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by bendbro 5y ago
I don't know why you think I disagree with the idea of liberalism. I simply think if someone is a liberal, they should believe purely disagreeable speech should not have consequences; else, they are an idiot. There are of course more c
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by bendbro 5y ago
Great, so then you must agree, only a complete idiot would call themselves a liberal and also believe free speech should have negative consequences. One of the liberals I respect most, Noam Chomsky, agrees: https://m.youtube.com&
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by bendbro 5y ago
Yeah, the "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences" response that some liberals give has always puzzled me. It is internally inconsistent for a liberal ideology. 1. They believe that "wage slavery"
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It isn't surprising at all considering hundreds of surviving, geographically isolated cultures all shared this same characteristic. It seems rather natural and unsurprising when we know it was successfully used so many times.
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I just bought a modem and then started service on the website. I never had their modem in my house.
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by bendbro 5y ago
> That would also be a political choice Obviously, but that isn't my argument. My argument is that when you create a culture that approaches political decisions from a profit perspective, it is easier to make a profit. > And in
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by bendbro 5y ago
I will personally grow my own cow, slit its throat, and carve a bloody quarter pound of beef off it before I eat one of these things.
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by bendbro 5y ago
> It would be like testing if someone knows about a "crankshaft" in a job where they'll be exclusively working on Teslas Yeah completely agree. Not all things people call "programming" are the same. Only jobs tha
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by bendbro 5y ago
So combining both halves it seems like people can't actually get along and the idea of a patchwork quilt society is a horrible, dystopian failure?
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by bendbro 5y ago
Yes, and a "crankshaft" isn't something universally understood by non-mech-eng's, a "flank" isn't something universally understood by non-mil-scis, and "leverage" isn't universally understoo
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by bendbro 5y ago
At my college, some of the computer science coed fraternity leadership tried to convince us that even if someone couldn't do fizzbuzz they were still a programmer.
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For all of those issues you can dryly resolve them by selecting whichever choice maximizes profit. By eliminating moralizers from its ranks, Basecamp can now make decisions that only consider profit.
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by bendbro 5y ago
The argument is valid but not sound. The premises "best russian poet" and "best verse" taken from the parent are likely wrong.
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by bendbro 5y ago
How much longer will we have to tolerate this culture that hates us? I'm tired of thinking and thinking and thinking about these ideas that always terminate in foundational disagreement. I expect to encounter disagreement, and I'm
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by bendbro 5y ago
I always open emails from Google recruiters to trigger the tracking pixel and then am sure to not respond.
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by bendbro 6y ago
Because I actually want to make an impact at my job and constantly carrying idiots on my back is a horrible experience. Thankfully my workplace is not unionized and I have great team members. Whether union or non-union workplaces can encour
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by bendbro 6y ago
And this office is not an office with hot desks, and not every office even wants hot desks. The behavior of unions monopolizing a job type in a company is absolutely to blame.
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by bendbro 6y ago
Yeah, I am concerned on that same point as well. I had spent a lot of time reading about various historical events both in school and outside of it, so it's surprising that I never encountered this.
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by bendbro 6y ago
I'm amazed I've never heard about this. If I lived then and was going to have my gold confiscated, I don't think I'd be able to avoid going full killdozer.
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by bendbro 6y ago
This could easily be made into hilarious copypasta
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by bendbro 6y ago
> That can be part of a union, but then they are democratic, so it depends on who you elect to run things. A bad union is just like a bad employer I think a bad union is more common than a bad company, since collectives run democraticall
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by bendbro 6y ago
> Another service update, nuclear weapons exist. Any situation that involves high tech piloted planes fighting each other in the sky is almost impossible to happen. This is falsified by the Vietnam war. We had apex US fighters fighting a
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by bendbro 6y ago
Apologizing just gives fuel for revenge. In this case I think because the harm done was so small, it was economical to apologize. Edit: an anecdote from the professor of my college's startup program (a hundred-millionaire former CEO&#x
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by bendbro 6y ago
Nobody will take that contract. Any mistake in the government specifying what they want you to build can be politically manipulated into a legal matter with some probability you'll end up in prison.
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by bendbro 6y ago
The same model of car physically exists in multiple climates. A powerplant (usually) doesn't.
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by bendbro 6y ago
With regard to being able to create a "master" database, use a "female" connector, hold a "stand up" meeting, or greet people with "hey guys," we certainly are.
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by bendbro 6y ago
That's exactly right. The commenter is saying that by doubling down (gambling reference: betting more on your possibly untrue theory) on woke ideas, they are increasing the madness in society to a maximum level (the commenter is also p
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by bendbro 6y ago
Defined: someone performs an action, and because some group finds that action morally wrong, that person is removed from some position of power or responsibility despite the action they took having no predictive power in deciding whether th
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by bendbro 6y ago
> I guess I'm so far to the left that I have a hard time believing in "cancel culture" as anything meaningful That's likely. Though i'm not sure that it really matters whether lefties recognize it or not, because
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by bendbro 6y ago
Explaining exactly how something like t*rr*r causes people harm is a form of victim blaming. It isn't the requirement of harmed peoples to explain how they are harmed, it is our responsibility to listen, believe, and change our harmful

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