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by moate 5y ago
I'm currently debating how many burner accounts I should make to upvote this, because this so succinctly describes the situation. Everyone wants the thing they hate gone, and hates the the other side feels the same way about somethin
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by moate 5y ago
Avowed leftist here: Let's just agree that both the Dems and Repubs ban/seek to stifle opinions they don't agree with. Someone wants to ban Maus, someone else wants to ban Joe Rogan. Both parties want power at the expense of
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by moate 5y ago
Maybe I'm missing something here, but does this proposal essentially say that half the teams will be playing something like a 70 game season as they're only part of the "Standard" league? How is the revenue sharing agree
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by moate 5y ago
MLB also have a literal monopoly in place and endorsed by law. So, there's also that.
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by moate 5y ago
I have never once voted on a NATO action, despite living in a NATO country. I have never once fought a NATO war, despite living in a NATO country. There is no NATO blood on my hands, can I condemn Russian action without you scolding me with
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by moate 5y ago
I think a lot of people just boldly assume "you won in court, so there was no damage" because they have 1- Never had to win in court and/or 2- Have so much money that going to court doesn't materially inconvenience them.
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by moate 5y ago
Just big trucks!
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by moate 5y ago
...yes, and we had to fight a whole war about that. I cannot think of politically backlash stronger than "and then we went into Civil war about that topic, with the victors of the war settling the matter". What point are you inten
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by moate 5y ago
The idea that the meaning of words changes along with the frequency of their usage seems pretty important to linguistic studies. For example, it's not hard to imagine data like this being used to say that the there is "less cultur
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by moate 5y ago
Part of the lack of Federal push is because many individual states/industries have interests in it not happening. And one thing about the way the US has things set up, the States often function as the laboratories for social experiment
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by moate 5y ago
Survivor bias: There are plenty of ways to consume pot that don't "stink up the place" (vaping, tinctures, and edibles among them) that are preferred by many. You're only smelling the weed from people smoking in specific
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by moate 5y ago
If only that's how psychology worked...
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by moate 5y ago
I will agree with the other comment that it's between "stargate and farscape in terms of quality" and also point out that it's a great comparison and a glowing recommendation. If you go into it expecting 2020s era presti
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by moate 5y ago
For your final project, please explain, using market cap and consumer reach, why Amazon is a moral good for humanity.
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by moate 5y ago
Many times, yes. "MSRP" stands for "Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price". Now, not all products come with MSRPs, and unless there is a contract between producer and retailer on a pricing floor, the retailer is fre
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by moate 5y ago
Not all industries have buybacks, and many producers won't take on contracts that involve them. (Fun Fact for anyone not familiar with this practice: in publishing the covers were shipped back as the proof because whole books are heavy
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by moate 5y ago
Depending on the retailer, yes. There are a few different models. What you're describing (stocking a product owned by another entity and giving them a cut of the sale price) is frequently known as consignment. It has minimal risk for t
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by moate 5y ago
I was agreeing with you.
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by moate 5y ago
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/6/12/21283813/g... https://www.8toabolition.com/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday&#
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by moate 5y ago
If it were true that complex games were inherently, objectively better we would only see more and more complex games. We don't, and major hobby game producers are constantly putting out low complexity games because, spoilers, some peop
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by moate 5y ago
Just here to say, as someone who both worked for a gaming company, has designed games, and has a shelf FULL of things like Fury of Dracula, Root, and Mansions of Madness, I consider myself a serious board/table top gamer. Light games a
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by moate 5y ago
https://defundthepolice.org/alternatives-to-police-services/
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by moate 5y ago
Counterpoint: I do not want police. I do not want policing to exist. I do not want the police to have a single penny of public funds. The slogan is not the problem. People wanting police in its current form are the problem.
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by moate 5y ago
Just so I'm clear here, you read "the most euphoric nights and best memories of my life" and editorialized that into "depressing"? You're inserting your own disdain for weed here. That's fine if you don&#x
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by moate 5y ago
I'm just going to go ahead and say that police unions wield outsized political power, which is why people who own the "abolish/defund the police" slogan think "reform" isn't enough. The reforms may get pas
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by moate 5y ago
"Reform the police" Okay, we gave them hundreds of millions of dollars for body cams! body cam footage not available, officer turned off prior to incident For a pretty solid breakdown on why it's not likely to ever expect t
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by moate 5y ago
It's almost like slogans aren't politics, but just a way of summing up something you don't want to think too hard about... "Make America Great Again" means literally nothing. At least defund the police states a conc
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by moate 5y ago
Feels to me like "con-man capitalist took the con too far and people started pay attention to how much of a con this sounds like".
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by moate 5y ago
Amazon, UberEats, Fresh Direct. All sorts of grocery delivery services
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by moate 5y ago
>>DAMN STRAIGHT that under those unprecedented high-risk conditions the default assumption MUST BE that correlation IS causation - UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE. I'm glad you're not in charge of Science, since this is literally the

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