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by floor2 4y ago
On the internet, it's impossible to know who is knowingly spreading propaganda and who actually believes what they're saying, but... does anyone actually believe that's a reasonable definition of "far right"? Like,
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by floor2 4y ago
That seems optimistic. We won't stop eating beef 3x a day even though we know it's literally destroying the world, we still buy diamonds mined by child slaves and clothes sewn by people making pennies per hour and even the sanctio
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by floor2 4y ago
It takes a better alternative for people to change though. Spotify is borderline unusable to me now, it's about 50/50 ads/songs. But I still haven't uninstalled it. I think my usage is now something like, after listening
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by floor2 4y ago
Meanwhile, I can't create an account without giving a phone number. I tried to create a Twitter account, but was either instantly banned the moment I completed the sign-up form (using an incognito window) or was blocked from completing
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by floor2 4y ago
> People just aren't interesting enough to keep an entire platform alive This is a really interesting point, and probably mostly true. I'd add onto it, that even for people who are doing lots of interesting things, that Instag
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by floor2 4y ago
I don't see anything here that seems at all like "conspiring against the shareholders". He wanted to change the company in ways that he thought were better, but he couldn't get the support of the other stakeholders so he
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by floor2 4y ago
So the value the sales people provided was successfully bribing the executives. You're not exactly wrong here, but many that's a kinda hilarious example. AI doesn't yet know how to operate in the grey area of not-quite-illega
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by floor2 4y ago
This statement is fundamentally flawed on two different core aspects. First, the phenomenon you're referring to is "natural monopolies" which is a well understood situation which appears in every freshman-level Economics 101
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by floor2 4y ago
Or even further, look at professional cycling in the 90s and 2000s. It wasn't just people doping to break through their ceiling to reach the top, literally everyone at the top was doping and it was necessary to be able to keep up. Even
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by floor2 4y ago
I'm confused as to how you don't understand that it's a joke. None of those statements are literal. He does not believe those things. Nobody does. Those statements are jokes because they are absurd, unexpected and ironic. Thi
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by floor2 4y ago
That's not even remotely similar to Joe Rogan though? He has a podcast where he invites a wide variety of guests, and mostly lets them tell their stories without interruption or argument. Sometimes those guests say things people don&#x
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by floor2 4y ago
This is just a ridiculous straw-man argument. Functioning roads and schools supported by taxes is supported by 99.9% of people. People only object to paying high taxes for wasteful, inefficient bureaucracies and corrupt deals to pay well-co
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by floor2 4y ago
> abortion and slavery aren't even comparable Funny connection between the two regarding "who deserves human rights" though. In the 1700s people said slaves weren't really fully human and deserving of rights. Today pe
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by floor2 4y ago
Your confusion is because you fully believe the myths you've been told. I recognize a message board comment isn't going to change your mind any more than if I tell a devoutly religious person "God isn't real" or an
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by floor2 4y ago
Lol no that's not "extremely obvious" at all. This is a preposterous hand-waving away of hundreds of distinct factors so that you can excuse massive, systemic bias against boys as being a natural outcome. Would you so flippan
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by floor2 4y ago
While you're correct about the native people often living as nomads and lacking clothing or permanent structures, it's worth clarifying the "genocide" claim which is a source of mass misunderstanding about American histo
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by floor2 4y ago
I'm sadly unsurprised at the barbarism of how they killed them. Iowa is one of multiple states in the USA that makes it a crime for employees to film animal torture or abuse in such facilities. The status-quo of how beef, pork and poul
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by floor2 4y ago
My optimistic take is that Jan 6th is actually the counterbalancing act that will lead to a less violent future. Throughout much of 2020, both the dominant media narratives and political leaders of the Democrats were very supportive of viol
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by floor2 4y ago
For what it's worth, you might be overvaluing the impact of youtubers due to your own filter bubble. I've never watched an influencer breakdown/reaction/etc about a tv show on youtube and correspondingly the algorithm es
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by floor2 4y ago
This is peak "whataboutism" and false-equivalences. All of the problems you've mentioned have some element of truth to them, but are also grossly exaggerated either by the activists working to address them (you have to make t
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by floor2 5y ago
This statement is factually wrong. I'll hope that in correcting it maybe some readers on HN can help learn about this common misunderstanding, and it's important ramifications for understanding the often demonized white working cl
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by floor2 5y ago
I care! You should care! Everyone should care! This stuff matters, it matters today and it matters incrementally. A 10% decrease in carbon emissions today means millions of acres less wildfire destruction in this decade. It means preventing
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by floor2 5y ago
That's just plain old-fashioned bigotry. Literally every culture on Earth has had some form of "never trust a <blank>" where the blank was whatever race, religion, nationality, tribe, ethnicity, etc was their neighbor o
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by floor2 5y ago
From HN guidelines: > Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity The above comment clearly violates both of these
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by floor2 5y ago
So about 3-4 days of work as an entry-level Facebook developer, or 3-3.5 weeks of work at a McDonalds (based on every fast-food place around me having billboards up offering starting wages of $18-20/hr). Getting access to emergency lif
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by floor2 5y ago
Because, like every other rage-bait article about healthcare in America, it's a blatant lie. The article states in addition to the x-ray that "the bill included an abdominal CT scan, medication, and two nights in a hospital room&q
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by floor2 5y ago
I'll start by flipping your question to the things I'm incredibly happy I did when I was younger. Which are all sorts of "bucket list" items which are best done while young. Aging in your 30s sneaks up on you. At 30 you
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by floor2 5y ago
And where do you imagine this "mind" exists which is separate from physical reality for it to exist while "nothing is physically wrong"? The answer of course, is that there is no such thing. Perhaps the fatigue/depr
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by floor2 5y ago
There's good news though if anyone reading this is concerned that it means they might be getting beef from Mexico that was raised in unsanitary conditions, with dangerous drugs, unhealthy diets and while exploiting low paid workers in
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by floor2 5y ago
So roughly, everyone should wear bullet proof vests and gas masks, because it's unreasonable to mandate that people not shoot guns into the air or spray mace whenever they want. We have mandates for how wiring and plumbing need to work

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