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by _2z1p 3y ago
That’s the problem, Roe was an overstepping of the Supreme Court. A law should’ve been passed instead. That is why this Supreme Court ruled the way they did. There was nothing in the Constitution or established law to support Roe.
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by _2z1p 3y ago
A simple tax code is a simple one for a computer to calculate. 1. Input the taxpayers's income from all taxable sources. 2. Lookup what tax bracket you're in based on that income. 3. Calculate the appropriate tax bill based on tha
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by _2z1p 3y ago
The Supreme Court overturned Roe because it was a deeply flawed decision. Even former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg disagreed with it. https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/justice-ruth-bader-ginsbur...
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by _2z1p 3y ago
Unpopular opinion around here, but strong hallucinogenic drugs can have negative externalities.
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by _2z1p 3y ago
Welcome to the great reset. That pesky middle class is always sticking up for their rights and freedoms. Just a little more price inflation and a little more wage stagnation and they’ll be owning nothing and being happy about it right acco
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by _2z1p 3y ago
Not sure why you’re downvoted for pointing this out. Like most recent tax proposals this would disproportionately impact the rural middle class. Farmers and truck drivers would be directly impacted and then these costs would be passed on
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by _2z1p 3y ago
I wonder where they got those nukes from? Also, what about the remainder of Europe that did not have nuclear armaments? Communism is an ideology that demands world conquest and the extinction of Capitalism. The Soviets expanded as far as
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by _2z1p 3y ago
Frankly, this is a luxury Western Europe enjoys solely because of their alliances with the United States. The Soviet Union would have continued to push westward had the United States and the NATO alliance not held them in check with the th
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by _2z1p 3y ago
A lot of social spending around the world has been subsidized by the Pax Americana. The practical reality is that the United States military has made most lesser militaries almost comically obsolete. Iraq was once the world’s fourth larges
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by _2z1p 3y ago
> It also highlights Musk's recent rightward political shift Why is this specifically called out as a problem? Single party rule is dangerous. There are merits of both left and right wing political philosophies, yet neither has all
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by _2z1p 3y ago
I think it's fair to be upset when Wikimedia begs for donations to fund Wikipedia and then takes those donations and doesn't fund the continued operations of Wikipedia and instead gives these donations to completely different ch
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by _2z1p 3y ago
I think that’s the source of negativity for the HN crowd. It’s boring, predictable, mature enterprise grade software that quietly gets the job done. It’s too similar to what they are forced to work with in $DAYJOB, instead of the exotic,
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by _2z1p 3y ago
I just checked...Apple will give me $330 for mine if I traded it in today. That has to be a scam.
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by _2z1p 3y ago
I own both a minivan and an SUV, the minivan handles horribly in poor weather conditions, even with the proper tires. Our SUV handles much better in all weather even without switching to 4 wheel drive. The minivan also has horrible clearan
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by _2z1p 3y ago
We were told in no uncertain terms that this vaccine was 95% effective at preventing COVID and there were no side effects. Now all of a sudden the authorities are sheepishly admitting, no, it's not anywhere near 95% effective and it j
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by _2z1p 3y ago
Not in otherwise healthy men in their 20s and 30s.
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by _2z1p 3y ago
The vaccines have been ineffective at preventing infection from COVID. There is evidence that they reduce the severity of symptoms when you do catch it, but it does nearly nothing to prevent infection with COVID. https://www.c
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by _2z1p 3y ago
Off the top of my head there's the "Cultural Revolution", Tiananmen Square, the annexation of Tibet, and of course the ongoing genocide of the Uyghurs. The Western powers have done a lot of fucked up things, but that doesn&#x
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by _2z1p 3y ago
Inflation is most certainly not dropping. The rate that inflation is increasing is slowing. That's a huge difference. Also the reported rate of inflation is very misleading considering it doesn't include housing, energy, or food
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by _2z1p 3y ago
I don't think anyone believes that he designed the rockets and cars himself, but by creating and managing these companies, he is directly responsible for the technological advancements that have occurred. A lot of people are assholes t
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by _2z1p 3y ago
So it's just that he's an asshole and tweets childish adolescent insults to liberals or am I missing something more?
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by _2z1p 3y ago
Honest question, why do so many on HN have such a raging hatred for Elon Musk?
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by _2z1p 3y ago
> Twitter was becoming a threat to the US national security state, imo. I'm going to need a source for that one. That seems like the exact opposite of what actually happened prior to Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter. Twitter wa
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by _2z1p 3y ago
Science is wrong all the time. It wasn't that long ago that "science" said that the COVID-19 vaccine had 95% efficacy. There have definitely been incorrect climate doomsayer predictions for decades now and frankly its exhaus
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by _2z1p 3y ago
None of that scales up to nation level. It’s been tried and failed dozens of times. Leading to human suffering on calamitous scale. Socialist Utopia is as mythical as Shangri-La, El Dorado, or Atlantis.
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by _2z1p 3y ago
The opposition to Twitter seems to mostly be opposition to Elon Musk himself.
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by _2z1p 3y ago
I think a lot of it is good old fashioned Elon Musk hate. There’s a similar pattern when it comes to Tesla and SpaceX.
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Threads has lost half of its daily active users a week after launch(bgr.com)
84 points by _2z1p 3y ago|52 comments
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by _2z1p 3y ago
Is Twitter actually imploding though? I think it's just merely past its peak and on a slow decline. I haven't seen any evidence of it being near death, just a lot of wishful thinking from Twitter and Elon Musk haters.
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by _2z1p 3y ago
Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. - Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)

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