Amezarak

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by Amezarak 10mo ago
Librarians culling collections by any arbitrary criteria = good, fine. (We even have examples of all books prior to 2000 being mass deleted!) Parents (customers) lobbying school administrators about what should be in the school library = ba
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
They already are. They’re all mass pop lit on this list and the number of removals is very tiny.
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
Librarians around the US have been doing mass purges of older books, especially politically sensitive older books and often for political reasons. There’s lots of news on this, if you’re interested. The problem also exists in Canada. I just
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
FDR famously ran the FCC as his personal fiefdom to punish his political enemies. There's nothing new under the sun.
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
It’s economically irrational for most people to live in anything but a one bedroom sublet. Why is it trucks that gets your goat?
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
Do you think suggesting people who do things you don’t like are just not as enlightened and rational as you a productive way to change hearts and minds?
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
Which is more convenient? 1. Let the Christmas tree farmer toss a 8’ tree in the back of my truck, tying the base to the anchors behind the cab. Very little overhang with the tailgate down. Drive away. This is what most people do. 2. Spend
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
> But Americans do not want that. Americans want to put down $50k for 80 months for a MANLY man truck for MANLY MAN things. Or the same money for a stupid box on the same frame as an """SUV""" I’ve driven a
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
This logic is only ever applied to trucks. The majority of HNers did not make an economically rational decision when they bought their Macbook or iPhone. Consumers buy what they like and feel like they need and can afford. They place an alm
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
Millions of people in the US do their own carpentry. In fact, there are orders of magnitude more DIY carpenters than there are professionals. > And it's cheap, at knee-level, and detachable, so you only pay the cost of inconvenience
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
I looked it up. It does not appear to me it would be possible to fit an American dishwasher in that car in the box, seats folded down or not, based on the internal dimension and hatch width/height or door width/height. It might
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
Yes, pedantically, and as mentioned in the Notes in the Text in most editions, the Lord of the Rings is a single book sometimes published in three volumes.
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
Dictators, despite the name, cannot do whatever they want. That’s even moreso the case with long democratic or republican histories and in large modern states with enormous political machineries. They require backing from large swaths of th
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
This is a cop out. You don’t have to put your kids in front of a TV or tablet. You can simply establish boundaries and leave them to themselves. They will engage in imaginative play for hours on end just like kids have for thousands of year
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
As we have seen, it is very easy to declare certain beliefs beyond contestation and any disagreement with them as insulting/inciting hate/etc. That's why freedom of speech must entail the freedom to say things people find
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
German prosecutors actually did a bizarre and out-of-touch (for an American audience) interview with 60 Minutes recently where they proudly declare they're going to bring order to the Internet and how things like calling politicians &q
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
You appear to be assuming I hold a whole plethora of views that have nothing to do with me. (Red scare?? Deregulation??) I am fully informed about conditions in Germany. Perhaps you are not fully informed about conditions in America. Even u
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
Yes, that was sloppy of me. The Census website doesn’t display well on mobile, but I should have recognize the number was too high. Nevertheless, the article you’re citing still cites American personal income as pretty close to German media
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
> It's a democracy, the root issue can be fixed politically. But it’s not. That’s why we’re having this discussion. And whether you want to have a free market or not, the labor market is still driven by money. People will go into fi
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
We're talking in circles. The way you attract people into a field despite poor management and working conditions is higher wages . That's the basic foundational truth of labor economics. Simply importing people who are desperate
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
> Does it tho? Cause in Germany there are no deductibles or co-pay. By the time we're quibbling about deductibles and co-pay, we're not talking about meaningful differences - and of course, it can vary widely. However, when you
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
> Where did you get this figure? https://www.payscale.com/research/DE/Job=Registered_Nurse_(R... I am happy to accept your figure of "slightly more than half" for the sake of this discussion. > Min
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
It doesn’t matter what the wages are, if there aren’t enough people willing to work for them, they aren’t high enough. That’s the core of labor markets. Importing migrants just worsens the underlying problem. You destroy your own pipeline a
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
"German" does not mean "white" anymore than "Bantu" means "black." French people, Slavic peoples, and Irish people living in Germany do not become ethnically German because they are white, and it&#x27
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
Indoor plumbing doesn't have anything to do with population density. Millions of rural Americans have indoor plumbing without municipal water and sewer systems, using wells and septic tanks.
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
I am continually befuddled that people unironically believe government policy should enable people to be paid below the market rate for their labor. Raise their pay!
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
I think what you were missing is that the crux of the problem is that this obscured the fact that a small minority of astronomers at a conference without any scientific consensus, asserted something and you and others uncritically accepted
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
I think most people who really cared about it just think it's absurd that everyone has to accept planets being arbitrarily reclassified because a very small group of astronomers says so. Plenty of well-known astronomers thought so as w
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
> he problem comes when the crash out costs the business and then you get nothing due to type of insurance (pretty much we pay nothing you pay everything yourself), or the ability of companies to fight endless court battles which your in
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
Firefox performance seemed like it really varied for some people. I never noticed any difference.

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