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by 0x262d 8y ago
difficult to believe the article isn't satire
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by 0x262d 8y ago
you are a bigot in denial. have fun being hateful!
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by 0x262d 8y ago
It's actually good to promote the rights of oppressed people, and it's also highly suspect when other people pretend it's inappropriate to do so purely on grounds of stuffiness. It makes it seem like you either aren't fa
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by 0x262d 8y ago
agreed. part of breaking from the legacy and tradition of massive sexism and misogyny is critically evaluating things that subtly reinforce it (like Feynman's book). but tech culture is pretty averse to doing that and will insist that
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by 0x262d 8y ago
another good reason is that he sexually harassed a lot of women and is a bad role model in at least that one very important way, so it should be read pretty critically.
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by 0x262d 8y ago
because we live in a dictatorship of capital
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by 0x262d 8y ago
the only purpose of this article is to shut off the possibility of an alternative to the status quo.
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by 0x262d 8y ago
this was a completely useless run of the mill red scare piece whose only real argument is "things can only get better slowly you squirmy discontents, I have tenure so don't rock the boat"
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by 0x262d 8y ago
ahh, hate it when the company whose business model is to spy on me accidentally forgets to mention they put a microphone in my home security device!
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by 0x262d 8y ago
land was given back to other imperialist states but not in actuality to territories under US control. the pattern has been establishment of neocolonial, subordinate client states since WW2, continuing to today in Venezuela. it’s true that w
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by 0x262d 8y ago
cryptocurrency is and always has been a useless technology in the best tradition of useless technologies: a combination of libertarian aesthetics and a pyramid scheme. the complaints people have with state currency are basic political probl
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by 0x262d 8y ago
this seems like a valuable point: the collective misremembering of WW2 as some sort of "noble war", at least by the Allies, should probably be completely reassessed. but it is tied in very closely to the non-empire myth, and so it
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by 0x262d 8y ago
have you considered that socialist countries are intentionally sabotaged and crushed, and mainstream understanding of the history about it is distorted, by people who don't want their wealth expropriated?
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in 1847, Marx wrote Wage Labour and Capital, an accessible pamphlet that made the prediction that over time, the middle classes will be squeezed out of prosperity and the majority of people's wages will trend downwards, until they hit
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by 0x262d 8y ago
no it isn't
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by 0x262d 8y ago
but that isn't "fact checking" - it's a very limited promise (of being well-sourced). and even then it is debatable. objectively true and as-good-as-neutral is exactly the claim being made, at least implicitly, by the fa
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by 0x262d 8y ago
fact checking has always been a silly, hopeless attempt to find a technocratic solution to fundamentally political problems.
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by 0x262d 8y ago
the sad reality is that public transit isn't very profitable and has been consciously sabotaged since the invention of cars.
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by 0x262d 8y ago
yes. and in addition, programmers in general while technically workers have a pretty cushy middle class existence.
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by 0x262d 8y ago
well, within capitalism, there is a massive amount of capital trying to find profitable investments of any kind. university research represents a promising source of such investments, so as long as private capital exists and is doing this,
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by 0x262d 8y ago
how can you say you are "an ardent capitalist" but opposed to partisanship and propaganda lol? do you think supporting capitalism over socialism is outside the realm of partisanship?
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by 0x262d 8y ago
google has 50 billion dollars in cash lmao court is unfavorable but it's less unfavorable if you do a class action lawsuit, which is the whole point.
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by 0x262d 8y ago
this is a problem of capitalism - large companies have the resources and incentive to do evil shit and cover it up. it has happened in various forms for hundreds of years. any talk of online discourse or moderation that ignores this fundame
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by 0x262d 8y ago
reddit's mobile site makes me actively want to not use reddit. it's enraging
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by 0x262d 8y ago
ok, here's a citation: Google made this change to their rules in the first place because a bunch of their employees got angry and shamed and criticized them publicly, which those employees were encouraged to do by the past 1-2 years of
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by 0x262d 8y ago
it is both legal and moral to let people restart their cases rather than arbitrating, given that arbitration is a known dead end that companies use to avoid responsibility for hurting their employees. edit: also it's fucking disgusting
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by 0x262d 8y ago
this still doesn't make it not evil.
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by 0x262d 8y ago
actually, this sort of criticism and shaming is exactly what causes things to become illegal. meanwhile, market veneration is both economically illiterate and used as ideological cover for massive crimes.
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by 0x262d 8y ago
I never said China's ruling class weren't "bullies". What I am opposing is the myopic belief in a nationalistic, us-vs-them mentality that transparently exists to make people ignore the class differences staring them in
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by 0x262d 8y ago
This forum only has a few kinds of purely political topics and one of them, oddly, is anti-China stuff. I don't understand it at all. About the headline... the US and its allies have stolen from and taken advantage of colonial countrie

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