vanusa

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by vanusa 5y ago
Ah, but there's a certain cachet that comes from partnering with major figures who've been caught with their hands as explicitly in the cookie jar as were Kurz's. And on camera, no less.
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Traffic, tickets, gas: rideshare and delivery app workers fight to unionize(theguardian.com)
2 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
"High-level corruption as a service" is likely to be his main value proposition, basically. That's the takeaway to get from his partnering with Kurz.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Likewise.
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by vanusa 5y ago
“But if you’re like 21 years old, and you say to me, ‘Should I get vaccinated?’ I’ll go no. If you're a healthy person, and you're exercising all the time, and you're young, and you're eating well...like, I don't
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by vanusa 5y ago
Would you say that widespread reports of mistreatment (and worse) of the Uyghur population are "bizarre imagery" with "almost nothing to do with the reality on the ground"?
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by vanusa 5y ago
Seriously, your argument is inherently specious. It's rather like saying: "How dare you disrespect Bruce Springsteen! I bet you've never actually sat down and listened to any of his albums."
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by vanusa 5y ago
Re: 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test
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by vanusa 5y ago
Arguably, it was Spotify's decision to bring trolls like Rogan onto the platform, knowing full well that this is exactly what they were -- which was where politics got "brought into the job" in the first place. Not their empl
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by vanusa 5y ago
“There are no words I can say to adequately convey how deeply sorry I am for the way The Joe Rogan Experience controversy continues to impact each of you,” Ek wrote in a memo obtained by the Los Angeles Times. “To be clear, his guests dropp
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by vanusa 5y ago
I meant for like, you know, regular people. Also, I'd be curious to know where you get your numbers from - simply because numbers for total comp (across all companies) seems hard to come by. One can't go by what's posted on
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by vanusa 5y ago
Median household income in Santa Clara County is $140k. How on earth can you say that $350k is "not that much"?
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by vanusa 5y ago
It’s easy and comforting to imagine that someone getting paid more than you must also suffer more than you However in the case of Amazon this isn't based on "imagining" but extremely widespread reports across multiple sourc
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by vanusa 5y ago
You could turn your question on it's head; what's the point of having children or a significant other if you are incapable or unwilling when you could be making money for the things you do care about in life? That's a good
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by vanusa 5y ago
Plenty of life to live after that and a lot of money to do whatever it is you want. If your children hate you or you lose the love of your life -- or you ruin your health -- then what's the point of all that money and free time?
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by vanusa 5y ago
At some point, no amount of money is worth it. That's the point these companies don't get, and never will get. All of their mouthed pronouncements about "wellness" and "work-life balance" notwithstanding.
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by vanusa 5y ago
And if he can do so without you thinking that's what he's doing in -- so much the better. This is after all the very mark of a skilled rhetorician.
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by vanusa 5y ago
As the adage goes, necessity is the mother of invention and Amazon seems to be at a point where it really needs to try everything under the sun to try to attract talent, given their extremely poor reputation. So rather than address the pr
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by vanusa 5y ago
I understand what the word means. My point, which I thought was very clear, is simply: If what the r/antiwork community attempting to do in promoting their position an instance of an (attempted) "transformation of a radical viewp
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by vanusa 5y ago
Recall that in his famous quote, Thiel did not refer to "capitalism and more libertarian initiatives". He specifically chose (and perhaps coined) the curious phrase, "capitalist democracy". And you can be sure he chose
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by vanusa 5y ago
This is of course exactly what Thiel, rhetorical genius that he is, wants you do to: perform a sufficient number of mental backflips and other cognitive gymnastics as necessary to obfuscate the true import of what he's plainly saying.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Oh sure, he's not "against" women voting. He just says that their doing so is bad for democracy. The point is - Thiel is crank, and if needs to sugarcoat the true import of what he's really saying: "We'd all b
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by vanusa 5y ago
I grant that the absolutist antiwork position fails to meet basic reality compliance standards. But does that give the current de-facto state religion -- cradle-to-grave workaholism (wildly out of proportion to the amount of work we actuall
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by vanusa 5y ago
Which is ironic, becomes sometimes it is the cumulative effect of the negative working conditions at some of these jobs that causes the "long illness and periods of personal instability" in the first place.
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by vanusa 5y ago
But a lot of recruiting operations haven't adjusted for the labor pool and are just ending up with too few candidates. Hence the labor "shortage".
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by vanusa 5y ago
Because they have no understanding of what this work is actually like. And hence, of the fact that sometimes you need to step back for a while just to maintain your bloody health and sanity.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Is revenue likely to continue growing if the user base is ... shrinking?
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Disaster Is Taking Silicon Valley with It(nymag.com)
47 points by vanusa 5y ago|38 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
A less, well, NYPostian article on the same subject: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/black-lives-matter-f...
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by vanusa 5y ago
Exactly. And telling people to disregard or (implicitly) to be ashamed of their feelings "because science" just makes it worse.

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