Oprah Winfrey is a terrible human being that it responsible for injecting a tremendous amount of credulous and magical thinking into American culture, not to mention inflicting horrors like Dr. Oz or ‘Dr.’ Phil on us, as well as plenty of others.
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You seem pretty confused. I am a big supporter of Universal Healthcare; you seem to have interpreted me as something other. I am merely pointing out the tactics that opponents, such as Fox News, will likely employ so that countering them can be considers. I would recommend toning down the hostility.
They wouldn’t address that end of the facts; they would merely focus on the costs to the government end, relying on the half-truth to imply failure in the program.
It isn’t about whether or not it is more or less appealing; the point simply was that opponents to it will probably try to exploit that fine distinction in less than honest attempts to discredit it.
To be fair, Medicare for All will save Americans trillions of dollars, not the government. It is an important point because if you just looked at the books for a Medicare for All program after 10 years, it would look like it told a different story.
Nope. The reasons that Rome fell are very complex and it was a process that occurred over hundreds of years. Depending on which historian you talk to, Rome didn’t fall until the Early Modern Period; people in the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) certainly considered themselves Roman, not matter that the spoke Greek. I…
I suspect that this experience has to do with, as others have mentioned, the way dating sites structure themselves in order to be profitable. Women, it seems, are used by the sites as a commodity that they can market to men, and specifically the type of man that would view dating and sex as transactional because they…
I would point out that it isn’t that things cost nothing outside of NYC, it is that NYC has wildly-distorted inflation. The broker fee system here is a symptom of such out-sized inflation.
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No they are deployed by the DOTs and other transportation officials to gather necessary data for road maintenance and planning. Coordination like you are implying between the police and transportation doesn’t really occur. As for ‘speed traps’, here’s a radical idea: don’t be a massive asshole and obey the speed limit?
People seem to be missing the whole point of the Stormy Daniels suit; no one cares that Trump slept with a porn star. However, people certainly care that the $130,000 counts as an illegal campaign contribution and that the LLC was formed for an illegal purpose, i.e. the illegal campaign contribution and covering up…
I am pleased to see you recommend VtM and MtA rather than their terrible remakes.
Actually, at the point where L-5 becomes ubiquitous there is little reason to not ban manual driving. At that point there is no real reason for a person to drive a car themselves aside from that they simply enjoy it, which is a poor argument when countered by how much inherent risk to the travelling public that that…
It’s not just the Teachers’ Pension that is on the chopping block; that is just the one that has the most traction in the public eye. They are looking to cut pensions for all public workers, with the exception of the state police. As someone pointed out below, the main takeaway from this is fuck Bevin.
Translation: I don’t know anything about this at all but here are my biases and baseless assumptions because I have a fetish I can’t see past.
Actually, most traffic is caused by the huge inefficiencies inherent in such a system that isn’t centrally coordinated; while drivers are certainly a factor a huge component of it is simply the way the math works out. Also, I would point out that everyone is bad at driving; people that are actually good at it are so…
This largely arises because people tend to have this bizarre expectation of perfection from the automation of tasks that they themselves are terrible at. The RAND Corporation had an excellent study published late in 2017 demonstrating that more lives would be lost in the long run if AVs are delayed in implementation…
I have about $25,000 in my 401k and did about 23% YTD.