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   by 52-6F-62 6y ago

   For those reasons and others my partner and I haven’t married, but we file our taxes here in Canada (and are legally considered, in Ontario specifically) as a “common-law” couple. We wear rings and have decided on what works for us, betwee
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   by 52-6F-62 6y ago

   Oh! I didn’t mean for my comment to come across as a disagreement of any kind. I was just making a side comment. I thought it was funny and that your analogy was even more true because we don’t talk so much about Hemingway’s frequent arti
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   by 52-6F-62 6y ago

   http://www.jamespreller.com/2016/02/18/kurt-vonnegut-via-cir...
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   by 52-6F-62 6y ago

   In think it was Mafia 2. Great game.
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   by 52-6F-62 6y ago

   And that’s also how you hear about how much writers hate writing and are only happy when handing in a manuscript for publication. (See: Vonnegut)
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   by 52-6F-62 6y ago

   You’re right. It’s not new. Not for pop music anyway. I’d argue that it’s worse, though. Shorter cycles are even less healthy. And just because it’s been done before(-ish) and other endeavours run in this timeline doesn’t make it good or be
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   by 52-6F-62 6y ago

   What’s especially funny about your example is Hemingway wrote for periodicals as a day job for a long time, and so he kept that kind of schedule. Except some of his books came about because he didn’t keep to that schedule, and we don’t usua
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   by 52-6F-62 6y ago

   That’s the classic line between a performer alone and a songwriter.
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   by 52-6F-62 6y ago

   Not if you’re coerced into having to produce a piece of music every month/couple of months to keep the machine running. That’s just producing a commodity. Some groups have got it together and are able to fund years of quiet work before
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    I mean, if you were just stealing content from actively-running magazines then yeah. But if you pitched the idea to publishers with a cut-in then it may have sold. Archival efforts are a huge lift—especially from print to digital. But cur
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    Prudent point. I'm sure my personal experience isn't an isolated case—I've had many opportunities to move to SV, LA, or Seattle areas for positions that paid 2-4x what I make where I am now but it would mean leaving everyone
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    I don't have time today to engage in this discussion again but you seem to be taking a lot of over-stepping inconvenient aspects to your own argument. You didn't really explain any further, you just kind of said "no". I&
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    I don't think it's that simple. You're not free from all retaliation, especially if those laws are only in specific cases. For example, there are laws for retaliation, even. You can say whatever you want, but if that speech
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    Another end of the company I work for (I'm in media operations, digital) is focused on custom content which is largely comprised of marketing materials, catalogs, etc (and they still print on paper!). The company actually maintains a s
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    > That’s not what is going on. News broadcasters are denouncing it as dangerous, and we can’t talk about it. Social media is banning videos by actual doctors. Certainly context is important here. Taking regular antibiotics is also tout
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    Thanks. I was trying to be as diplomatic as possible because I didn't have all of the information on hand to get into a medical debate. It's outside my lane.
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    Thanks—you put it a little more eloquently and much clearer than I have.
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    Isn’t it also that many people conflate the freedom to speak with the freedom from consequence? The government isn’t cracking down on people for what they say. But if you broadcast something that goes against your employer’s values (whateve
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    As far as I understood, the distaste for the support of the drug in the context of Covid-19 was that it hasn’t been proven to be the “miracle cure” some people have touted it to be. Said touting was causing shortages at pharmacies where peo
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    I think what you're saying has merit. No data from me, only a personal anecdote. I avoided the ER during a severe illness comprising intense bloating, severe pain, and constant vomiting for about five days roughly a month ago. I ended
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    Win what exactly?
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    I wouldn’t say in person communication is frictionless for everyone. There are a lot of people who do not communicate at their best in person and both feel and represent themselves better in writing or with something of a “barrier” (for lac
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    Said small businesses might have no idea their data wasn’t secure. That would be on whoever developed their technology, not necessarily the business. Not all small businesses with customer or sales data is a technology company.
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    While it's not a social media platform of any kind, I know Apple News has some of their main user-facing pages actively curated by humans they've hired directly from editorial positions at various traditional media outlets. I thou
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    I think that’s an unfair comparison. I wouldn’t recommend looking for an American lifestyle in Canada.
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    Been there. Those who assume or are hubristic enough to think they know enough can be dangerous.
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    I'm in my 30s now, so moving back in with my parents is a no-go. If my partner and I were in real trouble they'd have no qualms about taking us in, but save for dire circumstances—it would pretty much be a last resort. That said,
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    Several bookstores have been sustaining themselves in Toronto for some time now. We've lost some old favourites over time like World's Biggest Bookstore [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Biggest_Booksto
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    I cautiously applaud Google's reparation payments (that's how I'm reading these initiatives), but I'm very wary of the fact that Google is calling this next stage a licensing. They didn't really go into details. Are
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    by 52-6F-62 6y ago

    A lot of outlets still do in-house ad sales—especially those that run print and standalone digital issues still. Unfortunately, while there is still some business there—it's nothing compared to what it used to be. Most companies just g