badcede

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by badcede 8y ago
Journalists don't speak truth to power. They write down what people in power say. If they don't, they get fired.
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by badcede 8y ago
No way! That's the New York Times' keystone problem as well!
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by badcede 8y ago
Because it feels bad to concede anything at all. Which is a form of greed in its own right.
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by badcede 8y ago
You can grow intellectually anywhere.
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by badcede 8y ago
Cognitive dissonance explains it. I don't have a billion dollars. Is there something wrong with me? No, the billionaire is evil.
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by badcede 8y ago
The sour grapes are strong with the rest.
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by badcede 8y ago
Defecating in public was not cool. Even GG Allin at his peak was eww.
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by badcede 8y ago
A better story is better marketing.
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by badcede 8y ago
This punishment preoccupation sounds pretty hatey to me.
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by badcede 8y ago
"SpaceX announces plan"
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by badcede 8y ago
Spoken like a chosen breed.
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by badcede 8y ago
Heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKW7JkHKm8
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by badcede 8y ago
Almost nothing from 50 years ago is even remembered, let alone still read, let alone as fresh as Orwell. You make the same point by giving him Aristophanes for company.
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by badcede 8y ago
For children, it's always about what the parents want. Children will do anything for their parents. Kids don't put themselves in news articles. It's the parents who do it, but they always say the child spontaneously behaved t
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by badcede 8y ago
The moon thing was a cold war narrative.
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by badcede 8y ago
They're not more prevalent in SV. What's more prevalent are activists who insist that it is and have made it socially costly to contradict them.
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by badcede 8y ago
I believe that was Anatole's point.
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by badcede 8y ago
Parents can love their kids without being their buddy. In fact, the buddy thing often comes from the parent's own unmet need for connection, and that's stressful for the kid. Parents and children are not peers.
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by badcede 8y ago
Politics does not pervade every single interaction. Humans also love.
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No government is "trustworthy". Singling out the one you don't like seems dodgy.
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by badcede 8y ago
>Sounds all fine and dandy until you realize that these charges will just be made up for by people that aren't able to get NPR to publish a story about them. Sounds a bit like getting support from Google.
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“All it takes is one person being like, ‘Oh not all police are bad,’ and it can get very bad,” she said.
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by badcede 8y ago
It's status signaling, a way of saying that you're better than other people. Same as acting superior to the masses who like a popular band.
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by badcede 8y ago
"Glad to be able to upvote an article like this." "The prevalence of articles about things that aren't software or hardware hacking" "tragic"
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by badcede 8y ago
"Raise doubts" is a bit stingy. Here is what one of the allegedly-harrassed women had to say (in the Paste article): “These claims that Matt would do this stuff are ridiculous,” she said. “I left The eXile because we started dati
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by badcede 8y ago
That's consistent with the children being phobic.
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People with "affected" social skills are not likely to be conscious of how their social skills were "affected".
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That's in no way a counter-argument.
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Best wishes with your difficult situation. Hell is not a picnic.
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by badcede 8y ago
"I never say anything negative." That's smart and so important. Children often do that because, rightly or wrongly, they feel that loyalty to the remaining parent requires it of them. But it intensifies the pain of being caug

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