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by OGWhales 3y ago
Cops have always been triggered by the mildest of disrespect, this has nothing to do with people worrying about social micro-aggressions. What’s actually happening is that cops are being filmed and because of that people are losing respect
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by OGWhales 3y ago
Cash can be spent without being monitored or blocked. A recent example of how this might be relevant is with the protests in Canada that lead to the freezing of the protesters’ bank accounts by the government. While I don’t agree with the p
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by OGWhales 3y ago
My concern with digital payments is the elimination of cash. Having the ability to transfer value without it being monitored or blocked is an exceptionally useful property of paper money.
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by OGWhales 3y ago
The way the game is played with a single tank is a pretty big shift in dynamics, the game becomes much more rock/paper/scissors based for the tank role and some of the tanks feel out of place since they were originally designed as
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by OGWhales 3y ago
> The children that went to private schools ended up in a far better place. Is this a result of the private schooling or does the socioeconomic status of their parents play a significant role? I attended both and the people that were ric
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by OGWhales 3y ago
I’m confused, your comment talks about schools and the government making parents the enemy and being anti-parent but your linked articles are about parents making threats over things like Covid mask policies. What exactly is your point?
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by OGWhales 3y ago
> if you needed to make a right and then a left. Google maps seemed to only care about the immediate next step whereas Apple cared about some distance. Something I really enjoy about Google Maps is being able to swipe to see the next mov
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by OGWhales 3y ago
Considering the decline of economic mobility, increasing income inequality/wealth concentration and most importantly the stagnation of real wages[0], all of which started around the 1980s, it would seem the economic policies prior were
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by OGWhales 3y ago
> The problem is we have more and more people never graduating out of entry level positions, and today we have folks demanding those entry level positions support a comfortable lifestyle. That doesn’t sound right. To me it seems obvious
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by OGWhales 3y ago
> Every major urban center, perhaps. No city in Montana (I'll go so far as to say the midwest, minus perhaps Chicago) has a "robust" public transit system. Your comment is talking about the present tense while theirs is no
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by OGWhales 3y ago
Relevant Futurama scene: https://youtu.be/7GDthiBGMz8
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by OGWhales 3y ago
> Demand for cheerios is elastic- people can substitute by buying oatmeal. Demand for salmon fillets is elastic- people can substitute by buying tuna, beef, beans, tofu, etc.... for just about any given food item there are substitutes to
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by OGWhales 3y ago
> MMT is a joke. I have my own issues with MMT, but I feel like most people that share your position seem to believe that MMT means “you can print as much money as possible without ramifications” which is not correct. One of the core ide
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by OGWhales 3y ago
Huh? The main reason heat pumps are being pushed is because they are extremely efficient, not as some kind of sacrifice that we are doing to protect the grid. There is no better option if we are moving away from gas at home. The only compet
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by OGWhales 3y ago
Actually an AC unit is a heat pump, just a one directional one that moves the heat outside.
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by OGWhales 3y ago
Reddit is doing this on a per-app basis rather than a per-user basis. That would be a great idea, but sadly reddit it against it (likely because the goal is to kill third party apps).
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by OGWhales 3y ago
Same here, however I've been severely hindered by the protests as many of the results I get are on subs that are now private. I am fine ending my mindless scrolling, but I have realized how much I depend on niche reddit communities for
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by OGWhales 3y ago
> it’s actually 90% of the site offline at this point. How did you determine this?
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by OGWhales 3y ago
YouTube and Twitch are different beast all together due to their costs. They also do revenue sharing for the content users provide, something reddit is not doing. > I feel like Reddit is getting attacked despite being the company that is
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by OGWhales 3y ago
Related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36301612
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by OGWhales 3y ago
I think you got the wrong impression from my comment. I’m not hand waving it at all, I’m highlighting how much of an issue it is in the US and how unlikely it is to change. This is an issue I’m pretty passionate about and while I’ve put a l
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by OGWhales 3y ago
It could be a coincidence, but I can reach new reddit not old.reddit
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by OGWhales 3y ago
The area was established prior to cars and was livable, but as it grew everything was designed with cars in mind and made it unlivable without them. So it’s not that cars made an unlivable place otherwise livable, it’s that cars made a liva
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by OGWhales 3y ago
Where I live currently, that’s simply infeasible. It’s a city, just very poor public transit and the city was designed without pedestrians or bikers in mind. I hope to move soon, and being able to walk/bike/take public transit is
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by OGWhales 3y ago
I find that people who fling around the term “basic economics” rarely have a good understanding of economics, usually basing their opinion on overly simplistic ideas that don’t reflect reality. Many of the things mentioned in the article, s
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by OGWhales 3y ago
> I certainly think "I'm routinely regarded as an a-hole because I act like one" to be much more plausible than "I'm routinely regarded as an a-hole because this giant social network has a metaphorical auto-immun
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by OGWhales 3y ago
I don’t think gaslighting is the right word, it’s speculation. In my experience on reddit, most of the time people heavily complain about how awful mods are it ends up being that person was actually just an asshole. I agree that mods can be
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by OGWhales 3y ago
While it’s not a 1:1 replacement, I have to agree this is the most likely alternative for niche communities to live. It’s already common for certain subreddits to have a discord server and direct users there.
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by OGWhales 3y ago
Semi-related rant titled “Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983”: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/927593460642615296 It’s about the way software is designed around having a mouse,
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by OGWhales 3y ago
> There’s no reason for $5/month to be what the average user pays. It’s for power users who spend way more time on the app. According to the Apollo dev, the average user would cost $2.50/month in API fees. I imagine power users

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