earthwalker99

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by earthwalker99 3y ago
Me in my late 20s would have wanted to go to prison for this. Having to pay college tuition to access academic material like this is so insane.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
It must feel nice to forget that your boss can fire you. The bliss of ignorance.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
Garbage computers. Make sure you at least get the premium support option so you can get a full refund when you discover what a piece of shit your laptop is.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
> Leadership is essentially setting a vision: it's setting a direction people want to follow. > Management is about ensuring people are doing the right things. This is all completely incoherent to me. What are "the right t
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
> I don't think there's a good fix short of changing the law ...which would necessitate a revolution, which is why a revolution is necessary.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
No, it cannot be done and it has become apparent to me that nobody cares. They expect all these obvious features that could benefit most users to be attained by a user-maintained git repo that you run with root permissions. It's a shit
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
The sheer lack of solutions handling images in any thoughtful way makes it just unusable for anyone who needs to include images in their notes.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
I have never spoken to a person in real life who I could even imagine disagreeing with this, but I am expecting a supermajority of media and internet voices to create a very different impression.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
It makes being wrong sound impressive and mysterious, so it's here to stay.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
I'm sure they'll be right on that.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
Your analogy leaves out the fact that RSS doesn't work for serving ads, which is why all of this was in Google's interest.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
> I keep hearing about Scuttlebutt for a long time but haven't seen anyone actually using it? Why? It's called Scuttlebutt, meaning it can never be remotely popular enough to function as a worthwhile social network.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
To the same ends the capitalist class has if they choose. I think the risk is necessary to take, given how the alternative has worked out.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
Correct. Workers will never win at a game designed by capital. The only path forward is exercising labor power by withdrawing it for political ends.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
Nobody worth listening to cares about Leica camera bodies independent of Leica glass. There is no alternative to Leica glass. I do not own any Leica equipment myself, but I'm not blind.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
They don't understand how lossy compression works.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
...which makes businesses overall look bad. The US doesn't have regulations that protect workers and consumers. The few regulations we have are all ultimately to protect capital.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
> It's quite literally erasure of factual history, science, geography, everything. As American as apple pie
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
> Google is racing to fix its new AI-powered tool for creating pictures, after claims it was over-correcting against the risk of being racist. "We don't think you fight fire with fire best, we think you fight fire with water b
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
Absolute nonsense. A few polititians is not even remotely synonymous to "states". What a garbage article. And this will never happen in our lifetimes. Only working people collectively could have the power to confront capital as su
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
this is capitalism. why would they care unless the decryption happens this fiscal quarter?
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
yeah, one has to actually be rewarded appropriately for their effort to learn such habits, but capitalism considers it more important to reward owners of capital for doing nothing at all, so we do that instead.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
giving parents time off to spend with their kids would be a lot more effective. the schools can't even teach basic material to poor kids because their home lives are so lacking.
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
> communism is a valid threat to current-state America, as there seems to be a large push towards marxist ideologies I would give my life for this to be true, but clearly the only truth here is that you don't have the first clue wh
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
If only it were protectionism!
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
One of the most important insights raised by the French Revolution and those who study it is that cultural traditions were not challenged. Working people were not willing to part ways with the cultural traditions associated with the mon
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
> I agree it has less utility as a word / set of words though. This is the point I think you are missing. No definitions are "changed" because there is nothing new. It is only regression. It's anti-intellectual at be
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
It's not a "high bar." It's fundamentally different. The Sierra Club is a quintessentially liberal organization, not even nominally left wing in any way. The DSA, however, might be a better candidate for a relative compa
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
definitely
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by earthwalker99 3y ago
Nonsense. The terminology comes from the French Revolution, in which the right wing was for preserving the establishment monarchy. Ever since, "right wing" has colloquially meant support for preserving the established order.

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