mbostleman

7 ms·

1.
by mbostleman 1y ago
What’s likely is that she was offered more generous compensation in return for things this. This is pretty standard stuff. What “threats and consequences” are you suggesting?
2.
by mbostleman 1y ago
Try and is one of my worst grammatical nightmares. It pains me every time I hear it.
3.
by mbostleman 1y ago
> sweeping away due process for mass deportation…> This is pretty off topic obviously but I see this due process claim a lot and I am assuming I’m missing some kind of fundamental legal concepts. And that wouldn’t be surprising becaus
4.
by mbostleman 1y ago
It’s sad that these posts of relevant facts - that are only presented as such, with no judgement - are being downvoted, apparently because they don’t supportive a narrative. One of the things I’ve always loved about Hacker News was how the
5.
AT&T step-by-step switch(youtube.com)
7 points by mbostleman 1y ago|0 comments
6.
by mbostleman 2y ago
By Internet do you mean Western Civilization?
7.
by mbostleman 2y ago
I'm not sure what I would be called, but institutionalizing the perpetuation of a particular party using hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars through propaganda, favors, and kickbacks not only domestically but internationally is no
8.
by mbostleman 2y ago
In the 80s, college stations were all I listened to other than WXRT when I was visiting friends in Chicago.
9.
by mbostleman 2y ago
I don't see how this addresses my point. State rights is the ability of a state to act on their own - not have unfettered access to federal funds.
10.
by mbostleman 2y ago
Ok, then how does that work, exactly? In 2021 a survey by the Pew Research Center found that about 4.5% of U.S. adults identify as gay, but when asked what percentage of the population they believe is gay, Americans on average estimated aro
11.
by mbostleman 2y ago
>>What we’re witnessing is active malice>> What do you think brought on this malice? What would cause 99.5% of the population to suddenly have malice against 0.5%? Was it spontaneous?
12.
by mbostleman 2y ago
I wonder how much of the success pseudo gender “science” had in undermining the scientific and medical communities was attributed to the centralization of science authority in the federal government. It makes me wonder if there shouldn’t be
13.
by mbostleman 2y ago
I don’t think states rights is defined by whether they receive money from the federal government.
14.
by mbostleman 2y ago
I don’t know about “parties” but political movements absolutely are divided by centralization (or not). Collectivism is literally the centralization of wealth.
15.
by mbostleman 2y ago
“The operator works at an electronic keyboard that returns the carriage automatically…” Interesting how the mechanical concept of a carriage carried on.
16.
by mbostleman 2y ago
That’s why I’m here
17.
by mbostleman 2y ago
I’m looking forward to when tech is not synonymous with screens.
18.
by mbostleman 2y ago
Yes and it was also an era in which government was willingly made very large and had broad support for doing so. First was the expansion in response to the Great Depression, then again not a decade later for WWII. The fed as a portion of GD
19.
by mbostleman 2y ago
Completely honest observation, but I can’t tell if this comment was meant to be parody.
20.
by mbostleman 2y ago
Absolutely, I'm sure there's all kinds of drugs that are totally safe. And I have no reason to think that this one isn't. But it does seem to follow a classic pattern - people get unhealthy because modern life and technology
21.
by mbostleman 2y ago
Actually I recently listened to a fascinating hour long interview with Lotte Bjerre Knudsen (ACQ2 podcast) from which I learned that the original research started in the early 90s. I'm not an authority but I'm pretty well aware of
22.
by mbostleman 2y ago
And how do you isolate being skinny because you are regularly active and eat well vs. being skinny because you are sedentary and eat garbage but then chase it down with a drug?
23.
by mbostleman 2y ago
Exactly. I see all these breathless claims of new uses and how wonderful this drug is and wonder when the other shoe is going to drop.
24.
by mbostleman 2y ago
Property, that is, that didn’t exist prior to the wide use of software or SaaS platforms. Which begs the question, did the rights ever exist to be eroded in the first place?
25.
by mbostleman 2y ago
Free market-based US healthcare system? Which US are we talking about?
26.
by mbostleman 2y ago
I’m not sure that the impact on the debtors is even the worse part. The removal of any apparent consequence for the cost of education also seemed to remove an incentive for the university to provide a quality product.
27.
by mbostleman 2y ago
For number 2, how did you come up with the very narrow 15 year window of birth from 1980 to 1995? I was born in 1963 and for the entirety of my upbringing it was a forgone conclusion that the lack of post high school education had a dire an
28.
by mbostleman 2y ago
The Boy Scout rule.
29.
by mbostleman 2y ago
Absolutely. It goes both ways. I just realized I may have implied otherwise. I was sticking to the negative words that go with corporation.
30.
by mbostleman 2y ago
Yes, along with capitalism, free markets, anti-union - once you have enough positive confirmation bias momentum on words already agreed upon as bad, then all you need is a little ad hominem implication nudge and you captured a large number

More ›