massivecali
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Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
>Imagine being sick, having no insurance, maybe no job...
Sorry no.
Long term unemployed people in the US qualify for free medical care, celphones and basic dental work. The process is arduous, yes, but it is comprehensive. I had entire recurring blood panels, multiple MRIs, neurological impairment tests , every hospital visit and all of my prescriptions provided for free.
Lumping all levels of poor together is just lies that obfuscates larger issues.
Comment · 7 years ago
How is the WSJ's credibility any better than a blog?
>The Wall Street Journal is the most trusted news source in the country, according to the index, with 57.7% of Americans trusting it.
All polls are biased based on how you ask questions.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonysilber/2018/10/03/the-wall-...
I'd say little more than half the poll is about as irrelevant as a blog. Either you trust something because of confirmation bias or you don't.
Disregarding blogs as somehow being less credible, holds traditional media to a higher standard which they have chosen to abandon for partisan reporting over the past 10 years.
Other random sources for comparison/counterpoints:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/wall-street-journal/
https://poorvucenter.yale.edu/writing/using-sources/principl...
Comment · 7 years ago
I had an art show once.
I walked up to a couple debating what a hand in my painting was holding.
It wasn't holding anything in my creation.
But art, like writing, is subjective.
Comment · 7 years ago
I would think hotels would be in a better position to expand their business centers and cater to this market.
Comment · 7 years ago
I was taking the HN preferred side of giving the poster the benefit of the best possible interpretation, which in this case means in the condition of proper pronoun usage, English defaults to male pronouns for the unknown, or sometimes an ambiguous they. I don't read names in the modern age because I have no clue what foreign names are male or female. Nor would I be so bold as to assume.
Comment · 7 years ago
It says nothing more than English is a male language. And ambiguous titling defaults to he (or they).
Comment · 7 years ago
Why doesn't the title match the article?
Comment · 7 years ago
Severe depression leads to isolating behaviors. If you're not so depressed that you are able to leave the house and go somewhere, you're ahead of the game and excercise is just icing on the cake.
Comment · 7 years ago
Ratings are imperfect censorship tools that evolve over time.
PG-13 was created specifically for Indiana Jones Temple of Doom because there was no rating between PG and R.
Content that fits in these boxes is not the same from year to year. Not just with regards to violence or language, but casual topless women that were commonplace in the 70s is no longer PG/PG-13 acceptable.
Comment · 7 years ago
My understanding is that every US military base, while not American sovereign territory, is still subject to US law. Not a lawyer, so not sure how that shakes out. I'd prefer we stop playing world police, but that is not going to happen.
Why is there no backlash from the international community at large? There are always articles about human trafficking but no UN outrage over stuff like this. Is it because it's boys and not "defenseless" girls?
Comment · 7 years ago
Nobody in Hollywood is afraid of consequences for baseless accusations of anyone supporting the president as being a Nazi.
Comment · 7 years ago
Agreed. That sounds demoralizing and petty.
Comment · 7 years ago
Reminds me of an appropriate quote from Contact with Jodie Foster.
S.R. Hadden: "First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?"
Comment · 7 years ago
They were also told to ignore rampant child rape by Afghan allies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-to...
Programs: California Medi-cal (which covered all of my medications, tests, etc), Denti-cal (all dental work thats not cosmetic), my obama phone, calfresh (for ebt food) and calworks (cash monthly stipend) are the only programs I can speak to.
I'm grateful for what I had to fight to receive during a bad period of my life and hate seeing misrepresentations like this being spread without specific context.
Had I not been able to finally get working again, I would have eventually qualified for free housing, utilities and all the other benefits available from programs that are funded from various sources. I made several friends through the course of going to these offices over a long period of time who were admittedly worse off than me (mentally) but somehow knew all the inside information on how to game the system. (Ex: if you are considered impaired you can get free bus/subway/van service card, which they all knew how to easily acquire). I had to ride my bicycle or walk everywhere to get back and forth from these appointments.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-other-state-comes-close...