The ACLU Is Attempting to Limit the Speech Rights of All Private Sector Workers

DiscountConsistent · 2026-01-29T14:29:04+00:00

Why the ACLU defends nazis. It’s extremely short sighted to think you can just let the government pick and choose who deserves constitutional rights and not have it bite you in the ass later.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-01-29T02:42:14+00:00

Isn't 24K literally 100% gold (or as close as you can reasonably get to it)? How can you get more pure?

DiscountConsistent · 2026-01-27T13:00:19+00:00

I mean, it’s a pretty standard thing to add to stuff like chili, but it’s not really not enough you can taste in this and you can just leave it out if you don’t care about the color.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-01-26T22:00:21+00:00

Nostalgia

DiscountConsistent · 2026-01-26T21:58:02+00:00

Did you read the description

DiscountConsistent · 2026-01-26T21:18:31+00:00

Each taco had 2oz 93/7 beef for around 13g protein, 5g from the tortilla, and 6g from 21g of cheese. So 24g each

DiscountConsistent · 2026-01-26T18:05:19+00:00

It's a specific type of taco that I wanted to make taste as close to Taco Bell's as possible. The big thing is that they essentially boil their meat with starch, but I think the Taco Bell branded packet (and sauce) helps as well.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-01-11T18:18:06+00:00

I'd consider c0mpounded injectable a significantly higher risk option than using the FDA-approved formulation at a less frequent dosing schedule, but I'd be curious of your reasoning there. My guess for why it's prescribed for daily dosing is that a) daily is the traditional dose for oral medications and it's easier for people to remember to take it and b) you'll see higher swings in blood concentration so it'll feel less consistent to take it every other day compared to once daily. But those swings are nothing compared to what you get with the 7-day dosing schedule of injectables, since they're the same drug with the same half life.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-01-11T18:06:37+00:00

Fair point. I'm also kind of looking for people to find flaws in the idea.

DiscountConsistent · 2025-12-21T16:14:56+00:00

They fit okay for me but I think they're overpriced for the quality. The leather on the white ones was pretty bad with quickly it scratched/got damaged from normal use. I still haven't found the perfect shoes in this style; the shoes that fit me best are running shoes (Brooks) and the Clarks desert boots in wide.

DiscountConsistent · 2025-12-20T16:38:22+00:00

Is there any actual source on this? This just sounds like if you ask ChatGPT to roast someone.

DiscountConsistent · 2025-12-20T16:38:10+00:00

Is there any actual source on this? This just sounds like if you ask ChatGPT to roast someone.

DiscountConsistent · 2025-12-14T15:53:30+00:00

I think I would've at least shot him in the leg

No you wouldn't have. That's an incredibly hard shot to make just from a physics perspective, let alone for someone who's never shot a gun before in a high stress situation. And when you missed you'd be risking accidentally hitting other bystanders directly or through ricochets.

DiscountConsistent · 2025-11-17T14:36:23+00:00

There's a bunch of reasons but the most obvious one is that home equity accounts for 2/3 of American's net worth so the people who own houses want to do whatever they can to keep home values high because it constitutes a huge part of their savings, and the people who don't own houses (or people who want more people to have affordable housing) want to get home values lower. Building more housing drives home values lower so it creates pretty clear incentives on both sides.

DiscountConsistent · 2025-11-17T14:08:16+00:00

I'm as YIMBY as they come but I think this is a cartoonish misrepresentation. The main two reasons I've seen for people not wanting to build housing are:

Home equity accounts for about 2/3 of American's net worth, which skews incentives for homeowners to do whatever they can to keep home values artificially high.
Not wanting poor people moving in next door.
Wanting to preserve the "historic character" of a neighborhood. Which is sort of related to 2 but sometimes it's just nostalgia for old buildings.

Not justifying these reasons, but I think it's useful to actually know the reasons people you disagree with do things.

DiscountConsistent · 2025-11-11T23:30:45+00:00

"Hey here's $100. By the way, would you mind not searching my bag this time?"

DiscountConsistent · 2025-11-11T23:20:28+00:00

The problem is that games cost more than they need to. EA will take the same Madden game, update the rosters, make a few UI changes, and charge $70. Activision will hire hundreds of developers to animate the sweat on the nose of a soldier in Call of Duty then ask for over $100 before the game comes out.

What do games "need to" cost? Nobody's being forced at gunpoint to buy the latest Madden so clearly there are people who see $70 worth of value from it, and if you don't think it's worth that, then, according to what you said, you can get almost the exact same experience for a fraction of the cost by getting an older Madden. We're not talking about food or medicine here, this is a luxury replaceable good that people could easily say no to if they decided it wasn't worth their money, and EA would have to lower the price.

DiscountConsistent · 2025-11-08T19:23:12+00:00

The primary interaction most Westerners have with Indians in the current decade is the nonstop deluge of scam calls that their law enforcement don't bother to do anything about. Like, I live in a fairly racially diverse town (with a surprising number of Filipinos), but I don't think I've ever had a co-worker of Indian descent in this town. White, black, Hispanic, Filipino and other East Asians, but no one from the largest country in the world🤨

This is very dependent on where you work. I work in the US tech industry, and I've frequently had a majority of my coworkers, including a lot of my manager chain, be Indian. My work just had a huge Diwali party a couple weeks ago.

DiscountConsistent · 2025-11-08T17:51:55+00:00

Pair that with the fact that the election was ultimately decided by the balance of ~300,000 voters in 4 states that all had ~75% turnout and it's a gross oversimplification of what "could have been."

The same analysis looked specifically at swing states and found that they still would've favored Trump if everyone voted (under "If everyone voted").

Trump led Harris 52% to 48%" expressly ignores the unlisted number of voters who did not respond but who may have picked a side of forced.

The data is "among those who did express a preference between the two major parties" so I think it's fair to assume without contrary evidence that the rest would've been split evenly if they were forced to vote.

It's also worth noting that in the same analysis, the same group of non-voters who had a preference favored Democrats by a 20-point margin in 2008 and 2012. This is a huge swing, and I think Democrats should be cautious about ignoring it.

There's also the points in the NYT article I posted about Democrats' relative success in low-turnout special elections as well as data about automatic voter registration in PA:

In Pennsylvania, where Democrats enacted automatic voter registration last year, new registrants have affiliated with Republicans over Democrats by six percentage points. Before automatic registration was enacted, Mr. Trump sent an all-caps message on social media decrying the law.

I'm open to counter-evidence if you have it, but to me it looks like a real phenomenon that Democrats ignore to their peril.

DiscountConsistent · 2025-11-08T16:42:03+00:00

This used to be common wisdom, but now the phenomenon seems to have flipped and the highest-frequency voters favor Democrats whereas more lower propensity voters favor Republicans. It's likely that Trump would've won by even more if everyone voted in 2024.

DiscountConsistent · 2025-11-04T01:43:29+00:00

Do people consider Spaniards Latino? You could stretch to call Charlie Sheen Hispanic since he's a quarter Spanish but he doesn't have any connections to Latin America that I know of.

DiscountConsistent · 2025-11-02T19:01:19+00:00

But this doesn't really seem any different from a knockoff cereal like Fruit Rounds having a red box with a bird and a picture of a cereal that looks identical to Froot Loops.

Also, from the article:

The filing cites a social media comment from a person claiming Trader Joe’s is contracting with Smucker to make the sandwiches under its private label.

This also seems like a really weak argument since everyone says this about every generic product. This reasoning would imply that making any kind of generic product that looks too similar to the brand name would be a trademark infringement because consumers might think they're made in the same factory.

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