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by tharne 5y ago
> He really has no idea what acting natural is, his whole life really is just tied up in "They just give it to me, the dumb f----". Regardless of how much power/money he has, that feels sad. I've never really thought
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by tharne 5y ago
> Why place such value on fairness? This is spot on. If I'm in the hospital for something, my primary concern is the quality of care I'm going to receive, not the societal fairness/unfairness brought about the hospital&#x2
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by tharne 5y ago
> I don't know about the power elite, but I wouldn't call Harvard or the Ivy League "heavily white". Don't mess up the progressive narrative with facts. You'll just get called a racist.
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by tharne 5y ago
> It is not in any way an intellectually honest or rigid argument, it is pushing a rightwing agenda. Free speech is not a rightwing agenda, and if it is, that's a very troubling thing for the left.
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by tharne 5y ago
> Why is Joe Rogan an example of book burning when there is literal book burning happening? Because right wing groups have very little cultural power at this point. They may have some political power, but that doesn't count for much
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by tharne 5y ago
>...but I don't think they nailed the "Post-Truth" ethos quite as well as 1984 did. 100%. What 1984 really nails is the use of the control of language and history to create a new reality that they have near 100% dominance
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by tharne 5y ago
> Pretty much captures what I see on just about everywhere that isn't HN. HN is one of the few places where I regularly upvote comments that I disagree with, because they've frame an issue in a way I hadn't considered, or
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by tharne 5y ago
Absolutely. It may not be the career killer it used to be, but it will definitely slow your career growth.
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by tharne 5y ago
I have done the exact migration you're considering. Or more accurately, in still in the process, but overall it's definitely been worth it. Instead of thinking about it as a single migration, be a little easier on yourself. Even i
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by tharne 5y ago
This is good news. They need to take the next step now and end forced arbitration altogether. The fact that your employee can twist your arm into giving up your right to access the court system is completely immoral.
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by tharne 5y ago
The only problem with that is that inflation is a like a fire. When it's very small it can serve you, but once it gets bigger and you lose control of it you're f*ked.
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by tharne 5y ago
If you read history books covering the time just before and after the American revolution, there was a lot of discussion of this topic at the time. A lot of the founder fathers, most notably Alexander Hamilton, believed a national debt was
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by tharne 5y ago
> Pretty much anybody who has more current liabilities than current assets can expect to benefit from some degree of inflation Except for the fact that they're getting a pay cut year after year. This is why the general public gets s
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by tharne 5y ago
I get that part, what I'm wondering now is that in light of those findings, are we concerned that there is a similar risk to younger folks who got COVID?
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by tharne 5y ago
> This is the thing that drives me the most nuts about so many people's reactions to this disease who treat infection as a binary: You die or you don't die and the latter is just as good as not getting it When I hear folks say
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by tharne 5y ago
This is terrifying. I wonder how this will pan out with all the children who got COVID in the last two years.
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by tharne 5y ago
There are definitely some benefits to living on one's own for a while, but I do not think we should continue to view as the only viable option, or even the default for that matter.
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by tharne 5y ago
> The idea that an 18 year old would start their own household is an artifact from a small period in our history when 18 year olds could easily get an unskilled job that would afford a decent modest lifestyle. I think this is the root of
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by tharne 5y ago
This is spot on. Multigenerational housing used to be the norm, not a symbol of failure. Why we all think it's a great idea to leave our families at 18 and pay high rents so that we can live with strangers we found on the internet is b
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by tharne 5y ago
I think a big part of the problem with funding the news is the way papers handle online payments. I would happily pay a dollar or two to have online access to the NY Times, WSJ, or even my local town paper for a day. What I absolutely do no
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by tharne 5y ago
My God, I wish I had read an article like this when I was 22. I started out in one of these high-status low-wages - HUGE mistake. I intuited some of the things the author is saying here, but it took many wasted years for me to be able to ar
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by tharne 5y ago
> Is the polemical tone really necessary here? You can disagree with MMT without resorting to vitriol and accusations of the Times wanting an "equity agenda." Whatever that means. It is necessary. MMT an immoral economic theory
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by tharne 5y ago
> And right-wing media had nothing to do with that, of course. In this case, they really don't have anything to do with that. The average person has a much better BS detector than economists give them credit for. Most people are qui
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by tharne 5y ago
I think this say more about who is and is not part of the dominant cultural forces right now. My guess is that people more likely to be censored or punished for speaking their views are more pro-free speech, while those who's views hap
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by tharne 5y ago
Is there anywhere folks can find a list of vendors with decent aftermarket batteries?
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by tharne 5y ago
I'd say it already has. See the 2016 election.
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by tharne 5y ago
Language is organic, words and phrases take their meaning based on a social consensus derived from how they're routinely used, not because some person or group bestows a meaning from on high. The whole “When we say X we all really mean
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by tharne 5y ago
> Unpopular opinion but even if you are a Bill Gates, I don’t think there is anything of substance about his technological innovation. I don't understand the downvotes here. In 100 years or so, practically no one is going to rememb
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by tharne 5y ago
> Where are you getting 10% guaranteed a year? If anyone gets the answer to this question, PM me the details.
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by tharne 5y ago
> I do not think it is fair the way you paint the picture of people who choose to not have kids ("feeling sorry for them") as if it was a condition or something. It's not painting childless folks as having a condition, it&

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