting gets a stern warning from dang for this.

>I built a house without codes or inspection for $30k

You will, of course, not be able to get insurance nor sell the house later on, among many other hurdles related to liability.

Not dissing the idea of DIY, to be clear. Just noting for the audience that freedom is power and power is responsibility.

As I understand the medical science, it all comes down to stimulating the brain and there is no harder stimulation than physical feedback. Lack of mobility means lack of the biggest source of brain stimulation, which leads to accelerated degeneration.

In the immortal words of every generation entering their middle age years (~30 years old and up):

"New music is shit. Kids these days have no taste."

The rhetoric should be "You wanna play? Then declare peace with your enemies.", not "You wanna play? Let's see what bullshit we can craft so you can play without making peace." leading to nonsense like Americans and Russians playing despite literally waging war, and so on.

>in the spirit of celebrating peaceful achievement. Maybe a much smaller take on it would go back to those roots.

It is blasphemous that countries actively waging war or passively engaging in proxy wars or other conflicts (eg: trade wars) get to play in the Olympics.

The first requirement to participating should be that the country is at peace with others, in the literal sense. Yes, this is going to evict like 90% of the world including countries like the US, but this is a philosophical hill worth dying on.

>It feels like we've been tip-toeing in the direction of multi-host Olympics.

I wish they would just pick one place to hold their shenanigans and stay there.

Yes, I hated the bullshit that occured behind the scenes in 2020 Tokyo and hope one of the most cancerous and corrupt organizations ever never shits up Japan again.

My sympathies to any athletes who sincerely just want to play and compete, but the event itself is trash.

>Is it not still better to just avoid using all this energy though?

No, especially if there are ulterior motives of mUh eViL IA!111!1!one! as alluded to by parent commenter.

If people have problems with "AI" they should bring forth their concerns frankly on their merits, not coat it with tHiNk Of dA kIdZ! and appeal to emotions.

>Just because people waste a bunch of energy, water, wood, etc doesn't justify using it however you want,

Whoever "wastes" them is paying for them, generally speaking. If they really are concerned about the waste they'll stop of their own accord.

>Because I'm not trying to criticize Elon Musk here,

But you (and others like-minded) are. You're latching on to a Nazi salute you've projected onto him and trying to use it as the point of criticism. You yourself just admitted you "see [a] perfect sieg heil", even.

>It seems like you agree that the motion is identical, but you are saying that it is a sieg heil but not a 'nazi salute'

He did it while shouting "My heart goes out to you!" to the crowd, so it's not a "sieg heil" either. If he's saluting anyone/thing at all, he's saluting the people and the spirit of America.

I couldn't care less if it's identical, though if you really want my honest opinion on judging that: I wouldn't think of Adolf Hitler as the first thing; then again I don't have my mind in the proverbial Progressive gutter either.

>elon musk "does not" support racism, advocate for cruelty, regulate speech, or centralize power.

Yeah, or to rephrase: In what ways is Elon Musk a Nazi? In the true, real, proper sense of the term "Nazi". Not the dirty word "Nazi" that gets thrown around like candy on disagreeables.

What I think you need to ask yourself is: Why is "Nazi!" the first thing that comes to your mind and is that really justifiable?

You're quite welcome to hate Musk if you want to, I have no problem with that and Musk can defend himself if he feels the need. I couldn't care less. But I am concerned for your mental health if you need to scream Nazi allegations to justify it.

>the far right party in germany on january 9th, talked about immigration,

Yeah, being against rampant immigration(?) is a very Nazi stance. Sure.

Naw. There's nothing Nazi about wanting to control or restrict who comes into your country; entering a country as a foreigner is a privilege, not a right.

As an aside, efforts to exclude AfD from elections is what is actually Nazi about German goings on. It's not really my place to speak about Germany's domestic affairs as an American, but if you want my honest opinion the German Left is projecting on the Right with authoritarian fury.

>said germans need to get over their nazi guilt,

Speaking as a Japanese, in my opinion Germans should indeed get over their Nazi guilt. History should never be forgotten and the lessons should be taught and remembered, but to drag that guilt across generations is ridiculous. Children are not responsible for the sins of their parents, let alone farther back.

Japan needs to get over Imperial Japan guilt and be proud about being Japanese again too; Japan's case isn't quite as bad as Germany's but there's still a ways to go.

>Do you have a description of what kind of evidence would convince you someone is a modern nazi or 'poor character'?

There are many, some that come to mind include:

* Support racism. Hitler was big on elevating what he called Aryans as the One True Race and exterminating Jews with extreme prejudice.

Musk (and Trump, Republicans, as well as most sensible Americans for that matter) advocate for meritocracy, judging people by their character and capabilities without regard to race or other immutable traits because All Men Are Created Equal.

* Advocate for cruel and unusual punishment. The Nazis used gas chambers and other torturous and humiliating methods of maiming and killing.

Literally noone here in America wants that shit, and those who do are rightfully shamed into oblivion (see: Guantanamo, et al.)

* Advocate for and engage in regulation of speech and thought. The Nazis are a textbook on how to control a population to their bidding, even the Soviets drew lessons from them.

Musk has his share of hypocrisy (why aren't you picking those to criticize him over?), but fundamentally he argues and acts for free speech. Likewise Trump and most Republicans, and certainly any American who understands and respects the Constitution. Some Nazis they/we are.

* Gathering and centralizing absolute power.

Musk's job in Federal government is on a strict and temporary schedule set to expire in July 2026, and he doesn't even have any actual authority. That's not a Nazi, let alone a Fuhrer. Likewise Trump who has consistently advocated for States' rights and reducing the Federal government especially the Executive Branch, and Republicans who have always spoken as the party of small government (whether they are is a different matter).

Citing Nazi ideology without invoking Godwin's Law requires actual, real Nazis to be the subject of debate. Please stop calling everyone and everything you don't like Nazis at the first opportunity, you don't realize how hard you are shooting yourself in the foot by doing so.

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"Pr0n" is classic internet slang that predates onerous censorship let alone "apps".

Being generous, it could be there's NSFW imagery in there? I can't be arsed to dig into a mountain of scientifically named links, but you can find troves of pr0n among other things in Wikimedia if you know where to look.

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As far as my Chromium is concerned, it identifies as a...: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

The only thing it doesn't identify as is Internet Explorer.

(Yes it's an old version, no I will update when I feel like it. Shush.)