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A Plan

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Have a mortgage and a kid, more left now than I ever was in my past. While recognizing that not everyone wants those things, my living standard really should be the baseline and I don't mind paying taxes to make it easier for others to achieve it. It does piss me off that most of my taxes go to a military I don't approve of though.

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As Europe criminalizes environmental protest, some activists turn to sabotage

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I think that's the spirit of the text, but he's very careful not to actually call for violent protest. Instead, he repeatedly just says that it should be considered for obvious reasons. The text has a "won't someone rid me of this meddlesome priest" effect. Regardless, he makes a compelling argument and the violence he considers is purely against property and not people so, unless you're a property fetishist, the degree of violence being considered is nothing compared to the violence of climate change.

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Hungry 9

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I thought that too, 9 is like a halogen, it wants to resolve to 10 anyway it can like fluorine wants one last electron. So allow the 9 to rip one off of the neighboring numbers and then perform the calculation.

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Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models

Integrating media software directly into TVs was a mistake, TVs should not need dedicated years of support because they should just work as long as the components continue to function. I'm still using a 10 year old TV because it doesn't do anything other than output the incoming input. Hook any system or media player to that and you can swap those out as software lifecycles dictate at a much lower cost.