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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Wait, there were armed people storming the building and police supporting them. You think their first priority was, "Better secure this workstation attached to a projector!" and not, "Dear god I hope I don't get murdered
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I don't recall any governor who ran on a platform of, "here are all the possible scenarios that could impact anyone in my state and how I would approach them." You vote for a governor because you believe they will make a deci
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You didn't vote for your executive branch?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
What's the demeanor of the cops in question? https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1346920198461419520 is not someone who is just idly standing by -- they are participating, even if the insurrectionist is hold
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
When you voted for your representatives.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
People have been arrested in that building for being a little too loud. It's absolutely wild that so few arrests happened.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
And presumably will be in court at some point in the future.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
There are videos showing cops waving people in, cops taking selfies with people inside the Capitol, cops gingerly walking hand in hand with insurrectionists. Underestimating the police necessary is a form of allowing this to happen. Yeah, m
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Take a breath, you seem angry. It's not ok to be using slurs here.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
We is him, you is the people on the Capitol grounds. The rest of the message sets the context that this is clearly aimed at the protestors. I don't know what's preventing you from seeing this.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
His tweet literally included the lines: "We love you. You're very special. You've seen what happens." That's as clear and unambiguous as it gets.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> He's actively calling for peace, law & order and to let the blue do their job. What a wild selective (mis)reading of his Twitter account. Did you miss the parts where he said he loved the people who stormed the Capitol with ri
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
There's nothing about that that message that was a message of de-escalation. He literally told the insurrectionists that he loved them and that the election was a fraud.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Posted this above, but that's a lot of money. The median household income in the states is about 60k. And these folks may be less likely to have held stable employment while they battled with cancer.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Which is a fortune to many (most?) Americans. That's like 5% of the median income. And these people just had cancer, so it's less likely they've been able to hold down steady work.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This is a prime example of a feel good story that is papering over systemic problems. We're meant to read this and think this doctor is a good person (and they are, at least for this act) rather than, "how is it possible there was
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You are looking at the current implementation and not thinking about the implication. One, this tech absolutely could be used to fool someone. Not everyone will be listening with a critical ear. Played back over a phone or injecting a phras
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> people should be paying more attention the market implications of products like this than to the social implications. People will absolutely suffer harm from this tech, but hey, think about the dollars that could be made! No, we should
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's good but not perfect. Dams require a reservoir, which takes land out of use and changes the flow dynamics of a river. It can interrupt wildlife patterns both up and downstream. It introduces some risks of dam failure, and decommis
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
That sounds reasonable to me. If we're working on decommodification of housing, it makes sense to assist folks during the transition.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'm talking about how, in the transition between housing as a commodity vs housing as a public good there would be loss of value. And I think people still would want to own houses. There's pride in being a homeowner for many. Know
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I own a home, and if it steadily loses value but my city becomes affordable for anyone who wants to live here, that seems like a pretty fair trade to me...
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
That's entirely because of the way our procurement process works. We have separate capital and maintenance procurement processes. Typically, we splurge on a high capital budget (the cost to build housing) and then skimp or cut out the
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Sounds good. Build more, subsidize buildings with lots of units, eliminate parking minimums, upzone popular areas, pay for public housing, and tax land in a way that disincentivizes surface parking lots. All those seem doable to me, which w
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Ok, why can't we just say housing isn't a market, it's priced primarily for livibility and less for some concept of quality. Then living wage doesn't need to be opened to inflated housing markets.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's interesting to stack up other city builders against this as well. Airborne Kingdom, Frostpunk, Tropico, Anno 1800, etc all focus on different elements of the genre. I'm working on a city builder as a side project, and it&#x27
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
That's not true? Depends on the union and the company and the location.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
That's both reductive and false. The employees benefit when the company does well. A union just fights to have the employees share more in that success.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Now days it's more likely to be included in an accessibility menu. Games like Celeste, for instance, have options that might have historically been called "cheats".
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Extrajudicial killings of American citizens by the US? Yes, several times. It's been a fairly regular event in the middle east.

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