Posts posted by Incredulity
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3 minutes ago, aggie08 said: ...yet, after the post Floyd and lockdown spikes, absolutely none of the data supports that.
You're wrong.
Crime and most specifically property crime absolutely exploded in west coast cities. Some are now posting "great" YOY numbers, but only in relation to absurdity. Specifically SF has made a number of efforts and changes that has much improvement. Portland is still a mess, and quite the ghost town these days. Seattle was doing better but just elected a mayor who is doubling down on social justice criminal reform and will stop sweeping homeless and enforcing public drug use.
Here are a couple of stat links.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5565409-property-crime-rates-us-cities/
https://www.koin.com/news/portland/portland-has-one-of-the-highest-property-crime-rates-in-the-u-s/
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Just now, aggie08 said: Quite literally all of them. And if San Diego is considered major, I also live in one.
Is your position that San Diego, LA, SF, Portland and Seattle haven't had a safety issue the last 5 years? I've been to all 5 multiple times each year and sure there is a ebb and flow but its absurd to claim the downtown areas of each of those cities is on par with PreCovid
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16 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said: While going to junior college I worked at a McDonald's for a while. A coworker was putting a pie into the basket to be fried when he dropped the pie into the vat. Letting the pie sink to the bottom would have fouled all of the oil in the vat, and since he had the basket in his left hand, someone said, "Get it out!" He proceeded to put his right hand into the vat to grab it. He only got his fingers in before yanking his hand back, but not before getting a second degree burn on all five fingers. He was something of a jerk, so it was entertainingly horrifying. Unsurprisingly, he later completed his higher education with a bachelors from aggy.
I always think about this scene when something like that comes up. I once saw a guy partially crushed by a gigantic steel vat of corn syrup because his instinct was to try to stop it from tipping over when a forklift operator bumped it. Was something like the leg crush scene in the Wire, but got most of his leg. There was concave points in the supports that made it survivable. I just heard and saw the immediate problem. Wasn't directly involved in rescue, I was across the yard.
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9 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said: this is you right now:

Is there an Intel Nationalization thread beyond the Trump is Debil threads?
In summary I am not in favor of the government directly intervening financially in the market. However, there is certainly a place for national security interests and economy to be protected by supporting(short term with direct payback) strategic/critical industries.
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3 minutes ago, rpspeed said: Group insurance through my employer.
I think it would be useful perspective for everyone in the discussion if people would disclose the type of employer they are getting healthcare through. The baseline assumption would be that only a large employer(I'm not sure what the line of delination is there) can get such pricing.
Of course only if the poster can do so without fear of doxxing themselves.
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7 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said: Again, I don’t believe this approach delivers broad based affordability in cities
So then what's your point?
Your interpretation of their plans is that they are technically legal and applicable to grazing in Western States? Well that's just incredibly impressive and reassuring. Gen Alpha is going to love grazing on scrub brush.
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28 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said: If we manage to decouple insurance from employment, what are the odds that the employers move all of the cost savings to employee pay?
You might do it with your company of 100, but how many would work the numbers and deliver that money to employees to pay for their own health care rather than keep some or all of it?
You think Medicare for all will be funded without additional taxes on employers?
Maybe its a net reduction in costs to employers, but it sure as fuck isn't a complete removal of the cost.
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