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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
The article reminds me more of Catcher in the Rye than The Great Gatsby does.
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
Apparently we read it because of "forty-five" and capitalism as emotion. For certain definitions of "we," of " America ." This performance of an analysis strikes me as trying to be too meta-cute to take serious
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
This is a vicious circle. The less trust, the less effective government can achieve society's goal. Just look at all the civil servants like nurses and firemen who still refuse the jab.
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
You say private messages, but the BI article posted to HN before ( https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-github-backlash-je... ) calls the communications channel "a Slack group for Jewish employees." GitHub was
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
But that's reality, which is why it's such a useful signal for employers and social media companies to use.
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
"Equivocation" is like prevarication or evasiveness. The word you're looking for is "equivalence."
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
Democratize it: put government in charge of that company. (And also campaign finance.)
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
When did speaking truth to power become "bullying"? And anyway, removing those who spew violent rhetoric is how civility is restored. The fact that the response to Twitter bans is so violent proves somebody needed to be silenced.
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
Anti-fascism is a coherent principle.
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
Ron Paul is racist. He should have lost his voice long ago. https://www.vice.com/en/article/5gw353/yeah-ron-paul-is-raci...
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
That is her point: this power belongs to government, not to corporations. DW did not include that part, but other outlets did: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-11/merkel-se... >“The chancell
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
Their unsuccessful, bloody coup and treason will be punished by legal recourse. The impeachment is already started up again to prevent deranged voters from dictating a second term. No one is blinking in the face of violence. Remain strong a
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
It's the most fashionable cause, since it can be shoehorned into anything. Yet carping about warming, and unstated assumptions about efficiency differences between levels of consumption and locations of production, don't guide us
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
When repair labor costs more than automated production, then it's cheaper to replace whole units than mend parts. This is very much in line when what the Luddites understood. Fixation on "waste" is a by-product of unrelated w
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
Which is incompatible with cabal's values, so they'd be in trouble. https://github.com/cabal-club/commons/blob/master/values.md#...
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
It is safer to ban those less likely to commit violence.
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
This UK document specifically mentions phasing out "high carbon fossil fuel heating" installations in new construction, which seems like the sort of thing the GP referenced, though it also mentions heat pumps as a non-resistive-he
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
The Amazon was a human invention†. We can build back better. † https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pristine-untou...
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
More would have died otherwise.
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by readflaggedcomm 6y ago
The casualties of social justice are justified, not bad.
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by readflaggedcomm 7y ago
"The Fed" refers to the Federal Reserve, not federal agencies, branches, or the government in general. Not to be confused with "feds," referring to federal agents individually or in general. Also, the submission title is
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by readflaggedcomm 8y ago
Dollar General and Family Dollar are general stores, like used to be common in days of old. They are not "dollar stores," which refers specifically to stores where all or almost all merchandise costs about one dollar. This is a po