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by swombat 9y ago
Not true - the Karpman drama triangle (victim-aggressor-rescuer) is a fundamentally human way of seeing the world (however dysfunctional and unhelpful) and so it is present all around the world, not just in the US. I would agree that based
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by swombat 9y ago
> Of course this doesn't justify mistreatment. But it puts in perspective the idea that turning vegetarian, and banning meat would be good for those animals in question. It wouldn't: they wouldn't be alive in the first pl
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by swombat 9y ago
I think this political escalation process is itself specific to the US... I think if it happened in the U.K. there would be no such outcry... just tributes to the innocent bystander and a nice funeral. Shit happens. It doesn’t have to alway
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by swombat 9y ago
Yep, definitely makes sense! I guess it’s similar in meaning to if you chose “conscious” or “present”...?
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by swombat 9y ago
I’ve found that committing to a single meaningful word for the year works better than resolutions. Two years ago the word was “space”. I made more room in my life for growth and change that year. This year the word was “presence”. I went on
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by swombat 9y ago
It's not necessarily a "correlation implies causation" fallacy when there is clear and detailed reasoning of how one thing causes the other. Correlation does not prevent causation either. It's not enough to prove causati
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by swombat 9y ago
Polyamory (mentioned by captainmuon) is a universe away from what's described in the article. I recommend reading the book "Sex At Dawn" for a thorough (if somewhat evangelical) dive into polyamory (as opposed to polygamy or
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by swombat 9y ago
Quite possibly some of the rape kits also included files where the victim said “Joe did it” but wasn’t believed at the time. Now when Joe’s DNA is found in a bunch of other rape kits where the perpetrator was unidentified, the picture of ou
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by swombat 9y ago
I think the OP was being sarcastic.
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by swombat 9y ago
Based on your statements here it doesn’t seem like you hate to say it. Why should there be no rehabilitation for this crime? If it is possible to fix these thoroughly broken people, why not do it?
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by swombat 9y ago
Do the characters get a bit more complex than “humans killed ppl I loved so now I’m going to plot to end all human life”? Because it was really hard to suspend my disbelief on that one. People just don’t behave in unidimensional ways like t
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by swombat 9y ago
There’s so much awesome SF out there... it depends what you like! Personally, in very different styles, I found pretty much everything written by Iain M Banks excellent (start with Excession or Player of Games), I enjoy John Scalzi’s humour
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by swombat 9y ago
I started reading it and found it fairly poor quality sci fi so I stopped somewhere in the first book. I think the bit where they slice a passing ship with newly invented nanowires smacked more of a comic book or 50s golden age sci fi than
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by swombat 9y ago
Pfft! Smart aliens just send a couple of stealth probes, figure out our biology, and in short order program a simple virus that is dormant but highly contagious for about a year and then when incubation is over kills within 24 hours. Ironic
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by swombat 9y ago
Rome did not collapse at all, it just entered a long slow decline period where the central power became less and less effective while independent city states thrived and created numerous works of art, developed scientifically and commercial
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by swombat 9y ago
"I obscenity in thy mother's milk," muttered the old man.
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by swombat 9y ago
I recommend reading Wilber’s Grace and Grit for a more balanced view of “aren’t things like hypertension the result of something”? Otherwise you might find yourself on a slippery slope where you start implying that cancer sufferers brought
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by swombat 9y ago
If your body appears to be telling you that it is probably because there is something wrong with the way you’re living your life. Now, you can wait until you’re on your death bed before you realise it, or you can pay attention to this signa
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by swombat 9y ago
The only people who don't make deals with terrorists are in the movies. All the world's governments make deals with terrorists.
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by swombat 9y ago
Duplicate
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by swombat 9y ago
No revenues is one thing. No product is another.
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by swombat 9y ago
I read StudentStuff’s post as implying it will set the stage for conflict over resources, not over ideology.
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by swombat 9y ago
The Economist tends to be very good at this, particularly in the first couple of sections of the weekly, where it summarises the key news of the week, one short paragraph each.
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by swombat 9y ago
In other words, you’re buying shares in a Taco company...
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by swombat 9y ago
> For the individual, work is at best an accommodation to the pressing need to provide for ourselves, and that can provide the wherewithal to pursue happiness. At the worst, it is a global system that requires the majority of adults wor
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by swombat 9y ago
This looks like terrible advice. It is defeatist (you can't do anything about most of your situation - false, as other comments have pointed out) and where it does offer some suggestion, it is to do stuff that the OP has already ruled
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by swombat 9y ago
Well, the US for one...
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by swombat 9y ago
I'm not sure how to answer the first question... we pay good salaries, but we don't have primarily developers so I'm not sure how to compare us to google. Potential employees get walked through the system we used to come up w
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by swombat 9y ago
One person left because he wanted to be paid significantly more than his work was worth at the time (according to me, my cofounder, and the 5 people we put in charge of a "pay team" to resolve this). He left, and it was better for
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by swombat 9y ago
My company, GrantTree, has completely transparent salaries since day 1, almost 7 years ago. We are about 35 people now. #ama

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