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by archhn 5y ago
Any bureaucratic environment turns people into antisocial psychopaths. Too many rules and too much competition. Every single thing, no matter how small, like a policy about removing Keurig pods from the machine after using it, becomes fodde
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by archhn 5y ago
Great comment. You get what I'm saying. > What's wrong with women being more submissive and less independent? The real problem with this, as the social engineers running this country see it, is that less independent women = hig
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by archhn 5y ago
Am I wrong? Are women not the more submissive sex? Is it not generally accepted that men are more independent than women? What's your argument against what I said?
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by archhn 5y ago
Seriously. I mean, it wasn't great, but men had dignity. There's no dignity in getting nuked or mowed down by a machine gun.
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by archhn 5y ago
I basically said women thrive in different environments than men, and that our current society is better suited for women. I'll admit that I could have phrased my argument more politely. I could have couched it in all sorts of diplomat
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by archhn 5y ago
Nope, it didn't. You're straight up lying.
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by archhn 5y ago
Calling people mentally ill because they have a different worldview than you do is not healthy.
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by archhn 5y ago
Detain me for dissent? What is so shocking about my comment? Look at the suicide rates. It's highest for middle aged white men. What's going on? And why are you so hostile to dissenting opinions? Edit: my account seems to have bee
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by archhn 5y ago
The arrow of time only goes one way. We can't go back now.
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by archhn 5y ago
The idea of corporations dominating the internet is not nebulous at all. Things used to be more ad hoc. People would create their own websites from scratch. There was less centralization. Every website wasn't a boostrap clone. The purs
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by archhn 5y ago
The internet was a magical place back in the day. We were all super excited to contribute to something so transformative. I remember my father excitedly putting up his 3d gifs on his GeoCites page. Then the corporations came with their legi
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by archhn 5y ago
HN posters are mostly corporate workers, or institutionalized in some way. The individual is always wrong in their eyes, institutions are always right. If an individual goes broke wracking up medical debt, "Too bad. You should have bee
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by archhn 5y ago
Some people have no control over their environment. Suddenly getting laid off isn't a mark of "dishonesty." It is offensive when "unforeseen circumstances" is casted as "dishonesty." This kind of thing is
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by archhn 5y ago
It's the "thrift" argument all over again. You're projecting systematic economic problems onto the poor. Wages have been stagnant for many years. Inflation and cost of living is rising incredibly. Can we at least make th
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by archhn 5y ago
Such reports say nothing about circumstances. It has nothing to do with your "trustworthiness." It typically reflects economic precariousness. Did you not pay because you lost your job? Or maybe you incurred a huge medical bill wh
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by archhn 5y ago
You built something that competes with doctors, not compliments them. If the medical industry was unregulated, you could pair this with a prescription service and make an automated online doctor's office. You're unfortunately deal
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by archhn 5y ago
Yeah, that doesn't sound healthy. They are cheery when angry? Sounds psychopathic.
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by archhn 5y ago
These chain restaurants have always freaked me out. I know most of the people working there are at the bottom of the barrel, but their job forces them to feign a cheery demeanor. It's like underclass hell--imo.
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by archhn 5y ago
Have you ever read "Brave New World?" Happiness and all the sundry delusions you mentioned are not good metrics. The fact of the matter is that most people have less control over their lives than ever before. Gigantic entities hav
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by archhn 5y ago
Pessimists in the sense of complacency? Like, "Oh, things are great as they are. We don't need to change anything. Everything should stay precisely as it is because the status quo os the image of right."?
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by archhn 5y ago
Excellent description of what's happening. Just look at all the mentally crippled people who resort to psychoactive drugs in order to quell the raging dissonance within them. They know something is wrong, but they've been conditio
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by archhn 5y ago
There are essentially two mentalities I've observed in people around me. 1. The Optimist. Believes they live in "the best of all worlds" and everything always works out for the best--Voltare satirizes this idealism in Candide
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by archhn 5y ago
I'm inclined to use the word "terrifying." Some people I know call me "crazy" every time I take a position which contradicts MSM. They fully believe that the T.V. is giving them the unadulterated truth of all matter
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by archhn 5y ago
Without an avenue of recourse, people tune out. Eliminate choice and you eliminate thought. Honestly, it has been this way in US politics for a long time. The government is always doing crazy scandalous things, but most people are busy with
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by archhn 5y ago
Nope. Usually people take it and take it until they can't take it anymore and go berserk.
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by archhn 5y ago
Probably due to bureaucratic overhead. Everything needs to pass through ten layers of approval and every bureaucrat plays power politics the whole time. I was once involved in a small city project, and the town liaison treated the project l
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by archhn 5y ago
There's always some truth behind genuine expression, even it happens to be riddled with lies.
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by archhn 5y ago
The site is an advertisement for his books. I think he's just old fashioned and believes learning from physical paper books is superior. He even has a link at the bottom of his site that says "Paper book lovers."
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I like it. The author is being real. This is what he sincerely thinks. You don't have to agree with everything an author says. I for one appreciate the candor. It's also a proven fact that many smartphone applications are effectiv
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by archhn 5y ago
"Putin's Oligarchs" ... as if a man from a working class family rose to power without the consent of Russia's oligarchy. Why does western media always obsessively focus on the front man?

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