whatthesmack

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by whatthesmack 4y ago
That's what they said for the last five (or something) deadlines...
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
> Ffs, Lula isn’t “a criminal”. He was convicted by a corrupted federal judge, as our Supreme Court decided. Important to note that some consider the leftist Supreme Federal Court to be the corrupt one in this instance. They literally ba
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
Why should the rest of the country subsidize your state's more burdensome tax regime? Removal of the SALT deduction just brings the federal tax code a bit closer to neutrality. If you choose to live in a place with high taxes, that&#x2
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
There are multiple perspectives within the issue, and labor is not the only perspective. And since it's the relations board, we can assume they're engaging with another party: employers. Why should the people providing the jobs
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
That's not the Second Amendment. That's the NFA. The Second Amendment is very clear with its intent ("shall not be infringed"). It's the opinion of some folks that we have laws, like the NFA, that violate the Second
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
Just did this for my 5 y/o with a cellular-capable Apple Watch Series 5, so when we go to a theme park soon we can track him if he gets lost and call him if needed. It's $10/mo extra on my AT&T unlimited plan and the watc
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
This bill has nothing to do with free speech. Disney--a massive two-faced out-of-state for-profit corporation that is silent on China's abuse of Uygur populations in Xinjiang--had special privileges that only local governments are usua
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
> Disputing a negative hit to your credit score does not mean it gets removed. I believe it usually does get removed immediately, but temporarily, until the credit reporting agency (CRA) has come to a decision on the case. I've hear
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
I have been diagnosed with social anxiety, general anxiety, and depression. I've always felt socially awkward and shy. However, at 35 years of age I was finally diagnosed as ADHD-PI (predominantly inattentive). Treating that has basica
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
There's really little else to say to folks that don't respect others' right to speech they don't like or agree with. The natural right to free speech is so important that it is explicitly called out in the very first of
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
I get this when using iCloud Private Relay. Not sure if it applies to you, but turning off the relay feature fixed the issue for me.
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
> The religious right used it all the time after all. I'm not sure about the accuracy of this, but it is attempting to use past bad behavior to justify current bad behavior. You can't change the past. You can do something about
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
Except that nearly 100% of political donations from Twitter employees go to Democrats, so it is Democrat-aligned people making the decision about who get silenced and who gets high visibility on Twitter, which influences the extremists that
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
Are you referring to all the children that were mistakenly given the live poliovirus from the first round of polio vaccines?
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
> They show around 70-80% protection (with 3 doses for Omicron, 2 for earlier variants) That protection level lasts for about two months and then nosedives to uselessness[0]. If we keep pumping people with boosters, the manufacturers and
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
To clarify, most Capitol tourists are still in pre-trial detention and facing illegal punishments like being denied necessary medical care. The media doesn't like those people, so naturally they haven't been covering the human rig
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
Why is it better? Non-profits don't have the efficiency incentive that for-profits do, as far as I understand it. I've read a few things that indicate non-profit hospitals are full of fiscal bloat, because there's no incentiv
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
> we don't have any voter fraud to speak of You probably mean you're not aware of any voter fraud. The whole objective of fraud is to have it not be discovered, so it's possible fraud has in fact been occurring and it has
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
There's bad, ignorant people on all sides of the political spectrum. There are plenty of people just like this governor that are in the other camp. It's not useful to use a ridiculous situation like this as confirmation of your po
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
What about people who can't get medical care like cancer treatments, because hospitals are firing people with natural immunity who don't need (and thus refuse) the vaccine?
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
How is that "alt-right" (whatever that means) or a "conspiracy theory"? It is a direct connection that would be looked into by anybody, including Facebook, who is investigating the information Frances leaked.
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
> Not surprised - he has clear mental issues That's not fair to say. He asked for accountability from military leadership that knowingly left Americans in enemy territory and executed a drone strike that killed children & civili
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
What you're referring to is the theory. What you're replying to is the reality. Communism as implemented always results in an upper class and "everybody else". This was true for the Soviet Union, is true for China, and i
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
Isn't this very different, though? Historically, mandated vaccines weren't mandated before we knew they were safe longer-term. We're still awaiting FDA approval for a majority of the available SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in the US, y
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
India would like a word with you about that.
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
> Ivermectin is not human medicine [...] This misinformation, promoted by NPR, needs to stop. Lives are on the line. Scientists who developed ivermectin won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2015 for its use in humans. Here a
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
Thanks for the stereotypical reply to this issue. The linked article is condescending and smug, and nobody with anything better to do will read past the first few sentences with the author's "unique" opinion on Section 230. D
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
I wouldn't say that only the state is capable of helping. Most organizations that help in these situations currently in the US are private, often faith-based, and non-profit. Also to mention... to challenge preconceptions about who&#x2
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
This ignores the nuance that 500m of China's population lives a poor life in the countryside and are not really contributors to China's massive CO2 emissions. If you look at folks living in or near cities, China's per-capita
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by whatthesmack 5y ago
There wasn't general agreement either. There was a propaganda piece architected by Peter Daszak (Leader of EcoHealth Alliance, who Fauci's NIAID contracted with for gain-of-function research at WIV after Obama banned it), signed b

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