JohnWhigham

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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Jony Ive leaving was a massive improvement for Apple.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
And plastics/PFAS/pththalates being everywhere has brought down sperm counts as well. They all need to be outlawed.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Life is what you make of it. If you go around thinking nothing fucking matters because we're all dead anyway, then it won't, and your life choices will affect what the rest of your brief existence on Earth will be like.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
I hope we look at plastics/PFAS/pththalates in 50 years as we look at smoking and asbestos now. But given how anemic our federal government has been for the past 30 years and is only working for the people less and less, I'm
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Seed oils in everything, plastics touching everything.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Despite how fucking shitty YouTube has gotten, it's content like this that could never be available anywhere else on the Internet today for free.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Nerds will always optimize/min-max the work out of something that is supposed to be for fun , that's just a fact of life.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Some cultures hold on to bitter historical sentiments more than others.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Perhaps there should just be a word for descendants of people with lower socioeconomic status/power/opportunities. That'd be getting too close to the actual problem in society, we can't have that!
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Not really, but learning about the Frankfurt School during the Weimar Republic is a good foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Where do people get this entitled attitude that every game should be accessible to everyone as much as possible? Nothing in the world is like that.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
They do it because Steam's 30% cut is ludicrous.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
I don't know about that. The fact that they released a bunch of EA games on Steam (most notably recent Battlefield games) made me think they're about to sunset Origin. But that was a couple years ago at this point so who knows
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
In addition to everything people already said, another important part: Valve is a private company, so they don't need to answer to nagging institutional shareholders. I guarantee if they weren't, Steam would have been corrupted lo
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
NPR and their local affiliates nowadays are indistinguishable from every other liberal rag out there.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Atlantic truly is all over the map. They'll have articles like the watershed Coddling of the American Mind from 2015, but then shortly after it's nothing but Trump 24/7 like every other outlet.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
After the past decade of pretty much every conspiracy theory about big tech companies becoming true, are you seriously still calling another marginal thing "tin foil hat stuff"?
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
It's peaceful when it's my side doing the protesting!
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Not sure if you've noticed, but everyone having a say has eviscerated society and our ability to communicate with one another. We didn't evolve to be part of a global community where everyone knows everything going on and everyone
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Classic HN taking analogies literally.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Here's another thing that is unbelievably annoying about HN: people asking for "studies" or "data" for every single fucking claim. Not every statement in life needs a triple-blind peer reviewed study.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
The Internet, while being humanity's most impressive invention thus far, has caused more harm than good. I don't think it will be our downfall, but it will continue to rapidly degrade society; I mean fuck, look what happened in th
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Eh, we're talking about a section of an arm on a galaxy that we're in. I'm pretty sure there's nothing in between most galaxies.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
I mean, what do you want them to do? Invest resources in splitting up material into multiple courses when they should have learned it before even coming to college? It's not their fault public schools suck.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Research professors who have 0 interest in teaching and farm out the actual teaching/grading to grad students has been going on for decades.
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There was an unexpected 40% increase in ‘all cause deaths’ in 2021(kusi.com)
48 points by JohnWhigham 5y ago|55 comments
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
The people still holding AMC are even more deluded given that AMC has already bought back stock multiple times, making plenty of money on the suckers still hanging on.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
They never get called out on it because the overwhelmingly liberal media all read it (don't downvote me, you know this to be unequivocally true). It's as simple as that. Everything has fucking turned political.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Please enlighten us what proud plan that is brazenly American would you have enacted to keep the country from collapsing when everything was closing?
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
The problem is that companies just lobby to extend how long they're valid for e.g. Disney. The entire system is fucked. I wish a bomb would just wipe out Congress sometimes.

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