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by jordanb 1y ago
I went on a deep dive on this scandal about a year or so ago. One thing that struck me is the class element. Basically, the Post Office leadership could not understand why someone would buy a PO franchise. It's a substantial amount o
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I would have criticized them for getting rid of a rule that protects consumers, yes. But it would have been far more honest than what they've done here, where they set up a kabuki theater legal defense so that they can avoid the bad po
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by jordanb 1y ago
If they wanted to change how they implement the rule they could have withdrawn it rather than continue to an adverse judgement in court. Basically the FTC is required to go through a lengthy (probably multi-year) impact analysis if they det
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by jordanb 1y ago
There is a new FTC administration. I interpret this as being the incoming FTC wanted to kill this but not withdrawal (due to bad optics). They wanted to lose the case and did so by changing a judgment they controlled so that the rule could
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by jordanb 1y ago
From googling apparently the "presiding officer" is appointed by the FTC chair. So it sounds like the FTC spiked its own case.
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When I lived in Uptown I could typically get one just by standing on Broadway for a little while. When I lived in Logan Square I'd call and they'd be there in 20 minutes. This is well before either Uptown or Logan Square were part
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by jordanb 1y ago
Not my experience using taxi call services in Chicago. Whenever I called them (before Uber) the taxi was prompt and courteous. The apps did three things that the call services did not do: 1) subsidize drivers with vc money for many years ma
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by jordanb 1y ago
"End of Europe" as a coherent entity that's willing and able to look after its own interests. Even as Ukrainians die in the meat grinder and Germany is lauded as Ukraine's best friend in Europe, millions of dollars of du
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Weirdly this is pretty much the story of code generators. When I first got into web development there were people using HTML generators based on photoshop comps. They would produce atrocious HTML. FE developers started rewriting the HTML
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U-6 mostly comes from the BLS Occupational Employment Survey. I don't think the original poster would be considered as part of U-6 unless his new job is defined as "marginally attached to the workforce or part-time for economic re
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U3 is kinda silly but is mostly used because it is the original employment rate definition and therefore is comparable across time. U6 would not include the original poster unless his new job was "minimally attached or part-time for ec
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by jordanb 1y ago
Probably true, in that if you try to travel interstellar distances you'll going to have to deal with very hot particles hitting your ship on occasion. If you travel slowly the more time you're going to be spend getting hit by high
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by jordanb 1y ago
That's actually most of space. Space is a very hot environment, especially where we are so close to the sun. Think about it. When you stand outside in the sun you heat up. All that heat is coming from the sun. But a lot of it was filte
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by jordanb 1y ago
If you read the article you find out that it's against American law to provide weapons if Israel evaded treaties to get nukes. So America is knowingly breaking its own law every time it sends more bombs to Isreal.
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These sites were under IAEA supervision until recently.
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The IAEA said they weren't cooperating as of this month. Before that they were cooperating despite the fact that the US had withdrawn from the nuclear deal. I wonder if anything started happening recently that would make Iran less in
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I feel like it's been demonstrated that if Israel orders the United States to destroy the world on its behalf, the United States will do it.
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Everyone in Iran who decided to follow international law and not pursue nuclear weapons including Khamenei look like clowns right now.
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by jordanb 1y ago
I'm sure if we keep trying we'll get it right eventually.
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Well in that case I'm sure they're totally cool with us bombing them and look forward to being greeted as liberators.
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1) Libya is not in the middle east. 2) This was before our war with Canada and just after our Quasi-war with France.
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by jordanb 1y ago
> Do you think Canada is sovereign Well the prime minister who was elected promising not to bend the knee to Trump has bent the knee to trump. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/06/20/Carney-Elbows-Down&
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by jordanb 1y ago
“Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can’t help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East.” — John Sheehan, S.J.
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Not since the Ottomans picked the wrong side in WWI.
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Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapons program. That was the assessment of Trump's own government back in March, according to testimony of his national security advisor under oath before congress. We knew about these sites because th
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Consent isn't going to manufacture itself.
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Eh I felt that way about the internet in 2010s. Seemed like virtually any question could be answered by a google query. People were making jokes that a programmer's job mostly consisted of looking things up on stack overflow. But then
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I used to believe this kind of argument until Cuba. When I was young, the argument for why the US continues to try to punish Cuba was that Florida is a swing state and there are a lot of passionate anti-Cuba exiles in Florida who vote as a
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Nah he was apolitical. His job was to make the rockets go up. Where they come down was some other guy's problem.

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