Frondo

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by Frondo 7y ago
In addition to doing all those things on a personal level, each of them has a societal-level adjustment to pair with it: * Stop supporting meat -- transfer those subsidies to carbon-friendlier foods and farming * Make public transit free an
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by Frondo 7y ago
People wouldn't need to spend significant portions of their precious life making, moving, and selling things to others in paradise, utopia, or Heaven. Of course there would be no advertising, there'd be no treadmill of consumerism
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by Frondo 7y ago
Of course they would be paid, just like doctors are paid everywhere there's universal health care available. Access to a functioning justice system, as it ensures everyone access to laws, is arguably a human right, and yet no one ever
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by Frondo 7y ago
I am quite honestly happy to accept that you're not playing word games and that your intent with trying to dive into this language is good. I do not believe the same is true of stallman, after having watched him redefine terms for deca
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by Frondo 7y ago
Sure, there are different definitions of sexual assault. In none of them does the law say "let's break the phrase up into two words, sexual and assault, now, assault implies violence, and was this violent?" That's not pe
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by Frondo 7y ago
Similar thing happened with me and Michael Jackson's music. I was on an irc channel when someone mentioned one of his songs and I agreed. One of my closer friends said, "you know he's a pedo, right?" And I started thinki
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by Frondo 7y ago
Not even! He rejects common language where he has redefined the words, and he rejects specific jargon where it runs contrary to common language. When he uses the tools of pedantry, he does so to try and change the goalposts of the conversat
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by Frondo 7y ago
It's a misapplied kind of pedantry anyway; he can quibble with what he thinks "assault" means but "sexual assault" has a legal definition. It also confuses me to see people talk about stallman's language tricks
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by Frondo 7y ago
I agree with both of you, and I think stallman also had the misfortune here to be so beloved that people are willing to give him a pass on a lot of the things he's said. It's absolutely true that neuro-atypical people can learn
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by Frondo 7y ago
If society collapses, those who survive will be those who can work together most effectively, not those with the most guns.
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by Frondo 7y ago
Medical coverage is still very much a concern; Whole Foods just announced they were cutting benefits for part-time workers. Parental leave, workplace conditions, scheduling are other common things that are still very much up to unions to ne
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by Frondo 7y ago
I gave it a go and listened to a bunch of these wolframtunes....all of which sounded very much like random walking melodies over rhythm tracks someone probably programmed, or specified with enough constraints that they sounded like a regula
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by Frondo 7y ago
Funnily enough, the fast food industry is rife with non-competes: https://www.foodandwine.com/news/fast-food-non-compete-agree... "Amazingly, Healey’s office suggests that 80 percent of fast food workers are locke
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by Frondo 7y ago
That drop in birth rate isn't unique to Iran. It's one of the most well-studied phenomena in sociology. It has a name, too, the demographic transition. As you pointed out, educating women is considered a key part of ushering in th
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by Frondo 7y ago
Yes and no. Eliminating the pre-existing conditions restrictions was life-changing for me and a lot of people I know; I'd had a surgery in 2005 that, up to whenever Obamacare was passed, excluded me from buying any health insurance f
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by Frondo 7y ago
I only wanted to address one thing you mentioned: polling varies widely on abolishing the private insurance system. The Kaiser Family Foundation does extensive health care polling on a continual basis, and their recent poll suggests that 37
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by Frondo 7y ago
I've heard that anecdotally too, and tbh I would never ingest something a stranger sent me in the mail. I'm sure it's mostly fine, but there's a level of trust that whisper networks provide that is simply absent in an
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by Frondo 7y ago
Maybe you have to try to hear it, but I spend a lot of time in large public parks and, without fail, hear drones flying overhead. This just started in the last year or so, where virtually every time there's a drone off in the distance.
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by Frondo 7y ago
Is it, though? I'm not saying I buy a lot of street drugs, but I know some people who know some people who do, and have literally never seen or heard mention of Bitcoin for this. You know what I have seen being used, that surprised the
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by Frondo 7y ago
Many state roads post minimum speeds as well as maximum speeds (usually it's 40 or 45 mph, where the maximum is 65mph or 70mph), because there is in fact such a thing as driving dangerously slowly.
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by Frondo 7y ago
Bringing up one truck-based mass murder from 3 years ago in reply to a comment about US gun violence seems like whataboutism. If that's not your intent, can you clarify what your intent is? I'm probably not the only one who read i
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by Frondo 7y ago
This is a great, great point. Ads themselves aren't necessarily scummy or manipulative. I can't even think of the number of restaurants I've found through their ads, products I've ended up buying through ads, or services
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by Frondo 7y ago
Apple is a minority of phone sales and market share everywhere in the world. Going somewhere else isn't just possible in practice, but it's the default no matter where you are.
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by Frondo 7y ago
The issue is not that this rich couple is promoting good in the world (nb: I'm not going to nitpick the grammar that others are chuckling over). The issue is that it might be better for society not to allow people to amass so much weal
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by Frondo 7y ago
If fines are intended to be punitive, and intended to discourage people from committing crimes, then a person's wealth is the only thing it makes sense to base them on. Otherwise, wealthy people can flout fine-based laws with virtual i
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by Frondo 7y ago
Ikea now sells seaweed caviar (I haven't seen it anywhere else in the US yet) and it is a legit alternative to caviar. I'm slowly going vegan, for environmental and ethical reasons, and that was one food replacement I realized doe
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by Frondo 7y ago
If companies paid for commute time I'd feel a lot less strongly about in-office requirements.
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by Frondo 7y ago
Jack Snow was an absolutely brilliant illustrator -- he did every book after the first one, for a very, very long time. After L Frank Baum wrote the original 14, a few other authors picked up the mantle (Ruth Plumbly Thompson being the most
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by Frondo 7y ago
Yes, that's not how unions are structured by law in the US. Every union is shop-based and organized against a specific employer. They usually throw in with a larger union or an association, but not always. This is where the "Local
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by Frondo 7y ago
This may also stem from some union-busting messaging. One of the talking points that you see on anti-union posters and in videos is "unions get in the way of you talking to your manager, when you can talk to your manager directly you c

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