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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Of course you're aware that the "working class," as you've defined it so well, has pretty definitively abandoned the Democratic party.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Someone today talked about "artful ambiguity" in reference to Marxism (for the Logistics movie). If capital-exploits-workers is what you believe in, then you will see it everywhere. But it's thin and unsatisfying gruel. Life
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
> we see that Severance is really a show about work under capitalism, exploring issues such as the role of uncompensated reproductive labour, the right (or lack thereof) to refuse work, the concept of work-life balance and employee surve
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
No, you don't. You need an Apple account .
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Over and above hypotheticals about "they know each other from school" or "it affects the learning environment": School administrations should have less power than they have now, rather than more. If you let them be res
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
> I’m sure you’ll find a way to disqualify me No. You've got skin in the game. Calm down.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Most of the comments objecting to this are along the lines of "yes, it did happen!" No one's saying it didn't. The question is "what were your chances of it happening to you , if you committed some crime?"
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
> It is not misused in the slightest, particularly where animals are concerned Mandatory disclaimer: I'm not, in any way, shape, or form defending mistreatment of animals or humans, in this era or any other. With that out of the way
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
> harm to humans and animals was commonplace Again, "commonplace" is kinda misused here. You can find examples of cruelty in the historical record, not so many of the opposite. Because no one kept statistics.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Well, ok. If direct evidence is what you want, cosmology is generally lacking in that. We're here, now, and nothing is going to change that.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
> if not a person with a masters degree in this topic, then who on earth can weigh in with an opinion do you think? Who on earth? Someone with skin in the game -- someone who actually makes business decisions about shipping and manufactu
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
No doubt. You must have global companies calling you all the time, seeking to hire you for your expertise. Why not work for one and apply it?
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Yes. Something I read once stuck with me: Simple minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds, in the commonplace.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I'm ready for the article that unearths the actual statistics, not the grim examples. Similar to Steven Pinker's deep research on the actual prevalence of violence in medieval times vs. modern times. Like, I wonder how often in da
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Maybe they're humans with agency? Just a thought.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Well, sorry, then you're certainly qualified to reorganize the whole world's economy.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
> a global supply chain where one isn’t needed in most cases. And you say this from your vast expertise in global economics? Things evolved this way because a whole globe full of individual actors thought they made sense, based on prices
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
One could, if "one" were an intellectual who thought himself qualified to question everything, because reasons. Someone wants a pedometer, and magically, or not so magically, one appears on a shelf near them, or on their doorstep.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
> However, if Logistics showed me anything, it’s that time belongs to the working people of this world, when we can find ways to take it. So deep. So profound. > Logistics is the filmic annihilation of capitalist relations to time by
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I don't have the scientific background to really argue with you on this; I'm just an enthusiastic amateur. That said: Big Bang does explain an awful lot of stuff. I'm not sure what JWST observations you say call it into quest
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I'm mostly staying out of this, but I can't resist this one: Please don't ever use a Rotten Tomatoes score as "proving" anything. People are entitled to their opinions, and Rotten Tomatoes is just an average of a bu
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
At first blush, this reminds me of the phenomena where, every time some problem with evolution comes up (a missing piece in the fossil record, say), the creationists pop up with "See! Darwin was wrong!" arxiv would be completely r
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Not for the US to decide. They have a bit of history there.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
OK. I've forgotten most of it, except for the, umm, "memorable" scenes.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
+1 on the Hollywood trashing. Whether something is a "good story" is hard to be objective about. It depends heavily on whether the actors sell it or not. Why do you say Slumdog is a poor story? "Poor boy makes good" is t
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Not being from the UK: It's not really pointless. Scotland is way different from England, and I haven't been to Wales but I think that is, too. As for Northern Ireland: I don't even need to cover that one.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
It would probably be a flop in India, but I'm not the best person to judge that. I think depictions of the US in overseas movies are pretty much as silly as that, though. Everything takes place in very rich or very poor parts of NYC or
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
There is an unfortunate effect that that kind of success record produces: The judge figures that you must be guilty, or they wouldn't be charging you. There's an old baseball story, where Rogers Hornsby (one of the greatest hitt
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I haven't actually been to India, but I'm reliably informed that there IS some poverty there. Is that incorrect?
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Poor boys from India game a system that was set up by Rich Tech Bros in Silicon Valley to fund their "family foundations" and 20-room houses in Atherton? I don't call it Outrage; I call it "Slumdog Millionaire: Part II&q

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