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by over_bridge 5y ago
I'm of the opinion that competition is unnecessary too. It seems more of a modern construct than a natural law - one aimed at disenfranchising workers and creating divisions between people who should be allies. If two lions constantly
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by over_bridge 5y ago
"It's my liberty to kill as many people as I want through my negligence and personal entitlement as a carrier of a contagious disease"?
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by over_bridge 5y ago
That seems overly dismissive. NZ could have been run by a bunch of jackasses like so many other states/nations have been who did nothing but politicize and posture. Sure its an advantage to be on an island but it's one which is ea
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by over_bridge 5y ago
When is a product complete? One day it must be unless the builders are hopeless Surely there must be a point where the product functions as intended and the peak number of users like it like that. Instead we carry on. Everyone has to keep p
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by over_bridge 5y ago
Death is a very long way from being the worst thing that can happen. That's why a lot of torture methods are about keeping you alive as long as possible, or doing something horrible and forcing you to live with it. Not to mention illne
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by over_bridge 5y ago
I think we've gone from actual scarcity to the current era of artificial scarcity. Hopefully we get to post-scarcity once we solve that. We have plenty of everything, enough for everyone but we allocate and distribute it too inefficien
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by over_bridge 5y ago
I suppose for a restaurant specifically, the people who work there and who eat there are very different. If higher wages leads to higher unit price, its not the worker paying that difference, its the wealthier customers. Of course in the ge
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by over_bridge 5y ago
Another personal anecdote - if I do deadlifts on any given day, I need an hour extra sleep that night (or more accurately, I suffer in the morning from not having had it). Maybe that need fades with experience but its a major reason deadlif
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by over_bridge 5y ago
I dream of a day when light and noise pollution are taken seriously. Its exhausting walking beside a busy road with the roar of traffic. You see the birds don't even bother to try and sing anymore. They are just silent and isolated unt
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by over_bridge 5y ago
Why would you do business with people you disagree with? I wouldn't knowingly serve wife beaters or pedos in my ice cream shop. Why would I trade with genocidal human rights abusers as a corporation? Cause they have cash? Come on, have
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by over_bridge 5y ago
The perspective you are offering seems to be an extreme one as well. The idea that the 'misery' inflicted on society is caused by financial manipulation by governments seems out there. I'm guessing the laws and cultural norms
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by over_bridge 5y ago
Random complaint but Microsoft apps on Android are the only ones I use that simply do not behave as they should. Teams captures the audio channel and I have to manually close the app before anything else can play audio. Notifications don&#x
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by over_bridge 5y ago
Isn't the point to target sparsely populated areas? I haven't seen anyone saying it will replace fibre optic networks in high density areas. 1Gbps is becoming common in New Zealand major centres and I've seen 4Gbps offered re
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by over_bridge 5y ago
Its the same nonsense you hear from fruit growers. "We can't find anyone to hire so we need the government to issue more temporary visas for foreign workers" (New Zealand) They'll try anything except offer a fair labour
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by over_bridge 5y ago
It's sad the extent to which some people have shaped their whole personality around this 'alpha' concept. Some going as far as to tattoo wolves on themselves. Also the whole culture around alpha and beta males as some sort of
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by over_bridge 5y ago
Not having kids always struck me as a short sighted solution (not saying you are specifically advocating for it but there are those that do). One/two/three less people will have negligible impact but if the most environmentally aw
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by over_bridge 5y ago
HDD and SSD prices to the moon! Now we just need a coin that can somehow inflate motherboard prices and we'll have the whole computer pointlessly inflating in value
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by over_bridge 5y ago
Agreed! The outcomes of government are what matter to me. Many of the outcomes I expect like infrastructure, healthcare and education, take a lot of work to deliver. If the government is large to support these then so be it. I'd also s
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by over_bridge 5y ago
It's starting to feel like gambling is the bedrock of the economy, rather than a side show. Everyone has a 'portfolio' of stocks and coins that they in no way contribute any value to, but expect huge returns from. 'Net w
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by over_bridge 6y ago
Don't even pretend that the market is some sort of natural phenomenon. That's got human fingerprints all over it
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by over_bridge 6y ago
I agree that 'daylight saving' time is misleading. DST status quo enjoyers say that of course they love the extra time in summer... when its obvious that you get that extra light in summer vs winter regardless of any clock changes
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by over_bridge 6y ago
Except that the species that essentially defeated nature and rose above it is defined by our ability to cooperate. Sure, competition is common in nature but that's why it can't win against a cooperative species. Cooperation is an