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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Fresh water is finite. Infinite in reuse, but we can only take so much from a river before that river ceases to be. If you have a megabit connection, it doesn't matter that your cloud backups have infinite storage, you are limited by b
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Your mistake is assuming I'm thinking about any sort of legal definition. Adversarial nature doesn't require or government to declare it for it to exist.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Do you think the first lab produced ammonia was also made at current hourly production rates? Alternatively, you are looking at a scale model and asking, "what is this, a school for ants?!" Maybe we should learn to do things in a
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Yes? There's already a cottage industry trying to do exactly that? The problem is getting enough co2, as it's not particularly concentrated in our atmosphere. So the main ways they go about it are big fans, which is tons of energy
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
By all accounts, RedNote is hugely gay, with many people talking about how it's full of gay Chinese folks looking to connect with people.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
I wish it were a reckoning for social media, but reading here shows there's plenty of people here who are passionate about "China bad" and see this only through that one lens. And they seem to think it is strictly about TikTo
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
It seems pretty bold to assume that Google, Facebook, Amazon, X, etc aren't adversaries. Foreign or otherwise.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
IMO, there are too few entrants to meaningfully draw any conclusions about "the norm" in this industry.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
I don't think you realize just how extensively abuse can break your brain. Edit: I'm talking about emotional and psychological abuse. Separating you from people who care for you, gaslighting you, building dependency, etc are all s
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
"This" -- do you mean theft and abuse are the reasons why? Or debilitating illness (HIV/Cancer).
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Nor a moron. Solitary people who are groomed and love bombed aren't idiots, they are victims. Abuse of this type works so often because people have weakened defenses due to other events in their life. We're hard wired as a species
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
You could work a $500k/year job and safe $350k a year. Or a $400k and save $250k. A $1.5M/year job is a wild overestimate of what's required.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Nah, bad.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Karl Marx talked about alienation -- we are alienated from our work, we are alienated from one another, and eventually alienated from our humanity. I disagree with Marx about a lot of things, but I do think that this theory makes a lot of s
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Reading this, it feels much more like "using coding skills to make income". It's a great description of one person's journey, but "work hard for a decade, continue to work at a healthy lighter pace after" isn&#
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Capital claims the rewards. Company gets twice as productive, there's no reason to pay workers more unless they organize to demand it. So the bosses keep more and more of the surplus.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
American workers are starting to develop class consciousness and realize who is doing the work (the workers) and who is getting paid (the bosses). As bosses continue to treat workers worse and worse, the more we're starting to go, &quo
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
If Paul Graham published his list of favorite la croix flavors, would it be interesting because of who he is? I don't understand celebrity worship in the slightest -- if a celebrity says something, why does that make it valuable to lis
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
You are avoiding the question. And of course I'd make the same argument for Andrew Tate. Budweiser hiring Tate isn't "promoting his ideology". Because Budweiser has no ideology beyond "we think this makes us money&q
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Does that apply to every actor bud hires? If that actor says something personal on their feed, bud is promoting their ideology? Tom Cruise did ads for bud, is Budweiser promoting Scientology? If not, walk me through why one is promoting ide
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
My friend, I am a leftist. I guarantee you no one hates leftists more than leftists. We fight each other to death over everything.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
What's intellectually interesting here? This article is mindless pap you could get anywhere online with some quick searching for anti woke. I don't mind political content if it's saying something novel, but this.... there&#x2
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Did they promote "trans ideology"? Did the ad say anything about trans principles? Or did it just have a trans person in it? Because if you are saying employing trans people is woke, that's pretty messed up.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
It's much more than that. If the government says, "only land owners can publish", regardless of content, that's still obviously censorship. In what world would "only Christians may publish" not be censorship?
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
The execution is part of the art of it, like, there's a statement being made about the Internet, anonymity, and humanity here. It may not be what the artist originally set out to create with their art, which I find fascinating.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
It's not leftist dogma. Leftists aren't capitalists, friend. Hard to argue the government and economy are post capitalist. And most leftists I know absolutely hate performative progressivism. Dems are widely mocked in leftist ci
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Seeing his posts here, it would appear that his behavior is indeed "as bad as it seems". A serial poster who cannot seem to disengage, took everything personally, and refused to try to understand other perspectives.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Your position is really "fuck disabled people", really? Your ever seen a blind person try to use the internet? You ever seen a person with essential tremors try to use their phone? Go and educate yourself a little. These standards
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
I was articulating the sorts of things leftists often push for. Nationalizing industry is one such thing - holding industry in common good for the people is one flavor of leftist. You see that in Soviet style communism, for example. It&#x27
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Canadian potash corporation, Chilean mining, French financial sector, gazprom in Germany, Indian fossil fuels, railways around the globe, Amtrak here in the U.S. Many many nations are nationalizing things historically and through today. Nat

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