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pusher_robot
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11mo ago
What I would do is buy a new hard drive and install it, and keep your old hard drive attached as a second disk (if you have the room) or in a drawer, to serve as a backup. Before you shut it down, though, go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11 and choose the option to create Windows 11 installation media. This will let you use a USB thumbdrive to create a Windows 11 boot device. You should be able to then boot off of this USB drive and step through the relatively simple installation wizard to install it on your new hard drive. You should not need a product key at this time; you can activate it later if you want to and you may actually discover that there is a product activation linked to your Microsoft account. If it's not nagging you about activation, you're good to go. And if you don't mind the nagging, you can actually continue to use it this way, albeit some nonfunctional things like customization options are disabled.
Note that if you install Home, you are basically required to log in with a Microsoft Account, and it's difficult to avoid even with Pro. In know plenty of people are ideologically opposed to it, but IMO it's not worth fighting Microsoft over and actually provides some nice benefits (i.e., roaming files, synchronized browser profiles, that kind of thing.)
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11mo ago
Fallen Angels maybe?
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11mo ago
It is, however, still outside the Overton window and not supposed to be publicly stated.
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11mo ago
Good point. Let's remember he was the prominent keynote of a major Biden fundraiser and made a prominent public endorsement. He's too close to the campaign itself to even joke about that kind of thing.
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11mo ago
Ordinarily yes but obviously this is a loophole in the 7th Amendment if violation of that law is an element of the crime, and the judge can simply rule that law to be constructively violated.
Consider two laws: a law against disorderly conduct, and a law against wearing a mask while committing a crime. And the prosecutor brings a case against you for the charge of wearing a mask while committing a crime, accusing you of committing disorderly conduct while masked up. You definitely were masked up, but deny that you were disorderly. Should the judge be allowed to simply rule that you were committing the crime of disorderly conduct for the purpose of this prosecution, without ever proving the elements of the crime, and despite you never being charged with disorderly conduct?
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11mo ago
It seems like the simple and obvious solution would be for social media companies to set user post visibility to friends only by default, though with something like Twitter its basic premise is that you are posting for everyone to see.
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11mo ago
Neither, it's may-guh. The same vowel sound as in "make".
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11mo ago
Yes, I think the key distinguishing factor between Nazism specifically vs. nationalism or fascism generally is the belief in social Darwinism and eugenics at the volk-scale. They genuinely believed that a glorious future awaits, when the best and brightest and strongest dominate the world and mold it for the betterment of all. It's one reason so many killed themselves at the end: they had fully internalized that in losing, their inferiority was manifest, and so suicide was not just practical, but a moral duty to humanity.
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11mo ago
In this case I think it depends on what is being pushed. You have to keep in mind that this is a security tool specifically promising and designed to implement rapid defense against zero-day security exploits. Holding off for a week or so on a threat under active exploitation is not what they are being paid for.
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11mo ago
538 is a model, only slightly based on polling
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11mo ago
Possibly to prevent a new VP that might be forced upon her by the Congress, so she can run with whoever she wants?
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11mo ago
I agree, I think there's a much likelier chance that Biden is very upset at what happened and is just not being very cooperative with the people who engineered his ouster
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11mo ago
It's certainly plausible that there are recordings of him saying that in some other context. Though to what end, I don't know. Certainly they couldn't maintain such a rude all the way to November, and I don't see what a week or two would buy, other than maybe fake endorsements from a candidate who then tragically died.
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11mo ago
This is why I never skip out on jury duty.
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11mo ago
It's tautilogically true that, without their most valuable assets, most people have a pretty low net worth.
I actually find the complete reliance on public pensions and no IRA or 401k like the vast majority of Americans a little concerning.
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11mo ago
Not a Beatles song though
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11mo ago
If you have money, you could use a good chunk of it (on the order of tithes) to support political candidates (or oppose bad candidates) who see things your way (or not) . That's more effective, especially at the most local levels, than voting alone.
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10mo ago
It would if apportionment was based on voting records and not census data.
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10mo ago
You're not counting all the rules which might have been imposed, but weren't due to the practical considerations of an armed population. That which is seen, and that which is unseen.
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10mo ago
It depends on what tools you have or are willing to get.
Got a microwave? Literally stab a potato, put it in the microwave, and press the POTATO button. Baked potato comes out. Add whatever fixings are in your fridge.
If you like vegetables, get an air fryer. Toss your raw veggies in olive oil and seasoning, and then roast them in the air fryer.
Or, get a hand-powered food processor. Drop in some chunked tomatoes, onion, cilantro, peppers, garlic, salt, and lime juice, and process. Delicious salsa comes out.
Or, get a small rice cooker. Add rice and water, dump in other veg or meat as you feel like, and start. When it is done a little while later, you have a meal.
Or, get a countertop sandwich grill (i.e., George Foreman style). Grab a boneless chicken breast or pork chop, season, and put it on the grill for 5 or 6 minutes. Eat while hot.
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10mo ago
Literally just aggressively prosecuting and sentencing violations of the firearm restriction laws we already have on the books would go a long way to solving the problem. If a felon with a firearm goes away for 10 years, they're not going to be robbing people on the street for a while. Instead we have a strong demand for gun laws that can be used on the mostly law-abiding, because otherwise we end up prosecuting too many of the wrong demographic.
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10mo ago
The mechanism by which this occurs is the forced divestment of ownership in the form of taking the company public, which means the company will be run by a board of directors who can be much more easily controlled.
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10mo ago
I'm not so sure. The media hate machine has, I think, been extremely effective against Musk. I think most Americans would enjoy seeing him in jail.
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10mo ago
Buying a tesla is hardly a vote on the personal approval of its CEO. People just don't look at major purchasing decisions that way.
In the case of executives, I think the explanation is generally that time opportunity cost of exercise is not worth the benefit, and I would guess that social and stress eating is a factor.
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