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by wat10000 2mo ago
If it’s inconsequential then why not ignore it and stick with the real name?
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by wat10000 2mo ago
It should be noted that the name change in 1949 was done by an act of Congress, whereas the recent name was just an executive order, which has the same legal force as me scribbling on a piece of paper. The official legal name remains the De
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I worry that the next president isn’t going to lead a charge to codify limits on the power of the presidency, that zero real lessons will be learned and we’ll continue to arrange vast swathes of the system to rely on the good faith of a sin
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Why? What says honoring my ancestors requires agreeing with all of their views?
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by wat10000 2mo ago
The point Chesterton is making isn’t that you leave everything alone. It’s just that you find out why something is there before you take it out. Find out my Marge calculates the penalties by hand. You may find that the program gets it wrong
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by wat10000 2mo ago
The fundamental difference is that mouse input requires unpredictable motor movements. We can't queue mouse clicks because the user doesn't even know where a button is going to appear. Even if they did, the actual physical mouse m
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by wat10000 2mo ago
You sure seem to spend a lot of mental energy on judging people.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
FYI the comic character saying “Yet you participate in society! Curious!” is meant to be ridiculed, not emulated.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
The downsides to these drugs are pretty well understood and not generally that bad, right? Can we really say it's "reckless" to attempt to treat people with something that's fairly safe and see if it helps them? This is
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I'm so sick of this moralistic attitude toward psychiatric drugs. "Happy pills"? Come on. There are ways to work around tolerance. Even if there aren't, what's so terrible about a temporary improvement? I'd wag
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Yeah, I’m open to the idea that their effectiveness may have been overestimated and they’re overprescribed as a result. But this “I can’t believe we’ve normalized antidepressants” “there are better solutions than drugs” stuff is just morali
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I don’t get why people are so negative about drugs. They’re just a medical treatment, with pluses and minuses. If they help and they’re not too costly then what’s the big deal? Half the population is addicted to caffeine and nobody cares. A
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by wat10000 2mo ago
If people can’t tell me how prevalent it is, then I’ll assume it’s pretty much nothing.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
How do these wealthy welfare queen birth tourism beneficiaries manage it?
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Note that this is an expansive estimate from an anti-immigration think tank that attempts to count all births to non-citizen mothers who were no longer in the US at some vague point in time afterwards. It does not distinguish between birth
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by wat10000 2mo ago
You're allowed to pick and choose, and indeed should. We can honor and propagate their noble ideas about immigration in general, while rejecting their ideas about race and slavery and all that.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Why are you talking about illegal immigrants when the question was about birth tourism, which is completely legal?
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by wat10000 2mo ago
40-80% of what?
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by wat10000 2mo ago
That doesn’t answer my questions at all.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
If you say so. Makes sense to me, just weird to so specifically call out something that doesn’t distinguish them from half the population at the time.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
How many, how expensive, and how much is this offset by others who come back and pay taxes? I have seen a lot of freakouts about birth tourism since the recent SCOTUS ruling and I haven’t seen anyone give even the most cursory overview of t
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Most engineers are required to explicitly take responsibility for the things they sign off, up to and including prison for sufficiently bad cases. Software “engineering” is the exception.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
They contrasted ecoterroists versus white supremacists now, and labor vs fascists in the past.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Just how many people are being born through birth tourism and end up claiming more in welfare than they pay in taxes?
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by wat10000 2mo ago
The vast majority of citizens never made a conscious choice to be one.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
My wife is an immigrant and there were so many times when I’d talk about something related to her not being a citizen and the other person would say, but you’re married, doesn’t she get citizenship from that? They just thought it was automa
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by wat10000 2mo ago
It's not voluntary. They're required to work. It's literal slavery, made legal by the carveout for criminal punishment in the 13th Amendment.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Funny how "taken out of context" is so often used when the context doesn't make it any better. That whole "he is in effect imposing taxes" thing is ridiculous. Taxes are forcibly collected by the government, not vol
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I'm not convinced about 1. There are a lot of things we could be doing about a 9/11's worth of dead people every single month that we just don't. In any case, it's a good barometer for judging personal risk. I don&#
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by wat10000 2mo ago
"You would call [groups from a time when white supremacy was widespread and socially acceptable] white supremacist today" is not the gotcha you seem to think it is.

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