ejb999

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by ejb999 4y ago
never could figure out why people keep working well after the point when they have enough money to do whatever they want.
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by ejb999 4y ago
so all those 'desperate, uneducated and poor' people should move to your Switzerland instead? with its 96% white population and 27% higher cost of living? Would Switzerland even accept poor minorities in large numbers? You sound l
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by ejb999 4y ago
Yes, doctors in the US can make good money, but imo, many deserve it - its is hard to become a doctor, and it should be - 4 years of undergrad, 4 years of medical school and then 2-3 years as a lowly paid resident making a pittance (compare
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by ejb999 4y ago
But there is no real firewall between teachers and administrators - most administrators are former teachers - it's a pretty cozy club in most schools. I am not opposed to the idea in theory, but don't see any way to honestly make
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Scoreboard says people still want to move to the US Scoreboard also says many, many people are choosing to move to Florida at the expense of other states - one of the top 10 states IIRC.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>there's no incentive currently for the US government to be efficient. This is also true in many large corporations - I have worked for a few - and the inefficiencies and waste is mind-boggling to someone that mostly works for
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>plus a substantial increment for every student in their class that meets grade level expectations at the end of the school year Don't be surprised when all of a sudden almost every student magically 'meets grade level expe
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by ejb999 4y ago
like apple?
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Free “room and board” is a form of compensation. and don't forget healthcare.
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by ejb999 4y ago
so people rich enough could prosecute just about anyone they want, and people who are poor could likely never get any justice if they are a victim - and you think that is an improvement over the current system?
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by ejb999 4y ago
I agree, there is almost nothing that can be done with a chatbot, that can't be done better and faster with a web form or regular app/web functionality or knowledge-base with decent search engine attached.
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by ejb999 4y ago
Senator Warren loves to introduce bills, as far as she is concerned that is the only goal - very little of what she proposes ever goes anywhere, likely by design.
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by ejb999 4y ago
Yep, all you really want is plausible deniability if you ever get audited - you may in fact still have a deduction not allowed by the IRS, but as long as you did it in good faith, you shouldn't be liable for any criminal offense.
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by ejb999 4y ago
maybe your country is not backwards, perhaps just ahead of the curve? :>)
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by ejb999 4y ago
Yea, AL Gore only claimed to have created the internet: "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." - Al Gore, 3/9/1999
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Nobody is blaming other content providers for the sins of their users, Really? you must not read or watch much news
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Making young kids study all the time is killing their eyesight! reply I very much doubt kids 'studying too much' is the problem - staring at iphones all day watching tiktok and playing video games is more like it.
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by ejb999 4y ago
I am going to criticize your blanket statements without backing it up with evidence by making other blanket statements also not backed up with any evidence.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>I just tell recruiters I simply won't. Turned down continuing with an interview process with a company just last week for this reason. I've done the same - and got hired anyway after I told the recruiter was not interested
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>I would bet essentially all of my money that instead they're simply incompetent and actually think these tests are good at testing ability. Probably the same people who think JIRA is a great project management tool :>) - whe
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by ejb999 4y ago
inflation started way before Russia/Ukraine was a thing.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Ukraine drafting offices are overwhelmed with people ready to sign up. Yes, except these 'men' apparently.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>They aren't hiding from the draft. Yes, they are...pimping their business while other older and less physically capable people are dying for them.
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by ejb999 4y ago
or, as warren buffet likes to say 'you don't know who is swimming naked until the tide goes out'.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>My issue is how do we respond to businesses who are clearly exploiting the crisis for monetary gain? Yep, and not only that, what I see in those pictures are many young, military age healthy males that are hiding out in 'safe p
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by ejb999 4y ago
why is he in remote places, all by himself wearing a covid mask? - kinda of makes them the whole premise laughable and easy to write off.
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by ejb999 4y ago
"We won't rest until every student graduates with an above average GPA".
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by ejb999 4y ago
didn't realize there was a doctor shortage in Canada - all I ever hear about countries with socialized medicine is how they are better than the US at delivering health care more cheaply - possibly true in some respects, but if there is
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>certain groups (nurses, doctors or certain workers) have to wear a masks all of the time for years Not really - doctors/nurses etc have for a very long time worn masks for short periods of times, for certain procedures, for cer
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Turns out masks are not made of asbestos. Neither are cigarettes, but getting enough cigarette smoke in your lung does causes cancer.

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