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by gsk22 5y ago
You're misunderstanding what the phrase "how are you" means in the US. It is not a literal question, but a set phrase with implicit social rules for "correct" responses. This doesn't mean the person asking is f
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by gsk22 5y ago
If you are a former KKK member who truly wishes to renounce your former beliefs and reform, you should be aware of what an uphill battle it will be to rejoin normal society after espousing such abhorrent hateful beliefs. You have to be awar
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by gsk22 5y ago
I don't think virtue signalling explains the phenomenon fully. There seems to be another large group: people who are just over-cautious and not willing to take any amount of risk. I have several friends/family members who struggle
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by gsk22 5y ago
Miserable is defined as "wretchedly unhappy"...you really would feel that way without a partner? That sounds like an unhealthy mindset. I understand not being as happy or fulfilled without a partner, but _miserable_?
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by gsk22 5y ago
There's a big difference between "I am happier with a partner" and "I am miserable without a partner".
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by gsk22 6y ago
Financial worth absolutely has to do with the fairness or lack thereof. Bezos has created nearly 200 billion dollars (!) of wealth for himself since founding Amazon, so debating the moral value of those gains in comparison to how everyday e
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by gsk22 6y ago
> Safety issues at US labs are not kept secret No, they are "inadvertently" misclassified [1] or kept secret because of bioterrorism laws [2]. > and they have also never caused a deadly global pandemic. Neither has a Chinese
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by gsk22 6y ago
If you read the Bugzilla ticket, there is no indication this change is driven by a designer on a crusade. No need to be condescending to an entire profession.
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by gsk22 6y ago
Is it actually hard to scale or just expensive? Breyers mass-produced "non-fake" ice cream for years (at a high price point) before switching to the fake stuff more recently. I'm guessing most people just aren't willing
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by gsk22 6y ago
> We are no longer ever allowed to make personal risk management decisions. Living life like there's no pandemic is not just personal risk, it's risk to other people and to society as a whole. If you don't understand that
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by gsk22 6y ago
Well, flour isn't a unit...
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by gsk22 6y ago
How will one data point (did this person test positive?) be used against minority groups? I'm as skeptical of govt data collection as the next HNer, but I fail to see how this particular piece of information could be weaponized.
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by gsk22 6y ago
Rich people are not rich solely because of how hard they worked. THAT is an inhumane thing to say, as if poverty would vanish tomorrow if only the downtrodden masses put in a little effort.
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by gsk22 6y ago
If you want to play that game, the original statement was: "Culture wars have invaded both work and family life." I questioned whether this was really "invading" family life - that implies that across large swathes of th
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by gsk22 6y ago
I am American, which is why I was asking. I just don't understand how "culture war" is any different than "political disagreement over social issues". Why do we need a scary new term?
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by gsk22 6y ago
Honestly, I don't know what you're on about. The term "culture war" is extremely vague and with an obvious negative connotation, but as far as I can tell you're simply complaining that politics are more visible in e
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by gsk22 6y ago
Disagreeing with your assessment is not gaslighting. I do agree America is more politicized now, but that doesn't mean the answer is to retreat into a shell and pretend the issues don't exist.
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by gsk22 6y ago
Apathy and centrism are friends of evil governance everywhere. To quote Howard Zinn (even if you disagree with his politics - it applies to both sides of the aisle): "You can't be neutral on a moving train. Events are already movi
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by gsk22 6y ago
So in other words, it _hasn't_ invaded your family life. "Some of my family disagrees with my views" is different than "my family life has been upended/invaded".
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by gsk22 6y ago
I ignore anyone who puts "left" in scare quotes. It's an ad hominem distraction from the substance of the argument. As for the claim that Borat is "nearly the most racist movie in history," that shows the author&#x2
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by gsk22 6y ago
How has this so-called culture war invaded your family life?
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by gsk22 6y ago
What does that have to do with protecting your family? No one in Minneapolis or Kenosha died as a direct result of looting/civil unrest, and no one invaded any personal dwellings. In both cities, the only deaths were protesters killed
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by gsk22 6y ago
This is not true at all. Japanese Kanji comprise only a few thousand characters (~2000 being considered sufficient for functional literacy). Chinese has well over 50000 characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji
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by gsk22 6y ago
I just use an Android call recording app. I enable it before I call customer support lines, and leave it off otherwise.
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by gsk22 6y ago
Are you in a two-party consent state [0]? If not, you can legally record the conversation without informing them. I record all phone interactions with corporations by default. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone
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by gsk22 6y ago
Sure, your city council may pass the ordinance but that doesn't mean the police will obey it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/san-francisco-police-a...
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by gsk22 6y ago
So in other words, it's an antonym to "senseless violence": as long as the perpetrator has a known agenda (whether implicitly or explicitly stated), it's terrorism? Doesn't that also make things like war and police
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by gsk22 6y ago
Maybe I'm just an ignorant American, but what is the issue with that definition? Lack of an explicit political goal?
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by gsk22 6y ago
No it doesn't, it's just one anecdote. Anecdotally, most people in my office are excited to return, including those who work in an open workspace.
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by gsk22 6y ago
In what situations do the answers to the inverse differ from the original? It seems to me it's just a rewording of the original question with a double negative. ("How do I not not fly to Spain?")

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