yesman

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[–] yesman 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't help but notice you didn't say anything about how your potential new partner might feel about this. Perhaps you didn't think it was relevant, but that's a huge blind spot if you haven't considered it.

[–] yesman 2 points 1 week ago

Calling the war for independence a revolution is an insult to that word. Revolution happened in Hatti, France, and Russia. What happened in America was just an "under new management", one George for another.

[–] yesman 9 points 1 week ago

Even the leader of Shin Bet called these people terrorists.

[–] yesman 2 points 1 week ago

People watching Bat21 in the future are going to be so confused.

[–] yesman 3 points 1 week ago

Yea, Communism is famous for being unable to compete in would class athletics. : /

I get the larger point, it's just that this metaphor doesn't quite support it.

[–] yesman 5 points 1 week ago

Don't tell his wife.

[–] yesman 36 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This is bad. Lane's argument is that freemium software is tore up from the floor up. You'd get the impression reading this summery that he was just bitching about one program his Boy Scout troop used.

[–] yesman 20 points 1 week ago (6 children)

So, you can pay for Apple TV+, just like you always could, now through another app. Brilliant.

[–] yesman 7 points 1 week ago

That's not true, the new versions carry targeting pods and they can use the camera on the hellfires to zoom in too. In fact, planned upgrade packages will continue to modernize the A-10 weapons systems until the eventual final version designated F-16.

[–] yesman 202 points 1 week ago (11 children)

There is nothing more tech-bro libertarian than taking free public data, wrapping it in a slick package, and selling it.

I used to think that TV weather people were obsolete, but now I'm nostalgic for the public service that survived in the old capitalistic ad based broadcast TV era.

[–] yesman 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So this guy is charged with making a donation to an ISIS front, and buying rifles (from the FBI).

I think the reason they do this is because to convict someone of a conspiracy, the State has to show you completed an "overt act" in furtherance to your plan, so you can't just convict a person of terrorism because they like to talk out of their ass.

It's concerning how common it is that the FBI is directly involved in facilitating that overt act by being the arms dealer, hit-man, or bomb-maker themselves. If you examine many of these cases you'll find that the most competent and dangerous person in the conspiracy was just play-acting for the Feds. And I'm not just talking entrapment, but also the opportunity costs of focusing on the low hanging fruit. And this goes for the militia people as well as the Jihadis.

 
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They're called quants. Would you like to know more?

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It's a mistake to believe that conservatives would move to the left if they just had better information. Great journalism is out there. If an algorithmic echo chamber prevents people from seeing it that's hardly the reporter's fault. I'd go further to say that the algorithms can't be blamed for giving us what we want.

What we learned from the documents made public during the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News was that the hosts, producers, and executives were terrified of upsetting their audience. After all these years of liberal commentators telling us that Fox was radicalizing Memaw and Poppop, when we got a peak into the sausage factory it was the opposite. The viewers were radicalizing Fox.

Conservatives don't become deplorables because they're misinformed. Conservatives get misinformed because they're deplorable. Don't get it twisted.

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Can you imagine how bloodthirsty the pigs would be if we didn't have all these guns keeping them pacified?

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In the past, laminated glass was usually installed in the windshield, with side and rear windows being tempered only.

The difference is that tempered glass is per-stressed so that when it cracks, it shatters into many tiny and dull pieces. Laminated is the same thing, but with layers of plastic sandwiched with layers of tempered glass. Laminated glass will still shatter, but will be held together by the plastic layers.

In an emergency, small improvised, or purpose built tools meant to shatter tempered glass will be useless if the glass is laminated.

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