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by bedobi 2y ago
I'm no republican or conspiracy theorist, so calm yourselves. But did Andrew Rambaut and Kristian Andersen ever address these Slack messages where they're saying they're not sure after all whether it's natural or lab lea
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by bedobi 2y ago
The people here "concerned" about immigration are starting a conversation about how points based, highly selective visas for educated, experienced professionals, coming to work in fields the homegrown population don’t, need to be
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by bedobi 2y ago
usually means “brown” except even when white Western Europeans from first world countries immigrate, that too is also a problem because - you guessed it - they too be stealing dose jerbs never mind that we’re talking about points based, hig
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by bedobi 2y ago
the context of the thread is highly selective points based visas for professionals which have nothing to do with whatever you're imagining
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by bedobi 2y ago
Have you spent a day in Australia? Overflowing with homegrown bogans working in resource extraction and the trades (at best), meanwhile professionals like Drs and Scientists (including Computer Scientists) are overwhelmingly migrants. So ye
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by bedobi 2y ago
They do! I migrated to but subsequently left Australia in no small part for the reasons mentioned.
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by bedobi 2y ago
A right wing populist clamps down on migration, color me surprised, it must be because of real problems and not to appease anti migrant voters. It's very interesting how NET migration figures are rarely mentioned when this happens. Yes
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by bedobi 2y ago
Lol, how are they "lax? And "significant issues" like what? According to who? You? Those countries are only afloat because of immigration. Their homegrown economies are uncompetitive ones based on resource extraction and the
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by bedobi 2y ago
Why stricter than Canada? Why green card eligible after five years (Australia, NZ, Canada and others, you get the PR immediately long as you reach the points requirements) and citizenship after TEN? (again, other countries you become a citi
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by bedobi 2y ago
lol it's the opposite? map, flatmap, fold etc are very clearly defined operations with very clear use cases and rules. loops are not, you can do whatever you want (often mutating the underlying, rug pulling you every iteration) not bei
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by bedobi 2y ago
java offers composition, like pretty much all programming languages if you have a person class and you have students and teachers the correct thing to to is NOT to make student and teacher inherit from person it's to make student and t
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by bedobi 3y ago
This is exactly how my education went. Oh you're not engaged with my shitty teaching and forcing you to do endless abstract nonsensical formulae with zero contextualization or application? Then you're the problem - you have cognit
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by bedobi 3y ago
I’m no mathematician, so I only took basic school math, but I hated every moment of it. Mostly because overwhelmingly there was never any context or justification for learning any of it. Why does this exist? What actual real world problems
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by bedobi 3y ago
pretty sure at least in Sweden they use EpiPens for a bunch of stuff, including heart attacks already?
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by bedobi 3y ago
the stares at goats principle has been in effect most of my career... and this is not me saying "I'm so smart" - I'm really not. I do care about doing the basics well. But that's asking too much of a lot of organiza
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by bedobi 3y ago
OK? Is this meant to somehow absolve mormonism's long and well documented record of being an abusive cult? (which the "leaders" are ultimately in no small part responsible for?)
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by bedobi 3y ago
exactly! nimbyism is human nature, the irony is that no one appreciate they themselves are the person others don't want around, lollll if people are given the choice of anything, the answer most of the time will be "no"
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by bedobi 3y ago
Yes. Who do you think laid the infrastructure for people to get water and sewers in the first place?
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by bedobi 3y ago
Yeah because you ardent motorists care so much about emergency vehicle access right? I don't have a problem with roads, I have a problem with roads being gridlocked and destroyed by single occupancy private automobiles and the resultin
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by bedobi 3y ago
I fundamentally disagree with every single word and every thought that led you there > Walk or ride - do whatever you like. But in the new world, one option will have been removed - driving. I'm not cheering the loss of that. I&#x27
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by bedobi 3y ago
why should the government steal my money (income tax) to pay to subsidize you driving around in and parking your private automobile, for every trip, everywhere, including in dense urban environments?
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by bedobi 3y ago
yeah, the default mode of human transportation is to drive a single occupancy private automobile, for every trip, everywhere, including in dense urban environments, and anyone who thinks otherwise is brainwashed by the globalists if you pre
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by bedobi 3y ago
yeah, make sure you move out of the city and go run hiding in the countryside somewhere if you stay in the city, the globalists WILL come for you, they WILL put you in 15 minute cities where everything you need is easily available within wa
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by bedobi 3y ago
> ask the public's opinions on such matters this would be a disaster take how Hidalgo is deprioritizing private automobiles on the streets of Paris most of the public was passionately and intensely opposed to that, but she did it an
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by bedobi 3y ago
there is no job on this planet that isn't subsidized by taxes how do people show up to work at Google, Apple etc? through everything from "not dying from preventably disease in adolescence" to "being educated in public s
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by bedobi 3y ago
I mean, OK, you could say the same about literally every public expenditure? I'm passionately opposed to private automobiles and the fact that my tax money goes to subsidizing them (including stupid road upkeep etc) unfortunately I don
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by bedobi 3y ago
tell me you're racist without saying "i'm racist"
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by bedobi 3y ago
this makes zero sense, plenty of cities with housing built mostly after the invention of the elevator that have mixed use neighborhoods with tall, low and medium height buildings alike
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by bedobi 3y ago
I used to think like you but no longer do. A city NEEDS to have people of all ages, backgrounds, income levels etc in it to not die. Yes those people who live in that most central subsidized housing are in some ways winning a lottery ticket
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by bedobi 3y ago
The Mayor of Paris has bigger balls any other Mayor except maybe Barcelona ...and they're both women! The confidence to make radical, meaningful changes for the better of the people and tell the opposition to get stuffed... I wish all

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