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by thrance 5mo ago
> The midterms will be a landslide if allowed to run fairly. SCOTUS just repelled the "voting rights" part of the civil rights acts, allowing states to gerrymander the black vote out. Which all red states immediately did. The
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"Socialism is when the government gives tax breaks to the rich and destroys public institutions". And calling China "socialist" is rich when it's probably the most ruthlessly capitalistic nation on the planet, wher
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Some libertarians moved in the small town of Grafton, NH [0], with the explicit goal of turning it into a "Free Town". > This resulted in eliminating funding to the county's senior-citizens council, town offices going unhe
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What are the incentives for corrupt people to fix potholes under a purely capitalist economy? No one's making any money from that. But it causes damages to everyone. You need some kind of government for such things as education, heal
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Yes. Enshitification after an acquisition by private equity is a real threat to Bitwarden's perennity as a secure and free password manager.
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To get approval for a merger under the current US admin, a company needs to show ideological purity.
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Because then they'll have a reputation of not doing what they're paid to do, which would be the end of their hacking careers.
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I've been saying this for a while now. They could just have put an Alberta landscape shot or something else that's actually aesthetically pleasing and relevant, and doesn't feel as trashy as the picture actually in the articl
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17v8y0z9z2o Thoughts?
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You think that all knowledge workers of the world will accept their social and material downgrades without making wave? That they'll all be able to find manual work?
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by thrance 6mo ago
For the pyramids specifically: their architects and builders were skilled artisans who got to own their craft from top to bottom. As such, they were well-paid and pretty respected. Very much not alienated, under Marx's definition. I do
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by thrance 6mo ago
Perhaps, certainly even, but that's not a really interesting way of looking at things. And individual blame is often used as a substitute to systemic analysis of issues.
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Selfishness has nothing to do with it. Capitalism rewards anti-social investment strategies and capital accumulation, so that's what we get. "Capital" is not a force of nature, it's an emergent force from our economic sy
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by thrance 6mo ago
Don't know about ADHD and whatnot, but I do feel this "task paralysis" pretty often. One thing that I found works really well for me is to work on multiple projects at once. Go one to two weeks on one, then switch to another.
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The infamous "Nuremberg defense". Meta employee chose to work there. Each day, they choose to keep working there. With Meta on their resume, they could find work pretty much anywhere else. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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Because labor is the only thing the working class can leverage against the capitalists. They sell their labor for wages to the owners who have the means of production and capital. If the working class can't bargain its labor anymore, i
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And the next 20, most probably...
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I don't know how intentional it is, but your comment is basically a dumbed down version of what Marx had to say about work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
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by thrance 6mo ago
I can't stand this tone, it's truly the worst way to write, ever. Rapid successions of sentences 5 to 8 words long, where each must be impactful and profound but only end up sounding incredibly smug and abrasive. Fuck that.
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> There should be a standardized government ID service/API Most European country already have one, some are still testing theirs. They're required by the EU to make one accessible to their citizens by the end of this year, in t
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Personally, I think AI is just a convenient scapegoat for these mass layoffs. Also, these kinds of announcements contribute to sustaining the AI hype which all tech investors benefit from. And investors looove hearing about mass layoffs,
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by thrance 6mo ago
Seriously, this is what I miss the most in legacy media. Much too often "journalists" will simply relay politicians' statements uncritically, when they're obviously fallacious or straight lies. This is very refreshing on
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Careful, you're dangerously close to rediscovering Marxism.
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These progressives and modern ones share nothing but the name, and you now it perfectly well.
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MAGA is just the logical end-point of any right-wing ideology. Just like every far right party in the world, it wasn't birthed in a vacuum. It's just amping up the same rhetoric that has been the bread and butter of right-wingers
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The right is defined by its opposition to progressive ideas. No matter if it's American or Swiss or whatever. It will always champion reactionary ideals, seeking to marginalize some groups to further its appeal. It's funny you m
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by thrance 6mo ago
> Anyway, the thing about traditional communities, in this context - the ones that "have to be a certain way" because they've been that way for generations - is that they have immense inertia; they create real social ties
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> which in practice is now coded as a "right wing" value. In practice? You mean, rhetorically, surely? The right wing is doing whatever it can to marginalize and disenfranchise anyone it doesn't like (and that's a lo
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I think you'll find that any specific change in political directions come about from specific reasons (what would even be the alternative?).
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My definition of shrinkflation doesn't require its purpose to be "resisting price inflation". Rather, I would bet that more often than not it is just a cheap lever to boost margins.

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