objectivetruth

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by objectivetruth 7y ago
You should note that: * quarantine laws and powers have existed for thousands of years in all forms of governments, and much more draconian steps have been taken in this country in the past -- which were obviously reversed after the crisis.
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
No, people stockpile bottled water in emergencies with the assumption that it will NOT be easy to replace, i.e., the tap might stop releasing water. I've seen way too many comments like "Why would you need bottled water in a pande
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
I'm curious if you grew up and/or ever lived in an environment with a serious insect problem. Even the common housefly is just a "mere annoyance" one at a time... but dozens or hundreds can have significant effects on p
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
All of the data sets are listed here: https://datausa.io/about/datasets/ You should probably also check out the federal data catalog at: https://data.gov
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
Q: "What's wrong with creating fake accounts?" A: signal:noise ratio gets worse when there are tons of noisy bots spamming everywhere. Q: "that's a ridiculous way to form beliefs" A: Yeah, but that IS how the (
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
Hi, welcome to the English-speaking world! Sometimes we say things in a self-deprecating way as a sort of social lubricant. Those times are NOT an invitation to insult somebody. Plus, the way you said it makes the rest of us think you pre
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
As parent said, there needs to be a "bright and clear line." We don't give 12-year-olds a 2/3 fractional vote because a) that introduces a ton of complexity for not much gain, and because b) children are essentially lega
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
Parent didn't address it because it doesn't need to be addressed. In most states, the law is not written "it's illegal to have sex with a 15-year-old PERIOD." Instead, the law is usually "it's illegal FOR
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
Wait, so in your first paragraph, you acknowledge the likeliness that the afflicted is almost certainly from contaminated THC cartridges. But in the second paragraph, you say that Juul -- a legal company that produces NICOTINE cartridges, n
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
I'm not the parent, and I'm guilty of being exasperated at people calling their purse dogs "support animals" to get them on planes, BUT... 1) The obvious answer to your first questions: lots of people do work from home,
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
It's the sort of attitude that enables a LOT of bad things in the world: The poster doesn't like "unvetted" news sources like the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times (which get lumped in with Reddit and Stephen Col
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
What exactly is the risk in the second case? That people can choose how to identify themselves? If prospective employees are filling out the form, that's up to them to take it seriously or not.
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
Yeah, interesting question. But in the US, the problem right now is 26-year-old diabetics kicked off ACA plans who have to ration insulin (a drug invented a century ago, given royalty-free to the world by the inventors). Sometimes the rat
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
Speed of transportation and speed of communication - when ideas and capital move at light speed instead of horse speed, society changes in correspondingly massive ways.
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
As the parent said, just setting up a Delaware corporation isn't going to be much protection for most criminal enterprises. If they want to, the ATF will get you for tobacco or gun smuggling whether you have Articles of Corporation or
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
Yeah, they DO need to scale or there wouldn't still be people in LA and everywhere else going hungry. I'm a Christian who proudly supports our local church's food bank (no strings attached, walk in and take food) -- but I rec
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
Eh, not for many, many Americans. My school, and most of the schools in my county, offered only Spanish and my understanding is that four years of it still wouldn't qualify a person for AP credit. It's hard to find more data beyo
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
>But it's not, it's marketed as a hip new thing Can you name any examples of this marketing for a curious reader? After the "blu" e-cigarette commercials were kicked offline several years ago, the only marketing I&#x
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
>JUUL was making kid-desired flavors like "candy corn" and "unicorn milk". No, that's incorrect. Juul manufactured "Fruit Medley" and "Mango," both of which are now restricted to online-only
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
I appreciate the reason for the rule, but in this case, I'm curious who this person was "battling?" Seems like it was a top-level post that didn't argue with the original headline or article, but provided additional con
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
The article provides a clear and detailed explanation of how the traditional inhabitants, who had settled there over a century ago, were forcibly re-settled by the British. The court decision in question calls for them to be returned to th
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
Ethnic Jews, black people, white people married to black people -- ALL of these types of people can absolutely still hold white supremacist thoughts, despite how little sense it might make to you and me. But that's not what I think i
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
Probably being downvoted because of the implied stark "socialism/capitalism" dichotomy, and describing the need for a fundamental change of human nature, and the downvoters have seen that a regulated capitalist economy with
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by objectivetruth 7y ago
Yep. The wealthy control the society that... a) ...has food deserts where poor people can't access fresh food and vegetables, and in many of these areas, junk food IS the cheapest option. Learn more: https://www.moveforhung
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by objectivetruth 8y ago
I'd bet a lot of the agencies you don't care for have a very important historical reason for existing. Don't like the FDA? Read "The Jungle." Don't like the FRA? Then you're leaving the safety of billio
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by objectivetruth 8y ago
The way our right to an education has resulted in a million teachers volunteering for no money? Or the way our right to an attorney has resulted in the complete collapse of the criminal defense attorney sector? The government can be a funde
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by objectivetruth 8y ago
Maybe somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that there's an implied and generally understood "...that I want other people to use," at the end of that headline.
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by objectivetruth 8y ago
But we are talking about building footprints which DO directly correlate to population, not overall area of an entity. So it's the most relevant factor.
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by objectivetruth 8y ago
A few reasons: the train has to slow down and then get back up to speed for each stop; there are stops in a few cities for refueling / shift change / restocking onboard supplies. These stops take a lot longer than just filling up
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by objectivetruth 9y ago
You just described about half of the female civil servants that I've met in the Midwest. Wow, blond AND from the Midwest? A dedicated and caring public servant? Shit, I guess NBC is lucky that Hillary didn't sue them for such a

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