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by rexpop 4y ago
As a society, we need to grieve. We need time to grieve, yes, but we also need a process. We need permission to grieve: we need to let ourselves grieve. Not just for the dead, but for the shocking loss of this or that imagined future. And t
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by rexpop 4y ago
Sure, it takes two to tango. VCs aren't going to push outlandishly unpalatable narratives.
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by rexpop 4y ago
We can't have constructive conversations with people who deflect criticism of one party with criticism of another. This "whataboutism" is intellectually dishonest, implying straw beliefs that haven't been professed. Ther
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by rexpop 4y ago
> Who will be the first homeless ex-Googler? There are plenty of unhoused tech workers, already.
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by rexpop 4y ago
Really pathetic of Vice to offer no commentary on the ironic subject of the animated short — the titular "Dog" is an in-fiction AI, itself.
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by rexpop 4y ago
And so every executioner, and not the malfeasant lawyer, is responsible for the death of the wrongly executed? A better heuristic, and almost as simple, is to rate responsibility in proportion to power, ie those with the most leverage to st
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by rexpop 4y ago
It's very frustrating that you impugn the biological cause and receive comments defending the biological effect .
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by rexpop 4y ago
And yet, women make 3x as many attempts, which is more relevant in a discussion on mental anguish and not, for example, gun ownership and aptitude.
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by rexpop 4y ago
But, in fact, the opposite is true: 3 out of 4 suicide attempts are by women.
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by rexpop 4y ago
Some wounds, emotional as well as physical, far from healing actually leave chronic and debilitating scars. The aphorism is far from "absolutely true."
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by rexpop 4y ago
It's a hack in a domain in which I am not a hacker! Makes me feel vulnerable.
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by rexpop 4y ago
This joke is typically boring, but you've raised it to the height of "in poor taste" by wielding it to segue out of the serious subject of a man losing his job.
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by rexpop 4y ago
I don't know what's "cringe" about the excellent "It's Going Down" podcast[0], which opens every episode with a lightning-round of under-reported headlines that answer the question of what, exactly, is &qu
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by rexpop 4y ago
The post to which you're responding said nothing about apartments. Do you mind connecting a few dots for those of us less well-versed in the presumptions of your milieu?
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by rexpop 4y ago
It disturbs me that your comment is "greyed out," whatever that means: you're speaking an obvious truth. The car-scale of American infrastructure is an impediment to physical health; it's an impediment to social capital,
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by rexpop 4y ago
There's a big difference between a million and a billion. Here's a handy reference for getting the hang of it. https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
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by rexpop 4y ago
And so we should just leap to consolidation from the get-go?
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by rexpop 4y ago
> moderator of server you've chosen to dwell decides what you can see and what you can not That's already the case under the "moderation by one rule" paradigm.
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by rexpop 4y ago
Women aren't obligated to have sex with anyone in particular, and it's extremely worrying how prevalent this opposition to romantic freedom has become in online discourse. It's worthwhile to explore from where these social
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by rexpop 4y ago
> It's a solitary activity and it seems men are more prone to living single, solitary lifestyles Software development is not a solitary activity, it is a highly social and collaborative activity, and besides that, introversion is no
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by rexpop 4y ago
> why aren’t single women dominant in tech? Because single women are equally subject to workplace hostility: men "don't discriminate" when we discriminate.
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by rexpop 4y ago
> Breadwinning is associated with the male gender The passive voice is undermining your point, here. Patriarchal ideology associates breadwinning with the male gender and men, fearful in light of the aforementioned social pressures, ar
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by rexpop 4y ago
A principled objection to the infantilization of users might start with 2016's "Babysitters Club"[0]: > we tend to read cuteness as evidence of “restricted agency” rather than as evidence of concealed and significant power
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by rexpop 4y ago
Because it is? When does the harvest come? How long since it's rained? How long since your kin went out on that hunting party (or off the trail to urinate?) Do you have time to hit the store on the way to your next appointment? Do you
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by rexpop 4y ago
This is so hard to fathom from my viewpoint. In the US, it seems, every large company has a software R&D department that has been writing Java for 30 years. I exaggerate, but I wonder: do you not have bank chains, grocery chains, major
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by rexpop 4y ago
Thanks for having the hubris to post your very reactionary views in a decreasingly patriarchal world.
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by rexpop 4y ago
> I paid off $240,000 in 3 years by not being an idiot > Edit - I went back and checked, it was $140k. Wow, this person confabulated $100k of merit to themselves. If that's not self-love, I don't know what is.
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by rexpop 4y ago
And, have you got any positive prescriptions to offer? The social institutions that Twitter (and, let's be honest, television before it) replaced have since atrophied , and there's not much of a society to return to. Or, at lea
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by rexpop 4y ago
For those of us unfamiliar with the game, would anyone like to summarize what this is, and/or why it's desirable? Nothing in the Readme, the website, nor the wiki explains what EVEmu actually does, or why anyone would want it done
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by rexpop 4y ago
Since we're all donning foil hats in this thread, I may as well join in and suggest that "thought control" is already plainly evident and rampant. See: manufacturing consent, cultural hegemony, capitalist realism, etc.

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