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by 0x262d 4y ago
This comment is perfectly alienated from nature. Yes, significant seasonal and regional variation in diet is a worthwhile tradeoff for eating much more nutritious, tastier, cheaper, and more environmentally sustainable food than we have now
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by 0x262d 5y ago
I don't think it makes any sense to try to hold people responsible for keeping the economy running hot as individuals on top of being rational self-interested actors.
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by 0x262d 5y ago
why are we operating national, natural monopoly services on a for-profit basis that fundamentally incentivizes this in the first place (rhetorical). Amazon deserves to be taken into democratic public ownership for nominal compensation.
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by 0x262d 5y ago
wow, what fraction of websites leak data I want to look at? should I be poking at every non-tech-giant site I go to?
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by 0x262d 5y ago
glad we sorted this out conclusively and I can be sure I'm not an imposter forever now. wait a minute..
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by 0x262d 5y ago
This article starts to get at an interesting controversy about the definition of value. Is the value of a project equal to the amount of labor time it saves over previously used methods? Or is it equal to the amount of labor time it took to
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by 0x262d 5y ago
dumb comment. this isn't "tankie" it's basic labor theory of value.
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by 0x262d 5y ago
no, class (in the marxist sense, everything else is meaningless cultural signifiers) is not about "upper" or "lower", it's about either getting paid for wage labor, ie being working class, or getting paid for other
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by 0x262d 5y ago
Bezos' profits on the basis of how much work his employees do, minus how much he pays them. that's what class is. it's pretty hard to deny it exists.
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by 0x262d 5y ago
political and class ambivalence is also a way to spin things. which the original comment itself did. this is a navel-gazing, meaningless criticism. if you disagree substantively you should just say so.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
> While pseudoscience is particularly prone to causal fallacies and cherry-picking of data, the most common fallacy in obscurantist pseudophilosophy is equivocation. This fallacy exploits ambiguities in certain key terms, where plausible
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by 0x262d 6y ago
> The irony. That's just a sentence that isn't afraid of using long words, they're all pretty precisely, neatly used IMO. Not ironic at all. This would be a mouthful to say or understand out loud but it seems like normal w
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Completely agreed. Honestly, I despise the superficially objective and neutral concern troll approach to this. I can't see this article as anything but a dishonest way to say: "what if someone used private communications to do som
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by 0x262d 6y ago
It's clear that some people have done some bad things, and they used the internet (mostly facebook but whatever) to communicate. There are 2 approaches to fixing this. 1 is to undercut the roots of radicalism and polarization. I would
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by 0x262d 6y ago
I'd switch to firefox but it is noticeably slower loading facebook and twitter, the sites I go to most often, and I trust it only like 25% more than chrome. :/
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Amazon exists to increase shareholder profits. The reviews are not exempt from that. They exist to encourage customers to buy things and to increase sales volume. When Amazon was up and coming against a lot of other competitors it was relat
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by 0x262d 6y ago
ah man. good luck having long-term political success with this attitude. this is the sort of insanely condescending attitude that is partially responsible for the rise of right wing demagoguery.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
The question I posed, with 2 very clear answers, is: should property rights or human rights be supreme? I know what I would say in the common case of a poor person being evicted.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
It's a pretty crazy thing. An interesting question for libertarians is where did private property originate? Like, taking libertarian assumptions, once you own it, hypothetically you can expand your property profitably. But how did the
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by 0x262d 6y ago
The resolute defenders of property rights would argue that this infringes on the rights of those who already own the things including virtually all land. But there are other issues with this like the massive, inescapable trend towards centr
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Yeah, it turns out that property rights come into conflict with human rights a lot, and this is why property rights should not be fundamental. The people in responses saying owners "should" be able to do anything with stuff they o
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by 0x262d 6y ago
The US especially is an oligarchy and for-profit US tech companies dominate the tech industry. Those same companies are atrociously anti-user and notorious for selling data etc, so people don't trust them and I don't think there i
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by 0x262d 6y ago
I think I might have managed to prevent mine from updating so far. Does anyone have an easy to follow guide to blocking it from internet access?
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by 0x262d 6y ago
unfortunately what those shareholders want is the highest possible overall profit extraction from the areas they operate at any cost, which is anti-social and bad.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Well that policy is terrible. It doesn't matter if it is in line with one or another bureaucratic policy, it's still censorship.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Oh cool, you're in the Seattle area? I moved away from there this summer. > I'm really uncomfortable with the notion of backseat drivers I assume this is referring to her being accountable to Socialist Alternative? I understan
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by 0x262d 6y ago
I agree, but was trying to say that if someone is afraid that most nonvoters are uninformed (debatable), making voting mandatory would cause many nonvoters to learn more about it.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Totally agree about inside/outside the system. I'm in this org and we won an unlikely major victory this year (not voting rights but still cool) because our city councilor member has a clear understanding her power to negotiate an
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Mandatory voting doesn't preclude writing in nothing if you prefer. And for people who are uninformed, well, having to go through the motion helps that some. More than anything else, this would force the government to make it possible,
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Hm, I skimmed this but might have come away with a skewed sense of the balance between reactions to it.

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