throwawayfrauds

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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
If you don’t believe this, then maybe believe the truck rental companies that were charging up to 10x for outgoing vehicles than incoming ones. There are more people moving out than moving in.
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
People fish mail out of USPS collection boxes (I’ve witnessed it myself). It’s gotten so bad in my neighborhood that at close of business they lock the collection boxes outside of the USPS buildings in my area.
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires_National_Wildli... Also, this is an article from the time it was closed: https://www.kold.com/story/13506034/border-danger-zone
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
A lot of the places from this article feel lawless in person. I backpack and hike a lot of parks in the US, and only carry a firearm in the southern part of Arizona. There’s hidden camera footage on YouTube of smugglers in the mountains an
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
Most people don’t have the options that programmers do when it comes to jobs and homes, especially people who live in Houston.
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
That’s not what lynching is. Lynching is mob justice without a trial. The name came from Charles Lynch, who punished Loyalists during the American Revolution.
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
Well, there are less than 500,000 bald eagles, and approximately 2 billion kids, so 4,000 kids per bald eagle?
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
Also the very vocal anti-environmentalist company CEO Samuel Rotrosen is barely mentioned. Montrose executives were basically exaggerated movie villains in their defense of dumping DDT. Unapologetic doesn’t begin to cover it.
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
I think they realized that deleting tweets really helps shut down conspiracy theories. The main Twitter account I followed for videos of the pandemic situation in China at the beginning of 2020 was banned just before covid really hit the US
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
I’m not sure this was retracted. The amp links still work, and the original article on wired is still up.
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
This was a wage to wage comparison, yours is a lifespan to population comparison. So completely different.
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
If the pay was the same, would you seriously rather work at McDonald’s than at an engineering job? That seems unimaginable to me.
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
Actually, picking the highest possible number helps show the massive disparity. I’m curious as to why you say it doesn’t help anything, or why it’s cherry picking.
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
So 50% is only a “little worse”?
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
Good luck getting treated for these disorders, as well. I called UCLA mental health yesterday for a family member in crisis, and they said to call back in mid-June for the first available appointments which are in mid-July. Their only advic
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
I’d say that everything about this article is the opposite of clickbait. It’s not buzzfeed, it’s a science journal.
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by throwawayfrauds 5y ago
In parts of Los Angeles the price increase can be beneficial enough, especially with the difficulty of evictions. However, judging by the number of $1 million plus homes in my neighborhood that have sat vacant for more than two years, somet
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by throwawayfrauds 6y ago
36,000 US driving deaths annually would beg to differ.
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by throwawayfrauds 6y ago
The article says that they are made in China, the company is based in Quebec.
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by throwawayfrauds 6y ago
Isn’t this illegal? The FTC says that being compensated in any way for a product endorsement must be disclosed, and it considers the term product to include “any product, service, company or industry.”
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by throwawayfrauds 6y ago
Nope. And every other country in the world is available for someone to move to if they don’t like the US free speech laws.
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by throwawayfrauds 6y ago
The publisher is ceasing publishing them, so people started trying to buy them on eBay. The avenues to legal but these books are disappearing.
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by throwawayfrauds 6y ago
You’re actually wrong about rights in the United States. You have every right to do all of the things you claim you don’t: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
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by throwawayfrauds 6y ago
Meanwhile the Biden administration decided to pull back any restrictions on TikTok in the US.
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by throwawayfrauds 6y ago
Robinhood’s chief legal counsel is a former SEC chairman. There’s no way they didn’t realize what they are doing.
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by throwawayfrauds 6y ago
USPS only services people who have a residence or pay a fee to have a box. Homeless people require a special approval to receive mail. So USPS does not have to service everyone, but at least they can’t ban people based on mail content.
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by throwawayfrauds 6y ago
My previous account on HN was banned by dang after I called out a researcher for scientific misconduct. The researcher contacted dang and complained, and he banned me. So I guess calling out scientific misconduct didn’t go so well here on H