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by prottog 3y ago
I've lived in a few different countries and settled in the US. You're right about the pay in America, and it's at a scale beyond what most people (whether inside or outside of America) realize; take for example the state of M
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by prottog 3y ago
Surely the "general welfare" is still being violated by the shit on the street and homeless people urinating in public, whether or not the shit or the piss actually got on your person.
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by prottog 3y ago
> Sometimes property developers have had to sue local governments in order to enforce their rights I'm glad that the state government has taken a step in the right direction, but the situation on the ground as you describe it still
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by prottog 3y ago
> we dont need green lawns, golf courses, swimming pools and car washes. Sure, we don't "need" anything nice. But few people want to live at a subsistence farming level. San Francisco (about which the article was written)
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by prottog 3y ago
Not so much fun for a fish, but that's the way the cookie crumbles, I suppose. Existence itself carries a cost to those around the being that exists; should it be feasible for a datacenter and fish to coexist it ought to be done, but w
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by prottog 3y ago
The Clarkson's Farm bit on growing wasabi was funny. It did make it sound like a very finicky plant to grow.
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by prottog 3y ago
> currently only China, EU and maybe BRICs as a whole could threaten it Only theoretically. The USD is the cleanest shirt in a pile of dirty laundry. Neither the euro nor any of the BRICS currencies are getting any cleaner.
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by prottog 3y ago
> Capitalism is literally destroying everything You can't give credit all the credit to capitalism. Communism destroyed what was the fourth-largest lake in the world, which was so big that it was called a "sea"[0]. > So
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by prottog 3y ago
If M. Proudhon thinks private property stinks so much, he should see what happens in places where there are no private property rights.
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by prottog 3y ago
If you're looking for "proof" that any one thing is the "cause" of a complex social issue, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed. There isn't a great deal of academic literature on the topic, but
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by prottog 3y ago
> the scandinavian justice system > Why does this seemingly work for them? Scandinavian countries are for the most part ethnically homogeneous with a monarchy and a state religion, all things that improve social cohesion. (The one Sca
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by prottog 3y ago
> how does it help us if we don't help them? Every policy choice has an opportunity cost and sets up an incentive. If we don't do something, that resource gets used elsewhere; if we make the imprisoned experience very nice and
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by prottog 3y ago
> That does not imply that you only have the disease if you have symptoms. Not the GP, but I've heard their perspective before from others, i.e. in medicine the symptom is the disease (or that the disease is defined by the symptom).
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by prottog 3y ago
> Rehabilitation should happen on your own recognizance I agree. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. There is still legitimate debate on how much role society has to play in making sure it's as nice as p
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by prottog 3y ago
Absolutely true, but the profitability is likely affected precisely by government policy.
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by prottog 3y ago
> there's just a lack of sufficiently concentrated political will to get things done. Ideally it shouldn't be the case that something like building a power plant to produce electricity shouldn't require political will; jus
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by prottog 3y ago
> rural people live an unsustainable lifestyle that demands subsidization by city dwellers I see this idea in a lot of places but don't understand it. You could equally fairly say that city dwellers live an unsustainable lifestyle t
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by prottog 3y ago
> rural folks are less educated and therefore more susceptible to forces that are predatory to those who do not make a practice of critical thinking > I don't think it's controversial to say that education liberalizes Highly
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by prottog 3y ago
> High-speed rail with hubs in urban (or urban-adjacent) areas can provide reasonable access for folks to commute to where the jobs are. You don't need HSR for this. Actually, high-speed rail and commuting are mutually exclusive, be
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by prottog 3y ago
A 5% failure rate seems pretty high for something like this. I've never had a stay at a hotel where any problem wasn't immediately worked out by the front desk giving me a different room.
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by prottog 3y ago
Airbnb was nice in the beginning, but I've had my share of stays where I paid >$100 in cleaning fees and still found myself staring at a list of chores a mile long that really made me question whether I shouldn't instead be get
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by prottog 3y ago
I would certainly prefer that plus a culture of tipping only for extraordinary service over what we have now.
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by prottog 3y ago
> to the point where they get sued if they don't maximize shareholder value This is a huge exaggeration. Corporate executives sometimes get sued if they actively destroy shareholder value. Approximately nobody is getting sued for &q
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by prottog 3y ago
The "rentiers" aren't the ones who shut down the economy (that would be bureaucrats and politicians at every level) and have any say over interest rates (that would be central bankers). Seems strange to blame them for all of
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by prottog 3y ago
Germany as of late doesn't do much better; see what happened to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, which was a decade and 4 billion euros over budget.
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by prottog 3y ago
> Please let this catch on everywhere It's already federal law when it comes to the minimum wage. People like to bandy about the fact that tipped employees have a minimum wage of $2.13/hr without also mentioning that the employ
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by prottog 3y ago
People get it in their heads that small and local means good or at least better than the stuff mass-produced by MegaCorp, but that's not always the case. I think beer is a case where it's hard to beat Big Beer. Heineken, the secon
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by prottog 3y ago
Degrowth is a great solution for those who didn't get degrowth'd.
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by prottog 3y ago
I liked it better when the "Deep State" was just a conspiracy theory.
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by prottog 3y ago
FWIW I run Debian bullseye on the desktop and don't have any issues with any of the software I use, like web browsers and IM clients. I'm not running anything fancy locally so perhaps it's an unusual case, and I will admit th

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