minikites

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by minikites 5y ago
>private corporation and government institutions are getting more controlling and totalitarian At least I have a voice in government. I don't get a voice when Experian (or Google, or any private company) decides to blacklist me arbi
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by minikites 5y ago
>The tragedy is that the better projects were never on the agenda of power at all. The tragedy is that the one thing that those with power and influence could agree on was war-fighting. There's not much more I can add to this. Socie
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by minikites 5y ago
Capitalism is predicated on the idea of perpetual and infinite growth. Those assumptions are reflected in many ways and we're going to need to rethink our economy and political systems with entirely different assumptions soon enough be
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by minikites 5y ago
Doing everything we can to ensure house prices/values only go up is going to cause disaster soon enough. It's time we stopped bending over backwards to feed this beast.
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by minikites 5y ago
As a society, we could recognize the status with money in the form of childcare grants and food assistance to parents, or by raising wages so both parents don't have to work, but neither of those is in the interest of the capital class
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by minikites 5y ago
This is a misunderstanding of lean manufacturing. Lean is not about eliminating every stockpile, it's about thinking through your supply needs and only stockpiling what is necessary.
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by minikites 5y ago
We already can't work together to avoid catastrophic Earth problems like climate change, why would we start cooperating in space?
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by minikites 5y ago
It's incredibly shameful that anyone living in the wealthiest nation in the world needs to set up a donation drive for necessary medical care.
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by minikites 5y ago
>stop a bunch of conglomerates from monopolizing the internet Would Google make more money if they did this?
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by minikites 5y ago
They're not hypothetical: http://archive.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2007/03/... >"People are very concerned if the federal government gives you a number, it will be the m
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by minikites 5y ago
Will T-Mobile or anyone in a leadership position there face consequences for this?
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by minikites 5y ago
Scavengers and other organisms that "close the loop" on the circle of life are very important: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_vulture_crisis >The sudden collapse of the natural animal disposal system
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I'm a landlord with 24 properties. We're suffering during Biden's eviction ban(businessinsider.com)
11 points by minikites 5y ago|15 comments
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by minikites 5y ago
Given that these are relatively unskilled users, would switching away from Excel increase or decrease errors? I don't think it's a given that errors would decrease by switching away from Excel.
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by minikites 5y ago
>Not to mention the psychological harm of (mass) mask wearing. What is the mechanism for this harm?
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by minikites 5y ago
It's telling that the subject of their mockery is a woman and not a man.
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by minikites 5y ago
How does this nonsensical example refute or even address my argument?
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by minikites 5y ago
We're metaphorically traveling in a car that's smoking and making noise, it's not going to get cheaper or easier to fix later.
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by minikites 5y ago
Imagine if we spent that money on a new version of the Marshall Plan and created new markets for our economy. Instead we bomb and shoot people for no reason and create a generation of people who hate us.
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by minikites 5y ago
Everything is political, technology is incredibly political.
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by minikites 5y ago
>Simply passing bills to spend money that we don’t have may get things done, but our children have to pay for it eventually. I always see this argument, but never a deeper reason why. As far as I know, the projections for every developed
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by minikites 5y ago
We somehow don't have the money or resources to provide basic necessities like food and shelter for people, but there's always money for destructive and pointless wars. We could easily choose to improve the lives of others, but in
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by minikites 5y ago
It's not a cheap reaction to them "doing something cool", people this wealthy have not earned the right to be celebrated, because wealth is not a virtue. Multibillionaires actively make the world a worse place and their wealt
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by minikites 5y ago
What is your opinion on liberals being compared to Soviet and Chinese communists?
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by minikites 5y ago
I appreciate your thoughtful reply to my hasty comment. I don't think it's about educating other people. It's about educating yourself and being an informed citizen. I think it would be better to engage with your friends on a
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by minikites 5y ago
I agree, but I think there's another aspect to this. The way many news sources with an agenda operate is by mixing news and opinion (vague, impossible to verify, sometimes omit context, but grounded in reality). Where it starts to cros
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by minikites 5y ago
So we should take everything at face value and only investigate later, if at all?
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by minikites 5y ago
Modern rich guys would rather go to space than give back to the public in any way.
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by minikites 5y ago
>That's to say, I hardly take any of this to heart or dedicate my time to thinking critically about things that will never affect me. It must be nice to be that privileged. Most people are not lucky enough to be this insulated from
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by minikites 5y ago
Summit News is not a reliable source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/summit-news/ >Launched in March 2019, Summit News is a far-right conspiracy website. Like most questionable sources this website does not have an

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