_DeadFred_

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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
"estimates suggest that inability to afford costs of medical care contributes to at least 530,000 personal bankruptcy filings annually. Approximately two-thirds of personal bankruptcies in the U.S. are associated with medical expenses
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Police are extended 'good faith' all the time simply for the fact that they are police. Including in situations such as loss of chain of custody for evidence, etc. We have the appearance of what you outline, with a blanket 'g
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
I miss the old style small government conservatives that understood the threat that mass surveillance is.
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
I wonder if this position was taken from the Muslim slaver behavior who had been conquering/enslaving Christians for quite a while at that point. Especially as Spain was being taken back from Muslim colonizers at that time, and you hav
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
In addition muslim traders also exported as many as 17 million slaves to the coast of the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and North Africa. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1523100.stm
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
My country (the USA) just cut taxes for the wealthiest 1 percent by a trillion dollars over the next 10 years https://itep.org/year-one-of-trump-republican-tax-policy-con... It is not a matter of being realistic with limite
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Sweet, open the borders then. It's not the government's job to take care of that (we had government long before we had 21st century style closed borders, so it's definitely not a requirement of government). More people = mo
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Since the 1980s the Republican party had adopted a position of starve the beast, of screwing up these very numbers so that people can make exactly the argument you have. What happens when half of government acts is bad faith purely to poiso
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Sorry, zero bad faith on my part You waiving away poor business behavior (the behavior being discussed being wage theft ) because 'good behavior is hard': > if being a trustworthy employer is so easy why aren't you and ma
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Why are you defending/waiving away wage theft? Not stealing from people and following the law is the absolute minimum an employer can do. It is not the governments fault when you break the law. Should it be ok for an employee to stea
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
In the USA the most untrustworthy among us who in your words are "destroying society for the rest of us" are employers, as wage theft by employers is the largest form of theft in the country. If workspaces are as much a community
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
It perfectly fits the current timeline that the top 'feel good success anecdote' for this is about Starlink making raping the most remote areas on earth more enjoyable. These guys get paid outsized rewards for exploiting our&#x2F
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
People who have been aged out of tech aren't going to be able to physically pull off 16 hour days in Alaska.
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
I have 3 product ideas that I do nothing with because I'd have to sell on Amazon and if they were successful the upper case alphabet shops would eat my lunch I can't compete with their production. So the options to the world are a
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Location: PNW Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No I have written POS applications (VB to SQL Server), managed large parts of the PCI stuff. Wrote medical applications (VB, Crystal Reports, SQL Server). Managed small dev teams. Acted as the
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
> into reforesting entire mountains I noticed that PR campaign on reddit to. Hope they planted the right trees (not like Eucalyptus in California, American pines in Sweden that weren't ideal). Meanwhile European and US tree cover is
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Yes. I've found most of the people who don't trust don't want to trust, not they actually don't trust, because they know nothing about the bodies that establish this, the standards they hold, specific issues that cause
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Please give examples of these agencies. What you list seems more like how business captures control via 'knowing more than government officials' then how technocrats do. At least that's what conservative politicians tell us a
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
So the pitchforks will be the poors forming a mutual fund and busting/pump dumping the riches stocks?
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
I want a bill that prevents employees from using their phones at all for work cases. I've seen people who can barely afford their smart phone having to use it for work and then dropping it/breaking it where replacing it is a weeks
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Police had to at least play 'parallel reconstruction' and pretend they weren't using Stingrays though. And we all knew it and nodded along, and the lines moved, and the rules blurred a little more, and now we are at the next
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
But GMs security of their tracking information is 100% perfect and no foreign adversary will gain access? BS. Either we need to ban it completely for all manufacturers, or we don't actually care.
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Zoning is a promise from the government 'invest in a house (which is most people's largest investment in life) here and we guaranty we will work on our side to make sure it is fit for purpose (a good place to live/you won&#x2
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
In a way yes. We've had local elections with candidates main driver being getting areas rezoned. Or getting downtown redeveloped.
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
And contrary to boomers loved in childhood mythos of the wild west where the criminal could get a second chance, become the sheriff, etc. modern America gives no second chances. Huge sections of poorly paid labor would not be staffed if not
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by _DeadFred_ 3mo ago
Communities passed and paid bonds to have water hookusp. Built infrastructure. They should have a say in who gets access and why. There are plenty of places datacenters could build without hassle, but they want access to readymade infra, an
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by _DeadFred_ 4mo ago
https://fortune.com/2026/06/22/1-in-3-young-adults-living-wi... I wonder how record numbers of adults living with parents impacts household income as now addition income earners.
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by _DeadFred_ 4mo ago
If a woman is being harassed, especially an old one, yes, I have always stepped in. That used to be a part of me I thought was conservative. But it doesn't appear to actually be a trait they hold. I'm not litigating my mothers tre
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Zero patrons inside the stores cared/did anything. A business structuring things to prevent a scene is not compassion in my mind, just like pride awareness by businesses wasn't actual pride awareness.
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by _DeadFred_ 4mo ago
I was more middle of the road. I live in a rural red red state. Then during COVID people would yell at my dying of cancer mother on chemo for wearing a mask while grocery shopping. Eventually the stores had to set special hours so people li

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