arrogantengineer

5242 pts ยท June 5, 2020


25% of the military budget only puts a small dent towards universal healthcare.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 5

A lot of the RAM is being warehoused. May never get deployed, hopefully released back onto the market later.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

lol at "the French don't fuck around with this kind of thing".

2 months ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Where and what office? Obviously this is going to vary by state (and President has its own rules) but here in Ohio the filing fees IIRC are at most $150 for the top spots (governor, senator, etc.) and typically less than $100.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

What's wrong with that? Not all insurance has pricing issues like healthcare. Malpractice insurance is expensive because lawsuits are ruinous. And I want them to have it so if they make a mistake there is money available to fix it.

4 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You will be hired and do "work" for a couple of weeks, so that you become invested. You will get a link to an online account showing your wages piling up. Then when you go to transfer funds to your bank, it turns out you are going to have to deposit some bitcoin to "unlock" your money.

5 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I meant which parts of life are zero-sum vs. positive-sum.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Both exist in nature. The hard part is figuring out which is true at any given time.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Wake me up when Newsome moves the needle.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This has not been shown to increase birth rates where it was tried.

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

They owe the shareholders no less.

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

What difference does it make? You think a bank is going to give him a loan just so he can give it all away?

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

FP is all quasi-porn and furry junk now. Even the few remaining political shit posts are low effort baits. Imgur was never very high on the content food chain but it has definitely well into its final descent to the bottom.

8 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

But he was Fully Functional!

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And in the USA that would often still be branded as racist via braindead disparate impact thinking (making some assumptions here obv).

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

But will it work?

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The "tempt employees" shit does happen though. In high school my friends would "accidentally cook too much chicken" while working the last shift at a restaurant and then literally bring 25 pounds of it and other food to parties I was hosting.

9 months ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

So we need to invade China and India and other developing countries which are the major polluters?

9 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 26

Just because they didn't appeal to you doesn't mean they appealed to the right. They in fact appealed to nobody.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Harris and Hilary were supposed to appeal to the right?

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You are inserting a lot there. Certainly stupid ideas can be popular, but good ideas can be popular too. What kind of crazy government do you imagine wouldn't care about what people want or need when considering policies etc.? Not to mention that democracy itself is populist with you know elections and all that.

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

In this context it means they are trying to claim of the mantle of the "people's will" in a general sense. It can also mean "lets focus on stuff that polls well" which is probably what you are thinking, although I would hesitate to call it stupid without nuance.

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Even in such cases they underperform as compared to a hypothetical moderate candidate. They mostly only exist in extremely safe districts for a reason.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Like you said, gradual. This would be sudden. Big difference.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A little bit lazy but mostly cheap.

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Exit row seats have fetched a premium for some time now already.

10 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Your two statements are perfectly compatible, no? So why would he counter argue.

10 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Am landlord but I don't do any of that shady stuff. There is a jus primae noctis clause but most of them don't read latin and don't seem to care.

11 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

But did that actually happen?

11 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

A truck and at least $1005 worth of coke, hookers, bell-bottomed pants, and tube tops in the bed. Probably need the 4-wheel drive where we'd be going.

11 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0