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TheRealLiszt 7 points ago +7 / -0

For me it was the (ongoing) 11+ year wait for the next book plus the arrogance of its writer.

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TheRealLiszt 7 points ago +7 / -0

Calculations for the CPI used to be based on a core group of items such as food, energy, services etc. These items were the same year after year so it was a good measure of how the costs changed over time for the same basket of goods.

New CPI uses substitutions, among other things, and assumes that say, if the price of beef is getting to high, people will switch to chicken and pork. They also change around the relative weight of each good again as an attempt to predict consumer response to price changes.

As a result the new variable method of calculating the CPI will, almost always, return a lower % result than the older fixed method. It is of course a total coincidence that this makes the government look better, they are just doing it in an attempt to be more 'accurate.'

If you're interested Investopedia has a good article on the subject.

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TheRealLiszt 8 points ago +8 / -0

In the Criminal Code of 1926 there was a most stupid Article 139—‘on the limits of necessary self-defense’—according to which you had the right to unsheath your knife only after the criminal's knife was hovering over you. And you could stab him only after he had stabbed you.

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Even in the Soviet Union what Jose Alba did would have been a clear case of self defense. Instead, in the modern United States, you have criminals being set free while responsible, law abiding citizens are harshly punished.

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TheRealLiszt 7 points ago +7 / -0

The difference is as simple as haploid vs diploid cells. Sperm or an unfertilized egg will never become a person.

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TheRealLiszt 11 points ago +11 / -0

Leftist and known to the police in his area apparently.

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TheRealLiszt 16 points ago +16 / -0

Children – both male and female, and mostly a few weeks old – were sacrificed by the Carthaginians at locations known as tophets. The practice was also carried out by their neighbors at other Phoenician colonies in Sicily, Sardinia and Malta. Dedications from the children's parents to the gods are inscribed on slabs of stone above their cremated remains, ending with the explanation that the god or gods concerned had 'heard my voice and blessed me'.

There have been people throughout history who have had no issue with sacrificing their children to whatever gods they worship. Our time is not so different.

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TheRealLiszt 3 points ago +3 / -0

Why not just use an adblocker?

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TheRealLiszt 5 points ago +5 / -0

No evidence of any of that, but that's what half the country now believes.

Sadly I am forced to interact with the more left leaning types on a near daily basis. Believe me, even among that group, no one is talking about this hearing.

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TheRealLiszt 11 points ago +11 / -0

They enjoy seeing men hurt and die, they dont actually want to do it directly themselves, that is far to risky. Women implement violence by proxy usually manipulating other men, she can then sit back and claim that she has no part in it.

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TheRealLiszt 7 points ago +7 / -0

That plus the balding/shit beard combo and you nearly have a soyboy bingo.

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TheRealLiszt 14 points ago +14 / -0

His decision to wait and release it in theaters was 100% the correct choice. The movie would not be the same without the big screen and audience experience. Go see it in IMax if you haven't.

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TheRealLiszt 18 points ago +18 / -0

I love a story with a happy ending.

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TheRealLiszt 4 points ago +4 / -0

And all of the drones in the hive are sterile females except for the queen and a few male bees.

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TheRealLiszt 6 points ago +6 / -0

And of course he sees himself in a nice Dacha watching the Kulaks starve in the field.

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TheRealLiszt 9 points ago +9 / -0

Leftists would be happy with a supreme leader ruling by diktat, as long as he agreed with their views.

To them the court is only legitimate when it agrees 100% with what the left wants.

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TheRealLiszt 19 points ago +19 / -0

I doubt Thomas voted for biden so by definition he isn't black.

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TheRealLiszt 22 points ago +22 / -0

Jury tampering implies there will be charges brought and a trial for those caught. I doubt they will even be fined. They wont have to spend a day in a courtroom because they have the correct political alignment.

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TheRealLiszt 3 points ago +3 / -0

Not archiving content, especially trash like Vox, should be grounds for a permanent posting ban.

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