jtbayly

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by jtbayly 3y ago
Except anyone could have known it did nothing for them. My sister and I confirmed this many years ago.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Then it would have been infinitely more helpful for you to actually say that it's a progressive tax. We have brackets in the US. I just assumed bands were the same thing.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
60k-80k is over 50k, which is the range he was talking about. So what are you complaining about?
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by jtbayly 3y ago
I switched to a combo: For myself, I'm back to a music library that I own. No DRM. For my wife, I signed up for Apple Music. She wants more variety than our library.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
I also left Spotify because of podcasts. I did not want to listen to podcasts, and they couldn't get that through their heads, shoving it down my throat, advertising it to me, even though I paid for an ad-free experience. Drove me
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by jtbayly 3y ago
If you like things inshittified, then it seems like a great idea. Let's put big tech in between me and the things I want to consume, when there's no need, and let them begin to try to make money off of it and make everything wor
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Warning: page prevents back button from working.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Really?! The US Gov kept a record of all the metadata of every letter sent through the USPS?
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by jtbayly 3y ago
One of the common charges that Christians were prosecuted for was atheism.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
I had no idea this was fake until I came here to figure out what I was missing/why anybody would be stupid enough to give money to this. You could say that reveals something about me. I disagree. It says something about the crypto scen
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Why complain that they won't name the distributors while you won't name them?
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by jtbayly 3y ago
"The chimpanzees destroyed a majority of St. James's fingers, his left foot, most of his buttocks, both testicles, part of his torso, and parts of his face including his nose and his lips." Two male chimps.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Until you walk out your front door... Or use the internet for anything...
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by jtbayly 3y ago
AAA estimates 220 million flat tires annually in the US.[0] The existence of spare tires has nothing to do with poor observed reliability. It is because of lack of 100% reliability. It's because when people get a flat, they don'
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Removing the spare tire is not an advance.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Yes, Jesus is saying something particular about the rich here, but not that they are particularly sinful. Rather, they are particularly susceptible to trusting in their money and placing it above God (making an idol of it) which gets in t
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by jtbayly 3y ago
If I was able to haggle I might not have such a problem with it. But this cannot possibly be called haggling, as there is no ability to communicate with somebody and make a counter-offer.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
And at 10 times the cost! So glad we’ve “saved” so much electricity.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
> Didn't you start by arguing against mandated surveillance? Yes. That’s the point of steelmanning. Put forward the best argument of your opposition. Then tear it down.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
No. They aren't. VW is. And VW, not the owner of the car, is controlling that tracking. I'm arguing against a comment that implied tracking is good, even if it is controlled by others, because it might save a child. The best ver
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by jtbayly 3y ago
No. There wasn't tracking in this case. This is the same sort of argument used to get rid of encryption, among many other privacy invasions. If you want to put a tracker in your car, that's up to you. Should the federal governme
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by jtbayly 3y ago
The only way to win is to not play. Stop putting tracking devices that you control in other people's vehicles, if you don't want the liability of it.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Perhaps it will be good that vehicle manufacturers consider the risks of putting tracking devices in cars that only they can control.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
But they aren't investigating a crime! The reason for allowing them to spy on foreigners isn't because foreigners are criminals. It's because we believe surveillance of foreigners might provide some protection for us. They
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Not really. It’s that it’s a better hard, clear crystal gemstone. It could easily be argued that your Seiko makes a better watch than a Rolex. What people are looking for and value in the product will make the argument more or less compelli
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Precisely. Which is why it will end up being decided by the courts. Because the legislative branch hasn't passed a law. The unelected, unaccountable committee that changes at the whim of the president is not the place to legislate. I
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Which branch of government is the FCC?
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by jtbayly 3y ago
I didn't read the whole article, but it seemed focused on (missing) advertisements, not on counterfeits.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
No. My analogy doesn't say what we should eat. It only says that in spite of something having an association with something bad for you, it might still be just fine for you. Here's another example. "Potassium explodes on
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Have you already forgotten that saying masks worked was once banned as misinformation? The point PKop is making is that "disinformation" is a terrible basis on which to censor people... unless you are content just getting rid of

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