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Comment #45335791
I don’t know, this seems like something to be taken with a grain of salt. Throughout, the post is dripping with personal contempt for the people he’s talking about. It just seems l…
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Comment #45296424
Did you even read the piece?
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Comment #45296394
The author seems to underestimate this Supreme Court’s willingness to make nakedly partisan rulings. Edit: oh here we go. Partisan first amendment issues were perfectly fine to dis…
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Comment #45283755
And now we see them getting main stream networks on a leash. Edit: Not to mention universities. It’s crazy how quickly civil institutions are being consolidated by the right. They …
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Comment #45283481
I’m having a hard time imagining where this is useful. If I’m trying to assign to a property, but encounter an intermediate null value in the access chain, just skipping the assign…
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Comment #45269780
Ok, hear me out. How powerful of a battery would we need to turn the blades and nacelle into a helicopter? And just think. Once it arrives on site, you have a big ass grid storage …
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Comment #45269082
Is there one for 2026? I’m guessing if there is you’ll see one trending down while the other is trending up, for obvious reasons.
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Comment #45268799
> Hopefully nothing that advances a dystopian fascist agenda, right? Right? Hey! You can’t say that! That’s wrong speak!
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Comment #44767834
So what is it that you’re saying is keeping younger people from getting out? Just the knowledge that there may be people out in the world with them who are creepily obsessing over …
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Comment #44758675
And to add, the lawsuit didn’t lose on its merits, but on lack of jurisdiction.
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Comment #44209645
Get better citizens.
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Comment #44144972
This has to be satire.
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Comment #42545696
There’s a lot I agree with here, but the section pertaining to Ukraine might as well have been written by Vladimir Putin.
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Comment #42253393
While it’s true that setting a new record isn’t unusual, in the case of 2020, the turnout was actually very high even taking into account population growth.
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Comment #42225274
I was referring to the 2020 election.
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Comment #42224945
What low turnout? Both presidential candidates received more votes than anyone had ever received prior to that.
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Comment #42197121
The spacex website indicates that it was indeed an automated check of the tower that caused the catch to be scrapped.
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Comment #42188805
Whatever it was, it seems more likely that it was a booster issue than anything relating to the tower given that they were initially go for the catch. It was only during the boostb…
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Comment #42143968
Imagine being such a condescending douche…and an ignorant one to boot.
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Comment #42142496
You don’t value polling, ok. No use continuing to go back and forth about it. Instead, maybe you’ll feel like responding to one of the other commenters that replied to you about pr…
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Comment #42141978
Personally, I don’t care what the “media” was saying. I care what the polling data and the election models based on the polling data were saying. They were saying pretty consistent…
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Comment #42140335
If I confidently declare ahead of time the result of a coin flip, I may turn out to be correct, but my confidence was still unjustified. And furthermore, my getting it right would …
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Comment #42140233
Freemium speech?
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Comment #42129657
This is all well and good, but let’s not pretend it would be particularly effective.
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Comment #42129578
I think there’s a significant difference between using potential motivation to assess the credibility of sources of information and using potential motivation as the basis for crea…