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In fact, there's probably less people who understand the old money system than those that understand the crypto math. After all, the latter can be readily learned from books and whitepapers, go figure where do you learn how actually th
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"crypto" is a very wide word, there are a lot of technologies participating in the game, and a lot of technical details in them. Most are completely irrelevant to most regular people. Blockchain is pretty simple. There's a da
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That sounds great, but the "100%" part makes me worry. I don't know a lot of 100% effective medicines, there are always corner cases, and if they are claiming there aren't they are either exceptionally awesome, or lying.
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I know a number of places where you were rewarded for "rightthink" and could be imprisoned or murdered for "wrongthink". Most of them had been countries having "People's Democratic" or "Socialist&quot
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That's why I am so reluctant to participate in "community-driven" projects anymore. I don't even mind people making money from my free contributions. But if they eventually sell it to a bunch of private equity piranhas,
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Yeah, it's always "wrong socialism" when it's built. But the next one (after the next one, after the next one, after the next one) will be the right one and will not murder millions of people, despite the previous attemp
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People also like to eat McDonalds and drink hyper-sugary soda, that doesn't mean those are good for you and should be served at every venue (yes, I know Trump likes McDonalds, please don't bring it up here if you can). There shoul
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So you are saying "dismantling" is actually Trump speaking about what he's going to do rather than actual actions on the ground? In this case, the federal government has been "dismantled" by pretty much every Presid
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> Further, calling the Commander in Chief its "adversary" is terrible framing Terrible, but not an unusual one. There has been a lot of talk about CIA feuding with various presidents, starting from JFK at least. And it's n
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"Dismantling" is very far from what is happening. "Slightly reducing" would be more accurate - even if we concentrate on the discretionary budget, i.e. start with ignoring 3/4 of the whole federal spending - the pro
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Care to provide any evidence for at least some?
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> this isn't the case for many on their way to work in a construction work van. How many of those van-traveling green card holding construction workers have been fined or imprisoned for failure to carry the green card lately? I don&
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Carry a REAL-ID enabled state ID? Those are not available to illegals in any state. All newer state IDs AFAIK are REAL-ID enabled by default. And you probably will need to use some form of ID anyway pretty frequently.
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Many don't do this because they don't feel the need. I've spent about a decade in the US as a green card holder, and the only cases I ever been asked for it is either crossing the border or being hired. And I never heard abou
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> has a yearly burglar/fire alarm licence fee. Wow, they never ever stop nickel-and-diming people, do they?
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The whole concept of "identity theft" is this. Consider this: some dude D comes to bank B and says "I'm actually John Smith, given me $TONS of money". Bank gives the money and D disappears. Now B comes to actual Joh
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I assume collections pays (pennies on the dollar, but still >0) for each case, so being more thorough in verification of this literally costs them (the ISP) money. And, also, people who are being pissed off aren't clients anymore an
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If something goes wrong and you followed the procedure, the chances you're getting fired are very low. If something goes wrong and it is discovered you didn't follow the procedure, the chances of you being assigned the blame and f
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They are not police either. They are just armed men at government service. TSA inspectors in particular are not armed, but that's immaterial - there are other armed government workers around that could be used if needed. Police is only
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There are many more armed services in the US than police/military. Dept. of Education has a SWAT team. Amtrak has armed force. US Park service has one. Really, there are so many of them.
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I omitted Netherlands because while they did actually have lèse-majesté laws on the books, and prosecuted people under it, they abolished it after Trump's first presidency. OK, I am kidding, it had nothing at all to do with Trump, they
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Strictly speaking, yes. It was a totalitarian communist state, though people often use "fascist" to mean any totalitarian state, even if fascism is only one of many ways a totalitarian state can be implemented.
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There's some inspection in practically every transport hub when I travel. While I traveled internationally the most strict was in Germany. I really don't mind a lot - there are good reasons to be careful - but they had guards in f
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If border officers being armed or inspecting luggage is a definition of fascism to you, you'd struggle hard to find a lot of non-fascist countries. I have my luggage inspected each time I travel, and a lot of security personnel in airp
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Germany: https://www.foxnews.com/media/germany-started-criminal-inves... France: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230329-french-woman-... Spain: https://www.catalannews.co
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> want what they say they want Which is what? Pretty much all leftist state models require strong state, which leaves very little space to privacy. Somebody who holds both leftist or collectivist political beliefs and hopes for privacy i
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It feels kinda ironic to find this kind of article in The Nation . I mean if it were Reason , sure. But The Nation is a leftist publication, endorsing Sanders. Of all regimes that I could find myself in, I'd expect to be the least am
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Take the steering wheel out. Most modern cars are already networked and are capable of tracking your every movement and recording anything that happens inside and in the vicinity of the car. Not all of them do that, and not all of them pres
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This is a cheap bait - of course when there's a small number of leniently moderated popular platforms, there will eventually be a high-profile criminal that would use one of them, because a) that what "popular" means and b) a
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> united by hatred of a scapegoat. United by hatred of a scapegoat that they didn't choose on a random whim or due to some common agenda. Otherwise it's completely fine.

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