nilskidoo

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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Wanna buy a bridge?
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Maybe if you had some willpower yourself you may better understand what freedom really means.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Love and trust are mass hallucinations.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Robert Mercer's SCL Group, owners of Cambridge Analytica who worked on the Trump campaign, and campaigns for Cruz and Romney before that, is supposed to be very rightwing. Which made me wonder if the FB/CA deal wasn't the fir
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Blocking content like zh on the socials is really the same as Tim Allen/Roseanne/James Gunn being fired for things they've said. The company cares sooo much about what their audiences think that they won't let said audie
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
But we can count the moments til a sacrificial lamb pops up, as with Bernie Madoff, or the epipen guy for pharma. Token examples without stopping the potential for their crimes to be repeated by everyone else in practice in the slightest. W
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Hard disagree. I believe what constitutes good writing is not teaching, but sharing. In printed word we can all be equals, that's the magic.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
If nothing else, I see that as the future of game shows- win the Hawaiian vacation or lose your house. Not to self-promote, but I suspect you might lovelovelove some of my points here, because I explored comparable logic: https:/&#x2F
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I would argue that every one of these things came into existence not by the benevolence or common sense of idealists, but because somebody somewhere saw a chance to profit, like keeping workers satisfied just enough to distract them from to
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Great points! And it is curious, in that I was always taught how respect must be earned, yet we give our contempt away so freely. If those are the only options, they are not equal.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I agree with this in the same sense that I never agreed with the old adage of opinions being like @$$holes, with everyone having one. There is far too much reaction and repetition, particularly online, for me to believe that everyone actual
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I think most people would agree, but then there are a lot of workers who simply cannot afford to take any time off, no matter how sick. I just witnessed this with my mom's nurse practitioner, who had to cut her own maternity leave shor
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I think it's just entropy in action. Structures invariably show their cracks, whether it's a marriage or a society or any other institution. Age beats idealism into place. The world is more and more tiring the more time we partake
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
As an alternative to a bad map or no map, sometimes alternative solutions get shot down over pure arrogance, as with Musk's clear jealousy of that swim team guy who saved the kids from the cave. Musk wanted to be the hero, that mattere
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Sick marine mammals turning up on California beaches in droves: https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/wires/state-nation...
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Spoken language, and written language. For my money, shared communication made everything that came later possible.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Of course they stopped no terrorists, so I was joking that neither will they stop the program. Whether continued by other governmental efforts or if this one explicitly continues itself, the government has outright lied many, many times in
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I bet this changes fast when NEOM opens up with its shiny new Alphabet HQ.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I've worked in kitchens where hairnets over beards was mandatory though.
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They're shutting it down in the same way they shut down terrorists.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
The great Fred Woodworth, who has been prolifically self-publishing anti-establishment zines since the 1960s while keeping no online presence whatsoever (not even an email), famously referred to law enforcement as the largest and most power
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I get what you're saying, but I can't imagine the Kardashians lifting anything heavier than a toilet lid to upchuck their biscotti though.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Counterargument: That is a blunt lie. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/259476-ex-... https://fpif.org/americas-global-military-bases-actually-und... I'd imagine maintain
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I'd say it is actually far, far easier to buy social status than to earn it.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
A volume dampener for each and every car stereo within a 50 yard range, as long as they are in that 50 yard range.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
It can be a huge catalyst for change though. Food chains poisoned and disrupted, throwing off migration patterns, etc. And THESE changes can illicit evolutionary jump-starts. Unless he was just a fishy Paul Revere coming to warn us CTHULHU
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
"Siri of thousands of years from now, exactly how did the conditions which eventually prompted the Butlerian Jyhad begin?"
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
There was another news story, shared by Drudge the same time as this, where dozens of dead dolphins were washing ashore of some southern Cali beach. I wondered if both stories, along with the case of the newly-discovered glow in the dark sh
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I'm a great fan of Mencken, as well as Ambrose Bierce and I.F. Stone. I love the idea of essays, but have struggled my whole adult life to find voices who can write from my own experiences. So, I stay passionate about keeping the art a
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Kids lack the same free speech rights as adults who don't have to live under a guardian's authority though. If you have open floodgates there will invariably be contradictions and conflict, when a little bit of Reason could avoid

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