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  1. Should you? In a utopia where no one wants to steal is that because of total police surveillance, because homes only contain junk bought on credit from Amazon not worth stealing, because thieves are all dead from drug overdoes, or because AI forces everyone to generate views for YouTube videos and won't let them outside.

  2. legal to fuck for free, paying is still a crime

  3. Re:who's actually paying? on Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay Tuition (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    from the accumulation of tax-free vanity donations from the wealthy, whose assets are insured and "stimulated" by the Federal Reserve: anytime anyone has a lot of free money it's a good bet the source is the "taxpayer" i.e. taxslave. This is probably some preemptive PR, since Rice was a proudly white-only school

  4. Re:Strawman on Many Job Ads on Facebook Illegally Exclude Women, ACLU Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    We forget too easily

    Because it's a false memory.

    swaths of the world where all this is still true and we turn a blind eye to it.

    Because it's a fantasy.

    In less prosperous times and places females suffer, but males do too, there is no malice at work...unless prosperity is delayed by those who can justify their own foolishness with a tick forward of a clock.

  5. Re:Rei, come on in, you're needed! on Saudi Arabia Invests $1 Billion In Potential Tesla Rival (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do american car companies insist on building stuff people can't afford anyways en masse?

    Because it's all financed, similar to the retailers that offer payment plans on high-end appliances to people who can't afford the basic models, though the car companies don't need high interest to cover defaults because they will be bailed out by the taxpayers

  6. Re:"peculiar institution"? on Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I believe America is the only country where the masters decided to switch places with the slaves, so you can see how the terminology is too confusing

  7. Re:Why have nocotine at all? on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    It's kind of the whole point, it's like asking why beer contains alcohol. I guess they could use something like THC which is supposedly less addictive, but that is more mind-altering

  8. Re:This is what happens when young people don't vo on European Parliament Votes in Favor of Controversial Copyright Laws (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    think this is really about censorship, which the young people all support

  9. Re:Makes losing my house a GOOD thing. UL, NFPA, I on Actuarial Science Ranked As Most Valuable College Major (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    owe $200,000 paying for a house I no longer have

    If the collateral is wiped out so is the loan; the insurance benefits the bank, which is why the bank forces you to pay for it.

    If a fire or tornado destroys my house, I'll still have an house and won't have a mortgage payment

    I don't advise torching it.

  10. Re:Ok, this isn't funny anymore on Trump Ups Ante on China, Threatens Duties on Nearly All its Imports (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Blame the central bank, which has been acting to increase the rate of inflation for many years now because it claims prices aren't going up fast enough; a fixed 10% isn't much while the Fed is hard at work making prices double, triple, quadruple, etc.

  11. Re:Who are they exploiting? on Bernie Sanders Introduces 'Stop BEZOS' Bill To Tax Amazon For Underpaying Workers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's below the cost of living, so the gap needs to be made up with welfare. I guess you could say that is "gaming the system" while the real exploitation is the government printing money to cut wages so that people work for less money than they expect

  12. Re:Everyone wants a golden parachute on Popular College Majors Changed Abruptly After the Financial Crisis (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    mandatory subject in public schools, can make 6-figures and retire early with no performance review

  13. Re:Hypocrite on Trump Accuses Social Media Firms of 'Silencing Millions' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And everyone who supports Twitter censorship says it's wrong to censor football players. If double-standard is the standard then Trump is no hypocrite.

  14. Re:Stop the collectivist bullshit on Amazon Warehouse Envoys Rally To Tweet Upbeat Comments About Working Conditions (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If the jobs are subsidized by taxpayers then the conditions are a public matter. Also at some point working conditions are bad enough that the failure of employees to leave raises the issue of abuse of the mentally disabled

  15. Re:The headline is missing three words on As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of gold being mined, though of course there is a limit, growth of paper economies is mostly all debt

  16. Re:The true cost of mining on Nvidia Is Giving Up On the Cryptocurrency Mining Market (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Historically, states have a 100% failure rate. The dollar only stopped being backed by gold 50 years ago, the only question is whether it was the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end.

  17. Re:RIP Skyking on Flight-Simulator Enthusiasts Confident of Real-World Skills (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    money is nothing, and everyone dies: life just another simulation

  18. Re: Use the tution fees from gender studies degree on NYU Offers Full-Tuition Scholarships for All Medical Students (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    And nothing wrong with history or poli sci

    Depends on first principles, you can produce "intellectuals" who believe anything. If a history department includes "gender studies" it's compromised, same as if the physics department offered a minor in astrology.

  19. Re:Congratulations, Apple! on Apple Becomes the First $1 Trillion US Company in History (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Like a cigarette company, probably produces a measurable drag on the economy.

  20. Re:Congratulations, Apple! on Apple Becomes the First $1 Trillion US Company in History (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    not that crazy a number, since there is relentless money printing, every company will eventually be worth trillions

  21. All government tax collection and all government regulation is done at gunpoint. Sure you could have a different style than militarized police, socialist dictatorships often have guys in street clothes and unmarked cars grab you off the street.

  22. Re: In a cashless society all legal tender is cont on Are There Dangers in a Cashless Society? (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    People wouldn't deposit their money in the bank if they didn't have a legal right to withdraw it when they wanted, but in a cashless system they have no control over their money, so the terms of accessing it could be anything. No doubt the economists have their God fantasy all worked out, even in the absence of a crisis there might be limits on how much you are allowed to spend on fast food or gasoline, for example.

  23. Re:Nice! on New York Orders Charter Out of State (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Most likely the contract will go to Comcast, and consumers will be subjected to arbitrary bandwidth rationing. Government is the ultimate corporate racket, it is not here to help.

  24. Re:The election brought in a ton of money on Twitter Stock Plunges 21 Percent After Earnings Show Effects of Fake-Account Purge (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 2

    the more media coverage Hillary or Bernie get the worse they look because they have no charisma; the Democrat Party thought the only reason a nobody like Obama could push Hillary out of the way was because of race, but Hillary was actually inferior to a black man

  25. Re:Amazon "could' replace libraries but... on 'No, Amazon Cannot Replace Libraries' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Could probably remove every copy of a book from library shelves and generate a list of who has the checked out copies within minutes. Even if the procedure is not in place, you can imagine if a book with child porn images made it into libraries it would be gone very quickly, but it would continue to have a limited digital availability forever