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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
Why are you being so rude? Please don't put words in my mouth, that is nothing like what I believe. My views are something like what the average American believed in 1910. Were they literally Hitler also?
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
“Look there’s an X, what is he doing here, get him!”
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
I know someone who did that in the 90s to Palo Alto, even though he could have stretched to afford a house there back then. If he had he would be in a much better position today.
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
What? School is basically the same hours as a full time job. How is it but a few hours a day? Did you time travel from the 1800s?
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
What do you think about non-media screen use like Google Maps or typing on a word processor?
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
Was it actually gone or did the remaining stock get some sort of protection? Like did the entire continent seriously get logged?
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
How would they? The radio is coming from your phone, and I imagine it isn’t any bigger than what broadcast radio has been since forever? So unless broadcast radio also causes cancer, which I’ve never heard of, I don’t think they do. Though
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
So Facebook products are definitely not good for humans to use, sort of like cane sugar is not good for humans to use, but I wonder if you also think this about, I dunno, banks? They do vastly more predatory stuff with much bigger impacts.
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
Sorry can you point out where I said the thing you’re disagreeing with? I didn’t say anything about the reason they fought the Nazis.
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
I agree with the sentiment generally, but there have been lots of times in history when recognizing that you should leave a place turned out to be life or death. The start of WW2 was random shit far away for a lot of people until it wasn’t.
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
Everyone is pretty clearly paranoid about "the right wing shit" due to being inculcated with the story of WW2 in school. Think about the political policies of Britain immediately prior to WW2. If a party today advocated just rolli
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
Was he trying to seed unrest or was he sabotaging organic right wing movements that have less dumb shit in their program? EDIT: Keep in mind that the right wing movements on which you have trained your impressions are almost always by defin
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
> I would kill to have my transportation-related costs reduced to about $150/mo Lots of people have had their transportation-related costs reduced to $0 by killing! Just be sure to get caught or it won’t work.
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
> artisanal mines in africa Just want to say this is an entertaining euphemism. It isn’t that labor conditions are poor and work is done by hand, it’s “artisanal mining”.
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
I don’t like the current system at all, but is insurance really just a middleman? Like part of their function is being a middleman, but they also apply some kind of cost smoothing that is outside what a pure middleman would do.
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
I don’t think Vision Pro was intended as a mass consumer product. There is so much cost reduction they could have done on the device that they didn’t do to hit a lower price point, and it’s obvious to everyone that $3500 wasn’t going to sel
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by pfannkuchen 4mo ago
I have the inserts, they work great. I find using the Vision Pro as a monitor less fatiguing than using a regular monitor with glasses. I think it’s because the Vision Pro Display is optically several feet away due to lens trickery, and foc
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
Media: "X is horrible!" <6 months later> Media: "Americans Don't Like X"
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
In my experience hosting an intern does not count much towards your review. So sure, but you also could have done nothing and your review would probably be the same as if you hosted an intern. It’s possible somewhere does properly incentivi
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
His point is that the engineers wanting to opt for "not intern" isn't really a data point on whether interns are helpful. It may instead be a data point on the propensity for people to opt out of work when they have a good ex
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
Were the environmental regulations actually intended as roadblocks and the environmentalists were useful idiots, or did the regulations start out useful and get hijacked, or were they always bad but it was an unintended consequence? Like is
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
> while exempting Russia and Belarus I thought they were sanctioned to hell and back. Do tariffs even apply as a concept?
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
Too long, did read but replying to a granular supporting point at the beginning not to the whole idea. Which isn’t to say I dismiss the whole idea, this is just how my brain processes arguments. If an argument relies on a certain support, I
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
I wonder if we can get children to make something their life’s dream if we make the cool books about it when they are growing up? I wonder how flexible the human mind can be in convincing itself that it is fulfilling its dream?
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
Only lemming spending. Where the first few lemmings have to justify it some other way.
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
Is it not more people living per house? I can’t really imagine voluntarily street parking on a busy street to avoid car shuffling. Are there more cars per person now than in the 90s? I feel like parents had one car each back then and teens
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
Can someone explain what it even means to seize the means of production? Like if the means of production is land, and you are seizing land, sure that makes sense to me. But most goods are not made by land alone but by machines and factories
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
I mean this is a bug right? It’s like there’s a search outage and TechCrunch says “You can no longer use Google search”.
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
Well not really. If they make an exception it’s much easier to call them racist. Also what the people in the party or whatever support and what the government actions are are rarely exactly aligned.
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by pfannkuchen 5mo ago
Non-European origin immigrants, presumably? Like are they against Irish people coming over in small numbers? Just wondering if you’re actually blanket saying they hate immigrants, I hadn’t heard about that.

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