Swenrekcah

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by Swenrekcah 10mo ago
Wait do people put their groceries they intend to eat on the bed of their trucks, exposed to exhaust, asphalt, tire rubber and all other forms of road pollution?
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by Swenrekcah 10mo ago
That is true and we have certainly seen our fair share of that. Adults are however also better equipped to deal with that, especially if they have not been subjected to such abuse as children. It is worth noting that online bullying is howe
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by Swenrekcah 10mo ago
True, I didn’t mean it was routine but it was somewhat normal. I just wanted to show the incredible range of professional behaviour that has disappeared.
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by Swenrekcah 10mo ago
This is demonstrably false. Previous administrations have not. It used to be normal to do things like keeping cabinet members appointed by their opponents or not put up a mocking picture of your predecessor in the white house.
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by Swenrekcah 10mo ago
That is true. The ubiquitous mobile internet and social media I should have said.
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by Swenrekcah 10mo ago
Bullying is not new and was performed via sms before the internet. Social media however allows for easier targeting especially for bad actors that are not in the kid’s friend/acquaintance group.
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by Swenrekcah 11mo ago
Those are real words, that’s true. The following however is anywhere from not true to wild speculation without any factual basis. >Global responsibility sounds like the direct opposite of self-determination. >Some United Nations NGO b
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by Swenrekcah 11mo ago
The problem is that almost everyone is now expected to get a degree which necessarily devalues the whole thing. It is now necessary to get a doctorate if you want to really signal academic prowess, but that comes with an incredibly high opp
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by Swenrekcah 11mo ago
There should absolutely be a minimum and maximum age. Preferably an IQ test as well. Between 35-60 at start of term, IQ above 130.
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by Swenrekcah 11mo ago
Corporations are not people. This is not different rules for different people. In the traditionally implied sense of different rules for different social classes.
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by Swenrekcah 11mo ago
Not different rules for different people. You would be subject to one rule for your small company and another rule as it grows. This is everywhere in society, from expectation difference between babies, kids, teenagers, adults and seniors a
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by Swenrekcah 11mo ago
I think we probably need to go the other way, a comment or article needs a ‘faceId’ check before submission to get human stamp. Of course that brings a whole another set of problems.
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by Swenrekcah 11mo ago
I get your point, I believe I acknowledged the usefulness of financial instruments. Nevertheless it is not exactly the same. A carpenter’s apprentice is useful only when paired with his master. He facilitates the carpenter in his value cre
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by Swenrekcah 11mo ago
I agree that banks and many financial instruments are valuable and do facilitate value creation in the world. But that is the extent of it, they facilitate others to create value but do not make any on their own. They are however very well
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by Swenrekcah 11mo ago
These entities facilitate value creation yes, but they do not create much value and certainly not in proportion to the profits they extract. I have met people who sincerely seem to believe that if an entity makes money then it must be socie
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
> Every US president in history has left office peacefully, Every president except the currently sitting one. Yes, past behaviour is often a good predictor for future behaviour.
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
I think this is a different type of trust. SpaceX had to prove their competence to be trusted for US government contracts (and other customers). They did that and I would trust their technical competence. However, after the events of the pa
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
Ok guy.
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
Well I don’t live in the US, maybe there are only cynical people there. Somehow I doubt that though. Also remember that “best interests of the corporation” doesn’t necessarily mean get money now and lose reputation for a long time. Some pe
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
Clearly I did not say that. I also honestly don’t see the point you are trying to make, can you clarify?
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
This sentiment is just simply not true. People care about more than money, even people who run companies.
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
You raise a valid point, the resources we will have to put towards climate mitigation and dealing with extreme events will be a drain on productivity in other areas. However I think that will mostly be the case for “real” technology, I thin
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
The purpose was to get in a position to gut institutions that were investing his financial and other shenanigans in order to make them disappear. I believe he succeeded in that.
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
Not every generator needs to be always on, but the generation needs to be relatively independent of external conditions, especially when there might be correlation between high usage at disadvantageous external conditions (for example it’s
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
> In private organisations you get competent shouty people at the top insisting on a job done right. In government you get incompetent shouty people insisting that the job gets done wrong. Great post and story but this conclusion is ques
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
I won’t argue with your lived experience but this would make you an extreme outlier. About 20 years ago, every teenager in the world who had a mobile phone was able to select a contact from their phonebook and type an entire message and sen
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
My sympathies are with all the civilian population in the area. By your own logic here, you would suggest that the people killed in the heinous terrorist attack in october 2023 were killed because they did not stop being violent? Of course
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
It really does not seem like this is the actual view of those in control of Israel.
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
>like all other peoples, have an intrinsic human right to self-determination and a state to call their own, and should not live as second class citizens at the whim of the states in which they reside. All other people except Palestinians
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
The algorithmic feed should be banned for all public discourse. That is what’s killing us (quite literally). Let topics be searchable and people should find what they need. Very simple algorithms such as “most recent conversation” may be al

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