cmh89

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by cmh89 3y ago
Miami has the most reckless drivers I've experienced in the US. I don't know if its confirmation bias but man, I was stressed even in a car there.
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by cmh89 3y ago
>but caring about others as people and not as cogs in a machine is important in building a professional career. You're ignoring power dynamics. It's impossible for a manager and their reports to have real relationships and conv
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by cmh89 3y ago
>But on the other hand, having a car also has its benefits. Many anti-car people really underestimate the value of having your own means of transportation, going to and fro on your own time, and the inherent privacy being in your own car
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by cmh89 3y ago
>He’s a former government official who openly changes his messaging based on polling data, not scientific evidence. It’s not unreasonable to discount his public statements. What nonsense. OP and you either have actual useful information
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by cmh89 3y ago
> But what Fauci is saying about the lab leak evidence and gain of function stuff is misleading. Would you like to elaborate? I'm interested to see your explanation of how one of the most prominent infectious disease experts in the
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by cmh89 3y ago
We just experienced this though and it wasn't good for their stock price. Low unemployment means they have to pay their workers more to hire or retain them. More expense means they either need accept making less (bad for stocks) or rai
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by cmh89 3y ago
People aren't scared into not taking 3rd parties seriously, our system is just fundamentally designed to only have two realistic parties. It's just inherent in a first past the post system.
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by cmh89 3y ago
So what? The person who is accused of owning the emerald mine says they owned the emerald mine. That's at least some evidence that its true.
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by cmh89 3y ago
The person alleged to have owned the mine apparently does not think it's a rumor "Well, according to Errol Musk, the unsurprisingly eccentric — and in one major way, extremely creepy — father of Elon, the mine definitely exists. A
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by cmh89 3y ago
We didn't lose to the Taliban for any other reason beside not having a clear picture of what victory would look like.
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by cmh89 3y ago
You aren't OP but that's my poin. OP made the absolutist statement that: "Censorship has always been on the wrong side of history and it still is." which is obviously absurd because there are very obvious situations wher
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by cmh89 3y ago
Who is 'deputizing' a landlord? The police are going to be much slower and ineffective in dealing with the problem than the landlord is, and why shouldn't a landlord take into consideration the effect their renters have on th
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by cmh89 3y ago
It's part of the American creation myth that's drilled into our heads as children. The Alien and Sedition Act was passed in 1798 which made it illegal to critique the government. Eugene Debs went to prison for advocating for draft
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by cmh89 3y ago
That's not really the question I asked, and I'm not sure how your response is relevant.
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by cmh89 3y ago
If you lived next door to a house that had become a drug spot, would you find it acceptable to call the landlord, tell them what's happening, and then ask them to investigate and evict? I sure would.
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by cmh89 3y ago
Free speech has never existed. We've always been pushing and pulling against what's acceptable.
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by cmh89 3y ago
>- If the business grows and starts needing management skills beyond what a cook or a waiter would have, you will have trouble hiring a qualified manager for same wages you pay to waiters Waiters generally make more than managers in rest
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by cmh89 3y ago
>Are you claiming that government orders are optimal 100% of the time in 100% of situations? If not, then sometimes it is wrong, and it might be wrong for you. Of course not. Your example was just not a situation where not following orde
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by cmh89 3y ago
>I know several people that have ignored fire evacuation orders and saved their homes instead. Lots of wildfire stories include people who ignored evacuation orders and died. This is just silly confirmation bias. The large majority of pe
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by cmh89 3y ago
Flyover country just alludes to the reality that people from the coasts don't go to places like Kansas for vacation or really much reason at all.
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by cmh89 3y ago
Okay? Like I said, people are completely free to build sites that have the moderation preferences they want. I don't really see how this relates to what I said
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by cmh89 3y ago
Yeah, that's my point. Cyclists are frequently going to something located on the road they are biking on .
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by cmh89 3y ago
That's quite a revisionist history. The early web was heavily moderated, just on a smaller scale. >Hate to say it, but once the tech elite ( or more like the money elite controlling tech ) started talking about minority, lgbt and wo
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by cmh89 3y ago
You're just noseblind because you also probably are a terrible driver. Maybe I'm wrong and you are the 1% of drivers who don't play on their phone, speed, and you come to an actual stop at stop signs, but I'm guessing yo
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by cmh89 3y ago
I mean this in the nicest, most sincere way possible. I don't know you, but I've met you a thousand times. As a middle-aged white guy, I was also a young white guy on the internet. I encourage you to broaden your horizons. Get off
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by cmh89 3y ago
>If I'm driving well under limit due to towing, looking for address, etc - I pull over and let people pass. It's not so hard for a bike to do same. Thats cool! It's also not hard for motorists to wait literal seconds to sa
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by cmh89 3y ago
>I think hate is inherently bad. Cool, I don't really believe you, but if that's the case, you're in the extreme (nonexistant) minority >People who hate will come to experience it as the truth. Literally every human who
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by cmh89 3y ago
I've been hit by more negligent motorists (2) in my life than cyclists (o). Maybe we should focus on data rather than anecdotes. Motorists kill a lot of people per year, bikes don't.
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by cmh89 3y ago
They aren't being antagonistic, they are protecting themselves. Allowing a motorists to pass you without leaving their lane is a really good way to end up dead and is also illegal on the motorists part. They are moving over to force th
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by cmh89 3y ago
>I meant something like bike roads where there are no cars on the road or around it. e.g roads sorrounded by meadows Well, have you considered that people on bikes are actually trying to, you know, access things that aren't meadows?

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