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by PlanksVariable 4mo ago
I'm saying most people are motivated by self interest, not that you have nothing to offer in return.
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by PlanksVariable 4mo ago
Both the far right and far left throw around accusations of "ethnic cleansing." Both are ridiculous, but considering the U.S. population shifted from 85% white to 55% white in the last few decades, and even today most immigrants c
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by PlanksVariable 4mo ago
More people are impacted by mass immigration than immigrants and employers.
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by PlanksVariable 4mo ago
The reality is many people come on temporary visas, as tourists, as students, etc., and overstay. This policy is some attempt to address flows of quasi-legal immigration. It's unfortunate there's friction to the process, but it&#x
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by PlanksVariable 4mo ago
The Claude Code CLI is very popular. Are they aiming to make it more like that?
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by PlanksVariable 6mo ago
“If people are defecting to wired from EarPods” This assumes that people are switching from wireless to wired headphones organically, and the main assertion of the article (wired headphones are popular again) isn’t actually manufactured.
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by PlanksVariable 6mo ago
And for how many more years are we going to be calling this a post-Covid market correction?
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by PlanksVariable 6mo ago
Surprised it took this long. I feel bad for the employees, but I can’t remember the last success they had. Metaverse, VR, throwing absurd money at AI and for what?
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by PlanksVariable 6mo ago
So who is the client? In all of the article’s photos of celebrities, they’re wearing Apple EarPods. Is Apple trying to convince people to buy their $19 EarPods instead of their $250 AirPods?
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by PlanksVariable 6mo ago
Yes.
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by PlanksVariable 7mo ago
I just left a similar comment about my local Fry’s in California. They replaced all the employees, who had been knowledgeable and helpful, with people who knew absolutely nothing about the products. I thought maybe it was just at our store,
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by PlanksVariable 7mo ago
They replaced all the workers at our local Fry’s with people who knew nothing about the products, weren’t friendly, and often spoke little English. It was odd. I don’t know that it happened at all Fry’s our just ours. But online shopping be
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
Crashing the economy? In the past year the S&P 500 rose 14%, unemployment is at 4.4%, and inflation is around 2.7%. There are many things to criticize Trump for but the economy has not actually crashed.
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
Yes, and also pushing identity politics down voters’ throats, selecting an inept candidate without a primary, their desperate attempts to buy votes with debt forgiveness, and opening the border, which escalated to a full-blown crisis leadin
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
Isn’t the VP generally the shoe-in nominee? Vance lacks charisma and gravitas, but he only has to be better than the Democratic candidate. For every Bill and Barack, the Democrats have also given us a Kamala, Hillary, and Al. Never underest
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
I agree, but I’m clarifying the facts: they’re claiming an administrative warrant gives them authority to enter a house, not no warrant as OP stated.
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
They currently use administrative warrants but I’m in favor of requiring judicial warrants.
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
Immigrants do bring important social and cultural capital. But nobody here is arguing in favor of no immigration. The standard among countries all over the world is to regulate the flow of immigration via immigration law and deportation of
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
The question is about deporting illegal immigrants specifically, i.e. people who are in a country in violated of its immigration laws. I think the main benefit is the same as with any law: if you have a law with no consequences for the peop
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
Why? Deportation is a reasonable response when a person violates a country’s immigration laws. That is the standard around the world. Alternatively, you have an essentially open border, which obviously can lead to unmanageable waves of immi
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
Counting deportations is half the equation. If Biden was deporting roughly as many people as Trump, but there are 4X as many people crossing the border, it wasn’t good enforcement. Look at net illegal immigration to get the impact, and it’s
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
During Obama’s presidency ICE wasn’t dealing with protestors actively interfering with day-to-day operations in cities throughout the country. Remove the protestors, and the probability of a civilian getting shot goes to ~0. Of course dozen
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
Yes, Obama increased deportations, and deported people at a faster rate than Trump. But that’s completely irrelevant when we’re talking about the Biden administration , who did not continue this policy, who reversed it, who allowed an un
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
Your actions have consequences. But who could have seen that coming?
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
Sure, recent past administrations enforced border protections and prioritized deporting immigrants with criminal records. And that’s irrelevant. The Biden administration did neither . They took active measures to strip the Customs and Bord
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
And Anthropic will never land heavyset_go with their attitude. I guess we’re at an impasse.
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
Who said Trump hires the best people for the job? That’s not what I said.
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
You could make a case that January 6th was a catastrophe. But a Trump-led coup? That’s quite a reach. I’m sure Trump got a thrill from the show of support. But I don’t believe even Trump thought those protestors could stage a successful a c
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
The first message is “don’t open the border.” People don’t want an open border. Not in America, not anywhere else. If there weren’t videos of thousands of people streaming across the border every day during Biden’s presidency, we wouldn’t b
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by PlanksVariable 8mo ago
Were Biden and Obama accurate representations of the median American when they won? Isn’t that a contradiction?

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