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Comment Re: It's very simple (Score 1) 162

But they are the left most party with any significant representation, at least nationally.

Which makes them our left wing.

Political wings are relative to the democracy they are in. If there's a right wing then there's a left, wings come in pairs. Given that our two major parties have very different ideals both socially and economically we clearly have a left and right wing regardless of the fact that our left wing is rather conservative by international standards.

   

Comment Re:Sucks for Apple (Score 1) 76

If the cost of production in India is 20% higher, it still is likely to be better than paying tariffs

Right now, yes but Trump has been so off and on with everything who the hell knows if that will last. Unlike a lot of countries he initially targeted and then repealed tariffs on India does in fact place a decent amount of tariffs on goods coming from the US so going by the things he says they're a logical target for him but really who knows? He changes his mind so much and says so much random shit companies are reduced to reading tea leaves to get any idea on what their fiscal future might hold. Hence our stock market being in such shit shape.

Comment Re:Sucks for Apple (Score 2) 76

The India/China split is probably relatively neutral for Apple.

India's got cheap labor but it doesnt have the infrastructure that China does https://magazine.wharton.upenn.... . Long term operating costs will be higher in India because of this.

Lots of places in the world have cheap labor, what's made China so special is its infrastructure.

Comment Re:More nuclear power then? (Score 1) 109

Here's a video of some dudes bullshitting over beers in Texas taking 12 minutes of their podcast to stop talking about guns and anime to take a shit on wind and solar energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

These guys want nuclear power. I believe they will get it soon. Why? Because if this issue has beer drinking dudes in Texas talking about nuclear power then there's got to many people that vote, in most every demographic, that want nuclear power.

So a podcast mostly about guns and anime where they spend time complaining about incredibly cost effective wind and solar is your litmus test for where America is on nuclear power? You're being ridiculous right now.

Comment Re:Ahahahaha ... Seriously? (Score 1) 209

As if US college today is a surefire way to score a mate for life as it was back in the 1960ies.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/fi...
"In 1960, there were 1.60 males for every female graduating from a U.S. four-year college and 1.55 males for every female undergraduate"

Only if said mate for life was another man.

Comment Re:Here's a secret (Score 1) 35

Once I was capable of following the complexities of rulebooks the structure they provided made everything more fun. This is the reason I stopped playing rule bookless "pretend" as I did when I was a child but picked up table top RPGs.

As long as it's a well thought out rule set and the design is strong the more content the better if you ask me. Makes for a bigger sandbox for my imagination to play in.

Comment Re:"researcher" (Score 2) 263

You seem to be operating under a desire to discredit these studies as you don't seem to be engaging in any critical thinking. I'm not spending my time going through your whole list but going to the top of your list as an example.

- Expand at-home CoVID testing for Latinos. Why specifically Latinos?

- Reducing vaccine hesitancy amoung hispanic Parents (CoVID). Again, why specifically Hispanics?

We know that Hispanic folks were hit harder by COVID https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a.... so looking at ways to address that absolutely makes sense. It makes sense for the health for American society as a whole as well because disease moves between Hispanic and white people just fine.

Now, I didn't know that before I Googled it but I also didn't start off with the assumption that focusing on race or anything involving the government was inherently bad.

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