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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The R governor candidate in Washington has said that Democracy is the gateway to socialism, and that socialism is the gateway to communism, so we should all be wary of democracy. It's wild right now.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
There will likely always be people impacted by this. For me, human faces are generally not the interesting part of the screen. I'm looking at clothing, set design, fx, etc. I noticed this constantly watching avatar in 3D. I happen to a
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> Nope, you can go to prison without being arrested first if you showed up to court voluntarily. Pretty sure you cannot just check yourself into prison by going to court. Maybe I'm wrong. I suppose there are certain crimes that can
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Very few people think there should be 0 police officers or zero dollars towards policing. When a homicide happens or an arson happens, yes, there should be a department investigating and diving in. Domestic violence could be responded to by
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Does defunding police increase crime? Police department budgets have absolutely ballooned in many places, but crime hasn't really dropped a commensurate amount. (In Seattle, police budget has increased over 33% in the past decade, whil
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Prisons are absolutely related to police. The only way I'm aware of to get into prison is via an arrest by police. So, every arrest a police officer makes, they need to consider, "knowing what I do about prison, is it ethical to a
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I don't generally, but in the case of government surveillance, they would agree, right?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This is where policing in America has been headed for at least a decade now. Everything is so polarized that people who would normally be opposed to this view those being tracked as their enemies, and thus fair targets. (For example, I&#x27
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'm not going to say ACAB, but many who do believe that no matter how nice of an individual a cop might be, they are still working within an organization that pushes for privacy shredding technologies like this. You can be a sweet, com
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'm curious about your labeling the grapes organic. From what I've read, organic fertilizers are generally avoided in hydroponic systems. Also, if the plant that initially grew the cuttings wasn't organic, are the cuttings th
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Ok, my brief reading suggests the thesis is that everyone wants to be at the top, but to grow the number of people at the top you must grow the number of people below that by some larger number. For example, a manager earns more, people wan
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The mayor sued to ensure the police could still deploy indiscriminate chemical weapons.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The City Council banned the ownership and use of chemical weapons and undirected crowd control munitions (e.g. blast balls) by the police dept (or their allies). The police were flooding residential areas with CS gas to the point that, at t
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Let me do some reading and get back to you!
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> if I move to a different place that money end up in my bank account, mine! Reversing this argument -- moving to a place with higher taxes means that money isn't in your bank, not yours! > The whole of Europe, pretty much. Germa
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Do you have some citations that this is the recent policy of the city? I agree that a decade or more ago, the city absolutely bungled their housing planning. The current city council has been, from what I've seen, trying to open up dev
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Generally I don't believe that hypothetical is likely. It's one thing to see a revenue shortfall due to covid, it's another thing to suggest that wealthy people will just leave. If you can find a case where the wealthy folks
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Big question. Fundamentally, having capital allows one to acquire more capital, generationally. The history here is long and complex. Over hundreds of years, we've seen a striation of incomes, wealth, and capital across the country. Th
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> Talented employees who select to move to a different city instead, less hungry for their hard worked money. That's one framing. Another framing is that the taxes I pay were never "my" money to begin with. To answer your
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I give a significant portion of my income to local community organizations to support education, housing, and social equity. However, I believe philanthropy is not a scalable solution to systemic issues. People tend to pay for causes that m
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Do you have data to suggest that will happen? People like to live and work in Seattle, just like they like to live and work in California and New York. Or Europe. Will some folks get grumpy about taxes and leave? Maybe, but I don't hav
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> The community programs have had no noticeable effect on poverty or homelessness rates I'd be surprised if they did, as they were approved last week. > Police response times have been dismal in my neighborhood in North Seattle T
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Taxes. Ideally progressive taxes. The tax burden of a wealthy person in Seattle is currently incredibly low. (Speaking as a wealthy person in Seattle who is shocked at how little I have to pay every year to support my local community.)
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I imagine the same argument was made by coal barons who were forced to stop paying in company scrip. And the industrialists who were forced to stop employing children in their factories. And the owners who were forced to grant weekends and
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City council has recently: Outlawed the use of chemical weapons, slashed the police budget, increased funding to community programs by tens of millions of dollars, created a rent relief program for tenants during Covid, increased minimum wa
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Hopefully Seattle will have strong public housing, basic income, and other safety nets to support a basic quality of life for every resident. Then we won't have to worry about this for every new tech advancement that pushes workers out
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This is a dead end line of thinking. It ignores that these people might not be able to choose any alternative. If you are faced with starvation and homelessness, you might 'choose' to take an incredibly poorly paid job because it
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> The companies included tips and not any delta associated with insurance. Tips are not part of wages. You should make whatever wage you are going to make and then get tips on top of that.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Whoops, fixed!
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Which seems fine. A service that isn't paying the minimum wage isn't competing fairly. Edit: Typo. If you aren't paying a minimum wage, you ARE NOT competing fairly.

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