[–] 12 points 20 hours ago

They are also suspicious of long term of complex explanations and I believe this is because most systems that take advantage of this group (such as credit cards) have this same characteristic.

The narrow circle of concern makes things like climate change really hard to explain.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    They also have no recovery if your 2FA app was on a phone that physically died. So I can't log in anymore even if I wanted to. This means all my configuration and communities would have to be found and set up on another account.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago

    I don't understand why people think this is a good use of their tax money. Everyone complains about state taxes when it is much less and pays for everything you see and use. Then you have federal taxes which are a massive black hole.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago

    Wait, who colonized Argentina? And wait who was first to the Falkland Islands? I genuinely don't understand why you think Argentina wanting the Falkland Islands has anything to do with opposition to colonialism.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    It takes enormous capital as property prices are high due to real estate speculation (the priority with real estate is not use but financial value), regulatory capture (excessive regulations are pushed by the largest companies to make it impossible to start a competitive business), and high insurance costs (very appealing to the biggest investors as they mean the largest investors can be self insured).

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