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by door5 8y ago
Yes they do -- These strikes have been incredibly effective. If ordinary citizens are not sympathetic to the teachers but sympathetic to the legislators, they have a distorted view of the situation, probably from right-wing, anti-union medi
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The whole point of strikes is that they are disruptive.
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Abolish prisons.
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by door5 8y ago
> If you think that's paranoid, simply review the history of the railroad barons The end of which was an extremely regulated market with partial nationalization -- exactly my point
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by door5 8y ago
The problem is about money, not standards. There's no money in the free and open web. Capitalism is fundamentally antagonistic to the web as a platform. It wants to build barriers and walled gardens and spam the system with advertiseme
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by door5 8y ago
you seem to think that jobs just exist, and pay a certain wage, and that wage is fixed and this is the law of the universe. political struggle (higher minimum wage, stronger regulations, unions, etc) drives wages up.
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by door5 8y ago
There are choices other than unemployment and shitty gig jobs -- stable, well-paying employment with benefits. Whether these jobs exist or not isn't because of some abstract economic theory: they have to be fought for and won through p
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by door5 8y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/nyregion/taxi-drivers-sui... It's easy to be cavalier if you ignore the effect on Taxi workers. Ride sharing replaced a stable, unionized, middle class career with
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by door5 8y ago
Who is "us"? Maybe upper middle class consumers, but not the workers at these companies.
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by door5 8y ago
Well unfortunately we live in a world of imperfect bureaucrats instead of perfect ones. If someone tells you there's a 1% chance that if you don't evacuate millions of people would be exposed to dangerous radiation, would you give
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by door5 8y ago
I agree, I support nuclear power, but their are legitimate reasons to be wary of it other than just ignorance. Being anti-nuclear isn't just a case of being uneducated, some intelligent people who understand the technology are anti-nuc
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by door5 8y ago
The Fukushima disaster almost got to the point where they had to evacuate Tokyo . I support nuclear power, but to say that it is without risks and the public is just irrational is disingenuous.
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by door5 8y ago
BMI is a poor indicator of health and and even poorer indicator of whether one takes care of themselves. In the US, unhealthy food is abundant and strongly advertised. Much of the country is sprawl where the only way to really get around is
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by door5 8y ago
> Electric vehicles offer perhaps the most significant opportunity for the average consumer to improve the carbon emission status-quo Public transit. Electric cars hardly put a dent in climate change. We need higher density cities, less
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by door5 8y ago
This is extremely fatalistic. I agree that the system is severely flawed, but your conclusion that struggle for a better country is pointless is hopeless, and is not shared by a lot of the country. for many people, political struggle is ne
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by door5 8y ago
Jobs for whom? Not the vulnerable members of New York, jobs for upper middle class yuppies like you or me or nearly anyone on this site from the rest of the country. People in Queens aren't stupid, they know what the impact of Amazon w
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by door5 8y ago
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez & Bernie Sanders openly espouse many of those ideas and are two of the most popular politicians in America. These ideas have a tremendous amount of traction and their advocates are getting closer to the centers
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by door5 8y ago
The United States has done this for decades. Why do you think China blocks Google, Facebook, et al? The exact same reason. The difference is the US is substantially richer and more powerful than China is.
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by door5 8y ago
Go vegan :)
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by door5 8y ago
I think this is a good point. It's not popular in the ultra-secular tech world, but materialism is not necessarily the only explanation of consciousness, there is very serious non-materialist philosophy. Personally I think Materialism
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by door5 8y ago
Look for where their funding comes from. Puppet organizations will often lead you back to U.S. state-funded organizations like the NED or BBG or billionaire-funded NGOs
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by door5 8y ago
This is anecdotal, the data does not support your claim: http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/05/12/a-fragile-rebound-for-eu...
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by door5 8y ago
It depends whether your criticism is informed and empathetic. Are you criticizing to prove that another group is somehow "lesser" or "other", or are you listening to and supporting activists from within those groups? How
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by door5 8y ago
Racism is a political problem. It doesn't arise out of some universal flawed human psyche, it arises because certain political structures exist that stratify and marginalize groups of people. In the United States, for example, "wh
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by door5 8y ago
This is my point though -- European racism is portrayed always somehow "different". It's the exact same story and there are no excuses for it. Anti-Roma prejudice is no more rational or justified than any other prejudice, and
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by door5 8y ago
The OP said "several", not "all". Racism is undoubtedly a problem in Europe, it's just directed at different groups, and "not ALL..."ing Europeans won't make the problem go away.
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by door5 8y ago
>Also several well-educated and seemingly intelligent Americans who hold strong racist opinions. But that's another subject. Bring up Muslims or Roma people to a European and you'll find this isn't a uniquely American prob
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by door5 8y ago
I think there are ways to measure public good. Not perfectly, but certainly better than the market does. Open source libraries create a tremendous amount of public good, yet their creators are paid next to nothing. Meanwhile malicious pract
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by door5 8y ago
What if we thought of software not as a product, or a service, but a utility or a public good? There doesn't seem to be any way to monetize software that isn't destructive to users, either through paywalls or tracking/adverti
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by door5 8y ago
This exists with current technology, they're called "silent parties"

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