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by dbingham 4y ago
Two things - I don't think it's as easy as you think it is. If you're good at it, it can feel comparatively easy, because when you're good at it and you enjoy it - it's fun . It's flow. You get lost in it a
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"This law I broke shouldn't exist" is the basis of civil disobedience and is how many of the freedoms we enjoy were won and the oppressive laws of recent history were struck down. It may or may not succeed in courts, because
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Yeah, don't get a dog now, it's too late. There is a lot of evidence to support the idea that living with a well mannered dog is really great for kids on many levels (immune, psychology, etc). But raising a puppy is a whole orde
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Don't tell your wives, tell the owners/operators of the establishment. Don't give in to that kind of societal inequality - change it.
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Oh man, I started reading Too Like the Lightning a while ago on the recommendation of a fantasy author friend. It was really good, but I got derailed and then had to take it back to the library and never finished it. I need to pick this s
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The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin Extremely well done series that straddles the sci-fi fantasy line. There's a reason Jemisin became the first person to win the Hugo three years running for three books of a series.
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Of course the power dynamics never completely go away. There are a myriad of kinds of power dynamics - gender, race, and class up bringing all bring their own forms of power dynamics, to say nothing of just basic interpersonal interaction s
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Yes, as djokkataja points out, and as I pretty clearly alluded to in my post - it's not an assumption. These structures exist and are successful. They are successfully competing in the global markets against more traditional hierarch
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Organization and hierarchy are not the same things. Hierarchy deals with power structures, while organization merely gives structure. "Flat" does not mean "structureless". It means that there is no power hierarchy. Le
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Where there are hierarchies in place and there's an attempt to create a flat, open space, it's on those higher in the hierarchy to make that real for those lower in it. Everyone in the hierarchy has to be very aware of power, and
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It's important to note that 4 of the 9 justices on the court, and 4 of the 6 who voted in favor of this decision were appointed by presidents that lost the popular vote. Literally appointed by minority governments.
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One doesn't have to take extreme positions to be consistent. In order to believe that someone should have bodily autonomy over continuing a pregnancy (something potentially life threatening, and definitely life altering) I don't
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As for bodily-autonomy, most people I know who are pro-choice are also in favor of the vaccine because - same as abortion - they view it as a life saving medical procedure. Those who weren't did protest about bodily autonomy in relati
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The people who passed the laws know damned well what they are banning. They are intentionally and explicitly banning the procedures by name. Medical professionals and the people these would affect pointed out to them the impact of banning
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Except that's not the universal framing. There is one side that is fighting very hard to not only make it at conception, but potentially even before conception (there are reasons to believe that the supreme court might come for birth c
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Driving prices to 0 is not incentivized at all, in fact quite the opposite. The current system incentivizes driving prices as high as humanly possible in order to allow the investors to take get as much of a return as they can. That's
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Nothing happens with out squabbling about government policy. Government policy literally defines the rules of the market. It is government policy that allows investors to ask for equity ownership. Government policy defines the legal shap
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Well all of the various tribes merged together for the most part. Most people in the UK are probably descendants of multiple of those old tribes. Another difference is that in the UK there isn't nearly as much of a history of recent o
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You're missing a lot with that analogy - which is that of everyone involved in the veature, the CEO has the most power. They have the most knowledge of anyone and are the ultimate decision maker about the future of the venture. The CEO
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With the preface that I'm not convinced LaMBDA is there based on this article, this did get me wondering how we'd even tell. If we do achieve a chat bot that can convincingly respond in a human way, 100% of the time, how do we te
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No such thing exists anywhere. Almost every country on the planet provides some sort of public health care. And any country that doesn't, one could argue the private sector health care is distorted. This is because it is impossible t
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> There's nothing in what you wrote there that can't be and isn't done in the private spheres. There are many things which the private sphere cannot do, and other things which it could do in theory but has utterly failed
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> I think that best government is least government; The problem with this view is that government is the way that we - as a society - make collective decisions about the rules and norms under which we want to live, as well as the way we
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Hey Kevin! Yeah, one of the things I've learned with age (and am still working on, probably a lifelong project) is tempering that voice. My memory is that we didn't really know what those things might be and had no real way to fi
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Cheers, Brandon! I figured, since EL is long gone at this point, there was no harm in offering my postmortem perspective on what happened there. That podcast was either before my time or maybe just when I was starting, but yeah, that was de
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I was working at EllisLab on ExpressionEngine when Craft was first released. I don't know what things were like over at P&T, but it was interesting to witness from inside EllisLab. I would say Craft v ExpressionEngine is a case s
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Disney has supported basic rights for LGBTQ+ people. This is one of those things which pretty much isn't up for debate anymore in most other developed countries. Beyond that, Disney has been solidly pro-corporate, anti-union, and gen
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Which corporations are you thinking of?
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There is a framing in which they want the same thing, but each side wants to use a method to achieving that thing that is antithetical to the other. The left wants to achieve it by limiting the power of capital and corporations. The right
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That wouldn't explain the increase in conservative numbers. What seems more likely to me is left leaning people leaving the platform and right leaving people returning to it due to a perceived impending shift in the platforms policies

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