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by handedness 11y ago
> And then we have the Congress in US with an approval rating in the teens and a re-election rate in the 90s [0]. Far be it from me to defend the United States Congress, but the two things--a low approval rating combined with a high reel
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by handedness 11y ago
> conservatives You do remember that the V-chip was an initiative of the Clinton administration, right? The American Left is as worried that violent media will make violent people, as the American Right is worried that sexual media will
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by handedness 11y ago
George Friedman, Peter Zeihan, and numerous other astute forecasters/demographers/etc. have been talking about this for many, many years. It isn't a partisan thing, it's a spreadsheet thing.
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by handedness 11y ago
It's not a high horse, so much as it's an avoidable problem. $59B/year in the US is spent on alcohol-related crashes. (Just crashes, not the insane amount of crime that's alcohol-related.) There's a death every 51 m
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by handedness 11y ago
Sounds nice in theory, but I've never once been involved in a bike accident that was caused to any degree by my helmet, and I've been unvolved in two accidents that weren't of my doing (or even avoidable), both of which destr
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by handedness 11y ago
Most of your friends have children, then drink and drive? And "my idea" is what's wrong here? I don't even know where to begin...
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by handedness 11y ago
Which, given how many repeat DUI offenders there are, is great justification for long prison sentences. If a person can't be trusted to put either the bottle or the keys down, then they need to be restrained. I'd rather find a che
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by handedness 11y ago
I appreciate the serious response. You might be the only person here who didn't downvote me to oblivion... The whole nature of defining a superpower (and the taxonomy that follows) is a difficult one, a point lost on most people here.
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by handedness 11y ago
It was a serious question.
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by handedness 11y ago
Guys, this was a serious question. Who's he counting as "superpowers like the USA"?
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by handedness 11y ago
> superpowers like the USA Just how many superpowers are there?
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by handedness 11y ago
If only a similar process existed to check the editorial bias that permeates purportedly non-editorial content.
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by handedness 11y ago
Fantastic. Thanks!
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by handedness 11y ago
> ..I make a point of putting things in his left hand. It's a lifestyle choice. Could you expound on that?