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by orange_joe 2y ago
In the case of the NY subway, it would cost a poor person receiving subsidized fare about $2.20/day to do their part, or about 9 minutes of work at minimum wage. It is not a crime to ask a person to participate in their own survival.
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by orange_joe 2y ago
The simple truth is that urban progressives no longer believe that the poor owe anything to society in general. The idea of enforcing the law against such a presumably disadvantaged group is anathema. Until there is a cultural shift where
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by orange_joe 2y ago
the Chernobyl miniseries handled accents perfectly. Ostensibly in Russia it had everyone speaking English accents. The educated spoke in RP, but the miners spoke with working class regional British accents. It added a lot of texture to t
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by orange_joe 2y ago
such a bizarre article, its very odd to conflate trans issues with being fat. I'll basically ignore that major part of the article and state this. Severe obesity reduces the life expectancy of 6-14 years. moderate obesity reduces life
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by orange_joe 3y ago
Since the article talks about the failure of AI in the context of the 10/7 I think it’s worth discussing the situation directly. Everything points to the Israelis not having taken their security seriously beyond the tactical level. I’
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by orange_joe 3y ago
Favorite Captain/war criminal was Sisko. DS9 remains the only Star Trek that seems grounded and representing the consequences of the sort of democratic crusading that defined the series and American politics of the latter 20th century
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by orange_joe 3y ago
It’s a little ambiguous, but it seems as though they’re specifically talking about industrial steel making as it emerged in the 18th century (the Bessemer Process). “That is a little-known fact in the Western world, where steel production o
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by orange_joe 3y ago
I don’t think it’s particularly controversial to state that non-European cultures were making and working steel. I think it’s fairly revisionist (a narrative outside the academic mainstream) to state they passed this knowledge to Europeans
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by orange_joe 3y ago
I love low tech magazine, but the citation for “African and Asian metallurgists developed high quality steels much earlier and this knowledge eventually allowed Europeans to do the same on a much larger scale?” Is an article in the same pub
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by orange_joe 3y ago
Something under appreciated in America’s failures is how they become fuel for cryptofascist (crypto like hidden not Bitcoin) justifications for whatever horrible behavior is dreamt up in the Kremlin or Beijing. You can see it in this thread
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by orange_joe 3y ago
Instead of reflecting on what was said you take a moment to defend Russia — it betrays the fact that you don’t really care.
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by orange_joe 3y ago
I've yet to find a grocery store in Europe that favorably compares to whole foods
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by orange_joe 3y ago
I really don't accept this as a generalized concept, denying the experiences of the roughly 1/3 of Americans who live in big cities in the US to then base your perspectives of the food culture of other nations on their big cities
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by orange_joe 3y ago
well, the unions pushed for wage requirements in the auto industry within the USMCA (NAFTA2) and required Mexico to (effective) legalize unions alongside lots of other rights enshrining measures. So Mexican workers benefited greatly from th
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by orange_joe 3y ago
I don't know about the entire state, but with regards to the ski towns discussed in the article, 8-10 buildings per town would make a significant difference, as that would represent a rough increase of 9-11% of housing. If done efficie
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by orange_joe 3y ago
The workers are already there, they just don't get to live dignified lives.
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by orange_joe 3y ago
The point is that it's absurd for us to ask if it's possible to provide housing for workers in these extremely small towns with vast amounts of open space. The point is that we have the technology, the means and the capital to sol
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by orange_joe 3y ago
it's Futurama, I really really loved the show. ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K7o-bSLCHk
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by orange_joe 3y ago
My apartment in Manhattan houses as many people as a square mile does in Colorado using 1/10,000th the space. At a certain point we have to acknowledge that the government would rather you just be poor.
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by orange_joe 3y ago
I understand the unlikelihood of this, but to really capitalize on the film craze they need to produce a higher “resolution” instant film. Old peel away film was fantastically high quality particularly when paired with a genuine glass lens
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by orange_joe 3y ago
This is the actors union.
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by orange_joe 3y ago
I’d love to build tools that automatically exercise your rights as a consumer against these large corporations. The simple truth is that they rely on the social norms of a society as weapons against them, whilst simultaneously breaking the
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by orange_joe 3y ago
This seems like a non story, one of their points was that some nazi kid signed up for threads with a fake account, unclear to me what Meta should do about that.
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by orange_joe 3y ago
Watch the algo push those posts into the dirt. People talk about these things because they get airtime, they probably won’t post hyper partisan hot takes if they’re punished for it.
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by orange_joe 3y ago
In my opinion this isn’t a consequence of the pandemic, but rather an inevitable outcome from the uneven pattern of building that vastly favored commercial real estate and prevented new housing. Even without teleworking, it was likely that
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by orange_joe 3y ago
Not in my opinion, those smaller towns have largely (but not universally) abandoned the middle class ambition of home ownership through exclusionary land policy, despite not degrading their basic services.
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by orange_joe 3y ago
The societies of North America have totally abandoned the middle class and its ambitions. Instead of staying true to their goals of education, libraries have become daytime homeless shelters driving away their original patrons. So have bu
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by orange_joe 3y ago
I don’t fully buy into rehabilitative Justice. I’ve not read an account of how to handle one off crimes. Things like manslaughter or negligence. Crimes with extremely low rates of recidivism. Should people who commit these crimes be let off
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by orange_joe 3y ago
They have an outright ominous reputation from their historical involvement in violently suppressing the labor movement in the US. Because they’re still corporate security, they’ve kept this reputation as corporate goons for hire.
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by orange_joe 3y ago
don't believe the lies, FANG was crying to the government and journalists daily that the US didn't have enough software engineers for the better part of two decades. Then they laid off 50,000 people despite being immensely profit

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