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by RhysU 4y ago
Dude, I went to a large state school. Why the heck would anyone register a party? Why is it the administration's business what the students do after hours? If the cops show up, be respectful and turn down the music. Don't do stupi
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by RhysU 4y ago
Nobody said "not fine". You mentioned "economically disadvantaged". Such a person person literally is disadvantaged in some economic ways. Not all. Not most. But some.
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by RhysU 4y ago
How would you feel if someone taxed you an absolute amount that would leave 50% of your countrymen penniless? And they denied you tax breaks, like the child credit, that they grant themselves? And then that same 50% vilified you to boot?
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by RhysU 4y ago
Definitely, the SSI application process can be onerous. It is meant for people who can do no job not just their pre-incident job. Definitely, SSI is not a full-time job income. That's why a worker with decent active income should look
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by RhysU 4y ago
> Every so often, someone making 2 or 3 times the national average income makes an ass of themselves on TV by claiming they're economically disadvantaged. Someone making 3X the US national median income is paying roughly the US nati
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by RhysU 4y ago
> if your income depends on showing up to work daily, all of that can go away with a single health incident which leaves you unable to work. Yes, but there are long-term disability insurance policies available for purchase that largely r
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by RhysU 4y ago
That was indeed what I meant. Lightning vs old red-dye rust bucket farm truck never on the road (wink). The latter seems like it has to be wildly more economical over a full lifetime.
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by RhysU 4y ago
Don't the agricultural diesel subsidies Bork the economics on this specific use case?
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by RhysU 4y ago
What if he's slowly trashing it so that it's dead for the 2024 elections but not so dead so quickly that something else has replaced it by 2024? It'd arguably be nice to have a national election without Twitter.
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by RhysU 4y ago
And... They... Just... Keep... On... Using... It. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/us-extends-covid-public-heal...
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by RhysU 4y ago
Plenty of normal folks go to parties to which they contributed via a 501c3. Go to the orchestra or the ballet to see it in action. This isn't billionaire-only stuff.
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by RhysU 4y ago
I always get a kick out of how classic the NYPost really is: Founded by Hamilton in 1801. The Post turned 50 the year the NYT was founded.
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by RhysU 4y ago
KYC doesn't say you can't walk around with $10K in your pocket paying cash everywhere. It says the $10K should come from an understood source when you take it in or out of the bank. I don't understand the illegal immigrant co
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by RhysU 4y ago
> Give me a digital payment option without KYC... Dude, most anything in violation of KYC is sketch.
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by RhysU 4y ago
Americans would be OK hearing that too. It's just a more complicated grammar to parse. Curiosity: How do you call the terminals on a battery?
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by RhysU 4y ago
Because "minus" is the boolean subtraction operator not the unary negation operator despite a lot of colloquial misuse by native speakers. The distinction is useful when reading aloud expressions like 3-(-2) as "three minus n
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by RhysU 4y ago
I happened to want a generalization of this problem once and I went down a long rabbit hole: https://github.com/RhysU/intersection Tests, QMC, the works.
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by RhysU 4y ago
Agreed that the word predates America! Your link says "conservatism came into existence with or after Burke’s critique of the French Revolution" and notice my peer comment in this thread where I called out Burke's Wikipedia a
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by RhysU 4y ago
Any industry permits an uncharitable reading: Medicine: Keep them alive long enough to take all their money. Search: Sell them things they don't need Self-driving cars: Delay societal investment in sustainable transportation Retail: Po
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by RhysU 4y ago
From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conservatism : "a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual development to abrupt chang
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by RhysU 4y ago
Aye, but "classical liberalism" is another term for those principles that goes back hundreds of years on both sides of the Atlantic [1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke
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by RhysU 4y ago
Hamburgers, in the GUI sense, are a UI element. I don't see how contextualizing an overloaded word ("conservatism") weakens what I quoted. Those principles are independent.
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by RhysU 4y ago
> It is location and time-dependent... Depends on whom you talk to. For example, just today one letter-writer gave a nicely time-and-space-independent definition: "Conservatism isn’t about halting progress but maintaining the freedo
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by RhysU 4y ago
Sincere question: What industries aren't evil from your perspective? Or is it just that these particular industries are particularly distasteful?
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by RhysU 4y ago
> Personally I will never work in e.g. finance or "defence" Finance: Get people enough capital so they can do what they want Defense: Keep people safe enough so they can do what they want I don't see the basic premise of t
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by RhysU 4y ago
These same arguments apply to motorcycles. I find them ridiculous. But, it's your head man and as an adult you should be able to go helmetless if you so choose.
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by RhysU 4y ago
Being able to deal mostly with first-line managers because a township is small is worth a premium. I can call my mayor-- he met with our cub scout den last fall. I can find the police chief if I want. I can speak to the deciders on the scho
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by RhysU 4y ago
Anecdatum: I have talked with a parent of fraternal twins who went to Success Academy. One twin did well academically. One twin struggled. The latter was managed out by Success Academy.
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by RhysU 4y ago
Then what matters about the guy's car being a Porsche? (I looked into buying a car when I lived in Manhattan for particular sorts of trips. This was after using a car share for a couple of years. Then the pandemic happened and I reall
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by RhysU 4y ago
> He's single and drives a 4.8L vehicle to shopping and golf and back and that's about it. So then he's sparingly using the inefficient vehicle in a way that he enjoys? Seems legit. I mean, one could always demand that ot

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