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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
> The senator can't talk to millions of people individually. Nobody is talking to millions of people individually. Least of all the lobbying groups that you're defending. But whatever critical role you feel they're playing
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
> With any interest group, there is a legitimacy question. I could start the Atlantic Deep-Sea Fishing group and claim to represent such people, but I don't know a thing about them. The legitimacy question is solved by seeing who ha
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
My group is the congresspeople who I'm able to elect and who are supposed to be held accountable. I don't see any reason to add an extra layer that's even less transparent and less accountable.
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
They're probably not an LLC but some other kind of entity. Their HQ is probably in DC. The payoff probably comes in some form other than a bag full of cash. Other than that it's as absurd as you make it sound. Why does a group no
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
Bills are supposed to be modified to meet the demands of interest groups? If we didn't have interest groups we couldn't have a democracy (actually a republic)? Why does this particular interest group get to decide the fate of a bi
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
I read it as the LGBTQ+ group got whatever concession or pay off they were demanding and now they're giving their blessing to an otherwise awful bill.
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
You put your finger on something that I've been thinking about for a while. I'm curious if you have any thoughts on "what's next"?
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
The phrase "...in the US" needs to be added any time someone talks about this. From what I can tell, Europeans have managed to maintain their social bonds even post-Covid and post-cell phones.
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
My Instagram feed is always showing me stuff about how awesome it is to be single and childless. I think it's way oversold, and they leave out the part that it's only fun if you're youngish and have lots of money and free tim
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
Some people organize their time and focus their efforts more efficiently than others. They also use tools that others might not even know or careabout. You probably surf the internet 10x faster than your parents. Yes you've probably ha
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
This response is puzzling to me. They know that a foreign government is behind it and their response is, he we'd really like to find these guys? If it had been a physical attack I imagine it would spark a war. Why ate cyberattacks take
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
I'm not the person you asked, but alienation was a major theme for early 20th century sociologists who studied the ugly effects of urbanization in those days. Alienation means the breakdown of social ties and the fragmentation of ident
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How did they build churches and stuff without using math?
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
The US has dropped them 25% over the same time period, so Sweden has done 25 percentage points better. That's less than a 1% compounded drop for those 35 years, and that's assuming that all of the delta was attributable to carbon
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
I've been hearing for over a decade that carbon taxes are the solution. I've also been hearing that Republicans are standing in the way of this solution. What I've never heard is an explanation of why some sensible, well-run
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
This has happened to me on multiple occasions when traveling abroad where I didn't have cellular service. "Do you have wifi here?" Nope. "Can you just tell me what's on the menu?" Nope. Here, just use my cell p
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
In Italy restaurants frequently tack on an arbitrary cover charge per-person. They don't go out of their way to advertise this. I think it's more common at touristy spots though.
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by jjjjj55555 3y ago
I'm an Anki fanatic. I use it about 1.5-2 hours per day. It has completely changed how I approach the topic of learning. I've used it to study Spanish, Italian, Network engineering, AI, Art history, world history, and US history.