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by ihm 6y ago
“In 2014, there were 1,469 oil and gas firms listed on stock exchanges around the world, with a combined market capitalization of US$4.65 trillion” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel
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by ihm 6y ago
It's been this way for a while (forever?) in the US... Dick Cheney helped start a war (that killed something like 500,000 people) on knowingly false pretenses partly so that he could give his company Halliburton a $7 billion dollar no-
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by ihm 6y ago
> The lack of freedom might be a worthy sacrifice in exchange for job security. But therein lies the problem: few companies can actually guarantee long-term stability. Many workers already face ambiguity with their job security due to th
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by ihm 6y ago
> The command's historical exit status. You probably don't want to run old failed commands. I often will use ctrl R to run tests, and they keep failing until I fix all the bugs.
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by ihm 6y ago
What does Putin have to do with anything? He runs a country that is not remotely communist (since at least 1991, nearly thirty years ago, last I checked)
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by ihm 6y ago
This is absurd. The New York Times opinion section is primarily for right-of-center opinions that support the ruling class. They let in center left and actually left ones from time to time to be able to claim it isn’t. They went a little to
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by ihm 6y ago
You are comparing the blaming bankers who were actually responsible for the financial crisis to the scapegooating of Jews in Nazi Germany, and this was the closest modern example you could think of in a world where e.g., there are concentra
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by ihm 6y ago
> To say everyone knew is incorrect; to imagine you could change things if you knew is also wrong. Can we today stop our government from cramming children into cages and then forgetting them? Yet we have modern media and still horrific t
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by ihm 6y ago
I couldn’t read the whole thing, but as a Jew whose relatives and culture was murdered by the Germans, I found it did not adequately address the reality that many Germans knew about the camps (to say nothing of the progroms and humiliations
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by ihm 6y ago
Did Mark Zuckerberg make Facebook all by himself?
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by ihm 6y ago
> The Virginia state legislature had a bill abolishing slavery in 1831 that was close to passing--until copies of William Lloyd Garrison's pamphlet containing copies of his "no moderation" speech arrived and were read by t
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by ihm 6y ago
Does this kind of "both sidesism" really engage with the reality of the situation or does it just sound "smart" because it is generically claims that there is something complex about the issue? Here is this comment appli
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by ihm 6y ago
Is it really this way? "The average person" has never heard of either of these people.
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by ihm 6y ago
In my view, attempts like this misunderstand much of the point of music. That is, to communicate aspects of human life that are deeply interwoven with facts and experiences outside of the music itself. I don't see how any of that will
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by ihm 7y ago
Already most Americans support Medicare for all – it’s our bought elected officials who don’t.
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by ihm 7y ago
To sibling bobthechef, whom the site will not let me reply to directly: Your question assumes a frame of atomized individual decision making, and forgoes the possibility of changing our political economy so that children don’t have to work.
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by ihm 7y ago
There are a bunch of organizations doing work to fix the problem, like Initiate Justice ( https://www.initiatejustice.org/take-action/join-us/ ). If you email me at izaak@o1labs.org I can try to help you get plugged
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by ihm 7y ago
Because people with &^%$ jobs have basically no say in or power over how production/"the economy" is run.
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by ihm 7y ago
Reading this headline I begin to understand certain people’s worry about having their soul stolen upon being photographed.
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by ihm 7y ago
I don't think your comment is a good faith engagement with leftist understandings of value. This is the starting point of Marx's whole theory of capitalism (it's in the first few chapters of Capital) which is the labor theory
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by ihm 7y ago
It's not even a cliche -- it's a talking point from the insurance industry.
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by ihm 7y ago
Hear, hear. That's one of the biggest reasons I've been knocking doors for Bernie.
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by ihm 7y ago
This article is pretty naive in completely ignoring the role of propaganda and advertising.
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by ihm 7y ago
Increasing wages obviously would help. The other workers at Facebook (i.e., these people’s coworkers) who make six figures are able to live comfortably. I agree with you that our economic model for housing and land ownership needs to change
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by ihm 7y ago
This needs an editor badly. You have to make it through 4 long paragraphs of grandiose posturing before learning what the post is even about.
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by ihm 7y ago
Politicians are also in the pocket of the Koch brothers who spend about as much on politics as the Dema and the Republicans[0]. People’s beliefs aren’t an immutable fact that exists in isolation, they’re a product of the propaganda-soaked m
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by ihm 7y ago
Often the academics and students themselves are quite left but the administrators are pro-capitalist. See for example the University of Chicago’s union-busting of the grad student union (which is widely supported by faculty and students).
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by ihm 7y ago
The union would be stronger if it included the engineers too, who have more leverage.
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by ihm 7y ago
I believe them that it won’t be readily available :) That is, I’m sure Facebook will create link all that data together to improve their surveillance but not let others readily access it. Of course advertisers will still access it indirectl
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by ihm 7y ago
> I think it is a really good idea to start accumulating capital, even at today’s valuations. This is an interesting take. The alternative to individually trying to each become capitalists, is grouping together and making sure we all hav

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