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by houstonn 4y ago
The obvious byproduct is their happiness and productivity would increase, and other states would swiftly copy them to remain competitive. Then social media would have to respond to that.
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by houstonn 4y ago
It's my right to be able to hear it. As Frederick Douglass, a former slave and writer, wisely stated, “To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the right of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. It is just as crim
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by houstonn 4y ago
That is the essential question. A more recent Covid vaccination is more likely to be the culprit than from Covid 11 months ago.
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by houstonn 4y ago
A question for those in this thread who want to ban a privacy service because it's utilized for unlawful activity: What's your opinion of Tor?
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by houstonn 4y ago
It's a service specifically designed for privacy. A human right.
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by houstonn 4y ago
The "best available public health guidance" failed spectacularly, beginning with "keep going to bars and restaurants and parades" from the NYC health official and mayor. Then "masks don't work" from the CD
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by houstonn 4y ago
Is that more meaningful? My understanding is the climate is unconcerned with the per capita figure. It is concerned with total CO2. To demonstrate, add some countries like Qatar, Montenegro, and Kuwait to that graph.
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by houstonn 4y ago
Yesterday I saw a graph that blew my mind: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-... I had no idea.
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by houstonn 4y ago
There is an ongoing campaign to get a legal forum completely removed from the internet. A twitch and twitter mob managed to pressure parts of internet infrastructure like Cloudflare and hCaptcha to drop them mere days after the campaign beg
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by houstonn 4y ago
I don't get it. Are lobbyists in control of congress? Aren't politicians the ones who pass bills? Or not pass bills in this case.
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by houstonn 4y ago
In the Castro business owners are threatening to stop paying taxes. It could be another historically important example of San Franciscans using civil disobedience to great effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eSL-ZFmFpY
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by houstonn 4y ago
Are you really proposing that we should take even more money out of the productive economy to continue worsening the homeless problem? The money has created an administrative industry that is incentivized toward self preservation and growth
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by houstonn 4y ago
You could be surprised. Read Zero to One or watch his Stanford lecture.
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by houstonn 4y ago
In theory, but you'd need a competent government to make sure they don't create new problems or exacerbate the problem. Over the last decade, an incredible sum of money has been poured into the homelessness problem. We now have th
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by houstonn 4y ago
Corporations secure their standing through regulation. It prohibits upstarts from competing because of artificial overhead that only the largest and most well-connected (to government insiders) can handle. It's practically dragging the