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by moate 5y ago
Yes, Americans invented the Cotton Gin and Racism around the same time, and no other culture ever has cared at all about representation or inclusion./s I doubt this was solely Americans or that Americans are the only group of people th
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by moate 5y ago
His eyes are also drawn squinting.
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by moate 5y ago
So the majority of people are yellow, and yet we still have black/brown characters (Bleeding Gums Murphy, Apu, Carl, Dr. Hibbert, etc) and most East Asian characters were given almond shaped eyes. It's almost like there's a c
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by moate 5y ago
"Many" in my post was not meant to imply "most". I have no idea how many doctors are more focused on the money vs saving lives, but it's >0%. I will say my experience as a patient has reflected what you're d
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by moate 5y ago
I mean...many of them do? At least in America, that's a thing. Now it might not be the ONLY factor (I don't believe most MDs are out here prescribing things that patients wouldn't find beneficial) but it plays into their equa
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by moate 5y ago
Yes/no? I mean I'm pretty sure there is massive demand for affordable housing (especially in Manhattan!) but there's no incentive for developers to shift towards that vs bilking the everyone out of as much as possible for mor
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by moate 5y ago
This guy gets it.
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by moate 5y ago
I mean there's a handful of sites you could point to that were also important, but the point was a 2 sentence description of 4chan's cultural significance and importance is lazybad. It feels particularly lame on a site called &quo
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by moate 5y ago
I completely agree. The internet is a completely different space from where it was 20 years ago. Tech ate everything, so everything is the internet now. Back then we cheered when "legit" tech appreciated those of us from the backw
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by moate 5y ago
If "number of dead people" is the only metric we care about, yes, you're 100% right. But that's not the only thing that matters. I don't want to keep going down the car rabbit hole, so to bring it back to suicide: i
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by moate 5y ago
I think this is a real Columbus Egg situation. There was no Reddit when 4chan popped up. It was 2003. As much as /b/ was an ocean of piss, so much of what we now consider "internet culture" consolidated or spawned there.
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by moate 5y ago
1- who the hell is "Moot"? 2- Back in the moot-run days of 4chan, it really was a completely different world. All the weird meme-culture we have now started there. /b/ was both the greatest and worst thing simultaneously
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by moate 5y ago
I think that would be a difficult conclusion to make. As several people have pointed out, suicidal ideation reports have spike higher during the same time. There are a ton of possible reasons people aren't dying from suicide, but there
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by moate 5y ago
>>How should I view a falling rate of suicide but rising rate of suicide attempts? Badly. People dying to suicide is not good, but like any cause of death, it's going to happen. I think the bigger picture of overall degradation i
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by moate 6y ago
6 Women aged 18-48.
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by moate 6y ago
Legitimately, my finances are in such better shape than the were in March 2020, and I've been laid off twice and on unemployment for extended periods. Living in US, NJ FWIW
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by moate 6y ago
The idea that "workers can't band together to make demands" somehow is in opposition to "market forces" and not ITSELF a market force is how we got into this mess in the first place. It's like saying "peop
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by moate 6y ago
I think that time was "a while ago" and they're still running because the US doesn't actually care that much about virtual monopolies.
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by moate 6y ago
If I put an ad on there, but nobody clicks it, how is that still relevant? Anecdata, but the rate at which I google something that I basically want to search on Wikipedia but then don't click through to Wikipedia has got to be about 50
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by moate 6y ago
I am infinitely happier with my stream service mix vs my last cable subscription. And if you consider their competition other streaming services, Netflix is already the 800lb gorilla in the room. It's why you saw things like CBS+ get r
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by moate 6y ago
It feels like this is them running the numbers. It's a small rollout. Looks like a classic A/B.
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by moate 6y ago
My God says you have no rights except those derived from governments. Now what do we do? "Rights" are more properly understood as "a social agreement among people of a culture". If a culture doesn't value something,
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by moate 6y ago
That's just rap (and other pop music). I feel like a "product placement" vs a "product reference" is a key distinction. Rappers reference Cash App because of what it represents, not because they're being paid t
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by moate 6y ago
If you have access to one, get an Amex and you'll find that's not the case. As someone who used to work in billing for a company with "not great" patterns, the bosses hated when people signed up with Amex because it made
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by moate 6y ago
I still don’t get what “order” vs “disorder” means here. Maybe the crime stats are confusing the issue.
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by moate 6y ago
Of course not. But "this city is unsafe because something bad happened to me" is useless data to anyone other than you 5 minutes prior to when that thing happened. I mean if someone said "would you rather move to a city with
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by moate 6y ago
Without living in SF and having done no research on this whatsoever I can promise you that you could easily put together a list of restaurants in walking distance to wherever you live that do not include "17 dollar salads" and wou
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by moate 6y ago
For clarification: You're saying that because your wife got mugged you felt that Seattle was "less orderly" (I'm assuming this means "higher crime") than Baltimore (which has one of the highest crime rates in t
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by moate 6y ago
Point of order on both nations: They also have protective geography that helps a great deal. The Afghani culture and being very well armed does contribute though, but IDK that we can say it's the sole reason. Switzerland has been a neu
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by moate 6y ago
I think we have a lot of people having very different discussions about what "3D printed gun" means. This can be anything from a fully plastic weapon like the Liberator to what you're describing (more 3D components and home a

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