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Comment #47926492
I'm not sure that's true. Surely doormen, janitors, and security guards are not "irreplaceable" and can't "halt critical operations beyond their industry".
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Comment #47837492
I don't think I follow why your examples contradict the argument. A draft will always be unpopular.
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Comment #47837300
I think you could argue the draft forced the war to be real for more families (and the expansion of TV), intensifying the resistance to it. Quick googling says almost 10% of the po…
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Comment #47756544
Republicans in Utah are also trying to remove the power from ballot initiatives because they're upset the Utahans passed an anti-gerrymandering initiative.
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Comment #47706484
He is also Catholic himself.
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Comment #47694606
NHL is similarly frustrating. I pay for ESPN but some games are on TNT, NHL Network, or a broadcast channel. I'm not paying for two different $60 a month services so now they just …
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Comment #47628559
One crew member rescued, other is still MIA and being actively searched for https://www.axios.com/2026/04/03/iran-us-fighter-shot-down
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Comment #47607499
Of course it isn't the same, but it does show it is just a matter of you not agreeing with the rational
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Comment #47591251
Is jumping on a grenade to save another person suicidal? Or is it just a matter of you not agreeing with the rational?
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Comment #47520024
DNC emails weren't fake either but dumping them all right before the election was certainly intended to be election interference.
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Comment #47493709
It's a crazy airspace. Add to that Teterboro, 12 miles from NYC and Republic ~20 miles from NYC, along with all the heliports on the Hudson.
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Comment #47427896
Past performance is not indicative of future results
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Comment #47417235
The most obvious and expected outcome to everyone except Zuck.
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Comment #47338925
> voting requiring proof of citizenship Isn't this just a solution in search of a problem though? Multiple investigations have discovered absolutely minuscule amount of non-citizen…
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Comment #47185356
> last I heard they give themselves the permission to parse your emails and serve you targeted ads based on contents of emails you receive. Stopped doing it in 2017 (according to t…
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Comment #47005656
The targets for the AI are still set by humans, the data the AI was trained on is still created by humans. Involving a computer in the system doesn't magically make it less biased.…
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Comment #46998278
While I accept that this is how it is done in practice, I think the unintended consequence is it raises the partisan temperature and further ruins the already abysmal trust of Cong…
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Comment #46990802
Unfortunately, I think it's hardwired in our brain to anthropomorphize something with this level of NLP. We have to constantly remind ourselves, this is a machine.
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Comment #46990663
I always felt like Congressional debates should begin with each side trying to explain the opposing position, with debate only beginning when each side agrees with the opposition's…
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Comment #46907062
Orwell said something similar. George Orwell - What is Fascism? https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/e...
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Comment #46905306
Would have been nice if the interviewer pushed back more than "lol I don't think they would agree". Spineless.
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Comment #46892737
Interesting you went in the opposite direction of my assumption, which was "another member is tired, perhaps we should all pack it it"
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Comment #46889766
Because it was never a judgement about who is bad vs. good, but who would be best for American/British interests with zero regard for Iranians.