somewhat_drunk

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by somewhat_drunk 2y ago
"There are concerns" Can you link to something describing the basis for these concerns?
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by somewhat_drunk 2y ago
I absolutely agree that we should not give the Executive any more power. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/dang... So... Harris 2024, yes? Snark aside, as long as democracy functions, all pow
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by somewhat_drunk 2y ago
Is money tantamount to power? Is the centralization of power bad? If yes to both, then the centralization of money is bad. You have no argument against this. The best you can do is to attempt to refute the notion that money is tantamount t
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by somewhat_drunk 2y ago
Is it? Currently: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/arizona-republic... Recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_efforts_to_restrict...
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by somewhat_drunk 2y ago
>There were a large body of studies showing that Ivermectin helped with COVID. No, there wasn't. I haven't kept up with the science, so there may be such studies now, but there certainly wasn't back in late 2020, when t
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by somewhat_drunk 2y ago
It's difficult to parse subsubzero's post after his edit, but he's saying Zuck believes Trump will win in 2024, so Zuck's spinning a narrative that he was forced to remove COVID misinformation, because COVID misinforma
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by somewhat_drunk 2y ago
>he sees the tea leaves in where things are headed in November Things are headed strongly in the opposite direction you're implying.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
They didn't last longer. https://auto.howstuffworks.com/under-the-hood/diagnosing-car...
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Prove that it wasn't fair.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
As long as half the country gets their information from a biased, inflammatory propaganda ecosystem, this will only get worse.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I interned at Goddard a few years back and Greenbelt was my favorite place. In the middle of a giant, hellish urban/suburban wasteland full of cars and roads with almost no walkability was a quaint little walkable village that was des
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Please describe how the Affordable Care Act led to the situation you're responding to.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Everyone here nitpicking the trees are missing the forest: EVs are necessary to reduce CO2 output, but consumers don't want them if charging is a pain in the ass. Resolving chicken vs egg problems for the good of the nation is exactly
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I tried this a decade ago, on a kopi luwak farm in Indonesia, before it became popular. It cost me less than a dollar, and it's still the best cup of coffee I've ever had.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
How very snowflakey of you.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I can't tell if you actually believe your logic is sound or you're just trolling.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
>We don’t live in an Economics 101 world. We do, in fact, live in an Economics 101 world. Sure, you also need Economics 102-499 to fully explain how it all works, but applying Economics 101 to any economic situation will yield a corre
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Perhaps a bit less likely, but we'll allow it.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I was a landscaper on 9/11/2001, on a job, riding a big lawnmower at a customer's house, when the first plane hit. I remember the customer ran outside, frantically flagged everyone down, and invited us all in - she said we j
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I've been using maps.me for a long time for offline map use while hiking and traveling off the grid, but recently switched to organic maps due to their superior interface. They both use openstreetmaps, which I have found to be outstan
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Thank you for posting this. I've seen it a few times already, but I'm watching it again, and it's cracking me up, yet again.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I had a pretty cushy, 100% WFH job at a big company and was probably getting promoted to senior within the next year. I liked the company, I liked the position, I liked my team, I liked what I did, and I was making pretty good money. I hat
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Ukraine is not in NATO, but they are absolutely an ally. Why would you allow Russia to invade a potential member of NATO as well as an ally as well as someone who you persuaded to give up their nukes in exchange for a promise to defend the
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Russia invaded an ally whom we promised to protect, who is also rich in natural resources, and is a strategic chokepoint for a future Russian invasion of Europe proper. Ukraine had problems with corruption, but they were trending in the rig
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
You know what, after googling a bit, you are more correct than I thought. The Ukraine War is responsible for a significant portion of US inflation. Not all, but maybe a third, at its peak.[1] But as other posters have mentioned, the FED ha
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Lol, ok. By the same logic, I can argue that "bidenomics" (printing money) started when the Federal Reserve was formed, in 1913. Or that it started when the FED closed the gold window in 1971. Though all three of those arguments
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
The current US debt as of today is $32.71 trillion. When Biden was signed into office, it was $27.6 trillion. Subtract the two and you get $5.11 trillion, which, you may not be aware, is just a smidge more than half of the $10 trillion yo
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Talk about rectally-sourced information... sheesh. The Ukraine War has almost nothing to do with US inflation. Have you even bothered to look at a chart of inflation? By your logic, inflation would have shot up from nothing as soon as the
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Bidenomics worked great, delivering record low unemployment as inflation fell faster than any other country in the G7. The US economy was full steam ahead for 3/4 of Biden's term, and is only now beginning to slow after the steep
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
>these issues are far more complex than the way they are talked about There are complexities to consider, yes. And surprise! They have been considered. All of your concerns have been analyzed ad nauseum and converted into neat little

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