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by growlist 6y ago
Interesting point that I hadn't thought of, though I'd counter that art as it's involved in video games is very much a technically skilled endeavour, no?
242.
by growlist 6y ago
Not at all. I was easily successful enough to have continued in the non-technical side, but chose not to. And you should have seen what the marketing team were coming up with back then - we recreated one of their PPT slide backgrounds with
243.
by growlist 6y ago
Having swung away from the technical somewhat and back again, my opinion is that many techies could make a decent fist of the non-technical side if they were forced into it, whereas the reverse would end in absolute disaster.
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by growlist 6y ago
Not sure this quite makes economic sense unless Amazon are magicing the money up from nowhere.
245.
by growlist 6y ago
In the UK we had (pre-CV) virtual full employment, and a reasonable minimum wage. The average person had plenty of other options, and nobody was forcing anyone to work at Amazon.
246.
by growlist 6y ago
Whilst I'm not sure it's healthy to have one company so dominant, and whilst Amazon's product range is not perfect: 1. In terms of logistics it seems to me they handed every other logistic company's arse to them - even t
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by growlist 6y ago
An older colleague of mine a few years back used to come out with some philosophical pearls of wisdom from time to time for us young'uns. I remember him saying once: 'Of course it's not going to be easy all the time - that&#x
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by growlist 6y ago
I'm dubious about the Numbeo value for the UK - 75.36 / 100 seems pretty low. UK tap water is of an extremely high standard.
249.
by growlist 6y ago
There's a kind of snobby attitude at play here sometimes I think, as in: 'of course I wouldn't socialise with my colleagues outside work! They are nowhere near as interesting as me and my super-awesome, quirky and unique bunc
250.
by growlist 6y ago
As opposed to a pastiche of the present...
251.
by growlist 6y ago
God forbid any artist get recognition for painting beautiful pictures that are popular with the general public. Where would that end!? Joking aside it's the same with architecture. Horrific demoralising modernist/post-modern abort
252.
by growlist 6y ago
Who have the choice themselves on whether to isolate or otherwise
253.
by growlist 6y ago
> refusal of anything but palliative care
254.
by growlist 6y ago
Here's a radical idea: allow people that want to ignore lockdown to do so, in exchange for refusal of anything but palliative care if they get sick with Coronavirus.
255.
by growlist 6y ago
I'm glad you said abate and not ablate.
256.
by growlist 6y ago
> may have become an issue because I grew up in a high pressure environment, where a lot is expected from you Interestingly, some of the most successful people I've encountered seemed to be operating out of expectation from various
257.
by growlist 6y ago
If we're lucky we might get out of this with less rapacious globalization and more robust and self-reliant individual nations, which I believe would be better for each country and the planet. I'm perfectly willing to suffer a litt
258.
by growlist 6y ago
Sounds like a perfect time for a windfall tax. I mean, these companies do want to show their solidarity during a pandemic, don't they?
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by growlist 6y ago
Good luck man. I'm mildly visually impaired myself and the average person gives it no consideration whatsoever.
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by growlist 7y ago
You don't think these kinds of plans exist somewhere already?
261.
by growlist 7y ago
I would argue that at least in terms of the environment that wasn't a particulary 'conservative' act, wouldn't you? It's possible for both sides to be wrong. But when people like John McDonnell - ex-Labour Shadow Ch
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by growlist 7y ago
> Not sure how you can care about protecting the environment while explicitly ignoring investigation into what’s harming the environment? Can you point to where I advocated for this? I was just pointing out that the groups that have cho
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by growlist 7y ago
I'm a small c conservative, and as part of this I care about the environment, and from my perspective there are a number of ways that the environmental movement don't do themselves any favours. Firstly there are those amongst them
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by growlist 7y ago
> by six it was hard to imagine our species surviving I suspect before we got near extinction point there would be plans for the last few tens of thousands to survive underground/underwater/in domes/at high altitude/l
265.
by growlist 7y ago
Public sector contracting.
266.
by growlist 7y ago
What does this contribute other than snarkiness?
267.
by growlist 7y ago
Try Blackfriars to Brighton for an eye opener.
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by growlist 7y ago
Is that representative of most journeys? I suspect not. Apart from that I'd argue that the stubborn popularity of cars tells its own story.
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by growlist 7y ago
Really??? If you want to get into the environmental side of things there is endless ammo. We could start with Germany intervening to water down carbon emissions policy in order to protect its auto industry, and go from there...
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by growlist 7y ago
My neighbour literally said to me over the fence the other day 'yay! furloughed!' with a thumbs up and a smile. I wasn't impressed.

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