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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
I suggest you step outside of your circle. When I did, I found that many lower and middle class parents were using pirating setups that I didn't even know existed . For example, I learned about PopcornTime from a single parent who ran
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Similar niche job boards charge many multiples of $99 to list an open position.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> I'd rather spend no more than $25/mo on tv and $50 for >=100mbit internet. Thats an ideal number considering I spend less on electricity each month. Agreed. Other countries are able to do it, but cable companies and ISPs
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> should the state implement mental health screening for police officers? Yes, for a very good reason. Currently, incentives are such that police are rewarded with long careers and large pensions for avoiding mental healthcare. Despite
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> Does anyone have any suggestions for how we should actually handle situations like these? You shouldn't be able to call in a hit on someone by calling the cops on them.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
If soldiers in an active war zone can follow their rules of engagement and resist shooting civilians even though they're scared, so can cops.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> It really depends. In the past, throwing opioids at chronic pain patients and calling it a day was par for the course. Now, there's a level of awareness that not only are opioids not very good for managing chronic pain all of th
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
We spent the better part of decade catching and locking up doctors who prescribed opioids out of guidelines, so much so that doctors are now terrified of prescribing them to people who legitimately need them. The problem is that the prescri
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Bankruptcy exists as a safety net for failed capitalists.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> This is not true It is true. The Sacklers will never see the inside of a prison and will remain billionaires after the lawsuits and settlements.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> So I'm not sure what you expect me to do. There's no country I can move to that is doing significantly better. The only action I can see is to attempt to change what is happening here. The difference is that in the western
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> Simple VLAN-enabled switches don't cost that much any more. They're dirt cheap and have been for the better part of a decade. If you're looking to upgrade, cost isn't a reason not to.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
While we wait for Star Trek magic, our economic system refuses to account for its inability to maintain a robust, sustainable and healthy agriculture industry, or its destruction of the environment.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
No, someone else doing a bad thing doesn't make doing that bad thing okay.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
A computer is a bad metaphor for the brain, there's no reason to strain the metaphor even further by dragging threading into it.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
No, being wealthy means that the Sacklers belong to a class that our system is designed to protect. They will not face prison time, and they will remain billionaires even after the lawsuits and settlements. The only time someone who belongs
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> The challenge is investing the right amount of resources that retain the necessary minerals, is ecologically sustainable long term and healthy. Our economic system refuses to account for these things, and refuses any attempt at being
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
No, it turns out that the adherents of the religion of "love thy neighbor" and "it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" have no problem with our eco
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
I wouldn't doubt that meat suffers from similar nutrient deficiencies. After all, livestock are fed from the same supply chain.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> Growing food has turned into an engineering problem where people think you solve it by investing the least possible resources into it. Our economic system optimizes for exactly this.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
For a blood pressure medication, 1 in 8,000 is not a small risk. Serzone, an antidepressant, has a similar risk rate for inducing liver failure, and was taken off the market.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> These comments, if true, lend credability that the FDA is more regulatory capture than actual useful regulation. It lends more credibility to the fact that the FDA is notoriously underfunded when it comes to ensuring the safety of dr
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> The first three pages are all sites with extremely watered-down content and little to none of the cross-referencing links that make wikipedia a good exploratory tool (and a natural fit to PageRank). Those pages are littered with Goog
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Yes. If a corporation wants access to my health data, they need to ask for permission.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
We wouldn't need to wait for Slack to get around to implementing a dark mode interface if we could just use the protocol with clients of our choosing.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Well, if you bought a new iPad mini in 2014, Apple is deprecating your device in this release. Based on previous iPad deprecations, your iPad Air 2 will probably be deprecated within the next two years. Convenience and security wise, you&#x
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Looks like I was wrong. Thanks for the reference and stats!
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
There are plenty of companies and entrepreneurs that aren't artificially propped up by VC money that are waiting for any opportunity to eat Uber/Lyft's lunch. In fact, many regional ride-hailing app companies already are.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
This is a false dichotomy. There are plenty of employer-employee relationships that are flexible and not full-time. I'd wager to say that the majority of Americans are employed in such an arrangement.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> I'm not a fan of all these moves to treat drivers as employees for one simple reason: you can drive for more than one company at the same time. This is a non-point. People often have more than one job, and they're considere

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