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Several injured after UAW strikers hit by vehicle
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Effective protests are disruptive.
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Several injured after UAW strikers hit by vehicle
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Effective protests are disruptive.
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Such bravery
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These days it takes a lot more bravery to be a teacher than a cop.
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'Power to communities': Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address 'food deserts' after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter stores
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By definition, if the business venture isn't profitable, then there isn't a market.
REI in downtown Portland pulled out and publicly said it was because of rising crime, but it was really because the employees were trying to unionize.
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German woman's body paraded naked, spit on by Hamas fighters in Israel
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Terrorism is violence towards people, riots are violence towards property, that's a hell of a leap to try to equivocate the two
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What is a well known 'public secret' in the industry you work in that the majority of outsiders are unaware of?
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ISO9000 is a joke. They don't care what you do, they only care that you do what you said you're doing. So if your inspection process is "we play peek-a-boo with the widget and if it's still on the table when we open our eyes, it's good to ship". ISO only cares that you have a peek-a-boo procedure and your inspectors are trained on how to play peek-a-boo.
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Ratioing the police.
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We will never be able to end crime if we continue to treat crime as a personal failing.
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Georgia school board fires teacher for reading a book to students about gender identity
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Parents have the option of homeschooling their kids. That's them exercising their authority. But public school curriculum should be decided by an apolitical body that follows evidence based practices. Don't like it as a parent? Then homeschool.
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Milley says military is not woke: ‘I’m not even sure what that word truly means’
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The right doesn't use language genuinely, so personally I don't really care to consider their usages. The actual definition of words doesn't matter to conservatives, it's not how their brains work. That's why it's so easy for them to form a big tent party, they just need to say meaningless feel good phrases like "law and order", "1776", or "make America great again" to attract voters. That's also why when they get power, they dissolve into infighting and can't govern at all, because it turns out those phrases mean different things to all of them.
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CNN Poll: Percentage of Republicans who think Biden's 2020 win was illegitimate ticks back up near 70%
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In light of seeing your fellow conservatives move farther right (and thus, kinda push the definition of the body of conservative beliefs farther right), on what grounds do you still identify as conservative? What does being a conservative mean to you?
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Insanity
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If everyone followed the one rule "keep as much space in front of me to the next car, as there is behind me to the next car, at all times" it would do the most to alleviate most traffic jams.
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Trump's mug shot
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We keep saying "half of the nation" but he's never won a popular vote. It's a cognitive distortion
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Tesla founders
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Ok but the Wikipedia for Tesla's history says that musk specifically did not take a role in company operations, he was just hypercritical of design.
So technically he shouldn't be a co founder, he didn't fill that role.
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Help me choose one out of these games please (or recommend better alternatives)
If you haven't played it, everyone at some point should try Chrono Trigger.
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Tesla founders
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This went from generic to just plain weird.
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What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?
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Credit scores are in part based on the oldest line of available credit, which for most people are their student loans. Pay those off, your oldest line of credit becomes something more recent, and your score goes down as a result
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Jordan Peterson learns that freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences
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Your argument is purely semantic and not really substantive unless you define what a "bad person" is. That'll be different to everyone, so without a common operating definition of a "bad person" your point, while technically true, doesn't really mean anything.
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Elon tells James Woods to delete his account
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God king? More like Fraud King
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TIL The Katy Freeway in Houston, TX was expanded in 2008 to 26 lanes (one of the widest in the world) and 5 years later had longer peak travel times than before the expansion
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By definition, if you got rid of cars, you wouldn't have traffic. Traffic is made from cars.
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GOP talk of military action in Mexico sparks dire warnings
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Don't know what you're talking about, every act under intoxication is already legally intentional. "It's not rape officer, I was drunk!" Doesn't hold up in court
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Vivek Ramaswamy proposes mass federal layoffs as more GOP hopefuls look to slash US government
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You're sort of right but painfully wrong on so many things. The US government doesn't mint its own currency, it borrows from the Federal reserve. Congress spends money into existence (by borrowing from the Fed), but then we pay back the Fed via taxes.