supplied_demand

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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==giving more money to an underperforming school only makes it worse.== Is there no circumstance where more funding would help an underperforming school? It certainly “can” make it worse in instances, but there are many reasons that a schoo
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== put them up in hotels until their claims of asylum are adjudicated, which takes years. How is that not open borders== You answered right before asking, their asylum claim must be adjudicated. If it is denied, what happens? == Because tha
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==But you don't think that admitting, say, half the populations of all the world's best-known failed countries like Somalia, Haiti, Syria, El Salvador, DRC, etc.== This has never happened, is not happening now, and has not been pr
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
In my experience (US-based), small business owners are one of the most celebrated segments of the population. I assume it is a small business if there are no other employees with which to celebrate. There is lots of help and support availab
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== Most people hate SAP but don't know what to do. Caught in catch-22, they hate it, but don't trust any other options== I think it is worth pointing out a little nuance I learned while working at SAP. - The IT department tends to
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== In the real world, Australia is significantly closer to A and further away from B than France is; and, unsurprisingly, France has significantly greater immigration-related social problems than Australia has.== Your example completely ign
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== But they don’t know how to reconcile “can save a few” with “can’t literally bring all poor people here without destroying our country.”== It’s also possible that they hold a fundamentally different view than you and aren’t just naive idi
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== the country had to import those adults from some other country whose people did have children== Those people chose to come the US for the opportunity as they have throughout history, even when birth rates were high. == Protecting and pro
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== So it's impossible to create a welfare system in order to encourage families. People need to have children first so that they can be made to pay for it.== This ignores some important facts. First, lots of immigrants already pay taxe
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
I'm sure the elimination of free, educational content will be great for the working class.
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== On paper Trump is a centrist in many ways because he doesn't seem to have strong values either way.== He has enacted much of the Project 2025 agenda, which is a right-wing, authoritarian playbook.
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==I had to look up many of the recent examples to assume who they were talking about.== Seems you are only paying attention to one side if you had to look up the examples, as they are all quite recent. It doesn't seem like we are going
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==This is the sort of win at all cost mindset that's driving this in the first place. Neither side is proposing a real solution.== Except that Democrats introduced bills in 2021 and 2024 to stop partisan gerrymandering [0][1]. They als
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
The point is that the entire party did a complete 180 on one of their strongest bedrock principles. These people still call themselves conservatives while supporting an administration that holds almost zero "conservative" stances.
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
Were all the grand juries and juries Democrats too?
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
The Big Beautiful Bill passed without any Democrats voting for it. Democrats are not great (or good) by any measure, but they did not confirm all the appointments that are doing this. ==Six nominees received no supporting votes from any Dem
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
When he started at DEC in 1982, they had 67,000 employees and almost $4 billion in revenue. It seems like that type of success and size would imply some institutional knowledge. Their revenue, income, and employee count started stagnating i
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==why did they usually do it== I'm not entirely sure, maybe they did it to give people a narrative to distribute? I just know what they are doing now, which is forced starvation and violence without warning. The exact thing people warn
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
In this comment, you invent a conspiracy and apply it to me in order to have something to attack. You even used scare quotes to make it extra bad. These performances kind of prove that you know the facts aren’t in your corner. The BBC video
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
I don’t recall many people denying Israel’s right to protect themselves against Hamas (I’m sure some did). The concern was them using it as an excuse to perpetrate the Palestinian genocide they wanted all along. That is what we now see. You
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
He worked there starting in 1982. When do you think the dot-com era started?
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
I remember a lot of people predicting it would lead to this from the start. The response was often along the lines of “If you don’t support Israel’s invasion, you are pro-Hamas.” If those people had a come-to-Jesus moment, great. That said,
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== if you want to stamp out a young engineers creativity, start them working in a big org.== Jim Keller’s own biography kind of dispels this notion. He worked at DEC for 16 years when he was a young engineer (24-40 years old).
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== What you end up with will always be better than what you started with.== That is quite the absolute statement. Could you share some data to back this up?
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== I think the main reason people put forth the “latent fetish” explanation is in order to argue that pornography is harmless.== I think the main reason people blame their fetishes on porn is in order to avoid confronting their inner compul
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
Can you clarify how it “harmed” you? You didn’t quite answer that question.
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== When i was growing up the prevailing mindset among parents was that their kids will trampled on if they teach them to show kindness. Now we want our kids to be kind.== I’m 41 and have noticed the exact opposite movement in my lifetime. T
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
The difference is that confirmation requires evidence. If you had any evidence you would have provided it.

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