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Whoever explained this to you has done you a terrible disservice. The border is the border - on one side you are in the USA and on the other side you are outside it. If there was a…

I’m saying local officials are the ones where your vote counts the most.

Comments like this are even more tiring. Everyone knows that there are moneyed interests in politics. But decisions on these issues are made at a local level and so are the most ad…

Do you need apples to turn on your lights? Was there a sudden new influx of pie makers? Is growing apples a government granted monopoly business? If the answer to these questions w…

Is the child of a diplomat a US citizen if they are born during a diplomat’s commercial activities?

I think our disagreement is with respect to what it means to "claim" to be following a principle. Most people do not say "my principle is X," they just make statements that hint at…

>> Mn-based passivation is a counter-intuitive discovery, which cannot be explained by current knowledge in corrosion science. This statement sounds like the type of language one u…

This is shifting the principle/value discussion up to a level where it's meaningless. Let's use a different example. Old value: Returning value to shareholders. How to do it? Treat…

Well it is hypocritical. Hypocrisy is an action or statement that is contrary to a stated value or principle. Just because your values or principles changed doesn’t make you a sudd…

Civil contempt isn't some roving criminal charge that jumps out of the jury box randomly. It's meant to make somebody comply with a court order. Anybody in civil contempt holds the…

This is a bit hyperbolic and the exaggerations really undermine what I think is your broader point (that there is rarely recourse when you're held for short to moderate amounts of …

In its court filing, the US government admits that "In addition to refunding the IEEPA duties, CBP must also pay importers interest, as required by law." So one silver lining here …

Trump v Cook is not upcoming it has been argued already https://www.oyez.org/cases/2025/25A312

You already can do this. It’s called a declaratory judgment.

>> Instead of just reporting the facts of the case (as was done by the Stat piece, which they're ripping off) they spend multiple paragraphs making ad hominem attacks about the CDC…

So, again, you’re not showing how it’s an ad hominem, you’re just disagreeing with the biased reporting.

I don’t think these are ad hominem attacks. The article seems to just state the (perhaps biased) facts: people are calling it a clown show, Prasad was ousted, Prasad did gain popul…

The effective tax rate on 260k/yr is 22% federally. The person we are discussing lives in Washington state. Their effective tax rate is 22%.

You are conflating upper class income with being wealthy in the Bay Area (and not just wealthy, uber wealthy; I know plenty of comfortable wealthy people who aren’t meeting congres…

There is nowhere in America where $260k/year is “barely middle class.” 260k/yr is a top 10% income nationally. Calling it anything other than upper class is ludicrous, especially s…

This is just your gambling addiction showing itself. There may not be any potential gains in value after the transaction. In fact, most take privates result in massive up front los…

Apple has a vested interest in maintaining a presence in the Chinese market because that is where a large portion of its supply chain exists. It isn’t appeasing the CCP because Chi…

Google flights actually has an option for Economy (exclude Basic) now. I’m not sure when this was rolled out. Previously, you could accomplish the same functionality by adding a si…