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Ah, "you could move to Greece." Practical suggestion for improving the life of the average Atlanta resident!

I'd like to offer the argument that automakers/sellers are a "special interest group" who has had an outsized impact on the shape of american cities for the past century.

I was being imprecise, but I don't think we're ever going to finish arguing about categorizing the different strains of left politics.

I should have described them as "left of center w/ an emphasis on personal rights and privacy".

I just skimmed Greenwald's bylines and here's some recent media crit that isn't about msnbc

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/03/nbc-news-to-claim-russia... (about nbc)

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-w... (about multiple outlets, lots of wapo)

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/29/cnn-submits-to-right-win... (about CNN)

I'd say at a glance there is slightly more crit of MSNBC than other major news outlets, but doesn't that make sense given the intercept's left-libertarian leanings? Of course they don't think brietbart or fox is doing good reporting. So bad in fact that it's not even worth commenting on.

Not that I really care about Glenn Greenwald one way or another, but do you think criticism of major media isn't a worthwhile thing?

Poor people, and especially poor non-whites, are much less likely to have a credit or debit card.

I think it's important to understand "racist" as an effect, not as an opinion. The decision to not accept cash probably wasn't made with racist intentions, but it can very well have racist outcomes.

Especially when lives are at stake! Market capitalism is probably fine for coffee shops, less so for insulin pumps.

There is no opting out of ethically wrong choices under global capitalism. That doesn't mean it's not worthwhile to change things.

Agreed! Bell Hooks was the first writer who made feminism accessible and relevant to my (male) experiences. I was gifted a copy of The Will To Change a few years ago and it's among the best gifts ive ever received.

I was just thinking today that nintendo has been remarkably conservative with their main-line pokemon games. The core gameplay has changed very little since 1996. I guess they can't be blamed for not changing a winning formula but it's still interesting.

This is what drives me up the wall whenever Bill Gates comes up. His net worth is double what it was a decade ago. He's not doing philanthropy, he's doing investing.

Pedestrians dont weigh 4000 pounds and move at 40 miles/hour, for starters

This is plainly wrong. The biggest threat to a biker is being hit by an automobile. If that biker is in a lane completely away from automobile traffic, that threat vanishes.

I prefer that honestly, i feel like im getting a discount for paying in cash

> <butt hurt>

Is this 4chan now?

It's good when local politicians weigh in on local issues. Your comment is completely off the mark.

None of that has anything to do with the topic of unionization.

See, you too can make it big as long as your parents can float you 30 grand!

There are no significant penalties at this time.

cool legal system we have where you can literally pay to win

No, other than the fact that the HN audience is largely western and the Catholic Church has had much more cultural influence in western society than any Islamic institution has.

"Atheists" aren't a group with any kind of institutional power or unified agenda. Unlike, for instance, the Catholic church.

The EFF, trade unions, the aclu, the southern poverty law center, all of these are experts and all of them lobby policymakers.

The intent here is good, but I don't think you can do that? Can you define "lobbying" in a way that encompasses all (or at least most) of the bad activity but doesn't encompass acceptable activity?

What even is lobbying? A broad definition would include most any communication with a policymaker, a narrow one would exclude lots of activity that is obviously meant to influence policy.

If you want to reduce the influence that moneyed interests have over politics there's only one answer: take their money away.

Companies lobby politicians/make campaign contributions/fly them to expensive resorts to be wine'd, dine'd and golf'd.

Then politicians make policy that favors those wealthy companies.

It isn't benefiting many people now. Look at these prices

https://www.sawstop.com/build/

"Park and Ride" is a fairly common thing for commuter rail in the US. Using it for busses is a new one though.

The _job_ is why those people are miserable! This is insane! It's like running a gym and requiring people to already be fit to join!

Surely a company as rich and powerful as amazon has it's say in local government, no?

(I love this video, it's very funny)

I think it's important to be clear that a song is so much more than just the chords. Axis uses a few "tricks" to get things to sound the same:

- strip away everything except the chords & play them all on the same instrument - shift all the songs into the same key - play all the songs at the same tempo

It's a funny exercise that, but it's a bit like saying all cars are the same because they have the same basic structure. Obviously there's a difference between a Camry and a Bugatti.

Billionaires vs regular people is explicitly a right vs left issue.