forestrywat

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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Did I say all, anywhere in my post? What in my post suggests that the left or the right is a monoculture?
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
For sure. Doesn't mean checking media bias fact check or whatever isn't worth a moment.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Who founded it, who funds it, what is the broad consensus on the coverage they typically run, what do I see in their coverage when I look through it, what have they retracted, what have they not retracted, what advertisers do they permit.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
So advertising entitles you to sales?
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
The case is laid out pretty clearly in the article. Spend some time thinking about it.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Is quillette a reputable source itself?
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
You can defend yourself without genocide. You can imprison people without raping them. It turns out there's more options between give up and scorched earth.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
I suspect that's true, but the proportion of people is wildly different. Every leftist I know is anti genocide, and sees Gaza and the West Bank as unconscionable. Some may then take that to antisemitism (rather than simply opposing Zio
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
I don't think you put much thought into the article before you carelessly bandied about the phrase "Thoughtless take." You certainly didn't read it in much depth. The author is talking about search ads explicitly and nar
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Unconscious values are still values.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
It's eminently solvable. Make the practice illegal. Or break up big companies. Or you progressively tax on revenue, so it becomes increasingly inefficient to a mega corporation. Or require companies above a certain size become increasi
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
We recently had a post highly upvoted here that collected bus tickets from an earlier era. It showed the unique moment in time where such fares were highly detailed, unique pieces of art. Ultimately destined to be single use and largely ext
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
I worked in a bookshop. I know all about this. I've seen pallets of books with covers torn off so they can be reported destroyed. Here's a bookseller describing some of the books, which he believes are going to middlemen who are p
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Most reporting says they are being destroyed. Page flipping is slow compared to cutting the spine and scanning the pages.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Not really. It's not to my taste, but I've found their journalism to generally be lefty but focused on important events. Like Amazon consuming and presumably destroying rare books should be enraging to everyone, regardless of poli
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Liberal isn't leftish. Liberal is your Clinton/Biden types, who are center right on the global political stage. (And only in the weird broken US political scene are they considered left wing).
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Post delivery. You can send a letter anywhere in the us for less than a dollar. Broadband. Look at municipal broadband in Chattanooga. EPB is cheap and offers high quality service. Health care. Typically socialized systems are cheaper. Medi
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
You sure it wasn't database coherency or some other issue on the tech side? Comments are basically never ever deleted here. Even the most vile racist or ableist or homophobic comments just get flagged to death and left up.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Your comment wasn't deleted. Are you sure you don't have it minimized? (The minus sign next to it.)
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Governments regularly do things cheaper than private industry. And regularly do things more expensively. Turns out, governments can be efficient and run things well. You just have to tune the incentive structure correctly. (Aside, I don&#x2
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
That's just "Twitter brain" at this point, right? Hard to imagine anyone leftish still being there.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Was direct file exorbitant expensive? Or lackluster? What about all the 18F work? On the flip side, plenty of private companies are expensive and corrupt. I think it's possible both can be good and both can be bad.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Sounds like a good topic for research!
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
US had a marginal tax rate that went up to 90%. The nordics have strong progressive taxation. Wealth taxes too, like the ISF in France or the taxes in Switzerland or Spain. Wage compression, especially by increasing minimum wage alongside s
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
If the two points you've posted are true, point me to some replicated studies that say so.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
I know it sucks to wait. But it's irresponsible to open up everyone to surgery for an unproven technique.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Gotta get our Christmas treats or else.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
You aren't helping your case. You type like someone who puts pictures up on their wall with red string between them. I don't think a conspiracy is necessary here. Three factors are at play: 1) It needs research. That takes a long
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Oh you'll get no support for me about Biden. Shutting down rail strikes and declaring Covid over very clearly put him in the "protect the owners, not the people" camp.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
There are people being arrested for being in Signal chats where non violent protests are being discussed. People being arrested for carrying water bottles. ICE is shooting people who are not even in the way, just making noise across the str

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