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by iammisc 5y ago
Facebook is evil because it censors not because people engage in "wrongthink". That Americans can have any other take on this is frankly shocking.
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This is technically true but de facto not. It's like arguing that Ukraine controls Crimea because legally (according to themselves and others) they do. In my experience when this argument is made, I typically follow it up by "well
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Those with one track minds tend to excel specifically at the one track they dedicate themselves to while failing at other things. There are also those who are good at many things. Both have valuable skills (and both are actually well compen
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It doesn't matter. People don't read the old new York times. They read the current day and share that information with friends.
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Too late. Policy has been made and polls gauging the publics perceptions of said policies have already been taken. Now the pundits can use the fake polls from the retracted news items to justify ever more increasing regulation of daily life
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My aunt can't get the vax because the first dose sent her to the hospital. Now she can't work because of the vax mandates require her to be fully vaxxed
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Yup... A different liability and legal profile.
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There is no fully approved vaccine available in the United States. Most working people now need one to work or they face termination as loss of livelihood Stop pretending it's not required. We're not all trust finders.
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> It's as if the notion of people being arbitrarily born more or less with a knack for something is evil. The stretch from person A is a better programmer / SW engineer than B to 'thus, person A is innately better' is
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by iammisc 5y ago
Why is it that only those making my argument must go into great detail, but those pretending you can print endlessly with no inflation do not?
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I did?
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> he majority of people in this case don’t, on average, “follow what they’re told.” They’re very capable of evaluating facts and data and responding accordingly. That’s what’s happening here. Given articles like this, it seems unclear th
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by iammisc 5y ago
Okay. Here are more important things that were short then, and are still short: 1. Computer chips, and things that depend on them like cars 2. Labor 3. Groceries (have you seen the stores?) You are talking about trivial items, like baking y
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Nothing is permanent. I am claiming they will be with us for a long while. Transitory means like a few weeks or months. Not close to a year.
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I agree with you... that's why I said that my friend. I understand completely that they were lying against Trump. I'm trying to get others to see that. They cover for the democrats (fiery but mostly peaceful protests... lol, what
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> Like it or not 2019 was the best year that the working class and low income have had in the US for a very long time. Real wage growth was record high, unemployment was record low. It was an incredible time (if you don’t see this: pleas
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by iammisc 5y ago
It spontaneously resolved as people chose to not do projects.
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> Also, let's be fair, most of the "critical reporting" under Trump was not "The administration forecasts x% economic growth, but experts disagree" variety, it was more like "Wait, did the president just tel
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by iammisc 5y ago
Yes, I've read many articles on MMT and about the supposed ability to print interminably and never cause inflation. That is what I was referring to by 'new economics'. I've read a few articles that even admit such a thin
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by iammisc 5y ago
More importantly than this, we need to discuss why major news outlets were parroting government propaganda that shortages and inflation were transitory, when they were obviously not. Major news outlets claimed that 'new economics'
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So the claim is that no one group can be singled out as a cause of division? That means one would be unable to ever say that some person or group of people is divisive, which means there's no such thing as divisive speech (since labeli
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by iammisc 5y ago
To be trivial means to be unimportant, but there is a difference between unimportant and irrelevant. For example, if we found that factor X led to minorities making y% less, but y was 0.00000001, then factor X is trivial, but depending on w
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On an individual level it's really not. On a macro level, given the comments I frequently read on HN, I think it is. Lots of engineers seem overly devoted to their employers. Personally, I believe it's because many engineers were
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That's great, but these benefits shouldn't come from the workplace. > sick As a contractor, you don't need to report time to the company you didn't work due to being sick. If Google is requiring this, they are statuto
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by iammisc 5y ago
That sounds grueling (and stupid) , but I don't think you need a PhD in math to be a mathematician. Presumably, if you make your income doing mathematics, then you are a mathematician. Many professionals with bachelor's degrees so
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by iammisc 5y ago
Twitter is certainly more toxic than Facebook!
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by iammisc 5y ago
Do you know what should be illegal? The way facebook does account deletion. When you 'delete' your account, you actually put it into a special state for 30 days. If you log in, even accidentally, during those 30 days, the cancella
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> Last time I checked, white people in the US weren't aspiring to attain Asian beauty standards. Really? Androgenous / gender non-conforming dress originated in KPop/anime/manga. Same with the slim aesthetic for men.
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Okay, sorry, you're bringing in firing, but I'm talking about baking cakes as an individual proprietor of a business. If the claim is 'being conservative is not a proteted class'... okay, but religion certainly is, and m
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I agree with Mother Theresa on abortion, contraception and divorce, so I don't see why that's off-putting. Abortion, contraception and divorce increase the net suffering in the world (especially divorce should be obvious to everyo

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