Frondo

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by Frondo 6y ago
Heh, that takes me back! In 1994, I was a high schooler volunteering at a famous west coast science museum (it was either that or work at Taco Bell, thanks dad), and one of my tasks was to make a searchable employee directory... I don'
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by Frondo 6y ago
Would you please stop editing your post? You've made several substantial changes -- far beyond the scope of a clarification -- and now I'm reluctant to respond at all because who knows what it'll say next.
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by Frondo 6y ago
And if our culture doesn't already support trans and non-binary people (ideology? no, it's people we're talking about), then that seems like it'd be a good thing to change.
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by Frondo 6y ago
So you faced what seems like an ultimately mild consequence for a publicly-held and socially unpopular position. And this is the cancel culture we're all supposed to be worried about, really? What would have been, in your estimation, t
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by Frondo 6y ago
Frankly speaking, it'd be a better argument that he was "canceled" if he hadn't gotten funding at all. If this is what "being canceled" means, that your browser (I.e. commodity software in a mature marketplace
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by Frondo 6y ago
It is also a dumb name because the phrase "Good Samaritan" comes from the unexpectedly helpful behavior of the original Samaritan -- Samaritans and Jews despised each other, so the man who was ignored by a priest and a Levite, but
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by Frondo 6y ago
Of course this is it. That libertarian-inspired quip is as old as it is not clever, but I don't imagine we'll ever stop seeing it posted.
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by Frondo 6y ago
If your claim is supported by that article you linked down below, it seems like a big stretch to refer to Democrats as a unified whole ("believe Democrats ... after they") when you're referring to three people, two of whom we
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by Frondo 6y ago
Republicans are absolutely working to roll back legal protections for the LGBT community and have been engaged in a decades-long fight to reduce women's access to health care. They're also fully in support of the immigration polic
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by Frondo 6y ago
With tens of millions of Americans facing food insecurity and tens of millions of Americans facing eviction now, thanks to years of precarity exacerbated by the COVID-19, I think the situation is worse than you're suggesting.
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by Frondo 6y ago
I felt this way when I was 25, like I'd been programming since I was 7 and I was hot shit. I'm approaching 40 now and only in the last year or two does it occur to me that, even at 25, I was really only middle-grade. I wonder what
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by Frondo 6y ago
That Heinlein quote is nice, but also a little absurd. I can change a wall outlet or a light switch, but if I'm rewiring my house, I'm calling my brother-in-law, the electrician, just like he calls me when he wants a trumpet playe
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by Frondo 6y ago
Well, maybe, maybe not, but once you're on the job site, you're entitled to be paid for whatever the employer decides to do with you, like security screenings.
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by Frondo 6y ago
What's amazing to me about that anecdote is that it seems like such a tremendously small reason to dislike unions, for all they do to improve worker safety, pay, and provide a stop against exploitation by corporate owners. I would cons
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by Frondo 6y ago
Unions aren't anti-capitalist, they explicitly work within a capitalist framework to ensure better pay and working conditions for their workers. Unions deal in money and don't seek to change that, unions recognize and don't c
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by Frondo 6y ago
Something else to be aware of is, with Powell's you're also supporting a union shop that pays its staff pretty well. No one's pissing in bottles in the back room at Powell's, unless it's for fun.
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by Frondo 6y ago
New York has not eliminated cash bail. https://www.google.com/search?q=new+york+cash+bail
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by Frondo 6y ago
This is fascinating reading, thanks so much for sharing!
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by Frondo 6y ago
Looks like a pyramid scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane_game I'd love to see the document on the Google drive, though! OP, can you share it somehow?
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by Frondo 6y ago
It's pretty disgusting that solitary -- considered to "cause such severe psychological damage that it is tantamount to torture" -- isn't torturous enough for you, in the "waterboard or toenail removal" sense: &
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by Frondo 6y ago
I've traveled through some pretty remote places in both hemispheres, and the US has nothing on isolation compared to the mountains in Central Asia. Remoteness won't really protect people here, not like it would there.
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by Frondo 6y ago
I don't know if rural folks may realize how well-armed we are in the cities. Nearly everyone I know has a gun, and none of us is the crowd you'd normally associate with gun owners in cities.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Degenerate activism? Come on.
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by Frondo 6y ago
This kind of revolving door depresses me, and makes me wish that software development had a code of ethics that people would have to swear to uphold. Going to work for the open web villain is about as bad as the doctors who did the leg work
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by Frondo 6y ago
I'd say we've been trying that in the US, and it hasn't been working. The richest have captured enough systems to further enrich them that there's no undoing that -- and reducing the government to a referee certainly won
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by Frondo 6y ago
"If you don't like the working conditions, you can leave." Why does that only apply when people are trying to dismiss the value of unions or discourage their colleagues from forming a union with their coworkers? Surely if you
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by Frondo 6y ago
If millions are evicted and there are no jobs for them to find, and there's no safety net from the government (the one group that can print money), the destruction won't probably creative, unfortunately.
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by Frondo 6y ago
While land is constrained and should probably be dealt with separately, wouldn't the price increase in consumer goods, i.e. the grocery store to use your example, require collusion between every merchant? Isn't the other part of A
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by Frondo 6y ago
Boo hoo. People get fired for all kinds of arbitrary and capricious reasons. Fight for workers' rights if you care about that. Rich people being temporarily embarrassed? I don't give a shit, and neither should anyone else.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Exactly, you want to talk about ending cancel culture? Fight for better workers' rights.

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