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I noticed this myself. Hard not to notice how some of the close-ups on fans have that glossy visual sensation that is common in AI generated content, or this one woman I noticed sw…

> It has already happened. Thailand asked US Air Force to vacate in 1976 after the Vietnam War. USAF closed its base and vacated. Right after the US lost a war... I doubt the US wa…

My point is that it's a technicality. On the surface, legally, these countries are not officially occupied by the US. But if any of these countries tried kicking the US out... what…

It appears that you are advocating for censorship then. If you think all this /r/politics stuff is contemptible, would you agree that banning T_D was good, even if it was, as you a…

> US has an army base in Japan, South Korea and Australia. So is US occupying Japan, South Korea or Australia? Technically it's not military occupation by definition , but if China…

How is this a rational response to what I wrote? You think calling a spade a spade is too much? US is expansionist, that much is clear. Absolutely in no way am I saying that makes …

It's still expansionism, and strange to say it's not.

> However, US is not about expansionism. ... wait, what? Since when? You don't think US military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan are about expansionism? Besides, the concept of…

Technically 2000 subs, 200 established "communities."

> they migrated to thedonald.win An individual can migrate a forum without any assistance. Not denying that The_Donald was a community, just saying that the migration of content is…

I don't but that's not really my point -- the poll itself isn't a problem, it's the lack of multiple polls that cautions me to draw concrete conclusions from it as rayiner did. 140…

Nice. However, since yougov experiences sample bias due to their data collection method being only online participants, and the sample size of black people isn't anywhere near even…

Agreed. To a lot of people, policing means "solve disruptions in society" but that's an oversimplistic and unrealistic idea of what police are trained to do and what is even possib…

So, it means Santa Cruz has a track record for being on the cutting edge of policing technology?

I heard this recently, but I forgot where: policing software is supposed to be used to help inform decisions in addition to established investigative practices, but police are inst…

Nice. This is very interesting. I suppose it would be hard to make any assumptions about the reasoning here. At least Vox interprets this as black people "view inadequate protectio…

Interesting, do you have a link?

Agreed. I find "boring" to be an unreliable metric for decision-making in software. A boring tool could result in damage to the long term development of software if it is inflexibl…

Except your quote is exactly what I am saying. And just because universal healthcare is "provided to everyone regardless of their ability to pay", it doesn't mean that they'll alwa…

Universal Healthcare does not guarantee affordability, only access. You must be thinking of "Free Universal Healthcare". And no, the US does not have it. You can be denied insuranc…

While I agree with you that universal healthcare should be "free", in most cases it's just "universal" healthcare and there is a marked difference between the two. Universal Health…

Universal healthcare does not mean "free healthcare". What it means is that all people have equal access to healthcare, the kind that would otherwise be provided by everyone having…

Sometimes it is. For example, if you can ever stomach watching "Vampires vs. Zombies", potentially the worst movie ever made, then you may qualify for hospice care.

What I "implied" was: 1. union benefits are redundant in worker owned-cooperative, not in typical corporations 2. and that's because corporate employers cannot emulate collective b…