mtnGoat

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All of my posts are my own and not necessarily reflective of my employers views.
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Comment · 4 months ago
Not really, if the job lasts 30 years it will absolutely offset itself with local economic activity. These people will pay taxes, buy homes, visit doctors and much more.
Comment · 5 months ago
It increases based on your spend and account history. Unfortunately to get it to increase, you gotta basically just blow money on other services before they trust you enough to let you use certain expensive services. I would venture to guess people were using temporary credit cards to sign up, then not paying the bill.
Comment · 5 months ago
I’d guess they have some kind of analytics telling them what kind of questions are being asked.

It seems to me that heavily gate kept professions/knowledge will go first. As those tend to be extensive opinions to get.

Comment · 9 months ago
Yup! A lot of folks forget about mechanical lift and only think of thermic lift.
Comment · 1 year ago
Enforcement, one countries laws don’t apply in another. Which is kind of why the age verification thing won’t work… There will always be some jurisdiction that’ll ignore things for profit.
Comment · 1 year ago
The road was technically public and crossed his land, but was a dead end.
Comment · 1 year ago
There was an old farmer in my town that had a steel deer decoy on a hill up the road from his house, poachers would shoot it, not knowing he would hear the sound, shut his gate then call law enforcement on them as there was no other way out.

I always appreciated the cleverness of this.

Comment · 1 year ago
Actually they don’t, visa heavily restricts those business and the amount of chargebacks they are allowed to have, other industries have much higher rates of chargeback.
Comment · 1 year ago
That’s not the point and I agree with you. The point was that no where near the majority voted for him since so many didn’t vote at all.
Comment · 1 year ago
51% of the voting population. Not the majority of the population. Big difference in numbers there, only 65.3% participated. So, less than a third of Americans voted for the current president… why people don’t vote, I’ll never understand.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think this is way over priced, could they not build their own with significantly less resource outlay?

But I guess I’m not really the guy that buys billion dollar things, so I probably don’t know how to evaluate them.

Comment · 1 year ago
I am the OP that used that word. I was unaware of this connection, my apologies. I will consider this if using the word in the future.

I was aiming for the “not having basic human morals” usage of the word, nothing more.

Comment · 1 year ago
It sticks with you for a while and creates interesting views on things throughout life.
Comment · 1 year ago
You are entitled to your opinion, despite throwing an insult in to point out an insult. lol, nice hypocrisy. ;)
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, he was an interesting guy. Not a good dad, which is why I can’t help but feel the way I do about others that would do the same to a child.

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