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by coolso 5y ago
> exactly I can't find anywhere in the parent comment or the parent's linked page where it was claimed that the ACLU's tweet of a modified false-quote-LARPing-as-the-actual-quote was "exactly" like 1984. The pare
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by coolso 5y ago
> What's wrong with me not willing Misery loves company. City-dwellers have to deal with crime, dodging homeless excrement, noise, and general unpleasantness? So should you.
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by coolso 5y ago
> waging There's nothing wrong with pushing back, though.
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That’s because right now, it’s significantly more expensive. But given more equal pricing, most people would of course buy USA-made goods. Right now the system is destroyed so of course made in the USA is going to be significantly more expe
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by coolso 5y ago
It feels like everyone is trying real hard to come up with solutions that just continue the status quo of having all of our goods produced in China. Just 20-25 years ago we were still making a lot of things in the US. But the American worke
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by coolso 5y ago
>privileged Can we save this divisive newspeak for Twitter and not HN?
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by coolso 5y ago
Theory: most of the Facebook Hate in the media right now is largely due to it being one of the main critical outlets against said media and those who align with its preferred point of view. It is the everyman’s antidote against them. If the
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by coolso 5y ago
> prior to the pandemic, shipping from China to LA Perhaps it’s time for the US to finally stop doing that.
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by coolso 5y ago
Remember when Facebook used to be pretty cool? I mean sure, it fell out of favor with younger people including myself, but overall it had generally favorable and positive views in the press and media - especially compared to today. Yeah, pe
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by coolso 5y ago
> Isn’t Reddit that killed forums like 10 years ago? Unfortunately, yes. I love reddit, but it suffers from a major issue that most forums didn't suffer from: homogeneity of thought, with little options for those who go against the
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by coolso 7y ago
Don't like someone's narrative? Just call it racist/sexist/anti-semitic. For shame.
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by coolso 8y ago
> I despise the anti-SJW stance. I think it's about time loud-mouth, offensive people At the end of your post you tell people to be kind, but yet here you’re calling people names and using very strong language like “despise”. And re
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by coolso 8y ago
There’s got to be another word that doesn’t make the user come across like someone who seems deeply proud and smug about the fact that they perceive themselves to be on the moral high ground about a particular issue, while simultaneously “t
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by coolso 8y ago
This reminds me of the time my '18 Lambo was in the shop for a week for service so I was forced to drive my '17 Ferrari. Worst week of my life.
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by coolso 8y ago
> gross Can I ask what exactly is gross about it? I didn't read the article in full, but did skim through it for a few minutes, and it seems to me its only "crime" is not being politically correct by the modern standards o
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by coolso 8y ago
> Can you clarify what you mean by “smear campaign”? Yes, nearly every single media outlet spoke negatively about the tax cut while spending very little time speaking positively about it. Take this example, one of many: https:/&#x2
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by coolso 8y ago
>The American people largely disapproved of the tax cut The media spoke negatively - almost to smear campaign levels - about the tax cut from the very beginning. Is it any wonder? >and that has held steady in the year since its passag
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by coolso 8y ago
Agreed, and this is exactly what I tell people who sometimes forget to compose their emails to me in 12pt Comic Sans font like my email rider requests.
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by coolso 8y ago
> With this in mind, perhaps social media companies should piggyback on Wikipedia's reputation and flag articles from sources like InfoWars and Breitbart with a banner that reads: "Wikipedia doesn't accept this site as a v
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by coolso 8y ago
> maybe if the hyper rich have to share some of the public experiences we all have, they'll be more inclined to contribute to the improvement of those resources. I agree, but couldn't it be argued it could go the opposite way t
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by coolso 8y ago
> From a PR point of view Google has handled this whole privacy debacle very well. Yes, but only because Google allegedly aided the media's preferred candidate, while Facebook allegedly aided the candidate that was successful and th
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by coolso 8y ago
Wow, the NY Times sure is hip and cool, am I right my fellow hip and cool college-aged young adults?
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by coolso 8y ago
> Concretely (pun not intended), I found a document [2] saying That's definitely a really awkward choice of word in that context for it not to be intended, so I'm thinking pun was, in fact, intended. You can try to convince me
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by coolso 8y ago
> Also, so much fluff to get to the point? Buzzfeed, these articles could be much better reads with some editing to cut down the length, avoiding repeating points a few times and getting to the crux of the matter quickly. Buzzfeed's
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by coolso 8y ago
I don’t like your post, so I’m going to downvote you. That way other people won’t see your post and potentially be influenced or enlightened by it. That way I don’t have to put effort into responding either. Furthermore your post lacks both
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by coolso 8y ago
I think the difference is that we today have a lot more reference points for technological advances than people in the 1960s did. Just continuing with the storage example, for decades now we've all been witness to data storage sizes gr
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by coolso 8y ago
He explicitly stated it: his observation that people of that particular age and gender make up a large portion of the employees at his local hardware store, and those same workers know "bugger-all" about most of the products on sa
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by coolso 9y ago
> Neither does this one. Yes, athletes are in the public eye pretty much all the time. > It shouldn't be in there and even if it is it doesn't make it right. Your boss owns your time when he pays for it. If you're not b
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by coolso 9y ago
> I'm not a team owner, I'm a human being looking at this the way I would look at other professions. When the clock stops your time is yours and you get to eat (and do whatever else you want to) wherever you want. Most other pr
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by coolso 9y ago
Another way to look at it is the players are worth far more to the team than the cheerleaders. Given the choice between telling TO he has to leave a restaurant, and telling a cheerleader, which do you choose? Similarly, given the choice bet

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