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by skyyler 2y ago
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chevrolet-nova-name-spanis... Often repeated, but it doesn't make any sense to Spanish speakers. Nova is a word on its own. Would an English speaker assume a hammer is made of ham
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by skyyler 2y ago
>Even if she had been convicted of cold-blooded murder, that should not override democracy. Question, in your jurisdiction, if you are convicted of "cold-blooded murder", are you still allowed to vote?
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>For that matter bougies in modern times don't make wealth their from buying labor power - they mostly just dump money into investments Investments into what? Businesses? Businesses that have employees? Employees that are selling th
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It seems your editorializing had a bigger impact than you thought!
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>In this world how does the notion of capitalist vs worker make any sense? Well paid workers can amass the means to become capitalists. >Let alone with the stereotypes Marx depended upon for his arguments? Marx called these types of p
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Your comment according to ChatGPT "in the west": Prompt: { Someone posted this: The current zeitgeist according to chatgpt in the west: Right-wing coded: Practical education, Hard skills/trades, having children, personal resp
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by skyyler 2y ago
I want to focus on something you said here: >In contemporary society there's no real difference between a capitalist and a worker. The difference is access to capital. Just like it was 150 years ago. Workers don't have enough h
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by skyyler 2y ago
One of my favourite things about internet forums is watching people re-invent Marxist theory by being mad at the current state of things. It's been like this for a while now. I think I even saw someone in a conservative subreddit sugge
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by skyyler 2y ago
>why I say hormone levels are important, but how you identify is in fact irrelevant I don't understand what your issue with it is, it's just another point of data. I don't want to be treated like a cis woman in a medical c
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by skyyler 2y ago
Can you provide any sources for your assertion that a lot of it is wasted? Do you have a percentage?
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The problem of originality has been of intense debate since at least the romantic era. There are people who have argued that human creativity is nothing more than outputs based on existing data (experience).
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I think "catching loneliness from their contact with each other" is a perfect way to describe how Facebook use seems to make humans feel.
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>But there are experiences other than yours, such as the person in the part of my comment which you didn't quote: they are often stuck building their safety and security in the hierarchy of needs. How do you think they do that? It i
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by skyyler 2y ago
Wasn't a burn, I was actually asking.
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We know the content of the ones that leaked this chat. That doesn't mean they're being archived according to the law.
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by skyyler 2y ago
Are teenagers still using Snapchat? The teenagers that made the bulk of its users when it was new are in their late 20s now.
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>"When have the Germans moved in a way to unify that continent?" Uh, Joe, it was a pretty bad scene the last time that happened.
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I don't think any of our allies stopped buying our weapons during his first campaign. https://reason.com/2025/03/17/allies-cancel-orders-of-f-35s-... How do you not see that this time is different?
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by skyyler 2y ago
Are the reports of the chat making use of Signal's auto-deleting feature incorrect then?
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by skyyler 2y ago
>A linguist could write a PhD thesis on your comment alone I have a feeling you're just tickled by someone using language you consider low-brow to express a thought that you consider high-brow. It doesn't seem that deep to me,
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by skyyler 2y ago
I have friends that have been attacked on the street for being trans in San Francisco. America's a rough place to stand out.
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All that GDP per capita and there are still hungry children in West Virginia and single mothers that can't afford to eat healthy food because of their medical debt. Shame.
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I am describing my experience living in working class conditions in the rust belt, before moving to the coast. Describing that as a "mythos of the working class that obfuscates reality" sounds detached from reality, honestly. >
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What do you think would be a stronger interpretation of that?
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Correct! I've never been to a crab boil in an affluent neighborhood. But boy howdy have I been to a lot of them in working class areas.
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>I believe he's suggesting that this couple has it on "easy mode" because of the affluence of the area they already live in. That's actually even worse than I thought. Working class neighborhoods already have stuff li
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>It helps that you self-select for the audience by who can afford the building, just like they've done the same with their neighbourhood. Heavens forbid we have to break bread with one of the poors . Did you mean to imply that you
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by skyyler 2y ago
>in practice it never got traction outside Apple and they are essentially the only one who uses it Are you thinking of ALAC? What you're saying is true, if you're talking about ALAC. ALAC is Apple's lossless codec. AAC is
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Why?
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That's very cute. Working with the IA sounds like a lot of fun.

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