asu_thomas

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by asu_thomas 3y ago
1. Of course. 2. A stable climate is a ridiculously hopeless pipe dream in a world dominated by the capitalist mode of production. The anti climate change industry is a fraud by definition.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
That doesn't sound profitable to me.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
> Apparently this stuff has matured a lot in the last 10 years Matured is not the word I would choose.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
> To me it looks like we need to win the decarbonization game to maintain a stable climate. Given your salary depends on it, I am hardly surprised.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
You have to end capitalism, and anybody taking this stuff seriously knows that, and they knew carbon offset nonsense was fraudulent the entire time. It was painfully obvious. So what's next? Another fraudulent scheme, because the only
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
That is so incredibly naive. When you and your family is distracted with trauma and turmoil at every turn, there is no precedent for curiosity about anything except how to survive the current state of affairs. This is extremely basic stuff.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
> The West and much of the rest of the world have built societies with few strong kinship bonds. Lies. The West had boundless kinship bonds as deep as they were wide, in fairly recent memory. The West brazenly wrecked them in the name
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
This should be news to exactly nobody.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
No, it's for the sacred profit motive. What are you? A communist?
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
You are either being dishonest or you're in for a major disappointment. There's a lot more involved in that "opportunity" than a mechanism for low cost feedback. One's material circumstances predominates their abili
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
HN is full of propagandized technologists who have yet to realize how few of the world's problems are technical, and how approximately all of them are political. I'm sure there are better essays with similar value, but the one tha
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
> But, like in most big organizations, I suspect the web people and the company data people don't talk to one another. Sounds like you're trying to assume good intentions, but you sound extremely naive as a result. The issue
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
People do like that software but nobody wants to work on an iPad. They would much prefer use it with a Wacom or Xenselabs device.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Once they lose control by selling 80% to the employees, they no longer have that power though, right?
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Procreate is iPad-only. Nobody uses iPads because they like iPads. They just like that one software. They would much prefer use it on a Wacom or Xenselabs device, though.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
In those worst cases, workers are almost always still better off with the union deal.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Some unions are better than others, but all unions are democratic (at least to some degree) and engaged members can improve them.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
This article is about 20 times as long as it should be.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
This is why I can't see myself buying skiplag tickets.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
> Labor has _always_ been a liability for rich amoral capitalists Just capitalists. It doesn't matter how rich or amoral they are.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
> Unions have arguably been good for straight white native born men. Everyone else who has had to pay higher prices or has had to deal with worse products and services has lost out. I criticize unions all the time, but your comment is
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Having worked in many graphics roles for 20 years, I have never heard of a professional wanting to use an iPad for their work, yet this thread is full of people claiming the iPad is some artist dream tool. It is not even close to true.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
> Those business owners are also being exploited by larger businesses They aren't being "exploited." If they need so desperately to exploit workers, they can and should just go out of business instead. It's that sim
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
There is no moral rationale for either side, only a conflict between classes.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
I recently started doing more party drugs as a replacement for dating women. Dating in 2023 is just an absolutely miserable experience and party drugs are not, so I setup fun party plans instead of dates now. I've been on enough dates
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Wikipedia has long had the same thing. It's called 'What links here'
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
> one cannot deny some level of true popular will I have never even heard anyone suggest such a thing. Whether a fringe grassroots privacy politics effort existed in Sweden at the time is not up for debate. It absolutely did, but it wa
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Small businesses use this kind of advertising as much or more, proportionally speaking, as corporations. And with a virtual guarantee of worse data security/privacy practices when applicable.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
> If you use the internet, or an app, you must protect yourself. As in "choose a strong password"? As in "never accept a terms of service agreement you disagree with"? As in "read all code before running it&quo
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Why would it? The EU is just protecting its own member states' IT industries and its own interest in undermining encrypted communications.

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