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by ahoy 8y ago
If you poll those same voters on individual social welfare programs, particularly Social Security, you'll find they support them. It's really upsetting.
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by ahoy 8y ago
That'd be because a lot of US politicians are ideologically opposed to any welfare program.
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by ahoy 8y ago
I agree that Trump and the republicans are bad on this issue, but it's not like the Dem's did anything about it when they had power in 08-10. They're exactly as complicit and wholly in the pocket of big business, just like th
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by ahoy 8y ago
Companies shave costs and they're seen as shrewd, individuals do the same and they're seen as "cheap".
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by ahoy 8y ago
You forgot: 4. Americans pay for health insurance through private companies, anyway. And then they still don't get the care they need.
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by ahoy 9y ago
>This is one of the few area where the government, meaning you and I, NEEDS to step up and protect the citizens. I agree that regulation is necessary here, but I'm fascinated that you think tech/data privacy is a special case.
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by ahoy 9y ago
Sinclair are a media company that owns local news stations. For the past few years, they've been feeding "must run" content (in the form of pre-recorded segments or scripts for anchors to read) to those news stations to be pr
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by ahoy 9y ago
Old people watch more local news and vote at higher rates than any other demographic group.
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by ahoy 9y ago
I think it's undemocratic to take away felons' right to vote.
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by ahoy 9y ago
I really hope you're not in a position of management.
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by ahoy 9y ago
No one is saying "pay bartenders less." We're saying "pay bartenders higher, fairer wages so that they dont have to depend on tips"
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by ahoy 9y ago
(This isn't meant as a personal attack on the parent comment. Their opinion is common and I've held it myself in the past) I really dislike this line of thinking. It's profoundly cynical and sees change as impossible. Corpora
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by ahoy 9y ago
My girlfriend started commuting by bike last year and cut her travel time by almost half. There are real savings to be had in congested cities.
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by ahoy 9y ago
This sentiment sucks. The "player" here sets the rules of the "game". I hate the player.
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by ahoy 9y ago
As other users said above, libraries are a huge deal in poor communities. People use them to search for jobs/fill out job applications. These are tasks that are onerous to impossible on a low-end smartphone, if you have one at all. I
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by ahoy 9y ago
Regulatory Capture/Agency Capture is a real problem. On the one hand, it's often the case that people with deep ties to a regulated industry are the ones who understand it best. On the other hand, they're the people most like
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by ahoy 9y ago
> it's not your problem if sales go down this quarter of course it is, you can get laid off. Capitalism works by siphoning off value that workers generate and putting it into the pockets of their employers. You're right that em
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by ahoy 9y ago
Seems onerous to administer, why not only allow land-owners to vote? Seems simpler to verify.
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by ahoy 9y ago
It's insane if you're 24 too. You're just too dumb to know that you're being had because you've never worked in an adult environment.
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by ahoy 9y ago
As with every headline that poses a yes/no question, the answer is usually "no". EDIT: I'm also unsure what the point of shifting the focus onto The Intercept's alleged "mishandling" of the leaker's i
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by ahoy 9y ago
With no government the corporation would just send their militia to take your land. What's the difference really?
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by ahoy 9y ago
I'm not sure I even agree with the premise. Politics and "discourse" around it, especially by common people, has always been crass. It's just that those common people have a megaphone now that the internet exists.
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by ahoy 9y ago
Do we think it's a malfunctioning script (and the first name is supposed to be different each time), or do we think they're all "brittany" on purpose?
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by ahoy 9y ago
It's not a new term. It's everywhere because socialist and social-democratic ideas are getting fairly popular in the US.
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by ahoy 9y ago
> One group gets decaf coffee with an LSD microdose > One group gets normal coffee.
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by ahoy 10y ago
> The airline played the game, ran too lean and paid the price. I would argue that the unconscious paying customer with a bloody head paid the price.
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by ahoy 10y ago
Seems to be the case. I use the mobile twitter web app because it crashes less than the native app on my older phone. It does seem noticeably faster now. This seems like a weird branding/marketing push for what is essentially "we
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by ahoy 10y ago
Yes, the union members produce the goods and services.
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by ahoy 10y ago
Increasing the contrast on hover might do the trick.
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by ahoy 10y ago
You're halfway there. The indices are the grid lines, but they're also one-indexed. That's consistent with other parts of CSS, though it's inconsistent with the rest of the programming world.

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