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by gatlin 5y ago
My charitable read of the GP comment is that they are pointing out how ludicrous the stock increase is, but that's my reading. Side note, how much attention does your username usually garner you?
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by gatlin 5y ago
Because you won't always have it so lucky and also because other people deserve nice pay and working conditions too.
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by gatlin 5y ago
I will say nothing that incriminates me but I have broken plenty, plenty of laws in my life. And I have done unspeakably shitty things to people that were perfectly legal. Someone's criminal record is a different kind of CV to me, simp
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by gatlin 5y ago
The single best tool for rehabilitation, for the convict and the society around them, is meaningful activity. People hurt each other for reasons that are often as sympathetic as they are ultimately intolerable. I think it's wonderful t
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by gatlin 5y ago
I think more highly of people who are honest about their emotions and express them, instead of pretending that the motivating force behind almost all of our personal behavior isn't "relevant." Emotional ≠ unproductive.
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by gatlin 5y ago
Almost as little as me, an American programmer.
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by gatlin 5y ago
You inserted detail here not present originally. I know anything said in a zoom worth remembering will be written down. Why not save some steps?
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by gatlin 5y ago
The narrative against him is his refusal to adopt better policies. He wants to be seen as supporting M4A but when it's all done and dusted, he doesn't. That alone will prevent me from giving him a second look. We must look to redi
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by gatlin 5y ago
For me you have justified precisely why I agree with the parent comment.
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by gatlin 5y ago
Okay well for others it's not. Did you mean to add to this?
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by gatlin 5y ago
Whatever it is, it demonstrably isn't targeted harassment of the people already in the throes of addiction, poverty, etc. Drugs result in violence because they are illegal, not the other way around. Portugal is oft cited but for good r
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by gatlin 5y ago
Really, I think we should sincerely and earnestly question what problem the police are presumed to solve. The most useful functions they serve in my area are to help direct traffic during construction, for which they absolutely do not need
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by gatlin 5y ago
This advice is warm spirited and practical and I endorse taking actions to make oneself safer. But , also, it's disgusting that anyone should be harassed by police and feel unsafe walking where they live. That is a terrible status quo
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by gatlin 5y ago
Give them real investment in the business, by way of shares or a vote or something. Next!
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by gatlin 5y ago
Tech people in my experience are highly susceptible to survivorship bias combined with a level of delusional Randian optimism to gird themselves against the truth that they are pawns in a sadistic machine.
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by gatlin 5y ago
And I don't know why you have to smear beliefs that differ from yours and the people holding them as "paranoid conspiracy." You can present your case without name calling (if you have one).
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by gatlin 5y ago
Why do you doubt that?
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by gatlin 5y ago
I suspect this was rhetorical but I'm feeling positive this morning. You're not stupid, many civic ideas I was raised to believe turned out to be folktales.
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by gatlin 5y ago
It's definitely an artifact of my personality but I don't get the sense they are unwilling, though I imagine they would be coerced anyway and you could certainly start a discussion about how meaningful their consent would be in th
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by gatlin 6y ago
I heard about EA from a person I respect, and so that really colored my perception of it because I think he, specifically, wouldn't do such a bad job. But having some time to think about it, that's really the problem with it: we h
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by gatlin 6y ago
I'm getting some kind of paywall. It's all relative but in general if you're hoarding wealth beyond anything you could possibly ever make use of while the people around you want for necessities, you are behaving as an opponen
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by gatlin 6y ago
Eh, even we think it's a reach to connect antikythera to George H W Bush like that.
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by gatlin 6y ago
Surely the simpler solution is to stop putting humans in cages. It's not clear that it benefits anyone anywhere.
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by gatlin 6y ago
This is not a troll, but a genuine call to question an assumption: what utility does policing have? I see no evidence that they present any kind of solution to economic or social issues of any kind. They will cage or hurt people or tear apa
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by gatlin 6y ago
What happened this year which leads you to believe in a "black privilege," and why would such a topic need to be discussed at the exclusion of discussing white privilege?
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by gatlin 6y ago
How is that relevant to the parent comment?
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by gatlin 6y ago
> So people with homes and food don't commit crimes? This position isn't advanced anywhere in the article, and certainly not by the excerpt you quoted.
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by gatlin 6y ago
> We have no idea how to do that. I agree. However, my response if I intentionally don't over-think it, is "well she learns from a single example because that experience was painful and she wants to minimize pain." Granted
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by gatlin 6y ago
In what ways is it a good place to be?
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by gatlin 6y ago
Seconding this for anyone reading!

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