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by staplers 9mo ago
"SEO" that companies will do to make their ads appear in places that they don't belong. So all ads.. as a society we give away our most coveted real estate (physical and digital) for consumer propaganda. Hilarious exa
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by staplers 9mo ago
The national guard exists for this purpose (state level) but is mostly captured by federal interests. Local PD's could in effect do something similar but have shown to back the authoritarian-aligned party. Propaganda has aligned nearly
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by staplers 9mo ago
You already lost your own bet. "A pair of armed and masked men in tactical gear stood guard at ballot drop boxes in Mesa, Ariz., on Oct. 21 as people began early voting for the 2022 midterm elections." They might be "off-duty
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by staplers 9mo ago
Class tourism is a succinct term here. Blending in with hardworking blue collar Americans is a whole marketing industry in itself.
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by staplers 9mo ago
Still cheaper for corporations to commit crimes than if a "child manipulation tax" existed.
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by staplers 9mo ago
If an actor asked Harvey Weinstein for help, I would think less of them. End of story.
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by staplers 9mo ago
Lending on no reserve secretly doubles the money supply, sometimes even more if repackaged multiple times. It creates a highly risky financial environment that taxpayers inevitably are forced to bailout (usually through layoffs and hyperinf
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by staplers 9mo ago
a private US company pushing their current political views on another sovereign state This has always been the case in the western world, even before America itself existed. Some use the US govt (CIA) as leverage but often will just
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by staplers 9mo ago
And bankruptcies never happen and no money is created to bailout the lenders
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by staplers 9mo ago
and liabilities are always paid back in full and never smoothed over with money printing bailouts.
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by staplers 9mo ago
There already are some gold pegged stablecoins Which require blind faith in reserve numbers.
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by staplers 9mo ago
You can't loan more than you have You can when you control the ledgers. Even more easily when digital. Over 90% of all currency is digital.
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by staplers 9mo ago
Loans are assets -1 = 1 And people wonder why finite natural resources skyrocket in value.
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by staplers 9mo ago
Spotify was created from a library of pirated music.. the irony
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by staplers 9mo ago
Uber, Airbnb, Robinhood all took off because they created easy to use beautiful apps (compared to their predecessors). The anti-design bias in this forum is genuinely unhinged. I see some saying the entire destruction of the natural world s
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by staplers 10mo ago
the city essentially stopped issuing traffic tickets I think you mean "law enforcement" stopped enforcing established laws.
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by staplers 10mo ago
why a bank would hold a completely vacant building for 15 years. Allows for inflated valuations and hypotheticals which appear on paper as absolute but in reality are much lower. By leasing for cheaper they effectively capitulate an
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by staplers 10mo ago
but I'm never exactly sure what to suggest as an alternative. Email newsletters are pretty easy and universal.
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by staplers 10mo ago
we'll see meaningful copyright reform and sanity in our lifetime. That seems wildly naive... gestures broadly at world
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by staplers 10mo ago
Ubiquiti at home because it is light years better than any consumer brand As someone who simply wanted to isolate different devices on my home network, I was looking at nearly thousands of dollars of hardware, installing abstract Op
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by staplers 10mo ago
Build out what that tech debt is costing the company and the risk it creates. Balance that against other goals, and find a plan that pays it down at the right time and the right speed. Ironically many of the first to be laid-off in
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by staplers 10mo ago
If democracy is predicated on independent thought and decision (free speech, free vote), then the "rudder" in this analogy becomes authoritarianism with an additional step.
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by staplers 10mo ago
What I don't understand is why we still pretend like this is a mystery. The theatrical ego has a chokehold on the world currently. No surprise it's seeping into corporate structures as well. Large grandiose parades and suc
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by staplers 10mo ago
You're assuming the problem the govt is referencing is their actual goal.
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by staplers 11mo ago
Will they line these people up in the street and kill them like they did to 100+ people for a low-level drug dealer "sweep"? Something tells me not. The global push toward hyper-violent policing feels one sided class wise.
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by staplers 11mo ago
Thus begs the question why monetary inflation exists. Govts and banks are given god-like power over who gets access to the new money. From there it simply devalues all else.
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by staplers 11mo ago
have some kind of standardized identifier on them Take this a step further and it'll be a personal identifying watermark (only the company can decode). Home printers already do this to some degree.
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by staplers 11mo ago
I very much doubt the execs understand how much they're damaging the brand for that little bit of extra revenue. Our entire societal system is based on increasing revenue (due to inflation). Until we measure, define, and value
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by staplers 11mo ago
I suspect much of the data is influenced by speculative firing/rehiring as c-suites are exploring what they can actually skimp on and what they cannot.
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by staplers 1y ago
Raspberry Pi's obviously trying to make this a reality. Learning to self-host and get off cloud services might be one of the most personally freeing feelings I've had in a long time. Rent-seeking is obviously growing out of contro

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