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by yostrovs 6y ago
You're referring to reported income, that in Switzerland is a national tradition to hide.
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Almost everyone identifies as anti-fascist. That's why references to Hitler are references to things considered universally awful. A problem many have with Antifa is that they took a term and made it their own, implying that everyone
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If you tell people that the Department of Education went into existence only in 1980, and that children before that somehow learned to read without it, the idea of getting rid of it doesn't sound quite as crazy.
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How can a precise date be selected so far in advance? Shouldn't it be based on the status of the pandemic? If they decided it is already a pretty good situation, why not open now?
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Many rules exist to avoid liability, particularly when regarding dogs. Private places often have these rules but don't enforce them, because they don't really care about the dogs. But, in case a dog does bite someone then they get
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The writer you're replying to is saying that all the rules make it difficult for pet owners to obey them all. So they take any advantage they can. They're not trying to be law breakers. They're effectively put into a position
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If lack of female ship captains is a sign that women are far behind, is lack of male school teachers, nurses, and HR professionals a sign that men are far behind?
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I'm not criticizing attempts at understanding things. It's just that it's not science in any sense as the physical sciences are. You really can't run experiments since you can't control all the variables and the beh
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Another example of social scientists not being able to predict outcomes in the same way that physical scientists are able to predict within their fields. Perhaps there never were "experts", that the article still points to.
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Many of us do. These benefits often include a car, gas, per diem, pay for one's internet and other expenses that are normally paid out of one's pocket. It's a way to boost pay without increasing salaries.
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The monetary value of the benefits are stated in the article.
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I'm surprised that small engine mechanics are #18 and supervisors of mechanics are #19. Since the two are so closely correlated, perhaps this is caused by duels or something violently similar, between mechanics and supervisors of mecha
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I doubt that the risk to lifeguards, that have a flotation device with them, approaches anything experienced by fire fighters, cops, truck drivers, etc. As noted in the article, valor in rescues doesn't seem to correlate with pay. The
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Imagine ordering from Amazon, but not being a Prime member. That should help put things in a more materialistic perspective.
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The reason there's so much skepticism of public health authorities is because they repeatedly mislead the public. Right now, for example, Dr Fauci tells people who have been vaccinated to wear two masks. That's because he wants t
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Why have the New York Times when you can read the study yourself with all the scientific jargon included? I thought their purpose in covering science is to make it easier to understand for a layman. What is synchrony? Do you think an averag
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by yostrovs 6y ago
Just the insurance payouts are close to $2 bullion. Also dozens of people were killed. https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a4...
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Thousands of houses and businesses burned down, families moving out of cities, huge records set for guns sold and for first time gun buyers, and you pretend nothing happened last year.
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He did want a color blind society. He explicitly talked about it.
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To be fair, when the Supreme Court handed down the Obergefell decision to grant freedom for same sex marriage, there wasn't an uprising or even a protest that drew any attention. It's an issue that has been accepted by the public
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by yostrovs 6y ago
Indeed it is surprising, but I think it's because communism wasn't put on trial when the Soviet Union collapsed. There weren't courts punishing gulag wardens and KGB officers for torture, murder, and everything else under the
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by yostrovs 6y ago
It's not as funny when you get to live under the rule of well trained Marxists. Hundreds of millions of them have been produced over the last century. Look into a history book or just ask around.
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Everyone has their standards of propriety. Some things are inappropriate on Twitter, while in some places Twitter itself is inappropriate. I think it's a good lesson.
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20-some years ago my friend, who was born in Hong Kong, went back for the handover celebrations. The biggest DJs spinning for the largest parties in the world, enormous fireworks, everyone celebrating. It's hard to believe now that tha
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Have you ever lived in a country regarded as unfree?
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We have an Atari Flashback 4. How are cross compatible are Atari cartridges?
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Ex-Activision Pioneers Form Audacity Games, Will Develop New Atari 2600 Titles(gamespot.com)
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And on a similar note, when comparing overall spending on the military, the perception of the size of the US military is inflated because in China and many other countries there's a draft, so they pay their soldiers next to nothing whi
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Israel and Egypt are always pointed to as recipients of greatest US aid. But that is only because the US military that is stationed in South Korea, Japan, and a bunch of other countries is not counted as aid. And all that military is very e
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I hear it's pretty good.

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