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by walkedaway 5y ago
Are meat eaters the target audience here? I was always under the impression that the target audience was vegetarians that longed for a burger et al. As a meat eater, I can't imagine myself ever even trying a plant-based "meat&quo
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India struggles to contain Nipah, deadlier than Covid(nypost.com)
11 points by walkedaway 5y ago|3 comments
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Covid has exposed the powers that be to be about exactly that: power. In the US, gun and ammo sales are through the roof due to the overreach of government. Everyone in the west has been warned by seeing how our governments react to try a
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by walkedaway 5y ago
"The biggest economic fallacy in housing is that affordable housing requires government intervention." - Thomas Sowell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnj2WRIG11U
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by walkedaway 5y ago
If only there was a way to keep in touch with people if you didn't have a Facebook account. I wonder what people did before Facebook?
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by walkedaway 5y ago
There's not a single Biden voter that cares that Biden is incompetent and creating messes for the US (border crises, inflation, gas shortages, etc). What they care about is no more Trump mean tweets.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Or possibly how bad Biden and Gen Milley are at planning and military strategy.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
> If you want to make people stop using water bottles you have to improve the water going to their house. Reverse osmosis and similar systems are affordable especially compared to the cost of bottled water.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
> is a paradoxical effect of (amongst other measures) masks Also an 100% known and predictable effect.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Another topic where people seem to ignore Thomas Sowell's research: https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/09/12/the-fallac...
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by walkedaway 5y ago
"Only you can prevent forest fires" lays the wrong mindset that humans are the only causes of forest fires. I grew up with that mindset, took some education to realize that nature (lightning) creates fires as well, and that fires
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Why is that surprising? Have you not been paying attention to Biden's lack of mental capacity the past couple years?
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by walkedaway 5y ago
My kids are older teenagers now, but I wish Apple would have had some of this 5-8 years ago. Good on Apple for investing in helping real world problems and issues instead of investing in silencing opinions they disagree with in the name of
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Residential zones are always in demand. No reason commercial can't be rezoned, and developers are always looking for prime locations.
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Texas Gov Abbott bans Covid vaccine and mask mandates(foxnews.com)
11 points by walkedaway 5y ago|1 comments
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Job applicants with black names less likely to get interviews(bloomberg.com)
16 points by walkedaway 5y ago|8 comments
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by walkedaway 5y ago
> I find that without a face to read, I have a very difficult time navigating conversations. I hear this a lot, and in my long experience I find that most people are terrible at reading others in the business world. I've seen so ma
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by walkedaway 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN7X-De2RA
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by walkedaway 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN7X-De2RA
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by walkedaway 5y ago
I've been at two sizable (publicly traded, Fortune 300) companies where this has been documented in both Slack and Email. And I just facepalm wondering how management can be so ignorant of the law.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
> Americans haven’t figured out how to behave on an escalator. If you’re not in a hurry, stand on the right and enjoy the ride, allowing those of us with a flight to catch to walk on the left. OMG so much this. Maddening how oblivious
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by walkedaway 5y ago
So, data-driven, factual research is the domain of the extreme far right wing these days? I mean, I knew the left was illogical, irrational, and irresponsible, but didn't realize leftists were admitting it.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
The documentary Uncle Tom talks about the active work the press and educational circles do to suppress Thomas Sowell's work. His data-driven research and conclusions counter leftist educational and media institutions, and those instit
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Thomas Sowell has broken this down very well over the last 50 years. https://www.hoover.org/research/affirmative-action-around-wo... https://www.commentary.org/articles/thomas-sowell-2/affirma
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Seems to be a pattern on HN over the past couple years: if it doesn't fit a certain progressive narrative, then it gets flagged or downvoted. The irony to me is that's exactly what news should be - things that are new.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Telling that you're being downvoted by HN community for asking a legitimate question.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Because we humans have immune systems that have worked since our inception as a species. Common sense.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
> you have the federal government to blame for the exceptionally high quality of life you lead If you were truly informed and educated as you claim you would know that our founding fathers had the foresight to anticipate the badness of g
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Agreed. Should be same punishment as a murder for hire. Didn't pull the trigger, but the intent from the swatter was there. Let's please make an example of these lowlifes that think abusing public safety resources is an acceptab
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Can people in the EU chime in on this? My understanding is that is how France does it (just go to a website, pay what the gov't says you owe because the gov't has all the details). > I'm not holding my breath. Yeah I ass

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