bearmobius

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   by bearmobius 7y ago

   Lately I've started to think Agile also bears some striking similarities to Communism. It has its dogmatic adherents, and it actually sounds good on paper. It's just that everywhere I've seen it tried, it fails. And the reaso
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   by bearmobius 9y ago

   > Thomas Gilovich—a Cornell University psychologist famed for research that indicates people are far more likely to regret things they haven’t done than things they have—examined people with high IQs: not one regretted having children; s
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   by bearmobius 9y ago

   > You're equivocating on the word discrimination. When activists or people in the media talk about discrimination as a societal problem, they're referring to discrimination based on irrelevant characteristics. Kind of. I was hi
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   by bearmobius 9y ago

   "A subtle form of discrimination exists towards those who are less educated and it divides society in a number of ways." Wrong - it's not always so subtle! For instance, there's widespread, blatant discrimination again
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   by bearmobius 9y ago

   Some thoughts about the "no one's forcing you to use it" arguments (of which I'm also partial to, having removed myself from Facebook). Humans do have a need to socialise/connect with other humans, just as we have