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by eszed 2y ago
Spark / Readdle. Not a unicorn, but I've been a happy user for years. (Their response to a customer-service request a year or so ago was sobering. Along the lines of "yes, that's a bug we know about, but the developer wh
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by eszed 2y ago
Ha! I read right past that - and in your quote, too - with my brain filling in the expected "bathroom" instead of what's written. Few publications - and probably few primarily for the web - get New Yorker -level copy-editor
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> I think there are more valuable things you can give people than money. I do agree with you about that. In the context of labor law (where this discussion started), the most important - a 40-hour work-week, overtime, minimum wage, worke
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by eszed 2y ago
Can you point to any examples of this happening in the last decade or so? For now, I agree with the GP that: > There are nowhere near enough knowledgeable people who will balk at this stuff.
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by eszed 2y ago
A couple of decades ago I heard "pink-collar" used for jobs that were female-coded (nurse, teacher, personal assistant). <shrug> Yah. Profusion of terminology is confusing.
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Difference in perspective, man. I practice "collective giving" by donating money and time to help those less blessed than I have been, and by voting for measures I believe will strengthen society, even if they're against to m
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> THE COURT: Can we talk about, then, just very practically, why can’t the United States get Mr. Abrego Garcia back? > MR. REUVENI [the Government's lawyer]: Your Honor, I will say, for the Court's awareness, that when this
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by eszed 2y ago
Yes. From that standpoint (which I want to persuade everyone to adopt), we're all "Working Class", and we need to stand together.
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by eszed 2y ago
Oh, yeah. Some certainly are. I think they're the subset towards whom Summers is addressing his argument, in the article under discussion.
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by eszed 2y ago
I agree with everything you say about elite over-production, chasing social status, and cargo-culting material goods. It is indeed, bullshit, that makes many exploitable - which, of course, is the whole point, from the "system's&q
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by eszed 2y ago
I think "appeal to" is the operative term, without necessarily much substance behind it.
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I'm told by my friends who've studied it that Attic Greek - you know, what Plato spoke - is superb for philosophical reasoning, because all of its cases and declinsions allow for a high degree of specificity. I know Saffir-Whorf
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Ha! This is so much the difference between American and Chinese culture. By way of illustration, in my earlier career as an actor one of my favorite ever directors to work with was a woman from a Chinese culture (a very, very successful a
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I find many things admirable because they're silly. :-)
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It can. Qualitatively - having spent the first half of my working life in the arts, and now the second nearly-half in tech - all I can say is that serious artists are every bit as smart and driven and interesting as are the serious people
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by eszed 2y ago
Why do they want meritocracy? The companies I've seen up close want "certified Smart Kid", in which case nearly any degree will do; "pre-trained worker", in which case they require a degree in a particular field; or
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by eszed 2y ago
Charitably, they may mean "the proceeds from their endowments" (or maybe "engorging their endowments", if that's even a proper use of the word), but I think that's a weak point. Proportionally very, very few in
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by eszed 2y ago
"White collar" labor, in a service / knowledge economy doesn't mean "not making real things". Most (?) people on this board do something software or science or product related. Software is real, even if it&#x27
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Just curious: in which direction on the political spectrum have your preferences moved?
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Yeah, I think that's their secret sauce. It's curious that other teams haven't followed suit.
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I was thinking of a maul, yeah. What I've spotted is NFL guys pushing with their hands on a teammate's back, instead of (like in rugby, or what the Eagles do) getting their shoulders against his ass or upper thighs, which gives mo
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by eszed 2y ago
They need to get some rugby coaches in to teach it. That's a super-basic rugby technique, which even I (as only a very casual rugby fan) can see most teams getting wrong.
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by eszed 2y ago
Padded gloves do throw off your swing / bat "feel". You do now see a lot of guys wearing a little rubber donut thing on the thumb of their top hand. That helps a lot with absorbing the vibration from a mis-hit. It still shi
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by eszed 2y ago
You and I both know that! Try explaining it to 18-year olds who hate writing° and think coding / maths / lab-work is all they'll ever need. It doesn't go well. °The real problem was that they didn't read . Sadly, I
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My grandparents - sometime in the '80s - had an early-model cordless phone. It was a lovely object: the ivory-colored plastic handset was a smooth curve, with no sharp edges. Being able to talk on the phone from the backyard was magic!
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by eszed 2y ago
Yep. I gave a similar speech on the first day of every English 101 class I ever taught. (Though, damn, I wish I'd had as concise a formulation as your list of skills. Nicely done.) In my case I largely hoped to head off the resentment
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<Narrator Voice>: There is no fourth level.
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> we can all be like this Yes. Most definitely. Personal experience has often changed my approach to, or the salience of, or - more rarely, because I genuinely try to be both empathetic and rational - my entire opinion about, oh gosh..
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This hypothesis could be tested, now that major league baseball tracks the positions of players in games. In the MLB app they show animations of good outfield plays with "catch difficulty" scores assigned, based (in part) on the s
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I agree. You can, however, make a case that that time period was revolutionary - i.e. that power relationships were transformed - though without (much, at least widespread) violence. That's certainly the argument made by those within

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