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by mythopedia 4y ago
> The US can fix it all. Well I think part of the issue is that the US (as in the federal government of the United States) cannot fix it all, because each state makes its own election rules. So for instance the federal government can&#
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by mythopedia 4y ago
> Would it have been OK to make a joke about 9/11 victims while they were still digging people out of the wreckage? What if that joke was light-hearted, or the comedian was just making fun of people who tell those jokes? And in the
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by mythopedia 4y ago
I didn't even know he was sick
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by mythopedia 4y ago
> On October 26, the Senate confirmed Barrett to the Supreme Court by a vote of 52–48, 30 days after her nomination and 8 days before the 2020 presidential election. *Every Republican senator except Susan Collins voted to confirm her, wh
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by mythopedia 4y ago
Can't speak to most of this, but: > The term fiat derives from the Latin word fiat, meaning "let it be done" used in the sense of an order, decree or resolution.[0] I know it's annoyingly pedantic, but I had to look i
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by mythopedia 4y ago
Literally yes, by the Court's own admission: > For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due
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by mythopedia 4y ago
Seems like in an ideal world political parties would be the "institutions of intellectual or moral credibility that tell people directly how to vote". Of course, in the current United States that doesn't work because there is
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by mythopedia 4y ago
Well I think that's the entire point of this article: to call attention to the overwhelming crisis of medical debt in the US, and the need for us to create a great mechanism to deal with it. Just because we don't currently have
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by mythopedia 4y ago
Whoever said that should be a guest on Conan's podcast, because that's one of the funniest things I've heard all day.
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by mythopedia 4y ago
I think it's unfair to say that "the left" invented some strawman from thin air overnight. Here's an article from last year detailing dozens of instances where "a few nutters" endorsed this replacement conspira
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by mythopedia 4y ago
> First, Musk did acquire 9.1% of the company secretly, in the open market, paying prices in the high $30s to get a start on his takeover without paying a control premium. Crucially, he seems to have done some of this acquiring illegally
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by mythopedia 4y ago
> But I do know you can travel to NK and see for yourself. My understanding is that tourists in North Korea only see what the government of North Korea wants them to see. Here's one (admittedly potentially biased) source that claims
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by mythopedia 4y ago
Love it, very fun! I did have a slight problems when dragging letters. The functionality when dragging a letter from the bottom buffer to the top didn't always let me place the letter where I wanted to.
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by mythopedia 5y ago
Yes, and that agreement is set to 'expire' next month. "Starting in May 2020, the OPEC+ agreement called for a decrease in crude oil output by an initial 9.7 million barrels per day (b/d) that gradually tapers through Ap
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by mythopedia 5y ago
This is amazing to me, because I am also listening to the Revolutions podcast (just finished part 1 of the Russian Revolution, i'm sure this Stolypin guy will make some good reforms and Tsar Nicholas II will live happily ever after). H