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by pofilat 8y ago
Point to ponder: A (small, but potent) bunch of Middle Easterners got very interested in blowing up the USA. Why did they not blow up Canada, or Mexico, or China? Do you think the US military actions might be a reason?
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by pofilat 8y ago
That's because the US already took over and genocided the interesting parts of its continent (+ Hawaii), and used covert operations to install friendly dictators across the hemisphere when it needed to maintain "democracy".
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by pofilat 8y ago
Foreign affairs is one of the few enumerated central/Federal powers, so I don't understand your point.
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by pofilat 8y ago
The US occupied Iraq for over a decade, and installed a new government. The US spent a little time in the Balkans and Somalia and then gave up. There's a difference.
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by pofilat 8y ago
How many thousands of employees, including executive roles, does a company need before it is an international company?
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by pofilat 8y ago
If you don't believe in someone robbing your house, or killing your family, should you just shrug your shoulders and move somewhere else?
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by pofilat 8y ago
Maybe there's more than one part of the military, and the resilient internal communications network part is different from the wedding-bombing part.
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by pofilat 8y ago
China is far more stable than the US.
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by pofilat 8y ago
How can you say that the "military" get credit for preventing conflicts while at the same time not get blame for being the muscle of colonial oppression.
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by pofilat 8y ago
The market sets the value, obviously. Social welfare is great -- Medicaid, Unemployment, SNAP, WIC, etc, but shouldn't be paid directly by employers to recipients. Why should an unemployed person getting a low-value job suddenly shift
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by pofilat 8y ago
From the 1950s, when the marginal rate was >90%: https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-rich-1950-not-high/ > per the Piketty, Saez, and Zucman data ... The average tax rate on the 0.1 percent highest-income Americans w
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by pofilat 8y ago
Municipalities aren't like states of the Union. Municipalities have no power except that which is granted to them by the state. There is nothing legally stopping any state government from passing a law tomorrow to change how municipal
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by pofilat 8y ago
Because not all jobs are that valuable. This is essentially replacing welfare by minimum wage, and why should welfare be administered non-progressively through employers instead of the government tax and redistribution? Should it be illegal
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by pofilat 8y ago
Do you have a source? The numbers don't back you up. Min wage is the single-person poverty level, and is much higher now than when it was enacted.
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by pofilat 8y ago
There never was a 90% tax rate. That was a marginal rate, and there were massive deductions.
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by pofilat 8y ago
Source for that claim? Minimum wage has been $4-10/hr (inflation adjusted) throughout its history in USA; only about as high for the single-person poverty level ($6/hr for single, $10/hr equivalent for a family of 3) https:&
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by pofilat 8y ago
Binge On biases video over gaming and apps and videochat. That alters consumer choice significantly.
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by pofilat 8y ago
That bureaucrat is the appointed head of the FCC appointed by the President and implementing a law enacted by Congress. He's not a lone wolf.
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by pofilat 8y ago
Carbonated water. Why put sugar in water? Water is great.
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by pofilat 8y ago
Fruits are artificially evolved to ever higher sugar content. They are better than candy, but they are also dangerous in excess.
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by pofilat 8y ago
People chew and brew coca like coffee and tea
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by pofilat 8y ago
If you don't finish off that calorie budget with some protein and fat, you're in trouble.
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by pofilat 8y ago
There's an age at which drinking a sugary soda becomes difficult...
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by pofilat 8y ago
Are you insinuating that since carrots have sugar content, we should eat cupcakes with abandon?
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by pofilat 8y ago
There's a lot of confusion around nutrition, but the badness of sugar and goodness of water is just about the most consensus we have.
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by pofilat 8y ago
School is a place of education and development. The idea that "sugar" === "fun" is exactly the misconception they are trying to fix.
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by pofilat 8y ago
> government cheese, flour, potatoes None of these are healthy staples! Healthy staples are beans and whole grains.
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by pofilat 8y ago
Ketchup vegetable wasn't "education"; it was political football with school lunch funding and minimum vegetable requirements and trying to feed kids when they'd simply throw away any salad they were served.
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by pofilat 8y ago
Is 7 minutes good? If you have a multimaster redundant systems, you don't need failover.
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by pofilat 8y ago
Instagram, GitLab, Netflix all down at the same time. Coincidence?

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