abduhl

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by abduhl 21d ago
Are we reading different articles? The headline says immigrant visas. The first paragraph says immigrant visas. “The Trump administration has paused processing of immigrant visas, which allow recipients to move permanently to the U.S., to t
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by abduhl 25d ago
First they came for those that were far away from me and I did not speak out because… I didn’t know them?
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by abduhl 2mo ago
Whoever explained this to you has done you a terrible disservice. The border is the border - on one side you are in the USA and on the other side you are outside it. If there was a strip of land where you are not in a country then how can C
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SpaceX stock sinks below $135 IPO price for the first time(cnbc.com)
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by abduhl 2mo ago
I’m saying local officials are the ones where your vote counts the most.
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by abduhl 2mo ago
Comments like this are even more tiring. Everyone knows that there are moneyed interests in politics. But decisions on these issues are made at a local level and so are the most addressable by local political actions.
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by abduhl 2mo ago
Do you need apples to turn on your lights? Was there a sudden new influx of pie makers? Is growing apples a government granted monopoly business? If the answer to these questions was yes, yes, and yes then I think you would grumble.
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by abduhl 3mo ago
Is the child of a diplomat a US citizen if they are born during a diplomat’s commercial activities?
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by abduhl 4mo ago
I think our disagreement is with respect to what it means to "claim" to be following a principle. Most people do not say "my principle is X," they just make statements that hint at a core principle. In many cases this
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by abduhl 4mo ago
>> Mn-based passivation is a counter-intuitive discovery, which cannot be explained by current knowledge in corrosion science. This statement sounds like the type of language one uses when trying to get a patent.
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by abduhl 4mo ago
This is shifting the principle/value discussion up to a level where it's meaningless. Let's use a different example. Old value: Returning value to shareholders. How to do it? Treat your employees like family and don't
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by abduhl 4mo ago
Well it is hypocritical. Hypocrisy is an action or statement that is contrary to a stated value or principle. Just because your values or principles changed doesn’t make you a suddenly no longer a hypocrite, it just admits that your former
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by abduhl 6mo ago
Civil contempt isn't some roving criminal charge that jumps out of the jury box randomly. It's meant to make somebody comply with a court order. Anybody in civil contempt holds the keys to the jailhouse door in their own hands,
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by abduhl 6mo ago
This is a bit hyperbolic and the exaggerations really undermine what I think is your broader point (that there is rarely recourse when you're held for short to moderate amounts of time). It is hard for me to believe that someone was h
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by abduhl 6mo ago
In its court filing, the US government admits that "In addition to refunding the IEEPA duties, CBP must also pay importers interest, as required by law." So one silver lining here is that we (because it is the taxpayers who ultim
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by abduhl 8mo ago
Trump v Cook is not upcoming it has been argued already https://www.oyez.org/cases/2025/25A312
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by abduhl 10mo ago
You already can do this. It’s called a declaratory judgment.
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by abduhl 11mo ago
>> Instead of just reporting the facts of the case (as was done by the Stat piece, which they're ripping off) they spend multiple paragraphs making ad hominem attacks about the CDC, Prasad, etc. Almost unbelievably, they put thos
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by abduhl 11mo ago
So, again, you’re not showing how it’s an ad hominem, you’re just disagreeing with the biased reporting.
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by abduhl 11mo ago
I don’t think these are ad hominem attacks. The article seems to just state the (perhaps biased) facts: people are calling it a clown show, Prasad was ousted, Prasad did gain popularity on social media as a COVID-skeptic. It doesn’t become
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by abduhl 1y ago
The effective tax rate on 260k/yr is 22% federally. The person we are discussing lives in Washington state. Their effective tax rate is 22%.
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by abduhl 1y ago
You are conflating upper class income with being wealthy in the Bay Area (and not just wealthy, uber wealthy; I know plenty of comfortable wealthy people who aren’t meeting congresscritters and making VC/PE calls). They’re different me
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by abduhl 1y ago
There is nowhere in America where $260k/year is “barely middle class.” 260k/yr is a top 10% income nationally. Calling it anything other than upper class is ludicrous, especially since the payment requires no geographic tie like a
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by abduhl 1y ago
This is just your gambling addiction showing itself. There may not be any potential gains in value after the transaction. In fact, most take privates result in massive up front losses for the new owners. And anyways, shareholders are paid a
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by abduhl 1y ago
Apple has a vested interest in maintaining a presence in the Chinese market because that is where a large portion of its supply chain exists. It isn’t appeasing the CCP because Chinese users, it is because of Chinese manufacturers.
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by abduhl 1y ago
Google flights actually has an option for Economy (exclude Basic) now. I’m not sure when this was rolled out. Previously, you could accomplish the same functionality by adding a single carryon bag in the drop down to force non-Basic.
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by abduhl 1y ago
What a strange line to draw when in both hypothetical scenarios the stalker actively engages in a creepy conversation with the target before “you see where I’m going with this?” happens.
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by abduhl 1y ago
This is a wild hypothetical that tries to blame a tool for the problem of a user. Won’t anyone think of the children? Let’s modify your post to highlight the absurdity: Let's say someone sees a parking warden they find physically attra
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by abduhl 1y ago
So is everyone else invested in the stock market.
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by abduhl 1y ago
I’ve never heard of a regulation governing attorney’s fees. Which regulations might you be referring to?

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