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Minimum wage laws when instituted were racist. To this day it still detrimentally affects individuals trying to enter a work force by creating an artificial barrier.

Currently, there is a push to increase the minimum wage to $15. If I oppose this on my concept of what it is, a vestige of systematic racism that contributes further to that system, then what do I make of proponents of the increase who argue that voting against it is racist.

The entire endeavor is a waste of time, the politicos will do what they want and then tell you why we should hate Eurasia.

Google tv on the outside of the cardboard box shows the old version without the latest version.

When you update the system to the latest version, it installs a forced ad rotation on the top. You have no control over that content, and there is no way to get rid of it. Pass.

Look at Mann’s email trove of behind the scenes discussion.

The mineral based sunscreen is a big step in fixing this. Look for those that are environmentally friendly.

Metrics: It is easy for them to keep track of metrics, including the following:

* did someone pause on a post, mark it * time on page, * whatever other crazy metric you can show to advertisers * in-line advertisements

Also, the walled garden makes it so you get the endorphin hit of clicking the button and it can algorithmically entice you back with notifications and other engagements.

Green new deal is absent of nuclear energy and does not include anything about base load mitigation. Instead there will be magical battery storage.

The affordable care act included chiropractor and acupuncture.

California is under a strict lockdown that has been admitted in their documents that it will never return to green and the WHO is returning to their previously held statement that lockdowns hurt the poor disproportionately and do not provide ultimate success.

Masks do not work, then work, then only special types of cloth (two layer gaiters no, two layer cloths, yes).

HCQ with zinc does work in early treatments until endorsed by a party leader, opposition locks out doctors (trained medical professionals) from using the drug in certain states with no scientific backing.

Science in the political realm is non existent if it interferes with the scoring of political points.

It is not Republicans / Democrats are anti science, it is the political positions each side is beholden to that drives these narratives and then are used to make the opposing side look dumb.

The three fifths compromise was reached to reduce the effect that you are bringing up. The northern and southern states saw the writing in the wall for slavery when the constitution was signed. Virginia’s part was already merged, Maryland should remerge.

This is a good use of twitter to apply engineering and figure out issues. The problem is that PG&E’s incentives are significantly misaligned to not be successful:

1. Crazy renewable edicts that do not have base power assumptions (see blackouts over summer).

2. Maintenance programs that are not overseen by a third part. This story. Please read just to see the sheering off of the c hook and the fact it might have been 100 years old!

At the onset of the Coronavirus, the media and medical advice was to NOT acquire masks for daily wear to prevent spreading. My knowledge from Asian nations encouraging masks wearing to spread the disease was counterfactual to what the government was saying.

The people at Star Slate Codex supposed that this was to limit a run on masks.

Dr. Faucci just last month admits, yeah we lied about it at the beginning to prevent a run on masks.

The conspiracy folks in this case were correct. I am not including myself in the echelons or intelligence the SSC provides, but smart people were able to suss our this was a conspiracy.

Enforcement is the state forcing its will on you eliminating the individual’s ability to evaluate risk. Eric Garner is dead because of government rule flexing you suggest.

The government should buy ads showing the efficacy of face masks and use the ad council to pretty it up.

If you have politically connected individuals flouting the rules, people will salami tactics their way to not wearing the masks.

*edit: thanks for the word correction suggestion.

1. Community oversight through a board

2. Limit the use of force

3. Independently investigate and prosecute

4. Community representation

5. Body cams / film the police

6. Training in de-escalation

7. End for profit policing

8. Demilitarization of the police force

9. Fair police union contracts that remove provisions within police bill of rights that impose barriers to accountability

Look here:

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By whom? Every side can argue either way to truth or lie.

Looking at the arguments in the multiple posts of this topic / concept we have people saying President Trump’s statement is false and true. It depends on the perspective, a significant amount of which is tribal based. You can get a great example of how a person’s thoughts change depending on who says it if you watch any of the YouTube videos of people asking opinions on a quote; when it was revealed to be someone from their tribe, BOOM!, perspective change.

Fact checking could be accomplished by a three person team that has items presented to them without context. But, we would need them to be isolated from society to ensure their purity in a subject matter.

You can’t. The political machines of these areas need to have significant political issues (think bankruptcy and stewardship to a larger organization Detroit being taken over by the state for example) to cause a change.

Places like Illinois are financially insolvent and are cutting back on all sorts of things.

Short sellers have a place in the market. They put in place a mechanism, in real markets, to hold a stock to honesty.

Imagine if WeWork could be shorted, people would have been able to hold the stock price down. Instead of the last minute moment where everyone looked around and went: It’s a REIT!

Where I share your sentiment on short sellers and longs are the ones who fake information / overpromote it to make some money, which distorts the market for the commoners.