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Maybe a new Giuliani will come along.

Nah, they'd reject him. They voted themselves into this.

Tax math: it's the marginal tax rate you have to look at for deductions, i.e. the rate you'll pay on the next dollar you earn, or save on the dollar you deduct. We don't have a flat tax at the Federal level, or most states.

We can find plenty of taxpayers in NY, CA, or MA who have a marginal rate of 40-50%. They are the highly affluent people that those PBS pledge drives featuring Baby Boomer musical acts are aimed at.

> a young girl who just cares about earth

I imagine there are several 100M of those on the planet. Most do not get to address the UN, nor have well-off parents who are using her to get publicity that they couldn't get for their own views.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10059484/greta-thunberg-parent...

If the houses are unaffordable, then they will remain unsold. What am I missing?

Maybe people who have more money move in from elsewhere. Or else the seller drops the price, or pulls it off the market.

One last possibility: someone buys it who can't really afford it. In that case, either they eventually can make it, or they give up and sell or get foreclosed.

So you're unhappy unless some specific wars are cited?

Only people whose knowledge of history begins with WW II think everything is Munich, and that analogy applies to everything.

There was 6,000 years of recorded history before Munich. It's not always correct to think that "if we appease them here, they'll be in our bedrooms next."

Sometimes in history, the two sides cut a deal, and peace was maintained for a few generations, which was all anyone expected anyway.

DAF and "family foundation" are two alternate things. The latter is much more lawyer-intensive.

The advantage of Reddit could also be seen as a disadvantage:

There are SO MANY subreddits. It's bad in that you don't always know which one to go to. Good in that if you don't like one, there's another one that's very similar.

Ah, Marxism: that 19th century idea that refuses to die no matter how often it fails.

You would think, wouldn't you, that the several dozen countries over the last 100 years that became avowedly Marxist, and turned into prison farms that citizens couldn't wait to leave, would have convinced everyone that it doesn't work?

But no. The college freshman mentality keeps vomiting it up again.

> The Post kept track of the lies. The paper calculated that by the end of his term the President had lied 30,573 times.

There it is right in the first paragraph. Does The Post keep the number of Biden's lies?

At least CNN listed them: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/fact-check-biden-fal...

Yeah. The objective in politics, though, is to divide the other side, not unite them. But of course, if their own side won't let them even try, most people won't bother.

I'm not a denier of AGW.

However, I think you're wrong to lump all those people in with anti-Darwinists.

AGW comes freighted with Green baggage, and some of the people who reject it are largely rejecting the Green baggage. They suspect, not without good reason, that the "cures" for AGW are measures that Greens wanted anyway. And calling them "denialists" just insures that they'll never listen to you.

Some of them are, of course, religious objectors who think the world was created in 6 days. The task is to separate those people from the rest.

That's an urbanite point of view.

Or don't have any choice.

One test of that would be, do they opt for more personal space if the chance arises?

The "harm" is that you're competing with more people for parking, sidewalk space, spots in the gym, space in the supermarket aisles... on and on.

No, it's that humans don't like crowding. More competition for everything.

Yes, better not look at the data, because that's what the Bad People do.

Shortcut for reading these comments: if anyone says "conspiracy theory" or "anti-vaxxer" you can stop reading them right away. They're just ideological warriors.

Being scientists, we can design a longitudinal test (of these two groups, identical otherwise, one vax'ed and one not, did the vax'ed have more side effects?) that answers the risk question pretty definitely. Then all the data people trot out can just be examined with, "Is this as good as that test?"

It seems rather clear that the governments of the world, in responding to a perceived emergency, cut some corners. You could argue this was a responsible thing to do. It would also be responsible to start being honest about it.

There is no such thing as being anti-Zionist and not being anti-Semite. And the Brits of his generation were both.

I did my post, and then I saw yours. More examples, and excellent analyses!

Rather than think of REDACTED as "labor" it might be more helpful to think of him as a star NBA player. The term "labor" applies more to the players in the D-league.

If you're Steve Ballmer and you want Giannis Antetokounmpo on your team, you can't just call him and offer more money. They have regulations around that.

So it shouldn't be surprising that Jobs & Brin have conversations about REDACTED. If it was an engineer with one year experience working under REDACTED, it wouldn't escalate to that level, at least until Google hired five of them.

You could research that; of course you'd have to control for "having committed a crime in the first place."

Actually, that's provably false: older people commit fewer crimes.

OK, then tell us your background.

"Of cuz" ??

I or anyone else could certainly do like you do. I'd just read China Daily https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Daily and repeat what they say.

That doesn't really contradict what he said. They do need water, and desalination would be one way to get it.

Okey, dokey, then. You can't do it, I guess.

"low quality" means "CCP doesn't like it?"

Let's suppose, hypothetically, that you wanted to demonstrate that you're not a CCP troll. What opinions do you have that contradict the CCP's position?

(I don't mean nuanced but safe ones like "they should have dropped the zero-COVID policy sooner" either.)

> Please just ban such topic

Whoa, resorting to censorship now.

Quemoy & Matsu: an issue in the 1960 Presidential elections [1]

[1] https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-senator-...