Aloisius

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by Aloisius 1y ago
Non-discriminatory subsidies are, in fact, ok. Purchase discounts for EVs in the US, for instance, didn't discriminate based on manufacturer. You could buy a foreign made EV and you still get the discount. Discriminatory subsidies, lik
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Nearly every time I go on a road trip and find myself low on gas or hungry. Mucking with apps while driving isn't particularly safe.
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by Aloisius 1y ago
That's quite a hypothetical to use as justification given how long ago lots were drawn up. I prefer to value things based on what is rather than what could be if only we had a time machine.
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by Aloisius 1y ago
What opportunity cost is there for existing city-owned curbside parking? Are you going to build on something a couple feet wide on the wrong side of the sidewalk? Or tear down all the buildings then move the sidewalk first? Treating curbsid
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Not a fair comparison. Private owners have to pay property taxes and renters have exclusive use. Never mind that the land value for a curbside parking spot on the side of the road is substantially less simply because you can't build an
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by Aloisius 1y ago
> Even a single parking spot costs many thousands of dollars a year to maintain In what universe is this true? There are 3 million parking spots in NYC. If each cost $3000/year to maintain (presumably that's "many thousa
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by Aloisius 1y ago
You can buy a used car that gets 30 mpg city for $7,000. Even with a loan, that's closer to $200/month at today's (rather high) rates, not $500-600/month. Insurance on that will be on the order of $60/month for an a
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by Aloisius 1y ago
> If china wants to continue subsidizing their industry below costs of manufacture I see no reason why we shouldn't exploit their generosity Because the unfair advantage distorts the market leading to a potentially otherwise nonco
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by Aloisius 1y ago
If you look at "the people" elsewhere in the Constitution, it refers to "the people of the United States" which would not include aliens abroad. The Supreme Court hasn't said much, but in United States v. Verdugo-U
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by Aloisius 1y ago
The preface to the list of examples is rather important: > Contemporary examples of antisemitism ... could, taking into account the overall context, include...: Context is important. The examples are not true in all cases , but rather
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Everyone inside the United States. Non-resident aliens abroad aren't generally considered to be protected by the First Amendment, so denying someone a visa before they enter the US based on speech may be Constitutionally ok. Deporting
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by Aloisius 1y ago
He already had immense power prior to the coup. At best, his autocratic power was strengthened. Calling him installed by the US is a misrepresentation. Iran was not a British-style constitutional monarchy. The Shah was not a ceremonial posi
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi became Shah of the Imperial State of Iran in 1941, succeeding his father after the British forced him out. I'm unsure as to how the US installed him in 1953. He had been Shah for 11 years.
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What puppet did the US install?
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There are in fact tribes of Turkmen, Shahsevan, Lurs, Qashqai and various Kurds in Iran.
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by Aloisius 1y ago
This makes it seem like there has been a large number of well-run controlled UBI trials that we can draw a conclusion from. There hasn't. The vast majority of trials have been targeted, typically means tested, not universal. Most have
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by Aloisius 1y ago
The copyright laws that existed prior to the industrial revolution only existed only in a small number of countries. A large swath of the planet had no equivalent. Even British Colonial America had no copyright, save a handful of exceptions
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by Aloisius 1y ago
We know what the world looks like without copyright and that world has far fewer works created and very few artists who can do it full-time absent patronage or independent wealth. Banning the nonsense that is character copyright and shorten
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https://www.lazerhorse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Cannib...
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Several colors, though I do tend to use one at a time until it runs out before switching. Whiteboard markers don't really work though (too transparent when it's bright out). Permanent markers and liquid chalk work best, though the
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by Aloisius 1y ago
As someone who uses an exterior sliding glass door as a whiteboard, I haven't experienced any legibility issues while using it. It's actually remarkably easy to read. This could be partly because there's nothing immediately
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by Aloisius 1y ago
> letting a weakened Japan fight indefinitely Again, that simply wasn't an option. The US did not believe it could sustain the blockade indefinitely. The American public was growing war weary and Japan was far from neutered - Japa
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by Aloisius 1y ago
I hope the US manages to stays out of this one. Hopefully Iran does a little retaliation and then goes back to their covert proxy war rather than it escalating to open warfare. I honestly don't even know if either Iran or Israel could
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I really can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
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There were still millions of Japanese troops outside of Japanese home islands all across Asia and the Pacific. The blockade would have had to be expanded and neither Japanese nor American leadership thought it was sustainable. While there w
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Some carpenter bees will bite straight through the flower bypassing the stamens and stigma. Sometimes it's just an anatomy mismatch - like very small bee species and big open flowers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by Aloisius 1y ago
> Or other examples: the US, France, the UK and other countries specifically signed that if Russia invaded Crimea that they would do some combination of: Point me to the treaty that commits the US, France or the UK to what you're
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The H-2A temporary agricultural worker visa is uncapped. It is entirely possible to hire all the migrant agricultural workers one needs using it, but most farms just don't want to pay visa fees, transportation or housing on top of a pr
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by Aloisius 1y ago
You generally have to do it to get an eID in the first place. In France's case though (from the article): > Instead, users must verify their age using a credit card or a government-issued ID. This check must be carried out by an ex
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> Apparently we share about 50% of our DNA. This feels like the "we share 50% of our genes with bananas" factoid. Considering humans have 3.1 billion base pairs and the most fungi have 30-300 million, I'm not sure how th

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