egdod

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by egdod 7y ago
Is it racist to call food in a style that originated from China "Chinese food"?
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by egdod 7y ago
It's not racist to call it the Chinese coronavirus.
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by egdod 7y ago
No, it is worse. Some idiot on Facebook with a conspiracy theory isn't in the same league as the propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party.
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by egdod 7y ago
I’m not sure what the hubbub is about that. The US President’s job description is literally to put America first.
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by egdod 7y ago
Housing, food, water, Internet access, cell phones... all more or less essential goods in the modern world. How dare anyone expect to be paid for them?
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by egdod 7y ago
Water doesn’t actively try to give itself to be drunk. Is it ok to consume?
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The Constitution isn’t suspended because of coronavirus(nationalreview.com)
11 points by egdod 7y ago|0 comments
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by egdod 7y ago
What kind of cartoon villain do you think he is??
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by egdod 7y ago
Contempt of court is a thing.
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by egdod 7y ago
Except that people become contagious before they have symptoms, and we don’t really have a good testing regimen.
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by egdod 7y ago
Are you quoting from the Abstract or something? The claims are what matters.
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by egdod 7y ago
Sure, but I’m not obliged to give any deference to improper purposes like delegitimization of the President.
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by egdod 7y ago
They're wrong, for purposes of American presidential elections anyway.
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by egdod 7y ago
Anarchism? Hardly. It's one of the handful of intentionally anti-populist features of the Constitution, along with the existence of the Senate. He did win. The only way to say he lost is by focusing on a measure that everyone agrees is
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by egdod 7y ago
> like Rusty of kuro5hin found out the hard way, poor guy. What happened? I haven't even thought about kuro5hin in many years.
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by egdod 7y ago
Skip it. A casino is probably only a little bit less bad than a cruise ship.
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by egdod 7y ago
Patents provide one way of stopping this kind of predation, but everybody hates patents so we have to pretend otherwise.
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by egdod 7y ago
> Just because there aren't any humans there, doesn't mean it doesn't already belong to someone. There isn't anyone there, human or otherwise. > And just because we are able to take over a moon, doesn't mean w
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by egdod 7y ago
A random asteroid impact could end the human species next month. If we spread to other worlds, our chances of survival go way up.
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by egdod 7y ago
Even if the prices were the same, the public doesn't give a shit how a company treats its workers. The whole premise is flawed.
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by egdod 7y ago
Yeah, and I don't use grocery discount cards either. But doing it via camera gives a ton of data beyond just what I buy and when.
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by egdod 7y ago
DCA is an acknowledgment that you don’t know where the bottom is.
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by egdod 7y ago
Gotta eat. Some kind of shopping is essentially non-optional unless you grow all your food. And using cash isn’t opting out of real-life shopping, it’s just opting out of one payment method.
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by egdod 7y ago
Grabbing a receipt at a kiosk is a lot quicker than manually scanning your items. My main problem with this is how invasively creepy it all is.
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by egdod 7y ago
Investing money that I don’t anticipate needing for decades, I’m happy to keep buying all the way down.
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by egdod 7y ago
If that’s a problem, maybe fuel should be more expensive.
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by egdod 7y ago
I’ve predicted twelve of the last three recessions!
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by egdod 7y ago
So don’t make that kind of mistake going forward.
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by egdod 7y ago
No doctor is dumb enough to give antibiotics for a virus.
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by egdod 7y ago
Pretty light on information.

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