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by skh 8y ago
In situations like this people need to understand what exactly was being voted on. It's common in American federal politics for bills to be voted on that contain poison pills so that headlines like the story you linked to can be made.
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by skh 8y ago
The Coast Guard are under DHS and not the DOD. They are working without pay and are not allowed to quit.
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by skh 8y ago
Members of the Coast Guard are not allowed to quit. They are under UCMJ rules. EDIT: For those that don't know the Coast Guard is not part of the Department of Defense. They are under DHS and are not getting paid and are not allowed
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by skh 8y ago
Wouldn't that be 10 additional minutes in the thermal bag? If it sits waiting for 10 minutes for the rest of my order wouldn't the time in the thermal bag be in addition to this. Also, in the U.S. delivery in my experience with
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by skh 8y ago
In the U.S. we typically feel compelled to tip. This might not be the case for you if you aren’t in the U.S. I looked into using Postmates to try it out and it came to around $10 to use if I didn’t tip generously.
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by skh 8y ago
I don’t know the history of union organizing in the U.S. but I believe unions have a right to try to organize at a business and can do so on the business’ property. Can people trying to organize use a bulletin board? Can they post flyers
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by skh 8y ago
It arrives cold, no? Delivered restaurant food makes no sense to me. Won’t things get all mashed together? The plating will not be nice. And to pay for such a service? I don’t get it.
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by skh 8y ago
I’ve paid people to cook things for me. I’ve paid someone to cook shitty fast food for me. I’ve never paid someone to deliver that shitty fast food to me. When it arrives it is at best warm and even more disgusting. I don’t see the appe
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by skh 8y ago
But not fast food delivery. This is a recent thing. And most restaurants didn’t do delivery. I don’t see the point of ordering a meal that is best eaten hot to be delivered when it comes to the house warm.
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by skh 8y ago
Fast food is usually only palatable hot. By the time it gets delivered it’s cold, no? Also fast food is cheap and the delivery cost is a large percentage of the overall bill. I mean a $10 meal ends up being $20.
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by skh 8y ago
I think I’m old fashioned but I just don’t understand the appeal of these food delivery services. My friend’s son uses Postmates to order fast food and it seems absurd to me. I must be missing something about theses services given their po
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by skh 8y ago
I don’t see how allowing workers to use workplace email to organize can be equated to coercing speech. Worker protections in the U.S. are quite poor in relation to the EU. I see no evidence that further limiting worker rights would be goo
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by skh 8y ago
The page reminded me of Fyre Festival. Probably since the two documentaries about Fyre Festival are being talked about. I'm skeptical they can deliver. I hope to be proven wrong.
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by skh 8y ago
I lived in Berlin for a while and when I came back to the U.S. the two things that stood out were the massive parking lots and billboards. American cities are hostile to humans. Way too much space taken up by ugly parking lots. Go out We
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by skh 8y ago
Not an economist or a socialist but your question: It's one where the government has unilateral authority to marshal all of a society's resources. Do we really want, say, Trump to be able to print as much money as he wants to fun
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by skh 8y ago
The scenarios you suggest happening if taxes are easy to file don’t have to be the consequence. It’s a possible consequence but overall I don’t think it would happen the way you suggest. I think it highly unlikely that it would lead to wh
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by skh 8y ago
Quite a few Americans have a haunting fear of a poor person getting something they don’t deserve. Hence, our social welfare system is not on par with what one expects in other rich nations. There is also what I call the Daniel Boone image
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by skh 8y ago
Well, I misread the comment I responded to. I thought they said that academy graduates don’t start off at lieutenant and start off at a higher rate.
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by skh 8y ago
Correlation does not always imply causation. We live in a world with imperfect information and each of us has to decide the best course of action based on the evidence available. The phrase “global warming” is just a shorthand way of sayi
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by skh 8y ago
It’s not one data point. It’s an additional data point on top of millions of other data points.
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by skh 8y ago
In the U.S. military this is not true. People graduating from OCS, ROTC, or one of the academies start off at O-1 (2nd Lieutenant).
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by skh 8y ago
I could give you a list of books that are used at the graduate and undergraduate level that are considered good. However, almost none of them really discuss the motivations behind topics. My suggestion is to start with this book by Arnold
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by skh 8y ago
The buyer always pays the cost of both the seller's and buyer's agent in the same way that people who rent apartments do pay property tax. That cost happens to be hidden in the sense that there is no specific charge that the buye
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by skh 8y ago
But suggestions are equally effective in terms of outcomes. Both suggestions are equally pointless which is maxxxx’s point.
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by skh 8y ago
Most people did not have a problem with McCain-Feingold. Some people did. The effect of Citizens United is that corporations have the same free speech rights as humans. This despite the fact that Citizens United (the entity) is not a for
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by skh 8y ago
The New York Times is not an organization of people who came together to exercise their free speech rights. Its employees are there, primarily, to work. The product they sell is information/entertainment. This product does not chang
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by skh 8y ago
I meant Citizens United as a reference to the Supreme Court case not to the specific entity in that case. The effect of the cas was that corporations in the U.S. have free speech rights.
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by skh 8y ago
A company is not an organization of people who come together to exercise their free speech. This is especially true of large corporations. Large corporations are controlled by a few individuals and those individuals have at their disposal
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by skh 8y ago
I see you missed the entire point of my post.
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by skh 8y ago
I own some Apple stock. I don’t influence in any meaningful way how Apple spends its money. I don’t influence in any meaningful way their corporate policy. The owners of Apple, save for a few individuals, don’t have a real say in how A

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