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by zaccus 9y ago
Buildings like that in the US tend to be housing projects, where people are less likely to have a sense of ownership. Not exactly apples to apples.
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by zaccus 10y ago
I was in high school in the late 90s, and had absolutely no interest in college, at all. Not in medieval history, not in women's studies, certainly not in STEM, nothing. I just wanted to graduate HS and go learn a trade or something, a
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by zaccus 10y ago
I don't. I learn better through reading. Visual aids are rarely very helpful for me, unless I already understand what I'm looking at.
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by zaccus 10y ago
>spending your time pondering how to make yourself 'cultured' is a nauseatingly bourgeois activity, ripe for satire when compared with the harder realities of life for the less well privileged. I haven't misrepresented you
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by zaccus 10y ago
And you being so proud of how uncultured you are is different how?
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by zaccus 10y ago
Yeah it's bourgeois, so what? I've been poor and I've been not poor. Not poor is better, trust me. Being not poor and cultured is way better. There are few things more annoyingly bourgeois than fetishizing poverty.
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by zaccus 10y ago
Aggressive rheumatoid arthritis could be one reason.
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by zaccus 10y ago
Stupid people don't like being told they're stupid. Shocker.
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by zaccus 10y ago
There are benefits of doing all those things, and there are safe(r) ways of doing them. There is no benefit to smoking, and no safe way to do it. You can rationalize all you want, but the reality is that anyone who took up smoking within th
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by zaccus 10y ago
Your example is absurd. Where do you live that you ever have to cross an 8 lane highway on foot? City streets have crosswalks and stop lights. When used properly it's perfectly safe for everyone.
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by zaccus 10y ago
>There is a huge power differential between an employee and an employer Usually yes, but not necessarily. Some highly skilled employees are absolutely vital, to the extent that them abruptly quitting would be more catastrophic for the em
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by zaccus 10y ago
>Should a conservative business owner be able to fire anyone in their company that supports abortion? Absolutely. Are you suggesting that a liberal employee should not be allowed to quit an anti-abortion company? >Should A trump suppo
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by zaccus 10y ago
Not all passions can be monetized enough to live on, though. For example, I may be passionate about making music, but I'm not passionate about living on a musician's income. I'm not passionate about managing a social media pr
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by zaccus 10y ago
Why does Google need physical offices in the first place?
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by zaccus 10y ago
Oh please. Either you're exaggerating, or you've been going to /r/atheism looking to start fights. In regards to 'agnostic', what the word literally means is that you aren't certain. There are agnostic the
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by zaccus 10y ago
Sounds like a pretty standard (if vague) purpose statement to me.
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by zaccus 10y ago
You mean anti-theistic? In any case, I don't see how it's either. It's just a flippant non-answer.
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by zaccus 10y ago
Great idea! We'll start with you.
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by zaccus 10y ago
Here are your options: 1) accept that homeless people will sleep on property you developed or support with your taxes, and get over it 2) move them to someone else's property or some other city so it's someone else's problem
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by zaccus 10y ago
What, was I supposed to vote for Romney? You think Mitt Romney was going to roll back mass surveillance?
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by zaccus 10y ago
You pay taxes when you withdraw from a 401k, and the IRS has minimum distribution requirements that ensure you will pay taxes on all that money at some point. Personally I think a Roth IRA is the better deal from a tax standpoint -- pay tax
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by zaccus 10y ago
>If you put 100k into a bank account, it will earn nothing and taxes will eat you alive. Huh? Assuming this is all after-tax money and isn't earning anything, what would you be paying taxes on exactly?
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by zaccus 10y ago
> Quality Tech does deal in affordability, fail safes, and unintended consequences Only to the extent that these things are profitable. Tech companies, like all companies, exist to make money for their shareholders. All other concerns ar
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by zaccus 10y ago
Being occupied/having a purpose is not the same thing as having a 9-5 job that you do to pay the bills. Many people would prefer to occupy themselves in ways that don't necessarily generate money. leisure != idleness
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by zaccus 10y ago
Can they elect to receive a quarter million cash dollars in lieu of benefits? If not, such benefits are not really part of their compensation any more than their uniforms or cars.
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by zaccus 10y ago
Why are you asking these things like they're hypothetical? The way we did student loans prior to 2005 worked just fine. Low income students weren't excluded back then were they? Just roll it back to that.
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by zaccus 10y ago
You got a problem with my farts buddy?
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by zaccus 10y ago
OK, maybe the article is right and cyclists should be able to do Idaho stops. I'm open to allowing this if the available data says it's safer for everyone. What I can't accept is some cyclists following the law and others not
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by zaccus 10y ago
trying not to fart loudly
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by zaccus 10y ago
Why can't it be both? Everyone is either an introvert or an extrovert, and they sure don't sound like an extrovert, so... Of course, I'm not a trained psychologist and neither are you probably, so neither of us are qualified

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