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benf76··on Why do married men make 44% more than single men?
Because a family gives you a mission and focus to produce income in a way that being single doesn’t. Mouths to feed is perhaps the strongest motivator.
benf76··on What Aristotle thought it meant to be truly wealthy
This is why so many spiritual traditions consider usury a sin and prohibit it. It perverts the incentives away from win-win.
benf76··on Most Americans support using the popular vote to decide U.S. presidents, data
What is partisan about what I said? I didn’t mention party, so it doesn’t fall apart.

Further the people making the claim I referenced are talking about getting rid of the electoral college and 2 votes in senate which is essentially disenfranchising those people. How is it ‘reciprocating’ the vote? Your concept of equality doesn’t work here because it wasn’t the original deal and the distances and other things at play (water rights, starting wars, etc) don’t translate exactly to one vote one person.

I argue your premise is wrong for the situation “one person one vote” works locally and at the state level, but when applied federally it actually nullifies the smaller state voter and our ancestors were smart enough to design for that.

Thank you for your feedback I am eager to explore this idea further.

benf76··on Most Americans support using the popular vote to decide U.S. presidents, data
So because of their race and dead ancestors you would exclude them from the political process forever?
benf76··on Most Americans support using the popular vote to decide U.S. presidents, data
I think your concerns were addressed by amendments 12,13,14 re founding documents. So those opinions were excluded actually.
benf76··on Most Americans support using the popular vote to decide U.S. presidents, data
Many in this thread are saying things like “if LA county has more population than 40 states why should we listen to those states?”

At the surface level this makes sense. But dig deeper. It’s reciprocal- if you take that approach why should those states listen to you? If you throw out their interests wholesale, then you have no right to govern them and they should secede and make their own laws.

This is how we got the senate and electoral college. Why should someone in Florida have a say over the people of Kenya, New Zealand or Idaho? In a sense people should self govern unless they come together in some kind of mutual pact where both sides get a benefit. Otherwise you are speaking of literal tyranny.

benf76··on Most Americans support using the popular vote to decide U.S. presidents, data
Those people are all dead.
benf76··on Most Americans support using the popular vote to decide U.S. presidents, data
If that’s your opinion why should they listen to you at all? They would secede along with the rest of the small states. You’re not understanding the principle of why everyone respects one another
benf76··on DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with Microsoft
This is doublespeak cover for censorship. The corporate media uses the same buzzwords about quality to obfuscate their serving of the Kabal’s agenda.

A wise man from Texas once said: Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... can’t be fooled again.

benf76··on Updated Proton, Unified Protection
Which plugins do you use for thunderbird to snooze? The only one I found only worked on a prior, not up to date version of TB.
benf76··on Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night
So why bother build any roads larger than one lane?
benf76··on Facebook Faces a Public Relations Crisis. What About a Legal One?
The corporate media pushed the Russiagate conspiracy theory for 4 years, how is that different?
benf76··on Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
The infection is aerosol not droplet.
benf76··on Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers
Yes but here immunity is impossible :-/

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

benf76··on Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers
Air isn’t manufactured by a corporation.
benf76··on TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK
What are their mod policies against disabled? I think I read they don’t promote them at all due to any social risk..?
benf76··on Why admitting Covid is Airborne is so hard
Citation for the study? The Indians also used ivermectin to great effect to reduce their wave 2 months ago.
benf76··on Why admitting Covid is Airborne is so hard
It means that cloth fabric does nothing against aerosol. Even N95 masks don’t filter out all virons which can be as small as 1nm and escape the electrostatic charge of the N95. Security theater.
benf76··on GoDaddy boots Texas abortion “whistleblower” site for violating privacy rule
Freedomlist.io
benf76··on Show HN: Double Entry Bookkeeping Server with SQL Back End and gRPC Inputs
Hey I watched the demo video - typing in the account names .. what if you make a mistake? No select from list? Seems very easy to bungle small amounts or accounts?
benf76··on The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
Why do you say “pure luck”? There are many doctors and studies testifying that it works. How are you reaching that conclusion? I’m not picking a random drug out of the Merck catalog here. We have doctors and patients saying it works at scale - why wouldn’t we do more to test and validate?
benf76··on The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
Scotty here is the thing I can’t get over maybe you can help. IVM has ‘won the Nobel prize’. It is effective agains ~100 parasites and viruses and all kinds of baddies that plague humans (and as we have learned horses! And other mammals). I didn’t know this until the pandemic but I’ve been giving it to my dog for 10 years!

So it is VERY EFFECTIVE. That is a true statement. Is it effective against CV? I mean why wouldn’t we try it? Why would we assume something that works for so much not be? Why default to not try it? You get what I’m saying? It seems like when the world is melting down we should be trying everything. If there are 60+ studies showing it works why not do another 100? Or a thousand? It’s non toxic, incredibly cheap, easily produced .. it makes NO SENSE to me and stinks of malintent to silence and suppress it. Does that make sense?

benf76··on The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
Hey when you say there have been no high quality large studies perhaps you are unaware of the 63 studies, 42 of which were peer reviewed and 31 were randomized controlled trials. Please look at ivmmeta.com and let me know what you think of these are high quality large studies and if not why.
benf76··on Is catching Covid now better than more vaccine?
You are comparing apples and oranges. It is this reason there has never been a successful corona virus vaccine despite decades and billions of dollars of research.

Look up “leaky vaccines”

benf76··on Is catching Covid now better than more vaccine?
There is a risk of creating variants by mass vaccination. If everyone has a uniform defense generated by a vaccine, this creates selection pressures for a variant that is able to maneuver around the vaccine induced immunity.
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