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by redczar 1y ago
The market figures it wrong in lots of instances. Like cancelling cable subscriptions or gym membership. The market, in your parlance, did decide this by Apple being the most profitable phone maker. People could buy other phones and didn’
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Obviously. I was merely demonstrating that some people like buying through the App store.
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I don’t understand your points. If I buy things through the App store on iOS I know if there is a problem I can get relief very easily. I can easily cancel subscriptions without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. I prefer to keep t
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by redczar 1y ago
I buy the security and privacy argument. I don’t want to deal with anyone other than Apple for refunds, cancellations, etc. I don’t trust anyone else to make these things easy.
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The rich haven’t been seriously taxed in this country since Reagan changed the tax code. Even he though thought the tax on labor should be less than the tax on capital.
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Funding for homelessness and other such things should not depend on the benevolence of the ultra rich. Tax them and let society decide what to do with the money.
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It’s unfortunate for you that you seem to not comprehend that a large majority of peoples’ knowledge lies between expert toxicologist and knowing that pretty much everything is toxic in large enough doses. Saying “pure water can be toxic”
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by redczar 1y ago
If we humans have polluted vast areas of the world we’d see evidence of it. This is something we’d expect to see. It’s a snapshot; not conclusive evidence. But it is worth noting and not worth sticking our heads in the sand.
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It does not demonstrate their point. The discussion is about toxicity from metals in soil. We all know that toxicity is not binary. It’s a dumb retort. It’s as dumb as people saying “correlation does not imply causation” when the author
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by redczar 1y ago
Would you drink a glass of toxic water?
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I did read the article. It’s always the same response: “Can you show this is bad?”, where this is microplastics, metals in the soil, forever chemicals, etc. At some point we will we get to the stage where the standard response is, “Yes i
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by redczar 1y ago
Shouldn’t it be assumed that toxic is bad? We’ve polluted the whole planet. Our trajectory has obvious long term negative consequences. Are we going to say to each piece of evidence, “Is it really that bad?”.
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We are not used to seeing corporate lobbying and campaigning done so openly except when it comes to news media. Join liberals like me who oppose corporate personhood and Citizens United and fight corporate political power.
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It’s a historical fact what response to desegregation entailed. I agree that it was asinine. It’s stupid that we don’t have municipal trash service, free ambulances at point of usage, municipal pools, etc.
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by redczar 1y ago
Getting rid of municipal ambulance service did not occur for insurance reasons. It was gutted along with the gutting of municipal services in general. Insurance had nothing to do with why the service was cut.
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There is evidence that voter suppression efforts and the closing of thousands of polling stations lead to the many millions fewer Democratic votes. Despite this there was a clear neo masculine backlash.
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Ambulances were a municipal service and insurance had nothing to do with them. The gutting of municipal services followed desegregation.
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It possible but unlikely that there are different causes of the multiple instances of the problem. Maybe different societies had different catalysts.
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I think it’s clear that the reason desegration was the starting point is racism.
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Don’t know about other countries. The point you made is relevant and interesting.
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I think you don’t understand what happened. When the laws were changed and forced communities to allow blacks to use municipal pools and when places like Elks Lodges were forced to accept women and minorities white men abandoned these thi
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Redlining and white flight definitely happened. It also happened that cities stopped funding municipal pools and other services. Things like Elks Lodges went into long term decline when women and blacks had to be admitted.
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What happened? Capitalism. It was desegregation. Read about the decline of public pools, municipal trash service and free ambulances.
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The less dependence on community started with desegregation. There used to be community pools and rec centers. Garbage pickup was a municipal service. Ambulances were free. These things and more all ended with desegregation. Now we live
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In 2008 the country had gone so far to the right that the Republicans didn’t support their own healthcare plan. Obamacare was essentially the same plan Mitt Romney enacted and the one crafted by the Heritage Foundation. When you go far en
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Putin’s Russia can not fight well with conventional military means but they have mastered the art of information warfare. They successfully got Americans to vote for Putin’s stooge twice. Quite impressive that they were able to sow so muc
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The most Protestant people in the world are American Catholics.
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Unfortunately many have to suffer before the masses wake up from their drunken stupor of stupidity. Americans need to relearn what it means to live in a society.
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Then create one, or something much better than is being demanded, first; before demanding companies use it. Before demanding car companies build safer vehicles I first invented the seat belt.
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Big Cardboard paid for the research as part of its ongoing effort to decrease plastic packaging and return to cardboard packaging. We should wait 2 generations so that we can know for certain the long term effects of microplastics. Let’s

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