FussyZeus

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by FussyZeus 7y ago
They don't say Chrome itself is bad, and therefore do not seek to explain it. The page is less a technical break down and more a call to action ala activism. Chrome itself isn't an issue, it's one of many tentacles, and one o
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> Being from a third world country, I understand how valuable it was to have a cheap smartphone And just because you live in the US doesn't mean you can afford a top tier iPhone. That's why the secondary market is so hot for th
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> Yes, I'm OK with world having the ability to buy a smartphone for 50$ But you apparently aren't okay with getting $50 worth of smartphone, since you're demanding a ton of companies you erroneously claim to be in Californ
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> But but Apple has spent millions branding itself as the privacy focused alterative to Android. That's not difficult to do, given how loose Android is with privacy. There are effectively two Phone OSes to choose from: iOS and Andro
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> They should, but they didn't. Before AMP most of the web was unusable on slower Android phones and frontenders just laughed at you and told you to drop 800$ on an iPhone if you want to see their pages. Is it a surprise that Google
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> Every news source will be biased Can I just rant for a moment here about how sick and tired I am of news outlets being expected to be completely without bias? Bias is human. As long as people are writing the news, it's going to
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
My go to for this is to say "I'm guessing $solution didn't work." Because then you're supposing a solution that most likely the other person did already, and you're communicating that you'd assume they&#x2
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
But you're still using them , and by virtue of using them are increasing their engagement numbers, which is what they want. The only winning move is not to play. But they've created an environment where you pretty much have to.
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
The network effects of sites like Facebook, YouTube, Google, and Twitter oftentimes mean taking the ethical stance and "not being part of it" can create serious harm to your business/career/vocation. There's a reaso
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> Americans consider housing to be an investment. Not just an investment, but for many, it's the investment. For most of the 99% property ownership is seen as the only reliable motive for social mobility. It's the only way
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
No no, Purdue claimed that Oxycontin's time-release formula was believed to reduce it's addictiveness. Which yes, is a pretty logical follow through, but also you'd expect more rigorous proof than "we think it'll
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
As a general rule Doctors trust the documentation given to them by the pharmaceutical companies, which in turn is approved after several rounds with the FDA, so one would think that the documentation would be pretty reliable. The source of
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Yes and no. The first fault is that even the studies done by Purdue prior to release did not indicate anything close to the 1% addiction rate they advertised, it was more like 8-12%. The second, most Oxycontin users who aren't well off
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
I said they sold it as that, not that it was that and that was the source of the issue. “Delayed absorption as provided by OxyContin tablets, is believed to reduce the abuse liability of a drug.” That's what the FDA allowed them to p
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Right. The core problem with Oxycontin wasn't that it was an opiate: it was that Purdue sold it as an opiate that resisted addiction. This meant doctors prescribed it more readily and were less concerned about monitoring patients a
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
For a great many years, they were almost solely for people with serious, chronic pain. Cancer sufferers or people with severe diseases. It wasn't until Oxycontin and the marketing push associated with it that it became so widely prescr
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
That feeling when the URL is as long as the article
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
It's not just sunk cost fallacy. Everything I've bought from Costco has been at least "good" with most of the products pushing into "great" territory. The curation is one of the benefits of the membership. Espe
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> The whole idea that people change their behavior to avoid taxes is the basis of sin taxes - this is how things are supposed to work. What sin taxes are at play here? Edit: Or just downvote I guess, it was just a question.
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> Even the people that could buy ethical don't do. Because it's exhausting, and it's made to be that way on purpose. Brands within brands within brands, shell companies within shell companies, producers selling to distribu
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Of course the Nobel prize for economics is a ruse and at least semi-fraudulent. That's the least surprising thing I think I've ever learned.
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Basically you just rattled off everything I, as someone who never worked in that industry, assumed was going on. There's just a shit ton of money to be made pretending it's 1955. I went into the wrong business.
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
With the ongoing depression of wages in the developed world, most people don't have the luxury to "shop ethically." Hell, in many product categories, buying local is just not an option at all. For decades Capitalism has pushe
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
The fact that it's mentioned at all in a discussion like this is a testament to how effective corporate media has been in convincing people to pursue economic growth at the cost of everything else. Who cares if the planets burning and
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
And things are always better in the developed world, that doesn't inherently mean people fortunate enough to live here instead of say, rural Africa, have nothing to fucking complain about. First world problems are still problems afte
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
It's not impossible but it shouldn't be this fuckin hard. I'm struggling personally in an in-demand industry with a competitive job, and I don't even have children. I own a home but it's in no small part thanks to f
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Cherry picking positive news is literally no different than what you're accusing the mainstream news of doing. It's just the other direction. I'm glad diseases are being stamped out in Africa. Here in America the anti-vax mov
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
I get tired of people blaming social media for societies ills. Most of these ills existed long before Facebook. Facebook just makes it more apparent. Common people are on twitter, on reddit, on all the big networking sites directly pointing
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
It's incredibly comforting. I can do something about a zombie. I can't do something about the orange doofus tweeting war on North Korea and burning the planet.
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
I mean it's pretty much a race between nuclear war, nationalist authoritarians gaining power, backwards social policies, concentration of wealth among the 0.1%, climate change, financial crashes... There's so many things getting w

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