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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Yep, this is pretty easy. No one ever has to say yes to an arbitrary sexual partner -- if you don't want a penis in your sexual life, rad, feel free to express that preference. I'll disagree, I'm here for all stripes, and I g
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Oh my friend, you have some reading to do! The capitalist market system is really only a few hundred years old! If you believe Meiksins Wood, she puts it at about the mid 1700s, others put it a little later. And even then, it took quite som
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
I remember when I was 18, trying to earn my way through college, scrounging by on less than minimum wage because I was paid under the table. Living in a flat with 8 other people to make the rent math work. Foolish me for not just becoming a
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Easier? No. Healthier and probably better? Yeah almost certainly. Not all of us are wired the same. Some of us have neurological deficiencies or disabilities that make regulating food intake very difficult. So I would never presume easier.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Oh, to be clear, I don't think it's a good idea today or the near future. But it's neat that there's an imaginable world where we can power devices this way.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
> Just become a shareholder I always forget that all people, regardless of their capital, can "just become a shareholder".
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Indeed. Thankfully, the market is not the only way of organizing people.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
I think MIT developed a glucose fuel cell that can take energy from blood. But the safeguards you'd need there (and the ability to ensure it remains clean/usable) are probably a whole lot more complex than building just the fuel c
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
You recognize there's a wide gulf between "things I disagree with and tolerate" and "things like hate speech that should not be tolerated under any circumstances" right? Like, I strongly disagree with the Biden-styl
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
I am not aware of any role in tech (or really anywhere in wage labor) where people are being paid what they are worth. Nearly every job that exists gets paid a whole lot less than they make for the company, sometimes millions less per year.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Moderation is orthogonal to free speech. They are separate concerns.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
I mean, you reasonably could be autistic. Talk to a provider. One symptom/anxiety isn't sufficient to diagnose, obviously. We're not doctors, but your experience doesn't sound typical.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
The New York Times. Washington Post. Seattle Times. If you take Amazon to court and win a labor lawsuit, your name will be ALL over the papers.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Amazon is not known for obeying labor laws with any sort of regularity.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Tech workers need to realize, and soon, that they can form unions that only argue for the things the workers want . You don't want seniority based unions? Fine! But Amazon has absolutely draconian IP restrictions on workers, RTO, limi
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
> You can't a/b test company culture. Trip.com did exactly that, A/B testing fully in office with hybrid work schedules and found that the data strongly supported hybrid schedules. They found zero reduction in employee pro
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
It's literally just a title. There's no "Dept" being created here. He's going to report to some other existing dept and no one will listen to him, lol.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
This is a title grant to keep Musk happy. Musk gets to meme about it while being held to no actual metrics, Trump gets to keep Musk content to chase snipes around the garden. Musk is being played for a fool and he doesn't see it. He&#x
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
I would almost rather know how many 'blocks'I got off. Like, tell me how many 1 week chunks I get, how many 2 week chunks I get, etc.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Something is strange in the math for "Let's stretch your time off from X days to Y days" I am in the US, and it says I have 11 days off. If I say I get 0 days off, it says: "Let's stretch your time off from 0 days t
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
It's art. Art is a valuable part of the human experience. Art connects us, inspires us, humors us. You may not appreciate all forms of art, and that's ok!
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Do we find prime numbers slower than one every four years? I would have thought we find newer bigger ones more quickly than that. The goal of this project is not only to say the big number, but to say the big number before we discover the n
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Is it a mostly inconsequential context? I think it's exactly the sort of context that is valuable and human and grounds us to events of our past. That one photo (and the collection of photos from the 70s linked in the article) say a l
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
This is the legislature failing, not the bureaus though. Like, USFS isn't the problem here. The problem is legislators hamstringing it.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Social Media is a risk to all of us, not just kids. I think it's very reductive to frame this as a "think of the children" moment. We have very little understanding of the impact of an always on skinner box/rage box, and
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
I'm all for understanding how to effectively dine on plant protein, and even understanding how they are different from meat proteins. But this study ain't it. National Cattleman's Beef Association pays for heavily skewed stud
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Maybe we can do things that aren't profitable because we believe they are the right thing to do? But carbon can produce biochar and and just be pumped directly back into the ground. Getting it out of the atmosphere is the use.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
It's partly Biden, for sure. It's partly Trump. Partly Obama, Clinton, Bush... This partisanism is useless. I'm not a democrat, I'm not a republican, but it's absolutely clear that Reagan represented a policy change
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
This pattern has been played out time and time again. The next steps will be: "Camp bathrooms are always so dirty, and there's never anyone to staff to help!" "How can the bureaucracy fail so badly, I don't know why
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
We've removed some of the structural racism, but we've also gotten much better at hiding and "justifying" it. Additionally, think about all the votes that were passed when these tests were present. Every one of those vot

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