Do they still make Warheads? Those were the sour candy when I was growing up, lol.
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I might grant questionable, but not super.
I think a large part of why it was a 9-0 decision was that it's not speech to run a social media site. It's commerce, plain as day. Congress has the authority to regulate commerce full stop. The fact that China is using that platform to spread misinformation, and then claiming that stopping them from doing so is a 1A violation is just a red herring.
"Money is speech" just means rich people can donate all the money they want to a politician. Not that you can run an otherwise unlawful business because "money is speech and free speech is a thing!"
How is it any different than the Russian propaganda campaign to get Trump elected? Or was that something you were fine with as well?
When you let a foreign government run an active psyop campaign against your citizens, you're just begging for instability and chaos.
I mean, yeah? Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press are inalienable rights, sure, but they're generally intended to extend to citizens. Not foreign governments.
There's a big difference between a Chinese citizen here on a green card going around saying they love China and a company running an active misinformation campaign on orders from their government.
It's no different than how the government tried to crack down on Russian election interference. Turns out, hostile nations running psyops campaigns is bad.
Well, the TikTok lawyers kinda said the quiet part out loud during their SCOTUS brief:
Mr. Francisco contended that the government in a free country “has no valid interest in preventing foreign propaganda” and cannot constitutionally try to keep Americans from being “persuaded by Chinese misinformation.” That is targeting the content of speech, which the First Amendment does not permit, he said.
It's not a great look for your app when your argument before the Supreme Court is "yeah, we're a propaganda machine for a hostile foreign power, but free speech says you can't stop us. Neener neener."
Why do they need to be able to reproduce for their sex to count?
They keep happening, even if they don't have children. It's just a fairly common mutation.
There are plenty of genetic conditions that aren't hereditary. Like Down's Syndrome for instance.
See, I think you may just need a dictionary. Binary means there is one or the other, there is no "both or neither" option. If you have more than a forced "either/or" choice, then by definition it's not binary.
True, false, and neither isn't binary by any definition you'll find in any dictionary.
In addition to the other listed reasons, going open source is an extra step.
The code has to be compiled to run on your system (if it's written in a non-interpreted language, which a huge portion of software is).
You can't just run the source code on your computer. And getting your customer's computer to compile the source code itself would require a massive amount of overhead.
So, to distribute your software, you're always almost always going to distribute an already compiled version, and you'd have to choose to give the customer the uncompiled version as just a separate thing on the side. And there's no real reason to do that for most companies.
It most likely would just be a significant portion. Once a place is hit by fire, it takes a couple of years to be as susceptible again. Or, if it's not been a recent hit, the odds of any individual place being hit in a given year is probably sub 25%.
So the insurance company would probably charge something like 20-25% of the value. Which, yes, is hugely unaffordable for 99.9% of people. But if you're super rich is probably still worth it, as the reason the price is that high is that there's a pretty good chance your house burns down in the next year or two, so you would come out ahead in that scenario.
Then again, once you're rich enough to afford that level of insurance premium, you're probably rich enough to just float the risk yourself. So yeah, probably pretty worthless across the board, even at levels fairly significantly lower than 100% of the replacement cost.
https://brilliant.org/wiki/proof-of-divisibility-rules/
The 7 and 13 rules are pretty cool too.
Yep. If the sun of the numbers is divisible by 3, the number is divisible by three.
Works great for 6 too, as if it's divisible by 3 and even, the number is divisible by 6.
And 9 is the same thing, but the sum has to be divisible by 9 (e.g. 12384 is divisible by 9 because the sum of the digits is 18, which is divisible by 9)
There's also good rules for 4 and 8 as well. If the last 2 digits are divisible by 4, the whole number is (e.g. 127924 is divisible by 4 because 24 is) and if the last 3 numbers are divisible by 8, the whole number is (e.g. 12709832 is divisible by 8 because 832 is.)
To be clear, you can. Being in their presence for half a day wouldn't cause you to fall over dead. You aren't incapable of doing it.
What you mean is that you won't. You are refusing to do it. You aren't incapable, you just really don't want to.
And look, I get it. It's easier to tell yourself that spending a few hours with someone you don't like is literally impossible. That way, you can't be faulted for not doing it. You wouldn't be responsible for your own faults or failures if the things that would fix it were literally impossible. It's a comforting lie.
But just because you want something to be true doesn't make it so. You are, in fact, capable of spending a small handful of hours with someone you don't like. Your world won't end, and afterwards you can go back to sitting on your bed, playing vidya and jerking off. But you'll go back to that one step closer to self improvement.
The question is, what choice are you going to make. And make no mistake, it is a choice. Your hand isn't forced. And whichever way you go, that was your decision. Not something the world forced on you.
Okay, there's a lot there to examine, but let's go with the drivers license.
Why would you rather hang yourself than go back to that instructor? Just because they have a BMW? Because they annoyed you on a personal level?
It's not like you're going to marry them. They're someone you'll see for maybe a dozen hours in your entire life. After which, you'll have a drivers license that has the potential to vastly improve your life.
Can you not withstand a dozen hours discomfort? That's not that many in the grand scheme to achieve a goal you set for yourself.
Your comment about people being obnoxious, dumb, and too old is, at the most charitable, hyper local. This is something that you can work towards changing. There are clear, easily defined steps that will work you to that goal.
It will be hard, but it's clearly accomplishable if you put in the work.
You say you do enough, and I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.
What hard things are you currently doing? And about how many hours a week does it represent?
Platypus, my brother in Christ, do you hear how you talk out of both sides of your mouth?
You'd be sad if you had to hang out with people, because you hate that, but you'd be sad if you are alone because you hate that.
It's not your circumstances making you sad. It's you. It's your refusal to engage with your problems because you'd rather languish in your depression.
There's nothing on earth that could fall into your lap that would make you happy. The world could bend to your will in every way, and you'd still be miserable because the thing making you miserable isn't external.
You have the power to make 2025 better than 2024. It won't be easy, and you'll have to do a lot of things you don't like doing. That's life. That's being an adult. Doing the hard things you don't want to do to make life better for yourself and the people around you.
And you can do it. But you never will so long as you keep lying to yourself by saying there's "nothing you can do about it." There is. You just have to take the first step.
I mean, we're doing better than basically every other 1st world country, and those that are beating us don't have big livestock industries.
Takes one more turn. Pawn D4.
Bishop then takes that pawn for checkmate though, unless I'm missing something.
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Everyone's life is messy. That's the human condition.
And you say that nothing changes, but at the same time refuse to change. How can anything change if you don't?
The things you are doing now are making you miserable, so why keep doing them? The choices you're making now are making you miserable, so why not try and make different choices.
This isn't a "change the entirety of who you are right now" thing. It's a slow change of small decisions.
What if, tomorrow, instead of going to McDonald's (or whatever fast food you have), you went and sat at a local bar and chatted with people. Even for just an hour.
"I'd hate that," I hear you say. So? People do things they don't want to all the time. That's life. You can't do something hard for one hour a week? You can't stretch yourself, even the tiniest bit?
And maybe if you do that for a few months, you get to know someone at that bar. Maybe they invite you to another thing going on in town. Maybe as you develop friends, you start to realize that having relationships with people isn't as impossible as you've built it up in your head to be.
But if you keep choosing McDonalds, nothing will change. If you choose just one hour a week at the local pub, something might. That's not "changing who you are." It's not ego death for God's sake. It's one hour a week at a local bar.
So why not take the chance? What do you have to lose?
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You say it's "your reality" and "what you have seen," but what do you mean by that? Are they just platitudes?
You've never seen anyone change? You've never seen anyone work hard at something and improve?
You say, "if I had been born somewhere else," but do you think there's a single place on earth that doesn't have someone who feels the exact same way you do? I promise you that from the richest suburb in America to the poorest straw hut in Africa, there are people who think that the reason they don't have love is because of their circumstances and that the whole world is against them.
So what makes you different from them? Why would you succeed if you'd grown up in those places instead of where you are, even when others don't? Why haven't you succeeded growing up where you are, even if others have?
Once again, I promise I'm not trying to be a dick. I just want to understand you.
You mean like in the comic?