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  • Zelensky refuses to hold elections in wartime Ukraine

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  • So, in your opinion - in order for Zelensky to not be a dictator, he has to break all the existing rules of law in order to completely replace the existing constitution? And he should be allowed to do this unilaterally? And this would make him not a dictator? He's not a fucking monarch dude, he's the elected head of state - he doesn't have supreme authority to do whatever the fuck he feels like.

    The foundation of democracy is the idea that our elected officials have to abide by the rules of law that are already in place, including (and especially) those laws that concern how other laws are made. Otherwise any elected official could just declare themselves the new supreme ruler and toss out every law that limits their power.

    And that's all putting aside the question of how you would even hold an election in war ravaged Ukraine right now, a significant portion of which is under hostile occupation lol

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  • I exclusively wear Exo Foccio Give n Go boxer briefs

    Expensive as hell, but soo worth it - a pair lasts me years before the elastic gives out, and they're so comfortable

  • EVE Online - Down the Rabbit Hole

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  • You really don't need any AI (assuming you mean LLMs like ChatGPT) to bot the shit out of Eve - the way the game fundamentally functions makes it dead simple to bot (it's not like WoW where you have to deal with pathfinding or positioning for combat) - you could write a mining bot in a weekend, and it's dead hard to catch because "normal" mining basically looks indistinguishable from botting

  • Which Life Pro Tip disappointed you?

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  • Yeah even with the expensive ones it's hard to find a good one. Last time I got a pillow, I just ordered like 6 from Amazon, and tried each for a night before deciding which to keep - only one ended up being remotely good, and they were all "nice" pillows (highly rated, over $100)

    Love the one I ended with though

  • Zelensky refuses to hold elections in wartime Ukraine

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  • What exactly is the process for a complete replacement in the constitution in Ukraine? Is it something that can feasibly be accomplished during wartime?

    Edit: apparently the process is "you can't" https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/389-19#Text (Article 19 Section 1)

    So basically there is no way for Zelensky to change anything about the situation without just fraglantly breaking the law (or declaring an end to martial law during wartime, which would be beyond stupid). Pretty hard to argue he's a "dictator" when literally all he's doing is following the law that was out in place well before he was elected.

    Now, if the war ends and he still refuses to hold a election, I'll be right with you in calling for action, but I fail to see any fault with his current course on this specific issue

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    Where on the globe would you best be able to sail a very large ship without being detected?

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  • Might also want to prioritize areas of low military significance - even if there are no commercial ships, you don't want areas where spy satellites are likely to be looking around for unknown vessels

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  • Yeah something like the Steam Deck, but where the dock has a beefy eGPU so you can play in 4k on the big screen would be 🔥

  • We interrupt your programming rule

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  • Swappable batteries was the big one for me

  • We interrupt your programming rule

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  • Back in the day when they were actually focused on putting features into phones instead of stripping them out...

  • There has to be a name for this state of being

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  • Or dunning Kruger depending on how accurate the first sentence actually is lol

  • Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices

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  • Hulu is currently the only streaming service I still pay for, and that's mainly because TV shows are a removed to pirate (disk space and download times being the main annoyance), but it won't take more than one or two more price hikes for the balance to shift so that it's worth the effort to just go full pirate instead of forking out so much cash.

    The fact that Disney just fully bought Hulu bodes very poorly too - I'll bet anything that it's going to get folded into Disney+ soon as a "pay an extra 15/month to access Hulu content, but only through your Disney+ membership sort of deal"

  • raptur(ul)e

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  • Unironically this is a pretty good piece of "evidence" - don't get me wrong rapturing isn't real, but we're talking about internal consistency here, not reality - if rapturing is real, then the Shroud of Turin is real, which means that the marks left on it must be typical for divine dissappearing acts 🤷🏼‍♂️

  • Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For Upwards Of $50,000

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  • Poor people don't really want things - you need a certain level of cash flow to qualify as a proper person with dreams and feelings, haven't you heard?

  • Marvel Studios' Echo | Official Trailer

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  • Pretty much no one would be alive in the MCU if it operated on the same logical rules as ours does lol

  • Mark Zuckerberg tears ACL while training for MMA fight early next year

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  • I'll be absolutely shocked if he doesn't take a cheap shot now lol

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  • Based on my experience working with PR teams and executives - you probably had a bored PR team that wanted to do something that feels important or relavent, and they pitched it to the exec team in a way that made them feel all important and excited (they probably threw in the phrase "lifestyle brand" a few times), so they went with it against all reason

  • Game of the Year

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  • It's a joke from the game lol - it might be improved by playing it in short bursts though, would certainly break up the monotany or some aspects

  • Dune rule

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  • There's no Fremen on Caladan.

    I know? What does that have to do with what I said?

  • Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma

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  • Interesting that you run into those issues, I've had it for years and handedly had to manual reconcile more than once or twice early on, certainly not in the last few years

    Good news is, no one is making you use it!