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by gottorf 10mo ago
> People unlawfully squat My understanding of CA tenancy law is that it's so tilted in favor of the tenant, that if someone just claims to be one, the police have to shrug. > Small wonder people are unhappy with the system and th
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by gottorf 10mo ago
> It’s rural America that keeps voting for local, state, and federal politicians that put them in this place. In my experience, not everyone's primary policy goal is to ensure that as much taxpayer money as possible gets redistribut
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by gottorf 1y ago
Isn't that basically the venture capital model, though? Your winners go many times X, and the losers become worthless.
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by gottorf 1y ago
The Monroe Doctrine goes back 200 years; the reasons are quite well known.
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by gottorf 1y ago
The GP's point is that levelheaded cost-benefit analyses on things like that seem to escape regulators, and everything is greatly skewed towards "it's worth it if it saves even one life". Sure, fire safety in homes is a
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by gottorf 1y ago
The U.S. Code is over 20 million words, and the Federal Register was over one hundred thousand pages last year. That's on top of state and local laws. You're sure you haven't contravened a single thing therein? With jaywalkin
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by gottorf 1y ago
> it's pretty clear that maneuvering only happened because the prosecutors wanted to get Trump personally for something, and spend a lot of time looking and strategizing how to do it. Exactly. There's zero chance that anybody n
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by gottorf 1y ago
> But you could go to any marina on a US coast and find endless amounts of boats with 4+ motors on them. I live on the coast, in an area of the country where the local culture is, shall we say, fond of excess horsepower in all areas of l
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by gottorf 1y ago
Some rando on the internet isn't going to be able to prove or disprove this. You believe what you want based on what evidence is available to you. Myself, the imagery I've seen of the multiple very expensive and very powerful outb
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by gottorf 1y ago
> It's not really a high risk situation It's only not a high risk situation if they are in fact honest fishermen. If they were drug smugglers, I would expect them to also carry weapons. Boarding seems risky to me.
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by gottorf 1y ago
I hope you have half as much care and concern for the victims of the drugs smuggled into this country as you do for drug smugglers, alleged or not. > This is precisely why we have due process > a well-armed force committing extrajudic
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by gottorf 1y ago
I assume the GP assumed that it was pirated media material. Hundreds of TB over what timeframe? It does seem like quite a bit of data.
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by gottorf 1y ago
The controversy with Biden is that the autopen was allegedly used without the President's knowledge or directive. Nobody has a problem with POTUS's signature getting on a piece of paper without his hand actually holding the pen; t
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by gottorf 1y ago
> I miss when science was celebrated. One could argue that science being celebrated too much leads to this type of present-day outcome. Science can tell you how to do something, but not why, or even what we should do to begin with.
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by gottorf 1y ago
Billionaires don't exactly have a great track record in submarines. A crazy megayacht, or even a regular yacht, might serve you better!
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by gottorf 1y ago
I assume your point is that not all laws are just only by virtue of being laws. I agree with this. And of course, not all lawbreaking is equal in severity. We all can tell that jaywalking is not the same as vehicular homicide. At the same t
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by gottorf 1y ago
Of course that's not acceptable, but my point is that it's the same level of unacceptable that has occurred countless times by all levels of law enforcement entities, be it local or federal. It's just as unacceptable as if yo
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by gottorf 1y ago
VPNs can serve a legitimate purpose, like shielding your traffic while using a public network. Seems to me the better technology analogue to ICEBlock is The Pirate Bay; maybe there's some flimsy pretext of it being used for a legitimat
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by gottorf 1y ago
Take a breath. Obama drone-struck and killed more than one American citizen. Biden's rhetoric against his political opponents was no less "fascist" than Trump's. Do you find yourself nostalgic for the civility of the McC
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by gottorf 1y ago
> There's nothing stopping ICE from raiding where you live and destroying your shit. This isn't specific to ICE, and sovereign immunity especially around law enforcement is a topic that has been contested for a while. Every now
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by gottorf 1y ago
In a society with rule of law, it is generally understood that adhering to laws, even ones you don't personally like, is a good thing; and that it would be a bad thing to pick and choose which laws to follow and enforce. I suppose you&
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by gottorf 1y ago
Surely an app designed to help circumvent the law is a bad thing, even if it doesn't make one legally a criminal merely by association?
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by gottorf 1y ago
I have read the source material. It says nothing about the morality of an intermediary forcibly redistributing wealth. Again, the onus is on the individual to act kindly. If anything, handing that duty off to a third party is a reduction of
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by gottorf 1y ago
> I don't remember this because it did not happen. There was a whole-of-government approach to silencing factually true statements about the pandemic because it either made officials look bad or Trump look good. There was a whole Su
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by gottorf 1y ago
> a sovereign nation A sovereign nation in name only, who cannot adequately protect its people against disease without Uncle Sam's backstop. > Americans don't want to cause the death of other people Your concept of causation
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by gottorf 1y ago
I'm not a highly religious person so I may well be wrong about this, but my understanding of Christian principles (as you referenced in your Bible quote) is that you, the individual, should do these kind things to other individuals per
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by gottorf 1y ago
> even if we step away from your comparison of a body of millions of people to a someone living in Brooklyn with a trust fund The article claims 57 cases and 35 deaths. Globally, Ebola killed 15k people over the past 50 years[0]. In the
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by gottorf 1y ago
> (and to gain a reputation for decency, which is worth a lot of money) And how is America's reputation for decency doing these days, a mere year into cutting some of this funding?
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by gottorf 1y ago
Where foreign aid is concerned, I would much rather that my tax dollars go into building the Grand Inga Dam over the kind of "aid" you describe.
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by gottorf 1y ago
I'm not sure if I follow. Are you positing that American spending on foreign aid uplifts middle-class Americans and make material improvements to their lives?

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