bobbydroptables

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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
It's even better than it sounds. During those two weeks, they're prohibited from conducting their job by law. They would get in trouble for responding to a normal work email. Very few highly compensated people get vacation like th
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
If that were the case then the word superiority does not belong in that sentence. No average American has enough thoughts about Canada to have feelings of superiority about our economic statistics.
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
My comment was not limited to Western countries. Most people don't live in the West after all. If you're going to make a ridiculously overbroad statement like "surveillance increases security" then I hope you have some v
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
No. It decreases the security of dissidents and many people living outside normal or legally approved modes.
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
I wouldn't describe politicians trying to score cheap political points as "America" having a weird complex. I can promise you the average American does not have any thoughts whatsoever regarding Canada. It's not even on
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
>America has a weird sense of superiority about its lower unemployment numbers vs Canada. I've literally never heard anyone in America discuss Canada's unemployment numbers in any context whatsoever. I think your premise may be
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
It's not any more or less selfish than the existence of 90+% of people just going through the motions to get through the day. The "value" most people create for society is a byproduct of that person needing an income. If they
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
This doesn't work from a first amendment perspective. The town council is BFE, Mississippi is not going to approach its censor role in a fair way, for better or worse.
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
Most evictions are proper. Most tenants don't fight back, regardless. To be clear my complaints about mail are not about protecting well off yuppies who are going to be suing their landlords for improper eviction. Many people are housi
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
Sure but here is what everyone in this thread is missing: there is nothing (and I mean nothing ) inherently official or legal about mail except that the government designated it as official 100+ years ago. If the official channel was email
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
Technology has already solved it. It's called email and it's been around for literally 50 years. Let's stop pretending like it's 1820. The free market has nothing to do with this.
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
The issue isn't who owns the mailbox. It's whose mail is in it. You are absolutely allowed to open a mailbox with someone else's mail (even if it's extremely sensitive). It just needs to be your mailbox.
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
Exactly. It's enormously insecure unless you can somehow control the next tenant or you actually think the least-enforced crime on the planet is going to stop people from invading your privacy. If you are worried about Google kicking y
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
This is just incorrect. Whoever occupies the address attached to the mailbox can access it.
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
Exactly. Let's make the mailbox actually useful again by removing the monopoly on it. Then banning the USPS from delivering spam would be a good next step.
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
You're thinking like a lawyer. I'm thinking like a problem solver. The legal requirement (which by the way is not an absolute requirement) to deliver my mail is useless if my mail isn't actually delivered. And I mean literall
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
Nope. I agree that he uses a heavily subsidized service and wants to keep it.
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
I'm not sure what your point is here. As I said in my first post, it's 2020 almost. Let's start acting like it. It has been a long long time since snail mail was the most reliable form of communication.
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
Exactly. All of the people using bad anecdotes to "prove" their points. Lets talk about actual facts.
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
What? If you are evicted the next tenant absolutely can and will open the mailbox. That's how mailboxes work. If you reported that you'd be laughed out of the post office.
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
USPS regularly fails to deliver important mail to me. Like it straight up doesn't show up. Never accounted for or mentioned. Almost all of these important mailings would be handled faster, safer, more reliably and more eco friendly onl
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
I don't make or enforce the rules, for better or worse. https://parcelindustry.com/article-4888-The-Mailbox-Monopoly...
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
Exactly the kind of thing I'm complaining about. We need to update laws for the fact that we now live in 2020 and not 1820. I understand that for most healthy, housed, able-bodied, privileged people, mail is a decent way to get in touc
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
My mailbox is 95% spam. If you really need to get in touch with me, you need to use email.
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
One is a useless anecdote that doesn't really tell us anything about anything except one random person's mailing proclivities. The other is a policy position that apparently a lot of people want to discuss.
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
What do you mean formal. It's exceedingly easy to fake snail mail. What can you fake in email that you can't fake in snail mail?
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
>Email accounts practically at the whim of big corporations As are mail boxes unless you own house outright or have a mom and pop landlord (which is really not much better). >The private sector may be more efficient than the governmen
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
The fact that you personally use a heavily subsidized, underpriced service is not really an argument for keeping it on a national scale. "I personally use and like a service" is a different statement than "it's in our na
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
Or better, get them to abolish USPS. 99% of the things you get in the mail should be handled by email. The other 1% of critical things are frankly handled better, faster and more reliably by private carriers.. For better or worse it's
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
]This isn't recognizing your specific face, Can you source this claim? Unless you are part of the engineering or monetization team of this project, I don't understand how you'd know this.

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