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by pirate787 1y ago
That may be the greatest understatement ever written!
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by pirate787 1y ago
Both Russia and Germany engaged in scorched earth destruction when on the retreat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbCGhqhKK-8
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by pirate787 1y ago
The intergovernmental holdings are accounting placeholders representing the Congressional raid on past Social Security surpluses. It's absolutely meaningful because those obligations are coming due as the program runs increasingly in
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by pirate787 1y ago
Its funny we don't have "legal" euthanasia but hospice stopping feeding and fluids, or overdosing painkillers, is a more horrible form of it.
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by pirate787 1y ago
This is a common misconception about the economy. There is not a fixed pie of jobs to be distributed. Rather, the opposite is generally true, the more people working the more growth and innovation and the more opportunities and capacity fo
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by pirate787 1y ago
I support oversight with subscriptions to Consumer Reports and Consumer Labs. I do think government must play a role-- rather than regulate, just regularly test everything and publish the results and ban/recall unsafe products.
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by pirate787 1y ago
or allowance for vendor graft if they billed for $1mm
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by pirate787 1y ago
The US is manufacturing more than ever and is the second largest manufacturer in the world after China. The US middle class has actually "eroded" upwards -- our wealthiest population cohort has tripled in the last thirty years.
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by pirate787 1y ago
The city's price control on the cost of a subway ride was a spectacular policy failure that crushed the system into decline and operators into bankruptcy.
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by pirate787 1y ago
From the report: "the highest income earners contributed to more of the revenue than the lowest income earners, making the scheme progressive in the scale of its equity impact" It is quite likely that the lower income users are mo
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by pirate787 1y ago
Buffett has never been a drinker. It's possible that abstaining from alcohol is the most important dietary habit
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by pirate787 1y ago
The Shuttle program was a disaster that consumed NASA's budget and set back manned space flight by a generation.
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by pirate787 2y ago
Yet Kamala and her supporting PACs had two or three times the funding that Trump had.
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by pirate787 2y ago
Agree it is a con. One note -- the government currently sells seized crypto once the courts have resolved ownership and restitution.
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by pirate787 2y ago
From the photos, that is a sad little protest, to be honest.
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by pirate787 2y ago
The program needs to have high standards and I imagine some of the reasons for failing are related to ability under pressure.
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by pirate787 2y ago
I read the salt killed them in another telling a couple years ago.
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by pirate787 2y ago
This comparison is silly. First of all, Cisco's scale was assembled through acquisitions, and hardware is a commodity business. Nvidia has largely grown organically and has CUDA software as a unique differentiator. More importantly,
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by pirate787 2y ago
I mentioned the reason in another comment, it's an important govt transparency principle that the tax burden be separate and visible.
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by pirate787 2y ago
Actually there's a purpose to keeping taxes separate. Policymakers want the tax burden to be visible, it is not part of price transparency because the vendor has nothing to do with the tax rate.
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by pirate787 2y ago
He was an explorer who set out to circumnavigate the globe and connect East and West, it wasn't "dumb luck" that in doing so he discovered the planet was bigger than he had estimated. Columbus was also perhaps the greatest na
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by pirate787 2y ago
Actually a majority of hospitals in the US are not-for-profit.
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by pirate787 2y ago
The governor's statement: https://governor.mo.gov/press-releases/archive/state-carry-o...
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by pirate787 2y ago
The Crusades were a valid strategic response to the rise of Islam and the Islamic conquest of Byzantium and the Christian middle east.
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by pirate787 2y ago
This is easily shown as false. Musk was the majority founder and multiple news accounts say Musk still controls 78% of voting shares and there's no evidence the federal government owns any part of SpaceX. https://fcc.report
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by pirate787 2y ago
This is something I want to share but its platform includes nakedly racist framing: Urban swimmers are stewards responsible for protecting the health of their local waterways, working alongside Mother Earth’s closest carers, such as Indigen
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by pirate787 2y ago
It was in fact a Soviet client state, but the Soviets themselves were starving in 1973 (they were actually importing US grains) and couldn't provide enough assistance to both Cuba and Chile.
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by pirate787 2y ago
Also worth noting that Allende was backed by the Soviets and Cuba, there's important Cold War context to the US intervention. https://issforum.org/reviews/106-chile
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by pirate787 2y ago
TLDR; Labor unions and protectionism.
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by pirate787 2y ago
tens of millions of consumers say otherwise

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