Pfhreak

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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Your main character says not all cops are bastards. Strong punk energy. eyeroll It's extremely a game that is pastiche of cyberpunk, diving neither into the cyber nor punk beyond skinning things. Where's the Ghost in the Shell e
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> For me this is the single factor which has lead to so many of the problems inherent in the game. This is absolutely not the case. The game was in dire straights long before Covid. (When did Poland lockdown?) It's not clear to me t
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Oh, I see the point you are raising. Yes, if your reason for educating and empowering women is so they will have fewer children (statistically) then yeah, definitely need to questioned.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Isn't that just straight up copyright infringement? I understand that it's common in developer tooling to pick a character and use them as a logo, but it seems like a bold move to do that with some sort of external tooling at Mozi
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
One uses coerced sterilizations and the other is about raising the level of education of half the population? It should be pretty clear why improving education is not a yikes while eugenics is.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
There's a lot of history there, unfortunately. The US medical establishment has a long track record of experimenting on Black people -- from performing experimental surgery (without anesthetic) on slaves to infecting Black US soldiers
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'm not sure you are describing the situation here. What other things did these workers try? What other avenues were available to them? (Also, destroying corporate property is not violence.)
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Depends on your model of capital flow. One reasonable answer would be the factory owners or investors. Another reasonable answer is that the workers did, because their work led enabled the factory to succeed.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Your statement is ambiguous. I assume you mean the exploitation of these workers (by continuing to reduce their wages) is not a good look?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
There's an interesting parallel to the Luddites here, who smashed looms. The Luddites were not, as is commonly misunderstood, anti technology. They were a well trained workforce who disagreed with the idea that improvements in technolo
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Your concern here is, "what worries me here is what if exploited workers stood up for themselves?" Not the slowing global economy. Not the exploitation of thousands of workers. Not the realization that the products we rely on are
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'm really curious if the management/owners also took a fifty percent cut in comp.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
21k to 12k is much more than a ten percent drop.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I believe that they manufactured the rna without access to the virus, just the genome. I am not qualified to answer whether the spike protein is identical to the one in the virus, but from what I understand it is very close. The protein jus
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Not 'I suppose', it's literally a store. It has its own payment processing, inventory, storefront, brands, etc.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Most of us enjoy going to a thing called a "store" where there are usually a variety of options to choose from, where one can easily compare side by side from different manufacturers.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Recently? No, services have always been at risk for out groups. It was only a few decades ago that minority and lgbtq folks could lose access to services. Except now it's not normal people, it's hate groups that are being pushed o
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Anyone? Yes. There's billions of people out there. If the government says it's good to go, some folks will absolutely take that at face value.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
What's with the title?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The messaging thus far has been, "it's perfectly safe and highly effective." So it's quite important to share this info now. Also, what do you mean by 'untested and unnecessary'?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Night watchmen aren't police. Personally, I believe it's dangerous to conflate the two -- modern police departments are very, very different than the more community organized (or elected) folks who watched over small towns. Organi
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Night watches, tithings, posses, militias, and sheriffs are not the same thing as police departments. And even still, the vast majority of night watches were privately funded in America.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Sorry, I was a bit vague. Yes, obviously law enforcement has existed for centuries. Uniformed police departments have not. Especially in the United States, where police violence is especially bad. (I had sort of implied this with the North&
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Surprised to see your downvotes. The police were literally started in the late 1800s to protect capital and share the responsibility of cost across all people. (In the South, they were tightly related to patrolling for slaves, in the north
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> I think the thing is if you remembered to bring your own straws you would just bring your own drink. Unless getting the drink was the point (e.g. going out for a milkshake or Starbucks). Or you didn't want to haul a big ol' d
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
As someone who has never gone out their way to pick up plastic straws anywhere, but is generally and vaguely aware of the damage they cause, I too would support a general ban on single use plastics.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I think that maybe I'm too much of a leftist to think that Biden will accomplish any meaningful change. Plenty of exploratory committees, investigations, and deep dives. But fundamentally, I don't expect him to do much beyond main
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It really depends on the local conditions. A log on the surface, in an area with things that will eat it (e.g. fungi, bacteria, termites, and other decomposers) will fairly readily give up its carbon. If it gets covered, and spends time in
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Staircases often become choked with smoke. You have minutes, perhaps, before you are are risk for hypoxia and smoke inhalation. Opening fire doors can undermine the safety of others if they don't get closed properly (or if you allow sm
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Highly recommend checking out "Well There's Your Problem" which is a podcast/YouTube series on engineering disasters. They have an episode on Grenfell, specifically, and give some engineering details on how the fire got

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