marinmania

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by marinmania 2y ago
I was wondering this too. LA Fitness wanted me to mail something to their headquarters, which was intentionally onerous. I filed a complaint with BBB and cc'd LA Fitness on them, and they ended up cancelling it for me. Still, I did ori
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by marinmania 2y ago
It's like asking if we should install a manned toll booth that raises exactly enough money to pay the toll booth workers. Or if everyone should pay higher taxes to raise the social security benefits of a randomly selected group of peop
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by marinmania 2y ago
It's not an alignment problem, it's a distribution problem. Automated ports would acutely hurt a very small group of people and help all other people a small amount.
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by marinmania 2y ago
I think the nanny state charge is appropriate when people engage in dangerous behavior (like riding a motorcycle without a helmet) where almost all the risk of the potential harm is taken on by the user. With large cars its the opposite. Th
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by marinmania 2y ago
It's the third featured story for me now. The top story is one that criticizes Harris for her economic policies. I can't find the web version for the day the original report came out, but in print the initial jobs report was on B1
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by marinmania 2y ago
People report this though. It's literally on the front page of the NYTimes right now (with the article this is linked to)
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by marinmania 2y ago
What would be the point of releasing good numbers a year before the election and then forcing yourself to release worse numbers just a couple months before the election?
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by marinmania 2y ago
I don't completely disagree with you, but the main factor is really speed. Golf carts top out at 15mph and at that speed pedestrians don't die when they are hit by trucks either. https://mobikefed.org/2020/10&
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by marinmania 2y ago
https://www.epicresearch.org/articles/colorectal-cancer-scre... This shows that the colon cancer screening rate has quadrupled for ages 45-49 since 2020. It says official guidelines were changed in 2021. I am not going
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by marinmania 2y ago
I would wager this is more a function of better/earlier detection than anything. In general deaths from cancer are down considerably. I'm having trouble finding exact stats I want, but believe this is the case for young people a
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by marinmania 2y ago
https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/2024-05/Ex... These are what the article is referring to when it talked about police monitoring the signature collection protests. As far as I can tell t
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by marinmania 2y ago
Political action is able to happen every couple years in Atlanta at the voting booth. Voting is the safeguard. The majority of people in Atlanta consistently vote for people who want to build a police training center. Just because you think
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by marinmania 2y ago
I feel like the issue here is not necessarily that the surveillance happened, but it has the appearance of impropriety. I think a possible solution is to have a national law enforcement agency that can step in when local agencies run into
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by marinmania 2y ago
And the lowest hanging fruit doesn't even necessarily have to do with AI or robotic tech. In the US you need a prescription within the last year to buy contact lenses. European countries do not require this. Not only does this mean con
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by marinmania 2y ago
Venezuela released the vote totals https://www.albatcp.org/en/2024/07/29/cne-announced-nicolas-... Their vote totals happen to align (almost perfectly) with round percentages Fwiw most governments don&#x
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by marinmania 2y ago
For what it's worth energy and electricity consumption are not the same. Fuel (for autos, planes, heating oil, etc.) would be included in energy consumption but not electrical. I'm having trouble finding reliable data quickly, but
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by marinmania 2y ago
I don't think that's a fair reading. I can't think of any instance where the endangered species act would allow housing in some area near wildlife, but only if it didn't have a dividing wall between living spaces. Same w
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by marinmania 2y ago
There was a controversy in curling a few years ago where some curling teams were using new brooms by a new company that had significantly better tech. It was so good it made it unnecessary to have two sweepers. The resolution was to ban it
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by marinmania 2y ago
The supply and demand of housing would be very different if a YIMBY policy agenda was in place. Right now, it may be possible a rental company could own a large amount of apartments without fear of new units being added. If YIMBY policies w