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pgsbathhouse2 | 6 years ago | on: Contact apps won't end lockdown. But they might kill off democracy

>see just how quickly we’re trading our liberty as a society for the semblance of security.

Are you referencing the Benjamin Franklin quote here? Because the quote means the exact opposite of what it is typically used for.

The state has every right and responsibility to defend the general populace against threats in spite of personal wants and wishes.

pgsbathhouse2 | 6 years ago | on: Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’s did not

>If the federal government rolled in with a heavy hand, we’re all stuck with whatever they think is best.

Yeah, like saving people's lives instead of entertaining some muppet's idea of what it means to be scientific.

Hint: If you're not listening to trained, professional scientists while attempting to sound scientific and curious, you're probably just performing an intellectual jerk off.

pgsbathhouse2 | 6 years ago | on: Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’s did not

>than to have my entire financial life ruined.

You know we can just literally choose to not have this problem, instead of buying into other people's narratives.

>Not once did anyone raise any alarms about, maybe these young people shouldn't go into this line of work

Actually plenty of people do. It's just not a very thrilling subject to the U.S. populace.

pgsbathhouse2 | 6 years ago | on: Two Months with Powershell on a Unix

Invoke-WebRequest doesn't even work correctly on windows for a large amount of very vanilla web functionality.

Powershell is a nice idea, but Microsoft is kidding themselves if they think it's even close to the alternatives.

pgsbathhouse2 | 6 years ago | on: We've Built Cities We Can't Afford

>Why presume what I believe?

It was a question. You asked the question, and it can only be asked as a non-rhetorical question if it is predicated on ignorance and some a priori perspective.

>I live in the city

Are you talking about an "actual" city, or an urban sprawl?

pgsbathhouse2 | 6 years ago | on: We've Built Cities We Can't Afford

>where would you shop for groceries or other domestic services?

What kind of weird question is this? "Downtowns" are _more_ accessible for people, not less. That's why they are more expensive by the foot.

Are you under the belief that there are no markets or services in cities? This seems like a perspective you can get from only living in the suburban non-sense that America has constructed.

pgsbathhouse2 | 6 years ago | on: 'Dogfight' looms as landlords start suing restaurants over unpaid rent

> How did we all manage to build an economy such that we're all paying each other just-in-time to avoid catastrophe?

Stagnate wages. And instead of raising wages, we lowered interest rates to keep the money flowing going.

As we have just discovered, an entire segment of society is being propped up by the borrowing power of the "middle class" in America.

We have been pulling the wrong levers, and as you've said in not so many words, our current economy is a farce. People are being fed the scraps of the economic pie.

We should give the people their money; their due, proper wages. We should stop formulating economic policies on "the rich should get richer no matter what." It might not be too late to return to sound economic policies that benefit the populace and not a select few, and in return we'd have a more robust economy.

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