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FullMtlAlcoholc
10y ago
First, I agree with part of your sentiment. Not only is it financially and socially against the interest of citizens to allow private corporations to be jailors, it is also morally and ethically repugnant t choose organizations which maximi
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FullMtlAlcoholc
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It doesn't sound like you know many people facing these issues. I believe it's unreasonable for you to come to such a generalized position that they don't care to better their lives if offered a helping hand. For example, lo
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FullMtlAlcoholc
10y ago
I don't believe it was society moving away from keeping Pete institutionalized. It was a very deliberate action by the Reader administration to shut down scores of institutions, essentially shoving people out on to the street.
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FullMtlAlcoholc
10y ago
Consider this. We spend roughly 2x that figure on incarcerating individuals. I'm not going to even touch why a great number of those people are in jail for nothing more than selling dime bags of pot or being unable to pay for tickets.
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FullMtlAlcoholc
10y ago
This should not be a surprise. In a country as wealthy as America, almost everyone who has a mobile phone has made the transition to smartphone. For many, like my 80 yr old father, this journey was a forced march. He was perfectly happy wit
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FullMtlAlcoholc
10y ago
Even though PHP was the first programming language I learned, I feel the same way about it. Like, OMG, totally gross! Mind you, this position isn't due to any logical or rational reason. I've recently had the opportunity to take a
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10y ago
> Bethesda/id/Zenimax, are you just afraid of money, success, graditude, and forming long-lived communities around your games that can mod and hack them, to keep the games feeling fresh, and thus people buying them, decades int
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FullMtlAlcoholc
10y ago
You are completely discounting the positive externalities that arise from "ride-sharing" (a ridiculous term) services such as Uber and Lyft. This is the opposite of misguided central planning in my opinion for a number of reasons.
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FullMtlAlcoholc
10y ago
As a recent convert, I highly recommend using a password manager (Lastpass, Dashlane, 1Password, etc.). For sites where I don't really care about security (present company included :), I use a passphrase, usually in the form of a mnemo