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by quacked 6y ago
I agree with you, but the primary issue is signalling via degrees. For the elite non-college educated who already have a working portfolio of projects to reference, landing a "white-collar" job may be a possibility. For the rest o
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by quacked 6y ago
I agree with you; however, the interesting thing is that instead of millenials asking boomers why they've gone and strip mined everything, the millenials are mad that there's nothing left to strip mine.
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by quacked 6y ago
Agreed.
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by quacked 6y ago
What, and force people reconcile with the real cost of owning material goods and receiving services? Sir, this is America.
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by quacked 6y ago
If you've been reading Baudrillard, you might like the blog The Last Psychiatrist, which is a less-rigorous, more ironic take on a lot of similar ideas about hyperreality.
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by quacked 7y ago
This sounds like a sophomore engineering student's weeklong nightmare of a thermodynamics assignment. "Part f) Your boss realizes you don't have any money left in the budget to replace the A/C unit, but he knows a suppli
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by quacked 7y ago
30*150 = 4500 lb. There are cases of planes crashing because everyone rushed to the front or the back to avoid smoke. I know it's not the same as a commercial airliner, but I used to teach hang gliding on the beach and we'd someti
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by quacked 7y ago
Certainly. A classic example of a "postmodern" composer is John Adams, whose magnum opus could be considered the piece "El Nino", which modern critics have compared to Handel's "Messiah". I encourage you t
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by quacked 7y ago
I have a much less nuanced view of "postmodernists" [1]; without fail, every single person I know who's really leaned into any form of "postmodernism" and would describe themselves as such is depressed, nihilistic,
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by quacked 7y ago
After I saw this SMBC comic about this subject, I never really kept looking for more critical takes on modern architecture. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-11-16
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by quacked 7y ago
Ok, Matt.
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by quacked 7y ago
From their perspective, they've probably heard nothing from your company. Rejection notices would help; however, if companies continue to use the standard practice of "never tell anyone if your resume has been accepted or rejected
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by quacked 7y ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the intent of this post, but I'm reminded of a hilarious Facebook group I used to be in called "I'll handle the business side". Example of the types of posts screenshotted and shared in
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by quacked 7y ago
Maybe all the expensive theme parks are really just holding pens where corporations test out new marketing/crowd control schemes and devices on unsuspecting people so they can decide whether or not to deploy it on the rest of the US.
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by quacked 7y ago
Do you have any more information about this?
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by quacked 7y ago
Large, poor immigrant class and a military that can protect them from Russia? (Finland does sound pretty great)
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by quacked 7y ago
My friend would also like to know
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by quacked 7y ago
I've come to the same conclusion. Never before in history have people truly optimize while thinking of themselves as a whole- the second something more convenient was offered, they took it immediately. I think that we're at a plac
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by quacked 7y ago
Your choice unfortunately affects the greater world. Which would you rather have- a locally-produced society that's expensive to live in, or a Walmart society that's convenient to live in?
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by quacked 7y ago
Yeah, commenter you're responding to is basically saying "to get a coding job, you'll need to look through dozens of job sites, prepare for interviews, fail a bunch, keep up-to-date on your skills, take informational intervie
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by quacked 7y ago
Ah, the lone voice of reason!
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by quacked 7y ago
Well, that's the point, isn't it? LessWrong, SlateStarCodex, The Last Psychiatrist- all blogs that say "here's how people work; it's bad; here's how we think they should work instead".
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by quacked 7y ago
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/25/predictions-for-2019/ I think he actually predicted that Trump would remain the president, but I've always found the predictions post as strange. It seems like
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by quacked 7y ago
Was it the one where he also assigns a probability rate to his prediction? i.e. "Trump will be removed from the presidency - 90%", and then at the end of the year he calculates all his predictions (which are True/False by nat
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by quacked 7y ago
I agree with you. It seems to me that we have two choices to address "sustainability": - Give up the convenience of modern life, permanently, for everyone (don't allow any more industrialization than already exists) - Drastic
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by quacked 7y ago
It's tough because it would require literally every single person caring more about a nebulous concept of "humanity" and "longevity" than they would themselves, their families, and the next 40 years of world issues.
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by quacked 7y ago
Everywhere there's people complaining about things like this and yet no one says "overpopulation". If there were fewer people on the planet...
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by quacked 7y ago
Not sure if you're interested, but the risk of base jumping comes from the fact that you're starting from zero airspeed, which means that all of your "flight control surfaces" (arms, legs, torso, etc.) that skydivers use
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by quacked 7y ago
There are multiple definitions of "toxic masculinity" even in the Wikipedia article you linked. The intended meaning of the term seems to vary from user to user, which I think is one of the reasons people react defensively to it;
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by quacked 7y ago
Isn't this out-of-date after the new documentary "Leaving Neverland"?

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