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Paywall :/

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That’s a very long-winded way of saying Trump is in Russia’s pocket and didn’t like Biden’s interference in Russian-driven corruption in Ukraine ahead of their invasion.

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Fingers crossed this isn’t like Google hiring developers of the custom ROM community so as to undermine their projects.

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Having a refueling station on the moon makes the most sense for interplanetary travel.

My experience in KSP tells me you want extraction and a refinery on the moon, but refuelling to be done in orbit.

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Nah they do have some valid purpose, eg communal roads and facilities - at least in a country where the state refuses to adopt basic infrustructure for new housing developments.

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Sure, but what’s wrong with that? I mean, roads are already open to everyone - your mailman can access them, visitors can access them, etc. If you extend it to ponds and parks and stuff, it wouldn’t be the end of the world for those to be public, either.

Maybe with pools and such it’s a different story, but there are ways of managing those without setting up a mini government rife for abuse.

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That is not the case for all HOA’s. For some, they have gated communities.

Yes, but they still allow mail deliveries and visitors in some form or another.

After all, they aren’t building these amenities for everyone to use, just residents who either own property or are leasing property in a way that is approved by the HOA.

Yes, but there are other ways to manage that then setting up an HOA which can be expanded well beyond the management of that communal property.

You only have to look and see how other countries do it to see that HOA’s are uniquely an American problem, one that has no justification in being as bad as it is.

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That makes sense, but trying to square that off with the idea that the year 2000 is the start of the 21st century is hurting my head.

If year 1 is the 1st year, then surely the first year of the 21st century should be 2001?

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Ohh, nice one!

The first convention is common in English-speaking countries, but the latter is favoured in, for example, Sweden (tvåtusentalet, which translates literally as the two thousands period).

I’m not sure that’s entirely true, most people in English speaking countries (and the world over) celebrated the millenium at the beginning of the year 2000.

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This is just another attempt at establishing a new status quo for other social media before Twitter dies a death due to the insurmountable debt that Musk’s purchase saddled it with. We’ve had a bunch of things tried, so far the only thing that stuck was charging for API access (which reddit soon adopted). Let’s not have this as well, please.

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The purchase itself was a death sentence. $13bn of the $44bn was a loan Twitter took out to buy itself on Musk’s behalf, even before Musk started tanking the revenue there was no way Twitter was going to be able to pay the interest on that without further cash investment.

Meanwhile, given that the business in unviable, Musk can try all sorts of crazy shit and are what sticks to the wall. Anything that proves successful can be adopted by whatever comes after Twitter or other social media. Charging for API access stuck, this is just the next attempt.

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There are extensions for that.

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The purchase itself was a leveraged buyout, they didn’t pay the entire $44bn as Twitter took out a loan to cover $13bn. Like all leveraged buyouts (eg Toys R Us) the purchase itself is meant to kill the business. Even before Musk started screwing the revenue there was little hope Twitter could pay the interest, let along the principle. Now, Twitter is worth less than the debt, by some estimates.

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Reality has a left-wing bias.

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Climate change was adopted because global warming doesn’t intuitively line up with winters being much colder on top of the average temperature being higher.

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According to prosecutors, Ms Butler and Ms Kelley had arranged with the grandmother of Ms Butler’s children to meet at a highway intersection in Oklahoma to pick up the two children - aged six and eight - and take them to a birthday party.

This is why custody exchanges between disputing parents are usually done in a neutral yet publicly occupied space, not either party’s house or the middle of bum-fuck nowhere.

'My school abandoned me': California university cancels pro-Palestinian student's commencement speech (www.middleeasteye.net)

The University of Southern California has cancelled a scheduled commencement speech by Asna Tabassum, citing unnamed security concerns after her selection as valedictorian was met with a wave of online attacks directed at her pro-Palestinian views....

TWeaK ,

It should be noted that the countries that have recognised the State of Palestine do so with the borders divided up - they also recognise Israel. As such this implicitly considers Israel’s territory to be its own and not some occupied/settler position.

Granted, Israel is still invading and settling all throughout Palestine’s recognised territory, breaking international law, but what some people consider as land taken by settlers and what these countries think are often two different things.

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Yes and no. Legally they aren’t, however I’m sure that the school’s charter demands it in some form.

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It’s worse than you imagine. The MAGA cult grew on reddit, with permission and dare I say nurturing from reddit admin.

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Lol I swear hexbear is a psyop designed to radicalise LGBTQ people and turn them against the moderate middle, thereby creating exactly the villain the gender/sexuality wedge issue calls for.

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Israeli’s Supreme Court ruled that Israeli nationality is not a thing. Israel is a Jewish state since 2018, and Israeli Arabs are second class citizens.

This link was one of the sources from yours: vox.com/…/israel-jewish-nation-state-law-bill-exp…

The law does three big things:

  1. It states that “the right to exercise national self-determination” in Israel is “unique to the Jewish people.”
  2. It establishes Hebrew as Israel’s official language, and downgrades Arabic — a language widely spoken by Arab Israelis — to a “special status.”
  3. It establishes “Jewish settlement as a national value” and mandates that the state “will labor to encourage and promote its establishment and development.”

If only Jewish people have the right to self-determination, then all Israeli citizens do not have the same rights.

TWeaK ,

Oh those aren’t the instances you block?

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I mean the community is pretty clearly astroturfed, as otherwise no such group could exist while fundamentally contradicting itself. Being gay and supporting Putin just does not make any rational sense. For all their talk of CIA psy ops left and right, I can’t help but see a pot calling the kettle black.

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And I would argue that support for Trump is clearly astroturfed, also. Reddit basically nurtured the community leading up to and throughout his presidency, then it spread from there.

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You’re basically saying “those aren’t the rights I was talking about”.

They do not have the right to self-determination since 2018, thus they do not have the same rights. Several of the rights of non-Jews were stripped away with the 2018 law. Not all of them, but some very significant ones.

They have similar rights, and share many of the same rights, but Jewish people have more rights than non-Jews in Israel. Not just in practice, but per the law.

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I think you are misunderstanding, “stripped of their rights” does not necessarily mean they lose all rights, or certain rights in particular, it simply that they lose some rights. They lost some rights, therefore they have been stripped of their rights.

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So we should say all Americans have been stripped of their rights, because women cannot access life-saving medical care in the event of a complication of a late-term pregnancy?

We can say that all American cis women have been stripped of their rights, yes. However more accurately this would be on a state by state basis.

We are arguing semantics, but you’re the one justifying a sensationalist response to an accurate statement.

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“Stripped of their rights” implies all rights.

No, it doesn’t. You can lost rights without losing all your rights. All it implies is that more than 1 right was removed, and that it was done so unwillingly.

If you can’t see the difference, then you’re unknowingly part of the misinformation.

Please back this statement up with some sound reasoning.

It seems more likely that you are stubbornly refusing to admit you were wrong about something very minor.

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Please provide a definition or rationalisation that supports your position. I’ve looked myself, and all the ones I’ve found make no mention of “all” rights being removed. Here’s one: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/…/strip-of

I think you don’t know what else to say because you are wrong and have nothing to support your position. It is you who clearly doesn’t understand, but I think that’s more stubbornness than anything else.

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Now? They’ve always been playing whack-a-mole against third party apps.

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Still a long, long, looooong way away though.

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How can the West enforce sanctions against Chinese companies that don’t deal with the West?

It sounds like the biggest thing happening here is businesses skirting Chinese and Russian import/export tax.

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To be clear: apple removed an emulator that was a blatant rip off of an open source emulator but full of ads and tracking. The original emulator is still up.

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I think the app store costs money.

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I mean it’s not beside the point if the reason for not publishing on the App Store was money.

I had no idea about Altstore going in, but looking into it it’s all done over Patreon, and I can’t find reference to any fees you mention. The most expensive Patreon tier for them is $8.50 per month, or $102 per year, however $3 (at an early bird rate) or $36 per year is enough to allow you to use 3rd party hosts for your app.

TWeaK ,

And mom told Israel to stop and “take the win”.

US will not take part in any Israeli retaliatory action against Iran (www.reuters.com)

President Joe Biden warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the U.S. will not take part in a counter-offensive against Iran, an option that Netanyahu’s war cabinet favors after a mass drone and missile attack on Israeli territory, according to officials....

TWeaK ,

Given that Israel have said they won’t retaliate again, maybe it’s true.

Israel could still go back on their word, though, and that wouldn’t be particularly surprising.

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because we’ve seen bad wars for profit happen before

All wars are driven by profit. Always has been, certainly for the last 150 years at least.

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https://media1.tenor.com/m/E8ptQ2QczaIAAAAC/scary-movie-thats-a-penis.gif

That’s terrorism.

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Jessica Tarlov, one of the panel’s more liberal co-hosts

I honestly first read that as “one of the panel’s more literate co-hosts”.

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After paying the state, the tenant could sue the landlord for it and put a lien on the property.

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Or, alternstively the tenant may be able to withhold rent until the debt is paid.

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Negative prices are good for BESS. It also has no bearing on the consumption market, which is detached from the generation market (so they can charge consumers more).

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For now, BESS is a hugely growing industry and many countries’ planning authorities are speed lining them.

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    This is a podcast, not news.

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    The article says it’s only a specific Win7 version of VLC that’s blocked, so maybe that’s the case with these also.

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    Can’t you disable SmartSense or whatever bullshit there is that scans apps programs when they’re installed?

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    On AI training itself on AI produced content:

    “As long as you can get over the synthetic data event horizon, where the model is smart enough to make good synthetic data, everything will be fine,” Mr. Altman said.

    everything will be fine

    https://i.cbc.ca/1.6713656.1679693029!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/this-is-fine.jpg

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