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Tunnelcat wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 4:13 pmadds to the humongous debt that Trump saddled us with after HIS nice unfunded giveaway to the elite with those large tax cuts

Yeah it's funny how some people weren't concerned about inflation then.

Jeff250

Well do you mention the trillions passed by congress , most of which goes into socialist spending plans Then have absolutely clueless admin mouthpiece tell us it is not going to cost us anything? Do you think pay people generous unemployment checks helped or hurt the economy, inflation. Still glad ...

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Did you try "pm uninstall" without "--user 0"?

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Can you "pm disable" them at least? Next time urge your parents to buy a Pixel.

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Is USD doing good at the moment? Compared to pre-pandemic, USD is much less valuable now versus EUR, CAD, etc. This is largely believed to be due to inflation resulting from the USA's deficit spending relating to COVID, but like anything financial who really knows because it just boils down to perce...

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I mean, there's nothing wrong with copying per se. The linux desktop environment that I run (Cinnamon) has a start menu that is basically a slightly better version of Windows 7's. But saying that Windows 11 is copying Plasma is being pretty generous to Windows 11. In Plasma's (and Cinnamon's) "...

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I just tried Googling what the probability is of a single vote changing the outcome of an election, and there has actually been some work done on approximating this. In a swing state, there is a 1 in 10 million chance. However, for voters in states such as New York, California, and Texas, where the ...

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Analogy: Normally I'm very picky about what pets I allow into my house. But if a rabid dog is loose in my house and actively trying to bite my family, and the neighbor says "My overly violent pit bull can kill that rabid dog" I'm going to tell him to let his pit bull loose. We can figure ...

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The problem I have with this view is that it asserts that voting *for* something is always morally superior to voting *against* something. I don't think they're morally all that different. Is Yes morally superior to No? I mean, is "no, not that. literally anything else but that" somehow a...

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We've debated the value of strategic voting before here. These are good points, but I also feel like we are in exceptional circumstances. I'm happy to vote for Republicans again once some kind of party reform is evident. Heck, I was rooting for John Kasich in 2016. When the Republican Party stops r...

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I voted Democrat for the first time in my life this election. I disagree with President Biden on just about every single political issue. But the importance of removing that mad man from office was just more important than any of that. After Jan 6th, really after the republican party refused to imp...

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I'm also not a very good Libertarian when it comes to health care. I still don't count as a Socialist because I think Socialized medicine is a mistake and that it increases the involvement of the government in our lives in an absolutely terrifying way. BUT, I'm a bad Libertarian because I recognize...

Jeff250

Busy, Busy, Busy. My wrist won't let me play Descent anymore, and I let work and other things get in the way of keeping up with the Descentbb. Got to thinking about it yesterday, realized I missed it, and came back to see what was going on! :) Yeah aging has been a drag, and to think I'm still some...

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Kilarin wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 4:12 pm[...]

Hey long time no see! How you been?!

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Yep. Just to clarify, I believe that memory, personality, character, behavior, intelligence, emoting, etc. are all easily explained by the physical universe. It's just being able to experience what it feels like to sit in a hot tub... I'm not so sure, and even if it can be, the capability to have su...

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Do people believe humans have a soul? I'm not sure if I would call it a soul or if I would call it something else, but the physical universe would seem to lack the furniture required to explain human experience. For instance, how am I sentient? How do I experience qualia ? How am I not a philosophi...

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Martin Luther was right (sort of). Cat-licks do so many things that are contrary to the Bible and Jesus' gospel, so the true Christianity is some kind of Protestant Christianity but there's a lot of confusion about denominations because of knuckleheads like Martin Luther. :P XD Thoughts? Trying to ...

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Clothing seems a given. Government seems inevitable. Would a week be 7 days? 2. Base 10 math would be dominate because we have 10 fingers. "In the Ali language (Central Africa), for example, "five" and "ten" are respectively moro and mbouna: moro is actually the word for &qu...

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vision wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:14 pm
Jeff250 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 8:48 amBack in the olden days, some of the best debaters in this forum were conservative-leaning...
Damn, that must have been a really long time ago because I don't remember anything but the spewing of weak talking points and propaganda mixed in with religious nonsense.

Yeah it was.

Jeff250

Back in the olden days, some of the best debaters in this forum were conservative-leaning, but I'd be surprised (insofar as anything surprises me anymore) if any of them were Trump supporters today.

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I think the only person who was banned was Thunderbunny and, if I recall correctly, it was for habitually making low-effort posts/topics.

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Not sure what's going on with my upstream. It's solidly 930Mbps through most of the test until a second or two before the end where it consistently goes down to 860Mbps:

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Republicans are the modern-day Pharisees. Whatever racket the Vatican has going on makes them look like wanna-be has-beens compared to Republicans and their organized manipulation of their constitutent's religious values in order to enrich their donors and themselves.

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Remember when Obama put Dijon mustard on a cheeseburger?

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Ubuntu... which died in 2010, in my opinion. Can you expand on this opinion? It's a strange opinion since Ubuntu is bigger than ever. Is that around the time Unity came out? I agree that based purely on usage numbers it's difficult to argue that Ubuntu is dead. Disclaimer: I'm typing this from an U...

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I'm not a huge fan of RPM-based distros, so I'm mostly just watching this play out with popcorn in hand, but I don't think there is anything stopping anyone from just creating another CentOS, i.e., another distro that just takes RHEL and strips out the non-redistributable trademarks and logos.

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As an aside, I feel that the plot of Descent 3 was fairly weak, and I like to pretend that it never happened. Dravis was initially an interesting character, a cold bureaucrat but someone who also demonstrated genuine concern and remorse for the Material Defender at the end of Descent 2. There was so...

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I'm very sorry to hear that Tunnelcat, and I wish your sister a speedy and full recovery.

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woodchip wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 7:00 amFirst you have to ask yourself how legacy is measured and by who.

Future generations. As a preview, young people today.

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I always wonder, don't McConnell, Trump, et al. care about their legacy or how future historians will treat them? I wonder the same about full-blown authoritarians such as Xi Jinping. Do they truly think that they are on the right side of history, or do they just not care?

Jeff250

Ah cool. I use Ubuntu with Cinnamon, which is about as close as you can get to Linux Mint without using Linux Mint.

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Wow, typical arch user. The first rule for Arch is making sure everyone knows you use Arch :P :lol: The idea of rolling release is frightening to me. TigerRaptorFX, aren't you afraid of some major update breaking things at some critical time when you really need your machine? Jumping between Ubuntu...

Jeff250

Welp, I just filled out my primary ballot. I couldn't stomach giving Biden my vote right now, so since Warren was still on the ballot even though she dropped out, she got my vote. Gawd I hope he's not the Dem choice we're stuck with come November. I wouldn't worry. In my experience, people tend to ...

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I'm happy to vote for neither of the two rapists.

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Tunnelcat wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:56 pmGiving Biden my vote would make me a hypocrite.

You don't have a choice -- he's the lesser of two rapists.

Jeff250

Tunnelcat wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 2:00 pmI'm to the point I don't want to vote for the pervert.

But you will.

Jeff250

Suppose that Biden does have the wherewithal to pick Warren--would you credit his choice of Warren over a moderate due to your willingness to vote for any Democrat no matter what they say or do?

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But there are moral ramifications when refusing to choose the lesser of two evils and allowing the greater evil to win. Your argument would only seem to apply to states where there is any competition in the first place. In states without competition, which comprise most states, all you're doing by ...

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I would feel better about this idea that the general election should be all practical and not about signalling values if the primaries were actually all about signalling values. But voters in the primaries are already practical, voting according to the perceived general electability of the candidate...

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Personally, I think the place for this was/is the primary. Pushing for ranked choice voting is probably the next step in this regard, for getting a more accurate result in line with voter wishes. But in terms of general election message voting, especially this year, I believe there's a much more im...

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