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by ryan_lane 1y ago
You wipe (or wash) their paws when they come in.
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
> Do you not see the problem for both people and for the long-term funding of the Texas Lotto if this kind of thing were continuously possible? I don't think it's a problem for the lotto to not exist. As for the underlying prob
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
The state still collected their taxes, so it still feels within the spirit of the game.
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
> It clearly is against the spirit of the game The spirit of the game is to create a tax on the poor and middle class without calling it a tax.
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
Autism isn't an excuse for hate, and folks on the spectrum don't like this argument, because it portrays them as being unable to have any control over their thought.
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
> In very simple terms, you are just intolerant. You just gave yourself a permission to hate ( because your hate is so totally different from their kind of hate ). On the off-chance sarcasm was not obvious, it is not some sort of neat tr
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
Yeah, it's OK to disagree with people who agree with a political stance that involves depriving people of their rights, to the point of sending people to violent work camps and refusing to bring people back even when it's found th
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
Why argue about this, when you can read a well written blog post that discusses this matter in detail? https://www.lwv.org/blog/whats-so-bad-about-voter-id-laws
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
MAGA isn't 50% of the population. Voter turnout was 63.7% for 2024, so I'm saying that ~32% of the USA population are objectively shit people, in the same way that Germans who supported Hitler were objectively shit people. If you
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
If you're directly passing the tariff increase along, without markup, are you comfortable reporting to your stock holders a decrease in margin?
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
Increasing cost of imported goods will increase demand on equivalent domestically produced goods, which are also often supply constrained. Locally produced goods will increase their prices as much as the market allows (which is somewhere ar
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
If tariffs were being added as a response to poor working conditions, and a requirement of lifting the tariffs was to improve working conditions, that could potentially be seen as a generally positive outcome for the world. Producing the sa
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
> by enabling people in the working class to find genuine work that produces value, not some ditch-digging make-work government program Like building out clean energy infrastructure? Modern "ditch digging government programs" a
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
You're acting as if people are saying "democrat good, republican bad" as the meaning for associating values with who someone voted for, but missing the part that you can easily associate that someone has poor values if they v
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
Not everyone has drivers licenses, especially poorer folks, especially minorities. The requirements for drivers IDs are now to get RealIDs and some of these folks don't have access to things like birth certificates and other requiremen
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
Overstay on a visa is a civil offense, not a criminal one. Yes, you're subject to deportation, but shouldn't be subject to detention. So, no, ICE/CBP is not enforcing the law.
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
It's still the absolute minority of people, and they can continue using biodiesel for their cases. No one is going to force them to switch, and it doesn't change the fact that nearly all people who use gas need to go to a statio
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
My dude. No one in their sane mind is making their own gasoline. Like, I can get the idea that some folks want to bring extra fuel around with them for off-roading, but you're talking extreme off-the-grid use-cases and no one cares abo
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
No one is saying _you must use an EV_ if your use-case doesn't fit. That doesn't change the fact that most people aren't you. I've for example never brought around extra gas. The goal is to have most cars shifted over to
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
It also likely gives you cancer over time. It likely also gives the rest of us cancer, asthma, and a number of other health conditions. It also poisons our water and air. You also must charge at a station, whereas electric vehicles can be
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
ICOs were being used by VCs to do rug pulls. Everyone buying at the ICO lost everything. DeFi promised absolutely insane interest rates, built on a house of cards. When the cards collapsed, everyone who invested in them lost everything. The
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
They haven't changed. The point from the beginning is scams and greed.
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
Confidently incorrect. Federal employees marked as "mission critical" cannot strike, but other federal employees can. Unions take this into account and have workers strike on-behalf of mission critical employees.
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
Every Trump related post today is being flagged. Where's the editorial oversight here, @dang?
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
The US already does have tough public prosecutors. It also has overly tough mandatory sentencing, poor public defender availability, extremely high plea agreement rates, and folks with a criminal history can't get jobs (and in many cas
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
For a lot of foreign investment, the point is to hide money. A lot of investment provides negative value. Hidden money in residential real estate inflates the market and in most of these cases they also leave the units vacant, reducing hous
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
"What that foreign capital also does is lower risk and thus capital costs for development and improvement." Not a theoretical argument. An assertion.
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
Where's the source for your assertion? You're making a claim that foreign investment is beneficial with no source, but then requiring one when someone disagrees with you?
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
> Let's hear it for strong public prosecutors Let me guess, you're a conservative who thinks being "tough on crime" is the answer to crime, and being tougher will make us safer. My dude, Japan isn't particularly
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by ryan_lane 2y ago
> The answer is that big cities in the US and Western Europe have changed in the past 20-30 years. Yeah, to become _safer_. Todays big cities are considerably safer than they were when you or I were allowed to roam free. I grew up in New

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