FredPret

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by FredPret 2y ago
Learn nothing and you'll keep losing. You'll never leave 40-60% of the population "behind" (who are you to define "the problem"? What's next, "the solution"? Chilling and revealing language) and
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by FredPret 2y ago
Someone making a 2h 48 min rant about how a dead, great physicist was "not that great" is oddly the opposite of convincing
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by FredPret 2y ago
You may very well think that and keep going to the movies, but a large segment of the population sees this as explicit and implicit criticism of aspects that are integral to themselves (white skin, a Y chromosome, conservative beliefs) and
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by FredPret 2y ago
Call it what you will but doing the above for reasons of “representation” or “education” rather than entertainment is simply not a fun experience for anyone, even the self-righteous people making those films. A business needs a laser focus
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by FredPret 2y ago
Fatbergs and brownouts point to underinvestment in utilities (budget problems / many historic, undemolishable buildings) You need to keep less $ invested in infrastructure per person if everyone lives on top of one another in a condo.
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by FredPret 2y ago
I enjoy both low and high density living. The argument in favour of density is that if you increase density, then you also decrease the average distance that people have to travel until they get somewhere interesting, like a job or a shop.
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by FredPret 2y ago
At some point in the past, tools like Wordpress et al made it easy for the average person to roll out their own website. This probably increased the overall demand for professional website makers and messed-up-Wordpress-fixers. Now the argu
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by FredPret 2y ago
Hollywood is floundering because: - there's no secondary market for VHS & DVD anymore. Almost all the money has to be made on opening weekend - in recent years, content has become preachy instead of focusing on being entertaining N
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by FredPret 2y ago
The people in charge could have made billions more if they held stock for the rest of their lives in a successful company that they helped build. A long term success is a safer bet, a bigger payout, less stressful, and something to be proud
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by FredPret 2y ago
Things are different now. The US can destroy anyone by one guy pressing a button. On the other hand, to win a non-nuclear war in the modern age, you need clever political positioning and a realistic end goal as well as battlefield results.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Just wanted to point out that Boeing's various disasters are not due to greed but to the combination of stupidity and greed. When smart people get greedy, they build things that last and that they can be proud of, because that's w
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by FredPret 2y ago
This would be a huge improvement on some news sites which do little more than regurgitate controversial Tweets (Xeets?)
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by FredPret 2y ago
Neal Stephenson wrote a book about Vikings discovering a Wal-Mart via time travel, and boy do they like it. (rise and fall of D.O.D.O.)
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by FredPret 2y ago
How on earth do you need a newspaper to tell you which political party aligns with your values? Depending on where you live, there’s 2-10 parties. You know who they are and what they want. If you want to affect the outcome you can get invol
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by FredPret 2y ago
Democracy works if everyone votes for the thing(s) they care about. You likely don’t need a news site for information about that.
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by FredPret 2y ago
If you truly need to know breaking news, one of the following is probably true: - you have a team that will brief you on it - you will get the news that apply to you from the source You won’t get either of these from a news website. As a ci
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by FredPret 2y ago
I think fascism is about totalitarian dominance of the population by the government, no? Seems like cutting taxes and bureacracy does the opposite. Unless “fascist” and “nazi” means “people I don’t like”.
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by FredPret 2y ago
There is still a very clear balance of power. All Republicans and all Democrats don’t act and think as one. Take any collection of humans, of any size, and their opinions will be spread across a spectrum. There are, and always will be, some
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by FredPret 2y ago
You just Godwin'ed the crap out of this thing. Congratulations, I guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law#:~:text=Godwin'...
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by FredPret 2y ago
OK, name such an approach in nutrition that doesn't already fall under regular biology. The reason we can do science on some things without doing experiments is that there's lots of hard, unambiguous data about relatively much s
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by FredPret 2y ago
We're far too generous with what we allow to be called "science". There is no dietary research, because you can't pull off an unbiased dietary study over a meaningful period of time. Practical and ethical problems abound
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by FredPret 2y ago
France and the UK have nukes https://www.icanw.org/nuclear_arsenals?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj...
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by FredPret 2y ago
Could still have been random https://xkcd.com/221/ https://web.archive.org/web/20011027002011/http://dilbert.co...
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by FredPret 2y ago
The idea is that you would now engage with your dude and your fellow citizens in that conservative riding and be a moderating influence. You are all in the same boat in a sense that’s more local and less abstract than with proportional rep.
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by FredPret 2y ago
I spent years commuting via that very station, and others like it in cities elsewhere in the world. It’s just a whole bunch of stressed people in a hurry.
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by FredPret 2y ago
I don’t like taxes and bureaucracy so now I’m a homophobe?!
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by FredPret 2y ago
Daily traffic at Union is 300k according to a quick google. So the most annoyed 1% of Canadians go through there every day. Not the world’s most rigorous basis for a sweeping statement about an entire culture.
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by FredPret 2y ago
What’s wrong with two parties? Countries with multiple small parties frequently seem to collapse into political torpor where nothing ever changes.
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by FredPret 2y ago
“Someone disagrees with me” = “they’re rejecting reality” Do you realize how alienating this shit is to a centrist?
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by FredPret 2y ago
That's the very worst point of view you'll ever get of Canadians. Of course people in a busy train station during rush hour aren't in the best mood. Travel the country up and down, big cities and small towns, and I guarantee

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