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> Take a step back for a moment. The point your making is that wage slavery shouldn't exist as an interesting or separate category because all organisms have to work to live. I am saying that extending the definition of slavery to s
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You made a clear rebuttal to my original comment, supported by what Marx wrote. I'd ask that you take ownership of your own argument rather than shifting it over to Marx. Your assertion was this: > Extending this to all labor is evi
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If it were simply about Marx's argument, then you wouldn't suggest that we (you and I, not Marx) could be in agreement, which you mentioned in your previous comment. This is like me telling you to go read a textbook on economics
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> Wage labor isn't a natural baseline, though. It's an arbitrary system that benefits certain people at the expense of others, and is just as natural as feudalism, monarchism, etc. Labor having value is in fact wholly arbitrar
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> The point is that this is a rather strange exchange. Instead of the laborer's product of creation being bought as a commodity, the capitalist pays the laborer for their time. The capitalist makes a profit (in their subsequent tran
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> The concept of "wage slavery" is basically, "you are not free to not earn a wage because you will starve". This is the baseline for basically pretty much all life on earth. You will die unless you perform labor to i
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Not every job position is intended to be a long term prospect. Especially something like an Amazon warehouse where the demand for workers is highly seasonal. Advertising that there's no interview required is actually very attractive to
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It's still a choice. I know this might be hard for people to believe, but there's still a lot of people that live their lives without internet and they can still do all the things necessary to live their life. If you want to use a
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> I'd wager most views that espouse "accessibility should be guidelines, not regulations" would 180 as soon as the person holding that view was affected by even the smallest vision disability and lack of WCAG compliance on
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Sometimes, yes. I don't really find it necessary. A lot of the things I don't want to see on the web I handle by using an ad blocker.
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I strongly believe in accessibility technologies and accessibility on the web but I also don't think any individual should be required to make their webpage accessible. Regulatory barriers ensure that only those with sufficient resourc
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> So in any case, it's either very uncertain or relies on others to throw themselves over the cliff so you can benefit from their experience. Every human advancement has basically been a result of benefiting from other's experi
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Users already have a lot of control over what sort of content they view on the web. They can choose not to navigate to websites they don't trust. They can choose not to run javascript. They can disable css. They can set the font si
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Scriveners tools are designed to help a person write like keeping track of timelines, character sheets, and the like. It sounds like the other product has tools for typesetting and layout, which are tools for publishing your finished work.
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Plays fine on my iPhone 13 mini. It’s actually quite comical watching it in Picture in Picture mode.
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The fun thing about "hate speech" is that it's almost entirely arbitrary and can be redefined to suit the whims of the people in any given year. Free speech is the enemy to authoritarianism, not its ally. What is acceptable s
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I think the only country that I can think of that comes close to actually protecting free speech is the United States. There are clear violations of free speech rights in much of Europe and there is basically no protected speech in many oth
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The problem is that places that cater to a specific political demographic tend to not tolerate exchanges of ideas, even if they are civil. It's very difficult to intentionally create a community that allows for discourse from wildly va
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If you're comparing it to reddit, it'd just be like subscribing to two subreddits with similar topics. It's moderated by different people so the rules change but the links might be about the same thing.
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For (neo)vim users, there's notational fzf [1], which also requires fzf to be installed [2]. For Emacs, there's Deft [3]. They all what to me are nvalt's core functionality which is fuzzy search into quick note creation/
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There are a lot of music players for the Mac, here are a few of them: https://swinsian.com/ https://colibri-lossless.com/ https://cog.losno.co/ https://vox.rocks/
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> Reasoning to me is a belief, as such, it’s possible to be loyal or for that matter, non-loyal to reasoning. For example, beliefs of religious fundamentalists in my opinion are based on the word of god, not reasoning. Further, even when
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> To me, loyalty to reasoning regardless of outcome. You cannot use the word you're defining inside the definition of it. In my best effort to interpret what you mean, I'd assume you mean that people only be loyal to reason?
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It's hard to be anything but skeptical about the intent behind this decision, considering that the competing emerging standard (WebP) is one that Google controls. This is one reason why I am thankful that Apple still only allows webkit
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I'll take this response as a "No, I've never served in the military." You've also not substantiated your claims about how the military cultivates a culture of 'cheating.' At least give an example of what l
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> Military in my experience... What sort of experience do you have with the military? As someone who has served in the U.S. military, loyalty is absolutely drilled into you; it's integral to battle readiness, which is ultimately the
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The military trains you to be loyal to your comrades, not your spouse, but in my experience the person cheating in the relationship is usually the spouse of the service member, not the service member. Recruiters talking about getting laid a
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This is pretty much how it works in the military, except it's because you are single you don't need to get paid as much as people who are married, but since you're not married you also have plenty of time to stay later and
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I bought Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer in May of this year, less than 6 months ago. Some companies that offer perpetual licenses would simply give me the upgrade to the next version for free since it came out within a year, and basic
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There is built in window tiling in MacOS, it's just not very good. There's also competent third party applications that can tile windows for you that aren't baked into the operating system. Window tiling on fully DEs on linu

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