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What a poseur.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=owYClOcZsCg&t=222s

She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all (www.theguardian.com)

Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky – as if shot in low light by someone who had zoomed in on Madi’s...

profdc9,

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - Orwell, 1984

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C. Thomas: Even though I have covered myself in shit, please do not say I stink. It’s unfair!

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The CCP can artificially depress the value of their currency and subsidize their industries indefinitely. They are doing this on the backs of their workers, who should earn more for their labor. They are doing this because their own workers are too poor to provide sufficient domestic demand for their consumer goods, however, this strategy just makes their workers poorer, exacerbating the problem. Chinese exports should be used to make their economy self-sustaining, but they just perpetuate economic bubbles and malinvestment that cause economic stagnation. Neither domestic nor international commerce has never been free of interference or fair.

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I don’t think whataboutism ever helps anything. American subsidies and bailouts has not resulted in better consumer choice. However, choosing options that are due to dumping isn’t going to produce sustainable industry either in China after the subsidies there end. The only real solution is to actually make practical electric vehicles at an affordable price.

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I just took a Core i5, 6 GB RAM laptop from 2011 and reinstalled Linux Mint and put in a 1 TB SSD. The difference between that and Ubuntu 23.10 and a 750 GB 5400 RPM drive was like night and day.

profdc9,

“Humanity can not progress without heaps” - Hubert Farnsworth

profdc9,

I think free will is an illusion that a brain creates to aid in human perception. This illusion is an evolutionary adaptation so that a human acts to preserve its body and its genes by perceiving its person as distinct from other persons and the environment.

profdc9,

Not high enough on the Aryan-o-meter for Coulter.

profdc9,

It’s a big improvement from making them from straw.

profdc9,

Afghanistan is not the place if you want to see Buddhist monuments.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan

profdc9,

Having children doesn’t make sense in a capitalist society, because children cost money without producing anything. Parents have to compete with non-parents for housing, employment, energy, and transportation, while having less to bid on these items because they are paying to raise children. Extinction is inevitable because the future, neither the environment nor its inhabitants, have value in the marketplace.

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You would think that with all those kids watching, Xi would lean into the whole Winnie the Pooh resemblance.

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Somehow many people think that they were better off with the six year old. And because the fed was not attempting to tighten credit so much with Trump as president, they may not be wrong.

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The average voter probably is most concerned about the effect of the economy on him or herself. If you were laid off because tight credit caused your company to fold, or to have refinance expensively, or had to pay a large dividend or do a stock buyback to compete with other capital investments, to you things haven’t been an improvement. Most voters don’t understand the idea of the rule of law, but they definitely understand being out of work, or being forced to take a lower paying job or having to work in the gig economy. Do you wonder why Trump has supporters? If you don’t want to bother to understand the voters, they don’t really care about what you think either. I think Trump is poison to our country, but I also know that people vote for him for a reason: he at least pays lip service to what concerns them.

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I don’t think every Trump voter is a rabid racist, and macroeconomics do matter. They just don’t think the government, or the Democrats, or the other Republicans give a damn about them. They are alone and just want someone to tell them there’s someone to blame, and someone is going to make them pay for their suffering. Trump is their winner that champions them, or so they think, because no one else gives a shit about them. Does Biden convince them that the government really cares? Not a chance. Voting for Trump is exploiting the blind anger many people feel because of their powerlessness. If you want to win an election, you tap into that. People don’t really care what Trump says, they are desperate and angry and want to have someone pay for their suffering.

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It’s the failure to understand why voters opt for Trump which is why Trump wins elections, more so than Trump’s qualities. No one cares what these voters think, and so why should they care about what you think or how you want them to vote? These people think, just not how you want them to, or have the same concerns you do. Treating them as subhuman simply pushes them into the arms of demagogues and dictators.

Creating a self-contained binary (www.github.com)

I have a program (fldigi, pointed to by the github link) that uses dozens of shared libraries. I would like to be able to distribute a pre-compiled version of the program for testers. I could require each tester to install the shared libraries and compile the program for themselves, however, this would be extremely difficult for...

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The problem is that I don’t have static versions of most of the libraries available.

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Like many southern states, there is much natural beauty in Texas. It doesn’t seem like many of the locals realize what they are blessed with.

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They still have huge ports and oil refineries going for them. Until the Permian Basin is drained.

South Dakota governor, a potential Trump running mate, writes in new book about killing her dog (apnews.com)

The Guardian obtained a copy of Noem’s soon-to-be released book, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.” In it, she tells the story of the ill-fated Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer she was training for pheasant hunting....

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The point is to show she can intentionally and decisively be cruel and mean, especially to an animal under her custody. This is seen as a desirable character trait to Trump’s followers.

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This seems so incredibly ill-advised. If students become martyred by trigger-happy snipers, these protests will boil over into open violence. Imagine thousands of videos flooding social media in an instant showing student corpses. I fear that gasoline has been poured and matches are being lit everywhere.

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It’s glorified gambling, not investing in companies to provide them capital so they can generate profits and reward shareholders. I can’t really sympathize with people to make money gambling or speculating for that reason: they didn’t do anything of value or provide anything of value to someone who needed it or could use it, they just took a risk and happened to win.

profdc9,

Damn it feels good to be a dolphin.

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