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1d ago
I just googled it and they disqualified 74 out of 80 candidates in the previous Iranian election. Of the handpicked few the Guardian Council chose, voters may pick one.
Iran holds sham elections in which only candidates approve by the Guardian Council may run. Women are of course invited to vote in these sham elections. Their voter turnout tends to be very low in protest of not being allowed to select candidates. But they can certainly vote for the undesired candidates foisted onto them.
A quick googling finding an article describing their last major election:
Tehran, Iran – Six people, including parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, have been approved to run for the snap presidential election on June 28 following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.
The Guardian Council, a constitutional vetting body, approved former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani to run, but 74 others were not, marking another election with wide disqualification of candidates.
6 out of 80 would-be candidates were allowed to run. Of those 6 regime approved candidates: voters, including women, can have their pick. The other 74 candidates can fuck off because it is not a real democracy.
Same thing in other non-democratic nations. Of course adult citizens have the right to vote for only candidates pre-selected by the ruling party. That's how it works in Iran, China, etc.
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3d ago
will the shooter be charged with a state crime in Minnesota and will he be able to avoid that charge?
He'll avoid it. Lon Horiuchi, the FBI sniper in Ruby Ridge was charged with murder, because he is a murderer, but the case was thrown out.
https://famous-trials.com/rubyridge/1142-idahovhoriuchi
the Supreme Court has held that the Supremacy Clause cloaks federal agents with immunity if they act reasonably in carrying out their responsibilities. See In re Neagle, 135 U.S. 1, 75
There's an if there, but my call is no state murder trial.
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4d ago
I would counter by: if my employer feels I violated my NDA, they are free to sue me. It is a private dispute. We don't need a tangentially related criminal law to deal with it. The feds don't even know the contents of my NDA.
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5d ago
People here posted the actual grading rubric and went through how this wasn't a zero given a reasonable interpretation of the grading guide.
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8d ago
Destroy her smartphones for starters. Not punch her, but use appropriate punishments.
Marco Rubio is hawk against Venezuela and Cuba. I think he convinced Trump to do it. He is Trump's Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. He finally got what he desires.
There's a decade plus of Rubio saying we need something like this. Article from last month: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/rubio-cuba-venezuela.html
Edit: Looking at Trump's photos during the raid: it is Trump and Rubio sitting together at Mar a Lago watching a screen.
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21d ago
I've said it before: women seeking sperm donors transform into hard eugenicists. It certainly a revealed preference of some sort.
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22d ago
That article is right on point and 15 years later on the dot. Neal Stephenson called it, yet again.
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22d ago
There's also the minor subplot about his woke ex-girlfriend in academia. Including him getting dressed down by her academic friends for his privilege enabling him to learn a technical skill by reading a book and practicing. He made the mistake of trying to explain his technical skills as a result of study and practice rather than unearned privilege.
It is like mockery of tumblrinas, but 15 years early.
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24d ago
This was more or less stated in a new parents' class I took long ago. Presented as advice to put your baby to bed properly even if you are really tired. Don't fall asleep in a chair holding them.
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24d ago
According to the new parents' class my wife and I took long ago: most SIDS is probably accidental suffocation. Like a parent falls asleep holding their baby and rolls slightly pressing against their baby's face. Something like that.
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24d ago
Indeed you will, but that's because we don't build enough housing. GreatAI (or lack of useful AI) is not to blame.
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24d ago
He outright dismisses Darwinism and the theory of evolution
Many years ago one of my Chinese coworkers asked me if I believed in evolution. I said I did. She said she didn't and another coworker agreed with denying evolution. Both professional workers with degrees.
Googling it, I see around 2/3rds of Chinese people accept human evolution.
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25d ago
Or as a modern sage once explained:
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab@redhat.com wrote:
Are you saying that pulseaudio is entering on some weird loop if the returned value is not -EINVAL? That seems a bug at pulseaudio.
Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP!
It's a bug alright - in the kernel. How long have you been a maintainer? And you still haven't learnt the first rule of kernel maintenance?
If a change results in user programs breaking, it's a bug in the kernel. We never EVER blame the user programs. How hard can this be to understand?
To make matters worse, commit f0ed2ce840b3 is clearly total and utter CRAP even if it didn't break applications. ENOENT is not a valid error return from an ioctl. Never has been, never will be. ENOENT means "No such file and directory", and is for path operations. ioctl's are done on files that have already been opened, there's no way in hell that ENOENT would ever be valid.
So, on a first glance, this doesn't sound like a regression, but, instead, it looks tha pulseaudio/tumbleweed has some serious bugs and/or regressions.
Shut up, Mauro. And I don't ever want to hear that kind of obvious garbage and idiocy from a kernel maintainer again. Seriously.
I'd wait for Rafael's patch to go through you, but I have another error report in my mailbox of all KDE media applications being broken by v3.8-rc1, and I bet it's the same kernel bug. And you've shown yourself to not be competent in this issue, so I'll apply it directly and immediately myself.
WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!
Seriously. How hard is this rule to understand? We particularly don't break user space with TOTAL CRAP. I'm angry, because your whole email was so horribly wrong, and the patch that broke things was so obviously crap. The whole patch is incredibly broken shit. It adds an insane error code (ENOENT), and then because it's so insane, it adds a few places to fix it up ("ret == -ENOENT ? -EINVAL : ret").
The fact that you then try to make excuses for breaking user space, and blaming some external program that used to work, is just shameful. It's not how we work.
Fix your f*cking "compliance tool", because it is obviously broken. And fix your approach to kernel programming.
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30d ago
Shanghai people have the same wealth and comfort as in Western cities
I worked there for a bit. No they don't.
and in addition complete safety
One of my coworkers got robbed in Shanghai.
Points well taken about the lack of drug addicts wandering around.
And I'm way, way freer than them. Let's have some perspective here.
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30d ago
There was a weird interview with Bernie Sanders years ago. A journalist asserted he was an Israeli dual citizen in lead up to a question. He cut in and said he is not an Israeli citizen. The journalist pushed on reiterating that he is a dual citizen and tried again to ask Bernie about his foreign loyalties. He couldn't answer and just repeated that he is not an Israeli. Such an awkward exchange.
The demand for 'ZOG' exceeds the supply. People want an explanations such as dual citizens with divided loyalties composing a significant portion of Congress. That's not true in a factual sense, but it feels right to them.
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1mo ago
A few time longer and much slower pace. Snow Crash is quick and action packed. Cryptonomicon is very much not. I prefer Cryptonomicon, but it is quite different.
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1mo ago
Now imagine how poorly American pedagogists would behave if they could run wild and never answer to voters or parents. Which is my response to BurdensomeCount rather than Tyler.
I'm deeply skeptical of would-be technocrats. Self appointed "experts" aspiring to shape society free from petty concerns like consent from the governed so consistently go against my preferences. This happens to be a good example of the "experts" not clearly aligning with broader societal preferences, expectations or goals. Maybe American school administrators are especially unaligned with any positive societal outcomes and BurdensomeCount is fairly pointing out how British schooling is well managed by competent professionals. That's certainly not a point in America's favor given how school administrators seemingly run rampant. But that is especially not an argument for why they should be freed from the last bit of voter influence over them.
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1mo ago
I have jogged miles through Shanghai late at night because I missed the last train. Eventually came across a taxi and the smoking teenager driving it who was not the guy on the taxi license took me the rest of the way to the hotel.
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1mo ago
schooling should be run by professionals
In a better world yes. Unfortunately some of our professionals like to ban teaching phonics and think Gender Queer is good content for 8 year olds. I like having a democratic veto over these people. If the school board goes looney enough then they can be voted out. As a taxpaying voter I get a say.
I generally liked it, but it was too long. Around the end of hour 3 the story has wrapped up. Then it keeps going for another half hour or so.
Also way to dark. I could barely see what was going on in parts.
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