_DeadFred_

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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Oh, data centers are no louder than having planes flying overhead? And they are that 'quiet' a constant 24/7? Man, why would people complain about that?
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
"One California town found Flock's license plate cameras were wrong 71% of the time" https://www.techspot.com/news/113320-one-california-town-fou... and the saying OP is looking for is "You can beat
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Our system is an direct descendant of the Norman conquest system over England, with a conquering class sitting at the top, feeling no connection to those lower than them, extracting any and all value they can from them.
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Luckily we have doctors and trained professionals that propose the medical decisions and research that comes up with informed plans like immunization schedules.
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Their parents disorders of being non-superhuman normal people who care so deeply about their children that it erodes their lives? What ghouls. Give me a break.
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
The things you list could have been done already. They aren't going to happen. They all require too much money for the modern world to choose them.
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
I remember the shared energy/crowds/community feeling of shopping during the holiday season. I remember everyone singing along to songs. I remember when products where safe. Amazon sell fuses that don't work. Food that is doc
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Anecdotally, I watched parents of autistic children become ghosts/shells of who they were. It seemed like much higher divorce rates, and towards the kids reaching highschool just single, burnt out mothers barely holding things together
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
They do not think this. They pretend to still believe this in order to continue their 'starve the beast' strategy, but their actual goal is to damage the government/run up debt, not the pretend 'trickle down economics&#x
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
The Republicans have ran on 'starve the beast' and intentional breaking of our government/programs/etc in order to meet their philosophical aims for 40 years. Republicans actively try to damage our country and do bad f
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
'we couldn't follow the law because the law's hard, instead we started the gateway for Trump by bending the rules, destroying norms, pretending the meaningless has meaning and creating pretext Conservatives could use for igno
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Bullshit. Crazy to see we have so many wanna be murderers among us on hacker news though.
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
You responded to 'It's astonishing how many people really seem to think that total collapse / destruction of a system can be an effective way for fixing things' with 'Czar Nicholas was "prosec
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Yes, murder is easy after collapse. But murder is not a fix.
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
There is no such thing as a binding 'agreement' like this in the USA system of government. We have treaties. That have to be ratified by the Senate. The governments of the world understood this, and understood that the Paris clima
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Wrongly flagged dead (like a lot of comments get on these Iran threads): know-how 1 hour ago [dead] | parent | next [–] Iran has been killing Americans and Israeli since the 1970s. Read a history book.
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
And a ridiculously high percentage of the time markdown prices on the shelves at Walmart are not reflected at checkout. Happened to me just this weekend. Walmart, one of the largest companies in the USA, whose job is to sell items, can&#x27
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Or we could build on and enforce the 300+ years of thought and trial that went into copyright law so that individuals are re-empowered. But nah, let's do the most radical, least thought out thing, and absolutely destroy small scale cre
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Many communities are water limited. Many communities limit housing construction permits to available sewer hookups. Many communities are carrying expensive bonds that citizens are paying off to fund water expansion projects. I do not want o
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Since the 1980s Republicans have had a plan of 'starve the beast'. They intentionally structure government to be underfunded yet at the same time high debt and as dysfunctional as possible, so that they can point and say 'see
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
I had responsible friends whose savings plans were destroyed in market crashes. The whole point of social security is a safety net. There are plenty of cases where 'responsible savers' have needed that net. What do you propose, a
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Yes, society owes a social contract where if you work you can afford to live and have a roof over your head, food to eat, and clothes that aren't Temu plastic rags of worse quality than dystopian sci-fi fiction 'clothes issued to
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
When you have to start shopping down market because you can't afford your normal store that is an indicator that you have less buying power now. Saying 'everything is fine, you just have to shop down market, you can no longer affo
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
e-bikes are a terror. Motorized vehicles operating in places where motorized vehicles aren't allowed (so like all modern tech, the benefit is the abuse/loophole they allow a small subset to benefit from). People treating them like
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
You would also need to adjust for the huge medical expenses Americans face if you are doing that as Germans don't have that. Maybe the 401K savings Americans do for retirement (if Germans have a better societal retirement payout than A
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
I had skin cancer. I talked to my doctor and to the local skin care clinic. Because of my deductible, the final cost for removal would be the same with or without insurance. If I bypassed the American insurance hellscape, I could have the r
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
It's sickening to watch America go from everyone being fairly equal to this sort of elitism. 'America has some of the best hospitals in the world' 'if you are under 50 and have a great job, life is great'. If you ar

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