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Sen. Lindsey Graham Suggests Nuking Gaza, Calls Hiroshima ‘the Right Decision’
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The US has already dropped two nukes on South Carolina.
What more do you want?
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Sen. Lindsey Graham Suggests Nuking Gaza, Calls Hiroshima ‘the Right Decision’
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The US has already dropped two nukes on South Carolina.
What more do you want?
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‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
Yeah, got rid of all my CDs a few years ago and now I'm buying them back a bit at the time because of all the stuff that is going out of print and you can no longer stream.
Should have just stored everything.
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Congressman ‘Caught on Camera’ Pulling Fire Alarm to in Apparent Attempt to Delay Vote to Avoid Shutdown
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No, the case was about protesting war.
So, whenever you use this trope, you continue to support the idea that protesting war is criminal and protesters should be imprisoned.
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Club Q mass shooter sentenced to life in prison on federal hate crime charges
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Federal and State are both pardonable, it is just different entities.
Federal means no parole.
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X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs
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X, the cowpunk band from Cali, would like a word with you. They were formed in 1980 and still perform.
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That isn't actually Popper. That is Marcuse.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse
That crappy cartoon gets shared a lot but it does not actually represent Popper's views.
It is, however, A very accurate description of Marcuse's views. It even looks like him!
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Dianne Feinstein dies at 90
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The only reason there is power in her seat is the Seniority System. Whoever takes her place will have no power relative power, and will have to work their way up the ranks.
People talk about term limits, the easiest and most effective change would be to eliminate the Senate Comittee Seniority system.
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Is it possible to fix one's eyesight? What are working methods? What is to be cautious about?
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Lasik didn't get FDA approval until 1996.
Before that, it was radial keratotomy.
I got mine in 1986 and it was effective until 2015 when I started to need bifocals.
I consider it a success.
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Only if you have broadband in the grave with you.
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Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site?
2008 for me.
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Dianne Feinstein dies at 90
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That would be from a different state and then that state would lose the power of having a senior committee member.
There is a reason Senator Robert Byrd was the longest-serving U.S. Senator. Serving three different tenures as chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations enabled Byrd to steer a great deal of federal money toward projects in West Virginia.
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Dianne Feinstein dies at 90
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Feinstein was on the following committees. You don't think she pushed California's interests in every one.
Committee on Appropriation
Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Subcommittee on Defense
Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development (Chairman)
Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Committee on Rules and Administration
Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism
Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights
Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law
Subcommittee on the Constitution (Chairman)
Select Committee on Intelligence
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Congressman ‘Caught on Camera’ Pulling Fire Alarm to in Apparent Attempt to Delay Vote to Avoid Shutdown
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No, it is about people fundamentally misunderstanding the case and continuing to misuse a paraphrasing of a dictum, or non-binding statement, from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Incorrectly, acting as if it was a an actually point if law.
If used correctly, then it would be about protesting war. But people rarely understand what was said under Schenck v. United States, nor do they understand that it was overturned.
Brandenburg v. Ohio changed the standard to which speecg speech could be prosecuted only when it posed a danger of "imminent lawless action," a formulation which is sometimes said to reflect Holmes reasoning as more fully explicated in his Abrams dissent, rather than the common law of attempts explained in Schenck.
Fire in a theater is meaningless and useless.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham Suggests Nuking Gaza, Calls Hiroshima ‘the Right Decision’
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That's true.
But the chickens didn't notice the difference.
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North Carolina lawmakers push bill to ban most public mask wearing, citing crime
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The repeal would return public masking rules to their pre-pandemic form — created in 1953 to address a different issue: limiting Ku Klux Klan activity in North Carolina, according to a 2012 book by Washington University in St. Louis sociology professor David Cunningham.
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North Carolina lawmakers push bill to ban most public mask wearing, citing crime
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Actually, Anti Klan legislation.
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"Have a duty to shareholders to maximize profits" musk is scurd.
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Not according to Dodge Brothers vs Ford.
That was settled a long time ago.
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Is it possible to fix one's eyesight? What are working methods? What is to be cautious about?
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I didn't need glasses for 40 years.
My glasses were costing $500 plus in the 1980s. They needed replacing annually.
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Dianne Feinstein dies at 90
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You believe a freshman senator on Ways and Means, a committee of 29, welds a significant amount of influence verses Patty Murphy, Chairmain, who has been on Appropriations for 26 years?
I was referring to relative power within the Senate. How long do you think it will take for a freshman senator to gain the same amount of influence as Patty Murphy under the current system?
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Is it possible to fix one's eyesight? What are working methods? What is to be cautious about?
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I was paying $500 annually for a new prescription back in the 80s. Had to get new ones every year.