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by GcVmvNhBsU 4y ago
You do know the quote is in the context of defense spending, which spends tax dollars on guns, warships, and rockets instead of food and shelter? The “world” may produce enough food and clothing, but that is little consolation to the impove
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by GcVmvNhBsU 5y ago
How is that a compromise? You either have a massive black bar at the top of the laptop, or a small notch that allows for more screen real estate.
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by GcVmvNhBsU 5y ago
It’s the system language, not the keyboard settings. https://ke-la.com/lockbit-2-0-interview-with-russian-osint/
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by GcVmvNhBsU 5y ago
Not to say you shouldn’t like Muir Glen, but this seems like the most appropriate place in this thread to drop this link: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/best-canned-tomatoes...
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by GcVmvNhBsU 5y ago
1) China, USSR, etc had/have more government involvement in running business but also controlling people’s movement and freedom of expression. That’s a different situation than American politics, because even the most progressive democ
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by GcVmvNhBsU 5y ago
Can you not use the button on your steering wheel in that scenario?
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by GcVmvNhBsU 5y ago
The assumes the price of goods outpaces wages raised. NYC minimum wage buys you more McDonalds in NYC compared to Alabama. So the cost of goods in NYC has not risen past the gains in wages.
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by GcVmvNhBsU 5y ago
He also does a lot to offset his private jets. > I have a higher-than-average carbon footprint, so I’m taking extra steps to do my part. In the book I briefly mention how I’m offsetting my own emissions. I spend about $5 million every ye
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by GcVmvNhBsU 6y ago
I’m going to disagree with all three points. 1. To think that the military does not know what they need shows a very narrow understanding of the people fighting a war. If you ask a pilot “What do you need to accomplish your mission”, they w
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by GcVmvNhBsU 6y ago
Not to mention conscription, which probably helps with both discipline and meeting people not like you.
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by GcVmvNhBsU 6y ago
Curious what your background is to make those statements. My experience from Red Flag and other exercises is that the 5th gens (22 & 35) have a much better K/D and survivability. When you expend all of your stand off weapons or nee
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by GcVmvNhBsU 6y ago
Harmful online speech has not been banned. The outlets where one can express death threats, hate speech, and calls for insurrection have been decreased. Two very different things.
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by GcVmvNhBsU 6y ago
That’s quite a pedantic interpretation of gathering in a public square at a particular moment in time where doing so is detrimental to the health and economy of a community. In the event that you’re not disingenuously asking that question,
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by GcVmvNhBsU 6y ago
Are they actually being silenced, as in someone is forcing them to not express their thoughts? Can they not congregate together the old fashioned way and have as much free speech as they want?
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by GcVmvNhBsU 6y ago
This also seems like an odd mindset. Can’t you have a good economy without overpopulating an area? A saying I grew up with - The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.
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by GcVmvNhBsU 6y ago
It’s fair to eye roll at ineffective agreements that don’t pan out. Racing to the bottom with tax incentives is not the only way to bring back manufacturing and hasn’t seemed to work when it’s tried.
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by GcVmvNhBsU 6y ago
Tariffs don’t really seem to help anyone. Appliances are much more expensive than the last time I bought them in 2015. If we continue to raise tariffs, China will just stop buying corn, soybeans, and pork, and suddenly all of the revenue ra
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by GcVmvNhBsU 6y ago
A joke I’ve heard is: Why does a SEAL platoon need 14 men when a green beret team only needs 12? The SEALs need to bring their cameraman and producer.
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by GcVmvNhBsU 6y ago
It kind of depends on your priorities, whether taste, animal-welfare, cost, etc. I think grass-fed tastes better, but I do find it has less marbling. Check out The Omnivore’s Dilemma. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O
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by GcVmvNhBsU 6y ago
That’s an interesting point, given modern animal farming practices. 97% of cows are going to come from a feedlot, where they’ll be fed grain (corn). The special part of their stomach that allows them to extract more nutrients from certain p
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by GcVmvNhBsU 6y ago
It probably depends a bit more on how you define “need”. Do factory owners need people in factories when a robot can do the job? Probably not. Does society need people in factories so that the individuals have a job, which creates a sense
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by GcVmvNhBsU 6y ago
The top 20% also owns 86% of the wealth, so it seems like they are still coming out ahead.
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by GcVmvNhBsU 7y ago
For posterity: >Second, Delaware’s tax system gives businesses several ways to legally minimize their tax bills. Companies that are incorporated in Delaware but do business in other states don’t have to pay state corporate income tax to
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by GcVmvNhBsU 7y ago
I mean you basically cherry-picked half a sentence and ignored the rest of the argument for morality and taxes having a connection. Also, please don’t confuse “less taxes = immoral” with the actual position of taxes which should be paid, bu
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by GcVmvNhBsU 7y ago
Galaxy brain: We made taxes up too. Surely if both companies and taxes exist only in the fiction world then companies can be taxed?
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by GcVmvNhBsU 7y ago
It is a thing - good or bad is relative. Is there any evidence to support the claim that state and local governments would raise taxes to a level that harm the economy? I’m sure you could find some examples, but does the evidence support th
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by GcVmvNhBsU 7y ago
“Only a Sith deals in absolutes”. If businesses operated in a vacuum from politics, then maybe you could have an argument that taxes have “nothing” to do with morality. In the real world, businesses are lobbying for changes to the tax codes
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by GcVmvNhBsU 7y ago
That’s a very disheartening attitude to have. These are still people with lives and feelings. We should expect humans to use the compassion and empathy that so very few other animals are capable of.
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by GcVmvNhBsU 7y ago
This article mentions one possible factor: https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/capitalist-takeove...
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by GcVmvNhBsU 7y ago
I think question 1 should really be: should Google, Facebook, etc, be responsible for the user generated content that they algorithmically focus presentation on? It’s one thing to have, say, an early 2000’s forum where users search for and

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