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tmyakal

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  • Rents likely to balloon in wake of L.A. wildfires, experts say

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  • Could own a two-family home. It's super common in my area for there to be one apartment downstairs and one upstairs.

  • GOP pushes bill to stop student loan forgiveness ever happening again

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  • You're definitely spending less on them.

  • Double standards

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  • Just to piggyback off of this: trial-by-jury in the US is nearly nonexistent now. Less than 10% of arrests lead to a jury trial. Most go to a plea bargain.

    The state no longer has to convince 12 of your peers that you're guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. They just need to convince you that you'll suffer more if you maintain innocence than if you accept guilt.

  • Americans spend more time living with diseases than rest of world, study shows

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  • I haven't been to a doctor in over twenty years now. For most of that time, either I didn't have insurance or my insurance was so laughably bad and my wages so low that I couldn't afford to use it. Now I've got a decent job and decent insurance, but the nearest doctor accepting patients is over 50 miles away.

    Guess all I can do is cross my fingers and hope whatever kills me does it quick.

  • College enrollment is falling at a ‘concerning’ rate, new data reveals

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  • My professor wrote his own textbook and sold it to us to supplement his salary.

  • Sheriff buys beach house with $750,000 meant to feed inmates; three days after the story breaks, sheriff imprisons journalist's source.

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  • Why are we posting stories from 2018?

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  • Because blindness isn't a disability in the Federation. Geordi lives a full and happy life, and, as OP mentioned, is actually able to save the entire crew specifically because he's blind.

    "Fixing" his blindness in a compassionate, post-scarcity world that has the tools to allow someone to succeed no matter what physical characteristics they possess is like "fixing" a baby's hair color. It doesn't make the child's life easier, so what's the point other than eugenics?

  • Pentagon stunned after Trump picks Pete Hegseth for defence secretary

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  • As an individual territory, the U.S. is isolated. As an empire, we have bases on every continent. The risk isn't being killed. It's being declawed.

    Not advocating for American imperialism, just clarifying the point.

  • Wait... What? Folks In Red States Google Searched 'How To Change My Vote' In Droves After Trump's Victory

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  • Ah, yes. One of those good Jim Crow policies.

  • Biggest concerns

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  • My brother-in-law has one of these trucks. He still lives with his parents, doesn't tow or haul anything, and works as a janitor. He's paying $350/month on the loan just so he can feel cool.

  • Eighteen

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  • I keep saying it: they need to abolish the size limit of the House. It's been frozen for 100 years while the US population has exploded. The result has been less representation for urban areas and more for rural, both in Congress and when deciding president via the electoral college. You actually normalize it so everyone's voice is heard equally? Congressional gridlock goes away. "Stolen" elections go away.

  • Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports

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  • No, capitalism is feudalism with loot boxes! Because I could win the lottery.

  • What are some popular criticisms you see about any show/movie/videogame that you strongly disagree or you just don’t think it’s really a bad thing?

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  • That last point is why I couldn't play Fallout 4. My son was kidnapped, my spouse was killed, and I need to find out who did it and where they are! Right after I save a library, build a town, and solve some detective mysteries, I guess.

  • If Trump wins the election, US cities are at risk of military takeovers and mass deportations

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  • Because last time his number one policy promise was to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it. And his number two promise was an alternative to Obamacare.

    He's not so great at following through with his promises. That's the only thing non-MAGAs have going for them: he's pretty incompetent.

  • FAQ: Yes, We Support Kinect

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  • I bought one when they first came out, and one when they did the $5 liquidation sale when they were discontinued. I wish I'd bought more, just to be safe.

  • Asian Beauty

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  • A buddy of mine got "OUCH" on the inside of his lip. Ironically, it hurt a lot less than the piece on his shin.

  • Facts For Thee

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  • For real. Any gun I could obtain as a private citizen is not going to stand up to the weight of the police, let alone the US military if a true authoritarian regime took over. My right to a hunting rifle doesn't matter when they have tanks and drones.

  • Trump floats sending military after US citizens on election day

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  • The bigger problem is that the number of seats in the House has been frozen for about a hundred years. Our population exploded, but our number of representatives stayed static, so places with the most people actually get less representation in congress.

    On top of this, the number of electors a state has its equal to the number of representatives that state has in the Senate and the House combined. So more populated states also get underrepresented in the presidential election.

    The Three-Fifths Compromise was absolutely fucked, but it's not what is deadlocking the House now and its not what is letting a people lose the popular vote and still go on to be president in 21st century elections.

  • Tim Walz calls for scrapping of electoral college to decide US presidential race

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  • The real problem is that the size of the House of Representatives has been frozen for 100 years. The number of electoral college votes a state has is equal to the number of reps and senators they have. Since the House hasn't grown alongside our population, the relative representation for rural areas has steadily grown more and more.

    Ending the cap on the House would balance out the electoral college issues and help reduce the constant congressional deadlocks we're seeing.