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by vkou 7mo ago
No, but if you've got one simple trick to not offload all of our collective thinking into the hands of a few trillionaires...
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by vkou 7mo ago
Not sure what your point is. My point is that the rules around rent exist to protect current residents of a city. Just like rules about immigration exist to protect current residents of a country. If you think one of them is immoral and unf
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by vkou 7mo ago
Should Juan be treated like trash if he wants to move from Mexico City or Honduras to Queens? Why should you deny him that mobility? Is he any worse a person than you are? Why does he have to jump through hoops and quotas and queues and all
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by vkou 7mo ago
> Also why should cities prioritize protecting residents based on how long they've lived there? Everyone counts the same. That's a great question. Why do countries prioritize existing citizens over all people who want to move i
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by vkou 7mo ago
> Yes rent control is a terrible idea. When you aren't building more housing, for whatever reason, rent control is the only thing that prevents domestic 'immigrants' into your city from making all the residents homeless.
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by vkou 7mo ago
I've no doubt that he believes it is possible for his political enemies to commit it.
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by vkou 7mo ago
If health insurers are on my team why do they blatantly lie about their network coverage to me? Why do they list providers as in-network, when the providers consider themselves out of network? Why aren't the executives of these insurer
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by vkou 7mo ago
Blackrock provides management services for a significant percentage of all global wealth, which makes it an excellent target for: * People who think a cabal of reptilian globalists control the world. * People who think that capitalism is an
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by vkou 7mo ago
If we can get AI further into this process, we can fully launder all responsibility from the humans ordering these.
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by vkou 8mo ago
Sure. But when you ask "Do you want the police to be unable to do their job and live in a lawless hellscape ran by gangbangers and ISIS cartels?, the answer is also 'No.' The problem is that the mass media sets the framing of
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by vkou 8mo ago
> despite this being something practically everybody wants, No, everybody does not want police accountability. Half the population will fall on a grenade to prevent that. They know that the purpose of the police is to keep the undesira
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by vkou 8mo ago
There is a fix to it. Elect people who will hold them accountable. As long as you keep electing clowns that let the police do whatever they want, the police will... Do whatever they want.
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by vkou 8mo ago
They do, but letting mob rule decide criminal sanction is beyond fucked. See: Any discussion thread of literally any criminal being sentenced, receiving parole, or better yet, committing any crime after being released for serving a differ
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by vkou 8mo ago
Did the government pass any laws to steal those 130 billion dollars from Americans? I can't recall that it did. Are there any consequences for the people who did it? The government has long ceased to govern by law. It now governs from
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by vkou 8mo ago
Nuclear weapons are a MAD red line that will result in total annihilation of the attacker. They are only useful in a defensive capacity. This kind of aggression, however, does seem to make their value as a deterrent clear. Observe how nobod
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by vkou 8mo ago
I'm sure that if Iran had the backing of the Western world, and had their surplus of armaments funneled it's way, it would be bombing army bases and refineries and airfields and factories and port facilities in the US. Unlike Ukra
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by vkou 8mo ago
You get something far worse in the US. Which is a government that no longer feels any need to either pass or be bound by laws.
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by vkou 8mo ago
You can not testify all you want, but you should still be on the hook for your vehicle getting tickets, just like you are on the hook for your vehicle accruing toll fees. If your car was magically stolen and returned, and you have no idea t
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by vkou 8mo ago
That mechanism exists, it's called congress, the problem is that half the country is dancing in the streets over this. Or at least, it's going to vote the fuckers doing this in again in November.
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by vkou 8mo ago
When subpoenaed, you'd be obligated to tell the court who you gave the knife to. But if you'd like to tell the fall, I'm sure some prosecutors wouldn't dig too hard to find the guilty party.
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by vkou 8mo ago
If someone used the car without permission, they are guilty of theft. If they used the car with your permission, you should either be responsible for what they do with it, or be able to point to the person who was using it.
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by vkou 8mo ago
What's the alternative? No rules at all? Immediate death penalty for anyone who runs a red in front of a cop? Seizing and auctioning off the car? Deporting the offender to Texas? Something else? Revoke their license?
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by vkou 8mo ago
The simple solution seems to be to put the Trump fortune up as insurance collateral. If he's so confident that the war's such a good idea, he needs to put some skin in the game.
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by vkou 8mo ago
> China benefits here - they import Russian crude oil over land, No, they don't. 54% of their oil comes from the middle east. Only 20% comes from Russia. China does have a healthy oil reserve at the moment, so this may be marginal
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by vkou 8mo ago
Well, I'm glad that only people who agree with you are rational.
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by vkou 8mo ago
It's more important to understand why they're emitting so much of that CO2 - because a lot of people in China need to eat and have a roof over their heads. Any analysis that fails to take per-capita into account is not made in goo
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by vkou 8mo ago
> "there must have been an issue with the scanner". That's way better than them asking you twenty times why the scanner went off. I don't know, I didn't build the fucking thing.
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by vkou 8mo ago
> I find it frustrating that apparently we just gave up on Trump giving up his tax returns, or putting his businesses into a blind trust. This was a big deal in 2016~2019, but I guess the entire world just decided it wasn't worth it
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by vkou 8mo ago
The president's club says that we are. Did the house vote for starting it?
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by vkou 8mo ago
It sure was, but as far as I'm aware, 2026 isn't in the middle of a generation-scale economic collapse. (And if it is, what is the cause?)

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