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by prottog 4y ago
Certainly by the time vaccine mandates came around, we had a pretty good idea of the contagiousness and lethality of the disease.
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by prottog 4y ago
Not just the federal government! All levels of government have limits on their powers. Important in the context of a New York state court ruling.
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by prottog 4y ago
Sounds like the more reasonable solution is to remove taxpayer funding for healthcare. That way, people who make bad choices wouldn't be subsidized by the public.
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by prottog 4y ago
Yes, exactly. We shouldn't upend everyone's lives for the sake of the elderly and the feeble. The median age of a Covid-associated death in the US is near the average life expectancy[0]. There's a case to be made that the loc
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by prottog 4y ago
Employment (and unemployment) by the city, which is a governmental entity, is held to a higher standard of scrutiny than private employment. It is unconstitutional for the city to fire a city employee based on arbitrary and capricious reaso
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by prottog 4y ago
> You think the Communist commissar rewards virtue? you think a Hitler rewards virtue? I know he meant it in a different way, but I find it makes more sense to think of political appointees as rewarding virtue. Of course, often times tha
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by prottog 4y ago
> Articles like this are being misleading on purpose. Maybe your complaint should be with the State of New York for having such a misleading name for their lowest-level trial court, and not the OP for literally referring to it by its nam
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by prottog 4y ago
The median age of a Covid-associated death in the US, with its grossly obese and unhealthy population, is more or less the average life expectancy. It's absurd to dictate public policy that affects everyone on the basis of keeping the
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by prottog 4y ago
When supply remains the same or declines at the same time demand goes through the roof through a combination of lockdowns and helicopter money (as the other commenter points out, government sources show nearly $1T in direct payments), big t
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by prottog 4y ago
Ha, I had just forgotten about "community adjusted EBITDA"! What a laugh that was.
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by prottog 4y ago
Real estate always draws in the dumbest forms of entrepreneurs.
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by prottog 4y ago
Yeah, what utter nonsense.
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by prottog 4y ago
A couple thousand excess deaths of people near the end of their lifespan, in a country with over 67 million people? Forgive me if I don't find this alarming.
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by prottog 4y ago
I'm happy that the story played out well for you. Did you get that chance to go to the "wealthier" school from a process borne of equity, or one of equality? I'd imagine the latter is something like, you tested into and
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by prottog 4y ago
Let me be clear and say that "living like Texans" is a shorthand for a first-world standard of living, with maybe a touch of extravagance thrown in. I'm not advocating that everyone do in fact live like Texans if they don&#x2
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by prottog 4y ago
> when I see how Americans live, I definitely do not wish to join them. Everyone's entitled to their preferences, but more people migrate to the US than any other country in the world, so it's evident that a lot people do wish
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by prottog 4y ago
Where is your girlfriend from, Antarctica? I'd be hard-pressed to find many people who would find 25ºC unpleasant, even with high humidity.
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by prottog 4y ago
You might find yourself surprised at how many of these smaller cities are good to visit for no particular reason! Indianapolis does have more than just little ethnic restaurants in strip malls. Of course, you may run out of things to see an
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by prottog 4y ago
The author in fact did spend some time in Indianapolis[0]. I'm not really sure what your point is, besides that Indianapolis is a hinterland town with no public transit (the author was mainly on foot, anyway) and its height of cuisine
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by prottog 4y ago
Pack nothing but your American Express and just buy everything you need at the destination! That's one way to pack light ;-)
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by prottog 4y ago
Yes, I want people to justify their complex policy positions that have far-reaching consequences, here in a comment. Why else are we on this forum? It's not like I'm asking people to justify that two and two make four. Heat waves,
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by prottog 4y ago
There were no floods prior to the Industrial Revolution, I take it?
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by prottog 4y ago
"Master's student in political science starts witch hunt (for the lack of a better term) on a subject he is not an expert on and eventually gets professor fired for making university look bad" seems to be a good summary of th
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by prottog 4y ago
Chattanooga's EPB has had 10Gbps to the home since 2015. Come on, Google! You can do better.
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by prottog 4y ago
With developed countries ranging from 25% to over 60% in government spending as percentage of GDP, your argument doesn't carry the same weight. Every industry is running with subsidies. Do renewable energy sources somehow negate the ne
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by prottog 4y ago
In one hand you see no end in sight of continued technological advances that have heretofore led to decreasing unit costs in renewable energy, yet on the other hand you see imminent collapse of civilization? Are the two hands joined to the
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by prottog 4y ago
> all the obvious weather changes that are already happening All the obvious weather changes that are doing what, exactly? The way that global agricultural output has increased over time[0]? The way that England is a degree or two warmer
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by prottog 4y ago
There will be many technocratic explanations, but in the end it'll just be like land management policy which prevented small-scale natural wildfires from burning year after year and eventually ended up in a conflagration.
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by prottog 4y ago
> for everyone" in a "rich" nation Not at all! The collapse of the Sri Lankan agricultural sector shows that plenty of people in poorer countries will also suffer in the pursuit of climate idealism.
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by prottog 4y ago
I agree with many of your points, and absolutely with the point that we should align economic incentives. I further suggest that instead of allocating tax dollars to such research programs, we just cut those taxes. If economic incentives ar

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