50mL of 95% alcohol is always the same amount of alcohol.

It's not, though. Some places use ABV, some use ABW.

It works a bit better for alcohol, as that is mixing of two liquids.

Just to stress the "bit better", 50 mL of alcohol added to 50 mL of water results in 96 mL of liquid. Even ABV's defined differently in different places and is a bit hinky.

Taxes are certainly an issue, but just giving people money is not the answer to poverty.

There's a lot of evidence that the solution to "people not having enough money to live" is, in fact, "giving people enough money to live".

It is the perpetual poverty machine keeping people impoverished

AKA Capitalism, sure. With how much you whine about leftists, I'd assume you were all for that. A pretty major plank of conservative platforms is "hurt people more efficiently".

But for someone like me, who thinks helping people become self sufficient and get off of programs like welfare, the numbers don’t look like that’s what’s happening at all.

This has been proven not to actually help. You know what has? Giving cash to people. Just straight up giving them money. It's too bad conservatives refuse to believe that and insist on means testing everything and reducing benefits wherever possible.

There's another fun thing. One half of the people in this conversation actually listen to experts. The other half considers all experts suspect and presumes they're all politically motivated (to make them look bad, no doubt.)

And I like how you shared an article talking about how people in poverty have the highest marginal tax rate. Considering conservatives are constantly cutting tax rates, that's a delightful irony in your argument. Maybe if we quit giving ten times as much money to rich people and started using that money to support poor people, we could help them better.

Banning hate speech, promoting tolerance.

You know, "censorship" like the right likes to whine about.

the disagreements come in about what the right way to do that is.

I mean, when one side says "these things that help people are failures because they don't help enough people" and the other side says "but they're helping people", that's not about the right way.

At no point have you offered an alternative, you're simply saying "the other side is wrong" while using specious arguments to back it up.

Do you think conservatives are hatful little Devil’s just trying to hurt people?

Calling objectively successful policies failures is either extremely ignorant or actively trying to hurt people.

Again: because there's more PEOPLE than there has ever been. Yes, there is more suffering. I have no idea what you expect, the political climate is such that we can't just eradicate their suffering. But to pretend like these policies are a failure is going to cause more suffering. How do you not see that?

That 20% is the number that aren't suffering because of these policies. If you were to remove them, that 20% is the added suffering you are causing.

Is it perfect? Absolutely not.

Have they accomplished everything they set out to? Absolutely not.

Are they failing? Absolutely not.

I mean, what is an acceptable number of people living in poverty to you and when are there too many? Is it a percentage? Or is it a real number of real people?

See, in my world, percentages are real numbers of real people. I know, that's crazy. And I'm not going to pretend like there's some number that's acceptable, or enough, because that's not the point. The point is that the policies we're discussing have reduced the suffering.

You calling them a lie can only lead to more suffering. Hopefully you realize that some day.

No, I'm pointing out that your argument is specious at best.

I bought a set of these and they're good, but they're way more liquid than Huy Fong's which makes them more annoying to use for me. The Carolina Gold they sell is absolutely amazing though.

The MX Ergo has two bluetooth profiles stored on it, so you can switch seamlessly between any two devices. I use one of mine with both a Windows desktop and an MBP.

I attended a programming bootcamp. Almost tripled my income in 6 months.

I think a lot of people are thinking that social media dies when nobody uses it. I think those people also don't realize that Digg still exists.

Reddit will slowly slump into the endless morass of meaningless social media that's largely irrelevant, having lost anything that ever made it actually special.