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by fxd123 2y ago
> Jesus what a horrific ungodly precedent It's not precedent "Because the Supreme Court may turn down cases “for many reasons,” Sotomayor stressed, the denial of review in Mckesson’s case “expresses no review about the merits o
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by fxd123 2y ago
Officers hurt during Jan 6th have already sued Trump. These lawsuits have been ongoing since 2021
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by fxd123 2y ago
I'm not a landlord, I rent an apartment :)
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by fxd123 2y ago
> Ban renting Yikes! You are really out of touch and clearly are not thinking in good faith. I hope you feel better soon
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by fxd123 2y ago
> I guess everyone has roommates Yes, apparently 40% of single people have roommates in NYC Keep in mind that having a "roommate" is common everywhere in the US- 50% of households are romantic partners, with most of those house
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by fxd123 2y ago
> heavily taxing multiple property ownership Which would harm the development of multi-family housing and increase the cost of living. Remember that "real workers" do not build and own 100+-unit dwellings
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by fxd123 2y ago
You are mistaken. Reagan's tax cuts, which included cuts for the lower class, decreased tax revenue and put more money in the average person's pockets. Presidents after Reagan started to pillage the lower and middle class for mo
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by fxd123 2y ago
So you agree with his statement? A larger proportion of the average person's income is taken by taxes.
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by fxd123 2y ago
$100k absolutely can cut it in most of the US- even in expensive cities. The median income in New York City is $76k [1]. The article uses a wild definition of "American Dream" where 50% of income has to be able to be spent on non-
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by fxd123 2y ago
More taxes do not make the world a better place > per-transaction tax on securities trades This already exists anyway. I assume you just want to increase it?
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by fxd123 2y ago
And? That's not what inflation is
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by fxd123 2y ago
That's strange because I was about to comment the exact opposite. ECS is for games, inheritance is for almost everything else
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by fxd123 3y ago
> doesn't decrease the global crypto mining rate It doesn't- but why would Biden care about that? If it moves to a different country then it reduces demand in our local grid. That's a GOOD thing.
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by fxd123 3y ago
737 MAX can land with missing or damaged tires as well. It's a legal requirement for large passenger planes
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by fxd123 3y ago
> This led her to post that she hopes that the CEO “dies a forever painful death involving a car covered in hammers that explodes more than a few times and hammers go flying everywhere.” Seems like a pretty fair reason to be banned
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by fxd123 3y ago
> Building redundant and competitive production You do realize these fabs already exist? There is no redundant or competitive production currently.
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by fxd123 3y ago
I feel like I've seen this title every month for the last 20 years. And of course, the not-included subtitle is: romans didn't have cars, that weighted a lot
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by fxd123 3y ago
"Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year" (2022) https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-co...
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by fxd123 3y ago
This keynote really makes it seem like a scam. For example the "plan travel" section hardly shows anything. He just says "It's all been planned out, I just confirm, confirm, confirm..."- while the camera cuts to hi
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by fxd123 3y ago
I assume that would be under "Poisoning"
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by fxd123 3y ago
> corporate right-libertarian Silicon Valley bullshit What the hell does that even refer to
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by fxd123 3y ago
> Not caring what politicians say is asinine, since its politicians who ultimately write the laws. You missed my point. I'm saying we shouldn't write laws with the goal of changing what politicians say. > references some fed
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by fxd123 3y ago
> I ask because lots of things like welfare payments and estimates of poverty level involve comparisons with the MW Can you give an example of such a welfare program? I'm not aware of any that use the minimum wage as a baseline. Mos
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by fxd123 3y ago
Because you can just increase minimum wage at the state level
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by fxd123 3y ago
It's also missing the biggest point: no charger at home. I live in an apartment building, there are no chargers. I would be worried about my commute, since I would be driving to the other side of town for the rare public charger
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by fxd123 3y ago
> Uni in the EU is very inexpensive For public universities, not private ones. In the US, private universities are also the most expensive...
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by fxd123 3y ago
Layoff of contractors, not employees.
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by fxd123 3y ago
> "I’ve always wanted to remove the role [and the] need for professional people to prescribe difficult drugs to use Yikes. It seems like you would want a barrier to entry when it comes to legal suicide...
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by fxd123 3y ago
Also, a lot of companies (and the US government) start their fiscal year on October 1st to avoid the year ending during holidays.
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by fxd123 3y ago
Yes, and the magazine company has a right to stop sending you more magazines if they don't like that

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