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> It wasn’t pretty but my roommates were happier with some painters tape on the walls than my computer being in the kitchen. I’d be willing to bet your roommates would have been ev…

> No chance 3 ever passes No chance any ever passes. Amendment’s are difficult to pass by design. The equal rights amendment which virtually nobody actually really opposes in theor…

Castro was already playing footsie with the Soviets and Castro nationalizing US business interests was one of the reasons we decided to invade. That was 64 years ago and are you su…

> How is not bothering to understand your business If you are a lawyer how technically competent would you need to be to have complete assurance that your engineering team is now a…

> The dickover is purely spite from the websites. No, it’s a legal CYA that provides safe harbor in case you are accused of the behavior. If a law says you need to inform, your law…

So make it illegal to spy on users…not this “wishy-washy ask for their permission” first. If spying is the crux of the problem why not just solve it? Instead we are presented with …

You are in charge of this. Just don’t buy a vehicle with one.

Most of them don't have a history of direct hostility towards the US and specifically having the willingness to allow a US foe to use their proximity to plant tactical weapons to t…

We wouldn't need a dickover at all if governments didn’t regulate it either.

Oh we care, but when it comes to cookie dickovers, we care more about making the corporate lawyers happy. I’ll admit that I definitely like collecting my paycheck much more than I …

For me the rule now is…use AI to analyze and summarize (but check it like a hawk). However, after some initial experimentation to see capabilities, I refuse to use it to create any…

How many cuban ex-pats do you know? I would say “not many”. Every cuban ex-pat I know (and thats quite a lot because I live in FL) will tell you there is a Cuba problem. They all s…

> is illegal under international law Here is a nice little brain teaser…What law would that be? And who would or could enforce said law? And if said law cannot be enforced, is it a…

I made no claim that selfishness is wrong or altruism is right. Nor did i make any claims as to what life is like in the US—so I don't need any “reality checks” about what your per…

Well…your motivation is not altruistic to the host country in that case, it’s selfish. You want a better life, the country providing it is arbitrary as long as it accepts the curre…

> Law is what's enforced, not the rules by themselves. Within my circle of friends (generally those who are in Europe), I have been trying explain this distinction whenever it’s br…

If you’re just gonna regurgitate all the same overused critiques that have been said about literally every Trump administration member and their suitability for their jobs since hi…

> It can make a lot of sense when you understand the people involved are deeply incompetent, aggressively overconfident, and are surrounded by religious extremists saying this need…

But what evidence do you have that none believed it? Sounds more like a subjective opinion rather than an objective one. While I am not big on trust either, I am perplexed why “suc…

I get it, you don't trust them. I am skeptical of the motives of all governments regardless of who sits in power. Frankly, none are truly benevolent or honest as far as I am concer…

Which, again, has zero to do with my initial post. Again, the point was that we cant assume a blockade without the initial military operation would have been successful. And it’s a…

Are you suggesting there can be no difference between public rhetoric, the truth, and what might be said behind the closed doors of a diplomatic negotiation between adversaries? Es…

Ok…but that is irrelevant to my point.

Like i said, that is what the administration (Witkoff) communicated. You can believe it or not, dispute it all you want, but the only opinion of any importance here is if they (eit…

I think that’s easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but it seems to me that if the Iranians actually claimed they were 11 days away from a nuclear bomb during the prewar nego…