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by syshum 5y ago
ROFL.. that is rich.. No the US Congress in their political cowardliness passes objectives they wish to see, they then empower unconstitutionally the executive branch to create numerous "administrative laws" to achieve those obj
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by syshum 5y ago
I dont believe I said anything about concentrating the power into the hands of the president. If anything the 4th branch was created by the congress, and its continued existence is allowed because the US Supreme Court will not stop the con
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I am not sure where educated vs uneducated comes into play here. I know the media seems to play this up and it seems you buy into this narrative. Also I resist the idea that attaining a degree, any degree, qualifies as "educated"
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by syshum 5y ago
There is a bit of unrealistic faith there... even if a president knows how to turn the knobs the bureaucracy has its own beliefs and positions, and can absolutely slow things down to where it is impossible to make the change if the bureaucr
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by syshum 5y ago
>Turns out there is a fourth branch: Bureaucracy yes that is also known as the Deep State, which the grand parent claims is "nonsense"
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by syshum 5y ago
>>despite all the "Deep State" nonsense You believe it is nonsense? I figured it was just generally understood that the President is more or less powerless really at this point, This is not new under Trump, hell this real
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by syshum 5y ago
Well good news, that was done a long time ago to the point now where the hospitals are soo empty we can just fire people for not following the mandates... I mean they would not fire nurses and doctors if they were critically needed would th
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by syshum 5y ago
So where do you stop? Do I need mandatory testing for all illness as well? What about inebration, should my door have a BAC meter on it? Every car?? The amount of draconian authoritarianism people are willing to accept here is insanity
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by syshum 5y ago
The OP did not say they could not, or should not be allowed to prevent patrons from talking, only that they personally would choose not to eat there To many people believe "freedom" means "people need to do, and accept what I
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by syshum 5y ago
>>Beware hosting anything with them unless you keep backups with another provider. That should be true of any provider / data.. 3 is 1, 2 is none, and 1 is crazy... If you are not following 3-2-1 backup you are asking for trou
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by syshum 5y ago
There is no need to stick to your strawmen when we have real world actual examples. If you demand others only address your strawmen then you have recognized the weakness of your argument
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>> Are you at fault because you have to, in theory, keep in control at all times? Yes... We already have examples of this with machinery that is automated. The Humans in charge of these automated machines are responsible for monitori
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That is marketing video from 2016, which many including the NTHSA criticized Tesla over, and which Tesla has updated documentation, driver prompts, and other marketing to reflect that the system is not "autonomous" infact if you l
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by syshum 5y ago
I have long said that society has become such risk adverse that if someone invented a technology like the car today it would never be allowed in society. I said this pre-COVID, and COVID has now cemented this idea, we will not accept any l
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by syshum 5y ago
The problem here is Tesla does not make the claim that the car is autonomous, in fact they clearly state otherwise, nor it is legal for any driver to operate the car like it was autonomous To continue your analogy Chainsaw manufacturers in
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by syshum 5y ago
>>Except actually, using Google's “services” is mandatory if I want to obtain such luxuries as food and shelter in the area where I currently reside What Hell-Hole do you live in? >>What hell-hole do you live in‽ the US &gt
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by syshum 5y ago
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
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None of that is true, in fact it really is opposite. Google has to entice people into voluntary exchange, yes the power is imbalanced but it is possible to remove yourself from google, thousands have. You can not remove yourself from gov
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by syshum 5y ago
Well in the case in question is a US case, based on US Law, and using CFAA to get around the 1st amendment is indeed scary and should be given more weight than a causal dimssial of "well we hate censorship but...." which calls in
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by syshum 5y ago
>>Can you host your own web search? (Or can you function without a web search?) Yes [1] [1] https://yacy.net/ >>Can you host your own auction platform for everything? Seems odd to call this out, you must you eba
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by syshum 5y ago
I find it highly ironic that in a thread about subjective evil one talks about granting more power to governments... The only institution on the planet that has granted itself the right to legally steal, plunder, and murder you... I am no f
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by syshum 5y ago
I think the Parent comment is referring to non-immigration population increases. The US Population growth is due to immigration not from citizens having more children. Immigration, and US Born children to immigrants account for 75 percent
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by syshum 5y ago
And the Income Tax originally was only 3% and only applied to less than 1% of the population. The idea that it would apply to everyone, and be 20% was literally laughed out of the debate on implementing a national income tax as a "craz
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by syshum 5y ago
Based on tax filings other users have posted on reddit, they are a profitable company, now their level of profitability is probably not enough to satisfy the venture capital they took though. The issue here, with niche products you must i
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by syshum 5y ago
Outside of Cloud Storage (which is is not worth $8/mo) and handwritting there is nothing in their services that require cloud.. The storage integration should be on the device, they choose to make it via the cloud service. There is no
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by syshum 5y ago
I like hardware. Love it infact. For me the subscription service itself is not the issue, it is far far far too expensive for what they offer in it, and they have broken my trust. The first thing I did after their announcement was disabl
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by syshum 5y ago
Ironicly government is what cases your health insurance to rise due to obese people. Government prevents companies for charging more based on health conditions, except smoking. So a company is prohibited by law from taking obesity into acc
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>> The fact that you don't realize this is indicative of how unfounded your fears are about government over-reach. This is very amusing... maybe I do realize it, maybe I believe the government is already over reaching, and mayb
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If this is your metric for what should involve government, then my guess you do not support the idea of Limited Government at all. See when I talk about threats to other, I am talking about direct, articulable threats, not second or thir
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by syshum 5y ago
Why would it need to involve talking about Highway speeds? Pedestrians are prohibited on Highways..

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