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by lr4444lr 3y ago
The author is not giving you enough context, so your criticism is understandable. The NY MTA has major preexisting infrastructure problems, a big fate evasion problem, a pension obligation problem, and a decreased ridership problem. He&#x27
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Wow, 60 items and I don't disagree with any of them.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Agreed, both on the whole and in the details. But if I'm forced into the "either/or" mindset of the OP of a hypothetical choice to shrink GDP by 1% by stopping all vacation car travel or deficit spend 1% GDP as a "M
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
> there are plenty people in other parts of the world who don't have such a high standard of living, and it's not that big of a problem. Go live like that for 6 months and get back to us: food insecurity, inadequate healthcare,
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Don't forget liability. Why risk customers damaging or contaminating something that might hurt other customers?
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
What's the warrant supposed to do? If you don't want to talk to police, don't. If they have arrested you on probable cause, their having a warrant is the least of your concern.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Legitimacy based on what? Recongition by the UN? Lots of governments even predating the UN have been long accused of rights abuses. How many people affected, and proven so by what basis constitutes infractions beyond moral right to be trust
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
> Israel is constantly trying to woo Saudi Arabia so that they can be allies during a potential war with Iran. You have that reversed. Recent Iranian regimes have been especially hostile toward Israel, but that's nowhere near as lon
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Devil's advocate: we have a reasonable expectation that governments using due process to obtain warrants for criminal investigations have a right to break and enter into digital property or wiretap to catch and prosecute malefactors. H
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Most pigs only exists because we run extensive operations to breed them. I'm not saying this invalidates your argument, but the people responsible for their execution are also responsible foe their birth - they were created with destru
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Or we could start allowing the remuneration of donors, and not just everyone else involved in the transplant process. Paying for kidneys is legal in Iran, and guess what? No shortage there.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
People trusting the advice of a stranger over email to permanently etch their skin? What a world...
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Eh... this is a really idiomatic expression in English. Maybe if you rummage Plautus or Terrence, perhaps even the epistolary corpus of Pliny or Cicero, you could chance upon something sentimentally accurate, but I wouldn't hold your b
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/16568127781773475... I have been convinced for a long time that a test of basic civics and current events is a necessary (and possibly a sufficient) condition to fix most
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
First it was Kenyan academic ghost writers for hire, now AI putting traffickers out or business too? What's this world coming to....
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I don't think you deserve to be downvoted, but you're missing the point: we need guiding principles to help us work through tough cases so that we can best avoid setting bad precedent. The EFF made a good move today.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I think the concept of Common Carrier is a direct refutation to what you're saying, but hey, that's just my opinion.
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> I personally don't think the founding fathers of the US understood the future gullibility of their citizens. They absolutely did. When only white, male, decently educated property owners could vote, they had decent reassurance tha
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Will they take a similar stand for VPS providers and CDNs as well?
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The sine qua non of addiction is withdrawal symptoms, not compulsion. Social media isn't necessary if you have a productive social life replacement. There is no analog substitute for heroin.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Heroin isn't addictive because other addicts are convincing you to take it. We are a social animal in the sense that it's part of normal healthy functioning, and that isolation is considered a mode of torture. Social media is a me
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I still can't tell whether you're being cynical or not. These businesses are mostly going to just shutter if PE doesn't take over. The ones left to a family member aren't necessarily going to do well for that succession
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Curious why you think that is. I understand that a higher standard of living can be had abroad, but there is there not investment interest in the country given its relatively well-educated but low wage workforce? The tug of wanting the fami
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
So it was the fault of free markets giving these men what they wanted, and not the prior mode of government's and ossified tradition's inability to deliver that way of life?
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
They all underwent TNR, and were feral past the point of anyone adopting them. Debatable whether more wildlife died, since they would have had to hunt more for hunger's sake.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Both canned, but not the same brand. And even if they were, who's to say whether the sourcing and prep was controlled for in all respects? But it was a consistent observation I noted over multiple cats and multiple brands. They liked b
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
IME, the stray cats I fed slightly but clearly preferred salmon to tuna.
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The legal requirements and cultural qualifications to become a fully enfranchised Athenian citizen were already pretty self-selecting for what that society wanted in a more consensus driven way than most modern countries have.
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I believe it. I once ran for office locally with no political experience on a wishful "average guy" ticket (I lost badly), and one of the hardest things about the process was taking criticism from people who didn't know me, w
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With next to no muscle tone and very delicate bones, a newborn human body would probably be at great risk of injury and death unharnessed to have its joints, especially its neck, at the speed you'd need to whip its shoulders through th

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