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by teachrdan 1y ago
Some light googling shows "The average combined [gas + electric] bill has increased from approximately $179 in 2020 to around $300 by October 2025". I'm not sure what cherry-picking of data PG&E is doing, but it does not
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> Virtually every Christian I know aspires to be as Christ like as they can. You may not see that in their actions, but in their beliefs they definitely aspire to that. This is a nonsense statement. It's trivially obvious how to be
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by teachrdan 1y ago
I probably agree with you on more things religious than not. Having said that, I was correcting OP, who strongly suggested that Islam was uniquely misogynist by quoting a couple passages from the Quran. What I think is really interesting is
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by teachrdan 1y ago
A) I'm well aware Ephesians is not found in the Old Testament; that's why I chose it. These verses are specific to Christianity, just as anything from the Quran would be specific to Islam. B) "The concept of submission is pre
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> The Quran contains passages along these lines along with other things like the exploitation of female captives and booty distribution from the spoils of war (including female captives). Let's please not get started about sexism in
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by teachrdan 1y ago
IIUC that was for illegally downloading ebooks and other media -- it had nothing to do with training per se. Scraping publicly accessible data is generally legal, although Microsoft/LinkedIn clearly think they have enough of a leg to s
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> Ukraine were backed into a corner, multiple times, they didn't resort to October 7 levels of horror either While I personally condemn Hamas's tactics and don't recognize their political legitimacy, Ukraine has billions i
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by teachrdan 1y ago
The Onion had a listicle entitled "80 Under 80 -- and five 79-year-olds to watch out for." Once again they nailed the inherent vacuousness of modern news.
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> Starbucks corporate was offering better benefits to the entire company than the union (which was made up of like 10 people) had negotiated for themselves. This was union-busting by Starbucks. The union was more than happy to accept the
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by teachrdan 1y ago
It's common in British media to spell acronyms that way: Nato, Scuba, etc.
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by teachrdan 1y ago
Sorry for the misunderstanding, I was referring to the longest Gemini mission.
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by teachrdan 1y ago
You don't stay in a tactical jet for 14 days...
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by teachrdan 1y ago
It was c1998 -- dollarization would have been extremely convenient for me!
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by teachrdan 1y ago
FYI, I think the term you're slightly misusing is "running the gauntlet", which means to face a difficult trial, usually in public. Although you may be mixing it up with "to pick up the gauntlet" (but not run with i
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by teachrdan 1y ago
In developing countries, individual ATMs may run out of currency, well before you hit the daily limit. To pay for language school in Ecuador I had to go to multiple ATMs and withdraw as much as they had in each one. Literally every pocket o
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by teachrdan 1y ago
Out of curiosity, do they favor hiring Indians in general, or Hindu Indians in particular. (To the exclusion of Muslim Indians)
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by teachrdan 1y ago
Are there any circumstances under which you would call the police if you felt unsafe? Because any time the police intervene with someone there is a chance, however small, that it will escalate into violence. (Assuming you are in the US wher
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> An average teacher salary in Chicago projected in their new contract is $110,000 Some quick Googling shows the average age of a Chicago teacher to be 41 years old. Is it insane to think that a professional with a master's degree s
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by teachrdan 1y ago
I believe that comment was meant to be sarcastic.
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> They do a pretty good job at it when you factor in long term pensions and health care. They only get good pensions and health care because school districts refuse to give them better salaries instead. And good health care (really, heal
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> Teacher’s unions, which predominantly exist in the public school system, are not in the business of educating children I'm always surprised and disappointed to see such lazy thinking on HN. If teachers' unions were responsibl
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> This is in California where the test scores are some of the worst in the nation I read your post and thought it was BS, so I did a little research. According to this, California public school test scores are better than Texas and closi
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> Nowadays even your TV is basically a smartphone with a remote. I bought a decent amateur camera 10 years ago that ran on Android. No idea if they're still using that OS for cameras or other non-phone electronics.
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> They don't want to grade papers by hand anymore. This is only half correct. Grading by hand isn't an issue. Reading students' handwriting is the issue. Having to read the hurried scribbling of dozens of students is a
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> people have the option to refuse to accept your money... This is the contradiction, isn't it? A free market that you or I might define requires safeguards like a social welfare net to make sure individuals are truly free to declin
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> They have plenty of other benefits I'm inclined to say the exact opposite about EVs. They take up as much space as internal combustion engine vehicles (in terms of streets, highways and parking lots), are just as fatal to pedestr
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> This is one example of why I've stopped listening to climate change alarmists. I'm not sure if I understand your logic. People who advocate to stop climate change (alarmists?) literally never use is as a convenient excuse &qu
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> it's not like he was killing people or selling weapons. Well, if your standard is that no one is a bad person until they are literally murdering people or selling war machines, then no, of course not. But as a parent myself, I th
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> Has nothing to do with fracking. I wish you had read OP's comment more carefully: > Further, not all the chemicals being leaked... were reported, as any that had trade secrets (at the time and to the best of my recollection) we
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> Even in logical terms it makes sense: You can't just let anyone in to give birth and then collect benefits; it's unsustainable. The 14th Amendment was passed in 1868. Government benefits were basically nonexistent at the time

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