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>It's ridiculous and unfounded to claim black people are "under-policied". You should try reading the book "Ghettocide." From heavily right-leaning The New Republic: "In this non-f…

When Flock camera or data center agreements are negotiated in secret with no public input, or are done over the overwhelming rejection by the public, is that not its own "new rule …

Classic jury nullification.

>Seems these days the only cross-partisan agreement is resistance to Flock and Axon. Also: Don't sell the World Cup to Private Equity.

What small town is that?

Is fish sauce a toxin?

To those who are OK with these devices: when you engage in corruption, do you have any moral standing against your politicians when they engage in corruption? Both you, and the cor…

For what it is worth: in the novel, the point of bombing planes is not to get popular support for climate action, but to make it risky enough that people just stop taking planes.

What if extreme charity is merely sociopathic status signaling?

This supports my belief that when being a finance bro was the only way to Croesus-level wealth, sociopaths tended to go into finance, so they could transcend societal norms with th…

Maybe it is a clever play to shine light on the problem? (I doubt, but can't entirely discount, it.)

I guess if you are really serious about saving the planet from airplanes, you could start a network of similar-feeling folks and begin randomly bombing enough flights to terrify th…

You claimed twice in as many sentences that all americans are to blame for the way that (some) foreign nationals and undocumented immigrants are treated by the current American gov…

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>If one's beliefs align with those who wish to strip civil rights from citizens who are different than one's own, then one is an asshole and doesn't deserve the time of day. Who ar…

If the commenter to whom I was responded made his points about American policy or institutions (rather than all Americans ), I'd wholeheartedly agree, but that isn't what was writt…

1. "most" is debatable 2. "Some" is a superset that includes "most"

Unlikely, because of your priors; you already think we are odious so it isn't like you are looking for the best in (or of) us, and second why would they want to meet you if you ass…

Generally, within 100 miles of a border (which includes international airports) there is not a warrant required for a search.

The American poors (10th percentile income in America) are 67th percentile income globally, when calculated via Purchasing Power Parity. [1] Your description of it as a "developing…

>[Some] Americans have asked for, or tacitly accepted this treatment of their visitors. You forgot a word.

in my opinion, your version of what HN "is really about" is corrosive to the planet and should be called to account by those who are within it.

brevity is the soul of wit, brah, but you seem allergic to both. my point, if you insist on me being long-winded about it, was to make an allusion to the fact that you have a posit…

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>1.) The c-suite is like 6 people, reducing their salary isn't going to make much of a dent. It makes much more than a dent to the ~20 people not laid off, and a likely morale boos…