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by tonfreed 4y ago
I have no problem with learning to analyse from that perspective, but if it's the only lens being taught then that's an issue. Why not learn how CS Lewis would have discussed his favourite works? Why avoid talking about Randian id
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by tonfreed 4y ago
I have noticed with India born Indians that they have questions they'll ask to try and figure out each others' caste. Things like where they lived and grew up in India, what they're parents did, etc. It's completely alie
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by tonfreed 4y ago
He was also highly critical of the Soviets. I doubt he'd have a problem with agreeing on something with the other side of the aisle. IngSoc was even a socialist party, he was perfectly aware of the authoritarian streak in his own ideol
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by tonfreed 4y ago
This is a very western idea. I've spent significant amounts of time in other countries and there's no such sensitivity for "the outsider" like there is in European countries or the wider Anglosphere. It's also a ver
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by tonfreed 4y ago
Anecdotally, when my wife and I were looking at homes it'd be inevitable we'd hear someone else at the open houses talking about their 7th or 8th investment property. My wife is the chatty sort, so she'd ask them about how th
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by tonfreed 4y ago
Suicide rates are the same before and after transitioning. There's something else going on that needs to be addressed, and simply screaming at and attempting to gaslight critical voices is going to end with the unnecessary deaths of a
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by tonfreed 4y ago
You're not going to get taxes anyway if there are no taxpayers in the city. You could raise taxes to 100% and I guarantee your tax revenue would completely collapse too
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by tonfreed 4y ago
I mean, yes offense, but this guy is a literally who trying to call people to radical action. And let's face it, large companies often hire dead weight to beef up their stock prices, it was inevitable they were going to shave headcount
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by tonfreed 4y ago
Not an employer, but my read is this: When I'm in the office, I have little, off the cuff conversations I can't have online, where I can express and develop a thought that would otherwise be gone as quickly as it came to me. IRL,
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by tonfreed 4y ago
What if I don't want modern UIs and want to go back the old days of spinning skull gifs and flames?
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by tonfreed 4y ago
My work M1 Mac is buttery smooth. Shame about the mess they've made of Window management and focus stealing crap.
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by tonfreed 4y ago
Spoken like a true 1960s establishment thinker. Put yourself in the shoes of a WW2 veteran in the 60s. He sees his children get sucked into drug culture and protesting against the military that just 20 years ago saved the Pacific from tyran
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by tonfreed 4y ago
It shouldn't be a competition. If a man abuses his power over a female (or male, for that matter) employee, then they should have the book thrown at them. The same should apply for women. I hate the level of politicisation over this, i
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by tonfreed 4y ago
It'll be funny if all those juicy royalties they think they're going to get never materialise because no one wants to develop for their system.
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by tonfreed 4y ago
The least they could do is sit down once a month with the game designers for a session of dungeon crawling. The main two in charge have both said they don't play
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by tonfreed 4y ago
Paizo's seen the target on their back now, I doubt they're going to halt their plans to produce the ORC. I suspect the only way WoTC will be able to get any trust back in the community is to sign on with that
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by tonfreed 4y ago
It wasn't even a released draft. It was a leak of what was essentially a shakedown that WoTC tried to bully independents into signing earlier in January. That they even now keep referring to it as a draft is pretty indicative that they
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by tonfreed 4y ago
I think they've completely misunderstood their product. The execs in charge of running the show come from video games, and watching what they're trying to do with DnD beyond makes it pretty obvious they're trying to introduce
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by tonfreed 4y ago
I mean, yeah, what do expect to happen when you drive mom and pop out of business with lockdowns while allowing your cronies to keep their big box and online stores open?
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by tonfreed 4y ago
I wouldn't say it's a non issue, it highlights a significant problem in the tax code.
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by tonfreed 4y ago
It's been weaponised since Nixon. Pretty much every regime since then has targeted groups that present a thorn in their sides
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by tonfreed 4y ago
It makes you wonder how 50% goes to admin costs. That feels like a lot of overhead
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by tonfreed 4y ago
I for one welcome the resurgence of decentralized internet forums. Twitter can be fun, but it shouldn't be the only game in town
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by tonfreed 4y ago
I mean, unnecessary but funny. I'd like to see how many of them smugly posted "well go create your own Twitter" in the wake of 2016 and again in 2020 over the pandemic coverage. If they're as popular as they seen to thin
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by tonfreed 4y ago
Weren't they the ones that posted instructions on derailing trains?
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by tonfreed 4y ago
Conservatives getting banned for trivial crap while death threats and child porn stay up and you're only just noticing this now?
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by tonfreed 4y ago
Typed in "fat anime titties" and indeed got fat anime titties. Can't complain about that.
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by tonfreed 4y ago
Chatbots. I've written so many over the course of my life on everything from a Haskell math solving IRC bot to a chatops bot where I can check on my personal builds and AWS environment just by asking it in plain English. I even did one
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by tonfreed 4y ago
I still enjoy a tipple every so often, but I found going to the gym really helped me cut my alcohol consumption down to nearly zero. Knowing that my weightlifting will be impacted if I drink is a very strong deterrent.
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by tonfreed 4y ago
Starting a sweep for when Google shuts down the Army's account and they can't find anyone to help them.

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