howaboutnope

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by howaboutnope 5y ago
> a few bureaucrats deciding how they believe things should be Classic. > What has been created by this half century of massive corporate propaganda is what's called "anti-politics". So that anything that goes wrong, yo
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When this stuff fully blooms it won't have a "downside", because that would imply some other thing of which that downside is a side. It will kill any resemblance of humans, and enabling it, nay, failing to fight it tooth and
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
Expanded version of the quote in one of the comments: > Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
> a large part of their identity and self-worth is tied up in their work and net worth… they get respect and power… their roles give them a position in society. For many, they get used to the amount of money they’ve made but it’s never e
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
The idea of "outsourcing blame" mentioned in several comments seems really weird to me: If I make the choice to outsource something, and whoever I outsourced it to fucks up, I'm still the one who made the decision to outsourc
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Portable nuclear reactor program sparks controversy(nationaldefensemagazine.org)
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
It's superior in the short term, more convenient, but in the long run it will leads to those people going away, and having no means to fight back against being made to go away.
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
> People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
> So, I talked to Steve on the phone [about adding a standard pen and penholder]. I said, “Look Steve. You know, you’ve made something that is perfect for 2-year-olds and perfect for 92-year-olds. But everybody in-between learns to use t
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
And nothing of value was lost.
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
You treat people like toddlers, you can't even look them in the eye and tell them that, and then call me childish? Anything else, you anonymous coward? The fact that you can't tell that to the people you do it to says it all. No,
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
So either you live in a place where human rights don't exist, or will be in an entirely new world of pain and humiliation once you are found out. And in the meantime, since can't own up to your snooping, you can't act on it a
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
That's hardly doing him justice.. https://www.salon.com/2012/06/17/when_chomsky_wept/ Call it a fluff piece, sure, there certainly isn't even an attempt of criticism in it, but it still matches
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
> If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately you internalize what you're saying, because it's too hard to believe one thing and say another. I can see it very strikingly in my own background
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
That's way too tame and already too hardcore for HN.
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
"The forest would be pretty quiet if only the best birds sang." I suck at singing, but still love it, and when I sing, I get a totally different kind of joy than I get from listening to someone else sing well.
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by howaboutnope 6y ago
Maybe not something to optimize for , but still something to optimize when you can do it without sacrificing speed or functionality in other areas.
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by howaboutnope 6y ago
> it was like he was being lobotomized, and begged for them constantly https://imgur.com/a/8xPGPJ7 Thanks to people dismissing ElsaGate as "just weird videos", that issue never got the attention it actuall
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by howaboutnope 6y ago
I have the opposite viewpoint, in that I think the one real leap autonomous weapons represent is that they can be programmed to treat human and any other life as even less valuable than the most depraved psychopath would, and therefore ca
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by howaboutnope 6y ago
The same would be true if he hadn't received such a low amount, so that's not an argument for it not being low.
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by howaboutnope 6y ago
> The so-called accumulation of capital which gave birth to the bourgeoisie changed the very conception of property and wealth: they were no longer considered to be the results of accumulation and acquisition but their beginnings; wealth
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by howaboutnope 6y ago
Yeah, and the difference between drinking a glass of water and drowning is also just one of scale and rate. Same for a pat on the back, and being violently attacked -- it's just physical impact, the only difference is the speed. > I