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1mo ago
That is typical. Private details of as-yet-unfinalized negotiations are to be private. Once finished they will publicly announce the outcome.
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1mo ago
Amazon and data centers are net payers of taxes. If AOC and New Yorkers selfishly wanted more tax revenue, then they'd approve of the Amazon headquarters. I reject the premise that data centers or Amazon headquarters are tax drains.
Loudoun County, VA approved of those data centers and they pay around half of all property taxes in the county to the benefit of the people who live there. Of course they have to pay their taxes.
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1mo ago
I like that the barbarian was outcast for violating her tribe's understanding of racial purity.
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1mo ago
Grocery stores are famously low profit. Like 1 to 3 percent after ruthlessly optimizing logistics and having minimal staffing. There's no 30 percent laying around for someone to take. Market prices are the price for a reason.
These are going to run at a 30%+ loss given even slightly higher than typical staffing costs. Which is feasible by subsidizing with tax dollars. The cynic in me suspects this will be yet another exercise in setting tax dollars on fire. Optimistically some poor people will get some below cost food that they eat rather than resell.
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1mo ago
this means using the gold standard of physics, radioactive decay
Every day at work I battle the great and undefeated enemy: thermal noise. I recommend a thermal noise source.
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1mo ago
The ECHR prevents you from directly deporting someone who makes a claim of asylum.
The term "suicide pact" comes to mind. Strange they couldn't forsee malicious false claims of asylum overwhelming them. The American equivalent being 5.8 million under Biden. Google tells me nearly a million per year in Europe. So almost as bad as the very worst of American Democratic governance.
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1mo ago
Zulus were pressed into military service as older teens to 30 or 35 years old. That's approximately spending their 20s fighting in spear formations.
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1mo ago
About a fifth of the Hawaiian population is native or part native. Thats significantly smaller than the east Asian population. Importing large numbers of outsiders to the point they are a supermajority of the local population prevents any hope of reconquista.
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1mo ago
The school for delinquent girls arranges dances with the school for delinquent boys? They awkwardly stand around not dancing while a boomer (or gen x) teacher writes "kids these days..." articles blaming the "lumps" for not being highly motivated at delinquent boy containment school
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2mo ago
Just like the story that the lab ethanol is treated with something that makes you puke
But that's real. They add bitterants and sometimes toxic chemicals to lab ethanol. They purposefully contaminate it.
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2mo ago
I'm not giving out bonus points just cause the abuse of adults was sexual.
I certainly am. Forcible rape is quite the high bar to clear.
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2mo ago
It makes sense if someone is an extremist accelerationist. A few times now police bodycam footage has completely exonerated a cop who shot someone. People want to turn a police killing into the next big thing, but reviewing the footage the cop was clearly justified. A first person view of someone charging with a knife makes the shooting look very defensive from the cops point of view.
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2mo ago
separate Hollywood from the continent and turn it into a maximum security prison
That would be the 1996 film Escape from LA. I endorse this policy proposal.
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2mo ago
It is hypothetically possible for the planet to support much green plant life but little or no large mammalian life. Such as plants thriving in hot CO2 but not megafauna such as humans.
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2mo ago
The movie and show act like they are making philosophical points. I'd say they aren't.
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2mo ago
mandatory home visit
I'm an American with kids. I have never heard of this. Maybe complain to school administrators.
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2mo ago
From my fond memories of Cops: "white guy with no shirt on" is a reoccurring character. Usually in a trailer park, sometimes a crappy apartment. He never makes it to the end free of cuffs.
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2mo ago
Cops is not staged. There's enough drunk and high people acting poorly to 'candid camera' make 37 solid seasons.
Yes on all points, but Cops is great and it is a travesty they took it off air. There's so many great situations that keep coming up: prostitute turns out to be a guy, guy with no shirt on is drunk or high and thinks he can fight the cops, any time they get out the police dogs, etc, etc, I could go on. Did you know that a German shepherd can outswim an adult man, grab ahold of his leg and drag him back to shore where the cops are waiting for him? I do, and I've seen it on Cops.
Our culture is poorer for losing Cops.
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2mo ago
Old people get everything. Legal discrimination in their favor, government paid health care, recent proposals to cut their property taxes. Whatever they want.
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2mo ago
Then you'd wrongly judge me and most other adult men my age. Yes, I have a knife clipped to my pants. No, I've never stabbed anyone or planned to do so.
This premeditation mind reading is certainly something.
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2mo ago
There is a critical flaw that competitive games need to avoid: a competitor or team purposefully running out the clock rather than trying to play. Such as passing the ball back and forth with no serious attempt to advance or a combat sport in which one person constantly disengages and retreats. Most sports have rules contrived to prevent this boring lack of play. Combat sports have scoring penalizing "timidity" and allowing referees to stop the fight and forfeit someone who consistently refuses to engage. But the refs don't have to since no one would do that knowing the consequences.
Soccer lacks such wise game rules and reaps the expected outcome. It is a poorly designed game that allows and enables this sort of bad gameplay. You are ahead or tied and can't accept risking a loss due to how the tournament is structured? Then burn time passing the ball back and forth. Spend half an hour doing effectively nothing. Fans and interesting gameplay be damned.
They do in fact deliver tax money. Around half of property taxes in Loudoun County, VA are paid by data centers. That county allows building of data centers and reaps the rewards.
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