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by theprincess 4y ago
It seems like he's putting the philosophy of the far right flank of the tech world into practice here. He's taking Curtis Yarvin's "companies are monarchies"** concept to heart when he e.g. provokes his employees an
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by theprincess 4y ago
A lot of people won't want to work for him, but a minority will want to a lot mostly for political/cultural reasons. I suppose if it's sustainable for the tech world to bifurcate the way the media world has Elon could be the
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by theprincess 4y ago
> Also you're talking like being a "bigot" is some kind of objective condition. However, in fact it's highly subjective and the label has been over-applied by various activists in attempts to enforce ideological confo
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by theprincess 4y ago
> irreversable surgeries on vulnerable teens In the latest scare about this in Nashville, TN it came out that they were doing about 5 breast reductions a year on trans men who were 16-17 years old. This is a surgery that is commonly perf
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by theprincess 4y ago
Comparing the term bigot to the term homeless is apples and oranges. It doesn't make sense to try to soften the stigma of a word like bigot. People who are bigoted enforce cruelty on others. People who aren't able to acquire shelt
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by theprincess 4y ago
I think, on average, well informed Democrats tend to perceive well informed Republicans as bigots because the Republican national party platform is unabashedly bigoted toward many minority communities. Less informed Republicans are perceive
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by theprincess 4y ago
It's pretty simple. In Democratic areas you don't speak out about being Republican and in Republican areas you don't speak out about being a Democrat. I'm from the South, lived in Oregon and New York for a while, and now
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by theprincess 4y ago
> I go to sleep wishing for the day when I can automate everything away. I've been sitting here trying to suss out why something about saying this outside the context of a job interview feels so cringe to me. Best I can figure is th
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by theprincess 4y ago
That's a great point tbqh. Had vine lived I'm guessing they would have had to play catch up with that feature and who knows maybe they would have been too late.
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by theprincess 4y ago
It wasn't that early. YouTube was, and still is, full of vine compilations. It really blew up for a while just serving 6 second videos at a low/moderate resolution. It could have been TikTok easily.
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by theprincess 4y ago
That's like panning for gold in a sewer. Hope you don't get a disease. The far right has viral memes tailor made for radicalizing slightly paranoid white guys by making them more and more comfortable with the things you're &q
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by theprincess 4y ago
>> They need to feel like they are valued and loved so that they can open themselves up to more possibilities > I would genuinely appreciate if you could elaborate on what you mean here. Vague platitudes are one thing. But, univers
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by theprincess 4y ago
> Really, at its very core it drives home ideas of male expendability. Do you think it's healthy for boys to be taught that they are expendable and that their lives only have conditional value that can go away at any time if they ar
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by theprincess 4y ago
I don't understand how men operate among themselves to be honest but I do know that my ability to share my feelings and struggles with my friends and family has helped me grow and survive a lot of hardships in my life. My husband has m
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by theprincess 4y ago
Meta comment: Yesterday it was the old OKCupid blogs today it's WAW. I spent some time a few years ago exploring the incel wiki after one of the mass shootings that happened and saw these concepts popping up again and again. I feel lik
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by theprincess 4y ago
I didn't use those cases as examples because they are not incitements. They could be construed as attempts at good faith debates. If someone says that most trans kids desist for instance, I'd point them at a study [1] that shows o
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by theprincess 4y ago
We have a term for the type of speech that spurs stochastic terrorism already. It's blood libel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel If you spread lies about a group that demonizes them you put members of th
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by theprincess 4y ago
I understand why you'd worry about this, but I see no other way forward. Alex Jones' lie caused families who lost children to be harassed by the nuts to watched him. Because he had his own publishing platform it's pretty easy
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by theprincess 4y ago
It's pretty simple really. Saying you don't like transgender people or some specific race makes you a jerk but shouldn't be illegal. It's just an opinion. Saying that transgender people are sacrificing children to Lucife
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by theprincess 4y ago
> Where's the harm? The harm is in stochastic terrorism. You can make up lies that are intended to spur people who feel they have nothing to lose into action. https://csl.mpg.de/en/projects/philosophical-an
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by theprincess 4y ago
It seems like Germany's approach here or something like it, maybe more streamlined and less heavy handed, is the only way forward in the long run. It's too easy to spread inflammatory lies right now and it's already spurring
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by theprincess 4y ago
Oh what a neat tool! Bookmarked. I'll take a look at that later thank you!
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Ask HN: How to Change from SWE/SRE to Sales?
4 points by theprincess 4y ago|4 comments
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by theprincess 4y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. The author's other articles remind me of something you'd see from a Russophilic survivalist blogger like Dmitry Orlov. I think the general tone of the world has become biased toward negativity and so
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by theprincess 4y ago
As a mommy who is thinking of having another child the thing that would make me leave Meta would be part time work. If I could work remote 3 days a week I would take much lower pay. Even though I have a track record of saving companies a lo
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by theprincess 4y ago
I worked at Google as an SRE. I'm at Meta now. I always disliked all the swag (goes straight into the trash) and parties and travel. But I'm a suburban mom so I don't need more junk and I like to be home with my family. Remot
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by theprincess 4y ago
This is an amazing concept. It got me searching through Hackers content on AO3, haha. Thank you for sharing! https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Hackers%20(1995)/works
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by theprincess 4y ago
I just want everyone having this wonderful discussion about how to use 'hoi polloi' correctly in a sentence to know that 1.) I love you and 2.) I learned that word literally last night while watching "Better Call Saul".
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by theprincess 4y ago
The monarchs in the UK are just tax supported public figures now right? Like state funded Kardashians? I understand that they get special consideration, but given their position, it makes me laugh to consider a world where it's illegal
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by theprincess 4y ago
I honestly admire the fashion editor. Her life is laser focused on looking great and tracking the developments of high fashion. Events that shake the hoi polloi to their core barely even register to her. A queen.

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