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by junkscience2017 9y ago
why stop there? the last "who's hiring" post made it clear to me that more and more startups are locating outside of the Bay Area entirely
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
you are obviously making your health a priority, which us key. lots of people with megacommutes end up losing what little exercise they had and are probably reducing their lifespans seems like you are also on your way to squeezing out more
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
but why stop there, your own home would be statistically safer without a motor vehicle, alcohol or knives. and wow I hope you aren't in possession of perscription drugs, haven't you heard we are suffering an opioid epidemic? isn&#
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
we aren't interested in hearing who you think "deserves" a gun, it is a RIGHT
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I don't put communal values above my own family's safety, and probably a good ten million others in the US who would agree basically a full scale gun grab would result in Civil War 2, the harm far outweighing the benefit you can&#
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
dude...Oakland at 3am. despite all of the press Oakland is getting as this new Bohemian paradise for SF exiles, it is still...Oakland...and will remain so for years to come if not forever
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Canada only embraces personal liberties it can tax the shit out of they have no motivation to embrace personal liberty at all, the government is still a constitutional monarchy...liberties are at her Majesty's discretion
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
most amateur prepping is probably more on the scale of 72 hours-1 week there probably isn't anyone alive today in the US who is ready to be entirely self-sustaining for six months...if civil society disintegrates for six months, it lik
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Mozilla has taken on all of the worst qualities of a modern University...ostensibly for the "public good", but really just a vehicle for the whims of a few "enlightened intellectuals" who will "save us all" (fr
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
why stop at bankers? millions of Americans flipped homes, took out loans to buy baubles and then benefited when their loan papers became lost in the resulting chaos...and almost everyone knew damn well what they were doing the government CH
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
most of the financial instruments expolited prior to the crash were completely legal even though they were "toxic". Martha Stewart and Bernie Madoff are proof that actual crime can imply prison time
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
the US leads in inequality go see Aboriginal communities in Canada and Australia, the story is similar including the substance abuse. and nations which have rejected wealth polarization like Venezuela are no better off. indeed they simply h
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
short of the 10pm news and taxpayer-funded hockey, there is basically nothing on the CBC that isn't utterly derivative...and most of the dramas literally air to zero viewers...just admit it, it's all awful and you don't watch
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
I hold citizenship in both countries
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in reality it means paying taxes so the CBC can make a shitty Canadian version of Law And Order that no one watches almost none of the "Canadian" content relates any national values...it is almost uniformly just garbage remakes of
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
and more: "wikimedia has plenty of money" "Mozilla is institutionally focused on supporting left wing views exclusively" "all of the rich people who speak out against guns have bodyguards who carry guns. they basica
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
before you get too excited...this is the same country that mandates that some % of TV and radio content be "Canadian"
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
"In-law" units are now being fast-tracked in many communities, which is a variant of this.
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Disagree. Maybe one day all of these homes will be owned by a giant corporation, but for now, they are typically owned by individuals. Not everyone who has benefited is a robber baron.
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
many homeowners are electing to retain ownership of their home but rent it out. this has reduced the inventory available for purchase. many homes on my street in Los Gatos have become rentals. when my new neighbors (renters) tell me their m
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
The German military in 2017 could probably not stop an invasion by Canada. NATO on the other hand, most certainly exists to deter Russian aggression.
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Is Smoking Bad for Us? (marlboro.com)
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
...and yet they still line up to go to university to study humanities instead, enroll in a community college program for anything construction related...in Santa Rosa, home builders are naming their prices. the same will soon happen in Vent
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Tech liberals created this dictatorship, so enjoy sleeping in a bed of your own making Sam
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In the Sierra range the government is now funding a very expensive clear-cutting campaign to try to rid the forest of the 60 million estimated dead trees that have created a perpetual autumn-like landscape of golden trees. If the forests be
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
almost all of the land in the Western US that has been encouraged to overgrow is held by a government. the fires on the coast will be nothing compared to the soon-inevitable mega-fire that will reset the Federal land holdings in the Sierra
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Why is this a surprise? California is the #1 poverty state[1], spends almost the least on education etc etc. State tax receipts mostly just rewards CalPERs members. 1 http://www.politifact.com/california/statements&#x2F
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
and NATO, in particular the USAF, can deploy in volume. The Russians field some interesting planes but then you find out they have six of them, only three flyable.
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it is true that they dominate the media...but the tide is turning. we need net neutrality to counter the well-funded and sometimes-anti-2nd-amendment voice of the NRA
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
this is the inverse: a small minority (tech elites) squelching popular opinion. owning a gun IS objectively popular in the US (there are more guns than people)...even in Silicon Valley. at my current startup roughly half of the developers

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