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by pirate787 3y ago
It's funny I've been hearing this trope for decades, and at the same time hearing nonstop complaints about the "insane" forward looking valuations for Tesla, Nvidia, etc. From a P/E standpoint, Wall Street is less a
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by pirate787 3y ago
It's not victimhood, its corruption and incompetence in a massively centralized state government system.
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by pirate787 3y ago
Tourism is enough to support the state if it is combined with amenities that attract year-round residents -- especially remote workers. The problem with WV is a pervasive culture of corruption among its elites.
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by pirate787 3y ago
Incorrect. You don't understand the system. There is collateral posted against a bond for the full amount; if he skips town the people who posted bail collateral are responsible for the full amount, $250 million.
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by pirate787 3y ago
This study specifically is about people under the age of 50
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by pirate787 3y ago
Agreed. Additionally the US will net gain from not having to pay Social Security and Medicare for these passed borrowers.
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by pirate787 3y ago
The government is by far the largest enabler of consumption. Overall, it taxes savings and investment more aggressively than consumption. And in addition to massive government borrowing and spending, the government also directly underwrit
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by pirate787 3y ago
The FDA's cultural topor and designed bias against approval is almost entirely from the Thalidomide disaster. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21507989/ https://www.gvsu.edu/cms4/asset/F51
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by pirate787 3y ago
>We have to switch to plant based diets. INCORRECT. We're on the cusp of a revolution in lab-grown fish and meat. It will be healthier, more humane, and better tasting, than the current system.
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by pirate787 3y ago
Actually, the world has never had greater economic security than it does in 2023.
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by pirate787 3y ago
They are already growing fish meat in labs, hopefully that and farming will take some of the pressure off the wild fisheries.
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by pirate787 3y ago
Actually I do want to cut off entire countries, if those jurisdictions are waging criminal war against our citizens. Clean up if you want to participate in the global community.
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by pirate787 3y ago
The salary is not the primary compensation. It's the network, the favors/jobs for friends and family, and the cash-out reward position taken after leaving office.
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by pirate787 3y ago
It actually WAS DC at one time, then Virginia reclaimed its territory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_retrocess...
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by pirate787 3y ago
Standard and Poor's downgraded the US to AA+ in 2011.
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by pirate787 3y ago
There's a group working to build and protect the bedrock: https://protectdemocracy.org/
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by pirate787 3y ago
And Tennessee has no state income tax.
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by pirate787 3y ago
Carnegie Mellon is a private university, and obviously there's already a strong public commitment to college education through subsidizing the student directly.
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by pirate787 3y ago
On the demand side, we've added over 100 million people to the U.S. population since 1980.
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by pirate787 3y ago
Seriously. My single-dev web service has a better list.
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by pirate787 3y ago
The Hagia Sophia "mosque" was a Christian orthodox church that dates from Roman times and was a secular museum from the 1930s until 2020. That decision to reclassify as a mosque is widely condemned by historians and others.
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by pirate787 3y ago
Gen Z has a higher home ownership rate than Millenials or Gen X at the equivalent point in time. The idea that Gen Z has it bad is a media myth and/or a cultural phenomenon of whining to an echo chamber on Reddit. https://
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by pirate787 3y ago
The primary action of particulate matter is that it gets stuck in your body (and tiny PM can penetrate into the brain) and is an inflammatory irritant the rest of your life, leading to disease. It stands to reason if the PM is also a toxic
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by pirate787 3y ago
It has less to do with the regulatory environment and more to do with cultures that are accepting of corruption. Government regulators are often part of the corruption in weak cultures.
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by pirate787 3y ago
The spraying isn't safe, unfortunately, according the FDA. You really don't want your kids to breathe the stuff. https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2011/07/don-t-spray...
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by pirate787 3y ago
Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if its a modern hoax, especially given the images of European contact. The dating is just based on the types of animals -- is there any science that validates the age? There's also no fossil evid
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by pirate787 3y ago
The other major safety advantage of the SUV is in the single-car crash (hitting a tree, pole, etc). SUV weight provides a significant safety margin here. The single car crash is nearly 1/2 of all crashes and responsible for the major
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by pirate787 3y ago
The other major issue with the controller is that it is not designed for a marine environment -- the water, salt exposure, and humidity inside the sub. Surely there are off-the-shelf marine controllers that are better suited.
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by pirate787 3y ago
Reagan also laid out the vision for NAFTA and signed the Canada-US FTA in 1988
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by pirate787 3y ago
I play about 4 days a week, the game Population One is awesome. I'll buy Quest 3 as soon as its available.

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