moate

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by moate 8d ago
I mean, that's what the State tells you to stop uprising, but there has never in history been a state that served the people it governed, it serves the people who govern. It's all just big gangs with weapons, and sometimes one gan
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by moate 8d ago
If you want to split hairs as to what the responsibility of the Chairman of the Board of Directors does, you win. IDK, maybe I'm a mushbrain but it seems like if someone said they're the chairman of the board, and you told them to
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by moate 8d ago
Me personally? No. The labor whose value he extracted and hoarded through his investing? Yes, they are.
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by moate 8d ago
That it's a lot cooler saying noble things than actually DOING noble things.
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by moate 8d ago
Exactly! They elected a 71 year old nepo baby to run the company. Vastly different.
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by moate 8d ago
Your story was literally about your inability to recognize a message within media. That was the point you were making, that you were too young to realize what the adults in the room were talking about. Then you grew up and probably realized
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by moate 8d ago
Being unable to recognize a theme in media is not the flex people think it is…
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by moate 9d ago
I’ve found when people complain about something being “political” 9 out of 10 times they’re complaining that they dislike the author’s politics. The dictionary definition of “politics” (as in, what the word actually means) would support the
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by moate 9d ago
Don't forget the Twilight Zone. The whole show existed because Serling wanted to make political statements and felt sci-fi might give him enough cover to make them. It's almost like...that's the point of the genre, to give en
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by moate 9d ago
The LITERAL definition from the dictionary? Again, I get it: you don't want to engage in the politics of the writing you like. That's fine. But you don't get to say the politics don't exist in the text. I promise, the au
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by moate 9d ago
>>I do think people in the bottom quintile should not have kids I have some terrible news for you about birth rates and what this would do to society. >>until they remedy their income issues I'd like you to define "wor
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by moate 9d ago
^ this one gets it.
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by moate 9d ago
I think we're disagreeing on what "politics" means, perhaps. I'm going with something to the effect of "Politics is the process by which people and groups make decisions, rules, and laws to govern society and share
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by moate 9d ago
If you didn’t actually want to give examples you can just say “no”. As someone else pointed out: you’re complaining that some media is poorly written and other media is well written. There are past and current examples of overtly opinionate
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by moate 10d ago
There are so many examples of pro-athletes* (not just, some dude "training") who are plant based. Define "inferior" I guess? If the goal is "ingest as much usable protein as your body needs" plants can do it at
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by moate 10d ago
Sorry to necro-post this, but, you're wrong. Hit me up with some citations please, mine are below. https://notice.co/c/impossiblefoods https://robinhood.com/us/en/stocks/BYND/
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by moate 10d ago
speak for yourself, I have def been bopping along to The King Beetle and tripped over something at some point :D
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by moate 10d ago
As someone with "Don't Panic" tattoo'd on my left forearm, and as I pointed out in another comment: Adams' Magnum Opus is in no avoiding its messaging, the politics/author's opinion is extremely clear. Can
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by moate 10d ago
Can someone give me examples of beloved, well written and respected sci-fi that was not overt political/social commentary to go along with all the discoloration of the above comment or is this just the standard "I like Rage Agains
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by moate 20d ago
IDK what "never worked" means here, the market cap for Impossible/Beyond alone is still over a billion dollars. You can still get an Impossible Whopper at any Burger King in the US. There's plenty of issues with selling
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by moate 22d ago
Yea, they're really hoping that the 2% will help make up an outsized share of the revenue and that brand recognition will keep them going with the plebs.
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by moate 22d ago
I have never heard of a cloud service of ISP actively taking corporate data and shoving it into other users inbox. If my company has a proprietary solution to a math problem that nobody else knows about but the AI service that we have been
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by moate 1mo ago
"The 'smart but lazy' adults who stayed that way, who I've encountered IRL have been maliciously manipulative work avoiders, or straight up losers with superiority complexes." Counterpoint, the "I had to work t
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by moate 1mo ago
>>Reading the material before the test/exam and then getting high enough marks that everyone leaves you alone so you can go play with computers/chess was not an effective long term strategy. Don't tell my boss, but yes
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by moate 1mo ago
You're right, it's not just that people opposing it are stupid or brainwashed: Some of them, to your point, are selfish and don't want others to have access to the nice things that they have. Can you explain why those people
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by moate 1mo ago
It sounds like you have issues with people telling you what to do. Would you like a pamphlet on the virtues of Anarchy as a way of building community to survive in a terrifying world? Because none of the things you said have ANYTHING to do
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by moate 1mo ago
You go far enough on fiscal tracking and you just wind up back where we've always been: barter. All currency is as useful as the regime backing it, and when that regime falls, barter always comes back in. Everything else is just rent s
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by moate 1mo ago
>> They're expenses are most likely scaling with their revenue A unique phenomenon that only exists in this industry and is clearly the reason you feel opposed to people performing the same sort of analysis they would on other bu
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by moate 2mo ago
As someone who hates the government and the megacorps, I loathe statements like the OPs because there are so many legit and real reasons to hate shit before we come up with "KFC doesn't call themselves Kentucky Fried Chicken anymo
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by moate 2mo ago
So you know how like, "the government" and "private citizens" aren't the same thing, right? Like there are different obligations for both? You do know and understand this, correct? The government has a constitutiona

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