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by moate 3y ago
Same. I'm in NJ, and have never had a flat Coke from an undamaged container (and if the can looks all smashed up, I've just poured those out). OP should def complain to corporate, something in their process is FUBAR if 1/3rd
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by moate 3y ago
That’s literally impossible. You’re consciousness trapped in meat, everything you experience is an interpretation of your environment and entirely subject to that meat. “The Republican Party exists” is an interpretation of each word, and is
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by moate 3y ago
And/or Stack
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by moate 3y ago
Exactly this. “Are you willing to kill another human? No? Sorry, there’s no place for you in the infantry”
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by moate 3y ago
That sounds deeply serious to me (specific plan with < 5 years towards projected completion). I award you victory and all the points.
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by moate 3y ago
>>Don Quixote'ing I realize there is no way to say this without sounding like an absolute fucking dork, and this may be a syntaxial choice you're making, but the phrase is "tilting at windmills". I regularly say &q
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by moate 3y ago
I would like to to state a very specific thing: I’m both a socialist and fine with price gouging for tesla trucks, and I don’t feel that’s a hypocritical thought. Not all “things” are equal though. When we’re talking about materials require
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by moate 3y ago
Because everyone wants neutral fair referees when their laws/rights are being interpreted but that’s an impossibility because humans aren’t neutral. The fact that there are problems with an alternative set up (oh no, unstable populism!
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by moate 3y ago
I missed the part discussing enforcement and consequences, because surely this wouldn’t just be a mealy mouthed list of suggestions without recourse. What would the point of that be other than a fig leaf over Clarence Thomas? Oh wait…
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by moate 3y ago
Should you be able to freely buy things and sell things you own? Yes, you should and this is not an aspect of capitalism. Why would that not exist in a socialist or other economic system?
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by moate 3y ago
It really do be that simple sometimes. If they can convince people that “the lottery is here to pay for schools” I’m sure they’ll figure something out.
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by moate 3y ago
I haven't watched anything this morning, but last night when I was watching the news/reading the AP coverage the reporters statements were "Both sides have claimed the opposition is responsible, and we have been unable to ind
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by moate 3y ago
Exactly. Feel whatever way you want about the sides of any of the major wars going on right now, but there are always going to be outside actors helping finance a war effort that benefits them. I have no love for the US, but let's not
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by moate 3y ago
>>You, as a renter, are getting it -- your landlord is deducting their (commercial property) mortgage interest from their income (your rent). Probably in their Schedule E. [0] How does a landlord paying less tax require them to pass t
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by moate 3y ago
“Allowing poor students from families that value education to go to schools with like minded students is an unequivocally good thing compared to what the public schools currently do.“ If this were unequivocal, people like me wouldn’t fundam
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by moate 3y ago
You can own a car, you can own a flamethrower, you can't fire your flamethrower out of your car while driving on public roads.
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by moate 3y ago
Water is wet. This statement is as useful as "The GPS's continued existence benefits systems built on the GPS" but with more fear implied. It doesn't really feel like a novel thought, more like one of the first 5 things
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by moate 3y ago
You're not wrong, but you think too small. Ads existed well before the internet, and are so ingrained in the world at large that as a thought experiment this is up there with "what would we miss if we removed the concept of murder
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by moate 3y ago
PLEASE STOP GIVING CAPITALISTS IDEAS!
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by moate 3y ago
This worldview is fine for running a company and making money, but it isn't the only one that exists. The whole IoT push over the last 10 years is new, and a lot of consumers haven't had to think of questions like "what happe
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by moate 3y ago
Building giant space lasers will be an excellent technique for holding the world ransom for ONE BILLION DOLLARS. (This is where we pitch one sentence villainous plots right?)
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by moate 3y ago
I don’t live there, could you provide the context in a paragraph or 2?
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by moate 3y ago
So is the implication that the poor (in wealth) souls should do better to educate themselves on the types of aquatic luxuries, or that it's better to be so poor you don't have to worry about the different types of aquatic luxuries
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by moate 3y ago
People leaving teams sucks, which is all you seem to be describing. What do you do to management when they hurt you this way (firing/reassigning team members without notice)? How do you fight the corpos? What are some techniques you&#x
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by moate 3y ago
You take money that would have ostensibly gone to the citizens of Tokyo and instead provide it to the citizens of town of your choice . Reallocation and redistribution are synonymous here, one is just used in more headlines (probably becau
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by moate 3y ago
Is this more of a scam than the comment it was responding to?
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by moate 3y ago
The point was to deregulate an industry to extract money from it. I say this, because that’s the conclusion they’ve arrived at, and if they were solving for any other problem they wouldn’t be here. All else is spin.
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by moate 3y ago
Maybe you’ll go the rest of your life never finding out how they felt because of the myriad reasons you won’t run into those people. Giving notice is risk aversion.
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by moate 3y ago
There’s this one cool trick I learned where labor solidarity means telling coworkers ahead of quitting but not managers. Also not everyone needs “their network” to get jobs. This employee karma from fucking management I’m always threatened
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by moate 3y ago
Can we all just agree on something: Google and Meta (and a bunch of others) are just the privatization of the government surveillance state. Facebook's product is the user data. That data gets sold and resold and eventually put into th

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