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  • Texas doubles down in unprecedented border dispute with federal government

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  • I mean, we’ve also seen a lot of cases of the exact opposite.

    Where? Where was there a recent independence movement that succeeded and was punished by the original country?

    Of course you don’t let them starve, but you also don’t let ships into your territorial waters near areas with violent insurgents, and you warn your neighbors that trade will suffer if they’re found to be supplying said insurgents.

    Wouldn't blocking supplies starve them?

    Again, this is silly debate as Texas will not secede but if they do it's crazy to think that US government would just abandon millions of democratic voters living there. There are pretty much two options: either US government would use force to regain the rule there or would pretend that everything is OK and keep cooperating (like Spain and Catalonia, give them more and more independence without formally recognizing it). They definitely would not impose blockade and risk creating North Korea style regime right at their border.

  • Virgilio Aguilar Méndez is Facing Murder Charges for an Officer Who Died of Natural Causes While Attacking Him

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  • It is meant to be used for something like you and three people rob a bank and one of your crew shoots a guard.

    It's worse than that. You can be charged with murder for borrowing a car to those three, even if you didn't took part in the robbery.

  • Jelly's blog — GNOME battery charge control

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  • 85% after 2.5 years is not good. My car battery has guarante of 80% capacity after 6 years. 20% of range is a significant difference so I take car of my battery and don't charge it above 80% if not needed. It's the same with laptops. Current models can easily last 5-10 years but having only 50% of capacity after that time would be a problem. Sure, if you're intending to throw it out after 3 years it doesn't really matter but if you want to use it for as long as possible you definitely should take care of the battery. It's pretty much the only part that degrades (except maybe keyboard).

  • A private prison health care company accused of substandard care is awarded new contract in Illinois

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  • I guess they didn't watch John Oliver episode about it.

  • What happened at the nation's first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account

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  • Where is it a preferred method? I think it's approved in one country but is it actually preferred or recommended by doctors anywhere?

  • Texas doubles down in unprecedented border dispute with federal government

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  • I just meant is a normal human reaction (I even said it would be immoral. Did you see that?). I understand that people like to see this as some sort or 'justice'. You keep telling Brits that it's a bad decision and it would hurt them and then voilà, they suffer the consequences. It just feels good to be right but of course if you think about it a little you realize it's a overall terrible thing and feel bad for all the misled people.

  • Texas doubles down in unprecedented border dispute with federal government

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  • Brexit showed us that situation like this the 'bigger person' in the conflict will try not to starve millions of people to death and will not simply cut them off. We as individualise would surely like to see Brits/Texans suffer all the consequences but politicians are usually more pragmatic than this and have to think long term. Turning Texas into 3rd world country wouldn't do any good to anyone. Blocking supplies as some sort of collective punishment would simply be immoral.

    Of course they are not going to secede but if they did they would still get all the supplies they need. Their economy would suffer greatly but they would just blame US and keep going.

  • How to get a private car

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  • Privacy and cars are mutually exclusive. If you want privacy use public transport and pay in cash. With cars you have licence plate scanner, cameras and tollbooths everywhere (no to mention that most people drive with their phones on them). "They" will know where were you driving no matter what car you use. The question really is what data are you trying to hide and from who? The obvious thing to do is not to give your data to advertisers. Selling you shit is the whole point of most of the data collection. Just get extra phone and use some fake google account for android auto and you should be fine here. As for car companies all they will gather is some generic data about your driving habits but guess what? Everyone knows this already because driving is not private (again, if you want to hide this use public transport). So yeah, it would be nice for car companies to be more transparent about the data they gather and how they use it but it's really not a big issue. If you're paranoid about it then don't drive. If you're driving the data your car is leaking though analytics is not your biggest problem.

  • Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds

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  • I don't live in US so for it's not a matter of hope or gloom. It's just my opinion based on what I see happening there. I know a lot of Americans would like the entire Internet to cheer them and lie to give them some hope but I just don't see much sense in that. If you think it's achievable than do you, fight for it. I was just wandering if people really believe they can get it.

  • ‘I don’t see how it ends’: expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis

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  • Come on, how can this be bad if it made some people a lot of money?

  • Just to be preemptive: I know you hate me for this.

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  • Is this the best joke ever written? No. Wait, I meant yes. Yes it is.

  • Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds

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  • On a scale from doing nothing to revolution convincing the elite to willingly relax their absolute grip on power and let other people win elections is like an 8. It's not going to happen.

    What are some improvements that are not fantasies? I would say the actually possible thing would be to get a slightly more progressive president that would push through some meaningful reforms despite Republicans bitching about it. Education reform, justice system reform, immigration reform could all be possible Of course this is not happening in the next 5 years if ever.

    Supreme court reform is less possible but still achievable IMHO. Things like term limits and some real ethical oversight. Most people understand how corrupt it is and would support some changes. It would affect both parties equally so some bipartisan deal could be possible. Of course this is not getting enough tracking right now to move anywhere.

    Any form of constitutional reform on the other hand is not possible and is pure political fiction.

  • Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds

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  • Changing the electoral system would be a minor improvement? So you're talking about some city level elections or do you actually think that changing how presidents and representatives are elected would only be a minor change?

  • Beeper’s push for iMessage on Android is really over

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  • I think Blackberry had the right solution with their Hub app. It was just a big inbox with a lot of integrations. It would show you all the conversations from different apps (including email) with all the typical filtering, sorting and searching. You had a single screen to see all your conversations nicely organized but clicking on a message would take you to the external app to send messages. It was super useful but of course apps had to provide some API for this to work and BB wasn't popular enough so at some point it just stopped working. Android could easily do this but I think they are just not as good at UX as BB was (seriously, BB OS10 had lots of great features iOS copied a decade later and more, it was really nice).

  • Beeper’s push for iMessage on Android is really over

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  • WTF? Have you never met a kid in your life? Kids are stupid, their brains are still developing. You can't just reason with them, explain that the thing they want is stupid and that they should actually want something else. It gets worse with teenagers, they think they are actually smart and stop listening while thinking that every choice they make will have a huge impact on their entire life. Telling them to "suck it up and find some other friends" has to be the most pointless thing you can do.

    Look, I hate kids, don't have any and never will but even I understand how fucked up it has to be for your kid to be excluded from activities because they don't have a phone or have the wrong one. Being a parent now has to really suck. All kids bond over things that are bad for them (social media) so you pretty much have to choose how do you prefer to hurt your kid: by giving them a phone or by making them an outcast.

  • Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds

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  • Introduce ranked choice voting.

    Out of curiosity, why do people write things like that? There's 0% change of this happening. Are you delusional and propose this as actual solution or are you so disillusioned that at this point you don't even care about actual solutions and just want to play fantasy politics?

  • Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in Alabama nitrogen gas execution: Updates

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  • Switzerland actually (but I was closer). I thought it was supposed to be instant not take minutes to lose consciousnesses. Struggling to breath for 10 seconds would be terrible. Minutes? No thank you. This definitely doesn't make it look any good.

    In Spain they just let you drink a lot of pentobarbital at home. It's supervised by a doctor and hundredths of people already did it without issues. The pod is just a gimmick.

  • ‘I am absolutely Japanese’: Ukrainian-born model sparks debate by winning Miss Japan pageant | CNN

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  • Even more alternate take: Ukraine got a sympathy win like in Eurovision?

  • ‘I am absolutely Japanese’: Ukrainian-born model sparks debate by winning Miss Japan pageant | CNN

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  • Who even operates them?

    You're not going to believe it but it's Donal Trump.