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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
Whole foods has pivoted from your local health foods store--at a national scale to a national superstore--at a higher quality. Grocery and especially natural groceries are turbulent. Their customers generally check enough boxes to end up in
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
The only solution that will save small towns is dismantling some of the industrialisation that freed people up to work in the factory or mill that no longer exists. It's a trivial example, but ban preservatives in bread and now they ne
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
I'm not sure how water rights work in California, but I think in many places on the west (coast) water rights are not transferable to avoid speculation over what--now more than ever--needs to be a public resource.
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
> The car market in its' totality has always struck me as being irrational. Consumers aren't known for their rationality.
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
Visit the rural parts of the US and you'll see that see-destructive behaviors are way too common. There's no hope right now for half the country. Whatever wealth they had has been mined out.
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
> I am more worried about votes where we have to verify an absent voter simply because the chance of fraud increases How high are the chances really? The work required to fraudulently submit even a single absentee ballot would just not b
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
> You have a new player in social media (yet we apparently need to break up the big tech companies because you can't enter the market anymore). The existence of competition doesn't mean they're within the spirit of anti-tr
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
I think consistent exercise is extremely important as well. And it should be right sort of exercise. I found yoga to be a key activity. It leaves you alone with yourself, no one to compete with. You eventually have to succumb yourself and j
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
Even Portland and Eugene love to boast how bicycle friendly they are, but neither are really commutable by anything besides a car for most people. Which is why most cyclists are so prolific -- it's hard to be a cyclist by circumstance.
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
As a kid in the early '90s the corner market, grocery store, schools from elementary to high, both jobs I had, and park were all within a 10 minute walk -- and that was in the suburbs. Cars don't need to be a requirement for daily
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
Unfortunately I think that's a little idealistic. Compulsory support and funding by the state for the arts and sciences is necessary for a host of reasons. You could say similar things about about climate change - if you care about it,
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
This comes off as peering from an ivory tower - essentially "stop studying literature and fix my pipes." Considering we are probably collectively in the wealthiest period humanity has ever experienced we could try not leaving the
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
What qualifies a degree as an "undesirable pile of shit?" Studying English is not at all useless. It definitely provides value to our society and produces people with useful skills applicable across disciplines. Being burdened wit
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
Ironically it's more stressful for someone to do less work and put on a farce. He's always worried he'll be called out and have nothing to show for it.
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
> Monopoly is if one corporation owns an entire market. This isn't quite right. Traditionally for a company to be a monopoly it isn't even required it control a majority of the market. It has more to do with the company being i
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
That is unnecessarily divisive. Northern European countries trust each other more. They might have an ethnic and cultural history that enables trust while The US doesn't. No one can deny the influences and overlaps of public policy, cu
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
While it may be true for a subset of posters here, the idea of just finding a new job if it doesn't suit you is not possible for most people. The majority of people need to be able to do something mildly productive and be able to live
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
Surely the value of a penny to The US government is more than just the monetary value displayed on the face of the coin. The ability to store 0.01 USD has to be worth more than 0.01 USD or at least (production cost) - 0.01 USD.
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
At least how we organize work today, it sucks tremendously hard. Someone might pretend he likes it, but no one likes waking up at 6am, commuting both ways, and effectively losing half his day doing something he might not enjoy. There's
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
I'm not an expert in any degree, but it seems that there are plenty of problems out there, just that the only ones being solved cater to investors and wealthy tech-workers. There's no money in improving infrastructure, returning g
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
To me basic income seems like an incredibly -bourgeois- solution. Accepting it as a solution accepts that the current economic practices are not working for large swaths of the working-age population.
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
>For some reason that period of tremendous growth barely helped millennials. I don't think it's just us, though it probably disproportionately is. What wealth small and medium towns had has moved to cities, you just won't
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
Nostalgia is dangerous and the past isn't better simply because we remember the good parts from it. We pretend memory is crystal, but we tend to stitch together the best memories and even fill-in the gaps of what we forgot with lies. I
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
> If there was then patents, copyrights, trademarks, and fit of licensing, etc would all be wrong to the same degree. Patents and copyright exist novel and interesting works and ideas for a limited amount of time. It's an obvious ar