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by alex43578 5d ago
>Does SNAP need a better system to provide healthy food? yes. Yes, SNAP absolutely should not enable unhealthy consumption, especially because the majority of those diseases of affluence just hit taxpayers again via Medicaid spending. &g
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by alex43578 5d ago
The buying company is the shell company. Are you proposing that only an established company can buy another business with profits from their operations or something? If I start a company with a loan and want to buy 3 HVAC companies in my ar
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by alex43578 5d ago
Who’s preventing a competing coffee shop or burger restaurant from opening? If your area is such a prime business market, but these businesses aren’t capitalizing on it, one of your assumptions may be wrong.
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by alex43578 5d ago
It’s absolutely relevant because a diversified food supply would result in smaller farms, other things held equal. You have fewer single points of failure, but more opportunities for failure and a tougher time addressing it via inspection,
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by alex43578 5d ago
Those are two different things, typically. A business manager taking 10% means they're still running the practice day to day and seeing patients. PE will come in to buy the entire practice from the doctor/dentist/vet that o
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by alex43578 5d ago
Walmart is paying what people are willing to work for. The "greeter" standing at the door is not creating $25 an hour in economic value. The biggest issue is we as a society have overextended SNAP and social benefits, trying to eq
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by alex43578 5d ago
Absolutely hilarious that you think a small farm has any better hygiene than a large farm.
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by alex43578 5d ago
That's easily circumvented with management service organizations. More broadly, it's a stupid idea, especially beyond a few areas like law. If you own a golf course, you shouldn't have to sell only to a golfer.
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by alex43578 5d ago
Hilton Hotels, Dell, Burger King, Dunkin Donuts? Google works if you use it.
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by alex43578 5d ago
So form a shell buying company A and secure the debt of company A with the assets of the newly purchased company B? Congrats, you added about 5 minutes of paperwork.
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by alex43578 5d ago
That's such an incredibly shortsighted view of the downsides. In your model, the only possible business owners would be those with major capital resources to begin with, encouraging the spread of existing businesses into a sprawl: Walm
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by alex43578 5d ago
Do you think you can't run AI locally?
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by alex43578 5d ago
Are you extending the same claim to the BLS, Fed, and Bipartisan policy center, or is this just unsupported whining?
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by alex43578 6d ago
BLS: https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea38.htm Minneapolis Fed: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2022/whos-not-working... Bipartisan Policy Center: https://bipartisanp
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by alex43578 6d ago
Most criminals do not stop after they get caught the first time. I can't find shoplifting-specific statistics, but then again, essentially nobody is being jailed for only shoplifting anyways, so it's a moot point in a conversation
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by alex43578 6d ago
Even before AI, it was clear that developed societies will be weighted down with an underclass of welfare recipients who are unable or unwilling to develop skills necessary to meaningfully contribute. As society/technology/the wor
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by alex43578 6d ago
For most crimes at both the mild and severe ends of the spectrum, the reality is that imprisonment is the only effective way to reduce these crimes. Deterrence and rehabilitation are fiction: criminals are and will continue to be criminals.
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by alex43578 6d ago
>I'd never attend an event where they simply generated a poster in Word or Photoshop, because it tells me they didn't care enough to carve the woodblock for the print, and that attitude is probably permeating into the rest of t
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by alex43578 6d ago
"I was watching one where it seemed like the "save the world" goal scrolled off the history buffer and the hero was off on side quest after side quest with the main goal forgotten." That's hardly a problem unique to
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by alex43578 6d ago
But neither is an actual signal. The Word-market can just be selling fruit from a wholesaler at a mark up, and the AI poster could be coming from an established "real" farmers market who's organizer has tried to promote it wi
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by alex43578 6d ago
Destroyed or democratized? I'd question the financial judgement if a local fair actually paid a designer for a poster and revisions, versus just literally typing something in Word and adding some clip art.
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by alex43578 6d ago
Just highlighting the hypocrisy of our legal system. All victims of traffic accidents in California are equal, but some are more equal than others [when the perpetrator is an independent contractor for Uber, rather than an illegal immigrant
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by alex43578 6d ago
100 other people died that very day in traffic accidents. I'd wager all 100 of their families got far less than $40,000,000. Meanwhile, if you get hit by an illegal immigrant driving a commercial truck in California, you get nothing, w
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by alex43578 7d ago
This hyperbolic empathy is always interesting to me. There are 100+ fatal traffic accidents each day. Basically none of them will make the news, and almost none of them will result in a 40m+ payout. Where is your empathy for the 99 other pe
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by alex43578 7d ago
Try puking all over a taxi (or anyone’s private car) and see if they tell you to get out. Everyone’s acting like Kalanick came and dragged her out of the car into traffic.
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by alex43578 7d ago
Except the distinction also applies in tort law, which you apparently missed. I'm not arguing in defense of Uber, but to point out how ridiculous this legal jackpot is in the face of established law. Modern society seems to have thrown
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by alex43578 7d ago
Except that settled law generally doesn't apply to independent contractors, absent specific exceptions, which I can't tell apply from this poorly written news article.
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by alex43578 7d ago
USAID was utterly ineffective at building or maintaining the US's position in the world order. Look at the success of the Chinese Belt and Road initiative in terms of actually accomplishing geopolitical goals through soft power actuall
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by alex43578 7d ago
With our deficit near $2 trillion dollars, nobody is worried about the government making a profit. Anyone reasonable is just worried about it being able to pay its already massive debt without triggering hyperinflation or the collapse the w
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by alex43578 7d ago
Right? Nobody should be responsible for their own actions, if there's somebody with deeper pockets to sue.

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