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Probably to clinics owned by hedge funds?
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The "epidemic of gun violence" will not stop until we start training young people to the concept that violence is not the proper first, second, or third option on conflict. And they are not the center of the rest of the world's universe.
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To them, religious freedom is the freedom to impose their own religion.
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Selective blindness: they can't see the Establishment clause for focusing on the Free Exercise clause.
They have support in the Supreme Court with the same failing.
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As ham-handed as this bunch are, I expect them to charge him for "smuggling immigrants" for taking 200-some of them to El Salvador.
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Been there, done that, though without the raven.
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I live in the suburbs. I have seen the kind of development that started this thread installed indiscriminately out here. I may have overreacted, but as I see this kind of infill going in outside the urban core, I do not see the supporting infrastructure going in with it.
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Point. When I was in the situation of no car I also had virtually no income.
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Some of it seems to be innate. Much seems to be an artifact of industrialization, where fathers are largely absentee -- jobs mostly -- and boys are raised by overworked mothers. I used to accuse Dr Spock until I realized that he did not create the trend, but merely articulated it.
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Obviously they came up with a new scenario. May we hope that this one might involve obeying the law?
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And start preparing a brief for malicious prosecution.
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Eugenics was hardly pseudoscientific. It was the belief that Mendelian Genetics and Darwinian Selection applied to humans. It greatly overvalued Nature over Nurture in human development, but it was originally carrot-and-stick. The stick-only approach was from Social Darwinism, mostly in the 20s.
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From early reports, it would seem that "human smuggling" was primarily driving friends and family around.
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"We lost Mr Miller...."
'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.
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We can produce them, and we can even build them up, but we don't seem to be able to make them work right.
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I really feel that Ernst honestly believes that her actions cannot have unintended consequences, so her response was entirely out of context to the stimulus. And she apparently didn't realize that until the shitstorm hit.
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Authoritarian leaders generally have charisma and/or status that gives them relatively easy access to sex. They can use that to pass along favors to minions as a reward, the minions generally being much less secure in their approaches to sex.
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And railroad spurs run to every store, right? Truck transport is critical in local distribution and much more flexible in large-scale distribution.
And rail reliability in the US has been less than sterling, largely because of the wide-open spaces, which are conspicuously lacking in Europe.
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And, according to several of the Founders, America was specifically not founded as a Christian nation.
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Do try to keep track of the fact that those highways make it possible to get product to the stores where you shop.
Given labor and operating costs, it is likely that money spent on highways is more than paid back in reduced retail prices, especially for produce and other perishables.
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And my urologist at the time took me off bicycles 45 years ago. There is no way I can ride a bicycle without damaging my prostate.
I got around LA fine on foot and bus -- when I was 60 years younger. That works poorly for me now.
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And they work OK where you have sidewalks, and rather poorly where you do not, if you are reasonably young and fit. They severely limit your range, though. But you can always pay extra to have larger items (or orders) delivered -- if you have the income.
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Or you went through between the Summer of Love and Reagan.
The 60s and 70s were a time of rejection of the governmental intrusions of WWII and the Eisenhower years. By the end of the 70s the Silents had gone Establishment and the systems could be reinstated.
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Yes. But it should be illegal to do to people without autism, too.
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The blanket travel bans in question are collective punishment, pure and simple. Popular tool of the Third Reich, among others.
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Shows up all the time on my computer when I ask about commands and spell them wrong.
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Many of us feel that Mr Richardson was being a joke.
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And the fact that you're different doesn't make you bad, or wrong, or at fault.
You may be any or all of those things, but not just because you're different.
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Apropos of Truth Social or X? Or both?
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And parking for two cars, one blocking the other, for a four-story complex.
Have you ever tried to do a week's grocery shopping on a bicycle? Or walking, trying to carry the bags?
Pfaugh!
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In the 50s kids were supposed to rat on neighbors or parents if they sounded Commie. In the 80s kids were supposed to rat on their parents for drug use.
Big Gov wanting us to be rats ain't nothin' new.
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CicinSainLab
will have better data, but I suspect that they are the"breakthrough" infections that are largely associated with new variants, though they also happen with the variant that is vaccinated against. Likely due to a large inoculum or a glitch in the general immune system.
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Oh, those profit-killing -- oh, excuse me, that's supposed to be "job-killing" -- regulations.
But we all know that regulations don't apply to a law-and-order leader.
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Why? Sexual orientation should not define the value or accuracy of someone's opinions, insights or shared information.
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Unfortunately, the GOP members are preparing for the 2026 election, fearing defeat in the primaries by MAGA zealots if they don't drink the Kool-Aid.
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I think it's "More than a million Americans died." World-wide there were more than twice that many, diagnosed and confirmed, plus uncounted who died without the attribution.
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It should be pointed out that very few dollars in Medicaid/Medicare fraud go to patients. That industry is limited to doctors, hospitals and insurers.
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And we can be quite sure that the modern paramilitaries are not what the Founders had in mind when calling for "a well regulated militia."
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Not gender representation, just size of the labor pool. When women move into a field formerly dominated by men, they increase the size of the available labor pool, increasing supply without necessarily increasing demand. That generally puts downward pressure on prices == wages/salaries.
That's all.
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I submit that defining the nature of consciousness is a problem that cannot be solved from the inside.
This is an area where the pursuit is more important than the goal.
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Just to be contrary, is there a chance that supply-and-demand has a hand in forming this pattern?
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It seems to be the case that declining antibody titers do not necessarily imply a similar decrease in immunity, probably because the trained B-cells and T-cells do not necessarily decline at the same rate.
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Possibly to try to isolate nutrients that have the desired physiological effects so that they could be sought elsewhere?
Besides, when you look at what people spend on pets, the cost of eel is not likely to be a severe barrier.
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Forests are darker than grasslands are darker than bare dirt. But sunlight falling on forests or grasslands does not all generate heat; much goes into producing carbohydrates, etc.
One is reminded of the analysis that bumblebees could not fly because their glide angle was so steep.
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Could this imply that beyond being a school for scribes the site may have been a factory providing updates for local Talmuds?
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I can only imagine the next generation of prison tats after this goes mainstream.
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It's OK, Julia. A lot of neurotypicals are weird. I would say "too" but that would not help.
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Perhaps “fascism and ethnic cleansing"? Zoning ordinances don't usually kill people.
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If it weren't for the post-9/11 militarization of local police forces, this would have the appearance of a Posse Comitatus violation.
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Pedantically and technically, they are correct; the President hasn't actually violated the Constitution until the courts determine (finally, usually at SCotUS) that his actions were unconstitutional.
The mills of the Law grind exceedingly slow.
Practically, they're just knuckling under.