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by abduhl 6y ago
I didn't realize that Moscow Mitch was the bellwether of history.
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by abduhl 6y ago
Sorry man, but the most notable violence during the BLM protests was the gangland style execution of two black teens after the "movement" had taken over six city blocks. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news&#x
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by abduhl 6y ago
You honestly think that THE defining event of Trump's presidency is going to be the Capitol riot? You don't think it's the bungled response to coronavirus that landed us all locked up in our houses for over a year, the assas
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by abduhl 6y ago
There is a presumption that any relationship between a teacher and their student is non-consensual. This is memorialized in nearly every school’s code of conduct that I have ever seen. If it happened then it was sexual harassment at a minim
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by abduhl 6y ago
How do you square your statements of "If we want the other side to understand, we have to speak to them in a way that they’ll understand it." with "If I were to believe that parts of the country were truly and deeply corrupt,
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by abduhl 6y ago
What I meant by "on the same level of states" is that the federal government is the supreme sovereign. This understanding is per the commerce clause which places them on the same level as states for purpose of regulation: Congres
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It's important to note that sovereignty can mean different things. Certainly the federal government and each state government are different sovereigns, but that doesn't mean that the federal government can't use eminent doma
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by abduhl 6y ago
The point is what the GP said: “It's a way better choice to be in a future where we are arguing about the extent and content of the regulation rather than the presence of it in the first place. A deregulated world is scary to me.” If y
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by abduhl 6y ago
Suppose a 737 had engines that were old and not as efficient as newer, larger engines. How would you go about finding the right changes to the airframe to accommodate these new engines? You can do calculations, tests in a lab, etc, but even
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by abduhl 6y ago
This is a pretty cavalier way to look at engineering standards. The majority of regulations and standards in consumer/public facing engineering works are written in blood. Saying that we "tried a bunch of different ones and foun
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And yet, regardless of your own personal feelings and beliefs, here we sit, locked in our little worlds which have been shrunk down to the space inside the walls of our homes, with a government mandated two dose regimen as you scream helple
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> Yet doctors, scientists and public health experts use judgement and empirical priors to determine when and where we can relax the requirements. They certainly do. And the FDA, a collection of the leading doctors, scientists, and publi
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by abduhl 6y ago
Ignoring the obvious here that your original statement was there are “NO” travel restrictions, your reply is a no true Scotsman fallacy. There are clearly travel restrictions but you, and most other people, are not adhering to them. Just li
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by abduhl 6y ago
It's hard to square your comment that there are "no restrictions against travel" with reality. These are just three examples I happen to know of off the top of my head. The remainder of the assertions in your post suffer fr
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by abduhl 6y ago
of course, just like how when the mob says "if you want our guys to be around to help protect you, listening to our guidance is the best course" it's not a threat but a general statement on the importance of community solidar
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by abduhl 6y ago
Oh man are you going to be disappointed when you get the vaccine and your "suffering" doesn't subside. You should probably talk to someone about it.
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by abduhl 6y ago
A government known for its austerity measures is going to mitigate its citizens' financial issues? I find that hard to believe. I'm not going to engage with someone over the internet about the weighing of people's quality of
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by abduhl 6y ago
Most people don't lose their jobs/businesses/careers and kill themselves the next day or even the next month, but that doesn't mean that their eventual decline into depression and suicide wasn't triggered by that lo
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by abduhl 6y ago
Risk of fatality in an accident is proportional to speed of the vehicles involved. People driving to work are stuck in traffic pre-COVID while the roads are ripe for hitting 80 mph during lockdowns and WFH.
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by abduhl 6y ago
Well if everyone is selling then nobody is buying and the quoted stock price remains unchanged. See how ridiculous it is to nitpick purely hypothetical situations?
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by abduhl 6y ago
I'm responding to this comment as a response to all the comments which all seem to have a similar tone. I think it's important to remember that kids are at a different stage in their life than adults. Having small locked in soci
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by abduhl 6y ago
It is a poor substitution. Online groups nowadays are inherently exclusive and degenerative: they very rarely grow to include new individuals who were not in from the start and often will shrink over time as people feel slighted by somethin
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by abduhl 6y ago
What, specifically, are those mechanisms that you think prevent symptoms but allow for infection and spreading? Additionally, even if this mechanism exists, why would we care? The goal is not eradication of the virus at a molecular level,
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by abduhl 6y ago
“I weep for how spoiled and entitled our society is, living in the lap of luxury but still complaining,” they say while working from home and admitting that they have not left their house at all for the past half year, not even to feed them
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by abduhl 6y ago
Would I believe someone who works at Postmates with over a decade of experience in the software industry bubble when they offer an opinion on the effects of a novel virus pandemic on the overall economy due to high level policy decisions? A
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No, yes, and maybe.
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I understand, but your comment was: "That's right, in California, 4-way stops aren't labelled 4-way" which is true in practice but not any more useful than saying "4 way stops aren't labelled 4-way anywhere&quo
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by abduhl 6y ago
Caltrans has a readily available copy of their Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices at https://dot.ca.gov/programs/safety-programs/camutcd/camutcd-... Part 2 is specific to signage. Turn to Part 2B.05:
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by abduhl 6y ago
"Compared to current law, 5 percent of taxpayers would pay more tax in 2018, 9 percent in 2025, and 53 percent in 2027." "Compared to current law, taxes would fall for all income groups on average in 2018, increasing overall
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by abduhl 6y ago
Excellent point about the tax cuts that increased disposable income for most Americans at the cost of a deficit on an overinflated federal budget, but we're talking about the states here.

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