daseiner1

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by daseiner1 6mo ago
"I am firm, you are obstinate, he is a pig-headed fool." https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Emotive_conjugation
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by daseiner1 6mo ago
think of the children! did he find his PR agent on Upwork or does he just think we're all morons?
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by daseiner1 8mo ago
duh. why is this always phrased as if the populace is unaccountable for the very existence of these elites? why is it always assumed that these unaccountable elites are better held in check by the farce of democracy than a proud genuine eli
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by daseiner1 8mo ago
democracies past, present, and future inevitably crumble as the need to cater to the demos grows greater and greater with every generation of voters. i know this is a contrivance but nevertheless: we don't consult the entire hospital h
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by daseiner1 8mo ago
when the ruling principles are growth, consumption, and profit, the ability to invent money tends to be quite appealing.
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by daseiner1 8mo ago
Indeed. It is a blind force of nature.
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by daseiner1 8mo ago
I don't believe we disagree.
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by daseiner1 8mo ago
All of the boogeymen you mentioned are strands of a singular issue, a singular phenomenon.
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by daseiner1 8mo ago
meaningfully, this is equivalent to the parent commenter. "technology" I loathe the "pop critique" employment of the phrase, but this is definitionally late-stage capitalism. obviously capitalism is named as such because
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by daseiner1 9mo ago
Would you elaborate? Because my understanding is that Apple has offered outstanding support for older devices in terms of iOS support for quite old devices.
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by daseiner1 10mo ago
“””innovation”””
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by daseiner1 10mo ago
true inflection point of the already prolonged withering away and inevitable death of one of America’s great art forms. yes i’m aware of the proud film traditions of france, italy, england, & japan (among others). nevertheless the parad
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by daseiner1 11mo ago
beyond irony that you pose as some tech optimist while also mentioning “western collapse” and then speak about a uniquely American pessimism, a nation that is presently under the thumb of a government that does not respect the rule of law a
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by daseiner1 11mo ago
last sentence in your first paragraph has nothing to do with the current state of the internet and certainly not AI. first sentence? turns out governments can still get away with pretty much anything and propaganda is easier than ever.
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by daseiner1 11mo ago
would you say that you’re feeling sort of… “spacey”?
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by daseiner1 11mo ago
i’m confident that this phenomenon is accelerated in “internet culture” but this is how all trends function, whether flare-cut jeans or beanie babies
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by daseiner1 11mo ago
the article explicitly states that this original Superman #1 is the highest graded copy of all-time it’s valuable for the same reason the mona lisa is valuable. it’s iconic, it is a singular object, it is one of a kind, it is a stable inves
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by daseiner1 11mo ago
ok great, you made it all the way to the second article before you found something you thought you could pull a misleading quote from. Said quote is, appropriately enough, from a woman in the administration whose job is to provide "cov
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by daseiner1 11mo ago
citizens shooting other citizens is radically different than the federal government lighting legal protections on fire and then pissing on the ashes. wholly disingenuous to compare the two. but yours is the standard misdirect on anything &q
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by daseiner1 11mo ago
Yup immigration was arguably the concrete issue of the election and these were the campaign promises. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knew that this is what mass deportation would look like.
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by daseiner1 1y ago
And "the economy" is so frequently conflated with the stock market.
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by daseiner1 1y ago
the outsize harms of gambling, financial ruin that is highly individualized, highly destructive, and particularly devastating. there are obviously significant public health costs from fast food, but its destruction does not present the same
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by daseiner1 1y ago
vice != money. meticulous study lags behind facts on the ground. perhaps vice is super-charged today, and policy influencers are more akin to journalists. (giving extreme benefit of the doubt, here)
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by daseiner1 1y ago
Good video on this: https://youtu.be/XZvXWVztJoY?si=to8qYcXuBT2xAaIz
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by daseiner1 1y ago
Same power law in the alcohol industry.
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by daseiner1 1y ago
The Sicilian Mafia ( La Cosa Nostra ) refers exclusively to the mafia on the island of Sicily, not the Mob which traces its lineage back to Sicilian immigrants. It's being said because the Five Families was erroneously conflated with C
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by daseiner1 1y ago
"quantity has a quality all its own"
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by daseiner1 1y ago
of course. i'm confident slowing down near a school is pretty intuitive for the vast majority of drivers, though.
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by daseiner1 1y ago
if the kid could successfully modify the scanned value of physical barcodes a) that would be quite the feat and b) that would absolutely be showing up a bunch of big names
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by daseiner1 1y ago
the sign says the hours for the reduced speed limit or, more commonly in my experience, has a light that activates during school hours.

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