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by kepler1 5y ago
Does anyone else find scant/zero information in this article about what exactly the circumstances of this worker's case is? The story goes on and on about the general topic on other Amazon-related labor recent news, but I find tha
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I think your sense of reasonable argument has gone out the window, so I'm not likely to spend much more time answering here. I support helping people out of poverty. However, it will take decades. In the meantime, no more prosecutin
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wolverine876 >> Perhaps you are the one who needs to understand. What makes you the holder of Truth? The people you claim to speak for - why are you speaking for anyone? - they vote for these policies, overwhelmingly. They objected
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The people who suffer most from those in charge tolerating crime are the poor and less privileged -- through direct crime, and negative effects on their communities -- as well as especially children (problems that affect families always aff
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by kepler1 5y ago
Honestly, I think frybread is something that Native Americans would do well to forget and cut largely from their diet, aside from special occasions. It's basically a funnel cake, with all the unhealthy implications. I would no more ass
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Do you ever think to yourself that we're gradually headed to some dystopia like in the movie Elysium? Where a growing underclass is relegated to a garbage planet while the elites escape to a satellite world? Or at least parts of our
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by kepler1 5y ago
You know, sometimes I wonder if some of the Romans, looking around at their society crumbling in the early ADs, asked themselves "you know, I remember we used to have these things called laws?" Seems we're tripping over ourse
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by kepler1 5y ago
So, if someone is under investigation for criminal activity, you think they should be given advance warning of such?
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Why are you equating a guy posting opinions specifically designed to publicly criticize a country's government with a woman being taken advantage of against her will?
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Yes, some shame on the advisor, department/program for folding under such threats, but let me ask this: What was the guy seeking in posting accusatory political opinions about the Chinese government on Twitter? Attention, that's
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I wonder if people who consciously practice being more situationally aware, who went through some training (or are just naturally able to handle more thoughts and inputs at once) sometimes look at people on the street, lazily walking throug
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I hate to bring up this point but I think it's not totally irrelevant. India in general has a problem with hygiene and public health being compromised out of offending people's political / religious sensibilities, inability t
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by kepler1 5y ago
Friends, tell me how I should be more positive or community minded in thinking about this. Because right now, I say -- "anyone who doesn't want a vaccine, well you live with the consequences and if you can't come to rational
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by kepler1 5y ago
I think all bicycles should be recalled. They kill far more people, kids included, per year. And their design is ridiculous -- 2 wheels? How could such an inherently unstable device pass regulatory scrutiny?
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> You are lying. That's a weird phrase / way to respond to someone just stating an idea, isn't it?
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No. Claiming that you were fired just because you're a woman or minority is.
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Maybe I can rephrase the title in a more objective way: Google has lost some shine among people who wish to find bias and make an inflated political situation out of any act that happens to touch gender/race/class -- whether throu
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by kepler1 6y ago
Some great logic there. Put it on the one party to give into anything the other wants, because they're said to be important. Does it work the other way in your mind too? If we all agreed that air traffic or say, Amazon, were a critica
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by kepler1 6y ago
Um, some unemployed rioters and burning cars in France every single weekend would beg to differ with you.
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Ah, classic selection bias blinders on. Sure, great benefits for those who have jobs. What about for the people who can't get employed due to the conditions on labor? The young, poor, already jobless? Not so much concern for them
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by kepler1 6y ago
Well, I hesitate to insert a very contrary opinion into an empathy-fest, but here it is. And I have to unashamedly say it especially is aimed at people who want to be something more than they are, or aren't satisfied with life simply
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by kepler1 6y ago
As maybe politically incorrect as it is to say this, but something about the values of the underclass are not working right. And I admit that it is combined with a support system that does not help them much, and jobs/financial system
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by kepler1 6y ago
I echo this sentiment. It's either getting too expensive (people) to police laws with sufficient numbers, or we are not interested in offending people or doing the dirty work of putting teeth behind laws in the name of "equity&qu
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by kepler1 6y ago
Digressive rant begin. Well forgive me for being so intolerant to state such an offensive opinion, but I'm really getting fed up with transgender issues taking front and center with every possible place they can insert themselves, as
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by kepler1 6y ago
You're really swinging to the opposite end of credibility, bending over backwards to put on blinders and assert that gayness has absolutely no relation to some effeminate qualities. It goes against people's own ability to observe
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I remember years ago, when our university TAs decided to unionize, the parent union they decided to join was the UAW. I thought to myself, "you have no idea what you're getting into, do you?"
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That's not a constitution-level change you want to be making. Those are called laws.
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Yeah, I guess if you like ethnic/religious division and a country full of chaos.
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A constitution is the high level document that your citizens agree are the foundational principles governing the state. They are a set of general points that nearly everyone can understand at that level and agree to. They are not the minut
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by kepler1 6y ago
I will say standard of living is a bit subjective. But my personal opinion is that having lived in the UK, I never saw a people living so poorly, yet thinking they're rich.

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