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>This isn’t just men, other women do it also. Men do not care about what women wear. If men were even 10% of people applying peer pressure on women to not wear practical clothing, I'd be amaze…
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>I've voted blue my whole life, but that doesn't mean I'm going to remain silent while dumb conspiracy theories with no evidence are weaponized to drive voter turnout. There are real…
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>And I remember a president who downplayed it and called it a hoax Trump called the Democratic criticism of the administration's response to COVID19 a "hoax", not the virus itself. …
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Yes, the Canadians of Convenience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadians_of_convenience was my first thought. That can't be the only reason as the blog post explains—I agre…
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The SF Bay area got Apple Wallet support last week, too. I didn't want my physical card invalidated, so I created a new, virtual one from within Apple Wallet itself.
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When I needed new brush heads for my electric toothbrush. I hesitated before buying from Amazon, because I can't be sure that the toothbrush manufacturer-branded refills there are genuine. Going …
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>the first reports on this already appeared in august 2020, but somehow all mainstream outlets weren't too interested. Because it would have diminished the relentless message emanating from al…
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>2. People texting a lot (maybe other countries’ carriers used to just make texting too expensive?) Yes. US mobile plans gave enormous buckets (thousands) of SMS messages a month to mobile users 10…
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>Then the January 6, 2021 insurrection occurred and we began seeing more customer support cases asking about whether Basecamp “discriminated” against its customers. Whether it supported “free speec…
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Nvidia Shield TV, Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, or Amazfit Bip
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>Today, we're lucky to get a 15% gain in two years. The 2012 MacBook Pro 15-inch I'm typing this on is about 700 on Geekbench single-core, while the 2019 16-inch is about 950. 35% "i…
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The announcement also appears on the department's website. https://cse.umn.edu/cs
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One of many, many, many reasons: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/09/bart-withholdin... …
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Yes. Specifically, a SPAC that, as Levine said, seems designed to be used by a Chinese company looking to go public on a US equity market.
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In a survey of scientists from 16 countries ( http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-bra... ), the US is the top destination from 13 of the 15 others and th…
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"Most" is an exaggeration. But many? Yes. In a survey of scientists from 16 countries ( http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-bra... ), the US is…
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Yes; thank you for finding the current site.
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>Roads don't pay for themselves US highways do pay for themselves ( http://www.bts.gov/publications/federal_subsidies_to_passeng... ) (non-PDF version: http://ww…
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>As someone who lives in a city that has snow 6 months a year, and has a huge rate of bike theft and car breakins, do you know what you can leave on your porch year round that will never get stolen…
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Almost exactly at the same time as The Real Book's publication, appeared the Lions' Commentary on Unix v6 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6t..…
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My understanding is that the site long ago became prominent enough that studios and producers send clips to the site proactively.
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>Also, part of the way this swinging back to equilibrium will work is by the left tearing each other apart with more and more demands to just accept the liberal orthodoxy handed down from on high. …
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Back then there was real hope that HCQ was indeed going to be a breakthrough treatment. Or do you also claim that Emmanuel Macron was also motivated by financial reasons when he made a well publicized…
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>Okay, so for "The disastrous decision to share a currency" As slibhb said, feel free to claim that economists like Stiglitz and Krugman are demonstrating the Dunning-Kruger effect when t…
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>which are typically fairly limited for any given generic Nonsense. Aspirin is a generic drug. Generic drugs are widely produced because a) again, anyone can make them so b) profit margins are very…
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>I don't think this is a surprise, when conservative leaders started out by viewing the pandemic as a commercial opportunity. >Bolsonaro and Trump both promoted hydroxycholoroquine as if th…
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>This is called a zaibatsu in Japan and a chaebol in South Korea. The Korean ones in particular are simultaneously fascinating and disturbing due to their interwovenness with the state. The zaibats…
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>The question will be whether the Series S/X version will run well enough to be worth buying. I also wonder whether the Xbox version will support all the HOTAS, yokes, pedals, and throttles th…
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>US-centric views of love have evolved more towards ‘if it feels right, do it’ Wikipedia on the early history of Saturday Night Live : >Drugs were a major problem during the show's first f…