ieatcandlewax

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by ieatcandlewax 12d ago
https://x.com/eurofounder/status/2097258391122972776
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by ieatcandlewax 13d ago
The cost of living in new mexico is more than just a price tag. Portugal is only dysfunctional and hopeless for people trying to start a career, it's a great place for tourists and retirees.
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by ieatcandlewax 2mo ago
> For any electricians/plumbers/etc. out there? Go get yours. When the shoe was on the other foot you were mocked and told to switch careers, lowballed on horrible residential projects, told to skill up and get better if you wa
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by ieatcandlewax 2mo ago
> The politics of it started half a century ago, and the politicizing of abortion was very much intentional: It might have re-emerged as abortion became more in vogue in the early 20th century, but the politics of it have existed since a
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by ieatcandlewax 2mo ago
> Did they do those DEI things in 2021 because they wanted to, or because they had to? And if they had to, what power compelled them? These are rhetorical questions. I also don't think your description of an "incredible corpora
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by ieatcandlewax 2mo ago
My bad, I thought it was just an apt way of describing modern tech workers, didn't know it was an antisemitic slur. I love Isreal and pledge my allegiance to the Zionist cause.
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by ieatcandlewax 2mo ago
I'm guessing you live in the northern half if your using cute and Haight in the same sentence. Esp when Inner Sunset has effectively the same architecture. You could feasibly quadruple the population if you wanted to, I guess my questi
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by ieatcandlewax 2mo ago
I disagree with this, I've noticed that the countries rising to prominence are quite nationalistic and the ones fading into obscurity are very post-national. > Europeans and people from other countries around the world are often fie
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by ieatcandlewax 2mo ago
I don't understand how people can see San Francisco and think "I wish this entire skyline was all 20 story apartment buildings so that rootless cosmopolitans can have marginally cheaper rent". If you want to live like that, n
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by ieatcandlewax 2mo ago
"You know who else reacted to foreign backed industrial sabotage campaigns? Hitler" this is deep stuff dude. you should run for office
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by ieatcandlewax 2mo ago
>Why should the police be accountable, indeed? That's honestly my whole point, my whole issue with police having drones. They're not accountable, and when they get caught, they lie or ignore. They have power over you and I, the
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by ieatcandlewax 3mo ago
> First, the police have a weird habit of determining that black people drive the most suspicious cars. Does this racial profiling extend to their drone use as well? It's clear from the article that the police are using the drones i
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by ieatcandlewax 3mo ago
This is one of those ideas that gets thrown around and fits into one of two categories: - Massive money sink that shows no results: See SF during covid and a bit after - Dystopian policies that tank crime but flagrantly violate peoples rig
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by ieatcandlewax 3mo ago
This is something that happens right now and is currently known as "embezzlement". This will generally get you in trouble right now, so I can conceive of a world where it would get you in trouble. I can imagine that some people wo
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by ieatcandlewax 3mo ago
How do these conversion numbers compare to changing demographics via immigration? The problem with this view in my eyes is that you can get minority/interest groups to vote left in a host country by advocating for them, while these sam
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by ieatcandlewax 3mo ago
I saw this clickbait article once about how china was making laser propelled submarines, and the 3D stacking logic chips kind of sounds about as outlandish. Looking into it, they are "folding" a logic chip to have shorter paths wi
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by ieatcandlewax 3mo ago
Those aren't freedoms, those are rights. Calling them freedoms is nonsensical
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by ieatcandlewax 3mo ago
This is a really great way of putting it.
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by ieatcandlewax 3mo ago
>If anything, I've heard most of my coworkers (at multiple companies) say something along the lines of "we have to move so fast that there's no time to think. Anecdotally, the tide on this is changing—all the low-hanging f
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by ieatcandlewax 3mo ago
You're right nihilism is a never a productive reaction to have, but I find it a bit tone deaf to say it now after the past 10 years of ever increasing partisan capture of science agencies. If being apathetic to a broken system makes yo
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by ieatcandlewax 3mo ago
I don't understand this dichotomy between the people you've mentioned—nobody makes hundreds of millions of dollars in a vacuum by themselves. Swift had her parents, staff, record companies that helped push and advertise her and ro