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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Why does the insurance status of property matter? Why does it matter if it belongs to a corporation (also don’t many truckers have their own trucks)? Do you also think megaphones shouldn’t be used to protest? What about amplifying platforms
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
FYI Merriam Webster is among the worst dictionaries. They are highly activist and have redefined words repeatedly to suit the progressive/far-left political platform. A couple examples (but there are more): https://www.bbc.c
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
The thing is BLM protesters broke laws. They started fires, destroyed businesses, trapped drivers in tunnels, attacked police, set fires in people’s homes, and declared an autonomous zone that claimed to secede from the country - and this i
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
There are definitely constitutional boundaries. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Connor_v._Donaldson Most states define laws of their own around this, and usually a longer involuntary stay requires a court hearing
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
In a free society, businesses shouldn’t be able to suppress or punish customers for their political views. We already require businesses to not just do whatever they want in many ways. That’s what anti discrimination laws do, for example. W
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Apparently Elon Musk also got involved and called GoFundMe “professional thieves”, because they were going to redirect donations intended for Canadian protesters to other (likely left leaning) causes: https://nypost.com/2022
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Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations(reuters.com)
213 points by throwawaysea 5y ago|645 comments
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
I can be a proponent of free markets and against constructs that are anti competitive. When products are bundled (like with Microsoft’s Office subscriptions or Spotify), or when products have network effects (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter), or
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
This is also basically true for Amazon’s search results.
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
I guess I’ll be putting Delta on my “no fly” list. It’s incredible that corporate overlords seek to recreate authoritarian schemes like social credit scores as a cartel.
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‘Will He Make a Similar Pledge?’: CBS Reporter Presses on Biden Appointments(dailywire.com)
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
It’s unclear what tenure means. Usually it means time at a company not time in industry. But performance ratings also matter and the type of company matters. It would be best to see this normalized by years in industry, company size (revenu
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
The fact that they collect them at all is what seems illegal to me. They know full well they don’t intend to pay these funds out when their politics disagree with the cause. So they’re soaking up the momentum of the movement and time of don
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Note that the government has actually likely pressured GoFundMe in this case, which is a chilling and tyrannical suppression of the right to protest, especially after how accommodating they were with mass rioting in 2020. See https:/&
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Let’s not forget the benefits side. I feel like these days the urbanist crowd and (activist-minded) academia love to disproportionately focus on the negatives, while downplaying or outright ignoring the numerous positives of a car. For me,
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Apart from copying Slack, they also copied Notion: https://www.fastcompany.com/90692715/microsoft-loop-notion-c... Copying the innovation of smaller players and bundling it with existing subscriptions is a pretty despi
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The Rampaging Pigs of the San Francisco Bay Area(nytimes.com)
11 points by throwawaysea 5y ago|1 comments
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Thanks. This all sounds so complicated and frankly scares me away from using these technologies. I would be worried about making this kind of mistake or worse.
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Rogan responds to Spotify protest, Covid advisories(apnews.com)
20 points by throwawaysea 5y ago|6 comments
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Joe Rogan Apologizes, Spotify Publishes Content Policy in Response to Neil Young(wsj.com)
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
These seem fairly advanced, so I don’t know if I would call them “common”. But maybe I am out of the loop. Are these concepts and very specific sounding beliefs actually widely known to math majors or CS majors?
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Thanks - I hadn’t seen that thread and will check it out.
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Doesn’t the Roku software spy on you and don’t they track what you are watching?
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
> Seems like the rents were probably within their means, and they're being forced out because now they're not. But that’s the thing. If they have little tolerance or flexibility to accommodate those costs, then they were living
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Is no one going to blame the unconstitutional seizure of private property that is eviction bans? Some cities previously banned background checks ( https://reason.com/2017/08/18/seattle-bans-landlords-from-ru...
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Is this a real issue? I feel like the real issue is that colleges use race based admissions and discriminate against Asian students. This seems like a distraction.
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Can someone explain this in plain English for a newbie that isn’t familiar with these complicated crypto technologies?
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
To explain the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueberry_Hill
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
I was a fan of Bookshop (because of their mission) until I noticed they aren’t politically neutral. For example they ran a campaign to get their customers to fund sending copies of the 1619 project, a widely debunked book by extremist Nikol
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
You don’t view asking an unsupported leading question as a weak handed attempt at misinformation or seeming state-media corruption? Reporters are representatives of their employer. And a reporter at a state owned media floating a conspiracy

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