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by ixtli 6y ago
I'd like to say, as well, that this is a statement of fact that can be observed by looking at media coverage, testimonial, historical and fictional books on the topic of the black experience in america. To deny this is a direct attempt
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by ixtli 7y ago
Yup and it’s an age old right wing tactic to drum up support for reactionary and xeonophobic immigration policy and economic protectionism.
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Stapledon is the grandfather of science fiction writing and is quite unjustly overlooked!
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by ixtli 7y ago
I hate to be this guy but there are good points in here so why is there a newline after every sentence? This is not how written english is supposed to work :( EDIT: Apparently its output from a twitter thread unroller. My point still stan
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by ixtli 7y ago
i like this
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the issue with the "i dislike mainstream media" argument is that its usually made by people who have a simultaneous and unspoken desire to have the "correct" information and opinions gift wrapped and personally delivered
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by ixtli 7y ago
generational wealth is how real wealth is built: nearly all riches are inherited. the main thing i have learned with age is how incredibly important having a very very strong support system is, whether thats family, friends, a club, schoo
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by ixtli 7y ago
this is a great refutation of the current status quo where people are required to plan decades into the future for their own retirements. indeed no one is capable of this.
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by ixtli 7y ago
They don’t make economic sense when the only economic concern is to generate private wealth for the owner of the company and it shareholders at a consistent year-over-year rate. If your economic concern includes growing a middle class that
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by ixtli 7y ago
Thank you for making the effort required to put all this together.
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This is very well said. We need to support every single person as much as possible because each choice is extremely costly and precious.
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by ixtli 7y ago
You’re doing the thing I talked about exactly! Our ability to chat with people in other parts of the world like we’re doing now is not at all what the original comment was talking about when they talked about reliance on others. Facebook an
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by ixtli 7y ago
I get what you’re saying but it’s not just the fact that the whole country is covered in CCTV (private or otherwise, and btw I find private cameras to be more dystopian frankly because you can’t audit them.) There has always been a sentimen
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by ixtli 7y ago
The top-most comment said > I value that choice and the freedom to change. and my point was that not only is this freedom curtailed by capital and circumstance, deploying capital to modify circumstance requires a shitload of it. Far
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by ixtli 7y ago
The purpose of a law designed in the interest of individual privacy, yes, but at least in America companies get a huge amount of say on what gets passed because they vote with their profits. The reality is that most of the laws are bad beca
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by ixtli 7y ago
By many metrics the UK is and has been the most surveilled country in the world for decades.
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Further, there are 7.53 billion people on earth. If you conclude (generously) that, living in New York City, you have the freedom to associate and deeply rely on anyone in the tri-state area, you have access to about 20 million. That's
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by ixtli 7y ago
I generally agree but would like to add the old notion that being unhappy in a bad situation is normal. Feeling upset at a violent status quo even though you're not the direct target of that violence is normal and evidence of empathy,
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Fully functional Apple Lisa emulator in C and C++(github.com)
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by ixtli 7y ago
> When you ask women why they left, the number one reason they cite is balancing work/life responsibilities — which as far as I can tell is a euphemism for family concerns. At least in america women are, in this way, almost always a
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by ixtli 7y ago
exactly. the dev has to take responsibility for what they write but there’s no responsibility required when you run something??
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what code does not run in a “security-sensitive context”? who’s responsibility is it really ? The person who wrote the code with a disclaimer saying they were presenting it to you AS-IS? Or the person who’s choosing to run the code in the
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by ixtli 7y ago
yeah after the fact i realized i should have specified this. i should have just said "capital" because in our society it's all interchangeable because everything (time, resources, etc.) is related to its dollar cost
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by ixtli 7y ago
They’re profit driven though so they have no ability to focus more than a fraction of their resources on a single problem. What makes governments powerful at solving problems is the ability to justify larger expenditures. EDIT: to be clear
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by ixtli 7y ago
ah yes. i had kinda a 'brain fart' when i wrote this comment. i knew this phrase existed but couldn't remember!
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by ixtli 7y ago
A deep ethical concern for the treatment of animals is far older than computing: http://www.jewfaq.org/animals.htm . The cow is sacred to hindus, of which there are 1.08 billion. stop assuming the problem is with people who
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by ixtli 7y ago
If anything there should be a more broad term, something that includes people who are housing-unstable. I don't really consider the problem solved if a person worries every day that they might be homeless at the end of the next month!
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by ixtli 7y ago
I can’t find the exact program but this was in Massachusetts. Quick googling showed me, though, that if you’re over 60 you can take 3 credits at a state school for free. There are a ton of tuition waver programs for all sorts of demographic
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by ixtli 7y ago
I went to a very large state school about 10 years ago, and was in school for six years and got two degrees. I'm really confused at the picture of university life this person is painting: > nearly everyone starts undergrad in the sa
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by ixtli 7y ago
He died recently and I found that the new york times did a pretty good job of not making him out to be some sort of god in his obit: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/books/harold-bloom-dead.h...

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