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by thesagan 7y ago
I'll buy one after they remove that touchbar. Please remove the touchbar.
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by thesagan 7y ago
I’ve heard variants of your story from so many people here in the midwest. There’s an entire nation of people in the US hurting, and many who could return as first class citizens if we had some more empathy paired with grit. Godspeed.
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by thesagan 7y ago
My Senator, Stabenow, a dem, replied to my letter about a year ago that she’s “studying” that proposal. A year later, she said she’s still studying the proposal. She’s happy about voting for those expanded pentagon budgets though!
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by thesagan 7y ago
And I'm still skeptical either were that effective. Domestic efforts go into the billions of dollars and involve entire sectors of the domestic economy.
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by thesagan 7y ago
People shouldn't be swayed by that, and in my opinion, Delta shouldn't put it out there, either. Delta is in a much stronger position than most of its employees. The fact Delta makes an appeal on that level is disappointing to me.
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by thesagan 7y ago
I sense that awareness of U.S. corruption has been increasing. One watchdog group has been tracking it's position, as mentioned in this WSJ article: https://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2019/01/29&#x2F
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by thesagan 8y ago
And i’ve worked with self taught professionals that outcompete formally educated ones. It’s not so simple, and one of our great sins is writing off people’s potential before they’re even given a chance to try.
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by thesagan 8y ago
They're not the same. For example, it's the U.S. that has the world's largest prison population and the world's most expensive healthcare, etc. China has different issues.
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by thesagan 8y ago
Last thing my grandpa said to me was, "I'll see you soon." It's actually comforting.
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by thesagan 8y ago
If there's an authority which can deem an election decision as "uneducated" and "harmful" then why have voting at all? Why not just leave major decisions to a committee, if we're going to pick and choose which
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by thesagan 8y ago
I struggle with confirmation bias, myself.
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by thesagan 8y ago
Even reputations are hotly debated in this climate. I think a good habit is to read from as many sources as possible, including controversial ones, and making a private determination as to how to weight reporting.
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by thesagan 8y ago
I wonder if—as a culture—we're limiting ourselves by habitually thinking in terms of public government and private enterprise; as if we need to find new concepts for grouping together people trying to solve problems. I know I'm no
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by thesagan 8y ago
I think of riding ferris wheels or a sinking/falling feeling of approaching Earth in a space capsule coming back from the moon.
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by thesagan 8y ago
Well... being transparent makes leaks ok. Otherwise the discussion is private and/or not transparent. (Or at least not intended to be transparent.) Private discussions are usually not be transparent, otherwise the public court will jud
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by thesagan 8y ago
I find it disconcerting.
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by thesagan 8y ago
Marx wasn't the first, and he wasn't the last to argue for a community/worker owned and operated economic system. He's just the best known. He might have co-written written a manifesto, but had he not another would very
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by thesagan 8y ago
A lot of them are Marxists because they’ve studied it. I’m not exactly Marxist but I’m more terrified by those who judge his works without having legitimately studied it critically and in depth under supervision. He’s a lightning rig for pr
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by thesagan 8y ago
I think these articles speak with the ambition of these cities themselves despite the loss of their industrial base; to my mind this ambitiousness is correlated with boosterism. And it does makes people feel good, and it might work, too,
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by thesagan 8y ago
In this specific sense I’m not sure that the insurance itself is considered speculative, but merely a way to minimize/manage the possibility of potential damages in a reasonable way. If I’m not mistaken, her write up addresses speculat
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by thesagan 8y ago
“We are living longer and better lives compared to generations past” I appreciate all your writing, but statistics show lifespans in the U.S. are declining and housing is out of reach for increasing populations. On a mass society level that
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by thesagan 8y ago
Many people today live in misery, but with TVs. The important things—quality of life, for one—is something different than material things. Also, the article take care to use the word “necessities.” If those are out of reach those people are
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by thesagan 8y ago
Some consider it an ideology called “Economism”
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by thesagan 8y ago
Agreed. That he even said that at all really got my attention. Doesn't inspire confidence.
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by thesagan 9y ago
You know... I'm a "Rand" fan, but I never cared for the NeXT logo either. It's just so cheap-looking (at least to me) and jarring compared to his other work. But then again it never had a presence in my day-to-life eithe
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by thesagan 9y ago
More likely because they can't sell like Paul Rand did. It usually comes down to the pitch.
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by thesagan 9y ago
This is mainly true in competitive markets. Markets aren’t always competitive. We could argue we live in an oligarchy which isn’t as competitive as we are taught.
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by thesagan 9y ago
I don't see why not. Seems nuclear weapons and war are still a thing. So much so they moved the hands of the Doomsday clock again to these heights.
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by thesagan 9y ago
We can start by treating this as an important problem and tasking ourselves with looking for and finding alternatives and putting political/financial pressure on these institutions to consider them. Just asking "but what are th
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by thesagan 9y ago
That's being a bit obtuse. Of course it matters how it feels, however you look at it! Such as if a loading bar makes something feel better as it loads - then good!

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