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> In my bubble the practice looks vaguely symmetrical. Then you should have no trouble at all backing your view up with facts.
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Didn't they try that with the breakdancing competition in 2024? /s
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> * Those sites are BS (including Blind) and full of people both bragging, humble bragging, and lying I've never wasted my time with Blind, but I've used levels.fyi as a guide for expectations/negotiations at three major t
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Thanks, I hadn't heard about DUIs being used as a justification for revoking status. (I'm all for treating DUIs seriously, but using a one time offense as justification for such serious consequences seems over the top to me; obvio
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2y ago
> no information about what officials had already done or planned to do to correct their error I can field those questions: nothing and nothing.
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> Compare this to the US, in which things like DUIs on your background can be used to deny you Constitutional rights. Can you elaborate on what you mean here?
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2y ago
Sorry, right wingers have spent decades telling me Snopes is not reliable so I can't trust this.
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2y ago
> 5% avg tariff + then 20% avg VAT So, 5% tariffs.
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2y ago
You're making the mistake of believing that anyone left in the MAGA camp is arguing in good faith.
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2y ago
The filibuster rule is determined by the senate itself, and could have been neutered at any point. The gridlock is a conscious choice of the senate majority.
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2y ago
Every major financial crisis since (at least) the 80's has resulted in a "K shaped recovery" in which the 99% are forced by circumstance to sell off assets to the wealthy at bargain prices.
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2y ago
Only 60%? Seems low.
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2y ago
Funny how the entire middle class manages to deal with a wealth tax on their largest illiquid investment —- that is, property tax on their home —- and yet far wealthier people cannot be expected to pay a wealth tax on far more easily liquid
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2y ago
To be fair, it’s important that we celebrate grilled cheese month while we can still afford bread and cheese.
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2y ago
> Someone had a better suggestion in a comment chain above, which is that it's the responsibility of the dealer to request the rebate on behalf of the customer, and they apparently submit them in batches. So an even more plausible e
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2y ago
Thanks for the correction, I didn't realize the fraud was that ostentatious!
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2y ago
> It equates to about two months of sales during a normal period It equates to two months of sales for the entirety of Canada happening in one weekend in one province.
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2y ago
"It's good when the government gives me money and bad when the government gives other people money" is the mentality of a child, and not a particularly bright one.
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2y ago
I saw it before posting, as you note, and it did not change my response. If you think it should, perhaps you should elaborate.
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Perhaps we made the mistake of thinking that the people who "don't like being told to what[sic] say/think/do" actually had something resembling principles rather than a petty and childish desire to dictate what othe
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2y ago
> How do you know she wasn't being arrested for one here? Perhaps we could have some sort of public trial where some of her peers -- let's say a dozen -- could hear the facts and decide on whether she's committed a crime.
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2y ago
How about instead we put Musk on Mars?
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2y ago
game recognize game
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2y ago
> The reality is that we do now have a ton of decentralized systems: most people -- certainly you, clearly -- just don't use them, as they are at least slightly worse than the centralized versions in ways you care about. It would be
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2y ago
I'm hearing a lot of excuses and a pointed lack of actual decentralized/disintermediated systems.
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2y ago
If you think 4chan is a place where people treat people a lot more like they treat each other in real life, I'd really hate to see what your life is like.
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2y ago
No one's stopping you.
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> If software development is your 9-5, and not your passion. How do you keep improving? I'd flip the question and ask: why do you think the 40+ hours of work you do for your employer every week isn't also helping to improve you
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2y ago
I'm not defending the position, but for a lot of Americans I think the emphasis is "it can't happen here ."
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2y ago
Paying money that seemingly goes entirely to supporting a comments section dominated by trolls seems like a bad idea to me. YMMV I guess.
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