RickJWagner

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by RickJWagner 2mo ago
I see this akin to what the great Thomas Sowell calls ‘the soft bigotry of low expectations’. Eventually this will lower the bar for everyone.
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by RickJWagner 2mo ago
I remember a gunman that shot Reagan, yes. One gunman. Trump has had the kid that shot up the rally ( and yielded the iconic photo ), the golf course gunman, the guy that shot up the annual press dinner and now the Iranians. Do you remembe
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by RickJWagner 2mo ago
You’re joking, right? This was a preemptive security move, and the president is still alive. Crazy people have tried to kill Trump multiple times already. Every minute of every day must be guarded, especially as the president travels. T
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100 Kodiak driverless trucks are headed for public roads(foxnews.com)
4 points by RickJWagner 2mo ago|0 comments
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'I felt Tourette's would ruin my life, now I teach at Cambridge'(bbc.com)
3 points by RickJWagner 2mo ago|0 comments
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Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's(bbc.com)
408 points by RickJWagner 2mo ago|607 comments
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What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers(noemamag.com)
1110 points by RickJWagner 2mo ago|1333 comments
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Met Police Boss Admits Mistake over Plagiarism Row(bbc.com)
4 points by RickJWagner 2mo ago|1 comments
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by RickJWagner 2mo ago
It is amazing to me that this could happen. The claims made by the plagiarist were numerous and far beyond belief. Why didn’t common sense come into play here?
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by RickJWagner 2mo ago
I’d like to understand how they defined capitalism vs free enterprise for the poll participants. I’m encouraged by parts of the poll, especially independents responses. I think a good many Americans perceive benefits to some degree of soci
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The Investors Whose SpaceX Shares Vanished Before They Could Cash In(stocks.apple.com)
2 points by RickJWagner 2mo ago|0 comments
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QoD: Is Lucid in the early stages of failure?(thetruthaboutcars.com)
2 points by RickJWagner 2mo ago|0 comments
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by RickJWagner 2mo ago
I’m with you. Vandalism is not the right path.
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by RickJWagner 2mo ago
When I got my first corporate job, I was placed in a group of 20 trainees in a rigorous COBOL course. We were given assignments and a schedule to complete them. Most of us read the specs, then raced into the coding phase, hands to IBM mech
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by RickJWagner 2mo ago
Siphoning money out of…? Really? What about when you reach retirement age? Will you consider medical care, a new house, or a cruise to be siphoning off of money that presumably belongs to someone else? The money is theirs to use as they
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The CIA Found a Soviet Ghost Station Full of Cold War Secrets(popularmechanics.com)
11 points by RickJWagner 2mo ago|1 comments
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by RickJWagner 2mo ago
Even before then it was widely discussed. There was even a Schoolhouse Rock song, “Tyrannosaurus Debt”.
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by RickJWagner 2mo ago
Thanks for sharing this, OP! I’m a bluegrass jam player and am at the stage where I want to improve my singing/playing and my ‘first time I heard that song’ breaks. Both of those require a fair amount of judicious use of ‘autopilot’ w
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by RickJWagner 2mo ago
“As though my body’s inability to keep pace with capitalism says something fundamental about who I am.” What would his body’s inability to keep pace say under socialism or something else? In any case, he is unable to provide for himself an
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Always Choose the Good Soap(sixcolors.com)
3 points by RickJWagner 2mo ago|2 comments
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by RickJWagner 2mo ago
Why is this flagged, and why are some of the seemingly innocent remarks downvoted?
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by RickJWagner 3mo ago
No, I don’t think so. Just because you think the government isn’t to your liking you shouldn’t declare yourself the implementir of justice and start vandalizing things. Study American political history, the pendulum goes back and forth. Af
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by RickJWagner 3mo ago
No, it does not. Social contract allows cigarettes, alcohol, pornography, etc. These are not overall beneficial to society, yet we allow them, by law. When individuals decide they alone get to decide what’s allowable and what’s not they ar
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by RickJWagner 3mo ago
Concentration camps were obviously against international law. Flock cameras are not. When people decide they get to decide what’s allowable and what’s not, they break the social contract that says the will of the people will prevail. They
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by RickJWagner 3mo ago
Undecided on Flock. Totally decided against vandalism. Violations of the social contract suck. Edit to invite explanations. If you approve of vandalism to flock cameras, what are your feelings about vandalizing abortion clinics, mosques or
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by RickJWagner 3mo ago
Good for Morris! 40 years ago I was exiting the US Air Force and selected the University of Minnesota at Morris as my college. It’s a tiny campus, they advertised themselves as a ‘small college, like a mini Ivy League school’. I went, and
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by RickJWagner 3mo ago
“ The man has some time and uses it in a non destructive manner to do what he thinks will help his community rather than just posting nonsense online “ Best comment this week, so far.
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The Robots Cometh(time.com)
3 points by RickJWagner 3mo ago|0 comments
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More Money, More Problems(carlyle.com)
1 points by RickJWagner 3mo ago|0 comments
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by RickJWagner 3mo ago
Please explain ‘unipolar world order’.

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