jmcs

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Cafestol is not really that well studied, and at least in rats it's an anticarcinogen.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Tell me you are not part of a minority, are male, and have 0 empathy with a single image.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 month ago

I just wish that these extreme-right cretins would also take it as a sign of God when they almost croak twice during a campaign.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 month ago

Almost all dystopic sci-fi movies and books (including Blade Runner) are documentaries once you move past the visuals.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which makes the process go faster because they don't have to spend time arguing about something that the judge was going to force them to do anyway.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 93 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Brand recognition. Which apparently is the only thing that matters these days.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago

Yes, until the Trump slashed the foreign aid to Pakistan in 2018. Since then they got much closer to China because they need someone to balance out Russian support for India.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Am I the only one getting deja vu? This sounds a lot like David Cameron in the lead up to the brexit referendum.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

There have been former Google employees saying they had solutions to deal with SEO, but they were vetoed by the ads side of business, since better results reduce "engagement".

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It says that the president of the US has immunity for official acts which fall within their "exclusive sphere of constitutional authority". This aligns with the executive privileges in other democracies.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

In theory yes. In practice like all social conventions they change based on what most people believe they are.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Of course it matters. States and laws work the way the general consensus says they work. One of the reasons Trump can get away with 90% of what he does is because public servants got fed the idea that the president of the US is above the law.

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