TMWNN

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by TMWNN 3y ago
>I assumed visa officer is the only and highest authority an applicant can approach. How can an applicant counter a rejection? Context for others: What you are referring to is the principle of consular nonreviewability < https:/&
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by TMWNN 3y ago
>One Aronowitz quote I like in there near the end is: "neither logic nor mathematics escapes the contamination of the social." For example, < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-racist_math > exists
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by TMWNN 3y ago
>Medical debt is the #1 USA reason to personally declare bankruptcy... USA! USA!! USA!!! No. Only 4% of US bankruptcies are because of medical bills. < https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp&#x2
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by TMWNN 3y ago
> Every time windows pro jams “search suggestions” and other crap in via notifications and elsewhere I just roll my eyes I need to use an Amazon application to read Transparency codes on certain products I sell. Amazon recently added ads
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by TMWNN 3y ago
Because of its history pre-independence from Britain, and subsequent estrangement from Britain in international affairs, Ireland is often not included in the Anglosphere even though it has much in common with the Anglosphere culturally.
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by TMWNN 3y ago
Ugh, I mangled some things in the above comment. Let me try again: The only states whose residents have on average paid more taxes than they receive back in terms of federal spending from 2015 to 2021 are ~~NY~~ CT , NJ, and MA. ~~NH, WY,
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by TMWNN 3y ago
Sorry to shatter your illusions, but the only states whose residents have paid more taxes than they receive back in terms of federal spending from 2015 to 2021 are NY, NJ, and MA. NH, WY, ND, UT, SD, VT, and NE (+$3,907 seven-year per capit
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by TMWNN 3y ago
>One problem with very progressive taxation is you become dependent on relatively few people, possibly with their own income sources undiversified. If these people move, the stock market has a flat year, or the tech sector gets hit, that
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by TMWNN 3y ago
> At the time of crash, they were on course to be running 3-4 Shuttles at 4 flights each every year. [1] The cadence afterward was a pretty massive change. We have some sense of what the near-term cadence goal, pre- Columbia , was for th
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by TMWNN 3y ago
While NASA Administrator, Michael Griffin wrote in 2007 that the shuttle program had been a colossal mistake and that Apollo-Saturn-Skylab should have continued < http://aviationweek.typepad.com/space/2007/03&#x2
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by TMWNN 3y ago
That's being disingenuous. In my first comment I link to two sources that both show that the US GDP would go down, not up, in a world without international trade. If you can't use context to understand that I was and am saying tha
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by TMWNN 3y ago
>You’re both fucked. This is like asking if a massive asteroid hit the other side of the Earth, the people on the other side are not “much, much poorer.” That’s plainly idiotic. In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king. >It w
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by TMWNN 3y ago
>America might be less fucked than everyone else. But it would still get fucked. Again, if one has a job—albeit with hours cut—and a place to live and everyone else doesn't, who is better off? >Great analogy. You’re talking about
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by TMWNN 3y ago
Did you even bother to look at the figures for the rest of the world? During the Great Depression, even if one got a salary cut, that was far better off than losing the job. If the US is "much, much poorer", every other country (d
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by TMWNN 3y ago
>I strongly suspect I'm about to learn I'm wrong about part of the above: No, you are correct. The US is the developed country that is by far the least-dependent on foreign trade. < https://data.worldbank.org/
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by TMWNN 3y ago
> > The first thing Eisenhower did after taking office was to cut the defense budget. > Yes. But aren't you forgetting something? Like the fact that the US was exiting the war in Korea? No. The Eisenhower cut of the defense bu
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by TMWNN 3y ago
The first thing Eisenhower did after taking office was to cut the defense budget. His administration built nukes, besides fitting with the administration's policy of massive retaliation, because nukes are cheaper than conventional we
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by TMWNN 3y ago
A Reddit post by me: >A Detroit News columnist playing the city-management computer game SimCity "found that Godzilla attacking the city in the 1972 Detroit scenario caused less destruction than the mayoralty of Coleman Young".
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by TMWNN 3y ago
Historically and today, a sought-after job for a young woman out of college who has majored in, say, English with wealthy parents is in publishing/media in NYC, with the parents paying the bills (publishing doesn't pay very much a
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by TMWNN 3y ago
I recently learned, to my amazement, that C64 Pirates! is written in BASIC! < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJOjSQ0yv8U >
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by TMWNN 3y ago
>What would you say Wired is missing now compared to its first iterations? Wired 's so-called "review" of Hogwarts Legacy is an abomination. < https://www.wired.com/review/hogwarts-legacy-review&#
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by TMWNN 3y ago
The United States of America is the only country in the world with "America" in its name. Calling the US "America" is no more "abnormal" than calling Americans norteamericanos (Even setting aside Mexico also
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by TMWNN 3y ago
>My napkin GPT math values each video closer to $455. I've read that the number of views / 100 in dollars is a good estimate of how much the channel receives.
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by TMWNN 3y ago
From the article: >Despite missing the goal, the company’s launch cadence has been a significant achievement compared both to its past activity as well as global competitors. SpaceX launches increased by more than 50% from 2022 and are t
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SpaceX to just miss goal of 100 Falcon launches in 2023 – SpaceNews(spacenews.com)
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by TMWNN 3y ago
>And I'd argue that Fahrenheit is actually a pretty decent system for day-to-day use. The degrees are smaller and it's not really that hard to remember 32 degrees is freezing. Also, in Fahrenheit 0-100 degrees roughly demarcate
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by TMWNN 3y ago
Sorry to shatter your illusions, but unlike the leftist NPCs I mentioned I don't care what others think. I was never afraid to speak up during my time at an Ivy League university where the most common political posters were for the &qu
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by TMWNN 3y ago
Perhaps, but the left has the top universities, news media, popular media/Hollywood, much of Silicon Valley, the largest investors (Blackrock, Vanguard), and NGOs on its side. (That's what makes the current meltdown/full-scal
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by TMWNN 3y ago
>>In my private conversations, some of the most boring milquetoast technocratic leftist scholars have grimly foretold that somehow, someday, a mob of their own ideological persuasion will come for them. I saw a good description (on &#
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by TMWNN 3y ago
The best description of Reddit that I've ever read: > [maladjusted 19 year old desperate to prove that he is smarter than his parents]( http://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ihk09/iama_cuban_who_li.

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