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I'm not sure it's coming from entitlement. It's like your highschool having a wall of notable graduates, and having your likeness taken down while you are still alive. It's a negative insulting signal

I've never had a phone company disconnect a phone call because they didn't like what I was saying https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54552101 Twitter was stopping people from tweeting or sending direct messages containing links to the New York Post article about Hunter Bidens Laptop in October of 2020. They put their thumb on the scale.

Who decides if it is a peaceful protest?

I would reccomend the book "Japan's Motorcycle Wars: An Industry History" by Jeffrey W. Alexander which explores the consolidation of the crowded Japanese motorcycle industry in the post war.

You'll find people on both sides of the aisle who agree with this sentiment, they just disagree with what side is destroying the country and what side is letting it happen

How did the institutions dominated by the left react to dissent when it came to COVID 19 policy? Like the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration. Were they open with speculation about the virus, vaccine policy or the lockdowns? Or did they censor Disinformation and Misinformation on Campus, on social media,and at the work place?

If they are centrist and treating both sides the same, what are your favorite Joe Biden jokes from South Park? Given the number of Trump jokes and the both sidesism you mentioned there should be a lot of material to work with

Scientists are also notorious for being ideologically infiltrated by authoritarian or totalitarian ideologies/regimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism The Soviet Union was convinced that collectivism was the ultimate form of human society and organization. Lysenkoism fed their biases, and Soviet Agrarian scientists struggled to point out the new collective experimentation by the government was a disaster (a similar problem was faced by Chinese scientists and Bureaucrats trying to implement Mao's great leap forward). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology Nazi Germany was convinced they were the greatest race on Earth, that Jews and Slavs were sub-human. Phrenology promised them a way to determine racial purity and back it up with scientific results. The scientific community brought us lobotomies and eugenics too.

After the Covid-19 epidemic, a party of The Science™ might not be as popular as some people would like to believe.

After cutting your finger do you ask for a bandaid or an Adhesive Medical Strip? There's a benefit to turning company names into Nouns or Verbs

Doesn't the insurance market have the same moral hazard? If you are paying for fire insurance it promises you a bundle of cash if your business burns down. At that point if the finances of your company go into the red, your only chance of becoming whole financially might involve a fire, and then you start calling folks like Tony Soprano to find an arsonist

Medicare and Medicaid represent the largest segments of U.S. federal health spending, consuming over a trillion dollars each. Medicare accounts for 21% of national healthcare expenditures. Medicaid constitutes $1 of every $5 spent on healthcare. The US government is helping the poor and the old with their healthcare

I don't think it's so obvious The International Brotherhood of Teamsters didn't officially endorse any candidate for president in 2024. This was because internal polling said that their members overwhelmingly supported Trump over Harris, while it seems like the union leadership supported Harris over Trump This is not the only Union who had a difference of opinion between leadership and membership in 2024

This reminds me of the Long Blockchain Corp pivot.

Despite all their problems, Detroit was an economic powerhouse. Motor city was a world class city, and they bid to host the Olympics eight times between 1944 and 1972. Detroit was far from perfect, but it seems like eventually their bad choices caught up with them. Detroit is no longer the world class city or economic powerhouse it once was.

I'm glad your firmware updated from calling people who disagree with you Russian Bots to calling them Israeli Agents.

Did he try asking to speak with their manager?

This seems like an easy proposal, but I don't see many case studies of it being successfully implemented.

https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statement... When Biden increased the tariff on Chinese EVs from 25% to 100%, and doubled the rate of tariffs on Chinese solar cells it seemed clear to me what was going on. It's not about cheap electronic vehicles with these people. They don't want poor people to drive. Let them eat cake has become let them drive Tesla's. If the cheapest GM or Ford EV is $60,0000 and the cheapest Chinese EV is $30,000 well that 100% tariff solves that problem. It's coastal elites who want more prestige.

Most people I know have jobs they do for money not for free.

If we lowered the speed limit to 20 miles per hour country wide we would be a lot closer to zero deaths. But at what cost? We live in an imperfect world of trade offs, not perfect solutions. Even requiring people to wear seatbelts has a cost

The Wet Market theory seems to have some racist implications about Chinese people eating bats sold at wet markets. It completely ends one line of discussion by pushing another angle.

What happened to the local newspaper when most advertising went broadcast or digital? There are some local newspapers who clung onto life, but without ads local print news went the way of the dodo.

It's like being a first party for a Video Game Console. Gabe Newell having a billion in Yachts, Bill Gates might have a billion dollars tied up in Real Estate. It has less to say about the personal greed of Gabe Newell and more to say about the relative size of the market.

The only reason EpicGameStore was able to rise as a competitor to Steam was because of the Billions Fortnite was earning.

And voters 4 years ago voted for an open border which filled emergency rooms and denied American Citizens from recieving treatment in American Hospitals. The emergency room wait times have been dropping since January of this year

Well I haven't heard stories about transgender people being lynched in bathrooms during the 1950s or 1960s. I haven't heard stories about Transgender athletes during that time breaking records either. It's a euphemism, people can read into it what they like. I would expect at some level he meant shaming and bullying

Isn't that what happened in 1994? We debated if what was happening in Rwanda was genocide. We debated if there was Genocide in Bosnia between 1992-1995. And then debate what to do about it if we do recognize it as genocide

The shooting was in a gun free zone. Passing more laws isn't going to accomplish anything if existing laws aren't enforced.