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by foogazi 4y ago
Maybe it’s your turn now
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by foogazi 4y ago
Big Poultry is too big to fail
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by foogazi 4y ago
> So we end up with a system where employers have no easy way to verify that an employee is who they say they are and has a legal right to work any specific job. What about e-verify ?
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by foogazi 4y ago
Reminds me of this: https://freakonomics.com/2013/10/what-makes-people-do-what-t...
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by foogazi 4y ago
Parent post: >> if it doesn’t pay them better than their peers — and then they resent their peers for having paying work. You said: > How would men even know how much their coworkers make ? Peers are not coworkers
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by foogazi 4y ago
What does embracing immigrants have to do with this ? There are slurs for immigrants too The last Republican president had a word he liked to use to describe the countries these immigrants come from
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by foogazi 4y ago
In 2007 my new neighbor was happy he bought at 50k from the peak - it would go down 150k more in the next two years Then take 8 years to make it back to the price they paid
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by foogazi 4y ago
Why do we need to look at all your comments to draw conclusions from one comment You wrote: > Ordinary folks ability to go to blogger, tumblr, substack, wherever and start posting about their local politicians will not be restricted. How
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by foogazi 4y ago
From the mefiwiki: > He wrote that he makes contrarian predictions as calculated bets that in the unlikely event they pan out, he would get credit. Doesn’t care about being right or wrong, but getting credit for the appearance of being r
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by foogazi 4y ago
Years ago I asked my then 95yo late grandmother how old she felt in her mind and she said 17 I keep that in mind when I look at old people, just trapped in an old body
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by foogazi 4y ago
And it is very woke of them, as in being awaken to the opportunity to teach and prevent harm
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by foogazi 4y ago
Can a troll be proven right? what should the white supremacist do in this case ?
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by foogazi 4y ago
But you would expect increased reliability from a well architected system
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by foogazi 4y ago
In my country the whole family lived in prison with the imprisoned parent Kids would leave in the morning, go to school and come back to their shack
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by foogazi 4y ago
It does if there is not adequate care Since the state is keeping the mother imprisoned it should provide adequate care
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by foogazi 4y ago
Why punish the fetus for the mother’s alleged crime ?
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by foogazi 4y ago
Leading up to the verdict this was surprising to me too Far fetched testimony from those that have nothing to lose - that even contradicted their previous testimony
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by foogazi 4y ago
All the mexican cartels have known leadership with names and faces - who are the leaders of the gangs you mention ? The US has cameras everywhere - what do they look like ? Where do they live ?
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by foogazi 4y ago
When was the last time the Border Patrol / DEA / Coast Guard got into a shoot out with drug gangs ?
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by foogazi 4y ago
> it’s not the land of equality and opportunity that we’d like to believe it is yet, right ? Just so many Indians in the US makes this evident to me Anyway, nobody likes others shiting on their country, but no need to gaslight or minimiz
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by foogazi 4y ago
Non-Indian here, I’ve heard there are temples that cater to different castes, but honestly not even close to my lived experience where do you see caste discrimination show up ?
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by foogazi 4y ago
> I would not want my electricity company to "move fast and break things", and I like that they reserve loads of their people's thinking power and productivity on boring stuff like "risk mitigation" and "pre
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by foogazi 4y ago
> An L5 engineer doesn’t worry about customers because they don’t interact directly with them. And this is good. Who uses the code then ? An senior engineer interacts with customers via the code they ship. They see the metrics and the bu
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by foogazi 4y ago
Yeah, huge red flag right here
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by foogazi 4y ago
Lets check it with @ElonJet
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by foogazi 4y ago
> ah yes, the beautiful zero-sum view of the world, where no one does anything positive ever unless the blood price is paid I didn’t say that. We put rules on corporations to protect shareholders. Nothing prevents shareholders from takin
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by foogazi 4y ago
> Plus Milton Friedman's "companies exist only to generate profits for shareholders" has been a mantra since I went to Uni in the 80s. Would you invest your 401k/retirement in companies that don’t generate profits for
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> we should do things that are good because we can If I hire you to fix my car I’m not paying you if instead you fix the neighbors car
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> You can play the game at the same level, by pushing chess pieces at a small level. You can’t lobby to abolish the gold standard or influence federal appointees
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by foogazi 4y ago
Lots of good takes in the comments. I need to lose 20 - 30 pounds, and my info is a bit outdated. What resources do you recommend to read?

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