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by wfo 9y ago
It is how war is usually conducted, and perhaps there is a justification for total war if something poses an existential threat. But you need to consider this in the context of actual reality, where nearly all "war" is really a po
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by wfo 9y ago
What if revealing that information would ensure your permanent imprisonment and the immediate death of your family and friends? Because this is almost always the case. Interrogators are not trying to find things out because they are curious
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by wfo 9y ago
The prevailing thought and media narrative can never be dismissed, no matter its factual basis or lack thereof. If it is not identified explicitly and challenged, it anchors the starting point of all discussion and thereby sets the bounds
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by wfo 9y ago
In my experience certain children (and adults) -- ones who live in successful, wealthy neighborhoods are completely terrified of the idea of failing, at anything. They will start weeping if they feel like they performed poorly on an exam. A
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by wfo 9y ago
Because it is, always, every time it's brought up, every time it's stated. Sometimes people are clever and hide their racism in a few layers of "look at this lazy white person! I don't like him either!" but dig for
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by wfo 9y ago
"Why do blacks even have a problem with the police" is an excellent question. The correct answer is "because the police disproportionately arrest them far more for behaving the same way as whites" and "because the p
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by wfo 9y ago
The bigotry is not the disdain for laziness, which is just plain nastiness and a fundamental lack of empathy and human understanding. The bigotry comes first, in the perception of laziness itself. Who is perceived to be lazy? Hard working w
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by wfo 9y ago
The massive and well-funded propaganda effort to destroy unions at all costs has been extremely successful, as we can see from your post. I have never heard of, read, talked to, or even imagined that any living person would consider contrib
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by wfo 9y ago
It is not very expensive. It is not a utopia, it is a tiny but meaningful increase in quality of life for the vast majority of citizens and society as a whole. And your question is fundamentally ideologically flawed: were you concern trolli
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by wfo 9y ago
The entire point of the article is that you (or a local technician) should be allowed and able to repair your washing machine and not rely on the company exclusively to fix it. Having to throw it away is exactly because you don't reall
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by wfo 9y ago
It is natural to phrase it as a right. People have been able to do this for the entirety of human history, every moment in every civilization repairing things has been legal. In fact, it has been celebrated, respected as something obviously
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by wfo 9y ago
We aren't there yet, things are still much better for us than teachers, yes. But I'm proposing we do something about it now , while we are in demand and have power instead of waiting until it gets that bad. Programming and teachi
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by wfo 9y ago
>Unions are great at establishing entrenched interests. s/Unions/Companies/g Unions can be for unskilled labor. They can exist without qualifications and gatekeeping. That's why I presented that as a distinct option
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by wfo 9y ago
Resources are not limited at all, we have more resources today in the US than any group has ever had in all of human history. We just choose to allocate them on things that are bad, like bombing hospitals or buying tanks for police departme
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by wfo 9y ago
Say it with me friends and colleagues, Union. This is the future for all of us, when programming becomes commoditized just as teaching has. When our salaries are pushed to the bottom. We are not owners, we are not capitalists, we are not bo
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by wfo 9y ago
Or, better, you will have school divorced from 'lifestyle' which is completely unnecessary and wasted money. You will have students of all age groups (since it is free) and students who take classes in the evening after work and m
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by wfo 9y ago
It's possible Betsy Devoss has something to do with it; students always knew they were giving an incomprehensible amount of money to monstrous vultures by paying back their loans, but this time it's impossible to ignore that fact
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by wfo 9y ago
No, "Free" is covered by printing money which the government does all the time (where does it get money for billions of dollars in military increases? It just appears out of nowhere, handed to military contractors). Taxes are to m
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by wfo 9y ago
And we would have educated our citizenry and let millions of people learn about the world and the expanses of human knowledge instead of just the rich for nothing, since those citizens wouldn't be able to generate extra wealth for thei
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by wfo 9y ago
Well, the point of college isn't to do job training. There are trade skills for that. College exists in the exact state high school did before it was made free for everyone. It is a barrier for entry into "good" jobs and the
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by wfo 9y ago
I think you miss the point. Sure if I have my identity stolen bad things happen to me, but I am not the victim of the crime. The bank is. Someone has defrauded the bank and stolen money from them; the bank then turns around and says, no, th
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by wfo 9y ago
Well sure, CEO compensation has.
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by wfo 9y ago
You say >Why does everyone jump to "demise of unions"? And then >Wages are not growing because of a policy to screw labor out of its earnings, and the policy is working. Well yes, said policy would not be and was not tenable
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by wfo 9y ago
Well, poll people about universal healthcare. It's, what, 70% support? Poll people about legalization of marijuana. Poll people about private prisons. Poll people about police buying military weapons, tanks on streets. Poll people abou
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by wfo 9y ago
Agreed -- though for many businesses you need capital. Engineering students by and large are far less likely to have it, students rarely go to engineering school and work that hard if they know they will inherit wealth or a business. Softwa
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by wfo 9y ago
Well, I think what's more likely is these people will be fine since most jobs are obtained primarily based on prestige and connections, and keeping an elite job once you have it just requires minimal competence. The more elite your job
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by wfo 9y ago
Well yes of course, we should curtail the freedoms of bosses to be abusive, steal wages, and generally behave horribly to his or her employees in the same we curtail the freedoms of a physically large man to physically assault others. And e
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by wfo 9y ago
Guess what: you (almost certainly) already are. You think your business (on orders from the management, not based on a vote of the workers) doesn't arbitrarily exclude people? You don't have HR officers who filter out great progra
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by wfo 9y ago
I've been lucky as well and all of my small business experience personally has been great (tech small businesses are pretty good on average, I think) but my point is that luck, by definition, doesn't happen to everybody and we sho
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by wfo 9y ago
Yes, you can hop from tyranny to tyranny until you find a dictator who will have mercy on you and not abuse you as much, losing your health insurance and livelihood with every hop, hoping you don't become homeless or destitute or get s

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