samirillian

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by samirillian 2y ago
a) I like the language use. The title is punchy, and it makes you check it out just because you want to know what it means. Medieval hazards sticks with you. b) there’s not a lot of money in being a commie journalist so this is probably som
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by samirillian 3y ago
I meant as opposed to wooden pencils
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by samirillian 3y ago
Lead for mechanical pencils is highly conductive, seemingly pure graphite but I think they can have different hardness ratings too, I wonder what the difference is.
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by samirillian 3y ago
lots of things used to be a thing
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by samirillian 3y ago
Fantasy solution, will never happen.
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by samirillian 3y ago
I guess we've gotta hope China solves the problems that we can't
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by samirillian 3y ago
Partially, yes, but you have to mix in the whole idea of treating your house or houses as your retirement plan, which is a screwy, self-perpetuating economic system. It takes a lot of capital to construct an apartment building, and greed se
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by samirillian 3y ago
a) agree b) Reads like chatgpt wrote it. Something about needing some stilted conjunction every other sentence. c) If the lab leak theory for covid is true, that'd be a good government example. The whole anthrax thing was weird as hel
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by samirillian 3y ago
It's articles like these that make me miss n-gate. Yeah Kroger, be more like Uber! You basically control a bloated gig economy with W2s!
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by samirillian 3y ago
Old people aged out of reading music blogs? Is that a known phenomenon?
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by samirillian 3y ago
I don't grasp the analogy
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by samirillian 3y ago
I don't think it's too Western-centric to imagine that Palestinians want freedom, which is a universal human desire. Freedom means statehood and self-governance. Oppression is fertile soil for religious fundamentalists, and radica
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by samirillian 3y ago
I realize cultural marxist was confusing word choice but I meant it in a purely descriptive sense. I'm critiquing Tbray who is obviously not a radical leftist from the left. And I'm questioning the implicit claim made by some Marx
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by samirillian 3y ago
Actually I meant Western marxists https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Marxism > Less concerned with economic analysis than earlier schools of Marxist thought, Western Marxism placed greater emphasis on the study
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by samirillian 3y ago
I like Tbray's posts but I want to quibble over language. What's happening to the term "late stage capitalism"? Feels like it's becoming a meme like neoliberalism. What does it even mean to say that it wasn't t
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by samirillian 3y ago
Yeah, I mean, real estate in BC (where he bought one of his properties) is notoriously corrupt, and lucrative. Most real estate bought in BC is paid in cash, often by some dizzying maze of LLCs or whatever the Canadian equivalent is. Essent
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by samirillian 3y ago
Tangential, but Librivox's search leaves a lot to be desired. I love that project, and can mostly just use Google, but it would be a great volunteer project for some good Samaritan with a little more experience enhancing search than me
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by samirillian 3y ago
I love science
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by samirillian 3y ago
I think he's just wrong about being wrong now. I'll believe it when AI invents a joke. I've still seen 0 creativity, it's just an aggregator.
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by samirillian 3y ago
One may not like Deleuze's system, but I don't think it's fair to call him a charlatan. His work on other philosophers (e.g. Leibniz) is highly regarded, he provided valuable counterpoints to Freud, and Badiou accused him of
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by samirillian 3y ago
I think of this more as a distinction between exercising "platform power" versus "real world" power. #freepalestine is not an issue like #metoo, in that the court of public opinion does not really matter for the former,
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by samirillian 3y ago
Weird read, not sure what to make of it. Muddled between "everybody is poor in something" and "actually being poor is good". It's like corporate-speak mixed with woke-speak for Christian missionaries who get all the
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by samirillian 3y ago
I almost liked the tone this was written in until I got to "totes". It's a fine line between clever and cloying. Depressing how much of that article I understood.
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by samirillian 3y ago
Honestly, maybe you're right and they're all hot, but I'm not attracted to men so I can't really say. I would be surprised if women/et al found Altman or Sutskever physically attractive but who knows maybe they are
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by samirillian 3y ago
Oh I def think it's a pattern but I don't know that it's a bad pattern. Honestly, being married to Joseph Gordon-Levitt is probably a good sign.
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by samirillian 3y ago
I agreed with you up until I looked her up. Then Tasha McCauley, who I forgot was Joseph Gordon-Levitt's wife. Shivon Zillis, Elon Musk's whatever that is. So these three plus Mira Murati make 4 for 4 hot women governing OpenAI. I
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by samirillian 3y ago
I don't know how you begin to ask a question like this without articulating why British elites want distinction in the first place. Sexual selection?
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by samirillian 3y ago
I don't know how to unravel this knot you've tied with out having a lot more questions answered, but your concepts seem a little muddled. Automation and outsourcing jobs will not lead to higher pay here. That much should be obviou
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by samirillian 3y ago
Who exactly are these Americans who are against all three of those things. It would seem that the workers would be against the first two and the owners would be against the Unions. How exactly does outsourcing jobs and automation increase a
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by samirillian 3y ago
It's well-known that the hard sciences are awash with fake papers, but apparently when a hard science journal gets fooled, it proves nothing. Honestly, I hate this. It's a stunt and bad manners. All the extenuating circumstances a

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