drekk

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by drekk 2y ago
Got laid off February of last year. Was hired 7 months later at a job I worked at during my undergrad, for much lower pay. It beats being unemployed. Considering going into the electrician trade while coding as a consultant/freelancer.
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by drekk 2y ago
It's really telling that you used the normative framing rather than talking about how common it is. I get it. We're abnormal, atypical freaks. Aberrations. Being redheaded is uncommon; being trans is abomination. You're free
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by drekk 2y ago
I think it's really close-minded to stereotype millions of trans people and treat them like a monolith. Culture shapes behavior sure, but trans people globally operate under similar constraints. Whether or not you consider yourself par
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by drekk 2y ago
Were you on the front lines of the pandemic? Respectfully it sounds like you weren't. When nurses and doctors are using trash bags against a novel disease because supplies have run out—that's posing a problem to the health system.
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by drekk 2y ago
This kind of attack on people for disagreeing is what most of us come to HN to avoid. Conspiracy theories are fun entertainment but anathema to discussion.
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by drekk 2y ago
I'll just quote from Adam Smith as to the problem. I think the proposed solution is good. I think "best option" is needlessly specific, and subjective. No need to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. “As soon as the land
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by drekk 2y ago
The health and environmental impacts of centralizing and industrializing food production are lamentable, even if most Americans don't think about it.
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by drekk 2y ago
The pandemic complicated things greatly for physical businesses. Bowlero started buying up during the pandemic when these businesses had no alternatives. And throwing up some flat screens while cutting hours and removing janitors isn't
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by drekk 2y ago
Thankfully reality has a well known left-wing bias, so Jacobin doesn't need to worry about that hypothetical. My roommate is on the spectrum and works at a Bowlero center. The article definitely rings true, at least in our experience i
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by drekk 2y ago
Did you read the article? It's not an actual crisis to begin with because cherry picking 100 studies and replicating them poorly isn't representative of all of psychology. Nor does it make sense to go scorched earth and replicate
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by drekk 2y ago
Africa (a whole continent) and India consume a lot less per capita & could benefit from the intellectual property we don't share with them. It's in all of our interests to help them electrify differently than previous nation s
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by drekk 2y ago
It costs more to determine who should receive the benefit than to simply provide it for everyone. Who gives a shit if a rich kid gets a free school lunch? They have to be at school. Feeding everyone should be a cost of the education system,
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by drekk 2y ago
I don't know where you're getting processed stuff from. I make my own oat milk. It's just oats and water. You can add a sweetener like honey if you want. Unlike dairy milk I know exactly what's going in my body. I'm
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by drekk 2y ago
You know we have video evidence of the WMDs right? There were reconnaissance photos, elaborate maps and charts, and even taped phone conversations between senior members of Iraq's military.
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by drekk 2y ago
It's not about belief or control. If you're harming the social organism by spreading verifiable falsehoods (vaccines cause autism) then you should be rooted out and treated like the cancer you're choosing to be. I can't
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by drekk 2y ago
Protecting people from COVID involves more than preventing them from contracting the illness. It reduced mortality and hospitalizations. Compare the mortality rate in a country like Brazil to the US and tell me again how the vaccines didn&#
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by drekk 3y ago
Hardware lock-in, proprietary formats, and DRM. If you're heavily invested in Apple Services (iCloud, Apple Music, etc.) you will notice not everything is transferable or works on non-Apple devices. And the iMessage thing is silly. I h
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by drekk 3y ago
So much planning! You have to eat beans AND rice to get all of your essential amino acids. That's two whole foods! Ah well, too complicated. Instead I'll grow alfalfa in the desert to raise and slaughter cattle. I'll eat just
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by drekk 3y ago
I'm not sure how feminism screams? Laughing at the idea that feminism is the main or even a primary antagonist here, and not all the other men laughing at virgin NEETs failing their biological imperative. Total anecdata, none of my soc
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by drekk 3y ago
I'd rather leave those rigid gender roles in the dump where they belong. My mom was the primary breadwinner in my house, and they're decades into a successful marriage with healthy & happy children. Fitness, wealth, status, an
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by drekk 3y ago
... people might sweat or get dirty if they had to bike their office commute, so the only logical option is to accelerate a climate controlled 1-2 ton metal room for each worker or we could reimagine commutes? they only exist because we red
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by drekk 3y ago
I'm a normal man and don't think twice about consuming soy, as humans have done for centuries. In 2018-2019, it was estimated that 1.9 million Americans are considered allergic to soy, compared to 8.2 million for shellfish or 6.1
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by drekk 3y ago
Do people just not know about vegan/vegetarian body builders? Forget about humans. Do you think a horse has problems maintaining muscle mass? We're opportunistic scavengers. We run on nearly anything.
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by drekk 3y ago
"Cutting" isn't a normal diet. Weight lifters do track their macros more closely to make sure they're getting enough protein on a caloric deficit. It's very easy to starve yourself "the wrong way" while d
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by drekk 3y ago
You absolutely can operate in the Chinese market. There are Chinese regulations, and companies like Meta are unwilling to abide by them because the data they're harvesting is the only product.
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by drekk 3y ago
So you walk the last mile? Not accessible to everyone. Neither is accelerating a two ton slab of metal to move one person around from exactly point A to exactly point B (and now you need parking at both points, which adds to the sprawl issu
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by drekk 3y ago
Everyone can be wrong for themselves, sure. I'll stick to the biologists, geneticists, and endocrinologists over a historian trying to sell books. That's adjusting my trust accordingly
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by drekk 3y ago
How many recessions has "Econ 101" predicted? Economics is a "soft science", on the same tier as psychology which people love to ridicule. Understanding how rational actors behave in a microeconomic sense doesn't he
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by drekk 3y ago
Being tossed in solitary confinement because you won't work for $0.40/hr sounds like slavery to me. It's right there in the language of the 13th amendment. Maybe has something to do with the US having the largest prison popul
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by drekk 3y ago
The DSM-V is about clinical diagnoses. Mental disorders are understood as something everyone experiences to varying degrees. You're considered to have something clinically when it impairs your daily life, something psychiatrists have d

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