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by estearum 3mo ago
In principle. In reality, juries often hold evidence like this (and also-very-unreliable eye witness testimony) in high regard, based on how it's positioned into the narrative.
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by estearum 3mo ago
No, I actually don't. I always find it surprising when people not only just internally start ascribing irrelevant and probably-untrue things to their interlocutors so they can dismiss their ideas, but they actually say it out loud!
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by estearum 3mo ago
"Current Dems just want our country to honor its commitments" is quite a criticism! Maybe I'm just some war hungry lunatic, but I actually think that when the US tells a country it will defend its sovereignty in exchange for
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by estearum 3mo ago
Well thanks for confirming you're just making shit up from whole cloth. The Dems' 2024 report literally argues the opposite, over and over. It argues that Democrats did not engage in enough negative campaigning against Trump.
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by estearum 3mo ago
Yeah nah this is way too reductive. You'd need to share a much more thorough analysis than just "here are three candidates criticized for things that are arguably adjacent to angry/negative vibes" For example, Harris ran
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by estearum 3mo ago
All available evidence points toward my claim: Americans don't really agree on how they want the future to look. However, they do agree on how they don't want it to look. The rampant corruption, state brutality, and criminalit
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by estearum 3mo ago
Uhhhh... sure...? Are you implying that "the other side" will never again hold power? Because that's a very silly view, if so. I'm quite sure the single most popular platform someone could run on today is simply "ag
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by estearum 3mo ago
How about you just state clearly yes/no: Are you accusing Wikipedia of actual money laundering? If you are accusing them of being bad at business or bloat (which is all that's alleged in the article you linked to), then the answ
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by estearum 3mo ago
Do you think justice should only be dealt out when you think it'll generate a positive outcome for you personally on the other side? Seems to me that people who have committed crimes should be punished for those crimes. Call it "L
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by estearum 3mo ago
Yes but this administration was essentially elected on the idea that they can be horrible people and do horrible things because they will not kick the can down the road, and biting the bullet on these problems is worth the litany of abuses
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by estearum 3mo ago
Post evidence of your claims please. The linked post above does not even allege this, never mind provide evidence of it. Otherwise it seems like you're just describing abstract forms of malfeasance which is very uninteresting.
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by estearum 3mo ago
You started the thread accusing a non-profit of actual organized crime, and then linking to (someone else's?) words, implying they endorse your claim, when it doesn't. Not a time to flex the guidelines amigo. Maybe a time to clari
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by estearum 3mo ago
Maybe so, but the linked article doesn't even allege , much less prove that.
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by estearum 3mo ago
I think this does extend to fraud, grift, scams, and other illegal behavior. I have never seen "money laundering" extended to just "being bad at business."
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by estearum 3mo ago
I'm sure the company pressure is far, far more salient in 99.9% of cases than the unionization pressure, but I think for any collective agreement like this we oughta shoot to eliminate as many sources of coercion as possible. I can def
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by estearum 3mo ago
> Money laundering has become a default catch all term for "monetary misuse / suboptimal allocation". No it definitely has not
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by estearum 3mo ago
Interesting! Wasn't aware of this. Given that they know the company may invoke NLRB's process and require a second anonymous ballot anyway, can organizers not start with an anonymous one?
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by estearum 3mo ago
Which as your article points out, is as easy to solve as reading The Mythical Man-Month. That's why it's an Iron Law. It's easy to remove! Also, as you point out, it's actually the same as money laundering, which is an a
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by estearum 3mo ago
People are really not curious enough about bureaucracy . We complain literally our entire lives about "bureaucracy" and all the bad outcomes it produces. But I've met literally no one who thought "hmm... if there&#x27
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by estearum 3mo ago
Yeah for the counterargument like... if you were afraid of tipping your hand, maybe you should've done it the correct way (anonymously) the first time?
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by estearum 3mo ago
The linked article doesn't even come close to suggesting money laundering. It really just argues that Wikimedia is similar to virtually every other successful organization on earth and that its bloat grows with its resources. Wow insig
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by estearum 3mo ago
Hilariously, Trump will go down as the most significant POTUS in history for the transition away from oil. Everyone in the world (except our very own kakistocracy) is scrambling to decouple from this energy source.
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by estearum 3mo ago
You can probably fairly trivially prove their claim to yourself with 1-2 months of 10-20min daily of meditation. There's a reason it's often referred to as "waking up." The essential claim is a bit broader than what it s
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by estearum 3mo ago
The hedonic treadmill turns even when you know you're on it
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by estearum 3mo ago
In the southeastern US, Yelp is almost negative signal because southerners have legitimately horrible taste.
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by estearum 3mo ago
Spoiler alert: it's rent.
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by estearum 3mo ago
What logic tree arrives at this conclusion and doesn't arrive at the same conclusion for dumping in, idk, Arches National Park?
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by estearum 3mo ago
Same rationale for dumping chemicals in the river. It's a river! It all just flows away! There's so much water, who could even notice?
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by estearum 3mo ago
Machines cost a ton of money and need to be maintained? As those two variables change, I'm sure they will replace the dispensing function for pharmacists. In fact this already does happen at a lot of pharmacies these days. Machines put
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by estearum 3mo ago
Yes, the labor supply for skilled tradesmen is very inelastic. Which is one reason it sucks to have so much of it drawn into a probably-speculative boom.

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