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by ddq 3y ago
Fundamentally, the artists getting paid doesn’t matter because they enjoy making music? As a musician, your comment is completely ignorant, self-centered, and totally irrelevant to the discussion of people getting economically screwed.
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by ddq 3y ago
Loved the last paragraph, always good to end with ideas for positive action. >As cathartic as venting one’s outrage can be in the moment, it’s clear that moral grandstanding accomplishes very little beyond the fleeting satisfaction that
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by ddq 3y ago
I think the reimagining should start at the community level and grow. Town, city, county, up to state level. Hell, start at both ends and meet in the middle. Top-down change seems like it’d benefit a lot from bottom-up support.
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by ddq 3y ago
Counterpoint: possible sampling bias because traffic stops are one of the most common pretexts for police searches.
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by ddq 3y ago
They stole the commons from us and hold it ransom.
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by ddq 3y ago
The epidemic of youth suicide in Japan and South Korea related to the stress of their rigid, demanding education systems is fairly common knowledge.
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by ddq 3y ago
Scouting is an interesting example because my experience included both ends of the scheduling vs. freedom spectrum. My first troop was all about the weekly meetings, merit badge classes, memorization, structured activities, and the like. Ca
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by ddq 3y ago
Why replace it? You're just teaching the child that breaking things has consequences for others but not for them.
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by ddq 3y ago
You should learn about anthropogenic climate change.
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by ddq 3y ago
There’s lies, damned lies, statistics, and now fake statistics!
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by ddq 3y ago
China is nationalist authoritarian state capitalist, their external propaganda isn’t to spread Marxist ideology, it’s simply anything that helps China and hurts everyone else, same as any nationalism. “What do you think the Russians talk ab
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by ddq 3y ago
Sad that the broader message of this post was ignored in favor of “but you should use Firefox” replies.
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by ddq 3y ago
By contrast, any system that relies on benefiting others at the expense of the self as a core foundation seems doomed to instability, by human nature itself. Requiring a class of expendable people, expected to deprive themselves for the ben
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by ddq 3y ago
It's not an approach, it's step one. To develop answers you must first figure out the questions. I agree merely acknowledging the status quo as bad is not enough, but I fail to see how one would intentionally address issues withou
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by ddq 3y ago
"Companies are 100% allowed to" break the National Labor Relations Act because you have moved the goalposts to having to win in court? I don't believe you were previously aware of the NLRA or have any legal insight of value.
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by ddq 3y ago
Anecdotal. The houses of people you know are not informative.
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by ddq 3y ago
https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-right...
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by ddq 3y ago
By contrast, acknowledging the dystopian elements of the present is productive and important. They are real and should be addressed for the betterment of mankind.
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by ddq 3y ago
Hell, the book of Ecclesiastes could be read as a midlife crisis. “Vanity of vanity, all is vanity.”
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by ddq 3y ago
Roger Waters of Pink Floyd was 28-29 when “he realised he was no longer preparing for anything in life, but was right in the middle of it” and was inspired to write the song Time for Dark Side of the Moon (the reader is encouraged to listen
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by ddq 3y ago
First two points, yes, though on point three I strongly disagree that modern mass hierarchy has existed on an evolutionary timescale. Neither Homo sapiens nor our ancestors ever had hierarchical groups larger than a village until we shifted
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by ddq 3y ago
Part of me feels that pessimism, but another part of me believes every rational individual has at least one path to a more open mind, whether through music, art, study, self-reflection, dialog, mind-altering substances... all sorts of sourc
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by ddq 3y ago
> Second, your whole comment is littered with implicit reinforcement of the hierarchy. You use terms like underling, bosses, and equate the founding of the company with founding of a hierarchy. If you, who claim to be skeptical of the hi
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by ddq 3y ago
Once attuned to unjust or involuntary hierarchies, one realizes their ubiquity in modern society. Hierarchy and bureaucracy are useful and efficient, but while the imagined ideal is a meritocratic Star Trek bridge crew, they are commonly ec
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by ddq 3y ago
Employment, housing, and healthcare should not be inexorably interlinked. Losing your job puts your housing and healthcare at immediate risk, and activism can look like unprofessional behavior or a brand risk. Chilling effect.
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by ddq 3y ago
Why should contribution to “the world”, the gargantua of global culture, history, and economy, be the yardstick of worth? I believe almost everyone has something valuable to contribute to their friends, family, neighborhood, or community. W
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by ddq 3y ago
Not only can you not go back, you oftentimes find yourself frustrated with people who remain locked into arbitrary thinking. Hence the proselytizing by the psychonauts, free your head and all that.
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by ddq 3y ago
I was enjoying this article but when you got to the importance of character, asking ChatGPT to define it seemed - at least to me - a bit of a cop-out. Would have liked more personal perspective there.
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by ddq 3y ago
Making a quick queue from a selection of suggestions should really be YT’s bread and buttery, especially if they’re pivoting to a shorts focus, yet they removed that button (for me at least). I used that button all the time, it made it quic
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by ddq 3y ago
My hope with stories like this is broader awareness and understanding of the deep systemic flaws in the U.S. as a State. In so many areas, the amassed institutional power far exceeds the popular will to challenge it in any serious, effectiv

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