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21hr ago
According to reddit Trump is a rapist. Adjudicated civilly liable for rape or whatever phrasing they use. We're far past that in the minds of his opponents.
Including the particle accelerator I linked above. They sold the idea to congress on a budget. Then blew by that budget repeatedly asking for more and more money. Then were cut off.
More examples: For around $20 billion you can make zero particle accelerators and zero miles of Californian high speed rail*. So for about twice the cost of fuck all they made reusable rockets. I'd say that's a good deal.
*I'm only counting the cost so far. The total cost for zero miles of high speed rail will balloon past 100 or 200 billion longer term depending on which estimates you use and assuming they keep running the money furnace that is the high speed rail project. Someone is getting that money so I predict they'll keep destroying billions this way.
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3d ago
The true ratfucking would be to dump this the day after the filing deadline. This is the Democrats defending themselves from the upcoming Republican oppo research dump.
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3d ago
Craftsman tools were the last set you'd ever have to buy.
Long ago I read website that broke down how Craftsman tools degraded in quality. The example being an old and a new adjustable wrench. By every criteria the old one was great and the new one a minimum viable product. So I'd say yes, but mostly because the brands abandoned us.
ranging from primitive block voting and mass protests to filling important positions with your members who are actually qualified to fill them
Indeed and there's a dark side to this. They can take over local school boards. Busses full of Hasids show up with however many are needed to win the school board election. They then loot the school district for their benefit in opposition to everyone who sends their kids to public schools. Their kids don't attend public school, so ruining public resources like this isn't their problem. I'm shocked some of things they do are even legal. Such as shutting down public schools and then selling the buildings to themselves at ultra low prices in order to make yeshivas for cheap.
Infamous and well documented example at the East Ramapo Central School District in New York. Great radio report about it.
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8d ago
Cell phones undergo rigorous SAR testing demonstrating that they don't significantly heat up your body tissues. I don't think this is a valid concern.
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9d ago
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9d ago
In practice mixed families do a way less strict version of it. Parents when talking only to the kids use their own language, but mostly talk in a common language if both parents are present. There's a non-dumb way to handle this.
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9d ago
In Chinese the word "that" is nei ge (nay guh). But Chinese people tend to not enunciate the "nay" and instead says what sounds like "nih guh". They also use it instead of "uh" or "um" as filler sounds. I once had a coworker say it a few times in a row like "nih guh nih guh nih guh" while talking to another Chinese coworker. She then saw me and laughed and said "I'm not talking about [our black coworker]." This was in the US.
Anyways I always use zhe ge (jih guh) as an alternative.
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9d ago
I know a few mixed race families with hapa kids. I'm in one for one thing. I've never heard of this. There are families in which one parent speaks in another language to children, but all communication involving both parents is in English; such as mine. These people are taking it way to far.
Unrelated but I find it funny that calling someone a halfsie is treated like it is racist, so instead we call half-Asians "hapa" which is Hawaiian for "half". We call them halfsies in another language and that's somehow different.
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10d ago
just like they don't oppose Israel or the Jews
They're in the news going hard on this since October 7.
I recall how Romney and McCain were smeared as right wing extremists. The Romney campaign publicly asking the Obama campaign to please decrease the use of Nazi and fascist rhetoric and imagery to attack him.
We had moderate Republican candidates. We know the vitriol they get and how gracefully they lose. Trump didn't appeal to the center and was equally smeared as a fascist, but he got more votes than Kamala.
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10d ago
They accused Kennedy of being a communist? Because that's what I hear about Mamdani when I turn on the radio.
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10d ago
If someone says you hate "the US and West" they don't mean you hate the geography or natural resources. It is the people, culture or institutions that would be the objects of hatred.
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10d ago
Manchus and Mongolians more or less did this to China. Armies of conscripted (enslaved?) Chinese assaulting Chinese fortifications under the leadership of foreign conquerors. Mongols who don't know how to build seige weapons motivating more technically inclined Chinese people to make and deploy them.
I think auto-correct corrected away "Schelling point". But yeah, in the context of Westeros, they kind of have scheming points where all the back stabbers gather together to betray each other.
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12d ago
Our modern school system cannot handle teaching kids Spanish. They take years of Spanish class and no point can any of them speak Spanish. I don't think they have what it takes to teach ancient Greek.
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12d ago
I don't even trust most high school teachers to properly understand it
We had the littlest bit of Bible reading in my high school long ago and I recall my teacher having quite the shallow understanding.
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12d ago
In my high school in a blue district of a blue state we read Genesis chapter one. The King James Bible was a major influence on the written English language and is suitable for study in an English class. Which I understand is different than mandating teaching exclusively Christian theology.
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14d ago
They had 22 shot .46 caliber rifles before the Constitution was written. Not full auto, but as semiautomatic as they could make it.
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14d ago
I read an article about midwives in Texas writing false birth documents for Mexican babies wrongly asserting that they were born in the US. The Obama administration let this slide. Trump did not and suddenly these people are screwed. Some grew up in the US and are not legal residents.
Mr. Platner at a Women's March
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