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by snakeboy 6y ago
Sorry, I don't see how that responded to my initial question. > War, genocide, mass murder, bureaucracy etc... These are only enabled because people are being compensated on something they need to acquire goods and services in a reg
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by snakeboy 6y ago
> It's one thing to say you don't understand it... Okay, I'll bite. Why is 'fiat' the root of all the world's problems rather than corrupt institutions and human nature? I don't even know what that me
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Isn't this also how a lot of friendships start? People finding themselves in a similar place/situation/habit/interests. So to me it seems a bit natural that workplace friendships would naturally develop. It's hea
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by snakeboy 6y ago
See also: > [Critiques of Israeli government] > "It's really sad to see ... plagued by anti-semitism".
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by snakeboy 6y ago
It's not appealing to any kind of gendered stereotyping though. It's a quote from the founder of "The Boy Scouts Association".
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by snakeboy 6y ago
To be fair, I was responding in the context of "traditional" American news outlets failing to actually provide what you're defining as "News/Journalism". I agree with your definitions. But if I'm choosing
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by snakeboy 6y ago
I'm not sure exactly where the line between "news" and "editorial" is being drawn. If you have journalists from WaPo in DC writing articles on something happening in Israel, what is the difference between them and
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Substack is essentially blogging, isn't it? So I don't understand your saying "usually" here. It's 100% dependent on the person writing it.
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CNA insurance firm hit by a cyberattack, operations impacted(bleepingcomputer.com)
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by snakeboy 6y ago
I don't think anyone making less than the median US income has even heard of the main/master debate :) But sure, I agree with the larger point. Culture wars are great for keeping the weak divided. The $GME fiasco - albeit a bit
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Is 50 hours that crazy? Does anyone else feel like these days they put in well above 40 hours a week doing WFH? Granted, during the day I can't stay 100% focused in my apartment, so I waste maybe an hour throughout the day online. T
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by snakeboy 6y ago
I would disagree. I think the "woke" stuff is a more active movement to solve all of the 1% of the issue, while ignoring the 99% that actually effects peoples' lives (how universities perpetuate classism, living wages for pe
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by snakeboy 6y ago
At least in Europe (can't speak from personal experience elsewhere) you can easily find "Language Exchange" type meetups. Depending on the city, it will be a healthy mix of locals, immigrants, and tourists. If you speak Eng
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by snakeboy 6y ago
I can't even imagine what this comment means/how it's used. There is really not enough context here. "expected?" Like the first time they met them? It seems like Google HR's initial response of "assume
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by snakeboy 6y ago
To be fair, in an American high school it's unheard of that you would continue on to 10th grade if you failed any of the core classes in 9th grade, let alone 12th grade... I literally would not have believed it possible. Maybe there
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by snakeboy 6y ago
> For example, European cities banning diesel vehicles. At least in Paris, poor people are not often the ones driving into Paris for work, they're mostly taking the metro in from the suburbs. Paris has some moderate air pollution pr
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by snakeboy 6y ago
That reminded me of an interview [1] with Matt Weiner, the creator of Mad Men: > "A lot of the most important things in my life have happened to me over the phone," he said, remember that before texting and voicemails, "It
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by snakeboy 6y ago
In France, I've slowly started returning to nighttime walks and runs, and I haven't been hassled by any police yet. I guess I'll gladly take the fine if some cop is on a power-trip one night. Some désobéissance civile is he
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by snakeboy 6y ago
That would suggest that you perhaps don't completely understand that people are different. :)
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by snakeboy 6y ago
I don't really know much about bitcoin and how mining scales with the number of trades, but there are only a few million Bitcoin users, meanwhile there are billions of USD holders/users each of whom have (I'd guess) significa
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Derek Lowe has a nice short article explaining how the mRNA vaccines require very specialized manufacturing processes that are a bit of a bottleneck. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02&#x2F
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by snakeboy 6y ago
It sounds like you disagree with their argument, which is fine, but then you go on to harshly criticize an interpretation that you've imposed on it. There are plausible alternative interpretations which are both reasonable and likely,
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by snakeboy 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand how that would be implicitly or explicitly supporting racism. You think the end goal of that proposal is a more racist society? Donating money to the Against Malaria Foundation? "Supporting Black Lives
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by snakeboy 6y ago
I think water is key. I drink easily 10-20 cups of coffee every day, but I add a cup of water for each cup of coffee. Yeah i end up in the bathroom every 20 minutes, but at least this habit stops me from eating all day while working from ho
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Unfortunately this was Trump's impact on a few issues. Immigration immediately comes to mind.
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Ethics aside, I think the parent comment was referring to weird additives and oils in things like the Impossible Burger. That being said, I think it's only fair to compare that to all the antibiotics, hormones, and fertilizers that you
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Drug legalization, Snowden/Assange pardon, de-classifying stuff, congressional term limits... For Trump, being anti-establishment was always about catchy slogans "drain the swamp" and irrelevant "own the media" stun
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by snakeboy 6y ago
I think my phrasing was poor. I meant specifically about labor issues, not the general impact on society/the world. Everyone in the country jokes about how Amazon employees have to run, skip bathroom breaks, etc. to meet warehouse qu
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by snakeboy 6y ago
To be fair, Amazon has probably the worst corporate reputation among public-facing companies, up with Walmart when it comes to labor issues. So I find it hard to believe that anyone is being convinced that Amazon is a net positive here. An
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by snakeboy 6y ago
Very cool sensation of literally walking through all these places! I have never been to India, but was mesmerized taking an HD tour through an open street market. The map/guessing UI is a bit clunky, since the map always starts center

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