Bakary

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by Bakary 6y ago
The appeal of drugs and orgies is perfectly understandable. What I don't get is the appeal of mixing those with work and hierarchical relationships.
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by Bakary 6y ago
Music, acting, and dancing are much, much more difficult than you portray them to be. It's just that the people who are good at it make it look easy. The competition is also extremely fierce and ruthless. There is little demand for mos
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by Bakary 6y ago
What is the significance of the stock being divided as 25% plus one share and 75% minus one share?
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by Bakary 6y ago
Grossly simplified, there are two very broad categories of users. Those who use in an assertive way because they are confident and naturally inclined to try new experiences tend to do quite well. Those who use to escape don't do well.
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by Bakary 6y ago
The word doesn't just refer to the language but to a certain way of thinking that is recognizable and common to all the anglosphere cultures and nations. Using "anglophone" would not work.
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by Bakary 6y ago
Semi-related fun fact: in French, the word "anglo-saxon" is commonly used to refer to the anglosphere, its people, or its way of doing things. It has a neutral connotation, although francophones will inevitably tend to use it in n
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by Bakary 6y ago
To paraphrase and mangle a certain quote, if you owe a few hundred thousand dollars to a bank to purchase your home, that's your problem. If a government owes 356% of trillions of dollars, that's not just their own problem anymore
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by Bakary 6y ago
Irrespective of the quality of the publication or whether one wants to support a specific industry or publication by default, there's no good-faith reason why canceling a subscription has to be difficult.
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by Bakary 6y ago
A while back someone posted a look into their finances and business strategy. They were fumbling the ball a decade ago, but are now doing extremely well
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by Bakary 6y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what prompted the change in mindset from wanting to drop out to party to working hard and ambitiously?
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by Bakary 6y ago
But that's the point. They don't have to do anything. They will use words in certain ways, and the meaning will change. And if enough people support that meaning, they will be eventually be correct. Consider how the meaning of epi
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by Bakary 6y ago
Essentially, you have the answer already. Since actual Nazis are still very much a highly relevant cultural reference, there is not yet enough inertia for Nazi to become a generic term. Conversely, since few care about Italian fascism, the
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by Bakary 6y ago
It makes sense in a solidly virtualized casino economy
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by Bakary 6y ago
What I'm saying is that it's going to happen regardless of the consequences, because of how languages evolve. Coming from a culture that likes to regulate language, I find that any effort in that vein tends to fail pretty spectacu
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by Bakary 6y ago
A more charitable version of their argument would be that reading isn't a worthwhile activity by itself. It has been marketed as such given the context of screens, but it is not magically more stimulating on its own than most other act
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by Bakary 6y ago
New words appear constantly or old words are re-appropriated to fill the semantic necessities as they appear Seeing it as a dangerous path implies some voluntarily action and that is not exactly the mechanism at hand.
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by Bakary 6y ago
It's possible I am viewing the situation too harshly, but so far non-conformism been disappointing. I do agree with you that it's nice that there at least are some people doing something else. I am bringing criticism without propo
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by Bakary 6y ago
It is a very compelling question, and I don't have a real answer to it. I'll have to echo bsanr2's take as I believe they've explained it better than I could hope to.
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by Bakary 6y ago
I'm probably heavily projecting my own personal flaws here, but I've come to believe that the driving force behind that community is to feel smart and be recognized as such in some public forum. Therefore their strategic thinking
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by Bakary 6y ago
By socio-economically crushed, that is essentially what I was referring to. Until some hypothetical post-scarcity future rolls around, we can't be in every household stopping every abusive parent or helping every kid have a quiet study
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by Bakary 6y ago
To paraphrase SMBC, if you had Superman generate cheap energy by turning a handle, it would solve actually quite a few of our problems. It would not make for compelling reading, however. I don't know if Lego are actually leaving money
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by Bakary 6y ago
The irony is that non-conformist thinkers tend to sound similar after a while. The guiding thread is that they place value on being controversial and non-conformist for its own sake. I can understand the emotional draw of it and have been s
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by Bakary 6y ago
That's a good example. My current view on this is that it makes more sense to see it as a distribution of personality types and that gender is a red herring. It takes a fairly specific type of person to pursue computer science and codi
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by Bakary 6y ago
Polyamory and CNM are essentially urbanite rebrandings of very ancient customs that are still practiced in various parts of the world. The rebranding is there to create a sense of sophistication and mental flexibility, when in truth it&#x27
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by Bakary 6y ago
What I see as the underlying problem is that most of those topics are fairly limited in scope. They are interpreted as controversial and potentially mind-expanding topics, but they are only controversial in the sense that sports teams are c
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by Bakary 6y ago
Yeah, I'm not celebrating until they actually lose their power.
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by Bakary 6y ago
As someone who has made the mistake of studying both at the same time, it is far easier to focus on just one or the other until it gets to a decent level. It sounds like it might be useful, but in practice there's so much to do that wh
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by Bakary 6y ago
I call it the "launchpad" because I can finally leave my native language behind and learn from consuming media directly.
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by Bakary 6y ago
This is a nice site, but it's worth mentioning what exactly 90% coverage entails in practice. It's more painful than people might realize. https://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2016/08/25&#x2
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by Bakary 6y ago
The number of prisoners per capita in the US is indeed an impressive anomaly

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