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by beerandt 5y ago
>without significant price increases for the outputs, You say this as if it would be abnormal. Food prices go up with (are part of) inflation, too.
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by beerandt 5y ago
So wrong. For places with sales tax, a big box moving in can easily double a small towns tax revenue overnight. I don't dispute that small business suffers, but its far from zero-sum. The increased revenue benefits the town far more th
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by beerandt 5y ago
Binning/exclusivity/stratification is as big or bigger part of that than the quality of the school's education. What percentage of kids are served by schools of that caliber? 5%? 1%? That's not "access" to bett
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by beerandt 5y ago
Many states still allow 12 year olds to drive farm trucks on local roads.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Didn't realize Associated Grocers type distributors/co-ops weren't a nationally universal thing.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>Kansas Surprising. 1) Where does the money go? Relative to other states? 2) No homestead exemptions? $75k reduction would get you to ~$2250, which still isn't cheap, especially with that income tax. >Sales tax ... 2 percentage
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by beerandt 5y ago
So were the confederate states. (Depending on how many issues you want exclude in over-simplifying the causes of the war.)
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by beerandt 5y ago
If you can get past "north good, south bad" in studying the politics surrounding the war, and look at/ include things other than just slavery, you'll realize pretty quickly that Lincoln was more about centralizing and
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by beerandt 5y ago
The people that are most concerned about insurance before quitting are generally the ones that have expensive, known health issues. Which self insured employers pay for directly. So the barriers to switching aren't necessarily good for
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by beerandt 5y ago
Medical prices being inelastic (to the extent they are) has much more to do with medicare/medicaid/FDA regulations, govt & insurance allowable reimbursement rate lists, and costly govt requirements to even participate in a gov
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by beerandt 5y ago
>Technically, you can pin this on undersupply Well said overall, but the supply of doctors isn't the issue here (regardless of if it's a separate, bigger problem). 1) This case is what mid-levels are ideally suited for. Routine
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by beerandt 5y ago
Not justifying his treatment or torture, but at least regarding his continued imprisonment: He's undoubtedly a high ranking terrorist with a long history. He was convicted of terrorism and sentenced to death in Jordan before Sept 11 ev
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by beerandt 5y ago
Yes. If you ever have the chance to see them mating in the wild, about 30 seconds is all it takes to undo any goodwill you might have ever felt for them.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Assuming dolphin brains are complex bc "folds" isn't a stretch, but assuming animal communication isn't as complex as human language is?
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by beerandt 5y ago
Not until you kill it and fluids start moving around. (There are a few things you can do to keep the meat from degrading, like immediately draining the blood and the bladder.) The liver is the target because it's the most calorie dense
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by beerandt 5y ago
>I can say "dang should ban.." It is your free expression to make that argument, but the argument itself is against free expression. >incapable of censorship That's a mighty narrow definition of censorship. (I didn&#x27
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by beerandt 5y ago
>nor is opposition to GMO technology an immediate grave threat to public health The complete lack of awareness of the hypocrisy is why it's relevant. If you took crop GMO, got rid of the one-time gene modification, but instead, star
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by beerandt 5y ago
That's a contractual agreement made when buying the seeds.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Using leverage in an attempt to convince a business to silence someone else... is not an argument for free expression. It's free expression arguing against allowing others to exercise free expression. >There is no "free speec
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by beerandt 5y ago
>It's all about making the war seem unavoidable And claiming a political win when we're "miraculously" saved from ww3 by some last minute white house phone call.
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by beerandt 5y ago
I've already heard multiple people refer to it as the beer belly emoji.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>expensive in the long run due to pole replacement and tree maintenance, Not compared to burial. The cost is up front (not amortized) and is a big enough multiplier that it won't overcome maintenance costs, especially when including
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by beerandt 5y ago
They're not. It's very obvious when you see it. And it's usually when they've already pushed the seal to exhaustion and are extending things so the kids can play.
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by beerandt 5y ago
You don't see the inconsistency between: >Dolphins, which obviously include orcas, actually have more complex brains than ours And this: >>complexity of communication in even the cleverest animals is very low compared to human
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by beerandt 5y ago
It'd be interesting to know if besides mental capacity, is there a physiological advantage required in the water for this to be a successful strategy, as there seems to be on land. That is, comparable to humans (and to a lessor extent
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by beerandt 5y ago
Wolves manage to cooperate fine, communicating with both howls and non-verbal cues. What's more impressive (be it humans playing sports or pack predators hunting): a team calling an audible play while on the attack, or the team that is
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by beerandt 5y ago
Just the process of separating an individual from the herd shows such a great deal of coordination, especially in the case of the herd circling multiple calves or calves with mothers. Watching ~6 wolves chase 6 candidate buffalo, then quick
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by beerandt 5y ago
There's seals, which they seem to kill for a combination of sport and to give the young orcas practice killing. It's pretty hard to watch orcas use their tail to playfully bat dying seals 50' up in the air and not think they&
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by beerandt 5y ago
Other than arguably the level of communication, every single thing you describe about orcas hunting applies to wolves hunting buffalo. ETA: There's also the under appreciated communication aspect of canines (and orcas) ability to take
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by beerandt 5y ago
Maybe microwave transmission, but the economics of GPS or GNSS in general would preclude civilian investment in such an expensive constellation without obvious revenue channels. And it's moot for both these cases because the technolog

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