shakaijin

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by shakaijin 4y ago
As long as it is mostly the will of the people that dictates the form of government. A dictatorial regime controlling what information and ideas the people are allowed to be exposed to is a different story.
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by shakaijin 4y ago
It is so tiring to see the constant efforts to erode our rights. Even if they succeed in creating a surveillance state, do they think that it will not blow up in their face one day? It will make violence and revolutions against the surveill
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by shakaijin 5y ago
My god, I am in the position right now where I basically have to screw around by myself in order to figure the system out. It is hell....
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by shakaijin 5y ago
> You must give consent to targeting tracking to see this content. No thank you.
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by shakaijin 5y ago
My current approach is probably dumb, but the main thing I am trying to eliminate is me unconsciously accessing distractions (Reddit, YouTube etc.). I have basically conditioned myself to always go to such sites, and my body just opens them
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by shakaijin 5y ago
I have been noticing the impact of excessive multitasking on myself lately, and I am now actively trying to avoid it. At first i thought that multitasking would increase my overall efficiency by filling in gaps of downtime in certain tasks,
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by shakaijin 5y ago
Also, they release new versions of books all the time and force their use in classes, making it impossible to use 2nd hand textbooks in a lot of cases. *I mean, come on. How of ten do fundamental physics change... Pearson is a company that
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by shakaijin 5y ago
I wish we could tackle the core issues and not just the symptoms (like dirty rivers). The real problem here is that a lot of countries simply do not have the regulations / infrastructure / money to handle garbage well.
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by shakaijin 5y ago
I agree with you 100%. HN usually has better quality discussions than reddit (for example), but any discussion about Japan seems to have /r/anime level comments.
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by shakaijin 5y ago
IDk. I live in Japan and it was amusing at first, but now I hate that everything is making noises, playing melodies and being generally loud.