Wiseacre

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by Wiseacre 5y ago
Yes but this way you only need to keep track of one lie instead of a bunch of lies, like the kind of covid test you took or when you took the test. More mental load to remember falsehoods than to remember truths. Or so I've heard.
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
Are adults who slack off on the clock lie-cheat-steal machines? It seems like adults are far worse and do it far more frequently than teens then.
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
Yes, but health care costs and the housing crisis do not affect the wealthy so why would they care/panic?
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
Wait until the cars are required to drive you to the police station when you are accused of a crime....
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
Are you selling kits? I would like information on buying one.
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
Legalized gay marriage was also called a fantasy by critics when it was proposed.
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
The assassinations in the 60s serve as examples.
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
That's happened to me twice in the past week. Time to re-read it.
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
Are you not also the foreigner pushing out locals? Couldn't you have that sense of community back where you moved from?
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
You may notice the people who say that are hypocrites who believe their existence is legitimate and worthy of defending. Hint: they don't actually believe that.
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
With that logic we would all still be living on the same continent and would never have spread across the Earth to begin with.
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
It's not a rare phenomenon across the industry. Plenty of my colleagues and I have experienced something similar.
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
Sign of a wider lack of trust between employer and employee. Yet the idea of unionization is still very unpopular.
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
Does anyone else get the feeling that HN readership is far too biased from sci-fi? With that logic, no country would have ever let explorers leave their country to begin with.
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
I brought up Facebook because they own Instagram, but yes this applies to Twitter and TikTok.
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
Facebook doesn't seem to care about deepfakes on Instagram since they promote "engagement". I can't say I have too much advice other than to always use strong passwords, don't share passwords across sites, use VPNs
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
A better title: the cut throat lifestyle of needing to plan our (social) lives around work is failing mostly everyone.
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by Wiseacre 5y ago
Is that really the wrong light? If anything, spending 30 hours a week with coworkers instead of 40+ would allow you to build actual relationships with real life friends instead of relying on your work to be your social life too.