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by beerandt 5y ago
I don't think they like to be referred to as "electric" anymore.
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by beerandt 5y ago
"Our side would shade have won if we just had the right voting pool." But this national thing isn't even a vote, it's just straight intimidation and extortion trying to get Amazon to "voluntarily" give in.
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by beerandt 5y ago
They didn't force companies to continue employing workers, or continue their office leases, or continue any other expense. And they certainly didn't make them continue to pay workers who refused to work (from home or otherwise).
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by beerandt 5y ago
Even there, there's almost always a mechanism for the state to reimburse the the hospital for unpaid emergent care. And it's (generally) only mandatory when the patients condition is emergent, and the hospital is only required to
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by beerandt 5y ago
>why is making sure rich people stay rich so important again? Why is enforcing legal contracts so important? Besides being one of the very primal functions of a working government.
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by beerandt 5y ago
It is confiscation of property, and an illegal one, since it's not for public use. Not allowing an owner to exercise all of his rights of ownership is a taking, even if it's not permanent. You see this often with construction proj
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's not a bailout. It's money that's either contractually owed by the renter, or constitutionally owed by the government, as a private taking. The landlords are being made whole, not getting "free" government b
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by beerandt 5y ago
They've already got tons of outlets telling the official news, so one more is probably of minimal worth. However, it you continue to run it as a mostly unbiased/outsider publication, it'll be more credible when the occasional
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by beerandt 5y ago
But endless fields of solar panels and wind turbines is? That seems like a somewhat arbitrary, fine line to walk.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Utilities have been doing this for a while, even without smart thermostats. Customers who opt-in get a meter with a relay wire that temporarily disables their AC compressor(s), whenever the utility sends it a signal.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Don't forget that at least one of those first gen nukes was initially earmarked for Germany, before VE. Even if they decided not to use one in Europe, the demonstration in Japan would still be persuasive. Anything that required a time
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by beerandt 5y ago
>Is giving a speech about how to treat a broken bone considered ‘practicing medicine’? For many (most?) states, this is a determination spelled out broadly by law, and left up to the licensing board itself to implement, interpret, admini
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by beerandt 5y ago
The judge can decide who gets to testify in his own court, but that doesn't preclude a licensing board from sanctioning the witness as practicing without a license.
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's usually the licensing board itself that gets to make all these determinations.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>not only because its human toll was so high 1 radiation death and 18 injuries? (Only 2 of which involved possible radiation exposure.) The "overly-conservative" decision to evacuate such a large area killed more people than if
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's a bit more complicated with guns, because businesses aren't going to usually break federal law to sell individuals firearms, since there's a legal way to do it. Weed businesses have no choice but to break the law, since
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by beerandt 5y ago
The argument is that most gun laws aren't "valid federal law." The constitution restricts the federal government from infringing on the right to bear arms. It doesn't list it as an enumerated power of Congress, and the
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by beerandt 5y ago
It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, because leftist revolutionary types believe it. Pretty high on most of their checklists is disarming the populace.
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by beerandt 5y ago
The government has purchased ammunition in amounts that corners the market. Of course that just incentivized shooters to hoard ammo and learn how to reload.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Red flag laws should scare the hell out of everyone, regardless of your thoughts on gun rights. Especially since Obamacare mandated electronic medical records.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>power of the free market A government controlled or subsidized competitor doesn't result in a free market.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>The chicken, even when cooked well, is harder and chewy. Ask me how I know the speaker isn't a meat eater.
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by beerandt 5y ago
The population of beef cattle isn't going to go up if everyone stops eating steaks and hamburgers.
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by beerandt 5y ago
I think that's the idealized version of what's happening. In reality, one side gets loud 24/7 advocation broadcast nationwide, the other side's advocates are silenced by intimidation. What you're calling social cont
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by beerandt 5y ago
Yeah- AC capacitors cost $3-4 at HVAC supply shops. Your AC will usually have 2-3 of different sizes. I've had pros quote me $600-700 for the repair when they thought they had me in a tight spot, and I already knew it was a cheap fix.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Yea, there's tons of political examples, including ideological camps that often have no problem cannibalizing their own. But the trend itself has more than a little political tilt, while the cause for any particular case often doesn&
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by beerandt 5y ago
>more CAD seats than MechE's Unless you're an EI fresh out of college, engineers probably won't spend many billable hours in CAD. Your time is too valuable, and most contract rates won't be high enough to have enginee
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by beerandt 5y ago
That and the other end of the spectrum, as well. Will they omit names from minor stories where a person might have just done/said something embarrassing, controversial, or hateful, but not illegal. Or possibly illegal, but not charged&
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by beerandt 5y ago
Prices flat with decreased supply and increased demand isn't really flat, especially with the additional trillions of dollars added to circulation.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>the Tacoma is a very hot product As is the old pre-2007 Tundra, which are basically the same sized truck as the "new" Tacoma. I had an old Tundra, got totaled via minor frame deformity in a rear-end about 4 years ago. Insuranc

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