phobosanomaly

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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
I remember talking to someone in Cuba in 2014 and learning that it's common for folks to buy black-market DVDs containing scraped copies of major news outlets and parts of Wikipedia. I wonder what the spectrum of weird hacks of that na
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Agreed. It definitely makes sense from a harm reduction standpoint, keeping people from turning to more predatory options. At the same time, it's pretty sickening to see the normalization of dangling a pipedream in front of people trap
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
To play devil's advocate, with people tied up in legal pyramid schemes there's some degree of oversight and public scrutiny. The companies can't egregiously screw too many people too bad. Anybody who does a little homework ca
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
I mean, Dave's not wrong. If you had a few beers with folks in an MLM who kind of know the deal, what percentage would admit to hoping to be one of the 'got in early and made some money' folks without being too terribly conce
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
From what I can tell GC376 is preclinical in cats, but it's been around for a while? "When given to younger kittens, GC376 interfered with the development of permanent teeth." https://www.avma.org/javma-news&#
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Back then 'the media' was a thing. Walter Cronkite would come on TV and tell everybody what was going on, and you'd see some footage of some guys in Vietnam looking miserable and that was it. That level of political simplific
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Reminds me of running to the PO box for the Lindsay's Technical Books catalog when I was a kid. Someday I'll build that milling machine from scratch.
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Here's my counterpoint. Your argument makes 100% sense in the short-term. In the long run, Amazon's strategically thin margins on technical books will disappear when the other vendors are driven out of business, and books across t
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
What on earth was in the social worker's head leading up to this? Is there some context that doesn't justify, but maybe explains the situation? Is it just as simple as a bully arbitrarily abusing a position of power?
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
This makes an interesting point. I mean, it could be argued that the systems of reform are increasingly complex. Information relating to the problems is increasing exponentially. Yet our individual ability to process and act on this informa