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the credit score is one of the few mechanisms in our society by which people are generally rewarded for responsible behavior and punished for irresponsible behavior
this also explains why it is hated
Unpopular opinion:
The American credit scoring system is one of the marvels of the modern world.
It enables trust among strangers at scale, & therefore reduces costs & increases commerce, to everyoneâs benefit (even those w low scores).
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I'm sorry but we as a society need to agree that a book being "banned" means it is illegal to possess and that functionally zero books are "banned" anywhere in America other than, like, "how to make a nuclear bomb"
Margaret Atwood, author of 64 books including âThe Handmaidâs Tale,â has seen her work banned for content deemed overly sexual, morally corrupt, and anti-Christian. cbsn.ws/47Ill96
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yes crazy how mostly-unregulated markets have lots of choices and price levels. And markets with massive government spending and regulation are way worse. hard to say why
Capitalism canât give you a working healthcare system, but it can give you 175 different kinds of BBQ sauce
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A core tenet of socialism is to have lots of rules so that the socialists can decide who gets punished for breaking them and who doesnât
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Occasional reminder that Democrats' defeat of George Bush's Social Security reform in 2006 has caused taxpayers to miss out on a 366% gain on their money and that many of the architects of that defeat -- Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi -- are still leaders of the Democratic party.
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Genuinely glad he lived to see us bomb Iran đ«Ą
Dick Cheney, the influential GOP vice president to George W. Bush and chief architect of the "war on terror," has died. He was 84.
cnn.it/4nAveLS
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admittedly it's domestically produced in australia, but that's where the company is based!
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Obamacare has mostly just became a backdoor to lower the Medicare age to 50 via heavy subsidies that Democrats bet will be too politically painful to end.
Striking how Obamacare is not much of a program for families with children, and it is mostly a program for singles or couples 50 and above.
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You are correct that surviving letters from 200 years ago or more likely to be high class people, but even if you compare those high class people to our high class people, they sure do write a lot better
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Denmark is a fascinating example of a country where liberal/left parties correctly identified decades ago that mass migration was incompatible with a generous welfare state, and to prove it (mostly to their own supporters), they set up extensive tracking & statistical programs:
Denmark tracked 321 Palestinian men granted asylum in 1992.
63% were convicted of a crime
22% received a prison sentence
55% were on welfare by 2019
They had ~999 children
34% convicted
13% got prison sentences
37% received benefits in 2019
Total cost to taxpayers (1992â2025):
~$246â319 million â or ~$800,000 per man
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i thought this sign was instructive; they are very mad that a republican is president, but if a democrat was president, they would not particularly care about the goings on of the government, and would simply trust that everything was fine
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I always laugh when my AI tells me some task is tedious or labor intensive to complete. I know! That's why I asked YOU!
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FYI all data centers in the United States combined are ~4% of electricity consumption. residential consumption is 38%, for reference
but fundamentally this is a scarcity mindset and should be rejected. we just need to make more electricity. there's 0 reason we can't. We don't have a set amount of "our energy". the united states can generate close to infinite energy if we choose to.
the water bit is mostly made up; to the extent data centers use water, it's for cooling, and the water doesn't go anywhere, it's just re-used once it cools down again. water doesn't disappear.
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one thing new yorkers want in a mayor, apparently, is a very strong and aggressive foreign policy directed at several of america's strongest allies
Zohran Mamdani, first potential South Asian Mayor of New York, called India PM Modi as "Butcher of Gujarat".
- When asked if he would meet Modi if Modi is in New York, Zohran said that he would never meet Modi.
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not to mention that âthese guys are murderous terrorists they might attack usâ is not a great argument against bombing their nuclear facilities
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I (a non-Democrat) see 2 problems for Abundance:
1) a few Posters are violently opposed (small problem)
2) a bunch of Dem politicians say something like "well that's obviously true and we should fix it" without actually supporting policies that would fix it (big problem)
Three months ago, I wrote that one reason I was paying less attention to the online abundance debate is that I saw a clear and significant "Poster-Politician Divide."
That is: Online, the response from progressive posters to abundance has been consistently and highly negative. But if you listen to progressive politiciansâRo Khanna, Chris Murphy, Zohran, Bernie, etcâtheir response to the substance of the book tended to be much more positive.
Today, the NYT interviews Bernie Sanders and asks him directly what he thinks about abundance. The screenshot below is his response. You should read it all, but I'd note that the words "absolutely correct" are uttered.
I doubt Sanders is pulling punches here; he doesn't seem like that kind of guy. I think it's more likely that the reason our critique of government rings true for those closest to the levers of govt bureaucracy is that our argument is true, and those who would know best agree with us.
There's a good and necessary debate within the Democratic Party on whether its candidates should run on socialism, or economic populism, or cultural moderation, or abundance. I agree with Ezra's latest column, one message of which is: use whatever works, wherever it works.
But Abundance was never just about fine-tuning the language for the bumper stickers you use on the way to winning power. It was also about what you do if the bumper stickers work and you win. The "38 meetings" problem that Bernie identifies here is rampant throughout govt bureaucracy, but I think it really is worse within the culture of left-of-center governance. And if we suck at doing the stuff we say we're going to do everywhere we have power, people will notice. In fact, they have, and that's partly why we're in this mess.
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liberal influencers are increasingly posting pro-murder content, and yet our media is relentlessly insistent that only conservatives are capable of violence. dangerous.
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The reason âŠ@ChrisMurphyCTâ© is lashing out at âŠ@deanbphillipsâ© has little to do with the NYC mayoral race and much to do with the fact that Murphy was one of the biggest Biden-is-Sharp! hoaxsters and Phillipsâ ability to tell the truth on that issue deeply shames him
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Some books were genuinely "banned" in a real sense under obscenity laws, but those have been gone since ~late 60s. Closest thing to a current actual "banned book" is maybe the Anarchist Cookbook, which actually has bomb-making instructions... but you can get it on Amazon, lol
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My fellow Republicans â all well & good to dunk on the boomer protest crowds (Iâve done it myself), but every single one of these people turns out to every off-year and special election and has a recurring ActBlue donation to their 15 favorite candidates.
Can you say the same?
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The funniest thing to me is the idea that any other Western Country would have reacted differently than Israel if .012% of their population was killed in one day, a la 10/7
Thatâs 41k Americans. Whatever country or group did that would not exist anymore.
Israel is in no real sense a âWestern,â liberal member of the civilized world. Itâs currently conducting a genocide. Civilized countries donât commit genocides. If anything, Israel is in directly conflict with everything the West â and particularly America â supposedly hold dear.
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if they lived 92 years they also saw bill clinton play the sax on arsenio hall
when they were born Russia had a Tsar and Germany had a Kaiser
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the fact that so many of the Climate Groups have seamlessly transitioned into anti-Israel groups should give some indication of how seriously they ever actually took the climate
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Elon is perfectly within his rights to wish the bill cut more spending. It cuts $1.9 trillion. I think as conservatives we all wish it was more.
It also passed the house by one (1) vote.
If anyone has an idea of the next cuts that would not lose a **single** vote, I'm all ears
Elon Musk sacrificed a lot for Trump â from election support to serving as a special government employee. Trump wouldnât be in office without him.
And what did Elon get in return? Heâs not even asking for a reward.
Heâs asking for a bill that wonât bankrupt the country.
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People in the DC subreddit are so mad about this parade and I just cannot fathom it. It rules. It would have ruled if Barack Obama himself did it.
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Democrats made a strategic error making Musk such a major focus of the their post-inauguration messaging; he's now out of the White House, has Democrats now weirdly trying to boost him as an anti-Trump bank-shot, and likely won't factor into midterm races. A waste of 6 months.
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âGreat piece about how liberals deluded themselves about this whole transgender-youth thing. Anyway, I still support children transitioning their gendersâ. đ€
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i was at the park yesterday 'til 7:30pm with my little guy! wouldn't have been possible without the time shift
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some of the protestors might say they want to abolish ICE or whatever, but the truth is 90% of them are very fine with the existence of ICE so long as the President is a Democrat
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ok it wasnât todayâs cover but cmon @nypost can we do tomorrows?
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The famous 'Tank Man' photo was taken 36 years ago today June 5, 1989.
You've probably seen the famous photo of one brave man standing up to a line of four tanks.
But if you want to understand HOW brave he was, you need to see the zoomed-out version:
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