brainpan

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   by brainpan 12y ago

   > with [the federal ACA legislation that the insurance companies' lawyers/lobbyists wrote to mandate everyone in the nation to buy into a broken healthcare paradigm in a broken financial paradigm] there really isn't any ex
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   by brainpan 12y ago

   > what gives the author the right to blanketly declare the lives of the middle class to be souless, meaningless, and that their jobs are bullshit? Well, that's what modern life is under the TINA regime[1]. A whole society of people
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   by brainpan 12y ago

   first sentence: "I gave a talk about how to get started contributing to Chromium, but ... my slides by themselves look like cold-medicine induced hallucinations (which, to be fair, they were)." Is she serious? Hardcore. That stu
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   by brainpan 12y ago

   Outside of the rhetorical zone, outside of the we-can-believe-any-feel-good-idealistic-high-minded-righteous-principles-we-want-as-long-as-we're-just-talking-comfortably zone, this is not true. You know how politicians have a certain s
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   by brainpan 12y ago

   Except that since 2008, we've been experiencing an historically unprecedented flow of newly-created fiat money by way of bonds -> TBTF European and US banks -> central banks (and central banks don't need to have money in the