UncleMeat

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by UncleMeat 3mo ago
Where do you get this impression from? Faculty? Published research? My observation is that people working in the humanities have a deeper and wider reading list than at any point in prior history. If you are complaining about students then
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by UncleMeat 3mo ago
I'm very sorry but you are simply not going to convince me that "wow this entire national population is just plain worse than this other population and if we let them in it'll ruin our country" is meaningfully distinct h
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by UncleMeat 3mo ago
“These populations are simply worse people undeserving of any respect or kindness. Oh and they happen to have a consistent racial component.” George Wallace said this shit too.
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by UncleMeat 3mo ago
I don't recall her agitating for a race war online. Maybe I missed it. If the salutes were one weird thing it'd be one thing. But Musk spends all day online talking about how much better white society is than everything else and h
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by UncleMeat 3mo ago
If "eliminate all IP law" is your preference then that's fine but it isn't a reason to commit crimes while we have these laws.
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by UncleMeat 3mo ago
This is not how I want the world to be. "Wow, our state institutions are struggling in ways X, Y, and Z. Rather than addressing these problems we will shuffle them to an unaccountable third party that will provide a necessarily worse s
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by UncleMeat 3mo ago
Teaching children is not just about delivering facts to them. The challenge when teaching children is not "do you know the topics that you are teaching them." They challenge is in the pedagogical methods used to get them to learn.
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by UncleMeat 3mo ago
> Anyway no learning is needed for 4-9 year old education. Man, way to decide that the entire field of child pedagogy is just trash. I wonder what all of those people were researching all these years?
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by UncleMeat 3mo ago
There's a six month wait for me to see a pediatric gastroenterologist. Not even to get treatment. Just to see someone. Right here in the good ole USA.
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by UncleMeat 3mo ago
Doing that for a class of 30is already a huge chore. Now do a class of 150.
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by UncleMeat 3mo ago
A robot babysitter sounds like a suggestion made by somebody who doesn't have kids.
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by UncleMeat 3mo ago
> The USA has had an uninterrupted system of government since 1789. Sort of. We had a civil war. We had a second founding. Then we had violent overthrowing of the reconstruction governments in the south. It has been less than 100 years s
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
The true american dream. Generating as much money for shareholders as humanly possible and then going home to your rented apartment to be surveilled by AI companies finding ever more intrusive ways to shove ads in your face.
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
The financialization of the US economy is well documented. A huge amount of labor is going not into creating something of value for the public but instead to moving money around more cleverly than other people so you can extract some of it
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
Did Clinton claim that she actually won?
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
Don't worry. If the lawyers prosecuting you illegally point out your silence as suspicious to the jury, the supreme court can just decide that actually this didn't impact the jury enough so your conviction stands. Great country we
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
Why would Musk be stuck babysitting PayPal? He would have earned money while laboring there. He can choose to do something different if he wants to, just like anybody else with a job.
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
Of course there are side effects. The question is whether those side effects are worth the benefits we'd get. Millions dead every year from TB. A curable disease.
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
I don’t find “we need billionaires because 401ks” to be a compelling argument. We can build a different system. AOC’s criticism is that “own stock, share in gains” is not the same as earning money.
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
It is factual that ownership continues to pay after you are no longer laboring. My position is that this is not a good thing.
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
Solve? Likely not. Improve? Of course. Policies that improve the state of problems even if they remain unsolved are good. More than one million people die of TB annually. We have a cure for it. Elon Musk could pay for testing and treatment
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
I have never met a founder who was motivated, even in part, by the possibility of being a mega billionaire.
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
You can believe that’s fair. I don’t. I don’t believe that one party needs to be at fault for an economic transaction to be unfair. I live in a country where “oopsy doopsy your insurance denied this so now you owe us 20,000” isn’t terribly
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
Most people need money to eat. I don't know if you can ever really have a fair negotiation with an employer when "the rent is due" is involved. You know those companies that buy settlements from people in exchange for a fract
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
Bill Gates' wealth grew much more after he left Microsoft than while he was CEO. Was that wealth earned through innovation? No. He simply owned something that became more valuable as other people labored to innovate.
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
Compound growth is also the exact thing that is being criticized here. Your wealth grows simply by virtue of ownership . No labor needs to be performed. When somebody says that you can't earn a billion dollars they are the same thing
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
Used a ton of his money to get republicans elected so that he could get an illegal position within the government to illegally cut oodles of programs leading to the unnecessary deaths of a huge number of people? Posts online advocating for
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
I don't believe that it does. Billionaires and even millionaires don't typically have that amount in a bank account. People understand this.
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
So? Imagine he sells all his ownership and this tanks the value of his companies by 90%. Oh no. He only has $100,000,000,000 in the bank. Enough to be ludicrously rich a thousand times over. I have never once understood this "oh it is
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by UncleMeat 4mo ago
If they are useful for humanoid robots, why aren't they useful for self driving cars, which are just robots of a different shape?

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