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by hypeit 3y ago
They're indigenous, nothing is being "handed over" it's land that they were forced to live on when they were forced of their original land in the area. They already have sovereignty.
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by hypeit 3y ago
I think all the Elon Musk fans are already giving him their money via Twitter Blue, so this will have exactly zero uptake. It will probably kill off Twitter for good though, so that's a win.
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by hypeit 3y ago
> Postmodernism rejects the possibility of unmediated reality or objectively-rational knowledge, asserting that all interpretations are contingent on the perspective from which they are made;[5] claims to objective fact are dismissed as
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by hypeit 3y ago
> That's unkind. Apple has a 2.75 trillion dollar market cap. You don't need to feel sorry for them. At their valuation and multiple they better damn well be delivering the most amazing stuff you've ever seen on a regu
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by hypeit 3y ago
I think they're mixing two different things. Yes, you can go to a lot of museums in NY. No, living in NY doesn't provide an easier and more serendipitous social environment for families than the average US city.
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by hypeit 3y ago
Bumping into people you know is more likely in a small city than a large one. > being able to walk over to their home easily Unless your friend (or you) lives on the G or some other impossible to get to place in NY.
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by hypeit 3y ago
Well you talked about having ice cream and going to parks, so I'd say yes pretty much everywhere in the US has that. Other places are also much more walkable than Brooklyn, tons of smaller cities have started focusing on revitalizing t
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by hypeit 3y ago
You should really get out of NYC sometime. Pretty much every city and even mid-sized town in the US has what you're describing. A lot of it is far easier to navigate than Brooklyn as well.
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by hypeit 3y ago
I would argue that's not the case. The entire concept of "reality" is left to the individual in post-modern thought. I think eliminating the notion of authorship would be a solidly post-modern position to take.
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by hypeit 3y ago
> I could argue that, but it would be wrong. You wouldn't be wrong, you would just be post-modern. As a post-modernist viewer, I decide the context that I want to place media in.
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by hypeit 3y ago
This seems like the most interesting thing to happen to pop music in quite some time. It's been about hoovering up as much cash as possible from teenagers for the past 70 years so putting label created bubblegum in a steelcage deathmat
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by hypeit 3y ago
It's actually not, every city in the US has packed parks and stuff to do.
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by hypeit 3y ago
> We can see this shift everywhere. The characters of the biggest shows of the '90s — "Friends," "Seinfeld," "Cheers" — spent the overwhelming majority of their time hanging out at the café, diner, and
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by hypeit 3y ago
> Slashing funding ≠ defunding. I actually think "defunding" is the perfect way to describe slashing funding. We should start defunding/slashing now because the budgets are huge . It may asymptotically approach zero, bu
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by hypeit 3y ago
> Bureaucracies, if left unmanaged as they are today, will always find ways to increase their own budget or resource. This is why you put pressure in the opposite direction by taking away funding from these bloated and toxic organizati
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by hypeit 3y ago
That's absolutely not true. The impoverished communities are the ones most damaged by over policing. Common sense would tell you that if the massive police budgets were invested into bettering the health of those same communities, that
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by hypeit 3y ago
> Policy doesn't keep them in line. This is correct. It's also the argument for ending qualified immunity and defunding the police.
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by hypeit 3y ago
> I don't want to defund the police; I do want them to behave like they are part of the neighborhood and not its enforcers. The only way this can be achieved is through defunding the police. Take away all of their military arsenal
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by hypeit 3y ago
> these units don't get built overnight These units don't get built at all without immigration since that's where much of the labor pool is coming from. The problem isn't immigration, the problem is that the US hous
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by hypeit 3y ago
I am describing a socialistic policy, which I think private but mandatory for-profit insurance makes a great case for. We already have government controls in place, if we lived in a "capitalist society", there would be no such thi
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by hypeit 3y ago
> Ok so your idea is to have the government be in the insurance business? Yes, I think all insurance should be nationalized. You may not agree, but accusing me of not thinking clearly is an ad hominem.
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by hypeit 3y ago
> after you pay for marketing There should be no marketing if it's mandated. These companies should not be run for profit since having insurance is required by law in many situations.
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by hypeit 3y ago
The problem is when you combine "mandated" with "for profit". The two should never go together. If it's mandated, I want exactly zero of my dollars going toward executive compensation, dividends, stock buybacks, adv
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by hypeit 3y ago
> An insurance company is not a charity it’s just a profit engine. Odd then that so many forms of insurance are mandated by the government.
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by hypeit 3y ago
People's bad behavior has consequences. When you tie your identity to a brand, your personal behavior will be tied to the value of that brand. Every public persona knows this.
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by hypeit 3y ago
Those could (partially) be downstream effects of Portnoy's actions. I know I associate them with the brand.
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by hypeit 3y ago
Maybe they want to get rid of the Barstool name because of stuff like this: https://www.mediaite.com/sports/barstool-founder-dave-portno...
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by hypeit 3y ago
> So instead of flaming one tiny fun thing The point is it's not "fun", it's Musk powertripping on his employees while he creates terrible working conditions.
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by hypeit 3y ago
I mean Tesla is notorious for poor working conditions. Musk may be having fun, but that's not the general experience of working at his companies. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/18/te
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by hypeit 3y ago
I didn't say anything about titles. I said taking business less serious is how you make frivolous decisions like ripping out lidar. I'm hardly the only person who finds his moves suspect: https://www.reuters.com/te

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