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by throwaway9980 4y ago
There’s no scenario where a state leaves by force. There is a point at which apathy leads to dissolution. If no one cares, then it’s inevitable. It’s entropy.
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by throwaway9980 4y ago
Really? If Florida wants to leave, who’s objecting to that? Half the remaining states would be on the side of “good riddance to bad rubbish” and the other half would support it because “let’s go Brandon!” I don’t think the hard part is gett
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by throwaway9980 4y ago
Hitting my mid-40’s with a reasonably successful multi decade career in tech and I’ve recently realized that some gigantic percentage (plurality, maybe majority) of all the hard work has gone into competing against the people around me for
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by throwaway9980 4y ago
You’re describing a place that isn’t fit for living. As a a parent, I feel horrible for your neighbor. Genuinely curious what prevents people from leaving. Is it a lack of resources?
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by throwaway9980 4y ago
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. George Orwell, Animal Farm
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Maybe people just don’t have clear class identities? I grew up middle, perhaps upper middle class in the US. Both of my parents, especially my mother, came from lower social economic backgrounds than what they provided for me. I was very cl
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
I feel the same way about donating to political campaigns. It’s just not worth it considering that that information is then public record and could be used against you in all sorts of ways. Perhaps I will feel different when I’m older and o
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will annihilate me.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
I will almost certainly choose to have my children vaccinated as soon as they become eligible. On the other hand I find your argument difficult to accept. I am happy to be injected and subjected to lots of things for the greater good, that’
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
If enough Joe Schmoes have bad opinions it does in fact impoverish people and prevent them accessing necessary goods like food and housing. Many ideas are in fact wrong and if widespread terribly dangerous.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Cris Collinsworth, yes it’s spelled Cris, makes me want to rend my ears from my skull. Collinsworth and Al Michaels is like some kind of perfectly seasoned stew of stupidity worthy of Idiocracy. Listening to the two of them I can’t help but
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Amazon has invested in Rivian and they have the advantage of being “not Musk”. Bezos doesn’t want to give Musk any business. I thought it was funny that they made a big show of using Rivian trucks for the retrieval after the Blue Origin fli
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Early 40’s and I feel very lucky to have a job. I feel certain that once I hit 50 I’ll be unable to get hired. I think the trick is to make sure the job you have by 45 is somewhere that will be willing to keep you as you age.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Better still: sublease but don’t pay the landlord! I know someone in New York who tried to buy their neighbor’s apartment. The deal fell through because the tenant was nearly a year behind on a rent and couldn’t be evicted. Except the tenan
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Feels like a lateral move motivated by money and perhaps boredom. Interesting too to contrast Tinder with Bumble which is founder led and growing. Mature stagnant shuffling companies CEO, you can see clearly that the energy is gone.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Crop rotation implies the selection and plating of nitrogen fixing crops. For example, because corn requires significant nitrogen, we would plan peas alongside corn. Peas are nitrogen fixing and the corn stalks provide a good structure for
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
It's absolutely true that you can't keep farming the same soil year in and year out and expect it to produce. This is why crop rotation is done and why fields are allowed to remain fallow from time to time. It seems to me that the
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Dumpster divers are also recovering packaging for re-use.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
It's oh so terrible isn't it? I feel like this is one of those flexible majority things that Nassim Taleb talks about [1]. The vast majority of people don't care one way or the other. There is a small minority who wants the n
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
I've noticed a lot of NY plates where I live too. Since most people who live in NYC don't own cars, it seems like these must be people who are being displaced. I know quite a few New Yorkers who have moved upstate or out to Long I
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Apple can’t fight this battle. No one can. The best you can do is make sure you are well versed in the current revision of wrongthink. Make sure you stay up to date. Adhere to the correct beliefs, actions, and words. Start now!
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Brilliant. The financial hoi palloi also don’t seem to notice that their revenues are deemed income for tax purposes while for corporate persons revenue remains revenue and is untaxed. Corporate persons only pay taxes when they fail to ensu
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Towns tend to be this way, not so much cities. I live in a single family neighborhood in a large city and it’s both walkable and drivable. It’s not great driving beyond a 1-2 mile radius, but I don’t need to go that far more than once a wee
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
The same way that my friend who is vaccinated was infected by his unvaccinated wife. Close quarters with an infected person is going to increase risk for some one who is vaccinated. The Pfizer vaccine is 38% effective [1] at preventing infe
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Yeah, for this to be exactly the same the assumption would be that adherence to a certain dogma is a strict requirement for continued participation in society. Oh wait...
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
If Airbnb is violating local laws it seems like a simple subpoena would yield the necessary information.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
This is a really important point that you’ve called out. All of those Airbnbs in your neighborhood are preventing the formation of new communal relationships.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
I honestly don’t know. I don’t live in a country with stricter gun control. I live in the United States. I’m not blaming loose gun control alone. There has been an increasing militarization of the police in the US for at least the last 30 y
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
The US is a militarized police state where citizens are armed to the teeth. This is a natural consequence of that reality.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
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