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by viklove 7y ago
Relieve pressure, sure. Free pass? What? I mean they still need to do the coursework. The school should refund their tuition and room/board, and allow them to complete the semester later.
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by viklove 7y ago
Nothing is going to protect you from getting fired if you decide to just stop doing your job after they ask you to WFH.
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by viklove 7y ago
You say we have the more agency than the people who preceded us, but you fail to realize the only reason that is the case is because those people reached out and took it for us. You're a bit of a hypocrite if you lavish in benefit from
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by viklove 7y ago
> 3. Buy back your own stock, which gives back to shareholders. You mean props up the share price so board members can hoard more wealth?
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by viklove 7y ago
A Chinese airline cannot run domestic routes in the US. You seem to know very little about travel regulations.
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by viklove 7y ago
What a delusional perspective
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by viklove 7y ago
It's a PR making object
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by viklove 7y ago
Something should be done, but trying to fix it on an individual level won't work -- you have to fix the way the system operates so agency isn't something that's reserved for a small subset of the wealthiest individuals in soc
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by viklove 7y ago
> because for the majority of human beings, life is worth in and for itself Do we really know this is true? What percentage of people are just going through the motions because they don't want to cause pain to their family/frie
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by viklove 7y ago
> They seem to have it all, but just want to die. Maybe this just isn't a problem like doctors make it out to be. Maybe life isn't worth living. It seems like if you try to take up this position, you get shouted out of the room
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by viklove 7y ago
> grocery workers are not wearing masks at scale I never said they were > they are not calling out the 'get medical workers the N95s' policy Why the hell would anyone call them out for wanting to get masks to medical workers
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by viklove 7y ago
Who pays the liability when the ventilator backs up and blows the patient's lung apart?
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by viklove 7y ago
Seeing as the engineers all touched their faces multiple times during the video (fidgeting with their poorly-fitted masks), I think it's safe to assume they know little to nothing about medical care, and this ventilator looks cool but
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by viklove 7y ago
I don't want to take out loans, and I never want to owe anyone money. I have the money to afford a soda right now, why can't I use that?
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by viklove 7y ago
> Zero of the grocery stores I have visited have gloves or masks on, so why aren't people wailing about them? They are! > government is telling people 'no masks' People are calling out the government too... It always su
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by viklove 7y ago
> As opposed to, what - exactly? Putting profits over people. Which is what capitalism, and as a result, American corporations end up idealizing. You really think Bezos gives a shit about some warehouse worker? Over generating more profi
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by viklove 7y ago
Oh that's cute, you think we don't have enough housing. No, the problem is that wealthy individuals hoard housing and refuse to allow people who need it to access it. A wealth tax would likely solve the problem entirely.
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by viklove 7y ago
You just can't compare Sweden to a country like the US. Sweden is largely homogenous with regard to race, religion, and culture. Their poverty rate is 1%. The US on the other hand is extremely diverse, has 30x+ the population, and has
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by viklove 7y ago
> 2 - Imagine how much more useful this would be printed on paper. Do you want me to fax this webpage to you?
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by viklove 7y ago
> If you are trying to assert your opinion forcefully without caring what others think, you are succeeding. You do realize this is a negative and threatening statement, right?
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by viklove 7y ago
> Virtually nobody accepts Bitcoin as a currency. Some shops accept Bitcoin as the vehicle for transactions in USD or EUR, or whatever. They use services like Bitpay, who pay out in ordinary currencies. Prices are calculated based on the
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by viklove 7y ago
Their API was public, and it is now becoming private so Apple can seek rent. Profit over utility, that's what capitalism wants. > If it weren’t for capitalism, Dark Sky wouldn’t have existed. If we enabled citizens of this country t
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by viklove 7y ago
This kind of response just further proves that our "economy" only serves to enrich wealthy VCs. We can provide enough food, and housing, and other necessities that people in the country need. Where will the money come from? Where
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by viklove 7y ago
Turns out we value corn more than the people who farm corn. What a time to be alive.
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by viklove 7y ago
"Conveniently" this virus will not affect Gates either, he can just shut himself in and ignore the world in one of his mansions for a few years. We need to put UBI in place immediately and shut down the economy as we know it, so t
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by viklove 7y ago
There's no number? So even if 90% of people were going to die you would be against a shutdown? Wat
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by viklove 7y ago
> I find it difficult to blame people for wanting money This is not a universal constant, but it is something that unfettered capitalism idealizes.
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by viklove 7y ago
But closed off and only accessible if you buy Apple devices. So this is yet another example of a private corporation taking a useful, accessible resource that people rely on, and gating it behind their own services so they can extract rent
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by viklove 7y ago
> So they're useless as currencies Maybe to you, just like the INR is useless to you as a currency (because you don't live in India). Many people do use Bitcoin as currency, and transact with it every day.
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by viklove 7y ago
Congratulations, you just described push-to-talk.

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