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by rhino369 4y ago
Paypal refused me a refund after someone didn't even send me a brick, but just sent me someone else's FedEx shipment confirmation. Didn't even say my address and was delivered before I ordered. I was instantly denied because
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by rhino369 4y ago
It's absurd because Californian's aren't really a nationality in the way the British or French are. People talk about red states and blue states, but that's just the mix of rural/surburban/urban people in the s
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by rhino369 4y ago
>Please bring on a housing crash ASAP. The best outcome is probably just nominal value stays relatively steady while real value declines after factoring in inflation. You don't want people massively underwater on their mortgages.
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by rhino369 4y ago
It used to be so much cheaper to book an aggregator back in the early days. Hotwire is still pretty good since the deals aren't advertised. But you are rolling the dice on whether your hotel * rating is actually accurate.
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by rhino369 4y ago
The science doesn't back any of that up. Covid spread out of Wuhun very early. Once it did, all the masking and quarantining post-infection wouldn't stop it. The few countries that did keep it under control closed their borders to
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by rhino369 4y ago
The CDC reported 75% of kids had it after Omicron, and that is likely under-counting since many kids are asymptomatic. My kids have had it twice but don't show up in the official numbers since they didn't even go to the doctor for
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by rhino369 4y ago
If you don't think you can quarantine old people and people with actual immune system issues, why do you think you can quarantine healthy children? I honestly don't think either could have really been achieved. But it's illog
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by rhino369 4y ago
And yet nearly every single kid got Covid anyway. So the intended goal of the school shutdowns failed. You can't just consider the intention of a policy, but whether it worked. One might say "well we had no idea it wouldn't w
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by rhino369 4y ago
The US certainly isn't the only civilized country to use penal labor. Regardless, I still wouldn't have a problem with it (done correctly). The average person is forced to work in one way or the other. Not sure why committing a c
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by rhino369 4y ago
>Forced labor is legal in the US in one case. Where’s the outrage? That's like saying locking people in camps is legal in the US. Technical not a lie, but a bit misleading. Forced labor as a proportionate punishment for a crime you
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by rhino369 4y ago
Why wouldn’t the USA retaliate with its own nuclear strike on North Korea? They would have to. North Korea wants nukes to avoid getting regime changed like Iraq. Not to start an offensive nuclear war that they’d lose.
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by rhino369 4y ago
The totality of the evidence must prove beyond a reasonable doubt. But not every piece of evidence must provide beyond a reasonable doubt. If all you have is a finger print--then yea--the possibility someone else with a close match did cre
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by rhino369 4y ago
But they do get to decide what they investigate based on the DA's polices. It's a waste of everyone's time to investigate crimes that won't be charged regardless of evidence. The city affirmatively decided to decriminali
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by rhino369 4y ago
I agree. Free market conservatives will suddenly love zoning if it keeps a factory out of their neighborhood.
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by rhino369 4y ago
When I worked at an Albertson's subsidiary store, there was a bunch of stuff that was "on sale" 3 out of every 4 weeks, but the "sale" price was the real price and you'd just get ripped off the 4th week.
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by rhino369 4y ago
I'm not sure if its a generation or just a certain class of recent generations (upper middle class). Cities are fun when you can afford the amenities, and cars degrade QOL in the desirable areas. But when you have kids (and thus can&#x
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by rhino369 4y ago
That situation is pretty distinguishable from what happened in the article. A law degree's benefits mostly fall on Kim, it's not specific training for her job, it's a legal requirement for an attorney role, and it is fully us
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by rhino369 4y ago
Sure, but every government--even the generally good ones--accused dissents of lying even when they aren't. Was the Steele Report disinformation? Depends if ask you Donald Trump or the FBI. Was the Hunter biden laptop disinformation?
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by rhino369 4y ago
Banning political dissent to save democracy is "destroy[ing] the village in order to save it."
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by rhino369 4y ago
>Do you truly, genuinely think that is what people want Many do want something like this--as long as someone with their viewpoint is the one deciding what is true or false. >asking leading questions that create the illusion that you&#
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by rhino369 4y ago
It's not coke's fault, I want cans. If they sold it in refillable glass jugs, I'd still buy the cans. That's on me; not them.
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by rhino369 4y ago
If there is a correlation, it's probably the opposite. That if women don't value grit, female writers aren't going to make it an important part of their story. But I'd guess its probably just more overcompensating for &q
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by rhino369 4y ago
I would. Espresso drinks were a "yuppie" drink before Starbucks (80's early 90's). But Starbucks expanded the market so that people who were drinking Folgers at home now drink espresso based drinks.
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by rhino369 4y ago
Skilled v. unskilled labor uses fairly classist terminology. But its it a term of art--not a moral judgment. Bus drivers are unskilled labor. They only make decent money since its a pubic union job. Good for them. But if the government con
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by rhino369 4y ago
You really can't have convenient public transit that replaces cars in our current carcentric metroareas. The density isn't there. You'd have to totally dismantle the suburbs, which most people live in. Unless you mean point-t
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by rhino369 4y ago
The problem for Sears was that mail-order was killed off by malls and big box before web-orders took off. Sears was losing 150M a year on catalog in the early 90s. If they didn't invest in malls and strip malls, they'd have been o
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by rhino369 4y ago
Semiconductors have HUGE upfront R&D cost, but marginal costs aren't that bad.
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It's worse, they aren't even competent at doing that. I bought a grill from a webstore I found on google shopping that was labeled a "Trusted Store." I hadn't heard of the store before, but I figured if Google is vo
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by rhino369 4y ago
Agreed. In many ways the conclusion about outdated status is ass-backwards. The men being left behind are opting out--skipping a career and a (planned) family. Successful men are the ones still clinging to the "outdated" view that
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by rhino369 4y ago
It’s about food culture. When there is a long history, it is preserved. American food culture is essentially industrial. I’m interested why that is, but I assume it’s because the pre-industrial revolution America food culture wasn't th

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