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10mo ago
What about this: Windsor police officer who donated to convoy protest will work 80 hours unpaid? That's 80 hours of unpaid work for a $50 donation, that was given by a person who was on unpaid leave, and never went through because the accounts were already frozen.
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1yr ago
How easy is it for students to simply lie about their race in their application? It's not like the university is going to run a DNA test to see if your grandma was actually native American.
Mindy Kaling's brother did just that. In his words:
I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied as an African American. Not even my own frat brothers recognized me. I joined the Organization of Black Students and used my middle name, Jojo.
Vijay, the Indian American frat boy, became Jojo, the African American med school applicant.
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1yr ago
I've thought there would be a market for a newspaper that only reported 6 month ago's news. It would report the stories that were important half a year ago, and give us a good summary of where the story went, which facts people had wrong, etc. The "Breaking" story with the benefit of hindsight, would be very interesting to read. It would be a good way to see which stories were actually important when they broke, and which ones were just flashes in the pan.
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1yr ago
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11mo ago
You can see it here. (It's kind of weird that the Guardian has a video which is just Gillette's video, but it has 4.4 million views, so they're probably making some money off of it)
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2mo ago
There’s the old joke of a governor interviewing prisoners, determining why they were incarcerated. After prisoner after prisoner professed their innocence, one prisoner said he was in jail for theft. The warden quickly proclaims, release this man from jail, before he corrupts all these innocent men.
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21d ago
Here’s Matt Damon explaining that the death of DVD sales killed mid budget movies that took risks.
He doesn’t give quantitative analysis.
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6mo ago
• (Related tidbit from outside this particular hearing: Senator Bill Cassidy, Bernie Sanders’ Republican counterpart on the Senate HELP Committee, has complained that we have a shortage of trained nurses partially because many states require nursing colleges to be taught by nurses with masters degrees, who are few in number and already mostly working as practitioners. I can buy this because in my experience looking into other healthcare issues, state level regulations often do make federal laws go much less far. For example pricing transparency rules don’t really matter when states allow hospitals to be monopolies.)
• Democrats responded that the rule provides $75 million in grants to train nurse aids, and also pointed out that Democrats repeatedly have tried to boost federal spending to help with this kind of training and hiring but Republicans were opposed soooo.
So the states restrict training more than is federally required and the response is to give them more federal money so the state can get out of the problem they caused? Seems wrong.
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1mo ago
Not to mention the required reprogramming.
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10mo ago
To your Bernie Madoff example, if he'd paid back all the people who were conned, yes, he would have probably skated
Martin Shkreli made money for all his investors and was still charged and served jail time.
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10mo ago
It seems to me he's just doing it to show the people clamoring for censorship that it goes both ways, and they don't really want it as much as they want opinions and voices they don't like muzzled.
But maybe I'm reading too much into it.
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11mo ago
Nicaragua
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega continues his slide into dictatorship. For the past couple years, he's been stifling free speech, removing critics and opponents, and independent media outlets. The latest he's done is seize a dozen private universities, either closing them outright or taking control. Of the 12 universities seized, seven are based in Nicaragua and five were the virtual campuses of foreign universities.
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10mo ago
I think a bigger cause for concern is the 6% drop in Democrat support. What's up with that? What changed with regards to gay marriage in the past year that caused Democrats to back off?
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11mo ago
On the other hand, the undisputed champions of pushing business and people around do not seem too keen on accepting apology.
have they actually apologized yet? Last I saw they were still saying that it was an unofficial one-off. No tone or words of apology.
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9mo ago
in addition to the other reasons given in this thread, Peter Parker wasn't race swapped. He was replaced with another character, Miles Morales, After Peter Parker was killed. All this happened in an alternate universe.
Also, it is very common for conservatives to be initially upset about something, but after a while they accept it. Miles Morales was introduced over a decade ago. There definitely was some complaining at the beginning.
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8mo ago
It does not explain why Saylor Swift earns so much (it's not like she works 1000x harder or puts in 1000x more hours)
She provides more than 1000x the value. Do the same exact production, with the same exact experience, but substitute Taylor Swift with a random woman singing the same exact songs. How much of the stadium would be full? How much would each ticket go for? I would say much less than what it is now.
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1yr ago
DeSantis is a Yale/Harvard educated former federal prosecutor. I would assume based on his background that he's not an idiot, and that he knows how criminal prosecutions work. If I keep my cynic hat on, DeSantis chose to make a big show of these arrests entirely as a means to appease the portion of the electorate that still believes the 2020 election was stolen and remains angry no one has gotten punished. But even so, what exactly was the follow-up supposed to be?
I'd imagine the end game is stricter voter id laws, which is what the right has been requesting for a while.
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6mo ago
I don’t have a twitter account, mostly for my own sanity. One of the worst new features is that if you are not logged in to twitter you cannot get a chronological feed of an account, it sorts by most popular, which is more than useless. (You can change it if you’re logged in).
Also, unless you’re logged in, you can’t click on a link to a twitter comment and read the replies. Only the actual tweet is displayed.
On the other hand, This has caused my twitter usage to go down to less than a minute a week, which is great.
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1yr ago
An open border advocate believes there should be no restrictions placed on entering the country. As such, there would not be any illegal immigration.
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28d ago
Sure. And don’t do any transitions until you can reliably tell the difference.
But at the moment, a doctor feel pressured to do the opposite.
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1yr ago
A study by economists Chang-Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti estimated that the housing restrictions brought on by NIMBY activists are costing US workers $1 trillion in reduced wages, (several thousand dollars for every worker), by making it unaffordable to relocate to higher-productivity cities.
Wouldn't all the workers moving to higher-productivity cities lower the salaries of workers living in those cities? The glut of workers vying for jobs would probably bring the price down more than several thousand dollars for every worker.
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1yr ago
While an alternate conservative/libertarian history of the post would be interesting, it would also be irrelevant.
We're discussing why Millennials are not becoming conservative, and only people who are already conservative would have access to that history, anyone else would just have access to the media worldview, and would never hear the other side of the story.
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1mo ago
You left out the 3rd clause in the Russel conjugation: https://tomdehnel.com/what-is-russell-conjugation/
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5mo ago
I think part of the reason the comment count was low was because the thread wasn’t pinned, so people didn’t see it and posted in the main thread.
It is apparently illegal for states to secure their borders, as this fall only under federal jurisdiction. From here:
It is very easy for the federal government to decide to let people illegally cross the border, since Washington DC is thousands of miles away from the Texas border. Why should Texas have to absorb all those people illegally coming into the country?
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