cryoshon

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by cryoshon 9y ago
if the social sciences held themselves to the standard of the hard sciences this problem couldn't exist
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by cryoshon 10y ago
just chiming in here to say that 1. wallflowers do make friends and 2. being awkward is not, as the psychologist in the article claims, awesome. but 3. wallflowers make friends in spite of being awkward but finally 4. people with social anx
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The State of Wyoming Has [Only] 2 Escalators (2013)(theatlantic.com)
1 points by cryoshon 10y ago|0 comments
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by cryoshon 10y ago
yeah, "fight inequality" is ineffective at rallying the benefactors of inequality-- boomers and the rich. big surprise. bernie sanders is the most popular politician in america. is it because his fundamental message of needing to
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by cryoshon 10y ago
it's because everyone fully ignored the people who have been screaming about this country falling into fascism for the last sixteen years. none of this has ever been normal, but the public is finally becoming uncomfortable with how far
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by cryoshon 10y ago
it's just boomer re-framing of the issue to make it less clear. buying a home isn't something that is up to chance. it's not like you are cruising one day, and BANG!, you buy a home. you save up for fucking years, then you pu
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by cryoshon 10y ago
peep these stats: https://trends.collegeboard.org/student-aid/figures-tables/f... this is what system failure in the making looks like. look at those percentages who are still in default. even if people aren'
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by cryoshon 10y ago
if i dare to say that the republicans fucked us over i'll be banned for "partisan bickering", so: we just need to develop technological workarounds to the politicians. vpns are an okay start.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
it's going to be awesome, but it also means that a lot of the generalized tricks and workflows that we're familiar with won't work anymore or won't be as efficient as they once were. imagine if all smelting requires a ma
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by cryoshon 10y ago
uhhh... who here has yet to adopt a radical fuck-all-ads-always-and-forever-i-dont-care-if-you-go-out-of-business attitude? if you're not already blocking all ads wherever you possibly can, you can expect zero privacy and a lot of inva
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by cryoshon 10y ago
what about bioaccumulation, rate of degradation, toxic metabolites, ph changing properties, etc etc etc. i bet they haven't even done the research on these things.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
as a scientist, i wouldn't trust a single iota of "evidence" that passes through a private corporation with a financial interest in the results reading a certain way. they won't outright fabricate, usually. but they&#x27
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by cryoshon 10y ago
i really wish people would just read some pikkety, which explains conclusions like the above. the movement of wealth has a speed and a vector. all wealth moves along the path of least resistance, which means wherever it can move at high spe
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by cryoshon 10y ago
cue the trumpettes lining up to babble about how it's necessary. even if you think this policy is necessary, this is still a shitty policy because it doesn't go far enough to satisfy its stated aims in addition to being morally re
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by cryoshon 10y ago
on the contrary, the rage surrounding the opposite sex is a core element of the alt right's platform. couching discontent via memes is still expressing it.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
sure, but nobody ever does this. they'd be poor.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
the technical aspect of this issue is a solvable problem. the social and political aspects of it are not. there's no political traction against this stuff. the border patrol types are too stupid to understand simple and innocent explan
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by cryoshon 10y ago
technical solution: "clean personal data images as a service" wherein you start an app which creates a new partition, encrypts your old partition, then hides it until you explicitly decide to unhide it. the new partition is popula
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>The sooner we can drive this issue to a head and get all these pigs out on the street looking for new jobs, the better. hear hear.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>are we building the world we all want? the rich are building the world they all want. everyone else is struggling to survive that world. so, no. we aren't building the world "we all want" because many of us want different
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by cryoshon 10y ago
in reality there area bajillion sides. it's just an easy construct that people will understand at least two of those.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>But I think most peoples reaction is just to say "Yeah! that's totally what those other people do that our side never does because we're right.". to guard against this, as soon as i am aware of a catchphrase or commo
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by cryoshon 10y ago
the concept of totalitarian democracy best reflects the present state of the US and a few other countries within the west. the US has elements of huxley, elements of orwell, elements of kafka, and increasingly, elements of the phildickian d
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by cryoshon 10y ago
... we should be resisting any and all modalities of future fossil fuel exploitation. who cares if pipelines are "safer" when we know that there is no planet-safe way to burn the oil they carry. if pipelines are the most efficient
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by cryoshon 10y ago
i too have stockholm syndrome
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>It's found success in being the antithesis of a AAA game yes! you have crystallized my reasons for playing df into a simple phrase. DF is 100% depth, and 0% fluff. all of the pieces matter, and there's about a bajillion of the
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by cryoshon 10y ago
here is a stupid argument for privacy that i just invented based off of the article's mentioning of 1776: if the british colonists had no privacy, the american revolution would never have happened. troublemakers would have been either
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ACLU lawyer questioned at US border over advocacy(aclu.org)
5 points by cryoshon 10y ago|0 comments
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>So the career path of a junior scientist is pretty crushing mentally this is true throughout the sciences. it's a big issue.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
it's because they are scared we will try to overthrow them they are justified in that fear these days

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