Frondo

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by Frondo 6y ago
I've watched a lot of his shows and have developed a kind of celebrity respect for him, enough that I've gone on and read interviews with him and with people in his orbit (like the restauranteurs featured on his shows.) Turns out
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Untrue and a little absurd. I've personally known three people who got elected to their local school boards without any endorsements at all. They all had big families, literally just a lot of people knocking on doors evening after eve
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Repeal Taft-Hartley.
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Well, since the Taft-Hartley act of 1947 banned closed shops, I'm not sure that that's really the first of contract demands anymore, at least in the US.
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You can find a million more horror stories related to corporations abusing workers than you can of unions keeping bad workers employed, yet one of these types of organizations is always under an existential attack. If I didn't know abo
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Just one comment on this: > Teachers unions may care more about teachers ... That's precisely the point of a union. It's an organization to protect its members. It's the purpose of the school system overall, including prin
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by Frondo 6y ago
He could be referring to how Facebook was used in the Rohingya genocide, which they admitted to over two years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebo...
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The threat to US Congresspeople was far more grave than is known(twitter.com)
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People also left IEDs in the building, walked around with weapons and zip-ties, chanted "Hang Mike Pence," and did a lot of property damage. Please don't downplay what happened on Jan 6 as "walk around a building,"
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by Frondo 6y ago
What are we supposed to make of people carrying the Confederate flag, as well? The Confederate States of America fought a civil war to preserve the enslavement of Black people (as specifically mentioned in most of the state constitutions of
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Yeah, seems like trying to get away from the business speak got us to job descriptions that call for ninja rock stars. I'll take the business jargon.
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Surely, if they wanted to, they could buy cloud compute resources from a company based outside the US. Why must they be on Amazon just for access to its web services platform?
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A couple of states have had vote-by-mail for years, and Oregon at least has had it exclusively for decades. The Republican Secretary of State ran an election audit in 2016 and found that, over 2+ million votes cast, around 50 or so were &qu
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by Frondo 6y ago
The claim for 50 secret service agents being hospitalized comes from one unnamed source in the trump administration; and both fox news and newsmax have a strong right-leaning bias, so it's hard for me to believe it's true at all.
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In case it isn't clear to people who only watch briefly, the people in the video are Trump supporters, yelling at Graham for giving up on perpetuating the "stolen election" lie. These are people who are nominally on his side,
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I remember how, in the Obama era, there was a constant drumbeat of "they're coming for your guns," and unsurprisingly it never materialized. Why should I believe you this time?
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I am quite worried for the future of the country when Republican voters elected not one but two adherents of QAnon to the House of Representatives. What is any sort of reasoned debate about policy going to look like when one of the particip
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by Frondo 6y ago
I'm sympathetic to all of these, but I do remind myself that sentimental reasoning is probably as close to diametrically opposed to Signal's goals as you could be.
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It is also difficult for me to imagine that the government would compel private businesses to transmit speech inciting or coordinating riots at the capitol. Even if the heavy hand of regulation were applied to private corps, it seems like t
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by Frondo 6y ago
For this and a few other problems I ran into with Signal early in its lifespan -- problems that burned not just me but people I persuaded to adopt it -- I'll never put my neck out for this software again. Reliability and a lack of surp
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For a lot of us it happened in adulthood, where we were definitely aware of our parents' beliefs and values before, as they changed, and after their radicalization.
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SMS is 25+ years old -- I only know I had it on my first phone -- and the absolute ubiquity of replacements (of which WhatsApp is just one) suggests those problems are real ones for a lot of people. If you're not "most people&quot
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by Frondo 6y ago
Yes, we need price transparency, but the last time I had a surgery, it was an emergency surgery, in the sense of "get him to the nearest ER or he'll die." By the time the anesthesiologist came around, I was drifting in and ou
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by Frondo 6y ago
> When did workers create the wealth, exactly? When they showed up to the factory that day and turned a pile of parts into an iphone. Where do you think the wealth comes from?
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I don't believe the workers at these huge factories are doing anything approaching "estimate the profitability and determine what they want out of that pie." I think they're desperate for jobs in a way that precludes est
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I don't know what the right solution is for forcing Apple's hand in treating the workers this far down the line better -- though I firmly believe the richest company in the world owes it to everyone involved with it (i.e. the peop
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Before you edited your comment, you said something about Americans being very willing to embrace foods from cultures around the world. For some reason, that remark reminded me of one of the talking points of the 2016 election, the specter
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He didn't say "insurance monopolies." Presumably it could work the way auto insurance works, where you'd be required to carry insurance but you'd have your pick of who supplies it. (Unless I misunderstood and you&#
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legislation - and enforcement - is the best way we as a society can declare some things off-limits. what does it mean for it not to be robust?
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Oh, I found it -- "Wheat Belly" by William Davis, is this your source for your comments?

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