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  1. Comment on US Supreme Court says First Amendment entitles web designer to refuse to do gay weddings in ~lgbt

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    I swear I am, not trying to rouse rabbles here and I appreciate your response. So if the SC is going to say religious ideas trump things like protected classes, what's to stop one from saying "my...

    Are you being serious right now?

    I swear I am, not trying to rouse rabbles here and I appreciate your response.

    So if the SC is going to say religious ideas trump things like protected classes, what's to stop one from saying "my jesus hates black people" and then refusing to serve black people?

    This ruling doesn't make any sense to me.

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  2. Comment on US Supreme Court says First Amendment entitles web designer to refuse to do gay weddings in ~lgbt

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    Asking this sincerely - what if the web designer decided not to work for a group of Nazis? I certainly wouldn't want to be forced to design Nazi websites. At what point then do we make the split?...

    Asking this sincerely - what if the web designer decided not to work for a group of Nazis? I certainly wouldn't want to be forced to design Nazi websites.

    At what point then do we make the split? When do we allow people to decide what work they want to do and for whom?

    edit: thinking more about it, maybe the issue is that gender identity and sexual preference are not protected classes, despite the likely fact that people are born into it and thus, unlike being a nazi, is something the person did not choose?

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  3. Comment on Small kitchen appliances; does quality exist? in ~food

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    Have you ever had to get a Breville appliance repaired? I bought an expensive espresso machine from them which had a small plastic valve fail internally. Their repair process was a $350 flat rate...

    Have you ever had to get a Breville appliance repaired? I bought an expensive espresso machine from them which had a small plastic valve fail internally. Their repair process was a $350 flat rate charge plus shipping (so over $400) and they absolutely refused to send out parts. I eventually found an australian supplier for the $5 part which fixed the device. I then sold it and bought a machine that could be repaired.

    I don't mind it so much if a thing breaks, life happens, but they simply are not setup to handle simple parts replacements in the US and it feels like they are actively trying to prevent people from fixing their things.

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