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Broken clocks and all that.

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Never forget.

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Obligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

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Because people in cars do not see cyclists as people. And the powers that be are people in cars.

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There are also some okay crimes

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Well the lessons there were a) don't be a conniving bitch, and b) don't be a stepmom or stepsister.

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Don't feed the trolls. https://youtu.be/h0Q6dBkSgkk?t=5

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This is the case in essentially every developed nation. Immigration is not just beneficial, but necessary for the wheels of capitalism to churn. Not sure what people think is going to happen when those who pick fruit for cash under the table or those who man the Taco Bell drive-thru at 2 am are deported, but I'm guessing their plan doesn't involve applying for those jobs themselves.

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Then that's even more pathetic.

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Standard "it was just a joke!" response.

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Do us all a favor, you two, and just stay... here.

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No, it really isn't... being able to essentially declare no confidence in your legislature and immediately begin the election process is, in general, a great thing.

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Basically the opposite of what you've suggested. Theoretically this is allowing the parliament to more closely align with what the EU elections suggest the people want. Obviously he's probably hoping that his party is voted back into power, indicating that France actually does support a pro-EU stance, but that's not guaranteed to happen.

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It doesn't belong to the president, no. Think of it as Macron basically asking the French people if this (the anti-EU coalition that did so well in the election) is what they want as a whole. Because if so, their parliament is not properly representing their views.

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It is. Dissolve is needlessly permanent - whatever happened to "disband"?

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Interesting viewpoint. As a fellow American, I think that that kind of power would actually give POTUS the amount of power that the public seems to think they have. It's really the only way the federal government has to hold a Swiss-style referendum on a topic.

even if (and I assume there are) requirements for an election in X amount of time, can’t do it too often, etc.

I think the check there is "Why have you done this twice in 6 months? Parliament/Congress/Legislature, please impeach this clown."

Here in the US Congress isn’t just lawmakers, they do investigations, have committees, etc. and act as a check on executive power

Most legislatures around the world do the same things? I'm not sure why you think the French government is so different, especially given how much French culture/politics/philosophy influenced the Founding Farmers.

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I think you forget that America has created possibly the dumbest election cycle known to man. I imagine it's not nearly as drawn out in France, especially for a snap election like this.

Also, an impeachment would 100% override the dissolution. That happens in America, too, before you mention it; when an impeachment vote is called pretty much everything else comes to a standstill.

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To be fair, he kind of can't now.

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I was tongue-in-cheekily saying he's not capable of generating information out of his mouth, but you are correct

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This shit is infuriating. "No one drives in New York because there's too much traffic" has been joked about for how long? Absolutely baffling how people can be so stubborn in holding onto their outdated and incorrect ideas about traffic and public transit.

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Wait, your landlord doesn't let you pay your rent with deported immigrants? Wild.

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Or a little less.

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While Europe is far ahead in terms of training for police, I don't think even 4 years is enough.

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Representation in media but not for the money. If you happen to get more sales from it, great. But doing a 180 in response to backlash means that they don't really care - they just want more money.

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Don't be ridiculous. It called one of its contractor friends to install the pipe for them.

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To a certain kind of person, saying they're wrong is a personal attack.

How to fix Korea's birthrate? Put girls in school earlier, controversial report argues ( koreajoongangdaily.joins.com )

"Notably, Chang's report claims that biological females develop earlier than males do, so requiring girls to enter school at younger ages will create classes in which the two sexes are of more equal maturity as they age. This, the author posits, makes it more likely that those classmates will be attracted to each other, and...

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I wouldn't call this a "source", but it's an interesting explanation of the 4B movement.

https://www.thecut.com/2023/03/4b-movement-feminism-south-korea.html

What reading style do you consider more tedious to read, A) short, concise, and precise, but using non-layperson vocabulary, B) using layperson vocabulary, but it's longer, drawn out, and not precise?

I've seen a lot of people on here be teased for difficulty expressing themselves. Either people complain "you're using big person words to describe mundane things" when they're aiming for precision or "woah, we don't need that damn wall of text" when they're aiming for clarity. It's like people just want to complain.

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I'd rather short, concise, and precise for spoken word and longer and drawn out for written word, if I had to choose.

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I swear to God, Donald has probably unironically said to Barron, "You OWE me."

What a book.

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I think they were saying that redheads have a higher tolerance to anesthetics, not pain

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PodcastAddict is the way, but only if you're tolerant/patient with nerd knobs. I know a lot of people get turned off by those.

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Do you think your overhead would also decrease if you only had a 4-day work week?

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Interesting, although none of this has to do with overhead, and by extension, my question...

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No... $1000/week is Joe's salary. That's payroll. Overhead is things like utilities at your workshop/factory.

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Within the depths of their feverish swampland they call a brain.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3tigF4RybI

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If a Firefox extension for it exists, I can almost guarantee that either a) there's a Chrome addon or b) Chrome doesn't let you do that thing.

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