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I think you might actually have just gotten the point here without knowing it. It's perfectly reasonable to pick a photographer who's not a bigot, just like how I would choose not to shoot photos for bigots.

You get how this works now?

If you are going to be an advocate / ally you are going to need more tools in your box that "hrr Christians bad lol". There are a ton of rational positions to take her they don't make the good guys look like morons.

Sometimes the downside to robust consumer protections is that you don't get all the stuff. Norway has a guaranteed five year warranty that likely impacts profitability of compliance for some products.

We had an old 286 running the HVAC at a hospital I worked at. This was a hospital with about 2000 employees in a major American city.

Roku tvs use IR remotes like any other TV.

Sadly, it is actually pretty normal in the US, hence the name.

Imagine trying to argue that a person who isn't competent to speak in his own defense should be president. I wish our electorate was better informed.

Would have been smarter to keep him off the stand altogether.

That's a reason not to call him at all, not a reason to only let the state ask him questions.

The legal team that didn't bother to cross examine their own client after he testified for the prosecutor? I think they know.

Consider that for a moment. Trump himself just testified ONLY for the plaintiff. His own lawyers had nothing for him to answer at all.

They could have asked him anything like: "explain how it's someone else that's responsible for this" or "explain in detail how this is a witch hunt." Literally anything.

And his whole defense is that he isn't literally a murderer and that he totally didn't need to steal.

And given the chance to elaborate on that position, his own attorneys had no questions at all.

Wait, his OWN TEAM didn't have questions for him, their own client? It's a civil trial, they could have asked him anything, he could have had the whole court room listening to aIl the stupid bullshit he was trying to say in answer to the state. No questions?

I... can't fathom taking the stand in your own defense and then not having any questions from your own attorneys. How about: "did you do it?" "No, I did not." Or "why is the da trying to railroad you." "Magamagamaga".

No questions is unfathomable.

The bulk of the US economy is based on taking money from working people and then consolidating it to billionaires that run defense corporations. So "paying for" it's basically just an engine for making rich Americans more rich.

Actual psychopaths.

Well, if you were a billionaire with private doctors and access to preferred care then you would be way better off than someone in Canada, ergo the American system is better.

That's the only performance based argument in favor of privatized care that I can think of.

That's how voting works literally everywhere. If you count the people that don't or can't vote, American Presidents are elected by like twenty percent of the population, and the winner doesn't even have to get a majority of the actual votes.

The statement that they were voted in is a true statement, so I see no reason to correct it because you don't like that fact.

The problem is that the bigger and heavier the craft the higher it's minimum drop height is going to be because it's more dangerous and needs more clearance.

Obviously it also becomes much more costly to run.

That's true to all extent, but the more present online folks do end up driving behaviors about regular users as well. There was a tube when even having an ad blocker at all was a "power user" thing, now everyone does it. If they fail to accommodate the people that will put energy into circumventing ads then they will just find and normalize a new work around.

It's similar to content piracy. You will never get rid of piracy altogether, but if you make content accessible and affordable you can mitigate how common it is.

For YouTube, they need to balance how intrusive the ads are against how easy it is to get around them.

I can't imagine trying to check out an entire cart of groceries at a fucking target.

Because from their perspective someone invaded their land and is now vulnerable to getting kicked off it. The only reason Israel exists is because it's supported by the US and Europe. Take away that support and Israel goes away.

The intended result for Hamas is for Israel to respond with actions that erode the very support that they depend on for security against invasion from surrounding arab nations that don't need any new reasons to attack Israel apart from the very existence of Israel in the first place.