el_jay

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   by el_jay 4y ago

   But do we need to eat almonds and avocados grown in a [REDACTED] desert? And whether we are talking factories or mansions, it’s behind the big walls that you find big resource use. Blaming “consumers” for climate change, if they are not als
2. 32.▲
   by el_jay 4y ago

   Appreciate the honest description of Scott’s brutal experience with heightism - which at my 5’10” is still palpably present, so I cannot imagine what he dealt with beyond what was shared here - but the whole tone of the article is so relent
3. 33.▲
   by el_jay 4y ago

   Feel the same as someone who dilettantizes with text-to-image synthesis - strong polarity between “how is this any different from the rest of the OSS movement which I support” and a feeling that these images are somehow gratuitous and… faci
4. 34.▲
   by el_jay 5y ago

   That old (in tech terms) chestnut - “If the penalty for a crime is paying a fine, that law only exists for the lower classes.”
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   by el_jay 5y ago

   To those here riffing on the theme of “this misrepresents the volume and beneficiaries of the transactions involved” - you’re not wrong. Accurate representation of public info like this is a top organisational problem for our species at the
6. 36.▲
   by el_jay 6y ago

   Let’s not forget Jardine Matheson, who in 1840 persuaded the British government to start a war with the Qing Dynasty over their right to keep addicting the Chinese population to opium[1][2]. The Brits got lots of mileage out of that one - H