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@ Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

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[He/Him, Nosist, Touch typist, Enthusiast, Superuser impostorist, keen-eyed humorist, endeavourOS shillist, kotlin useist, wonderful bastard, professinal pedant miser]Stuped person says stuped things, people boom

I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others' words. Weird, isn't it?

Formerly on kbin.social and dbzer0

  • "Door to Hell" starting to close after 54 years

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  • "Door to Hell" starting to close after 54 years

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  • it will matter when it's gone...

  • Is It OK to Earn Rental Income From an ICE Holding Facility?

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  • If you redirect it all, it's not a tiny portion.

  • Is It OK to Earn Rental Income From an ICE Holding Facility?

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  • The argument is that ICE can always find some rich BlackRock-esque real estate holder that doesn't give af to host the camp instead if the asker terminates the lease, thus from a utilitarian perspective it's probably more useful to hold the lease and use the money to lobby against ICE.

  • Is It OK to Earn Rental Income From an ICE Holding Facility?

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  • I'll never understand people who apply an extra layer of bold to headings

  • Is It OK to Earn Rental Income From an ICE Holding Facility?

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  • Isn't that what the Ethicist column always has been? Philosophy has even historically been a bourgeois subject. (I don't think people usually put Marxism in philosophy classes.)

    Also, I don't think the response is providing cover. It encourages the question-asker to use this rental income for lobbying against ICE.

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    Vance knocks Democrats over taco truck outside GOP building

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  • Assuming you mean the filibuster: They need 41, actually, and there are some things you can't filibuster like providing for congressional disapproval and nominations require 51 instead of 50. See https://www.senate.gov/legislative/cloture/119.htm for every time someone decided they might have a chance of breaking filibuster. The only acts that went through are the Laken Riley Act—the first ever—the HALT Fentanyl Act, and the GENIUS Act—which allows the Fed and States to regulate stable crypto—while the only acts that have been passed by senate are the Laken Riley Act and the TAKE IT DOWN Act which counters deepfakes. While the Laken Riley Act should've been filibustered IMO, I don't think any of the others that passed/did not meet filibuster should be stalled just for politics reasons.

  • FEMA staff baffled after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say | Reuters

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  • (Note that these paragraphs all follow each other without anything between them, though the breaks in the vertical quote bar on the left may imply otherwise.)

  • Zelenskyy confident that Putin irritates US more than he does

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  • There's conspiracy theories—based on Trump's expression after walking out of his first private meeting with Putin—that Russia has blackmail

  • Zelenskyy confident that Putin irritates US more than he does

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  • "he" being Zelenskyy, not Putin

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    Republican Sen. Joni Ernst defends proposed Medicaid cuts: 'We all are going to die'

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  • What's normal?

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    Russia says Trump's attack on Putin due to "emotional overstrain"

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  • The ridiculous justification, "absolutely CRAZY!", Trump suggested "something has happened" to Putin to make him kill a lot of people, etc.

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    4 pigeons found glued on top of wall; Hong Kong police suspect animal abuse

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  • the mere existence of the incident, "suspect" animal abuse, lack of CCTV, "The spokesman added that there was no evidence suggesting previous attempts of anyone in the area using glue to trap or mistreat birds."

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    4 pigeons found glued on top of wall; Hong Kong police suspect animal abuse

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  • I know, my point is there's still a level of cruelty that everyone tolerates. Yet reduction is always better. Punishing such pigeon-gluers is reduction. Being vegetarian is reduction. Being vegan is reduction. That does not mean being any of these is being hypocritical.

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    4 pigeons found glued on top of wall; Hong Kong police suspect animal abuse

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  • Everyone has their limit to the ratio between tolerance and group convenience. Even vegans must also tolerate plant cruelty, for one. It's not an "on-or-off" switch.

  • Indian police are trying to ‘read minds' of suspects, over neuroscientists' objections

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  • time to get annoyed about somebody’s addiction to idioms!

  • Indian police are trying to ‘read minds' of suspects, over neuroscientists' objections

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  • when were we afraid of it besides being afraid of it for being polygraph 2.0

  • Indian police are trying to ‘read minds' of suspects, over neuroscientists' objections

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  • wait what did you mean by "We were afraid of mind reading tech when we should have been afraid of polygraph 2.0" then

  • Indian police are trying to ‘read minds' of suspects, over neuroscientists' objections

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  • what's polygraph 2.0