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by daodedickinson 6y ago
>I always wonder what the thought process is behind this sort of thing. Do executives live in such a bubble that they honestly believe all their employees agree with them? Or do they simply expect them to be too intimidated to speak thei
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by daodedickinson 6y ago
I don't know about San Francsico, but, in much of the less population dense US West, the deaths from denial of so-called "non-critical" procedures are getting out of control, and hospitals and medical facilities are losing w
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
My mother is curating something similar. Wish I could afford a relationship and children even more so.
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7927747/Asian-man-d...
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
Degree never helped me for shit. Someone rescue me...
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
Well, it seems to me that they can only get more likely from here?
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
The tech industry should not take it too personally / hard: any forces that earn prestige will soon become surrounded by similar challengers
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
Well... um... if someone wants to love me you could definitely maybe get me to fall in love with you in an hour of conversation.
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
This episode was from 1 or 2 years ago
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
RedLetterMedia.com
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_a_sucker_born_every_...
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
Huh. Was listening to an archived Skyrim Addict podcast episode last night, and two of the hosts agreed that this update that destroyed all their hundreds or thousands of hours of work so that they could never play it again, but they recomm
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
I've read conflicting claims on this, but I don't have the expertise to judge. Some say much of HKIX is off-campus.
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
I don't even know how to form goals or dreams anymore. I'm so horribly lonely I don't have anyone to check in with to try to stabilize my life at all. I got so lonely I couldn't sleep so many times for 2+ nights in a ro
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
>unions doing non-violent strikes in the early 20th century My aunt's father (in the US) had the duty of keeping the stockpile of firearms hidden to quickly hand back out to all the union members if the Pinkertons tried to start kil
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
Still incredibly pessimistic that Hong Kongers could somehow win a war for independence... or that anything short of that could win a future of safety for these "protestors" Just last night I felt guilty for buying something made
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
My dream would be that Carmack would go toward Douglass Hofstadter and they'd move us toward forms that flawed human intelligence has been striving toward, rather than reifying flaws. I wish the people capable of helping with that coul
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
I just have to laugh and cry when anyone suggests "re-education" as a solution to this. The truth is that more and more people are in complete shock and utterly dislocated from anything resembling a prior society of culture. Paren
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
"The report states that Xi Mingzhi was unsatisfied with her life in China after living for several years as a student in the United States." I dunno what's symbolic about that exactly...
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In before a gov't forces someone into pregnancy through the "front door" just cuz
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You wouldn't download a meal!
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
Barlow shared many reevaluations that might interest you then; this one from 2006 is relatively old but kinda of interesting in how it's somewhere far from the present but also far from his "Declaration": https://a
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
Not sure how big of a role he played. Seems to my admittedly hella blinkered view he supported GWB before alternatives were possible and opposed Trump when it was too late for a billionaire to stop him. I assume I'm wrong anyone who kn
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
POLICY ONE: Prevent enemies from making actual friends. Makes sense. POLICY TWO: Make sure all bans are impenetrable shadowbans to maximize intimidation. Well, duh. POLICY THREE: Promote your favorite hate and promote groups to the detrimen
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
It's not as if Xi Jinping would make the same decisions ifhe suspected he was the last human language speaker on our planet.
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
The great thing of me never gonna be able to be rich enough to get this link label when I die is that I'm not gonna be rich enough to get this link label when I die.
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
lol @ this link title... just wow... "well done"
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
I see FB, Twitter, and YouTube accused frequently of not doing enough to take down pedophilia.
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
I'm not using Tor or a VPN and I'm logged in to Google; I shant ever log into Chrome, though.
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by daodedickinson 7y ago
I would far, far beyond gladly change far more than my clothes for anyone who would even finally show up to a first date with me. More and more of us are isolated from the rest of our species by the technologies interting themselves between

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