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    Cuomo to be thrown to the wolves?

    You white-supremacist, racist, bigoted, sexist, unwoke, innocent-until-proven-guilty boomer! How dare you! And why is there not a Greta smiley in the edit menu?
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    To Cancel Cancellers ... or Not to Cancel

    We're not talking about businesses that, "support United Way" vs "donate to Habitat for Humanity" vs "give to Catholic Charity Hospitals". We're taking about companies that explicitly support the literal, smoke and flames, burning of American cities in order to build a narrative of racial...
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    CDC finally begins moderating pandemic guidance

    If you were worried enough to wear a mask and disrupt your life last year, I see no reason you should stop masking or disrupting this year. There's no reason to expect that your risk of dying of the flu, or anything else, will be dramatically lower in 2021, or 2022, than it was in 2020...
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    Alternative Energy?

    I drive a solar powered car. It's a 1994 GMC Jimmy, just turned over 100,000 miles. I use ancient 100% organic wetlands to store solar energy by fixing atmospheric carbon into cellulose, then I use geological upheaval to naturally transform that cellulose into a much denser form. After...
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    Access to Electricity: Luxury or Right?

    It's not pedantic, and you're still hiding the pea under that shell. You can't have a right to have a resource, no matter how essential, provided or guaranteed. That's not a right, it's an empty promise of a handout. And no sane person would want the government involved in providing anything...
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    Access to Electricity: Luxury or Right?

    This shell game? Really? "Rights" are freedoms from constraint that the government may not infringe upon. The right "to keep and bear arms" requires that the government not prevent you from doing so; it does not mandate that the government give you anything (of course, the government has...
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    Where do we go from here?

    I don't think there's much simple about it. The rest of the developed world has decided that healthcare is "a right", or in other words they've prevented the market from setting prices. As a result, drug prices are completely insufficient to support drug development in the rest of the world...
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    Where do we go from here?

    I'm curious: what Republican positions, proposed by elected Republicans, or unelected Party functionaries (not some strawman alt-right nightmare) would you like to see moderated? Perhaps we should agree with the Left that words don't mean anything but what we wish them to today, and "penumbras...
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    It begs the question

    I hear you, and don't disagree. . . but keep in mind that many moments in history we imagine as well-ordered and coherent were in fact extraordinarily chaotic. What do you think the local newspaper's coverage looked like after the Boston Massacre (or the Boston Tea Party)? History only seems...
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    Who's Still Wearing A Dem Diaper?

    I wear a mask on the rare occasion that I go to the office (as required) but not other than that. I'm not participating in a virtue signalling costuming ritual of which the most significant possible effect is mental comfort for other people. If you're that unreasonably scared, stay home; in...
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    Feeling Proud

    Now THAT is how to properly reach a camshaft! I like it! Step 1: Open hood. Step 2: Remove body from frame. Step 3. . .
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    Brag about your... LAWNMOWER?!

    Ok, I'll brag. My ride on lawnmower is so pedestrian, it's not worth a picture. . . but my wife mows the lawn. So there!
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    George Floyd Thing

    Have you read Marx? You should. If we accept disparate impact as the definition of racism, the concept ceases to be meaningful. Every single decision in any society of more than two people has an inevitable disparate impact on someone. So long as there are people, there will be correlations...
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    George Floyd Thing

    You just answered @Ed Ames more succinctly than I was going to; hit the nail on the head. And regarding points of view. . . I have a hard time imagining a POV more utilitarian than looking directly at highly correlated causative choices, and encouraging better choices.
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    George Floyd Thing

    Interesting extract that deserves a reply. "Something" is broken, and the results are highly correlated to race. Turns out that outcomes are even more highly correlated to single-parent households and finishing highschool, among other things. For example, the single greatest predictor of...
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