spats1990

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by spats1990 5y ago
>How about the row after row of suburban homes in Livermore with BLM signs? Those are all median income neighborhoods, but I'm guessing you'd call them "elite"? If your interlocutor is an advanced-level mental gymnast
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by spats1990 5y ago
Yeah, I tend to think "woke" as a sneer word is just the new "PC/politically correct" as a sneer word. Corporations wouldn't be engaging in this kind of token support for progressive issues if they did not beli
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by spats1990 5y ago
>Censorship vs countries you are in war with is basic self-defense. You think that people in Seoul, eating their 삼겹살, will look at some North Korean site and suddenly decide that what they really want is to go eat grass in the north duri
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by spats1990 5y ago
You'll find that those types of foreign concerns about freedom of the press in Korea go back a really long way, and are not limited to the current administration. >I have no interest in debating someone that thinks SK shouldn't
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by spats1990 5y ago
I spent 2017-2019 posting/arguing with people on /r/korea almost every day, and I was really... inflammatory sometimes. Never got banned. As someone else points out, you probably deserved at least a temp ban for the "moo
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by spats1990 5y ago
Yeah I wasn't being precise sorry. The agency stub's similarities to our world felt too "on the nose" or similar, in a way that detracted from it being an accurate/enthralling depiction of our world (in the way that
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by spats1990 5y ago
You're a legend. I've already lost an hour and a half reading these posts. There are 7 years of them! "In Pattern Recognition, the only physical environments I can think of that evoke Cornell boxes are the basement arcade off
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by spats1990 5y ago
Thank you, I thought this blog was gone from the internet. His site at one point had a fairly active message board attached to it and I was sad when that went along with what I remember was some sort of author-bloggy appendage.
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by spats1990 5y ago
I think you're right there and I think it suffers from the political context in which it was written. The near future America of Peripheral was far stronger and more convincing, even politically, than the near future America of Agency.
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by spats1990 5y ago
I'm a superfan as well and I think the Blue Ant ones hold up the best. With a few years of context we can see now that he was really well ahead of the curve on a ton of stuff that is now our reality. When Cayce explains why she quit co
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by spats1990 5y ago
>"literary naturalism" (great phrase!) Just a great phrase describing a key development stage of the western novel, nothing special or anything :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(literature)
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by spats1990 5y ago
Liquid-air batteries. Big ones. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/worlds-b... https://highviewpower.com/
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by spats1990 5y ago
Perhaps, as is a common argument from the vaccine-hesitant, we should wait for more scientific data before concluding that previous infection provides more protection than the vaccine? :) After all, this whole thing has happened quite quick
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by spats1990 5y ago
It can be considered irrational thinking given the scientifically documented rarity of adverse reactions to the vaccines thus far. It is lottery-ticket thinking but with a negative outcome imagined in place of a positive one. Just like with
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by spats1990 5y ago
Thank you. I'm surprised by the tone of some of the comments here. The linked article's framing of the story is outright flamebait.
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by spats1990 5y ago
>But I don’t think I’m the only one with a queasy feeling that Eastern elites seem to be admitting more people to the middle class while Western elites seem to be pushing people out of it. I agree with this and everything in your comment
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by spats1990 5y ago
>had a change of heart later on. He certainly did. Toward the end of his life he produced a list of notable people in the UK and US whom he believed to be Stalinist sympathizers, foreign agents, communists, etc, and passed it to a Britis
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by spats1990 5y ago
Are you talking fiction or non-fiction? Strategy 2 will work pretty well for most non-fiction books, especially trendy ones. It'd be a bit odd for fiction IMO.
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by spats1990 5y ago
Thank you for this. It's basically a better-articulated version of the gut response I had to that recent Zuckerberg interview about his thoughts on the metaverse.
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Cockpit View – Cropdusting New Zealand(youtube.com)
1 points by spats1990 5y ago|0 comments
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by spats1990 5y ago
the report cory refers to covers lyft as well. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/08/hubert-horan-can-ube... i submitted it before i realised this "end of the line" post was on the front page.
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Uber and Lyft Double Down on Fake Profit Metrics(nakedcapitalism.com)
2 points by spats1990 5y ago|0 comments
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The Future Is a Landscape(ecosophia.net)
65 points by spats1990 5y ago|18 comments
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by spats1990 5y ago
The parent also ranks the countries by % of world emissions rather than by emissions per capita, which tells a very different story.
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Kim Stanley Robinson: Carbon Quantitative Easing (2020)(bloomberg.com)
7 points by spats1990 5y ago|2 comments
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by spats1990 5y ago
try this (PDF d/l): https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/Pe... "...the DOD is the world’s largest institutional user of petroleum and correspondingly, the single larg
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Conditions are ripe for repeat of 1970s stagflation and 2008 debt crisis(theguardian.com)
3 points by spats1990 5y ago|0 comments
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Drought-stricken communities push back against data centers(nbcnews.com)
2 points by spats1990 5y ago|0 comments
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by spats1990 5y ago
See: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-01/how-much-... "In Red Oak, Texas, a town about 20 miles south of Dallas, Google wants as much as 1.46 billion gallons of water a year for a new data
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by spats1990 5y ago
"Spoils of war" on Wikipedia redirects to "war looting" or: "A prize of war is a piece of enemy property or land seized by a belligerent party during or after a war or battle, typically at sea." https:/&#

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