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by rfwhyte 3y ago
"Economics" was invented by the wealthy elites as a tool of class control to justify their bottomless, insatiable greed. All "Economics" does is rationalize the obviously failing status quo.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
My biggest disappointment with Framework continues to be the fact I can get a similarly specced laptop from numerous other manufacturers for 40% or less of what the Framework 16" costs. Bestbuy has an ASUS laptop on sale right now for
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Came to say basically the same thing. Not to mention they also refer to their F1.8 "Glass" when their own technical specs list the lens elements as plastic. It's basically a $10 sensor, a $5 mic, $5 of miscellaneous plastic a
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
I love the idea of some virtual daemon type AI assistant thingy that helps me with mundane day to day tasks via an intuitive natural language type interface. Sci-fi / cyberpunk authors have been writing about this stuff for decades and
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
I miss the web where there were services actively trying to help you find new, interesting and weird things, not just the stuff that makes them the most money from ads. Feels like even the things that are supposed to be about "Discover
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
The real reason CEOs want people back in office is 100% because they are broadly part of the same socio-economic class that owns the vast majority of commercial real estate around the world. They and their friends and family own all the com
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
This is so bare facedly a profit driven land grab. These people don't give a damn about conservation or culture, they just want to use their burgeoning social power to force a kind of "Exclusive economic zone" onto their neig
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
To take things a step further, all the various North American indigenous groups have been waring, slaving and migrating their way across the continent for millennia, just like every single other people group on earth for all of history, so
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Hancock is a charlatan of the worst kind, in that I firmly believe he fully knows the vast majority of what he says is utter bullshit, but he keeps on saying it because it's garnering him a ton of money and attention. "They"
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
What a laughably bad idea. Spend extra money on top of your already expensive vacation to look like some normcore sheep in the process all so some airline can do a bit of deeply cynical greenwashing. Personally you couldn't pay me to
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
I was expecting be disappointed when it was some kind of RC or slot car type thing, but for a vehicle an actual human person fits inside and controls, this is epically awesome.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Typical entitled, selfish libertarian bullshit. Everything is about you, and all you care about is getting yours and keeping it to yourself.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Carts of Darkness is an absolute GEM and I highly recommend people watch it.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Audience score is functionally useless though, as there are entire industries devoted to manipulating it, and the sites know this and do nothing to stop it.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Chinese and Indian film studios have been doing this for years on both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. So many absolutely abysmal Chinese and Indian movies have 90%+ user scores on both platforms, it's painfully obvious to anyone even
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Sounds like Scientology doesn't want people opening up their so called "E-meters" so they can protect their manufactured illusion they actually do something.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Important context here is that despite their manufactured outrage, China on an annual basis dumps 10X the amount of (potentially much more) radioactive water as is being discharged in this one-off event and has been doing so for years and
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
No 22 year old is getting a $200K mortgage with no income. Dude's mom bought him a farm. Yet another story of some rich kid having something bought for them being spun as pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
$4500 USD to start. Wildly expensive for such a simple device.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
If you believe numbers coming out of China I have a bridge to sell you.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
In other news "Face Eating Leopard" magazine says leopards eating people's faces isn't that big a deal after all.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
The entire field of "Economics" was created as a way for the wealthy elite to justify / rationalize their capitalist oppression of the working class, so it should come as no surprise that a publication that serves a mouthpiec
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Bullshit. When the expectation is that we'll fund any potential rescue efforts when something invariably goes wrong with our tax dollars, it becomes the rest of our business pretty damn quickly.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
No, WE need to be MORE "Judgey" because one of the critical elements you're conveniently leaving out here is WE spent literally tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars of OUR tax money searching for a sub full of rich, ar
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
While false positives are a well documented result from drug tests, one detail that struck me as very odd in this story is the fact this dude was returning home to the US from Brazil with not one, not two, but three bottles of Shampoo in hi
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
There's always a brief window in time with any new technology where it's new enough that the suits haven't entirely gotten their hooks into it, so it's broadly made to be as effective as possible at doing what it's
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
How about a "Deep dive" into pricing already. My sinking suspicion is they're intentionally holding back pricing as long as possible, as revealing how expensive this thing is going to be would cause the wheels to fall off the
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
I'd gladly take the L if it meant having a quarter share of a multi-hundred-billion a year industry.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Still waiting for the other shoe to drop with a pricing announcement. I keep getting almost excited about the Framework 16", but then I'm remember it's probably going to be well over $2500USD for a decently specced model (wit
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Online reviews have become one of the dankest cesspits of misinformation and deceit on the entire internet. Amazon's reviews are so thoroughly gamed as to be functionally useless and Amazon knows this and tacitly supports it through th

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