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> Of course, voter ID proponents have let out the private partisan internal logic lots of times when they thought only people aligned with their faction were listening Can you give…

Property tax rates are higher on a percentage basis, but property values can be much lower, so you can still come out ahead on the property taxes. larsiusprime had a good analysis …

It's not the best use of statistics that I've ever seen by a long shot, but I just wanted to point out that your claim that it was "bullshit madeup" was inaccurate flamebait. He di…

Disclaimer: I got two shots of Moderna some time ago. Your source shows just how strongly anti-vax Biden was, making the case that the vaccine can't be trusted because of political…

The statistic is on the high side of the range, but it is accurate. > When exploring the makeup of Ivy League institutions and universities in New England, results, such as the cas…

I keep seeing this brought up on HN. Isn't it telling that you have to go back 70 years to find a good example? At that time, the Democratic Party was still in bed with the KKK. It…

Here's hoping that D'Andrea was the biggest part of the leadership problem. He certainly represented himself as having too much power.

This is substantially misleading. Due to the 2011 outage, the Texan regulations are stronger and more strictly enforced than the federal regulations. Additionally, the primary issu…

The ERCOT projections I've seen are short-term [0], which means that after the most dismal days, the slightly less dismal 15-30% days "exceeded expectations". The fact-checkers rep…

How would we fix it without building nuclear plants? I don't think building a bunch of fossil fuel plants is going to go over well. Even Texas hasn't built anything other than wind…

Consumers were insulated from this because they only pay the price in their contract, not the wholesale price. There was one provider that offered lower rates in exchange for not g…

Could this be due to France's high use of nuclear energy (~70%)? I wish we had that, but it's nearly impossible to build here.

It's nearly all wind, whose output fell all the way to 12.5% of installed capacity over a three-day period when homes were freezing (February 15, 16, and 17). [0] Output consistent…

"Article 35. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." "Article 36. Citize…

Houston is controlled by progressive Democrats. Plano is more even but voted for Biden by a 9 point margin, hardly representative of "right-wing politics". Plano, like many Texas c…

This is absolutely disgusting. Google has appointed themselves the unaccountable police of the Internet, secretly blocking websites for unspecified "compliance issues". > It is hig…

What specific posts did Parler refuse to delete, and what is the evidence that they refused to delete them? IIRC, Parler was deleting posts that AWS complained about as they review…

Or a fireball.

My larger complaint was about rich people who don't care about the several dozen deaths, uncounted injuries, and billions of dollars of property damage caused by the riots because …

> Those links are being/have been broken. No amount of added rigor will fix that. I don't know what will. The institutions could start telling the truth once in a while. Statements…

Oh, you are correct. It seems that mcBesse chose their wording extremely poorly there, as "force" is indeed indefensible. I apologize for misreading that.

Perhaps you cannot, but I can.

> Why do you believe a slider would force people not to share misinformation? There must be some basis for that opinion. "Force" is a strawman, but there is a clear basis for think…