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by kcplate 2y ago
What is really sad is that civil forfeiture can happen without court adjudication. If you remove #2 from the mix, this would become a pretty routine business dispute.
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by kcplate 2y ago
Strange to me that none of the items you mentioned ever happen to me, with the one caveat being I had to tweak my taskbar and dock slightly when I first set up the Mac for the first time. However, I am willing to bet for just about anyone
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by kcplate 2y ago
He may be ok with it, and good for him, but isn’t the fact that he is competing in the women’s brackets to be able to fight competitively sort of proving my greater point? I don’t know of any trans man in a men’s sport that relies on physi
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by kcplate 2y ago
What always seems lost in this debate is how a trans men can’t generally be competitive in either men’s or women’s sports groupings. Either due to a physical disadvantage due to chromosome and hormonal differences or due to having to settl
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by kcplate 2y ago
Did I miss where the commenter above you said he didn’t read his opinion? He obviously did…he commented on it. His point was about owning your opinions even if they are unpopular.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> No one has said it but my management years away from daily coding likely count against me I bet they do, but when you get engaged again in SWE, I bet it haunts you still. I am thankfully employed and hoping to stay that way and ride o
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by kcplate 2y ago
When I was first diagnosed with T2 diabetes I was sent to a dietitian who handed me all kinds of pretty literature from the ADA about how great grains and pasta is for diabetics and food pyramids and “eat want you want in moderation and use
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by kcplate 2y ago
If your state participates in the compact, but votes for the loser of the overall popular vote, all of those votes are disenfranchised.
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by kcplate 2y ago
Thanks for all the corrections to points that I didn’t make.
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by kcplate 2y ago
Here is how. Get at it. https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution
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by kcplate 2y ago
Because we are constitutionally not a direct democracy?
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by kcplate 2y ago
Never said it wasn’t legal for states to adopt it—said it’s not real democracy and disenfranchises votes.
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by kcplate 2y ago
People who advocate a national direct democracy should work to change the constitution. States are the selection entity for the country’s executive office.
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by kcplate 2y ago
I understand fully that states can choose to allocate their electoral votes however they want, but the geography factor is what is in the constitution. The current method of democratic influence of state electors to keep is simply better t
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by kcplate 2y ago
That’s not being discussed here. It’s about states tossing how their citizens vote in favor of how other states have voted.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Has it ever been done? McCain considered Lieberman
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by kcplate 2y ago
> The way it is now means that your vote's weight depends on your street address Say huh? It is literally the same thing as now but in reverse and much much worse. At least now your vote has a chance of counting for something if
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by kcplate 2y ago
The NPVIC is a fucking awful solution that would backfire on the idiots supporting it eventually. Talk about vote disenfranchisement on a massive scale—it could literally invalidate entire states worth of votes just because California, Tex
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by kcplate 2y ago
Perhaps I am dense or perhaps you are unclear, but I am still unconvinced how what you are describing as positive attributes of a direct vs representative democracy for the US would or could be any better than what we have now. It seems li
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by kcplate 2y ago
Want to explain how? I don’t see how direct democracy prevents this…
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by kcplate 2y ago
Which is still better than the population of 10 counties that tend to vote they same exact way every time on two different coasts separated 2500 miles deciding on a single person to represent 335M people, 50 states and countless districts
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Au contraire, the popular vote should be the only metric that counts. The electoral college and the per-state weighing of votes are pointless and detrimental Yeah, no thanks. Two wolves and a lamb deciding on dinner. We are a republi
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by kcplate 2y ago
Lawyers are generally worth their rate just for access to their letterhead.
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by kcplate 2y ago
Must have been quite a while back…
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by kcplate 2y ago
Which is why some organizations who have workers that must be on a company location to do their jobs tend towards having post pandemic RTW policies for tech workers.
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by kcplate 2y ago
Intelligent life isn’t even common on the one planet where we know it exists. You have maybe a dozen species that could go beyond their basal instincts out of millions of forms of life and only a single species has the intelligence to ma
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by kcplate 2y ago
I was around back in the mid ‘80s and don’t recall my $4/hour PT job being able to be stretched that far. Especially when mortgage rates in the early ‘80s were bouncing around 10-12%.
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by kcplate 2y ago
Here is a legal brain twister to chew on. Trump probably could not have been charged with insurrection…because he could not overthrow himself. On January 6, he was still the president and represented the government. Disruption of a govern
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by kcplate 2y ago
Umm… “well” is kind of subjective. A manager’s responsibility is to make his employees productive for the organization.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> unprecedented percentage of elderly individuals in positions of power, and they are often reluctant to relinquish their authority Why are they reluctant? Because you eventually realize as you age that slow societal change is better tha

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