mantas

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811.
by mantas 4y ago
Not flying long distance does not mean staying home. Unless you live on a 500m radius island in the middle of an ocean with next land mass thousands of kilometers away.
812.
by mantas 4y ago
Small towns as in the rest of US but NYC and LA? Sorry, but I hate this when people claim they „travelled europe“ but turns out they've seen the usual Paris/Rome/London/etc central areas. No, that means you visited those
813.
by mantas 4y ago
No food in suburbia?
814.
by mantas 4y ago
Medieval way of living with internet and video calling? Sorry, this doesn't seem like medieval at all. You know there's lots of things to do outside without flying tens of thousands kilometers, right?
815.
by mantas 4y ago
See: > more space, more freedom for the kids to move around, more trees for them to climb and places to explore Or „nowhere“ as in doing commercialized trendy stuff? Of course, when pop culture is pushing that lifestyle and people are gl
816.
by mantas 4y ago
It depends on how you count value. Let's say you work from home and make your lunch. Previously you'd buy ready-to-eat lunch. While you still buy ingredients and pay for energy, you don't pay for someone to prepare it and the
817.
by mantas 4y ago
Awfully thin as in not obese like today?
818.
by mantas 4y ago
Well, then don't cross oceans then. Travel long distances rarely. It's not a human right to get cheaply to the other side of the globe. And with recent breakthroughs in electronic communications, we don't have much need for v
819.
by mantas 4y ago
There's a big difference between going to NYC and LA vs visiting small towns close to coast. And visiting a one-sided 50% is still missing a big portion. That's like saying that if you visit Germany/France/UK, you'v
820.
by mantas 4y ago
Not flying would be best :)
821.
by mantas 4y ago
More fuel is more pollution though.
822.
by mantas 4y ago
Air traveling (and traveling in general) is not some sort of human rights where everyone MUST afford to travel. It is a scarce resource, especially with air traveling pollution. And high taxation is a good way allocate a very scarce resourc
823.
by mantas 4y ago
The real US is the mix of both coasts and in-between. If you see the coasts only, then you don't experience real US. Only few cherry picked bits. It's like going to London and Paris and claiming you have seen „real“ Europe. No, it
824.
by mantas 4y ago
And taxing aviation fuel will make the rich pay trough the nose for their „privilege“. Which is good. What do you propose?
825.
by mantas 4y ago
Experience what the US actually is? Traveling should be about experience the local reality, not cherry picking.
826.
by mantas 4y ago
Private office with open doors is pretty social. Meeting rooms are for collab. And for most jobs there’s no need for collab outside of limited time slots. If you’re not doing focused work, not doing group work and you’re fine to get disrupt
827.
by mantas 4y ago
For Nestle, supply chain is the least evil thing. Hard to beat their baby formulas marketing Fuck Nestle.
828.
by mantas 4y ago
Private office is anti-social, yet nose cancelling headphones with a baseball cap is not?
829.
by mantas 4y ago
IMO there's too much baggage behind this term. It may be better to recommend „Eudaimonia“ itself and skip „Positive Psychology“. Although I'm not sure about „Eudaimonia„“ part itself too. IMO many people in that field focuses on „
830.
by mantas 4y ago
I'd rather say that if you're smart, so-called Positive Psychology seems like a fraud. Fulfilling and meaningful life > „positive“ life. Although it may bring less „happiness“ in short term. „Dopamine Nation“ is a good easy rea
831.
by mantas 4y ago
A good chunk of social media is mainstream media, discussions around mainstream articles or driven by people working in mainstream media.
832.
by mantas 4y ago
Or label was stolen and plastered on a fake similar looking tool. Maybe it needs tear down and rebuilding from scratch?
833.
by mantas 4y ago
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Good take on what is quality vs function and form. Art of War. Good example of a creature to last a damn long time.
834.
by mantas 4y ago
A great tool can cause great damage when missused. The main question is what's the tangent. And TBH it looks quite sad in the past decade.
835.
by mantas 4y ago
Do we have rule of law though? E.g. certain Russian oligarchs winning lawsuits in West because of some legalese. It feels like „rule of law“ nowadays is used to silence the weak and doesn't apply to the powerful ones.
836.
by mantas 4y ago
Then create a board for the sake of the law, but make sure that the board does exactly nothing. While having a shadow board to run the company?
837.
by mantas 4y ago
So? There's still lots and lots and lots of cheap labor to import for decades. The „competitive pressure“ will just worsen corporate pressure on local labour. Oh, immigration is getting lower, so we need more tax exemptions for new arr
838.
by mantas 4y ago
It looks like in US labour can vote either for corporations or for importing ever more cheap labour. Some in Europe were labour was manipulated to vote for migration-friendly parties. Although now this seems to be changing with growing econ
839.
by mantas 4y ago
Capital will just push for ever bigger immigration to counter labour.
840.
by mantas 4y ago
More direct democracy would be nice. However, as a citizen of EU member, I’d say GDPR pretty well aligns with the general notion of the people. Sometimes people ain’t happy when government uses GDPR as a scapegoat to keep iffy data private.

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