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by quadrangle 5y ago
You are 99% misreading/misunderstanding the quote. They said WORKERS not EMPLOYEES Sure, Google puts a lot of its revenue to its EMPLOYEES. But most of the WORK is done by the rest of the public giving Google all the content and data
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by quadrangle 5y ago
STAR Voting is the ideal if we're not going all the way to different democracy like Citizen Assemblies. Approval voting is the best simple-next-step reform.
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by quadrangle 5y ago
For clarity, Element is merely a client (the main one) for Matrix.org. What matters is whether people are on Matrix rather than whether they use the Element client. But most Matrix users surely do use Element.
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by quadrangle 5y ago
That's not what the other comment was complaining about. If it were GitHub.io that would be fine. They are saying that GitHub has had a long interest in people thinking that Git is something you only do with GitHub, reducing people fro
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Okay, a minute might be too long. If you are thinking that you have some time to plan and decide what to do with it, you're not doing the exercise. It has to be such that you accept that there's nothing you can do to control what&
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by quadrangle 5y ago
The real trick: expect to die in a minute . No joke. The Buddhist perspective gets into that. The idea of dying tomorrow sets you up to worry about making the most of the future of the rest of the day, and you're still not really pr
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I can understand peas, but avocado is fatty indulgent wonderful food. Not liking avocado is absurd. It's like not liking peanut-butter. Side-note: I learned the most grotesque aberration that shows how the U.S. is orders of magnitude i
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by quadrangle 5y ago
You're right mainly. Self-assessment was a filter he used, it wasn't the definition in itself.
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I see effort at nuance here, but the conclusion is both almost right and also not at all right. America's deeply unequal political system WILL NOT ever get us better equality. It's *incidental*, a symptom of the political realit
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I don't know what you're sorry about. There's nothing wrong with that idea. It just isn't feasible to have 8 billion people all living like that. If cars were only used by a sustainably small number of people who live li
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by quadrangle 5y ago
The study says that they haven't. It doesn't make claims about what the future will be. "They don't" is too timeless a claim.
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by quadrangle 5y ago
We already regulate where cars are allowed to go (e.g. which direction in which lane on which streets). All anyone means around "banning" cars is to have changes (reductions) in which places we allow cars. There's no increase
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I don't suppose you are suggesting that nobody was able to live a decent life 12 miles out of town until we had cars, are you? But I suppose your point is more like: we've built lots of completely car-dependent situations in whic
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by quadrangle 5y ago
You mean most of America is designed to be car-dependent. So, yes, in the current design it needs cars. I wasn't saying we could just suddenly ban them tomorrow. The solution is hard because of how bad we've gotten things. But t
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by quadrangle 5y ago
What do you mean not sustainable??? If we limited and regulated car use pretty extremely and stuck with trains, bikes, and walking, we would be half the way there toward a completely sustainable society. Cars are a major source of the least
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Why are you correcting a video you didn't watch? Give it the 17min. You'll learn more about this topic.
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by quadrangle 5y ago
You did not watch the video. Video is specifically the claim that cities CAN be quiet, and it gives examples of quiet, dense cities. The title is "Cities aren't loud, cars are loud." Watch it. You will learn something.
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by quadrangle 5y ago
The analogy works because 99.9% of vegetarians don't even use words to directly tell others that they are unethical, they just assert their OWN vegetarianism as an ethical decision, and others go bonkers as though this is the most grot
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by quadrangle 5y ago
There are vegans who encourage shunning animal products. And yes, there are critiques of people with the "gall" to eat meat. Those facts don't mean they are wrong. That's a matter of engaging with the actual arguments. T
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by quadrangle 5y ago
What a reactive, defensive attitude. Just try applying everything you wrote to the topic of being vegetarian. Vegetarians are indeed arguing against meat-eating, and you could talk about how you are just some pig farmer selling meat on th
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by quadrangle 5y ago
"Something is shitty, let's laugh about it" does NOT inevitably require "continue regardless" The idea that you have to connect laughing with not fixing things is evidence of being in a triggered, reactive, threaten
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by quadrangle 5y ago
If a car with a shattered window is completely unacceptable for some situation for some reason, a person could say (still hyperbolically), "it might as well be totalled". It's still stupid to say "it's totalled!&q
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Yeah, I get it. People can be really mad when systems they rely on get messed up. It makes PERFECT sense that people are really reactive about this awful design decision and are saying hyperbolic stuff. The part that doesn't make sense
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I think that's the point that people are objecting to. The orange dot doesn't total the presentation the way a totalled-car in a crash does, certainly not necessarily. It's NOT worse than nothing. It's not like a shopp
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Honestly, I'm more interested in the way people aren't willing to laugh about it. I mean, yeah, I don't want the dot there. It breaks the fourth-wall in a way. But there's something to that too. Society of the Spectacle
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Yeah, I get it. Not gonna be accepted in practice. Could be accepted though, it's not literally useless. Being not as bad as literally-useless doesn't mean anything about the situation is good .
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by quadrangle 5y ago
The quibble is people saying something similar to "this orange dot is as bad as having half the screen taken up by goatse!" and then when someone else says "it's not actually that bad though, right?" they say "
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Just mildly objecting to the strength of someone's hyperbole is life-threatening? Just because other people are feeling super aggravated about this completely stupid design decision by Apple doesn't mean it's valid to project
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Yeah, I get it. Apple's design is stupid and shouldn't have happened. But obviously Mariah Carey CAN sing on TV with a little orange dot. Obviously nobody wants that, and in practice nobody will accept it. But it remains complet
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by quadrangle 5y ago
You can use them for live visuals. You WON'T (and I don't blame you), but you CAN. "Absolutely useless" obviously is intended to be "I'm super mad about this" rather than literally true.

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