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I mean property tax is already rent.

Actually, zoning laws are not part of your property rights. Zoning restriction dictate what you can build on your property, but ownership interest in your property does not entitle…

Sweden and Finland should not be allowed to join NATO until they pay backdues. It is obvious that a large portion of countries depend implicitly on the United States for their defe…

NATO is not just a defensive alliance as we saw in Afghanistan. Defense activities don't result in a twenty year occupation.

Umm... Europe is not the only territory in the world. There's all of central asia, and Mongolia, former soviet territory.

> How do you know who filled in the ballot at the polling place? All I would need is to show up and know someone else's name and address and I could vote for them Presumably by som…

In the United states, including in Mississippi, which started this case that went to the Supreme court, there is no government intervention at all in your approval to have an abort…

> regurgitating Tucker Carlson and “just asking the questions” in bad faith In my experience, non-conservatives tend to believe conservatives are 'regurgitating' Tucker Carlson. Mo…

> vote by mail which helps alleviate the latter while, as far as I can tell, not being significantly worse than voting in person for security. How anyone could state this with any …

> Your friends may be for election integrity, but the people they're voting for most certainly are not. I mean they have a name for these people: RINOs. I think I read an article t…

I don't understand the us v them mentality. I have lots of right wing friends and family and many of them have been against electronic voting from the beginning. For example, in my…

My point is the following: 1. Photonics is a new technology. It is more expensive than silicon 2. Silicon can do the compute as fast as photonics, and we understand silicon. Buildi…

> Student debt forgiveness is an incredibly far left idea Student debt forgiveness is an incredibly aristocratic idea by which the slowly establishing american aristocracy seeks to…

> The way it currently looks is the right want to ban abortion no matter what context. While it's true that some republican run states are going this direction. If we look at the o…

I'm going to guess most electronics is not going to be super high-speed. Sort of like how fiber optic was once the realm of only large businesses, then small businesses, and now is…

I agree. I understand volunteering to make Linux work, since Linux is an open-source project. But why do all this work for Microsoft for free?

Tennessee law has changed and there are now minimum ages. Surprisingly, there is no minimum age in CA; it's up to the courts.

There are several companies doing photonic computing (some with commercially available or soon-to-be-available chips). Unfortunately, it's currently all for naught, as existing ava…

> But the fact is fathers could marry their daughters and mothers could marry their sons to avoid taxes before that law was passed, yet it wasn't done. No fathers cannot marry thei…

I've not worked a job with on call for many years now. Highly recommend. I am not an infra engineer. They would have to pay me a lot more to be.

Sure... I've been the subject of this for sure. However here are two options (1) Leave the company. There are plenty of companies that don't do this. Just keep changing jobs till y…

I have no doubt this exists, because I've seen it with my own two eyes. However, as someone who's also built a career doing none of this, I also realize how much of this is due to …

I was responding to the claim that most of the societal harm comes from demonization. No it does not. It comes from the behavior of the addicts.

So you can't name anything, but want me to? Behaviors I disagree with include things like flaking on a commitment with friends, forcing your children to do activities they don't wa…

Rabies is also a health issue, yet that doesn't mean we let rabid people out on the streets to terrorize others. The government is also responsible for the reasonable safety of the…