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by over_bridge 4y ago
Its shocking to see the overall attitude to workers rights in the US. Profits over people, always? There's always some vocal sociopaths, I mean libertarians who won the career lottery coming out to defend this behavior on here too. Sad
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by over_bridge 4y ago
It's hugely in the public interest to not have sick rail workers infecting their passengers
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by over_bridge 4y ago
Maybe he should have targeted the elderly from the start. People who can't leave the house easily might get more out of the experience. It seems inane to me having a metaverse which is just the real world with bad graphics but without
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by over_bridge 4y ago
It's crazy how much nonsense stems from people reading a tweet and turning it into an article as if that gave it legitimacy. Random speculation is being presented as news and getting a lot of traction on social media. There's one
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by over_bridge 4y ago
Sometimes it's to capture the market: kill all competitors with a price they can't match and then jack up the price once you've achieved monopoly. Kind of a gross practice that is only possible when you've got a huge bud
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by over_bridge 4y ago
I've been trying out Twitter lately for the first time in at least 10 years. No social network has ever made me as mad at my fellow humans as that one does. 10 min reading comments and I'm outraged at the constant stupidity, atten
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by over_bridge 4y ago
I think its more that he sees Twitter as an investment in his time. Not a bad thought considering he used it to meme Tesla to its current market cap and himself to being the richest person in existence. For most people its just an idle pass
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by over_bridge 4y ago
Pass single payer healthcare so that being fired isn't a potentially life or death scenario and there may be some merit to your comment. If people are safe whether employed or not then by all means fire at will. It's rude but not
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by over_bridge 4y ago
I was wondering the same thing. Surely you have to be verified AS something. You can't just be generally verified. Maybe you shouldn't be able to change your display name once verified as a fix. Or you can change it but the tick i
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by over_bridge 4y ago
I can relate to this. Before the pandemic I was really good at presenting and running workshops with groups. Then after work from home and with the gyms closed I put on 12kg pretty quickly. It changed my whole attitude and made me very inse
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by over_bridge 4y ago
Elon Musk. Sure he's successful in the real world but having money doesn't make you a celebrity. I wouldn't recognize most of the Forbes list if I passed them in the street. He's actual famous, instead of Wikipedia famou
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by over_bridge 4y ago
You don't have to view everything through such a political lens. Musk constantly shits on the work those people did and says he's going to change it all. I bet they have some pride in what they built and it would feel insulting fo
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by over_bridge 4y ago
I once spent 20 min trying to find which streaming service had the latest season of the Orville in New Zealand. Turns out none of them do. I tried to find a digital copy on every store I could think of and failed. I looked for the Blu-ray a
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by over_bridge 4y ago
I associate Medium with people who crank out one article a day to grow their audience. No one on Earth is interesting or knowledgeable enough to write one self contained thing of value per day. Therefore anything you read on there is someon
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by over_bridge 4y ago
> Schools meals are pure cost, they don't bring anything back. It's not like we have mass starvation going on at the moment either. They are not a pure cost, they are an investment in your next generation of humans (or human re
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by over_bridge 4y ago
If you were talking about an energy grid 100% powered by wind and solar, and it was a sunny and windy day to the point of oversupply, that would be true. Even then you could direct the energy to batteries for non windy days so it's mar
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by over_bridge 4y ago
While it's true that the terms are relative, there are countries in Europe and South America that have literal communist, socialist or anarchist parties. Hearing people describe Democrats as far left makes them sound like clowns spouti
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by over_bridge 4y ago
Reddit is mostly crypto-critical so unless you posted something paywalled or in the wrong sub, this is unlikely to be the root cause. WSJ is paywalled isn't it? Like as in no one can read the article.
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by over_bridge 4y ago
Pretty sure they are just pumping their metrics ahead of a future IPO. The current shareholders will all disappear and the new ones can slowly pick up the pieces in a few years. Forget running a sustainable business with your customers at t
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by over_bridge 4y ago
Wealth redistribution. There's already plenty for everyone, it's just distributed in a way where the top class of people has cash to burn on bored apes, yachts and thousand dollar white tee shirts. The poor work for scraps. We nee
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by over_bridge 4y ago
Hence why every business owner boasts about being a job creator. This despite these jobs being an unwanted side effect of the actual goals of the business. Cost centres. 'Look at all these employees I resent having to spend money on an
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by over_bridge 4y ago
CEOs simply control more powerful tools so their output is multiplied. Someone driving a tractor might produce 400x the output of someone with hand tools, but its not because of the person, its the tool. Swap the two people and there will s
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by over_bridge 4y ago
And what if the thing you want to do pays a wage below livable? Or no wage at all. Not everyone wants to be a software developer or something that makes a lot of money and it's a damn bleak view of the world where the grand diversity o
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by over_bridge 4y ago
I think that people are generally neutral rather than good. Most of us conform to social norms and do what is expected of us and no more. It's a pretty severe lowering of the bar to consider that good in my opinion. We are neutral and
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by over_bridge 4y ago
And making sweeping statements about Democrats. Regardless of any political takes, that's potentially tens of millions of people who could take offense, including those most active about electric vehicles and solar panels.
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by over_bridge 4y ago
Tesla has been massively overvalued for a long time. Elon himself said it was too high. The exceptionalism of Tesla was the cult of personality around Musk himself. The stock is strongly tied to public perception of one person. This has bee
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by over_bridge 4y ago
There's a difference between having a price and having value. I could order a truck load of glitter and dump it on my lawn. It has no value to anyone but it still cost me money to obtain it. It's questionable that Bitcoin has any
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by over_bridge 4y ago
Isn't this just the corporation circle of life? Hot new company appears. It offers great value and undercuts the old guard. As they grow in market share their rate of growth starts to slow as do their investor returns. They start to fo
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by over_bridge 4y ago
It hasn't become 'far left', the term is authoritarian. The state knows what's best for everyone. Both left and right can come in authoritarian and libertarian variants. Texas is definitely auth-right despite pretending
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by over_bridge 5y ago
More like a dystopian hell where the rich literally own the colours of nature and charge poor people for using them.

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