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by prottog 3y ago
> Being treated with respect regardless where you come from or how you look How about being treated as a Swiss regardless of where you come from or how you look? Say what you will about America, but it is a place where you can become an
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by prottog 3y ago
Even in a state with high state income taxes, you're taking home north of $12k a month with a $250k/year salary. There's maybe one city in the country where a young adult (someone with no dependents) is paying half of that, $
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by prottog 3y ago
> also rarely injects this with a pretense of authenticity as Western media nearly constantly does In other words, a show is just a show, instead of the way it is in modern Western media, which is being an instrument of social change fir
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by prottog 3y ago
> The world we live in gets scarier and scarier every year. One could accurately summarize progress since the Industrial Revolution as asking whether we could (and how), and not whether we should (and why). You can see this expressed in
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by prottog 3y ago
> From the outside religion seems more about hate than love. I'd wager the view is different from the inside. Communities of any kind can be condemned one way or another from the outside. The weekly potlucks and choirs still exist a
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by prottog 3y ago
I believe the Vatican passport is also in contention for that title. And now that I think about it, I wonder how many North Korean passports have been issued?
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by prottog 3y ago
> Tend to work for the government. Career govvies or military. They show their patriotism through action. I just want to chime in here and say that working for the government isn't the only way to be a patriot (i.e. serve the countr
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by prottog 3y ago
I think the reasoning behind not having an age cap in Congress is that if the people want to elect someone who is old, they should be able to do so. The ultimate check in a democratic society is the people, and like a different commenter sa
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by prottog 4y ago
If you find a traditional church to be a bit too heavy-handed on some current wedge issues for your liking, you might find a Unitarian Universalist church to be more like what you describe.
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by prottog 4y ago
If there was a startup called Homebase that was in the business of serving as an exchange where people could trade houses, the SEC might be interested ;-)
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by prottog 4y ago
Exchange-traded commodity futures (including those for physical delivery of 100 troy ounces of gold) have existed for a long time and are regulated by the CFTC.
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by prottog 4y ago
> a burden-free life where I might be a little unlucky and die Unlucky is being the victim of a random crime that leaves you crippled for life, not a clean death. I follow someone on social media like that, who was shot and left a parapl
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by prottog 4y ago
> Within the same walking distance Aye, but I bet GP's home town in Spain is much more pleasant to walk in from November to March ;-) That aside, there are some real gems among Western Mass towns! I wonder, with all the empty land i
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by prottog 4y ago
I would wager that the period of actively-managed funds underperforming the broader market overlaps with the period of Federal Reserve largesse.
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by prottog 4y ago
> Fidel Castro [...] seemed to bow out in a graceful attempt to preserve his long-term legacy. He ruled for nearly fifty years and his successor was his brother. Certainly no part of that can be described as "bowing out", grace
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by prottog 4y ago
I would certainly prefer to drive on a JICA-built bridge than a OBOR one.
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by prottog 4y ago
The business equivalent of Zawinski's Law; every company attempts to expand until it offers financial services.
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by prottog 4y ago
> China will try next and may succeed with the Yuan but only through conflict Nobody can tell the future, but I don't think it's looking good for the CNY. Xi Jinping's unprecedented (since Mao Zedong's demise almost 5
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by prottog 4y ago
Market failure is a thing, and it seems like in this case there may be a monopoly or oligopoly among the concessionaires, enabled by the corruption of the Port Authority.
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by prottog 4y ago
I agree with all of your points, but in cases of monopoly or oligopoly you can't place all of the blame on the consumer. It seems like a simple way for this problem to fix itself is for the Port Authority to allow more competition amon
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by prottog 4y ago
I don't know about not listing prices (that seems shady), but surely you realize that the cost of the ingredients have very little bearing on the final price of the product? Unless you assume that running a 7-11 or any other store or r
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by prottog 4y ago
> This assumes that the migrants for that 100 years go live in decoupled ghettos and never integrate with the native population. There is a sizable Turkish minority in Germany, starting from the Gastarbeiter programs of the 1960s, around
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by prottog 4y ago
No, thank you. I'd rather we have a hundred billion more human beings spread throughout the galaxy, with "fully automated luxury gay space communism". Even just to bring up the material standards of living for the global poor
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by prottog 4y ago
What a surprise it is that so many millions have perished under the banner of communism. I suppose as long as everyone dies equally, it's still consistent with the system...
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by prottog 4y ago
I was specifically referring to the "armed guard" aspect. You bet the public response will be different to a Walmart LP person using physical force to detain a shoplifter vs. Whole Foods.
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by prottog 4y ago
Flagship stores (which TFA describes this store as) often run at a loss, because the visibility in a highly-trafficked, prestigious area is worth it. That math changes drastically if you have to account for the potential PR headache that th
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by prottog 4y ago
> Couldn't Whole Foods hire armed security to dissuade theft? This would likely result in a social media fallout that they don't want to deal with, considering that the core customer base of Whole Foods overlaps largely with th
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by prottog 4y ago
I mean, it's still precisely a fallacy. Just because someone made a stupid or wrong argument 20 times in a row doesn't make it logically follow that the 21st is also wrong, without examining that argument itself. Of course, it&#x2
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by prottog 4y ago
If we exclude the Big 3 pickups from this list due to the outsized impact of fleet purchases on those numbers, the Camry is the second-best selling car of 2022, behind the RAV4. Honestly, I'm impressed that the humble sedan is holding
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by prottog 4y ago
> the heir seeking to expropriate it Capital owners all inherited their capital, I take it? > Feudal pre-capitalist society did not need unemployment, but capitalist society does The high productivity of capitalist societies plus tech

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