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by hedvig 7y ago
I just want to make sure though that you'd still be willing to make the tax contribution or voting support to infrastructure and transit projects for urban areas that might not (but probably still do) affect you directly.
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by hedvig 7y ago
Why the moaning about nuclear power plant cost if refineries sit at a similar cost?
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by hedvig 7y ago
>they are the first item on the chopping block at every spending review That wouldn't be because the existence of these programs is absolutely antithetical to a certain side in politics, would it?
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by hedvig 7y ago
Did you see this post as a good opportunity to just divert attention to anti-union ideology with your comment?
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by hedvig 7y ago
Why didn't the fee get put on the vendor/shipper?
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by hedvig 7y ago
The same who say that never gets around to the tweaks
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by hedvig 7y ago
So cultural relativism? I don't agree. Exploitation of people is unacceptable even if those people feel like they enjoy it.
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by hedvig 7y ago
> at disrupting this. Or, you know, democratic policy changes a majority of us all agree are sensible.
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by hedvig 7y ago
Does it set a cap in potential or just drop in each individual relatively?
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by hedvig 7y ago
Ironic no? This was one of the major criticism of communism in practice. Except now your neighbor snoops on you for a small profit in protecting the outsized profits of capital.
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by hedvig 7y ago
>VCs won't even invest in a software only startup that will make $60mil a year. So you're saying capitalism has limitations on what it focuses on?
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by hedvig 7y ago
I agree. In that there are still U.S. fortunes that originate from slave ownership that have not been reciprocated
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by hedvig 7y ago
Oh all of a sudden we should just accept some pathetically weak argument of "we just don't know". Billions at stake here and yes we can and will severely penalize anyone on the side of nonscience and profiteering where humans
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by hedvig 7y ago
I think there should be a question of if the C-level needs or even has made recent searches on any of that email going back past 7 years.
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by hedvig 7y ago
Subjective claims and setting up goalposts that can be perpetually moved.
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by hedvig 7y ago
Flying by definition means movement in x/y right? They lifted 3 feet off the ground
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by hedvig 7y ago
Because work is identity. At least in certain cultures, for better or worse.
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by hedvig 7y ago
The more I look at things as I age, the more I see market based solutions as only benefiting the supplier and always hurting the consumer.
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by hedvig 7y ago
What's cheaper nowadays?
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by hedvig 7y ago
Rather than questioning the state of things your highest imagination is to submit to hierarchy
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by hedvig 7y ago
Leaen2code
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by hedvig 7y ago
Well let's roll part of that back because there is growing consensus that "if you can command 200 million and you can get it" you should be shamed.
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by hedvig 8y ago
Makes me wonder about gun people that go to the range a lot have altered thinking from the lead exposure, seriously.
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by hedvig 8y ago
I can't think of any innovation the US has created recently, other than new various ways of undermining its own citizens.
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by hedvig 8y ago
Stay asleep then
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by hedvig 8y ago
Imagine if we could rework the public transportation culture to one that would generate spontaneous valuable interaction between the riders, things like topical discussions where multiple strangers could have a relaxed dialogue, impromptu
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by hedvig 8y ago
Supply-side economics is and always will be dominant.
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by hedvig 8y ago
> "previously lucrative careers available to blue-collar workers have largely evaporated". This is a funny way of writing "citizens should just accept any scraps they get"
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by hedvig 8y ago
This drives me crazy, this all stems from Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan. We have no idea what JP or his daughter are actually eating. This is the smallest sample size of anecdotes. The fact that this diet has gotten this much attention is a
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by hedvig 8y ago
Empowered to learn maybe, but no change in power to act it feels like.

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