stemlord

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by stemlord 4y ago
So is clickbait
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by stemlord 4y ago
Amazing reason to use an adblocker
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by stemlord 4y ago
What. You don't see the climate narrative? The consumerism narrative? It's a literal "off world colony" of degenerated human blobs all watched over by machines of loving grace, who've never seen a live plant let alo
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>when you work as an employee you are getting bunched up with other people If you are the best on your team you should either be mentoring them as a senior or find a new job where you'll be challenged
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by stemlord 4y ago
Lol, probably.
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by stemlord 4y ago
>entitlement Everyone is entitled to fight for better conditions >things can very much regress That was gp's point
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by stemlord 4y ago
I don't think it's just people from the states with these assumptions about South American racial heritage. Anyway, it is by and large non-white, even if there is much more purely-Spanish Euro etc descent ancestry there than peo
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by stemlord 4y ago
I was going to say. Americans should be focused on fixing English first. Lol.
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by stemlord 4y ago
If "overqualified" truly is the reason-- just lie. Delete everything but the past 5-7 years off your resume. Push has come to shove. Say what you need to say to win them over.
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by stemlord 4y ago
IIRC even McLuhan's theorizing from the middle of the 20th century touched on this kind of thing
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by stemlord 4y ago
Been lifting for 5 years now, going to use this site it's great nice work!
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by stemlord 4y ago
I don't feel middle class folks evading taxes to more or less survive is a comparable offense to the rich doing so just because they can
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by stemlord 4y ago
I remember Lyrebird did this back in 2017. They used to have a free-to-use interface on their site to speak a phrase then listen to a text-to-speech output of your voice. Assuming Microsoft improved it somehow?
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by stemlord 4y ago
Yeah to extend your point, this struggle with how to even define objectivity has been present at the core of science and journalism throughout modernity. The drawings in old field guides are curated to a supposed "idealized" form
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>There are some NFTs by amazing artists which no one cares about. The ones with the most popularity are modern-day clip art pieces, with copy-paste scripts and marketing strategies. I've only witnessed almost every amazing digital a
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by stemlord 4y ago
To be fair the modern concert experience can be very not-live
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by stemlord 4y ago
For me the most concrete practical use of this kind of thinking is achieving "mind over matter" when dealing with physical pain. It seems to ease the emotional impact if you focus on the physical sensation of pain itself rather th
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by stemlord 4y ago
Yeah the only way waiting is better when staff is incentivised by tips is checking-in/getting their attention (for a refill or whatever)
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by stemlord 4y ago
>lawyers >civil engineers How do you find it a reasonable argument to compare upper-end office workers to service industry employees? Are you saying lawyers and engineers are paying their mortgages with tips?
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by stemlord 4y ago
>There have been restaurants have tried non-tipping models, You mean like most restaurants in europe? Yes the service there is on average worse than in American restaurants because of tips, but in my opinion not by enough of a margin to
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by stemlord 4y ago
>people using public land apparently don't always stay on public land Yes that is one of the bad reasons. Put up "private property" posts or similar. If you have such an enormous plot of private land that you cannot manage
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by stemlord 4y ago
>The solution isn't to halt technological progress Technological progress is not a linear deterministic progression. We decide how to progress every step of the way. The problem is that we are making dogshit decisions for some r
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>and existing employees. Oh wow, true. Now I'll know exactly when to negotiate a raise or leave.
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by stemlord 4y ago
He has a very boomer coded sense of style, it's part of his brand and probably part of the reason why 4chan obsesses over him
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by stemlord 4y ago
This is ironic to read as I felt the windows mouse controls were dogshit compared to what I had with macOS
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by stemlord 4y ago
I agree with you and also think you're being uncharitable to the author's allegedly narrow-minded pov. I agree there's another side to all this but that's not necessarily discounted by the author's criticisms. We al
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by stemlord 4y ago
No one should be flying Spirit to begin with. Hardly any cost savings because you will be nickle-and-dimed.
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>automation never replaced workforce as such. It moved the focus of the workforce Seems true but also doesn't automation diminish the diversity of work available?
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>But not for the same things The man subject in the article is a self-proclaimed victim of toxic masculinity. He didn't die per-se but it doesn't take mental gymnastics to understand that many young men imprisoned for never bei
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Wouldnt that completely diminish the value of film? I feel like this will kill studios.

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