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5y ago
I'm fascinated by your last point. Are you saying that being deaf impedes your written communication ? As a layman I would have thought that written communication would be a godsend.
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Yep. Traditionally printers/publishers took 85-95% of revenue from authors. Now perhaps you can argue that there's more costs involved in printing that running an app store, but an app store taking 30% sounds like a great deal in
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5y ago
Proxy voting is very much an option in this case.
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Politicians, whatever gender or creed are there to represent their constituents. If they spend 50% of their day babysitting it’s a bad deal for their constituents and the public at large. Trying to make this into a sexist argument is ridicu
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Sure it's inconvenient but if you have a damaged cable ring your local electrician. They will just cut it and put a little inline junction box on it. Won't be as elegant but will also probably cost $100. Or just repair it yourself
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Have you read the plaque on the statue ? Do you know the text? You can put up a statue to say someone did something meaningful or historical, not that they were a good or noble person.
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1. - As an ex employee - it’s a little bit more complicated than that. The machines have strict daily/weekly protocols for cleaning/maintenance and when they’re not met they “break” and need to have a tech reset them. It’s obvious
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5y ago
Interesting - I haven’t read that. I wonder how it will work for PHEVs
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They need to get taxed somehow (they still use public roads after all). Just build it in to registration costs. Yearly inspection takes the odometer, charge based off km at registration time. No need to over complicate it.
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Sure in the US, but the US isn’t the world and also imports a lot of beef.
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You’re right, I have experience but only in Australia. The number of barn raised and or processed grain fed cattle is almost 0.
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The point about cattle taking 25 calories in grass to produce 1 calorie of meat is true but in most places, those cattle get their nutrition from grazing grassland that has no arable value. The grass grows with no human intervention and the