ROTMetro

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by ROTMetro 3y ago
My mom left me a home packed to the gills. She was the most empathetic person I ever knew, to the point of paralysis. She purchased things to be gifts for family, to show she had value. So yes, if someone is hoarding to try and have value,
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
We have socialized healthcare in the USA, we just deliver it at the emergency room, the worst possible place. The more we get people to realize that we already have this the more we can reduce the resistance to expanding it in a sane way. A
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Yep, sounds like the legal term of 'distinction without a difference'.
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Simple. If your contracted out work employs more than XYZ number of employees then those contractors must provide benefits/meet employment requirements/etc on the same level as a company with the (aggregate of all contract provide
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Not an economist, what type of impact does the 2% increase in demand that you demonstrated do to pricing in an inelastic constrained market? Also, most of the remaining 11.3 million undocumented still occupy housing. So out of 340 million A
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
What is the prison work program? Does the prison 'offer out' forced inmate labor? Does the prison hire electricians or used unlicensed forced labour from inmates? Would the prison be able affordable to run if it didn't use f
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Except they also get their information on other countries through highly politicized and charged news stories yet those can't compete with how f'd up America's police stories are. But go ahead say it's the news accounts
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
I have jank government insurance and this is not true. When I got out of prison and had no insurance I went to the city's clinics. Wait times have never been an issue (at most was two weeks for specialist). The doctors in the clinic we
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
My experience some people with weak game settled with who they thought would take them but aren't 100% happy they did and will jump at expanded opportunity. If I want a Porsche and buy a Toyota it doesn't stop me from wanting a Po
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
You can get a shot for refusing to work. This can impact good time and will impact your points. Higher points mean you get sent to a higher security (which ironically means less secure/safe for the inmate) facility.
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Because of the Police's past and ongoing actions and behaviors. But let's make it out that those people that have become jaded regarding the Police are the ones acting in bad faith, versus, you know, the people with authority whos
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
As someone whose grandfather was fighting in the Pacific, looking back sure seems easy to judge but there are no guarantees and in the horror that was WWII you don't really take risks 'because'. You ensure victory. My grandf
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
How many would be civilians who were drafted to be soldiers are you willing to sacrifice so that you don't kill 'civilians'? If you are talking professional armies it is one argument, but when you are talking civilians that h
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Odd interpretation? I am going with how the courts and case law interpret it.
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Edit: To clarify, the court interprets this statute as baring rehabilitation considerations in Federal prison. A Federal Prison sentence has zero intention of being rehabilitative, by statute and Congressional intent: Title 18 U.S. Code § 3
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Don't forget the per minute charge to use kiosk computers to send electronic communication with family, or the pay to use phone app for family members to get those same communications. Or that you have to buy any medications sold in co
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Hot take: Community policing should be separate from warrant enforcement. A huge part of police's 'fear' is from not knowing who in any interaction is at risk of being incarcerated for 20 years and has an outstanding warrant
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Complexity left to right may have gone down, but top to bottom has gone up. In a DAW people add way more tracks than ever and add all kinds of detail/texture/layers the weren't possible before so yeah, people search out the n
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
I too agree that music was ruined once loud orchestra's were formed. The only good music was chamber music. Orchestras anonymized the musician and were basically the end of musicianship.
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Now do the Government and tech companies bypassing the right to privacy by 'purchasing' our data. If the Government asking to take something down is a violation of our rights the government asking for private information is a viol
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Should we call all grocery stores 'government subsidized food stores' since American AG receives a huge amount of government subsidies? Gas stations 'government subsidized gas stations' or maybe 'government owned&#x
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Prop 13s original beneficiaries were pre-boomer. It was sold as a means to allow grandma to stay in her home as property values skyrocketed around her and rising property taxes were actually pushing (pre-boomer) people out of their longtime
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Did Musk originally go to Roscosmos to license their tech and it was only after the laughed him out of the door that SpaceX pursued it's current strategy? His original plan was literally to be dependent on Russia's Soyuz.
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Nope. Just some guy who happens to be Elon's dad making these 'claims' but other than that single person's 'claims' nothing. /s
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
I guess, if the animal being eaten is living interconnected human brain matter.
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Got the email, clicked the link and canceled. That's just too high for what you get and how they treat content creators and stress Google puts them through demonetizing and then requiring people go through a byzantine process. If I&#x2
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
But do 40% of households not file tax returns, because that is what we are talking about here, and I'm pretty sure a large portion of that 40% do file because they get refunds/rebates, and I'm pretty sure a large portion of t
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Many of the lower income folks I know are too nervous/not comfortable with their own ability to file their own taxes and use tax preparer services. Some also do this in the hopes of getting their return quicker, so they not only pay to

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