meinmissoula

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by meinmissoula 3y ago
For what it's worth, I have never lived or worked in the Bay area. Your point is still probably directionally accurate, just expanding "Bay area" to include all the hubs of technology- Austin, Seattle, NYC, Research Triangle.
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by meinmissoula 3y ago
Your experience matches mine- I only ever heard "trickle down economics" used by people on the left making mocking, derisive commentary about Reagan and neocon politics. Then someone pointed out to me that my entire affluent, priv
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by meinmissoula 3y ago
Are we seeing that? I'm certainly not? I suppose "psychopaths" will attach themselves to literally anything given the right opportunities, but EA seems like a relatively poor target all things considered. At it's core, I
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by meinmissoula 3y ago
The irony of this post. If you over-simplify, stereotype and demean people who disagree with you, you're part of the problem. Honestly if it was that simple, then maybe we should just say no more killing babies and let the hunters shoo
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by meinmissoula 3y ago
It looks like you've been misled about the US. The US welfare budget is mind-bogglingly large, over a Trillion dollars per year. Yes, Trillion with a T. Healthcare costs can be very important for Americans working in low-wage positions
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by meinmissoula 3y ago
> Of course, mined diamonds aren’t blood diamonds, but her impression was still they were a little ickier For all intents and purposes, they are. The voluntary processes the diamond cartels adopted to supposedly reduce diamonds coming ou
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by meinmissoula 3y ago
Ironically, the narrative of "right wing rabbit hole leads people to <whatever scary bad thing>" is itself far more concerning to me for the stability and functioning of the US. I frequently talk to people across the full sp
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by meinmissoula 3y ago
> The reason local newspapers are failing is because nobody reads them I don't believe that's true. The subscription cost for most newspapers barely covered the printing and distribution costs. Small, local-focused newspapers w
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by meinmissoula 3y ago
We could trivially fix the "80 hour weeks" piece by increasing the number of places available in medical schools and residencies, but the AMA intentionally keeps that number small to maintain the status quo of intern hazing and hi
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by meinmissoula 3y ago
This seems like a concerning level of charity being given to cops who ruin people's lives. Would you accept a world in which "1 in 1000" planes crashed because the pilot was on 3 hours of sleep? There should be a media storm
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by meinmissoula 3y ago
Bit of an aside, but the socially acceptable levels of casual-hate when directed at "white men" is sometimes shocking to me. > Post-election analysis would show that the Bernie Bro trope was entirely constructed; there was no e
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by meinmissoula 3y ago
It seems like several different things are getting intertwined here and people are arguing past each other based on perceived "sides" and largely imagined positions being projected onto one another. You can have gender equality an
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by meinmissoula 3y ago
This whole thread really just makes me realize how severe our filter bubbles, echo chambers and distrust of "the other side" has become. Nobody wants poor people to die and nobody has a religious adherence to "rugged individu
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by meinmissoula 3y ago
Because chain restaurants are generally kinda gross. The typical American chain restaurant is going to serve you something that starts with low-quality ingredients, then gets a bunch of sugar, corn syrup, seed oil, artificial food coloring,
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by meinmissoula 3y ago
> The best you can do is to highlight how bad sugar is to health in general, and hope it influences people to change their habits We've been trying that for years and it's clearly not working. Obesity, diabetes, pre-diabetes, h
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by meinmissoula 3y ago
The comment I'm responding to goes against several HN guidelines, but I'm hoping I can use the opportunity to turn it away from low-effort trolling into an opportunity for education and clarity. The 2-party system in the US causes