phdepressed

@phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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So long as it isn't their own, yeah, probably.

House rep from SC. Republican, obviously. At least regionally in/famous. Replaced Joe Cunningham who was a Dem (only 1 term).

Not all snakes. Some snakes are just oviparous or just viviparous.

Rs have the house. Laws need both chambers to agree. The Rs didn't even pass a border bill because Biden supported it. SCOTUS is made of what it is and would require the house(which, again, Rs) to bring a trial to the senate to impeach any justices. In these scenarios what legal power do Dems have to stop this shit besides adding it on to the other thousand things that the DOJ has to gear up and fight for, knowing it's only a delay to SCOTUS doing whatever the fuck the Rs feel like.

Hawk tuah

No one wants to take the upfront cost of renovation. Corporate buildings aren't an easy conversion into normal apartments. Plumbing especially is very different.

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Debates where candidates debated the actual question/issue raised were useful. Whatever we have nowadays as they talk about unrelated things and try to find their 7s soundbite are useless.

That may be true depending on the extent of remodeling necessary. Do that and make it a green building with modern heat pump and you could make a profit in a few years. But they want the profit now

I just learned about these fuckwads from this article. So no, saying that would not work.

Knowing apple fans, it will work.

Because a bunch of government and business uses 10 and they really don't want "Recall AI" in there for a plethora of reasons.

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The danger to trans kids can't be understated more in your comment. Outing a kid to parents against their transition is a good way to get them shunned and bullied to homelessness and/or death. Unsupported and bullied kids have astronomically higher rate of suicide, homelessness, and just plain chances of being murdered like that Oklahoma trans teenager recently.

Teachers can support a kid in coming out to their parents or out the kid to their parents based on their judgement rather than being required to do so. Your child has a right to privacy as well, depending on age and whether the secret harms others. Being trans at the point where they want to change their name is usually a high-school thing and being trans isn't harming anyone.

Because it is a Hail Mary option. He can appeal but doing so unsuccessfully ensures that Cannon switches from this passive help of the defense to being outright against the prosecution which makes things harder than they already are. A successful appeal still creates a delay in the trial because the new judge has to get up to speed.

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Tbf 1L of water is 1kg, so that's probably where the confusion is.

Dog body temp is ~101-102.5 F (some go as low as 99.5 F). If your dog is 10 degrees hotter than you, you either have hypothermia or they have a severe fever.

We may be perceived as a little cooler than them but probably not "cold".

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The top 0.1% in the US have ~20Trillion in wealth. That's enough for all ~340million Americans to get 58,000. Globally across all ~10Billion people thats enough for everyone to get 2,000. That's a one time thing, making it an investment isn't accurate to what it represents in terms of value generated that was not given to the workers.

At the US level 58k would get most people out of student loan debt (29k average)and free from credit card debt(6k average).

At a global level 2,000 would allow the world's poor to be able to eat a healthy diet(3.54) every day for over 1.5 years or a subsistence diet (0.83) for 6.6 years

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBLTP1246

https://ourworldindata.org/diet-affordability

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It is, but just like Clarence, Alito, etc on SCOTUS. Who holds them accountable for violating ethics or impartiality?

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I doubt Reddit is in charge of many of the existing bots on their site.

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Not a weeb but I think that's most places if you don't look or speak like them. I'm American but I'm brown, west coast, bigger cities there's enough brown people I don't stand out. Down south, rural small towns, most of Europe those reactions and percentages sound about right.

Welcome to being a minority.

The fascism is the point. They are mask off at this point.

Years ago not currently

That's only if criminals are elected. Biden used the pardon in 2022 and 2023 to pardon many minor weed related offenses.

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My brother very maturely didn't kill me when I when I forgot his Gameboy with Pokémon blue and six lvl 99 pokemon in the back of a taxi.

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That is a dark purple shirt for the people who aren't colorblind.

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You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word “tension.” I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.

I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

-two excerpts from MLK Jr's letter from Birmingham jail.

There's a number of rightwing indian Americans in the US and it honestly gives me secondhand embarrassment as a fellow brown person.

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Pretty sure this goes against discord ToS because Discord wants to do that themselves.

That type of direct agreement is not necessary to prove collusion (makes it easier to prosecute certainly) but intent doesn't matter legally. Using a software that has an inbuilt collusion algorithm is still collusion. This is also on a larger scale than mom+pop these algorithms and software were/are used by much larger companies that own magnitudes more units.

Hard to tell how much Biden will lose. He's definitely not liked but a lot of the "not going to vote because Palestinian genocide" is probably trolls (likely Russian/Chinese). Things would be worse for Israel and Ukraine under Trump and they know it. I'm more interested in whether Dems can be shifted further left to stop the genocide, help Ukraine more, and get some basic rights back.

Trumps' base is still loyal but I think many non-extremists are just fucking tired of him and his ilk. His base is also old and more Rs than Ds died by not vaccinating.

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Doesn't matter how good your healthcare is if your cancer (or other disease) can't be treated.

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Basically for these fungi, only different "sexes" can reproduce with each other. Still only need two for reproduction. They can't reproduce with the same sex. So A can mate with B, C, D, etc. A can't mate with A. Do dna sequencing on a few that you know can mate with one another and you can find where the sex allele/gene is. Then you can sequence the population at large to see how many different sex alleles there are. You can confirm or do old school observation to see which ones can reproduce with another.

The R^2 on top of the graph is 0.002 lol.

Then you're boned without help or better pay.

Cause the numbers aren't real, just like Tesla. Inflated due to the leaders' cult (and in this case possible "actors")not for any business reason.

Because humans have more accountability. Also it has implications for military/police use of self-guided stuff.

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He has the DEA reevaluating what schedule it is classed as. He does not have authority to make it legal. Again laws.

He tried to forgive significant student loan debt for everyone and got stopped by SCOTUS. He still has forgiven a lot of debt but it takes work to figure out who he can do it for without congressional approval and the SCOTUS ruling. Student loans are also based in laws that he can't as easily bypass.

He is trying to help Americans and he has. Not as much we'd like but a hell of a lot more than the GOP.

The president is not a dictator.

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Most dogs are fine actually. A small seemingly random percentage go into kidney failure so it's easier and more humane to just not take a chance.

In a similar vein as your dogs but in Asian countries the dogs also eat/get fed leftovers which include plenty of spices, which are also stated online as problematic for dogs.

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I know they could be I'm just not sure they're that competent. These bots often aren't single user or just copy paste either, there's usually some effort to mix it up or change wording slightly. Reddits internal search function is infamously shit but they "know" which users are unlabeled bots with some effort put behind them?

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None of the rich ones want to pony up that much for nothing and the poor ones have already spent what they had on his other legal costs and "merch".

Whatever the reason it's a good outcome this time.