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@JamesBroughel Right, ESA and other regulations have come to be abused. They're used to stop progress, not ensure doing things well. That's where the balance lies. One can be an omnivore while wanting the animals treated relatively well.

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Yes, of course, all that is true. Air & water regulations have had huge positive impact to the USA over the past 50+ years even as they were controversial and some have gone overboard. Same for endangered species. The arguments should be as much about how the regulations are created & administered as if they should exist. Factory farming hides behind the remoteness to modern consumers keeping its negative aspects out of people's minds.

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@JamesBroughel Certainly you know that rising prices of animal meat is a significant catalyst for the development of lab grown meat.

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Animal welfare standards have been part of American law for longer than you or I have been alive. The regulations reflect Americans' belief that animal welfare has value. As society has become wealthier the assumptions & constraints of efficiency have changed in all sorts of ways in every industry. It's OK to have higher expectations.

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The problem is the system is now built to find additions to the disability %, there's little dishonesty to it. It will likely take an act of congress to fix. Perhaps a bump in pension with changed disability process. A sometimes overlooked effect is that these "disabled" people often qualify for reduced property taxes, shifting burden in local governments.

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@chicagobars @ChicagoFire Billionaire subsidies done right!

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@StuLoren IL politicians don’t particularly understand tradeoffs or numbers.

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@ChrisOldman4 A whole new generation or 2 is going to be able to understand the scylla and charybdis reference in "Wrapped Around Your Finger"

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@ArtemisConsort @cremieuxrecueil You are like people who move near airports and complain about the noise. People who move near popular bike routes should not be surprised - the bike people have been there for a long time. They delay your trip by a fairly insignificant amount of time.

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@samhaselby The take-away from most Singapore social plans is a personal responsibility component. Singapore's public housing (77% of households) is largely a forced saving scheme. Lots of interesting Singapore social policies, but few would translate easily to American cities/people.

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@JonahDispatch Grand Canyon: oar raft vs. motor raft.

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@Afinetheorem Trumpism lowering behavioral norms is one of the worst aspects of the current era.

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@Afinetheorem We need all people of all classes to level up in behavior, not level down. We don't need CEOs with face tattoos and septum rings. Carhartt as a fashion brand is never not funny.

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@LJS527 Israel's government is about as successful managing its gangs as is the government of the city of Chicago. Largely for similar reasons, mostly political: gang members are constituents, too many incentives run the wrong way..

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@JanetheActuary @IlliniJen They ran some good stuff. From 2011, still holds up today. https://t.co/RluOtJP725

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@lacherbauer @IDOT_Illinois The park stuff is good. But the road is going to need speed cameras - already too many asshats want to go 70 mph.

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@JonahDispatch I'm still waiting from my $1m check from Mike Bloomberg.

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@milansingh03 Israel-Palestine is 21st out of 30 issues even for “extremely liberal”. Not sure that’s the most informative title for the chart.

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@eigenrobot For cameras, against corrupt and unaccountable police officers that use them.