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5y ago
NYC has "extreme cold" and likely puts heat pumps into their very inefficient range many days of the year.
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5y ago
But they claim Satan would be OK, Satanism is recogized religion in the US, even has Tax Exempt status. So if NASA was headed by a Satanist, and they proclaim "Thank Satan" then according to mulmen that would be OK. Given this c
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5y ago
So why would those 3 fictional characters be ok, but the fictional character of God not be OK? It is also telling you refusing the answer the question about other religion so I will go ahead and assume your like most and save your ire for o
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5y ago
Ironically, the 1st amendment of the US Constitution will protect his speech. As Americans we have the RIGHT to express religion free from government intrusion, that includes officials of the government contrary to what the Freedom from re
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5y ago
>>It isn’t. It is a harmful stereotype. I dont see it has either a stereotype, nor harmful to acknowledge Christians in our society, or their contribution. In fact pretending they do not exist is IMO more harmful >JWST is not about
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5y ago
Wrong. keewee7 stated the Christian Americans Taxpayers paid for 80% of the program, turns out keewee7 is only slightly off, and as Christian American Taxpayers only paid for about 63%
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5y ago
>>Not in courts in the USA. hmmm I wonder if that is why I stated "SHOULD BE" not that is was. Clearly the indication was that I believe the current position by the court system is wrong, and that we have allowed law enfor
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5y ago
I am American taxpayer, NOT a Christian or any other popular religion, I would appreciate people allowing others to express their religion as they see fit, That is American... The fact this guy is being blasted because of his religion is
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Well I am never convinced by an argument of "well others do it", that is never a valid justification IMO. The US has always done things different than the EU, and IMO that is a good thing. As to fire, that is but one of many othe
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>>Do you give them ideas, pretend to give them the means, and encourage (or even nag/pressure) them? I mean, we do, but is that a good thing? All of that should be considered entrapment, and law enforcement should not be doing it
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5y ago
>>Bobby Fijan, a developer in Philadelphia I am also sure this developer would love to accept full responsibility should a fire occur in a single stair building that prevented people from evac, I am sure this developer would not hide
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5y ago
Yea, every fire code I know how requires a minimum of 2 escape route for occupancy
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5y ago
7% should considered unacceptable. It is great for those with hard assets, it is TERRIBLE for the working poor. Funny how many of the same people that claim to want to help the poor (democrats) have no problem with high inflation Inflation
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5y ago
Have they? because last I checked they (both the Tresury, and The Fed) still insist that this inflation is transitory, supply chain issue not their monentary policy... (they investigated themselves and found they did nothing wrong) And t
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5y ago
>> US ... was desperately trying to raise inflation. Well good news, they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams....
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Depends on the type of Auto Loan you get, if you have good credit then that is largely true, but there are auto loans that "Add On" the full interest at the start of the loan, so there is no prepayment advantage, rarer but stil
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5y ago
Ford == motorcraft.... It is telling that the "Big 3" have their own branding for their parts divisions, where I dont believe any of the other manufacturers do?
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Get used to it, that is where we are moving. The "Post Ownership society" Everything will be a subscription, probably even the air you breath
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5y ago
Dealership makes money selling you parts via their mechanic services, not selling you parts to DIY your repairs. The parts dept does not want to sell to you directly, like autozone, they want to sell to you via your "service advisor&
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5y ago
On top of that, they keep wanting people to finance cars longer and longer to cover the ever increasing costs while keeping monthly payments the same. We are upto some finance offering 84 mo;s now for a new car purchase, 7 years Image buyi
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5y ago
Ironically I view giving democratic governments more power as abandoning the weak to the whims of the majority, which we have seen time and time again in history even recent history Democracy after all is 2 wolves and lamb voting on what i
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The question "can government be trusted" is long answered with a resounding NO it can not Government like fire is a useful servant, but a fearful master. This is why we have separation of powers, checks and balances, and a federa
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5y ago
It is hard if you want to say "Buy American" or something like that But I find it easy to avoid chinese products, for example I just recently was in the market for some cookware, I thought my choices were expensive American made
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5y ago
I agree with the parent comment, Software that tries to be everything to everyone always sucks. I think the Emby's, Kodi's, and Plex's of the world should focus on the "home Theater" space, making the best experie
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I can assure you no employer that before ACA had employees working 34-36hrs a week magically started giving them health insurance and made them 40 hour workers. no the ONLY thing that happened is those workers had 15% of their hours cut, i.
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>Government didn't create this problem because it didn't mandate that employee healthcare be a benefit from employers. That was simply "laissez-faire capitalism", No it absolutely was not. Employer provided benefits
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IRS requires employers to look at no less than 3 and no more than 12 calender months (chosen by the employer) to set average hours. "Scheduled" is not a factor in the law, it is how many hours the employee works on average over
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Pretty sure none of that is relevant to my comment, Politicians have been trying to persuade the public to allow the government to take over health care since the 1990's, and have enacted a number of policies to worsen the health mar
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5y ago
The way to get UBI is to first replace all Social programs with the negative Income Tax. You solve the social problems, you stop the welfare trap, and you put the economy on the Path to a UBI. Until we replace all social programs with som
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More and more companies are direct insurance, meaning even if they use an "insurance company" to manage the group, that is just for the administration of the group. The companies are paying the medical costs of the employee dire
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