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Comment Re:And the Death Spiral (Score 2) 348

I ALREADY cited a quality source. It’s you choosing to assume Chamath Palihapitiya, a supporter of Obama and Biden, isn’t a “source”. Here’s a top DDG hit on the search “Chamath Palihapitiya on wealth tax”: https://finance.yahoo.com/news... [yahoo.com] As for your misinformation that the UK instituted a wealth tax similar to the one proposed in California, that’s just as easily researched. Extremely easily. Sigh.

Your citation is some one said so? I'm asking for data backing what you are saying. In other words, a proper citation. An authoritative person saying something doesn't make something reality. For instance, Trump says things all the time that don't match up to reality.

Why is it that so many “progressives” fail to do even the most basic research?

Probably because we were busy learning what constitutes a proper citation rather than off walking around being condescending to people. What should I expect though from someone who believes a state with property values like California's can also be a hell-scape at the same time. Hint: People don't pay California money to live in a shitty place.

Comment Re:And the Death Spiral (Score 3, Insightful) 348

Also, note that just the mere threat of the California wealth tax ending up on the ballot has ALREADY resulted in about half of the potentially affected billionaire wealth moving out of California

Cite a source.

I've been hearing for decades this thing or that would doom California for ever and yet here we are in 2026 and California is still the largest economy in the union by a long shot. At this point, wolf has been cried so many times I'll need some real tangible evidence before I'll believe anything conservatives are trying to tell me about California.

Comment Re:Ultimate though it is Amazon's problem (Score 1) 86

Making people wait an extra day because of crappy delivery methods is bad for business. Then there's the issue of waste as many of us don't like seeing stuff go through all of the efforts and energy expenditures of being manufactured only to be destroyed without even being used once.

Comment Re:More from the "never happened" department (Score 1) 262

Yes. And then Iran tried to restart it...
FA FO

And we're expected to believe that can just flip a switch and rebuild a nuclear program that took them decades to build? What a laugh,

Iran will run out of ayatollahs before America runs out of bombs

No country has ever created regime change with air power alone. It's a pipe dream.

Comment Re:kewl story bro, but these drugs aren't for them (Score 1) 129

Those techniques won't work on overeating because you need to eat to live, you can't just stop cold turkey like with smoking.

Plenty of people quit without going cold turkey. Never mind the fact that smoking is far more addictive than junk food thus is harder to beat then giving up junk food.

Overweight people have it constantly hammered into them that they're endangering their lives, it's not a messaging issue.

As I said before, we've never tried anywhere near as hard with our obesity messaging as we did with smoking. To dismiss a solution that worked in another context that we haven't even attempted in this one is foolish.

And if it's so bad, why is having the meds such a problem? Their side effects are minimal and they work better than diet and exercise and lifestyle change. Most of the arguments seem to be based on some weird puritanism, where only the "worthy" should be able to weigh less.

Because the bad lifestyle choices that cause obesity negatively effect the body beyond obesity. Refined sugar is still bad for you even if you're a healthy weight. Ultra processed foods are still bad for you even if you're a healthy weight. Exercise is still good for you even if you're a healthy weight. Eating lots of produce is still good for you even if you're a healthy weight.

Comment Re:Done. (Score 4, Insightful) 221

3) It was before, and like Hamas, it is so deeply rooted in society that you have to kill the population, e.g. commit genocide to get it out.

Or Israel could stop regularly provoking such groups so the long healing process could actually begin. That's probably a long shot though unless we force them by threatening their aid but I don't see either political party doing that despite them avidly committing war crimes.

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