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yucky
4y ago
This doesn't necessarily mesh with what we see in reality though. The Economist doesn't use a byline and they're known as having very high quality content. Even if it's slipped a bit in recent years, it's slipped le
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yucky
4y ago
Republicans can harm Apple with legislation, what can Apple do to Republicans?
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yucky
4y ago
I wonder if that says more about the companies or the employees.
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yucky
4y ago
> No one ever said the original vax prevented against transmission. CDC Director Rochelle Wolensky said: "Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that
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yucky
4y ago
One glaring example would be where CDC Director Rochelle Wolensky said: "Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that it's not just in the clinical trials, but i
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yucky
4y ago
Why? The entire industry preys upon the vulnerable. Customers and workers alike, with some exceptions of course.
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yucky
4y ago
The vast majority of child murders are perpetrated by women, not men. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4846035/
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yucky
4y ago
Do you not see a difference between consensual sex, and commoditized sex which primarily preys upon the vulnerable?
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yucky
4y ago
OK electricians, plumbers, roofers, HVAC repair, sanitation workers, utility linemen...
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yucky
4y ago
> It’s also the kind of thing that quietly improves economic efficiency by X% per year by expanding the workforce. Worded another way for those who may miss it, this means it drives real wages down and increases economic inequa
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yucky
4y ago
> If you're only hiring from one specific gender, you're most likely not hiring based on qualifications, or the qualifications you're hiring on include gender. This isn't true though. For instance, look at p
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yucky
4y ago
Plumbers, HVAC technicians, Electricians - not only will they survive, they will never be outsourced to cheaper countries. And since Gen Z seems to have little interest in working with their hands, I suspect there will be an acute labor sho
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yucky
4y ago
See, this is why most people no longer trust the news (or CDC for that matter) with health information. The headline says: "Omicron boosters probably aren’t very effective against mild Covid illness, but will likely prevent hospitaliz
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yucky
4y ago
If they actually saw those things for what they are, they would no longer be liberals.
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yucky
4y ago
Think about something awful in the world. Something that you can see is a huge negative on humanity. Now set about destroying that thing, it might give you added purpose.
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yucky
4y ago
We see the same thing with war. When the US invades other countries it's "to spread freedom and democracy".
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yucky
4y ago
He isn't missing the point, he's saying that by definition means it's all in your heads. You are better off, the only reason you don't feel it is because you are lying to yourself. Not you specifically, just in general.
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yucky
4y ago
Democracy is mob rule. When one says that democracy decides what is a crime and what is not, one is then defending a long history of lynchings, miscegenation, slavery, forced medical procedures, Jim Crow laws and much much more.
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yucky
4y ago
I felt the same about people wearing those non-N95 masks over the last couple of years, but a huge chunk of the population made it part of their personalities. I'm agnostic so I don't really have a horse in the race, but it turns
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yucky
4y ago
This was obvious when the Biden regime added 87,000 new IRS agents. Of course that many agents need a lot of new targets, and those targets are not going to be the ultra-wealthy. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/re
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yucky
4y ago
"All things being equal" is doing the heavy lifting there. All things are no longer equal though, which is the point. The time/effort to produce art has effectively become zero.
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yucky
4y ago
I don't think he's necessarily wrong, but he's been saying this same thing for around 10 years now. At some point it's like Nostradamus saying a "A king will rise in the east one day.."
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4y ago
> But as the cost of something falls, people consume more of it. That’s a law in economics. Which law is that? When the tulipmania crash happened, did people start consuming more tulip bulbs?
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yucky
4y ago
Rather than stalking my comments which is against the rules of this site, you could instead just reply to the content of the sources I provided. They are legitimate and credible. If you dispute any of the actual content, please cite and pro
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yucky
4y ago
Assuming that you're asking this in good faith and would like to read more from reliable sources, here are a handful of them from across the political spectrum: "Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call" - http
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yucky
4y ago
> Even if US/CIA did push a coup in Ukraine, Russia should have foreseen it and counter acted it. They did, which is how they ended up taking Crimea.
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yucky
4y ago
Sounds good in theory, and with individual interviews that is easy enough. But coverage of protests will likely include masses of people, in public and therefore with no expectation of privacy. So how is the decision made on which masses of
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yucky
4y ago
Depends on the buyer.
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yucky
4y ago
Could you quote where I called them lazy? Or perhaps you're responding to the wrong user? The alternative is that you're being intentionally dishonest, I would hope that's not the case though.
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yucky
4y ago
Think reaaaaaaaal hard about why you filled in your own blanks and called them lazy..
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