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The US did recognize Juan Guaido as President https://nypost.com/2019/01/23/trump-recognizes-juan-guaido-a...

>anyone stating to be "proud to be a/an `nationality`" is just another simpleton, it's the belief that someone, because they just so happened to be born where they did, are inheren…

How is it that this is the case but Amazon and Twitter aren't facing antitrust action for teaming up against Parler? Amazon protects a huge account and the huge account takes down …

>a retaliatory move by a regime trying to silence the opposition. I don't think this has too many parallels with the current US events You're right, in the US the government doesn'…

I'm fine with this if we can agree that this is the same thing Antifa-BLM has been doing in countless cities, most notably Portland and Seattle where they attack Federal buildings …

If Amazon has rules, why is Twitter still up? The "PacNW Youth Liberation Front" Twitter account is still active. They frequently call for overthrow of the government and organize …

LOL let me get this straight, you implemented 1 type of threading in your old "reference" homeserver, and a second type in the new one that's been incomplete for years? How is this…

LOL have you ever run Synapse? When I tried it out, it took like an hour on a dedicated NUC back in 2017 or so to join the network and provide connectivity to the main channel for …

$800M isn't all that much when it comes to sovereign budgets, I mean, Slack is apparently worth over 30x that amount. If Colombia's arm is being twisted on this regard by the US, i…

Over Thanksgiving the Austin mayor filmed a video from a hotel in Cabo telling everyone to stay home because it was too dangerous to go out. Sure, bud, that'll make people believe …

This is the real reason I use Emacs instead of whatever is popular right now (VSCode today, Sublime yesterday, Atom yesterday, JetBrains as long as they will support it, Borland in…

I hope this one works out; I've been ignoring everyone and living off of almost entirely animal fats and carbs for ya know, my whole life. I'm either gonna die in the next couple o…

Isn't this just pointing out that farms follow a Pareto distribution, like a lot of creative domains? It's a really common emergent pattern. It doesn't diminish from the observatio…

I've seen interesting commit strategies prepending a different emoji for, e.g., feature/bug changes.

>This is rarely about the apology itself, but about establishing that something wrong has happened to begin with Feh, don't even give these struggle sessions and the petty tyrants …

This article totally misses the point of what subscription fatigue is: the administrative burden of keeping track of recurring payments to various services which may no longer be w…

Why does the permission of their parents matter, even in the slightest? Do parents have the right to marry away their pre-pubescent daughters in our society? In addition, a large p…

>If you make a good movie denouncing dog mistreatment, that is good. The fact it may sexually excite some people mistreating dogs is not really relevant... You've missed the point.…

This is my experience in the cloud space as well. Sure, AWS has a GUI, but the API & CLI are what we care about.

The rich are better off in every way than the poor, every day. That's the nature of life. It isn't fair. Life being unfair doesn't mean something unethical is happening. Ostensibly…

Increasing the cost of food is anti-poor. Increasing the cost of luxury fabric, not so much. Until poverty and hunger are eliminated worldwide, it's going to be hard to make me car…

LOL only if you group together every organized religion as "Church" and compare it to other, individual organizations.

A price cap will cause a shortage. THAT is artificial scarcity. Allowing the market to select prices that keep masks in stock is the opposite!