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Yes, definitely, but most forums aren't one of the most popular websites in the world.

> Aggressive moderation on some subs makes it hard to post. Posts might be deleted for arbitrary reasons. Sometimes questions are sent to a generic 'Ask a Question' thread, which isn't great for finding questions later via search.

This is my biggest problem with the site, and the reason I don't use it. Each community is at the mercy of a small number of moderators who are free to shape the conversation in any way they wish.

There's also a small number of people that control what is posted and commented on in all the main, default subreddits (news, politics, technology, etc). Browsing reddit is just ingesting the information diet of a small number of ideological moderators.

> After stopping completely about 8 or 9 months ago, I no longer have acid reflux or that burning feeling in the back of my throat from spicy food.

How long did it take before you noticed this change?

What about the 9 amendments before that one?

Restricting religious practice or the right to assembly are not principles we should cede.

The nature of principles, like the ones enumerated in the US Constitution, is that they do not change with changing circumstances.

Of course we have a national language, but it's de facto rather than de jure.

I am surprised by the strict naming laws in some Northern European countries.

> Parents are limited to choosing children's names from the Personal Names Register, which is a list of about 1800 names for each gender.[18] The Icelandic Naming Committee maintains the list and hears requests for exceptions.

> At present, the Names Act of 1985 requires that all Finnish citizens and residents have at least one and at the most four first names. Persons who do not have a first name are obligated to adopt one when they are entered into the Finnish national population database. Parents of new-born children must name their child and inform the population registry within two months of the child's birth. The name may be chosen freely, but it must not be

> Under the Law on Personal Names,[6] first names are picked from a list of approved names (18,000 female names and 15,000 male names as of 1 January 2016).[7] One can also apply to Ankestyrelsen for approval of new names, e.g. common first names from other countries. Names cannot have surname character, and must follow Danish orthography (e.g. Cammmilla with three m's is not allowed).[8]

I would start with the assumption that Google is collecting and storing every single possible data point about every single thing you share with them, including this. I have zero doubt that they store this info privately for their own use.

Assuming good faith in the creator of this, it looks like they tried to type up something that they thought would cover their bases, then realized that wasn't right and copy/pasted in a real license.

This is true of almost any country. It's usually a loophole in the form of foreign direct investment (ie. "invest $1M+ and employ at least 5 Americans and you and your family can come here").

I've always wanted strong voter verification/ID but also massive voter turnout efforts. I haven't found many people with a similar take.

> I'll vote for voter ID if you vote for expanding access to voting. Make election day a holiday. Make issuance of voter IDs automatic. Switch to no-excuse absentee ballots everywhere. Expand early voting options.

I support all of this. And let's also make sure people who are voting are eligible to do so.

Thanks!

Relevant from other comment:

> I don't know whether you've ever experienced a foreign-language class taught by a non-native speaker, but I've taken Academic Writing classes in English at a top Chinese university and the quality was terrible. English literacy is rare in China even though it is a mandatory subject, so the bar to becoming a teacher is quite low. Often, they'll have an excellent breadth of vocabulary, while being unfamiliar with many idiomatic expressions and cultural references that come naturally to a native speaker.

Can you link it please? I'm not seeing it.

Jack Ma taught English at the university level [1]. He wasn't struggling for words, he's just not as smart as some had assumed.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/09/technology/business/jack-ma...

You're about a decade late with this comment.

Just like I won't expound on German healthcare policy, maybe you should reserve judgement on US healthcare policy until you actually know what you're talking about.

You're "making good money in Silicon Valley" and don't have health insurance? Are you freelancing and choosing not to purchase insurance?

Sorry, didn't want to spam, but here is the last paragraph of that thought:

> The middle classes, as well as the rich, began to distrust democracy as empowered envy, and the poor distrusted it as a sham equality of votes nullified by a gaping inequality of wealth. The rising bitterness of the class war left Greece internally as well as internationally divided when Philip of Macedon pounced down upon it in 338 B.C., and many rich Greeks welcomed his coming as preferable to revolution. Athenian democracy disappeared under Macedonian dictatorship.

TLDR on this whole thing: this never ends well for the poor.

Brings to mind the last paragraph here (see my comment below for the ending):

> By the time of Plato’s death (347 B.C.) his hostile analysis of Athenian democracy was approaching apparent confirmation by history. Athens recovered wealth, but this was now commercial rather than landed wealth; industrialists, merchants, and bankers were at the top of the reshuffled heap. The change produced a feverish struggle for money, a pleonexia, as the Greeks called it—an appetite for more and more.

> The nouveaux riches (neoplutoi) built gaudy mansions, bedecked their women with costly robes and jewelry, spoiled them with dozens of servants, rivaled one another in the feasts with which they regaled their guests. The gap between the rich and the poor widened; Athens was divided, as Plato put it, into “two cities:… one the city of the poor, the other of the rich, the one at war with the other. The poor schemed to despoil the rich by legislation, taxation, and revolution; the rich organized themselves for protection against the poor. The members of some oligarchic organizations, says Aristotle, took a solemn oath: “I will be an adversary of the people” (i.e., the commonalty), “and in the Council I will do it all the evil that I can."

> "The rich have become so unsocial,” wrote Isocrates about 366 B.C., “that those who own property had rather throw their possessions into the sea than lend aid to the needy, while those who are in poorer circumstances would less gladly find a treasure than seize the possessions of the rich.”

> The poorer citizens captured control of the Assembly, and began to vote the money of the rich into the coffers of the state, for redistribution among the people through governmental enterprises and subsidies. The politicians strained their ingenuity to discover new sources of public revenue. In some cities the decentralizing of wealth was more direct: the debtors in Mytilene massacred their creditors en masse; the democrats of Argos fell upon the rich, killed hundreds of them, and confiscated their property. The moneyed families of otherwise hostile Greek states leagued themselves secretly for mutual aid against popular revolts.

[1] Will Durant. “The Lessons of History.” p. 58-60

That's not the issue here though. The issue is that people who _don't_ do those things still get permabanned by Google with zero recourse.

When you pay for something like Fastmail, you get a human within hours to help solve the problem.

Can someone please explain to me how subscriptions work on Substack?

I just spent 5 minutes clicking around and still can't figure it out. How much is it? Where does my money go?

Reading a piece on Substack then clicking "Subscribe" only to have them demand my email address with no additional info is really off-putting.

> [...] but your statement here is _dramatically_ privileged.

I don't like this personal attack and I feel less safe on this board because of it. Will someone go after this poster on my behalf please?

The reason I said "at least trust somewhat" instead of just "trust" is because your comment is so predictable and played out that I thought I might be able to save everyone the time. Guess not!

That's a good point. I just wish he provided more detail to let people decide for themselves.

> Senate Homeland Security committee and DNI director [...]

Both of these are partisan, unreliable sources. The DNI used to be a nonpartisan that you could at least trust somewhat. Not anymore.

You would think that if that were the case, he would publish it alongside this letter.

Edit; he did: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...

It sounds like they wouldn't let him publish an article about the Hunter Biden situation.

Why not share details of what he wanted to publish and what they barred and let people make up their own minds?

He says in this letter that he will publish it soon on Substack, but that sort of takes the wind out of the sails of his "liberals are censoring me" argument.

Are the courts "backed up", or is the process of discovery and everything else leading up to a trial/judgement just a necessarily long one?

What's the mechanism that forces restaurants to partner with these food delivery services? Threat of competition if they don't?

They made off with at least $3 billion in profit, are responsible for (at minimum) the deaths of thousands of Americans, and will ride off into the sunset with their billions.

The DOJ delivered a slap on the wrist just in time for the election so that they could claim a win on the opioid crisis.

I don't blame people in this thread for having zero confidence whatsoever in the "justice" system.