salamandersss

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by salamandersss 3y ago
Your opinion is perfectly valid. The main expectations I am driven by are to provide the child with adequate resources to thrive, to not neglect the child, and to give them a good footing to navigate this life. I'm not sure if these a
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by salamandersss 3y ago
Or the fifth state, colic. It can last for months and the child will cry every waking hour. The binary flag is stuck 'on' which in my experience set every family member into a meltdown so you'll get no relief, because a bab
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by salamandersss 3y ago
I think it's ok if you don't find joy. Personally I had a very involved father and supportive partner. I understand my duty and am fulfilling it with full acceptance and gravity, I just keep this one piece of independence for my
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by salamandersss 3y ago
Once you experience the other side, outside of a psuedo-anonymous forum you're not really allowed to have the other opinion, and you'll quickly learn to shut up or 'lie' or become a hated pariah. It becomes a bit of an
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by salamandersss 3y ago
Meh I mean it's true for some not others. I had a kid and never particularly found the richness and depth emotional feeling. Of course if you express the opinion you find parenting to be basically another duty you must fulfill to the b
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by salamandersss 3y ago
I was no "real" soldier but due to some weird circumstances I fought in a war. The difficult part of returning home is everything is so low stakes, the freedom to ride around on a Hilux living by your wits and a rifle turns into a
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by salamandersss 3y ago
What I really care about is healthcare, childcare, education, owning a home for my family, and good food. How are my wages doing against that? Everything but food -- downhill.
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by salamandersss 3y ago
I love this quote, and suspect the lack of wisdom was referring to wisdom to be a good steward of the public resources rather than their infinite wisdom in finding cunning and deceptive ways to plunder it.
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by salamandersss 3y ago
I mean the US effectively outlawed an arguably most versatile of all vehicles for vast spaces of US, the compact truck, which fits somewhere in the middle of vehicle sizes. I suspect most of those people had to move to another class, perha
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by salamandersss 3y ago
The only reason why an SUV is economical for me is I'm pillaging sedan and small car owners by making them pay my share.
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by salamandersss 3y ago
>decades because the only force acting upon carmakers is the desire of the car buyer. Trucks, and perhaps some cars also got bigger also because of fuel efficiency regulations (CAFE) that require a larger footprint if gas mileage is wors
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by salamandersss 3y ago
Privatizing all roads would ironically probably be the fastest way to cut down on oversized vehicles. Nobody wants to pay a quadratic weighted toll on the GVWR of a bunch of extra SUV, but when they have to pay it all in taxes non-quadrati
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by salamandersss 3y ago
Yeah I bought some extremely cheap property through a realtor and felt I made out like a bandit vs through a lawyer or dealing with that shit myself. Realtors want to charge a percentage? Cool story bros, I'll burn out the green labo
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by salamandersss 3y ago
It was worth it for me when buying cheap land. Since it's percentage based the amount was quite low; cheaper than a lawyer and I had a license to use the realtor association buyer contracts and connections to helpful people in the tit
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by salamandersss 3y ago
You pay the tax to have someone fight it anyway, with a side of dealing with a police apparatus so powerful you can only hope to run from when they turn against you in violation of civil protections.
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by salamandersss 3y ago
Feds got a search warrant for me because an unnamed dog I never met accused me of wrongdoing and told an unnamed officer who told a named detective who told a judge. The bar is low. Sounds like they need an imaginary dog that can't be
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by salamandersss 3y ago
I was not intending to make that case. Negative real interest in our real life reality where the better off have better access to credit nearly certainly hurts cash based poor by making homes etc cost less in real terms to the rich at the
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by salamandersss 3y ago
An electric range for $60 goes a long way. Hell when I was homeless I used a portable gas stove that even works on siphoned gasoline, and packs up in a bag about the diameter of a cellphone wide, hardly ever needed to eat out.
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by salamandersss 3y ago
Yep. It's using the fed to reallocate money from the inflated cash based poor to the credit rich home owner. Home owners are basically using government induced negative real interest rates to regressively tax non-homeowners. We got b
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by salamandersss 3y ago
I have no idea. For instance does France require special flight clearance after taking antidepressants even for non-psych gastrointestinal issues?
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by salamandersss 3y ago
Black and Native American life expectancy drag it down a fair bit. A median European dropped in US only loses a few years. In fact this goes for lots of stuff; drop someone from Norway in America and their chance of dying by gun doesn&#x2
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by salamandersss 3y ago
Yes the federal regulations make demands in order to connect. The feds can release their hostages and drop the federal regulation demands and deregulate and Texas would surely connect to these interstate grids as they did to Mexico.
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by salamandersss 3y ago
Texas is connected to Mexico and some other exceptions. The fed though would rather frozen dead Texans than deregulate and allow ERCOT to connect as they do to Mexico. Fed basically holding some of the poorer rural Texans hostage to influ
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by salamandersss 3y ago
I try to reconcile this with the fact DEAs judge 30 years ago ruled pot should be rescheduled and here we are 30 years later and only now has the president gotten to attempt to get the executive underlings to act as they themselves ruled af
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by salamandersss 3y ago
Yes there should be distinctions if level of corruption. For instance stealing candy from a baby and putting an ad in the paper saying you've done it is probably less bad than stealing candy when nobody sees it. And no I don't t
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by salamandersss 3y ago
Yep. Ruth Ginsburg was another corrupt one, taking lavish trips funded by Israeli billionaires. But whoops, I wasn't supposed to mention the ones people here may like.
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by salamandersss 3y ago
Plenty of rural places like that. Many on HN would call them unregulated shitholes but it's not hard to find a place where police are an hour drive away and the residents are expected for better or worse to handle our own business. We
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by salamandersss 3y ago
I would argue path to PR on humanitarian grounds, but not citizen centric ones. It's probably ideal from a citizen's perspective to be like Dubai and attract talent with easy professional temp visas and then shitcan them the seco
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by salamandersss 3y ago
I knew you'd understand these nuances a lot faster once presented with an American imperfect analogue. The truth as I gather is somewhere in between -- deportation extremely rare but possible especially in case of serious crime.
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by salamandersss 3y ago
That's one way you could interpret it. You might say the same thing applies to visa overstays in the US, which isn't a crime and essentially unenforced except at easily predictable attempts to elicit self snitching at inland bord

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