Frondo

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by Frondo 5y ago
It seems like you're conflating several things: 1) Save Our Mesa is the group that pushed back, successfully, against this project, to further the tourism interests in their town, according to the article and according to them. 2) Some
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by Frondo 5y ago
I bought an iphone because I want a phone that'll last five years and get security updates for at least as long. I also bought an iphone because I have a lot of confidence it won't have design flaws that break its gps (like the mo
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by Frondo 5y ago
> the phone call he is making with someone else's phone is not depriving him of his freedom/privacy, but its owner's. Maybe he's not being hypocritical, but that position -- I will pragmatically use others' phone
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by Frondo 5y ago
Did you read article #2? The group that stopped the solar installation was something called "Save Our Mesa": > But a group of residents organized as “Save Our Mesa” argued such a large installation would be an eyesore and could
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by Frondo 5y ago
I would certainly like to see a marketing-savvy billionaire start a sustained campaign of "ride the train/bus." I've wondered for some time, both what that would look like and whether it could have a meaningful impact in
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by Frondo 5y ago
One other thing about VSCode being an Electron app -- it is by far the snappiest and most responsive and least bad memory-wise Electron app I've used. This isn't like Slack or Discord. It's like magic what they've buil
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by Frondo 5y ago
He's referring to William Halstead, whose cocaine habit let him work long hours without sleep, and who was one of the instrumental figures in developing the modern medical residency system (with its brutally long hours): https:/&
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by Frondo 5y ago
The NLRB is the one making the recommendation for a new election, and, since they found that Amazon interfered with the election not just by removing this material, but in a number of other ways, why shouldn't they recommend holding
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by Frondo 5y ago
Unions are a part of the free market, unless you'd like to remove people's freedom to associate just because they all happen to work at the same place.
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by Frondo 5y ago
C# does, as do quite a few others. Heh, this is kind of interesting: https://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/String_concatenation
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by Frondo 5y ago
This is the issue: it's unreliable, and its results presented as a matter of fact. This is also the latest I've heard of, in a long line of the criminal justice system presenting what's often closer to fiction as an indisput
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by Frondo 5y ago
No specific employer is obligated to employ a specific employee, but we as a society have an obligation not to allow a slave-wage class to exist. We can do this, but we choose not to.
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by Frondo 5y ago
Hey man, similar thing here. Every six months or so, almost to the day, I've got a spell for about 7-10 days where I have an immense fatigue, like sleeping 12-15 hours at a stretch, and a brain fog that makes it impossible to concentra
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by Frondo 5y ago
There isn't a tech labor salary on the planet that would make me suddenly be comfortable with at-will labor -- no matter how much they're paying me, when they can pull the plug at any time and I have no process to seek recourse, t
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by Frondo 5y ago
I've known quite a few union members who were paid out of their unions' strike funds when they went on strike. This is not so cut and dried. I've also known hundreds of people who love their unions, from a variety of industri
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by Frondo 5y ago
> sorry, it's 5:01 and You are entitled to your time. If you're set to work til 5, then your employer should pay you a minute's overtime if they need you to turn that screw. Why would you volunteer for someone else's
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by Frondo 5y ago
The first aerial bombing on US soil targeted striking coal miners, at the Battle of Blair Mountain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain That seems more like "literal war" than a gang turf w
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by Frondo 5y ago
SAG-AFTRA is a union.
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by Frondo 5y ago
The NFL Players League and the Screen Actors Guild do not operate this way. Their top performers negotiate significantly higher salaries for themselves (check out what Tom Cruise is getting for a film) while retaining the protections of the
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by Frondo 5y ago
It's unfortunate that the link to the actual survey: https://www.fourth.com/resource/truth-about-dining-out-infog... is now dead. All this is is a news site quoting it, second-hand, and I have seen enough news sit
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by Frondo 5y ago
Was it your intent to conflate things that are arguably necessities for participating in modern life ("smart phones, unlimited data") with things that are not ("eating out 3-4 times a week, uber eats")? Because when some
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by Frondo 5y ago
It's a somewhat clumsy restatement of the just world hypothesis, which seems like it's built into much of the discourse and attitudes of American society and has almost always been dominant.
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by Frondo 5y ago
> Ah yes, an intricate lie. Not a joke -- what do you think resumes are?
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by Frondo 5y ago
I dislike the content-spamming recipes for another reason -- they're an accessibility nightmare . I seem to get eye strain more easily than most, despite having normal vision when my eyes aren't hurting, so I use the screen reade
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by Frondo 5y ago
> That's your opinion that you're deciding for other people Others have spoken to your other points, but as for this, yeah, exactly . We're talking about how we'd organize society (or some aspect of it), the basis of
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by Frondo 5y ago
Oregon has a long history of encoding racism into law, from the Black Exclusion laws from its early history to sundown laws that lasted into the 20th century. Idaho, too -- the Aryan Nations had their headquarters in the Hayden Lake area fo
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by Frondo 5y ago
Taxpayer here, and former low-paid wage slave, I agree with alienthrowaway.
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by Frondo 5y ago
Yeah, it is a game. Dressing up is just playing the game, to show that you're one of the boys. But you know what? It's also an extremely low-hanging fruit kind of game to play, so why not? What do you have to gain by refusing to p
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by Frondo 5y ago
I saw that too, and that I think was such a crucial mistake. Discretion, as they say, is the better part of valor. Is it fun to point out someone's hypocrisy? Probably. Is it going to be productive, especially to do so in a public mann
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by Frondo 5y ago
Frankly, unless you've been doing a somewhat systematic survey of "businesses that have been boarded up" and "businesses that continue to operate as normal" and are doing so across the city (and not the very small p

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