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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

Absolutely. See also: increasingly conservative Mexicans in US border states who want a wall.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

And if they force the applicants to fill out the salary requirements portion of the application, they get data they can use to argue against raises as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

It’s already out of date because it’s missing the 2011 border between Sudan and South Sudan.

The map is also kind of a blobby mess in the Middle East, with a few countries missing, and they forgot the border between Algeria and Mauritania.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago (18 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

He could have, yes.

Instead, he doubled down on it and continued his campaign essentially with the message “Yes, I really do want to take away certain guns. Vote for me, Texans!”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It’s almost difficult to believe Kant wasn’t just pulling a Schrödinger and proposing a ridiculous thought experiment to illustrate the absurdity of genuinely holding those views.

The idea that morality exists only as an intrinsic quality of an action, regardless of context or consequence, is more theology than philosophy. It’s useless to the point of harm to anyone faced with a world beyond a university or a monastery.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I like the part where he begins his 12 page, 8700 word essay explaining the numbering system with “It’s not hard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Fun fact: whales and dolphins are also ungulates

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yep, but the states with sales tax get tired of getting cheated out of their tax revenue. The specific example where I saw this was a major hardware store chain in Oregon (no sales tax) right near the border of Washington (6.5% sales tax). They asked everyone “Washington or Oregon” at the register and checked ID for anyone who said Oregon.

Quick search says that Washington considers it a “sales and use” tax, so anything purchased out of state, but intended for use in Washington is supposed to be taxed. Kinda messed up, really.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In some cases like that, where you’re in a state that has no sales tax, but near the border of one that does, they’ll actually check ID and charge you sales tax if you’re from the sales tax state.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

So I’ve read.  

They still blew up their launch pad and showered a protected wildlife area with particulate, metal, and concrete debris. 

They then built and operated their water deluge system without obtaining permits.

Typo or no, they’re still taking a fast and loose, “better to ask forgiveness than permission” approach that is a detriment to a protected natural environment. They intend to test the limits of the Texas government’s ability to show disdain for the environment in favor of private enterprise.

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