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901.
by nostromo 5y ago
Police saw the writing on the wall and started leaving for the suburbs in 2020, just as you and I would take a new job before waiting to be cut by a dying startup.
902.
by nostromo 5y ago
Inequality didn't cause this. Inequality didn't suddenly spring up mid-2020. Defund the police did. Our prosecutors openly saying they wouldn't prosecute all but the most serious crimes did. Our police force shrinking did
903.
by nostromo 5y ago
And it’s reasons like this that the Fed is so distrusted. The should just openly admit to the general public that dollars are backed by an excel sheet that can be changed at anytime.
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by nostromo 5y ago
Even if you blame this on NATO, which I don’t, it seems to have all but crippled Russia. Russia had an economy smaller than Texas. Today it’s economy is potentially smaller than Florida’s or Mexico’s. This was a colossal fuck up by Putin
905.
by nostromo 5y ago
You're forgetting about how leveraged housing is though. If you bought a 500k house five years ago with 100k down, and now it's worth 1m -- you've effectively gained a 500% return on your 100k, maintained your principle, and
906.
by nostromo 5y ago
Similarly it rewards debtors and punishes savers. For example, I know people that were scared to take out massive mortgages in past years and instead saved. That turned out to be the wrong move. In our money printing world, it has been mu
907.
by nostromo 5y ago
Perhaps we should solve that problem then.
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by nostromo 5y ago
You can’t ban everything… Marijuanna and sugar and a million other potential vices like alcohol and video games should be available. But we should teach kids discipline, critical thinking, and impulse control - rather than playing whack-a-m
909.
by nostromo 5y ago
Texas has a larger GDP than Russia. Imagine if you were the search engine for Texas. It’d be a nice business, but not massive.
910.
by nostromo 5y ago
She has indeed called the election “stolen” > You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpol
911.
by nostromo 5y ago
Hillary has been claiming the 2016 election was stolen by Russia for Trump for six years now, and nobody seems to fret about how she’s undermining democracy. There were even many faithless electors that tried to overturn the results. Much
912.
by nostromo 5y ago
It's just exposing the lie that "following the data" meant "following the polling data." That's fine, that's how democracy works. But it erodes trust in the political bodies that made all these rules and
913.
by nostromo 5y ago
https://i.imgur.com/aO5zJwL.png
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by nostromo 5y ago
More people are dying with Covid now than were dying most of the previous two years, minus 4 peaks of various waves. I'm happy we're returning to normalcy, but it just makes me wonder "why now?" It's like the gover
915.
by nostromo 5y ago
Russian oligarchs are not "someone with money." They are people that used connections during the fall of the Soviet Union to steal entire industries from the country. Imagine if in the US we had political upheaval, and Hunter Bid
916.
by nostromo 5y ago
In my state, Washington, the teachers union got teachers to the front of the line for vaccines, right behind healthcare workers. We were told it was to get schools back open. Once they were all vaccinated, they decided not to re-open scho
917.
by nostromo 5y ago
This would weaken the US and strengthen China, as China would prefer more countries use their alternative to SWIFT, CIPS.
918.
by nostromo 5y ago
Nonsense. My car was stolen. I made a police report. It later turned up with some heroin in it. I called the police again. They thanked me, took the heroin as evidence, and went along their way.
919.
by nostromo 5y ago
Some people don't know that you absolutely are allowed to take back your stolen property. You don't need to involve the police unless you want to. Repo folks do this all the time. Keep an extra key for your car at home and put a
920.
by nostromo 5y ago
Lawyers and doctors in the US effectively have union-style control on the supply of lawyers and doctors, via the Bar Association and AMA. Developers have no such labor association. We also have headwinds like H1-Bs, that push down our wage
921.
by nostromo 5y ago
Just use Brave and you won’t see any YouTube ads at all. It even works on mobile.
922.
by nostromo 5y ago
The dollar is losing 8% a year of purchasing power at the moment.
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by nostromo 5y ago
Consider just using AirTags then if you can. It’s built such that Apple can’t even read the location data, and it’s a onetime cost. The value prop is much nicer for someone that cares about privacy.
924.
by nostromo 5y ago
Yes, this isn’t good journalism. “I drove over my husband with an F150 for journalism. Ford clearly needs to do more.”
925.
by nostromo 5y ago
Bari Weiss falls into the category "homogeneity creates rewards to heresy" in the article. Bari Weiss is heretical to mainstream journalism because she has pushed back against CRT, mask mandates, etc. Because she's a sane-sou
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by nostromo 5y ago
Giant corporations love identity politics. It completely distracted the left from expensive things that would actually help low-income people. Big corporations woo the left with BLM retweets and pride flags -- which costs them $0 -- while
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by nostromo 5y ago
Try using Safari instead of Chrome. Chrome on M1 is a lackluster experience. Safari is amazingly fast, even with a hundred open tabs. You can tell Apple has been optimizing a web browser on their own silicon for a long time.
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by nostromo 5y ago
The people that publish and promote bullshit science spend a lot of time on podcasts, so I don't see why the people falsifying their research shouldn't as well.
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by nostromo 5y ago
Read "The Case Against Education." It uses lots of data to show that education is largely useless after primary education is complete (arithmetic, reading, writing, etc.). https://press.princeton.edu/books/ha
930.
by nostromo 5y ago
Benevolent dictators are still a bad thing, even if you agree with 100% of their policies. Precedent matters. And the precedent now is a governor can restrict vital freedoms (movement, congregation, commerce, religion, expression, etc.) fo

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