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by gallopingcomp 4y ago
Yes. Back to the matter at hand: There’s a difference between (potentially) losing your professional license for beliefs and practices related to your professional practice, and being put in a re-education camp. The former isn’t always righ
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by gallopingcomp 4y ago
The solution is that society shouldn’t make people dependent on any single means of income for survival, not that no one gets rejected/disbarred from any occupation ever. Ultimately any negativity towards a person lies along a spectrum
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by gallopingcomp 4y ago
As opposed to professional beliefs. Which might be a tricky distinction sometimes, especially in psychology, because (1) some beliefs and speech aren’t exactly object-level, but aren’t quite political either; (2) previously non-political, p
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by gallopingcomp 4y ago
Hence the “salesman” part. The government is technically depriving you of your livelihood because your employer is out of business, or has moved to non-leaded gasoline, but you insist on only selling leaded gasoline, because you sincerely b
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by gallopingcomp 4y ago
I am not a lawyer, but it isn’t the Constitution that prohibits lawyers from engaging in (and exploiting) conflicts of interest for personal gain.
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by gallopingcomp 4y ago
There’s an extended discussion to be had about the merits and drawbacks of professional licensing as state-enforced gatekeeping, but equating this with political persecution doesn’t seem useful. Has it not occurred to you that professionals
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by gallopingcomp 4y ago
Banning lead from gasoline (and paint, plumbing etc) is also governmentally-punished wrongthink, if you’ve built your whole identity and livelihood around being a salesman for leaded gasoline. Or. Could a certified driving instructor lose t
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by gallopingcomp 4y ago
It’s curious that you chose JP, as opposed to the much better example of Hamline University (or that stupid halloween costume thing from a couple of years back; etc, etc). Instead, we choose to entertain JP’s ever-escalating persecution com
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by gallopingcomp 4y ago
Note that in these contexts (comparing with European, Asian cities) tunnels are typically employed to (1) carry mass transit (which requires and in turn supports density), and (2) carry through traffic through dense urban centers without ha
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by gallopingcomp 4y ago
Yes (should be obvious from context). This includes federal, state, and local taxes. Edit: point being, if your taxes are super high, it's usually a combination of very high income & owning very expensive property. Edit 2: if you h
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by gallopingcomp 4y ago
I don’t know how rich the average HN reader is but, for a bit of perspective: I’m solidly middle class and I only pay about 30% total (and that’s if you include property taxes).
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by gallopingcomp 4y ago
One thing of note: there is likely no unified “they”, given that a document seems to be a mixed bag of elementary clarity-of-language items (“this is wild” vs. “this is insane”) and obsessive pedantic nonsense (about distinctions that do no
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by gallopingcomp 4y ago
Nitpick: This may be true of “folx” and “Latinx”, but “womxn” (despite sometimes-similar connotations) seems to have originated as a way to highlight/signal feminism, and has only acquired queer connotations recently.
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by gallopingcomp 4y ago
This almost sounds like a description of my local unitarian universalist church (minus the “trained psychologist” part - there are quite a few in the congregation, but our minister went to theology school).
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by gallopingcomp 8y ago
That's not quite the same as running a red light. In many places in the US, it is legal to make a right turn when the traffic light is right, provided that you slow down to a complete stop first. In practice, if there aren't a
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by gallopingcomp 9y ago
> JUST TO DELETE A FOLDER?! The standard solution to that is compeltely anticlimactic. Just run the disk cleanup program (diskmgr), and there’ll be an option to remove “previous windows installations”. It IS possible to manually delete i
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by gallopingcomp 10y ago
I do see your point. But I think you are being too pedantic... By saying it's incompetence and "bad", the poster probably meant that the people at Amazon aren't doing a great job (in achieving whatever goals they want to