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by moate 5y ago
I'd like to just make a counterpoint: It's not that we have fewer "real" journalists, its that we created a massive number of platforms that don't hire journalists but proport to peddle "news". We still ha
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by moate 5y ago
...so you're saying your mom and cousin are doing it, but it's a bad thing that people shouldn't do? Like, you just provided the counter-example to your own point while making your point.
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by moate 5y ago
I'll bite: How do you make that comparison? What are you comparing? Not being demeaning, but literally what does this sentence mean?
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by moate 5y ago
Have a large family or a small business? My wife's immediate family is 9 adults, 6 of whom are all on the same cell plan because it's cheap and convenient for everyone involved. If everyone gets along, there's not a whole lot
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by moate 5y ago
But my point is exactly that: the "central dogma" doesn't exist. Is it essential dogma that gays will not get into heaven? Yes, and also no, depending on the denomination. When you get a billion people creating hundreds(thous
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by moate 5y ago
Are the cases "not strong enough" because A- prosecutors believe that these types of legal battles will be an uncertainty due to the massive wealth CEOs can use to leverage their legal teams, have massive potential political fall
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by moate 5y ago
So if you're a Protestant, and a Catholic says you're not a proper christian because difference in religious dogma who's right? What about Jews for Jesus? Is a Christian defined by his faith or his acts? These things are al
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by moate 5y ago
You don't. Which is why I said that you can't bridge this gap. This is the point where "polite discourse" to try and convince people ends. There's no conversation to be had to convince someone to get the vaccine if
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by moate 5y ago
This was rambly and trying to pull my point somewhere else but let's address. The two groups(Those opposed to vaccination due to potential long term effects and those in favor of vaccination immediately) cannot come to a meeting of the
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by moate 5y ago
Not really? I don't see how you bridge a group worried about a short term existential threat (the virus) and another alleging worry about a long term existential threat (the vaccine) when the two things are 0 sum. By the time group 2 c
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by moate 5y ago
There's a point for me, difficult to define but obvious when seen, where a scam/project becomes SO obviously a scam that I no long feel bad about it. Like "nigerian princes" always felt this way to me. If some idiot want
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by moate 5y ago
In the long term, they cost more than the code that is just optimizing delivery of what's in the warehouse to "what each consumer has been surveyed as preferring/purchasing". This seems like an inflection point for the c
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by moate 5y ago
Adult with ADHD here: You would not develop ADD from media. That's not how this works. The fact that devs have found ways to design sites that mimic patterns for addiction doesn't mean it's the people. It's the things. I
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by moate 5y ago
"you have five percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized" Dozens of people were charges with conspiracy. What percentage of a mob does it take to steer the mob? I don't think anyone should be ta
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by moate 5y ago
The "people are getting dumber" argument really rubbed me the wrong way as well. It's glib and pithy and people love to make this claim when talking about things they don't like about society. "I dislike ads and onl
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by moate 5y ago
The Livejournal era has passed. You can't go back to that on a platform because platforms will continue to be for profit and nobody is going to pay for you to host their blog so you need ads to make the business viable. The other optio
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by moate 5y ago
The issue is that some people want to blog for a living (and there's nothing wrong with that IMO) which leads the platforms to optimize for that. I don't think enough people are willing to spin up their own self-hosted blogs just
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by moate 5y ago
IDK what blogs you're reading, but many of those sites are a confederation of ads with small islands of content interspersed between. Many bloggers are trying to do it as a way to gain income at this point, and the ads are either all o
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by moate 5y ago
It's almost like it's a feature and not a bug. Like somehow management was able to use all these ill-gotten gains to exert influence on the courts/legislatures to create a more corporate-friendly/employee-hostile environ
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by moate 5y ago
I think this is hitting it. I do have ad-blockers extensions on, so that could be what's helping in this case. Also other people pointed out that it sucks on mobile (which I can confirm is an issue). Was just curious since I (weirdly)
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by moate 5y ago
I too am without a Twitter account. I am using Chrome on a laptop and had 0 difficulty reading this thread. What specifically is your issue? (This is a direct question, not sarcasm)
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by moate 5y ago
No we got the joke. It's just not the place/a good joke. You're probably thinking of a site called reddit.com. That's a good place for "jokes".
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by moate 5y ago
No, we fix the leaky pipes. Where did your conclusion come from? Why would adding extra waste (the bottles) to the equation result in less contamination? What about my statement made you think "this man wants people to bottle their was
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by moate 5y ago
Quick question: was the comment I responded to edited to include the 3rd part, or did I just speed read it and only see the first 2 lines? If the latter, sorry I misunderstood what you were addressing.
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by moate 5y ago
Are you saying a 13 year old is incapable of kicking out a window or incapable of understand that kicking out a window is going to cause catastrophic consequences and therefore should be treated differently? What about this being a 13 year
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by moate 5y ago
Sure, assuming anyone has a desire to pump money into a large comparative study like this. It's an extremely reasonable hypothesis but you also have other factors to deal with (size of city resulting in more wear and tear on infrastruc
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by moate 5y ago
Part of the idea of wastewater treatment plants is to address things like chemicals in wastewater. If the pipes on the way leak the tainted water, it can't be treated. Of course there are also "forever chemicals" that we can&
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by moate 5y ago
Just walk me through this: Did the gas stations all catch Covid and die? What is the correlation between pandemic related gas shortages and a need for more fuel pumps (vs. more of the fuel to be delivered to the pumps because of pandemic re
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by moate 5y ago
So if the gas stations go away, why wouldn't they be replaced by convenience stores/rest stops? Like how does "we're getting rid of the gas pumps" ONLY translate to "we're getting rid of all the other reve
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by moate 5y ago
I think this really gets to the crux of my original point: What is "average" (average for our industry, average for the country as a whole?) and retire "where" (I assure you, if you make an average US salary and want to

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