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As a progressive, I agree that Big Pharma's profit motive is a major problem when it comes to public health campaigns like mass vaccination, and that those companies have not remot…

>to the point of absurdity and recoil from the general public This is incorrect. The actions of wealthy people speak for themselves; they don't need to be demonized, they are plain…

An aspect of this phenomenon (though not the entire explanation): Conservatives tend to oppose initiatives that are broadly beneficial - especially if they stand to help marginaliz…

You're doing that common conservative thing of correctly identifying the principle, but then taking a turn into ridiculousness when enumerating examples. We are, in fact, in this m…

Terms of Service say otherwise. Until the ads came in, users absolutely had a "right" to access YouTube's services for free. I'm sorry that you misspoke.

Bernie Sanders won against Trump in h2h polls in 2016 and 2020, quite strongly. Booker was on his was to something similar. Even 2008 Obama campaigned left of Clinton (we made the …

Well, there's the notion that price no longer quite reflects what's going on under the surface. Certainly, it's in the interests of an entity experiencing a run on its reserves to …

That's incorrect - or, at least, not seriously tested with a true far-left candidate with the DNC'S full backing. Dan Osborn was decidedly not that. Bernie Sanders is, of course, t…

>has never This is a deeply interesting comment. Obviously, YouTube began and spent several years as an ad-free, subscription-free platform, so to state that no one has ever had th…

Cyberpunk has always been, "What if what happens to those people happened to us ?" "Us" being the relatively affluent and stable first world, "those people" being the put-upon urba…

Preserving wealth is actually an uphill battle. It likes to leak; the wealthy need the help of systems and institutions to keep their largesse intact. If you want it to diffuse thr…

Semi-counterpoint: the actually smart, high-achieving young people adapt to the status quo. The ones one rung lower, who the prevailing system cast aside for some deficit or other,…

It's incorrect to divorce this dynamic from its history, which is largely one of America's right wing/nativists using "states' rights" as a cover to infringe on the rights of margi…

It seems as good a time as any to point out that the environment in which people like this are making decisions is the one in which equal opportunity/affirmative action/DEI become …

It would also be damning of recruitment patterns across American institutions. Getting ahold of prestigious or lucrative opportunities often requires pressing unfair advantages tha…

I'll do you one better: in this specific situation, the antisocial buck stops at the friend group who doesn't all chip in and buy their Android friend a "keep in touch" iPhone. But…

"Conglom-O: We Own You." ...Just to highlight the absurdity of the situation. Literally cartoonish corruption.

Without reading your link: this is a problem across new and existing builds, so it can't be an issue wih permitting. Housing cost growth has outpaced wage growth for decades. We ar…

Every company in the space realizes that it's the next computer pillar, after desktop PCs and smartphones. Even more so: these devices see everything their users see (and more), he…

The medium is the message, as it were. Changing vocabulary changes the essence, since the minds and souls that would provide consistency across shifting intonation aren't still her…

There was a famous list that a guy once nailed to a church door. That was a few hundred years ago.

It's not just the cost of building the house. Utilities and infrastructure (and the taxes to pay for it all) add up. Now, if you were to build smaller, densely, and close enough to…

That's a lot of talking around the actual question >that has kept his Tradition alive through the centuries and alive fundamentally unchanged the answer to which is an emphatic, "N…

There's a story here that I would love to hear.