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Imagine if the Trumpites suddenly realize they’ve been sold a bill of goods. Now imagine Occupy Wall Street allied with Pepe the Frog…

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Sorry, but no one is entitled to a job, especially if their job is with a tech behemoth that’s doing its best to decrease human privacy. Also, a recession combined with millennial angst/rage might be the only thing that pushes the US to extend its safety net while cutting on harmful spending (mass incarceration, military contractor welfare). The 2008 recession was the thing that finally forced states to reconsider marijuana prohibition, excessive bail, and excessively punitive laws in general. It also probably put Obama in office, giving us the (half ass, but better than nothing) solution known as the Affordable Care Act.

Mortgage rates? Hope they hit 6%, frankly. Higher rates mean a given down payment goes further since total purchase prices will be lower. God forbid that younger people will again be able to afford to buy a home or condo in an area that’s not part of an exurban asteroid belt.

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They didn’t walk back in January 2018, stocks rebounded, and official economic numbers stayed good through the summer. Here’s hoping they keep at it, US needs a housing correction even if speculators/flippers get burnt. Tech firms which profit from privacy theft also need a bit of wind taken out of their sails.

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Higher rates increase interest on the debt, but they also encourage entities to buy bonds. (i.e. lend). So it’s a two-way problem.

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No thanks. Better to accept some crime and risk than to give the pigs in power more power.

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Short-distance flight is already pretty inefficient, and that’s with aerodynamically clean aircraft. Add the hardware required for VTOL and efficiency will decline further along with safety.

Think about helicopter and V-22 Osprey safety vs 737 or Dash-8 safety.

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Because hyper-competitiveness and extreme individualism are parts of American culture.

Now, with the monetization, commodification, and MBA’ification of everything, ordinary Americans are afraid of losing what little they got for themselves. So they’re willing to push others down to keep what they have.

Guns are a symbol — even if you have nothing else but a gun, you still retain a sliver of power over others.

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No, it won’t be. It’s a good way to power 200-300 mph vehicles electrically without worrying about battery maintenance/charging. Rails do a nice job of locating a current pickup precisely and providing an electrical return path.

Self-driving cars won’t be able to do that kind of speed with the same level of safety. Hyperloop is fucking awful if you’re claustrophobic or prone to motion sickness — being Spam in a can would be vomit city for me.

But you’re right, the tech can evolve. If trains can be driverless, you can have one or two-car “capsules” running and stopping much more frequently than current trains.

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Cry me a river for Apple and Amazon. Frankly, I HOPE it hurts Apple — their user-hostile practices stink to hell:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw9qk7/macbook-pro-software-locks-prevent-independent-repair

Amazon? Let them burn too. They’re selling surveillance systems to everyone and trying to turn private homes into Panopticons with their cameras and Alexa.

Same goes for Google and MS, let’s hope they’re all affected.

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^^^

I know you’re speaking sarcastically, but I think we actually should. Public schools should be state-run with strict standards and teachers with specific skills being randomly assigned in a given area to assure equal levels of education statewide. Anyone who’s capable should be able to select AP/IB or college-prep track courses.

As far as substance use/abuse, it shouldn’t be a police matter at all absent some other crime being committed. If someone is a danger to themselves or others, they should be committed for appropriate psych treatment, not imprisoned.

Underage drinking? Do what most of the world does, lower the liquor age to 18 or 19. 99% of college students drink — I’d rather it be out in the open where there’s social pressure not to get sloppy, and bartenders can cut them off if they’re being morons.

The American focus on punishment, criminalization, and marginalization of the poor should disappear.

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Agreed with an outtamojo: a judge that’s not a teetotaler would be nice. The US is generally too Puritanical, obnoxiously religious, and holier-than-thou.

Problem is that Kavanaugh seems to have been an abusive bully whilst drunk. That’s often when true personalities come out. A violent drunk is often just an inhibited violent lout.

Also, why lie about drinking in college? 99% of college students probably got drunk — it’s nothing to be ashamed of in itself. Either he has skeletons, or he’s a compulsive liar.

I may even believe him that he didn’t remember abusing his victims — he may have either been blackout drunk or did it so many times that he didn’t remember individuals.

Lastly, his political views are terrible. He appears to be a typical GOP conservative where only the 2nd and 10th Amendments matter. His record on the 4th Amendment is dismal. He wants to tear down ACA or any kind of public insurance.

And I’m willing to bet that he’ll stand behind drug warrior cops and frivolous arrests for underage drinking despite what he claims he didn’t do at Yale. Nothing stinks worse than hypocrisy. What’s good for me isn’t good for thee.

When I saw him tear up on live TV like a high-school bully about to be paddled in the arse, I laughed like hell. Nothing funnier than a bully in power getting his pants jerked off in public. Public humiliation is good for the soul.

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I went to high school, I don’t remember any of my f%^&ing 8 am classes. Also, you know, science…

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/starting-school-later-in-the-day-has-health-benefits-for-teens-1.3206170

If there’s school busing where kids don’t live close enough to walk or bike, how does that affect parents? Parents can go to work before the kids once they’re in middle or high school.

Over 11 = old enough to walk or walk to the bus stop like kids have done for the last 100 or so years, without being driven to work by a nanny-stater helichopper parent. In fact, forcing kids to walk or take the bus instead of being helicoptered to school by a paranoid helicopter parent is a good thing:

(1) more exercise for Biffy and Buffy. Get the heart rate up before school, reduce youth obesity.
(2) less traffic and less pollution from unneeded driving
(3) kids develop some level of independence and self-awareness

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Kids learn better when they’re awake. 8:30 to 3:00 with half an hour for lunch sounds fine to me. Actual science supports later school opening times.

The only reason for early school opening times is to teach kids to accept pointless suffering.

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Cry me a river for the tech billionaires affected by this tax. Nah, they’re not moving, so might as well milk them.

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Honestly, no matter what she did, she fucked up. It would be nice to see her slowly rot in solitary confinement (for her own protection in prison), or simply be hounded by public ire into jumping off a bridge.

The problem isn’t that the sow didn’t fuck up. It’s clear that she did without a massive surveillance system snooping on everyone. It’s that the American public and “justice” system are all too willing to give trigger-happy morons in uniform the benefit of the doubt.

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