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by noad 6y ago
"The frugal economy" is a weird title for it, they are basically advocating abolishing shareholders and the whole equity system because it keeps failing us repeatedly. I lost count of how many months its been since I paid my mortg
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Congress Considers National Right-to-Repair Legislation for Medical Equipment(vice.com)
4 points by noad 6y ago|0 comments
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“We aren’t expecting any support because there is no state”(nytimes.com)
2 points by noad 6y ago|0 comments
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by noad 6y ago
I'm trying to think of any company I would trust for a camera in my house and am drawing a blank. Google is pure evil for sure, but which company is better? It it even possible to roll your own LAN solution any more? The tech giants ha
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The pandemic hasn't hampered the health care industry(axios.com)
2 points by noad 6y ago|0 comments
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U.S. hospitals received billions in bailout grants as C.E.O.s got millions(nytimes.com)
2 points by noad 6y ago|0 comments
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by noad 6y ago
The CDC already failed us. Public health figures have been wrong repeatedly at the local, state, and national level. I understand people's frustration with them, and I understand why people don't care about their "signoffs&qu
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by noad 6y ago
Or maybe there are just bigger problems than the virus right now.
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by noad 6y ago
It seems like pushing through massive budget cuts and busting up police unions is the next logical step. I understand this is easier said than done, but the sooner we get started on actually fighting this fight the easier it will be to get
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Elon Musk calls for breakup of Amazon(twitter.com)
64 points by noad 6y ago|45 comments
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by noad 6y ago
There is nothing praise-worthy about taking a stand now, you should have been out of there ten years ago or never started to begin with. Zuckerberg has been consistently out of control and unaccountable since the Beacon fiasco, which was i
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by noad 6y ago
I have seen no evidence of any positive outcome from companies policing themselves, only negative results and coverups. I'm sure there have been a few instances, somewhere, there must be, right? I just don't recall reading or hear
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by noad 6y ago
Your local representative is spending 90% of their day talking to lobbyists who pay to talk to them and doing fundraising calls with rich people. People press the button on a machine in lots of countries, that doesn't necessarily make
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by noad 6y ago
Like when Wells Fargo investigated their mortgage department and found no problems, right? Or when Google investigated Andy Rubin and decided he wasn't that bad and protected him for three more years? Why on earth would you ever trust
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It's time to bust police unions(reason.com)
6 points by noad 6y ago|1 comments
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by noad 6y ago
We have not been a democracy or a representative republic for a long time, at a bare minimum we would need a new amendment to overturn citizens united and move to publicly financed elections to get back to that. You can claim you're re
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by noad 6y ago
Google appears to be claiming that because they warn you about 3rd party trackers this is all fine. They are just another 3rd party tracker it seems. Maybe it's time to stop treating Google like a technology company. They don't se
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Minneapolis Police Use Force Against Black People at 7 Times the Rate of Whites(nytimes.com)
3 points by noad 6y ago|0 comments
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by noad 6y ago
Why are you assuming that? You just really want to force weed into this story somehow, is that the prism through which you see the world?
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by noad 6y ago
This had nothing to do with marijuana. They usually use GMC Suburbans + men with rifles, but sometimes you see Brinks armored trucks too. I am quite familiar with the weed trucks.
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by noad 6y ago
I saw an armored Mercedes car on the streets of Denver for the first time a couple years ago. I have seen dozens of them in Africa and Latin America, but it was a really depressing moment for me when I first recognized that in my home town.
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by noad 6y ago
This is exactly what people speculated would eventually happen when they first announced AMP. Google continues to disappoint and harm the internet in a very predictable way, year after year.
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Big Pharmacy chains also fed opiod epidemic(nytimes.com)
1 points by noad 6y ago|0 comments
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Swiss companies must pay share of rent for employees working from home(swissinfo.ch)
1 points by noad 6y ago|0 comments
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by noad 6y ago
I guess if you want to only look back at 2019 data you will miss the fact that renewables passed coal this year. The rate at which the coal industry is dying is remarkable and is well covered in the media.
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by noad 6y ago
It's really not though, renewables have already surpassed coal in the USA for the first time while hyrdo is treading water. The change already happened and all the concerns about peak load capacity and storage were largely mythical. Co
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by noad 6y ago
Yeah all the naturally occuring ferric metal in Kansas sure is a plague upon our lands. So much natural ferric material just laying around, I'm getting sick of it all! Let's bring that up instead of talking about the massive amoun
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by noad 6y ago
Ok I think you're just being obtuse for the sake of being obtuse for some other mysterious reason, can't help you there.
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New York City and Los Angeles Slash Budgets – But Not for Police(theintercept.com)
1 points by noad 6y ago|0 comments
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by noad 6y ago
There is so much pollution in the fields we have to feed the cows magnets to get it out. That is the funniest thing I've read all day.

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