artsytrashcan

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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
I prefer to see Mark Mothersbaugh's being known primarily as "The Rugrats Guy" to most Millennials as something akin to karmic justice for his antics. See also his weirdly derogatory comments about disco.
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
What no one wants to face is the possibility that the tech industry was increasingly becoming a jobs program for otherwise unemployable (at least, wrt the income they wanted/required to live a middle class, financially-independent life
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by artsytrashcan 3y ago
Marks another tally under, "Things I've Seen This Week That Make Me Increasingly Wary of an LLM-Based Society". Man, it would suck if we built important infrastructure on non-auditable systems that were themselves built on
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
You will notice that much of the de-facto mission of government for the past ~50 years has been to replace a given institutional function, for which there is a clear and attainable path to effective implementation for the good of the public
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
> I have no interest in those taxes being wasted. Welfare spending is the least of your concerns, then. >it is not actually destroying healthcare. I didn't say it would. "Healthcare" is not the same as "the healthc
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
It's an issue because it misrepresents the rate at which property crimes actually precede or are coincident with violent crime. It also belies the reality that attempting to protect valuables is likelier than alternative action to turn
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
You could say the same about the US healthcare industry as it currently exists. Or the illegal drug trade. Or slavery, as it used to. Perhaps the costs of allowing a deleterious institution to continue existing dwarf the costs of reforming
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
Yes, that's what I said.
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
Acknowledging the sophistication of your argument, I just want to point out that it can be summarized as, "This is hard because we'd have to correct our mistakes and do the right thing." I suppose my holding wasn't neces
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
You asked me to compare my life to any human in 1973. I chose someone like me. Same identity, same geographic location, different time. Less than 5 years after the assassination of MLK and the Stonewall riots, that person would have been si
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
>(Because organized crime fits in its niche, and doesn't want to give it up. And it'd require changes of federal law to move it.) This is an interesting wrinkle. I would hope that addressing the corruption that enables NIMBYism
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
The vast majority of the net value present in my life compared to a like individual from 50 years ago is attributable to 1) gay and black civil rights advocates, 2) university researchers, and 3) Japanese and Chinese/Taiwanese manufact
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
"Value."
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
Singapore has perhaps the world's most robust and citizen-accessible public housing system, which enforces not only class but also racial diversity in placement. >I don’t understand how one could care so much about protecting danger
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
That was the company line. Ken Griffin aiming for a cabinet post with DeSantis so that he can divest without paying capital gains taxes is also a likely factor. https://youtu.be/kiMTRQXBol0?t=4754
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
I will fill in the vagueness of your "vote different" statement with specifics of my own: progressive, redistributive policies that radically reduce inequality and that gives a controlling portion of the influence that currently s
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
Why is it demeaning? It's the truth. The pilot is black and one of the mission specialists is a woman, within the context of an institution that hasn't historically had a lot of those on historic missions. That it's notable e
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
The social significance of art has endured in disparate cultures and through hundreds of years of economic transition, and has managed to recover its footing in the cases that it has slipped; it's not at risk. I could not give less of
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by artsytrashcan 4y ago
"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth." To expand: no side is without sin in this. The art community has inclusiveness problems of its own, and you'll find that many of the loudest