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by bluescrn 3y ago
They can automate away an increasing number of low-wage jobs, but they'll still want people to clean their offices and serve overpriced coffee. Maybe they'll have service entrances and hidden car parks where they let the low-wage
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by bluescrn 3y ago
A 'gated community' on a much larger scale. Not open to the public. Few entrances/exits. Big walls/fences. Private security force. Residents booted out when they lose their big tech jobs. Suddenly the utopian vision look
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by bluescrn 3y ago
What they don't show in the concept art is the massive wall/fence they'll build around it.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Mostly the urge to explore and to learn. Partly a desire to preserve the knowledge and culture that humanity has created in the event of an extinction-level event on Earth. Messing around in low-earth orbit, or even exploring our nearest ne
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Any research focusing on subjective terms such as 'extremist' or 'misinformation' is likely to be contaminated by an element of activism.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
'The elite' prefer stoking the flames of the culture war to keep the little people fighting amongst themselves, rather than rising up together against the bigger inequalities.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Police follow orders. For example, it's pretty obvious that in London they've been ordered by the powers that be to be very lenient to Just Stop Oil when they block roads over and over and over again. Meanwhile, also in the UK, a
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Weyland-Yutani?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> Does that mean you can stand outside your Congressman's house at 1am with a megaphone? These days, that seems to depend entirely upon which cause you're protesting. If you're campaigning about the climate or against raci
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It took 5mins between people starting switching to EVs in somewhat-significant numbers and the attacks on EVs beginning. "Zero engine emissions?... but muh brake dust! they're too heavy! battery fires! cobalt mines! fuck cars, eve
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by bluescrn 3y ago
What is the 'community' in this case? The entire globe, all Internet users? On a local scale, 'community censure' may work well. But not so much on a global scale, where a few determined activists anywhere in the world h
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by bluescrn 3y ago
If you want to preserve free speech, you need to defend hateful speech. This is not a new problem: https://www.aclu.org/report/1978-aclu-pamphlet-why-american-...
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by bluescrn 3y ago
At this point, there's lots of books and CDs out there with 'deadnames' on the cover, and movies and games with them in the credits. "Who directed 'The Matrix'?" probably shouldn't be a controversial
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Moderation can be good, but only in moderation.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
When 'the public square' was a physical location rather than a social media feed.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Freedom of speech was a pretty fundamental value. A couple of generations ago.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
In large EVE battles you don't really see ships, you see lots of little boxes on the HUD and a list of hostile targets on the overview window. Combat is all about range, and if you're close enough to actually see the enemy ship mo
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Surely most of us have seen videos of mobs of youths shoplifting/looting stores in broad daylight. This isn't individuals shoplifiting covertly or even breaking in under cover of darkness. It appears to be a new and more openly la
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by bluescrn 3y ago
If people were actually arrested for 'wrongthink', they could at least be given due process and subject to clearly defined penalties. That might be a step up from the mob justice currently doled out to people with bad opinions? It
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by bluescrn 3y ago
There's so much stuff online that's so obviously going to be harmful if kids/teens are constantly exposed to it - porn, violence, fake/catastrophised news, angry/hateful tribalism, bullying/harassment, dangerou
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The main effect is that we've moved from a single average income being able to support a family to two incomes barely being able to cope. Soon it's going to need 3-4 incomes, and maybe relationships will have to move from couples&
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by bluescrn 3y ago
- A good chair - A decent pair of wireless noise-cancelling headphones - Two decent-sized monitors and a full-size keyboard. Don't try to work on a laptop keyboard/screen all day.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Probably more an annoyance for developers repeatedly deploying large games/apps
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by bluescrn 3y ago
And then there’s the 12 districts outside of the Capitol.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Decades of government trying to keep property prices pumped up to ridiculous levels
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> And we need to de-personal-vehicle-ize. It's already killing us. That's never going to happen. We've had personal transport ever since we tamed horses. And we can't really go back to horses. We just need to prioriti
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Driverless cars will eventually be safer and more efficient than human drivers. They'll respond faster in emergencies. They won't be drunk or stoned. They won't exceed speed limits. They won't rev or honk angrily. But to
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Yet we're repeatedly told that every single migrant entering the UK illegally is a desparate refugee fleeing war or persecution?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The focus specifically on refugees/asylees makes it look political, when they're a very small proportion of people excluded due to their approach to ITAR. I'm sure large numbers of engineers from all over the world have brows
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Wouldn't be surprised, Elon's tweets have angered a lot of rich and powerful people. Surprised they've not found something to jail him for yet.

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