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by lovich 4mo ago
I’m not sure it’s a world war but Pax Americana definitely died then.
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by lovich 4mo ago
No, that tax rate was on income, not wealth. Are you trying to conflate the two?
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by lovich 4mo ago
> The chart is supposed accompany an article, which explains what the metric is: > 1. If you read the original paper[1], they seem to be doing it for weird economics reasons: You should probably link a reference to the required extra
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by lovich 4mo ago
I don’t see how this graph shows that claim. It says it’s graphing the effect of welfare on income ratios between top 10% vs the bottom 50% then just has an arrow pointing down saying “Stronger redistribution” Where is the connection betwee
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by lovich 4mo ago
I “own” stock through my 401k. The “own” is in scare quotes because I cannot liquidate it other than as a loan for a home, and then only with my employers permission which is an odd definition for ownership and which most of the middle clas
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by lovich 4mo ago
Eh, while you’re right on the 100% quote after I got that reaction I toned it down to versions of “using any of your political power to enact your policy goals” and “do _anything_ to hold people accountable for their crimes” and got similar
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by lovich 4mo ago
I forgot about the precedent of pardoning a group of people who tried to overthrow an election to keep you in power. Luckily Trump is only a “may” for being more egregious.
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by lovich 4mo ago
While I am also struggling with the dems reaction to the DSA I do still think the allergy to power is a problem. I have caused some flame wars and/or been removed from dem leaning groups by asking if a candidate or the person speaking
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by lovich 4mo ago
You are in a bubble if you are surprised at the idea of companies not giving out stock, much less RSUs specifically. While it’s common in the big tech Silicon Valley companies there are thousands of other tech companies where the most they
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by lovich 4mo ago
Most tech workers do not get compensated with stock. A fraction of the best compensated get stock. The next tier down get options with so many caveats that they are effectively worthless, and the tier below them are straight salary with no
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by lovich 4mo ago
lol, abolish the fed and only complain about Biden’s pardons. I thought I was the most the openly partisan person on this forum but apparently I have competition.
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by lovich 4mo ago
Independent agencies are not getting through recent Congresses unless the Republicans party has a total collapse and the Dems simultaneously find their balls again and stop being allergic to the use of power. The removal of Humphrey’s execu
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by lovich 4mo ago
Tenure. Or at least that was my experience with my comp sci teacher who required that we gave him printed out programs for our homework and then tossed them into the trash while making eye contact with you and gave you a grade later. The sc
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by lovich 4mo ago
How does someone show a track record of contributing positively if they are banned?
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by lovich 4mo ago
> The problem with making claims about the chiropractic practices is that it spans such a huge range of "absolute bullshit" to "physically grounded adjustments". No it’s not a problem. When the founder claims he got t
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by lovich 4mo ago
Chiropractory is another pseudoscience that started early and has been surprisingly resilient in spite of the lack of evidence. I was flabbergasted when I learned in my 30s that this was a made up medicine by an OG antivaxxer and magnetic m
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by lovich 4mo ago
In case you’re one of the lucky 10000 today, or someone else reading this chain is, there’s a term for that called the goomba fallacy[1] [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy
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by lovich 4mo ago
I actually don’t view Biden pardoning his son or Fauci(lol at the covid craziness still coming out) anywhere nearly as badly as a President pardoning people who disrupted a ~245 year uninterrupted peaceful transfer of power that was one of
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by lovich 4mo ago
that's a plausible and convincing argument to me other than that its 30 years. Murderers can get less than that. I don't see how that's anything other than trying to chill the idea these people had based on the connection to
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by lovich 4mo ago
Was the speech illegal? Not giving my email to this site so I can’t read the rest but it seems odd that any sort of speech gets multi year sentences much less multi decade unless it was direct calls to violence.
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by lovich 4mo ago
Wage theft is one of the largest classes of theft in the US if not the largest. The government may do some work against the most egregious instances of theft but they barely stop it. This is 2012 data but it seems like the FBI is no longer
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by lovich 4mo ago
I have been required to sign non disparagement agreements to gain employment and given zero severance for all but one job in my career. Non disclosures, non disparagements, and non solicits, are thrown out like candy by companies while seve
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by lovich 4mo ago
> if you fancy a potential career as a whitleblower,… Most people don’t fancy a career as a whistleblower. They get their morals pushed further and further until they finally decide it is too much and they take the risk to their life and
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by lovich 4mo ago
> The first amendment doesn't have a clause that exempts Americans from anonymous speech if it's possible a foreigner could inadvertently take advantage of the freedom too. Cool, ignore my point about technology changing the si
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by lovich 4mo ago
I am not obeying in advance. My privacy was obliterated with the government before I could even vote, with the data science of mega corps, and with the double digit number of times companies leaked my data based on have I been pwned numbers
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by lovich 4mo ago
And I _can_ climb to the top of Mount Everest theoretically but it’s highly unlikely given the real world constraints. I’d prefer a pragmatic solution and there is no pragmatic solution that gives us privacy back given the government and me
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by lovich 4mo ago
The inference part requires training the models to keep up to date as far as I am aware(I am open to being convinced otherwise if you have data showing so). Everything I’ve read about it implies that within a few years of reality updating o
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by lovich 4mo ago
That’s pre the ability for foreign actors to engage in our public square en masse. I think technology has changed the situation. Free speech absolutism that ends up in creating an environment where real speech is drowned out by lies is not
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by lovich 4mo ago
Can you link said research? I have never seen anything but division pushed by anonymity. Also again, the corporations and governments(for certain levels of government like the members of the Five Eyes) can pierce this veil of anonymity, the
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by lovich 4mo ago
My privacy is already decimated. For 2 decades we’ve already known about the NSA slurping up everything[1] on top of the Snowden leaks. Then you have the mega corps like Facebook who can figure out every detail about you even from merely _n

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