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If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison.
When health insurance companies steal $50,000,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while the people they steal from die or go into debt.
But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.
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Knowing him he assumes the cartels already have SCUDs aimed at Austin.
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I don’t know who came up with the idea for Buc-ee’s, but it thoroughly disproves the theory of a loving god.
It’s a pretty good symbol for why people hate America though.
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And here I thought you did that on porpoise.
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Ah well
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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social reroll
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I miss my Monday innocent men clips from the other site, really started your week off right.
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Fuck man…
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After the immunity decision
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Wow, well there goes my interest. Don’t get drunk enough these days to justify that kind of time waster.
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Can confirm, have tested this with considerable success
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As god and Scalia intended
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An important part of developing in your career is learning how to explain this repeatedly to people without being condescending.
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You have no such obligation, but you could also donate what you would pay for their lunches to a local food pantry if it shuts up the brain voice.
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No no, you were right to say it - but man we have built some perverse incentive structures into our legal system, and I don’t know if or how we could remedy them.
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Fuck I never made that connection before. Holy shit my day just got more depressed.
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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life.
But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
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God damnit what the fuck…
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After having gotten in a very frustrating discussion this morning I am envious of your patience
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No, but I’ve stated my position as clearly as I can and you seem determined to mischaracterize it at every turn. I hope you have a better day.
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I’m not a fan either, but if we don’t engage with that reality while those who seem intent on accelerating our demise do, then they will keep winning politicians to their side and everyone burns. It isn’t right, it isn’t fair, but it will happen.
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Yes, it is. Because on their time horizon they can either win elections and keep power or lose elections and be irrelevant. So if they move forward a necessary but unpopular policy and lose their job - plus watch the policy killed by the next person - the earth still burns AND they lose power.
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I would love there to be a sufficient voting bloc to make climate policy priority one on the agenda, but as long as our representatives get punished for addressing it and punished for compromising on it the only rational thing for them to do is pay lip service to it and focus on other issues.
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My point isn’t that we should be satisfied with insufficient action on climate, but that politicians are more influenced by what the *political* results are from their policies than the actual pragmatic effects, and ignoring that reality takes us farther away from solutions - not closer.
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Real irony in the logic here. “We didn’t get all of our policy goals, so democrats shouldn’t get elected again”
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oh wow, that’s so crazy dude. quick question, who are literally any of the people you’re talking about
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Wait - that’s not Bernie Sanders?
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I believe the question now is whether the court will go:
“No violation here, students are still free to close their eyes and pretend they see nothing.”
or
“We reject this blatantly unconstitutional law, so clearly we’re being completely fair as we dismantle the administrative state.”
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This poor girl was the class president but was a bench warmer on a marginal HS team, got reported, the police were called to investigate her gender, and now she dropped out of school and is taking online classes.
She transitioned in 1st grade and never had a whiff of male puberty.
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I mean, at this point being to the left of Nixon makes you effectively a socialist.
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They’re nice, though my state still doesn’t recognize this one yet - and is likely in no rush.
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Well shit
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ai generating cartoons of a soldier and his wife and his wife's boyfriend and their baby because i love america
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So fun seeing when a document is written for operational value vs just compliance
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Listen - it’s really stressful having to both enforce the law with broad, unsupervised and largely unaccountable discretion AND adhere to the law to a reasonable degree.
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Ken knows what he’s done
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Wait - I just cited in re bofa in my pleading, are you saying I need to revise it again?
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I mean, that’s how I started following and somehow I’m still here
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Doesn’t work all that well in the US either
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Some fuck got a visit from the bright idea fairy and didn’t bother to think twice. Zero reflection or consideration.
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That’s because cats are hardcore anti-carceral libertarians.
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The war of attrition that is keeping squirrels out of your bird feeder is one of the best metaphors for a career in #cybersecurity that I have ever encountered.
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man had his license reinstated, but the courts fucked up and didn't file proper notice
he's had valid driver's license since 2022 and spent two days in jail because of the fuckup ☹️
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Libraries are one of the most radical social institutions we have, because they’re based on the idea that *everyone* has the right to information, for free. It’s also what makes them crucial to democracy. I will never stop yelling about this!
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I love literally everything about Trinket
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*insert prescient Nixon quote here*
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I generally agree, though saw a post yesterday about being hesitant to use the phrase “convicted felon” as a cudgel seeing as most recipients of the title are far less advantaged and far more penalized for it - often after doing far less societal harm.
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