Youtube comments of SmallSpoonBrigade (@SmallSpoonBrigade).

  1.  @deborahwhit118  I think they either had locked doors or the murderer(s) had a specific beef with the four that were killed. Although, I suppose something may have interrupted the killer before getting to those last rooms. Most likely, they simply kept their doors locked.
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  2. The main issue that I had is that often times the food would be spoiled by the time it got to my house during the summer. I'd love to have a meal kit that just handles the most annoying parts of the meal, things like the spices. I can easily pick up the fresh ingredients at the local grocery store or have them delivered over a shorter distance in vehicles that are intended to transport food rather than ranomd other stuff.
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  3. Good luck canceling your newspaper subscription. I had one for a while and even though I was able to sign up online, I had to call them in order to cancel. I have no idea how that isn't an ADA violation.
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  4. And we the people who drive have a right to know if other vehicles on the road are safe to operate in that mode. Especially given that the rules about whom to sue when there is a crash aren't really clear.
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  5. Yes, this is why there's been so much speculation that the sub may have imploded or become tangled on something. The moment that the pilot of the craft realized that the communications system had failed, that should have triggered the pressing of the emergency ballast release to take them to the surface where the mission would have been simply locating the sub and probably opening it immediately. As it stands it's highly likely that they're on the bottom where it may well be impossible to reach them in the next few weeks.
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  6. Yes, there's a reason why it took over 70 years to find it. They even knew roughly where to find it due to the navigation logs from the ships that rescued the passengers. AFAIK, there's still the mystery about the other ship that allegedly didn't stop to help.
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  7. Mine detects the 3rd party cartridge and complains about, but prints anyways. I only have it because I got it for free from somebody that was replacing it. I'll be replacing it with a color laser printer from a reputable brand like Brother when I've got the money though. I do so little printing that by the time I need to print, the ink tends to be low or the nozzle clogged anyways.
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  8. lol, Spanish isn't a common language? I live in a part of the US that's nowhere near Mexico and I'll sometimes hear people speaking in Spanish. I'm genuinely confused as to where one could go in the US where that's not going to be the case.
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  9. No, we're just talking about oxygen. They ran out of water days ago and may have been in freezing temperatures since Sunday. This being a rescue effort is them being extremely optimistic in case they were underestimated.
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  10. TBH, it is a valid thing to bring up because this is not what the box is for. If an infant does die of natural causes despite whatever best efforts, there's a process for dealing with that.
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  11. Also, bear in mind that the weight limit is 200#, I doubt very much that the people witnessing her being weighed were under the impression that she was a healthy weight. I'm currently 205#, but I'm also a rather large man with broad shoulders. When I was her age, I weighed roughly 80#. She literally weighs more than double when I did and closing in on triple.
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  12. Possibly, but the loss of communications was a catastrophic failure on its own. Waiting so long to ask for help just sealed the deal. That is assuming that they didn't implode.
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  13.  @256k_  That's the issue. Obviously, trying for perfect is probably going to result in the program not being completed ever, but assuming that you'll come back to it is a big assumption. Especially if you're being paid to develop the code, chances are that once you've got something good enough, that you won't be paid to go back unless there's a problem that arises later on that's bad enough to require a fix.
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  14. He's the only passenger I feel any sort of sorrow over. They mostly got their money engaged in morally questionable conduct and then used it to buy cut rate tickets to the bottom of the ocean.
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  15. TBH, if he warranted this much attention, I would think that it would warrant being careful enough to have something that would stick. It's not even just the amount of harassment of this guy, but it's even worse when you realize all the other crime going on that isn't being taken seriously so they can harass him.
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  16.  @arakwar  Yep, I've become a real fan of the frozen food aisle. If you learn how to work with frozen fruits and vegetables, you can create some pretty healthy meals that are also easy and still tasty.
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  17.  @tjmarx  TBH, the main thing that makes me not want to cook is the hassle of deciding what to make and deciding if I have the right ingredients. I think things like eatthismuch are probably a better solution to the problem. Also, a service that just handled the annoyance of spices and some the nonperishable ingredients would probably do a lot better. Get those ingredients now and then you can get the fresh ingredients closer to when you want to use them from a local grocery store. Most of them have pickup or delivery these days anyways.
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  18. I think if they figured out some sort of battery standard so that people could more easily get them swapped would help. But, there's also the issue that many people live in places where they don't yet have a charging station at their home or office. I couldn't even have one installed one if I wanted to and an increasing number of housing units around here aren't even required to have a parking space, let alone actual charging capacity.
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  19.  @jaredoldhouser3301  It typically is illegal to change a waterway like that. The previous arrangement of stones was probably not legal either, but was probably put that way before the laws related to the more modern sense of what's permissible in the waterways were enacted. I'm not sure what the law is there, but even in much of the US you can't go around dumping large amounts of rock into a stream without an environmental review, commenting period and permit.
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  20.  @Riel1327  It's almost like they had to deal with 4+ years of his BS last time and the best field agents won't have anything to do with him.
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  21. Unfortunately, this likely means that double jeopardy would still apply if they want to prosecute him again even though he was found guilty initially.
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  22.  @NamesZKP  A good example of good advice in pop culture. Nada Surf did a pretty good job of explaining how to break up with people. Kindly, firmly and clearly, anything else is just asking for trouble and if you aren't clear about it, then you can't really blame somebody for not getting the hint right away.
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  23. It's because it was so shallow. That being said, even with it being that shallow, it's barely newsworthy. That being said, sometimes smaller quakes like this turn out to be foreshocks rather than the main earthquake and I can't help but notice that the 17th is coming up. Both the North Ridge and Loma Prieta earth quakes happened on the 17th of a month.
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  24. A jack ass that uses that maneuver on somebody with their turn signal on in a place with no safe place to pullover isn't going to have the self control to keep his mouth shut. This isn't even a grey area stop, he amidst killed her and the fetus.
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  25. Also, keep in mind that a 13-year-old that's probably 400% overweight or more, is not exactly a secret to those witnessing the weighing. They all knew that she's morbidly obese, having a specific number probably didn't shade their opinion of her weight.
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  26. Precisely. I think it's amazing that he thinks that before she stepped on the scale that the people there thought she was a reasonable weight. She weighs roughly 2.5x when I weighed at that age. This isn't a case where she's a bit overweight and being shamed, this is where she weighs more than double what she should and being told no to avoid potentially suffering significant injuries or death.
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  27.  @joeyallard  In spite of that, the company likely will be put on trial and probably go out of business. I can't imagine anybody agreeing to ride in one of their subs in the future for any price.
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  28.  @FukaiKokoro  Because they aren't up for sale. There's no legal requirement that private citizens sell their things. Apparently, he and his relatives/friends are some of the few people that are putting their money where their mouths are in terms of respecting his wishes long past his death.
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  29. Iran has to retaliate over this, considering that this is in retaliation for acts that Israel committed. I'm not sure why Iran wouldn't retaliate when they've tried that and Israel interpreted that as weakness.
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  30. That would absolutely destroy the economy. The debt isn't a problem, the issue is that the tax policies favor the rich at the expense of the poor with inadequate social safety nets.
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  31. Because most people don't understand how education works. Having 95% of the students passing a standardized exam is something that politicians can point to as success even if the test itself is meaningless. People also have a mistaken view of education in other countries. Sometimes it is as good as people think, but in the US, the students aren't generally as far behind as is generally imagined. The Chinese remain well behind the US even though we assume they're ahead. They have twice as many students per class as in typical American schools and they just serve to prepare students for the gaokao which is extremely narrow. Students will quite literally not do any studying for classes that don't prepare for that exam as that exam is what determines if they can get into a good university. There's another route, but the schools aren't as good and it takes years longer. Also, that would involve the families taking some responsibility and many of them aren't in any condition to do so.
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  32.  @jamesgrover2005  Yes, although, gas cars have a lot less need to worry about filing up. I'm aware that there are some areas of the world where there are no filling station, but even in that case, there's the ability to bring fuel to the car in a way that isn't for EVs.
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  33. Yes, assuming it is even located. If the sub imploded and we don't find the remnants quickly, the sea life and detritus may well cover it up before we have a chance to find it. We only found the Titanic because it was very larger, it had gotten covered by all that stuff decades earlier.
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  34. Yes, or convert it to a pickup only location. But, yeah, nobody is going to go through with an escort for every item they want, it's a ridiculous waste of time.
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  35.  @austinbutler1291  Suspected non-citizens and at this point with the election 6 days away, any citizens that are caught up in this may not even have time to correct the record to get to vote. The state had plenty of time to deal with the problem, they just chose to wait until the last minute knowing that there was a period before the election that they wouldn't be allowed to remove anybody on a large scale. They could still remove individuals if they had specific knowledge that they weren't eligible, but that doesn't remove enough Democrats from the pool.
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  36. Remind me who was President in 2018.
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  37. Gates is a bad example. His parents had a lot of money and he had a massive opportunity to leverage a loan from his parents into something significant. If he hadn't had that, he would have finished up at Harvard. You don't score 1590 on the SATs if you don't know how to study or lack drive.
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  38. I think it's interesting how when it's men that deserve to be loved that's sick, but when women think they deserved to be loved, that's completely reasonable.
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  39. Because there's a bunch of cowards out there that won't accept reasonable firearm restriction and regulation.
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  40.  @rickm6076  Yep, I was hoping that they would be rescued so that they could be made to pay for the consequences with money. This whole rescue effort was an obscene waste of money to rescue people who got their money by being cheap and exploiting the labor of others. I do feel sorry for the young man that went with his father, I was that age when my dad brought me up one of the local mountains with a guide. We had a top-notch guide and while we were in white-out conditions near the top, it was still a much, much safer thing to do as our guide had been leading climbers for decades and there are far more options for a mountain top rescue than from the bottom of the ocean. That money could have saved hundreds, if not thousands of lives of poor people, but got wasted saving the lives of a few people who were clearly in over their heads.
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  41. That's the usual problem. Just look at how quickly the squad got corrupted. They talked a good game, but every time that they could have withheld their votes to negotiate for something that the people needed, they gave up their leverage.
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  42.  @lovewillwinnn  And that right there is why we have most of our regulations. Enough companies take that attitude that it is a big problem for everybody else.
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  43. We've already established that he hasn't got a conscience. I used to respect him, but this particular bill doesn't deserve to be debated anywhere. The man has the best possible healthcare in the US, and yet he votes to continue this one.
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  44. I've been wondering about this sort of thing for a while. We tried to institute universal care in WA during the early '90s and had to back off when the system imploded. It's made little sense to me why we couldn't extend the ACA at the state level and provide guaranteed care to anybody who either had out of state insurance or who had residency in the state with employers paying into the system. Extending it to other blue states via a compact should be doable.
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  45. Possibly, he may also have still been waking up. Driving a car at that hour of the morning is often times extremely boring.
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  46. I've noticed that happening more and more often as I get older and new editions of things come out. Some of it might be just my imagination, but some of it clearly isn't. I have a copy of the original theatrical cut of Star Wars and I'm very much aware of who was shooting whom in that cantina. My copy of For Your Eyes Only, does differ from the broadcast version from the '80s and '90s in that they took time away from that creepy bedroom scene and gave it to the hockey scene. In that case, it's arguably the way it always should have been as too much time was spent establishing Bibi as a predator that even Bond was uncomfortable with and not enough time was spend setting up the fight in the hockey rink. But, this stuff does have a tendency to warp perceptions as which character shoots first in the Star Wars cantina does fundamentally change how Han is viewed by the audiences. Whereas replacing the cardboard cutouts in the medal ceremony at the end doesn't fundamentally change anything other than make the shot look a bit more realistic. And, the problem is probably going to just get worse as it's easier and easier to have a computer remove and add things to scenes in ways that are very hard to detect if you don't know to look. It's one of the big reasons why I've been going back to DVDs as that gives me a guaranteed copy that will be the same forever.
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  47. Most of the folks that did this are dead or at least retired.
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  48. IKR, I didn't vote for him, I didn't vote for Trump either. It was clear that he wasn't fit to serve as he wasn't even with it enough to properly campaign.
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  49. It's not a racist response. Why should I personally pay for what people did previously? I don't see anybody beating down my door trying to make up for wrongs committed against me during my lifetime, let alone decades of anti-German bigotry that started during WWI and continue to the current day. I felt like crap about myself for much of my childhood because of the anti-German bigotry that was and still is being taught in the K-12 system. But, instead of whining about it, like some folks did, our community focused on building something to the point where most people don't recognize anti-German bigotry even when it's obvious. People whine about the 2nd Indiana Jones movie being racist, but it's no more racist than the other 3. It's just that the racism isn't being directed at White people. Or how about the black community paying reparations for their homophobia and super-majority support for California's Prop 8? Biden was right to refuse to accept responsibility for what previous generations did. The argument that we're responsible for what happened previously is literally Nazi rhetoric. It's blood debt and it's everybody as offensive now as it was when the Nazis were using it as part of their propaganda effort.
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  50. As disgusting as those comments are, they are protected by the first amendment. The only consequences that should come from them are social ones. People not wanting to have anything to do with threats of violence. But, it's also fairly clear that he's not really promoting violence, just making questionable comments.
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  51. Yes, also in most cases this will change nothing as most of the time the father is who the mother says he is. This mostly impacts the ones that are either not so sure because they were with multiple men or who are outright lying about it.
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  52. I think it does have more to do with the fact that the systems that they're trying to defeat have just gotten a lot smarter. But, the whole thing is probably in violation of various legal protections for the disabled as they also make it impossible for some groups to get past at all.
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  53. Yes, this is why using HDD is such a good idea and why you need to copy those files to a new drive from time to time as there's new formats available. But, that being said, storage formats for HDD and SSD are pretty stable at this point, you're not likely to be in that position any time soon. You're far more likely to have the disks themselves fail before the lack of hardware to read and transfer them becomes a problem.
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  54. The company is going out of business, one way or another. Either because nobody is willing to buy tickets on a sub they've designed after such a catastrophic failure, because of new regulations or they simply get sued out of existence by the families of the deceased.
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  55. He specifically said that ADHD does exist, but his point was that a lot of the "ADHD" isn't really ADHD, it's children struggle to pay attention through an entire day of low grade clerical work. Get rid of the tedious work and the rates would likely return to normal. There's been an explosion in diagnoses of ADHD over the last 20 years and it's highly unlikely that it's just a matter of the disorder not being diagnosed, that's probably only a small part of it.
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  56. That's probably a lot of it. The infrsastructure is improving, I've seen the local electric utiltiy installing curb side charging stations. But, while you do save a fair amount on gas and maintenance with an EV, any savings you get tends to be further out into the future due to the significant up front investment.
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  57.  @RealtyWebDesigners  I personally use software to crack the DRM so that I can have a backup copy of all my books. It's questionable whether DRM is really even permitted to prevent people from backing up their media. I also do it because it's annoying to not have all my books in one place. Most ebook sellers use compatible DRM, but the when I was figuring this stuff out you could move other sellers' books to Kindle, but not the other way around. So, unless I only purchased from Amazon, I'd be stuck using multiple devices or apps to do all my reading.
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  58.  @1940limited  Not really, but the ultrarich will do all sorts of dumb things if it's a rare thing to do. Seeing videos of one of the owners, they put way too much faith in the hull, and not enough into communication or some fail-safe.
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  59. That's like saying that the Russians shouldn't need our permission to visit Alaska. Taiwan is their property according to them, the one China policy is more or less just something we say, it's not something that we're generally acting on. We make lip service to it and ask permission if we're going to go over there in an official policy just because it's the compromise that we've made to let the PRC save face. It's not generally acknowledged in the US, but the PRC has a number of "autonomous regions" including Tibet and Taiwan that are largely governed independently of the greater PRC. Doing something this stupid could easily cause problems not just of the PRC attacking us or our allies, but of sparking an internal civil war as there's a great deal of national regulatory action that is already being ignored by some of the provinces and other provinces are only nominally a part of the country. Not to mention that the whole thing is rather precarious and if the current leader loses the support of the People's Congress, there could well be a bloody struggle to replace him. When he was elevated to his current position, it was only the 2nd or so time that it had been done without bloodshed. And up until then it had been done every 10 years for decades, meaning that it was usually a bloody affair.
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  60. Or women could stop exploiting their bodies for extra tips. This isn't men's fault here, this is women taking advantage of their bodies to make more money. As has been noted, women don't care at all about equality when they're benefiting from the inequality. If women decided that they weren't willing to put up with this treatment in exchange for extra tips, I'm sure this would change within a matter of months. It keeps going because there's enough women that like the money enough to justify putting up with the behavior.
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  61. People are still doing the work. There's not much difference between tipping for a person to take down the order and tipping just for the food preparation.Tipping at a self-order kiosk isn't any more ridiculous than tipping at most fastfood joints.
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  62.  @GenerationX1984  Would it have been more acceptable if it was $5 worth of gas to get to work?
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  63. He's spit on by his own people because his own people aren't stupid. These aren't lynchings and in most cases the officers doing the shooting aren't even white. What's more, white people remain the most likely people to be killed by police and nobody seems to think there's an epidemic of lynchings of white people by police. They don't think it, because it's a stupid idea. Likewise, police aren't lynching people of color and the facts tend to back that view.
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  64. The cops violated that student's first amendment rights. This is a public college and the college cannot prevent students from exercising their first amendment rights. What's more, it's ridiculous for the college to let Mnuchin rescind his permission to publish the video after the fact. The time for that would have been before the talk, not after. He gave permission and the college was under no legal obligation to honor an after the fact change of heart.
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  65.  @MrBUCHO11  That's a fair question. It's because the signals can't travel through the water quickly enough to get a fix. It's the same basic reason that the communications link was so slow, even when working properly.
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  66.  @elliotalderson4568  They vary a fair amount, just not on anything that's actually important. They vary somewhat on social issues, but both parties favor the rich and continual war. Sure, the GOP does seem to want more of both, but the Democrats don't really do much in terms of undoing any of that nonsense. So, you get a ratcheting effect where it just keeps going further and further to the right.
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  67. One would think that if you don't support abortion that you'd at least support real birth control and family planning education. Sadly, the folks opposed to abortion are often also opposed to the various methods of making the need less common.
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  68. Apparently, the infant died of natural causes, the police know the identify of the mother and nothing is going to happen after this. Which, is really how it should be, apart from the fact that mothers that just lost a child that early shouldn't be in fear of prosecution if they didn't commit any crimes.
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  69. LOL, I was wondering where you were going with that until I hit the last few words. Bravo.
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  70.  @Joe-hz1nw  Yes, there are practical reasons why the mother gets essentially veto power over the father, but the father should get an option to opt out entirely. There probably are some men that learn to love the kid anyways, but there's got to be a disproportionate amount of abuse that comes of it as well.
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  71. Possibly, but by the same token there is a massive catalog of that out there and it's typically public information that doesn't require getting permission to use the way that most other data sets do.
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  72.  @warmateo6261  The point is that you avoid the shooter if possible, deny them access to where you're hiding, but if you can't do either of those things, the next thing is fighting with everything that you have available. But, clearly, that's an absolute last option after everything else has been used.
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  73.  @mrwascallyt9865  TBH, that doesn't mean much, before somebody takes the stand there's typically depositions where the attorneys ask a ton of questions, the ones on with the witness on the stand are typically either some of the ones that had been asked or are a response to questions that the opposing counsel asked. So, for her to claim not to know credibly is unlikely as she would have had to have already answered that question for the attorney to know to have the particular statement prepared to enter into evidence as her acknowledgement would likely be sufficient.
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  74. Possibly, but the people who most need to see this won't actually watch it and if they do, they'll just go back to not caring. The problem would have been solved decades ago if the profit motive for destroying the environment had been addressed. If they were required to clean up after themselves the way that many others are, it would have changed while the necessary measures weren't particularly onerous.
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  75.  @p2p104  One of the great failings of the Great Recession was that none of the bankers involved went to prison. Until the C level executives have to worry about prison time from these sorts of shenanigans, it'll keep happening as it's not exactly the best and the brightest that wind up running banks.
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  76.  @anon_rah01  You think that cashier that could have been injured was a legitimate target? Or the shopper standing right next to that guy that was shopping? War is extremely messy, but one of the expectations is that there will be at least some consideration made to avoiding unnecessarily harming civilians and other noncombatants. Something that Israeli regularly ignores while trying to claim the high ground of not being terrorists.
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  77.  @Unknown-rb3ip  Just not the people who actually make the decisions about what to ship to Israel and who to prosecute by the ICJ.
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  78.  @william3100  Umm, what? If you've got a wheel that's designed to do things like go over curbs, it's going to be put on a wheel chair, that's one of the more obvious uses for it.
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  79. Not just that, but you lose the sense of progress on these issues. There's still a long ways to go, but if you just ignore previous times, it makes it seem like progress is coming more slowly than it really is.
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  80. Thank you Hillary, you were so smart to cheat Bernie out of his nomination. Because god forbid the American people have guaranteed healthcare treatment.
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  81. Not true, the info was redacted and the intelligence agencies had the opportunity to influence what was released to the public.
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  82. It's also worth noting that the only tours of North Korea are state-run tours. The whole thing is highly choreographed and you're not allowed to go anywhere without the permission of the government. I knew somebody who went to NK a couple times and every time you go it's the dear leader's birthday. Even if you come back a couple months later, he has another birthday. Iran also requires you to go around with a minder, but from what I understand, it's much less choreographed than North Korea where literally everything you see or do is fake.
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  83. If we had a decent democracy Sanders would have won.
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  84. Thumbs down, this isn't a gendered issue. You think I liked getting catcalled by 70 year old women, or made to feel uncomfortable by women trying to get me to hit on them? Or trying to snag kisses? This isn't a gendered issue and treating like it is is deeply problematic.
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  85. Aida Rodriguez, you should be ashamed of yourself for those comments about Matt Damon. He's absolutely right about the fact that there's a difference between sexual harassment and the various types of sexual assault. I didn't have a choice the first time I was kissed by a girl, but it's incredibly disrespectful to suggest that the times I've been catcalled were the same thing as that or that being forceably kissed is the same thing as being raped. If you can't comprehend the difference, then you madam are the problem. And BTW, I'm a guy, women and girls can be every bit as pervy and abusive as men are, it's just that we haven't as a society really recognized that women are just as responsible for this as men are. We punish men, but for the most part don't punish women that engage in these sorts of acts and acting like this is a gendered issue just muddies the water.
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  86. Thank you Hillary, the GOP couldn't have done this without you.
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  87. Probably nothing as the Supreme Court just legalized far more brazen forms of bribery. If getting rolexes, loans of fancy cars and large credit card debts paid for you isn't bribery, then I'm not sure how anything that the Clinton Foundation did could be considered bribery. I'm leaning more and more towards voting Trump as a big screw you to the Democratic establishment. They keep sending bad candidates for nomination and I don't think anything short of President Trump is going to convince them to start nominating decent politicians.
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  88.  @Ray__E  Let's also remember the amount of wealth represented by the passengers, if they wind up not surviving, which is highly likely, they were killed by their own cheapness. There's definitely a morality play in here. Being so very wealthy, but not paying for the equipment that could do this at a reasonable risk level.
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  89. You do realize that a fiat currency is the only kind that would have scaled as the US economy grew over the years since, right? You can't dig up gold indefinitely just because the economy grew. What's more, gold is nearly completely worthless in cases where the economy collapses. Things like medical supplies and ammo are far more likely to be in demand than gold. At best, gold is a marker of status and a way of temporarily storing value. It's certainly not a practical means of trade in the modern era where we have other options.
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  90. I think over time, there's more interest by Americans in terms of getting to experience other cultures in a way that's a bit more authentic, but I'm sure that is a long ways off. I wonder how many of the "Canadians" that people see abroad are just Americans that have manners and don't want to deal with the guilt by association of the jerks.
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  91. I don't normally agree with Tucker Carlson, but this was something that I already knew and he did excellent research on the topic. There's few, if any, areas left where women aren't doing better in America than men. You pretty much have to resort to things like death during pregnancy to find numbers where women are significantly worse off than men.
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  92.  @JimboJS  In this situation, that more or less means copy it. You always need a backup, some method of verifying the files haven't become corrupt and some way of fixing it if they do become corrupt. Using a Par2 utilitly, helps with verifying and error correction. (Basically it creates extra copies with signatures so that you can identify and correct the errors) You can also go with a filesystem like ZFS that has such facilities built in, assuming that you're using a configuration that uses multiple drives for that.
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  93. Honestly, it's not dangerous. Quicksand is more dense than a person is, the absolute worst case scenario is that you get stuck and can't get out. More likely, you'd be stuck and it could take ages to get out on your own. As long as there's somebody nearby, you've got nothing to worry about.
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  94. I weigh 205#, but I'm also a rather large man. When I was that age, I weighed roughly 84#, perhaps this embarrasment will lead to some awareness of just how obese she is. I personally would not want to be allowed on a ride if I wasn't within the engineers' intended specifications. What does he want, for her to be seriously injured?
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  95.  @Austin.Kilgore  IKR, a harness with a couple carabiner would pretty much completely eliminate that particular risk, it would just make the whole climb take a lot longer. I'm not sure that going that route is really worth it, but that would eliminate the risk.
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  96.  @MaynardsSpaceship  If you can, some of us are needed to ensure that people are fed, not to mention the medical workers that are needed to treat everything.
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  97.  @kimschlehuber4339  You make it sound like a dishonest one would look worse than an honest one. The representatives know Gaetz and from what I've read, it's not like he makes his super creepy views particularly secret.
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  98. The short answer is corruption. Banks were allowed to gamble with money deposited by despositers above and beyond the typical mix of mortgages and loans. Up until relatively recently there had been laws on the books requiring that banking and investing activities be walled off from each other so that the FDIC wasn't on the hook for the much riskier bets involved with the stock market. The rest of the answer is that it was a decision to bail out the banks rather than simply buy up all the trouble assets and start cancelling out the various credit default swaps that were threatening to swamp the entire world's economy. It would have been far more effective than what we ultimately did. (Although it was still a massive improvement over what was done during the great depression, so progress)
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  99.  Edward J  Things like this are why nobody takes southerners seriously. It's been over 150 years now and you people still can't admit that the civil war was over slavery and the shame of having that symbol tied into your regional identity.
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  100.  @borisjankovici662  Having a stay at home order in place, isn't just about getting people to stay home, it's a way of coercing businesses into allowing employees to stay home and doing other things like freezing evictions while this works out. Any of these states that aren't issuing stay at home orders with specific rules are asking for trouble. God clearly does not care if people get covid-19, so WTF are people behaving as if that's the case?
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  101. At that point, this is more or less the old style where customers tell you what they want and you get it for them and ring them up.
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  102.  @dawncollier742  I'm sort of surprised that they don't just close the store to shoppers and just only do pickup orders at that point. Because if anybody does come in to buy something you've got to have an employee there for each and every item they want anyways.
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  103. Before Warren started those unfair attacks on Bernie, I would have thought she would be a good VP pick. But, between that and selling out on the issues and funding, there's no way that she'll be a VP pick.
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  104. That's something that people whose IQ wasn't as high as they wanted say. The truth is that for what IQ is intended to measure, it does a fine job of it. The problem comes when you try to use it for things other than predicting success in school. A person's IQ is going to fluctuate on a daily basis depending upon how their brain is doing on that day. If you get a bad night sleep, you're not going to do as well as if you had been sleeping well. IQ itself does get over stated, I tend to believe that a moderately high IQ is more useful than one that's actually genius caliber, but bad mouthing IQ doesn't impress anybody.
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  105. The guns were out because he wasn't cooperating. Most felony arrests are made at traffic stops and the cops genuinely don't know if a driver or passenger has a weapon. This is why it's so important to move slowly and let the cops know if you need to reach into a bag. They don't know if you're in the process of committing a felony or have any arrest warrants until well into the interaction. I used to deal with a lot of law enforcement agencies when I worked security and most of the time, they want to get in and out as quickly and without drama as possible. Answering the questions as succinctly add possible and doing what they ask greatly reduced the chances of having problems. His lack of cooperation doesn't excuse the excessive force, but it likely nudged the confrontation in that direction.
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  106. You're not watching the video then. Up until he refused to follow orders, he might have been allowed to stay in the car. The resisting orders obviously doesn't justify the killing, but it definitely contributed. Characterizing it as an execution isn't helpful. Not is implying that guilt had anything to do with it. Had he not been killed, he would have been arrested.
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  107. I upped my donations to Bernie to help with that. I need to figure out where to go to phone bank for him. I will not be voting for any more Democrats if Bernie isn't the nominee. He's literally the only hope of this party and they've been doing whatever they can to prevent progress.
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  108. +Darrel Sutterfield, liar. The Democrats did it for lower level appointments due to the GOP's unprecedented obstinance. The GOP had an obligation to let Garland have his hearing and chose not to anyways. The GOP had no right to fill this seat, this seat was Obama's to fill.
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  109.  @2ticketsoneadventure  Or he didn't have anything sturdy to tie off to at home. I had a cousin that they found hanging on some playground equipment. It would be easy to tear into that about the reason he chose that place, but realistically, it was probably just a place where he knew there was a bar that would support his weight long enough to do the job. People like to overthink suicide and the reality is that it's just suicide. Sometimes there's not much to it other than a temporary belief that nothing is ever going to get better and the current state of affairs is worse than death. It's why netting and suicide prevention phones on bridges tend to reduce suicide rates. In many cases any little thing that interrupts the plan can be enough to stop it for good.
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  110.  @tonykerr8147  Citation needed. It wasn't anywhere near enough to solve the problem, but if you think that it hurt more people than it helped, you're completely full of it. The previous system was collapsing, Obamacare extended the period with health insurance companies a few years, but inevitably, we'll be moving to something where everybody is guaranteed health care services without having to pay at point of contact. People that claim that Obamacare sucks, mostly had garbage insurance, but were very lucky in terms of not getting sick.
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  111. Because this isn't about them, they'll get there's, it's too late to address that. What this is about is Gen X and onward that are getting progressively more and more screwed. If nothing is done, by the time I retire, the trust will be paying out less than what we paid in. Meaning that I would have been better off just saving the money on my own rather than putting it into the social security program, and I'm only in my early 40s.
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  112. That's good to hear. They really should be questioning it. A ridiculous amount of the military activity over the last 40 years in particular has been mopping up the messes of the CIA going in and arming questionable groups because it was convenient at the time. The US literally armed and trained Osama Bin Laden during the '80s to go after the Soviets in Afghanistan. Not to mention that we were the ones that supported Saddam Hussein in Iraq as a counter to the Ayatollah in Iran, even as Hussein was committing genocide internally. And the Ayatollah was only in power because we decided to overthrow their government when we didn't like the government that they chose after chasing the Shah out. It's a recurring theme and don't even get me started on Cuba.
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  113. If a human didn't have enough light, the human would slow down so that there was enough stopping time. The Tesla in question apparently didn't.
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  114.  @daydreamer8373  Eventually, but there's no reason it needs to be this dangerous. Tesla is just pushing things far faster than what they're technology can handle. If they were deadset on operating these with just cameras, there should have been more cameras and there should have been a period of years where all the autopilot system did was identify potential hazards in the road and flag the information for adding tot he model. And, anytime the vehicle crashed into something or was crashed into, that should have been sent off to be considered for inclusion. With a sufficient amount of that information, there should have been a period where drivers were allowed to engage it for no more than 5-10 minutes a time, a short enough period where they could still reliably focus on monitoring what the car was doing. Eventually, as things progressed, they could eventually allow longer periods, but how Tesla has handled it has been extremely irresponsible and led to unnecessary fatalities in people that weren't even in the vehicles.
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  115.  @j10001  We could cut the military budget in half, or even by 75% and still have plenty of defensive capabilities. We currently spend more than the next 10 countries do, simply cutting it to the point where we're only spending double the next country would probably be more than enough.
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  116.  @numnum_land  Reasonable people disagree on this. The first amendment would be completely pointless if it only protected the rights of people to say things that are inoffensive.
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  117. Yes, and if I understood correctly, this was the 3rd voyage. That's pretty quick to get to a catastrophic failure.
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  118. I agree, it's not like you can't get a proper microphone that is light enough to hold comfortably for some period of time. A lav isn't even that hard to wear, assuming that you don't need for it to be hidden. A loop and a clip and it's on. Apart from a quick sound check to see if there's too much noise in the area, I don't see any purpose in ever recording while handholding a lav, and even then, it doesn't make much sense as it should be held where you're planning on wearing it.
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  119. This reminds me a bit of what I've heard about the Johnson administration when they were waging the Vietnam campaigns. He was micromanaging far more of it than was appropriate for somebody in his position, much of which is best left to lower ranking officers and possibly NCOs.
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  120.  @marymassey3843  When precisely did she lie under oath? Nobody bothered to do an investigation on the matter, but we do know from Kavanaugh's drinking buddies that he perjured himself when he claimed he never blacked out from drinking. We also know from common sensed that boofing is not farting. Honestly, what sort of moron thinks that there are people that old have never farted and are looking forward to doing that for the first time?
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  121. Being an unforgivable asshole is now a legitimate self-preservation strategy.
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  122. Quite possibly, but given how macguyvered together the vessel was, it's entirely possible that the communications system and emergency beacons could have failed and the sub had been stuck on something at depth. But yes, with something going that deep and suddenly losing all communications, the likelihood of being able to mount a rescue before the resources ran out was always a very long shot. There just aren't that many vessels in the world that can do it. None of them were on site.
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  123. Yes, a sitting President doesn't cancel fundraisers like that. The donors are revolting. It's rather unfortunate that their donations matter more than actual primary votes.
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  124. Chances are that they didn't get enough donors to RSVP, or the ones that did said hell no.
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  125.  @northernhemisphere4906  Dr. Luke and Max Martin alone are responsible for the lion's share of the hits over the last couple decades and a properly functioning music industry would have far more people originating hit music. It's part of why most music today sounds the same as the rest of the music. Even 20 years ago there was a decent chance that you'd know that two songs were by different artists without being familiar with their work in a way that's difficult now.
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  126. It's not about whether they deserve it or not, the pay often does not cover the cost of living without the tips. Tips are generally a situation of the employer handing off responsibility for paying the workers directly to random strangers that are not required to tip employees.
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  127. Not that the nobody but Trump voting is any better. Really, people need to start voting for candidates that are actually going to follow through on things that aren't horrible.
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  128.  @lilium-orchid  They could have, the issue is that the building was designed as 1/4 of it, so unless somebody was really thinking ahead, they wouldn't have known there was a problem as they wouldn't have seen the plans altogether.
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  129. The problem is getting it enforced. Around here, the city attorney refused to prosecute theft if it was under $1k. And in part because the crimes weren't going to be prosecuted, the cops stopped showing up. At which point, there's not a lot that stores can do to protect themselves against it. The store owners have limited rights to stop the theft.
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  130.  Connor G  I once spent an entire month on jury duty. He screwed up by not just oversleeping, but by failing to inform the court that he had overslept.
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  131. That's sort of the point, you could have dangerous stairs in your own home. You need a proper railing and ideally one that's strong enough to catch yourself with if you start to slip. The treads need to be clear and provide enough texture to prevent slips, each step should be of a uniform height and depth, and ideally, they should be wide enough for whatever you're planning to bring up or down the stairs.
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  132.  @pengos1639  I think that it made a bit of sense as it can be a challenge to find people with stairs willing to let you film a short segment in their houses, especially if they aren't 100% confident in their stairs and don't have the money to fix them right away.
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  133. What gets me is that I was working in a grocery store in a department next to the door and I would see people stealing large amounts of beer every day. I called security on them one day and was informed that that's not what security is there for. We finally had security that would confront shoplifters, but that's not what they were there for. I kind of wonder how the store still had a liquor license as just letting people come in and load up on a half dozen 24 packs of beer can't possibly be permissible.
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  134. That's not surprising, the main reason that the original series didn't have any gay characters was that they lost a ton of ratings when they did that episode with the biracial kiss. It seems that Gene himself had no issues with gays, but was concerned with the fact that there ratings were down enough that they had to worry about being canceled. Then the next season they were canceled anyways. I'm not sure if they could have gotten anything meaningful past the censors.
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  135. No, veganism is a problem for humans. It's not a healthy way of managing your diet. But, for adults we allow people to eat all sorts of unhealthy diets without interference. The problem is when you're indoctrinating children to eat something that's not healthy. Parents are in a unique position to withhold proper nourishment and hence the need for a specific law telling vegans that they'll be held legally responsible if their diet choices result in their children being malnourished.
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  136. Apparently, Ana has never rented an apartment because restrictions on what can be smoked in a rented apartment is a common thing. There's no law that mandates that a landlord allow smoking in rental units.
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  137. Fortunately, Bernie's friend Joe will do less than nothing to get us to medicare for all if elected. And same goes for Trump, he's still trying to wipe Obama's influence out of government.
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  138. This is absolutely disgusting. Part of accusing somebody is risking the possibility of ones character being damaged if the accused is ultimately not found guilty. In this case, there were enough women with similar stories that there was a certain amount of safety in making the accusation. But, justice isn't based on safety, it's based upon the law, the evidence and as much as possible not the people involved. This whole BS about rape being underreported because women won't report it is bull. We wouldn't have most of the things we have in society if men took a similarly cowardly view of our obligations. And we certainly wouldn't be whining about nothing being done if we didn't do something about it the way that women so often do.
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  139. The grocery store I work for is providing all those things. Granted, the hazard pay arguably ought to be more, but they've got masks for us and gloves. Anybody that tests positive gets 2 weeks of paid leave. The specific pay varies a bit depending upon the position, but that includes new hires. They don't want us coming in sick and they don't want us skipping out on testing when there's any indication that we might have it.
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  140. This is why it should be required that all states allow people to vote by mail with some sort of receipt system to ensure that the vote is actually received and counted.
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  141. I'm never voting for Pramila Jayapal again after she screwed us over. It's bad enough that she voted for Pelosi for speaker, but to also vote for paygo is completely unacceptable. She's clearly just as corrupt as the rest of them.
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  142. That's the thing, Biden is actually worse than Trump. His cabinet picks are worse and he's more likely to let the cabinet secretaries to do their jobs. Trump at least fights with his cabinet often enough that much less gets done than could be.
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  143. America used to have a rape culture. Up until the '70s there were still states where you could force your spouse to have sex and be immune to prosecution. That was a rape culture. Since that time our values have evolved as have our ability to investigate and prosecute rapes. The rates are dropping and continue to drop as a larger percentage of rapists are caught, some of them years later based upon DNA evidence that couldn't be tested at the time. Referring to American culture as a "rape culture" does a real disservice to people that have actually been raped. It also perpetuates the notion that there's nothing that individuals can do to reduce their risk. Had she chosen to limit her alcohol consumption to a reasonable level, it's far less likely that she would have been raped. I know that feminists hate that idea, but she's no less raped because he was responsible.
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  144. Money, the same reason why the billionaires didn't just charter a real sub to go down to visit the wreck.
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  145. I think that's a lot of it. If you speak a few words of the local language, it does make a difference. French has a uniculture, that's how they've opted to deal with mulitculturalism, people are expected to assimilate into French culture. If you can say hello, thank you and several other helpful phrases in French, the experience will be a lot different than if you expect to go and say everything in a foreign language. It's not a high bar, most people could manage that level in less than a week. Similarly, knowing any Mandarin at all, will get a very different view of China than you'd otherwise get. I was mostly in rural areas and I get invited in to cafes by the locals or have these amazing interactions with people. It was kind of stressful because I was representing hundreds of millions of white people when I did it, but for the most part they didn't have a fixed mindset about foreigners, just most of them had never met any , so it was puresly based on what they saw in the media.
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  146.  @jenshaw8085  The thing is that even if you are careful and do everything right, rapists are still a thing. Abstinence is 100% effective, but only if you actually abstain. If teens could abstain until they were ready to have kids, there wouldn't be much of a debate about all of this and with teen pregnancy rates being what they are, it's pretty clear that some portion can't wait.
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  147. It took me a moment to parse that out. That's the thing right there. He failed to get anything substantive accomplished, and ultimately the people running the party are still just as corrupt as they were before. He could have taken his ball and gone home after one of the last two primaries, and probably wrecked things for the part enough that somebody would have recognized what was going on. But, ultimately, he started simping for his friend Joe and sold out his own supporters. I don't know who would even vote for him this time around, given how little he cares to fight for what he believes when it comes to his friends.
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  148.  @starventure  No, it's not, it's mostly the wealthy and uneducated that see it that way. The reality is that the trust is going bust because the wealthy have been hoarding their wealth at the expense of workers, which leads to money not being paid into the trust that should be. And to make matters worse, since workers aren't making what they should, it's also harder for workers to save enough to not need the social security pension money.
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  149. I wonder if any of the passengers would have gone if it wasn't the CEO piloting the craft.
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  150. I was tutoring a student in statistics recently and the question was rather ridiculous. It said that 30% of people polled considered Roosevelt to be the best President since WWII and the other 70% didn't. The glaringly obvious problem to people that have actually had American history is that Roosevelt died in 1945 several months before WWII was finished. So, the whole idea that he could be the best President of the post-war period makes no sense at all. He couldn't be the best, or worst for that matter, because he wasn't anything in the post-war period having already died. Although, I suppose he may have been pining for the fjords as they say.
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  151. I hope that people in Chicago know more about this situation than I do, because it's unclear as to why the police have the authority to close the business or what the business was doing that warranted being forced out of business. Simply having people engaged in this sort of behavior in the vicinity ought not to be sufficient cause to close the business.
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  152. Also, keep in mind that the Secret Service found and dealt with the threat before Trump was in range of the potential shooter. Having more people wouldn't have changed anything. They had enough people to do the job and Trump is the one that keeps insisting on going outside to hard to secure locations because it's cheaper or he's making money doing it.
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  153.  @johnroberts3824  I'm pretty sure that's the point. Getting these people in is one thing, keeping them from getting corrupted before they achieve significant change is a bigger issue.
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  154. AOC was working class, and look at how well she's done. (Here's a hint, she's been an absolute joke)
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  155. What's worse is that often times they would sequence the transactions so that rather than one transaction hitting the overdraft, multiple ones would. Even before one of my credit unions went overdraft free, there was a lower fee of a few dollars for them just transferring the money from savings to checking. It still sucked, but it was a lot cheaper than getting hit with a fee from both sides when the check bounced. (That ought to have been criminal, why should somebody pay two banks for one bounced check?)
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  156. It's particularly weird because negative signs aren't normally used for that sort of thing. It's more common for them to use parentheses to indicate that it's negative or to have all the numbers be positive, just debits or credits as appropriate. A financial statement may have negative numbers, but not typically in most other financial documents. Using a minus sign and then putting it far from the number it reflects is either incompetence or fraud.
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  157. Because we have a legal system that's based on the notion that people are innocent until proven guilty. And you probably wouldn't like to live in a society where there isn't the presumption of innocence. As far as violent crimes go, it's not like they just get let out unmonitored.
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  158. I'd be more than happy to throw those in as well were I the person that got to make those decisions.
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  159. You don't get to be a billionaire if you're not selfish and greedy. Becoming a millionaire is definitely possible without severing your connection to others, but being a billionaire means that you've accumulated so many resources that you don't need, that it would be a full time job to spend all of it.
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  160. This reminds me of the Catholic orphanages that moved out of the state when they were forced to place some of the kids with gay couples when they otherwise met the standards. Truly, they are small minded and petty about these things, even if it destroys other people's lives.
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  161. A lot of this happens as the result of mergers. A local Catholic hospital was allowed to buy the other big hospital on the area. Most of the offices are rented by the doctors and medical clinics located there, but because of Catholicism, none of those doctors are allowed to offer any services which aren't permissible by the Catholic Church. If it's a mall clinic, or there are other options, it's not so bad, but when that becomes such a significant portion of the healthcare services, they shouldn't be permitted to dictate what 3rd party clinics located on their property do.
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  162. Allowed? If they had critical thinking to begin with, they wouldn't be in churches that discourage it. It's hardly every Christian denomination and church that require people to so bereft of critical thinking to be members.
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  163.  @stevencooper4422  Any metal that's rare enough to be useful as a standard is also rare enough to not be very helpful in the long run. The rarity of the metal is what makes it valuable enough to be able to use as a backing for the currency, it also means that if you've got much growth that you're eventually going to run into issues with there not being enough of it for everybody to have the money that they've earned. At which point, you've got basically the same problem we've got with more "currency" in circulation than we really have with one dollar being potentially owed to several people. As long as only one of them wants it at any given time, there's no problem, but if more than one of them want it at the same time, there are issues.
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  164.  @JAAY2KAAY  Yes and from the looks of it probably fairly shallow, but there should be more specific information over the next day.
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  165. This will make it so that pushing them on good surfaces is as annoying as pushing them over obstacles and pushing them over obstacles just about as annoying as before. There's a reason why this isn't already on the market.
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  166. I don't really get why it took so long. Politicians get some extra leeway, but this is ridiculous that they gave him this much.
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  167. The fact that you used the term "leftists" pretty much disqualifies any comment you might make. You can be against police brutality and against loose gun laws that allow people that shouldn't have guns to have them and for people to have more firepower than is reasonably necessary for lawful purposes.
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  168. For better, or more likely worse, Trump has figured out that if he wants the #BernieOrBust voters that it would probably be a smart idea to try and appeal to us. Granted he's being rather hamfisted about it, but Clinton is actively chasing us away. She's crowing about how much money she's taken from various rich and powerful groups. Which is near or at the top for a significant portion of the #BernieOrBust voters.
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  169. That money could have given every man, woman and child $600 a week for roughly 9 months.
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  170. To be fair, the people propping her up lost interest in continuing to prop her up after that embarrassing loss.
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  171. He doesn't really, it's just that the republicans vote in lock step often enough and the democrats are incompetent enough to make it so.
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  172. Voting Green party or one of the other 3rd parties would at least potentially have some upside.
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  173. Based on Biden's picks for the various cabinet positions, Trump appears to be the lesser of two evils. Not just that, but why should the DNC establishment be rewarded for their work undermining the will of the people? It's clear from the polling and exit polling that the people support Bernie's policies by a significant margin. The only reason that Biden is winning is that the press lies about Biden's electability and cover for his obvious dementia.
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  174. If Bernie isn't the nominee, I will never vote for another Democrat.
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  175. I wish they'd stop perpetuating myth that there's a war on women. It's pretty much just abortion rights. That's it. And BTW, men don't have any rights in these situations. It's whatever the woman wants to do and the man winds up paying whether or not he wanted the child. In many cases, it isn't even his child, but he was stupid enough to sign on the dotted line.
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  176. Citation needed. Rape is more punished now than it was in the past and the rates for rape and sexual assault are falling as better methods are available to investigate and prosecute offenders. The cases that don't get prosecuted are mostly the result of the crime not being reported in the first place or there being insufficient evidence to warrant a conviction. Whether or not you like it, rapists still have their rights under the constitution. That being said, the lion's share of the alleged rapes that don't get reported don't get reported because they didn't happen. They include cases where the "victim" purposefully got a bit tipsy in order to be comfortable getting the sex that he or she wanted. Cases where the "victim" was still well in control of his or her consent, but is considered to not have consented because alcohol apparently wipes out a person's ability to consent to sex. Specifically sex, that excuse doesn't apply to any other stupid things a person might do. Driving drunk doesn't get a similar waiver of accountability. And it pretty much only gets prosecuted for men that have sex with drunk women, not the other way around. That being said, cases like this are a huge problem. As are the people who discourage victims from reporting the crime because it's allegedly not taken seriously.
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  177.  @Krytern  Probably. Psychotic would have been doing this with no reason at all. Doing it for such petty and miniscule reason would likely be psychopathic.
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  178. They're billionaires, there's no way they could have afforded to just rent a research vessel for the trip. /sarcasm.
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  179.  @kelliea7451  I think that's probably why he's had such a resurgence the last few years. In this time of anxiety and trouble, just watching somebody take joy at something so relatively uncomplicated is worth it's weight in gold.
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  180. Won't happen, Bernie is much too old. He would have been either just getting out of office having served his 2 terms, or about to start his second. And Walz has the taint of this loss on him.
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  181. Quite possibly, although the abortion laws being what they are in many states, it simply being natural causes isn't automatically enough to not have legal problems that come as a consequence of a dead infant. Especially, if we're talking about a baby that died shortly after being born.
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  182. Yes, I fail to see how this impacts honest women in any sort of significant way. I'm sure there will be a small number of mistakes made, but in those cases, they can always redo the testing. Compared with the number of men that are forced to pay for somebody else's kid because the mother lied about the parentage, it's an acceptable risk.
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  183. I blame it on the lack of men in primary school education and the lack of fathers in their lives to set them straight. A good father supports his daughter and puts her in her place when she's engaged in this sort of BS. Then again, a woman that had a great father has some chance of actually getting some of those high quality men.
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  184.  @mal35m  It's not arbitrary. Hamas doesn't have the funds for propaganda that Israel does. Israel regularly commits war crimes and somehow they're the "good" side? They're the "good" side because they're the ones that decided, not because they're any less reprehensible.
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  185.  @vvll9617  There's a lot of reasons that can happen. Bad power, user error, bad batch of drives, just bad luck. Investing in a line conditioner, with or without power backup is well worth it. This is also why I spend most of my computer use time on a computer with RAID5. It doesn't replace backups, but it does reduce the risk of silent data corruption messing up the backups I make. A couple times a month, I make ZFS touch every single sector on the disk and check to make sure that there have been no unexpected changes.
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  186. Perhaps, but I look forward to a day when most people are actually smarter than me. The key takeaway here is that we should be investing a lot more time and energy ensuring that young people have the best training we can give them in dealing with morality. And I mean dealing with it, not parroting what we think is right and wrong, but how to evaluate it as much as possible. The intelligence thing will probably solve itself with any halfway decent education system, but we've failed miserably when it comes to teaching children how to develop morals and identify the difference between things that are considered to be moral and things that actually are. Or swap in ethics if you want.
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  187.  @exploitedfight8081  keep in mind that he's known for pushing his responsibilities onto others while reaping the reward.
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  188.  @Hellmark  Which really shouldn't be necessary as it should be considered fraud to have a button that very clearly says that and then to bury it in the ToS that the actual "purchase" is for a license that has a number of restrictions and can be revoked at any time without refunding the payments. The whole assumption that people have both the time and the expertise to read these contracts and agree to them is just naïve. Nobody is going to go to an attorney each time they updated the ToS, especially since once you've got hundreds of dollars in books you're not in a position to decline the changes they make as they won't let you continue under the old terms or cancel the account without giving up your books.
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  189. I was in a similar position. I was in special ed for reading in 2nd grade, but by the next year I had apparently caught up enough to not require the help. I had some undiagnosed learning problems that contributed, but these days, I can read books without much trouble. I do have to be very careful when reading if I need to be certain that I'm reading the right words, but I can do it.
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  190. Bamboozle Plague It's a minority of liberals that are doing it and they're probably not even real liberals. I'm not sure how anybody claiming to be liberal would ever support Clinton. Between the racism, homophobia and sexism that she's used to try and get more power, I can't imagine anybody claiming to care about those issues supporting her or her husband.
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  191.  @harduphiker  Why not just clip it to your collar the way that lavs are intended to be worn? It doesn't take much time to clip and unclip it, but you get the sound that it's intended to capture. That being said, I doubt anybody really cares that much unless they're really into this stuff. Although, it can hurt a bit in terms of new viewers seeing it and deciding that the same lack of attention to detail is going to show up elsewhere.
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  192.  @SilentEcho9194  you can blame Steve Jobs for that problem, it used to be possible to disable transmission completely with a switch, but now it's completely impossible on most phones.
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  193. You do know that that's how people become billionaires, right? They wouldn't have been able to amass that sort of wealth without being extremely cheap.
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  194.  @AmphyPhi  Yes, although he is getting special treatment in the sense that he should already have been sentenced and in prison.
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  195. Tip inflation is a real thing. It's good for waitstaff,but sucks for most other folks Few people want to think that they're cheap, so there's a ratcheting effect. It used to be that 15% was considered a good tip and there'd be guides like rounding taxi far up to the next dollar. Some of those rules, like rounding in that fashion, were always going to go away eventually. But, the peer pressure that comes from the minimum wage not keeping up is real and will continue until the issue is resolved.
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  196. Does that involve being pervy towards minors? Because not releasing the report heavily implies that there's something in there that would make the public uncomfortable with him being AG.
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  197.  @1233-h1  As I heard it, she narrowly avoided being arrested for domestic violence in the incident.
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  198.  @Sailor-Dave  That's one of the reasons why nobody uses cast iron for structural elements any more. Cast iron is almost exclusively used for cookware and stoves because it's strong until it finally snaps. Steel will typically deform before it finally breaks, which allows engineers to identify a bridge that's likely to fail before it does. On a sub, any sort of failure is fatal. It might start out as a pin prick leak, but that will expand in a matter of seconds, assuming that the hull doesn't already fail enough to completely implode. Stress moves through materials in ways that aren't always obvious.
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  199.  @peterjohnson1091  Yes, one of the local Catholic hospital systems was permitted to buy the largest hospital in the state. It led to a situation where the doctors leasing space were expected to adhere to Catholic doctrine with respect to what medical procedures could be performed rather than just what the state permits. So, a bunch of the reproductive related care was suddenly not available from the hospital. Its a pretty large complex of several mid-rise buildings with hundreds of medical practices there.
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  200.  @cdavid8139  Have you seen some of these bridges? Under normal conditions they just work, but some of these bridges that are still in use are a century old and older.
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  201. The issue is that this isn't within the law. If they want to be a private club, they probably could get away with this, but as a public restaurant they're definitely breaking the law. Even if they can be age restricted, having a different age for men and women is going to push it over the line. You can't have separate rules for men and women. Attorneys are going to have a field day with the civil rights violations involved with that policy.
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  202.  @split_ce  Yep 4.4 is pretty tiny. One that size has to be like right on the surface for it to do any meaningful damage. I don't really understand why they even bother to report anything under about 5 unless there's actual damage or injuries.
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  203. It's partially a matter of depth. This one looks to have been relatively shallow, which is why you see any sort of meaningful movement of furniture in those videos. As somebody in Florida, I think the Mississippi River is probably the closest location to you that is known to be seismically active.
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  204.  @jujubhee  The regular flu infected far more people, we have effective vaccines and treatments for it. Also, the likelihood of severe complications from the flu is much lower than with this and individuals that recover from the flu, usually are perfectly healthy afterwards. People like you need to shut the hell up before you get anybody else killed.
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  205. To be fair, he's probably an expert on more than just safe staircases, he's probably more of a safety expert on architectural matters.
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  206.  @bluedarkness7125  Run the footage in reverse?
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  207.  @madokachan  You must be new here. Most of the time these sorts of things seem to be used to make things worse if there's a buck in it for that.
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  208. The main issue is that they don't appear to have a way of shifting the seat forward and backward. If they could do that, it would make it a lot safer to traverse stairs. As long as the seat is shifted slightly toward the upper stair, you won't fall down the stairs, the worst case would be sliding down the stairs.
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  209. +Leesi D. I'm not sure how much longer that's going to work. Considering that Bernie is more popular than Hillary and that he beats the GOP candidates by a larger margin, I think it's time that the Democratic party took advantage of the situation to move leftward while we still can.
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  210. There's no such thing as incurable gonorrhea, the cure for that has been around for decades. This is what phages are for. Antibiotics are for things like certain strains of e. coli that are dangerous even in small amounts.
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  211. Yes and I think the way he reacted with all that anger just reinforces that fact. He could have asked for an FBI investigation and if he's as innocent as he's claiming to be, then there shouldn't be anything to corroborate the claims against him. But, make no mistake, even before and without the claims of sexual assault, he wasn't qualified to be on any court and he would be a disaster. He hasn't got the integrity, temperament or knoweldge to be on the court. He honestly thinks that the President can't be subpoenaed. That's terrifying. Especially given that the GOP refuses to hold him accountable for anything. It took an extremely unqualified nominee to a federal court to get Kennedy to do anything about it. And as I understand it, he was asking softball questions that any attorney should know.
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  212. I think it's pretty clear that she isn't sane, I don't think that most people would consider psychopaths to be sane. The woman has a long track record of caring about nobody and nothing other than herself. Not that Trump is any better, but we could have had Bernie who is quite well educated and willing to listen to reason. He's also got more integrity than the rest of the Senate combined and has been rallying support for the people to fund politicians entire campaigns in exchange for not selling out to non-voting donors.
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  213. No. While we should clean our own house, the whole idea that we can't take NK to task for some of the most egregious human rights violations anywhere ever, is ridiculous. I mean seriously, with the possible exception of Vlad the Impaler, you'd be hard pressed to find a dictator that was more ruthless. I mean, seriously, they regularly use anti-aircraft guns for state sponsored executions. And that's if you're not lucky enough to have a "car accident" as means of execution. And let's not forget about the concentration camps that would make the Nazis envious. The US has some genuine human rights problems that need to be corrected, but the whole scope of what's going on in NK is apparently well beyond your comprehension.
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  214. There is no ideal solution to this problem, this solution here is probably the best case scenario at this time. Perhaps in the future it will be possible to take the fetus out of the uterus for incubation so that the father can raise the child without the woman needing to bring it to term.
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  215. It doesn't really matter. It's assault either way and since she died it's manslaughter.
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  216. Jack López Nope, I'm just not racist. There's a difference. You think I didn't notice being screwed over so that they could redirect general education funds to students that were already going to college? There is no white privilege. You seriously think that anybody gives a rat's backside about those poor white folks in the Appalachia pr anywhere else?
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  217. They're medical professionals, they don't get to make decisions based upon morality that would lead to bad health outcomes for the patient. They only get to make decisions based upon their medical training and judgment about how to best help the patient. This is a case where the doctors chose to provide no care to a woman that clearly needed it for reasons other than medical judgment. They should be kicked out of the profession until such a time as they decide they want to be professionals. I'm sure there are doctors out there that would prefer not to provide treatment for stupidity induced injuries, but they provide treatment anyways because they're professionals that actually care about their patients.
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  218. They could start by not collecting all that information in the first place.
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  219. That's false. He never filed a criminal report about that robbery. So, whether or not the robbery ever happened and what the particulars of the robbery were if it happened aren't relevant. This is something that the prosecutors are doing in an effort to distract from how terrible the Olympics were this year. From the various robberies and inadequate facilities to the diving pool that was turning green. Bottom line is that even under Brazilian law, Loche is innocent. What's more, if the guards took 160 for the repair of the ad, that's robbery under Brazilian law. The repair was 120 and that's all they could legally take.
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  220. I'd settle for hazard pay. I've been working in public through the pandemic and I only got basically minimum wage and that $1200 everybody else got. Meanwhile last week, I got to deal with a verbally abusive person trying to get a price check over the phone and chewing me out about how good I have it while he's been out of work. Dude was making more than I have been through the pandemic and was more interested in abusing me than in working with me while I bent the rules to help the guy out. This kind of thing really doesn't encourage me to care about the unemployed when we've been consistently hiring through the entire pandemic and positions haven't been getting filled. But, they got their $10k + benefits and I'll at most be eligible for the regular benefits and only under certain conditions as I'm working an essential job. Really, makes me want to just sit back and watch the whole country burn.
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  221. Sure it can, what's many? Who are these millenials that are wasting money? Is this somehow different from Gen X or the Boomers? And how do you explain the much larger number that haven't got money to waste because jobs don't pay a living wage, even if you do save enough and what's the point of saving if the savings gets stolen by greedy corporations anyways. A lot easier to file for bankruptcy if don't have much money to begin with because you haven't saved any.
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  222. You mean other than the fact that this was happening via adjudication by the college? And the accused was frequently being deprived of any chance to cross examine the accuser? Or that the standards being used were significantly lower than the typical guilty beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt? These cases of alleged rape and sexual assault are criminal acts that should be handled by the police and the prosecutor's office. The reason for handling it internally was to try and do an end run around due process as the colleges weren't required to meet the same standards as the worst case scenario would be kicking them out of school rather than sending them to prison. The end result was a set of regulations that protected the accuser at the expense of the accused in direct conflict with the normal way things are done in the US where the accused are innocent until proven guilty. The worst is that there's no evidence to support the idea that there is a problem that is so significant that it should justify throwing out the constitution. The studies that allege that this is a problem were conducted with extremely questionable methodologies and do not represent colleges in general.
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  223. Not to mention that they still haven't done anything to help frontline workers either in terms of protection or compensation. In many parts of the country, there are essential workers that are making less than that $600 a week stimulus check, on top of having to actually work and take on the additional risk so that everybody else can stay at home. Granted, I'm grateful to have the certainty of a paycheck and ability to pay my bills, but it's unbelievably incompetent that the Democrats weren't able to get us anything, even as they held up things up in previous rounds. If anybody was even remotely confused about the party, that should finally dispel the notion that they care about normal people.
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  224. If you think that, you're a great fool. Pelosi isn't a great Speaker, she hasn't been able to deliver on the priorities that the Democrats claim to support and even when they did have both houses and the White House they still didn't get anything done. And under her leadership, the Democrats lost over a thousand seats across the country in the more important state races. She's a massive fundraising opportunity for Republicans as even most of the Democratic voters hate her guts. More recently, she got rolled on the Cares Act, a great Speaker would have kept it held up in the House with procedural issues until they were able to get more out of it. Unlimited PPP money for small businesses that qualified through the end of the pandemic. Hazard pay for essential workers, not giving $5tn to the largest corporations without accountability. All of those could been included in the Cares Act had she decided to actually do her freaking job as Speaker. The GOP desperately wanted that money for the donors, and her failure to substantively deal with any of that is on her.
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  225. These kinds of videos are why I don't give you any money. The black community whines every time a black person is shot and never revises their view in light of further evidence when it changes the narrative. You don't see white people or Asian people behaving like that. If they can't revise their opinions as new facts come in, then on precisely what basis do they hold any moral authority?
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  226. The GOP is going to be fine, the Democrats will figure out how to deliver the races to them.
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  227. This woman is a terrible human being. F you for shaming Matt Damon like that. Her specific situation isn't grey area, but claiming that there are no grey areas out there when it comes to these issues and deliberately misinterpreting his comments makes her garbage. Clearly, she didn't deserve to be treated like that, but she has absolutely no right to weaponize this sort of behavior against men in general just because she was hurt.
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  228. Why shouldn't they be able to? That's what actual journalists do. Those candidates all had massive flaws that Bernie doesn't have. If you can't be bothered to justify why Bernie is as bad as those other ones, then why should anybody take you seriously? It's pretty clear that you're not informed on the issues.
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  229.  @neonspark707  So, I take it you're not in favor of Biden. He's had the whole thing handed to him. Sanders has at least earned some wins in primaries. Biden won one primary and then had most of the other candidates drop out and endorse him. He barely gets out on the stump and he won't debate Sanders. If you call that winning the primary, you're the kind of shill that's ruining the party.
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  230.  @lexiecove7203  They don't need to as their existence changes the narrative. Bernie had to get to 1991 delegates in order to win the primary, Biden and the other delegates just had to get a plurality or the ability to get other candidates delegates in the second ballot.
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  231. Cenk is making a huge mistake here. Fight like hell in the primary for the best possible candidate, but if the primary is rigged, then it makes precisely no sense to reward that with votes. If the candidate that won the primaries did so honestly, then fine, vote for them, but Biden is incapable of executing the duties of the office.
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  232. That's the thing, if the voters don't punish the DNC for rigging primaries in the general election, then what's the consequence? Of course we should fight like hell in the primary, but if the primary is rigged, then why reward that with votes in the general election?
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  233.  @lexiecove7203  Blame that on the DNC, they're using the SCOTUS picks as hostages to force people to vote for a candidate that won't do jack shit to help the American people out. He's even on record after his most recent wins as being so opposed to Medicare for all that he'll veto it, even if it gets past both the house and the senate. Where was this concern about Supreme Court picks when Obama was supposed to be able to nominate somebody to replace Scalia and the Republicans refused to even hold hearings? Not to mention when they did get to make picks, they chose moderate republicans to fill those vacancies? The only possible way that the people will ever win is if we stop playing this stupid game and punish the Democrats as many times as necessary in order to make them learn that their masters are the voters, not their donors.
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  234. +Darrel Sutterfield, it's in the constitution. The President nominates somebody and the Senate confirms them. This kind of apologistics is what's destroying this country. For close to 240 years that's how it's worked. The President would nominate somebody for the Supreme Court and the Senate would examine their record and credentials and give it an up or down vote. In no instance ever, has the Senate refused to do that much so they could steal the nomination for their party. Nor have they blanket refused to confirm anybody at all for such a prolonged period of time.
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  235. TYT hates the police and would rather back criminals than an aspect of solving the problem.
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  236. And they say we don't need gun control regulations. We'll see if the driver would have been able to legally possess it. But having all those weapons is definitely a contributing factor.
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  237. She's here illegally because she failed to leave the country. She was given a chance via DACA, but she didn't adhere to the requirements of the program. She should have just coughed up the money and filed the paperwork on time, that way they wouldn't have had cause to detain her. But yes, we're the trolls, not you ninnies that can't fathom the fact that she herself broke the law by not complying with immigration law after she turned 18.
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  238. This has nothing to do with her being a danger to society. This has to do with her failing to adhere to the rules of the second chance she was given. She could have just paid the fee and filed the paperwork on time and not been detained. Instead, she didn't just fail to file the paperwork months late, she went on stage in front of a camera and announced to the world that she isn't here legally.
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  239.  @drunkstormtroopr3627  They had potentially 4 days worth of oxygen, potentially death from dehydration or hypothermia could come sooner. It is possible to leave a couple weeks without water in rare cases, but typically you're looking at closer to 2 days. There was some water on board for drinking, but who knows how much, and if they're still alive, it's like spending the time stuck in a sewer.
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  240. You don't get rich like that without exploiting other people. Nobody works that hard or efficiently. That money he has was only possible because we have tax and regulatory systems that are set up to take money from the poor and give them to the rich. I think it's cool and all, but let's be honest about the fact that you don't get that kind of money legitimately. It all comes from rightwing policies designed to rob the poor to enrich the rich.
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  241. I guess that explains all the appreciation for Python...
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  242. That's only true because programming is rather more involved than just programming. You don't necessarily need to love programming, but if you don't love problem-solving, puzzles and searching for efficient solutions, you're probably going to be shit at programming anything interesting.
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  243.  @dawnofjustice4689  I think the more typical way is to set up a nonprofit and assign ownership to the nonprofit. I think the hold up is probably the cost of setting up a gallery that's capable of housing the collection. Granted, it's probably a third the size of the total and they'd probably rotate some of them in and out of the visible area, but a museum that large would be extremely expensive. I personally would love to see them loan out the work more widely or at least get it stored some place with proper climate control and security.
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  244. Also in some states the vote went solidly for Trump, but the voters voted to move toward protecting abortion rights.
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  245.  @sersastark  Yes, but he's refusing to promise to step in if Biden is out. Considering how he wussed out that last couple rounds, I'm not sure we can count on him.
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  246. Yes, while source isn't really required for that, it certainly makes the process a lot more efficient and a lot less unpleasant.
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  247. It's not an easy position for the police to be in when there's a Black man that's found hanging. There's a lot of folks out there that just assume that no Black man would hang himself due to the history of "strange fruit" in some parts of the country. But, it does happen, some Black people do hang themselves and it just means that there was a suicide. Beyond that, it doesn't mean much. That being said, after the rest of the results are available, it will likely to found to be a suicide by hanging as presumably there weren't a lot of signs around the death scene to lead to questions about what actually happened..
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  248. Maybe or maybe they just genuinely believe that Black people don't hang themselves due to the symbolism of it. Either way, people grieving aren't known for being hyper-rational. Some are, but not everybody is, some get downright irrational when they hurt like that.
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  249. As long as the box is set up to clean, the only real issue with a dead baby being dropped off is potential trauma to the people that open the box to get whatever is in there. It's preferable for these bodies to be properly dealt with, there just aren't always better alternatives if you live in a state where abortion isn't legal, there have been cases in recent memory of women in other states being prosecuted for natural miscarriages.
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  250. I've seen some folks posting that the infant died of natural causes and they know who the mother is.
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  251.  @Orchidaceous1  And it may be as simple as the infant dying of something along the lines of seizure related complications at night when she was sleeping. That nearly happened to me, if the seizure hadn't happened when my parents were in the room and the county didn't have ER doctors that travel around the county to stabilize people in situations like that, I'd probably be dead. But, unlike this case, the state wasn't arresting women for infants that died of natural causes or for miscarriages.
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  252. Yes, but the Desert Eagle has been around for ages and if i doesn't puncture the body armor, it will pack enough of a punch that the organs on the other side will be severely damaged.
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  253. One of the things that they've done around here is change the timing on some of the intersections so that all directions get a red light for a few seconds to allow pedestrians to get far enough into the street to see and be seen. It is somewhat less effective if you've got people turning on red and doing so without properly looking though.
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  254. We used to make people that were cited for jaywalking attend educational classes to help stop the practice. I've been driving late at night and seen people dressed completely in black crossing the street. Well, not so much seen as inferred their presence as the only thing I could see is the retroreflective lane markers disappear briefly as they walk past. But, we've decided to stop enforcing all traffic laws except the ones that apply to cars.
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  255. There was no need for this law, that behavior was already criminal.
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  256. Are we surprised? The governments on both sides are despicable.
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  257.  @DannyPops  One of the big issues is that Elon has an extremely large mouth and a long history of overpromising what they can deliver. And they're still having issues like people being trapped in their cars if the software doesn't think they should be allowed to open the doors and the cars still can't figure out how far away motorcycles are.
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  258.  @wilsonfreitas8418  Yes, the P in PDF stands for Portable. Unless there are advanced features like that, then it should open fine on any computer. You may have issues with forms data, or filling out the PDF, but I've never encountered a PDF that wouldn't open at least enough to read on random other OSes.
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  259.  @jakedee4117  It gets complicated because club membership doesn't necessarily require that you engage in lawful activities at all times. So, you can have clubs where it is mostly people who are just lovers of bikes and like family, but have a few that are involved in criminal activities. I've personally got no interest in joining of those clubs as I'm more of an independent spirit, but, much of what is out there is absolutely wrong or outright purposefully made up by law enforcement to make it seem like they're not wasting taxpayer dollars on personal vendettas. I haven't personally encountered any Angles, but when I go to the big biker run there's always a booth for the Banditos and you probably wouldn't know those guys were in a club if they weren't wearing their gear.
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  260.  @lightworker4512  Worker's Comp covers work-related injuries, don't assume that you'll be covered just because you're at work if you were explicitly told not to do something. But, if you were told to do something, you'd likely be covered.
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  261.  @muchosa1  It's a losing battle for them. You can always just take photos of every single page and then run that through OCR software to give you a nice epub that can be read the same way that a normal one would. It might miss some of the links without extra work, but there's nothing that they can do to outright stop you from doing that as it presumably falls under these same rules that apply to home recording of TV and radio.
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  262. Yes, but the previous time they had looked it was 2/3 of that. And, it is a crack. These things have a tendency to build up steam as more people sign it gets to be less risky to stick your neck out to join the crowd. Still, it is a very small number when you consider the number of voters in Israel.
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  263. IIRC, it was double pneumonia that led to sepsis. All they had to go by was that the man wasn't showing an appropriate emotional response, and we know now that he's autistic, hence the lack of typical affect.
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  264. @UCjGRW5qik-9PLkAbB-S1ipg Sure it is, why wouldn't it be? If that's going to be the standard, then we are really not a very free society. There's a relatively small number of rights specifically stated in the Constitution, most of which were only ones that were important in the 18th century.
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  265. Yep, Russia does have a history of hostage taking, so to give them the justification by breaking their laws is just ridiculous. Anybody who legitimately needs to travel to a country like that needs to be very aware of what the rules are and the resulting consequences of breaking them.
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  266.  @szbalazs2073  It's still possible that the sub is on the surface and wasn't seen. It wouldn't have much above the water as it's not designed to be a boat. But, that being said, in all likelihood they died days ago of one thing or another. But, even if it is on the surface at this point, they're probably dead from exposure or just running out of breathable air.
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  267. If it's a recovery operation, it means a greatly reduced willingness to put anybody else's lives at risk. It also means that they can slow the process down a bit so that people don't get too fatigued.
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  268.  @stoicsavage509  Yes, although completely under-engneered for the situation, with no redundancy and questionable use even when they were working correctly. The only reason any of this was allowed was that there weren't any regulations of any sort in place beyond workplace safety rules, which can't possibly allow this.
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  269.  @johncostello6006  I just saw your post. Failing to follow local regulations definitely would make this a reasonable response.
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  270.  @rusticfightr  A large article can take weeks or even months of investigation to reveal. The Watergate Scandal would never have taken Nixon down, if Woodward and Bernstein weren't professional journalists that had sources to leak the information to tell them to keep digging or to have people to ask for information from. A rando with a camera and a laptop just isn't going to be able to do that with enough regularity to make any difference. Journalism tends to be pretty boring most of the time, they'll sit in on press briefings all year in case something happens. And normally, nothing much happens, but if they're not there that one day that something does happen, then they've wasted all that time. And, there is no way of handing out press credentials for such small briefing rooms to replicate that if media outlets aren't pooling their resources to choose which correspondents to send.
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  271.  @kuroryuken  One of the nice things about now is that most banks have apps that can be used to check the balance so that that doesn't happen. 9 years ago, there's a decent chance that that wasn't an option or that the website was further behind where your actual balance was.
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  272. It's somewhat better these days as the transactions usually go through more quickly and it's easier to get the current balance. Personally, I have an additional checking account with my local credit union for things that I think may take longer to go through. It makes it a lot easier to know how much money in my checking account is actually available, I simply transfer the necessary funds to the other debit card account and eventually the money goes away, but I clearly know the money is spoken for.
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  273. We have a legal system where the defendant is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. It's why some defendants are allowed to be free while awaiting trial. A victim impact statement is something that the judge can consider along with the rest of the evidence when deciding whether to keep the defendant locked up or under what conditions they may be released.
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  274.  @paullooper1090  Yes, but doing so at the sentencing hearing seems rather odd to me. I get that it's a bench trial, but why was there a sentencing hearing if he hadn't been found guilty?
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  275.  @dannyingram1196  It's not slander when it's true. There really has been an investigation and there really is a report that definitely would have been released had he not resigned. It's less certain what that report says, but it's unlikely to be complimentary if he resigned rather than let it be released ahead of his confirmation hearings.
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  276. Hamas just initiated this round, You don't think the war criminals in charge in Israel are above committing their own war crimes?
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  277. I doubt it would go to waste. I could be wrong, but I'd assume that AB blood goes to AB patients first, and if they don't have any of that, then they go with O blood of the appropriate type.
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  278. If it were practical for them to only employ and treat fellow believers, it would be less of an issue. The problem is that there are a bunch of non-believers that get trapped by it.
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  279. And yet the Democrats won't do anything about those voting laws to make it more accessible. It's pretty clear that the Democrats don't want to win, and I, for one, am more than happy to oblige them. They clearly don't want my vote because they refuse to do anything to help me, so I'm voting 3rd party or for whomever is challenging the incumbent.
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  280. The plan is imperfect, but it does address some of those affordability issues by reducing the student loan payments. If I understood correctly, it also does something about the interest payments. When I was paying for my previous degree, the student loan interest was more than what my credit cards were charging and I actually put most of the money on my credit cards because not only was the interest lower, but if something should happen, like disability, I could get that waived in bankruptcy court. Student loans are virtually impossible to get discharged in court.
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  281. There's a few reasons. Guaranteed loans, reduced government subsidies and the lack of competition. Much of the spending is on administrative positions that have noting to do with education and on building projects that make the college more competitive in attracting new students, even if it also doesn't do much for the quality of education being provided.
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  282. This is being somewhat addressed by this in terms of capping the payments and increasing the amount that's protected. There's also more options being provided for having the loans discharged for public service. But yes, I totally agree. I put pretty much all my tuition and fees on credit cards because the interest was lower and they could be discharged in bankruptcy if something prevented me from working. (I was using introductory offers and balance transfers that were like 3% transfer fee and 0% interest, but the interest rates on the loans were absurd)
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  283. Absolutely and I wonder if he would have received the nomination in 2020 if he hadn't been able to hide in his basement and had had to actually travel around campaigning.
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  284. The PI is a bit of an idiot. Nobody should be talking to the police in a situation like this without an attorney. Even more so if he's innocent of any wrongdoing. Being innocent isn't a defense against being wrongfully convicted, after all. That being said, the whole thing does look fishy and it wouldn't surprise me if he does know what happened to her and tried to cover it up.
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  285. You lost me when you decided to mis-characterize the academic rigor of the school That 98% admission rate is because it's a really, really hard school to succeed at. They expect you to actually do the work and to be able to discuss the material in front of the other students. Sure, some students float through without any rigor, but the school produces a ton of doctors, lawyers and teachers. Subjects which can't reasonably be considered easy. People can and do regularly flame out because they can't deal with the freedom.
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  286. The biggest challenge was probably figuring out where to look. With such a big gap between when he was last seen and when they started looking, it was a massive area to search. This is one of the reasons why some cruise ships have sensors installed to detect when somebody falls overboard so they can immediately start looking.
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  287.  @ArizonaSquatch  TBH, at a certain point there's not much point in being afraid. Just make sure you've got a water source and food to cover you until FEMA can get setup.
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  288.  @jujubhee  Right now, and it could stay that way indefinitely, if not for the extreme arrogance of the people there to think that it can't or won't hit there. This virus is highly contagious and the only reason that it hasn't already hit WY, is that hardly anybody wants to go there. The virus is more or less starting with the places that people want to go and following the people to where they don't go. WY, happens to be a place where few people go, hence why there have been no deaths reported. That does not mean that there are no cases, thanks to a lack of testing, there are more cases in the country than we know about.
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  289.  @freshmen6255  And when we have 100% effective means of keeping those morons from infecting the rest of us, they can have their personal freedom on the issue. I had an extremely mild case of what was likely covid-19 when it first arrived in the US. And, it was no joke, the fact that self-entitled people like you will risk other people's lives because of this arrogance is beyond me. I just hope that you're idiocy doesn't get anybody killed.
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  290.  Jerry Ogburn  You clearly don't understand the system. The jurors are there primarily to weigh the evidence and to decide whether or not the prosecutor/plaintiff has made its case. They are given all the necessary law they need to render a verdict. If they think there's more they need, they can and do send notes to the judge with requests for clarifications about their instructions. Also, do you have a better method? Jury duty has issues in terms of fairness, but there aren't any real options that are any better.
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  291.  @dustin8420  In that case, the size of the quarry and lack of things like flotation rings and shepherds hooks was probably the final straw. A swimming pool is likely to be small enough that you can reach the hook out without endangering yourself, even if they do go under.
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  292. I'm not sure I'd personally care to be so enthusiastic about a country committing a war crime, but that's just me. You do you.
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  293. If this shipment was bought by Hezbollah and kept internally, probably not many, but if it was bought by them and distributed in some fashion, it could be a lot. It all depends where the pagers wound up.
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  294. For every item? It's one thing if it's just a couple items, but if it's every single item, that takes a long time. I used to work pickup for a grocery store and a matter of a few seconds per items adds up quickly. And this would be on the order of a minute or two per item on the rosy side of the estimation.
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  295. Not really, at most this solves the problem of going over curbs, which really should be a less and less common issue as more places require curb cuts wherever there's a crosswalk. New buildings generally require that there be allowances made to permit people in mobility scooters and wheelchairs to gain access to the building. And as other folks have pointed out, it's going to require a lot more battery power to operate something with this.
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  296.  @weltschmerzistofthaufig2440  There's been decades of work on changing the environment and at this point, it's mostly a matter of waiting for the buildings to be rebuilt. The number of places where you can't go is shrinking every year.
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  297. TBH, I think they'd probably be better off replacing the wheel with tank treads. And just have the ability to reconfigure the shape between a round wheel and tank treads. It's probably possible to build a tire that could handle both positions. Although you'd need to add suspension elsewhere as that likely would be a very rough ride.
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  298. I used to live over there and the party isn't anywhere near as popular as people think. Only a small fraction of the country has actual membership for reasons that I didn't bother to inquire about. Everybody keeps quiet about it because there are significant penalties for doing or saying things that call into question the party line. Unlike in the US, they do still have political correctness as in an officially "correct" answer. If people started to think too much about the situation, it could come tumbling down relatively quickly, as the party has more tacit support by a failure to revolt and minimal protests than active support. And while they don't seem to talk with each other about their positions, that doesn't mean that they won't tell foreigners that they don't like the government. And the foreigners are allowed to say basically nothing, as interfering with the country's political system is grounds for deportation.
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  299. +Geandily The progressives are mostly with Bernie, Hillary is no progressive. She's a right of center candidate on the economy and on national defense.
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  300. You're absolutely correct about this. People are trying to pressure me to support Sec. Clinton if she's the nominee because a Trump Presidency would be disastrous, but I've had it with toeing the party line. If Bernie isn't the nominee, I'm no longer going to be a Democrat. I'll likely wind up voting for her anyways, but I'm definitely not going to be enthusiastic about it. I'm definitely not going to volunteer or donate. I'll vote and nothing more. I'm sick and tired of the Democrats moving further and further to the right. I want candidates with some conviction and who genuinely try to do the right thing rather than sell the voters out at the first chance. I don't expect that he'll be able to follow through on all of his promises. But, if he follows through on the things that are within the powers of the commander and chief and can get one or two of the other things through, I'll consider it to be a success. It doesn't much matter to me which agenda items he's able to get, all of them will make America better.
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  301. Clinton shouldn't have been charged, I've met plenty of people who don't think that oral sex is sex. And it's pretty much the status quo for the target of investigations to perjure themselves. If they didn't have more to it than that, it should never have gone forward. People know that when you take the fifth that it's seen as admitting guilt even though it's not legally admitting guilt.
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  302. TBH, if they are going to cancel it they're like 80 years to late, the movie already wrapped, had it's theatrical run, was shown on TV, made available via VHS and pirated a ton. I'm sure they're going to have a ton of luck canceling it.
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  303. They could have easily confirmed somebody else. At this point the process is so fouled up that the next nominee will likely have to face an extensive background investigation as nobody is going to believe it. The other detail here is that he might well have been the only pick they have that's acceptable to Trump. He's somebody that believes that you can't subpoena a sitting President and is a huge supporter of executive privilege which is something that Trump desperately needs as much of what he' wants to do is blatantly unconstitutional. We need a system where the President is required to pick off a list put together by a bipartisan group rather than being able to pick rando nutjobs that further a political ideology.
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  304. That's a lie. You don't have a PhD in anything relevant if you're claiming that the current climate change is similar to anything that's come before. As far as consensus goes, the verdict is in, humans are the primary cause of climate change this time around. We don't yet know how bad it's going to be, but we're already seeing the largest known die off of species in the history of the world. By the time deniers like you are on board, there might not be much left to save. had we taken this seriously decades ago, we wouldn't need to be taking a lot of these steps because the problem would have been contained.
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  305. This isn't sour grapes. This is a matter of fact, we already know that she's guilty of mishandling classified materials, that report is already out. Just because you're a low information voter doesn't mean the rest of us are. We know that she's guilty and we know that the Attorney General is already on record as saying that she will go along with the FBI's recommendations about whether or not to prosecute. And we know that the FBI is presently headed by a former Bush era appointee. You might be right that she lucks out and manages to avoid the indictment, but it requires a significant amount of ignorance to pretend like it's sour grapes that drives the accusations. It's the other way around, the sour grapes are because they rigged the race in favor of a candidate that's known to be guilty and likely to be indicted. They wouldn't have a dozen FBI agents investigating her and they wouldn't be handing out immunity to staffers if they weren't expecting to bring charges. Not to mention that the staffer who was granted immunity and who set up her illegal server has been taking the 5th an awful lot during his testimony. So, you might choose to believe that there isn't anything on the horizon, but if you look at the facts that are already in, you'd know that her odds of becoming President are rather long. Bernie at least would have some hope of winning in the GE if he were nominated.
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  306. What constitutional crises? That's more or less what happened to Nixon. Voters elected him even though he was already being investigated for some serious crimes. He was then forced to resign or be impeached. Now, Nixon was somewhat more honest than Clinton, but in her case, they'll probably impeach her and remove her from office if she's actually elected. And that assumes that the voters don't care and that her campaign team stops being so incompetent.
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  307. Considering that she's needed to spend literally millions of dollars paying people to pretend to support her online, I think it's pretty obvious why it is that we're the ones making demands. Bottom line here is that it's beyond suspicious that the candidate that "won" the most delegates has to go around paying professionals trolls to pretend to be supporters and generally troll the opposition supporters. She needs to cater to our whims because she doesn't have the votes necessary to win the GE and she's not going to have much luck getting the conservatives onboard. They hate her even more than the progressives do.
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  308. Pretty much. Unfortunately, the way that slavery and the history of Black people in America has been so poorly covered in the K-12 system for so long that it makes it easy for folks to have these kinds of ignorant views. This isn't like in school where they falsely suggest that all Blacks in America prior to the civil war were slaves or that all whites owned or supported slavery. This should be a much more targeted coverage of what went on at that particular plantation. Any White person around that plantation prior to emancipation was in part responsible for the slavery, even if tacitly.
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  309.  @scottmcdaniel9282  And under your plan, what stops people who aren't being paid enough to live from just burning the entire country down? What people like you seem to forget is that these people that don't have the skills that companies are willing to pay for aren't just going to starve to death, and the less they have, the less incentive they have to maintain the status quo. They'll start burning things if for no other reason than they're bored and can't afford entertainment. Also, by your reasoning, we should be siphoning money back from the ultra-rich. In most cases they didn't actually earn any of that money legitimately, they "earned" it by paying people less than what they're worth. And as they said in the video, basically they're stealing from the workers that produced the wealth.
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  310. Came here to say the same thing. Larry almost killed the biker, but the biker's the ass somehow.
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  311. You're probably just not sexist or racist enough to see it. But, I assure you that if you were a man-hating, white-woman that the guilt would be completely obvious. I have a hard time believing that people would be so quick to jump on the bandwagon of him being a pervert and possible sex-criminal if he were white or a woman. I'm a man, I happen to be white, but what I see in the video does not look like masturbation and probably isn't a lewd act either. At most he's adjusting himself and even that is rather questionable as the motion of the bag makes it rather unlikely to be even doing that much. In all seriousness, this is part of why racism remains a problem.
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  312. Eh, that doesn't deserve praise, it should be the bare minimum when the whole incident is caught on tape like that.
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  313. In February, the full situation want known and that was probably before the first stay at home orders were in place. The better question is why people like you try to invent fake controversies. You're not impressing people.
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  314. Isn't it interesting how much the NRA and DNC have in common? Both ignore the wishes of their members and using corruption to do so.
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  315. If they pass enough different net neutrality regulations, you'll likely see the telecoms begging for a federal regulation that would simplify the process.
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  316. That's not a Catholic insurer, that's a normal insurer. The plan probably only provides Catholic hospitals because they're cheaper as they don't provide a lot of the services that people might need.
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  317. If she does, she'll wait until it's clear that Biden can't gain the nomination and will do so well past the point where her endorsement would make a difference. The woman has no integrity.
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  318. They get arrested and shot more because they behave differently when it comes to the police. I really don't get why you keep repeating these racist lies. BLM is a racist movement. Notice how quickly they forgot about the driveby that killed that black girl in Florida when they found out that the criminals weren't white? Or how they never, ever, revise their views when more information comes to light that suggests that the cops didn't have a choice. Or, the fact that it's mostly officers of colors involved in these shootings? It's really hard for me to feel sorry beyond just the fact that somebody has died in cases like these because of the hypocrisy and the effort to use the situation for personal benefit.
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  319. She won't, she has no integrity.
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  320. Strictly speaking, we knew ever before January, most colds and the like have asymptomatic cases, what we didn't know was whether it could be transmitted, for how long or what the proportion of cases would be.
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  321. No, the Democrats just chose to ignore the voters and chase off the progressives. Offering Medicare for all, ubi and some substantive measure might have changed it. Pelosi holding up stimulus checks probably factors into this.
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  322. He has a shaved head, I don't see any white-supremacist gear in the video nor do I see any sort of indication that he's a bigot. In fact, it's rather unlikely that a skinhead would even have the jersey of somebody that wasn't completely white.
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  323. Apparently, and the fact that he chose Tamir Rice was pretty ridiculous. Tamir would never have been shot if he wasn't carrying around what appeared to be a gun or had the sense to not lower it in the direction of the police. Toy guns are legally required to have that orange tip so as to reduce the likelihood of people mistaking them for real firearms. The video is out there and it pretty clearly shows that he was shot while lowering the toy gun in the direction of the cops. Perhaps they could choose somebody else that wasn't so clearly justifiably shot by police to use for these examples. Alton Sterling appears to have done nothing to have caused the cops to shoot him. Or at least that's what the videos appear to indicate.
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  324. The poll workers not showing is just an excuse to close polling locations to suppress the vote. It doesn't matter if they get down to a half dozen locations throughout the state, they need to vote to go forward before people realize just how bad of a job Biden is going to do if elected and how unlikely it is for him to be elected in the first place.
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  325. People like you were never going to vote for him. Let's be honest about that. The fact that you think that we're allies is a pretty strong hint that you don't get what's going on. These aren't conspiracy theories about the establishment rigging the primaries. We don't yet have it on tape for this election, but they had to admit under oath in court, that they rigged the '16 primaries in favor of Clinton. Now, we have a candidate that is clearly senile, benefitting from all of the other corporatist candidates dropping out in the span of 48 hours to get behind a candidate who had won only 1 state and didn't even have any personnel in upcoming states and you don't think that looks at all fishy? The honest truth here is that if you are characterizing it like that, you're either being paid to do so, or you're so out of touch with reality, that there's nothing that could be done to earn your vote. For those of us in the real world, a vote for Biden is a vote for a life that's even worse than under Trump. Just look at the leaked list of cabinet picks if you don't believe me. He's going to pack his cabinet with war mongers and elites, to at least the extent that Trump has and unlike Trump, Biden is too senile to have much involvement in day to day goals of the agencies.
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  326. No, what blacks need to understand is what whites understand; if you're pulled over it's yes sir, no sir, answer only the questions asked as briefly as possible and avoid admitting to anything if you're thinking you want to challenge it. The woman deserved to be arrested, if she truly didn't do what she was accused of doing, she could have taken it to court. Often times the officer won't show up for a traffic infraction at which point it gets thrown out. But, getting yourself arrested by doing something this idiotic pretty much ensures that not only will the cop show up, but now you've been arrested on top of that.
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  327. I live in Pramila Jayapal's district and I just sent her an email threatening to not just pull my vote from her next election, but to also donate money to her oponent regardless of what party that candidate is from if she doesn't publicly oppose this. I urge everybody else in one of the districts that's represented by one of these progressives to do the same. And really, everybody in every district ought to, but the bar should be higher for those claiming to be progressives.
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  328. It's not imaginary, women get away with all sorts of touching that men don't get away with. Ever hear of a woman being charged for having sex with a drunk man? I don't think I've ever heard of that happening and what about all the drunk men that get prosecuted for having sex with drunk women? How is that even fair.
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  329. I'd like to see some evidence to support that belief. I've seen so many women over the years just ignore every worthwhile guy around her to go after the same jerks as all the other women are going for. Then they hit their late 30s and freak out because they don't have anybody and the only folks left are bitter from being mistreated for all those years, or already in some sort of a relationship elsewhere. Men tend to have much more reasonable standards. Sure, given the chance, most men will date super models exclusively, the reality is that most won't ever get the chance and are wiling to lower our standards accordingly. What causes these incels more than anything else is when those unattractive women behave like 9s or 10s and are generally horrid to them. Women don't generally realize what men have to put up with in the pursuit of a mate and don't realize just how horrible it is to always have to make the first move. And then to deal with women that behave horribly when they're not interested or are flirting with them just for attention.
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  330. And your basis for this is what precisely? Incels rightly notice the massive hypocrisy with which women approach dating and are at a bit of a loss as to what to do about it. If you look at what women say they want and what they actually respond to, there's a massive chasm between the two. And in many cases, they want things which are in direct opposition to their own self interest. We've collectively raised the last couple generations of women to be incredibly picky while getting offended by the notion that they should bring anything to the table. They'll actually divorce a guy because they're bored with him and don't seem to think there's anything wrong with that. There are great women out there that aren't like this, but with so many women not considering men to be fully fledged people with our own jobs, hobbies and even keys, there's going to be men who are upset with women being able to have the things they want without deserving them, and ignoring even great guys because they're not quite tall enough or aren't rich.
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  331. They didn't. There were a couple of studies that allege that to be the case, by engaging in questionable research practices. If there were really that many women being sexually assaulted, the rates of prosecution and conviction wouldn't be so low. Same goes for the number of crimes actually reported to the police.
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  332. Perhaps you should apologize to the Chinese for doing similar things to their cities. The fact that they were one bomb per city doesn't make a difference, plus we warned you people to get out of town before we bombed, something that you guys didn't do for the Chinese and the US didn't do for other countries that we were bombing.
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  333. Are we really surprised, conservative justices don't get appointed based upon their knowledge and respect of the constitution. In fact knowing and respecting the constitution are seen as problems.
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  334. You guys are right on about pot. I'd like to see more studies conducted to figure out whether it should be legal versus decriminalized. What the age requirements should be and what the limits on various components of pot should be. But, it's already abundantly clear that pot is far less harmful than legal painkillers, even some OTC painkillers like Tylenol. Cannabis dependency is a real thing, but it's clearly less of an issue than other substances you can get hooked on. And baring an extreme case where you're literally suffocating from all the smoke, it's not going to kill you in any foreseeable time span.
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  335. Not really, even with the Cares Act negotiations which should have been an easy win for things like hazard pay for essential workers and $600 a week for the unemployed through the end of the pandemic, she couldn't get that when she had leverage that she refused to use.
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  336. Some of them might go to Biden, but yeah, it's unlikely to be an even sharing and Bernie would be a net gain.
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  337. To be fair, we have the 3rd largest population in the world and China is a dictatorship where they can do whatever they like to handle it.
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  338. Indeed, her people still don't realize that they need to pivot to the left if they want to have any chance of winning the election. There's a huge number of people that can't stand her and her only hope of winning is to get smart and start doing some things to make liberals and progressives happy. I'm not going to be a Democrat anymore if she's actually given the nomination. I'm sick of being expected to vote for the establishment's horrible candidates.
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  339. A leader can only lead people where they want to go. When Bernie is leading us towards medicare for all and other priorities, we'll follow him. But, if he tries to hand our votes over to Biden, there's no guarantee that we'll follow. I personally wrote him in for President last time and under no circumstance will I be voting for a demented candidate like Biden.
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  340. You don't need to be trained to see that Biden has dementia. Just look at his anger and how he forgets where he is and what he's doing. Not to mention that he frequently can't form sentences. He should be in a care facility rather than being run for President. This is probably taking years off his life and just accelerating the decline.
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  341.  @rwrocksteady  You haven't seen his proposed picks to fill cabinet positions. He's likely to be even worse than Trump as he's going to leave more to the cabinet than Trump does and lack the cognitive ability to understand any of what's going on. Trump is a great fool and an imbecile, but at least he knows what office he's running for and where he is. The same cannot be said about Biden.
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  342. BIden is promising to take us backwards to where we were 4 years ago. That's not good enough. He's not just not going to fight for progress, he's going to veto progressive priorities if they do pass both the Senate and House. He's not acceptable as a candidate. Perhaps as a Republican, but certainly not as a Democrat.
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  343. I urge you to consider voting for a 3rd party candidate. The Green party could really use those cast off votes as it could help them gain benefits that aren't currently available to them. Not to mention that there are several other parties out there that could also use more supporters. Last time I wrote Bernie in, but this time I'll likely vote for whatever 3rd party candidate is available, as long as they're not repugnant.
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  344. Doesn't really matter. Whether you vote for Biden, Trump, somebody else or nobody, and Biden loses, the'll still blame us. But, the only way that we're getting out of this hostage crisis is if people stop voting for Democrats unless they run on a platform of helping the people. And then stick with it after winning election. Otherwise, what's the point? The court picks from both sides have sold us out at key moments, with the GOP picks being only slightly worse.
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  345. You have that backwards, we have to stop HRC, so Trump is our only hope. Clinton is far, far more dangerous than Trump is. Trump doesn't have access to the connections that HRC does. She's already proven herself to be above the law, the last thing we need is another corrupt politicians doing what she feels like rather than sticking to the constitution.
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  346. False accusations are not incredibly rare. Those are questionable figures that are incredibly hard to quantify. Rape and sexual assault crimes in general are hard to count because most of them occur between people who know each other. Which makes it very, very hard to determine the difference between actual rape and sex where there wasn't an explicit agreement to have sex. The two are very different morally and ethically. As far as it being incredibly rare, I had a hard time finding the conviction rate in the US for proceedings that end in trials, but in the UK, it's less than 2/3 of trials for sexual assault wind up with a conviction, meaning that some portion of those 37% that resulted in aquitals were false allegations, we don't really know how many, but legally speaking, the crimes aren't considered to happen. In the US, the numbers are hard to find, but it's a similar problem, these are cases where there might have been a rape, usually the parties have some relationship with each other, but there isn't any evidence to assume that the crime happened beyond the evidence to assume that it didn't happen and it shouldn't be claimed that those incidents aren't false allegations as it's equally valid to suggest that they are. But, doing that would lead to a number that's several orders of magnitude higher. So there's pressure to not admit the truth on that.
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  347. She was part of the DACA program until she failed to file for her extension. This isn't a woman that was fulfilling her responsibilities under the program being unfairly targeted by ICE, this is a woman that failed to file her paperwork until months after the deadline and as such isn't in the program. She's screwing things up for the other folks in the program that have been properly living up to their agreement.
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  348. No, what it means is that they knew here immigration status and that she was in the car before they pulled it over. They didn't just pull a random car over and discover that there was somebody that wasn't here legally. That's been done in the past where immigration would pull over people that were brown and make them prove they were here legally. Cenk isn't right, he's being deliberately obtuse about the matter. She was targeted in the action because they already knew her status. They weren't on a fishing expedition for possible illegal immigrants.
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  349. We don't know that happened, but it certainly is possible. The design was heavily reliant on the hull remaining intact and the ballast being released to bring the craft to the surface. If either of those two conditions weren't met, they were completely screwed as there doesn't appear to be a contingency plan to handle that. Even if they are on the surface, if they aren't located before the air runs out, they're still screwed as they have no way of opening the sub to get more air and they have limited water with no toilet available.
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  350. As a man with both OCD and autism, this is so very, very relatable. You shouldn't be thinking about things other than what you're doing if you're going to get anywhere. He's got his pens, he's got his paper, he knows if he's got the stuff he needs to continue working and the things to do the work are themselves cues to work. It made him many tens of millions of dollars, no reason to reinvent that.
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  351. IKR, when has that ever resulted in them learning the right lesson about what happened?
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  352. But, I thought that Democrats shouldn't primary other Democrats.
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  353. From what I can tell, calling them cannon fodder is being too kind. Some of them were sent across an open field wearing uniforms that do not blend in with snow for no discernible reason.
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  354. They aren't. It was kind of cool a couple decades ago, but there are so many free media players that do it better now. And I mean free in basically every possible interpretation of the word.
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  355. I'm Joe Biden and if you think my mental capacity has declined, you can vote for the other Biden.
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  356. It's a matter of routine. Toxicology reports can takes weeks and in many cases, an autopsy is never completed due to it being irrelevant to the process. Presumably, the medical examiner was able to determine that the bones were broken that are relevant to death by hanging and that there aren't other suspicious broken bones or defensive wounds either. Which would lead to a preliminary finding of suicide, even though there's more testing that is coming.
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  357. There's nothing at all shady about it, this is more or less standard practice. They don't normally wait until the toxicology and autopsy results are in when they issue a preliminary finding. The alternative would have been to say nothing and deal with the complaints that the police weren't addressing the death.
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  358. I'd love to see him try. The company has been circling the drain thanks to his incompetence for years. I'm genuinely curious as to where he's going to find the money to move the manufacturing when they don't even have the funds to properly expand where they are.
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  359. Not to mention that corrupt McConnel and the entire corporate wing of the party. Sadly, it won't happen as the wishes of the voters are not even relevant to either party.
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  360. Could we please stop saying that this is a $2.2bn package? It's closer to $7tn when you consider the leverage effect that the federal reserve is going to apply to those corporate payouts.
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  361. It's a complicated country, but with party membership being a relatively small fraction of the population, they are always closer to a change of government than outward appearances might suggest. If anything comes along that is popular with the people, the government tries to either appropriate it or squash it.
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  362. That's certainly possible, but it's also possible that there was nothing that could be done. I stopped breathing as an infant and the only reason I survived was that I stopped breathing following a seizure when my parents were in the room with me. Had they not been there, I could have died of something that medical care wouldn't have been possible to obtain. I'm still not entirely sure that I made it through quite OK, I get the feeling sometimes that I got some brain damage as a result, but I'm mostly living a decent life, so it's not something I spend too much time thinking about.
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  363. OK, so which dumpster should they use for the babies then? Because at least the mother of this infant did her best to give the infant a chance to be handled with some degree of dignity rather than be dumped into a dumpster and possibly wind up at the dump and completely forgotten about by everybody else.
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  364.  @gabrielesolletico6542  Yep, there are degrees.It's one thing to repair something that was destroyed recently, or engage in ongoing maintenance using techniques of the era it was built in, but rebuilding something that's pretty much only been ruins in modern history kind of misses the point. We can't preserve everything forever, there just isn't enough space. I would love if nothing would ever change in terms of cities, but there are a great deal of issues that come of that.
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  365. Just imagine being promised a city view room and realizing that all the houses had white foamy roofs.
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  366. TBH, as long as you do a real stop, right turn on red isn't much of an issue except right when the light is turning and pedestrians step into the crosswalk. That's a pretty narrow scenario and not one that lacking a right turn on red is likely to do much about.
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  367.  @chuckecheese5251  she didn't though, the primary was rigged in her favor. She started with hundreds of delegates before the first vote was cast. Even then it took well into the process for her to win. After which she just assumed that she was entitled to or votes and wound up losing to one of the least competent, least qualified candidates ever.
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  368.  @joeymitchell5467  you should get out more. Bernie has the best chance of beating Trump, it's why the President is so concerned that he might be the pick. He's the only candidate trying to win votes rather than donor bucks and pointless endorsements. He's also the only candidate that thinks the people should have a say in the eventually President.
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  369. The difference is that in most of those cases, there's years of chances to change their minds and they aren't swamping the healthcare system. The obese aren't preventing cancer patients from receiving treatment, covid patients are. I don't think that They're subhumans, but it's morally reprehensible to boost their treatment above cancer patients and people who had limited opportunities to avoid getting sick. The vast majority of the hospitalizations are in the unvaccinated.
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  370. It's worth noting that the whole point of a Dutch oven is that it's effectively an oven on it's own, just surround the oven from the top and bottom with coals and there you go. I have no idea why people have started to refer to things that aren't Dutch ovens as Dutch ovens, but unless you're Xhibit, it makes little sense to put an oven in the oven.
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  371. It's not a Dutch oven, there's no indentation on the top to set coals. I'm not familiar enough with this particular set to know, but the inside looks a lot like my cast iron does.
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  372. I don't see any provisions for protecting men when women lie about being on the pill. And the rest of this was already criminal.
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  373. It's completely legitimate, the act that this law deals with was already illegal. If they wanted to pass a new law, there's no reason not to include lying about contraceptives and be done with it.
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  374.  @cindydott452  I doubt very much that was an oversight. What gets me is that it's already criminal to intentionally break a condom or other barrier type of protection under battery statutes. If they were going to make stealthy specifically illegal, they should have been more expansive to other sexual activity related fraud as it pertains to pregnancey/STIs.
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  375.  @djangomarine6658  Nope, there was a time when that was the case. These days, how the people vote is largely irrelevant as there's often nobody worth supporting. Just look at the Presidential race, the election fraud that the DNC committed ensured that the people's will wasn't going to be the nominee, no matter how many people voted for a particular candidate. It was all about them putting their thumb on the scale to get somebody that the voters would approve of. The only factor that tracks with the results is the campaign donations. It doesn't matter that majorities of both parties support universal healthcare, we can't have it because the donors don't need it and aren't willing to give up the control they have.
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  376. Considering that by the end the new enlistees weren't even old enough to have existed in a world where we weren't at war there, it does raise some questions about why they were even signing up in the first place. Neither the DOD nor the politicians have cared enough about really any conflict since WWII to send in the numbers of troops necessary to win decisively, unless it was a tiny country. And win, lose or draw, a large chunk of those actions were either not useful or were actively harmful to our interests or the interest of global peace.
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  377. The shameful part was that we sent troops in there for 20 years and couldn't even secure the roads from the nearest airport to the embassy. What we accomplished there could have been done purely with cruise missiles. The only reason it went on for decades was that we were paying one side to fight with the Taliban. It would not have collapsed so quickly if there were any iota of desire of the people to be free of the Taliban. At least on a scale large enough to matter.
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  378. It is, but they also hate having a ton of unused credit floating around when the economy takes a dive because it can mean that they are now on the hook for covering a bunch of theoretical loans that are now real loans.
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  379.  @dinnerboons1504  Barely for historical reasons. It always should have been considered a 1st amendment issue. The main problem I have with it is that it's gotten to the point where it's mostly meaningless. It used to be an extreme way of indicating that whatever it is is destroying the country. Now it's because it's Tuesday in some places.
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  380. That's a sign of incompetence. The only thing worse is when they have a secret limit and don't bother to tell you about it. I've been hit with that a few times where I set the password, save the password and it won't work because it's doing something weird witht he truncation.
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  381. Yes, they already tried ignoring provocations and that didn't do them any good.
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  382.  @kommisar.  it took the US decades to get to the point where they could make use of such legislation. If they had tried it in the 20s or 30s, it likely wouldn't have worked.
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  383. He's either an escapee from the memory unit at the local old folks home, or he's running for Senate.
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  384.  @w1ngnuts  Those clever SOBs. They avoid paying taxes by being too poor.
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  385.  @RA-el6zj  Apparently yes. I would have thought the fact that Submarines have been around for over a century at this point and usually not running at such a depth with extensive maintenance and examination routines would be pretty obvious. Not to mention the various water tight doors that can be sealed if there is a breach in one section.
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  386. This is definitely consistent with what I've found in terms of my alcoholism. I'd stopped using for about 6 months before I realized what was going on. I was in so much pain that I'd literally take anything to deal with it. Somehow I managed my way through that, but in the years since, most days I have no interest in drugs, except when I get lonely around the holidays.
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  387. Not of a problem as much as it might seem, most people don't drive far enough in a given day to run out of battery life. It's more for things like interstate truckers and road trips where the battery life becomes an issue. Even the slower charging EVs can charge enough to go nearly 180mi in an hour. Which is a bit on the slowside, but if you're charging while eating, that's not an issue. 180miles is also nearly 3 hours of driving on the interstate, at that point, you're probably going to want a longer break in order to stretch the legs and rest. Obviously, there are a few issues, that assumes that there's an appropriate charger, but most road trips are going to have chargers somewhere along the route, unless you're really going off the beaten path.
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  388.  @jadzia1071  Or more likely a cat issue. Cats can become self-sufficient rather quickly as they haven't actually evolved since they were completely independent. It's certainly possible that there were missed opportunities, but it's likely that nobody knew he was missing and it was just when he got too close to somebody whose job it is to care about that that the chip was checked.
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  389.  @GhastlyCretin  I think that's the most reasonable explanation. Often times these sorts of housing units will have separate locks on the rooms of the residents so they don't have to worry about the various people that come and go while they're away.
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  390.  @SonnyUploads  It's completely relevant. If she'd died in her sleep while backpacking, I could totally see "she died doing what she loved" as being an accurate statement. But she slid literal hundreds of feet to her doom, not something for which that whole saying about dying doing what you love is intended to refer to.
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  391. Conceptually, it's kind of cool, but it's the result of property that pre-exists the current border location and can be a bit of a headache in terms of enforcement. Usually that property would be bought off or the border moved to one side or the other. Or a giant fence built through the middle.
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  392.  @steverolfeca  Yes, although CA is a large enough state that often times companies will extend that to people in other areas so as to not have to worry about eventualities like a CA customer buying something while in a different state and having to wade through the legal issues that can arise when they go back home and are still using it. Also, Amazon has a presence in CA, so, they're subject to the laws there, but jurisdiction gets extremely complicated sometimes as WA is probably where they'd actually get sued.
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  393.  @TheTastefulThickness  If it said rent, they'd have to charge significantly less than what the purchases that are being sold are going for. Which is sort of the problem.
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  394.  @waterguyroks  TBH, it kind of surprises me that they even bother with DRM these days because with few exceptions, the DRM doesn't appreciably delay the time that pirates get the software versus the paying customers and can create serious issues for paying customers.
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  395.  @mjodr  Yep, it's not something that goes without saying because most people have no reason to know that. Different mics are meant to be used in different ways and for different purposes. If that wasn't the case, there's no way any movie studio would approve having so many different options. There may be some niche purposes where deliberately using the wrong ones makes sense, but it's just that niche.
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  396.  @mjodr  Precisely. Not to mention that mics are designed to be positioned in specific places, so if you're holding a lav, you're probably not getting the intended sound quality anyways.
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  397. Russia has a history of taking hostages on questionable grounds. It happens periodically and it's really best not to give them the opportunity.
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  398. Precisely, this is just the latest sign that the people recognize that the court lacks any legitimacy after that cute maneuver by McConnell to refuse to seat Obama's nominee and the nomination of more justices that are clearly not qualified, including several that perjured themselves during their confirmation hearings. This has been a long time coming, it's just getting faster. Legalizing all manner of corruption and allowing things like GITMO and DHS to get away with murder is hardly making things better.
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  399.  @Yubyop  So, they vote down the confirmation if they don't like him. They didn't even go through with any of the process and wouldn't have confirmed anybody that the President nominated, that's not constitutional, and a part of what led to the lack of legitimacy in the court. For decades there have been justices added to the court that are not qualified as long as they're friendly to corporations, expansive on government rights and will vote the right way on abortion rights.
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  400. Nearly infinite cash would be required to operate it over a nontrivial distance. The world's largest vacuum chamber is a small fraction of the volume of tube needed just to go between nearby towns. You wouldn't even be able to get up to speed snd slowed in that distance.
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  401.  @randal_gibbons  imagine jumping off a bridge into the water. If you're not treat high, it's fun, if you're several hundred feet up, it's fatal even though you can sink in it. The science on this is known and it's not ever going to be better than bullet trains or flying machines, it's just not possible without violating the laws of thermodynamics.
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  402.  @randal_gibbons  orbital and suborbital space travel will happen before this does. That at least is plausible. Roughly 90 minutes between any two places on earth and uses a lot less than the near infinite energy thus would take.
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  403.  Khalid  why make it illegal? The laws of thermodynamics pretty much ensure that this will never be better than a standard bullet train.
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  404.  @TheDrAstrov  If you're going to astroturf, please do so in the language you're responding to. If you're not astroturfing, please do it in the language you're responding to.
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  405. Because Russia. If we're going to be upset with them over their laws, there's far better things to be upset with.
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  406. Yes, and it's just 14 years. In some countries, this would either be life or the death penalty. Whether or not that's an appropriate penalty, that is what the penalty is.
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  407.  @mailasun  1.2v is typically what AA sized NiMH batteries start at, the cutoff is typically closer to 1v, but with a regular AA battery that's going to come rather quickly after 1.2v as it's pretty far into the discharge curve.
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  408. Until we get money out of politics, that's how it works.
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  409. Yes, although keep in mind that the Alvin submersible that was used to explore the Titanic after its initial discovery has made thousands of dives over the past nearly 60 years. Presumably, it had a better design to start with, combined with better maintenance and monitoring to verify that it wouldn't fail under pressure. From what I can tell, the actual place where the crew sits is in its own sphere made of metal with minimal openings. In other words, a ton of good engineering decisions that likely will allow it to keep operating for years go to come. (Admittedly at some point the entire craft will likely need to be decommissioned, but 60 years is a rather impressive record compared with the Titan sub failing after only a few dives)
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  410. I remember, when I used to work private security at a building with a lot of offices, how much of a pain these CEOs of smaller companies could be. They'd just assume that because they could largely do as they liked at their headquarters that the same would be the case elsewhere. It was always immensely satisfying to tell them no and to f-off as the building owner and management wasn't going to have any of it. It sounds like there was a lot fo that going on at this company, where the people who would say this was a horrible idea got fired and in at least one case sued.
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  411.  @mke723  Yes, but New Mexico isn't known for supporting measures that hamstring the states generating the tax revenue.
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  412. Why, y'all are freeloading on other people's work and expense. You do realize that many of the degrees barely pay enough to justify the expense, right? In some cases, like with social work, it's an appallingly low rate of pay.
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  413. Why should we do that for the elderly when the elderly haven't ensured that the young et our medical treatment? It should be about getting everybody the treatment they need, not just the old because of things they vaguely may have done in the past.
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  414.  @whysocurious7366  Yes and they have really strange values in some way. Any sort of extreme view is one that ought to be reconsidered. They're poor because of the policies that they support.
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  415. There are various different ways that they can be set up, around here we don't get checks, but if they do have leftovers, it winds up offsetting against any future rate increases. We have public utilities covering electricity, gas and water service and for the most part it works out quite well. The things we don't have like public internet access are a hot mess though and far more expensive than can be justified compared with what it costs in other countries. Even if you account for the rural parts of the region.
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  416. Usually when I see that on receipts, you're not expected to tip more.
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  417. As long as tipping is essential to these workers making a decent wage, the standard tip will be a necessary evil.
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  418. Around here, we're down to one citywide paper, a couple smaller neighborhood ones and the local TV stations to cover the local news. If something isn't big enough to warrant the national press to take interest, it doesn't get covered without those local outlets. And, I'm fortunate that there's even that many options. Many other areas are down to one or no options. There used to be a second citywide paper and when it converted to an online only outlet the remaining paper made a significant shift to the right.
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  419. Or you can just close the account and open one at a credit union, assuming you've got an account there. Just having a bunch of people closing their accounts would probably achieve the same basic goal, just without having to lobby corrupt politiburo officials.
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  420.  @califaern3sto  So?
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  421.  @incipidsigninsetup  I don't think they really ever set up checkpoints. Most of the time they alert the public to be on the look out. With a truck of that description, it should be far easier to find than if it were a car.
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  422.  @micclay  We all know what the answer to that is. If there were any legitimate reason for it, the defendant would have been found not guilty at trial, not during the sentencing phase. He was a judge, he can't possibly have never overseen a trial where the accuser is clearly full of it. It happens and the whole way this was handled smacked of him not liking the outcome.
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  423. I genuinely wonder if the fact that he did enter a guilty verdict at the trial has any impact on the ability of the prosecution to get the sentence fixed on appeal. I don't know that it's allowed to rule guilty and then decide during sentencing that he's in fact not guilty. If he genuinely thought he needed more time, he could have delayed the ruling. Sentencing and the actual guilt are separate phases for a reason.
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  424. They generally are unless they're black Supreme Court Justices, in which case nobody seems interested in doing anything about it.
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  425.  @Luniel11  Seattle has been doing that for New Year's Eve, I didn't see it the the Fourth of July. One of the great thing about the drones is that it can help with pacing as the drone sections tend to be a bit more relaxed.
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  426.  @GregLakatosChradm  Of course they are, why wouldn't they be?
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  427.  @pohakumana  I'm guessing the issue at the beginning is that he was still strapped into some sort of harness, but if you miss that jump it's a bit of an issue and I can't say I'd have a huge amount of confidence in my ability to hit the target.
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  428. It's amazing how many people here are OK with inappropriate treatment of minors, just as long as it's being done by people on the correct side of the aisle.
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  429. Why doesn't the Senate have a right to it? The literal only argument against releasing it is that he's no longer in the house because he resigned to take a job in the incoming administration. The fact that he's up for that job makes the information completely relevant.
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  430.  @Kainis80  That's projection. If the SCOTUS had to adhere to the same ethical rules that the rest of the courts do, there would be a very different result in some of these key cases.
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  431.  @rickerhart907  There were 34 crimes he was convicted of. You're saying that none of those are crimes that he did?
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  432.  @Killer_Turnip  King County, WA, USA has been giving blood to the medic one units for about 6 years at this point. Which obviously includes a period of extreme low supply due to the pandemic and they're still at it. A lot of it has to do with the fact that they serve not just Seattle, but also the rest of the county where it can take a while to get to the patient and then for the patient to get back to a hospital.
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  433. As a non-professional, my immediate assumption, blood is in perpetual short supply still. Perhaps in the future with medical advances we may have synthetic blood that's close enough that this would be a reasonable thing to do. But, it would probably make far more sense to develop drone technology to drop the appropriate blood off either at the accident scene or to the ambulance as it's en route to the hospital.
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  434. They have, it just depends where you're living. Around here the medics have blood to transfuse and have had for years. I'd expect it to spread, but the amount of blood needed does require a temporary diversion of blood to the program, after that, it should be a relatively minor amount to replace any that is spoiled in some way. But, most of the blood being transfused is going to be the blood that would have been transfused in the ER anyways. So, it's mostly a wash in that regards.
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  435. Unfortunately, he is unlikely to make $5m in total over the course of his entire life, even excluding whatever jail sentence he gets. And obviously, even the price of restoration, assuming it's possible, is likely more than he'll be able to afford as well. Yes, it is fortunate that nobody was hurt or killed, but these items are only marginally less precious than a human life and just as irreplaceable.
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  436. Keep in mind that they've repeatedly ruled that pretty much any contributions that aren't explicit you will engage in corrupt act X if I give you this bag of money to do so are legitimate actions. So, this shouldn't surprise anybody that they're engaged in t he same thing.
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  437. To be fair, they haven't yet hit the bottom. But yes, referring to them as Soviets isn't accurate.
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  438.  @thesoundsmith  LOL, good one.
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  439. When one of the local Catholic run hospitals wanted to buy the biggest hospital in the state, that sort of thing was a serious concern for everybody other than regulators. And, most of the doctors working there are just leasing space, they aren't actually acting under the direction of the hospital. They just want offices where they can refer people to other medical specialties that are located nearby.
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  440. Her point is that they don't have pockets of people that have been abused by the medical system there. They didn't have the Tuskeegee experiment there, and they didn't have medical professionals that thought that black people didn't feel pain the way that white people do and withhold appropriate medical treatment because of it. Don't get me wrong, at a certain point, people do just need to move on, or at least reevaluate whether things are still the same, but Denmark doesn't have the same historical baggage discouraging people from seeking vaccines that people in the US sometimes have.
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  441. Property tax is arguably the only tax the normal people should be paying. There are a lot of government services that only exist due to people owning those properties and the tax encourages the local authorities to do things that increase property values. I wish people would stop complaining about property taxes, If you're actually paying property taxes directly, then you're either wealthier than average or you are incredibly irresponsible and deserve what's coming.
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  442.  @nestam6844  We won't get hyperinflation. The elites will see to it that regular people are taxed to remove most of the extra money. That's what taxes are for, it's how the government removes excess money supply. The other option is arranged insurrection and seizing funds from the oligarchs that got most of the printed money as the politicians are too corrupt to tax the rich.
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  443. I was wondering how folks knew that he was appropriating the headdress. Considering the centuries of genocide and purposeful destruction of native culture, I think it's really time that folks that aren't members of these communities start actually listening to what the communities are saying. There's been a bunch of obsession over not using the term "Indian," but very little obsession over the horrible conditions on many reservations.
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  444.  @jillellis2146  What bigger picture? We didn't fix it years ago, so we can't fix it now? It's also not fair that the pandemic happened and a bunch of people lost their jobs. I was going to be making somewhere in the order of $60k a year as an entry level teacher, and I'm making like half that working at a grocery store. The $3k in student loan foregiveness that I'm getting is still a tiny fraction of how much I lost having to switch degrees to complete on time. Even if I had gotten the full $20k, that's still less than the difference in salary for a year. It's also worth noting that the other changes should make college more affordable for a broader part of the population by doing things like capping the student loan payments and raising the amount of earnings that are protected from the loans. What's more, a bunch of the people who are getting forgiveness didn't graduate college or are doing things like counseling that don't pay well enough to ever compensate for the expense of some of these degrees. That's also not fair. For decades society has been telling kids to go to college to make up for the jobs being shipped overseas while making college more and more expensive. But, we still do need a bunch of jobs that have a need for these expensive degrees, but the actual pay doesn't make up for the expense of college. Sure, there are jobs in the trades that pay well, but there's only so many plumbers and electricians that society can support without literal make work jobs.
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  445.  @Liatni  The same people that were taught about "The War of Northern Aggression" and that the war was about state's rights rather than slavery? Yeah, they'll make the right decision.
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  446. I'm not so sure we can say that we have a democracy at this point. Not after the Brooks Brothers Riot of '00 and the numerous elections since where bad candidate after bad candidate after bad candidate was forced on the people. Voters haven't had so little say in what goes on in decades, if ever.
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  447.  @stvo2009  Absolutely, we don't know what, if anything, he knows. It's certainly possible that he murdered her, but it's also possible that he didn't and is afraid of being railroaded in this manner. It also might be that he doesn't know anything that would be helpful and is afraid of being charged for lying if the FBI disagrees about his lack of knowledge. Or possibly something else entirely.
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  448.  @konigstiger3252  I think we can handle 6 or so months of her. It's not like much gets done between the election and inauguration.
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  449.  @SensitivityGames  In Europe and the US, that's the main meaning that's relevant. Most simple shapes like that have established meanings from some point in history, most of which are completely irrelevant in modern times.
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  450.  @GoMrTom  Not necessarily, if all 4 sides were identical, they may not have bothered to print the entire plan on one sheet. This was during the '60s and the ability to zoom in and out was limited to whatever size paper you had available and had to be able to fit on the drafting table. It's completely plausible that there was only one L shaped building ever actually drawn and that nobody say more than that until well into the project. At that point, aerial imaging was quite a bit less common than it is now.
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  451.  @therebornnewb0980  Around here we've got an entrance ramp to I-5 at the top of a hill. So, they wound up painting signs directly on the road as it was pretty hard to see the signs otherwise. It feels like something like what you're suggesting should be a part of the solution for such an important exit.
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  452.  @HondaRidea  Essentially yes, it's a balancing act between the actual safety and salability of the product. A good manager knows how to pace the products being put onto the shelf so that the number that need to get marked down is minimal. Ultimately, any products that are marked down, donated or thrown out impact profitability of the store and the compensation and the lost potential revenue does end up showing up somewhere, usually as price increases if there's too many markdowns being offered. As much as customers like the mark downs, if you put too many of those out, then you wind up having to increase the starting price to get to something that still leaves adequate profit.
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  453. That's not surprising. I used to manage a grocery store bakery and corporate sets some sort of a standard markdown length. For us, it was generally things that would be expiring the day after tomorrow. However, if there were products that were safe to eat, but were kind of banged up, they might get marked down a bit earlier. A week is often the case for a lot of types of foods, it can potentially be even more for some.
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  454. And if the stores could tell you they would. The dates are just conservative estimates, the food may be safe longer or not even that long. Expecting a one size fits all label date to tell you the exact point where it's no longer safe is asking a lot more than what the food supply chain can provide.
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  455. This is rather dumb and will lead to a lot of wasted food. These numbers meant what they say. Sell by, that's how long the store has to sell it, best if used by, indicates the period before the manufacturer expects that it will start to go bad. And use by is more or less just best by. None of those have anything to do with actual safety, a product might go bad sooner or later, but without actually testing the item and physically inspecting the product, the manufacturer has no way of knowing when exactly that's the case.
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  456. @kentuckyrailfan1 That explains the not fixed and is probably correct. It doesn't explain the not replaced and not properly monitored. I'm sure there are temporary measures that could have been put into place to shore it up so this didn't happen while they dealt with the problem of replacing it.
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  457. For the engagement with people coming to complain about that?
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  458.  @paultasker9759  If they want to survive, floating is the only viable option. That is unless you're luckly enough to have something to cling to. Yes, you might have to do a little bit of swimming, but if it's much more than that, you're pretty much screwed.
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  459. Because it's Chase. They feel that they're above the law and probably are. They let an unauthorized charge be put on my account and refused to reverse it even though it wasn't authorized and nobody could produce paperwork saying it was authorized. I was able to embarrass them enough to get some of the money back, but I will never do business with them again as a result. In general, just avoid them.
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  460. They're too big to care.
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  461. It's also blatantly illegal. If it weren't already illegal, having a different age for men and women definitely pushes it over the line. You can't have different rules for men and women.
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  462. Bars in the US have allowed people to open a tab, or pay for the drinks as they drink, for longer than I've been allowed into those establishments. Most casual dining restaurants have you pay when you order as well. Sit down restaurants tend to bill after you eat, but if it's that big of a deal, I don't see why it couldn't be done, it's just a bit of a hassle.
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  463. Yes, it's illegal regardless of what the motivation is.
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  464. Which is why this restaurant is doomed. You think any of those young people that aren't allowed in now are going to eat there when they are old enough? Not to mention the incoming civil suits over how it was implemented.
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  465.  @jaredholt4582  You make that sound like it's a bad thing. That's how Democracy works, if you don't have enough voters to support your cause, then you need to make a more compelling case as to why they should support you. The actual distribution of votes shouldn't matter in nationwide or statewide elections. Those smaller states get their own Representatives and Senators. And in most states, there's more than one set of policy proposals that the voters are in favor of. It's not like all of the Representatives of NY or CA just vote in lock step on every issue any more than it would be for all the TX and FL Representatives to do so. Here in WA we've had the rural counties whining about that sort of thing for decades, because they don't have the votes to elect a Senator or Governor of their liking. They regularly try to secede from the state in order to get their own Senators. But, the fact is that it would be undemocratic for them to get their say without running better GOP candidates that can effectively win the support of the people at large.
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  466. There already is, Biden was not lawfully nominated. He was nominated because the Democratic establishment chose to rig the election in his favor. He's not somebody that the voters want and his policies are horribly unpopular, but the party was able to rig the election in his favor by closing polling places and insisting on having elections, even when they couldn't be held safely.
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  467. @@Crazy-Clown-In-Town It won't, but it can be greatly reduced, this wasn't a major problem 10 or 20 years ago. These days, I see the same folks coming in day in and day out stealing stuff. Most of them will go to the same place and steal the same stuff. But, without a law enforcement response, there's not much that the stores can do about it.
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  468.  @zakkeewaheed9864  No, there's not. It just seems that way due to confirmation bias.
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  469. 4.4 magnitude is like nothing, presumably this one was relatively shallow if there's any meaningful shaking going on. I've only personally been through one earth quake it was a 5.3 and I mostly just remember watching the water in the fish tank slosh back and forth. I didn't even bother trying to get under anything because it just wasn't any point.
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  470.  @707imperial  Yep, from the looks of it, this one was kind of shallow, but again, this is an area of the world that regularly gets earthquakes and there's a massive one coming at some point.
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  471. They'll revise the figures over the next bit as they crunch the data. It happens a lot.
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  472.  @krislvzep  Thanks. The reality here is that we haven't done the necessary testing to know what the numbers are. Those figures are likely optimistic, but it doesn't take long for this to spread. And idiotic statements like the one you corrected are a large part of why. Here in WA we got virtually no warning about this coming. We were the first place for it to hit the US and the only reason why we haven't already had our medical system swamped, is that the mayor of Seattle closed the city early on, followed by the governor issuing more and more restrictions on what we do in public. Right now, it's just essential workers and businesses. Fortunately, it is working and it's likely that sometime between now and July, that things will start going back to the way they were. But, only if other states get their stuff together. We'll largely be rid of the virus by then, but if states aren't doing their part to contain their outbreaks, there's no reason to assume that it can't or won't come back and the constitution prevents us from closing the borders.
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  473. How many alternates did you have? When I was on Jury duty for a month, there were only a few alternates and we could easily have run out if people had started to just not show up. The length of the jail time seems excessive to me, but they likely wouldn't have held him in contempt of court had he called in and let them know that he overslept. Failing to inform them when he knew is really what the contempt was over in this case, not that he overslept as people keep claiming. I'm sure this judge has multiple people every year that don't show up due to oversleeping and other things that are only partially in their control and this is the one that's making the news.
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  474. He was in contempt of court for failing to call the court and hoping it would just go away. He wasn't sent to jail for oversleeping. That being said, I think that 10 days was rather harsh. A day or perhaps a fine of some sort would have been appropriate. Contempt of court is one of the few tools available to judges to ensure that people stick to the rules of the road in court.
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  475.  @carljohnson5542  Also, this is hardly the place for it. Perhaps if people in general were more informed on the topic and there weren't instances of a half dozen people drowning in one instance as they each tried to save the people who were already drowning, there would be less interest in correcting people.
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  476.  @neutronenstern.  If you can swim 100m, you probably could swim across that distance, the issue is if you get stuck in a sudden cold spot where you stop breathing or get caught in a weird current. I've personally swam an entire mile in one go and I'm not sure that I would risk swimming in a quarry. At least not without really knowing what I was getting into and even then, I'd probably stick to the shallows.
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  477.  @tomy4453  Yep, it's the quickly bit that can be an issue. Cold shock response can be a very, very big deal. I had issues with that when I was younger, fortunately, I was close enough to shore that I was able to just stand up, but it would have been iffy if I had been that far out.
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  478.  @JackDManheim  It says that it was the result of a cramp. Although it could have been a cold shock response as well, you're not going to tell the difference between those two in an autopsy. But, it's not super relevant, he was far enough out that people couldn't throw anything to him and it only takes a few minutes to be brain dead, or actually dead. There's a lot of risks in these quarries and it's best to just not swim in them. This video is as much about highlighting the avoidable problems that can happen as talking about that particular death.
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  479. Yes, although it's the Israelis, anytime they get criticized they either reference the holocaust or terrorism, as if it makes their actions any less disgusting.
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  480.  @ALL4SCUBA05  Yes, although the rules in general were different back then and the bit that people forget is that Tokyo had already been flattened and that the Japanese had been given warnings that their were incoming bombing raids. I don't particularly condone it, but the rules were different at that time and it was hardly just the US flattening cities. The Japanese themselves flattened multiple Chinese cities themselves.
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  481. I can, they're the ones that keep this going.
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  482.  @Countryballs_Animation_Studios  That's a real problem at firehouses due to the sleeping quarters commonly being on the 2nd floor. You can still put a rail up and around it to make it less likely that you'll fall down the hole prematurely.
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  483. Yes, although from what I see, making the railings a bit higher would be possible without scrapping the entire stairs or radically changing their look.
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  484. TBH, I don't understand why townhouses exist. It's not just the bit of extra danger or the exhaustion, but those stairs take up a bunch of floor space. I'm so glad that the place doesn't have staircases in the units. One staircase can be shared by the 6 units with the wasted space being kept to a minimum and being shared between the units. Rather than each unit having to have it's own internal staircase to allow access to the rest of the unit.
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  485.  @xavierb9061  This is probably fine going over a curb, which would be a major win as there's still plenty of places in the US that don't have ADA compliant curb cuts to allow wheel chairs and mobility scooters over the edge. Going up or down stairs with this would be a lot safer if the chair could shift forward or back a few inches to keep the person in it over the upper stair when going down.
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  486. A weirdo running a fake religious university, I'm shocked.
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  487. Umm, Ana, that's exactly how community colleges work. You apply, they accept you and you attend. Anybody with residency gets in, that's why we have community colleges as an option in addition to 4 year schools and vocational institutes.
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  488. How much are you being paid for this nonsense? Regardless of why the rebar is now exposed, it's still a violation that needs to be fixed. Also, these aren't hotdogs from the grocery store, they're ones that come from a supplier. Plastic bag or not, you're exposing them to bacteria either on the floor or when picked up and moved to the prep surface. What's more, the hotdogs themselves have bacteria in them that does grow and if not properly managed can grow enough to the point where people can get sick even after cooking them.
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  489. Vaccines are usually for viruses. In this case, there's a cold-war era phage treatment that would wipe this stuff out permanently, it's just that the FDA doesn't have an approval process for it. But, it works consistently and is extremely inexpensive. The problem is that they'd have to do clinical trials for every strain they use even though the number of people being treated would be a small number per strain and the phages themselves are far less dangerous than the antibiotics we usually use.
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  490. Proposition accepted, I'm voting Green Party of if they really anger me, Trump.
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  491. Well, it is a long hard thing with lots of seamen in it, so the better question is probably why aren't all the ships gay?
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  492. I hadn't noticed that before and probably because of what Andres said, this is normal for people who are on TV. Typically if they are looking at their co-hosts there's a camera there so that you don't notice that they're looking away from the viewers at home.
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  493. We already know that he's perjured himself, the question is going to be whether additional evidence will make it impossible for the GOP to ignore his obvious guilt. Boofed, means fart, really? How many 15 year olds do you know who have never farted and are looking forward to doing so for the first time? We already know from his own calendar that he kept for decades that he was at a party that was suspiciously like the one she claims to have been sexually assaulted at. We also know that his story has been changing without explanation and that he hasn't requested the FBI come in and clear his name. The likelihood of him being innocent a this point is extremely small. The number of coincidences that would be needed for him to be not guilty are rather substantial.
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  494. Apparently, Jesus owns stock in ventilator companies and really wants you to drive up the share price.
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  495.  @brdatwork  Probably the same ones that forgave Hilary for what her Husband did "for" the community.
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  496. Where's your grant money coming from? Also, since when does a degree in physical chemistry qualify somebody to comment on climate change? The interactions involved with that are several orders of magnitude harder to investigate than anything you're doing in the lab. Hence the "confusion" about climate change. There's no confusion that certain chemicals cause heat to be trapped in the atmosphere and there's no question about where most of them are coming for. There's also no question that the atmosphere is changing at a greater rate than previously. The only questions here are about how bad it's going to be. We don't yet know that, and expecting to know that completely when we know it's going to be bad just means that the eventual solution will be significantly more draconian than it needs to be if we fix it now. It also means that a ton of species will have died off that we can't have back. Hopefully none of those plants cure important things like cancer.
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  497. Do a better job of expressing yourself if you don't want to be lumped in with deniers. And it's not just CO2, there's other ones as well that are even worse.
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  498. I see somebody doesn't like the science and as a result chooses to pretend like it doesn't exist. Of course, I personally wouldn't notice. I live with weather which varies day to day and climate change is something that's only meaningful over longer periods of time. Just because you choose to be ignorant of the distinction, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Quit screwing things up for the rest of us. Why should we have to pay the consequences because people like you are too ignorant and self-centered to actually do something while something can be done?
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  499. Rawbeard, that's a load of garbage. Without our contributions to climate change the change would be rather subtle and over the course of many centuries. There wouldn't be need for anything extreme because we'd have decades to plan for it. Changes over such a short period of this magnitude are unprecedented. Between the ice core samples from Antarctica and the various tree rings, we have a pretty comprehensive view of what the atmosphere was composed of for many thousands of years. We know that there hasn't been this level of change in recorded history and we know that we're the cause of it. Being a denier just means that the changes we'll have to make will be more expensive and possibly impossible if we allow it to go on much longer. At some point, we'll hit a tipping point and we might not get a specific warning about where it lies.
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  500. Precisely. This isn't a team sport, all of the Bernie supporters I've met were enthusiastic about his message more than him. I think he's awesome, but I'd vote for somebody else in a heartbeat if they were serious about fixing the things he's focused on fixing.
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  501. I've noticed that myself. They don't have any actual grounds for convincing us to support her, so it's a lot of insults and blackmail about how we have to vote for her. I can't blame them, when you're supporting a candidate that flips so frequently and can't come up with a set of policy proposals to stick with, it's hard to make a case for people supporting other candidates to change allegiance. Unfortunately, it probably means that our next President will be President Trump or whomever the GOP ultimately nominates if they can figure out how to avoid nominating Trump.
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  502. That presupposes that she's less evil than him. I don't buy it. We already know that she's a dangerous psychopath that cares more about her own self-interest than the well-being of Americans. We just suspect that Trump is the same in that regards. But, he doesn't yet have the demonstrated track record of making state secrets available to the enemy that Clinton does.
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  503. Trump isn't a felon. The only reason she hasn't been convicted is that the DoJ is run by cronies. Considering that even amongst Democrats that 30% think she should have been indicted, I'm not sure what sort of bubble you're living in to suggest that she isn't more of a crook than he is.
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  504. It's not kissing arse, it's recognizing that you've been caught dead to rights and not digging yourself in any further. It's somewhat unpredictable in situations like this whether the cop is going to issue a ticket or just a verbal warning, but if you resist arrest by running away, you're getting a ticket at absolute bare minimum, and more likely arrested. This isn't just American cops, cops in most parts of the world are going to chase suspects down and do what they need to get the cuffs on them while they figure out what's going on. The only things that are different about America is that we've got more firearms and we've got a relatively large minority of people that think that the cops never have the right to approach them for minor infractions
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  505. How do you ensure that the evidence is sufficient to prosecute? Even sex crimes being prosecuted in a timely fashion it can be hard to establish whether or not the incident happened and then what actually did happen. Personally, I think it makes a ton of sense that people would downplay the effects. People tend to over-dramatize the abuse when there are degrees of abuse. There's a very real difference between an unwanted peck on the cheek, being penatrated and just gawked at while undressed and each person is going to have their own feelings depending upon their point of view and their maturity at the time. If we want these people to come forward and name names, then there needs to be some protection provided against the effects of doing so. Even if the prosecution is successful, the victims name is likely mud and that doesn't even consider the real possibility that the accused will be acquitted. Lastly, there's the issue of what you personally feel about what happened to yourself. A lot of that probably is denial or a lack of awareness that you get to consent to whatever physical contact people have with you.
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  506.  Francis Maxwell  We don't care about fake controversies. The Armenian genocide happened and Cenk admitted it years ago. It's mostly just racist trolls that continue to bring it up at every opportunity.
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  507.  @oakstrong1  Why not? The South won the civil war, right? Oh wait, there was no civil war, it was a war amongst the states that the south won, and yet they had to make all the concessions. Sigh, the quality of education in the South is exceedingly poor.
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  508. Probably too much Gone with the Wind and not enough Roots.
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  509. As time goes by, the durability and reliability of equipment tends to get better and better as they engineer them to keep even the cost of maintenance down. Ever notice how prominent spare tires were on cars in the first half of the last century? They were prominent like that because tires weren't very durable when compared with modern tires. Cars used to not just drive more slowly, but they also tended to break down more frequently as the parts weren't as durable as they are today. You see this in other areas as well. As a result of this, you can't assume that the amount of labor that's going to be required to maintain the equipment is anywhere near as enough to make up for the jobs lost. If it was enough, then you likely wouldn't be paying for the equipment in the first place. It's a huge investment up front that needs to pay itself off over time.
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  510. Because we're not in the same room with that woman. There's precisely zero chance that she's going to hop on a plane and fly all the way cross country to beat me for pointing out that she's full of it. Whereas if I were on the same train as her, I'd have to worry about whether she had mace or a weapon of some sort. Not to mention the possibility of being arrested if she assaulted me. And yes, I mean if she assaulted me.
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  511. It's not even remotely funny. Women do this kind of thing far more often than we'd like to admit. And yet, we've got people like Aziz Ansari being tarred over nothing and people expect that to be taken seriously, when women do things like this.
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  512.  @chrismcnuggett  President Pence would like to thank you for such an idiotic decision. Voting for Yang because you prefer his policy stances is one thing, voting because you think that Bernie is too old is asinine.
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  513.  @danielphan5991  I'm not quite sure what the GP means, but the age thing is a dumb argument. The 25th amendment allows for his removal if he's genuinely impaired. But, until and unless there's some evidence that Bernie is impaired it's a non-issue. Also, consider that if elected, he'll have a VP that takes over if he dies and that he can be removed if necessary, it's a dumb argument to make. Most of the people making that argument are doing so because they need a reason to set aside a candidate who has such popular stances on the issues.
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  514. And yet the Democrats weren't taking things seriously. They could have had a near certain victory if they had just let the voters choose Bernie . Instead Obama had to get involved and rig the primaries.
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  515. If Sanders does win, you better believe that the DNC will find ways of losing as many seats as possible to make it look like Sanders cost us representation.
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  516. He's not electable. He'll go down the same way that Hillary did. He's doing nothing to earn our deserve our votes.
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  517. You're what's wrong with the world. Nobody is ignoring gunshot wounds to blame deaths in Corinna virus.
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  518. The other issue is that 2 elections in a row, the Democratic candidate is illegitimate. Neither Biden nor Hillary actually won their primaries, so, I'm not really sure why Trump is that much more of an existential threat to the country than the Democrats are.
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  519. LOL, you do realize that the Democrats chased those racists out of the party and they joined the GOP, right?
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  520. The national anthem had a racist third verse and even there it's a bit questionable as to whether the verse was racist or was said by a racist. Nobody sings it and few people are even aware that it was ever a part of the song.
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  521. Indeed, America isn't perfect, but there's never been a period in our entire history where we were as bad as the Nazis. The closest we came to that was when we were clearing the lands of the indigenous tribes and even that was not even remotely close to what the Nazis were doing. It's beyond regrettable that the infectious diseases that the settlers brought to the New World eradicated countless natives even before the settlers saw them, but really, the comparison is rather silly.
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  522. +John M, there's absolutely no reason that it has to be the mother. Women whine about how men aren't more involved with their children, but men don't get much in the way of paternity leave.
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  523. At least women get maternity leave, and a lot more than is necessary. Men generally don't get paternity leave and if they do get it, it's significantly less than what women get. In most cases, a woman can be back to work within a week of giving birth and historically that's what happened. The remaining time has little to do with pregnancy and everything to do with bonding with the baby.
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  524. If they're going to go blue, the DNC has to offer them something that's at least marginally palatable. I'm a progressive and I couldn't vote for her, so why would anybody even slightly conservative vote for her? BTW, I wrote in Bernie Sanders, there's no way in hell that I'm voting for Trump or Clinton.
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  525. Nobody should be doing these things, it's disrespectful of the other folks. But, if they're not enforcing that consistently, that's wrong.
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  526. Why shouldn't they be allowed to use the law? We don't know if he was guilty of theft, but if he said those things, then he absolutely does need to be held to the same standard that white people would. It's rather common these days for white people behaving like that to lose their livelihood when somebody takes offense. I'm not sure why being a person of color should be some sort of shield for obvious racist animus.
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  527. They're not, but if the cops were white, then yes, calling them Nazis, skinheads and the like would definitely be racist.
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  528. They're probably more concerned about the damage to their reputation, but I'll take it.
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  529. +robert karas There's a huge difference between killing yourself and getting assistance from other people. I think it was a poor decision, but having doctors aiding and abetting it is rather ridiculous.
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  530. No, not unless things are extremely close. We've been voting by mail for years here and it's rare for us to not know the result within a few days and usually we know by the next day. The longest counts were for governor when there was an extremely small margin of votes and it had to go to multiple recounts. But, even in those cases, it was a matter of weeks, not months.
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  531. Triggered? It's the same BS that they've been force-feeding to students for decades and it's even less true now than it was when I was a kid. Being white doesn't grant me any particular rights that other people don't have and it's a liability as often as it is an advantage. I don't remember people lining up to fund my education or encourage me when I was a kid, but I do remember being told over and over again how everything I had was stolen and that I didn't deserve any sort of success because it would be tainted. Bottom line here is that white privilege is a myth in modern America, money is the only source of privilege and more of that is being concentrated in a small number of hands anyways. At least if you're poor and black there's some hope that somebody will care.
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  532. He's prepared, but he'll do horrible things of he's elected.
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  533. Even if they did, Biden was VP when those cages were built.
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  534. Yep, this isn't a rightwing thing, Shoeonhead covered it and she's hardly a rightwinger. Yes, because there's no better way to fight hypersexualization of girls is by spending 95% of the film hypersexualizing girls only to have a very short bit at the end which implies that it's against that. And yeah, it's disgusting and rather anti-Muslim at that.
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  535. That's the thing, TYT is lying when they claim that this is just rightwingers that are disgusted. There are definitely prominent leftwingers that are disgusted by the film. It's hardly just a conspiracy to prop up Qanon.
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  536. AFAICT chokeholds are not something that cops are trained to do these days. I assume in the past that was the case, but it's just a very dangerous practice. Even applied correctly, you don't really know what's going to happen as a result. If you've blocked the blood supply enough, but not the air supply you can choke them out even as they complain about it.
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  537. For being a lawyer? That seems a bit harsh. If I were ever brought up on charges, I'd be angry if my attorneys didn't do everything within their power to get me off. The prosecutors will get to call witnesses to poke holes in those theories and if they're as ridiculous as it might seem the jury likely wont' buy it.
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  538. In the world that TYT advocates for, attorneys shouldn't do their jobs just because the defendant is guilty. It's not surprising, they are anti-cop and refuse to let go even when more facts come to light that change the appearance of what happened. In this case, I doubt that things like this will have much of an impact, but the attorneys have to do the best with what they have to work with.
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  539. Nonsense, they're just really opposed to basic arithmetic.
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  540. Videos like this are why I don't give TYT any money. Nothing is sufficient in their eyes to justify a police shooting, it doesn't matter if the perp has a loaded weapon aimed at the police and they've already fired shots. It's still not enough for them. This incident should be thoroughly investigated, but barring some actual evidence that the use of force wasn't appropriate, he should get back to work as soon as possible.
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  541. Barry Stamour I see, so I'm dealing with a troll. Kudos to you.
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  542. You make it sound like there's a choice. Around here the Catholic hospitals have been merging with the other hospitals and pretty soon it's going to be challenging to find care that isn't provided at these hospitals. So, even if the individual providers aren't Catholic, they're still bound by the hospital policies and can lose their lease if they break them. The problem here is a group of Catholics trying to control what non-Catholics do.
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  543. Historical Banana So, in other words, you're either a troll or you've got the morality of a klansman.
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  544. He definitely would. Why would Bernie supporters show up to vote when Biden isn't going to do anything for the American people. He'll do whatever minimum is necessary to look like he's not a Republican. I personally, won't be voting for any Democrat if Biden is the nominee.
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  545. After the HRC endorsed Cuomo over Nixon, we should be used to it. Passing over better qualified candidates in your demographic to support a crook.
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  546. If they don't abandon her, somebody needs to primary her in retribution for her behavior. It's not just that she backed off of popular positions, but she fought extremely dirty and left the progressive wing hanging in 2 straight Presidential elections.
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  547. I'm thinking it's got to be Elizabeth Warren. But yeah, no vote. They've shown no interest in the will of the people and giving us things that we need, so they don't get my vote.
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  548. Warren is in it for the power of being the first female President. She cares precisely 0 about anything other than her own feelings.
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  549. She won't be re-elected. She lost her own home state in the primary. If she can't convince the Democrats in her home state, what do you think is going to happen when she has to win Independent and GOP votes to be Senator?
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  550. I'm not sure how she could accept that deal after all those lies she told about him. She is holding out for something, but I don't see how she could accept a VP pick when she has tarred him as being sexist.
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  551. Could we please get through a video without the sexism and racism? There's a reason why you see so many countries where being white is a bit of an advantage, it's because for a couple millennia now the European countries have been contributing far more to the development of science and technology than other areas have been. It will change over time, but let's not pretend like this is something that happened due to skin color, it happened because Europe was fortunate enough to hit a specific milestone at the right time. It could easily have been various Asian or African groups had they developed a bit differently or earlier. As for men, are we really doing that well? Most of the sexual assault allegations that you see in the press are either from decades ago or are people that are too powerful to be able to charge and not get the conviction to stick. By most measures women are doing better than men are, so our patriarchy is pretty shitty.
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  552. Some goes for Hillary and Biden.
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  553. You can donate the money to somebody that needs it, if you don't. I'd be happy to take it off your hands, I've got tuition to pay.
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  554. I'd like to see some evidence of that. IQ is purely for the purpose of identifying people that are more or less capable of dealing with a specific academic environment. Nothing more, nothing less. People complain about it, but the only real problems with IQ is that it's a narrow set of tests and it's routinely misapplied to prove whatever fool notion people have about different groups of people. But, within it's intended use, it's a perfectly fine measure.
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  555. I bet Biden remembers how hard Trump worked to allow his election and grants him and his family pardons. I think it's more likely that Trump doesn't live long enough to run for reelection. He's currently 74 years old and would be 78 the next election cycle. He doesn't exercise, he eats garbage, he is significantly overweight, I'd be shocked if he doesn't have a massive stroke or heart attack during the next 4 years. Assuming he's even alive, he may well be in a condition worse than Biden is now and in need of medications to make him lucid enough to do anything in public. Biden only got away with it because the newsmedia wasn't asking any hard questions and he didn't need to campaign. In a normal election year, even against Trump, I doubt he'd have any hope of winning. Biden may still lose, but the margins either way are far closer than they should be.
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  556. All of them should have been executed for sedition along with the rest of the establishment insiders.
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  557. There's a very real possibility that they didn't. The exit polls in key states like Texas and Minnesota suggest that Bernie was the actual winner, even after the massive voter suppression efforts.
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  558. +SeanTheOriginal I'm pretty sure that the CEOs get to make most of the decisions, otherwise, why have them at all?
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  559. BLM is racist. They assume that when they're people are shot that it's because racism and I've yet to hear the admit when further evidence comes out that demonstrates conclusively that it was a reasonable use of force. After all these years, I have yet to hear them admit that Tamir Rice was a case of justified force. The whole thing is literally on camera. Why would anybody become a police officer if they were expected to be a bullet sponge without being allowed to neutralize the apparent threat? What would have happened if he had actually been carrying a real gun rather than a realistic fake and killed them?
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  560. Perhaps if you folks would have better judgment about whom you glorify you'd be taken more seriously. Most of the videos out there are about black people being shot that are inflaming tensions, threatening the cops and running away. There's little talk about what the community is doing to contribute to the problem and there's this incredible degree of hypocrisy involved with convicting the officers in the court of public opinion and then whining about the system being prejudiced. If there's a real problem here at all, it would probably be best to learn from Gandhi and stop fighting with the police and stop inflaming tensions to emphasize the difference between you and the police. It worked brilliantly in India, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't work here in the US where you have more rights.
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  561. That's how coded language works. She's using it with a nudge-nudge, wink-wink, say no more to segments of the population that are incredibly racist. Some people genuinely use the word thug to refer to people that are actually behaving in a thuggish manner, which is why they can use it as a code word. They can't use the word negro like that anymore because pretty much just racists and anthropologists use that term. And they're clearly not the latter.
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  562. Pretty much, I'm not sure how much faith I can have in her when she clearly has no spine. I used to like her, but she has no integrity.
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  563. Also, Biden didn't crap himself on stage. I'm surprised that the media didn't bother to point that out as that's roughly where the bar is right now. Anything shy of crapping the stage is a win for Biden.
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  564. This is why I don't give you money. There's no such thing as toxic masculinity. I'm not even sure why I have to say that. Nobody talks about toxic femininity, so why would toxic masculinity be a thing? Plus, you literally could not have this show without the contributions of men.
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  565. But, if they go broad, how do they get the potential for momentum?
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  566. Yes and both parties engage in it. The Democrats do it by fixing their primaries to ensure that the will of the people isn't respected. They just don't generally do it in the general election. So, we get more Democrats that act like Republicans.
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  567. Kshama is pretty much destroying Seattle. She's hardly somebody that we ought to be looking up to.
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  568. That's not even remotely true. Just because I've got a stiffy doesn't mean that I want to have sex. Not to mention that much sexual assault doesn't involve penetration by the penis anyways.
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  569. Or more to the point, folks that see through the BS that women are trying to push. Just cruise a dating app and see all the women that can't get a date because they're too self-absorbed to have accepted what was available when they actually had sexual marketplace value.
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  570. Interesting, so they mention things that are real and ignore things that are not. That seems really strange. Why would they ignore sexual violence when it's not at all what the news media would have you believe? It's almost as if they're thinking critically about the world around them. Sexual violence is an issue, but it's massively overstated and tends to ignore violence against men.
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  571. You mean other than the fact that those other sources have all sorts of components that humans aren't supposed to eat, right? Not to mention the fact that we don't even really know what the optimal diet is for people, so how would we know if the diet contained everything that we needed? Also, meat is about more than just protein. It's about proteins, fats in a form that our body has evolved to digest. Much of the nutritional content of vegetables isn't bio-available, which means that even if it has the amount of nutrients we need, it might as well not as we can't make use of it. But, if you want to flood your body with testosterone antagonists and other things that are bad for you in order to be a vegan, that's really your own business. But, if you care about health, then meat and animal products are going to be a part of your diet on a regular basis. Optimal health requires a few calories from animal sources here and there.
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  572.  @lreyla  It's not a semantic argument, we keep hearing calls to crackdown on virtually non-existent voter fraud. But we have a massive problem with elections fraud that nobody in power seems to care enough to address. The minuscule numbers of people engaged in voter fraud isn't something that's having an impact on the results of the elections. The elections fraud regularly does.
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  573. My wife and i got pulled over last night, we didn't show our respect and cooperation by arguing and ignoring orders. Granted, the police in the Floyd case were way over the line, but it's dishonest to suggest that Floyd was cooperating and being respectful. Definitely doesn't excuse the amount of force used though.
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  574. That's the thing, no need to pretend like George was cooperating and being respectful. His behaviour should have led to him being detained while things were sorted, but not killed. Misrepresenting situations like this gets people killed when they decide that it doesn't matter what they did when pulled over.
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  575. Yes, and that's the thing. Also, what they're getting upset about here is that the accused are actually being afforded some of the rights that they have under the constitution. Colleges shouldn't be in a position where they're having to investigate these things unless they are alleged to happen on campus and have campus police. Under the Obama administration, they basically through the accused under the bus because of the alleged sexual assaults that weren't being reported or where the accused wasn't being punished, even for lack of evidence. Having the college be pressured to accept the accusations as true rather than following legal standards or forwarding the reports to law enforcement was grossly unconstitutional and resulted in things like that woman carrying a mattress around in an effort to harass a male student that she alleged sexually harassed her, in spite of a lack of evidence that he did anything wrong.
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  576. They're not, all their doing is putting things back the way they were before Obama messed it up. And BTW, this was already the case in the 6th circuit where the courts already ruled that you can't deprive male students of their rights in this fashion.
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  577. Citation necessary. If the "victims" need the rights of the accused to be eroded in order to come up with the "correct" results, then that implies that there isn't sufficient evidence to charge or get a conviction. The basis of our legal system is innocent until proven guilty because it's better to let a dozen guilty men walk free than to send one innocent one to prison. If you don't like that, then perhaps move to some other country where it's guilty until proven innocent. Or better yet, some place where they don't even bother with trials.
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  578.  @mE-zx7pt  perhaps the democrats could try running candidates that promise to do things to help the voters.
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  579. That's a typo, they're all for State's Right as in the right to have monuments to slaves up.
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  580. @ It's Ya Girl, Jesus' Wife. How do people like you live with yourselves. Feminists decided to change the definition of rape to include situations like being drunk or failing to say yes to sex. Perhaps back in the past when there needed to be actual force involved you may have had a point, but sexist women like you should really rot in hell. But, really, women like you are exactly the kind that men need to stop associating with. If you don't take rape of men seriously, then why on earth should we care about women being raped? It's not our fault collectively that women exercise poor judgment about what men to associate with in private.
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  581. Funny how folks did that when Obama was President. We can definitely blame him for continuing efforts to cut medical coverage and refusal to push for expansion. Those are completely on him.
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  582. Most people that smoke smoke an average of less than one hit a day. Most people who smoke pot are probably only doing it a few times a year, if you're at a point where you're smoking multiple hits most days, that's probably not healthy. People taking more than one hit a day should probably talk with a doctor about cannabis dependency.
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  583. @Li pov Yaj But, the reality is that she was useless before McConnel was leader in the Senate. And even in cases where she did have massive leverage over him, for example with the donors demanding action on the Cares Act, she wasn't able to extract or even demand anything of him and the Senate Republicans. She should have been able to get unemployment extended to the end of the pandemic, uncapped spending on PPP loans, hazard pay for essential workers and/or real oversight on the money that Mnuchin was handing out, but not only did she not get any of those things, she didn't even try. Failing to try is hardly something that you can blame on McConnell, even if he was successful in preventing it, at least then that would be something good for campaign ads.
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  584. I assume his definition of "great Speaker" Is one that's able to get the post back after having been a miserable failure the previous time. In that case, I can see his point. But, if actually getting things done that benefit the voters is part of it, then she's a miserable failure as Speaker.
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  585.  @cdjhyoung  the point of it was to deny his followers a memorial site and to avoid creating a focal point for a revenge plot. But really, simply removing or troops from Saudi Arabia and letting them handle their own security would solve most of our foreign terrorism issues.
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  586.  @jameelsazam2827  There was a body and idiots like you would claim otherwise even if they had brought it back as you hadn't personally seen and tested it for authenticity. The reality is that there wasn't really any other option. It had to be disposed of somewhere that wouldn't attract terrorists and anywhere else would have become a gathering place or target.
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  587. I'm Bernie or bust. If he doesn't get the nomination, I won't be voting or donating to the Democrats any longer. This has gotten out of hand and won't stop until the party is completely burned to the ground. Only one of the candidates at the last debate believes that the voters should get to choose the nominee.
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  588. Not quite, he also benefited from most of the field dropping out a couple days before those primaries. But yeah, Biden wouldn't have a leg to stand on if it had anything to do with his policy proposals.
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  589. I'm no longer a Democrat after 2016 and after 2020, I may not even vote for their candidates any longer. It's absolutely disgusting that at such a pivotal time in history, that they're more concerned with maintaining the power of the establishment than either the will of the people or the best interests of the people.
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  590. Or she's a fake progressive gold digger. She brought this on herself with the lying and unfair smear campaign.
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  591. Why should white people apologize for slavery? Slavery ended 115 years before I was born. There were literally no slaves still alive when I was a child and few people were still alive that had even met any of those slaves. What's more, I have no ancestors that were involved in the slave trade on any side. Please take your Nazi blood debt bullshit and get the hell out of here. This is a false equivalence. He wouldn't be asked to apologize if this was somebody elses joke that somebody else had given. This was a joke that he himself made and as such, yes he does need to apologize if he doesn't want the consequences of not apologizing.
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  592. Literally, every exit poll that's been done this cycle says otherwise. Biden is the surest path to another 4 years of Trump.
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  593. Old Black people that are apparently not smart enough to realize that they're voting for one of the people involved in destroying their community.
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  594.  @tristkiss  Just ask Hillary how well that worked out for her. This arrogant ramming Biden down our throats isn't going to end any differently than when they were hell-bent on forcing Hillary into the general election. Biden is not entitled to our votes. If he's the candidate, he's not going to get enough of our votes to win. Especially since he's completely unwilling to try and earn our votes.
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  595. The problem is that the voters aren't their constituents, the donors are.
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  596. It's a problematic headline, but it's mostly black people spreading the rumor that black people can't swim. I don't think I've ever heard a white person make that assertion and I've heard it from several different black people that black people can't swim. Of course it's nonsense and there are even black Navy Seals, so clearly black people who know how to swim exist.
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  597. I completely agree with him. Our country survived Pierce, Buchanan, Nixon and W, we can survive Trump. I don't think we'll still have any semblance of a Democracy if we allow somebody as corrupt as Clinton to take office and solidify the corruption in place.
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  598. None of that is true. The GOP is the party that's fighting against comprehensive sex ed and access to family planning programs. Also, where do you think the Democrats got all that "tough on crime" and "super predators" stuff from? Here's a hint, it's not coming from the progressive and liberal wings of the party.
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  599. nk kean And yet the establishment was bending over to blow her. I can't vote for her and I won't vote for Trump, which means that it's between Johnson and Stein to earn my vote.
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  600. -1 more ridiculous anti-cop BS. Tamir Rice was lowering what appeared to be a firearm in the direction of the police. This is clear, we have the video. Please stop misleading people about what happened. It is unfortunate that his lapse of judgment led to his death, but blame where blame is due. Expecting the police to wait while somebody points a gun at them just in case it's a toy is ridiculous. I wasn't allowed to have toy guns in large part because of that sort of thing happening.
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  601. That's not waterboarding, but it is deplorable.
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  602. Yes, not to mention that essential workers are being left out of any support or assistance. We take on the risks and extra work get nothing.
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  603. This kind of thinking is why people don't really take women seriously. The reason you don't see more women leading is because more women aren't leading. You think it's great being a leader? Well, I tell you what, it's lonely at the top and it sucks being the person that's "responsible" when somebody comes by demanding to know who's responsible for whatever happened. It's much easier to just sit back and let somebody else make the decisions and take the blame if things don't work out. Women shouldn't be whining about this. Women have the privilege of not having to be at the top all the time. It's a lot of stress and work and you often get blamed for things that you can't reasonably have planned for.
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  604. Sounds like there's still hope for her.
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  605. ***** Burden of proof here is on the people alleging that there's a huge number of unreported rapes. The only studies I know of that cover the subject label sexual behavior as rape or consensual without bothering to ask whether the participants considered it to be consensual. And the studies themselves were highly targeted to certain quarters that are more likely to engage in partying. There's also the women's shelters that are a hugely biased sampling where they try to generalize to the population at large. Quoting anecdotal evidence like you're doing and pretending like it's a reflection of society at large is just plain ignorant. Rapes that are reported are taken seriously and prosecuted when there's actual evidence for it. Claiming that there's this mountain of rapes that don't get reported demands actual evidence. EDIT: And you ought to be ashamed of yourself for treating women like they're incapable of making their own decisions. There are no allegations that there's a huge number of male victims of rape by women that don't report.
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  606. Bingo, that's the connection here. They probably had ICE officers at the rally knowing that there'd be somebody that wasn't here legally there and they took advantage of it. This is basically the same thing as speeding when there's a traffic helicopter monitoring a road. You speed and then a few minutes later you're pulled over. It could have been retaliation, but more likely this was just low hanging fruit. She flaunted her violation of the law in front of officers and was subsequently arrested for it.
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  607. Ian Meadows, but she is a thief. Her violation of immigration law makes it that much harder for Argentinians and other nationalities that want visas to the US to get them legally. If people wouldn't come here illegally, we wouldn't need to be so strict about whom we issue visas to.
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  608. You sir are the problem. The DNC continues to cheat in order to get their preferred candidate. If anything, Biden is a step down from Trump. Have you seen his cabinet picks? They make Trump's look perfectly reasonable. We have Trump because Hillary refused to do anything to earn our vote. So, we stayed home, voted for somebody else or voted for Trump. It's not our fault that the DNC can't figure out how to run a clean primary.
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  609.  @TheFanatic340  You don't really know what he was thinking or doing. I'm not sure what the speed limit was there, but a typical freeway speed is something like 60-70mph, if the wrong way driver was doing 100mph, that means that the rate they were closing was likely in excess of 160mph. He would have had mere seconds to determine which lane she was in and recognize that she was likely to collide with him. So yes, looking as far forward as possible may have helped, but probably not in this case. Headlights are aimed in such a way that even that wouldn't have helped much.
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  610. Can we please go back to web 1, there isn't enough bleach in the world to get that web 2.0 taint off me.
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  611. I think it's interesting how the bleep comes right after the cursing is over.
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  612.  @shantanukulkarni8883  It is true for basically everybody, there may be a couple savants out there that do have it memorized, but the only other people that don't use google are people who don't care about actually producing anything this century. There's just too much for one person to ever hope to memorize while it's still relevant. Trying to memorize the entire thing would require specifically focusing on doing that for a prolonged period of time. Even with the best memory and the best memory skills that's not going to happen in any reasonable period of time.
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  613. ​ @pedrogorilla483  The short answer is that the things that were being done before google were either so constrained by hardware that you'd need to know how to optimize the code. And any language that expected people to learn it would have comprehensive documentation available covering anything that one would reasonably need to know to use the language. Plus, the expectations of what was possible were a lot lower as much of the code just needed to run on one computer without having to worry about attacks coming in over the network. Chances are that whatever you wanted to do was something that could be figured out from the various examples given in the documentation.
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  614.  @-karter-4556  As somebody with a relevant masters, I can tell you that this is absolutely not how the brain works. The brain is the largest single user of energy in the body and it is designed to use as little thinking as possible to keep the energy demands within reason. Unless you're using a structure or method with some frequency or it is analogous to something that you use regularly, you're probably not going to remember it with any reliability. That's just how the brain is. The alternative is the case where the neural network gets badly broken and connections lose all meaning. Think something along the lines of schizophrenia if you want to picture that. Generally, you won't completely forget much of anything that enters long term memory, but at a certain point, it might as well be forgotten as you're not going to remember it more quickly than you can look it up.
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  615.  @-karter-4556  As with most other pursuits, you'd pretty much just memorize the stuff that's likely to come up regularly, then you'd memorize that there is no good solution to other sorts of problems. That covers most of it.
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  616.  @paullessard  No, the GP is right, the whole industry is a scam. Thomas Kinkade is a really good example, his work is just not very good. But, he made tons of money over his lifetime based primarily on his name and reputation. The "value" of a lot of these pieces that you see at auction is primarily about the fact that they own something that other people don't own. It's not because the work is necessarily worth more than a different piece is. There's tons of great artists that never sell a single piece, folks like Van Gogh would not be known today if they didn't have somebody financing their unprofitable art. You're argument is that Van Gogh's work was essentially worthless because he couldn't support himself by selling paintings. You're talking about a guy who during his lifetime sold most of his work just for supplies versus now having work that goes for millions when they're even available for sale. Are his paintings really worth that much more now than back then? No, the reason for the prices is that virtually everybody has heard of Van Gogh, you don't need to know anything about painting to know that they're valuable. Same goes for most other well work being sold for large sums of money, they aren't necessarily any better than the ones that sell for a ton, they just don't have the art galleries pushing them for high prices. Dale Chihuly reportedly adds an additional 0 to the price of his glasswork that isn't selling to spur sales. If that doesn't definitively prove just how shady the industry is, then I don't know what would.
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  617. I'm not sure if it is modesty, he probably does genuinely question whether he is a literal tens of millions of dollars worth of funny and whatever his fee for a show is these days worth of funny. Which is even harder to define than if the laughs you're getting for no pay are genuine, let alone it being so expensive that you can literally never work again and would have to put major effort into disposing the money that you've got.
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  618. Yep, I remember years ago watching a short documentary on comedy, and one of the comics was saying that if you've got something so dark, taboo and offensive that it can't ever be shown in public, he wants to touch and hold it. And, I do think that is right. The mechanisms that trigger laughing tend to be an attempt by the brain to reset after being given something that makes absolutely no sense.
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  619. I don't buy Intel when I have a choice because I'm sick of the way they've behaved. Paying integrators to not use AMD products, getting in bed with MS to offer overpriced Wintel hardware and such. They've had good hardware, but it's not worth it to me.
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  620. The only reason to mess with the source at this point, is to more easily run it on modern OSes as a sort of historical oddity.
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  621. It's WinAmp, can they actually afford more than that?
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  622. OSI is kind of a joke in that respect, there's a bunch of restrictions beyond what are reasonably necessary. That being said, in this case, it's not really open source if it doesn't come with the ability to fork the software. Being able to see the code is only part of what open source is aobut.
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  623. That's a surprise? I think the last time they were actually relevant was when Wesly Willis was still alive.
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  624.  @markberryhill2715  Yes, his message was definitely obscured by his tendency to bomb universities. There's a reason why he's the Unibomber. (Unabomber was a typo)
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  625. Or, just letting us have our votes count for something. If he really wanted to show his appreciation, he could have dropped out when it became obvious that he was only winning due to election fraud and just let Bernie have the nomination that he's earned. Or, really, even just no longer laughing about people's problems would be an improvement.
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  626.  @Rexxxxxxxxxxxxxx  They're absolutely not opinion based narratives. From an objective standpoint, the lane closure had no legitimate reason attached to it. Regardless of the motivation, it was a misuse of taxpayer resources. The fact that they had ill intent just makes it worse. I'm not surprised that the court overturned the conviction, the courts in general have been looking the other way when it comes to political and white collar criminal activities for ages now.
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  627.  Logic 46  They do, but Americans shoot more Americans in general than you see in other developed countries. If the police weren't also doing so, it would be kind of weird. We have a system where we've failed miserably to regulate the availability of firearms to those who aren't able to use them responsibly. Whether it's criminals or just individuals that are to F-ing stupid to secure them well enough that their kids don't get their hands on them, there are tons of deaths that only happen because of our national fetish for firearms.
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  628.  @guptadagger896  Not to mention, that when gold has been used in that sense, it requires the government to set a price for it and restrict access to it at which point, it's barely better than a fiat currency in that regard.
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  629. It was pretty much inevitable now that we have effectively a 1 party system where the two parties agree on most of the important policies.
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  630. It's worth noting that the ugly American stereotype is largely a historical thing. Yes, there are Americans that are jerks when traveling, but we're more likely to learn some of the language and make an effort to experience the country than in the past.
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  631.  @SelenaKnight-n7h  Not specifically, but there are alarms and this one appears to be at a clinic that would have somebody around all the time for other patients with urgent needs.
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  632.  @Catherinzsl  I'm not surprised, in most cases, as long as the box is appropriately set up, a baby should be able to handle being in there for a rather long time without any harm. Granted, that's probably still measured in minutes, but most communities can get somebody to one of these boxes within a half hour if a mother is capable of getting to the box in the first place.
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  633.  @phoenix-tt  A lot of Roman buildings were built like that. And actually, you see a fair amount of that in the US as well. If you look at aerial pictures of cities with buildings that are still there from before affordable air-conditioning, a lot of them will be shaped like letters of the alphabet to increase both the natural light and the ability to use windows for ventilation.
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  634.  @SilverRagaire  Yep, apart from Canada and Mexico, there aren't a lot of countries that we can go to that don't involve an entire day each way dedicated to dealing with traveling. But, there's a ton of stuff we can do without leaving the country that don't use so much precious time.
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  635.  @101steel4  I do wonder at what point British and American English are going to be different enough to justify a name change for American.
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  636. In all fairness, some countries do have a sort of a touristy bubble where everything is geared towards that. Especially countries that are poorer, but relatively stable with relatively low violence.
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  637. One of the arguments I saw, back during the second Iraq war, about why the protesting would go nowhere, was that nobody was being drafted and so there wasn't anywhere near the personal investment of knowing that your number could be called any day. If you didn't want to fight in that war, then you generally could just not sign up. The only people who fought in it from America that might not have wanted to be those that signed up before 9/11 and a bunch of national guardsmen. For most other people, it was a choice to not enlist to some degree. I do think that there should be a draft and that any assignments of the draftees should be done without knowledge of whom they are, specifically to prevent the rich and powerful from getting out of it that way.
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  638. Iran is kind of complicated. I have Iranian in-laws that speak openly about wanting the US to stage a coup to re-establish the Shah. It surprises me that they don't seem to realize that they have the Ayatollah over there because the US already tried to reinstate the Shah only to have the people revolt and leading to the current state of affairs. (Admittedly, they had relatives that worked for the Shah in arts and education, so probably not the most accurate depiction of popular sentiment) Iran itself is kind of an interesting case where it was a relatively liberal place in terms of personal freedoms in that part of the world under the Shah, but clearly there were issues that led to the revolution.
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  639. I haven't personally noticed people being more aggressive with their right turn on red over the last couple decades. I could be wrong, but I think it's a lesser factor than a lot of other things.
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  640. I'm not personally a fan of banning the turn on red. I think it makes more sense to do things like extending the sidewalk to the traffic side of the parking lane. It both prevents cars from parking too close to the corner and gives the pedestrians a more protected place to stand where they can see and be seen.
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  641. I was intrigued by the idea of ending 4 direction intersections and designing cities on a grid of hexagons so that basically all intersections meet at a 120degree angle, and you can see all other traffic more or less at once. There's the obvious issue that you'd have to tear down entire cities to make it happen, which is why it likely won't happen unless we somehow get and survive WWIII. Locally, we've had tiny roundabouts for decades, but over the last 20 or so years they've become more common as folks get tired of people t-boning each other because they can't be bothered to stop on rural roads. The roundabouts are making in roads into the cities as well, but there's the issue of finding space in already built cities that makes it a bit of a problem.
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  642. True, although that should rarely happen as very little power is used when a car is just sitting there.
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  643. It might have been justified early on, but at this point it's self indulgent and asking for trouble. It's low quality thinking and we'll never get past it while feelings are this much more important than rational thought. We're at a point where cancer patients in many areas can't get treated because the unvaccinated are sucking up all the resources. I don't wish ill on anybody, but we need to be rationing health care so other people can get some. Go door to door, go to people's job sites and vaccinate anybody that well get it, but limit the bed space for the unvaccinated so that other life threatening conditions can be treated.
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  644. I don't see what the alternative is other than to enact strict limits on non-vaccinated patients unless there's a limited exemption for not being able to get the doses due to medical reasons.
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  645. And yet the Las Vegas shooter years back would never have been able to gun down all those concert goers from that hotel window with something shorter. The fact of the matter is that it's more an issue of weapons getting into the wrong hands and having too many bullets lined up for shooting in the magazine. Just simply, limiting the rounds to something reasonable and putting safeguards into place to keep known dodgy people from getting their hands on these weapons would do a ton to improve the situation.
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  646. I'm voting them all out of office. I only vote for 3rd party candidates unless there's none on the ballot, in which case I vote for the challenger. Both sides are hopelessly corrupt on anything and everything important. Even at $3.5tn, the bill is way too conservative to make up for all the intransigence and delays that have kept things from being addressed in a timely manner.
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  647. I don't think that pointing out that women lying about birth control should have been included is at all unreasonable. If anything, that would be easier to enforce than claims of men sabotaging their condoms.
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  648.  @icicle_man4971  This was already criminal conduct. The only reason to pass this law without including lying about contraceptive use is to perpetuate the false narrative that this is something men do and women don't do.
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  649.  @robbraxmantech  Yes, but it involves the company actually doing the right thing.
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  650. We've had the truth on both for decades. Whether people choose to believe it or not is up to them. But, the CIA definitely did start Bin Laden out in the '80s with training and supplies in Afghanistan, I'm not aware of anybody arguing against that. And, there were definitely planes flown into the buildings that took them down. This is also established as is the engineering failures that led to the buildings collapsing under their own weight when the central columns were heated enough to lose their strength. SImilarly, there is no need for a conspiracy, any time there's a public route like the one that JFK was riding at the time, there is the potential for a sniper to be in one of the windows, it's why the secret service has to do a lot of work securing the rooftops and have their own team looking for snipers in the windows. It's not an easy job. And Jack Ruby was frequently in the police station where he shot Oswald, it wouldn't have been unusual for him to be there, even without the crowds of reporters covering the transfer. It's all less than satisfying, but it distracts from actual conspiracies like the Democrats throwing races to the GOP to avoid having to make decisions that anger the donors.
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  651.  @rockyshocks101  It's not just about how likely you are to default, it's also their estimation of how much money they can extract from you.
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  652.  @SouperMaruchan  Credit cards are designed to encourage that. Why do you think so many of them give "points" now? If you use debit cards and cash you don't need to develop a ton of self control as the added work involved with figuring out if the charge will go through will discourage frivolous purchases.
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  653.  @PointsPointers  When I first heard him talking about how CCs are evil, I didn't really get it. I pay my accounts off just about every month with the exception being when I get free promotional interest. Last money I switched to just debit and cash for most purchases and he was right. I'm not necessarily spending that much less than I was, but I'm finding it a lot easier to avoid buying things that I don't really need as it's a pain in the backside to figure out if I've got the money in the account necessary to pay via debit. IMHO, the best thing to do is to only put recurring payments on credit cards and do virtually everything else via cash or debit. The other things to put on credit is if you're getting a specific benefit out of it. For example, free insurance when you rent a car or free warranty protection. If you're counting on it for fraud protection, then you should be really thinking hard about whether the party you're paying can be trusted as you're not necessarily guaranteed for the CC company to believe your side over the merchant.
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  654.  @shaan702  Absolutely, WWII was completely unwinnable without the Soviets and they paid a high price in blood in doing so. Had Hitler not engaged in that attempted take over of the USSR before he solidified his position in Europe, we might well have seen a world where the Nazis controlled virtually everything. But that's hard to say, but it likely wouldn't have been easy with so much of the developed world under Nazi control.
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  655.  @thomassimmer5186  It wouldn't have worked. The people there didn't want what we were selling. Literally the only reason why there was a war there at all was that we were paying for one side to keep fighting. Having married into an Iranian family, I can tell you that these sorts of cultural beliefs can be incredibly durable to the point where my in laws refuse to acknowledge what a bad idea it would be for us to send the military into Iran to reinstate the Shah, again. I do not doubt that the Afghans have similarly strong cultural beliefs that doom most efforts to bring a new government to them. They will, eventually, move towards a form of governance that's less authoritarian and tied to religion, but that has to happen from within. Even the German people that wanted a western style democracy need around 70 years and 2 world wars before they had one that was stable.
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  656.  @kaijuslayer3334  Probably because of the military base that they have and don't want.
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  657. That's why other manufacturers use terms like "adaptive cruise control" and "lane centering" to describe their capabilities. It's a lot more clear what the car can do without being misleading.
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  658. Possibly, or at that time of the day, the driver might be suffering from "white line fever" or just being too tired to properly register what's happening, or perhaps overestimated what the autopilot was capable of doing. But, its' been far too many years of these cars crashing into inanimate objects for them to still be allowed to sell the cars without any sensors to augment the cameras.
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  659.  @RichardBaran  Yes and not just that Elon has been falsely claiming that they'd have full self-driving capabilities any year now, and that's been going on for years.
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  660. That's something that people don't seem to get. Humans mainly use our eyes when driving, but we also use our ears and our sense of touch as well. A car can use far more sensors and the only real limits are how many can be processed quickly enough to keep up with the car as it drives and the ability of car buyers to afford the systems. Also, these things have a tendency to get cheaper as the amounts of them being manufactured increase. From what I can tell, a LIDAR array for a car is well under $1k at this point and just the savings on insurance premiums from having the extra level of ability should more than pay for it within a few years.
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  661.  @madhavdhilip  The issue is that Tesla is being way too aggressive about pushing the automatic driving capabilities. What they should have done was just spent a period of time with the system just trying to predict things like this and what the driver would do and fed all that into the AI before even allowing drivers to have the level of self-driving they've got. These systems basically all suffer for the fact that they can't replicate the experience you get from millions of drivers driving billions of miles every year.
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  662.  @snugglesjuggler  It's harder to do than you'd think. The real problem is that Tesla has tried to skip a stage where all the computer does is just record a ton of telemetry information about the cars as they drive around to compile into a library that can be used to train the system. There's only so much you can do with professional test drivers, they aren't necessarily going to be driving in the sort of conditions that regular people do. And for things that that Tesla slamming into an upended semi, that doesn't happen a lot, and it's going to take an extremely large number of such crashes before the system learns to deal with it. Doubly so since they don't appear to be using the situations where regular drivers come into contact with that.
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  663. That's what the profile says. But, is that what they're actually responding to when men reach out, that's the really important detail.
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  664. How is that relevant? Israel doesn't adhere to international law and Hamas isn't going to do so either.
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  665. That's just the initial, that can be changed later on in response to a plea agreement.
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  666. Metal also works well. They've found metal with writing banged into it from thousands of years ago. The main issues with these things is simply that the storage density is terrible. Also, archival paper will last a lot longer than one would expect.
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  667.  @DisgruntledPigumon  Given the age of floppy disk drives, I think that's rather appropos.
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  668.  @bountyjedi  There's a fair number of utilities that can be used in managing those files, anything that edits text files can potentially be used. With a few minutes worth of scripting, you can even automate revision control over it and see what changes are being made over time in case something does go wrong.
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  669.  @RKingis  Yep and I've done that, although you kind of have to know what you're wanting to backup. Which is fine if you're manually editing it, and a bit of a problem if a program is doing it in the background for you.
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  670. The fact that that's even a thing is a good reason for MS to deprecate the registry and offer some sort of per application registry for those that haven't yet migrated away from it.
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  671. That's less of a problem now than it used to be, but it's still a problem and it's mostly because those apps are trying to write to are read from things that they shouldn't ever have been accessing.
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  672. They have plain clothes police that patrol the area near Tienanmen Square. I saw a group of like 12 similarly dressed individuals meet up march in formation for a short bit before separating and going their own ways. It was probably one of the weirder things when I was over there, and I saw some fairly weird stuff.
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  673.  @robertbrown1021  The reason these loans exist in the first place is that the wealthy and corporations stopped subsidizing then, but you still need a degree for most higher paying jobs, but the wages have also been stagnate for decades.
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  674. Fair would be for roughly 60% of all the loans being waived, that would roughly bring it back into line with what it was in the '90s. Also realize that the earnings that recent graduates have made is substantially less the last couple years. I'm personally making roughly 2/3 what I would have been making had the pandemic not happened.
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  675. Rare occasion? Tax cuts are virtually never the correct solution to a recession as businesses hire and retain employees based upon their customers' spending and expectations in the future. The fact that people still don't get that is rather concerning. If you want to stimulate the economy, give checks to poor people, the money tends to work it's way up to the higher earners.
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  676. I'm not a fan of war, but I can't see how Iran can not retaliate seeing as the Israelis started this and refused to take the chances given to stop.
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  677.  @michaelrs8010  Israel struck first, even the BBC is acknowledging that the missiles from Iran were in retaliation for what Israel had already done.
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  678.  @megans7504  It was a dummy round for that close up shot of the revolver. There was a small pop at the time that wasn't investigated. Meanwhile, they sent the expert responsible for maintaining the safety of the firearms home early. Ultimately, the blank + the bullet lodged in the gun were just as effective as a real bullet.
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  679.  @RA-el6zj  IKR, I'm not sure how this is really any different from visiting any other wreck, other than that they attempted it in a cut rate sub designed by people who didn't bother to get the designs validated or verified. People are going to be going to prison over this.
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  680.  @kingofwrestling9758  Yes, but there's established designs for subs that can safely reach the wreck. It's just that they cost more money.
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  681. Perhaps you should either get your stove fixed or learn how to cook. My electric stove works just fine. And, if an electric stove isn't good enough, there's even better technology in terms of induction stoves.
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  682.  @snowblind.  Perhaps they should have written the 2nd and 3rd try in ways that comply with state law, then they would have been safe.
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  683. It's standard to call the cops in a lot of cases, the ones you hear about in the paper are usually ones which are ridiculous. Many of those situations don't even justify talking to them, just that the people involved keep walking. Although, Starbucks was completely right to ask those men to leave, they were trespassing.
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  684. Yes, whether or not that's an appropriate sentence for the crime, it is in line with what the Russian law provides as punishment. If anything, it's on the light side as there was a teacher recently that got 15 years for similar charges.
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  685. In a mass shooting, every unlocked door is fair game. Just make sure to have your hands up as much as possible running through any exterior doors though. Similarly, any property that needs to be destroyed attacking the shooter or avoiding them is fair game if you can't escape the rampage.
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  686. That's the last thing that we need. Then the cops get there and can't tell if they've got their suspect, just a bunch of cowbodys running around possibly shooting each other.
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  687. Yes, but I do think he has a point about posting a sign indicating the weight limit. She'd still not have been able to go on the ride, but would have been spared her father embarrassing her on TV.
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  688.  @odar9729  Yes, it is possible that they're just that incompetent and careless, but I think that it's more likely that they have a short list of suspects in mind and have at least one of them under surveillance. I'm not sure how else they'd come to the conclusion for people not to be worried if that's not the case. If there is another murder with this MO before they've caught this murderer, there's going to be chaos beyond what's already going on.
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  689. If the layout of the building is typical for multi-student housing, each room was just one student, so there's no reason why the killer had to keep killing unless there was a reason for it. It's not like the studio dorm room I had the first year at college where there were two beds and one room.
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  690.  @mina86  Don't forget about mold and dust mites. And the fact that ebooks you can always print sections up to laminate. Which can be really convenient if you're interested in recipes.
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  691.  @NathanTeaches  That's debatable. They were required to stop selling or distributing the books, they were not legally obligated to delete the copies that were already downloaded. Copy right just refers to creating copies, not to copies that already exist. The ones that already existed were not ones that Amazon had any obligation to delete as those would have disappeared on their own over time and in many cases it was a moot point as the copy had already been read and they were trapped on the Kindles as there was DRM to prevent them from being backed up independent of Amazon's copies on their servers.
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  692. That was not missed by me or the folks I was discussing with this at the time that of all the books to do this with, 1984 was probably the most on the nose one possible.
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  693.  @indian_crocodile  Yes, any Titanic related misadventure would require them to have continued the descent knowing that they weren't in contact with the surface. It's a bunch of billionaires, so maybe, but probably not. More likely the communications gear failed and whatever equipment was involved with bringing it to the surface automatically also failed. Or, the whole thing did indeed implode and the tapping is just in the imagination of the people looking.
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  694.  @disposabull  Both funny and probably a completely accurate representation of how this happened.
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  695. It's not the left though, the actual left mostly voted against her. Either we wrote in somebody else or we voted for Trump. Clinton was popular amongst feminists and low-information voters, not actual progressives and liberals. She spent a ton of time pandering to the right rather than pandering to the left and it probably cost her the election. Only about 55% of Sanders' supports ultimately voted for her, that alone could have been the difference in the race.
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  696. But, that simply isn't the case. The minstrel shows were popular for less than a century, and didn't even start out so racist. Drag shows are just the most recent iteration of a tradition that's literally thousands of years old. I'm sorry, but you're just wrong about this. Cross dressing has never been exclusive to transgender people, there are various reasons why people do it, but for the longest time people thought crossdressing meant somebody was gay.
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  697. What are they doing to do? Russia is too tied up with their operations in Ukraine.
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  698.  @bobmazzi7435  That aspect does make some sense if they're understaffed, but I'm not sure why they didn't notice that nobody had checked out.
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  699.  @KingPossum  Yes and I assume that they're probably understaffed and the room hadn't been rented for those days. But, somebody definitely did screw up as there shouldn't be anybody still occupying the room if it hasn't been extended and there should be some sort of computer system to let them know that the key hasn't been changed either.
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  700.  @DAnne-hd4cc  They also didn't know that he was autistic at the time, and that may well have been part of what convinced them to go for the death penalty rather than some sort of super-long prison term.
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  701. There's also the issue that he's autistic and his failure to respond with adequate emotion led prosecutors to look for something to put him away for.
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  702. They've been doing that sort of thing around here for decades. The GOP isn't popular enough to win state wide races, but they are close enough to come close at times. So, logically rather than trying to offer up policies that might be more mainstream they kept insisting that it was elections fraud. It was absolutely hilarious when one of the gubernatorial races went to the courts and the GOP didn't just fail to get any of the Democratic votes tossed, they did wind up losing a few votes due to various issues. This is probably going to be increasingly common as the Democrats keep letting the GOP get away with gerrymandering and rigging elections by setting up an absurd set of standards that allow them to remove just the voters that they think are going to vote against them from the rolls.
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  703. I feel like we need a change of laws to make submitting false accusations of voting fraud a crime that carries with it loss of voting privileges. I'm not suggesting that it be automatic, but if there's no basis for the belief that there's actual fraud when the report was made, there should be consequences for the parties that are benefiting from the witch hunt.
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  704.  @Devon1122  Yes and that's why we should have medical teams going to people's places of business or homes to get everybody that wants to be vaccinated vaccinated,
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  705.  @julielacaze3253  Yes, but some people spend all that time working multiple jobs. Time to go get vaccinated isn't equally available to everybody. And if you're in a rural area, the nearest clinic vaccinating people might be a long drive.
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  706. Not necessarily. In many cases people don't have time off from work. This is especially true if you don't have a regular doctor and medical care to coordinate the care.
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  707. No, she's arrogant and senile enough to assume that there won't be consequences of this. I do think that nuclear war is rather unlikely, but there's numerous other ways that the PRC could make us pay a price for violating our gentleman's agreement to let them pretend like they own the island. This is likely to just be the latest shove by the US politicians of the PRC towards Russia and a new megablock of countries that are no longer in our sphere of influence at all. And China and Russia were barely in our sphere of influence to begin with. Now, they'll likely be out of our sphere for at least a generation, if not more.
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  708. No, the message is that we need to deal with our corruption before we lecture foreign nations about it. How precisely does she have the right to drag us into something that's at most a cold war and more of a rivalry while orchestrating the movies that gave most of the power that the PRC has to it?
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  709. I don't think that giving lipservice to the PRC while effectively undermining them and their "control" of the island is really that big of a deal. People who are saying otherwise are ignorant about what the current status quo is. We pretty much just say that Taiwan is part of the PRC, and that's more or less the end of it. We're still ensuring that they have military gear to help put off an invasion and other things that wouldn't be consistent with us considering the island to be owned by the PRC.
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  710.  @FhillipFry  How is that different from the other autonomous regions in the PRC that don't start with a T? Taiwan is only different in terms of being the ROC and where the government of China fled when Mao was consolidating power.
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  711.  @Powderlover1  That's no more, or less, true today than it was decades ago when this compromise was struck. The PRC got to save face, and Taiwan got to operate as the ROC in a largely independent fashion. It's not a stable arrangement, and as long as our corrupt politicians aren't so arrogant as to poke the (panda) bear, it would probably hold out long enough for the PRC size to shrink and the people to start seeing that there can be a better life for them in their own country. It remains to be seen what comes of it, but it won't be anything good.
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  712.  @lawrenceleverton7426  Doesn't matter, that's still assault with a deadly weapon. Blocking traffic is something that the police can deal with as appropriate. It is not typically an infraction that permits such behavior.
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  713. This seems foolish of her. These are some pretty serious crimes even if the goal is something that's relatively banal.
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  714. Not necessarily some people are so delusional that nothing shy of that will clue them into the fact that their marriage is even in trouble. The problem tends to be that by the time the threat is made, one party has so miserably failed to pay attention to the marriage or put work into it, that there's not much that can be done to fix things.
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  715.  @lolawants2008  Non-smart phones had better methods of locking the keypad that wouldn't just go off and dial 911 in your pocket. There was a massive public awareness campaign covering that. Most of the buttdials to 911 are specifically because Steve Jobs wouldn't allow a physical method of preventing it that wasn't subject to butt dials.
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  716. @Hope Fliers or the local Macdonald's is out of macnuggets.
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  717.  @poruatokin  it's the same problem, the energy necessary to make any meaningful reduction dooms this. You're not going to drop pressure enough to compete with the aerospace industry that just had to get the items up to where pressure drops on it's own and isn't constrained to specify routes. Bullet trains themselves already go so fast that you're not going to benefit much from a reduction in air pressure, as those who need even faster just fly. Additionally, tunneling is expensive and inflexible to begin with.
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  718.  @poruatokin  yes, the main issue with it was cost and the ultimate development of better telecommunications equipment. The sonic boom wasn't anymore of an issue for it than other aircraft capable of supersonic speed. The sr-71 otoh, leaked like a sieve at lower speeds and would have issues with that.
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  719.  @thirstfast1025  we've been putting trains in tubes since the 19th century, the issue is that you hit a point where you can't increase the speed and capacity enough to compete with the aerospace industry.
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  720.  @ErikCrowKrahe  what's more awesome is going through space to get where you want to go. It's faster, more flexible, more fun and just as fatal if you screw it up.
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  721.  @randal_gibbons  that didn't require a rewrite of the same laws of thermodynamics that were required to build the thing in the first place.
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  722.  @robertlee8805  what hyperloop is going 600mph? None of them are or will, they depend on a vacuum that can't be created or maintained.
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  723. Yes, by a lot. This isn't that much faster than what trains in the US can manage now.
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  724.  @TheDrAstrov  And I’m sure that "Ukraine is part of Russia" and that "Putin is freeing them from Nazis." Face it, all bets are off when Putin needs a distraction. The US is far from perfect, but it's an outright lie to say that the country doesn't engage in hostage taking.
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  725. Yes, and this isn't a particularly obscure law, either. This is something that you should be researching if you're going to be taking such substances across borders. Even in the US, there are some substantial penalties for drugs.
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  726.  @jimmason8502  Pot is a good choice for that kind of problem, more so than the other options. Just not if you're living in or traveling to/through countries where it's illegal.
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  727. Why stop now? They've been nominated unqualified judges for the post for decades now. Thomas, Scalia and now Kavanaugh are the most egregious examples. They're put on the court specifically because they're known to be incompetent in a way that's convenient for the donors.
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  728. It's easy to be moral when you can count on all of your fellow party members, including Manchin, to vote to confirm. They didn't need her vote, had Flake not Flaked out, that would have made it a tougher decision.
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  729. Considering that he perjured himself multiple times and thinks that perjury is a high crime, the GOP shouldn't be voting to confirm him. And that's best case, worst case is that all the allegations are true, so he's not just guilty of perjury, but of those sex crimes as well.
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  730. Why? Her vote isn't sufficient to change anything. The Dems needed 2 GOP votes to flip. Only one did and in exchange we had Manchin voting the wrong way yet again. If Chucky the shoe had some actual integrity, Manchin would be off every committee he's on and not receive any party support. This is so bad that he should be excommunicated from the party even if it means losing the seat.
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  731. Some of us got sick, but not so sick that we needed medical intervention and got sick before tests were available. I'm hoping for the test so that I know for sure.
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  732. Likely, but they may also decide to give the testing to essential workers first, then to others. It would make sense as it would help predict where we're going to have food shortages and the like.
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  733. That's pretty much women's fault collectively. Women are at least as disgusting as men are in this regard. The main difference is that women get away with not having to make the first move, so they don't get used to having to do so. Which moves the window about. But, the whole idea that women don't gawk, catcall or touch is rather ridiculous. They just aren't used to having to make the first move, so they're less likely to do it at a restaurant or bar.
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  734. For the most part, no, a battery is a battery. The only measure that typically matters is the number of mAh that are in the battery. A 9v battery is a 9v battery, as long as the mAh is the same, you shouldn't see any meaningful difference. There is some variation in how well they do with cold and how flat their discharge curve is, but chances are that any differences that you're seeing are the result of the placebo effect. If you want to see a significant difference, you have to jump to something like NiCad or NiMH which do have significantly different characteristics.
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  735.  @sikchan5834  I'm not sure what the specific manufacturer is, but all of the Kirkland Signature products are produced by somebody else. Usually that somebody is one of the name brands.
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  736.  @t0nyz0  If that were the case, then NiMH AA batteries wouldn't exist. All the ones I've ever seen start at 1.2v.
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  737.  @chadwillett619  It's not a linear curve and it doesn't get to zero before the battery is no longer powerful enough to perform. Usually somewhere between 1.2v and 1v the battery has been discharged to the point where it can no longer power the device that it's supposed to be powering.
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  738. How is it any different from the crimes against humanity that Israel commits on a regular basis?
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  739.  @mist2961 He was 19 years old and had a rather large reason to not be too strong-willed with his father. At age 19, he probably hadn't gotten to have much of a life. Granted, his father was a billionaire, so he probably had a pretty decent 19 years, but there's really only so much life you can live in such short of a life.
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  740. Yes, but he won't. The best we can hope for is him dropping the race entirely.
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  741. So far half the Democrats that tried have failed. Sounds a lot different, doesn't it?
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  742.  @acousticmeow8403  Yes, and this is why there are usually regulations in place to help ensure that the cheapest service provided is reasonably safe for those buying it. It's the same reason why there is a public health department that has food safety standards and not just trusting the restaurant to engage in safe practices.
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  743.  @jpcaretta8847  That's a point that people really need to understand. Some materials are extremely strong when it comes to tension, others are strong in terms of compression. Some may be strong in both aspects. But, while you could use a rope to make something a bit stronger against internal pressure, such an approach would do nothing to prevent the same thing from being squashed. It's part of why you see barrels with those metal rings on the outside being used to store things, but not being used to protect the contents against being squashed.
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  744.  @waynedavies3185  People who aren't engineers usually don't understand the way that stresses travel around surfaces. I'm not an engineer, but I remember listening to an expert talking about the difference between drilling a round hole in a slab of concrete versus a square hole and the implications that has for cracks forming. The same thing occurs with pretty much anything under some sort of stress. Just a little weak spot can grow to a large size in the blink of an eye if there isn't sufficient resilience built into the design. I remember the way my parent's house was completely without support on one corner due to dry rot and you wouldn't have known it without seeing the siding removed because of the redundancy that is in standard construction designs. (Not that it was a good situation, but that it didn't result in a critical failure of the structure)
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  745.  @az-rule84  That was a solid point of James Cameron that the same basic attitude that led to the Titanic sinking is the same one that led to this sub imploding. Pushing ahead too aggressively in spite of warnings about the upcoming risk. Had the Titanic been traveling slower when it collided with the iceberg, it's likely that they eitherr would have been able to avoid the iceberg completely or puncture fewer of the compartments that were intended to trap the water. Ironically enough, the ship may not have sunk had it just run into the iceberg directly.
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  746. It was never marketed as being unsinkable at the time, that's a myth that came about later. Nobody in their right mind would have said that it couldn't be sunk, if you ram into something hard enough, or get a long enough gash along the side, as happened, the thing will sink. It was just a ship that was vastly safer than other ocean liners of the time. The main reason that anybody still thinks about it is the divide on who was and wasn't rescued.
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  747.  @kx8960  For ships, the regulations are the ones of whatever nation they fly the flag of. In this case, there appears to be a loophole that it wasn't flagged to any nation, which mean that there wasn't any regulation. I would expect that issue to be resolved relatively quickly, as they can probably just amend that particular treaty to account for vessels that are for undersea exploration not having the ability to have a flag for safety and practicality reasons.
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  748.  @mattk8810  It was also not a flagged vessel, if it were a flagged vessel, then the laws of that country would apply in international waters. But, as it was in international waters and it lacked a flag, then it gets kind of murky as normally, you're supposed to have a flag and registration somewhere. But, since this submersible was not required to have that, then it gets complicated as to what laws would even apply. I'm guessing probably the US will be where any legal proceedings related to this happen as that's where the CEO and Company are domiciled, but it's probably going to be a massive issue to decide which of the nations involved in the search and rescue get to be in charge of the legal proceedings.
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  749. Except that the Democrats won't do anything to win if it involves taking popular stances. The Republicans though are blood thirsty and willing to win at any cost. Just look at the blatantly unconstitutional efforts to gerrymander their way to victory and the various corrupt acts that they regularly benefit from the Supreme Court engaging in if you don't believe me.
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  750. I'm not sure what more security would have done here. The Secret Service found and dealt with the threat before Trump was anywhere near range of being shot at. The Secret Service has a fair amount of experience, securing this particular golf course, more resources wouldn't have made any sort of difference.
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  751. Also, keep in mind that the people trying to assassinate him are people that bought into Trump's BS. It's not a bunch of wacko lefties or independents going after him. It's his own former supporters.
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  752. Poor families get a lot of support in terms of federal grants and scholarships. It's mostly middle class families that are suffering in that fashion. Plus, even if it were true, that's still no excuse for why we're saddling students with the costs of education that everybody benefits from.
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  753. So, it's OK for you to free ride on the education that the students were stuck paying for? That seems awfully hypocritical to me.
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  754. Yes, but congress already approved the laws that he's using. They also decided to make the waivers tax free. It seems like congress did make a decision, it's just not one that right wing hacks like.
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  755.  @Ben-iz9ud  BS, that's not what's happening in the vast majority of cases and you're showing your lack of education by saying that. When students pick a degree, they're likely doing so years before they'll be able to use it. Up to 12-15 years in the case of some advanced degrees. Good luck judging the state of the economy that far out. Also, just because one doesn't use the degree directly, does not mean that the studying isn't applicable to a different job. So many people these days have to retrain and having been trained in the first place does help.
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  756.  @pk7ghalm23  No, but the other reforms in the executive order did change the way that the payments were calculated to ensure that the people paying the loans had more income available after paying. They've also been adjusting the foregiveness programs that do exist and cleaning up the mess from when they were implemented in the first place. I do believe that far more is necessary as a good chunk of the degrees people are seeking are necessary for jobs that are essential to the functioning of our society.
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  757.  @Yoseman1  None of the individuals in power have had the interest and willingness to do that. The last time I remember any significant raise in rates was under Reagan and it was still lower than what they were when he took office.
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  758. Those don't benefit society at large the way that the student loans so. Also, medical bills really should be, I'd be down with that. People hear about the underwater basket weaving and genders studies students and think that's all of it. The reality is that most of the degrees people are seeking are in things that benefit society as a whole. It's just that we've allowed the rich and uneducated to decide that the students should be saddled with the cost of the education that the rest of society benefits from.
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  759.  @Matthew_Raymond  You'll notice that they'll do it when the right wing is outraged, but they won't do it with things like the no fly list and NSA spying on random citizens. You can't prove that somebody is on the no fly list because it's not a publicly available list. But, because you can't prove that somebody is on the list, there isn't standing to file suit over it. Not that the liberal justices are necessarily that much better, but there used to be at least some effort to pretend like the constitution mattered when it was a more balanced court.
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  760. I've thought for years that a good next step would be to just index the student loan rates to the growth in wages. Better would be for the government to invest in education the way that it invests in bombing brown people in foreign countries, but indexing the interest to the increase in wages would be a huge step forward on that front.
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  761. This whole streaming service thing is why I switched back to physical media that I stream over my local network using Jellyfin. Once I got used to how the interface wants my files named and organized, it's a vastly superior experience. Everything on there is something that I might want to watch. It has no interest in keeping me trapped, so the stuff I want is easier to find. I can have it give me the list in whatever order I like, including random, and it tells me what time it's going to be done, if I watch it without stopping midway through. But, the best thing, is that nothing on their changes or disappears unless I want it to and I can have the DVD bonus features right there with the film. It all winds up costing less than a subscription if you use a cheaper streaming box and stream the content from your computer. I think within a year, you're already saving money over any of the Streaming services, depending upon where you buy the discs and how many.
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  762. This has been a thing for much longer, it's just now the case where ordinary customers are being subjected to it without necessarily understanding it. As early as the '80s you had expensive computers that came with physical modules that were only unlocked via a payment and visit from a support tech to enable the modules. For decades MS has been writing full featured OSes and then removing a bunch of features for the cheaper versions. Which isn't a particular problem, but it does cost them more money to create those cheap versions than the expensive ones.
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  763. Kamala and the Democrats have failed miserably at giving people a reason to vote for them is why. People voted for Obama on the promise of hope and change, and he screwed the people over massively. I'm surprised that anybody is still willing to vote Democrat after that fraud and then the 3 rigged Presidential elections in a row that followed.
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  764.  @riot-van5986  IKR, often times the Blue candidates are just as corrupt and out of touch as the Red candidates. Don't just vote for the ones that are pushing for the people, hold their feet to the fire if they do win.
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  765. You can blame the Democrats for failing to offer more. How many more election cycles are they going to run on being better than the GOP and then get into office and screw the voters over?
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  766. This is WI, a bunch of my relatives there are Democrats and a bunch of them are Republicans. She doesn't need all of the votes, she just needs enough of the votes to win the race and then actually follow through on whatever promises she makes to win.
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  767. Yep, hasn't it been known for decades that oil companies were funding scientists that were skeptical of man made climate change? And isn't it old news that the scientific consensus is that it is happening, the main question is how fast and how bad is it going to get along with what can be done about it.
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  768.  @ThisIsATireFire  Yes, although they have been in the process of decommissioning some of them to help with the salmon. But, the state does commonly export electricity to other states.
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  769.  @gregorymalchuk272  This isn't a large enough portion of the US for that to be a risk and with the exception of Texas and Hawaii the rest of the states have some sort of connection to a power grid outside their area where they can buy electricity if they aren't generating enough. Plus, from what I can tell, the residents aren't getting the service that they paid for as it is.
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  770. There are different models, but a lot of that has to do with the way the privatization is handled. There commonly aren't a lot of restrictions or tools put into place to ensure that price gouging doesn't result.
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  771. In the US, it depends where you are, around here the city owns the electric company and while rates have been going up a lot, it's mostly to fund modernization efforts and deal with the dams that are being torn down to help rehabilitate the fisheries.
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  772. The same reason that Rupert Murdoch was allowed to own a media conglomerate, corruption.
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  773.  @nobodyimportant2470  The way it's currently done makes more sense. The electric company buys power from other companies if they are short, which means that areas that can generate more power can sell the surplus to other areas. As long as you're not in Texas, in which case, you're basically screwed if they don't have enough because they aren't connected to anybody else.
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  774.  @007kingifrit  That works for the internet, but only because of how the system works. Power companies route power from whatever facilities are generating it to the customer. It can be extremely expensive to build new generation capacity.
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  775.  @kennethmoses4900  We could put the maintenance of the lines up to competitive bidding and pair that with stiff penalties for failing to perform. It's the model that Hong Kong uses for their subway system. The government built the system and a private company handles the actual running of it and maintenance. There are stiff penalties for even minor outages and roughly 95% of trips end within a few minutes of when the time table says they should.
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  776. Yes, I was expecting this to be a bit more revolutionary. Tips have been on top of minimum wage here in Washington for quite a while, but the same basic BS tipping culture exists. Nothing short of banning tips from being considered a portion of wages is going to end the issues.
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  777.  @imonbanerjee2997  That's a major issue. The delivery fee may or may not be used to pay for delivery drivers. I personally think that that should be regarded as fraud to call it a delivery fee and not use it to fund the drivers, but that's not currently how that works.
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  778.  @Ravi-qg1so  The issue there is that it depends on the service. If it's UPS, Fed Ex or USPS, then why is anybody tipping them? They make more than I do and it's literally their job to deliver things. OTOH, if it's something like door dash or the like, then what we really need are laws protecting the drivers. A bit of tipping isn't going to change the exploitative nature of the business model.
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  779.  @Nicksonian  Yep, that's not to say that they don't ever get a scoop, but the system depended upon there being many reporters at many different outlets competing to get their story out first. They didn't have the option of just waiting for somebody else to publish an article on before commenting on it or drawing conclusions from multiple news sources.
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  780. 20 years ago, they were already being merged into a handful of media outlets. Even if they had embraced the internet, having all the news coming from a handful of corporations with more interest in cutting costs than exposing their own misdeeds would have been a massive problem.
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  781. It wasn't just them, the official excuse was that larger charges were probably more important. But, regardless, it had the effect of changing what might have only been one or two overdrafts into potentially several times more.
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  782.  @danhedman8435  They're not. They can either transfer money from a different account, which is what my credit unions do, or they can refuse to honor the request for money. With computer technology being where it is, there's no reason why they can't transfer the money for you. (Although whether or not they should gets a tad complicated as there's many reasons why a charge to an account may not be a valid one)
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  783. Both of my credit unions have ended overdraft fees. One of them did away with them completely and the other did away with them in most situations. Personally, even before that I switched to a two checking account system to avoid having that problem. If I have to write a check or have payments that won't have the money removed immediately, I'll do that out of the second account. I'll transfer the necessary money and I don't have to worry about things bouncing or having to keep track of it. I'll start with some reasonably about of money to ensure that I have something there even after everything clears. It works great, although finding a credit union or bank that doesn't charge the fees is probably a better choice.
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  784. Them and the careless.
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  785.  @AmandaComeauCreates  Not likely, I'm just surprised that we've had two assassination attempts on Trump and none on any of the SCOTUS justices.
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  786. It's pretty much a given that if it passes and gets in front of them that they'll find a way of screwing things up even worse than it currently is. I mean, they take bribes openly, why are they going to turn their backs on the wishes of their bribers?
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  787. Yep, these can't be filled at any gas station and it's not likely to be able to be taken for another trailer while she's in it. That's a bunch of waiting and a bunch of witnesses. The concern I'd have is that something happens to her before he goes to fill the tank or get a new load.
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  788. I do have to wonder if the reason for this wasn't that he had done something similar when he was younger and genuinely doesn't think there's anything wrong with it. It's unclear to me how he could deliver a guilty verdict and then reverse it during sentencing. Sentencing phases of trials only happen if the defendant is convicted.
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  789.  @dianadialga3955  Adulthood is one of those rather tricky issues. Around here the age of adulthood ranges from 13 to 21 depending upon the specific issue. And some of it can be modified by the court in t he case of emancipated minors.
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  790. They wouldn't, presumably the drones can be repurposed for other things the rest of the year or sold used.
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  791.  @AxePlays-hc5dj  Yep, when I heard that it seemed like a particularly weird day to hold the election.
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  792.  @somnuswaltz5586  Drones can still cause fires, but the risk of that is a lot lower.
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  793.  @joshuanoble5895  TBH, I'm kind of curious why they didn't send a bucket up to him rather than having him jump. He's probably already got a harness on, transferring to the fire truck would probably be safer.
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  794.  @eprom239  I think the issue there is that he's jumping from an unstable surface and far more concerned with having enough force to clear the bucket and the ground.
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  795.  @zzygyy  It won't, it can't be removed from his record as it's a matter of public record that he was convicted, it's in the papers everywhere and people are going to remember this for basically as long as the US exists. He's been let off the hook for leading an insurrection, and this is a blot on his reputation? As far as Kangaroo court goes, this sort of fraud is a very big deal, far more so than what Hunter Biden was convicted of. But, somehow you people think that was legitimate, but this wasn't. Go figure, I guess you're only law and order folks when it's the other side being convicted.
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  796. How so? The case was tried before he won re-election. Had he lost, there's a decent chance he would have received actual punishment. But, given the way that SCOTUS has been ruling with respect to what the POTUS is allowed to do, there's a lower chance of this being tossed on appeal due to a lack of actual punishment associated with it. He's been convicted and "sentenced." Even if they do overturn it, it doesn't change the fact that he was convicted. Only the MAGA folks seem to be unaware of how big of a deal this is. But, somehow the stuff Hunter Biden did is a big deal.
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  797.  @toh6261  You think he'll follow through on that? It requires reading literal tea leaves to guess what we're going to actually get when he takes office in a week and a half. For all we know, they'll snow him good and he'll send our own forces over there to help.
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  798.  @marymcq2  I wouldn't be so happy about that. It pushes us closer to a civil war or somebody deciding that it's open season on SCOTUS justices that have completely lost any sense of responsibility or ethics. There's a fair number of folks out there that take the aphorism of "we've been given 4 boxes to use to protect the country, soap box, ballot box, jury box and ammo box, use in that order" literally. We've already had a CEO of a major health insurance company assassinated, do you really think that more bad rulings aren't going to inspire a similar level of patriotism? Barring something else putting things back on the rails, it's pretty much inevitable that somebody will.
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  799. Yep, a detail that a lot of people seem to be missing is that the reason for the no judgment sentencing is because that's the only hope there is for preserving the conviction. Any sort of punishment here is likely to get tossed by SCOTUS as they've ruled that the POTUS can do pretty much whatever he likes because apparently, the President is now a king, even though that's not at all what the constitution says. It's been a trend for a bit now where they go for the technicality over the spirit. So, unless you give somebody cash for an explicit promise for a politician to do something specific, it's not a bribe. Or, you can do that, but give the cash afterwards and it's a gratuity, which is somehow not a bribe. And you can pay off a politicians credit card debt, which is apparently also not a bribe.
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  800.  @bladudemovies  Yes, and it was only no time because he's been re-elected and SCOTUS has been pretty clear that any sentence would be tossed out as the President is above the law according to a majority of the justices. With no punishment, there's at least some hope that it won't be overturned.
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  801. It wasn't, the trial and conviction happened before he was re-elected. But, with how recent SCOTUS rulings have gone with respect to the Presidency, it's pretty clear that if there were any sort of actual punishment that the SCOTUS would probably overturn it. Even without the punishment, they may opt to overturn it. The GOP hasn't even bothered to try to nominate justices that are actually competent in quite some time. Just look at how bad the Liberal justices are, and just how monstrous the Conservative ones still look by comparison.
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  802.  @jeffamckee  We're arguably all victims here because this was done as part of electoral fraud.
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  803.  @LoRdHaVeMrcY  Um, there were crimes, he was convicted of those crimes, this was just to preserve his conviction. The SCOTUS has made it pretty clear that they're going to let him off the hook for pretty much anything he does on account of a couple of the justices being appointed by him and a good chunk of the rest being horribly corrupt.
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  804. That will be made public eventually. I'm curious as to how this is involuntary manslaughter rather than an accident. This is why the public is generally allowed to observe court proceedings. EDIT: from what I can tell, it will depend on whether or not the professor was criminally negligent when causing the death. (Or if he caused the death at all would likely be another issue)
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  805. Because that's how the media portrays it. From what I understand, the people on both sides want a negotiated peace deal of some sort. It's the people in charge of the military that don't. At the government level, it's literally terrorists against war criminals.
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  806. It's unlikely to cause problems with the shortage. The issue likely would be simply building up the supply to do it. Once the vehicles are stocked, the blood would be rotated in and out of the vehicles, and the blood that is actually administered should be mostly the blood that would have been administered in the hospital anyways. The other issues with logistics are more likely to be a problem.
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  807.  @eepinwillow  For now, I don't know that it's going to be that much longer before they can take O+ blood and covert it into O-. That would make a pretty significant improvement.
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  808. It depends where you are. In this portion of the US, the medics do bring blood whenever they respond to a call. And apparently they've been doing so for about 6 years.
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  809. Around here our medic one program has been carrying blood for transfusion for about 6 years. We were the first place in the world to routinely send actual ER doctors out on calls for critical care directly to patients in need of stabilizing prior to transport. So, this is probably going to spread through the US eventually, but the blood supply is rather limited, so it probably will just be select units for the time being.
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  810. And some folks are barred from giving for reasons that are no longer relevant. It's also a matter of bureaucracy.
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  811. That's why you wouldn't do that. You'd just give the blood to the ambulances that are specifically designated to stabilize patients for transport. Patients in that condition need more care anyways, so just give the folks that are trained for that the blood to do the transfusion. It takes the number of vehicles that need to be supplied from thousands to only a few hundred for a major city.
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  812. Here in WA, we've apparently had blood for the medic one program for years. Basically ER doctors attached to the fire department that go to the scene of the accident and stabilize patients for transport to the ICU. I'd be surprised if laws don't change as the understanding of how to run this part of the program improves and changes are made to ease the blood shortages.
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  813.  @RandiSchaefer-uw2su  Yep, around here the medics have blood with them, but they're also in a relatively urban area. A smaller town might just designate somebody to get the unit from the hospital and start driving to meet up with the ambulance along the way. (Obviously, starting a transfusion, even if the needle is already in, is probably going to necessitate stopping for a bit)
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  814. Keep in mind that as long as the blood is being rotated, this shouldn't increase the need by much, if anything. The blood actually being used would be shifted from the hospital to the medics or paramedics. The blood that's not being used, would get rotated back to the hospital. It would take time to build the supply, but then you'd also have extra on hand in case of a natural disaster. The other logistical issues are a much bigger deal.
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  815.  @cruisinguy6024  Around here we separate the ambulances from our medic trucks. The medics are literal ICU doctors that ride around going from site to site to stabilize people for transport. I don't know if they carry any blood with them, but it would make sense for them to have some on hand as they aren't going to be going as long without needing it and they're going to be called any time there's an accident that's significant enough to have that amount of bleeding.
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  816.  @johnkitners9386  Around here the medics have had the blood for about 6 years. I would imagine that as the problem is better understood that more areas will require it for at least some units.
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  817. It's Texas, you can be sure they'll bend over backwards to make sure that he can have as many as his house can hold.
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  818.  @Mb91555  Citation needed, how would you even know. It's pretty well established that women will let each other off the hook for all by the most serious offenses and then unionize against men. How often do you hear a woman's girlfriends disagree with her when she badmouths her boyfriend or husband?
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  819. What do you expect? Men have been increasingly left out as schools punish masculinity and fail to provided boys with the equal education that they're legally entitled to. Then they get to college, if they do, and it's more of the same with 2/3 of the students being women. There's only so many trades to go into and jobs in those trades, so you get this emasculated group of men that don't know how to go about things in a civilized way and have been provided with precisely no guidance in terms of how to be men, because conveniently enough, the vast majority of the teachers in the K-12 system are women who have no idea how to be a man. I'm not suggesting that we all stick to traditional views on gender, there's significant issues with that, but boys, and girls, really need people around them to help them figure things out. And being constantly exposed to this sort of demonization and negativity can't possibly be helpful in figuring out how to be a productive member of society.
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  820. TBH, that part of the story was a bit thin. Did she work at the museum or express a particular interest in those works of art? It still wouldn't make sense, but at least I could see the connection. If it was just about destroy random stuff, there's a lot of stuff out there that's simply easier to access for destruction.
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  821. They will, but having rode this as part of the studio tour, there's not a lot of room for error on the part of the driver. It's a relatively tight road and these trams are rather long.
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  822. And yet it's par for the course. Israel needs whatever flimsy rationale it can come up with to distract from their crimes against humanity. Not that Hamas is really any better, bunch of terrorists.
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  823. The smart and the elite going into the military? Seriously? Perhaps before we started being involved in perpetual wars that was the case. The military itself varies a lot, perhaps if you're focused on those that are officers, that might be true, but the people who wind up in the military do so for various reasons and represent various levels of ability. For many, the military is the only way they're going to go to college as they aren't bright enough or connected enough to make it happen. You have far more enlisted members than you do officers and the bar to clear for enlisting is extremely low. It wasn't until relatively recently that they've had to start turning people away who lack a high school diploma.
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  824. That's interesting. As a grad student if I want to get a federal loan, it's over 10% right now. I'm fortunate enough that my parents can add my debt onto their line of credit for a fraction of that amount, but I wonder about those folks who can't do that. 10.5% is the low end of credit card interest and unlike a credit card, you can't wipe that out in bankruptcy court if you have to.
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  825. That's the thing, he's not even try. The same way that the Dems didn't even try to get hazard pay for essential workers after they had the ability to actually do it. The only reason that these debts exist in the first place is the failure of the government to adequately fund higher education and allowing student loan money to go to fees that don't serve any sort of legitimate educational purpose. It's not a complicated problem to solve. Colleges aren't going to start cutting back on the BS wastes of money if they have to find students that can afford to pay the related fees without a loan.
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  826. I gave up on waiting. I didn't have much debt, but having had the pandemic scuttle my career plans, I'm now making roughly 2/3 of what I was expecting to make. I've been working at a grocery store and the Dems absolutely shafted us on hazard pay. They had a proposal when they knew they didn't have the votes to do it. But when they did get into power, they didn't even try to get anything passed. I don't particularly begrudge those that were at home on unemployment, but the bonus payments that were handed out alone were more than I was making being out in public so that other people didn't have to. A little bit of student loan relief for having my plans scuttled by the government isn't a lot. Because of that whole thing, I will not ever vote for another Democrat or Republican except in the case where there's no 3rd party candidate running and even then only to vote the incumbent bum out of office. It's just so disgusting how much they failed the country and people like me.
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  827. For those of us that are males that are also gay or bisexual, in particular, it was a nasty trap as you weren't legally allowed to serve, but even after Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Harass, Don't Pursue was instituted, there were still huge numbers of people thrown out of the military and not receiving their honorable discharges. That was extremely expensive and damaging to all those involved for reasons you're fully aware of. A consequence of it is that most military personnel were fine with it as long as they weren't at risk, but it was precarious where being a threat to somebody else's promotion could be enough to get a complaint that would wind up destroying lives. Removing the draft helped that, but now that things are legally integrated, the draft should return with some teeth to ensure that the rich and powerful are not allowed to avoid their share of the commitment.
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  828. And yet, I didn't get hazard pay from the feds, they gave pretty much everybody else money. I did get some hazard pay due to the city, but I'll have to give most of it back because of my student loan that Biden refuses to wipe out any of the student loans. He also refuses to give us medicare for all.
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  829. Not to mention medicare for all and hazard pay for essential workers. Biden could give us all medicare with the stroke of his pen and he has chosen not to. Same goes for student loan cancellation. He's continued to delay the payments, which is really difficult for the borrowers because we don't know when or if we're going to have to pay anything back.
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  830.  @falconquest2068  They found the body much more recently, before that point, there wasn't anything they could do. One of my dad's marine buddies stole his car and got busted for a dui in it. It hadn't been reported as having been stolen, so they had to ask him. He opted to say that the car was loaned, but he wasn't required to. Without him saying it was stolen, there was no case possible for theft.
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  831. The problem is that neither side here has clean hands. One side wants to remove the information about the civil rights groups. The other wants to pretend like there are no white ethnic groups that suffered and suffer from racial oppression. Anti-white racism in schools is so bad that I gave up on teaching because I refused to be a part of the problem. It's sad that we can't call out bigotry no matter what skin color people have or their particular gender. Teaching students about racism targeting people of color should not require blaming all white people in general, regardless of whether the individual had anything to do with it or even benefitted from it. Russians were banned from significant portions of the US during the cold war. The German language was completely banned from public instruction and it was a case revolving around that which prevents governments from banning languages from instruction. Anti-Irish racism was so bad that in some areas, business owners would hire black people over them because, and I quote, "At least black people can keep a clean house." Not to mention that most of the slurs and stereotypes targeting black people were originally used by the British to target the Irish.
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  832. We know that the Democrats aren't interested in running, so he's got a good chance with how cowardly the GOP politicians are.
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  833. And the only thing that could make that happen is an actual 3rd party. The Democrats are worthless.
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  834. Please stop lying. Natural immunity is the best immunity if you survive intact. That was settled ages ago. Anybody claiming otherwise is an anti-science nutter. The only reason we have vaccines for anything is that not everybody that contracts these things does survive in good shape afterwards. If we cared at all about getting through this as quickly and safely as possible, vaccines would have only gone to those with increased risk of side effects. The reason being that we get all these variants as a result of preventing them from spreading naturally. We don't have a vaccination, still after years, which is effective at preventing transmission. Without that, there is no way of vaccinating our way out of the pandemic, we're just creating new variants. If we want to actually have sensible public health policy, we need to remove Faucci and get somebody who actually knows that lying to the public is wrong. How many more times does he need to admit to lying before people stop listening to his idiotic advice?
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  835. They aren't getting the same vaccine that's available in the US. So, it's hardly relevant, all the people dying from the shots or none of them isn't relevant when the shots they're getting aren't available in the US.
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  836. TBH, property taxes are arguably the most legitimate taxes you can have. As far as schools go, the issue there is that when the courts forced WA to properly fund education at the state level, it resulted in Seattle and a few of the more populated areas to send even more money than normal to parts of the state that didn't have their stuff together. The city winds up funding most of the state, while most of the rest of the state keeps sending politicians to the capital to undermine the city's ability to generate money whenever possible.
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  837.  @benjaminchen8857  I haven't bothered to watch the video yet, but it looks like an method is being missed. Rather than repoing the money back, it could be taxed from the wealthiest people. In America, the wealthy don't generally pay the taxes they owe and they have so much money that even if they did tax back the money that we've been spending, they'd still be ridiculously wealthy. Bezos alone could afford to solve homelessness in America and still be worth over a hundred billion dollars.
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  838. So? Gold has significant issues, not the least of which is that you can't necessarily conjure up enough to cover the growth in the economy forever.
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  839. The going up is only reall a problem because our taxation and regulatory policies encourage the wealthy to stockpile money rather than allowing workers to share in the growth.
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  840. I fail to see an inherent problem with that, the only way around that is to also prohibit the government from issuing bonds.
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  841.  @ragingnep  Of course, but when a small portion of the population controls such a large chunk of the wealth, it is a massive problem. If it's just everybody advocating for things that benefit them personally, things would tend to even out over time.
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  842. Of course, you can, a simple graduated tax system with some of the money taxed from the top given to those at the bottom to subsidize a basic standard of living would do just that. It would disincentivize the hoarding of wealth and opportunity, while giving a boost to those at the bottom. This would allow them to have the room to try and make a go at things that would otherwise be too risky. Income inequality became a problem in the US in large part due to inadequate taxation of those with money.
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  843. To an extent, inequality is a good thing, it helps drive innovation. The problems come when the powerful can buy political influence and use that influence to avoid having to share any of that with the people doing the work. The existence of billionaires is less of an issue if everybody is fed, housed and has a decent standard of living.
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  844.  @BOSSDONMAN  There were other alternatives, for example simply buying up all the troubled assets and then going in with a hatchet and tearing up these "too big to fail" financial companies into a larger number of companies.The problem is that the elites didn't want that in recent precedence having more or less killed antitrust regulations that would have reduced the likelihood of this happening.
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  845.  @JohnnyCash101  They were mostly smaller institutions though that were taken over by the FDIC before they had a chance to outright fail. Apart from Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, it was mostly smaller banks that lacked the capitalization to survive the mandated stress tests that were taken over.
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  846. Absolutely, no institution, with the exception of the government, should ever be that large. And even with the government, there's a reason why so many large nations use some form of federalism where there's a national government and smaller local governments. It greatly reduces the concentration of governance into one body. Even China with it's concentrated governance in one party, still has smaller government offices spread through the country and they aren't always in lock step with the official CCP.
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  847.  @tru3sk1ll  I recently saw a black shoplifter in blackface. Blackface is like going around with a toothbrush mustache. It's not itself particularly racist, but good luck doing either of those things without also engaging in racist things as they're incredibly tightly bound together. I do think that as time goes by that people will have stopped doing it long enough that the connection won't be there, but I wouldn't expect it to happen anytime soon.
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  848. I'm not generally a fan of changing things like that, but yeah, this one is over a century past due. There really isn't enough education that could make it ok to have that on a state flag.
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  849. That's what I'm wondering. This continued insistence on cramming bad candidates down my throat is a large part of why I don't vote for Democrats. I won't vote Republican either because they keep running bad candidates where I live.
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  850. I think the big issue is that everybody knows that Biden can't win, and certainly can't do the job if he does win. The problem though is that the party leadership has done a crappy job of promoting younger politicians and there really aren't any other options that could win. I think Bernie might be able to win this election, but that's a long shot, and then they'd be in the position in 4 years of needing a new candidate as Bernie definitely can't handle more than that, even 1 term is asking a lot at his age.
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  851. The thing is that at this point, even if he does bow out, I'm not sure how the DNC is going to be able to locate and run anybody in his place. They knew 4 years ago that he was slipping, they had to have been aware last year that he wasn't going to be with it enough to continue, they chose to hope he would get reelected and then die in office for the VP to take over.
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  852.  @troutman-sw9qc  Voting blue all the way is what got us into this mess. The DNC keeps rigging primaries in favor of candidates that nobody wants and once in office they take a hard shift to the right. There is absolutely no pressure on the GOP to try to pursue left wing voters because the Democrats keep pursuing the right wing ones and there aren't let enough lefties to challenge either parties for the Presidency.
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  853. What gets me is that if the DNC hadn't forced Biden on the voters, Bernie may have won the primary and we wouldn't be in this mess right now. If Biden had actually done things like give everybody health care during the pandemic and fought for hazard pay for essential workers, he might have more support than Trump. Trump for all this flaws did a lot more in terms of checks than Biden did.
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  854. If Kamala had any value as a VP she'd already have exercised the 25th amendment at least a year ago and probably further ago than that.
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  855.  @darthmalagus  Except it's clearly not that clear as the Colorado ruling would have been different. The man is probably the most corrupt to ever be President.
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  856. How do you proceed then? Apparently we've decided that you can't prosecute sitting Presidents and the primaries are only a few months away. This whole situation is weird and not one that really fits with the normal way of doing things. And no, the law isn't relevant at this point with how stacked the courts are with incompetent justices that Trump and McConnel got seated. Just look at SCOTUS with a bunch of openly incompetent judges doing things to the country that will take generations to fix, and in some cases may never be fixed due to the courts unwillingness to acknowledge when decisions were wrong.
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  857.  @charlottehanna790  Honestly, my money is on him leaving her stranded without her phone. Or, she just wandered off without the phone and he was too much of a coward to get help. There's certainly other possibilities, we'll have to wait and see what turns up, but the assumption that he knows much more than that isn't necessarily reality based. It could be as simple as her doing something stupid and him running when he had the chance.
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  858.  @mritaci15  Possibly, but probably not, there would be footprints leading to the spring and the area around the springs isn't necessarily stable enough to allow for somebody to carry a body to the spring. It's also illegal to leave the path in those areas because people can and do die in the hot springs.
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  859. The fact that anyone would even vote Republican at this point is pure insanity. The Democrats are just slightly less competent and less evil than the Republicans.
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  860. They can't be, because they're even worse. The GOP is why this isn't being paid for by taxing the people and businesses that benefit from having all these college educated workers that struggle to pay their bills.We can't simply do without social workers and the like, just because we don't want to pay for them to get the education. And, that's the implication of the people opposed to reducing the debt. We're coming off of a pandemic where a bunch of people lost their jobs. Hardly anybody got hazard pay, in large part because the Republicans blocked it when it was early enough in the pandemic to really matter, and the Democrats lost their nerve when they picked up those seats. We had trilions for businesses, but this is too much. Not to mention, that a bunch of this money is wiping out the debts of people that didn't complete their degrees for one reason or another. And how many of those that did manage to graduate were working for less than what unemployment was paying due to the unemployment bonuses that were being tossed around. But, somehow this is too much. Puhlease. I didn't personally whine about the tens of thousands of dollars that went out tot he unemployed above and beyond what they were legally entitlted to. I think a little bit of the money coming to me when I couldn't get a job in my field due to the pandemic closures and disurptions isn't unreasonable given how pretty much everybody else got far more.
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  861. W was re-elected when I wasn't paying attention? Or are you referring to Reagan? I thought he'd died and been buried years ago.
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  862. The thing the Democrats don't understand is that like him or hate him, nobody can claim that there aren't people that are voting for Trump. The same could not be said about HRC or Biden. People were voting for them as a way of voting against Trump and that requires a significant amount of hatred that doesn't translate well into doing things while in office that make the next time easier. Even if Biden weren't infirm, he'd probably still be having issues because of that. He shouldn't have been the nominee and only won because a large number of people would have voted for anybody not named HRC as an alternative to 4 more years of Trump.
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  863.  @jimquantic  This just goes to show how good Pelosi has been for the RNC, under her leadership there have been basically no younger polticians developed that have any hope of winning. It's much like HRC bleeding the party dry in her attempt to force herself on a populace that wasn't interested. Honestly, if you can't even win your own party's nomination without cheating, why would you expect the other party's voters to be any more interested?
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  864.  @johnnydjiurkopff  Absolutely. Foreign fighters are more trouble than they're worth. If they're caught, the Russians gain leverage for future prisoner exchanges and the ability to make them perform for propaganda videos. They can point at the foreign fighters as evidence that Ukraine can't take care of itself.
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  865. There'll likely be some sort of a deal, I'd be very surprised if they are ultimately executed. Most likely there will either be some sort of a prisoner swap at some point, or they'll be used for propaganda videos and forced to confess before having their sentence commuted to jailtime or possibly expulsion from Russia after the conflict is resolved. That being said, I definitely would not want to be either of those men as none of the options are going to be good.
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  866.  @michaelwheeler8552  The issue is that it's not allowed to block that area just because of how much foot traffic is there.
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  867. I don't see an issue with that. There's roughly 190 countries in the world and it changes from time to time, Iraq was a regional power at the time.
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  868.  @fixedgearfever69  Plenty of groups did, it's a simple shape. The symbol itself was borrowed from Asia because it had helped with the mythology that the Nazis were trying to build.
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  869.  @threedragonstalk2123  If it was built by German POWs, that would raise some pretty big questions given that this was built decades later with the US in a completely different military conflict.
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  870.  @JackieOwl94  It's the border, once you enter the border, you're not allowed to turn around due to regulations. That's why there's so much interest in getting people to turn around before they get there. Also, the border itself isn't just a line, there's a bunch of stuff on either side that deals with customs and immigration.
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  871. It's good advice, but by the same token, around here there are a fair number of exits that can just sneak up on you because they're near a curve in the freeway. And you may have to change lanes multiple miles in advance when traffic is slow.
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  872.  @Flussig1  So, what do you do instead? Those dates are used for a lot of things, for instance making sure that the product on the shelf is being rotated so that there's nothing hiding in the back for years. It's used for identifying products that are subject to a recall and for helping the customers to estimate how long the food is good for. It's definitely not perfect, but I'm not sure what the alternative is other than to return to how things used to be done where pretty much everything was presumed to spoil in a predictable way and accepting the food poisoning that could come of getting it wrong.
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  873. I used to work at a grocery store and it's simply not possible to put a date on anything that always applies without wasting a ton of food. The label is an estimate of how long the manufacturer is confident that the food is still safe and an experience they want to be linked to. The actual point where it's no longer safe can be much earlier, if there's been issues with damage or storage or it can be significantly later. Ultimately, if it smells funny, looks funny or has the wrong consistency, it's probably bad and should be tossed out.
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  874. Really, what you're supposed to be doing is rotating through the food quickly enough that you're eating it before it expires. That being said, the dates are generally just estimates, although the ones on meat are probably the most trustworthy ones due to just how short they are and how quickly meat can go bad.
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  875. That's more or less what the labels are for. When it's working properly, it's just an estimate as to the likelihood of it being safe or just unpleasant. Ultimately, you have to smell it, look at it, and potentially taste it and if any of that is off, you just toss it out. But, it's rather unusual for there to be problems if those dates are still in the future.
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  876. Milk is a particularly easy one to tell if you can smell. The odor is pretty easy to identify and if it's really been too long, it can get chunky. Many other foods require a bit more effort.
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  877.  @BenJalahmela  Ultimately, that's what it's always going to be. The food is supposed to be safe on any of those dates, and usually a bit past. However, if it hasn't been handled properly or if there was a defect in the process or packaging, it might be bad earlier. And, it's likely to be good for some time after those dates, even if it's not as appetizing. Ultimately, it does come down to your personal judgment as the store isn't in your home inspecting the food any more than the manufacturers are. This may simplify things a bit, but the problem is going to remain. People have had the ability to ask store employees and the manufacturers to explain those dates for decades, simplifying it is likely just a feel good measure that won't appreciably change things either way.
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  878.  @genxx2724  Having worked at a grocery store, that's completely plausible. The courtesy clerks aren't always the most responsible ones.
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  879.  @genxx2724  They shouldn't have done that. The usual thing at the store I was working for was to only put them directly back if they were found sitting out, but weren't temperature controlled for safety. Otherwise, they'd be taken back to the appropriate department to be scanned out and disposed of or repackaged as appropriate. Berries are a head ache, but some other produce items can be repackaged without impacting customer safety.
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  880.  @GamesFromSpace  I can confirm. I was lucky enough to be managing the bakery department where less of the stuff has to be refrigerated. Most of the stuff you see in cold cases in the bakery is there because it either prolongs the shelf life for items that don't sell quickly, or because that's just where we had space. Or because it was an expensive item that we didn't want people to be able to easily walk off with. But, the amount of stuff that gets thrown out because customers can't be bothered to put it back where it belongs or give it to an employee to deal with is substantial.
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  881. That's the customers and a bunch of that stuff winds up being thrown out if the clerks aren't confident that it's still safe. I used to work at a grocery store and there was so much food wasted by lazy customers that would take things out and put them on a random shelf or put them in the wrong kind of cold storage for the product. Most stores don't have the resources to get around the store frequently enough to prevent that stuff from being destroyed. The stuff at the register either was already bad or should have been returned by somebody rather than left to go bad.
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  882. It's near Corvallis according to the title and the summary. As far as I can tell, there's only one Corvallis in the US, that's in Oregon.
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  883. That's definitely going to be high on the list of possibilities. But, the bridge was presumably OK previously, so there's probably something else that was the final straw.
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  884. Today - 1 days?
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  885. Not really, there are a lot of ways that people can respond, even when they're happy about the outcome. Shock and extreme happiness are both possibilities. But, if they were the ones that threw him overboard, then other emotions are definitely possible.
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  886. And we would have gotten away with it too, if not for those meddling sailors.
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  887. There's times when I think these ships should be required to have nets that can be extended when they're out at sea. Some ships already have sensors to warn the sailors that somebody may have fallen overboard, nets that can be extended when not at port would probably end this problem for good. We've got "suicide nets" on the local bridges that people were jumping off of and it's been pretty effective at stopping that problem. I see no particular reason why ships couldn't be fitted with nets as well.
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  888.  @ILSRWY4  The difference is that she was Jackie O through much of her life, referring to her as Jackie Kennedy wouldn't be any more accurate than using her maiden name after she got married.
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  889.  @frankbrzozowski6343  But, the angle of that wouldn't match any of the bullet wounds. There's also the issue of there being no recorded sound of that shot in any of the existing recordings of the assassination.
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  890.  @DeanSpence-d9c  There could only ever be 3 bullets unless there was a second shooter that was using a suppressor. We know that Oswald didn't have a suppressor as we can hear 3 shots and adding a suppressor for another shot is impossible with a target that's moving that fast. But, if it were a second shooter, then there's a bunch of other issue as in the angle of that other bullet is weird. You would be looking at a shooter using a suppressor and located near where Oswald was shooting from and somehow avoiding being caught when the police rushed the building right after the shooting. It's the usual issue that these sorts of things have, they all are more complicated and have more people and moving parts than are necessary. That doesn't automatically mean that they can't be right, but it's been over 60 years, a good chunk of the eye witnesses are dead and there have still been no leaks of anything that says that there was a definite 2nd shooter.
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  891. IKR, but increasingly they're the only option. They're the preferred option for taking over distressed banks that the FDIC seizes and are so large that any time they buy a bank, they need a waiver.
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  892. That's just how they do business and why people should be outraged by all the banks they're allowed to buy.
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  893.  @mattmarzula  So, how are things going at working for a major bank? Steal any good candy from babies? What you're saying is absolute nonsense. Credit Unions are regulated and insured just like banks. But, unlike banks, there isn't an incentive to cut corners to pay shareholders as the shareholders are the depositors that would have their money stolen in that scenario.
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  894.  @Niever  TBH, if they're in an area like that, there may not be other local options.
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  895.  @staticbuilds7613  Banks going bust isn't a big deal for the account holders in most cases, just make sure you're below the insured limit and have some source of money for the short period they're closed. The FDIC swoops in and seizes control. The big issue is that you typically wind up with an account at Chase as they're the one that gets to buy most of the banks that fail. That being said, I tend to recommend having 2 credit unions or one credit union and a credit card issued by a different credit union.
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  896. Yes, and while we're at it, probably just don't do business with nationwide banks in general.
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  897. Um, a lot of people got killed for everybody to have the right to go to whatever public restaurants they wanted to. I don't think most people would support a return to the Jim Crow south.
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  898.  @wownewstome6123  It's legal to refuse to hire young people, it's not constitutional and if it starts to become more common for employers to refuse to hire young people, we might finally get the courts to acknowledge that there's a 14th amendment right that applies to young people.
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  899. Technically, the law permits discrimination based on being too young, not too old. However, if the courts would actually enforce the constitution, those provisions would apply to everybody, not just those over 40. In this case, the fact that there's 2 different ages, one for men and one for women, is the thing that would most likely get them in trouble. However, if this results in some races being kept out more than others, that would likely also be an issue. And considering that the life expectancy of black men is so much lower than for other groups, it probably wouldn't take much of a leap to file suit as a race discrimination thing the way that companies can hire people based on looks, so long as looks aren't discriminatory on any covered class.
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  900. It's high time the courts start to actually protect people's constitutional rights, curfews like that are not constitutional. Now, if the curfew was later, they might have a point, but that effectively bans teens from employment, going out to movies on weekdays, study groups after school and a bunch of other things. If they really care about order, they'd be fining parents that don't actually make sure their kids know how to behave.
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  901. Not officially, however, there are laws on the books that would be at play. For instance having different ages for men and women is definitely illegal sex discrimination and it's likely also race discrimination as a disproportionate number of black men don't even live to see 30 let alone 35. That being said, the constitution does ban special treatment under the law, but nobody seems to care when it comes to age restrictions on the youth. I wouldn't expect it to wipe out all restrictions, for example controlled substances, but BS like age discrimination being permitted unless the person is over 40 is pretty blatantly unconstitutional. Such laws are pretty blatantly in violation of the 14th amendment, but the courts generally don't care about that.
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  902. If it's that sort of a concern, why would they want them outside with nothing to do?
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  903.  @ChelleLlewes  No, they aren't. Some of the most childish people out there are Boomers and they're well past the point where they should know better.
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  904. Restaurants can already kick people out for not having control over their children. A sign indicating that when they come in would address that issue without violating the law.
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  905.  @notoriouseagle1074  Because young people are more likely to call out the GOP BS and actually judge policies based on their merits rather than being scared by Fox News.
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  906. Presumably that's because there's typically an age gap when dating. But, that is probably going to be the nail in the coffin for the restaurant. You simply can't have different rules based on different sexes.
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  907. You can't set illegal rules. The place is going to be hit with civil rights lawsuits before too long. The first time a 20 something with a good job gets told they can't come in, there'll be a bunch of lawyers waiting to shut the place down. It's one thing when bars due it in response to the laws around minors and controlled substances, but this is never going to wash in court. It's a business offering public accommodations, not a private club. The two are not at all the same thing.
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  908.  @tracigreen4786  Doesn't matter, it's still sex discrimination and probably race discrimination as well. It's only not age discrimination because the 14th amendment isn't normally used to help young people get fair treatment. If they want to make it a private club and require people to join, then they probably could get away with it. But, they're going to be sued into oblivion.
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  909. Which is grossly unconstitutional. The point of having electors is that they can vote however they like. The only reason why they get allocated based upon votes rather than at random is that they're more likely to advocate for that candidate at the convention. It was never intended for them to be forced to vote for a particular candidate. This ruling, is just another case of the court ignoring the constitution to do what they want. It's also another step back from Democracy. Really, the system should be abolished as it's grossly undemocratic to have non-elected officials have the final say in who the President is.
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  910. You think they didn't know? It was clear 4 years ago just how much more energetic Bernie was than Biden. The party literally had to rig the primary to get Biden at the top of the ticket and he didn't bother to do anything to earn the votes of the progressives and independents. He got a little bump from the people with buyer's remorse for voting for Trump, but that's it.
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  911. Yes, at what point are the democrats going to stop rigging their elections and let the will of the people happen?
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  912. There's also a bunch of people like me that will vote 3rd party because the Democrats aren't promising anything to justify the vote. Each election cycle they try to make people vote for their bad candidates because the GOP candidate is an existential threat, but rather than running the best possible candidate and letting the voters choose, they forced HRC and Biden on us. Even when they are in power, they don't even try to fight for the things they promised the voters. For better or for worse, at least the GOP does try to do the things they promise.
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  913. No, the dementia would still be an issues This is the man that has the nuclear launch codes and can authorize the Ukrainians to use American weapons to attack targets inside of Russia. In other words, he could still trigger WWIII. The Democrats have just decided to not invoke the 25th amendment. If Biden doesn't fit the intended use of those provisions, then I don't know who does.
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  914. We'll see, having the weapons is probably legal in WA, as long as he's either got a permit or is carrying them visibly. And as suspicious as this behavior is, there are other possibilities. Still, this is a case of better safe than sorry and it's better that people reported it and there was a full on response before anything happened.
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  915.  @jaylu7021  Shopkeepers privilege used to allow them to detain people that had been caught shoplifting. But, it's a limited right and if the cops don't show up and the prosecutors won't prosecuted, it's not something that works. It's a limited right to detain suspects while the cops come.
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  916.  @Zero.0ne.  The solution is to properly fund the police and then actually prosecute the people that are caught shoplifting. We've tried defunding the police and it hasn't worked. Arguably, it may have worked if the defunding had happened after the point where other services were able to intervene earlier, but that's not what has happened and we'll need to get the policing back before we even try to make another go of it.
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  917. 4.4 generally isn't, but from the video, it appears to have been relatively shallow and right underneath a neighborhood rather than in the middle of nowhere.
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  918. Nope, probably the 17th. Loma Prieta 10/17, Northridge 1/17. So, clearly whatever this one is 8/17. (obviously, I'm kidding, although I would kind of freak out if that did happen)
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  919.  @BabaYaga-yh3yi  These barely release any pressure. IIRC, they're expecting an 8.0+ earthquake to hit the region. A 7.0 earthquake is significant, but would barely release any of that. Each increase of 1 magnitude is roughly 10x as much shaking and 32x as much energy released.
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  920.  @mattbingen  Yep, it does happen, but mostly in areas where there aren't faults and a lot of oil. And when it does happen, it tends to be much smaller earthquakes that don't really do any damage.
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  921. It wasn't even that big compared with the one that they're expecting. It was a significant quake, don't get me wrong, but compared with the big one it's not so big. Here in WA, we're still waiting on our big one and it's been over 20 years since our last significant quake. And even that one is a tiny fraction of the amount of energy that seismologists think is trapped in the faults here.
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  922.  @harpitap  Jesus comes to LA a lot, I think he is a janitor at one of the highrises.
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  923.  @yellolab09  Absolutely, the farmers out in the sticks may not have to do much to avoid this, but what about the cities? Sure, they aren't as big as in some other states, but that doesn't mean that people can't get it there. It just means that the threshhold between functioning and swamped is hit with smaller numbers. If they don't get their stuff in order, they'll max out their resources sooner. What's more, any illnesses there, will bring resources that could be used elsewhere. If they're taking the relevant precautions, then fair enough, but if it's because they're too arrogant to put proper measures into place, then f them. They should get no additional resources.
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  924.  @RadDadisRad  Considering how badly you guys fucked up the Presidential primary, I'm not sure that I'd be suggesting that Iowans know anything right now. Thanks to you're idiocy, we're likely to not have an effective President for the next 4 years. I'd personally have issued the order and tried not to be so conspicuous.
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  925. Unfortunately, those ignorant people will be the death of us all. Here in WA where we were the first hit, we're still going to be closed for an indeterminate amount of time. And these states are opening things up after having closed later. The Federal politicians are largely to blame for failing to ensure that people and small businesses could weather the downturn. And, the extra money being tacked onto the unemployment checks alone is more than many of those front line workers make.
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  926.  @BreakingNVain  Exactly. I wouldn't trust an government to tell the truth without some degree of verification.
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  927. While the sentence seems overly harsh to me, he brought it on himself by not calling the court as soon as he realized that he overslept for court. The judge really only had the choice of a fine or putting him in jail to think about what he had done. His life was likely fucked up due to his own choices.
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  928. How is this overreach? Arguably, a shorter jail stay might have been warranted, but if we take the ability of judges to hold people in contempt and get to decide on the length, the whole system falls apart. Imagine having to have a full court proceeding every time something like this happens. You'd never get anything done. Holding people in contempt of court is a part of the system and he could have avoided this problem either by getting up on time or by calling the court immediately when he realized that he had overslept. I doubt very much that he was the first to ever oversleep for jury duty. Things like this are one of the reasons why there are alternates.
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  929. He didn't get 10 days for missing jury duty. He got 10 days because he didn't call the court to inform them what had happened. It's hard to say whether he would have received no jail time, a fine or a shorter stay in jail, but this was largely the result of his choice not to call the court to let them know he'd overslept.
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  930.  @maso4xx  That's uncommon, but I have seen it.
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  931.  @ssmith65785  I've seen people that can't float even with air in the lungs. I'm still trying to figure that out, but they were extremely lean.
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  932.  @LynXthecat1  If he couldn't swim, he wouldn't have been so far out that nobody could get to him in time. Most likely it was a cramp or cold shock, neither of those go away if you know how to swim.
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  933.  @olive996  There's degrees of danger. The real issue here tends to be the stuff that might have been left just under the surface, the odd way that the water can circulate and the tendency of these places to not be easily reached via emergency responders. Even just people agreeing to stay in a relatively small area that can be reached more easily would probably help a lot.
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  934.  @glitter-lk5dz  Yep, you have to be pretty fat in order to float with your head above water. I had a classmate that was kind of tubby and when we were swimming, he could just bob there with his head above water, most people though require some effort to keep their heads high enough to breathe or to keep themselves back floating.
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  935. The description says cramps, although it could also have been shock due to a sudden, and much colder, bit of water.
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  936. It's not a large number, in one of those cases noted in the video it was 19 people in like 50 years. That's typically more than a swimming pool or a typical street corner, but not really that many.
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  937.  @BelgianCat  Yes, that happened to me when I was a teen. The difference was that I was in a much smaller pond and was able to stand up. But, I was completely winded by the cold water, but even if I hadn't been able to get myself out, I was in waste deep water and my buddies could have gotten me out without risking their lives.
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  938. Aren't most of those the result of the machines tipping over? And shouldn't those machines be anchored to the wall so that that doesn't happen?
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  939.  @meganschmidt548  You were probably also winded enough that climbing on top of them wasn't an option. Although, the alcohol probably helped a bit with that as well. That's the real risk of saving somebody that's drowning.
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  940. I'm pretty sure that most women would appreciate a good "stare lift."
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  941. Not really, it usually happens either because you misjudge the step or the steps aren't even.
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  942.  @レックウザさん  Presumably, given that the comment was setup like that time Peter setup a cutaway gag.
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  943. That would be a "fall expert" this is a "stair expert" as in somebody that knows about stairs.
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  944. The fix for that is increasing the traction on the steps. Depending on the situation, carpeting the steps can help, so can adding grippy adhesive pads to it to increase traction.
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  945.  @jackieeeap2  It's cheaper to just offer pickup service than it is to have an employee walking with a customer from shelf to shelf unlocking things.
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  946. And, it will require a motor with a more powerful battery to handle the increased friction.
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  947. On the whole it's easier to just install elevators and ramps. The main reason why it can be a pain getting around for folks in mobility scooters and wheel chairs has to do with how much legacy stuff is out there and a failure to properly maintain it when it is in there.
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  948. It's even worse, the friction causes the tire to wear out significantly more quickly than if it were properly inflated.
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  949.  @liamwatson5125  Sure you can, just make sure they're made of iron.
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  950.  @Mautemas  He won't have access to drugs and I doubt very much that if he's in with the general population and tries anything that it's going to end well for him.
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  951.  @libertyboxx5834  I thought that the norm in prison was for it to be liquid or powdered soap, not something that you could pick up anyways.
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  952.  @1milliondogs  Possibly, when I was over there, it looked more like it was dependent on apathy or indifference of the people being ruled to the ruling party. As long as things are getting somewhat better than they were, the people don't have much of an incentive to ask too many questions or even know what's happening at the nationwide level of governance. But, if there's a prolonged downturn, or too much awareness of what things could be like with a government that represents a larger slice of the population, it could turn ugly for the party rather quickly as the members are outnumber by dozens to one and I have no idea which way the military would break in that situation.
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  953. +Geandily The Greens are a definite possibility for me, I'm very concerned about the environment, but the Democrats don't seem to be able to get the job done. And the GOP is pretty much beyond salvation at this point. I kind of liked what the Democrats used to be about, but they've accepted too much money from special interests and seem to feel entitled to votes on the basis of being the lesser of two evils. Bernie at least represents something that's real and something that's worth fighting for. Obama lost the idealists that Bernie has picked up because he strayed too far from his campaign promises.
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  954. It's not a requirement that she provide corroborating evidence, that's the job of the federal bureau of INVESTIGATION. She provided more than enough information to come to have a real investigation. We didn't get a real investigation because he's guilty and the GOP wanted plausible deniability. There were dozens of witnesses that were willing to talk to the FBI, but were never allowed to. Not to mention his drinking buddies that wrote that op-ed accusing him of perjury. Perjury alone is sufficient to bar him from taking office, regardless of whether any of the rest of this was true.
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  955. Not really, how many years was Weinstein doing what he was doing before he was finally outed? This happens regularly and if you don't get why, I refer you to the current circus that you're participating in.
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  956. Liar, those weren't BLM protesters doing that. The rioters were mostly anarchists and racists.
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  957. Tbh, tempted to try and figure out how to donate to them.
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  958. Not true, if that were the case, it would be really easy to catch those people.
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  959. She's probably wearing a furry suit.
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  960. I wish I had some gropies.
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  961. You do realize that Obama did that first, right?
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  962. More racism from TYT. It's not because of race, that's something that you're inferring. That implies that this would be different if all those folks were white. The GOP has been screwing us over in Seattle for decades based on the fact that the city voters are not in the same party as the rural voters that generally vote Republican.
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  963. But he's running against Biden, there's still more blood in his hands between the crime bill, fighting Medicare for all and the disastrous Iraq war.
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  964. I keep getting ones from Schumer saying they need my money to beat McConnell and the GOP, but magically the add gives no reason why it would be better.
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  965. That doesn't let you leave it out. If you want to leave it out, you have to use ultra-pasteurized milk. The regular pasteurized stuff goes off pretty quickly both in terms of going sour and in terms of bacterial growth. Pasteurized milk can start to go a bit off just on the way home without refrigeration. Leaving it out is banned by the health code for a reason, not because it allows petty bureaucrats to issue citations and write restaurants up. Killing all the bacteria in food without destroying the nutrition or taste is extremely difficult which is why milk is rarely shelf stable without need for refrigeration.
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  966. I liked the plan to put her on one side and Jackson on the other side. Seemed awfully appropriate. Leave it up to us to decide which side is the front and which is the back.
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  967. The FDA does it because using the terminally ill as guinea pigs is deeply exploitative. The FDA permits some drugs with limited testing to be used in cases of rare medical conditions because there's little alternative. People like you are pretty much going to burn in hell for misrepresenting the issue. Those people are terminal, the likelihood of any of those medications making a difference is miniscule. It's far more likely that the medication will either do nothing or hasten their demise. The FDA and pharmaceutical companies have issues, but it's an egregious lie to suggest that the FDA is preventing people from getting safe and effective medicine in cases like that. Anybody that dies that wouldn't have due to that is a drop in the bucket compared with the people who die from lack of access to medications and treatments already approved.
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  968. Yes, but Trump knows what state he's in and what office he's running for. You can say a lot about Trump's lack of intelligence, but the reality is that he's a lot more capable of running for office than Biden is. And unlike the DNC, media and Bernie, Trump will actually call Biden out for being unfit to fill the office. Biden is one of the few candidates that neutralizes most of Trump's downsides. He's senile, he lies constantly and he sexually assaults women.
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  969.  @neilwetmore  That's because it's impossible to be too right.
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  970.  @Alamaric  And Biden is going to help with that? He's going to veto Medicare for all if it gets to his desk. He'll do the bare minimum, if his donors approve.
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  971. And they don't seem to think that it's wrong that women are making such a large portion of the tipped income? That's just over 85% of the tips. Are women really working that many more hours in jobs that have tipping? The problem here is that tips themselves encourage all sorts of abusive practices. It's getting a bit old having people care because it's women, even though so very little is expected out of women. What about the people of color and the LGBTQ community that suffer when bigots withhold tips?
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  972. History has little to do with why those people are in prison. They're in prison because they broke the law. What happened in the past has nothing to do with it. Don't want to go to prison, don't break the law. None of these are cases where the individual is innocent. Just because you're racist, does not mean the rest of us are.
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  973. People will suffer the consequences and it's already happening. The first forced evacuation for an island being swamped has already happened. Yes, we'll have options to mitigate things somewhat, but they're going to be expensive and increasingly expensive as things get further and further out of control. Had we in the US taken things seriously back in the '70s when it became obvious how problematic our dependence on oil was, we would likely already have the infrastructure to reduce fossil fuel consumption to the point where it wasn't an existential threat. And your point is also why we can't let Clinton win, she's not serious about taking on climate change and it was primarily her supporters that refused to even make the federal government consider climate change when making decisions. How effed up is that, even the Democratic platform isn't calling for her to do that if elected. And even that isn't anywhere near enough.
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  974. Yes, but how seriously can we take somebody that's made literally tens of millions of dollars for her self and a total of $3bn between her and her husband in total? She can say that she wants to reverse it, but her activities in this regard started way before that ruling became a thing, so I'm not sure that we can assume that her steps would go far enough to correct the problem, even if she is being honest about it.
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  975. That was about 2 months, but yeah. The problem here is that they're so afraid to lose a few seats that aren't even being held by actual Democrats that they water things down to the point where only the die-hard fanatics can get excited about it. So, few bother to show up for the midterm elections and to support the much more important down-ticket races. The Clinton nomination was really the final straw in terms of me supporting the Democrats. Why should I be continually expected to vote for their bad candidates on the basis of them being less bad than the GOP candidates? This isn't a team sport, it's supposed to be about what's best for the country and right now it's neither of the above.
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  976. No, you don't. Nobody knows what she's going to do any more than they know what Trump would do if he were elected. The two of them combined have more positions than all the members of congress combined. They're for things and they're against things and they're both for and against things, I don't know how anybody can claim to know which things they're actually for and which things they're actually against. About the only thing that Trump has been consistent on was same-sex marriage and Clinton has only been consistent about taking money from corporate interests to pretend to be unbiased.
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  977. It was voter suppression and a messed up elections. Expecting people to stand in lines for many hours is just ridiculous.
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  978. What these videos demonstrate is not what the black community is saying. What it demonstrates is that being caught breaking the law, disrespecting the police officer and then running away or fighting ends badly. This is something that I was taught as a child. Don't run from the police or fight with the police. Answer questions as shortly as possible. And for heaven's gate, don't commit any crimes when the police are watching. Videos surfacing where black people are just randomly pulled out of their car and beaten for no reason are few and far between because it's a rare happening. Cases where black people are pulled out of their car and arrested for being surly and refusing to obey lawful orders are much more common because it's much more common. Something does need to be done, but blaming the police for things that happen after the suspect has forced their hand is questionable. Yes, the beating was more than what probably should have happened, but it misses the point that there would have been no violent arrest had he just taken the ticket option that he was offered.
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  979. They're doing a cruddy job of that though. Tamir Rice and Eric Garner were not killed because of their color, they were killed because they made a string of extremely poor decisions. Unlike Alton Sterling who, at this point, doesn't appear to have done anything wrong. And it's rather unlikely that anything will come up that shows otherwise. But, the BLM people protested all of those and in the former two cases the evidence is out that the police didn't do anything wrong, and they still protest those deaths. It damages their credibility that they don't just jump the start, but they continue to champion victims that made huge mistakes as if they did nothing to contribute to the problem. If they want more training that's great and probably doable, but the level of paranoia is disproportionate to the actual problem. You didn't see people protesting Dylan Noble, even though he did less than what some of their martyrs did.
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  980. Chinaman, is at most a weak slur. But, considering that the Chinese word for Chinese person is literally China person, calling it a slur is questionable at best. What would be a slur is referring to somebody who isn't of Chinese ancestry as a China person.
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  981. @Joseph fiorini, I fail to see what the problem with the use of the term "China Person" is. And I doubt very much you'll find many Chinese people that are offended by the use of their own word as a descriptor. Now, you may find some American born Chinese, especially ones that don't speak Mandarin, that get offended by it, but the term itself is a literal translation of the correct term used when referring to the Chinese people. If one is going to be offended by the video, that is one of the least offensive things to be offended by. The video would have been just as offensive had he swapped out the more commonly used words for Chinese people.
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  982. Chinaman, makes you sound like you're old enough to be in an assisted living facility. But, slur, that's a bit of a stretch. Chinaman, is a fairly decent translation of the Chinese word for Chinese person. And China person, is a completely literal and direct translation of the Chinese word. Now, had he used the term oriental, that's something that's clearly a slur, nobody has used that word on a person in any other way in a very, very long time.
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  983. Fortunately, the dems are too smart to let the voters choose the nominee. 4 more years of Trump.
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  984. Not when the other party is the democrats.
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  985. Please quit spreading these lies about the cost of college. Yes, it is too expensive and yes having these loans be immune from discharge in bankruptcy is wrong. But, nobody has to take the loans. There's numerous ways that students can get the education without going massively into debt. They aren't as convenient as borrowing the money, but they do exist. Around here, WA state, you can get the first two years paid for through running start. The next two, you can finish part time while working. Other states don't have that program, but you can do the entire degree part time while you work. Nobody is being put into a position where they have to take out massive loans to get a degree and it's not helpful to continue the lies about students being forced to. If you spread the spending out, you also get more tax credits to pay for a portion of it. And when you do finally graduate, you'll have work experience to make the transition to a career easier.
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  986. But, they didn't, it's true that she posted the pictures on purpose. As horrible ad they were, it's unlikely that they broke any laws.
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  987. Citation needed. You're going to have an extremely hard time cobbling together an entire diet of plant matter that provides adequate amounts of bio-available nutrients. It's possible, but you make it sound like it's a walk in the park. Vitamin D deficiency, as an example, can take many years to become apparent and you wouldn't necessarily notice it in the mean time. Hence why vegans often times appear to be malnourished. It's because they often times are because they haven't managed to adequately replace the vitamins and minerals that they've skipped. As long as you're eating meat as part of a generally sensible diet, it's not going to do anything but improve your health. Where people get into trouble is when they eat much more of it than they should be and prepare it in ways that strips the natural nutritional value.
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  988. That's a strawman. You have to eat a ton of meat in order for that to happen. Eating a moderate diet that includes a mixture of animal and plant matter isn't going to kill a person. And it can't just be any meat, it has to be meat that's been modified to no longer reflect it's natural state and eaten in quantities that are abnormal combined with a lack of exercise In fact, I'm going to go to my fridge and eat some meat pizza just because of how obnoxious and ignorant the vegans are being in this topic.
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  989. The theory under which vegan and vegetarian diets are preferred is based upon the already debunked superstitions that cardiovascular disease is caused by cholesterol levels and that eating fat makes you fat. There's no credible research to back that belief up now. And there wasn't any in the past either. To make matters worse, the foods that people use to substitute for the lost protein are often times horribly unhealthy. Soy is one of the worst things you can be putting into your body as it screws with the whole endocrine system by depressing testosterone levels and boosting estrogen levels. A diet with moderate amounts of meat and animal products is the healthiest and most natural diet for humans to be consuming. If you go too far away from that in either direction, you wind up with health problems. But, pretending like the only possible meat eating diets are horribly unhealthy amounts to willful ignorance. It might be possible to eat a vegan diet without major health consequences, but it does require a ton of work and probably information that we don't yet have.
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  990. That's not true. They probably said it, but it's based upon old information. The vegan diet is deficient in some pretty important nutrients like cholesterol. Cholesterol, you know that thing that testosterone is made out of and that is used by the body to maintain the appropriate amount of flexibility in the veins and arteries. Veganism isn't healthy and has never been demonstrated to be healthy. Also, if we don't need the animal products, then why is it that every society in every part of the world that has ever existed incorporates animal products into their diets? There's a small number of exceptions to the rule like the particularly religious Hindus, but it's never been common anywhere in the world and has always come with health problems.
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  991. It goes beyond that. Look at a model of our digestive track. It's somewhat longer than that of a dedicated carnivore, but it's much, much to short when compared with herbivores. Meaning that we're meant to eat a considerable amount of our calories in the form of meat, but we're also supposed to eat a considerable amount of fruit and vegetables. We shouldn't really be eating grain at all, but we should be eating a combination of nuts, veggies, fruit and meat. Other animal products are kind of questionable. Milk is horrible for our health, but cheese and other animal products are less clear.
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  992. There's no science to back that up. The science is pretty clear about the fact that vegans are sacrificing their health by being vegans. The vegan diet is deficient in some pretty important nutrients like the B vitamins, cholesterol and fat. It also tends to have too much soy and other ingredients that throw their hormones off. Yeah, there's a bit of a reduction in the risk of heart disease related death. But the rates for all other causes of death increase by enough to more than offset the reduction. Simply put, if you care more about animals than your own health, be a vegan. But, it's a complete lie to suggest that it's healthier than other dietary options. Most of the "benefits" that people cite come from cutting back on meat and animal products.
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  993. First off, the burden of proof here is on vegans to demonstrate that their diet is sound. We have literally millenia of human experience that demonstrates that a well-balanced diet of meats, animal products and plant matter works. There's examples all over the world. Examples of vegans are much more localized and much more recent. At this stage we're still establishing what precisely it is that makes a diet healthy. But, with that being said, vegan diets are typically deficient in fats, cholesterol, B-12 as well as having more exposure to various anti-nutrients and hormones that come in things like grains and soy. If you think that animal products are bad, just look at what soy and improperly prepared grains do to the body. In short, the "benefits" that people generally tout in the vegan diet usually aren't. Cutting your cholesterol and fat intake has some pretty serious health consequences as cholesterol is what gives your cells their soft rubbery consistency and prevents them from freezing and the best sources of vitamins A, D, E and K are mostly from animals. In some cases, like flax seed oil, the form of nutrients found aren't even usable to humans. But, the forms found in animal based oils are much more easily absorbed. At the end of the day, humans have teeth like we do because we're supposed to be eating meat. Our digestive system isn't anywhere near long enough to be living a purely plant based dietary lifestyle and anybody who chooses to disrespect their body by cutting out the meat and animal products completely is going to cut a few years off their lives in the process. The best dietary advice remains to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables and meat and animal products in moderation. Stray too far from that and you'll get sick.
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  994. Moravian Wallachia No, it's due to veganism. Our digestive tracks are significantly shorter than what's typical for an herbivore so we can't really make the best use of plant matter. I'm not aware of any species of animal that is born vegetarian. At any rate it's not common. Even cows consume animal products during their early weeks before going vegan. A child will literally starve to death on vegan diet during those first few months because mother's milk is designed to be the most efficient method of getting nutrition into the baby. Older children are a bit less of a problem, but a toddler has a very small stomach. Hence why they get done eating so quickly and are hungry again so soon. Their stomachs are proportionally smaller than an adults. Not to mention that during those first few years children grow more than they will at any point. I mean they'll pretty much double in size and then double again before they're 18. A vegan diet is just not suitable for children without major modifications. And I"m deeply skeptical that it's even possible to modify it enough not to represent a health risk.
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  995. Vegan diets are nutritionally deficient and nutritional deficiencies in childhood and even before your born have consequences into the future. Unfortunately, there's much less room for error when it comes to proper nutrition in childhood and as such, fad diets like veganism are not appropriate for children. For adults it's possible to spend a lot of money on tests and supplements and obscure fruits and vegetables and largely work around the nutrient content that plants can't provide, but there's ultimately a price to be paid for disrespecting the body.
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  996. Of course he responded with what she wanted to say, for all we know she's a mentally unstable woman and she's definitely threatening physical violence. The only way to win in a situation like that is to run away and hope that she hasn't called the cops. He may have had a stiffy and was adjusting it. And quite frankly, it's painful and potentially damaging to let it just lie there in an awkward position. That part of the body is full of delicate blood vessels that can get damaged if there's too much pressure applied. But, regardless of what actually happened, there's nothing on the video that shows he was doing anything wrong. My guess about the backpack is that it's either a matter of having a stiffy or he wanted to have it in position to protect himself against the crazy black woman that was threatening to beat him.
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  997. What I'm saying is that I'd rather not get maced and then sent to prison. And yes, I'm serious about that, just because she started it, and he's likely innocent, doesn't mean that he's going to get off. He's already got his reputation destroyed, it would be just as destroyed if he denied it. On top of that, she likely would have beaten him. You can't fight back against a woman, you'll be the one that winds up in prison, even if she started it. Just because you don't actually know how things work, doesn't make it any less dangerous. Men being beaten by women are pretty much always presumed to be guilty, whether or not they actually are. Just look at this comment thread as an example. The video definitely does not show him masturbating. At least not in any sort of effective way, and yet he's already guilty.
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  998. Precisely. There's a double standard here. It's hard to say how far a a woman could get, but it would be far further than what a guy would get away with.
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  999. It's a reasonable response. By admitting that you wouldn't vote for a 15 year old, you've admitted that it's not age that's relevant, it's something else. The fact that you can't understand that reflects on you, not Steve.
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  1000. I could see that. IIRC, they could make Warren Secretary of State which would put her just beyond Mayor Pete in the line of succession.
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  1001. I doubt he'd do that to his friend Joe.
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  1002. Why would this time be any different than last time? There were a lot of issues with Hillary, but it's unlikely that she was or is senile. If they didn't learn last time and are getting behind Biden this time.
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  1003. It's worth noting that Biden is probably too arrogant or senile to make use of it.
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  1004. He's losing states that he shouldn't lose if he's going to win the general election. Many of those states never go Democrat in the Presidential election, whereas Bernie is winning states that he actually could win during the general election.
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  1005.  @rojodiver3344  you don't typically need to know in order for it to be manslaughter. That typically just requires that somebody dies due to recklessness.
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  1006. Nearly all of them do. There might be a handful of recently established countries that don't, but the reality is that people's morals were rather questionable in the past. I think one of the reasons why the US gets so much flack is that we have always aspired to more. We've regularly failed to live up to our own standards, but on the whole we aspire to have all these things dealt with and on the whole we're moving that direction. It's just that it's fits and starts and too slow, but we'll get there eventually. Just look at the progress that's been made over the last 50 years.
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  1007. WeGotTehPie You mean other than the GOP that's continually running on things like keeping bathrooms separate but equal and doing whatever they need to do to prevent minorities from voting. And racist or not, he did more for the various minority communities than just about anybody in American history.
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  1008. If it were about the racism of the national anthem, why was he standing for it previously? Bottom line here is that the verse TYT refer to is no longer sung and might as well not be in the anthem at all. It's important historically as a matter of context, but the fact that most people are completely unaware that it was ever in there to begin with significantly undermines the notion that it's racist. At this point, it's pretty clear that the black community is less interested in progress and more interested in obsessing over a bygone era and blaming whitey for all their problems. It's demonstrably false that black people can't succeed on their own terms without selling out, foreign born black people do it all the time.
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  1009. +Kuma El Negro, Men need reproductive care because as we age we tend to have issues with our plumbing and none of that is covered under insurance. Things like obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, stress and the like damage the vascular system as does inflammation and scar tissue. That's assuming that it hasn't been damaged years earlier for one reason or another leaving a man incapable of having sex let alone having children. None of that is covered under insurance. This whole system where men are expected to subsidize women while our own needs go unmet is absolutely ridiculous. Women that choose not to have children make more money then men do and yet we're continually being told that we need to subsidize women. Women's health insurance is more expensive to provide even when excluding costs associated with pregnancy and even though men aren't being provided with any reproductive care and somehow we're wrong for questioning it.
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  1010. Why should men pay for reproductive care for women when reproductive care for men isn't generally covered? Really, both should be covered, but in practice, it's something that men don't get and nobody seems to notice or care.
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  1011. The idea that BLM is a terrorist group is rather ridiculous. But, by the same token, they are somewhat racist. Not because they only protest when it's a black person killed, but because they automatically side with the black person and in some cases pretend like they were completely innocent, even when they made multiple poor decisions that put the police in a position where they had to shoot. Tamir Rice is a really, really bad example. Anybody who has seen the video sees that he appears to lower what appears to be a firearm in the officer's direction right before being shot. It's tragic, but expecting the police officers to allow firearms to be pointed at them is completely unreasonable. OTOH, I'd be very surprised if anything comes to light that makes the Alton Sterling killing anything other than murder. But, it's important to give the authorities the chance to do the right thing before jumping to conclusions. It certainly doesn't encourage the police to be more reasonable if they're declared to be racist automatically and reflexively.
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  1012. I'm not sure why the fact that it's women fighting those fires is so bad. Men currently make up over 90% of workplace fatalities. The main issue with the prisoners fighting fires is that they're not exactly free to make a decision. Time off the sentence is rather compelling with the system is being run in such an inhumane way.
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  1013. That and $5 will get you a cup of coffee.
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  1014. That's a new one. I wasn't aware that hate crimes laws were meant to protect racist bigots.
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  1015. I see no problem with this. Why should it only be white men that are prosecuted for these hate crimes? Those thing that he called those cops are deeply offensive, there aren't many things you can say that are more dehumanizing to somebody than comparing them with somebody that supported a regime that murdered millions of people. It's about time we start seeing people of color taken to task for their racism.
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  1016.  @chriser555  You absolutely made it up. There were 3 ships that had any cases on our before the 15th and only one was a major problem. Stop lying about what the situation was like back then as it wasn't anywhere near the problem you're claiming.
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  1017.  @chriser555  I realize that is trendy to make things up, but that's not factually correct. There were a total of 3 ships during the first halfish of February and they all docked in Asia. In short, the risk during the first week or two of February looked a lot lower than it was. Even now, the number of ships affected is a tiny minority of those that had sailings since the virus was first discovered. With what we know now, it would be foolish, but it didn't look like it in early February.
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  1018. Yes, we'd be shocked, but they'd be shocked at how much of our money goes to subsidize them in those areas. And how little investment goes towards our prosperity. The prosperity that funds your living in places that aren't economically viable.
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  1019. I'd love to see Yang on the Ticket with Sanders. He'd be a great VP pick, but I'm not sure that he'd bring enough voters to make it work. He would make a great pick for a possible Sanders' cabinet if he gets wins the general election.
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  1020.  @FordesBreakingNews  The difference is that you guys say that about just about every report, whereas we restrict ourselves to times when there's actual evidence.
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  1021. This would be the right thing to do, so she won't do it. She's pretty much proven herself to be untrustworthy and vindictive. She doesn't even care about us, she already sold her soul in order to be in the race long enough to lose her home state to not one, but two opponents.
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  1022. +Jeani Beani Beach That's a huge problem. The law around here specifies that you have to be mentally competent in order to get the assistance. Doctors told me that I couldn't be cured when I was younger, but I'm more or less perfectly fine now. It did take years of hard work in order to get better, but things get better. What's more, committing suicide in a painless way that doesn't traumatize others isn't terribly hard, there are plenty of places online where you can get the information.
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  1023. 14Schofield No, you were wrong, it's just that you can't comprehend you're own failure. This is why nothing changes for the better, you've got people spreading the sort of ignorance that you're spreading and then being smug that people disagree.
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  1024. Not really, that happens independent of men. Women have to have these meaningless campaigns because women frequently don't get along. Men don't because we don't need to. It's more convenient to blame men than you admit that women have issues independent of us.
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  1025.  @masonm3454  racism exists, but the whole white supremacy bit is mostly based on bad statistics and ignoring the the white peope that don't make it. There's tons of white peope living in desperation, but nobody pays attention because it doesn't fit the narrative.
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  1026. Doesn't matter, the point is to prevent as many people as possible from getting it.
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  1027. Nobody should be watching that film. If it is intended to prevent sexualization of children, it does a really poor job of it.
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  1028. I'm curious as to how showing bare breasts and girls wearing panties isn't hyper sexualizing. They may tell themselves that this is a movie trying to fight against hyper sexualizing young girls, but they themselves hypersexualized those girls. The US does have some weird hangups when it comes to kids and sex and the combination of the two, but the "message" they claim to have been trying to make was always going to be overshadowed by the controversy. And they don't seem to have understood that the plot didn't require this level of exploitation.
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  1029.  @mof5490  It's difficult to completely avoid sexualizing children if you want to have that message, but from what I've heard from credible sources, not TYT, they went well above and beyond what would reasonably be necessary to do so.
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  1030.  @derekjones8366  It does matter as some pills will cause the consequences to happen more quickly. IIRC it's the Eggshell Skull doctrine or similar, basically it gets people off the hook for when the consequences of an action are more severe than what one would reasonably anticipate. Basically if you throw a rock at somebody's head, you should be responsible for the normal consequences of that, if they have a weaker than normal skull and are more seriously injured you shouldn't be accountable for the extra harm caused, just the reasonably expected harm. So in this case, if he had been taking drugs or had some other ailment that made him more susceptible to death or serious injury than normal, that should be taken into account. In this case, I doubt it would change anything, but an attorney would be negligent for not trying pretty much everything possible, except for issues that are being saved for appeal.
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  1031. Citation needed, there's a lot of high functioning drug users out there. Just because somebody seems to be fine doesn't necessarily mean that they're completely clean. Same goes for self-murder just because somebody doesn't seem to be depressed doesn't mean that they didn't self-murder.
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  1032. That's the thing, but, anything beyond being accessories seems a bit much and I'm not entirely sure that would be appropriate either. It seems a bit like the other 3 defendants are more about satisfying the rioters than it is about legitimate rule of law. But, then again, there are plenty of laws on the books that lead to harsh punishment for accomplices even when they aren't physically present for a murder, so who knows.
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  1033. I wish I was able to read minds like you can, I'd be very powerful.
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  1034.  Harold Williams  Congratulations on being only slightly better than the officer that fired that shot.
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  1035. ***** That's not possible. Somebody has to pay for the equipment and the tests, labor costs are likely lower than they are in the US, but there's no way that the cost of multi-million dollar, high precision equipment is that much lower there than it is in the US. The numbers don't compute. Either the numbers are inaccurate or the quality of care in the ER is substantially lower than it is in the US. There's no way that the equipment necessary to run an ER is that much lower than it is in the US. More likely, you're referring to something that isn't an actual ER, in which case we wouldn't be spending $1k for that either. Even in the ICU, $1k here is a lot of money. I remember spending an entire night in the ICU and the better part of two days in a hospital and the cost for that was roughly $18k before insurance, IIRC. Like I said, there's no way that your spending $50 for something that costs us $1k, $300 or even $500 I could believe, but there's no way that the cost is 5% of what ours is without massive cost cutting measures taken at the expensive of quality.
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  1036. Cailin Tunnicliffe Again, it doesn't cost $50, that's what you pay, the government pays something on top of that. Most of the cost of ER service is having the equipment and technicians there in case somebody needs care. The equipment isn't any cheaper in New Zealand than it is anywhere else. I don't disagree without priorities, but if you're going to set people straight, you should probably know what you're talking about. People with health insurance here don't pay much more than you do, I think my plan charges $75 for the service.
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  1037. No, it doesn't, that's just what you pay. I'd be very surprised if the cost of providing emergency room care was much less expensive in New Zealand than it is here. The difference is that because New Zealand's medical system is set up to be more cost effective, the coverage covers more of the cost of the emergency room visit than if you didn't have coverage at all. But, if you didn't have coverage, I doubt very much that the cost of visiting an ER would be much lower than it is in the US. It's just very expensive to keep the personnel and testing equipment available on that basis.
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  1038. Perhaps we need to stop letting the Catholic organizations buy out non-Catholic hospitals. They'll pay lip service to not doing this sort of thing, but once the mergers happen there's not really anything to be done about it. If the authorities force the issue, then there's protests, if they don't, then people get substandard care or no care at all for things that the Catholic Church doesn't approve of.
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  1039. Barry Stamour That's absolutely ludicrous. The Catholic Church isn't on the same side of reproductive rights as the Democrats and that's been true for decades. Perhaps you should do some actual research before people getting the idea that you're a fool.
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  1040. Barry Stamour They aren't the only ones willing to spend money on it, they're just willing to spend more than other groups are. Plus, this isn't a matter of profits, this is a matter of providing medical care to people in need. These mergers are mostly unnecessary and the relevant agencies shouldn't be approving them. Just because the Catholic Church is morally bankrupt, doesn't mean that the rest of us should suffer.
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  1041. That Ducking Banana You don't see it because you're being obtuse. People choose to go into medical care, nobody is forced to do that. We had a system where people weren't required to provide service equally and it led to all sorts of discrimination. And what happens if you're in an area where all the medical providers choose not to serve you? In a big city the likelihood of that happening is rather small, but if you already have a limited pool of options available, losing a couple to discrimination has a substantial impact on your ability to get properly treated. Bottom line here is that gays and lesbians get dropped by there doctors all the time. And even if they aren't dropped, they don't receive competent care. But that's Okiedokee by you because nobody should be forced to provide services they don't want to provide. Personally, I don't think that people should be allowed to discriminate based upon their own bigoted beliefs.
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  1042. That Ducking Banana Not really, in many parts of the country you don't have many options for care. If you're in a big city, you might have many options, some of whom may even be on your plan. But, for those not living in town, it can be a challenge. Not to mention if you're a sexual minority, in which case it can be damn hard to find a competent doctor willing to provide service. Bottom line here is that if you don't have that dedication, then don't go into medicine. There's plenty of people interested in practicing medicine, don't deprive them of their spot in school if you're not going to do your job.
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  1043. That Ducking Banana It's not how I choose to look at it, it's the only way that things actually function. What happens when you personally offend the medical care provider by whom you are? Some of us can't count on getting decent medical care because of bigoted medical professionals and it's a very tough position to be in as there are restrictions on whom is allowed to provide medical care.
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  1044. Historical Banana So, it's OK to not let black eat at a restaurateur's establishment because he doesn't like them? Because that's more or less the same thing here. Except that nobody has to eat at a restaurant, we have the option of buying and preparing our own food. People who go into the medical profession have an obligation to serve anybody in need. If you can't do that, then that's not an occupation to go into. Let somebody with more professionalism have those spots at the university.
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  1045. Don't forget that Biden has a tendency to make things up and seemingly has some sort of dementia.
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  1046. That's because you're not a feminist. He's absolutely right, I've personally been catcalled by creepy women, my first kiss as a kid was not a choice I was given and I would never suggest that those incidents are the same as being raped or sexually assaulted. I've known women that were sexually assaulted and each incident is different. Sexual assault and rape are serious crimes, but the aftermath varies a great deal depending on numerous factors. Trying to lump themall into the same category really only happens because we need a category when investigating and prosecuting a crime. The incidents themselves are quite varied. It's mostly the anti-man advocacy groups that silence those that didn't have acceptable abuse happen to them that get pushed out of the debate so that it doesn't hurt the cause. The ultimate result is the feelings of loneliness, isolation and damage that we should be trying to avoid encouraging. Sexual abuse is wrong, because forcing sexual intimacy on other people is wrong, not because of the actual effects. The effects are at most helpful in determining the punishment.
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  1047. Considering that they won't even tell you if you're on the no fly list, I think you're giving the government too much credit for accurately maintaining the list. The list itself is just a list of names with insufficient information to identify unique individuals. If you've got a name that's common in parts of the world with terrorists, you're probably going to be on the list. And since they won't tell you if you're on the list, then there's effectively no way off the list. To that extent the NRA is completely right. The problem is their conclusion, the right fix is to properly fix the watch lists so that people can actually know if they're on them and properly appeal them.
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  1048. Sorry, they weren't charging women more money for insurance because they were women. They were charging more money because women are more expensive to ensure, even if you leave out pregnancy and reproductive related care from the calculation. Women use health care more than men do and as such were more expensive to cover. I fail to see why it is that men, once again, should get screwed over by women.
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  1049. Under Brazilian law, he's not guilty of filing a false criminal report. In fact, he didn't file any criminal report at all. The Brazilians never go after people under this law who didn't file a report with the police. At worse, he defamed the off-duty police officers by accusing them of a robbery that didn't happen. Assuming that it didn't happen, which it sounds like they took 160 for a repair that cost 120. If that's true then they did rob the swimmers.
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  1050. ***** Appeal to authority, that's great. Don't blame me when you lose your teeth though. If flossing were effective at preventing gum disease, then there wouldn't be so many people losing their teeth.
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  1051. No, it's not. If you do it completely correctly, then it's at best not harmful. If you do it wrong you spread bacteria from pocket to pocket and sweep food particles into the pockets between the teeth. Much of what dentists do isn't in the best interests of the patience. Those "amalgam" fillings that they put in for decades are mostly mercury and were known to be toxic from the time they were invented. And the advice on brushing and flossing has nothing to do with oral hygiene. If you care about your teeth, cut down on the sugary junk food and learn to bass brush. Make sure you're gettig sufficient magnesium, calcium and vitamin D. Chances are that's all you need and it's far less likely to destroy your gums than flossing is. You can be pretty sure that your relatives that are dental hygienists have no idea who is and isn't flossing. Dentists are surgeons and they recommend surgical procedures even though less invasive methods would work better. Fix the diet and properly brush the gums and you shouldn't have any gum disease or tooth decay to worry about. Bacteria are only a problem if you've already got weakened teeth and gums.
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  1052. That's what they always say, but the evidence is already in. Flossing doesn't work. If it did work, then gum disease wouldn't be so common. They've had well over a century to get it right and they still don't have any evidence to back the assertion. People who floss appear to have better gums primarily due to survivorship bias. If you've lost your teeth, then you've got nothing to floss. And if you've given up the possibility of keeping your teeth, then you're probably going to give up flossing as well. Personally, I've found that the more religious I am with my flossing, the worse my gums get. And digging deeper and deeper like the dentists demands is clearly not going to work.
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  1053. That's not even remotely true. Dr. Bass the first president of the ADA didn't floss. Flossing wasn't even a thing at the time. He had severe gum disease at one point and had to literally invent a solution to the problem. His solution was what's now referred to as Bass brushing. There's videos and it remains an ADA approved method of brushing, it's just not widely disseminated because it works. Basically, you're working a soft brushed toothbrush in between the teeth and sweeping the food particles and bacteria away from the gum line. You irritate the gums less and you get the material away from all of the gums, not just the part between the teeth. All flossing does is irritate the gums, spread germs from pocket to pocket and enrich the dentist that's giving out self-serving advice that doesn't work. My mother figured out decades ago that a dentist can't tell if you've been flossing through the entire 6 months between appointments, at best they can tell the last couple weeks. If you want to keep your teeth, stop flossing, start brushing properly and cut out the sugary and carbohydrate laden junk food that feeds the bacteria in the first place.
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  1054. Allegedly, but yes, it is a ridiculous double standard there. They came down hard on Brock for having sex with an unconscious woman, but apparently, prosecuting this woman even though she was allegedly raped is A-OK.
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  1055. You guys should do some actual research on childhood development if you think that 16 or even 18 is an appropriate age for drinking. Perhaps in other countries where they have a healthier set of habits involving alcohol. But when you consider the consequences of abusing alcohol and that children don't fully mature typically until their last 20s, it's pretty ridiculous to suggest that we're babying them when they get full rights well before the point where they've fully neurologically mature.
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  1056. Only if it survives the current election season. I'm not hopeful that it will survive if Biden becomes the nominee and that's regardless of whether or not he wins legitimately.
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  1057. Because she started it. She has no integrity. She's been fighting dirty for months now and she brought this on herself. She claims to be a progressive and if that were really the case, then it should be about the policies, not the ego. Perhaps, she shouldn't have made up those outrageous lies about Bernie if she didn't want to be tarred.
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  1058. He can't do that. She can't accept. After all the dirty fighting, I don't see how her supporters could accept that as legitimate.
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  1059. Yeah, but Biden needs women to vote for him. And there's just enough women that aren't smart enough to see through that to make a bit of a difference.
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  1060. Considering how much we pay for farming subsidies, food stamps would be a step in the right direction. Let the customers decide which foods to subsidize, it's unlikely to be worse.
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  1061. Agreed, there are historical reasons why white men are in the position they are and a lot of it has to do with being the drivers of the most important innovations of the last couple millennia. Having inequality is an issue, but let's not pretend like there's some sort of a conspiracy to keep these people down. There's plenty of white groups that had to deal with the same stuff, the difference is that rather than whining about it, they actually did something about it. These communities have plenty of resources to dig themselves out. Sure, it would be great to offer reasonable assistance, but groups like the Irish managed in spite of a more or less complete lack of help from other groups.
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  1062. Of course it was, just because you're blind to it doesn't mean it is. I look at Senators and Representatives I don't see myself in any of them. Doesn't much matter which one it is, none of them remind me of myself. There is no conspiracy here, some groups just aren't doing anything to improve their situation and aren't voting for politicians that might help either. Blacks and LGBTQ folks that voted for Hillary are idiots. She's made it quite clear that she doesn't care about their welfare.
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  1063. You mean the DCCC, it was Hillary's turn and the voters weren't smart enough to know whom they wanted.
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  1064. That's ignorant. I don't like or particularly respect vegans, but that's a load of garbage. Breast milk is obtained with the consent of the woman that's lactating, cows don't get to consent. What's more, typical vegans consider situations where they have no choice to be exceptions. If you need medicine for treatment, it's OK to take it even if it's not normally vegan as long as there's no vegan alternative. And in cases where you're weak from starvation, it's OK to accept nutrients that are of animal origin as long as the body needs them, there isn't a vegan source and the body tolerates it. That's fairly typical of all the vegans I've met. There probably are crazier ones out there, but that's not typical to consider breast milk from the baby's mother to be non-vegan. Breast milk is literally the only thing that babies should be eating if possible. Formula is acceptable if she can't provide it in adequate amounts.
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  1065. Yes, but they'd be educated orphans.
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  1066. Yes, but shouldn't we be looking for better ways to get them fed and educated. Also, we should be doing something about increases in domestic violence.
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  1067. Sort of. It's easy to convince yourself you're stupid and incapable of learning, so I'd expect some degree of sampling bias in that direction for people that don't believe they can improve themselves. It's pretty easy to sabotage the educational process. People who believe that they can increase their total capacity are more likely to take steps necessary to make it happen. I don't think there's anything placeboish about this. Most likely the results are a result of sampling error or didn't measure the true capacity at the time the study was started.
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  1068. It's not just them, it's the democrats telling the progressives to go pound sand. The right was energized and the left wasn't. Both parties were working to disenfranchise the progressives.
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  1069. No, racism doesn't require the ability to oppose a whole race. Jesus H Christ, you people are ridiculous. Racism has always meant judging other races by their race rather than by the content of their character. Usually considering them to be lesser because of it. Being in power has absolutely nothing to do with it. That's something that racist people of color think because it completely excuses their own bigotry and ignorance.
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  1070. There's no such thing as "white racism" that's something that was invented to let people of color of the hook for their own racism. And yes, there should have been cover for things like the antebellum free blacks in the South and the stuff that was happening in Africa, but that's not justification for inventing racist terms. If it's as one sided as people of color seem to think, then you don't need to add white to racism because it'll come out when all the examples involve one race being racist to other races. And BTW, it's not even true, what we refer to as "white" really wasn't a thing until after WWII, before that, most of the groups that comprise white didn't get along.
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  1071. It's hardly just racists that are voting this down. It's a racist class that deserves to be called out for it. Racism is hardly just an issue that white people have, my Japanese-American boss is rather racist himself and it doesn't seem to bother him when it's people of color behaving in a racist fashion. Just because the impact isn't the same, doesn't make it any less racist.
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  1072. It is, but the court itself is far less predictable than one might imagine. It's the lower courts that are a far bigger issue, SCOTUS has limited time and they can't take every case. If you've got tons of lower courts making bad decisions that SCOTUS can pretend they don't have time for, you get a similar effect to if SCOTUS itself was ruling on those issues. It doesn't set precedence the same way, but it could be a generation before we get to start fixing the court. In the long term, we need a nonpartisan group to decide whom to allow on the list which the President is allowed to choose from. The rest of the process would remain the same, but it would reduce the number of fully unqualified judges to be on the court. Thomas and Scalia are/were particularly unqualified to be on the court. People like to claim that Thomas didn't get a job right out of law school because of his race, but that ignores the fact that he is completely unqualified to be an attorney, his legal theories have no basis in law or reality.
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  1073. That's the thing, it's gong to take losing to Trump at least twice to have any hope of letting the voters decide.
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  1074. No, she's dead on here. The bottom line is that the perception affects everything that the jurors think when they're weighing the evidence. There's practical reasons why we don't usually require defendants to cover themselves up, it isn't necessarily possible to cover all things like that up. But, in this case, the tattoos are not relevant to the question of whether or not the defendant is guilty and as such they should be covered during the phase where the trial is determining guilt. If he's convicted and they start considering the penalties involved with the conviction, that's the time where seeing the tattoos might be relevant. The unfortunate truth here is that our reaction to tattoos like that happens at a very low level and it's not easily ignored. The defendant has a right to a jury trial and as a society we aren't well served sending people who aren't guilty to prison. If he's guilty and convicted and we cover up the tattoos then we can be reasonably certain that justice was done. If the tattoos aren't covered up, then we'll never really know how much of an impact they had. I've been a juror and no matter how hard you try to keep that sort of stuff out of your mind, it's going to color how you weigh the evidence to some extent. Especially if it's something like Neo-Nazi tattoos.
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  1075. That assumes that leadership in either chamber wants to do so.
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  1076. +THEEVANTHETOON Pizza delivery companies are a huge part of the problem. I don't doubt that you guys get to keep the tips, but those delivery charges are frequently pocketed by management even though it's implied that it has something to do with the actual delivery. By the same token, it's less of a problem for you guys as you mostly just show up, deliver the pizza and leave. In most cases the amount of tip has already been decided by the customer even before you show up. So, you're not in a position where you're having to routinely take abuse because failing to do so might result in the tip being withheld.
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  1077. Yes, but presumably the government there is doing what it can to ensure that people don't lose their homes or starve during lockdowns. Not that it makes it easy to be locked in, but at least your country is civilized enough that people won't be homeless as a result of a government order.
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  1078. And the content of the video is any better?
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  1079. The point so many people miss is that if the BLM supporters can't acknowledge the cases where the use of force was justified, then they don't have any credibility. Clearly some of these cases really are unjustified uses of force that should be prosecuted, but not all of them and it's not appropriate to second guess what happened after the fact while using facts not available at the time. Even in cases where the entire incident is caught on camera and the individual has what appears to be a gun that's fully visible on screen and is clearly in the process of being pointed at the officers isn't sufficient for the community to admit that the officers had a reasonable belief that force was required.
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  1080. More cop hating from TYT, I'm definitely not going to be giving them money while they're hating on cops. Tamir Rice was shot because he did a number of extremely stupid things that put the police in a position where they had to shoot him. I've seen the video and it's pretty clear that Tamir was lowering the toy gun in a way that appeared to target the cops.
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  1081. Needmore Zen Perhaps you ought to check your privilege. As somebody who's actually had a firearm pointed at him, I can tell you that you don't have much time at all to make a decision about how to deal with it. In this case, Tamir only gave the police a fraction of a second to make a decision and they made the only decision he left them. Now, had he thrown the toy down as they rolled up, or even just kept still while they gave him instructions or hadn't been foolishly going around with an improperly painted toy gun in plain sight, he'd likely be alive today. That's not the police's fault. The police officers made the best call they could with the available information. It could just as easily have been a private citizen with a concealed firearm permit or somebody carrying a weapon illegally. Put blame where it's due. On the person that was behaving in a reckless and irresponsible manner. It's unfortunate that it came to that, but he didn't exactly give them any choice.
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  1082. 4daluvofnikki I watched the video and the bottom line is that he had multiple chances to do the right thing and he chose to make one poor decision after another after another. He was shot shortly after they arrived because he was carrying an illegally painted toy gun and motioned it in their direction. He wouldn't have been shot if he hadn't made a string of incredibly poor decisions. This kind of attitude that the black community has no obligation here is why this remains a problem. You don't see other communities whining about their folks being killed when engaged in such foolishness. Perhaps less racism on your part and more effort to consider the context would lead to some enlightenment. I wouldn't go around brandishing a firearm looking toy and continue to hold onto it when hearing police sirens because I don't want to be shot. For all practical purposes he was armed at the time he was shot. It's not right to expect the police to know that he's unarmed when carrying what appears to be a firearm and motioning it in their direction.
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  1083. He'd presumably already bought the jersey. And it wouldn't be a meaningful gesture if he didn't burn it. I wouldn't personally be caught dead with a Kaepernick jersey, he always seemed like a dick to me, but if you're going to protest, then protest.
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  1084. @Sarah Santos, women are paid the same as men are in terms of take home pay and grossly overcompensated when you look at the benefits packages that they receive. Just because feminists continue to lie about those facts, doesn't change it. If women really were being paid as little as you folks claim, then why are businesses bothering to hire men at all? Either it's not true or women are just crap at their jobs to be worth that much less. The studies that have been done have found it to be a statistical tie when you consider other factors that affect pay.
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  1085. Well, at least they're giving lip service to pandering to progressives. Doing that might have won the DNC the Presidency last election.
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  1086. I think just this particular issue. They don't seem to be as nuts on other issues. Except drug policy and prostitution where they completely ignore the consequences of legalizing them. I just listen to what they say and adjust accordingly. But yeah, they'd have more credibility talking about police brutality if they weren't reflexively on the side of the #BLM folks and others that protest the existence of the police.
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  1087. Being a liberal leftie doesn't mean that you can't be racist as well. If you can't see the difference between referring to somebody based upon their behavior and what Palin is doing, I seriously suggest you do some soul searching about whether you're really as free of racism as you say. I don't agree with what the #BLM folks are doing or how they're going about it, but they're not thugs.
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  1088. Cenk is definitely an asshole. I used to get rated like that as a teacher at a training center. It was a 5 star system and anything under 4.5 stars would eventually lead to termination. And most of the time the comments to go along with the rating were in Chinese, with no given translation, so how am I even supposed to make use of that? I had students that weren't even remotely ready for class showing up and giving me poor scores and I wouldn't receive any feedback close enough to when the classes were given to make any sort of adjustment or fix anything that I might personally have done. And ultimately, I was terminated. In the time I was working there, the management had chased off or fired 4 or 5 other teachers. It's one thing to provide a means of feed back, it's another to make it so easy with so little consideration about what the feedback even means. At this stage anything other than full points means that you think the worker should be fired.
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  1089. This isn't just America. I saw this all over the place in China. It was so ridiculous that even if you went into a police station when dealing with customs at the border, there was a button that you could use to rate your satisfaction. It's crazy, what person in their right mind would ever rate one of those folks as anything other than perfect? They literally have the power to kick you out of the country or throw you in jail while charges are pending.
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  1090. At this point, Trump winning is more or less inevitable. Unless super-delegates flip in favor of Sanders at the convention, or something happens to the economy that's so bad that people are willing to accept dementia Joe as President over Trump, we're in for 4 more years of Trump. The shame here is that the establishment could have stuck out of it, or could have chosen a more electable corporatist candidate than Joe. But, it's Joe's turn and anybody that says otherwise doesn't understand how things work.
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  1091. Pretty much, same goes for the GOP in general. Biden isn't going to bring enough voters to the voting booths in November to win those critical downticket races. If large numbers of progressives don't leave the party and refuse to vote for any more Democrats, then we're going to get another rehashing of this each time there's another Presidential race. At the state level, I'm likely to vote for Democrats, but only because WA is a top two primary state, thanks to the parties trying to steal our ability to make our own decisions in the primary. The end result is that voting blue no matter who is often times the only possible strategy as there's often times only Democrats available in the general election. Literally, it's one Democrat versus another and at least in that case, I can choose the one that's more progressive and withhold my vote from the more corporate one while voting to encourage progressive policies.
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  1092. Because Joe is his friend and he doesn't seem to have the awareness to realize that if he doesn't go after his opponents hard on things like that, that he won't ever win.
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  1093. Yeah, I get that. It's been super-frustrating to me that he's learned absolutely nothing from his loss in '16. He keeps undermining his own arguments with his "my friend Joe," "I'll support the eventual winner," and "Joe is up to the task if elected" talk. Why vote for Bernie, when he's going to campaign for the eventual winner. He should have left the party, or at least refused to help his opponents get the votes of his supporters. I for one, will not be voting for Biden at this point. The man is even more out of touch with reality than Trump is, and he couldn't even wait until the primary was over to promise to veto Medicare for all if it managed to pass both houses.
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  1094. TBH, he should keep pushing through the primary, hoping that Biden screws things up, but at this point, the result is more or less inevitable. We're going to have another 4 years of Trump as the Democratic establishment and normie Democrats have proven themselves to be so horribly incompetent that their candidate is even less electable than Trump. It literally boggles my mind that people think that Clinton and Biden have any hope of beating Trump. Trump for all his flaws at least has a base that supports him. What do Clinton and Biden have? Buckets full of money and cronies that are willing to rewrite rules in order to steal the primary from the voters. I still don't understand how anybody expects them to win if they can't even win their own primary without a bunch of cheating.
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  1095. grey ghost I see nothing wrong here because she deserved it. Just look at the video. Just because bigots like you can't see what's going on, doesn't make it any less justified. She could have cooperated and gotten a ticket or possibly a warning, but she chose to fight with the cop on the street. No white person foolish enough to do that would get away with it. So, why should a black person? If she genuinely didn't do anything wrong, she has the option of fighting it in court. Chances are that the cop wouldn't even show up and as such the ticket would be tossed.
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  1096. Not even remotely true. you don't need a license to teach at private schools and they can kick students out for almost any reason they want.
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  1097. Not true, the Russian contribution was vital, but all they had was manpower m they had insufficient production power to beat the Nazis.
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  1098. I'm guessing that some of the folks were clapping because they agreed and others were clapping because of the epic self-pwn.
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  1099. Tough, perhaps they should get over their homophobia then. Most members of the lgbtq community had to contend with that for years before coming out and even after coming out if they're not constantly bringing it up.
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  1100. TBH, the joke wouldn't have been a problem, if she wasn't benefiting from an oppressive system that puts some people in the position where they have to work these jobs or become homeless. For me personally, I'm lucky to not have to worry about eviction or going hungry. But, most are not so fortunate. Personally, I specifically took a job at one of the local grocery stores specifically because people need to be fed and since I likely already had it, it made sense for me to be on the front lines. I lack the necessary medical training, so it had to either be grocery store, shipping company or private security as those are all ways in which I could contribute. But, there is a certain logic to refusing to deliver or support the leaches that put us in the position of having an insufficient quantities of respirators, personal protective gear and means to produce whatever medications are found to be effective.
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  1101. Yes, they should be held accountable. but, that being said, the corporations are handling it with varying degrees of integrity. I just got hired at a grocery store and while I won't get sick days for ages, anybody that tests positive does get pay for at least 2 weeks regardless of whether they just got hired or have been with the company for years. I'm not foolish enough to assume they're being generous, but generous or not, it would be foolish for them not to.
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  1102. The difference is that the GOP has a long history of engaging in elections fraud and is unlikely to actually result in any of those ballots being handed into the appropriate authority. This is the same party that is currently fighting in Texas to restrict drop offs to one per county no matter how large the county is. The Democrats actually hand the ballots in and wanted that to deal with the problem of voters to be able to actually get their votes cast.
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  1103.  @Silverfang447  apart from donating to her opponent, what else are most of us supposed to do? Most of us don't live in her district.
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  1104. Yeah, Skeletor looks a lot older than that.
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  1105. We do, the standardized tests are graded in a standardized way. Your skin color or gender don't affect how the scores are tabulated. They may interpret how a student answers the question. In class, you can't have blind testing because then the teacher would have no way of knowing which students didn't grasp the information presented on the test.
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  1106. @Grand Inquisitor Not failing anybody isn't the problem. The problem is that the needed remediation isn't there. So, you get students that are passed from grade to grade that don't know what they're supposed to know. The way it's supposed to work is that those students are supposed to receive support catching up with the content that they didn't master. I have no idea what is supposed to happen if that content is everything though.
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  1107. And yet the Swedes are still on their witch hunt against Julian Assange. Prosecute the hockey player that seems to have at least done something wrong and let Assange go.
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  1108. John Johnson LOL, I give this trolling a 1/10. Try harder.
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  1109. And yet the democrats are throwing the election. They aren't even proposing things to help those in the frontline.
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  1110. The masks don't. They reduce spread via touching your face in public and contaminated micro droplets, but just breathing out will allow some viruses through. The n95 masks are barely more effective than surgical ones in preventing spread because viruses are that small. It's one of the reasons it took so long to get those requirements to wear masks. The efficacy is not well supported, but it does reduce spread some amount.
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  1111. Could we please stop using the term "allies"? There is no war going on, there's no reason why everybody can't have a decent life.
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  1112. Race Lever That's quite the strawman you've erected there. Nobody here is talking about eating fast food. And BTW, the salads at many fast food restaurants are even less healthy than the meat containing meals. I get that you're somebody that knows nothing of nutrition, but give it a rest. There's absolutely no health benefit from cutting out meat and animal products after you get to a minimal intake. Moderate the meat and animal products and you'll have a much healthier body.
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  1113. Race Lever My bad, sometimes ignorance looks like anger.
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  1114. Race Lever Because we don't have to. I've eaten raw meat before and Sushi is never cooked. The only reason we cook our meat to not get sick is because we don't typically eat it as soon as the animal has been killed. If we were eating meat that was freshly killed like most other meat eating animals, we wouldn't need to cook it either. Just because you don't know what you're talking about, doesn't mean that I don't.
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  1115. Race Lever LOL, I angered a vegan. I'm very much aware of what humans need to eat, just because you choose to not do any research at all, does not mean that I'm not right. Humans evolved to eat meat, the substitutes that we usually use involve things that our bodies don't digest properly. If you want to poison your body with soy products and grains, that's really your own business, but cutting out the animal products has a very real and negative impact on life expectancy and health.
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  1116. There wouldn't have been proof at that point, just reasonable suspicion. Proof would have happened during the next bit, or possibly not. But his failure to comply early on in the stop ensured that they'd want to restrain him whole the matter was settled. Depending on the specifics at that point, they likely would have booked him. They used to much force and he died as a result, but the issue of the 20 wouldn't have really mattered beyond being the basis of the stop until later in the process.
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  1117. That's not true though. He wasn't cooperating. Obviously, this was excessive force and ultimately murder, but it's dishonest to suggest that he didn't contribute to being restrained.
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  1118.  @sou9472  this kind of ignorance gets people killed. The fact of the matter is that he was extremely emotional and definitely a threat to the officers. This is a very large man won wouldn't keep his hands where they could see them or comply with lawful orders. That doesn't justify them choking him out by kneeling on his neck, but it does justify the weapons.
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  1119.  @blaketheman96  not really, as the body cam footage shows, the officer appears to have had poor visibility of what was going on in the car.
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  1120. Hard to say, but the black community tends to assume that anytime they're pulled over it's so the police can violate their rights and the media pushes that narrative. It's normal to be nervous, but pushing this as a case of him being respectful and cooperating is not doing anybody any favors.
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  1121.  Dennis Young  it can, but if certain groups don't reinforce the stereotypes, they eventually weaken and go away. There's a legal process that comes into play when there's a miscarriage of justice or abuse of power and cities often pay to settle lawsuits. Sadly, you can't benefit of you're dead, which is why is important for everybody to pay it cool as much as possible. Don't give thugs any grey area to and their authority and you might get one of those settlements. Or better, not harmed.
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  1122.  @eightykakes15  nobody said that. Failing to obey lawful orders is what caused them to use force, the choice of tactic and ultimate result is on them. But regardless of what convictions may or may not result, he's still dead. Fact is that even if he hadn't died, he likely would have been booked, which isn't a great outcome either.
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  1123.  @GermanLeftist  the place for questions is in court with an attorney. The people in this thread misrepresenting things aren't doing anybody any favors. You comply with the orders given and of they're not lawful, there is a legal process for handling that. You can refuse to obey unlawful orders, but don't be surprised if there's negative consequences. It's clear from the video that he wasn't complying with lawful orders. The aftermath of that wasn't legal, but he won't get an attorney as he's dead.
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  1124. Perhaps, but the gun came out after he refused to follow orders. My wife and I were pulled over yesterday and wer just answered the questions and followed his orders. His sidearm never came out. Pointing a weapon at a driver requires additional paperwork and is a real pain, even if nothing else happens. Cops don't normally go around pointing guns at random people, especially if they've got a body cam.
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  1125. It's a self fulfilling prophesy, by failing to comply, he ensured that force would be used. The unfortunate reality is that they used more force than was justifiable and he died as a result. Now there's likely at least one cop looking at gong to prison for murder.
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  1126. Well, how else are we supposed to get rid of the few pesky men that actually managed to go to college? Right now, they're 40%, but if we keep persecuting them with false rape allegations, perhaps we can get it to the point where it's only women and gay men in college. /sarcasm
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  1127. +Jeff Chang, they do have a lower standard than criminal courts, but as you note, you do have rights and the plaintiff has to prove both that whatever happened and whatever damages they're seeking.
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  1128. They investigate it as a violation of the student code of conduct and if, to whatever standards they want to use, think it's possible that the accusation is true, then they can kick the student out of school. It's not being tried as a criminal offense, which allows them to use a much lower legal standard and prevent the accused from standard things like retaining an attorney and cross-examining the accuser. And in most cases, the accusation never makes its way to the police for a real investigation, leading to cases where people are being deprived of their due process rights.
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  1129. And you want to make it easier to deprive people of their civil rights just by being accused of something, even without substantive evidence. If you really cared about the issue, you'd be questioning why these cases aren't being referred to the police for a real investigation and possible prosecution. The answer is that the goal here has nothing to do with justice, it's just another effort to demonize the relatively few men that remain in higher education.
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  1130. Because they can use lower standards of evidence, in a court of law, the police and prosecutor would have to be convinced that they have a case in order to proceed. And once it gets to an arraignment, the accused has a legal right to an attorney. And at trial, the legal standard is on the prosecution to prove that the accused is guilty to beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt. Which, as you might guess, would result in a lot of these cases being dismissed without charges being filed and of those that do get filed, many of them would result in acquittals when the prosecutor can't meet the legal standard. In short, the colleges are being pressured to do it because feminists are looking for ways to hurt men, rather than out of a legitimate desire to see justice served. Justice for this involves the courts and a jury of the accused's peers.
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  1131. @Blue, not to mention that the colleges have a vested interest in the outcome of these proceedings. On the one hand, having a finding that nothing happened means that their sexual assault tally doesn't increase, but on the other hand, women do a ton of whining when they don't get there way. Case in point, that women that was carrying around the mattress to symbolize the alleged sexual assault she suffered. Never mind, that this was a massive violation of the other student's rights as there was insufficient evidence under even the lower standards that universities apply to these things.
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  1132. @Jimmy Early, The schools aren't doing that though, they're placing the burden of proof on the accused, and denying him an attorney and the right to cross examine the accuser. In a situation like that, there's no hope of getting the truth, there's no guarantee that there even is a victim as often times both parties were drunk at the time and neither party was in any better position to consent than the other. Or, there's just no witness available, so there's no way of knowing whether or not there even was a crime committed. The only reasonable way of handling it is to make sure the cops find out and do their investigation. If there isn't sufficient evidence to move forward with criminal proceedings, then there shouldn't be consequences for the accused either,. Perhaps find some way of separating them when possible, but that's it.
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  1133. It's necessary because the previous rules were blatantly unconstitutional. These are criminal matters that the police and prosecutor should investigate before deciding if there's sufficient evidence for a trial. This is just doing an end run around that. Because the consequences don't involve a fine or jail time, the standards are lower than what you'd find in a criminal prosecution. Leading to young men that get kicked out of college and treated like criminals even when there's no evidence to substantiate the charges. If there were evidence to substantiate the charges, then there'd be no point in having the school involved as that can't bring prison time or monetary awards.
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  1134. So? They're being deprived of their 14th amendment as well as Title IX rights by having these things handled like this. If there's a rape or sexual assault that's alleged to have happened, the right venue is the police, kicking students out of school and disciplining them based upon much lower standards is a violation of their rights.
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  1135. So, I'm scum for thinking that men have constitutional and statutory rights?
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  1136. @Lachy Roberts, the right to face your accuser is one of the corner stones of justice. If you don't allow that, then the accused has a greatly diminished ability to mount a vigorous defense. Ultimately, if you're not willing to attach your name to the accusation, then you shouldn't have the right to expect any sort of punishment be meted out.
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  1137. We weren't there, but if his account is accurate, then it's not rape. He got off her when she indicated that she changed her mind. There is some question about why he later had sex with her when she said no previously, but at some point, a woman does have a responsibility in all of that. Laying naked with somebody that you don't want to have sex with and making out with them is going to be interpreted in a sexual way. By no means does this make rape OK, but let's be honest about the fact that people consent in different ways and one does have the right to change ones mind either way.
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  1138. That's probably why neither party is running one issues. I keep seeing those ads from Schumer about how important it is for their party to take back the Senate, but they provide no reason why they deserve it.
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  1139. For parking tickets, probably not. But for other types of tickets, it's not just the cost of the citation, it's the extra cost of insurance and possible points on the license if your state does that. For some people with the money, hiring a lawyer to fight the ticket is actually worth it.
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  1140. Possibly, but they can't legally operate as law enforcement, they aren't commissioned law enforcement officers. They have the same right to make arrests that you or I do. If any of them are identified, they'd be looking at jail time for kidnapping and felony assault, amongst other things.
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  1141. More ultra-liberal BS. This was the right thing to do. My guess is that marijuana will be legal nationwide under both state and federal law before too long, but this whole BS about not enforcing laws, but leaving them technically enforceable is problematic. Right now, whether you're arrested by federal or local law enforcement makes a huge difference as to whether or not their are charges. Businesses dealing in marijuana can't access normal banks and the whole system is unstable. Supporting the status quo, just delays a final determination of legality.
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  1142. That kind of behavior is illegal even in China. I used to live and work in China and no, the employers can't beat their employees. It's a rural bank, so they were probably used to getting away with that sort of thing because there are fewer options, but it's not legal. It's no longer legal to spank students for underperforming either. I'd expect that the bank executives are going to be in a huge amount of trouble for embarrassing the local party members. Unlike in the US, executives that embarrass the party or the country can and are prosecuted with anything from a fine up to execution depending upon the charges. I wouldn't expect execution for this, but China will execute billionaires.
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  1143. This is why I refuse to take any more teaching jobs in China. While it is highly unusual for employees to be struck and basically banned in most schools, the reality is that other forms of abuse are common and to be expected by employers. I remember when the last job I had in China, the idiot supervisor dumped a months worth of work in my lap and demanded that it be done in 3 days. And expected that I'd be working on it on my own time because she was too incompetent to know how much time it should take to do the work. The Chinese cope with it by changing jobs constantly, that's one of the reasons why manufacturing is coming back to the US, the managers at the cheap factories are typically incompetent. The factories with the competent managerial staff tend to be much more expensive and after you factor in the distance and the shipping, you're not saving much money by doing it. I've seen competent managers over there, but very few of them work at schools, most of the work at factories because those factories pay better and allow them to travel.
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  1144. She wouldn't have attacked North Korea, but it's disingenuous to suggest that she wouldn't have started a war.
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  1145. These people had literal years to find jobs elsewhere. And the economy was pretty good for most of it. If the pandemic was the line, they have no moral compass at all. Just look at the horrible things that Fox has been spewing for decades.
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  1146. So, asking the Nazi guards to walk away wasn't o.k.? We've recently prosecuted former guards for not walking away. These personalities are not that much better tens of thousands are dead as a result. We haven't yet hit death camp levels of bodies, but we're uncomfortably close.
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  1147.  @kristi1189  that would be reasonable, so we can assume it won't happen. Neither party really cares about us, we're essential for a reason, but you wouldn't realize it be looking at where the money is going.
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  1148.  Lonely 1  no, they haven't. They've put on a show like they want to, but I've yet to see any evidence about them being serious about it. They held out for 11 days and got nothing that the republicans wouldn't have given them without the delay. They could easily have refused to pass any of the first 4 measures unless there were provisions for us in there. The people would understand a delay to support the frontline workers that are ensuring that people are safe, fed and cared for are being protected. Compared with the other delays in getting money to people, it would be a fraction of the time. I work at a grocery store filling online orders, and people are super supportive of us, it's the politicians that aren't.
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  1149. Here in WA, you just mark the ballot with the party you want to vote for. The main problem this time is that the checkbox wasn't on the ballot, it was on the envelope where you could miss it.
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  1150. We've been voting by mail for years, the only people that vote in person have certain disabilities. It works well, but voting is still lower than it should be.
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  1151. It's by design, they don't want us to get to vote for people we want representing us.
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  1152. Sounds like she still doesn't get it. War won't solve it, the only thing that will is humanitarian aid. Dry up the supply of suicide bombers and sympathizers is the only way we can hope to end the scourge. And the sooner we can stop aiding Israel's crimes against humanity the better.
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  1153. Nope, everything I said in that post is spot on. I'm curious why you would think that depriving your brain of oxygen is any less fatal because the fire happens to be in a dispensary. Just because you choose to be ignorant, doesn't mean you're right. It means that you have no idea what you're talking about. 1,500 Americans are killed by acetaminophen every year. I'm not in favor of pot, but that's more people than have been killed by pot in the last century and probably in all of history.
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  1154. It was a bad debate. Michael wouldn't shut up and let Cenk give his counter examples and really had no leg to stand on. I'm not sure how you can be a great Speaker when you're not delivering on much of anything that the members of your party or district want.
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  1155. You sir are why we have Trump as President. Who wins is about policy, if you're voting on the basis of somebody being a winner, then you are the reason this country is so messed up.
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  1156.  @youknow9092  Other countries manage to give their citizens the things that Sanders is promising. Oddly enough, the giveaways to the rich and powerful isn't an issue. Just cutting the military budget back to something reasonable would pay for most of it.
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  1157. Yes, especially if there's a lot of Bernie or bust voters. He's uninspiring, he repeatedly puts his foot in his mouth and he has a horrible record on mispeaking and telling outright lies.
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  1158. No, that's not good enough. It's a fast moving disaster or a show moving one. Neither is an acceptable choice. At least with Trump, the democrats will likely have both chambers of Congress.
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  1159. originalShorai Yes, but when they toss the cell and confiscate them, you lose your savings. Difficulty in getting and keeping them probably does factor into it, but tobacco has been a currency in prisons for a very, very long time.
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  1160. Because they were allowed to have tobacco, and cash is useless if you're in prison and nobody else is taking it. Tobacco itself is something that was of use to enough prison inmates either for smoking or trading that it wasn't an issue. Also, I take it you're unaware of the fact that prisons are cracking down on smoking, with some jails and prisons going completely smoke-free in an effort to cut down on the cost of providing healthcare.
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  1161. Being outed remains an issue in the US. You may have chosen to out yourself and to do so consistently, but people still lose their jobs because they were outed. I was fired by UPS earlier in the year following homophobic bullying because a coworker realized that I wasn't straight. I was given no meaningful possibility of defending myself and they refused to tell me who had filed the complaints. This was literally hours after my supervisor had given me a glowing review. So, perhaps for some people being outed isn't an issue, but unless you're going around with it tattooed on your forehead, people are going to put two and two together at unexpected times and you don't necessarily have any control over what the outcome is.
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  1162. Pretty much. If they cared about the American people, the folks that dropped out would have chosen a different time or chose to back Sanders.
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  1163. They've been republican-lite for many years now. I won't be voting for any Democrat in the future if Bernie isn't the nominee. He's literally the only hope of the party moving forward and they're doing whatever they can to prevent the will of the people from being expressed.
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  1164. That would speak to the motivation of the person that signed the affidavit. I'd suspect that him being a cop factored in, but he is also related to several members of the church and nobody was hurt. Unfortunately, we can't know whether it was his job, his relatives or just genuine compassion that led to the charges being dropped, but it could be any of those things. Perhaps the pastor there was just an actual Christian. I know there's not many left, especially in the South, but that would account for the leniency.
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  1165. It is her fault, she failed to use the leverage she had. She could have withheld the corporate aid until she got more.
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  1166. What this tells us is that there are basically no progressives in the party and that we need another party.
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  1167. Really, somebody needs to get McConnel out of the Senate before he succeeds in destroying the country. And while we're at it, perhaps throw him in prison for those sweetheart deals with his wife.
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  1168. You really shouldn't, he's horrible. He'll take people's healthcare from them in the middle of the pandemic.
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  1169. I'm sorry that your candidate was a dishonest liar. She brought this on herself with those lies about Sanders and insistence on abandoning progressive policies.
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  1170. I'm not sure that she's a feminist, she just used that to get her a boost. I doubt she has any real integrity left.
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  1171. It's not above his pay grade, he should be talking with experts to come up with a proposal, even if it's not perfect or novel. As President, nothing woud be above his pay grade,
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  1172. It's just one of those things you have to learn from experience, sort of like what happens when you stick a fork in an outlet or have people standing in lines to vote during a pandemic. Fundamentally unknowable.
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  1173.  @sunshineflorida7366  Have you ever seen a gay comic? They make more gay jokes than anybody else, but the key is that the jokes are funny and they know what the consequences are for the community when homophobes like you are permitted to spread these sorts of ideas. The problem isn't just that he made the jokes, it's people like you that seem to have no idea what the repercussions have been.
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  1174. No, that's not even remotely true. Comedians need to get closer to the line than other people do and there's some benefit to it. But, the fact that somebody is a comedian does not get people off the hook. Just look at Michael Richards after that n-word tirade, by your reasoning, that would have been fine because he's a comedian. The fact of the matter is that comedians will overreach at times, but that doesn't make what they said acceptable, it means that they need to apologize in a timely fashion.
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  1175. I'm fine with that part of the joke. Yes, they really should have included it, but IMHO that part of the joke is more obviously messed up and as such cutting it probably doesn't have as much of an effect as it might seem. Personally, I think he should have been allowed to host and to apologize on the air. Not a long speech or anything, but just a short one would be more than sufficient. He seems to have learned better and as such, I think he deserves to be allowed to demonstrate it.
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  1176. He wouldn't have lost his job if he'd just apologized immediately, or at least linked back to other apologies if he didn't want to apologize again. He didn't lose the job because of the jokes, he lost it because of how he handled the situation. Hollywood isn't in a position where things like this are going to be tolerated right now. And in terms of homophobic jokes, perhaps never again. Simply apologizing like he was asked to do would have been reasonable, so would doing so during the show. He's clearly sorry that he told those jokes, but that doesn't get him off the hook for how he chose to handle the current controversy.
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  1177. If you mean, collapse of the DNC, then yes.
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  1178. Please consider the Green Party for your DNC burning needs.
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  1179. Yes, and while we're at it leave the debate rules alone so that they don't screw over Tulsi Gabbard, who is still running, despite being left out of the last debate.
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  1180.  @valenciamcneill2932  Most of them are going to vote for the Libertarian candidate rather than Biden.
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  1181. Please consider voting for the Green Party candidate rather than doing a write-in. That's probably the clearest way of communicating that you don't view the primary as legitimate and if enough of us do it, the Green Party might be able to hit that 5% they need for recognition.
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  1182. This doesn't need to be so poorly researched. Those pens and books were allegedly for gifts, I think it's BS, but if you don't do the research and address that, then there's no reason for people to take it seriously. Unless you're dealing with a Chinese official responsible for manufacturing, that 99 cent pen isn't going to impress anybody.
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  1183. If you live by a gun range, it's your own fault and the fault of your community for not requiring that they use enough sound suppressing materials. Gun ranges receive far less regulation in terms of health and safety than they need. They can keep the sounds inside the range if they want, the problem is that in some areas they're allowed to have them outside or to have insufficient sound absorbing materials to keep the sound in the range.
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  1184. People tend to forget that things you hear don't just come in through your ear holes. If that sounds only came in there, you would have an extremely hard time hearing yourself. That being said, this is something that needs to be handled very carefully as these devices do come with consequences and if legalized, we're going to have a hell of a time regulating or banning them if the consequences turn out to be worse than expected.
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  1185. First off, it's questionable if that's true. The numbers I've seen are pretty similar right now. Plus there's been a massive amount of investment made in making cars safer and the number of fatalities on the road has been going down for decades. Which means that even if it is currently true, it's not by a large margin and since we're not doing anything about gun deaths, it's probably going to be false within a few years. Secondly, whether or not cars have mufflers has little impact on fatality rates. Cars that are silent are more dangerous than ones that make noise to the point where when we move to all-electric vehicles they're going to have some sort of sound makers in order to give people that warning that they're coming. But, more importantly, we need cars, without them our economy would grind to a halt. We don't particularly need guns and there are literally tens of thousands of people who are killed by firearms that would either not be dead or would have to put some effort into killing themselves.
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  1186. Oh please, if you're having no respect based on a theoretical basis, then you're beyond saving. If you're going to have no respect for them, it should be on the basis of things they say or do.
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  1187. That was Schultz.
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  1188. No, you really don't. If you did, you'd stop blaming other people for your problems. It's just that you people don't exercise any introspection or make any effort to stop reinforcing the stereotypes, This whole blood debt theory you're building your community on is literal Nazi stuff. There's plenty of white ethnic groups that had it worse than what the black community has now, and people forget because they built durable institutions to address it.
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  1189. What media bias, you mean sticking to actual facts? It's primarily been the conservative news media making up lies.
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  1190. Ugh, you're no better than the people on the other side. Some of us are fine with pornography, but not prostitution. Claiming that all sex work is the same and that we can't be opposed to paying for sex, without also being against pornography and the rest of it is disingenuous at best. Paying for sex has numerous issues that are hardly easily solved, suggesting otherwise is rather dishonest.
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  1191. Well, to be fair, that's been HRC's strategy through most of the primary.
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  1192. Umm, you keep saying Washington, Washington is a state, Washington D.C. is the capital.
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  1193. @mxlbabe So, what? My family didn't arrive in America until after most of that land had been granted. In any case, my family, like most of the later arriving immigrants, moved to cities first and as such, they did not get free land like you're suggesting. The wealth that does exist in my family is the result of things that were available to other people. And the failure of some communities to organize effectively should not be put down to racism. Back during the '50s and '60s the Black community had hugely effective organizers, if they still had effective organizers, these problems would be a thing of the past. You see the same problems plaguing white people in certain parts of the country because they don't have the resources or knowledge to work their way out of their holes, but nobody blames racism for that.
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  1194. @mxlbabe They were substantially poorer because at the time even with training a Black attorney could only have Black clients due to racist policies of the day. The best he or she could hope to be is an attorney for others in the community. That's no longer the case, there are successful attorneys of all cultural backgrounds and they have clients of all cultural backgrounds. Most people are more concerned with the fact that the attorney will provide the legal service they need rather than their skin color. If the Black community would support Black businesses and pool the resources they have, that would change. There's plenty of money in the Black community to change things. They've certainly got more money than the LGBTQ community had at the start of our civil rights movement.
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  1195.  @BobbyMarley718  This is liberal BS though, not everybody commits crimes and at the point where you're caught, it's lame to suggest that you should be allowed to get away with it due to your skin color. Yes, there are disproportionately stiff penalties for people of color, but that ignores the fact that you're likelihood of being arrested and successfully prosecuted decreases significantly if you don't commit the crime and don't hang out with criminals in the first place.
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  1196.  @danki2000daniel  Do you have any evidence that that is the norm these days? It happens, but it's not anywhere as common as people like you claim. It's also not an excuse for why the Black community generally doesn't support their own being successful. The community is doing a lot to keep itself down. If you don't believe me, just look at the Africans that have immigrated to the US in the last several decades. Mysteriously, a lot of this "racism" doesn't seem to be holding them back from achieving things academically and in the work force.
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  1197. Racism has little to do with the lack of achievement in some of these communities. Or are you seriously suggesting that Africans that have immigrated here over the last 30 years are dealing with less racism than those that descended from slaves? TYT are right in that it's not an individual pull yourself up by the bootstraps kind of a deal. Groups that work their way out of that have to actually work together. And they don't do things like having tons of children out of some sort of a committed relationship. Racism is an excuse. The Irish and Italians also had to deal with significant levels of racism, but they were able to build up their respective communities enough to not be stuck in it all these decades later.
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  1198. No Ana, those aren't facts, they're quotations from somebody else, not from researchers. If you're going to call out Ben, then it's rather hypocritical to cherrypick what you like and use that rather than citing research on the matter directly.
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  1199. Nobody read the patriot act either, what could possibly go wrong.
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  1200. Keep I'm kind that smart people have to tell people how smart they are. Likes great countries don't need to say it.
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  1201. $15bn is like nothing, that's like a dollar a week for each person. That isn't going to make much of a difference. Whether or not it was in there wouldn't have gotten us to $1200 or probably even $700.
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  1202. You mean she keeps getting tied up with her own rope because as a super hero she can't figure out not to get tied up by her own rope?
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  1203. Probably because that might actually solve the problem and if the problem is solved, then there's no more need for taking things away from the men that they're blaming.
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  1204. This is why I don't give the TYT any money. She had a second chance and she messed it up. Also, she was targeted because they knew she was here illegally. Her family members were probably targeted because they had evidence that there were illegal immigrants living there. They weren't randomly knocking on doors of immigrants hoping for a violation.
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  1205. She won't win, nor should she win. She knows what the requirements are and she's already had her status extended multiple times. She chose not to extend her registration on time the way that she's legally required to and now she's going to suffer the consequences. I've lived overseas and I wouldn't whine about the authorities deporting me if I ignored their requirements.
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  1206. Interesting and yet we had one for VP nearly a century ago.
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  1207. It wouldn't be an issue if the feds would pick up the tab for damage done and set specific labor standards.
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  1208. Yes, but essential workers got our money slashed from $25k to zero, even though we're doing extra work, taking on extra risk and the unemployed got $9.6k that we didn't. For much of the pandemic I was making less than those on unemployed.
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  1209.  @efrenbernardino6704  It will hurt his chances when people don't turn out to vote for him. Just like last time, they screwed Bernie out of his chance and enough people failed to turn up in the right states to tip things to Trump. It's going to be the same thing again. Putting up Biden neutralizes all that as Biden also lies about his record and is even worse off in terms of cognitive faculties than Trump. Barring giving it to Clinton again, there's few candidates that are weaker than Biden.
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  1210. He won't win though. He's clearly senile and his cabinet picks are going to make Trump's look moderate. He's going to put Bloomberg in charge of the IMF and all of the other finance-related postings are going to billionaires and Wall Street execs.
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  1211. Clearly, because this one is a Democrat. Somehow it's different when it's a demented Democrat than a stupid Republican.
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  1212. Pretty much. I still don't get why the corporatist candidates didn't unify behind somebody that wasn't so clearly senile. I might have voted for Mayor Pete despite him being so loathsome.
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  1213. Have you ever seen Honduras and the US at the same time? I'm not saying they're the same place, but I don't think we've seen them at the same place at the same time ever.
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  1214. When they do things like goose the economy with massive tax cuts, anybody that owns stock is likely to benefit. Same goes for most pro-business policies. They may not know what specific stocks they own, but they know that they're going to personally benefit in aggregate.
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  1215.  @bengillen1287  I personally think it makes here look pretty good in terms of maintaining composure through the last little bit before the cutaway.
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  1216.  @comet8260 It's probably not a typical desk chair, they probably spent a few bucks more to get one with more adjustment range so they could avoid having a bunch of different chairs for the various heights of folks they were going to have on camera. They may still need an much taller, or shorter, chair for folks that are at the extremes of height, but that chair probably is adjustable for most people they have on.
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  1217.  @earphonejack4593  Exactly. One of the issues with voting lately is that there often times isn't a candidate to vote for that has any of the resources to win.
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  1218. It often times is, we just don't pay as much attention to that. Often times drunk drivers wind up in single vehicle accidents where the only people hurt are hurt psychologically by it.
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  1219. It must be nice to live in a state where your vote actually matters. Politicians mostly don't even bother to campaign here and the President rarely even bothers to make promises during the campaign for things we want. Time to end the electoral college. Why should small states and ones that are evenly divided be the only ones that count?
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  1220.  @thegoldenatlas753  nope, Wikipedia is web 2.0, nearly all the content on it was user generated, hence web 2.0. The Merriam Webster dictionary site is basically 100% their creation, which is typical of web 1.0 thinking.
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  1221.  @fredhair  no, but the zeitgeist kind of does. Web 2.0 is all about profiting off of the contributions of end users rather than having to contribute anything other than the site. Whereas with web 1.0, you had to make some sort of contribution if you wanted to get paid.
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  1222. If messing with python isn't the top one, then somehow society has gone wrong.
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  1223. What gets me about MS Office is that you're forced to use their cloud just to get autosaves. Even if you don't want to save them online or share them with others, you're flat out not able to autosave documents to your desktop.
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  1224.  Rubalix  There's also potential law suits if what the AI produces happens to copy what somebody else has done in an impermissible way.
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  1225. Python is popular with beginners because people keep saying that it's good for beginners and it has some features that appear on the surface to be good for beginners. It is,however, a terrible language for beginners due to things like syntactical white space, dynamic typing and unhelpful error messages.
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  1226. Much of the stuff that's actually used by the military is either ungodly expensive or legally prohibited from being sold to anybody else.
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  1227. They need better mics, I didn't hear the tripper apologizing for tripping the suspect.
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  1228.  @SPBurt1  Not true. Value used to be based upon the amount of labor and resources that went into producing it and how much it contributed to productivity or comfort. The current situation where value is completely meaningless is a new invention that is hardly universally accepted. The ability to find a few rubes to massively overpay for something doesn't impact the underlying value of the purchased item. It just means you found a couple rubes to overpay. And unless you continually find more and more rubes, eventually you get a Dutch Tulip crisis.
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  1229.  Miyu Miyu  I doubt it, the money they're making from selling those kits, books, courses and the like is probably going to be more than what they'd make from the paintings. The paintings are popular, but a large chunk of the value is that you can't buy them. He produced a ton of paintings and a lot of them look the same to people who don't really know the work. Painters who produce such a large volume of work, hardly ever see the kinds of prices that produce sticker shock. There probably is a few million dollars in the paintings, but compared with the value of the supporting company, it's just not that much.
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  1230.  @janjansen201  Perhaps, but you can already buy the merchandise just on the strength of the TV program and youtube channel. That being said, I'd love to see some of these pieces being stored properly in a climate controlled facility and loaned out on a more regular basis to museums throughout the US, if not world.
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  1231.  @masha7377  That's a common attitude. Art is produced to be enjoyed by other people. Unfortunately, the moment a piece winds up in somebody's house, it tends to get forgotten relatively quickly. One of the great things about digital art is that it's easy to share with the world, but the downside is that it's virtually impossible to make a profit or support yourself like that, even if you do gain a following.
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  1232.  @GreatValueOprah  Oil paintings have a tendency to crack over time, especially ones that are on canvas. They are very durable, but they do have issues that require restoration over time. His work is relatively recent, so the pigments are probably more stable than older paintings, but it does seem like there should be more care taken in terms of the air.
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  1233. Probably not more than when he was pitching the show that ultimately became Seinfeld. Plus, he probably has a bunch of other possible bits he could have used, I think he's probably just having fun. He's got the 0s behind his bank account to say that people like what he's doing.
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  1234. TBH, this is one of the rare cases where the bit of bait and switch was warranted. He's not writing a joke here, he's writing a bit. Writing a bit is much more involved than just writing a joke. He's got a set of smaller jokes that are being woven into a larger one. Writing simple jokes isn't really that hard and people often times make them off the cuff. I personally struggle with figurative language at various points in my day and I can do that. I just have to be careful because I can be more cutting than I intend to be due to a lack of appropriate body language.
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  1235. And if the Democrats would let the voters choose the candidate, it wouldn't have been. The fact that it was this close in spite of nobody wanting Harris and her being a diversity hire to piss off the progressives and she still did this well is rather amazing.
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  1236. Trump won because he had a base of support that wanted him, rather than being forced on the voters the way that Harris was.
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  1237. What grassroots support? She was chosen as part of a strategy to squash the grassroots network that Bernie had built up in 2016 and 2020.
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  1238. Bernie helped squash Williamson. I voted for her in the primary anyways, but Bernie helped squash her before she really even got to my state.
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  1239.  @cweretelnyk  The Republicans have effectively won ever election since the '70s in terms of the policies that got put into place. It's been a question of more moderate or more extreme rightwing. Even the most liberal thing that Obama did was a health care policy that was more right wing than what Nixon offered.
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  1240. On what basis? Even if she did successfully challenge the results, nobody would accept her as being legitimate as she didn't even win the democratic primaries.
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  1241. I'm not. The DNC rigged 3 primaries in a row for bad candidates. And the last time we had a competitive democratic primary was 2008. They forced Harris' nomination through in order to guarantee eligibility in OH, but they wound up losing the state anyways and they had a candidate that the voters had no say in, hadn't bought into and didn't even know what she was going to be about. On top of that, she failed to run on a 50 state strategy, which meant that she didn't have people outside of the battleground states talking with their relatives in those states about the election. They basically ignored me completely apart from please for money. Certainly numerous of those for every message about what they're going to do to address the issues that I care about.
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  1242.  @KareemDaKing  Precisely for whom should they have voted if they wanted something different than the failed policies of the last 30 years?
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  1243. Noncompetes shouldn't apply to people that are fired or laid off provided that the person didn't intentionally get fired as a way around the noncompete at a bare minimum. In most cases though the noncompete should be limited to while you're working for them and possibly a short period after. 2 years is an awful long time.
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  1244. It's worth noting that this is the time to start advocating for whatever it is that you want to happen as both parties are the weakest they've been in at least a century. The GOP is basically the party of Trump and whether he's able to finish the term, or not, sometime in the next 4 years the only thing that the GOP is about right now is going away. Likewise, if this doesn't trigger a real reckoning with the DNC and a thoroughly cleaning of house, then the lefties, centrists and progressives need to flat out leave the party completely, because there is no hope. The DNC is going to continue to throw winnable elections and be rewarded for it with fundraising dollars.
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  1245. It's worth noting that Pepsi has a variant with real sugar that comes in a normal bottle. The only difference being that it has real sugar and says so on the bottle. Same plastic bottle, same everything else other than that one ingredient.
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  1246.  @pcatful  Yes, although there are degrees. I'm sure when my great uncle was invading during D-Day that he had a fairly good idea what he was there for. My Dad in Vietnam didn't have that same luxury. Not that it really matters, because the larger scale conflict is just not relevant to what's going on at that moment when you just have this one objective to deal with while trying not to become a casualty.
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  1247.  @billywitt  Yes, in this case, they're probably there for whatever it is that Russia has agreed to give North Korea for their efforts. They're there more or less as mercenaries. Except, that any of them that do survive are unlikely to get any real payment when they get back.
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  1248.  @braxxian  In modern times yes, but in the past you would have kings showing up to lead their troops.
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  1249. I have a few issues with VLC, but it's one of the media players that I regularly use. I just wish they wouldn't have features in that don't work, and don't seem to ever get fixed. The custom bookmarks feature still seems to be completely non-functional in terms of being able to save between plays, which makes it more or less completely pointless.
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  1250.  @Reichstaubenminister  And, ironically, it's less free than BSD and MIT licensed software in that respect. But, either way, just being able to look at code isn't something that most people would consider to be open source.
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  1251. It was a couple decades ago, but I doubt that it's as good now, comparatively speaking, as it was when it was more or less the only option. Personally, I prefer Foobar2k , VLC and any number of other media players depending on what I'm doing. I think the last time I thought about Winamp was when Wesley Willis died and only because he's the one that came up with the whole catch phrase.
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  1252. I remember it being great decades ago because of that. But, even the basic WMP has gotten pretty good and there's a ton of better programs that can handle more formats and work more efficiently. Sometimes software needs to be left in the past with Bonzi Buddy, Clippy and Bob.
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  1253. I'm not sure it's possible to draw that distinction in any sort of reliable way.
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  1254. They can't control people writing a set of patches to run on top of their code. Even Nintendo can't stop people from making and trading binary patches of their games. I doubt that WinAmp even has hat many attorneys.
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  1255.  @wormhole331  I'm not sure that's really any better.
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  1256. The main difference between AC and DC is that with AC the electrons vibrate in place and with DC the electrons move along the wire. So, presumably the minimum frequency for AC would be the point where you start to get electrons migrating from atom to atom. At that point, you're more or less just changing the polarity of the DC quickly rather than dealing in AC current.
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  1257. Most methods of power storage are going to naturally want to output DC power if you don't create additional circuitry. This is true whether it's an actual battery, you're moving water or sand up hill or using fluctuating heat to generate more electricity from that later on.
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  1258. My apartment even has a shared neutral because of that. It allows you to cut down on the copper required by about a quarter as you're not duplicating the neutral. So, one hot from one phase and another from the other and both of them using the same neutral. It works, but it can be annoying for some things you might want to wire in.
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  1259. I don't want credit for keeping him from being lost, because we've clearly screwed up.
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  1260. Yes, they needed somebody that wouldn't do crap for the workers and could rake in the campaign donations. At no point was governance on the list of things they cared about. Surprisingly, obvious senility seems to be a non-issue for them.
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  1261. If the Democrats go their $13 an hour raise propsal through, that would more less solve that. But the extra $600 a week alone is nearly as much money as I make and that's before the other bits of the pay. You'll notice that the Democrats are hardly chomping at the bit to address it because so many of us are making minimum wage or close to it. The DNC doesn't care about us, they care more about the employers and donors.
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  1262. Pizza delivery is probably the least risky way of getting fed right now. And that's for both the customer and the employee. Some of the chains are experimenting with zero contact deliveries.
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  1263. Not to mention the huge sum of money that they're just giving to corporations. For any that don't have stocks, they're getting precisely nothing out of it.
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  1264. To be fair, out of the hundred takes they did, this was probably the longest one that left even the slightest question about whether or not he's senile.
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  1265.  @joshyaash  One of the big problems with the whole #BLM thing is that policy proposals don't make for snappy hashtags. One of the things that the civil rights movements of the past did so much more effectively was communicate to media outlets that were willing to cover them what the issues were, what the demands were and how the two related.
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  1266. I think the issue is that it was hanging outside from a tree limb. For some Black people, the notion that a Black person would do that is impossible due to the "strange fruit" symbolism of it. Realistically, there's nothing stopping a Black person from hanging themselves anymore than a White or Latino person. People who follow through on suicide are not in a place where they're thinking a lot about how other people will view the act, at least not in a rational way.
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  1267.  @bmint  That's pretty much the norm in much of the world that the government owns the waterways regardless of who owns the land around it.
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  1268.  @susanperry4177  Yep, there's a lot of other places where you can get stuff shipped to you that don't have these horrible work place practices. I'm sure none of them are great, but even if people just avoid the worst offenders, that should at least stop the slide to even worse.
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  1269.  @scarlet_phonavis6734  Essentially yes, from what I can tell that only applies if they want to be part of the prime program or something along those lines. Chances are that if they are able to sell for less elsewhere, that you're not even going to be shown their products without really looking.
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  1270.  @vickiehow-  Yes, although Amazon is more or less the worst in that regard. Choose companies that don't do it when you can, but even just buying from companies that aren't doing it as much at least slows the slide to even worse.
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  1271.  @Dominik7T  Yep, it's not particularly viable if you don't live in a city, have a car and have the time to do it. But, with online pickup, it has gotten a lot easier if you do to order the stuff online and then just go and pick it up. But, the more people that do it, probably the better things will be for everybody.
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  1272. I used to live in China and it's really a mixed bag. I met some of the nicest people there as well as some of the scummiest dirt bags there. A lot of it depends on where you're from and what you look like. A lot of the Chinese I was dealing with in rural areas had never met any other white people before, so I had to be on my best behavior constantly, as one bad encounter with the only white person they've ever met could cause the rudeness. In cities, it was a lot less so, they had some sort of an idea what to expect in a lot of cases, but the society is very tribal in the sense that guangxi and personal and family connections are important. Guanxi doesn't really translate, but it's a relationship, a debt and obligation and partnering. If you're coming in as a tourist they don't really know how to categorize you, so a lot of the normal social scripts don't necessarily apply. Additionally, most tourists are on tours and don't get much beyond where the typical tourist areas. Also, if you speak any Mandarin, or the local dialect, you'll find that they warm up a lot, much of the "rudeness" is just that cities are busy and the culture is very introverted with outsiders being viewed with suspicion for political reasons.
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  1273.  @stevecarson4162  That's definitely true, but I'd also suggest that it's probably less common than it used to be and you'll find that from most other citizens as well.
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  1274. Yes, although in all fairness, most of Idaho isn't that far from WA where abortions are legal. A major problem in states where it is legal is people crossing the boarder to get an abortion. And those that are stuck have to go back to the old school, and super dangerous, coat hangers.
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  1275. I kind of want Eastern Oregon to secede from OR and join ID so we can have a state shaped like it's giving aliens the finger.
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  1276.  @LisaLove-m4l  They is what used when the gender isn't known. And that's been the case for quite a long time prior to any of this pronoun stuff becoming a thing. It, means that it's an object.
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  1277.  @FaybayandRemi  Yep, they're set up to remove as much of the risk of the parents being accidentally identified as possible, to remove as much of the risk of desperate mothers killing the baby to avoid the consequences of the situation becoming known. Sad, but it definitely does happen from time to time. Pregnancies aren't always obvious until later, and sometimes it can be concealed.
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  1278.  @jensschroder8214  Canadians speak American English, as in North American English. It's still close enough to British English to not get a separate name.
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  1279. I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one that's figured this out. The sounds of a foreign accent when a speaker of a language you want to learn is speaking, are mostly the ones that are the least similar to the ones in your language. So, if you figure out how to speak with that foreign accent, and then apply it to the foreign language, you will sound far more like a native than if you skip the step. I wish it was something that more people knew because it does make the process a lot easier.
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  1280. I've got a water kettle. Actually, I've got two, my wife has one that she bought when the old one broke and didn't bother to tell me that she'd ordered one. I bought a nice one that allows me to set the temperature so that when I'm brewing tea, I don't have to mess with adding cold water to get the right temperature. It's worth noting that we've got 115v electricity which is slower than the ones in most of the rest of the world.
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  1281. So, what's the alternative then? The child in these cases does also have rights and the father presumably is still going to be on the hook for child support. I'm not suggesting that that's a great situation, but I'm not sure what the alternative is that doesn't violate the rights of the other parties involved. This is especially the case when the government isn't going to step in and help cover the cost of raising a kid.
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  1282. You are a horrible human being if you honestly think that. Go get actual mental health treatment. Or, are you going to say that we spay all teenage girls in case they get pregnant and trap a man that wasn't even the father? Either way, it's thoroughly repugnant.
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  1283. The Democrats will cave because they're stupid. They should call the GOP's bluff as the GOP voters are the ones that are going to get hit first, not to mention their donors.
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  1284. That's what right turn on red is now and always was.
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  1285. I hate those. I can legally turn, but who knows if it'll be safe to do so at any point during the cycle.
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  1286.  @tunneloflight  It doesn't remove the lag, it gives the pedestrians more visibility both to see and be seen. If pedestrians are being run over because of that, there are so many things that need to be fixed. Perhaps in the past when vehicles were smaller, but the end of my parents' street is incredibly dangerous because large vehicles are often parked there and you can't see the pedestrians and the pedestrians can't see the cars.
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  1287. Probably not htat many, but that being said, we clearly need more mental health services and for them to be easier to access.
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  1288. You mean like nearly every other country?
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  1289.  @YTPartyTonight  That's exactly right, early on scepticism was reasonable, but the negative side effects of vaccination haven't really appeared and Pfizer now has an approved drug.
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  1290.  @michaela.abbott222  Yes, but what about compassion for the cancer patients and those with other medical problems? Why should those that purposefully opted to not get vaccinated be allowed to bump them? It's not only the elitists that are concerned about making others suffer due to selfishness and ignorance.
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  1291.  @zo62  yes, but which people? When hospitals run short, they are stuck triaging them. The big issue is that they aren't reserving beds and treatment for other serious illness. They should just reserve beds for those that opted out of vaccination and refuse any beyond that so that other injured or ill people can get treatment.
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  1292. A couple of things, unfortunately, most people never hear from 2nd amendment advocates that aren't crazy. They just don't get any media coverage. And secondly, pretty much being a supporter of the 2nd amendment in modern times means that he doesn't understand the history of the amendment. The 2nd amendment basically only applies to a vanishingly small number of Americans and was always intended as a replacement for a standing military, not in addition to a standing military. And lastly, it's questionable if the 2nd amendment is even an amendment, the version ratified did not match the version that was passed, so in a sane world, it would have been tossed and the process done again. The next best thing would be to just parse it as written, which is to say that you've got to be a member of a well-regulated militia as that's clearly what the 2nd amendment was for.
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  1293. Essentially yes, the more accurate description of it would be that the national guard does have access to pretty much all of those things. I think nuclear weapons and cruise missiles are about the only thing they don't get that the military does. The "2nd amendment" that people refer to that applies to everybody else doesn't exist and never did. That's the actual expansion that you're referring to. It's not that it's broader than it used to be in terms of weaponry, it's that it's broader in terms of whom can use it as justification for owning weapons.
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  1294.  @georgegillespie3737  That's his point. Why is the line where it is when the 2nd amendment does not state anywhere in it that it's firearms specifically? Logically, it would extend further than that. And the reason for that, is primarily marketing, I'm sure there are folks that would want those things as well, but trying to justify chemical weapons or bombs to the general public would remove the last little veneer about this being about self-defense, hunting or other sport shooting.
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  1295. I take it that you're engaged in BDS against Israel, then. Their government literally engages in genocide as defined by the UN.
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  1296. It's unusual for a law firm to be opposed to international law, bold move. That's certainly a choice.
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  1297. So, they support genocide and crimes against humanity? You've got an F-ed moral compass if you think that war crimes are OK.
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  1298. I don't think siding with war criminals over terrorists is really the flex you think it is. Plus, apparently, this firm doesn't actually value free speech and probably was just looking for some affirmative action hires.
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  1299. That's simple, it doesn't include provisions for women that lie about being on other forms of contraceptive when "stealthing" was already illegal.
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  1300. I'm curious how they know if it was intentional without the condom. And if they have a condom to work with, then why is it being kept. I don't really like blaming the victim, but it does deserve a certain amount of explanation as to how this is actually going to be enforced and how many women are having sex with men that they think are sabotaging the condoms. Condoms break from time to time, although it isn't common.
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  1301. It already was, at least as far as tampering with protective barriers, that's a case where battery charges would be more appropriate.
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  1302. Keep in mind that at their peak they also employed over 10% of the population of East Germany as part of the security apparatus either directly as agents or indirectly as informers. I shudder to think what they could have done if they had the Supreme Court on their side, letting them access every single letter going through the network without putting any effort into collecting it. End-to-end encryption ought to be a basic human right given that it's effectively the only way to maintain the same level of privacy that used to be the norm. If nobody was around to hear you saying things, then there was no ability to retrieve that conversation later.
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  1303.  @blisphul8084  Yep, the issue is the insistence on using text messages for the process. Text messages are just not secure and usually if they offer text messaging, they also offer voicemail, which is completely insecure for most people. Which means that if somebody does want in, they can break into the voicemail to get the code and then the company blames you because you were using 2FA which much means that you authorized it. There are better options like OTP and FIDO enabled dongles.
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  1304.  @ChristianNathanielLaCroix  People use the term because they want to demonize mainstream Americans. If mainstream America is doing it it's cultural appropriation and if they're exporting it, then it's cultural imperialism. It's incredibly ignorant as none of the groups that are around today were the originators of the cultural things that they apparently now own,and somehow the Chinese adopting western styles of businessware isn't something that anybody bothers to talk about because it doesn't fit into any of those boxes.
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  1305. The issue there is that the last shoot out between natives and federal law enforcement occured in the '70s, and the conditions on the reservations remains dire in parts of the country.
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  1306. Yes, the slap in the face here is the failure of the government to do anything real to deal with the cost while giving out tons of free money to the rich and powerful. This executive order does help somewhat with affordability, as do the fixes to the public service waivers, but the real fix here involves legislative action to restrict how much money colleges can spend on things that aren't education related. Particularly with administrative and facilities expenses that aren't related to education. A $100m gym is impressive to look at, but probably not worth $100m if it's not being paid for by an endowment from a philanthropist, when it's paid for via student fees, it just contributes to bloated tuition payments.
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  1307. Nobody has come up with an explanation that's simpler or with more evidence than that Oswald was working alone and was shot by Ruby also working alone. Efforts to shoehorn in other parties wind up running afoul of what we reliable know and involve ignoring that these are people who had established histories prior to the assassinations. As unsatisfying as it is, sometimes people just get lucky to be in the right place at the right time to put a plan like this into effect.
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  1308. I'm not surprised women rate most men as less attractive than average.
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  1309.  @lunawalker6648  Um no. Time and time again the Israelis are caught stealing Palestinian land.
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  1310. The Israelis shouldn't be committing crimes against humanity. Has it not occurred to you that there aren't many options these people have? I'm not sure why people think that the Israelis are somehow blameless here. They're every bit as dirty as the terrorists they claim to be fighting.
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  1311. You make this sound like it's somehow a bad thing. Considering how easy it is to get a credit card these days, if you're getting declined for a new one, they're doing you a favor. Most credit unions will give you a low limit card to start out with and increase the limit as you pay on time.
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  1312. This is terrible advice. People like you are why so many people can't afford housing, even when they do have jobs.
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  1313. TBH, it looks like this summer will be a great time to buy, assuming that the Federal Government continues to refuse to properly respond to the current crisis. There's likely to be a ton of foreclosures on top of people not buying property if they don't have a solid job locked in with enough pay to cover the expenses.
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  1314.  @Tonixxy  You get it. Deflation for brief periods is part of a healthy economy. The alternative is having constant inflation where only those that can afford to invest in inflation resistant things like stocks can keep up. Bank interest that you get for savings accounts tends to top out at about 2% which means that you never get ahead, you're operating with negative interest. With negative interest, you would be losing even more money than you would right now by storing money in a regular savings account. For those with enough money to be prudently invested, it will make a difference, but for the poor, it likely won't as the poor are more likely to be without even a savings account anyways.
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  1315. I wish the government would start appointing competent people to run their response to the economy. Short term deflation isn't an issue, it just encourages people to hold onto their money. The constant inflation is part of why so many Americans didn't have any savings coming into the pandemic. Year after year, the Federal Reserve was purposefully injecting money into the system to artificially guarantee that debt was cheaper to service. The problem with that is that for those that don't have the money to be properly invested, you're losing 2-3% to inflation, but being paid at most 2% interest, which means that most Americans were already seeing an effective negative return on their bank balances. Which when coupled with the failure of wages to keep up with inflation tended to make people poorer. This is even before you account for people making poor decisions about money or being tricked into paying outlandish fees.
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  1316. The issue is that they make it far too easy to spend money. Most of the guarantees they offer are about making you feel more secure in spending the money. Personally, I think he goes a bit overboard on that front. I've switched to only using my credit cards for my utilities and select things where I have a specific reason for wanting CC protection. But in general, it's a lot easier to stick to your budget when the money is coming out of the account immediately.
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  1317. This is bad advice. I've switched back to using just debit and cash for most things and it's a lot easier to avoid overspending if you don't use credit. What's more, those bonus points you get for using a credit card amount to basically nothing compared with the ease with which you can buy things you don't need or from people that aren't entirely trustworthy. I was personally skeptical of Dave Ramsey when it comes to not using cards even if you pay them off at the end of the month, but he wasn't wrong. They design those things to be addictive and the bank doesn't make any money at all unless you use them with most of the money being made via interest payments and various fees. If you're going to use credit cards, at least do yourself a favor and make them as annoying to get at as possible.
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  1318. In line with this video, you aren't saving money by buying on sale unless you meet these 2 criteria. 1) you were going to buy it anyways and 2) you take the savings and put with the other money you've saved. That's not to say that it's wrong to take the money from the discount and spend it, just that you aren't saving money when you do that. It can be completely legitimate to take the price reduction and spend it.
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  1319. Not really, this was all known ahead of time. What I would expect is for there to be some sort of treaty going forward to clarify who is responsible for regulating the activity and for future adventure tourists to demand that the vessels they take to these depths are properly rated by somebody that knows what they're doing and is independent of the company that built and operated the submersible. Conventional designs can be used for thousands of dives over decades when properly maintained and monitored. The Alvin has been in operation for nearly 60 years and has taken thousands of trips down to the depths without losing any crew to such a catastrophic failure. This sub was down there a fraction of 1% of those dives and had a catastrophic failure.
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  1320.  @kirkmarshall2853  TBH, I do think that once a felon has completed the terms of their sentence successfully that they should get their rights back. Part of what can make it hard for felons to move on and better themselves is the ludicrous restrictions, for some type of felony there's nowhere they can legally live, but they also may not be allowed to move out of the area either.
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  1321. This is why it's not recommended to go with kidnappers. There may have been a time where you could expect to be held for ransom for a period before being released, but most often these end badly.
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  1322.  @mattwong5403  Except that's clearly not the case when the generals are this incompetent. We've known since Vietnam, and probably earlier, that you cannot win a war on foreign soil without the support of the local population, and you cannot get that support if you're not protecting them from the enemy. 2 opposing armies having at it is not going to guarantee that the locals will take a particular side. We failed in Afghanistan and Iraq because there was never any serious intention of protecting the local population from being annihilated by the enemy. There were never enough actual personnel on the ground to do the job, nor was there any interest in drafting more to make it so. Ultimately, Iraq has fared somewhat better, but mostly because the Shia were able to slaughter enough Sunni to reduce the internal strife, which is probably not what the people planning the invasion were expecting as they didn't do anything at any point to prevent or address it. In Afghanistan, the fall was swift in large part because we were paying one side to fight with the Taliban and that was the only reason they were fighting. They didn't particularly want what we wanted them to want. At least not in numbers large enough to field a large enough military to stop the Taliban from seizing control almost immediately. The best trained military in the world should have competent people from top to bottom and the US military definitely does not, the higher you go, the less competent you're talking. Most of the conflicts we've been embroiled with over the last couple decades are the direct result of incompetence at the DOD and our intelligence agencies.
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  1323. Here's an idea, perhaps scale back the BS missions to places where the US has no business and focus on things that actually increase national security. Actually have the resources in place to support the personnel as they reenter civilian life. And, perhaps, stop being so disrespectful to potential recruits. I still remember the shameful and disrespectful comments made by the naval recruiters as they tried to gaslight me into enlisting. It's not a great way to encourage people to enlist if you have to start by verbally abusing and gaslighting the people that you've chosen to contact. I wound up not enlisting, in large part due to how BS the wars that were ongoing when I was still young enough to consider doing so. I did wind up working security at one of the buildings that was on the original list when they were planning 9/11 though, go figure. These days, there are just a lot of other options for people that want to protect their country, but not engage in the sort of questionable operations that the DoD has become fond of. I can't imagine anybody with integrity seeing Abu Ghraib and being like, I want to joint that organization. And possibly even less so when they didn't go all the way up the chain and get everybody that led to that failure for something.
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  1324.  @pedrocuervo3868  God is clearly trying, but not having the entire country wiped off the globe for being run by war criminals seems to be the most they can ask for.
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  1325.  @sacredrider  The difference is that Hamas stopped pretending to be good guys many years ago, the Israelis still pretend to be innocent victims.
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  1326.  @cosmoray9750  The promiscuous behavior isn't the problem, it's the lack of birth control and then trying to stick the guy with the most resources with the tab that is.
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  1327. It just uses camera feeds, I don't know about those cameras in particular, but the backup camera that I bought for my wife's old car was capable of seeing in some pretty dark conditions, so there's no reason why the cameras that are using on these cars shouldn't be able to see in near complete darkness. Whether they're properly trained to interpret what they see at night or not is likely the issue.
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  1328.  @AtleyCarman-xe7rs  Typically a human is expected to drive slower if they are having issues seeing ahead of them, the computer vision system doesn't seem to do that.
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  1329.  @Joelsef  It's because Elon keeps promising that they'll move fast and break things. They have to move fast with things like this because Elon refused to hire anybody that understood how to build a car factory.
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  1330.  @daydreamer8373  Tesla's still regularly drive over the top of bikers because they can't figure out how far away the motorcycle is using only the cameras. LIDAR and other sensors are needed for these systems to help reduce issues like that. We may well get to the point at some point where the extra sensors aren't needed, but we won't get there any time soon and Elon seems to genuinely think that we're already there in terms of the AI modeling.
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  1331.  @TheTomexification  Yes, and it's unlikely that things have changed appreciably since then as they're still using just the cameras and what AI improvements they could generate based on their own test drives. Things like the car slamming into an upended semi is just not something that's easy to train for as it doesn't happen that often. I've seen precisely one over turned cement truck in my life and another time I saw a boat that had been flipped by the wind. I'd be terrified of coming across either depending upon just camera based AI detection systems as those things are unlikely to come up during training.
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  1332. Originally it was about cost and Elon's belief that it wasn't needed. It can add some complexity in terms of interpreting what it sees, but if you saw that many points in the road ahead, at bare minimum the system should have slowed down.
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  1333.  @JustXavier  Cameras can be enough, however, the amount of training that it would take under every possible scenario is a lot. It's ultimately cheaper just to use LIDAR and other auxiliary sensors than to try to get a camera only system to work. The sensors are expensive, but the cost of them has been coming down as the quantities being bought have increased to generate a better economy of scale and more experience integrating them into designs.
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  1334.  @sblackm1  IMHO, a large part of the problem is that they are trying to do it without the sensors. My wife's Ford has a camera as well as some sensors and I don't personally trust it to stop suddenly if something does enter the road. On paper it is supposed to and it does seem to know how far ahead the car in front of me is when I'm using adaptive cruise control, but I haven't seen it actually use the emergency brake yet, and I'm under the assumption that it might not work, so I'll stop on my own before it kicks in. That being said, I wish the adaptive cruise control were set up to allow it to go even slower because in traffic, it'll keep kicking me back to manual acceleration and that really tires me out.
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  1335.  @daydreamer8373  It's not, the point is to have several different redundant types of sensors generating the data needed for the car to understand what's going on in the area. Even human drivers use more than just our eyes when driving. We use our ears and even just our feel for the vibrations when driving to help inform our sense of what's going on. Nobody should be saying that LIDAR is magic, but LIDAR does help the car understand a lot more about where physical things are in space and if you add radar dots and cameras, you can get a pretty comprehensive sense of what's going on around the car with which to have the AI make decisions.
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  1336. They can mostly all be avoided by driving at a rate appropriate to conditions. The only exception would be crashes like when a kid pops out from behind a parked car.
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  1337. So, like P.T. Barnum said, there's a sucker born every minute. TSLA stock isn't priced like that on the basis of anything they're doing.
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  1338.  @MrThatGuyYouForgot  Also making $0.10 more than minimum wage is working above minimum wage, but basically no better.
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  1339. The real reason that the trust isn't keeping up is that the income is increasingly going to a small number of people that pay hardly any social security tax on it. And, an increasing share of the wealth being generated is in forms that are not subject to social security tax. The ultimate fix is to remove the cap and to subject all taxable income to it, not just income that's subject to income taxes. It would solve the problem permanently, and it would likely result in the actual tax being lowered a bit for nearly everybody.
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  1340.  @rabbit251  I'm not really sure why you'd need or want that. The local rail and bus service allows me to use an NFC card or buy tickets with cash or card. I can even use my phone to buy a ticket as well. (Admittedly, I haven't tried that last one and the reviews indicate some bugs) And, I'm sure before too long that the NFC feature on phones will become an option as well. There's already enough spying on private citizens going on with the current system. Allowing the transit agencies to also have access to what you're doing after you get off the bus/train isn't something that I personally consider to be desirable.
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  1341.  @benfelps  More than that, it's that everybody is trying to make money without providing the service that's being promised. The Hong Kong subway system was dug and built by the government, but it's privately run with steep fines if trains are delayed. The times that I took the trains around town, I always got where I wanted to go when I expected to get there with no drama or fuss. I just had to figure out where I needed to go and it was a breeze. There's no reason why that couldn't be done with most transit systems in the US other than the hopeless corruption due to people continuing to elect anti-government politicians that are also pro-corporate.
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  1342.  @lu77xiaojun37  In this case if they have no passports, they'd just be deported right back.
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  1343. They don't, Hamas only had one election, they pretended to be moderate and even then they got less than half the vote. How many more votes by Isrealis for war criminals until we acknowledge that the Israelis aren't any better?
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  1344.  @allenmoses110  Neither does the Israeli government, so it's not terribly relevant until and unless states like the US decide to name Israel as a state sponsor of war crimes.
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  1345. I think we also agreed that adding the Duke's of Hazard theme song over top of it makes it better.
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  1346.  @Carpaintry_of_God  I was on an intercity bus one time and there was a literal burning van on the side of the road and nobody stopped. I didn't even hear anybody else on the bus commenting on it. It was surreal. I made sure the next time I came through to see if there were any indications of a fire there because it felt so unreal.
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  1347. Innovative? Drug Cartels have had remote control vehicles for many years now.
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  1348.  @psp420bam  You shouldn't. When that thing goes, you may not receive any warning at all. The data will just be gone with no hope of recovery. SSDs are fast, but they're not very safe for data.
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  1349. I wouldn't do anything important with an SSD, the way they fail is terrifying. Most of the time, a standard HDD will give some hint. Obviously not always, but I've had many fail over the last few decades and 100% of them gave hints ahead of time that they were failing and to make one last backup before replacing them, with the time before last having 10mb of unrecoverable data on the disk. Not a big deal, the data was backed up, I just like a copy of all those files so I know if I was able to restore everything.
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  1350.  @tnndll4294  Probably not. What can happen with DVD-Rs and the like is that the layers can start to separate, the dye fade and whether they're in sleeves or cases probably wouldn't make that much of a difference. They are a terrible medium for archiving just because it is such a labor to load them into a drive to ensure that they weren't corrupted since the last time you used them. The only time when such a medium really makes sense is if you need to prove the the files weren't tampered with. In that case, you'd want to use something like par2 to generate the parity information necessary to detect and repair damage.
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  1351.  @SevenSixTwo2012  Whether or not that's true is largely irrelevant, you still need to bring them online from time to time to verify the data and to make sure that the files you care about are there. I'd do that at least a couple of times a year. Plug it in, run the disk through a verification tool, and then unplug it and put the disks away. Depending on how important the data is, it can be worth doing this on a different computer, and in a different location from where the data was generated and unplug that computer while you go through the verification process. Obviously, that's far more effort than you'd typically need, but if the data is that precious, it can be worth it.
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  1352.  @williamjones4483  I always make a copy of those discs using something like infrarecorder. (Specific software doesn't really matter, but that one is free and reliable) If the software is that important, I'd recommend also creating a par2 file to allow for verification and recovery of the file if it starts to rot. Quickpar works pretty well for that on Windows, but there are other options.
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  1353. It's a tough question, but I think the physical medium is less of an issue than what options allow for easy backup, verification and replication of those files. Personally, anything smaller than a Blu-ray disc is just not worth considering. You'd have to spend so much time swapping discs to verify the contents that it wouldn't be worthwhile. Personally, I use a combination of online backups (A good online backup service will have a way of backing up a copy locally as well as online. Most of the time you don't need the online backup, that's just if the building burns down or somebody steals your stuff) and a ZFS ZRAID-5 to store my files. They can be quickly scrubbed to discover read errors on an automatic basis and to report any files where the checksum does not match with the expected value and repair the damage. If it can't be repaired, it will tell me precisely which files I need to recover from my backup. I've had multiple disks go bad in this arrangement, and I just keep a spare just in case a drive does start to go bad. I have yet to lose any data due to a hard disk failing since then, and most of the time I don't even need to touch my online backup other than to verify that the files are good. I haven't had a chance to do it, but I need to set up an offline set of disks that I can quickly mirror from time to time. The vast majority of the files I have on my computer do not change very often, so having those files backuped up to storage media that I only need to plug in from time to time to verfiy and update would be good for me. I just don't have the money right now for 2 8tb disks.
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  1354.  @mjakotka  Yes, and this is why I both have comprehensive online backups of any file that can't be automatically generated. (No need to backup the individual episode files for TV series if the original DVD ISO files are being backed up. Or individual MP3s if I've got the entire album backed up as a lossesless file with cue information) I also use a ZFS ZRAID5 array so that bit rot can be detected and repaired regularly so that I don't find myself in the position of having files that have been corrupted since the last time I opened them.
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  1355.  @whitenuttergoku7310  The correct answer is when you lose faith in the drive whether or not the warranty has expired.
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  1356. That was never a real problem for most people. There just aren't enough files for configuration for that to be a problem.
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  1357. Apple uses a userland that's mostly from FreeBSD and had been around for a number of years as FreeBSD since the various conflicts with AT&T over their right to use UNIX source code. It had a mature system for dealing with those things even before OSX integrated it into their system. Apple further makes things easier by using what are essentially fat packages where very little is done that passes out of the package and into the rest of the computer without the user requesting it.
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  1358.  @Lofote  Only because MS refuses to write the code to visualizer it. There's no reason why they can't just present those programs with a readable version and then write whatever bits they want to a separate file that can be loaded next time the program is run. Especially since such software probably shouldn't be making system-wide changes anyways.
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  1359. It was always a terrible solution to the problem of storing configuratoin information. Sysctl from FreeBSD is a much better system and there are other systems that other OSes use as well. At a quick look you can identify a bunch of setttings and you can either adjust them once using a built in tool or you can have it changed more or less permanently by editing one of the files it reads. Some portions cannot be changed at different run levels and sometimes you need to adjust the permission to do any operation on it at all. In the years I've been using the OS, I have never had any problems with that system. I have, however, had the registry cause significant problems at various times on Windows that required a reinstall. That hasn't happened in a while, so perhaps they've finally got that fixed.
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  1360. You can easily back those files up or use revision control for any time you manually edit them on Linux. The same isn't really the case with the Windows registry.
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  1361.  @xpusostomos  Those are much more common now than they used to be. It's getting to be a lot less common for programs to not have a no-install version that is essentially just a self-contained directory that contains everything that it needs to run.
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  1362. You can do that with Windows, but it requires that the software be setup like that. I'm grateful that more and more programs are at least offering a no-install version of their software.
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  1363.  @mikechappell4156  Years ago, I had problems with the montor settings not being stored beyond the boot, so I exported that portion of the registry and imported it after I booted up. It was stupid as a better system wouldn't forget something like that.
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  1364. Modern Windows permissions are a lot better than they used to be when the registry was first created.
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  1365. There are tools, for example zeroinstall and just using the no-install version of software. Many, if not most, software programs these days offer that. At least as far as free and opensource software goes.
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  1366. It's actually harder to do that with the registry than with configuration files. A short shell script can both check the file into the revision control system and make the edit with little fuss or muss. Or, you can do it without the script at all in like 3 lines of commands. And really, it's only one line if you're concerned about having that backup.
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  1367.  @cromulence  Or somebody who has been using Windows long enough to have seen the many problems that have arisen from it over the decades compared with how other systems handle the same basic problems.
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  1368.  @SoftwareRat  That depends what software you're running. There's some pretty important software that's running only on Windows. But with how hard many major vendors are going after the SaaS model, more of those will likely be websites in the future which would make it harder and harder for MS to maintain that.
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  1369.  @ViciousVinnyD  MS used to only enforce their copyright against businesses that were illegally pirating their software because it was better for business to have that unlicensed copy than have them using Mac OS, Linux or something else entirely.
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  1370. This nonsense started well before that was an issue. It wasn't until I started to use USB drives and the like that I started to have disks popping up with changing letters. Floppy drives were basically always A; and/or B: and the primary HDD started with C and continued to the end of the disk before moving onto the next disk. In practice, there was no inconsistency as there would usually be only one drive and probably only one partition per drive. The only reason I have problems with drive letters changing now is because I'm swapping a pair of disks for backup that I want to use the same drive letter.
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  1371.  @fisyr  Why not? It works on other OSes without any problems. Any 3rd party software should be checked for by the program if it's that sensitive.
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  1372.  @Zullfix  The issue with the registry is that it's a single point of failure that other OSes mysteriously don't need. Other OSes can figure out how to build a quick list of the settings people need to access quickly from configuration files at boot and leave the rest on disk where they largely don't interact with each other at all.
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  1373.  @sepg5084  I have personally had multiple Windows installs taken down due to registry problems. And I've been using windows since 3.0. The registry used to break horribly if you did a lot of installing, uninstalling and reinstalling of software.
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  1374. Which is the right thing to do. The settings should be in some combination of the install directory and user home directory as appropriate. If you've got a system wide package system like on Linux and most of the other *NIX OSes, then you can put the settings elsewhere.
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  1375. We can, they just have chosen not to virtualize it for the programs that legitimately need it as part of a phase out period.
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  1376. With modern disks being so large, fat packages are often times a reasonable solution to a lot of different problems. I wouldn't go so far as to say that all programs should be like that as I think that goes a bit too far.
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  1377. No, it's not. That's why you write to a new file and then copy it into place when completed or buffer the write. Also, apart from a failing drive, I can't remember the ever happening. I have, however, had the registry go bad a few times and take my entire install out with it. And if any of that's a concern, you really ought to have a USP protecting the computer from power problems.
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  1378.  @meph5291  The per key permissions can be a bit of a pain by default, but I do question a bit how often that's really the appropriate tool when you can, and should, apply permissions to both the device, executables and configuration files that you need to work with those. It seems to me that the main reason that Windows has per key permissions is because they didn't properly design their security model.
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  1379.  @tunderhay  On *nix that stuff is stored in predictable places, things that are stored for the system at larger are generally in /etc for the base, in /usr/local/etc for system wide default configuration files. And in /home/user/ for user specific configuration files. And, unlike with Windows, you can nuke a users configuration files for everything, without impacting the system at large and depending upon the program.
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  1380.  @lmoelleb  It's not as much of an issue now as it used to be, but I've had registry corruption take down entire systems, especially in older versions of Windows and if you start to get bloat, it's not easily cleaned up without risking damage to the registry itself. With the exception of per key permissions, which isn't by default on other OSes, I don't see anything in the video that justifies such a weak point being included in an OS. All of that can be done with other OSes using things like remotely mounted homes, group permissions and the like. And, in most cases, the options just work better with less trouble and can be cleaned up relatively easily.
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  1381. That's because they eventually got it fixed. It used to be both broken and stupid.
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  1382.  @orangejuice7964  The only real reason to retain the registry is that it was a convenient way to make it harder to port programs to other OSes. It doesn't make it that much harder, but every little bit helps.
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  1383. You can do that with the text files that other OSes use without much effort. Tripwire in particular can also check the binaries as well while you're at it.
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  1384.  @kipchickensout  Anything you like, from simple soft links to revision control systems to basic rsyncing a backup to a separate directory/system. And since they're mostly just text files, you can use any other utility you like to quickly parse and potentially modify them. The problem with the Windows registry more than anything is that it tries to do too much and doesn't have any particularly good way of purging obsolete entries or fixing it when it gets corrupted. I've thought for decades at this point that if they want to have a registry fine, but at least have it generated from other files that can be edited by hand if need be. I've just had too many times where the registry got corrupted and took the entire system down. I have never had that happen, not even once, with Linux of FreeBSD. I haven't paid as much attention to Linux, but FreeBSD has sysctl that does a lot of the same stuff that the Windows registry does, but it's regenerated on boot from actual files. As to your question, there are a lot of utilities for managing those dotfiles https://dotfiles.github.io/utilities/
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  1385. You could also go back to using a registry that is created from those ini files, something along those lines has worked well for FreeBSD for decades where much of the sysctl does come from editable configuration files.
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  1386. A decade or two ago it being "too entrenched" might have been a compelling argument, these days, they could easily capture and redirect the attempts to write to or read from the directory either to actual files or smaller virtual-registries if they wanted to. They could also have a system like on other OSes where the registry is built from other files and just regenerates whenever the OS boots up. Parts that don't change can potentially be cached without much harm. It would be a much better system than what we've got now.
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  1387. Only because they spend decades fixing the many issues that come of it. One of MS' addictions is being overly careful about backwards compatibility even when it causes problems later on because you can still load files from decades earlier, ones that most people have had many years during which to update to a more recent standard.
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  1388.  @askleonotenboom  Yes, but I've never really bought into the notion that this really is any better. And it's going to vary widely from language to language. correctHorseBatteryStaple is 50.98 bits worth of entropy EUf8wfxChNLSDUDjHH5gsyVyD is 138.33 bits of entropy. This is one of the things where Randall screwed things up. It's weaker security and it only really makes any sense if you're trying to remember the password. Which doesn't really make much sense as over the years, I've accumulated hundreds of passwords and in many cases there are mandatory password changes as well.
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  1389. The answer is that it's weaker security and really only acceptable if you absolutely need to be able to remember it without a password manager. It's less than half the entropy of a random password involving just the alphabet and numbers. The problem is in the notion that there are more words than characters as that assumes that you know the extra words and somehow that words are more secure than other strings of characters. Which is largely false, you probably don't know more than a 10-20k words. And it only takes 4 random characters to exceed the number of possible English words. At just 3 you've already exceeded the vocabulary of any college educated writer by an order of magnitude. (That's assuming 26 lower case letters, 26 upper case letters and 10 digits, it gets out of hand even more quickly if you allow a few punctuation characters as well)
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  1390. Switching to Chinese characters is a massive improvement. That's like 20-50k worth of words per character.
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  1391. Nope, just however many they need to make sure that none of the lobbyists have to do without. The things that would impact the ordinary voters were agreed upon days ago, it's the amount of largesse and terms for the corporate welfare that's kept things stuck.
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  1392. Yes, and the haggling is over how much corporate welfare to provide, rather than the measures that would help ordinary Americans. Which is both to be expected and incredibly disgusting. The checks to the people and welfare extensions should go out immediately. The terms for the bailouts of industry can wait.
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  1393.  @CT-td9mt  Israel did. I'm not sure why that's so hard for people to remember. This time around, the Iranians are the good guys. They're even the ones that ignored attacks trying to avoid having an unnecessary war break out.
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  1394.  @ericmac8110  The I in Brics is India.
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  1395.  @madmonkey762  Except that Iran already did that and Israel just continued anyways.
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  1396.  @dontworryaboutit5490  Iran attacked Israel in retaliation for what Israel did, even the normally pro-Israel BBC had to acknowledge that Israel technically hit Iranian interests first.
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  1397. Israel started it. Israel bombed the Iranian Embassy in Syria.
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  1398. What unprovoked attacks?The only attacks I've heard of have been the direct consequence of Israelis actions in the Middle East.
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  1399.  @Graahk-r8u  Iran can't use the nukes any more than the US, Russians or any other nuclear state. Iran itself is located a short distance from Russia and I doubt the Russians would tolerate a nuclear blast that close to their borders.
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  1400.  @michaelrs8010  Iran is a regional power that's mostly interested in preventing another Iran-Iraq war. Prior to that coke-monkey Bush overthrowing Saddam, the Israelis and Iranians were largely on the same side against Iraq. People act like the Iranians are these power-hungry, mad people trying to take over the world, when most of their military ambitions are simple the same ones that everybody else has, they just don't want to lose another million people in a war.
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  1401. Only Israel has the right to defend itself. /sarc
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  1402.  @Graahk-r8u  Israel can't use those nukes. Iran is right across a relatively small body of water from Russia, not to mention other former Soviet states that probably still have nukes. There's a bunch of Americans that no longer support Israel, using a nuclear weapon against somebody that Israel started the war with is not going to go over well. There's only so much astro-turfing that AIPAC and similar monsters can do to keep the US on Israel's side.
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  1403.  @michaelrs8010  In terms of Gaza, where would they put those military facilities and fighters where there wouldn't be women and children near by?
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  1404. The Middle East gets really complicated in that respect, but it's completely BS, regardless of which side somebody supports, to call for no retaliation from only one side.
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  1405.  @user-wq6de6jb2i  That's misleading everybody uses those streets for vehicles either directly or indirectly. And the car drivers have additional fees related to maintaining those roads as well.
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  1406.  @nicokelly6453  Or just remember that bikes are allowed on the sidewalks and be smarter about what sections of roads they're allowed on. I've seen far too many cyclists riding at 2mph tops up a steep hill when there's an equally steep sidewalk just feet away and jamming up the entire road in the process.
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  1407. Car drivers pay most of the cost of the roads, if we stopped taxing cars to pay for roads there'd probably be less complaining about it.
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  1408.  @underworldfilms86  yep, traditionally, they got their money through things like crates falling off of trucks, gambling, booze, protection rackets, insurance fraud and all sorts of other rackets. Much more direct and harder for authorities to track. I'd assume the rule was to avoid having to explain where that money came from in the first place.
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  1409. Plot twist, the guy isn't a guide and just leaves them there.
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  1410. You don't. You'd have to have an extremely large patch, walk all the way out into the middle of it and tire yourself out trying to struggle to the edge. In other words, you'd have to work very hard to get stuck. Around here we have holes that are covered up by vegetation and if you step in the wrong place, you can fall in and be very hard to find. It doesn't happen very often, but occasionally people looking for mushrooms will just disappear. And because they rarely tell anybody where they're going, the likelihood of being found is very, very low.
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  1411. Much less efficiently with actual people.
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  1412. Clearly, I don't know the last time I saw the letter carrier show up in such a large truck.
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  1413.  @C_Kava  Happens, and sometimes mail falls behind a machine without anybody noticing. It's amazing how infrequently letters are lost in the mail just because of how small they are compared with the size of the buildings they travel through.
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  1414. They're in position they are financially because congress sabotaged them at the behest of UPS and FedEx. They're also required to deliver first class mail for the same price, no matter where in the country. Something that the private carriers don't have to do.
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  1415. A zip+4 number gets a letter far closer to the ultimate delivery address than people realize. If there weren't so many addresses, a letter carrier could just about deliver it with just that information and a name. Of course, that would take a lot of time and be error prone, but for the occasional letter or package it works more often than one would expect.
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  1416. Yep, they used to deliver 7 days a week and multiple times a day in major cities. But, yeah, they don't just shut down because it's Sunday. Sunday is a sort of catch up day for all the behind the scenes stuff that isn't directly delivering things.
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  1417.  @superdupert6  Really? I've had far more trouble with the private companies than USPS. The main issue I have with USPS is that the delivery times can border on fraud. That priority mail may or may not actually arrive any quicker and isn't guaranteed to get there in the specified time frame either.
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  1418.  @Melora.Perseous  Priority mail is kind of a scam. You never know if you actually got the service you paid for as it's just priority over the other mail. So, it's entirely possible that the mail got there in the same amount of time. And, despite the days on the pieces, most of the time there's no guarantee of a delivery on a certain day.
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  1419. There's industrial strength OCR involved, people only read it if that fails.
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  1420. The more troubling question is "How would she know?"
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  1421. The archive is special, the props warehouse can be visited by anybody willing to pay for a tour that includes that as a stop. It's well worth it IMHO.
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  1422. There's a difference between letting one woman touch the stuff and thousands of people a year touch them. I was surprised that they let just random people hold a real Oscar.
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  1423. I could be wrong, but I have a feeling that they took advantage of that time to do a full and complete audit of the facility to make sure that everything was where the system says it should be. Given how easy it is to socially distance while doing that and the drop in demand for use of the props.
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  1424. They have a museum. There's a bunch of stuff on display and I'm not really sure how much more they could put in their museum without having to expand. Given that it's in the middle of a working studio, they don't exactly have much to work with. Plus, this is just the archives. It's mostly stuff that can't be reused later on. There's an entire prop warehouse full of stuff that can be rented.
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  1425.  @kyngcobra3584  I think the main issue was just the amount of stuff in their archive and their prop warehouse versus the space they have for their museum portion of the tours. The amount of stuff in the museum is a tiny, tiny fraction of what they could put in there.
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  1426. There's too much. If you take either of the studio tours there are a couple buildings full of props you get to see. And the classic movies tour allows you to go into their warehouse to see a bunch of the stuff that's still available for various people to checkout for use in new projects. There's a bunch of stuff including the piano from the Casablanca TV show and some of the suits that the agents wore in The Matrix. So many chandeliers and desks.
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  1427.  @duckentity4515  You're both kind of right, these are all owned by WB, but a bunch of this stuff gets seen in non-WB productions. One of the reasons why WB is likely to remain in the long term is that they don't just make money from their own productions, they also make money from renting their props and facilities to other companies. It makes the WB studio tour so special as so much of it can pop up in any TV show or movie filmed in the US. For example, the scene in the original Jurassic Park movie of the T-Rex chasing the jeep was filmed there when a storm forced the production to leave Hawaii early.
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  1428. They have an original Bat pod in the WB museum portion of the tour and a couple replicas that visitors can sit on and be green screened into Gotham City.
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  1429.  @sure1376  Yes, most significant props have several versions made for various reasons including wanting ones that are scale for when the sets make use of camera tricks to make themselves larger, along with the fact that having a spare in case one breaks can be useful.
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  1430. Take the tour, you won't necessarily see those, but you get to go through a portion of the props warehouse and there's a couple buildings worth of museums with other props. You may have noticed that the Batmobile from Batman Forever was missing, it was in the museum when I visited last summer next to the Batwing and one of the Bat Pods from the Nolan Batman movies. Also, the Mr. Freeze costume looks really impressive in person.
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  1431. It sounds to me like this video is of the archives, you were in the props warehouse. And I really wish when I was a kid it would have occurred to my parents to go on the other studio tours rather than just Universal. But, then again, we mostly went for Disneyland and that's clear the other end of LA from the studios.
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  1432.  @harleys5601  Keep in mind that they also have some of Batman's vehicles in the studio tour, so any time that they decide to change which one is on display, it would temporarily change the number. There may also be times when one is being removed for a cleaning or for promotional pics.
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  1433. If you're ever in LA, one of the TCM sponsored classic movie tour at WB Studios goes into the warehouse. You don't get to see everything, but you see a lot. Every item in the warehouse has an asset tag attached that gets scanned any time that it's moved and there are probably periodic scans of everything to ensure that they don't have things unexpectedly missing.
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  1434.  @hard_drive.system  From what I've seen at both Universal and WBs, most of the stuff on the backlot is repurposed over and over again. The stuff that's just left to rot is mostly stuff that is of an extremely specific purpose that can't be redressed for a new movie. It'll rot just due to there not being a particular reason to clear it out between uses. That's more or less what happened to that ruined facility from one of the Jurassic Park sequels.
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  1435.  @maestanton8053  I've been meaning to do that. From what I can tell, the VIP tour is a pretty good deal in terms of what is all included.
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  1436.  @dannnarutam  TBH, taking the studio tours and visiting a taping/screening is probably a much better use of time in LA than Disney is.
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  1437.  @troodon1096  Possibly, but when I was at the studio a couple months ago, they had the Batmobile from Batman Forever out of the warehouse and in their museum. There's also the issue of whether the Bat Pod counts as a Batmobile for similar reasons.
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  1438. Yes, and I highly recommend anybody going to LA consider stopping by Burbank to take the tour. I had no idea just how much IP they own either completely or just in terms of the film rights. Being able to see a Bat Pod and then ride on a replica in front of a green screen was amazing. The photo opportunity to sit in a forced perspective mockup of a building from the Shire was also awesome. As banal as it may have been, getting a photo from replica sets from Friends and Big Bang Theory was kind of fun.
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  1439. That's why things like that are not left unattended. Either they're locked up, or there's a person that's physically watching to ensure that nobody mixes the breakaway props for the real thing. I suppose somebody could do it on purpose, but more likely, somebody could accidentally set something on the table that looks like the prop. There was a time when the breakaway stuff was much more obvious and leaving things sitting out might have been reasonable, but that was decades ago.
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  1440. This is one of the main reasons why there are so few signs at the WB studio, just about every part of the studio has been used to film something at some point. Often times, you wouldn't realize that it was just a regular studio building with a few temporary signs.
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  1441. He's a sell out. He let the Democrats rob his rightful nomination 2 elections in a row and didn't do so much as run 3rd party the second time to punish the party for screwing over the voters. He's a large part of why we are where we are. If he had run 3rd party in 2016, we still would have had Trump, but in 2020 the DNC would have been forced to let a better candidate win the primary.
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  1442. He completely lost any credibility when he didn't run 3rd party in 2020 when he wasn't made the VP and basically none of his policies were included in the platform. They didn't even do hazard pay for essential workers, the fact that he couldn't even get that just shows how little he cared in terms of actually forcing things.
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  1443. Perhaps a good start would be to not force Harris on us and to let us make up our own minds about which candidate should be the nominee.
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  1444.  @eraldylli  Yes, have people not forgotten that Bernie just stepped aside without making any demands in both 2016 and 2020 and now the current President seems to be completely fine with Israeli forces continuing to commit crimes against humanity.
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  1445. I thought about it, but I couldn't find anywhere that actually showed how to setup dependencies. I just wanted to code a simple GUI window pop up and all of the information that I found was from a now unsupported method of doing it and I just gave up because it was a waste of my time when other options have the decency to not discontinue that sort of thing to this extent.
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  1446.  @mikevignola4213  Yep, but I imagine it depends on how popular British programming is in your particular neck of the woods. Around here PBS regularly had various programs from the UK. The DVD set was released in the US several years before House had its first episode.
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  1447. There's always going to be insecurities when that's such a significant portion of your job. Not to mention that there are a lot of possible accents and depending upon whom you're hanging out with, it can make it seem like yours is worse than it really is. I grew up 4 blocks from my best friend, but he still makes fun of me for the way that I pronounce roof.
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  1448.  @scifi_shop  This is an object lesson in why the US used to have a top tax bracket of over 90%, it discouraged people from accumulating so much money that they couldn't figure out what to do with it all.
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  1449. Why? The bulk of the people who voted for this were never going to be impacted by this in the first place.
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  1450. As in the only people in the state that are actually impacted by this. The folks in Eastern Washington have no need for this as you don't have inversions there and the population is a lot less dense. This was just another situation where jealous folks in rural areas trying to stick it to the urban dwellers that are actually making money.
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  1451. What are you talking about? Nobody was going to be converting old homes over to electric only. The mains are still in the ground and are unlikely to be removed until the number of customers drops below whatever level is needed to justify the infrastructure. As far as the expense, $50k is a lie. It's a few hundred dollars, maybe $5k tops as all of these homes already have the 230v service coming to the home that an electric oven and anything else would use.
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  1452. Not really, it's jealousy. You're jealous that there are more people living there who are making more money than you are. Most of the rest of the state suckles off the King County teet whenever taxes are being distributed. There's an amazing lack of any sort of appreciation for what the county does for you.
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  1453.  @leviharrison4127  So? Trying to get something thrown out that might not even win is one thing, judges are often times hesitant to intervene on something that may wind up becoming moot. But, the whole thing does have a massive issue in terms of one ultrawealthy individual being behind the initiatives and him not necessarily having the best of intentions. In this case, all of the initiatives on the ballot were unnecessarily confusing and that's been an increasing trend in recent years where it's not at all clear how you need to vote if you have one position or the other.
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  1454.  @GANTZ100pts  There were 3 options on the ballot early on and eventually the last vote was surface street versus tunnel. A street would have been absolute madness and people saying otherwise are completely out of their mind. Just look at how large the street we have along the waterfront now, just imagine how much bigger it would have had to be in order to also handle the through traffic trying to bypass downtown completely.
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  1455.  @GANTZ100pts  You say that, but where's your evidence? You anti-tax people are lame, you folks assert things like that, but most of you are living in areas of the state where you're getting more out of the tax coffers than you put in.
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  1456. Yep, and the difference between a mature looking 14 year old isn't necessarily that much from a immature looking 17 year old. Depending on where exactly you are in the world, sleeping with one of them may be perfectly legal and the other not.
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  1457. The local paper probably has them digitized. I know that my local paper has digitized archives going back to at least the mid-80s as I looked. I'm not sure when they started doing that, but I know that decades ago, journalists were already using computers and submitting things via modems.
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  1458. He's mostly right, except for the racist cops. The reason why you see a disproportionate number of people of color shot by police is that people of color are exposed to police a disproportionate amount of time. If you actually control for that, the rates aren't that dissimilar. Or, to put it a different way, when white people get shot by police, it rarely makes the news for more than a day or so. When people of color are shot by police it's often a much bigger deal. The reason being, that there are fewer of those incidents and as such, they actually are news. It's the amount and type of exposure to the police that's the main problem here. As long as there's more contacts, there will be more shootings, regardless of intention.
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  1459.  @cisium1184  Yes, a tariff is just a tariff. If no goods that are subject to the tariff are imported, then no tariffs are paid. However, it can even the playing field a bit if other countries are doing things like using slave labor. Although the WTO greatly reduced the amount of situations under which tariffs can be used to deal with various ways in which developing countries can undercut developed ones.
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  1460. Because you need domestic production to avoid a repeat of the OPEC created oil crisis of the '70s. Having the capacity overseas means that the producing countries have the ability to dictate what goes on here. Smaller countries have a smaller demand and aren't in the same position to have their own domestic production, but they're also in a better position to find somebody that's wiling to provide them with the vehicles they need. Whatever country builds the EVs that the US depends on is going to have us over a bucket, and the process may violate human rights and result in us continuing to fund countries with an iffy human rights record. This is especially going to be important if they can get sodium based battery capacities good enough to compete with lithium based batteries as there's a ton of sodium available, and given a possible need for desalination plants to provide drinking water in the future, diverting some of the excess sodium to battery production would help with the problem of disposing of the excess sodium that results from the water being removed.
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  1461. Yes, I do think that both issues will improve over time. Especially the expense when the charger situation is dealt with. Most trips are only a few miles a day, and the older EVs that did exist in the '80s could handle that just fine. And with the improved rate of charging in modern EVs, the chargers in rural areas mostly need to be close enough that you can skip one if it's broken. The big advantage that ICEs have is that you can more easily bring fuel to it if you have to. As much as it sucks having to walk for gas, it's at least a thing that can be done.
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  1462.  @romanpolanski4928  That's not going to happen because people aren't going to need to charge that fast. The only time when charging that fast is particularly helpful is if you're on a road trip. Most people are going to be trickle charging when at work or at home because slower charging is better for the batteries than rapid charging is. The places where they expect a higher portion of the EVs to be rapid charging are going to be more rural areas and they'll just upgrade that little bit to handle it.
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  1463. I've been wondering about those. Also, have a smoke detector. They aren't that expensive and the local fire department might even have some to hand out for free. They might even install it for you if you can't install it yourself. It should never have come down to that little girl figuring out to go get her dad to deal with the fire.
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  1464.  @cheesygerit2299  Installing your own smoke detector is neither expensive nor particularly complicated. It's typically just a couple screws into the ceiling for the mounting bracket. I'd be surprised if there aren't any charities that give people the detectors for free just to avoid the issues that come from being killed in a fire. After all, you're never too old to die in a fire.
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  1465.  @20PINKluvr  Privilege? They aren't that expensive. I've got one at both ends of my hallways and they're like 15' apart. (The second one was probably installed there because it's right next to the bedrooms)
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  1466.  @aaryashapardesi3390  I heard Dad, but it was probably "dat's"
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  1467.  @NuggieIsMissing  Same, but look at the age of the kid, it was probably "Dat's going to kill me."
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  1468. I doubt they'll agree to that, but I'm sure there's going to be somebody somewhat less horrible that the public will view as acceptable since that person isn't as bad.
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  1469. I wouldn't expect that to happen, I think it's probably just being floated in order to make the final selection less objectionable to the public.
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  1470. A better use of that time would have been to invent a way of getting the politicians to actually do their jobs.
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  1471.  @neoasura  Show the right to high-powered weapons with massive ammo capacity in the constitution. You can't, because the right that's in there was never intended to allow for the private ownership of such weapons. It's the same reason why we're not allowed to own howitzers and chemical weapons.
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  1472. Sadly, it's probably going to take an active shooter situation in the Supreme Court or one of the chambers of congress to get any actual movement on the issue. The Democrats love running on doing something about it, and the GOP loves running in opposition to any sort of substantive effort to reduce the risk.
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  1473. Well, thank god nobody is going to actually deal with these guns. Better to just let them keep mowing down innocent people so that we don't get limited to a small number of weapons with a small amount of ammo that can be loaded at any given time.
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  1474. Because it doesn't work. Only veterans that have seen action and complete psychos can be counted on to actually pull the trigger when push comes to shove. Not to mention that now rather than having one active shooter armed and running around, now you'd have more that the police have to worry about and the situation can go on longer. Really, the fewer people with firearms during a mass shooting the better.
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  1475.  @prefersoxygen9373  And yet, other countries don't have that problem. The Japanese and Brits both have strict laws involving guns where that doesn't happen.
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  1476.  @yeedbottomtext7563  Read the constitution, nowhere in it is there a right to individual gun ownership. The 2nd amendment is about the national guard being able to have weapons independently of what the feds think. And there certainly isn't a right to have enough gun power to take out a dozen or more people in a matter of minutes.
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  1477. It could have been handled better, but I don't fault the park here, a kid that overweight shouldn't be going on any sort of ride of that type. The stress on the heart is already going to be significant without the stress of the ride.
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  1478. Sadly, that's not surprising. Childhood weight has a significant impact on how easy or hard it is to maintain a healthy weight as an adult.
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  1479. Perhaps, but those folks already saw her, it's not like this was happening in the dark or with blindfolds on.
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  1480. I definitely feel bad for the girl. She's clearly being screwed over by her parents and is now being embarrassed on TV. She's being set up for a lifetime of health problems and general misery. Unfortunately, your weight as a child is a bit of an indicator of what it's going to be later in life as it can be very hard to change those eating patterns later on.
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  1481. It kind of blows my mind that he thought those other people in line didn't know that she's morbidly obese. Now, if a bunch of people exchanged cash after hearing the number, that might warrant this report.
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  1482.  @teamseshmason  Generally speaking, providing the opportunity is a legitimate sting, going the extra step of providing material support and/or plans would be entrapment. Simply baiting criminals with a bait car or fake packages isn't likely to rise to the level of entrapment.
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  1483. Aren't we already to? This constitutes battery. No assault, but that's just because it's being done from behind.
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  1484. It's batter, but yes, this is already illegal. Assault would require that it be done in a way that the victim knew it was happening. Battery is just the actual contact.
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  1485. Honestly, this would be f-ed up even if these people knew the prankster.
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  1486.  @humpteedumptee8629  There was also Milo and Otis. Animals can travel farther than people realize. Although, the likelihood of being eaten by a larger animal is a major risk. Not to mention being run over by a car.
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  1487.  @Mike-01234  If it was put in by the rescue, then how would it have the information for this couple? And how would the information be up to date?
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  1488. Possibly allergies, possibly moving someplace where they aren't allowed to have pets. Sometimes it's because the owner died.
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  1489. It's possible, it's just unlikely for a cat to survive in the wild that long. Living in a home the record is roughly 39 years and the current oldest is 36. In the wild, it's going to depend a lot on luck and being able to avoid being eaten or run over by a car though.
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  1490. And yet he appears rather annoyed at the inconvenience.
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  1491.  @SeanPat1001  Arguably this was an illegal wiretap.
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  1492.  @Samuel_Loegan  He is a smart man. "Everybody has a plan until a tiger punches them in the bread basket"
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  1493.  @DoylesDigs  I think you'll find that falls on deaf ears.
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  1494. Why? People rarely fall to their death there and there's already the means to climb it with reasonable safety.
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  1495.  @stuwest3653  IKR, that happened to that famous stairway in Hawaii, people refused to be careful and they eventually closed it because they got sick of dealing with people hurting or killing themselves on it. They eventually went so far as to remove the stairs completely as people were ignoring the closedness of the stairs.
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  1496. Why not? Most people complete the hike without any sort of injury. This is one of those situations where in hindsight, I'd say she shouldn't have gone, but I'm not sure how I would have known to tell her that before she went on that hike.
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  1497. And I"m sure that he'll now get a very thorough investigation of the Chinese legal system.
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  1498.  @mina86  Yes, although the DRM isn't that much of a problem. Tools to extract the text exist if the tools to break the DRM cease to. A simple program to flip through the book and screen shot every single page isn't really that hard to write. And OCR already exists to easily go through hundreds of JPGs and convert that to a proper PDF with reflowable text in many cases.
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  1499.  @Blitterbug  Yep, I think that and the inability to use whatever reader I want to use to read are the biggest practical issues with DRM.
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  1500.  @chaddaifouche536  Personally, when I can, I tend to prefer to buy from Smashwords because it's DRM free.
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  1501.  @OGmolton1  They used to, but personally, I wound up just paying for a commercial software app that does work. If it ever stops working, I just will stop buying ebooks and switch back to paper books that I can convert to ebooks using ML software to make it a better experience.
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  1502.  @aidan8583  Amazon is the most abusive in this space, so any time you can give money to one of the other companies, you're at least discouraging the worst abuses. And, Kindles have never been the best option, Nook used to be the best, but these days, they have major problems.
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  1503.  @colbyboucher6391  No, CDs are something you own. You get nearly all the ownership rights you'd normally enjoy when you buy a CD, the only rights you don't get come from making copies of that to sell. You're free to buy and sell your CDs on a secondary market as long as you like
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  1504. I wonder how much of this is the result of over-scheduling the kids in activities combined with a lack of proper literacy education and librarians to find books that the kids want to read while still young enough to build a life where books are a significant part of daily living.
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  1505. To an extent whole language does work, but you have to know how to read in a language before that is even possible. So, it can be somewhat helpful for older students trying to learn to read a new language, but it really doesn't work with kids trying to learn to read their first language and often times not knowing the grammar that's being used either.
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  1506. I learned to read in the '80s and at the time, there was a lot of work that went on, but there were also some great games that encouraged literacy. I remember the TLC games that were built pretty entirely on being able to read the text between bits where you were just playing. So, the goal in reading the text was to advance in the game and for the most part those reading segments weren't very long. We also had a librarian for the school's library and there would be free books given out to all of the students in an effort to connect the kids up with that one book that sparks the connection to reading. And the books being given away weren't even intended to be educational beyond practice reading either. I got one that had a rather striking picture on the front including a snake crawling through a pile of skulls.
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  1507. They get the same donor bucks and sweet heart jobs after leaving office.
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  1508. That's a huge problem. It's also why it should be required that all states vote by mail. The wait lines in these various states is often absolutely ridiculous. It takes hours in some cases. Here in WA we never had wait times that long even before we switched to only voting via mail.
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  1509. Yes and it turned out they were on Earth all along.
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  1510.  @liammorris1018  There is, there's a safety release that's supposed to drop enough ballast for the sub to rise to the surface. It's unclear whether that failed or if something else happened. But, they put a ton of faith in the hull and the safety release mechanism to bring them to the surface where they could be recovered if something happened. It's still unclear what exactly happened and until they either recover the sub, or find a debris field, that answer won't be knowable.
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  1511.  @Seronu  Yep, for those of us that aren't involved in the actual rescue process, thoughts and prayers are the most we can offer. In all likelihood, it's already too late. After locating it, they'd probably have to bring it back to the surface and then get them out of there without inducing decompression sickness, and that is an extremely tall order.
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  1512. As opposed to the current system of election fraud where they implement various poll taxes and inconveniences in the form of voter ID laws that require people to be able to afford to take off work to get the IDs? Here's a hint, if you think that elections fraud is a problem, then why is it always whining about the imagined ballot stuffing by the Democrats rather than the very real efforts that go on by the GOP to disenfranchise voters?
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  1513. As opposed to the current situation where they don't bother to come to states like WA, CA or TX and spend huge sums of money on a small minority of voter in places like Ohio, Florida and other swing states. What you're arguing is that those rural voters should have more of a say than those of us in cities should. Have you seen the state of the infrastructure in the urban areas? We've been subsidizing the rural folks for years at our expense, but even basic things like getting potholes filled requires us to pay again through local taxes to get it done.
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  1514. iamgoddard I don't hate rural people, I just think that it's beyond ridiculous that we wind up subsidizing them while they continually vote to fuck us over in an effort to show how smart they are. We need to restore balance and part of that is taking away their special votes.
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  1515. iamgoddard That definitely does not follow from my logic. I'm opposed to hypocrites in rural areas living off my largess and whining about how poorly they're doing even as they vote for candidates that promise things that make it harder for those of us paying for that largess to make a living. Cry me a freaking river. Most people in cities are not rich, there's a growing number of working poor here and I fail to see why they should have to subsidize you lazy fucks in the country that can't figure out how to support yourselves even as the policies meant to ensure that we can feed ourselves get cut. In other words, stop being such self-centered babies and just man up and earn some more money. I mean, that's what you lazy fucks in the middle of nowhere keep telling us in the city when rent and various other costs of living exceed what can be bought on minimum wage.
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  1516. iamgoddard And the cost of living out there is substantially lower than it is in the cities. Primarily because we're subsidizing them. Just because you're ignorant, doesn't change reality here. Rural America is suckling at the teet of the wealthier cities even as more and more of us can't afford to have the basic necessities of life without having to work multiple jobs. We export our tax dollars to rural America at the expense of programs that we want and need even as the greedy bastards living in the middle of nowhere have us subsidizing their lifestyle. I mean seriously, just look where the taxes are raised and where they're spent. They're raised in urban areas where the cost of living is higher and their largely spent in rural areas where the cost of living is lower.
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  1517. iamgoddard You've got to be fucking kidding me. Their whole lifestyle is founded on our largess. They pay for very little of what they have. The urban voters finance their lazy and self-entitled lifestyle even as the urban core continues to rot out from under us. But, thank god that some cheap farmers and ranchers don't have to actually pull their own weight because they've got more representation and can steal tax revenues from the urban taxpayers to finance their self-indulgence.
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  1518. iamgoddard No, it's not to any reasonable extent. Small states get a disproportionate number of electors meaning that larger states get passed over for smaller ones every year. Not to mention that if you happen to have wanted Gore to win, you were essentially disenfranchised because the electoral college overrode your vote by handing too much power to small states. We would have had President Gore for at least one term if not for the small state bonus that the states get or if the electoral college didn't exist. It's not really that complicated.
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  1519. iamgoddard Yes, but nobody ever bothers to come here to campaign after the primaries are over because whether they win by 1 vote or a million they get the same number of electoral votes. And yes he did win the popular vote in 30 states, a large portion of which don't have many people in them.
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  1520. Curtis Hanson The point is that we long ago dropped the idea of electing our Senators indirectly, but we still retain this indirect election for the Presidency. But worse is that we don't know who any of these electors are, nor do we vote for them directly. Which makes absolutely no sense.
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  1521. And yet it's only the Presidency where we don't directly vote for the politicians that serve us. We don't do that for the Senate or for the House. The closest thing would be the various cabinet positions and the Supreme Court justices, but that's a bit of a stretch as those aren't supposed to be political offices.
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  1522. ***** So, in other words, you're completely and utterly full of shit.
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  1523. There's no evidence that there were illegal aliens voting in the election. If you have evidence of it, hand it over to the proper authorities and they'll be arrested. This is something that comes up routinely, but there's no evidence that this is happening regularly and certainly not with enough frequency to throw the election for one party or another. The election fraud to worry about is things like voter ID laws, closing polling places and voting machines that lack a proper paper trail for the voters to verify that their vote was properly recorded and can be audited after the fact as need be.
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  1524. Why? So, men that aren't trans aren't allowed to be transvestites and get fabulous? This is just one of the last vestiges of a theatrical tradition that goes back literally thousands of years. The main other one is sketch comedy shows with insufficient casting to avoid crossdressing. Transvestites were never exclusively transgender. There were various reasons for it.
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