Mezzie

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by Mezzie 5y ago
It is, but I would argue that was one of the reasons for the establishment of free speech. Back when we were conceiving of free speech as a right, it was in direct response to a monopoly on information. In that case, it was the government b
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I generally agree with you, but one thing that's been making me extremely uncomfortable lately (since 2016) is the attacking of alternate platforms/communities that are built. Back in The Day(TM), when people had issues with mod&#
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The second problem is being made worse by the increasing polarization and the cutting of the ties that bound the different sides, at least in America. People with political disagreements were never best friends, but there used to be more sh
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Lots of things. I work for a neutral research org (so not a politician or a political party), which definitely impacts my experience. We field media inquiries, set up interviews (either with experts on staff or, if it's something gener
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Because I am an irrational little ape whose fight, flight, freeze, or fawn response is all fight, all the time. I'm just a very angry person. It's not a good thing, but that's why. The anger itself generally revolves around
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by Mezzie 5y ago
It drives me insane for a couple of reasons: 1. I, as a human, like to inform people. I trained to be a librarian and quite enjoy teaching/educating roles. It's never fun to be reminded that some people just...don't like lear
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I'm in political communications, so I'm definitely one of the more unconventional people on here career wise. That said, I've been kicking around HN since its founding (under different UNs) and at that time I hadn't star
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You forget politics, at all levels, formal or not. I have an interest in strategy but don't care about sports. That said, I'd guess I'm in a minority and it's very hard to write for 100% of an audience.
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That's the problem with trying to do ANYTHING in our current system: It's going to turn into a circus of definition abuse and loopholes. Not to mention the IRS would be sued to high heaven and this shit would take years to impleme
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One big one is anything deviating from the 'official' line on trans issues. And I don't just mean being an asshole and insulting people, I'm talking about things like lesbians saying they don't like penis, that tran
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Yes, and therefore governments and economics need to account for this to keep society running. That's what governing IS.
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Ah yes, around the time of things like the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, the Radium Girls, the battle for no child labor, legally segregated (by sex, religion, and race) jobs and education, and the Battle of Blair Mountain. Very civilized era.
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More people need to learn some labor history. The oligarchs and people at the top aren't your friend. Granted, neither are most middle managers or small business owners, they just have a smaller pool of people to throw into the furnace
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Off the top of my head: - Tie tax rates/benefits/penalties to the discrepancy between CEO/C-suite pay and average/lowest-paid employee pay - Tax benefits to companies who provide enriching programs for employees (like so
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It wasn't a process so much as an accidental by-product of what I was studying. By the time I left high school, I was taking German, Latin, and French. In undergrad, I expanded that to include some Old English, Mandarin Chinese, and Ar
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I think the most hilarious part of the Scott Adams (Dilbert) saga to me is that he bothered to sockpuppet on METAFILTER.
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It's possible to get to the point where you can become better at effortless memorization, but that takes a LOT of work. I studied 6 languages in high school and undergrad, and by the time I was in my senior year (taking Arabic + Chin
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Also accessibility isn't all or nothing. A lot of elderly people benefit from low vision concerns being incorporated into web design.
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> The early days of search in Google or social in Facebook probably didn't elicit the same kind thought process as a lethality engineering post. It did for at least one person (me). I was 16 in 2004 with 11 years of dev experience,
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My situation is interesting because I haven't worked in tech because of my experiences pre-22/leaving college. I was raised by geeks and carted off to computer shows on my dad's hip, started programming in elementary school
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Yup, but unlike us, they had '08 before them to look at and go 'hmmmm.... I've seen this before'. (I was a '10 graduate). We (Millennials) mostly believed what we were told, due to both not having experienced a sh
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It is skewed. This is one of those things I Can't Say in most places, but (unless you transitioned in elementary school) the MtF experience in tech and the cis female experience are totally different, and they (the MtFs) know it, becau
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In Marketing/Outreach, we're encouraged to write at a 9-10 year old reading level.
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Experiences. One big one is that most Millennials were hit by 2008, while Gen Z wasn't, but at the time we believed what we were told that 2008 was an aberration and things would get back to normal. We were also raised in the "go
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I'm firmly a Millennial but I relate a lot more to Gen Z because our childhoods/formative experiences had a lot more in common. (For example, I got online when I was 4 and was allowed free rein, very similar to a lot of Gen Z&#x2F
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Persona 5 did really well with balancing their line work and colors. The colors are very bold and in your face, but so is some of the strategically placed line work, so you can still visually differentiate everything.
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Also who are you and who were you traveling with? Because gotta say, as a female, I'm not staying in rando's spare rooms...
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I did grocery delivery for a while, and I agree that 'alienating' was a great term for it. Yeah, it was 'flexible', but I was doing it for money, so I ended up on a lot of 12AM-2AM runs for college students who wanted bo
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I signed up! I just wanted to say thanks for including a time option; I'm a night journaler but I also try to keep a clean inbox, so being able to get the prompt whenever I choose was great.
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You misunderstand a little bit. I'm not donating to food banks/mutual aid/related nonprofits solely in hopes that they'll give me a financial return. It's also in part so that said places exist when I need them. For

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