WesternWind

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by WesternWind 5y ago
They could have offered money instead of vouchers too.
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by WesternWind 5y ago
by refusing to get vaccinated, wear masks, get tested, or otherwise take steps to prevent the spread of a virus during a pandemic.
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by WesternWind 5y ago
That's absolutely fair; I was overly harsh and blamed journalists instead of editors and owners. I'm sorry. I also believe journalists, like a lot of middle class folks squeezed by changes in the economy, should be paid and funded
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by WesternWind 5y ago
It seems like many journalists are failing in their primary responsibilities to keep the public informed. Fact checking liars or misleading statements is tedious, and some politicians lie or mislead. Journalists should be doing investigatio
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by WesternWind 5y ago
And Chinese politics seems to be even more difficult to talk about than Europe, and that's not even accounting for the fact it doesn't have democratic elections and has a one party system. From the little I understand, it's c
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by WesternWind 5y ago
There is no general idea of conservatism though. What's conservative in China, or Germany, or the US, it's radically different. There are only specific cultural understandings, each of which almost always map poorly when applied c
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by WesternWind 5y ago
In a thread on about a chinese vlogger and techie, in a comment about a german company, maybe your perspective could be a bit more cosmopolitan?
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by WesternWind 5y ago
I mean if they are trying to make someone else like me wear formal clothes, yeah I wouldn't take them seriously. I wouldn't work for a company which polices what I decide to wear like that. But if an individual just wear one them
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by WesternWind 5y ago
If you have the skills, it generally shouldn't matter what clothes you wear. Even if you don't have the skills, it generally shouldn't matter what clothes you wear. Like don't strap knives to your arms, and do wear a goo
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by WesternWind 5y ago
The window of time of slack eventually occluding stuff is actually one of the semi useful features of the free version.
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by WesternWind 5y ago
That's probably IOS safari
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by WesternWind 5y ago
You might enjoy solarpunk then. It's basically sci-fi about working for a better brighter future more beautiful future where human agency matters.
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by WesternWind 5y ago
I mean apparently Wilson suggested at one point that because eusocial insects exist where some insects serve others, slavery among humans is natural? Which ignores a huge amount of differences. To pick one eusocial insects of the same speci
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by WesternWind 5y ago
I mean a significant portion of the world's money is created by fractional reserve banking.
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by WesternWind 5y ago
Seems like a prime candidate for a linter to warn about, optionally.