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That is great, unfortunately almost 90% of the country lives in a state other than California.

> the possible events that could lead to World War 3. Iran is directly connected to all of that. If any event has pushed us closer to WW3 it is the US's decision to preemptively at…

One would think, but the flip-side is that this supports more women in the workforce. Traditional roles of men working and women caring for kids seems like a bigger priority of thi…

I'm curious about your napkin math, care to share? I got mine from a paper published by the University of Chicago: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735565 .

> When I read we spent $1B, I think about how I'm responsible for $3 of that. I like to think about how providing 4-week paid parental leave would cost $2 billion annually and actu…

> Also ~95% of countries don't have unconditional birthright citizenship. It creates perverse incentives. I typically find that the people using this logic don't seem to apply it t…

The language couldn't be any clearer. The fact that it was questioned by people with a stated motive doesn't prove otherwise. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States,…

> Current French (8.2%), Spanish (10.3%) or even Swedish (8.6%) unemployment This obviously doesn't tell the whole story, because it only measures people actively in the workforce.…

> Of the 50 people who end up reading my comment above, every one of you will read it a different way, and it's unlikely very many of you will read it as intended. Isn't this admis…

> The idea that human beings are the end-all to reality, the highest form of consciousness and most powerful being, just seems hopelessly self-centered to me. I don't understand ho…

In the current environment, taxpayers are collectively punished.

> Google had lost some (4%) employees in 2023, but has grown back to 2022 size last year. Meta shrunk by 22% in 2023, but has been growing in size since then and is probably back t…

> As someone who has lived in both countries its such a hilarious anxiety. What's hilarious about it? It seems pretty well-rooted given the actual history of the two areas. - 1939:…

> The US stopped reporting the number of casualties, which is drastically different from "lying". You are describing "lying by omission" which is a very well known form of lying. S…

For reference, a national 4-week paid parental leave program in the U.S. is estimated to cost under $2 billion annually, while a 12-week program would cost around $7 billion. https…

I don't think there is any problem to solve, that was my point. It is already illegal to vote as a non-citizen.

So there is no problem to solve?

> My research suggests that all U.S. states that require identification at the polls accept a driving license as a form of valid photo ID. Not today. However, there is a bill in th…

> If speed limits were automated rigidly enforced 100% of the time, it would be impossible to drive. Why? Plenty of people drive in areas with speed cameras, isn't that exactly how…

This whistleblower didn't forget, neither did I. It does sound like a bunch of people in this thread forgot. Perhaps they found it more politically convenient to forget rather than…

> the best attack that someone could make on the Trump administration. It doesn't need to be, nor should we measure things against eachother by their ability to be used as an attac…

> In due time, this one will fall out of your mental stack, too. I bet you said the same thing a year ago when people were warning about exactly this scenario.

I agree. I'm not trying to point out the hypocrisy, it is obvious to anyone watching. I am more interested in testing the limits of how people will justify actions to themselves an…

> there is not yet proven public evidence for the most explosive version of the claim. Again, there doesn't need to be evidence. The point is that a claim like this is clearly plau…