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Yeah, jury already found him guilty and the judge twice said we're allowed to call the rapist Trump a rapist. In his business fraud case, he is also already found guilty. So he is already a rapist fraudster. I think the meme stands as it is.

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Ukraine Update: Data shows Ukraine is laying down the heaviest firestorm of artillery in the war

This is an incredibly long article, mostly rehashing old information. Tl:dr is this. The war will take 4 to 6 years. It is irrelevant that Russia has more people as they don't have the kit or tatics. The battle has become one of artillery attrition. Ukraine is getting stronger and Russia weaker. There will be a sudden breakthrough when the Russian army is exhausted, but don't know when.

The last 4 or 5 paragraphs are worth a read from, "UKRAINE IS GROWING STRONGER, AND RUSSIA WEAKER" onwards.

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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all. - John Maynard Keynes

Yeah, this is not definitely attributed to Keynes, and earlier verions of it by other people paint this in a slightly different way as a positive point, that even nasty people work for the benefit of all. Many versions have been attributed to Keynes, both as a positive and a negative for capitalism.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/23/capitalism-motives/?amp=1

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Do you pirate? And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?

Copyright is fucking wierd and an anomaly. It has only existed very recently in all history. Part of the reason we have the works of Shakespeare is due to the fact that there was no copyright then, so taking a part of someone else's work and rehashing into something new was common and innovative. Disney do this with old folk stories, but then they get to "copyright" it? It's abhorrent. It stifles further creativity. Take that horrible weirdo TERF who wrote some wizarding shit. She would have done very nicely without copyright protection. It's not needed. So-called "piracy" is just normal behaviour. Nothing wrong with it.

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I stated programming games on a school computer in the early to mid 80's. When the tape drive broke, I still used to have the code in my head, just type it all in for others to play. Now I find code I wrote last month and can't remember doing it. At least it tends to be, "which genius wrote this" these day. Tend to leave comments everywhere for myself now, including my own name and other messages to myself like,"don't touch this it works, your bug will be in..."

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Anon only gets out of bed for the right price.

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AITA to ask my wife to act like we live in a First world.

YTA. The phrase, "reduce, reuse, recycle" is written in that order precisely because it is most important to save the environment by reducing our consumption (not buying raisins we don't need). It is a magnitude worse to move to the second one, reuse (reuse pots instead of buying new jars). It is a magnitude worse to move to the last one, recycle, almost pointless in fact to do this (recycling good pots into something else). You might as well set fire to a pile of coal. Your wife is golddust, she's a very special person with a deep understanding of the real world.