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by blahblahthrow 7y ago
I work at a place that also has "draw the owl" as a kind of corporate culture joke? It's funny at small scale when everything is uncertain, but when you grow to a thousand employees it kind of turns into an embarrassment. We
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by blahblahthrow 7y ago
I've seen this talk, the person in question wrote stalkerware and acknowledged it would be used for abusing women. The title is misleading, the EFF isn't "publicly shaming individuals", they're talking about one cas
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by blahblahthrow 7y ago
Automatically pairing people by gender is pretty weird IMO. As a trans woman I have to find my own roommate or find an organizer to intervene and explain my life story to them.
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by blahblahthrow 7y ago
As someone who has this flexibility, it's expensive and not that fun to go work in a hotel in a strange city for a couple weeks. I'd rather have a week off to ignore work and immerse myself
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by blahblahthrow 7y ago
As someone who chronically ideates about suicide (but has never attempted), things like VR rock climbing and (real life) bungee jumping have just made me scared of jumping. But it doesn't make me not want to die, it just makes me want
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by blahblahthrow 7y ago
There's absolutely a movement for people to keep house cats inside because they maul grounded bats and other small animals they don't intend to eat. They're also at risk of getting hit by cars, eaten by coyotes, etc.
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by blahblahthrow 7y ago
It's cool how nobody with a PhD ever committed a crime and only worthless, stupid people do crimes.
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by blahblahthrow 7y ago
Given the rate of climate change and how little we're doing, trying to make 10000 year institutions seems foolish. We can't even manage the institutions we have now.
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by blahblahthrow 8y ago
Wait so you stopped being vegan to ... protest the fact that some vegans are self-righteous? Do you also drive a V8 to protest the fact that some people with Teslas are smug?
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by blahblahthrow 8y ago
Look at it this way: if you're going to lead an illegal insurrection to overthrow what you think is a tyranical government, why do you care what the gun laws are?
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by blahblahthrow 8y ago
While I don't doubt ageism is a real factor in tech, this article conflated a bunch of stuff: - the first woman was called a "mom" and basically drummed out of the industry to academia. That seems like sexism is the more pern
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by blahblahthrow 8y ago
It could be argued the Brazilian authorities are biased towards Embraer, much the same way US authorities might be biases towards Boeing.
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by blahblahthrow 8y ago
Most people's gripes about socialism are senseless whataboutism. "But Venezuela!" Anarchism (or libertarian socialism if you prefer) isn't just about "offering services for free". It's about a lack of hier
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by blahblahthrow 8y ago
Conversely, what if every single person in a small town agrees on a regulation that they feel is in their best interest? Why shouldn't transport providers be bound by that? These are mostly local services, it's only the behemoth t
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by blahblahthrow 8y ago
Exactly. I would argue that the existence of giant, monopolistic companies like Amazon leads to increased income inequality and social instability. We shouldn't be figuring out how to order our economy to make more Amazons, we should b
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by blahblahthrow 8y ago
One example of a state business failing doesn't seem like a countercase? Almost every American car company was privately owned and failed, except the few that didn't.
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by blahblahthrow 8y ago
What do you think is harder, being a senior engineer or breathing underwater? Whoops, guess you're not as good as a fish.
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by blahblahthrow 8y ago
If there isn't a community on Reddit for something, what are the odds people are going to flock to a new platform? The quality issue is because these groups are generally peer-organized and some groups have better organizers. But like,
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by blahblahthrow 8y ago
It feels like you're moving the goal posts - "celebrating national pride" is something you can do without banning people from your country or marginalizing them. Nationalism seems fundamentally opposed to multicultural societ
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by blahblahthrow 8y ago
What is the national culture of America? Would nationalists deport all the people of European ancestry and give the land back to it's original inhabitants? What culture is preserved by stopping people moving between Mexico and Texas,
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by blahblahthrow 8y ago
It seems unhelpful to write off Breitbart readers as unaware of reality. They may be uncritical readers of the news, and they may have deplorable beliefs, but many sane, rational people believe terrible things. Or they're willing to as
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by blahblahthrow 8y ago
> almost everything in the world has a use Do you routinely read far-left news sources like Current Affairs and Jacobin to make sure you're getting the full picture?
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by blahblahthrow 8y ago
What's the value of a less extreme nationalist press, except to espouse the same values but make them more palatable to moderates and lead them down the slippery slope to extremism? For better or worse the "ideal" world of na