ericmay

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by ericmay 2mo ago
I'm a fan of FDR and think he did great things, but he also was doing so at an unprecedented time period, the aftermath of the Great Depression, itself on the heals of a catastrophic World War I, and then of course, World War II. Didn&
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> If food was abundant criminal gangs would not profit out of intercepting and hording it. They could just intercept it and hoard it thus driving the price up or as a tool to recruit others into their criminal organizations.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Sure but the OP suggested that since some instrument was at some price point it implied some other thing such as investors not having confidence in a country such as the United States. On the other hand the US stock market is at all-time hi
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> But even outside of armed conflict, where things do get messy, we are still failing people miserably. Many earthquake survivors in Indonesia are now hungry, and food is not being delivered to them. And there is absolutely no excuse why
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> You are describing problems with government cheese, with directing food to means-tested registered impoverished people who live alongside the wealthy & fat. No I'm not. Your characterization is wrong too. Poor people tend to b
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> Eisenhower who, despite being exhausted by WWII efforts, ran for presidency because he saw that as the only way to prevent a civil war. Can you share more about this? I'm unfamiliar with a post-World War II civil war risk. Who wer
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Then they would just take a different action than go into insolvency. This doesn't make any sense at all. > You are just stating an opinion that... You don't say?
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Bonds go up, bonds go down. This "news" (from a questionable source) needs more context, otherwise it's just noise in isolation. > The US Dollar is slipping from the world's reserve currency status As I always like to
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> The nice thing about food aid is that no matter who seizes it, it's food aid. Unless they're literally lighting it on fire, its entire political power is derived from it eventually being eaten by somebody, and a warlord plus
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Ok sure but I don’t have a requirement to use the country that has “done more, larger terrorist acts for far longer”, I picked the first terrorist organization (Hamas) that came to mind. If you want to make your own post and talk about how
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> Worth mentioning that lots of buyers is jumping into Chinese bonds over the past week. How many? > It feels like the BRICS are taking over as of this month. Taking over what?
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> The US will become insolvent by trying to prop up Japan. No, it won’t. The worst case we are looking at is paying more interest on debt. It’s not great but we aren’t in danger of becoming insolvent because of Japan.
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I'm just pointing out the logistics of delivering aid is difficult with one example terrorist group doing so and that was the first one to come to mind. There may not have been evidence of systematic aid theft but that's not the
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Seeing the same. Logging out of the desktop app and attempting to log back in just results in a reset of the authentication flow.
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What I learned about the American Dream from Europeans pretending to live in OH(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by ericmay 2mo ago|1 comments
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Distribution is hard too. It’s not as simple as “we have food and we are mean”. Look at how Hamas for example was seizing food supplies meant for starving Palestinians. Who is going to deliver food aid to, idk, Sudan and ensure only the hun
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Thanks and no sweat. Most folks, most of the time including me are ready to pick a fight! :-)
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> If my friend has a doorbell camera and I don't like being recorded by him every time I visit his house, I can just not visit his house. Thanks though as a nitpick this isn’t quite accurate since it can also record people just pa
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> It’s seems pretty plain that there is no interconnected network of doorbell cameras that anyone can use to track someone across every possibly doorbell camera that filmed them That doesn't seem clear to me at all. It may not be on
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by ericmay 2mo ago
I was trying to understand where your opposition was - the operator of the device, the number of devices, or perhaps who and how information was accessed. Maybe I should've been more direct. In your view, what is the appropriate usage
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by ericmay 2mo ago
So my understanding was incorrect, you're against any recording including personal use, traffic cameras, security cameras on private property (for example at a jewelry store)?
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> The privacy violation is that the database exists, full stop. Is that because the government has access to the database? Aside from that I'm not really sure what the difference is between Flock in this case and something like a do
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by ericmay 2mo ago
That's a bad assumption and incorrect in this case. Instead of assuming you should just ask. I also did my best to communicate that I was genuinely interested in learning more about what was the crux of the issue.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Please correct my understanding if this is not the case... so the issue isn't the cameras themselves it's that you believe (and I am sympathetic toward) that they are easily searchable without a warrant and so it's something
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I don't really care too much one way or the other about these cameras, and generally think it's probably bad to have more surveillance but could you help me understand what exactly is "unconstitutional" or even nefarious
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There's definitely a risk/interesting development there. I've read some reports that says some gulf countries are attempting to negotiate with Iran. But I've also read that some countries such as Saudi Arabia and the Uni
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Both Kora and Vietnam involved American ground forces, which is a significant factor in public war weariness. In the case of the blockade of Iran, aside from gas prices being too high, it's all rather abstract to the everyday American.
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It's also less clear because you aren't really getting much reporting in western media about day-to-day life in Iran (curious isn't it?). You're certainly correct that the level of pain tolerance varies between countries
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> The problem is that USA does not have any more rights than Iran to declare a blockade. Ok so both countries are wrong for stopping maritime traffic then. > If this will continue for too long, other countries may decide that they wan
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> They certain don’t control the straight, because Iran can attack any ship passing through with ease and the US can’t stop them. Yes but that also means Iran doesn't control it. The US can attack any vessel passing through with eas

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