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I think that suggesting that an octogenarian either uproot their life to a less car-centric place or start riding a bike everywhere is a bit unreasonable.

From my reading it is only equity that has monetary value that they are taxing; this has nothing to do with disgorging voting stock, it is merely intended to raise revenue.

Sergei Brin is worth around $230b. The tax seeks around 5% of that, which is $11.5b. I don’t see how, when most of his net worth is in Alphabet stock, he would have to sell anythin…

The best part about all the comments here is that they all seem to be missing that this is pretty obvious satire.

I think parsing out what kind of freedom would help here. The US has a lot of “freedom of” but not a lot of “freedom from.”

Matt Stoller, a journalist who blogs about monopolies, just wrote all about the pricing issue this week: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-obamaca... America has…

I don't know how this fits into the narrative you just posted, but DHH was a keynote speaker at RailsConf this year. I was there and heard him speak. He didn't speak about anything…

I would say it heavily depends on what converts and festivals you’re going to. I just went to Making Time in Philadelphia where Fourtet was the headliner and by far the biggest nam…

The post you are trying to refute has a source which is a study that found "It can obstruct the ability to interpret emotions, fuel aggressive conduct, and harm one's psychological…

That's just not the case here. Most of the comments are taking a stance on Israel/Palestine and arguing from there. There are a ton of comments likening Israel to the Nazis. That's…

The comments are just a flame war about Israel. Maybe that's why so many people are flagging it.

iPhones work but foreign (outside of Japan) purchased Android devices don't

Yes, it absolutely does. It also uses public funds for private religious institutions, which I personally believe goes against the separation of church and state.

I find this to be a weak reading of the judicial system. Laws are not last in, first out; previous laws need to be taken into context when new laws are created, no matter how they …

The levels of inhumanity and doublespeak in here are staggering. This post attempts to euphemize 65 people losing their incomes, and probably healthcare, to the point that it reads…

Wow, this is def the next level of what you have been getting at with posting and moderation. Making me think deeply about my consumption and interaction here on yet another axis; …

That’s fair. State actor or not, I feel that I have proved that the account in question is using trolling tactics to spread vaccine disinformation.

Yet again you resort to troll tactics. You have yet to come clean about the obvious disinformation you are spreading, and seek only to redirect the conversation to something interp…

> I would also note how remarkable it was that nearly every business in the hardest-hit areas were quick to hang "This business supports BLM" or "PoC owned business" signs, while t…