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by jjj123 4y ago
I used to read the AV Club’s reviews, but honestly the quality has gone way downhill there recently. Now I follow A.A. Dowd (one of the AV club’s former reviewers) plus a bunch of other people on Letterboxd, which is pretty much a social ne
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by jjj123 4y ago
There have been plenty of great, original movies post-2010 that push filmmaking in some way, they’re just overshadowed by the marvels of the world. Some of my recent favorites: Tar Sorry to Bother You Uncut Gems Get Out Tangerine/The F
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by jjj123 4y ago
Why are unrealistic preferences a problem for anyone but the person with the unrealistic preferences? The only way someone else’s standards become a problem for you is when you feel entitled to that person’s attraction (“I’m a 7 and she’s a
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by jjj123 4y ago
That’s a better answer imo. Weird to talk about pig eggs as if they exist even though it seems to know that pigs don’t lay eggs.
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There are trade offs to either. Your “good values” probably work out well for the majority, and are very punishing to some minority. Mormons have strict social rules that work well a lot of the time, but hurt people who fall outside the maj
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by jjj123 4y ago
You’re right I’m not thinking of something super objective (I’m also not particularly interested in an objective measure of what’s good for society), but here are a few ways the ADA makes society better: 1. More people are able to contribut
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by jjj123 4y ago
My point was that helping some minority often does help society as a whole. The ADA, strictly speaking, only helps those with disabilities. But guess what? Having people with disabilities be able to access goods, services, and work just lik
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by jjj123 4y ago
Yes. Edit: to be less snarky, there are plenty of examples of doing something inefficient for the benefit of society as a whole. The New Deal and the ADA are two examples that come to mind. Unfortunately, we don’t do much of that anymore in
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by jjj123 4y ago
Forming a union isn’t a platitude, it’s direct action. In a culture as union-hostile as the modern day US, every new union is a win for the labor movement. I can speak from experience that leftist groups who otherwise hate the tech industry
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by jjj123 4y ago
You sound very in your own head about this. I wonder if things you’ve read online from HN/Reddit are coloring your perception of your in-person interactions. I encourage you to stop homogenizing 50% of the population because of some ge
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by jjj123 4y ago
Because some “exceptional” paths actually make the world worse. While some humble ones make the world better in some small way. The CEO of TurboTax makes the US worse by leading a company that lobbies to keep taxes complicated so they can r
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by jjj123 4y ago
Right, but they haven’t won the popular vote. That strengthens the “outsized influence” point, right?
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by jjj123 4y ago
I think what the replies to your comment (including myself) are missing is: how does this make things work worse? You say it introduces an obvious problem in your comment but don’t say what that obvious problem is. It’s not obvious to me.
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by jjj123 4y ago
Your first point is the only one that stands for non-straight porn. 2 and 3 don’t apply to gay porn for obvious reasons. Point 4 probably has more to do with your proximity to sex workers than anything. I have plenty of friends that make th
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by jjj123 4y ago
Your comment helped me put words to my feelings about this article, thank you.
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The question is not “how could a social network like Facebook have done any better given small tweaks to content moderation?” It’s “is Facebook fundamentally designed to create these kinds of misinformation bubbles?” That second question is
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by jjj123 4y ago
As someone who knows nothing about package signing and security, are you saying that Nix is about as secure as NPM?
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by jjj123 4y ago
Wealth disparity is important, because it also means power disparity. I hear people who are pro-capitalism say “the poorest people in the US have it better than kings did 500 years ago”, which is only true if you’re considering the stuff th
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by jjj123 4y ago
> so all we can do is learn to recognize it, and learn how to it responsibly Or we can regulate it.
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by jjj123 4y ago
Well right now there are existing entities with too much power, unions provide a second (less) powerful entity to balance the unchecked power of corporate leaders. It’s not about correcting a cosmic wrong, it’s about people wanting more pow
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by jjj123 4y ago
You think the world’s richest man isn’t part of the neoliberal elite?
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by jjj123 4y ago
I had the same thought as OP. Not outraged or anything, I just find it interesting. It reveals the bubble that I’m in more than anything, that the language stood out in the first place. I’m a man, and my partner is a man, basically no dinne
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by jjj123 4y ago
Absolutely: create more public spaces for people to congregate without spending money.
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“When I want bacon, I'll have bacon, when I want some other food, I'll look for that” I hear this all the time from people who eat meat, but consider this: maybe you aren’t actually the target audience for this product. Maybe it’s
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by jjj123 4y ago
Curious who the far left extremists are to you? Do you mean Twitter communists or identity politics liberals, or something else?
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Is it not useful to highlight that we have no idea how to measure “the best,” so defending hiring practices because they’re filtering for “the best” is silly? Edited for clarity
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by jjj123 4y ago
Perfectly executed laws would also have biased outcomes, likely worse than the current system. There’s a good quote that goes something like “the law treats all men equally: the rich man and the poor man are punished the same for stealing b
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by jjj123 4y ago
I have this same thing, but I’m pretty sure it’s just heartburn. Omeprazole 40mg daily maybe made it a little better, but the different was subtle. What actually cleared it up for me semi-permanently was quitting a stressful job.
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by jjj123 4y ago
Free after school programs, free lunches, Medicare for All, public housing. These are all things that would level the playing field for poor kids and allow them to make the same decisions that wealthy kids get to make. It’s not about choosi
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by jjj123 4y ago
In some countries, like France, you’re not allowed to give more than x% of your inheritance to a single person. This has drastic effects on how large multi-generational fortunes are able to grow. So yeah, death does have an effect on income

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