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by notadoc 7y ago
This reminds me of trying to explain the "Home" button and Touch ID on an iPhone to an older relative a few years ago. They could not figure out how to reliably unlock the phone and they'd most frequently end up with Siri fro
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by notadoc 7y ago
> The only solution is another platform that respects creators, has sane/straightforward policies and doesn't permit rampant scams and extortions. What is that alternate platform? For many people, web video is YouTube.
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by notadoc 7y ago
These are always fun threads, thanks to those who share their experiences.
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by notadoc 7y ago
Does it matter? The notion of biological sex is a big debate right now within certain communities.
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by notadoc 7y ago
Fascinating
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by notadoc 7y ago
Unfortunately there is historical precedent to comedic intolerance. Royalty would occasionally have their court jesters put to death, for example.
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by notadoc 7y ago
Why is the Vatican opposed to IVF? Is it general, or situational?
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by notadoc 7y ago
Staged slapstick doesn't have the same appeal to a generation accustomed to people recording others doing stupid things with their cell phone, which is the new physical comedy (even though many of those viral clips are staged too). The
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by notadoc 7y ago
The repetitional damage to Boeing on this has to be considerable.
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by notadoc 7y ago
"Mark Zuckerberg Live from Georgetown" sounds like an album
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by notadoc 7y ago
>This is why, if you look where all the really rich rulers decide to go for surgery or other complicated care, it is the US. If that were true, why would a US Senator go to Canada for surgery then? https://www.courier-journal.
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by notadoc 7y ago
Will be interesting to see what happens when the country trades the Protestant worth ethic, concepts of morality, duty to family, for .... whatever is adopted as faith instead. Identity politics seems to be the new religion for many.
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by notadoc 7y ago
tldr: health care spending is high because prices are high That seems obvious in general, but should be extra obvious to anyone who has ever received a bill from anything in the US health system.
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by notadoc 7y ago
What about the top 0.1%?
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by notadoc 7y ago
People disagree on what exactly qualifies as "human rights" though, and perhaps that's where it becomes political.
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by notadoc 7y ago
That same logic would suggest that no company should be able to ban any topics, content, speech, or people from their platform, no? What is free speech and expression, and what is censorship? I think society and corporations are wrestling w
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by notadoc 7y ago
Many political issues are so heated and have become so divisive that they can create barriers to team cohesion (and societal cohesion for that matter), and occasionally turn into outright intolerance. Unless you work directly in politics, w
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by notadoc 7y ago
Where has social media been a good thing for society?
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by notadoc 7y ago
There are tons of fixer uppers in Dayton for 10k-30k, look on Zillow 30k isn't even 1/4 of a down payment on a fixer upper on the west coast.
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by notadoc 7y ago
Sure ok, but over 6 years a starter house going from $19,000 to $30,000 in Dayton is a lot different on the affordability spectrum than an equivalent house going from $300,000 to $900,000 in Seattle.
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by notadoc 7y ago
What value does an MBA provide today? It used to be a way to accelerate a career path, but is that even the case anymore?
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by notadoc 7y ago
This is mostly a west coast problem, where housing is hugely inflated in every west coast state and city. And NYC too of course, but that's less surprising given its NYC. Sometimes I think these articles are written as clickbait for pe
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by notadoc 7y ago
Why not for everyone? What's yours is yours, what's shared is shared. Seems simple enough? The legal entanglement is perhaps the strangest part of marriage, and divorce.
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by notadoc 7y ago
What will happen with grammatically gendered languages, like Spanish?
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by notadoc 7y ago
Source without the regurgitation: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2019.048...
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by notadoc 7y ago
Wrongthink
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by notadoc 7y ago
The odds of seeing any list of things to do/buy/engage without it being some affiliate promotion are slim
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by notadoc 7y ago
Hasn't online dating always been that way?
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by notadoc 7y ago
Remember when the US entertainment industry was considered part of American soft power? I guess that is now Chinese soft power?
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by notadoc 7y ago
> you cannot retrain a few billion people by public shaming There have been many cultural revolutions throughout history where a group tries to retrain millions through shaming, reeducation, force, policy, banning, censorship, etc.

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