SerLava

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by SerLava 7y ago
Special economic zones like the UAE?
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Unless they're paid in scrip, which you know they would be
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Holy Christ. Do you understand that if these types of fiefdoms are built, they will be able to attract people with misleading claims or by dangling short-term economic relief in front of desperate people who they can then ruthlessly victimi
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The Democracy Index rankings are non-transparent measures by a less than objective organization that places significant weight on a country's openness to multinational corporations. Singapore specifically is an example people use to il
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The unaccountable billionaire rulers of the oceanic fief who went to incredible expense for the sole purpose of escaping democratic accountability.
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This is kind of the worst part- that they lack the historical literacy to recognize that they wouldn't even be the first. And they'll just dive headlong into it.
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I promise I will do that for you if you tell me you are having trouble differentiating between an organization physically capturing you and locking you in a box, versus an organization deciding which brand of mayonnaise they will bring to y
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by SerLava 7y ago
OK now Sea Citizen, you haven't been hitting your production targets... This is the third month you've failed to qualify for the monthly "bonus" scrip. After rent and commissary, I'm afraid that puts you in the red.
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>We all choose to spend time here anyway, because he does a good job responding to our needs. >A lot of things work this way, in fact. When you go to a restaurant, you don't get to vote on the menu. You order what's there. T
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Isn't this the plot of BioShock? If this sounds like a dorky joke post, it's not. Isn't this literally motivated by the same neo-fuedal oligarchical narcissism that made the bad guy in BioShock build essentially the same thin
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>But there's a large segment of homeless people who choose to be homeless or So people sitting in $900,000 homes are saying you know what? I'm gonna live in a tent under a bridge. Is that what they are doing
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That is a very, very broad piece of data that could just as easily be found with a simple survey or by buying the flat statistics from ISPs.
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Yeah Morales was just about to give the profits from their lithium supplies to social programs etc. and suddenly he's sleeping outside.
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Isn't that a causal chain...?
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I mean, if you hired them to trim specific trees for other people... every day... for years...
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For adult cats, you might want to also support their weight instead of holding them up just by the scruff. It definitely works though.
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The people here aren't talking about finding a meme that contains words in their search. Reddit is simply the largest site that disincentivises content-for-contents sake. When you find someone asking a complex question, the person answ
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If your company can't replace a doorknob in a decade, destroy that company. It has no value.
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Yeah, it seems like the VP's choices were A) risk IT security or B) guarantee total personal career failure Having the resources to install a CRM for someone this year is a fundamental part of any properly equipped IT department. Can
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>Useful inventions don't need advertising to spread. This is a common superstition, like faeries or psychic powers. >Are we really happier than hunters and gatherers Are you talking about the people who had like a 40% murder rate
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No. I'm specifically saying that "numerologists believe in numerology" is equivalent to "climate scientists believe climate exists"
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No, the equivalent to your example would be "97% of climate scientists believe that climate exists" It's also not an appeal to authority fallacy to say that the only people who bothered to check something have a certain opini
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If your position here is that invention itself has created negative value overall, we really can't have any conversation about the world. I mean,
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Wow that explanation of luxury car ads kinda blew my mind there. I'm going to be looking for that pattern everywhere now.
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Imagine that almost everything made by a new company never existed. That would be a problem. Groups of people who make things that only benefit themselves generally aren't called businesses. The poster above explained that the new prod
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Generally yes, I prefer titles that are descriptive rather than "this is a clever title and you'll find out why later"
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It's not really a fact though- it's a framework for understanding engagement, and it's a trash framework. It's used my the laziest shills to place blame for their shit content on some notion of public stupidity.
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I don't like the idea of attention span in the context of media consumption. It presupposes that the producer has some kind of right to everyone else's attention just because they made something. If you're not going to help f
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That last one seems to be going the other way.
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No yang bucks. Better wages, publicly funded health care, no more war grift without an actually good reason. I dont understand why Americans lack this magic spell you're talking about, meanwhile Harry Potter is running around Europe ha

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