Okay. I had a really good username that exceeds 25 characters. But this will do.
Also thanks setting this up, coming from a long time pre-Motte culture war roundup poster.
Edit: 2 posts in an someone's downvoting everything. Both of us are at zero. Please consider abandoning reddit voting. Having an option to downvote at all is too much for most.
Edit 2: Someone sent me the reddit suicide report message. From 'System', so they are abusing baked in features. Really off to a dramatic start.
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2yr ago
Also testing. Just made an account.
Can the user name length rule be expanded to 35 characters?
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2d ago
After the previous two turds I did bother watching that one. I'll give it a look.
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4d ago
almost any other group of people when they have any choice to mate with Europeans at all
Potential counter example: my white former classmates, former coworkers and current coworkers.
There aren't that many Asians in America, but they seem to be preferred by many of the white people I know. The pairings I notice far exceed any expected amount not explained by a large bias in each others favor. I also married one, so I'm not judging.
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7d ago
Orthodox Jews believe in bodily resurrection. Which means they want their bodies kept intact. No organ donation or cremation, etc. They don't think God makes a fresh new body for you. It is your current body brought to life.
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12d ago
I took years of public school Spanish class. In one class we left school and walked to a local taqueria.
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27d ago
I live in a suburb. Almost all roads are 1 lane each way. A few major roads are 2 lane each way with 3rd turning lanes at intersections. I have never in my life even second hand known someone who died walking around a suburb. American pedestrian deaths due to cars has exploded in the past few years, it has reached a peak of 0.0000220 likelihood per person per year of dying by being hit by a car while walking.
Our road infrastructure is not that overwhelming. The freeways are 4 lanes each way.
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1mo ago
send the landlord’s bailiff around to collect taxes with a bullwhip to handle the delinquent serfs
That or a pack of dogs bred to ensure complaince from reluctant taxpayers.
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1mo ago
The project started with a tax to fund it. That has lasted to this day. Depending on how high an electricity bill is, a progressive tax is applied to fund this program.
https://pwp.cityofpasadena.net/undergroundfaqs/
Q: How is the Underground Program funded? A: Initial construction costs are funded through an Underground Surtax on electric bills. As of now, the Surtax ranges from 1.21% to 4.34% of the total charges depending on your monthly electric usage. For a typical 500 kwh-per-month residential customer, the Underground Surtax is about $44 per year.
$44 per household per year does sound anemic. Some resident asked if they could double it to make the project move faster. City leaders say no, other constraints prevent moving faster.
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2mo ago
white liberals who unironically believe this is a railroading because their brains fell out.
They're the only group with significant outgroup bias. And they outnumber black Americans. Naively I would expect most donaters to be them.
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3mo ago
what evidence is there that it rises to the severity of "an issue?"
None at all, obviously. Was this a serious request for "evidence" of common speech terms being applicable?
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3mo ago
They did not find him in a vacant house. The home owner had security cameras and says he didn't see anyone entering the house the day of the murder. The murderers first saw Arbery on a public street. In a town that's majority black. They assumed Arbery must be a burglar and murdered him.
Some people discussing this years ago added a lot of fictional information to the situation that would justify killing a burglar in self defense. But resisting that urge and sticking to what actually occurred makes this unjustifiable murder. As confirmed by criminal trials.
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4mo ago
Talk security theater. A blanket defeats that sort of razor fencing. But I suppose they have motion sensors, cameras and a neighborhood armed security team.
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5mo ago
1 day worth of American driving deaths is around 120 people. I think a "disaster" should be something larger than a couple days of typical accepted fatalities.
But of course this is subjective and neither I nor netstack can provide a definitive answer.
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5mo ago
Yes, his list is his own writing.
I mean:
I'm not going to read an AI-generated post. But I did ask an AI to summarize it in a few sentences, so I get the gist.
[who] "a cabal of CIA and military leaders," ... would choose to install as their puppet
I would guess it would be a Pinochet situation. The cabal would rule and select one of their own to be the figurehead†. "Let's loop in Kamala" wouldn't cross their minds. Some public facing cabal member would be the new official leader. A Smedley Butler for 2025.
†Mild academic Pinochet of course seized control and his co-conspirators lived in fear of his wrath and never got the chance to co-rule with him. But I think Americans could pull off a ruling council that doesn't degenerate into helicopter rides and torture camps.
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5mo ago
Congress has enormous taxation and spending powers. Federal courts recognize this obvious fact.
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6mo ago
infinity low-wage legal immigration
Nah, just continuing the status quo of limited skilled immigration. And an unrelated decrease in border crossings, which I appreciate.
continued funding for Ukraine and Israel
Hell yeah.
continue the Trump corporate tax cuts
Hell yeah, but even more this time.
increased military spending to counter threats from China and Iran
We need to be able to defend ourselves. I don’t like deficit spending, but at least this has a purpose.
and Trumpian shitposts
I like internet drama. I'm looking forward to my cup overflowing soon. He mean tweeted away the Patriot Act. May he mean tweet away many other things I dislike.
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6mo ago
I've already been very clear that I'm talking about amount of shared alleles.
No you haven't. You're strictly wrong about genetics.
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6mo ago
In contrast the English have about 88% genetic similarity with Southern Chinese
This is so obviously and enormously untrue. Orders of magnitude off from a justifiable statement. Can we start defining our terms for what counts as related or genetic closeness? People here must be using very idiosyncratic understandings of these terms in order for their posts to make any sense.
Thank you for quantitatively stating this unlike other poster's baffling and wrong subjective statements about genetic similarity. The lowest outliers of estimating the genetic similarity of humans and mice are in the mid to high 80%s. I strongly suspect that Englishmen and Asians are more closely related than humans and rodents. In what manner do you mean 88% genetic similarity? How did you type any number other than 99.9%?
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6mo ago
To be very excessively fair, they weren't unbanked, they just had business accounts closed. They still had access to regular personal banking. And Operation Choke Point equally targeted individuals selling porn and other vices. This wasn't anti-conservative but rather anti-whatever-Obama-and-his-staffers-and-Dem-appointees-didn't-personally-like. Which doesn't ease my libertarian heart.
If they got caught with less than a gram of wax in an airport? Straight to jail.
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