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SaltSong

@ SaltSong @startrek.website

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  • The reason one has a constitutional monarchy is to try to split the difference, I think, and get the best parts of each system.

    But I'm with you. No kings.

    As it is we in the UK are stuck with a mind-meltingly wealthy, influential and unaccountable family who have extremely questionable members and histories.

    They influence laws to benefit their own ends, they shield abusive behaviour and individuals, and they do it all in the name of maintaining a tradition that fundamentally says that some people are simply “better” than others.

    We have these too. Is just that they are more unofficial.

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  • I wouldn't choose such a system, I think, but I can't say that there aren't at least a few half decent arguments for it.

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  • A constitutional monarch may have a wide range of powers, depending on the constitution. It doesn't automatically mean "powerless figurehead."

    Given the way the US has been recently, I'm willing to admit that there may be some benefit to having a leader in some position of power that had been there a long time, and has, more or less, been training for the responsibly since birth.

    Of course, there are plenty of arguments against such a leader, but the least of which is how much you have to stretch the word "training" to make it fit that sentence above.

  • Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout

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  • Huh. Never realized chromebooks were priced that low.

    Thanks for the correction.

  • Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout

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  • Desks are cheaper, and the hole only slightly impairs functionality.

  • Bella Ramsey Says ‘It’s Important’ to Keep Gendered Awards for Best Actor and Actress: ‘Recognition for Women in the Industry’ Must Be ‘Preserved’

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  • We need to get this right.

    Step one is going to be working out vocabulary among yourselves before you start trying to teach it to us. I used to try to be correct, but the "correct" tends changed from person to person, group to group, and every six months or so.

    Once you've figured it out, let us old folks know, and most of us will, I hope, make the adjustment.

  • Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia Times

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  • Much of the mechanical business in the legs was exposed so that you could see how the joints and pushrods worked,

    FOD damage central.

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    A brutal message to Westerners who are whining about Chinese dominance in electric cars, claiming it's ''unfair''

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  • It's a brutal message to westerners who are whining about Chinese dominance in electric cars, claiming it’s ‘‘unfair’’

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    A brutal message to Westerners who are whining about Chinese dominance in electric cars, claiming it's ''unfair''

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  • That’s the Chinese quality insurance system.

    That only applies of the quality of the product hurts Chinese people. Cheap mass market crap for westerners isn't gonna be held to such standards.

  • Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch

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  • Win98SE was my favorite. Maximum just working, minimum trying to "help."

  • Egg prime directive

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  • That is . . . Distressingly accurate.

  • White House calls Amazon ‘hostile’ for reportedly planning to list tariff costs

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  • They will balk at the cost of owning/operating even a single Arleigh-Burke destroyer.

    They don't need one. They need a sniper.

  • White House calls Amazon ‘hostile’ for reportedly planning to list tariff costs

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  • they have been too cheap thus far.

    I'm pretty sure that Bezos had enough money to bribe moderate chunks of the army.

  • Scientists Propose We Live in a Slowly Rotating Universe That Completes One Rotation Every 500 Billion Years

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  • I don't think something can rotate relevant to itself. If all of reality was the earth, and nothing else, how can you tell if it's spinning or not?

    Please use small words if you try to answer this. I know a decent bit of applied physics, but once it turns to pure math, my head starts to swim.

  • Would you return something because the power indicator LED is too bright?

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  • Carefully trimmed sticker?

    EDIT: Ah, I see you've handled it. Carry on, then.

  • Would you return something because the power indicator LED is too bright?

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  • Should be possible to just not plug them in.

    But I have no idea why they are there in the first place.

  • Trump took the US economy to the brink of a crisis in just 100 days

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  • Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of ‘democracy’ with Carrot, and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone had a vote until he found out that while he, Vimes, would have a vote, there was no way in the rules that anyone could prevent Nobby Nobbs from having one as well. Vimes could see the flaw there straight away.

    -Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

    He had such a way with words, he did.

  • How did we get so casual about conspiracy theories?

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  • I'm not suggesting that America before Trump was a paragon of virtue. But our corrupt leaders and wealthy oligarchs made America powerful to serve their own ends.

    Trump is not serving the ends of American oligarchs. He's serving the ends of Russian oligarchs.

  • Scientists Propose We Live in a Slowly Rotating Universe That Completes One Rotation Every 500 Billion Years

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  • I think that if space itself is what is rotating, then speed of light limit does not apply. But if it's everything in the universe orbiting, as it were, a central point, then it would.

    But if it is space itself rotating, then that would suggest some objective frame of reference outside the universe. Wouldn't it?

  • How did we get so casual about conspiracy theories?

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  • it’s absolutely insane to conclude that Russia controls western governments.

    Maybe not governments in general, but Trump and his party specifically, doesn't seem too insane.