Spooky23

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by Spooky23 9mo ago
It’s easy to say that. I grew up in a dairy county in upstate ny. Solid democrats. The board room of the local farm bureau had photos of FDR on the wall. The party really abandoned rural voters and farmers. Money in politics didn’t just aff
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That’s not really true, but we’ve incentivized mass scale farming. I know farmers who can sell produce at competitive prices growing in Upstate NY, but they only get a couple of harvests of most crops, even with advanced techniques that let
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You have to make it impossible for them to exist. Rentiers are the lowest form of business, and incentives need to make it difficult for them to prosper too much. These issues are why policy was oriented around individual home ownership for
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
Were you in high school or elementary then? Obama ran on “hope” and “change” very foofy stuff. Ultimately you may be able to support your position by virtue of his saying very little at all. Wages have in fact fallen for the majority of peo
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The New York mechanical machines by the 2000s were all worn out, there was a statistically higher occurrence of certain numbers (I believe 9) because the gearing was worn down.
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Only by conspiracy nuts and the latest incarnation of reactionaries who espouse an imperial presidency. Im sure there is a gold & crypto grift in play as well. The president appoints the board. The board has a clear charter mandated by
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
From the article: “Uber has said it is one of the safest ways to get around, with the vast majority of its trips in the United States — 99.9 percent — occurring without an incident of any kind” The best way to reduce your incident count is
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
When did you stop beating your wife?
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I didn’t say that. There’s been a few. Wilson, FDR, Jackson come to mind. Trump is unique in that the previous folks predated the massive standing army and propaganda capabilities that exist today. The intangible magic is brave individuals
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
The states have nothing to do with your ignorant hysteria about foreigners. Unfortunately, the reactionary types have turned that into a dog whistle for their imposition on tyranny to deliver freedom, someday, maybe. Marijuana is illegal. T
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
From Article 1, Section 8: Powers of Congress: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
"Faith and credit" means trust, and there's an elephant in the room impacting trust. Worse, what comes next?
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Not really. I’d agree 10 years ago, but post-COVID ICE r&d budgets have been slashed and we’re now in the enshittification phase. My brother in law is a mechanic. He’s doing like 5x more engine a transmission replacements than he did 10
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
Manual transmission people are like the audiophiles of cars. Other than some sports cars, nobody cares.
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Much of that was always in dispute and while the “freedom of states” stuff has intellectual appeal and often prevails over shorter periods, the trendline has always been towards one nation. In the post constitution era, 17 amendments were p
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The United States is a flawed system designed to protect the feudal, mostly southern property based system. That’s why we killed millions over the ability to own humans, and the reactionary Senate blocked the most minor civil rights law (ie
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
Huh? Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, Hungary has extensive nuclear power and Germany made extensive use of nuclear power. Accidents and the rug pool of US/Soviet capital killed growth of the industry.
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
I think you’re kind of off the rails in context of Ukraine, where a foreign army is shelling major power plants and torturing the engineers for fun from time to time. Maybe consider context before pasting your standard argument?
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You’re thinking apples and oranges. Remember that every K-12 student for the last decade is getting it done on the cheapest low bid Chromebook possible. They are true pieces of shit, too-down managed by barely qualified people and yet the k
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
I’m think you are overestimating humanity. At the moment I am on a personal finance kick. Once in awhile I find myself in the bogleheads Reddit. If you don’t know bogleheads have a cult-like worship of the founder of vanguard, whose advice,
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I fully agree and fully disagree with this. Podcasting is radio without the constraints of frequency. That’s both good and bad. Radio was a magical medium to me, but it was utterly destroyed first by the attack of the conservatives and then
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It's hard for people to really understand this because utilities and grid operators are using this is a headline justification for electric capital projects. In New York, they've deferred capital projects for decades and we'r
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That's a good point. There's alot of weird stuff out there about this, especially with regard to weapons. There's a balance between being aggressive and not a victim. If you tip too much on the "aggressive" side, yo
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lol, Sure! Here’s one that was one of the crazier ones that I remember from my dad. There were a bunch of people complaining about smells coming from an apartment. The dude was a little out there and some sort of religious practitioner. The
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It’s a two-way street. I used to have to deal with unhinged people on the regular and one of the techniques that keep the peace and stay safe is to present an edge that gives the vibe that you may be more unhinged. My dad used to run housin
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It’s either a weird power flex, or someone who lacks agency at the point that they let themselves be bullied and not taking a break to take a dump. It’s the breaking of a norm that makes me be question your judgment, either way.
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There’s a lot you can do. Voting is the entry stake. You can make a big impact with a very low level of political engagement. Allowing popular referendum for everything just invites a particular and usually really dumb level of politics. Yo
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The core are reactionary people who control resource extraction businesses. The Koch’s, Waltons, etc. Now there are many players. The useful idiots have enriched themselves enough that they are a force unto themselves,
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They have alot of anxiety. More money, more problems as they say.
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The more extreme billionaire types see the world as a zero sum game. If they lose a third of their paper wealth, they are still billionaires. The more extreme ones want to gut the middle class, because political power is the only threat to

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