Klinky

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by Klinky 4y ago
Did you mean ponzi scheme? That would make more sense, while not being entirely accurate.
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by Klinky 4y ago
That's what people are indoctrinated with, causing a lot of people to start a family too soon. However, I assure you many who have kids are not happy, especially while raising them in poverty or on unlivable wages.
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by Klinky 4y ago
I think it's still perfectly defensible, so long as you're equitable to all, and "other" isn't code for being a racist. Everyone should have access to birth control, family planning and advanced life opportunities
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by Klinky 4y ago
Are there truly no private security services in NZ? Is the issue really that there are no options, or is the issue that you just can't afford it? I think the economics of private security makes it basically impossible to be a mass mark
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by Klinky 4y ago
Obviously Musk should go on Twitter and lie that he's taking Tesla private again to juice the stock. Maybe he'll get two slaps on the wrist this time.
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by Klinky 4y ago
I think their point is exactly that, they're human. The whole Twitter acquisition seems impulsive, petty, and obviously was poorly thought out.
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by Klinky 4y ago
Only in very severe disease would that be the case. Many can become maimed & debilitated instead of just dying(e.g. Polio), and even those who come through "unscathed", the damage may just be hidden. You can see this with a lo
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by Klinky 4y ago
One of the failings of the simple concept of "survival of the fittest" is that survival just means you pass on genes, your quality of life might be poor up til then or you die shortly after, and fitness is towards the environment
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by Klinky 4y ago
In this case the vaccine & the ICU stays were paid for by taxpayers. If anything they got special treatment that was way above & beyond what others complain about when it comes to the lack of equal access to medical resources.
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by Klinky 4y ago
You should go to a dealer and try to actually get one for $22,195. Dealers have been gouging with huge fees above sticker / MSRP.
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by Klinky 4y ago
Obviously you can speak to your family's experience, but your argument seemed to suggest they would have no room to complain compared their predecessors from 170 years ago. I don't know your exact family's story, but 30 years
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by Klinky 4y ago
Yeah, if demand drastically dropped price would likely drop. The main point was that ICEs also have significant maintenance & energy costs. Sticking it out with gas doesn't mean you won't be facing thousands of dollars of addi
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by Klinky 4y ago
Wait until gas is $10. How much is invested in oil changes over an ICEs life? Thousands of dollars.
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by Klinky 4y ago
Was your family being threatened by bears? Why do you mention 200 years ago initially, but your anecdote is from the 90s? Do you think they were crying wolf or overreacting and not appreciating the 170 years of progress that preceded them?
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by Klinky 4y ago
200 years ago the western world reacted with magnitude 9 to the thought of an independent woman or African American, or a homosexual. Shockingly some westerners still do. While we've moved further towards a post-scarcity world, forced
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by Klinky 4y ago
It is not offense, it is a logical analysis of the statement. This is the perfect forum for such analysis. If it's not the correct forum for my analysis, then it is not the correct forum to be posting such statements in the first place
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by Klinky 4y ago
I am not following. Are you talking about pigeonholing adults who you think lesser of, or actual children?
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by Klinky 4y ago
It is an abuse of the statement when it's immediately contradicted by explicitly setting a specific task as "most important". I read how it was written as "don't be too ambitious, don't be worldly, have a lot o
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by Klinky 4y ago
> " We can thus take the time to live in history as God’s people who have nothing more important to do than to *have* and care for children. " I think this statement is very problematic, especially if you want to be inclusive t
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by Klinky 4y ago
I wrote about pigeonholing adults into the role of child caregiver, constraining their opportunities to do something else with their life. What they quoted applied to adults, not children.
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by Klinky 4y ago
I guess to each their own. I read what's written as constraint and limitation, a freedom only to those who struggle to think for themselves.
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by Klinky 4y ago
What if caring for new life is of no interest to someone? This advice just sounds like pigeonholing people into roles, making sure people know their place, and don't ask too many questions.
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by Klinky 4y ago
I think seeing a PPP/COL breakdown between major metropolitan areas would be more useful than country-wide averages/medians, the US has huge variations with regards to compensation & cost of living. Most people in the US are n
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by Klinky 4y ago
You really do need to look at the whole picture of cost of living & quality of life. Sure someone in the Bay Area could make 5x that, but that doesn't mean they're living 5x better or things aren't 5x more expensive.
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by Klinky 4y ago
Perhaps not everyone can research cures for cancer, but that's not a good reason to then become the "cancer". Just because it's how it is now, doesn't mean that's how it has to be. Ideally Amazon, Walmart, Goog
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by Klinky 4y ago
I agree that Jira is not the best project management tool, but it wasn't really designed to be one. It's not terrible a work tracking, but it seems to lacking in the roadmap/pre-planning departments that project/product
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by Klinky 4y ago
It's fine if you think markets are intended to be hostile to consumers instead of bettering people's lives. I don't think incentivizing deceptive middlemen is really a net benefit to society.
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by Klinky 4y ago
DRAM markets have been notoriously price fixed in the past[1], and it would not be surprising if there's still a lot of winking, nudging, and backdoor handshakes going on. The chip shortage makes it even more excusable now. [1] https:
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by Klinky 4y ago
>Sure, but would you feel okay about ruining someone else's home as long as it's not in your neighbourhood? Personally, no. Can we extrapolate that while also reviewing history and come to the determination that no one would ev
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by Klinky 4y ago
It's not inflation alone that is the problem with housing. It's housing being seen as an investment. People discourage new builds or high-density due to trying to preserve their existing asset value. Quick flip schemes juice the p

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