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by listless 5y ago
Same is happening in TN, but for home buyers. If you’re a first time buyer looking in the < 300K range, forget it. You’ll get outbid 50K over asking with a cash offer. Resign yourself to renting if you can even find something. I have no
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by listless 5y ago
100% agree. And I apologize for insinuating that you were trying to grab the high ground. That was probably a cheap shot. The larger point is that it's easy to judge the past and make sweeping condemnations. I see that in wanting to co
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by listless 5y ago
In that case, I certainly hope you don’t own an iPhone, don’t buy things on Amazon and only shop local where you check all the labels for “Made in MY country”. I’m not saying you’re wrong, just that there isn’t any moral high ground here.
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by listless 5y ago
This might be the most insightful comment I’ve seen on this issue.
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by listless 5y ago
Yes. He used to be a zip line guide, so I’m assuming it ain’t much.
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by listless 5y ago
I agree with this 100%. The problem is that I present white (although I do not identify that way) and so I have been stripped of the right to even suggest the very point you just made under extreme penalty of being labeled a “racist”. Which
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by listless 5y ago
TN here with another anecdote that says it isn’t. Spoke to someone just recently who said they’ll stay on unemployment as long as they are allowed because they haven’t had to work in over a year and get to spend their time playing their fav
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by listless 5y ago
Do we have any examples of this D&I stuff working? All I hear about are campuses and companies literally imploding. I never hear any places that were bad, and then got better. Is there any data at all to suggest that these ideas work an
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by listless 5y ago
This is exactly what I thought. None of this story makes much sense on an adult level. You have a list of customer names that you mock? What kind of amateur, disrespectful operation are you running? Are you building a product or pledging a
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by listless 5y ago
Confirmed. https://youtu.be/M3BM9TB-8yA
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by listless 5y ago
This is an excellent point. And I _think_ that the answer is that government is inherently about control. Both sides seek to gain power and then use it to control and manipulate people into behaving a certain way. Politics itself is essenti
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by listless 5y ago
And isn’t this the core issue behind nearly every political disagreement? Who has power, and how can we take it. I’m not saying that’s always bad, but it is, at the end of the day, about control.
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by listless 5y ago
Sweet mother of Capitalism. I did not see that coming. So much for pandemic effects on ad buying. Maybe related to stimulus? And if so, that means all that stimulus money is gonna wind up in the same pockets 99% of the world’s wealth alread
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by listless 5y ago
I completely agree. The amount of pearl clutching happening in this thread is fascinating. It reminds me very much of the 1980’s fundamentalist Christian house I was raised in. Very much like it.
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by listless 5y ago
I don't think you have to "turn a blind eye". It's not a zero-sum game. But it does mean you have to engage with people. Shunning would be the opposite of that. The best modern-day example of how we should all live is pr
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by listless 5y ago
Accurate. Although I suppose I was referring to "history is written by the victor". America is a great nation, but had the revolution failed, it would have been a disgraceful insurrection instead.
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by listless 5y ago
I don’t think that’s true. If you visit a convicted rapist in prison when nobody else will do you condone rape? Or are you performing an act of kindness? I think the ironic and not obvious answer here is that we stop committing people to th
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by listless 6y ago
Thank you!
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by listless 6y ago
All of that is probably a fair assessment of "fill in the blank" in media. I'm not saying it's right, but it's certainly not a problem of a few individuals, it is THE problem with information - all information - at
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by listless 6y ago
The article struck me the same way. Instead of being thankful and thinking of all the ways that money could benefit herself, her family and they myriad of ways that she could alter the future in a positive way, she bemoans her situation. It
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by listless 6y ago
I'm not sure why this is downvoted other than maybe because of the assertion that the statement is irrelevant? As I understand it, you're right on that. Although it makes me wonder - if he DID have a lethal dose, why are they even
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by listless 6y ago
I hope that you are right, and despite my pessimistic demeanor, I do believe ultimately good and necessary change will happen. Perhaps we can learn from the negative along the way. Thank you for your positive responses.
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by listless 6y ago
I do believe that. Certainly violence begets more violence and the police are certainly not blameless. All of that said, lets be careful not to boil this down to property damage so we can justify it. 19 people died in those summer riots. Th
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by listless 6y ago
Or burning down a police precinct. Or literally fire bombing federal buildings for MONTHS with virtually no consequences. And all the while politicians and media egg it on. The duplicity on the violence issue is both stunning and terrifying
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by listless 6y ago
If my company stayed remote only and others had open offices, were traveling, doing offsites, ect - I would leave for that company.
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by listless 6y ago
These are all great points, but I think this is largely in spite of the federal government. They aren’t coming here for the social safety net - they are coming for the opportunity afforded by free markets and low taxes.
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by listless 6y ago
She’s clearly given so much away. She’s not virtue signaling here. But I do find it laughable that educated people think that giving their money to the government is a good idea. It’s one thing to donate to charities. It’s quite another to
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by listless 6y ago
If they threw in the religion of “Anti-Racism”, I’m guessing it’s closer to 100. Human beings seem to need religion. If we find ourselves in a void, we just create new ones. https://www.persuasion.community/p/john-mcwho
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by listless 6y ago
We have exactly the kind of suburbs he’s describing. See Franklin, TN or even Palo Alto. The problem is that it’s ludicrously expense to live close enough to all the action. My guess is far more expensive than Nordic countries.
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by listless 6y ago
Can confirm. My city shot down ALL Airbnb’s before I could even get in the game.

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