https://ipa-reader.com/ is also helpful.

Someone ideologically somewhere between his greatest heroes, Stalin and Mao.

It’s dual-use infrastructure. It is used for both civilian and military purposes, so it’s a valid target under international law.

Um, but actual Irish-Americans love eating corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s day. It’s racist to celebrate your heritage? Or just to try things from other people’s cultures?

Yeah, they’re nothing fancy, but that’s their sole purpose. People aren’t carrying around spark plugs unless they’re car thieves.

Because they have special ceramic tools. Windows will always be incredibly easy for thieves to break with no effort, but they’re incredibly hard for people without specialized burglary tools to break.

Then also split California and Illinois and New York and Georgia and Florida

Yeah, obviously employees have to be paid like with anywhere. Those are business expenses. But at the end of the day, the amount of money they charge has to be equal to the amount it costs them.

For which ones? Most are mutual insurance companies, where any profit has to legally be paid back to the customers.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mutualcompany.asp

Farmers, State Farm, Liberty Mutual, Thrivent, USAA, Blue Cross Blue Shield, American Family, Nationwide, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_insurance#United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_inter-insurance_exchange#Examples

A lot of insurance companies—arguably most of the ones used—are not for profit: American Family, COUNTRY, generally Blue Cross Blue Shield, Liberty Mutual, Northwestern Mutual, any other company with “mutual” in the name, USAA, Farmers, State Farm, Progressive, etc.

Most of the drafters owned no slaves. Regardless of the source of the document, generally discussion of government focus around the law. I guess if we’re ignoring the law, sure a populist totalitarian government can do whatever you want. There’s not much to discuss then.

Personally, I’m a fan of the rule of law. I guess even if there wasn’t a specific law, I would still want to respect unalienable human rights anyway though.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-5/

A civilian can’t be court-martialed.

He didn’t defend Musk at all. He was just commenting on the style of the conversation. But trying to come up with a new school-ground insult for someone every thread is admittedly immature and makes it really hard to follow the conversation if you’re not terminally online. It’s like everyone is trying to copy Donald Trump now.

If you don’t have a walk-in door or window, no. You’d need someone to pick out otherwise remove the lock.

/c/nottheonion

This sounds like they’re copying Brave Discussions, which is basically just giving a little box with only reddit results near the top.

It’s definitely not an alternative to reddit or even its own platform. It sounds like just another conditional algorithm update, but I haven’t seen it yet.

As of 8½ years ago, you can’t buy keys from Steam, although they still allow developers to generate keys for use on other sites that still use them.

How would requiring keys to be declared help? The people using the keys are all innocent (or at least largely ignorant) buyers. Steam can already see who those are, but that doesn’t stop the sale or say who sold them.

The problem is rather the opposite. The keys are secure and their sale is decentralized, which gives limited control over them. People generate the keys with stolen credit cards, and then resell them. The Postal devs are basically admitting they are giving up trying to actually go after the thieves, but it is genuinely hard to figure out which keys are legit and which are stolen, especially when it’s someone else selling them. All you’re proposing is to make it impossible to revoke a key even if you know it’s illegal.

The actual way to prevent this theft would be to forbid merchants from generating keys at all, and go to a fully centralized model like Steam and Epic generally use.