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An armed society is a society where people are looking for someone to shoot.

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The biggest state, bigger than many countries. How different can it be from other parts of the same country?

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Except they don’t even attempt to look like good people. Satan would think he’s been doing it all wrong, he should’ve just said “I’m here to rule over you all and destroy the world, vote for me”.

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AI PC sounds like something that will be artificially personal more than anything else.

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Of course. The more you have to spend on shelter, the less you have for everything else.

Cuts should be made at the top, not the bottom. Always. If you have to raise your rents, no you don’t. You have spare properties, you’re doing fine.

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Lucky they made DS9 before TNG had even finished, then.

We didn’t really get more of the TNG side of things with the TNG movies. Then they moved on to JJA Star Trek, which wasn’t much of anything, not dark, not utopian, just references.

While Discovery was in part based around rescuing an ultra-fascist from another universe.

It took bringing back Picard himself to approach doing what they once did decades ago. And I guess not let the actor have too much say over the script, if that’s what messed up the movies.

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You mean part of a single episode.

No. They kept her around like she wasn’t someone who should be imprisoned for life, far removed from any position where she could manipulate others.

If they wanted to help others, there was a universe full of people more deserving. Two, even.

Not to mention the fact you say after TNG that the older style was dead as if Voyager doesn’t exist.

Yep.

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Seriously, because she’s from a different universe, her actions of committing genocide and torture across any number of star systems are irrelevant?

If Starfleet doesn’t care what people do “in their own space”, how could they ever have a problem with anything? Just declare yourself a ruler, obviously democracy doesn’t play into it, and you decide what you can do anywhere you are.

Author receives German prize in scaled-down format after comparing Gaza to Nazi-era ghettos (apnews.com)

The comparison in a recent New Yorker article was viewed as controversial in Germany, where government authorities strongly support Israel as a form of remorse and responsibility after Adolf Hitler’s Germany murdered up to 6 million Jews in the Holocaust....

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If they weren’t Jewish, the whole thing would’ve probably just been scrapped.

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Noted.

Rep. Pressley introduces legislation to guarantee right to vote for people with felonies on record (apnews.com)

Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont submitted the legislation, named the Inclusive Democracy Act, on Tuesday which would guarantee the right to vote in federal elections for all citizens regardless of their criminal record....

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They should all be able to vote. From prison, too. The punishment never needs to be to take their voting rights away. If they commit fraud, stop them from committing fraud again.

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Cats understand that humans are a factor, and decide to work around that factor.

That’s basically how they live with humans in the first place, they’re not properly domesticated, just happens that they can live with us.

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The responsibility of parents isn’t just to feed their kids until they’re 18, but to raise them and give them what they need to become independent adults. A responsibility shared with the government through public services and social safety nets.

Without the parents, it should mean the government has all of responsibilities and can’t throw people out on the street if it hasn’t finished the job.

Later that week, Gonzales went to Calvary Church, where a volunteer offered to pray with her and another woman joined in. Gonzales had told pastors at both Calvary and Sagebrush churches that she was homeless and living on the street. One pastor prayed with her and signed her up for a baptism.

Oh, good, there’s someone we can recruit.

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Should be illegal. Same as unpaid internships. Pay workers or don’t be a business.

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Yeah, that’s not any kind of improvement, that’s just moving your hours around. People can do that now. Shouldn’t need to. The 40 hour workweek is way out of date, 32 hours is barely catching up to where we should be by now.

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Their options are pack up and leave, or throw down their weapons and surrender.

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People paid 23andMe to give them the data in the first place. Should be illegal to profit off of other people’s data if they’re not getting paid for it.

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They attack all healthcare over abortions, and now they’re even targeting military promotions and interstate travel for the same agenda.

Ubisoft is stopping online services for 10 titles, including several Assassin's Creed games | Time to say goodbye (www.techradar.com)

Ubisoft is stopping online services for 10 titles, including several Assassin’s Creed games | Time to say goodbye::Ubisoft is ending online services for various titles, including Assassin’s Creed 2, Brotherhood, and Liberation.

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While it’s sad to see all these games begin to die a slow death, in reality, many of these titles are incredibly old and on last-gen platforms such as Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.

Yet much older games are still playable without functionality loss.

You don’t need upgrades to online services. You need to stop locking down games.

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I find it easier to do it the other way around. Pirate all the games, then buy them when they’re available DRM free.

Technically I own some games on Epic, but I don’t install from there.

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Should have them in the West Bank as well, ensuring Palestinians’ homes are safe, if the goal is long term stability and growth rather than the subjugating status quo.

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Still seems way overpriced. Doesn’t even have name recognition anymore.

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    Regulated capitalism. Prosecuting corruption.

    America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religion (apnews.com)

    Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled....

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    And every now and then they’d go on a rampage destroying other people’s and eras’ art.

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    Ideally it would mean everyone’s united in improving society for everyone and especially raising minimum standards, when you could end up as anyone.

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    Reroll at what point? “Hey, kids, today you’ll learn about resurrection, and what that booth is for”. There could be billions of people with no clue about the rules, let alone trust in how it would work.

    And it’s just that much messier if non-humans are part of the cycle. Hundreds of billions of farm animals and semi-domestic species like rats, and all the rest of nature. They don’t get opt-outs.

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    Oil companies will default to doing anything that makes them money. Governments need to make climate forcing cost them more than their revenue.

    How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet (www.wired.com)

    Google likely alters queries billions of times a day in trillions of different variations. Here’s how it works. Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different...

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    People shouldn’t be paying to opt out of ads, websites should be paying their users for what they’re exploiting them for.

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    “More competition” meaning less access, people having to pay for multiple different services instead of having it in one place.

    The competition should be about having the best platform, not exclusive content. There’s no reason why the same show couldn’t be on two different platforms. And available globally. Practically, all you really need is more local servers for where there’s more traffic.

    Robin Williams' Daughter Speaks Out Against AI Recreations Of Actors' Voices: "I Find It Personally Disturbing" (screenrant.com)

    Robin Williams’ Daughter Speaks Out Against AI Recreations Of Actors’ Voices: “I Find It Personally Disturbing”::Robin Williams’ daughter speaks out against AI recreations of actors’ voices, explaining her own “disturbing” experiences with the controversial tech.

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    For personal use, but corporations trying to profit off of it could be fined 100% of their assets if need be.

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    I have inside pockets added so that I can deal with the wire issue. Makes for a better place to carry the phone anyway.

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    Or make some more Zunes.

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    AI’s going to kill us off by doing what we do better than us. Consuming resources and producing waste. And we’re already pretty good at it.

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    And they only ever made one.

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    The alternative is stop traveling such huge distances all the time.

    Other than public transportation and filling up the cars with people, instead of having one vehicle per person.

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    It is just a tool, if a writer can use it, why not? But without the writers and the involvement of humans to verify and edit the work, might as well just have the public use their own AI units instead of paying a studio for something they didn’t put any hours into.

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    In 2003, the World Wide Web was still in its infancy. Dial-up connections were still the default and YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail had yet to be invented.

    I’d argue it had reached its prime. Websites were just websites then, not data harvesting machines.

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    They shouldn’t. They’re not apologizing for what they’re doing, but are behaving like politicians, changing the rhetoric to try to get people to like what they’re going to do anyway.

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    Trees are cheap and effective, but humans are destructive. If we just left nature alone, cut meat production to a level where we could pull everything back to older fields, it would recover relatively quickly.

    Meaning we need to prosecute and take punitive actions against humans and corporations who just can’t cope with not being destructive. Any business that’s willingly involved needs to lose everything. Make it impossible to profit from, remove the incentives for farmers when the money disappears and loans can’t be given out because the banks stopped existing.

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    Trees replace themselves. Forests store carbon, rather than specific trees. Also trees don’t just evaporate into the atmosphere. Other species eat them, etc.

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    Let them have the cardboard, just get rid of the plastic.

    Thousands join climate protest in Tokyo calling for '100% renewable energy' (mainichi.jp)

    TOKYO -- As the world witnessed record heat this summer and rain disasters become more frequent, thousands of people joined a climate protest event here on Sept. 18, calling for a society powered 100% by renewable energy with stricter climate policies and no nuclear power.

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    They have a huge EEZ, they should have plenty of potential for wind power. And have as much sun as most European countries.

    Although they really should stick with nuclear, just learn from their mistakes.

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    They’re doubling paid paternity leave, from 2 weeks to 4 weeks. Apparently paid maternal leave is 16 weeks.

    So that’s two weeks better than before, but why not give the kids both their parents for 16 weeks?

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    There is, but coal is cheap, when you only look at what it costs before you set it on fire.

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    It doesn’t need to be stronger, fair use needs to be expanded and lawyers need to be fined for taking on and wasting court time with obviously unnecessary cases.

    Or just put everything into the public domain after 28 years.

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    Presumably the number of victims.

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    If someone believes in a god that implements eternal torture, they believe in a god everyone should despise, and should at least be honest about that part. Don’t call it love, call it fear and terror.

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    People are kept in prison without a conviction, for not affording bail. Owing a thousand times the lifetime earnings of other people should at the very least mean all your accounts and holdings are frozen, and you can’t spend anything without getting independent approval every time.

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