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by addicted 2y ago
I also don’t understand posting articles about shoplifters being caught and prosecuted as evidence of “California loves shoplifters”. Isn’t the fact that it caught and prosecuted a shoplifter evidence that California doesn’t love them and i
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The only ones bashing the Russian military are the Russian leaders who’ve been exposing the fact that the mighty Russian military isn’t even capable of taking down a military staffed nearly entirely by civilians and using discards from the
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Putin thought he would control Kyiv in 2 weeks and that gambit failed miserably and if he were to leave Ukraine now he would look extremely weak and likely get overthrown and/or executed. That’s why the war continues. If it had anythin
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> Article claims that ATACMS have been highly effective, but all 5 missiles launched at Crimea recently were shot down. Which is not at all in contradiction. The ATACMS could have been highly successful but not any longer. In fact, this
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So much of the tech energy before the pandemic was seen in conferences and hackathons etc. Many of these had people who were not super social. The reality is that people do better when they congregate in areas with other smart people. The a
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Seems weird that so many of the comments are complaining about immigration (the depletion of which has fucked the NHS, for example) in an article which is talking about the UK not keeping up with building housing for 5 decades, and even if
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I’d argue it’s the opposite. Look at what’s happened since Oxycontin was heavily regulated. Opioid deaths in America have exploded by an order of magnitude. There’s a direct correlation between higher regulation of OxyContin and opioid deat
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Yes and Russia promising to arm North Korea and support them in any battle may change that calculus very quickly.
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Not disagreeing with your point, but I don’t understand why people call these baseless arguments “emotional”. The aim of the person making the argument is to try and use someone else’s plight and disadvantages as a reason to excuse their ch
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Cannon fodder is nice and all, but Putin’s overtures to North Korea might lead South Korea to finally start sending military hardware to Ukraine which would be a game changer, considering S Korea is one of the cheapest and most effective ma
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They targeted civilians with no other aim than to target civilians. They got elected and like the Nazis stopped any more elections. They violently killed their opposition after their election victory. They’ve severely curtailed the freedoms
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Many things incorrect here. Better driving can only get you from 1 curb to another. You still have to walk to your actual destination whether it’s to the other end of the mall, or to your home’s door. In no way is this any worse in a walkab
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Drinking alcohol is almost certainly more dangerous than dropping hats. This is not even close. Heck, pick any one negative impact of drinking alcohol at parties (impaired driving, or long term health effects, or impaired judgment, etc) and
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New legislation for rapidly moving new technology is not 100% clear at the outset. Shocking! The idea that if legislation is not perfectly crafted it’s bad is ridiculous. The only reason anyone even entertains this patently stupid concept i
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I deliberately avoided the usage of the term “charity” because the legal definition for tax purposes is indeed different from what people colloquially think of as charities. I used the unwieldy terms “charitable non profit” and “non charita
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by addicted 2y ago
And how will they do that? You can’t just “drive profits to zero by accounting nuisances”. Otherwise every for profit organization would do that. (Although, separately, this is what IKEA does but they setup an extremely intricate multinatio
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by addicted 2y ago
Unfortunately non profit != charitable. That’s what this article is all about. Separating charitable non profits from non charitable non profits and taxing the latter.
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People don’t “hate” the BRICS. Take away Western purchases of Russian gas for 2 decades and Russia collapses. Take away the encouragement of outsourcing manufacturing from the West to China since the 1980s and the Chinese miracle never happ
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The passive voice is doing a lot of work here.
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It encourages not taking BRICS seriously. Which is absolutely correct. BRICS as an organization is a joke. The individual countries should be taken seriously. Which western countries finally have started doing over the last couple of years.
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Whether it’s uncharitable or not it makes specific claims that can be assessed by anyone with the slightest bit of knowledge about these countries. Again, which claim is incorrect? > Brazil's history of monetary stability Does Brazi
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The real money flows the other way. Western governments have realized China and Russia are not gonna become free market democracies anytime soon. That idea has failed. So over the last couple of years they’ve started decoupling from China&
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Is there anything incorrect in what he’s said though? It’s a few hundred character Tweet that has been reproduced fully. You don’t even need to know the author to assess the contents of the tweet.
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The idea that outsourcing production had anything to their downfall seems far-fetched. The richest hardware company in the world, Apple, completely outsourced production. Maybe things are different with cars but that seems unlikely to me.
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When did schools start making decisions based on what the students love? I mean, the fundamental idea behind a school, where fundamental rights of students are taken away (their speech is heavily curtailed, their freedom of movement is heav
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No, it doesn’t. What has happened in reality is that C became really popular and then all the people designing languages they wanted to be popular, rather than to be experimental, or to push boundaries, etc obviously chose a syntax which wa
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Or even easier, instead of building new cities, revive existing cities throughout the rust belt with new housing. Bonus, you get a lot of infrastructure, social networks, etc prebuilt for free.
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Yeah that’s neither what they did nor how the first amendment works. The first amendment places restrictions on what the government can do not what private entities can and cannot restrict.
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I have used VIM for a very long time and I didn’t even know R was a thing. Now that I do know what it is I’m still not sure why I’d use it. The reality is that VIM allows you to do the same thing in many different ways and people tend to pi
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Ironically the Supreme Court further watered down what regulatory actions the NLRB can take against companies retaliating against unionizing workers just a couple of days ago. US law is actually pretty good as far as worker’s rights are con

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