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by mason240 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Escarpment
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by mason240 10y ago
If that's true then there is then there is not even no need for subsidies, but no need to any debate all. If wind and solar are so much better for generating electricity, then the energy companies would be using wind and solar. The ide
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by mason240 10y ago
>Food is a basic need for everyone too and we don't set the price artificially low because of that. We kind of do through agriculture subsidies.
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by mason240 10y ago
And then to report their neighbors for taking showers that are to long.
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by mason240 10y ago
Until being the only person without one is seen a sign of guilt. Similar to bodycams for people like teachers or police. People argue they can wear them if they like to protect themselves against accusations, until they are so widely used t
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by mason240 10y ago
I would guess the downvotes come from this: >Perhaps, but bear in mind that Google is a PRISM partner, whereas Amazon is not. We simply have no way of knowing, and our best guess is that the NSA/CIA/HS/FBI gets their own b
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by mason240 10y ago
12,000 isn't a small town, it's a small city. The school I went to had a town/surrounding farmers population of about 1200 (600 in town, guessing for the rural area). It functioned just fine with ~35 students to a grade, ~17
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by mason240 10y ago
Ask 1000 6th graders the value of Euler's constant, or what the best fiscal policy is, and see how good the results.
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by mason240 10y ago
The only reason I know of for everyone using the same textbooks nationally is that some people seem to want to push an agenda in their education system, and see that as tool for doing so.
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by mason240 10y ago
We have more than enough tax revenue to fund maintenance and development of infrastructure. It's political prioritization issue, not a funding one.
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by mason240 10y ago
This is a terrible idea because crops are commodity. Imagine if when writing software, you had to label the brand of every proccesser used in all development machines. Not to mention the huge advantage this would give to larger farms.
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by mason240 10y ago
UBI isn't a policy being discussed by anyone in the mainstream, most people wouldn't even know what it is.
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by mason240 10y ago
This is a perfect example of how a smug person simply hand waves away any counter arguments by using personal attacks (in this case claiming that OP is being manipulated), followed by the smug person declaring "Why won't these stu
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by mason240 10y ago
>What makes progressive social policies (ignoring loaded issues like reproductive options and gun control) so distasteful to some of those who would most benefit? The unsupported assumption here is that those policies would be beneficial
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by mason240 10y ago
After (falsely) calling them all racists who would cut off their nose to spite their face, I can't imagine why dislike the ideas of their "urban betters."
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by mason240 10y ago
Also, before California pats itself on the back too much here, they have been blocking nuclear and hydro for decades, both of which would have reduced their use coal.
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by mason240 10y ago
It's rather fitting then to use it for a group that has "scorched earth" as regular strategy.
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by mason240 11y ago
>Firms that set out to recruit autistic workers, such as Walgreen’s, a big pharmacy chain, find them just as productive as their peers. I did not know that Walgreen’s does that.
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Several of which have mandatory taxes that go to a state church.
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by mason240 11y ago
Our concept of what "freedom" means is relative.
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by mason240 11y ago
World of Tanks Blitz (7 on 7 tank battles) is really good. It's not P2W, but there is a "Pay 2 have an marginal edge" factor (you can buy better components and ammo with in-game money, and you don't earn enough in-game m
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by mason240 11y ago
I'm not willing to completely gut the First Amendment and abolish free speech.
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by mason240 11y ago
>2) US elections are so dominated by advertisement, expensive campaigns and donations By outspending his opponent over 2:1 and still losing by a large margin, Bernie Sanders has proved that money can't buy an election.
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That you would prefer car thieves to cars really says it all.
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by mason240 11y ago
> Knowing many of them, after 2 or 3 days of 12 hour shifts, they go home and need a day or two just to recover. Shorter shifts would definitely improve this. Many shift work people like the ability to do their full work week in 3.5 days
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by mason240 11y ago
We have plenty of people in society that we don't need to keep car thieves on the street stealing cars.
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by mason240 11y ago
No, it's a moral panic.
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by mason240 11y ago
> Is that antique method seriously still used in the US ? No, it's not.
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Google Brings Podcasts to Google Play Music(techcrunch.com)
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by mason240 11y ago
With a UBI/capitalist economy, you would still have monetary constraints on the individual consumers (just like today) and there would still be monetary constraints on raw materials/commodities (just like today).

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