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by Frondo 7y ago
HN Admins: it's a bad look to leave a bit of white supremacist angst in one of the top comments of a thread on the front page. > "strong healthy black man rescues white woman from a bumbling and pathetic white male" I&#x2
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by Frondo 7y ago
First/second/third world stopped being used by academics and journalists, oh gosh, maybe a decade or two ago? After the fall of the Soviet union, but I don't remember how long after. Developed/developing nation replaced
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by Frondo 7y ago
These words are no longer used in common parlance at all. Now people use "developing nation" and "developed nation," and "second world" never evolved to mean "somewhere less poor than dirt-floor huts but l
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by Frondo 7y ago
I don't buy this argument any more than I buy the argument that taxation is theft (it isn't) or that traffic lights are oppression (they aren't). Vaccination, for those who can be vaccinated (not everyone can), is a trade-off
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by Frondo 7y ago
I'm also okay banning anti-vax ideas, in defense of the community in general, and in defense in specific of those vulnerable few who can't be immunized and rely on herd immunity. Foregoing vaccination imposes an as-yet-unaccounted
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by Frondo 7y ago
Black Lives Matter literally exists to highlight disproportionate police violence against people of color; not only are they not calling for expelling whites (the "reverse" of what a lot of white nationalists call for), what the
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by Frondo 7y ago
Anyone who draws income via rent-seeking does not trade time for money. Your landlord, most of the time (i.e. when they're not repairing or maintaining their properties), is not trading money for time; they are charging you for access
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by Frondo 7y ago
Of course this is all sustainable. You've seen the charts, right, showing productivity vs wages since the 80s? We enjoyed a second era of industrialization, with huge advances in efficiency and productivity, and again the benefits were
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by Frondo 7y ago
They're giving their time -- literally the one non-fungible resource any human being has -- in exchange for money. Money comes and goes. You never get your 20s or 30s back.
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by Frondo 7y ago
I agree with the parent poster, and yes, I consider all the time whether I'm mistaken. I can't even shut off the part of my brain that double-checks and questions my thoughts and views, on Facebook or anything else. Do you want to
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by Frondo 7y ago
I too would like to hear of the country where 1) Don't kill and 2) Don't steal are not in some way specified in law.
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by Frondo 7y ago
For me, the issue has a couple of layers: First, there's little I can do about it, even if I'm not on gmail. So many people are, so Google has copies of most of my email even if I'm not using them. Second, this is a small wro
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by Frondo 7y ago
The point is, for the author, this is the best tool. Using any other tool would not be an easy fix, it'd be a significant enough barrier to publication that they simply wouldn't publish it. In their words, if they had to blog, the
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by Frondo 7y ago
Much, if not most, of "unskilled" work also has a lot of hidden complexity that means your productivity starts off slow and improves over time. There's a reason capitalists have gotten us to think of some work as "unskil
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by Frondo 7y ago
Yes, because letting them funnel their debt-servicing money back into useful parts of the economy (houses, cars, businesses, whatever!) would be a much better thing for the country as a whole than what they're doing now. This debt is
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by Frondo 7y ago
The problem I think a lot of people have with Bitcoin, at least that ends up producing articles like this, is that there's always a tremendous amount of goalpost-shifting in the Bitcoin/adjacent community. At times it's been
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by Frondo 7y ago
Depending on where you live, politicians may have enacted any number of positive life improvements, like improved public transportation infrastructure, better regulations on working conditions, better pollution regulations, small business d
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by Frondo 7y ago
What's wrong with showing someone the likely long-term consequences of using a product? How is that humiliating at all? I cannot understand your problem at all, except that a government agency has placed certain restrictions on a certa
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by Frondo 7y ago
Previous generations have done lots better; what you're seeing is the end result of a few decades of the "starve the beast" project, working its way into governments from local to the federal level. There's now one mains
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by Frondo 7y ago
I'm not trans but have several trans friends, and just wanted to add (as a non-trans person), make a best guess for how someone presents and if they correct you, do not joke about it. No jokes, no extra comments, Just say, "sorr
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by Frondo 7y ago
Your source for that article is a man named Alex Epstein, who is paid by coal industry figures to advocate for a "new industrial revolution". > In a September 11, 2018 piece at the CIP website, Epstein disclosed “proudly” that
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by Frondo 7y ago
Actually, yeah, something like 99% of working scientists in climate-related fields agree it's human-caused. There've been a number of meta-studies about this. If you want to know more, you can google this. It's a discussion t
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by Frondo 7y ago
Meat is easiest because it's sold everywhere. Where I live, someone makes a variety of vegan convenience food that they've managed to get stocked in 7-11s all over the place. The food is all comparably priced to meat-based equival
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by Frondo 7y ago
For anyone who'd like to read more, W.E.B. DuBois was the first person to write about it, and this is a nice little jumping-off point: https://psmag.com/social-justice/taking-freedom-capitalism-d...
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by Frondo 7y ago
Agreed on all points. I just wanted to link this video, because it's a great example of what it means for farm labor to be skilled labor: https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1005532868007739392 That's
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by Frondo 7y ago
I sincerely wish those people would actually come up with specific workable policies that demonstrated an interest in small government that wasn't race-based. Like, take small government on a local level. You cut the city budget by a t
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by Frondo 7y ago
This is also the strategy that white former slave owners used to disrupt a more equitable reconstruction in the South after the civil war. They took all the poor white folks who were feeling a certain class alliance with the former slaves a
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by Frondo 7y ago
I don't know your circumstances, and first of all that is a great and generous thing you did for your friend. The one place I know of where a housing-first policy has been implemented, Salt Lake City (or maybe all of Utah?), doesn&#x27
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by Frondo 7y ago
There's the catch. Americans would take all kinds of back-breaking work for the right amount of pay. American agriculture has always relied, more or less, on underpaying its laborers, the extreme case being slavery (entirely unpaid, en
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by Frondo 7y ago
I have no reason to believe that it's minimally different, and I'm curious what reason you do, aside from it's comforting. When 10 people own as much as half of the population of the country, there's something there. C

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