phillip_cypher

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by phillip_cypher 6y ago
That £100 might be your entire budget for groceries. There's a real economic class difference that I think a lot of people aren't seeing here.
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by phillip_cypher 6y ago
In addition, you're being forced to adjust your personal lifestyle because of the office space your employer is choosing not to provide. Perhaps it would be cheaper to live in a farm house in the middle of nowhere, but what if you want
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by phillip_cypher 6y ago
Not to mention the flipside. Living in Minnesota, I have to use my furnace all day when I work from home for many months out of the year. Natural gas isn't cheap, yet an electric heater would probably even be more expensive on my elect
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by phillip_cypher 6y ago
The people who are developing spacecraft, writing poetry, or reshaping the internet are not "average Americans." Neverthess, I agree that the statement is without merit. I think this stereotype comes from Europeans, who tend to be
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by phillip_cypher 6y ago
I agree 100% here. Comment sections on reddit are approaching YouTube-level lows.
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by phillip_cypher 6y ago
I find this perspective fascinating, because I totally disagree. I started using reddit in... 2007? (I remember a lot of content about the economic crisis and Occupy Wall Street.) I feel that the change in reddit has come from an influx of
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by phillip_cypher 6y ago
>the site has become like a nerdy version of World Star Hip Hop. Wow, this is an excellent comparison. You're absolutely right.
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by phillip_cypher 6y ago
I've moved on, and come here. I always loved reddit for the news articles and conversation. I feel that both of those things have spread out to the margins. Some subs still have the quality text-based content that I like, but most have
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by phillip_cypher 6y ago
One place I think this falls short is that it doesn't seem to take the teacher's perspective into account at all. In fact, I'm suspicious that the only thing that changes when you change the "teacher" field is the &