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Yeah. Kidding aside, although California is gorgeous, taxes are a serious issue. Politicians have floated the idea of a future exit tax. Retroactive, I believe (!). It’s made me think twice about moving back there.

#3357·Dennis Hackethal, 20 days ago

I mean ‘mustn’t’ as in ‘must not’.

I realize that. The linked Wiktionary page covers the contraction. The contraction isn’t the issue.

#3356·Dennis HackethalOP, 20 days ago·Criticism

In terms of climate, California might be the best place on the planet to live in. But the downside is that you live in California 😂

#3354·Benjamin DaviesOP revised 20 days ago·Original #3352·Criticism

No. If living in the best place on Earth requires me to learn a new language I will happily do so. Thankfully I have an interest in languages so it wouldn’t be a problem for long.

#3353·Benjamin DaviesOP, 20 days ago

California might be the best place on the planet to live in, in terms of climate, but the downside is that you live in California 😂

#3352·Benjamin DaviesOP, 20 days ago·CriticismCriticized1

The current industrialisation of food is problematic, but these are parochial problems. There is nothing about industrialised food production that is fundamentally and irredeemably flawed. Problems are soluble!

#3351·Benjamin DaviesOP, 20 days ago·Criticism

I’ve found that if I stick to Whole Foods type places the quality of food is quite good, including some options that aren’t available in NZ.

But yes, the mainstream food options are crap, including the majority of restaurants.

#3350·Benjamin DaviesOP, 20 days ago·Criticism

Thankfully the US has reverse-osmosis water filtration options pretty much everywhere.

#3349·Benjamin DaviesOP, 20 days ago

This might be a difference in dialect. I mean ‘mustn’t’ as in ‘must not’.

Example sentence: “His shoes aren’t here. I guess he must not be home then.” —> “I guess he mustn’t be home then.”

This sentence is much more natural than “His shoes aren’t here. I guess he cannot be home then.”

#3348·Benjamin Davies, 20 days ago·CriticismCriticized2

Do you care to be around people that speak your native tongue?

#3347·Zelalem Mekonnen, 20 days ago

I second that about Las Vegas. If you don't mind the provocative posters, southern Nevada, southern Utah, Northern Arizona is a great place to be.

#3346·Zelalem Mekonnen, 20 days ago

In the US, California!

#3345·Zelalem Mekonnen, 20 days ago·Criticized1

Avoid the US for this. Food quality is worse than third world countries. The food is no where near as organic. Unpopular opinion, but I don't think food should be industrialized.

#3344·Zelalem Mekonnen, 20 days ago·Criticized4

All the areas in the US I have lived in have terrible water quality.

#3343·Zelalem Mekonnen, 20 days ago

mustn’t

Maybe this is the non-native speaker in me, but do you mean ‘can’t’? I thought ‘mustn’t’ means ‘may not’: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/must_not

#3342·Dennis HackethalOP, 21 days ago·CriticismCriticized1

I think having a jury of your peers is important in criminal cases and they shouldn’t be done away with. Juries protect the accused from abuse of authority and unjust laws.

#3341·Dennis HackethalOP, 21 days ago·Criticism

Maybe juries can be done away with. Not all levels of courts have juries, so they mustn’t be fundamental.

#3339·Benjamin Davies revised 22 days ago·Original #3338·Criticized1

Maybe juries can be done away with. Not all levels of courts have them, so they mustn’t be fundamental.

#3338·Benjamin Davies, 22 days ago·Criticized1

Yes, unless one find the action fun (like I find jury duty fun). If I didn't find it fun, I'd argue I am in the right for doing things to get out of jury duty.

One has the right to do things he find interesting, no matter how trivial.

#3337·Zelalem Mekonnen, 22 days ago

Rand defines duty as "the moral necessity to perform certain actions for no reason other than obedience to some higher authority." Can one completely remove duty from their worldview? In other words, can one completely remove oneself from doing things as an obedience to a higher authority, imagined or real?

If the authority is real, one might still decide to do the thing by rationally deciding not doing it has consequences.

#3336·Zelalem Mekonnen, 22 days ago

they will just vote for whatever outcome will get them out of there the fastest

Making it voluntary and with pay could fix this problem, but not necessarily. I can imagine a scenario where a juror is looking to get as many duties as possible.

#3335·Zelalem Mekonnen, 22 days ago

There is no contract with the country. A contract implies consent, the freedom to sign or not sign. A forced signature is null and void.

#3334·Dennis HackethalOP, 23 days ago·Criticism

[Jury duty is] part of your contract with the country.

Source

#3333·Dennis HackethalOP, 23 days ago·Criticized2

… if it were voluntary, it wouldn’t be fair for those who did serve.

By that ‘logic’, we never could have abolished slavery. What a stupid argument.

#3332·Dennis HackethalOP, 23 days ago·CriticismCriticized1

The difficulty of finding volunteers alone means that jury duty must be mandatory.

Not necessarily. It might just mean that courts suck at persuading people to be jurors.

#3331·Dennis HackethalOP, 23 days ago·CriticismCriticized1