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by ejb999 4y ago
>>This media article is only speculation and Nikon has made no announcement in this regards Perhaps...but this statement sounds awfully weaselly to me, i.e. 'we don't currently have any plans for layoffs' pronouncements
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by ejb999 4y ago
I'll admit, I haven't read the entire article - but the obvious question to me - using your example of HN - what authority does the UK have over a website hosted in another country at all? They can pass all the rules they want, bu
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by ejb999 4y ago
not to mention not a single death in the USA (at least yet) - I really don't want the government over reacting every time a virus pops up; there is value in waiting to see how things play out first. Seems like the media is trying reall
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Ah yes. Appeasement. Always a winning strategy. It worked fabulously for Neville Chamberlain didn't it? </sarc>
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by ejb999 4y ago
couldn't agree more - the things the FBI choses to spend time and money on are mind boggling; most egregious that comes to mind was all the wasted time and resources tracking down and recovering Tom Brady's jersey in Mexico - I do
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>you can be pro-government and anti-government in certain areas of life Perhaps, but you cannot be 'my body my choice' for one thing, and my body, the governments choice in another - the moral high ground on the 'my bo
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by ejb999 4y ago
what exactly are you looking for? certified letters from the people he knows proving that he is accurately reflecting what he has seen?
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Their skill lies entirely in breaking laws in a way that allows them to make more money than the fines they pay. Almost like AirBnB's model.
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by ejb999 4y ago
not allowing employees to bring a gun to work is an entirely different thing than discriminating against gun owners.
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by ejb999 4y ago
correct - its cheap and easy to virtue signal on an anonymous survey.
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by ejb999 4y ago
We had the same experience - raised 5 kids, not a single time did any of our 4 living parents offer to watch the kids even for a few hours - we thought that was unique to us and our parents, didn't realize it was a trend ... On the fli
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by ejb999 4y ago
Hopefully you meant that as funny...because it is!
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>That said, I would like congress to take up the matter of clean air and water directly, instead of this cowering behind other agencies after abdicating of their duties. Exactly - put them on the record voting for or against whatever
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Congress can't do anything about Supreme Court rulings. Actually, they can, that is the whole point - congress has the power to pass laws - SC does not. That is exactly what the SC just told congress to do - their job.
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>>They are limiting the ability of the government to make and enforce laws. They are in fact doing the exact opposite - telling elected officials that you need to make and enforce laws - not give that responsibility to someone else. D
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>I really don't like having this unelected councils of wizards who get wield god-like "authority" but you are OK with the 'unelected council of wizards' at the EPA wielding their god-like authority instead?
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>This is a massive blow to the US being able to reach emissions targets. Whose targets though? 'Shouldn't we the people' have a say? i.e. shouldn't congress actually hold the hearings, digest the info and go on th
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>But there is no competing product (suite) that offers comparable functionality. But not everyone needs 'comparable' functionality - an awful lot of people use just some features and not others - because of the awful UI and
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Real writers have day jobs. True, there are actually some real writers worth reading on substack, but imo, not enough of them, and even less of them that I would be willing to pay to read - heck, I won't even pay to read a ne
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Nature is too important to be left to the caprices of pet owners. I agree - read up on what is going on in the everglades with the explosion of huge pythons (many were former pets released into the wild) - they have already killed o
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>This is uselessly dismissive and overlooks that this is one of the worst heat waves in years. and yet the article says that 5X as many people die on the colder days, then on the warmer days - wouldn't the average temperature go
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by ejb999 4y ago
I prefer: Let insurance companies offer discounts to those that don't smoke and are not overweight; I get a discount for being a good driver, why shouldn't there be a discount for not living a lifestyle that is likely to use more
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by ejb999 4y ago
not if you are hoping to steal guns.
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by ejb999 4y ago
drugs and the standard American diet - its not rocket science. over 36% of the country is obese, compared to germany at 22%, finland at 22%, belgium at 22% norway at 23%, spain at 24%, poland at 23% etc. Maybe other reason as well, but impr
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>she was worried that it would not be insulated from legal challenges. and she was right.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>If the SCOTUS decision was limited to that, If the SCOTUS did that, then they would be legislators, not judges; it is up to congress to decide where that cutoff should be, and then pass a law if they want - RvW didn't outlaw ab
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>She has the right to control her own body and her own life You know, the sad thing is the party whose mantra has been 'my body my choice' for the past 40+ years, completely lost that moral high ground when they started dem
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by ejb999 4y ago
this is the best answer.
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by ejb999 4y ago
I understand the people at the very top have different motivations - i.e. musk, bezos, gates, zuckerberg etc - but I am more thinking about the average 'successful' person - i.e. the ones that are never going to be in that very to
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by ejb999 4y ago
I agree...so why spend your days trying to accumulate more?

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