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by phil248 7y ago
Are you familiar with the men's rights movement? The term or concept of "men's rights" could certainly be discussed in a neutral, non-crazy way. But the actual movement as it exists today and the logic that commonly defi
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by phil248 7y ago
Banning things is obviously silly but I wouldn't mind regulations that force media outlets to give subscribers some simple options so we can choose exactly how we consume the media we pay for. That might wreck the holy grail of A&#x2
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by phil248 7y ago
True, but "The layoffs will affect multiple offices worldwide".
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by phil248 7y ago
Yes, but one can make the same argument about nearly anything since nothing comes in to existence without some set of inputs. It's not some unique attribute of renewable energy infrastructure that it requires resources to build. That&#
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by phil248 7y ago
In most of the country $40k/year is a very reasonable salary for a full-time, mid-level office role.
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by phil248 7y ago
Here in California, I usually call it a liquor store, even if it doesn't sell liquor.
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by phil248 7y ago
"No civilization has ever voluntarily reduced resource consumption." Energy efficiency improvements and water conservation efforts have been spectacularly effective in many first world areas.
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by phil248 7y ago
Of course we are talking generationally here. Plenty of boomers bucked the trend, but by and large they defended the status quo, moved the nation economically to the right, locked everyone up for minor crimes, and just absolutely devastated
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by phil248 7y ago
This is only going to grow more extreme in the years to come. We finally have a generation in this country that actually gives a shit. DoorDash didn't invent bad labor practices. They weren't even part of the first thousand compan
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by phil248 7y ago
The service industry has been operating at a much larger scale for decades now with all of the same bad labor practices and no one cared. The service industry invented ways to pay below minimum wage (tip exemptions, age exemptions), push
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by phil248 7y ago
As long as the "thing" in question is perfectly legal, it makes much more sense to pressure government to create better regulations, not denigrate law-abiding businesses because they aren't voluntarily adhering to our individ
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by phil248 7y ago
Inequality has been increasing in China at a rate far outpacing the rest of the world, and the world at large has seen inequality continually increase despite improving living conditions for an increasing number of people. From the IMF: &qu
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by phil248 7y ago
Declaring it a "genuine question" does not change the fact that you are baiting people with a logical fallacy.
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by phil248 7y ago
People also don't know that restaurants do this. People generally are not aware of, and do not care about, the specifics of labor practices outside of their own industry.
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by phil248 7y ago
Laws by definition mean it is not theft, but yes, this practice is widespread, legal and has been around far longer than the new tech-oriented contract workforce.
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by phil248 7y ago
The phrase "watching TV" has lost all meaning. If someone mindlessly flips channels all evening, watching hundreds of commercials and "whatever's on", I can see how that can be detrimental. For most of my life, that
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by phil248 7y ago
Every body is different and we react to different foods in different ways. The only mistake we can make it assuming other people's bodies work like our own. There is tremendous variation.
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by phil248 7y ago
All living humans are Homo sapiens. That's the only species of humans that is not extinct and there are no recognized subspecies that are not extinct. Modern humans are categorized as a subspecies called Homo sapiens sapiens. But it&#x
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by phil248 7y ago
Kids these days get to grow up with much cooler dinosaurs. They've found like eight sauropods larger than the brontosaurus since I was a kid in the 90's. And now brontosaurus isn't even a species, they changed it to a genus!
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by phil248 7y ago
It's pretty https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/case-... well http://lostallhope.com/suicide-methods/statistics-most-letha... documented https://jech.bmj.co
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by phil248 7y ago
They do take a pay cut. There are no stock options at a non-profit. Salaries are lower than in the private sector. If you think non-profit CEOs are raking in millions, no wonder you think they are over paid! Don't worry, they are not
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by phil248 7y ago
What? Every organization that wants to grow and thrive needs leadership. And getting and keeping good leadership requires offering fair compensation. Do you disagree?
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by phil248 7y ago
I don't know what to tell you man. Quitting alcohol cold turkey can kill a person. Go get to know some people struggling with addiction to maybe broaden your perspective beyond some study you read? And keep in mind that different peop
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by phil248 7y ago
Wow, no, it does not. You're just making things up?
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by phil248 7y ago
The phrase "a world without guns" was a rhetorical shortcut to describe a nation where obtaining a firearm is significantly more difficult than in the United States. I was also not talking about rates of suicide or murder, but rat
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by phil248 7y ago
Using drugs to treat a physical addiction is first and foremost a "coping mechanism" for treating the physical addiction. When a serious alcoholic is puking themselves nearly to death as they try and get sober, they aren't tr
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by phil248 7y ago
Why would you arbitrarily exclude suicide from gun violence? Guns are a distinct problem because they make serious injury/death incredibly easy and simple. That's just as true for murder as it is for suicide, and in a world withou
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by phil248 7y ago
Oh, that explains why I felt the world become slightly less hateful all of a sudden.
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by phil248 7y ago
Complaints against income gaps (or, more significantly, wealth gaps) tend to focus on the top 10%, 1% or <1% versus the remainder of society. I don't think a variance of +/- 20% among the vast majority of workers (middle ~70%)
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by phil248 7y ago
I wouldn't complain about 10 weeks of paid vacation! But for a lot of businesses, it's easier to lose people 1 day every week as opposed to 2-3 weeks at a time several times a year. Just in terms of coverage and workflow. Though t

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