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by weeksie 7y ago
God, I miss Bloomberg.
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by weeksie 7y ago
We didn't used to build shelters. There was an entire riot in the 80s when the cops removed a homeless encampment that had entirely taken over Tomkins Sq Park in the East Village. I don't know when we started building them (I&#x27
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by weeksie 7y ago
Build. More. Homeless. Shelters. California is so damned NIMBY'd up that they refuse to build shelters and act surprised when homeless people sleep outside. Then they throw their hands up in the air like "uh, it must be the weathe
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by weeksie 7y ago
We had copies of this and the Book of The Subgenius laying around my high school. Obviously Principia Discordia was from much earlier but the new wave/punk scene around the 80s-90s cusp in (of all places, Anchorage, Alaska) was all abo
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by weeksie 7y ago
There's usually one good post. The rest are almost always people sharing their diet stories. Or if the headline is about exercise, you get reams of stronglifts or 5x5 or whatever, nobody cares. It's what engineers tend to do when
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by weeksie 7y ago
Interstate highway America is exactly like that. If you have the time, drive the state roads. Might be a bit slower but the scenery actually changes.
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by weeksie 7y ago
An accusation invented out of whole cloth.
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by weeksie 7y ago
This is a fantastic point. Let's be real, Pakistan is hardly a paragon of virtue but you're not going to get any real reporting out of that country. The openness of Indian society relative to much of the rest of Asia is pretty ama
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by weeksie 7y ago
The entire comment section is full of Indian bros reflexively inventing reasons why something like this is a put on in order to make India bad. Every comment section of any article that might put India in a bad light is. It's a particu
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by weeksie 7y ago
You shouldn't be getting downvoted. Sapiens is pretty mainstream anthropology repackaged in a well written narrative. It's everything that pop intellectualism aspires to be. Sapiens also frames a ton of issues in a way that doesn&
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by weeksie 7y ago
It's not entirely a generational thing. I'm a lot older than you (Facebook became available to non uni students when I was 30) however, I've moved around a lot. Different countries, different US coasts, etc. As a result my f
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by weeksie 7y ago
It's eye-bleedingly obvious from the context.
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by weeksie 7y ago
Bummer. That kind of name overloading has the potential to be needlessly confusing down the line. "Sigils, I mean well, they're like pragmas but in Sorbet we call them sigils." [x a billion] Now's the time to fix that st
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by weeksie 7y ago
Wild place. By far my favorite city in India and I've travelled pretty widely there. If you're in town and partake, make your way to Blue Lassie for a "special" one, then make sure to get somewhere you feel comfortable b
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by weeksie 7y ago
Parens for method calls should only be used when things get ambiguous. Nothing bugs me more than seeing ruby code cluttered up with that garbage. I know, I know, but that's my personal bikeshed and I'll happily die on the roof of
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by weeksie 7y ago
You guys could also build some shelters.
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by weeksie 7y ago
I enjoyed Orientalism. My problem with so many of these works, however, is that they seem to take such an intentional stance. Like the assertion that the language of Orientalism serves to create an other in order to. . . Like, wait right th
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by weeksie 7y ago
That's one hypothesis I suppose.
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by weeksie 7y ago
Weather has something to do with the amount of shelters? I'm not sure I follow.
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by weeksie 7y ago
Build. More. Shelters. I live in New York and we have more homeless people per capita than San Francisco but we don't have the same kinds of problems. The very simple solution is to build shelters. The rate of homeless that are shelt
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by weeksie 7y ago
I couldn't agree more. I just finished reading Discipline and Punish, expecting to roll my eyes all the way through and I came away really impressed.
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by weeksie 7y ago
I was sloppy with my wording. By far the largest contributor.
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by weeksie 7y ago
The vast majority of the waste is fishing nets so blaming this on trash export is silly.
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by weeksie 7y ago
If you were in a medieval society where punishment was a demonstration of the monarch's power as displayed on the body of an offender, then yeah I guess? Depends on what you want a prison to do. For grisly vengeance, a town square pill
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by weeksie 7y ago
I'm always here for the Georgist takes. Wish the LVT was as politically feasible as a VAT.
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by weeksie 7y ago
I think this is right. At least the lonesomeness and monotony. That's how I remember my childhood and I grew up in Alaska in a tiny fishing town in the 70s-80s (...) so that put a lot of my experiences back a bit, but the flip-over of
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by weeksie 7y ago
This is entirely wrong. We don't build nearly enough housing in NYC and that's why our rents are so high.
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by weeksie 7y ago
The exact thing happened to me yesterday and I was like damn, that's surprising how did they—ooooohhhhhhhh.
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by weeksie 7y ago
What's category good for? It's a serious question so please don't say "monads", I understand monads just fine without knowing category theory. I'm down to put in the work if the reward is there.
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by weeksie 8y ago
If gender is innate, and not a social construct, then what does that say about gender roles and what are the implications for modern feminism? If gender is a purely social construct, gender identity is a lifestyle choice. Both formulations

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