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Comment Re:The really stupid ones (Score 1) 136

Interesting. In the first one,

The attacker and his victim had agreed to meet in a Stone Bridge High School bathroom before the May assault occurred, according to an investigation conducted by a Loudoun County grand jury.

Not sure that really had much to do with trans kids using girls' bathrooms.

The second case was not a sexual assault, but an example of a fight breaking out.

Comment Re:Meanwhile here in the US (Score 1) 136

If this investment in extending the life of coal power is a bad idea then I'd like to see a plan that lays out a solution that could have been implemented at lower cost, in less time, and reduced CO2 emissions and air pollution.

that's the classic republican dodge around the point. they're slippery, you gotta watch them.

$600 million in batteries (or other power storage technologies) would go a long way.

Comment Re:The really stupid ones (Score 2) 136

but there's clearly been cases of girls facing sexual assault in restrooms and locker rooms because of Democrat policies

Really?

Can you cite a case? One single case?

There are an estimated 423,020 rape cases per year in the United States. Surely one of these must be what you're talking about, right?

Comment Re:People Hate Science (Score 5, Insightful) 201

The Science is the religion of the Left,

You have it backwards: attacks on science is the religion of the Right. This is part of the general attack on intellectuals from the right; they perceive any scholar endeavour as snobbery, and colleges and universities as breeding grounds for liberal thinking.

Comment Re:Hushmail? (Score 2) 77

Comment Re:So many things that contribute to this (Score 1) 215

The problem is that it's more than choice, but selective exit. The costs of those left behind are greater, such as the costs of Special Education.

If a kid leaves a school, how does that increase the costs for all the other kids in the school?

The fact that the public school budget is reduced when the kid leaves. Duh.

Conveniently those religious schools won't have to accept people with disabilities.

Maybe. But so what?

Since it costs more to deal with students with disabilities, the religious schools selectively leave those students to the public schools. But take away the money. Therefore, expenses per student go up when the private schools selectively siphon off the ones with disabilities, which the law says that public schools must accept.

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That's the value proposition for public education and that makes a lot less sense when the ask is for your child to be religiously indoctrinated instead.

But not all private schools are religion-based.

About three quarters are. The money for school vouchers is overwhelmingly going to religious schools.

Comment Re:Rich folks want to be vampires (Score 1) 93

do you think marx said to have communism you need to murder people? He said exactly that. If "the people" (and communists like talking about "the people") wouldn't accept communism, it was the state's duty to bring it at the barrel of a gun.

Marx did not say that, nor anything like that.

I believe you are confusing Marx with Mao, who said "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." (in "Problems of War and Strategy" (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II.)

If you can't distinguish Marx from Mao, you really shouldn't be commenting on what Marx (or Mao) said.

Comment Re:I can't see how food storage can be 100% automa (Score 2, Interesting) 43

There should always be at least a few people on-site at any of these locations. So why are these things on the internet?

The person on-site at a grocery store at 2 in the morning is the security guard. The security guard is not likely to be tasked with monitoring the freezer temperatures, and wouldn't have the slightest notion what to do if the temperature is wrong.

Comment Re: But, how? [Re:Is basic income looking better y (Score 1) 88

There are only three ways to fund a government: extracting cash from foreign nations (war / tributes), extorting taxes from citizens (income / tariffs / VAT) and debt engineering (monetary / fiscal policies and platinum coins for some reason)

Almost.

A government can also own assets, and gain money in the form of rent or sales. (An example of this is a toll road.)

Comment Re:But, how? [Re:Is basic income looking better ye (Score 1) 88

Probably through inflationary spending, but some people tend to forget that inflation is just a sneaky form of tax.

Correct. Inflation is, in fact, a tax on money.

In the situation of inflation, the people who are conservative with money put their wealth into other assets than cash.

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