rjkennedy98

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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
This article said something quite plain and obvious: Obama when in office despite his rhetoric was an enabler and propagandizer (willing and not) of expanding middle eastern conflict. That is just objectively true despite how painful that m
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> I'm not sure whether people understand just how big of a problem this is. I'm usually the last to defend the construction of the US economy, but I think this is a bit of an overreaction. The stock market is not the economy. B
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
Taxes aren't the issue. It's how people are taxed. Income tax is just one way people are taxed and they aren't the ONLY type of tax on income (despite people using the word tax to mean income tax). We have social security tax
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
It isn’t in all states. Jessie Ventura changed the rules for that when he became governor of Minnesota.
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
Yeah, Apple doesn't pay taxes, they sure got the last laugh.
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
The fact that this extremely dismissive comment can be upvoted makes me despair about ever fixing a broken healthcare system. Covid may have killed 250K in the US, but negative interactions with the medical system kill 150K year at the mini
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
We have to go all the way back to 2000 when Bush v Gore happened and Democrats claimed the election was stolen. Actually no, we just have to go back literally to just the last election when Hilary asked for recounts after conceding and then
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> When I'm feeling sad, I tend to be unmotivated and liable to spend more time / all day on my phone. Switch "on my phone" with "drinking alcohol" and that's literally how all alcoholics think.
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
That was not convincing at all and had some really glaring errors. Dr Shiva somehow confuses percent of overall voters with percent of Republicans to make it seem like there is a conspiracy going on. He says that margin for Trump should be
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> When your political agenda consists of annoying and offending "the other", they need to be present to take offense. I'm not sure what you mean by "the other". "The other" is an actual concept signifyi
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
They said the same thing about NSA surveillance before Snowden
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
well we can’t just build good public infrastructure - it also has to be a jobs program also /s
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
Its definitely going to be real world drivers who opt in at their own risk. My understanding is that Tesla views its large number of cars as a test ground to get to level 5 autonomy. It will slowly roll out more and more autonomous function
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
"Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts" - William S Burroughs
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
This sounds very rational but it is mostly wrong. Stock market like many other assets are driven mostly by credit cycles. Bubbles are created by natural credit cycles. The vast majority of money in the USA isn't hard cash, its credit.
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
To be fair, they aren't day traders. Day traders are people who trade on extremely short term basis (ie within the Day) often by doing chart analysis or breaking news. Her parents are buying good companies on hype during a bull market.
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
Today, in California the percentage of white babies is ~27%. Today. How on earth can you possibly say that in 2098 that "a huge percentage of white babies ... will be white"? Are there any demographic studies that say this? Where
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
First, I've honestly never hear of "Western" ethnicity, but I get what you are trying to say. Hispanics tend to self-identify as white, especially after a few generations. I think the rest of your analysis is just wrong. Firs
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> mostly-shared ethnic background America at this point has little shared ethnic background. It’s largest states are minority-majority for example and that will be the case everywhere soon as minority babies are already the majority.
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
Kids get sent to mental hospitals for skipping class (happened to my brother in California) and many other kids. Pretty much the same as incarceration. Please don’t laugh things away because you think they don’t happen.
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
That's just one data point. I could go on and on about how people make obviously bad decisions. Take college major choice. Why do so many people get worthless degrees? They can do a simple google search to see how much people with X ma
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> Lots of hard workers out there. I disagree with this. Never underestimate how many people just don't show up or try at all. Look at average screen time for Americans as a data point. It's a ridiculous 12 hours a day of media
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
SSRIs change personality. Its been decently well documented but not well publicized. https://www.health.com/mind-body/antidepressants-change-pers...
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
Part of it is that Google does a very good job making it FEEL like employees are making a lot of money, plus they have all these perks, which are mostly gimmicks. The reality is that Google, Facebook, and Apple make at least 2x what they sp
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
The problem with this is that it's only selectively applied. What happens when Pharma companies get caught lying in about effects of drugs? Are they going to be de-platformed? No, because they pay for ads and so they can spread lies al
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> I've worked at other companies with the same policy because why would you shoot yourself in the foot? If you are even slightly historically aware, US labor history is one of the most violent and adversarial in world history. We&#x
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
Whitey Ford pitched in the low 80s. Wow. That really puts things in perspective. I don't think you could make the major leagues pitching in the low 80s today. By comparison, the starting velocity for the Rays rotation is in 96 mph. Mos
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
This is wrong. My mom hired a professional and made under 4 percent a year during the biggest bull market in history. He got 1% and the mutual funds got 1% so fees were over half her gains. Professional financial advisors are mostly crooks.
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
What technological advancement? Is boring holes through a mountain somehow revolutionary technology?
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
We have that - its an investment Visa (EB-5).

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