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by rexpop 5y ago
Counterpoint: The Babysitters Club [0] > Apps like Seamless and Yelp listen in on our adult lives, then speak to us like children > In the face of the overwhelming question — “What’s it for?” — a strain of avant-garde art responds by
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by rexpop 5y ago
If you're suggesting that what human civilization needs, in order to elevate us to a more global maximum (by your favorite rubric, whatsoever), is climate catastrophe, I think you could serve yourself well by looking into generational
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by rexpop 5y ago
Dry land is just one aspect of climatic stability. Tolerable and predictable weather patterns is another. Fertile regions, a critical consequence of that. The question isn't whether some will survive, the question is: Who, why them, an
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by rexpop 5y ago
Are you seriously appealing to sentimental sympathies right now? Apple is and was an entirely for-profit entity whose vendors are likewise. And we're supposed to extend one another sympathy? There are limits to professional courtesy.
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by rexpop 5y ago
I think it is fair to say that some aspects of the human condition will never, by definition, change.
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by rexpop 5y ago
I am familiar with the allegory of the grasshopper and the ant, but I consider it mythological, and not scientifically rigorous.
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by rexpop 5y ago
Odd that comments complain it was "too easy." This is science. They're disproving a very narrow, specific hypothesis about a particular algorithm. They're not trying to disprove deepfakes in general. It's just one e
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by rexpop 5y ago
> give him welfare... and he'll... stay down Are you sure it's not: he'll fare... well?
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by rexpop 5y ago
As the video goes on to say, it's the same across many parts of the world.
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by rexpop 5y ago
Choice is an illusion, it's all just an order too big to load into RAM.
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by rexpop 5y ago
> Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generat
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by rexpop 5y ago
Interesting that BusinessInsider translated това́рищ (továrišč) as "dear friend" and not "comrade," but of course, no one who refers to a stock market as such could mean it with the latter's connotations. Also inter
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by rexpop 5y ago
If you liked Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed,"[0] you might like a few of her unrelated books as well. I highly recommend her "Dancing in the Streets,"[1] a 5,000 year history of the deadening of European cul
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by rexpop 5y ago
Simply "seeing" the "misery" of war is easier eaid than done, although you're right that it's done more deliberately outside the reach of the warring parties. A primer on this subject is Sontag's "Reg
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by rexpop 5y ago
> "Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and
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by rexpop 5y ago
It's documented to be extremely traumatizing and physically disabling.
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by rexpop 5y ago
For more in that depressing vein, check out "Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass" by Mary L. Gray
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by rexpop 5y ago
They already do; they've contracts with Pinkertons to undermine union organizing.
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by rexpop 5y ago
What's shocking is that these areas are still gender-dominated. Why should they be?
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by rexpop 5y ago
I agree, I had the same experience: "it stops right as it was about to pay off." I had expected it to link me to some piece of software they were launching. Instead, I've taken the three problems outlined to be anti-patterns
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by rexpop 5y ago
> one can cry for the world that was, or one can get up and live in the world that is. This is certainly beside the (your) point, but it's worth mentioning that mourning and grief (ie, to "cry for the world that was") is a
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by rexpop 5y ago
It's important to remember that [excess deaths](0) aren't merely rumored to be true; they are a hard fact preventing the pandemic from ending. I agree, however, that online socializing is critically deficient, and an inadequate re
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by rexpop 5y ago
Not more-so than the prisoners, themselves, and by a large margin.
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by rexpop 5y ago
Now is as good a time as any to read Michel Foucault's "Panopticism"[0]. > ...not the collective festival, but strict divisions; not laws transgressed, but the penetration of regulation into even the smallest details of ev
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by rexpop 5y ago
I don't share your idiosyncratic connotations enough to understand how this is an insult.
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by rexpop 5y ago
Democracy has absolutely collapsed. Our days are governed for eight hours by autocratic bosses and for eight hours by autocratic "products" and "services." We have no say about how our work is conducted, nor about what p
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by rexpop 5y ago
This is an unnecessarily harsh characterization. Recipe writers are constrained by economics, just like the rest of us. It's dismaying to see such cruel mockery on an industry forum. You may also want to look into Fundamental Attributi
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by rexpop 5y ago
The problem is that we don't know how, how, or why (although, of course, the near-nultimate "why" is likely profit.) Facebook is a publicly traded company. It may have novel negative externalities, but we're largely comf
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by rexpop 5y ago
> So what do I do? know what we're doing is what we can and hope some rich people pull up the cause What we do is unionize, and in a way where we can then withdraw our industrial contributions to climate change. > I look at what
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by rexpop 5y ago
The mess will not "always be fixed," because we have no parents in this analogy. We are the leaders in this world. You are simply taking on the role of an adolescent shirking responsibility.

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