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by rpiguy 7y ago
1920s were not peak America. Post WW2 left us as the only untouched industrial power and our share of global GDP was incredible. The US was 90% white in 1950, if it was a good time for white people than it was a good time for the vast major
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No it is just sour grapes. "It doesn't matter that most people remember it fondly, they shouldn't" gist of the article is ridiculous. Cut me a break. I will repeat it was peak America. Interstates, television (and the cu
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It doesn't matter what statistics this professor digs up on the 1950s - the 50s are remembered fondly for the general sense of optimism, confidence, and national pride. Yes it was better for white people, but that doesn't change a
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These two articles sum it up nicely. About 5.7% of men are depressed and about 8.7% of women. Most people are just fine. I hate alarmist journalism and sensational headlines. https://www.healthline.com/health/depression
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Whataboutism would imply I was trying to refute your value judgement. I was pointing out how divisive they are.
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It is at times like these that I wish Hacker News included number of views in addition to the number of replies. Threads like this give the impression that everyone is miserable and fill up quickly with sad stories. It’s good the internet g
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That’s already happened in certain US populations with disastrous consequences.
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Your assertion is extremely divisive. It implies female behavior is the norm (men and their idiosyncrasies) and that male behavior is errant. Women have plenty of idiosyncrasies and errant behavior, too.
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Jobs would have fired everyone on the thread.
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The perception of time passing faster with age is well known phenomenon. An important secondary character in the novel Catch-22 is obsessed with this. I used to think I was just impatient as a kid when ten minutes felt like forever. Now hav
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Is Monty Python lost on this generation?
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Nobody expects the Inquisition.
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GMs profit comes almost completely from large SUVs and Pickup trucks, which gives the union a lot of power. Essentially, they are selling pickup trucks and Escalades to Americans with fantastic margins to prop-up their car business (which i
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This is a great time to strike if you want to distract people from the fact that your top officials and president are under investigation :-)
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Because the benefits they receive today are far superior to medicare. In fact all of the Democrat candidates in favor of medicare for all have made explicit promises to unions that they can keep their expensive health plans if medicare for
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Actually many homes were built all electric in the US in the era between 1960-1980 because the nation was promised limitless, cheap electricity from Nuclear power, etc. In the 80s oil and gas prices plummeted in the US, but electrical power
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Yes but this missile is intended to be nuclear armed as well. Obviously the test missile won't have a live warhead, but if it makes production these are nuclear weapons.
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ICBM launches can be detected by satellite. A nuclear powered cruise missile could be launched undetected from anywhere (because of its near unlimited range). It will eventually show up on radar when it gets close enough to the target, but
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Arbitrage is a foundational aspect of capitalism there is no legal argument to be made against squatters unless laws are changed. I agree it would be more fair if the domain registry could predict the future value of domains and charge more
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Why can investors buy land and leave it undeveloped until there is an opportunity for profit? It is the same concept. The land is unproductive until somebody wants to live on it, or build their business on it. It is true that many communiti
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It is so easy to immediately take a side here, but I have never seen her content. It is true that people are being de-platformed unfairly and I am usually against deplatforming, but others do deserve it. Regardless, she's a kid. As muc
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Commerce is good and barriers to it should be minimal. Libraries are community property, paid for by tax payers. If you are going to borrow community property it is not a small thing. Almost anyone can walk into a library, pick up a book, a
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Your thoughts are not old school at all. The Constitution initially left it up to the states to determine who was eligible to vote and most states restricted voting to white, male, property owners - thus requiring a deed of property to regi
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As it should be.
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You are of course right. While I stand by my assertion that they have tried to cowtow to China in order to get into the market, their services are blocked and China has resisted letting them back in. Their efforts are likely dead or stalled
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I am personally all for freedom of information and also would like the concept of protected groups to go away, however... Liable is incredibly hard to prove in court, and usually cases are taken in civil court not criminal court. Can a plat
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I agree that political ideologies are similar to religions and that protections may be extended to them (although they should already be covered by what is in the constitution). What I don't follow is why it matters that platforms are
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Google is a profit-seeking corporation that needs to expand into China to generate more money and bends the knee as much as it can to make inroads there. Far from being a source of truth they follow all Chinese censorship laws (why, because
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The difference in this case is that the usual defenders of private property rights and libertarianism feel as though Google is suppressing them, potentially removing the usual roadblock to this kind reform. This is a rare instance where ant
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The difference in this case is that the usual defenders of private property rights and libertarianism feel as though Google is suppressing them removing the usual roadblock to this kind reform. This is a rare instance where anti-corporate l

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