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Well, our borders might be legally closed, but with 2.2 million people illegally crossing them from the southern border per year, that is the entire population of Houston, maybe it's fair to say they're closed but effectively open. Coupled with the fact that if you're caught, you can just say you're claiming asylum and you get to stay.

That doesn't really explain why the number of British expats living in America is 3x the amount of American expats living in Britain. Coupled with the fact that America has ~5x the population of Britain, that means a British person is 15x more likely to move to America than an American person is to move to Britain.

I lived in Portland before the decriminalization laws passed in 2020, and from my perspective, drugs were already effectively decriminalized for the in-your-face-homeless, which I think is the most obvious social problem that people in Portland are trying to fix. At least that is my view based on the very common observation of people doing hard drugs in public.

The people drugs weren't decriminalized for before 2020 were the mostly normal citizens. After all, if someone has a house or a job or a car, you can take that away from them by punishing them, and that is what the cops would do. But if someone is already sleeping on the street, is arresting them and having them spend a few nights in jail and then going back out the streets going to change anything?

A cop might walk right past a man smoking meth in the street, but if you get pulled over for a broken headlight, and the cops might call out drug sniffing dogs, find a small amount of heroin in your possession, and throw you in jail for months.

Not just any camera - an Interrotron!

For all we know you're a lizard person trying to push humanity into a nuclear Holocaust so the lizard people can take earth over.

If I tell you someone will break into your house sometime in the future...maybe tomorrow, maybe 5 years from now, and actually maybe never...how would you change your behavior?

There was some intelligence about a potential threat, but hardly anything specific that they could easily respond to. Coupled with the fact that Hamas has their own counterintelligence laying out deceptions in the months leading up to the attack.

I guess Israel could have just stationed a few battalions over the full length of the border....forever.

Ok, but we've known for a whole now that the number is around 1200 killed. Not what most would call "a few dozen".

I am though.

Without looking it up, how many people do you think Hamas terrorists killed on October 7th?

Are there some regulatory reasons why it would not be available? It seems weird if Google would intentionally block users merely to block them.

I'd love to know what the burden was too. I hear comments like that in code reviews and commonly when you push for specifics about the burden, there is very little

If I take all of the air out of a toy duck, it is still a toy duck. If I take all of the vinyl/rubber out of a toy duck, it is just the atmosphere remaining

Actually, the judge ordered that the deputy clerks must issue the marriage licenses(save for her son), unless they wanted to be held in contempt of court.

I'm not sure how the path matters much. It contains language along the lines of "I will faithfully execute, to the best of my ability, the office of...."

I'm imagining having religious qualms about certain behaviors would fall under "best of my abilities"

Yes, but there are only 10M people there (and only 25M people in the nordic countries).

To put it in perspective, the total number of Teslas sold over the entire history of Tesla in all of the Nordic countries is less than half of how many Teslas were sold in the US in 2023 alone.

The median take-home pay per worker is higher in the US than in Sweden, and Teslas are more expensive in Sweden than the US.

Compare and contrast the reception Swedish mail workers are getting for their behavior, versus Kim Davis, who refused to issue an otherwise non-problematic marriage license(which was part of her job).

They aren't - in no other situation would anyone be allowed to delete random information off the device of an adult who broke some private rule. The only thing they could generally do is kick you out of wherever you are and tell you to not come back.

Why do custom checks happen in NL on the ground, and not on-train? The train still goes through Belgium(at least), where no customs checks would be required

How about you just go to a professional, get your (presumed) ADHD diagnosed, and get on a known effective treatment for it? You don't need to do it all on your own - there are people who devoted their lives to treating situations like your own.

Great idea until the logs are checked and your boss or the FAA sees you had ample fuel remaining

Hence ABC - "always be closing"...giving interested people an extra second is giving interested people an extra second to get cold feet.

An important point that the article mostly glosses over: China has cornered the market on rare earths how much you have is entirely irrelevant if it isn't profitably extractable.

I would start working on one if I were you.

I wonder how much you can save society in the 20 minutes it would take to say goodbye to an old friend who is dying.

How much would Britain need to pay Ghana to get them over the child labor hump?

They dropped that clause.

I suspect the Roman tradition of slavery was much less brutal than the American chattel slavery we might be more familiar with. Out of the Roman republic/empire, there are numerous stories about slaves who become poets, authors, adopted sons/daughters with full rights, philosophers, etc.

A quick example, Epictetus was born a slave, but was sent to study philosophy by his master under the tutelage of Musonius Rufus. What kind of minds did the US system of slavery develop over the 200+ years it existed? Frederick Douglass is the only one that really comes to mind, and he succeeded in his intellectual development despite his masters trying to stymie him at every step.

Call me crazy but I suspect you and your brother drive a different amount. $100/mo in a Tesla I ballpark at driving 1900 miles per month, so you're probably driving less than him, unless you get more than 150mpg in your hybrid.

Well, we can just see if Cuban is spotted in one. My guess is no.

You can just click the "purchase price" tab instead of the "probable savings" tab.