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stephen

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  • VPN usage at risk in Michigan under new proposed adult content law

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  • This is the important take.

    The other poster that claims that “this will never pass”, hopefully is thinking of this. Without this consideration - I believe it would. Right wing has been trying any method to impose their sense of morality onto a free society since before I was born. I grew up in a household that actively worked to suppress pornography through local, state, and federal law. I saw this at work.

  • What should the columns say?

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  • “Solve” and “Coagula”?

  • I'm playing Gears of War Reloaded, and I have a question. Will there be some point when the Chainsaw I've had for hours actually gets explained to me?

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  • The game begins with a tutorial.

    Why would I be remiss to be confused as to why there is a tutorial, but not include any mention of the existence, let alone the use, of a basic weapon?

    Further, yes, I expect all products to tell me about their features.

  • ELI5 How the whole touching fentanol you could overdose got started? In med industry we laugh about cops saying they get high or overdosed on it by touching it. ?

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  • I’d encourage you to look into Chris Green, a cop in East Liverpool, Ohio, United States. This horseshit seems to be traced back to this guy.

  • I'm playing Gears of War Reloaded, and I have a question. Will there be some point when the Chainsaw I've had for hours actually gets explained to me?

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  • Hahaha here I thought I’d just missed something in the beginning of the game. Turns out the game just doesn’t bother to teach its players how to play it.

  • Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

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  • No. Your argument is for fools. The argument that a country with a population of 345 million produces less carbon dioxide to pollute the planet’s atmosphere with than a country of 1.42 billion people is nonsense and contributes nothing to any conversation at all. The per capita comparison is what matters, but it’s not used by the people that just really want us to believe “China == bad”. Seems like they’re successful at it based on this interaction, sadly.

  • Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

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  • Correct and correct.

  • Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

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  • The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?

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  • Wasn’t it always?

  • Trump's IRS payola for churches will backfire on evangelicals

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  • I hope the predictions of this piece is accurate. But I doubt it.

    A quick way to restart the exodus from the pews is to make the church even more overtly partisan, rather than spiritual.

    When was an evangelical in the 90’s and the 00’s the churches my family attended were frequently GOP rallies with a veneer of Jesus over top. This change in IRS policy that seems to have never ever been enforced to start with will make no difference. The gloom and doom of this piece that suggests that political entities will start dumping money into churches to stump for their candidates - I don’t think that’s going to happen, since the churches that would be game - are already doing it.

  • “What to the Slave Is Your 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech (Video 8mins / Transcript)

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  • Danny Glover has a recitation that I like too. The National Archives had a recitation of a much longer version of the speech with additional context: https://www.youtube.com/live/uRvQL8-Qokg

    There are some ways that Mr. Douglass’s words are fortunately no longer true, but in many many many other ways are still very unfortunately still relevant.

  • Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims

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  • Yep, that’s my goal. I’m going to check all of these projects out. Thanks for the recommendations.

  • Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims

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  • I’ve been shopping for some sort of cross platform (namely iOS / Android) service like this or Apple’s Find My Friends that I’d could have some assurance that this kind of content would be kept safe and private. The search continues …

  • Republicans Forced to Remove Sale of Public Lands From Budget Bill

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  • “Republicans forced to” seem like a good start to many possible sentences.

  • "We forgor 💀"

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  • I think OP’s “jk” is the important part here. They (meaning NRA leadership) do believe the Second Amendment exists primarily to allow the country’s citizenry to defend itself against a tyrannical government. I don’t think they believe the government that is happening right here is tyrannical, so they’re not hypocrites. Just because you think it is doesn’t mean they do.

    As another commenter on this thread pointed out - they’re misogynistic. Just because they have a subsection of their website for lady gun owners, doesn’t mean that they think that women are equal to men. They are also racist (see Philando Castile and the NRA’s total lack of action on the murder by the state of a legal gun owner). LGBT folks? Indigenous people? People outside of USA’s territory that are on the receiving end of US state policy? Forget all of them entirely, despite tyrannized (by my measure).

    As the NRA leadership belongs to a class of people (wealthy, White, male, probably cishet) who are not harmed by current GOP policies, actions, and stated future goals - no need for an armed revolution.

    I type all of this as someone that thinks oppressed people should absolutely have access to firearms to defend themselves. The NRA does not represent the proletariat.

  • How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works

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  • Me: this interacting with an Internet stranger is going well. Me: notices RampageDon is on a .ca server Me: Ah, I bet that’s it.

  • How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works

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  • Forgive me, I didn’t mean to leave anyone with the impression that there was any attempt at logic from antivaxxers.

    My point is that the industry that rakes in riches on the suffering of the sick has left ample reasons for people to distrust it and not believe anything that it says.

    I’ve got a family member who is not getting their daughter the HPV vaccine because of “the lies”. That same family member? She barely survived a cervical cancer that was likely there because she was HPV positive. No logic there at all.

  • How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works

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  • Up hill conversation to get people who are against vaccines to trust a predatory for profit medical industry that has given us all reason to distrust. I’m someone that relies on herd immunity, so please get you and your kids vaccinated, but I understand where people are coming from even though they’ve come to trust baseless theories that are based on intentional ignorance.

  • president of peace everybody

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  • I wish the law worked that way, but there is no technicality that violating an oath of office triggers a resignation. Resignation is resignation.