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by lores 2y ago
There is, unfortunately, in every large and small organisation. I can't say I've noticed any particular qualitative difference between the efficiencies of government departments and corps of equivalent size when I was working for
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by lores 2y ago
Not only that's not communism, but, by the looks of it, greed-capitalism isn't turning out so well either, now, is it?
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by lores 2y ago
Limiting the snowball effect of the wealthy getting wealthier generation after generation through no contribution of their own is considered a societal good. Whether it is can be debated, but Europe seems to be in a happier position regardi
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by lores 2y ago
I'm probably older than you, pal, and I'm happy to pay taxes as long as they help make society better. This is a considered, rational, and ethical decision. Just because I'm a highly-paid engineer doesn't mean I work har
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by lores 2y ago
Why should one be entitled to the property of their brother? What's special about a brother that should be unavailable with leaving property to, say, one's best friend?
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by lores 2y ago
I'm surprised at all the love for the Guardian... It's better than nearly all the rest, sure, but it's still often outrage-bait or inaccurate information. Media bias / Fact check give them a rating of 'Mixed' o
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by lores 2y ago
The Telegraph has become only one rung better than a tabloid... The Financial Times has taken the mantle for reliable, centre-right information, even if their focus is a bit narrower.
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by lores 2y ago
It's taxed above a pretty reasonable threshold. You have the option of gifting your money tax-free to your children, or to public-good organisations. Hell, you have the option to spend some of the money you made in your lifetime! You e
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by lores 2y ago
It's not nothing - with 1.8 children the tax-free allowance covers 60-70% of the population (outstanding mortgages and loans are not counted in the 170K figure). And why should anyone be entitled to a relative's property? How does
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by lores 2y ago
Oops, brain fart. Fixing it, thanks!
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by lores 2y ago
Implement Lex Talionis for gross misconduct in public office. Did an official, through gross negligence, cause irreparable harm to innocents? Mete the same harm upon them; then empathy may stop being a weakness. /s, but I became less s
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by lores 2y ago
But not in Syria? Everyone always forgets the Damascene demoscene.
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by lores 2y ago
It's really ironic how the Greens contributed to global warming. Good intentions aren't enough, you also need to be informed and willing to take small steps towards the perfect future.
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by lores 2y ago
Considering the harm fracking does to the local environment, that's pretty justified NIMBYism, no? Europe isn't like America with vast expanses of empty land, fracking would ruin the lives of many people, not to mention the landsc
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by lores 2y ago
Obligatory "it's a big step to production", but we need heaps of new research on biodegradabe plastics by yesterday, so this is hopeful. I wish they'd say what kind of plastic it replaces, though.
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by lores 2y ago
For what it's worth, in the siege of Sarajevo, rich people stockpiled lots of food while many were going hungry; it did not take long before they shared their supplies with their neighbours. People seem to be generous when they feel pa
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by lores 2y ago
We not only have refined tastes, but are also noble and magnanimous *bows*
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by lores 2y ago
Definitely true. Most people walk/run on flattish, hard surfaces (roads and paths) most of the time, though, which is a change significant enough from what we evolved with that I'm not entirely sure the null hypothesis holds.
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by lores 2y ago
Why did you choose to ignore everything else in my post, which has applied to Americans and legal residents in the last 2 weeks?
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by lores 2y ago
I'm saying I don't agree with it! (and I say that despite not having had my hair cut since the pandemic)
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by lores 2y ago
Oh, yes, some stuff scales badly for sure, but for example farming scales hugely! Medieval societies required 80-90% farmers in Western Europe, it's now somewhere around 1-2%.
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by lores 2y ago
I take it as just a joke, not as Douglas Adams pointing out no job is useless, because management consultants were included too and I can't see him think THEY are useful, but it's possible.
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by lores 2y ago
The Hitchiker's Guide already had a rant about useless jobs like telephone sanitisers and hairdressers. While I don't necessarily agree with hairdressers being useless, I feel like much of the economy is selling stuff no one reall
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by lores 2y ago
If you wave a giant flag written "Free speech" for two hundred years, make it one of the central tenets of your nation's self-image, and give condescending lessons about it to others, you'd better be upholding it, lest y
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by lores 2y ago
Except if you badmouth Trump at an airport, obviously. Or represent his opponent in court. Or advocate for Palestine. Or refuse to say "Gulf of America". Or peacefully protest. Or generally say anything he doesn't like. But a
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by lores 2y ago
It's legally 50% for the first 6 months - but French work benefits are very largely defined by collective conventions agreed between unions and industry, which grant rights to employees above legal ones across entire sectors. Most empl
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by lores 2y ago
To the laboratory!
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by lores 2y ago
Bit of both, I think. German winters are nasty, cold, and damp, it has the third-highest median age behind Japan and Italy, kids universally go to kindergarten to bring germs home, and it has a culture where you don't show up if actual
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by lores 2y ago
Uh. Google results are so irrelevant to me now that I've turned to using Perplexity instead, and just clicking on the provided links without paying much attention to its output.
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by lores 2y ago
I meant it like 'OpenAI has many sessions of rich text to mine' and my hunch is that identifying individuals of interest is possible at least in some cases. Knowing exactly what's on their mind and what problems they are tryi

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