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> losing body fat means that you must continuously make choices that decrease your comfort in some way - eating fewer highly rewarding foods, maintaining a state of hunger, increas…

> Do you expect to receive $15,000 of value from the F35 program? I'm not sure I won't: perhaps it'll keep oil/energy prices stable and I spent well more than $300/year on energy..…

Related - how peanut butter was central in food regulation: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/the-uncertain-hour/s02-1-p...

Earnest question - how do you feel about the bakery owner who refused to bake a cake to celebrate the marriage of the gay couple in Colorado? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpi…

Observing physical differences is not imposing an ideology. The physical differences exist today and are exhibited based on biological genders. That does not preclude that these di…

The irony of your closing statement ("any result that just so happens....to agree with preconceived notions about "how things are" should be considered extremely suspicious and scr…

Even with a concise and simple tax code the problem is that those with large amounts of wealth are better off spending a portion of that wealth on intentionally obscuring their ass…

I absolutely agree that there are questionable aspects to how the U.S. enforced drug prohibition laws and how non-violent offenders are treated. But again, the fact is that we can …

> those are European concepts Only inasmuch as they were born in Europe who in turn had to flee their home country to pretty much make it a reality. In the article in questions her…

I am not saying that there aren't parts of the U.S. government that actively work against free speech - because that is certainly the case. However the very fact that we can discus…

In the one case you have China actively violating the freedoms and liberties of the people living under its control and on the other hand you have the UN as a collective body seeki…

There was a time when there were powers and authorities in the Western world that would silence dissent via violence and murder. See Galileo and the Catholic Church as an example. …

I mean...if they could organize they could have the effective weight of a union - but the circumstances of Uber's employment scheme make that more difficult.

I imagine that would only be orders of magnitude harder to manager in this circumstances than in previous generations. Especially for Uber who can incentivize payouts in an elastic…

> a common global framework ....will ensure that the Internet does not get fractured, entrepreneurs can build products that serve everyone, and everyone gets the same protections. …

My girlfriend tried out the Instacart gig for a while as she finally got her chronic low energy and fatigue addressed through B12 shots and wanted something to occupy her and give …

> you end up on the list for being sued over the money you owe You mean like the summary judgments that can be leveled against debtors in the US by debt collection agencies... And …

Western governments have historically been allied with and have had intelligence sharing and cooperation arrangements with the U.S. There is a general alignment of Western intellig…

This > Its revelation that multinational corporations, including some of the most prestigious brands in the United States, had been making illegal contributions to political partie…

In all earnestness I am curious what your definition of "suffering" is. Is your position that there is physical violence that has been done that would not have been done had Gab no…

> or search by brand name and even than the real ones are usually on page 2 with page one featuring the same crap from China So he does search for specific brands and is still stym…

https://www.wired.com/2011/01/ff-lottery/

I am curious what you base your evaluation of "living conditions" on. Or rather, whether or not you have experienced what the living conditions of the poor are. I dropped everythin…

> if the poor still live long lives, are not hungry, have access to modern technology, transportation, and modern entertainment They have their bread and circuses, what are they co…

I think this piece captures brilliantly the emotional and psychological toll that rote and thoughtless application of harsh procedures and mindless judgment can be wrought on peopl…