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by mint2 4y ago
So is that to say all regulations are bad?
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by mint2 4y ago
USDA regulations caused bird flu? Also, Unregulated eggs are not a solution. What is the takeaway from your comment, it’s unclear. Edit: OP replied to this comment as an edit to their original, that makes it very awkward to actually respond
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by mint2 4y ago
Actually there’s more. On Jan 1st several more states laws about animal welfare went into effect whereas before essentially only California had those requirements. The supply of eggs meeting those requirements had not been ramped up to meet
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by mint2 4y ago
I’m particularly annoyed that Kia changed its logo and thus name to KN but pretends it didn’t
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by mint2 4y ago
that was not absurd. It’s pointing out that an anecdote doesn’t really say much.
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by mint2 4y ago
You want a floor safe in your basement.
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by mint2 4y ago
Is that actually how it works? Money has to go somewhere regardless of future. Whatever looks the least bad at present is in demand, regardless of what the returns are. Inflation was above tbill rates yet people bought because they don’t ha
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by mint2 4y ago
A: “It’s utter ridiculous that the likes of Messieurs Pasteur and Semmelweis suggest our hands are unclean with those so called germs! We are gentlemen, gentlemen’s hands are clean!” B: “Well, I think he has a point about surgeons washing t
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by mint2 4y ago
Logic isn’t a popularity contest. The reference showed the usage was the logically flawed usage pattern of the term. You are right that nearly 100% of the term’s usage is the logically flawed one, that doesn’t make it persuasive, exactly th
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by mint2 4y ago
> “the raison d'etre for publicly traded companies existing is not to simply exist, but rather make profit and ideally continually expanding profit for share holders” Should be noted the ideology that the purpose of a corporation is
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by mint2 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_ru... “ In what Fowler describes as the "most objectionable" variation of the phrase,[1] this sort of use comes closest to meaning "there is an e
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by mint2 4y ago
If someone presents a plausible hypothetical situation, one can choose not to answer but changing it with implausible additional assumptions speaks for itself. surgeons living in areas with winter: fact surgeons driving to work: unremarkabl
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by mint2 4y ago
According to 90s canned food commercials, being masculine meant eating copious amounts of food that looked like dog food. Masculinity means not being so insecure enough to need broad arbitrary rules to proscribe what being masculine means.
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by mint2 4y ago
Want the brain surgeon operating on your loved one with his hands later in the day to change his own tire in the snow on the way to the hospital or do you want him to call aaa? Btw the lug nuts are stuck and will need substantial persuading
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by mint2 4y ago
This comment leaves out a major important point. In the original comment, calling out the troubles of men as a win for feminism is a totally wrong premise. It was also an offhand remark at the end and really took away from the commment. fem
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by mint2 4y ago
If Russia had any evidence they could contort or doctor to implicate the US they’d do it yesterday. If they had evidence that suggested it without having to contort it, they’d be shouting it from the rooftops.
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by mint2 4y ago
You may find this article has an interesting look at how many companies do their phone support. It really explains how the service got to be so awful. https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-customer-service...
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by mint2 4y ago
The reason it take a Twitter referral is that the phone reps usually are “subcontractors” that aren’t allowed to do anything. There’s a good chance they have to meet absurd metrics in order not to get fired. This linked article explains why
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by mint2 4y ago
> enforce anything at all but just keep the common areas mowed. HOA style Large grass areas and office park landscaping mcdonaldifies America and is a travesty for the environment and water use. Select grass areas for actual usage are o
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by mint2 4y ago
That’s not the way psychology works but okay.
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by mint2 4y ago
A comment chain here will not reconcile the bubble realities. I disagree strongly with your comment, as you seem to with mine. It’s not going to go anywhere from here.
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by mint2 4y ago
Blaming the media as a whole when one well define group was promoting the misinforming is not sensical.
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by mint2 4y ago
Why so should people answer or respond if the responses are ignored in order to repeat posting the same wrong preconceptions… preconceptions that were already addressed and even provided a contemporary example that was also ignored.
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by mint2 4y ago
>” I never understood why does the bicycle crowd feel the need to push everyone else to ride bicycles?” Stop and reflect a moment that essentially any development in the US over the past 60 years was built in a manner that REQUIRES cars
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by mint2 4y ago
“(26+10)*12” is irrelevant Please Refer back to “If you take the most popular 1M passwords and attack the master password…”
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by mint2 4y ago
Because without an income stream no one loans to the government, or at least not at current rates. Interest rates would explode. Funnily enough Britain just demoed that for everyone. the prior pm tried to reduce taxes a ton and everything n
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by mint2 4y ago
It’s better than Surrendering to lies
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by mint2 4y ago
One only has to look at the Russian invasion based on “de-nazifying” Ukraine or global warming denialism or big tobacco spending decades obfuscating cancer or or or four thousand other post truth things to see that good people ignoring and
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by mint2 4y ago
That is incredibly wrong and dangerous advice. There were studies that showed coffee grounds could be used to filter substantial but not all lead, is that what you misremembered?
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by mint2 4y ago
> number of mild and severe hospitalizations And what about those?

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