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4 years to build a power plant is still fucking stupid when you could install 10x the solar and battery capacity in that time.

Chat, are we cooked?

No normal person homeschools their children. Change my mind.

I manage a tiny motel in the middle of nowhere where the only guests are the family of a former video rental mogul who lost it all when their accountant committed fraud.

You must construct additional priors!

Because they are more concerned with relitigating the cold war that actual politics and statecraft. The failures of socialist states cannot merely be failures of socialist leaders, or socialist ideals, or the lack of material conditions for implementing socialism - it is the collective effect of western imperialism keeping socialism down. As such, the first order for international socialism is to subvert western imperialism, at which point socialism will be able to rise from the ashes.

Like many things, there is some truth to these claims, but to the extent that it prevents them from confronting their own historic failures, it is one of the most toxic aspects of leftist thought, and is typically rejected or at least heavily qualified by most actual academics. However, because of the nature of online spaces, this idea tends to be overrepresented in discussion forums, where authoritarian leftists are able to sustain combative and pushy behaviors which are not tolerated in the real world, which tends to push everyone else out of the bubble.

What about States rights to regulate their militia?

You literally already need to prove you are an eligible voter to register to vote.

They want the “migrant worker” paeudo-slavery thing they do in other parts of the world, where laborers are a separate class of worker which don’t have rights. And by dont have rights, I don’t mean like the current state of affairs where the constitution still applies to undocumented immigrants. They want to codify a separate class of non-rights into law for these people so they can never sue their employer, don’t have a minimum wage, can be charged for housing, etc

Just like with all of these headlines, it will not charge in seconds outside the lab without cryogenic cooling systems. Pack density is already largely limited by cooling systems, so everyone looking for faster charging and higher range should really be focused on superconducting tech more than cell chemistry

At the end of middle school, I got a participation trophy for the state science fair, which was a mandatory requirement for graduating 8th grade. It was the only “award” I got at the graduation superlatives assembly.

The kicker? I actually got an exception for the science fair because I missed 6 weeks of school while almost dying from MRSA pneumonia. This is my millennial villain origin story.

I basically stopped playing online games entirely once voice chat became the norm, and then a full on expectation/requirement. I absolutely hate it.

I barely even used a laptop at all until college, and it took me a solid two years to realize that having a laptop in class was too distracting. I switched exclusively to hand written notes and my GPA went from barely holding onto a 3.0 to nearly straight As. By grad school I was competing for top 5 class rank in a top 10 engineering program. It’s fucking nuts how much of a difference writing shit down by hand made in terms of my ability to retain information on first exposure.

Apparently just Donald Trump.

I still don’t think you should fuck kids even if your disks are encrypted

Putting a brick in a snowman is not a booby trap lmao.

This is actually very funny tho

It’s one of the reasons I think public voting is a terrible idea. It’s a wet dream for hyper-targeted engagement farming. Even to the point it creates a bit of a nightmare scenario for spear phishing and malware injection. The stated “transparency” benefits just seem incredibly trivial compared to the risk, especially when actual malicious actors will simply spam bots and alts, while actual users must navigate this weirdly huge threat surface for basically no good reason.

Our VPN gateway is different if you are already on the internal network.

Yes, any time you can store and recover encrypted cloud archives across devices, without needing to transfer keys between devices, it implies that there is a key archive somewhere in the cloud. Even Signal struggles to get this both user friendly and properly secure without compromising forward secrecy. I believe they still actually make you explicitly do a local key transfer to populate a new device, even though they have cloud archives now. Whatsapp doesn’t do that. And the app also clearly leaks some amount of unencrypted data anyway, archives or not.