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by davidw 1y ago
They don't have the cash. Housing is a huge market. Downvote all you want, but math is math.
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by davidw 1y ago
After having lived in Italy for years, there are some real upsides to being an American customer. Returning stuff that is genuinely not right in some way to a store in Italy is a huge PITA. Here? "I'd like to return this half-eate
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by davidw 1y ago
Yeah, to your point, Mitt Romney marched in a George Floyd protest.
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by davidw 1y ago
Tom Nichols has a theory that people are actually just kind of bored. Most of the men involved in this were pretty well off, for instance. Big trucks, nice houses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnappi
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by davidw 1y ago
And it's all for some really ugly reasons https://bsky.app/profile/sifill.bsky.social/post/3ltrkbtyam2...
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by davidw 1y ago
Guy who owes his fortune to public funding of research wants to tear it all down.
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by davidw 1y ago
Things are pretty dire right now in the US, but to understand that... it's complicated and I don't think you can blindly reject everything from how things are done in the US. They all have to be reasoned about individually and a
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by davidw 1y ago
Be that as it may, they use up a lot of power and are pushing demand ahead of supply, which can only mean higher prices: https://www.opb.org/article/2024/08/26/fast-growing-energy-d...
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by davidw 1y ago
Oregon passed a bill during the recent legislative session that aims to make users like those pay their fair share, rather than jacking up prices for everyone https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/05/oregon
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by davidw 1y ago
It's not just the salute, either, which was pretty clearly a Nazi salute that he did twice. It was support for the white Afrikaaners and the AfD in Germany and ripping the aid away from children in Africa, killing them, and on and on.
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by davidw 1y ago
Ancient Rome is history, not an example to follow. Connecting the USSR with free health care and education is, uh, "nice try, but completely wide of the mark". We have free education in the US after all, as do most wealthy countri
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by davidw 1y ago
Blue Sky has a lot of left leaning folks, but the ownership isn't putting their thumb on the scales for that; it occurred naturally. And I find that there are some thoughtful conservatives who do ok there. I follow some of them.
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by davidw 1y ago
"Nazis are bad" ought to be pretty damn universal. We're not talking "has different ideas about corporate taxation or environmental regulation" like, say, Mitt Romney.
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by davidw 1y ago
NPR found that they really didn't lose much: https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3l... But sometimes you have to make some sacrifices in life over your principles. And the more peop
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by davidw 1y ago
> I'm genuinely surprised at the amount of people that stuck to it. I thought more people would see a guy doing ... that salute, or things like the antisemitism in Grok in the past few days and say "no", but a huge number
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by davidw 1y ago
"Calvinball"
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by davidw 1y ago
I think it depends on what the people are hoping to accomplish with the shovels and how realistic it is. In this case it seems legit.
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by davidw 1y ago
Congratulations! > Back in 2021, I was inspired by the financial independence movement and wanted a better way to plan my own life. I couldn’t find the right tool, so I started building. That sounds a bit like selling shovels to the mine
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by davidw 1y ago
Along the lines of some of those, Caveman with Ringo Starr is funny. At least it was when I watched it as a kid; maybe it'd be disappointing now.
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by davidw 1y ago
I know it's not a very popular cause these days, but "Democracy" seems like a real reason too.
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by davidw 1y ago
I attended a talk by Alberto Alesina (RIP) a few years back and he made the point that, yeah, GDP isn't perfect, but by and large, people in countries with a high GDP are healthier and happier. It might not measure the difference betwe
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by davidw 1y ago
> ICE doesn't have any clear power over me that I'm aware of They have a bunch of guys with guns. Maybe no warrants or id's or anything legal like that, but guns are probably enough. With this latest bill, they are going t
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by davidw 1y ago
Basic authoritarian stuff.
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by davidw 1y ago
Same could work for ICE reports if you could figure out a way to submit them without being traceable... Hrm.
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by davidw 1y ago
Most places in the west, the water used for 'municipal' stuff is a small fraction of the total. For instance where I live east of the Cascades, in the dry part of Oregon, only like 10% of the water used goes to the cities. https:
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by davidw 1y ago
It costs less to cool than to heat, by and large. And deserts have a lot of sunshine that can be converted into electricity for cooling...
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by davidw 1y ago
My recollection is that almost all of them end up having a few shady pardons. As with everything else, it's the scope and breadth that is not at all comparable.
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by davidw 1y ago
You might consider hosting that or backing it up in a country where the rule of law is important and free speech is held in high regard.
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by davidw 1y ago
I have just been checking books out from the library.
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by davidw 1y ago
Definitely a problem where I live east of the Cascades in Oregon. We usually have a 'smoke season' towards the end of the summer and while the temperature and humidity are perfect for being outdoors, it's not healthy to be ou

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