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komali2
11mo ago
Yes, this is one of the inherent contradictions in capitalism. The quality of the work isn't as important as the margin between the cost of labor and the income earned by it. To be the best and still pass that test you need to be so go
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komali2
11mo ago
Exactly. > In short, the “up-or-out” path of professional life may not just be a cultural phenomenon among top professional service firms but also an efficient response to how reputation is maintained and information flows. What looks li
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11mo ago
> Evidence shows that it is not as inherent and built-in from birth as many people think, but is better characterised as a self-belief that can change over time. I have a lot of evidence in front of me that shows the opposite. What are y
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11mo ago
I think most definitions of cults are too brief. To truly be a cult I reflect on the cults I've read about. For example, cults have a tendency to make members feel safer as members of the cult, which can be done by making "outside
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11mo ago
Dude you can't just drop a link like that without warning how deep the rabbit hole goes. You posted this 5 hours ago. It's 2am here and I'm still reading from just a few minutes after you posted. This is a horrifying train wr
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11mo ago
This is confusing because transgenderism describes a psychological reality - you are born trans or not, the same as if you're born straight or not - whereas cult membership or political ideology aren't inherent, unchangeable parts
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11mo ago
I'm anti-fascist. I have a sticker on my laptop, and have hosted a BLM protest. No flags, no hats, and maybe 1% of my friends are involved in the way I am. If there's an antifa cult, I want to know about it, bcause I wouldn't
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11mo ago
I understand what RCS is and I don't understand why it matters. Everything about the concept of a phone number is confusing to me. It's a string of digits that if someone guesses, they can activate the most active notification you
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11mo ago
I would be curious how these conversations with maga families would go if one truly adopted the methodology of the men mentioned in the article. I liked they philosophy of basically engaging in deep, true good faith understanding of the per
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11mo ago
I'm curious to learn more. Could you please help me understand where you're coming from by describing what cultural Marxism means to you, and which American politicians are Marxists?
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1y ago
There's still BBS, it's hugely popular in Taiwan. I'd argue Discord servers are another Web as well.
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1y ago
A lot of notes about Switch 2 on there. I'm a Nintendo fanboy. Untold thousands from my wallet to their pockets over the last 30 years. NES on up, we've had every console except the virtual boy and specific iterations of mobile co
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1y ago
It's because a lot of us resist the implicit argument that UI changes are automatically improvement when in fact it's just as often regression.
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komali2
1y ago
Your account posts a lot about Marxists and pedophiles and Maoists. What led to these things being a primary concern of yours? Very rarely do I hear people talk about Maoists in 2025. If you are concerned about pedophiles, the latest revela
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1y ago
> the only reason we have school lunch programs in the US at all is because the Black Panthers started a free breakfast program for black children in the 70s > The first school lunch programs started with private initiatives in the 18
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1y ago
We'd have more since it was a higher paying job. Man districts lack enough drivers resulting in longer routes, which takes time away from the kids to have a life outside school. Also we'd have happier kids and drivers which is gre
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1y ago
As an American if I paid the same taxes but the half that's spent on building -b2 bombers- fine, substitute for "devices used to kill people I'll never meet in countries I'll never see," instead went to giving kids
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1y ago
Whenever I watch a video about American military nutrition, the only takeaway I have is "are these people incompetent?" Sailors in the USA navy get fat after their first deployment, common knowledge. Why? Because half the time the
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1y ago
What you're saying doesn't contradict the argument that the goal was do outdo the black panther lunch programs. Certainly I'd like to read more about the idea before I buy into it, but it does make a lot of sense - schools in
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1y ago
> GPT and Gemini love to interrupt my novels and tell me certain behavior is illegal or immoral, and censor various anatomical words Lol, are you using ai to create fan translations of エロ漫画 ?
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1y ago
> Two weeks before launch, they pulled the plug > It took 6 months of being stuck after reaching a local maxima in my career. I was working on menial, meaningless, tasks that I knew amounted to nothing while I was doing them. That cau
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1y ago
> is not considered a "country name" to them. It is considered a province name. Some people think calling the earth a globe is absurd. Those people are wrong. Is there any particular reason I should entertain their, hm, "o
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1y ago
I'm with you on the dpad. For me I've never found better dpads outside of retro focused controllers from companies like 8bitdo, so when I want to play a retro game with dpad I just grab one of those and use my steam controller for
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1y ago
I believe the public transit systems in most countries are so bad and underfunded that Japan's seems holy in comparison. And don't get me wrong, it's one of the best. For transit nerds like me though, it's frustrating wh
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1y ago
I disagree and am working on an article arguing that Japan rail privatization represents a failure, as does its much lauded pedestrian friendliness. The premise is basically that Tokyo is the busiest city on planet earth and so should there
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1y ago
The problem with Canada and the USA is that there's no educated ideology primed to capture the inherent distrust people have of systems that used to work and now don't, such as government authority. People should absolutely questi
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1y ago
No, right now the thread on the issue has spun out into basically one troll cat fighting with a bunch of people. https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-righ... The timeline 1. Framework sent a laptop t
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1y ago
> We may be new but it's like we've known each other our whole lives: All Steam Hardware works great together, whether you’re streaming or playing games across devices, including Steam Deck. And because Valve remains committed
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1y ago
I am incredibly excited for the new controller. The og steam controller for me was unmatched as a controller, I could never play any first person game on anything else other than mouse and keyboard, not to mention it allows playing rts or p
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1y ago
I'm always confused by the anglocentrism of these kinds of ux "standards" because for example in mandarin we call days (三號), weekdays (星期二 / 禮拜二), months (二十月), and years by numbers... And in Japanese they have similar I
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