mushbino

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by mushbino 4y ago
The question was literally "Has anyone here witnessed an Asian hate crime?" I have not. I was not saying they didn't happen since I'm very aware they have. Somehow they magically stopped in SF Chinatown when SFPD was for
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by mushbino 4y ago
I lived in a Chinese neighborhood at the time and there weren't any hate crimes. I feel like news agencies find a hot topic latch on and blow it out of proportion. Fear sells like nothing else.
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by mushbino 4y ago
This reminds me of Space Quest. I'd love to have a sequel to that. It felt a lot like monkey island. I really miss those pixel games.
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by mushbino 4y ago
Ah, that makes more sense. I couldn't imagine anyone envying much about our system.
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by mushbino 4y ago
Generally speaking, if you're going to live in a community you should take an active part in actually trying to make it better for everyone and do things for those who need help in that community. If you don't want to do that then
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by mushbino 4y ago
I strongly disagree. It's generally more of a class thing than a race thing, in my experience. I've lived in and been to many areas that are mixed race and the same income level and never had a problem. Once I started making more
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by mushbino 4y ago
Not just status but consumerism and the desire to accumulate stuff. George Carlin had a classic bet on this.
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by mushbino 4y ago
The savings and loan scandal is a great example of this, not that there's a shortage.
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by mushbino 4y ago
Speaking kindly to humans does nothing? Is this how you approach relationships with people in real life?
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by mushbino 4y ago
It's simple, money rules everything in the US. Homes are investment vehicles above all else and property rights trump all. This is one reason good public transit can't be built and when there are big public works projects, the con
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by mushbino 4y ago
I've spent $50k out of pocket so far this year on medical expenses that weren't covered by insurance. That doesn't even include other copay expenses. Had to cash out some 401ks early. Also, 44,000 Americans die every year due
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by mushbino 4y ago
If 11,156 dreaded Python, but only 298 dreaded Julia, doesn't that make Julia look a whole lot better?
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by mushbino 4y ago
Yes, one option is saying "Whelp, we created a lot of problems for certain people, but it's time to look forward and move on."
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by mushbino 4y ago
Think of all the more widespread public health concerns and the fact absolutely nothing is being done about them. Guns, sugar, unhealthy food in general, carbon emissions, toxic chemical emissions, car deaths, crime and deaths related to al
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by mushbino 4y ago
Yes, and can we agree that not eating sugar is better than eating sugar? I think we all can.
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by mushbino 4y ago
Obviously, but if they're adults they're free to make that choice. 140,000 people die of excessive alcohol use in the US every year. This doesn't include violence, drunk driving deaths, or other deaths or crimes committed fro
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by mushbino 4y ago
I quit smoking cigarettes ten years ago and only because I switched to vaping. If they banned it I'd go back to tobacco. In an ideal world I'd do neither, but I've been doing it for so long and I just get a lot of satisfactio
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by mushbino 4y ago
I'd rather deal with someone's vape than their farts. Also, I almost never have to deal with anything related to someone vaping. I can't even recall a single time.
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by mushbino 4y ago
For sure, what you're saying is true, but I suppose it depends on the content, layout, and how it's used. Vertical is typically better when first word type scanning is important, like data tables or anything similar. Horizontal sc
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by mushbino 4y ago
It's interesting to see this perspective. My experience with canvas-based flow charting applications shows that users prefer the horizontal left-to-right flow. The ability to shift drag the canvas usually makes horizontal scrolling a l
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by mushbino 4y ago
I think he's more of a Drax - Moonraker kinda guy.
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by mushbino 4y ago
They weren't in a position to bargain since they'd already accepted repeated cuts and it's hard for a symphony to stay solvent when it doesn't have any musicians. It looks like the musicians have started performing on th
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by mushbino 4y ago
Who has the lobbying power to counteract that of chemical companies? It typically takes major disasters and not just one of them to force a ban.
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by mushbino 4y ago
The problem was that they did zero bargaining, pay kept getting cut until it wasn't paying enough to be worth doing anymore. They filled chapter 7, it's done. You can see something similar with the "worker shortage". Peo
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by mushbino 4y ago
Right? It's a good thing our monetary system and financial instruments aren't complex, phew!
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by mushbino 4y ago
...long live crypto.
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by mushbino 4y ago
In the cases you've mentioned, people by and large don't form their opinions based on studying historical facts in an objective way but based on what they're told, almost exclusively by their government in these cases. Certai
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by mushbino 4y ago
To be fair, nobody remembers the US killing 20% of the Korean population. People remember what's geopolitically advantageous and reemphasized regularly. Most people don't remember all the people killed in the Murrah building. It&#
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by mushbino 4y ago
Countries decide what is and is not a crime and every major power has these types of prisoners to an extent. One example, the US has been holding prisoners, some for 20 years who haven't been given due process, no charges, no convictio
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by mushbino 4y ago
That's not historically accurate. Since Glasnost and the opening of the Soviet archives we've been able to get a more accurate picture of these things. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff&

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