os2warpman

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by os2warpman 2y ago
Everyone subsidizes everyone else. I subsidize roads for rural residents and lower rural wages and property values subside my food. That’s called being a nation state. If you claim that no one should live where there are hurricanes I will r
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>I still wonder what would have happened had Jean-Louis Gassée been less greedy and Apple acquired BeOs instead of Next Internal efforts to get BeOS's security levels up to even Mac OS 9 levels would have bankrupted 1997 Apple.
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>There are plenty of sources in that article though? There are no mentions of the fire department in that article except one in the last paragraph. >“We’d love to talk to the fire and police departments and figure out a way to address
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>but his point seemed to focus on FDs objecting to bike lanes The Fire Marshalls are required by law (and oath) to enforce the laws. They are literally and legally required to object and grant exemptions as appropriate. And the source fo
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by os2warpman 2y ago
Not Just Bikes is wrong about several things: The video states at 1:37: "Baltimore was supposed to install 10 miles of new bike lanes downtown, but the fire department said that would make the streets too small for its trucks and aggre
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I know nothing will change your mind, but we are living in a golden age of prosperity right now compared to 1992.
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Christmas 1992 I paid $49.99 for Super Mario Kart. That is $112.43 in 2025 money. In my state minimum wage is $15 so that is 7.5 hours of sitting in a lifeguard chair. In 1992 I had to sit in a lifeguard chair for 11.8 hours to afford Super
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Domestic production that is perceived to benefit national sovereignty is protected. See: farming, energy, and defense spending/subsidies. There is no point in history where any nation, anywhere, has needed to be self-sufficient in the
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Every single country on earth, except China, that has a more robust and profitable machine tool sector than the US has unions strong enough to make a social media libertarian shit their pants. Indeed, the three countries listed in the repor
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A rational actor has never, does not now, and will never exist. Despite what social media stoics say.
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Yandex only became a Russian company fairly recently, after over 20 years of being based outside of Russia. It was sold, below market value, to a group of Russian investors last year for the specific purpose of controlling it and suppressin
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> The US cannot cover even all of its own citizens, The US already spends enough on healthcare to provide gold-standard best-in-the-world coverage to all of its citizens. It could take any random system better than the one extant in the
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I became an Amiga user starting in the mid-1980s and my recollection was that even by the time of the introduction of the 500 and 2000 (my Amiga 2000 is still sitting downstairs in the basement on a shelf next to my 1000) Amiga was already
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The department of education is not a service provider. It is a conduit through which funding flows and is a standards and enforcement body. They (or at least, they used to) insure that "state's rights" advocates don't im
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If you look at it from a systems perspective, battery storage is the same as increasing/decreasing steam output or drawing from a steam bank to match demand and the diurnal nature of solar is the same as taking units offline for mainte
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>Yes, this includes things people may not like, especially environmental or 'social justice' groups. They tried that before and got The Aberfan disaster, Newgate Prison, and child labor. "Trust me baby, I've changed!&
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Cheated? From an outsider's perspective their methods seem typical.
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> Education worked to an extent; most will not devolve into dumb fucks. Your inequality symbols are backwards. There are not fewer than 1 million cops in the US there are more than 1 million. There are indeed fewer than 700,000 politicia
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A million Americans take a drug called Exenatide for diabetes. Exenatide exists because government-funded VA researchers were isolating compounds from Gila monster venom to see what they did. They were fooling around with random reptile ven
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Keyboarding was taught in my middle school using Selectrics and my high school was equipped with Model Ms on Model 50s (oh, IBM). Those two sublime instruments of typing superiority made it so that when I type I type so quickly that people