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by refurb 7d ago
The error that people make when criticizing card fees on merchants is that customers pay the cost. That’s not necessarily true. There are benefits for merchants to accepting credit cards. More impulse buys, buying more per transaction. An
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by refurb 9d ago
This is a solved problem. Let people defer increases until their house is sold. This what many states do. It’s seems insane that we “protect” people whose property taxes are going up because their home is getting so valuable
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by refurb 12d ago
It’s hard to take comments like this serious with all the hyperbole. But regardless. Polls of your average citizen aren’t worth a whole lot considering most people get their information from social media.
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by refurb 16d ago
It can be something as simple as an analytical reference. If you’re testing for dimethyl mercury in say fish, you need a standardized sample of dimethyl mercury to run. These references are highly dilute and thus less hazardous. But some la
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by refurb 19d ago
Nope. There was another protest where the police asked the protestors status. They then called Immigration Canada to verify. You literally have the cops in Canada working hand in hand with federal immigration enforcement. No politicians c
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by refurb 19d ago
There is no “rebranding”, that term is older than you
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by refurb 20d ago
They aren’t legal any more if their visa expires? I’m an immigrant to the US. I knew the risk that at any time the rules could change and I’ll be headed to my home country.
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by refurb 20d ago
Don’t blame me when someone inserts themselves into a discussion they don’t understand and start throwing insults
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by refurb 21d ago
Hilarious. My comment was replying to another comment that was discussing a different case, not the one in the article. Yet you throw around insults and labels at me. Who is the callous one here?
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by refurb 21d ago
Welcome to how immigration works in other countries. Canada just changed a bunch of rules and is actively sending immigration officers to immigrant protests to run status checks and deport anyone in the country illegally. There is no right
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by refurb 21d ago
Having the only appointment be a year or more out isn’t new. Anyone I knew wouldn’t take the risk of leaving the US if they didn’t have an appointment secured.
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by refurb 24d ago
Sure lawyers rely on semantics. But I said “silly semantics”. Claiming that destroying evidence of a crime proves no crime was committed is the logic of a 1 year old who thinks the world disappears when they close their eyes. A lawyer can g
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by refurb 25d ago
> Where the money is not coming from are consumers. This is 100% wrong. Look at Anthropic's quarterly revenue from AI sales ($11B), OpenAI (6.7B) and XAI ($5B). That's $23B a quarter or $100B annualized. And it's still g
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by refurb 25d ago
I think your handwaving away the impact isn't all that convincing and some don't make all that much sense. > American products are very expensive, and Canada is one of the few markets where they are viable. That's why DJT
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by refurb 25d ago
You sure? Canada's economy is struggling as is. The healthcare system is holding on by a thread. You ready for unemployment to double? If there is a significant recession, tax reciepts go down and healthcare spending gets further c
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by refurb 25d ago
Canada's tariff's will be meaningless. Canada's GDP is 32% exports. Of that, 75% goes to the US, or ~25% of Canada's GDP or $1 out of every $4. US exports to Canada are 11% and 16% go to Canada or around 1.7% of US GDP.
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by refurb 25d ago
The US has the largest consumer market in the world. The next biggest is the EU which is only 50% the size of the US. If countries of the world decide to trade among themselves, their economies are going to be a lot smaller.
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by refurb 25d ago
A good definition of it working is keeping the same system, and allowing the people elected by it to rule?
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by refurb 26d ago
AI companies are destroying old books. This has nothing to do with the government.
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by refurb 26d ago
You realize that it;'s not exactly democratic to change the rules just because you don't like who was elected democratically? That's the opposite of democracy.
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by refurb 26d ago
> A wiped phone can't contain contraband There is no requirement that evidence is "contraband". As other comments have said, the courts aren't autistic. They don't fall for filly semantic games.
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by refurb 26d ago
> Destroying evidence assumes he is guilty of a crime which there be evidence of. This is 100% untrue. You can be guilty of destroying evidence that includes no criminal activity whatsoever.
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by refurb 27d ago
If you think government geopolitical policy could be disrupted by a lack of pizza delivery i can assure you it’s not.
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by refurb 29d ago
What hospitals makes has nothing to do with physician pay - those are separate categories. Hospitals aren’t going to magically start giving some of their profit to doctors to help cover their lower fees. OP makes a good point. The studies
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by refurb 1mo ago
You need to adjust for inflation. Also the correct measure is % of GDP
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by refurb 1mo ago
US government solvency is backed by the power to tax and tap into the massive US economy. Considering the US has one of the lower overall tax rates of developed economies, I’m not sure we’ve reached any sort of crisis level
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by refurb 1mo ago
I disagree on the “if you’re poor”. I find eating healthy cheaper. You can prepare healthy meals from basic and cheap foodstuffs like vegetables, whole grains and legumes, eggs, low cost meat cuts etc. You can prepare delicious meals for
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by refurb 2mo ago
While the debt numbers might look large, don't forget how much revenue is coming into these companies as well. OpenAI gross revenue was $4B in 2024, $13B in 2025 and estimated to hit $26B in 2026. Revenue is doubling or more. Same wit
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by refurb 2mo ago
I would question the idea that highly industry consolidated debt is competing with risk free debt issued by the US government. Those are two very different products. And while the quarter by quarter growth may seem astonishing it very diff
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by refurb 2mo ago
By that measure it doesn’t sound like that much. You’re talking about about an amount that is a 13% of the total US government spending, of which is 20% of the entire US GDP. I’m not saying it’s insignificant but it’s only a few percent of

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